| anticipative | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipant, expectant |
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| anticoagulative | (adjective) of or relating to an anticoagulant | - |
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| antiviral | (adjective) inhibiting or stopping the growth and reproduction of viruses | - |
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| apivorous | (adjective) feeding on bees | - |
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| appellative | (adjective) pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun | - |
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| (adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names | Synonyms: naming |
| apperceptive | (adjective) able to relate new percepts to past experience | - |
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| appetitive | (adjective) of or relating to appetite | - |
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| applicative | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicatory |
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| appointive | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointed |
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| (adjective) relating to the act of appointing | - |
| appositive | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositional |
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| appreciative | (adjective) having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion | - |
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| (adjective) feeling or expressive of gratitude | - |
| apprehensive | (adjective) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm | - |
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| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: discerning |
| (adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc | Synonyms: worried |
| approbative | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
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| appropriative | (adjective) of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself | - |
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| approved | (adjective) established by authority; given authoritative approval | Synonyms: sanctioned |
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| approving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive |
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| approximative | (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximate, rough |
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| arbitrative | (adjective) relating to or having the authority to arbitrate | - |
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| archival | (adjective) of or relating to or contained in or serving as an archive | - |
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| argumentative | (adjective) given to or characterized by argument | - |
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| arteriovenous | (adjective) connecting an artery to a vein | - |
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| articulative | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulatory |
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| ascensive | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| assaultive | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: attacking |
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| assertive | (adjective) aggressively self-assured | Synonyms: self-asserting, self-assertive |
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| assimilative | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilatory |
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| (adjective) capable of mentally absorbing | - |
| assistive | (adjective) giving assistance | - |
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| associative | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associatory |
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| assuasive | (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: soothing |
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| assumptive | (adjective) accepted as real or true without proof | - |
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| (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, presumptuous |
| atavistic | (adjective) characteristic of an atavist | Synonyms: throwback |
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| atrioventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: auriculoventricular |
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| attentive | (adjective) (often followed by `to') giving care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | Synonyms: heedful, paying attention, thoughtful |
| 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 | - |
| attributive | (adjective) of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify | Synonyms: prenominal |
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| audiovisual | (adjective) involving both hearing and seeing (usually relating to teaching aids) | - |
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| auditive | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: audile, auditory |
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| augmentative | (adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree | - |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: enhancive |
| auriculoventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: atrioventricular |
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| authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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| (adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
| automotive | (adjective) of or relating to motor vehicles | - |
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| (adjective) containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement | Synonyms: self-propelled, self-propelling |
| available | (adjective) obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service | - |
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| (adjective) convenient for use or disposal | Synonyms: usable, useable |
| (adjective) not busy; not otherwise committed | Synonyms: uncommitted |
| avaricious | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
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| avascular | (adjective) without blood vessels | - |
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| avellan | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellane |
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| avellane | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellan |
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| avenged | (adjective) for which vengeance has been taken | - |
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| average | (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: ordinary |
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| (adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: intermediate, medium |
| (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) | Synonyms: median |
| (adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: mean |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution | Synonyms: modal |
| averse | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| aversive | (adjective) tending to repel or dissuade | - |
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| avertable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertible, avoidable, evitable |
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| avertible | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avoidable, evitable |
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| avian | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of birds | - |
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| avid | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: devouring, esurient, greedy |
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| (adjective) marked by active interest and enthusiasm | Synonyms: zealous |
| avifaunal | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunistic |
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| avifaunistic | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunal |
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| avionic | (adjective) of or relating to avionics | - |
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| avirulent | (adjective) not virulent; unable to produce disease | - |
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| avitaminotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of avitaminosis | - |
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| avocado | (adjective) of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado | - |
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| avocational | (adjective) of or involved in an avocation | - |
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| avoidable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avertible, evitable |
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| avowed | (adjective) openly declared as such | Synonyms: professed |
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| avuncular | (adjective) being or relating to an uncle | - |
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| (adjective) resembling an uncle in kindness or indulgence | - |
| baccivorous | (adjective) feeding on berries | - |
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| behavioral | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioural |
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| behaviorist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behavioristic, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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| behavioristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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| behavioural | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioral |
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| behaviourist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviouristic |
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| behaviouristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviourist |
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| believable | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: credible |
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| beloved | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: darling, dear |
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| benedictive | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictory |
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| benevolent | (adjective) intending or showing kindness | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
| (adjective) generous in providing aid to others | Synonyms: freehearted |
| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| bereaved | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing |
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| biconcave | (adjective) concave on both sides | Synonyms: concavo-concave |
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| biconvex | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: convexo-convex, lenticular, lentiform |
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| biovular | (adjective) (of twins) derived from two separate fertilized ova | Synonyms: fraternal |
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| bivalent | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: double |
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| (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: divalent |
| bivalve | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalved |
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| bivalved | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalve |
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| bivariate | (adjective) having two variables | - |
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| bovid | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) | Synonyms: bovine |
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| bovine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) | Synonyms: bovid |
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| (adjective) dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox | - |
| brave | (adjective) possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching | Synonyms: courageous |
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| (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
| (adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: braw, gay |
| cadaveric | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaverous |
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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 |
| calculative | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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| calefactive | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactory |
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| capacitive | (adjective) of or relating to capacitance | - |
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| captivated | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) strongly attracted | Synonyms: charmed |
| captivating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| captive | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: confined, imprisoned, jailed |
| cardiovascular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels | - |
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| carminative | (adjective) relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) | Synonyms: flatus-relieving |
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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 | - |
| carved | (adjective) made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary) | Synonyms: carven |
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| carven | (adjective) made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary) | Synonyms: carved |
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| causative | (adjective) producing an effect | - |
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