| histrionic | (adjective) characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected | Synonyms: melodramatic |
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| homocentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, concentrical |
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| hydroelectric | (adjective) of or relating to or used in the production of electricity by waterpower | - |
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| hydrometric | (adjective) of or relating to hydrometry | Synonyms: gravimetric |
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| illustrious | (adjective) having or conferring glory | - |
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| (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, famous, far-famed, notable, noted, renowned |
| industrial | (adjective) having highly developed industries | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or resulting from industry | - |
| (adjective) employed in industry | - |
| (adjective) suitable to stand up to hard wear | - |
| industrialised | (adjective) made industrial; converted to industrialism | Synonyms: industrialized |
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| industrialized | (adjective) made industrial; converted to industrialism | Synonyms: industrialised |
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| industrious | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: hardworking, tireless, untiring |
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| (adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: energetic, gumptious, up-and-coming |
| inextricable | (adjective) not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied | - |
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| intertribal | (adjective) between or among tribes | - |
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| intraventricular | (adjective) within the system of ventricles in the brain | - |
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| intricate | (adjective) having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate | - |
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| intriguing | (adjective) capable of arousing interest or curiosity | - |
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| (adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: challenging |
| intrinsic | (adjective) belonging to a thing by its very nature | Synonyms: intrinsical |
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| (adjective) situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts | - |
| intrinsical | (adjective) belonging to a thing by its very nature | Synonyms: intrinsic |
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| irretrievable | (adjective) impossible to recover or recoup or overcome | Synonyms: unretrievable |
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| isometric | (adjective) of or involving muscular contraction in which tension increases while length remains constant | - |
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| (adjective) related by an isometry | - |
| (adjective) of a crystal system characterized by three equal axes at right angles | - |
| (adjective) having equal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: isometrical |
| isometrical | (adjective) having equal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: isometric |
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| lacustrine | (adjective) of or relating to or living near lakes | - |
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| matriarchal | (adjective) characteristic of a matriarchy | - |
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| matriarchic | (adjective) (of societies or families) having a female as the family head or having descent traced through the female line | - |
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| matricentric | (adjective) centered upon the mother | - |
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| matrilineal | (adjective) based on or tracing descent through the female line | Synonyms: matrilinear |
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| matrilinear | (adjective) based on or tracing descent through the female line | Synonyms: matrilineal |
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| matrimonial | (adjective) of or relating to the state of marriage | Synonyms: marital, married |
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| meretricious | (adjective) like or relating to a prostitute | - |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, glossy, specious |
| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| metacentric | (adjective) having two equal arms because of the median position of the centromere | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the metacenter | - |
| metric | (adjective) based on the meter as a standard of measurement | Synonyms: metrical |
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| (adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables | Synonyms: measured, metrical |
| metrical | (adjective) based on the meter as a standard of measurement | Synonyms: metric |
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| (adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables | Synonyms: measured, metric |
| natriuretic | (adjective) of or relating to natriuresis | - |
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| neuropsychiatric | (adjective) of or relating to neuropsychiatry | - |
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| nitric | (adjective) of or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: azotic, nitrous |
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| nonastringent | (adjective) not astringent | - |
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| nonconcentric | (adjective) not having a common center; not concentric | Synonyms: eccentric |
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| nonindustrial | (adjective) not having highly developed manufacturing enterprises | - |
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| nonparametric | (adjective) not involving an estimation of the parameters of a statistic | - |
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| nonrestrictive | (adjective) not limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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| nutrient | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive |
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| nutritional | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritionary |
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| nutritionary | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritional |
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| nutritious | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive |
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| nutritive | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious |
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| obstetric | (adjective) of or relating to or used in or practicing obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetrical |
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| obstetrical | (adjective) of or relating to or used in or practicing obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetric |
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| outrigged | (adjective) rigged with a structure projecting from or over the side of a boat for various purposes; to prevent capsizing or to support an oarlock or to help secure a mast etc | - |
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| outright | (adjective) without reservation or exception | Synonyms: straight-out, unlimited |
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| paediatric | (adjective) of or relating to the medical care of children | Synonyms: pediatric |
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| parametric | (adjective) of or relating to or in terms of a parameter | - |
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| patriarchal | (adjective) characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a man who is older or higher in rank | - |
| patriarchic | (adjective) (of societies) being ruled by or having descent traced through the male line | - |
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| patricentric | (adjective) centered upon the father | - |
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| patrician | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle |
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| (adjective) befitting a person of noble origin | - |
| patrilineal | (adjective) based on or tracing descent through the male line | Synonyms: patrilinear |
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| patrilinear | (adjective) based on or tracing descent through the male line | Synonyms: patrilineal |
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| patrimonial | (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, hereditary, transmissible |
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| patriotic | (adjective) inspired by love for your country | Synonyms: loyal |
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| patristic | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristical |
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| patristical | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristic |
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| pedestrian | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, prosaic, prosy |
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| pediatric | (adjective) of or relating to the medical care of children | Synonyms: paediatric |
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| peritrichous | (adjective) covered all over with uniformly distributed flagella | - |
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| petrifying | (adjective) paralyzing with terror | - |
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| photoelectric | (adjective) of or pertaining to photoelectricity | Synonyms: photoelectrical |
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| photoelectrical | (adjective) of or pertaining to photoelectricity | Synonyms: photoelectric |
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| photometric | (adjective) of or relating to photometry | Synonyms: photometrical |
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| photometrical | (adjective) of or relating to photometry | Synonyms: photometric |
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| piezoelectric | (adjective) relating to or involving piezoelectricity | - |
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| pinstriped | (adjective) having very thin stripes | - |
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| pneumogastric | (adjective) of or relating to or involving the lungs and stomach | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the vagus nerve | Synonyms: vagal |
| postindustrial | (adjective) of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research | - |
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| protogeometric | (adjective) characteristic of the earliest phase of geometric art especially in Greece | - |
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| psychiatric | (adjective) relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry | Synonyms: psychiatrical |
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| psychiatrical | (adjective) relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry | Synonyms: psychiatric |
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| psychometric | (adjective) of or relating to psychometrics | - |
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| putrid | (adjective) of or relating to or attended by putrefaction | - |
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| (adjective) morally corrupt or evil | - |
| (adjective) in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor | - |
| pyroelectric | (adjective) relating to or exhibiting pyroelectricity | Synonyms: pyroelectrical |
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| pyroelectrical | (adjective) relating to or exhibiting pyroelectricity | Synonyms: pyroelectric |
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| redistributed | (adjective) having population and industries relocated from urban to outlying areas | - |
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| restricted | (adjective) subject to restriction or subjected to restriction | - |
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| (adjective) the lowest level of official classification for documents | - |
| (adjective) restricted in meaning; (as e.g. `man' in `a tall man') | Synonyms: qualified |
| restricting | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting |
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| restrictive | (adjective) serving to restrict | - |
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| (adjective) (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports | - |
| retributive | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributory, vindicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributory, vindicatory |
| retributory | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, vindicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, vindicatory |
| retrievable | (adjective) capable of being regained especially with effort | - |
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| semestrial | (adjective) occurring every six months or during every period of six months | Synonyms: semestral |
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| semiterrestrial | (adjective) chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial | - |
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| septrional | (adjective) of northern regions; from the seven stars (or seven plowing oxen) of Ursa Major | - |
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| spectrometric | (adjective) of or relating to or involving spectrometry | - |
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| stoichiometric | (adjective) of or relating to stoichiometry | - |
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| striate | (adjective) marked with stria or striations | - |
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| stricken | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: smitten, struck |
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| (adjective) grievously affected especially by disease | Synonyms: afflicted |
| (adjective) put out of action (by illness) | Synonyms: laid low |
| strict | (adjective) characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint | Synonyms: nonindulgent |
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| (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: exacting, stern |
| (adjective) rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard | Synonyms: rigorous |
| (adjective) incapable of compromise or flexibility | Synonyms: rigid |
| (adjective) (of rules) stringently enforced | Synonyms: hard-and-fast |
| strident | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and harsh | Synonyms: raucous |
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| (adjective) being sharply insistent on being heard | Synonyms: shrill |
| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous |
| (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirant |
| strikebound | (adjective) closed or immobilized by a strike | - |
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| striking | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular |
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| (adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: dramatic, spectacular |
| stringent | (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: rigorous, tight |
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| stringy | (adjective) consisting of or containing string or strings | - |
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| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, thready |
| (adjective) lean and sinewy | Synonyms: wiry |
| (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, unchewable |
| striped | (adjective) marked or decorated with stripes | Synonyms: stripy |
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| stripped | (adjective) having everything extraneous removed including contents | Synonyms: bare |
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| (adjective) having only essential or minimal features | Synonyms: stripped-down |
| (adjective) with clothing stripped off | - |