| instrumental | (adjective) relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments | - |
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| (adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid | Synonyms: implemental, subservient |
| lacklustre | (adjective) lacking luster or shine | Synonyms: lackluster, lusterless, lustreless |
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| (adjective) lacking brilliance or vitality | Synonyms: lackluster, lusterless, lustreless |
| lacustrine | (adjective) of or relating to or living near lakes | - |
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| lustreless | (adjective) lacking luster or shine | Synonyms: lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless |
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| (adjective) lacking brilliance or vitality | Synonyms: lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless |
| lustrous | (adjective) brilliant | - |
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| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, shining, shiny |
| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, sheeny, shining, shiny |
| mainstreamed | (adjective) (of the handicapped) placed in regular school classes | - |
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| menstrual | (adjective) of or relating to menstruation or the menses | Synonyms: catamenial |
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| ministrant | (adjective) giving practical help to | Synonyms: attending |
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| mistreated | (adjective) subjected to cruel treatment | Synonyms: abused, ill-treated, maltreated |
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| mistrustful | (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: leery, suspicious, untrusting, wary |
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| monestrous | (adjective) having one estrous cycle per year | Synonyms: monoestrous |
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| monoestrous | (adjective) having one estrous cycle per year | Synonyms: monestrous |
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| monstrous | (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, grievous |
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| (adjective) abnormally large | - |
| (adjective) distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous | Synonyms: grotesque |
| moonstruck | (adjective) insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon | Synonyms: lunatic |
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| nonastringent | (adjective) not astringent | - |
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| nonindustrial | (adjective) not having highly developed manufacturing enterprises | - |
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| nonrestrictive | (adjective) not limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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| nonstructural | (adjective) not structural | - |
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| obstreperous | (adjective) boisterously and noisily aggressive | - |
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| (adjective) noisily and stubbornly defiant | - |
| obstructed | (adjective) shut off to passage or view or hindered from action | - |
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| obstructive | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, hindering, impeding |
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| orchestral | (adjective) relating to or composed for an orchestra | - |
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| orchestrated | (adjective) arranged for performance by an orchestra | - |
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| outstretched | (adjective) fully extended especially in length | - |
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| overstrung | (adjective) too tightly strung | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, restive, uptight |
| pedestrian | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, prosaic, prosy |
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| pinstriped | (adjective) having very thin stripes | - |
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| pneumogastric | (adjective) of or relating to or involving the lungs and stomach | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the vagus nerve | Synonyms: vagal |
| polyestrous | (adjective) having more than one period of estrus per year | Synonyms: polyoestrous |
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| polyoestrous | (adjective) having more than one period of estrus per year | Synonyms: polyestrous |
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| postindustrial | (adjective) of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research | - |
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| premenstrual | (adjective) of or relating to or occurring during the time just before menstruation | - |
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| prostrate | (adjective) stretched out and lying at full length along the ground | Synonyms: flat |
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| (adjective) lying face downward | Synonyms: prone |
| reconstructed | (adjective) adapted to social or economic change | - |
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| reconstructive | (adjective) helping to restore to good condition | Synonyms: rehabilitative |
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| redistributed | (adjective) having population and industries relocated from urban to outlying areas | - |
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| restrained | (adjective) under restraint | - |
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| (adjective) prudent | Synonyms: guarded |
| (adjective) marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes | Synonyms: moderate |
| (adjective) cool and formal in manner | Synonyms: reticent, unemotional |
| (adjective) not showy or obtrusive | Synonyms: quiet |
| restricted | (adjective) subject to restriction or subjected to restriction | - |
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| (adjective) the lowest level of official classification for documents | - |
| (adjective) restricted in meaning; (as e.g. `man' in `a tall man') | Synonyms: qualified |
| restricting | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting |
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| restrictive | (adjective) serving to restrict | - |
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| (adjective) (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports | - |
| rostrate | (adjective) having a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis | - |
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| rupestral | (adjective) composed of or inscribed on rock | Synonyms: rupicolous |
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| semestral | (adjective) occurring every six months or during every period of six months | Synonyms: semestrial |
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| semestrial | (adjective) occurring every six months or during every period of six months | Synonyms: semestral |
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| semiabstract | (adjective) characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter | - |
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| semiterrestrial | (adjective) chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial | - |
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| sinistral | (adjective) of or on the left | - |
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| (adjective) preferring to use left foot or hand or eye | - |
| sinistrorsal | (adjective) spiraling upward from right to left | Synonyms: sinistrorse |
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| sinistrorse | (adjective) spiraling upward from right to left | Synonyms: sinistrorsal |
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| straggling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggly |
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| straggly | (adjective) growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly | - |
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| (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggling |
| straight | (adjective) having no deviations | - |
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| (adjective) no longer coiled | Synonyms: uncoiled |
| (adjective) (of hair) having no waves or curls | - |
| (adjective) characterized by honesty and fairness | Synonyms: square |
| (adjective) free from curves or angles | - |
| (adjective) in keeping with the facts | - |
| (adjective) successive (without a break) | Synonyms: consecutive |
| (adjective) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned | Synonyms: square |
| (adjective) following a correct or logical method | - |
| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straightforward |
| (adjective) erect in posture | Synonyms: unbent, unbowed |
| (adjective) not homosexual | - |
| (adjective) neatly arranged; not disorderly | - |
| (adjective) (of an alcoholic drink) without water | Synonyms: full-strength, neat |
| (adjective) accurately fitted; level | Synonyms: true |
| straightarrow | (adjective) conventionally moral and upright | - |
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| straightaway | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, quick |
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| straightforward | (adjective) pointed directly ahead | - |
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| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straight |
| (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: aboveboard |
| (adjective) free from ambiguity | - |
| straightlaced | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| strained | (adjective) struggling for effect | Synonyms: agonistic |
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| (adjective) lacking natural ease | Synonyms: labored, laboured |
| (adjective) showing signs of mental and emotional tension | - |
| (adjective) lacking spontaneity; not natural | Synonyms: constrained, forced |
| straining | (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: arduous, strenuous |
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| strait | (adjective) narrow | - |
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| straitlaced | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| stranded | (adjective) cut off or left behind | Synonyms: isolated, marooned |
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| strange | (adjective) being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird | Synonyms: unusual |
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| (adjective) relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: foreign |
| (adjective) not known before | Synonyms: unknown |
| strangled | (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: smothered, stifled, suppressed |
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| strapless | (adjective) having no straps | - |
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| straplike | (adjective) long and narrow like a strap | - |
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| strapping | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, husky |
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| strategic | (adjective) relating to or concerned with strategy | Synonyms: strategical |
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| (adjective) highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war | - |
| strategical | (adjective) relating to or concerned with strategy | Synonyms: strategic |
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| stratified | (adjective) deposited or arranged in horizontal layers | Synonyms: bedded |
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| (adjective) (used of society) socially hierarchical | Synonyms: class-conscious |
| (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: graded, ranked |
| straw | (adjective) of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored | - |
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| stray | (adjective) (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home | - |
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| (adjective) not close together in time | Synonyms: isolated |
| straying | (adjective) unable to find your way | - |
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| streaked | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaky |
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| streaky | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaked |
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| streaming | (adjective) exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts | - |
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| (adjective) (computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data; data that is transmitted and loaded continuously as earlier parts are being accessed/processed/displayed | - |
| streamlined | (adjective) made efficient by stripping off nonessentials | - |
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| (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, flowing, sleek |
| streetwise | (adjective) having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment | Synonyms: street smart, with-it |
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| strengthened | (adjective) given added strength or support | Synonyms: reinforced |
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| strenuous | (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: arduous, straining |
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| (adjective) characterized by or performed with much energy or force | - |
| strep | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by streptococci | Synonyms: streptococcal, streptococcic |
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| streptococcal | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by streptococci | Synonyms: strep, streptococcic |
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| streptococcic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by streptococci | Synonyms: strep, streptococcal |
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| stressed | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | Synonyms: accented |
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| (adjective) suffering severe physical strain or distress | Synonyms: distressed |
| stressful | (adjective) extremely irritating to the nerves | Synonyms: nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, trying |
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| stretch | (adjective) easily stretched | - |
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| (adjective) having an elongated seating area | - |
| stretchable | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchy |
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| stretched | (adjective) (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching | - |
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| (adjective) extended or spread over a wide area or distance | - |
| stretchy | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchable |
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| striate | (adjective) marked with stria or striations | - |
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| stricken | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: smitten, struck |
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| (adjective) grievously affected especially by disease | Synonyms: afflicted |
| (adjective) put out of action (by illness) | Synonyms: laid low |
| strict | (adjective) characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint | Synonyms: nonindulgent |
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| (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: exacting, stern |
| (adjective) rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard | Synonyms: rigorous |
| (adjective) incapable of compromise or flexibility | Synonyms: rigid |
| (adjective) (of rules) stringently enforced | Synonyms: hard-and-fast |
| strident | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and harsh | Synonyms: raucous |
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| (adjective) being sharply insistent on being heard | Synonyms: shrill |
| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous |
| (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirant |
| strikebound | (adjective) closed or immobilized by a strike | - |
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| striking | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular |
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| (adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: dramatic, spectacular |
| stringent | (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: rigorous, tight |
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| stringy | (adjective) consisting of or containing string or strings | - |
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| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, thready |
| (adjective) lean and sinewy | Synonyms: wiry |
| (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, unchewable |
| striped | (adjective) marked or decorated with stripes | Synonyms: stripy |
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| stripped | (adjective) having everything extraneous removed including contents | Synonyms: bare |
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| (adjective) having only essential or minimal features | Synonyms: stripped-down |
| (adjective) with clothing stripped off | - |
| stripy | (adjective) marked or decorated with stripes | Synonyms: striped |
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| strong | (adjective) having strength or power greater than average or expected | - |
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| (adjective) having a strong physiological or chemical effect | Synonyms: potent, stiff |
| (adjective) being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content | Synonyms: hard |
| (adjective) strong and sure | Synonyms: firm |
| (adjective) freshly made or left | Synonyms: warm |
| (adjective) not faint or feeble | - |
| (adjective) immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | Synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, secure, unassailable, unattackable |
| (adjective) of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection | - |
| (adjective) having or wielding force or authority | Synonyms: potent |
| (adjective) of good quality and condition; solidly built | Synonyms: solid, substantial |