| li | (adjective) being one more than fifty | Synonyms: 51, fifty-one |
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| liable | (adjective) at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant | Synonyms: apt |
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| (adjective) held legally responsible | - |
| (adjective) (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with | Synonyms: nonimmune, nonresistant, unresistant |
| (adjective) subject to legal action | - |
| libellous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libelous, slanderous |
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| libelous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, slanderous |
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| liberal | (adjective) tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition | - |
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| (adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: broad, large-minded, tolerant |
| (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, openhanded |
| (adjective) not literal | Synonyms: free, loose |
| (adjective) having political or social views favoring reform and progress | - |
| liberalistic | (adjective) having or demonstrating belief in the essential goodness of man and the autonomy of the individual; favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority | - |
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| liberated | (adjective) free from traditional social restraints | Synonyms: emancipated |
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| (adjective) (of a gas e.g.) released from chemical combination | - |
| libertine | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, profligate, riotous |
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| libidinal | (adjective) belonging to the libido | - |
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| libidinous | (adjective) driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires | Synonyms: lascivious, lewd, lustful |
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| licenced | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licensed |
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| licensed | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licenced |
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| licentious | (adjective) lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained | - |
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| licit | (adjective) sanctioned by custom or morality especially sexual morality | - |
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| (adjective) authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law | Synonyms: lawful, legitimate |
| licked | (adjective) having been got the better of | - |
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| lidded | (adjective) having or covered with a lid or lids; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having a lid | - |
| lidless | (adjective) not having or covered with a lid or lids | - |
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| (adjective) always watchful | Synonyms: sleepless |
| (adjective) having no lid | - |
| liege | (adjective) owing or owed feudal allegiance and service | - |
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| lienal | (adjective) of or relating to the spleen | Synonyms: splenetic, splenic |
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| lifeless | (adjective) not having the capacity to support life | - |
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| (adjective) destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings | - |
| (adjective) lacking animation or excitement or activity | - |
| (adjective) deprived of life; no longer living | Synonyms: exanimate |
| lifelike | (adjective) evoking lifelike images within the mind | Synonyms: graphic, pictorial, vivid |
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| (adjective) free from artificiality | Synonyms: natural |
| lifelong | (adjective) continuing through life | Synonyms: womb-to-tomb |
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| lifesize | (adjective) being of the same size as an original | Synonyms: full-size, life-size, life-sized |
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| lifted | (adjective) held up in the air | Synonyms: upraised |
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| light | (adjective) of comparatively little physical weight or density | - |
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| (adjective) psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles | - |
| (adjective) not great in degree or quantity or number | - |
| (adjective) of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment | - |
| (adjective) (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent | Synonyms: light-colored |
| (adjective) characterized by or emitting light | - |
| (adjective) (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average | - |
| (adjective) of little intensity or power or force | - |
| (adjective) easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned | - |
| (adjective) silly or trivial | Synonyms: idle |
| (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, lightheaded, swooning |
| (adjective) having little importance | - |
| (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: scant, short |
| (adjective) designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight | - |
| (adjective) moving easily and quickly; nimble | Synonyms: lightsome, tripping |
| (adjective) (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency | - |
| (adjective) having relatively few calories | Synonyms: calorie-free, lite, low-cal |
| (adjective) (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims | Synonyms: clean, clear, unclouded |
| (adjective) (of sleep) easily disturbed | Synonyms: wakeful |
| (adjective) marked by temperance in indulgence | Synonyms: abstemious |
| (adjective) very thin and insubstantial | - |
| (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton |
| (adjective) demanding little effort; not burdensome | - |
| (adjective) (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | Synonyms: unaccented, weak |
| (adjective) intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound | - |
| lighted | (adjective) set afire or burning | Synonyms: lit |
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| (adjective) provided with artificial light | Synonyms: illuminated, lit, well-lighted |
| lightheaded | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, silly |
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| (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, light, swooning |
| lighthearted | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lightsome |
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| lightless | (adjective) without illumination | Synonyms: unilluminated, unlighted, unlit |
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| (adjective) giving no light | - |
| lightproof | (adjective) not penetrable by light | Synonyms: light-tight |
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| lightsome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted |
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| (adjective) moving easily and quickly; nimble | Synonyms: light, tripping |
| lightweight | (adjective) weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use | - |
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| (adjective) having no importance or influence | - |
| ligneous | (adjective) consisting of or containing lignin or xylem | - |
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| lii | (adjective) being two more than fifty | Synonyms: 52, fifty-two |
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| liii | (adjective) being three more than fifty | Synonyms: 53, fifty-three |
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| likable | (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: appealing, likeable, sympathetic |
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| (adjective) easy to like; agreeable | Synonyms: likeable |
| like | (adjective) resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination | Synonyms: similar |
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| (adjective) equal in amount or value | Synonyms: same |
| (adjective) having the same or similar characteristics | Synonyms: alike, similar |
| (adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: comparable, corresponding |
| likeable | (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: appealing, likable, sympathetic |
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| (adjective) easy to like; agreeable | Synonyms: likable |
| liked | (adjective) found pleasant or attractive; often used as a combining form | - |
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| likely | (adjective) has a good chance of being the case or of coming about | - |
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| (adjective) within the realm of credibility | - |
| (adjective) expected to become or be; in prospect | Synonyms: potential |
| lilac | (adjective) of a pale purple color | Synonyms: lavender, lilac-colored |
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| liliaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Liliaceae | - |
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| lilliputian | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, midget, petite, tiny |
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| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
| lilting | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: swinging, swingy, tripping |
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| limacine | (adjective) of or resembling a slug | Synonyms: limacoid |
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| limacoid | (adjective) of or resembling a slug | Synonyms: limacine |
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| limbed | (adjective) having or as if having limbs, especially limbs of a specified kind (usually used in combination) | - |
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| limber | (adjective) (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely | Synonyms: supple |
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| (adjective) (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable | Synonyms: supple |
| (adjective) (used of artifacts) easily bent | - |
| limbic | (adjective) of or relating to or forming a limbus | - |
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| limbless | (adjective) having no limbs | - |
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| limited | (adjective) small in range or scope | - |
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| (adjective) not unlimited | - |
| (adjective) not excessive | - |
| (adjective) including only a part | - |
| (adjective) mediocre | Synonyms: modified |
| (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: circumscribed |
| (adjective) having a specific function or scope | Synonyms: special |
| limiting | (adjective) strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting |
| limitless | (adjective) having no limits in range or scope | Synonyms: unlimited |
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| (adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: illimitable, measureless, unmeasured |
| (adjective) seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent | Synonyms: boundless, unbounded |
| limnological | (adjective) of or relating to limnology | - |
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| limp | (adjective) lacking or having lost rigidity | - |
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| (adjective) without energy or will | Synonyms: wilted |
| limpid | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, lucid, luculent, pellucid, perspicuous |
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| (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, lucid, pellucid, transparent |
| (adjective) clear and bright | Synonyms: liquid |
| lineal | (adjective) in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child | Synonyms: direct |
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| (adjective) arranged in a line | - |
| linear | (adjective) of or in or along or relating to a line; involving or having a single dimension | Synonyms: one-dimensional |
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| (adjective) designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree | Synonyms: additive |
| (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analog, analogue |
| (adjective) measured lengthwise | Synonyms: running |
| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) long and narrow | Synonyms: elongate |
| lined | (adjective) having a lining or a liner; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) bordered by a line of things | - |
| (adjective) (used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams | Synonyms: seamed |
| linelike | (adjective) resembling a line | - |
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| lingual | (adjective) consisting of or related to language | Synonyms: linguistic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue | - |
| linguistic | (adjective) consisting of or related to language | Synonyms: lingual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the scientific study of language | - |
| lingulate | (adjective) shaped like a tongue | Synonyms: tongue-shaped |
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| linked | (adjective) connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks | Synonyms: coupled, joined |
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| lionhearted | (adjective) extraordinarily courageous | - |
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| lipless | (adjective) without a lip or lips | Synonyms: unlipped |
