| abrupt | (adjective) surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner | - |
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| (adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: disconnected |
| (adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: precipitous, sharp |
| (adjective) exceedingly sudden and unexpected | - |
| absorptive | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorbent |
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| acceptable | (adjective) worthy of acceptance or satisfactory | - |
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| (adjective) adequate for the purpose | - |
| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: decent, satisfactory |
| (adjective) judged to be in conformity with approved usage | - |
| acceptant | (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptive |
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| accepted | (adjective) generally approved or compelling recognition | Synonyms: recognised, recognized |
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| accepting | (adjective) tolerating without protest | - |
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| acceptive | (adjective) inclined to accept rather than reject | - |
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| (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptant |
| adaptable | (adjective) capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use | - |
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| adaptational | (adjective) of or relating to adaptation | - |
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| adaptative | (adjective) having a capacity for adaptation | Synonyms: adaptive |
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| adapted | (adjective) changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose | Synonyms: altered |
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| adaptive | (adjective) having a capacity for adaptation | Synonyms: adaptative |
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| adept | (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: expert, good, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful |
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| adoptable | (adjective) suitable or eligible for adoption | - |
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| adopted | (adjective) acquired as your own by free choice | Synonyms: adoptive |
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| adoptive | (adjective) of parents and children; related by adoption | - |
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| (adjective) acquired as your own by free choice | Synonyms: adopted |
| adscript | (adjective) written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it | - |
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| (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscripted |
| adscripted | (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscript |
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| adsorptive | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorbent, surface-assimilative |
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| anaglyptic | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptical |
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| anaglyptical | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptic |
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| analeptic | (adjective) stimulating the central nervous system | - |
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| antenuptial | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: premarital, prenuptial |
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| antiseptic | (adjective) thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of objectionable language | - |
| (adjective) clean and honest | - |
| (adjective) freeing from error or corruption | - |
| apocalyptic | (adjective) of or relating to an apocalypse | - |
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| (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptical, revelatory |
| apocalyptical | (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptic, revelatory |
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| apopemptic | (adjective) addressed to one who is departing | - |
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| apperceptive | (adjective) able to relate new percepts to past experience | - |
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| apt | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apposite, pertinent |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: disposed, given, minded, tending |
| (adjective) mentally quick and resourceful | Synonyms: clever |
| (adjective) at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant | Synonyms: liable |
| apteral | (adjective) having columns at one or both ends but not along the sides | - |
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| (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apterous |
| apterous | (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apteral |
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| aptitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to aptitudes | - |
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| aseptic | (adjective) free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms | Synonyms: sterile |
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| assumptive | (adjective) accepted as real or true without proof | - |
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| (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, presumptuous |
| asymptomatic | (adjective) having no symptoms of illness or disease | Synonyms: symptomless |
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| asymptotic | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of an asymptote | - |
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| attempted | (adjective) tried unsuccessfully | - |
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| backswept | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: sweptback |
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| bankrupt | (adjective) financially ruined | Synonyms: belly-up |
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| baptised | (adjective) having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism | Synonyms: baptized |
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| baptismal | (adjective) of or relating to baptism | - |
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| baptized | (adjective) having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism | Synonyms: baptised |
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| brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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| bumptious | (adjective) offensively self-assertive | Synonyms: self-assertive |
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| calyptrate | (adjective) having a calyptra | - |
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| (adjective) having calypters | - |
| captious | (adjective) tending to find and call attention to faults | Synonyms: faultfinding |
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| captivated | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) strongly attracted | Synonyms: charmed |
| captivating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| captive | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: confined, imprisoned, jailed |
| cataleptic | (adjective) of or having characteristics of or affected with catalepsy | - |
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| catoptric | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptrical |
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| catoptrical | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptric |
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| chemisorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemosorptive |
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| chemoreceptive | (adjective) of or relating to chemoreceptors | - |
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| chemosorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorptive |
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| conceptional | (adjective) being of the nature of a notion or concept | Synonyms: ideational, notional |
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| conceptive | (adjective) capable of conceiving | Synonyms: impregnable |
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| conceptual | (adjective) being or characterized by concepts or their formation | - |
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| conceptualistic | (adjective) involving or characteristic of conceptualism | - |
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| consumptive | (adjective) tending to consume or use often wastefully | - |
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| (adjective) afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis | - |
| contemptible | (adjective) deserving of contempt or scorn | - |
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| contemptuous | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: disdainful, insulting, scornful |
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| contraceptive | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, prophylactic |
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| corrupt | (adjective) lacking in integrity | - |
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| (adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive | Synonyms: crooked |
| (adjective) containing errors or alterations | Synonyms: corrupted |
| (adjective) touched by rot or decay | Synonyms: tainted |
| corrupted | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: debased, vitiated |
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| (adjective) containing errors or alterations | Synonyms: corrupt |
| corruptible | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal |
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| corrupting | (adjective) that infects or taints | Synonyms: contaminating |
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| (adjective) harmful to the mind or morals | Synonyms: degrading |
| (adjective) seducing into corrupt practices | - |
| corruptive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: perversive, pestiferous |
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| cryptanalytic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptic | (adjective) having a puzzling terseness | - |
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| (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| cryptical | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| cryptobiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of cryptobiosis | - |
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| cryptogamic | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamous |
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| cryptogamous | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamic |
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| cryptographic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptographical | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptologic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptological |
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| cryptological | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic |
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| deceptive | (adjective) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently | Synonyms: misleading |
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| (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: delusory |
| descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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| (adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
| dictyopteran | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the order Dictyoptera | - |
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| dipterous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera | - |
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| disrupted | (adjective) marked by breaks or gaps | - |
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| disruptive | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent |
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| dyspeptic | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, bilious, liverish |
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| (adjective) suffering from dyspepsia | - |
| elliptic | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptical |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse | - |
| elliptical | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptic |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| empty | (adjective) holding or containing nothing | - |
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| (adjective) emptied of emotion | - |
| (adjective) needing nourishment | Synonyms: empty-bellied |
| (adjective) devoid of significance or force | Synonyms: hollow, vacuous |
| enraptured | (adjective) feeling great rapture or delight | Synonyms: ecstatic, rapt, rapturous, rhapsodic |
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| epileptic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy | - |
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| equipt | (adjective) provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate | Synonyms: equipped |
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| eruptive | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: igneous |
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| (adjective) producing or characterized by eruptions | - |
| (adjective) actively spewing out lava | - |
| exceptionable | (adjective) liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to | Synonyms: objectionable |
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| exceptional | (adjective) deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence | - |
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| (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, olympian, prodigious, surpassing |
| (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: especial, particular, special |
| exempt | (adjective) (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject | - |
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| (adjective) (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation | Synonyms: nontaxable |
| exteroceptive | (adjective) of or relating to exteroception | - |
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| fiberoptic | (adjective) of or relating to fiber optics | Synonyms: fiber-optic, fibre-optic, fibreoptic |
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| fibreoptic | (adjective) of or relating to fiber optics | Synonyms: fiber-optic, fiberoptic, fibre-optic |
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| gumptious | (adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: energetic, industrious, up-and-coming |
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| haptic | (adjective) of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch | Synonyms: tactile, tactual |
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