| misconceive | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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| misgive | (verb) suggest fear or doubt | - |
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| misperceive | (verb) perceive incorrectly | - |
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| missive | (noun) a written message addressed to a person or organization | Synonyms: letter |
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| mitigative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigatory, palliative |
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| motivative | (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivating, motive |
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| motive | (adjective) causing or able to cause motion | Synonyms: motor |
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| (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivating, motivative |
| (noun) the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior | Synonyms: motivation, need |
| (noun) a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration | Synonyms: motif |
| (noun) a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Synonyms: motif |
| multiplicative | (adjective) tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree | - |
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| mutative | (adjective) of or pertaining to or marked by genetic mutation | - |
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| naive | (adjective) marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience | Synonyms: naif |
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| (adjective) not initiated; deficient in relevant experience | Synonyms: uninitiate, uninitiated |
| (adjective) inexperienced | - |
| (adjective) lacking information or instruction | Synonyms: unenlightened, uninstructed |
| (adjective) of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style | Synonyms: primitive |
| narrative | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story | - |
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| (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, story, tale |
| native | (adjective) characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: aboriginal |
| (adjective) belonging to one by birth | - |
| (adjective) as found in nature in the elemental form | - |
| (noun) indigenous plants and animals | - |
| (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene |
| (noun) a person born in a particular place or country | - |
| negative | (adjective) expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features | - |
| (adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: disconfirming |
| (adjective) reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive | - |
| (adjective) having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant | - |
| (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: electronegative, negatively charged |
| (adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: damaging |
| (adjective) involving disadvantage or harm | Synonyms: minus |
| (adjective) less than zero | - |
| (noun) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | - |
| (noun) a reply of denial | - |
| (verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: blackball, veto |
| neoconservative | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neocon |
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| nociceptive | (adjective) caused by or in response to pain | - |
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| nominative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb | - |
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| (adjective) appointed by nomination | Synonyms: nominated |
| (adjective) named; bearing the name of a specific person | Synonyms: nominal |
| (noun) the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb | Synonyms: nominative case, subject case |
| nonabsorptive | (adjective) not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids) | Synonyms: nonabsorbent |
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| nonadaptive | (adjective) (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose | Synonyms: dysfunctional |
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| nonaddictive | (adjective) not causing or characterized by addiction | - |
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| nonadhesive | (adjective) not tending to adhere | - |
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| nonadsorptive | (adjective) lacking a capacity to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: nonadsorbent |
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| nonaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: unaggressive |
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| nonappointive | (adjective) filled by popular election rather than by appointment | - |
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| nonassertive | (adjective) not aggressively self-assured, though not necessarily lacking in confidence | - |
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| nonassociative | (adjective) not associative | - |
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| noncausative | (adjective) not causative | Synonyms: noncausal |
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| noncombinative | (adjective) not involving combination | - |
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| noncompetitive | (adjective) not involving competition or competitiveness | - |
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| noncomprehensive | (adjective) not comprehensive | Synonyms: incomprehensive |
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| nonconductive | (adjective) not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: non-conducting, nonconducting |
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| nonelective | (adjective) filled by appointment rather than by election | Synonyms: non-elective, nonelected |
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| nonexplorative | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexploratory, unexplorative, unexploratory |
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| nonexplosive | (adjective) not explosive | - |
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| nonfigurative | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonobjective |
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| nonimitative | (adjective) not marked by or given to imitation | - |
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| noninvasive | (adjective) relating to a technique that does not involve puncturing the skin or entering a body cavity | - |
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| nonnative | (adjective) not being or composed of aborigines | - |
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| (adjective) of persons born in another area or country than that lived in | Synonyms: foreign-born |
| (adjective) of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing | - |
| nonnegative | (adjective) either positive or zero | - |
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| nonnormative | (adjective) not based on a norm | - |
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| nonobjective | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative |
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| nonproductive | (adjective) not directly productive | - |
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| nonprognosticative | (adjective) not offering prognostications | - |
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| nonprogressive | (adjective) old-fashioned and out of date | Synonyms: fusty, standpat, unprogressive |
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| nonpsychoactive | (adjective) not affecting the mind or mental processes | - |
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| nonradioactive | (adjective) not radioactive | - |
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| nonreflective | (adjective) not capable of physical reflection | Synonyms: nonreflecting |
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| nonrepetitive | (adjective) marked by the absence of repetition | - |
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| nonrepresentative | (adjective) not standing for something else | Synonyms: unsymbolic |
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| nonrestrictive | (adjective) not limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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| nonsensitive | (adjective) never having had security classification | Synonyms: unrestricted |
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| nonsubjective | (adjective) undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena | Synonyms: objective |
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| nonsuppurative | (adjective) not suppurative | - |
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| normative | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: prescriptive |
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| (adjective) relating to or dealing with norms | - |
| normotensive | (adjective) having normal blood pressure | - |
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| nosedive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: dive, nose dive |
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| (noun) a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline | - |
| (verb) plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft | - |
| nutritive | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious |
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| objective | (adjective) undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena | Synonyms: nonsubjective |
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| (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: accusative |
| (adjective) belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events | - |
| (adjective) emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation | - |
| (noun) the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed | Synonyms: object glass, object lens, objective lens |
| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, target |
| obsessive | (adjective) characterized by or constituting an obsession | Synonyms: obsessional |
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| (noun) a person who has obsessions | - |
| obstructive | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, hindering, impeding |
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| obtrusive | (adjective) undesirably noticeable | - |
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| (adjective) sticking out; protruding | - |
| occlusive | (adjective) tending to occlude | - |
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| (noun) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | Synonyms: plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop, stop consonant |
| offensive | (adjective) unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses | - |
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| (adjective) causing anger or annoyance | - |
| (adjective) for the purpose of attack rather than defense | - |
| (adjective) morally offensive | Synonyms: unsavory, unsavoury |
| (adjective) violating or tending to violate or offend against | Synonyms: violative |
| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, sickening, vile |
| (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offense |
| ogive | (noun) front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere | Synonyms: nose cone |
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| olfactive | (adjective) of or relating to olfaction | Synonyms: olfactory |
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| olive | (adjective) of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive | - |
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| (noun) a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation | - |
| (noun) one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish | - |
| (noun) evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits | Synonyms: European olive tree, Olea europaea |
| (noun) small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil | - |
| (noun) hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork | - |
| omissive | (adjective) characterized by omissions | - |
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| operative | (adjective) being in force or having or exerting force | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine | Synonyms: surgical |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, running, working |
| (adjective) effective; producing a desired effect | - |
| (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus, sherlock |
| (noun) a person secretly employed in espionage for a government | Synonyms: intelligence agent, intelligence officer, secret agent |
| opinionative | (adjective) obstinate in your opinions | Synonyms: opinionated, self-opinionated |
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| oppositive | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: adversative |
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| oppressive | (adjective) marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior | Synonyms: tyrannical, tyrannous |
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| (adjective) weighing heavily on the senses or spirit | - |
| optative | (adjective) relating to a mood of verbs in some languages | - |
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| (adjective) indicating an option or wish | - |
| (noun) a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs | Synonyms: optative mood |
| originative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: creative |
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| (adjective) containing seeds of later development | Synonyms: germinal, seminal |
| ostensive | (adjective) represented or appearing as such; pretended | Synonyms: ostensible |
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| (adjective) manifestly demonstrative | - |
| outlive | (verb) live longer than | Synonyms: outlast, survive |
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| overactive | (adjective) more active than normal | Synonyms: hyperactive |
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| overdrive | (noun) a high gear used at high speeds to maintain the driving speed with less output power | - |
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| (noun) the state of high or excessive activity or productivity or concentration | - |
| (verb) make use of too often or too extensively | Synonyms: overuse |
| (verb) drive or work too hard | - |
| overprotective | (adjective) overly protective | - |
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| oversensitive | (adjective) unduly sensitive or thin-skinned | - |
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| oxidative | (adjective) taking place in the presence of oxygen | - |
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| palliative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory |
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| (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, alleviator |
| partitive | (adjective) indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts | - |
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| (adjective) (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole | - |
| (adjective) serving to separate or divide into parts | Synonyms: separative |
| (noun) word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole | - |
| passive | (adjective) lacking in energy or will | Synonyms: inactive |
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| (adjective) expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb | - |
| (adjective) peacefully resistant in response to injustice | Synonyms: peaceful |
| (noun) the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: passive voice |
| pejorative | (adjective) expressing disapproval | Synonyms: dislogistic, dyslogistic |
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| penetrative | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrating |
| pensive | (adjective) showing pensive sadness | Synonyms: wistful |
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| (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
| perceive | (verb) become conscious of | - |
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| (verb) to become aware of through the senses | Synonyms: comprehend |
| perceptive | (adjective) having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to perception | - |
| percussive | (adjective) involving percussion or featuring percussive instruments | - |
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| perfective | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action | Synonyms: perfective aspect |
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| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) | Synonyms: perfect, perfect tense, perfective tense |
| permeative | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeating, pervasive |
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| permissive | (adjective) granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline | - |
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| (adjective) not preventive | - |
| perspective | (noun) the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer | Synonyms: linear perspective |
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| (noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: position, view |
| persuasive | (adjective) intended or having the power to induce action or belief | - |
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| pervasive | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeating, permeative |
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| perversive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, pestiferous |
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| photoconductive | (adjective) of or relating to photoconductivity | - |
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| photoemissive | (adjective) of or relating to photoemission | - |
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| photosensitive | (adjective) sensitive to visible light | Synonyms: light-sensitive |
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| placative | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placating, placatory |
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| plaintive | (adjective) expressing sorrow | Synonyms: mournful |
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