| acerose | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acicular, needle-shaped |
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| acetose | (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetous, vinegarish, vinegary |
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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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| acroscopic | (adjective) facing or on the side toward the apex | - |
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| adipose | (adjective) composed of animal fat | - |
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| aerosolised | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolized |
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| aerosolized | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolised |
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| aftermost | (adjective) located closest to the stern or tail | - |
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| agnostic | (adjective) uncertain of all claims to knowledge | Synonyms: agnostical |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism | - |
| agnostical | (adjective) uncertain of all claims to knowledge | Synonyms: agnostic |
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| ambrosial | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosian |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosian, nectarous |
| ambrosian | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosial |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, nectarous |
| amphiprostylar | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostyle, amphistylar, porticoed |
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| amphiprostyle | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphistylar, porticoed |
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| anginose | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginous |
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| angiospermous | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of plants that are angiosperms | - |
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| anosmatic | (adjective) relating to an impairment or loss of the sense of smell | Synonyms: anosmic |
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| anosmic | (adjective) relating to an impairment or loss of the sense of smell | Synonyms: anosmatic |
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| (adjective) having impaired sense of smell | - |
| aposiopetic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis | - |
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| apostate | (adjective) not faithful to religion or party or cause | - |
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| apostolic | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolical |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolical, papal, pontifical |
| apostolical | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolic |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, papal, pontifical |
| apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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| apposable | (adjective) capable of being placed opposite to something | Synonyms: opposable |
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| apposite | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apt, pertinent |
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| appositional | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositive |
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| appositive | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositional |
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| apropos | (adjective) of an appropriate or pertinent nature | - |
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| archosaurian | (adjective) of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria | - |
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| ariose | (adjective) having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) | Synonyms: songlike |
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| arteriosclerotic | (adjective) affected by arteriosclerosis | - |
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| arthrosporic | (adjective) of or relating to arthrospores | Synonyms: arthrosporous |
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| arthrosporous | (adjective) of or relating to arthrospores | Synonyms: arthrosporic |
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| ascosporic | (adjective) of or relating to ascospores | Synonyms: ascosporous |
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| ascosporous | (adjective) of or relating to ascospores | Synonyms: ascosporic |
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| atherosclerotic | (adjective) of or relating to atherosclerosis | - |
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| atmospheric | (adjective) relating to or located in the atmosphere | Synonyms: atmospherical |
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| atmospherical | (adjective) relating to or located in the atmosphere | Synonyms: atmospheric |
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| autosemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context | - |
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| autosomal | (adjective) of or relating to an autosome | - |
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| azygos | (adjective) occurring singly; not one of a pair | Synonyms: azygous |
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| backmost | (adjective) located farthest to the rear | Synonyms: hindermost, hindmost, rearmost |
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| bacteriostatic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis | - |
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| basidiosporous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by spores produced by basidia | - |
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| bellicose | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, combative |
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| biosynthetic | (adjective) of or relating to biosynthesis | - |
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| biosystematic | (adjective) of or relating to biosystematics | - |
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| blastospheric | (adjective) of or relating to a blastula | Synonyms: blastular |
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| boskopoid | (adjective) belonging or relating to or resembling Boskop man | - |
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| bosky | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: brushy |
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| bosomed | (adjective) having a bosom as specified or having something likened to a bosom; usually used in compounds | - |
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| bosomy | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| boss | (adjective) exceptionally good | Synonyms: brag |
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| bossy | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| bottommost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: lowermost, nethermost |
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| boytrose | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, botryoidal |
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| broadnosed | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| bronchoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to an instrument for examining the interior of the bronchi | - |
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| caespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: cespitose, tufted |
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| carposporic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carpospore | - |
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| carposporous | (adjective) having carpospores | - |
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| cellulosid | (adjective) of or containing or made from cellulose | - |
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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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| cerebrospinal | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and spinal cord | - |
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| cespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: caespitose, tufted |
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| chemosorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorptive |
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| chlorophyllose | (adjective) relating to or being or containing chlorophyll | Synonyms: chlorophyllous |
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| choosey | (adjective) difficult to please | Synonyms: choosy |
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| choosy | (adjective) difficult to please | Synonyms: choosey |
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| chromosomal | (adjective) of or relating to a chromosome | - |
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| close | (adjective) at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other | - |
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| (adjective) close in relevance or relationship | - |
| (adjective) not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances | Synonyms: near, nigh |
| (adjective) marked by fidelity to an original | Synonyms: faithful |
| (adjective) rigorously attentive; strict and thorough | - |
| (adjective) crowded | Synonyms: confining |
| (adjective) (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched | Synonyms: tight |
| (adjective) of textiles | Synonyms: tight |
| (adjective) confined to specific persons | - |
| (adjective) strictly confined or guarded | - |
| (adjective) used of hair or haircuts | - |
| (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, near, penny-pinching, skinny |
| (adjective) fitting closely but comfortably | Synonyms: close-fitting, snug |
| (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped |
| (adjective) lacking fresh air | Synonyms: airless, stuffy, unaired |
| closed | (adjective) not open or affording passage or access | - |
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| (adjective) (set theory) of an interval that contains both its endpoints | - |
| (adjective) used especially of mouth or eyes | Synonyms: shut |
| (adjective) not open | Synonyms: shut, unopen |
| (adjective) blocked against entry | Synonyms: closed in |
| (adjective) not open to the general public | - |
| (adjective) with shutters closed | - |
| (adjective) requiring union membership | - |
| (adjective) not having an open mind | Synonyms: unsympathetic |
| closefisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: hardfisted, tightfisted |
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| closelipped | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped |
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| closemouthed | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, secretive, tightlipped |
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| closing | (adjective) final or ending | - |
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| cognoscible | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognizable, knowable |
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| colossal | (adjective) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe | Synonyms: prodigious, stupendous |
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| comatose | (adjective) relating to or associated with a coma | - |
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| (adjective) in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli | - |
| comose | (adjective) bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts | Synonyms: comate |
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| (adjective) of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair | Synonyms: comal, comate |
| composed | (adjective) serenely self-possessed and free from agitation especially in times of stress | - |
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| composite | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of separate interconnected parts | - |
| compositional | (adjective) arranging or grouping | - |
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| cormose | (adjective) having or producing corms | Synonyms: cormous |
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| corrosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) spitefully sarcastic | - |
| corymbose | (adjective) resembling a corymb | - |
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| coseismal | (adjective) being where earthquake waves arrive simultaneously | Synonyms: coseismic |
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| coseismic | (adjective) being where earthquake waves arrive simultaneously | Synonyms: coseismal |
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| cosher | (adjective) conforming to Jewish dietary laws | Synonyms: kosher |
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| cosignatory | (adjective) signing jointly with others | - |
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| cosmetic | (adjective) serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body | Synonyms: enhancive |
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| (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: decorative, ornamental |
| cosmic | (adjective) of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe | - |
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| (adjective) inconceivably extended in space or time | - |
| cosmogenic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmogonic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonical, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmogonical | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmologic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmological |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality | Synonyms: cosmological |
| cosmological | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality | Synonyms: cosmologic |
| cosmopolitan | (adjective) growing or occurring in many parts of the world | Synonyms: widely distributed |
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| (adjective) composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests | - |
| (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
| costal | (adjective) of or relating to or near a rib | - |
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