absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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acceleratory | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: accelerative |
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accessory | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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(adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
(noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: add-on, appurtenance, supplement |
(noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accouterment, accoutrement |
(noun) someone who helps another person commit a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
accusatory | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusing, accusive |
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adjudicatory | (adjective) concerned with adjudicating | Synonyms: adjudicative |
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adjuratory | (adjective) earnestly or solemnly entreating | - |
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(adjective) containing a solemn charge or command | - |
admonitory | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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(adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, reproachful, reproving |
adulatory | (adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: flattering |
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advisory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: consultative, consultatory, consultive |
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(noun) an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat | - |
affirmatory | (adjective) affirming or giving assent | Synonyms: affirmative |
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aleatory | (adjective) dependent on chance | - |
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allegory | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: apologue, fable, parable |
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(noun) an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor | - |
(noun) a visible symbol representing an abstract idea | Synonyms: emblem |
alleviatory | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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amatory | (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amorous, romantic |
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ambulatory | (adjective) relating to or adapted for walking | - |
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(adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulant |
(noun) a covered walkway (as in a cloister) | - |
amelioratory | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, meliorative |
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amendatory | (adjective) effecting amendment | - |
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amphigory | (noun) nonsensical writing (usually verse) | Synonyms: nonsense verse |
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annunciatory | (adjective) relating to the act of announcing or being announced | - |
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anticipatory | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: prevenient |
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applicatory | (adjective) readily applicable or practical | Synonyms: applicative |
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approbatory | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approving, plausive |
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armory | (noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
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(noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
(noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armoury, arsenal |
(noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armoury, inventory |
articulatory | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulative |
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assimilatory | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilative |
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associatory | (adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: associative |
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auditory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: audile, auditive |
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auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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benedictory | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictive |
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calefactory | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactive |
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calumniatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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cardiorespiratory | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiopulmonary |
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category | (noun) a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme | - |
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(noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: class, family |
celebratory | (adjective) used for celebrating | - |
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certificatory | (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
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chicory | (noun) crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste | Synonyms: curly endive |
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(noun) root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee | Synonyms: chicory root |
(noun) perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads | Synonyms: chicory plant, Cichorium intybus, succory |
(noun) the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: chicory root |
chylifactory | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylific |
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circulatory | (adjective) relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulative |
circumlocutory | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic |
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classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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clearstory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clerestory |
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clerestory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clearstory |
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combinatory | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinative |
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(adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatorial |
(adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinational |
comminatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: denunciative, denunciatory |
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communicatory | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicative |
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competitory | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitive |
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compulsory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: mandatory, required |
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conciliatory | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliative |
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(adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, flexible |
condemnatory | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemning |
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confirmatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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congratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: gratulatory |
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conservatory | (noun) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | Synonyms: hothouse, indoor garden |
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(noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatoire |
(noun) the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts | - |
consistory | (noun) a church tribunal or governing body | - |
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consolatory | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consoling |
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consultatory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultive |
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contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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(adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
(adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
(adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
(noun) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time | - |
contributory | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary |
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copulatory | (adjective) of or relating to coitus or copulation | Synonyms: coital |
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corroboratory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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cosignatory | (adjective) signing jointly with others | - |
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(noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosigner |
crematory | (noun) a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes | Synonyms: cremation chamber, crematorium |
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(noun) a mortuary where corpses are cremated | Synonyms: crematorium |
criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
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cursory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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damnatory | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damning |
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declamatory | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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declaratory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declarative |
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defamatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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delusory | (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: deceptive |
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denigratory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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denunciatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciative |
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depilatory | (adjective) able to remove hair or render hairless | - |
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(noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | Synonyms: depilator, epilator |
(noun) a chemical (usually a sulfide) used to remove hair or wool or bristles from hides | - |
depository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, repository |
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deprecatory | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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depreciatory | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciative |
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(adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, slighting |
derisory | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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derogatory | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, disparaging |
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desultory | (adjective) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another | - |
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dextrorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotary, right-handed |
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dilatory | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: laggard, pokey, poky |
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directory | (noun) an alphabetical list of names and addresses | - |
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(noun) (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk) | - |
discriminatory | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: prejudiced |
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(adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: preferential |
(adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminative |
(adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: invidious |
dissatisfactory | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: disappointing, unsatisfying |
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divinatory | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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(adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
dormitory | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dorm, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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(noun) a large sleeping room containing several beds | Synonyms: dorm room, dormitory room |
dory | (noun) marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters | - |
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(noun) pike-like freshwater perches | Synonyms: jack salmon, Stizostedion vitreum, walleye, walleyed pike |
(noun) a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled | Synonyms: dinghy, rowboat |
epistolatory | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolary |
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euphory | (noun) a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation | Synonyms: euphoria |
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excitatory | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitative |
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exclamatory | (adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: emphatic |
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excretory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of excretion | - |
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exculpatory | (adjective) clearing of guilt or blame | - |
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excusatory | (adjective) offering or expressing apology | Synonyms: apologetic |
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exhortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory |
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expiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, propitiatory |
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expiratory | (adjective) of or relating to the breathing out phase of respiration | - |
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explanatory | (adjective) serving or intended to explain or make clear | - |
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exploitatory | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitive |
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exploratory | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: explorative |
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expository | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expositive |
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