| remittent | (adjective) (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity | - |
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| renascent | (adjective) rising again as to new life and vigor | Synonyms: resurgent |
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| renunciant | (adjective) used especially of behavior | Synonyms: renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying |
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| repellant | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellent |
| repellent | (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: resistant |
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| (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
| (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellant |
| repentant | (adjective) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | Synonyms: penitent |
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| repugnant | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repulsive |
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| resident | (adjective) living in a particular place | - |
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| (adjective) used of animals that do not migrate | Synonyms: nonmigratory |
| resilient | (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, springy |
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| (adjective) recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like | - |
| resistant | (adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: insubordinate, resistive |
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| (adjective) impervious to being affected | - |
| (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: repellent |
| (adjective) able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress | Synonyms: tolerant |
| (adjective) relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) | Synonyms: immune |
| resonant | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent |
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| (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative |
| resplendent | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, splendid, splendiferous |
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| respondent | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: answering |
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| resultant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, sequent |
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| resurgent | (adjective) rising again as to new life and vigor | Synonyms: renascent |
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| reticent | (adjective) temperamentally disinclined to talk | Synonyms: untalkative |
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| (adjective) reluctant to draw attention to yourself | Synonyms: retiring, self-effacing |
| (adjective) cool and formal in manner | Synonyms: restrained, unemotional |
| revenant | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a revenant | - |
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| (adjective) coming back | Synonyms: recurring |
| reverberant | (adjective) having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected | - |
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| reverent | (adjective) feeling or showing profound respect or veneration | - |
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| (adjective) showing great reverence for god | Synonyms: godly, worshipful |
| riant | (adjective) showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness | Synonyms: laughing |
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| right | (adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north | - |
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| (adjective) in conformance with justice or law or morality | - |
| (adjective) free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: correct |
| (adjective) of or belonging to the political or intellectual right | - |
| (adjective) correct in opinion or judgment | Synonyms: correct |
| (adjective) precisely accurate | Synonyms: veracious |
| (adjective) appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs | Synonyms: proper |
| (adjective) (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier | Synonyms: one |
| (adjective) most suitable or right for a particular purpose | Synonyms: good, ripe |
| (adjective) (of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward | - |
| (adjective) having the axis perpendicular to the base | - |
| (adjective) intended for the right hand | Synonyms: right-hand |
| (adjective) in or into a satisfactory condition | - |
| (adjective) socially right or correct | Synonyms: correct |
| (adjective) in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure | Synonyms: correct |
| rightist | (adjective) believing in or supporting tenets of the political right | Synonyms: right-wing |
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| rightmost | (adjective) farthest to the right | - |
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| roast | (adjective) (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven | Synonyms: roasted |
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| robust | (adjective) sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction | - |
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| (adjective) strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity | - |
| (adjective) marked by richness and fullness of flavor | Synonyms: full-bodied, racy, rich |
| (adjective) rough and crude | - |
| romanticist | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticistic |
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| roundabout | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, devious |
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| (adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct | Synonyms: circuitous |
| ruminant | (adjective) related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud | - |
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| russet | (adjective) of brown with a reddish tinge | - |
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| rust | (adjective) of the brown color of rust | Synonyms: rust-brown, rusty |
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| sacrosanct | (adjective) must be kept sacred | Synonyms: inviolable, inviolate |
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| salient | (adjective) (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees | - |
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| (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, spectacular, striking |
| (adjective) represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward) | - |
| salt | (adjective) (of speech) painful or bitter | - |
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| sapient | (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: perspicacious, sagacious |
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| scandent | (adjective) used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb | - |
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| scant | (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, short |
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| scarlet | (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, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy |
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| scattershot | (adjective) covering a wide range in a haphazard way | - |
