monovular | (adjective) (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum | Synonyms: identical |
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monozygotic | (adjective) derived from a single fertilized egg | - |
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monstrous | (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, grievous |
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(adjective) abnormally large | - |
(adjective) distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous | Synonyms: grotesque |
montane | (adjective) of or inhabiting mountainous regions | - |
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monthlong | (adjective) last through a month | - |
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monthly | (adjective) of or occurring or payable every month | - |
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monumental | (adjective) relating or belonging to or serving as a monument | - |
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(adjective) imposing in size or bulk or solidity | Synonyms: massive, monolithic |
(adjective) of outstanding significance | - |
moody | (adjective) subject to sharply varying moods | Synonyms: temperamental |
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(adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
moonless | (adjective) without a moon or a visible moon | - |
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moonlike | (adjective) resembling the moon in shape | Synonyms: moon-round |
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moonlit | (adjective) lighted by moonlight | Synonyms: moony |
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moonstruck | (adjective) insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon | Synonyms: lunatic |
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moony | (adjective) lighted by moonlight | Synonyms: moonlit |
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(adjective) dreamy in mood or nature | Synonyms: dreamy, woolgathering |
moot | (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: arguable, debatable, disputable |
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(adjective) of no legal significance (as having been previously decided) | - |
moraceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Moraceae | - |
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moral | (adjective) concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles | - |
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(adjective) psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect | - |
moralistic | (adjective) narrowly and conventionally moral | - |
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morbid | (adjective) suggesting the horror of death and decay | Synonyms: ghoulish |
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(adjective) caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology | Synonyms: diseased, pathologic, pathological |
(adjective) suggesting an unhealthy mental state | - |
morbific | (adjective) able to cause disease | Synonyms: infective, pathogenic |
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morbilliform | (adjective) of a rash that resembles that of measles | - |
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mordacious | (adjective) biting or given to biting | - |
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(adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent |
mordant | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, erosive, vitriolic |
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(adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: black, grim |
more | (adjective) (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; above; more than | Synonyms: more than |
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(adjective) (comparative of `many' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number | - |
morganatic | (adjective) (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior | Synonyms: left-handed |
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moribund | (adjective) being on the point of death; breathing your last | - |
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(adjective) not growing or changing; without force or vitality | Synonyms: stagnant |
moronic | (adjective) having a mental age of between eight and twelve years | - |
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morose | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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morphemic | (adjective) of or relating to morphemes | - |
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morphologic | (adjective) relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals | Synonyms: morphological, structural |
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(adjective) relating to or concerned with the formation of admissible words in a language | Synonyms: morphological |
(adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphological, structural |
morphological | (adjective) relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals | Synonyms: morphologic, structural |
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(adjective) relating to or concerned with the formation of admissible words in a language | Synonyms: morphologic |
(adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, structural |
morphophonemic | (adjective) of or relating to morphophonemics | - |
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mortal | (adjective) subject to death | - |
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(adjective) unrelenting and deadly | - |
(adjective) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death | Synonyms: deadly |
(adjective) causing or capable of causing death | Synonyms: deadly, deathly |
mortgaged | (adjective) burdened with legal or financial obligations | - |
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mortified | (adjective) made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride | Synonyms: embarrassed, humiliated |
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(adjective) suffering from tissue death | Synonyms: gangrenous |
mortifying | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humbling, humiliating |
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(adjective) causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation | Synonyms: embarrassing |
mortuary | (adjective) of or relating to a funeral | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of death | - |
mosstone | (adjective) of a moderate somewhat dull yellow-green color | Synonyms: moss green |
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mossy | (adjective) overgrown with moss | Synonyms: moss-grown |
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(adjective) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned | Synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy |
most | (adjective) the superlative of `much' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning the greatest in amount or extent or degree | - |
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(adjective) (superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number | - |
motherless | (adjective) having no living or known mother | - |
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motherlike | (adjective) suggestive of or acting like a mother | - |
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motherly | (adjective) befitting a mother; warm and nurturing | - |
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mothproof | (adjective) resistant to damage by moths | Synonyms: moth-resistant |
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mothy | (adjective) infested with moths | - |
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(adjective) worn or eaten away by (or as if by) moths | Synonyms: moth-eaten |
motile | (adjective) (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement | - |
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motional | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by motion | - |
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motionless | (adjective) not in physical motion | Synonyms: inactive, static, still |
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motivated | (adjective) provided with a motive or given incentive for action | - |
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motivating | (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivative, motive |
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motivational | (adjective) of or relating to motivation | - |
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motivative | (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivating, motive |
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motive | (adjective) causing or able to cause motion | Synonyms: motor |
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(adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivating, motivative |
motiveless | (adjective) occurring without motivation or provocation | Synonyms: unprovoked, wanton |
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motley | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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(adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, sundry |
motor | (adjective) causing or able to cause motion | Synonyms: motive |
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(adjective) conveying information to the muscles from the CNS | Synonyms: centrifugal |
motored | (adjective) equipped with a motor or motors | Synonyms: motorised, motorized |
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motorial | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS | Synonyms: efferent |
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motorised | (adjective) equipped with a motor or motors | Synonyms: motored, motorized |
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motorized | (adjective) equipped with a motor or motors | Synonyms: motored, motorised |
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(adjective) using vehicles | Synonyms: mechanised, mechanized |
motorless | (adjective) having no motor | Synonyms: unmotorised, unmotorized |
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mottled | (adjective) having spots or patches of color | Synonyms: dappled |
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mouldy | (adjective) covered with or smelling of mold | Synonyms: moldy, musty |
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mountainous | (adjective) like a mountain in size and impressiveness | - |
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(adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, craggy, hilly |
(adjective) containing many mountains | - |
mounted | (adjective) decorated with applied ornamentation; often used in combination | - |
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(adjective) assembled for use; especially by being attached to a support | - |
mournful | (adjective) filled with or evoking sadness | Synonyms: doleful |
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(adjective) expressing sorrow | Synonyms: plaintive |
mourning | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowing |
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mouselike | (adjective) of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | Synonyms: mouse-colored, mousey, mousy |
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mousey | (adjective) infested with mice | Synonyms: mousy |
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(adjective) of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | Synonyms: mouse-colored, mouselike, mousy |
(adjective) quiet and timid and ineffectual | Synonyms: mousy |
mousy | (adjective) infested with mice | Synonyms: mousey |
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(adjective) of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | Synonyms: mouse-colored, mouselike, mousey |
(adjective) quiet and timid and ineffectual | Synonyms: mousey |
mouthless | (adjective) having no mouth or mouthlike opening | Synonyms: astomatous |
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mouthlike | (adjective) of an opening that resembles a mouth | - |
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movable | (adjective) capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another | Synonyms: moveable, transferable, transferrable, transportable |
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(adjective) (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand) | - |
moveable | (adjective) capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another | Synonyms: movable, transferable, transferrable, transportable |
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moved | (adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: affected, stirred, touched |
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moving | (adjective) arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion | - |
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(adjective) in motion | - |
(adjective) used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion | - |
mown | (adjective) (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine | Synonyms: cut |
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