aboriginal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: native |
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(adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial |
aging | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: ageing, senescent |
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anginal | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginose, anginous |
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anginose | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginous |
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anginous | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginose |
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banging | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: humongous, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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beginning | (adjective) serving to begin | Synonyms: first |
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bragging | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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bulging | (adjective) curving or bulging outward | Synonyms: convex |
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(adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant |
caliginous | (adjective) dark and misty and gloomy | - |
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carpetbagging | (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbag |
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cartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to cartilage | - |
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(adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: gristly, rubbery |
challenging | (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: ambitious |
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(adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: intriguing |
(adjective) stimulating interest or thought | Synonyms: thought-provoking |
changing | (adjective) marked by continuous change or effective action | Synonyms: ever-changing |
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clanging | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clangorous |
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clogging | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: hindering, impeding, obstructive |
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cringing | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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damaging | (adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: negative |
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(adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious |
discouraging | (adjective) depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action | - |
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(adjective) expressing disapproval in order to dissuade | - |
disobliging | (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: uncooperative |
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disparaging | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, derogatory |
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diverging | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: divergent |
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dogging | (adjective) relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: persisting |
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dragging | (adjective) marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner | - |
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drudging | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: laboring, labouring, toiling |
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emarginate | (adjective) having a notched tip | - |
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emerging | (adjective) coming to maturity | Synonyms: rising |
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(adjective) coming into existence | Synonyms: emergent |
encouraging | (adjective) giving courage or confidence or hope | - |
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(adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: supporting |
engaging | (adjective) attracting or delighting | Synonyms: piquant |
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estranging | (adjective) making one feel out of place or alienated | - |
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fibrocartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to fibrocartilage | - |
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flagging | (adjective) weak from exhaustion | Synonyms: drooping |
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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 | - |
gingival | (adjective) of or relating to the gums | - |
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grudging | (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: niggardly, scrimy |
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(adjective) of especially an attitude | - |
imaginable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: conceivable |
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imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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imaginative | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: inventive |
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impetiginous | (adjective) of or relating to or having impetigo | - |
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lentiginose | (adjective) relating to or covered with or resembling freckles | Synonyms: freckled, lentiginous |
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lentiginous | (adjective) relating to or covered with or resembling freckles | Synonyms: freckled, lentiginose |
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marginal | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: borderline |
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(adjective) just barely adequate or within a lower limit | Synonyms: bare |
(adjective) at or constituting a border or edge | Synonyms: fringy |
(adjective) producing at a rate that barely covers production costs | - |
merging | (adjective) flowing together | Synonyms: confluent |
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mucilaginous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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nagging | (adjective) continually complaining or faultfinding | Synonyms: shrewish |
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obliging | (adjective) showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others | Synonyms: complaisant |
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oleaginous | (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: greasy, oily, sebaceous |
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(adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oily, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
original | (adjective) being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of | - |
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(adjective) (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary | - |
(adjective) not derived or copied or translated from something else | - |
(adjective) preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed | - |
originative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: creative |
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(adjective) containing seeds of later development | Synonyms: germinal, seminal |
plumbaginaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Plumbaginaceae | - |
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purging | (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purgatorial, purifying |
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raging | (adjective) very severe | - |
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(adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, furious, tempestuous, wild |
(adjective) characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense | Synonyms: hot |
ranging | (adjective) wandering freely | - |
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ravaging | (adjective) ruinously destructive and wasting | - |
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sagging | (adjective) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | Synonyms: drooping, droopy |
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singing | (adjective) smooth and flowing | Synonyms: cantabile |
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sphingine | (adjective) resembling a sphinx | - |
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stinging | (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: cutting, edged |
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surging | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowing, billowy |
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swinging | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: lilting, swingy, tripping |
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unchanging | (adjective) conforming to the same principles or course of action over time | - |
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(adjective) showing little if any change | Synonyms: stable, static |
unencouraging | (adjective) not encouraging | - |
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unflagging | (adjective) tireless | Synonyms: unfailing |
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(adjective) showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality | Synonyms: indefatigable, tireless, unwearying |
ungrudging | (adjective) without envy or reluctance | - |
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unimaginable | (adjective) totally unlikely | Synonyms: impossible, inconceivable, out of the question |
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unimaginative | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical |
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(adjective) dealing only with concrete facts | - |
(adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: sterile, uninspired, uninventive |
unimagined | (adjective) not imagined even in a dream | Synonyms: undreamed, undreamed of, undreamt, undreamt of |
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unobliging | (adjective) not accommodating | Synonyms: unaccommodating |
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unoriginal | (adjective) not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual | - |
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vaginal | (adjective) of or relating to the vagina | - |
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vertiginous | (adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: dizzy, giddy, woozy |
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virgin | (adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: pure, vestal, virginal, virtuous |
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(adjective) being used or worked for the first time | - |
virginal | (adjective) characteristic of a virgin or virginity | - |
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(adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: pure, vestal, virgin, virtuous |
(adjective) untouched or undefiled | - |
vitiliginous | (adjective) of or relating to or having vitiligo | - |
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