| ablative
|
(adjective) tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature |
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| (adjective) relating to the ablative case |
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| (noun) the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb |
Synonyms:
ablative case |
| abortive
|
(adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result |
Synonyms:
unsuccessful,
stillborn |
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| above
|
(adverb) (in writing) at an earlier place |
Synonyms:
supra |
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| (adverb) in or to a place that is higher |
Synonyms:
in a higher place,
higher up,
to a higher place |
| (adjective) appearing earlier in the same text |
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| (noun) an earlier section of a written text |
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| abrasive
|
(noun) a substance that abrades or wears down |
Synonyms:
abradant,
abrasive material |
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| (adjective) causing abrasion |
Synonyms:
scratchy |
| (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous |
Synonyms:
harsh |
| absolve
|
(verb) grant remission of a sin to |
Synonyms:
shrive |
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| (verb) let off the hook |
Synonyms:
free |
| absorptive
|
(adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) |
Synonyms:
absorbent |
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| abstractive
|
(adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting |
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| abusive
|
(adjective) expressing offensive reproach |
Synonyms:
opprobrious,
scurrilous |
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| (adjective) characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment |
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| accelerative
|
(adjective) tending to increase velocity |
Synonyms:
acceleratory |
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| acceptive
|
(adjective) inclined to accept rather than reject |
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| (adjective) accepting willingly |
Synonyms:
acceptant |
| accommodative
|
(adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation |
Synonyms:
accommodating |
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| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement |
Synonyms:
cooperative |
| (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony |
Synonyms:
reconciling |
| accretive
|
(adjective) growing by accretion |
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| acculturative
|
(adjective) of or relating to acculturation |
Synonyms:
acculturational |
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| accumulative
|
(adjective) increasing by successive addition |
Synonyms:
cumulative |
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| (adjective) marked by acquiring or amassing |
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| accusative
|
(adjective) containing or expressing accusation |
Synonyms:
accusatory,
accusing,
accusive |
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| (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes |
Synonyms:
objective |
| (noun) the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb |
Synonyms:
objective case,
accusative case |
| accusive
|
(adjective) containing or expressing accusation |
Synonyms:
accusative,
accusatory,
accusing |
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| achieve
|
(verb) to gain with effort |
Synonyms:
reach,
attain,
accomplish |
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| acquisitive
|
(adjective) eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas |
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| active
|
(noun) chemical agent capable of activity |
Synonyms:
active agent |
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| (noun) the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb |
Synonyms:
active voice |
| (noun) a person who is a participating member of an organization |
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| (adjective) tending to become more severe or wider in scope |
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| (adjective) disposed to take action or effectuate change |
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| (adjective) characterized by energetic activity |
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| (adjective) exerting influence or producing a change or effect |
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| (adjective) full of activity or engaged in continuous activity |
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| (adjective) (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions |
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| (adjective) expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: |
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| (adjective) (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being |
Synonyms:
dynamic |
| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) capable of erupting |
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| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) erupting or liable to erupt |
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| (adjective) engaged in full-time work |
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| (adjective) engaged in or ready for military or naval operations |
Synonyms:
combat-ready,
fighting |
| (adjective) taking part in an activity |
Synonyms:
participating |
| (adjective) in operation |
Synonyms:
alive |
| adaptative
|
(adjective) having a capacity for adaptation |
Synonyms:
adaptive |
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| adaptive
|
(adjective) having a capacity for adaptation |
Synonyms:
adaptative |
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| addictive
|
(adjective) causing or characterized by addiction |
Synonyms:
habit-forming |
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| additive
|
(noun) something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine |
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| (adjective) designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree |
Synonyms:
linear |
| (adjective) characterized or produced by addition |
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| adductive
|
(adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part |
Synonyms:
adducent,
adducting |
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| adhesive
|
(noun) a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together |
Synonyms:
adhesive agent,
adhesive material |
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| (adjective) tending to adhere |
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| adjective
|
(adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective |
Synonyms:
adjectival |
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| (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law |
Synonyms:
procedural |
| (noun) a word that expresses an attribute of something |
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| (noun) the word class that qualifies nouns |
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| adjudicative
|
(adjective) concerned with adjudicating |
Synonyms:
adjudicatory |
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| adjunctive
|
(adjective) joining; forming an adjunct |
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| adjustive
|
(adjective) conducive to adjustment |
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| administrative
|
(adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration |
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| admissive
|
(adjective) characterized by or allowing admission |
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| adoptive
|
(adjective) of parents and children; related by adoption |
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| (adjective) acquired as your own by free choice |
Synonyms:
adopted |
| adsorptive
|
(adjective) having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface |
Synonyms:
surface-assimilative,
adsorbent |
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| adumbrative
|
(adjective) indistinctly prophetic |
Synonyms:
prefigurative,
foreshadowing |
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| advective
|
(adjective) of or relating to advection |
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| adventive
|
(adjective) not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized |
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| adversative
|
(adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition |
Synonyms:
oppositive |
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| affective
|
(adjective) characterized by emotion |
Synonyms:
emotive,
affectional |
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| affirmative
|
(adjective) affirming or giving assent |
Synonyms:
affirmatory |
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| (adjective) expecting the best |
Synonyms:
optimistic |
| (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval |
Synonyms:
plausive,
approbative,
approbatory,
approving |
| (noun) a reply of affirmation |
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| afflictive
|
(adjective) causing misery or pain or distress |
Synonyms:
painful,
sore |
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| affricative
|
(noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') |
Synonyms:
affricate,
affricate consonant |
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| agave
|
(noun) tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber |
Synonyms:
century plant,
American aloe |
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| agglomerative
|
(adjective) clustered together but not coherent |
Synonyms:
clustered,
agglomerate,
agglomerated |
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| agglutinative
|
(adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning |
Synonyms:
polysynthetic |
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| (adjective) united as if by glue |
Synonyms:
agglutinate |
| aggregative
|
(adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole |
Synonyms:
mass,
aggregate,
aggregated |
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| aggressive
|
(adjective) having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends |
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| (adjective) tending to spread quickly |
Synonyms:
strong-growing,
fast-growing |
| (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight |
Synonyms:
belligerent |
| aggrieve
|
(verb) infringe on the rights of |
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| (verb) cause to feel sorrow |
Synonyms:
grieve |
| agitative
|
(adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment |
Synonyms:
provoking,
agitating |
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| airwave
|
(noun) medium for radio and television broadcasting |
Synonyms:
air |
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| alcove
|
(noun) a small recess opening off a larger room |
Synonyms:
bay |
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| alimentative
|
(adjective) related to the supply of aliment |
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| alive
|
(adjective) possessing life |
Synonyms:
live |
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| (adjective) having life or vigor or spirit |
Synonyms:
animated |
| (adjective) (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit |
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| (adjective) (followed by `to' or `of') aware of |
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| (adjective) in operation |
Synonyms:
active |
| (adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive |
Synonyms:
alert,
awake |
| (adjective) capable of erupting |
Synonyms:
live |
| alleviative
|
(adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear |
Synonyms:
mitigative,
mitigatory,
palliative,
alleviatory,
lenitive |
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| alliterative
|
(adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable |
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| allusive
|
(adjective) characterized by indirect references |
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| alterative
|
(adjective) tending to cure or restore to health |
Synonyms:
remedial,
healing,
sanative,
curative,
therapeutic |
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| alternative
|
(noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen |
Synonyms:
option,
choice |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another |
Synonyms:
substitute,
alternate |
| (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities |
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| (adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices |
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| amalgamative
|
(adjective) characterized by or tending toward amalgamation |
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| amative
|
(adjective) inclined toward or displaying love |
Synonyms:
amorous |
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| ambiversive
|
(adjective) intermediate between introversive and extroversive |
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| ameliorative
|
(adjective) tending to ameliorate |
Synonyms:
meliorative,
ameliorating,
amelioratory |
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| amusive
|
(adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining |
Synonyms:
diverting,
amusing |
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| annihilative
|
(adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction |
Synonyms:
devastating,
withering,
annihilating |
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| anticipative
|
(adjective) marked by eager anticipation |
Synonyms:
expectant,
anticipant |
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| anticoagulative
|
(adjective) of or relating to an anticoagulant |
- |
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| antihypertensive
|
(noun) a drug that reduces high blood pressure |
Synonyms:
antihypertensive drug |
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| antitussive
|
(noun) any medicine used to suppress or relieve coughing |
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| apojove
|
(noun) apoapsis in orbit around Jupiter |
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| appellative
|
(adjective) inclined to or serving for the giving of names |
Synonyms:
naming |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun |
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| (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others |
Synonyms:
designation,
denomination,
appellation |
| apperceive
|
(verb) perceive in terms of a past experience |
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| apperceptive
|
(adjective) able to relate new percepts to past experience |
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| appetitive
|
(adjective) of or relating to appetite |
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| applicative
|
(adjective) readily applicable or practical |
Synonyms:
applicatory |
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| appointive
|
(adjective) relating to the act of appointing |
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| (adjective) subject to appointment |
Synonyms:
appointed |
| appositive
|
(adjective) relating to or being in apposition |
Synonyms:
appositional |
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| appreciative
|
(adjective) feeling or expressive of gratitude |
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| (adjective) having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion |
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| apprehensive
|
(adjective) quick to understand |
Synonyms:
discerning |
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| (adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc |
Synonyms:
worried |
| (adjective) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm |
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| approbative
|
(adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval |
Synonyms:
plausive,
affirmative,
approbatory,
approving |
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| appropriative
|
(adjective) of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself |
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| approve
|
(verb) give sanction to |
Synonyms:
sanction,
O.K.,
okay |
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| (verb) judge to be right or commendable; think well of |
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| approximative
|
(adjective) not quite exact or correct |
Synonyms:
rough,
approximate |
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| arbitrative
|
(adjective) relating to or having the authority to arbitrate |
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| architrave
|
(noun) the molding around a door or window |
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| (noun) the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns |
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| archive
|
(noun) a depository containing historical records and documents |
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| (verb) put into an archive |
Synonyms:
file away |
| argumentative
|
(adjective) given to or characterized by argument |
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| arrive
|
(verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress |
Synonyms:
get,
come |
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| (verb) succeed in a big way; get to the top |
Synonyms:
get in,
make it,
go far |
| articulative
|
(adjective) of or relating to articulation |
Synonyms:
articulatory |
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| ascensive
|
(adjective) tending or directed upward |
Synonyms:
ascendant,
ascendent |
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| assaultive
|
(adjective) disposed to attack |
Synonyms:
attacking |
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| assertive
|
(adjective) aggressively self-assured |
Synonyms:
self-asserting,
self-assertive |
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| assimilative
|
(adjective) capable of mentally absorbing |
- |
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| (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution |
Synonyms:
assimilating,
assimilatory |
| assistive
|
(adjective) giving assistance |
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| associative
|
(adjective) characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination |
Synonyms:
associatory |
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| assuasive
|
(adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety |
Synonyms:
soothing |
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| assumptive
|
(adjective) excessively forward |
Synonyms:
presumptuous,
assuming |
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| (adjective) accepted as real or true without proof |
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| attentive
|
(adjective) (often followed by `to') giving care or attention |
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| (adjective) taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention |
Synonyms:
heedful,
paying attention,
thoughtful |
| attractive
|
(adjective) pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm |
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| (adjective) having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull |
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| (adjective) having power to arouse interest |
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| attributive
|
(adjective) of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify |
Synonyms:
prenominal |
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| auditive
|
(adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing |
Synonyms:
audile,
auditory |
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| augmentative
|
(adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree |
- |
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| (adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement |
Synonyms:
enhancive |