| frustrative | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, thwarting |
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| fugitive | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, momentaneous, momentary |
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| (noun) someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice | Synonyms: fugitive from justice |
| (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, runaway |
| furtive | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: sneak, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious |
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| (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, backstairs |
| generative | (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: productive |
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| (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: procreative, reproductive |
| genitive | (adjective) serving to express or indicate possession | Synonyms: possessive |
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| (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive case, possessive, possessive case |
| give | (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: spring, springiness |
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| (verb) proffer (a body part) | - |
| (verb) consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man | - |
| (verb) occur | - |
| (verb) estimate the duration or outcome of something | - |
| (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: devote, pay |
| (verb) convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture | Synonyms: throw |
| (verb) convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow | Synonyms: pay |
| (verb) bestow | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, devote |
| (verb) allow to have or take | - |
| (verb) manifest or show | - |
| (verb) guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion | - |
| (verb) inflict as a punishment | - |
| (verb) accord by verdict | - |
| (verb) submit for consideration, judgment, or use | - |
| (verb) offer in good faith | - |
| (verb) give food to | Synonyms: feed |
| (verb) propose | - |
| (verb) be flexible under stress of physical force | Synonyms: yield |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, render, return, yield |
| (verb) bring about | Synonyms: establish |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: have, hold, make, throw |
| (verb) cause to happen or be responsible for | Synonyms: yield |
| (verb) perform for an audience | - |
| (verb) present to view | - |
| (verb) move in order to make room for someone for something | Synonyms: ease up, give way, move over, yield |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give way |
| (verb) transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody | - |
| (verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: gift, present |
| (verb) leave with; give temporarily | - |
| (verb) cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense | - |
| (verb) be the cause or source of | Synonyms: afford, yield |
| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: hand, pass, pass on, reach, turn over |
| (verb) convey or reveal information | - |
| (verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, contribute, kick in |
| (verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: impart, leave, pass on |
| (verb) endure the loss of | Synonyms: sacrifice |
| (verb) bestow, especially officially | Synonyms: grant |
| (verb) deliver in exchange or recompense | - |
| (verb) give (as medicine) | - |
| (verb) give or convey physically | Synonyms: apply |
| (verb) afford access to | Synonyms: afford, open |
| (verb) emit or utter | - |
| (verb) execute and deliver | - |
| gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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| gustative | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustatorial, gustatory |
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| hive | (noun) a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees | Synonyms: beehive |
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| (noun) a teeming multitude | - |
| (noun) a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree | Synonyms: beehive |
| (verb) gather into a hive | - |
| (verb) move together in a hive or as if in a hive | - |
| (verb) store, like bees | - |
| hortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortatory |
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| hyperactive | (adjective) more active than normal | Synonyms: overactive |
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| hypersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| hypertensive | (adjective) having abnormally high blood pressure | - |
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| (noun) a person who has abnormally high blood pressure | - |
| hypoactive | (adjective) abnormally inactive | Synonyms: underactive |
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| hypotensive | (adjective) having abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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| (noun) a person who has abnormally low blood pressure | - |
| illative | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of illation or inference | Synonyms: inferential |
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| (adjective) expressing or preceding an inference | - |
| (adjective) resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference | Synonyms: inferential |
| illusive | (adjective) based on or having the nature of an illusion | Synonyms: illusory |
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| illustrative | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: exemplifying |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: demonstrative |
| imaginative | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: inventive |
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| imitative | (adjective) marked by or given to imitation | - |
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| (adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic |
| (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: counterfeit |
| immunosuppressive | (adjective) of or relating to a substance that lowers the body's normal immune response and induces immunosuppression | - |
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| (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
| impassive | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, expressionless, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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| (adjective) having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: stolid |
| imperative | (adjective) requiring attention or action | - |
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| (adjective) relating to verbs in the imperative mood | - |
| (noun) some duty that is essential and urgent | - |
| (noun) a verb in the imperative mood. | Synonyms: imperative verb |
| (noun) a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior | Synonyms: imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood |
| imperfective | (noun) aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the action of the verb | Synonyms: imperfective aspect |
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| implicative | (adjective) tending to suggest or imply | Synonyms: suggestive |
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| impressive | (adjective) making a strong or vivid impression | - |
