| affluence | (noun) abundant wealth | Synonyms: richness |
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| affluent | (adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: flush, loaded, moneyed, substantial, wealthy |
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| (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: confluent, feeder, tributary |
| (noun) an affluent person; a person who is financially well off | - |
| affluenza | (noun) an inability to understand the consequences of one's actions because of financial privilege | - |
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| blue | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blueish, bluish |
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| (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
| (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician |
| (adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: puritanic, puritanical |
| (adjective) used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms) | - |
| (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
| (adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing | Synonyms: blasphemous, profane |
| (noun) any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae | - |
| (noun) the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic | Synonyms: amobarbital sodium, Amytal, blue angel, blue devil |
| (noun) blue clothing | - |
| (noun) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime | Synonyms: blueness |
| (noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue | - |
| (noun) the sky as viewed during daylight | Synonyms: blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder |
| (noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blueing, bluing |
| (verb) turn blue | - |
| bluebell | (noun) one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas | Synonyms: Eustoma grandiflorum, prairie gentian, tulip gentian |
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| (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Campanula rotundifolia, harebell |
| (noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
| blueberry | (noun) sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries | Synonyms: blueberry bush |
| bluebill | (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: broadbill, scaup, scaup duck |
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| bluebird | (noun) blue North American songbird | - |
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| (noun) fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies | Synonyms: fairy bluebird |
| bluebonnet | (noun) a brimless dark blue Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume on one side | Synonyms: Balmoral |
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| (noun) low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock poisoning in the southwestern United States | Synonyms: buffalo clover, Lupinus subcarnosus, Texas bluebonnet |
| bluebottle | (noun) blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight | Synonyms: Calliphora vicina |
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| (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, Centaurea cyanus, cornflower |
| bluecoat | (noun) a person dressed all in blue (as a soldier or sailor) | - |
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| bluefin | (noun) largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics | Synonyms: bluefin tuna, horse mackerel, Thunnus thynnus |
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| (noun) flesh of very large tuna | Synonyms: bluefin tuna |
| bluefish | (noun) bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters | Synonyms: Pomatomus saltatrix |
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| (noun) fatty bluish flesh of bluefish | - |
| bluegill | (noun) important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Lepomis macrochirus |
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| bluegrass | (noun) a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars | - |
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| (noun) any of various grasses of the genus Poa | Synonyms: blue grass |
| bluehead | (noun) small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head | Synonyms: Thalassoma bifasciatum |
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| blueing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: bluing |
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| (noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, bluing |
| blueish | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky | Synonyms: blue, bluish |
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| bluejacket | (noun) a serviceman in the navy | Synonyms: navy man, sailor, sailor boy |
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| blueness | (noun) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime | Synonyms: blue |
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| bluenose | (noun) a native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia | Synonyms: Nova Scotian |
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| bluepoint | (noun) small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island | Synonyms: blue point |
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| (noun) oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw | Synonyms: blue point |
| blueprint | (noun) photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc. | - |
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| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: design, pattern |
| (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: draft, draught |
| blues | (noun) a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes | - |
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| (noun) a state of depression | Synonyms: blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours |
| bluestem | (noun) tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States | Synonyms: Andropogon furcatus, Andropogon gerardii, blue stem |
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| bluestocking | (noun) a woman having literary or intellectual interests | Synonyms: bas bleu |
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| bluestone | (noun) bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building | - |
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| bluethroat | (noun) songbird of northern Europe and Asia | Synonyms: Erithacus svecicus |
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| bluetick | (noun) a very fast American hound; white mottled with bluish grey | - |
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| bluetongue | (noun) a viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting midges | - |
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| blueweed | (noun) a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: blue devil, blue thistle, Echium vulgare, viper's bugloss |
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| bluewing | (noun) American teal | Synonyms: Anas discors, blue-winged teal |
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| clue | (noun) a slight indication | Synonyms: hint |
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| (noun) evidence that helps to solve a problem | Synonyms: clew, cue |
| (verb) roll into a ball | Synonyms: clew |
| clueless | (adjective) totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring | - |
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| confluence | (noun) a flowing together | Synonyms: conflux, merging |
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| (noun) a coming together of people | Synonyms: concourse |
| (noun) a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) | Synonyms: meeting |
| confluent | (adjective) flowing together | Synonyms: merging |
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| (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, feeder, tributary |
| devalue | (verb) lower the value or quality of | - |
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| (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devaluate, undervalue |
| (verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devaluate |
| devalued | (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: debased, degraded |
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| diluent | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: dilutant, thinner |
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| disfluency | (noun) lack of skillfulness in speaking or writing | - |
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| effluence | (noun) the process of flowing out | Synonyms: efflux, outflow |
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| effluent | (adjective) that is flowing outward | Synonyms: outflowing |
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| (noun) water mixed with waste matter | Synonyms: sewer water, wastewater |
| eigenvalue | (noun) (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant | Synonyms: characteristic root of a square matrix, eigenvalue of a matrix, eigenvalue of a square matrix |
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| flue | (noun) a conduit to carry off smoke | - |
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| (noun) organ pipe whose tone is produced by air passing across the sharp edge of a fissure or lip | Synonyms: flue pipe, labial pipe |
| (noun) flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor | Synonyms: fluke |
| fluegelhorn | (noun) a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore | Synonyms: flugelhorn |
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| fluency | (noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing | Synonyms: articulateness, volubility |
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| (noun) skillfulness in speaking or writing | - |
| (noun) powerful and effective language | Synonyms: eloquence, smoothness |
| fluent | (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: eloquent, facile, silver-tongued, silver, smooth-spoken |
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| (adjective) smooth and unconstrained in movement | Synonyms: fluid, liquid, smooth |
| fluently | (adverb) in a fluent manner | - |
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| glue | (noun) cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive | Synonyms: gum, mucilage |
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| (verb) be fixed as if by glue | - |
| (verb) join or attach with or as if with glue | Synonyms: paste |
| glued | (adjective) affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste | Synonyms: pasted |
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| gluey | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| glueyness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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| influence | (noun) causing something without any direct or apparent effort | - |
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| (noun) a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc | - |
| (noun) a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do | - |
| (noun) one having power to influence another | - |
| (noun) the effect of one thing (or person) on another | - |
| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, mold, mould, regulate, shape |
| (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: charm, tempt |
| (verb) have and exert influence or effect | Synonyms: act upon, work |
| influencer | (noun) a person who has a large following on one or more social media platform that works to generate interest in contemporary social issues and/or advertise consumer products | - |
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| influent | (adjective) flowing inward | Synonyms: inflowing |
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| influential | (adjective) having or exercising influence or power | - |
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| influentially | (adverb) exerting influence | - |
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| influenza | (noun) an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease | Synonyms: flu, grippe |
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| lues | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | Synonyms: lues venerea, pox, syph, syphilis |
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| overvalue | (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overestimate |
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| revalue | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: appreciate, apprise, apprize |
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| (verb) value anew | - |
| slue | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, swerve, trend, veer |
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| (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: skid, slew, slide, slip |
| toluene | (noun) a colorless flammable liquid obtained from petroleum or coal tar; used as a solvent for gums and lacquers and in high-octane fuels | Synonyms: methylbenzene |
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| trinitrotoluene | (noun) explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene | Synonyms: TNT |
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| undervalue | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devaluate, devalue |
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| (verb) assign too low a value to | Synonyms: underestimate |
| (verb) esteem lightly | - |
| uninfluenced | (adjective) not influenced or affected | Synonyms: unswayed, untouched |
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| uninfluential | (adjective) not influential | - |
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| unvalued | (adjective) having value that is not acknowledged | Synonyms: unappreciated, unsung |
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| value | (noun) the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable | - |
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| (noun) relative darkness or lightness of a color | - |
| (noun) a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed | - |
| (noun) an ideal accepted by some individual or group | - |
| (noun) the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else | Synonyms: economic value |
| (noun) (music) the relative duration of a musical note | Synonyms: note value, time value |
| (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, measure, valuate |
| (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, prize, respect |
| (verb) estimate the value of | Synonyms: rate |
| (verb) fix or determine the value of; assign a value to | - |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, prize, treasure |
| valued | (adjective) (usually used in combination) having value of a specified kind | - |
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| (adjective) held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature | Synonyms: precious |
| valueless | (adjective) of no value | - |
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| valuelessness | (noun) having none of the properties that endow something with value | - |
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| valuer | (noun) someone who assesses the monetary worth of possessions | - |
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| values | (noun) beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something) | - |
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