| abandoned | (adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: derelict, deserted |
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| (adjective) unrestrained and uninhibited | - |
| abdominal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the abdomen | - |
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| abdominous | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: paunchy, potbellied |
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| abdominovesical | (adjective) of or relating to the abdomen and the urinary bladder | - |
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| abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
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| abiogenetic | (adjective) originating by abiogenesis | - |
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| abloom | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: efflorescent |
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| ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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| abnormal | (adjective) not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm | Synonyms: unnatural |
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| (adjective) departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development | - |
| (adjective) much greater than the normal | - |
| abolishable | (adjective) capable of being abolished | - |
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| abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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| abomasal | (adjective) relating to the abomasum (the fourth compartment of the stomach of ruminants) | - |
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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 |
| aboral | (adjective) opposite to or away from the mouth | - |
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| 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 |
| abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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| abortive | (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: stillborn, unsuccessful |
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| aboulic | (adjective) suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions | Synonyms: abulic |
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| abounding | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: galore |
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| about | (adjective) on the move | Synonyms: astir |
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| above | (adjective) appearing earlier in the same text | - |
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| aboveboard | (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: straightforward |
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| aboveground | (adjective) on or above the surface of the ground | - |
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| abranchious | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchiate, gill-less |
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| abroach | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: broached |
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| abroad | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: overseas |
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| absolute | (adjective) perfect or complete or pure | - |
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| (adjective) not limited by law | - |
| (adjective) not capable of being violated or infringed | Synonyms: infrangible, inviolable |
| (adjective) expressing finality with no implication of possible change | - |
| (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
| absolutist | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutistic |
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| absolutistic | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutist |
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| absolved | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated |
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| absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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| absorbable | (adjective) capable of being absorbed or taken in through the pores of a surface | - |
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| absorbed | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| (adjective) retained without reflection | - |
| absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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| absorbent | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorptive |
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| absorbing | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: engrossing, fascinating, gripping, riveting |
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| absorptive | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorbent |
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| abstemious | (adjective) sparing in consumption of especially food and drink | - |
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| (adjective) marked by temperance in indulgence | Synonyms: light |
| abstentious | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstinent |
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| abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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| acanthoid | (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthous, spinous |
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| acanthotic | (adjective) of or relating to or having acanthosis | - |
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| acanthous | (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthoid, spinous |
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| acapnotic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnial, acapnic |
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| acarpellous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpelous |
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| acarpelous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpellous |
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| acarpous | (adjective) producing no fruit | - |
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| accelerando | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in tempo | - |
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| acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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| accessional | (adjective) of or constituting an accession | - |
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| accessorial | (adjective) nonessential but helpful | - |
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| accessory | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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| (adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
| acclivitous | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: rising, uphill |
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| accommodating | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodative |
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| (adjective) obliging; willing to do favors | - |
| accommodational | (adjective) of or relating to the accommodation of the lens of the eye | - |
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| accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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| (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
| accompanied | (adjective) having companions or an escort | - |
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| (adjective) playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment | Synonyms: attended |
| accompanying | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| accomplishable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: achievable, doable, manageable, realizable |
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| accomplished | (adjective) successfully completed or brought to an end | Synonyms: completed, realised, realized |
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| (adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: effected, established |
| (adjective) highly skilled | Synonyms: complete |
| accordant | (adjective) being in agreement or harmony; often followed by `with' | - |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: agreeable, concordant, conformable, consonant |
| according | (adjective) (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `to') as reported or stated by | - |
| accountable | (adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: answerable |
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| accoutered | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutred |
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| accoutred | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutered |
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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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| accusatorial | (adjective) specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor | - |
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| accusatory | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusing, accusive |
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| accustomed | (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: customary, habitual, wonted |
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| acephalous | (adjective) lacking a head or a clearly defined head | - |
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| acerose | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acicular, needle-shaped |
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| acetonic | (adjective) of or relating to acetone | - |
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| acetose | (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetous, vinegarish, vinegary |
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| acetous | (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, vinegarish, vinegary |
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| achlamydeous | (adjective) not having a floral envelope or perianth | - |
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| achlorhydric | (adjective) lacking hydrochloric acid | - |
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| achondritic | (adjective) not having a granular structure | - |
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| (adjective) of or related to an achondrite | - |
| achondroplastic | (adjective) of or relating to achondroplasia | - |
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| achromatic | (adjective) having no hue | Synonyms: neutral |
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| achromatinic | (adjective) (of substance of a cell nucleus) not readily colored by stains | - |
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| achromatous | (adjective) having little or inadequate color | - |
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| achromic | (adjective) having no color | Synonyms: achromous |
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| achromous | (adjective) having no color | Synonyms: achromic |
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| acidophilic | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilous, aciduric |
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| acidophilous | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, aciduric |
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| acidotic | (adjective) having or being characterized by acidosis | - |
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| acidulous | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulent |
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| acinose | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinic, acinous |
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| acinous | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinic, acinose |
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| acknowledgeable | (adjective) capable of being acknowledged | - |
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| acknowledged | (adjective) recognized or made known or admitted | - |
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| (adjective) generally accepted | - |
| acneiform | (adjective) resembling acne | - |
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| acold | (adjective) of persons; feeling cold | - |
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| acoustic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of acoustics | Synonyms: acoustical |
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| acoustical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of acoustics | Synonyms: acoustic |
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| acrimonious | (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: bitter |
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| acrobatic | (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: athletic, gymnastic |
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| acrocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem | - |
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| acrocentric | (adjective) having a subterminal centromere | - |
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