argumentatively | (adverb) in a disputatious manner | Synonyms: disputatiously |
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articulately | (adverb) in an articulate manner | Synonyms: eloquently |
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(adverb) with eloquence | Synonyms: eloquently |
asphodel | (noun) any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers | - |
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assertively | (adverb) in an assertive manner | - |
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astutely | (adverb) in a shrewd manner | Synonyms: acutely, sagaciously, sapiently, shrewdly |
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atelectasis | (noun) collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth | - |
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ateleiosis | (noun) a form of infantilism characterized by physical underdevelopment but normal intelligence | Synonyms: ateliosis |
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ateleiotic | (adjective) of or relating to ateleiosis | - |
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atelier | (noun) a studio especially for an artist or designer | Synonyms: artist's workroom |
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ateliosis | (noun) a form of infantilism characterized by physical underdevelopment but normal intelligence | Synonyms: ateleiosis |
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attentively | (adverb) with attention; in an attentive manner | - |
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attractively | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: beautifully |
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attributively | (adverb) in an attributive manner | - |
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austerely | (adverb) in an austere fashion | - |
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authoritatively | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: magisterially |
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autotelic | (adjective) of or relating to or believing in autotelism | - |
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autotelism | (noun) belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification | - |
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avellan | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellane |
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avellane | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellan |
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aweless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: awless, disrespectful |
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(adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: awless |
awheel | (adjective) traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g. | - |
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babel | (noun) a confusion of voices and other sounds | - |
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babelike | (adjective) like a baby especially in dependence | - |
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bachelor | (noun) a man who has never been married | Synonyms: unmarried man |
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(noun) a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon | Synonyms: bachelor-at-arms, knight bachelor |
(verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bach |
bachelorette | (noun) a young unmarried woman who lives alone | Synonyms: bachelor girl |
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bachelorhood | (noun) the state of being an unmarried man | - |
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(noun) the time of a man's life prior to marriage | - |
backfield | (noun) the offensive football players who line up behind the linemen | - |
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baddeleyite | (noun) a mineral consisting of zirconium oxide | - |
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bagatelle | (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over | Synonyms: bar billiards |
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(noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: fluff, frippery, frivolity |
(noun) a light piece of music for piano | - |
bagel | (noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust | Synonyms: beigel |
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bandelet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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bandelette | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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barbel | (noun) slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish | Synonyms: feeler |
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barbell | (noun) a bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; used in weightlifting | - |
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barbellate | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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barelegged | (adjective) having the legs uncovered by clothing | - |
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barely | (adverb) only a very short time before | Synonyms: hardly, just, scarce, scarcely |
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(adverb) almost not | Synonyms: hardly, scarce, scarcely |
(adverb) by a little | Synonyms: just |
bargello | (noun) needlepoint embroidery stitch that produces zigzag lines | Synonyms: flame stitch |
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barrel | (noun) a cylindrical container that holds liquids | Synonyms: cask |
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(noun) a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired | Synonyms: gun barrel |
(noun) any of various units of capacity | Synonyms: bbl |
(noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrelful |
(noun) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends | Synonyms: drum |
(verb) put in barrels | - |
barreled | (adjective) put in or stored in a barrel | Synonyms: barrelled |
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(adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends | Synonyms: barrelled |
barrelfish | (noun) blackish fish of New England waters | Synonyms: black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis |
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barrelful | (noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrel |
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barrelhouse | (noun) a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | Synonyms: honky-tonk |
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barrelled | (adjective) put in or stored in a barrel | Synonyms: barreled |
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(adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends | Synonyms: barreled |
barrels | (noun) the amount that many barrels might hold | - |
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baseless | (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
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baseline | (noun) the lines a baseball player must follow while running the bases | - |
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(noun) the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line | Synonyms: service line |
(noun) an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared | - |
basely | (adverb) in a despicable, ignoble manner | Synonyms: meanly, scurvily |
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battlefield | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battleground, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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bdellium | (noun) aromatic gum resin; similar to myrrh | - |
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bechamel | (noun) milk thickened with a butter and flour roux | Synonyms: bechamel sauce, white sauce |
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bedfellow | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedmate |
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(noun) a temporary associate | - |
beeline | (noun) the most direct route | - |
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beigel | (noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust | Synonyms: bagel |
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bejewel | (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: jewel |
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belabor | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabour |
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(verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabour |
(verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabour |
belabour | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabor |
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(verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabor |
(verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabor |
belated | (adjective) after the expected or usual time; delayed | Synonyms: late, tardy |
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belatedly | (adverb) later than usual or than expected | Synonyms: late, tardily |
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belay | (noun) something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured | - |
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(verb) fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | - |
(verb) turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him | - |
belch | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belching, burp, burping, eructation |
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(verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: bubble, burp, eruct |
(verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: erupt, extravasate |
belching | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, burp, burping, eructation |
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(noun) the forceful expulsion of something from inside | - |
beldam | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldame |
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(noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldame, crone, hag, witch |
beldame | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldam |
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(noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, crone, hag, witch |
beleaguer | (verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: besiege, circumvent, hem in, surround |
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(verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease |
beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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belemnite | (noun) a conical calcareous fossil tapering to a point at one end and with a conical cavity at the other end containing (when unbroken) a small chambered phragmocone from the shell of any of numerous extinct cephalopods of the family Belemnitidae | - |
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belemnitic | (adjective) of or relating to belemnites | - |
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belfry | (noun) a room (often at the top of a tower) where bells are hung | - |
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(noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: campanile |
belie | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: misrepresent |
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(verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
belieber | (noun) A fan of Justin Bieber | - |
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belief | (noun) any cognitive content held as true | - |
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(noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: feeling, impression, notion, opinion |
believability | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: credibility, credibleness |
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believable | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: credible |
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believably | (adverb) in a believable manner | - |
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(adverb) easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | Synonyms: credibly, plausibly, probably |
believe | (verb) accept as true; take to be true | - |
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(verb) follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer | - |
(verb) credit with veracity | - |
(verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: trust |
(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: conceive, consider, think |
believer | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: worshiper, worshipper |
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(noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: truster |
believing | (noun) the cognitive process that leads to convictions | - |
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believingly | (adverb) in a credulous manner | Synonyms: credulously |
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belike | (adverb) with considerable certainty; without much doubt | Synonyms: in all likelihood, in all probability, likely, probably |
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belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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(verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
(verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
belittled | (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: diminished, small |
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belittlement | (noun) the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant. | - |
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belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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(noun) the act of belittling | - |
(noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: denigration |
bell | (noun) a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck | - |
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(noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: buzzer, doorbell |
(noun) the flared opening of a tubular device | - |
(noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: chime, gong |
(noun) the sound of a bell being struck | Synonyms: toll |
(noun) the shape of a bell | Synonyms: bell shape, campana |
(noun) (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. | Synonyms: ship's bell |
(verb) attach a bell to | - |
belladonna | (noun) an alkaloidal extract or tincture of the poisonous belladonna plant that is used medicinally | - |
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(noun) perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine | Synonyms: Atropa belladonna, belladonna plant, deadly nightshade |
bellarmine | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: greybeard, long-beard, longbeard |
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bellbird | (noun) any of several tropical American birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call | - |
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bellbottom | (adjective) (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom | Synonyms: bell-bottom, bell-bottomed |
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bellboy | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellhop, bellman |
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belle | (noun) a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals | - |
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belletristic | (adjective) written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content | - |
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bellflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: campanula |
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bellhop | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellman |
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bellicose | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, combative |
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bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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bellicosity | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicoseness |
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bellied | (adjective) having a belly | - |
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(adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |