everlasting | (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
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(adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
(noun) any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | Synonyms: everlasting flower |
everlastingly | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, evermore, forever |
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everlastingness | (noun) the property of lasting forever | - |
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evermore | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, everlastingly, forever |
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(adverb) at any future time; in the future | Synonyms: forevermore |
eversion | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: everting, inversion |
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(noun) the position of being turned outward | - |
evert | (verb) turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward | - |
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everting | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, inversion |
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every | (adjective) (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception | - |
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(adjective) each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified | - |
everyday | (adjective) commonplace and ordinary | - |
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(adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, daily |
(adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
everydayness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, commonplaceness |
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everyman | (noun) the ordinary person | - |
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everyplace | (adverb) to or in any or all places; pronoun, location; quantifier: universal | Synonyms: all over, everywhere |
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everything | (noun) all things that are of importance to a person | - |
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everywhere | (adverb) to or in any or all places; pronoun, location; quantifier: universal | Synonyms: all over, everyplace |
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evict | (verb) expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process | Synonyms: force out |
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(verb) expel or eject without recourse to legal process | - |
eviction | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: dispossession, legal ouster |
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(noun) action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved | Synonyms: constructive eviction |
evidence | (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: grounds |
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(noun) (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved | - |
(noun) an indication that makes something evident | - |
(verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, manifest |
(verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, prove, show, testify |
(verb) give evidence | Synonyms: tell |
evidenced | (adjective) supported by evidence | - |
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evident | (adjective) capable of being seen or noticed | Synonyms: discernible, observable |
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(adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
evidential | (adjective) serving as or based on evidence | Synonyms: evidentiary |
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evidentiary | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting evidence | - |
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(adjective) serving as or based on evidence | Synonyms: evidential |
evidently | (adverb) unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | Synonyms: apparently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plain, plainly |
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evil | (adjective) morally bad or wrong | - |
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(adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: malefic, malevolent, malign |
(adjective) having the nature of vice | Synonyms: vicious |
(noun) morally objectionable behavior | Synonyms: immorality, iniquity, wickedness |
(noun) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice | Synonyms: evilness |
evildoer | (noun) a person who sins (without repenting) | Synonyms: sinner |
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evildoing | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: transgression |
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evilly | (adverb) in a wicked evil manner | Synonyms: wickedly |
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evilness | (noun) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice | Synonyms: evil |
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evince | (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: express, show |
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eviscerate | (adjective) having been disembowelled | - |
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(verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: disembowel, draw |
(verb) remove the contents of | - |
(verb) take away a vital or essential part of | - |
(verb) surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | Synonyms: resect |
evisceration | (noun) surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient | - |
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(noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: disembowelment |
(noun) altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value | - |
evitable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avertible, avoidable |
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evocation | (noun) imaginative re-creation | - |
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(noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: elicitation, induction |
(noun) calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations | Synonyms: summoning |
evocative | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant |
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evoke | (verb) call to mind | Synonyms: paint a picture, suggest |
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(verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, kick up, provoke |
(verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, extract |
(verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
(verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
evoked | (adjective) called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation | Synonyms: elicited |
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evolution | (noun) (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms | Synonyms: organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny |
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(noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: development |
evolutionarily | (adverb) in an evolutionary way; from an evolutionary point of view | - |
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evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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evolutionism | (noun) (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals | Synonyms: theory of evolution, theory of organic evolution |
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evolutionist | (noun) a person who believes in organic evolution | - |
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evolve | (verb) undergo development or evolution | - |
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(verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, develop |
(verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, germinate |
fever | (noun) a state of nervous excitement | - |
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(noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, feverishness, pyrexia |
fevered | (adjective) highly or nervously excited | - |
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feverfew | (noun) bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads; valued traditionally for medicinal uses; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum parthenium, Tanacetum parthenium |
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feverish | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: febrile |
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(adjective) marked by intense agitation or emotion | Synonyms: hectic |
(adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverous |
feverishly | (adverb) in a feverish manner | - |
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feverishness | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, fever, pyrexia |
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(noun) A state of wildly excited activity or emotion. | - |
feverous | (adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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feverroot | (noun) coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers | Synonyms: horse gentian, tinker's root, Triostium perfoliatum, wild coffee |
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forever | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, everlastingly, evermore |
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(adverb) for a very long or seemingly endless time | Synonyms: forever and a day |
(adverb) invariably | Synonyms: always, constantly, incessantly, perpetually |
forevermore | (adverb) at any future time; in the future | Synonyms: evermore |
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gamedev | (noun) someone who develops a game | - |
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geneva | (noun) gin made in the Netherlands | Synonyms: Holland gin, Hollands |
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grapevine | (noun) gossip spread by spoken communication | Synonyms: pipeline, word of mouth |
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(noun) any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries | Synonyms: grape, grape vine |
grevillea | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea | - |
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grievance | (noun) a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action | - |
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(noun) an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice | - |
(noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grudge, score |
grieve | (verb) feel grief | Synonyms: sorrow |
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(verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: aggrieve |
griever | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: lamenter, mourner, sorrower |
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grieving | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, mourning, sorrowing |
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grievous | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grave, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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(adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, monstrous |
(adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, heavy, weighty |
(adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: heartbreaking, heartrending |
grievously | (adverb) in a grievous manner | - |
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however | (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, still, withal, yet |
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(adverb) in whatever way or manner | - |
(adverb) to whatever degree or extent | - |
(adverb) by contrast; on the other hand | - |
inevitability | (noun) the quality of being unavoidable | Synonyms: inevitableness |
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inevitable | (adjective) incapable of being avoided or prevented | - |
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(adjective) invariably occurring or appearing | - |
(noun) an unavoidable event | - |
inevitableness | (noun) the quality of being unavoidable | Synonyms: inevitability |
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inevitably | (adverb) in such a manner as could not be otherwise | Synonyms: necessarily, needs, of necessity |
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(adverb) by necessity | Synonyms: ineluctably, inescapably, unavoidably |
irrelevance | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevancy |
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irrelevancy | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevance |
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irrelevant | (adjective) having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue | - |
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irrelevantly | (adverb) in an irrelevant manner | - |
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irretrievable | (adjective) impossible to recover or recoup or overcome | Synonyms: unretrievable |
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irretrievably | (adverb) in an irretrievable manner | - |
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irreverence | (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: violation |
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(noun) an irreverent mental attitude | - |
irreverent | (adjective) showing lack of due respect or veneration | - |
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(adjective) not revering god | Synonyms: godless |
(adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, pert, saucy |
irreverently | (adverb) without respect | - |
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(adverb) in an irreverent manner | - |
irreversibility | (noun) the quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed) | - |
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irreversible | (adjective) incapable of being reversed | - |
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irreversibly | (adverb) in an irreversible manner | - |
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irrevocability | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to retract or reverse; finality. | - |
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irrevocable | (adjective) incapable of being retracted or revoked | Synonyms: irrevokable |
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irrevocably | (adverb) in an irrevocable manner | - |
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irrevokable | (adjective) incapable of being retracted or revoked | Synonyms: irrevocable |
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laevulose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fructose, fruit sugar, levulose |
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lev | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bulgaria | - |
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levallorphan | (noun) drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects | Synonyms: Lorfan |
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levant | (verb) run off without paying a debt | - |
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levanter | (noun) an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area | - |
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levator | (noun) a muscle that serves to lift some body part (as the eyelid or lip) | - |
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levee | (noun) an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing | - |
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(noun) a pier that provides a landing place on a river | - |
(noun) a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court) | - |
level | (adjective) of the score in a contest | Synonyms: even, tied |
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(adjective) being on a precise horizontal plane | - |
(adjective) not showing abrupt variations | Synonyms: unwavering |
(adjective) having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another | Synonyms: flat, plane |
(adjective) oriented at right angles to the plumb | - |
(noun) indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid | Synonyms: spirit level |
(noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, storey, story |
(noun) a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line | Synonyms: horizontal surface |
(noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: degree, grade |
(noun) height above ground | - |
(noun) an abstract place usually conceived as having depth | Synonyms: layer, stratum |
(noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, point, stage |
(noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group | Synonyms: grade, tier |
(verb) become level or even | Synonyms: level off |
(verb) talk frankly with; lay it on the line | - |
(verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: charge, point |
(verb) aim at | - |
(verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, flush |
(verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: dismantle, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
leveler | (noun) a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions | Synonyms: leveller |
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levelheaded | (adjective) exercising or showing good judgment | Synonyms: healthy, intelligent, level-headed, sound |
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levelheadedness | (noun) the property of having or showing sound judgment. | - |
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leveling | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, equalization |
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(noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: demolishing, razing, tearing down |
(noun) changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface | Synonyms: grading |
leveller | (noun) a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions | Synonyms: leveler |
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levelness | (noun) The property of being the same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground. | - |
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lever | (noun) a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum | - |
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(noun) a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock | Synonyms: lever tumbler |
(noun) a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum | - |
(verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, prise, prize, pry |
leverage | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leveraging |
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(noun) strategic advantage; power to act effectively | - |
(noun) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | Synonyms: purchase |
(verb) provide with leverage | - |
(verb) supplement with leverage | - |
leveraging | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leverage |
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leveret | (noun) a young hare especially one in its first year | - |
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