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| liplike | (adjective) having lips or parts that resemble lips | Synonyms: labiate |
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| lipophilic | (adjective) having an affinity for lipids | Synonyms: lipotropic |
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| lipotropic | (adjective) having an affinity for lipids | Synonyms: lipophilic |
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| lipped | (adjective) having a lip or lips | - |
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| liquefiable | (adjective) capable of being liquefied | Synonyms: liquifiable |
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| liquefied | (adjective) reduced to a liquid state | Synonyms: liquified |
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| (adjective) reduced to liquid form by heating | Synonyms: liquified, molten |
| liquescent | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: melting |
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| liquid | (adjective) existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow | - |
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| (adjective) changed from a solid to a liquid state | Synonyms: liquified, melted |
| (adjective) clear and bright | Synonyms: limpid |
| (adjective) in cash or easily convertible to cash | Synonyms: fluid |
| (adjective) smooth and unconstrained in movement | Synonyms: fluent, fluid, smooth |
| (adjective) smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness | - |
| (adjective) filled or brimming with tears | Synonyms: swimming |
| liquifiable | (adjective) capable of being liquefied | Synonyms: liquefiable |
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| liquified | (adjective) changed from a solid to a liquid state | Synonyms: liquid, melted |
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| (adjective) reduced to a liquid state | Synonyms: liquefied |
| (adjective) reduced to liquid form by heating | Synonyms: liquefied, molten |
| lissom | (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissome, lithe, lithesome, sinuous, supple |
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| lissome | (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lithe, lithesome, sinuous, supple |
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| listed | (adjective) on a list | - |
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| listless | (adjective) lacking zest or vivacity | - |
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| (adjective) marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm | Synonyms: dispirited |
| lit | (adjective) set afire or burning | Synonyms: lighted |
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| (adjective) provided with artificial light | Synonyms: illuminated, lighted, well-lighted |
| lite | (adjective) having relatively few calories | Synonyms: calorie-free, light, low-cal |
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| literal | (adjective) limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text | - |
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| (adjective) without interpretation or embellishment | - |
| (adjective) avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis) | - |
| (adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: actual, genuine, real |
| literary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of literature | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable about literature | - |
| literate | (adjective) able to read and write | - |
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| (adjective) versed in literature; dealing with literature | - |
| (adjective) knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields | - |
| lithe | (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithesome, sinuous, supple |
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| lithesome | (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithe, sinuous, supple |
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| lithic | (adjective) relating to or composed of stone | - |
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| (adjective) of or containing lithium | - |
| lithographic | (adjective) of or produced by or involved in lithography | - |
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| lithomantic | (adjective) of or relating to lithomancy | - |
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| lithophytic | (adjective) of or relating to lithophytes | - |
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| litigious | (adjective) of or relating to litigation | - |
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| (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, disputative |
| littered | (adjective) filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish | Synonyms: cluttered |
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| little | (adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: short |
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| (adjective) limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: small |
| (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | Synonyms: slight |
| (adjective) small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context) | - |
| (adjective) lowercase | Synonyms: minuscule, small |
| (adjective) (of a voice) faint | Synonyms: small |
| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
| (adjective) (of children and animals) young, immature | Synonyms: small |
| littler | (adjective) small or little relative to something else | Synonyms: smaller |
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| littoral | (adjective) of or relating to a coastal or shore region | - |
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| liturgical | (adjective) of or relating to or in accord with liturgy | - |
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| liv | (adjective) being four more than fifty | Synonyms: 54, fifty-four |
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| livable | (adjective) fit or suitable to live in or with | Synonyms: liveable |
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| live | (adjective) possessing life | Synonyms: alive |
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| (adjective) exerting force or containing energy | - |
| (adjective) actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing | Synonyms: unrecorded |
| (adjective) charged or energized with electricity | Synonyms: hot |
| (adjective) of current relevance | - |
| (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, lively, resilient, springy |
| (adjective) abounding with life and energy | - |
| (adjective) charged with an explosive | - |
| (adjective) highly reverberant | - |
| (adjective) in current use or ready for use | - |
| (adjective) capable of erupting | Synonyms: alive |