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| (adjective) producing a strong effect | Synonyms: telling |
| impulsive | (adjective) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | Synonyms: capricious, whimsical |
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| (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: driving |
| (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, madcap, tearaway |
| (adjective) proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus | Synonyms: unprompted |
| (adjective) without forethought | - |
| inactive | (adjective) (military) not involved in military operations | Synonyms: nonoperational |
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| (adjective) not active physically or mentally | - |
| (adjective) (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly | - |
| (adjective) lacking activity; lying idle or unused | - |
| (adjective) lacking in energy or will | Synonyms: passive |
| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct | Synonyms: dormant |
| (adjective) not exerting influence or change | - |
| (adjective) not engaged in full-time work | - |
| (adjective) not in physical motion | Synonyms: motionless, static, still |
| (adjective) (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert | - |
| inattentive | (adjective) showing a lack of attention or care | - |
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| (adjective) not showing due care or attention | Synonyms: neglectful |
| incentive | (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: inducement, motivator |
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| (noun) an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output | Synonyms: bonus |
| inceptive | (adjective) in an initial stage | Synonyms: inchoative |
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| inchoative | (adjective) in an initial stage | Synonyms: inceptive |
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| (noun) aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb | Synonyms: inchoative aspect |
| incisive | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) suitable for cutting or piercing | - |
| incitive | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| inclusive | (adjective) including much or everything; and especially including stated limits | - |
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| incommunicative | (adjective) not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions | Synonyms: uncommunicative |
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| incomprehensive | (adjective) not comprehensive | Synonyms: noncomprehensive |
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| inconclusive | (adjective) not conclusive; not putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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| incorporative | (adjective) growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories | - |
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| inculpative | (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to | Synonyms: inculpatory |
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| incursive | (adjective) involving invasion or aggressive attack | Synonyms: invading, invasive |
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| indecisive | (adjective) not definitely settling something | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by lack of decision and firmness | - |
| (adjective) not clearly defined | - |
| indicative | (adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: declarative |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestive |
| (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative mood |
| inducive | (adjective) inducing or influencing; leading on | Synonyms: inductive |
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| inductive | (adjective) of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion | - |
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| (adjective) arising from inductance | - |
| (adjective) inducing or influencing; leading on | Synonyms: inducive |
| ineffective | (adjective) not producing an intended effect | Synonyms: ineffectual, uneffective |
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| (adjective) lacking in power or forcefulness | Synonyms: ineffectual, unable |
| (adjective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate | Synonyms: inefficient |
| inexpensive | (adjective) relatively low in price or charging low prices | Synonyms: cheap |
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| inexpressive | (adjective) not expressive | - |
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| infective | (adjective) caused by infection or capable of causing infection | Synonyms: infectious |
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| (adjective) able to cause disease | Synonyms: morbific, pathogenic |
| infinitive | (noun) the uninflected form of the verb | - |
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| informative | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informatory |
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| (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, illuminating |
| (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: instructive |
| ingressive | (noun) a speech sound by which the airstream flows inward through the mouth or nose. | - |
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| initiative | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiatory, maiden |
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| (noun) the first of a series of actions | Synonyms: first step, opening, opening move |
| (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, enterprisingness, go-ahead |
| innovative | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: groundbreaking, innovational |
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| (adjective) ahead of the times | Synonyms: advanced, forward-looking, modern |
| inoffensive | (adjective) giving no offense | - |
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| (adjective) not causing anger or annoyance | Synonyms: unoffending |
| inoperative | (adjective) not working or taking effect | - |
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| inquisitive | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: questioning, speculative, wondering |
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| (adjective) inquiring or appearing to inquire | - |
| inscriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an inscription | - |
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| insensitive | (adjective) not responsive to physical stimuli | - |
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| (adjective) deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive | - |
| instigative | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| instinctive | (adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: natural |
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| instructive | (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: informative |
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| integrative | (adjective) combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole | - |
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| (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: consolidative |
| intensive | (adjective) of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor | - |
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| (adjective) tending to give force or emphasis | - |
| (adjective) characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form | - |
| (noun) a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies | Synonyms: intensifier |
| interactive | (adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more) | Synonyms: synergistic |
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| (adjective) capable of acting on or influencing each other | Synonyms: interactional |
| interoceptive | (adjective) of or relating to interoception | - |
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| interpretative | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretive |
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| interpretive | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretative |
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| interrogative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogatory |
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| (adjective) relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood | - |
| (noun) a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogative sentence, question |
| (noun) some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood | Synonyms: interrogative mood |
| intransitive | (adjective) designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object | - |
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| (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object | Synonyms: intransitive verb, intransitive verb form |
| introspective | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introverted, self-examining |
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| introversive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introvertive |
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| introvertive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introversive |
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| intrusive | (adjective) tending to intrude (especially upon privacy) | - |
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| (adjective) thrusting inward | - |
| (adjective) of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock | - |
| intuitive | (adjective) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation | Synonyms: nonrational, visceral |
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| (adjective) spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency | - |
| invasive | (adjective) marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision | - |
| (adjective) gradually intrusive without right or permission | Synonyms: encroaching, trespassing |
| (adjective) involving invasion or aggressive attack | Synonyms: incursive, invading |
| invective | (noun) abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will | Synonyms: vitriol, vituperation |
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| inventive | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: imaginative |
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| investigative | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigatory |
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| irrespective | (adverb) in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks | Synonyms: disregarding, disregardless, no matter, regardless |
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| irritative | (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritating |
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| irruptive | (adjective) of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro | Synonyms: plutonic |
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| iterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: reiterative |
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| (noun) the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action | Synonyms: iterative aspect |
| jive | (noun) a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz | Synonyms: swing, swing music |
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| (verb) dance to jive music; dance the jive | - |
| justificative | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificatory |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificatory, vindicatory |
| laxative | (adjective) stimulating evacuation of feces | - |
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| (noun) a mild cathartic | - |
| legislative | (adjective) of or relating to or created by legislation | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature | - |
| lenitive | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| (noun) remedy that eases pain and discomfort | - |
| live | (adjective) possessing life | Synonyms: alive |
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| (adjective) exerting force or containing energy | - |
| (adjective) actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing | Synonyms: unrecorded |
| (adjective) charged or energized with electricity | Synonyms: hot |
| (adjective) of current relevance | - |
| (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, lively, resilient, springy |
| (adjective) abounding with life and energy | - |
| (adjective) charged with an explosive | - |
| (adjective) highly reverberant | - |
| (adjective) in current use or ready for use | - |
| (adjective) capable of erupting | Synonyms: alive |
| (adverb) not recorded | - |
| (verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | Synonyms: experience, know |
| (verb) have life, be alive | Synonyms: be |
| (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, subsist, survive |
| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live on, survive |
| (verb) lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style | - |
| (verb) pursue a positive and satisfying existence | - |
| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, populate |
| locative | (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: locative role |
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| (noun) A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein. | Synonyms: locative case |
| locomotive | (adjective) of or relating to locomotion | Synonyms: locomotor |
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| (noun) a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks | Synonyms: engine, locomotive engine, railway locomotive |
| lucrative | (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: moneymaking, remunerative |
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| macerative | (adjective) accompanied by or characterized by maceration | - |
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| maladaptive | (adjective) showing faulty adaptation | - |
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| maladjustive | (adjective) poorly adjusted | - |
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| manipulative | (adjective) skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage | - |
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| massive | (adjective) consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter | - |
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| (adjective) imposing in size or bulk or solidity | Synonyms: monolithic, monumental |
| (adjective) being the same substance throughout | - |
| (adjective) imposing in scale or scope or degree or power | - |
| medicative | (adjective) having the properties of medicine | Synonyms: medicinal |
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| meditative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| meliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, amelioratory |
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