absentminded | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, abstracted, scatty |
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absentmindedly | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absently, abstractedly, inattentively |
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absentmindedness | (noun) preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored | - |
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aided | (adjective) having help; often used as a combining form | Synonyms: assisted |
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airheaded | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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amended | (adjective) of legislation | - |
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(adjective) modified for the better | - |
apprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, comprehended |
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astounded | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astonished, stunned |
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attended | (adjective) playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment | Synonyms: accompanied |
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(adjective) having a caretaker or other watcher | Synonyms: tended to |
backhanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhand |
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(adjective) roundabout or ambiguous | - |
banded | (adjective) identified with a band especially around a leg | - |
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(adjective) characterized by a band of especially white around the body | - |
(adjective) marked with bands or strips of contrasting color or texture | - |
barehanded | (adjective) with bare hands | - |
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bareheaded | (adjective) having the head uncovered | Synonyms: bared |
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barricaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, blockaded |
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beaded | (adjective) covered with beads of liquid | - |
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bearded | (adjective) having a growth of hairlike awns | - |
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(adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
beardedness | (noun) The quality of having a beard. | - |
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bedded | (adjective) having a bed or beds as specified | - |
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(adjective) deposited or arranged in horizontal layers | Synonyms: stratified |
beheaded | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: decapitated |
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bended | (adjective) used of the back and knees; stooped | Synonyms: bent |
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bigheaded | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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bladed | (adjective) bearing or characterized by a blade or sword; often used in combination | - |
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(adjective) having a blade or blades; often used in combination | - |
(adjective) composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade | - |
blended | (adjective) combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable | - |
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blinded | (adjective) deprived of sight | - |
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blindfolded | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfold |
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blockaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, barricaded |
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blockheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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blooded | (adjective) of unmixed ancestry | Synonyms: full-blood, full-blooded |
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boneheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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bounded | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: delimited |
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boundedness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: finiteness, finitude |
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braided | (adjective) woven by (or as if by) braiding | - |
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branded | (adjective) marked with a brand | - |
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(adjective) (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights | - |
brinded | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brindle, brindled, tabby |
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brocaded | (adjective) embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery | Synonyms: embossed, raised |
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bullheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, pigheaded |
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bullheadedness | (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
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clearheaded | (adjective) not mentally confused; able to think clearly and act intelligently | Synonyms: clear-thinking |
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clouded | (adjective) filled or abounding with clouds | Synonyms: cloud-covered, overcast, sunless |
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(adjective) mentally disordered | - |
(adjective) made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance | - |
(adjective) unclear in form or expression | Synonyms: blurred |
colonnaded | (adjective) having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals | - |
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compounded | (adjective) combined into or constituting a chemical compound | - |
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comprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, apprehended |
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concluded | (adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion | Synonyms: all over, complete, ended, over, terminated |
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confounded | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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confoundedly | (adverb) in a perplexed manner | Synonyms: perplexedly |
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coolheaded | (adjective) marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional | Synonyms: cool, nerveless |
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corded | (adjective) of textiles; having parallel raised lines | Synonyms: twilled |
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corroded | (adjective) eaten away as by acid or oxidation | - |
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crowded | (adjective) overfilled or compacted or concentrated | - |
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decided | (adjective) recognizable; marked | Synonyms: distinct |
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decidedly | (adverb) without question and beyond doubt | Synonyms: by all odds, definitely, emphatically, in spades, unquestionably |
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dedicate | (verb) set apart to sacred uses with solemn rites, of a church | - |
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(verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, devote, give |
(verb) inscribe or address by way of compliment | - |
(verb) open to public use, as of a highway, park, or building | - |
dedicated | (adjective) devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose | - |
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(adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrate, consecrated |
dedication | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, commitment, loyalty |
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(noun) complete and wholehearted fidelity | - |
(noun) a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something | Synonyms: inscription |
