| bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, discombobulate, throw |
| bewildered | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| bewilderedly | (adverb) in a bewildered manner | - |
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| bewilderingly | (adverb) in a bewildering and confusing manner | Synonyms: confusingly |
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| bewilderment | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| freewill | (adjective) done of your own accord | - |
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| goodwill | (noun) a disposition to kindness and compassion | Synonyms: good will, grace |
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| (noun) the friendly hope that something will succeed | Synonyms: good will |
| (noun) (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets) | Synonyms: good will |
| nimblewill | (noun) slender branching American grass of some value for grazing in central United States | Synonyms: Muhlenbergia schreberi, nimble Will |
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| pigswill | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigwash, slop, slops, swill |
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| poorwill | (noun) goatsucker of western North America | Synonyms: Phalaenoptilus nuttallii |
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| showily | (adverb) with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner | Synonyms: ostentatiously |
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| (adverb) in a fancy colorful manner | Synonyms: flamboyantly, flashily |
| swill | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slop, slops |
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| (verb) drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink) | Synonyms: swill down |
| (verb) feed pigs | Synonyms: slop |
| swilling | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: gulping, guzzling |
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| twilight | (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: dusky, twilit |
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| (noun) the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth | - |
| (noun) a condition of decline following successes | - |
| (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall |
| twilit | (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: dusky, twilight |
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| twill | (noun) a cloth with parallel diagonal lines or ribs | - |
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| (noun) a weave used to produce the effect of parallel diagonal ribs | Synonyms: twill weave |
| (verb) weave diagonal lines into (textiles) | - |
| twilled | (adjective) of textiles; having parallel raised lines | Synonyms: corded |
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| unwilled | (adjective) without deliberate volition, desire, or intention | - |
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| unwilling | (adjective) not disposed to and refusing to do something | - |
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| (adjective) in spite of contrary volition | - |
| unwillingly | (adverb) in an unwilling manner | - |
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| unwillingness | (noun) the trait of being unwilling | Synonyms: involuntariness |
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| whippoorwill | (noun) American nocturnal goatsucker with grey-and-white plumage | Synonyms: Caprimulgus vociferus |
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| wild | (adjective) in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated | Synonyms: untamed |
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| (adjective) marked by extreme lack of restraint or control | - |
| (adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: hazardous, risky |
| (adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with | Synonyms: crazy, dotty, gaga |
| (adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: godforsaken, waste |
| (adjective) talking or behaving irrationally | Synonyms: raving, raving mad |
| (adjective) (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud | Synonyms: violent |
| (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized |
| (adjective) in a state of extreme emotion | - |
| (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous |
| (adjective) fanciful and unrealistic; foolish | Synonyms: fantastic |
| (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted |
| (adjective) deviating widely from an intended course | - |
| (noun) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | Synonyms: wilderness |
| (noun) a wild primitive state untouched by civilization | Synonyms: natural state, state of nature |
| (adverb) in a wild or undomesticated manner | - |
| (adverb) in an uncontrolled and rampant manner | Synonyms: rampantly |
| wildcat | (adjective) (of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive | - |
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| (adjective) without official authorization | Synonyms: unauthorised, unauthorized |
| (adjective) outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices | - |
| (noun) any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild | - |
| (noun) an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field | Synonyms: wildcat well |
| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wolf |
| wildcatter | (noun) an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field | - |
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| wildebeest | (noun) large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail | Synonyms: gnu |
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| wilderness | (noun) a bewildering profusion | - |
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| (noun) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | Synonyms: wild |
| (noun) (politics) a state of disfavor | - |
| wildfire | (noun) a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration | - |
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| wildflower | (noun) wild or uncultivated flowering plant | Synonyms: wild flower |
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| wildfowl | (noun) flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food | - |
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| wilding | (noun) an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women | - |
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| (noun) a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree) | - |
| wildlife | (noun) all living things (except people) that are undomesticated | - |
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| wildly | (adverb) to an extreme or greatly exaggerated degree | - |
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| (adverb) with violent and uncontrollable passion | - |
| (adverb) in an uncontrolled or unrestrained manner | - |
| wildness | (noun) an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature | - |
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| (noun) an unruly disposition to do as one pleases | - |
| (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence |
| (noun) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity | Synonyms: abandon |
| wile | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery |
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| wilful | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: froward, headstrong, self-willed, willful |
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| (adjective) done by design | Synonyms: willful |
| wilfully | (adverb) in a willful manner | Synonyms: willfully |
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| wilfulness | (noun) the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline | Synonyms: fractiousness, unruliness, willfulness |
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| wiliness | (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness |
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| will | (noun) the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention | Synonyms: volition |
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| (noun) a fixed and persistent intent or purpose | - |
| (noun) a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die | Synonyms: testament |
| (verb) determine by choice | - |
| (verb) decree or ordain | - |
| (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: bequeath, leave |
| willet | (noun) large North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf Coasts | Synonyms: Catoptrophorus semipalmatus |
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| willful | (adjective) habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition | Synonyms: froward, headstrong, self-willed, wilful |
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| (adjective) done by design | Synonyms: wilful |
| willfully | (adverb) in a willful manner | Synonyms: wilfully |
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| willfulness | (noun) the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline | Synonyms: fractiousness, unruliness, wilfulness |
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| willies | (noun) feelings of uneasiness | - |
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| willing | (adjective) disposed or inclined toward | - |
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| (adjective) not brought about by coercion or force | Synonyms: uncoerced, unforced |
| (noun) the act of making a choice | Synonyms: volition |
| willingly | (adverb) in a willing manner | Synonyms: volitionally |
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| willingness | (noun) cheerful compliance | - |
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| willow | (noun) a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix | Synonyms: willow tree |
| willowherb | (noun) a plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers and seeds with silky hairs | - |
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| willowware | (noun) chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river | Synonyms: willow-pattern |
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| willowy | (adjective) slender and graceful | Synonyms: gracile |
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| willpower | (noun) the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior | Synonyms: possession, self-command, self-control, self-possession, self-will, will power |
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| wilt | (noun) causing to become limp or drooping | Synonyms: wilting |
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| (noun) any plant disease characterized by drooping and shriveling; usually caused by parasites attacking the roots | Synonyms: wilt disease |
| (verb) become limp | Synonyms: droop |
| (verb) lose strength | - |
| wilted | (adjective) (of plants) limp due to heat, loss of water, or disease | - |
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| (adjective) without energy or will | Synonyms: limp |
| wilting | (noun) causing to become limp or drooping | Synonyms: wilt |
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| wily | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky |
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