| intimidated | (adjective) made timid or fearful as by threats | - |
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| intimidating | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: daunting |
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| intimidation | (noun) the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something | Synonyms: bullying |
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| (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, deterrence |
| (noun) the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid | - |
| (noun) the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc. | - |
| legitimise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimize |
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| legitimize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise |
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| limit | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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| (noun) the boundary of a specific area | Synonyms: demarcation, demarcation line |
| (noun) as far as something can go | - |
| (noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limitation |
| (noun) the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity | Synonyms: limit point, point of accumulation |
| (noun) final or latest limiting point | Synonyms: terminal point, terminus ad quem |
| (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: circumscribe, confine to |
| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, restrict, throttle, trammel |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, set, specify |
| limitation | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: restriction |
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| (noun) the quality of being limited or restricted | - |
| (noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: restriction |
| (noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limit |
| (noun) (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought | - |
| limited | (adjective) small in range or scope | - |
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| (adjective) not unlimited | - |
| (adjective) not excessive | - |
| (adjective) including only a part | - |
| (adjective) mediocre | Synonyms: modified |
| (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: circumscribed |
| (adjective) having a specific function or scope | Synonyms: special |
| (noun) public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops | Synonyms: express |
| limitedly | (adverb) in a limited manner | - |
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| limitedness | (noun) The state or characteristic of having certain (often specified) limits placed upon it. | - |
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| limiter | (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: clipper |
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| limiting | (adjective) strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting |
| (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: modification, qualifying |
| limitless | (adjective) having no limits in range or scope | Synonyms: unlimited |
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| (adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: illimitable, measureless, unmeasured |
| (adjective) seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent | Synonyms: boundless, unbounded |
| limitlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, unboundedness |
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| longanimity | (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: forbearance, patience |
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| magnanimity | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, munificence, openhandedness |
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| maximisation | (noun) the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position | Synonyms: maximation, maximization |
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| maximise | (verb) make as big or large as possible | Synonyms: maximize |
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| (verb) make the most of | Synonyms: maximize |
| maximising | (adjective) making as great as possible | Synonyms: maximizing |
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| maximization | (noun) the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position | Synonyms: maximation, maximisation |
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| (noun) the mathematical process of finding the maximum value of a function | - |
| maximize | (verb) make as big or large as possible | Synonyms: maximise |
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| (verb) make the most of | Synonyms: maximise |
| maximizing | (adjective) making as great as possible | Synonyms: maximising |
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| millimicron | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromillimeter, micromillimetre, nanometer, nanometre, nm |
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| mimic | (adjective) constituting an imitation | - |
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| (noun) someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) | Synonyms: mimicker |
| (verb) imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect | Synonyms: mime |
| mimicker | (noun) someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) | Synonyms: mimic |
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| mimicry | (noun) the act of mimicking; imitative behavior | Synonyms: apery |
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| (noun) the resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects; provides concealment and protection from predators | - |
| minimisation | (noun) the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position | Synonyms: minimization |
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| minimise | (verb) make small or insignificant | Synonyms: minimize |
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| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: downplay, minimize, understate |
| minimization | (noun) the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position | Synonyms: minimisation |
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| minimize | (verb) make small or insignificant | Synonyms: minimise |
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| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, denigrate, derogate |
| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: downplay, minimise, understate |
| minimized | (adjective) reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree | - |
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| mistiming | (noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | Synonyms: anachronism, misdating |
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| nimiety | (noun) a quantity much larger than is needed | Synonyms: excess, surplus, surplusage |
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| nonimitative | (adjective) not marked by or given to imitation | - |
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| optimisation | (noun) the act of rendering optimal | Synonyms: optimization |
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| optimise | (verb) act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world | Synonyms: optimize |
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| (verb) make optimal; get the most out of; use best | Synonyms: optimize |
| (verb) modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost | Synonyms: optimize |
| optimism | (noun) a general disposition to expect the best in all things | - |
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| (noun) the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well | - |
| optimist | (noun) a person disposed to take a favorable view of things | - |
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| optimistic | (adjective) expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds | - |
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| (adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: affirmative |
| optimistically | (adverb) with optimism; in an optimistic manner | - |
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| optimization | (noun) the act of rendering optimal | Synonyms: optimisation |
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| optimize | (verb) act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world | Synonyms: optimise |
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| (verb) make optimal; get the most out of; use best | Synonyms: optimise |
| (verb) modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost | Synonyms: optimise |
| ornithomimid | (noun) lightly built medium-sized dinosaur having extremely long limbs and necks with small heads and big brains and large eyes | - |
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| oxyphencyclimine | (noun) an anticholinergic drug (trade name Daricon) used in treating peptic ulcers | Synonyms: Daricon |
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| pantomimist | (noun) an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression | Synonyms: mime, mimer, mummer, pantomimer |
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| pessimism | (noun) a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things | - |
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| (noun) the feeling that things will turn out badly | - |
| pessimist | (noun) a person who expects the worst | - |
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| pessimistic | (adjective) expecting the worst possible outcome | - |
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| pessimistically | (adverb) with pessimism; in a pessimistic manner | - |
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| phensuximide | (noun) anticonvulsant (trade name Milontin) used to treat petit mal | Synonyms: Milontin |
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| pimiento | (noun) fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked | Synonyms: pimento |
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| (noun) plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers | Synonyms: bell pepper, Capsicum annuum grossum, paprika, pimento, sweet pepper, sweet pepper plant |
| preliminary | (adjective) denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important | - |
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| (noun) a minor match preceding the main event | Synonyms: prelim |
| (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: overture, prelude |
| primidone | (noun) an anticonvulsant (trade name Mysoline) used to treat grand mal seizures and essential tremor | Synonyms: Mysoline |
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| primigravida | (noun) (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time | Synonyms: gravida I |
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| priming | (noun) the act of making something ready | - |
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| (noun) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant | Synonyms: fuse, fusee, fuze, fuzee, primer |
| (noun) the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface | Synonyms: flat coat, ground, primer, primer coat, priming coat, undercoat |
| primipara | (noun) (obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time | Synonyms: para I |
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| primiparous | (adjective) of or relating to a woman who has given birth only once | - |
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| primitive | (adjective) used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies | - |
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| (adjective) of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style | Synonyms: naive |
| (adjective) little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type | Synonyms: archaic |
| (adjective) belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness | Synonyms: crude, rude |
| (noun) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms | - |
| (noun) a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived | - |
| (noun) a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization | Synonyms: primitive person |
| primitively | (adverb) in a primitive style or manner | - |
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| (adverb) with reference to the origin or beginning | Synonyms: in the beginning, originally |
| primitiveness | (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitivism, rudeness |
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| primitivism | (noun) a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children | - |
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| (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, rudeness |
| prosimian | (noun) primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits | - |
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| proximity | (noun) the property of being close together | Synonyms: propinquity |
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| (noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit | Synonyms: law of proximity |
| (noun) the region close around a person or thing | - |
| pusillanimity | (noun) contemptible fearfulness | Synonyms: pusillanimousness |
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| pyrimidine | (noun) a heterocyclic organic compound with a penetrating odor | - |
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| (noun) any of several basic compounds derived from pyrimidine | - |
| recriminate | (verb) return an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return | - |
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| recrimination | (noun) mutual accusations | - |
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| recriminative | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminatory |
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| recriminatory | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminative |
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| riming | (adjective) having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds | Synonyms: rhymed, rhyming |
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| sashimi | (noun) very thinly sliced raw fish | - |
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| scimitar | (noun) a curved oriental saber; the edge is on the convex side of the blade | - |
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| simian | (adjective) relating to or resembling an ape | - |
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| (noun) an ape or monkey | - |
| similar | (adjective) marked by correspondence or resemblance | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination | Synonyms: like |
| (adjective) having the same or similar characteristics | Synonyms: alike, like |
| (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, interchangeable, standardised, standardized |
| (adjective) (of words) expressing closely related meanings | - |
| similarity | (noun) the quality of being similar | - |
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| (noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit | Synonyms: law of similarity |
| similarly | (adverb) in like or similar manner | Synonyms: likewise |
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| simile | (noun) a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') | - |
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| similitude | (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: counterpart, twin |
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| (noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: alikeness, likeness |
| sliminess | (noun) a property resembling or being covered with slime | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, lousiness, repulsiveness, vileness, wickedness |
| subliminal | (adjective) below the threshold of conscious perception | - |
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| sublimit | (noun) (insurance) a limitation in an amount of loss coverage. | - |
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| sublimity | (noun) nobility in thought or feeling or style | - |
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| timid | (adjective) showing fear and lack of confidence | - |
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| (adjective) lacking self-confidence | Synonyms: diffident, shy, unsure |
| (adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage | Synonyms: faint-hearted, faint, fainthearted |
| (noun) people who are fearful and cautious | Synonyms: cautious |
| timidity | (noun) fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities | Synonyms: timorousness |
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| (noun) fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions | Synonyms: timidness, timorousness |
| timidly | (adverb) in a shy or timid or bashful manner | Synonyms: bashfully, shyly |
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| timidness | (noun) fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions | Synonyms: timidity, timorousness |
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| timing | (noun) the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics) | - |
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| (noun) the time when something happens | - |
| trimipramine | (noun) tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Surmontil) used to treat depression and anxiety and (sometimes) insomnia | Synonyms: Surmontil |
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| unanimity | (noun) everyone being of one mind | - |
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| undiminished | (adjective) not lessened or diminished | Synonyms: unrelieved |
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| undiscriminating | (adjective) not discriminating | Synonyms: indiscriminating |
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| unintimidated | (adjective) not shrinking from danger | Synonyms: unblinking, unflinching, unshrinking |
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| unlimited | (adjective) having no limits in range or scope | Synonyms: limitless |
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| (adjective) that cannot be entirely consumed or used up | Synonyms: inexhaustible |
| (adjective) without reservation or exception | Synonyms: outright, straight-out |
| unsimilarity | (noun) the quality of being dissimilar | Synonyms: dissimilarity |
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| verisimilar | (adjective) appearing to be true or real | - |
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| verisimilitude | (noun) the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true | - |
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| victimisation | (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: exploitation, using, victimization |
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| victimise | (verb) punish unjustly | Synonyms: victimize |
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| (verb) make a victim of | Synonyms: victimize |
| victimised | (adjective) (of persons) taken advantage of | Synonyms: exploited, ill-used, put-upon, used, victimized |
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| victimiser | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimizer |
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