| apart | (adjective) having characteristics not shared by others | - |
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| (adjective) remote and separate physically or socially | Synonyms: isolated, obscure |
| apathetic | (adjective) showing little or no emotion or animation | - |
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| (adjective) marked by a lack of interest | Synonyms: indifferent |
| apelike | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apish |
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| (adjective) resembling apes | Synonyms: anthropoid, anthropoidal |
| aperient | (adjective) mildly laxative | - |
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| aperiodic | (adjective) not recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: nonperiodic |
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| apetalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having no petals | Synonyms: petalless |
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| aphaeretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: apheretic |
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| aphakic | (adjective) of or relating to or afflicted with aphakia | - |
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| aphanitic | (adjective) of or relating to aphanite | - |
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| aphasic | (adjective) related to or affected by aphasia | - |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of a brain lesion | - |
| apheretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: aphaeretic |
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| aphetic | (adjective) produced by aphesis | - |
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| aphonic | (adjective) being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech | Synonyms: voiceless |
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| aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
| aphotic | (adjective) lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight | - |
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| aphrodisiac | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiacal, sexy |
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| aphrodisiacal | (adjective) stimulating sexual desire | Synonyms: aphrodisiac, sexy |
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| aphyllous | (adjective) devoid of leaves | - |
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| apian | (adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of bees | - |
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| apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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| apical | (adjective) situated at an apex | - |
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| apiculate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip | - |
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| apicultural | (adjective) relating to the care and breeding of bees | - |
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| apish | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apelike |
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| apivorous | (adjective) feeding on bees | - |
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| aplacental | (adjective) having no placenta | - |
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| aplanatic | (adjective) free from or corrected for spherical aberration | - |
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| aplitic | (adjective) of or related to aplite | - |
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| apneic | (adjective) of or relating to apnea | Synonyms: apnoeic |
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| apnoeic | (adjective) of or relating to apnea | Synonyms: apneic |
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| apocalyptic | (adjective) of or relating to an apocalypse | - |
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| (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptical, revelatory |
| apocalyptical | (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptic, revelatory |
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| apocarpous | (adjective) (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses | - |
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| apochromatic | (adjective) corrected for both chromatic and spherical aberration | - |
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| apocrine | (adjective) (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion | - |
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| apocryphal | (adjective) being of questionable authenticity | - |
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| apocynaceous | (adjective) of or relating to tropical plants of the family Apocynaceae | - |
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| apodal | (adjective) (of snakes and eels) naturally footless | Synonyms: apodous |
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| apodeictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodictic |
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| apodictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodeictic |
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| apodous | (adjective) (of snakes and eels) naturally footless | Synonyms: apodal |
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| apogametic | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogamic, apogamous |
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| apogamic | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogametic, apogamous |
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| apogamous | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogametic, apogamic |
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| apogean | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of an apogee | - |
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| apolitical | (adjective) politically neutral | Synonyms: unpolitical |
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| apologetic | (adjective) offering or expressing apology | Synonyms: excusatory |
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| apomictic | (adjective) of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis | Synonyms: apomictical |
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| (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamogenetic, agamous, parthenogenetic |
| apomictical | (adjective) of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis | Synonyms: apomictic |
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| aponeurotic | (adjective) of or relating to an aponeurosis | - |
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| apopemptic | (adjective) addressed to one who is departing | - |
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| apophatic | (adjective) of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as `God is unknowable') | - |
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| apophyseal | (adjective) of or relating to an apophysis | - |
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| apoplectic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy | - |
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| apoplectiform | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectoid |
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| apoplectoid | (adjective) resembling apoplexy | Synonyms: apoplectiform |
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| aposiopetic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis | - |
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| apostate | (adjective) not faithful to religion or party or cause | - |
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| apostolic | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolical |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolical, papal, pontifical |
| apostolical | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolic |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, papal, pontifical |
| apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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| apothecial | (adjective) of or relating to the apothecium of some lichens and fungi | - |
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| apothegmatic | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatical |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: aphoristic, epigrammatic |
| apothegmatical | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatic |
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| apotropaic | (adjective) having the power to prevent evil or bad luck | - |
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| appalled | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: aghast, dismayed, shocked |
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| appalling | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: dismaying |
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| appareled | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: attired, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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| apparent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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| (adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: ostensible, seeming |
| apparitional | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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| appealable | (adjective) capable of being appealed especially to a higher tribunal | - |
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| appealing | (adjective) able to attract interest or draw favorable attention | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: likable, likeable, sympathetic |
| appeasable | (adjective) capable of being pacified | Synonyms: conciliable |
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| appeasing | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: placating, placative, placatory |
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| appellant | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellate |
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| appellate | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellant |
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| appellative | (adjective) pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun | - |
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| (adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names | Synonyms: naming |
| appendaged | (adjective) having an appendage | - |
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| appendant | (adjective) affixed as an appendage | - |
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| appendicular | (adjective) relating to or consisting of an appendage or appendages; especially the limbs | - |
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| apperceptive | (adjective) able to relate new percepts to past experience | - |
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| appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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| appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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| appetitive | (adjective) of or relating to appetite | - |
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| appetizing | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetising |
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| applaudable | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: commendable, laudable, praiseworthy |
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| applicable | (adjective) capable of being applied; having relevance | - |
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| applicative | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicatory |
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| applicatory | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicative |
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| applied | (adjective) concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles | - |
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| appointed | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointive |
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| (adjective) selected for a job | - |
| (adjective) provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind) | - |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: decreed, ordained, prescribed |
| appointive | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointed |
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| (adjective) relating to the act of appointing | - |
| apportionable | (adjective) capable of being distributed | Synonyms: allocable, allocatable |
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| apportioned | (adjective) given out in portions | Synonyms: dealt out, doled out, meted out, parceled out |
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| apposable | (adjective) capable of being placed opposite to something | Synonyms: opposable |
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| apposite | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apt, pertinent |
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| appositional | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositive |
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| appositive | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositional |
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| appraising | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: evaluative |
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| appreciable | (adjective) enough to be estimated or measured | - |
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