congratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: gratulatory |
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consolatory | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consoling |
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consultatory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultive |
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contemporary | (adjective) belonging to the present time | Synonyms: present-day |
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(adjective) characteristic of the present | Synonyms: modern-day |
(adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneous |
contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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(adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
(adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
(adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
contrary | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false | - |
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(adjective) very opposed in nature or character or purpose | - |
(adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: obstinate, perverse, wayward |
(adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: adverse |
contributory | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary |
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coppery | (adjective) of something having the color of copper | Synonyms: copper colored |
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copulatory | (adjective) of or relating to coitus or copulation | Synonyms: coital |
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coronary | (adjective) surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart) | - |
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corroboratory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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cosignatory | (adjective) signing jointly with others | - |
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counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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(adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
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culinary | (adjective) of or relating to or used in cooking | - |
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cursory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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customary | (adjective) in accordance with convention or custom | - |
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(adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: accustomed, habitual, wonted |
damnatory | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damning |
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declamatory | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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declaratory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declarative |
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defamatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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deflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause decreases in consumer prices or increases in the purchasing power of money | - |
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delusory | (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: deceptive |
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denary | (adjective) containing ten or ten parts | Synonyms: ten-fold, tenfold |
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(adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: decimal |
denigratory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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denunciatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciative |
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depilatory | (adjective) able to remove hair or render hairless | - |
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deprecatory | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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depreciatory | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciative |
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(adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, slighting |
derisory | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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derogatory | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, disparaging |
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desultory | (adjective) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another | - |
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dextrorotary | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotatory, right-handed |
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dextrorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotary, right-handed |
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dietary | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietetic, dietetical |
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dilatory | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: laggard, pokey, poky |
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disciplinary | (adjective) relating to a specific field of academic study | - |
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(adjective) relating to discipline in behavior | - |
(adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinal |
discretionary | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretional |
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(adjective) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed | - |
discriminatory | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: prejudiced |
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(adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: preferential |
(adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminative |
(adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: invidious |
dissatisfactory | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: disappointing, unsatisfying |
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diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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divinatory | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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(adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
documentary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documental |
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(adjective) (of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event | - |
doddery | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddering, gaga, senile |
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domiciliary | (adjective) of or relating to or provided in a domicile | - |
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dreary | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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(adjective) lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise | Synonyms: drab |
dry | (adjective) free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet | - |
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(adjective) not producing milk | - |
(adjective) (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation | - |
(adjective) opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages | - |
(adjective) lacking moisture or volatile components | - |
(adjective) without a mucous or watery discharge | - |
(adjective) having a large proportion of strong liquor | - |
(adjective) humorously sarcastic or mocking | Synonyms: ironic, ironical, wry |
(adjective) practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages | Synonyms: teetotal |
(adjective) used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones | - |
(adjective) not shedding tears | - |
(adjective) lacking warmth or emotional involvement | - |
(adjective) unproductive especially of the expected results | - |
(adjective) lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless | Synonyms: juiceless |
(adjective) (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish | - |
(adjective) having no adornment or coloration | - |
eery | (adjective) inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening | Synonyms: eerie |
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eleemosynary | (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, philanthropic |
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elementary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education | - |
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(adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, primary |
(adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic |
elocutionary | (adjective) of or relating to elocution | - |
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(adjective) (used of style of speaking) overly embellished | - |
epistolary | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolatory |
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epistolatory | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolary |
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every | (adjective) (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception | - |
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(adjective) each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified | - |
evidentiary | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting evidence | - |
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(adjective) serving as or based on evidence | Synonyms: evidential |
evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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excitatory | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitative |
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exclamatory | (adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: emphatic |
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excretory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of excretion | - |
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exculpatory | (adjective) clearing of guilt or blame | - |
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excusatory | (adjective) offering or expressing apology | Synonyms: apologetic |
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exemplary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, cautionary, monitory, warning |
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(adjective) being or serving as an illustration of a type | Synonyms: emblematic, typic |
(adjective) worthy of imitation | Synonyms: model |
exhortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory |
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expeditionary | (adjective) (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad | - |
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expiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, propitiatory |
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expiratory | (adjective) of or relating to the breathing out phase of respiration | - |
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explanatory | (adjective) serving or intended to explain or make clear | - |
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exploitatory | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitive |
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exploratory | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: explorative |
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expository | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expositive |
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extemporary | (adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhand, offhanded, unrehearsed |
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extraordinary | (adjective) beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; special | - |
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(adjective) far more than usual or expected | Synonyms: over-the-top, sinful |
(adjective) (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials | - |
extrasensory | (adjective) seemingly outside normal sensory channels | Synonyms: paranormal |
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facilitatory | (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity | - |
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feathery | (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathered, plumy |
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(adjective) characterized by a covering of feathers | - |
(adjective) resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers | Synonyms: featherlike |
feudatory | (adjective) of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord | - |
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(adjective) owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign | - |
fiduciary | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another) | Synonyms: fiducial |
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fiery | (adjective) like or suggestive of fire | Synonyms: igneous |
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(adjective) passionate or quick-tempered | Synonyms: flaming |
(adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
floury | (adjective) resembling flour in fine powdery texture | - |
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flowery | (adjective) of or relating to or suggestive of flowers | - |
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(adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: ornate |
formulary | (adjective) of or relating to or of the nature of a formula | - |
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fragmentary | (adjective) consisting of small disconnected parts | Synonyms: fragmental |
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funerary | (adjective) of or for or relating to a funeral | - |
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furry | (adjective) covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs | Synonyms: furred |
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genitourinary | (adjective) of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions | Synonyms: GU |
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geostationary | (adjective) of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth | - |
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gingery | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: ginger |
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(adjective) having a taste like that of ginger | - |
glary | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring |
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glimmery | (adjective) shining softly and intermittently | - |
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glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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gory | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: bloodstained |
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(adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
gradatory | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, graduated |
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gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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gustatory | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial |
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hairy | (adjective) having or covered with hair | Synonyms: haired, hirsute |
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(adjective) hazardous and frightening | - |
hallucinatory | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of hallucination | - |
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hebdomadary | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadal, weekly |
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hereditary | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
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(adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, patrimonial, transmissible |
hoary | (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: canescent |
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(adjective) ancient | Synonyms: rusty |
(adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, grizzly, hoar, white-haired |
honorary | (adjective) given as an honor without the normal duties | - |
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