| advantageous | (adjective) giving an advantage | Synonyms: favorable, favourable |
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| (adjective) appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness | - |
| advantageously | (adverb) in a manner affording benefit or advantage | Synonyms: well |
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| advantageousness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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| biogeographic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved with biogeography | Synonyms: biogeographical |
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| biogeographical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved with biogeography | Synonyms: biogeographic |
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| biogeography | (noun) dealing with the geographical distribution of animals and plants | - |
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| bludgeon | (noun) a club used as a weapon | - |
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| (verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: club |
| (verb) overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club | - |
| bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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| bourgeois | (adjective) (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the middle class | - |
| (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: conservative, materialistic |
| (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: burgher |
| (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: businessperson |
| bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
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| bourgeon | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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| burgeon | (verb) grow and flourish | - |
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| burgeoning | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| changeover | (noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: conversion, transition |
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| courageous | (adjective) possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching | Synonyms: brave |
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| courageously | (adverb) in a courageous manner | Synonyms: bravely |
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| courageousness | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, bravery, courage |
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| curmudgeon | (noun) a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas | - |
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| curmudgeonly | (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: crusty, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
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| disadvantageous | (adjective) involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness | Synonyms: unfavorable, unfavourable |
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| disadvantageously | (adverb) in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage | Synonyms: badly |
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| dudgeon | (noun) a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon') | Synonyms: high dudgeon |
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| dungeon | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, keep |
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| (noun) a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined | - |
| flageolet | (noun) a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes | Synonyms: shepherd's pipe, treble recorder |
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| (noun) a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried | Synonyms: haricot |
| geocentric | (adjective) having the earth as the center | - |
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| geochemistry | (noun) the chemistry of the earth's crust | - |
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| geode | (noun) (mineralogy) a hollow rock or nodule with the cavity usually lined with crystals | - |
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| geodesic | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geodesy | Synonyms: geodesical, geodetic |
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| (noun) (mathematics) the shortest line between two points on a mathematically defined surface (as a straight line on a plane or an arc of a great circle on a sphere) | Synonyms: geodesic line |
| geodesical | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geodesy | Synonyms: geodesic, geodetic |
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| geodesy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the shape of the earth and the determination of the exact position of geographical points | - |
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| geodetic | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geodesy | Synonyms: geodesic, geodesical |
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| geoduck | (noun) a large edible clam found burrowing deeply in sandy mud along the Pacific coast of North America; weighs up to six pounds; has siphons that can extend to several feet and cannot be withdrawn into the shell | - |
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| geographer | (noun) an expert on geography | - |
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| geographic | (adjective) determined by geography | Synonyms: geographical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the science of geography | Synonyms: geographical |
| geographical | (adjective) determined by geography | Synonyms: geographic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the science of geography | Synonyms: geographic |
| geographically | (adverb) with respect to geography | - |
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| geographics | (noun) study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation | Synonyms: geography |
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| geography | (noun) study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation | Synonyms: geographics |
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| geologic | (adjective) of or relating to or based on geology | Synonyms: geological |
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| geological | (adjective) of or relating to or based on geology | Synonyms: geologic |
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| geologically | (adverb) with respect to geology | - |
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| geologist | (noun) a specialist in geology | - |
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| geology | (noun) a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks | - |
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| geomancer | (noun) one who practices geomancy | - |
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| geomancy | (noun) divination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another) | - |
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| geometer | (noun) a mathematician specializing in geometry | Synonyms: geometrician |
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| geometric | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geometry | Synonyms: geometrical |
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| (adjective) characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration | Synonyms: geometrical |
| geometrical | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by geometry | Synonyms: geometric |
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| (adjective) characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration | Synonyms: geometric |
| geometrically | (adverb) in a geometric fashion | - |
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| (adverb) with respect to geometry | - |
| geometrician | (noun) a mathematician specializing in geometry | Synonyms: geometer |
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| geometrid | (noun) slender-bodied broad-winged moth whose larvae are called measuring worms | Synonyms: geometrid moth |
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| geometry | (noun) the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces | - |
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| geomorphologic | (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphological, morphologic, morphological, structural |
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| geomorphological | (adjective) pertaining to geological structure | Synonyms: geomorphologic, morphologic, morphological, structural |
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| geomorphology | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms | Synonyms: morphology |
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| geophagia | (noun) eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior | Synonyms: geophagy |
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| geophagy | (noun) eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior | Synonyms: geophagia |
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| geophysical | (adjective) of or concerned with geophysics | - |
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| geophysicist | (noun) a geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth | - |
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| geophysics | (noun) geology that uses physical principles to study properties of the earth | Synonyms: geophysical science |
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| geophyte | (noun) a perennial plant that propagates by underground bulbs or tubers or corms | - |
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| geophytic | (adjective) of or relating to geophytes | - |
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| geopolitical | (adjective) of or relating to geopolitics | - |
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| geopolitics | (noun) the study of the effects of economic geography on the powers of the state | - |
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| geordie | (noun) the nonstandard dialect of natives of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | - |
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| georgette | (noun) a thin silk dress material | - |
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| geosphere | (noun) the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle | Synonyms: lithosphere |
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| geostationary | (adjective) of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth | - |
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| geostrategic | (adjective) of or relating to geostrategy | - |
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| geostrategy | (noun) the branch of geopolitics dealing with strategy | - |
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| geosynchronous | (adjective) of or having an orbit with a fixed period of 24 hours (although the position in the orbit may not be fixed with respect to the earth) | - |
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| geothermal | (adjective) of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth | Synonyms: geothermic |
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| geothermally | (adverb) by means of heat from the interior of the earth | - |
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| geothermic | (adjective) of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth | Synonyms: geothermal |
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| geotropism | (noun) an orienting response to gravity | - |
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| gorgeous | (adjective) dazzlingly beautiful | - |
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| gorgeously | (adverb) in an impressively beautiful manner | Synonyms: magnificently, resplendently, splendidly |
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| gorgeousness | (noun) The characteristic or quality of being very beautiful. | - |
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| gudgeon | (noun) small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: Gobio gobio |
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| (noun) small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker | Synonyms: goby |
| habergeon | (noun) (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk | - |
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| isogeotherm | (noun) an isogram connecting points of equal temperature below the surface of the earth. | - |
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| neurosurgeon | (noun) someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain) | Synonyms: brain surgeon |
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| outrageous | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, extortionate, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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| (adjective) grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror | Synonyms: hideous, horrid, horrific |
| outrageously | (adverb) to an extravagant or immoderate degree | Synonyms: atrociously |
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| (adverb) in a very offensive manner | - |
| outrageousness | (noun) the quality of being outrageous | Synonyms: enormity |
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| (noun) excessive excess | Synonyms: exorbitance |
| palaeogeography | (noun) the study of the geography of ancient times or ancient epochs | Synonyms: paleogeography |
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| palaeogeology | (noun) the study of geologic features once at the surface of the earth but now buried beneath rocks | Synonyms: paleogeology |
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| paleogeography | (noun) the study of the geography of ancient times or ancient epochs | Synonyms: palaeogeography |
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| paleogeology | (noun) the study of geologic features once at the surface of the earth but now buried beneath rocks | Synonyms: palaeogeology |
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| pigeon | (noun) wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs | - |
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| pigeonhole | (noun) a small compartment | Synonyms: cubbyhole |
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| (noun) a specific (often simplistic) category | - |
| (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: stamp, stereotype |
| (verb) place into a small compartment | - |
| pigeonholing | (noun) a system for classifying things into groups | Synonyms: grouping |
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| protogeometric | (adjective) characteristic of the earliest phase of geometric art especially in Greece | - |
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| rampageous | (adjective) displaying raging violence; often destructive | - |
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| smidgeon | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgin, tittle, whit |
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| stoolpigeon | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie |
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| sturgeon | (noun) large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone | - |
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| surgeon | (noun) a physician who specializes in surgery | Synonyms: operating surgeon, sawbones |
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| surgeonfish | (noun) brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail | - |
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| umbrageous | (adjective) angered at something unjust or wrong | Synonyms: incensed, indignant, outraged |
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| (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowed, shadowy, shady |