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 | - |
inwrought | (adjective) having a decorative pattern worked or woven in | - |
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overwrought | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: distraught |
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showroom | (noun) an area where merchandise (such as cars) can be displayed | Synonyms: saleroom, salesroom |
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squawroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, papooseroot, squaw root |
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towrope | (noun) (nautical) a rope used in towing | Synonyms: towing line, towing rope, towline |
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wrong | (adjective) contrary to conscience or morality or law | - |
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(adjective) not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth | Synonyms: incorrect |
(adjective) based on or acting or judging in error | - |
(adjective) characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules | Synonyms: faulty, incorrect |
(adjective) not appropriate for a purpose or occasion | Synonyms: improper |
(adjective) badly timed | Synonyms: ill-timed, unseasonable, untimely |
(adjective) used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward | - |
(adjective) not functioning properly | Synonyms: amiss, awry, haywire |
(adjective) not in accord with established usage or procedure | Synonyms: incorrect |
(noun) any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right | Synonyms: damage, legal injury |
(noun) that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law | Synonyms: wrongfulness |
(adverb) in an incorrect manner | Synonyms: incorrectly, wrongly |
(verb) treat unjustly; do wrong to | - |
wrongdoer | (noun) a person who transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: offender |
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wrongdoing | (noun) activity that transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: actus reus, misconduct, wrongful conduct |
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(noun) departure from what is ethically acceptable | Synonyms: error |
wrongful | (adjective) having no legally established claim | Synonyms: unlawful |
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(adjective) not just or fair | - |
(adjective) unlawfully violating the rights of others | - |
wrongfully | (adverb) in an unjust or unfair manner | - |
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wrongfulness | (noun) that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law | Synonyms: wrong |
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wrongheaded | (adjective) obstinately perverse in judgment or opinion | - |
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wrongheadedly | (adverb) in a wrongheaded manner | - |
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wrongly | (adverb) in an incorrect manner | Synonyms: incorrectly, wrong |
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(adverb) without justice or fairness | - |
wrongness | (noun) contrary to conscience or morality | - |
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(noun) the quality of not conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: incorrectness |
(noun) inappropriate conduct | Synonyms: inappropriateness |
wroth | (adjective) vehemently incensed and condemnatory | Synonyms: wrathful, wrothful |
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wrothful | (adjective) vehemently incensed and condemnatory | Synonyms: wrathful, wroth |
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wrought | (adjective) shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort) | Synonyms: molded, shaped |
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