| sleight | (noun) adroitness in using the hands | Synonyms: dexterity, manual dexterity |
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| slight | (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | Synonyms: little |
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| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, tenuous, thin |
| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slim, svelte |
| (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: rebuff |
| (verb) pay no attention to, disrespect | Synonyms: cold-shoulder |
| slighting | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory |
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| slightingly | (adverb) in a disparaging manner | Synonyms: disparagingly |
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| slightly | (adverb) to a small degree or extent | Synonyms: more or less, somewhat |
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| (adverb) in a slim or slender manner | Synonyms: slenderly, slimly |
| slightness | (noun) slenderness | Synonyms: delicacy |
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| (noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slenderness, slimness |
| (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: pettiness, puniness, triviality |
| sought | (adjective) that is looked for | - |
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| (adjective) being searched for | Synonyms: sought-after |
| spaceflight | (noun) a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: space travel, spacefaring |
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| spotlight | (noun) a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer | Synonyms: spot |
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| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, limelight, public eye |
| (verb) illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater | - |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, highlight, play up |
| sprightliness | (noun) animation and energy in action or expression | Synonyms: life, liveliness, spirit |
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| sprightly | (adjective) full of spirit and vitality | - |
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| starlight | (noun) the light of the stars | - |
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| steamtightness | (noun) The property of being being sealed in such a way that steam cannot leak out. | - |
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| stepdaughter | (noun) a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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| sticktight | (noun) parasitic on especially the heads of chickens | Synonyms: Echidnophaga gallinacea, sticktight flea |
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| (noun) any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing | Synonyms: beggar's-ticks, beggar-ticks, bur marigold, burr marigold |
| stoplight | (noun) a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections | Synonyms: traffic light, traffic signal |
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| (noun) a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop | Synonyms: brake light |
| straight | (adjective) having no deviations | - |
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| (adjective) no longer coiled | Synonyms: uncoiled |
| (adjective) (of hair) having no waves or curls | - |
| (adjective) characterized by honesty and fairness | Synonyms: square |
| (adjective) free from curves or angles | - |
| (adjective) in keeping with the facts | - |
| (adjective) successive (without a break) | Synonyms: consecutive |
| (adjective) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned | Synonyms: square |
| (adjective) following a correct or logical method | - |
| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straightforward |
| (adjective) erect in posture | Synonyms: unbent, unbowed |
| (adjective) not homosexual | - |
| (adjective) neatly arranged; not disorderly | - |
| (adjective) (of an alcoholic drink) without water | Synonyms: full-strength, neat |
| (adjective) accurately fitted; level | Synonyms: true |
| (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straightaway |
| (noun) a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit) | - |
| (noun) a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person |
| (adverb) in a straight line; in a direct course | - |
| (adverb) in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly | Synonyms: directly, flat |
| (adverb) without deviation | Synonyms: direct, directly |
| straightarrow | (adjective) conventionally moral and upright | - |
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| straightaway | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, prompt, quick |
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| (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straight |
| (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, immediately, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off |
| straightedge | (noun) hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness) | - |
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| straighten | (verb) put (things or places) in order | Synonyms: clean up, neaten, square away, straighten out, tidy, tidy up |
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| (verb) make straight or straighter | - |
| (verb) make straight | Synonyms: straighten out |
| (verb) straighten by unrolling | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) straighten up or out; make straight | Synonyms: unbend |
| (verb) get up from a sitting or slouching position | - |
| straightener | (noun) a device for straightening | - |
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| straightforward | (adjective) pointed directly ahead | - |
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| (adjective) without evasion or compromise | Synonyms: square, straight |
| (adjective) without concealment or deception; honest | Synonyms: aboveboard |
| (adjective) free from ambiguity | - |
| straightforwardly | (adverb) with firmness and conviction; without compromise | Synonyms: foursquare, squarely |
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| straightforwardness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: downrightness |
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| (noun) without hypocrisy | Synonyms: singleness |
| straightjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straitjacket |
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| straightlaced | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| straightness | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexualism, heterosexuality |
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| (noun) freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles | - |
| (noun) (of hair) lack of a tendency to curl | - |
| (noun) having honest intentions | Synonyms: good faith |
| (noun) trueness of course toward a goal | Synonyms: directness |
| straightway | (adverb) in a direct course | - |
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| (adverb) at once | - |
| streetlight | (noun) a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street | Synonyms: street lamp |
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| sunlight | (noun) the rays of the sun | Synonyms: sun, sunshine |
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| taillight | (noun) lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle | Synonyms: rear lamp, rear light, tail lamp |
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| thought | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, mentation, thinking, thought process |
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| (noun) the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about | Synonyms: idea |
| (noun) the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual | - |
| (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, sentiment, view |
| thoughtful | (adjective) exhibiting or characterized by careful thought | - |
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| (adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | Synonyms: attentive, heedful, paying attention |
| (adjective) considerate of the feelings or well-being of others | - |
| (adjective) having intellectual depth | - |
| (adjective) characterized by solemn, sincere manner | Synonyms: serious-minded |
| thoughtfully | (adverb) showing consideration and thoughtfulness | - |
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| (adverb) in a thoughtful manner | - |
| thoughtfulness | (noun) a considerate and thoughtful act | Synonyms: consideration |
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| (noun) the trait of thinking carefully before acting | - |
| (noun) kind and considerate regard for others | Synonyms: considerateness, consideration |
| (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: contemplation, musing, reflection, reflexion, rumination |
| thoughtless | (adjective) showing lack of careful thought | - |
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| (adjective) without care or thought for others | Synonyms: uncaring, unthinking |
| thoughtlessly | (adverb) showing thoughtlessness | - |
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| (adverb) in a thoughtless manner | Synonyms: unthinking, unthinkingly |
| thoughtlessness | (noun) the trait of not thinking carefully before acting | Synonyms: unthoughtfulness |
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| (noun) the quality of failing to be considerate of others | Synonyms: inconsiderateness, inconsideration |
| tight | (adjective) closely constrained or constricted or constricting | - |
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| (adjective) of such close construction as to be impermeable | - |
| (adjective) pressed tightly together | Synonyms: compressed |
| (adjective) packed closely together | - |
| (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: rigorous, stringent |
| (adjective) exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent | Synonyms: nasty |
| (adjective) (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched | Synonyms: close |
| (adjective) of textiles | Synonyms: close |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, wet |
| (adjective) set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration | - |
| (adjective) affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow | - |
| (adjective) securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid | - |
| (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mean, mingy, miserly |
| (adjective) pulled or drawn tight | Synonyms: taut |
| (adverb) firmly or closely | Synonyms: fast |
| (adverb) in an attentive manner | Synonyms: close, closely |
| tighten | (verb) become tight or tighter | - |
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| (verb) make tight or tighter | Synonyms: fasten |
| (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: constrain, stiffen, tighten up |
| (verb) narrow or limit | Synonyms: reduce |
| tightening | (noun) the act of making something tighter | - |
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| tightfisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: closefisted, hardfisted |
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| tightfistedness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightness |
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| tightfitting | (adjective) fitting snugly | Synonyms: skinny, tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightly fitting |
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| tightlipped | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, closemouthed, secretive |
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| tightly | (adverb) securely fixed or fastened | - |
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| (adverb) in a tight or constricted manner | - |
| tightness | (noun) lack of movement or room for movement | Synonyms: tautness |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness |
| (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, concentration, denseness, density |
| (noun) a tight feeling in some part of the body | Synonyms: constriction |
| (noun) a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit | Synonyms: stringency |
| tightrope | (noun) tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground | - |
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| tights | (noun) skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls | Synonyms: leotards |
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| tightwad | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: cheapskate |
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| tonight | (noun) the present or immediately coming night | - |
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| (adverb) during the night of the present day | Synonyms: this evening, this night |
| torchlight | (noun) light from a torch or torches | - |
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| twilight | (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: dusky, twilit |
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| (noun) the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth | - |
| (noun) a condition of decline following successes | - |
| (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall |
| underweight | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, weedy |
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| unenlightened | (adjective) not enlightened; ignorant | - |
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| (adjective) lacking information or instruction | Synonyms: naive, uninstructed |
| unenlightening | (adjective) failing to inform or clarify | Synonyms: unilluminating |
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| (adjective) not edifying | Synonyms: unedifying |
| unenlightenment | (noun) a lack of understanding | - |
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| unforesightful | (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, short, shortsighted |
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| unforethoughtful | (adjective) lacking forethought | - |
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| unfrightened | (adjective) not affected by fright | - |
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| unlighted | (adjective) not set afire or burning | Synonyms: unlit |
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| (adjective) without illumination | Synonyms: lightless, unilluminated, unlit |
| unrighteous | (adjective) not righteous | - |
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| unrighteously | (adverb) in an unrighteous manner | - |
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| unrighteousness | (noun) failure to adhere to moral principles | - |
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| unsighted | (adjective) unable to see | Synonyms: blind |
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| unsightliness | (noun) ugliness that is unpleasant to look at | - |
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| unsightly | (adjective) unpleasant to look at | - |
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| unsought | (adjective) not desired | Synonyms: undesired |
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| untaught | (adjective) lacking in schooling | Synonyms: unschooled, untutored |
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| unthought | (adjective) so unexpected as to have not been imagined | Synonyms: unhoped-for, unhoped, unthought-of |
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| unthoughtful | (adjective) not exhibiting or characterized by careful thought | Synonyms: unreflective, unthinking |
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| unthoughtfulness | (noun) the trait of not thinking carefully before acting | Synonyms: thoughtlessness |
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| upright | (adjective) upright in position or posture | Synonyms: erect, vertical |
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| (adjective) of moral excellence | Synonyms: good, just |
| (adjective) in a vertical position; not sloping | Synonyms: unsloped |
| (noun) a piano with a vertical sounding board | Synonyms: upright piano |
| (noun) a vertical structural member as a post or stake | Synonyms: vertical |
| uprightly | (adverb) in an upright position | - |
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| (adverb) in an honorable manner | Synonyms: honorably |
| uprightness | (noun) righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest | Synonyms: rectitude |
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| (noun) position at right angles to the horizon | Synonyms: erectness, verticality, verticalness |
| (noun) the property of being upright in posture | Synonyms: erectness |
| uptight | (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive |
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| waggonwright | (noun) a wagon maker | Synonyms: wagonwright, wainwright |
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| wagonwright | (noun) a wagon maker | Synonyms: waggonwright, wainwright |
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| wainwright | (noun) a wagon maker | Synonyms: waggonwright, wagonwright |
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| watertight | (adjective) without flaws or loopholes | Synonyms: bulletproof, ironclad, unassailable, unshakable |
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| (adjective) not allowing water to pass in or out | - |
| watertightness | (noun) The condition of being so tightly made that water cannot enter or escape. | Synonyms: waterproofness |
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| weeknight | (noun) any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday | - |
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| weight | (noun) an artifact that is heavy | - |
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| (noun) sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms | Synonyms: exercising weight, free weight |
| (noun) the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity | - |
| (noun) the relative importance granted to something | Synonyms: weightiness |
| (noun) an oppressive feeling of heavy force | - |
| (noun) a unit used to measure weight | Synonyms: weight unit |
| (noun) a system of units used to express the weight of something | Synonyms: system of weights |
| (noun) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance | Synonyms: weighting |
| (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: angle, slant |
| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, burthen, weight down |
| weighted | (adjective) adjusted to reflect value or proportion | - |
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| (adjective) made heavy or weighted down with weariness | Synonyms: leaden |
| weightily | (adverb) as something very heavy | - |
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| (adverb) in a solemn manner | - |
| weightiness | (noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight | Synonyms: heaviness |
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| (noun) the relative importance granted to something | Synonyms: weight |
| weighting | (noun) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance | Synonyms: weight |
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| weightless | (adjective) having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light | - |
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| weightlessness | (noun) the property of being comparatively small in weight | Synonyms: lightness |
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| weightlift | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlifting |
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| (verb) lift weights | Synonyms: press, weight-lift |
| weightlifter | (noun) an athlete who lifts barbells | Synonyms: lifter |
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| weightlifting | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlift |
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| weighty | (adjective) having relatively great weight; heavy | - |
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| (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: corpulent, obese, rotund |
| (adjective) weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry | - |
| (adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, grievous, heavy |
| (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: cogent, telling |
| welterweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the lightweight division and lighter than those in the middleweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds | - |
| (noun) a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeplechase) | - |
| wheelwright | (noun) someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels | Synonyms: wheeler |
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| wight | (noun) a living being | Synonyms: creature |
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| wright | (noun) someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination) | - |
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| wrought | (adjective) shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort) | Synonyms: molded, shaped |
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