| histrionic | (adjective) characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected | Synonyms: melodramatic |
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| homophonic | (adjective) having a single melodic line with accompaniment | - |
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| (adjective) having the same sound | - |
| hydroponic | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquacultural, aquicultural |
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| hygienic | (adjective) tending to promote or preserve health | Synonyms: hygienical |
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| hypertonic | (adjective) (of a solution) having a higher osmotic pressure than a comparison solution | - |
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| (adjective) (of living tissue) in a state of abnormally high tension | - |
| hypotonic | (adjective) (of a solution) having a lower osmotic pressure than a comparison solution | - |
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| (adjective) (of living tissue) lacking normal tone or tension | - |
| iatrogenic | (adjective) induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment) | - |
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| iconic | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of an icon | - |
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| icterogenic | (adjective) producing jaundice | - |
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| immunogenic | (adjective) possessing the ability to elicit an immune response | - |
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| infrasonic | (adjective) having frequencies below those of audible sound | - |
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| inharmonic | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, disharmonious, dissonant |
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| inorganic | (adjective) relating or belonging to the class of compounds not having a carbon basis | - |
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| (adjective) lacking the properties characteristic of living organisms | - |
| ionic | (adjective) containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions | - |
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| irenic | (adjective) conducive to peace | - |
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| ironic | (adjective) humorously sarcastic or mocking | Synonyms: dry, ironical, wry |
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| (adjective) characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is | Synonyms: ironical |
| isoclinic | (adjective) having equal magnetic inclinations | Synonyms: isoclinal |
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| isogonic | (adjective) having or making equal angles | - |
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| isotonic | (adjective) (used of solutions) having the same or equal osmotic pressure | Synonyms: isosmotic |
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| (adjective) of or involving muscular contraction in which tension is constant while length changes | - |
| (adjective) relating to or characterized by the equal intervals of a musical scale | - |
| (adjective) of two or more muscles; having equal tension | - |
| laconic | (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: crisp, curt, terse |
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| lactogenic | (adjective) inducing lactation | - |
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| leptorrhinic | (adjective) having a long narrow nose | Synonyms: leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinian |
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| lysogenic | (adjective) capable of producing or undergoing lysis | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to lysogeny | - |
| macaronic | (adjective) of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together | - |
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| manic | (adjective) affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason | Synonyms: frenzied |
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| masonic | (adjective) of or relating to stonemasons or masonry | - |
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| mechanic | (adjective) resembling the action of a machine | - |
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| megalomanic | (adjective) suffering from megalomania | Synonyms: megalomaniacal |
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| mesonic | (adjective) of or pertaining to a meson | Synonyms: mesic |
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| messianic | (adjective) of or relating to a messiah promising deliverance | - |
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| microelectronic | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of miniature electronic components | - |
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| misogynic | (adjective) (used of men) having deep-seated distrust of women | - |
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| mnemonic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory | Synonyms: mnemotechnic, mnemotechnical |
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| mnemotechnic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory | Synonyms: mnemonic, mnemotechnical |
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| monoclinic | (adjective) having three unequal crystal axes with one oblique intersection | - |
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| monogenic | (adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes | - |
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| monogynic | (adjective) having one head or chief wife at a time (along with concubines) | Synonyms: monogynous |
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| monophonic | (adjective) consisting of a single melodic line | - |
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| (adjective) designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel | Synonyms: mono, single-channel |
| monotonic | (adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value | Synonyms: monotone |
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| (adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotone, monotonous |
| moronic | (adjective) having a mental age of between eight and twelve years | - |
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| multiethnic | (adjective) involving several ethnic groups | Synonyms: multi-ethnic |
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| mutagenic | (adjective) capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of extracellular factors such as X-rays or chemical pollution) | - |
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| myelinic | (adjective) of or relating to the substance that forms a sheath around the axon of some nerve fibers | - |
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| myotonic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by myotonia | - |
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| neotenic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by neoteny | Synonyms: neotenous |
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| neurasthenic | (adjective) of or relating to or suffering from neurasthenia | - |
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| neurogenic | (adjective) arising in or stimulated by nerve tissues | - |
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| neuronic | (adjective) of or relating to neurons | Synonyms: neural, neuronal |
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| nonharmonic | (adjective) not harmonic | - |
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| nonionic | (adjective) not converted into ions | Synonyms: nonionised, nonionized, unionised, unionized |
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| (adjective) not ionic | Synonyms: nonpolar |
| nonmonotonic | (adjective) not monotonic | - |
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| oceanic | (adjective) relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean | Synonyms: pelagic |
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| (adjective) constituting or living in the open sea | - |
| (adjective) resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree | - |
| oecumenic | (adjective) concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions | Synonyms: ecumenic, ecumenical, oecumenical |
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| organic | (adjective) involving or affecting physiology or bodily organs | - |
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| (adjective) relating or belonging to the class of chemical compounds having a carbon basis | - |
| (adjective) being or relating to or derived from or having properties characteristic of living organisms | - |
| (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constituent, constitutional, constitutive |
| (adjective) simple and healthful and close to nature | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to foodstuff grown or raised without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides or hormones | - |
| pathogenic | (adjective) able to cause disease | Synonyms: infective, morbific |
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| pentatonic | (adjective) relating to a pentatonic scale | - |
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| philharmonic | (adjective) composing or characteristic of an orchestral group | - |
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| (adjective) devoted to or appreciative of music | - |
| philhellenic | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellene |
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| phonic | (adjective) of or relating to speech sounds | Synonyms: phonetic |
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| (adjective) relating to speech | - |
| (adjective) pertaining to the phonic method of teaching reading | - |
| photogenic | (adjective) looking attractive in photographs | - |
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| phrenic | (adjective) of or relating to the diaphragm | - |
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| planktonic | (adjective) of or relating to plankton | - |
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| platonic | (adjective) free from physical desire | - |
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| platyrrhinic | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian |
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| plutonic | (adjective) of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro | Synonyms: irruptive |
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| pneumonic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pulmonary, pulmonic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by or affected by pneumonia | - |
| polygenic | (adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes | - |
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| polyphonic | (adjective) having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together | Synonyms: contrapuntal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by polyphony | Synonyms: polyphonous |
| (adjective) having two or more phonetic values | - |
| postganglionic | (adjective) beyond or distal to a ganglion (referring especially to the unmyelinated fibers that originate from cells in autonomic ganglia) | - |
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| psychogenic | (adjective) of or relating to the psychological cause of a disorder | Synonyms: psychogenetic |
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| (adjective) mental or emotional rather than physiological in origin | - |
| pulmonic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonary |
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| punic | (adjective) tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans | Synonyms: perfidious, treacherous |
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| puritanic | (adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: blue, puritanical |
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| pyknic | (adjective) having a squat and fleshy build | Synonyms: endomorphic |
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| pyogenic | (adjective) producing pus | - |
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| pyrogenic | (adjective) produced under conditions involving intense heat | Synonyms: igneous, pyrogenous |
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| (adjective) produced by or producing fever | Synonyms: pyrogenetic, pyrogenous |
| pyrolignic | (adjective) of a substance produced by the effect of heat on wood, especially by destructive distillation | Synonyms: pyroligneous |
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| pyrotechnic | (adjective) of or relating to the craft of making fireworks | Synonyms: pyrotechnical |
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| (adjective) suggestive of fireworks | - |
| quadraphonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadrasonic, quadriphonic, quadrisonic |
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| quadrasonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadraphonic, quadriphonic, quadrisonic |
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| quadriphonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadraphonic, quadrasonic, quadrisonic |
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| quadrisonic | (adjective) of or relating to quadraphony | Synonyms: quadraphonic, quadrasonic, quadriphonic |
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| rabbinic | (adjective) of or relating to rabbis or their teachings | Synonyms: rabbinical |
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| radiophonic | (adjective) relating to or by means of radiotelephony | Synonyms: radiotelephonic |
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| radiotelephonic | (adjective) relating to or by means of radiotelephony | Synonyms: radiophonic |
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| runic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of runes | - |
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| sardonic | (adjective) disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking | Synonyms: snarky |
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| satanic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, unholy |
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| scenic | (adjective) of or relating to the stage or stage scenery | - |
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| (adjective) used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery | - |
| schizophrenic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia | Synonyms: schizoid |
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| (adjective) suffering from some form of schizophrenia | - |
| somatogenic | (adjective) of or arising from physiological causes rather than being psychogenic in origin | Synonyms: somatogenetic |
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| sonic | (adjective) (of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level | Synonyms: transonic |
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| (adjective) relating to audible sound | - |
| splanchnic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the viscera | Synonyms: visceral |
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| splenic | (adjective) of or relating to the spleen | Synonyms: lienal, splenetic |
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| stannic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing tin | Synonyms: stannous |
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| stereophonic | (adjective) designating the reproduction of sound using two or more independent audio channels | Synonyms: stereo, two-channel |
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| suboceanic | (adjective) formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed | Synonyms: subocean |
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| subsonic | (adjective) (of speed) less than that of sound in a designated medium | - |
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| succinic | (adjective) of or relating to or obtained from amber | - |
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| supersonic | (adjective) (of speed) greater than the speed of sound in a given medium (especially air) | - |
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| (adjective) having frequencies above those of audible sound | Synonyms: ultrasonic |