apostasy | (noun) the act of abandoning a party for cause | Synonyms: tergiversation |
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(noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: defection, renunciation |
dichromasy | (noun) a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision) | Synonyms: dichromacy, dichromatism, dichromatopsia, dichromia |
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easy | (adjective) posing no difficulty; requiring little effort | - |
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(adjective) free from worry or anxiety | - |
(adjective) obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally | - |
(adjective) less in demand and therefore readily obtainable | - |
(adjective) affording comfort | - |
(adjective) marked by moderate steepness | Synonyms: gentle |
(adjective) readily exploited or tricked | - |
(adjective) having little impact | Synonyms: gentle, soft |
(adjective) affording pleasure | - |
(adjective) in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich | Synonyms: comfortable, prosperous, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do |
(adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton |
(adjective) not hurried or forced | Synonyms: easygoing, leisurely |
(adjective) not strict | Synonyms: lenient |
(adverb) in a relaxed manner; or without hardship | Synonyms: soft |
(adverb) with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily') | Synonyms: easily |
(adverb) without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') | Synonyms: slow, slowly, tardily |
ecstasy | (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, cristal, disco biscuit, go, hug drug, X, XTC |
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(noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: exaltation, rapture, raptus, transport |
(noun) a state of elated bliss | Synonyms: rapture |
fantasy | (noun) imagination unrestricted by reality | Synonyms: phantasy |
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(noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, illusion, phantasy |
(noun) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it | Synonyms: phantasy |
(verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasize |
greasy | (adjective) smeared or soiled with grease or oil | Synonyms: oily |
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(adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: oily, oleaginous, sebaceous |
idiosyncrasy | (noun) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual | Synonyms: foible, mannerism |
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isostasy | (noun) (geology) a general equilibrium of the forces tending to elevate or depress the earth's crust | - |
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monochromasy | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism, monochromia |
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phantasy | (noun) imagination unrestricted by reality | Synonyms: fantasy |
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(noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, fantasy, illusion |
(noun) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it | Synonyms: fantasy |
queasy | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickish |
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(adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, nervous, uneasy, unquiet |
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, sickening, vile |
speakeasy | (noun) (during prohibition) an illegal barroom | - |
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uneasy | (adjective) lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance | - |
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(adjective) lacking or not affording physical or mental rest | Synonyms: restless |
(adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, nervous, queasy, unquiet |
(adjective) relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort | - |
(adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: awkward, ill at ease |