| meager
|
(adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent |
Synonyms:
meagerly,
meagre,
scrimpy,
stingy |
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| meagerly
|
(adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent |
Synonyms:
meager,
meagre,
scrimpy,
stingy |
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| meagre
|
(adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent |
Synonyms:
meager,
meagerly,
scrimpy,
stingy |
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| mealy
|
(adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency |
Synonyms:
grainy,
granular,
granulose,
gritty,
coarse-grained,
farinaceous |
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| (adjective) containing meal or made of meal |
- |
| mealymouthed
|
(adjective) hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy |
Synonyms:
mealy-mouthed |
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| mean
|
(adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value |
Synonyms:
average |
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| (adjective) characterized by malice |
Synonyms:
hateful |
| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality |
Synonyms:
meanspirited,
base |
| (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar |
Synonyms:
beggarly |
| (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity |
Synonyms:
mingy,
miserly,
tight |
| (adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt |
Synonyms:
beggarly |
| (adjective) of no value or worth |
Synonyms:
bastardly |
| (adjective) very good; of the highest quality |
Synonyms:
ripping,
excellent,
splendid,
fantabulous,
first-class |
| meandering
|
(adjective) of a path e.g. |
Synonyms:
rambling,
wandering,
winding |
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| meaning
|
(adjective) rich in significance or implication |
Synonyms:
pregnant,
significant |
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| meaningful
|
(adjective) having a meaning or purpose |
- |
|---|
| meaningless
|
(adjective) having no meaning or direction or purpose |
Synonyms:
nonmeaningful |
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| (adjective) producing no result or effect |
Synonyms:
unavailing,
ineffectual,
otiose,
futile |
| meanspirited
|
(adjective) lacking in magnanimity |
Synonyms:
ungenerous |
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| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality |
Synonyms:
mean,
base |
| measly
|
(adjective) contemptibly small in amount |
Synonyms:
miserable,
paltry |
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| measurable
|
(adjective) capable of being measured |
Synonyms:
mensurable |
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| (adjective) of distinguished importance |
- |
| measured
|
(adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables |
Synonyms:
metric,
metrical |
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| (adjective) carefully thought out in advance |
Synonyms:
deliberate,
calculated |
| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity |
Synonyms:
deliberate,
careful |
| (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value |
Synonyms:
mensurable,
mensural |
| measureless
|
(adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity |
Synonyms:
unmeasured,
illimitable,
limitless |
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| meatless
|
(adjective) lacking meat |
- |
|---|
| meaty
|
(adjective) like or containing meat |
- |
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| (adjective) being on topic and prompting thought |
Synonyms:
substantive |
| mechanic
|
(adjective) resembling the action of a machine |
- |
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| mechanical
|
(adjective) using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) relating to or concerned with machinery or tools |
Synonyms:
technical,
mechanically skillful |
| (adjective) relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics |
- |
| mechanised
|
(adjective) using vehicles |
Synonyms:
mechanized,
motorized |
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| (adjective) equipped with machinery |
Synonyms:
mechanized |
| mechanistic
|
(adjective) explained in terms of physical forces |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical theory of mechanism |
- |
| mechanized
|
(adjective) equipped with machinery |
Synonyms:
mechanised |
|---|
| (adjective) using vehicles |
Synonyms:
mechanised,
motorized |
| mecopterous
|
(adjective) of or relating to mecopterans |
- |
|---|
| meddlesome
|
(adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner |
Synonyms:
interfering,
meddling,
officious,
busy,
busybodied |
|---|
| meddling
|
(adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner |
Synonyms:
interfering,
meddlesome,
officious,
busy,
busybodied |
|---|
| mediaeval
|
(adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened |
Synonyms:
medieval,
gothic |
|---|
| (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages |
Synonyms:
medieval |
| medial
|
(adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves |
Synonyms:
median |
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| (adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle |
Synonyms:
median |
| median
|
(adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) |
Synonyms:
average |
|---|
| (adjective) dividing an animal into right and left halves |
Synonyms:
medial |
| (adjective) relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle |
Synonyms:
medial |
| mediate
|
(adjective) acting through or dependent on an intervening agency |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series |
Synonyms:
in-between,
middle |
| mediated
|
(adjective) acting or brought about through an intervening agency |
- |
|---|
| mediatorial
|
(adjective) of or relating to a mediator or the duties of a mediator |
- |
|---|
| mediatory
|
(adjective) of or related to or directed toward mediation |
- |
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| medical
|
(adjective) relating to the study or practice of medicine |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery |
- |
| (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art |
Synonyms:
aesculapian |
| medicative
|
(adjective) having the properties of medicine |
Synonyms:
medicinal |
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| medicinal
|
(adjective) having the properties of medicine |
Synonyms:
medicative |
|---|
| medicolegal
|
(adjective) pertaining to legal aspects of the practice of medicine (as malpractice or patient consent for operations or patient information) |
- |
|---|
| medieval
|
(adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened |
Synonyms:
mediaeval,
gothic |
|---|
| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages |
Synonyms:
knightly,
chivalric |
| (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages |
Synonyms:
mediaeval |
| mediocre
|
(adjective) moderate to inferior in quality |
Synonyms:
second-rate |
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| (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability |
Synonyms:
middling,
average,
fair |
| (adjective) poor to middling in quality |
- |
| meditative
|
(adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful |
Synonyms:
reflective,
ruminative,
musing,
pensive,
pondering,
contemplative,
brooding,
broody |
|---|
| medium
|
(adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation |
Synonyms:
intermediate,
average |
|---|
| (adjective) (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside |
- |
| medullary
|
(adjective) containing or consisting of or resembling bone marrow |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) of or relating to the medulla oblongata |
- |
| (adjective) of or relating to the medulla of any body part |
- |
| medullated
|
(adjective) (of neurons) covered with a layer of myelin |
Synonyms:
myelinated |
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| medusoid
|
(adjective) relating to or resembling a medusa |
- |
|---|
| meek
|
(adjective) humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness |
Synonyms:
mild,
modest |
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| (adjective) very docile |
Synonyms:
tame |
| (adjective) evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant |
Synonyms:
spiritless |
| meet
|
(adjective) being precisely fitting and right |
Synonyms:
fitting |
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| megakaryocytic
|
(adjective) of or pertaining to large bone marrow cells |
- |
|---|
| megalithic
|
(adjective) of or relating to megaliths or the people who erected megaliths |
- |
|---|
| megaloblastic
|
(adjective) of or relating to megaloblasts |
- |
|---|
| megalomaniacal
|
(adjective) suffering from megalomania |
Synonyms:
megalomanic |
|---|
| megalomanic
|
(adjective) suffering from megalomania |
Synonyms:
megalomaniacal |
|---|
| megascopic
|
(adjective) visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features) |
Synonyms:
gross |
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| meiotic
|
(adjective) of or relating to meiosis |
- |
|---|
| melancholic
|
(adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness |
Synonyms:
melancholy |
|---|
| melancholy
|
(adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness |
Synonyms:
melancholic |
|---|
| (adjective) grave or even gloomy in character |
Synonyms:
somber,
sombre |
| meliorative
|
(adjective) tending to ameliorate |
Synonyms:
ameliorating,
ameliorative,
amelioratory |
|---|
| mellifluous
|
(adjective) pleasing to the ear |
Synonyms:
honeyed,
mellisonant,
dulcet,
sweet |
|---|
| mellisonant
|
(adjective) pleasing to the ear |
Synonyms:
honeyed,
mellifluous,
dulcet,
sweet |
|---|
| mellow
|
(adjective) unhurried and relaxed |
Synonyms:
laid-back |
|---|
| (adjective) having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging |
Synonyms:
mellowed |
| (adjective) softened through age or experience |
Synonyms:
mellowed |
| (adjective) slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) |
Synonyms:
high |
| mellowed
|
(adjective) having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging |
Synonyms:
mellow |
|---|
| (adjective) softened through age or experience |
Synonyms:
mellow |
| melodic
|
(adjective) containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody |
Synonyms:
melodious,
musical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to melody |
- |
| melodious
|
(adjective) having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune |
Synonyms:
tuneful |
|---|
| (adjective) containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody |
Synonyms:
melodic,
musical |
| melodramatic
|
(adjective) having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected |
Synonyms:
histrionic |
| meltable
|
(adjective) capable of melting |
Synonyms:
disintegrable |
|---|
| melted
|
(adjective) changed from a solid to a liquid state |
Synonyms:
liquid,
liquified |
|---|
| melting
|
(adjective) becoming liquid |
Synonyms:
liquescent |
|---|
| membered
|
(adjective) having members; normally used in chemistry in combination with a number |
- |
|---|
| memberless
|
(adjective) of a group or set having no members |
- |
|---|
| membranous
|
(adjective) characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane) |
Synonyms:
membrane-forming |
|---|
| (adjective) relating to or made of or similar to a membrane |
- |
| memorable
|
(adjective) worth remembering |
- |
|---|
| menacing
|
(adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments |
Synonyms:
minacious,
minatory,
ominous,
sinister,
baleful,
forbidding,
threatening |
|---|
| mendacious
|
(adjective) given to lying |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) intentionally untrue |
- |
| mendicant
|
(adjective) practicing beggary |
- |
|---|
| menial
|
(adjective) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) |
Synonyms:
humble,
lowly |
|---|
| meningeal
|
(adjective) relating to the meninges |
- |
|---|
| menopausal
|
(adjective) of or relating to the menopause |
- |
|---|
| mensal
|
(adjective) pertaining to or used at the dining table |
- |
|---|
| menstrual
|
(adjective) of or relating to menstruation or the menses |
Synonyms:
catamenial |
|---|
| mensurable
|
(adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value |
Synonyms:
measured,
mensural |
|---|
| (adjective) capable of being measured |
Synonyms:
measurable |
| mensural
|
(adjective) of or relating to measure |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value |
Synonyms:
mensurable,
measured |
| mental
|
(adjective) involving the mind or an intellectual process |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) of or relating to the mind |
- |
| (adjective) of or relating to the chin- or liplike structure in insects and certain mollusks |
- |
| (adjective) of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw |
Synonyms:
genial |
| (adjective) affected by a disorder of the mind |
- |
| mentholated
|
(adjective) containing, or impregnated with, menthol |
- |
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| mephistophelean
|
(adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil |
Synonyms:
mephistophelian,
devilish,
diabolic,
diabolical |
|---|
| mephistophelian
|
(adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil |
Synonyms:
mephistophelean,
devilish,
diabolic,
diabolical |
|---|
| mephitic
|
(adjective) of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution |
Synonyms:
miasmic |
|---|
| mercantile
|
(adjective) profit oriented |
Synonyms:
mercenary,
moneymaking,
commercial |
|---|
| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of trade or traders |
- |
| (adjective) of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism |
- |
| mercenary
|
(adjective) marked by materialism |
Synonyms:
materialistic,
worldly-minded |
|---|
| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army |
Synonyms:
free-lance,
freelance |
| (adjective) profit oriented |
Synonyms:
mercantile,
moneymaking,
commercial |
| mercerised
|
(adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye |
Synonyms:
mercerized |
|---|
| mercerized
|
(adjective) of cotton thread that has been treated with sodium hydroxide to shrink it and increase its luster and affinity for dye |
Synonyms:
mercerised |
|---|
| merchantable
|
(adjective) fit to be offered for sale |
Synonyms:
marketable,
sellable,
vendable,
vendible |
|---|
| merciful
|
(adjective) showing or giving mercy |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious |
- |
| merciless
|
(adjective) having or showing no mercy |
Synonyms:
unmerciful |
|---|
| mercurial
|
(adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change |
Synonyms:
quicksilver,
erratic,
fickle |
|---|
| (adjective) relating to or containing or caused by mercury |
- |
| mercuric
|
(adjective) of or containing mercury |
Synonyms:
mercurous |
|---|
| mercurous
|
(adjective) of or containing mercury |
Synonyms:
mercuric |
|---|
| mere
|
(adjective) being nothing more than specified |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) apart from anything else; without additions or modifications |
Synonyms:
simple,
bare |
| meretricious
|
(adjective) tastelessly showy |
Synonyms:
garish,
gaudy,
gimcrack,
cheap,
brassy,
flash,
flashy,
tacky,
tatty,
tawdry,
trashy,
loud |
|---|
| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing |
Synonyms:
gilded,
glossy,
specious |
| (adjective) like or relating to a prostitute |
- |
| merged
|
(adjective) formed or united into a whole |
Synonyms:
unified,
incorporate,
incorporated,
integrated |
|---|
| merging
|
(adjective) flowing together |
Synonyms:
confluent |
|---|
| meridian
|
(adjective) being at the best stage of development |
Synonyms:
prime |
|---|
| (adjective) of or happening at noon |
- |
| meridional
|
(adjective) located in the south or characteristic of southern people or places |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) of or relating to a meridian |
- |