acclamation | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, eclat, plaudit, plaudits |
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adamance | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: obduracy, unyieldingness |
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adamant | (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamantine, inexorable, intransigent |
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(noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: diamond |
adamantine | (adjective) consisting of or having the hardness of adamant | - |
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(adjective) having the hardness of a diamond | - |
(adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, inexorable, intransigent |
adamantly | (adverb) inflexibly; unshakably | - |
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agama | (noun) small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World | - |
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allamanda | (noun) a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes | - |
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amadavat | (noun) red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: avadavat |
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amah | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: housemaid, maid, maidservant |
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(noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: wet-nurse, wet nurse, wetnurse |
amain | (adverb) with all your strength | - |
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(adverb) at full speed; with great haste | - |
amalgam | (noun) a combination or blend of diverse things | - |
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(noun) an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams | Synonyms: dental amalgam |
amalgamate | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated, fused |
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(verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: commix, mingle, mix, unify |
amalgamated | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, coalesced, consolidated, fused |
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amalgamation | (noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: merger, uniting |
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amalgamative | (adjective) characterized by or tending toward amalgamation | - |
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amalgamator | (noun) a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies | - |
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amanuensis | (noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) | Synonyms: shorthand typist, stenographer |
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amaranth | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food | - |
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(noun) seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America | - |
amaranthine | (adjective) of or related to the amaranth plant | - |
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(adjective) of an imaginary flower that never fades | Synonyms: unfading |
amarelle | (noun) pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice | - |
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(noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus caproniana |
amaretto | (noun) an Italian almond liqueur | - |
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amaryllis | (noun) bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers | - |
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amass | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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(verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
amastia | (noun) absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect) | - |
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amateur | (adjective) engaged in as a pastime | Synonyms: recreational, unpaid |
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(adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateurish, inexpert, unskilled |
(noun) someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime | - |
(noun) an athlete who does not play for pay | - |
amateurish | (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateur, inexpert, unskilled |
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amateurishly | (adverb) in an amateurish manner | - |
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amateurishness | (noun) something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency | - |
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amateurism | (noun) the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money | - |
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amative | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amorous |
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amativeness | (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
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amatory | (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amorous, romantic |
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amatungulu | (noun) very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves | Synonyms: Carissa grandiflora, Carissa macrocarpa, natal plum |
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amaurosis | (noun) partial or total loss of sight without pathology of the eye; caused by disease of optic nerve or retina or brain | - |
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amaurotic | (adjective) pertaining to blindness caused by amaurosis | - |
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amaze | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: astonish, astound |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
amazed | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned |
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amazement | (noun) the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising | Synonyms: astonishment |
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amazing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing |
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(adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: astonishing |
amazingly | (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: astonishingly, surprisingly |
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amazon | (noun) mainly green tropical American parrots | - |
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(noun) a large strong and aggressive woman | Synonyms: virago |
aquamarine | (noun) a shade of blue tinged with green | Synonyms: aqua, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue, turquoise |
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(noun) a transparent variety of beryl that is blue green in color | - |
blamable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blameable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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calamari | (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamary, squid |
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calamary | (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamari, squid |
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camachile | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: huamachil, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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camail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: aventail, ventail |
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camaraderie | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: chumminess, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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camarilla | (noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: cabal, faction, junto |
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camas | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camash, camass, camosh, quamash |
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camash | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camass, camosh, quamash |
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camass | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camash, camosh, quamash |
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cameraman | (noun) a photographer who operates a movie camera | Synonyms: camera operator, cinematographer |
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carbamate | (noun) a salt (or ester) of carbamic acid | - |
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catamaran | (noun) a boat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck | - |
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chamaeleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue | Synonyms: chameleon |
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chamarre | (noun) a fur-lined coat decorated with braid, worn in the sixteenth century. | Synonyms: chimer, simarre |
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clamant | (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: crying, exigent, insistent, instant |
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(adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
clamatorial | (adjective) of or relating to Clamatores | - |
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cockamamie | (adjective) informal term for ridiculous and implausible | Synonyms: cockamamy |
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cockamamy | (adjective) informal term for ridiculous and implausible | Synonyms: cockamamie |
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cyclamate | (noun) any salt or ester of cyclamic acid. | - |
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cyclorama | (noun) a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene | Synonyms: diorama, panorama |
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damage | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: harm, hurt, scathe |
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(noun) any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right | Synonyms: legal injury, wrong |
(noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: harm, impairment |
(noun) loss of military equipment | Synonyms: equipment casualty |
(noun) the amount of money needed to purchase something | Synonyms: price, terms |
(verb) inflict damage upon | - |
(verb) suffer or be susceptible to damage | - |
damaged | (adjective) harmed or injured or spoiled | - |
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(adjective) being unjustly brought into disrepute | Synonyms: discredited |
damages | (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, indemnification, indemnity, redress, restitution |
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damaging | (adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: negative |
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(adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious |
damar | (noun) any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine | Synonyms: dammar, dammar resin, gum dammar |
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damascene | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Damascus or its people | - |
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(adjective) (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals | - |
(noun) a design produced by inlaying gold or silver into steel | - |
(verb) inlay metal with gold and silver | - |
damask | (adjective) having a woven pattern | - |
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(noun) a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it | - |
(noun) a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern | - |
declamation | (noun) vehement oratory | - |
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(noun) recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric | - |
declamatory | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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defamation | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, denigration, slander |
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(noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, calumny, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
defamatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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desquamate | (verb) peel off in scales | Synonyms: peel off |
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desquamation | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: peeling, shedding |
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diamagnet | (noun) a substance that exhibits diamagnetism | - |
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diamagnetic | (adjective) relating to or exhibiting diamagnetism; slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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diamagnetism | (noun) phenomenon exhibited by materials like copper or bismuth that become magnetized in a magnetic field with a polarity opposite to the magnetic force; unlike iron they are slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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diamante | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: sequin, spangle |
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(noun) fabric covered with glittering ornaments such as sequins or rhinestones | - |
diamantine | (adjective) consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds | - |
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diorama | (noun) a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene | Synonyms: cyclorama, panorama |
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docudrama | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: documentary, documentary film, infotainment |
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drama | (noun) the quality of being arresting or highly emotional | - |
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(noun) the literary genre of works intended for the theater | - |
(noun) a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage | Synonyms: dramatic play, play |
(noun) an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional | Synonyms: dramatic event |
dramatic | (adjective) suitable to or characteristic of drama | - |
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(adjective) used of a singer or singing voice that is marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style | - |
(adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of drama | - |
(adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: spectacular, striking |
dramatically | (adverb) in a dramatic manner | - |
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(adverb) with respect to dramatic value | - |
(adverb) in a very impressive manner | - |
dramatics | (noun) participation in theatrical productions as an extracurricular activity | - |
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(noun) the art of writing and producing plays | Synonyms: dramatic art, dramaturgy, theater, theatre |
dramatisation | (noun) a dramatic representation | Synonyms: dramatization |
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(noun) conversion into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatization |
dramatise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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(verb) represent something in a dramatic manner | Synonyms: dramatize |
(verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: adopt, dramatize |
dramatist | (noun) someone who writes plays | Synonyms: playwright |
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dramatization | (noun) a dramatic representation | Synonyms: dramatisation |
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(noun) conversion into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatisation |
dramatize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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(verb) represent something in a dramatic manner | Synonyms: dramatise |
(verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: adopt, dramatise |
dramaturgic | (adjective) relating to the technical aspects of drama | Synonyms: dramaturgical |
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dramaturgical | (adjective) relating to the technical aspects of drama | Synonyms: dramaturgic |
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dramaturgy | (noun) the art of writing and producing plays | Synonyms: dramatic art, dramatics, theater, theatre |
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exclamation | (noun) an abrupt excited utterance | Synonyms: exclaiming |
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(noun) an exclamatory rhetorical device | Synonyms: ecphonesis |
(noun) a loud complaint or protest or reproach | - |
exclamatory | (adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: emphatic |
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extramarital | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extracurricular |
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glutamate | (noun) a salt or ester of glutamic acid | - |
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grama | (noun) pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America | Synonyms: grama grass, gramma, gramma grass |
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