| ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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| abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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| accessary | (adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessory |
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| accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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| alary | (adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alar, aliform, wing-shaped |
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| alimentary | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
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| ampullary | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullar |
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| ancillary | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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| antennary | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennal |
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| antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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| arbitrary | (adjective) based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice | - |
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| arborary | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arboreal, arborical, arborous |
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| armillary | (adjective) of or relating to bracelets | - |
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| articulary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the joints of the body | Synonyms: articular |
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| auxiliary | (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant |
| aweary | (adjective) physically and mentally fatigued | Synonyms: weary |
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| axillary | (adjective) of or relating to the armpit | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the axil | Synonyms: alar |
| bacillary | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillar |
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| (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
| basilary | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilar |
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| beneficiary | (adjective) having or arising from a benefice | - |
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| bicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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| biliary | (adjective) relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or containing bile | Synonyms: bilious |
| binary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) | - |
| bleary | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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| (adjective) tired to the point of exhaustion | Synonyms: blear-eyed, blear, bleary-eyed |
| briary | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| budgetary | (adjective) of or relating to a budget | - |
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| canary | (adjective) having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow | Synonyms: canary-yellow |
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| capillary | (adjective) of or relating to hair | - |
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| (adjective) long and slender with a very small internal diameter | Synonyms: hairlike |
| capitulary | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitular |
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| cardiopulmonary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiorespiratory |
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| carpellary | (adjective) belonging to or forming or containing carpels | - |
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| cautionary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) warding off | Synonyms: prophylactic |
| centenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centennial |
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| chary | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagey, cagy |
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| ciliary | (adjective) relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: cilial, ciliate |
| (adjective) of or relating to the human eyelash | Synonyms: ciliate |
| cinerary | (adjective) containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead | - |
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| cometary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometic |
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| complementary | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, completing |
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| (adjective) of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other | - |
| complimentary | (adjective) conveying or resembling a compliment | - |
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| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: costless, free, gratis, gratuitous |
| contemporary | (adjective) belonging to the present time | Synonyms: present-day |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the present | Synonyms: modern-day |
| (adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneous |
| contrary | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false | - |
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| (adjective) very opposed in nature or character or purpose | - |
| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: obstinate, perverse, wayward |
| (adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: adverse |
| coronary | (adjective) surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart) | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| culinary | (adjective) of or relating to or used in cooking | - |
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| customary | (adjective) in accordance with convention or custom | - |
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| (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: accustomed, habitual, wonted |
| deflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause decreases in consumer prices or increases in the purchasing power of money | - |
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| denary | (adjective) containing ten or ten parts | Synonyms: ten-fold, tenfold |
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| (adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: decimal |
| dextrorotary | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotatory, right-handed |
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| dietary | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietetic, dietetical |
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| disciplinary | (adjective) relating to a specific field of academic study | - |
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| (adjective) relating to discipline in behavior | - |
| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinal |
| discretionary | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretional |
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| (adjective) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed | - |
| diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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| documentary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documental |
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| (adjective) (of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event | - |
| domiciliary | (adjective) of or relating to or provided in a domicile | - |
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| dreary | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| (adjective) lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise | Synonyms: drab |
| eleemosynary | (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, philanthropic |
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| elementary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, primary |
| (adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic |
| elocutionary | (adjective) of or relating to elocution | - |
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| (adjective) (used of style of speaking) overly embellished | - |
| epistolary | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolatory |
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| evidentiary | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting evidence | - |
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| (adjective) serving as or based on evidence | Synonyms: evidential |
| evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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| exemplary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) being or serving as an illustration of a type | Synonyms: emblematic, typic |
| (adjective) worthy of imitation | Synonyms: model |
| expeditionary | (adjective) (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad | - |
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| extemporary | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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| extraordinary | (adjective) beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; special | - |
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| (adjective) far more than usual or expected | Synonyms: over-the-top, sinful |
| (adjective) (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials | - |
| fiduciary | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another) | Synonyms: fiducial |
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| formulary | (adjective) of or relating to or of the nature of a formula | - |
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| fragmentary | (adjective) consisting of small disconnected parts | Synonyms: fragmental |
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| funerary | (adjective) of or for or relating to a funeral | - |
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| genitourinary | (adjective) of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions | Synonyms: GU |
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| geostationary | (adjective) of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth | - |
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| glary | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring |
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| hebdomadary | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadal, weekly |
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| hereditary | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
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| (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, patrimonial, transmissible |
| hoary | (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: canescent |
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| (adjective) ancient | Synonyms: rusty |
| (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, grizzly, hoar, white-haired |
| honorary | (adjective) given as an honor without the normal duties | - |
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| horary | (adjective) relating to the hours | - |
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| illusionary | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusional |
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| imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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| incendiary | (adjective) involving deliberate burning of property | - |
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| (adjective) capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily | - |
| (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
| inflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause increases in inflation | - |
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| inframaxillary | (adjective) relating to the lower jaw | Synonyms: mandibular |
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| insanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: unhealthful, unsanitary |
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| insurrectionary | (adjective) of or relating to or given to insurrection | Synonyms: insurrectional |
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| integumentary | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumental |
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| intercalary | (adjective) having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year: | - |
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| interdisciplinary | (adjective) drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study | - |
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| interplanetary | (adjective) between or among planets | - |
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| intrapulmonary | (adjective) being or occurring within a lung | - |
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| involuntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: nonvoluntary, unvoluntary |
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| (adjective) controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control | - |
| laniary | (adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: canine |
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| lapidary | (adjective) of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them | - |
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| legendary | (adjective) so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend | - |
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| (adjective) celebrated in fable or legend | Synonyms: fabled |
| levorotary | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotatory |
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| literary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of literature | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable about literature | - |
| mammary | (adjective) of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female | - |
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| maxillary | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw | - |
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| medullary | (adjective) of or relating to the medulla of any body part | - |
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| (adjective) containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the medulla oblongata | - |
| mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
| military | (adjective) associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare | - |