| brushed | (adjective) (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush | - |
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| (adjective) (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing | Synonyms: fleecy, napped |
| (adjective) touched lightly in passing; grazed against | - |
| brushlike | (adjective) resembling a brush | - |
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| brushy | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: bosky |
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| brusk | (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusque, curt, short |
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| brusque | (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, curt, short |
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| bulbaceous | (adjective) producing or growing from bulbs | - |
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| bulbous | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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| (adjective) shaped like a bulb | Synonyms: bulb-shaped, bulblike |
| bumptious | (adjective) offensively self-assertive | Synonyms: self-assertive |
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| burglarious | (adjective) involving or resembling burglary | - |
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| bush | (adjective) not of the highest quality or sophistication | Synonyms: bush-league |
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| bushed | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, dead |
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| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| bushy | (adjective) resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading | - |
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| (adjective) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed | Synonyms: shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired, shaggy |
| businesslike | (adjective) exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business | - |
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| (adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: earnest |
| bust | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: broke, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| busted | (adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: broken |
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| bustling | (adjective) full of energetic and noisy activity | - |
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| busty | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| busy | (adjective) actively or fully engaged or occupied | - |
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| (adjective) overcrowded or cluttered with detail | Synonyms: fussy |
| (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
| (adjective) (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) | Synonyms: engaged, in use |
| (adjective) crowded with or characterized by much activity | - |
| busybodied | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| butyraceous | (adjective) having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter | - |
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| cacophonous | (adjective) having an unpleasant sound | Synonyms: cacophonic |
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| cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
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| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
| caducous | (adjective) shed at an early stage of development | Synonyms: shed |
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| calamitous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
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| calcareous | (adjective) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk | Synonyms: chalky |
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| calcicolous | (adjective) growing or living in soil rich in lime | - |
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| calciferous | (adjective) bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite | - |
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| calcifugous | (adjective) growing or living in acid soil | - |
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| calculous | (adjective) relating to or caused by or having a calculus or calculi | - |
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| caliginous | (adjective) dark and misty and gloomy | - |
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| callipygous | (adjective) pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks | Synonyms: callipygian |
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| callous | (adjective) emotionally hardened | Synonyms: indurate, pachydermatous |
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| (adjective) having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear | Synonyms: calloused, thickened |
| calloused | (adjective) having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear | Synonyms: callous, thickened |
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| calumnious | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| camphoraceous | (adjective) being or having the properties of camphor | - |
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| campylotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
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| cancellous | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
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| cancerous | (adjective) like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or affected with cancer | - |
| cankerous | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: ulcerated, ulcerous |
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| canorous | (adjective) richly melodious | Synonyms: songful |
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| cantankerous | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: crotchety, ornery |
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| (adjective) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate | Synonyms: bloody-minded |
| capacious | (adjective) large in capacity | - |
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| capricious | (adjective) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | Synonyms: impulsive, whimsical |
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| (adjective) changeable | Synonyms: freakish |
| captious | (adjective) tending to find and call attention to faults | Synonyms: faultfinding |
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| carbonaceous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonic, carboniferous, carbonous |
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| carboniferous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era | - |
| carbonous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carboniferous |
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| carcinomatous | (adjective) being or relating to carcinoma | - |
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| carious | (adjective) (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay | - |
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| carnivorous | (adjective) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of carnivores | - |
| carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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| carpophagous | (adjective) feeding on fruit | Synonyms: fruit-eating |
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| carposporous | (adjective) having carpospores | - |
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| cartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to cartilage | - |
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| (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: gristly, rubbery |
| carunculous | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: caruncular |
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| caryophyllaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae | - |
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| caseous | (adjective) of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike | - |
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| catadromous | (adjective) migrating from fresh water to the sea to spawn | - |
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| causal | (adjective) involving or constituting a cause; causing | - |
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| causative | (adjective) producing an effect | - |
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| causeless | (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: fortuitous, uncaused |
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| (adjective) having no justifying cause or reason | Synonyms: reasonless |
| caustic | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: corrosive, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| cautious | (adjective) showing careful forethought | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: conservative |
| cavernous | (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: erectile |
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| (adjective) being or suggesting a cavern | - |
| cementitious | (adjective) like or relevant to or having the properties of cement | - |
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| censorious | (adjective) harshly critical or expressing censure | - |
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| ceremonious | (adjective) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display | Synonyms: pompous |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: conventional |
| cernuous | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
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| cerous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing cerium with valence 3 | - |
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| ceruminous | (adjective) relating to or secreting cerumen | - |
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| cetaceous | (adjective) of or relating to whales and dolphins etc | Synonyms: cetacean |
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| chaetognathous | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathan |
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| chancrous | (adjective) of or having chancres | - |
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| chartaceous | (adjective) of or like paper | Synonyms: paperlike, papery |
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| chartreuse | (adjective) of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur | - |
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| chelicerous | (adjective) having chelicerae | - |
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| cheliferous | (adjective) having chelae | - |
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| chitinous | (adjective) of or resembling chitin | - |
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| chivalrous | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: gallant, knightly |
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| chlamydeous | (adjective) having a floral envelope or perianth consisting of a calyx and/or corolla | - |
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| chlorophyllous | (adjective) relating to or being or containing chlorophyll | Synonyms: chlorophyllose |
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| chylaceous | (adjective) consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle | Synonyms: chylous |
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| chyliferous | (adjective) transmitting chyle | - |
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| chylous | (adjective) consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle | Synonyms: chylaceous |
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| circuitous | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: devious, roundabout |
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| (adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct | Synonyms: roundabout |
| circumlocutious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| citrous | (adjective) of or relating to or producing fruit of the plants of the genus Citrus | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to plants of the genus Citrus | - |
| clamorous | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, strident, vociferous |
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| clangorous | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clanging |
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| clausal | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as a clause | - |
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| claustrophobic | (adjective) suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places | - |
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| (adjective) uncomfortably closed or hemmed in | - |
| cleistogamous | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamic |
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| clustered | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative |
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| (adjective) growing close together but not in dense mats | - |
| coetaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coeval, contemporaneous |
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| collagenous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of collagen | Synonyms: collagenic |
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| collusive | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: conniving |
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| combustible | (adjective) capable of igniting and burning | - |
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| combustive | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, comburent |
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| commodious | (adjective) large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: convenient |
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