admeasure | (verb) determine the quantity of someone's share | - |
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besmear | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: bedaub |
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blameable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, culpable |
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bonemeal | (noun) fertilizer made of ground bones | - |
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cornmeal | (noun) coarsely ground corn | Synonyms: Indian meal |
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cosmea | (noun) any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals | Synonyms: cosmos |
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countermeasure | (noun) an action taken to offset another action | - |
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crabmeat | (noun) the edible flesh of any of various crabs | Synonyms: crab |
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cytosmear | (noun) a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope | Synonyms: cytologic smear, smear |
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demean | (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: degrade, disgrace, put down, take down |
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demeaning | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: humbling, humiliating, mortifying |
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demeaningly | (adverb) in a humiliating manner | Synonyms: humiliatingly |
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demeanor | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanour, deportment |
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demeanour | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, deportment |
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forcemeat | (noun) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs | Synonyms: farce |
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horsemeat | (noun) the flesh of horses as food | Synonyms: horseflesh |
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immeasurability | (noun) the quality of being immeasurable. | - |
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immeasurable | (adjective) impossible to measure | Synonyms: immensurable, unmeasurable |
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(adjective) beyond calculation or measure | Synonyms: incomputable, inestimable |
immeasurably | (adverb) to an immeasurable degree; beyond measurement | - |
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(adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: boundlessly, infinitely |
impermeability | (noun) the property of something that cannot be pervaded by a liquid | Synonyms: impermeableness |
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impermeable | (adjective) preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through | - |
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impermeableness | (noun) the property of something that cannot be pervaded by a liquid | Synonyms: impermeability |
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limeade | (noun) sweetened beverage of lime juice and water | - |
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mead | (noun) made of fermented honey and water | - |
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meadow | (noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay | Synonyms: hayfield |
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meadowgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture | Synonyms: meadow grass |
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meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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meager | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy |
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meagerly | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagre, scrimpy, stingy |
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(adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner | Synonyms: meagrely, slenderly, sparingly |
meagerness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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meagre | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, scrimpy, stingy |
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meagrely | (adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner | Synonyms: meagerly, slenderly, sparingly |
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meagreness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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meal | (noun) the food served and eaten at one time | Synonyms: repast |
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(noun) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse | - |
(noun) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times | - |
mealberry | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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mealie | (noun) an ear of corn | - |
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mealtime | (noun) the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten | - |
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mealworm | (noun) the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae | - |
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mealy | (adjective) containing meal or made of meal | - |
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(adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty |
mealybug | (noun) scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees | Synonyms: mealy bug |
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mealymouthed | (adjective) hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy | Synonyms: mealy-mouthed |
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mean | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: bastardly |
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(adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, meanspirited |
(adjective) characterized by malice | Synonyms: hateful |
(adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: average |
(adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: beggarly |
(adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: beggarly |
(adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mingy, miserly, tight |
(adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, ripping, splendid |
(noun) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n | Synonyms: mean value |
(verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: intend, think |
(verb) intend to refer to | Synonyms: have in mind, think of |
(verb) destine or designate for a certain purpose | - |
(verb) mean or intend to express or convey | Synonyms: intend |
(verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: intend, signify, stand for |
(verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: entail, imply |
(verb) have a specified degree of importance | - |
meander | (noun) an aimless amble on a winding course | Synonyms: ramble |
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(noun) a bend or curve, as in a stream or river | - |
(verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: thread, wander, weave, wind |
meandering | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: rambling, wandering, winding |
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meanderingly | (adverb) in a meandering manner | - |
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meanie | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meany, unkind person |
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meaning | (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: pregnant, significant |
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(noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: substance |
(noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, significance, signification |
meaningful | (adjective) having a meaning or purpose | - |
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meaningfully | (adverb) in a meaningful manner; so as to be meaningful | - |
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meaningfulness | (noun) the quality of having great value or significance | - |
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meaningless | (adjective) having no meaning or direction or purpose | Synonyms: nonmeaningful |
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(adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing |
meaninglessness | (noun) the quality of having no value or significance | - |
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(noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality |
meanly | (adverb) in a miserly manner | Synonyms: humbly |
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(adverb) poorly or in an inferior manner | - |
(adverb) in a despicable, ignoble manner | Synonyms: basely, scurvily |
(adverb) in a nasty ill-tempered manner | Synonyms: nastily |
meanness | (noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: beastliness |
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(noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
