tightlipped | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, closemouthed, secretive |
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tightly | (adverb) securely fixed or fastened | - |
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(adverb) in a tight or constricted manner | - |
tightness | (noun) lack of movement or room for movement | Synonyms: tautness |
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(noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness |
(noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, concentration, denseness, density |
(noun) a tight feeling in some part of the body | Synonyms: constriction |
(noun) a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit | Synonyms: stringency |
tightrope | (noun) tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground | - |
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tights | (noun) skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls | Synonyms: leotards |
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tightwad | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: cheapskate |
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tonight | (noun) the present or immediately coming night | - |
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(adverb) during the night of the present day | Synonyms: this evening, this night |
torchlight | (noun) light from a torch or torches | - |
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twilight | (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: dusky, twilit |
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(noun) the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth | - |
(noun) a condition of decline following successes | - |
(noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall |
underweight | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, weedy |
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unenlightened | (adjective) not enlightened; ignorant | - |
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(adjective) lacking information or instruction | Synonyms: naive, uninstructed |
unenlightening | (adjective) failing to inform or clarify | Synonyms: unilluminating |
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(adjective) not edifying | Synonyms: unedifying |
unenlightenment | (noun) a lack of understanding | - |
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unforesightful | (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, short, shortsighted |
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unfrightened | (adjective) not affected by fright | - |
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unlighted | (adjective) not set afire or burning | Synonyms: unlit |
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(adjective) without illumination | Synonyms: lightless, unilluminated, unlit |
unrighteous | (adjective) not righteous | - |
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unrighteously | (adverb) in an unrighteous manner | - |
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unrighteousness | (noun) failure to adhere to moral principles | - |
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unsighted | (adjective) unable to see | Synonyms: blind |
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unsightliness | (noun) ugliness that is unpleasant to look at | - |
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unsightly | (adjective) unpleasant to look at | - |
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upright | (adjective) upright in position or posture | Synonyms: erect, vertical |
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(adjective) of moral excellence | Synonyms: good, just |
(adjective) in a vertical position; not sloping | Synonyms: unsloped |
(noun) a piano with a vertical sounding board | Synonyms: upright piano |
(noun) a vertical structural member as a post or stake | Synonyms: vertical |
uprightly | (adverb) in an upright position | - |
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(adverb) in an honorable manner | Synonyms: honorably |
uprightness | (noun) righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest | Synonyms: rectitude |
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(noun) position at right angles to the horizon | Synonyms: erectness, verticality, verticalness |
(noun) the property of being upright in posture | Synonyms: erectness |
uptight | (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive |
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waggonwright | (noun) a wagon maker | Synonyms: wagonwright, wainwright |
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wagonwright | (noun) a wagon maker | Synonyms: waggonwright, wainwright |
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wainwright | (noun) a wagon maker | Synonyms: waggonwright, wagonwright |
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watertight | (adjective) without flaws or loopholes | Synonyms: bulletproof, ironclad, unassailable, unshakable |
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(adjective) not allowing water to pass in or out | - |
watertightness | (noun) The condition of being so tightly made that water cannot enter or escape. | Synonyms: waterproofness |
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weeknight | (noun) any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday | - |
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weight | (noun) an artifact that is heavy | - |
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(noun) sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms | Synonyms: exercising weight, free weight |
(noun) the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity | - |
(noun) the relative importance granted to something | Synonyms: weightiness |
(noun) an oppressive feeling of heavy force | - |
(noun) a unit used to measure weight | Synonyms: weight unit |
(noun) a system of units used to express the weight of something | Synonyms: system of weights |
(noun) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance | Synonyms: weighting |
(verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: angle, slant |
(verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, burthen, weight down |
weighted | (adjective) adjusted to reflect value or proportion | - |
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(adjective) made heavy or weighted down with weariness | Synonyms: leaden |
weightily | (adverb) as something very heavy | - |
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(adverb) in a solemn manner | - |
weightiness | (noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight | Synonyms: heaviness |
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(noun) the relative importance granted to something | Synonyms: weight |
weighting | (noun) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance | Synonyms: weight |
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weightless | (adjective) having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light | - |
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weightlessness | (noun) the property of being comparatively small in weight | Synonyms: lightness |
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weightlift | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlifting |
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(verb) lift weights | Synonyms: press, weight-lift |
weightlifter | (noun) an athlete who lifts barbells | Synonyms: lifter |
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weightlifting | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlift |
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weighty | (adjective) having relatively great weight; heavy | - |
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(adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: corpulent, obese, rotund |
(adjective) weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry | - |
(adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, grievous, heavy |
(adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: cogent, telling |
welterweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the lightweight division and lighter than those in the middleweight division. | - |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds | - |
(noun) a wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds | - |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds | - |
(noun) a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeplechase) | - |
wheelwright | (noun) someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels | Synonyms: wheeler |
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wight | (noun) a living being | Synonyms: creature |
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wright | (noun) someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination) | - |
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