accipitrine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks) | - |
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adamantine | (adjective) consisting of or having the hardness of adamant | - |
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(adjective) having the hardness of a diamond | - |
(adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, inexorable, intransigent |
adulterine | (adjective) conceived in adultery | - |
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affine | (adjective) (mathematics) of or pertaining to the geometry of affine transformations | - |
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(adjective) (anthropology) related by marriage | Synonyms: affinal |
alabastrine | (adjective) of or resembling alabaster | Synonyms: alabaster |
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alkaline | (adjective) relating to or containing an alkali; having a pH greater than 7 | Synonyms: alkalic |
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alpestrine | (adjective) growing at high altitudes | Synonyms: subalpine |
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alpine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of alps | - |
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(adjective) living or growing above the timber line | - |
alvine | (adjective) of or relating to the intestines | - |
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amaranthine | (adjective) of or related to the amaranth plant | - |
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(adjective) of an imaginary flower that never fades | Synonyms: unfading |
amethystine | (adjective) containing or resembling amethyst | - |
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amygdaline | (adjective) related to or resembling an almond | - |
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anguine | (adjective) of or related to or resembling a snake | - |
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anopheline | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of malaria mosquitoes | - |
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anserine | (adjective) of or resembling a goose | - |
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(adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
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apocrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion | - |
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aquiline | (adjective) curved down like an eagle's beak | Synonyms: hooked |
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asinine | (adjective) extremely silly or stupid | Synonyms: fatuous, inane |
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australopithecine | (adjective) of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus | - |
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bisontine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of bison | - |
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borderline | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: marginal |
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bovine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle) | Synonyms: bovid |
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(adjective) dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox | - |
bubaline | (adjective) relating to or resembling a buffalo | - |
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buteonine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus Buteo | - |
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calycine | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calyceal, calycinal |
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canine | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: laniary |
caprine | (adjective) being or pertaining to or resembling a goat or goats | - |
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carmine | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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catarrhine | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhinian |
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cauline | (adjective) especially of leaves; growing on a stem especially on the upper part of a stem | - |
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(adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: caulescent, stemmed |
cervine | (adjective) relating to or resembling deer | - |
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cisalpine | (adjective) on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps | Synonyms: ultramontane |
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clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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consanguine | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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corvine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a crow | - |
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crystalline | (adjective) consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals | - |
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(adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent |
(adjective) distinctly or sharply outlined | - |
diamantine | (adjective) consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds | - |
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divine | (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: elysian, inspired |
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(adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: godly |
(adjective) devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity | - |
(adjective) appropriate to or befitting a god | Synonyms: godlike |
(adjective) being or having the nature of a god | Synonyms: godlike |
(adjective) resulting from divine providence | Synonyms: providential |
eccrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell; important in regulating body temperature | - |
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elephantine | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: gargantuan, giant, jumbo |
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endocrine | (adjective) of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions | Synonyms: endocrinal |
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equine | (adjective) resembling a horse | - |
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(adjective) of or belonging to the family Equidae | - |
errhine | (adjective) causing nasal discharge | - |
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estuarine | (adjective) of or relating to or found in estuaries | Synonyms: estuarial |
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exocrine | (adjective) of or relating to exocrine glands or their secretions | - |
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exsanguine | (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: bloodless, exsanguinous |
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falconine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a falcon | - |
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feline | (adjective) of or relating to cats | - |
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feminine | (adjective) associated with women and not with men | - |
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(adjective) female (of grammatical gender) | - |
(adjective) befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman | Synonyms: womanly |
(adjective) (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable | - |
ferine | (adjective) wild and menacing | Synonyms: feral, savage |
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fine | (adjective) of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles | - |
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(adjective) characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment | - |
(adjective) minutely precise especially in differences in meaning | - |
(adjective) free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity | - |
(adjective) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition | Synonyms: all right, cool, hunky-dory, o.k., ok, okay |
(adjective) thin in thickness or diameter | - |
genuine | (adjective) not fake or counterfeit | Synonyms: echt |
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(adjective) not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed | Synonyms: true, unfeigned |
(adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: actual, literal, real |
hardline | (adjective) firm and uncompromising | Synonyms: hard-line |
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hircine | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suggestive of a goat (especially in strong odor) | - |
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hominine | (adjective) characteristic of humankind | - |
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hyaline | (adjective) resembling glass in transparency or translucency | Synonyms: hyaloid |
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hyperfine | (adjective) extremely fine or thin, as in a spectral line split into two or more components | - |
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internecine | (adjective) characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides | - |
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(adjective) (of conflict) within a group or organization | - |
intrauterine | (adjective) within the womb | - |
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labyrinthine | (adjective) relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear | - |
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(adjective) resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity | Synonyms: labyrinthian, mazy |
(adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous |
lacustrine | (adjective) of or relating to or living near lakes | - |
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leonine | (adjective) of or characteristic of or resembling a lion | - |
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leptorhine | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorrhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic |
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leptorrhine | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic |
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libertine | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, profligate, riotous |
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limacine | (adjective) of or resembling a slug | Synonyms: limacoid |
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lupine | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of wolves | - |
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marine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the sea | - |
(adjective) of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps) | - |
(adjective) relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen | Synonyms: maritime, nautical |
(adjective) native to or inhabiting the sea | - |
masculine | (adjective) associated with men and not with women | - |
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(adjective) male (of grammatical gender) | - |
(adjective) (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable | - |
microcrystalline | (adjective) containing crystals that are visible only under a microscope | - |
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murine | (adjective) of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice) | - |
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neuroendocrine | (adjective) of or relating to the nervous and endocrine systems (especially as they function together) | - |
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nine | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten | Synonyms: 9, ix |
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noncrystalline | (adjective) not crystalline | - |
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nonpasserine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds | - |
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oldline | (adjective) long-established | Synonyms: old-line |
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(adjective) adhering to conservative or reactionary principles | Synonyms: old-line |
online | (adjective) connected to a computer network or accessible by computer | Synonyms: on-line |
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(adjective) on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system | Synonyms: on-line |
(adjective) being in progress now | Synonyms: on-line |
opaline | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, pearlescent |
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oscine | (adjective) of or relating to the songbirds | - |
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ovine | (adjective) of or pertaining to or of the nature of or characteristic of a sheep or sheep | - |
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palatine | (adjective) of or relating to a palace | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives | - |
(adjective) relating to or lying near the palate | Synonyms: palatal |
passerine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds | - |
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peregrine | (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, roving, wandering |
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philistine | (adjective) smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values | Synonyms: anti-intellectual |
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phocine | (adjective) of or relating to seals | - |
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piscine | (adjective) of or relating to fish | - |
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platyrhine | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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platyrrhine | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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polycrystalline | (adjective) composed of aggregates of crystals | - |
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porcine | (adjective) relating to or suggesting swine | - |
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(adjective) repellently fat | Synonyms: gross |
(adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish |
pristine | (adjective) immaculately clean and unused | - |
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(adjective) completely free from dirt or contamination | - |
resupine | (adjective) lying face upward | Synonyms: supine |
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routine | (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: everyday, mundane, quotidian, unremarkable, workaday |
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saccharine | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: cloying, syrupy, treacly |
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saline | (adjective) containing salt | - |
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sanguine | (adjective) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life | Synonyms: florid, rubicund, ruddy |
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(adjective) confidently optimistic and cheerful | Synonyms: sanguineous |
sapphirine | (adjective) made of or resembling sapphire | - |
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saturnine | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, sour, sullen |
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(adjective) bitter or scornful | - |
saxicoline | (adjective) growing on or living among rocks | Synonyms: saxatile, saxicolous |
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