| hemostatic | (adjective) tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels | Synonyms: styptic |
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| hepatic | (adjective) pertaining to or affecting the liver | - |
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| hermaphroditic | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphrodite |
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| (adjective) of or relating to monoclinous plants | - |
| hermeneutic | (adjective) interpretive or explanatory | - |
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| hermetic | (adjective) completely sealed; completely airtight | - |
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| hermitic | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitical |
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| heuristic | (adjective) of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation | - |
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| hidrotic | (adjective) of or relating to sweat | - |
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| hieratic | (adjective) written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing | - |
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| (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratical, priestly, sacerdotal |
| (adjective) adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal | - |
| holistic | (adjective) emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole | - |
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| holophytic | (adjective) obtaining nourishment as green plants do | - |
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| homeostatic | (adjective) related to or characterized by homeostasis | - |
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| homiletic | (adjective) of or relating to homiletics | Synonyms: homiletical |
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| (adjective) of the nature of a homily or sermon | Synonyms: homiletical |
| homochromatic | (adjective) (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength | Synonyms: monochromatic |
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| homoerotic | (adjective) of or concerning homosexual love | - |
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| humanistic | (adjective) pertaining to or concerned with the humanities | Synonyms: humane, humanist |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion | Synonyms: humanist |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism | Synonyms: humanist |
| (adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanitarian |
| hydrokinetic | (adjective) relating to fluids in motion or the forces that produce or affect such motion | - |
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| hydrophytic | (adjective) growing wholly or partially in water | - |
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| hydrostatic | (adjective) relating to fluids at rest or to the pressures they exert or transmit | - |
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| hygrophytic | (adjective) requiring an abundance of moisture | - |
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| hypercatalectic | (adjective) (verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot | - |
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| hypnotic | (adjective) of or relating to hypnosis | - |
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| (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: mesmeric, mesmerizing, spellbinding |
| hypothetic | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
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| iconoclastic | (adjective) destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions | - |
| ictic | (adjective) of or relating to a seizure or convulsion | Synonyms: ictal |
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| idealistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas | Synonyms: ideal |
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| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
| idiomatic | (adjective) of or relating to or conforming to idiom | Synonyms: idiomatical |
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| idiosyncratic | (adjective) peculiar to the individual | - |
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| idiotic | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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| (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: crackbrained |
| (adjective) having a mental age of three to seven years | Synonyms: imbecile, imbecilic |
| immunotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to immunotherapy | - |
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| imperialistic | (adjective) of or relating to imperialism | Synonyms: imperialist |
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| impolitic | (adjective) not politic | - |
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| impressionistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism | Synonyms: impressionist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or based on an impression rather than on facts or reasoning | - |
| inaesthetic | (adjective) violating aesthetic canons or requirements; deficient in tastefulness or beauty | Synonyms: unaesthetic |
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| inartistic | (adjective) lacking aesthetic sensibility | Synonyms: unartistic |
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| inauthentic | (adjective) false or fake; not what it appears to be | Synonyms: spurious, unauthentic |
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| individualistic | (adjective) with minimally restricted freedom in commerce | Synonyms: laissez-faire |
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| (adjective) marked by or expressing individuality | Synonyms: individualist |
| inelastic | (adjective) not elastic | - |
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| intergalactic | (adjective) between or among galaxies | - |
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| internationalistic | (adjective) influenced by or advocating internationalism | Synonyms: internationalist |
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| interscholastic | (adjective) used of competition or cooperation between secondary schools | Synonyms: interschool |
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| intralinguistic | (adjective) within a particular language | - |
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| iritic | (adjective) of or relating to located near the iris of the eye | - |
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| isolationistic | (adjective) of or relating to isolationism | Synonyms: isolationist |
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| isosmotic | (adjective) (used of solutions) having the same or equal osmotic pressure | Synonyms: isotonic |
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| jingoistic | (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
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| journalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism | - |
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| juristic | (adjective) of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations | Synonyms: jural |
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| kabbalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| karyokinetic | (adjective) of or relating to the division of the nucleus of a cell during mitosis or meiosis | - |
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| katabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night | Synonyms: catabatic |
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| kinaesthetic | (adjective) of or relating to kinesthesis | Synonyms: kinesthetic |
