abstinent | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstentious |
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adamantine | (adjective) consisting of or having the hardness of adamant | - |
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(adjective) having the hardness of a diamond | - |
(adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, inexorable, intransigent |
amethystine | (adjective) containing or resembling amethyst | - |
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antineoplastic | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antitumor, antitumour |
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bisontine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of bison | - |
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clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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continent | (adjective) having control over urination and defecation | - |
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(adjective) abstaining from sexual intercourse | Synonyms: celibate |
continental | (adjective) being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a continent | - |
(adjective) of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War | - |
destined | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Synonyms: bound |
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(adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Synonyms: bound |
diamantine | (adjective) consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds | - |
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elephantine | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: gargantuan, giant, jumbo |
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impertinent | (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise |
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(adjective) not pertinent to the matter under consideration | Synonyms: extraneous, immaterial, orthogonal |
(adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: irreverent, pert, saucy |
incontinent | (adjective) not having control over urination and defecation | - |
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intercontinental | (adjective) extending or taking place between or among continents | - |
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itinerant | (adjective) traveling from place to place to work | - |
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libertine | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, profligate, riotous |
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palatine | (adjective) of or relating to a palace | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives | - |
(adjective) relating to or lying near the palate | Synonyms: palatal |
pectineal | (adjective) of or relating to the pubis | - |
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pertinent | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apposite, apt |
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(adjective) having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand | Synonyms: to the point |
philistine | (adjective) smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values | Synonyms: anti-intellectual |
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predestined | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: foreordained, predestinate |
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pristine | (adjective) immaculately clean and unused | - |
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(adjective) completely free from dirt or contamination | - |
quarantined | (adjective) under forced isolation especially for health reasons | Synonyms: isolated |
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routine | (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: everyday, mundane, quotidian, unremarkable, workaday |
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serpentine | (adjective) resembling a serpent in form | Synonyms: snakelike, snaky |
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tined | (adjective) having prongs or tines; usually used in combination | Synonyms: pronged |
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transcontinental | (adjective) spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a continent | - |
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