| dehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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| deliquesce | (verb) melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| (verb) melt away in the process of decay | - |
| deliquescent | (adjective) (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| demasculinise | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| demasculinize | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, emasculate |
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| dermatosclerosis | (noun) an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin | Synonyms: scleroderma |
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| descale | (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: scale |
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| descant | (noun) a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody | Synonyms: discant |
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| (verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: warble, yodel |
| (verb) talk at great length about something of one's interest | - |
| (verb) sing in descant | - |
| descend | (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: fall, settle |
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| (verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, fall, go down |
| (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, deign |
| (verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, derive |
| descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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| descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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| (noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
| (noun) someone who descends | - |
| descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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| descensus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: prolapse, prolapsus |
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| descent | (noun) the act of changing your location in a downward direction | - |
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| (noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: extraction, origin |
| (noun) a movement downward | - |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: filiation, line of descent, lineage |
| describable | (adjective) capable of being described | - |
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| describe | (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
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| (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, draw |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, report |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, draw, line, trace |
| described | (adjective) represented in words especially with sharpness and detail | - |
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| description | (noun) sort or variety | - |
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| (noun) the act of describing something | - |
| (noun) a statement that represents something in words | Synonyms: verbal description |
| descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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| (adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
| descriptively | (adverb) by giving a description | - |
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| descriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value | - |
| descriptor | (noun) a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system | - |
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| (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: form, signifier, word form |
| descry | (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: espy, spot, spy |
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| detumescence | (noun) diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen | - |
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| diaphanoscope | (noun) An instrument for illuminating the interior of a cavity to determine the translucency of its walls. | - |
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| disc | (noun) a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disk |
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| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record |
| (noun) (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored | Synonyms: disk, magnetic disc, magnetic disk |
| (noun) something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disk, saucer |
| discalceate | (adjective) (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals | Synonyms: discalced, unshod |
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| discalced | (adjective) (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals | Synonyms: discalceate, unshod |
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| discant | (noun) a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody | Synonyms: descant |
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| discard | (noun) getting rid of something that is regarded as useless or undesirable | Synonyms: throwing away |
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| (noun) (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit | - |
| (noun) anything that is cast aside or discarded | - |
| (verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out |
| discarded | (adjective) thrown away | Synonyms: cast-off, throwaway, thrown-away |
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| discase | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| disceptation | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disputation, tilt |
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| discern | (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
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| discernability | (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: legibility |
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| discernable | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernible |
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| discernible | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernable |
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| (adjective) capable of being seen or noticed | Synonyms: evident, observable |
| (adjective) capable of being perceived clearly | - |
| discerning | (adjective) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment | - |
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| (adjective) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive | - |
| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: apprehensive |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discreet |
| discernment | (noun) the trait of judging wisely and objectively | Synonyms: discretion |
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| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
| (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: apprehension, savvy, understanding |
| (noun) perception of that which is obscure | Synonyms: perceptiveness |
| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, perceptiveness, taste |
| discerp | (verb) divide into pieces | Synonyms: dismember, take apart |
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| (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: lop, sever |
| discharge | (noun) the act of discharging a gun | Synonyms: firing, firing off |
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| (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
| (noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: release, waiver |
| (noun) the act of venting | Synonyms: venting |
| (noun) the sudden giving off of energy | - |
| (noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: outpouring, run |
| (noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, electric arc, electric discharge, spark |
| (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: emission, expelling |
| (noun) a substance that is emitted or released | Synonyms: emission |
| (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: eject, exhaust, expel, release |
| (verb) become empty or void of its content | Synonyms: empty |
| (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, exculpate, exonerate |
| (verb) release from military service | Synonyms: muster out |
| (verb) cause to go off | Synonyms: fire |
| (verb) go off or discharge | Synonyms: fire, go off |
| (verb) pour forth or release | - |
| (verb) remove the charge from | - |
| (verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: drop, drop off, put down, set down, unload |
| (verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: complete, dispatch |
| (verb) free from obligations or duties | Synonyms: free |
| discharged | (adjective) having lost your job | Synonyms: dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped |
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| disciform | (adjective) having a round or oval shape like a disc | - |
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| discina | (noun) any fungus of the genus Discina | - |
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| disciple | (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: adherent |
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| discipleship | (noun) the position of disciple | - |
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| disciplinal | (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinary |
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| disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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| disciplinary | (adjective) relating to a specific field of academic study | - |
