| rewardful | (adjective) offering or productive of reward | - |
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| rewarding | (adjective) providing personal satisfaction | - |
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| roughhewn | (adjective) of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing | Synonyms: rough-cut |
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| rowdy | (adjective) disturbing the public peace; loud and rough | Synonyms: raucous |
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| runaway | (adjective) completely out of control | - |
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| sallow | (adjective) unhealthy looking | Synonyms: sickly |
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| scarecrowish | (adjective) resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged | - |
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| schoolwide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a school | - |
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| scowling | (adjective) sullen or unfriendly in appearance | Synonyms: beetle-browed |
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| scrawny | (adjective) inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrubby, stunted |
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| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, skinny, underweight, weedy |
| screwball | (adjective) foolish; totally unsound | Synonyms: crazy, half-baked, softheaded |
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| screwy | (adjective) not behaving normally | Synonyms: screw-loose |
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| seaward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the land | Synonyms: offshore |
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| (adjective) directed or situated away from inland regions and toward the sea or coast | - |
| seaworthy | (adjective) fit for a sea voyage | - |
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| semisweet | (adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: bittersweet |
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| semiweekly | (adjective) occurring twice a week | Synonyms: biweekly |
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| sewed | (adjective) fastened with stitches | Synonyms: sewn, stitched |
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| sewn | (adjective) fastened with stitches | Synonyms: sewed, stitched |
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| shadowed | (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowy, shady, umbrageous |
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| shadowy | (adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: dim, faint, vague, wispy |
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| (adjective) lacking in substance | Synonyms: wraithlike |
| (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowed, shady, umbrageous |
| shakedown | (adjective) intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system | - |
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| shallow | (adjective) lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center | - |
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| (adjective) not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply | - |
| (adjective) lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious | - |
| shopworn | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| (adjective) worn or faded from being on display in a store | Synonyms: shopsoiled |
| shoreward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: inshore, onshore |
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| showery | (adjective) (of weather) wet by periods of rain | Synonyms: rainy |
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| showy | (adjective) superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense | Synonyms: glossy |
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| (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, sporty |
| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: flamboyant, splashy |
| (adjective) displaying brilliance and virtuosity | - |
| shrewd | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming |
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| (adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: astute, sharp |
| shrewish | (adjective) continually complaining or faultfinding | Synonyms: nagging |
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| sideways | (adjective) (of movement) at an angle | Synonyms: crabwise |
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| sinewy | (adjective) consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon | Synonyms: tendinous |
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| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, hefty, muscular, powerful |
| (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, stringy, unchewable |
| skew | (adjective) having an oblique or slanting direction or position | Synonyms: skewed |
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| skewed | (adjective) having an oblique or slanting direction or position | Synonyms: skew |
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| skyward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: heavenward |
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| slow | (adjective) not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time | - |
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| (adjective) at a slow tempo | - |
| (adjective) (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time | - |
| (adjective) (of business) not active or brisk | Synonyms: dull, sluggish |
| (adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse |
| (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
| slowgoing | (adjective) not inclined to be enterprising | Synonyms: unenergetic |
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| snowbound | (adjective) confined or shut in by heavy snow | - |
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| snowy | (adjective) of the white color of snow | Synonyms: snow-white |
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| (adjective) covered with snow | Synonyms: snow-clad, snow-covered |
| (adjective) marked by the presence of snow | Synonyms: white |
| sorrowful | (adjective) experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss | - |
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| sorrowing | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning |
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| southeastward | (adjective) toward the southeast | - |
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| southward | (adjective) moving toward the south | Synonyms: southbound |
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| southwest | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwesterly, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwesterly |
| southwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwest |
| southwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Nevada, Utah, Colorado | - |
| southwestward | (adjective) toward the southwest | - |
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| sown | (adjective) sprinkled with seed | Synonyms: seeded |
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| sprawling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, straggling, straggly |
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| sprawly | (adjective) extended out irregularly | - |
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| squawky | (adjective) like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg | Synonyms: cackly |
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| stalwart | (adjective) used especially of persons | Synonyms: stouthearted |
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| (adjective) dependable | Synonyms: stout |
| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stout, sturdy |
| statewide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a state | - |
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| stepwise | (adjective) one thing at a time | Synonyms: bit-by-bit, in small stages, piecemeal, step-by-step |
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| stewed | (adjective) cooked in hot water | Synonyms: boiled, poached |
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| straightarrow | (adjective) conventionally moral and upright | - |
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| straightaway | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, quick |
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| straightforward | (adjective) pointed directly ahead | - |
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| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straight |
| (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: aboveboard |
| (adjective) free from ambiguity | - |
| straw | (adjective) of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored | - |
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| streetwise | (adjective) having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment | Synonyms: street smart, with-it |
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| swagger | (adjective) (British informal) very chic | Synonyms: groovy |
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| swaggering | (adjective) flamboyantly adventurous | Synonyms: swashbuckling |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious |
| swampy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, waterlogged |
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| swank | (adjective) imposingly fashionable and elegant | Synonyms: swanky |
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| swanky | (adjective) imposingly fashionable and elegant | Synonyms: swank |
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| swart | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swarthy |
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| swarthy | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swart |
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| swashbuckling | (adjective) flamboyantly adventurous | Synonyms: swaggering |
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| swayback | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, lordotic, swaybacked |
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| swaybacked | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, lordotic, swayback |
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| sweeping | (adjective) ignoring distinctions | Synonyms: wholesale |
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| (adjective) taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination | - |
| sweet | (adjective) not containing or composed of salt water | Synonyms: fresh |
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| (adjective) (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content | - |
| (adjective) having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar | - |
| (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling |
| (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic |
| (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant |
| (adjective) with sweetening added | Synonyms: sugared, sweet-flavored, sweetened |
| (adjective) not soured or preserved | Synonyms: fresh, unfermented |
| (adjective) pleasing to the mind or feeling | Synonyms: gratifying |
| (adjective) pleasing to the senses | - |
| sweetened | (adjective) with sweetening added | Synonyms: sugared, sweet-flavored, sweet |
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| sweetheart | (adjective) privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically) | - |
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| sweetish | (adjective) somewhat sweet | - |
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| swell | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing |
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| swelled | (adjective) feeling self-importance | Synonyms: big, vainglorious |
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| sweltering | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltry |
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| sweltry | (adjective) excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness | Synonyms: sweltering |
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| swept | (adjective) possessing sweep | - |
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| sweptback | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: backswept |
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| (adjective) (especially of aircraft wings) angled rearward from the point of attachment | - |
| sweptwing | (adjective) (of an aircraft) having sweptback wings | - |
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| swift | (adjective) moving very fast | Synonyms: fleet |
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| swimming | (adjective) applied to a fish depicted horizontally | Synonyms: naiant |
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| (adjective) filled or brimming with tears | Synonyms: liquid |
| swingeing | (adjective) severe; punishingly bad | - |
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| swinging | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: lilting, swingy, tripping |
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| swingy | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: lilting, swinging, tripping |
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| swinish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine |
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| (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish |
| swish | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: classy, posh |
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| swishy | (adjective) resembling a sustained `sh' or soft whistle | - |
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| swole | (adjective) Extremely muscled | - |
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| swollen | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, vain |
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| (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
| swooning | (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, light, lightheaded |
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| swordlike | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: bladelike, ensiform, sword-shaped |
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| sworn | (adjective) bound by or stated on oath | - |
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| (adjective) bound by or as if by an oath | Synonyms: pledged |
| tawdry | (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: cheapjack, shoddy |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, trashy |
| tawny | (adjective) of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather | Synonyms: tawny-brown |
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| tearaway | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap |
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| thawed | (adjective) no longer frozen solid | - |
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| (adjective) no longer frozen | - |
| throwaway | (adjective) intended to be thrown away after use | - |
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| (adjective) thrown away | Synonyms: cast-off, discarded, thrown-away |
| throwback | (adjective) characteristic of an atavist | Synonyms: atavistic |
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| thrown | (adjective) caused to fall to the ground | - |
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| (adjective) twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread | Synonyms: thrown and twisted |