| biting | (adjective) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | Synonyms: bitter |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, mordacious, nipping, pungent |
| bitter | (adjective) proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity | - |
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| (adjective) very difficult to accept or bear | - |
| (adjective) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | Synonyms: biting |
| (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: acrimonious |
| (adjective) expressive of severe grief or regret | - |
| (adjective) causing a sharp and acrid taste experience | - |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| bitterish | (adjective) somewhat bitter | Synonyms: sharp-tasting |
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| bittersweet | (adjective) tinged with sadness | - |
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| (adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: semisweet |
| bittie | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| bitty | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| bitumenoid | (adjective) like bitumen | Synonyms: bituminoid |
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| bituminoid | (adjective) like bitumen | Synonyms: bitumenoid |
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| bituminous | (adjective) resembling or containing bitumen | - |
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| bivalent | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: double |
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| (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: divalent |
| bivalve | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalved |
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| bivalved | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalve |
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| bivariate | (adjective) having two variables | - |
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| biweekly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: fortnightly |
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| (adjective) occurring twice a week | Synonyms: semiweekly |
| biyearly | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biannual, half-yearly, semiannual |
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| (adjective) occurring every second year | Synonyms: biennial |
| bizarre | (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
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| bizonal | (adjective) relating to or concerned with the combined affairs of two administrative zones | - |
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| blabbermouthed | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: leaky, talebearing, tattling |
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| (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: bigmouthed, blabby, talkative |
| blabby | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: bigmouthed, blabbermouthed, talkative |
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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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| bladderlike | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladdery |
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| bladdery | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladderlike |
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| bladed | (adjective) bearing or characterized by a blade or sword; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having a blade or blades; often used in combination | - |
| (adjective) composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade | - |
| bladelike | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: ensiform, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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| blae | (adjective) of bluish-black or grey-blue | - |
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| blamable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blameable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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| blame | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| blameable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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| blamed | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| blameful | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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| blameless | (adjective) free of guilt; not subject to blame | Synonyms: inculpable, irreproachable, unimpeachable |
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| blameworthy | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpable |
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| blanched | (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, bloodless, livid, white |
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| (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: etiolate, etiolated |
| bland | (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: politic, smooth, suave |
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| (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
| (adjective) lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting | Synonyms: flat |
| blank | (adjective) (of a surface) not written or printed on | Synonyms: clean, white |
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| (adjective) not charged with a bullet | - |
| (adjective) complete and absolute | Synonyms: utter |
| (adjective) without comprehension | - |
| blanket | (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
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| blanketed | (adjective) covered with (or as if with) a blanket | - |
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| blaring | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blasting |
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| blase | (adjective) very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world | Synonyms: worldly |
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| (adjective) nonchalantly unconcerned | - |
| (adjective) uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence | Synonyms: bored |
| blasphemous | (adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing | Synonyms: blue, profane |
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| (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: profane, sacrilegious |
| blasted | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| blastemal | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastematic, blastemic |
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| blastematic | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastemal, blastemic |
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| blastemic | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastemal, blastematic |
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| blasting | (adjective) causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blaring |
| blastocoelic | (adjective) of or relating to a segmentation cavity | - |
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| blastodermatic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermic |
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| blastodermic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermatic |
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| blastogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to blastogenesis | - |
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| blastomeric | (adjective) of or relating to a blastomere | - |
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| blastomycotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of blastomycosis | - |
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| blastoporal | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporic |
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| blastoporic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporal |
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| blastospheric | (adjective) of or relating to a blastula | Synonyms: blastular |
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| blastular | (adjective) of or relating to a blastula | Synonyms: blastospheric |
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| blatant | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blazing, conspicuous |
| blate | (adjective) disposed to avoid notice | Synonyms: bashful |
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| blazing | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blatant, conspicuous |
| 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 |
| bleak | (adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp | Synonyms: cutting, raw |
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| (adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: black, dim |
| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, desolate, stark |
| blear | (adjective) tired to the point of exhaustion | Synonyms: blear-eyed, bleary-eyed, bleary |
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| bleary | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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| (adjective) tired to the point of exhaustion | Synonyms: blear-eyed, blear, bleary-eyed |
| blebbed | (adjective) (of glass or quartzite) marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material | Synonyms: blebby |
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| blebby | (adjective) (of glass or quartzite) marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material | Synonyms: blebbed |
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| (adjective) covered with small blisters | Synonyms: blistery |
| blemished | (adjective) marred by imperfections | - |
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| (adjective) having a blemish or flaw | Synonyms: flawed |
| blended | (adjective) combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable | - |
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| blessed | (adjective) highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace) | Synonyms: blest |
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| (adjective) characterized by happiness and good fortune | - |
| (adjective) enjoying the bliss of heaven | - |
| (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
| (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: beatified |
| blest | (adjective) highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace) | Synonyms: blessed |
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| blighted | (adjective) affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity | Synonyms: spoilt |
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| blimpish | (adjective) pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic | - |
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| blind | (adjective) unable to see | Synonyms: unsighted |
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| (adjective) not based on reason or evidence | Synonyms: unreasoning |
| (adjective) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand | - |
| blinded | (adjective) deprived of sight | - |
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| blindfold | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfolded |
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| blindfolded | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfold |
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| blinding | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| blinking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: winking |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| blissful | (adjective) completely happy and contented | - |
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| blistering | (adjective) very fast; capable of quick response and great speed | Synonyms: hot, red-hot |
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| (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistery |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| blistery | (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistering |
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| (adjective) covered with small blisters | Synonyms: blebby |
| blithe | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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| (adjective) lacking or showing a lack of due concern | - |
| blithesome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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| bloated | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: distended, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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| blockaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, barricaded |
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| blockading | (adjective) blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors | - |
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| blocked | (adjective) closed to traffic | - |
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| (adjective) completely obstructed or closed off | Synonyms: plugged |
| blockheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| blockish | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blocky |
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| blocky | (adjective) resembling a block in shape | Synonyms: blockish |
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| blond | (adjective) being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes | Synonyms: blonde, light-haired |
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| blonde | (adjective) being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes | Synonyms: blond, light-haired |
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| bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
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| blooded | (adjective) of unmixed ancestry | Synonyms: full-blood, full-blooded |
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| bloodguilty | (adjective) guilty of murder or bloodshed | - |
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| bloodless | (adjective) free from blood or bloodshed | - |
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| (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, blanched, livid, white |
| (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: exsanguine, exsanguinous |
| (adjective) devoid of human emotion or feeling | - |
| (adjective) without vigor or zest or energy | - |
| bloodshot | (adjective) (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed | - |
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| bloodstained | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: gory |
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| bloodsucking | (adjective) drawing blood from the body of another | - |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: leechlike, parasitic, parasitical |