admit | (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: acknowledge |
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(verb) admit into a group or community | Synonyms: accept, take, take on |
(verb) allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of | Synonyms: include, let in |
(verb) allow to enter; grant entry to | Synonyms: allow in, intromit, let in |
(verb) give access or entrance to | - |
(verb) serve as a means of entrance | - |
(verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: accommodate, hold |
(verb) afford possibility | Synonyms: allow |
admittable | (adjective) deserving to be allowed to enter | Synonyms: admittible |
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admittance | (noun) the act of admitting someone to enter | Synonyms: admission |
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(noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: access, accession, admission, entree |
admittedly | (adverb) as acknowledged | Synonyms: avowedly, confessedly, true |
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admittible | (adjective) deserving to be allowed to enter | Synonyms: admittable |
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amitosis | (noun) the direct method of cell division characterized by simple division of the nucleus without formation of chromosomes | - |
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amitotic | (adjective) pertaining to a simple method of cell division | - |
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amitriptyline | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Elavil) with serious side effects; interacts with many other medications | Synonyms: amitriptyline hydrochloride, Elavil |
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amity | (noun) a cordial disposition | Synonyms: cordiality |
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(noun) a state of friendship and cordiality | - |
anonymity | (noun) the state of being anonymous | Synonyms: namelessness |
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antisemitic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by anti-Semitism; hating Jews | Synonyms: anti-semitic |
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antisemitism | (noun) the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people | Synonyms: anti-Semitism |
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arrowsmith | (noun) a maker of arrows | - |
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bedlamite | (noun) an archaic term for a lunatic | - |
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blacksmith | (noun) a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil | - |
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caimitillo | (noun) tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit | Synonyms: Chrysophyllum oliviforme, damson plum, satin leaf, satinleaf |
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caimito | (noun) evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides | Synonyms: Chrysophyllum cainito, star apple |
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calamitous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
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calamity | (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy |
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catamite | (noun) a boy who submits to a sexual relationship with a man | - |
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chromite | (noun) a brownish-black mineral; the major source of chromium | - |
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clocksmith | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clockmaker |
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comity | (noun) a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect | - |
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commit | (verb) make a set of changes permanent | - |
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(verb) transfer to another place so something can be kept or preserved | - |
(verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: consecrate, dedicate, devote, give |
(verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: confide, entrust, intrust, trust |
(verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, institutionalise, institutionalize, send |
(verb) make an investment | Synonyms: invest, place, put |
(verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: perpetrate, pull |
(verb) engage in or perform | Synonyms: practice |
commitment | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, dedication, loyalty |
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(noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: committal, consignment |
(noun) an engagement by contract involving financial obligation | - |
(noun) the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose | Synonyms: committedness |
(noun) a message that makes a pledge | Synonyms: dedication |
committal | (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: commitment, consignment |
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(noun) the act of committing a crime | Synonyms: commission, perpetration |
committed | (adjective) bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude | - |
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(adjective) associated in an exclusive sexual relationship | Synonyms: attached |
committedness | (noun) the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose | Synonyms: commitment |
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committee | (noun) a special group delegated to consider some matter | Synonyms: commission |
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(noun) a self-constituted organization to promote something | Synonyms: citizens committee |
committeeman | (noun) a man who is a member of committee | - |
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committeewoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a committee | - |
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concomitance | (noun) occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another | - |
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concomitant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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(noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, attendant, co-occurrence |
conformity | (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, compliance, conformation |
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(noun) hardened conventionality | Synonyms: ossification |
(noun) correspondence in form or appearance | Synonyms: conformance |
(noun) orthodoxy in thoughts and belief | Synonyms: conformism |
(noun) concurrence of opinion | Synonyms: accord, accordance |
coppersmith | (noun) someone who makes articles from copper | - |
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deformity | (noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: disfiguration, disfigurement |
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(noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: malformation, misshapenness |
delimit | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimitate, demarcate |
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(verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimitate, delineate, specify |
(verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: subtend |
delimitate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, demarcate |
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(verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delineate, specify |
delimitation | (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, borderline, boundary line, mete |
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delimited | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: bounded |
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demitasse | (noun) small coffee cup; for serving black coffee | - |
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(noun) small cup of strong black coffee without milk or cream | Synonyms: cafe noir |
diatomite | (noun) a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material | Synonyms: diatomaceous earth, kieselguhr |
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dimity | (noun) a strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedcovers and curtains | - |
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dolomite | (noun) a kind of sedimentary rock resembling marble or limestone but rich in magnesium carbonate | - |
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(noun) a light colored mineral consisting of calcium magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium; used as a ceramic and as fertilizer | Synonyms: bitter spar |
dolomitic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of dolomite | - |
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dormitory | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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(noun) a large sleeping room containing several beds | Synonyms: dorm room, dormitory room |
dynamite | (noun) an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp | - |
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(verb) blow up with dynamite | - |
dynamiter | (noun) a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause | Synonyms: dynamitist |
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dynamitist | (noun) a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause | Synonyms: dynamiter |
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emit | (verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: breathe, pass off |
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(verb) express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) | Synonyms: let loose, let out, utter |
