moist | (adjective) slightly wet | Synonyms: damp, dampish |
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molal | (adjective) designating a solution containing one mole of solute per kilogram of solvent | - |
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molar | (adjective) pertaining to large units of behavior | - |
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(adjective) containing one mole of a substance | - |
(adjective) designating a solution containing one mole of solute per liter of solution | - |
(adjective) of or pertaining to the grinding teeth in the back of a mammal's mouth | - |
moldable | (adjective) capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material) | Synonyms: fictile, plastic |
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molded | (adjective) shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort) | Synonyms: shaped, wrought |
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moldy | (adjective) covered with or smelling of mold | Synonyms: mouldy, musty |
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molecular | (adjective) relating to simple or elementary organization | - |
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(adjective) relating to or produced by or consisting of molecules | - |
molten | (adjective) reduced to liquid form by heating | Synonyms: liquefied, liquified |
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momentaneous | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, fugitive, momentary |
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momentary | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous |
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momentous | (adjective) of very great significance | - |
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monandrous | (adjective) having only one husband at a time | - |
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monarchal | (adjective) having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch | Synonyms: monarchical |
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(adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchic, monarchical |
monarchic | (adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal, monarchical |
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monarchical | (adjective) having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal |
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(adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal, monarchic |
monastic | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical |
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monastical | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic |
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monatomic | (adjective) of or relating to an element consisting of a single atom | Synonyms: monoatomic |
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monaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with only one ear | - |
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monecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monoecious, monoicous |
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moneran | (adjective) of or relating to the Monera | - |
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monestrous | (adjective) having one estrous cycle per year | Synonyms: monoestrous |
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monetary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: pecuniary |
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moneyed | (adjective) based on or arising from the possession of money or wealth | Synonyms: monied |
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(adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, loaded, substantial, wealthy |
moneyless | (adjective) not based on the possession of money | - |
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(adjective) having no money | - |
moneymaking | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, mercenary |
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(adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, remunerative |
mongoloid | (adjective) (offensive) of or relating to or suffering from Down syndrome | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of or resembling a Mongol | - |
monied | (adjective) based on or arising from the possession of money or wealth | Synonyms: moneyed |
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monistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of monism | - |
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monitory | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, warning |
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monkish | (adjective) befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial | - |
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mono | (adjective) designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel | Synonyms: monophonic, single-channel |
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monoatomic | (adjective) of or relating to an element consisting of a single atom | Synonyms: monatomic |
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monocarboxylic | (adjective) containing one carboxyl group | - |
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monocarpic | (adjective) dying after bearing fruit only once | - |
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monochromatic | (adjective) (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength | Synonyms: homochromatic |
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(adjective) of or relating to monochromatism | - |
(adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochrome, monochromic, monochromous |
monochrome | (adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochromatic, monochromic, monochromous |
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monochromic | (adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochromatic, monochrome, monochromous |
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monochromous | (adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic |
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monocled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: bespectacled, spectacled |
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monoclinal | (adjective) of a geological structure in which all strata are inclined in the same direction | - |
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monoclinic | (adjective) having three unequal crystal axes with one oblique intersection | - |
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monoclinous | (adjective) having pistils and stamens in the same flower | - |
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monoclonal | (adjective) forming or derived from a single clone | - |
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monocotyledonous | (adjective) (of a flowering plant) having a single cotyledon in the seed as in grasses and lilies | - |
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monodic | (adjective) having a single vocal part | Synonyms: monodical |
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monodical | (adjective) having a single vocal part | Synonyms: monodic |
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monoecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monecious, monoicous |
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monoestrous | (adjective) having one estrous cycle per year | Synonyms: monestrous |
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monogamous | (adjective) (used of relationships and of individuals) having one mate | - |
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monogenic | (adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes | - |
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monogynic | (adjective) having one head or chief wife at a time (along with concubines) | Synonyms: monogynous |
