enantiomorphism | (noun) the relation of opposition between crystals or molecules that are reflections of one another | Synonyms: mirror-image relation |
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enchanting | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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enchantingly | (adverb) in a bewitching manner | Synonyms: bewitchingly, captivatingly, enthrallingly |
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enchantingness | (noun) Quality of having the ability to enchant; being charming, delightful. | - |
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frantic | (adjective) excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion | Synonyms: frenetic, frenzied, phrenetic |
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(adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: delirious, excited, mad, unrestrained |
frantically | (adverb) in an ungovernable manner | Synonyms: madly |
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galantine | (noun) boned poultry stuffed then cooked and covered with aspic; served cold | - |
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giantism | (noun) excessive largeness of stature | Synonyms: gigantism |
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(noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: gigantism, overgrowth |
gigantic | (adjective) so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth | Synonyms: mammoth |
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gigantism | (noun) excessive largeness of stature | Synonyms: giantism |
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(noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: giantism, overgrowth |
infanticide | (noun) murdering an infant | - |
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(noun) a person who murders an infant | - |
infantile | (adjective) of or relating to infants or infancy | - |
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(adjective) indicating a lack of maturity | Synonyms: childish |
(adjective) being or befitting or characteristic of an infant | - |
infantilism | (noun) infantile behavior in mature persons | - |
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(noun) an abnormal condition in which an older child or adult retains infantile characteristics | - |
instantiate | (verb) find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word) | - |
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(verb) represent by an instance | - |
instantiation | (noun) a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it | - |
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insubstantial | (adjective) lacking material form or substance; unreal | Synonyms: unreal, unsubstantial |
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(adjective) lacking in nutritive value | - |
(adjective) lacking solidity or strength | Synonyms: flimsy |
insubstantiality | (noun) lacking substance or reality | - |
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(noun) lack of solid substance and strength | - |
insubstantially | (adverb) not substantially; lacking substantial expression or fullness | Synonyms: impalpably |
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isoantibody | (noun) an antibody that occurs naturally against foreign tissues from a person of the same species | Synonyms: alloantibody |
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lithomantic | (adjective) of or relating to lithomancy | - |
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mantic | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: divinatory, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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mantichora | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: manticora, manticore, mantiger |
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manticora | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticore, mantiger |
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manticore | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticora, mantiger |
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mantid | (noun) predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer | Synonyms: mantis |
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mantiger | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticora, manticore |
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mantilla | (noun) a woman's silk or lace scarf | - |
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(noun) short cape worn by women | Synonyms: mantelet |
mantis | (noun) predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer | Synonyms: mantid |
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mantispid | (noun) insect that resembles a mantis; larvae are parasites in the nests of spiders and wasps | - |
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mantissa | (noun) the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the mantissa is .808 | Synonyms: fixed-point part |
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meantime | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meanwhile |
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(adverb) during the intervening time | Synonyms: in the meantime, meanwhile |
mercantile | (adjective) of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characteristic of trade or traders | - |
(adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercenary, moneymaking |
mercantilism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, commercialism |
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(noun) an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | Synonyms: mercantile system |
necromantic | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantical |
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(adjective) given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead | - |
necromantical | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantic |
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neoromanticism | (noun) an art movement based on a revival of Romanticism in art and literature | - |
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obscurantism | (noun) a deliberate act intended to make something obscure | - |
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(noun) a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge | - |
obscurantist | (noun) a person who is deliberately vague | - |
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pantie | (noun) short underpants for women or children | Synonyms: panty, scanty, step-in |
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pantile | (noun) a roofing tile with a S-shape; laid so that curves overlap | - |
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panting | (noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: heaving |
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(noun) any fabric used to make trousers | Synonyms: trousering |
pedantic | (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: academic, donnish |
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pedantically | (adverb) in a pedantic manner | - |
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plantigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) | - |
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(noun) an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings | Synonyms: plantigrade mammal |
planting | (noun) the act of fixing firmly in place | - |
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(noun) putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow | - |
(noun) a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area | - |
polysemantic | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemous |
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quantic | (noun) a homogeneous polynomial having at least two variables | - |
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quantifiability | (noun) the quality of being measurable | Synonyms: measurability |
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quantifiable | (adjective) capable of being quantified | - |
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quantification | (noun) the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something | - |
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(noun) a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no') | - |
quantifier | (noun) (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many') | - |
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(noun) (logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition | Synonyms: logical quantifier |
quantify | (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: measure |
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(verb) use as a quantifier | - |
quantisation | (noun) the act of dividing into quanta or expressing in terms of quantum theory | Synonyms: quantization |
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quantise | (verb) apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor | Synonyms: quantize |
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(verb) approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values | Synonyms: quantize |
quantitative | (adjective) expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement | - |
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(adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables | - |
(adjective) relating to the measurement of quantity | - |
quantitatively | (adverb) in a quantitative manner | - |
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quantity | (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Synonyms: amount, measure |
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(noun) an adequate or large amount | - |
(noun) the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable | - |
quantization | (noun) the act of dividing into quanta or expressing in terms of quantum theory | Synonyms: quantisation |
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quantize | (verb) apply quantum theory to; restrict the number of possible values of (a quantity) or states of (a physical entity or system) so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete magnitudes that are integral multiples of a common factor | Synonyms: quantise |
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(verb) approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values | Synonyms: quantise |
quantized | (adjective) of or relating to a quantum or capable of existing in only one of two states | Synonyms: quantal |
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quarantine | (noun) isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease | - |
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(noun) enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease | - |
(verb) place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons | - |
quarantined | (adjective) under forced isolation especially for health reasons | Synonyms: isolated |
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ranting | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: harangue, rant |
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romantic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romanticist, romanticistic |
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(adjective) not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic | Synonyms: quixotic, wild-eyed |
(adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amatory, amorous |
(noun) a soulful or amorous idealist | - |
(noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romanticist |
romantically | (adverb) in a manner expressive of love or romance | - |
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(adverb) in an idealistic and unrealistic manner | - |
romanticisation | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticization, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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romanticise | (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticize |
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(verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticize |
romanticism | (noun) impractical romantic ideals and attitudes | - |
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(noun) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) | Synonyms: romance |
romanticist | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticistic |
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(noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romantic |
(noun) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality | Synonyms: sentimentalist |
romanticistic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts | Synonyms: romantic, romanticist |
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romanticization | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticisation, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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romanticize | (verb) act in a romantic way | - |
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(verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticise |
(verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticise |
santims | (noun) 100 santimi equal 1 lats in Latvia | - |
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scantily | (adverb) in a skimpy manner | Synonyms: skimpily |
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scantiness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantness |
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(noun) Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing. | Synonyms: skimpiness |
semantic | (adjective) of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning | - |
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semantically | (adverb) with regard to meaning | - |
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semanticist | (noun) a specialist in the study of meaning | Synonyms: semiotician |
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semantics | (noun) the study of language meaning | - |
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(noun) the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text | - |
slanting | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, sloped, sloping |
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slantingly | (adverb) with a slant | Synonyms: slopingly |
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substantial | (adjective) having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary | Synonyms: material, real |
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(adjective) of considerable importance, size, or worth | Synonyms: significant |
(adjective) of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something | Synonyms: substantive |
(adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy |
(adjective) of good quality and condition; solidly built | Synonyms: solid, strong |
(adjective) providing abundant nourishment | Synonyms: hearty, satisfying, solid, square |
substantiality | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: solidness, substantialness |
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substantially | (adverb) to a great extent or degree | Synonyms: considerably, well |
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(adverb) in a strong substantial way | - |
substantialness | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: solidness, substantiality |
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substantiate | (verb) solidify, firm, or strengthen | - |
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(verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, support, sustain |
(verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realise, realize |
(verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, incarnate |
substantiating | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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substantiation | (noun) the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something | Synonyms: proof, validation |
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(noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, verification |
substantiative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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substantival | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature or function of a substantive (i.e. a noun or noun equivalent) | - |
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substantive | (adjective) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established | Synonyms: essential |
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(adjective) of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something | Synonyms: substantial |
(adjective) being on topic and prompting thought | Synonyms: meaty |
(noun) any word or group of words functioning as a noun | - |
supplanting | (noun) act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics | Synonyms: displacement |
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sycophantic | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, toadyish |
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(adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, toadyish |
synsemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful only when it occurs in the company of other words | - |
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tarantism | (noun) a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider | - |
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transatlantic | (adjective) crossing the Atlantic Ocean | - |
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transplanting | (noun) the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location | Synonyms: transplant, transplantation |
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transubstantiate | (verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transform, transmute |
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(verb) change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ | - |
transubstantiation | (noun) an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | Synonyms: transmutation |
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(noun) the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist | - |
unanticipated | (adjective) not anticipated | Synonyms: out of the blue, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unseen |
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