corespondent | (noun) the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding | Synonyms: co-respondent |
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correspond | (verb) exchange messages | - |
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(verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
(verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: represent, stand for |
(verb) be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics | Synonyms: equate |
correspondence | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: parallelism |
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(noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: agreement |
(noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetry |
(noun) communication by the exchange of letters | - |
(noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness |
correspondent | (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: analogous |
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(noun) someone who communicates by means of letters | Synonyms: letter writer |
(noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newswriter |
corresponding | (adjective) accompanying | - |
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(adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: comparable, like |
(adjective) similar especially in position or purpose | - |
correspondingly | (adverb) in a corresponding manner | - |
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cosponsor | (verb) sponsor together with another sponsor | - |
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despond | (verb) lose confidence or hope; become dejected | - |
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despondence | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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despondency | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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despondent | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: heartsick |
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despondently | (adverb) with desperation | Synonyms: despairingly |
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irresponsibility | (noun) a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions | Synonyms: irresponsibleness |
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irresponsible | (adjective) showing lack of care for consequences | - |
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irresponsibleness | (noun) a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions | Synonyms: irresponsibility |
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irresponsibly | (adverb) in an irresponsible manner | - |
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respond | (verb) show a response or a reaction to something | Synonyms: react |
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(verb) respond favorably or as hoped | - |
(verb) react verbally | Synonyms: answer, reply |
respondent | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: answering |
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(noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, responder |
(noun) the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent | - |
responder | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, respondent |
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response | (noun) a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent | Synonyms: reaction |
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(noun) the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals | - |
(noun) the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Synonyms: reply |
(noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: answer, reply |
(noun) the manner in which something is greeted | Synonyms: reception |
(noun) a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister | - |
(noun) a result | - |
responsibility | (noun) the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force | Synonyms: duty, obligation |
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(noun) a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct | Synonyms: responsibleness |
(noun) the proper sphere or extent of your activities | Synonyms: province |
responsible | (adjective) worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable | - |
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(adjective) being the agent or cause | Synonyms: responsible for |
(adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: creditworthy |
responsibleness | (noun) a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct | Synonyms: responsibility |
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responsibly | (adverb) in a responsible manner | - |
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responsive | (adjective) readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion | - |
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(adjective) containing or using responses; alternating | Synonyms: antiphonal |
(adjective) reacting to a stimulus | Synonyms: reactive |
responsiveness | (noun) the quality of being responsive; reacting quickly; as a quality of people, it involves responding with emotion to people and events | - |
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(noun) responsive to stimulation | Synonyms: reactivity |
spondaic | (adjective) of or consisting of spondees | - |
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spondaise | (verb) make spondaic | Synonyms: spondaize |
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spondaize | (verb) make spondaic | Synonyms: spondaise |
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spondee | (noun) a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables | - |
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spondylarthritis | (noun) arthritis that affects one or more of the intervertebral joints in the spine | - |
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spondylitis | (noun) inflammation of a spinal joint; characterized by pain and stiffness | - |
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spondylolisthesis | (noun) a forward dislocation of one vertebra over the one beneath it producing pressure on spinal nerves | - |
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sponge | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: parazoan, poriferan |
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(noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: leech, parasite, sponger |
(noun) someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily | Synonyms: quick study |
(noun) a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used | - |
(verb) wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten | - |
(verb) erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard | - |
(verb) soak up with a sponge | - |
(verb) gather sponges, in the ocean | - |
(verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, mooch |
spongefly | (noun) hairy-bodied insect whose larvae feed on freshwater sponges | Synonyms: spongillafly |
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spongelike | (adjective) like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed | Synonyms: spongy |
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(adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongy, squashy, squishy |
sponger | (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: leech, parasite, sponge |
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(noun) a workman employed to collect sponges | - |
spongillafly | (noun) hairy-bodied insect whose larvae feed on freshwater sponges | Synonyms: spongefly |
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sponginess | (noun) the porosity of a sponge | - |
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(noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: compressibility, squeezability |
spongioblast | (noun) any of various columnar epithelial cells in the central nervous system that develop into neuroglia | - |
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spongioblastoma | (noun) a fast-growing malignant brain tumor composed of spongioblasts; nearly always fatal | Synonyms: glioblastoma |
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spongy | (adjective) like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed | Synonyms: spongelike |
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(adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongelike, squashy, squishy |
sponsor | (noun) someone who supports or champions something | Synonyms: patron, supporter |
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(noun) an advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.) | Synonyms: presenter |
(verb) assume sponsorship of | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
(verb) assume responsibility for or leadership of | - |
(verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, patronize, shop, shop at |
sponsorship | (noun) the act of sponsoring (either officially or financially) | - |
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spontaneity | (noun) the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint | Synonyms: spontaneousness |
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spontaneous | (adjective) happening or arising without apparent external cause | Synonyms: self-generated |
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(adjective) said or done without having been planned or written in advance | Synonyms: ad-lib, unwritten |
spontaneously | (adverb) in a spontaneous manner | - |
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(adverb) without advance preparation | Synonyms: ad lib, ad libitum, impromptu |
spontaneousness | (noun) the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint | Synonyms: spontaneity |
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transponder | (noun) electrical device designed to receive a specific signal and automatically transmit a specific reply | - |
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unresponsive | (adjective) not responding to some influence or stimulus | - |
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(adjective) aloof or indifferent | - |
(adjective) not susceptible to suggestion or influence | - |
unresponsiveness | (noun) the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events | Synonyms: deadness |
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