| abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
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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 |
| abridged | (adjective) (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting | - |
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| accessorial | (adjective) nonessential but helpful | - |
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| accipitrine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks) | - |
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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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| acentric | (adjective) lacking a centromere | - |
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| (adjective) not centered or having no center | - |
| 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 | - |
| acidimetric | (adjective) involving or related to acidimetry | - |
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| aciduric | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, acidophilous |
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| acrid | (adjective) strong and sharp | Synonyms: pungent |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| acrimonious | (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: bitter |
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| acritical | (adjective) without a crisis (as of some diseases) | - |
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| acrocentric | (adjective) having a subterminal centromere | - |
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| actinometric | (adjective) of or related to actinometry | Synonyms: actinometrical |
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| actinometrical | (adjective) of or related to actinometry | Synonyms: actinometric |
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| actuarial | (adjective) of or relating to the work of an actuary | - |
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| adoring | (adjective) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent | Synonyms: doting, fond |
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| (adjective) showing adoration | Synonyms: worshipful |
| adrift | (adjective) afloat on the surface of a body of water | - |
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| (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
| 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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| adulterine | (adjective) conceived in adultery | - |
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| adventuristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to adventurism | - |
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| aerial | (adjective) existing or living or growing or operating in the air | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aeriform, aery, airy, ethereal |
| aeriferous | (adjective) conveying air; as the bronchial tubes | - |
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| aeriform | (adjective) resembling air or having the form of air | Synonyms: airlike |
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| (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aery, airy, ethereal |
| afebrile | (adjective) having no fever | - |
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| agrarian | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agricultural, farming |
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| agricultural | (adjective) relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming | - |
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| (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agrarian, farming |
| ahistorical | (adjective) unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition | - |
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| alabastrine | (adjective) of or resembling alabaster | Synonyms: alabaster |
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| alacritous | (adjective) quick and eager | - |
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| albuminuric | (adjective) of or related to the state of albuminuria | - |
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| algometric | (adjective) of or related to algometry | Synonyms: algometrical |
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| algometrical | (adjective) of or related to algometry | Synonyms: algometric |
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| algorithmic | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of an algorithm | - |
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| allegoric | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegorical |
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| allegorical | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegoric |
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| allometric | (adjective) relating to or marked by allometry | - |
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| allopatric | (adjective) (of biological species or speciation) occurring in areas isolated geographically from one another | - |
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| alluring | (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: beguiling, enticing, tempting |
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| alpestrine | (adjective) growing at high altitudes | Synonyms: subalpine |
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| alphameric | (adjective) of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters | Synonyms: alphamerical, alphanumeric, alphanumerical |
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| alphamerical | (adjective) of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters | Synonyms: alphameric, alphanumeric, alphanumerical |
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| alphanumeric | (adjective) of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters | Synonyms: alphameric, alphamerical, alphanumerical |
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| alphanumerical | (adjective) of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters | Synonyms: alphameric, alphamerical, alphanumeric |
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| alright | (adjective) nonstandard usage | - |
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| altricial | (adjective) (of hatchlings) naked and blind and dependent on parents for food | - |
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| amateurish | (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateur, inexpert, unskilled |
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| ambassadorial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors | - |
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| amoristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to romantic love | - |
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| amphitheatric | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatrical |
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| amphitheatrical | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatric |
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| amphoric | (adjective) the sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle | - |
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| amphoteric | (adjective) having characteristics of both an acid and a base and capable of reacting as either | Synonyms: amphiprotic |
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| anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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| anchoritic | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
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| anemometric | (adjective) pertaining to the measurement of wind speed and direction | Synonyms: anemometrical |
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| anemometrical | (adjective) pertaining to the measurement of wind speed and direction | Synonyms: anemometric |
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| anestric | (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestrous, anoestrous |
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| aneurismal | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismatic, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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| aneurismatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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| anicteric | (adjective) without jaundice | - |
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| (adjective) not affected by jaundice | - |
| anisometric | (adjective) having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: unsymmetrical |
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| anoperineal | (adjective) relating to the anus and surrounding perineum | - |
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| anserine | (adjective) of or resembling a goose | - |
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| (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
| answering | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: respondent |
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| antemeridian | (adjective) before noon | - |
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| anterior | (adjective) of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body | - |
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| (adjective) earlier in time | Synonyms: prior |
| antheridial | (adjective) relating to or characterized by an antheridium | - |
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| anthropocentric | (adjective) human-centered | - |
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| anthropometric | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometrical |
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| anthropometrical | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometric |
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| antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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| antibacterial | (adjective) destroying bacteria or inhibiting their growth | - |
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| antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
| antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
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| anuric | (adjective) of or relating to an inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuretic |
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| aoristic | (adjective) of or relating to the aorist tense | - |
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| aperient | (adjective) mildly laxative | - |
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| aperiodic | (adjective) not recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: nonperiodic |
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| aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
| apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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| apocrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion | - |
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| apparitional | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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| appropriable | (adjective) that can be appropriated | - |
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| appropriate | (adjective) suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc | - |
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| (adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: suitable, suited |
| appropriative | (adjective) of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself | - |
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| arborical | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arboreal, arborous |
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| arboriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| archesporial | (adjective) of or relating to the cells in a sporangium that give rise to spores | - |
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| archosaurian | (adjective) of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria | - |
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| arid | (adjective) lacking sufficient water or rainfall | Synonyms: waterless |
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| (adjective) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless | Synonyms: desiccate, desiccated |
| ariled | (adjective) (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover | Synonyms: arillate |
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| arillate | (adjective) (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover | Synonyms: ariled |
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| ariose | (adjective) having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) | Synonyms: songlike |
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| aristocratic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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| aristocratical | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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| arithmetic | (adjective) relating to or involving arithmetic | Synonyms: arithmetical |
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