(verb) give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc. | Synonyms: give off, give out |
emitter | (noun) the electrode in a transistor where electrons originate | - |
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enmity | (noun) the feeling of a hostile person | Synonyms: hostility, ill will |
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(noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: antagonism, hostility |
enormity | (noun) an act of extreme wickedness | - |
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(noun) the quality of extreme wickedness | - |
(noun) the quality of being outrageous | Synonyms: outrageousness |
(noun) vastness of size or extent | - |
epididymitis | (noun) painful inflammation of the epididymis | - |
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equanimity | (noun) steadiness of mind under stress | Synonyms: calm, calmness, composure |
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eremite | (noun) a Christian recluse | - |
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eremitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living | Synonyms: eremitical |
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(adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: anchoritic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
eremitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living | Synonyms: eremitic |
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(adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: anchoritic, eremitic, hermitic, hermitical |
eremitism | (noun) monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience | - |
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extremity | (noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: appendage, member |
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(noun) that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso | - |
(noun) the outermost or farthest region or point | - |
(noun) the greatest or utmost degree | - |
(noun) an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease) | - |
fomite | (noun) any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another | Synonyms: vehicle |
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fumitory | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumeroot, fumewort |
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goldsmith | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldworker |
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goldsmithery | (noun) the work, art, or trade of a one who makes or deals in articles of gold. | - |
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gummite | (noun) a gummy orange mixture of uranium oxides and silicates occurring naturally in the hydration and oxidation of pitchblende | - |
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gunsmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs guns | - |
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gyromitra | (noun) any fungus of the genus Gyromitra | - |
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haemitin | (noun) a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds | Synonyms: haem, hematin, heme, protoheme |
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hermit | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: recluse, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte |
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(noun) one retired from society for religious reasons | Synonyms: anchorite |
hermitage | (noun) the abode of a hermit | - |
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hermitic | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitical |
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hermitical | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic |
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illimitable | (adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: limitless, measureless, unmeasured |
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imitate | (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, simulate |
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(verb) make a reproduction or copy of | - |
(verb) appear like, as in behavior or appearance | - |
imitation | (adjective) not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article | Synonyms: fake, false, faux, simulated |
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(noun) copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else | - |
(noun) something copied or derived from an original | - |
(noun) the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations | - |
(noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: caricature, impersonation |
imitative | (adjective) marked by or given to imitation | - |
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(adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic |
(adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: counterfeit |
imitativeness | (noun) the state of being imitating, copying, or unoriginal. | - |
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imitator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, emulator |
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(noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: impersonator |
indomitability | (noun) the property being difficult or impossible to defeat | Synonyms: invincibility |
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indomitable | (adjective) impossible to subdue | Synonyms: never-say-die, unsubduable |
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infirmity | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, valetudinarianism |
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inimitable | (adjective) defying imitation; matchless | - |
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inimitably | (adverb) in an unreproducible manner | Synonyms: unreproducibly |
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intermit | (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: break, pause |
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intermittence | (noun) the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping | Synonyms: intermittency |
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intermittency | (noun) the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping | Synonyms: intermittence |
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intermittent | (adjective) stopping and starting at irregular intervals | - |
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intermittently | (adverb) in an intermittent manner | - |
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intromit | (verb) allow to enter; grant entry to | Synonyms: admit, allow in, let in |
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limit | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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(noun) the boundary of a specific area | Synonyms: demarcation, demarcation line |
(noun) as far as something can go | - |
(noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limitation |
(noun) the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity | Synonyms: limit point, point of accumulation |
(noun) final or latest limiting point | Synonyms: terminal point, terminus ad quem |
(verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: circumscribe, confine to |
(verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, restrict, throttle, trammel |
(verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, set, specify |
limitation | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: restriction |
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(noun) the quality of being limited or restricted | - |
(noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: restriction |
(noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limit |
(noun) (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought | - |
limited | (adjective) small in range or scope | - |
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(adjective) not unlimited | - |
(adjective) not excessive | - |
(adjective) including only a part | - |
(adjective) mediocre | Synonyms: modified |
(adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: circumscribed |
(adjective) having a specific function or scope | Synonyms: special |
(noun) public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops | Synonyms: express |
limitedly | (adverb) in a limited manner | - |
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limitedness | (noun) The state or characteristic of having certain (often specified) limits placed upon it. | - |
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limiter | (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: clipper |
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limiting | (adjective) strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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(adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting |
(noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: modification, qualifying |
limitless | (adjective) having no limits in range or scope | Synonyms: unlimited |
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(adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: illimitable, measureless, unmeasured |
(adjective) seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent | Synonyms: boundless, unbounded |
limitlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, unboundedness |
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locksmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs locks | - |
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longanimity | (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: forbearance, patience |
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