addible | (adjective) capable of being added or added to | Synonyms: addable |
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addict | (noun) someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance or activity | - |
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(noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: freak, junkie, junky, nut |
(verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) | Synonyms: hook |
addicted | (adjective) compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming | - |
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addiction | (noun) (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master | - |
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(noun) an abnormally strong craving | - |
(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: dependance, dependence, dependency, habituation |
addictive | (adjective) causing or characterized by addiction | Synonyms: habit-forming |
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addition | (noun) the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers | Synonyms: plus, summation |
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(noun) the act of adding one thing to another | - |
(noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, improver |
(noun) a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area | - |
(noun) something added to what you already have | Synonyms: accession |
(noun) a quantity that is added | Synonyms: gain, increase |
additional | (adjective) further or added | Synonyms: extra |
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additionally | (adverb) in addition, by way of addition; furthermore | Synonyms: to boot |
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additive | (adjective) characterized or produced by addition | - |
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(adjective) designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree | Synonyms: linear |
(noun) something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine | - |
baddie | (noun) the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction | Synonyms: villain |
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bedding | (noun) coverings that are used on a bed | Synonyms: bed clothing, bedclothes |
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(noun) material used to provide a bed for animals | Synonyms: bedding material, litter |
bidding | (noun) a request to be present | Synonyms: summons |
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(noun) (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make | Synonyms: bid |
(noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, command, dictation |
bobsledding | (noun) riding on a bobsled | - |
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budding | (adjective) beginning to develop | - |
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(noun) reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent | - |
caddie | (noun) an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player | Synonyms: golf caddie |
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(verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddy |
caddish | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: unchivalrous, ungallant |
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caddisworm | (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: strawworm |
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cladding | (noun) a protective covering that protects the outside of a building | Synonyms: facing |
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cloddish | (adjective) heavy and dull and stupid | Synonyms: doltish |
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faddily | (adverb) in a faddish manner | Synonyms: faddishly |
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faddish | (adjective) intensely fashionable for a short time | Synonyms: faddy |
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faddishly | (adverb) in a faddish manner | Synonyms: faddily |
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faddist | (noun) a person who subscribes to a variety of fads | - |
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featherbedding | (noun) the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required | - |
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forbidding | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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(adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, grim |
(noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbiddance |
forbiddingly | (adverb) in an unpleasant or menacing manner | - |
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gaddi | (noun) a cushion on a throne for a prince in India | - |
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giddily | (adverb) in a giddy light-headed manner | Synonyms: dizzily, light-headedly |
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giddiness | (noun) an impulsive scatterbrained manner | Synonyms: silliness |
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(noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, lightheadedness, vertigo |
kiddie | (noun) informal term for a young child | Synonyms: kiddy |
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laddie | (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: cub, lad, sonny, sonny boy |
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muddied | (adjective) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear | Synonyms: dingy, dirty, muddy |
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muddiness | (noun) the quality of being cloudy | Synonyms: cloudiness, murkiness |
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(noun) a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior | Synonyms: confusedness, confusion, disarray, mental confusion |
(noun) the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water | Synonyms: sloppiness, wateriness |
nodding | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, pendulous, weeping |
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nonaddictive | (adjective) not causing or characterized by addiction | - |
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oddish | (adjective) somewhat strange | - |
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oddity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity |
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(noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, queerness, quirk, quirkiness |
(noun) eccentricity that is not easily explained | Synonyms: oddness |
padding | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: cushioning |
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plodding | (adjective) (of movement) slow and laborious | Synonyms: leaden |
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(noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, drudgery, grind |
(noun) the act of walking with a slow heavy gait | Synonyms: plod |
ploddingly | (adverb) in a plodding manner | - |
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prodding | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, spur, spurring, urging |
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pudding | (noun) any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed | - |
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(noun) any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes | - |
(noun) (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally) | Synonyms: pud |
puddingheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, muddleheaded |
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puddingwife | (noun) bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil | Synonyms: Halicoeres radiatus, pudding-wife |
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quiddity | (noun) the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other | Synonyms: haecceity |
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(noun) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections | Synonyms: cavil, quibble |
reddish | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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reddishness | (noun) The quality of being somewhat red. | - |
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ruddiness | (noun) a healthy reddish complexion | Synonyms: rosiness |
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scudding | (noun) the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale) | Synonyms: scud |
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shedding | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: desquamation, peeling |
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(noun) the process whereby something is shed | Synonyms: sloughing |
shoddily | (adverb) in a shoddy manner | - |
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shoddiness | (noun) the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction | Synonyms: flimsiness |
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(noun) the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better | Synonyms: trashiness |
sledding | (noun) the sport of riding on a sled or sleigh | - |
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(noun) advancing toward a goal | Synonyms: going |
sodding | (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
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thudding | (adjective) not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft | Synonyms: dull |
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unaddicted | (adjective) not addicted | - |
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wadding | (noun) any material used especially to protect something | Synonyms: packing, packing material |
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wedding | (noun) the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony | Synonyms: marriage, marriage ceremony |
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(noun) the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed | Synonyms: hymeneals, nuptials, wedding ceremony |
(noun) a party of people at a wedding | Synonyms: wedding party |