| antipsychotic | (noun) tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired | Synonyms: antipsychotic agent, antipsychotic drug, major tranquilizer, major tranquilliser, major tranquillizer, neuroleptic, neuroleptic agent, neuroleptic drug |
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| antisyphilitic | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that is effective against syphilis | - |
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| antsy | (adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: fidgety, fretful, itchy, restless |
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| apostasy | (noun) the act of abandoning a party for cause | Synonyms: tergiversation |
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| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: defection, renunciation |
| argosy | (noun) one or more large merchant ships | - |
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| asylum | (noun) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | Synonyms: insane asylum, institution, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital |
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| (noun) a shelter from danger or hardship | Synonyms: refuge, sanctuary |
| asymmetric | (adjective) characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
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| asymmetrical | (adjective) characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components | Synonyms: asymmetric |
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| (adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: crooked |
| asymmetrically | (adverb) in an asymmetrical manner | Synonyms: unsymmetrically |
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| asymmetry | (noun) (mathematics) a lack of symmetry | - |
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| asymptomatic | (adjective) having no symptoms of illness or disease | Synonyms: symptomless |
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| asymptote | (noun) a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity | - |
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| asymptotic | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of an asymptote | - |
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| asymptotically | (adverb) toward an asymptote | - |
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| asynchronism | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| asynchronous | (adjective) not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase | - |
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| (adjective) (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are derived from special characters in the data stream itself | - |
| asynchrony | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| asynclitism | (noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| asyndetic | (adjective) lacking conjunctions | - |
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| asyndeton | (noun) the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used | - |
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| asynergia | (noun) absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously | Synonyms: asynergy |
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| asynergic | (adjective) of or relating to the state of asynergy; lacking synergy | - |
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| asynergy | (noun) absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously | Synonyms: asynergia |
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| asystole | (noun) absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death | Synonyms: cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest |
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| autopsy | (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: necropsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination |
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| (verb) perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem | - |
| biopsy | (noun) examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease | - |
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| biosynthesis | (noun) production of a chemical compound by a living organism | Synonyms: biogenesis |
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| biosynthetic | (adjective) of or relating to biosynthesis | - |
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| biosystematic | (adjective) of or relating to biosystematics | - |
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| biosystematics | (noun) use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework | Synonyms: biosystematy |
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| biosystematy | (noun) use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework | Synonyms: biosystematics |
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| blowsy | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowzy, slatternly, sluttish |
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| bossy | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| brassy | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brasslike |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| busy | (adjective) actively or fully engaged or occupied | - |
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| (adjective) overcrowded or cluttered with detail | Synonyms: fussy |
| (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
| (adjective) (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) | Synonyms: engaged, in use |
| (adjective) crowded with or characterized by much activity | - |
| (verb) keep busy with | Synonyms: occupy |
| busybodied | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| busybody | (noun) a person who meddles in the affairs of others | Synonyms: nosey-parker, nosy-parker, quidnunc |
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| busyness | (noun) the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity | Synonyms: hum |
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| busywork | (noun) active work of little value | Synonyms: make-work |
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| catalepsy | (noun) a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli | - |
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| centrosymmetric | (adjective) having a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point | Synonyms: radially symmetrical |
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| cheesy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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| chemosynthesis | (noun) synthesis of carbohydrate from carbon dioxide and water; limited to certain bacteria and fungi | - |
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| choosy | (adjective) difficult to please | Synonyms: choosey |
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| cissy | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| classy | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: posh, swish |
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| clepsydra | (noun) clock that measures time by the escape of water | Synonyms: water clock, water glass |
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| clerisy | (noun) an educated and intellectual elite | Synonyms: intelligentsia |
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| clumsy | (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clunky, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy |
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| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, fumbling, incompetent |
| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, bunglesome, ungainly |
| controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| cosy | (adjective) enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space | Synonyms: cozy, snug |
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| (noun) a padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm | Synonyms: cozy, tea cosy, tea cozy |
| (adjective) suggesting connivance | Synonyms: cozy |
| (adjective) having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere | Synonyms: cozy, informal, intimate |
| courtesy | (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate act | - |
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| (noun) a courteous manner | Synonyms: good manners |
| (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate remark | - |
| curtsy | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsey |
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| (verb) make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect | Synonyms: bob |
| (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsey |
| daisy | (noun) any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl | - |
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| daisybush | (noun) any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays | Synonyms: daisy-bush, daisy bush |
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| daisylike | (adjective) resembling a daisy | - |
