| ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
| askant | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| aslant | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| aspirant | (adjective) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement | Synonyms: aspiring, wishful |
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| asquint | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| assentient | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assenting |
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| assenting | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assentient |
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| assistant | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: adjunct |
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| assonant | (adjective) having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables | - |
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| (adjective) having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables | - |
| assurgent | (adjective) growing or extending upward | - |
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| (adjective) rising from the sea | - |
| astringent | (adjective) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue | - |
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| (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic |
| atrioventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: auriculoventricular |
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| attendant | (adjective) being present (at a meeting or event, etc.) | - |
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| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
| attentional | (adjective) of or relating to attention | - |
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| attentive | (adjective) (often followed by `to') giving care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | Synonyms: heedful, paying attention, thoughtful |
| augmentative | (adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree | - |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: enhancive |
| augmented | (adjective) added to or made greater in amount or number or strength | - |
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| auriculoventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: atrioventricular |
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| authentic | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: bona fide, unquestionable, veritable |
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| (adjective) conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief | Synonyms: reliable |
| authenticated | (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, documented |
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| autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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| autosemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context | - |
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| avirulent | (adjective) not virulent; unable to produce disease | - |
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| bacchantic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler | - |
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| bantam | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| bantering | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: facetious, tongue-in-cheek |
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| battlemented | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: castellated, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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| (adjective) protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through | - |
| 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 |
| beneficent | (adjective) doing or producing good | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| 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 |
| 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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| besprent | (adjective) sprinkled over | - |
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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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| bidentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections that are themselves toothed | - |
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| billionth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one billion in counting order | - |
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| bimonthly | (adjective) occurring every two months | Synonyms: bimestrial |
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| (adjective) occurring twice a month | Synonyms: semimonthly |
| bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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| biosynthetic | (adjective) of or relating to biosynthesis | - |
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| birefringent | (adjective) relating to or characterized by double refraction | - |
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| bisontine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of bison | - |
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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 |
| blatant | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blazing, conspicuous |
| blunt | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) used of a knife or other blade; not sharp | - |
| (adjective) having a broad or rounded end | - |
| (adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: crude, stark |
| blunted | (adjective) made dull or blunt | Synonyms: dulled |
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| bouffant | (adjective) being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing | Synonyms: puffy |
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| bounteous | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| bountied | (adjective) rewarded or able to be rewarded by a bounty | - |
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| bountiful | (adjective) producing in abundance | Synonyms: plentiful |
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| (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
| bowfront | (adjective) having an outward curving front | - |
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| brilliant | (adjective) full of light; shining intensely | - |
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| (adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: bright, vivid |
| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: glorious, magnificent, splendid |
| (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brainy, smart as a whip |
| (adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: bright |
| (adjective) of surpassing excellence | Synonyms: superb |
| brisant | (adjective) of or relating to the power (the shattering effect) of an explosive | - |
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| buoyant | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: chirpy, perky |
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| (adjective) tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | Synonyms: floaty |
| burnt | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burned |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burned, burnt-out |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burned |
| cadent | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadenced |
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| calefacient | (adjective) producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body | Synonyms: warming |
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| calorifacient | (adjective) producing heat; usually used of foods | - |
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| candent | (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: incandescent |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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| (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
| cantabile | (adjective) smooth and flowing | Synonyms: singing |
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| cantankerous | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: crotchety, ornery |
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| (adjective) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate | Synonyms: bloody-minded |
| canted | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: atilt, leaning, tilted, tipped |
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| cantering | (adjective) riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop | - |
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| cantonal | (adjective) of or relating to a canton | - |
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| canty | (adjective) lively and brisk | - |
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| caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
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| cementitious | (adjective) like or relevant to or having the properties of cement | - |
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| 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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| centennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centenary |
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| center | (adjective) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually | Synonyms: centre |
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| (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: centre, halfway, middle, midway |
| centered | (adjective) being or placed in the center | Synonyms: centred |
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| centesimal | (adjective) relating to or divided into hundredths | - |
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| (adjective) the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order | Synonyms: 100th, hundredth |
| centigrade | (adjective) of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees | - |
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| central | (adjective) in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area | - |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, fundamental, key, primal |
| centralised | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralized |
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| centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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| centralist | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralistic |
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| centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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| centralized | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralised |
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| centralizing | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralising |
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| centre | (adjective) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually | Synonyms: center |
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| (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, halfway, middle, midway |
| centred | (adjective) being or placed in the center | Synonyms: centered |
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| centric | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centrical |
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| centrical | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centric |
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| centrifugal | (adjective) tending to move away from a center | - |
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| (adjective) tending away from centralization, as of authority | - |
| (adjective) conveying information to the muscles from the CNS | Synonyms: motor |
| centripetal | (adjective) tending to move toward a center | - |
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| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: receptive, sensory |
| (adjective) tending to unify | Synonyms: unifying |
| centrist | (adjective) supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative | Synonyms: middle-of-the-road |
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| centroidal | (adjective) of or relating to (especially passing through) a centroid | - |
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| centromeric | (adjective) pertaining to the dense specialized portion of a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosis | - |
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| centrosomic | (adjective) of or relating to a centrosome | - |
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| centrosymmetric | (adjective) having a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point | Synonyms: radially symmetrical |
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| chanted | (adjective) sung or uttered rhythmically in a monotone | - |
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