| alternate | (adjective) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternative, substitute |
| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternating |
| (adjective) every second one of a series | - |
| alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
| alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
| (adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
| asternal | (adjective) not connected to the sternum or breastbone | - |
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| cavernous | (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: erectile |
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| (adjective) being or suggesting a cavern | - |
| cernuous | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
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| concerned | (adjective) feeling or showing worry or solicitude | - |
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| (adjective) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | Synonyms: interested |
| (adjective) culpably involved | Synonyms: implicated |
| cybernetic | (adjective) of or relating the principles of cybernetics | - |
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| discernable | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernible |
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| discernible | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernable |
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| (adjective) capable of being seen or noticed | Synonyms: evident, observable |
| (adjective) capable of being perceived clearly | - |
| discerning | (adjective) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment | - |
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| (adjective) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive | - |
| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: apprehensive |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discreet |
| eastern | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world | - |
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| (adjective) of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States | - |
| (adjective) lying toward or situated in the east | - |
| (adjective) from the east; used especially of winds | Synonyms: easterly |
| (adjective) lying in or toward the east | Synonyms: easterly |
| easternmost | (adjective) farthest to the east | Synonyms: eastmost |
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| eternal | (adjective) tiresomely long; seemingly without end | Synonyms: endless, interminable |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| external | (adjective) happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface | - |
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| (adjective) coming from the outside | Synonyms: extraneous, outside |
| (adjective) from or between other countries | Synonyms: international, outside |
| (adjective) purely outward or superficial | - |
| ferned | (adjective) abounding in or covered with ferns | Synonyms: ferny |
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| fernless | (adjective) devoid of ferns | - |
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| fernlike | (adjective) resembling ferns especially in leaf shape | Synonyms: ferny |
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| ferny | (adjective) abounding in or covered with ferns | Synonyms: ferned |
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| (adjective) resembling ferns especially in leaf shape | Synonyms: fernlike |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| gubernatorial | (adjective) relating to a governor | - |
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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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| indiscernible | (adjective) difficult or impossible to perceive or discern | - |
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| (adjective) barely able to be perceived | Synonyms: insensible, undetectable |
| infernal | (adjective) being of the underworld | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or resembling Hell | - |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire | - |
| (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned |
| (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, satanic, unholy |
| internal | (adjective) happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface | - |
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| (adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: home, interior, national |
| (adjective) occurring within an institution or community | Synonyms: intragroup |
| (adjective) innermost or essential | Synonyms: inner, intimate |
| (adjective) located inward | Synonyms: inner, interior |
| international | (adjective) concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations | - |
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| (adjective) from or between other countries | Synonyms: external, outside |
| internationalist | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalistic |
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| internationalistic | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalist |
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| internecine | (adjective) characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides | - |
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| (adjective) (of conflict) within a group or organization | - |
| maternal | (adjective) characteristic of a mother | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent | Synonyms: parental, paternal |
| (adjective) relating to or derived from one's mother | - |
| (adjective) related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, enatic |
| maternalistic | (adjective) showing maternal instincts | - |
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| midwestern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and sometimes Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota | - |
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| modern | (adjective) belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style | Synonyms: mod, modernistic |
| (adjective) characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture | - |
| (adjective) ahead of the times | Synonyms: advanced, forward-looking, innovative |
| moderne | (adjective) of or relating to a popularization of art deco that used bright colors and rectangular shapes | - |
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| modernised | (adjective) brought up to date | Synonyms: modernized |
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| modernistic | (adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style | Synonyms: mod, modern |
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| modernized | (adjective) brought up to date | Synonyms: modernised |
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| nonmodern | (adjective) not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time | - |
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| northeastern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including the New England states, New York, and sometimes New Jersey and Pennsylvania | - |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeast, northeasterly |
| northern | (adjective) situated in regions of the north | - |
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| (adjective) in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line | - |
| (adjective) coming from the north; used especially of wind | Synonyms: northerly |
| (adjective) oriented toward the north | Synonyms: northerly |
| northernmost | (adjective) situated farthest north | Synonyms: northmost |
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| northwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwest, northwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and sometimes Montana, Wyoming | - |
| overnice | (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, nice, prissy, squeamish |
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| overnight | (adjective) lasting, open, or operating through the whole night | Synonyms: all-night, nightlong |
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| paternal | (adjective) characteristic of a father | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent | Synonyms: maternal, parental |
| (adjective) belonging to or inherited from one's father | - |
| (adjective) related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, agnatic |
| paternalistic | (adjective) benevolent but sometimes intrusive | - |
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| patterned | (adjective) having patterns (especially colorful patterns) | - |
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| pernicious | (adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | Synonyms: insidious, subtle |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pestilent |
| pernickety | (adjective) characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details | Synonyms: persnickety |
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| postmodern | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodernist |
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| postmodernist | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodern |
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| preternatural | (adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal | Synonyms: uncanny |
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| (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, transcendental |
| quaternary | (adjective) consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four | Synonyms: quaternate |
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| (adjective) coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude | Synonyms: 4th, fourth |
| quaternate | (adjective) consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four | Synonyms: quaternary |
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| sempiternal | (adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: dateless, endless |
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| silvern | (adjective) having the white lustrous sheen of silver | Synonyms: silver, silvery |
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| (adjective) resembling or reminiscent of silver | Synonyms: silvery |
| slatternly | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy, sluttish |
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| southeastern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Alabama; Georgia; Florida; Tennessee; South Carolina; North Carolina | - |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeasterly |
| southern | (adjective) situated in or coming from regions of the south | - |
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| (adjective) in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line | - |
| (adjective) from the south; used especially of wind | Synonyms: southerly |
| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the south | Synonyms: southerly |
| southernmost | (adjective) situated farthest south | Synonyms: southmost |
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| southwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Nevada, Utah, Colorado | - |
| stern | (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: exacting, strict |
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| (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
| (adjective) of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect | Synonyms: austere |
| (adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: austere, severe, stark |
| sternal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the sternum | - |
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| sternutative | (adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutatory |
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| sternutatory | (adjective) tending to cause sneezing | - |
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| (adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutative |
| subaltern | (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary |
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| supernal | (adjective) being or coming from on high | - |
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| (adjective) of heaven or the spirit | Synonyms: celestial, ethereal |
| supernatant | (adjective) of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate | - |
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| supernatural | (adjective) not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material | - |
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| supernaturalist | (adjective) of or relating to supernaturalism | Synonyms: supernaturalistic |
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| supernaturalistic | (adjective) of or relating to supernaturalism | Synonyms: supernaturalist |
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| supernormal | (adjective) exceeding the normal or average | - |
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| (adjective) beyond the range of the normal or scientifically explainable | Synonyms: supranormal |
| supernumerary | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, surplus |
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| ternary | (adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: treble, triple, triplex |
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| ternate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) consisting of three leaflets or sections | - |
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| ultramodern | (adjective) extremely modern | - |
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| unconcerned | (adjective) lacking in interest or care or feeling | - |
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| (adjective) not occupied or engaged with | - |
| (adjective) easy in mind; not worried | - |
| undernourished | (adjective) not getting adequate food | Synonyms: ill-fed, underfed |
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| undiscerning | (adjective) lacking discernment | - |
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| ungovernable | (adjective) incapable of being controlled | Synonyms: indocile, uncontrollable, unruly |
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| ungoverned | (adjective) lacking in discipline or control | Synonyms: undisciplined |
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| (adjective) not restrained or controlled | Synonyms: unbridled, unchecked, uncurbed |
| unmodernised | (adjective) not brought up to date | Synonyms: unmodernized |
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| unmodernized | (adjective) not brought up to date | Synonyms: unmodernised |
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| unpatterned | (adjective) lacking patterns especially in color | Synonyms: plain |
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| vernacular | (adjective) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language | Synonyms: common, vulgar |
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| vernal | (adjective) of or characteristic of or occurring in spring | - |
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| (adjective) suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh | Synonyms: young, youthful |
| western | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts | - |
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| (adjective) of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River | - |
| (adjective) lying toward or situated in the west | - |
| (adjective) of wind; from the west | Synonyms: westerly |
| westernmost | (adjective) farthest to the west | Synonyms: westmost |
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