| belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
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| (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
| bellying | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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| belowground | (adjective) underneath the ground | - |
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| (adjective) under the level of the ground | Synonyms: underground |
| bendable | (adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | Synonyms: pliable, pliant, waxy |
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| bended | (adjective) used of the back and knees; stooped | Synonyms: bent |
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| benedictive | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictory |
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| benedictory | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictive |
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| benefic | (adjective) exerting a favorable or beneficent influence | - |
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| beneficed | (adjective) having a benefice | - |
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| beneficent | (adjective) doing or producing good | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| beneficial | (adjective) promoting or enhancing well-being | Synonyms: good |
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| beneficiary | (adjective) having or arising from a benefice | - |
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| benevolent | (adjective) intending or showing kindness | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| (adjective) generous in providing aid to others | Synonyms: freehearted |
| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| benighted | (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: dark |
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| (adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: nighted |
| benign | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benignant |
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| (adjective) not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor) | - |
| (adjective) kindness of disposition or manner | - |
| benignant | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benign |
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| (adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: gracious |
| bent | (adjective) of metal e.g. | Synonyms: crumpled, dented |
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| (adjective) fixed in your purpose | Synonyms: bent on, dead set, out to |
| (adjective) used of the back and knees; stooped | Synonyms: bended |
| benthal | (adjective) of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water | Synonyms: benthic, benthonic |
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| benthic | (adjective) of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water | Synonyms: benthal, benthonic |
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| benthonic | (adjective) of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water | Synonyms: benthal, benthic |
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| bentonitic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing bentonite | - |
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| benumbed | (adjective) lacking sensation | Synonyms: asleep, numb |
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| (adjective) having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure | Synonyms: dulled |
| benzenoid | (adjective) similar to benzene in structure or linkage | - |
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| benzoic | (adjective) containing or derived from benzoic acid or benzoin | - |
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| benzylic | (adjective) relating to benzyl | - |
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| beseeching | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: imploring, pleading |
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| bespoken | (adjective) pledged to be married | Synonyms: betrothed, engaged |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) custom-made | Synonyms: bespoke, made-to-order, tailor-made, tailored |
| besprent | (adjective) sprinkled over | - |
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| bettering | (adjective) changing for the better | - |
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| betting | (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: card-playing, dissipated, gambling, sporting |
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| bewitching | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| biannual | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biyearly, half-yearly, semiannual |
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| bibliomaniacal | (adjective) characteristic of or characterized by or noted for bibliomania | - |
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| bicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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| bicentennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentenary |
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| bicentric | (adjective) having two centers | - |
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| biconcave | (adjective) concave on both sides | Synonyms: concavo-concave |
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| biconvex | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: convexo-convex, lenticular, lentiform |
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| bicorn | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicornate, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| bicornate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| bicorned | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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| bicornuate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuous |
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| bicornuous | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuate |
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| bicylindrical | (adjective) having two cylindrical surfaces usually with parallel axes | - |
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| bidentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed | - |
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| bidirectional | (adjective) reactive or functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions | - |
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| biennial | (adjective) having a life cycle lasting two seasons | Synonyms: two-year |
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| (adjective) occurring every second year | Synonyms: biyearly |
| bigeminal | (adjective) occurring in pairs | - |
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| bigeneric | (adjective) resulting from a cross between species of different genera | - |
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| bignoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bilinear | (adjective) linear with respect to each of two variables or positions | - |
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| bilingual | (adjective) using or knowing two languages | - |
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| billion | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States | - |
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| (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain | - |
| billionth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one billion in counting order | - |
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| billowing | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowy, surging |
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| bimanual | (adjective) requiring two hands or designed for two people | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| bimillenial | (adjective) of or relating to a bimillennium | - |
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| bimonthly | (adjective) occurring every two months | Synonyms: bimestrial |
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| (adjective) occurring twice a month | Synonyms: semimonthly |
| binary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) | - |
| binate | (adjective) growing in two parts or in pairs | - |
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| binaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with two ears | Synonyms: biaural |
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| bindable | (adjective) capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond | Synonyms: bondable |
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| binding | (adjective) executed with proper legal authority | - |
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| binocular | (adjective) relating to both eyes | - |
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| binomial | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of two terms | - |
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| (adjective) having or characterized by two names, especially those of genus and species in taxonomies | Synonyms: binominal |
| binominal | (adjective) having or characterized by two names, especially those of genus and species in taxonomies | Synonyms: binomial |
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| binuclear | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binucleate, binucleated |
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| binucleate | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleated |
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| binucleated | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleate |
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| biogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the production of living organisms from other living organisms | - |
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| biogenic | (adjective) produced by living organisms or biological processes | - |
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| (adjective) essential for maintaining the fundamental life processes | - |
| biogenous | (adjective) producing or produced by living things | - |
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| bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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| bionic | (adjective) of or relating to bionics | - |
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| (adjective) having particular physiological functions augmented or replaced by electronic or electromechanical components | - |
| bionomic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of ecology | Synonyms: bionomical, ecologic, ecological |
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| bionomical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of ecology | Synonyms: bionomic, ecologic, ecological |
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| biosynthetic | (adjective) of or relating to biosynthesis | - |
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| bipartisan | (adjective) supported by both sides | Synonyms: bipartizan, two-party, two-way |
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| bipartizan | (adjective) supported by both sides | Synonyms: bipartisan, two-party, two-way |
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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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| birchen | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birch, birken |
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| birefringent | (adjective) relating to or characterized by double refraction | - |
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| birken | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birch, birchen |
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| bisectional | (adjective) of or relating to bisection | - |
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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 |
| bitumenoid | (adjective) like bitumen | Synonyms: bituminoid |
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| bituminoid | (adjective) like bitumen | Synonyms: bitumenoid |
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| bituminous | (adjective) resembling or containing bitumen | - |
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| bivalent | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: double |
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| (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: divalent |
| bizonal | (adjective) relating to or concerned with the combined affairs of two administrative zones | - |
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| blackened | (adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | Synonyms: black |
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| (adjective) darkened by smoke | - |
| blanched | (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, bloodless, livid, white |
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| (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: etiolate, etiolated |
| bland | (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: politic, smooth, suave |
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| (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
| (adjective) lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting | Synonyms: flat |
| blank | (adjective) (of a surface) not written or printed on | Synonyms: clean, white |
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| (adjective) not charged with a bullet | - |
| (adjective) complete and absolute | Synonyms: utter |
| (adjective) without comprehension | - |
| blanket | (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
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| blanketed | (adjective) covered with (or as if with) a blanket | - |
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| blaring | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blasting |
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