| abactinal | (adjective) (of radiate animals) located on the surface or end opposite to that on which the mouth is situated | - |
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| abdominal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the abdomen | - |
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| ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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| abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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| abominable | (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
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| (adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: detestable, execrable, odious |
| aboriginal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: native |
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| (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial |
| accessional | (adjective) of or constituting an accession | - |
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| accommodational | (adjective) of or relating to the accommodation of the lens of the eye | - |
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| accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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| acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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| acinar | (adjective) pertaining to the individual parts making up an aggregate fruit like a blackberry | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinic, acinose, acinous |
| actinal | (adjective) (of radiate organisms) located on the surface or end on which the mouth is situated | - |
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| actionable | (adjective) affording grounds for legal action | - |
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| acuminate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowing to a slender point | - |
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| adaptational | (adjective) of or relating to adaptation | - |
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| additional | (adjective) further or added | Synonyms: extra |
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| adnate | (adjective) of unlike parts or organs; growing closely attached | - |
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| adrenal | (adjective) of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions | - |
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| (adjective) near the kidneys | - |
| adynamic | (adjective) characterized by an absence of force or forcefulness | Synonyms: undynamic |
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| (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: asthenic, debilitated, enervated |
| aerodynamic | (adjective) of or relating to aerodynamics | - |
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| (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: flowing, sleek, streamlined |
| aeronautic | (adjective) of or pertaining to aeronautics | Synonyms: aeronautical |
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| aeronautical | (adjective) of or pertaining to aeronautics | Synonyms: aeronautic |
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| affectional | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affective, emotive |
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| affectionate | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: fond, lovesome, tender |
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| affinal | (adjective) (anthropology) related by marriage | Synonyms: affine |
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| agglutinate | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinative |
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| agglutinative | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinate |
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| (adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: polysynthetic |
| agnate | (adjective) related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnatic, paternal |
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| agnatic | (adjective) related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, paternal |
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| agonadal | (adjective) lacking gonads | - |
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| agonal | (adjective) pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies) | - |
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| albinal | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affected by albinism | Synonyms: albinic, albinistic, albinotic |
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| alienable | (adjective) transferable to another owner | - |
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| alienated | (adjective) caused to be unloved | Synonyms: estranged |
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| (adjective) socially disoriented | Synonyms: anomic, disoriented |
| alienating | (adjective) causing hostility or loss of friendliness | - |
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| alternate | (adjective) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternative, substitute |
| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternating |
| (adjective) every second one of a series | - |
| alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
| alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
| (adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
| altitudinal | (adjective) pertaining to altitude | - |
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| amenable | (adjective) disposed or willing to conform | Synonyms: conformable |
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| (adjective) liable to answer to a higher authority | - |
| (adjective) responsive to suggestions and influences | Synonyms: tractable |
| (adjective) open to being acted upon in a certain way | - |
| anabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope | - |
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| anabiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of anabiosis | - |
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| anabolic | (adjective) characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism | - |
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| (adjective) of or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism | - |
| anachronic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronistic, anachronous |
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| anachronistic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous |
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| anachronous | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronistic |
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| anaclinal | (adjective) of valleys and rivers; progressing in a direction opposite to the dip in surrounding rock strata | - |
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| anaclitic | (adjective) of or related to relationships that are characterized by the strong dependence of one person on another | - |
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| anacoluthic | (adjective) of or related to syntactic inconsistencies of the sort known as anacoluthons | - |
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| anadromous | (adjective) migrating from the sea to fresh water to spawn | - |
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| anaemic | (adjective) relating to anemia or suffering from anemia | Synonyms: anemic |
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| (adjective) lacking vigor or energy | Synonyms: anemic |
| anaerobic | (adjective) living or active in the absence of free oxygen | Synonyms: anaerobiotic |
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| (adjective) not aerobic | - |
| anaerobiotic | (adjective) living or active in the absence of free oxygen | Synonyms: anaerobic |
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| anaesthetic | (adjective) relating to or producing insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
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| (adjective) characterized by insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
| anaglyphic | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphical, anaglyptic, anaglyptical |
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| anaglyphical | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyptic, anaglyptical |
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| anaglyptic | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptical |
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| anaglyptical | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptic |
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| anagogic | (adjective) based on or exemplifying anagoge | Synonyms: anagogical |
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| anagogical | (adjective) based on or exemplifying anagoge | Synonyms: anagogic |
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| anagrammatic | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatical |
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| anagrammatical | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatic |
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| anal | (adjective) a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc. | Synonyms: anal retentive |
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| (adjective) of or related to the anus | - |
| analeptic | (adjective) stimulating the central nervous system | - |
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| analgesic | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgetic, anodyne |
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| analgetic | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne |
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| analog | (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analogue, linear |
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| analogical | (adjective) expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy | - |
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| analogous | (adjective) corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin | - |
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| (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: correspondent |
| analogue | (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analog, linear |
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| analphabetic | (adjective) not alphabetic | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that is not alphabetic | - |
| (adjective) having little acquaintance with writing | Synonyms: unlettered |
| analytic | (adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | Synonyms: analytical |
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| (adjective) expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection | Synonyms: uninflected |
| (adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) | Synonyms: analytical |
| (adjective) using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus | - |
| analytical | (adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) | Synonyms: analytic |
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| (adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | Synonyms: analytic |
| analyzable | (adjective) capable of being partitioned | Synonyms: decomposable |
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| analyzed | (adjective) examined carefully and methodically; broken down for consideration of constituent parts | - |
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| anamnestic | (adjective) of or relating to anamnesis; aiding the memory | - |
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| anamorphic | (adjective) pertaining to a kind of distorting optical system | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to gradual evolution from one type of organism to another | - |
| anapaestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapestic |
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| anapestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapaestic |
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| anaphasic | (adjective) of or related to the stage of mitosis known as anaphase | - |
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| anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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| anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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| anaphylactic | (adjective) related to the hypersensitivity known as anaphylaxis | - |
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| anaplastic | (adjective) of or relating to anaplasia | - |
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| anarchic | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchical, lawless |
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| anarchical | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchic, lawless |
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| anarchistic | (adjective) of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism | - |
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| anasarcous | (adjective) characterized by or affected by dropsy | - |
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| anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
| anastomotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis | - |
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| anatomic | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomical |
| anatomical | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomic |
| anatropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: inverted |
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| anginal | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginose, anginous |
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| annalistic | (adjective) relating to annals | - |
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| annexational | (adjective) relating to annexation | - |
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| antenatal | (adjective) occurring or existing before birth | Synonyms: antepartum, prenatal |
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| antennal | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennary |
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| antennary | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennal |
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| anticlinal | (adjective) sloping downward away from a common crest | - |
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