| bootlicking | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, sycophantic, toadyish |
| boring | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| bouncing | (adjective) vigorously healthy | - |
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| (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy |
| bowing | (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowed |
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| bracing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: brisk, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
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| bragging | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| branching | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling the branches of a tree | - |
| breathing | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: eupneic, eupnoeic |
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| breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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| breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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| brimming | (adjective) filled up | Synonyms: brimful, brimfull |
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| brooding | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| bruising | (adjective) brutally forceful and compelling | - |
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| (adjective) causing mental or emotional injury | - |
| bubbling | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| budding | (adjective) beginning to develop | - |
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| bulging | (adjective) curving or bulging outward | Synonyms: convex |
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| (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant |
| bullying | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: blustery |
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| bumbling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| bungling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: clumsy, fumbling, incompetent |
| burbling | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbly, effusive, gushing |
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| burgeoning | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| burning | (adjective) of immediate import | - |
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| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| bustling | (adjective) full of energetic and noisy activity | - |
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| buzzing | (adjective) noisy like the sound of a bee | Synonyms: abuzz |
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| calculating | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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| cantering | (adjective) riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop | - |
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| captivating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| caring | (adjective) feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others | - |
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| carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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| carpetbagging | (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbag |
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| catching | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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| centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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| centralizing | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralising |
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| challenging | (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: ambitious |
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| (adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: intriguing |
| (adjective) stimulating interest or thought | Synonyms: thought-provoking |
| changing | (adjective) marked by continuous change or effective action | Synonyms: ever-changing |
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| charming | (adjective) pleasing or delighting | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly |
| cheating | (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike |
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| (adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: adulterous, two-timing |
| cheering | (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: comforting, satisfying |
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| cheeseparing | (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: close, near, penny-pinching, skinny |
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| childbearing | (adjective) relating to or suitable for childbirth | - |
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| chilling | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: scary, shivery, shuddery |
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| choking | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: smothering, suffocating, suffocative |
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| churchgoing | (adjective) actively practicing a religion | - |
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| churning | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: roiled, roiling, roily, turbulent |
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| (adjective) moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation | Synonyms: churned-up |
| circulating | (adjective) passing from one to another | - |
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| clanging | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clangorous |
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| clanking | (adjective) having a hard nonresonant metallic sound | - |
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| clarifying | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: elucidative |
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| clashing | (adjective) sharply and harshly discordant | - |
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| cleansing | (adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: purifying |
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| (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: ablutionary |
| clinking | (adjective) like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped | - |
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| clogging | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: hindering, impeding, obstructive |
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| closing | (adjective) final or ending | - |
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| cloying | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: saccharine, syrupy, treacly |
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| coalescing | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescent |
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| coaxing | (adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade | Synonyms: ingratiatory |
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| coexisting | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexistent |
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| coiling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| coinciding | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| comforting | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: consolatory, consoling |
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| (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: cheering, satisfying |
| coming | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: approaching, forthcoming, upcoming |
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| commanding | (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: dominating, overlooking |
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| commemorating | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorative |
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| compelling | (adjective) tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument | - |
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| (adjective) driving or forcing | - |
| complaining | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaintive |
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| completing | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, complementary |
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| compromising | (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: conciliatory, flexible |
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| (adjective) vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion | - |
| concealing | (adjective) covering or hiding | - |
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| concluding | (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: final, last, terminal |
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| concurring | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concordant |
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| condemning | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemnatory |
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| condescending | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing |
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| confiding | (adjective) willing to entrust personal matters | - |
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| confining | (adjective) crowded | Synonyms: close |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
| confirming | (adjective) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen | Synonyms: positive |
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| (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
| conflicting | (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, contradictory, self-contradictory |
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| (adjective) on bad terms | - |
| conforming | (adjective) adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion) | Synonyms: conformist |
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| confounding | (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: contradictory |
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| confusing | (adjective) causing confusion or disorientation | - |
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| (adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: perplexing, puzzling |
| conniving | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: collusive |
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| (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, calculative, scheming, shrewd |
| consenting | (adjective) having given consent | - |
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| consoling | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consolatory |
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| constraining | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
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| constricting | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constrictive, narrowing |
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| consuming | (adjective) very strong; urgently felt | Synonyms: overwhelming |
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| contaminating | (adjective) spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination | Synonyms: dirty |
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| (adjective) that infects or taints | Synonyms: corrupting |
| continuing | (adjective) remaining in force or being carried on without letup | - |
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| (adjective) persisting for a long time | Synonyms: chronic |
| contrasting | (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrastive |
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| contributing | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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| controlling | (adjective) able to control or determine policy | - |
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| convincing | (adjective) causing one to believe the truth of something | - |
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| cooccurring | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, simultaneous |
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| coordinating | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinative |
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| corking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| corresponding | (adjective) accompanying | - |
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| (adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: comparable, like |
| (adjective) similar especially in position or purpose | - |
| corrupting | (adjective) that infects or taints | Synonyms: contaminating |
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| (adjective) harmful to the mind or morals | Synonyms: degrading |
| (adjective) seducing into corrupt practices | - |
| cracking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| crashing | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, flaming, fucking |
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| cringing | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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