abaft | (adverb) at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane | Synonyms: aft, astern |
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afar | (adverb) (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far | - |
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afeard | (adjective) a pronunciation of afraid | Synonyms: afeared |
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afeared | (adjective) a pronunciation of afraid | Synonyms: afeard |
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afebrile | (adjective) having no fever | - |
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affability | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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affable | (adjective) diffusing warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: amiable, cordial, genial |
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affableness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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affably | (adverb) in an affable manner | Synonyms: amiably, genially |
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affair | (noun) a vaguely specified concern | Synonyms: matter, thing |
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(noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people | Synonyms: function, occasion, social affair, social function, social gathering, social occasion |
(noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affaire, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
affaire | (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
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affairs | (noun) transactions of professional or public interest | - |
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(noun) matters of personal concern | Synonyms: personal business, personal matters |
affect | (noun) the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion | - |
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(verb) act physically on; have an effect upon | - |
(verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on |
(verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: dissemble, feign, pretend, sham |
(verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: impress, move, strike |
(verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: involve, regard |
affectation | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectedness, mannerism, pose |
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affected | (adjective) acted upon; influenced | - |
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(adjective) speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression | Synonyms: unnatural |
(adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: moved, stirred, touched |
affectedly | (adverb) in an affected manner | - |
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affectedness | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, mannerism, pose |
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(noun) the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | - |
affecting | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: poignant, touching |
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affectingly | (adverb) in a poignant or touching manner | Synonyms: poignantly, touchingly |
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affection | (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
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affectional | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affective, emotive |
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affectionate | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: fond, lovesome, tender |
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affectionately | (adverb) with affection | Synonyms: dear, dearly |
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affectionateness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: fondness, lovingness, warmth |
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(noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
affective | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, emotive |
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affenpinscher | (noun) European breed of small dog resembling a terrier with dark wiry hair and a tufted muzzle | Synonyms: monkey dog, monkey pinscher |
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afferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS | - |
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(noun) a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system | Synonyms: afferent nerve, sensory nerve |
affiance | (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: betroth, engage, plight |
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affiant | (noun) a person who makes an affidavit | - |
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affidavit | (noun) written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath | - |
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affiliate | (noun) a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization | - |
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(noun) a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization | - |
(verb) join in an affiliation | - |
(verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: associate, assort, consort |
affiliated | (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: attached, connected |
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affiliation | (noun) the act of becoming formally connected or joined | - |
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(noun) a social or business relationship | Synonyms: association, tie-up, tie |
affinal | (adjective) (anthropology) related by marriage | Synonyms: affine |
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affine | (adjective) (mathematics) of or pertaining to the geometry of affine transformations | - |
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(adjective) (anthropology) related by marriage | Synonyms: affinal |
(noun) (anthropology) kin by marriage | - |
affined | (adjective) closely related | - |
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affinity | (noun) inherent resemblance between persons or things | - |
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(noun) a natural attraction or feeling of kinship | - |
(noun) the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule | Synonyms: chemical attraction |
(noun) (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody | - |
(noun) (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship | - |
(noun) (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts | Synonyms: phylogenetic relation |
(noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: kinship |
affirm | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: confirm, corroborate, substantiate, support, sustain |
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(verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: assert, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
(verb) say yes to | - |
affirmable | (adjective) capable of being affirmed or asserted | Synonyms: assertable |
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affirmation | (noun) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand | - |
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(noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: avouchment, avowal |
(noun) (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds) | - |
(noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: assertion, statement |
affirmative | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmatory |
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(adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: approbative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
(adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: optimistic |
(noun) a reply of affirmation | - |
affirmatively | (adverb) in an affirmative manner | - |
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affirmativeness | (noun) the agreeable quality of one who assents | - |
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affirmatory | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmative |
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affirmer | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: asserter, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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affix | (noun) a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form | - |
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(verb) stick or fasten to | Synonyms: stick on |
(verb) add to the very end | Synonyms: add on, append, supplement |
(verb) attach or become attached to a stem word | - |
affixal | (adjective) of or pertaining to a linguistic affix | Synonyms: affixial |
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affixation | (noun) formation of a word by means of an affix | - |
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(noun) the act of attaching or affixing something | Synonyms: attachment |
