| cuprous | (adjective) of or containing divalent copper | Synonyms: cupric |
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| dangerous | (adjective) involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm | Synonyms: unsafe |
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| (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
| dangerously | (adverb) in a dangerous manner | Synonyms: hazardously, perilously |
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| dangerousness | (noun) the quality of not being safe | - |
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| decorous | (adjective) characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct | - |
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| (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, seemly |
| decorously | (adverb) in a proper and decorous manner | - |
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| decorousness | (noun) propriety in manners and conduct | Synonyms: decorum |
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| desirous | (adjective) having or expressing desire for something | Synonyms: wishful |
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| dexterous | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: deft, dextrous |
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| dexterously | (adverb) with dexterity; in a dexterous manner | Synonyms: deftly, dextrously |
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| dextrous | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: deft, dexterous |
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| dextrously | (adverb) with dexterity; in a dexterous manner | Synonyms: deftly, dexterously |
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| diestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrual, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| dioestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, diestrual, dioestrual |
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| dipterous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera | - |
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| disastrous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful |
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| disastrously | (adverb) in a disastrous manner | - |
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| dolorous | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping |
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| dolourous | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping |
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| douroucouli | (noun) nocturnal monkey of Central America and South America with large eyes and thick fur | Synonyms: Aotus trivirgatus |
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| drought | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drouth |
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| (noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drouth |
| drouth | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drought |
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| (noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drought |
| enshroud | (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, hide, shroud |
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| estrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus; in heat | - |
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| fairground | (noun) an open area for holding fairs or exhibitions or circuses | - |
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| ferrous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing iron | Synonyms: ferric |
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| feverous | (adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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| fibrous | (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: sinewy, stringy, unchewable |
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| (adjective) having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute | Synonyms: hempen |
| fibrousness | (noun) the quality of being fibrous | Synonyms: fibrosity |
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| fissiparous | (adjective) reproducing by fission | - |
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| (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: breakaway, separatist |
| flavorous | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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| flavourous | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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| fluorouracil | (noun) an antimetabolite used to treat certain cancers | - |
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| foreground | (noun) (computer science) a window for an active application | - |
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| (noun) the part of a scene that is near the viewer | - |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: highlight, play up, spotlight |
| foregrounding | (noun) the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system | Synonyms: foreground processing |
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| fossiliferous | (adjective) bearing or containing fossils | - |
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| fulgurous | (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant |
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| gemmiferous | (adjective) bearing or reproducing by a gemma | - |
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| generous | (adjective) willing to give and share unstintingly | - |
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| (adjective) not petty in character and mind | - |
| (adjective) more than is usual or necessary | - |
| generously | (adverb) in a generous manner | Synonyms: liberally, munificently |
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| generousness | (noun) the trait of being willing to give your money or time | Synonyms: generosity |
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| glabrous | (adjective) having no hair or similar growth; smooth | - |
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| glamorous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamourous |
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| glamourous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamorous |
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| granuliferous | (adjective) producing or full of granules | - |
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| grouch | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, crosspatch, grump |
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| (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grumble, scold |
| grouchily | (adverb) in an ill-natured manner | Synonyms: crossly, grumpily |
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| grouchy | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| ground | (noun) the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface | Synonyms: flat coat, primer, primer coat, priming, priming coat, undercoat |
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| (noun) (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting | - |
| (noun) a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) | Synonyms: earth |
| (noun) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground | Synonyms: background |
| (noun) a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused | - |
| (noun) a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle) | - |
| (noun) a rational motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: occasion, reason |
| (noun) the solid part of the earth's surface | Synonyms: dry land, earth, land, solid ground, terra firma |
| (noun) material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) | Synonyms: land, soil |
| (noun) a relation that provides the foundation for something | Synonyms: basis, footing |
| (noun) the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface | Synonyms: earth |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, found |
| (verb) instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject | - |
| (verb) place or put on the ground | - |
| (verb) confine or restrict to the ground | - |
| (verb) connect to a ground | - |
| (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: prime, undercoat |
| (verb) fix firmly and stably | Synonyms: anchor |
| (verb) (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field. | - |
| (verb) throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage | - |
| (verb) hit or reach the ground | Synonyms: run aground |
| (verb) bring to the ground | Synonyms: run aground, strand |
