evolutionism | (noun) (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals | Synonyms: theory of evolution, theory of organic evolution |
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evolutionist | (noun) a person who believes in organic evolution | - |
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evolve | (verb) undergo development or evolution | - |
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(verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, develop |
(verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, germinate |
favor | (noun) an act of gracious kindness | Synonyms: favour |
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(noun) souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party | Synonyms: favour, party favor, party favour |
(noun) an advantage to the benefit of someone or something | Synonyms: favour |
(noun) an inclination to approve | Synonyms: favour |
(noun) a feeling of favorable regard | Synonyms: favour |
(verb) consider as the favorite | Synonyms: favour |
(verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favour, prefer |
(verb) treat gently or carefully | Synonyms: favour |
(verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favour, privilege |
favorable | (adjective) (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate | Synonyms: favourable |
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(adjective) encouraging or approving or pleasing | Synonyms: favourable |
(adjective) giving an advantage | Synonyms: advantageous, favourable |
(adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favourable, golden, lucky, prosperous |
favorableness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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favorably | (adverb) showing approval | Synonyms: favourably |
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favored | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favorite, favoured, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred |
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favorite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favoured, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred |
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(adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favourite |
(noun) something regarded with special favor or liking | Synonyms: favourite |
(noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favourite, pet |
(noun) a competitor thought likely to win | Synonyms: favourite, front-runner |
(verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favourite |
favoritism | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: discrimination, favouritism |
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(noun) an inclination to favor some person or group | Synonyms: favouritism |
favour | (noun) an act of gracious kindness | Synonyms: favor |
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(noun) souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party | Synonyms: favor, party favor, party favour |
(noun) an advantage to the benefit of someone or something | Synonyms: favor |
(noun) an inclination to approve | Synonyms: favor |
(noun) a feeling of favorable regard | Synonyms: favor |
(verb) consider as the favorite | Synonyms: favor |
(verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, prefer |
(verb) treat gently or carefully | Synonyms: favor |
(verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, privilege |
favourable | (adjective) (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate | Synonyms: favorable |
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(adjective) encouraging or approving or pleasing | Synonyms: favorable |
(adjective) giving an advantage | Synonyms: advantageous, favorable |
(adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, golden, lucky, prosperous |
favourableness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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favourably | (adverb) showing approval | Synonyms: favorably |
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favoured | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred |
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favourite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, pet, preferent, preferred |
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(adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favorite |
(noun) something regarded with special favor or liking | Synonyms: favorite |
(noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, pet |
(noun) a competitor thought likely to win | Synonyms: favorite, front-runner |
(verb) To mark an item as a personal favorite on social media | Synonyms: favorite |
favouritism | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: discrimination, favoritism |
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(noun) an inclination to favor some person or group | Synonyms: favoritism |
femtovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one quadrillionth of a volt (or one thousandth of a picovolt) | - |
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fervor | (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervour, fire |
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(noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, excitement, fervour, inflammation |
fervour | (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fire |
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(noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, excitement, fervor, inflammation |
flavone | (noun) a colorless crystalline compound that is part of a number of white or yellow plant pigments | - |
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flavonoid | (noun) any of a large class of plant pigments having a chemical structure based on or similar to flavone | - |
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flavor | (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang |
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(noun) (physics) the six kinds of quarks | Synonyms: flavour |
(noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone |
(verb) lend flavor to | Synonyms: flavour, season |
flavorer | (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning |
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flavorful | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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flavoring | (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavorer, flavourer, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning |
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flavorless | (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: bland, flat, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
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flavorlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavourlessness, savorlessness, savourlessness, tastelessness |
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flavorous | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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flavorsome | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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flavorsomeness | (noun) having an appetizing flavor | Synonyms: flavoursomeness, savoriness |
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flavour | (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang |
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(noun) (physics) the six kinds of quarks | Synonyms: flavor |
(noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, look, smell, spirit, tone |
(verb) lend flavor to | Synonyms: flavor, season |
flavourer | (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavorer, flavoring, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning |
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flavourful | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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flavouring | (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, seasoner, seasoning |
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flavourless | (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: bland, flat, flavorless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
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flavourlessness | (noun) the property of having no flavor | Synonyms: flavorlessness, savorlessness, savourlessness, tastelessness |
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flavourous | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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flavoursome | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavorsome, flavourful, flavourous, sapid, saporous |
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flavoursomeness | (noun) having an appetizing flavor | Synonyms: flavorsomeness, savoriness |
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frivol | (verb) act frivolously | Synonyms: trifle |
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frivolity | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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(noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, fluff, frippery |
(noun) the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible | Synonyms: frivolousness |
frivolous | (adjective) not serious in content or attitude or behavior | - |
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frivolously | (adverb) in a frivolous manner | - |
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frivolousness | (noun) the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible | Synonyms: frivolity |
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gavotte | (noun) an old formal French dance in quadruple time | - |
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(noun) music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte | - |
grievous | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grave, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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(adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, monstrous |
(adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, heavy, weighty |
(adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: heartbreaking, heartrending |
grievously | (adverb) in a grievous manner | - |
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havoc | (noun) violent and needless disturbance | Synonyms: mayhem |
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herbivore | (noun) any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants | - |
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herbivorous | (adjective) feeding only on plants | - |
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hypervolaemia | (noun) a blood disorder consisting of an increase in the volume of circulating blood | Synonyms: hypervolemia |
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hypervolemia | (noun) a blood disorder consisting of an increase in the volume of circulating blood | Synonyms: hypervolaemia |
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hypovolaemia | (noun) a blood disorder consisting of a decrease in the volume of circulating blood | Synonyms: hypovolemia |
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hypovolaemic | (adjective) of or relating to a decrease in the volume of circulating blood | Synonyms: hypovolemic |
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hypovolemia | (noun) a blood disorder consisting of a decrease in the volume of circulating blood | Synonyms: hypovolaemia |
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hypovolemic | (adjective) of or relating to a decrease in the volume of circulating blood | Synonyms: hypovolaemic |
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insectivore | (noun) small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals | - |
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(noun) any organism that feeds mainly on insects | - |
insectivorous | (adjective) (of animals and plants) feeding on insects | - |
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invocation | (noun) the act of appealing for help | - |
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(noun) calling up a spirit or devil | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring, conjury |
(noun) a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service | Synonyms: supplication |
(noun) an incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil | - |
invoice | (noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered | Synonyms: account, bill |
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(verb) send a bill to | - |
invoke | (verb) cite as an authority; resort to | Synonyms: appeal |
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(verb) request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection | Synonyms: appeal |
(verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, put forward, raise, stir |
involucrate | (adjective) having an involucre | - |
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involucre | (noun) a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence | - |
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involuntarily | (adverb) against one's will or done without conscious thought | - |
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involuntariness | (noun) the trait of being unwilling | Synonyms: unwillingness |
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involuntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: nonvoluntary, unvoluntary |
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(adjective) controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control | - |
involute | (adjective) (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured | - |
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(adjective) especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward | Synonyms: rolled |
involution | (noun) the action of enfolding something | Synonyms: enfolding |
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(noun) the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power | Synonyms: exponentiation |
(noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: engagement, involvement, participation |
(noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy |
(noun) a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction | - |
(noun) reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth) | - |
involve | (verb) make complex or intricate or complicated | - |
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(verb) occupy or engage the interest of | - |
(verb) have as a necessary feature | Synonyms: imply |
(verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: affect, regard |
(verb) contain as a part | - |
(verb) engage as a participant | - |
(verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
involved | (adjective) connected by participation or association or use | - |
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(adjective) emotionally involved | - |
(adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
(adjective) enveloped | - |
(adjective) entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire | Synonyms: mired |
involvement | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: engagement, involution, participation |
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(noun) a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something | Synonyms: interest |
(noun) a connection of inclusion or containment | - |
(noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, intimacy, liaison |
(noun) the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) | Synonyms: participation |
irrevocability | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to retract or reverse; finality. | - |
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irrevocable | (adjective) incapable of being retracted or revoked | Synonyms: irrevokable |
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irrevocably | (adverb) in an irrevocable manner | - |
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irrevokable | (adjective) incapable of being retracted or revoked | Synonyms: irrevocable |
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ivory | (noun) a shade of white the color of bleached bones | Synonyms: bone, off-white, pearl |
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(noun) a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses | Synonyms: tusk |
ivorybill | (noun) large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct | Synonyms: Campephilus principalis, ivory-billed woodpecker |
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kilovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to a thousand volts | Synonyms: kV |
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levodopa | (noun) the levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa); as a drug it is used to treat Parkinson's disease | Synonyms: Bendopa, Brocadopa, L-dopa, Larodopa |
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levorotary | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotatory |
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levorotation | (noun) rotation to the left | Synonyms: counterclockwise rotation |
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levorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotary |
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macroevolution | (noun) evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups | - |
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malevolence | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolency, malice |
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(noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malignity |
malevolency | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolence, malice |
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malevolent | (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malefic, malign |
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(adjective) wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred | - |
malevolently | (adverb) in a malevolent manner | - |
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microevolution | (noun) evolution resulting from small specific genetic changes that can lead to a new subspecies | - |
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microvolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one millionth of a volt | - |
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millivolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one thousandth of a volt | Synonyms: mV |
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millivoltmeter | (noun) sensitive voltmeter that can measure voltage in millivolts | - |
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mischievous | (adjective) deliberately causing harm or damage | - |
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(adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
mischievously | (adverb) in a disobedient or naughty way | Synonyms: badly, naughtily |
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mischievousness | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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(noun) an attribute of mischievous children | Synonyms: badness, naughtiness |
(noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: impishness, puckishness, whimsicality |
nanovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one billionth of a volt | - |
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neoevolutionism | (noun) school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures. | Synonyms: neo-evolutionism |
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nervous | (adjective) of or relating to the nervous system | Synonyms: neural |
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(adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, skittish, spooky |
(adjective) excited in anticipation | Synonyms: aflutter |
(adjective) easily agitated | - |
(adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet |
nervously | (adverb) in an anxiously nervous manner | - |
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(adverb) with nervous excitement | - |
nervousness | (noun) a sensitive or highly strung temperament | - |
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(noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jitteriness, jumpiness, restiveness |
(noun) an uneasy psychological state | Synonyms: nerves |