gnomish | (adjective) used of small deformed creatures | - |
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goodish | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
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(adjective) moderately good of its kind | - |
grayish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grey, greyish |
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greenish | (adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, green, light-green |
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greyish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayish, grey |
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hawkish | (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: militant, warlike |
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heathenish | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, pagan |
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hellish | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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(adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: beastly, god-awful |
hoggish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish |
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hottish | (adjective) somewhat hot | - |
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hoydenish | (adjective) used of girls; wild and boisterous | Synonyms: tomboyish |
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huffish | (adjective) sullen or moody | Synonyms: sulky |
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imperishable | (adjective) not perishable | - |
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(adjective) lasting a long time | Synonyms: abiding, enduring |
impish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
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impoverished | (adjective) destroyed financially | Synonyms: broken, wiped out |
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(adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
indistinguishable | (adjective) not capable of being distinguished or differentiated | Synonyms: undistinguishable |
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(adjective) exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different | Synonyms: identical |
inextinguishable | (adjective) difficult or impossible to extinguish | - |
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introvertish | (adjective) somewhat introverted | Synonyms: shut-in |
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kittenish | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: frisky |
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knavish | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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largish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: biggish |
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latish | (adjective) somewhat late | - |
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lavish | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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(adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lucullan, plush, plushy |
leftish | (adjective) tending toward the political left | - |
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liverish | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic |
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(adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: bilious, livery |
longish | (adjective) somewhat long | - |
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loutish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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lumpish | (adjective) mentally sluggish | Synonyms: lumpen, unthinking |
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malnourished | (adjective) not being provided with adequate nourishment | - |
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mannish | (adjective) characteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman | - |
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(adjective) resembling or imitative of or suggestive of a man rather than a woman | - |
mawkish | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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mobbish | (adjective) characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless | Synonyms: moblike |
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modish | (adjective) in the current fashion or style | Synonyms: a la mode, in style, in vogue, latest |
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monkish | (adjective) befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial | - |
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mulish | (adjective) unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack | Synonyms: hardheaded |
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nightmarish | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: bloodcurdling, hair-raising |
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nourished | (adjective) being provided with adequate nourishment | - |
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nourishing | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
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oafish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, swinish |
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oddish | (adjective) somewhat strange | - |
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offish | (adjective) lacking cordiality; unfriendly | Synonyms: standoffish |
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oldish | (adjective) somewhat elderly | - |
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orangish | (adjective) of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange | Synonyms: orange |
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outlandish | (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outre |
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owlish | (adjective) resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance | - |
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palish | (adjective) slightly pale | - |
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peckish | (adjective) somewhat hungry | - |
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(adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
peevish | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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perishable | (adjective) liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay | - |
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pettish | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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piggish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggy, porcine, swinish |
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pinkish | (adjective) of a light shade of red | Synonyms: pink |
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polished | (adjective) perfected or made shiny and smooth | - |
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(adjective) (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed | Synonyms: milled |
(adjective) showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience | Synonyms: refined, urbane |
(adjective) (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth | Synonyms: dressed |
pollyannaish | (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: cheerful, upbeat |
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popish | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistic, papistical, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish |
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prankish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, puckish, wicked |
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priggish | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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prudish | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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publishable | (adjective) suitable for publication | - |
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published | (adjective) prepared and printed for distribution and sale | - |
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(adjective) formally made public | Synonyms: promulgated |
puckish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, wicked |
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punishable | (adjective) liable to or deserving punishment | - |
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(adjective) (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law | Synonyms: penal |
punished | (adjective) subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience) | - |
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punishing | (adjective) resulting in punishment | - |
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(adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, toilsome |
puppyish | (adjective) characteristic of a puppy | Synonyms: puppylike |
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purplish | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purple, violet |
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raffish | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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(adjective) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness | Synonyms: devil-may-care, rakish |
rakish | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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(adjective) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness | Synonyms: devil-may-care, raffish |
ravishing | (adjective) stunningly beautiful | - |
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reddish | (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, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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relinquished | (adjective) that has been withdrawn or retreated from | - |
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rightish | (adjective) tending toward the political right | - |
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roguish | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: blackguardly, rascally, scoundrelly |
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(adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: devilish, rascally |
romish | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistic, papistical, popish, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist |
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roughish | (adjective) somewhat rough | - |
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roundish | (adjective) somewhat round in appearance or form | - |
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rubbishy | (adjective) cheap and inferior; of no value | Synonyms: trashy |
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ruttish | (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, horny, randy, steamy, turned on |
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saltish | (adjective) somewhat salty | - |
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scarecrowish | (adjective) resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged | - |
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schoolboyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boyish, boylike |
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schoolgirlish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young girl | Synonyms: girlish |
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selfish | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving |
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sheepish | (adjective) showing a sense of shame | Synonyms: shamefaced |
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(adjective) like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity | Synonyms: sheeplike |
shortish | (adjective) somewhat short | - |
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shrewish | (adjective) continually complaining or faultfinding | Synonyms: nagging |
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sickish | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick |
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silverish | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: argent, silver, silvery |
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sissyish | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy |
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skittish | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, nervous, spooky |
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slavish | (adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: submissive, subservient |
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(adjective) blindly imitative | - |
sluggish | (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: inert, soggy, torpid |
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(adjective) (of business) not active or brisk | Synonyms: dull, slow |
(adjective) slow or slothful | Synonyms: sulky |
sluttish | (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, wanton |
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(adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy, slatternly |
smallish | (adjective) rather small | - |
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snappish | (adjective) apt to speak irritably | Synonyms: snappy |
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snobbish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobby |
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softish | (adjective) somewhat soft | Synonyms: semisoft |
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sottish | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, boozy, drunken |
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sourish | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, lemony, tangy, tart |
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squarish | (adjective) somewhat square in appearance or form | - |
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