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 |
airtight | (adjective) having no weak points | Synonyms: air-tight |
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(adjective) not allowing air or gas to pass in or out | Synonyms: air-tight, gas-tight |
alight | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, on fire |
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aligned | (adjective) brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause | - |
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(adjective) in a straight line | - |
aligning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: positioning |
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alligatored | (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: cracked |
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almighty | (adjective) having unlimited power | Synonyms: all-powerful, omnipotent |
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alright | (adjective) nonstandard usage | - |
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ambiguous | (adjective) having more than one possible meaning | - |
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(adjective) open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead | Synonyms: equivocal |
(adjective) having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns | - |
anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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(adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
anorexigenic | (adjective) causing loss of appetite | Synonyms: anorectic |
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antigenic | (adjective) of or relating to antigens | - |
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assignable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: conveyable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable |
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assigned | (adjective) appointed to a post or duty | - |
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astigmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a defect in the eye or in a lens caused by a deviation from spherical curvature which prevents light rays from meeting at a common focus and so results in distorted images | - |
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aweigh | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: atrip |
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(adjective) (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom | - |
beige | (adjective) of a light greyish-brown color | - |
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belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
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(adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
benighted | (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: dark |
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(adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: nighted |
benign | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benignant |
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(adjective) not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor) | - |
(adjective) kindness of disposition or manner | - |
benignant | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benign |
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(adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: gracious |
big | (adjective) above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: large |
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(adjective) conspicuous in position or importance | Synonyms: large, prominent |
(adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
(adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: large, magnanimous |
(adjective) marked by intense physical force | - |
(adjective) significant | - |
(adjective) prodigious | Synonyms: heavy |
(adjective) serious or severe | Synonyms: bad |
(adjective) loud and firm | - |
(adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: adult, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup |
(adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child |
(adjective) feeling self-importance | Synonyms: swelled, vainglorious |
(adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
bigamous | (adjective) of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first | - |
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bigeminal | (adjective) occurring in pairs | - |
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bigeneric | (adjective) resulting from a cross between species of different genera | - |
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bigger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: larger |
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biggish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: largish |
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bigheaded | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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bighearted | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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bigmouthed | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative |
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bignoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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bigoted | (adjective) blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others | - |
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blighted | (adjective) affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity | Synonyms: spoilt |
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bright | (adjective) emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts | - |
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(adjective) not made dim or less bright | Synonyms: undimmed |
(adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: hopeful, promising |
(adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: brilliant, vivid |
(adjective) splendid | - |
(adjective) characterized by happiness or gladness | - |
(adjective) characterized by quickness and ease in learning | Synonyms: smart |
(adjective) having lots of light either natural or artificial | - |
(adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny |
(adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: brilliant |
caliginous | (adjective) dark and misty and gloomy | - |
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calligraphic | (adjective) of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | Synonyms: calligraphical |
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calligraphical | (adjective) of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | Synonyms: calligraphic |
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centigrade | (adjective) of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees | - |
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churrigueresco | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresque |
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churrigueresque | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresco |
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condign | (adjective) fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment | - |
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configurational | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by configuration | - |
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configured | (adjective) organized so as to give configuration to | - |
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contiguous | (adjective) very close or connected in space or time | Synonyms: immediate |
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(adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: conterminous |
(adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, neighboring, neighbouring |
copyrighted | (adjective) (of literary or musical or dramatic or artistic work) protected by copyright | - |
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corrigible | (adjective) capable of being corrected or set right | - |
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cosignatory | (adjective) signing jointly with others | - |
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delighted | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, enthralled, entranced |
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(adjective) greatly pleased | - |
delightful | (adjective) greatly pleasing or entertaining | Synonyms: delicious |
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denigrating | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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denigrative | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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denigratory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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designative | (adjective) serving to designate | - |
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designed | (adjective) done or made or performed with purpose and intent | Synonyms: intentional, unintentional |
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designing | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: scheming |
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digestible | (adjective) capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal | - |
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digestive | (adjective) relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion | - |
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dighted | (adjective) dressed or adorned (as for battle) | - |
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digital | (adjective) of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits | - |
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(adjective) relating to or performed with the fingers | - |
(adjective) displaying numbers rather than scale positions | - |
digitate | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: fingerlike |
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digitigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) | - |
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dignified | (adjective) having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance | - |
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(adjective) having or showing self-esteem | Synonyms: self-respectful, self-respecting |
dignifying | (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: ennobling |
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digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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(adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
diligent | (adjective) characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks | - |
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(adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: persevering |
dirigible | (adjective) capable of being steered or directed | Synonyms: steerable |
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disfigured | (adjective) having the appearance spoiled | - |
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disobliging | (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: uncooperative |
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downright | (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
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(adjective) characterized by plain blunt honesty | - |
eight | (adjective) being one more than seven | Synonyms: 8, viii |
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eighteen | (adjective) being one more than seventeen | Synonyms: 18, xviii |
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eighteenth | (adjective) coming next after the seventeenth in position | Synonyms: 18th |
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eightfold | (adjective) having eight units or components | Synonyms: eight-fold, octuple |
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eighth | (adjective) coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position | Synonyms: 8th |
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eightieth | (adjective) the ordinal number of eighty in counting order | Synonyms: 80th |
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eightpenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 2 1/2 in or 6.4 cm long | - |
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eighty | (adjective) being ten more than seventy | Synonyms: 80, fourscore, lxxx |
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eligible | (adjective) qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen | - |
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enigmatic | (adjective) resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought | Synonyms: oracular |
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(adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatical, puzzling |
enigmatical | (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatic, puzzling |
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enlightened | (adjective) having knowledge and spiritual insight | - |
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(adjective) characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved | Synonyms: educated |
enlightening | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: illuminating, informative |
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(adjective) enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement | Synonyms: edifying |
epigastric | (adjective) lying on or over the stomach | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen | - |
epigrammatic | (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: aphoristic, apothegmatic |
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exigent | (adjective) requiring precise accuracy | Synonyms: exacting |
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(adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, insistent, instant |
exiguous | (adjective) extremely scanty | - |
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farsighted | (adjective) able to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: presbyopic |
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(adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient |
fastigiate | (adjective) having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column) | - |
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fatigued | (adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fagged, gone, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
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feigned | (adjective) not genuine | - |
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fighting | (adjective) engaged in or ready for military or naval operations | Synonyms: active, combat-ready |
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figural | (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figurative |
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figurative | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: nonliteral |
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(adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figural |
figured | (adjective) (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns | - |
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flighted | (adjective) having feathers | - |
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flightless | (adjective) incapable of flying | - |
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flighty | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: nervous, skittish, spooky |
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(adjective) guided by whim and fancy | Synonyms: flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained |
floodlighted | (adjective) illuminated by means of floodlights | Synonyms: floodlit |
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foreign | (adjective) relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: strange |
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(adjective) of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own) | - |
(adjective) not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source | Synonyms: extraneous |
(adjective) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something | Synonyms: alien |