| aberrance | (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrancy, aberration, deviance |
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| aberrancy | (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberration, deviance |
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| aberrant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: deviant, deviate |
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| (noun) one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group | - |
| aberrate | (verb) diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration | - |
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| (verb) diverge from the expected | - |
| aberration | (noun) an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image | Synonyms: distortion, optical aberration |
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| (noun) a disorder in one's mental state | - |
| (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, deviance |
| abfarad | (noun) a capacitance unit equal to one billion farads | - |
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| abjuration | (noun) a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion | Synonyms: recantation, retraction |
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| aborad | (adverb) away from the mouth or oral region | - |
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| aboral | (adjective) opposite to or away from the mouth | - |
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| abracadabra | (noun) gibberish and nonsense | - |
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| abrachia | (noun) the condition of having no arms | - |
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| abradant | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abrader |
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| (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abrasive, abrasive material |
| abrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrase, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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| (verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: scour |
| abrader | (noun) a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing | Synonyms: abradant |
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| abranchial | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchiate, abranchious, gill-less |
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| abranchiate | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchious, gill-less |
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| abranchious | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchiate, gill-less |
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| abrase | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, corrade, rub down, rub off |
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| abrasion | (noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: attrition, detrition, grinding |
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| (noun) erosion by friction | Synonyms: attrition, corrasion, detrition |
| (noun) an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off | Synonyms: excoriation, scrape, scratch |
| abrasive | (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: harsh |
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| (adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: scratchy |
| (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abradant, abrasive material |
| abrasiveness | (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: harshness, scratchiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable | - |
| abstract | (adjective) existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment | - |
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| (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
| (adjective) dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention | - |
| (noun) a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance | Synonyms: abstraction |
| (noun) a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory | Synonyms: outline, precis, synopsis |
| (verb) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically | - |
| (verb) consider apart from a particular case or instance | - |
| (verb) give an abstract (of) | - |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| abstracted | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, scatty |
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| abstractedly | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absently, absentmindedly, inattentively |
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| abstractedness | (noun) preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else | Synonyms: abstraction |
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| abstracter | (noun) one who makes abstracts or summarizes information | Synonyms: abstractor |
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| abstraction | (noun) a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Synonyms: abstract entity |
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| (noun) the act of withdrawing or removing something | - |
| (noun) an abstract painting | - |
| (noun) a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance | Synonyms: abstract |
| (noun) preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else | Synonyms: abstractedness |
| (noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization |
| 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 |
| abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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| abstractly | (adverb) in abstract terms | - |
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| abstractness | (noun) the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object | - |
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| abstractor | (noun) one who makes abstracts or summarizes information | Synonyms: abstracter |
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| acaracide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaricide |
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| accelerando | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in tempo | - |
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| (noun) a gradually increasing tempo of music | - |
| (adverb) with increasing speed | - |
| accelerate | (verb) move faster | Synonyms: quicken, speed, speed up |
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| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: speed, speed up |
| accelerated | (adjective) speeded up, as of an academic course | - |
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| acceleration | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: quickening, speedup |
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| (noun) an increase in rate of change | - |
| (noun) (physics) a rate of increase of velocity | - |
| accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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| accelerator | (noun) a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine | Synonyms: throttle, throttle valve |
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| (noun) a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles | Synonyms: atom smasher, particle accelerator |
| (noun) a pedal that controls the throttle valve | Synonyms: accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, gun, throttle |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected | Synonyms: catalyst |
| acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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| acciaccatura | (noun) an embellishing note usually written in smaller size | Synonyms: appoggiatura, grace note |
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| acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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| acculturation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: enculturation, socialisation, socialization |
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| (noun) all the knowledge and values shared by a society | Synonyms: culture |
| (noun) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | Synonyms: assimilation |
| acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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| acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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| accuracy | (noun) the quality of being near to the true value | Synonyms: truth |
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| (noun) (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number | - |
| accurate | (adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy | - |
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| (adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: exact, precise |
| accurately | (adverb) with few mistakes | - |
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| (adverb) strictly correctly | - |
| acerate | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerose, acicular, needle-shaped |
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| achira | (noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained | Synonyms: arrowroot, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot |
