aboriginal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: native |
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(adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial |
(noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aborigine, indigen, indigene, native |
aborigine | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, indigen, indigene, native |
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accessorial | (adjective) nonessential but helpful | - |
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accusatorial | (adjective) specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor | - |
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adoring | (adjective) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent | Synonyms: doting, fond |
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(adjective) showing adoration | Synonyms: worshipful |
adoringly | (adverb) with adoration | - |
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advertorial | (noun) an advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report | - |
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ahistorical | (adjective) unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition | - |
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algorism | (noun) computation with Arabic figures | - |
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(noun) the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration | - |
algorithm | (noun) a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem | Synonyms: algorithmic program, algorithmic rule |
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algorithmic | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of an algorithm | - |
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allegoric | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegorical |
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allegorical | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegoric |
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allegorically | (adverb) in an allegorical manner | - |
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allegoricalness | (noun) The state or quality of being allegorical. | - |
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allegorise | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
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(verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
allegoriser | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegorizer |
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allegorize | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
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(verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
allegorizer | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegoriser |
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ambassadorial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors | - |
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amorist | (noun) one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love | - |
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amoristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to romantic love | - |
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amphoric | (adjective) the sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle | - |
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anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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anchorite | (noun) one retired from society for religious reasons | Synonyms: hermit |
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anchoritic | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
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anteriority | (noun) the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head | - |
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(noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, precedence, precedency, priority |
antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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aorist | (noun) a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation | - |
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aoristic | (adjective) of or relating to the aorist tense | - |
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aphorise | (verb) speak or write in aphorisms | Synonyms: aphorize |
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aphorism | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: apophthegm, apothegm |
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aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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(adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
aphorize | (verb) speak or write in aphorisms | Synonyms: aphorise |
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apriorism | (noun) belief in a priori principles or reasoning; specifically : the doctrine that knowledge rests upon principles that are self-evident to reason or are presupposed by experience in general. | - |
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arborical | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arborary, arboreal, arborous |
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arboriculture | (noun) the tending of and caring for trees | Synonyms: tree farming |
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arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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arboriform | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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arborise | (verb) branch out like trees | Synonyms: arborize |
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arborist | (noun) a specialist in treating damaged trees | Synonyms: tree surgeon |
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arborize | (verb) branch out like trees | Synonyms: arborise |
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archesporial | (adjective) of or relating to the cells in a sporangium that give rise to spores | - |
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archesporium | (noun) primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops | Synonyms: archespore |
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armorial | (adjective) of or relating to heraldry or heraldic arms | - |
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arthrosporic | (adjective) of or relating to arthrospores | Synonyms: arthrosporous |
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ascosporic | (adjective) of or relating to ascospores | Synonyms: ascosporous |
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aspersorium | (noun) the basin or other vessel that holds holy water in Roman Catholic Churches | - |
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(noun) a short-handled device with a globe containing a sponge; used for sprinkling holy water | Synonyms: aspergill |
auctorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: authorial |
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auditorium | (noun) the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits | - |
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authorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: auctorial |
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authorisation | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorization, empowerment |
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(noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authority, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authority, authorization, sanction |
(noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorization, mandate |
authorise | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorize, clear, pass |
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(verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorize, empower |
authorised | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authoritative, authorized |
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authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
(noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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(adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
(adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
authoritatively | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: magisterially |
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authorities | (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: government, regime |
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authority | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
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(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, sanction |
(noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
(noun) an authoritative written work | - |
(noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
(noun) an expert whose views are taken as definitive | - |
(noun) (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | - |
authorization | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, empowerment |
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(noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, dominance, potency, say-so |
(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, sanction |
(noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, mandate |
authorize | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, clear, pass |
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(verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, empower |
authorized | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authoritative |
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authorizer | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authoriser |
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behaviorism | (noun) an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | Synonyms: behavioristic psychology, behaviourism, behaviouristic psychology |
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behaviorist | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behavioristic, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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(noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviourist |
behavioristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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bichloride | (noun) a compound containing two chlorine atoms per molecule | Synonyms: dichloride |
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bioterrorism | (noun) terrorism using the weapons of biological warfare | Synonyms: biological terrorism |
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blastoporic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporal |
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boorish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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boorishly | (adverb) like a boor | - |
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boorishness | (noun) inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor | Synonyms: uncouthness |
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(noun) the manner of a rude or insensitive person | - |
boric | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from or containing boron | Synonyms: boracic |
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boring | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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(noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: drilling, oil production |
(noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: drilling |
boringly | (adverb) in a tedious manner | Synonyms: tediously, tiresomely |
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boringness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: dreariness, insipidity, insipidness |
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caloric | (adjective) relating to or associated with heat | Synonyms: thermal, thermic |
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(adjective) of or relating to calories in food | - |
calorie | (noun) unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure | Synonyms: gram calorie, small calorie |
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calorifacient | (adjective) producing heat; usually used of foods | - |
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calorific | (adjective) heat-generating | - |
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calorimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument that determines quantities of heat | - |
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calorimetric | (adjective) of or relating to the measurement of heat | - |
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calorimetry | (noun) measurement of quantities of heat | - |
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calorisator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorizator |
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calorizator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorisator |
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camphoric | (adjective) relating to or derived from or containing camphor | - |
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carposporic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carpospore | - |
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categorial | (adjective) of or relating to the concept of categories | - |
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categoric | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categorical |
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(adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categorical, flat, unconditional |
categorical | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categoric |
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(adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categoric, flat, unconditional |
categorically | (adverb) in an unqualified manner | Synonyms: flatly, unconditionally |
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categorisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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(noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorization, classification, sorting |
(noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorization, classification |
categorise | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorize |
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categorised | (adjective) arranged into categories | Synonyms: categorized |
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categorization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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(noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, classification, sorting |
(noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, classification |
categorize | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorise |
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categorized | (adjective) arranged into categories | Synonyms: categorised |
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