| pulverized | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverised, small-grained |
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| punitive | (adjective) inflicting punishment | Synonyms: punitory |
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| purgative | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, evacuant |
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| purposive | (adjective) having or showing or acting with a purpose or design | - |
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| (adjective) having a purpose | Synonyms: goal-directed |
| putative | (adjective) purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds | - |
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| putrefactive | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefacient |
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| qualitative | (adjective) involving distinctions based on qualities | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities | - |
| quantitative | (adjective) expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement | - |
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| (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables | - |
| (adjective) relating to the measurement of quantity | - |
| quavering | (adjective) (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear | Synonyms: tremulous |
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| quicksilver | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, mercurial |
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| radioactive | (adjective) exhibiting or caused by radioactivity | - |
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| radiosensitive | (adjective) sensitive to radiation | - |
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| ratiocinative | (adjective) based on exact thinking | - |
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| ravening | (adjective) excessively greedy and grasping | Synonyms: rapacious, voracious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| ravenous | (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, voracious, wolfish |
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| (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: esurient, famished, sharp-set, starved |
| reactive | (adjective) participating readily in reactions | - |
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| (adjective) reacting to a stimulus | Synonyms: responsive |
| rebarbative | (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: repellant, repellent |
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| received | (adjective) conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers | Synonyms: standard |
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| (adjective) widely accepted as true or worthy | - |
| receptive | (adjective) ready or willing to receive favorably | Synonyms: open |
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| (adjective) able to absorb liquid (not repellent) | - |
| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: centripetal, sensory |
| (adjective) open to arguments, ideas, or change | - |
| recessive | (adjective) (of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessionary |
| reciprocative | (adjective) moving alternately backward and forward | Synonyms: reciprocatory |
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| (adjective) given or done or owed to each other | Synonyms: reciprocatory |
| reclusive | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: cloistered, secluded, sequestered |
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| (adjective) withdrawn from society; seeking solitude | Synonyms: recluse, withdrawn |
| recollective | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, retentive, tenacious |
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| reconstructive | (adjective) helping to restore to good condition | Synonyms: rehabilitative |
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| recoverable | (adjective) capable of being recovered or regained | - |
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| recovered | (adjective) found after being lost | - |
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| (adjective) freed from illness or injury | Synonyms: cured, healed |
| recovering | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: convalescent |
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| recriminative | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminatory |
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| recuperative | (adjective) promoting recuperation | Synonyms: restorative |
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| recursive | (adjective) of or relating to a recursion | - |
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| recurved | (adjective) curved backward or inward | Synonyms: recurvate |
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| redemptive | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption | Synonyms: redemptional, redemptory |
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| (adjective) bringing about salvation or redemption from sin | Synonyms: redeeming, saving |
| reductive | (adjective) characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment | - |
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| reflective | (adjective) capable of physically reflecting light or sound | - |
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| (adjective) devoted to matters of the mind | - |
| (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, ruminative |
| reflexive | (adjective) referring back to itself | Synonyms: self-referent |
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| (adjective) without volition or conscious control | Synonyms: automatic, reflex |
| reformative | (adjective) tending to reform | Synonyms: reformatory |
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| refractive | (adjective) of or relating to or capable of refraction | Synonyms: refractile |
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| (adjective) capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave) | Synonyms: deflective |
| regressive | (adjective) opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state | - |
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| (adjective) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases | - |
| regulative | (adjective) restricting according to rules or principles | Synonyms: regulatory |
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| rehabilitative | (adjective) designed to accomplish rehabilitation | - |
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| (adjective) helping to restore to good condition | Synonyms: reconstructive |
| reiterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: iterative |
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| rejective | (adjective) rejecting or tending to reject | - |
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| relative | (adjective) estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete | Synonyms: comparative |
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| (adjective) properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to' | Synonyms: proportional |
| relieved | (adjective) (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviated, eased |
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| (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, sticking, sticking out |
| removed | (adjective) separated in relationship by a given degree of descent | - |
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| (adjective) separate or apart in time | Synonyms: distant, remote |
| remunerative | (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, salaried, stipendiary |
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| (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, moneymaking |
| renunciative | (adjective) used especially of behavior | Synonyms: renunciant, self-abnegating, self-denying |
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| repetitive | (adjective) characterized by repetition | Synonyms: repetitious |
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| (adjective) repetitive and persistent | Synonyms: insistent |
| representative | (adjective) standing for something else | - |
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| (adjective) being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives | - |
| (adjective) serving to represent or typify | - |
| repressive | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: inhibitory, repressing |
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| reproductive | (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: generative, procreative |
