apopemptic | (adjective) addressed to one who is departing | - |
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attempt | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: effort, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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(noun) the act of attacking | Synonyms: attack |
(verb) enter upon an activity or enterprise | Synonyms: set about, undertake |
(verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, essay, seek, try |
attempted | (adjective) tried unsuccessfully | - |
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attempter | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: essayer, trier |
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contempt | (noun) a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body | - |
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(noun) a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | Synonyms: disrespect |
(noun) open disrespect for a person or thing | Synonyms: scorn |
(noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: despite, disdain, scorn |
contemptibility | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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contemptible | (adjective) deserving of contempt or scorn | - |
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contemptibly | (adverb) in a manner deserving contempt | - |
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contemptuous | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: disdainful, insulting, scornful |
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contemptuously | (adverb) without respect; in a disdainful manner | Synonyms: contumeliously, disdainfully, scornfully |
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contemptuousness | (noun) the manifestation of scorn and contempt | - |
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emptiness | (noun) the quality of being valueless or futile | Synonyms: vanity |
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(noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: vacancy, vacuum, void |
(noun) the state of containing nothing | - |
(noun) having an empty stomach | - |
emptor | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, purchaser, vendee |
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empty | (adjective) holding or containing nothing | - |
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(adjective) emptied of emotion | - |
(adjective) needing nourishment | Synonyms: empty-bellied |
(adjective) devoid of significance or force | Synonyms: hollow, vacuous |
(noun) a container that has been emptied | - |
(verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: evacuate, void |
(verb) become empty or void of its content | Synonyms: discharge |
(verb) make void or empty of contents | - |
(verb) remove the contents of a container | - |
(verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: abandon, vacate |
emptying | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: evacuation, voidance |
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exempt | (adjective) (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject | - |
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(adjective) (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation | Synonyms: nontaxable |
(verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: excuse, let off, relieve |
(verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: free, relieve |
exemption | (noun) an act exempting someone | Synonyms: granting immunity, immunity |
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(noun) a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.) | - |
(noun) immunity from an obligation or duty | Synonyms: freedom |
kempt | (adjective) (of hair) neat and tidy | Synonyms: tidy |
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nonexempt | (adjective) (of persons) not exempt from an obligation or liability | - |
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(adjective) (of goods or funds) subject to taxation | Synonyms: taxable |
peremptorily | (adverb) in an imperative and commanding manner | Synonyms: imperatively |
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peremptory | (adjective) putting an end to all debate or action | - |
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(adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial |
(adjective) not allowing contradiction or refusal | - |
preempt | (noun) a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding | Synonyms: pre-empt, preemptive bid |
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(verb) acquire for oneself before others can do so | - |
(verb) make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge | - |
(verb) gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land) | - |
(verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: displace |
preemption | (noun) a prior appropriation of something | Synonyms: pre-emption |
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(noun) the right to purchase something in advance of others | Synonyms: pre-emption |
(noun) the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) | Synonyms: pre-emption |
(noun) the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject | Synonyms: pre-emption |
preemptive | (adjective) designed or having the power to deter or prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence | Synonyms: pre-emptive |
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preemptor | (noun) a bidder in bridge who makes a preemptive bid | Synonyms: pre-emptor |
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(noun) someone who acquires land by preemption | Synonyms: pre-emptor |
redemption | (noun) the act of purchasing back something previously sold | Synonyms: buyback, repurchase |
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(noun) (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil | Synonyms: salvation |
(noun) repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock) | - |
redemptional | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption | Synonyms: redemptive, redemptory |
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redemptive | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption | Synonyms: redemptional, redemptory |
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(adjective) bringing about salvation or redemption from sin | Synonyms: redeeming, saving |
redemptory | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption | Synonyms: redemptional, redemptive |
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tempt | (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: charm, influence |
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(verb) dispose or incline or entice to | Synonyms: allure |
(verb) try presumptuously | - |
(verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: entice, lure |
(verb) give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting | Synonyms: invite |
(verb) try to seduce | - |
temptable | (adjective) susceptible to temptation | - |
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temptation | (noun) the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire | Synonyms: enticement |
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(noun) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce | Synonyms: enticement |
(noun) the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid | - |
tempter | (noun) a person who tempts others | - |
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tempting | (adjective) very pleasantly inviting | Synonyms: tantalising, tantalizing |
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(adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, beguiling, enticing |
temptingly | (adverb) in a tempting seductive manner | Synonyms: seductively |
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temptingness | (noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allure, allurement |
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temptress | (noun) a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive | Synonyms: Delilah, enchantress, femme fatale, siren |
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unkempt | (adjective) not neatly combed | - |
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(adjective) not properly maintained or cared for | - |
unkemptness | (noun) a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for | Synonyms: sloppiness, slovenliness |
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untempting | (adjective) not appealing to the senses | Synonyms: unattractive |
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(adjective) not tempting | Synonyms: uninviting |