extortionate | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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extraterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: exterritorial |
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facilitatory | (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity | - |
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factorial | (adjective) of or relating to factorials | - |
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feudatory | (adjective) of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord | - |
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(adjective) owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign | - |
gladiatorial | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling gladiators or their combat | - |
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gradatory | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, graduated |
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gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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gubernatorial | (adjective) relating to a governor | - |
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gustatorial | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatory |
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gustatory | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial |
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hallucinatory | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of hallucination | - |
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historic | (adjective) important in history | - |
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(adjective) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past | Synonyms: historical |
historical | (adjective) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time | Synonyms: diachronic |
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(adjective) of or relating to the study of history | - |
(adjective) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past | Synonyms: historic |
(adjective) having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary | - |
historied | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: celebrated, storied |
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hortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative |
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incriminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminating |
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inculpatory | (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to | Synonyms: inculpative |
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indicatory | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, revelatory, significative, suggestive |
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inflammatory | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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(adjective) characterized or caused by inflammation | - |
informatory | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informative |
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ingratiatory | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, insinuating |
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(adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade | Synonyms: coaxing |
inhibitory | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: repressing, repressive |
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initiatory | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiative, maiden |
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inquisitorial | (adjective) especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge | - |
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(adjective) having the authority to conduct official investigations | - |
(adjective) marked by inquisitive interest; especially suggestive of an ecclesiastical inquisitor | - |
inquisitory | (adjective) diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | Synonyms: probing, searching |
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inspiratory | (adjective) pertaining to the drawing in phase of respiration | - |
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interlocutory | (adjective) consisting of dialogue | - |
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interrogatory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogative |
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introductory | (adjective) serving as a base or starting point | Synonyms: basic |
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(adjective) serving to open or begin | - |
(adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: prefatorial, prefatory |
investigatory | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigative |
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invitatory | (adjective) conveying an invitation | - |
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justificatory | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificative |
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(adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, vindicatory |
lachrymatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lacrimatory |
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lacrimatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lachrymatory |
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laudatory | (adjective) full of or giving praise | Synonyms: praiseful, praising |
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leptorhine | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorrhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic |
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leptorrhine | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic |
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leptorrhinian | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinic |
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leptorrhinic | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinian |
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levorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotary |
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littoral | (adjective) of or relating to a coastal or shore region | - |
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locomotor | (adjective) of or relating to locomotion | Synonyms: locomotive |
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mandatory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: compulsory, required |
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mediatorial | (adjective) of or relating to a mediator or the duties of a mediator | - |
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mediatory | (adjective) of or related to or directed toward mediation | - |
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meritorious | (adjective) deserving reward or praise | Synonyms: meritable |
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migratory | (adjective) used of animals that move seasonally | - |
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(adjective) habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work | Synonyms: migrant |
minatory | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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mitigatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, palliative |
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monitory | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, warning |
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motor | (adjective) causing or able to cause motion | Synonyms: motive |
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(adjective) conveying information to the muscles from the CNS | Synonyms: centrifugal |
motored | (adjective) equipped with a motor or motors | Synonyms: motorised, motorized |
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motorial | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS | Synonyms: efferent |
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motorised | (adjective) equipped with a motor or motors | Synonyms: motored, motorized |
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motorized | (adjective) equipped with a motor or motors | Synonyms: motored, motorised |
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(adjective) using vehicles | Synonyms: mechanised, mechanized |
motorless | (adjective) having no motor | Synonyms: unmotorised, unmotorized |
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multifactorial | (adjective) involving or depending on several factors or causes (especially pertaining to a condition or disease resulting from the interaction of many genes) | - |
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multistorey | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistoried, multistory |
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multistoried | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistorey, multistory |
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multistory | (adjective) having more than one story | Synonyms: multistorey, multistoried |
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neuromotor | (adjective) relating to a nerve fiber or impulse passing toward motor effectors | - |
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nonexploratory | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexplorative, unexplorative, unexploratory |
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noninflammatory | (adjective) not inflammatory | - |
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nonmandatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonobligatory |
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nonmigratory | (adjective) used of animals that do not migrate | Synonyms: resident |
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nonobligatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonmandatory |
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nonoscillatory | (adjective) not having periodic vibrations | - |
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nonterritorial | (adjective) not displaying territoriality | - |
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notorious | (adjective) known widely and usually unfavorably | Synonyms: ill-famed, infamous |
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nugatory | (adjective) of no real value | - |
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obligatory | (adjective) morally or legally constraining or binding | - |
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(adjective) required by obligation or compulsion or convention | - |
olfactory | (adjective) of or relating to olfaction | Synonyms: olfactive |
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oratorical | (adjective) characteristic of an orator or oratory | - |
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oscillatory | (adjective) having periodic vibrations | Synonyms: oscillating |
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palpatory | (adjective) relating to or involving palpation | - |
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participatory | (adjective) affording the opportunity for individual participation | - |
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pastoral | (adjective) of or relating to a pastor | - |
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(adjective) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle | Synonyms: bucolic |
(adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: arcadian, bucolic |
pectoral | (adjective) of or relating to the chest or thorax | Synonyms: thoracic |
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peremptory | (adjective) putting an end to all debate or action | - |
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(adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial |
(adjective) not allowing contradiction or refusal | - |
perfunctory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, passing, superficial |
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(adjective) done or produced as a formality only | Synonyms: pro forma |
pictorial | (adjective) pertaining to or consisting of pictures | Synonyms: pictural |
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(adjective) evoking lifelike images within the mind | Synonyms: graphic, lifelike, vivid |
piscatorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatory |
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piscatory | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatorial |
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placatory | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placating, placative |
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postdoctoral | (adjective) of or relating to study or research that is done after work for the doctoral degree has been completed | - |
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praetorial | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorian, pretorial, pretorian |
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praetorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, pretorial, pretorian |
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precatory | (adjective) expressing entreaty or supplication | Synonyms: precative |
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predatory | (adjective) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | Synonyms: predaceous, predacious |
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(adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
(adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | Synonyms: marauding, raiding |
prefatorial | (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: introductory, prefatory |
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prefatory | (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: introductory, prefatorial |
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prehistoric | (adjective) of or relating to times before written history | - |
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(adjective) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history | Synonyms: prehistorical |
(adjective) outdated | - |
prehistorical | (adjective) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history | Synonyms: prehistoric |
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premonitory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: precursory |
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preparatory | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparative, propaedeutic |
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pretorial | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorian |
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pretorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorial |
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probatory | (adjective) tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation | Synonyms: probative |
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profanatory | (adjective) profaning or tending to desecrate | - |
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