| mitigate | (verb) to temper | - |
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| (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, palliate |
| mitigated | (adjective) made less severe or intense | - |
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| mitigation | (noun) to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious | Synonyms: extenuation, palliation |
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| (noun) the action of lessening in severity or intensity | Synonyms: moderation |
| (noun) a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances | Synonyms: extenuation |
| mitigative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigatory, palliative |
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| mitigatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, palliative |
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| moonlight | (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonshine |
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| (verb) work a second job, usually after hours | - |
| moonlighter | (noun) a person who holds a second job (usually after hours) | - |
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| mornight | (noun) both morning and night, used when greeting someone | - |
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| mulligan | (noun) Irish version of burgoo | Synonyms: Irish burgoo, mulligan stew |
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| mulligatawny | (noun) a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base | - |
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| navigability | (noun) the quality of being suitable for the passage of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| navigable | (adjective) able to be sailed on or through safely | - |
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| navigate | (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: pilot |
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| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: sail, voyage |
| (verb) direct carefully and safely | - |
| navigation | (noun) the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place | Synonyms: pilotage, piloting |
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| (noun) the work of a sailor | Synonyms: sailing, seafaring |
| (noun) ship traffic | - |
| navigational | (adjective) of or relating to navigation | - |
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| navigator | (noun) in earlier times, a person who explored by ship | - |
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| (noun) the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course | - |
| (noun) the ship's officer in charge of navigation | Synonyms: sailing master |
| nearsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted |
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| nearsightedness | (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, shortsightedness |
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| neglige | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, negligee, peignoir, wrapper |
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| negligee | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, peignoir, wrapper |
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| negligence | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, nonperformance |
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| (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, neglectfulness |
| negligent | (adjective) characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern | - |
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| negligently | (adverb) in a negligent manner | - |
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| negligible | (adjective) so small as to be meaningless; insignificant | - |
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| (adjective) not worth considering | Synonyms: paltry, trifling |
| neigh | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
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| (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
| neighbor | (noun) a nearby object of the same kind | Synonyms: neighbour |
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| (noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another | Synonyms: neighbour |
| (verb) be located near or adjacent to | Synonyms: neighbour |
| (verb) live or be located as a neighbor | Synonyms: neighbour |
| neighborhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighbourhood |
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| (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighbourhood, vicinity |
| (noun) an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community) | - |
| (noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | Synonyms: region |
| neighboring | (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighbouring |
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| neighborliness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors | Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighbourliness |
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| neighborly | (adjective) exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: neighbourly |
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| neighbour | (noun) a nearby object of the same kind | Synonyms: neighbor |
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| (noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another | Synonyms: neighbor |
| (verb) be located near or adjacent to | Synonyms: neighbor |
| (verb) live or be located as a neighbor | Synonyms: neighbor |
| neighbourhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighborhood |
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| (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, vicinity |
| neighbouring | (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring |
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| neighbourliness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors | Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighborliness |
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| neighbourly | (adjective) exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: neighborly |
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| neostigmine | (noun) a cholinergic drug (trade name Prostigmin) used to treat some ophthalmic conditions and to treat myasthenia gravis | Synonyms: Prostigmin |
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| nigella | (noun) any plant of the genus Nigella | - |
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| nigga | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: jigaboo, nigger, nigra |
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| niggard | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, scrooge, skinflint |
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| niggardliness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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| niggardly | (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: grudging, scrimy |
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| niggardness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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| nigger | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: jigaboo, nigga, nigra |
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| niggle | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fret, fuss |
| niggler | (noun) someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way | Synonyms: carper |
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| niggling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| nigh | (adjective) not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances | Synonyms: close, near |
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| (adjective) being on the left side | Synonyms: near |
| (adverb) near in time or place or relationship | Synonyms: close, near |
| (adverb) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but | Synonyms: about, almost, most, near, nearly, virtually, well-nigh |
| nigher | (adverb) (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance | Synonyms: closer, nearer |
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| nighest | (adverb) (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance | Synonyms: closest, nearest |
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| night | (noun) darkness | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, nighttime |
