afterlife | (noun) life after death | Synonyms: hereafter |
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afterworld | (noun) the place where you are after you die | - |
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airless | (adjective) lacking fresh air | Synonyms: close, stuffy, unaired |
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airlift | (noun) transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) | Synonyms: lift |
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(verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: lift |
airlike | (adjective) resembling air or having the form of air | Synonyms: aeriform |
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airline | (noun) a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers | Synonyms: airline business, airway |
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(noun) a hose that carries air under pressure | Synonyms: air hose |
airliner | (noun) a commercial airplane that carries passengers | - |
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airlock | (noun) a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure | Synonyms: air lock |
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anteriorly | (adverb) in an anterior direction | - |
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arles | (noun) money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract | Synonyms: earnest money |
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bannerlike | (adverb) like a banner | - |
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barley | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barleycorn |
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(noun) cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain | - |
barleycorn | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barley |
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(noun) a grain of barley | - |
beggarly | (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: mean |
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(adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: mean |
berlin | (noun) a limousine with a glass partition between the front and back seats | - |
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birl | (verb) cause to spin | Synonyms: spin, twirl, whirl |
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(verb) cause a floating log to rotate by treading | Synonyms: birle |
birle | (verb) cause a floating log to rotate by treading | Synonyms: birl |
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birling | (noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) | Synonyms: logrolling |
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bitterly | (adverb) with bitterness; in a resentful manner | - |
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(adverb) indicating something hard to accept | - |
(adverb) extremely and sharply | Synonyms: bitingly, bitter, piercingly |
biyearly | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biannual, half-yearly, semiannual |
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(adjective) occurring every second year | Synonyms: biennial |
(adverb) every two years | Synonyms: biennially |
(adverb) twice a year | Synonyms: semiannually |
bladderlike | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladdery |
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borderland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, march, marchland |
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borderline | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: marginal |
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(noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, boundary line, delimitation, mete |
brotherlike | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherly, fraternal |
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brotherly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, fraternal |
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(adverb) (archaic as adverb) in a manner characteristic of a brother | - |
burl | (noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | Synonyms: knot, slub |
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(noun) a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree | - |
(noun) the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer | - |
(verb) remove the burls from cloth | - |
burlap | (noun) coarse jute fabric | Synonyms: gunny |
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burled | (adjective) (of wood) have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl | - |
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burlesque | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a burlesque | - |
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(noun) a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease) | - |
(noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
(verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: parody, spoof |
burly | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, husky, strapping |
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burrlike | (adjective) resembling a burr; especially in being prickly | - |
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butcherly | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
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(adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: botchy, unskillful |
camgirl | (noun) a female performer who performs sexual acts by camera on the internet | - |
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carload | (noun) a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile | - |
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(noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: boatload, shipload |
cavalierly | (adverb) in a proud and domineering manner | Synonyms: disdainfully |
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centerline | (noun) a line that bisects a plane figure | Synonyms: center line |
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chairlift | (noun) a ski lift on which riders (skiers or sightseers) are seated and carried up or down a mountainside; seats are hung from an endless overhead cable | Synonyms: chair lift |
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chamberlain | (noun) the treasurer of a municipal corporation | - |
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(noun) an officer who manages the household of a king or nobleman | - |
characterless | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: nondescript |
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charlatan | (noun) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes | Synonyms: mountebank |
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charlatanism | (noun) the dishonesty of a charlatan | Synonyms: quackery |
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charlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, chadlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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charlotte | (noun) a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard | - |
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cheerlead | (verb) act as a cheerleader in a sports event | - |
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cheerleader | (noun) someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event | - |
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(noun) an enthusiastic and vocal supporter | - |
cheerless | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: depressing, uncheerful |
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cheerlessly | (adverb) in an unhappy manner | - |
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cheerlessness | (noun) a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | Synonyms: uncheerfulness |
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chitterlings | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlings, chitlins |
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churl | (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: barbarian, boor, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
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(noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: crank, crosspatch, grouch, grump |
(noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: niggard, scrooge, skinflint |
churlish | (adjective) having a bad disposition; surly | - |
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(adjective) rude and boorish | - |
churlishly | (adverb) in a churlish manner | Synonyms: surlily |
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circularly | (adverb) in a circular manner | - |
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clearly | (adverb) without doubt or question | - |
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(adverb) in an intelligible manner | Synonyms: intelligibly, understandably |
(adverb) clear to the mind; with distinct mental discernment | Synonyms: distinctly |
(adverb) in an easily perceptible manner | Synonyms: clear |
cleverly | (adverb) in a clever manner | Synonyms: smartly |
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cloverleaf | (noun) an interchange that does not require left-hand turns | - |
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collarless | (adjective) without a collar | - |
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colorless | (adjective) weak in color; not colorful | Synonyms: colourless |
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(adjective) lacking in variety and interest | Synonyms: colourless |
colorlessness | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromaticity, achromatism, colourlessness |
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colourless | (adjective) weak in color; not colorful | Synonyms: colorless |
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(adjective) lacking in variety and interest | Synonyms: colorless |
colourlessness | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromaticity, achromatism, colorlessness |
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courlan | (noun) wading bird of South America and Central America | Synonyms: Aramus guarauna |
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coverlet | (noun) a decorative bedspread (usually quilted) | - |
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cowgirl | (noun) a woman cowboy | - |
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curl | (noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: ringlet, whorl |
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(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
(verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curve, kink |
(verb) play the Scottish game of curling | - |
(verb) twist or roll into coils or ringlets | Synonyms: wave |
(verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: coil, loop |
(verb) shape one's body into a curl | Synonyms: curl up, draw in |
curled | (adjective) (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl | Synonyms: curling |
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curler | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: crimper, hair curler, roller |
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curlew | (noun) large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill | - |
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curlicue | (noun) a short twisting line | Synonyms: squiggle |
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(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
curliness | (noun) (of hair) a tendency to curl | Synonyms: waviness |
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curling | (adjective) (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl | Synonyms: curled |
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(noun) a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target | - |
curly | (adjective) (of hair) having curls or waves | - |
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darling | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: beloved, dear |
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(noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
daughterly | (adjective) befitting a daughter | - |
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daygirl | (noun) a day boarder who is a girl | - |
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dearly | (adverb) at a great cost | Synonyms: dear |
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(adverb) with affection | Synonyms: affectionately, dear |
(adverb) in a sincere and heartfelt manner | Synonyms: in a heartfelt way |
disorderliness | (noun) untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) | Synonyms: disarray |
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(noun) a condition in which things are not in their expected places | Synonyms: disorder |
(noun) rowdy behavior | Synonyms: roughness, rowdiness, rowdyism |
disorderly | (adjective) undisciplined and unruly | - |
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(adjective) in utter disorder | Synonyms: higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy |
(adjective) completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing | Synonyms: chaotic |
doorlock | (noun) a lock on an exterior door | - |
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dourly | (adverb) in a sullen manner | Synonyms: glumly, sullenly |
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dowerless | (adjective) lacking a dowry | - |
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dreamworld | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamland, never-never land |
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eagerly | (adverb) with eagerness; in an eager manner | Synonyms: thirstily |
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earl | (noun) a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount | - |
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earlap | (noun) one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm | Synonyms: earflap |
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earldom | (noun) the domain controlled by an earl or count or countess | - |
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(noun) the dignity or rank or position of an earl or countess | - |
earless | (adjective) lacking external ears | - |
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earlier | (adjective) (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early | Synonyms: earliest |
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(adverb) earlier in time; previously | Synonyms: before |
(adverb) comparatives of `soon' or `early' | Synonyms: sooner |
(adverb) before now | Synonyms: in the beginning, in the first place, originally, to begin with |
earliest | (adjective) (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early | Synonyms: earlier |
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(adverb) with the least delay | Synonyms: soonest |
earliness | (noun) quality of coming early or earlier in time | - |
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earlobe | (noun) the fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear | Synonyms: ear lobe |
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early | (adjective) at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time | - |
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(adjective) of an early stage in the development of a language or literature | - |
(adjective) being or occurring at an early stage of development | - |
(adjective) belonging to the distant past | Synonyms: former, other |
(adjective) very young | - |
(adjective) expected in the near future | - |
(adverb) before the usual time or the time expected | Synonyms: ahead of time, too soon |
(adverb) during an early stage | Synonyms: early on |
(adverb) in good time | Synonyms: betimes |
earlyish | (adjective) being somewhat early | - |
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easterly | (adjective) from the east; used especially of winds | Synonyms: eastern |
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(adjective) lying in or toward the east | Synonyms: eastern |
(noun) a wind from the east | Synonyms: east wind, easter |
(adverb) from the east | - |
elderly | (adjective) advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) | Synonyms: aged, older, senior |
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(noun) people who are old collectively | Synonyms: aged |
ensnarl | (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: enmesh, mesh |
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errorless | (adjective) free from error | - |
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everlasting | (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
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(adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
(noun) any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | Synonyms: everlasting flower |
everlastingly | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, evermore, forever |
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everlastingness | (noun) the property of lasting forever | - |
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