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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baffle | (noun) a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy | Synonyms: baffle board |
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(verb) restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.) | Synonyms: regulate |
(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
baffled | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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(noun) people who are frustrated and perplexed | - |
bafflement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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baffling | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
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caff | (noun) informal British term for a cafe | - |
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caffein | (noun) a bitter alkaloid found in coffee and tea that is responsible for their stimulating effects | Synonyms: caffeine |
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caffeine | (noun) a bitter alkaloid found in coffee and tea that is responsible for their stimulating effects | Synonyms: caffein |
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caffeinic | (adjective) of or containing caffein | - |
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caffeinism | (noun) poisoning resulting from excessive intake of caffeine containing products | Synonyms: caffeine intoxication |
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caffer | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffre, kaffir, kafir |
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caffre | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffer, kaffir, kafir |
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chaff | (noun) foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure | - |
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(noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble |
(verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, jolly, josh, kid |
chaffer | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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(verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster |
chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
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chafflike | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chaffy |
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chaffweed | (noun) weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves | Synonyms: bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel |
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chaffy | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chafflike |
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(adjective) value | - |
corticoafferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticipetal |
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daffodil | (noun) any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown | Synonyms: Narcissus pseudonarcissus |
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decaffeinate | (verb) remove caffeine from (coffee) | - |
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disaffect | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, estrange |
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disaffected | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: ill-affected, malcontent, rebellious |
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disaffection | (noun) disloyalty to the government or to established authority | - |
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(noun) the feeling of being alienated from other people | Synonyms: alienation, estrangement |
disaffirmation | (noun) the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | Synonyms: denial |
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disafforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disforest |
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distaff | (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman | Synonyms: female |
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(noun) the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning | - |
(noun) the sphere of work by women | - |
draff | (noun) the residue of malt and grain which remains in the mash-kettle after the mashing and lautering process. | Synonyms: brewer's grain, spent grain |
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flagstaff | (noun) a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised | Synonyms: flagpole |
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gaff | (noun) an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish | - |
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(noun) a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail | - |
(noun) a sharp metal spike or spur that is fastened to the leg of a gamecock | - |
gaffe | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaucherie, slip, solecism |
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gaffer | (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, chief, foreman, honcho |
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(noun) an elderly man | Synonyms: antique, old-timer, old geezer, oldtimer |
(noun) an electrician responsible for lighting on a movie or tv set | - |
gaffsail | (noun) a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff | Synonyms: gaff-headed sail |
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giraffe | (noun) tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa | Synonyms: camelopard, Giraffa camelopardalis |
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graffiti | (noun) a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls | Synonyms: graffito |
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graffito | (noun) a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls | Synonyms: graffiti |
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