| interfering | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| intergalactic | (adjective) between or among galaxies | - |
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| interim | (adjective) serving during an intermediate interval of time | - |
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| interior | (adjective) situated within or suitable for inside a building | - |
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| (adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: home, internal, national |
| (adjective) of or coming from the middle of a region or country | Synonyms: midland, upcountry |
| (adjective) inside and toward a center | - |
| (adjective) located inward | Synonyms: inner, internal |
| interlaced | (adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: fretted, latticed, latticelike |
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| interlacing | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlinking, interlocking, interwoven |
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| interlineal | (adjective) written between lines of text | Synonyms: interlinear |
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| interlinear | (adjective) written between lines of text | Synonyms: interlineal |
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| interlinking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlocking, interwoven |
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| interlobular | (adjective) between lobes or lobules | - |
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| interlocking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interwoven |
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| interlocutory | (adjective) consisting of dialogue | - |
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| intermediate | (adjective) lying between two extremes in time or space or state | - |
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| (adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: average, medium |
| intermeshed | (adjective) (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting | Synonyms: engaged, meshed |
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| (adjective) caught as if in a mesh | Synonyms: enmeshed |
| interminable | (adjective) tiresomely long; seemingly without end | Synonyms: endless, eternal |
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| intermittent | (adjective) stopping and starting at irregular intervals | - |
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| intermolecular | (adjective) existing or acting between molecules | - |
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| intermural | (adjective) between two or more institutions etc | - |
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| internal | (adjective) happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface | - |
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| (adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: home, interior, national |
| (adjective) occurring within an institution or community | Synonyms: intragroup |
| (adjective) innermost or essential | Synonyms: inner, intimate |
| (adjective) located inward | Synonyms: inner, interior |
| international | (adjective) concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations | - |
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| (adjective) from or between other countries | Synonyms: external, outside |
| internationalist | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalistic |
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| internationalistic | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalist |
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| internecine | (adjective) characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides | - |
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| (adjective) (of conflict) within a group or organization | - |
| interoceptive | (adjective) of or relating to interoception | - |
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| interoperable | (adjective) able to exchange and use information | - |
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| interpersonal | (adjective) occurring among or involving several people | - |
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| interplanetary | (adjective) between or among planets | - |
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| interpretable | (adjective) capable of being understood | Synonyms: explainable |
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| interpretative | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretive |
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| interpreted | (adjective) understood in a certain way; made sense of | Synonyms: taken |
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| interpretive | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretative |
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| interracial | (adjective) involving or composed of different races | Synonyms: mixed |
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| (adjective) between races | - |
| interred | (adjective) placed in a grave | Synonyms: buried, inhumed |
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| interrelated | (adjective) reciprocally connected | Synonyms: interconnected |
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| interrogative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogatory |
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| (adjective) relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood | - |
| interrogatory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogative |
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| interrupted | (adjective) intermittently stopping and starting | Synonyms: fitful, off-and-on |
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| (adjective) discontinued temporarily | - |
| interscholastic | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interschool |
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| interschool | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interscholastic |
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| intersectant | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: decussate, intersecting |
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| intersecting | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: decussate, intersectant |
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| intersexual | (adjective) having sexual characteristics intermediate between those of male and female | - |
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| (adjective) existing or occurring between the sexes | - |
| interspecies | (adjective) arising or occurring between species | Synonyms: interspecific |
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| interspecific | (adjective) arising or occurring between species | Synonyms: interspecies |
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| interstate | (adjective) involving and relating to the mutual relations of states especially of the United States | - |
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| interstellar | (adjective) between or among stars | - |
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| interstitial | (adjective) of or relating to interstices | - |
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| intertidal | (adjective) of or relating to the littoral area above the low-tide mark | - |
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| intertribal | (adjective) between or among tribes | - |
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| intervening | (adjective) occurring or falling between events or points in time | - |
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| intervertebral | (adjective) pertaining to the space between two vertebrae | - |
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| interwoven | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interlocking |
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| intrauterine | (adjective) within the womb | - |
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| inveterate | (adjective) habitual | Synonyms: chronic |