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| scintillant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillating, sparkly |
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| seagirt | (adjective) surrounded or enclosed by the sea | - |
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| secret | (adjective) the next to highest level of official classification for documents | - |
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| (adjective) not open or public; kept private or not revealed | - |
| (adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic |
| (adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: private |
| (adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: confidential |
| (adjective) not openly made known | Synonyms: unavowed |
| (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
| (adjective) designed to elude detection | Synonyms: hidden |
| (adjective) indulging only covertly | - |
| (adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: privy, secluded |
| (adjective) communicated covertly | - |
| select | (adjective) selected or chosen for special qualifications | Synonyms: blue-ribbon |
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| (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prime, prize, quality |
| selfshot | (adjective) (of a video) recorded by the performers | - |
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| semiabstract | (adjective) characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter | - |
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| semipermanent | (adjective) relating to or extending over a relatively long time | Synonyms: long-run, long-term |
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| semisoft | (adjective) somewhat soft | Synonyms: softish |
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| semisweet | (adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: bittersweet |
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| semitransparent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: translucent |
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| senescent | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
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| sent | (adjective) caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted | - |
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| sentient | (adjective) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness | Synonyms: animate |
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| (adjective) consciously perceiving | - |
| separatist | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: breakaway, fissiparous |
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| sequent | (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: consecutive, sequential, serial, successive |
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| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant |
| set | (adjective) set down according to a plan | Synonyms: laid |
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| (adjective) being below the horizon | - |
| (adjective) converted to solid form (as concrete) | Synonyms: hardened |
| (adjective) fixed and unmoving | Synonyms: fixed, rigid |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed | Synonyms: fit, primed |
| (adjective) situated in a particular spot or position | Synonyms: located, placed, situated |
| (adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: determined, dictated |
| sexist | (adjective) discriminatory on the basis of sex (usually said of men's attitude toward women) | - |
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| shamanist | (adjective) of or relating to shamanism | Synonyms: shamanistic |
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| short | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: forgetful, unretentive |
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| (adjective) (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length | - |
| (adjective) primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration | - |
| (adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: little |
| (adjective) of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration | - |
| (adjective) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices | - |
| (adjective) tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening | - |
| (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt |
| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful |
| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, poor |
| (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, scant |
| shot | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent |
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| shut | (adjective) not open | Synonyms: closed, unopen |
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| (adjective) used especially of mouth or eyes | Synonyms: closed |
| sibilant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, spirant, strident |
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| significant | (adjective) important in effect or meaning | Synonyms: important |
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| (adjective) too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation | - |
| (adjective) of considerable importance, size, or worth | Synonyms: substantial |
| (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, pregnant |
| silent | (adjective) implied by or inferred from actions or statements | Synonyms: tacit, understood |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness | Synonyms: dumb, mute |
| (adjective) having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility | - |
| (adjective) marked by absence of sound | Synonyms: soundless, still |
| (adjective) failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to | Synonyms: mum |
| (adjective) not made to sound | Synonyms: unsounded |
| (adjective) expressed without speech | Synonyms: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless |
| skint | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: broke, bust, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| skintight | (adjective) so tight as to cling to the skin | Synonyms: skin-tight |
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| slight | (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | Synonyms: little |
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| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, tenuous, thin |
| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slim, svelte |
| smart | (adjective) showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness | - |
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| (adjective) capable of independent and apparently intelligent action | - |
| (adjective) quick and brisk | - |
| (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, wise |
| (adjective) characterized by quickness and ease in learning | Synonyms: bright |
| (adjective) painfully severe | - |
| (adjective) elegant and stylish | Synonyms: chic, voguish |
| socialist | (adjective) advocating or following the socialist principles | Synonyms: socialistic |
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| soft | (adjective) produced with vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: sonant, voiced |
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| (adjective) yielding readily to pressure or weight | - |
| (adjective) compassionate and kind; conciliatory | - |
| (adjective) (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh') | - |
| (adjective) (of sound) relatively low in volume | - |
| (adjective) (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected | Synonyms: diffuse, diffused |
| (adjective) not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) | - |
| (adjective) (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone | Synonyms: piano |
| (adjective) mild and pleasant | Synonyms: balmy, mild |
| (adjective) willing to negotiate and compromise | - |
| (adjective) not brilliant or glaring | Synonyms: subdued |
| (adjective) not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship | Synonyms: cushy, easygoing |
| (adjective) (of a commodity or market or currency) falling or likely to fall in value | - |
| (adjective) having little impact | Synonyms: easy, gentle |
| (adjective) soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe | Synonyms: gentle |
| (adjective) tolerant or lenient | Synonyms: indulgent, lenient |
| (adjective) using evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation | - |
| (adjective) easily hurt | Synonyms: delicate |
| (adjective) out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance | Synonyms: flabby, flaccid |
| solvent | (adjective) capable of meeting financial obligations | - |
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| somnolent | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous |
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| sonant | (adjective) produced with vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: soft, voiced |
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| sorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: absorbefacient |
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| sought | (adjective) that is looked for | - |
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| (adjective) being searched for | Synonyms: sought-after |
| southeast | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeasterly, southeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southeast | Synonyms: southeasterly |
| southernmost | (adjective) situated farthest south | Synonyms: southmost |
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| southmost | (adjective) situated farthest south | Synonyms: southernmost |
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| southwest | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwesterly, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwesterly |
| spendthrift | (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, profligate |
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| spent | (adjective) depleted of energy, force, or strength | Synonyms: exhausted |
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| (adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fagged, fatigued, gone, played out, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
| spirant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, strident |
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| spiritualist | (adjective) of or relating to or connected with spiritualism | Synonyms: spiritualistic |
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| splayfoot | (adjective) having feet that turn outward | Synonyms: splayfooted |
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| split | (adjective) (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain | - |
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| (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disconnected, disunited, fragmented |
| spoilt | (adjective) affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity | Synonyms: blighted |
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| (adjective) having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention | Synonyms: spoiled |
| (adjective) (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition | Synonyms: bad, spoiled |
| squat | (adjective) having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground | Synonyms: underslung |
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| (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squatty, stumpy |
| squint | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squinty |
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| stagnant | (adjective) not circulating or flowing | Synonyms: dead |
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| (adjective) not growing or changing; without force or vitality | Synonyms: moribund |
| stalwart | (adjective) used especially of persons | Synonyms: stouthearted |
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| (adjective) dependable | Synonyms: stout |
| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stout, sturdy |
| standpat | (adjective) old-fashioned and out of date | Synonyms: fusty, nonprogressive, unprogressive |
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| starlit | (adjective) lighted only by stars | - |
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| statant | (adjective) standing on four feet | - |
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| steadfast | (adjective) firm and dependable especially in loyalty | Synonyms: staunch, unswerving |
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| (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
| stimulant | (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulating |
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| stout | (adjective) euphemisms for `fat' | Synonyms: portly |
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| (adjective) dependable | Synonyms: stalwart |
| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stalwart, sturdy |
| straight | (adjective) having no deviations | - |
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| (adjective) no longer coiled | Synonyms: uncoiled |
| (adjective) (of hair) having no waves or curls | - |
| (adjective) characterized by honesty and fairness | Synonyms: square |
| (adjective) free from curves or angles | - |
| (adjective) in keeping with the facts | - |
| (adjective) successive (without a break) | Synonyms: consecutive |
| (adjective) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned | Synonyms: square |
| (adjective) following a correct or logical method | - |
| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straightforward |
| (adjective) erect in posture | Synonyms: unbent, unbowed |
| (adjective) not homosexual | - |
| (adjective) neatly arranged; not disorderly | - |
| (adjective) (of an alcoholic drink) without water | Synonyms: full-strength, neat |
| (adjective) accurately fitted; level | Synonyms: true |
| strait | (adjective) narrow | - |
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| strict | (adjective) characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint | Synonyms: nonindulgent |
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| (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: exacting, stern |
| (adjective) rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard | Synonyms: rigorous |
| (adjective) incapable of compromise or flexibility | Synonyms: rigid |
| (adjective) (of rules) stringently enforced | Synonyms: hard-and-fast |
| strident | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and harsh | Synonyms: raucous |
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| (adjective) being sharply insistent on being heard | Synonyms: shrill |
| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous |
| (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirant |
| stringent | (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: rigorous, tight |
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| subjacent | (adjective) lying nearby but lower | - |
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