| absolutistic | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutist |
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| abstinence | (noun) act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite | - |
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| (noun) the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | Synonyms: abstention |
| abstinent | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstentious |
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| (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, nondrinker |
| achondroplastic | (adjective) of or relating to achondroplasia | - |
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| acoustic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of acoustics | Synonyms: acoustical |
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| (noun) a remedy for hearing loss or deafness | - |
| acoustical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of acoustics | Synonyms: acoustic |
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| acoustically | (adverb) with respect to acoustics | - |
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| acoustician | (noun) a physicist who specializes in acoustics | - |
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| acousticophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of sounds including your own voice | Synonyms: phonophobia |
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| acoustics | (noun) the study of the physical properties of sound | - |
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| acrostic | (noun) a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across | Synonyms: word square |
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| (noun) verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message | - |
| activistic | (adjective) advocating or engaged in activism | Synonyms: activist |
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| adjustive | (adjective) conducive to adjustment | - |
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| adventuristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to adventurism | - |
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| aestival | (adjective) (rare) of or occurring in summer | Synonyms: estival |
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| aestivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: estivate |
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| aestivation | (noun) (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens | Synonyms: estivation |
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| (noun) (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period | Synonyms: estivation |
| agnostic | (adjective) uncertain of all claims to knowledge | Synonyms: agnostical |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism | - |
| (noun) a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist) | - |
| (noun) someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something | Synonyms: doubter |
| agnostical | (adjective) uncertain of all claims to knowledge | Synonyms: agnostic |
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| agnosticism | (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: scepticism, skepticism |
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| (noun) a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God | - |
| agonistic | (adjective) of or relating to the athletic contests held in ancient Greece | - |
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| (adjective) struggling for effect | Synonyms: strained |
| (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistical, combative |
| agonistical | (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, combative |
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| agrestic | (adjective) characteristic of the fields or country | Synonyms: rustic |
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| (adjective) (of behavior) rustic and uncouth | - |
| albinistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affected by albinism | Synonyms: albinal, albinic, albinotic |
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| alchemistic | (adjective) of or relating to alchemists | Synonyms: alchemistical |
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| alchemistical | (adjective) of or relating to alchemists | Synonyms: alchemistic |
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| alkahestic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the alkahest that alchemists assumed to exist | - |
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| altruistic | (adjective) showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selfless |
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| altruistically | (adverb) in an altruistic manner | Synonyms: selflessly |
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| amastia | (noun) absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect) | - |
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| amethystine | (adjective) containing or resembling amethyst | - |
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| amnestic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by amnesia | Synonyms: amnesic |
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| amoristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to romantic love | - |
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| anachronistic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous |
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| anachronistically | (adverb) in an anachronistic manner | - |
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| anamnestic | (adjective) of or relating to anamnesis; aiding the memory | - |
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| anapaestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapestic |
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| anapestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapaestic |
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| anaplastic | (adjective) of or relating to anaplasia | - |
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| anarchistic | (adjective) of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism | - |
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| anastigmat | (noun) compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images | - |
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| anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
| animalistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animalism | - |
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| animatistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animatism | - |
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| animistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animist |
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| annalistic | (adjective) relating to annals | - |
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| antagonistic | (adjective) arousing animosity or hostility | - |
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| (adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect | Synonyms: incompatible |
| (adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical |
| (adjective) incapable of harmonious association | - |
| (adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: counter |
| antagonistically | (adverb) in an antagonistic manner | - |
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| antineoplastic | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antitumor, antitumour |
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| (noun) any of several drugs that control or kill neoplastic cells; used in chemotherapy to kill cancer cells; all have unpleasant side effects that may include nausea and vomiting and hair loss and suppression of bone marrow function | Synonyms: antineoplastic drug, cancer drug |
| antiphlogistic | (adjective) counteracting inflammation | - |
