| listen | (verb) hear with intention | - |
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| (verb) listen and pay attention | Synonyms: hear, take heed |
| (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, mind |
| listener | (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, auditor, hearer |
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| listenership | (noun) all the listeners collectively of a particular radio programme, station, or broadcaster. | - |
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| listening | (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: hearing |
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| lister | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister plough, lister plow, middle buster, middlebreaker |
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| (noun) assessor who makes out the tax lists | - |
| listeria | (noun) any species of the genus Listeria | - |
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| listeriosis | (noun) an infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed persons) caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes; in sheep and cattle the infection frequently involves the central nervous system and causes various neurological symptoms | Synonyms: listeria meningitis |
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| listing | (noun) the act of making a list of items | Synonyms: itemisation, itemization |
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| (noun) a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) | Synonyms: list |
| listless | (adjective) lacking zest or vivacity | - |
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| (adjective) marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm | Synonyms: dispirited |
| listlessly | (adverb) in a listless manner | - |
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| listlessness | (noun) inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy | Synonyms: torpidity, torpidness, torpor |
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| (noun) a feeling of lack of interest or energy | Synonyms: languor, lassitude |
| loyalist | (noun) a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt) | Synonyms: stalwart |
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| madrigalist | (noun) a singer of madrigals | - |
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| materialist | (noun) someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter | - |
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| (noun) someone with great regard for material possessions | - |
| materialistic | (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, conservative |
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| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: mercenary, worldly-minded |
| materialistically | (adverb) in a materialistic manner | - |
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| maternalistic | (adjective) showing maternal instincts | - |
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| medalist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medallist |
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| (noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medallist |
| medallist | (noun) (golf) the winner at medal play of a tournament | Synonyms: medal winner, medalist |
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| (noun) someone who has won a medal | Synonyms: medalist |
| minimalist | (adjective) of or relating to artistic minimalism | - |
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| (adjective) advocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics) | - |
| (noun) a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism | - |
| (noun) a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics | - |
| monopolist | (noun) someone who monopolizes the means of producing or selling something | Synonyms: monopoliser, monopolizer |
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| monopolistic | (adjective) having exclusive control over a commercial activity by possession or legal grant | - |
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| moralist | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems | - |
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| (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: disciplinarian, martinet |
| moralistic | (adjective) narrowly and conventionally moral | - |
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| motorcyclist | (noun) a traveler who rides a motorcycle | - |
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| muralist | (noun) a painter of murals | - |
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| mutualist | (adjective) mutually dependent | Synonyms: interdependent, mutually beneficial |
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| nationalist | (adjective) devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others | Synonyms: nationalistic |
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| (noun) one who loves and defends his or her country | Synonyms: patriot |
| (noun) an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government | - |
| nationalistic | (adjective) devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others | Synonyms: nationalist |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, jingoistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| naturalist | (noun) a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) | Synonyms: natural scientist |
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| (noun) an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms | - |
| naturalistic | (adjective) representing what is real; not abstract or ideal | Synonyms: realistic |
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| neutralist | (noun) an advocate of neutrality in international affairs | - |
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| nihilist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: anarchist, syndicalist |
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| (noun) someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief | - |
| nihilistic | (adjective) of or relating to nihilism | - |
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| noctambulist | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: sleepwalker, somnambulist |
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| nominalist | (noun) a philosopher who has adopted the doctrine of nominalism | - |
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| nominalistic | (adjective) of or relating to nominalism | - |
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| novelist | (noun) one who writes novels | - |
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| oculist | (noun) a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye | Synonyms: eye doctor, ophthalmologist |
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| (noun) a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses | Synonyms: optometrist |
| operationalist | (adjective) of or relating to or espousing operationalism | - |
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| orientalist | (noun) a specialist in oriental subjects | - |
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| ornamentalist | (noun) someone who decorates | Synonyms: decorator |
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| panelist | (noun) a member of a panel | Synonyms: panellist |
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| panellist | (noun) a member of a panel | Synonyms: panelist |
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| paternalistic | (adjective) benevolent but sometimes intrusive | - |
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| philatelist | (noun) a collector and student of postage stamps | Synonyms: stamp collector |
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| philistine | (adjective) smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values | Synonyms: anti-intellectual |
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| (noun) a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits | Synonyms: anti-intellectual, lowbrow |
| philistinism | (noun) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters | Synonyms: materialism |
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| photojournalist | (noun) a journalist who presents a story primarily through the use of photographs | - |
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| playlist | (noun) a list of musical selections for performance or for broadcast by radio | Synonyms: play list |
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| pluralist | (noun) someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society | - |
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| (noun) a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature | - |
| (noun) a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time | - |
| pluralistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of pluralism | - |
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| pointillist | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillistic |
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| (noun) a painter who uses the technique of pointillism | - |
| pointillistic | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillist |
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| populist | (noun) someone who advocates the rights of the common people over those of the elite | - |
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| probabilistic | (adjective) of or relating to or based on probability | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Roman Catholic philosophy of probabilism | - |
| probabilistically | (adverb) by the use of probability theory | - |
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| pugilist | (noun) someone who fights with his fists for sport | Synonyms: boxer |
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| pugilistic | (adjective) of or relating to pugilism or pugilists | - |
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| qabalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, sibylline |
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| racialist | (noun) a person with a prejudiced belief that one racial group is superior to others | Synonyms: racist |
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| rationalist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of rationalism | - |
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| (noun) someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | Synonyms: positivist |
| rationalistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of rationalism | - |
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| realist | (noun) a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them | - |
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| (noun) a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style | - |
| (noun) a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly | - |
| realistic | (adjective) aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of realism | - |
| (adjective) representing what is real; not abstract or ideal | Synonyms: naturalistic |
| realistically | (adverb) in a manner that closely resembles the original object | - |
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| (adverb) in a realistic manner | - |
| recitalist | (noun) a musician who gives recitals | - |
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| reenlistment | (noun) a renewed enlistment | - |
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| relistening | (noun) the act of hearing again | Synonyms: rehearing |
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| revivalist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, gospeller |
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| revivalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterizing revivalism | - |
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| ritualist | (noun) an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms | - |
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| (noun) a social anthropologist who is expert on rites and ceremonies | - |
| ritualistic | (adjective) of or characterized by or adhering to ritualism | - |
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| royalist | (noun) an advocate of the principles of monarchy | Synonyms: monarchist |
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| ruralist | (noun) an advocate of rural living | - |
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| (noun) a man who lives in the country and has country ways | Synonyms: countryman |
| sciolist | (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dabbler, dilettante |
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| sciolistic | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettante, dilettanteish, dilettantish |
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| semifinalist | (noun) one of four competitors remaining in a tournament by elimination | - |
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| sensationalist | (noun) someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention | Synonyms: ballyhoo artist |
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| sensationalistic | (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: scandalmongering, yellow |
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| sensualist | (noun) a person who enjoys sensuality | - |
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| sentimentalist | (noun) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality | Synonyms: romanticist |
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| shitlist | (noun) a list of people who are out of favor | Synonyms: black book, blacklist |
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| shortlist | (noun) a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen | Synonyms: short list |
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| (verb) put someone or something on a short list | - |
| simplistic | (adjective) characterized by extreme and often misleading simplicity | - |
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| socialist | (adjective) advocating or following the socialist principles | Synonyms: socialistic |
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| (noun) a political advocate of socialism | - |
| socialistic | (adjective) advocating or following the socialist principles | Synonyms: socialist |
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| sodalist | (noun) a member of a sodality | - |
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| somnambulist | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: noctambulist, sleepwalker |
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| specialist | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialiser, specializer |
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| (noun) practices one branch of medicine | Synonyms: medical specialist |
| specialistic | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of specialists | - |
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| (adjective) showing focused training | - |
| spiritualist | (adjective) of or relating to or connected with spiritualism | Synonyms: spiritualistic |
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| (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, sensitive |
| spiritualistic | (adjective) of or relating to or connected with spiritualism | Synonyms: spiritualist |
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| spondylolisthesis | (noun) a forward dislocation of one vertebra over the one beneath it producing pressure on spinal nerves | - |
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| stylist | (noun) an artist who is a master of a particular style | - |
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| (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairdresser, hairstylist, styler |
| stylistic | (adjective) of or relating to style (especially in the use of language) | - |
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| stylistically | (adverb) in a rhetorically stylistic manner | - |
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| supernaturalist | (adjective) of or relating to supernaturalism | Synonyms: supernaturalistic |
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| supernaturalistic | (adjective) of or relating to supernaturalism | Synonyms: supernaturalist |
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| surrealist | (noun) an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism | - |
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