antipodean | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodal |
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apogean | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of an apogee | - |
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archaean | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon | Synonyms: archean |
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archean | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon | Synonyms: archaean |
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aurorean | (adjective) characteristic of the dawn | Synonyms: auroral |
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bean | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle |
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(noun) any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food | Synonyms: edible bean |
(noun) any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods | Synonyms: bean plant |
(noun) any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans | - |
(verb) hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball | - |
beanbag | (noun) a small cloth bag filled with dried beans; thrown in games | - |
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beanball | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beaner |
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beaner | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beanball |
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beanfeast | (noun) an annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees | - |
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beanie | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beany |
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beano | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: bingo, keno, lotto |
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beanstalk | (noun) stem of a bean plant | - |
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beany | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beanie |
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bogbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, buckbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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buckbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, bogbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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butterbean | (noun) small flat green bean similar to lima beans | Synonyms: butter bean, civet bean, sieva bean |
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caducean | (adjective) of or relating to a caduceus | - |
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caesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarian, cesarean, cesarian |
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(noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
calean | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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cerulean | (adjective) of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky | Synonyms: azure, bright blue, sky-blue |
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(noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue |
cesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarian |
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(noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
cetacean | (adjective) of or relating to whales and dolphins etc | Synonyms: cetaceous |
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(noun) large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals | Synonyms: blower, cetacean mammal |
clean | (adjective) free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits | - |
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(adjective) (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers | Synonyms: unobjectionable |
(adjective) not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination | Synonyms: uncontaminating |
(adjective) ritually clean or pure | - |
(adjective) free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed | Synonyms: neat |
(adjective) free from sepsis or infection | Synonyms: uninfected |
(adjective) thorough and without qualification | - |
(adjective) without difficulties or problems | - |
(adjective) (of a surface) not written or printed on | Synonyms: blank, white |
(adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty |
(adjective) (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections | Synonyms: fair |
(adjective) morally pure | Synonyms: clean-living |
(adjective) (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense | - |
(adjective) free from impurities | Synonyms: fresh |
(adjective) free of drugs | - |
(adjective) not carrying concealed weapons | - |
(adjective) free of restrictions or qualifications | Synonyms: clear |
(adjective) (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims | Synonyms: clear, light, unclouded |
(noun) a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead | Synonyms: clean and jerk |
(adverb) in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating | Synonyms: fair, fairly |
(adverb) completely; used as intensifiers | Synonyms: plum, plumb |
(verb) clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing | Synonyms: cleanse |
(verb) remove unwanted substances from | Synonyms: scavenge |
(verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits | Synonyms: pick |
(verb) remove shells or husks from | - |
(verb) make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from | Synonyms: make clean |
(verb) clean and tidy up the house | Synonyms: clean house, houseclean |
(verb) remove while making clean | - |
(verb) remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely | Synonyms: strip |
(verb) deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc. | - |
(verb) be cleanable | - |
cleanable | (adjective) capable of being cleaned | - |
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cleaner | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleanser, cleansing agent |
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(noun) someone whose occupation is cleaning | - |
(noun) the operator of dry-cleaning establishment | Synonyms: dry cleaner |
cleaners | (noun) shop where dry cleaning is done | Synonyms: dry cleaners |
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cleaning | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleansing, cleanup |
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cleanliness | (noun) diligence in keeping clean | - |
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(noun) the habit of keeping free of superficial imperfections | - |
cleanly | (adjective) habitually clean | - |
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(adverb) smoothly and without difficulty; precisely and deftly | Synonyms: flawlessly |
(adverb) in a manner that minimizes dirt and pollution | - |
cleanness | (noun) the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities | - |
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(noun) without moral defects | - |
cleanse | (verb) clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing | Synonyms: clean |
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(verb) purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins | - |
cleanser | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleaner, cleansing agent |
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cleansing | (adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: purifying |
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(adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: ablutionary |
(noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleaning, cleanup |
cleanup | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleaning, cleansing |
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(noun) (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team) | Synonyms: cleanup position, cleanup spot |
(noun) a very large profit | Synonyms: killing |
crustacean | (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustaceous |
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(noun) any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton | - |
cyclopean | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops | - |
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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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demean | (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: degrade, disgrace, put down, take down |
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demeaning | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: humbling, humiliating, mortifying |
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demeaningly | (adverb) in a humiliating manner | Synonyms: humiliatingly |
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demeanor | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanour, deportment |
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demeanour | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, deportment |
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empyrean | (adjective) of or relating to the sky or heavens | Synonyms: empyreal |
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(adjective) inspiring awe | Synonyms: empyreal, sublime |
(noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
epicurean | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous |
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(adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: hedonic, hedonistic |
(noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
epicureanism | (noun) a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers | - |
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euclidean | (adjective) relating to geometry as developed by Euclid | Synonyms: euclidian |
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faineance | (noun) the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work | Synonyms: idleness |
