aboriginal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: native |
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(adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial |
(noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aborigine, indigen, indigene, native |
angina | (noun) any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain | - |
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(noun) a heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart | Synonyms: angina pectoris |
anginal | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginose, anginous |
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asparaginase | (noun) antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia | Synonyms: Elspar |
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emarginate | (adjective) having a notched tip | - |
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imaginable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: conceivable |
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imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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(noun) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 | Synonyms: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number |
imagination | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imaginativeness, vision |
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(noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imaging, mental imagery |
(noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: resource, resourcefulness |
imaginative | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: inventive |
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imaginatively | (adverb) with imagination | - |
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imaginativeness | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, vision |
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invaginate | (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: introvert |
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(verb) sheathe | - |
invagination | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, introversion, intussusception |
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(noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: introversion |
marginal | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: borderline |
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(adjective) just barely adequate or within a lower limit | Synonyms: bare |
(adjective) at or constituting a border or edge | Synonyms: fringy |
(adjective) producing at a rate that barely covers production costs | - |
marginalia | (noun) notes written in the margin | - |
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marginalisation | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalization |
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marginalise | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalize |
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marginality | (noun) the property of being marginal or on the fringes | - |
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marginalization | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalisation |
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marginalize | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalise |
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marginally | (adverb) in a marginal manner | - |
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original | (adjective) being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of | - |
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(adjective) (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary | - |
(adjective) not derived or copied or translated from something else | - |
(adjective) preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed | - |
(noun) an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made | Synonyms: master, master copy |
(noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | Synonyms: archetype, pilot |
originalism | (noun) the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it | - |
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originality | (noun) the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) | - |
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(noun) the ability to think and act independently | - |
originally | (adverb) in an manner suggesting originality | - |
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(adverb) with reference to the origin or beginning | Synonyms: in the beginning, primitively |
(adverb) before now | Synonyms: earlier, in the beginning, in the first place, to begin with |
originate | (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: initiate, start |
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(verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, rise, spring up, uprise |
(verb) begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc. | - |
origination | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction |
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(noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: inception, origin |
originative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: creative |
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(adjective) containing seeds of later development | Synonyms: germinal, seminal |
originator | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: conceiver, mastermind |
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paginate | (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: foliate, page |
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pagination | (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: folio, page number, paging |
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plumbaginaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Plumbaginaceae | - |
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unimaginable | (adjective) totally unlikely | Synonyms: impossible, inconceivable, out of the question |
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unimaginably | (adverb) to an unimaginable extent | Synonyms: unthinkably |
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unimaginative | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical |
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(adjective) dealing only with concrete facts | - |
(adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: sterile, uninspired, uninventive |
unimaginatively | (adverb) without imagination | - |
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(adverb) in a matter-of-fact manner | Synonyms: prosaically |
unoriginal | (adjective) not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual | - |
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unoriginality | (noun) the quality of being unoriginal | - |
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(noun) uncreativeness due to a lack of originality | - |
unoriginally | (adverb) in an unoriginal manner | - |
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vagina | (noun) the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus | - |
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vaginal | (adjective) of or relating to the vagina | - |
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virginal | (adjective) characteristic of a virgin or virginity | - |
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(adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: pure, vestal, virgin, virtuous |
(adjective) untouched or undefiled | - |
(noun) a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: pair of virginals |