| antiknocking | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknock |
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| attacking | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: assaultive |
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| backbreaking | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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| baking | (adjective) as hot as if in an oven | Synonyms: baking hot |
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| balking | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balky |
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| blinking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: winking |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| bloodsucking | (adjective) drawing blood from the body of another | - |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: leechlike, parasitic, parasitical |
| 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 |
| breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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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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| clanking | (adjective) having a hard nonresonant metallic sound | - |
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| clinking | (adjective) like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped | - |
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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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| 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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| earthshaking | (adjective) loud enough to shake the very earth | - |
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| (adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world | Synonyms: world-shaking, world-shattering |
| fucking | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming |
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| groundbreaking | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: innovational, innovative |
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| hardworking | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: industrious, tireless, untiring |
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| heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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| hulking | (adjective) of great size and bulk | Synonyms: hulky |
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| interlinking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlocking, interwoven |
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| interlocking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interwoven |
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| jerking | (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerky |
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| joking | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, jocular |
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| lacking | (adjective) inadequate in amount or degree | Synonyms: deficient, wanting |
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| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: absent, missing, wanting |
| looking | (adjective) appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms | Synonyms: sounding |
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| mocking | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, jeering, taunting |
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| (adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | Synonyms: quizzical, teasing |
| moneymaking | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, mercenary |
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| (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, remunerative |
| nonspeaking | (adjective) not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines | Synonyms: walk-on |
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| overlooking | (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: commanding, dominating |
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| painstaking | (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: conscientious, scrupulous |
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| provoking | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, agitative |
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| racking | (adjective) causing great physical or mental suffering | Synonyms: wrenching |
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| ranking | (adjective) having a higher rank | Synonyms: higher-ranking, superior |
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| reeking | (adjective) giving off a strong unpleasant smell | - |
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| (adjective) wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears | Synonyms: watery |
| rollicking | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, sportive |
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| shocking | (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful |
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| (adjective) glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism | Synonyms: lurid |
| smoking | (adjective) emitting smoke in great volume | - |
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| sneaking | (adjective) not openly expressed | Synonyms: unavowed |
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| spanking | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, zippy |
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| speaking | (adjective) capable of or involving speech or speaking | - |
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| (adjective) capable of speech | Synonyms: speech-endowed |
| squeaking | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, screechy, squeaky, squealing |
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| sticking | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking out |
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| stinking | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinky |
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| (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly |
| striking | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular |
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| (adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: dramatic, spectacular |
| taking | (adjective) very attractive; capturing interest | Synonyms: fetching, winning |
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| thinking | (adjective) endowed with the capacity to reason | Synonyms: intelligent, reasoning |
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| unblinking | (adjective) not shrinking from danger | Synonyms: unflinching, unintimidated, unshrinking |
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| (adjective) showing no visible emotion | - |
| unprovoking | (adjective) not provocative | Synonyms: unprovocative |
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| unshrinking | (adjective) not shrinking from danger | Synonyms: unblinking, unflinching, unintimidated |
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| unthinking | (adjective) without care or thought for others | Synonyms: thoughtless, uncaring |
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| (adjective) mentally sluggish | Synonyms: lumpen, lumpish |
| (adjective) not exhibiting or characterized by careful thought | Synonyms: unreflective, unthoughtful |
| waking | (adjective) marked by full consciousness or alertness | Synonyms: wakeful |
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| walking | (adjective) close enough to be walked to | Synonyms: walk-to |
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| whacking | (adjective) (British informal) enormous | - |
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| winking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: blinking |
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| wonderworking | (adjective) performing or able to perform wonders or miracles | - |
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| working | (adjective) actively engaged in paid work | Synonyms: on the job |
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| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, operative, running |
| (adjective) adopted as a temporary basis for further work | - |
| (adjective) adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something | - |
| (adjective) serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity | - |