| foiled | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, frustrated, thwarted |
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| fragile | (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: delicate, frail |
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| (adjective) vulnerably delicate | - |
| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin |
| futile | (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: bootless, fruitless, sleeveless, vain |
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| (adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: ineffectual, meaningless, otiose, unavailing |
| futilely | (adverb) in a futile and unproductive manner | - |
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| gentile | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples | - |
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| (noun) a Christian as contrasted with a Jew | Synonyms: goy, non-Jew |
| (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: heathen, infidel, pagan |
| (noun) a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus | - |
| (noun) a Christian | - |
| gracile | (adjective) slender and graceful | Synonyms: willowy |
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| guile | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| (noun) the quality of being crafty | Synonyms: craftiness |
| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness |
| guileful | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| guileless | (adjective) free of deceit | Synonyms: transparent |
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| haemophile | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac |
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| halophile | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophil |
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| hemophile | (noun) someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding | Synonyms: bleeder, haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophiliac |
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| hobnailed | (adjective) marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails | - |
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| homiletic | (adjective) of or relating to homiletics | Synonyms: homiletical |
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| (adjective) of the nature of a homily or sermon | Synonyms: homiletical |
| homiletical | (adjective) of or relating to homiletics | Synonyms: homiletic |
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| (adjective) of the nature of a homily or sermon | Synonyms: homiletic |
| homiletics | (noun) the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies | - |
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| (noun) the art of preaching | - |
| homophile | (adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: gay, queer |
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| (noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gay, homo, homosexual |
| hostile | (adjective) characterized by enmity or ill will | - |
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| (adjective) not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally | - |
| (adjective) unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business) | - |
| (adjective) very unfavorable to life or growth | Synonyms: uncongenial, unfriendly |
| (adjective) impossible to bring into friendly accord | - |
| (noun) troops belonging to the enemy's military forces | - |
| hostilely | (adverb) with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner | Synonyms: belligerently |
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| ileitis | (noun) inflammation of the ileum | - |
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| ileostomy | (noun) surgical procedure that creates an opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall to function as an anus; performed in cases of cancer of the colon or ulcerative colitis | - |
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| ileum | (noun) the part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the cecum | - |
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| ileus | (noun) blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel | Synonyms: intestinal obstruction |
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| imbecile | (adjective) having a mental age of three to seven years | Synonyms: idiotic, imbecilic |
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| (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, moron, retard |
| immobile | (adjective) not capable of movement or of being moved | - |
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| (adjective) securely fixed in place | Synonyms: fast, firm |
| immotile | (adjective) (of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement | Synonyms: nonmotile |
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| indocile | (adjective) incapable of being controlled | Synonyms: uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly |
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| infantile | (adjective) of or relating to infants or infancy | - |
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| (adjective) indicating a lack of maturity | Synonyms: childish |
| (adjective) being or befitting or characteristic of an infant | - |
| infertile | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | Synonyms: sterile, unfertile |
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| inutile | (adjective) not worth using | - |
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| jailed | (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: captive, confined, imprisoned |
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| jailer | (noun) someone who guards prisoners | Synonyms: gaoler, jailor, prison guard, screw, turnkey |
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| jejunoileitis | (noun) inflammation of the jejunum and the ileum of the small intestine | - |
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| jubilee | (noun) a special anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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| juvenile | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people | - |
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| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, jejune, puerile |
| (noun) a young person, not fully developed | Synonyms: juvenile person |
| kiley | (noun) an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex | Synonyms: kylie |
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| labile | (adjective) (chemistry, physics, biology) readily undergoing change or breakdown | - |
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| (adjective) liable to change | - |
| laetrile | (noun) a substance derived from amygdalin; publicized as an antineoplastic drug although there is no supporting evidence | - |
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| madrilene | (noun) a tomato-flavored consomme; often served chilled | - |
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| mailed | (adjective) wearing protective mail | Synonyms: mail-clad |
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| mailer | (noun) a container for something to be mailed | - |
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| (noun) an advertisement that is sent by mail | - |
| (noun) a person who mails something | - |
| meanwhile | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meantime |
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| (adverb) during the intervening time | Synonyms: in the meantime, meantime |
| (adverb) at the same time but in another place | - |
| mercantile | (adjective) of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of trade or traders | - |
| (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercenary, moneymaking |
| merciless | (adjective) having or showing no mercy | Synonyms: unmerciful |
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| mercilessly | (adverb) without pity; in a merciless manner | Synonyms: pitilessly, remorselessly, unmercifully |
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| mercilessness | (noun) inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving | Synonyms: unmercifulness |
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| (noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, pitilessness, ruthlessness |
| methapyrilene | (noun) antihistamine used to treat allergic responses (as rhinitis or dermatitis or pruritus) | - |
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| mexiletine | (noun) antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Mexitil) used to treat ventricular arrhythmias | Synonyms: Mexitil |
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| mile | (noun) a footrace extending one mile | - |
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| (noun) a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters | Synonyms: international mile, land mile, mi, stat mi, statute mile |
| (noun) a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km | Synonyms: mil, Swedish mile |
| (noun) an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards | Synonyms: Roman mile |
| (noun) a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude | Synonyms: air mile, international nautical mile, mi, naut mi, nautical mile |
| (noun) a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters) | Synonyms: sea mile |
| (noun) a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile | Synonyms: Admiralty mile, geographical mile, mi, naut mi, nautical mile |
| (noun) a large distance | - |
| mileage | (noun) distance measured in miles | Synonyms: milage |
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| (noun) a travel allowance at a given rate per mile traveled | - |
| (noun) the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned | Synonyms: fuel consumption rate, gas mileage, gasoline mileage |
| mileometer | (noun) a meter that shows mileage traversed | Synonyms: hodometer, milometer, odometer |
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| milepost | (noun) stone post at side of a road to show distances | Synonyms: milestone |
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| miler | (noun) a runner in a one-mile race | - |
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| (noun) (used only in combinations) the length of something in miles | - |
| milestone | (noun) stone post at side of a road to show distances | Synonyms: milepost |
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| (noun) a significant event in your life (or in a project) | - |
| missile | (noun) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled | Synonyms: projectile |
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| (noun) a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control | - |
| mobile | (adjective) moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place) | - |
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| (adjective) having transportation available | - |
| (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering |
| (adjective) affording change (especially in social status) | Synonyms: fluid |
| (adjective) capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another | - |
| (noun) sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents | - |
| motile | (adjective) (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement | - |
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| (noun) one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action | - |
| multilevel | (adjective) of a building having more than one level | - |
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| myrmecophile | (noun) an organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant | - |
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| nailer | (noun) a worker who attaches something by nailing it | - |
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| nailfile | (noun) a small flat file for shaping the nails | - |
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| narghile | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| nargileh | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| neurilemma | (noun) thin membranous sheath around a nerve fiber | Synonyms: neurolemma |
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| neurilemoma | (noun) tumor of the fibrous covering of a peripheral nerve | Synonyms: neurofibroma |
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| neuropile | (noun) the complex network of unmyelinated axones, dendrites, and glial branches that form the bulk of the central nervous system's grey matter and in which nerve cell bodies are embedded | Synonyms: neuropil |
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| neutrophile | (noun) the chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyes | Synonyms: neutrophil |
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| nitrile | (noun) any of a class of organic compounds containing the cyano radical -CN | Synonyms: cyanide, nitril |
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| nonextensile | (adjective) not extensile | Synonyms: inextensible, nonprotractile |
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| nonfissile | (adjective) not fissile | - |
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| nonmotile | (adjective) (of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement | Synonyms: immotile |
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| nonprehensile | (adjective) not prehensile | - |
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| nonprotractile | (adjective) not extensile | Synonyms: inextensible, nonextensile |
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| nonretractile | (adjective) not capable of being retracted | Synonyms: nonretractable |
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| nonvolatile | (adjective) not volatilizing readily | Synonyms: nonvolatilisable, nonvolatilizable |
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| nubile | (adjective) of girls or women who are eligible to marry | Synonyms: marriageable |
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| oenophile | (noun) someone who appreciates wine | Synonyms: enophile |
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| oiled | (adjective) treated with oil | - |
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| oiler | (noun) a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk | Synonyms: oil tanker, tank ship, tanker |
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| (noun) a well that yields or has yielded oil | Synonyms: oil well |
| (noun) a worker who oils engines or machinery | - |
| paedophile | (noun) an adult who is sexually attracted to children | Synonyms: pedophile |
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| pantile | (noun) a roofing tile with a S-shape; laid so that curves overlap | - |
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| pedophile | (noun) an adult who is sexually attracted to children | Synonyms: paedophile |
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| penciled | (adjective) drawn or written with a pencil | Synonyms: pencilled |
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| penile | (adjective) of or relating to the penis | Synonyms: penial |
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| penniless | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penurious, pinched |
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| pennilessness | (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: impecuniousness, penuriousness |
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| percentile | (noun) (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total | Synonyms: centile |
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| pestilence | (noun) a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of | Synonyms: canker |
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| (noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, plague |
| (noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestis, plague |
| pestilent | (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilential, plaguey |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pernicious |
| pestilential | (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, plaguey |
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| pile | (noun) a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy | Synonyms: atomic pile, atomic reactor, chain reactor |
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| (noun) battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta | Synonyms: galvanic pile, voltaic pile |
| (noun) the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave | Synonyms: nap |
| (noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | Synonyms: piling, spile, stilt |
| (noun) fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | Synonyms: down |
| (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound |
| (noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, bundle, megabucks |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: heap, stack |
| (verb) place or lay as if in a pile | - |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: jam, mob, pack, throng |
| piles | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| (noun) venous swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter | Synonyms: haemorrhoid, hemorrhoid |
| pileup | (noun) multiple collisions of vehicles | - |
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| pileus | (noun) a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom | Synonyms: cap |
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| pilewort | (noun) perennial herb native to Europe but naturalized elsewhere having heart-shaped leaves and yellow flowers resembling buttercups; its tuberous roots have been used as a poultice to relieve piles | Synonyms: lesser celandine, Ranunculus ficaria |
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| pitiless | (adjective) deficient in humane and kindly feelings | Synonyms: unkind |
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| (adjective) without mercy or pity | Synonyms: remorseless, ruthless, unpitying |
| pitilessly | (adverb) without pity; in a merciless manner | Synonyms: mercilessly, remorselessly, unmercifully |
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| pitilessness | (noun) mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity | Synonyms: ruthlessness |
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| (noun) feelings of extreme heartlessness | Synonyms: cruelty, mercilessness, ruthlessness |
| polypropenonitrile | (noun) acrylic resin used to make a strong soft crease-resistant fabric (trade name Acrilan) | Synonyms: Acrilan |
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| potboiler | (noun) a literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot) | - |
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