apostleship | (noun) the position of apostle | - |
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apostolic | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolical |
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(adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolical, papal, pontifical |
apostolical | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolic |
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(adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, papal, pontifical |
apostrophe | (noun) address to an absent or imaginary person | - |
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(noun) the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word | - |
apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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apostrophise | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophize |
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apostrophize | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophise |
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apothecary | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: chemist, druggist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
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apothecial | (adjective) of or relating to the apothecium of some lichens and fungi | - |
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apothecium | (noun) a cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi | - |
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apothegm | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: aphorism, apophthegm |
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apothegmatic | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatical |
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(adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: aphoristic, epigrammatic |
apothegmatical | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatic |
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apotheose | (verb) deify or glorify | Synonyms: apotheosise, apotheosize |
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apotheosis | (noun) the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) | Synonyms: deification, exaltation |
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(noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
apotheosise | (verb) deify or glorify | Synonyms: apotheose, apotheosize |
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apotheosize | (verb) deify or glorify | Synonyms: apotheose, apotheosise |
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apotropaic | (adjective) having the power to prevent evil or bad luck | - |
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appal | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
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(verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appall, dismay, horrify |
appall | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
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(verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, dismay, horrify |
appalled | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: aghast, dismayed, shocked |
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appalling | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: dismaying |
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(noun) an experience that appalls | - |
appallingly | (adverb) to an appalling extent | - |
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appanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: apanage |
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(noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: apanage |
apparatchik | (noun) a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party | - |
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(noun) a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization) | - |
apparatus | (noun) equipment designed to serve a specific function | Synonyms: setup |
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(noun) (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function | - |
apparel | (noun) clothing in general | Synonyms: clothes, dress, wearing apparel |
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(verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
appareled | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: attired, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
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apparency | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparentness |
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apparent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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(adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: ostensible, seeming |
apparently | (adverb) from appearances alone | Synonyms: on the face of it, ostensibly, seemingly |
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(adverb) unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | Synonyms: evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plain, plainly |
apparentness | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparency |
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apparition | (noun) an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly | - |
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(noun) something existing in perception only | Synonyms: fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow |
(noun) the appearance of a ghostlike figure | - |
(noun) a ghostly appearing figure | Synonyms: fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, specter, spectre |
apparitional | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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appeal | (noun) (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial | - |
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(noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appealingness, charm |
(noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: entreaty, prayer |
(noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: collection, ingathering, solicitation |
(verb) request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection | Synonyms: invoke |
(verb) cite as an authority; resort to | Synonyms: invoke |
(verb) be attractive to | Synonyms: attract |
(verb) take a court case to a higher court for review | - |
(verb) challenge (a decision) | - |
appealable | (adjective) capable of being appealed especially to a higher tribunal | - |
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appealing | (adjective) able to attract interest or draw favorable attention | - |
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(adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: likable, likeable, sympathetic |
appealingly | (adverb) in an appealing manner | - |
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appealingness | (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appeal, charm |
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appear | (verb) come into sight or view | - |
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(verb) be issued or published | Synonyms: come out |
(verb) come into being or existence, or appear on the scene | Synonyms: come along |
(verb) appear as a character on stage or appear in a play, etc. | - |
(verb) give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect | Synonyms: look, seem |
(verb) (of a proposition) seem to be true, probable, or apparent | Synonyms: seem |
(verb) present oneself formally, as before a (judicial) authority | - |
appearance | (noun) the act of appearing in public view | - |
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(noun) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | Synonyms: appearing, coming into court |
(noun) pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression | Synonyms: show |
(noun) outward or visible aspect of a person or thing | Synonyms: visual aspect |
(noun) a mental representation | - |
(noun) the event of coming into sight | - |
appearing | (noun) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | Synonyms: appearance, coming into court |
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appeasable | (adjective) capable of being pacified | Synonyms: conciliable |
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appease | (verb) make peace with | Synonyms: propitiate |
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(verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: quell, stay |
(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
appeasement | (noun) the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of) | Synonyms: calming |
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appeaser | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace by acceding to demands | - |
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appeasing | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: placating, placative, placatory |
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appellant | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellate |
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(noun) the party who appeals a decision of a lower court | Synonyms: plaintiff in error |
appellate | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellant |
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appellation | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellative, denomination, designation |
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(noun) a geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown | - |
appellative | (adjective) pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun | - |
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(adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names | Synonyms: naming |
(noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, denomination, designation |
append | (verb) state or say further | Synonyms: add, supply |
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(verb) fix to; attach | Synonyms: hang on, tack, tack on, tag on |
(verb) add to the very end | Synonyms: add on, affix, supplement |
appendage | (noun) a part that is joined to something larger | - |
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(noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: extremity, member |
(noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: outgrowth, process |
appendaged | (adjective) having an appendage | - |
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appendant | (adjective) affixed as an appendage | - |
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appendectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendicectomy |
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appendicectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendectomy |
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appendicitis | (noun) inflammation of the vermiform appendix | - |
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appendicle | (noun) a small appendage | - |
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appendicular | (adjective) relating to or consisting of an appendage or appendages; especially the limbs | - |
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appendicularia | (noun) free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates | - |
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appendix | (noun) a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch | Synonyms: cecal appendage, vermiform appendix, vermiform process |
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(noun) supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book | - |
apperceive | (verb) perceive in terms of a past experience | - |
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apperception | (noun) the process whereby perceived qualities of an object are related to past experience | - |
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apperceptive | (adjective) able to relate new percepts to past experience | - |
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appertain | (verb) be a part or attribute of | Synonyms: pertain |
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appetence | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetency, appetite |
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appetency | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetence, appetite |
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appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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appetiser | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetizer, starter |
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appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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appetisingness | (noun) the property of stimulating the appetite | Synonyms: appetizingness |
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appetite | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetence, appetency |
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appetitive | (adjective) of or relating to appetite | - |
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appetizer | (noun) food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | Synonyms: appetiser, starter |
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appetizing | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetising |
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appetizingness | (noun) the property of stimulating the appetite | Synonyms: appetisingness |
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applaud | (verb) express that something is worthy of praise | - |
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(verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: acclaim, clap, spat |
applaudable | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: commendable, laudable, praiseworthy |
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applauder | (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: clapper |
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applause | (noun) a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together | Synonyms: clapping, hand clapping |
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apple | (noun) fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh | - |
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(noun) native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits | Synonyms: Malus pumila, orchard apple tree |
applecart | (noun) a handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street | - |
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(noun) the planning that is disrupted when someone `upsets the applecart' | - |
applejack | (noun) distilled from hard cider | - |
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applemint | (noun) mint with apple-scented stems of southern and western Europe; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: apple mint, Mentha rotundifolia, Mentha suaveolens |
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applesauce | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: codswallop, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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(noun) puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced | Synonyms: apple sauce |
applet | (noun) a Java application; an application program that uses the client's web browser to provide a user interface | - |
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applewood | (noun) wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus | - |
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appliance | (noun) durable goods for home or office use | - |
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(noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
applicability | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: pertinence, pertinency |
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applicable | (adjective) capable of being applied; having relevance | - |
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applicant | (noun) a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission | Synonyms: applier |
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application | (noun) the action of putting something into operation | - |
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(noun) a diligent effort | Synonyms: diligence |
(noun) the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose | Synonyms: practical application |
(noun) the work of applying something | Synonyms: coating, covering |
(noun) liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin | Synonyms: lotion |
(noun) a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school | - |
(noun) a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task | Synonyms: application program, applications programme |
applicative | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicatory |
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applicator | (noun) a device for applying a substance | Synonyms: applier |
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applicatory | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicative |
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applied | (adjective) concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles | - |
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applier | (noun) a device for applying a substance | Synonyms: applicator |
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(noun) a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission | Synonyms: applicant |
applique | (noun) a decorative design made of one material sewn over another | - |
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(verb) sew on as a decoration | - |
apply | (verb) ask (for something) | - |
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(verb) refer (a word or name) to a person or thing | - |
(verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: employ, use, utilise, utilize |
(verb) coat, cover or smear a surface with | Synonyms: put on |
(verb) give or convey physically | Synonyms: give |
(verb) avail oneself to | Synonyms: practice, use |
(verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: enforce, implement |
(verb) apply oneself to | - |
(verb) be pertinent or relevant or applicable | Synonyms: go for, hold |
(verb) be applicable to; as to an analysis | Synonyms: lend oneself |