| 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 |
| aborigine | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, indigen, indigene, native |
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| affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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| (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: fright, frighten, scare |
| aiglet | (noun) ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform | Synonyms: aglet, aiguillette |
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| (noun) metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon | Synonyms: aglet |
| aigret | (noun) a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume | Synonyms: aigrette |
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| aigrette | (noun) a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume | Synonyms: aigret |
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| aiguillette | (noun) ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform | Synonyms: aglet, aiglet |
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| airfreight | (verb) transport (cargo) by air | Synonyms: air-freight, air-ship |
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| airtight | (adjective) having no weak points | Synonyms: air-tight |
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| (adjective) not allowing air or gas to pass in or out | Synonyms: air-tight, gas-tight |
| alight | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, on fire |
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| (verb) come down | Synonyms: climb down |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: light, perch |
| align | (verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: adjust, aline, line up |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: coordinate, ordinate |
| (verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking | Synonyms: array |
| (verb) be or come into adjustment with | - |
| aligned | (adjective) brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause | - |
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| (adjective) in a straight line | - |
| aligning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: positioning |
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| alignment | (noun) the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other | - |
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| (noun) the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: conjunction |
| (noun) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: alinement, alliance, coalition |
| alligator | (noun) either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts | Synonyms: gator |
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| (noun) leather made from alligator's hide | - |
| (verb) crack and acquire the appearance of alligator hide, as from weathering or improper application; of paint and varnishes | - |
| alligatored | (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: cracked |
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| alligatorfish | (noun) small very elongate sea poachers | Synonyms: Aspidophoroides monopterygius |
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| almighty | (adjective) having unlimited power | Synonyms: all-powerful, omnipotent |
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| alright | (adjective) nonstandard usage | - |
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| (adverb) an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence | Synonyms: all right, fine, OK, very well |
| (adverb) without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion) | Synonyms: all right |
| (adverb) in a satisfactory or adequate manner | Synonyms: all right, O.K., okay |
| ambiguity | (noun) unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | Synonyms: equivocalness |
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| (noun) an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context | - |
| ambiguous | (adjective) having more than one possible meaning | - |
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| (adjective) open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead | Synonyms: equivocal |
| (adjective) having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns | - |
| ambiguously | (adverb) in an ambiguous manner | Synonyms: equivocally |
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| amigo | (noun) a friend or comrade | - |
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| amphigory | (noun) nonsensical writing (usually verse) | Synonyms: nonsense verse |
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| anastigmat | (noun) compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images | - |
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| anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
| anorexigenic | (adjective) causing loss of appetite | Synonyms: anorectic |
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| antigen | (noun) any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates an immune response in the body (especially the production of antibodies) | - |
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| antigenic | (adjective) of or relating to antigens | - |
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| antigram | (noun) an anagram that means the opposite of the original word or phrase | - |
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| antireligiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being opposed to religion. | - |
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| aright | (adverb) in an accurate manner | Synonyms: correctly, right |
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| armiger | (noun) a squire carrying the armor of a knight | Synonyms: armor-bearer |
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| (noun) a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms | - |
| arraign | (verb) accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy | - |
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| (verb) call before a court to answer an indictment | - |
| arraignment | (noun) a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment | - |
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| assign | (verb) select something or someone for a specific purpose | Synonyms: set apart, specify |
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| (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, attribute, impute |
| (verb) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme | Synonyms: attribute |
| (verb) attribute or give | Synonyms: put |
| (verb) transfer one's right to | - |
| (verb) give out | Synonyms: allot, portion |
| (verb) make undue claims to having | Synonyms: arrogate |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: delegate, depute, designate |
| assignable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: conveyable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable |
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| assignation | (noun) a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) | Synonyms: tryst |
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| (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, parceling, parcelling |
| assigned | (adjective) appointed to a post or duty | - |
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| assignee | (noun) (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred) | - |
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| assigning | (noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assignment |
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| assignment | (noun) a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces) | Synonyms: duty assignment |
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| (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, designation, naming |
| (noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assigning |
| (noun) an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) | - |
| (noun) the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another | - |
| (noun) (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance | Synonyms: grant |
| assignor | (noun) (law) the party who makes an assignment | - |
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| astigmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a defect in the eye or in a lens caused by a deviation from spherical curvature which prevents light rays from meeting at a common focus and so results in distorted images | - |
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| astigmatism | (noun) (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point | Synonyms: astigmia |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people | Synonyms: astigmia |
| astigmia | (noun) (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point | Synonyms: astigmatism |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people | Synonyms: astigmatism |
