aerophilatelic | (adjective) of or relating to airmail stamps | - |
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allelic | (adjective) of or relating to alleles | Synonyms: allelomorphic |
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angelic | (adjective) of or relating to angels | Synonyms: angelical |
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(adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelical, beatific, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
(adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet |
angelica | (noun) aromatic stems or leaves or roots of Angelica Archangelica | - |
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(noun) candied stalks of the angelica plant | - |
(noun) any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels | Synonyms: angelique |
angelical | (adjective) of or relating to angels | Synonyms: angelic |
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(adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, beatific, sainted, saintlike, saintly |
(adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, cherubic, seraphic, sweet |
angelically | (adverb) like an angel | - |
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archangelic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling archangels | Synonyms: archangelical |
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archangelical | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling archangels | Synonyms: archangelic |
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autotelic | (adjective) of or relating to or believing in autotelism | - |
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blastocoelic | (adjective) of or relating to a segmentation cavity | - |
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chelicera | (noun) either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing | - |
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cheliceral | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: chelicerate |
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chelicerate | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: cheliceral |
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chelicerous | (adjective) having chelicerae | - |
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delicacy | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: daintiness, fineness |
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(noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: diplomacy, discreetness, finesse |
(noun) lack of physical strength | Synonyms: fragility |
(noun) slenderness | Synonyms: slightness |
(noun) lightness in movement or manner | Synonyms: airiness |
(noun) refined taste; tact | Synonyms: discretion |
(noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, goody, kickshaw, treat |
delicate | (adjective) exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury | - |
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(adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragile, frail |
(adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: ticklish, touchy |
(adjective) developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety | Synonyms: finespun |
(adjective) of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely | - |
(adjective) marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique | - |
(adjective) easily hurt | Synonyms: soft |
delicately | (adverb) in a delicate manner | Synonyms: exquisitely, fine, finely |
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delicatessen | (noun) a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: deli, food shop |
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(noun) ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: delicatessen food |
delicious | (adjective) greatly pleasing or entertaining | Synonyms: delightful |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
deliciously | (adverb) in a very pleasurable manner | Synonyms: pleasurably |
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(adverb) so as to produce a delightful taste | Synonyms: lusciously, scrumptiously |
deliciousness | (noun) extreme appetizingness | Synonyms: delectability, lusciousness, toothsomeness |
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derelict | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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(adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: delinquent, neglectful, remiss |
(adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: abandoned, deserted |
(adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
(noun) a ship abandoned on the high seas | Synonyms: abandoned ship |
(noun) a person without a home, job, or property | - |
dereliction | (noun) willful negligence | - |
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(noun) a tendency to be negligent and uncaring | Synonyms: delinquency, willful neglect |
elicit | (verb) derive by reason | - |
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(verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, evoke, extract |
(verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
elicitation | (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: evocation, induction |
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elicited | (adjective) called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation | Synonyms: evoked |
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evangelical | (adjective) of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament | - |
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(adjective) relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels | - |
(adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause | Synonyms: evangelistic |
evangelicalism | (noun) stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation | - |
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felicitate | (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: congratulate |
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felicitation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: congratulation |
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(noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: congratulation |
felicitous | (adjective) exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style | - |
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(adjective) marked by good fortune | Synonyms: happy |
felicitously | (adverb) in a felicitous manner | - |
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felicitousness | (noun) pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | Synonyms: felicity |
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felicity | (noun) pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | Synonyms: felicitousness |
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(noun) state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy | Synonyms: happiness |
helical | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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helicon | (noun) a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician | Synonyms: bombardon |
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helicopter | (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: chopper, eggbeater, whirlybird |
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indelicacy | (noun) an impolite act or expression | - |
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(noun) the trait of being indelicate and offensive | - |
indelicate | (adjective) lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct | Synonyms: indecorous |
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(adjective) verging on the indecent | - |
(adjective) in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent | Synonyms: off-color, off-colour |
infelicitous | (adjective) not appropriate in application; defective | - |
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(adjective) marked by or producing unhappiness | Synonyms: unhappy |
infelicitously | (adverb) in an infelicitous manner | - |
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infelicity | (noun) inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | - |
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myelic | (adjective) of or relating to bone marrow cells | Synonyms: myeloid |
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overdelicate | (adjective) extremely delicate | - |
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parhelic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a parhelion | Synonyms: parheliacal |
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pelican | (noun) large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish | - |
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philatelic | (adjective) of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists | Synonyms: philatelical |
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philatelical | (adjective) of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists | Synonyms: philatelic |
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philatelically | (adverb) in a philatelic manner | - |
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psychedelic | (adjective) (of a mental state) characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair | - |
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(adjective) having the vivid colors and bizarre patterns associated with psychedelic states | - |
(adjective) producing distorted sensory perceptions and feelings or altered states of awareness or sometimes states resembling psychosis | - |
relic | (noun) an antiquity that has survived from the distant past | - |
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(noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: keepsake, souvenir, token |
relict | (noun) geological feature that is a remnant of a pre-existing formation after other parts have disappeared | - |
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(noun) an organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated | - |
videlicet | (adverb) as follows | Synonyms: namely, that is to say, to wit, viz. |
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