| apostolic | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolical |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolical, papal, pontifical |
| apostolical | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolic |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, papal, pontifical |
| apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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| appeasable | (adjective) capable of being pacified | Synonyms: conciliable |
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| appeasing | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: placating, placative, placatory |
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| appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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| apposable | (adjective) capable of being placed opposite to something | Synonyms: opposable |
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| apposite | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apt, pertinent |
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| appositional | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositive |
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| appositive | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositional |
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| appraising | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: evaluative |
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| apprehensible | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: graspable, intelligible, perceivable, understandable |
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| apprehensive | (adjective) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm | - |
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| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: discerning |
| (adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc | Synonyms: worried |
| appressed | (adjective) pressed close to or lying flat against something | Synonyms: adpressed |
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| apropos | (adjective) of an appropriate or pertinent nature | - |
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| apsidal | (adjective) of or relating to an apse | - |
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| apterous | (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apteral |
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| aqueous | (adjective) produced by the action of water | Synonyms: sedimentary |
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| (adjective) similar to or containing or dissolved in water | - |
| aquiferous | (adjective) of or relating to an aquifer | - |
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| araceous | (adjective) relating to a plant of the family Araceae | Synonyms: aroid |
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| arboraceous | (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboreous, woodsy, woody |
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| arboreous | (adjective) inhabiting or frequenting trees | Synonyms: arboreal, tree-living |
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| (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
| (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboraceous, woodsy, woody |
| arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arboresque | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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| arborous | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arboreal, arborical |
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| archaistic | (adjective) imitative of an archaic style or manner | - |
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| archdiocesan | (adjective) of or relating to an archdiocese | - |
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| archepiscopal | (adjective) of or associated with an archbishop | Synonyms: archiepiscopal |
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| archesporial | (adjective) of or relating to the cells in a sporangium that give rise to spores | - |
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| archiepiscopal | (adjective) of or associated with an archbishop | Synonyms: archepiscopal |
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| archosaurian | (adjective) of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria | - |
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| arduous | (adjective) difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: straining, strenuous |
| arenaceous | (adjective) resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas | Synonyms: sandlike, sandy |
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| arenicolous | (adjective) growing or living or burrowing in sand | - |
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| argentiferous | (adjective) containing or yielding silver | - |
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| argentous | (adjective) relating to compounds in which silver is univalent | - |
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| argillaceous | (adjective) resembling or containing clay | Synonyms: clayey |
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| ariose | (adjective) having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) | Synonyms: songlike |
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| aristocratic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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| aristocratical | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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| armless | (adjective) having no arms | - |
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| aroused | (adjective) (of persons) excessively affected by emotion | Synonyms: emotional, excited, worked up |
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| (adjective) aroused to action | - |
| (adjective) emotionally aroused | Synonyms: stimulated, stirred, stirred up |
| (adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: ablaze, aflame |
| (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: horny, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned on |
| (adjective) brought to a state of great tension | Synonyms: wound up |
| arresting | (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: sensational, stunning |
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| arsenical | (adjective) relating to or containing arsenic | - |
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| arsenious | (adjective) relating to compounds in which arsenic is trivalent | - |
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| arteriosclerotic | (adjective) affected by arteriosclerosis | - |
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| arteriovenous | (adjective) connecting an artery to a vein | - |
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| artesian | (adjective) (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure | - |
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| arthropodous | (adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda | Synonyms: arthropodal, arthropodan |
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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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| artiodactylous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla | Synonyms: artiodactyl, even-toed |
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| artistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of art or artists | - |
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| (adjective) satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities | - |
| (adjective) aesthetically pleasing | Synonyms: aesthetic, esthetic |
| artless | (adjective) simple and natural; without cunning or deceit | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious | Synonyms: ingenuous |
| (adjective) (of persons) lacking art or knowledge | Synonyms: uncultivated, uncultured |
| (adjective) showing lack of art | - |
| arundinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling reedlike plants of the genus Arundinaria | - |
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| ascendable | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendible, climbable |
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| ascendant | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendent, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendent, dominating |
| ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
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| (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
| ascendible | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendable, climbable |
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| ascending | (adjective) moving or going or growing upward | - |
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| ascensional | (adjective) tending to rise | - |
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| ascensive | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| ascertainable | (adjective) capable of being ascertained or found out | Synonyms: discoverable |
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| ascertained | (adjective) discovered or determined by scientific observation | Synonyms: discovered, observed |
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| ascetic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline | Synonyms: ascetical |
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| (adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetical, austere, spartan |
| ascetical | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline | Synonyms: ascetic |
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| (adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetic, austere, spartan |
| ascitic | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting from an abnormal accumulation of protein and electrolyte rich fluid in the peritoneal cavity | - |
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| asclepiadaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the milkweed family | - |
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| ascocarpous | (adjective) of or relating to ascocarps | - |
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| ascomycetous | (adjective) related to or characteristic of fungi of the class Ascomycetes | - |
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| ascosporic | (adjective) of or relating to ascospores | Synonyms: ascosporous |
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| ascosporous | (adjective) of or relating to ascospores | Synonyms: ascosporic |
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| ascribable | (adjective) capable of being assigned or credited to | Synonyms: due, imputable, referable |
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| aseptic | (adjective) free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms | Synonyms: sterile |
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| asexual | (adjective) not having or involving sex | Synonyms: nonsexual |
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| ashamed | (adjective) feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse | - |
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| ashen | (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: blanched, bloodless, livid, white |
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| (adjective) made of wood of the ash tree | - |
| ashy | (adjective) of a light grey | Synonyms: ash-gray, ash-grey |
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| asinine | (adjective) extremely silly or stupid | Synonyms: fatuous, inane |
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| askance | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askant, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| askant | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| askew | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: awry, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| aslant | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| asleep | (adjective) in a state of sleep | - |
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| (adjective) dead | Synonyms: at peace, at rest, deceased, departed, gone |
| (adjective) lacking sensation | Synonyms: benumbed, numb |
| aslope | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| asocial | (adjective) given to avoiding association with others | - |
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| (adjective) hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior | Synonyms: antisocial |
| aspectual | (adjective) of or belonging to an aspect (as an aspect of the verb) | - |
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| asphaltic | (adjective) containing asphalt | - |
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| aspheric | (adjective) varying slightly from a perfectly spherical shape | Synonyms: aspherical |
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| aspherical | (adjective) varying slightly from a perfectly spherical shape | Synonyms: aspheric |
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| asphyxiated | (adjective) in a state of asphyxia | - |
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| asphyxiating | (adjective) tending to deprive of oxygen | - |
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| aspirant | (adjective) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement | Synonyms: aspiring, wishful |
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| aspiring | (adjective) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement | Synonyms: aspirant, wishful |
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| asquint | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| assailable | (adjective) not defended or capable of being defended | Synonyms: open, undefendable, undefended |
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| assassinated | (adjective) murdered by surprise attack for political reasons | - |
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| assaultive | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: attacking |
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| assentient | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assenting |
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| assenting | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assentient |
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