| antsy | (adjective) nervous and unable to relax | Synonyms: fidgety, fretful, itchy, restless |
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| apostasy | (noun) the act of abandoning a party for cause | Synonyms: tergiversation |
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| (noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: defection, renunciation |
| argosy | (noun) one or more large merchant ships | - |
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| autopsy | (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: necropsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination |
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| (verb) perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem | - |
| biopsy | (noun) examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease | - |
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| blowsy | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowzy, slatternly, sluttish |
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| bossy | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| brassy | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brasslike |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| busy | (adjective) actively or fully engaged or occupied | - |
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| (adjective) overcrowded or cluttered with detail | Synonyms: fussy |
| (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
| (adjective) (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) | Synonyms: engaged, in use |
| (adjective) crowded with or characterized by much activity | - |
| (verb) keep busy with | Synonyms: occupy |
| catalepsy | (noun) a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli | - |
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| cheesy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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| choosy | (adjective) difficult to please | Synonyms: choosey |
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| cissy | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| classy | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: posh, swish |
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| clerisy | (noun) an educated and intellectual elite | Synonyms: intelligentsia |
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| clumsy | (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clunky, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy |
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| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, fumbling, incompetent |
| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, bunglesome, ungainly |
| controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| cosy | (adjective) enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space | Synonyms: cozy, snug |
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| (noun) a padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm | Synonyms: cozy, tea cosy, tea cozy |
| (adjective) suggesting connivance | Synonyms: cozy |
| (adjective) having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere | Synonyms: cozy, informal, intimate |
| courtesy | (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate act | - |
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| (noun) a courteous manner | Synonyms: good manners |
| (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate remark | - |
| curtsy | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsey |
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| (verb) make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect | Synonyms: bob |
| (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsey |
| daisy | (noun) any of numerous composite plants having flower heads with well-developed ray flowers usually arranged in a single whorl | - |
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| dichromasy | (noun) a deficiency of color vision in which the person can match any given hue by mixing only two other wavelengths of light (as opposed to the three wavelengths needed by people with normal color vision) | Synonyms: dichromacy, dichromatism, dichromatopsia, dichromia |
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| discourtesy | (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: offence, offense, offensive activity |
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| (noun) a manner that is rude and insulting | Synonyms: rudeness |
| (noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: disrespect |
| dressy | (adjective) in fancy clothing | - |
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| dropsy | (noun) swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities | Synonyms: edema, hydrops, oedema |
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| drowsy | (adjective) half asleep | Synonyms: dozy, drowsing |
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| (adjective) showing lack of attention or boredom | Synonyms: oscitant, yawning |
| easy | (adjective) posing no difficulty; requiring little effort | - |
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| (adjective) free from worry or anxiety | - |
| (adjective) obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally | - |
| (adjective) less in demand and therefore readily obtainable | - |
| (adjective) affording comfort | - |
| (adjective) marked by moderate steepness | Synonyms: gentle |
| (adjective) readily exploited or tricked | - |
| (adjective) having little impact | Synonyms: gentle, soft |
| (adjective) affording pleasure | - |
| (adjective) in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich | Synonyms: comfortable, prosperous, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do |
| (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton |
| (adjective) not hurried or forced | Synonyms: easygoing, leisurely |
| (adjective) not strict | Synonyms: lenient |
| (adverb) in a relaxed manner; or without hardship | Synonyms: soft |
| (adverb) with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily') | Synonyms: easily |
| (adverb) without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') | Synonyms: slow, slowly, tardily |
| ecstasy | (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, cristal, disco biscuit, go, hug drug, X, XTC |
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| (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: exaltation, rapture, raptus, transport |
| (noun) a state of elated bliss | Synonyms: rapture |
| embassy | (noun) a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work | - |
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| (noun) an ambassador and his entourage collectively | - |
| epilepsy | (noun) a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions | - |
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| fantasy | (noun) imagination unrestricted by reality | Synonyms: phantasy |
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| (noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, illusion, phantasy |
| (noun) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it | Synonyms: phantasy |
| (verb) indulge in fantasies | Synonyms: fantasise, fantasize |
| flimsy | (adjective) not convincing | Synonyms: unconvincing |
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| (adjective) lacking solidity or strength | Synonyms: insubstantial |
| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: fragile, slight, tenuous, thin |
| (noun) a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies | Synonyms: onionskin |
| flindosy | (noun) tall Australian timber tree yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc | Synonyms: Flindersia australis, flindosa, native beech |
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| flossy | (adjective) like down or as soft as down | Synonyms: downlike, downy, fluffy |
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| folksy | (adjective) very informal and familiar | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the common people, especially in regard to speech patterns, attitudes, etc. | - |
| frowsy | (adjective) negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt | Synonyms: frowzy, slovenly |
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| fussy | (adjective) overcrowded or cluttered with detail | Synonyms: busy |
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| (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
| (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, particular, picky |
| gassy | (adjective) resembling gas | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: colicky, flatulent |
| geodesy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the shape of the earth and the determination of the exact position of geographical points | - |
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| gipsy | (noun) a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment | Synonyms: gypsy, itinerant |
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| (noun) a person who resembles a Romani in leading an unconventional, nomadic way of life | Synonyms: gypsy |
| glassy | (adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness | Synonyms: glazed |
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| (adjective) (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it | Synonyms: vitreous, vitrified |
| (adjective) resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness | - |
| glossy | (adjective) superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense | Synonyms: showy |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny |
| (adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: calendered |
| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, meretricious, specious |
| (noun) a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper | - |
| (noun) a magazine printed on good quality paper | Synonyms: slick, slick magazine |
| goosy | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, jerky |
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| grassy | (adjective) abounding in grass | - |
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| greasy | (adjective) smeared or soiled with grease or oil | Synonyms: oily |
