deviate | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviant |
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devilish | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
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(adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: rascally, roguish |
devious | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, roundabout |
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(adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: oblique |
(adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: shifty |
devoid | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, destitute, free, innocent |
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devoted | (adjective) (followed by `to') dedicated exclusively to a purpose or use | - |
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(adjective) zealous in devotion or affection | - |
devotional | (adjective) relating to worship | - |
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devouring | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, esurient, greedy |
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devout | (adjective) deeply religious | Synonyms: god-fearing |
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(adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, earnest, heartfelt |
diffusive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, dispersive, disseminative |
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digestive | (adjective) relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion | - |
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digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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(adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
diluvial | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvian |
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diluvian | (adjective) of or connected with a deluge | Synonyms: diluvial |
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diminutive | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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directive | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, guiding |
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disadvantaged | (adjective) marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences | Synonyms: deprived |
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disadvantageous | (adjective) involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness | Synonyms: unfavorable, unfavourable |
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disapproving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting disapproval | - |
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disavowable | (adjective) capable of being disavowed | - |
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disbelieving | (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: sceptical, skeptical, unbelieving |
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discoverable | (adjective) capable of being ascertained or found out | Synonyms: ascertainable |
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discovered | (adjective) discovered or determined by scientific observation | Synonyms: ascertained, observed |
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discriminative | (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: judicial |
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(adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminatory |
discursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, excursive, rambling |
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(adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: dianoetic |
disheveled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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dishevelled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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disintegrative | (adjective) tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
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disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
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dismissive | (adjective) stopping to associate with | - |
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(adjective) showing indifference or disregard | - |
dispersive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, disseminative |
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disputative | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, litigious |
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disruptive | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent |
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disseminative | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, dispersive |
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dissimulative | (adjective) concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive | - |
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dissociative | (adjective) tending to produce dissociation | - |
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dissolvable | (adjective) capable of dissolving | Synonyms: dissoluble |
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dissolved | (adjective) (of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form | - |
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dissuasive | (adjective) deterring from action | - |
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distinctive | (adjective) of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing | Synonyms: typical |
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(adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: classifiable |
distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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divalent | (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: bivalent |
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divergent | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: diverging |
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(adjective) diverging from another or from a standard | - |
diverging | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: divergent |
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divers | (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: diverse |
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diverse | (adjective) distinctly dissimilar or unlike | Synonyms: various |
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(adjective) many and different | Synonyms: divers |
diversified | (adjective) having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety | - |
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diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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diverted | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: amused, entertained |
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diverting | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, amusive |
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dividable | (adjective) can be divided usually without leaving a remainder | - |
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divided | (adjective) separated into parts or pieces | - |
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(adjective) distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose | Synonyms: divided up, shared, shared out |
(adjective) having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions | Synonyms: dual-lane |
divinatory | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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(adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
divine | (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: elysian, inspired |
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(adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: godly |
(adjective) devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity | - |
(adjective) appropriate to or befitting a god | Synonyms: godlike |
(adjective) being or having the nature of a god | Synonyms: godlike |
(adjective) resulting from divine providence | Synonyms: providential |
divisible | (adjective) capable of being or liable to be divided or separated | - |
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divisional | (adjective) of or relating to a military division | - |
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(adjective) serving to divide or marking a division | - |
(adjective) constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: fractional |
divisive | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, factious |
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divorced | (adjective) of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved | - |
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dorsoventral | (adjective) extending from the back to the belly | - |
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dovish | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: pacifist, pacifistic |
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driven | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, determined |
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(adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: goaded |
(adjective) urged or forced to action through moral pressure | Synonyms: impelled |
driving | (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: impulsive |
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(adjective) acting with vigor | - |
educative | (adjective) resulting in education | - |
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effective | (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effectual, efficacious |
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(adjective) existing in fact; not theoretical; real | - |
(adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: efficient |
(adjective) works well as a means or remedy | - |
(adjective) ready for service | - |
(adjective) exerting force or influence | Synonyms: good, in effect, in force |
effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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(adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
(adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
effervescing | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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effusive | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: gushing, gushy |
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(adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, gushing |
elective | (adjective) subject to popular election | Synonyms: elected |
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(adjective) optional | Synonyms: facultative |
electromotive | (adjective) concerned with or producing electric current | - |
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electronegative | (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: negative, negatively charged |
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electropositive | (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: positive, positively charged |
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elevated | (adjective) increased in amount or degree | Synonyms: raised |
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(adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
(adjective) raised above the ground | - |
eleven | (adjective) being one more than ten | Synonyms: 11, xi |
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eleventh | (adjective) coming next after the tenth and just before the twelfth in position | Synonyms: 11th |
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elucidative | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: clarifying |
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elusive | (adjective) skillful at eluding capture | - |
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(adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
(adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: subtle |
(adjective) difficult to describe | - |
elvish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elfish |
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emancipative | (adjective) tending to set free | - |
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emotive | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, affective |
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endovenous | (adjective) within or by means of a vein | Synonyms: intravenous |
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enervated | (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: adynamic, asthenic, debilitated |
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enervating | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: debilitative, enfeebling, weakening |
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engraved | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: etched, graven, incised, inscribed |
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enhancive | (adjective) serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body | Synonyms: cosmetic |
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(adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: augmentative |
enlivened | (adjective) made sprightly or cheerful | - |
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(adjective) made lively or spirited | Synonyms: spirited |
enlivening | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: animating |
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enveloping | (adjective) surrounding and closing in on or hemming in | - |
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enviable | (adjective) causing envy | - |
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envious | (adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: covetous, jealous |
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environmental | (adjective) concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings | - |
envisioned | (adjective) seen in the mind as a mental image | Synonyms: pictured, visualised, visualized |
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equivalent | (adjective) being essentially equal to something | Synonyms: tantamount |
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equivocal | (adjective) open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead | Synonyms: ambiguous |
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(adjective) uncertain as a sign or indication | - |
(adjective) open to question | - |
erosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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(adjective) wearing away by friction | - |
eruptive | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: igneous |
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(adjective) producing or characterized by eruptions | - |
(adjective) actively spewing out lava | - |
estival | (adjective) (rare) of or occurring in summer | Synonyms: aestival |
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evacuant | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, purgative |
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evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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evangelical | (adjective) of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament | - |
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(adjective) relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels | - |
(adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelistic |
evangelistic | (adjective) relating to or promoting the preaching and dissemination of the Christian gospel | - |
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(adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelical |