| affinity | (noun) inherent resemblance between persons or things | - |
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| (noun) a natural attraction or feeling of kinship | - |
| (noun) the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule | Synonyms: chemical attraction |
| (noun) (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody | - |
| (noun) (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship | - |
| (noun) (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts | Synonyms: phylogenetic relation |
| (noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: kinship |
| confining | (adjective) crowded | Synonyms: close |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
| defining | (noun) any process serving to define the shape of something | Synonyms: shaping |
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| definite | (adjective) precise; explicit and clearly defined | - |
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| (adjective) known for certain | - |
| definitely | (adverb) without question and beyond doubt | Synonyms: by all odds, decidedly, emphatically, in spades, unquestionably |
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| definiteness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: determinateness |
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| definition | (noun) clarity of outline | - |
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| (noun) a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol | - |
| definitive | (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: determinate |
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| (adjective) clearly defined or formulated | Synonyms: unequivocal |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: authoritative |
| definitors | (noun) council in a religious order who provide counsel and assistance to the superiors general and provincial superior of their order. | - |
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| finial | (noun) an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a foliated fleur-de-lis | - |
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| finical | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finicky, fussy, particular, picky |
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| finicky | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, fussy, particular, picky |
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| finis | (noun) the concluding part of any performance | Synonyms: close, closing curtain, finale |
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| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finish, last, stopping point |
| finish | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finishing |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finishing |
| (noun) (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed) | - |
| (noun) designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race) | - |
| (noun) the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict) | - |
| (noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: conclusion, ending |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: destination, goal |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, culture, polish, refinement |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, last, stopping point |
| (verb) finally be or do something | Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish up, land up, wind up |
| (verb) come or bring to a finish or an end | Synonyms: complete |
| (verb) cause to finish a relationship with somebody | - |
| (verb) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table | Synonyms: eat up, polish off |
| (verb) provide with a finish | - |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, stop, terminate |
| finished | (adjective) ended or brought to an end | - |
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| (adjective) (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state | - |
| (adjective) brought to ruin | Synonyms: ruined |
| (adjective) having a surface coating or finish applied | - |
| (adjective) (of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected | - |
| finisher | (noun) an animal that wins in a contest of speed | - |
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| (noun) a race car that finishes a race | - |
| (noun) a worker who performs the last step in a manufacturing process | - |
| (noun) a painter who applies a finishing coat | - |
| (noun) (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game | Synonyms: closer |
| (noun) a racing driver who finishes a race | - |
| finishing | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finish |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finish |
| finite | (adjective) bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent | - |
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| (adjective) (of verbs) relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person | - |
| finitely | (adverb) with a finite limit | - |
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| finiteness | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: boundedness, finitude |
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| finitude | (noun) the quality of being finite | Synonyms: boundedness, finiteness |
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| indefinite | (adjective) vague or not clearly defined or stated | - |
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| (adjective) not decided or not known | - |
| indefinitely | (adverb) to an indefinite extent; for an indefinite time | - |
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| indefiniteness | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefinity, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination |
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| indefinity | (noun) the quality of being vague and poorly defined | Synonyms: indefiniteness, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination |
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| infinite | (adjective) having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude | - |
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| (adjective) (of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive) | Synonyms: non-finite, nonfinite |
| (adjective) total and all-embracing | - |
| (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
| (noun) the unlimited expanse in which everything is located | Synonyms: space |
| infinitely | (adverb) continuing forever without end | Synonyms: endlessly |
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| (adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: boundlessly, immeasurably |
| infiniteness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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| infinitesimal | (adjective) infinitely or immeasurably small | Synonyms: minute |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit | - |
| infinitival | (adjective) relating to or formed with the infinitive | - |
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| infinitive | (noun) the uninflected form of the verb | - |
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| infinitude | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infiniteness, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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| (noun) an infinite quantity | - |
| infinity | (noun) time without end | Synonyms: eternity |
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| nonfinite | (adjective) (of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive) | Synonyms: infinite, non-finite |
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| redefinition | (noun) the act of giving a new definition | - |
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| refining | (noun) the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) | Synonyms: purification, refinement |
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| refinish | (verb) give a new surface | - |
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| refinisher | (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: preserver, renovator, restorer |
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| unfinished | (adjective) not brought to an end or conclusion | - |
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| (adjective) not brought to the desired final state | - |
| (adjective) lacking a surface finish such as paint | Synonyms: bare |