| mandibular | (adjective) relating to the lower jaw | Synonyms: inframaxillary |
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| master | (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, primary, principal |
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| matrilinear | (adjective) based on or tracing descent through the female line | Synonyms: matrilineal |
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| maxillomandibular | (adjective) relating to the upper and lower jaws | - |
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| meager | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy |
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| meshuggener | (adjective) senseless; crazy | Synonyms: meshuga, meshugga, meshugge, meshuggeneh |
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| micropylar | (adjective) of or relating to a micropyle | - |
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| minor | (adjective) inferior in number or size or amount | - |
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| (adjective) lesser in scope or effect | - |
| (adjective) not of legal age | Synonyms: nonaged, underage |
| (adjective) (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees | - |
| (adjective) of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization | - |
| (adjective) of lesser importance or stature or rank | - |
| (adjective) of lesser seriousness or danger | - |
| (adjective) of the younger of two boys with the same family name | - |
| (adjective) relatively moderate, limited, or small | Synonyms: modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small-scale, small |
| (adjective) warranting only temporal punishment | Synonyms: venial |
| minuscular | (adjective) of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries | Synonyms: minuscule |
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| modular | (adjective) constructed with standardized units or dimensions allowing flexibility and variety in use | - |
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| molar | (adjective) pertaining to large units of behavior | - |
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| (adjective) containing one mole of a substance | - |
| (adjective) designating a solution containing one mole of solute per liter of solution | - |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to the grinding teeth in the back of a mammal's mouth | - |
| molecular | (adjective) relating to simple or elementary organization | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or produced by or consisting of molecules | - |
| mononuclear | (adjective) having only one nucleus | Synonyms: mononucleate |
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| monovular | (adjective) (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum | Synonyms: identical |
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| motor | (adjective) causing or able to cause motion | Synonyms: motive |
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| (adjective) conveying information to the muscles from the CNS | Synonyms: centrifugal |
| multicellular | (adjective) consisting of many cells | - |
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| multicolor | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| multicolour | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| muscular | (adjective) having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer | Synonyms: mesomorphic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of muscle | - |
| (adjective) having or suggesting great physical power or force | - |
| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, hefty, powerful, sinewy |
| navicular | (adjective) shaped like a boat | Synonyms: scaphoid |
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| near | (adjective) not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances | Synonyms: close, nigh |
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| (adjective) closely resembling the genuine article | - |
| (adjective) with or in a close or intimate relationship | Synonyms: dear, good |
| (adjective) being on the left side | Synonyms: nigh |
| (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, close, penny-pinching, skinny |
| (adjective) very close in resemblance | Synonyms: approximate |
| nebular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a nebula | Synonyms: nebulous |
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| (adjective) resembling a cloud | Synonyms: cloudlike |
| neither | (adjective) not either; not one or the other; entity, dual, negative pronoun; quantifier, dual, negative | - |
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| nether | (adjective) lower | - |
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| (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonian, chthonic |
| (adjective) located below or beneath something else | Synonyms: under |
| neuromotor | (adjective) relating to a nerve fiber or impulse passing toward motor effectors | - |
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| neuromuscular | (adjective) affecting or characteristic of both neural and muscular tissue | - |
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| neuter | (adjective) neither male nor female (of grammatical gender) | - |
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| (adjective) having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs | Synonyms: sexless |
| nodular | (adjective) relating to or characterized by or having nodules | - |
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| (adjective) having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules | Synonyms: nodulated, noduled |
| noncellular | (adjective) not made up of or divided into cells | Synonyms: acellular |
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| nongranular | (adjective) not having granules | - |
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| nonkosher | (adjective) not conforming to dietary laws | Synonyms: terefah, tref |
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| nonlinear | (adjective) designating or involving an equation whose terms are not of the first degree | - |
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| nonpolar | (adjective) not ionic | Synonyms: nonionic |
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| nuclear | (adjective) (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy | Synonyms: atomic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or constituting the nucleus of an atom | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or constituting the nucleus of a cell | - |
| (adjective) constituting or like a nucleus | - |
| ocher | (adjective) of a moderate orange-yellow color | Synonyms: ochre |
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| octangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like an octagon | Synonyms: octagonal |
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| ocular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the eye | Synonyms: ophthalmic, optic, optical |
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| (adjective) relating to or using sight | Synonyms: optic, optical, visual |
| (adjective) visible | Synonyms: visual |
| older | (adjective) skilled through long experience | Synonyms: old |
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| (adjective) advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) | Synonyms: aged, elderly, senior |
| (adjective) used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son | Synonyms: elder, sr. |
| oracular | (adjective) of or relating to an oracle | - |
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| (adjective) resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought | Synonyms: enigmatic |
| (adjective) obscurely prophetic | Synonyms: Delphic |
| orbicular | (adjective) circular or nearly circular | Synonyms: orbiculate |
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| (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, spheric, spherical |
| orthomolecular | (adjective) designating or relating to a form of treatment of mental disorders that seeks to restore biochemical balance in the body with large doses of vitamins and minerals | - |
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| ossicular | (adjective) pertaining to the ossicles in the middle ear | Synonyms: ossiculate |
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| other | (adjective) not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; quantifier, other | - |
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| (adjective) recently past | - |
| (adjective) very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected | - |
| (adjective) belonging to the distant past | Synonyms: early, former |
| outdoor | (adjective) located, suited for, or taking place in the open air | Synonyms: out-of-door, outside |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or concerning the outdoors or outdoor activities | - |
| outer | (adjective) being on the outside or further from a center | - |
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| (adjective) being on or toward the outside of the body | - |
| (adjective) located outside | - |
| over | (adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion | Synonyms: all over, complete, concluded, ended, terminated |
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| overeager | (adjective) excessively eager | - |
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| overfamiliar | (adjective) taking undue liberties | - |
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| ovular | (adjective) of or relating to an ovum | - |
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| (adjective) being or of the nature of an ovule | - |
| palmar | (adjective) relating to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot | Synonyms: volar |
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| particular | (adjective) providing specific details or circumstances | - |
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| (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, fussy, picky |
| (adjective) first and most important | Synonyms: special |
| (adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category | Synonyms: peculiar, special |
| (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: especial, exceptional, special |
| (adjective) separate and distinct from others of the same group or category | - |
| patellar | (adjective) near or relating to the patella or kneecap | - |
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| patrilinear | (adjective) based on or tracing descent through the male line | Synonyms: patrilineal |
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| peculiar | (adjective) characteristic of one only; distinctive or special | - |
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| (adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category | Synonyms: particular, special |
| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, queer, rum, rummy, singular |
| (adjective) markedly different from the usual; special | - |
| peninsular | (adjective) of or forming or resembling a peninsula | - |
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| pentangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon | Synonyms: pentagonal |
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| peristylar | (adjective) having columniation completely circling an area of the structure | Synonyms: pseudoperipteral |
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| perpendicular | (adjective) intersecting at or forming right angles | - |
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| (adjective) at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line | Synonyms: vertical |
| (adjective) so steep as to be nearly vertical | - |
| pilar | (adjective) of or relating to a hair | - |
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| planar | (adjective) involving or having two dimensions | Synonyms: two-dimensional |
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| plantar | (adjective) relating to or occurring on the undersurface of the foot | - |
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| polar | (adjective) of or existing at or near a geographical pole or within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles | - |
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| (adjective) located at or near or coming from the earth's poles | - |
| (adjective) having a pair of equal and opposite charges | - |
| (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy |
| (adjective) being of crucial importance | Synonyms: pivotal |
| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical, opposite |
| poor | (adjective) having little money or few possessions | - |
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| (adjective) lacking in quality or substances | - |
| (adjective) characterized by or indicating poverty | - |
| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, short |
| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched |
| popular | (adjective) regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public | - |
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| (adjective) carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large | - |
| (adjective) (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people) | Synonyms: pop |
| (adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large | Synonyms: democratic |
| posterior | (adjective) located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure | - |
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| (adjective) coming at a subsequent time or stage | Synonyms: later, ulterior |
| postwar | (adjective) belonging to the period after a war | - |
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| premier | (adjective) preceding all others in time | Synonyms: premiere |
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| (adjective) first in rank or degree | Synonyms: prime |
| pressor | (adjective) increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure | - |
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| prewar | (adjective) existing or belonging to a time before a war | - |
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| prior | (adjective) earlier in time | Synonyms: anterior |
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| proconsular | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a proconsul | - |
