| normative | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: prescriptive |
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| (adjective) relating to or dealing with norms | - |
| normotensive | (adjective) having normal blood pressure | - |
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| north | (adjective) situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north | - |
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| northbound | (adjective) moving toward the north | Synonyms: northward |
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| northeast | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeasterly, northeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northeast | Synonyms: northeasterly |
| northeasterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeast, northeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northeast | Synonyms: northeast |
| northeastern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including the New England states, New York, and sometimes New Jersey and Pennsylvania | - |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeast, northeasterly |
| northeastward | (adjective) toward the northeast | - |
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| northerly | (adjective) coming from the north; used especially of wind | Synonyms: northern |
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| (adjective) oriented toward the north | Synonyms: northern |
| northern | (adjective) situated in regions of the north | - |
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| (adjective) in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line | - |
| (adjective) coming from the north; used especially of wind | Synonyms: northerly |
| (adjective) oriented toward the north | Synonyms: northerly |
| northernmost | (adjective) situated farthest north | Synonyms: northmost |
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| northmost | (adjective) situated farthest north | Synonyms: northernmost |
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| northward | (adjective) moving toward the north | Synonyms: northbound |
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| northwest | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwesterly, northwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northwest | Synonyms: northwesterly |
| northwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwest, northwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northwest | Synonyms: northwest |
| northwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwest, northwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and sometimes Montana, Wyoming | - |
| northwestward | (adjective) toward the northwest | - |
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| nosed | (adjective) having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind | - |
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| noseless | (adjective) having no nose | - |
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| nosey | (adjective) offensively curious or inquisitive | Synonyms: nosy, prying, snoopy |
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| nosocomial | (adjective) taking place or originating in a hospital | - |
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| nosohusial | (adjective) taking place related or acquired under home healthcare | - |
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| nostalgic | (adjective) unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons | - |
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| nosy | (adjective) offensively curious or inquisitive | Synonyms: nosey, prying, snoopy |
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| notable | (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, famous, far-famed, illustrious, noted, renowned |
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| (adjective) worthy of attention | Synonyms: noteworthy, remarkable |
| notched | (adjective) having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed | Synonyms: erose, jagged, jaggy, toothed |
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| (adjective) notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex | Synonyms: saw-toothed, serrate, serrated, toothed |
| noted | (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, famous, far-famed, illustrious, notable, renowned |
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| noteworthy | (adjective) worthy of attention | Synonyms: notable, remarkable |
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| noticeable | (adjective) capable or worthy of being noticed | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being detected | Synonyms: detectable |
| noticed | (adjective) being perceived or observed | - |
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| notifiable | (adjective) requiring that official notification be given | - |
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| notional | (adjective) being of the nature of a notion or concept | Synonyms: conceptional, ideational |
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| (adjective) indulging in or influenced by fancy | Synonyms: fanciful |
| (adjective) not based on fact or investigation | Synonyms: speculative |
| (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, imaginary |
| notorious | (adjective) known widely and usually unfavorably | Synonyms: ill-famed, infamous |
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| nourished | (adjective) being provided with adequate nourishment | - |
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| nourishing | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
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| novel | (adjective) pleasantly new or different | Synonyms: refreshing |
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| (adjective) original and of a kind not seen before | Synonyms: fresh, new |
| noxious | (adjective) injurious to physical or mental health | - |
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| nth | (adjective) last or greatest in an indefinitely large series | Synonyms: n-th |
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| nubbly | (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: homespun, nubby, slubbed, tweedy |
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| nubby | (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: homespun, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy |
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| nubile | (adjective) of girls or women who are eligible to marry | Synonyms: marriageable |
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| nuclear | (adjective) (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy | Synonyms: atomic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or constituting the nucleus of an atom | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or constituting the nucleus of a cell | - |
| (adjective) constituting or like a nucleus | - |
| nucleate | (adjective) having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus | Synonyms: nucleated |
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| nucleated | (adjective) having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus | Synonyms: nucleate |
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| nude | (adjective) having no clothes on the body | Synonyms: au naturel, bare, naked |
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| nugatory | (adjective) of no real value | - |
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| null | (adjective) lacking any legal or binding force | Synonyms: void |
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| nullified | (adjective) deprived of legal force | Synonyms: invalidated |
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| numb | (adjective) so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified | - |
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| (adjective) lacking sensation | Synonyms: asleep, benumbed |
| (adjective) (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive | Synonyms: dead |
| numberless | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| numbing | (adjective) causing numbness or insensitivity | - |
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| numerable | (adjective) that can be counted | Synonyms: countable, denumerable, enumerable |
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| numeral | (adjective) of or relating to or denoting numbers | Synonyms: numeric, numerical |
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| numerate | (adjective) able to understand and use numbers | - |
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| numeric | (adjective) of or relating to or denoting numbers | Synonyms: numeral, numerical |
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| (adjective) measured or expressed in numbers | Synonyms: numerical |
| numerical | (adjective) relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers | Synonyms: mathematical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or denoting numbers | Synonyms: numeral, numeric |
| (adjective) measured or expressed in numbers | Synonyms: numeric |
| numerological | (adjective) of or relating to numerology | - |
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| numerous | (adjective) amounting to a large indefinite number | Synonyms: legion |
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| numinous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a numen | - |
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| (adjective) evincing the presence of a deity | - |
| nuptial | (adjective) of or relating to a wedding | Synonyms: bridal, spousal |
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| nursed | (adjective) (of an infant) breast-fed | Synonyms: suckled |
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| nurtural | (adjective) resulting from nurture | - |
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| nurturant | (adjective) providing physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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| nutbrown | (adjective) of the color of nuts | - |
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| nutlike | (adjective) resembling a nut in shape and size | - |
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| (adjective) having the flavor of nuts | Synonyms: nutty |
| nutrient | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive |
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| nutritional | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritionary |
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| nutritionary | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritional |
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| nutritious | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritive |
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| nutritive | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious |
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| nuts | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| nutty | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) having the flavor of nuts | Synonyms: nutlike |
| nymphomaniac | (adjective) (used of women) affected with excessive sexual desire | Synonyms: nymphomaniacal |
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| nymphomaniacal | (adjective) (used of women) affected with excessive sexual desire | Synonyms: nymphomaniac |
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