devaluation | (noun) the reduction of something's value or worth | - |
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(noun) an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries | - |
devastation | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: destruction |
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(noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | Synonyms: ravaging |
(noun) an event that results in total destruction | Synonyms: desolation |
(noun) the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed | - |
(noun) the state of being decayed or destroyed | Synonyms: desolation |
developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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(noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
developing | (noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: development |
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development | (noun) act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | - |
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(noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: exploitation |
(noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | - |
(noun) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | - |
(noun) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose | - |
(noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: developing |
(noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
(noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: evolution |
(noun) a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | - |
deviance | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviation |
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(noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration |
deviant | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
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deviate | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, perv, perve, pervert |
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deviation | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviance |
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(noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, digression, divagation, diversion |
(noun) the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances | - |
(noun) the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function | - |
(noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, difference, divergence |
deviationism | (noun) ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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device | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: gimmick, twist |
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(noun) an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | - |
(noun) an emblematic design (especially in heraldry) | - |
(noun) any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery) | - |
(noun) something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | - |
devices | (noun) an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices' | - |
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devil | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, dickens |
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(noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, daimon, demon, fiend |
(noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, fiend, monster, ogre |
(noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: heller, hellion |
devilfish | (noun) extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned | Synonyms: manta, manta ray |
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(noun) bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles | Synonyms: octopus |
(noun) medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific | Synonyms: Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, grey whale |
devilishness | (noun) The property of resembling or being characteristic of a devil. | - |
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devilment | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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devilry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: deviltry |
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(noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
deviltry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: devilry |
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(noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
devilwood | (noun) small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits | Synonyms: American olive, Osmanthus americanus |
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deviousness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: crookedness |
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(noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: obliqueness |
devisal | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: contrivance |
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devise | (noun) (law) a gift of real property by will | - |
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(noun) a will disposing of real property | - |
devisee | (noun) someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will | - |
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deviser | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, planner |
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devising | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: fashioning, making |
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devisor | (noun) someone who devises real property in a will | - |
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devitalisation | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalization |
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devitalization | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalisation |
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devoir | (noun) formal expression of respect | - |
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devolution | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolvement |
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(noun) the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality | Synonyms: degeneration |
devolvement | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolution |
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devotedness | (noun) feelings of ardent love | Synonyms: devotion |
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devotee | (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, fan, lover |
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devotion | (noun) (usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently) | - |
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(noun) commitment to some purpose | - |
(noun) religious zeal; the willingness to serve God | Synonyms: cultism, veneration |
(noun) feelings of ardent love | Synonyms: devotedness |
devotional | (noun) a short religious service | - |
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devourer | (noun) someone who eats greedily or voraciously | - |
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devoutness | (noun) piety by virtue of being devout | Synonyms: religiousness |
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