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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anfractuous | (adjective) full of twists and turns | - |
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apractic | (adjective) having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder | Synonyms: apraxic |
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ataractic | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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(noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquilliser, tranquillizer |
attract | (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: draw, draw in, pull, pull in |
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(verb) exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away | - |
(verb) be attractive to | Synonyms: appeal |
attractable | (adjective) capable of being magnetized or attracted by a magnet | - |
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attracter | (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attraction, attractive feature, attractor, magnet |
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(noun) (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system | Synonyms: attractor |
(noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attraction, attractor, draw, drawing card |
attraction | (noun) the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts | Synonyms: attractiveness |
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(noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attracter, attractive feature, attractor, magnet |
(noun) an entertainment that is offered to the public | - |
(noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attracter, attractor, draw, drawing card |
(noun) the force by which one object attracts another | Synonyms: attractive force |
attractive | (adjective) pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm | - |
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(adjective) having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull | - |
(adjective) having power to arouse interest | - |
attractively | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: beautifully |
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attractiveness | (noun) sexual allure | - |
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(noun) the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts | Synonyms: attraction |
attractor | (noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, attractive feature, magnet |
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(noun) (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system | Synonyms: attracter |
(noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, draw, drawing card |
bract | (noun) a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence | - |
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bracteal | (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a bract | - |
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bracteate | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracted |
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bracted | (adjective) having bracts | Synonyms: bracteate |
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bracteolate | (adjective) having bracteoles | - |
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bracteole | (noun) a small bract | Synonyms: bractlet |
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bractlet | (noun) a small bract | Synonyms: bracteole |
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cataphract | (noun) armor that protects the wearer's whole body | Synonyms: body armor, body armour, coat of mail, suit of armor, suit of armour |
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cataract | (noun) a large waterfall; violent rush of water over a precipice | - |
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(noun) an eye disease that involves the clouding or opacification of the natural lens of the eye | - |
character | (noun) (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes | - |
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(noun) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions | Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
(noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | Synonyms: lineament, quality |
(noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | Synonyms: part, persona, role, theatrical role |
(noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | Synonyms: graph, grapheme, graphic symbol |
(noun) a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability | Synonyms: character reference, reference |
(noun) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) | Synonyms: case, eccentric, type |
(noun) an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story) | Synonyms: fictional character, fictitious character |
(noun) good repute | - |
(verb) engrave or inscribe characters on | - |
characterisation | (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
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(noun) the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | Synonyms: characterization |
characterise | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterize, qualify |
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(verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterize |
characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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(noun) a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | - |
(noun) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | Synonyms: device characteristic |
(noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: feature |
(noun) the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 | - |
characteristically | (adverb) in characteristic manner | - |
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characteristicness | (noun) The quality or state of being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | - |
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characterization | (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: enactment, personation, portrayal |
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(noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
(noun) the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | Synonyms: characterisation |
characterize | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, qualify |
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(verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterise |
characterless | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: nondescript |
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chemoattractant | (noun) a substance inducing positive chemotaxis in motile cells. | - |
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chiropractic | (noun) a method of treatment that manipulates body structures (especially the spine) to relieve low back pain or even headache or high blood pressure | - |
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chiropractor | (noun) a therapist who practices chiropractic | - |
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contract | (noun) a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid | Synonyms: contract bridge |
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(noun) a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law | - |
(noun) (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make | Synonyms: declaration |
(verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness | Synonyms: get, take |
(verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: narrow |
(verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: shrink |
(verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
(verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
(verb) enter into a contractual arrangement | Synonyms: undertake |
(verb) make smaller | - |
(verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, press, squeeze |
(verb) engage by written agreement | Synonyms: sign, sign on, sign up |
contractable | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable |
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contracted | (adjective) reduced in size or pulled together | - |
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contractile | (adjective) capable of contracting or being contracted | - |
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contractility | (noun) the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter | - |
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contracting | (noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: catching |
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contraction | (noun) the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | - |
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(noun) (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber) | Synonyms: muscle contraction, muscular contraction |
(noun) a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds | - |
(noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: compression, condensation |
contractor | (noun) a bodily organ that contracts | Synonyms: contractile organ |
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(noun) someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things | - |
(noun) (law) a party to a contract | - |
(noun) the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps | Synonyms: declarer |