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| acquirable | (adjective) capable of being acquired | - |
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| actinotherapy | (noun) (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance | Synonyms: irradiation, radiation, radiation therapy, radiotherapy |
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| addlebrained | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlepated, muddleheaded, puddingheaded |
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| adhocracy | (noun) an organization with little or no structure | - |
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| adjuration | (noun) a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something | - |
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| adjuratory | (adjective) earnestly or solemnly entreating | - |
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| (adjective) containing a solemn charge or command | - |
| administrable | (adjective) capable of being administered or managed | - |
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| administrate | (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administer |
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| administration | (noun) a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) | Synonyms: disposal |
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| (noun) the act of administering medication | Synonyms: giving medication |
| (noun) the act of meting out justice according to the law | Synonyms: judicature |
| (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: governance, governing, government, government activity |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) the tenure of a president | Synonyms: presidency, presidential term |
| administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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| administratively | (adverb) by or for an administrator | - |
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| administrator | (noun) someone who administers a business | Synonyms: decision maker |
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| (noun) the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor | - |
| (noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: executive |
| admirability | (noun) admirable excellence | Synonyms: admirableness, wonderfulness |
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| admirable | (adjective) inspiring admiration or approval | - |
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| (adjective) deserving of esteem and respect | Synonyms: estimable, good, honorable, respectable |
| admirableness | (noun) admirable excellence | Synonyms: admirability, wonderfulness |
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| admirably | (adverb) in an admirable manner | Synonyms: commendable, laudably, praiseworthily |
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| admiral | (noun) any of several brightly colored butterflies | - |
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| (noun) the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral | Synonyms: full admiral |
| admiralty | (noun) the office of admiral | - |
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| (noun) the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain) | - |
| admiration | (noun) a favorable judgment | Synonyms: appreciation |
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| (noun) a feeling of delighted approval and liking | Synonyms: esteem |
| (noun) the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising | Synonyms: wonder, wonderment |
| adorability | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorableness |
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| adorable | (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: endearing, lovely |
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| adorableness | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorability |
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| adorably | (adverb) in an adorable manner | Synonyms: endearingly |
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| adoration | (noun) the act of admiring strongly | Synonyms: idolisation, idolization |
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| (noun) the worship given to God alone | Synonyms: latria |
| (noun) a feeling of profound love and admiration | Synonyms: worship |
| adoxography | (noun) fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects | - |
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| adulterant | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterating |
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| (noun) any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | Synonyms: adulterator |
| adulterate | (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterated, debased |
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| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: debase, dilute, load, stretch |
| adulterated | (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterate, debased |
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| adulterating | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterant |
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| adulteration | (noun) the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another) | - |
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| (noun) being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating | Synonyms: debasement |
| adulterator | (noun) a changer who lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | - |
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| (noun) any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | Synonyms: adulterant |
| adumbrate | (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: outline, sketch |
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| (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: insinuate, intimate |
| adumbration | (noun) a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation | - |
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| (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefiguration |
| adumbrative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefigurative |
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| aerate | (verb) aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter | Synonyms: activate |
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| (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: oxygenate, oxygenise, oxygenize |
| (verb) expose to fresh air | Synonyms: air, air out |
| aerated | (adjective) supplied with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: charged |
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| (adjective) (of a liquid) treated by having air passed or bubbled through it for purification | - |
| aeration | (noun) the act of charging a liquid with a gas making it effervescent | - |
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| (noun) the process of exposing to air (so as to purify) | - |
| aerator | (noun) an apparatus for exposing something to the air (as sewage) | - |
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| aerogenerator | (noun) generator that extracts usable energy from winds | Synonyms: wind generator, windmill |
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| aerogram | (noun) a letter sent by air mail | Synonyms: aerogramme, air letter, airmail letter |
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| aerogramme | (noun) a letter sent by air mail | Synonyms: aerogram, air letter, airmail letter |
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| affranchise | (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: enfranchise |
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| affray | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: disturbance, fray, ruffle |
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| (noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: altercation, fracas |
| afraid | (adjective) filled with fear or apprehension | - |
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| (adjective) filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement | - |
| (adjective) having feelings of aversion or unwillingness | - |
| (adjective) feeling worry or concern or insecurity | - |
| agerasia | (noun) youthful appearance in an old person | - |
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| ageratum | (noun) any plant of the genus Ageratum having opposite leaves and small heads of blue or white flowers | - |
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| (noun) rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium | Synonyms: Conoclinium coelestinum, Eupatorium coelestinum, mist-flower, mistflower |
| agglomerate | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerated, agglomerative, clustered |
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| (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile |
| (noun) volcanic rock consisting of large fragments fused together | - |
| (verb) form into one cluster | - |
| agglomerated | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerative, clustered |
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| agglomeration | (noun) the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating | - |
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| (noun) a jumbled collection or mass | - |