| approachable | (adjective) easy to meet or converse or do business with | - |
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| (adjective) easily approached | Synonyms: reachable |
| (adjective) capable of being read with comprehension | Synonyms: accessible |
| approaching | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: coming, forthcoming, upcoming |
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| apractic | (adjective) having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder | Synonyms: apraxic |
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| aquacultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquicultural, hydroponic |
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| araceous | (adjective) relating to a plant of the family Araceae | Synonyms: aroid |
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| arachnidian | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery |
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| arachnoid | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery |
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| arboraceous | (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboreous, woodsy, woody |
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| archidiaconal | (adjective) of or relating to an archdeacon or his office | - |
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| arenaceous | (adjective) resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas | Synonyms: sandlike, sandy |
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| argillaceous | (adjective) resembling or containing clay | Synonyms: clayey |
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| artefactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artifactual |
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| artifactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artefactual |
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| artiodactyl | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla | Synonyms: artiodactylous, even-toed |
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| artiodactylous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla | Synonyms: artiodactyl, even-toed |
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| arundinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling reedlike plants of the genus Arundinaria | - |
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| asclepiadaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the milkweed family | - |
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| atactic | (adjective) lacking motor coordination; marked or caused by ataxia | Synonyms: ataxic |
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| ataractic | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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| attachable | (adjective) capable of being fastened or added to something else | - |
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| attached | (adjective) associated in an exclusive sexual relationship | Synonyms: committed |
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| (adjective) used of buildings joined by common sidewalls | - |
| (adjective) fond and affectionate | - |
| (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: affiliated, connected |
| attacking | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: assaultive |
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| attractable | (adjective) capable of being magnetized or attracted by a magnet | - |
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| attractive | (adjective) pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm | - |
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| (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull | - |
| (adjective) having power to arouse interest | - |
| audacious | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: daring, venturesome, venturous |
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| (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| autacoidal | (adjective) of or relating to an autacoid | - |
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| autodidactic | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of an autodidact | - |
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| baccate | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: berrylike |
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| (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: bacciferous, berried |
| bacchanal | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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| bacchanalian | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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| bacchantic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler | - |
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| bacchic | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, carousing, orgiastic |
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| bacciferous | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, berried |
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| baccivorous | (adjective) feeding on berries | - |
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| bacillar | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillary |
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| (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillary, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
| bacillary | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillar |
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| (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
| bacilliform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, baculiform, rod-shaped |
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| back | (adjective) related to or located at the back | - |
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| (adjective) of an earlier date | - |
| (adjective) located at or near the back of an animal | Synonyms: hind, hinder |
| backbreaking | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| backed | (adjective) having a back or backing, usually of a specified type | - |
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| (adjective) used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light | - |
| backhand | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhanded |
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| (adjective) (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward | Synonyms: left-slanting |
| backhanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhand |
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| (adjective) roundabout or ambiguous | - |
| backless | (adjective) lacking a back | - |
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| backmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: hindermost, hindmost, rearmost |
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| backstage | (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: offstage |
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| backstair | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstairs, furtive |
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| backstairs | (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, furtive |
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| backswept | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: sweptback |
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| backward | (adjective) directed or facing toward the back or rear | - |
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| (adjective) (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature | - |
| (adjective) retarded in intellectual development | Synonyms: feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted |
| (adjective) having made less than normal progress | - |
| bacteremic | (adjective) of or relating to or having bacteremia | - |
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| bacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by bacteria | - |
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| bactericidal | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: disinfectant, germicidal |
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| bacterioid | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioidal, bacteroid, bacteroidal |
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| bacterioidal | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacteroid, bacteroidal |
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| bacteriologic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriology | Synonyms: bacteriological |
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| bacteriological | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriology | Synonyms: bacteriologic |
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| bacteriolytic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriolysis | - |
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| bacteriophagic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagous |
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| bacteriophagous | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagic |
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| bacteriostatic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis | - |
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| bacteroid | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacterioidal, bacteroidal |
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| bacteroidal | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacterioidal, bacteroid |
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| baculiform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, bacilliform, rod-shaped |
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| bareback | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: barebacked |
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| barebacked | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: bareback |
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| barefaced | (adjective) with no effort to conceal | Synonyms: bald |
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| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| batrachian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, salientian |
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| bespectacled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: monocled, spectacled |
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| betulaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees of the birch family | - |
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| bibliomaniacal | (adjective) characteristic of or characterized by or noted for bibliomania | - |
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| biface | (adjective) having two faces or fronts | Synonyms: bifacial |
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| bifacial | (adjective) having two faces or fronts | Synonyms: biface |
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| bignoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| biracial | (adjective) consisting of or combining two races | - |
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| black | (adjective) being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin | - |
| (adjective) marked by anger or resentment or hostility | - |
| (adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | Synonyms: blackened |
| (adjective) (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading | - |
| (adjective) extremely dark | Synonyms: pitch-black, pitch-dark |
| (adjective) soiled with dirt or soot | Synonyms: smutty |
| (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
| (adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: dark, sinister |
| (adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: bleak, dim |
| (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, bootleg, contraband, smuggled |
| (adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: grim, mordant |
| (adjective) (of coffee) without cream or sugar | - |
| (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
| blackened | (adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | Synonyms: black |
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| (adjective) darkened by smoke | - |
| blackguardly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: rascally, roguish, scoundrelly |
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| blackish | (adjective) of something that is somewhat black | - |
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| bleached | (adjective) (used of color) artificially produced; not natural | Synonyms: colored, coloured, dyed |
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| (adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color | Synonyms: faded, washed-out, washy |
| bodacious | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
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| (adjective) incorrigible | - |
| boracic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from or containing boron | Synonyms: boric |
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| braced | (adjective) positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger | - |
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| (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: buttressed |
| brachial | (adjective) of or relating to an arm | - |
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| brachiate | (adjective) having arms or armlike appendages | - |
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| (adjective) having widely spreading paired branches | - |
| brachiopod | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopodous |
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| brachiopodous | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopod |
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| brachycephalic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycranial, brachycranic |
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| brachycranial | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranic |
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| brachycranic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranial |
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| brachydactylic | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylous |
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| brachydactylous | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylic |
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| brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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| brachyurous | (adjective) of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura | - |
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| bracing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: brisk, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
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| brackish | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: briny |
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| (adjective) distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture | - |
| bracteal | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a bract | - |
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| bracteate | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracted |
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| bracted | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracteate |
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| bracteolate | (adjective) having bracteoles | - |
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| broached | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: abroach |
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