abjuration | (noun) a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion | Synonyms: recantation, retraction |
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abjure | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: forswear, recant, resile, retract |
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abjurer | (noun) a person who abjures | - |
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adjudge | (verb) declare to be | Synonyms: declare, hold |
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adjudicate | (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: decide, resolve, settle |
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(verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: judge, try |
adjudication | (noun) the final judgment in a legal proceeding; the act of pronouncing judgment based on the evidence presented | - |
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adjudicative | (adjective) concerned with adjudicating | Synonyms: adjudicatory |
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adjudicator | (noun) a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes | - |
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adjudicatory | (adjective) concerned with adjudicating | Synonyms: adjudicative |
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adjunct | (adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another | Synonyms: assistant |
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(adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
(noun) a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence | - |
(noun) something added to another thing but not an essential part of it | - |
(noun) a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another | - |
adjunction | (noun) an act of joining or adjoining things | Synonyms: junction |
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adjunctive | (adjective) joining; forming an adjunct | - |
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adjuration | (noun) a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something | - |
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adjuratory | (adjective) earnestly or solemnly entreating | - |
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(adjective) containing a solemn charge or command | - |
adjure | (verb) command solemnly | - |
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(verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: beseech, bid, conjure, entreat, press |
adjust | (verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard | Synonyms: correct, set |
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(verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions | Synonyms: adapt, conform |
(verb) make correspondent or conformable | - |
(verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: align, aline, line up |
(verb) decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim | - |
adjustable | (adjective) capable of being changed so as to match or fit | - |
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(adjective) capable of being regulated | - |
adjusted | (adjective) altered to accommodate to certain requirements or bring into a proper relation | - |
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(adjective) adjusted to demands of daily living; showing emotional stability | - |
(adjective) (especially of garments) having the fit or style adjusted | - |
(adjective) having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment | Synonyms: familiarised, familiarized |
adjuster | (noun) one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement | Synonyms: adjustor, claim agent, claims adjuster, claims adjustor |
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adjustive | (adjective) conducive to adjustment | - |
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adjustment | (noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) | Synonyms: alteration, modification |
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(noun) the act of adjusting something to match a standard | Synonyms: readjustment, registration |
(noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: accommodation, fitting |
(noun) an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances | Synonyms: allowance |
(noun) the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) | Synonyms: adaptation, adaption |
adjustor | (noun) one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement | Synonyms: adjuster, claim agent, claims adjuster, claims adjustor |
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adjutant | (noun) large Indian stork with a military gait | Synonyms: adjutant bird, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius |
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(noun) an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer | Synonyms: aide-de-camp, aide |
adjuvant | (adjective) enhancing the action of a medical treatment | - |
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(adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
(noun) an additive that enhances the effectiveness of medical treatment | - |
coadjutor | (noun) an assistant to a bishop | - |
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conjugal | (adjective) of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband | Synonyms: connubial |
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conjugally | (adverb) in a conjugal manner | Synonyms: connubial |
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conjugate | (adjective) (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets | - |
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(adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugated, coupled |
(adjective) of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond | Synonyms: conjugated |
(adjective) formed by the union of two compounds | Synonyms: conjugated |
(noun) a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A | Synonyms: conjugate solution |
(verb) unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds | - |
(verb) undergo conjugation | - |
(verb) add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc. | - |
conjugated | (adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugate, coupled |
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(adjective) of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond | Synonyms: conjugate |
(adjective) formed by the union of two compounds | Synonyms: conjugate |
conjugation | (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union |
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(noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: jointure, unification, union, uniting |
(noun) a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms | - |
(noun) the complete set of inflected forms of a verb | - |
(noun) the inflection of verbs | - |
(noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjunction, junction |
conjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals of a second | - |
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(adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
(adjective) bound in close association | - |
conjunction | (noun) something that joins or connects | Synonyms: junction |
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(noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence |
(noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunctive, connective, continuative |
(noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: alignment |
(noun) the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction | - |
(noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, junction |
conjunctiva | (noun) a transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid | - |
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conjunctival | (adjective) of or relating to the conjunctiva | - |
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conjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to connect | - |
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(adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, cooperative, united |
(noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
conjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: pinkeye |
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conjuncture | (noun) a critical combination of events or circumstances | - |
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conjuration | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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(noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuring, conjury, invocation |
(noun) a ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect | Synonyms: incantation |
conjure | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conspire, machinate |
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(verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, entreat, press |
(verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
conjurer | (noun) a witch doctor who practices conjury | Synonyms: conjure man, conjuror |
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(noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjuror, illusionist, magician, prestidigitator |
conjuring | (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjury, invocation |
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conjuror | (noun) a witch doctor who practices conjury | Synonyms: conjure man, conjurer |
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(noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, illusionist, magician, prestidigitator |
conjury | (noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring, invocation |
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disjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second | - |
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(adjective) used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations | - |
(adjective) having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects | - |
(adjective) marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements | Synonyms: isolated |
disjunction | (noun) the act of breaking a connection | Synonyms: disconnection |
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(noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjuncture |
disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
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disjuncture | (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction |
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extrajudicial | (adjective) beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted | - |
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injudicious | (adjective) lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise | - |
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injudiciously | (adverb) in an injudicious manner | - |
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injudiciousness | (noun) the trait of being injudicious | Synonyms: indiscretion |
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(noun) lacking good judgment | Synonyms: indiscreetness |
injunction | (noun) a formal command or admonition | - |
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(noun) (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity | Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoining, enjoinment |
injure | (verb) cause injuries or bodily harm to | Synonyms: wound |
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(verb) cause damage or affect negatively | Synonyms: hurt |
(verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, offend, spite, wound |
injured | (adjective) harmed | - |
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(adjective) emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed | Synonyms: offended, pained |
injurious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: deleterious, hurtful |
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injuriously | (adverb) in an injurious manner | - |
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injuriousness | (noun) destructiveness that causes harm or injury | Synonyms: harmfulness |
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injury | (noun) wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted | - |
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(noun) an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage | - |
(noun) an accident that results in physical damage or hurt | Synonyms: accidental injury |
(noun) a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat | Synonyms: combat injury, wound |
(noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury | Synonyms: harm, hurt, trauma |
injustice | (noun) an unjust act | Synonyms: iniquity, shabbiness, unfairness |
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(noun) the practice of being unjust or unfair | Synonyms: unjustness |
jejune | (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, juvenile, puerile |
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(adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, poor, short |
(adjective) lacking interest or significance or impact | Synonyms: insipid |
jejunely | (adverb) in an immature manner | Synonyms: immaturely |
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jejuneness | (noun) the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | Synonyms: jejunity, tameness, vapidity, vapidness |
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(noun) quality of inadequate nutritive value | Synonyms: jejunity |
(noun) lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life | Synonyms: callowness, juvenility |
jejunitis | (noun) inflammation of the jejunum of the small intestine | - |
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jejunity | (noun) the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | Synonyms: jejuneness, tameness, vapidity, vapidness |
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(noun) quality of inadequate nutritive value | Synonyms: jejuneness |
jejunoileitis | (noun) inflammation of the jejunum and the ileum of the small intestine | - |
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jejunostomy | (noun) surgical creation of an opening between the jejunum and the anterior abdominal wall; will allow artificial feeding | - |
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jejunum | (noun) the part of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum | - |
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jubilance | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilancy, jubilation |
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jubilancy | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilance, jubilation |
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jubilant | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exultant, exulting, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant |
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(adjective) full of high-spirited delight | Synonyms: elated, gleeful, joyful |
jubilantly | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, gayly, happily, merrily, mirthfully |
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jubilate | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, rejoice, triumph |
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(verb) celebrate a jubilee | - |
jubilation | (noun) the utterance of sounds expressing great joy | Synonyms: exultation, rejoicing |
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(noun) a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event | Synonyms: celebration |
(noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilance, jubilancy |
jubilee | (noun) a special anniversary (or the celebration of it) | - |
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judas | (noun) a one-way peephole in a door | - |
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judder | (verb) shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively | Synonyms: shake |
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judge | (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: jurist, justice |
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(noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality | Synonyms: evaluator |
(verb) form a critical opinion of | Synonyms: evaluate, pass judgment |
(verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, gauge, guess |
(verb) determine the result of (a competition) | - |
(verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: label, pronounce |
(verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: adjudicate, try |
judgement | (noun) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | Synonyms: judgment, judicial decision |
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(noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: assessment, judgment |
(noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgment, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment |
(noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judging, judgment |
(noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
(noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgment, mind |
(noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgment, legal opinion, opinion |
judgeship | (noun) the position of judge | Synonyms: judicature |
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judging | (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
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judgment | (noun) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | Synonyms: judgement, judicial decision |
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(noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: assessment, judgement |
(noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment |
(noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judging |
(noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, sagaciousness, sagacity |
(noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgement, mind |
(noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgement, legal opinion, opinion |
judgmental | (adjective) depending on judgment | - |
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judicable | (adjective) capable of being judged or decided | - |
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judicatory | (noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicature, judicial system, judiciary |
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judicature | (noun) the act of meting out justice according to the law | Synonyms: administration |
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(noun) the position of judge | Synonyms: judgeship |
(noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicatory, judicial system, judiciary |
(noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: court, tribunal |
judicial | (adjective) relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge | Synonyms: juridic, juridical |
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(adjective) belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge | - |
(adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: discriminative |
(adjective) decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice | - |
judicially | (adverb) in a judicial manner | - |
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(adverb) as ordered by a court | - |
judiciary | (noun) persons who administer justice | Synonyms: bench |
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(noun) the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government | Synonyms: judicatory, judicature, judicial system |
judicious | (adjective) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters | Synonyms: heady, wise |
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judiciously | (adverb) in a judicious manner | - |
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judiciousness | (noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating | Synonyms: sagaciousness, sagacity |
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(noun) good judgment | - |
judo | (noun) a sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling; developed in Japan | - |
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jug | (noun) a large bottle with a narrow mouth | - |
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(noun) the quantity contained in a jug | Synonyms: jugful |
(verb) stew in an earthenware jug | - |
(verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
jugale | (noun) the craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone | Synonyms: jugal point |
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jugful | (noun) the quantity contained in a jug | Synonyms: jug |
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juggernaut | (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: steamroller |
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juggle | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggling |
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(noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggling |
(verb) throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously | - |
(verb) hold with difficulty and balance insecurely | - |
(verb) deal with simultaneously | - |
(verb) manipulate by or as if by moving around components | - |
(verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, hoodwink |
juggler | (noun) a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity | - |
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jugglery | (noun) the performance of a juggler | - |
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(noun) artful trickery designed to achieve an end | - |
juggling | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggle |
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(noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggle |