signalman | (noun) a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard | - |
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signatory | (noun) someone who signs and is bound by a document | Synonyms: signer |
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signature | (noun) a distinguishing style | Synonyms: touch |
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(noun) your name written in your own handwriting | - |
(noun) a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book | - |
(noun) the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key | Synonyms: key signature |
(noun) a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program | Synonyms: signature tune, theme song |
signboard | (noun) structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted | Synonyms: sign |
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signed | (adjective) having a handwritten signature | - |
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(adjective) used of the language of the deaf | Synonyms: gestural, sign-language, sign |
signer | (noun) someone who signs and is bound by a document | Synonyms: signatory |
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(noun) someone who can use sign language to communicate | - |
signet | (noun) a seal (especially one used to mark documents officially) | - |
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significance | (noun) the quality of being significant | - |
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(noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, import |
(noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, signification |
significant | (adjective) important in effect or meaning | Synonyms: important |
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(adjective) too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation | - |
(adjective) of considerable importance, size, or worth | Synonyms: substantial |
(adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, pregnant |
significantly | (adverb) in an important way or to an important degree | Synonyms: importantly |
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(adverb) in a significant manner | - |
(adverb) in a statistically significant way | - |
signification | (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, significance |
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significative | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, suggestive |
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signified | (noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted | Synonyms: sense |
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signifier | (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: descriptor, form, word form |
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signify | (verb) convey or express a meaning | - |
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(verb) make known with a word or signal | - |
(verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: intend, mean, stand for |
signing | (noun) language expressed by visible hand gestures | Synonyms: sign language |
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signior | (noun) used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately | Synonyms: signor |
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signor | (noun) used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately | Synonyms: signior |
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signora | (noun) an Italian title of address equivalent to Mrs. when used before a name | - |
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signore | (noun) an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name) | - |
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signorina | (noun) an Italian courtesy title for an unmarried woman; equivalent to `Miss', it is either used alone or before a name | - |
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signory | (noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigneury, seigniory |
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signpost | (noun) a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way | Synonyms: guidepost |
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(verb) mark with a signpost, as of a path | - |
smugness | (noun) an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction | - |
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snugness | (noun) a state of warm snug comfort | Synonyms: cosiness, coziness |
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soigne | (adjective) polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance | Synonyms: soignee |
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soignee | (adjective) polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance | Synonyms: soigne |
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sovereign | (adjective) greatest in status or authority or power | Synonyms: supreme |
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(adjective) (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: autonomous, independent, self-governing |
(noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, monarch |
sovereignty | (noun) the authority of a state to govern another state | - |
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(noun) government free from external control | - |
(noun) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch | Synonyms: reign |
sphagnum | (noun) any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat | Synonyms: bog moss, peat moss, sphagnum moss |
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stagnancy | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnation |
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(noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnation |
stagnant | (adjective) not circulating or flowing | Synonyms: dead |
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(adjective) not growing or changing; without force or vitality | Synonyms: moribund |
stagnate | (verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation | Synonyms: idle, laze, slug |
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(verb) cease to flow; stand without moving | - |
(verb) stand still | - |
(verb) cause to stagnate | - |
stagnation | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnancy |
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(noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnancy |
strikingness | (noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: boldness |
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(noun) the state of being salient | Synonyms: salience, saliency |
surprisingness | (noun) extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected | Synonyms: unexpectedness |
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teemingness | (noun) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply | Synonyms: abundance, copiousness |
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telegnosis | (noun) apparent knowledge of distant events without using sensory perceptions | - |
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telegnostic | (adjective) obtaining knowledge of distant events allegedly without use of normal sensory mechanisms | - |
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temptingness | (noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allure, allurement |
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topognosia | (noun) recognition of the location of a stimulus on the skin | Synonyms: topognosis |
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topognosis | (noun) recognition of the location of a stimulus on the skin | Synonyms: topognosia |
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toxicognath | (noun) either of a pair of poison fangs in the modified front pair of legs of the centipede | - |
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trustingness | (noun) the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others | Synonyms: trust, trustfulness |
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unappetisingness | (noun) the property of spoiling the appetite | Synonyms: unappetizingness |
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unappetizingness | (noun) the property of spoiling the appetite | Synonyms: unappetisingness |
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unassignable | (adjective) incapable of being transferred | Synonyms: nontransferable, untransferable |
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unassigned | (adjective) not assigned | - |
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unassumingness | (noun) a quality of naturalness and simplicity | Synonyms: sincerity |
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unbecomingness | (noun) the quality of being unbecoming | - |
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(noun) The state of not being flattering, attractive or appropriate. | - |
unchangingness | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness |
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undersign | (verb) sign at the bottom of (a document) | - |
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undesigned | (adjective) not done or made or performed with purpose or intent | - |
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undiagnosable | (adjective) not possible to diagnose | - |
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undiagnosed | (adjective) eluding diagnosis | - |
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undignified | (adjective) lacking dignity | - |
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unfeelingness | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, hardness, insensibility |
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unfeigned | (adjective) not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed | Synonyms: genuine, true |
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unfeignedly | (adverb) with sincerity; without pretense | Synonyms: sincerely, truly |
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unforgivingness | (noun) The quality of having no allowance for weakness. | - |
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unimpregnated | (adjective) not having been fertilized | Synonyms: unfertilised, unfertilized |
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uninterestingness | (noun) inability to capture or hold one's interest | - |
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unknowingness | (noun) unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention | Synonyms: unawareness |
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(noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: ignorantness, nescience, unknowing |
unpleasingness | (noun) the quality of being unpleasant to to the senses | - |
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unrecognisable | (adjective) defying recognition as e.g. because of damage or alteration | Synonyms: unrecognizable |
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(adverb) beyond recognition; in an unrecognizable manner | Synonyms: unrecognizably |
unrecognised | (adjective) not recognized | Synonyms: unrecognized |
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(adjective) not having a secure reputation | Synonyms: unrecognized |
unrecognizable | (adjective) defying recognition as e.g. because of damage or alteration | Synonyms: unrecognisable |
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unrecognizably | (adverb) beyond recognition; in an unrecognizable manner | Synonyms: unrecognisable |
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unrecognized | (adjective) not recognized | Synonyms: unrecognised |
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(adjective) not having a secure reputation | Synonyms: unrecognised |
unsigned | (adjective) lacking a signature | - |
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unwillingness | (noun) the trait of being unwilling | Synonyms: involuntariness |
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unyieldingness | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: adamance, obduracy |
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vignette | (noun) a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books) | - |
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(noun) a photograph whose edges shade off gradually | - |
(noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: sketch |
willingness | (noun) cheerful compliance | - |
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wrongness | (noun) contrary to conscience or morality | - |
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(noun) the quality of not conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: incorrectness |
(noun) inappropriate conduct | Synonyms: inappropriateness |
youngness | (noun) the opposite of oldness | - |
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