| egoistic | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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| egomaniac | (noun) an abnormally egotistical person | - |
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| egotistic | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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| (adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistical, narcissistic, self-loving |
| eidetic | (adjective) of visual imagery of almost photographic accuracy | - |
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| elastic | (adjective) capable of resuming original shape after stretching or compression; springy | - |
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| (adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions | Synonyms: flexible, pliable, pliant |
| (noun) a fabric made of yarns containing an elastic material | - |
| (noun) a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together | Synonyms: elastic band, rubber band |
| electric | (adjective) using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity | Synonyms: electrical |
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| (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: galvanic, galvanising, galvanizing |
| (adjective) (of a situation) exceptionally tense | - |
| (noun) a car that is powered by electricity | Synonyms: electric automobile, electric car |
| electrocardiographic | (adjective) of or relating to an electrocardiograph | - |
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| electroencephalographic | (adjective) of or relating to an electroencephalograph | - |
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| electrolytic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing an electrolyte | - |
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| (adjective) of or concerned with or produced by electrolysis | - |
| (noun) a fixed capacitor consisting of two electrodes separated by an electrolyte | Synonyms: electrolytic capacitor, electrolytic condenser |
| electromagnetic | (adjective) pertaining to or exhibiting magnetism produced by electric charge in motion | - |
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| electronic | (adjective) of or relating to electronics; concerned with or using devices that operate on principles governing the behavior of electrons | - |
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| (adjective) of or concerned with electrons | - |
| electrophoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: cataphoretic |
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| electrostatic | (adjective) concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity | Synonyms: static |
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| elegiac | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy | - |
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| (adjective) expressing sorrow often for something past | - |
| elliptic | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptical |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse | - |
| emblematic | (adjective) serving as a visible symbol for something abstract | Synonyms: emblematical, symbolic, symbolical |
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| (adjective) being or serving as an illustration of a type | Synonyms: exemplary, typic |
| embolic | (adjective) of or relating to an embolism or embolus | - |
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| embryologic | (adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryonal, embryonic |
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| embryonic | (adjective) in an early stage of development | Synonyms: embryotic |
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| (adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryologic, embryonal |
| embryotic | (adjective) in an early stage of development | Synonyms: embryonic |
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| emetic | (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: nauseant, vomit, vomitive |
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| emmetropic | (adjective) of or relating to the normal condition of the eye in which visual images are in clear focus on the retina | - |
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| empathetic | (adjective) showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states | Synonyms: empathic |
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| empathic | (adjective) showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states | Synonyms: empathetic |
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| emphatic | (adjective) forceful and definite in expression or action | Synonyms: forceful |
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| (adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: exclamatory |
| (adjective) spoken with emphasis | Synonyms: emphasised, emphasized |
| empiric | (adjective) derived from experiment and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: empirical |
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| (adjective) relying on medical quackery | Synonyms: empirical |
| enatic | (adjective) related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, maternal |
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| encaustic | (noun) a paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application | - |
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| encomiastic | (adjective) formally expressing praise | Synonyms: eulogistic, panegyric, panegyrical |
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| encyclopaedic | (adjective) comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia) | Synonyms: encyclopedic |
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| encyclopedic | (adjective) comprehensive in scope or content (as an encyclopedia) | Synonyms: encyclopaedic |
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| endemic | (adjective) of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality | Synonyms: endemical |
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| (adjective) native to or confined to a certain region | - |
| (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, indigenous |
| (noun) a plant or animal that is native to a certain limited area | - |
| (noun) a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location | Synonyms: endemic disease |
| endergonic | (adjective) (biochemistry) of a process accompanied by or requiring the absorption of energy; the products of the process are of greater free energy than the reactants | - |
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| endermatic | (adjective) acting by absorption through the skin | Synonyms: endermic |
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| endermic | (adjective) acting by absorption through the skin | Synonyms: endermatic |
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| endocentric | (adjective) fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents | - |
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| endodontic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or practicing endodontics | - |
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| endoergic | (adjective) (of a nuclear reaction) occurring with absorption of energy | Synonyms: energy-absorbing |
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| endogamic | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: endogamous |
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| (adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by pollen from another flower of the same kind | Synonyms: endogamous |
| endogenetic | (adjective) of rocks formed or occurring beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: endogenic |
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| endogenic | (adjective) derived or originating internally | Synonyms: endogenous |
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| (adjective) of rocks formed or occurring beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: endogenetic |
| endomorphic | (adjective) having a squat and fleshy build | Synonyms: pyknic |
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| endoparasitic | (adjective) of or relating to parasites that live in the internal organs of animals | - |
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| endoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to endoscopy | - |
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| endothermic | (adjective) (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with absorption of heat | Synonyms: endothermal, heat-absorbing |
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| endozoic | (adjective) living within a living animal usually as a parasite | Synonyms: entozoan, entozoic |
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| energetic | (adjective) possessing or exerting or displaying energy | - |
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| (adjective) working hard to promote an enterprise | Synonyms: gumptious, industrious, up-and-coming |
| enigmatic | (adjective) resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought | Synonyms: oracular |
