acromegalic | (adjective) marked or affected by enlargement or hypertrophy of the extremities or the face | - |
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agamic | (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamogenetic, agamous, apomictic, parthenogenetic |
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agamogenetic | (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamous, apomictic, parthenogenetic |
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agamous | (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamogenetic, apomictic, parthenogenetic |
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agape | (adjective) with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe | Synonyms: gaping |
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agaze | (adjective) (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder | Synonyms: staring |
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aggregate | (adjective) composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets | - |
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(adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregated, aggregative, mass |
aggregated | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregative, mass |
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aggregative | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, mass |
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algal | (adjective) of or relating to alga | - |
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allargando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo and broadening in manner | - |
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alligatored | (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: cracked |
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allogamous | (adjective) relating to cross-fertilization in plants | - |
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amalgamate | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated, fused |
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amalgamated | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, coalesced, consolidated, fused |
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amalgamative | (adjective) characterized by or tending toward amalgamation | - |
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anisogametic | (adjective) relating to either of a pair of dissimilar (anisogamic) gametes combining in sexual reproduction | - |
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anisogamic | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamous |
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anisogamous | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamic |
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antifungal | (adjective) capable of destroying fungi | Synonyms: fungicidal |
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apogametic | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogamic, apogamous |
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apogamic | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogametic, apogamous |
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apogamous | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogametic, apogamic |
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arrogant | (adjective) having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride | Synonyms: chesty, self-important |
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astragalar | (adjective) of or relating to the anklebone | - |
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autogamic | (adjective) characterized by or fit for autogamy | Synonyms: autogamous |
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autogamous | (adjective) characterized by or fit for autogamy | Synonyms: autogamic |
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beggarly | (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: mean |
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(adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: mean |
bigamous | (adjective) of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first | - |
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braggart | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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bungaloid | (adjective) characterized by bungalows | - |
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centrifugal | (adjective) tending to move away from a center | - |
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(adjective) tending away from centralization, as of authority | - |
(adjective) conveying information to the muscles from the CNS | Synonyms: motor |
cleistogamic | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamous |
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cleistogamous | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamic |
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congregational | (adjective) relating to or conducted or participated in by a congregation | - |
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conjugal | (adjective) of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband | Synonyms: connubial |
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conjugate | (adjective) (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets | - |
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(adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugated, coupled |
(adjective) of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond | Synonyms: conjugated |
(adjective) formed by the union of two compounds | Synonyms: conjugated |
conjugated | (adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugate, coupled |
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(adjective) of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond | Synonyms: conjugate |
(adjective) formed by the union of two compounds | Synonyms: conjugate |
corrugated | (adjective) shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges | - |
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corticifugal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoefferent, corticofugal |
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corticofugal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticoefferent |
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cryptogamic | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamous |
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cryptogamous | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamic |
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cytomegalic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by greatly enlarged cells | - |
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degage | (adjective) free and relaxed in manner | - |
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(adjective) showing lack of emotional involvement | Synonyms: detached, uninvolved |
derogative | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogatory, disparaging |
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derogatory | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, disparaging |
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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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disregarded | (adjective) not noticed inadvertently | Synonyms: forgotten |
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egalitarian | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: classless |
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electronegative | (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: negative, negatively charged |
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elegant | (adjective) refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style | - |
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(adjective) displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution | - |
(adjective) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth | Synonyms: graceful, refined |
elongate | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongated |
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(adjective) (of a leaf shape) long and narrow | Synonyms: linear |
elongated | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongate |
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(adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially | Synonyms: extended, lengthened, prolonged |
endogamic | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: endogamous |
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(adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by pollen from another flower of the same kind | Synonyms: endogamous |
endogamous | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: endogamic |
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(adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by pollen from another flower of the same kind | Synonyms: endogamic |
engaged | (adjective) built against or attached to a wall | - |
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(adjective) having services contracted for | - |
(adjective) (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting | Synonyms: intermeshed, meshed |
(adjective) involved in military hostilities | - |
(adjective) (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) | Synonyms: busy, in use |
(adjective) reserved in advance | Synonyms: booked, set-aside |
(adjective) having ones attention or mind or energy engaged | Synonyms: occupied |
(adjective) pledged to be married | Synonyms: bespoken, betrothed |
engaging | (adjective) attracting or delighting | Synonyms: piquant |
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epigastric | (adjective) lying on or over the stomach | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen | - |
exogamic | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only outside the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: exogamous |
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(adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by a flower that is not closely related | Synonyms: exogamous |
exogamous | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only outside the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: exogamic |
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(adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by a flower that is not closely related | Synonyms: exogamic |
expurgated | (adjective) having material deleted | - |
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extragalactic | (adjective) outside or beyond a galaxy | - |
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extralegal | (adjective) not regulated or sanctioned by law | Synonyms: nonlegal |
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extravagant | (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, exuberant, overweening |
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(adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate, spendthrift |
flabbergasted | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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frugal | (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: economical, scotch, sparing, stinting |
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fugacious | (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory |
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fugal | (adjective) of or relating to or in the style of a musical fugue | - |
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fungal | (adjective) of or relating to fungi | Synonyms: fungous |
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gabby | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky |
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gabled | (adjective) (of a roof) constructed with a single slope on each side of the ridge supported at the end by a gable or vertical triangular portion of an end wall | - |
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gaga | (adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with | Synonyms: crazy, dotty, wild |
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(adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddering, doddery, senile |
gainful | (adjective) yielding a fair profit | Synonyms: paid, paying |
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gainly | (adjective) graceful and pleasing | - |
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galactic | (adjective) of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the Milky Way) | - |
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(adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomic, astronomical |
gallant | (adjective) unflinching in battle or action | - |
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(adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: chivalrous, knightly |
(adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: lofty, majestic, proud |
(adjective) lively and spirited | Synonyms: dashing |
galled | (adjective) painful from having the skin abraded | Synonyms: chafed |
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gallinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a gallinacean | - |
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galling | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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galore | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: abounding |
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(adjective) in great numbers | - |
galvanic | (adjective) pertaining to or producing electric current by chemical action | Synonyms: voltaic |
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(adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanising, galvanizing |
galvanising | (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanizing |
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galvanizing | (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanising |
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gambling | (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, dissipated, sporting |
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game | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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(adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, gimpy, halt, halting, lame |
gamey | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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(adjective) (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted | Synonyms: gamy, high |
(adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
gammy | (adjective) (British informal) sore or lame | - |
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gamopetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel | Synonyms: sympetalous |
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gamy | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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(adjective) (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted | Synonyms: gamey, high |
(adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
gangling | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangly, lanky, rangy |
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(adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangly, lanky |
gangly | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangling, lanky, rangy |
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(adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangling, lanky |
gangrenous | (adjective) suffering from tissue death | Synonyms: mortified |
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gaping | (adjective) with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe | Synonyms: agape |
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garbed | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: appareled, attired, dressed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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garbled | (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
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gardant | (adjective) looking forward | Synonyms: full-face, guardant |
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garden | (adjective) the usual or familiar type | - |
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gargantuan | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, giant, jumbo |
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