| abstention | (noun) the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | Synonyms: abstinence |
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| abstentious | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstinent |
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| advertent | (adjective) giving attention | Synonyms: heedful |
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| advertently | (adverb) in a careful deliberate manner | Synonyms: heedfully, mindfully |
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| appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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| attention | (noun) the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something | Synonyms: aid, care, tending |
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| (noun) a courteous act indicating affection | - |
| (noun) a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review | - |
| (noun) the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others | Synonyms: attending |
| (noun) the faculty or power of mental concentration | - |
| (noun) a general interest that leads people to want to know more | - |
| attentional | (adjective) of or relating to attention | - |
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| attentive | (adjective) (often followed by `to') giving care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention | Synonyms: heedful, paying attention, thoughtful |
| attentively | (adverb) with attention; in an attentive manner | - |
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| attentiveness | (noun) the trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being observant and paying attention | - |
| (noun) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heed, paying attention, regard |
| coexistent | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexisting |
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| competent | (adjective) properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient | - |
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| (adjective) legally qualified or sufficient | - |
| (adjective) adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional | - |
| competently | (adverb) with competence; in a competent capable manner | Synonyms: ably, aptly, capably |
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| consistent | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable | - |
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| (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherent, logical, ordered |
| (adjective) capable of being reproduced | Synonyms: reproducible |
| (adjective) the same throughout in structure or composition | Synonyms: uniform |
| consistently | (adverb) in a systematic or consistent manner | Synonyms: systematically |
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| content | (adjective) satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | Synonyms: contented |
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| (noun) something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation | Synonyms: depicted object, subject |
| (noun) the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned | Synonyms: cognitive content, mental object |
| (noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: message, subject matter, substance |
| (noun) (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something | Synonyms: contents |
| (noun) the amount that can be contained | Synonyms: capacity |
| (noun) the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc. | - |
| (noun) the state of being contented with your situation in life | Synonyms: contentedness |
| (verb) satisfy in a limited way | - |
| (verb) make content | - |
| contented | (adjective) satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | Synonyms: content |
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| contentedly | (adverb) with equanimity | - |
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| contentedness | (noun) the state of being contented with your situation in life | Synonyms: content |
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| contention | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: competition, rivalry |
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| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
| (noun) a point asserted as part of an argument | - |
| contentious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
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| (adjective) involving or likely to cause controversy | - |
| contentiousness | (noun) an inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious | Synonyms: quarrelsomeness |
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| contentment | (noun) happiness with one's situation in life | - |
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| contents | (noun) a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start | Synonyms: table of contents |
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| (noun) (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something | Synonyms: content |
| detent | (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: click, dog, pawl |
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| detente | (noun) the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations) | - |
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| detention | (noun) a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home | - |
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| (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detainment, hold |
| discontent | (adjective) showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing | Synonyms: discontented |
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| (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontentedness, discontentment |
| (verb) make dissatisfied | - |
| discontented | (adjective) showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing | Synonyms: discontent |
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| discontentedly | (adverb) with discontent; in a discontented manner | - |
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| discontentedness | (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontent, discontentment |
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| discontentment | (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontent, discontentedness |
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| distention | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distension |
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| (noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distension |
| entente | (noun) a friendly understanding between political powers | Synonyms: entente cordiale |
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| (noun) an informal alliance between countries | Synonyms: entente cordiale |
| equipotent | (adjective) having equal strength or efficacy | - |
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| existent | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existing |
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| (adjective) being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory | Synonyms: real |
| (adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: actual |
| existential | (adjective) relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence) | - |
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| (adjective) of or as conceived by existentialism | - |
| (adjective) derived from experience or the experience of existence | Synonyms: experiential |
| existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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| existentialist | (adjective) relating to or involving existentialism | - |
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| (noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
| extent | (noun) the distance or area or volume over which something extends | - |
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| (noun) the point or degree to which something extends | - |
| idempotent | (adjective) unchanged in value following multiplication by itself | - |
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| immunocompetent | (adjective) capable of developing an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| impenitent | (adjective) not penitent or remorseful | Synonyms: unremorseful, unrepentant |
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| (adjective) impervious to moral persuasion | - |
| impenitently | (adverb) in an impenitent manner | Synonyms: unrepentantly |
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| impotent | (adjective) lacking power or ability | - |
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| (adjective) (of a male) unable to copulate | - |
| impotently | (adverb) in a helpless manner | Synonyms: helplessly |
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| inadvertent | (adjective) happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally | Synonyms: accidental |
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| inadvertently | (adverb) without knowledge or intention | Synonyms: unknowingly, unwittingly |
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| inattention | (noun) lack of attention | - |
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| inattentive | (adjective) showing a lack of attention or care | - |
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| (adjective) not showing due care or attention | Synonyms: neglectful |
