| amphitropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) partly inverted; turned back 90 degrees on its stalk | - |
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| amused | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: diverted, entertained |
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| amusing | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible |
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| (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusive, diverting |
| amusive | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, diverting |
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| amylaceous | (adjective) resembling starch | Synonyms: amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceous, starchlike |
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| anachronistic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous |
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| anachronous | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronistic |
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| anadromous | (adjective) migrating from the sea to fresh water to spawn | - |
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| anaesthetic | (adjective) relating to or producing insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
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| (adjective) characterized by insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
| analgesic | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgetic, anodyne |
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| analogous | (adjective) corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin | - |
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| (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: correspondent |
| anamnestic | (adjective) of or relating to anamnesis; aiding the memory | - |
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| anapaestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapestic |
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| anapestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapaestic |
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| anaphasic | (adjective) of or related to the stage of mitosis known as anaphase | - |
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| anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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| anaplastic | (adjective) of or relating to anaplasia | - |
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| anarchistic | (adjective) of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism | - |
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| anasarcous | (adjective) characterized by or affected by dropsy | - |
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| anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
| anastomotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis | - |
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| anatropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: inverted |
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| ancestral | (adjective) of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor | - |
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| (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible |
| androgenous | (adjective) of or related to androgenesis | Synonyms: androgenetic |
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| androgynous | (adjective) having both male and female characteristics | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or exhibiting both female and male sex organs but with a predominantly female appearance | - |
| anemophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially grasses etc) that are pollinated by the wind | - |
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| anencephalous | (adjective) characterized by partial or total absence of a brain | Synonyms: anencephalic |
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| anesthetic | (adjective) relating to or producing insensibility | Synonyms: anaesthetic |
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| (adjective) characterized by insensibility | Synonyms: anaesthetic |
| anestric | (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestrous, anoestrous |
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| anestrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anoestrous |
| 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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| aneurysmal | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurismatic, aneurysmatic |
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| aneurysmatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurismatic, aneurysmal |
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| anfractuous | (adjective) full of twists and turns | - |
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| anginose | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginous |
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| anginous | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginose |
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| angiocarpous | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpic |
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| angiomatous | (adjective) of or related to or having a tumor of the kind known as an angioma | - |
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| angiospermous | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of plants that are angiosperms | - |
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| anguished | (adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain | Synonyms: tormented, tortured |
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| anhydrous | (adjective) without water; especially without water of crystallization | - |
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| animalistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animalism | - |
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| animatistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animatism | - |
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| animist | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animistic |
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| animistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animist |
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| aniseikonic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the visual defect aniseikonia | - |
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| anisogametic | (adjective) relating to either of a pair of dissimilar (anisogamic) gametes combining in sexual reproduction | - |
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| anisogamic | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamous |
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| anisogamous | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamic |
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| anisometric | (adjective) having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: unsymmetrical |
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| anisometropic | (adjective) relating to a difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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| anisotropic | (adjective) not invariant with respect to direction | - |
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| annalistic | (adjective) relating to annals | - |
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| anoestrous | (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anestrous |
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| anomalous | (adjective) deviating from the general or common order or type | - |
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| anonymous | (adjective) having no known name or identity or known source | Synonyms: anon. |
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| (adjective) not known or lacking marked individuality | - |
| anosmatic | (adjective) relating to an impairment or loss of the sense of smell | Synonyms: anosmic |
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| anosmic | (adjective) relating to an impairment or loss of the sense of smell | Synonyms: anosmatic |
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| (adjective) having impaired sense of smell | - |
| anserine | (adjective) of or resembling a goose | - |
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| (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
| answerable | (adjective) morally or legally responsible to a higher authority | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being answered | - |
| (adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: accountable |
| answering | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: respondent |
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| antagonistic | (adjective) arousing animosity or hostility | - |
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| (adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect | Synonyms: incompatible |
| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical |
| (adjective) incapable of harmonious association | - |
| (adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: counter |
| anthophagous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophilous |
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| anthophilous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophagous |
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| anthropomorphous | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphic, humanlike |
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| anthropophagous | (adjective) of or relating to eaters of human flesh | - |
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| anticlockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: contraclockwise, counterclockwise |
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| antimonious | (adjective) relating to or derived from antimony | Synonyms: antimonic |
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| antineoplastic | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antitumor, antitumour |
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| antipersonnel | (adjective) designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction | - |
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| antiphlogistic | (adjective) counteracting inflammation | - |
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| antisatellite | (adjective) of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit | Synonyms: ASAT |
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| antisemitic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by anti-Semitism; hating Jews | Synonyms: anti-semitic |
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| antiseptic | (adjective) thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of objectionable language | - |
| (adjective) clean and honest | - |
| (adjective) freeing from error or corruption | - |
| antisocial | (adjective) shunning contact with others | - |
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| (adjective) hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior | Synonyms: asocial |
| antistrophic | (adjective) of or relating to an antistrophe | - |
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| antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
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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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| antonymous | (adjective) of words: having opposite meanings | - |
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| antrorse | (adjective) bent or curved forward or upward | - |
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| antsy | (adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: fidgety, fretful, itchy, restless |
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| anurous | (adjective) not having a tail | Synonyms: tailless |
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| anxious | (adjective) eagerly desirous | Synonyms: dying |
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| (adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet |
| aoristic | (adjective) of or relating to the aorist tense | - |
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| apetalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having no petals | Synonyms: petalless |
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| aphasic | (adjective) related to or affected by aphasia | - |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of a brain lesion | - |
| aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
| aphrodisiac | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiacal, sexy |
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| aphrodisiacal | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiac, sexy |
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| aphyllous | (adjective) devoid of leaves | - |
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| apish | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apelike |
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| apivorous | (adjective) feeding on bees | - |
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| apocarpous | (adjective) (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses | - |
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| apocynaceous | (adjective) of or relating to tropical plants of the family Apocynaceae | - |
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| apodous | (adjective) (of snakes and eels) naturally footless | Synonyms: apodal |
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| apogamous | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogametic, apogamic |
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| apophyseal | (adjective) of or relating to an apophysis | - |
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| aposiopetic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis | - |
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| apostate | (adjective) not faithful to religion or party or cause | - |
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