| flustered | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: hot and bothered, perturbed, rattled |
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| former | (adjective) referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several) | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the distant past | Synonyms: early, other |
| (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: erstwhile, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime |
| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | Synonyms: late, previous |
| fossiliferous | (adjective) bearing or containing fossils | - |
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| foster | (adjective) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties | Synonyms: surrogate |
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| fraternal | (adjective) (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova | Synonyms: biovular |
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| (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, brotherly |
| (adjective) of or relating to a fraternity or society of usually men | - |
| funerary | (adjective) of or for or relating to a funeral | - |
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| funereal | (adjective) suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial | Synonyms: sepulchral |
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| further | (adjective) more distant in especially degree | Synonyms: farther |
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| furthermost | (adjective) (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order | Synonyms: farthermost, farthest, furthest, utmost, uttermost |
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| gathered | (adjective) brought together in one place | Synonyms: collected |
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| gemmiferous | (adjective) bearing or reproducing by a gemma | - |
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| general | (adjective) applying to all or most members of a category or group | - |
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| (adjective) affecting the entire body | - |
| (adjective) prevailing among and common to the general public | - |
| (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
| (adjective) somewhat indefinite | - |
| (adjective) not specialized or limited to one class of things | - |
| generalised | (adjective) not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment | Synonyms: generalized |
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| generalized | (adjective) not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment | Synonyms: generalised |
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| generational | (adjective) of or relating to a generation | - |
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| generative | (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: productive |
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| (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: procreative, reproductive |
| generic | (adjective) relating to or common to or descriptive of all members of a genus | - |
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| (adjective) applicable to an entire class or group | - |
| (adjective) (of drugs) not protected by trademark | - |
| generous | (adjective) willing to give and share unstintingly | - |
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| (adjective) not petty in character and mind | - |
| (adjective) more than is usual or necessary | - |
| geothermal | (adjective) of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth | Synonyms: geothermic |
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| geothermic | (adjective) of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth | Synonyms: geothermal |
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| geriatric | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing geriatrics | Synonyms: gerontological |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the aged | - |
| germane | (adjective) relevant and appropriate | - |
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| germfree | (adjective) free from germs or pathogenic organisms; sterile | - |
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| germicidal | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: bactericidal, disinfectant |
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| germinal | (adjective) containing seeds of later development | Synonyms: originative, seminal |
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| germy | (adjective) full of germs or pathological microorganisms | - |
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| gerontological | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing geriatrics | Synonyms: geriatric |
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| gerundial | (adjective) relating to or like a gerund | - |
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| ginger | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: gingery |
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| gingerly | (adjective) with extreme care or delicacy | - |
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| gingery | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: ginger |
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| (adjective) having a taste like that of ginger | - |
| glimmery | (adjective) shining softly and intermittently | - |
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| glistering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glittering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glomerular | (adjective) of or relating to glomeruli | - |
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| glowering | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| gossamer | (adjective) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy | Synonyms: ethereal |
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| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| governable | (adjective) capable of being controlled | Synonyms: controllable |
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| governing | (adjective) responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws | - |
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| governmental | (adjective) relating to or dealing with the affairs or structure of government or politics or the state | - |
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| granuliferous | (adjective) producing or full of granules | - |
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| greater | (adjective) greater in size or importance or degree | - |
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| gubernatorial | (adjective) relating to a governor | - |
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| gymnospermous | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of plants of the class Gymnospermae | - |
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| hammered | (adjective) shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks | - |
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| hardcover | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardbound |
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| healthier | (adjective) improved in health or physical condition | Synonyms: fitter |
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| hemispheric | (adjective) of or relating to the cerebral hemispheres | - |
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| hemispherical | (adjective) of or relating to or being a hemisphere | - |
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| heralded | (adjective) proclaimed | - |
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| heraldic | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry | Synonyms: heraldist |
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| (adjective) indicative of or announcing something to come | - |
| heraldist | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry | Synonyms: heraldic |