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| proper | (adjective) marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) having all the qualities typical of the thing specified | - |
| (adjective) limited to the thing specified | - |
| psychomotor | (adjective) of or relating to or characterizing mental events that have motor consequences or vice versa | - |
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| quadrangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a quadrangle | - |
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| queer | (adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: gay, homophile |
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| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, rum, rummy, singular |
| quicksilver | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: erratic, fickle, mercurial |
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| rear | (adjective) located in or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: rearward |
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| rectangular | (adjective) having four right angles | - |
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| (adjective) having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles | Synonyms: orthogonal |
| rectilinear | (adjective) characterized by a straight line or lines | Synonyms: rectilineal |
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| regular | (adjective) in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle | - |
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| (adjective) (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula | - |
| (adjective) (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces | - |
| (adjective) not constipated | Synonyms: unconstipated |
| (adjective) relating to a person who does something regularly | Synonyms: steady |
| (adjective) officially full-time | - |
| (adjective) not deviating from what is normal | - |
| (adjective) regularly scheduled for fixed times | - |
| (adjective) conforming to a standard or pattern | - |
| (adjective) occurring at fixed intervals | Synonyms: even |
| (adjective) symmetrically arranged | Synonyms: even |
| (adjective) often used as intensifiers | Synonyms: veritable |
| (adjective) in accord with regular practice or procedure | - |
| reticular | (adjective) resembling or forming a network | Synonyms: reticulate |
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| rubber | (adjective) returned for lack of funds | Synonyms: no-good |
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| scalar | (adjective) of or relating to a directionless magnitude (such as mass or speed etc.) that is completely specified by its magnitude | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a musical scale | - |
| scapular | (adjective) relating to or near the shoulder blade | - |
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| sear | (adjective) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture | Synonyms: dried-up, sere, shriveled, shrivelled, withered |
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| secular | (adjective) of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows | - |
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| (adjective) not concerned with or devoted to religion | Synonyms: profane |
| (adjective) characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world | Synonyms: temporal, worldly |
| (adjective) of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy | Synonyms: laic, lay |
| semicircular | (adjective) curved into a half circle | - |
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| semilunar | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, crescent, lunate |
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| senior | (adjective) older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service | - |
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| (adjective) used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college | Synonyms: fourth-year |
| (adjective) advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) | Synonyms: aged, elderly, older |
| sensorimotor | (adjective) of or relating to the sensory and motor coordination of an organism or to the controlling nerves | - |
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| sheer | (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down |
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| (adjective) not mixed with extraneous elements | Synonyms: plain, unmingled, unmixed |
| (adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | Synonyms: bluff, bold |
| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| silver | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: argent, silverish, silvery |
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| (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: eloquent, facile, fluent, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken |
| (adjective) having the white lustrous sheen of silver | Synonyms: silvern, silvery |
| (adjective) made from or largely consisting of silver | - |
| similar | (adjective) marked by correspondence or resemblance | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination | Synonyms: like |
| (adjective) having the same or similar characteristics | Synonyms: alike, like |
| (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, interchangeable, standardised, standardized |
| (adjective) (of words) expressing closely related meanings | - |
| singular | (adjective) grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit | - |
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| (adjective) composed of one member, set, or kind | - |
| (adjective) unusual or striking | Synonyms: remarkable |
| (adjective) being a single and separate person or thing | - |
| (adjective) the single one of its kind | Synonyms: unique |
| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy |
| sinister | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening |
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| (adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: black, dark |
| (adjective) on or starting from the wearer's left | - |
| slender | (adjective) very narrow | Synonyms: thin |
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| (adjective) small in quantity | Synonyms: slim |
| (adjective) having little width in proportion to the length or height | - |
| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slight, slim, svelte |
| smaller | (adjective) small or little relative to something else | Synonyms: littler |
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| sober | (adjective) not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | - |
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| (adjective) completely lacking in playfulness | Synonyms: serious, unplayful |
| (adjective) lacking brightness or color; dull | Synonyms: drab, somber, sombre |
| (adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: grave, sedate, solemn |
| solar | (adjective) relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun | - |
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| somber | (adjective) lacking brightness or color; dull | Synonyms: drab, sober, sombre |
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| (adjective) grave or even gloomy in character | Synonyms: melancholy, sombre |