| equinoctial | (adjective) relating to an equinox (when the lengths of night and day are equal) | - |
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| (adjective) relating to the vicinity of the equator | - |
| equipoised | (adjective) lacking lateral dominance; being neither right-handed nor left-handed | - |
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| equipotent | (adjective) having equal strength or efficacy | - |
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| equipped | (adjective) provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate | Synonyms: equipt |
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| (adjective) provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority) | Synonyms: furnished |
| (adjective) carrying weapons | Synonyms: weaponed |
| (adjective) prepared with proper equipment | Synonyms: fitted out |
| equiprobable | (adjective) equally probable | - |
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| equipt | (adjective) provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate | Synonyms: equipped |
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| equitable | (adjective) fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience | Synonyms: just |
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| equivalent | (adjective) being essentially equal to something | Synonyms: tantamount |
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| equivocal | (adjective) open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead | Synonyms: ambiguous |
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| (adjective) uncertain as a sign or indication | - |
| (adjective) open to question | - |
| eradicable | (adjective) able to be eradicated or rooted out | - |
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| erasable | (adjective) capable of being effaced | Synonyms: effaceable |
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| erect | (adjective) upright in position or posture | Synonyms: upright, vertical |
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| (adjective) of sexual organs; stiff and rigid | Synonyms: tumid |
| erectile | (adjective) capable of being raised to an upright position | - |
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| (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: cavernous |
| eremitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living | Synonyms: eremitical |
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| (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: anchoritic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
| eremitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living | Synonyms: eremitic |
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| (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: anchoritic, eremitic, hermitic, hermitical |
| ergodic | (adjective) positive recurrent aperiodic state of stochastic systems; tending in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions | - |
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| ergonomic | (adjective) of or relating to ergonomics | - |
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| ergotic | (adjective) relating to or produced by ergot | - |
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| ergotropic | (adjective) of or relating to ergotropism | - |
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| eristic | (adjective) given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments | Synonyms: eristical |
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| eristical | (adjective) given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments | Synonyms: eristic |
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| eroded | (adjective) worn away as by water or ice or wind | Synonyms: scoured |
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| erogenous | (adjective) sensitive to sexual stimulation | - |
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| erose | (adjective) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed | Synonyms: jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed |
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| erosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) wearing away by friction | - |
| erotic | (adjective) giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing | Synonyms: titillating |
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| errant | (adjective) straying from the right course or from accepted standards | - |
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| (adjective) uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable | - |
| erratic | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: fickle, mercurial, quicksilver |
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| (adjective) likely to perform unpredictably | Synonyms: temperamental |
| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: planetary, wandering |
| errhine | (adjective) causing nasal discharge | - |
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| erring | (adjective) capable of making an error | Synonyms: error-prone |
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| erroneous | (adjective) containing or characterized by error | - |
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| errorless | (adjective) free from error | - |
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| ersatz | (adjective) artificial and inferior | Synonyms: substitute |
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| erstwhile | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime |
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| erudite | (adjective) having or showing profound knowledge | Synonyms: learned |
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| eruptive | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: igneous |
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| (adjective) producing or characterized by eruptions | - |
| (adjective) actively spewing out lava | - |
| erythematous | (adjective) relating to or characterized by erythema | - |
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| erythroid | (adjective) relating to erythrocytes | - |
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| erythropoietic | (adjective) of or relating to the formation of red blood cells | - |
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| escaped | (adjective) having escaped, especially from confinement | Synonyms: at large, loose, on the loose |
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| eschatological | (adjective) of or relating to or dealing with or regarding the ultimate destiny of mankind and the world | - |
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| esophageal | (adjective) relating to the esophagus | - |
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| esoteric | (adjective) confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle | - |
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| especial | (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: exceptional, particular, special |
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| essential | (adjective) basic and fundamental | - |
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| (adjective) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established | Synonyms: substantive |
| (adjective) being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc | - |
| (adjective) of the greatest importance | Synonyms: all-important, all important, crucial, of the essence |
| (adjective) absolutely necessary; vitally necessary | Synonyms: indispensable |
| established | (adjective) brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established | Synonyms: constituted |
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| (adjective) introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation | Synonyms: naturalized |
| (adjective) conforming with accepted standards | Synonyms: conventional |
| (adjective) shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt | - |
| (adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: accomplished, effected |
| esteemed | (adjective) having an illustrious reputation; respected | Synonyms: honored, honoured, prestigious |
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| esthetic | (adjective) concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste | Synonyms: aesthetic, aesthetical, esthetical |
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| (adjective) relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics | Synonyms: aesthetic |
| (adjective) aesthetically pleasing | Synonyms: aesthetic, artistic |
| esthetical | (adjective) concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste | Synonyms: aesthetic, aesthetical, esthetic |
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| estimable | (adjective) deserving of respect or high regard | - |
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| (adjective) may be computed or estimated | Synonyms: computable |
| (adjective) deserving of esteem and respect | Synonyms: admirable, good, honorable, respectable |
| estival | (adjective) (rare) of or occurring in summer | Synonyms: aestival |
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| estranged | (adjective) caused to be unloved | Synonyms: alienated |
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| estranging | (adjective) making one feel out of place or alienated | - |
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| estrogenic | (adjective) relating to or caused by estrogen | - |
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| estrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus; in heat | - |
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| estuarial | (adjective) of or relating to or found in estuaries | Synonyms: estuarine |
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| estuarine | (adjective) of or relating to or found in estuaries | Synonyms: estuarial |
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| esurient | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, greedy |
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| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| (adjective) extremely hungry | Synonyms: famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved |
| etched | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, graven, incised, inscribed |
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| eternal | (adjective) tiresomely long; seemingly without end | Synonyms: endless, interminable |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| ethereal | (adjective) of or containing or dissolved in ether | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy | Synonyms: gossamer |
| (adjective) of heaven or the spirit | Synonyms: celestial, supernal |
| (adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aeriform, aery, airy |
| ethical | (adjective) conforming to accepted standards of social or professional behavior | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics | - |
| (adjective) adhering to ethical and moral principles | Synonyms: honorable, honourable |
| ethnic | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: heathen, heathenish, pagan |
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| (adjective) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people | Synonyms: cultural, ethnical |
| ethnical | (adjective) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people | Synonyms: cultural, ethnic |
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| ethnocentric | (adjective) centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own | - |
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| ethnographic | (adjective) of or relating to ethnography | Synonyms: ethnographical |
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| ethnographical | (adjective) of or relating to ethnography | Synonyms: ethnographic |
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| ethnologic | (adjective) of or relating to ethnology | Synonyms: ethnological |
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| ethnological | (adjective) of or relating to ethnology | Synonyms: ethnologic |
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| etiolate | (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: blanched, etiolated |
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| etiolated | (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: blanched, etiolate |
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| etiologic | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiological |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiological |
| etiological | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiologic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiologic |
| etymological | (adjective) based on or belonging to etymology | - |
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| eucaryotic | (adjective) having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: eukaryotic |
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| euclidean | (adjective) relating to geometry as developed by Euclid | Synonyms: euclidian |
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| euclidian | (adjective) relating to geometry as developed by Euclid | Synonyms: euclidean |
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| eudaemonic | (adjective) producing happiness and well-being | Synonyms: eudemonic |
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| eudemonic | (adjective) producing happiness and well-being | Synonyms: eudaemonic |
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| eugenic | (adjective) pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced | - |
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| eukaryotic | (adjective) having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: eucaryotic |
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| eulogistic | (adjective) formally expressing praise | Synonyms: encomiastic, panegyric, panegyrical |
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| euphemistic | (adjective) of or the nature of euphemism | - |
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| euphonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by euphony | Synonyms: euphonical |
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| euphonical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by euphony | Synonyms: euphonic |
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| euphonious | (adjective) having a pleasant sound | Synonyms: euphonous |
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| (adjective) (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident | - |
| euphonous | (adjective) having a pleasant sound | Synonyms: euphonious |
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| euphoriant | (adjective) tending to produce euphoria | - |
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| euphoric | (adjective) exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation | - |
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| eupneic | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: breathing, eupnoeic |
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| eupnoeic | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: breathing, eupneic |
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| eusporangiate | (adjective) (of ferns) having sporangia that arise from a group of epidermal cells | - |
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| eutherian | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the subclass Eutheria | - |
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| eutrophic | (adjective) (ecology) of a lake or other body of water rich in nutrients and subject to eutrophication | - |
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| evacuant | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, purgative |
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| evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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| evanescent | (adjective) tending to vanish like vapor | - |
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| evangelical | (adjective) of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels | - |
| (adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelistic |
| evangelistic | (adjective) relating to or promoting the preaching and dissemination of the Christian gospel | - |
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| (adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelical |
| evaporable | (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporizable, vapourific, vapourisable, volatilisable, volatilizable |
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