abbreviate | (verb) shorten | - |
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(verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
abbreviated | (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: brief |
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(adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: shortened, truncated |
abbreviation | (noun) shortening something by omitting parts of it | - |
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(noun) a shortened form of a word or phrase | - |
abbreviator | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abridger |
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abracadabra | (noun) gibberish and nonsense | - |
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abrachia | (noun) the condition of having no arms | - |
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abradant | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abrader |
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(noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abrasive, abrasive material |
abrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrase, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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(verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: scour |
abrader | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abradant |
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abranchial | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchiate, abranchious, gill-less |
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abranchiate | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchious, gill-less |
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abranchious | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchiate, gill-less |
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abrase | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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abrasion | (noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: attrition, detrition, grinding |
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(noun) erosion by friction | Synonyms: attrition, corrasion, detrition |
(noun) an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off | Synonyms: excoriation, scrape, scratch |
abrasive | (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: harsh |
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(adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: scratchy |
(noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abradant, abrasive material |
abrasiveness | (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: harshness, scratchiness |
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(noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable | - |
abreact | (verb) discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization | - |
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abreaction | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: catharsis, katharsis |
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abreast | (adjective) being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge | Synonyms: au courant, au fait, up on |
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(adverb) alongside each other, facing in the same direction | - |
abridge | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
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(verb) lessen, diminish, or curtail | - |
abridged | (adjective) (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting | - |
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abridgement | (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgment, capsule, condensation |
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abridger | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abbreviator |
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abridgment | (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, capsule, condensation |
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abroach | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: broached |
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abroad | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: overseas |
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(adverb) to or in a foreign country | - |
(adverb) in a place across an ocean | Synonyms: overseas |
(adverb) far away from home or one's usual surroundings | Synonyms: afield |
abrocome | (noun) ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes | Synonyms: chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla |
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abrogate | (verb) revoke formally | - |
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abrogation | (noun) the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation | Synonyms: annulment, repeal |
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abrogator | (noun) an authority or official empowered to abolish or annul or repeal | - |
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abrupt | (adjective) surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner | - |
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(adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: disconnected |
(adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: precipitous, sharp |
(adjective) exceedingly sudden and unexpected | - |
abruption | (noun) an instance of sudden interruption | Synonyms: breaking off |
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abruptly | (adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: all of a sudden, dead, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, short, suddenly |
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abruptness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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(noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: precipitousness, steepness |
(noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, shortness |
addlebrained | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlepated, muddleheaded, puddingheaded |
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adumbrate | (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: outline, sketch |
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(verb) give to understand | Synonyms: insinuate, intimate |
adumbration | (noun) a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation | - |
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(noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefiguration |
adumbrative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefigurative |
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afebrile | (adjective) having no fever | - |
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afibrinogenemia | (noun) the absence of fibrinogen in the plasma leading to prolonged bleeding | - |
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airbrake | (noun) a vehicular brake that operates by compressed air; especially for heavy vehicles | - |
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(noun) a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft | Synonyms: dive brake |
airbrush | (noun) an atomizer to spray paint by means of compressed air | - |
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(verb) paint with an airbrush | - |
algebra | (noun) the mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations | - |
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algebraic | (adjective) of or relating to algebra | Synonyms: algebraical |
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algebraical | (adjective) of or relating to algebra | Synonyms: algebraic |
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algebraically | (adverb) in an algebraic manner | - |
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algebraist | (noun) a mathematician whose specialty is algebra | - |
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ambrosia | (noun) (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal | Synonyms: nectar |
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(noun) fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut | - |
(noun) any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma | Synonyms: bitterweed, ragweed |
(noun) a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae | Synonyms: beebread |
ambrosial | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosian |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosian, nectarous |
ambrosian | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosial |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, nectarous |
amphibrach | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember') | - |
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backbreaking | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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balbriggan | (noun) a cotton knit fabric used for underwear | - |
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barmbrack | (noun) a rich currant cake or bun | - |
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beebread | (noun) a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae | Synonyms: ambrosia |
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betweenbrain | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: diencephalon, interbrain, thalmencephalon |
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birdbrain | (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, addlehead, loon |
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bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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bra | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, brassiere |
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brabble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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brace | (noun) a structural member used to stiffen a framework | Synonyms: bracing |
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(noun) a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring | Synonyms: bitstock |
(noun) an appliance that corrects dental irregularities | Synonyms: braces, orthodontic braces |
(noun) a support that steadies or strengthens something else | - |
(noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: gallus, suspender |
(noun) a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it | - |
(noun) either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material | - |
(noun) a set of two similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: pair |
(noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
(verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
(verb) support by bracing | - |
(verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: stabilise, stabilize, steady |
(verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: poise |
braced | (adjective) positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger | - |
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(adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: buttressed |
bracelet | (noun) jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration | Synonyms: bangle |
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(noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: watch bracelet, watchband, watchstrap, wristband |
bracer | (noun) a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor) | Synonyms: pick-me-up |
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(noun) a protective covering for the wrist or arm that is used in archery and fencing and other sports | Synonyms: armguard |
bracero | (noun) a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II | - |
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braces | (noun) an appliance that corrects dental irregularities | Synonyms: brace, orthodontic braces |
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brachial | (adjective) of or relating to an arm | - |
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brachiate | (adjective) having arms or armlike appendages | - |
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(adjective) having widely spreading paired branches | - |
(verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
brachiation | (noun) swinging by the arms from branch to branch | - |
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brachiopod | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopodous |
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(noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: lamp shell, lampshell |
brachiopodous | (adjective) of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda | Synonyms: brachiopod |
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brachistochrone | (noun) a curve between two points along which a body can move under gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve. | - |
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brachium | (noun) (biology) a branching or armlike part of an animal | - |
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brachycephalic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycranial, brachycranic |
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(noun) an adult with a short broad head | - |
brachycephalism | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephaly |
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brachycephaly | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephalism |
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brachycranial | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranic |
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brachycranic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycephalic, brachycranial |
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brachydactylia | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactyly |
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brachydactylic | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylous |
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brachydactylous | (adjective) having abnormally short finger or toes | Synonyms: brachydactylic |
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brachydactyly | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactylia |
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brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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brachyuran | (noun) typical crabs | - |
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brachyurous | (adjective) of or belonging to the suborder Brachyura | - |
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bracing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: brisk, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
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(noun) a structural member used to stiffen a framework | Synonyms: brace |
bracken | (noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: brake, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
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(noun) fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions | Synonyms: Pteridium esculentum |
bracket | (noun) a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) | Synonyms: wall bracket |
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(noun) either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material | Synonyms: square bracket |
(noun) either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material | Synonyms: angle bracket |
(noun) a category falling within certain defined limits | - |
(verb) classify or group | - |
(verb) place into brackets | Synonyms: bracket out |
(verb) support with brackets | - |
brackish | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: briny |
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(adjective) distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture | - |
brackishness | (noun) the quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water | - |
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bract | (noun) a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence | - |
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bracteal | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a bract | - |
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bracteate | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracted |
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bracted | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracteate |
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bracteolate | (adjective) having bracteoles | - |
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bracteole | (noun) a small bract | Synonyms: bractlet |
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bractlet | (noun) a small bract | Synonyms: bracteole |
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brad | (noun) a small nail | - |
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(verb) fasten with brads | - |
bradawl | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: pricker |
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bradycardia | (noun) abnormally slow heartbeat | - |
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