absolute | (adjective) perfect or complete or pure | - |
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(adjective) not limited by law | - |
(adjective) not capable of being violated or infringed | Synonyms: infrangible, inviolable |
(adjective) expressing finality with no implication of possible change | - |
(adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
(noun) something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative | - |
absolutely | (adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: dead, perfectly, utterly |
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(adverb) totally and definitely; without question | - |
absoluteness | (noun) the quality of being absolute | - |
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(noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: starkness, utterness |
absolution | (noun) the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance | Synonyms: remission, remission of sin, remittal |
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(noun) the condition of being formally forgiven by a priest in the sacrament of penance | - |
absolutisation | (noun) the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute. | Synonyms: absolutization |
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absolutism | (noun) the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy. | - |
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(noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: totalism, totalitarianism |
(noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
(noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence | Synonyms: despotism, tyranny |
absolutist | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutistic |
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(noun) one who advocates absolutism | - |
absolutistic | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutist |
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absolutization | (noun) the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute. | Synonyms: absolutisation |
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absolve | (verb) let off the hook | Synonyms: free |
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(verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: shrive |
absolved | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated |
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absolver | (noun) someone who grants absolution | - |
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absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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aerosol | (noun) a dispenser that holds a substance under pressure and that can release it as a fine spray (usually by means of a propellant gas) | Synonyms: aerosol bomb, aerosol can, aerosol container, spray can |
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(noun) a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas | - |
aerosolise | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
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(verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolize |
aerosolised | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolized |
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aerosolize | (verb) disperse as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolise |
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(verb) become dispersed as an aerosol | Synonyms: aerosolise |
aerosolized | (adjective) in the form of ultramicroscopic solid or liquid particles dispersed or suspended in air or gas | Synonyms: aerosolised |
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camisole | (noun) a short negligee | - |
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(noun) a short sleeveless undergarment for women | Synonyms: underbodice |
chrysolite | (noun) a brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone | - |
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consolable | (adjective) able to be consoled | - |
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consolation | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: comfort, solace |
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(noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: solace, solacement |
consolatory | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consoling |
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console | (noun) housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television | Synonyms: cabinet |
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(noun) an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture) | - |
(noun) a scientific instrument consisting of displays and an input device that an operator can use to monitor and control a system (especially a computer system) | - |
(noun) a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall | Synonyms: console table |
(verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: comfort, solace, soothe |
consolidate | (verb) unite into one | - |
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(verb) bring together into a single whole or system | - |
(verb) make firm or secure; strengthen | - |
(verb) make or form into a solid or hardened mass | - |
(verb) form into a solid mass or whole | - |
consolidated | (adjective) forming a solid mass | - |
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(adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, fused |
consolidation | (noun) the act of combining into an integral whole | Synonyms: integration |
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(noun) combining into a solid mass | - |
(noun) something that has consolidated into a compact mass | - |
consolidative | (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: integrative |
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(adjective) combining into a single unit | Synonyms: unifying |
consoling | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consolatory |
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consolingly | (adverb) in a comforting or consoling manner | Synonyms: comfortingly |
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cortisol | (noun) an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism | Synonyms: Cortef, hydrocortisone, Hydrocortone |
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creosol | (noun) a colorless to yellow aromatic liquid that is a constituent of creosote | - |
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cresol | (noun) any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols; derived from coal or wood tar; used as a disinfectant | Synonyms: methyl phenol |
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cytosol | (noun) the aqueous part of the cytoplasm within which various particles and organelles are suspended | - |
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desolate | (adjective) crushed by grief | - |
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(adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark |
(verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: depopulate |
(verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
(verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desert, forsake |
desolately | (adverb) in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting circumstances or prospects | Synonyms: disconsolately |
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desolation | (noun) an event that results in total destruction | Synonyms: devastation |
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(noun) sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned | Synonyms: forlornness, loneliness |
(noun) the state of being decayed or destroyed | Synonyms: devastation |
(noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bareness, bleakness, nakedness |
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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dissolubility | (noun) the property of being dissoluble | Synonyms: solubleness |
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dissoluble | (adjective) capable of dissolving | Synonyms: dissolvable |
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dissolute | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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dissolutely | (adverb) in a dissolute way | Synonyms: profligately |
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dissoluteness | (noun) indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures | Synonyms: incontinence, self-gratification |
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dissolution | (noun) the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations) | Synonyms: breakup |
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(noun) the termination of a meeting | Synonyms: adjournment |
(noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, licentiousness, looseness, profligacy |
(noun) separation into component parts | Synonyms: disintegration |
(noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolving |
dissolvable | (adjective) capable of dissolving | Synonyms: dissoluble |
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dissolve | (noun) (film) a gradual transition from one scene to the next; the next scene is gradually superimposed as the former scene fades out | - |
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(verb) pass into a solution | - |
(verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, resolve |
(verb) come to an end | Synonyms: break up |
(verb) grow less and less substantial until it disappears | Synonyms: fade away, fade out |
(verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
(verb) bring the association of to an end or cause to break up | Synonyms: break up |
(verb) declare void | Synonyms: dismiss |
(verb) cause to fade away | - |
(verb) lose control emotionally | - |
(verb) cause to lose control emotionally | - |
(verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: disband |
dissolved | (adjective) (of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form | - |
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dissolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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dissolver | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolving agent, resolvent, solvent |
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dissolving | (noun) the process of going into solution | Synonyms: dissolution |
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entresol | (noun) intermediate floor just above the ground floor | Synonyms: mezzanine, mezzanine floor |
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gasolene | (noun) a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines | Synonyms: gas, gasoline, petrol |
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gasoline | (noun) a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines | Synonyms: gas, gasolene, petrol |
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girasol | (noun) tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers | Synonyms: Helianthus tuberosus, Jerusalem artichoke, Jerusalem artichoke sunflower |
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(noun) an opal with flaming orange and yellow and red colors | Synonyms: fire opal |
glossolalia | (noun) repetitive nonmeaningful speech (especially that associated with a trance state or religious fervor) | - |
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hydrosol | (noun) a sol (colloid) in which the continuous phase is water. | - |
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inconsolable | (adjective) sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled | Synonyms: disconsolate, unconsolable |
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indissoluble | (adjective) (of a substance) incapable of being dissolved | Synonyms: insoluble |
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(adjective) used of decisions and contracts | - |
innersole | (noun) the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests | Synonyms: insole |
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insolate | (verb) expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun | Synonyms: solarise, solarize, sun |
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insolation | (noun) therapeutic exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: heliotherapy |
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(noun) incident solar radiation | - |
(noun) sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat | Synonyms: siriasis, sunstroke, thermic fever |
insole | (noun) the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests | Synonyms: innersole |
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insolence | (noun) an offensive disrespectful impudent act | - |
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(noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence |
insolent | (adjective) marked by casual disrespect | Synonyms: flip, impudent, snotty-nosed |
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(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen |
insolently | (adverb) in an insolent manner | - |
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insolubility | (noun) the quality of being insoluble and difficult to dissolve in liquid | - |
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(noun) the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it impossible to solve | Synonyms: unsolvability |
insoluble | (adjective) (of a substance) incapable of being dissolved | Synonyms: indissoluble |
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(adjective) admitting of no solution or explanation | - |
(adjective) without hope of solution | - |
insolvable | (adjective) not easily solved | Synonyms: unresolvable, unsoluble, unsolvable |
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insolvency | (noun) the lack of financial resources | - |
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insolvent | (adjective) unable to meet or discharge financial obligations | - |
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(noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: bankrupt |
irresolute | (adjective) uncertain how to act or proceed | - |
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irresolutely | (adverb) lacking determination or decisiveness | - |
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irresoluteness | (noun) the trait of being irresolute; lacking firmness of purpose | Synonyms: irresolution |
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irresolution | (noun) the trait of being irresolute; lacking firmness of purpose | Synonyms: irresoluteness |
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(noun) doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action | Synonyms: indecision, indecisiveness |
isolable | (adjective) capable of being isolated or disjoined | - |
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isolate | (verb) place or set apart | Synonyms: insulate |
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(verb) obtain in pure form | - |
(verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: keep apart, sequester, sequestrate, set apart |
(verb) separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them | - |
isolated | (adjective) under forced isolation especially for health reasons | Synonyms: quarantined |
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(adjective) being or feeling set or kept apart from others | Synonyms: detached, separated, set-apart |
(adjective) not close together in time | Synonyms: stray |
(adjective) cut off or left behind | Synonyms: marooned, stranded |
(adjective) remote and separate physically or socially | Synonyms: apart, obscure |
(adjective) marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements | Synonyms: disjunct |
isolating | (adjective) relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles | - |
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isolation | (noun) the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others | Synonyms: closing off |
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(noun) a country's withdrawal from international politics | - |
(noun) a feeling of being disliked and alone | - |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it | - |
(noun) a state of separation between persons or groups | - |
isolationism | (noun) a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations | - |
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isolationist | (adjective) of or relating to isolationism | Synonyms: isolationistic |
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(noun) an advocate of isolationism in international affairs | - |
isolationistic | (adjective) of or relating to isolationism | Synonyms: isolationist |
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isoleucine | (noun) an essential amino acid found in proteins; isomeric with leucine | - |
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isolex | (noun) an isogloss marking off the area in which a particular item of vocabulary is found. | - |
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lunisolar | (adjective) relating to or attributed to the moon and the sun or their mutual relations | - |
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mausoleum | (noun) a large burial chamber, usually above ground | - |
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mesolithic | (adjective) of or relating to a middle period of the Stone Age (following the paleolithic) | - |
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mirasol | (noun) annual sunflower grown for silage and for its seeds which are a source of oil; common throughout United States and much of North America | Synonyms: common sunflower, Helianthus annuus |
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misology | (noun) hatred of reasoning | - |
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nosology | (noun) the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease | Synonyms: diagnostics |
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obsolesce | (verb) become obsolete, fall into disuse | - |
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obsolescence | (noun) the process of becoming obsolete; falling into disuse or becoming out of date | - |
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obsolescent | (adjective) becoming obsolete | - |
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obsolete | (adjective) no longer in use | Synonyms: disused |
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(adjective) old; no longer valid or fashionable | Synonyms: out-of-date, outdated, superannuated |
obsoleteness | (noun) the property of being out of date and not current | Synonyms: superannuation |
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outsole | (noun) the outer sole of a shoe or boot that is the bottom of the shoe and makes contact with the ground | - |
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oversolicitous | (adjective) excessively solicitous | - |
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parasol | (noun) a handheld collapsible source of shade | Synonyms: sunshade |
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