abstract | (adjective) existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment | - |
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(adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
(adjective) dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention | - |
(noun) a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance | Synonyms: abstraction |
(noun) a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory | Synonyms: outline, precis, synopsis |
(verb) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically | - |
(verb) consider apart from a particular case or instance | - |
(verb) give an abstract (of) | - |
(verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
abstracted | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, absentminded, scatty |
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abstractedly | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absently, absentmindedly, inattentively |
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abstractedness | (noun) preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else | Synonyms: abstraction |
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abstracter | (noun) one who makes abstracts or summarizes information | Synonyms: abstractor |
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abstraction | (noun) a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Synonyms: abstract entity |
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(noun) the act of withdrawing or removing something | - |
(noun) an abstract painting | - |
(noun) a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance | Synonyms: abstract |
(noun) preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else | Synonyms: abstractedness |
(noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization |
abstractionism | (noun) an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation | Synonyms: abstract art |
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(noun) a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples | Synonyms: unrealism |
abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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(noun) a painter of abstract pictures | Synonyms: abstract artist |
abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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abstractly | (adverb) in abstract terms | - |
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abstractness | (noun) the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object | - |
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abstractor | (noun) one who makes abstracts or summarizes information | Synonyms: abstracter |
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abstruse | (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: deep, recondite |
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abstrusely | (adverb) in a manner difficult to understand | - |
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abstruseness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness |
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(noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstrusity, profoundness, profundity, reconditeness |
abstrusity | (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, profoundness, profundity, reconditeness |
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administrable | (adjective) capable of being administered or managed | - |
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administrate | (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administer |
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administration | (noun) a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) | Synonyms: disposal |
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(noun) the act of administering medication | Synonyms: giving medication |
(noun) the act of meting out justice according to the law | Synonyms: judicature |
(noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: governance, governing, government, government activity |
(noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
(noun) the tenure of a president | Synonyms: presidency, presidential term |
administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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administratively | (adverb) by or for an administrator | - |
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administrator | (noun) someone who administers a business | Synonyms: decision maker |
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(noun) the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor | - |
(noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: executive |
administrivia | (noun) the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization | - |
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airstream | (noun) a relatively well-defined prevailing wind | - |
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(noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: backwash, race, slipstream, wash |
airstrip | (noun) an airfield without normal airport facilities | Synonyms: flight strip, landing strip, strip |
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alabastrine | (adjective) of or resembling alabaster | Synonyms: alabaster |
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alastrim | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
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alpestrine | (adjective) growing at high altitudes | Synonyms: subalpine |
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alstroemeria | (noun) any of various South American plants of the genus Alstroemeria valued for their handsome umbels of beautiful flowers | - |
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altostratus | (noun) a stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altostratus cloud |
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anastrophe | (noun) the reversal of the normal order of words | Synonyms: inversion |
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ancestral | (adjective) of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor | - |
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(adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible |
ancestress | (noun) a woman ancestor | - |
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ancestry | (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: derivation, filiation, lineage |
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(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
anestric | (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestrous, anoestrous |
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anestrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anoestrous |
anestrum | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrus, anoestrum, anoestrus |
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anestrus | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrum, anoestrum, anoestrus |
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angstrom | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: A, angstrom unit |
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anoestrous | (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anestrous |
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anoestrum | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrus |
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anoestrus | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrum |
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antistrophe | (noun) the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem | - |
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antistrophic | (adjective) of or relating to an antistrophe | - |
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apostrophe | (noun) address to an absent or imaginary person | - |
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(noun) the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word | - |
apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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apostrophise | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophize |
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apostrophize | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophise |
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artistry | (noun) a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation | Synonyms: art, prowess |
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aspidistra | (noun) evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant | Synonyms: Aspidistra elatio, bar-room plant, cast-iron plant |
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astraddle | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astride |
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astragal | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: bead, beading, beadwork |
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(noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragalus, talus |
astragalar | (adjective) of or relating to the anklebone | - |
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astragalus | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: anklebone, astragal, talus |
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astrakhan | (noun) the fur of young lambs | - |
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astral | (adjective) being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars | Synonyms: stellar |
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astrantia | (noun) any plant of the genus Astrantia | Synonyms: masterwort |
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astraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of thunder and lightning | - |
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astray | (adverb) away from the right path or direction | - |
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(adverb) far from the intended target | Synonyms: wide |
astride | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astraddle |
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(adverb) with the legs stretched far apart | - |
astringe | (verb) become constricted or compressed | - |
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(verb) constrict or bind or draw together | - |
astringence | (noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringency |
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astringency | (noun) the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids | Synonyms: stypsis |
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(noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringence |
astringent | (adjective) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue | - |
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(adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic |
(noun) a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals | Synonyms: astringent drug, styptic |
astrobiology | (noun) the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life | Synonyms: exobiology, space biology |
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astrocyte | (noun) comparatively large neuroglial cell | - |
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astrocytic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing large star-shaped cells in the neuroglia | - |
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astrodome | (noun) a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations | - |
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astrodynamics | (noun) the branch of astronomy that studies the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space | - |
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astrogate | (verb) navigate in space | - |
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(verb) guide in interplanetary travel | - |
astrogator | (noun) the navigator of a spacecraft | - |
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astroglia | (noun) tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells | Synonyms: macroglia |
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astrolabe | (noun) an early form of sextant | - |
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astrolatry | (noun) the worship of planets or stars | Synonyms: worship of heavenly bodies |
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astrologer | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologist |
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astrological | (adjective) relating to or concerned with astrology | - |
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astrologist | (noun) someone who predicts the future by the positions of the planets and sun and Moon | Synonyms: astrologer |
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astrology | (noun) a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon | Synonyms: star divination |
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astrometry | (noun) the branch of astronomy that deals with the measurement of the position and motion of celestial bodies | - |
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astronaut | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: cosmonaut, spaceman |
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astronautic | (adjective) of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics | Synonyms: astronautical |
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astronautical | (adjective) of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics | Synonyms: astronautic |
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astronautics | (noun) the theory and practice of navigation through air or space | Synonyms: aeronautics |
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astronavigation | (noun) navigating according to the positions of the stars | Synonyms: celestial navigation |
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astronomer | (noun) a physicist who studies astronomy | Synonyms: stargazer, uranologist |
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astronomic | (adjective) relating or belonging to the science of astronomy | Synonyms: astronomical |
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(adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomical, galactic |
astronomical | (adjective) relating or belonging to the science of astronomy | Synonyms: astronomic |
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(adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomic, galactic |
astronomically | (adverb) enormously | - |
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astronomy | (noun) the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole | Synonyms: uranology |
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astrophysical | (adjective) of or concerned with astrophysics | - |
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astrophysicist | (noun) an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies | - |
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astrophysics | (noun) the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies | - |
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austral | (adjective) of the south or coming from the south | - |
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(noun) the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos | - |
australopithecine | (adjective) of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus | - |
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(noun) any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago | - |
autostrada | (noun) an expressway in an Italian-speaking country | - |
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awestricken | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestruck |
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awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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backstroke | (noun) a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back | - |
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(verb) swim on one's back | - |
backstroker | (noun) someone who swims the backstroke | - |
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balustrade | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, banister, bannister, handrail |
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