abloom | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: efflorescent |
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acneiform | (adjective) resembling acne | - |
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aeriform | (adjective) resembling air or having the form of air | Synonyms: airlike |
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(adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aery, airy, ethereal |
agleam | (adjective) bright with a steady but subdued shining | Synonyms: gleaming, nitid |
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aliform | (adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alar, alary, wing-shaped |
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amygdaliform | (adjective) shaped like an almond | Synonyms: almond-shaped, amygdaloid, amygdaloidal |
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antebellum | (adjective) belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War | - |
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antemortem | (adjective) preceding death | - |
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antepartum | (adjective) occurring or existing before birth | Synonyms: antenatal, prenatal |
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apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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arboriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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arciform | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arcuate, bowed |
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auriform | (adjective) having a shape resembling an ear | Synonyms: ear-like, ear-shaped |
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bacilliform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, baculiform, rod-shaped |
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baculiform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, bacilliform, rod-shaped |
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bantam | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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bellbottom | (adjective) (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom | Synonyms: bell-bottom, bell-bottomed |
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biform | (adjective) having or combining two forms | - |
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bottom | (adjective) situated at the bottom or lowest position | - |
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(adjective) the lowest rank | - |
botuliform | (adjective) long with rounded ends | - |
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broadloom | (adjective) (of rugs or carpets) woven full width | - |
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buckram | (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: starchy, stiff |
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bum | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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bursiform | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: pouch-shaped, pouchlike, saclike |
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buxom | (adjective) (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous | Synonyms: zaftig, zoftig |
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(adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
calceiform | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceolate |
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calm | (adjective) (of weather) free from storm or wind | - |
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(adjective) not agitated; without losing self-possession | Synonyms: serene, tranquil, unagitated |
columniform | (adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columnar, columnlike |
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cordiform | (adjective) (of a leaf) shaped like a heart | Synonyms: cordate, heart-shaped |
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cruciform | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciate |
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cubiform | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cuboid, cuboidal |
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cumuliform | (adjective) shaped like a cumulus cloud | - |
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cuneiform | (adjective) of or relating to the tarsal bones (or other wedge-shaped bones) | - |
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(adjective) shaped like a wedge | Synonyms: cuneal, wedge-shaped |
custom | (adjective) made according to the specifications of an individual | Synonyms: custom-made |
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dendriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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dim | (adjective) made dim or less bright | Synonyms: dimmed |
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(adjective) lacking in light; not bright or harsh | Synonyms: subdued |
(adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: black, bleak |
(adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: faint, shadowy, vague, wispy |
(adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dense, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow |
disciform | (adjective) having a round or oval shape like a disc | - |
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dolabriform | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabrate |
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downstream | (adjective) in the direction of a stream's current | - |
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ensiform | (adjective) shaped like a sword blade | Synonyms: bladelike, sword-shaped, swordlike |
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falciform | (adjective) curved like a sickle | Synonyms: falcate, sickle-shaped |
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filiform | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, threadlike, thready |
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firm | (adjective) unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause | Synonyms: fast, loyal, truehearted |
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(adjective) securely fixed in place | Synonyms: fast, immobile |
(adjective) strong and sure | Synonyms: strong |
(adjective) not soft or yielding to pressure | Synonyms: solid |
(adjective) possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue | - |
(adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
(adjective) securely established | - |
(adjective) not subject to revision or change | - |
(adjective) (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling | - |
(adjective) not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall | Synonyms: steady, unfluctuating |
flatbottom | (adjective) having a flat bottom | Synonyms: flat-bottom, flat-bottomed, flatbottomed |
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fusiform | (adjective) tapering at each end | Synonyms: cigar-shaped, spindle-shaped |
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glum | (adjective) moody and melancholic | - |
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(adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
goddam | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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grim | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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(adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, low-spirited, low |
(adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry |
(adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
(adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: black, mordant |
(adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, forbidding |
humdrum | (adjective) tediously repetitious or lacking in variety | Synonyms: monotonous |
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(adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: commonplace, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous |
infirm | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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(adjective) lacking firmness of will or character or purpose | - |
interim | (adjective) serving during an intermediate interval of time | - |
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lentiform | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lenticular |
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lissom | (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissome, lithe, lithesome, sinuous, supple |
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lukewarm | (adjective) feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm | Synonyms: half-hearted, halfhearted, tepid |
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(adjective) moderately warm | Synonyms: tepid |
m | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units | Synonyms: 1000, k, one thousand, thousand |
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maximum | (adjective) the greatest or most complete or best possible | Synonyms: maximal |
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medium | (adjective) (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside | - |
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(adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: average, intermediate |
minimum | (adjective) the least possible | Synonyms: minimal |
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morbilliform | (adjective) of a rash that resembles that of measles | - |
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multiform | (adjective) occurring in or having many forms or shapes or appearances | - |
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mum | (adjective) failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to | Synonyms: silent |
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nonrandom | (adjective) not random | - |
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nonuniform | (adjective) not homogeneous | Synonyms: inhomogeneous |
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optimum | (adjective) most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied | Synonyms: optimal |
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overarm | (adjective) with hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level | Synonyms: overhand, overhanded |
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oviform | (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, ovoid, prolate |
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panduriform | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center | Synonyms: fiddle-shaped, pandurate |
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papilliform | (adjective) shaped like a papilla | - |
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patelliform | (adjective) shaped like a dish or pan | Synonyms: dish-shaped, dished |
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pessimum | (adjective) of an organism's environment; least favorable for survival | Synonyms: pessimal |
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phantom | (adjective) something apparently sensed but having no physical reality | - |
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phylliform | (adjective) having the shape of a leaf | - |
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postmortem | (adjective) occurring or done after death | Synonyms: postmortal |
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(adjective) after death or after an event | - |
postpartum | (adjective) occurring immediately after birth | Synonyms: postnatal |
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premium | (adjective) having or reflecting superior quality or value; having a higher price or cost | - |
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prim | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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(adjective) affectedly dainty or refined | Synonyms: mincing, niminy-piminy, twee |
quondam | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: erstwhile, former, old, one-time, onetime, sometime |
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random | (adjective) lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance | - |
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reniform | (adjective) (of a leaf or bean shape) resembling the shape of kidney | Synonyms: kidney-shaped |
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rum | (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rummy, singular |
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sagittiform | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes | Synonyms: arrow-shaped, sagittate |
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salamandriform | (adjective) shaped like a salamander | - |
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salverform | (adjective) of or concerning a gamopetalous that has a slender tube and an abruptly expanded tip | - |
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sham | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on |
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sidearm | (adjective) (of pitches) made with the arm moving parallel to the ground | - |
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skim | (adjective) used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed | Synonyms: skimmed |
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slim | (adjective) small in quantity | Synonyms: slender |
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(adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slight, svelte |
trim | (adjective) severely simple in line or design | Synonyms: tailored |
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(adjective) thin and fit | Synonyms: spare |
(adjective) characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder | Synonyms: shipshape, well-kept |
(adjective) neat and smart in appearance | Synonyms: clean-cut, trig |
umbelliform | (adjective) resembling or in the form of an umbel | - |
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underarm | (adjective) with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level | Synonyms: underhand, underhanded |
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unfirm | (adjective) (of soil) unstable | Synonyms: shifting |
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(adjective) not firmly or solidly positioned | Synonyms: unsteady |
uniform | (adjective) always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences | Synonyms: unvarying |
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(adjective) not differentiated | Synonyms: undifferentiated |
(adjective) the same throughout in structure or composition | Synonyms: consistent |
(adjective) evenly spaced | - |
upstream | (adjective) in the direction against a stream's current | - |
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varicelliform | (adjective) resembling the rash of chickenpox | - |
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variform | (adjective) varying in form or shape | - |
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vasiform | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: cannular, tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular |
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verbatim | (adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: direct |
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vermiform | (adjective) resembling a worm; long and thin and cylindrical | Synonyms: worm-shaped |
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warm | (adjective) having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat | - |
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(adjective) psychologically warm; friendly and responsive | - |
(adjective) inducing the impression of warmth; used especially of reds and oranges and yellows when referring to color | - |
(adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: ardent |
(adjective) easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: quick |
(adjective) freshly made or left | Synonyms: strong |
(adjective) characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement | - |
(adjective) of a seeker; near to the object sought | - |
(adjective) uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble | - |