accentual | (adjective) (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to accent or stress | - |
accrual | (noun) the act of accumulating | Synonyms: accruement, accumulation |
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actual | (adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: existent |
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(adjective) being or existing at the present moment | - |
(adjective) taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated | - |
(adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: genuine, literal, real |
(adjective) existing in act or fact | Synonyms: factual |
actualisation | (noun) making real or giving the appearance of reality | Synonyms: actualization, realisation, realization |
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actualise | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualize |
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(verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualize, realise, realize, substantiate |
actuality | (noun) the state of actually existing objectively | - |
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actualization | (noun) making real or giving the appearance of reality | Synonyms: actualisation, realisation, realization |
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actualize | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualise |
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(verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, realise, realize, substantiate |
actually | (adverb) used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly | Synonyms: in reality |
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(adverb) in actual fact | Synonyms: really |
(adverb) as a sentence modifier to add slight emphasis; as a modifier to add slight emphasis | - |
(adverb) at present | - |
annual | (adjective) completing its life cycle within a year | Synonyms: one-year |
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(adjective) occurring or payable every year | Synonyms: yearly |
(noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: yearbook, yearly |
(noun) (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year | - |
annually | (adverb) without missing a year | Synonyms: each year, every year, yearly |
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(adverb) by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received) | Synonyms: each year, p.a., per annum, per year |
annualry | (noun) the third finger (especially of the left hand) | Synonyms: ring finger |
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aqualung | (noun) a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus | Synonyms: Aqua-Lung, scuba |
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artefactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artifactual |
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artifactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artefactual |
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asexual | (adjective) not having or involving sex | Synonyms: nonsexual |
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asexuality | (noun) having no evident sex or sex organs | Synonyms: sexlessness |
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asexually | (adverb) in an asexual manner | - |
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aspectual | (adjective) of or belonging to an aspect (as an aspect of the verb) | - |
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audiovisual | (adjective) involving both hearing and seeing (usually relating to teaching aids) | - |
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(noun) materials using sight or sound to present information | Synonyms: audiovisual aid |
biannual | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biyearly, half-yearly, semiannual |
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biannually | (adverb) twice a year | - |
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bilingual | (adjective) using or knowing two languages | - |
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(noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingualist |
bilingualism | (noun) the ability to speak two languages colloquially | - |
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bilingualist | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingual |
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bilingually | (adverb) in a bilingual manner | - |
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bimanual | (adjective) requiring two hands or designed for two people | Synonyms: two-handed |
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bisexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to both sexes | - |
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(adjective) having an ambiguous sexual identity | Synonyms: epicene |
(noun) a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes | Synonyms: bisexual person |
bisexuality | (noun) sexual activity with both men and women | - |
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(noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, hermaphroditism |
casual | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: cursory, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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(adjective) not showing effort or strain | Synonyms: effortless |
(adjective) occurring on a temporary or irregular basis | Synonyms: occasional |
(adjective) marked by blithe unconcern | Synonyms: insouciant, nonchalant |
(adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: daily, everyday |
(adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance | Synonyms: chance |
(adjective) natural and unstudied | Synonyms: free-and-easy |
(adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: fooling |
(adjective) without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand | - |
casually | (adverb) in an unconcerned manner | Synonyms: nonchalantly |
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(adverb) not methodically or according to plan | - |
casualness | (noun) a casual manner | Synonyms: familiarity |
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(noun) The state of coming without regularity; of being occasional or incidental. | - |
casualty | (noun) a decrease of military personnel or equipment | - |
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(noun) an accident that causes someone to die | Synonyms: fatal accident |
(noun) someone injured or killed in an accident | Synonyms: injured party |
(noun) someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement | - |
coequal | (adjective) having the same standing before the law | - |
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conceptual | (adjective) being or characterized by concepts or their formation | - |
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conceptualisation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualization, formulation |
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(noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptuality, conceptualization |
conceptualise | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualize, gestate |
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conceptualism | (noun) the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application | - |
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conceptualistic | (adjective) involving or characteristic of conceptualism | - |
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conceptuality | (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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conceptualization | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, formulation |
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(noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptuality |
conceptualize | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualise, gestate |
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conceptually | (adverb) in a conceptual manner | - |
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consensual | (adjective) existing by consent | - |
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construal | (noun) an interpretation of the meaning of something; the act of construing | - |
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contextual | (adjective) relating to or determined by or in context | - |
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contextualism | (noun) any doctrine emphasizing the importance of the context in solving problems or establishing the meaning of terms | - |
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contextually | (adverb) in a manner dependent on context | - |
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continual | (adjective) recurring regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series | - |
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(adjective) having no interruptions | - |
continually | (adverb) seemingly without interruption | - |
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contractual | (adjective) relating to or part of a binding legal agreement | - |
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contractually | (adverb) by virtue of a contract | - |
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conventual | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, monastic, monastical |
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counterfactual | (adjective) going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) | Synonyms: contrary to fact |
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counterfactuality | (noun) the quality of being contrary to fact | - |
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desexualise | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
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(verb) direct one's libidinous urges into another direction | Synonyms: desexualize |
desexualize | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
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(verb) direct one's libidinous urges into another direction | Synonyms: desexualise |
diestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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dioestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, diestrual, dioestrous |
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disqualification | (noun) the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified | - |
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(noun) unfitness that bars you from participation | - |
disqualified | (adjective) disqualified by law or rule or provision | - |
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(adjective) barred from competition for violation of rules | - |
disqualify | (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: indispose, unfit |
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(verb) declare unfit | - |
disqualifying | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disabling |
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dual | (adjective) consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs | Synonyms: double, duple |
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(adjective) a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural) | - |
(adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: double, three-fold, threefold, treble, two-fold, twofold |
dualism | (noun) the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil | - |
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dualist | (noun) an adherent of dualism | - |
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dualistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of dualism | Synonyms: Manichaean |
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duality | (noun) (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory | Synonyms: wave-particle duality |
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(noun) (geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry | - |
(noun) being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses | Synonyms: dichotomy |
effectual | (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effective, efficacious |
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(adjective) having legal efficacy or force | Synonyms: legal, sound |
effectuality | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectivity, effectualness |
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effectually | (adverb) in an effectual manner | - |
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effectualness | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectiveness, effectivity, effectuality |
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equal | (adjective) having the same quantity, value, or measure as another | - |
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(adjective) having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task | Synonyms: adequate |
(noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: compeer, match, peer |
(verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equalise, equalize, equate, match |
(verb) be identical or equivalent to | Synonyms: be |
(verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: match, rival, touch |
equalisation | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalization, leveling |
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equalise | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalize, equate, match |
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(verb) compensate; make the score equal | Synonyms: equalize, get even |
equaliser | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equalizer |
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(noun) electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion | Synonyms: equalizer |
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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equality | (noun) the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status | - |
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(noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equation, equivalence, par |
equalization | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, leveling |
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equalize | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalise, equate, match |
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(verb) compensate; make the score equal | Synonyms: equalise, get even |
equalizer | (noun) a score that makes the match even | - |
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(noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser |
(noun) electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion | Synonyms: equaliser |
equally | (adverb) to the same degree (often followed by `as') | Synonyms: as, every bit |
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(adverb) in equal amounts or shares; in a balanced or impartial way | Synonyms: evenly |
eventual | (adjective) expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating | - |
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eventuality | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, contingency |
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eventually | (adverb) after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay | Synonyms: finally |
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factual | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by facts | - |
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(adjective) existing in act or fact | Synonyms: actual |
factuality | (noun) the quality of being actual or based on fact | Synonyms: factualness |
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factually | (adverb) as a fact or based on fact | - |
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factualness | (noun) the quality of being actual or based on fact | Synonyms: factuality |
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gradual | (adjective) proceeding in small stages | - |
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(adjective) (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt | - |
(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass | - |
graduality | (noun) the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages | Synonyms: gradualness |
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gradually | (adverb) in a gradual manner | Synonyms: bit by bit, step by step |
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gradualness | (noun) the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages | Synonyms: graduality |
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(noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual | Synonyms: gentleness |
habitual | (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: accustomed, customary, wonted |
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habitually | (adverb) according to habit or custom | - |
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heterosexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex | - |
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(noun) a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexual person, straight, straight person |
heterosexualism | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexuality, straightness |
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heterosexuality | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexualism, straightness |
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homosexual | (adjective) sexually attracted to members of your own sex | - |
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(noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gay, homo, homophile |