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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accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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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 |
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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antennary | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennal |
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antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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bicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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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) | - |
canary | (adjective) having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow | Synonyms: canary-yellow |
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cardiopulmonary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiorespiratory |
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cautionary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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(adjective) warding off | Synonyms: prophylactic |
centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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centenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centennial |
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cislunar | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: sublunar, sublunary |
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columnar | (adjective) characterized by columns | - |
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(adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columniform, columnlike |
coplanar | (adjective) lying in the same plane | - |
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coronary | (adjective) surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart) | - |
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counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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(adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
culinary | (adjective) of or relating to or used in cooking | - |
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deflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause decreases in consumer prices or increases in the purchasing power of money | - |
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denary | (adjective) containing ten or ten parts | Synonyms: ten-fold, tenfold |
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(adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: decimal |
disciplinary | (adjective) relating to a specific field of academic study | - |
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(adjective) relating to discipline in behavior | - |
(adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinal |
discretionary | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretional |
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(adjective) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed | - |
diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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eleemosynary | (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, philanthropic |
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elocutionary | (adjective) of or relating to elocution | - |
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(adjective) (used of style of speaking) overly embellished | - |
evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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expeditionary | (adjective) (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad | - |
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extraordinary | (adjective) beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; special | - |
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(adjective) far more than usual or expected | Synonyms: over-the-top, sinful |
(adjective) (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials | - |
genitourinary | (adjective) of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions | Synonyms: GU |
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geostationary | (adjective) of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth | - |
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gnarled | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarly, knobbed, knotted, knotty |
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gnarly | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, knobbed, knotted, knotty |
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illusionary | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusional |
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imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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inarguable | (adjective) against which no argument can be made | Synonyms: unarguable |
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inarticulate | (adjective) without or deprived of the use of speech or words | Synonyms: unarticulate |
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inartistic | (adjective) lacking aesthetic sensibility | Synonyms: unartistic |
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inflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause increases in inflation | - |
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insurrectionary | (adjective) of or relating to or given to insurrection | Synonyms: insurrectional |
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interdisciplinary | (adjective) drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study | - |
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intrapulmonary | (adjective) being or occurring within a lung | - |
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laminar | (adjective) arranged in or consisting of laminae | Synonyms: laminal |
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latitudinarian | (adjective) unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) | Synonyms: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical |
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lunar | (adjective) of or relating to or associated with the moon | - |
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mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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(adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
(adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
millenarian | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: chiliastic |
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millenary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of 1000 | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium | - |
missionary | (adjective) relating to or connected to a religious mission | Synonyms: missional |
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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 |
narcissistic | (adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-loving |
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narcoleptic | (adjective) of or relating to narcolepsy | - |
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narcotic | (adjective) of or relating to or designating narcotics | - |
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(adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotising, narcotizing |
(adjective) inducing mental lethargy | Synonyms: soporiferous, soporific |
narcotised | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: doped, drugged, narcotized |
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narcotising | (adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotic, narcotizing |
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narcotized | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: doped, drugged, narcotised |
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narcotizing | (adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotic, narcotising |
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narial | (adjective) of or relating to or near the nares | - |
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narrative | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story | - |
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narrow | (adjective) not wide | - |
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(adjective) very limited in degree | - |
(adjective) lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view | Synonyms: narrow-minded |
(adjective) characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination | Synonyms: minute |
(adjective) limited in extent or scope | - |
narrowed | (adjective) made narrow; limited in breadth | - |
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(adjective) reduced in size as by squeezing together | - |
narrowing | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, constrictive |
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(adjective) becoming gradually narrower | Synonyms: tapered, tapering |
nary | (adjective) (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a' | - |
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nonagenarian | (adjective) being from 90 to 99 years old | - |
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nonarbitrable | (adjective) not appropriate for or subject to arbitration | - |
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nonarbitrary | (adjective) not subject to individual determination | Synonyms: unarbitrary |
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nonarboreal | (adjective) not inhabiting or frequenting trees | - |
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nutritionary | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritional |
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octogenarian | (adjective) being from 80 to 89 years old | - |
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ordinary | (adjective) not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree | - |
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(adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: average |
petitionary | (adjective) of the nature of or expressing a petition | - |
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planar | (adjective) involving or having two dimensions | Synonyms: two-dimensional |
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plenary | (adjective) full in all respects | - |
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precautionary | (adjective) taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure | Synonyms: precautional |
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predestinarian | (adjective) of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination | - |
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preliminary | (adjective) denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important | - |
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probationary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: provisional, provisionary, tentative |
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provisionary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, tentative |
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pulmonary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonic |
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quaternary | (adjective) consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four | Synonyms: quaternate |
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(adjective) coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude | Synonyms: 4th, fourth |
quincentenary | (adjective) of or relating to a 500th anniversary | Synonyms: quincentennial |
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reactionary | (adjective) opposed to political or social liberalism or reform | Synonyms: far-right, reactionist |
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recessionary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessive |
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reversionary | (adjective) of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion) | - |
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revolutionary | (adjective) advocating or engaged in revolution | - |
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(adjective) relating to or having the nature of a revolution | - |
(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn | Synonyms: rotatory |
(adjective) markedly new or introducing radical change | Synonyms: radical |
sanguinary | (adjective) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed | Synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded |
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(adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguineous, slaughterous |
semicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentennial |
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semilunar | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, crescent, lunate |
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sexagenarian | (adjective) being from 60 to 69 years old | - |
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snarky | (adjective) disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking | Synonyms: sardonic |
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snarled | (adjective) tangled in knots or snarls | Synonyms: knotty, snarly |
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snarly | (adjective) tangled in knots or snarls | Synonyms: knotty, snarled |
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stagflationary | (adjective) characteristic of or promoting stagflation | - |
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stationary | (adjective) not capable of being moved | - |
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(adjective) standing still | - |
sublunar | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: cislunar, sublunary |
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(adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunary, terrestrial |