admonishing | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonitory, reproachful, reproving |
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astonishing | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astounding, staggering, stupefying |
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(adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: amazing |
astonishingly | (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: amazingly, surprisingly |
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blushing | (adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushful, red-faced |
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brainwashing | (noun) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
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brushing | (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brush |
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(noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brush |
bushing | (noun) a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction | Synonyms: cylindrical lining |
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(noun) an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass | - |
clashing | (adjective) sharply and harshly discordant | - |
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crashing | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, flaming, fucking |
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crushing | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: devastating |
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(noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: quelling, stifling, suppression |
crushingly | (adverb) in a crushing manner | - |
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dashing | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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(adjective) lively and spirited | Synonyms: gallant |
dashingly | (adverb) in a highly fashionable manner | - |
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demolishing | (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: leveling, razing, tearing down |
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diminishing | (adjective) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so | - |
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dishwashing | (noun) the act of washing dishes | Synonyms: washup |
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extinguishing | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, quenching |
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finishing | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finish |
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(noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finish |
fishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: sportfishing |
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(noun) the occupation of catching fish for a living | - |
flashiness | (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
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flashing | (noun) sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing | - |
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(noun) a short vivid experience | Synonyms: flash |
fleshiness | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: corpulency, obesity |
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flourishing | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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furnishing | (noun) the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc. | - |
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(noun) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable | - |
(noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: trappings |
gushing | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: effusive, gushy |
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(adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, effusive |
(adjective) flowing profusely | Synonyms: pouring |
gushingly | (adverb) in a gushing manner | - |
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hushing | (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, hissing, sibilation |
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imperishingness | (noun) the property of being resistant to decay | Synonyms: imperishability, imperishableness |
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lashing | (adjective) violently urging on by whipping or flogging | - |
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(noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flagellation, flogging, tanning, whipping |
(noun) rope that is used for fastening something to something else | - |
lashings | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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meshing | (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, interlocking, mesh |
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(noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshwork, net, network |
(noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, interlocking, mesh |
moonshine | (noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: bootleg, corn liquor |
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(noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonlight |
(verb) distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine | - |
moonshiner | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: bootlegger |
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mushiness | (noun) a mushy pulpy softness | Synonyms: pulpiness |
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(noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
nourishing | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
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outshine | (verb) attract more attention and praise than others | - |
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(verb) shine brighter than | - |
polishing | (noun) the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | Synonyms: shining |
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publishing | (noun) the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution | Synonyms: publication |
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punishing | (adjective) resulting in punishment | - |
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(adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, toilsome |
punishingly | (adverb) in a punishing manner | - |
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pushiness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: bumptiousness, cockiness, forwardness |
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pushing | (noun) the act of applying force in order to move something away | Synonyms: push |
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ravishing | (adjective) stunningly beautiful | - |
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ravishingly | (adverb) in a ravishing manner or to a ravishing degree | - |
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refreshing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: bracing, brisk, fresh, refreshful, tonic |
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(adjective) pleasantly new or different | Synonyms: novel |
refreshingly | (adverb) in a pleasantly novel manner | - |
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(adverb) in a manner that relieves fatigue and restores vitality | Synonyms: refreshfully |
relinquishing | (noun) the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc. | Synonyms: relinquishment |
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(noun) a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc. | Synonyms: relinquishment |
relishing | (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, savoring, savouring, tasting |
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republishing | (noun) the act of publishing again | Synonyms: republication |
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rushing | (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rush |
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(noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rush |
shin | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin bone, shinbone, tibia |
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(noun) the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle | - |
(noun) the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
(noun) a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg | Synonyms: shin bone |
(verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
shinbone | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin, shin bone, tibia |
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shindig | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindy |
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shindy | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindig |
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shine | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency |
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(verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, smooth, smoothen |
(verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
(verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, glitter |
(verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
(verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: fall, strike |
(verb) be distinguished or eminent | - |
(verb) be clear and obvious | - |
(verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: beam |
(verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: reflect |
(verb) throw or flash the light of (a lamp) | - |
shiner | (noun) any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis | - |
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(noun) important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales | Synonyms: common mackerel, Scomber scombrus |
(noun) something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) | - |
(noun) a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye | Synonyms: black eye, mouse |
shingle | (noun) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. | - |
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(noun) building material used as siding or roofing | Synonyms: shake |
(noun) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) | - |
(verb) cover with shingles | - |
shingler | (noun) a worker who shingles roofs | - |
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shingles | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, zoster |
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shingling | (noun) the laying on of shingles | - |
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(noun) (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction | - |
shingly | (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: gravelly, pebbly |
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shininess | (noun) the visual property of something that shines with reflected light | Synonyms: luster, lustre, sheen |
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shining | (adjective) marked by exceptional merit | - |
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(adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny |
(adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shiny |
(noun) the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | Synonyms: polishing |
shinleaf | (noun) North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters | Synonyms: Pyrola elliptica, wild lily of the valley |
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shinney | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinny |
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shinny | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinney |
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(verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, skin, sputter, struggle |
shinpad | (noun) a stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins | Synonyms: shin guard |
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shinplaster | (noun) paper money of little value issued on insufficient security | - |
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shiny | (adjective) having a shiny surface or coating | Synonyms: glazed |
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(adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining |
(adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining |
shoeshine | (noun) the act of shining shoes | - |
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(noun) a shiny finish put on shoes with polish and buffing | - |
slashing | (adjective) as if striking with slashing blows | - |
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smashing | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, swell |
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(noun) the act of breaking something into small pieces | Synonyms: shattering |
smashingly | (adverb) with a loud crash | Synonyms: smash |
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splashiness | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness |
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splashing | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splash, splattering |
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(noun) the act of scattering water about haphazardly | Synonyms: splash |
sportfishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: fishing |
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sunshine | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheer, cheerfulness, sunniness |
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(noun) the rays of the sun | Synonyms: sun, sunlight |
(noun) moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: fair weather, temperateness |
thrashing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, trouncing, whacking |
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(noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
threshing | (noun) the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw | - |
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trashiness | (noun) the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better | Synonyms: shoddiness |
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unblushing | (adjective) feeling no shame | Synonyms: shameless |
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unblushingly | (adverb) without blushing | - |
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vanishing | (noun) a sudden disappearance from sight | - |
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(noun) a sudden or mysterious disappearance | - |
vanishingly | (adverb) so as to disappear or approach zero | - |
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washing | (noun) the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) | Synonyms: lavation, wash |
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(noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: laundry, wash, washables |
wishing | (noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: want, wish |
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