| residuary | (adjective) relating to or indicating a remainder | Synonyms: residual |
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| (adjective) entitled to the residue of an estate (after payment of debts and specific gifts) | - |
| respiratory | (adjective) pertaining to respiration | - |
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| retaliatory | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory |
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| retributory | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, vindicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, vindicatory |
| revelatory | (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptic, apocalyptical |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, significative, suggestive |
| reversionary | (adjective) of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion) | - |
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| revolutionary | (adjective) advocating or engaged in revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a revolution | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn | Synonyms: rotatory |
| (adjective) markedly new or introducing radical change | Synonyms: radical |
| rotary | (adjective) relating to or characterized by rotation | - |
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| (adjective) describing a circle; moving in a circle | Synonyms: circular, orbitual |
| rotatory | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn | Synonyms: revolutionary |
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| rubbery | (adjective) having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness | Synonyms: rubberlike |
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| (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: cartilaginous, gristly |
| rudimentary | (adjective) being or involving basic facts or principles | Synonyms: fundamental, underlying |
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| (adjective) being in the earliest stages of development | - |
| (adjective) not fully developed in mature animals | Synonyms: vestigial |
| salivary | (adjective) of or relating to saliva | - |
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| salutary | (adjective) tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health | Synonyms: good |
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| sandpapery | (adjective) having the abrasive texture of sandpaper | - |
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| sanguinary | (adjective) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed | Synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded |
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| (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguineous, slaughterous |
| sanitary | (adjective) free from filth and pathogens | Synonyms: healthful |
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| satisfactory | (adjective) giving satisfaction | - |
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| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, decent |
| savory | (adjective) morally wholesome or acceptable | Synonyms: savoury |
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| (adjective) having a pleasant taste | Synonyms: mouth-watering, savoury |
| (adjective) having an agreeably pungent taste | Synonyms: piquant, savoury, zesty |
| savoury | (adjective) morally wholesome or acceptable | Synonyms: savory |
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| (adjective) having a pleasant taste | Synonyms: mouth-watering, savory |
| (adjective) having an agreeably pungent taste | Synonyms: piquant, savory, zesty |
| scary | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, shivery, shuddery |
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| scurrying | (adjective) moving with great haste | Synonyms: hurrying |
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| secondary | (adjective) being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate | - |
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| (adjective) depending on or incidental to what is original or primary | - |
| (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, subaltern |
| (adjective) not of major importance | - |
| (adjective) belonging to a lower class or rank | - |
| secretory | (adjective) of or relating to or producing a secretion | - |
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| sedentary | (adjective) requiring sitting or little activity | - |
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| sedimentary | (adjective) produced by the action of water | Synonyms: aqueous |
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| (adjective) resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment | - |
| semicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentennial |
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| sensory | (adjective) involving or derived from the senses | Synonyms: sensorial |
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| (adjective) relating to or concerned in sensation | Synonyms: sensational |
| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: centripetal, receptive |
| shimmery | (adjective) glistening tremulously | - |
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| shivery | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, scary, shuddery |
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| (adjective) cold enough to cause shivers | - |
| showery | (adjective) (of weather) wet by periods of rain | Synonyms: rainy |
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| shuddery | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, scary, shivery |
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| silvery | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: argent, silver, silverish |
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| (adjective) having the white lustrous sheen of silver | Synonyms: silver, silvern |
| (adjective) resembling or reminiscent of silver | Synonyms: silvern |
| slippery | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippy |
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| (adjective) not to be trusted | Synonyms: tricky |
| slithery | (adjective) having a slippery surface or quality | - |
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| slivery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: splintery |
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| slumbery | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbrous, somnolent |
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| solitary | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, lonesome, only, sole |
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| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lone, lonely |
| (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nongregarious, nonsocial |
| (adjective) devoid of creatures | Synonyms: lonely, unfrequented |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lone, lonely |
| somatosensory | (adjective) of or relating to the somatosenses | - |
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| sorry | (adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | Synonyms: bad, regretful |
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| (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim |
| (adjective) without merit; of little or no value or use | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good |
| spidery | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly |
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| splintery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: slivery |
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| (adjective) subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces | - |
| spry | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, nimble, quick |
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| stagflationary | (adjective) characteristic of or promoting stagflation | - |
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| starry | (adjective) abounding with or resembling stars | - |
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| stationary | (adjective) not capable of being moved | - |
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| (adjective) standing still | - |
| statuary | (adjective) of or relating to or suitable for statues | - |
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| statutory | (adjective) relating to or created by statutes | - |
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| (adjective) prescribed or authorized by or punishable under a statute | - |
| sternutatory | (adjective) tending to cause sneezing | - |
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| (adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutative |
| stipendiary | (adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance | - |
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| (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, remunerative, salaried |
| (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: compensated, remunerated, salaried |
| stipulatory | (adjective) constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement | Synonyms: agreed upon |
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| subliterary | (adjective) not written as or intended to be literature | - |
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| sublunary | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: cislunar, sublunar |
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| (adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunar, terrestrial |
| subsidiary | (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: auxiliary, supplemental, supplementary |
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| sugary | (adjective) containing sugar | - |
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| sultry | (adjective) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | Synonyms: stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous |
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| (adjective) sexually exciting or gratifying | Synonyms: sensual |
| summary | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, compendious, succinct |
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| (adjective) performed speedily and without formality | Synonyms: drumhead |
| summery | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer | - |
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| sumptuary | (adjective) regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior | - |
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| sundry | (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, motley |
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| supererogatory | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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| superlunary | (adjective) situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth | Synonyms: superlunar, translunar, translunary |
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| (adjective) unworldly or ethereal | Synonyms: superlunar, translunar, translunary |
| supernumerary | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, surplus |
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| supervisory | (adjective) of or limited to or involving supervision | - |
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| supplementary | (adjective) added to complete or make up a deficiency | Synonyms: supplemental |
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| (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental |
| supplicatory | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: suppliant, supplicant |
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| sweltry | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltering |
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| tarry | (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: pitchy, resinous, resiny |
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| tawdry | (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: cheapjack, shoddy |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, trashy |
| teary | (adjective) with eyes full of tears | Synonyms: teary-eyed, watery-eyed |
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| temporary | (adjective) not permanent; not lasting | Synonyms: impermanent |
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| (adjective) lacking continuity or regularity | Synonyms: irregular |
| ternary | (adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: treble, triple, triplex |
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| tertiary | (adjective) coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position | Synonyms: 3rd, third |
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| testamentary | (adjective) of or relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament | - |
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| thundery | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, earsplitting, thunderous |
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| (adjective) accompanied with thunder | - |
| titulary | (adjective) of or relating to a legal title to something | Synonyms: titular |
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| tottery | (adjective) unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age | Synonyms: tottering |
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| transitory | (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transient |
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| translunary | (adjective) situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth | Synonyms: superlunar, superlunary, translunar |
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| (adjective) unworldly or ethereal | Synonyms: superlunar, superlunary, translunar |
| tributary | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory |
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| (adjective) paying tribute | - |
| (adjective) (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream | - |
| tricentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 300 years | Synonyms: tricentennial |
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| trying | (adjective) hard to endure | - |
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| (adjective) extremely irritating to the nerves | Synonyms: nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, stressful |
| tutelary | (adjective) providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding | Synonyms: custodial, tutelar |
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| unangry | (adjective) not angry | - |
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| unarbitrary | (adjective) not subject to individual determination | Synonyms: nonarbitrary |
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| unary | (adjective) consisting of or involving a single element or component | - |
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| uncomplimentary | (adjective) tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage | - |
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| (adjective) showing or representing unfavorably | Synonyms: unflattering |
| uncrystallised | (adjective) not finally or definitely formed | Synonyms: uncrystallized |
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| (adjective) without real or apparent crystalline form | Synonyms: amorphous, uncrystallized |
| uncrystallized | (adjective) not finally or definitely formed | Synonyms: uncrystallised |
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| (adjective) without real or apparent crystalline form | Synonyms: amorphous, uncrystallised |
| undulatory | (adjective) resembling waves in form or outline or motion | Synonyms: undulant |
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| unexploratory | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexplorative, nonexploratory, unexplorative |
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| unitary | (adjective) characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the use of units | - |
| (adjective) relating to or characterized by or aiming toward unity | - |
| (adjective) having the indivisible character of a unit | Synonyms: one |
| unliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: nonliterary |
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| unmercenary | (adjective) not mercenary; not influenced by financial gains | - |
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| unmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: nonmilitary |
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| unnecessary | (adjective) not necessary | Synonyms: unneeded |
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| unparliamentary | (adjective) so rude and abusive as to be unsuitable for parliament | - |
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| unsanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: insanitary, unhealthful |
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| unsatisfactory | (adjective) not giving satisfaction | - |
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| unsavory | (adjective) morally offensive | Synonyms: offensive, unsavoury |
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| (adjective) not pleasing in odor or taste | Synonyms: distasteful, unsavoury |
| unsavoury | (adjective) morally offensive | Synonyms: offensive, unsavory |
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| (adjective) not pleasing in odor or taste | Synonyms: distasteful, unsavory |