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| (adjective) relating to discipline in behavior | - |
| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinal |
| discipline | (noun) training to improve strength or self-control | - |
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| (noun) the act of disciplining | Synonyms: correction |
| (noun) the trait of being well behaved | - |
| (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: bailiwick, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
| (noun) a system of rules of conduct or method of practice | - |
| (verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: correct, sort out |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, condition, train |
| disciplined | (adjective) obeying the rules | - |
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| (adjective) trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise | - |
| disclaim | (verb) make a disclaimer about | - |
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| (verb) renounce a legal claim or title to | - |
| disclaimer | (noun) (law) a voluntary repudiation of a person's legal claim to something | - |
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| (noun) denial of any connection with or knowledge of | Synonyms: disavowal |
| disclike | (adjective) having a flat circular shape | Synonyms: disc-shaped, discoid, discoidal, disk-shaped, disklike |
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| disclose | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
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| (verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: expose, uncover |
| disclosed | (adjective) made known (especially something secret or concealed) | - |
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| disclosure | (noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: revealing, revelation |
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| disco | (noun) a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music | Synonyms: discotheque |
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| (noun) popular dance music (especially in the late 1970s); melodic with a regular bass beat; intended mainly for dancing at discotheques | Synonyms: disco music |
| (verb) dance to disco music | - |
| discography | (noun) a descriptive catalog of musical recordings | - |
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| discoid | (adjective) having a flat circular shape | Synonyms: disc-shaped, disclike, discoidal, disk-shaped, disklike |
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| discoidal | (adjective) having a flat circular shape | Synonyms: disc-shaped, disclike, discoid, disk-shaped, disklike |
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| discolor | (verb) change color, often in an undesired manner | Synonyms: color, colour, discolour |
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| (verb) lose color or turn colorless | - |
| (verb) cause to lose or change color | - |
| discoloration | (noun) the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded | Synonyms: discolouration |
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| (noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | Synonyms: discolouration, stain |
| discolorise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorize, discolourise |
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| discolorize | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolourise |
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| discolour | (verb) change color, often in an undesired manner | Synonyms: color, colour, discolor |
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| discolouration | (noun) the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded | Synonyms: discoloration |
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| (noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | Synonyms: discoloration, stain |
| discolourise | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize |
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| discombobulate | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, bewilder, throw |
| discombobulated | (adjective) having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion | Synonyms: disconcerted |
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| discombobulation | (noun) a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused | Synonyms: confusion |
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| discomfit | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discompose, disconcert, untune, upset |
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| discomfited | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, foiled, frustrated, thwarted |
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| (noun) people who are defeated | Synonyms: defeated |
| discomfiture | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomposure, disconcertion, disconcertment |
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| discomfort | (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: irritation, soreness |
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| (noun) the state of being tense and feeling pain | Synonyms: uncomfortableness |
| discommode | (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
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| discompose | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, disconcert, untune, upset |
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| discomposed | (adjective) having your composure disturbed | - |
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| discomposure | (noun) a temperament that is perturbed and lacking in composure | - |
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| (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, disconcertion, disconcertment |
| discomycete | (noun) any fungus that is a member of the subclass Discomycetes | Synonyms: cup fungus |
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| discomycetous | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of fungi of the subclass Discomycetes | - |
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| disconcert | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, untune, upset |
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| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, flurry, put off |
| disconcerted | (adjective) having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion | Synonyms: discombobulated |
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| disconcerting | (adjective) causing an emotional disturbance | Synonyms: upsetting |
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| disconcertingly | (adverb) in a disturbing or embarrassing manner | - |
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| disconcertion | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertment |
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| disconcertment | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion |
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| disconfirming | (adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: negative |
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| (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: invalidating |
| disconnect | (noun) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding) | Synonyms: disconnection, gulf |
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| (verb) make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten | - |
| (verb) pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable | Synonyms: unplug |
| disconnected | (adjective) (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply | Synonyms: staccato |
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| (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disunited, fragmented, split |
| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
| (adjective) not plugged in or connected to a power source | - |
| (adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: abrupt |
| disconnectedness | (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnection, disjunction, disjuncture |
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| disconnection | (noun) the act of breaking a connection | Synonyms: disjunction |
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| (noun) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding) | Synonyms: disconnect, gulf |
| (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disjunction, disjuncture |
| disconsolate | (adjective) sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled | Synonyms: inconsolable, unconsolable |
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| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
| disconsolately | (adverb) in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting circumstances or prospects | Synonyms: desolately |
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| disconsolateness | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, despondency, heartsickness |
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| discontent | (adjective) showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing | Synonyms: discontented |
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| (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontentedness, discontentment |
| (verb) make dissatisfied | - |
| discontented | (adjective) showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing | Synonyms: discontent |
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| discontentedly | (adverb) with discontent; in a discontented manner | - |
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