rest
noun (OTHER PART) /rest/Definition
the rest [S, + sing/pl verb] A2 the other things, people, or parts that remain or that have not been mentioned: I've got two bright students, but the rest are average. I'll keep a third of the money and the rest is for you. Have you got anything planned for the rest of the day?Things remaining
(Definition of rest noun (OTHER PART) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Also, extra, and in addition
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- Available and accessible
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- Big and quite big
- Enlarging and inflating
- Enormous
- Enough
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- General words for size and amount
- Increasing and intensifying
- Large in number or quantity
- Masses and large amounts of things
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- Medium-sized
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- Small
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- Some and quite
- Someone, anyone, no one or everyone
- Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- Things collected in lines or rings
- Too much and unnecessary
- Unavailable and inaccessible
- Unlimited
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Synonyms and related words:
- (and) all the rest idiom
- balance noun (MONEY)
- bastion noun
- deposit noun (LAYER)
- dregs noun
- for the rest idiom
- ground noun (COFFEE)
- hangover noun (CONTINUING)
- leftover noun
- remainder noun (PART LEFT)
- remains noun
- remnant noun
- residual adjective
- residue noun
- ruin noun
- rump noun
- throwback noun
- time capsule noun
- vestige noun
- wreckage noun
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