| inattentively | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absently, absentmindedly, abstractedly |
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| inattentiveness | (noun) the trait of not being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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| (noun) a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heedlessness |
| incompetent | (adjective) not qualified or suited for a purpose | - |
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| (adjective) legally not qualified or sufficient | Synonyms: unqualified |
| (adjective) not doing a good job | Synonyms: unskilled |
| (adjective) not meeting requirements | Synonyms: incapable, unequal to |
| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, clumsy, fumbling |
| (noun) someone who is not competent to take effective action | Synonyms: incompetent person |
| incompetently | (adverb) in an incompetent manner | Synonyms: displaying incompetence |
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| inconsistent | (adjective) displaying a lack of consistency | - |
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| (adjective) not in agreement | Synonyms: discrepant |
| (adjective) not capable of being made consistent or harmonious | - |
| inconsistently | (adverb) without showing consistency | - |
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| insistent | (adjective) repetitive and persistent | Synonyms: repetitive |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, exigent, instant |
| insistently | (adverb) in an insistent manner | - |
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| intent | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, captive, engrossed, enwrapped, rapt, wrapped |
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| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, design, intention, purpose |
| (noun) the intended meaning of a communication | Synonyms: purport, spirit |
| intention | (noun) an act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out | - |
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| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, design, intent, purpose |
| (noun) (usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal | - |
| intentional | (adjective) done or made or performed with purpose and intent | Synonyms: designed, unintentional |
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| (adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: deliberate, knowing |
| intentionality | (noun) expressive of intentions | - |
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| intentionally | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, on purpose, purposely |
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| intently | (adverb) with strained or eager attention | - |
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| intentness | (noun) the quality of being intent and concentrated | Synonyms: engrossment |
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| intermittent | (adjective) stopping and starting at irregular intervals | - |
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| intermittently | (adverb) in an intermittent manner | - |
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| intrasentential | (adjective) of or relating to constituents within a sentence | - |
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| latent | (adjective) (pathology) not presently active | - |
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| (adjective) potentially existing but not presently evident or realized | - |
| malcontent | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, rebellious |
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| (noun) a person who is discontented or disgusted | - |
| multipotent | (adjective) able to many things | - |
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| nilpotent | (adjective) equal to zero when raised to a certain power | - |
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| noncontentious | (adjective) of persons; not given to controversy | - |
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| nonexistent | (adjective) not having existence or being or actuality | - |
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| obtention | (noun) the act of obtaining | Synonyms: obtainment |
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| oftentimes | (adverb) many times at short intervals | Synonyms: frequently, oft, often, ofttimes |
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| omnipotent | (adjective) having unlimited power | Synonyms: all-powerful, almighty |
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| ostentate | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, show off, swank |
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| ostentation | (noun) pretentious or showy or vulgar display | - |
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| (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
| (noun) a gaudy outward display | Synonyms: fanfare, flash |
| ostentatious | (adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others | Synonyms: pretentious |
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| (adjective) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar | Synonyms: pretentious |
| ostentatiously | (adverb) with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner | Synonyms: showily |
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| ostentatiousness | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
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| patent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, evident, manifest, palpable, plain, unmistakable |
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| (adjective) (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage | - |
| (noun) an official document granting a right or privilege | Synonyms: letters patent |
| (noun) a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention | Synonyms: patent of invention |
| (verb) make open to sight or notice | - |
| (verb) obtain a patent for | - |
| (verb) grant rights to; grant a patent for | - |
| patented | (adjective) (of devices and processes) protected by patent | - |
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| patentee | (noun) the inventor to whom a patent is issued | - |
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| patently | (adverb) unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | Synonyms: apparently, evidently, manifestly, obviously, plain, plainly |
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| penitent | (adjective) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | Synonyms: repentant |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor) | - |
| penitential | (adjective) showing or constituting penance | Synonyms: penitentiary |
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| penitentially | (adverb) showing remorse | Synonyms: penitently, repentantly |
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| penitentiary | (adjective) showing or constituting penance | Synonyms: penitential |
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| (adjective) used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers | - |
| (noun) a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes | Synonyms: pen |
| penitently | (adverb) showing remorse | Synonyms: penitentially, repentantly |
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| persistent | (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: lasting |
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| (adjective) never-ceasing | Synonyms: relentless, unrelenting |
| (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
| (adjective) continually recurring to the mind | Synonyms: haunting |
| persistently | (adverb) with persistence | - |
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| (adverb) in a persistent manner | - |
| plenipotentiary | (noun) a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government | - |
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| portent | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication |
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| portentous | (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical |
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| (adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: fateful, foreboding |
| (adjective) of momentous or ominous significance | Synonyms: prodigious |
| portentously | (adverb) in a portentous manner | - |
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| potent | (adjective) having a strong physiological or chemical effect | Synonyms: stiff, strong |
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| (adjective) (of a male) capable of copulation | Synonyms: virile |
| (adjective) having great influence | Synonyms: powerful |
| (adjective) having or wielding force or authority | Synonyms: strong |
| potentate | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: dictator |
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| potential | (adjective) existing in possibility | Synonyms: possible |
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| (adjective) expected to become or be; in prospect | Synonyms: likely |
| (noun) the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts | Synonyms: electric potential, potential difference, potential drop, voltage |
| (noun) the inherent capacity for coming into being | Synonyms: potency, potentiality |