| abactinal | (adjective) (of radiate animals) located on the surface or end opposite to that on which the mouth is situated | - |
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| abatable | (adjective) capable of being abated | - |
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| abatic | (adjective) of or relating to abasia (inability to walk) | Synonyms: abasic |
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| abbatial | (adjective) of or having to do with or belonging to an abbey or abbot, or abbess | - |
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| abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
| abducent | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducting |
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| abducting | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducent |
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| aberrant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: deviant, deviate |
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| abeyant | (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: dormant |
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| abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
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| abient | (adjective) characterized by avoidance or withdrawal | - |
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| abiogenetic | (adjective) originating by abiogenesis | - |
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| abject | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: low-down, low, miserable, scummy, scurvy |
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| (adjective) showing utter resignation or hopelessness | Synonyms: unhopeful |
| (adjective) showing humiliation or submissiveness | - |
| (adjective) most unfortunate or miserable | - |
| ablated | (adjective) made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization | - |
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| ablative | (adjective) relating to the ablative case | - |
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| (adjective) tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature | - |
| ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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| abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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| abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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| abortive | (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: stillborn, unsuccessful |
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| about | (adjective) on the move | Synonyms: astir |
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| abranchiate | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchious, gill-less |
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| abreast | (adjective) being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge | Synonyms: au courant, au fait, up on |
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| abrupt | (adjective) surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner | - |
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| (adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: disconnected |
| (adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: precipitous, sharp |
| (adjective) exceedingly sudden and unexpected | - |
| 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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| 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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| absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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| 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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| absorptive | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorbent |
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| abstemious | (adjective) sparing in consumption of especially food and drink | - |
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| (adjective) marked by temperance in indulgence | Synonyms: light |
| abstentious | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstinent |
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| abstinent | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstentious |
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| abstract | (adjective) existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment | - |
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| (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
| (adjective) dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention | - |
| abstracted | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, scatty |
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| abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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| abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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| abstruse | (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: deep, recondite |
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| abundant | (adjective) present in great quantity | - |
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| acanthoid | (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthous, spinous |
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| acanthotic | (adjective) of or relating to or having acanthosis | - |
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| acanthous | (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthoid, spinous |
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| acapnotic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnial, acapnic |
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| acatalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| acaudate | (adjective) lacking a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: acaudal |
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| acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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| accelerated | (adjective) speeded up, as of an academic course | - |
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| accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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| acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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| accented | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | Synonyms: stressed |
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| (adjective) (used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch | Synonyms: tonic |
| accentual | (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to accent or stress | - |
| acceptable | (adjective) worthy of acceptance or satisfactory | - |
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| (adjective) adequate for the purpose | - |
| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: decent, satisfactory |
| (adjective) judged to be in conformity with approved usage | - |
| acceptant | (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptive |
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| accepted | (adjective) generally approved or compelling recognition | Synonyms: recognised, recognized |
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| accepting | (adjective) tolerating without protest | - |
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| acceptive | (adjective) inclined to accept rather than reject | - |
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| (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptant |
| accidental | (adjective) not of prime or central importance | Synonyms: incidental, nonessential |
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| (adjective) happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally | Synonyms: inadvertent |
| accipitrine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks) | - |
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| acclivitous | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: rising, uphill |
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| accommodating | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodative |
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| (adjective) obliging; willing to do favors | - |
| accommodational | (adjective) of or relating to the accommodation of the lens of the eye | - |
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| accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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| (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
| accordant | (adjective) being in agreement or harmony; often followed by `with' | - |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: agreeable, concordant, conformable, consonant |
| accountable | (adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: answerable |
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| accoutered | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutred |
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| accoutred | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutered |
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| accredited | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: commissioned, licenced, licensed |
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| accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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| accretive | (adjective) growing by accretion | - |
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| acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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| acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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| accumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: decumbent, recumbent |
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| accumulated | (adjective) periodically accumulated over time | Synonyms: accrued |
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| accumulative | (adjective) marked by acquiring or amassing | - |
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| (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: cumulative |
| accurate | (adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy | - |
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| (adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: exact, precise |
| accurst | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accursed, maledict |
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| accusative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: objective |
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| (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusatory, accusing, accusive |
| accusatorial | (adjective) specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor | - |
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| accusatory | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusing, accusive |
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| accustomed | (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: customary, habitual, wonted |
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| acentric | (adjective) lacking a centromere | - |
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| (adjective) not centered or having no center | - |
| acerate | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerose, acicular, needle-shaped |
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| acervate | (adjective) pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass | - |
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| acetabular | (adjective) of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone | Synonyms: cotyloid, cotyloidal |
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| acetic | (adjective) relating to or containing acetic acid | - |
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| acetonic | (adjective) of or relating to acetone | - |
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| acetose | (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetous, vinegarish, vinegary |
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| acetous | (adjective) tasting or smelling like vinegar | Synonyms: acetose, vinegarish, vinegary |
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| acetylenic | (adjective) of or related to acetylene | - |
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| acetylic | (adjective) of or related to acetic acid | - |
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| achondritic | (adjective) not having a granular structure | - |
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| (adjective) of or related to an achondrite | - |
| achondroplastic | (adjective) of or relating to achondroplasia | - |
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| achromatic | (adjective) having no hue | Synonyms: neutral |
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| achromatinic | (adjective) (of substance of a cell nucleus) not readily colored by stains | - |
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| achromatous | (adjective) having little or inadequate color | - |
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| aciculate | (adjective) related to plants or animals or crystals having aciculae or needlelike parts | - |
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| acidimetric | (adjective) involving or related to acidimetry | - |
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| acidotic | (adjective) having or being characterized by acidosis | - |
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