| abactinal | (adjective) (of radiate animals) located on the surface or end opposite to that on which the mouth is situated | - |
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| abducting | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducent |
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| abject | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: low-down, low, miserable, scummy, scurvy |
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| (adjective) showing utter resignation or hopelessness | Synonyms: unhopeful |
| (adjective) showing humiliation or submissiveness | - |
| (adjective) most unfortunate or miserable | - |
| abstract | (adjective) existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment | - |
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| (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
| (adjective) dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention | - |
| abstracted | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, scatty |
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| abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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| abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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| acatalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| actable | (adjective) capable of being acted; suitable for the stage | - |
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| actinal | (adjective) (of radiate organisms) located on the surface or end on which the mouth is situated | - |
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| acting | (adjective) serving temporarily especially as a substitute | - |
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| actinic | (adjective) relating to or exhibiting actinism | - |
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| actinoid | (adjective) having a radial form | - |
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| actinometric | (adjective) of or related to actinometry | Synonyms: actinometrical |
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| actinometrical | (adjective) of or related to actinometry | Synonyms: actinometric |
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| actinomorphic | (adjective) capable of division into symmetrical halves by any longitudinal plane passing through the axis | Synonyms: actinomorphous |
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| actinomorphous | (adjective) capable of division into symmetrical halves by any longitudinal plane passing through the axis | Synonyms: actinomorphic |
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| actinomycetal | (adjective) of or belonging to the actinomycetes | Synonyms: actinomycetous |
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| actinomycetous | (adjective) of or belonging to the actinomycetes | Synonyms: actinomycetal |
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| actinomycotic | (adjective) of or related to actinomycosis infection | - |
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| actionable | (adjective) affording grounds for legal action | - |
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| activated | (adjective) rendered active; e.g. rendered radioactive or luminescent or photosensitive or conductive | - |
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| (adjective) (military) set up and placed on active assignment | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive | Synonyms: excited |
| (adjective) (of sewage) treated with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition | - |
| activating | (adjective) causing motion or action or change | Synonyms: actuating |
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| active | (adjective) (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being | Synonyms: dynamic |
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| (adjective) characterized by energetic activity | - |
| (adjective) tending to become more severe or wider in scope | - |
| (adjective) disposed to take action or effectuate change | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) erupting or liable to erupt | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) capable of erupting | - |
| (adjective) full of activity or engaged in continuous activity | - |
| (adjective) exerting influence or producing a change or effect | - |
| (adjective) engaged in full-time work | - |
| (adjective) expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: | - |
| (adjective) (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions | - |
| (adjective) in operation | Synonyms: alive |
| (adjective) taking part in an activity | Synonyms: participating |
| (adjective) engaged in or ready for military or naval operations | Synonyms: combat-ready, fighting |
| activist | (adjective) advocating or engaged in activism | Synonyms: activistic |
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| activistic | (adjective) advocating or engaged in activism | Synonyms: activist |
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| actual | (adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: existent |
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| (adjective) being or existing at the present moment | - |
| (adjective) taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated | - |
| (adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: genuine, literal, real |
| (adjective) existing in act or fact | Synonyms: factual |
| actuarial | (adjective) of or relating to the work of an actuary | - |
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| actuated | (adjective) moved to action | - |
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| actuating | (adjective) causing motion or action or change | Synonyms: activating |
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| adactylous | (adjective) without fingers and/or toes | - |
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| addicted | (adjective) compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming | - |
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| addictive | (adjective) causing or characterized by addiction | Synonyms: habit-forming |
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| adducting | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducent, adductive |
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| adductive | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducent, adducting |
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| adjectival | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective | Synonyms: adjective |
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| adjective | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: procedural |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective | Synonyms: adjectival |
| adjunct | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: assistant |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
| adjunctive | (adjective) joining; forming an adjunct | - |
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| advective | (adjective) of or relating to advection | - |
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| affected | (adjective) acted upon; influenced | - |
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| (adjective) speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression | Synonyms: unnatural |
| (adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: moved, stirred, touched |
| affecting | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: poignant, touching |
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| affectional | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affective, emotive |
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| affectionate | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: fond, lovesome, tender |
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| affective | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, emotive |
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| afflicted | (adjective) grievously affected especially by disease | Synonyms: stricken |
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| (adjective) mentally or physically unfit | Synonyms: impaired |
| afflictive | (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: painful, sore |
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| anaphylactic | (adjective) related to the hypersensitivity known as anaphylaxis | - |
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| anfractuous | (adjective) full of twists and turns | - |
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| anicteric | (adjective) without jaundice | - |
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| (adjective) not affected by jaundice | - |
| anorectal | (adjective) pertaining to the anus and rectum considered together | - |
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| anorectic | (adjective) causing loss of appetite | Synonyms: anorexigenic |
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| (adjective) suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin | Synonyms: anorexic |
| antibacterial | (adjective) destroying bacteria or inhibiting their growth | - |
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| anticlimactic | (adjective) coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style | Synonyms: anticlimactical |
| anticlimactical | (adjective) of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style | Synonyms: anticlimactic |
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| apodeictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodictic |
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| apodictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodeictic |
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| apomictic | (adjective) of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis | Synonyms: apomictical |
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| (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamogenetic, agamous, parthenogenetic |
| apomictical | (adjective) of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis | Synonyms: apomictic |
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| apoplectic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy | - |
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| apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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| apoplectoid | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectiform |
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| apractic | (adjective) having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder | Synonyms: apraxic |
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| architectonic | (adjective) of or pertaining to construction or architecture | Synonyms: tectonic |
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| architectural | (adjective) of or pertaining to the art and science of architecture | - |
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| arctic | (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar |
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| artefactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artifactual |
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| artifactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artefactual |
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| artiodactyl | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla | Synonyms: artiodactylous, even-toed |
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| artiodactylous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla | Synonyms: artiodactyl, even-toed |
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| aspectual | (adjective) of or belonging to an aspect (as an aspect of the verb) | - |
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| atactic | (adjective) lacking motor coordination; marked or caused by ataxia | Synonyms: ataxic |
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| ataractic | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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| attractable | (adjective) capable of being magnetized or attracted by a magnet | - |
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| attractive | (adjective) pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm | - |
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| (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull | - |
| (adjective) having power to arouse interest | - |
| auctorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: authorial |
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| autodidactic | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of an autodidact | - |
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| bacteremic | (adjective) of or relating to or having bacteremia | - |
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| bacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by bacteria | - |
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| bactericidal | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: disinfectant, germicidal |
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| bacterioid | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioidal, bacteroid, bacteroidal |
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| bacterioidal | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacteroid, bacteroidal |
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| bacteriologic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriology | Synonyms: bacteriological |
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| bacteriological | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriology | Synonyms: bacteriologic |
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| bacteriolytic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriolysis | - |
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| bacteriophagic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagous |
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| bacteriophagous | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagic |
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| bacteriostatic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis | - |
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| bacteroid | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacterioidal, bacteroidal |
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| bacteroidal | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacterioidal, bacteroid |
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| benedictive | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictory |
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| benedictory | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictive |
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| bespectacled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: monocled, spectacled |
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| bidirectional | (adjective) reactive or functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions | - |
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| bisectional | (adjective) of or relating to bisection | - |
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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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| 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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