antecedent | (adjective) preceding in time or order | - |
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ardent | (adjective) glowing or shining like fire | - |
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(adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: warm |
(adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
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(adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
cadent | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadenced |
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candent | (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: incandescent |
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coincident | (adjective) matching point for point | - |
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(adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
confident | (adjective) having or marked by confidence or assurance | - |
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(adjective) not liable to error in judgment or action | Synonyms: sure-footed, surefooted |
(adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: convinced, positive |
correspondent | (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: analogous |
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decadent | (adjective) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay | Synonyms: fin-de-siecle |
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(adjective) luxuriously self-indulgent | - |
dependent | (adjective) relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed | - |
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(adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: subordinate |
(adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
(adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependant, qualified |
(adjective) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others | Synonyms: subject |
(adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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(adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
despondent | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: heartsick |
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diffident | (adjective) lacking self-confidence | Synonyms: shy, timid, unsure |
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(adjective) showing modest reserve | - |
dissident | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissentient, dissenting |
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(adjective) characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards | Synonyms: heretical, heterodox |
evident | (adjective) capable of being seen or noticed | Synonyms: discernible, observable |
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(adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
impendent | (adjective) close in time; about to occur | Synonyms: at hand, close at hand, imminent, impending |
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improvident | (adjective) not provident; not providing for the future | - |
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(adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, shortsighted |
imprudent | (adjective) not prudent or wise | - |
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(adjective) lacking wise self-restraint | - |
impudent | (adjective) marked by casual disrespect | Synonyms: flip, insolent, snotty-nosed |
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(adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise |
incident | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence | Synonyms: incidental |
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(adjective) falling or striking of light rays on something | - |
independent | (adjective) free from external control and constraint | - |
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(adjective) (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence | Synonyms: main |
(adjective) (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: autonomous, self-governing, sovereign |
(adjective) not controlled by a party or interest group | - |
interdependent | (adjective) mutually dependent | Synonyms: mutualist, mutually beneficial |
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nonresident | (adjective) not living in a particular place or owned by permanent residents | - |
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overconfident | (adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: cocksure, positive |
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pendent | (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: dependent, pendant |
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precedent | (adjective) preceding in time, order, or significance | - |
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provident | (adjective) providing carefully for the future | - |
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(adjective) careful in regard to your own interests | - |
prudent | (adjective) careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment | - |
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resident | (adjective) living in a particular place | - |
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(adjective) used of animals that do not migrate | Synonyms: nonmigratory |
resplendent | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, splendid, splendiferous |
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respondent | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: answering |
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scandent | (adjective) used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb | - |
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strident | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and harsh | Synonyms: raucous |
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(adjective) being sharply insistent on being heard | Synonyms: shrill |
(adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous |
(adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirant |
transcendent | (adjective) exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence | Synonyms: surpassing |
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(adjective) beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding | - |