antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
(noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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(adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
(adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
authoritatively | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: magisterially |
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charitable | (adjective) full of love and generosity | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characterized by charity | - |
(adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
charitableness | (noun) generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate) | - |
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charitably | (adverb) in a charitable manner | - |
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counterirritant | (noun) a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation | - |
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disinheritance | (noun) the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit | - |
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extramarital | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extracurricular |
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federita | (noun) a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains | Synonyms: feterita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum |
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feterita | (noun) a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains | Synonyms: federita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum |
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heritable | (adjective) capable of being inherited | Synonyms: inheritable |
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heritage | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: inheritance |
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(noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: inheritance |
(noun) practices that are handed down from the past by tradition | - |
(noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: inheritance |
inheritable | (adjective) capable of being inherited | Synonyms: heritable |
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inheritance | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: heritage |
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(noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: heritage |
(noun) (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents | Synonyms: hereditary pattern |
(noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: heritage |
irritability | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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(noun) excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part | Synonyms: excitability |
(noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance |
irritable | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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(adjective) capable of responding to stimuli | Synonyms: excitable |
(adjective) abnormally sensitive to a stimulus | - |
irritably | (adverb) in an irritable manner | - |
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(adverb) in a petulant manner | Synonyms: pettishly, petulantly, testily |
irritant | (noun) something that causes irritation and annoyance | Synonyms: thorn |
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irritate | (verb) excite to an abnormal condition, or chafe or inflame | - |
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(verb) excite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus | - |
(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
irritated | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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irritating | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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(adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritative |
(adjective) causing physical discomfort | Synonyms: painful |
irritatingly | (adverb) in an irritating manner | - |
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irritation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, provocation |
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(noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, annoying, vexation |
(noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: discomfort, soreness |
(noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: pique, temper |
(noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, vexation |
(noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, innervation |
(noun) (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation | - |
irritative | (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritating |
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margarita | (noun) a cocktail made of tequila and triple sec with lime and lemon juice | - |
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marital | (adjective) of or relating to the state of marriage | Synonyms: married, matrimonial |
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meritable | (adjective) deserving reward or praise | Synonyms: meritorious |
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nerita | (noun) a neritid gastropod having a short smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum | - |
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nonheritable | (adjective) not inheritable | Synonyms: noninheritable |
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noninheritable | (adjective) not inheritable | Synonyms: nonheritable |
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premarital | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: antenuptial, prenuptial |
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puritan | (noun) someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures | - |
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(noun) a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum | Synonyms: prude |
puritanic | (adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: blue, puritanical |
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puritanical | (adjective) of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism | - |
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(adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: blue, puritanic |
(adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
puritanically | (adverb) in a prudish manner | Synonyms: prudishly |
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ritardando | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in tempo | Synonyms: rallentando, rit., ritenuto |
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tritanopia | (noun) rare form of dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to blue light resulting in an inability to distinguish blue and yellow | Synonyms: blue-blindness |
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tritanopic | (adjective) inability to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow | Synonyms: blue-blind |
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uncharitable | (adjective) lacking love and generosity | - |
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veritable | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: authentic, bona fide, unquestionable |
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(adjective) often used as intensifiers | Synonyms: regular |