| circumspectly | (adverb) in a cagey manner | Synonyms: cagily |
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| cirriped | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirripede |
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| cirripede | (noun) marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces | Synonyms: barnacle, cirriped |
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| cityscape | (noun) painting depicting a city or urban area | - |
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| (noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area | - |
| clapper | (noun) metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side | Synonyms: tongue |
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| (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: glossa, lingua, tongue |
| (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: applauder |
| clapperboard | (noun) photographic equipment used to synchronize sound and motion picture; boards held in front of a movie camera are banged together | - |
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| clapperclaw | (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, shout |
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| (verb) claw with the nails | - |
| clappers | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: bones, castanets, finger cymbals |
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| clipped | (adjective) (of speech) having quick short sounds | - |
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| (adjective) cut or trimmed by clipping | - |
| clipper | (noun) scissors for cutting hair or finger nails | - |
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| (noun) shears for cutting grass or shrubbery | - |
| (noun) a fast sailing ship used in former times | Synonyms: clipper ship |
| (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: limiter |
| clodhopper | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, brogue, work shoe |
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| closelipped | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped |
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| clupeid | (noun) any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas | Synonyms: clupeid fish |
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| clypeus | (noun) a shield-like plate on the front of an insect's head | - |
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| collotype | (noun) a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors | Synonyms: collotype printing, photogelatin process |
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| colonoscope | (noun) an elongated fiberoptic endoscope for examining the entire colon from cecum to rectum | - |
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| colposcope | (noun) An endoscopic instrument that magnifies the epithelia of the vagina and cervix in vivo to allow direct observation and study of these tissues. | Synonyms: vaginoscope |
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| compeer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: equal, match, peer |
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| compel | (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: obligate, oblige |
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| (verb) necessitate or exact | - |
| compelling | (adjective) tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument | - |
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| (adjective) driving or forcing | - |
| compendious | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, succinct, summary |
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| compendium | (noun) a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work | - |
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| (noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: collection |
| compensable | (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: paying, remunerative, salaried, stipendiary |
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| compensate | (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: recompense, remunerate |
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| (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: indemnify, recompense, repair |
| (verb) do or give something to somebody in return | Synonyms: make up, pay, pay off |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: correct, redress, right |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: correct, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| (verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: cover, overcompensate |
| compensated | (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: remunerated, salaried, stipendiary |
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| compensation | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: recompense |
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| (noun) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors | - |
| compere | (noun) British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc | - |
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| (verb) act as a master of ceremonies | Synonyms: emcee |
| compete | (verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: contend, vie |
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| competence | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competency |
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| competency | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competence |
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| competent | (adjective) properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient | - |
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| (adjective) legally qualified or sufficient | - |
| (adjective) adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional | - |
| competently | (adverb) with competence; in a competent capable manner | Synonyms: ably, aptly, capably |
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| competition | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: contention, rivalry |
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| (noun) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants | Synonyms: contest |
| (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competitor, contender, rival |
| (noun) a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers | - |
| competitive | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitory |
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| (adjective) showing a fighting disposition | Synonyms: militant |
| (adjective) subscribing to capitalistic competition | Synonyms: free-enterprise, private-enterprise |
| competitively | (adverb) in competition | - |
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| competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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| competitor | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, contender, rival |
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| competitory | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitive |
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| conspecific | (adjective) belonging to the same species | - |
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| (noun) an organism belonging to the same species as another organism | - |
| conspectus | (noun) an overall summary | - |
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| cooper | (noun) a craftsman who makes or repairs wooden barrels or tubs | Synonyms: barrel maker |
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| (verb) make barrels and casks | - |
| cooperate | (verb) work together on a common enterprise or project | Synonyms: collaborate, join forces |
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| cooperation | (noun) joint operation or action | - |
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| (noun) the practice of cooperating | - |
| cooperative | (adjective) done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, conjunctive, united |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: accommodative |
| (noun) a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners | Synonyms: co-op |
| (noun) an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it | - |
| cooperatively | (adverb) in close cooperation | Synonyms: hand and glove, hand in glove |
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| cooperativeness | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenability, amenableness |
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| cooperator | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: collaborator, pardner, partner |
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| cope | (noun) brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall | Synonyms: coping, header |
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| (noun) a long cloak; worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions | - |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
| copeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: kopeck, kopek |
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| copepod | (noun) minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish | Synonyms: copepod crustacean |
