abortively | (adverb) in an unfruitful manner | - |
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abusively | (adverb) in an abusive manner | - |
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actively | (adverb) in an active manner | - |
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adjectively | (adverb) as an adjective | - |
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administratively | (adverb) by or for an administrator | - |
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affirmatively | (adverb) in an affirmative manner | - |
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aggressively | (adverb) in an aggressive manner | Synonyms: sharply |
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alliteratively | (adverb) in an alliterative manner | - |
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alternatively | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: instead, or else |
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appositively | (adverb) in an appositive manner | Synonyms: in apposition |
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appreciatively | (adverb) with appreciation; in a grateful manner | Synonyms: gratefully |
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apprehensively | (adverb) with anxiety or apprehension | Synonyms: anxiously, uneasily |
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argumentatively | (adverb) in a disputatious manner | Synonyms: disputatiously |
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assertively | (adverb) in an assertive manner | - |
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attentively | (adverb) with attention; in an attentive manner | - |
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attractively | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: beautifully |
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attributively | (adverb) in an attributive manner | - |
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authoritatively | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: magisterially |
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avellan | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellane |
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avellane | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellan |
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bevel | (noun) a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size | Synonyms: bevel square |
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(noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees | Synonyms: cant, chamfer |
(verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: chamfer |
bravely | (adverb) in a courageous manner | Synonyms: courageously |
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cognitively | (adverb) with regard to cognition | - |
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collectively | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: conjointly, jointly, together with |
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combatively | (adverb) in a bellicose contentious manner | Synonyms: scrappily |
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comparatively | (adverb) in a relative manner; by comparison to something else | Synonyms: relatively |
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competitively | (adverb) in competition | - |
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comprehensively | (adverb) in an all-inclusive manner | - |
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compulsively | (adverb) in a compulsive manner | Synonyms: obsessionally, obsessively |
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concavely | (adverb) in a concave way | - |
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conclusively | (adverb) in a conclusive way | Synonyms: once and for all |
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consecutively | (adverb) in a consecutive manner | - |
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conservatively | (adverb) in a conservative manner | Synonyms: cautiously, guardedly |
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constructively | (adverb) in a constructive manner | - |
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convulsively | (adverb) with convulsions, in a convulsive way | - |
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cooperatively | (adverb) in close cooperation | Synonyms: hand and glove, hand in glove |
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counteractively | (adverb) in a counteractive manner | - |
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counterintuitively | (adverb) in a counterintuitive manner | - |
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creatively | (adverb) in a creative manner | - |
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cumulatively | (adverb) in a cumulative manner | - |
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cursively | (adverb) in a cursive manner | - |
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deceptively | (adverb) in a misleading way | Synonyms: deceivingly, misleadingly |
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decisively | (adverb) with finality; conclusively | - |
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(adverb) with firmness of purpose | Synonyms: resolutely |
(adverb) in an indisputable degree | - |
decoratively | (adverb) in a decorative manner | - |
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defectively | (adverb) in a defective manner | - |
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defensively | (adverb) in a defensive manner | - |
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(adverb) in an apologetic and defensive manner | - |
delusively | (adverb) in a deceptive and unrealistic manner | - |
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demonstratively | (adverb) in a demonstrative manner | - |
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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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deprecatively | (adverb) in a deprecative manner | - |
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derisively | (adverb) in a disrespectful and mocking manner | Synonyms: derisorily, mockingly, scoffingly |
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descriptively | (adverb) by giving a description | - |
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destructively | (adverb) in a destructive manner | - |
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develop | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, get, grow, produce |
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(verb) grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment | - |
(verb) cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development | Synonyms: make grow |
(verb) happen | Synonyms: break, recrudesce |
(verb) change the use of and make available or usable | Synonyms: build up |
(verb) be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest | - |
(verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, evolve |
(verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
(verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: grow |
(verb) expand in the form of a series | - |
(verb) elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme | - |
(verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: educate, prepare, train |
(verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: explicate, formulate |
(verb) move into a strategically more advantageous position | - |
(verb) move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions | - |
(verb) superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry | - |
(verb) work out | Synonyms: evolve, germinate |
