ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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accessary | (adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessory |
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accessory | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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(adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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accusatory | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusing, accusive |
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adjudicatory | (adjective) concerned with adjudicating | Synonyms: adjudicative |
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adjuratory | (adjective) earnestly or solemnly entreating | - |
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(adjective) containing a solemn charge or command | - |
admonitory | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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(adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, reproachful, reproving |
adulatory | (adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: flattering |
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advisory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: consultative, consultatory, consultive |
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aery | (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aeriform, airy, ethereal |
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affirmatory | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmative |
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airy | (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aeriform, aery, ethereal |
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(adjective) having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air | - |
(adjective) not practical or realizable; speculative | Synonyms: impractical, Laputan, visionary, windy |
(adjective) open to or abounding in fresh air | Synonyms: aired |
alary | (adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alar, aliform, wing-shaped |
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aleatory | (adjective) dependent on chance | - |
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alimentary | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
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alleviatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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amatory | (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amorous, romantic |
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ambulatory | (adjective) relating to or adapted for walking | - |
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(adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulant |
amelioratory | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, meliorative |
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amendatory | (adjective) effecting amendment | - |
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ampullary | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullar |
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ancillary | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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angry | (adjective) feeling or showing anger | - |
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(adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: furious, raging, tempestuous, wild |
(adjective) severely inflamed and painful | - |
annunciatory | (adjective) relating to the act of announcing or being announced | - |
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antennary | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennal |
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anticipatory | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: prevenient |
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antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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applicatory | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicative |
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approbatory | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approving, plausive |
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arbitrary | (adjective) based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice | - |
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arborary | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arboreal, arborical, arborous |
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armillary | (adjective) of or relating to bracelets | - |
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articulary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the joints of the body | Synonyms: articular |
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articulatory | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulative |
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assimilatory | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilative |
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associatory | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associative |
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auditory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: audile, auditive |
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auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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auxiliary | (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary |
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(adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant |
aweary | (adjective) physically and mentally fatigued | Synonyms: weary |
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awry | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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(adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: amiss, haywire, wrong |
axillary | (adjective) of or relating to the armpit | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the axil | Synonyms: alar |
bacillary | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillar |
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(adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
basilary | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilar |
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beery | (adjective) smelling of beer | - |
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benedictory | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictive |
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beneficiary | (adjective) having or arising from a benefice | - |
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bicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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biliary | (adjective) relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder | - |
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(adjective) relating to or containing bile | Synonyms: bilious |
binary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base | - |
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(adjective) consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) | - |
bladdery | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladderlike |
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bleary | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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(adjective) tired to the point of exhaustion | Synonyms: blear-eyed, blear, bleary-eyed |
blistery | (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistering |
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(adjective) covered with small blisters | Synonyms: blebby |
blubbery | (adjective) swollen with fat | - |
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blurry | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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blustery | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: bullying |
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(adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blustering, blusterous |
bouldery | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, rocky, stony |
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bowery | (adjective) like a bower; leafy and shady | - |
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briary | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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briery | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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budgetary | (adjective) of or relating to a budget | - |
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burry | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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buttery | (adjective) resembling or containing or spread with butter | - |
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(adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
calefactory | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactive |
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calumniatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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canary | (adjective) having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow | Synonyms: canary-yellow |
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capillary | (adjective) of or relating to hair | - |
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(adjective) long and slender with a very small internal diameter | Synonyms: hairlike |
capitulary | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitular |
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cardiopulmonary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiorespiratory |
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cardiorespiratory | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiopulmonary |
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carpellary | (adjective) belonging to or forming or containing carpels | - |
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cautionary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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(adjective) warding off | Synonyms: prophylactic |
celebratory | (adjective) used for celebrating | - |
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centenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centennial |
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certificatory | (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
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chary | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagey, cagy |
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cheery | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: gay, sunny |
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cherry | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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chylifactory | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylific |
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ciliary | (adjective) relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: cilial, ciliate |
(adjective) of or relating to the human eyelash | Synonyms: ciliate |
cinerary | (adjective) containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead | - |
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circulatory | (adjective) relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulative |
circumlocutory | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic |
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classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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clattery | (adjective) a rattling sound as of hard things striking together | - |
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combinatory | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinative |
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(adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatorial |
(adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinational |
cometary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometic |
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comminatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: denunciative, denunciatory |
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communicatory | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicative |
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competitory | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitive |
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complementary | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, completing |
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(adjective) of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other | - |
complimentary | (adjective) conveying or resembling a compliment | - |
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(adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: costless, free, gratis, gratuitous |
compulsory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: mandatory, required |
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conciliatory | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliative |
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(adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, flexible |
condemnatory | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemning |
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confirmatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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