| (noun) a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom | - |
| (noun) the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit | - |
| (noun) the time between sunset and midnight | - |
| (noun) the period spent sleeping | - |
| (noun) a shortening of nightfall | - |
| nightbird | (noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nighthawk |
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| nightcap | (noun) the final game of a double header | - |
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| (noun) a cloth cap worn in bed | - |
| (noun) an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic | - |
| nightclothes | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightwear, sleepwear |
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| nightclub | (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, club, night club, nightspot |
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| nightcrawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| nightdress | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightgown, nightie |
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| nighted | (adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: benighted |
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| nightfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, twilight |
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| nightgown | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightdress, nightie |
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| nighthawk | (noun) mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker | Synonyms: bullbat, mosquito hawk |
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| (noun) a person who likes to be active late at night | Synonyms: night owl, nightbird |
| nightie | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightdress, nightgown |
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| nightingale | (noun) European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song | Synonyms: Luscinia megarhynchos |
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| nightjar | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, goatsucker |
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| nightlife | (noun) the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion (as at the theater, a nightclub, etc.) | Synonyms: night life |
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| (noun) the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion | Synonyms: night life |
| nightlong | (adjective) lasting, open, or operating through the whole night | Synonyms: all-night, overnight |
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| nightly | (adjective) happening every night | - |
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| (adverb) at the end of each day | Synonyms: every night |
| nightmare | (noun) a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream | - |
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| (noun) a situation resembling a terrifying dream | Synonyms: incubus |
| nightmarish | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: bloodcurdling, hair-raising |
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| nightmarishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: hellishness |
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| nightrider | (noun) member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge | Synonyms: night rider |
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| nightshade | (noun) any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit | - |
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| nightshirt | (noun) nightclothes worn by men | - |
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| nightspot | (noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, club, night club, nightclub |
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| nightstick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, billystick, truncheon |
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| nighttime | (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, night |
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| nightwalker | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, red worm, wiggler |
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| nightwear | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightclothes, sleepwear |
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| nightwork | (noun) work to be done at night | - |
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| nigra | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: jigaboo, nigga, nigger |
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| nonaligned | (adjective) not affiliated with any faction, party, or cause | - |
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| nonalignment | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalinement |
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| nonbelligerent | (adjective) not directly at war | - |
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| nondigestible | (adjective) not digestible | - |
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| nonfigurative | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonobjective |
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| nonmigratory | (adjective) used of animals that do not migrate | Synonyms: resident |
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| nonobligatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonmandatory |
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| nonrigid | (adjective) designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure | - |
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| nonsignificant | (adjective) attributable to chance | - |
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| nonsovereign | (adjective) (of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: nonautonomous |
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| obbligato | (noun) a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission | Synonyms: obligato |
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| (noun) a persistent but subordinate motif | Synonyms: obligato |
| obligate | (adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life | - |
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| (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, oblige |
| (verb) commit in order to fulfill an obligation | - |
| (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, oblige |
| obligated | (adjective) caused by law or conscience to follow a certain course | - |
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| obligation | (noun) the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force | Synonyms: duty, responsibility |
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| (noun) a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply | - |
| (noun) a written promise to repay a debt | Synonyms: certificate of indebtedness, debt instrument |
| (noun) a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor | Synonyms: indebtedness |
| (noun) the state of being obligated to do or pay something | - |
| obligational | (adjective) relating or constituting or qualified to create a legal or financial obligation | - |
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| obligato | (noun) a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission | Synonyms: obbligato |
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| (noun) a persistent but subordinate motif | Synonyms: obbligato |
| obligatorily | (adverb) in a manner that cannot be evaded | Synonyms: compulsorily, mandatorily |
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| (adverb) in an obligatory manner | - |
| obligatory | (adjective) morally or legally constraining or binding | - |
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| (adjective) required by obligation or compulsion or convention | - |
| oblige | (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, obligate |
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| (verb) provide a service or favor for someone | Synonyms: accommodate |
| (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, obligate |
| obliged | (adjective) under a moral obligation to do something | Synonyms: duty-bound |
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| obliger | (noun) someone who performs a service or does a favor | Synonyms: accommodator |
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