abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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(adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
abranchial | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchiate, abranchious, gill-less |
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abranchiate | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchious, gill-less |
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abranchious | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchiate, gill-less |
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abrasive | (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: harsh |
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(adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: scratchy |
abreast | (adjective) being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge | Synonyms: au courant, au fait, up on |
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abridged | (adjective) (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting | - |
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abroach | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: broached |
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abroad | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: overseas |
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abrupt | (adjective) surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner | - |
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(adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: disconnected |
(adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: precipitous, sharp |
(adjective) exceedingly sudden and unexpected | - |
addlebrained | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlepated, muddleheaded, puddingheaded |
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adumbrative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefigurative |
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afebrile | (adjective) having no fever | - |
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algebraic | (adjective) of or relating to algebra | Synonyms: algebraical |
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algebraical | (adjective) of or relating to algebra | Synonyms: algebraic |
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ambrosial | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosian |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosian, nectarous |
ambrosian | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosial |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, nectarous |
backbreaking | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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braced | (adjective) positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger | - |
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(adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: buttressed |
brachial | (adjective) of or relating to an arm | - |
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brachiate | (adjective) having arms or armlike appendages | - |
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(adjective) having widely spreading paired branches | - |
brachiopod | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopodous |
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brachiopodous | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopod |
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brachycephalic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycranial, brachycranic |
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brachycranial | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranic |
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brachycranic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranial |
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brachydactylic | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylous |
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brachydactylous | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylic |
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brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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brachyurous | (adjective) of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura | - |
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bracing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: brisk, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
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brackish | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: briny |
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(adjective) distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture | - |
bracteal | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a bract | - |
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bracteate | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracted |
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bracted | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracteate |
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bracteolate | (adjective) having bracteoles | - |
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brag | (adjective) exceptionally good | Synonyms: boss |
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braggart | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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bragging | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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braggy | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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brahminic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminical |
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brahminical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminic |
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braided | (adjective) woven by (or as if by) braiding | - |
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brainish | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
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brainless | (adjective) not using intelligence | Synonyms: headless |
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brainsick | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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brainwashed | (adjective) subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones | - |
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brainy | (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brilliant, smart as a whip |
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braised | (adjective) cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container | - |
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braky | (adjective) abounding with bracken | - |
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(adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: brambly |
braless | (adjective) having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity | Synonyms: bare-breasted, topless |
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brambly | (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: braky |
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branched | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branching, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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(adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
branchial | (adjective) of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills) | - |
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branchiate | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: gilled |
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branching | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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(adjective) resembling the branches of a tree | - |
branchiopod | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopodan, branchiopodous |
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branchiopodan | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodous |
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branchiopodous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodan |
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branchless | (adjective) having no branches | - |
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branchy | (adjective) having many branches | - |
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branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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(adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
brash | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: cheeky, nervy |
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brassbound | (adjective) having trim or fittings of brass | - |
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(adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: ironclad |
brasslike | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brassy |
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brassy | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brasslike |
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(adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
brattish | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: bratty |
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bratty | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: brattish |
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brave | (adjective) possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching | Synonyms: courageous |
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(adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
(adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: braw, gay |
braw | (adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: brave, gay |
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brawny | (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy |
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brazen | (adjective) made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness) | - |
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(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, insolent |
breakable | (adjective) capable of being broken or damaged | - |
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breakaway | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: fissiparous, separatist |
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breakneck | (adjective) moving at very high speed | - |
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breasted | (adjective) having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds | - |
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breastless | (adjective) without a breast | - |
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breathed | (adjective) uttered without voice | Synonyms: voiceless |
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breathing | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: eupneic, eupnoeic |
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breathless | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic |
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(adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: inanimate, pulseless |
(adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathtaking |
breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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breeched | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: pantalooned, trousered |
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breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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breezy | (adjective) fresh and animated | - |
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(adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: blowy, windy |
bregmatic | (adjective) of or relating to the bregma of the skull | - |
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briary | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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bribable | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: corruptible, dishonest, purchasable, venal |
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brickle | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickly, brittle |
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brickly | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickle, brittle |
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bridal | (adjective) of or pertaining to a bride | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a wedding | Synonyms: nuptial, spousal |
bridgeable | (adjective) capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge | - |
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brief | (adjective) concise and succinct | - |
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(adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: abbreviated |
(adjective) of short duration or distance | - |
briefless | (adjective) (of lawyers or barristers) lacking clients | - |
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briery | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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bright | (adjective) emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts | - |
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(adjective) not made dim or less bright | Synonyms: undimmed |
(adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: hopeful, promising |
(adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: brilliant, vivid |
(adjective) splendid | - |
(adjective) characterized by happiness or gladness | - |
(adjective) characterized by quickness and ease in learning | Synonyms: smart |
(adjective) having lots of light either natural or artificial | - |
(adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny |
(adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: brilliant |
brilliant | (adjective) full of light; shining intensely | - |
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(adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: bright, vivid |
(adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: glorious, magnificent, splendid |
(adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brainy, smart as a whip |
(adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: bright |
(adjective) of surpassing excellence | Synonyms: superb |
brimful | (adjective) filled up | Synonyms: brimfull, brimming |
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brimfull | (adjective) filled up | Synonyms: brimful, brimming |
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brimless | (adjective) without a brim | - |
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brimming | (adjective) filled up | Synonyms: brimful, brimfull |
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