| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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| condescending | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing |
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| descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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| describable | (adjective) capable of being described | - |
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| described | (adjective) represented in words especially with sharpness and detail | - |
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| descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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| (adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
| desecrated | (adjective) treated with disrespect and contempt | - |
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| desegrated | (adjective) rid of segregation; having had segregation ended | Synonyms: nonsegregated, unsegregated |
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| desensitising | (adjective) making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: desensitizing |
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| desensitizing | (adjective) making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: desensitising |
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| deserted | (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: abandoned, derelict |
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| deserved | (adjective) properly deserved | Synonyms: merited |
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| deserving | (adjective) (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way | Synonyms: worth |
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| desiccate | (adjective) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless | Synonyms: arid, desiccated |
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| desiccated | (adjective) thoroughly dried out | Synonyms: dried-out |
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| (adjective) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless | Synonyms: arid, desiccate |
| (adjective) preserved by removing natural moisture | Synonyms: dehydrated, dried |
| designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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| designative | (adjective) serving to designate | - |
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| designed | (adjective) done or made or performed with purpose and intent | Synonyms: intentional, unintentional |
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| designing | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: scheming |
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| desirable | (adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving | - |
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| (adjective) worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse | Synonyms: suitable, worthy |
| desired | (adjective) wanted intensely | Synonyms: craved |
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| desirous | (adjective) having or expressing desire for something | Synonyms: wishful |
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| deskbound | (adjective) restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity | Synonyms: desk-bound |
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| desolate | (adjective) crushed by grief | - |
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| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark |
| despairing | (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: desperate |
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| desperate | (adjective) showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | Synonyms: heroic |
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| (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: dire |
| (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: despairing |
| (adjective) showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | - |
| (adjective) desperately determined | Synonyms: do-or-die |
| (adjective) (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair | - |
| despicable | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
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| despised | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: detested, hated, scorned |
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| despiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: spiteful, vindictive |
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| despoiled | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked |
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| despondent | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: heartsick |
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| despotic | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotical |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| (adjective) ruled by or characteristic of a despot | - |
| despotical | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotic |
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| destined | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Synonyms: bound |
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| (adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Synonyms: bound |
| destitute | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, devoid, free, innocent |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
| destroyable | (adjective) capable of being destroyed | - |
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| destroyed | (adjective) spoiled or ruined or demolished | - |
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| (adjective) destroyed physically or morally | Synonyms: ruined |
| destructible | (adjective) easily destroyed | - |
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| destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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| desultory | (adjective) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another | - |
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| eldest | (adjective) first in order of birth | Synonyms: firstborn |
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| geodesic | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geodesy | Synonyms: geodesical, geodetic |
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| geodesical | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geodesy | Synonyms: geodesic, geodetic |
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| immodest | (adjective) lacking decorum or decency | - |
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| (adjective) having or showing an exaggerated opinion of your importance, ability, etc | - |
| 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 |
| indescribable | (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, ineffable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable |
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| indestructible | (adjective) not easily destroyed | - |
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| (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: durable, perdurable, undestroyable |
| 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 |
| modest | (adjective) not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance | - |
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| (adjective) marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself | - |
| (adjective) humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness | Synonyms: meek, mild |
| (adjective) low or inferior in station or quality | Synonyms: humble, low, lowly, small |
| (adjective) relatively moderate, limited, or small | Synonyms: minor, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small-scale, small |
| (adjective) not large but sufficient in size or amount | Synonyms: small |
| (adjective) free from pomp or affectation | - |
| nondescript | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: characterless |
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| offsides | (adjective) illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck | Synonyms: offside |
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| overmodest | (adjective) affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way | Synonyms: coy, demure |
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| pedestrian | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, prosaic, prosy |
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| predestinarian | (adjective) of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination | - |
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| predestinate | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: foreordained, predestined |
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| predestined | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: foreordained, predestinate |
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| recrudescent | (adjective) the revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement | - |
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| sidesplitting | (adjective) very funny | Synonyms: killing |
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| undescended | (adjective) (of the testis) remaining in the abdomen instead of descending into the scrotum | - |
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| undescriptive | (adjective) not successful in describing | - |
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| undeserved | (adjective) not deserved or earned | - |
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| undeserving | (adjective) not deserving | Synonyms: unworthy |
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| undesigned | (adjective) not done or made or performed with purpose or intent | - |
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| undesirable | (adjective) not wanted | Synonyms: unwanted |
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| (adjective) not worthy of being chosen (especially as a spouse) | Synonyms: unsuitable |
| undesired | (adjective) not desired | Synonyms: unsought |
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| undesiring | (adjective) having or feeling no desire | Synonyms: undesirous |
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| undesirous | (adjective) having or feeling no desire | Synonyms: undesiring |
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| undestroyable | (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: durable, indestructible, perdurable |
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| (adjective) not capable of being destroyed | - |
| widespread | (adjective) distributed over a considerable extent | Synonyms: far-flung |
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| (adjective) widely circulated or diffused | - |