aculeate | (adjective) having or resembling a stinger or barb | Synonyms: aculeated |
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aculeated | (adjective) having or resembling a stinger or barb | Synonyms: aculeate |
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aleatory | (adjective) dependent on chance | - |
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amphitheater | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheatre, coliseum |
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(noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheatre |
amphitheatre | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheater, coliseum |
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(noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheater |
amphitheatric | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatrical |
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amphitheatrical | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatric |
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anteater | (noun) any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites | Synonyms: New World anteater |
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(noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata | Synonyms: aardvark, ant bear, Orycteropus afer |
(noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia | Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater |
(noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea | Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater |
(noun) toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites | Synonyms: pangolin, scaly anteater |
(noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct | Synonyms: banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus, numbat |
aureate | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: gilded, gilt, gold, golden |
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(adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: flamboyant, florid |
baccalaureate | (noun) an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies | Synonyms: bachelor's degree |
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(noun) a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies | - |
backbeat | (noun) a loud steady beat | - |
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backseat | (noun) a seat at the back of a vehicle (especially the seat at the back of an automobile) | - |
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(noun) a secondary or inferior position or status | - |
beat | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, bushed, dead |
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(noun) the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing | - |
(noun) a stroke or blow | - |
(noun) a regular rate of repetition | - |
(noun) the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music | Synonyms: musical rhythm, rhythm |
(noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: cadence, measure, meter, metre |
(noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: heartbeat, pulsation, pulse |
(noun) the sound of stroke or blow | - |
(noun) a regular route for a sentry or policeman | Synonyms: round |
(noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beatnik |
(noun) a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations | - |
(verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish |
(verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
(verb) hit repeatedly | - |
(verb) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression | Synonyms: beat up, work over |
(verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: scramble |
(verb) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music | - |
(verb) strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting | - |
(verb) shape by beating | - |
(verb) make by pounding or trampling | - |
(verb) produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly | - |
(verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: pound, thump |
(verb) sail with much tacking or with difficulty | - |
(verb) move with a flapping motion | Synonyms: flap |
(verb) indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks | - |
(verb) move with a thrashing motion | Synonyms: flap |
(verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: pulsate, quiver |
(verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: drum, thrum |
(verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: tick, ticktack, ticktock |
(verb) glare or strike with great intensity | - |
(verb) avoid paying | Synonyms: bunk |
(verb) be superior | - |
beatable | (adjective) susceptible to being defeated | Synonyms: vanquishable, vincible |
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beaten | (adjective) formed or made thin by hammering | - |
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(adjective) much trodden and worn smooth or bare | - |
beater | (noun) an implement for beating | - |
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(noun) a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter | - |
beatific | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
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(adjective) experiencing or bestowing celestial joy | - |
beatification | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization | - |
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(noun) the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy | - |
(noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatitude, blessedness |
beatified | (adjective) Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration | Synonyms: blessed |
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beatify | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood | - |
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(verb) make blessedly happy | - |
(verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
beating | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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(noun) the act of overcoming or outdoing | Synonyms: whipping |
beatitude | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, blessedness |
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beatnik | (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beat |
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beatniks | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beats |
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beats | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beatniks |
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beefeater | (noun) officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch | Synonyms: yeoman, yeoman of the guard |
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beneath | (adverb) in or to a place that is lower | Synonyms: at a lower place, below, to a lower place |
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bequeath | (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: leave, will |
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binucleate | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleated |
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binucleated | (adjective) having two nuclei | Synonyms: binuclear, binucleate |
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bleat | (noun) the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) | - |
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(verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blat, blate |
(verb) talk whiningly | - |
bracteate | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracted |
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breath | (noun) the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing | - |
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(noun) an indirect suggestion | Synonyms: hint, intimation |
(noun) a slight movement of the air | - |
(noun) the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration | - |
(noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
breathalyse | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyze |
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breathalyser | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyzer |
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breathalyze | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyse |
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breathalyzer | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyser |
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breathe | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: respire, suspire, take a breath |
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(verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: emit, pass off |
(verb) reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked | - |
(verb) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax | Synonyms: catch one's breath, rest, take a breather |
(verb) utter or tell | - |
(verb) manifest or evince | - |
(verb) impart as if by breathing | - |
(verb) be alive | - |
(verb) allow the passage of air through | - |
breathed | (adjective) uttered without voice | Synonyms: voiceless |
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breather | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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(noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
breathing | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: eupneic, eupnoeic |
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(noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: external respiration, respiration, ventilation |
breathless | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic |
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(adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: inanimate, pulseless |
(adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathtaking |
breathlessly | (adverb) in a breathless manner | - |
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breathlessness | (noun) a dyspneic condition | Synonyms: shortness of breath, SOB |
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breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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browbeat | (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: bully, swagger |
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(verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
buckwheat | (noun) grain ground into flour | - |
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(noun) a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour | Synonyms: Fagopyrum esculentum, Polygonum fagopyrum |
caseate | (verb) become cheeselike | - |
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(verb) turn into cheese | - |
