| abrasive | (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: harsh |
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| (adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: scratchy |
| (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abradant, abrasive material |
| abrasiveness | (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: harshness, scratchiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable | - |
| abusive | (adjective) characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment | - |
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| (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: opprobrious, scurrilous |
| abusively | (adverb) in an abusive manner | - |
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| accusive | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusing |
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| adhesive | (adjective) tending to adhere | - |
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| (noun) a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together | Synonyms: adhesive agent, adhesive material |
| adhesiveness | (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion, bond |
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| admissive | (adjective) characterized by or allowing admission | - |
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| aggressive | (adjective) having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: belligerent |
| (adjective) tending to spread quickly | Synonyms: fast-growing, strong-growing |
| aggressively | (adverb) in an aggressive manner | Synonyms: sharply |
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| aggressiveness | (noun) the quality of being bold and enterprising | - |
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| (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: belligerence, pugnacity |
| (noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggression |
| allusive | (adjective) characterized by indirect references | - |
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| allusiveness | (noun) a quality characterized by indirect reference | - |
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| ambiversive | (adjective) intermediate between introversive and extroversive | - |
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| amusive | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, diverting |
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| antihypertensive | (noun) a drug that reduces high blood pressure | Synonyms: antihypertensive drug |
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| antitussive | (noun) any medicine used to suppress or relieve coughing | - |
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| apprehensive | (adjective) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm | - |
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| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: discerning |
| (adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc | Synonyms: worried |
| apprehensively | (adverb) with anxiety or apprehension | Synonyms: anxiously, uneasily |
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| apprehensiveness | (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, dread |
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| ascensive | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| assuasive | (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: soothing |
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| aversive | (adjective) tending to repel or dissuade | - |
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| coextensive | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: conterminous, coterminous |
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| cohesive | (adjective) causing cohesion | - |
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| (adjective) cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated | - |
| cohesiveness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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| (noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, coherency, cohesion |
| collusive | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: conniving |
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| comprehensive | (adjective) including all or everything | - |
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| (adjective) broad in scope | - |
| (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comp, comprehensive examination |
| comprehensively | (adverb) in an all-inclusive manner | - |
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| comprehensiveness | (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, largeness |
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| (noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: fullness |
| compulsive | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: determined, driven |
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| (adjective) caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion | - |
| (noun) a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things | - |
| compulsively | (adverb) in a compulsive manner | Synonyms: obsessionally, obsessively |
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| compulsiveness | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsivity |
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| concessive | (adjective) of or pertaining to concession | - |
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| conclusive | (adjective) forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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| conclusively | (adverb) in a conclusive way | Synonyms: once and for all |
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| conclusiveness | (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: decisiveness, finality |
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| convulsive | (adjective) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | Synonyms: spasmodic, spastic |
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| (adjective) resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent | - |
| convulsively | (adverb) with convulsions, in a convulsive way | - |
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| corrosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) spitefully sarcastic | - |
| (noun) a substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali) | - |
| counteroffensive | (noun) a large scale offensive (more than a counterattack) undertaken by a defending force to seize the initiative from an attacking force | - |
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| cursive | (adjective) having successive letters joined together | - |
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| (noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive script, longhand, running hand |
| cursively | (adverb) in a cursive manner | - |
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| decisive | (adjective) determining or having the power to determine an outcome | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by decision and firmness | - |
| (adjective) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | Synonyms: critical |
| (adjective) unmistakable | - |
| decisively | (adverb) with finality; conclusively | - |
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| (adverb) with firmness of purpose | Synonyms: resolutely |
| (adverb) in an indisputable degree | - |
| decisiveness | (noun) the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: decision |
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| (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: conclusiveness, finality |
| defensive | (adjective) intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack | - |
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| (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
| (noun) an attitude of defensiveness | Synonyms: defensive attitude |
| defensively | (adverb) in a defensive manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an apologetic and defensive manner | - |
| defensiveness | (noun) excessive sensitivity to criticism | - |
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| degressive | (adjective) going down by steps | - |
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| (adjective) (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount | - |
| delusive | (adjective) inappropriate to reality or facts | Synonyms: false |
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| delusively | (adverb) in a deceptive and unrealistic manner | - |
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| depressive | (noun) someone suffering psychological depression | - |
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| derisive | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting |
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| derisively | (adverb) in a disrespectful and mocking manner | Synonyms: derisorily, mockingly, scoffingly |
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| detersive | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergent |
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| diffusive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, dispersive, disseminative |
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| digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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| (adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
| digressiveness | (noun) The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern. | - |
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| discursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, excursive, rambling |
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| (adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: dianoetic |
| discursively | (adverb) in a rambling manner | Synonyms: ramblingly |
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| discursiveness | (noun) the quality of being discursive | - |
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| dismissive | (adjective) stopping to associate with | - |
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| (adjective) showing indifference or disregard | - |
| dispersive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, disseminative |
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| dissuasive | (adjective) deterring from action | - |
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| divisive | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, factious |
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| effusive | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: gushing, gushy |
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| (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, gushing |
| effusively | (adverb) in an effusive manner | - |
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| effusiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: expansiveness, expansivity |
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| elusive | (adjective) skillful at eluding capture | - |
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| (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
| (adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: subtle |
| (adjective) difficult to describe | - |
| elusiveness | (noun) the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down | - |
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| erosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) wearing away by friction | - |
| erosiveness | (noun) The state or quality of causing or tending to wear away or erode. | - |
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| evasive | (adjective) deliberately vague or ambiguous | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire | - |
| evasively | (adverb) with evasion; in an evasive manner | - |
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| evasiveness | (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: equivocation, prevarication |
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| excessive | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: inordinate, undue, unreasonable |
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| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: extravagant, exuberant, overweening |
| excessively | (adverb) to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits | Synonyms: overly, to a fault, too |
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| excessiveness | (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excess, inordinateness |
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| exclusive | (adjective) excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority | - |
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| (adjective) not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective | Synonyms: single, undivided |
| (adjective) not divided or shared with others | Synonyms: sole |
| (noun) a news report that is reported first by one news organization | Synonyms: scoop |
| exclusively | (adverb) without any others being included or involved | Synonyms: alone, entirely, only, solely |
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| exclusiveness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: clannishness, cliquishness |
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| excursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, discursive, rambling |
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| expansive | (adjective) able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion | - |
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| (adjective) friendly and open and willing to talk | Synonyms: talkative |
| (adjective) marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur | - |
| (adjective) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope | Synonyms: grand, heroic |
| expansively | (adverb) in an ebullient manner | Synonyms: ebulliently, exuberantly |
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| (adverb) in an impressively expansive manner | - |
| expansiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: effusiveness, expansivity |
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| (noun) a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand | Synonyms: expansivity |
| expensive | (adjective) high in price or charging high prices | - |
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| expensively | (adverb) in an expensive manner | - |
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| expensiveness | (noun) the quality of being high-priced | - |
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| explosive | (adjective) serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst | - |
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| (adjective) sudden and loud | - |
| (adjective) liable to lead to sudden change or violence | Synonyms: volatile |
| (noun) a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck | - |
| explosively | (adverb) suddenly and rapidly | - |
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| (adverb) in an explosive manner | - |
| expressive | (adjective) performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by expression | - |
| expressively | (adverb) with expression; in an expressive manner | - |
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| expressiveness | (noun) the quality of being expressive | - |
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| extensive | (adjective) of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor | - |
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| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide |
| (adjective) large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity | Synonyms: extended |
| extensively | (adverb) in a widespread way | - |
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| extensiveness | (noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: largeness |
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| extraversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extroversive |
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| extroversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extraversive |
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| extrusive | (adjective) of rock material; forced out while molten through cracks in the earth's surface | - |
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