| illustrative | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: exemplifying |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: demonstrative |
| impenetrable | (adjective) not admitting of penetration or passage into or through | - |
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| (adjective) impossible to understand | - |
| (adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: dense, heavy |
| intracellular | (adjective) located or occurring within a cell or cells | - |
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| intracerebral | (adjective) within the brain | - |
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| intracranial | (adjective) within the skull | - |
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| intractable | (adjective) not tractable; difficult to manage or mold | - |
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| intracutaneous | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intradermal, intradermic |
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| intradepartmental | (adjective) within a department | - |
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| intradermal | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intracutaneous, intradermic |
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| intradermic | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intracutaneous, intradermal |
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| intragroup | (adjective) occurring within an institution or community | Synonyms: internal |
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| intralinguistic | (adjective) within a particular language | - |
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| intralobular | (adjective) inside lobes or lobules | - |
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| intramolecular | (adjective) within the molecule; occurring by a reaction between different parts of the same molecule | - |
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| intramural | (adjective) carried on within the bounds of an institution or community | - |
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| intramuscular | (adjective) within a muscle | - |
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| intransigent | (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, adamantine, inexorable |
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| intransitive | (adjective) designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object | - |
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| intrapulmonary | (adjective) being or occurring within a lung | - |
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| intrasentential | (adjective) of or relating to constituents within a sentence | - |
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| intraspecies | (adjective) arising or occurring within a species; involving the members of one species | Synonyms: intraspecific |
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| intraspecific | (adjective) arising or occurring within a species; involving the members of one species | Synonyms: intraspecies |
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| intrastate | (adjective) relating to or existing within the boundaries of a state | - |
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| intrauterine | (adjective) within the womb | - |
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| intravenous | (adjective) within or by means of a vein | Synonyms: endovenous |
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| intraventricular | (adjective) within the system of ventricles in the brain | - |
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| ministrant | (adjective) giving practical help to | Synonyms: attending |
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| mitral | (adjective) of or relating to or located in or near the mitral valve | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or resembling the miter worn by some clerics | - |
| neutral | (adjective) having no hue | Synonyms: achromatic |
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| (adjective) possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics | - |
| (adjective) lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics | - |
| (adjective) not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest | - |
| (adjective) having no personal preference | Synonyms: impersonal |
| (adjective) having no net electric charge | Synonyms: electroneutral |
| (adjective) having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive | Synonyms: indifferent, inert |
| neutralised | (adjective) made neutral in some respect; deprived of distinctive characteristics | Synonyms: neutralized |
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| neutralized | (adjective) made neutral in some respect; deprived of distinctive characteristics | Synonyms: neutralised |
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| nonarbitrable | (adjective) not appropriate for or subject to arbitration | - |
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| nonarbitrary | (adjective) not subject to individual determination | Synonyms: unarbitrary |
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| nonprotractile | (adjective) not extensile | Synonyms: inextensible, nonextensile |
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| nonretractable | (adjective) not capable of being retracted | Synonyms: nonretractile |
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| nonretractile | (adjective) not capable of being retracted | Synonyms: nonretractable |
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| nontraditional | (adjective) not conforming to or in accord with tradition | Synonyms: untraditional |
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| nontransferable | (adjective) incapable of being transferred | Synonyms: unassignable, untransferable |
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| nontranslational | (adjective) of or relating to movement that is not uniform or not without rotation | - |
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| nontransmissible | (adjective) (of disease) not capable of being passed on | Synonyms: noncommunicable, noncontagious |
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| (adjective) not acquirable by inheritance | Synonyms: nonhereditary |
| orchestral | (adjective) relating to or composed for an orchestra | - |
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| orchestrated | (adjective) arranged for performance by an orchestra | - |
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| outraged | (adjective) angered at something unjust or wrong | Synonyms: incensed, indignant, umbrageous |
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| outrageous | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, extortionate, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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| (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: hideous, horrid, horrific |
| penetrable | (adjective) admitting of penetration or passage into or through | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being penetrated | - |
| penetrating | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrative |
| penetrative | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrating |
| portrayed | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: depicted, pictured |
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| prostrate | (adjective) stretched out and lying at full length along the ground | Synonyms: flat |
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| (adjective) lying face downward | Synonyms: prone |
| protracted | (adjective) relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | Synonyms: drawn-out, extended, lengthy, prolonged |
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| protractible | (adjective) able to be extended | Synonyms: protractile |
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| protractile | (adjective) able to be extended | Synonyms: protractible |
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| recalcitrant | (adjective) marked by stubborn resistance to authority | - |
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| (adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control | Synonyms: fractious, refractory |
