| abatic | (adjective) of or relating to abasia (inability to walk) | Synonyms: abasic |
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| abbatial | (adjective) of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess | - |
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| ablative | (adjective) relating to the ablative case | - |
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| (adjective) tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature | - |
| accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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| accommodating | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodative |
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| (adjective) obliging; willing to do favors | - |
| accommodational | (adjective) of or relating to the accommodation of the lens of the eye | - |
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| accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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| (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
| acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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| acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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| accumulative | (adjective) marked by acquiring or amassing | - |
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| (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: cumulative |
| accusative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: objective |
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| (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusatory, accusing, accusive |
| achromatic | (adjective) having no hue | Synonyms: neutral |
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| achromatinic | (adjective) (of substance of a cell nucleus) not readily colored by stains | - |
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| acrobatic | (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: athletic, gymnastic |
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| activating | (adjective) causing motion or action or change | Synonyms: actuating |
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| actuating | (adjective) causing motion or action or change | Synonyms: activating |
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| adaptational | (adjective) of or relating to adaptation | - |
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| adaptative | (adjective) having a capacity for adaptation | Synonyms: adaptive |
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| adiabatic | (adjective) occurring without loss or gain of heat | - |
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| adjudicative | (adjective) concerned with adjudicating | Synonyms: adjudicatory |
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| administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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| adulterating | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterant |
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| adumbrative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefigurative |
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| adversative | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: oppositive |
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| affirmative | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmatory |
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| (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: approbative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
| (adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: optimistic |
| agglomerative | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, clustered |
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| agglutinative | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinate |
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| (adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: polysynthetic |
| aggravating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: exacerbating, exasperating |
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| aggregative | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, mass |
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| agitating | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitative, provoking |
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| agitative | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, provoking |
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| agnatic | (adjective) related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, paternal |
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| alienating | (adjective) causing hostility or loss of friendliness | - |
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| alimentative | (adjective) related to the supply of aliment | - |
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| aliphatic | (adjective) having carbon atoms linked in open chains | - |
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| alleviative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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| alterative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
| alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
| (adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
| amalgamative | (adjective) characterized by or tending toward amalgamation | - |
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| amative | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amorous |
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| ameliorating | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| ameliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| anabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope | - |
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| anagrammatic | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatical |
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| anagrammatical | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatic |
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| anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
| aneurismatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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| aneurysmatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurismatic, aneurysmal |
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| animating | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: enlivening |
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| animatistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animatism | - |
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| annexational | (adjective) relating to annexation | - |
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| annihilating | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilative, devastating, withering |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: devastating, withering |
| annihilative | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, devastating, withering |
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| anosmatic | (adjective) relating to an impairment or loss of the sense of smell | Synonyms: anosmic |
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| anticipative | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipant, expectant |
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| anticoagulative | (adjective) of or relating to an anticoagulant | - |
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| aplanatic | (adjective) free from or corrected for spherical aberration | - |
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| apochromatic | (adjective) corrected for both chromatic and spherical aberration | - |
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| apophatic | (adjective) of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as `God is unknowable') | - |
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| apothegmatic | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatical |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: aphoristic, epigrammatic |
| apothegmatical | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatic |
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| appellative | (adjective) pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun | - |
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| (adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names | Synonyms: naming |
| applicative | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicatory |
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| appreciative | (adjective) having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion | - |
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| (adjective) feeling or expressive of gratitude | - |
| approbative | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
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| appropriative | (adjective) of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself | - |
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| approximative | (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximate, rough |
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| aquatic | (adjective) operating or living or growing in water | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or consisting of or being in water | - |
| arbitrational | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitral |
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| arbitrative | (adjective) relating to or having the authority to arbitrate | - |
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| argumentative | (adjective) given to or characterized by argument | - |
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| aristocratic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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| aristocratical | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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| aromatic | (adjective) (chemistry) of or relating to or containing one or more benzene rings | - |
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| (adjective) having a strong pleasant odor | Synonyms: redolent |
| articulative | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulatory |
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| asphyxiating | (adjective) tending to deprive of oxygen | - |
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| assimilating | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilative, assimilatory |
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| assimilative | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilatory |
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| (adjective) capable of mentally absorbing | - |
| associational | (adjective) of or relating to associations or associationism | - |
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| associative | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associatory |
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| astatic | (adjective) not static or stable | - |
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| asthmatic | (adjective) relating to breathing with a whistling sound | Synonyms: wheezing, wheezy |
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| astigmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a defect in the eye or in a lens caused by a deviation from spherical curvature which prevents light rays from meeting at a common focus and so results in distorted images | - |
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| asymptomatic | (adjective) having no symptoms of illness or disease | Synonyms: symptomless |
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| atheromatic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling atheroma | Synonyms: atheromatous |
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| atilt | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: canted, leaning, tilted, tipped |
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| augmentative | (adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree | - |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: enhancive |
| authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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| (adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
| autocratic | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| automatic | (adjective) operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control | - |
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| (adjective) without volition or conscious control | Synonyms: reflex, reflexive |
| (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatonlike, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
| avocational | (adjective) of or involved in an avocation | - |
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| axiomatic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatical, postulational |
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| (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: aphoristic |
| (adjective) evident without proof or argument | Synonyms: self-evident, taken for granted |
| axiomatical | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatic, postulational |
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| bacteriostatic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis | - |
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| beatific | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
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| (adjective) experiencing or bestowing celestial joy | - |
| beatified | (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: blessed |
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| bioclimatic | (adjective) of or concerned with the relations of climate and living organisms | - |
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| biosystematic | (adjective) of or relating to biosystematics | - |
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