| creativity | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativeness |
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| crevasse | (noun) a deep fissure | - |
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| crevice | (noun) a long narrow cleft | Synonyms: cleft, crack, fissure, scissure |
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| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, cranny, fissure |
| criminative | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| crossover | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crosswalk |
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| (noun) the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience | - |
| (noun) a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party | Synonyms: crossover voter |
| (noun) the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: crossing over |
| cultivable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: arable, cultivatable, tillable |
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| cultivar | (noun) a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation | - |
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| cultivatable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: arable, cultivable, tillable |
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| cultivate | (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
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| (verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, work |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train |
| (verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: foster, further |
| cultivated | (adjective) (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing | - |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultured, genteel, polite |
| (adjective) no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use | - |
| cultivation | (noun) (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale) | - |
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| (noun) socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners | - |
| (noun) the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale) | - |
| (noun) the process of fostering the growth of something | - |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: culture, finish, polish, refinement |
| cultivator | (noun) a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) | Synonyms: tiller |
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| (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, grower, raiser |
| culverin | (noun) a medieval musket | - |
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| (noun) a heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
| culvert | (noun) a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway | - |
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| cumulative | (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: accumulative |
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| cumulatively | (adverb) in a cumulative manner | - |
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| curative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| (noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: cure, remedy, therapeutic |
| cursive | (adjective) having successive letters joined together | - |
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| (noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive script, longhand, running hand |
| cursively | (adverb) in a cursive manner | - |
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| curvaceous | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| curvaceously | (adverb) in a curvaceous way | Synonyms: buxomly |
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| curvaceousness | (noun) the quality of having a well-rounded body | Synonyms: shapeliness, voluptuousness |
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| curvature | (noun) the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve | - |
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| (noun) the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface | Synonyms: curve |
| (noun) (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal | - |
| curve | (noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter | Synonyms: bender, breaking ball, curve ball |
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| (noun) curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) | Synonyms: bend |
| (noun) the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface | Synonyms: curvature |
| (noun) a line on a graph representing data | - |
| (noun) the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes | Synonyms: curved shape |
| (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curl, kink |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) form an arch or curve | Synonyms: arc, arch |
| (verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: crook |
| (verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: twist, wind |
| curved | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curving |
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| curvet | (noun) a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down | Synonyms: vaulting |
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| (verb) perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse | - |
| curvey | (adjective) having curves | Synonyms: curvy |
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| curvilineal | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilinear |
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| curvilinear | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilineal |
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| curving | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curved |
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| curvy | (adjective) having curves | Synonyms: curvey |
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| (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
| cv | (adjective) being five more than one hundred | Synonyms: 105, one hundred five |
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| cxlv | (adjective) being five more than one hundred forty | Synonyms: 145, one hundred forty-five |
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| cxv | (adjective) being five more than one hundred ten | Synonyms: 115, one hundred fifteen |
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| cxxv | (adjective) being five more than one hundred twenty | Synonyms: 125, one hundred twenty-five |
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| cxxxv | (adjective) being five more than one hundred thirty | Synonyms: 135, one hundred thirty-five |
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| cytomegalovirus | (noun) any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems | Synonyms: CMV |
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| daredevil | (adjective) presumptuously daring | Synonyms: temerarious |
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| (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler |
| daredevilry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredeviltry |
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| daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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| dative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | Synonyms: dative case |
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| davallia | (noun) any fern of the genus Davallia; having scaly creeping rhizomes | - |
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| davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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| (noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
| davit | (noun) a crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat) | - |
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| deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
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| (verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
| deactivation | (noun) the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb) | Synonyms: defusing |
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| (noun) breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | Synonyms: inactivation |
| debilitative | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: enervating, enfeebling, weakening |
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| deceive | (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: betray, lead astray |
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| (verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: cozen, delude, lead on |
| deceiver | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, slicker, trickster |
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| deceivingly | (adverb) in a misleading way | Synonyms: deceptively, misleadingly |
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| deceptive | (adjective) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently | Synonyms: misleading |
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| (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: delusory |
| deceptively | (adverb) in a misleading way | Synonyms: deceivingly, misleadingly |
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| deceptiveness | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| decisive | (adjective) determining or having the power to determine an outcome | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by decision and firmness | - |
| (adjective) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | Synonyms: critical |
| (adjective) unmistakable | - |
| decisively | (adverb) with finality; conclusively | - |
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| (adverb) with firmness of purpose | Synonyms: resolutely |
| (adverb) in an indisputable degree | - |
| decisiveness | (noun) the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: decision |
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| (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: conclusiveness, finality |
| declarative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declaratory |
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| (adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: indicative |
| (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood |
| declivitous | (adjective) sloping down rather steeply | Synonyms: downhill, downward-sloping |
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| declivity | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, descent, downslope, fall |
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| deconstructivism | (noun) a school of architecture based on the philosophical theory of deconstruction | - |
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| decorative | (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: cosmetic, ornamental |
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| decoratively | (adverb) in a decorative manner | - |
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| decorativeness | (noun) an appearance that serves to decorate and make something more attractive | - |
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| decurved | (adjective) bent down or curved downward | - |
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| deductive | (adjective) involving inferences from general principles | - |
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| (adjective) relating to logical deduction | - |
| defective | (adjective) markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior | - |
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| (adjective) having a defect | Synonyms: faulty |
| (adjective) not working properly | Synonyms: bad |
| defectively | (adverb) in a defective manner | - |
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| defectiveness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: faultiness |
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| defensive | (adjective) intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack | - |
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| (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
| (noun) an attitude of defensiveness | Synonyms: defensive attitude |
| defensively | (adverb) in a defensive manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an apologetic and defensive manner | - |
| defensiveness | (noun) excessive sensitivity to criticism | - |
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| defervesce | (verb) experience an abatement of a fever | - |
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| defervescence | (noun) abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature | - |
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| defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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| definitive | (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: determinate |
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| (adjective) clearly defined or formulated | Synonyms: unequivocal |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: authoritative |
| deflective | (adjective) capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave) | Synonyms: refractive |
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| degenerative | (adjective) (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function | - |
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| degressive | (adjective) going down by steps | - |
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| (adjective) (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount | - |
| delavirdine | (noun) a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (trade name Rescriptor) used to treat AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: Rescriptor |
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| deliberative | (adjective) involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination | - |
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| delineative | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: depictive |
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| deliver | (verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, give birth, have |
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| (verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: render, return |
| (verb) utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.) | - |
| (verb) bring to a destination, make a delivery | - |
| (verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: pitch |
| (verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, render, turn in |
| (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, give up, surrender |
| (verb) carry out or perform | Synonyms: drive home |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deport, extradite |
| (verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: rescue |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: redeem, save |
| deliverable | (adjective) suitable for or ready for delivery | - |
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| (noun) something that can be provided as the product of development | - |
| deliverance | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: delivery, rescue, saving |
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| deliverer | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: rescuer, savior, saviour |
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| (noun) a person who gives up or transfers money or goods | - |
| (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: delivery boy, deliveryman |
| delivery | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, rescue, saving |
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| (noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: legal transfer, livery |
| (noun) the act of delivering a child | Synonyms: obstetrical delivery |
| (noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: pitch |
| (noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: bringing |
| (noun) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally | Synonyms: manner of speaking, speech |
| (noun) the event of giving birth | - |
| deliveryman | (noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: deliverer, delivery boy |
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| delusive | (adjective) inappropriate to reality or facts | Synonyms: false |
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| delusively | (adverb) in a deceptive and unrealistic manner | - |
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| delve | (verb) turn up, loosen, or remove earth | Synonyms: cut into, dig, turn over |
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| demisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | Synonyms: thirty-second note |
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| demonstrative | (adjective) given to or marked by the open expression of emotion | - |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: illustrative |
| (noun) a pronoun that points out an intended referent | Synonyms: demonstrative pronoun |
| demonstratively | (adverb) in a demonstrative manner | - |
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| demonstrativeness | (noun) tending to express your feelings freely | - |
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| denigrative | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| denivelation | (noun) the difference in level (depth) between two parts of a cave system, usually the highest and lowest known point. | - |
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| denotative | (adjective) having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming | Synonyms: denotive |
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| (adjective) in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term | Synonyms: explicit |
| denotive | (adjective) having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming | Synonyms: denotative |
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| denunciative | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciatory |
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| depictive | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: delineative |
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