agnomen | (noun) an additional name or an epithet appended to a name (as in `Ferdinand the Great') | - |
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agnosia | (noun) inability to recognize objects by use of the senses | - |
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agnostic | (adjective) uncertain of all claims to knowledge | Synonyms: agnostical |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism | - |
(noun) a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist) | - |
(noun) someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something | Synonyms: doubter |
agnostical | (adjective) uncertain of all claims to knowledge | Synonyms: agnostic |
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agnosticism | (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: scepticism, skepticism |
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(noun) a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God | - |
anagnost | (noun) a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church) | - |
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assignor | (noun) (law) the party who makes an assignment | - |
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astereognosis | (noun) a loss of the ability to recognize objects by handling them | Synonyms: tactile agnosia |
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atopognosia | (noun) absence or loss of topognosia; inability to locate correctly a point of touch | Synonyms: atopognosis |
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atopognosis | (noun) absence or loss of topognosia; inability to locate correctly a point of touch | Synonyms: atopognosia |
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bignoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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bignoniad | (noun) any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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bourguignon | (noun) reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | Synonyms: bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce |
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chignon | (noun) a roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck | - |
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cognomen | (noun) the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) | Synonyms: family name, last name, surname |
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(noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet |
cognoscente | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: connoisseur |
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cognoscible | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognizable, knowable |
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consignor | (noun) the person who delivers over or commits merchandise | Synonyms: consigner |
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diagnosable | (adjective) capable of being diagnosed | - |
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diagnose | (verb) determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis | Synonyms: name |
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(verb) subject to a medical analysis | - |
diagnosing | (noun) identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon | Synonyms: diagnosis |
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diagnosis | (noun) identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon | Synonyms: diagnosing |
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diagnostic | (adjective) concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis | - |
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(adjective) characteristic or indicative of a disease | Synonyms: symptomatic |
diagnostician | (noun) a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis | Synonyms: pathologist |
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diagnostics | (noun) the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease | Synonyms: nosology |
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eggnog | (noun) a punch made of sweetened milk or cream mixed with eggs and usually alcoholic liquor | - |
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gnocchi | (noun) (Italian) a small dumpling made of potato or flour or semolina that is boiled or baked and is usually served with a sauce or with grated cheese | - |
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gnome | (noun) a short pithy saying expressing a general truth | - |
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(noun) a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure | Synonyms: dwarf |
gnomic | (adjective) relating to or containing gnomes | - |
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gnomish | (adjective) used of small deformed creatures | - |
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gnomon | (noun) indicator provided by the stationary arm whose shadow indicates the time on the sundial | - |
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gnosis | (noun) intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths; said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics | - |
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gnostic | (adjective) possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things | - |
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ignobility | (noun) the quality of being ignoble | Synonyms: ignobleness |
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ignoble | (adjective) completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose | - |
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(adjective) not of the nobility | Synonyms: ungentle, untitled |
ignobleness | (noun) the quality of being ignoble | Synonyms: ignobility |
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ignobly | (adverb) in a currish manner; meanspiritedly | Synonyms: currishly |
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ignominious | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
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ignominiously | (adverb) in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | Synonyms: discreditably, disgracefully, dishonorably, dishonourably, ingloriously, shamefully |
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ignominiousness | (noun) unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor | Synonyms: disgracefulness, shamefulness |
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ignominy | (noun) a state of dishonor | Synonyms: disgrace, shame |
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ignoramus | (noun) an ignorant person | Synonyms: know nothing, uneducated person |
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ignorance | (noun) the lack of knowledge or education | - |
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ignorant | (adjective) unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge | Synonyms: unknowing, unknowledgeable, unwitting |
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(adjective) uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field | Synonyms: illiterate |
(adjective) uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication | Synonyms: nescient, unlearned, unlettered |
ignorantly | (adverb) in ignorance; in an ignorant manner | - |
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ignorantness | (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: nescience, unknowing, unknowingness |
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ignore | (verb) be ignorant of or in the dark about | - |
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(verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, neglect |
(verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, push aside |
(verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: cut, disregard, snub |
(verb) fail to notice | - |
ignored | (adjective) disregarded | Synonyms: neglected, unheeded |
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incognoscible | (adjective) incapable of being perceived or known | Synonyms: incognizable |
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lignosae | (noun) a category in some early taxonomies | - |
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magnolia | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms | - |
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(noun) dried bark of various magnolias; used in folk medicine | - |
magnoliopsid | (noun) flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside | Synonyms: dicot, dicotyledon, exogen |
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mignonette | (noun) Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance | Synonyms: Reseda odorata, sweet reseda |
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nonprognosticative | (adjective) not offering prognostications | - |
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peignoir | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, negligee, wrapper |
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physiognomy | (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, phiz, smiler, visage |
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pignolia | (noun) edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America | Synonyms: pine nut, pinon nut |
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prognosis | (noun) a prediction of the course of a disease | Synonyms: medical prognosis, prospect |
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(noun) a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop | Synonyms: forecast |
prognostic | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognosticative |
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(noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostication |
prognosticate | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, promise |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage |
prognostication | (noun) knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) | Synonyms: prophecy, vaticination |
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(noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prediction |
(noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic |
prognosticative | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognostic |
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prognosticator | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, predictor, soothsayer |
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segno | (noun) (music) a notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated | - |
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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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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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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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undiagnosable | (adjective) not possible to diagnose | - |
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undiagnosed | (adjective) eluding diagnosis | - |
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