bonce | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bean, dome, noggin, noodle |
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conceal | (verb) hold back; keep from being perceived by others | Synonyms: hold back, hold in |
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(verb) prevent from being seen or discovered | Synonyms: hide |
concealed | (adjective) hidden on any grounds for any motive | - |
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(adjective) not accessible to view | Synonyms: hidden, out of sight |
concealing | (adjective) covering or hiding | - |
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(noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealment, hiding |
concealment | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealing, hiding |
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(noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: cover, covert, screen |
(noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: privacy, privateness, secrecy |
concede | (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: confess, profess |
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(verb) be willing to concede | Synonyms: grant, yield |
(verb) acknowledge defeat | - |
(verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: cede, grant, yield |
conceding | (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: concession, yielding |
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conceit | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceitedness, vanity |
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(noun) a witty or ingenious turn of phrase | - |
(noun) an artistic device or effect | - |
(noun) an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things | - |
(noun) feelings of excessive pride | Synonyms: amour propre, self-love, vanity |
conceited | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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conceitedly | (adverb) with conceit; in a conceited manner | Synonyms: self-conceitedly |
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conceitedness | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceit, vanity |
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conceivability | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivableness |
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conceivable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: imaginable |
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conceivableness | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivability |
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conceivably | (adverb) within the realm of possibility | - |
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conceive | (verb) become pregnant; undergo conception | - |
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(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, consider, think |
(verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate |
conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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concenter | (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concentre, focalise, focalize, focus |
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concentrate | (noun) a concentrated example of something | - |
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(noun) a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water | - |
(noun) the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore | Synonyms: dressed ore |
(verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, reduce |
(verb) make denser, stronger, or purer | - |
(verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, centralize |
(verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, decoct, reduce |
(verb) make more concise | Synonyms: condense, digest |
(verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: condense, contract |
(verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, focus, pore, rivet |
(verb) draw together or meet in one common center | - |
concentrated | (adjective) gathered together or made less diffuse | - |
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(adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: hard |
(adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | Synonyms: saturated |
(adjective) intensely focused | - |
(adjective) of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced | - |
concentration | (noun) strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material | - |
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(noun) bringing together military forces | - |
(noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduity, assiduousness |
(noun) the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume | - |
(noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, denseness, density, tightness |
(noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, immersion |
(noun) increase in density | - |
concentre | (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, focalise, focalize, focus |
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concentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentrical, homocentric |
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concentrical | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, homocentric |
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concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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concept | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: conception, construct |
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conception | (noun) the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon | - |
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(noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: concept, construct |
(noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: design, excogitation, innovation, invention |
(noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: creation |
conceptional | (adjective) being of the nature of a notion or concept | Synonyms: ideational, notional |
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conceptive | (adjective) capable of conceiving | Synonyms: impregnable |
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conceptual | (adjective) being or characterized by concepts or their formation | - |
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conceptualisation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualization, formulation |
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(noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptuality, conceptualization |
conceptualise | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualize, gestate |
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conceptualism | (noun) the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application | - |
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conceptualistic | (adjective) involving or characteristic of conceptualism | - |
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conceptuality | (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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conceptualization | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, formulation |
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(noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptuality |
conceptualize | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualise, gestate |
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conceptually | (adverb) in a conceptual manner | - |
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conceptus | (noun) an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life | Synonyms: embryo, fertilized egg |
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concern | (noun) something that interests you because it is important or affects you | - |
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(noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: headache, vexation, worry |
(noun) a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | - |
(noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, fear |
(noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business, business concern, business organisation, business organization |
(verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
(verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: interest, occupy, worry |
concerned | (adjective) feeling or showing worry or solicitude | - |
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(adjective) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | Synonyms: interested |
(adjective) culpably involved | Synonyms: implicated |
concernedly | (adverb) in a manner showing concern | - |
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concert | (noun) a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging | - |
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(verb) settle by agreement | - |
(verb) contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement | - |
concerted | (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
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concertina | (noun) free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds | - |
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(noun) coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle | - |
(verb) collapse like a concertina | - |
concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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concertise | (verb) give concerts; perform in concerts | Synonyms: concertize |
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concertize | (verb) give concerts; perform in concerts | Synonyms: concertise |
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concerto | (noun) a composition for orchestra and a soloist | - |
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concession | (noun) a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business | Synonyms: grant |
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(noun) a point conceded or yielded | - |
(noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: conceding, yielding |
concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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concessioner | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessionaire |
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concessive | (adjective) of or pertaining to concession | - |
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deconcentrate | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, decentralize |
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disconcert | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, untune, upset |
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(verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, flurry, put off |
disconcerted | (adjective) having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion | Synonyms: discombobulated |
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disconcerting | (adjective) causing an emotional disturbance | Synonyms: upsetting |
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disconcertingly | (adverb) in a disturbing or embarrassing manner | - |
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disconcertion | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertment |
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disconcertment | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion |
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ensconce | (verb) fix firmly | Synonyms: settle |
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inconceivability | (noun) the state of being impossible to conceive | Synonyms: inconceivableness |
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inconceivable | (adjective) totally unlikely | Synonyms: impossible, out of the question, unimaginable |
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inconceivableness | (noun) the state of being impossible to conceive | Synonyms: inconceivability |
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inconceivably | (adverb) to an inconceivable degree | - |
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misconceive | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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misconception | (noun) an incorrect conception | - |
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nonce | (noun) the present occasion | Synonyms: time being |
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noncellular | (adjective) not made up of or divided into cells | Synonyms: acellular |
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nonconcentric | (adjective) not having a common center; not concentric | Synonyms: eccentric |
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once | (adverb) on one occasion | Synonyms: in one case, one time |
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(adverb) at a previous time | Synonyms: at one time, erst, erstwhile, formerly |
(adverb) as soon as | - |
pennoncel | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncelle, penoncel |
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pennoncelle | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, penoncel |
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penoncel | (noun) a small pennant borne on a lance | Synonyms: pennoncel, pennoncelle |
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ponce | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, procurer |
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(noun) a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses | - |
preconceive | (verb) conceive beforehand | - |
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preconceived | (adjective) (of an idea or opinion) formed beforehand; especially without evidence or through prejudice | - |
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preconception | (noun) an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence | Synonyms: parti pris, preconceived idea, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, prepossession |
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(noun) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | Synonyms: bias, prejudice |
preconcerted | (adjective) previously arranged or agreed on | - |
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sconce | (noun) a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light | - |
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(noun) a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce | - |
(noun) a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate | - |
(noun) a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather | - |
unconcealed | (adjective) not concealed or hidden | - |
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unconcern | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, nonchalance |
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(noun) a feeling of lack of concern | - |
unconcerned | (adjective) lacking in interest or care or feeling | - |
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(adjective) not occupied or engaged with | - |
(adjective) easy in mind; not worried | - |
unconcernedly | (adverb) in an indifferent manner | - |
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violoncellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: cellist |
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violoncello | (noun) a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing | Synonyms: cello |
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