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| dasymeter | (noun) densimeter consisting of a thin glass globe that is weighed in a gas to determine its density | - |
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| dasyure | (noun) any of several more or less arboreal marsupials somewhat resembling martens | - |
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| dasyurid | (noun) small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania | Synonyms: dasyurid marsupial |
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| decasyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of ten syllables | - |
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| decasyllable | (noun) a verse line having ten syllables | - |
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| desynchronisation | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| desynchronise | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronize |
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| desynchronization | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronizing |
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| desynchronize | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronise |
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| desynchronizing | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization |
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| dichromasy | (noun) a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision) | Synonyms: dichromacy, dichromatism, dichromatopsia, dichromia |
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| discourtesy | (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: offence, offense, offensive activity |
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| (noun) a manner that is rude and insulting | Synonyms: rudeness |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: disrespect |
| dissyllable | (noun) a word having two syllables | Synonyms: disyllable |
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| dissymmetry | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, imbalance |
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| disyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of two syllables | - |
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| disyllable | (noun) a word having two syllables | Synonyms: dissyllable |
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| dressy | (adjective) in fancy clothing | - |
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| dropsy | (noun) swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities | Synonyms: edema, hydrops, oedema |
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| drowsy | (adjective) half asleep | Synonyms: dozy, drowsing |
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| (adjective) showing lack of attention or boredom | Synonyms: oscitant, yawning |
| dyssynergia | (noun) inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait | Synonyms: ataxia, ataxy, motor ataxia |
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| easy | (adjective) posing no difficulty; requiring little effort | - |
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| (adjective) free from worry or anxiety | - |
| (adjective) obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally | - |
| (adjective) less in demand and therefore readily obtainable | - |
| (adjective) affording comfort | - |
| (adjective) marked by moderate steepness | Synonyms: gentle |
| (adjective) readily exploited or tricked | - |
| (adjective) having little impact | Synonyms: gentle, soft |
| (adjective) affording pleasure | - |
| (adjective) in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich | Synonyms: comfortable, prosperous, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do |
| (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton |
| (adjective) not hurried or forced | Synonyms: easygoing, leisurely |
| (adjective) not strict | Synonyms: lenient |
| (adverb) in a relaxed manner; or without hardship | Synonyms: soft |
| (adverb) with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily') | Synonyms: easily |
| (adverb) without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') | Synonyms: slow, slowly, tardily |
| easygoing | (adjective) not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship | Synonyms: cushy, soft |
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| (adjective) relaxed and informal in attitude or standards | - |
| (adjective) not hurried or forced | Synonyms: easy, leisurely |
| easygoingness | (noun) being without worry or concern | - |
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| ecosystem | (noun) a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment | - |
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| ecstasy | (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, cristal, disco biscuit, go, hug drug, X, XTC |
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| (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: exaltation, rapture, raptus, transport |
| (noun) a state of elated bliss | Synonyms: rapture |
| eleemosynary | (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, philanthropic |
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| embassy | (noun) a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work | - |
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| (noun) an ambassador and his entourage collectively | - |
| epilepsy | (noun) a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions | - |
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| extrasystole | (noun) a premature systole resulting in a momentary cardiac arrhythmia | - |
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| extrasystolic | (adjective) of or relating to or happening during an extrasystole | - |
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| fantasy | (noun) imagination unrestricted by reality | Synonyms: phantasy |
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| (noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, illusion, phantasy |
| (noun) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it | Synonyms: phantasy |
| (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasize |
| flimsy | (adjective) not convincing | Synonyms: unconvincing |
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| (adjective) lacking solidity or strength | Synonyms: insubstantial |
| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: fragile, slight, tenuous, thin |
| (noun) a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies | Synonyms: onionskin |
| flindosy | (noun) tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc | Synonyms: Flindersia australis, flindosa, native beech |
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| flossy | (adjective) like down or as soft as down | Synonyms: downlike, downy, fluffy |
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| folksy | (adjective) very informal and familiar | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the common people, especially in regard to speech patterns, attitudes, etc. | - |
| forsythia | (noun) any of various early blooming oleaceous shrubs of the genus Forsythia; native to eastern Asia and southern Europe but widely cultivated for their branches of bright yellow bell-shaped flowers | - |
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| frowsy | (adjective) negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt | Synonyms: frowzy, slovenly |
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| fussy | (adjective) overcrowded or cluttered with detail | Synonyms: busy |
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| (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
| (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, particular, picky |
| gassy | (adjective) resembling gas | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: colicky, flatulent |
| geodesy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the shape of the earth and the determination of the exact position of geographical points | - |
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| geosynchronous | (adjective) of or having an orbit with a fixed period of 24 hours (although the position in the orbit may not be fixed with respect to the earth) | - |
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| gipsy | (noun) a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment | Synonyms: gypsy, itinerant |
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| (noun) a person who resembles a Romani in leading an unconventional, nomadic way of life | Synonyms: gypsy |
| gipsywort | (noun) hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers | Synonyms: gypsywort, Lycopus europaeus |
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| glassy | (adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness | Synonyms: glazed |
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| (adjective) (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it | Synonyms: vitreous, vitrified |
| (adjective) resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness | - |