| adversative | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: oppositive |
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| adverse | (adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: contrary |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: inauspicious, untoward |
| aftershafted | (adjective) having an aftershaft (a small feather at the base of some feathers) | - |
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| ambiversive | (adjective) intermediate between introversive and extroversive | - |
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| antipersonnel | (adjective) designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction | - |
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| averse | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| aversive | (adjective) tending to repel or dissuade | - |
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| berserk | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, amuck |
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| bittersweet | (adjective) tinged with sadness | - |
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| (adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: semisweet |
| bonkers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| bothersome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| controversial | (adjective) marked by or capable of arousing controversy | - |
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| conversant | (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: familiar |
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| conversational | (adjective) characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | Synonyms: colloquial |
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| converse | (adjective) of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other | - |
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| (adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: reversed, transposed |
| crackers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| cumbersome | (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
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| (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbrous |
| detersive | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergent |
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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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| divers | (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: diverse |
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| diverse | (adjective) distinctly dissimilar or unlike | Synonyms: various |
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| (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: divers |
| diversified | (adjective) having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety | - |
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| diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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| ersatz | (adjective) artificial and inferior | Synonyms: substitute |
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| erstwhile | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime |
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| extraversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extroversive |
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| extroversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extraversive |
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| hypersensitised | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| hypersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| hypersensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| impersonal | (adjective) not relating to or responsive to individual persons | - |
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| (adjective) having no personal preference | Synonyms: neutral |
| interpersonal | (adjective) occurring among or involving several people | - |
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| interscholastic | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interschool |
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| interschool | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interscholastic |
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| intersectant | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: decussate, intersecting |
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| intersecting | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: decussate, intersectant |
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| intersexual | (adjective) having sexual characteristics intermediate between those of male and female | - |
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| (adjective) existing or occurring between the sexes | - |
| interspecies | (adjective) arising or occurring between species | Synonyms: interspecific |
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| interspecific | (adjective) arising or occurring between species | Synonyms: interspecies |
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| interstate | (adjective) involving and relating to the mutual relations of states especially of the United States | - |
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| interstellar | (adjective) between or among stars | - |
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| interstitial | (adjective) of or relating to interstices | - |
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| introversive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introvertive |
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| inverse | (adjective) opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | - |
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| (adjective) reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect | Synonyms: reverse |
| irreversible | (adjective) incapable of being reversed | - |
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| misunderstood | (adjective) wrongly understood | - |
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| noncontroversial | (adjective) not likely to arouse controversy | Synonyms: uncontroversial |
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| nonintersecting | (adjective) (of lines, planes, or surfaces) never meeting or crossing | Synonyms: nonconvergent |
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| nonpersonal | (adjective) lacking personality | - |
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| nonreversible | (adjective) not reversible or capable of having either side out | Synonyms: one-sided |
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| nonsubmersible | (adjective) not submersible or submergible | Synonyms: nonsubmergible |
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| oversea | (adjective) being or passing over or across the sea | Synonyms: overseas |
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| overseas | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: abroad |
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| (adjective) being or passing over or across the sea | Synonyms: oversea |
| oversensitive | (adjective) unduly sensitive or thin-skinned | - |
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| overserious | (adjective) excessively serious | - |
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| oversewn | (adjective) sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together) | Synonyms: overhand |
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| oversexed | (adjective) having excessive sexual desire or appeal | Synonyms: highly-sexed |
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| overshot | (adjective) having an upper part projecting beyond the lower | - |
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| oversize | (adjective) larger than normal for its kind | Synonyms: outsize, outsized, oversized |
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| oversized | (adjective) larger than normal for its kind | Synonyms: outsize, outsized, oversize |
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| oversolicitous | (adjective) excessively solicitous | - |
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| overstated | (adjective) represented as greater than is true or reasonable | Synonyms: exaggerated, overdone |
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| overstrung | (adjective) too tightly strung | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, restive, uptight |
| overstuffed | (adjective) upholstered thickly and deeply | - |
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| oversubscribed | (adjective) sold in excess of available supply especially season tickets | - |
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| oversuspicious | (adjective) unduly suspicious | - |
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| persevering | (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: diligent |
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| persistent | (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: lasting |
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| (adjective) never-ceasing | Synonyms: relentless, unrelenting |
| (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
| (adjective) continually recurring to the mind | Synonyms: haunting |
| persisting | (adjective) relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: dogging |
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| persnickety | (adjective) characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details | Synonyms: pernickety |
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| (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: bigheaded, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
| personable | (adjective) (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality | - |
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| personal | (adjective) concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality | - |
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| (adjective) indicating grammatical person | - |
| (adjective) of or arising from personality | - |
| (adjective) intimately concerning a person's body or physical being | - |
| personalised | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, individualized, personalized |
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| personalized | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, individualized, personalised |
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| (adjective) pointedly referring to or concerning a person's individual personality or intimate affairs especially offensively | - |
| perspicacious | (adjective) mentally acute or penetratingly discerning | Synonyms: clear-eyed, clear-sighted |
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| (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: sagacious, sapient |
| perspicuous | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid |
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| persuadable | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: convincible, persuasible, suasible |
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| persuasible | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: convincible, persuadable, suasible |
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| persuasive | (adjective) intended or having the power to induce action or belief | - |
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| perverse | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverted, reprobate |
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| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, wayward |
| (adjective) marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict | - |
| perversive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, pestiferous |
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| reverse | (adjective) of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
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| (adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | Synonyms: rearward |
| (adjective) reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect | Synonyms: inverse |
| reversed | (adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: converse, transposed |
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| (adjective) turned inside out and resewn | - |
| reversible | (adjective) capable of reversing or being reversed | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being reversed or used with either side out | Synonyms: two-sided |
| (adjective) capable of assuming or producing either of two states | - |
| (adjective) capable of being reversed | - |
| reversionary | (adjective) of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion) | - |
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| reversive | (adjective) tending to be turned back | Synonyms: returning |
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| scattershot | (adjective) covering a wide range in a haphazard way | - |
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| sobersided | (adjective) completely lacking in humor or lightness of touch | - |
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| starkers | (adjective) (British informal) stark naked | - |
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| submersed | (adjective) beneath the surface of the water | Synonyms: submerged, underwater |
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| (adjective) growing or remaining under water | Synonyms: subaquatic, subaqueous, submerged, underwater |
| submersible | (adjective) capable of being immersed in water or functioning while submerged | Synonyms: submergible |
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| subversive | (adjective) in opposition to a civil authority or government | Synonyms: insurgent, seditious |
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| supersaturated | (adjective) being more concentrated than normally possible and therefore not in equilibrium | - |
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| superscript | (adjective) written or printed above and to one side of another character | Synonyms: superior |
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| supersensitised | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| supersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitized |
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| supersensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive |
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| supersonic | (adjective) (of speed) greater than the speed of sound in a given medium (especially air) | - |
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| (adjective) having frequencies above those of audible sound | Synonyms: ultrasonic |
| superstitious | (adjective) showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance | - |
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