agree | (verb) be in accord; be in agreement | Synonyms: concord, concur, hold |
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(verb) consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something | - |
(verb) achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose | - |
(verb) be agreeable or suitable | - |
(verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
(verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise, harmonize |
(verb) show grammatical agreement | - |
agreeability | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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agreeable | (adjective) conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature | - |
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(adjective) prepared to agree or consent | - |
(adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, concordant, conformable, consonant |
agreeableness | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeability |
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(noun) pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions | Synonyms: amenity |
agreeably | (adverb) in an enjoyable manner | Synonyms: enjoyably, pleasantly |
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agreed | (adjective) united by being of the same opinion | Synonyms: in agreement |
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agreement | (noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: correspondence |
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(noun) the thing arranged or agreed to | Synonyms: arrangement |
(noun) the verbal act of agreeing | - |
(noun) the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises | Synonyms: understanding |
(noun) the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations | Synonyms: concord |
(noun) harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: accord |
antifreeze | (noun) a liquid added to the water in a cooling system to lower its freezing point | - |
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arcdegree | (noun) a measure for arcs and angles | Synonyms: degree |
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axletree | (noun) a dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheels revolve | - |
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bourtree | (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, common elder, elderberry, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
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breech | (noun) opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded | Synonyms: rear of barrel, rear of tube |
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breechblock | (noun) a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing | Synonyms: breech closer |
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breechcloth | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechclout, loincloth |
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breechclout | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechcloth, loincloth |
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breeched | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: pantalooned, trousered |
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breeches | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickers |
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breechloader | (noun) a gun that is loaded at the breech | - |
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breed | (noun) a special type | - |
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(noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species | Synonyms: stock, strain |
(verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: multiply |
(verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: cover |
(verb) cause to procreate (animals) | - |
(verb) call forth | Synonyms: engender, spawn |
breeder | (noun) a person who breeds animals | Synonyms: stock breeder |
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breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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(noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: facts of life, procreation, reproduction |
(noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
(noun) the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization | - |
(noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: education, training |
(noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: genteelness, gentility |
breeze | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
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(noun) a slight wind (usually refreshing) | Synonyms: air, gentle wind, zephyr |
(verb) to proceed quickly and easily | - |
(verb) blow gently and lightly | - |
breezily | (adverb) in a breezy manner | - |
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breeziness | (noun) a breezy liveliness | Synonyms: jauntiness |
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(noun) a mildly windy state of the air | Synonyms: windiness |
breezy | (adjective) fresh and animated | - |
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(adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: blowy, windy |
budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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careen | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: rock, sway, tilt |
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(verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: shift, tilt, wobble |
(verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: keel, lurch, reel, stagger, swag |
career | (noun) the particular occupation for which you are trained | Synonyms: calling, vocation |
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(noun) the general progression of your working or professional life | Synonyms: life history |
(verb) move headlong at high speed | - |
careerism | (noun) the practice of advancing your career at the expense of your personal integrity | - |
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careerist | (noun) a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity | - |
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carefree | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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(adjective) free of trouble and worry and care | Synonyms: unworried |
carefreeness | (noun) the trait of being without worry or responsibility | - |
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(noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: insouciance, lightheartedness, lightsomeness |
cassareep | (noun) a flavoring made by boiling down the juice of the bitter cassava; used in West Indian cooking | - |
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chickeree | (noun) far western United States counterpart of the red squirrel | Synonyms: Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasi |
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chivaree | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: belling, callathump, callithump, charivari, shivaree |
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conferee | (noun) a member of a conference | - |
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(noun) a person on whom something is bestowed | - |
creed | (noun) any system of principles or beliefs | Synonyms: credo |
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(noun) the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group | Synonyms: church doctrine, gospel, religious doctrine |
creedal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: credal |
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creek | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | Synonyms: brook |
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creel | (noun) a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish | - |
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creep | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creeping |
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(noun) a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot | - |
(noun) a slow longitudinal movement or deformation | - |
(noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
(verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: crawl |
(verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: mouse, pussyfoot, sneak |
(verb) grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface) | - |
(verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, cringe, fawn, grovel |
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 | - |
creepiness | (noun) an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin | - |
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creeping | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creep |
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creeps | (noun) a feeling of fear and revulsion | - |
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(noun) a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait | - |
creepy | (adjective) causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin | Synonyms: creepy-crawly |
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(adjective) annoying and unpleasant | - |
creese | (noun) a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade | Synonyms: crease, kris |
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crossbreed | (noun) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species | Synonyms: cross, hybrid |
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(verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed |
crossbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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(noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: interbreeding, miscegenation |
decree | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: edict, fiat, order, rescript |
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(verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: rule |
(verb) issue a decree | - |
decreed | (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, ordained, prescribed |
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degree | (noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: grade, level |
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(noun) the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime) | - |
(noun) the highest power of a term or variable | - |
(noun) an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study | Synonyms: academic degree |
(noun) a measure for arcs and angles | Synonyms: arcdegree |
(noun) a unit of temperature on a specified scale | - |
(noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: level, point, stage |
disagree | (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, dissent, take issue |
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(verb) be different from one another | Synonyms: disaccord, discord |
disagreeable | (adjective) not to your liking | - |
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(adjective) unpleasant to interact with | - |
(adjective) not agreeing with your tastes or expectations | Synonyms: unsympathetic |
disagreeableness | (noun) an ill-tempered and offensive disposition | - |
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(noun) the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
disagreeably | (adverb) in a disagreeable manner | - |
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disagreement | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: discrepancy, divergence, variance |
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(noun) the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing | - |
(noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: dissension, dissonance |
discreet | (adjective) marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint | - |
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(adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: circumspect |
(adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discerning |
discreetly | (adverb) with discretion; prudently and with wise self-restraint | - |
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discreetness | (noun) subtly skillful handling of a situation | Synonyms: delicacy, diplomacy, finesse |
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(noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: circumspection, discretion, prudence |
doubletree | (noun) a crossbar on a wagon or carriage to which two whiffletrees are attached in order to harness two horses abreast | - |
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dungaree | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, jean |
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emigree | (noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another | Synonyms: emigrant, emigre, outgoer |
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entree | (noun) an entrance, especially a theatrical entrance onto a stage or as if onto a stage | - |
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(noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entry, entryway |
(noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: access, accession, admission, admittance |
(noun) the principal dish of a meal | Synonyms: main course |
evergreen | (adjective) (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year | - |
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(noun) a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year | Synonyms: evergreen plant |
fenugreek | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning especially in curry | Synonyms: fenugreek seed |
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(noun) annual herb or southern Europe and eastern Asia having off-white flowers and aromatic seeds used medicinally and in curry | Synonyms: Greek clover, Trigonella foenumgraecum |
filagree | (noun) delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) | Synonyms: filigree, fillagree |
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filaree | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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filigree | (noun) delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) | Synonyms: filagree, fillagree |
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(verb) make filigree, as with a precious metal | - |
fillagree | (noun) delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) | Synonyms: filagree, filigree |
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free | (adjective) not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint | - |
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(adjective) not held in servitude | - |
(adjective) unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion | - |
(adjective) not literal | Synonyms: liberal, loose |
(adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, destitute, devoid, innocent |
(adjective) not fixed in position | Synonyms: detached |
(adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, costless, gratis, gratuitous |
(adjective) not taken up by scheduled activities | Synonyms: spare |
(adjective) not occupied or in use | - |
(noun) people who are free | Synonyms: free people |
(adverb) without restraint | Synonyms: loose |
(verb) make (assets) available | Synonyms: release, unblock, unfreeze |
(verb) let off the hook | Synonyms: absolve |
(verb) free or remove obstruction from | Synonyms: disengage |
(verb) remove or force out from a position | Synonyms: dislodge |
(verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: liberate, release |
(verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: give up, release, relinquish, resign |
(verb) relieve from | Synonyms: disembarrass, rid |
(verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen |
(verb) make (information) available for publication | Synonyms: release |
(verb) free from obligations or duties | Synonyms: discharge |
(verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: exempt, relieve |
freebee | (noun) something that is free (usually provided as part of a promotional scheme) | Synonyms: freebie |
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freebie | (noun) something that is free (usually provided as part of a promotional scheme) | Synonyms: freebee |
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freebooter | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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freeborn | (adjective) born free of free parents | - |
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freedman | (noun) a male person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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freedom | (noun) the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints | - |
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(noun) immunity from an obligation or duty | Synonyms: exemption |
freedperson | (noun) a person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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freedwoman | (noun) a female person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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freehand | (adjective) done by hand without mechanical aids or devices | Synonyms: freehanded |
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freehanded | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, giving, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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(adjective) done by hand without mechanical aids or devices | Synonyms: freehand |
freehearted | (adjective) generous in providing aid to others | Synonyms: benevolent |
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freehold | (noun) tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life | - |
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(noun) an estate held in fee simple or for life | - |
freeholder | (noun) the owner of a freehold | - |
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freeing | (noun) the act of liberating someone or something | Synonyms: liberation, release |
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freelance | (adjective) working for yourself | Synonyms: free-lance, self-employed |
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(adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, mercenary |
(noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelancer, independent, self-employed person |
(verb) work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer | - |
freelancer | (noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelance, independent, self-employed person |
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freeload | (verb) live off somebody's generosity | - |
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freeloader | (noun) someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others | - |
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freely | (adverb) in a free manner | - |
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freemail | (noun) a service providing free email delivery in exchange for exposure to advertising | - |
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freeman | (noun) a male person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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freemasonry | (noun) a natural or instinctive fellowship between people of similar interests | - |
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freeperson | (noun) a person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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freesia | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Freesia valued for their one-sided clusters of usually fragrant yellow or white or pink tubular flowers | - |
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freestanding | (adjective) standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything | Synonyms: separate |
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freestone | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit | - |
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freestyle | (noun) a race (as in swimming) in which each contestant has a free choice of the style to use | - |
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freestyling | (noun) A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while rapping. | - |
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freetail | (noun) small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions | Synonyms: free-tailed bat, freetailed bat |
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