(noun) a message that makes a pledge | Synonyms: commitment |
(noun) a ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose | - |
dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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dedifferentiated | (adjective) having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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dedifferentiation | (noun) the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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deduce | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduct, derive, infer |
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(verb) conclude by reasoning; in logic | Synonyms: infer |
deducible | (adjective) capable of being deduced | - |
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deduct | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, derive, infer |
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(verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: subtract, take off |
(verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: recoup, withhold |
deductible | (adjective) acceptable as a deduction (especially as a tax deduction) | - |
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(noun) a clause in an insurance policy that relieves the insurer of responsibility to pay the initial loss up to a stated amount | - |
(noun) (taxes) an amount that can be deducted (especially for the purposes of calculating income tax) | - |
deduction | (noun) the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) | Synonyms: subtraction |
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(noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | Synonyms: discount, price reduction |
(noun) reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) | Synonyms: deductive reasoning, synthesis |
(noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: entailment, implication |
(noun) an amount or percentage deducted | Synonyms: discount |
(noun) a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket | Synonyms: tax deduction, tax write-off |
deductive | (adjective) involving inferences from general principles | - |
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(adjective) relating to logical deduction | - |
degraded | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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(adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: debased, devalued |
denuded | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: bald, denudate |
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discarded | (adjective) thrown away | Synonyms: cast-off, throwaway, thrown-away |
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disregarded | (adjective) not noticed inadvertently | Synonyms: forgotten |
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distended | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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divided | (adjective) separated into parts or pieces | - |
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(adjective) distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose | Synonyms: divided up, shared, shared out |
(adjective) having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions | Synonyms: dual-lane |
dreaded | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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dumbfounded | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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dumfounded | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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embedded | (adjective) inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole | - |
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(adjective) enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass | - |
emended | (adjective) improved or corrected by critical editing | Synonyms: edited |
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ended | (adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion | Synonyms: all over, complete, concluded, over, terminated |
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eroded | (adjective) worn away as by water or ice or wind | Synonyms: scoured |
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evenhanded | (adjective) without partiality | - |
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evenhandedly | (adverb) without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner | Synonyms: fair, fairly |
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expanded | (adjective) increased in extent or size or bulk or scope | - |
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exploded | (adjective) showing the parts of something separated but in positions that show their correct relation to one another | - |
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extended | (adjective) fully extended or stretched forth | - |
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(adjective) beyond the literal or primary sense | - |
(adjective) large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity | Synonyms: extensive |
(adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially | Synonyms: elongated, lengthened, prolonged |
(adjective) relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | Synonyms: drawn-out, lengthy, prolonged, protracted |
faded | (adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color | Synonyms: bleached, washed-out, washy |
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(adjective) reduced in strength | Synonyms: attenuate, attenuated, weakened |
fadedness | (noun) The quality of having lost some of a former colour or intensity. | - |
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fatheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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feebleminded | (adjective) retarded in intellectual development | Synonyms: backward, half-witted, slow-witted |
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feeblemindedness | (noun) severe mental deficiency | - |
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flooded | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, awash, inundated, overflowing |
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forehanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: forehand |
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(adjective) having provided for the future | - |
fourhanded | (adjective) (of card games) involving or requiring four players | - |
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freehanded | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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(adjective) done by hand without mechanical aids or devices | Synonyms: freehand |
funded | (adjective) furnished with funds | - |
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gelded | (adjective) (of a male animal) having the testicles removed | Synonyms: cut, emasculated |
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gilded | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilt, gold, golden |
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(adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: glossy, meretricious, specious |
(adjective) made from or covered with gold | Synonyms: gold, golden |
(adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
goaded | (adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: driven |
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graded | (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: ranked, stratified |
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guarded | (adjective) prudent | Synonyms: restrained |
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guardedly | (adverb) in a conservative manner | Synonyms: cautiously, conservatively |
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guided | (adjective) subject to guidance or control especially after launching | - |
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handed | (adjective) having or involving the use of hands | - |
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handedness | (noun) the property of using one hand more than the other | Synonyms: laterality |
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