benevolence | (noun) an act intending or showing kindness and good will | Synonyms: benefaction |
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(noun) an inclination to do kind or charitable acts | - |
(noun) disposition to do good | - |
benevolent | (adjective) intending or showing kindness | - |
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(adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
(adjective) generous in providing aid to others | Synonyms: freehearted |
(adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
benevolently | (adverb) in a benevolent manner | - |
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counterrevolution | (noun) a revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution | - |
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counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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(adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
(noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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devolution | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolvement |
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(noun) the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality | Synonyms: degeneration |
devolve | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, drop |
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(verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: fall, pass, return |
(verb) pass on or delegate to another | - |
devolvement | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolution |
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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 |
macroevolution | (noun) evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups | - |
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malevolence | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolency, malice |
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(noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malignity |
malevolency | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolence, malice |
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malevolent | (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malefic, malign |
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(adjective) wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred | - |
malevolently | (adverb) in a malevolent manner | - |
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microevolution | (noun) evolution resulting from small specific genetic changes that can lead to a new subspecies | - |
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neoevolutionism | (noun) school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures. | Synonyms: neo-evolutionism |
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revolt | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, rising, uprising |
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(verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, nauseate, sicken |
(verb) fill with distaste | Synonyms: disgust, gross out, repel |
(verb) make revolution | - |
revolting | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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revoltingly | (adverb) in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree | Synonyms: disgustingly, distastefully, sickeningly |
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revolution | (noun) the overthrow of a government by those who are governed | - |
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(noun) a single complete turn (axial or orbital) | Synonyms: gyration, rotation |
(noun) a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving | - |
revolutionariness | (noun) The state or quality of being revolutionary. | - |
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revolutionary | (adjective) advocating or engaged in revolution | - |
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(adjective) relating to or having the nature of a revolution | - |
(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn | Synonyms: rotatory |
(adjective) markedly new or introducing radical change | Synonyms: radical |
(noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionist, subversive, subverter |
revolutionise | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionize |
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(verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionize |
revolutionism | (noun) a belief in the spread of revolutionary principles | - |
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revolutionist | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, subversive, subverter |
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revolutionize | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionise |
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(verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionise |
(verb) overthrow by a revolution, of governments | - |
revolve | (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, rotate |
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(verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, orbit |
(verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: roll |
revolved | (adjective) turned in a circle around an axis | Synonyms: rotated |
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revolver | (noun) a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) | Synonyms: six-gun, six-shooter |
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(noun) a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings | Synonyms: revolving door |