| 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 |
| amethystine | (adjective) containing or resembling amethyst | - |
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| arresting | (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: sensational, stunning |
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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 |
| birdnesting | (noun) hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs | - |
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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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| broadcasting | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | - |
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| (noun) a medium that disseminates via telecommunications | Synonyms: broadcast medium |
| casting | (noun) the act of creating something by casting it in a mold | Synonyms: molding |
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| (noun) the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel | Synonyms: cast |
| (noun) the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie | - |
| (noun) object formed by a mold | Synonyms: cast |
| clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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| coexisting | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexistent |
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| contradistinction | (noun) a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast | - |
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| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| contrasting | (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrastive |
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| contrastingly | (adverb) in a contrasting manner | - |
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| costing | (noun) cost accounting | - |
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| cothromboplastin | (noun) a coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K | Synonyms: factor VII, proconvertin, stable factor |
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| cystine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid found in proteins (especially keratin); discovered in bladder stones | - |
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| destination | (noun) the ultimate goal for which something is done | Synonyms: terminus |
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| (noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: address, name and address |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: finish, goal |
| destine | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, intend, specify |
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| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, doom, fate |
| destined | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Synonyms: bound |
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| (adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Synonyms: bound |
| destiny | (noun) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future | Synonyms: fate |
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| (noun) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events | Synonyms: fate |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
| disgusting | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| disgustingly | (adverb) in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree | Synonyms: distastefully, revoltingly, sickeningly |
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| disgustingness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: distastefulness, nauseatingness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
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| (noun) the property of being extremely unacceptable to the mind | Synonyms: unsavoriness |
| distinct | (adjective) easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined | - |
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| (adjective) clearly or sharply defined to the mind | Synonyms: clear-cut, trenchant |
| (adjective) recognizable; marked | Synonyms: decided |
| (adjective) (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality | Synonyms: distinguishable |
| (adjective) constituting a separate entity or part | Synonyms: discrete |
| distinction | (noun) a distinguishing difference between similar things or people | - |
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| (noun) a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes | Synonyms: differentiation |
| (noun) an honor awarded to someone in recognition of achievement or superiority | - |
| (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: eminence, note, preeminence |
| distinctive | (adjective) of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing | Synonyms: typical |
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| (adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: classifiable |
| distinctively | (adverb) in an identifiably distinctive manner | - |
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| distinctiveness | (noun) utter dissimilarity | Synonyms: disparateness |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: peculiarity, speciality, specialness, specialty |
| distinctly | (adverb) clear to the mind; with distinct mental discernment | Synonyms: clearly |
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| (adverb) in a distinct and distinguishable manner | - |
| (adverb) to a distinct degree | - |
| distinctness | (noun) the quality of being sharp and clear | Synonyms: sharpness |
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| (noun) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | Synonyms: otherness, separateness |
| (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: discreteness, separateness, severalty |
| distinguish | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, mark |
| (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: signalise, signalize |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
| distinguishability | (noun) Capability of being perceived as different or distinct. | - |
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| distinguishable | (adjective) capable of being perceived as different or distinct | - |
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| (adjective) (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality | Synonyms: distinct |
| distinguished | (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: grand, imposing, magisterial |
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| (adjective) (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation | - |
| dustiness | (noun) the state of being covered with dust | - |
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| elastin | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein found in elastic tissues such as the walls of arteries | - |
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| enlisting | (noun) the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.) | Synonyms: recruitment |
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| everlasting | (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
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| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| (noun) any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | Synonyms: everlasting flower |
| everlastingly | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: eternally, evermore, forever |
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| everlastingness | (noun) the property of lasting forever | - |
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| exhausting | (adjective) having a debilitating effect | Synonyms: draining |
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| (adjective) producing exhaustion | Synonyms: tiring, wearing, wearying |
| existing | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existent |
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| (adjective) presently existing | - |
| (adjective) existing in something specified | - |
| fasting | (noun) abstaining from food | Synonyms: fast |
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| feasting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: banqueting |
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| feistiness | (noun) The quality or state of being tenacious, energetic, spunky. | Synonyms: scrappiness |
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| festinate | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: hasten, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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| festination | (noun) involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g., Parkinson's disease) | - |
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| forecasting | (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: foretelling, prediction, prognostication |
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| frostiness | (noun) coldness as evidenced by frost | - |
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| (noun) a silvery-white color | Synonyms: hoariness |
| frosting | (noun) a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes | Synonyms: ice, icing |
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| gastrointestinal | (adjective) of or relating to the stomach and intestines | Synonyms: GI |
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| harvesting | (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest, harvest home |
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| hastiness | (noun) hasty impulsiveness | - |
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| (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation |
| hustings | (noun) the activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making) | - |
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| indistinct | (adjective) not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand | - |
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| indistinctly | (adverb) in a dim indistinct manner | Synonyms: dimly |
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| indistinctness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness, softness |
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| indistinguishability | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identicalness, identity |
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| indistinguishable | (adjective) not capable of being distinguished or differentiated | Synonyms: undistinguishable |
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| (adjective) exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different | Synonyms: identical |
| insisting | (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insistence |
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| instinct | (adjective) (followed by `with') deeply filled or permeated | Synonyms: imbued, replete |
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| (noun) inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli | Synonyms: inherent aptitude |
| instinctive | (adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: natural |
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| instinctively | (adverb) as a matter of instinct | - |
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| interesting | (adjective) arousing or holding the attention | - |
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| interestingly | (adverb) in an interesting manner | - |
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| interestingness | (noun) the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.) | Synonyms: interest |
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| intestinal | (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteral, enteric |
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| intestine | (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | Synonyms: bowel, gut |
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| investing | (noun) the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | Synonyms: investment |
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| jesting | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jocose, jocular, joking |
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| jestingly | (adverb) in jest | Synonyms: jokingly |
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| langoustine | (noun) caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster | Synonyms: Norwegian lobster, scampo |
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| lasting | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: permanent |
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| (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: persistent |
| (adjective) existing for a long time | Synonyms: durable, long-lasting, long-lived |
| (adjective) lasting a long time without change | - |
| lastingly | (adverb) in an enduring or permanent manner | - |
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| lastingness | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, enduringness, strength |
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| listing | (noun) the act of making a list of items | Synonyms: itemisation, itemization |
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| (noun) a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) | Synonyms: list |
| lomustine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug often used to treat brain tumors or Hodgkin's disease | - |
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| lustiness | (noun) the property of being strong and healthy in constitution | Synonyms: hardiness, robustness |
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| mediastinum | (noun) the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus | - |
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| mistiness | (noun) cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor | Synonyms: haziness, steaminess, vaporousness, vapourousness |
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| mustiness | (noun) the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy | Synonyms: moldiness, must |
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| nastiness | (noun) the quality of being highly unpleasant | - |
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| (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, cattiness, spite, spitefulness |
| (noun) a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse | Synonyms: filth, filthiness, foulness |
| obstinacy | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinance, stubbornness |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
| obstinance | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, stubbornness |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
| obstinate | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: stubborn, unregenerate |
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| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, perverse, wayward |
| (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: cussed, obdurate, unrepentant |
| (verb) persist stubbornly | - |
| obstinately | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: cussedly, mulishly, obdurately, pig-headedly, stubbornly |
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| ostinato | (noun) a musical phrase repeated over and over during a composition | - |
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| ousting | (noun) the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out | Synonyms: ouster |
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| overcasting | (noun) a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling | Synonyms: overcast |
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| persisting | (adjective) relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: dogging |
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| philistine | (adjective) smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values | Synonyms: anti-intellectual |
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| (noun) a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits | Synonyms: anti-intellectual, lowbrow |
| philistinism | (noun) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters | Synonyms: materialism |
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| plastinate | (verb) preserve (tissue) with plastics, as for teaching and research purposes | - |
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| plastination | (noun) a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened | - |
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| postindustrial | (adjective) of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research | - |
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