acidulent | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulous |
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ambivalent | (adjective) uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow | - |
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antiflatulent | (noun) any agent that reduces intestinal gas | - |
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avirulent | (adjective) not virulent; unable to produce disease | - |
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benevolent | (adjective) intending or showing kindness | - |
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(adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
(adjective) generous in providing aid to others | Synonyms: freehearted |
(adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
bivalent | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: double |
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(adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: divalent |
condolent | (adjective) expressing sympathy with a person who experienced the death of a loved one | - |
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corpulent | (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: obese, rotund, weighty |
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covalent | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by covalence | - |
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crapulent | (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulous |
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cromulent | (adjective) Legitimate or valid (frequently used ironically) | - |
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divalent | (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: bivalent |
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equivalent | (adjective) being essentially equal to something | Synonyms: tantamount |
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(noun) the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen | Synonyms: combining weight, eq, equivalent weight |
(noun) a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc | - |
excellent | (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: fantabulous, first-class, mean, ripping, splendid |
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feculent | (adjective) foul with waste matter | - |
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flatulent | (adjective) generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal | - |
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(adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: colicky, gassy |
flocculent | (adjective) having a fluffy character or appearance | Synonyms: woolly, wooly |
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fraudulent | (adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: deceitful, fallacious |
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impellent | (adjective) forcing forward or onward; impelling | - |
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indolent | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: faineant, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy |
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(adjective) (of tumors, e.g.) slow to heal or develop and usually painless | - |
insolent | (adjective) marked by casual disrespect | Synonyms: flip, impudent, snotty-nosed |
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(adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen |
luculent | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, perspicuous |
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malevolent | (adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malefic, malign |
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(adjective) wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred | - |
milliequivalent | (noun) one-thousandth of an equivalent | Synonyms: meq |
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monovalent | (adjective) having a valence of 1 | Synonyms: univalent |
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(adjective) containing only one kind of antibody | - |
mucopurulent | (adjective) containing or composed of mucus and pus | - |
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multivalent | (adjective) used of the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis | - |
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(adjective) having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher | Synonyms: polyvalent |
(adjective) having many values, meanings, or appeals | Synonyms: multi-valued |
nonequivalent | (adjective) not equal or interchangeable in value, quantity, or significance | - |
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nonpurulent | (adjective) not containing pus | - |
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nonturbulent | (adjective) (of a liquid) not turbulent | - |
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nonviolent | (adjective) abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence | - |
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(adjective) achieved without bloodshed | Synonyms: unbloody |
opulent | (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, princely, sumptuous |
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pentavalent | (adjective) having a valence of five | - |
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pestilent | (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilential, plaguey |
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(adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pernicious |
polyvalent | (adjective) having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher | Synonyms: multivalent |
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(adjective) containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen | - |
prevalent | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevailing, rife |
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propellent | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propelling, propulsive |
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(noun) any substance that propels | Synonyms: propellant |
puberulent | (adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down | Synonyms: downy, pubescent, sericeous |
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purulent | (adjective) containing pus | Synonyms: pussy |
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redolent | (adjective) having a strong pleasant odor | Synonyms: aromatic |
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(adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, remindful, reminiscent, resonant |
(adjective) (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous | Synonyms: smelling |
relent | (verb) give in, as to influence or pressure | Synonyms: soften, yield |
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repellent | (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: resistant |
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(adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
(adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellant |
(noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellant |
(noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellant |
(noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellant |
silent | (adjective) implied by or inferred from actions or statements | Synonyms: tacit, understood |
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(adjective) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness | Synonyms: dumb, mute |
(adjective) having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility | - |
(adjective) marked by absence of sound | Synonyms: soundless, still |
(adjective) failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to | Synonyms: mum |
(adjective) not made to sound | Synonyms: unsounded |
(adjective) expressed without speech | Synonyms: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless |
somnolent | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbery, slumbrous |
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succulent | (adjective) tender and full of juice | Synonyms: lush |
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(noun) a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs | - |
talent | (noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: endowment, gift, natural endowment |
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(noun) a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity | - |
tetravalent | (adjective) having a valence of four | - |
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trivalent | (adjective) having a valence of three | - |
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truculent | (adjective) defiantly aggressive | - |
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turbulent | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: churning, roiled, roiling, roily |
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(adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous |
univalent | (adjective) used of a chromosome that is not paired or united with its homologous chromosome during synapsis | - |
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(adjective) having a valence of 1 | Synonyms: monovalent |
valent | (adjective) (chemistry) having valence; usually used in combination | - |
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violent | (adjective) acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity | - |
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(adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed | Synonyms: crimson, red |
(adjective) effected by force or injury rather than natural causes | - |
(adjective) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid | Synonyms: fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, vehement |
(adjective) (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud | Synonyms: wild |
virulent | (adjective) infectious; having the ability to cause disease | - |
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(adjective) extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom | Synonyms: deadly, venomous |
(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, vitriolic |