| astronavigation | (noun) navigating according to the positions of the stars | Synonyms: celestial navigation |
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| aweigh | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: atrip |
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| (adjective) (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom | - |
| backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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| bagwig | (noun) an 18th-century wig with hair pushed back into a bag. | - |
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| balbriggan | (noun) a cotton knit fabric used for underwear | - |
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| bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
| battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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| bedight | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, deck |
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| beige | (adjective) of a light greyish-brown color | - |
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| (noun) a very light brown | Synonyms: ecru |
| beigel | (noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust | Synonyms: bagel |
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| beignet | (noun) a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar | Synonyms: French fritter |
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| belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
| belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
| belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
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| (adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
| (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
| belligerently | (adverb) with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner | Synonyms: hostilely |
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| benight | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: bedim |
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| (verb) envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness | - |
| (verb) overtake with darkness or night | - |
| benighted | (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: dark |
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| (adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: nighted |
| benign | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benignant |
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| (adjective) not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor) | - |
| (adjective) kindness of disposition or manner | - |
| benignancy | (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignity, graciousness |
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| benignant | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence | Synonyms: benign |
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| (adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: gracious |
| benignantly | (adverb) in a benign manner | Synonyms: benignly |
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| benignity | (noun) a kind act | Synonyms: kindness |
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| (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignancy, graciousness |
| benignly | (adverb) in a benign manner | Synonyms: benignantly |
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| big | (adjective) above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: large |
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| (adjective) conspicuous in position or importance | Synonyms: large, prominent |
| (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
| (adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: large, magnanimous |
| (adjective) marked by intense physical force | - |
| (adjective) significant | - |
| (adjective) prodigious | Synonyms: heavy |
| (adjective) serious or severe | Synonyms: bad |
| (adjective) loud and firm | - |
| (adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: adult, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup |
| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child |
| (adjective) feeling self-importance | Synonyms: swelled, vainglorious |
| (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
| (adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: boastfully, large, vauntingly |
| (adverb) in a major way | - |
| (adverb) on a grand scale | - |
| (adverb) extremely well | - |
| bigamist | (noun) someone who marries one person while already legally married to another | - |
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| bigamous | (adjective) of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first | - |
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| bigamy | (noun) the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred | - |
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| (noun) the state of having two spouses at the same time | - |
| bigarade | (noun) any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock | Synonyms: bitter orange, bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, marmalade orange, Seville orange, sour orange |
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| bigeminal | (adjective) occurring in pairs | - |
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| bigeneric | (adjective) resulting from a cross between species of different genera | - |
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| bigeye | (noun) red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales | - |
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| bigger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: larger |
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| biggin | (noun) a child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin | - |
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| biggish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: largish |
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| bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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| bigheaded | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
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| bighearted | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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| bighorn | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
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| bight | (noun) the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) | - |
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| (noun) a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline | - |
| (noun) a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | - |
| (noun) a loop in a rope | - |
| (verb) fasten with a bight | - |
| bigmouthed | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative |
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| bigness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: largeness |
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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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| bigos | (noun) a Polish stew of cabbage and meat | - |
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| bigot | (noun) a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own | - |
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| bigoted | (adjective) blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others | - |
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| bigotry | (noun) the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot | - |
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| bigram | (noun) a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system | - |
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| bigwig | (noun) the most important person in a group or undertaking | Synonyms: kingpin, top banana |
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| birthright | (noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth | - |
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| (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: patrimony |
| blight | (noun) a state or condition being blighted | - |
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| (noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting | - |
| (verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: plague |
| blighted | (adjective) affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity | Synonyms: spoilt |
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| blighter | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
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| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |