abject | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: low-down, low, miserable, scummy, scurvy |
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(adjective) showing utter resignation or hopelessness | Synonyms: unhopeful |
(adjective) showing humiliation or submissiveness | - |
(adjective) most unfortunate or miserable | - |
abstract | (adjective) existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment | - |
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(adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
(adjective) dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention | - |
adjunct | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: assistant |
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(adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
circumspect | (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: discreet |
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collect | (adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery | Synonyms: cod |
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compact | (adjective) closely and firmly united or packed together | - |
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(adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compendious, succinct, summary |
(adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset |
conjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals of a second | - |
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(adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
(adjective) bound in close association | - |
correct | (adjective) free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: right |
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(adjective) correct in opinion or judgment | Synonyms: right |
(adjective) socially right or correct | Synonyms: right |
(adjective) in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure | Synonyms: right |
defunct | (adjective) having ceased to exist or live | - |
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(adjective) no longer in force or use; inactive | - |
derelict | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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(adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: delinquent, neglectful, remiss |
(adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: abandoned, deserted |
(adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
direct | (adjective) direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short | - |
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(adjective) (of a current) flowing in one direction only | - |
(adjective) straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action | - |
(adjective) similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | - |
(adjective) in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child | Synonyms: lineal |
(adjective) moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth | - |
(adjective) lacking compromising or mitigating elements | Synonyms: exact |
(adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: verbatim |
(adjective) having no intervening persons, agents, conditions | Synonyms: unmediated |
(adjective) being an immediate result or consequence | - |
disjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second | - |
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(adjective) used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations | - |
(adjective) having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects | - |
(adjective) marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements | Synonyms: isolated |
distinct | (adjective) easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined | - |
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(adjective) clearly or sharply defined to the mind | Synonyms: clear-cut, trenchant |
(adjective) recognizable; marked | Synonyms: decided |
(adjective) (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality | Synonyms: distinguishable |
(adjective) constituting a separate entity or part | Synonyms: discrete |
elect | (adjective) elected but not yet installed in office | - |
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(adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elite |
erect | (adjective) upright in position or posture | Synonyms: upright, vertical |
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(adjective) of sexual organs; stiff and rigid | Synonyms: tumid |
exact | (adjective) marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact | - |
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(adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: accurate, precise |
(adjective) lacking compromising or mitigating elements | Synonyms: direct |
extinct | (adjective) no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives | Synonyms: nonextant |
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(adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) permanently inactive | - |
(adjective) being out or having grown cold | Synonyms: out |
imperfect | (adjective) not perfect; defective or inadequate | - |
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(adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: fallible, frail, weak |
incorrect | (adjective) not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth | Synonyms: wrong |
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(adjective) not in accord with established usage or procedure | Synonyms: wrong |
(adjective) characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules | Synonyms: faulty, wrong |
(adjective) (of a word or expression) not agreeing with grammatical principles | - |
indirect | (adjective) not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination | - |
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(adjective) extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action | - |
(adjective) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines | Synonyms: collateral |
(adjective) having intervening factors or persons or influences | - |
(adjective) not as a direct effect or consequence | - |
indistinct | (adjective) not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand | - |
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inexact | (adjective) not exact | - |
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instinct | (adjective) (followed by `with') deeply filled or permeated | Synonyms: imbued, replete |
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intact | (adjective) (used of domestic animals) sexually competent | Synonyms: entire |
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(adjective) undamaged in any way | - |
(adjective) (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken | Synonyms: inviolate |
(adjective) constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged | Synonyms: entire, integral |
maledict | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accursed, accurst |
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perfect | (adjective) being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish | - |
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(adjective) precisely accurate or exact | - |
(adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
pinnatisect | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) cleft nearly to the midrib in narrow divisions not separated into distinct leaflets | - |
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pluperfect | (adjective) more than perfect | - |
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sacrosanct | (adjective) must be kept sacred | Synonyms: inviolable, inviolate |
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select | (adjective) selected or chosen for special qualifications | Synonyms: blue-ribbon |
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(adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prime, prize, quality |
semiabstract | (adjective) characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter | - |
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strict | (adjective) characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint | Synonyms: nonindulgent |
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(adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: exacting, stern |
(adjective) rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard | Synonyms: rigorous |
(adjective) incapable of compromise or flexibility | Synonyms: rigid |
(adjective) (of rules) stringently enforced | Synonyms: hard-and-fast |
subject | (adjective) likely to be affected by something | - |
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(adjective) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others | Synonyms: dependent |
(adjective) possibly accepting or permitting | Synonyms: capable, open |
succinct | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, compendious, summary |
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suspect | (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, funny, shady, suspicious |
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unerect | (adjective) not upright in position or posture | - |
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