bimillenary | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillennium |
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(noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillennium |
bimillenial | (adjective) of or relating to a bimillennium | - |
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bimillennium | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillenary |
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(noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillenary |
challenge | (noun) a call to engage in a contest or fight | - |
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(noun) questioning a statement and demanding an explanation | - |
(noun) a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror | - |
(noun) a demand by a sentry for a password or identification | - |
(noun) a demanding or stimulating situation | - |
(verb) issue a challenge to | - |
(verb) take exception to | Synonyms: dispute, gainsay |
(verb) raise a formal objection in a court of law | Synonyms: take exception |
(verb) ask for identification | - |
challengeable | (adjective) capable of being challenged | - |
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challenger | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: competition, competitor, contender, rival |
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challenging | (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: ambitious |
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(adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: intriguing |
(adjective) stimulating interest or thought | Synonyms: thought-provoking |
chapfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated |
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chopfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, crestfallen, deflated |
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counterchallenge | (verb) challenge in turn | - |
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crestfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, chopfallen, deflated |
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cullender | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: colander |
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dillenia | (noun) any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Dillenia grown for their foliage and nodding flowers resembling magnolias which are followed by fruit that is used in curries and jellies and preserves | - |
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excellence | (noun) the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree | - |
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(noun) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | Synonyms: excellency |
excellency | (noun) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | Synonyms: excellence |
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excellent | (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: fantabulous, first-class, mean, ripping, splendid |
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excellently | (adverb) wonderfully | Synonyms: famously, magnificently, splendidly |
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fallen | (adjective) killed in battle | - |
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(adjective) having fallen in or collapsed | - |
(adjective) having dropped by the force of gravity | - |
(adjective) having lost your chastity | - |
impellent | (adjective) forcing forward or onward; impelling | - |
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millenarian | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: chiliastic |
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(noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarist |
millenarianism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarism, millenniumism |
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millenarism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarianism, millenniumism |
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millenarist | (noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarian |
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millenary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of 1000 | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium | - |
(noun) a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years) | - |
(noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millennium |
(noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millennium |
millennial | (adjective) relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years | Synonyms: millennian |
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millennian | (adjective) relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years | Synonyms: millennial |
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millennium | (noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millenary |
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(noun) (New Testament) in the Book of Revelation it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness | - |
(noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millenary |
millenniumism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarianism, millenarism |
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philhellene | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellenic |
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(noun) an admirer of Greece and everything Greek | Synonyms: Graecophile, philhellenist |
philhellenic | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellene |
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philhellenism | (noun) admiration for Greece and the Greeks and Greek customs | - |
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philhellenist | (noun) an admirer of Greece and everything Greek | Synonyms: Graecophile, philhellene |
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pollen | (noun) the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant | - |
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pollenate | (verb) fertilize by transferring pollen | Synonyms: cross-pollinate, pollinate |
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pollenation | (noun) transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant | Synonyms: pollination |
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postmillennial | (adjective) of or relating to the period following the millennium | - |
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propellent | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propelling, propulsive |
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(noun) any substance that propels | Synonyms: propellant |
rallentando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rit., ritardando, ritenuto |
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(adverb) slowing down | - |
repellent | (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: resistant |
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(adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
(adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellant |
(noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellant |
(noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellant |
(noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellant |
repellently | (adverb) in a repellent manner | Synonyms: repellingly |
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sullen | (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, lowering, threatening |
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(adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour |
sullenly | (adverb) in a sullen manner | Synonyms: dourly, glumly |
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sullenness | (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sourness, sulkiness |
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(noun) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling | Synonyms: glumness, moroseness |
swollen | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, vain |
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(adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
unchallengeable | (adjective) not open to challenge | - |
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unchallenged | (adjective) generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute | Synonyms: undisputed, unquestioned |
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woollen | (adjective) of or related to or made of wool | Synonyms: woolen |
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(noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: wool, woolen |