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 | - |
abstruse | (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: deep, recondite |
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accrued | (adjective) periodically accumulated over time | Synonyms: accumulated |
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altruistic | (adjective) showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selfless |
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antitrust | (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | Synonyms: antimonopoly |
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arundinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling reedlike plants of the genus Arundinaria | - |
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avirulent | (adjective) not virulent; unable to produce disease | - |
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awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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bankrupt | (adjective) financially ruined | Synonyms: belly-up |
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bruising | (adjective) brutally forceful and compelling | - |
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(adjective) causing mental or emotional injury | - |
brumal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: hibernal, hiemal |
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brumous | (adjective) filled or abounding with fog or mist | Synonyms: foggy, hazy, misty |
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brunet | (adjective) marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | Synonyms: brunette |
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brunette | (adjective) marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | Synonyms: brunet |
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brushed | (adjective) (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush | - |
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(adjective) (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing | Synonyms: fleecy, napped |
(adjective) touched lightly in passing; grazed against | - |
brushlike | (adjective) resembling a brush | - |
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brushy | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: bosky |
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brusk | (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusque, curt, short |
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brusque | (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, curt, short |
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brut | (adjective) (of champagne) extremely dry | - |
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brutal | (adjective) disagreeably direct and precise | - |
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(adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brute, brutish |
(adjective) punishingly harsh | Synonyms: unrelenting |
(adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
brute | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish |
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brutish | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brute |
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caruncular | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculous |
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carunculate | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculated |
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carunculated | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculate |
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carunculous | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: caruncular |
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cerulean | (adjective) of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky | Synonyms: azure, bright blue, sky-blue |
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ceruminous | (adjective) relating to or secreting cerumen | - |
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cherubic | (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, seraphic, sweet |
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congruent | (adjective) coinciding when superimposed | - |
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(adjective) corresponding in character or kind | Synonyms: congruous |
congruous | (adjective) corresponding in character or kind | Synonyms: congruent |
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(adjective) suitable or appropriate together | - |
constructive | (adjective) constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development | - |
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(adjective) emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good | - |
corrugated | (adjective) shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges | - |
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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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coruscant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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crucial | (adjective) of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis | Synonyms: important |
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(adjective) of the greatest importance | Synonyms: all-important, all important, essential, of the essence |
(adjective) having crucial relevance | - |
cruciate | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciform |
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cruciferous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae | - |
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cruciform | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciate |
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cruddy | (adjective) characterized by obscenity | Synonyms: filthy, foul, nasty, smutty |
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crude | (adjective) not refined or processed | Synonyms: unprocessed, unrefined |
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(adjective) belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness | Synonyms: primitive, rude |
(adjective) conspicuously and tastelessly indecent | Synonyms: earthy, gross, vulgar |
(adjective) not processed or subjected to analysis | Synonyms: raw |
(adjective) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment | Synonyms: blunt, stark |
(adjective) not carefully or expertly made | Synonyms: rough |
cruel | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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crumbly | (adjective) easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder | Synonyms: friable |
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crummy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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crumpled | (adjective) of metal e.g. | Synonyms: bent, dented |
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crural | (adjective) of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot | - |
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crushed | (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: broken, humbled, humiliated, low |
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(adjective) treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance | - |
crushing | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: devastating |
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crustacean | (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustaceous |
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crustaceous | (adjective) being or having or resembling a hard crust or shell | - |
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(adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustacean |
crustal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the crust of the earth or moon | - |
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crusted | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crustlike, crusty, encrusted |
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crustlike | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crusted, crusty, encrusted |
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crustose | (adjective) (of lichens) having a thin crusty thallus that adheres closely to the surface on which it is growing | - |
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crusty | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crusted, crustlike, encrusted |
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(adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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destructible | (adjective) easily destroyed | - |
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destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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diestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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dioestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, diestrual, dioestrous |
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disgruntled | (adjective) in a state of sulky dissatisfaction | Synonyms: dissatisfied |
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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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distrustful | (adjective) having or showing distrust | - |
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drudging | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: laboring, labouring, toiling |
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drugged | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: doped, narcotised, narcotized |
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drugless | (adjective) without the use of drugs | - |
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drumhead | (adjective) performed speedily and without formality | Synonyms: summary |
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drunk | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: gone, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped |
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(adjective) as if under the influence of alcohol | Synonyms: intoxicated |
drunken | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, boozy, sottish |
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drupaceous | (adjective) of or related to a drupe | - |
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dumbstruck | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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encrusted | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crusted, crustlike, crusty |
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erudite | (adjective) having or showing profound knowledge | Synonyms: learned |
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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 | - |
excruciating | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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extrusive | (adjective) of rock material; forced out while molten through cracks in the earth's surface | - |
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frugal | (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: economical, scotch, sparing, stinting |
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fruitful | (adjective) productive or conducive to producing in abundance | - |
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fruiting | (adjective) capable of bearing fruit | - |
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fruitless | (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: bootless, futile, sleeveless, vain |
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fruity | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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(adjective) tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruit | - |
frumpish | (adjective) primly out of date | Synonyms: dowdy, frumpy |
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frumpy | (adjective) primly out of date | Synonyms: dowdy, frumpish |
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frustrated | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, thwarted |
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frustrating | (adjective) discouraging by hindering | - |
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(adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrative, thwarting |
frustrative | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, thwarting |
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fruticose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticulose, shrubby |
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fruticulose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticose, shrubby |
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garrulous | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky |
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gerundial | (adjective) relating to or like a gerund | - |
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glomerular | (adjective) of or relating to glomeruli | - |
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grubby | (adjective) infested with grubs | - |
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(adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, raunchy |
grudging | (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: niggardly, scrimy |
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(adjective) of especially an attitude | - |
grueling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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