means | (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: agency, way |
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(noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, instrumentation |
(noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: substance |
meanspirited | (adjective) lacking in magnanimity | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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(adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, mean |
meanspiritedly | (adverb) in a meanspirited manner | - |
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meantime | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meanwhile |
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(adverb) during the intervening time | Synonyms: in the meantime, meanwhile |
meanwhile | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meantime |
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(adverb) during the intervening time | Synonyms: in the meantime, meantime |
(adverb) at the same time but in another place | - |
meany | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meanie, unkind person |
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mearstone | (noun) an old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab | Synonyms: meerestone, merestone |
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measles | (noun) an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children | Synonyms: morbilli, rubeola |
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measly | (adjective) contemptibly small in amount | Synonyms: miserable, paltry |
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measurability | (noun) the quality of being measurable | Synonyms: quantifiability |
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measurable | (adjective) capable of being measured | Synonyms: mensurable |
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(adjective) of distinguished importance | - |
measurably | (adverb) to a measurable degree | - |
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measure | (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Synonyms: amount, quantity |
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(noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measurement, measuring, mensuration |
(noun) any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal | Synonyms: step |
(noun) measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements | Synonyms: measuring rod, measuring stick |
(noun) a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance | - |
(noun) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | Synonyms: bar |
(noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: beat, cadence, meter, metre |
(noun) a statute in draft before it becomes law | Synonyms: bill |
(noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: criterion, standard, touchstone |
(verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: quantify |
(verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure out, mensurate |
(verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, valuate, value |
(verb) have certain dimensions | - |
measured | (adjective) having notes of fixed rhythmic value | Synonyms: mensurable, mensural |
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(adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: calculated, deliberate |
(adjective) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables | Synonyms: metric, metrical |
(adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: careful, deliberate |
measuredly | (adverb) in a deliberate unhurried manner | Synonyms: deliberately |
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measureless | (adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: illimitable, limitless, unmeasured |
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measurement | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measuring, mensuration |
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measurer | (noun) a person who makes measurements | - |
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measuring | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measurement, mensuration |
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meat | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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(noun) the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food | - |
(noun) the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone | Synonyms: kernel |
meatball | (noun) ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth | - |
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meatless | (adjective) lacking meat | - |
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meatloaf | (noun) a baked loaf of ground meat | Synonyms: meat loaf |
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meatman | (noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: butcher |
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meatpacking | (noun) wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) | Synonyms: meat-packing business, meat packing |
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meatus | (noun) a natural body passageway | - |
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meaty | (adjective) like or containing meat | - |
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(adjective) being on topic and prompting thought | Synonyms: substantive |
mincemeat | (noun) spiced mixture of chopped raisins and apples and other ingredients with or without meat | - |
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misdemean | (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misconduct |
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misdemeanor | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanour, violation |
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misdemeanour | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, violation |
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nonmeaningful | (adjective) having no meaning or direction or purpose | Synonyms: meaningless |
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oatmeal | (noun) porridge made of rolled oats | Synonyms: burgoo |
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(noun) meal made from rolled or ground oats | Synonyms: rolled oats |
permeability | (noun) the property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid (as by osmosis or diffusion) | Synonyms: permeableness |
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permeable | (adjective) allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through | - |
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permeableness | (noun) the property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid (as by osmosis or diffusion) | Synonyms: permeability |
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permeant | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeating, permeative, pervasive |
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permeate | (verb) pass through | Synonyms: filter, percolate, sink in |
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(verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, pervade, riddle |
(verb) penetrate mutually or be interlocked | Synonyms: interpenetrate |
permeating | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeative, pervasive |
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permeation | (noun) mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other | Synonyms: interpenetration |
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(noun) the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance | Synonyms: pervasion, suffusion |
permeative | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeating, pervasive |
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piecemeal | (adjective) one thing at a time | Synonyms: bit-by-bit, in small stages, step-by-step, stepwise |
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(adverb) a little bit at a time | Synonyms: bit by bit, in stages, little by little |
schmear | (noun) (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together | Synonyms: schmeer, shmear |
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semipermeable | (adjective) (of a membrane) selectively permeable | - |
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shmear | (noun) (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together | Synonyms: schmear, schmeer |
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smear | (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | Synonyms: blot, smirch, spot, stain |
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(noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smirch, smudge, spot |
(noun) a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope | Synonyms: cytologic smear, cytosmear |
(noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: malignment, vilification |
(verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smirch, sully |
(verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: blur, smudge, smutch |
(verb) stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance | - |
(verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it | Synonyms: daub |