| abaxial | (adjective) facing away from the axis of an organ or organism | Synonyms: dorsal |
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| abbatial | (adjective) of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess | - |
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| abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
| abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
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| abranchial | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchiate, abranchious, gill-less |
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| abranchiate | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchious, gill-less |
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| acapnial | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnic, acapnotic |
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| accessorial | (adjective) nonessential but helpful | - |
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| accusatorial | (adjective) specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor | - |
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| achenial | (adjective) pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit | - |
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| actuarial | (adjective) of or relating to the work of an actuary | - |
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| adaxial | (adjective) nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism | Synonyms: ventral |
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| adiabatic | (adjective) occurring without loss or gain of heat | - |
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| adventitial | (adjective) of or pertaining to the adventitia | - |
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| adverbial | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adverb | - |
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| aecial | (adjective) of or belonging to an aecium | - |
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| aeonian | (adjective) of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era) | Synonyms: eonian |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| aerial | (adjective) existing or living or growing or operating in the air | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aeriform, aery, airy, ethereal |
| aesculapian | (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: medical |
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| affiliated | (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: attached, connected |
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| affixial | (adjective) of or pertaining to a linguistic affix | Synonyms: affixal |
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| agential | (adjective) of or relating to an agent or agency | - |
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| agrarian | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agricultural, farming |
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| allegiant | (adjective) steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government) | - |
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| alleviated | (adjective) (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear | Synonyms: eased, relieved |
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| alleviative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alleviatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alliaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to the botanical genus Allium | - |
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| (adjective) smelling of onions or garlic | - |
| alluvial | (adjective) of or relating to alluvium | - |
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| altricial | (adjective) (of hatchlings) naked and blind and dependent on parents for food | - |
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| ambassadorial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors | - |
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| ambrosial | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosian |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosian, nectarous |
| ambrosian | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosial |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, nectarous |
| amerciable | (adjective) of a crime or misdemeanor; punishable by a fine set by a judge | - |
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| amiable | (adjective) diffusing warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: affable, cordial, genial |
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| (adjective) disposed to please | Synonyms: good-humored, good-humoured |
| ammoniac | (adjective) pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia | Synonyms: ammoniacal |
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| ammoniacal | (adjective) pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia | Synonyms: ammoniac |
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| ammoniated | (adjective) combined or treated with ammonia | - |
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| amnesiac | (adjective) suffering from a partial loss of memory | Synonyms: amnesic |
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| amphibian | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia | Synonyms: amphibious |
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| anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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| annunciatory | (adjective) relating to the act of announcing or being announced | - |
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| antediluvial | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvian |
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| antediluvian | (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | Synonyms: antediluvial |
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| (adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antiquated, archaic |
| antemeridian | (adjective) before noon | - |
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| antenuptial | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: premarital, prenuptial |
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| antheridial | (adjective) relating to or characterized by an antheridium | - |
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| antiadrenergic | (adjective) relating to blocking or reducing adrenergic effects in the body | - |
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| antiaircraft | (adjective) designed for defense from a surface position against air attack | - |
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| antiapartheid | (adjective) opposing the policy of apartheid in South Africa | - |
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| antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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| antibacterial | (adjective) destroying bacteria or inhibiting their growth | - |
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| antimicrobial | (adjective) capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms | Synonyms: antimicrobic |
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| antimonial | (adjective) containing antimony | - |
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| antinomian | (adjective) relating to or influenced by antinomianism | - |
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| antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
| antisocial | (adjective) shunning contact with others | - |
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| (adjective) hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior | Synonyms: asocial |
| aphrodisiac | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiacal, sexy |
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| aphrodisiacal | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiac, sexy |
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| apian | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of bees | - |
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| apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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| apothecial | (adjective) of or relating to the apothecium of some lichens and fungi | - |
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| appreciable | (adjective) enough to be estimated or measured | - |
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| appreciated | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: apprehended, comprehended |
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| appreciative | (adjective) having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion | - |
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| (adjective) feeling or expressive of gratitude | - |
| appropriable | (adjective) that can be appropriated | - |
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| appropriate | (adjective) suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc | - |
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| (adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: suitable, suited |
| appropriative | (adjective) of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself | - |
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| arachnidian | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery |
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| arcadian | (adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: bucolic, pastoral |
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| archegonial | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegoniate |
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| archegoniate | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegonial |
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| archesporial | (adjective) of or relating to the cells in a sporangium that give rise to spores | - |
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| archidiaconal | (adjective) of or relating to an archdeacon or his office | - |
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| archosaurian | (adjective) of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria | - |
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| armorial | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry or heraldic arms | - |
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| arterial | (adjective) of or involving or contained in the arteries | - |
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| artesian | (adjective) (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure | - |
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| artificial | (adjective) contrived by art rather than nature | Synonyms: unreal |
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| (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: contrived, hokey, stilted |
| (adjective) not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes | - |
| asclepiadaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the milkweed family | - |
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| asocial | (adjective) given to avoiding association with others | - |
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| (adjective) hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior | Synonyms: antisocial |
| asphyxiated | (adjective) in a state of asphyxia | - |
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| asphyxiating | (adjective) tending to deprive of oxygen | - |
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| associable | (adjective) capable of being associated | - |
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| associate | (adjective) having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status | - |
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| associational | (adjective) of or relating to associations or associationism | - |
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| associative | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associatory |
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| associatory | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associative |
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| asteriated | (adjective) (of some crystals especially gemstones) exhibiting asterism | - |
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| atrial | (adjective) of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart) | - |
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| auctorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: authorial |
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| authorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: auctorial |
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| authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| auxiliary | (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant |
| avian | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of birds | - |
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| axial | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or attached to the axis | Synonyms: axile |
| (adjective) situated on or along or in the direction of an axis | - |
| bacchanalian | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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| bacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by bacteria | - |
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| barbarian | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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| baronial | (adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: imposing, noble, stately |
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