admirability | (noun) admirable excellence | Synonyms: admirableness, wonderfulness |
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admirable | (adjective) inspiring admiration or approval | - |
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(adjective) deserving of esteem and respect | Synonyms: estimable, good, honorable, respectable |
admirableness | (noun) admirable excellence | Synonyms: admirability, wonderfulness |
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admirably | (adverb) in an admirable manner | Synonyms: commendable, laudably, praiseworthily |
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admiral | (noun) any of several brightly colored butterflies | - |
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(noun) the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral | Synonyms: full admiral |
admiralty | (noun) the office of admiral | - |
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(noun) the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain) | - |
admiration | (noun) a favorable judgment | Synonyms: appreciation |
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(noun) a feeling of delighted approval and liking | Synonyms: esteem |
(noun) the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising | Synonyms: wonder, wonderment |
admire | (verb) feel admiration for | Synonyms: look up to |
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(verb) look at with admiration | - |
admired | (adjective) regarded with admiration | - |
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admirer | (noun) someone who admires a young woman | Synonyms: adorer |
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(noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter |
(noun) a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves | - |
admiringly | (adverb) with admiration | - |
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amir | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: ameer, emeer, emir |
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bemire | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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besmirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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(verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: smirch |
emir | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: ameer, amir, emeer |
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emirate | (noun) the office of an emir | - |
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(noun) the domain controlled by an emir | - |
miracle | (noun) any amazing or wonderful occurrence | - |
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(noun) a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent | - |
miraculous | (adjective) peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention | Synonyms: heaven-sent, providential |
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(adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvellous, marvelous |
miraculously | (adverb) in a miraculous manner | - |
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mirage | (noun) something illusory and unattainable | - |
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(noun) an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects | - |
mirasol | (noun) annual sunflower grown for silage and for its seeds which are a source of oil; common throughout United States and much of North America | Synonyms: common sunflower, Helianthus annuus |
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mire | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: morass, quag, quagmire, slack |
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(noun) a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from | - |
(noun) deep soft mud in water or slush | Synonyms: slop |
(verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: muck, muck up, mud |
(verb) be unable to move further | Synonyms: bog down, get stuck, grind to a halt |
(verb) cause to get stuck as if in a mire | Synonyms: bog down |
(verb) entrap | Synonyms: entangle |
mired | (adjective) entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire | Synonyms: involved |
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mirid | (noun) a variety of leaf bug | Synonyms: capsid, mirid bug |
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miriness | (noun) The state or quality of being swampy or boggy. | - |
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mirky | (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, muddy, murky, turbid |
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(adjective) dark or gloomy | Synonyms: murky |
miro | (noun) New Zealand conifer used for lumber; the dark wood is used for interior carpentry | Synonyms: black pine, Podocarpus ferruginea, Prumnopitys ferruginea |
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mirror | (noun) polished surface that forms images by reflecting light | - |
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(noun) a faithful depiction or reflection | - |
(verb) reflect or resemble | - |
(verb) reflect as if in a mirror | - |
mirrored | (adjective) like or characteristic of a mirror image | - |
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mirrorlike | (adjective) capable of reflecting light like a mirror | Synonyms: specular |
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mirth | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, gleefulness, hilarity, mirthfulness |
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mirthful | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, risible |
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(adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry |
mirthfully | (adverb) in a joyous manner | Synonyms: blithely, gayly, happily, jubilantly, merrily |
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mirthfulness | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, gleefulness, hilarity, mirth |
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mirthless | (adjective) lacking mirth | - |
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miry | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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mirza | (noun) a title of respect placed before the surname of an official, scholar, or other distinguished man. | - |
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osmiridium | (noun) a hard and corrosion resistant mineral that is a natural alloy of osmium and iridium (usually containing small amounts of rhodium and platinum); used in needles and pen nibs etc. | Synonyms: iridosmine |
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pismire | (noun) social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers | Synonyms: ant, emmet |
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quagmire | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quag, slack |
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semirigid | (adjective) not fully rigid | - |
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(adjective) having a form maintained by a rigid internal structure as well as by internal gas pressure | - |
smirch | (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | Synonyms: blot, smear, spot, stain |
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(noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smear, smudge, spot |
(verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, sully |
(verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: besmirch |
smirk | (noun) a smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure | - |
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(verb) smile affectedly or derisively | Synonyms: simper |
smirker | (noun) a smiler whose smile is offensively self-satisfied | - |
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