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| herbaceous | (adjective) characteristic of a nonwoody herb or plant part | - |
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| herbal | (adjective) of or relating to herbs | - |
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| herbivorous | (adjective) feeding only on plants | - |
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| herculean | (adjective) extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules | - |
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| (adjective) displaying superhuman strength or power | Synonyms: powerful |
| here | (adjective) being here now | - |
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| hereditary | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
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| (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, patrimonial, transmissible |
| heretical | (adjective) characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards | Synonyms: dissident, heterodox |
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| heritable | (adjective) capable of being inherited | Synonyms: inheritable |
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| hermaphrodite | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphroditic |
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| hermaphroditic | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphrodite |
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| (adjective) of or relating to monoclinous plants | - |
| hermeneutic | (adjective) interpretive or explanatory | - |
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| hermetic | (adjective) completely sealed; completely airtight | - |
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| hermitic | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitical |
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| hermitical | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic |
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| heroic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of heroes of antiquity | - |
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| (adjective) having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes | Synonyms: heroical |
| (adjective) showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | Synonyms: desperate |
| (adjective) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope | Synonyms: expansive, grand |
| (adjective) very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale) | Synonyms: epic, larger-than-life |
| heroical | (adjective) having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes | Synonyms: heroic |
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| heterocercal | (adjective) possessing a tail with the upper lobe larger than the lower and with the vertebral column prolonged into the upper lobe | - |
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| heterocyclic | (adjective) containing a closed ring of atoms of which at least one is not a carbon atom | - |
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| heterodactyl | (adjective) (of bird feet) having the first and second toes directed backward the third and fourth forward | - |
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| heterodox | (adjective) characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards | Synonyms: dissident, heretical |
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| heterodyne | (adjective) of or relating to the beat produced by heterodyning two oscillations | - |
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| heteroecious | (adjective) of parasites; passing through different stages of the life cycle on different host species | - |
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| heterogeneous | (adjective) consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature | Synonyms: heterogenous |
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| (adjective) originating outside the body | Synonyms: heterogenous |
| heterogenous | (adjective) originating outside the body | Synonyms: heterogeneous |
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| (adjective) consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature | Synonyms: heterogeneous |
| heteroicous | (adjective) having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant | Synonyms: polygamous, polyoicous |
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| heterologic | (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterological, heterologous |
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| heterological | (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterologic, heterologous |
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| heterologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of a different but related species | - |
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| (adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterologic, heterological |
| heterometabolic | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolous |
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| heterometabolous | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolic |
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| heterosexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex | - |
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| heterosporous | (adjective) characterized by heterospory | - |
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| heterothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, poikilothermic, poikilothermous |
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| heterotrophic | (adjective) requiring organic compounds of carbon and nitrogen for nourishment | - |
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| heterozygous | (adjective) having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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| hibernal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: brumal, hiemal |
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| hibernating | (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: dormant, torpid |
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| hierarchal | (adjective) classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers | Synonyms: hierarchic, hierarchical |
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| hierarchic | (adjective) classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers | Synonyms: hierarchal, hierarchical |
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| hierarchical | (adjective) classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers | Synonyms: hierarchal, hierarchic |
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| hieratic | (adjective) written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing | - |
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| (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratical, priestly, sacerdotal |
| (adjective) adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal | - |
| hieratical | (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, priestly, sacerdotal |
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| hieroglyphic | (adjective) written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols | Synonyms: hieroglyphical |
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| (adjective) resembling hieroglyphic writing | Synonyms: hieroglyphical |
| hieroglyphical | (adjective) written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
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| (adjective) resembling hieroglyphic writing | Synonyms: hieroglyphic |
| higher | (adjective) of education beyond the secondary level | - |
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| (adjective) advanced in complexity or elaboration | - |
| hinder | (adjective) located at or near the back of an animal | Synonyms: back, hind |
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| hindering | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, impeding, obstructive |
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