gibbose | (adjective) (used of the moon) more than half full | Synonyms: gibbous |
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gibbous | (adjective) (used of the moon) more than half full | Synonyms: gibbose |
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(adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
globose | (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical |
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hardbound | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardcover |
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hemimetabolic | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous |
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hemimetabolous | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolic, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous |
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heterometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolous |
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heterometabolous | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolic |
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hidebound | (adjective) stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded | Synonyms: traditionalist |
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highborn | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: coroneted, titled |
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holometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolous |
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holometabolous | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolic |
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homebound | (adjective) confined usually by illness | Synonyms: housebound, shut-in |
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housebound | (adjective) confined usually by illness | Synonyms: homebound, shut-in |
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hyperbolic | (adjective) of or relating to a hyperbola | - |
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(adjective) enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness | Synonyms: inflated |
hyperboloidal | (adjective) having the shape of a hyperboloid | - |
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icebound | (adjective) locked in by ice | - |
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inboard | (adjective) located within the hull or nearest the midline of a vessel or aircraft | - |
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inborn | (adjective) normally existing at birth | Synonyms: connatural, inbred |
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(adjective) present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development | Synonyms: congenital, innate |
inbound | (adjective) directed or moving inward or toward a center | Synonyms: inward |
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inelaborate | (adjective) not elaborate; lacking rich or complex detail | Synonyms: unelaborate |
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insubordinate | (adjective) not submissive to authority | - |
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(adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: resistant, resistive |
jumbo | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, gargantuan, giant |
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katabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
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(adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: catabolic |
knockabout | (adjective) suitable for rough use | - |
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(adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: boisterous |
labored | (adjective) lacking natural ease | Synonyms: laboured, strained |
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(adjective) requiring or showing effort | Synonyms: heavy, laboured |
laboring | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, labouring, toiling |
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laborious | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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laborsaving | (adjective) designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor | Synonyms: laboursaving |
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laboured | (adjective) lacking natural ease | Synonyms: labored, strained |
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(adjective) requiring or showing effort | Synonyms: heavy, labored |
labouring | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, laboring, toiling |
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laboursaving | (adjective) designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor | Synonyms: laborsaving |
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larboard | (adjective) located on the left side of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: port |
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liveborn | (adjective) (of newborn infant) showing signs of life after birth; not stillborn | - |
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lowborn | (adjective) of humble birth or origins | - |
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lumbosacral | (adjective) of or relating to or near the small of the back and the back part of the pelvis between the hips | - |
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metabolic | (adjective) undergoing metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabolous |
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(adjective) of or relating to metabolism | - |
metabolous | (adjective) undergoing metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabolic |
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metagrabolised | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolized, metagrobolised, metagrobolized, mystified |
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metagrabolized | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrobolised, metagrobolized, mystified |
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metagrobolised | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrabolized, metagrobolized, mystified |
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metagrobolized | (adjective) totally perplexed and mixed up | Synonyms: metagrabolised, metagrabolized, metagrobolised, mystified |
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monocarboxylic | (adjective) containing one carboxyl group | - |
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neighboring | (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighbouring |
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neighborly | (adjective) exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: neighbourly |
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neighbouring | (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring |
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neighbourly | (adjective) exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: neighborly |
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newborn | (adjective) having just or recently arisen or come into existence | Synonyms: new-sprung |
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(adjective) recently born | - |
nonarboreal | (adjective) not inhabiting or frequenting trees | - |
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noncarbonated | (adjective) not having carbonation | Synonyms: uncarbonated |
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northbound | (adjective) moving toward the north | Synonyms: northward |
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obovate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base | - |
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outboard | (adjective) located away from the midline of a vessel or aircraft | - |
