aforethought | (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: planned, plotted |
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afterthought | (noun) an addition that was not included in the original plan | - |
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(noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: reconsideration, rethink, second thought |
aught | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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borough | (noun) one of the administrative divisions of a large city | - |
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(noun) an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament | - |
bough | (noun) any of the larger branches of a tree | - |
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boughed | (adjective) having boughs (of trees) | - |
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boughless | (adjective) having no boughs (of trees) | - |
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boughten | (adjective) purchased; not homemade | Synonyms: store-bought |
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breakthrough | (noun) a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense | - |
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(noun) making an important discovery | - |
(noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: discovery, find |
brougham | (noun) a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat | - |
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(noun) light carriage; pulled by a single horse | - |
chough | (noun) a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage | - |
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cough | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: coughing |
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(verb) exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion | - |
coughing | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: cough |
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daughter | (noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: girl |
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daughterly | (adjective) befitting a daughter | - |
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distraught | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: overwrought |
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dough | (noun) a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll | - |
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(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
doughboy | (noun) a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread | - |
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(noun) an American infantryman in World War I | - |
doughiness | (noun) The quality or state of having the characteristics of dough, especially in appearance or consistency. | - |
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doughnut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, sinker |
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(noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, halo, ring |
doughy | (adjective) having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking | Synonyms: soggy |
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draught | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, drawing |
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(noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, gulp, swig |
(noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draft |
(noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draft |
(noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draft, potation, tipple |
(noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draft |
(verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draft |
draughts | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: checkers |
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draughtsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draftsperson |
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draughty | (adjective) not airtight | Synonyms: drafty |
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dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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dreadnought | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnaught |
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drought | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drouth |
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(noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drouth |
enough | (adjective) sufficient for the purpose | Synonyms: adequate |
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(noun) an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose | Synonyms: sufficiency |
(adverb) as much as necessary | Synonyms: plenty |
forethought | (noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, caution, precaution |
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(noun) planning or plotting in advance of acting | Synonyms: premeditation |
forethoughtful | (adjective) thoughtful of the future | - |
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fraught | (adjective) filled with or attended with | Synonyms: pregnant |
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(adjective) marked by distress | - |
furlough | (noun) a temporary leave of absence from military duty | - |
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(verb) grant a leave to | - |
(verb) dismiss, usually for economic reasons | Synonyms: lay off |
goddaughter | (noun) a female godchild | - |
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granddaughter | (noun) a female grandchild | - |
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haughtily | (adverb) in a haughty manner | - |
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haughtiness | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness |
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haughty | (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
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hiccough | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccup, singultus |
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(verb) breathe spasmodically, and make a sound | Synonyms: hiccup |
horselaugh | (noun) a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing | Synonyms: ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-haw |
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inwrought | (adjective) having a decorative pattern worked or woven in | - |
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laugh | (noun) the sound of laughing | Synonyms: laughter |
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(noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: gag, jape, jest, joke |
(noun) a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing | - |
(verb) produce laughter | Synonyms: express joy, express mirth |
laughable | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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(adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, funny, mirthful, risible |
laughably | (adverb) so as to arouse or deserve laughter | Synonyms: ludicrously, preposterously, ridiculously |
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laugher | (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, romp, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
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(noun) a person who is laughing or who laughs easily | - |
laughing | (adjective) showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness | Synonyms: riant |
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laughingly | (adverb) with laughter; while laughing | - |
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laughingstock | (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, stooge |
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laughter | (noun) the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn | - |
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(noun) the sound of laughing | Synonyms: laugh |
lough | (noun) Irish word for a lake | - |
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(noun) a long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland | - |
manslaughter | (noun) homicide without malice aforethought | - |
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naught | (noun) complete failure | - |
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(noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
naughtily | (adverb) in a disobedient or naughty way | Synonyms: badly, mischievously |
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naughtiness | (noun) an attribute of mischievous children | Synonyms: badness, mischievousness |
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naughty | (adjective) badly behaved | - |
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(adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, racy, risque, spicy |
nought | (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cipher, cypher, zero |