| reentrant | (adjective) (of angles) pointing inward | Synonyms: re-entrant |
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| restrained | (adjective) under restraint | - |
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| (adjective) prudent | Synonyms: guarded |
| (adjective) marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes | Synonyms: moderate |
| (adjective) cool and formal in manner | Synonyms: reticent, unemotional |
| (adjective) not showy or obtrusive | Synonyms: quiet |
| retractable | (adjective) capable of being retracted | - |
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| retracted | (adjective) drawn back and in | - |
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| retractile | (adjective) capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back | - |
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| retral | (adjective) moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction | Synonyms: retrograde |
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| (adjective) at or near or toward the posterior | - |
| rostrate | (adjective) having a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis | - |
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| rupestral | (adjective) composed of or inscribed on rock | Synonyms: rupicolous |
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| semestral | (adjective) occurring every six months or during every period of six months | Synonyms: semestrial |
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| semiabstract | (adjective) characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter | - |
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| semitransparent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: translucent |
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| sinistral | (adjective) of or on the left | - |
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| (adjective) preferring to use left foot or hand or eye | - |
| spectral | (adjective) of or relating to a spectrum | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spiritual |
| straggling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggly |
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| straggly | (adjective) growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly | - |
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| (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggling |
| straight | (adjective) having no deviations | - |
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| (adjective) no longer coiled | Synonyms: uncoiled |
| (adjective) (of hair) having no waves or curls | - |
| (adjective) characterized by honesty and fairness | Synonyms: square |
| (adjective) free from curves or angles | - |
| (adjective) in keeping with the facts | - |
| (adjective) successive (without a break) | Synonyms: consecutive |
| (adjective) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned | Synonyms: square |
| (adjective) following a correct or logical method | - |
| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straightforward |
| (adjective) erect in posture | Synonyms: unbent, unbowed |
| (adjective) not homosexual | - |
| (adjective) neatly arranged; not disorderly | - |
| (adjective) (of an alcoholic drink) without water | Synonyms: full-strength, neat |
| (adjective) accurately fitted; level | Synonyms: true |
| straightarrow | (adjective) conventionally moral and upright | - |
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| straightaway | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, quick |
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| straightforward | (adjective) pointed directly ahead | - |
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| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straight |
| (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: aboveboard |
| (adjective) free from ambiguity | - |
| straightlaced | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| strained | (adjective) struggling for effect | Synonyms: agonistic |
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| (adjective) lacking natural ease | Synonyms: labored, laboured |
| (adjective) showing signs of mental and emotional tension | - |
| (adjective) lacking spontaneity; not natural | Synonyms: constrained, forced |
| straining | (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: arduous, strenuous |
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| strait | (adjective) narrow | - |
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| straitlaced | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| stranded | (adjective) cut off or left behind | Synonyms: isolated, marooned |
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| strange | (adjective) being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird | Synonyms: unusual |
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| (adjective) relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: foreign |
| (adjective) not known before | Synonyms: unknown |
| strangled | (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: smothered, stifled, suppressed |
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| strapless | (adjective) having no straps | - |
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| straplike | (adjective) long and narrow like a strap | - |
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| strapping | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, husky |
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| strategic | (adjective) relating to or concerned with strategy | Synonyms: strategical |
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| (adjective) highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war | - |
| strategical | (adjective) relating to or concerned with strategy | Synonyms: strategic |
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| stratified | (adjective) deposited or arranged in horizontal layers | Synonyms: bedded |
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| (adjective) (used of society) socially hierarchical | Synonyms: class-conscious |
| (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: graded, ranked |
| straw | (adjective) of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored | - |
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| stray | (adjective) (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home | - |
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| (adjective) not close together in time | Synonyms: isolated |
| straying | (adjective) unable to find your way | - |
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| subtractive | (adjective) constituting or involving subtraction | - |
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| tetragonal | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a quadrilateral | - |
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| tetramerous | (adjective) having or consisting of four similar parts; tetramerous flowers | - |
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| tetrametric | (adjective) of or relating to verse lines written in tetrameter | - |
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| tetravalent | (adjective) having a valence of four | - |
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| trabeate | (adjective) not arcuate; having straight horizontal beams or lintels (rather than arches) | Synonyms: trabeated |
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| trabeated | (adjective) not arcuate; having straight horizontal beams or lintels (rather than arches) | Synonyms: trabeate |
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| trabecular | (adjective) of or relating to trabeculae | Synonyms: trabeculate |
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| trabeculate | (adjective) of or relating to trabeculae | Synonyms: trabecular |
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| traceable | (adjective) capable of being traced or tracked | Synonyms: trackable |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') able to be traced to | - |
| tracheal | (adjective) relating to or resembling or functioning like a trachea | - |
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