| antifertility | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: contraceptive, prophylactic |
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| antifungal | (adjective) capable of destroying fungi | Synonyms: fungicidal |
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| antigenic | (adjective) of or relating to antigens | - |
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| antiheretical | (adjective) opposed to heresy | - |
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| antiknock | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknocking |
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| antiknocking | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknock |
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| antimagnetic | (adjective) impervious to the effects of a magnetic field; resistant to magnetization | - |
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| antimicrobial | (adjective) capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms | Synonyms: antimicrobic |
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| antimicrobic | (adjective) capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms | Synonyms: antimicrobial |
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| antimonial | (adjective) containing antimony | - |
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| antimonic | (adjective) relating to or derived from antimony | Synonyms: antimonious |
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| antimonious | (adjective) relating to or derived from antimony | Synonyms: antimonic |
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| antimonopoly | (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | Synonyms: antitrust |
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| antineoplastic | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antitumor, antitumour |
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| antinomian | (adjective) relating to or influenced by antinomianism | - |
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| antiparallel | (adjective) (especially of vectors) parallel but oppositely directed | - |
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| antipathetic | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetical, averse, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetical |
| antipathetical | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, averse, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antagonistic, antipathetic |
| antipersonnel | (adjective) designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction | - |
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| antiphlogistic | (adjective) counteracting inflammation | - |
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| antiphonal | (adjective) containing or using responses; alternating | Synonyms: responsive |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonary |
| antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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| antipodal | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodean |
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| antipodean | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodal |
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| antipollution | (adjective) intended to reduce pollution | - |
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| antipyretic | (adjective) preventing or alleviating fever | - |
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| antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
| antiquated | (adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antediluvian, archaic |
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| antique | (adjective) made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age | - |
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| (adjective) out of fashion | Synonyms: demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passe, passee |
| (adjective) belonging to or lasting from times long ago | Synonyms: age-old |
| antisatellite | (adjective) of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit | Synonyms: ASAT |
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| antisemitic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by anti-Semitism; hating Jews | Synonyms: anti-semitic |
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| antiseptic | (adjective) thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of objectionable language | - |
| (adjective) clean and honest | - |
| (adjective) freeing from error or corruption | - |
| antisocial | (adjective) shunning contact with others | - |
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| (adjective) hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior | Synonyms: asocial |
| antistrophic | (adjective) of or relating to an antistrophe | - |
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| antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
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| antitank | (adjective) designed for defense against armored vehicles | - |
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| antithetic | (adjective) sharply contrasted in character or purpose | Synonyms: antithetical |
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| antithetical | (adjective) sharply contrasted in character or purpose | Synonyms: antithetic |
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| antithyroid | (adjective) having the effect of counteracting excessive thyroid activity | - |
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| antitoxic | (adjective) counteracting a toxin or poison | - |
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| antitrust | (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | Synonyms: antimonopoly |
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| antitumor | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antineoplastic, antitumour |
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| antitumour | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antineoplastic, antitumor |
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| antitypic | (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that is a symbol | Synonyms: antitypical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that represents an opposite | Synonyms: antitypical |
| antitypical | (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that is a symbol | Synonyms: antitypic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that represents an opposite | Synonyms: antitypic |
| antiviral | (adjective) inhibiting or stopping the growth and reproduction of viruses | - |
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| antlered | (adjective) having antlers | - |
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| antonymous | (adjective) of words: having opposite meanings | - |
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| antrorse | (adjective) bent or curved forward or upward | - |
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| antsy | (adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: fidgety, fretful, itchy, restless |
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| anuran | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: batrachian, salientian |
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| anuretic | (adjective) of or relating to an inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuric |
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| anuric | (adjective) of or relating to an inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuretic |
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| anurous | (adjective) not having a tail | Synonyms: tailless |
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| anxiolytic | (adjective) anxiety relieving | - |
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| anxious | (adjective) eagerly desirous | Synonyms: dying |
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| (adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet |
| any | (adjective) one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential | Synonyms: whatever, whatsoever |
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| aperient | (adjective) mildly laxative | - |
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| aphanitic | (adjective) of or relating to aphanite | - |
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| aphonic | (adjective) being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech | Synonyms: voiceless |
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| apian | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of bees | - |
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| apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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| aplacental | (adjective) having no placenta | - |
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| aplanatic | (adjective) free from or corrected for spherical aberration | - |
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| apneic | (adjective) of or relating to apnea | Synonyms: apnoeic |
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| apnoeic | (adjective) of or relating to apnea | Synonyms: apneic |
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| apocrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion | - |
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| apocynaceous | (adjective) of or relating to tropical plants of the family Apocynaceae | - |
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| apogean | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of an apogee | - |
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| aponeurotic | (adjective) of or relating to an aponeurosis | - |
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| appalling | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: dismaying |
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| apparent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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| (adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: ostensible, seeming |
| apparitional | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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| appealing | (adjective) able to attract interest or draw favorable attention | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: likable, likeable, sympathetic |
| appeasing | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: placating, placative, placatory |
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| appellant | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellate |
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| appendaged | (adjective) having an appendage | - |
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| appendant | (adjective) affixed as an appendage | - |
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| appendicular | (adjective) relating to or consisting of an appendage or appendages; especially the limbs | - |
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| appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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| appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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| appetizing | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetising |
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| appointed | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointive |
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| (adjective) selected for a job | - |
| (adjective) provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind) | - |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: decreed, ordained, prescribed |
| appointive | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointed |
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| (adjective) relating to the act of appointing | - |
| apportionable | (adjective) capable of being distributed | Synonyms: allocable, allocatable |
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| apportioned | (adjective) given out in portions | Synonyms: dealt out, doled out, meted out, parceled out |
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| appositional | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositive |
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| appraising | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: evaluative |
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| apprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, comprehended |
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| apprehensible | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: graspable, intelligible, perceivable, understandable |
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| apprehensive | (adjective) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm | - |
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| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: discerning |
| (adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc | Synonyms: worried |
| apprenticed | (adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: articled, bound, indentured |
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| approaching | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: coming, forthcoming, upcoming |
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| approving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive |
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| appurtenant | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary |
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| aptitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to aptitudes | - |
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| aquiline | (adjective) curved down like an eagle's beak | Synonyms: hooked |
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| arachnidian | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery |
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| arachnoid | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, spiderlike, spiderly, spidery |
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| araneidal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a spider | Synonyms: araneidan |
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