| bounteous | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| bourgeois | (adjective) (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the middle class | - |
| (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: conservative, materialistic |
| boustrophedonic | (adjective) of or relating to writing alternate lines in opposite directions | - |
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| bowelless | (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: cutthroat, fierce |
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| boyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boylike, schoolboyish |
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| boytrose | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, botryoidal |
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| brachiopodous | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopod |
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| brachydactylous | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylic |
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| brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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| brachyurous | (adjective) of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura | - |
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| brackish | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: briny |
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| (adjective) distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture | - |
| brainish | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
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| brainless | (adjective) not using intelligence | Synonyms: headless |
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| brainsick | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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| brainwashed | (adjective) subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones | - |
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| braised | (adjective) cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container | - |
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| braless | (adjective) having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity | Synonyms: bare-breasted, topless |
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| branchiopodous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodan |
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| branchless | (adjective) having no branches | - |
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| brash | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: cheeky, nervy |
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| brassbound | (adjective) having trim or fittings of brass | - |
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| (adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: ironclad |
| brasslike | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brassy |
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| brassy | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brasslike |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| brattish | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: bratty |
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| breasted | (adjective) having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds | - |
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| breastless | (adjective) without a breast | - |
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| breathless | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic |
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| (adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: inanimate, pulseless |
| (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathtaking |
| briefless | (adjective) (of lawyers or barristers) lacking clients | - |
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| brimless | (adjective) without a brim | - |
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| brisant | (adjective) of or relating to the power (the shattering effect) of an explosive | - |
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| brisk | (adjective) very active | - |
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| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
| (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: bracing, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
| bristled | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bristlelike | (adjective) resembling a bristle | - |
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| bristly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: prickly, splenetic, waspish |
| broadnosed | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| broadside | (adjective) toward a full side | - |
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| bronchoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to an instrument for examining the interior of the bronchi | - |
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| brownish | (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brown, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
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| bruising | (adjective) brutally forceful and compelling | - |
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| (adjective) causing mental or emotional injury | - |
| brumous | (adjective) filled or abounding with fog or mist | Synonyms: foggy, hazy, misty |
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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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| brutish | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brute |
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| buckshee | (adjective) free of charge | - |
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| buffoonish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: clownish, clownlike, zany |
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| bulbaceous | (adjective) producing or growing from bulbs | - |
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| bulbous | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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| (adjective) shaped like a bulb | Synonyms: bulb-shaped, bulblike |
| bullish | (adjective) expecting a rise in prices | - |
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| bumptious | (adjective) offensively self-assertive | Synonyms: self-assertive |
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| bunglesome | (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ungainly |
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| burdenless | (adjective) not encumbered with a physical burden or load | Synonyms: unburdened |
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| burdensome | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: onerous, taxing |
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| burglarious | (adjective) involving or resembling burglary | - |
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| burlesque | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a burlesque | - |
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| burnished | (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| bursal | (adjective) relating to or affecting a bursa | - |
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| bursiform | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: pouch-shaped, pouchlike, saclike |
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| bush | (adjective) not of the highest quality or sophistication | Synonyms: bush-league |
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| bushed | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, dead |
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| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| bushy | (adjective) resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading | - |
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| (adjective) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed | Synonyms: shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired, shaggy |
| businesslike | (adjective) exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business | - |
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| (adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: earnest |
| bust | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: broke, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| busted | (adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: broken |
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| bustling | (adjective) full of energetic and noisy activity | - |
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| busty | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| busy | (adjective) actively or fully engaged or occupied | - |
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| (adjective) overcrowded or cluttered with detail | Synonyms: fussy |
| (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
| (adjective) (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) | Synonyms: engaged, in use |
| (adjective) crowded with or characterized by much activity | - |
| busybodied | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| buttressed | (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: braced |
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| butyraceous | (adjective) having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter | - |
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| bypast | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, departed, foregone, gone |
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| cabalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| cacophonous | (adjective) having an unpleasant sound | Synonyms: cacophonic |
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| cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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| cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
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| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
| caddish | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: unchivalrous, ungallant |
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| caducous | (adjective) shed at an early stage of development | Synonyms: shed |
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| caesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarian, cesarean, cesarian |
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| caesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, cesarean, cesarian |
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| caespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: cespitose, tufted |
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| caesural | (adjective) of or relating to a caesura | - |
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| calamitous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
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| calcareous | (adjective) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk | Synonyms: chalky |
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| calcicolous | (adjective) growing or living in soil rich in lime | - |
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| calciferous | (adjective) bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite | - |
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| calcifugous | (adjective) growing or living in acid soil | - |
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| calculous | (adjective) relating to or caused by or having a calculus or calculi | - |
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| caliginous | (adjective) dark and misty and gloomy | - |
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| calisthenic | (adjective) of or relating to calisthenics | - |
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| callipygous | (adjective) pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks | Synonyms: callipygian |
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| callous | (adjective) emotionally hardened | Synonyms: indurate, pachydermatous |
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| (adjective) having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear | Synonyms: calloused, thickened |
| calloused | (adjective) having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear | Synonyms: callous, thickened |
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| calumnious | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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| camphoraceous | (adjective) being or having the properties of camphor | - |
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| campylotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
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| cancellous | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
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