| stereotypical | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotyped, stereotypic, unimaginative |
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| sterile | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | Synonyms: infertile, unfertile |
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| (adjective) free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms | Synonyms: aseptic |
| (adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive |
| sterilised | (adjective) made infertile | Synonyms: sterilized |
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| sterilized | (adjective) made infertile | Synonyms: sterilised |
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| sterling | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: greatest, superlative |
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| stern | (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: exacting, strict |
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| (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
| (adjective) of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect | Synonyms: austere |
| (adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: austere, severe, stark |
| sternal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the sternum | - |
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| sternutative | (adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutatory |
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| sternutatory | (adjective) tending to cause sneezing | - |
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| (adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutative |
| steroidal | (adjective) of or relating to steroid hormones or their effects | - |
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| stertorous | (adjective) of breathing having a heavy snoring sound | - |
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| stewed | (adjective) cooked in hot water | Synonyms: boiled, poached |
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| sticking | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking out |
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| sticky | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, viscid, viscous |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: awkward, embarrassing, unenviable |
| (adjective) covered with an adhesive material | - |
| (adjective) hot or warm and humid | Synonyms: muggy, steamy |
| (adjective) moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body | - |
| stiff | (adjective) having a strong physiological or chemical effect | Synonyms: potent, strong |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: buckram, starchy |
| (adjective) not moving or operating freely | - |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, tight, wet |
| (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
| (adjective) strong, vigorous | - |
| (adjective) incapable of or resistant to bending | Synonyms: rigid |
| stifled | (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: smothered, strangled, suppressed |
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| stifling | (adjective) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | Synonyms: sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry |
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| stigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: anastigmatic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: anastigmatic |
| (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or having stigmata | - |
| still | (adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: noneffervescent |
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| (adjective) used of pictures; of a single or static photograph not presented so as to create the illusion of motion; or representing objects not capable of motion | - |
| (adjective) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | Synonyms: placid, quiet, smooth, tranquil, unruffled |
| (adjective) marked by absence of sound | Synonyms: silent, soundless |
| (adjective) not in physical motion | Synonyms: inactive, motionless, static |
| (adjective) free from noticeable current | - |
| stillborn | (adjective) (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn | - |
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| (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: abortive, unsuccessful |
| stilly | (adjective) (poetic) still or calm | - |
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| stilted | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, contrived, hokey |
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| stimulant | (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulating |
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| stimulated | (adjective) emotionally aroused | Synonyms: aroused, stirred, stirred up |
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| stimulating | (adjective) rousing or quickening activity or the senses | - |
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| (adjective) making lively and cheerful | Synonyms: exhilarating |
| (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulant |
| stimulative | (adjective) capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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| stinging | (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: cutting, edged |
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| stingless | (adjective) without a sting | - |
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| stingy | (adjective) unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.) | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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| (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy |
| stinking | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinky |
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| (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly |
| stinky | (adjective) having an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling |
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| (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking |
| stinting | (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: economical, frugal, scotch, sparing |
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| stipendiary | (adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance | - |
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| (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, remunerative, salaried |
| (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: compensated, remunerated, salaried |
| stippled | (adjective) having a pattern of dots | Synonyms: dotted, flecked, specked, speckled |
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| stipulatory | (adjective) constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement | Synonyms: agreed upon |
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| stirred | (adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: affected, moved, touched |
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| (adjective) set into a usually circular motion in order to mix or blend | - |
| (adjective) emotionally aroused | Synonyms: aroused, stimulated, stirred up |
| stirring | (adjective) exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions | Synonyms: soul-stirring |
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| (adjective) capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement | Synonyms: rousing |
| stitched | (adjective) fastened with stitches | Synonyms: sewed, sewn |
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| stochastic | (adjective) being or having a random variable | - |
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| stock | (adjective) regularly and widely used or sold | Synonyms: standard |
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| (adjective) routine | - |
| (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
| stocked | (adjective) furnished with more than enough | Synonyms: stocked with |
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| stockinged | (adjective) wearing stockings | - |
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| stocky | (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, heavyset, thick, thickset |
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| stodgy | (adjective) excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull | Synonyms: stuffy |
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| (adjective) heavy and starchy and hard to digest | - |
| (adjective) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned | Synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud |
| stoic | (adjective) seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive | Synonyms: stoical |
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| stoical | (adjective) seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive | Synonyms: stoic |
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| stoichiometric | (adjective) of or relating to stoichiometry | - |
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| stolid | (adjective) having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: impassive |
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| stoloniferous | (adjective) producing stolons | - |
