| globefish | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: blowfish, puffer, pufferfish |
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| gnomish | (adjective) used of small deformed creatures | - |
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| goatfish | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: Mullus surmuletus, red mullet, surmullet |
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| goldfish | (noun) small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes | Synonyms: Carassius auratus |
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| goodish | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
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| (adjective) moderately good of its kind | - |
| goosefish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| grayish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grey, greyish |
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| greenish | (adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, green, light-green |
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| greenishness | (noun) the property of being somewhat green | - |
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| greyish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayish, grey |
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| groundfish | (noun) fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) | Synonyms: bottom fish |
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| guitarfish | (noun) primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body | - |
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| hagfish | (noun) eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies | Synonyms: hag, slime eels |
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| harvestfish | (noun) butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina | Synonyms: Paprilus alepidotus |
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| hashish | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hash, hasheesh |
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| hawkish | (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: militant, warlike |
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| hawkishness | (noun) any political orientation favoring aggressive policies | - |
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| headfish | (noun) among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: mola, ocean sunfish, sunfish |
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| heathenish | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, pagan |
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| hellish | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: beastly, god-awful |
| hellishly | (adverb) diabolically | Synonyms: infernally |
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| hellishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: nightmarishness |
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| hogfish | (noun) found from Long Island southward | Synonyms: Orthopristis chrysopterus, pigfish |
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| (noun) large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout | Synonyms: hog snapper, Lachnolaimus maximus |
| hoggish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish |
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| hoggishness | (noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: greediness, piggishness |
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| horsefish | (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
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| horseradish | (noun) grated horseradish root | - |
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| (noun) coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root | Synonyms: Armoracia rusticana, horse radish, red cole |
| (noun) the root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning | Synonyms: horseradish root |
| hottish | (adjective) somewhat hot | - |
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| hoydenish | (adjective) used of girls; wild and boisterous | Synonyms: tomboyish |
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| huffish | (adjective) sullen or moody | Synonyms: sulky |
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| huffishness | (noun) a feeling of sulky resentment | Synonyms: sulkiness |
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| imperishability | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishableness, imperishingness |
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| imperishable | (adjective) not perishable | - |
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| (adjective) lasting a long time | Synonyms: abiding, enduring |
| imperishableness | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishability, imperishingness |
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| imperishingness | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishability, imperishableness |
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| impish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
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| impishly | (adverb) in an appealing but bold manner | Synonyms: puckishly |
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| impishness | (noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: mischievousness, puckishness, whimsicality |
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| impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
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| (verb) make poor | - |
| impoverished | (adjective) destroyed financially | Synonyms: broken, wiped out |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
| impoverishment | (noun) the act of making someone poor | Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization |
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| (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: poorness, poverty |
| indistinguishability | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identicalness, identity |
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| indistinguishable | (adjective) not capable of being distinguished or differentiated | Synonyms: undistinguishable |
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| (adjective) exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different | Synonyms: identical |
| inextinguishable | (adjective) difficult or impossible to extinguish | - |
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| introvertish | (adjective) somewhat introverted | Synonyms: shut-in |
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| jawfish | (noun) small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes | - |
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| jellyfish | (noun) any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans | - |
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| (noun) large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles | Synonyms: man-of-war, Portuguese man-of-war |
| jewfish | (noun) large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales | Synonyms: Mycteroperca bonaci |
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| (noun) large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre | Synonyms: mulloway, Sciaena antarctica |
| jinrikisha | (noun) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person | Synonyms: ricksha, rickshaw |
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| killifish | (noun) small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control | - |
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| kingfish | (noun) any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast | - |
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| (noun) large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | Synonyms: cero, pintado, Scomberomorus regalis |
| (noun) small silvery marine food fish found off California | Synonyms: chenfish, Genyonemus lineatus, white croaker |
| (noun) large game fish of Australia and New Zealand | Synonyms: Seriola grandis |
| (noun) the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
| kingfisher | (noun) nonpasserine large-headed bird with a short tail and long sharp bill; usually crested and bright-colored; feed mostly on fish | - |
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| kishke | (noun) (Judaism) roasted fowl intestines with a seasoned filling of matzo meal and suet | Synonyms: stuffed derma |
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| kittenish | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: frisky |
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| knavish | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| knavishly | (adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: artfully, craftily, cunningly, foxily, slyly, trickily |
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| knish | (noun) (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack | - |
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| ladyfish | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, tenpounder |
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| lancetfish | (noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, wolffish |
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| languish | (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: fade |
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| (verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: pine away, waste |
| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, pine, yearn, yen |
| languisher | (noun) a person who languishes | - |
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| lanternfish | (noun) small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night | - |
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| largish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: biggish |
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| latish | (adjective) somewhat late | - |
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| lavish | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lucullan, plush, plushy |
| (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: shower |
| lavishly | (adverb) in a wasteful manner | Synonyms: extravagantly |
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| (adverb) in a rich and lavish manner | Synonyms: extravagantly, richly |
| lavishness | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, highlife, prodigality |
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| (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness |
| leatherfish | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leftish | (adjective) tending toward the political left | - |
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| leishmaniasis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniosis |
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| leishmaniosis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniasis |
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| lionfish | (noun) brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins | - |
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| liverish | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic |
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| (adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: bilious, livery |
| lizardfish | (noun) tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | Synonyms: snake-fish, snakefish |
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| longish | (adjective) somewhat long | - |
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| loutish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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| loutishness | (noun) The state or quality of behaving like a troublemaker, often violent; like a rude violent person; like a yob. | - |
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| lumpfish | (noun) clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar | Synonyms: Cyclopterus lumpus |
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| lumpish | (adjective) mentally sluggish | Synonyms: lumpen, unthinking |
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| lungfish | (noun) air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought | - |
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| malnourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: undernourish |
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| malnourished | (adjective) not being provided with adequate nourishment | - |
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| malnourishment | (noun) not having enough food to develop or function normally | Synonyms: undernourishment |
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| mannish | (adjective) characteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or imitative of or suggestive of a man rather than a woman | - |
| mawkish | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| mawkishly | (adverb) in a mawkish and emotional manner | Synonyms: drippily |
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| mawkishness | (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
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| (noun) insincere pathos | Synonyms: bathos |
| mayfish | (noun) black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States | Synonyms: Fundulus majalis, may fish, striped killifish |
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| mishandle | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mismanage |
| mishap | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: misadventure, mischance |
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| (noun) an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate | Synonyms: bad luck, mischance |
| mishegaas | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: meshugaas, mishegoss |
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| mishegoss | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: meshugaas, mishegaas |
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| mishmash | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| mishpachah | (noun) (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) | Synonyms: mishpocha |
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| mishpocha | (noun) (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) | Synonyms: mishpachah |
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| mobbish | (adjective) characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless | Synonyms: moblike |
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| modish | (adjective) in the current fashion or style | Synonyms: a la mode, in style, in vogue, latest |
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| modishly | (adverb) in a fashionable manner | Synonyms: smartly, sprucely |
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| modishness | (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, last word, smartness, stylishness, swank |
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| monish | (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, discourage, warn |
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| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: admonish, caution |