abdominous | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: paunchy, potbellied |
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acinous | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinic, acinose |
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acrogenous | (adjective) pertaining to flowerless plants (ferns or mosses) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem | Synonyms: acrogenic |
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albuminous | (adjective) relating to or containing or resembling albumin | - |
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allochthonous | (adjective) of rocks, deposits, etc.; found in a place other than where they and their constituents were formed | - |
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altitudinous | (adjective) indefinitely high; lofty | - |
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aluminous | (adjective) pertaining to or containing aluminum or alum | - |
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anachronous | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronistic |
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androgenous | (adjective) of or related to androgenesis | Synonyms: androgenetic |
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androgynous | (adjective) having both male and female characteristics | - |
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(adjective) relating to or exhibiting both female and male sex organs but with a predominantly female appearance | - |
anginous | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginose |
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arteriovenous | (adjective) connecting an artery to a vein | - |
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asynchronous | (adjective) not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase | - |
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(adjective) (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are derived from special characters in the data stream itself | - |
autochthonous | (adjective) of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were formed | - |
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(adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, endemic, indigenous |
autogenous | (adjective) originating within the body | Synonyms: autogenic |
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biogenous | (adjective) producing or produced by living things | - |
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bituminous | (adjective) resembling or containing bitumen | - |
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cacophonous | (adjective) having an unpleasant sound | Synonyms: cacophonic |
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caliginous | (adjective) dark and misty and gloomy | - |
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carbonous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carboniferous |
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cartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to cartilage | - |
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(adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: gristly, rubbery |
cavernous | (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: erectile |
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(adjective) being or suggesting a cavern | - |
ceruminous | (adjective) relating to or secreting cerumen | - |
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chitinous | (adjective) of or resembling chitin | - |
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collagenous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of collagen | Synonyms: collagenic |
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conterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, coterminous |
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(adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: contiguous |
(adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
coterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, conterminous |
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cretinous | (adjective) afflicted with cretinism | - |
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diaphanous | (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
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diclinous | (adjective) having pistils and stamens in separate flowers | - |
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dicotyledonous | (adjective) (of a flowering plant) having two cotyledons in the seed | - |
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endogenous | (adjective) derived or originating internally | Synonyms: endogenic |
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(adjective) of or resembling an endogen | - |
endovenous | (adjective) within or by means of a vein | Synonyms: intravenous |
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erogenous | (adjective) sensitive to sexual stimulation | - |
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euphonous | (adjective) having a pleasant sound | Synonyms: euphonious |
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exogenous | (adjective) derived or originating externally | Synonyms: exogenic |
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exsanguinous | (adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: bloodless, exsanguine |
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fibrinous | (adjective) characterized by the presence of fibrin | - |
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fibrocartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to fibrocartilage | - |
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gangrenous | (adjective) suffering from tissue death | Synonyms: mortified |
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gelatinous | (adjective) thick like gelatin | Synonyms: gelatinlike, jellylike |
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geosynchronous | (adjective) of or having an orbit with a fixed period of 24 hours (although the position in the orbit may not be fixed with respect to the earth) | - |
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glutinous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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gluttonous | (adjective) given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink | - |
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heinous | (adjective) extremely wicked, deeply criminal | Synonyms: flagitious |
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heterogenous | (adjective) originating outside the body | Synonyms: heterogeneous |
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(adjective) consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature | Synonyms: heterogeneous |
homogenous | (adjective) all of the same or similar kind or nature | Synonyms: homogeneous |
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homophonous | (adjective) characteristic of the phenomenon of words of different origins that are pronounced the same way | - |
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impetiginous | (adjective) of or relating to or having impetigo | - |
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indigenous | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic |
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intravenous | (adjective) within or by means of a vein | Synonyms: endovenous |
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isochronous | (adjective) equal in duration or interval | Synonyms: isochronal |
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leguminous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of legumes | - |
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lentiginous | (adjective) relating to or covered with or resembling freckles | Synonyms: freckled, lentiginose |
