| bubaline | (adjective) relating to or resembling a buffalo | - |
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| bubbling | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| bubbly | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) full of or showing high spirits | - |
| bubonic | (adjective) of or evidencing buboes | - |
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| buccal | (adjective) of or involving the mouth or mouth region or the surface on which the mouth is located | Synonyms: oral |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or toward the cheek | - |
| buckram | (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: starchy, stiff |
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| buckshee | (adjective) free of charge | - |
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| bucolic | (adjective) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle | Synonyms: pastoral |
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| (adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: arcadian, pastoral |
| budding | (adjective) beginning to develop | - |
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| budgetary | (adjective) of or relating to a budget | - |
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| buff | (adjective) of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather | - |
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| buffeted | (adjective) pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities | Synonyms: storm-tossed, tempest-swept, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost |
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| buffoonish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: clownish, clownlike, zany |
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| bugged | (adjective) having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices | Synonyms: wired |
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| buggy | (adjective) infested with bugs | - |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
| built | (adjective) (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness | Synonyms: reinforced |
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| buirdly | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, burly, husky, strapping |
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| bulbaceous | (adjective) producing or growing from bulbs | - |
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| bulbar | (adjective) involving the medulla oblongata | - |
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| bulbed | (adjective) having a bulb | - |
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| bulblike | (adjective) shaped like a bulb | Synonyms: bulb-shaped, bulbous |
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| bulbous | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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| (adjective) shaped like a bulb | Synonyms: bulb-shaped, bulblike |
| bulging | (adjective) curving or bulging outward | Synonyms: convex |
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| (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant |
| bulgy | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, protuberant |
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| bulimic | (adjective) suffering from bulimia | - |
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| bulky | (adjective) of large size for its weight | - |
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| bullate | (adjective) of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered | - |
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| bulletproof | (adjective) not penetrable by bullets | - |
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| (adjective) without flaws or loopholes | Synonyms: ironclad, unassailable, unshakable, watertight |
| bullheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, pigheaded |
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| bullish | (adjective) expecting a rise in prices | - |
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| bullnecked | (adjective) having a thick short powerful neck | - |
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| bullocky | (adjective) resembling a bullock in strength and power | - |
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| bully | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| bullying | (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others | Synonyms: blustery |
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| bum | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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| bumbling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| bumpkinly | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: hick, rustic, unsophisticated |
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| bumptious | (adjective) offensively self-assertive | Synonyms: self-assertive |
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| bumpy | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough |
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| (adjective) covered with or full of bumps | - |
| bunchy | (adjective) occurring close together in bunches or clusters | - |
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| bungaloid | (adjective) characterized by bungalows | - |
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| bungled | (adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness | Synonyms: botched |
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| bunglesome | (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, clumsy, ungainly |
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| bungling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: clumsy, fumbling, incompetent |
| buoyant | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: chirpy, perky |
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| (adjective) tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas | Synonyms: floaty |
| burbling | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbly, effusive, gushing |
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| burbly | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, effusive, gushing |
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| burdened | (adjective) bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities | - |
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| (adjective) bearing a physically heavy weight or load | Synonyms: heavy-laden, loaded down |
| burdenless | (adjective) not encumbered with a physical burden or load | Synonyms: unburdened |
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| burdensome | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: onerous, taxing |
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| bureaucratic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy | - |
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| burgeoning | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| burglarious | (adjective) involving or resembling burglary | - |
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| burglarproof | (adjective) secure against burglary | - |
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| buried | (adjective) placed in a grave | Synonyms: inhumed, interred |
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| burked | (adjective) suppressed quietly or indirectly | - |
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| burled | (adjective) (of wood) have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl | - |
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| burlesque | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a burlesque | - |
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| burly | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, husky, strapping |
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| burnable | (adjective) capable of burning | Synonyms: ignitable, ignitible |
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| burned | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burnt |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burnt-out, burnt |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burnt |
| burning | (adjective) of immediate import | - |
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| burnished | (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| burnt | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burned |
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| (adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burned, burnt-out |
| (adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burned |
| burred | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| burrlike | (adjective) resembling a burr; especially in being prickly | - |
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| burry | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| bursal | (adjective) relating to or affecting a bursa | - |
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| bursiform | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: pouch-shaped, pouchlike, saclike |
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| bush | (adjective) not of the highest quality or sophistication | Synonyms: bush-league |
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| bushed | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, dead |
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| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| bushy | (adjective) resembling a bush in being thickly branched and spreading | - |
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| (adjective) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed | Synonyms: shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired, shaggy |
| businesslike | (adjective) exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business | - |
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| (adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: earnest |
| bust | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: broke, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| busted | (adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: broken |
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| bustling | (adjective) full of energetic and noisy activity | - |
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| busty | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| busy | (adjective) actively or fully engaged or occupied | - |
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| (adjective) overcrowded or cluttered with detail | Synonyms: fussy |
| (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
| (adjective) (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) | Synonyms: engaged, in use |
| (adjective) crowded with or characterized by much activity | - |
| busybodied | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| butch | (adjective) (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance | - |
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| (adjective) used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner | Synonyms: macho |
| butcherly | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
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| (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: botchy, unskillful |
| buteonine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus Buteo | - |
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| butterfingered | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| buttery | (adjective) resembling or containing or spread with butter | - |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
| buttoned | (adjective) furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | Synonyms: fastened |
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| buttonlike | (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttony |
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| buttony | (adjective) ornamented with many buttons | - |
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| (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttonlike |
| buttressed | (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: braced |
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| butyraceous | (adjective) having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter | - |
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| butyric | (adjective) relating to or producing butyric acid | - |
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| buxom | (adjective) (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous | Synonyms: zaftig, zoftig |
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| (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
| buzzing | (adjective) noisy like the sound of a bee | Synonyms: abuzz |
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