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onslaught | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onrush, onset |
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(noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: barrage, bombardment, outpouring |
(noun) a sudden and severe onset of trouble | - |
overwrought | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: distraught |
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plough | (noun) a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing | Synonyms: plow |
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(verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plow, turn |
(verb) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil | Synonyms: plow |
ploughboy | (noun) a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow | Synonyms: plowboy |
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ploughed | (adjective) (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow | Synonyms: plowed |
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ploughing | (noun) tilling the land with a plow | Synonyms: plowing |
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ploughland | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
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ploughman | (noun) a man who plows | Synonyms: plower, plowman |
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ploughshare | (noun) a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil | Synonyms: plowshare, share |
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ploughwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: plowwright |
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plughole | (noun) a hole into which a plug fits (especially a hole where water drains away) | - |
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rough | (adjective) having or caused by an irregular surface | Synonyms: unsmooth |
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(adjective) of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped | - |
(adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rocky |
(adjective) not shaped by cutting or trimming | Synonyms: uncut |
(adjective) ready and able to resort to force or violence | Synonyms: pugnacious |
(adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, scratchy |
(adjective) full of hardship or trials | Synonyms: rocky |
(adjective) not quite exact or correct | Synonyms: approximate, approximative |
(adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: boisterous, fierce |
(adjective) unkind or cruel or uncivil | Synonyms: harsh |
(adjective) unpleasantly stern | Synonyms: harsh |
(adjective) not perfected | - |
(adjective) (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse | - |
(adjective) not carefully or expertly made | Synonyms: crude |
(noun) the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short | - |
(adverb) with rough motion as over a rough surface | Synonyms: roughly |
(adverb) with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly') | Synonyms: roughly |
(verb) prepare in preliminary or sketchy form | Synonyms: rough in, rough out |
roughage | (noun) coarse, indigestible plant food low in nutrients; its bulk stimulates intestinal peristalsis | Synonyms: fiber, fibre |
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roughcast | (noun) a rough preliminary model | - |
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(noun) a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls | - |
(verb) hew roughly, without finishing the surface | Synonyms: rough-hew |
(verb) apply roughcast to | - |
(verb) shape roughly | - |
roughdried | (adjective) (of laundry) dried but not ironed | - |
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roughen | (verb) make rough or rougher | - |
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roughened | (adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: chapped, cracked |
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roughhewn | (adjective) of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing | Synonyms: rough-cut |
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roughhouse | (verb) engage in rough or disorderly play | - |
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roughish | (adjective) somewhat rough | - |
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roughleg | (noun) large hawk of the Northern Hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers | Synonyms: Buteo lagopus, rough-legged hawk |
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roughly | (adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: about, approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, some |
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(adverb) with rough motion as over a rough surface | Synonyms: rough |
(adverb) with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly') | Synonyms: rough |
roughneck | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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roughness | (noun) harsh or severe speech or behavior | - |
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(noun) a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven | Synonyms: raggedness |
(noun) the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses | Synonyms: harshness |
(noun) an unpolished unrefined quality | Synonyms: crudeness |
(noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: indentation, pitting |
(noun) used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather | Synonyms: choppiness, rough water |
(noun) rowdy behavior | Synonyms: disorderliness, rowdiness, rowdyism |
roughrider | (noun) a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle | - |
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roughshod | (adjective) unjustly domineering | Synonyms: heavy-handed |
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(adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, savage, vicious |
(adjective) (of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping | - |
schnittlaugh | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, cive |
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slaughter | (noun) the killing of animals (as for food) | - |
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(noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre |
(noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
(verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately | Synonyms: massacre, mow down |
(verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: butcher |
slaughterer | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: butcher |
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slaughterhouse | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, butchery, shambles |
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slaughterous | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguinary, sanguineous |
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slough | (noun) any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake) | - |
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(noun) necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass | Synonyms: gangrene, sphacelus |
(noun) a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) | - |
(noun) a hollow filled with mud | - |
(verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, molt, moult, shed |
sloughing | (noun) the process whereby something is shed | Synonyms: shedding |
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sloughy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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snowplough | (noun) a vehicle used to push snow from roads | Synonyms: snowplow |
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sough | (verb) make a murmuring sound | Synonyms: purl |
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soughing | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: murmurous, rustling, susurrous |
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soughingly | (adverb) with a soft sound | - |
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sought | (adjective) that is looked for | - |
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(adjective) being searched for | Synonyms: sought-after |
sourdough | (noun) a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) | - |
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(noun) a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread | - |
stepdaughter | (noun) a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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thorough | (adjective) painstakingly careful and accurate | - |
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(adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: exhaustive, thoroughgoing |
(adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
thoroughbred | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded |
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(noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, purebred |
(noun) a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares | - |
(noun) a well-bred person | - |