| accredited | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: commissioned, licenced, licensed |
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| accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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| accretive | (adjective) growing by accretion | - |
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| accrued | (adjective) periodically accumulated over time | Synonyms: accumulated |
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| acrid | (adjective) strong and sharp | Synonyms: pungent |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| acrimonious | (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: bitter |
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| acritical | (adjective) without a crisis (as of some diseases) | - |
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| acrobatic | (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: athletic, gymnastic |
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| acrocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem | - |
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| acrocentric | (adjective) having a subterminal centromere | - |
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| acrogenic | (adjective) pertaining to flowerless plants (ferns or mosses) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem | Synonyms: acrogenous |
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| acrogenous | (adjective) pertaining to flowerless plants (ferns or mosses) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem | Synonyms: acrogenic |
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| acromegalic | (adjective) marked or affected by enlargement or hypertrophy of the extremities or the face | - |
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| acronymic | (adjective) characterized by the use of acronyms | Synonyms: acronymous |
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| acronymous | (adjective) characterized by the use of acronyms | Synonyms: acronymic |
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| acropetal | (adjective) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from base to apex | - |
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| acrophobic | (adjective) suffering from acrophobia; abnormally afraid of high places | - |
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| acroscopic | (adjective) facing or on the side toward the apex | - |
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| adscript | (adjective) written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it | - |
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| (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscripted |
| adscripted | (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscript |
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| alacritous | (adjective) quick and eager | - |
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| ambulacral | (adjective) pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms | - |
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| antiaircraft | (adjective) designed for defense from a surface position against air attack | - |
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| antimicrobial | (adjective) capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms | Synonyms: antimicrobic |
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| antimicrobic | (adjective) capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms | Synonyms: antimicrobial |
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| apocrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion | - |
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| apocryphal | (adjective) being of questionable authenticity | - |
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| aristocratic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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| aristocratical | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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| ascribable | (adjective) capable of being assigned or credited to | Synonyms: due, imputable, referable |
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| autocratic | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| 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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| bureaucratic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy | - |
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| cancroid | (adjective) of or relating to a cancroid | - |
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| chancroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having chancroids | - |
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| chancrous | (adjective) of or having chancres | - |
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| circumscribed | (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: limited |
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| concrete | (adjective) capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary | - |
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| (adjective) formed by the coalescence of particles | - |
| concretistic | (adjective) of or relating to concrete representations of abstractions | - |
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| consecrate | (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrated, dedicated |
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| consecrated | (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrate, dedicated |
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| (adjective) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use | Synonyms: sacred, sanctified |
| crabbed | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| crabby | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| crabwise | (adjective) (of movement) at an angle | Synonyms: sideways |
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| crack | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
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| crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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| cracked | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: alligatored |
| (adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: chapped, roughened |
| crackers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| cracking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| crackle | (adjective) having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware | - |
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| crafty | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| cragfast | (adjective) stranded on or as if on a crag | - |
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| cragged | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: craggy, hilly, mountainous |
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| craggy | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, hilly, mountainous |
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| cramped | (adjective) constricted in size | - |
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| cranial | (adjective) of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain | - |
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| craniometric | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometrical |
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| craniometrical | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometric |
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| crank | (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: cranky, tender, tippy |
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| cranky | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: crank, tender, tippy |
| crannied | (adjective) having small chinks or crannies (especially in or between rocks or stones) | - |
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| crappy | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky |
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| crapulent | (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulous |
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| crapulous | (adjective) given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulent |
| crashing | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, flaming, fucking |
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| crass | (adjective) (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility | - |
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| craved | (adjective) wanted intensely | Synonyms: desired |
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| craven | (adjective) lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful | Synonyms: recreant |
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| crazed | (adjective) driven insane | Synonyms: deranged, half-crazed |
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| crazy | (adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with | Synonyms: dotty, gaga, wild |
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| (adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement | - |
| (adjective) foolish; totally unsound | Synonyms: half-baked, screwball, softheaded |
| (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
| (adjective) bizarre or fantastic | - |
| creaky | (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: screaky |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy |
| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| creamy | (adjective) of the color of cream | - |
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| (adjective) thick like cream | - |
| creaseless | (adjective) used especially of fabrics | Synonyms: uncreased |
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| creaseproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, wrinkle-resistant, wrinkleproof |
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| creative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: originative |
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| (adjective) promoting construction or creation | - |
| credal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: creedal |
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| credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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| credible | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: believable |
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| (adjective) appearing to merit belief or acceptance | - |
| (adjective) (a common but incorrect usage where `credulous' would be appropriate) credulous | - |
| creditable | (adjective) worthy of often limited commendation | - |
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| credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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| creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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| credulous | (adjective) disposed to believe on little evidence | - |
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| (adjective) showing a lack of judgment or experience | - |
| creedal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: credal |
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| creepy | (adjective) causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin | Synonyms: creepy-crawly |
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| (adjective) annoying and unpleasant | - |
| crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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| crenated | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, scalloped |
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| crenelated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled |
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| crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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| crenulated | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulate |
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| crepuscular | (adjective) like twilight; dim | - |
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| crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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| crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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| cresson | (adjective) of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green | Synonyms: cress green, watercress |
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| crested | (adjective) (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume | Synonyms: plumed |
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| (adjective) (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination | Synonyms: topknotted, tufted |
| (adjective) bearing an heraldic device | - |
| crestfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, chopfallen, deflated |
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| cretaceous | (adjective) abounding in chalk | - |
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| cretinous | (adjective) afflicted with cretinism | - |
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| criminal | (adjective) guilty of crime or serious offense | - |
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| (adjective) involving or being or having the nature of a crime | Synonyms: felonious |
| (adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: condemnable, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious |
| criminative | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory |
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