compendious | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, succinct, summary |
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compendium | (noun) a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work | - |
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(noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: collection |
compensable | (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: paying, remunerative, salaried, stipendiary |
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compensate | (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: recompense, remunerate |
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(verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: indemnify, recompense, repair |
(verb) do or give something to somebody in return | Synonyms: make up, pay, pay off |
(verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: correct, redress, right |
(verb) adjust for | Synonyms: correct, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, make up |
(verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: cover, overcompensate |
compensated | (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: remunerated, salaried, stipendiary |
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compensation | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: recompense |
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(noun) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury) | - |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors | - |
dampen | (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, soften, weaken |
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(verb) make moist | Synonyms: moisten, wash |
(verb) check; keep in check (a fire) | - |
(verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, deaden |
(verb) reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves) | - |
(verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: stifle |
(verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
dampener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: moistener |
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dampening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: moistening |
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empennage | (noun) the rear part of an aircraft | Synonyms: tail, tail assembly |
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hempen | (adjective) having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute | Synonyms: fibrous |
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impend | (verb) be imminent or about to happen | - |
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impendence | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendency |
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impendency | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence |
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impendent | (adjective) close in time; about to occur | Synonyms: at hand, close at hand, imminent, impending |
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impending | (adjective) close in time; about to occur | Synonyms: at hand, close at hand, imminent, impendent |
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impenetrability | (noun) the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) | Synonyms: imperviousness |
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(noun) incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand | Synonyms: impenetrableness |
impenetrable | (adjective) not admitting of penetration or passage into or through | - |
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(adjective) impossible to understand | - |
(adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: dense, heavy |
impenetrableness | (noun) incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand | Synonyms: impenetrability |
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impenitence | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitency |
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impenitency | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitence |
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impenitent | (adjective) not penitent or remorseful | Synonyms: unremorseful, unrepentant |
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(adjective) impervious to moral persuasion | - |
impenitently | (adverb) in an impenitent manner | Synonyms: unrepentantly |
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lumpen | (adjective) mentally sluggish | Synonyms: lumpish, unthinking |
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lumpenproletariat | (noun) (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | - |
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overcompensate | (verb) make excessive corrections for fear of making an error | Synonyms: over-correct |
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(verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: compensate, cover |
overcompensation | (noun) excessive compensation | - |
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(noun) (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite | - |
recompense | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: compensation |
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(noun) payment or reward (as for service rendered) | - |
(verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: compensate, remunerate |
(verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, repair |
uncompensated | (adjective) not paying a salary | Synonyms: unsalaried |
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