accoutered | (adjective) provided with necessary articles of equipment for a specialized purpose (especially military) | Synonyms: accoutred |
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adulterant | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterating |
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adulterate | (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterated, debased |
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adulterated | (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterate, debased |
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adulterating | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterant |
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adulterine | (adjective) conceived in adultery | - |
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adulterous | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: extracurricular, extramarital |
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(adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: cheating, two-timing |
aflutter | (adjective) excited in anticipation | Synonyms: nervous |
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after | (adjective) located farther aft | - |
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aftermost | (adjective) located closest to the stern or tail | - |
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aftershafted | (adjective) having an aftershaft (a small feather at the base of some feathers) | - |
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aglitter | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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alabaster | (adjective) of or resembling alabaster | Synonyms: alabastrine |
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alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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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 | - |
amphoteric | (adjective) having characteristics of both an acid and a base and capable of reacting as either | Synonyms: amphiprotic |
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anicteric | (adjective) without jaundice | - |
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(adjective) not affected by jaundice | - |
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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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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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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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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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 |
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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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 | - |
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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bilateral | (adjective) having two sides or parts | Synonyms: two-sided |
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(adjective) affecting or undertaken by two parties | - |
(adjective) having identical parts on each side of an axis | Synonyms: bilaterally symmetric, bilaterally symmetrical, isobilateral |
bistered | (adjective) colored with or as if with bister | Synonyms: bistred |
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bitter | (adjective) proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity | - |
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(adjective) very difficult to accept or bear | - |
(adjective) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | Synonyms: biting |
(adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: acrimonious |
(adjective) expressive of severe grief or regret | - |
(adjective) causing a sharp and acrid taste experience | - |
(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
bitterish | (adjective) somewhat bitter | Synonyms: sharp-tasting |
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bittersweet | (adjective) tinged with sadness | - |
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(adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: semisweet |
blistering | (adjective) very fast; capable of quick response and great speed | Synonyms: hot, red-hot |
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(adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistery |
(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
blistery | (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistering |
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(adjective) covered with small blisters | Synonyms: blebby |
blustering | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blusterous, blustery |
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blusterous | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blustery |
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blustery | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: bullying |
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(adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blusterous |
boisterous | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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(adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: knockabout |
(adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: fierce, rough |
brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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butterfingered | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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buttery | (adjective) resembling or containing or spread with butter | - |
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(adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
cantering | (adjective) riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop | - |
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catercorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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center | (adjective) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually | Synonyms: centre |
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(adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: centre, halfway, middle, midway |
centered | (adjective) being or placed in the center | Synonyms: centred |
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characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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characterless | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: nondescript |
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chartered | (adjective) hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers | Synonyms: hired, leased |
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clattery | (adjective) a rattling sound as of hard things striking together | - |
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cloistered | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: reclusive, secluded, sequestered |
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(adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical |
clustered | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative |
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(adjective) growing close together but not in dense mats | - |
cluttered | (adjective) filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish | Synonyms: littered |
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collateral | (adjective) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines | Synonyms: indirect |
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(adjective) situated or running side by side | - |
(adjective) additional but secondary; auxiliary; | - |
(adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
(adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
conterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, coterminous |
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(adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: contiguous |
(adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
contralateral | (adjective) on or relating to the opposite side (of the body) | - |
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coterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, conterminous |
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counter | (adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: antagonistic |
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counteractive | (adjective) opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action | - |
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counterbalanced | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterpoised |
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counterclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
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counterfactual | (adjective) going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) | Synonyms: contrary to fact |
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counterfeit | (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: imitative |
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counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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counterintuitive | (adjective) contrary to what common sense would suggest | - |
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counterpoised | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterbalanced |
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counterproductive | (adjective) tending to hinder the achievement of a goal | - |
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counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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(adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
countertenor | (adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: alto |
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counterterror | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterrorist |
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counterterrorist | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterror |
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criterial | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterional |
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criterional | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterial |
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