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| (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatical, puzzling |
| enolic | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of enol | - |
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| enteric | (adjective) of or relating to the enteron | Synonyms: enteral |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteral, intestinal |
| enthusiastic | (adjective) having or showing great excitement and interest | - |
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| entomologic | (adjective) of or relating to the biological science of entomology | Synonyms: entomological |
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| entozoic | (adjective) living within a living animal usually as a parasite | Synonyms: endozoic, entozoan |
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| entric | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals | Synonyms: enteric bacteria, enterics, enterobacteria |
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| enzootic | (adjective) of a disease that is constantly present in an animal community but only occurs in a small number of cases | - |
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| enzymatic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by an enzyme | - |
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| eolithic | (adjective) of or relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age (characterized by the use of eoliths) | - |
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| eolotropic | (adjective) having properties with different values along different axes | Synonyms: aeolotropic |
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| eosinophilic | (adjective) of or relating to eosinophil | - |
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| epenthetic | (adjective) of or pertaining to epenthesis | Synonyms: parasitic |
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| epic | (adjective) constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic | Synonyms: epical |
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| (adjective) very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale) | Synonyms: heroic, larger-than-life |
| (noun) a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | Synonyms: epic poem, epos, heroic poem |
| epicanthic | (adjective) relating to the epicanthus | - |
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| epicyclic | (adjective) of or relating to an epicycle | Synonyms: epicyclical |
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| epideictic | (adjective) designed primarily for rhetorical display | Synonyms: epideictical |
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| epidemic | (adjective) (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously | - |
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| (noun) a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time | - |
| epidemiologic | (adjective) of or relating to epidemiology | Synonyms: epidemiological |
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| epidermic | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, dermal, epidermal |
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| epigastric | (adjective) lying on or over the stomach | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen | - |
| epigrammatic | (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: aphoristic, apothegmatic |
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| epileptic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy | - |
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| (noun) a person who has epilepsy | - |
| epilithic | (adjective) growing on stone | - |
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| epimorphic | (adjective) characterized by incomplete metamorphosis; having the same number of body segments in successive stages | - |
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| epiphytic | (adjective) of or relating to epiphytes | - |
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| epiphytotic | (adjective) (of plants) epidemic among plants of a single kind especially over a wide area | - |
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| episodic | (adjective) of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes | - |
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| (adjective) limited in duration to a single episode | - |
| (adjective) occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals | Synonyms: occasional |
| epistemic | (adjective) of or relating to epistemology | Synonyms: epistemological |
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| epizoic | (adjective) living or growing on the exterior surface of an animal usually as a parasite | - |
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| epizootic | (adjective) (of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region | - |
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| eponymic | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymous |
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| eremitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living | Synonyms: eremitical |
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| (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: anchoritic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
| ergodic | (adjective) positive recurrent aperiodic state of stochastic systems; tending in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions | - |
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| ergonomic | (adjective) of or relating to ergonomics | - |
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| ergotic | (adjective) relating to or produced by ergot | - |
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| ergotropic | (adjective) of or relating to ergotropism | - |
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| eristic | (adjective) given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments | Synonyms: eristical |
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| (noun) the art of logical disputation (especially if specious) | - |
| (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: controversialist, disputant |
| erotic | (adjective) giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing | Synonyms: titillating |
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| (noun) an erotic person | - |
| erratic | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: fickle, mercurial, quicksilver |
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| (adjective) likely to perform unpredictably | Synonyms: temperamental |
| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: planetary, wandering |
| erythropoietic | (adjective) of or relating to the formation of red blood cells | - |
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| esoteric | (adjective) confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle | - |
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| esthetic | (adjective) concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste | Synonyms: aesthetic, aesthetical, esthetical |
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| (adjective) relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics | Synonyms: aesthetic |
| (adjective) aesthetically pleasing | Synonyms: aesthetic, artistic |
| (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful | Synonyms: aesthetic |
| estrogenic | (adjective) relating to or caused by estrogen | - |
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| ethic | (noun) the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group | Synonyms: moral principle, value-system, value orientation |
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| (noun) a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct | Synonyms: ethical code |
| ethnic | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: heathen, heathenish, pagan |
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| (adjective) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people | Synonyms: cultural, ethnical |
| (noun) a person who is a member of an ethnic group | - |
| ethnocentric | (adjective) centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own | - |
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| ethnographic | (adjective) of or relating to ethnography | Synonyms: ethnographical |
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| ethnologic | (adjective) of or relating to ethnology | Synonyms: ethnological |
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| etiologic | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiological |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiological |
| etodolac | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Lodine) | Synonyms: Lodine |
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| eucaryotic | (adjective) having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: eukaryotic |
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| eudaemonic | (adjective) producing happiness and well-being | Synonyms: eudemonic |
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