| abridger | (noun) one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work | Synonyms: abbreviator |
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| abridgment | (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, capsule, condensation |
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| abrocome | (noun) ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes | Synonyms: chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla |
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| abrogate | (verb) revoke formally | - |
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| abruptness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: precipitousness, steepness |
| (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, shortness |
| abscess | (noun) symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue | - |
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| abscessed | (adjective) infected and filled with pus | - |
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| abscise | (verb) remove or separate by abscission | - |
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| (verb) shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue | - |
| absconder | (noun) a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution | - |
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| abscondment | (noun) the act of running away secretly (as to avoid arrest) | Synonyms: decampment |
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| abseil | (noun) (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body | Synonyms: rappel |
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| (verb) descend by means of a rappel | Synonyms: rappel, rope down |
| abseiler | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: rappeller |
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| absence | (noun) failure to be present | - |
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| (noun) the state of being absent | - |
| (noun) the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy | Synonyms: absence seizure |
| (noun) the time interval during which something or somebody is away | - |
| absent | (adjective) not being in a specified place | - |
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| (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absentminded, abstracted, scatty |
| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: lacking, missing, wanting |
| (verb) stay away or leave | Synonyms: remove |
| absentee | (noun) one that is absent or not in residence | - |
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| absenteeism | (noun) habitual absence from work | - |
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| absently | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absentmindedly, abstractedly, inattentively |
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| 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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| absinthe | (noun) strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise | Synonyms: absinth |
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| (noun) aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe | Synonyms: Artemisia absinthium, common wormwood, lad's love, old man |
| absolute | (adjective) perfect or complete or pure | - |
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| (adjective) not limited by law | - |
| (adjective) not capable of being violated or infringed | Synonyms: infrangible, inviolable |
| (adjective) expressing finality with no implication of possible change | - |
| (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
| (noun) something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative | - |
| absolutely | (adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: dead, perfectly, utterly |
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| (adverb) totally and definitely; without question | - |
| absoluteness | (noun) the quality of being absolute | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: starkness, utterness |
| absolve | (verb) let off the hook | Synonyms: free |
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| (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: shrive |
| absolved | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated |
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| absolver | (noun) someone who grants absolution | - |
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| absorbable | (adjective) capable of being absorbed or taken in through the pores of a surface | - |
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| absorbance | (noun) (physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: optical density, photographic density, transmission density |
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| absorbate | (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being absorbed | - |
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| absorbed | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: captive, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| (adjective) retained without reflection | - |
| absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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| absorbency | (noun) the property of being absorbent | - |
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| absorbent | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorptive |
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| (noun) a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance | Synonyms: absorbent material |
| absorber | (noun) (physics) material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation | - |
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| absorptance | (noun) a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber | Synonyms: absorption coefficient, coefficient of absorption |
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| absorptive | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorbent |
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| absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| abstainer | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstinent, nondrinker |
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| (noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | Synonyms: ascetic |
| abstemious | (adjective) sparing in consumption of especially food and drink | - |
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| (adjective) marked by temperance in indulgence | Synonyms: light |
| abstemiously | (adverb) in a sparing manner; without overindulgence | Synonyms: temperately |
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| abstemiousness | (noun) moderation in eating and drinking | - |
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| (noun) restricted to bare necessities | - |
| abstention | (noun) the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | Synonyms: abstinence |
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| abstentious | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstinent |
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| abstinence | (noun) act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite | - |
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| (noun) the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | Synonyms: abstention |
| abstinent | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstentious |
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| (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, nondrinker |
| abstracted | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, scatty |
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| abstractedly | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absently, absentmindedly, inattentively |
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| abstractedness | (noun) preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else | Synonyms: abstraction |
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| abstracter | (noun) one who makes abstracts or summarizes information | Synonyms: abstractor |
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| abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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| abstractness | (noun) the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object | - |
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| abstruse | (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: deep, recondite |
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| abstrusely | (adverb) in a manner difficult to understand | - |
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| abstruseness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness |
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| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstrusity, profoundness, profundity, reconditeness |