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| aoristic | (adjective) of or relating to the aorist tense | - |
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| aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
| archaistic | (adjective) imitative of an archaic style or manner | - |
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| armistice | (noun) a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms | Synonyms: cease-fire, truce |
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| arresting | (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: sensational, stunning |
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| artistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of art or artists | - |
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| (adjective) satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities | - |
| (adjective) aesthetically pleasing | Synonyms: aesthetic, esthetic |
| artistically | (adverb) in an artistic manner | - |
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| assistive | (adjective) giving assistance | - |
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| astigmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a defect in the eye or in a lens caused by a deviation from spherical curvature which prevents light rays from meeting at a common focus and so results in distorted images | - |
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| astigmatism | (noun) (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point | Synonyms: astigmia |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people | Synonyms: astigmia |
| astigmia | (noun) (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point | Synonyms: astigmatism |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people | Synonyms: astigmatism |
| astilbe | (noun) any plant of the genus Astilbe having compound leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers | - |
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| astir | (adjective) on the move | Synonyms: about |
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| (adjective) out of bed | Synonyms: up |
| atavistic | (adjective) characteristic of an atavist | Synonyms: throwback |
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| atheistic | (adjective) related to or characterized by or given to atheism | Synonyms: atheist, atheistical |
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| (adjective) rejecting any belief in gods | Synonyms: atheistical, unbelieving |
| atheistical | (adjective) related to or characterized by or given to atheism | Synonyms: atheist, atheistic |
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| (adjective) rejecting any belief in gods | Synonyms: atheistic, unbelieving |
| atomistic | (adjective) divided into separate and often disparate elements | Synonyms: atomistical |
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| atomistical | (adjective) divided into separate and often disparate elements | Synonyms: atomistic |
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| atonalistic | (adjective) of or relating to atonalism | - |
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| autistic | (adjective) characteristic of or affected with autism | - |
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| autoplastic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in autoplasty | - |
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| autosuggestion | (noun) a system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s | Synonyms: auto-suggestion, self-suggestion |
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| avifaunistic | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunal |
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| backstitch | (noun) an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one | - |
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| (verb) do backstitches | - |
| ballistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity | - |
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| ballistics | (noun) the science of flight dynamics | - |
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| (noun) the trajectory of an object in free flight | Synonyms: ballistic trajectory |
| bastille | (noun) a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) | - |
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| bastinado | (noun) a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels | Synonyms: falanga |
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| (noun) a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet | - |
| (verb) beat somebody on the soles of the feet | - |
| basting | (noun) moistening a roast as it is cooking | - |
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| (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting stitch, tacking |
| bastion | (noun) projecting part of a rampart or other fortification | - |
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| (noun) a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle | Synonyms: citadel |
| (noun) a group that defends a principle | - |
| bastioned | (adjective) secured with bastions or fortifications | Synonyms: fortified |
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| behavioristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behaviourist, behaviouristic |
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| behaviouristic | (adjective) of or relating to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist, behavioristic, behaviourist |
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| belletristic | (adjective) written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content | - |
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| bestial | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, brutal, brute, brutish |
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| bestialise | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialize |
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| bestiality | (noun) sexual activity between a person and an animal | Synonyms: sodomy, zooerastia, zooerasty |
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| (noun) the stupid brutal quality of a beast | - |
| bestialize | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialise |
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| bestially | (adverb) in the manner of a beast | Synonyms: brutishly, in a beastly manner |
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| bestiary | (noun) a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals | - |
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| bestir | (verb) become active | Synonyms: rouse |
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| billystick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, nightstick, truncheon |
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| bimetallistic | (adjective) pertaining to a monetary system based on two metals | Synonyms: bimetallic |
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| biologistic | (adjective) of or relating to biologism | - |
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| biostatistics | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometrics, biometry |
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| birdnesting | (noun) hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs | - |
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| bitumastic | (noun) a protective coating of asphalt and filter used on structural metals that are exposed to weathering | - |
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| blasting | (adjective) causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blaring |
| bloodthirstiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodiness |
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| boasting | (noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | Synonyms: boast, jactitation, self-praise |
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