| ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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| abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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| accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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| antennary | (adjective) of or relating to antennae | Synonyms: antennal |
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| antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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| (noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonal |
| bicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 200 years | Synonyms: bicentennial |
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| (noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bicentennial |
| bimillenary | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillennium |
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| (noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillennium |
| binary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system have 2 as its base | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of two (units or components or elements or terms) | - |
| (noun) a pre-compiled, pre-linked program that is ready to run under a given operating system; a binary for one operating system will not run on a different operating system | Synonyms: binary program |
| (noun) a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation | Synonyms: binary star, double star |
| canary | (adjective) having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow | Synonyms: canary-yellow |
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| (noun) any of several small Old World finches | Synonyms: canary bird |
| (noun) a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge | Synonyms: canary yellow |
| (noun) a female singer | - |
| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| cardiopulmonary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiorespiratory |
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| catenary | (noun) the curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points | - |
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| cautionary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) warding off | Synonyms: prophylactic |
| centenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centennial |
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| (noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: centennial |
| confectionary | (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionery |
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| consuetudinary | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinal |
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| coronary | (adjective) surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart) | - |
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| (noun) obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus) | Synonyms: coronary thrombosis |
| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
| culinary | (adjective) of or relating to or used in cooking | - |
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| decennary | (noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decade, decennium |
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| deflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause decreases in consumer prices or increases in the purchasing power of money | - |
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| denary | (adjective) containing ten or ten parts | Synonyms: ten-fold, tenfold |
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| (adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: decimal |
| dictionary | (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: lexicon |
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| disciplinary | (adjective) relating to a specific field of academic study | - |
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| (adjective) relating to discipline in behavior | - |
| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinal |
| discretionary | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretional |
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| (adjective) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed | - |
| diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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| eleemosynary | (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, philanthropic |
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| elocutionary | (adjective) of or relating to elocution | - |
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| (adjective) (used of style of speaking) overly embellished | - |
| evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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| expeditionary | (adjective) (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad | - |
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| extraordinary | (adjective) beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; special | - |
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| (adjective) far more than usual or expected | Synonyms: over-the-top, sinful |
| (adjective) (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials | - |
| functionary | (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: official |
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| genitourinary | (adjective) of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions | Synonyms: GU |
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| geostationary | (adjective) of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth | - |
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| granary | (noun) a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed | Synonyms: garner |
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| hymnary | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnal, hymnbook |
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| illusionary | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusional |
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| imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 | Synonyms: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number |
| inflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause increases in inflation | - |
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| insurrectionary | (adjective) of or relating to or given to insurrection | Synonyms: insurrectional |
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| interdisciplinary | (adjective) drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study | - |
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| intrapulmonary | (adjective) being or occurring within a lung | - |
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| legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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| luminary | (noun) a celebrity who is an inspiration to others | Synonyms: guiding light, leading light, notability, notable |
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| mercenary | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, moneymaking |
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| (adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, freelance |
| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: materialistic, worldly-minded |
| (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own | Synonyms: soldier of fortune |
| millenary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of 1000 | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium | - |
| (noun) a sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years) | - |
| (noun) a span of 1000 years | Synonyms: millennium |
| (noun) the 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: millennium |
| missionary | (adjective) relating to or connected to a religious mission | Synonyms: missional |
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| (noun) someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program | - |
| (noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missioner |
| nary | (adjective) (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a' | - |
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| nutritionary | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritional |
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| octonary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, ogdoad, VIII |
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| ordinary | (adjective) not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree | - |
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| (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: average |
| (noun) (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields | - |
| (noun) an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel | Synonyms: ordinary bicycle |
| (noun) a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death | - |
| (noun) a judge of a probate court | - |
| (noun) the expected or commonplace condition or situation | - |
| pensionary | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: hireling |
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| (noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensioner |
| petitionary | (adjective) of the nature of or expressing a petition | - |
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| plenary | (adjective) full in all respects | - |
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| precautionary | (adjective) taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure | Synonyms: precautional |
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| preliminary | (adjective) denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important | - |
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| (noun) a minor match preceding the main event | Synonyms: prelim |
| (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: overture, prelude |
| probationary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: provisional, provisionary, tentative |
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| provisionary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, tentative |
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| pulmonary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonic |
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| quatercentenary | (noun) the 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quatercentennial |
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| quaternary | (adjective) consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four | Synonyms: quaternate |
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| (adjective) coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude | Synonyms: 4th, fourth |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
| quincentenary | (adjective) of or relating to a 500th anniversary | Synonyms: quincentennial |
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| (noun) the 500th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: quincentennial |
| reactionary | (adjective) opposed to political or social liberalism or reform | Synonyms: far-right, reactionist |
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| (noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism | Synonyms: extreme right-winger, ultraconservative |
| recessionary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessive |
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| reversionary | (adjective) of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion) | - |
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| revolutionary | (adjective) advocating or engaged in revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a revolution | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn | Synonyms: rotatory |
| (adjective) markedly new or introducing radical change | Synonyms: radical |
| (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionist, subversive, subverter |
| sanguinary | (adjective) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed | Synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded |
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| (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguineous, slaughterous |
| semicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentennial |
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| (noun) the 50th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: semicentennial |
| seminary | (noun) a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis | - |
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| (noun) a private place of education for the young | - |
| septenary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one | Synonyms: 7, heptad, septet, seven, sevener, VII |
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| stagflationary | (adjective) characteristic of or promoting stagflation | - |
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| stationary | (adjective) not capable of being moved | - |
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| (adjective) standing still | - |
| sublunary | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: cislunar, sublunar |
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| (adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunar, terrestrial |
| superlunary | (adjective) situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth | Synonyms: superlunar, translunar, translunary |
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| (adjective) unworldly or ethereal | Synonyms: superlunar, translunar, translunary |
| tercentenary | (noun) the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: tercentennial, triennial |
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| ternary | (adjective) having three units or components or elements | Synonyms: treble, triple, triplex |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| translunary | (adjective) situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth | Synonyms: superlunar, superlunary, translunar |
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| (adjective) unworldly or ethereal | Synonyms: superlunar, superlunary, translunar |
| tricentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 300 years | Synonyms: tricentennial |
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| unary | (adjective) consisting of or involving a single element or component | - |
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| (noun) the bijective base-1 numeral system: in order to represent a number N, an arbitrarily chosen symbol representing 1 is repeated N times. | Synonyms: unary numeral system |
| unmercenary | (adjective) not mercenary; not influenced by financial gains | - |
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| urinary | (adjective) of or relating to the function or production or secretion of urine | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the urinary system of the body | - |
| valetudinary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian | Synonyms: valetudinarian |
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| veterinary | (adjective) of or relating to veterinarians or veterinary medicine | - |
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| (noun) a doctor who practices veterinary medicine | Synonyms: vet, veterinarian, veterinary surgeon |
| vicenary | (adjective) of or relating to or based on 20 | - |
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| visionary | (adjective) not practical or realizable; speculative | Synonyms: airy, impractical, Laputan, windy |
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| (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: illusionist, seer |
| (noun) a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible | - |
| zonary | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of a zone | Synonyms: zonal |
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