contractual | (adjective) relating to or part of a binding legal agreement | - |
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contractually | (adverb) by virtue of a contract | - |
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contracture | (noun) an abnormal and usually permanent contraction of a muscle | - |
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counteract | (verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonise, antagonize |
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(verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine, weaken |
(verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: countercheck |
(verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counterbalance, countervail, neutralize |
counteraction | (noun) action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action | Synonyms: neutralisation, neutralization |
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counteractive | (adjective) opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action | - |
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counteractively | (adverb) in a counteractive manner | - |
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counterattraction | (noun) a rival attraction | - |
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detract | (verb) take away a part from; diminish | Synonyms: take away |
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detraction | (noun) the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander) | - |
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(noun) a petty disparagement | Synonyms: petty criticism |
detractive | (adjective) causing to decrease in importance or value | - |
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detractor | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, disparager, knocker |
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diffract | (verb) undergo diffraction | - |
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diffraction | (noun) when light passes sharp edges or goes through narrow slits the rays are deflected and produce fringes of light and dark bands | - |
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distract | (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: deflect |
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(verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
distracted | (adjective) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety | Synonyms: distrait |
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distractedly | (adverb) in a distracted manner | - |
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distraction | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: beguilement |
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(noun) the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: misdirection |
(noun) mental turmoil | - |
(noun) an obstacle to attention | - |
ebracteate | (adjective) without bracts | - |
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extract | (noun) a passage selected from a larger work | Synonyms: excerpt, excerption, selection |
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(noun) a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water) | Synonyms: infusion |
(verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill |
(verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | Synonyms: excerpt, take out |
(verb) calculate the root of a number | - |
(verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, pull, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
(verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: express, press out |
(verb) separate (a metal) from an ore | - |
(verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, evoke |
(verb) get despite difficulties or obstacles | - |
extractable | (adjective) capable of being extracted | Synonyms: extractible |
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extractant | (noun) an immiscible liquid used to extract a substance from another liquid. | - |
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extractible | (adjective) capable of being extracted | Synonyms: extractable |
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extraction | (noun) the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force) | - |
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(noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: descent, origin |
(noun) the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means | - |
extractivity | (noun) the amount of extract that grains of malt yield. | - |
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extractor | (noun) an instrument for extracting tight-fitting components | - |
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(noun) an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension | Synonyms: centrifuge, separator |
(noun) a mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty shell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector | Synonyms: cartridge extractor, cartridge remover |
fractal | (noun) (mathematics) a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry | - |
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fraction | (noun) a small part or item forming a piece of a whole | - |
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(noun) the quotient of two rational numbers | - |
(noun) a component of a mixture that has been separated by a fractional process | - |
(verb) perform a division | Synonyms: divide |
fractional | (adjective) constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety | Synonyms: partial |
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(adjective) constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: divisional |
fractionate | (verb) obtain by a fractional process | - |
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(verb) separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents | - |
fractionation | (noun) separation into portions | - |
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(noun) a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components | Synonyms: fractional process |
fractious | (adjective) unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome | - |
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(adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control | Synonyms: recalcitrant, refractory |
(adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
fractiously | (adverb) in a fractious manner | - |
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(adverb) in a peevish manner | Synonyms: peevishly, querulously |
fractiousness | (noun) the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline | Synonyms: unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness |
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fracture | (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: crack, cracking |
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(noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, faulting, geological fault, shift |
(noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone | Synonyms: break |
(verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: break |
(verb) become fractured | - |
(verb) violate or abuse | - |
(verb) break into pieces | - |
(verb) interrupt, break, or destroy | - |
hyperactive | (adjective) more active than normal | Synonyms: overactive |
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hyperactivity | (noun) a condition characterized by excessive restlessness and movement | - |
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impracticability | (noun) the quality of not being usable | Synonyms: impracticableness |
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impracticable | (adjective) not capable of being carried out or put into practice | Synonyms: infeasible, unfeasible, unworkable |
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impracticableness | (noun) the quality of not being usable | Synonyms: impracticability |
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impracticably | (adverb) to an impracticable degree | - |
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impractical | (adjective) not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters | - |
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(adjective) not practical or realizable; speculative | Synonyms: airy, Laputan, visionary, windy |
impracticality | (noun) concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use | - |
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infract | (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, offend, transgress, violate |
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infraction | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infringement, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation |
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interact | (verb) act together or towards others or with others | - |
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interaction | (noun) a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting | - |
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(noun) (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons | Synonyms: fundamental interaction |
interactional | (adjective) capable of acting on or influencing each other | Synonyms: interactive |
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