acerose | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acicular, needle-shaped |
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acroscopic | (adjective) facing or on the side toward the apex | - |
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aerosolised | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolized |
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aerosolized | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolised |
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ambrosial | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosian |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosian, nectarous |
ambrosian | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosial |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, nectarous |
amphiprostylar | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostyle, amphistylar, porticoed |
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amphiprostyle | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphistylar, porticoed |
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arthrosporic | (adjective) of or relating to arthrospores | Synonyms: arthrosporous |
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arthrosporous | (adjective) of or relating to arthrospores | Synonyms: arthrosporic |
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atherosclerotic | (adjective) of or relating to atherosclerosis | - |
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boytrose | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, botryoidal |
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centrosomic | (adjective) of or relating to a centrosome | - |
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centrosymmetric | (adjective) having a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point | Synonyms: radially symmetrical |
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cerebrospinal | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and spinal cord | - |
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corrosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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(adjective) spitefully sarcastic | - |
crisscross | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscrossed |
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crisscrossed | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscross |
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cross | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: thwartwise, transversal, transverse |
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(adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
crossbred | (adjective) bred from parents of different varieties or species | - |
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crossed | (adjective) placed crosswise | - |
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(adjective) (of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it | - |
crosshatched | (adjective) shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines | Synonyms: hatched |
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crosstown | (adjective) going or extending across a town or city | Synonyms: cross-town |
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crosswise | (adjective) lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction | - |
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(adjective) in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross | - |
electrostatic | (adjective) concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity | Synonyms: static |
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engrossed | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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(adjective) written formally in a large clear script, as a deed or other legal document | - |
engrossing | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, fascinating, gripping, riveting |
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erose | (adjective) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed | Synonyms: jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed |
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erosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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(adjective) wearing away by friction | - |
extrospective | (adjective) not introspective; examining what is outside yourself | Synonyms: extroverted |
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frostbitten | (adjective) injured by freezing or partial freezing | - |
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frosted | (adjective) (of glass) having a roughened coating resembling frost | - |
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frosty | (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frigid, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry |
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(adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: crisp, nipping, nippy, snappy |
(adjective) covered with frost | Synonyms: rimed, rimy |
gross | (adjective) before any deductions | - |
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(adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, rank |
(adjective) repellently fat | Synonyms: porcine |
(adjective) lacking fine distinctions or detail | - |
(adjective) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent | Synonyms: crude, earthy, vulgar |
(adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
(adjective) visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) | Synonyms: megascopic |
gyroscopic | (adjective) having the characteristics of a gyroscope | - |
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heterosexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex | - |
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heterosporous | (adjective) characterized by heterospory | - |
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hydrostatic | (adjective) relating to fluids at rest or to the pressures they exert or transmit | - |
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hygroscopic | (adjective) absorbing moisture (as from the air) | - |
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intercrossed | (adjective) produced by crossbreeding | Synonyms: hybrid |
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introspective | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introverted, self-examining |
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leprose | (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, scabrous, scaly, scurfy |
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macroscopic | (adjective) large enough to be visible with the naked eye | Synonyms: macroscopical |
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(adjective) visible to the naked eye; using the naked eye | Synonyms: macroscopical |
macroscopical | (adjective) large enough to be visible with the naked eye | Synonyms: macroscopic |
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(adjective) visible to the naked eye; using the naked eye | Synonyms: macroscopic |
metrosexual | (adjective) a heterosexual man that is particularly interested in his appearance, being well-groomed and fashion | - |
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microscopic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in microscopy | Synonyms: microscopical |
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(adjective) extremely precise with great attention to details | - |
(adjective) so small as to be invisible without a microscope | Synonyms: microscopical |
(adjective) visible under a microscope; using a microscope | Synonyms: microscopical |
microscopical | (adjective) of or relating to or used in microscopy | Synonyms: microscopic |
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(adjective) so small as to be invisible without a microscope | Synonyms: microscopic |
(adjective) visible under a microscope; using a microscope | Synonyms: microscopic |
microsomal | (adjective) of or relating to microsomes | - |
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morose | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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operose | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome |
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porose | (adjective) forming a continuous series of pores | - |
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prosaic | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: commonplace, humdrum, unglamorous, unglamourous |
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(adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, pedestrian, prosy |
(adjective) not fanciful or imaginative | Synonyms: matter-of-fact |
proscribed | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, taboo, tabu, verboten |
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prosodic | (adjective) of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing | - |
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prospective | (adjective) of or concerned with or related to the future | - |
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prospering | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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prosperous | (adjective) marked by peace and prosperity | Synonyms: golden, halcyon |
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(adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, golden, lucky |
(adjective) in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich | Synonyms: comfortable, easy, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do |
(adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, roaring, thriving |
prospicient | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted |
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prostate | (adjective) relating to the prostate gland | Synonyms: prostatic |
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prostatic | (adjective) relating to the prostate gland | Synonyms: prostate |
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prosthetic | (adjective) relating to or serving as a prosthesis | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to prosthetics | - |
prosthodontic | (adjective) of or relating to prosthodontics | - |
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prostrate | (adjective) stretched out and lying at full length along the ground | Synonyms: flat |
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(adjective) lying face downward | Synonyms: prone |
prostyle | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in a portico only across the opening to the structure | Synonyms: pseudoprostyle |
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prosy | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, pedestrian, prosaic |
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pseudoprostyle | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in a portico only across the opening to the structure | Synonyms: prostyle |
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retrospective | (adjective) concerned with or related to the past | - |
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rosaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Rosaceae | - |
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(adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color | Synonyms: rose, roseate |
rose | (adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color | Synonyms: rosaceous, roseate |
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roseate | (adjective) of something having a dusty purplish pink color | Synonyms: rosaceous, rose |
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rostrate | (adjective) having a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis | - |
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rosy | (adjective) presaging good fortune | Synonyms: fortunate |
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(adjective) of blush color | Synonyms: blushful |
(adjective) having the pinkish flush of health | Synonyms: flushed, rose-cheeked, rosy-cheeked |
(adjective) reflecting optimism | Synonyms: rose-colored |
sacrosanct | (adjective) must be kept sacred | Synonyms: inviolable, inviolate |
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sclerosed | (adjective) relating to or having sclerosis; hardened | Synonyms: sclerotic |
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spectroscopic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving spectroscopy | Synonyms: spectroscopical |
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spectroscopical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving spectroscopy | Synonyms: spectroscopic |
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subgross | (adjective) too small to be visible to the naked eye | - |
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ultramicroscopic | (adjective) too small to be seen without an ultramicroscope | - |
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uncrossed | (adjective) not crossed | - |
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(adjective) (of a check) not crossed | - |
unfrosted | (adjective) (of glass) lacking a frosted coating | - |
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