abulia | (noun) a loss of will power | Synonyms: aboulia |
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abulic | (adjective) suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions | Synonyms: aboulic |
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acetabular | (adjective) of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone | Synonyms: cotyloid, cotyloidal |
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acetabulum | (noun) the cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur fits to form a ball-and-socket joint | Synonyms: cotyloid cavity |
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confabulate | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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(verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confer, consult |
(verb) unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory | - |
confabulation | (noun) (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered | - |
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(noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, schmoose, schmooze |
constabulary | (noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: law, police, police force |
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fabulist | (noun) a person who tells or invents fables | - |
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fabulous | (adjective) barely credible | - |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing | Synonyms: fab |
(adjective) based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity | Synonyms: mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological |
fabulously | (adverb) exceedingly; extremely | Synonyms: fantastically, incredibly |
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fantabulous | (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, first-class, mean, ripping, splendid |
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pabulum | (noun) insipid intellectual nourishment | - |
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(noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, victual, victuals |
tabular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or arranged in table form | - |
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(adjective) flat; like a table in form | - |
tabularise | (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularize, tabulate |
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tabularize | (verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularise, tabulate |
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tabulate | (verb) shape or cut with a flat surface | - |
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(verb) arrange or enter in tabular form | Synonyms: table, tabularise, tabularize |
tabulation | (noun) the act of putting into tabular form | - |
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(noun) information set out in tabular form | Synonyms: tabular matter |
tabulator | (noun) a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens | Synonyms: counter |
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(noun) an electromechanical machine designed to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting. | Synonyms: tabulating machine |
tintinnabulate | (verb) ring or sound like a small bell | - |
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tintinnabulation | (noun) the sound of a bell ringing | Synonyms: ring, ringing |
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vocabulary | (noun) a language user's knowledge of words | Synonyms: lexicon, mental lexicon |
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(noun) the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts) | - |
(noun) a listing of the words used in some enterprise | - |