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libidinous | (adjective) driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires | Synonyms: lascivious, lewd, lustful |
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luminous | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: aglow, lambent, lucent |
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membranous | (adjective) relating to or made of or similar to a membrane | - |
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(adjective) characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane) | Synonyms: membrane-forming |
misogynous | (adjective) hating women in particular | Synonyms: misogynistic |
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monoclinous | (adjective) having pistils and stamens in the same flower | - |
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monocotyledonous | (adjective) (of a flowering plant) having a single cotyledon in the seed as in grasses and lilies | - |
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monogynous | (adjective) having one head or chief wife at a time (along with concubines) | Synonyms: monogynic |
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monotonous | (adjective) tediously repetitious or lacking in variety | Synonyms: humdrum |
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(adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: flat, monotone, monotonic |
mountainous | (adjective) like a mountain in size and impressiveness | - |
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(adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, craggy, hilly |
(adjective) containing many mountains | - |
mucilaginous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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mucinous | (adjective) relating to or containing mucin | - |
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multitudinous | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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mutinous | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny | - |
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(adjective) disposed to or in a state of mutiny | - |
neotenous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by neoteny | Synonyms: neotenic |
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nitrogenous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing nitrogen | Synonyms: nitrogen-bearing |
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nonglutinous | (adjective) not resembling glue in texture | Synonyms: nonviscid |
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nonpoisonous | (adjective) safe to eat | Synonyms: non-poisonous, nontoxic |
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(adjective) not producing poison | Synonyms: non-poisonous |
nonresinous | (adjective) not having resin | Synonyms: non-resinous, non-resiny, nonresiny |
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nonsynchronous | (adjective) not occurring together | Synonyms: unsynchronised, unsynchronized, unsynchronous |
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numinous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a numen | - |
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(adjective) evincing the presence of a deity | - |
oleaginous | (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: greasy, oily, sebaceous |
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(adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oily, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
ominous | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening |
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(adjective) presaging ill fortune | Synonyms: ill, inauspicious |
platitudinous | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, corny, platitudinal |
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poisonous | (adjective) not safe to eat | - |
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(adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: venomous, vicious |
(adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: toxicant |
polygynous | (adjective) having more than one wife at a time | - |
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polyphonous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by polyphony | Synonyms: polyphonic |
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pulchritudinous | (adjective) used of persons only; having great physical beauty | - |
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pyrogenous | (adjective) produced under conditions involving intense heat | Synonyms: igneous, pyrogenic |
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(adjective) produced by or producing fever | Synonyms: pyrogenetic, pyrogenic |
ravenous | (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, voracious, wolfish |
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(adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: esurient, famished, sharp-set, starved |
resinous | (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: pitchy, resiny, tarry |
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ruinous | (adjective) causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin | Synonyms: blasting |
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(adjective) extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin | Synonyms: catastrophic |
sarcolemnous | (adjective) of or relating to sarcolemma | Synonyms: sarcolemmic |
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spinous | (adjective) having spines | Synonyms: spiny |
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(adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthoid, acanthous |
sporogenous | (adjective) producing spores or reproducing by means of spores | - |
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stannous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing tin | Synonyms: stannic |
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synchronous | (adjective) occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase | Synonyms: synchronal, synchronic |
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(adjective) (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that requires a common clock signal (a timing reference) between the communicating devices in order to coordinate their transmissions | - |
tendinous | (adjective) consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon | Synonyms: sinewy |
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treasonous | (adjective) having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor | Synonyms: faithless, traitorous, treasonable, unfaithful |
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tyrannous | (adjective) marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior | Synonyms: oppressive, tyrannical |
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unsynchronous | (adjective) not occurring together | Synonyms: nonsynchronous, unsynchronised, unsynchronized |
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venous | (adjective) of or contained in or performing the function of the veins | - |
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verminous | (adjective) of the nature of vermin; very offensive or repulsive | - |
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vertiginous | (adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: dizzy, giddy, woozy |
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villainous | (adjective) extremely wicked | Synonyms: nefarious |
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vinous | (adjective) of or relating to wine | Synonyms: vinaceous |
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vitiliginous | (adjective) of or relating to or having vitiligo | - |
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