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| ipsilateral | (adjective) on or relating to the same side (of the body) | - |
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| isobilateral | (adjective) having identical parts on each side of an axis | Synonyms: bilateral, bilaterally symmetric, bilaterally symmetrical |
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| isopteran | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of insects of the order Isoptera | - |
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| iterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: reiterative |
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| jerkwater | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: one-horse, pokey, poky |
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| jittering | (adjective) undergoing small rapid variations | - |
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| jittery | (adjective) characterized by jerky movements | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
| lackluster | (adjective) lacking luster or shine | Synonyms: lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless |
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| (adjective) lacking brilliance or vitality | Synonyms: lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless |
| later | (adjective) at or toward an end or late period or stage of development | Synonyms: late |
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| (adjective) coming at a subsequent time or stage | Synonyms: posterior, ulterior |
| lateral | (adjective) lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body | - |
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| (adjective) situated at or extending to the side | Synonyms: sidelong |
| latter | (adjective) referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several) | - |
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| lettered | (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowing, knowledgeable, learned, well-educated, well-read |
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| literal | (adjective) limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text | - |
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| (adjective) without interpretation or embellishment | - |
| (adjective) avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis) | - |
| (adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: actual, genuine, real |
| literary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of literature | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable about literature | - |
| literate | (adjective) able to read and write | - |
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| (adjective) versed in literature; dealing with literature | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields | - |
| littered | (adjective) filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish | Synonyms: cluttered |
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| lusterless | (adjective) lacking luster or shine | Synonyms: lackluster, lacklustre, lustreless |
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| (adjective) lacking brilliance or vitality | Synonyms: lackluster, lacklustre, lustreless |
| magisterial | (adjective) of or relating to a magistrate | - |
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| (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, grand, imposing |
| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, peremptory |
| master | (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, primary, principal |
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| mastered | (adjective) understood perfectly | Synonyms: down, down pat |
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| masterful | (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: consummate, masterly, virtuoso |
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| masterless | (adjective) having no lord or master | Synonyms: lordless |
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| masterly | (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: consummate, masterful, virtuoso |
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| material | (adjective) derived from or composed of matter | - |
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| (adjective) directly relevant to a matter especially a law case | - |
| (adjective) having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary | Synonyms: real, substantial |
| (adjective) having material or physical form or substance | Synonyms: corporeal |
| (adjective) concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being | - |
| (adjective) concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests | - |
| materialistic | (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, conservative |
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| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: mercenary, worldly-minded |
| maternal | (adjective) characteristic of a mother | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent | Synonyms: parental, paternal |
| (adjective) relating to or derived from one's mother | - |
| (adjective) related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, enatic |
| maternalistic | (adjective) showing maternal instincts | - |
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| mecopterous | (adjective) of or relating to mecopterans | - |
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| mesenteric | (adjective) of or relating to or located in a mesentery | - |
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| midwestern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and sometimes Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota | - |
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| ministerial | (adjective) of or relating to a government minister or ministry | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office | - |
| monopteral | (adjective) having circular columniation | - |
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| multilateral | (adjective) having many parts or sides | Synonyms: many-sided |
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| mysterious | (adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mystic, mystical, occult, orphic, secret |
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| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mystifying |
| neuter | (adjective) neither male nor female (of grammatical gender) | - |
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| (adjective) having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs | Synonyms: sexless |
| neutered | (adjective) having testicles or ovaries removed | Synonyms: altered |
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| nonenterprising | (adjective) lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome | Synonyms: unenterprising |
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| noninterchangeable | (adjective) such that the terms of an expression cannot be interchanged without changing the meaning | - |
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| nonintersecting | (adjective) (of lines, planes, or surfaces) never meeting or crossing | Synonyms: nonconvergent |
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| nonliteral | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: figurative |
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| nonliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: unliterary |
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| nonliterate | (adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: preliterate |
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| nonmaterial | (adjective) not consisting of matter | Synonyms: immaterial |
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| nonsteroidal | (adjective) not steroidal or not having the effects of steroid hormones | - |
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| nonterritorial | (adjective) not displaying territoriality | - |
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| northeasterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeast, northeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northeast | Synonyms: northeast |