| deserving | (adjective) (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way | Synonyms: worth |
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| desiccate | (adjective) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless | Synonyms: arid, desiccated |
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| desiccated | (adjective) thoroughly dried out | Synonyms: dried-out |
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| (adjective) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless | Synonyms: arid, desiccate |
| (adjective) preserved by removing natural moisture | Synonyms: dehydrated, dried |
| designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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| designative | (adjective) serving to designate | - |
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| designed | (adjective) done or made or performed with purpose and intent | Synonyms: intentional, unintentional |
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| designing | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: scheming |
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| desirable | (adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving | - |
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| (adjective) worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse | Synonyms: suitable, worthy |
| desired | (adjective) wanted intensely | Synonyms: craved |
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| desirous | (adjective) having or expressing desire for something | Synonyms: wishful |
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| deskbound | (adjective) restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity | Synonyms: desk-bound |
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| desolate | (adjective) crushed by grief | - |
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| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark |
| despairing | (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: desperate |
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| desperate | (adjective) showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | Synonyms: heroic |
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| (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: dire |
| (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: despairing |
| (adjective) showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | - |
| (adjective) desperately determined | Synonyms: do-or-die |
| (adjective) (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair | - |
| despicable | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
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| despised | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: detested, hated, scorned |
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| despiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: spiteful, vindictive |
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| despoiled | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked |
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| despondent | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: heartsick |
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| despotic | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotical |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| (adjective) ruled by or characteristic of a despot | - |
| despotical | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotic |
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| destined | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Synonyms: bound |
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| (adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Synonyms: bound |
| destitute | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, devoid, free, innocent |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
| destroyable | (adjective) capable of being destroyed | - |
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| destroyed | (adjective) spoiled or ruined or demolished | - |
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| (adjective) destroyed physically or morally | Synonyms: ruined |
| destructible | (adjective) easily destroyed | - |
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| destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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| desultory | (adjective) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another | - |
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| detachable | (adjective) designed to be unfastened or disconnected without damage | - |
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| detached | (adjective) used of buildings; standing apart from others | - |
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| (adjective) being or feeling set or kept apart from others | Synonyms: isolated, separated, set-apart |
| (adjective) showing lack of emotional involvement | Synonyms: degage, uninvolved |
| (adjective) no longer connected or joined | Synonyms: separated |
| (adjective) not fixed in position | Synonyms: free |
| (adjective) lacking affection or warm feeling | Synonyms: unaffectionate, uncaring |
| detailed | (adjective) developed or executed with care and in minute detail | Synonyms: elaborate, elaborated |
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| detectable | (adjective) easily seen or detected | Synonyms: perceptible |
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| (adjective) capable of being detected | Synonyms: noticeable |
| detected | (adjective) perceived or discerned | - |
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| (adjective) perceived with the mind | - |
| detergent | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detersive |
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| determinable | (adjective) capable of being determined or limited or fixed | - |
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| determinant | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinative, determining |
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| determinate | (adjective) precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause | - |
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| (adjective) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex | - |
| (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: definitive |
| determinative | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determining |
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| determined | (adjective) having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation | - |
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| (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, driven |
| (adjective) characterized by great determination | - |
| (adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: dictated, set |
| (adjective) devoting full strength and concentrated attention to | - |
| determining | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative |
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| deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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| deterrent | (adjective) tending to deter | - |
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| detersive | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergent |
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| detestable | (adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: abominable, execrable, odious |
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| (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
| detested | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: despised, hated, scorned |
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| detonative | (adjective) exploding almost instantaneously | - |
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| detractive | (adjective) causing to decrease in importance or value | - |
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| detrimental | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, prejudicial, prejudicious |
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| deuced | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, darned, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| deuteranopic | (adjective) inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red | Synonyms: green-blind |
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| devalued | (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: debased, degraded |
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| devastating | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: crushing |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, withering |
| (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, withering |
| developed | (adjective) being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful | - |
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| (adjective) (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads | - |
| (adjective) (used of societies) having high industrial development | Synonyms: highly-developed |
| developing | (adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: underdeveloped |
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| developmental | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting development | - |
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| deviant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviate |
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| deviate | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviant |
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| devilish | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
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| (adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: rascally, roguish |
| devious | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, roundabout |
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| (adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: oblique |
| (adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: shifty |
| devoid | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, destitute, free, innocent |
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| devoted | (adjective) (followed by `to') dedicated exclusively to a purpose or use | - |
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| (adjective) zealous in devotion or affection | - |
| devotional | (adjective) relating to worship | - |
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| devouring | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, esurient, greedy |
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| devout | (adjective) deeply religious | Synonyms: god-fearing |
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| (adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, earnest, heartfelt |
| dewy | (adjective) wet with dew | Synonyms: bedewed |
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| dexter | (adjective) on or starting from the wearer's right | - |
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| dexterous | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: deft, dextrous |
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| dextral | (adjective) of or on the right | - |
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| (adjective) preferring to use right foot or hand or eye | - |
| dextrorotary | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotatory, right-handed |
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| dextrorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotary, right-handed |
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| dextrorsal | (adjective) spiraling upward from left to right | Synonyms: dextrorse |
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| dextrorse | (adjective) spiraling upward from left to right | Synonyms: dextrorsal |
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| dextrous | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: deft, dexterous |
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| diabatic | (adjective) involving a transfer of heat | - |
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| diabetic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing diabetes | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from diabetes | - |
| diabolic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
| diabolical | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
| diachronic | (adjective) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time | Synonyms: historical |
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| diacritic | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritical |
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| diacritical | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritic |
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| diadromous | (adjective) (used of fish) migratory between fresh and salt waters | - |
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| diagnosable | (adjective) capable of being diagnosed | - |
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| diagnostic | (adjective) concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic or indicative of a disease | Synonyms: symptomatic |
| diagonal | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| (adjective) connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face | - |
| diagonalizable | (adjective) capable of being transformed into a diagonal matrix | - |
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| diagrammatic | (adjective) shown or represented by diagrams | Synonyms: diagrammatical |
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| diagrammatical | (adjective) shown or represented by diagrams | Synonyms: diagrammatic |
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| dialectal | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of a dialect | - |
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| dialectic | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectical |
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| dialectical | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectic |
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| diamagnetic | (adjective) relating to or exhibiting diamagnetism; slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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| diamantine | (adjective) consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds | - |
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| diametral | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical |
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| diametric | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametral, diametrical |
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| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametrical, opposite, polar |
| diametrical | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametral, diametric |
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| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, opposite, polar |
| dianoetic | (adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: discursive |
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| diaphanous | (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
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| diaphoretic | (adjective) inducing perspiration | Synonyms: sudorific |
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| diaphyseal | (adjective) relating to the diaphysis of a bone | Synonyms: diaphysial |
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| diaphysial | (adjective) relating to the diaphysis of a bone | Synonyms: diaphyseal |
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