| doctorfish | (noun) surgeon fish of the West Indies | Synonyms: Acanthurus chirurgus, doctor-fish |
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| dogfish | (noun) any of several small sharks | - |
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| (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, grindle |
| dollarfish | (noun) small food fish of Atlantic coast | Synonyms: Poronotus triacanthus |
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| (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
| dolphinfish | (noun) large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) | Synonyms: dolphin, mahimahi |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii) | Synonyms: mahimahi |
| doltish | (adjective) heavy and dull and stupid | Synonyms: cloddish |
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| donnish | (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: academic, pedantic |
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| dovish | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: pacifist, pacifistic |
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| driftfish | (noun) small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide | - |
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| (noun) larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico | - |
| drumfish | (noun) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | Synonyms: drum |
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| duncish | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| dwarfish | (adjective) atypically small | - |
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| earlyish | (adjective) being somewhat early | - |
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| elfish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elvish |
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| elvish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elfish |
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| embellish | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad |
| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace |
| establish | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: lay down, make |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, found, ground |
| (verb) place | Synonyms: instal, install, set up |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, found, institute, plant |
| (verb) bring about | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: build |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: found, launch, set up |
| extinguish | (verb) put an end to; kill | Synonyms: snuff out |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, eliminate, get rid of |
| (verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, press out, stub, stub out |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, quench, snuff out |
| extrovertish | (adjective) being somewhat extroverted | - |
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| faddish | (adjective) intensely fashionable for a short time | Synonyms: faddy |
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| fairish | (adjective) (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored | Synonyms: fair |
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| (adjective) not excessive or extreme | Synonyms: fair, reasonable |
| famish | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: hunger, starve |
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| (verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: starve |
| (verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: starve |
| fattish | (adjective) somewhat fat | - |
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| fetish | (noun) excessive or irrational devotion to some activity | Synonyms: fetich |
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| (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers | Synonyms: fetich, hoodoo, juju, voodoo |
| (noun) a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body | - |
| feverish | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: febrile |
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| (adjective) marked by intense agitation or emotion | Synonyms: hectic |
| (adjective) having or affected by a fever | Synonyms: feverous |
| fiendish | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| filefish | (noun) narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine | - |
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| finish | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finishing |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finishing |
| (noun) (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed) | - |
| (noun) designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race) | - |
| (noun) the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict) | - |
| (noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: conclusion, ending |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: destination, goal |
| (noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, culture, polish, refinement |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, last, stopping point |
| (verb) finally be or do something | Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish up, land up, wind up |
| (verb) come or bring to a finish or an end | Synonyms: complete |
| (verb) cause to finish a relationship with somebody | - |
| (verb) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table | Synonyms: eat up, polish off |
| (verb) provide with a finish | - |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, stop, terminate |
| fish | (noun) any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills | - |
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| (noun) the flesh of fish used as food | - |
| (verb) catch or try to catch fish or shellfish | - |
| (verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: angle |
| flagfish | (noun) a fish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes; found in swamps and streams of Florida | Synonyms: American flagfish, Jordanella floridae |
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| flamefish | (noun) a cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Apogon maculatus, flame fish |
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| flatfish | (noun) any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side | - |
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| (noun) sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets | - |
| flourish | (noun) the act of waving | Synonyms: brandish |
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| (noun) a display of ornamental speech or language | - |
| (noun) a showy gesture | - |
| (noun) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments | Synonyms: fanfare, tucket |
| (noun) an ornamental embellishment in writing | - |
| (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, thrive |
| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, wave |
| (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: fly high, prosper, thrive |
| flyfish | (verb) fish with flies as lures | Synonyms: fly-fish |
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| fogyish | (adjective) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned | Synonyms: moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy |
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| foolish | (adjective) devoid of good sense or judgment | - |
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| (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
| foppish | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandified, dandyish |
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| freakish | (adjective) characteristic of a freak | - |
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| (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
| (adjective) changeable | Synonyms: capricious |
| frogfish | (noun) fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout | - |
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| frumpish | (adjective) primly out of date | Synonyms: dowdy, frumpy |
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| furbish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, burnish |
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| furnish | (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: offer, provide, render, supply |
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| (verb) provide or equip with furniture | - |
| garfish | (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: billfish, gar, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus |
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| garish | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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| garnish | (noun) any decoration added as a trimming or adornment | - |
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| (noun) something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration | - |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, trim |
| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnishee |
| ghostfish | (noun) eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth | Synonyms: Cryptacanthodes maculatus, wrymouth |
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| ghoulish | (adjective) suggesting the horror of death and decay | Synonyms: morbid |
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| gibberish | (noun) unintelligible talking | Synonyms: gibber |
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| girlish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young girl | Synonyms: schoolgirlish |
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| globefish | (noun) any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers | Synonyms: blowfish, puffer, pufferfish |
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| gnomish | (adjective) used of small deformed creatures | - |
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| goatfish | (noun) brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels | Synonyms: Mullus surmuletus, red mullet, surmullet |
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| goldfish | (noun) small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes | Synonyms: Carassius auratus |
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| goodish | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
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| (adjective) moderately good of its kind | - |
| goosefish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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| grayish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grey, greyish |
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| greenish | (adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, green, light-green |
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| greyish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayish, grey |
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| groundfish | (noun) fish that live on the sea bottom (particularly the commercially important gadoid fish like cod and haddock, or flatfish like flounder) | Synonyms: bottom fish |
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| guitarfish | (noun) primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body | - |
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| hagfish | (noun) eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies | Synonyms: hag, slime eels |
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| harvestfish | (noun) butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina | Synonyms: Paprilus alepidotus |
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| hashish | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hash, hasheesh |
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| hawkish | (adjective) disposed to warfare or hard-line policies | Synonyms: militant, warlike |
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| headfish | (noun) among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: mola, ocean sunfish, sunfish |
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| heathenish | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, pagan |
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| hellish | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: beastly, god-awful |
| hogfish | (noun) found from Long Island southward | Synonyms: Orthopristis chrysopterus, pigfish |
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| (noun) large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout | Synonyms: hog snapper, Lachnolaimus maximus |
| hoggish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish |
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| horsefish | (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
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| horseradish | (noun) grated horseradish root | - |
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| (noun) coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root | Synonyms: Armoracia rusticana, horse radish, red cole |
| (noun) the root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning | Synonyms: horseradish root |
| hottish | (adjective) somewhat hot | - |
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| hoydenish | (adjective) used of girls; wild and boisterous | Synonyms: tomboyish |
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| huffish | (adjective) sullen or moody | Synonyms: sulky |
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| impish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
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| impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
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| (verb) make poor | - |
| introvertish | (adjective) somewhat introverted | Synonyms: shut-in |
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| jawfish | (noun) small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes | - |
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| jellyfish | (noun) any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans | - |
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| (noun) large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles | Synonyms: man-of-war, Portuguese man-of-war |
| jewfish | (noun) large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales | Synonyms: Mycteroperca bonaci |
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| (noun) large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre | Synonyms: mulloway, Sciaena antarctica |
| killifish | (noun) small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control | - |
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| kingfish | (noun) any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast | - |
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| (noun) large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | Synonyms: cero, pintado, Scomberomorus regalis |
| (noun) small silvery marine food fish found off California | Synonyms: chenfish, Genyonemus lineatus, white croaker |
| (noun) large game fish of Australia and New Zealand | Synonyms: Seriola grandis |
| (noun) the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
| kittenish | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: frisky |
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| knavish | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| knish | (noun) (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack | - |
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| ladyfish | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, tenpounder |
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| lancetfish | (noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, wolffish |
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| languish | (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: fade |
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| (verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: pine away, waste |
| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, pine, yearn, yen |
| lanternfish | (noun) small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night | - |
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| largish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: biggish |
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| latish | (adjective) somewhat late | - |
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| lavish | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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| (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lucullan, plush, plushy |
| (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: shower |
| leatherfish | (noun) any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes | Synonyms: leatherjacket |
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| leftish | (adjective) tending toward the political left | - |
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| lionfish | (noun) brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins | - |
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| liverish | (adjective) irritable as if suffering from indigestion | Synonyms: atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic |
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| (adjective) suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress | Synonyms: bilious, livery |
| lizardfish | (noun) tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | Synonyms: snake-fish, snakefish |
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| longish | (adjective) somewhat long | - |
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| loutish | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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| lumpfish | (noun) clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar | Synonyms: Cyclopterus lumpus |
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| lumpish | (adjective) mentally sluggish | Synonyms: lumpen, unthinking |
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