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| stomachal | (adjective) relating to or involving the stomach | Synonyms: gastric, stomachic |
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| stomachic | (adjective) relating to or involving the stomach | Synonyms: gastric, stomachal |
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| stomatal | (adjective) relating to or constituting plant stomata | Synonyms: stomatous |
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| (adjective) relating to or of the nature of or having a mouth or mouthlike opening | Synonyms: stomatous |
| stomatous | (adjective) having a mouth or mouthlike opening | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or constituting plant stomata | Synonyms: stomatal |
| (adjective) relating to or of the nature of or having a mouth or mouthlike opening | Synonyms: stomatal |
| stone | (adjective) of any of various dull tannish or grey colors | - |
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| stoned | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics, especially cannabis | Synonyms: hopped-up |
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| stoneless | (adjective) (of fruits having stones) having the stone removed | - |
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| stonelike | (adjective) (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness | Synonyms: petrous |
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| stony | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitelike, granitic, rocklike |
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| (adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, obdurate |
| (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, bouldery, rocky |
| stonyhearted | (adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: hardhearted, unfeeling |
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| stooped | (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: crooked, hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooping |
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| stooping | (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: crooked, hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped |
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| stoppable | (adjective) capable of being stopped | - |
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| stopped | (adjective) (of a nose) blocked | Synonyms: stopped-up, stopped up |
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| stoppered | (adjective) (of a container) having a stopper in the opening | - |
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| storeyed | (adjective) having stories as indicated | Synonyms: storied |
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| storied | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: celebrated, historied |
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| (adjective) having stories as indicated | Synonyms: storeyed |
| stormbound | (adjective) delayed or confined or cut off by a storm | - |
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| stormproof | (adjective) protected against or able to withstand storms | - |
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| stormy | (adjective) (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by violent emotions or behavior | Synonyms: tempestuous |
| stout | (adjective) euphemisms for `fat' | Synonyms: portly |
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| (adjective) dependable | Synonyms: stalwart |
| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stalwart, sturdy |
| stouthearted | (adjective) used especially of persons | Synonyms: stalwart |
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| stovepiped | (adjective) of or relating to data stored in separate databases | - |
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| straggling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggly |
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| straggly | (adjective) growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly | - |
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| (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggling |
| straight | (adjective) having no deviations | - |
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| (adjective) no longer coiled | Synonyms: uncoiled |
| (adjective) (of hair) having no waves or curls | - |
| (adjective) characterized by honesty and fairness | Synonyms: square |
| (adjective) free from curves or angles | - |
| (adjective) in keeping with the facts | - |
| (adjective) successive (without a break) | Synonyms: consecutive |
| (adjective) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned | Synonyms: square |
| (adjective) following a correct or logical method | - |
| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straightforward |
| (adjective) erect in posture | Synonyms: unbent, unbowed |
| (adjective) not homosexual | - |
| (adjective) neatly arranged; not disorderly | - |
| (adjective) (of an alcoholic drink) without water | Synonyms: full-strength, neat |
| (adjective) accurately fitted; level | Synonyms: true |
| straightarrow | (adjective) conventionally moral and upright | - |
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| straightaway | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, quick |
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| straightforward | (adjective) pointed directly ahead | - |
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| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straight |
| (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: aboveboard |
| (adjective) free from ambiguity | - |
| straightlaced | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| strained | (adjective) struggling for effect | Synonyms: agonistic |
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| (adjective) lacking natural ease | Synonyms: labored, laboured |
| (adjective) showing signs of mental and emotional tension | - |
| (adjective) lacking spontaneity; not natural | Synonyms: constrained, forced |
| straining | (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: arduous, strenuous |
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| strait | (adjective) narrow | - |
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| straitlaced | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| stranded | (adjective) cut off or left behind | Synonyms: isolated, marooned |
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| strange | (adjective) being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird | Synonyms: unusual |
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| (adjective) relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world | Synonyms: foreign |
| (adjective) not known before | Synonyms: unknown |
| strangled | (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: smothered, stifled, suppressed |
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| strapless | (adjective) having no straps | - |
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| straplike | (adjective) long and narrow like a strap | - |
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| strapping | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, husky |
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| strategic | (adjective) relating to or concerned with strategy | Synonyms: strategical |
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| (adjective) highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war | - |
| strategical | (adjective) relating to or concerned with strategy | Synonyms: strategic |
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| stratified | (adjective) deposited or arranged in horizontal layers | Synonyms: bedded |
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| (adjective) (used of society) socially hierarchical | Synonyms: class-conscious |
| (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: graded, ranked |
| straw | (adjective) of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored | - |
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| stray | (adjective) (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home | - |
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| (adjective) not close together in time | Synonyms: isolated |
| straying | (adjective) unable to find your way | - |
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| streaked | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaky |
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| streaky | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaked |
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| streaming | (adjective) exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts | - |
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| (adjective) (computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data; data that is transmitted and loaded continuously as earlier parts are being accessed/processed/displayed | - |
| streamlined | (adjective) made efficient by stripping off nonessentials | - |
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| (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, flowing, sleek |
| streetwise | (adjective) having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment | Synonyms: street smart, with-it |
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