| allowable | (adjective) that may be permitted especially as according to rule | Synonyms: permissible |
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| (adjective) deserving to be allowed or considered | - |
| (adjective) deductible according to the tax laws | - |
| awaited | (adjective) expected hopefully | Synonyms: anticipated, hoped-for |
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| awake | (adjective) not in a state of sleep; completely conscious | - |
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| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alert, alive |
| awakened | (adjective) aroused or activated | - |
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| (adjective) (somewhat formal) having been waked up | - |
| aware | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: cognisant, cognizant |
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| (adjective) bearing in mind; attentive to | Synonyms: mindful |
| awash | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, flooded, inundated, overflowing |
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| away | (adjective) used of an opponent's ground | - |
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| (adjective) not present; having left | - |
| (adjective) (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter | Synonyms: outside |
| awkward | (adjective) lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance | - |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: embarrassing, sticky, unenviable |
| (adjective) causing inconvenience | - |
| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
| (adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: ill at ease, uneasy |
| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly |
| backward | (adjective) directed or facing toward the back or rear | - |
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| (adjective) (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature | - |
| (adjective) retarded in intellectual development | Synonyms: feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted |
| (adjective) having made less than normal progress | - |
| brainwashed | (adjective) subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones | - |
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| breakaway | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: fissiparous, separatist |
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| chewable | (adjective) able to be chewed or cut | Synonyms: cuttable |
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| cowardly | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: fearful |
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| disavowable | (adjective) capable of being disavowed | - |
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| downward | (adjective) extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | Synonyms: down |
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| (adjective) on or toward a surface regarded as a base | - |
| dwarfish | (adjective) atypically small | - |
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| eastward | (adjective) moving toward the east | Synonyms: eastbound |
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| faraway | (adjective) far removed mentally | - |
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| (adjective) very far away in space or time | Synonyms: far-off |
| flyaway | (adjective) guided by whim and fancy | Synonyms: flighty, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained |
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| (adjective) (of hair or clothing) worn loose | - |
| foldaway | (adjective) capable of being folded up and stored | Synonyms: foldable, folding |
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| forward | (adjective) at or near or directed toward the front | - |
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| (adjective) used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty | - |
| (adjective) of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
| (adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: advancing, forward-moving |
| froward | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: headstrong, self-willed, wilful, willful |
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| halfway | (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, middle, midway |
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| (adjective) including only half or a portion | - |
| (adjective) at a point midway between two extremes | - |
| heartwarming | (adjective) causing gladness and pleasure | - |
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| heavenward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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| homeward | (adjective) oriented toward home | Synonyms: homeward-bound |
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| inward | (adjective) relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts | - |
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| (adjective) directed or moving inward or toward a center | Synonyms: inbound |
| jerkwater | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: one-horse, pokey, poky |
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| knowable | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognizable, cognoscible |
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| leeward | (adjective) on the side away from the wind | - |
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| lengthways | (adjective) running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing | Synonyms: lengthwise |
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| lukewarm | (adjective) feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm | Synonyms: half-hearted, halfhearted, tepid |
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| (adjective) moderately warm | Synonyms: tepid |
| midway | (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, halfway, middle |
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| nonrenewable | (adjective) that can not be renewed | Synonyms: unrenewable |
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| nonwashable | (adjective) not washable | - |
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| northeastward | (adjective) toward the northeast | - |
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| northward | (adjective) moving toward the north | Synonyms: northbound |
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| northwestward | (adjective) toward the northwest | - |
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| outward | (adjective) relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind | - |
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| (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: departing, outbound, outward-bound |
| postwar | (adjective) belonging to the period after a war | - |
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| prewar | (adjective) existing or belonging to a time before a war | - |
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| rearward | (adjective) located in or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: rear |
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| (adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | Synonyms: reverse |
| renewable | (adjective) that can be renewed or extended | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being renewed; replaceable | - |
| rewardful | (adjective) offering or productive of reward | - |
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| rewarding | (adjective) providing personal satisfaction | - |
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| runaway | (adjective) completely out of control | - |
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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 | - |
| shoreward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: inshore, onshore |
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| sideways | (adjective) (of movement) at an angle | Synonyms: crabwise |
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| skyward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: heavenward |
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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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| southwestward | (adjective) toward the southwest | - |
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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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| tearaway | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap |
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| throwaway | (adjective) intended to be thrown away after use | - |
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| (adjective) thrown away | Synonyms: cast-off, discarded, thrown-away |
| thwarted | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated |
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| thwarting | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, frustrative |
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| thwartwise | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: cross, transversal, transverse |
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| unawakened | (adjective) not aroused or activated | - |
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| (adjective) still asleep | - |
| unaware | (adjective) (often followed by `of') not aware | Synonyms: incognizant |
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| unbrainwashed | (adjective) not successfully subjected to brainwashing | - |
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| unchewable | (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, stringy |
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| underwater | (adjective) growing or remaining under water | Synonyms: subaquatic, subaqueous, submerged, submersed |
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| (adjective) beneath the surface of the water | Synonyms: submerged, submersed |
| underway | (adjective) currently in progress | Synonyms: afoot |
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| unknowable | (adjective) not knowable | - |
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| unrenewable | (adjective) that can not be renewed | Synonyms: nonrenewable |
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| unrewarded | (adjective) having acquired or gained nothing | Synonyms: empty-handed |
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| unrewarding | (adjective) not rewarding; not providing personal satisfaction | - |
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| unswayed | (adjective) not influenced or affected | Synonyms: uninfluenced, untouched |
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| untoward | (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: adverse, inauspicious |
| unwanted | (adjective) not wanted; not needed | - |
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| (adjective) not wanted | Synonyms: undesirable |
| unwarmed | (adjective) not having been heated or warmed | Synonyms: unheated |
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| unwarrantable | (adjective) incapable of being justified or explained | Synonyms: indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarranted |
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| unwarranted | (adjective) incapable of being justified or explained | Synonyms: indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarrantable |
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| (adjective) lacking justification or authorization | Synonyms: undue, unjustified |
| (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, wild |
| unwary | (adjective) not alert to danger or deception | - |
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| unwashed | (adjective) not cleaned with or as if with soap and water | - |
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| (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: common, plebeian, vulgar |
| unwatchful | (adjective) not alert to what is potentially dangerous | Synonyms: unalert, unvigilant |
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| unwavering | (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable |
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| (adjective) not showing abrupt variations | Synonyms: level |
| unwaxed | (adjective) not waxed | - |
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| upward | (adjective) extending or moving toward a higher place | Synonyms: up |
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| (adjective) directed up | - |
| viewable | (adjective) capable of being viewed | - |
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| wacky | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, silly, whacky, zany |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, whacky |
| waggish | (adjective) witty or joking | - |
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| wailful | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: lamenting, wailing |
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| wailing | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: lamenting, wailful |
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| wainscoted | (adjective) fitted or decorated with panels or wainscoting | Synonyms: paneled, panelled |
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| waiting | (adjective) being and remaining ready and available for use | Synonyms: ready and waiting |
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