absolute | (adjective) perfect or complete or pure | - |
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(adjective) not limited by law | - |
(adjective) not capable of being violated or infringed | Synonyms: infrangible, inviolable |
(adjective) expressing finality with no implication of possible change | - |
(adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
absolutist | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutistic |
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absolutistic | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutist |
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absolved | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated |
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absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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absorbable | (adjective) capable of being absorbed or taken in through the pores of a surface | - |
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absorbed | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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(adjective) retained without reflection | - |
absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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absorbent | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorptive |
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absorbing | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: engrossing, fascinating, gripping, riveting |
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absorptive | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorbent |
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accessorial | (adjective) nonessential but helpful | - |
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accessory | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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(adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
adsorbable | (adjective) capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid | Synonyms: adsorbate |
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adsorbate | (adjective) capable of being adsorbed or accumulated on a surface of a solid | Synonyms: adsorbable |
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adsorbent | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorptive, surface-assimilative |
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adsorptive | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorbent, surface-assimilative |
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adventuresome | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventurous |
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advisory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: consultative, consultatory, consultive |
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aerosolised | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolized |
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aerosolized | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolised |
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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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antipersonnel | (adjective) designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction | - |
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antisocial | (adjective) shunning contact with others | - |
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(adjective) hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior | Synonyms: asocial |
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 |
associable | (adjective) capable of being associated | - |
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associate | (adjective) having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status | - |
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associational | (adjective) of or relating to associations or associationism | - |
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associative | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associatory |
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associatory | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associative |
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assonant | (adjective) having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables | - |
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(adjective) having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables | - |
assorted | (adjective) of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity | Synonyms: various |
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(adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: miscellaneous, mixed, motley, sundry |
autosomal | (adjective) of or relating to an autosome | - |
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awesome | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing |
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basophilic | (adjective) staining readily with basic dyes | - |
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besotted | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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bisontine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of bison | - |
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blithesome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome |
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bosomed | (adjective) having a bosom as specified or having something likened to a bosom; usually used in compounds | - |
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bosomy | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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bothersome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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bunglesome | (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ungainly |
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burdensome | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: onerous, taxing |
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caparisoned | (adjective) clothed in finery (especially a horse in ornamental trappings) | - |
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cassocked | (adjective) dressed in a cassock | - |
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censored | (adjective) suppressed or subject to censorship | - |
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censorial | (adjective) belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions | - |
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censorious | (adjective) harshly critical or expressing censure | - |
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centrosomic | (adjective) of or relating to a centrosome | - |
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chemisorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemosorptive |
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chemosorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorptive |
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chromosomal | (adjective) of or relating to a chromosome | - |
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cloisonne | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: champleve |
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compulsory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: mandatory, required |
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consolable | (adjective) able to be consoled | - |
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consolatory | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consoling |
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consolidated | (adjective) forming a solid mass | - |
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(adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, fused |
consolidative | (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: integrative |
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(adjective) combining into a single unit | Synonyms: unifying |
consoling | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consolatory |
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consonant | (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, concordant, conformable |
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(adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: harmonic, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized |
consonantal | (adjective) being or marked by or containing or functioning as a consonant | - |
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(adjective) relating to or having the nature of a consonant | - |
cresson | (adjective) of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green | Synonyms: cress green, watercress |
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crimson | (adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed | Synonyms: red, violent |
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(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, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
(adjective) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion | Synonyms: flushed, red-faced, red, reddened |
cuddlesome | (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging | Synonyms: cuddly |
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cumbersome | (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
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(adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbrous |
cursorial | (adjective) (of limbs and feet) adapted for running | - |
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cursory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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delusory | (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: deceptive |
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derisory | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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desolate | (adjective) crushed by grief | - |
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(adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark |
disconsolate | (adjective) sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled | Synonyms: inconsolable, unconsolable |
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(adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
disobedient | (adjective) not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority | - |
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(adjective) unwilling to submit to authority | Synonyms: unruly |
disobliging | (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: uncooperative |
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disordered | (adjective) not arranged in order | Synonyms: unordered |
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(adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: broken, confused, upset |
(adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disjointed, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
disorderly | (adjective) undisciplined and unruly | - |
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(adjective) in utter disorder | Synonyms: higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy |
(adjective) completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing | Synonyms: chaotic |
disorganised | (adjective) lacking order or methodical arrangement or function | Synonyms: disorganized |
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disorganized | (adjective) lacking order or methodical arrangement or function | Synonyms: disorganised |
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disoriented | (adjective) having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity | Synonyms: confused, lost |
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(adjective) socially disoriented | Synonyms: alienated, anomic |
disorienting | (adjective) causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings | - |
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dissociable | (adjective) capable of being divided or dissociated | Synonyms: separable, severable |
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dissociative | (adjective) tending to produce dissociation | - |
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dissoluble | (adjective) capable of dissolving | Synonyms: dissolvable |
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dissolute | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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dissolvable | (adjective) capable of dissolving | Synonyms: dissoluble |
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dissolved | (adjective) (of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form | - |
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dissonant | (adjective) not in accord | Synonyms: at variance, discrepant |
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(adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, disharmonious, inharmonic |
(adjective) characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved | Synonyms: unresolved |
dorsoventral | (adjective) extending from the back to the belly | - |
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ellipsoid | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoidal, spheroidal |
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ellipsoidal | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoid, spheroidal |
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ensorcelled | (adjective) captured, as if under a spell | Synonyms: bewitched |
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episodic | (adjective) of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes | - |
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(adjective) limited in duration to a single episode | - |
(adjective) occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals | Synonyms: occasional |
esophageal | (adjective) relating to the esophagus | - |
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esoteric | (adjective) confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle | - |
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extrasensory | (adjective) seemingly outside normal sensory channels | Synonyms: paranormal |
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fearsome | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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