acquaintance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: conversance, conversancy, familiarity |
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(noun) a person with whom you are acquainted | Synonyms: friend |
(noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintanceship |
acquaintanceship | (noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintance |
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certainty | (noun) something that is certain | Synonyms: foregone conclusion, sure thing |
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(noun) the state of being certain | - |
complaint | (noun) an expression of grievance or resentment | - |
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(noun) (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow | - |
(noun) (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based | - |
(noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: charge |
(noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, ill |
constraint | (noun) the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others | - |
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(noun) a device that retards something's motion | Synonyms: restraint |
(noun) the state of being physically constrained | Synonyms: restraint |
daintiness | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: delicacy, fineness |
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dainty | (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat |
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distraint | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distress |
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faint | (noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: deliquium, swoon, syncope |
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faintheartedness | (noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage | Synonyms: faintness |
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faintness | (noun) the quality of being dim or lacking contrast | Synonyms: dimness |
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(noun) barely audible | - |
(noun) the property of being without strength | - |
(noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage | Synonyms: faintheartedness |
(noun) a feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon | - |
fingerpaint | (noun) paint that has the consistency of jelly | Synonyms: finger paint |
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greasepaint | (noun) a greasy substance used as makeup by actors | - |
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housepaint | (noun) paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house | Synonyms: house paint |
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maintainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: sustainer, upholder |
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maintenance | (noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order | Synonyms: care, upkeep |
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(noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep |
(noun) the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community | Synonyms: criminal maintenance |
(noun) means of maintenance of a family or group | - |
(noun) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated | Synonyms: alimony |
paint | (noun) a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating | Synonyms: pigment |
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(noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, blusher, rouge |
(noun) (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court | Synonyms: key |
paintball | (noun) a game that simulates military combat; players on one team try to eliminate players on the opposing team by shooting capsules of paint at them | - |
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(noun) a capsule filled with water-soluble dye used as a projectile in playing the game of paintball | - |
paintbox | (noun) a box containing a collection of cubes or tubes of artists' paint | - |
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paintbrush | (noun) a brush used as an applicator (to apply paint) | - |
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painter | (noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: catamount, cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, panther, puma |
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(noun) a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing) | - |
(noun) an artist who paints | - |
(noun) a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint | - |
painting | (noun) creating a picture with paints | - |
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(noun) the occupation of a house painter | Synonyms: house painting |
(noun) the act of applying paint to a surface | - |
(noun) graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface | Synonyms: picture |
plaint | (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lament, lamentation, wail |
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(noun) (United Kingdom) a written statement of the grounds of complaint made to court of law asking for the grievance to be redressed | - |
plaintiff | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: complainant |
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plaintiveness | (noun) expressing sorrowfulness | - |
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quaintness | (noun) strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned | - |
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(noun) the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned | - |
restraint | (noun) the act of controlling by restraining someone or something | - |
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(noun) a device that retards something's motion | Synonyms: constraint |
(noun) discipline in personal and social activities | Synonyms: control |
(noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, simpleness, simplicity |
(noun) a rule or condition that limits freedom | - |
(noun) the state of being physically constrained | Synonyms: constraint |
saint | (noun) person of exceptional holiness | Synonyms: angel, holy man, holy person |
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(noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon |
(noun) a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization | - |
sainthood | (noun) the status and dignity of a saint | - |
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(noun) saints collectively | - |
saintliness | (noun) the quality of resembling a saint | - |
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speedpaint | (noun) Painting a picture in a very short amount of time | - |
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suzerainty | (noun) the domain of a suzerain | - |
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(noun) the position or authority of a suzerain | - |
taint | (noun) the state of being contaminated | Synonyms: contamination |
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uncertainty | (noun) being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance | Synonyms: precariousness, uncertainness |
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(noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude |
unconstraint | (noun) the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry | Synonyms: abandon, wantonness |
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unrestraint | (noun) the quality of lacking restraint | - |
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