| bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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| bipinnate | (adjective) of a leaf shape; having doubly pinnate leaflets (as ferns) | - |
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| bipinnatifid | (adjective) pinnatifid with the segments also pinnatifid | - |
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| birefringent | (adjective) relating to or characterized by double refraction | - |
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| bisontine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of bison | - |
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| biting | (adjective) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | Synonyms: bitter |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, mordacious, nipping, pungent |
| bituminoid | (adjective) like bitumen | Synonyms: bitumenoid |
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| bituminous | (adjective) resembling or containing bitumen | - |
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| blaring | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blasting |
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| blasting | (adjective) causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blaring |
| blazing | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blatant, conspicuous |
| blind | (adjective) unable to see | Synonyms: unsighted |
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| (adjective) not based on reason or evidence | Synonyms: unreasoning |
| (adjective) unable or unwilling to perceive or understand | - |
| blinded | (adjective) deprived of sight | - |
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| blindfold | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfolded |
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| blindfolded | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfold |
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| blinding | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| blinking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: winking |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| blistering | (adjective) very fast; capable of quick response and great speed | Synonyms: hot, red-hot |
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| (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistery |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| blockading | (adjective) blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors | - |
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| bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
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| bloodstained | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: gory |
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| bloodsucking | (adjective) drawing blood from the body of another | - |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: leechlike, parasitic, parasitical |
| blooming | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, crashing, flaming, fucking |
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| blushing | (adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushful, red-faced |
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| blustering | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blusterous, blustery |
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| booming | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: stentorian |
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| (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
| bootlicking | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, sycophantic, toadyish |
| borderline | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: marginal |
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| boring | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| botulinal | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the botulinus | - |
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| bouncing | (adjective) vigorously healthy | - |
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| (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy |
| bovine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) | Synonyms: bovid |
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| (adjective) dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox | - |
| bowing | (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowed |
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| bracing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: brisk, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
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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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| brahminic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminical |
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| brahminical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminic |
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| brainish | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
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| brainless | (adjective) not using intelligence | Synonyms: headless |
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| brainsick | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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| brainwashed | (adjective) subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones | - |
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| brainy | (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brilliant, smart as a whip |
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| branching | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling the branches of a tree | - |
| breathing | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: eupneic, eupnoeic |
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| breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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| breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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| brimming | (adjective) filled up | Synonyms: brimful, brimfull |
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| brinded | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brindle, brindled, tabby |
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| brindle | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindled, tabby |
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| brindled | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindle, tabby |
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| briny | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: brackish |
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| brooding | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| bruising | (adjective) brutally forceful and compelling | - |
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| (adjective) causing mental or emotional injury | - |
| bubaline | (adjective) relating to or resembling a buffalo | - |
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| bubbling | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| budding | (adjective) beginning to develop | - |
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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 |
| bullying | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: blustery |
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| bumbling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| bumpkinly | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: hick, rustic, unsophisticated |
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| bungling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: clumsy, fumbling, incompetent |
| burbling | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbly, effusive, gushing |
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| burgeoning | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| burning | (adjective) of immediate import | - |
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| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| businesslike | (adjective) exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business | - |
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| (adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: earnest |
| bustling | (adjective) full of energetic and noisy activity | - |
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| buteonine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus Buteo | - |
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| butterfingered | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| buzzing | (adjective) noisy like the sound of a bee | Synonyms: abuzz |
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| cacuminal | (adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: retroflex |
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| caffeinic | (adjective) of or containing caffein | - |
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| calculating | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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| caliginous | (adjective) dark and misty and gloomy | - |
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| calycinal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calyceal, calycine |
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| calycine | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calyceal, calycinal |
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| canine | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: laniary |
| cantering | (adjective) riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop | - |
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| caprine | (adjective) being or pertaining to or resembling a goat or goats | - |
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| captivating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| carcinogenic | (adjective) causing or tending to cause cancer | - |
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| carcinomatous | (adjective) being or relating to carcinoma | - |
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| cardinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order | - |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: central, fundamental, key, primal |
| carinal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carina | - |
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| carinate | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinated, keeled, ridged |
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| carinated | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinate, keeled, ridged |
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| caring | (adjective) feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others | - |
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| carminative | (adjective) relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) | Synonyms: flatus-relieving |
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| carmine | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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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 |
| cataclinal | (adjective) of valleys and rivers; running in the direction of the dip in surrounding rock strata | - |
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| catarrhine | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhinian |
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| catarrhinian | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhine |
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| catching | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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| catkinate | (adjective) resembling a catkin | - |
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| cauline | (adjective) especially of leaves; growing on a stem especially on the upper part of a stem | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: caulescent, stemmed |
| ceilinged | (adjective) provided with a ceiling especially the overhead interior surface | - |
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| centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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