| abolishable | (adjective) capable of being abolished | - |
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| abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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| abomasal | (adjective) relating to the abomasum (the fourth compartment of the stomach of ruminants) | - |
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| abominable | (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
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| (adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: detestable, execrable, odious |
| aboral | (adjective) opposite to or away from the mouth | - |
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| aboriginal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: native |
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| (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial |
| abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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| abortive | (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: stillborn, unsuccessful |
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| aboulic | (adjective) suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions | Synonyms: abulic |
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| abounding | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: galore |
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| about | (adjective) on the move | Synonyms: astir |
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| above | (adjective) appearing earlier in the same text | - |
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| aboveboard | (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: straightforward |
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| aboveground | (adjective) on or above the surface of the ground | - |
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| airborne | (adjective) moved or conveyed by or through air | - |
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| akimbo | (adjective) (used of arms and legs) bent outward with the joint away from the body | - |
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| ameboid | (adjective) like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape) | Synonyms: amoeboid |
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| amebous | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amoeban, amoebic, amoebous |
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| ametabolic | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolous |
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| (adjective) undergoing no (or only slight) metamorphosis | - |
| ametabolous | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolic |
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| amoeboid | (adjective) like an amoeba (especially in having a variable irregular shape) | Synonyms: ameboid |
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| amoebous | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae | Synonyms: ameban, amebic, amebous, amoeban, amoebic |
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| anabolic | (adjective) characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism | - |
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| (adjective) of or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism | - |
| arboraceous | (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboreous, woodsy, woody |
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| arborary | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arboreal, arborical, arborous |
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| arboreal | (adjective) inhabiting or frequenting trees | Synonyms: arboreous, tree-living |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arborical, arborous |
| (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
| arboreous | (adjective) inhabiting or frequenting trees | Synonyms: arboreal, tree-living |
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| (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
| (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboraceous, woodsy, woody |
| arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arboresque | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arborical | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arboreal, arborous |
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| arboriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arborous | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arboreal, arborical |
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| baboonish | (adjective) resembling a baboon | - |
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| baseborn | (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: base |
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| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: base, humble, lowly |
| bellbottom | (adjective) (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom | Synonyms: bell-bottom, bell-bottomed |
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| boastful | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| bobtail | (adjective) having a short or shortened tail | Synonyms: bobtailed |
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| bobtailed | (adjective) having a short or shortened tail | Synonyms: bobtail |
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| bodacious | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
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| (adjective) incorrigible | - |
| bodied | (adjective) having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate |
| bodiless | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: discorporate, disembodied, unbodied, unembodied |
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| (adjective) having no trunk or main part | Synonyms: bodyless |
| bodily | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the body | - |
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| (adjective) having or relating to a physical material body | - |
| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: corporal, corporeal, somatic |
| bodyless | (adjective) having no trunk or main part | Synonyms: bodiless |
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| boffo | (adjective) resoundingly successful and popular | - |
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| boggy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| bogus | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, fake, phoney, phony |
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| bohemian | (adjective) unconventional in especially appearance and behavior | - |
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| boiled | (adjective) cooked in hot water | Synonyms: poached, stewed |
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| boisterous | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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| (adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: knockabout |
| (adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: fierce, rough |
| bold | (adjective) fearless and daring | - |
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| (adjective) clear and distinct | - |
| (adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | Synonyms: bluff, sheer |
| bolographic | (adjective) of or relating to a bolograph | - |
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| bolometric | (adjective) of or relating to a bolometer | - |
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| bolshy | (adjective) obstreperous | Synonyms: stroppy |
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| bombastic | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| bombproof | (adjective) able to resist the explosive force of bombs and shells | Synonyms: shellproof |
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| bondable | (adjective) capable of holding together or cohering; as particles in a mass | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond | Synonyms: bindable |
| bone | (adjective) consisting of or made up of bone | - |
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| boned | (adjective) having bones as specified | - |
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| (adjective) having had the bones removed | Synonyms: deboned |
| boneheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| boneless | (adjective) being without a bone or bones | - |
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| bonelike | (adjective) resembling bone | - |
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| boney | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: bony |
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| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| bonkers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| bonnie | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonny, comely, fair, sightly |
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| bonny | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, comely, fair, sightly |
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| bony | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: boney |
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| (adjective) composed of or containing bone | Synonyms: osseous, osteal |
| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| bonzer | (adjective) remarkable or wonderful | - |
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| bookable | (adjective) subject to being reserved or booked | - |
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| booked | (adjective) reserved in advance | Synonyms: engaged, set-aside |
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| bookish | (adjective) characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading | Synonyms: studious |
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| booming | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: stentorian |
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| (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
| boon | (adjective) very close and convivial | - |
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| boorish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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| booted | (adjective) wearing boots | - |
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| bootleg | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, contraband, smuggled |
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| bootless | (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain |
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| bootlicking | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, sycophantic, toadyish |
| boozy | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, drunken, sottish |
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| boracic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from or containing boron | Synonyms: boric |
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| borated | (adjective) mixed or impregnated with borax | - |
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| bordered | (adjective) having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term | - |
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| borderline | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: marginal |
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| boreal | (adjective) toward or located in the north | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind | - |
| (adjective) comprising or throughout far northern regions | Synonyms: circumboreal |
| bored | (adjective) tired of the world | Synonyms: world-weary |
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| (adjective) uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence | Synonyms: blase |
| boric | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from or containing boron | Synonyms: boracic |
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| boring | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| born | (adjective) brought into existence | - |
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| (adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: innate, natural |
| boronic | (adjective) of or relating to boron | - |
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| boskopoid | (adjective) belonging or relating to or resembling Boskop man | - |
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| bosky | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: brushy |
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| bosomed | (adjective) having a bosom as specified or having something likened to a bosom; usually used in compounds | - |
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| bosomy | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| boss | (adjective) exceptionally good | Synonyms: brag |
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| bossy | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| botanic | (adjective) of or relating to plants or botany | Synonyms: botanical |
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| botanical | (adjective) of or relating to plants or botany | Synonyms: botanic |
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| botched | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: bungled |
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| botchy | (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: butcherly, unskillful |
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| both | (adjective) (used with count nouns) two considered together; the two | - |
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| bothered | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: daunted, fazed |
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