| digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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| (adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
| diminutive | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| directive | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, guiding |
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| discriminative | (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: judicial |
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| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminatory |
| discursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, excursive, rambling |
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| (adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: dianoetic |
| disintegrative | (adjective) tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
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| disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
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| dismissive | (adjective) stopping to associate with | - |
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| (adjective) showing indifference or disregard | - |
| dispersive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, disseminative |
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| disputative | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, litigious |
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| disruptive | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent |
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| disseminative | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, dispersive |
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| dissimulative | (adjective) concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive | - |
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| dissociative | (adjective) tending to produce dissociation | - |
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| dissuasive | (adjective) deterring from action | - |
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| distinctive | (adjective) of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing | Synonyms: typical |
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| (adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: classifiable |
| distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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| divisive | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, factious |
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| educative | (adjective) resulting in education | - |
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| effective | (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effectual, efficacious |
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| (adjective) existing in fact; not theoretical; real | - |
| (adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: efficient |
| (adjective) works well as a means or remedy | - |
| (adjective) ready for service | - |
| (adjective) exerting force or influence | Synonyms: good, in effect, in force |
| effusive | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: gushing, gushy |
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| (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, gushing |
| elective | (adjective) subject to popular election | Synonyms: elected |
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| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: facultative |
| electromotive | (adjective) concerned with or producing electric current | - |
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| electronegative | (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: negative, negatively charged |
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| electropositive | (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: positive, positively charged |
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| elucidative | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: clarifying |
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| elusive | (adjective) skillful at eluding capture | - |
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| (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
| (adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: subtle |
| (adjective) difficult to describe | - |
| emancipative | (adjective) tending to set free | - |
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| emotive | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, affective |
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| enhancive | (adjective) serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body | Synonyms: cosmetic |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: augmentative |
| erosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) wearing away by friction | - |
| eruptive | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: igneous |
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| (adjective) producing or characterized by eruptions | - |
| (adjective) actively spewing out lava | - |
| evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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| evaporative | (adjective) relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation | - |
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| evasive | (adjective) deliberately vague or ambiguous | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire | - |
| evocative | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant |
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| excessive | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: inordinate, undue, unreasonable |
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| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: extravagant, exuberant, overweening |
| excitative | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitatory |
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| exclusive | (adjective) excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority | - |
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| (adjective) not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective | Synonyms: single, undivided |
| (adjective) not divided or shared with others | Synonyms: sole |
| excogitative | (adjective) concerned with excogitating or having the power of excogitation | - |
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| excursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, discursive, rambling |
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| executive | (adjective) having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc. | - |
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| exhaustive | (adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: thorough, thoroughgoing |
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| exhortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortatory, hortative, hortatory |
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| exonerative | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, forgiving |
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| expansive | (adjective) able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion | - |
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| (adjective) friendly and open and willing to talk | Synonyms: talkative |
| (adjective) marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur | - |
| (adjective) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope | Synonyms: grand, heroic |
| expensive | (adjective) high in price or charging high prices | - |
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| expiative | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiatory, propitiatory |
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| exploitative | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitatory, exploitive |
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| exploitive | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitatory |
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| explorative | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: exploratory |
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| explosive | (adjective) serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst | - |
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| (adjective) sudden and loud | - |
| (adjective) liable to lead to sudden change or violence | Synonyms: volatile |
| expositive | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expository |
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| expressive | (adjective) performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by expression | - |
| extensive | (adjective) of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor | - |
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| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide |
| (adjective) large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity | Synonyms: extended |
| exteroceptive | (adjective) of or relating to exteroception | - |
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| extraversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extroversive |
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| extravertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| extrospective | (adjective) not introspective; examining what is outside yourself | Synonyms: extroverted |
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| extroversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extraversive |
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| extrovertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted |
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| extrusive | (adjective) of rock material; forced out while molten through cracks in the earth's surface | - |
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| facilitative | (adjective) freeing from difficulty or impediment | - |
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| facultative | (adjective) able to exist under more than one set of conditions | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the mental faculties | - |
| (adjective) granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something | - |
| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: elective |
| festive | (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, gay, merry |
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| fictive | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, pretended, put on, sham |
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| (adjective) capable of imaginative creation | - |
| figurative | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: nonliteral |
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| (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figural |
| five | (adjective) being one more than four | Synonyms: 5, v |
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| formative | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: plastic, shaping |
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| (adjective) capable of forming new cells and tissues | - |
| fricative | (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, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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| frustrative | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, thwarting |
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| fugitive | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, momentaneous, momentary |
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| furtive | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: sneak, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious |
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| (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, backstairs |
| generative | (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: productive |
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| (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: procreative, reproductive |
| genitive | (adjective) serving to express or indicate possession | Synonyms: possessive |
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| gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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| gustative | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustatorial, gustatory |
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| hortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortatory |
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| hyperactive | (adjective) more active than normal | Synonyms: overactive |
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| hypersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| hypertensive | (adjective) having abnormally high blood pressure | - |
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| hypoactive | (adjective) abnormally inactive | Synonyms: underactive |
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| hypotensive | (adjective) having abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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| illative | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of illation or inference | Synonyms: inferential |
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| (adjective) expressing or preceding an inference | - |
| (adjective) resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference | Synonyms: inferential |
| illusive | (adjective) based on or having the nature of an illusion | Synonyms: illusory |
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| illustrative | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: exemplifying |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: demonstrative |
| imaginative | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: inventive |
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| imitative | (adjective) marked by or given to imitation | - |
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| (adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic |
| (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: counterfeit |
| immunosuppressive | (adjective) of or relating to a substance that lowers the body's normal immune response and induces immunosuppression | - |
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| impassive | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, expressionless, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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| (adjective) having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: stolid |
| imperative | (adjective) requiring attention or action | - |
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| (adjective) relating to verbs in the imperative mood | - |
| implicative | (adjective) tending to suggest or imply | Synonyms: suggestive |
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| impressive | (adjective) making a strong or vivid impression | - |
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| (adjective) producing a strong effect | Synonyms: telling |
| impulsive | (adjective) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | Synonyms: capricious, whimsical |
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| (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: driving |
| (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, madcap, tearaway |
| (adjective) proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus | Synonyms: unprompted |
| (adjective) without forethought | - |
| inactive | (adjective) (military) not involved in military operations | Synonyms: nonoperational |
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| (adjective) not active physically or mentally | - |
| (adjective) (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly | - |
| (adjective) lacking activity; lying idle or unused | - |
| (adjective) lacking in energy or will | Synonyms: passive |
| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct | Synonyms: dormant |
| (adjective) not exerting influence or change | - |
| (adjective) not engaged in full-time work | - |
| (adjective) not in physical motion | Synonyms: motionless, static, still |
| (adjective) (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert | - |
| inattentive | (adjective) showing a lack of attention or care | - |
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| (adjective) not showing due care or attention | Synonyms: neglectful |
| inceptive | (adjective) in an initial stage | Synonyms: inchoative |
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| inchoative | (adjective) in an initial stage | Synonyms: inceptive |
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| incisive | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) suitable for cutting or piercing | - |
| incitive | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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