abolitionism | (noun) the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery | - |
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abolitionist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: emancipationist |
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abortionist | (noun) a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies | - |
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abstractionism | (noun) an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation | Synonyms: abstract art |
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(noun) a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples | Synonyms: unrealism |
abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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(noun) a painter of abstract pictures | Synonyms: abstract artist |
accordionist | (noun) a musician who plays the accordion | - |
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admonish | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: reproof, reprove |
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(verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: caution, monish |
(verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: discourage, monish, warn |
admonisher | (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: monitor, reminder |
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admonishing | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonitory, reproachful, reproving |
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admonishment | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonition, monition |
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adonis | (noun) any handsome young man | - |
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agonise | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonize |
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(verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonize |
agonised | (adjective) expressing pain or agony | Synonyms: agonized |
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agonising | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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agonist | (noun) (biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction | - |
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(noun) a muscle that contracts while another relaxes | - |
(noun) someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon) | - |
(noun) the principal character in a work of fiction | Synonyms: protagonist |
agonistic | (adjective) of or relating to the athletic contests held in ancient Greece | - |
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(adjective) struggling for effect | Synonyms: strained |
(adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistical, combative |
agonistical | (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, combative |
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aldosteronism | (noun) a condition caused by overproduction of aldosterone | Synonyms: hyperaldosteronism |
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anachronism | (noun) an artifact that belongs to another time | - |
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(noun) a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age | - |
(noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | Synonyms: misdating, mistiming |
anachronistic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous |
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anachronistically | (adverb) in an anachronistic manner | - |
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antagonise | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonize |
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(verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonize, counteract |
antagonism | (noun) (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure | - |
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(noun) an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility | - |
(noun) the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors | - |
(noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: enmity, hostility |
antagonist | (noun) a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug | - |
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(noun) a muscle that relaxes while another contracts | - |
(noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, opponent, opposer, resister |
antagonistic | (adjective) arousing animosity or hostility | - |
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(adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect | Synonyms: incompatible |
(adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical |
(adjective) incapable of harmonious association | - |
(adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: counter |
antagonistically | (adverb) in an antagonistic manner | - |
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arsonist | (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: firebug, incendiary |
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associationism | (noun) (psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity | Synonyms: association theory |
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astonish | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astound |
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astonished | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astounded, stunned |
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astonishing | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astounding, staggering, stupefying |
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(adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: amazing |
astonishingly | (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: amazingly, surprisingly |
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astonishment | (noun) the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising | Synonyms: amazement |
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asynchronism | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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baboonish | (adjective) resembling a baboon | - |
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balloonist | (noun) someone who flies a balloon | - |
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bassoonist | (noun) a musician who plays the bassoon | - |
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buffoonish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: clownish, clownlike, zany |
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canonisation | (noun) (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints | Synonyms: canonization |
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canonise | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonize, saint |
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(verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonize |
canonised | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonized, glorified |
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canonist | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism" | - |
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(noun) a specialist in canon law | - |
caponise | (verb) convert a cock into a capon | Synonyms: caponize |
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carbonisation | (noun) the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens) | Synonyms: carbonization |
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carbonise | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonize |
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(verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonize, carburise, carburize |
cartoonist | (noun) a person who draws cartoons | - |
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collaborationism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, quislingism |
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collaborationist | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborator, quisling |
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colonisation | (noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonization, settlement |
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colonise | (verb) settle as colonists or establish a colony (in) | Synonyms: colonize |
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(verb) settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world | Synonyms: colonize |
colonised | (adjective) inhabited by colonists | Synonyms: colonized, settled |
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coloniser | (noun) someone who helps to found a colony | Synonyms: colonizer |
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colonist | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | Synonyms: settler |
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configurationism | (noun) (psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties | Synonyms: Gestalt psychology |
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conservationist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: environmentalist |
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contortionist | (noun) an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions | - |
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conversationist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, schmoozer |
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coreligionist | (noun) someone having the same religion as another person | - |
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counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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creationism | (noun) the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis | - |
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decarbonise | (verb) remove carbon from (an engine) | Synonyms: decarbonize, decarburise, decarburize, decoke |
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decolonisation | (noun) the action of changing from colonial to independent status | Synonyms: decolonization |
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decolonise | (verb) grant independence to (a former colony) | Synonyms: decolonize |
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deconstructionism | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstruction |
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deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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demonisation | (noun) to represent as diabolically evil | Synonyms: demonization |
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demonise | (verb) make into a demon | Synonyms: demonize |
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demonism | (noun) a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan) | Synonyms: diabolism, Satanism |
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desynchronisation | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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desynchronise | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronize |
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deviationism | (noun) ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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distortionist | (noun) a painter who introduces distortions | - |
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diversionist | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker |
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ebonise | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonize |
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educationist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationalist |
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elocutionist | (noun) a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery | - |
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emancipationist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: abolitionist |
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endaemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: eudemonism |
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enthronisation | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronization, investiture |
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eudemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: endaemonism |
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evolutionism | (noun) (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals | Synonyms: theory of evolution, theory of organic evolution |
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evolutionist | (noun) a person who believes in organic evolution | - |
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excursionist | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: rubberneck, sightseer, tripper |
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exhibitionism | (noun) the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals | Synonyms: immodesty |
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(noun) extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself | - |
exhibitionist | (noun) someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention | Synonyms: show-off |
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(noun) someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals | Synonyms: flasher |
exhibitionistic | (adjective) compulsively attracting attention to yourself especially by public exposure or exaggerated behavior | - |
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expansionism | (noun) the doctrine of expanding the territory or the economic influence of a country | - |
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expansionist | (adjective) of or involving or guided by expansionism | - |
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expressionism | (noun) an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality | - |
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expressionist | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionistic |
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(noun) an artist who is an adherent of expressionism | - |
expressionistic | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionist |
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extortionist | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: blackmailer, extortioner |
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gluttonise | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonize |
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harmonisation | (noun) singing in harmony | Synonyms: harmonization |
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(noun) a piece of harmonized music | Synonyms: harmonization |
harmonise | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: chord, harmonize |
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(verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonize, reconcile |
(verb) bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously | Synonyms: harmonize |
(verb) sing or play in harmony | Synonyms: harmonize |
(verb) write a harmony for | Synonyms: harmonize |
(verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonize |
harmonised | (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonic, harmonical, harmonized |
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harmoniser | (noun) a mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another | Synonyms: harmonizer |
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(noun) a musician who sings or plays in harmony | Synonyms: harmonizer |
hedonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good | - |
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(noun) the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle | - |
hedonist | (noun) someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: pagan, pleasure seeker |
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