braced | (adjective) positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger | - |
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(adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: buttressed |
brachial | (adjective) of or relating to an arm | - |
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brachiate | (adjective) having arms or armlike appendages | - |
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(adjective) having widely spreading paired branches | - |
brachiopod | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopodous |
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brachiopodous | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopod |
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brachycephalic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycranial, brachycranic |
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brachycranial | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranic |
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brachycranic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranial |
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brachydactylic | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylous |
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brachydactylous | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylic |
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brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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brachyurous | (adjective) of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura | - |
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bracing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: brisk, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
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brackish | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: briny |
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(adjective) distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture | - |
bracteal | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a bract | - |
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bracteate | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracted |
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bracted | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracteate |
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bracteolate | (adjective) having bracteoles | - |
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brag | (adjective) exceptionally good | Synonyms: boss |
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braggart | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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bragging | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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braggy | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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brahminic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminical |
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brahminical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminic |
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braided | (adjective) woven by (or as if by) braiding | - |
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brainish | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
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brainless | (adjective) not using intelligence | Synonyms: headless |
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brainsick | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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brainwashed | (adjective) subjected to intensive forced indoctrination resulting in the rejection of old beliefs and acceptance of new ones | - |
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brainy | (adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brilliant, smart as a whip |
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braised | (adjective) cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container | - |
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braky | (adjective) abounding with bracken | - |
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(adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: brambly |
braless | (adjective) having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity | Synonyms: bare-breasted, topless |
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brambly | (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: braky |
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branched | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branching, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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(adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
branchial | (adjective) of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills) | - |
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branchiate | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: gilled |
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branching | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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(adjective) resembling the branches of a tree | - |
branchiopod | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopodan, branchiopodous |
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branchiopodan | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodous |
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branchiopodous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodan |
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branchless | (adjective) having no branches | - |
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branchy | (adjective) having many branches | - |
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branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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(adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
brash | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: cheeky, nervy |
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brassbound | (adjective) having trim or fittings of brass | - |
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(adjective) inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable | Synonyms: ironclad |
brasslike | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brassy |
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brassy | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brasslike |
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(adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
brattish | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: bratty |
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bratty | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: brattish |
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brave | (adjective) possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching | Synonyms: courageous |
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(adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
(adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: braw, gay |
braw | (adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: brave, gay |
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brawny | (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy |
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brazen | (adjective) made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness) | - |
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(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, insolent |
breakable | (adjective) capable of being broken or damaged | - |
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breakaway | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: fissiparous, separatist |
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breakneck | (adjective) moving at very high speed | - |
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breasted | (adjective) having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds | - |
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breastless | (adjective) without a breast | - |
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breathed | (adjective) uttered without voice | Synonyms: voiceless |
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breathing | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: eupneic, eupnoeic |
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breathless | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic |
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(adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: inanimate, pulseless |
(adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathtaking |
breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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breeched | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: pantalooned, trousered |
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breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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breezy | (adjective) fresh and animated | - |
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(adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: blowy, windy |
bregmatic | (adjective) of or relating to the bregma of the skull | - |
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briary | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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bribable | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: corruptible, dishonest, purchasable, venal |
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brickle | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickly, brittle |
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brickly | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickle, brittle |
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bridal | (adjective) of or pertaining to a bride | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a wedding | Synonyms: nuptial, spousal |
bridgeable | (adjective) capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge | - |
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brief | (adjective) concise and succinct | - |
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(adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: abbreviated |
(adjective) of short duration or distance | - |
briefless | (adjective) (of lawyers or barristers) lacking clients | - |
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briery | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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bright | (adjective) emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts | - |
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(adjective) not made dim or less bright | Synonyms: undimmed |
(adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: hopeful, promising |
(adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: brilliant, vivid |
(adjective) splendid | - |
(adjective) characterized by happiness or gladness | - |
(adjective) characterized by quickness and ease in learning | Synonyms: smart |
(adjective) having lots of light either natural or artificial | - |
(adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny |
(adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: brilliant |
brilliant | (adjective) full of light; shining intensely | - |
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(adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: bright, vivid |
(adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: glorious, magnificent, splendid |
(adjective) having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence | Synonyms: brainy, smart as a whip |
(adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: bright |
(adjective) of surpassing excellence | Synonyms: superb |
brimful | (adjective) filled up | Synonyms: brimfull, brimming |
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brimfull | (adjective) filled up | Synonyms: brimful, brimming |
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brimless | (adjective) without a brim | - |
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brimming | (adjective) filled up | Synonyms: brimful, brimfull |
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brinded | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brindle, brindled, tabby |
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brindle | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindled, tabby |
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brindled | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindle, tabby |
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briny | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: brackish |
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brisant | (adjective) of or relating to the power (the shattering effect) of an explosive | - |
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brisk | (adjective) very active | - |
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(adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
(adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: bracing, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
bristled | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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bristlelike | (adjective) resembling a bristle | - |
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bristly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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(adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: prickly, splenetic, waspish |
brittle | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickle, brickly |
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(adjective) lacking warmth and generosity of spirit | - |
(adjective) (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured | Synonyms: unannealed |
broached | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: abroach |
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broad | (adjective) having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other | Synonyms: wide |
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(adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: large-minded, liberal, tolerant |
(adjective) lacking subtlety; obvious | Synonyms: unsubtle |
(adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
(adjective) not detailed or specific | Synonyms: unspecific |
(adjective) being at a peak or culminating point | Synonyms: full |
(adjective) very large in expanse or scope | Synonyms: spacious, wide |
(adjective) (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional | - |
broadband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: wideband |
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(adjective) of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video) | - |
broadleaf | (adjective) having relatively broad rather than needlelike or scalelike leaves | Synonyms: broad-leafed, broad-leaved |
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broadloom | (adjective) (of rugs or carpets) woven full width | - |
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broadnosed | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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broadside | (adjective) toward a full side | - |
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brocaded | (adjective) embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery | Synonyms: embossed, raised |
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