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outbound | (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: departing, outward-bound, outward |
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overbold | (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, sassy, saucy, smart, wise |
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parabolic | (adjective) resembling or expressed by parables | Synonyms: parabolical |
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(adjective) having the form of a parabola | Synonyms: parabolical |
parabolical | (adjective) resembling or expressed by parables | Synonyms: parabolic |
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(adjective) having the form of a parabola | Synonyms: parabolic |
paraboloidal | (adjective) having the shape of a paraboloid | - |
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plumbous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of lead | Synonyms: plumbic |
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potbound | (adjective) (of a potted plant) grown too large for its container resulting in matting or tangling of the roots | Synonyms: rootbound |
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rawboned | (adjective) having a lean and bony physique | - |
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reborn | (adjective) spiritually reborn or converted | Synonyms: born-again |
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(adjective) restored to new life and vigor | Synonyms: revitalised, revitalized |
rhombohedral | (adjective) having threefold symmetry | Synonyms: trigonal |
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rhomboid | (adjective) shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid | Synonyms: rhomboidal |
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rhomboidal | (adjective) shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid | Synonyms: rhomboid |
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ribbonlike | (adjective) long and thin; resembling a ribbon | Synonyms: ribbony |
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ribbony | (adjective) long and thin; resembling a ribbon | Synonyms: ribbonlike |
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robotic | (adjective) of or relating to mechanical robots | - |
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(adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, automatonlike, machinelike, robotlike |
robotlike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, automatonlike, machinelike, robotic |
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rockbound | (adjective) abounding in or bordered by rocky cliffs or scarps | Synonyms: rock-ribbed |
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rootbound | (adjective) having the roots matted or densely tangled | - |
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(adjective) (of a potted plant) grown too large for its container resulting in matting or tangling of the roots | Synonyms: potbound |
roundabout | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, devious |
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(adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct | Synonyms: circuitous |
schoolboyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boyish, boylike |
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seaborne | (adjective) conveyed by sea | - |
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shambolic | (adjective) (British slang) disorderly or chaotic | - |
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shipboard | (adjective) casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship | - |
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smoothbore | (adjective) of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel | Synonyms: unrifled |
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snowbound | (adjective) confined or shut in by heavy snow | - |
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southbound | (adjective) moving toward the south | Synonyms: southward |
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spellbound | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, transfixed |
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starboard | (adjective) located on the right side of a ship or aircraft | - |
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stillborn | (adjective) (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn | - |
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(adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: abortive, unsuccessful |
stormbound | (adjective) delayed or confined or cut off by a storm | - |
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strikebound | (adjective) closed or immobilized by a strike | - |
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stubborn | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: obstinate, unregenerate |
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(adjective) not responding to treatment | Synonyms: refractory |
subocean | (adjective) formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed | Synonyms: suboceanic |
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suboceanic | (adjective) formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed | Synonyms: subocean |
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subocular | (adjective) situated on or below the floor of the eye socket | Synonyms: suborbital |
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suborbital | (adjective) having or involving a trajectory of less than one orbit | - |
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(adjective) situated on or below the floor of the eye socket | Synonyms: subocular |
subordinate | (adjective) lower in rank or importance | Synonyms: low-level |
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(adjective) subject or submissive to authority or the control of another | - |
(adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: dependent |
subordinating | (adjective) serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause | Synonyms: subordinative |
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subordinative | (adjective) serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause | Synonyms: subordinating |
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symbolic | (adjective) relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols | Synonyms: symbolical |
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(adjective) using symbolism | - |
(adjective) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract | Synonyms: emblematic, emblematical, symbolical |
symbolical | (adjective) relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols | Synonyms: symbolic |
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(adjective) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract | Synonyms: emblematic, emblematical, symbolic |
taboo | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, proscribed, tabu, verboten |
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(adjective) forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands | Synonyms: tabu |
textbook | (adjective) according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical | Synonyms: casebook |
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thrombosed | (adjective) affected with or obstructed by a clot of coagulated blood | - |
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tomboyish | (adjective) used of girls; wild and boisterous | Synonyms: hoydenish |
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unbodied | (adjective) having no body | - |
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(adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: bodiless, discorporate, disembodied, unembodied |
unbolted | (adjective) not firmly fastened or secured | Synonyms: unbarred, unlatched, unlocked, unsecured |
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