ablative | (adjective) relating to the ablative case | - |
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(adjective) tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature | - |
abortive | (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: stillborn, unsuccessful |
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abrasive | (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: harsh |
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(adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: scratchy |
absorptive | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorbent |
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abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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abusive | (adjective) characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment | - |
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(adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: opprobrious, scurrilous |
accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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acceptive | (adjective) inclined to accept rather than reject | - |
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(adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptant |
accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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(adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
(adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
accretive | (adjective) growing by accretion | - |
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acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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accumulative | (adjective) marked by acquiring or amassing | - |
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(adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: cumulative |
accusative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: objective |
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(adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusatory, accusing, accusive |
accusive | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusing |
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acquisitive | (adjective) eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas | - |
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active | (adjective) (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being | Synonyms: dynamic |
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(adjective) characterized by energetic activity | - |
(adjective) tending to become more severe or wider in scope | - |
(adjective) disposed to take action or effectuate change | - |
(adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) erupting or liable to erupt | - |
(adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) capable of erupting | - |
(adjective) full of activity or engaged in continuous activity | - |
(adjective) exerting influence or producing a change or effect | - |
(adjective) engaged in full-time work | - |
(adjective) expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: | - |
(adjective) (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions | - |
(adjective) in operation | Synonyms: alive |
(adjective) taking part in an activity | Synonyms: participating |
(adjective) engaged in or ready for military or naval operations | Synonyms: combat-ready, fighting |
adaptative | (adjective) having a capacity for adaptation | Synonyms: adaptive |
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adaptive | (adjective) having a capacity for adaptation | Synonyms: adaptative |
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addictive | (adjective) causing or characterized by addiction | Synonyms: habit-forming |
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additive | (adjective) characterized or produced by addition | - |
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(adjective) designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree | Synonyms: linear |
adductive | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducent, adducting |
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adhesive | (adjective) tending to adhere | - |
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adjective | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: procedural |
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(adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective | Synonyms: adjectival |
adjudicative | (adjective) concerned with adjudicating | Synonyms: adjudicatory |
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adjunctive | (adjective) joining; forming an adjunct | - |
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adjustive | (adjective) conducive to adjustment | - |
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administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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admissive | (adjective) characterized by or allowing admission | - |
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adoptive | (adjective) of parents and children; related by adoption | - |
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(adjective) acquired as your own by free choice | Synonyms: adopted |
adsorptive | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorbent, surface-assimilative |
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adumbrative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefigurative |
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advective | (adjective) of or relating to advection | - |
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adventive | (adjective) not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized | - |
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adversative | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: oppositive |
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affective | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, emotive |
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affirmative | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmatory |
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(adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: approbative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
(adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: optimistic |
afflictive | (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: painful, sore |
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agglomerative | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, clustered |
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agglutinative | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinate |
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(adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: polysynthetic |
aggregative | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, mass |
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aggressive | (adjective) having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: belligerent |
(adjective) tending to spread quickly | Synonyms: fast-growing, strong-growing |
agitative | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, provoking |
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alimentative | (adjective) related to the supply of aliment | - |
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alive | (adjective) possessing life | Synonyms: live |
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(adjective) having life or vigor or spirit | Synonyms: animated |
(adjective) capable of erupting | Synonyms: live |
(adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alert, awake |
(adjective) in operation | Synonyms: active |
(adjective) (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit | - |
(adjective) (followed by `to' or `of') aware of | - |
alleviative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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allusive | (adjective) characterized by indirect references | - |
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alterative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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(adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
(adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
amalgamative | (adjective) characterized by or tending toward amalgamation | - |
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amative | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amorous |
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ambiversive | (adjective) intermediate between introversive and extroversive | - |
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ameliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, amelioratory, meliorative |
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amusive | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, diverting |
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annihilative | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, devastating, withering |
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anticipative | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipant, expectant |
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anticoagulative | (adjective) of or relating to an anticoagulant | - |
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appellative | (adjective) pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun | - |
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(adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names | Synonyms: naming |
apperceptive | (adjective) able to relate new percepts to past experience | - |
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appetitive | (adjective) of or relating to appetite | - |
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applicative | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicatory |
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appointive | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointed |
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(adjective) relating to the act of appointing | - |
appositive | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositional |
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appreciative | (adjective) having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion | - |
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(adjective) feeling or expressive of gratitude | - |
apprehensive | (adjective) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm | - |
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(adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: discerning |
(adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc | Synonyms: worried |
approbative | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
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appropriative | (adjective) of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself | - |
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approximative | (adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximate, rough |
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arbitrative | (adjective) relating to or having the authority to arbitrate | - |
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argumentative | (adjective) given to or characterized by argument | - |
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articulative | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulatory |
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ascensive | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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assaultive | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: attacking |
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assertive | (adjective) aggressively self-assured | Synonyms: self-asserting, self-assertive |
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assimilative | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilatory |
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(adjective) capable of mentally absorbing | - |
assistive | (adjective) giving assistance | - |
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associative | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associatory |
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assuasive | (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: soothing |
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assumptive | (adjective) accepted as real or true without proof | - |
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(adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, presumptuous |
attentive | (adjective) (often followed by `to') giving care or attention | - |
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(adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | Synonyms: heedful, paying attention, thoughtful |
attractive | (adjective) pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm | - |
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(adjective) having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull | - |
(adjective) having power to arouse interest | - |
attributive | (adjective) of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify | Synonyms: prenominal |
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auditive | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: audile, auditory |
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augmentative | (adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree | - |
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(adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: enhancive |
authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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(adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
(adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
automotive | (adjective) of or relating to motor vehicles | - |
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(adjective) containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement | Synonyms: self-propelled, self-propelling |
aversive | (adjective) tending to repel or dissuade | - |
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benedictive | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictory |
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calculative | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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calefactive | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactory |
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capacitive | (adjective) of or relating to capacitance | - |
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captive | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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(adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: confined, imprisoned, jailed |
carminative | (adjective) relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) | Synonyms: flatus-relieving |
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causative | (adjective) producing an effect | - |
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chemisorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemosorptive |
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chemoreceptive | (adjective) of or relating to chemoreceptors | - |
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chemosorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorptive |
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chylifactive | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactory, chylific |
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circulative | (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulatory |
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coercive | (adjective) serving or intended to coerce | - |
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