| limpidity | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: pellucidity, pellucidness |
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| (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
| limpidly | (adverb) in a clear and lucid manner | Synonyms: lucidly, pellucidly, perspicuously |
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| limping | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, gimpiness, lameness |
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| limpkin | (noun) wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call | Synonyms: Aramus pictus |
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| limply | (adverb) without rigidity | - |
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| limpness | (noun) a flabby softness | Synonyms: flabbiness, flaccidity |
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| oversimplification | (noun) an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is | Synonyms: simplism |
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| (noun) an explanation that simplifies too far to the point of misrepresentation | Synonyms: simplism |
| oversimplify | (verb) simplify to an excessive degree | - |
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| palimpsest | (noun) a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible | - |
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| pimp | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, ponce, procurer |
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| (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, procure |
| pimpernel | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Anagallis | - |
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| (noun) European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads | Synonyms: burnet bloodwort, Poterium sanguisorba, salad burnet |
| pimple | (noun) a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne | Synonyms: hickey, zit |
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| pimpled | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimply, pustulate |
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| pimply | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimpled, pustulate |
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| primp | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, plume, preen |
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| primping | (noun) careful or finicky grooming | - |
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| reimpose | (verb) impose anew | - |
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| reimposition | (noun) imposition again | - |
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| scrimp | (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
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| scrimpy | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, stingy |
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| shrimp | (noun) small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible | - |
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| (noun) any of various edible decapod crustaceans | Synonyms: prawn |
| (noun) disparaging terms for small people | Synonyms: half-pint, peewee, runt |
| (verb) fish for shrimp | - |
| shrimper | (noun) a vessel engaged in shrimping | - |
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| shrimpfish | (noun) slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates | Synonyms: shrimp-fish |
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| shrimpy | (adjective) (used especially of persons) of inferior size | Synonyms: puny, runty |
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| simper | (noun) a silly self-conscious smile | - |
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| (verb) smile affectedly or derisively | Synonyms: smirk |
| simperer | (noun) a smiler whose smile is silly and self-conscious and sometimes coy | - |
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| simperingly | (adverb) with a lack of courage and determination | Synonyms: pusillanimously |
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| simple | (adjective) (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions | Synonyms: unsubdivided |
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| (adjective) having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved | - |
| (adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic |
| (adjective) exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity | Synonyms: childlike, dewy-eyed, round-eyed, wide-eyed |
| (adjective) unornamented | - |
| (adjective) lacking mental capacity and subtlety | Synonyms: dim-witted, simple-minded |
| (adjective) apart from anything else; without additions or modifications | Synonyms: bare, mere |
| (noun) a person lacking intelligence or common sense | Synonyms: simpleton |
| (noun) any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties | - |
| simpleness | (noun) the quality of being simple or uncompounded | Synonyms: simplicity |
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| (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, restraint, simplicity |
| (noun) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort | Synonyms: ease, easiness, simplicity |
| (noun) a lack of penetration or subtlety | Synonyms: simple mindedness, simplicity |
| simpleton | (noun) a person lacking intelligence or common sense | Synonyms: simple |
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| simplex | (adjective) having only one part or element | - |
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| (adjective) allowing communication in only one direction at a time, or in telegraphy allowing only one message over a line at a time | - |
| simplicity | (noun) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort | Synonyms: ease, easiness, simpleness |
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| (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, restraint, simpleness |
| (noun) the quality of being simple or uncompounded | Synonyms: simpleness |
| (noun) absence of affectation or pretense | Synonyms: simmpleness |
| (noun) a lack of penetration or subtlety | Synonyms: simple mindedness, simpleness |
| simplification | (noun) elimination of superfluous details | - |
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| (noun) the act of reducing complexity | Synonyms: reduction |
| (noun) an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity | - |
| simplify | (verb) make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent | - |
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| simplism | (noun) an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is | Synonyms: oversimplification |
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| (noun) an explanation that simplifies too far to the point of misrepresentation | Synonyms: oversimplification |
| simplistic | (adjective) characterized by extreme and often misleading simplicity | - |
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| simply | (adverb) and nothing more | Synonyms: but, just, merely, only |
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| (adverb) in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment | Synonyms: plainly |
| (adverb) absolutely; altogether; really | - |
| (adverb) (used for emphasis) absolutely | Synonyms: just |
| skimp | (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: scrimp, stint |
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| (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: scant, stint |
| (verb) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially | Synonyms: scant |
| (verb) limit in quality or quantity | Synonyms: scant |
| skimpily | (adverb) in a skimpy manner | Synonyms: scantily |
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| skimpiness | (noun) Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing. | Synonyms: scantiness |
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| skimpy | (adjective) containing little excess | Synonyms: lean |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) revealing the body | Synonyms: scanty |
| superimpose | (verb) place on top of | Synonyms: lay over, superpose |
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| superimposed | (adjective) with one layer on top of another | Synonyms: layered |
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| (adjective) placed on or over something else | Synonyms: overlying |
| timpani | (noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettle, kettledrum, tympani, tympanum |
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| timpanist | (noun) a person who plays the kettledrums | Synonyms: tympanist |
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| unimpaired | (adjective) not damaged or diminished in any respect | - |
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| unimpassioned | (adjective) free from emotional appeal; marked by reasonableness | - |
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| unimpeachable | (adjective) completely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach | Synonyms: unexceptionable |
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| (adjective) free of guilt; not subject to blame | Synonyms: blameless, inculpable, irreproachable |
| (adjective) beyond doubt or reproach | - |
| unimpeachably | (adverb) without question | Synonyms: unquestionably |
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| unimpeded | (adjective) not slowed or prevented | - |
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| unimportance | (noun) the quality of not being important or worthy of note | - |
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| (noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, obscureness |
| unimportant | (adjective) not important | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of importance, meaning, or force | Synonyms: insignificant |
| unimposing | (adjective) lacking in impressiveness | - |
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| unimpregnated | (adjective) not having been fertilized | Synonyms: unfertilised, unfertilized |
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| unimpressed | (adjective) not moved to serious regard | - |
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| unimpressionable | (adjective) not sensitive or susceptible to impression | - |
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| unimpressive | (adjective) not capable of impressing | - |
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| unimpressively | (adverb) in an unimpressive manner | - |
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| unimprisoned | (adjective) free from confinement or physical restraint | Synonyms: unconfined |
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| unimproved | (adjective) not made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially not made ready for use or marketing | - |
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| (adjective) (of land) not cleared of trees and brush; in the wild or natural state | - |
| whimper | (noun) a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way | Synonyms: whine |
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| (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, pule, wail |
| wimp | (noun) a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy | Synonyms: chicken, crybaby |
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| wimpish | (adjective) weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: wimpy |
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| wimple | (noun) headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women | - |
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| wimpy | (adjective) weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: wimpish |
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