| appreciable | (adjective) enough to be estimated or measured | - |
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| appreciably | (adverb) to a noticeable degree | - |
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| appreciate | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: apprise, apprize, revalue |
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| (verb) increase the value of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| (verb) be fully aware of; realize fully | Synonyms: take account |
| (verb) recognize with gratitude; be grateful for | - |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: prize, treasure, value |
| appreciated | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: apprehended, comprehended |
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| appreciation | (noun) a favorable judgment | Synonyms: admiration |
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| (noun) an increase in price or value | - |
| (noun) understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something | Synonyms: grasp, hold |
| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: discernment, perceptiveness, taste |
| (noun) an expression of gratitude | - |
| appreciative | (adjective) having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion | - |
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| (adjective) feeling or expressive of gratitude | - |
| appreciatively | (adverb) with appreciation; in a grateful manner | Synonyms: gratefully |
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| appreciativeness | (noun) warm friendly feelings of gratitude | Synonyms: gratefulness, thankfulness |
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| appreciator | (noun) a person who is fully aware of something and understands it | - |
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| depreciate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: devaluate, devalue, undervalue |
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| (verb) lower the value of something | - |
| (verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, vilipend |
| depreciating | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciative, depreciatory |
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| depreciation | (noun) a decrease in price or value | - |
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| (noun) a communication that belittles somebody or something | Synonyms: derogation, disparagement |
| (noun) decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use | Synonyms: wear and tear |
| depreciative | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciatory |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciatory, slighting |
| depreciator | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: detractor, disparager, knocker |
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| depreciatory | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciative |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, slighting |
| imprecise | (adjective) not precise | - |
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| imprecisely | (adverb) in an imprecise manner | Synonyms: inexactly |
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| impreciseness | (noun) the quality of lacking precision | Synonyms: imprecision |
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| imprecision | (noun) the quality of lacking precision | Synonyms: impreciseness |
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| inappreciable | (adjective) too small to make a significant difference | - |
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| nonreciprocal | (adjective) not reciprocal | - |
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| nonreciprocating | (adjective) not moving alternately forward and backward | - |
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| precinct | (noun) a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes | - |
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| preciosity | (noun) the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined | Synonyms: preciousness |
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| precious | (adjective) obviously contrived to charm | Synonyms: cute |
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| (adjective) characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for | Synonyms: cherished, treasured, wanted |
| (adjective) of high worth or cost | - |
| (adjective) held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature | Synonyms: valued |
| (adverb) very | Synonyms: preciously |
| preciously | (adverb) very | Synonyms: precious |
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| preciousness | (noun) the positive quality of being precious and beyond value | Synonyms: invaluableness, pricelessness, valuableness |
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| (noun) the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined | Synonyms: preciosity |
| (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: costliness, dearness |
| precipice | (noun) a very steep cliff | - |
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| precipitance | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitancy | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitant | (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitous |
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| (noun) an agent that causes a precipitate to form | - |
| precipitate | (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitous |
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| (noun) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering | - |
| (verb) separate as a fine suspension of solid particles | - |
| (verb) hurl or throw violently | - |
| (verb) bring about abruptly | - |
| (verb) fall vertically, sharply, or headlong | - |
| (verb) fall from clouds | Synonyms: come down, fall |
| precipitately | (adverb) at breakneck speed | Synonyms: headlong |
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| precipitateness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitating | (adjective) bringing on suddenly or abruptly | - |
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| precipitation | (noun) an unexpected acceleration or hastening | - |
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| (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry |
| (noun) the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height | - |
| (noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: downfall |
| (noun) the process of forming a chemical precipitate | - |
| (noun) the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time | - |
| precipitator | (noun) removes dust particles from gases by electrostatic precipitation | Synonyms: Cottrell precipitator, electrostatic precipitator |
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| precipitin | (noun) an antibody that causes precipitation when it unites with its antigen | - |
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| precipitous | (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitate |
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| (adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: abrupt, sharp |
| precipitously | (adverb) abruptly; in a precipitous manner | - |
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| (adverb) very suddenly and to a great degree | Synonyms: sharply |
| precipitousness | (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: abruptness, steepness |
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| (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, suddenness |
| precis | (noun) a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory | Synonyms: abstract, outline, synopsis |
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| (verb) make a summary (of) | - |
| precise | (adjective) sharply exact or accurate or delimited | - |
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| (adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: accurate, exact |
| precisely | (adverb) indicating exactness or preciseness | Synonyms: exactly, just, properly |
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| (adverb) in a precise manner | Synonyms: exactly, incisively |
| (adverb) just as it should be | Synonyms: exactly, on the button, on the dot, on the nose |
| preciseness | (noun) the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance | Synonyms: precision |
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| (noun) clarity as a consequence of precision | Synonyms: clearcutness |
| precision | (noun) the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance | Synonyms: preciseness |
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| recidivate | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, regress, relapse, retrogress |
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| recidivism | (noun) habitual relapse into crime | - |
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| recidivist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, reversionist |
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| (noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) | Synonyms: habitual criminal, repeater |
| recipe | (noun) directions for making something | Synonyms: formula |
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| recipient | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: recipient role |
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| (noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: receiver |
| reciprocal | (adjective) concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return | Synonyms: mutual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function | - |
| (noun) hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype | Synonyms: reciprocal cross |
| (noun) (mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7 | Synonyms: multiplicative inverse |
| (noun) something (a term or expression or concept) that has an inverse relation to something else | - |
| reciprocality | (noun) a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence | Synonyms: reciprocity |
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| reciprocally | (adverb) in an inverse or contrary manner | Synonyms: inversely |
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| (adverb) in a mutual or shared manner | Synonyms: mutually |
| (adverb) (often followed by `for') in exchange or in reciprocation | Synonyms: in return |
| reciprocate | (verb) alternate the direction of motion of | - |
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| (verb) act, feel, or give mutually or in return | - |
| reciprocation | (noun) the act of making or doing something in return | - |
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| (noun) alternating back-and-forth movement | - |
| (noun) mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) | Synonyms: give-and-take, interchange |
| reciprocative | (adjective) moving alternately backward and forward | Synonyms: reciprocatory |
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| (adjective) given or done or owed to each other | Synonyms: reciprocatory |
| reciprocatory | (adjective) moving alternately backward and forward | Synonyms: reciprocative |
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| (adjective) given or done or owed to each other | Synonyms: reciprocative |
| reciprocity | (noun) mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges | - |
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| (noun) a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence | Synonyms: reciprocality |
| recirculation | (noun) circulation again | - |
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| recission | (noun) (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made | Synonyms: rescission |
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| recital | (noun) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | Synonyms: narration, yarn |
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| (noun) a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance | Synonyms: reading, recitation |
| (noun) performance of music or dance especially by soloists | - |
| (noun) a detailed account or description of something | - |
| recitalist | (noun) a musician who gives recitals | - |
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| recitation | (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice, practice session |
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| (noun) a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study | Synonyms: class period, course session |
| (noun) a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance | Synonyms: reading, recital |
| (noun) written matter that is recited from memory | - |
| recitative | (noun) a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech | - |
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| recite | (verb) repeat aloud from memory | - |
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| (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: narrate, recount, tell |
| (verb) recite in elocution | Synonyms: declaim |
| (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: enumerate, itemise, itemize |
| (verb) render verbally | Synonyms: retell |
| reciter | (noun) someone who recites from memory | - |
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| semiprecious | (adjective) used of gemstones having less commercial value than precious stones | - |
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| unappreciated | (adjective) having value that is not acknowledged | Synonyms: unsung, unvalued |
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| (adjective) not likely to be rewarded | Synonyms: thankless, ungratifying |
| unappreciative | (adjective) not feeling or expressing gratitude | - |
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| unappreciatively | (adverb) in an ungrateful manner | Synonyms: ungratefully |
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| unreciprocated | (adjective) not returned in kind | Synonyms: unanswered, unrequited |
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