abiogenist | (noun) a believer in abiogenesis | - |
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abolitionist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: emancipationist |
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abortionist | (noun) a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies | - |
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absolutist | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutistic |
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(noun) one who advocates absolutism | - |
absolutistic | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutist |
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abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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(noun) a painter of abstract pictures | Synonyms: abstract artist |
accompanist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanyist |
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accompanyist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanist |
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accordionist | (noun) a musician who plays the accordion | - |
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activist | (adjective) advocating or engaged in activism | Synonyms: activistic |
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(noun) a militant reformer | Synonyms: militant |
activistic | (adjective) advocating or engaged in activism | Synonyms: activist |
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administer | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: dispense |
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(verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
(verb) perform (a church sacrament) ritually | - |
(verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administrate |
(verb) direct the taking of | - |
administrable | (adjective) capable of being administered or managed | - |
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administrate | (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administer |
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administration | (noun) a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) | Synonyms: disposal |
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(noun) the act of administering medication | Synonyms: giving medication |
(noun) the act of meting out justice according to the law | Synonyms: judicature |
(noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: governance, governing, government, government activity |
(noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
(noun) the tenure of a president | Synonyms: presidency, presidential term |
administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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administratively | (adverb) by or for an administrator | - |
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administrator | (noun) someone who administers a business | Synonyms: decision maker |
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(noun) the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor | - |
(noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: executive |
administrivia | (noun) the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization | - |
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adventuristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to adventurism | - |
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aerialist | (noun) an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze) | - |
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aetiologist | (noun) a specialist in the etiology of diseases | Synonyms: etiologist |
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agonist | (noun) (biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction | - |
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(noun) a muscle that contracts while another relaxes | - |
(noun) someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon) | - |
(noun) the principal character in a work of fiction | Synonyms: protagonist |
agonistic | (adjective) of or relating to the athletic contests held in ancient Greece | - |
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(adjective) struggling for effect | Synonyms: strained |
(adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistical, combative |
agonistical | (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, combative |
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agriculturalist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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agriculturist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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agronomist | (noun) an expert in soil management and field-crop production | - |
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ahistorical | (adjective) unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition | - |
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alarmist | (noun) a person who alarms others needlessly | - |
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albinistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affected by albinism | Synonyms: albinal, albinic, albinotic |
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alchemist | (noun) one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone | - |
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alchemistic | (adjective) of or relating to alchemists | Synonyms: alchemistical |
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alchemistical | (adjective) of or relating to alchemists | Synonyms: alchemistic |
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algebraist | (noun) a mathematician whose specialty is algebra | - |
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alienist | (noun) a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness | - |
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allergist | (noun) a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies | - |
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alpinist | (noun) a mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs | - |
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altoist | (noun) a musician who plays the alto saxophone | Synonyms: alto saxophonist |
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altruist | (noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | Synonyms: philanthropist |
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altruistic | (adjective) showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selfless |
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altruistically | (adverb) in an altruistic manner | Synonyms: selflessly |
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amoralist | (noun) someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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amorist | (noun) one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love | - |
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amoristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to romantic love | - |
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amphistylar | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphiprostyle, porticoed |
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(adjective) having columns either at both ends or at both sides | - |
anachronistic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous |
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anachronistically | (adverb) in an anachronistic manner | - |
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anaesthetist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anesthesiologist, anesthetist |
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analogist | (noun) someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy | - |
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anarchist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: nihilist, syndicalist |
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anarchistic | (adjective) of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism | - |
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anatomist | (noun) an expert in anatomy | - |
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anecdotist | (noun) a person skilled in telling anecdotes | Synonyms: raconteur |
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anesthesiologist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anaesthetist, anesthetist |
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anesthetist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anaesthetist, anesthesiologist |
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angiologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in angiology | - |
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animalistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animalism | - |
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animatistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animatism | - |
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animist | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animistic |
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(noun) one who accepts the doctrine of animism | - |
animistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animist |
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annalist | (noun) a historian who writes annals | - |
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annalistic | (adjective) relating to annals | - |
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anomalist | (noun) someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases | - |
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antagonist | (noun) a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug | - |
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(noun) a muscle that relaxes while another contracts | - |
(noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, opponent, opposer, resister |
antagonistic | (adjective) arousing animosity or hostility | - |
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(adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect | Synonyms: incompatible |
(adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical |
(adjective) incapable of harmonious association | - |
(adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: counter |
antagonistically | (adverb) in an antagonistic manner | - |
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anthologist | (noun) an editor who makes selections for an anthology | - |
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anthropologist | (noun) a social scientist who specializes in anthropology | - |
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antifeminist | (noun) someone who does not believe in the social or economic or political equality of men and women | - |
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antihistamine | (noun) a medicine used to treat allergies and hypersensitive reactions and colds; works by counteracting the effects of histamine on a receptor site | - |
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antiphlogistic | (adjective) counteracting inflammation | - |
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antistrophe | (noun) the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem | - |
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antistrophic | (adjective) of or relating to an antistrophe | - |
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aorist | (noun) a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation | - |
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aoristic | (adjective) of or relating to the aorist tense | - |
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aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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(adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
apiarist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiculturist, beekeeper |
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apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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apologist | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: justifier, vindicator |
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arbalist | (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow | Synonyms: arbalest |
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(noun) archer who uses an arbalest | - |
arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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arborist | (noun) a specialist in treating damaged trees | Synonyms: tree surgeon |
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archaeologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture | Synonyms: archeologist |
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archaist | (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquarian, antiquary |
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(noun) a person who archaizes | - |
archaistic | (adjective) imitative of an archaic style or manner | - |
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archeologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture | Synonyms: archaeologist |
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archivist | (noun) a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives | - |
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arianist | (noun) an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God) | - |
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arista | (noun) bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies | - |
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aristocracy | (noun) a privileged class holding hereditary titles | Synonyms: nobility |
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(noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: gentry |
aristocrat | (noun) a member of the aristocracy | Synonyms: blue blood, patrician |
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aristocratic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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aristocratical | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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aristocratically | (adverb) in an aristocratic manner | - |
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aristocratism | (noun) the principles, practices or characteristics of aristocracy. | - |
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armistice | (noun) a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms | Synonyms: cease-fire, truce |
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arriviste | (noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart |
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arsonist | (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: firebug, incendiary |
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