(noun) the result of adding an affix to a root word | - |
affixed | (adjective) firmly attached | - |
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affixial | (adjective) of or pertaining to a linguistic affix | Synonyms: affixal |
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afflatus | (noun) a strong creative impulse; divine inspiration | - |
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afflict | (verb) cause physical pain or suffering in | Synonyms: smite |
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(verb) cause great unhappiness for; distress | - |
afflicted | (adjective) grievously affected especially by disease | Synonyms: stricken |
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(adjective) mentally or physically unfit | Synonyms: impaired |
affliction | (noun) a cause of great suffering and distress | - |
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(noun) a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health | - |
(noun) a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity | - |
afflictive | (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: painful, sore |
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affluence | (noun) abundant wealth | Synonyms: richness |
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affluent | (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: flush, loaded, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
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(noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: confluent, feeder, tributary |
(noun) an affluent person; a person who is financially well off | - |
affluenza | (noun) an inability to understand the consequences of one's actions because of financial privilege | - |
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afford | (verb) be able to spare or give up | - |
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(verb) be the cause or source of | Synonyms: give, yield |
(verb) afford access to | Synonyms: give, open |
(verb) have the financial means to do something or buy something | - |
affordable | (adjective) that you have the financial means for | Synonyms: low-cost, low-priced |
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afforest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: forest |
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afforestation | (noun) the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting) | - |
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affranchise | (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: enfranchise |
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affray | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: disturbance, fray, ruffle |
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(noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: altercation, fracas |
affricate | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate consonant, affricative |
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affrication | (noun) the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate | - |
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affricative | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate, affricate consonant |
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affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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(verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: fright, frighten, scare |
affront | (noun) a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect | Synonyms: insult |
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(verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: diss, insult |
affusion | (noun) the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head | - |
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afghan | (noun) a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl | - |
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(noun) a coat made of sheepskin | Synonyms: sheepskin coat |
afghani | (noun) the basic unit of money in Afghanistan | - |
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afibrinogenemia | (noun) the absence of fibrinogen in the plasma leading to prolonged bleeding | - |
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aficionado | (noun) a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer | - |
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(noun) a fan of bull fighting | - |
afield | (adverb) off the subject; beyond the point at issue | - |
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(adverb) in or into a field (especially a field of battle) | - |
(adverb) far away from home or one's usual surroundings | Synonyms: abroad |
afire | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, aflame, aflare, alight, on fire |
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aflame | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflare, alight, on fire |
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(adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: ablaze, aroused |
aflare | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflame, alight, on fire |
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(adjective) streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air | Synonyms: flaring |
aflatoxin | (noun) a potent carcinogen from the fungus Aspergillus; can be produced and stored for use as a bioweapon | - |
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aflicker | (adjective) shining unsteadily | Synonyms: flickering |
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afloat | (adjective) borne on the water; floating | - |
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(adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing |
(adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
aflutter | (adjective) excited in anticipation | Synonyms: nervous |
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afoot | (adjective) currently in progress | Synonyms: underway |
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(adjective) traveling by foot | - |
(adverb) on foot; walking | - |
aforementioned | (adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of | Synonyms: aforesaid, said |
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aforesaid | (adjective) being the one previously mentioned or spoken of | Synonyms: aforementioned, said |
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aforethought | (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: planned, plotted |
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afoul | (adjective) especially of a ship's lines etc | Synonyms: foul, fouled |
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afraid | (adjective) filled with fear or apprehension | - |
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(adjective) filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement | - |
(adjective) having feelings of aversion or unwillingness | - |
(adjective) feeling worry or concern or insecurity | - |
afresh | (adverb) again but in a new or different way | Synonyms: anew |
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afropavo | (noun) both sexes are brightly colored | Synonyms: Afropavo congensis, Congo peafowl |
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aft | (adjective) (nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail | - |
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(adverb) at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane | Synonyms: abaft, astern |
after | (adjective) located farther aft | - |
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(adverb) behind or in the rear | - |
(adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: afterward, afterwards, later, later on, subsequently |
afterbirth | (noun) the placenta and fetal membranes that are expelled from the uterus after the baby is born | - |
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afterburner | (noun) a device that injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust | - |
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aftercare | (noun) care and treatment of a convalescent patient | - |
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afterdamp | (noun) a toxic mixture of gases (including carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and nitrogen) after an explosion of firedamp in a mine | - |
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afterdeck | (noun) a deck abaft of midships | - |
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aftereffect | (noun) any result that follows its cause after an interval | - |
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(noun) a delayed effect of a drug or therapy | - |
afterglow | (noun) the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event | - |
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(noun) a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset | - |
afterimage | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: aftersensation |
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