| aliphatic | (adjective) having carbon atoms linked in open chains | - |
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| aliquot | (adjective) signifying an exact divisor or factor of a quantity | - |
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| alkahestic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the alkahest that alchemists assumed to exist | - |
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| alkalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alcalescent |
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| alkalotic | (adjective) marked by alkalosis (or a tendency toward alkalosis) | - |
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| allantoic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by an allantois | - |
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| allantoid | (adjective) shaped like a sausage | Synonyms: sausage-shaped |
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| allegiant | (adjective) steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government) | - |
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| allegretto | (adjective) (of tempo) faster than allegro | - |
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| alleviated | (adjective) (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear | Synonyms: eased, relieved |
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| alleviative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alleviatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| alligatored | (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: cracked |
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| alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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| allocatable | (adjective) capable of being distributed | Synonyms: allocable, apportionable |
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| allochthonous | (adjective) of rocks, deposits, etc.; found in a place other than where they and their constituents were formed | - |
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| allometric | (adjective) relating to or marked by allometry | - |
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| allopathic | (adjective) of or relating to the practice of allopathy | - |
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| allopatric | (adjective) (of biological species or speciation) occurring in areas isolated geographically from one another | - |
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| allotropic | (adjective) of or related to or exhibiting allotropism | Synonyms: allotropical |
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| allotropical | (adjective) of or related to or exhibiting allotropism | Synonyms: allotropic |
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| allotted | (adjective) given as a task | - |
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| almighty | (adjective) having unlimited power | Synonyms: all-powerful, omnipotent |
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| alpestrine | (adjective) growing at high altitudes | Synonyms: subalpine |
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| alphabetic | (adjective) arranged in order according to the alphabet | Synonyms: alphabetical |
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| (adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet | Synonyms: alphabetical |
| alphabetical | (adjective) arranged in order according to the alphabet | Synonyms: alphabetic |
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| (adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that uses an alphabet | Synonyms: alphabetic |
| alphabetised | (adjective) having been put in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetized |
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| alphabetized | (adjective) having been put in alphabetical order | Synonyms: alphabetised |
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| alright | (adjective) nonstandard usage | - |
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| alterable | (adjective) capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic | - |
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| (adjective) (of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe | - |
| alterative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| altered | (adjective) changed in form or character without becoming something else | - |
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| (adjective) having testicles or ovaries removed | Synonyms: neutered |
| (adjective) changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose | Synonyms: adapted |
| alternate | (adjective) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternative, substitute |
| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternating |
| (adjective) every second one of a series | - |
| alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
| alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
| (adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
| altissimo | (adjective) very high | - |
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| altitudinal | (adjective) pertaining to altitude | - |
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| altitudinous | (adjective) indefinitely high; lofty | - |
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| alto | (adjective) (of a musical instrument) second highest member of a group | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: countertenor |
| (adjective) of or being the lowest female voice | Synonyms: contralto |
| altricial | (adjective) (of hatchlings) naked and blind and dependent on parents for food | - |
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| altruistic | (adjective) showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selfless |
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| alveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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| amalgamate | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated, fused |
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| amalgamated | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, coalesced, consolidated, fused |
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| amalgamative | (adjective) characterized by or tending toward amalgamation | - |
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| amaranthine | (adjective) of or related to the amaranth plant | - |
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| (adjective) of an imaginary flower that never fades | Synonyms: unfading |
| amateur | (adjective) engaged in as a pastime | Synonyms: recreational, unpaid |
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| (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateurish, inexpert, unskilled |
| amateurish | (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateur, inexpert, unskilled |
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| amative | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amorous |
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| amatory | (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amorous, romantic |
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| amaurotic | (adjective) pertaining to blindness caused by amaurosis | - |
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| ambidextrous | (adjective) equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: two-handed |
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| (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
| ambient | (adjective) completely enveloping | - |
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| ambitionless | (adjective) having little desire for success or achievement | Synonyms: unambitious |
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| ambitious | (adjective) having a strong desire for success or achievement | - |
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| (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: challenging |
| ambivalent | (adjective) uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow | - |
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| ambulant | (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulatory |
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| ambulatory | (adjective) relating to or adapted for walking | - |
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| (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulant |
| ameliorating | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| ameliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| amelioratory | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, meliorative |
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| amendatory | (adjective) effecting amendment | - |
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| amentaceous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentiferous |
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| amentiferous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentaceous |
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| ametabolic | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolous |
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| (adjective) undergoing no (or only slight) metamorphosis | - |
| ametabolous | (adjective) undergoing slight or no metamorphosis | Synonyms: ametabolic |
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| amethyst | (adjective) of a moderate purple color | - |
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| amethystine | (adjective) containing or resembling amethyst | - |
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| ametropic | (adjective) of or relating to an abnormal condition of the eye in which visual images are not in focus on the retina | - |
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| amitotic | (adjective) pertaining to a simple method of cell division | - |
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| ammoniated | (adjective) combined or treated with ammonia | - |
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| ammonitic | (adjective) of or related to an order of fossil cephalopods | - |
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| amnestic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by amnesia | Synonyms: amnesic |
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| amniotic | (adjective) of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion | Synonyms: amnic, amnionic |
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| amoristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to romantic love | - |
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| amort | (adjective) utterly cast down | - |
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| amphibiotic | (adjective) having an aquatic early or larval form and a terrestrial adult form | Synonyms: semiaquatic |
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| amphiprostylar | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostyle, amphistylar, porticoed |
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| amphiprostyle | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphistylar, porticoed |
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| amphiprotic | (adjective) having characteristics of both an acid and a base and capable of reacting as either | Synonyms: amphoteric |
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| amphistylar | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphiprostyle, porticoed |
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| (adjective) having columns either at both ends or at both sides | - |
| amphitheatric | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatrical |
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| amphitheatrical | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatric |
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| amphitropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) partly inverted; turned back 90 degrees on its stalk | - |
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| amphoteric | (adjective) having characteristics of both an acid and a base and capable of reacting as either | Synonyms: amphiprotic |
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| amylolytic | (adjective) of or related to the process of amylolysis | - |
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| anabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope | - |
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| anabiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of anabiosis | - |
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| anachronistic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous |
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| anaclitic | (adjective) of or related to relationships that are characterized by the strong dependence of one person on another | - |
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| anacoluthic | (adjective) of or related to syntactic inconsistencies of the sort known as anacoluthons | - |
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| anaerobiotic | (adjective) living or active in the absence of free oxygen | Synonyms: anaerobic |
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| anaesthetic | (adjective) relating to or producing insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
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| (adjective) characterized by insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
| anaglyptic | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptical |
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| anaglyptical | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptic |
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| anagrammatic | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatical |
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| anagrammatical | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatic |
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| analeptic | (adjective) stimulating the central nervous system | - |
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| analgetic | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne |
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| analphabetic | (adjective) not alphabetic | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that is not alphabetic | - |
| (adjective) having little acquaintance with writing | Synonyms: unlettered |