aunt | (noun) the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle | Synonyms: auntie, aunty |
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auntie | (noun) the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle | Synonyms: aunt, aunty |
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aunty | (noun) the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle | Synonyms: aunt, auntie |
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daunt | (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
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daunted | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: bothered, fazed |
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daunting | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: intimidating |
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dauntingly | (adverb) to a degree or in a manner that daunts | - |
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dauntless | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
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dauntlessly | (adverb) without fear | Synonyms: fearlessly, intrepidly |
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dauntlessness | (noun) resolute courageousness | Synonyms: intrepidity |
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flaunt | (noun) the act of displaying something ostentatiously | - |
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(verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, ostentate, show off, swank |
flaunty | (adjective) inclined to flaunt | - |
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gaunt | (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
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gauntlet | (noun) a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim | Synonyms: gantlet |
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(noun) a glove of armored leather; protects the hand | Synonyms: gantlet, metal glove |
(noun) a glove with long sleeve | Synonyms: gantlet |
(noun) to offer or accept a challenge | Synonyms: gantlet |
gauntleted | (adjective) wearing a protective glove | - |
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gauntness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, bonyness, emaciation, maceration |
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gauntry | (noun) a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc. | Synonyms: gantry |
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grandaunt | (noun) an aunt of your father or mother | Synonyms: great-aunt |
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haunt | (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: hangout, repair, resort, stamping ground |
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(verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue | Synonyms: ghost, obsess |
(verb) follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to | Synonyms: stalk |
(verb) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place | Synonyms: frequent |
haunted | (adjective) having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something | Synonyms: obsessed, preoccupied, taken up |
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(adjective) inhabited by or as if by apparitions | - |
(adjective) showing emotional affliction or disquiet | - |
haunting | (adjective) having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect | - |
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(adjective) continually recurring to the mind | Synonyms: persistent |
jaunt | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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(verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: travel, trip |
jauntily | (adverb) in a jaunty fashionable manner | - |
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jauntiness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, nattiness, rakishness |
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(noun) a breezy liveliness | Synonyms: breeziness |
jaunty | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonair, debonaire |
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(adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
saunter | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, perambulation, promenade, stroll |
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(noun) a careless leisurely gait | - |
(verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: stroll |
saunterer | (noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace | Synonyms: ambler, stroller |
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taunt | (noun) aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing | Synonyms: taunting, twit |
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(verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, tease, twit |
taunting | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking |
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(noun) aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing | Synonyms: taunt, twit |
tauntingly | (adverb) in a playfully teasing manner | Synonyms: teasingly |
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undaunted | (adjective) resolutely courageous | - |
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(adjective) unshaken in purpose | Synonyms: undismayed, unshaken |
vaunt | (noun) extravagant self-praise | - |
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(verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout |
vaunter | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, braggart, bragger, line-shooter |
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vauntingly | (adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: big, boastfully, large |
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