monotone | (adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value | Synonyms: monotonic |
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(adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotonic, monotonous |
montane | (adjective) of or inhabiting mountainous regions | - |
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mosstone | (adjective) of a moderate somewhat dull yellow-green color | Synonyms: moss green |
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multilane | (adjective) (of roads and highways) having two or more lanes for traffic | - |
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mundane | (adjective) belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly | Synonyms: terrene |
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(adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: everyday, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
(adjective) concerned with the world or worldly matters | Synonyms: terrestrial |
murine | (adjective) of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice) | - |
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neuroendocrine | (adjective) of or relating to the nervous and endocrine systems (especially as they function together) | - |
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nine | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten | Synonyms: 9, ix |
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noncrystalline | (adjective) not crystalline | - |
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none | (adjective) not any; entity, negative pronoun | - |
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nonimmune | (adjective) (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with | Synonyms: liable, nonresistant, unresistant |
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nonpasserine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds | - |
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obscene | (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: lewd, raunchy, salacious |
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(adjective) designed to incite to indecency or lust | - |
(adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, repugnant, repulsive |
oldline | (adjective) long-established | Synonyms: old-line |
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(adjective) adhering to conservative or reactionary principles | Synonyms: old-line |
one | (adjective) used of a single unit or thing; not two or more | Synonyms: 1, ane, i |
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(adjective) being a single entity made by combining separate components | - |
(adjective) (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier | Synonyms: right |
(adjective) eminent beyond or above comparison | Synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one and only, peerless, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled |
(adjective) indefinite in time or position | - |
(adjective) of the same kind or quality | - |
(adjective) having the indivisible character of a unit | Synonyms: unitary |
online | (adjective) connected to a computer network or accessible by computer | Synonyms: on-line |
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(adjective) on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system | Synonyms: on-line |
(adjective) being in progress now | Synonyms: on-line |
opaline | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, pearlescent |
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opportune | (adjective) suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose | - |
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oscine | (adjective) of or relating to the songbirds | - |
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overdone | (adjective) cooked too long but still edible | - |
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(adjective) represented as greater than is true or reasonable | Synonyms: exaggerated, overstated |
ovine | (adjective) of or pertaining to or of the nature of or characteristic of a sheep or sheep | - |
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palatine | (adjective) of or relating to a palace | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives | - |
(adjective) relating to or lying near the palate | Synonyms: palatal |
passerine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds | - |
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peregrine | (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, roving, wandering |
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philhellene | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellenic |
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philistine | (adjective) smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values | Synonyms: anti-intellectual |
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phocine | (adjective) of or relating to seals | - |
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picayune | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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piscine | (adjective) of or relating to fish | - |
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plane | (adjective) having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another | Synonyms: flat, level |
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platyrhine | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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platyrrhine | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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polycrystalline | (adjective) composed of aggregates of crystals | - |
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porcine | (adjective) relating to or suggesting swine | - |
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(adjective) repellently fat | Synonyms: gross |
(adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish |
pristine | (adjective) immaculately clean and unused | - |
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(adjective) completely free from dirt or contamination | - |
profane | (adjective) not concerned with or devoted to religion | Synonyms: secular |
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(adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing | Synonyms: blasphemous, blue |
(adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: blasphemous, sacrilegious |
(adjective) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled | Synonyms: unconsecrated, unsanctified |
prone | (adjective) having a tendency (to); often used in combination | - |
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(adjective) lying face downward | Synonyms: prostrate |
resupine | (adjective) lying face upward | Synonyms: supine |
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routine | (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: everyday, mundane, quotidian, unremarkable, workaday |
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saccharine | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: cloying, syrupy, treacly |
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saline | (adjective) containing salt | - |
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sane | (adjective) mentally healthy; free from mental disorder | - |
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(adjective) marked by sound judgment; having good reason | Synonyms: reasonable |
sanguine | (adjective) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life | Synonyms: florid, rubicund, ruddy |
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(adjective) confidently optimistic and cheerful | Synonyms: sanguineous |
sapphirine | (adjective) made of or resembling sapphire | - |
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saturnine | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, sour, sullen |
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(adjective) bitter or scornful | - |
saxicoline | (adjective) growing on or living among rocks | Synonyms: saxatile, saxicolous |
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scalene | (adjective) of or relating to any of the scalene muscles | - |
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(adjective) of a triangle having three sides of different lengths | - |
seaborne | (adjective) conveyed by sea | - |
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sepaline | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a sepal | Synonyms: sepaloid |
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serene | (adjective) completely clear and fine | - |
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(adjective) not agitated; without losing self-possession | Synonyms: calm, tranquil, unagitated |
serpentine | (adjective) resembling a serpent in form | Synonyms: snakelike, snaky |
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sibylline | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic |
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(adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, vatic, vatical |
soigne | (adjective) polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance | Synonyms: soignee |
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sphingine | (adjective) resembling a sphinx | - |
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stone | (adjective) of any of various dull tannish or grey colors | - |
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subalpine | (adjective) growing at high altitudes | Synonyms: alpestrine |
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submarine | (adjective) beneath the surface of the sea | Synonyms: undersea |
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superfine | (adjective) (used especially of merchandise) very fine in quality | - |
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(adjective) of extremely fine size or texture | - |
(adjective) excessively delicate or refined | Synonyms: overrefined |
supine | (adjective) passive as a result of indolence or indifference | - |
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(adjective) lying face upward | Synonyms: resupine |
tangerine | (adjective) of a strong reddish orange color | - |
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taurine | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bull | - |
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terrene | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: tellurian, telluric, terrestrial |
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(adjective) belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly | Synonyms: mundane |
tramontane | (adjective) on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker) | Synonyms: transmontane |
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(adjective) being or coming from another country | - |
transalpine | (adjective) on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps) | Synonyms: ultramontane |
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transmontane | (adjective) on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker) | Synonyms: tramontane |
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transmundane | (adjective) existing or extending beyond the physical world | - |
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triune | (adjective) being three in one; used especially of the Christian Trinity | - |
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ultramarine | (adjective) of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color | - |
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ultramontane | (adjective) of or relating to ultramontanism | - |
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(adjective) on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps | Synonyms: cisalpine |
(adjective) on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps) | Synonyms: transalpine |
underdone | (adjective) insufficiently cooked | Synonyms: half-baked |
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undone | (adjective) thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence | Synonyms: unstuck |
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(adjective) not fastened or tied or secured | - |
(adjective) not done | - |
(adjective) doomed to extinction | Synonyms: done for, ruined, sunk, washed-up |
unfeminine | (adjective) not suitable for a woman | - |
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urbane | (adjective) showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience | Synonyms: polished, refined |
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ursine | (adjective) of or relating to or similar to bears | - |
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uterine | (adjective) of or involving the uterus | - |
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vulpine | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a fox | Synonyms: vulpecular |
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vulturine | (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturous |
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waterborne | (adjective) supported by water | - |
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(adjective) transported by water | - |
woebegone | (adjective) affected by or full of grief or woe | Synonyms: woeful |
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(adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down |