lookdown | (noun) similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead | Synonyms: lookdown fish, Selene vomer |
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lowness | (noun) the quality of being low; lacking height | - |
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(noun) a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.) | - |
(noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, dispiritedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness |
(noun) a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation | Synonyms: low status, lowliness |
mellowness | (noun) the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing | Synonyms: fullness, richness |
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(noun) a soft shade of a color | - |
(noun) geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana | - |
(noun) a taste (especially of fruit) that is ripe and of full flavor | - |
(noun) a feeling of good humor and sympathy through maturity or intoxication or a relaxed state | - |
meltdown | (noun) a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown | - |
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(noun) severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping | Synonyms: nuclear meltdown |
mown | (adjective) (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine | Synonyms: cut |
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narrowness | (noun) the property of being narrow; having little width | - |
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(noun) a small margin | Synonyms: narrow margin, slimness |
(noun) an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior | Synonyms: narrow-mindedness |
(noun) a restriction of range or scope | - |
nightgown | (noun) lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women | Synonyms: gown, night-robe, nightdress, nightie |
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nowness | (noun) the quality of being the present | Synonyms: presentness |
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nutbrown | (adjective) of the color of nuts | - |
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overblown | (adjective) past the stage of full bloom | - |
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(adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous |
overgrown | (adjective) covered with growing plants | - |
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(adjective) abounding in usually unwanted vegetation | - |
own | (adjective) belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive | Synonyms: ain |
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(verb) have ownership or possession of | Synonyms: have, possess |
owned | (adjective) having an owner; often used in combination | - |
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owner | (noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business | Synonyms: proprietor |
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(noun) a person who owns something | Synonyms: possessor |
ownerless | (adjective) having no owner | Synonyms: unowned |
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ownership | (noun) the act of having and controlling property | Synonyms: possession |
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(noun) the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others | - |
(noun) the state or fact of being an owner | - |
putdownable | (adjective) (of a book) poorly written and not entertaining | - |
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renown | (noun) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed | Synonyms: celebrity, fame |
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renowned | (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, famous, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted |
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rubdown | (noun) the act of rubbing down, usually for relaxation or medicinal purposes | - |
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rundown | (noun) a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) | Synonyms: summation, summing up |
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sallowness | (noun) a sickly yellowish skin color | - |
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shakedown | (adjective) intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system | - |
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(noun) extortion of money (as by blackmail) | - |
(noun) a very thorough search of a person or a place | - |
(noun) initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state | - |
shallowness | (noun) the quality of lacking physical depth | - |
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(noun) lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling | Synonyms: superficiality |
shantytown | (noun) a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties | - |
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shareowner | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareholder, stockholder |
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shipowner | (noun) someone who owns a ship or a share in a ship | - |
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showdown | (noun) a hostile disagreement face-to-face | Synonyms: confrontation, encounter, face-off |
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shutdown | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closedown, closing, closure |
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slowdown | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: lag, retardation |
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slowness | (noun) a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | Synonyms: deliberateness, deliberation, unhurriedness |
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(noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, subnormality |
(noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness |
sown | (adjective) sprinkled with seed | Synonyms: seeded |
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spelldown | (noun) a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly | Synonyms: spelling bee, spelling contest |
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splashdown | (noun) a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight | - |
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standdown | (noun) (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action | Synonyms: stand-down |
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(noun) a suspension and relaxation from an alert state or a state of readiness | Synonyms: stand-down |
sundown | (noun) the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon | Synonyms: sunset |
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sundowner | (noun) a drink taken at sundown | - |
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(noun) a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown | - |
takedown | (noun) a crushing remark | Synonyms: put-down, squelch, squelcher |
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(noun) (amateur wrestling) being brought to the mat from a standing position | - |
thistledown | (noun) pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seed-like fruit of a thistle | - |
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thrown | (adjective) caused to fall to the ground | - |
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(adjective) twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread | Synonyms: thrown and twisted |
touchdown | (noun) a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line | - |
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(noun) a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes | - |
town | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: townsfolk, townspeople |
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(noun) an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city | - |
(noun) an administrative division of a county | Synonyms: township |
townee | (noun) townsman unacquainted with country life especially a slick and flashy male city dweller | - |
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towner | (noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: townsman |
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townie | (noun) resident of a college town not affiliated with the college | Synonyms: towny |
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townsfolk | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townspeople |
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township | (noun) an administrative division of a county | Synonyms: town |
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townsman | (noun) a person from the same town as yourself | - |
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(noun) a resident of a town or city | Synonyms: towner |
townspeople | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townsfolk |
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towny | (noun) resident of a college town not affiliated with the college | Synonyms: townie |
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turndown | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: nonacceptance |
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unbeknown | (adjective) (usually used with `to') occurring or existing without the knowledge of | Synonyms: unbeknownst |
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(adverb) without someone's knowledge | Synonyms: unbeknownst |
unbeknownst | (adjective) (usually used with `to') occurring or existing without the knowledge of | Synonyms: unbeknown |
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(adverb) without someone's knowledge | Synonyms: unbeknown |
uncrowned | (adjective) not (especially not yet) provided with a crown | Synonyms: crownless |
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(adjective) not having an (artificial) crown on a tooth; used especially of molars and bicuspids | - |
unknown | (adjective) not known | - |
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(adjective) being or having an unknown or unnamed source | Synonyms: nameless, unidentified, unnamed |
(adjective) not famous or acclaimed | Synonyms: obscure, unsung |
(adjective) not known before | Synonyms: strange |
(adjective) not known to exist | - |
(noun) a variable whose values are solutions of an equation | Synonyms: unknown quantity |
(noun) an unknown and unexplored region | Synonyms: terra incognita, unknown region |
(noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | Synonyms: alien, stranger |
unmown | (adjective) (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine | Synonyms: uncut |
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unowned | (adjective) having no owner | Synonyms: ownerless |
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unsown | (adjective) (of a piece of ground) not have a crop sown on it | Synonyms: unseeded |
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uptown | (adjective) of or located in the upper part of a town | - |
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(noun) a residential part of town away from the central commercial district | - |
(adverb) toward or in the upper part of town | - |
windblown | (adjective) used especially of trees; growing in a shape determined by the prevailing winds | - |
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yellowness | (noun) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons | Synonyms: yellow |
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