| spaced | (adjective) arranged with spaces between; often used as a combining form | - |
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| (adjective) spaced apart | Synonyms: separated |
| spacey | (adjective) stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug | Synonyms: spaced-out, spacy |
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| spacial | (adjective) pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space | Synonyms: spatial |
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| spaciotemporal | (adjective) existing in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration | Synonyms: spatiotemporal |
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| spacious | (adjective) (of buildings and rooms) having ample space | Synonyms: roomy |
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| (adjective) very large in expanse or scope | Synonyms: broad, wide |
| spacy | (adjective) stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug | Synonyms: spaced-out, spacey |
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| spangled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangly |
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| spangly | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled |
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| spanking | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, zippy |
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| spare | (adjective) lacking in magnitude or quantity | Synonyms: bare, scanty |
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| (adjective) thin and fit | Synonyms: trim |
| (adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation | Synonyms: bare, plain, unembellished, unornamented |
| (adjective) not taken up by scheduled activities | Synonyms: free |
| (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
| (adjective) kept in reserve especially for emergency use | - |
| sparing | (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: economical, frugal, scotch, stinting |
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| sparkling | (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: effervescent |
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| (adjective) shining with brilliant points of light like stars | - |
| sparkly | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating |
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| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, scintillating |
| sparse | (adjective) not dense | Synonyms: thin |
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| spartan | (adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetic, ascetical, austere |
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| (adjective) unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment | Synonyms: severe |
| (adjective) resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity | - |
| spasmodic | (adjective) occurring in spells and often abruptly | Synonyms: fitful |
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| (adjective) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | Synonyms: convulsive, spastic |
| spastic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by spasm | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from spastic paralysis | - |
| (adjective) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | Synonyms: convulsive, spasmodic |
| spatial | (adjective) pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space | Synonyms: spacial |
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| spatiotemporal | (adjective) of or relating to space and time together (having both spatial extension and temporal duration) | - |
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| (adjective) existing in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration | Synonyms: spaciotemporal |
| spattered | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: dabbled, splashed, splattered |
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| spatulate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base | Synonyms: spatula-shaped |
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| spavined | (adjective) (of horses) afflicted with a swelling of the hock-joint | - |
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| spayed | (adjective) (of a female animal) having the ovaries removed | - |
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| speakable | (adjective) capable of being uttered in words or sentences | Synonyms: utterable |
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| speaking | (adjective) capable of or involving speech or speaking | - |
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| (adjective) capable of speech | Synonyms: speech-endowed |
| special | (adjective) for a special service or occasion | - |
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| (adjective) first and most important | Synonyms: particular |
| (adjective) adapted to or reserved for a particular purpose | - |
| (adjective) having a specific function or scope | Synonyms: limited |
| (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: especial, exceptional, particular |
| (adjective) added to a regular schedule | Synonyms: extra |
| (adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category | Synonyms: particular, peculiar |
| specialised | (adjective) developed or designed for a special activity or function | Synonyms: specialized |
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| specialistic | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of specialists | - |
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| (adjective) showing focused training | - |
| specialized | (adjective) developed or designed for a special activity or function | Synonyms: specialised |
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| specifiable | (adjective) capable of being specified | - |
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| specific | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique | - |
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| (adjective) being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides | - |
| (adjective) relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species | - |
| (adjective) stated explicitly or in detail | - |
| specified | (adjective) clearly and explicitly stated | - |
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| specious | (adjective) plausible but false | Synonyms: spurious |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, glossy, meretricious |
| specked | (adjective) having a pattern of dots | Synonyms: dotted, flecked, speckled, stippled |
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| speckled | (adjective) having a pattern of dots | Synonyms: dotted, flecked, specked, stippled |
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| speckless | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spick, spotless |
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| spectacled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: bespectacled, monocled |
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| spectacular | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, striking |
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| (adjective) characteristic of spectacles or drama | - |
| (adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: dramatic, striking |
| spectral | (adjective) of or relating to a spectrum | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spiritual |
| spectrographic | (adjective) relating to or employing a spectrograph | - |
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| spectrometric | (adjective) of or relating to or involving spectrometry | - |
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| spectroscopic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving spectroscopy | Synonyms: spectroscopical |
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| spectroscopical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving spectroscopy | Synonyms: spectroscopic |
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| specular | (adjective) capable of reflecting light like a mirror | Synonyms: mirrorlike |
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| speculative | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, questioning, wondering |
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| (adjective) not based on fact or investigation | Synonyms: notional |
| (adjective) not financially safe or secure | Synonyms: bad, high-risk, risky |
| speechless | (adjective) temporarily incapable of speaking | Synonyms: dumb |
