slanderous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous |
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slanderously | (adverb) in a false and slanderous and defamatory manner; with slander or calumny | Synonyms: calumniously |
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slanderousness | (noun) The property of being both untrue and harmful to a reputation. | - |
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slang | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular |
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(noun) informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar | Synonyms: slang expression, slang term |
(verb) abuse with coarse language | - |
(verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, take in |
(verb) use slang or vulgar language | - |
slangily | (adverb) with slang; in a slangy manner | - |
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slanginess | (noun) casualness in use of language | - |
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slanguage | (noun) language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant | - |
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slangy | (adjective) constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang | - |
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slant | (noun) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane | Synonyms: pitch, rake |
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(noun) a biased way of looking at or presenting something | Synonyms: angle |
(verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: angle, weight |
(verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, lean, tilt, tip |
(verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, pitch, tilt |
(verb) lie obliquely | - |
slanted | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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(adjective) favoring one person or side over another | Synonyms: biased, colored, coloured, one-sided |
slanting | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, sloped, sloping |
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slantingly | (adverb) with a slant | Synonyms: slopingly |
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slantways | (adverb) at a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction | Synonyms: slantwise |
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slantwise | (adverb) at a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction | Synonyms: slantways |
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solan | (noun) very large white gannet with black wing tips | Synonyms: solan goose, solant goose, Sula bassana |
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solanaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the family Solanaceae (the potato family) | - |
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southland | (noun) any region lying in or toward the south | - |
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splanchnic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the viscera | Synonyms: visceral |
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stimulant | (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulating |
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(noun) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process | Synonyms: excitant, stimulant drug |
(noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: input, stimulation, stimulus |
supplant | (verb) take the place or move into the position of | Synonyms: replace, supersede, supervene upon |
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supplanter | (noun) one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another | Synonyms: usurper |
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supplanting | (noun) act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics | Synonyms: displacement |
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surveillance | (noun) close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) | - |
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swampland | (noun) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog | Synonyms: swamp |
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tableland | (noun) a relatively flat highland | Synonyms: plateau |
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tailplane | (noun) the horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged | Synonyms: horizontal stabiliser, horizontal stabilizer |
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tideland | (noun) land near the sea that is overflowed by the tide | - |
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timberland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, woodland |
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topgallant | (noun) a mast fixed to the head of a topmast on a square-rigged vessel | Synonyms: topgallant mast |
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(noun) a sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast | Synonyms: topgallant sail |
transatlantic | (adjective) crossing the Atlantic Ocean | - |
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transplant | (noun) the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location | Synonyms: transplantation, transplanting |
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(noun) an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient) | Synonyms: organ transplant, transplantation |
(noun) (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient | Synonyms: graft |
(verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transfer, transpose |
(verb) place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient | Synonyms: graft |
(verb) lift and reset in another soil or situation | Synonyms: transfer |
(verb) be transplantable | - |
transplantable | (adjective) capable of being transplanted | - |
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transplantation | (noun) the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location | Synonyms: transplant, transplanting |
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(noun) an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient) | Synonyms: organ transplant, transplant |
transplanter | (noun) a gardener who moves plants to new locations | - |
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transplanting | (noun) the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location | Synonyms: transplant, transplantation |
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unbalance | (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: imbalance, instability |
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(noun) a state of mental disturbance and disorientation | Synonyms: derangement, mental unsoundness |
(verb) derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane | Synonyms: derange |
(verb) throw out of balance or equilibrium | - |
unbalanced | (adjective) being or thrown out of equilibrium | Synonyms: imbalanced |
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(adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unhinged |
(adjective) debits and credits are not equal | - |
undulant | (adjective) resembling waves in form or outline or motion | Synonyms: undulatory |
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ungallant | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: caddish, unchivalrous |
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unplanned | (adjective) without apparent forethought or prompting or planning | - |
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(adjective) not done with purpose or intent | Synonyms: unintentional, unwitting |
unplanted | (adjective) not planted | - |
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unvigilant | (adjective) not alert to what is potentially dangerous | Synonyms: unalert, unwatchful |
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upland | (adjective) used of high or hilly country | Synonyms: highland |
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(noun) elevated (e.g., mountainous) land | Synonyms: highland |
vacillant | (adjective) uncertain in purpose or action | Synonyms: vacillating, wavering |
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valance | (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: cornice, pelmet, valance board |
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vigilance | (noun) vigilant attentiveness | Synonyms: watchfulness, weather eye |
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(noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: alertness, wakefulness, watchfulness |
vigilant | (adjective) carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger | Synonyms: argus-eyed, open-eyed, wakeful, watchful |
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vigilante | (noun) member of a vigilance committee | Synonyms: vigilance man |
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vigilantism | (noun) the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws | - |
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vigilantly | (adverb) in a watchful manner | Synonyms: watchfully |
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volant | (adjective) with wings extended in a flying position | - |
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warplane | (noun) an aircraft designed and used for combat | Synonyms: military plane |
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wasteland | (noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: barren, waste |
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wetland | (noun) a low area where the land is saturated with water | - |
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wonderland | (noun) an imaginary realm of marvels or wonders | - |
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(noun) a place or scene of great or strange beauty or wonder | - |
woodland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, timberland |
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xenotransplant | (noun) a surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transferred from one species to another species | Synonyms: xenotransplantation |
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xenotransplantation | (noun) a surgical procedure in which tissue or whole organs are transferred from one species to another species | Synonyms: xenotransplant |
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zooplankton | (noun) animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae | - |
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