| 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) aiding and abetting in a crime |
Synonyms:
accessary |
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| (adjective) furnishing added support |
Synonyms:
adjunct,
adjuvant,
ancillary,
appurtenant,
auxiliary |
| 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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| achy
|
(adjective) causing a dull and steady pain |
Synonyms:
aching |
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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:
monitory,
exemplary,
warning,
cautionary |
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| (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective |
Synonyms:
reproachful,
reproving,
admonishing |
| 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:
ethereal,
aerial,
aeriform,
airy |
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| affirmatory
|
(adjective) affirming or giving assent |
Synonyms:
affirmative |
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| airworthy
|
(adjective) (of aircraft) fit to fly |
- |
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| airy
|
(adjective) open to or abounding in fresh air |
Synonyms:
aired |
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| (adjective) not practical or realizable; speculative |
Synonyms:
impractical,
windy,
visionary,
Laputan |
| (adjective) having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air |
- |
| (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air |
Synonyms:
ethereal,
aerial,
aeriform,
aery |
| alary
|
(adjective) having or resembling wings |
Synonyms:
wing-shaped,
alar,
aliform |
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| aldermanly
|
(adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman |
Synonyms:
aldermanic |
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| aleatory
|
(adjective) dependent on chance |
- |
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| alimentary
|
(adjective) of or providing nourishment |
Synonyms:
nourishing,
nutrient,
nutritious,
nutritive,
alimental |
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| alleviatory
|
(adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear |
Synonyms:
mitigative,
mitigatory,
palliative,
alleviative,
lenitive |
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| almighty
|
(adjective) having unlimited power |
Synonyms:
omnipotent,
all-powerful |
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| amatory
|
(adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance |
Synonyms:
romantic,
amorous |
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| ambulatory
|
(adjective) able to walk about |
Synonyms:
ambulant |
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| (adjective) relating to or adapted for walking |
- |
| amelioratory
|
(adjective) tending to ameliorate |
Synonyms:
meliorative,
ameliorating,
ameliorative |
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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 |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger |
Synonyms:
raging,
wild,
furious,
tempestuous |
| (adjective) severely inflamed and painful |
- |
| annunciatory
|
(adjective) relating to the act of announcing or being announced |
- |
|---|
| antennary
|
(adjective) of or relating to antennae |
Synonyms:
antennal |
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| anticipatory
|
(adjective) in anticipation |
Synonyms:
prevenient |
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| antifertility
|
(adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation |
Synonyms:
prophylactic,
contraceptive |
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| antimonopoly
|
(adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices |
Synonyms:
antitrust |
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| antiphonary
|
(adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony |
Synonyms:
antiphonal |
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| antsy
|
(adjective) nervous and unable to relax |
Synonyms:
restless,
itchy,
fidgety,
fretful |
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| any
|
(adjective) one or some or every or all without specification; entity, elective existential pronoun; quantifier, elective existential |
Synonyms:
whatever,
whatsoever |
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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:
plausive,
affirmative,
approbative,
approving |
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| arbitrary
|
(adjective) based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice |
- |
|---|
| 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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| arty
|
(adjective) showily imitative of art or artists |
- |
|---|
| ashy
|
(adjective) of a light grey |
Synonyms:
ash-gray,
ash-grey |
|---|
| assimilatory
|
(adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution |
Synonyms:
assimilating,
assimilative |
|---|
| associatory
|
(adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination |
Synonyms:
associative |
|---|
| auditory
|
(adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing |
Synonyms:
audile,
auditive |
|---|
| auscultatory
|
(adjective) of or relating to auscultation |
- |
|---|
| auxiliary
|
(adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity |
Synonyms:
subsidiary,
supplemental,
supplementary |
|---|
| (adjective) furnishing added support |
Synonyms:
accessory,
adjunct,
adjuvant,
ancillary,
appurtenant |
| away
|
(adjective) used of an opponent's ground |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) not present; having left |
- |
| (adjective) (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter |
Synonyms:
outside |
| aweary
|
(adjective) physically and mentally fatigued |
Synonyms:
weary |
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| awny
|
(adjective) having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses |
Synonyms:
awned |
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| awry
|
(adjective) turned or twisted toward one side |
Synonyms:
wonky,
skew-whiff,
cockeyed,
askew,
lopsided |
|---|
| (adjective) not functioning properly |
Synonyms:
haywire,
wrong,
amiss |
| axillary
|
(adjective) of or relating to the axil |
Synonyms:
alar |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the armpit |
- |
| bacillary
|
(adjective) formed like a bacillus |
Synonyms:
rod-shaped,
bacillar,
bacilliform,
baculiform |
|---|
| (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli |
Synonyms:
bacillar |
| baggy
|
(adjective) not fitting closely; hanging loosely |
Synonyms:
sloppy,
loose-fitting |
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| balky
|
(adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work |
Synonyms:
balking |
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| bally
|
(adjective) informal intensifiers |
Synonyms:
crashing,
blinking,
bloody,
blooming,
flaming,
fucking |
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| balmy
|
(adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular |
Synonyms:
round the bend,
nuts,
nutty,
haywire,
daft,
dotty,
kookie,
kooky,
wacky,
whacky,
cracked,
crackers,
around the bend,
barmy,
bats,
batty,
bonkers,
buggy,
fruity,
loco,
loony,
loopy |
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| (adjective) mild and pleasant |
Synonyms:
mild,
soft |
| balsamy
|
(adjective) of or relating to or containing balsam |
Synonyms:
balsamic |
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| bandy
|
(adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees |
Synonyms:
bandy-legged,
bowed,
bowleg,
bowlegged |
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| barky
|
(adjective) resembling the rough bark of a tree |
- |
|---|
| barmy
|
(adjective) marked by spirited enjoyment |
Synonyms:
zestful,
zesty,
yeasty |
|---|
| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular |
Synonyms:
round the bend,
nuts,
nutty,
haywire,
daft,
dotty,
kookie,
kooky,
wacky,
whacky,
cracked,
crackers,
around the bend,
balmy,
bats,
batty,
bonkers,
buggy,
fruity,
loco,
loony,
loopy |
| basilary
|
(adjective) of or relating to or located at the base |
Synonyms:
basilar |
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| bastardly
|
(adjective) born out of wedlock |
Synonyms:
misbegot,
misbegotten,
spurious |
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| (adjective) of no value or worth |
Synonyms:
mean |
| batty
|
(adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular |
Synonyms:
round the bend,
nuts,
nutty,
haywire,
daft,
dotty,
kookie,
kooky,
wacky,
whacky,
cracked,
crackers,
around the bend,
balmy,
barmy,
bats,
bonkers,
buggy,
fruity,
loco,
loony,
loopy |
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| bawdy
|
(adjective) humorously vulgar |
Synonyms:
ribald,
off-color |
|---|
| bay
|
(adjective) (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color |
- |
|---|
| beady
|
(adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button |
Synonyms:
beadlike,
buttonlike,
buttony |
|---|
| (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins |
Synonyms:
jeweled,
jewelled,
gemmed,
sequined,
spangled,
spangly |
| beamy
|
(adjective) broad in the beam |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light |
Synonyms:
radiant,
refulgent,
effulgent,
beaming |
| beastly
|
(adjective) (informal) very unpleasant |
Synonyms:
hellish,
god-awful |
|---|
| (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility |
Synonyms:
bestial,
brutal,
brute,
brutish |
| beefy
|
(adjective) muscular and heavily built |
Synonyms:
husky,
strapping,
buirdly,
burly |
|---|
| beery
|
(adjective) smelling of beer |
- |
|---|
| beggarly
|
(adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar |
Synonyms:
mean |
|---|
| (adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt |
Synonyms:
mean |
| benedictory
|
(adjective) expressing benediction |
Synonyms:
benedictive |
|---|
| beneficiary
|
(adjective) having or arising from a benefice |
- |
|---|
| bicentenary
|
(adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years |
Synonyms:
bicentennial |
|---|
| bilgy
|
(adjective) smelling like bilge water |
- |
|---|
| biliary
|
(adjective) relating to or containing bile |
Synonyms:
bilious |
|---|
| (adjective) relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder |
- |
| billowy
|
(adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges |
Synonyms:
surging,
billowing |
|---|
| bimonthly
|
(adjective) occurring twice a month |
Synonyms:
semimonthly |
|---|
| (adjective) occurring every two months |
Synonyms:
bimestrial |
| binary
|
(adjective) consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base |
- |
| bitchy
|
(adjective) marked by or arising from malice |
Synonyms:
cattish,
catty |
|---|
| bitey
|
(adjective) Having a tendency to bite aggressively |
- |
|---|
| bitty
|
(adjective) (used informally) little or tiny |
Synonyms:
itsy-bitsy,
itty-bitty,
wee,
weensy,
weeny,
bittie,
teensy,
teensy-weensy,
teentsy,
teeny,
teeny-weeny |
|---|
| biweekly
|
(adjective) occurring every two weeks |
Synonyms:
fortnightly |
|---|
| (adjective) occurring twice a week |
Synonyms:
semiweekly |
| biyearly
|
(adjective) occurring every second year |
Synonyms:
biennial |
|---|
| (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year |
Synonyms:
half-yearly,
semiannual,
biannual |
| blabby
|
(adjective) unwisely talking too much |
Synonyms:
bigmouthed,
blabbermouthed,
talkative |
|---|
| blackguardly
|
(adjective) lacking principles or scruples |
Synonyms:
rascally,
roguish,
scoundrelly |
|---|
| bladdery
|
(adjective) resembling a bladder |
Synonyms:
bladderlike |
|---|
| blameworthy
|
(adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious |
Synonyms:
censurable,
culpable,
blamable,
blameable,
blameful |
|---|
| bleary
|
(adjective) tired to the point of exhaustion |
Synonyms:
blear,
blear-eyed,
bleary-eyed |
|---|
| (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline |
Synonyms:
hazy,
muzzy,
blurred,
blurry,
foggy,
fuzzy |
| blebby
|
(adjective) covered with small blisters |
Synonyms:
blistery |
|---|
| (adjective) (of glass or quartzite) marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material |
Synonyms:
blebbed |
| blistery
|
(adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters |
Synonyms:
blistering |
|---|
| (adjective) covered with small blisters |
Synonyms:
blebby |
| blocky
|
(adjective) resembling a block in shape |
Synonyms:
blockish |
|---|
| bloodguilty
|
(adjective) guilty of murder or bloodshed |
- |
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