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faineant | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy |
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gallinacean | (noun) heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds | Synonyms: gallinaceous bird |
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gean | (noun) wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting | Synonyms: mazzard, mazzard cherry |
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glean | (verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: harvest, reap |
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gleaner | (noun) someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters | - |
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(noun) someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully | - |
herculean | (adjective) extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules | - |
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(adjective) displaying superhuman strength or power | Synonyms: powerful |
hirudinean | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, leech |
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horsebean | (noun) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | Synonyms: Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata |
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(noun) seed of the broad-bean plant | Synonyms: broad bean, fava bean |
houseclean | (verb) clean and tidy up the house | Synonyms: clean, clean house |
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housecleaning | (noun) the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house | - |
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(noun) (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions | - |
jean | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, dungaree |
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jeans | (noun) (used in the plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear | Synonyms: blue jeans, denim |
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larvacean | (noun) any member of the class Larvacea | - |
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lean | (adjective) lacking in mineral content or combustible material | - |
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(adjective) lacking excess flesh | Synonyms: thin |
(adjective) not profitable or prosperous | - |
(adjective) containing little excess | Synonyms: skimpy |
(noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, leaning, list, tilt |
(verb) rely on for support | - |
(verb) cause to lean or incline | - |
(verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, slant, tilt, tip |
(verb) cause to lean to the side | Synonyms: list |
(verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, run, tend |
leaner | (noun) (horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake | - |
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leaning | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: atilt, canted, tilted, tipped |
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(noun) the act of deviating from a vertical position | - |
(noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, list, tilt |
(noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: proclivity, propensity |
(noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: propensity, tendency |
leanness | (noun) the property of having little body fat | Synonyms: spareness, thinness |
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(noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
marmorean | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of marble | Synonyms: marmoreal |
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mean | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: bastardly |
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(adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, meanspirited |
(adjective) characterized by malice | Synonyms: hateful |
(adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: average |
(adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: beggarly |
(adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: beggarly |
(adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mingy, miserly, tight |
(adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, ripping, splendid |
(noun) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n | Synonyms: mean value |
(verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: intend, think |
(verb) intend to refer to | Synonyms: have in mind, think of |
(verb) destine or designate for a certain purpose | - |
(verb) mean or intend to express or convey | Synonyms: intend |
(verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: intend, signify, stand for |
(verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: entail, imply |
(verb) have a specified degree of importance | - |
meander | (noun) an aimless amble on a winding course | Synonyms: ramble |
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(noun) a bend or curve, as in a stream or river | - |
(verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: thread, wander, weave, wind |
meandering | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: rambling, wandering, winding |
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meanderingly | (adverb) in a meandering manner | - |
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meanie | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meany, unkind person |
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meaning | (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: pregnant, significant |
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(noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: substance |
(noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, significance, signification |
meaningful | (adjective) having a meaning or purpose | - |
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meaningfully | (adverb) in a meaningful manner; so as to be meaningful | - |
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meaningfulness | (noun) the quality of having great value or significance | - |
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meaningless | (adjective) having no meaning or direction or purpose | Synonyms: nonmeaningful |
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(adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing |
meaninglessness | (noun) the quality of having no value or significance | - |
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(noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality |
meanly | (adverb) in a miserly manner | Synonyms: humbly |
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(adverb) poorly or in an inferior manner | - |
(adverb) in a despicable, ignoble manner | Synonyms: basely, scurvily |
(adverb) in a nasty ill-tempered manner | Synonyms: nastily |
meanness | (noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: beastliness |
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(noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
means | (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: agency, way |
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(noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, instrumentation |
(noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: substance |
meanspirited | (adjective) lacking in magnanimity | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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(adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, mean |
meanspiritedly | (adverb) in a meanspirited manner | - |
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meantime | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meanwhile |
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(adverb) during the intervening time | Synonyms: in the meantime, meanwhile |
meanwhile | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meantime |
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(adverb) during the intervening time | Synonyms: in the meantime, meantime |
(adverb) at the same time but in another place | - |
meany | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meanie, unkind person |
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mephistophelean | (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian |
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miscreant | (noun) a person without moral scruples | Synonyms: reprobate |
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misdemean | (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misconduct |
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misdemeanor | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanour, violation |
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misdemeanour | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, violation |
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nauseant | (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: emetic, vomit, vomitive |
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neandertal | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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neanderthal | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, oafish, swinish |
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nemertean | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertine, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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nonmeaningful | (adjective) having no meaning or direction or purpose | Synonyms: meaningless |
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ocean | (noun) a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere | - |
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(noun) anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume | Synonyms: sea |
oceanaut | (noun) a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research | Synonyms: aquanaut |
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oceanfront | (noun) land bordering an ocean | - |
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