| absurdness | (noun) a message whose content is at variance with reason | Synonyms: absurdity, ridiculousness |
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| abundance | (noun) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply | Synonyms: copiousness, teemingness |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million | - |
| (noun) (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present | - |
| abuse | (noun) improper or excessive use | Synonyms: misuse |
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| (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: ill-treatment, ill-usage, maltreatment |
| (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: contumely, insult, revilement, vilification |
| (verb) change the inherent purpose or function of something | Synonyms: misuse, pervert |
| (verb) use wrongly or improperly or excessively | - |
| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: blackguard, clapperclaw, shout |
| (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat, step |
| abused | (adjective) subjected to cruel treatment | Synonyms: ill-treated, maltreated, mistreated |
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| (adjective) used improperly or excessively especially drugs | - |
| abuser | (noun) someone who abuses | Synonyms: maltreater |
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| abusive | (adjective) characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment | - |
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| (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: opprobrious, scurrilous |
| abusively | (adverb) in an abusive manner | - |
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| abutment | (noun) a masonry support that touches and directly receives thrust or pressure of an arch or bridge | - |
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| (noun) point of contact between two objects or parts | - |
| abutter | (noun) the owner of contiguous property | - |
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| abye | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, atone, expiate |
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| academe | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academia |
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| academia | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academe |
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| academic | (adjective) associated with academia or an academy | - |
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| (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: donnish, pedantic |
| (adjective) hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result | - |
| (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academician, faculty member |
| academically | (adverb) in regard to academic matters | - |
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| academician | (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academic, faculty member |
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| (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: schoolman |
| (noun) someone elected to honorary membership in an academy | - |
| academicianship | (noun) the position of member of an honorary academy | - |
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| academicism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academism, scholasticism |
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| (noun) Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes. | - |
| (noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academism |
| academism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academicism, scholasticism |
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| (noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academicism |
| academy | (noun) a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) a secondary school (usually private) | - |
| (noun) a school for special training | - |
| (noun) an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature | Synonyms: honorary society |
| acanthocephalan | (noun) any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines | Synonyms: spiny-headed worm |
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| acanthocyte | (noun) an abnormal red blood cell that has thorny projections of protoplasm | - |
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| acanthopterygian | (noun) a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays | Synonyms: spiny-finned fish |
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| acaracide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaricide |
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| acaricide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaracide |
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| acarine | (noun) mite or tick | - |
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| acarpellous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpelous |
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| acarpelous | (adjective) having no carpels | Synonyms: acarpellous |
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| acaryote | (noun) a cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte) | Synonyms: akaryocyte, akaryote |
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| acatalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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| (noun) (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables | - |
| acathexia | (noun) an inability to retain bodily secretions | - |
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| acathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual | - |
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| acaudate | (adjective) lacking a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: acaudal |
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| acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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| accede | (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: bow, defer, give in, submit |
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| (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: acquiesce, assent |
| (verb) take on duties or office | Synonyms: enter |
| accelerando | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in tempo | - |
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| (noun) a gradually increasing tempo of music | - |
| (adverb) with increasing speed | - |
| accelerate | (verb) move faster | Synonyms: quicken, speed, speed up |
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| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: speed, speed up |
| accelerated | (adjective) speeded up, as of an academic course | - |
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| acceleration | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: quickening, speedup |
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| (noun) an increase in rate of change | - |
| (noun) (physics) a rate of increase of velocity | - |
| accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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| accelerator | (noun) a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine | Synonyms: throttle, throttle valve |
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| (noun) a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles | Synonyms: atom smasher, particle accelerator |
| (noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, gun, throttle |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected | Synonyms: catalyst |
| acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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| accelerometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring the acceleration of aircraft or rockets | - |
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| accent | (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: emphasis, stress |
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| (noun) distinctive manner of oral expression | Synonyms: speech pattern |
| (noun) a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation | Synonyms: accent mark |
| (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | Synonyms: dialect, idiom |
| (noun) special importance or significance | Synonyms: emphasis |
| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accentuate, stress |
| (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
| accented | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | Synonyms: stressed |
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| (adjective) (used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch | Synonyms: tonic |
| accenting | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accentuation, emphasizing |
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