antipodean | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodal |
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archdeacon | (noun) (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop | - |
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archdeaconry | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon | - |
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bandeau | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bra, brassiere |
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bookdealer | (noun) a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books | Synonyms: book seller |
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deaccession | (verb) sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works | - |
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deacon | (noun) a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders | - |
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(noun) a Protestant layman who assists the minister | Synonyms: Protestant deacon |
deaconess | (noun) a woman deacon | - |
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deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
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(verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
deactivation | (noun) the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb) | Synonyms: defusing |
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(noun) breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | Synonyms: inactivation |
dead | (adjective) no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life | - |
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(adjective) not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat | - |
(adjective) the complete stoppage of an action | - |
(adjective) not surviving in active use | - |
(adjective) physically inactive | - |
(adjective) devoid of activity | - |
(adjective) lacking resilience or bounce | - |
(adjective) out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown | - |
(adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: deadened |
(adjective) (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive | Synonyms: numb |
(adjective) no longer having force or relevance | - |
(adjective) unerringly accurate | - |
(adjective) not circulating or flowing | Synonyms: stagnant |
(adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, bushed |
(adjective) drained of electric charge; discharged | Synonyms: drained |
(adjective) not yielding a return | Synonyms: idle |
(adjective) lacking acoustic resonance | - |
(noun) people who are no longer living | - |
(noun) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense | - |
(adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolutely, perfectly, utterly |
(adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: abruptly, all of a sudden, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, short, suddenly |
deadbeat | (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: defaulter |
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deadbolt | (noun) the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key | Synonyms: bolt |
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deaden | (verb) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor | - |
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(verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: blunt |
(verb) lessen the momentum or velocity of | - |
(verb) make vapid or deprive of spirit | - |
(verb) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil | - |
(verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, dampen |
(verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: girdle |
deadened | (adjective) made or become less intense | - |
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(adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: dead |
deadening | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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(noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, impairment, stultification |
deadeye | (noun) (nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud | - |
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(noun) a dead shot | - |
deadhead | (noun) a train or bus or taxi traveling empty | - |
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(noun) a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way | - |
deadlift | (noun) a weight training exercise in which a loaded barbell is lifted off the ground to the hips, then lowered back to the ground | - |
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deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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deadline | (noun) the point in time at which something must be completed | - |
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deadliness | (noun) the quality of being deadly | Synonyms: lethality |
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deadlock | (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstill |
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deadlocked | (adjective) at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions | Synonyms: stalemated |
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deadly | (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, pernicious, pestilent |
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(adjective) extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom | Synonyms: venomous, virulent |
(adjective) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death | Synonyms: mortal |
(adjective) (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect | - |
(adjective) causing or capable of causing death | Synonyms: deathly, mortal |
(adjective) of an instrument of certain death | Synonyms: lethal |
(adverb) (used as intensives) excessively | Synonyms: deucedly, devilishly, insanely, madly |
(adverb) as if dead | Synonyms: lifelessly |
deadness | (noun) the inanimate property of something that has died | - |
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(noun) the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity | - |
(noun) the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events | Synonyms: unresponsiveness |
deadpan | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: expressionless, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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(adverb) without betraying any feeling | - |
deadwood | (noun) someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
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(noun) a branch or a part of a tree that is dead | - |
deaerate | (verb) remove air or gas from | Synonyms: de-aerate |
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deaf | (adjective) lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part | - |
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(adjective) (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed | Synonyms: indifferent |
(noun) people who have severe hearing impairments | - |
(verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deafen |
deafen | (verb) make soundproof | - |
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(verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deaf |
(verb) be unbearably loud | - |
deafened | (adjective) caused to hear poorly or not at all | - |
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deafening | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: earsplitting, thunderous, thundery |
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deafness | (noun) partial or complete loss of hearing | Synonyms: hearing loss |
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deal | (noun) the act of distributing playing cards | - |
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(noun) the act of apportioning or distributing something | - |
(noun) a particular instance of buying or selling | Synonyms: business deal, trade |
(noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: bargain |
(noun) the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement) | - |
(noun) the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time | Synonyms: hand |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
(noun) a plank of softwood (fir or pine board) | - |
(noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: softwood |
(verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes | Synonyms: consider, look at, take |
(verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, handle, plow, treat |
(verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: sell, trade |
(verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
(verb) distribute cards to the players in a game | - |
(verb) give (a specific card) to a player | - |
(verb) give out as one's portion or share | Synonyms: apportion, divvy up, portion out, share |
(verb) sell (especially of illegal material) | - |
(verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
(verb) direct the course of; manage or control | Synonyms: carry on, conduct |
(verb) behave in a certain way towards others | - |
(verb) take action with respect to (someone or something) | - |
(verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, handle, manage |
dealer | (noun) a firm engaged in trading | - |
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(noun) a seller of illicit goods | - |
(noun) the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game | - |
(noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, monger, trader |
(noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: principal |
dealership | (noun) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | Synonyms: franchise |
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dealfish | (noun) deep-sea ribbonfish | Synonyms: Trachipterus arcticus |
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dealignment | (noun) a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties | - |
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dealing | (noun) method or manner of conduct in relation to others | - |
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(noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealings, transaction |
dealings | (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealing, transaction |
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(noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | Synonyms: traffic |
(noun) mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups | Synonyms: relations |
deaminate | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminize |
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deamination | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deaminization |
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deaminization | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deamination |
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deaminize | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminate |
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dean | (noun) an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college | - |
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(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals | - |
(noun) a man who is the senior member of a group | Synonyms: doyen |
deanery | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanship |
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(noun) the official residence of a dean | - |
deanship | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanery |
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dear | (adjective) with or in a close or intimate relationship | Synonyms: good, near |
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(adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: costly, high-priced, pricey, pricy |
(adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: beloved, darling |
(adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: devout, earnest, heartfelt |
(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
(noun) a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) | Synonyms: lamb |
(adverb) at a great cost | Synonyms: dearly |
(adverb) with affection | Synonyms: affectionately, dearly |
dearest | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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dearie | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
dearly | (adverb) at a great cost | Synonyms: dear |
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(adverb) with affection | Synonyms: affectionately, dear |
(adverb) in a sincere and heartfelt manner | Synonyms: in a heartfelt way |
dearness | (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: costliness, preciousness |
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dearth | (noun) an insufficient quantity or number | Synonyms: paucity |
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(noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: famine, shortage |
deary | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
death | (noun) the act of killing | - |
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(noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: decease, expiry |
(noun) the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | - |
(noun) the absence of life or state of being dead | - |
(noun) a final state | Synonyms: destruction, end |
(noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: demise, dying |
(noun) the time at which life ends; continuing until dead | Synonyms: last |
deathbed | (noun) the bed on which a person dies | - |
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(noun) the last few hours before death | - |
deathblow | (noun) the blow that kills (usually mercifully) | Synonyms: coup de grace |
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deathless | (adjective) never dying | Synonyms: undying |
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deathlike | (adjective) having the physical appearance of death | Synonyms: deathly |
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deathly | (adjective) having the physical appearance of death | Synonyms: deathlike |
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(adjective) causing or capable of causing death | Synonyms: deadly, mortal |
(adverb) to a degree resembling death | - |
(adverb) to an extreme degree | Synonyms: exceedingly, extremely, super |
deathrate | (noun) the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year | Synonyms: death rate, fatality rate, mortality, mortality rate |
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deathtrap | (noun) any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed | - |
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deathwatch | (noun) bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death | Synonyms: deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum |
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(noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, booklouse, Liposcelis divinatorius |
decideable | (adjective) capable of being decided as following or not following from the axioms of a logical system | - |
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endear | (verb) make attractive or lovable | - |
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endearing | (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: adorable, lovely |
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endearingly | (adverb) in an adorable manner | Synonyms: adorably |
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endearment | (noun) the act of showing affection | - |
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endeavor | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavour, try |
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(noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavour, enterprise |
(verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavour, strive |
endeavour | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavor, try |
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(noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavor, enterprise |
(verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, strive |
euclidean | (adjective) relating to geometry as developed by Euclid | Synonyms: euclidian |
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fricandeau | (noun) larded veal braised and glazed in its own juices | - |
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hideaway | (noun) an area where you can be alone | Synonyms: retreat |
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(noun) a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws | Synonyms: den, hideout |
idea | (noun) the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about | Synonyms: thought |
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(noun) your intention; what you intend to do | Synonyms: mind |
(noun) an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth | Synonyms: approximation, estimate, estimation |
(noun) a personal view | - |
(noun) (music) melodic subject of a musical composition | Synonyms: melodic theme, musical theme, theme |
ideal | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas | Synonyms: idealistic |
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(adjective) constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception | - |
(adjective) conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal | - |
(noun) the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain | - |
(noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
idealisation | (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: glorification, idealization |
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(noun) something that exists only as an idea | Synonyms: idealization |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad | Synonyms: idealization |
idealise | (verb) consider or render as ideal | Synonyms: idealize |
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(verb) form ideals | Synonyms: idealize |
idealised | (adjective) exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence | Synonyms: idealized |
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idealism | (noun) impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are | - |
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(noun) elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued | Synonyms: high-mindedness, noble-mindedness |
(noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality | - |
idealist | (noun) someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations | Synonyms: dreamer |
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idealistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas | Synonyms: ideal |
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(adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
ideality | (noun) the quality of being ideal | - |
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idealization | (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: glorification, idealisation |
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(noun) something that exists only as an idea | Synonyms: idealisation |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad | Synonyms: idealisation |
idealize | (verb) consider or render as ideal | Synonyms: idealise |
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(verb) form ideals | Synonyms: idealise |
idealized | (adjective) exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence | Synonyms: idealised |
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ideally | (adverb) in an ideal manner | - |
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idealogue | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer |
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ideate | (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, envisage, imagine |
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ideation | (noun) the process of forming and relating ideas | - |
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ideational | (adjective) being of the nature of a notion or concept | Synonyms: conceptional, notional |
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megadeath | (noun) the death of a million people | - |
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misdeal | (noun) an incorrect deal | - |
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(verb) deal cards wrongly | - |
newsdealer | (noun) someone who sells newspapers | Synonyms: newsagent, newsstand operator, newsvendor |
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ordeal | (noun) a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence | Synonyms: trial by ordeal |
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(noun) a severe or trying experience | - |
percoidean | (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | Synonyms: percoid, percoid fish |
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proboscidean | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidian |
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rondeau | (noun) a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas | Synonyms: rondel |
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(noun) a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata | Synonyms: rondo |
sarcocystidean | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystieian, sarcosporidian |
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sidearm | (adjective) (of pitches) made with the arm moving parallel to the ground | - |
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(adverb) in a sidearm manner | - |