agrarian | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agricultural, farming |
---|
arariba | (noun) Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood | Synonyms: Centrolobium robustum |
---|
arbitrarily | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: at random, every which way, haphazardly, indiscriminately, randomly, willy-nilly |
---|
arbitrariness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
---|
certiorari | (noun) a common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case | Synonyms: writ of certiorari |
---|
cineraria | (noun) herb of Canary Islands widely cultivated for its blue or purple or red or variegated daisylike flowers | Synonyms: Pericallis cruenta, Senecio cruentus |
---|
cinerarium | (noun) a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead | Synonyms: columbarium |
---|
contemporaries | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, generation |
---|
contemporariness | (noun) The state or quality of being contemporary, modern, of the present age. | - |
---|
contrarian | (noun) an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors | - |
---|
contrariety | (noun) the relation between contraries | - |
---|
contrarily | (adverb) contrary to expectations | Synonyms: contrariwise, on the contrary, to the contrary |
---|
(adverb) in a contrary disobedient manner | Synonyms: contrariwise, perversely |
contrariness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: crankiness, crotchetiness, grumpiness |
---|
(noun) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: perverseness, perversity |
contrarious | (adjective) characterized by self-willed opposition | Synonyms: cross-grained |
---|
contrariwise | (adverb) contrary to expectations | Synonyms: contrarily, on the contrary, to the contrary |
---|
(adverb) with the order reversed | Synonyms: the other way around, vice versa |
(adverb) in a contrary disobedient manner | Synonyms: contrarily, perversely |
extemporarily | (adverb) without prior preparation | Synonyms: extemporaneously, extempore |
---|
honorarium | (noun) a fee paid for a nominally free service | - |
---|
librarian | (noun) a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services | Synonyms: bibliothec |
---|
librarianship | (noun) the position of librarian | - |
---|
rarified | (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, sublime |
---|
(adjective) having low density | Synonyms: rare, rarefied |
rarify | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, elaborate, refine |
---|
raring | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness | Synonyms: impatient |
---|
rariora | (noun) (plural) rare collector's items | - |
---|
rarity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity |
---|
(noun) a rarified quality | Synonyms: low density, tenuity |
(noun) noteworthy scarcity | Synonyms: infrequency, rareness |
temerarious | (adjective) presumptuously daring | Synonyms: daredevil |
---|
temporarily | (adverb) for a limited time only; not permanently | - |
---|
temporariness | (noun) the property of lasting only a short time | - |
---|
terrarium | (noun) a vivarium in which selected living plants are kept and observed | - |
---|
tubocurarine | (noun) a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles | Synonyms: curare |
---|