abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
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adherent | (adjective) sticking fast | - |
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(noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: disciple |
afferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS | - |
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(noun) a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system | Synonyms: afferent nerve, sensory nerve |
apparent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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(adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: ostensible, seeming |
belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
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(adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
(noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
besprent | (adjective) sprinkled over | - |
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brent | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant, brant goose, brent goose |
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circumferent | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: encompassing, surrounding |
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coherent | (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: consistent, logical, ordered |
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(adjective) (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation | - |
(adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: tenacious |
(adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: logical, lucid |
comburent | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, combustive |
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concurrent | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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coreferent | (adjective) related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction | - |
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corticoafferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticipetal |
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corticoefferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticofugal |
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countercurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: crosscurrent |
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(noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: crosscurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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(noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
current | (adjective) occurring in or belonging to the present time | - |
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(noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: stream |
(noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: flow, stream |
(noun) a flow of electricity through a conductor | Synonyms: electric current |
deferent | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferential, regardful |
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deterrent | (adjective) tending to deter | - |
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(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
different | (adjective) unlike in nature or quality or form or degree | - |
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(adjective) distinctly separate from the first | - |
(adjective) differing from all others; not ordinary | - |
(adjective) distinct or separate | - |
efferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS | Synonyms: motorial |
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(noun) a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands | Synonyms: efferent nerve, motor nerve |
godparent | (noun) a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism | - |
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grandparent | (noun) a parent of your father or mother | - |
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incoherent | (adjective) without logical or meaningful connection | - |
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(adjective) (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation | - |
(adjective) unable to express yourself clearly or fluently | Synonyms: tongue-tied |
indifferent | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed | Synonyms: deaf |
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(adjective) characterized by a lack of partiality | Synonyms: unbiased, unbiassed |
(adjective) fairly poor to not very good | - |
(adjective) neither too great nor too little | - |
(adjective) being neither good nor bad | Synonyms: so-so |
(adjective) showing no care or concern in attitude or action | - |
(adjective) (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other | Synonyms: immaterial |
(adjective) marked by a lack of interest | Synonyms: apathetic |
(adjective) having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive | Synonyms: inert, neutral |
(adjective) marked by no especial liking or dislike or preference for one thing over another | - |
inherent | (adjective) in the nature of something though not readily apparent | Synonyms: implicit in, underlying |
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(adjective) existing as an essential constituent or characteristic | Synonyms: built-in, constitutional, inbuilt, integral |
irreverent | (adjective) showing lack of due respect or veneration | - |
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(adjective) not revering god | Synonyms: godless |
(adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, pert, saucy |
nonbelligerent | (adjective) not directly at war | - |
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noncurrent | (adjective) not current or belonging to the present time | - |
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occurrent | (adjective) presently occurring (either causally or incidentally) | - |
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(noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: happening, natural event, occurrence |
parent | (noun) an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained | - |
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(noun) a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian | - |
(verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, nurture, raise, rear |
preferent | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, pet, preferred |
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recurrent | (adjective) recurring again and again | Synonyms: perennial, repeated |
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referent | (adjective) having reference | - |
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(noun) something referred to; the object of a reference | - |
(noun) the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate | - |
(noun) something that refers; a term that refers to another term | - |
rent | (noun) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something | Synonyms: rip, split |
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(noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rip, snag, split, tear |
(noun) a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service | - |
(noun) the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions | Synonyms: economic rent |
(verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, lease, take |
(verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: lease, let |
(verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, hire, lease |
(verb) let for money | Synonyms: lease |
reverent | (adjective) feeling or showing profound respect or veneration | - |
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(adjective) showing great reverence for god | Synonyms: godly, worshipful |
semitransparent | (adjective) allowing light to pass through diffusely | Synonyms: translucent |
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stepparent | (noun) the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage | - |
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torrent | (noun) a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: violent stream |
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(noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, waterspout |
(noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation |
transparent | (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, pellucid |
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(adjective) easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety) | - |
(adjective) free of deceit | Synonyms: guileless |
(adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, vaporous, vapourous |
unapparent | (adjective) not readily apparent | - |
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undercurrent | (noun) a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning | Synonyms: undertone |
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(noun) a current below the surface of a fluid | Synonyms: undertide |
vicegerent | (noun) someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy | - |
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