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| repudiative | (adjective) rejecting emphatically; e.g. refusing to pay or disowning | - |
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| repulsive | (adjective) possessing the ability to repel | - |
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| (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant |
| (adjective) so extremely ugly as to be terrifying | Synonyms: hideous |
| reserved | (adjective) marked by self-restraint and reticence | - |
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| (adjective) set aside for the use of a particular person or party | - |
| resistive | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to electrical resistance | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: insubordinate, resistant |
| resolved | (adjective) explained or answered | Synonyms: solved |
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| (adjective) determined | Synonyms: single-minded |
| respective | (adjective) considered individually | Synonyms: several, various |
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| responsive | (adjective) readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion | - |
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| (adjective) containing or using responses; alternating | Synonyms: antiphonal |
| (adjective) reacting to a stimulus | Synonyms: reactive |
| restive | (adjective) impatient especially under restriction or delay | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, uptight |
| restorative | (adjective) promoting recuperation | Synonyms: recuperative |
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| (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, revitalising, revitalizing, reviving |
| restrictive | (adjective) serving to restrict | - |
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| (adjective) (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports | - |
| retaliative | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliatory, retributive, retributory, vindicatory |
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| retentive | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, recollective, tenacious |
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| (adjective) having the capacity to retain something | - |
| (adjective) having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water | - |
| 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 |
| retroactive | (adjective) descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously | - |
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| (adjective) affecting things past | Synonyms: ex post facto, retro |
| retrogressive | (adjective) going from better to worse | Synonyms: retrograde |
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| retrospective | (adjective) concerned with or related to the past | - |
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| revealing | (adjective) showing or making known | - |
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| (adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed | Synonyms: telling, telltale |
| revelatory | (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptic, apocalyptical |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, significative, suggestive |
| revenant | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a revenant | - |
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| (adjective) coming back | Synonyms: recurring |
| revengeful | (adjective) disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge | Synonyms: vengeful, vindictive |
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| reverberant | (adjective) having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected | - |
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| reverberating | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberative |
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| reverberative | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating |
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| revered | (adjective) profoundly honored | Synonyms: august, venerable |
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| reverend | (adjective) worthy of adoration or reverence | Synonyms: sublime |
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| reverent | (adjective) feeling or showing profound respect or veneration | - |
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| (adjective) showing great reverence for god | Synonyms: godly, worshipful |
| reverential | (adjective) feeling or manifesting veneration | Synonyms: respectful, venerating |
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| reverse | (adjective) of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
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| (adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | Synonyms: rearward |
| (adjective) reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect | Synonyms: inverse |
| reversed | (adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: converse, transposed |
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| (adjective) turned inside out and resewn | - |
| reversible | (adjective) capable of reversing or being reversed | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being reversed or used with either side out | Synonyms: two-sided |
| (adjective) capable of assuming or producing either of two states | - |
| (adjective) capable of being reversed | - |
| reversionary | (adjective) of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion) | - |
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| reversive | (adjective) tending to be turned back | Synonyms: returning |
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| revertible | (adjective) to be returned to the former owner or that owner's heirs | - |
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| reverting | (adjective) tending to return to an earlier state | Synonyms: returning |
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| revived | (adjective) restored to consciousness or life or vigor | - |
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| (adjective) given fresh life or vigor or spirit | Synonyms: reanimated |
| revolved | (adjective) turned in a circle around an axis | Synonyms: rotated |
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| riveting | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, gripping |
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| ruminative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective |
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| salverform | (adjective) of or concerning a gamopetalous that has a slender tube and an abruptly expanded tip | - |
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| sanative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, curative, healing, remedial, therapeutic |
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| sanctionative | (adjective) implying sanction or serving to sanction | Synonyms: sanctioning |
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| saved | (adjective) rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin | - |
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| (adjective) guarded from injury or destruction | Synonyms: protected |
| scrivened | (adjective) copied in handwriting | - |
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| secretive | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, closemouthed, tightlipped |
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| sedative | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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| seductive | (adjective) tending to entice into a desired action or state | - |
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| selective | (adjective) tending to select; characterized by careful choice | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by very careful or fastidious selection | - |
| semiconductive | (adjective) having characteristics of a semiconductor; that is having electrical conductivity greater than insulators but less than good conductors | Synonyms: semiconducting |
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| sensitive | (adjective) responsive to physical stimuli | - |
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| (adjective) being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others | - |
| (adjective) able to feel or perceive | Synonyms: sensible |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security | - |
| (adjective) hurting | Synonyms: raw, sore, tender |