candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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condescend | (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
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(verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: deign, descend |
(verb) behave in a patronizing and condescending manner | - |
(verb) debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way | Synonyms: lower oneself, stoop |
condescending | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing |
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condescendingly | (adverb) with condescension; in a patronizing manner | Synonyms: patronisingly, patronizingly |
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condescendingness | (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescension |
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condescension | (noun) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | Synonyms: disdainfulness, superciliousness |
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(noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescendingness |
(noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: disdain, patronage |
descale | (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: scale |
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descant | (noun) a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody | Synonyms: discant |
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(verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: warble, yodel |
(verb) talk at great length about something of one's interest | - |
(verb) sing in descant | - |
descend | (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: fall, settle |
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(verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, fall, go down |
(verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, deign |
(verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, derive |
descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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(adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
(noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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(adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
(noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who descends | - |
descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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descensus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: prolapse, prolapsus |
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descent | (noun) the act of changing your location in a downward direction | - |
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(noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: extraction, origin |
(noun) a movement downward | - |
(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
(noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall |
(noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: filiation, line of descent, lineage |
describable | (adjective) capable of being described | - |
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describe | (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
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(verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, draw |
(verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, report |
(verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, draw, line, trace |
described | (adjective) represented in words especially with sharpness and detail | - |
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description | (noun) sort or variety | - |
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(noun) the act of describing something | - |
(noun) a statement that represents something in words | Synonyms: verbal description |
descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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(adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
descriptively | (adverb) by giving a description | - |
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descriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics | - |
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(noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value | - |
descriptor | (noun) a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system | - |
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(noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: form, signifier, word form |
descry | (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: espy, spot, spy |
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incandesce | (verb) become incandescent or glow with heat | - |
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(verb) cause to become incandescent or glow | - |
incandescence | (noun) light from heat | - |
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(noun) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised | Synonyms: glow |
incandescent | (adjective) characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance | - |
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(adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: candent |
indescribability | (noun) The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. | Synonyms: indescribableness |
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indescribable | (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, ineffable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable |
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indescribableness | (noun) The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. | Synonyms: indescribability |
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indescribably | (adverb) to an inexpressible degree | Synonyms: ineffably, inexpressibly, unspeakably, unutterably |
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iridesce | (verb) be iridescent | - |
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iridescence | (noun) the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface | Synonyms: opalescence |
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iridescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent |
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(adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, shot |
nondescript | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: characterless |
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(noun) a person who is not easily classified and not very interesting | - |
recrudesce | (verb) become raw or open | Synonyms: break out, erupt |
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(verb) happen | Synonyms: break, develop |
recrudescence | (noun) a return of something after a period of abatement | - |
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recrudescent | (adjective) the revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement | - |
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undescended | (adjective) (of the testis) remaining in the abdomen instead of descending into the scrotum | - |
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undescriptive | (adjective) not successful in describing | - |
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