| abstract | (adjective) existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment | - |
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| (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
| (adjective) dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention | - |
| abstracted | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, scatty |
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| abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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| abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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| administrable | (adjective) capable of being administered or managed | - |
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| administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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| ancestral | (adjective) of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor | - |
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| (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible |
| arbitrable | (adjective) appropriate for or subject to settlement by arbitration | - |
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| arbitral | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitrational |
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| arbitrary | (adjective) based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice | - |
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| arbitrational | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitral |
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| arbitrative | (adjective) relating to or having the authority to arbitrate | - |
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| astragalar | (adjective) of or relating to the anklebone | - |
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| astral | (adjective) being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars | Synonyms: stellar |
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| atrabilious | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: bilious, dyspeptic, liverish |
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| attractable | (adjective) capable of being magnetized or attracted by a magnet | - |
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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 | - |
| austral | (adjective) of the south or coming from the south | - |
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| australopithecine | (adjective) of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus | - |
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| batrachian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, salientian |
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| cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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| calyptrate | (adjective) having a calyptra | - |
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| (adjective) having calypters | - |
| campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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| castrated | (adjective) deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes | Synonyms: unsexed |
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| central | (adjective) in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area | - |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, fundamental, key, primal |
| centralised | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralized |
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| centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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| centralist | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralistic |
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| centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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| centralized | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralised |
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| centralizing | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralising |
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| cloistral | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, conventual, monastic, monastical |
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| concentrated | (adjective) gathered together or made less diffuse | - |
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| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: hard |
| (adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | Synonyms: saturated |
| (adjective) intensely focused | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced | - |
| constrained | (adjective) lacking spontaneity; not natural | Synonyms: forced, strained |
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| constraining | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
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| contraband | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, bootleg, smuggled |
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| contrabass | (adjective) pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range | Synonyms: double-bass |
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| contraceptive | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, prophylactic |
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| contraclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, counterclockwise |
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| contractable | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable |
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| contracted | (adjective) reduced in size or pulled together | - |
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| contractile | (adjective) capable of contracting or being contracted | - |
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| contractual | (adjective) relating to or part of a binding legal agreement | - |
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| contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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| (adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
| (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
| (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
| contralateral | (adjective) on or relating to the opposite side (of the body) | - |
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| contralto | (adjective) of or being the lowest female voice | Synonyms: alto |
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| contrapuntal | (adjective) having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together | Synonyms: polyphonic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or according to the rules of counterpoint | - |
| contrarious | (adjective) characterized by self-willed opposition | Synonyms: cross-grained |
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| contrary | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false | - |
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| (adjective) very opposed in nature or character or purpose | - |
| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: obstinate, perverse, wayward |
| (adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: adverse |
| contrasting | (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrastive |
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| contrastive | (adjective) of words so related that one contrasts with the other | Synonyms: incompatible |
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| (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrasting |
| (adjective) syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
| contrasty | (adjective) having sharp differences between black and white | - |
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| decentralised | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralized |
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| decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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| decentralized | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralised |
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| decentralizing | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralising |
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| demonstrable | (adjective) necessarily or demonstrably true | Synonyms: incontrovertible |
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| (adjective) capable of being demonstrated or proved | Synonyms: provable |
| demonstrated | (adjective) having been demonstrated or verified beyond doubt | - |
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| demonstrative | (adjective) given to or marked by the open expression of emotion | - |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: illustrative |
| detractive | (adjective) causing to decrease in importance or value | - |
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| dextral | (adjective) of or on the right | - |
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| (adjective) preferring to use right foot or hand or eye | - |
| diametral | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical |
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| distracted | (adjective) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety | Synonyms: distrait |
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| distrait | (adjective) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety | Synonyms: distracted |
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| distraught | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: overwrought |
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| dorsoventral | (adjective) extending from the back to the belly | - |
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| electroneutral | (adjective) having no net electric charge | Synonyms: neutral |
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| entranced | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled |
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| entrancing | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, fascinating |
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| estranged | (adjective) caused to be unloved | Synonyms: alienated |
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| estranging | (adjective) making one feel out of place or alienated | - |
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| extra | (adjective) further or added | Synonyms: additional |
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| (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
| (adjective) added to a regular schedule | Synonyms: special |
| extracellular | (adjective) located or occurring outside a cell or cells | - |
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| extractable | (adjective) capable of being extracted | Synonyms: extractible |
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| extractible | (adjective) capable of being extracted | Synonyms: extractable |
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| extracurricular | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extramarital |
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| (adjective) outside the regular duties of your job or profession | - |
| (adjective) outside the regular academic curriculum | - |
| extradural | (adjective) on or outside the dura mater | Synonyms: epidural |
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| extragalactic | (adjective) outside or beyond a galaxy | - |
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| extrajudicial | (adjective) beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted | - |
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| extralegal | (adjective) not regulated or sanctioned by law | Synonyms: nonlegal |
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| extralinguistic | (adjective) not included within the realm of language | - |
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| extramarital | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extracurricular |
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| extramural | (adjective) carried on outside the bounds of an institution or community | - |
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| extraneous | (adjective) not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source | Synonyms: foreign |
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| (adjective) not pertinent to the matter under consideration | Synonyms: immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal |
| (adjective) coming from the outside | Synonyms: external, outside |
| (adjective) not essential | - |
| extraordinaire | (adjective) extraordinary in a particular capacity | - |
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| extraordinary | (adjective) beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; special | - |
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| (adjective) far more than usual or expected | Synonyms: over-the-top, sinful |
| (adjective) (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials | - |
| extrasensory | (adjective) seemingly outside normal sensory channels | Synonyms: paranormal |
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| extrasystolic | (adjective) of or relating to or happening during an extrasystole | - |
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| extraterrestrial | (adjective) originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere | - |
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| extraterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: exterritorial |
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| extravagant | (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, exuberant, overweening |
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| (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate, spendthrift |
| extraversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extroversive |
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| extravert | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| extraverted | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| extravertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| fenestral | (adjective) of or relating to windows | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having a fenestra | - |
| frustrated | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, thwarted |
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| frustrating | (adjective) discouraging by hindering | - |
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| (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrative, thwarting |
| frustrative | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, thwarting |
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| geostrategic | (adjective) of or relating to geostrategy | - |
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