alimentary | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
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altar | (noun) a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made | - |
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(noun) the table in Christian churches where communion is given | Synonyms: communion table, Lord's table |
altarpiece | (noun) a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table | Synonyms: reredos |
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antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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armamentarium | (noun) the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine | - |
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atar | (noun) essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers | Synonyms: athar, attar, ottar |
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ataractic | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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(noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquilliser, tranquillizer |
ataraxia | (noun) peace of mind | - |
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ataraxic | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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ataraxis | (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: heartsease, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity |
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attar | (noun) essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers | Synonyms: atar, athar, ottar |
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autarchic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchical, autarkical |
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autarchical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchic, autarkical |
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autarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autocracy |
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(noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarky |
autarkic | (adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkical |
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autarkical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchic, autarchical |
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(adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkic |
autarky | (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarchy |
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authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
(noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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avatar | (noun) the manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form | - |
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(noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: embodiment, incarnation |
bastard | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bogus, fake, phoney, phony |
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(noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin | Synonyms: mongrel |
(noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
(noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
bastardisation | (noun) an act that debases or corrupts | Synonyms: bastardization |
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bastardise | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardize |
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(verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardize |
bastardised | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardized |
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bastardization | (noun) an act that debases or corrupts | Synonyms: bastardisation |
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(noun) declaring or rendering bastard | - |
bastardize | (verb) declare a child to be illegitimate | Synonyms: bastardise |
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(verb) change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms | Synonyms: bastardise |
bastardized | (adjective) deriving from more than one source or style | Synonyms: bastardised |
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bastardly | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: mean |
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(adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: misbegot, misbegotten, spurious |
bastardy | (noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, illegitimacy |
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bitartrate | (noun) an acid tartrate; a hydrogen tartrate | - |
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budgetary | (adjective) of or relating to a budget | - |
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bustard | (noun) large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes | - |
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cataract | (noun) a large waterfall; violent rush of water over a precipice | - |
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(noun) an eye disease that involves the clouding or opacification of the natural lens of the eye | - |
catarrh | (noun) inflammation of the nose and throat with increased production of mucus | - |
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catarrhal | (adjective) of or relating to a catarrh | - |
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catarrhine | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhinian |
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(noun) of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together | Synonyms: Old World monkey |
catarrhinian | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhine |
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centare | (noun) a unit of measurement for area, defined as the area of a square with sides of exactly 1 metre; a centiare is 1/100th of an are | Synonyms: square meter, square metre |
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chantarelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chanterelle |
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cometary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometic |
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commentary | (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: comment |
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complementarity | (noun) a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities | - |
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(noun) the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other | - |
complementary | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, completing |
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(adjective) of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other | - |
(noun) either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments) | Synonyms: complementary color |
complimentariness | (noun) The state or quality of being in the nature of an expression of praise, congratulation, encouragement, or respect. | - |
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complimentary | (adjective) conveying or resembling a compliment | - |
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(adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: costless, free, gratis, gratuitous |
cornstarch | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornflour |
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cottar | (noun) fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together | Synonyms: cotter |
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(noun) a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands | Synonyms: cotter |
custard | (noun) sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen | - |
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dastard | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastardly |
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(noun) a despicable coward | - |
dastardliness | (noun) despicable cowardice | - |
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dastardly | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastard |
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daystar | (noun) a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky | Synonyms: Lucifer, morning star, Phosphorus |
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demilitarise | (verb) do away with the military organization and potential of | Synonyms: demilitarize |
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(verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarize, disarm |
demilitarize | (verb) do away with the military organization and potential of | Synonyms: demilitarise |
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(verb) remove offensive capability from | Synonyms: demilitarise, disarm |
depositary | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depository, repository |
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dextrorotary | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotatory, right-handed |
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dietary | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietetic, dietetical |
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(noun) a regulated daily food allowance | - |
dignitary | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP |
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distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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documentary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documental |
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(adjective) (of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event | - |
(noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary film, infotainment |
dotard | (noun) an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect | - |
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earthstar | (noun) any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star | - |
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egalitarian | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: classless |
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(noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: equalitarian |
egalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: equalitarianism |
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elementarily | (adverb) in an elementary manner | - |
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elementary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education | - |
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(adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, primary |
(adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic |
equalitarian | (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: egalitarian |
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equalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: egalitarianism |
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establishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentism |
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flexitarianism | (noun) The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons. | Synonyms: semi-vegetarianism |
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fragmentary | (adjective) consisting of small disconnected parts | Synonyms: fragmental |
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guitar | (noun) a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking | - |
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guitarfish | (noun) primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body | - |
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guitarist | (noun) a musician who plays the guitar | Synonyms: guitar player |
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hectare | (noun) (abbreviated `ha') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters) | - |
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hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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hereditary | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
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(adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, patrimonial, transmissible |
humanitarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism | - |
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(adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanistic |
(noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
(noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
humanitarianism | (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanism |
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hyperpituitarism | (noun) excessive activity of the pituitary gland (especially overactivity of the anterior lobe which leads to excess secretion of growth hormone) | - |
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insanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: unhealthful, unsanitary |
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instar | (noun) an insect or other arthropod between molts | - |
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integumentary | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumental |
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interplanetary | (adjective) between or among planets | - |
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involuntarily | (adverb) against one's will or done without conscious thought | - |
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involuntariness | (noun) the trait of being unwilling | Synonyms: unwillingness |
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involuntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: nonvoluntary, unvoluntary |
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(adjective) controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control | - |
jumpstart | (noun) starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car | Synonyms: jump-start |
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(verb) start or re-start vigorously | Synonyms: jump-start |
(verb) start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery | Synonyms: jump-start, jump |
leotard | (noun) a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance | Synonyms: body suit, cat suit, unitard |
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leotards | (noun) skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls | Synonyms: tights |
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levorotary | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotatory |
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libertarian | (noun) someone who believes the doctrine of free will | - |
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(noun) an advocate of libertarianism | - |
libertarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action | - |
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libtard | (noun) A pejorative term for a liberal | - |
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loadstar | (noun) something that serves as a model or guide | Synonyms: lodestar |
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(noun) guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy | Synonyms: lodestar |
lodestar | (noun) something that serves as a model or guide | Synonyms: loadstar |
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(noun) guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy | Synonyms: loadstar |
lontar | (noun) tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving | Synonyms: Borassus flabellifer, longar palm, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm |
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lumpenproletariat | (noun) (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | - |
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mandatary | (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatory |
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