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| kinesthetic | (adjective) of or relating to kinesthesis | Synonyms: kinaesthetic |
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| kinetic | (adjective) relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith | - |
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| (adjective) supplying motive force | Synonyms: energising, energizing |
| (adjective) characterized by motion | - |
| kyphotic | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked |
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| lactic | (adjective) of or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey) | - |
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| lentic | (adjective) of or relating to or living in still waters (as lakes or ponds) | - |
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| lexicostatistic | (adjective) pertaining to statistical methods used in studying the relations between languages | - |
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| liberalistic | (adjective) having or demonstrating belief in the essential goodness of man and the autonomy of the individual; favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority | - |
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| linguistic | (adjective) consisting of or related to language | Synonyms: lingual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the scientific study of language | - |
| lithomantic | (adjective) of or relating to lithomancy | - |
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| lithophytic | (adjective) of or relating to lithophytes | - |
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| logistic | (adjective) of or relating to logistics | Synonyms: logistical |
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| logogrammatic | (adjective) of or relating to logograms or logographs | Synonyms: logographic |
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| lordotic | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, swayback, swaybacked |
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| lotic | (adjective) of or relating to or living in actively moving water | - |
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| lunatic | (adjective) insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon | Synonyms: moonstruck |
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| lymphatic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by lymph | - |
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| lymphocytic | (adjective) of or relating to lymphocytes | - |
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| macrobiotic | (adjective) of or relating to the theory or practice of macrobiotics | - |
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| magnetic | (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel | Synonyms: magnetised, magnetized |
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| (adjective) determined by earth's magnetic fields | - |
| (adjective) capable of being magnetized | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or caused by magnetism | - |
| (adjective) possessing an extraordinary ability to attract | Synonyms: charismatic |
| majestic | (adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: gallant, lofty, proud |
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| (adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: imperial, purple, regal, royal |
| (adjective) majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters | Synonyms: olympian |
| mantic | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: divinatory, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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| masochistic | (adjective) deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from being abused or dominated | - |
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| materialistic | (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, conservative |
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| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: mercenary, worldly-minded |
| maternalistic | (adjective) showing maternal instincts | - |
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| mechanistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical theory of mechanism | - |
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| (adjective) explained in terms of physical forces | - |
| megakaryocytic | (adjective) of or pertaining to large bone marrow cells | - |
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| megaloblastic | (adjective) of or relating to megaloblasts | - |
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| meiotic | (adjective) of or relating to meiosis | - |
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| melodramatic | (adjective) characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected | Synonyms: histrionic |
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| (adjective) having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama | - |
| mephitic | (adjective) of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution | Synonyms: miasmic |
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| meritocratic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy | - |
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| mesoblastic | (adjective) relating to or derived from the mesoderm | Synonyms: mesodermal |
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| mesophytic | (adjective) being or growing in or adapted to a moderately moist environment | - |
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| metastatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by metastasis | - |
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| meteoritic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by meteorites | Synonyms: meteoritical |
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| micrometeoritic | (adjective) of or relating to micrometeoroids | Synonyms: micrometeoric |
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| militaristic | (adjective) imbued with militarism | - |
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| mimetic | (adjective) exhibiting mimicry | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by or of the nature of or using mimesis | - |
| miotic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing constriction of the pupil of the eye | Synonyms: myotic |
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| misogynistic | (adjective) hating women in particular | Synonyms: misogynous |
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| mithraistic | (adjective) of or relating to Mithraism or its god | Synonyms: mithraic |
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| mitotic | (adjective) of or relating to or undergoing mitosis | - |
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| modernistic | (adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style | Synonyms: mod, modern |
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| monastic | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical |
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| monistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of monism | - |
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| monochromatic | (adjective) (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength | Synonyms: homochromatic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to monochromatism | - |
| (adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochrome, monochromic, monochromous |
| monopolistic | (adjective) having exclusive control over a commercial activity by possession or legal grant | - |
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| monotheistic | (adjective) believing that there is only one god | - |
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