acuminate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowing to a slender point | - |
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adnate | (adjective) of unlike parts or organs; growing closely attached | - |
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affectionate | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: fond, lovesome, tender |
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agglutinate | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinative |
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agnate | (adjective) related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnatic, paternal |
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alternate | (adjective) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired | - |
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(adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternative, substitute |
(adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternating |
(adjective) every second one of a series | - |
bicornate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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binate | (adjective) growing in two parts or in pairs | - |
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bipinnate | (adjective) of a leaf shape; having doubly pinnate leaflets (as ferns) | - |
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carinate | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinated, keeled, ridged |
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catkinate | (adjective) resembling a catkin | - |
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circinate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulate, annulated, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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cognate | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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(adjective) having the same ancestral language | - |
(adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: connate |
companionate | (adjective) like a companion | - |
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compassionate | (adjective) showing or having compassion | - |
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connate | (adjective) of similar parts or organs; closely joined or united | - |
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(adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: cognate |
coordinate | (adjective) of equal importance, rank, or degree | - |
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crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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determinate | (adjective) precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause | - |
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(adjective) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex | - |
(adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: definitive |
discriminate | (adjective) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions | - |
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dispassionate | (adjective) unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice | Synonyms: cold-eyed |
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disproportionate | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportional |
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(adjective) not proportionate | - |
effeminate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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emarginate | (adjective) having a notched tip | - |
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enate | (adjective) related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enatic, maternal |
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extortionate | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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fortunate | (adjective) having unexpected good fortune | - |
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(adjective) presaging good fortune | Synonyms: rosy |
(adjective) supremely favored | Synonyms: golden |
imparipinnate | (adjective) (a leaf shape) pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex | Synonyms: odd-pinnate |
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importunate | (adjective) persistent to the point of annoying | - |
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(adjective) expressing persistant and earnest entreaty | - |
incarnate | (adjective) invested with a bodily form especially of a human body | - |
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(adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied |
indeterminate | (adjective) not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance | Synonyms: undetermined |
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(adjective) having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex | - |
(adjective) of uncertain or ambiguous nature | - |
(adjective) not leading to a definite ending or result | - |
(adjective) (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved | - |
indiscriminate | (adjective) not marked by fine distinctions | - |
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(adjective) failing to make or recognize distinctions | - |
innate | (adjective) not established by conditioning or learning | Synonyms: unconditioned, unlearned |
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(adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: born, natural |
(adjective) present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development | Synonyms: congenital, inborn |
inordinate | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: excessive, undue, unreasonable |
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insubordinate | (adjective) not submissive to authority | - |
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(adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: resistant, resistive |
lanate | (adjective) covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments | Synonyms: woolly |
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lancinate | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
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latinate | (adjective) derived from or imitative of Latin | - |
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lunate | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, crescent, semilunar |
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misfortunate | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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obstinate | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: stubborn, unregenerate |
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(adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, perverse, wayward |
(adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obdurate, unrepentant |
ornate | (adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: flowery |
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paripinnate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex | Synonyms: abruptly-pinnate, even-pinnate |
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passionate | (adjective) having or expressing strong emotions | - |
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pectinate | (adjective) like a comb | - |
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pennate | (adjective) having feathered wings | - |
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pinnate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis | Synonyms: pinnated |
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planate | (adjective) having been flattened | Synonyms: flattened |
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predestinate | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: foreordained, predestined |
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predominate | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, preponderant, preponderating |
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proportionate | (adjective) being in due proportion | - |
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(adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: harmonious, symmetrical |
(adjective) agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree | - |
quaternate | (adjective) consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four | Synonyms: quaternary |
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reincarnate | (adjective) having a new body | - |
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runcinate | (adjective) having incised margins with the lobes or teeth pointing toward the base; as dandelion leaves | - |
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staminate | (adjective) capable of fertilizing female organs | Synonyms: antheral |
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subordinate | (adjective) lower in rank or importance | Synonyms: low-level |
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(adjective) subject or submissive to authority or the control of another | - |
(adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: dependent |
superordinate | (adjective) of higher rank or status or value | - |
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ternate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) consisting of three leaflets or sections | - |
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tripinnate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) thrice pinnate | Synonyms: tripinnated |
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turbinate | (adjective) of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages | - |
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(adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, volute, voluted, whorled |
unaffectionate | (adjective) lacking affection or warm feeling | Synonyms: detached, uncaring |
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uncompassionate | (adjective) lacking compassion or feeling for others | - |
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unfortunate | (adjective) not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune | - |
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(adjective) not auspicious; boding ill | Synonyms: inauspicious |
(adjective) unsuitable or regrettable | - |