| legendary | (adjective) so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend | - |
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| (adjective) celebrated in fable or legend | Synonyms: fabled |
| levorotary | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotatory |
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| literary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of literature | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable about literature | - |
| mammary | (adjective) of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female | - |
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| maxillary | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw | - |
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| medullary | (adjective) of or relating to the medulla of any body part | - |
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| (adjective) containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the medulla oblongata | - |
| megakaryocytic | (adjective) of or pertaining to large bone marrow cells | - |
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| mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
| military | (adjective) associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare | - |
| millenary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of 1000 | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium | - |
| missionary | (adjective) relating to or connected to a religious mission | Synonyms: missional |
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| momentary | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous |
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| monetary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: pecuniary |
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| mortuary | (adjective) of or relating to a funeral | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of death | - |
| nary | (adjective) (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a' | - |
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| nasopharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to or located near the nasopharynx | - |
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| necessary | (adjective) absolutely essential | - |
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| (adjective) unavoidably determined by prior circumstances | - |
| nonarbitrary | (adjective) not subject to individual determination | Synonyms: unarbitrary |
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| nonhereditary | (adjective) not acquirable by inheritance | Synonyms: nontransmissible |
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| nonliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: unliterary |
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| nonmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: unmilitary |
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| nonproprietary | (adjective) not protected by trademark or patent or copyright | - |
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| nonvoluntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: involuntary, unvoluntary |
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| nutritionary | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritional |
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| ordinary | (adjective) not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree | - |
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| (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: average |
| oropharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to or located near the oropharynx | - |
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| papillary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillose |
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| paramilitary | (adjective) of or relating to a group of civilians organized to function like or to assist a military unit | - |
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| parliamentary | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a parliament | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament | - |
| (adjective) in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly | - |
| pecuniary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: monetary |
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| penitentiary | (adjective) showing or constituting penance | Synonyms: penitential |
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| (adjective) used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers | - |
| petitionary | (adjective) of the nature of or expressing a petition | - |
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| pharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to the throat | - |
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| pilary | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilose, pilous |
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| pituitary | (adjective) of or relating to the pituitary gland | - |
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| planetary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: terrestrial |
| (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, world-wide, world, worldwide |
| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, wandering |
| plenary | (adjective) full in all respects | - |
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| precautionary | (adjective) taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure | Synonyms: precautional |
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| preliminary | (adjective) denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important | - |
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| primary | (adjective) of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, elementary |
| (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, master, principal |
| (adjective) not derived from or reducible to something else; basic | - |
| probationary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: provisional, provisionary, tentative |
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| procaryotic | (adjective) having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: prokaryotic |
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| prokaryotic | (adjective) having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: procaryotic |
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| proprietary | (adjective) protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights | - |
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| provisionary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, tentative |
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| pulmonary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonic |
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| pupillary | (adjective) of or relating to the pupil of the eye | - |
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| quaternary | (adjective) consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four | Synonyms: quaternate |
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| (adjective) coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude | Synonyms: 4th, fourth |
| quincentenary | (adjective) of or relating to a 500th anniversary | Synonyms: quincentennial |
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| reactionary | (adjective) opposed to political or social liberalism or reform | Synonyms: far-right, reactionist |
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| recessionary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessive |
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| residuary | (adjective) relating to or indicating a remainder | Synonyms: residual |
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| (adjective) entitled to the residue of an estate (after payment of debts and specific gifts) | - |
| reversionary | (adjective) of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion) | - |
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| revolutionary | (adjective) advocating or engaged in revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a revolution | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn | Synonyms: rotatory |
| (adjective) markedly new or introducing radical change | Synonyms: radical |
| rotary | (adjective) relating to or characterized by rotation | - |
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| (adjective) describing a circle; moving in a circle | Synonyms: circular, orbitual |
| rudimentary | (adjective) being or involving basic facts or principles | Synonyms: fundamental, underlying |
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| (adjective) being in the earliest stages of development | - |
| (adjective) not fully developed in mature animals | Synonyms: vestigial |
| salivary | (adjective) of or relating to saliva | - |
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| salutary | (adjective) tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health | Synonyms: good |
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| sanguinary | (adjective) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed | Synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded |
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| (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguineous, slaughterous |
| sanitary | (adjective) free from filth and pathogens | Synonyms: healthful |
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| scary | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, shivery, shuddery |
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| secondary | (adjective) being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate | - |
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| (adjective) depending on or incidental to what is original or primary | - |
| (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, subaltern |
| (adjective) not of major importance | - |
| (adjective) belonging to a lower class or rank | - |
| sedentary | (adjective) requiring sitting or little activity | - |
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| sedimentary | (adjective) produced by the action of water | Synonyms: aqueous |
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| (adjective) resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment | - |
| semicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentennial |
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| solitary | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, lonesome, only, sole |
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| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lone, lonely |
| (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nongregarious, nonsocial |
| (adjective) devoid of creatures | Synonyms: lonely, unfrequented |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lone, lonely |
| stagflationary | (adjective) characteristic of or promoting stagflation | - |
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| stationary | (adjective) not capable of being moved | - |
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| (adjective) standing still | - |
| statuary | (adjective) of or relating to or suitable for statues | - |
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| stipendiary | (adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance | - |
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| (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, remunerative, salaried |
| (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: compensated, remunerated, salaried |
| subliterary | (adjective) not written as or intended to be literature | - |
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| sublunary | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: cislunar, sublunar |
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| (adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunar, terrestrial |
| subsidiary | (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: auxiliary, supplemental, supplementary |
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| sugary | (adjective) containing sugar | - |
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| summary | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, compendious, succinct |
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| (adjective) performed speedily and without formality | Synonyms: drumhead |
| sumptuary | (adjective) regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior | - |
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| superlunary | (adjective) situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth | Synonyms: superlunar, translunar, translunary |
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| (adjective) unworldly or ethereal | Synonyms: superlunar, translunar, translunary |
| supernumerary | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, surplus |
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| supplementary | (adjective) added to complete or make up a deficiency | Synonyms: supplemental |
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| (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental |
| teary | (adjective) with eyes full of tears | Synonyms: teary-eyed, watery-eyed |
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| temporary | (adjective) not permanent; not lasting | Synonyms: impermanent |
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| (adjective) lacking continuity or regularity | Synonyms: irregular |
| ternary | (adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: treble, triple, triplex |
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| tertiary | (adjective) coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position | Synonyms: 3rd, third |
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| testamentary | (adjective) of or relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament | - |
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| titulary | (adjective) of or relating to a legal title to something | Synonyms: titular |
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| translunary | (adjective) situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth | Synonyms: superlunar, superlunary, translunar |
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| (adjective) unworldly or ethereal | Synonyms: superlunar, superlunary, translunar |
| tributary | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory |
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| (adjective) paying tribute | - |
| (adjective) (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream | - |
| tricentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 300 years | Synonyms: tricentennial |
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| tutelary | (adjective) providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding | Synonyms: custodial, tutelar |
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| unarbitrary | (adjective) not subject to individual determination | Synonyms: nonarbitrary |
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| unary | (adjective) consisting of or involving a single element or component | - |
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| uncomplimentary | (adjective) tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage | - |
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| (adjective) showing or representing unfavorably | Synonyms: unflattering |
| unitary | (adjective) characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the use of units | - |
| (adjective) relating to or characterized by or aiming toward unity | - |
| (adjective) having the indivisible character of a unit | Synonyms: one |
| unliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: nonliterary |
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| unmercenary | (adjective) not mercenary; not influenced by financial gains | - |
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| unmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: nonmilitary |
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| unnecessary | (adjective) not necessary | Synonyms: unneeded |
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| unparliamentary | (adjective) so rude and abusive as to be unsuitable for parliament | - |
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| unsanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: insanitary, unhealthful |
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| unvarying | (adjective) lacking variety | Synonyms: unvaried |
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| (adjective) always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences | Synonyms: uniform |
| (adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: changeless, constant, invariant |