| affable | (adjective) diffusing warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: amiable, cordial, genial |
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| affected | (adjective) acted upon; influenced | - |
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| (adjective) speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression | Synonyms: unnatural |
| (adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: moved, stirred, touched |
| affecting | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: poignant, touching |
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| affectional | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affective, emotive |
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| affectionate | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: fond, lovesome, tender |
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| affective | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, emotive |
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| afferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS | - |
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| affiliated | (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: attached, connected |
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| affinal | (adjective) (anthropology) related by marriage | Synonyms: affine |
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| affine | (adjective) (mathematics) of or pertaining to the geometry of affine transformations | - |
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| (adjective) (anthropology) related by marriage | Synonyms: affinal |
| affined | (adjective) closely related | - |
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| affirmable | (adjective) capable of being affirmed or asserted | Synonyms: assertable |
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| affirmative | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmatory |
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| (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: approbative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
| (adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: optimistic |
| affirmatory | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmative |
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| affixal | (adjective) of or pertaining to a linguistic affix | Synonyms: affixial |
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| affixed | (adjective) firmly attached | - |
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| affixial | (adjective) of or pertaining to a linguistic affix | Synonyms: affixal |
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| afflicted | (adjective) grievously affected especially by disease | Synonyms: stricken |
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| (adjective) mentally or physically unfit | Synonyms: impaired |
| afflictive | (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: painful, sore |
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| affluent | (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: flush, loaded, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
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| affordable | (adjective) that you have the financial means for | Synonyms: low-cost, low-priced |
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| baffled | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| baffling | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
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| bluff | (adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | Synonyms: bold, sheer |
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| (adjective) bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured | - |
| boffo | (adjective) resoundingly successful and popular | - |
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| bouffant | (adjective) being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing | Synonyms: puffy |
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| buff | (adjective) of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather | - |
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| buffeted | (adjective) pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities | Synonyms: storm-tossed, tempest-swept, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost |
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| buffoonish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: clownish, clownlike, zany |
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| caffeinic | (adjective) of or containing caffein | - |
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| caitiff | (adjective) despicably mean and cowardly | - |
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| chafflike | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chaffy |
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| chaffy | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chafflike |
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| (adjective) value | - |
| chuffed | (adjective) very pleased | - |
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| corticoafferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticipetal |
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| corticoefferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticofugal |
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| dedifferentiated | (adjective) having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| different | (adjective) unlike in nature or quality or form or degree | - |
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| (adjective) distinctly separate from the first | - |
| (adjective) differing from all others; not ordinary | - |
| (adjective) distinct or separate | - |
| differentiable | (adjective) possessing a differential coefficient or derivative | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being perceived as different | - |
| differential | (adjective) relating to or showing a difference | - |
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| (adjective) involving or containing one or more derivatives | - |
| differentiated | (adjective) made different (especially in the course of development) or shown to be different | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting biological specialization; adapted during development to a specific function or environment | - |
| difficult | (adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: hard |
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| (adjective) hard to control | Synonyms: unmanageable |
| diffident | (adjective) lacking self-confidence | Synonyms: shy, timid, unsure |
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| (adjective) showing modest reserve | - |
| diffuse | (adjective) (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected | Synonyms: diffused, soft |
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| (adjective) spread out; not concentrated in one place | - |
| (adjective) lacking conciseness | - |
| diffused | (adjective) (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected | Synonyms: diffuse, soft |
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| (adjective) (of light rays) subjected to scattering by reflection from a rough surface or transmission through a translucent material | - |
| diffusing | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusive, dispersive, disseminative |
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| diffusive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, dispersive, disseminative |
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| disaffected | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: ill-affected, malcontent, rebellious |
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| distaff | (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman | Synonyms: female |
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| effaceable | (adjective) capable of being effaced | Synonyms: erasable |
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| effected | (adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: accomplished, established |
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| effective | (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effectual, efficacious |
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| (adjective) existing in fact; not theoretical; real | - |
| (adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: efficient |
| (adjective) works well as a means or remedy | - |
| (adjective) ready for service | - |
| (adjective) exerting force or influence | Synonyms: good, in effect, in force |
| effectual | (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effective, efficacious |
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| (adjective) having legal efficacy or force | Synonyms: legal, sound |
| effeminate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| efferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS | Synonyms: motorial |
