| discretionary | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretional |
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| (adjective) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed | - |
| discriminable | (adjective) capable of being discriminated | - |
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| discriminate | (adjective) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions | - |
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| discriminating | (adjective) showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste | - |
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| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| discriminative | (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: judicial |
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| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminatory |
| discriminatory | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: prejudiced |
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| (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: preferential |
| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminative |
| (adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: invidious |
| discursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, excursive, rambling |
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| (adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: dianoetic |
| disdainful | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: contemptuous, insulting, scornful |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
| diseased | (adjective) caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology | Synonyms: morbid, pathologic, pathological |
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| disembodied | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: bodiless, discorporate, unbodied, unembodied |
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| disenchanted | (adjective) freed from enchantment | - |
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| disenchanting | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disillusioning |
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| disenfranchised | (adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | Synonyms: disfranchised, voiceless, voteless |
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| disentangled | (adjective) straightened out | Synonyms: loosened, unsnarled |
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| disfigured | (adjective) having the appearance spoiled | - |
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| disfranchised | (adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | Synonyms: disenfranchised, voiceless, voteless |
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| disgraced | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: discredited, dishonored, shamed |
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| disgraceful | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
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| (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: scandalous, shameful, shocking |
| disgruntled | (adjective) in a state of sulky dissatisfaction | Synonyms: dissatisfied |
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| disguised | (adjective) having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading | Synonyms: cloaked, masked |
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| disgusted | (adjective) having a strong distaste from surfeit | Synonyms: fed up, sick, sick of, tired of |
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| disgustful | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| disgusting | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| disharmonious | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, dissonant, inharmonic |
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| disheartened | (adjective) made less hopeful or enthusiastic | Synonyms: demoralised, demoralized, discouraged |
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| disheartening | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, dispiriting |
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| dished | (adjective) shaped like a dish or pan | Synonyms: dish-shaped, patelliform |
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| disheveled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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| dishevelled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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| dishonest | (adjective) deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive | Synonyms: dishonorable |
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| (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, corruptible, purchasable, venal |
| dishonorable | (adjective) lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor | Synonyms: dishonourable |
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| (adjective) deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive | Synonyms: dishonest |
| dishonored | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: discredited, disgraced, shamed |
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| dishonourable | (adjective) lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor | Synonyms: dishonorable |
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| dishy | (adjective) (informal British) sexually attractive | - |
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| disillusioned | (adjective) freed from illusion | - |
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| disillusioning | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disenchanting |
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| disinclined | (adjective) unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval | - |
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| disinfectant | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: bactericidal, germicidal |
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| disingenuous | (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: artful |
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| disinherited | (adjective) deprived of your rightful heritage | - |
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| disintegrable | (adjective) capable of melting | Synonyms: meltable |
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| disintegrative | (adjective) tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
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| disinterested | (adjective) unaffected by self-interest | - |
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| disjoined | (adjective) have the connection undone; having become separate | Synonyms: separate |
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| disjoint | (adjective) having no elements in common | - |
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| disjointed | (adjective) taken apart at the joints | - |
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| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
| (adjective) separated at the joint | Synonyms: dislocated, separated |
| disjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second | - |
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| (adjective) used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations | - |
| (adjective) having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects | - |
| (adjective) marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements | Synonyms: isolated |
| disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
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| disklike | (adjective) having a flat circular shape | Synonyms: disc-shaped, disclike, discoid, discoidal, disk-shaped |
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| dislikable | (adjective) such as to provoke dislike | - |
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| disliked | (adjective) regarded with aversion | - |
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| dislocated | (adjective) separated at the joint | Synonyms: disjointed, separated |
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| dislogistic | (adjective) expressing disapproval | Synonyms: dyslogistic, pejorative |
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| disloyal | (adjective) deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle | - |
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| (adjective) showing lack of love for your country | Synonyms: unpatriotic |
| dismal | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| dismantled | (adjective) torn down and broken up | Synonyms: demolished, razed |
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| dismayed | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: aghast, appalled, shocked |
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| dismaying | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: appalling |
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| dismissed | (adjective) having lost your job | Synonyms: discharged, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped |
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| dismissible | (adjective) subject to dismissal | - |
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| dismissive | (adjective) stopping to associate with | - |
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| (adjective) showing indifference or disregard | - |
| disobedient | (adjective) not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority | - |
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| (adjective) unwilling to submit to authority | Synonyms: unruly |
| disobliging | (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: uncooperative |
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| disordered | (adjective) not arranged in order | Synonyms: unordered |
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| (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: broken, confused, upset |
| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disjointed, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
| disorderly | (adjective) undisciplined and unruly | - |
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| (adjective) in utter disorder | Synonyms: higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy |
| (adjective) completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing | Synonyms: chaotic |
| disorganised | (adjective) lacking order or methodical arrangement or function | Synonyms: disorganized |
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| disorganized | (adjective) lacking order or methodical arrangement or function | Synonyms: disorganised |
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| disoriented | (adjective) having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity | Synonyms: confused, lost |
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| (adjective) socially disoriented | Synonyms: alienated, anomic |
| disorienting | (adjective) causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings | - |
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| disparaging | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, derogatory |
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| disparate | (adjective) fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind | - |
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| (adjective) including markedly dissimilar elements | - |
| dispassionate | (adjective) unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice | Synonyms: cold-eyed |
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| dispensable | (adjective) capable of being dispensed with or done without | - |
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| dispensed | (adjective) distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions | - |
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| dispersed | (adjective) distributed or spread over a considerable extent | Synonyms: spread |
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| dispersive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, disseminative |
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| dispirited | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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| (adjective) marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm | Synonyms: listless |
| dispiriting | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, disheartening |
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| displeased | (adjective) not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure | - |
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| displeasing | (adjective) causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities | - |
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| disposable | (adjective) designed to be disposed of after use | - |
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| (adjective) free or available for use or disposition | - |
| disposed | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: apt, given, minded, tending |
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| (adjective) having made preparations | Synonyms: fain, inclined, prepared |
| dispossessed | (adjective) physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security | Synonyms: homeless, roofless |
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| disproportional | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportionate |
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| disproportionate | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportional |
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| (adjective) not proportionate | - |
| disputable | (adjective) capable of being disproved | Synonyms: debatable |
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| (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: arguable, debatable, moot |
| disputatious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputative, litigious |
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| disputative | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, litigious |
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| disputed | (adjective) subject to disagreement and debate | - |
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| disqualified | (adjective) disqualified by law or rule or provision | - |
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| (adjective) barred from competition for violation of rules | - |
| disqualifying | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disabling |
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| disquieted | (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: distressed, disturbed, upset, worried |
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| disquieting | (adjective) causing mental discomfort | - |
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| disregarded | (adjective) not noticed inadvertently | Synonyms: forgotten |
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| disreputable | (adjective) lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance | - |
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| disrespectful | (adjective) exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous | - |
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| (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, awless |
| disrupted | (adjective) marked by breaks or gaps | - |
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| disruptive | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent |
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| dissatisfactory | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: disappointing, unsatisfying |
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| dissatisfied | (adjective) in a state of sulky dissatisfaction | Synonyms: disgruntled |
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