ago | (adjective) gone by; or in the past | Synonyms: agone |
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(adverb) in the past | - |
agog | (adjective) highly excited by eagerness, curiosity, etc. | - |
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agon | (noun) a festivity in ancient Greece at which competitors contended for prizes | - |
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agonadal | (adjective) lacking gonads | - |
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agonal | (adjective) pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies) | - |
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agone | (adjective) gone by; or in the past | Synonyms: ago |
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agonise | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonize |
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(verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonize |
agonised | (adjective) expressing pain or agony | Synonyms: agonized |
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agonising | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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agonist | (noun) (biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction | - |
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(noun) a muscle that contracts while another relaxes | - |
(noun) someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon) | - |
(noun) the principal character in a work of fiction | Synonyms: protagonist |
agonistic | (adjective) of or relating to the athletic contests held in ancient Greece | - |
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(adjective) struggling for effect | Synonyms: strained |
(adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistical, combative |
agonistical | (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, combative |
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agonize | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonise |
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(verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonise |
agonized | (adjective) expressing pain or agony | Synonyms: agonised |
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agonizing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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agonizingly | (adverb) in a very painful manner | Synonyms: excruciatingly, torturously |
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agony | (noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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(noun) a state of acute pain | Synonyms: excruciation, suffering |
agora | (noun) 100 agorot equal 1 shekel in Israel | - |
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(noun) a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece | Synonyms: public square |
(noun) the marketplace in ancient Greece | - |
agoraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place) | - |
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agoraphobic | (adjective) suffering from agoraphobia; abnormally afraid of open or public places | - |
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agouti | (noun) agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food | Synonyms: Dasyprocta aguti |
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anagoge | (noun) a mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture) | - |
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anagogic | (adjective) based on or exemplifying anagoge | Synonyms: anagogical |
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anagogical | (adjective) based on or exemplifying anagoge | Synonyms: anagogic |
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antagonise | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonize |
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(verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonize, counteract |
antagonism | (noun) (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure | - |
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(noun) an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility | - |
(noun) the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors | - |
(noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: enmity, hostility |
antagonist | (noun) a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug | - |
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(noun) a muscle that relaxes while another contracts | - |
(noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, opponent, opposer, resister |
antagonistic | (adjective) arousing animosity or hostility | - |
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(adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect | Synonyms: incompatible |
(adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical |
(adjective) incapable of harmonious association | - |
(adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: counter |
antagonistically | (adverb) in an antagonistic manner | - |
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antagonize | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonise |
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(verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonise, counteract |
anthophagous | (adjective) feeding on flowers | Synonyms: anthophilous |
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anthropophagous | (adjective) of or relating to eaters of human flesh | - |
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aragonite | (noun) a mineral form of crystalline calcium carbonate; dimorphic with calcite | - |
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archipelago | (noun) a group of many islands in a large body of water | - |
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bacteriophagous | (adjective) of or relating to bacteriophages | Synonyms: bacteriophagic |
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balibago | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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bandwagon | (noun) a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band | - |
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(noun) a popular trend that attracts growing support | - |
battlewagon | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battleship |
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cagoule | (noun) lightweight parka; waterproof | - |
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carpophagous | (adjective) feeding on fruit | Synonyms: fruit-eating |
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contrafagotto | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrabassoon, double bassoon |
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dago | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: ginzo, greaseball, Guinea, wop |
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decagon | (noun) a polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles | - |
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demagog | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagogue, rabble-rouser |
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demagogic | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling a demagogue | Synonyms: demagogical |
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demagogical | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling a demagogue | Synonyms: demagogic |
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demagogue | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagog, rabble-rouser |
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demagoguery | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagogy |
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demagogy | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagoguery |
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diagonal | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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(adjective) connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face | - |
(noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule |
