adjectival | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective | Synonyms: adjective |
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adjectivally | (adverb) as an adjective; in an adjectival manner | - |
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aestival | (adjective) (rare) of or occurring in summer | Synonyms: estival |
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ambivalence | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalency |
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ambivalency | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalence |
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ambivalent | (adjective) uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow | - |
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approval | (noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approving, blessing |
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(noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: commendation |
(noun) a feeling of liking something or someone good | - |
(noun) acceptance as satisfactory | Synonyms: favorable reception, favourable reception |
archival | (adjective) of or relating to or contained in or serving as an archive | - |
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arrival | (noun) accomplishment of an objective | Synonyms: reaching |
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(noun) the act of arriving at a certain place | - |
(noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arriver, comer |
avalanche | (noun) a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain | - |
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(noun) a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things | - |
(verb) gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow | Synonyms: roll down |
bivalent | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: double |
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(adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: divalent |
bivalve | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalved |
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(noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypod |
bivalved | (adjective) used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) | Synonyms: bivalve |
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carnival | (noun) a festival marked by merrymaking and processions | - |
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(noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | Synonyms: fair, funfair |
(noun) a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment | Synonyms: circus |
cavalcade | (noun) a procession of people traveling on horseback | - |
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cavalier | (adjective) given to haughty disregard of others | Synonyms: high-handed |
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(noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: chevalier |
cavalierly | (adverb) in a proud and domineering manner | Synonyms: disdainfully |
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cavalla | (noun) large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil | Synonyms: cero, king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla |
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cavalry | (noun) a highly mobile army unit | - |
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(noun) troops trained to fight on horseback | Synonyms: horse, horse cavalry |
cavalryman | (noun) a soldier mounted on horseback | Synonyms: trooper |
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(noun) a soldier in a motorized army unit | Synonyms: trooper |
chevalier | (noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: cavalier |
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chivalric | (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: knightly, mediaeval, medieval |
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chivalrous | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: gallant, knightly |
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chivalrously | (adverb) in a gallant manner | Synonyms: gallantly |
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chivalry | (noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: gallantry, politesse |
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(noun) the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct | Synonyms: knightliness |
circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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coeval | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, contemporaneous |
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(noun) a person of nearly the same age as another | Synonyms: contemporary |
coevals | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: contemporaries, generation |
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conjunctival | (adjective) of or relating to the conjunctiva | - |
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contravallation | (noun) a fortification build around a sieged target by the besiegers to prevent attacks by the defenders. | - |
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convalesce | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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convalescence | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: recovery, recuperation |
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convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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(noun) a person who is recovering from illness | - |
covalence | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalency |
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covalency | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalence |
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covalent | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by covalence | - |
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davallia | (noun) any fern of the genus Davallia; having scaly creeping rhizomes | - |
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devaluate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devalue, undervalue |
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(verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devalue |
devaluation | (noun) the reduction of something's value or worth | - |
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(noun) an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries | - |
devalue | (verb) lower the value or quality of | - |
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(verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devaluate, undervalue |
(verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devaluate |
devalued | (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: debased, degraded |
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disapproval | (noun) the act of disapproving or condemning | - |
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(noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour, dislike |
(noun) the expression of disapproval | - |
(noun) a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing | - |
divalent | (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: bivalent |
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eigenvalue | (noun) (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant | Synonyms: characteristic root of a square matrix, eigenvalue of a matrix, eigenvalue of a square matrix |
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equivalence | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, comparison |
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(noun) essential equality and interchangeability | - |
(noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equality, equation, par |
equivalent | (adjective) being essentially equal to something | Synonyms: tantamount |
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(noun) the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen | Synonyms: combining weight, eq, equivalent weight |
(noun) a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc | - |
estival | (adjective) (rare) of or occurring in summer | Synonyms: aestival |
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evaluate | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, measure, valuate, value |
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(verb) form a critical opinion of | Synonyms: judge, pass judgment |
evaluation | (noun) act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of | Synonyms: rating |
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(noun) an appraisal of the value of something | Synonyms: rating, valuation |
evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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evaluator | (noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality | Synonyms: judge |
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festival | (noun) an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place) | Synonyms: fete |
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(noun) a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration | - |
gingival | (adjective) of or relating to the gums | - |
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infinitival | (adjective) relating to or formed with the infinitive | - |
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interval | (noun) the distance between things | Synonyms: separation |
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(noun) a set containing all points (or all real numbers) between two given endpoints | - |
(noun) the difference in pitch between two notes | Synonyms: musical interval |
(noun) a definite length of time marked off by two instants | Synonyms: time interval |
invalid | (adjective) having no cogency or legal force | - |
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(adjective) no longer valid | - |
(noun) someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury | Synonyms: shut-in |
(verb) injure permanently | Synonyms: disable, handicap, incapacitate |
(verb) force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen | - |
invalidate | (verb) take away the legal force of or render ineffective | Synonyms: vitiate, void |
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(verb) show to be invalid | Synonyms: nullify |
(verb) make invalid for use | Synonyms: cancel |
(verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, nullify, quash, void |
invalidated | (adjective) deprived of legal force | Synonyms: nullified |
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invalidating | (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: disconfirming |
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invalidation | (noun) (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) | Synonyms: annulment |
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(noun) when a person's thoughts and feelings are rejected, ignored, or judged. | - |
invalidator | (noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: nullifier, voider |
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invalidism | (noun) chronic ill health | - |
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invalidity | (noun) illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses | Synonyms: invalidness |
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invalidness | (noun) illogicality as a consequence of having a conclusion that does not follow from the premisses | Synonyms: invalidity |
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invaluable | (adjective) having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth | Synonyms: priceless |
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invaluableness | (noun) the positive quality of being precious and beyond value | Synonyms: preciousness, pricelessness, valuableness |
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larval | (adjective) relating to or typical of a larva | - |
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(adjective) immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage | - |
lavalava | (noun) a skirt consisting of a rectangle of calico or printed cotton; worn by Polynesians (especially Samoans) | - |
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lavalier | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavaliere, lavalliere |
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lavaliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavalliere |
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lavalliere | (noun) jeweled pendant worn on a chain around the neck | Synonyms: lavalier, lavaliere |
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levallorphan | (noun) drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects | Synonyms: Lorfan |
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masdevallia | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Masdevallia; tufted evergreen often diminutive plants whose flowers in a remarkable range of colors usually resemble a tricorn with sepals fused at the base to form a tube | - |
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mediaeval | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: medieval |
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(adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: gothic, medieval |
(adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, knightly, medieval |
medieval | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages | Synonyms: mediaeval |
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(adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: gothic, mediaeval |
(adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, knightly, mediaeval |
medievality | (noun) The quality of being of or relating to the Middle Ages, perhaps circa 500 to circa 1500 CE. | - |
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milliequivalent | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: meq |
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monovalent | (adjective) having a valence of 1 | Synonyms: univalent |
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(adjective) containing only one kind of antibody | - |
multivalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalency, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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multivalency | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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multivalent | (adjective) used of the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis | - |
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(adjective) having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher | Synonyms: polyvalent |
(adjective) having many values, meanings, or appeals | Synonyms: multi-valued |
naval | (adjective) connected with or belonging to or used in a navy | - |
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nonequivalence | (noun) not interchangeable | - |
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nonequivalent | (adjective) not equal or interchangeable in value, quantity, or significance | - |
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outrival | (verb) be more of a rival than | Synonyms: outvie |
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oval | (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
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(noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it | Synonyms: ellipse |
ovalbumin | (noun) the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water | Synonyms: albumen, egg white, white |
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overvaliant | (adjective) having or showing undue valor or boldness | - |
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overvaluation | (noun) too high a value or price assigned to something | - |
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(noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overappraisal, overestimate, overestimation |
overvalue | (verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overestimate |
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pentavalent | (adjective) having a valence of five | - |
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polyvalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, multivalency, polyvalency |
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(noun) (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism | Synonyms: polyvalency |
polyvalency | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, multivalency, polyvalence |
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(noun) (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism | Synonyms: polyvalence |
polyvalent | (adjective) having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher | Synonyms: multivalent |
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(adjective) containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen | - |
prevalence | (noun) the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread | - |
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(noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: preponderance |
(noun) (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population | - |
prevalent | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevailing, rife |
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primaeval | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primal, primeval, primordial |
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primeval | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primaeval, primal, primordial |
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reevaluate | (verb) revise or renew one's assessment | Synonyms: reassess |
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reevaluation | (noun) the evaluation of something a second time (or more) | - |
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