| ambiguous | (adjective) having more than one possible meaning | - |
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| (adjective) open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead | Synonyms: equivocal |
| (adjective) having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns | - |
| ambiguously | (adverb) in an ambiguous manner | Synonyms: equivocally |
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| anfractuous | (adjective) full of twists and turns | - |
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| arduous | (adjective) difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: straining, strenuous |
| arduously | (adverb) in an arduous manner | - |
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| arduousness | (noun) extreme effortfulness | Synonyms: strenuousness |
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| assiduous | (adjective) marked by care and persistent effort | Synonyms: sedulous |
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| assiduously | (adverb) with care and persistence | - |
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| assiduousness | (noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduity, concentration |
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| bicornuous | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuate |
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| cernuous | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
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| congruous | (adjective) corresponding in character or kind | Synonyms: congruent |
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| (adjective) suitable or appropriate together | - |
| congruousness | (noun) the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate | Synonyms: congruence, congruity |
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| conspicuous | (adjective) obvious to the eye or mind | - |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blatant, blazing |
| conspicuously | (adverb) in a manner tending to attract attention | - |
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| (adverb) in a prominent way | Synonyms: prominently |
| conspicuousness | (noun) high visibility | - |
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| (noun) the state of being conspicuous | - |
| contemptuous | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: disdainful, insulting, scornful |
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| contemptuously | (adverb) without respect; in a disdainful manner | Synonyms: contumeliously, disdainfully, scornfully |
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| contemptuousness | (noun) the manifestation of scorn and contempt | - |
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| contiguous | (adjective) very close or connected in space or time | Synonyms: immediate |
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| (adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: conterminous |
| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| contiguousness | (noun) the attribute of being so near as to be touching | Synonyms: adjacency, contiguity |
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| continuous | (adjective) continuing in time or space without interruption | Synonyms: uninterrupted |
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| (adjective) of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity | - |
| continuously | (adverb) at every point | - |
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| (adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: ceaselessly, endlessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly |
| continuousness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, incessancy, incessantness |
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| deciduous | (adjective) (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season | - |
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| (adjective) (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth | - |
| discontinuous | (adjective) not continuing without interruption in time or space | Synonyms: noncontinuous |
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| (adjective) of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities | - |
| disingenuous | (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: artful |
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| disingenuously | (adverb) in a disingenuous manner | Synonyms: artfully |
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| disingenuousness | (noun) the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor | - |
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| exiguous | (adjective) extremely scanty | - |
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| fatuous | (adjective) extremely silly or stupid | Synonyms: asinine, inane |
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| fatuously | (adverb) vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish | Synonyms: inanely |
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| fatuousness | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: absurdity, fatuity, silliness |
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| flexuous | (adjective) having turns or windings | - |
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| impetuous | (adjective) marked by violent force | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
| impetuously | (adverb) in an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions | Synonyms: impulsively |
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| impetuousness | (noun) rash impulsiveness | Synonyms: impetuosity |
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| incestuous | (adjective) relating to or involving incest | - |
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| (adjective) resembling incest as by excessive intimacy | - |
| incestuously | (adverb) by incest | - |
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| incongruous | (adjective) lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness | - |
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| incongruously | (adverb) in an incongruous manner | - |
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| incongruousness | (noun) the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate | Synonyms: incongruity |
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| inconspicuous | (adjective) not prominent or readily noticeable | Synonyms: invisible |
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| inconspicuously | (adverb) in a manner intended to avoid attracting attention | - |
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| inconspicuousness | (noun) the quality of being not easily seen | - |
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| ingenuous | (adjective) characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious | Synonyms: artless |
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| (adjective) lacking in sophistication or worldliness | Synonyms: innocent |
| ingenuously | (adverb) in an ingenuous manner | Synonyms: artlessly |
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| ingenuousness | (noun) openly straightforward or frank | - |
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| (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, innocence, naturalness |
| innocuous | (adjective) not injurious to physical or mental health | - |
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| (adjective) lacking intent or capacity to injure | Synonyms: innocent |
| (adjective) not causing disapproval | Synonyms: unobjectionable |
| mellifluous | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, honeyed, mellisonant, sweet |
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| noncontinuous | (adjective) not continuing without interruption in time or space | Synonyms: discontinuous |
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| perspicuous | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid |
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| perspicuously | (adverb) in a clear and lucid manner | Synonyms: limpidly, lucidly, pellucidly |
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| perspicuousness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuity, plainness |
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| presumptuous | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, assumptive |
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| presumptuously | (adverb) in a presumptuous manner | - |
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| presumptuousness | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, effrontery, presumption |
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| promiscuous | (adjective) not selective of a single class or person | - |
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| (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, loose, sluttish, wanton |
| promiscuously | (adverb) in a licentious and promiscuous manner | Synonyms: licentiously, wantonly |
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| (adverb) in an indiscriminate manner | Synonyms: indiscriminately |
| promiscuousness | (noun) indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations | Synonyms: promiscuity, sleeping around |
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| sensuous | (adjective) taking delight in beauty | - |
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| sensuously | (adverb) with aesthetic gratification or delight | - |
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| sensuousness | (noun) a sensuous feeling | - |
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| sinuous | (adjective) curved or curving in and out | Synonyms: sinuate, wiggly |
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| (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, supple |
| sinuously | (adverb) in a sinuous manner | - |
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| sinuousness | (noun) having bends (especially of streams and roads) | Synonyms: sinuosity |
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| spirituous | (adjective) containing or of the nature of alcohol | Synonyms: spiritous |
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| strenuous | (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: arduous, straining |
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| (adjective) characterized by or performed with much energy or force | - |
| strenuously | (adverb) in a strenuous manner; strongly or vigorously | - |
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| strenuousness | (noun) extreme effortfulness | Synonyms: arduousness |
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| sumptuous | (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely |
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| sumptuously | (adverb) in a sumptuous and opulent manner | Synonyms: opulently |
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| sumptuousness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: lavishness, luxury, sumptuosity |
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| (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | Synonyms: luxuriousness, luxury, opulence |
| superfluous | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, supernumerary, surplus |
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| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, wasted |
| superfluously | (adverb) in a superfluous manner | - |
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| tempestuous | (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, furious, raging, wild |
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| (adjective) characterized by violent emotions or behavior | Synonyms: stormy |
| tempestuousness | (noun) a state of wild storminess | - |
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| (noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: agitation, ferment, fermentation, unrest |
| tenuous | (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, slight, thin |
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| (adjective) very thin in gauge or diameter | - |
| (adjective) having thin consistency | - |
| tenuously | (adverb) in a tenuous manner | - |
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| tortuous | (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled |
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| (adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends | Synonyms: twisting, twisty, voluminous, winding |
| (adjective) not straightforward | - |
| tortuously | (adverb) in a tortuous manner | - |
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| (adverb) with twists and turns | - |
| tortuousness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complicatedness, complication, knottiness |
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| (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, crookedness, torsion, tortuosity |
| tumultuous | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: disruptive, riotous, troubled, turbulent |
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| tumultuously | (adverb) in a tumultuous and riotous manner | Synonyms: riotously |
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| tumultuousness | (noun) a state of commotion and noise and confusion | Synonyms: garboil, tumult, uproar |
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| unambiguous | (adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning | - |
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| (adjective) admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion | Synonyms: unequivocal, univocal |
| unambiguously | (adverb) so as to be unique | Synonyms: uniquely |
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| (adverb) in an unambiguous manner | Synonyms: unequivocally |
| unctuous | (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy |
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| unctuously | (adverb) in an unctuous manner | Synonyms: fulsomely, smarmily |
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| unctuousness | (noun) smug self-serving earnestness | Synonyms: fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unction |
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| vacuous | (adjective) devoid of matter | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of intelligence or thought | Synonyms: mindless, vacant |
| (adjective) devoid of significance or force | Synonyms: empty, hollow |
| vacuously | (adverb) in a vacuous manner | - |
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| vacuousness | (noun) indicative of or marked by mental vacuity and an absence of ideas | - |
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| virtuous | (adjective) morally excellent | - |
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| (adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: pure, vestal, virgin, virginal |
| virtuously | (adverb) in a chaste and virtuous manner | Synonyms: chastely |
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| (adverb) in a moral manner | Synonyms: morally |
| virtuousness | (noun) the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong | Synonyms: moral excellence, virtue |
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| voluptuous | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary |
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| (adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: juicy, luscious, lush, red-hot, toothsome |
| (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, well-endowed |
| voluptuously | (adverb) in an indulgently voluptuous manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a shapely and voluptuous manner | - |
| voluptuousness | (noun) the quality of having a well-rounded body | Synonyms: curvaceousness, shapeliness |
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| (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: lushness, luxuriance |
| (noun) the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting) | Synonyms: hot stuff |