| polyandrous | (adjective) having more than one husband at a time | - |
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| polyatomic | (adjective) of or relating to a molecule made up of more than two atoms | - |
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| polychromatic | (adjective) (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) composed of more than one wavelength | - |
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| (adjective) having or exhibiting many colors | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromic |
| polychrome | (adjective) having or exhibiting many colors | Synonyms: polychromatic, polychromic |
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| polychromic | (adjective) having or exhibiting many colors | Synonyms: polychromatic, polychrome |
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| polycrystalline | (adjective) composed of aggregates of crystals | - |
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| polydactyl | (adjective) of or relating to a person (or other vertebrate) having more than the normal number of digits | Synonyms: polydactylous |
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| polydactylous | (adjective) of or relating to a person (or other vertebrate) having more than the normal number of digits | Synonyms: polydactyl |
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| polyestrous | (adjective) having more than one period of estrus per year | Synonyms: polyoestrous |
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| polygamous | (adjective) having more than one mate at a time; used of relationships and individuals | - |
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| (adjective) having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant | Synonyms: heteroicous, polyoicous |
| polygenic | (adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes | - |
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| polyglot | (adjective) having a command of or composed in many languages | - |
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| polygonal | (adjective) having many sides or relating to a surface marked by polygons | - |
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| polygynous | (adjective) having more than one wife at a time | - |
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| polyhedral | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a polyhedron | - |
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| polymeric | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of a polymer | - |
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| polymorphemic | (adjective) consisting of two or more morphemes | - |
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| polymorphic | (adjective) relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population | Synonyms: polymorphous |
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| (adjective) relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms | Synonyms: polymorphous |
| (adjective) having or occurring in several distinct forms | Synonyms: polymorphous |
| polymorphous | (adjective) relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population | Synonyms: polymorphic |
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| (adjective) relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms | Synonyms: polymorphic |
| (adjective) having or occurring in several distinct forms | Synonyms: polymorphic |
| polynomial | (adjective) having the character of a polynomial | Synonyms: multinomial |
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| polyoestrous | (adjective) having more than one period of estrus per year | Synonyms: polyestrous |
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| polyoicous | (adjective) having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant | Synonyms: heteroicous, polygamous |
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| polypetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of many separated or distinct petals | - |
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| polyphase | (adjective) of an electrical system that uses or generates two or more alternating voltages of the same frequency but differing in phase angle | Synonyms: multiphase |
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| polyphonic | (adjective) having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together | Synonyms: contrapuntal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by polyphony | Synonyms: polyphonous |
| (adjective) having two or more phonetic values | - |
| polyphonous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by polyphony | Synonyms: polyphonic |
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| polyploid | (adjective) of a cell or organism having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes | - |
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| polysemantic | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemous |
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| polysemous | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemantic |
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| polysyllabic | (adjective) (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables | Synonyms: sesquipedalian |
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| (adjective) having or characterized by words of more than three syllables | - |
| polysynthetic | (adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: agglutinative |
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| polytheistic | (adjective) worshipping or believing in more than one god | - |
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| polytonal | (adjective) using more than one key or tonality simultaneously | - |
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| polyunsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) having many unsaturated bonds | - |
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| polyvalent | (adjective) having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher | Synonyms: multivalent |
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| (adjective) containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen | - |
| poorly | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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| portly | (adjective) euphemisms for `fat' | Synonyms: stout |
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| prickly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: bristly, splenetic, waspish |
| priestly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood | Synonyms: priestlike |
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| (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal |
| princely | (adjective) having the rank of or befitting a prince | - |
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| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, sumptuous |
| proteolytic | (adjective) of or relating to proteolysis | - |
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| psychoanalytic | (adjective) of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud | Synonyms: psychoanalytical |
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| psychoanalytical | (adjective) of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud | Synonyms: psychoanalytic |
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| pyrolytic | (adjective) resulting from pyrolysis | - |
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| quarterly | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of a quarter | - |
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| queenly | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen | Synonyms: queenlike |
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| rallying | (adjective) rousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort | - |
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| rascally | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: blackguardly, roguish, scoundrelly |
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| (adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: devilish, roguish |
| roily | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: churning, roiled, roiling, turbulent |
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| ruffianly | (adjective) violent and lawless | Synonyms: tough |
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| ruly | (adjective) neat and tidy | - |
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| saintly | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, beatific, sainted, saintlike |
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| scaly | (adjective) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles | Synonyms: scaled, scaley |
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| (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scurfy |
| scholarly | (adjective) characteristic of scholars or scholarship | - |
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| scoundrelly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: blackguardly, rascally, roguish |
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| scrabbly | (adjective) sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush | Synonyms: scrubby |
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| scraggly | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
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| (adjective) ragged, thin, or untidy in appearance | - |
| seamanly | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a seaman; indicating competent seamanship | Synonyms: seamanlike |
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| seemly | (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, decorous |
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| semimonthly | (adjective) occurring twice a month | Synonyms: bimonthly |
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| semiweekly | (adjective) occurring twice a week | Synonyms: biweekly |
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| shapely | (adjective) having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape | - |
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| shingly | (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: gravelly, pebbly |
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| shoaly | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelfy, shelvy |
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| sickly | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, under the weather, unwell |
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| (adjective) unhealthy looking | Synonyms: sallow |
| sightly | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, comely, fair |
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| silly | (adjective) dazed from or as if from repeated blows | Synonyms: punch-drunk, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, wacky, whacky, zany |
| (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded |
| (adjective) inspiring scornful pity | Synonyms: pathetic, ridiculous |
| sisterly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a sister | Synonyms: sisterlike, sororal |
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| slatternly | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy, sluttish |
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| slovenly | (adjective) negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt | Synonyms: frowsy, frowzy |
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| sly | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| smelly | (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, stinking |
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| snarly | (adjective) tangled in knots or snarls | Synonyms: knotty, snarled |
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| sniffly | (adjective) liable to sniffle | Synonyms: snuffling, snuffly |
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| snuffly | (adjective) liable to sniffle | Synonyms: sniffly, snuffling |
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| soldierly | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierlike, warriorlike |
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| southeasterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southeast | Synonyms: southeast |
| southerly | (adjective) from the south; used especially of wind | Synonyms: southern |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the south | Synonyms: southern |
| southwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwest |
| spangly | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled |
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| sparkly | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating |
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| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, scintillating |
| spiderly | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spidery |
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| spindly | (adjective) long and lean | Synonyms: lank |
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| sprawly | (adjective) extended out irregularly | - |
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| sprightly | (adjective) full of spirit and vitality | - |
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| squally | (adjective) characterized by brief periods of violent wind or rain | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by short periods of noisy commotion | Synonyms: squalling |
| squiggly | (adjective) wavy and twisting | - |
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| stately | (adjective) refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court | Synonyms: courtly, formal |
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| (adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: baronial, imposing, noble |
| (adjective) of size and dignity suggestive of a statue | Synonyms: statuesque |
| statesmanly | (adjective) marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman | Synonyms: statesmanlike |
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| steely | (adjective) resembling steel in hardness | - |
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| (adjective) resembling steel as in hardness | - |
| stilly | (adjective) (poetic) still or calm | - |
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| straggly | (adjective) growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly | - |
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| (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggling |
| stubbly | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: bestubbled, stubbled |
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| surly | (adjective) inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace | Synonyms: ugly |
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| tiddly | (adjective) slightly intoxicated | Synonyms: potty, tipsy |
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| timely | (adjective) done or happening at the appropriate or proper time | Synonyms: seasonable, well-timed, well timed |
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| (adjective) before a time limit expires | - |
| tinkly | (adjective) like the short high ringing sound of a small bell | Synonyms: tinkling |
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| tinselly | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: clinquant, tinseled |
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| treacly | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: cloying, saccharine, syrupy |
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| twinkly | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: beamish, smiling |
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