(noun) an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard | - |
(noun) (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry | - |
(noun) a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric | Synonyms: bias |
(noun) (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent | - |
diagonalisation | (noun) changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal) | Synonyms: diagonalization |
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diagonalise | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalize |
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diagonalizable | (adjective) capable of being transformed into a diagonal matrix | - |
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diagonalization | (noun) changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal) | Synonyms: diagonalisation |
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diagonalize | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalise |
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diagonally | (adverb) in a diagonal manner | - |
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dodecagon | (noun) a twelve-sided polygon | - |
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dragoman | (noun) an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government) | - |
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dragon | (noun) any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body | Synonyms: flying dragon, flying lizard |
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(noun) a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman | Synonyms: tartar |
(noun) a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings | Synonyms: European dragon, firedrake |
dragonet | (noun) small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America | - |
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dragonfly | (noun) slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. | Synonyms: darning needle, devil's darning needle, mosquito hawk, sewing needle, skeeter hawk, snake doctor, snake feeder |
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dragonhead | (noun) American herb having sharply serrate lanceolate leaves and spikes of blue to violet flowers | Synonyms: Dracocephalum parviflorum, dragon's head |
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dragoon | (noun) a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen | - |
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(verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: railroad, sandbag |
(verb) subjugate by imposing troops | - |
emmenagogue | (noun) any agent that promotes menstrual discharge | - |
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esophagoscope | (noun) an optical instrument for examining the inside of the esophagus | Synonyms: oesophagoscope |
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estragon | (noun) fresh leaves (or leaves preserved in vinegar) used as seasoning | Synonyms: tarragon |
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(noun) aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia | Synonyms: Artemisia dracunculus, tarragon |
fagot | (noun) a bundle of sticks and branches bound together | Synonyms: faggot |
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(noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
(verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot | Synonyms: faggot, faggot up |
(verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them | Synonyms: faggot |
(verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch | Synonyms: faggot |
fagoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: faggoting |
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farrago | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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filago | (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, cudweed |
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flagon | (noun) a large metal or pottery vessel with a handle and spout; used to hold alcoholic beverages (usually wine) | - |
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galactagogue | (noun) agent that induces milk secretion | - |
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galago | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, bushbaby |
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glucagon | (noun) a hormone secreted by the pancreas; stimulates increases in blood sugar levels in the blood (thus opposing the action of insulin) | - |
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heptagon | (noun) a seven-sided polygon | - |
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hexagon | (noun) a six-sided polygon | - |
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hexagonal | (adjective) having six sides or divided into hexagons | Synonyms: hexangular |
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hypnagogic | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnogogic, somniferous, somnific, soporiferous, soporific |
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hypnagogue | (noun) an agent that induces drowsiness or sleep | - |
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imago | (noun) an adult insect produced after metamorphosis | - |
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(noun) (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood | - |
instagood | (adjective) likely to get many upvotes on Instagram | - |
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lagomorph | (noun) relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: gnawing mammal |
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lagoon | (noun) a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | Synonyms: laguna, lagune |
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lagophthalmos | (noun) abnormal condition in which an eye cannot close completely | - |
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lumbago | (noun) backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc | Synonyms: lumbar pain |
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martagon | (noun) lily with small dull purple flowers of northwestern Europe and northwestern Asia | Synonyms: Lilium martagon, Turk's-cap |
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milkwagon | (noun) wagon for delivering milk | Synonyms: milk wagon |
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mortgagor | (noun) the person who gives a mortgage in return for money to be repaid | Synonyms: mortgager |
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myrmecophagous | (adjective) feeding on ants | - |
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nonagon | (noun) a nine-sided polygon | - |
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octagon | (noun) an eight-sided polygon | - |
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octagonal | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like an octagon | Synonyms: octangular |
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oesophagoscope | (noun) an optical instrument for examining the inside of the esophagus | Synonyms: esophagoscope |
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operagoer | (noun) a patron of the opera | - |
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pagoda | (noun) an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof | - |
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paragon | (noun) an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept | Synonyms: beau ideal, idol, perfection |
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(noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, saint |
paragonite | (noun) a colorless or pale brown mica with sodium | - |
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pedagog | (noun) someone who educates young people | Synonyms: educator, pedagogue |
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pedagogic | (adjective) of or relating to pedagogy | Synonyms: pedagogical |
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pedagogical | (adjective) of or relating to pedagogy | Synonyms: pedagogic |
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