caveat | (noun) a warning against certain acts | Synonyms: caution |
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(noun) (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing | - |
chalybeate | (adjective) containing or impregnated with or tasting of iron | - |
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cheat | (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheating |
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(noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: fraud, rig, swindle |
(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
(noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, darnel, Lolium temulentum, tare |
(noun) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat | Synonyms: Bromus secalinus, chess |
(verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
(verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: chisel, rip off |
(verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: chisel |
(verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
cheater | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
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cheatgrass | (noun) annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean | Synonyms: Bromus tectorum, downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome |
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cheating | (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike |
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(adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: adulterous, two-timing |
(noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheat |
cleat | (noun) a strip of wood or metal used to strengthen the surface to which it is attached | - |
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(noun) a fastener (usually with two projecting horns) around which a rope can be secured | - |
(noun) a metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe); prevents slipping | - |
(verb) secure on a cleat | - |
(verb) provide with cleats | - |
cleats | (noun) shoes with leather or metal projections on the soles | - |
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countryseat | (noun) an estate in the country | - |
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crabmeat | (noun) the edible flesh of any of various crabs | Synonyms: crab |
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create | (verb) make or cause to be or to become | Synonyms: make |
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(verb) pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity | - |
(verb) bring into existence | - |
(verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: make, produce |
(verb) create by artistic means | Synonyms: make |
(verb) invest with a new title, office, or rank | - |
creatin | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatine |
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creatine | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatin |
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creation | (noun) the human act of creating | Synonyms: creative activity |
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(noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
(noun) an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone | - |
(noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: conception |
(noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, existence, macrocosm, universe, world |
creationism | (noun) the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis | - |
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creative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: originative |
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(adjective) promoting construction or creation | - |
creatively | (adverb) in a creative manner | - |
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creativeness | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativity |
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creativity | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativeness |
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creator | (noun) a person who grows or makes or invents things | - |
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creature | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna |
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(noun) a living being | Synonyms: wight |
(noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: puppet, tool |
cuneate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base | Synonyms: wedge-shaped |
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deadbeat | (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: defaulter |
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death | (noun) the act of killing | - |
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(noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: decease, expiry |
(noun) the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | - |
(noun) the absence of life or state of being dead | - |
(noun) a final state | Synonyms: destruction, end |
(noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: demise, dying |
(noun) the time at which life ends; continuing until dead | Synonyms: last |
deathbed | (noun) the bed on which a person dies | - |
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(noun) the last few hours before death | - |
deathblow | (noun) the blow that kills (usually mercifully) | Synonyms: coup de grace |
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deathless | (adjective) never dying | Synonyms: undying |
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deathlike | (adjective) having the physical appearance of death | Synonyms: deathly |
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deathly | (adjective) having the physical appearance of death | Synonyms: deathlike |
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(adjective) causing or capable of causing death | Synonyms: deadly, mortal |
(adverb) to a degree resembling death | - |
(adverb) to an extreme degree | Synonyms: exceedingly, extremely, super |
deathrate | (noun) the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year | Synonyms: death rate, fatality rate, mortality, mortality rate |
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deathtrap | (noun) any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed | - |
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deathwatch | (noun) bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death | Synonyms: deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum |
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(noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, booklouse, Liposcelis divinatorius |
defeat | (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Synonyms: licking |
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(noun) the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals | Synonyms: frustration |
(verb) win a victory over | Synonyms: get the better of, overcome |
(verb) thwart the passage of | Synonyms: kill, shoot down, vote down, vote out |
defeated | (adjective) beaten or overcome; not victorious | - |
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(adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted |
(noun) people who are defeated | Synonyms: discomfited |
defeatism | (noun) acceptance of the inevitability of defeat | - |
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defeatist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: negativist |
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delineate | (adjective) represented accurately or precisely | Synonyms: delineated, represented |
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(verb) describe in vivid detail | - |
(verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: describe, draw, line, trace |
(verb) trace the shape of | Synonyms: limn, outline |
(verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delimitate, specify |
(verb) show the form or outline of | Synonyms: define |
delineated | (adjective) represented accurately or precisely | Synonyms: delineate, represented |
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delineation | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: depiction, portrayal |
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(noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: depiction, limning, line drawing |
(noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
delineative | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: depictive |
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discalceate | (adjective) (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals | Synonyms: discalced, unshod |
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downbeat | (noun) the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward) | - |
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drumbeat | (noun) a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause | - |
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(noun) (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown | - |
(noun) the sound made by beating a drum | Synonyms: rataplan, rub-a-dub |
drumbeater | (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: partisan, zealot |
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eat | (verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: corrode, rust |
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(verb) take in solid food | - |
(verb) eat a meal; take a meal | - |
(verb) take in food; used of animals only | Synonyms: feed |
(verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
(verb) worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way | Synonyms: eat on |
eatable | (adjective) suitable for use as food | Synonyms: comestible, edible |
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(noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
eatage | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: forage, grass, pasturage, pasture |
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eater | (noun) any green goods that are good to eat | - |
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(noun) someone who consumes food for nourishment | Synonyms: feeder |
eatery | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eating house, eating place, restaurant |
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eating | (noun) the act of consuming food | Synonyms: feeding |
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eats | (noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chow, chuck, grub |
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ebracteate | (adjective) without bracts | - |
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