| alimentary | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
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| budgetary | (adjective) of or relating to a budget | - |
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| cometary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometic |
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| commentary | (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: comment |
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| complementary | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, completing |
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| (adjective) of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other | - |
| (noun) either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments) | Synonyms: complementary color |
| complimentary | (adjective) conveying or resembling a compliment | - |
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| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: costless, free, gratis, gratuitous |
| depositary | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depository, repository |
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| dextrorotary | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotatory, right-handed |
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| dietary | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietetic, dietetical |
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| (noun) a regulated daily food allowance | - |
| dignitary | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP |
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| distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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| documentary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documental |
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| (adjective) (of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event | - |
| (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary film, infotainment |
| elementary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, primary |
| (adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic |
| fragmentary | (adjective) consisting of small disconnected parts | Synonyms: fragmental |
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| hereditary | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
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| (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, patrimonial, transmissible |
| insanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: unhealthful, unsanitary |
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| integumentary | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumental |
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| interplanetary | (adjective) between or among planets | - |
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| involuntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: nonvoluntary, unvoluntary |
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| (adjective) controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control | - |
| levorotary | (adjective) rotating to the left | Synonyms: left-handed, levorotatory |
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| mandatary | (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatory |
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| military | (adjective) associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare | - |
| (noun) the military forces of a nation | Synonyms: armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
| momentary | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous |
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| monetary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: pecuniary |
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| nectary | (noun) a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar | Synonyms: honey gland |
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| nonhereditary | (adjective) not acquirable by inheritance | Synonyms: nontransmissible |
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| nonmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: unmilitary |
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| nonproprietary | (adjective) not protected by trademark or patent or copyright | - |
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| nonvoluntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: involuntary, unvoluntary |
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| notary | (noun) someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions | Synonyms: notary public |
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| paramilitary | (adjective) of or relating to a group of civilians organized to function like or to assist a military unit | - |
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| (noun) a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) | Synonyms: paramilitary force, paramilitary organisation, paramilitary organization, paramilitary unit |
| parliamentary | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a parliament | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament | - |
| (adjective) in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly | - |
| pituitary | (adjective) of or relating to the pituitary gland | - |
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| (noun) the master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain | Synonyms: hypophysis, pituitary body, pituitary gland |
| planetary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: terrestrial |
| (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, world-wide, world, worldwide |
| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, wandering |
| proprietary | (adjective) protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights | - |
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| (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietorship |
| rotary | (adjective) relating to or characterized by rotation | - |
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| (adjective) describing a circle; moving in a circle | Synonyms: circular, orbitual |
| (noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: circle, roundabout, traffic circle |
| (noun) electrical converter consisting of a synchronous machine that converts alternating to direct current or vice versa | Synonyms: rotary converter, synchronous converter |
| rudimentary | (adjective) being or involving basic facts or principles | Synonyms: fundamental, underlying |
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| (adjective) being in the earliest stages of development | - |
| (adjective) not fully developed in mature animals | Synonyms: vestigial |
| salutary | (adjective) tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health | Synonyms: good |
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| sanitary | (adjective) free from filth and pathogens | Synonyms: healthful |
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| secretary | (noun) a desk used for writing | Synonyms: escritoire, secretaire, writing table |
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| (noun) an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization | Synonyms: secretarial assistant |
| (noun) a person who is head of an administrative department of government | - |
| (noun) a person to whom a secret is entrusted | Synonyms: repository |
| sectary | (noun) a member of a sect | Synonyms: sectarian, sectarist |
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| sedentary | (adjective) requiring sitting or little activity | - |
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| sedimentary | (adjective) produced by the action of water | Synonyms: aqueous |
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| (adjective) resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment | - |
| solitary | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, lonesome, only, sole |
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| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lone, lonely |
| (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nongregarious, nonsocial |
| (adjective) devoid of creatures | Synonyms: lonely, unfrequented |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lone, lonely |
| (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: hermit, recluse, solitudinarian, troglodyte |
| (noun) confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners | Synonyms: solitary confinement |
| supplementary | (adjective) added to complete or make up a deficiency | Synonyms: supplemental |
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| (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental |
| testamentary | (adjective) of or relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament | - |
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| tributary | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory |
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| (adjective) paying tribute | - |
| (adjective) (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream | - |
| (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, confluent, feeder |
| uncomplimentary | (adjective) tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage | - |
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| (adjective) showing or representing unfavorably | Synonyms: unflattering |
| undersecretary | (noun) a secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government | - |
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| unitary | (adjective) characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the use of units | - |
| (adjective) relating to or characterized by or aiming toward unity | - |
| (adjective) having the indivisible character of a unit | Synonyms: one |
| unmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: nonmilitary |
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| unparliamentary | (adjective) so rude and abusive as to be unsuitable for parliament | - |
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| unsanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: insanitary, unhealthful |
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| unvoluntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: involuntary, nonvoluntary |
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| voluntary | (adjective) of your own free will or design; done by choice; not forced or compelled | - |
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| (adjective) controlled by individual volition | - |
| (noun) composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance | - |
| (noun) (military) a person who freely enlists for service | Synonyms: military volunteer, volunteer |
| votary | (noun) one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service | - |
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| (noun) a priest or priestess (or consecrated worshipper) in a non-Christian religion or cult | - |
| (noun) a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity | - |