| antenuptial | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: premarital, prenuptial |
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| antepartum | (adjective) occurring or existing before birth | Synonyms: antenatal, prenatal |
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| antepenultimate | (adjective) third from last | - |
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| anterior | (adjective) of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body | - |
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| (adjective) earlier in time | Synonyms: prior |
| anterograde | (adjective) of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma | - |
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| antibacterial | (adjective) destroying bacteria or inhibiting their growth | - |
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| anticipated | (adjective) expected hopefully | Synonyms: awaited, hoped-for |
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| antiquated | (adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | Synonyms: antediluvian, archaic |
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| antisatellite | (adjective) of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit | Synonyms: ASAT |
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| apiculate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip | - |
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| apostate | (adjective) not faithful to religion or party or cause | - |
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| appellate | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellant |
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| appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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| appointed | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointive |
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| (adjective) selected for a job | - |
| (adjective) provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind) | - |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: decreed, ordained, prescribed |
| apposite | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apt, pertinent |
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| appreciated | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: apprehended, comprehended |
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| appropriate | (adjective) suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc | - |
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| (adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: suitable, suited |
| approximate | (adjective) located close together | Synonyms: close together |
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| (adjective) very close in resemblance | Synonyms: near |
| (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximative, rough |
| appurtenant | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, auxiliary |
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| apteral | (adjective) having columns at one or both ends but not along the sides | - |
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| (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apterous |
| apterous | (adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apteral |
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| archegoniate | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegonial |
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| architectonic | (adjective) of or pertaining to construction or architecture | Synonyms: tectonic |
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| architectural | (adjective) of or pertaining to the art and science of architecture | - |
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| arcuate | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, bowed |
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| areolate | (adjective) relating to or like or divided into areolae | Synonyms: areolar |
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| arillate | (adjective) (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover | Synonyms: ariled |
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| artefactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artifactual |
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| arterial | (adjective) of or involving or contained in the arteries | - |
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| arteriolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving arterioles | - |
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| arteriosclerotic | (adjective) affected by arteriosclerosis | - |
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| arteriovenous | (adjective) connecting an artery to a vein | - |
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| artesian | (adjective) (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure | - |
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| articulate | (adjective) expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of segments held together by joints | Synonyms: articulated |
| articulated | (adjective) consisting of segments held together by joints | Synonyms: articulate |
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| asphyxiated | (adjective) in a state of asphyxia | - |
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| assassinated | (adjective) murdered by surprise attack for political reasons | - |
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| asserted | (adjective) confidently declared to be so | - |
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| assisted | (adjective) having help; often used as a combining form | Synonyms: aided |
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| associate | (adjective) having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status | - |
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| 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 |
| asteriated | (adjective) (of some crystals especially gemstones) exhibiting asterism | - |
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| asterisked | (adjective) marked with an asterisk | Synonyms: starred |
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| asterismal | (adjective) relating to asterisms or constellations | - |
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| asternal | (adjective) not connected to the sternum or breastbone | - |
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| asteroid | (adjective) shaped like a star | Synonyms: star-shaped |
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| asteroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling an asteroid | - |
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| astute | (adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: sharp, shrewd |
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| ateleiotic | (adjective) of or relating to ateleiosis | - |
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| attempted | (adjective) tried unsuccessfully | - |
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| attendant | (adjective) being present (at a meeting or event, etc.) | - |
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| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
| attended | (adjective) playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment | Synonyms: accompanied |
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| (adjective) having a caretaker or other watcher | Synonyms: tended to |
| attending | (adjective) giving practical help to | Synonyms: ministrant |
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| attentional | (adjective) of or relating to attention | - |
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| attentive | (adjective) (often followed by `to') giving care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | Synonyms: heedful, paying attention, thoughtful |
| attenuate | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuated, faded, weakened |
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| attenuated | (adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, faded, weakened |
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| (adjective) of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion | - |
| attested | (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: authenticated, documented |
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| attrited | (adjective) worn by rubbing or friction | - |
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| augmented | (adjective) added to or made greater in amount or number or strength | - |
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| aureate | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: gilded, gilt, gold, golden |
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| (adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: flamboyant, florid |
| auriculate | (adjective) having auricles | Synonyms: auriculated |
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| auriculated | (adjective) having auricles | Synonyms: auriculate |
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| austenitic | (adjective) composed of austenite | - |
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| austere | (adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetic, ascetical, spartan |
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| (adjective) of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect | Synonyms: stern |
| (adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: severe, stark, stern |
| authenticated | (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, documented |
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| automated | (adjective) operated by automation | Synonyms: machine-controlled, machine-driven |
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| autotelic | (adjective) of or relating to or believing in autotelism | - |
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| awaited | (adjective) expected hopefully | Synonyms: anticipated, hoped-for |
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| azotemic | (adjective) of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency) | Synonyms: uraemic, uremic |
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| baccate | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: berrylike |
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| (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: bacciferous, berried |
| bacteremic | (adjective) of or relating to or having bacteremia | - |
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| bacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by bacteria | - |
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| bactericidal | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: disinfectant, germicidal |
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| bacterioid | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioidal, bacteroid, bacteroidal |
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| bacterioidal | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacteroid, bacteroidal |
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| bacteriologic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriology | Synonyms: bacteriological |
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| bacteriological | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriology | Synonyms: bacteriologic |
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| bacteriolytic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriolysis | - |
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| bacteriophagic | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagous |
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| bacteriophagous | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagic |
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| bacteriostatic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis | - |
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| bacteroid | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacterioidal, bacteroidal |
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| bacteroidal | (adjective) resembling bacteria | Synonyms: bacterioid, bacterioidal, bacteroid |
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| bantering | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: facetious, tongue-in-cheek |
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| barbate | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: bearded, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
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| barbellate | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| barefooted | (adjective) without shoes | Synonyms: barefoot, shoeless |
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| bated | (adjective) diminished or moderated | - |
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| battered | (adjective) exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury | - |
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| (adjective) damaged by blows or hard usage | Synonyms: beat-up, beaten-up |
| (adjective) damaged especially by hard usage | - |
| battlemented | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: castellated, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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| (adjective) protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through | - |
| beaten | (adjective) formed or made thin by hammering | - |
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| (adjective) much trodden and worn smooth or bare | - |
| beauteous | (adjective) (poetic) beautiful, especially to the sight | - |
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| begotten | (adjective) (of offspring) generated by procreation | - |
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| belated | (adjective) after the expected or usual time; delayed | Synonyms: late, tardy |
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| belted | (adjective) having or provided with a belt | - |
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| benighted | (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: dark |
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| (adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: nighted |
| 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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| better | (adjective) (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another | - |
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| (adjective) (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness | - |
| (adjective) (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable | Synonyms: best |
| (adjective) more than half | - |
| bettering | (adjective) changing for the better | - |
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