antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
(noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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bitartrate | (noun) an acid tartrate; a hydrogen tartrate | - |
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demilitarise | (verb) do away with the military organization and potential of | Synonyms: demilitarize |
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(verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarize, disarm |
demilitarize | (verb) do away with the military organization and potential of | Synonyms: demilitarise |
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(verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarise, disarm |
depositary | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depository, repository |
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dignitary | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP |
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egalitarian | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: classless |
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(noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: equalitarian |
egalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: equalitarianism |
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equalitarian | (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: egalitarian |
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equalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: egalitarianism |
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flexitarianism | (noun) The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons. | Synonyms: semi-vegetarianism |
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guitar | (noun) a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking | - |
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guitarfish | (noun) primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body | - |
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guitarist | (noun) a musician who plays the guitar | Synonyms: guitar player |
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hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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hereditary | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
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(adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, patrimonial, transmissible |
humanitarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism | - |
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(adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanistic |
(noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
(noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
humanitarianism | (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanism |
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hyperpituitarism | (noun) excessive activity of the pituitary gland (especially overactivity of the anterior lobe which leads to excess secretion of growth hormone) | - |
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insanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: unhealthful, unsanitary |
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militarily | (adverb) with respect to the military | - |
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militarisation | (noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: | Synonyms: militarization, mobilisation, mobilization |
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militarise | (verb) adopt for military use | Synonyms: militarize |
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(verb) lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force | Synonyms: militarize |
militarised | (adjective) issued military arms | Synonyms: militarized |
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militarism | (noun) a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests | - |
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militarist | (noun) a person who advocates war or warlike policies | Synonyms: warmonger |
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militaristic | (adjective) imbued with militarism | - |
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militarization | (noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: | Synonyms: militarisation, mobilisation, mobilization |
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militarize | (verb) adopt for military use | Synonyms: militarise |
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(verb) lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force | Synonyms: militarise |
militarized | (adjective) issued military arms | Synonyms: militarised |
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military | (adjective) associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military | - |
(adjective) of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare | - |
(noun) the military forces of a nation | Synonyms: armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
necessitarian | (noun) someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will | - |
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nonhereditary | (adjective) not acquirable by inheritance | Synonyms: nontransmissible |
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nonmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: unmilitary |
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paramilitary | (adjective) of or relating to a group of civilians organized to function like or to assist a military unit | - |
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(noun) a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) | Synonyms: paramilitary force, paramilitary organisation, paramilitary organization, paramilitary unit |
pituitary | (adjective) of or relating to the pituitary gland | - |
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(noun) the master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain | Synonyms: hypophysis, pituitary body, pituitary gland |
remilitarisation | (noun) the act of militarizing again | Synonyms: remilitarization |
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remilitarise | (verb) militarize anew | Synonyms: remilitarize |
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remilitarization | (noun) the act of militarizing again | Synonyms: remilitarisation |
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remilitarize | (verb) militarize anew | Synonyms: remilitarise |
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ritardando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rallentando, rit., ritenuto |
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sanitariness | (noun) the state of being conducive to health | - |
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sanitarium | (noun) a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases | Synonyms: sanatarium, sanatorium |
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sanitary | (adjective) free from filth and pathogens | Synonyms: healthful |
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scimitar | (noun) a curved oriental saber; the edge is on the convex side of the blade | - |
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sitar | (noun) a stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable frets; has 6 or 7 metal strings for playing and usually 13 resonating strings | - |
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solitarily | (adverb) in solitude | - |
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solitariness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness |
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(noun) the state of being alone in solitary isolation | Synonyms: loneliness |
solitary | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, lonesome, only, sole |
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(adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lone, lonely |
(adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nongregarious, nonsocial |
(adjective) devoid of creatures | Synonyms: lonely, unfrequented |
(adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lone, lonely |
(noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitudinarian, troglodyte |
(noun) confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners | Synonyms: solitary confinement |
totalitarian | (adjective) of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life | Synonyms: totalistic |
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(adjective) characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control | - |
(noun) an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government | - |
totalitarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: absolutism, totalism |
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(noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, tyranny |
unitard | (noun) a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance | Synonyms: body suit, cat suit, leotard |
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unitariness | (noun) The quality or state of pertaining to a unit, having the quality of oneness. | - |
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unitarism | (noun) Politics which favors the process of uniting a political entity which consists of smaller regions, either by cancelling the regions completely or by transferring their power to the central government. | - |
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unitary | (adjective) characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the use of units | - |
(adjective) relating to or characterized by or aiming toward unity | - |
(adjective) having the indivisible character of a unit | Synonyms: one |
unmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: nonmilitary |
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unsanitariness | (noun) a state that is not conducive to health | - |
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unsanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: insanitary, unhealthful |
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utilitarian | (adjective) having a useful function | Synonyms: useful |
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(adjective) having utility often to the exclusion of values | - |
(noun) someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility | - |
utilitarianism | (noun) doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number | - |
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