altoist | (noun) a musician who plays the alto saxophone | Synonyms: alto saxophonist |
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boisterous | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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(adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: knockabout |
(adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: fierce, rough |
boisterously | (adverb) in a carefree manner | Synonyms: rollickingly |
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boisterousness | (noun) the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained | - |
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(noun) a turbulent and stormy state of the sea | - |
cloister | (noun) residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) | Synonyms: religious residence |
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(noun) a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) | - |
(verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
(verb) surround with a cloister | - |
(verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
cloistered | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: reclusive, secluded, sequestered |
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(adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical |
cloistral | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, conventual, monastic, monastical |
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egoist | (noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egocentric |
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(noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egotist, swellhead |
egoistic | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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egoistical | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistic, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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foist | (verb) insert surreptitiously or without warrant | - |
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(verb) to force onto another | - |
hoist | (noun) lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects | - |
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(verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: lift, wind |
(verb) raise by using ropes and pulleys | Synonyms: run up |
(verb) move from one place to another by lifting | - |
hoister | (noun) an operator of a hoist | - |
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jingoist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, patrioteer |
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jingoistic | (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
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joist | (noun) beam used to support floors or roofs | - |
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moist | (adjective) slightly wet | Synonyms: damp, dampish |
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moisten | (verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, wash |
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(verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: drizzle |
moistener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: dampener |
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moistening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: dampening |
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moistly | (adverb) in a damp manner | Synonyms: damply |
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moistness | (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: damp, dampness |
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moisture | (noun) wetness caused by water | Synonyms: wet |
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moisturise | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturize |
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moisturize | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturise |
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oboist | (noun) a musician who plays the oboe | - |
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roister | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, riot |
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roisterer | (noun) an especially noisy and unrestrained merrymaker | - |
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soloist | (noun) a musician who performs a solo | - |
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