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monogynous | (adjective) having one head or chief wife at a time (along with concubines) | Synonyms: monogynic |
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monoicous | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal | Synonyms: monecious, monoecious |
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monolingual | (adjective) using or knowing only one language | - |
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monolithic | (adjective) imposing in size or bulk or solidity | Synonyms: massive, monumental |
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(adjective) characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity | - |
monomaniacal | (adjective) obsessed with a single subject or idea | - |
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monometallic | (adjective) containing one atom of metal in the molecule | - |
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monomorphemic | (adjective) consisting of only one morpheme | - |
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mononuclear | (adjective) having only one nucleus | Synonyms: mononucleate |
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mononucleate | (adjective) having only one nucleus | Synonyms: mononuclear |
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monophonic | (adjective) consisting of a single melodic line | - |
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(adjective) designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel | Synonyms: mono, single-channel |
monoploid | (adjective) of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes | Synonyms: haploid, haploidic |
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monopolistic | (adjective) having exclusive control over a commercial activity by possession or legal grant | - |
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monopteral | (adjective) having circular columniation | - |
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monosemous | (adjective) having only one meaning | - |
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monosyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable | - |
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monotheistic | (adjective) believing that there is only one god | - |
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monotone | (adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value | Synonyms: monotonic |
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(adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotonic, monotonous |
monotonic | (adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value | Synonyms: monotone |
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(adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotone, monotonous |
monotonous | (adjective) tediously repetitious or lacking in variety | Synonyms: humdrum |
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(adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotone, monotonic |
monotypic | (adjective) consisting of only one type | - |
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monounsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) saturated except for one multiple bond | - |
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monovalent | (adjective) having a valence of 1 | Synonyms: univalent |
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(adjective) containing only one kind of antibody | - |
monovular | (adjective) (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum | Synonyms: identical |
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monozygotic | (adjective) derived from a single fertilized egg | - |
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monstrous | (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, grievous |
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(adjective) abnormally large | - |
(adjective) distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous | Synonyms: grotesque |
montane | (adjective) of or inhabiting mountainous regions | - |
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monthlong | (adjective) last through a month | - |
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monthly | (adjective) of or occurring or payable every month | - |
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monumental | (adjective) relating or belonging to or serving as a monument | - |
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(adjective) imposing in size or bulk or solidity | Synonyms: massive, monolithic |
(adjective) of outstanding significance | - |
moody | (adjective) subject to sharply varying moods | Synonyms: temperamental |
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(adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
moonless | (adjective) without a moon or a visible moon | - |
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moonlike | (adjective) resembling the moon in shape | Synonyms: moon-round |
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moonlit | (adjective) lighted by moonlight | Synonyms: moony |
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moonstruck | (adjective) insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon | Synonyms: lunatic |
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moony | (adjective) lighted by moonlight | Synonyms: moonlit |
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(adjective) dreamy in mood or nature | Synonyms: dreamy, woolgathering |
moot | (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: arguable, debatable, disputable |
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(adjective) of no legal significance (as having been previously decided) | - |
moraceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Moraceae | - |
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moral | (adjective) concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles | - |
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(adjective) psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect | - |
moralistic | (adjective) narrowly and conventionally moral | - |
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morbid | (adjective) suggesting the horror of death and decay | Synonyms: ghoulish |
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(adjective) caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology | Synonyms: diseased, pathologic, pathological |
(adjective) suggesting an unhealthy mental state | - |
morbific | (adjective) able to cause disease | Synonyms: infective, pathogenic |
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morbilliform | (adjective) of a rash that resembles that of measles | - |
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mordacious | (adjective) biting or given to biting | - |
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(adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent |
mordant | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, erosive, vitriolic |
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(adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: black, grim |
more | (adjective) (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; above; more than | Synonyms: more than |
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(adjective) (comparative of `many' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number | - |
morganatic | (adjective) (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior | Synonyms: left-handed |
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moribund | (adjective) being on the point of death; breathing your last | - |
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(adjective) not growing or changing; without force or vitality | Synonyms: stagnant |
moronic | (adjective) having a mental age of between eight and twelve years | - |
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