doctrinaire | (adjective) stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | - |
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doctrinal | (adjective) relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine | - |
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doddering | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddery, gaga, senile |
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dolabriform | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabrate |
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domineering | (adjective) tending to domineer | - |
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doric | (adjective) of or pertaining to the Doric style of architecture | - |
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downright | (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
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(adjective) characterized by plain blunt honesty | - |
dried | (adjective) not still wet | - |
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(adjective) preserved by removing natural moisture | Synonyms: dehydrated, desiccated |
drifting | (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant |
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drilled | (adjective) trained in a skill by repetitious practice | - |
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drinkable | (adjective) suitable for drinking | Synonyms: potable |
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dripless | (adjective) designed to prevent dripping | - |
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drippy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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(adjective) leaking in drops | - |
(adjective) wet with light rain | Synonyms: drizzly |
driven | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, determined |
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(adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: goaded |
(adjective) urged or forced to action through moral pressure | Synonyms: impelled |
driving | (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: impulsive |
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(adjective) acting with vigor | - |
drizzling | (adjective) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops | - |
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drizzly | (adjective) wet with light rain | Synonyms: drippy |
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dumbstricken | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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dysphoric | (adjective) generalized feeling of distress | Synonyms: distressed, unhappy |
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eccentric | (adjective) not having a common center; not concentric | Synonyms: nonconcentric |
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(adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
eccrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell; important in regulating body temperature | - |
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ecofriendly | (adjective) Good for the environment | - |
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econometric | (adjective) of or relating to econometrics | - |
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editorial | (adjective) of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characteristic of an editor | - |
eerie | (adjective) inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening | Synonyms: eery |
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(adjective) suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious | - |
egalitarian | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: classless |
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egocentric | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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eldritch | (adjective) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences | Synonyms: uncanny, unearthly, weird |
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electric | (adjective) using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity | Synonyms: electrical |
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(adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: galvanic, galvanising, galvanizing |
(adjective) (of a situation) exceptionally tense | - |
electrical | (adjective) relating to or concerned with electricity | - |
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(adjective) using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity | Synonyms: electric |
electrifying | (adjective) causing a surge of emotion or excitement | Synonyms: thrilling |
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emeritus | (adjective) honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus' | - |
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empiric | (adjective) derived from experiment and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: empirical |
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(adjective) relying on medical quackery | Synonyms: empirical |
empirical | (adjective) derived from experiment and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: empiric |
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(adjective) relying on medical quackery | Synonyms: empiric |
endearing | (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: adorable, lovely |
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endocentric | (adjective) fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents | - |
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endocrinal | (adjective) of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions | Synonyms: endocrine |
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endocrine | (adjective) of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions | Synonyms: endocrinal |
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endometrial | (adjective) of or relating to the endometrium | - |
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enduring | (adjective) patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble | Synonyms: long-suffering |
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(adjective) lasting a long time | Synonyms: abiding, imperishable |
enteric | (adjective) of or relating to the enteron | Synonyms: enteral |
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(adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteral, intestinal |
enterprising | (adjective) marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects | - |
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entrepreneurial | (adjective) of or relating to an entrepreneur | - |
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(adjective) willing to take risks in order to make a profit | - |
epigastric | (adjective) lying on or over the stomach | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen | - |
equatorial | (adjective) of or existing at or near the geographic equator | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to conditions at the geographical equator | - |
(adjective) of or relating to or at an equator | - |
equestrian | (adjective) of or relating to or featuring horseback riding | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or composed of knights | - |
eristic | (adjective) given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments | Synonyms: eristical |
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eristical | (adjective) given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments | Synonyms: eristic |
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erring | (adjective) capable of making an error | Synonyms: error-prone |
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esoteric | (adjective) confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle | - |
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estuarial | (adjective) of or relating to or found in estuaries | Synonyms: estuarine |
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estuarine | (adjective) of or relating to or found in estuaries | Synonyms: estuarial |
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esurient | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, greedy |
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(adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
(adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved |
ethnocentric | (adjective) centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own | - |
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euphoriant | (adjective) tending to produce euphoria | - |
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euphoric | (adjective) exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation | - |
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eutherian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria | - |
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exocentric | (adjective) not fulfilling the same grammatical role of any of its constituents | - |
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exocrine | (adjective) of or relating to exocrine glands or their secretions | - |
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exoteric | (adjective) suitable for the general public | - |
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experienced | (adjective) having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation | Synonyms: experient |
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experient | (adjective) having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation | Synonyms: experienced |
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experiential | (adjective) relating to or resulting from experience | - |
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(adjective) derived from experience or the experience of existence | Synonyms: existential |
experimental | (adjective) relating to or based on experiment | - |
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(adjective) relying on observation or experiment | Synonyms: data-based, observational |
(adjective) of the nature of or undergoing an experiment | - |
exterior | (adjective) situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building | - |
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exterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: extraterritorial |
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extracurricular | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extramarital |
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(adjective) outside the regular duties of your job or profession | - |
(adjective) outside the regular academic curriculum | - |
extramarital | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extracurricular |
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extraterrestrial | (adjective) originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere | - |
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extraterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: exterritorial |
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extricable | (adjective) capable of being extricated | - |
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extrinsic | (adjective) not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside | - |
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fabricated | (adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination | Synonyms: fancied, fictional, fictitious |
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factorial | (adjective) of or relating to factorials | - |
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fairish | (adjective) (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored | Synonyms: fair |
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(adjective) not excessive or extreme | Synonyms: fair, reasonable |
faltering | (adjective) unsteady in speech or action | - |
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familiarised | (adjective) having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment | Synonyms: adjusted, familiarized |
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familiarising | (adjective) serving to make familiar | Synonyms: familiarizing |
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familiarized | (adjective) having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment | Synonyms: adjusted, familiarised |
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familiarizing | (adjective) serving to make familiar | Synonyms: familiarising |
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farinaceous | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy |
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(adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, starchlike |
favorite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favoured, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred |
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(adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favourite |
favourite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, pet, preferent, preferred |
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(adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favorite |
febrile | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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ferial | (adjective) of or relating to or being a feria | - |
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ferine | (adjective) wild and menacing | Synonyms: feral, savage |
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ferric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing iron | Synonyms: ferrous |
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feverish | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: febrile |
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(adjective) marked by intense agitation or emotion | Synonyms: hectic |
(adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverous |
fibrillose | (adjective) covered with fibrils more or less evenly disposed | - |
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fibrinous | (adjective) characterized by the presence of fibrin | - |
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filarial | (adjective) related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria | - |
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filariid | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the family Filariidae | - |
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fimbriate | (adjective) having a fringe of slender processes | - |
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flaring | (adjective) streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air | Synonyms: aflare |
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flattering | (adjective) showing or representing to advantage | - |
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(adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: adulatory |
flickering | (adjective) shining unsteadily | Synonyms: aflicker |
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floricultural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving floriculture | - |
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florid | (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: aureate, flamboyant |
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(adjective) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life | Synonyms: rubicund, ruddy, sanguine |
flourishing | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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flowering | (adjective) when a plant is in a state of possessing one or multiple flowers and/or blooms | - |
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