| gawky | (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy |
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| gay | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: cheery, sunny |
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| (adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: brave, braw |
| (adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: homophile, queer |
| (adjective) given to social pleasures often including dissipation | - |
| (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, festive, merry |
| (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful |
| genitourinary | (adjective) of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions | Synonyms: GU |
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| gentlemanly | (adjective) befitting a man of good breeding | Synonyms: gentlemanlike |
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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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| germy | (adjective) full of germs or pathological microorganisms | - |
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| ghastly | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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| (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: charnel, sepulchral |
| ghostly | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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| giddy | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| (adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: dizzy, vertiginous, woozy |
| gimpy | (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, halt, halting, lame |
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| gingerly | (adjective) with extreme care or delicacy | - |
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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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| glassy | (adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness | Synonyms: glazed |
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| (adjective) (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it | Synonyms: vitreous, vitrified |
| (adjective) resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness | - |
| 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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| gloomy | (adjective) depressingly dark | Synonyms: gloomful, glooming, sulky |
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| (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, grim, low-spirited, low |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, sorry |
| glossy | (adjective) superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense | Synonyms: showy |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny |
| (adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: calendered |
| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, meretricious, specious |
| glowy | (adjective) appearing to be glowing | - |
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| gluey | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| gnarly | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, knobbed, knotted, knotty |
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| godly | (adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: divine |
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| (adjective) showing great reverence for god | Synonyms: reverent, worshipful |
| goodly | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
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| gooey | (adjective) soft and sticky | Synonyms: icky |
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| goofy | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: silly, wacky, whacky, zany |
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| goosey | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosy, jerky |
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| goosy | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, jerky |
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| gory | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: bloodstained |
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| (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
| gossipy | (adjective) prone to friendly informal communication | Synonyms: chatty, newsy |
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| gouty | (adjective) suffering from gout | - |
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| grabby | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
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| gradatory | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, graduated |
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| grainy | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy |
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| grapey | (adjective) having a taste like that of grapes | Synonyms: grapy |
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| grapy | (adjective) having a taste like that of grapes | Synonyms: grapey |
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| grassy | (adjective) abounding in grass | - |
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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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| gravelly | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: pebbly, shingly |
| gray | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: grayish, grey, greyish |
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| (adjective) intermediate in character or position | Synonyms: grey |
| (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
| (adjective) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) | Synonyms: grey |
| greasy | (adjective) smeared or soiled with grease or oil | Synonyms: oily |
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| (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: oily, oleaginous, sebaceous |
| greedy | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, prehensile |
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| (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, esurient |
| (adjective) wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume | - |
| grey | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayish, greyish |
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| (adjective) intermediate in character or position | Synonyms: gray |
| (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
| (adjective) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) | Synonyms: gray |
| grimy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
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| grisly | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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| gristly | (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: cartilaginous, rubbery |
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| gritty | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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| (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, mealy |
| grizzly | (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
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| groggy | (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, foggy, logy, stuporous |
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| groovy | (adjective) (British informal) very chic | Synonyms: swagger |
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| (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
| grotty | (adjective) very unpleasant or offensive | - |
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| grouchy | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| grubby | (adjective) infested with grubs | - |
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| (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, raunchy |
| grumpy | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, ill-tempered |
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| grungy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, raunchy |
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| guilty | (adjective) responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act | - |
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| (adjective) showing a sense of guilt | Synonyms: hangdog, shamed, shamefaced |
| gummy | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| (adjective) covered with adhesive gum | Synonyms: gummed |
| gushy | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: effusive, gushing |
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| gustatory | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustative, gustatorial |
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| gusty | (adjective) blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts | Synonyms: puffy |
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| gutsy | (adjective) marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited | Synonyms: plucky |
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| hairy | (adjective) having or covered with hair | Synonyms: haired, hirsute |
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| (adjective) hazardous and frightening | - |
| halfway | (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, middle, midway |
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| (adjective) including only half or a portion | - |
| (adjective) at a point midway between two extremes | - |
| hallucinatory | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of hallucination | - |
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| hammy | (adjective) affectedly dramatic; overacted | - |
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| handy | (adjective) easy to reach | Synonyms: ready to hand |
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| (adjective) skillful with the hands | - |
| (adjective) useful and convenient | - |
| happy | (adjective) enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure | - |
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| (adjective) well expressed and to the point | Synonyms: well-chosen |
| (adjective) marked by good fortune | Synonyms: felicitous |
| (adjective) eagerly disposed to act or to be of service | Synonyms: glad |
| hardy | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid, unfearing |
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| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: stalwart, stout, sturdy |
| (adjective) able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions | - |
| hasty | (adjective) excessively quick | Synonyms: headlong |
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| (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: overhasty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous |
| haughty | (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
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| hazy | (adjective) filled or abounding with fog or mist | Synonyms: brumous, foggy, misty |
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| (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, muzzy |
| heady | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: foolhardy, rash, reckless |
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| (adjective) extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic | Synonyms: intoxicating |
| (adjective) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters | Synonyms: judicious, wise |
| healthy | (adjective) having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease | - |
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| (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, goodly, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
| (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: intelligent, level-headed, levelheaded, sound |
| (adjective) financially secure and functioning well | - |
| (adjective) promoting health; healthful | Synonyms: good for you, salubrious |
| hearsay | (adjective) heard through another rather than directly | - |
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| hearty | (adjective) deeply felt | - |
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| (adjective) showing warm and heartfelt friendliness | - |
| (adjective) providing abundant nourishment | Synonyms: satisfying, solid, square, substantial |
| (adjective) consuming abundantly and with gusto | - |
| (adjective) endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health | Synonyms: full-blooded, lusty, red-blooded |
| heavenly | (adjective) of or belonging to heaven or god | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: celestial |
| (adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: celestial |
| heavy | (adjective) of comparatively great physical weight or density | - |
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| (adjective) marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness | - |
| (adjective) unusually great in degree or quantity or number | - |
| (adjective) of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment | - |
| (adjective) (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight | - |
| (adjective) of great intensity or power or force | - |
| (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: lowering, sullen, threatening |
| (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: clayey, cloggy |
| (adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: profound, sound, wakeless |
| (adjective) lacking lightness or liveliness | Synonyms: leaden |
| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, overweight |
| (adjective) full of; bearing great weight | Synonyms: weighed down |
| (adjective) full and loud and deep | Synonyms: sonorous |
| (adjective) large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work | - |
| (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: lumbering, ponderous |
| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, grievous, weighty |
| (adjective) dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal | - |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: hard, intemperate |
| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, with child |
| (adjective) sharply inclined | - |
| (adjective) made of fabric having considerable thickness | - |
| (adjective) (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain | - |
| (adjective) requiring or showing effort | Synonyms: labored, laboured |
| (adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: dense, impenetrable |
| (adjective) prodigious | Synonyms: big |
| (adjective) of relatively large extent and density | - |
| hebdomadary | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadal, weekly |
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| hefty | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
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| (adjective) of considerable weight and size | - |
| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, muscular, powerful, sinewy |
| 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 |
| hilly | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, craggy, mountainous |
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| 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 |
| hokey | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, contrived, stilted |
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| (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
| holey | (adjective) allowing passage in and out | Synonyms: porous |
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| holy | (adjective) belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power | - |
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| homely | (adjective) having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable | Synonyms: homelike, homey, homy |
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| (adjective) without artificial refinement or elegance | - |
| (adjective) plain and unpretentious | - |
| (adjective) lacking in physical beauty or proportion | Synonyms: plain |
| homey | (adjective) having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable | Synonyms: homelike, homely, homy |
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| homy | (adjective) having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable | Synonyms: homelike, homely, homey |
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| honey | (adjective) of something having the color of honey | - |
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| honorary | (adjective) given as an honor without the normal duties | - |
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| hoopy | (adjective) Neat, really together, knowing where one's towel is | - |
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| horary | (adjective) relating to the hours | - |
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| horny | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: corneous, hornlike |
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| (adjective) having horns or hornlike projections | - |
| (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, randy, ruttish, steamy, turned on |
| hortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative |
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| hourly | (adjective) occurring every hour or payable by the hour | - |
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| housewifely | (adjective) related or suited to a housewife | - |
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| huffy | (adjective) roused to anger | Synonyms: mad, sore |
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| (adjective) quick to take offense | Synonyms: feisty, thin-skinned, touchy |
| hulky | (adjective) of great size and bulk | Synonyms: hulking |
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| hungry | (adjective) feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food | - |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous | Synonyms: athirst, thirsty |
| husbandly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a husband | - |
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| (adjective) related to or suited to a husband | - |
| husky | (adjective) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion | Synonyms: gruff, hoarse |
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| (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, strapping |