| brinded | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brindle, brindled, tabby |
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| brindle | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindled, tabby |
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| brindled | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindle, tabby |
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| briny | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: brackish |
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| brisant | (adjective) of or relating to the power (the shattering effect) of an explosive | - |
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| brisk | (adjective) very active | - |
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| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
| (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: bracing, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
| bristled | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bristlelike | (adjective) resembling a bristle | - |
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| bristly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: prickly, splenetic, waspish |
| brittle | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickle, brickly |
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| (adjective) lacking warmth and generosity of spirit | - |
| (adjective) (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured | Synonyms: unannealed |
| broached | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: abroach |
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| broad | (adjective) having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other | Synonyms: wide |
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| (adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: large-minded, liberal, tolerant |
| (adjective) lacking subtlety; obvious | Synonyms: unsubtle |
| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
| (adjective) not detailed or specific | Synonyms: unspecific |
| (adjective) being at a peak or culminating point | Synonyms: full |
| (adjective) very large in expanse or scope | Synonyms: spacious, wide |
| (adjective) (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional | - |
| broadband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: wideband |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video) | - |
| broadleaf | (adjective) having relatively broad rather than needlelike or scalelike leaves | Synonyms: broad-leafed, broad-leaved |
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| broadloom | (adjective) (of rugs or carpets) woven full width | - |
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| broadnosed | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| broadside | (adjective) toward a full side | - |
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| brocaded | (adjective) embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery | Synonyms: embossed, raised |
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| broiled | (adjective) cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill) | Synonyms: grilled |
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| broke | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: bust, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| broken | (adjective) physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split | - |
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| (adjective) not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly | - |
| (adjective) (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded | Synonyms: unkept |
| (adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: busted |
| (adjective) destroyed financially | Synonyms: impoverished, wiped out |
| (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: confused, disordered, upset |
| (adjective) discontinuous | - |
| (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: crushed, humbled, humiliated, low |
| (adjective) weakened and infirm | - |
| (adjective) imperfectly spoken or written | - |
| (adjective) lacking a part or parts | - |
| (adjective) topographically very uneven | Synonyms: rugged |
| (adjective) tamed or trained to obey | Synonyms: broken in |
| brokenhearted | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: heartbroken, heartsick |
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| bromic | (adjective) relating to or containing bromine (especially pentavalent bromine) | - |
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| bromidic | (adjective) given to uttering bromides | - |
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| (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: corny, platitudinal, platitudinous |
| bronchial | (adjective) relating to or associated with the bronchi | - |
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| bronchiolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving bronchioles | - |
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| bronchitic | (adjective) suffering from or prone to bronchitis | - |
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| bronchoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to an instrument for examining the interior of the bronchi | - |
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| bronze | (adjective) of the color of bronze | Synonyms: bronzy |
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| (adjective) made from or consisting of bronze | - |
| bronzed | (adjective) (of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun | Synonyms: suntanned, tanned |
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| bronzy | (adjective) of the color of bronze | Synonyms: bronze |
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| brooding | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| broody | (adjective) physiologically ready to incubate eggs | - |
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| (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
| brotherlike | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherly, fraternal |
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| brotherly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, fraternal |
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| brown | (adjective) (of skin) deeply suntanned | Synonyms: browned |
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| (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
| browned | (adjective) (of skin) deeply suntanned | Synonyms: brown |
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| brownish | (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brown, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
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| bruising | (adjective) brutally forceful and compelling | - |
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| (adjective) causing mental or emotional injury | - |
| brumal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: hibernal, hiemal |
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| brumous | (adjective) filled or abounding with fog or mist | Synonyms: foggy, hazy, misty |
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| brunet | (adjective) marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | Synonyms: brunette |
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| brunette | (adjective) marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | Synonyms: brunet |
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| brushed | (adjective) (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush | - |
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| (adjective) (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing | Synonyms: fleecy, napped |
| (adjective) touched lightly in passing; grazed against | - |
| brushlike | (adjective) resembling a brush | - |
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| brushy | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: bosky |
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| brusk | (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusque, curt, short |
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| brusque | (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, curt, short |
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| brut | (adjective) (of champagne) extremely dry | - |
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| brutal | (adjective) disagreeably direct and precise | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brute, brutish |
| (adjective) punishingly harsh | Synonyms: unrelenting |
| (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
| brute | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish |
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| brutish | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brute |
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| bryophytic | (adjective) relating to plants of the division Bryophyta | - |
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| calibrated | (adjective) marked with or divided into degrees | Synonyms: graduated |
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| celebrated | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: historied, storied |
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| (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: famed, famous, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned |
| celebratory | (adjective) used for celebrating | - |
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| cerebral | (adjective) involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct | Synonyms: intellectual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cerebrum or brain | - |
| cerebrospinal | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and spinal cord | - |
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| cerebrovascular | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it | - |
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| crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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| crossbred | (adjective) bred from parents of different varieties or species | - |
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| cumbrous | (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbersome |
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| dolabrate | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabriform |
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| dolabriform | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabrate |
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| ebracteate | (adjective) without bracts | - |
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| embroiled | (adjective) deeply involved especially in something complicated | Synonyms: entangled |
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| embryologic | (adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryonal, embryonic |
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| embryonal | (adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryologic, embryonic |
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| embryonic | (adjective) in an early stage of development | Synonyms: embryotic |
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| (adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryologic, embryonal |
| embryotic | (adjective) in an early stage of development | Synonyms: embryonic |
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| fabricated | (adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination | Synonyms: fancied, fictional, fictitious |
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| featherbrained | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| febrile | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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| fibreoptic | (adjective) of or relating to fiber optics | Synonyms: fiber-optic, fiberoptic, fibre-optic |
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| fibrillose | (adjective) covered with fibrils more or less evenly disposed | - |
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| fibrinous | (adjective) characterized by the presence of fibrin | - |
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| fibrocalcific | (adjective) involving or resulting from calcification of fibrous tissue | - |
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| fibrocartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to fibrocartilage | - |
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| fibrous | (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: sinewy, stringy, unchewable |
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| (adjective) having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute | Synonyms: hempen |
| fimbriate | (adjective) having a fringe of slender processes | - |
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| glabrescent | (adjective) lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless | - |
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| glabrous | (adjective) having no hair or similar growth; smooth | - |
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| groundbreaking | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: innovational, innovative |
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| harebrained | (adjective) very foolish | Synonyms: insane, mad |
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| heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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| heartbroken | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: brokenhearted, heartsick |
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| highbrow | (adjective) highly cultured or educated | Synonyms: highbrowed |
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| highbrowed | (adjective) highly cultured or educated | Synonyms: highbrow |
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| housebroken | (adjective) (of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place | Synonyms: house-trained |
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| hybrid | (adjective) produced by crossbreeding | Synonyms: intercrossed |
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| imbricate | (adjective) used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles | Synonyms: imbricated |
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| imbricated | (adjective) used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles | Synonyms: imbricate |
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| inbred | (adjective) produced by inbreeding | - |
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| (adjective) normally existing at birth | Synonyms: connatural, inborn |
| inebriated | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: drunk, gone, intoxicated, ripped |
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| insalubrious | (adjective) detrimental to health | Synonyms: unhealthful, unhealthy |
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| interbred | (adjective) bred of closely related parents | - |
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| intervertebral | (adjective) pertaining to the space between two vertebrae | - |
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| intracerebral | (adjective) within the brain | - |
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| invertebrate | (adjective) lacking a backbone or spinal column | Synonyms: spineless |
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| lamellibranch | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: pelecypod, pelecypodous |
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