| groundball | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, grounder, hopper |
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| groundberry | (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia | Synonyms: Astroloma humifusum, cranberry heath, ground-berry, native cranberry, Styphelia humifusum |
| groundbreaker | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: innovator, pioneer, trailblazer |
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| groundbreaking | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: innovational, innovative |
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| (noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
| groundcover | (noun) small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor | Synonyms: ground cover |
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| (noun) low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow | Synonyms: ground cover |
| grounder | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, groundball, hopper |
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| groundfish | (noun) fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) | Synonyms: bottom fish |
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| groundhog | (noun) reddish brown North American marmot | Synonyms: Marmota monax, woodchuck |
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| grounding | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: earthing |
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| (noun) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge | Synonyms: foundation |
| groundkeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundskeeper, groundsman |
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| groundless | (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
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| groundlessness | (noun) the quality of lacking substance or value | Synonyms: idleness |
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| groundling | (noun) in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section | - |
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| groundmass | (noun) (geology) the matrix of fine-grained crystalline material in which larger crystals are embedded | - |
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| groundnut | (noun) nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans | Synonyms: potato bean, wild bean |
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| (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, monkey nut, peanut |
| (noun) a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans | Synonyms: Apios americana, Apios tuberosa, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean |
| grounds | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: curtilage, yard |
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| (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: evidence |
| (noun) a justification for something existing or happening | Synonyms: cause, reason |
| (noun) a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.) | - |
| (noun) dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue | - |
| groundsel | (noun) Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Senecio vulgaris |
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| groundsheet | (noun) a waterproofed piece of cloth spread on the ground (as under a tent) to protect from moisture | Synonyms: ground cloth |
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| groundskeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundsman |
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| groundsman | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundskeeper |
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| groundspeed | (noun) the speed of an aircraft relative to the ground | - |
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| groundwork | (noun) preliminary preparation as a basis or foundation | - |
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| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament |
| group | (noun) any number of entities (members) considered as a unit | Synonyms: grouping |
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| (noun) a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse | Synonyms: mathematical group |
| (noun) (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule | Synonyms: chemical group, radical |
| (verb) arrange into a group or groups | - |
| (verb) form a group or group together | Synonyms: aggroup |
| grouped | (adjective) arranged into groups | Synonyms: sorted |
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| grouper | (noun) usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass | - |
| groupie | (noun) an enthusiastic young fan (especially a young woman who follows rock groups around) | - |
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| grouping | (noun) any number of entities (members) considered as a unit | Synonyms: group |
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| (noun) the activity of putting things together in groups | - |
| (noun) a system for classifying things into groups | Synonyms: pigeonholing |
| groupthink | (noun) decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility) | - |
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| groupware | (noun) software that can be used by a group of people who are working on the same information but may be distributed in space | - |
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| grouse | (noun) popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet | - |
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| (noun) flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil | - |
| (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, holler, squawk |
| (verb) hunt grouse | - |
| grouseberry | (noun) shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries | Synonyms: grouse-berry, grouse whortleberry, Vaccinium scoparium |
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| grout | (noun) a thin mortar that can be poured and used to fill cracks in masonry or brickwork | - |
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| (verb) bind with grout | - |
| herbivorous | (adjective) feeding only on plants | - |
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| heterosporous | (adjective) characterized by heterospory | - |
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| homosporous | (adjective) characterized by homospory | - |
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| humorous | (adjective) full of or characterized by humor | Synonyms: humourous |
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| humorously | (adverb) in a humorous manner | - |
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| humorousness | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: jocoseness, jocosity, merriness |
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| humourous | (adjective) full of or characterized by humor | Synonyms: humorous |
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| hydrous | (adjective) containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate) | Synonyms: hydrated |
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| hymenopterous | (adjective) of or relating to insects of the order Hymenoptera | - |
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| ichorous | (adjective) of or resembling or characterized by ichor or sanies | Synonyms: sanious |
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| idolatrous | (adjective) relating to or practicing idolatry | - |
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| (adjective) blindly or excessively devoted or adoring | - |
| idolatrously | (adverb) in an idolatrous manner | - |
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| indecorous | (adjective) lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct | Synonyms: indelicate |
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| (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecent, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward |
| indecorously | (adverb) without decorousness | Synonyms: unbecomingly |
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| indecorousness | (noun) a lack of decorum | Synonyms: indecorum |
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| ingroup | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, clique, coterie, inner circle, pack |
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| innumerous | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| inodorous | (adjective) having no odor | Synonyms: odorless, odourless |
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| insectivorous | (adjective) (of animals and plants) feeding on insects | - |
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