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| speedy | (adjective) characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed | Synonyms: rapid |
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| (adjective) accomplished rapidly and without delay | Synonyms: quick |
| spellbinding | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmeric, mesmerizing |
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| spellbound | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, transfixed |
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| spendable | (adjective) (used of funds) remaining after taxes | Synonyms: expendable |
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| spendthrift | (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, profligate |
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| spent | (adjective) depleted of energy, force, or strength | Synonyms: exhausted |
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| (adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fagged, fatigued, gone, played out, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
| spermatic | (adjective) consisting of or resembling spermatozoa | Synonyms: spermous |
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| spermicidal | (adjective) destructive to spermatozoa | - |
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| spermous | (adjective) consisting of or resembling spermatozoa | Synonyms: spermatic |
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| spheric | (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, orbicular, spherical |
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| spherical | (adjective) of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere | - |
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| (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric |
| spheroidal | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoid, ellipsoidal |
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| sphingine | (adjective) resembling a sphinx | - |
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| spic | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spick-and-span, spick, spotless |
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| spicate | (adjective) having or relating to spikes | - |
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| spick | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spotless |
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| spicy | (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque |
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| (adjective) producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves | Synonyms: hot |
| spiderlike | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderly, spidery |
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| spiderly | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spidery |
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| spidery | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly |
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| spiffing | (adjective) excellent or splendid | - |
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| spiffy | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spruce |
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| spiked | (adjective) having a long sharp point | - |
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| spikelike | (adjective) resembling a spike | - |
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| spiky | (adjective) having or as if having especially high-pitched spots | Synonyms: peaky |
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| spinal | (adjective) of or relating to the spine or spinal cord | - |
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| spindly | (adjective) long and lean | Synonyms: lank |
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| spineless | (adjective) lacking spiny processes | - |
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| (adjective) lacking a backbone or spinal column | Synonyms: invertebrate |
| (adjective) lacking courage or vitality | Synonyms: gutless, namby-pamby, wishy-washy |
| (adjective) lacking thorns | Synonyms: thornless |
| spinnable | (adjective) capable of being spun into fibres | Synonyms: spinnbar |
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| (adjective) capable or susceptible to being influenced by biased information | - |
| spinnbar | (adjective) capable of being spun into fibres | Synonyms: spinnable |
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| spinose | (adjective) armed with spines | - |
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| spinous | (adjective) having spines | Synonyms: spiny |
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| (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthoid, acanthous |
| spiny | (adjective) having spines | Synonyms: spinous |
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| (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, thorny |
| spiral | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| spiraling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| spiralling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| spirant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, strident |
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| spirited | (adjective) displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness | - |
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| (adjective) made lively or spirited | Synonyms: enlivened |
| (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spunky |
| (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncing, bouncy, peppy, zippy |
| spiritless | (adjective) lacking ardor or vigor or energy | - |
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| (adjective) evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant | Synonyms: meek |
| spiritous | (adjective) containing or of the nature of alcohol | Synonyms: spirituous |
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| spiritual | (adjective) lacking material body or form or substance | - |
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| (adjective) concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church | Synonyms: religious |
| (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral |
| (adjective) concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul | Synonyms: unearthly |
| spiritualist | (adjective) of or relating to or connected with spiritualism | Synonyms: spiritualistic |
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| spiritualistic | (adjective) of or relating to or connected with spiritualism | Synonyms: spiritualist |
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| spirituous | (adjective) containing or of the nature of alcohol | Synonyms: spiritous |
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| spiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: despiteful, vindictive |
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| splanchnic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the viscera | Synonyms: visceral |
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| splashed | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: dabbled, spattered, splattered |
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| (adjective) (of a fluid) having been propelled about in flying drops or masses | - |
| splashy | (adjective) characterized by water flying about haphazardly | - |
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| (adjective) covered with patches of bright color | - |
| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: flamboyant, showy |
| splattered | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: dabbled, spattered, splashed |
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| splay | (adjective) turned outward in an ungainly manner | - |
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| splayfoot | (adjective) having feet that turn outward | Synonyms: splayfooted |
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| splayfooted | (adjective) having feet that turn outward | Synonyms: splayfoot |
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| splendid | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, resplendent, splendiferous |
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| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, glorious, magnificent |
| (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, mean, ripping |
| splendiferous | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, resplendent, splendid |
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