| aardwolf | (noun) striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects | Synonyms: Proteles cristata |
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| abwatt | (noun) a power unit equal to the power dissipated when 1 abampere flows across a potential difference of 1 abvolt (one ten-thousandth of a milliwatt) | - |
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| acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
| acknowledgeable | (adjective) capable of being acknowledged | - |
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| acknowledged | (adjective) recognized or made known or admitted | - |
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| (adjective) generally accepted | - |
| acknowledgement | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgment |
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| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgment, recognition |
| acknowledgment | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgement |
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| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, recognition |
| activewear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: athletic wear, sportswear |
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| advowson | (noun) the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice | - |
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| afterglow | (noun) the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event | - |
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| (noun) a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset | - |
| afterward | (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: after, afterwards, later, later on, subsequently |
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| afterwards | (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: after, afterward, later, later on, subsequently |
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| afterworld | (noun) the place where you are after you die | - |
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| agateware | (noun) pottery that is veined and mottled to resemble agate | - |
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| aglow | (adjective) softly bright or radiant | Synonyms: lambent, lucent, luminous |
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| agueweed | (noun) gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers | Synonyms: ague weed, five-flowered gentian, Gentiana quinquefolia, Gentianella quinquefolia, stiff gentian |
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| (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
| aircrew | (noun) the crew of an aircraft | Synonyms: air crew |
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| aircrewman | (noun) a member of an aircrew | - |
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| airflow | (noun) the flow of air | Synonyms: air flow, flow of air |
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| airscrew | (noun) a propeller that rotates to push against air | Synonyms: airplane propeller, prop |
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| airwave | (noun) medium for radio and television broadcasting | Synonyms: air |
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| airway | (noun) a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers | Synonyms: airline, airline business |
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| (noun) a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines) | Synonyms: air duct, air passage |
| (noun) the passages through which air enters and leaves the body | Synonyms: respiratory tract |
| (noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, flight path, skyway |
| airwoman | (noun) a woman aviator | Synonyms: aviatress, aviatrix |
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| airworthiness | (noun) fitness to fly | - |
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| airworthy | (adjective) (of aircraft) fit to fly | - |
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| alewife | (noun) shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus | Synonyms: Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus |
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| (noun) flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams | - |
| alleyway | (noun) a narrow street with walls on both sides | Synonyms: alley, back street |
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| allow | (verb) allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: take into account |
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| (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: appropriate, earmark, reserve, set aside |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: countenance, let, permit |
| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: permit, tolerate |
| (verb) let have | Synonyms: grant |
| (verb) grant as a discount or in exchange | - |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: let, permit |
| (verb) allow the other (baseball) team to score | Synonyms: give up |
| (verb) make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain | Synonyms: allow for, leave, provide |
| (verb) afford possibility | Synonyms: admit |
| allowable | (adjective) that may be permitted especially as according to rule | Synonyms: permissible |
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| (adjective) deserving to be allowed or considered | - |
| (adjective) deductible according to the tax laws | - |
| allowably | (adverb) in a permissible manner | Synonyms: permissibly |
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| allowance | (noun) the act of allowing | - |
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| (noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: leeway, margin, tolerance |
| (noun) an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period) | - |
| (noun) an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment |
| (noun) a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses | - |
| (noun) a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets | Synonyms: allowance account, valuation account, valuation reserve |
| (verb) put on a fixed allowance, as of food | - |
| always | (adverb) at all times; all the time and on every occasion | Synonyms: e'er, ever |
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| (adverb) forever; throughout all time | - |
| (adverb) at any time or in any event | - |
| (adverb) invariably | Synonyms: constantly, forever, incessantly, perpetually |
| (adverb) without variation or change, in every case | Synonyms: constantly, invariably |
| anew | (adverb) again but in a new or different way | Synonyms: afresh |
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| anglewing | (noun) nymphalid butterfly having angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings | - |
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| angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| angwantibo | (noun) a kind of yellow or golden lemur (Arctocebus calabarensis) | Synonyms: Arctocebus calabarensis, golden potto |
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| answer | (noun) a nonverbal reaction | - |
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| (noun) the speech act of replying to a question | - |
| (noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: reply, response |
| (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: resolution, result, solution, solvent |
| (noun) the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims | - |
| (verb) give the correct answer or solution to | - |
| (verb) respond to a signal | - |
| (verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) react to a stimulus or command | - |
| (verb) react verbally | Synonyms: reply, respond |
| (verb) give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) | - |
| (verb) be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of | - |
| (verb) match or correspond | - |
| (verb) be liable or accountable | - |
| (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: do, serve, suffice |
| answerability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerableness |
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| answerable | (adjective) morally or legally responsible to a higher authority | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being answered | - |
| (adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: accountable |
| answerableness | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerability |
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| answerer | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: respondent, responder |
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| answering | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: respondent |
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| anticlockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: contraclockwise, counterclockwise |
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| (adverb) in a direction opposite to the direction in which the hands of a clock move | Synonyms: counterclockwise |
| anyhow | (adverb) used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement | Synonyms: anyway, anyways, at any rate, in any case, in any event |
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| (adverb) in any way whatsoever | Synonyms: anyway |
| anyway | (adverb) used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement | Synonyms: anyhow, anyways, at any rate, in any case, in any event |
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| (adverb) in any way whatsoever | Synonyms: anyhow |
| anyways | (adverb) used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement | Synonyms: anyhow, anyway, at any rate, in any case, in any event |
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| anywhere | (adverb) at or in or to any place | Synonyms: anyplace |
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| applewood | (noun) wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus | - |
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| archway | (noun) a passageway under a curved masonry construction | Synonyms: arch |
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| areaway | (noun) a passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement | - |
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| armyworm | (noun) moth whose destructive larvae travel in multitudes | Synonyms: Pseudaletia unipuncta |
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| (noun) noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain | Synonyms: army worm, Pseudaletia unipuncta |
| (noun) larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted | - |
| arrow | (noun) a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow | - |
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| (noun) a mark to indicate a direction or relation | Synonyms: pointer |
| arrowhead | (noun) the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow | - |
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| arrowroot | (noun) white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch | Synonyms: American arrowroot, Maranta arundinaceae, obedience plant |
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| (noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained | Synonyms: achira, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot |
| (noun) a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant | - |
| arrowsmith | (noun) a maker of arrows | - |
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| arrowworm | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: chaetognath |
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| artwork | (noun) photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication | Synonyms: art, graphics, nontextual matter |
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| askew | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: awry, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| (adverb) turned or twisted to one side | Synonyms: awry, skew-whiff |
| assemblywoman | (noun) a woman assemblyman | - |
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| athwart | (adverb) at an oblique angle | Synonyms: aslant, obliquely |
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| (adverb) at right angles to the center line of a ship | - |
| avow | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, swan, swear, verify |
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| (verb) admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about | Synonyms: avouch |
| avowal | (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: affirmation, avouchment |
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| avowed | (adjective) openly declared as such | Synonyms: professed |
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| avowedly | (adverb) by open declaration | Synonyms: professedly |
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| (adverb) as acknowledged | Synonyms: admittedly, confessedly, true |
| avower | (noun) someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly | - |
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| (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, declarer |
| await | (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: expect, look, wait |
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| awaited | (adjective) expected hopefully | Synonyms: anticipated, hoped-for |
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| awake | (adjective) not in a state of sleep; completely conscious | - |
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| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alert, alive |
| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| awaken | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) make aware | - |
| awakened | (adjective) aroused or activated | - |
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| (adjective) (somewhat formal) having been waked up | - |
| awakening | (noun) the act of waking | Synonyms: wakening, waking up |
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| award | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: awarding |
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| (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, honor, honour, laurels |
| (noun) something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery | Synonyms: prize |
| (verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) give as judged due or on the basis of merit | Synonyms: grant |
| awarding | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: award |
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| aware | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: cognisant, cognizant |
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| (adjective) bearing in mind; attentive to | Synonyms: mindful |
| awareness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: cognisance, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| (noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: sentience |
| awash | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, flooded, inundated, overflowing |
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| away | (adjective) used of an opponent's ground | - |
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| (adjective) not present; having left | - |
| (adjective) (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter | Synonyms: outside |
| (adverb) from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete) | Synonyms: forth, off |
| (adverb) from one's possession | Synonyms: out |
| (adverb) in reserve; not for immediate use | Synonyms: aside, by |
| (adverb) out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts) | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) out of existence | - |
| (adverb) indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily | - |
| (adverb) in a different direction | Synonyms: aside |
| (adverb) in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping) | - |
| (adverb) at a distance in space or time | Synonyms: off |
| (adverb) so as to be removed or gotten rid of | - |
| (adverb) freely or at will | - |
| awayness | (noun) the state of being elsewhere than in particular place | - |
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| awe | (noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: fear, reverence, veneration |
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| (noun) an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration | - |
| (verb) inspire awe in | - |
| aweary | (adjective) physically and mentally fatigued | Synonyms: weary |
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| awed | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awestricken, awestruck |
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| (adjective) inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence | Synonyms: awful |
| aweigh | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: atrip |
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| (adjective) (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom | - |
| aweless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: awless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: awless |
| awesome | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing |
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| awestricken | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestruck |
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| awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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| awful | (adjective) offensive or even (of persons) malicious | Synonyms: nasty |
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| (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
| (adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: frightful, terrible, tremendous |
| (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awing |
| (adjective) inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence | Synonyms: awed |
| (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awfully, frightfully, terribly |
| awfully | (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awful, frightfully, terribly |
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| (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: dreadfully, horribly |
| (adverb) in a terrible manner | Synonyms: abominably, abysmally, atrociously, rottenly, terribly |
| awfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness |
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| awheel | (adjective) traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g. | - |
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| awhile | (adverb) for a brief period | Synonyms: for a while |
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| awing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful |
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| awkward | (adjective) lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance | - |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: embarrassing, sticky, unenviable |
| (adjective) causing inconvenience | - |
| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
| (adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: ill at ease, uneasy |
| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly |
| awkwardly | (adverb) in an awkward manner | - |
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| awkwardness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant | Synonyms: clumsiness |
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| (noun) the quality of an embarrassing situation | Synonyms: nuisance value |
| (noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: cumbersomeness, unwieldiness |
| (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness |
| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
| awl | (noun) a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes | - |
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| awless | (adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, disrespectful |
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| (adjective) devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence | Synonyms: aweless |
| awlwort | (noun) small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal | Synonyms: Subularia aquatica |
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| awn | (noun) slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses | - |
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| awned | (adjective) having awns i.e. bristlelike or hairlike appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses | Synonyms: awny |
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