| ranging | (adjective) wandering freely | - |
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| ranking | (adjective) having a higher rank | Synonyms: higher-ranking, superior |
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| raring | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness | Synonyms: impatient |
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| rasping | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| rattling | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, snappy, spanking, zippy |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
| ravaging | (adjective) ruinously destructive and wasting | - |
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| ravening | (adjective) excessively greedy and grasping | Synonyms: rapacious, voracious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| raving | (adjective) talking or behaving irrationally | Synonyms: raving mad, wild |
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| ravishing | (adjective) stunningly beautiful | - |
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| rearing | (adjective) rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile | Synonyms: rampant |
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| reasoning | (adjective) endowed with the capacity to reason | Synonyms: intelligent, thinking |
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| reassuring | (adjective) restoring confidence and relieving anxiety | - |
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| receding | (adjective) (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back | - |
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| reconciling | (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: accommodative |
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| recovering | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: convalescent |
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| recurring | (adjective) coming back | Synonyms: revenant |
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| redeeming | (adjective) compensating for some fault or defect | - |
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| (adjective) bringing about salvation or redemption from sin | Synonyms: redemptive, saving |
| reechoing | (adjective) (of sounds) repeating by reflection | Synonyms: echoing |
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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 |
| reflecting | (adjective) causing reflection or having a device that reflects | - |
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| refreshing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: bracing, brisk, fresh, refreshful, tonic |
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| (adjective) pleasantly new or different | Synonyms: novel |
| refrigerating | (adjective) causing cooling or freezing | Synonyms: refrigerant |
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| regenerating | (adjective) that are generating anew | - |
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| reigning | (adjective) exercising power or authority | Synonyms: regnant, ruling |
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| rejoicing | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, triumphal, triumphant |
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| relaxing | (adjective) affording physical or mental rest | Synonyms: reposeful, restful |
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| releasing | (adjective) emotionally purging (of e.g. art) | Synonyms: cathartic |
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| remaining | (adjective) not used up | Synonyms: left, left over, leftover, odd, unexpended |
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| rending | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: ripping, splitting |
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| renewing | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: restorative, revitalising, revitalizing, reviving |
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| repelling | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| repressing | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: inhibitory, repressive |
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| reproving | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, admonitory, reproachful |
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| resonating | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resounding, reverberating, reverberative |
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| resounding | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, reverberating, reverberative |
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| restricting | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting |
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| retiring | (adjective) not arrogant or presuming | Synonyms: unassuming |
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| (adjective) of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office | Synonyms: past, preceding |
| (adjective) reluctant to draw attention to yourself | Synonyms: reticent, self-effacing |
| returning | (adjective) tending to be turned back | Synonyms: reversive |
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| (adjective) tending to return to an earlier state | Synonyms: reverting |
| revealing | (adjective) showing or making known | - |
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| (adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed | Synonyms: telling, telltale |
| reverberating | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberative |
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| reverting | (adjective) tending to return to an earlier state | Synonyms: returning |
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| revitalising | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, restorative, revitalizing, reviving |
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| revitalizing | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, restorative, revitalising, reviving |
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| reviving | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, restorative, revitalising, revitalizing |
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| revolting | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| rewarding | (adjective) providing personal satisfaction | - |
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| rhyming | (adjective) having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds | Synonyms: rhymed, riming |
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| riming | (adjective) having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds | Synonyms: rhymed, rhyming |
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| ripping | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: rending, splitting |
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| (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, mean, splendid |
| rising | (adjective) advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status | - |
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| (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: acclivitous, uphill |
| (adjective) coming to maturity | Synonyms: emerging |
| (adjective) newly come into prominence | - |
| riveting | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, gripping |
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| roaring | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, thriving |
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| roiling | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: churning, roiled, roily, turbulent |
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| rollicking | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, sportive |
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| rolling | (adjective) uttered with a trill | Synonyms: rolled, trilled |
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| rousing | (adjective) rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading | - |
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| (adjective) capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement | Synonyms: stirring |
| roving | (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, wandering |
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| ruling | (adjective) exercising power or authority | Synonyms: regnant, reigning |
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| rumbling | (adjective) continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound | Synonyms: grumbling |
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| running | (adjective) of advancing the ball by running | - |
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| (adjective) executed or initiated by running | - |
| (adjective) (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream | - |
| (adjective) continually repeated over a period of time | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, operative, working |
| (adjective) measured lengthwise | Synonyms: linear |
| rustling | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: murmurous, soughing, susurrous |
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| sagging | (adjective) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | Synonyms: drooping, droopy |
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| salving | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: demulcent, emollient, softening |
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| sanctioning | (adjective) implying sanction or serving to sanction | Synonyms: sanctionative |
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| satisfying | (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: cheering, comforting |
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| (adjective) providing abundant nourishment | Synonyms: hearty, solid, square, substantial |
| saving | (adjective) bringing about salvation or redemption from sin | Synonyms: redeeming, redemptive |
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| (adjective) characterized by thriftiness | - |
| scandalmongering | (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: sensationalistic, yellow |
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| scathing | (adjective) marked by harshly abusive criticism | Synonyms: vituperative |
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| scheming | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: designing |
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| (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, calculative, conniving, shrewd |
| scintillating | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, sparkly |
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| (adjective) brilliantly clever | - |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, sparkly |
| scorching | (adjective) hot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface | - |
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| scowling | (adjective) sullen or unfriendly in appearance | Synonyms: beetle-browed |
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| screaming | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: hilarious, uproarious |
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| (adjective) so extremely intense as to evoke screams | - |
| (adjective) resembling a scream in effect | - |
| scurrying | (adjective) moving with great haste | Synonyms: hurrying |
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| seafaring | (adjective) used on the high seas | Synonyms: oceangoing, seagoing |
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| seagoing | (adjective) used on the high seas | Synonyms: oceangoing, seafaring |
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| searching | (adjective) exploring thoroughly | - |
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| (adjective) diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | Synonyms: inquisitory, probing |
| (adjective) having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect | Synonyms: trenchant |
| searing | (adjective) severely critical | - |
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| seeing | (adjective) having vision, not blind | - |
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| seeming | (adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: apparent, ostensible |
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| seeping | (adjective) leaking out slowly | Synonyms: oozing, oozy |
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| seething | (adjective) in constant agitation | - |
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| semiconducting | (adjective) having characteristics of a semiconductor; that is having electrical conductivity greater than insulators but less than good conductors | Synonyms: semiconductive |
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| sensitising | (adjective) making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: sensitizing |
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| sensitizing | (adjective) making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: sensitising |
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| shaping | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: formative, plastic |
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| sharing | (adjective) unselfishly willing to share with others | - |
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| shattering | (adjective) seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering | - |
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| shifting | (adjective) (of soil) unstable | Synonyms: unfirm |
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| (adjective) changing position or direction | Synonyms: shifty |
| (adjective) continuously varying | - |
| shining | (adjective) marked by exceptional merit | - |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shiny |
| shivering | (adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze | Synonyms: shaky, trembling |
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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 |
| shuddering | (adjective) shaking convulsively or violently | - |
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| sickening | (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, vile |
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| sidelong | (adjective) inclining or directed to one side | - |
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| (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, asquint, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
| (adjective) situated at or extending to the side | Synonyms: lateral |
| sidesplitting | (adjective) very funny | Synonyms: killing |
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| singing | (adjective) smooth and flowing | Synonyms: cantabile |
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| singsong | (adjective) uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting | Synonyms: chantlike, intoned |
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| sinning | (adjective) transgressing a moral or divine law | - |
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| sitting | (adjective) (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks | Synonyms: seated |
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| (adjective) not moving and therefore easy to attack | - |