attractive | (adjective) pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm | - |
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(adjective) having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull | - |
(adjective) having power to arouse interest | - |
aural | (adjective) relating to or characterized by an aura | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to hearing or the ear | - |
auroral | (adjective) characteristic of the dawn | Synonyms: aurorean |
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(adjective) of or relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras | - |
austral | (adjective) of the south or coming from the south | - |
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australopithecine | (adjective) of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus | - |
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autobiographic | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographical |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographical |
autobiographical | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographic |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographic |
autocratic | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
autographed | (adjective) bearing an autograph | - |
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autographic | (adjective) written in the author's own handwriting | - |
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autoradiographic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by autoradiography | - |
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average | (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: ordinary |
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(adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: intermediate, medium |
(adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling |
(adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) | Synonyms: median |
(adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: mean |
(adjective) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution | Synonyms: modal |
barographic | (adjective) relating to or registered by a barograph | - |
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batrachian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, salientian |
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bearable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: endurable, sufferable, supportable |
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bedraggled | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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(adjective) limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud | Synonyms: draggled |
behavioral | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioural |
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behavioural | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioral |
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biaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with two ears | Synonyms: binaural |
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bibliographic | (adjective) relating to or dealing with bibliography | Synonyms: bibliographical |
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bibliographical | (adjective) relating to or dealing with bibliography | Synonyms: bibliographic |
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bicameral | (adjective) composed of two legislative bodies | - |
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(adjective) consisting of two chambers | Synonyms: two-chambered |
bilateral | (adjective) having two sides or parts | Synonyms: two-sided |
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(adjective) affecting or undertaken by two parties | - |
(adjective) having identical parts on each side of an axis | Synonyms: bilaterally symmetric, bilaterally symmetrical, isobilateral |
binaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with two ears | Synonyms: biaural |
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biodegradable | (adjective) capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria | - |
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biogeographic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved with biogeography | Synonyms: biogeographical |
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biogeographical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved with biogeography | Synonyms: biogeographic |
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biographic | (adjective) of or relating to or being biography | Synonyms: biographical |
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biographical | (adjective) of or relating to or being biography | Synonyms: biographic |
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biquadratic | (adjective) involving the fourth and no higher power of a quantity or degree | - |
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biracial | (adjective) consisting of or combining two races | - |
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biradial | (adjective) showing both bilateral and radial symmetry | - |
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biramous | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
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biserrate | (adjective) having saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched | - |
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blastoporal | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporic |
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bolographic | (adjective) of or relating to a bolograph | - |
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boracic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from or containing boron | Synonyms: boric |
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borated | (adjective) mixed or impregnated with borax | - |
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braced | (adjective) positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger | - |
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(adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: buttressed |
brachial | (adjective) of or relating to an arm | - |
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brachiate | (adjective) having arms or armlike appendages | - |
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(adjective) having widely spreading paired branches | - |
brachiopod | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopodous |
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brachiopodous | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopod |
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brachycephalic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycranial, brachycranic |
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brachycranial | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranic |
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brachycranic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranial |
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brachydactylic | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylous |
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brachydactylous | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylic |
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brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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brachyurous | (adjective) of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura | - |
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bracing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: brisk, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
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brackish | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: briny |
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(adjective) distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture | - |
bracteal | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a bract | - |
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bracteate | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracted |
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bracted | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracteate |
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bracteolate | (adjective) having bracteoles | - |
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brag | (adjective) exceptionally good | Synonyms: boss |
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braggart | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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bragging | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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braggy | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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brahminic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminical |
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brahminical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminic |
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braided | (adjective) woven by (or as if by) braiding | - |
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brainish | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
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brainless | (adjective) not using intelligence | Synonyms: headless |
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brainsick | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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brainwashed | (adjective) subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones | - |
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brainy | (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brilliant, smart as a whip |
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braised | (adjective) cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container | - |
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braky | (adjective) abounding with bracken | - |
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(adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: brambly |
braless | (adjective) having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity | Synonyms: bare-breasted, topless |
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brambly | (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: braky |
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branched | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branching, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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(adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
branchial | (adjective) of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills) | - |
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branchiate | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: gilled |
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branching | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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(adjective) resembling the branches of a tree | - |
branchiopod | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopodan, branchiopodous |
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branchiopodan | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodous |
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branchiopodous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodan |
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branchless | (adjective) having no branches | - |
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branchy | (adjective) having many branches | - |
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branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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(adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
brash | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: cheeky, nervy |
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brassbound | (adjective) having trim or fittings of brass | - |
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(adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: ironclad |
brasslike | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brassy |
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brassy | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brasslike |
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(adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
brattish | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: bratty |
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bratty | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: brattish |
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brave | (adjective) possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching | Synonyms: courageous |
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(adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
(adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: braw, gay |
braw | (adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: brave, gay |
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brawny | (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy |
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brazen | (adjective) made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness) | - |
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(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, insolent |
buckram | (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: starchy, stiff |
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bureaucratic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy | - |
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butyraceous | (adjective) having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter | - |
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cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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caesural | (adjective) of or relating to a caesura | - |
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calibrated | (adjective) marked with or divided into degrees | Synonyms: graduated |
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calligraphic | (adjective) of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | Synonyms: calligraphical |
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calligraphical | (adjective) of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy | Synonyms: calligraphic |
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