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| effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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| (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| effervescing | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| effete | (adjective) deprived of vigor and the ability to be effective | - |
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| (adjective) affected, overrefined, and effeminate | - |
| efficacious | (adjective) marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect | - |
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| (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effective, effectual |
| efficient | (adjective) being effective without wasting time or effort or expense | - |
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| (adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: effective |
| efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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| effluent | (adjective) that is flowing outward | Synonyms: outflowing |
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| effortful | (adjective) requiring great physical effort | - |
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| effortless | (adjective) requiring or apparently requiring no effort | - |
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| (adjective) not showing effort or strain | Synonyms: casual |
| effulgent | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, radiant, refulgent |
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| effusive | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: gushing, gushy |
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| (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, gushing |
| fluffy | (adjective) like down or as soft as down | Synonyms: downlike, downy, flossy |
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| gruff | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: hoarse, husky |
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| (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: crusty, curmudgeonly, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
| huffish | (adjective) sullen or moody | Synonyms: sulky |
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| huffy | (adjective) roused to anger | Synonyms: mad, sore |
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| (adjective) quick to take offense | Synonyms: feisty, thin-skinned, touchy |
| iffy | (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: chancy, flukey, fluky |
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| indifferent | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed | Synonyms: deaf |
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| (adjective) characterized by a lack of partiality | Synonyms: unbiased, unbiassed |
| (adjective) fairly poor to not very good | - |
| (adjective) neither too great nor too little | - |
| (adjective) being neither good nor bad | Synonyms: so-so |
| (adjective) showing no care or concern in attitude or action | - |
| (adjective) (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other | Synonyms: immaterial |
| (adjective) marked by a lack of interest | Synonyms: apathetic |
| (adjective) having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive | Synonyms: inert, neutral |
| (adjective) marked by no especial liking or dislike or preference for one thing over another | - |
| ineffable | (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, indescribable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable |
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| (adjective) too sacred to be uttered | Synonyms: unnameable, unspeakable, unutterable |
| ineffective | (adjective) not producing an intended effect | Synonyms: ineffectual, uneffective |
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| (adjective) lacking in power or forcefulness | Synonyms: ineffectual, unable |
| (adjective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate | Synonyms: inefficient |
| ineffectual | (adjective) not producing an intended effect | Synonyms: ineffective, uneffective |
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| (adjective) lacking in power or forcefulness | Synonyms: ineffective, unable |
| (adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, meaningless, otiose, unavailing |
| inefficacious | (adjective) lacking the power to produce a desired effect | - |
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| inefficient | (adjective) not producing desired results; wasteful | - |
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| (adjective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate | Synonyms: ineffective |
| inoffensive | (adjective) giving no offense | - |
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| (adjective) not causing anger or annoyance | Synonyms: unoffending |
| insufferable | (adjective) unbearably arrogant or conceited | - |
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| (adjective) too extreme to bear | Synonyms: unsufferable |
| insufficient | (adjective) of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement | Synonyms: deficient |
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| miffed | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| muffled | (adjective) wrapped up especially for protection or secrecy | - |
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| (adjective) being or made softer or less loud or clear | Synonyms: dull, muted, softened |
| niffy | (adjective) (British informal) malodorous | - |
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| noneffervescent | (adjective) not effervescent | - |
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| (adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: still |
| off | (adjective) not in operation or operational | - |
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| (adjective) (of events) no longer planned or scheduled | Synonyms: cancelled |
| (adjective) not performing or scheduled for duties | - |
| (adjective) in an unpalatable state | Synonyms: sour, turned |
| (adjective) below a satisfactory level | - |
| offbeat | (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, kinky, quirky, way-out |
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| offenceless | (adjective) incapable of offending or attacking | Synonyms: offenseless |
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| offended | (adjective) emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed | Synonyms: injured, pained |
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| offending | (adjective) offending against or breaking a law or rule | - |
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| offenseless | (adjective) incapable of offending or attacking | Synonyms: offenceless |
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| offensive | (adjective) unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses | - |
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| (adjective) causing anger or annoyance | - |
| (adjective) for the purpose of attack rather than defense | - |
| (adjective) morally offensive | Synonyms: unsavory, unsavoury |
| (adjective) violating or tending to violate or offend against | Synonyms: violative |
| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, sickening, vile |
| offhand | (adjective) casually thoughtless or inconsiderate | Synonyms: offhanded |
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| (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhanded, unrehearsed |
| offhanded | (adjective) casually thoughtless or inconsiderate | Synonyms: offhand |
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| (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, unrehearsed |
| official | (adjective) having official authority or sanction | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an office | - |
| (adjective) verified officially | - |
| (adjective) (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution | - |
| (adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline | Synonyms: prescribed |
| officious | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling |
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| offish | (adjective) lacking cordiality; unfriendly | Synonyms: standoffish |
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| offshore | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the land | Synonyms: seaward |
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| (adjective) at some distance from the shore | - |
| offside | (adjective) illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck | Synonyms: offsides |
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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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| offstage | (adjective) situated or taking place in the area of a stage not visible to the audience | - |
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| (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: backstage |