| athletic | (adjective) relating to or befitting athletics or athletes | - |
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| (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: acrobatic, gymnastic |
| (adjective) having a sturdy and well proportioned body | - |
| atilt | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: canted, leaning, tilted, tipped |
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| atomistic | (adjective) divided into separate and often disparate elements | Synonyms: atomistical |
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| atomistical | (adjective) divided into separate and often disparate elements | Synonyms: atomistic |
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| atonalistic | (adjective) of or relating to atonalism | - |
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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 |
| attired | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: appareled, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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| attitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to attitudes | - |
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| attractive | (adjective) pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm | - |
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| (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull | - |
| (adjective) having power to arouse interest | - |
| attributive | (adjective) of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify | Synonyms: prenominal |
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| attritional | (adjective) relating to or caused by attrition | - |
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| auditive | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: audile, auditory |
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| augitic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing the mineral augite | - |
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| augmentative | (adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree | - |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: enhancive |
| austenitic | (adjective) composed of austenite | - |
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| authentic | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: bona fide, unquestionable, veritable |
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| (adjective) conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief | Synonyms: reliable |
| authenticated | (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, documented |
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| authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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| (adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
| autistic | (adjective) characteristic of or affected with autism | - |
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| autocatalytic | (adjective) relating to or proceeding by autocatalysis | - |
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| autocratic | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| autodidactic | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of an autodidact | - |
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| autoerotic | (adjective) sexually satisfying yourself (as by masturbation) | - |
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| autogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to autogenesis | - |
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| autolytic | (adjective) of or relating to self-digestion | - |
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| automatic | (adjective) operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control | - |
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| (adjective) without volition or conscious control | Synonyms: reflex, reflexive |
| (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatonlike, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
| automotive | (adjective) of or relating to motor vehicles | - |
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| (adjective) containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement | Synonyms: self-propelled, self-propelling |
| autophytic | (adjective) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis | Synonyms: autotrophic |
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| autoplastic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in autoplasty | - |
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| autosemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context | - |
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| auxetic | (adjective) of or relating to growth by auxesis | - |
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| avertible | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avoidable, evitable |
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| avifaunistic | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunal |
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| avitaminotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of avitaminosis | - |
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| avocational | (adjective) of or involved in an avocation | - |
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| axiomatic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatical, postulational |
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| (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: aphoristic |
| (adjective) evident without proof or argument | Synonyms: self-evident, taken for granted |
| axiomatical | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatic, postulational |
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| azotic | (adjective) of or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: nitric, nitrous |
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| bacchantic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler | - |
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| bacteriolytic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriolysis | - |
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| bacteriostatic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriostasis | - |
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| balletic | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling or suitable for ballet | - |
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| ballistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity | - |
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| baptised | (adjective) having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism | Synonyms: baptized |
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| baptismal | (adjective) of or relating to baptism | - |
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| baptized | (adjective) having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism | Synonyms: baptised |
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| barytic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing baryta | - |
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| basaltic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing basalt | - |
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| bastioned | (adjective) secured with bastions or fortifications | Synonyms: fortified |
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| bathetic | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| batholitic | (adjective) of or relating to a batholith | Synonyms: batholithic |
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| bauxitic | (adjective) resembling or containing bauxite | - |
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| beatific | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
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| (adjective) experiencing or bestowing celestial joy | - |
| beatified | (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: blessed |
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| beautiful | (adjective) delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather) highly enjoyable | - |
| befitting | (adjective) appropriate to | - |
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| behavioristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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| behaviouristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviourist |
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| belemnitic | (adjective) of or relating to belemnites | - |
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| belletristic | (adjective) written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content | - |
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| benedictive | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictory |
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| bentonitic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing bentonite | - |
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| bestial | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, brutal, brute, brutish |
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| betting | (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: card-playing, dissipated, gambling, sporting |
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| bibliotic | (adjective) of or relating to bibliotics | - |
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| bidirectional | (adjective) reactive or functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions | - |
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| bimetallistic | (adjective) pertaining to a monetary system based on two metals | Synonyms: bimetallic |
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| biocatalytic | (adjective) of or relating to biocatalysts | - |
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| bioclimatic | (adjective) of or concerned with the relations of climate and living organisms | - |
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| biogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the production of living organisms from other living organisms | - |
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| biologistic | (adjective) of or relating to biologism | - |
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| biosynthetic | (adjective) of or relating to biosynthesis | - |
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| biosystematic | (adjective) of or relating to biosystematics | - |
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| biotic | (adjective) of or relating to living organisms | - |
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| biotitic | (adjective) relating to or involving biotite | - |
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| bipartisan | (adjective) supported by both sides | Synonyms: bipartizan, two-party, two-way |
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| bipartite | (adjective) divided into two portions almost to the base | - |
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| (adjective) involving two parts or elements | Synonyms: two-part, two-way |
| bipartizan | (adjective) supported by both sides | Synonyms: bipartisan, two-party, two-way |
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| bipinnatifid | (adjective) pinnatifid with the segments also pinnatifid | - |
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| biquadratic | (adjective) involving the fourth and no higher power of a quantity or degree | - |
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| bisectional | (adjective) of or relating to bisection | - |
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| bisontine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of bison | - |
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| biting | (adjective) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | Synonyms: bitter |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, mordacious, nipping, pungent |
| bittie | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| blastematic | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastemal, blastemic |
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| blasting | (adjective) causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blaring |
| blastodermatic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermic |
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| blastogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to blastogenesis | - |
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| blastomycotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of blastomycosis | - |
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| bombastic | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| bountied | (adjective) rewarded or able to be rewarded by a bounty | - |
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| bountiful | (adjective) producing in abundance | Synonyms: plentiful |
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| (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
| brattish | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: bratty |
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| bregmatic | (adjective) of or relating to the bregma of the skull | - |
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| bronchitic | (adjective) suffering from or prone to bronchitis | - |
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| brutish | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brute |
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| bryophytic | (adjective) relating to plants of the division Bryophyta | - |
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| bumptious | (adjective) offensively self-assertive | Synonyms: self-assertive |
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| bureaucratic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy | - |
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