| abducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducting |
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| acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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| accented | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | Synonyms: stressed |
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| (adjective) (used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch | Synonyms: tonic |
| accentual | (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to accent or stress | - |
| acentric | (adjective) lacking a centromere | - |
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| (adjective) not centered or having no center | - |
| acquiescent | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: biddable |
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| acrocentric | (adjective) having a subterminal centromere | - |
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| adducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducting, adductive |
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| adjacent | (adjective) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space | Synonyms: next, side by side |
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| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: conterminous, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| (adjective) near or close to but not necessarily touching | - |
| adolescent | (adjective) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent | - |
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| (adjective) in the state of development between puberty and maturity | - |
| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile |
| (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged |
| albescent | (adjective) becoming or shading into white | - |
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| alcalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alkalescent |
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| alkalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alcalescent |
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| anthropocentric | (adjective) human-centered | - |
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| aplacental | (adjective) having no placenta | - |
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| 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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| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| beneficent | (adjective) doing or producing good | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| bicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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| bicentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentenary |
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| bicentric | (adjective) having two centers | - |
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| bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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| (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
| caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
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| centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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| centenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centennial |
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| centennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centenary |
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| center | (adjective) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually | Synonyms: centre |
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| (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: centre, halfway, middle, midway |
| centered | (adjective) being or placed in the center | Synonyms: centred |
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| centesimal | (adjective) relating to or divided into hundredths | - |
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| (adjective) the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order | Synonyms: 100th, hundredth |
| centigrade | (adjective) of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees | - |
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| central | (adjective) in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area | - |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, fundamental, key, primal |
| centralised | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralized |
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| centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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| centralist | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralistic |
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| centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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| centralized | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralised |
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| centralizing | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralising |
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| centre | (adjective) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually | Synonyms: center |
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| (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, halfway, middle, midway |
| centred | (adjective) being or placed in the center | Synonyms: centered |
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| centric | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centrical |
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| centrical | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centric |
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| centrifugal | (adjective) tending to move away from a center | - |
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| (adjective) tending away from centralization, as of authority | - |
| (adjective) conveying information to the muscles from the CNS | Synonyms: motor |
| centripetal | (adjective) tending to move toward a center | - |
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| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: receptive, sensory |
| (adjective) tending to unify | Synonyms: unifying |
| centrist | (adjective) supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative | Synonyms: middle-of-the-road |
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| centroidal | (adjective) of or relating to (especially passing through) a centroid | - |
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| centromeric | (adjective) pertaining to the dense specialized portion of a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosis | - |
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| centrosomic | (adjective) of or relating to a centrosome | - |
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| centrosymmetric | (adjective) having a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point | Synonyms: radially symmetrical |
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| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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| coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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| complacent | (adjective) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions | Synonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied |
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| concentrated | (adjective) gathered together or made less diffuse | - |
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| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: hard |
| (adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | Synonyms: saturated |
| (adjective) intensely focused | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced | - |
| concentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentrical, homocentric |
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| concentrical | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, homocentric |
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| concupiscent | (adjective) vigorously passionate | Synonyms: lustful, lusty |
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| convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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| crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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| decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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| decent | (adjective) conforming to conventions of sexual behavior | - |
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| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, satisfactory |
| (adjective) observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress | - |
| (adjective) in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion | Synonyms: fitting |
| (adjective) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous | Synonyms: nice |
| (adjective) sufficiently clothed to see visitors or appear in public | - |
| decentralised | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralized |
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| decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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| decentralized | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralised |
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| decentralizing | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralising |
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| defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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| dehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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| deliquescent | (adjective) (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| demulcent | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: emollient, salving, softening |
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| eccentric | (adjective) not having a common center; not concentric | Synonyms: nonconcentric |
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| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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| (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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| egocentric | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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| endocentric | (adjective) fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents | - |
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| ethnocentric | (adjective) centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own | - |
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| evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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| excrescent | (adjective) forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth) | - |
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| exocentric | (adjective) not fulfilling the same grammatical role of any of its constituents | - |
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| fluorescent | (adjective) brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source | - |
| geocentric | (adjective) having the earth as the center | - |
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| glabrescent | (adjective) lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless | - |
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| heliocentric | (adjective) having the sun as the center | - |
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| homocentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, concentrical |
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| ignescent | (adjective) can emit sparks or burst into flame | - |
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| incandescent | (adjective) characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance | - |
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| (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: candent |
| indecent | (adjective) offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters | - |
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| (adjective) offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance | - |
| (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward |
| indehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits) not opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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| innocent | (adjective) free from evil or guilt | Synonyms: clean-handed, guiltless |
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| (adjective) lacking intent or capacity to injure | Synonyms: innocuous |
| (adjective) lacking in sophistication or worldliness | Synonyms: ingenuous |
| (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, destitute, devoid, free |
| (adjective) (used of things) lacking sense or awareness | - |
| (adjective) not knowledgeable about something specified | Synonyms: unacquainted |
| (adjective) free from sin | Synonyms: impeccant, sinless |
| intumescent | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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| iridescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent |
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| (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, shot |
| licentious | (adjective) lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained | - |
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| liquescent | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: melting |
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| lucent | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: aglow, lambent, luminous |
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| luminescent | (adjective) emitting light not caused by heat | - |
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| magnificent | (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, glorious, splendid |
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| maleficent | (adjective) harmful or evil in intent or effect | - |
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| matricentric | (adjective) centered upon the mother | - |
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| metacentric | (adjective) having two equal arms because of the median position of the centromere | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the metacenter | - |
| munificent | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| nascent | (adjective) being born or beginning | - |
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