| abscessed | (adjective) infected and filled with pus | - |
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| absent | (adjective) not being in a specified place | - |
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| (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absentminded, abstracted, scatty |
| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: lacking, missing, wanting |
| absentminded | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, abstracted, scatty |
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| abstruse | (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: deep, recondite |
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| abused | (adjective) subjected to cruel treatment | Synonyms: ill-treated, maltreated, mistreated |
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| (adjective) used improperly or excessively especially drugs | - |
| accursed | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accurst, maledict |
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| acerose | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acicular, needle-shaped |
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| acetose | (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetous, vinegarish, vinegary |
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| acinose | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinic, acinous |
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| addressed | (adjective) (of mail) marked with a destination | - |
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| adipose | (adjective) composed of animal fat | - |
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| adpressed | (adjective) pressed close to or lying flat against something | Synonyms: appressed |
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| adverse | (adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: contrary |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: inauspicious, untoward |
| advertised | (adjective) called to public attention | - |
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| advised | (adjective) having the benefit of careful prior consideration or counsel | Synonyms: well-advised |
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| (adjective) having received information | - |
| aerosolised | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolized |
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| agonised | (adjective) expressing pain or agony | Synonyms: agonized |
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| ahorse | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorseback |
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| ahorseback | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorse |
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| alphabetised | (adjective) having been put in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetized |
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| amused | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: diverted, entertained |
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| anginose | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginous |
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| aniseikonic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the visual defect aniseikonia | - |
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| anserine | (adjective) of or resembling a goose | - |
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| (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
| anticlockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: contraclockwise, counterclockwise |
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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 | - |
| antrorse | (adjective) bent or curved forward or upward | - |
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| apophyseal | (adjective) of or relating to an apophysis | - |
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| appressed | (adjective) pressed close to or lying flat against something | Synonyms: adpressed |
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| ariose | (adjective) having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) | Synonyms: songlike |
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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 |
| 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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| 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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| assentient | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assenting |
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| assenting | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assentient |
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| assertable | (adjective) capable of being affirmed or asserted | Synonyms: affirmable |
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| asserted | (adjective) confidently declared to be so | - |
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| asserting | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: declarative, declaratory |
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| assertive | (adjective) aggressively self-assured | Synonyms: self-asserting, self-assertive |
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| assessable | (adjective) capable of being considered carefully | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being assessed especially for the purpose of taxation | - |
| authorised | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authoritative, authorized |
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| autosemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context | - |
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| averse | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| baptised | (adjective) having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism | Synonyms: baptized |
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| base | (adjective) serving as or forming a base | Synonyms: basal |
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| (adjective) debased; not genuine | - |
| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: mean, meanspirited |
| (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: baseborn |
| (adjective) (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal | - |
| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: baseborn, humble, lowly |
| (adjective) not adhering to ethical or moral principles | Synonyms: immoral |
| baseborn | (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: base |
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| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: base, humble, lowly |
| based | (adjective) having a base of operations (often used as a combining form) | - |
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| (adjective) having a base | - |
| baseless | (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
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| bastardised | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardized |
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| bellicose | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, combative |
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| bemused | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| (adjective) deeply absorbed in thought | Synonyms: lost, preoccupied |
| berserk | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, amuck |
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| beseeching | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: imploring, pleading |
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| biased | (adjective) favoring one person or side over another | Synonyms: colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted |
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| bisectional | (adjective) of or relating to bisection | - |
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| biserrate | (adjective) having saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched | - |
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| bisexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to both sexes | - |
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| (adjective) having an ambiguous sexual identity | Synonyms: epicene |
| blase | (adjective) very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world | Synonyms: worldly |
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| (adjective) nonchalantly unconcerned | - |
| (adjective) uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence | Synonyms: bored |
| blessed | (adjective) highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace) | Synonyms: blest |
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| (adjective) characterized by happiness and good fortune | - |
| (adjective) enjoying the bliss of heaven | - |
| (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
| (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: beatified |
| boytrose | (adjective) resembling a cluster of grapes in form | Synonyms: botryoid, botryoidal |
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| braised | (adjective) cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container | - |
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| 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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| buttressed | (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: braced |
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| caespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: cespitose, tufted |
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| calloused | (adjective) having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear | Synonyms: callous, thickened |
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| canonised | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonized, glorified |
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| casebook | (adjective) according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical | Synonyms: textbook |
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| cased | (adjective) enclosed in a case | - |
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| (adjective) covered or protected with or as if with a case | Synonyms: encased, incased |
| caseous | (adjective) of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike | - |
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| categorised | (adjective) arranged into categories | Synonyms: categorized |
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| causeless | (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: fortuitous, uncaused |
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| (adjective) having no justifying cause or reason | Synonyms: reasonless |
| ceaseless | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
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| centralised | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralized |
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| cerise | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| cespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: caespitose, tufted |
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| chartreuse | (adjective) of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur | - |
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| cheeselike | (adjective) having the consistency of cheese | - |
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| cheeseparing | (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: close, near, penny-pinching, skinny |
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| chiseled | (adjective) having a clean and distinct outline as if precisely cut along the edges | Synonyms: well-defined |
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| chlorophyllose | (adjective) relating to or being or containing chlorophyll | Synonyms: chlorophyllous |
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| choosey | (adjective) difficult to please | Synonyms: choosy |
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| civilised | (adjective) having a high state of culture and development both social and technological | Synonyms: civilized |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite |
| clockwise | (adjective) in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock | - |
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| close | (adjective) at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other | - |
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| (adjective) close in relevance or relationship | - |
| (adjective) not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances | Synonyms: near, nigh |
| (adjective) marked by fidelity to an original | Synonyms: faithful |
| (adjective) rigorously attentive; strict and thorough | - |
| (adjective) crowded | Synonyms: confining |
| (adjective) (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched | Synonyms: tight |
| (adjective) of textiles | Synonyms: tight |
| (adjective) confined to specific persons | - |
| (adjective) strictly confined or guarded | - |
| (adjective) used of hair or haircuts | - |
| (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, near, penny-pinching, skinny |
| (adjective) fitting closely but comfortably | Synonyms: close-fitting, snug |
| (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped |
| (adjective) lacking fresh air | Synonyms: airless, stuffy, unaired |
| closed | (adjective) not open or affording passage or access | - |
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| (adjective) (set theory) of an interval that contains both its endpoints | - |
| (adjective) used especially of mouth or eyes | Synonyms: shut |
| (adjective) not open | Synonyms: shut, unopen |
| (adjective) blocked against entry | Synonyms: closed in |
| (adjective) not open to the general public | - |
| (adjective) with shutters closed | - |
| (adjective) requiring union membership | - |
| (adjective) not having an open mind | Synonyms: unsympathetic |
| closefisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: hardfisted, tightfisted |
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| closelipped | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped |
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| closemouthed | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, secretive, tightlipped |
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| coarse | (adjective) of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles | Synonyms: harsh |
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| (adjective) of low or inferior quality or value | Synonyms: common |
| (adjective) lacking refinement or cultivation or taste | Synonyms: common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar |
| coarsened | (adjective) made coarse or crude by lack of skill | - |
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| coastwise | (adjective) along or following a coast | Synonyms: coastal |
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| collectivised | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivized |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
| colonised | (adjective) inhabited by colonists | Synonyms: colonized, settled |
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| comatose | (adjective) relating to or associated with a coma | - |
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| (adjective) in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli | - |
| commercialised | (adjective) organized principally for financial gain | Synonyms: commercialized |
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| commiserative | (adjective) feeling or expressing sympathy | - |
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| commonsense | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsensible, commonsensical |
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