(verb) make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation | - |
(verb) generate gradually | - |
(verb) make visible by means of chemical solutions | - |
(verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
developed | (adjective) being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful | - |
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(adjective) (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads | - |
(adjective) (used of societies) having high industrial development | Synonyms: highly-developed |
developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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(noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
developing | (adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: underdeveloped |
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(noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: development |
development | (noun) act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | - |
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(noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: exploitation |
(noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | - |
(noun) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | - |
(noun) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose | - |
(noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: developing |
(noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
(noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: evolution |
(noun) a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | - |
developmental | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting development | - |
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developmentally | (adverb) with respect to development | - |
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discursively | (adverb) in a rambling manner | Synonyms: ramblingly |
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dishevel | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: tangle, tousle |
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disheveled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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dishevelled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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disruptively | (adverb) in a disruptive manner | - |
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distinctively | (adverb) in an identifiably distinctive manner | - |
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distributively | (adverb) in a distributive manner | - |
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(adverb) as individuals or as separate units (not collectively) | - |
drivel | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slobber |
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(noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: garbage |
(verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
driveller | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: jabberer |
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(noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, drooler, slobberer |
effectively | (adverb) in actuality or reality or fact | Synonyms: in effect |
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(adverb) in an effective manner | Synonyms: efficaciously |
effusively | (adverb) in an effusive manner | - |
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envelop | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, enwrap, wrap |
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envelope | (noun) any wrapper or covering | - |
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(noun) a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc. | - |
(noun) the bag containing the gas in a balloon | Synonyms: gasbag |
(noun) the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft) | - |
(noun) a natural covering (as by a fluid) | - |
(noun) a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves | - |
enveloping | (adjective) surrounding and closing in on or hemming in | - |
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envelopment | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, inclosure |
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evasively | (adverb) with evasion; in an evasive manner | - |
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excessively | (adverb) to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits | Synonyms: overly, to a fault, too |
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exclusively | (adverb) without any others being included or involved | Synonyms: alone, entirely, only, solely |
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exhaustively | (adverb) in an exhaustive manner | Synonyms: thoroughly |
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expansively | (adverb) in an ebullient manner | Synonyms: ebulliently, exuberantly |
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(adverb) in an impressively expansive manner | - |
expensively | (adverb) in an expensive manner | - |
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explosively | (adverb) suddenly and rapidly | - |
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(adverb) in an explosive manner | - |
expressively | (adverb) with expression; in an expressive manner | - |
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extensively | (adverb) in a widespread way | - |
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figuratively | (adverb) in a figurative sense | - |
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furtively | (adverb) in a furtive manner | Synonyms: on the sly |
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gavel | (noun) a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge | - |
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gloveless | (adjective) devoid of gloves | - |
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gravel | (noun) rock fragments and pebbles | Synonyms: crushed rock |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) cover with gravel | - |
(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
gravelly | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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(adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: pebbly, shingly |
gravelweed | (noun) perennial herb with yellow flowers; southern and south central United States | Synonyms: Verbesina helianthoides |
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gravely | (adverb) in a grave and sober manner | Synonyms: soberly, staidly |
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(adverb) to a severe or serious degree | Synonyms: badly, seriously, severely |
grovel | (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, fawn |
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groveler | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, truckler |
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groveling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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groveller | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveler, truckler |
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grovelling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, wormlike, wormy |
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havelock | (noun) a cloth covering for a service cap with a flap extending over the back of the neck to protect the neck from direct rays of the sun | - |
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helvella | (noun) any fungus of the genus Helvella having the ascocarps stalked or pleated or often in folds | - |
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hovel | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hut, hutch, shack, shanty |
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