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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apodictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodeictic |
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benedict | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedick |
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benedictine | (noun) a French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks | - |
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benediction | (noun) the act of praying for divine protection | Synonyms: blessing |
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(noun) a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection | Synonyms: blessing |
benedictive | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictory |
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benedictory | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictive |
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contradict | (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: negate |
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(verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contravene, negate |
(verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: controvert, oppose |
(verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, negate |
contradiction | (noun) the speech act of contradicting someone | - |
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(noun) (logic) a statement that is necessarily false | Synonyms: contradiction in terms |
(noun) opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas | - |
contradictorily | (adverb) in a contradictory manner | - |
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contradictoriness | (noun) the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist | - |
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contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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(adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
(adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
(adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
(noun) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time | - |
dictate | (noun) a guiding principle | - |
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(noun) an authoritative rule | - |
(verb) say out loud for the purpose of recording | - |
(verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: order, prescribe |
(verb) rule as a dictator | - |
dictated | (adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: determined, set |
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dictation | (noun) speech intended for reproduction in writing | - |
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(noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, bidding, command |
(noun) matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage | - |
dictator | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: potentate |
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(noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: authoritarian |
(noun) a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine | - |
dictatorial | (adjective) of or characteristic of a dictator | - |
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(adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing |
(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical |
dictatorially | (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: autocratically, magisterially |
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dictatorship | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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diction | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, phraseology, phrasing, verbiage, wording |
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(noun) the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience | Synonyms: enunciation |
dictionary | (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: lexicon |
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dictostylium | (noun) any slime mold of the genus Dictostylium | - |
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dictum | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: pronouncement, say-so |
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(noun) an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding | Synonyms: obiter dictum |
dictyopteran | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the order Dictyoptera | - |
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dictyosome | (noun) a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) | Synonyms: Golgi apparatus, Golgi body, Golgi complex |
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edict | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, fiat, order, rescript |
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(noun) a formal or authoritative proclamation | - |
indict | (verb) accuse formally of a crime | - |
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indictability | (noun) the state of being liable to impeachment | Synonyms: impeachability |
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indictable | (adjective) liable to be accused, or cause for such liability | Synonyms: chargeable |
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indiction | (noun) a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms | - |
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indictment | (noun) a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense | Synonyms: bill of indictment |
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(noun) an accusation of wrongdoing | - |
interdict | (noun) an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district | - |
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(noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdiction |
(verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
(verb) destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication | - |
interdiction | (noun) authoritative prohibition | - |
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(noun) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity | Synonyms: interdict |
jurisdiction | (noun) (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law | Synonyms: legal power |
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(noun) in law; the territory within which power can be exercised | - |
jurisdictional | (adjective) restricted to the geographic area under a particular jurisdiction | - |
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maledict | (adjective) under a curse | Synonyms: accursed, accurst |
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(verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate |
malediction | (noun) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) | Synonyms: imprecation |
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nonaddictive | (adjective) not causing or characterized by addiction | - |
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predict | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, prognosticate, promise |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
predictability | (noun) the quality of being predictable | - |
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predictable | (adjective) capable of being foretold | - |
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predictably | (adverb) in a predictable manner or to a predictable degree | - |
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prediction | (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prevision |
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(noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prognostication |
predictive | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: prognostic, prognosticative |
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predictor | (noun) a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival | - |
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(noun) information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events | - |
(noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer |
unaddicted | (adjective) not addicted | - |
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unpredictability | (noun) lacking predictability | - |
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(noun) the trait of being unpredictably irresolute | Synonyms: volatility |
(noun) the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses | Synonyms: capriciousness |
unpredictable | (adjective) not capable of being foretold | - |
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(adjective) unknown in advance | - |
(adjective) not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals | Synonyms: irregular |
unpredictably | (adverb) in an erratic unpredictable manner | Synonyms: erratically |
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unpredicted | (adjective) without warning or announcement | Synonyms: unannounced, unheralded |
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unpredictive | (adjective) having no predictive value | - |
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unvindictive | (adjective) not vindictive | - |
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valediction | (noun) the act of saying farewell | - |
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(noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valedictory, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
valedictorian | (noun) the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement | Synonyms: valedictory speaker |
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valedictory | (adjective) of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell | - |
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(adjective) of a speech expressing leave-taking | - |
(noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
verdict | (noun) (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment | Synonyms: finding of fact |
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vindictive | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: despiteful, spiteful |
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(adjective) disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge | Synonyms: revengeful, vengeful |
vindictively | (adverb) in a vindictive, revengeful manner | Synonyms: revengefully, vengefully |
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vindictiveness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vengefulness |
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