| slatey | (adjective) of the color of slate or granite | Synonyms: slate-gray, slate-grey, slaty-gray, slaty-grey, slaty, stone-gray, stone-grey |
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| slatternly | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy, sluttish |
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| slaty | (adjective) of the color of slate or granite | Synonyms: slate-gray, slate-grey, slatey, slaty-gray, slaty-grey, stone-gray, stone-grey |
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| sleazy | (adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, seedy, sordid, squalid |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, tinny |
| (adjective) of cloth; thin and loosely woven | - |
| sleepy | (adjective) ready to fall asleep | Synonyms: sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded |
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| sleety | (adjective) consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain | - |
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| slimy | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
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| (adjective) covered with or resembling slime | Synonyms: slimed |
| slippery | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippy |
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| (adjective) not to be trusted | Synonyms: tricky |
| slippy | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippery |
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| slithery | (adjective) having a slippery surface or quality | - |
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| slivery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: splintery |
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| sloppy | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: haphazard, slapdash, slipshod |
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| (adjective) excessively or abnormally emotional | Synonyms: overemotional |
| (adjective) not fitting closely; hanging loosely | Synonyms: baggy, loose-fitting |
| (adjective) lacking neatness or order | - |
| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
| (adjective) wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material | - |
| slouchy | (adjective) lacking stiffness in form or posture | - |
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| sloughy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| slovenly | (adjective) negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt | Synonyms: frowsy, frowzy |
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| slumbery | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbrous, somnolent |
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| slummy | (adjective) (of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty | - |
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| slushy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) being or resembling melting snow | - |
| sly | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| smarmy | (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, soapy, unctuous |
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| smelly | (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, stinking |
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| smoggy | (adjective) clouded with a mixture of smoke and fog | - |
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| smoky | (adjective) marked by or emitting or filled with smoke | - |
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| (adjective) tasting of smoke | - |
| smudgy | (adjective) smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination | - |
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| smutty | (adjective) soiled with dirt or soot | Synonyms: black |
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| (adjective) characterized by obscenity | Synonyms: cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty |
| snaky | (adjective) resembling a serpent in form | Synonyms: serpentine, snakelike |
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| snappy | (adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy |
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| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, spanking, zippy |
| (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, spruce |
| (adjective) apt to speak irritably | Synonyms: snappish |
| (adjective) smart and fashionable | Synonyms: whipping |
| snarky | (adjective) disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking | Synonyms: sardonic |
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| snarly | (adjective) tangled in knots or snarls | Synonyms: knotty, snarled |
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| snazzy | (adjective) flashily stylish | - |
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| sneaky | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: furtive, sneak, stealthy, surreptitious |
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| (adjective) marked by deception | Synonyms: underhand, underhanded |
| sneezy | (adjective) inclined to sneeze | - |
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| sniffly | (adjective) liable to sniffle | Synonyms: snuffling, snuffly |
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| sniffy | (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, supercilious, swaggering |
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| snobby | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish |
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| snoopy | (adjective) offensively curious or inquisitive | Synonyms: nosey, nosy, prying |
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| snooty | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: bigheaded, persnickety, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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| snorty | (adjective) (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed | Synonyms: shirty |
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| snotty | (adjective) dirty with nasal discharge | Synonyms: snot-nosed |
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| (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
| snowy | (adjective) of the white color of snow | Synonyms: snow-white |
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| (adjective) covered with snow | Synonyms: snow-clad, snow-covered |
| (adjective) marked by the presence of snow | Synonyms: white |
| snuffly | (adjective) liable to sniffle | Synonyms: sniffly, snuffling |
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| soapy | (adjective) resembling or having the qualities of soap | Synonyms: saponaceous |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, unctuous |
| soggy | (adjective) having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking | Synonyms: doughy |
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| (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: inert, sluggish, torpid |
| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
| soldierly | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierlike, warriorlike |
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| solitary | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, lonesome, only, sole |
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| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lone, lonely |
| (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nongregarious, nonsocial |
| (adjective) devoid of creatures | Synonyms: lonely, unfrequented |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lone, lonely |
| somatosensory | (adjective) of or relating to the somatosenses | - |
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| sonsy | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| sooty | (adjective) of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal | Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, jet, pitchy |
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| (adjective) covered with or as if with soot | - |
| soppy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soupy |
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| (adjective) wet through and through; thoroughly wet | Synonyms: sodden |
| sorry | (adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | Synonyms: bad, regretful |
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| (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim |
| (adjective) without merit; of little or no value or use | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good |
| soupy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy |
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| (adjective) having the consistency and appearance of soup | - |
| southeasterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southeast | Synonyms: southeast |
| southerly | (adjective) from the south; used especially of wind | Synonyms: southern |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the south | Synonyms: southern |
| southwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwest |
| spacey | (adjective) stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug | Synonyms: spaced-out, spacy |
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| spacy | (adjective) stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug | Synonyms: spaced-out, spacey |
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| spangly | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled |
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| sparkly | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating |
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| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, scintillating |
| speedy | (adjective) characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed | Synonyms: rapid |
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| (adjective) accomplished rapidly and without delay | Synonyms: quick |
| spicy | (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque |
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| (adjective) producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves | Synonyms: hot |
| spiderly | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spidery |
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| spidery | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly |
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| spiffy | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spruce |
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| spiky | (adjective) having or as if having especially high-pitched spots | Synonyms: peaky |
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| spindly | (adjective) long and lean | Synonyms: lank |
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| spiny | (adjective) having spines | Synonyms: spinous |
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| (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, thorny |
| splashy | (adjective) characterized by water flying about haphazardly | - |
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| (adjective) covered with patches of bright color | - |
| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: flamboyant, showy |
| splay | (adjective) turned outward in an ungainly manner | - |
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| splintery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: slivery |
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| (adjective) subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces | - |
| spongy | (adjective) like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed | Synonyms: spongelike |
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| (adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongelike, squashy, squishy |
| spooky | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, nervous, skittish |
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| spoopy | (adjective) funny and spooky at the same time | - |
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| sporty | (adjective) appropriate for sport or engagement in a sport | - |
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| (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy |
| (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sporting, sportsmanlike |
| spotty | (adjective) lacking consistency | Synonyms: scratchy, uneven |
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| (adjective) having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture) | Synonyms: patched, spotted |
| sprawly | (adjective) extended out irregularly | - |
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| sprightly | (adjective) full of spirit and vitality | - |
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| springy | (adjective) (of movements) light and confidently active | - |
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| (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, resilient |
| spry | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, nimble, quick |
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| spumy | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy |
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| spunky | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited |
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| (adjective) showing courage | Synonyms: feisty, plucky |
| squabby | (adjective) short and fat | Synonyms: squab |
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| squally | (adjective) characterized by brief periods of violent wind or rain | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by short periods of noisy commotion | Synonyms: squalling |
| squashy | (adjective) like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness | Synonyms: pulpy |
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| (adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongelike, spongy, squishy |
| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, swampy, waterlogged |
| squatty | (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, stumpy |
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| squawky | (adjective) like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg | Synonyms: cackly |
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| squeaky | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, screechy, squeaking, squealing |
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| squiffy | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, stiff, tight, wet |
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| squiggly | (adjective) wavy and twisting | - |
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| squinty | (adjective) characterized by squinting | - |
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| (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, squint |
| squishy | (adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongelike, spongy, squashy |
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| stagey | (adjective) having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: stagy |
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| stagflationary | (adjective) characteristic of or promoting stagflation | - |
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| stagy | (adjective) having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: stagey |
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| standby | (adjective) ready for emergency use | - |
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| starchy | (adjective) consisting of or containing starch | - |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: buckram, stiff |
| starry | (adjective) abounding with or resembling stars | - |
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| stately | (adjective) refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court | Synonyms: courtly, formal |
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| (adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: baronial, imposing, noble |
| (adjective) of size and dignity suggestive of a statue | Synonyms: statuesque |
| statesmanly | (adjective) marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman | Synonyms: statesmanlike |
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| stationary | (adjective) not capable of being moved | - |
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| (adjective) standing still | - |
| statuary | (adjective) of or relating to or suitable for statues | - |
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