clove | (noun) spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground | - |
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(noun) one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb | Synonyms: garlic clove |
(noun) moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves | Synonyms: clove tree, Eugenia aromaticum, Eugenia caryophyllatum, Syzygium aromaticum |
(noun) aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice | - |
cloven | (adjective) (used of hooves) split, divided | Synonyms: bisulcate |
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clover | (noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: trefoil |
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cloverleaf | (noun) an interchange that does not require left-hand turns | - |
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cloveroot | (noun) hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: clover-root, Geum urbanum, herb bennet, wood avens |
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coercive | (adjective) serving or intended to coerce | - |
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coextensive | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: conterminous, coterminous |
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cogitative | (adjective) of or relating to having capacities for cogitation | - |
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(adjective) given to cogitation | - |
cognitive | (adjective) of or being or relating to or involving cognition | - |
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cognitively | (adverb) with regard to cognition | - |
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cohesive | (adjective) causing cohesion | - |
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(adjective) cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated | - |
cohesiveness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, coherency, cohesion |
collaborative | (adjective) accomplished by collaboration | - |
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collective | (adjective) forming a whole or aggregate | - |
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(adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: corporate |
(adjective) set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government | - |
(noun) members of a cooperative enterprise | - |
collectively | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: conjointly, jointly, together with |
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collusive | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: conniving |
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combative | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, bellicose |
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(adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
(adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, agonistical |
combatively | (adverb) in a bellicose contentious manner | Synonyms: scrappily |
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combativeness | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: militance, militancy |
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combinative | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinatory |
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(adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinatorial, combinatory |
combustive | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, comburent |
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commemorative | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorating |
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(noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
commiserative | (adjective) feeling or expressing sympathy | - |
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commove | (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
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(verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, excite, rouse, turn on |
communicative | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicatory |
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(adjective) of or relating to communication | - |
communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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commutative | (adjective) (of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g. "a x b = b x a" | - |
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comparative | (adjective) estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete | Synonyms: relative |
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(adjective) relating to or based on or involving comparison | - |
(noun) the comparative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: comparative degree |
comparatively | (adverb) in a relative manner; by comparison to something else | Synonyms: relatively |
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competitive | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitory |
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(adjective) showing a fighting disposition | Synonyms: militant |
(adjective) subscribing to capitalistic competition | Synonyms: free-enterprise, private-enterprise |
competitively | (adverb) in competition | - |
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competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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complaintive | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaining |
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comprehensive | (adjective) including all or everything | - |
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(adjective) broad in scope | - |
(noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comp, comprehensive examination |
comprehensively | (adverb) in an all-inclusive manner | - |
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comprehensiveness | (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, largeness |
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(noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: fullness |
compulsive | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: determined, driven |
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(adjective) caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion | - |
(noun) a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things | - |
compulsively | (adverb) in a compulsive manner | Synonyms: obsessionally, obsessively |
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compulsiveness | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsivity |
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concave | (adjective) curving inward | - |
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concavely | (adverb) in a concave way | - |
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concaveness | (noun) the property possessed by a concave shape | Synonyms: concavity |
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conceive | (verb) become pregnant; undergo conception | - |
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(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, consider, think |
(verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate |
conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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conceptive | (adjective) capable of conceiving | Synonyms: impregnable |
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concessive | (adjective) of or pertaining to concession | - |
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conciliative | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliatory |
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conclave | (noun) a confidential or secret meeting | - |
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conclusive | (adjective) forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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conclusively | (adverb) in a conclusive way | Synonyms: once and for all |
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conclusiveness | (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: decisiveness, finality |
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conducive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: contributing, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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conductive | (adjective) having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity | - |
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confederative | (adjective) united in a confederacy or league | Synonyms: allied, confederate |
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confirmative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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confutative | (adjective) able to be refuted | Synonyms: confutable, questionable, refutable |
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congestive | (adjective) relating to or affected by an abnormal collection of blood or other fluid | - |
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conjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to connect | - |
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(adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, cooperative, united |
(noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
connective | (adjective) connecting or tending to connect | - |
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(noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connector, connexion |
(noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, continuative |
connive | (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: intrigue, scheme |
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(verb) encourage or assent to illegally or criminally | - |
connotative | (adjective) having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit | - |
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consecutive | (adjective) successive (without a break) | Synonyms: straight |
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(adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: sequent, sequential, serial, successive |
(adjective) one after the other | Synonyms: back-to-back |
(adverb) in a sequential manner | Synonyms: sequentially |
consecutively | (adverb) in a consecutive manner | - |
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conservative | (adjective) resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion | - |
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(adjective) unimaginatively conventional | Synonyms: button-down, buttoned-down |
(adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, materialistic |
(adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: cautious |
(adjective) having social or political views favoring conservatism | - |
(noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservativist |
conservatively | (adverb) in a conservative manner | Synonyms: cautiously, guardedly |
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conserve | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserves, preserve, preserves |
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(verb) preserve with sugar | - |
(verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: economise, economize, husband |
(verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: keep up, maintain, preserve |
(verb) keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change | - |
conserved | (adjective) protected from harm or loss | - |
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conserves | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserve, preserve, preserves |
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consolidative | (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: integrative |
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(adjective) combining into a single unit | Synonyms: unifying |
conspirative | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators | Synonyms: conspiratorial |
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constitutive | (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constituent, constitutional, organic |
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constrictive | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, narrowing |
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(adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, limiting, restricting |
constructive | (adjective) constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development | - |
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(adjective) emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good | - |
constructively | (adverb) in a constructive manner | - |
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constructiveness | (noun) the quality of serving to build or improve | - |
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consultative | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultatory, consultive |
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consultive | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultatory |
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consumptive | (adjective) tending to consume or use often wastefully | - |
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(adjective) afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis | - |
(noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: lunger, tubercular |
contaminative | (adjective) making impure by contact or mixing | - |
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contemplative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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(noun) a person devoted to the contemplative life | - |
contemplativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: meditativeness, pensiveness |
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continuative | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, connective |
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contraceptive | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, prophylactic |
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(noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive device, preventative, preventive, prophylactic device |
contrastive | (adjective) of words so related that one contrasts with the other | Synonyms: incompatible |
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(adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrasting |
(adjective) syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
contravene | (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
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(verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, infringe, run afoul |
contravention | (noun) coming into conflict with | Synonyms: dispute |
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contributive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary |
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contrive | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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(verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: design, plan, project |
(verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, project, throw |
contrived | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted |
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(adjective) showing effects of planning or manipulation | - |
contriver | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: deviser, planner |
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controversial | (adjective) marked by or capable of arousing controversy | - |
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controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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controversially | (adverb) involving controversy | Synonyms: polemically |
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controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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controvert | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: rebut, refute |
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(verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, oppose |
convect | (verb) circulate hot air by convection | - |
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convection | (noun) the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion | - |
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(noun) (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere | - |
convector | (noun) a space heater that transfers heat to the surrounding air by convection | - |
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convene | (verb) call together | Synonyms: convoke |
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(verb) meet formally | - |
convener | (noun) the member of a group whose duty it is to convene meetings | - |
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