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| copesetic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copacetic, copasetic, copesettic |
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| copesettic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copacetic, copasetic, copesetic |
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| copestone | (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: capstone, coping stone, stretcher |
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| (noun) a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination | Synonyms: capstone, finishing touch |
| copper | (noun) any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings | - |
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| (noun) a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper | Synonyms: copper color |
| (noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: bull, cop, fuzz, pig |
| (noun) a copper penny | - |
| (noun) a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor | Synonyms: atomic number 29, Cu |
| (verb) coat with a layer of copper | - |
| copperhead | (noun) common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon contortrix |
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| (noun) venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia | Synonyms: Denisonia superba |
| copperplate | (noun) an engraving consisting of a smooth plate of copper that has been etched or engraved | Synonyms: copperplate engraving |
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| (noun) a print made from an engraved copperplate | - |
| (noun) a graceful style of handwriting based on the writing used on copperplate engravings | - |
| coppersmith | (noun) someone who makes articles from copper | - |
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| copperware | (noun) utensils made with copper | - |
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| coppery | (adjective) of something having the color of copper | Synonyms: copper colored |
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| corticipetal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoafferent |
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| counterperson | (noun) someone who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| coupe | (noun) a car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment | - |
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| cowpea | (noun) eaten fresh as shell beans or dried | Synonyms: black-eyed pea |
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| (noun) sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure | Synonyms: black-eyed pea, cowpea plant, Vigna sinensis, Vigna unguiculata |
| (noun) fruit or seed of the cowpea plant | Synonyms: black-eyed pea |
| cramped | (adjective) constricted in size | - |
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| crape | (noun) a soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface | Synonyms: crepe |
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| (noun) small very thin pancake | Synonyms: crepe, French pancake |
| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink, kink up |
| (verb) cover or drape with crape | Synonyms: crepe |
| crapette | (noun) solitaire with two players using separate packs | Synonyms: Russian bank |
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| crapper | (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet |
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| creeper | (noun) any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet | Synonyms: tree creeper |
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| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: crawler |
| (noun) any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping | - |
| crepe | (noun) a soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface | Synonyms: crape |
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| (noun) small very thin pancake | Synonyms: crape, French pancake |
| (noun) paper with a crinkled texture; usually colored and used for decorations | Synonyms: crepe paper |
| (verb) cover or drape with crape | Synonyms: crape |
| crimper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: curler, hair curler, roller |
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| (noun) a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other. | Synonyms: crimping pliers |
| (noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimp |
| crispen | (verb) make brown and crisp by heating | Synonyms: crisp, toast |
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| cropped | (adjective) (of land or soil) used for growing crops | - |
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| cropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: sharecrop farmer, sharecropper |
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| croupe | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, hindquarters, rump |
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| crumpet | (noun) a thick soft cake with a porous texture; cooked on a griddle | - |
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| crupper | (noun) a strap from the back of a saddle passing under the horse's tail; prevents saddle from slipping forward | - |
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| cryoscope | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring freezing and melting points | - |
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| culdoscope | (noun) a specialized endoscope for visually examining a woman's pelvic organs | - |
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| cupel | (noun) a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead | Synonyms: bone-ash cup, refractory pot |
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| cupper | (noun) a cup of tea | Synonyms: cuppa |
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| cusped | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cyclopean | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops | - |
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| cyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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| cypripedia | (noun) a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium | - |
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| cytopenia | (noun) a deficiency of some cellular element of the blood | - |
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| daguerreotype | (noun) a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor | - |
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| dampen | (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, soften, weaken |
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| (verb) make moist | Synonyms: moisten, wash |
| (verb) check; keep in check (a fire) | - |
| (verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, deaden |
| (verb) reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves) | - |
| (verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: stifle |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
| dampener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: moistener |
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| dampening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: moistening |
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| damper | (noun) a depressing restraint | - |
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| (noun) a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations | Synonyms: muffler |
| (noun) a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace | - |
| dapper | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| dapperness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: jauntiness, nattiness, rakishness |
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| deepen | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: intensify |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, heighten, intensify |
| (verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: change |
| (verb) make deeper | - |
| deepening | (adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) a process of becoming deeper and more profound | - |
| depend | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, look, reckon, rely, swear |
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| (verb) be contingent upon (something that is elided) | - |
| dependability | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependableness, reliability, reliableness |
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| dependable | (adjective) worthy of reliance or trust | Synonyms: reliable |
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| (adjective) financially safe | Synonyms: good, safe, secure |
| (adjective) consistent in performance or behavior | Synonyms: rock-steady, steady-going |
| (adjective) worthy of being depended on | Synonyms: honest, reliable, true |
| dependableness | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependability, reliability, reliableness |
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| dependably | (adverb) in a faithful manner | Synonyms: faithfully, reliably |
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| dependance | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependence, dependency |
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| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation |