windlessness | (noun) calmness without winds | Synonyms: stillness |
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windmill | (noun) generator that extracts usable energy from winds | Synonyms: aerogenerator, wind generator |
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(noun) a mill that is powered by the wind | - |
window | (noun) a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air | - |
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(noun) a transparent opening in a vehicle that allow vision out of the sides or back; usually is capable of being opened | - |
(noun) a transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an otherwise opaque material | - |
(noun) (computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen | - |
(noun) a pane of glass in a window | Synonyms: windowpane |
(noun) an opening in a wall or screen that admits light and air and through which customers can be served | - |
(noun) an opening that resembles a window in appearance or function | - |
(noun) the time period that is considered best for starting or finishing something | - |
windowpane | (noun) very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: Scophthalmus aquosus |
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(noun) a pane of glass in a window | Synonyms: window |
windowsill | (noun) the sill of a window; the horizontal member at the bottom of the window frame | - |
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windpipe | (noun) membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi | Synonyms: trachea |
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windscreen | (noun) transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle | Synonyms: windshield |
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windshield | (noun) transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle | Synonyms: windscreen |
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windsock | (noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, drogue, sock, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock |
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windstorm | (noun) a storm consisting of violent winds | - |
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windsurf | (verb) ride standing on a surfboard with an attached sail, on water | - |
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windswept | (adjective) open to or swept by wind | - |
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windtalker | (noun) a secret agent who was one of the Navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language; the code was unbroken by the Japanese during World War II | Synonyms: codetalker |
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windup | (adjective) operated by a mechanism | - |
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(noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: closing, completion, culmination, mop up |
windward | (adjective) on the side exposed to the wind | - |
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(noun) the side of something that is toward the wind | - |
(noun) the direction from which the wind is coming | - |
(adverb) toward the wind | Synonyms: downwind |
windy | (adjective) resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability | - |
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(adjective) using or containing too many words | Synonyms: long-winded, tedious, verbose, wordy |
(adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: blowy, breezy |
(adjective) not practical or realizable; speculative | Synonyms: airy, impractical, Laputan, visionary |
wine | (noun) a red as dark as red wine | Synonyms: wine-colored, wine-coloured |
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(noun) fermented juice (of grapes especially) | Synonyms: vino |
(verb) drink wine | - |
(verb) treat to wine | - |
wineberry | (noun) raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits | Synonyms: Rubus phoenicolasius |
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(noun) graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine | Synonyms: Aristotelia racemosa, Aristotelia serrata, makomako, New Zealand wine berry |
wineglass | (noun) a glass that has a stem and in which wine is served | - |
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winemaker | (noun) someone who makes wine | Synonyms: vintner, wine maker |
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winemaking | (noun) the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine | Synonyms: wine making |
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winepress | (noun) a press that is used to extract the juice from grapes | - |
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winery | (noun) an establishment where wine is made | Synonyms: wine maker |
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wineskin | (noun) an animal skin (usually a goatskin) that forms a bag and is used to hold and dispense wine | - |
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winey | (adjective) having the taste of wine | Synonyms: winy |
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wing | (noun) a movable organ for flying (one of a pair) | - |
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(noun) one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane | - |
(noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, annexe, extension |
(noun) a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud | Synonyms: fender |
(noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: backstage, offstage |
(noun) the wing of a fowl | - |
(noun) a unit of military aircraft | - |
(noun) the side of military or naval formation | Synonyms: flank |
(noun) a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function | - |
(noun) (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft | - |
(noun) a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side | - |
(verb) travel through the air; be airborne | Synonyms: fly |
wingback | (noun) (American football) the position of the offensive back who lines up behind or outside the end | - |
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(noun) (football) the person who plays wingback | - |
winged | (adjective) having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind | - |
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(adjective) very fast; as if with wings | - |
winger | (noun) (sports) player in wing position | - |
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wingless | (adjective) lacking wings | - |
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winglike | (adjective) resembling a wing in shape or position | - |
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wingman | (noun) the pilot who positions his aircraft outside and behind (on the wing of) the leader of a flying formation | - |
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wings | (noun) a means of flight or ascent | - |
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(noun) stylized bird wings worn as an insignia by qualified pilots or air crew members | - |
wingspan | (noun) linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil | Synonyms: wingspread |
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wingspread | (noun) distance between the tips of the wings (as of a bird or insect) when fully extended | - |
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(noun) linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil | Synonyms: wingspan |
wingstem | (noun) perennial herb with showy yellow flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Actinomeris alternifolia, golden honey plant, golden ironweed, Verbesina alternifolia, yellow ironweed |
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wink | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, winking |
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(noun) closing one eye quickly as a signal | - |
(noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling |
(verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: blink, nictate, nictitate |
(verb) keep back by blinking | Synonyms: blink, blink away |
(verb) signal by winking | - |
(verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, flash, twinkle, winkle |
winker | (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinder, blinker |
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(noun) a person who winks | - |
winking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: blinking |
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(noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink |
winkle | (noun) edible marine gastropod | Synonyms: periwinkle |
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(noun) small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked | Synonyms: periwinkle |
(verb) remove or displace from a position | Synonyms: winkle out |
(verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, flash, twinkle, wink |
(verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: scintillate, twinkle |
winless | (adjective) having no wins | - |
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winner | (noun) the contestant who wins the contest | Synonyms: victor |
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(noun) a gambler who wins a bet | - |
(noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, succeeder, success |
winning | (adjective) very attractive; capturing interest | Synonyms: fetching, taking |
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(adjective) having won | Synonyms: victorious |
(noun) succeeding with great difficulty | - |
winnings | (noun) something won (especially money) | Synonyms: profits, win |
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winnow | (noun) the act of separating grain from chaff | Synonyms: sifting, winnowing |
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(verb) blow away or off with a current of air | Synonyms: fan |
(verb) select desirable parts from a group or list | Synonyms: cull out |
(verb) separate the chaff from grain by using air currents | - |
(verb) blow on | - |
winnowing | (noun) the act of separating grain from chaff | Synonyms: sifting, winnow |
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wino | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot |
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winsome | (adjective) charming in a childlike or naive way | - |
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winsomely | (adverb) in an engaging manner | Synonyms: engagingly |
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winsomeness | (noun) childlike charm or appeal | - |
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winter | (noun) the coldest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox | Synonyms: wintertime |
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(verb) spend the winter | Synonyms: overwinter |
winterberry | (noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: bearberry, Ilex decidua, possum haw |
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wintergreen | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry |
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(noun) any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola | Synonyms: pyrola |
(noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry |
winterise | (verb) prepare for winter | Synonyms: winterize |
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winterize | (verb) prepare for winter | Synonyms: winterise |
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wintertime | (noun) the coldest season of the year; in the Northern Hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox | Synonyms: winter |
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wintery | (adjective) characteristic of or occurring in winter | Synonyms: wintry |
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wintriness | (noun) The state or quality of being suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy. | - |
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wintry | (adjective) characteristic of or occurring in winter | Synonyms: wintery |
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(adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy |
winy | (adjective) having the taste of wine | Synonyms: winey |
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wipe | (noun) the act of rubbing or wiping | Synonyms: rub |
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(verb) rub with a circular motion | Synonyms: pass over |
wipeout | (noun) a spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard) | - |
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(noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, destruction |
wiper | (noun) a mechanical device that cleans the windshield | Synonyms: windscreen wiper, windshield wiper, wiper blade |
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(noun) contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet | Synonyms: contact arm, wiper arm |
(noun) a worker who wipes | - |
wire | (noun) ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc | - |
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(noun) a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance | Synonyms: conducting wire |
(noun) a message transmitted by telegraph | Synonyms: telegram |
(noun) the finishing line on a racetrack | - |
(verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: electrify |
(verb) send cables, wires, or telegrams | Synonyms: cable, telegraph |
(verb) fasten with wire | - |
(verb) string on a wire | - |
(verb) provide with electrical circuits | - |
wired | (adjective) equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service | - |
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(adjective) tied or bound with wire | - |
(adjective) tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline | Synonyms: pumped-up, pumped, pumped up |
(adjective) having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices | Synonyms: bugged |
wirehair | (noun) a terrier with wiry hair | Synonyms: wire-haired terrier, wirehaired terrier |
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wireless | (adjective) having no wires | - |
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(noun) a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves | Synonyms: radio |
(noun) an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals | Synonyms: radio, radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, tuner |
(noun) transmission by radio waves | - |
(noun) medium for communication | Synonyms: radio, radiocommunication |
wirelessness | (noun) The state or condition of being wireless; lack of wires or cables. | - |
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wireman | (noun) a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring | Synonyms: wirer |
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wirer | (noun) a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring | Synonyms: wireman |
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(noun) someone who sends a telegram | - |
wiretap | (noun) the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information | Synonyms: tap |
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(verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: bug, intercept, tap |
wiretapper | (noun) someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire | Synonyms: phone tapper, tapper |
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wirework | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: grillwork |
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wireworm | (noun) wormlike larva of various elaterid beetles; feeds on roots of many crop plants | - |
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wiriness | (noun) the property of being lean and tough and sinewy | - |
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wiring | (noun) the work of installing the wires for an electrical system or device | - |
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(noun) a circuit of wires for the distribution of electricity | - |
wiry | (adjective) of or relating to wire | - |
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(adjective) of hair that resembles wire in stiffness | - |
(adjective) lean and sinewy | Synonyms: stringy |
wisdom | (noun) the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight | Synonyms: wiseness |
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(noun) the quality of being prudent and sensible | Synonyms: soundness, wiseness |
(noun) ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight | Synonyms: sapience |
(noun) accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment | - |
wise | (adjective) having or prompted by wisdom or discernment | - |
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(adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart |
(adjective) evidencing the possession of inside information | Synonyms: knowing, wise to |
(adjective) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters | Synonyms: heady, judicious |
(noun) a way of doing or being | - |
wiseacre | (noun) an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments | Synonyms: smart aleck, weisenheimer, wise guy, wisenheimer |
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wisecrack | (noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, quip, sally |
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(verb) make a comment, usually ironic | - |
wisely | (adverb) in a wise manner | Synonyms: sagely |
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wiseness | (noun) the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight | Synonyms: wisdom |
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(noun) the quality of being prudent and sensible | Synonyms: soundness, wisdom |
wisenheimer | (noun) an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments | Synonyms: smart aleck, weisenheimer, wise guy, wiseacre |
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wisent | (noun) European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison | Synonyms: aurochs, Bison bonasus |
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wish | (noun) the particular preference that you have | - |
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(noun) an expression of some desire or inclination | Synonyms: indirect request |
(noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: compliments, regard |
(noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: want, wishing |
(verb) invoke upon | Synonyms: bid |
(verb) order politely; express a wish for | - |
(verb) make or express a wish | - |
(verb) feel or express a desire or hope concerning the future or fortune of | Synonyms: wish well |
(verb) to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something | Synonyms: care, like |
wishbone | (noun) the furcula of a domestic fowl | Synonyms: wishing bone |
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wishful | (adjective) having or expressing desire for something | Synonyms: desirous |
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(adjective) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement | Synonyms: aspirant, aspiring |
wishfully | (adverb) in a wishful manner | - |
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wishfulness | (noun) an unrealistic yearning | - |
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wishing | (noun) a specific feeling of desire | Synonyms: want, wish |
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wisp | (noun) a flock of snipe | - |
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(noun) a small tuft or lock | - |
(noun) a small bundle of straw or hay | - |
(noun) a small person | - |
wisplike | (adjective) thin and weak | Synonyms: wispy |
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wispy | (adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: dim, faint, shadowy, vague |
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(adjective) thin and weak | Synonyms: wisplike |
wistaria | (noun) any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria | Synonyms: wisteria |
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wisteria | (noun) any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria | Synonyms: wistaria |
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wistful | (adjective) showing pensive sadness | Synonyms: pensive |
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wistfully | (adverb) in a wistful manner | - |
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wistfulness | (noun) a sadly pensive longing | - |
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wit | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality |
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(noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, witticism, wittiness |
(noun) a witty amusing person who makes jokes | Synonyms: card, wag |