ablative | (adjective) relating to the ablative case | - |
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(adjective) tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature | - |
(noun) the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb | Synonyms: ablative case |
abortive | (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: stillborn, unsuccessful |
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abortively | (adverb) in an unfruitful manner | - |
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abrasive | (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: harsh |
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(adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: scratchy |
(noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abradant, abrasive material |
abrasiveness | (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: harshness, scratchiness |
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(noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable | - |
absorptive | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorbent |
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absorptivity | (noun) (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body | Synonyms: absorption factor |
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abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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abusive | (adjective) characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment | - |
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(adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: opprobrious, scurrilous |
abusively | (adverb) in an abusive manner | - |
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accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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acceptive | (adjective) inclined to accept rather than reject | - |
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(adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptant |
acclivitous | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: rising, uphill |
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acclivity | (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade |
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accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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(adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
(adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
accretive | (adjective) growing by accretion | - |
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acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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accumulative | (adjective) marked by acquiring or amassing | - |
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(adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: cumulative |
accusative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: objective |
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(adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusatory, accusing, accusive |
(noun) the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb | Synonyms: accusative case, objective case |
accusive | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusing |
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acquisitive | (adjective) eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas | - |
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acquisitiveness | (noun) strong desire to acquire and possess | - |
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activate | (verb) make active or more active | - |
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(verb) make (substances) radioactive | - |
(verb) aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter | Synonyms: aerate |
(verb) make more adsorptive | - |
(verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
activated | (adjective) rendered active; e.g. rendered radioactive or luminescent or photosensitive or conductive | - |
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(adjective) (military) set up and placed on active assignment | - |
(adjective) (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive | Synonyms: excited |
(adjective) (of sewage) treated with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition | - |
activating | (adjective) causing motion or action or change | Synonyms: actuating |
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(noun) the activity of causing to have energy and be active | Synonyms: activation, energizing |
activation | (noun) the activity of causing to have energy and be active | Synonyms: activating, energizing |
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(noun) making active and effective (as a bomb) | - |
(noun) stimulation of activity in an organism or chemical | - |
activator | (noun) (biology) any agency bringing about activation; a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription | - |
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active | (adjective) (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being | Synonyms: dynamic |
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(adjective) characterized by energetic activity | - |
(adjective) tending to become more severe or wider in scope | - |
(adjective) disposed to take action or effectuate change | - |
(adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) erupting or liable to erupt | - |
(adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) capable of erupting | - |
(adjective) full of activity or engaged in continuous activity | - |
(adjective) exerting influence or producing a change or effect | - |
(adjective) engaged in full-time work | - |
(adjective) expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: | - |
(adjective) (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions | - |
(adjective) in operation | Synonyms: alive |
(adjective) taking part in an activity | Synonyms: participating |
(adjective) engaged in or ready for military or naval operations | Synonyms: combat-ready, fighting |
(noun) a person who is a participating member of an organization | - |
(noun) the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb | Synonyms: active voice |
(noun) chemical agent capable of activity | Synonyms: active agent |
actively | (adverb) in an active manner | - |
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activeness | (noun) the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically | Synonyms: activity |
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(noun) the state of being active | Synonyms: action, activity |
activewear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: athletic wear, sportswear |
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activism | (noun) a policy of taking direct action to achieve a political or social goal | - |
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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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activity | (noun) any specific behavior | - |
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(noun) the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically | Synonyms: activeness |
(noun) an organic process that takes place in the body | Synonyms: bodily function, bodily process, body process |
(noun) a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) | Synonyms: action, natural action, natural process |
(noun) the state of being active | Synonyms: action, activeness |
(noun) (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction | - |
adaptative | (adjective) having a capacity for adaptation | Synonyms: adaptive |
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adaptive | (adjective) having a capacity for adaptation | Synonyms: adaptative |
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addictive | (adjective) causing or characterized by addiction | Synonyms: habit-forming |
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additive | (adjective) characterized or produced by addition | - |
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(adjective) designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree | Synonyms: linear |
(noun) something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine | - |
adductive | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducent, adducting |
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adhesive | (adjective) tending to adhere | - |
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(noun) a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together | Synonyms: adhesive agent, adhesive material |
adhesiveness | (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion, bond |
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adjectival | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective | Synonyms: adjective |
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adjectivally | (adverb) as an adjective; in an adjectival manner | - |
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adjective | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: procedural |
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(adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective | Synonyms: adjectival |
(noun) a word that expresses an attribute of something | - |
(noun) the word class that qualifies nouns | - |
adjectively | (adverb) as an adjective | - |
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adjudicative | (adjective) concerned with adjudicating | Synonyms: adjudicatory |
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adjunctive | (adjective) joining; forming an adjunct | - |
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adjustive | (adjective) conducive to adjustment | - |
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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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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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admissive | (adjective) characterized by or allowing admission | - |
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adoptive | (adjective) of parents and children; related by adoption | - |
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(adjective) acquired as your own by free choice | Synonyms: adopted |
adsorptive | (adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: adsorbent, surface-assimilative |
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adumbrative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefigurative |
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advective | (adjective) of or relating to advection | - |
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adventive | (adjective) not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized | - |
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adversative | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: oppositive |
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aestival | (adjective) (rare) of or occurring in summer | Synonyms: estival |
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aestivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: estivate |
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aestivation | (noun) (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens | Synonyms: estivation |
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(noun) (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period | Synonyms: estivation |
affective | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, emotive |
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affirmative | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmatory |
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(adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: approbative, approbatory, approving, plausive |
(adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: optimistic |
(noun) a reply of affirmation | - |
affirmatively | (adverb) in an affirmative manner | - |
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affirmativeness | (noun) the agreeable quality of one who assents | - |
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afflictive | (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: painful, sore |
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affricative | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate, affricate consonant |
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agglomerative | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, clustered |
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agglutinative | (adjective) united as if by glue | Synonyms: agglutinate |
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(adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: polysynthetic |
aggregative | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, mass |
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aggressive | (adjective) having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: belligerent |
(adjective) tending to spread quickly | Synonyms: fast-growing, strong-growing |
aggressively | (adverb) in an aggressive manner | Synonyms: sharply |
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aggressiveness | (noun) the quality of being bold and enterprising | - |
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(noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: belligerence, pugnacity |
(noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggression |
agitative | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, provoking |
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alimentative | (adjective) related to the supply of aliment | - |
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alive | (adjective) possessing life | Synonyms: live |
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(adjective) having life or vigor or spirit | Synonyms: animated |
(adjective) capable of erupting | Synonyms: live |
(adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alert, awake |
(adjective) in operation | Synonyms: active |
(adjective) (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit | - |
(adjective) (followed by `to' or `of') aware of | - |
aliveness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: animateness, liveness |
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(noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: animation, life, living |
alleviative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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alliteratively | (adverb) in an alliterative manner | - |
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allusive | (adjective) characterized by indirect references | - |
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allusiveness | (noun) a quality characterized by indirect reference | - |
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almsgiver | (noun) a person who gives alms | - |
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almsgiving | (noun) making voluntary contributions to aid the poor | Synonyms: alms-giving |
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alterative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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(adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
(adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
(noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
alternatively | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: instead, or else |
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amalgamative | (adjective) characterized by or tending toward amalgamation | - |
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amative | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amorous |
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amativeness | (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
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ambivalence | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalency |
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ambivalency | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalence |
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ambivalent | (adjective) uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow | - |
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ambiversion | (noun) (psychology) a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion | - |
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ambiversive | (adjective) intermediate between introversive and extroversive | - |
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ameliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, amelioratory, meliorative |
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amusive | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, diverting |
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annihilative | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, devastating, withering |
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anniversary | (noun) the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: day of remembrance |
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