glutinous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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gluttonous | (adjective) given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink | - |
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gorgeous | (adjective) dazzlingly beautiful | - |
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gracious | (adjective) characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit | - |
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(adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: benignant |
(adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: courteous, nice |
(adjective) disposed to bestow favors | - |
granuliferous | (adjective) producing or full of granules | - |
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granulomatous | (adjective) relating to or characterized by granulomas | - |
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gratuitous | (adjective) without cause | - |
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(adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted | Synonyms: needless, uncalled-for |
(adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, costless, free, gratis |
greenhouse | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by the greenhouse effect | - |
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gregarious | (adjective) (of animals) tending to form a group with others of the same species | - |
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(adjective) (of plants) growing in groups that are close together | - |
(adjective) instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others | - |
grievous | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grave, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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(adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, monstrous |
(adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, heavy, weighty |
(adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: heartbreaking, heartrending |
grumous | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumose |
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gumptious | (adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: energetic, industrious, up-and-coming |
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gymnospermous | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of plants of the class Gymnospermae | - |
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gynandromorphous | (adjective) having both male and female morphological characteristics | Synonyms: gynandromorphic |
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harmonious | (adjective) musically pleasing | - |
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(adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: proportionate, symmetrical |
(adjective) existing together in harmony | - |
(adjective) suitable and fitting | - |
hazardous | (adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: risky, wild |
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heinous | (adjective) extremely wicked, deeply criminal | Synonyms: flagitious |
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hemimetabolous | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolic, hemimetamorphic, hemimetamorphous |
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hemimetamorphous | (adjective) (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | Synonyms: hemimetabolic, hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphic |
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herbaceous | (adjective) characteristic of a nonwoody herb or plant part | - |
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herbivorous | (adjective) feeding only on plants | - |
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heteroecious | (adjective) of parasites; passing through different stages of the life cycle on different host species | - |
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heterogeneous | (adjective) consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature | Synonyms: heterogenous |
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(adjective) originating outside the body | Synonyms: heterogenous |
heterogenous | (adjective) originating outside the body | Synonyms: heterogeneous |
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(adjective) consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature | Synonyms: heterogeneous |
heteroicous | (adjective) having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant | Synonyms: polygamous, polyoicous |
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heterologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of a different but related species | - |
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(adjective) not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin | Synonyms: heterologic, heterological |
heterometabolous | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage | Synonyms: heterometabolic |
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heterosporous | (adjective) characterized by heterospory | - |
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heterozygous | (adjective) having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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hideous | (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: horrid, horrific, outrageous |
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(adjective) so extremely ugly as to be terrifying | Synonyms: repulsive |
hilarious | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: screaming, uproarious |
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holometabolous | (adjective) (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: holometabolic |
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homoecious | (adjective) of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host | Synonyms: autoecious |
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homogeneous | (adjective) all of the same or similar kind or nature | Synonyms: homogenous |
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homogenous | (adjective) all of the same or similar kind or nature | Synonyms: homogeneous |
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homologous | (adjective) corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species | - |
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(adjective) having the same evolutionary origin but not necessarily the same function | - |
homonymous | (adjective) of or related to or being homonyms | Synonyms: homonymic |
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homophonous | (adjective) characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way | - |
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homosporous | (adjective) characterized by homospory | - |
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homostylous | (adjective) (botany) having styles all of the same length | Synonyms: homostyled, homostylic |
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homozygous | (adjective) having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci | - |
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horrendous | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrific, terrible |
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housebound | (adjective) confined usually by illness | Synonyms: homebound, shut-in |
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housebroken | (adjective) (of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place | Synonyms: house-trained |
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housewifely | (adjective) related or suited to a housewife | - |
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humongous | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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humorous | (adjective) full of or characterized by humor | Synonyms: humourous |
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humourous | (adjective) full of or characterized by humor | Synonyms: humorous |
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hydrous | (adjective) containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate) | Synonyms: hydrated |
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hymenopterous | (adjective) of or relating to insects of the order Hymenoptera | - |
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hypognathous | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: prognathic, prognathous |
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ichorous | (adjective) of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies | Synonyms: sanious |
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idolatrous | (adjective) relating to or practicing idolatry | - |
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(adjective) blindly or excessively devoted or adoring | - |
igneous | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: eruptive |
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(adjective) produced under conditions involving intense heat | Synonyms: pyrogenic, pyrogenous |
(adjective) like or suggestive of fire | Synonyms: fiery |
ignominious | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
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illustrious | (adjective) having or conferring glory | - |
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(adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, famous, far-famed, notable, noted, renowned |
impecunious | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched |
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imperious | (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
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impervious | (adjective) not admitting of passage or capable of being affected | Synonyms: imperviable |
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impetiginous | (adjective) of or relating to or having impetigo | - |
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impetuous | (adjective) marked by violent force | - |
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(adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
impious | (adjective) lacking piety or reverence for a god | - |
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(adjective) lacking due respect or dutifulness | Synonyms: undutiful |
inauspicious | (adjective) not auspicious; boding ill | Synonyms: unfortunate |
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(adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: adverse, untoward |
(adjective) presaging ill fortune | Synonyms: ill, ominous |
incautious | (adjective) lacking in caution | - |
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(adjective) carelessly failing to exercise proper caution | - |
incestuous | (adjective) relating to or involving incest | - |
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(adjective) resembling incest as by excessive intimacy | - |
incommodious | (adjective) uncomfortably or inconveniently small | - |
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incongruous | (adjective) lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness | - |
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inconspicuous | (adjective) not prominent or readily noticeable | Synonyms: invisible |
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incredulous | (adjective) not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving | - |
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incurious | (adjective) showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity | - |
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indecorous | (adjective) lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct | Synonyms: indelicate |
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(adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecent, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward |
indigenous | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic |
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industrious | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: hardworking, tireless, untiring |
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(adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: energetic, gumptious, up-and-coming |
inefficacious | (adjective) lacking the power to produce a desired effect | - |
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infamous | (adjective) known widely and usually unfavorably | Synonyms: ill-famed, notorious |
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infectious | (adjective) easily spread | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to infection | - |
(adjective) caused by infection or capable of causing infection | Synonyms: infective |
infelicitous | (adjective) not appropriate in application; defective | - |
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(adjective) marked by or producing unhappiness | Synonyms: unhappy |
ingenious | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: clever, cunning |
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ingenuous | (adjective) characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious | Synonyms: artless |
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(adjective) lacking in sophistication or worldliness | Synonyms: innocent |
inglorious | (adjective) not bringing honor and glory | - |
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(adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, opprobrious, shameful |
inharmonious | (adjective) not in harmony | Synonyms: unharmonious |
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(adjective) lacking in harmony of parts | - |
inhomogeneous | (adjective) not homogeneous | Synonyms: nonuniform |
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iniquitous | (adjective) characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin | Synonyms: sinful, ungodly |
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injudicious | (adjective) lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise | - |
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injurious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: deleterious, hurtful |
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innocuous | (adjective) not injurious to physical or mental health | - |
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(adjective) lacking intent or capacity to injure | Synonyms: innocent |
(adjective) not causing disapproval | Synonyms: unobjectionable |
innoxious | (adjective) having no adverse effect | - |
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innumerous | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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inodorous | (adjective) having no odor | Synonyms: odorless, odourless |
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insalubrious | (adjective) detrimental to health | Synonyms: unhealthful, unhealthy |
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insectivorous | (adjective) (of animals and plants) feeding on insects | - |
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insidious | (adjective) intended to entrap | - |
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(adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | Synonyms: pernicious, subtle |
(adjective) beguiling but harmful | - |
instantaneous | (adjective) occurring with no delay | Synonyms: instant |
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intracutaneous | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intradermal, intradermic |
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intravenous | (adjective) within or by means of a vein | Synonyms: endovenous |
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invidious | (adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: discriminatory |
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iridaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Iridaceae | - |
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irreligious | (adjective) hostile or indifferent to religion | - |
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isochronous | (adjective) equal in duration or interval | Synonyms: isochronal |
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isomorphous | (adjective) having similar appearance but genetically different | Synonyms: isomorphic |
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