conflagrate | (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, erupt, ignite, take fire |
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(verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: enkindle, inflame, kindle |
conflagration | (noun) a very intense and uncontrolled fire | Synonyms: inferno |
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congratulate | (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: compliment |
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(verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: felicitate |
(verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: preen |
(verb) be proud of | Synonyms: plume, pride |
congratulation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: felicitation |
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(noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: felicitation |
congratulations | (noun) an expression of approval and commendation | Synonyms: extolment, kudos, praise |
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congratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: gratulatory |
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deflagrate | (verb) burn with great heat and intense light | - |
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(verb) cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity | - |
deflagration | (noun) combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat | - |
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denigrate | (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, derogate, minimize |
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(verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
denigrating | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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denigration | (noun) the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself) | Synonyms: deprecation |
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(noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, slander |
(noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: belittling |
denigrative | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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denigratory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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desegrated | (adjective) rid of segregation; having had segregation ended | Synonyms: nonsegregated, unsegregated |
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disintegrate | (verb) break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity | - |
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(verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, decompose |
(verb) cause to undergo fission or lose particles | - |
disintegration | (noun) total destruction | Synonyms: annihilation |
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(noun) separation into component parts | Synonyms: dissolution |
(noun) the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation | Synonyms: decay, radioactive decay |
(noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: decomposition |
(noun) a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system | - |
disintegrative | (adjective) tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
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emigrate | (verb) leave one's country of residence for a new one | - |
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emigration | (noun) migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) | Synonyms: expatriation, out-migration |
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grate | (noun) a frame of iron bars to hold a fire | Synonyms: grating |
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(noun) a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air | Synonyms: grating |
(noun) a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something | - |
(verb) make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together | Synonyms: grind |
(verb) scratch repeatedly | Synonyms: scrape |
(verb) reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface | - |
(verb) gnaw into; make resentful or angry | Synonyms: eat into, fret, rankle |
(verb) furnish with a grate | - |
grateful | (adjective) feeling or showing gratitude | Synonyms: thankful |
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(adjective) affording comfort or pleasure | - |
gratefully | (adverb) in a thankful manner; with thanks | Synonyms: thankfully |
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(adverb) with appreciation; in a grateful manner | Synonyms: appreciatively |
gratefulness | (noun) warm friendly feelings of gratitude | Synonyms: appreciativeness, thankfulness |
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grater | (noun) utensil with sharp perforations for shredding foods (as vegetables or cheese) | - |
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graticule | (noun) a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument | Synonyms: reticle, reticule |
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gratification | (noun) the act or an instance of satisfying | - |
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(noun) state of being gratified or satisfied | Synonyms: satisfaction |
gratified | (adjective) having received what was desired | - |
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gratify | (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: indulge, pander |
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(verb) make happy or satisfied | Synonyms: satisfy |
gratifying | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: enjoyable, pleasurable |
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(adjective) pleasing to the mind or feeling | Synonyms: sweet |
gratifyingly | (adverb) in a gratifying manner | Synonyms: satisfyingly |
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grating | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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(noun) a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air | Synonyms: grate |
(noun) a frame of iron bars to hold a fire | Synonyms: grate |
(noun) optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum | Synonyms: diffraction grating |
gratingly | (adverb) in a harsh and grating manner | Synonyms: harshly, raspingly |
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gratis | (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, costless, free, gratuitous |
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(adverb) without charge | Synonyms: for free, free of charge |
gratitude | (noun) a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation | - |
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gratuitous | (adjective) without cause | - |
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(adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted | Synonyms: needless, uncalled-for |
(adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, costless, free, gratis |
gratuitously | (adverb) in an uncalled-for manner | - |
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gratuity | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, pourboire, tip |
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(noun) an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation | - |
gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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immigrate | (verb) come into a new country and change residency | - |
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(verb) migrate to a new environment | - |
(verb) introduce or send as immigrants | - |
immigration | (noun) migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) | Synonyms: in-migration |
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(noun) the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval | - |
ingrate | (noun) a person who shows no gratitude | Synonyms: thankless wretch, ungrateful person |
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ingratiate | (verb) gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts | - |
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ingratiating | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiatory, insinuating |
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(adjective) capable of winning favor | - |
ingratiatingly | (adverb) in a flattering and ingratiating manner | - |
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ingratiation | (noun) the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments | Synonyms: insinuation |
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ingratiatory | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, insinuating |
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(adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade | Synonyms: coaxing |
ingratitude | (noun) a lack of gratitude | Synonyms: ungratefulness |
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integrate | (verb) make into a whole or make part of a whole | Synonyms: incorporate |
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(verb) become one; become integrated | - |
(verb) calculate the integral of; calculate by integration | - |
(verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: desegregate, mix |
integrated | (adjective) not segregated; designated as available to all races or groups | - |
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(adjective) formed into a whole or introduced into another entity | - |
(adjective) resembling a living organism in organization or development | Synonyms: structured |
(adjective) formed or united into a whole | Synonyms: incorporate, incorporated, merged, unified |
integrating | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: desegregation, integration |
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integration | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: desegregation, integrating |
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(noun) the act of combining into an integral whole | Synonyms: consolidation |
(noun) an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined | - |
integrative | (adjective) combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole | - |
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(adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: consolidative |
integrator | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the area of an irregular plane figure | Synonyms: planimeter |
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migrate | (verb) move from one country or region to another and settle there | Synonyms: transmigrate |
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(verb) move periodically or seasonally | - |
migration | (noun) the movement of persons from one country or locality to another | - |
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(noun) the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding | - |
(noun) (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule | - |
(noun) a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period) | - |
migrational | (adjective) of or related to migration | - |
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migrator | (noun) an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the year | - |
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(noun) traveler who moves from one region or country to another | Synonyms: migrant |
migratory | (adjective) used of animals that move seasonally | - |
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(adjective) habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work | Synonyms: migrant |
nonintegrated | (adjective) not integrated; not taken into or made a part of a whole | Synonyms: unintegrated |
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nonmigratory | (adjective) used of animals that do not migrate | Synonyms: resident |
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reintegrate | (verb) integrate again | - |
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transmigrate | (verb) move from one country or region to another and settle there | Synonyms: migrate |
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(verb) be born anew in another body after death | Synonyms: reincarnate |
transmigration | (noun) the passing of a soul into another body after death | - |
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ungrateful | (adjective) not feeling or showing gratitude | Synonyms: thankless, unthankful |
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(adjective) disagreeable | - |
ungratefully | (adverb) in an ungrateful manner | Synonyms: unappreciatively |
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ungratefulness | (noun) a lack of gratitude | Synonyms: ingratitude |
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ungratified | (adjective) worried and uneasy | Synonyms: restless, unsatisfied |
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ungratifying | (adjective) not likely to be rewarded | Synonyms: thankless, unappreciated |
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unintegrated | (adjective) separated or isolated from others or a main group | Synonyms: segregated |
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(adjective) not integrated; not taken into or made a part of a whole | Synonyms: nonintegrated |