allegoresis | (noun) the interpretation of written, oral, or artistic expression as allegory. | - |
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allegoric | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegorical |
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allegorical | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegoric |
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allegorically | (adverb) in an allegorical manner | - |
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allegoricalness | (noun) The state or quality of being allegorical. | - |
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allegorise | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
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(verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
allegoriser | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegorizer |
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allegorize | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
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(verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
allegorizer | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegoriser |
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allegory | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: apologue, fable, parable |
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(noun) an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor | - |
(noun) a visible symbol representing an abstract idea | Synonyms: emblem |
archegonial | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegoniate |
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archegoniate | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegonial |
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archegonium | (noun) a female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms | - |
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beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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begonia | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes | - |
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begotten | (adjective) (of offspring) generated by procreation | - |
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categorem | (noun) a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition | Synonyms: categoreme |
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categorematic | (adjective) of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition | - |
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categoreme | (noun) a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition | Synonyms: categorem |
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categorial | (adjective) of or relating to the concept of categories | - |
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categoric | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categorical |
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(adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categorical, flat, unconditional |
categorical | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categoric |
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(adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categoric, flat, unconditional |
categorically | (adverb) in an unqualified manner | Synonyms: flatly, unconditionally |
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categorisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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(noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorization, classification, sorting |
(noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorization, classification |
categorise | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorize |
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categorised | (adjective) arranged into categories | Synonyms: categorized |
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categorization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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(noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, classification, sorting |
(noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, classification |
categorize | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorise |
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categorized | (adjective) arranged into categories | Synonyms: categorised |
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category | (noun) a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme | - |
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(noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: class, family |
ego | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind | - |
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(noun) your consciousness of your own identity | Synonyms: self |
(noun) an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others | Synonyms: egotism, self-importance |
egocentric | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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(noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egoist |
egocentrism | (noun) concern for your own interests and welfare | Synonyms: egoism, self-centeredness, self-concern, self-interest |
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egoism | (noun) concern for your own interests and welfare | Synonyms: egocentrism, self-centeredness, self-concern, self-interest |
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(noun) (ethics) the theory that the pursuit of your own welfare is the basis of morality | - |
egoist | (noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egocentric |
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(noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egotist, swellhead |
egoistic | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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egoistical | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistic, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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egomania | (noun) an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs | - |
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egomaniac | (noun) an abnormally egotistical person | - |
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egotism | (noun) an exaggerated opinion of your own importance | Synonyms: self-importance, swelled head |
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(noun) an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others | Synonyms: ego, self-importance |
egotist | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, swellhead |
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egotistic | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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(adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistical, narcissistic, self-loving |
egotistical | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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(adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistic, narcissistic, self-loving |
egotistically | (adverb) in an egotistical manner | Synonyms: selfishly |
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egotrip | (verb) act in a way that attracts attention | - |
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forego | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, foreswear, forgo, relinquish, waive |
(verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forgo, precede, predate |
foregoing | (adjective) especially of writing or speech; going before | - |
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foregone | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, departed, gone |
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hoosegow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosgow |
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megohm | (noun) a unit of resistance equal to one million ohms | - |
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misbegot | (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: bastardly, misbegotten, spurious |
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misbegotten | (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: bastardly, misbegot, spurious |
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mishegoss | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: meshugaas, mishegaas |
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moviegoer | (noun) someone who goes to see movies | Synonyms: motion-picture fan |
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negociate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negotiate, talk terms |
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(verb) confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement | - |
(verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negotiate |
(verb) transfer by endorsement to another in return for value received | - |
(verb) sell or discount | - |
(verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, manage, pull off |
negotiable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: assignable, conveyable, transferable, transferrable |
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(adjective) able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise | Synonyms: on the table |
(adjective) capable of being passed or negotiated | - |
negotiant | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiator, treater |
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negotiate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negociate, talk terms |
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(verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negociate |
negotiation | (noun) the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms | - |
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(noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: dialogue, talks |
negotiator | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiant, treater |
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negotiatress | (noun) a woman negotiator | Synonyms: negotiatrix |
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negotiatrix | (noun) a woman negotiator | Synonyms: negotiatress |
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paregoric | (noun) medicine used to treat diarrhea | Synonyms: camphorated tincture of opium |
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pichiciego | (noun) very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck | Synonyms: chlamyphore, Chlamyphorus truncatus, fairy armadillo, pichiciago |
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prolegomenon | (noun) a preliminary discussion inserted at the beginning of a book or treatise | - |
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regorge | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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regosol | (noun) a type of soil consisting of unconsolidated material from freshly deposited alluvium or sand | - |
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renegociate | (verb) revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor | Synonyms: renegotiate |
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(verb) negociate anew | Synonyms: renegotiate |
renegotiate | (verb) revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor | Synonyms: renegociate |
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(verb) negociate anew | Synonyms: renegociate |
scapegoat | (noun) someone who is punished for the errors of others | Synonyms: whipping boy |
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stegosaur | (noun) herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon | Synonyms: Stegosaur stenops, stegosaurus |
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stegosaurus | (noun) herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon | Synonyms: stegosaur, Stegosaur stenops |
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superego | (noun) (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience | - |
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syncategorem | (noun) a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition | Synonyms: syncategoreme |
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syncategorematic | (adjective) of a term that cannot stand as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition but must be used in conjunction with other terms | - |
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syncategoreme | (noun) a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition | Synonyms: syncategorem |
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theatregoer | (noun) someone who attends the theater | Synonyms: playgoer, theatergoer |
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uncategorised | (adjective) not categorized or sorted | Synonyms: uncategorized, unsorted |
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uncategorized | (adjective) not categorized or sorted | Synonyms: uncategorised, unsorted |
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woebegone | (adjective) affected by or full of grief or woe | Synonyms: woeful |
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(adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down |