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| (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: oily, oleaginous, sebaceous |
| gutsy | (adjective) marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited | Synonyms: plucky |
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| gypsy | (noun) a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment | Synonyms: gipsy, itinerant |
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| (noun) a person who resembles a Romani in leading an unconventional, nomadic way of life | Synonyms: gipsy |
| heresy | (noun) a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion | Synonyms: unorthodoxy |
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| (noun) any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position | Synonyms: heterodoxy, unorthodoxy |
| hussy | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
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| (noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: ho, hoe, slut, trollop |
| hypocrisy | (noun) insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have | - |
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| (noun) an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction | Synonyms: lip service |
| hysterocatalepsy | (noun) hysteria with cataleptic symptoms | - |
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| idiosyncrasy | (noun) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual | Synonyms: foible, mannerism |
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| isostasy | (noun) (geology) a general equilibrium of the forces tending to elevate or depress the earth's crust | - |
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| jealousy | (noun) zealous vigilance | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival) | Synonyms: green-eyed monster |
| leprosy | (noun) chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae | Synonyms: Hansen's disease |
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| lossy | (adjective) characterized by or causing dissipation of energy | - |
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| lousy | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky |
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| (adjective) infested with lice | - |
| (adjective) vile; despicable | Synonyms: dirty, filthy |
| messy | (adjective) dirty and disorderly | Synonyms: mussy |
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| minstrelsy | (noun) the art of a minstrel | - |
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| (noun) ballads sung by minstrels | - |
| (noun) a troupe of minstrels | - |
| missy | (noun) a young female | Synonyms: fille, girl, miss, young lady, young woman |
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| monochromasy | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromatic vision, monochromatism, monochromia |
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| mossy | (adjective) overgrown with moss | Synonyms: moss-grown |
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| (adjective) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned | Synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy |
| mousy | (adjective) infested with mice | Synonyms: mousey |
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| (adjective) of something having a drab pale brown color resembling a mouse | Synonyms: mouse-colored, mouselike, mousey |
| (adjective) quiet and timid and ineffectual | Synonyms: mousey |
| mussy | (adjective) dirty and disorderly | Synonyms: messy |
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| narcolepsy | (noun) a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep | - |
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| necropsy | (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: autopsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination |
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| newsy | (adjective) prone to friendly informal communication | Synonyms: chatty, gossipy |
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| (adjective) full of news | - |
| noisy | (adjective) full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds | - |
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| (adjective) attracting attention by showiness or bright colors | - |
| nosy | (adjective) offensively curious or inquisitive | Synonyms: nosey, prying, snoopy |
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| nympholepsy | (noun) a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable | - |
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| outdoorsy | (adjective) characteristic of or suitable to outdoor life | - |
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| overbusy | (adjective) too busy | - |
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| palsy | (noun) loss of the ability to move a body part | Synonyms: paralysis |
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| (noun) a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor | - |
| (verb) affect with palsy | - |
| pansy | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
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| (noun) a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive | Synonyms: milksop, Milquetoast, pantywaist, sissy |
| (noun) large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors | Synonyms: Viola tricolor hortensis |
| patsy | (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, soft touch, sucker |
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| phantasy | (noun) imagination unrestricted by reality | Synonyms: fantasy |
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| (noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, fantasy, illusion |
| (noun) fiction with a large amount of imagination in it | Synonyms: fantasy |
| pleurisy | (noun) inflammation of the pleura of the lungs (especially the parietal layer) | - |
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| poesy | (noun) literature in metrical form | Synonyms: poetry, verse |
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| posy | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: bouquet, corsage, nosegay |
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| prissy | (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish |
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| (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
| prophesy | (verb) predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration | Synonyms: vaticinate |
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| (verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: preach |
| prosy | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, pedestrian, prosaic |
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| pursy | (adjective) breathing laboriously or convulsively | Synonyms: blown, short-winded, winded |
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| pussy | (adjective) containing pus | Synonyms: purulent |
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| (noun) informal terms referring to a domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty-cat, kitty, puss, pussycat |
| (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: cunt, puss, slit, snatch, twat |
| queasy | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickish |
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| (adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, nervous, uneasy, unquiet |
| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, sickening, vile |
| quinsy | (noun) a painful pus filled inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues; usually a complication of tonsillitis | Synonyms: peritonsillar abscess |
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| rosy | (adjective) presaging good fortune | Synonyms: fortunate |
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| (adjective) of blush color | Synonyms: blushful |
| (adjective) having the pinkish flush of health | Synonyms: flushed, rose-cheeked, rosy-cheeked |
| (adjective) reflecting optimism | Synonyms: rose-colored |
| sassy | (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, saucy, smart, wise |
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| sissy | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissyish |
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| (noun) a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive | Synonyms: milksop, Milquetoast, pansy, pantywaist |
| sonsy | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| speakeasy | (noun) (during prohibition) an illegal barroom | - |
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| sudsy | (adjective) resembling lather or covered with lather | Synonyms: lathery |
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| tansy | (noun) common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally | Synonyms: golden buttons, scented fern, Tanacetum vulgare |
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| teensy | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| teentsy | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| tipsy | (adjective) slightly intoxicated | Synonyms: potty, tiddly |
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| (adjective) unstable and prone to tip as if intoxicated | - |
| tricksy | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricky, wily |
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| uneasy | (adjective) lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance | - |
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| (adjective) lacking or not affording physical or mental rest | Synonyms: restless |
| (adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, nervous, queasy, unquiet |
| (adjective) relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort | - |
| (adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: awkward, ill at ease |
| weensy | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weeny |
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| whimsy | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality |
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| (noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea | Synonyms: notion, whim, whimsey |