| modernistic | (adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style | Synonyms: mod, modern |
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| modernity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernness |
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| modernization | (noun) making modern in appearance or behavior | Synonyms: modernisation |
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| (noun) a modernized version (as of a play) | - |
| modernize | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernise, overhaul |
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| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: develop, modernise |
| modernized | (adjective) brought up to date | Synonyms: modernised |
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| modernness | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity |
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| morn | (noun) the time period between dawn and noon | Synonyms: forenoon, morning, morning time |
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| mornight | (noun) both morning and night, used when greeting someone | - |
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| morning | (noun) a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good morning | Synonyms: good morning |
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| (noun) the earliest period | Synonyms: dawn |
| (noun) the time period between dawn and noon | Synonyms: forenoon, morn, morning time |
| (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, sunrise, sunup |
| mourn | (verb) feel sadness | - |
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| (verb) observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one | - |
| mourner | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, sorrower |
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| mournful | (adjective) filled with or evoking sadness | Synonyms: doleful |
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| (adjective) expressing sorrow | Synonyms: plaintive |
| mournfully | (adverb) in a mournful manner | - |
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| mournfulness | (noun) a state of gloomy sorrow | Synonyms: ruthfulness, sorrowfulness |
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| mourning | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowing |
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| (noun) the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | Synonyms: lamentation |
| (noun) state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one | Synonyms: bereavement |
| nearness | (noun) the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance | Synonyms: closeness |
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| newborn | (adjective) having just or recently arisen or come into existence | Synonyms: new-sprung |
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| (adjective) recently born | - |
| (noun) a baby from birth to four weeks | Synonyms: neonate |
| nocturnal | (adjective) belonging to or active during the night | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or occurring in the night | - |
| nocturnally | (adverb) at night | - |
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| nocturne | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: notturno |
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| nonmodern | (adjective) not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time | - |
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| nonreturnable | (adjective) that may not be returned | - |
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| northeastern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including the New England states, New York, and sometimes New Jersey and Pennsylvania | - |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeast, northeasterly |
| northern | (adjective) situated in regions of the north | - |
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| (adjective) in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line | - |
| (adjective) coming from the north; used especially of wind | Synonyms: northerly |
| (adjective) oriented toward the north | Synonyms: northerly |
| northernmost | (adjective) situated farthest north | Synonyms: northmost |
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| northernness | (noun) the property of being to the north | - |
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| northwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwest, northwesterly |
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| (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and sometimes Montana, Wyoming | - |
| notornis | (noun) flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules | Synonyms: Notornis mantelli, takahe |
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| notturno | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: nocturne |
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| ornament | (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornamentation |
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| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace |
| (verb) be an ornament to | - |
| ornamental | (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: cosmetic, decorative |
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| (noun) any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value | - |
| ornamentalism | (noun) the practice of ornamental display | - |
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| ornamentalist | (noun) someone who decorates | Synonyms: decorator |
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| ornamentally | (adverb) in an ornamental, nonfunctional manner | - |
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| ornamentation | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: embellishment |
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| (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornament |
| (noun) the state of being ornamented | - |
| ornate | (adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: flowery |
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| ornately | (adverb) in an ornate manner | - |
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| ornateness | (noun) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated | Synonyms: elaborateness |
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| (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, rhetoric |
| orneriness | (noun) meanspirited disagreeable contrariness | Synonyms: cussedness |
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| ornery | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: cantankerous, crotchety |
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| ornithine | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is important in the formation of urea | - |
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| ornithischian | (noun) herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird | Synonyms: ornithischian dinosaur |
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| ornithological | (adjective) of or relating to ornithology | - |
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| ornithologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies birds | Synonyms: bird watcher |
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| ornithology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies birds | - |
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| ornithomimid | (noun) lightly built medium-sized dinosaur having extremely long limbs and necks with small heads and big brains and large eyes | - |
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| ornithopod | (noun) bipedal herbivorous dinosaur | Synonyms: ornithopod dinosaur |
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| ornithopter | (noun) heavier-than-air craft that is propelled by the flapping of wings | Synonyms: orthopter |
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| ornithosis | (noun) an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds | Synonyms: parrot fever, psittacosis |
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| otherness | (noun) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | Synonyms: distinctness, separateness |
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| outturn | (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, turnout |
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| overnice | (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, nice, prissy, squeamish |
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| overnight | (adjective) lasting, open, or operating through the whole night | Synonyms: all-night, nightlong |
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| (adverb) during or for the length of one night | - |
| (adverb) happening in a short time or with great speed | - |
| overnighter | (noun) a small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight | Synonyms: overnight bag, overnight case |
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| (noun) a guest who stays overnight | - |
| overturn | (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: turnover, upset |
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| (noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: upset |
| (verb) change radically | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, reverse |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| (verb) turn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: tip over, tump over, turn over |
| (verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, tip over, tump over, turn over, upset |
| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, subvert |
| overturned | (adjective) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | Synonyms: upset, upturned |
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| palaeornithology | (noun) the paleobiology of birds | Synonyms: paleornithology |
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| paleornithology | (noun) the paleobiology of birds | Synonyms: palaeornithology |
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| paraphernalia | (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: appurtenance, gear |
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| parnassia | (noun) any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup | Synonyms: grass-of-Parnassus |
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| pastern | (noun) the part between the fetlock and the hoof | Synonyms: fetter bone |
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| paternal | (adjective) characteristic of a father | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent | Synonyms: maternal, parental |
| (adjective) belonging to or inherited from one's father | - |
| (adjective) related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, agnatic |
| paternalism | (noun) the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good | - |
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| paternalistic | (adjective) benevolent but sometimes intrusive | - |
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| paternally | (adverb) in a paternal manner | - |
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| paternity | (noun) the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing | Synonyms: authorship |
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| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the father | Synonyms: fatherhood |
| (noun) the state of being a father | - |
| paternoster | (noun) a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor | - |
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| pattern | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: practice |
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| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, figure |
| (noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: form, shape |
| (noun) a model considered worthy of imitation | - |
| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, design |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, rule |
| (noun) graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle | Synonyms: radiation diagram, radiation pattern |
| (noun) the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport | Synonyms: approach pattern, traffic pattern |
| (verb) plan or create according to a model or models | Synonyms: model |
| (verb) form a pattern | - |
| patterned | (adjective) having patterns (especially colorful patterns) | - |
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| patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
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| peppercorn | (noun) pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground | Synonyms: pepper |
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| pernicious | (adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | Synonyms: insidious, subtle |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pestilent |
| perniciously | (adverb) in a noxiously baneful way | Synonyms: banefully |
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| (adverb) in a harmfully insidious manner | Synonyms: insidiously |
| perniciousness | (noun) grave harmfulness or deadliness | Synonyms: toxicity |
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| pernickety | (adjective) characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details | Synonyms: persnickety |
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| pernio | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblain, chilblains |
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| photojournalism | (noun) journalism that presents a story primarily through the use of pictures | - |
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| photojournalist | (noun) a journalist who presents a story primarily through the use of photographs | - |
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| pibgorn | (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: hornpipe, stockhorn |
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| picornavirus | (noun) a group of single-strand RNA viruses with a protein coat | - |
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| pimpernel | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Anagallis | - |
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| (noun) European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads | Synonyms: burnet bloodwort, Poterium sanguisorba, salad burnet |
| poorness | (noun) the quality of being poorly made or maintained | - |
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| (noun) less than adequate | - |
| (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness |
| (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: impoverishment, poverty |
| popcorn | (noun) small kernels of corn exploded by heat | - |
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| (noun) corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat | Synonyms: Zea mays everta |
| porn | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porno, pornography, smut |
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| porno | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, pornography, smut |
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| pornographer | (noun) someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores | Synonyms: porn merchant |
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| pornographic | (adjective) designed to arouse lust | Synonyms: adult |
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| pornographically | (adverb) in a pornographic manner | - |
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| pornography | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, porno, smut |
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| postern | (noun) a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle | - |
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| postmodern | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodernist |
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| postmodernism | (noun) genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism | - |
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| postmodernist | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodern |
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| preternatural | (adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal | Synonyms: uncanny |
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| (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, transcendental |
| preternaturally | (adverb) in a supernatural manner | Synonyms: supernaturally |
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| pronghorn | (noun) fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns | Synonyms: American antelope, Antilocapra americana, prongbuck, pronghorn antelope |
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| properness | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: correctitude, propriety |
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| pumpernickel | (noun) bread made of coarse rye flour | Synonyms: black bread |
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| quartern | (noun) one of four equal parts | Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, twenty-five percent |
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| quatern | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
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