electropositive | (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: positive, positively charged |
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elucidative | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: clarifying |
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elusive | (adjective) skillful at eluding capture | - |
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(adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
(adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: subtle |
(adjective) difficult to describe | - |
emancipative | (adjective) tending to set free | - |
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emotive | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, affective |
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enclave | (noun) an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it | - |
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endive | (noun) variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges | Synonyms: chicory escarole, escarole |
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(noun) widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched | Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, witloof |
engrave | (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: grave, inscribe, scratch |
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(verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: etch |
(verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: etch |
(verb) impress or affect deeply | - |
enhancive | (adjective) serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body | Synonyms: cosmetic |
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(adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: augmentative |
enslave | (verb) make a slave of; bring into servitude | - |
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erosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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(adjective) wearing away by friction | - |
eruptive | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: igneous |
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(adjective) producing or characterized by eruptions | - |
(adjective) actively spewing out lava | - |
evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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evaporative | (adjective) relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation | - |
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evasive | (adjective) deliberately vague or ambiguous | - |
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(adjective) avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire | - |
eve | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: even, evening, eventide |
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(noun) the day before | - |
(noun) the period immediately before something | - |
evocative | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant |
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evolve | (verb) undergo development or evolution | - |
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(verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, develop |
(verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, germinate |
excessive | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: inordinate, undue, unreasonable |
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(adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: extravagant, exuberant, overweening |
excitative | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitatory |
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exclusive | (adjective) excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority | - |
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(adjective) not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective | Synonyms: single, undivided |
(adjective) not divided or shared with others | Synonyms: sole |
(noun) a news report that is reported first by one news organization | Synonyms: scoop |
excogitative | (adjective) concerned with excogitating or having the power of excogitation | - |
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excursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, discursive, rambling |
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executive | (adjective) having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc. | - |
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(noun) persons who administer the law | - |
(noun) a person responsible for the administration of a business | Synonyms: executive director |
(noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: administrator |
exhaustive | (adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: thorough, thoroughgoing |
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exhortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortatory, hortative, hortatory |
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exonerative | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, forgiving |
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expansive | (adjective) able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion | - |
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(adjective) friendly and open and willing to talk | Synonyms: talkative |
(adjective) marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur | - |
(adjective) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope | Synonyms: grand, heroic |
expensive | (adjective) high in price or charging high prices | - |
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expiative | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiatory, propitiatory |
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expletive | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, oath, swearing, swearword |
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(noun) a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line | - |
exploitative | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitatory, exploitive |
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exploitive | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitatory |
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explorative | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: exploratory |
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explosive | (adjective) serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst | - |
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(adjective) sudden and loud | - |
(adjective) liable to lead to sudden change or violence | Synonyms: volatile |
(noun) a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck | - |
expositive | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expository |
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expressive | (adjective) performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion | - |
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(adjective) characterized by expression | - |
extensive | (adjective) of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor | - |
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(adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide |
(adjective) large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity | Synonyms: extended |
exteroceptive | (adjective) of or relating to exteroception | - |
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extraversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extroversive |
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extravertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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extrospective | (adjective) not introspective; examining what is outside yourself | Synonyms: extroverted |
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extroversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extraversive |
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extrovertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted |
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extrusive | (adjective) of rock material; forced out while molten through cracks in the earth's surface | - |
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facilitative | (adjective) freeing from difficulty or impediment | - |
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facultative | (adjective) able to exist under more than one set of conditions | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the mental faculties | - |
(adjective) granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something | - |
(adjective) optional | Synonyms: elective |
festive | (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, gay, merry |
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fictive | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, pretended, put on, sham |
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(adjective) capable of imaginative creation | - |
figurative | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: nonliteral |
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(adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figural |
five | (adjective) being one more than four | Synonyms: 5, v |
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(noun) a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips | Synonyms: five-spot |
(noun) a team that plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball team |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, cinque, fin, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
fixative | (noun) a varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging | - |
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(noun) a compound (such as ethanol or formaldehyde) that fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study | - |
forgive | (verb) stop blaming or grant forgiveness | - |
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(verb) absolve from payment | - |
formative | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: plastic, shaping |
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(adjective) capable of forming new cells and tissues | - |
(noun) minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function | - |
foxglove | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Digitalis | Synonyms: digitalis |
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frequentative | (noun) a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action | - |
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fricative | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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(noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative consonant, spirant |
frustrative | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, thwarting |
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fugitive | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, momentaneous, momentary |
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(noun) someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice | Synonyms: fugitive from justice |
(noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, runaway |
furtive | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: sneak, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious |
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(adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, backstairs |
generative | (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: productive |
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(adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: procreative, reproductive |
genitive | (adjective) serving to express or indicate possession | Synonyms: possessive |
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(noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive case, possessive, possessive case |
give | (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: spring, springiness |
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(verb) proffer (a body part) | - |
(verb) consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man | - |
(verb) occur | - |
(verb) estimate the duration or outcome of something | - |
(verb) dedicate | Synonyms: devote, pay |
(verb) convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture | Synonyms: throw |
(verb) convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow | Synonyms: pay |
(verb) bestow | Synonyms: render |
(verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, devote |
(verb) allow to have or take | - |
(verb) manifest or show | - |
(verb) guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion | - |
(verb) inflict as a punishment | - |
(verb) accord by verdict | - |
(verb) submit for consideration, judgment, or use | - |
(verb) offer in good faith | - |
(verb) give food to | Synonyms: feed |
(verb) propose | - |
(verb) be flexible under stress of physical force | Synonyms: yield |
(verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, render, return, yield |
(verb) bring about | Synonyms: establish |
(verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: have, hold, make, throw |
(verb) cause to happen or be responsible for | Synonyms: yield |
(verb) perform for an audience | - |
(verb) present to view | - |
(verb) move in order to make room for someone for something | Synonyms: ease up, give way, move over, yield |
(verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give way |
(verb) transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody | - |
(verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: gift, present |
(verb) leave with; give temporarily | - |
(verb) cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense | - |
(verb) be the cause or source of | Synonyms: afford, yield |
(verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: hand, pass, pass on, reach, turn over |
(verb) convey or reveal information | - |
(verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, contribute, kick in |
(verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: impart, leave, pass on |
(verb) endure the loss of | Synonyms: sacrifice |
(verb) bestow, especially officially | Synonyms: grant |
(verb) deliver in exchange or recompense | - |
(verb) give (as medicine) | - |
(verb) give or convey physically | Synonyms: apply |
(verb) afford access to | Synonyms: afford, open |
(verb) emit or utter | - |
(verb) execute and deliver | - |
glove | (noun) handwear: covers the hand and wrist | - |
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(noun) the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball | Synonyms: baseball glove, baseball mitt, mitt |
(noun) boxing equipment consisting of big and padded coverings for the fists of the fighters; worn for the sport of boxing | Synonyms: boxing glove |
grave | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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(adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grievous, heavy, weighty |
(adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: sedate, sober, solemn |
(noun) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) | Synonyms: tomb |
(noun) a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: grave accent |
(noun) death of a person | - |
(verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, inscribe, scratch |
(verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: sculpt, sculpture |
gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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greave | (noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee | Synonyms: jambeau |
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grieve | (verb) feel grief | Synonyms: sorrow |
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(verb) cause to feel sorrow | Synonyms: aggrieve |
groove | (noun) a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape | Synonyms: rut |
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(noun) (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part | Synonyms: vallecula |
(noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: channel |
(verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: furrow, rut |
(verb) make a groove in, or provide with a groove | - |
grove | (noun) garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth | Synonyms: orchard, plantation, woodlet |
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(noun) a small growth of trees without underbrush | - |
gustative | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustatorial, gustatory |
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halve | (verb) divide by two; divide into halves | - |
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have | (noun) a person who possesses great material wealth | Synonyms: rich person, wealthy person |
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(verb) cause to be born | Synonyms: bear, birth, deliver, give birth |
(verb) suffer from; be ill with | - |
(verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: get, suffer, sustain |
(verb) cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition | Synonyms: get, let |
(verb) undergo | Synonyms: experience |
(verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, induce, make, stimulate |
(verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: consume, ingest, take, take in |
(verb) have sex with; archaic use | Synonyms: take |
(verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, hold, make, throw |
(verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: experience, get, receive |
(verb) have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense | Synonyms: have got, hold |
(verb) achieve a point or goal | Synonyms: get, make |
(verb) get something; come into possession of | Synonyms: receive |
(verb) have ownership or possession of | Synonyms: own, possess |
(verb) receive willingly something given or offered | Synonyms: accept, take |
(verb) have a personal or business relationship with someone | - |
(verb) have as a feature | Synonyms: feature |
(verb) be confronted with | - |
heave | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heaving |
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(noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heaving |
(noun) the act of raising something | Synonyms: lift, raise |
(noun) an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting | Synonyms: retch |
(noun) (geology) a horizontal dislocation | - |
(noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heaving |
(verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: gag, retch |
(verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: gasp, pant, puff |
(verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: buckle, warp |
(verb) utter a sound, as with obvious effort | - |
(verb) lift or elevate | Synonyms: heave up, heft, heft up |
(verb) throw with great effort | - |
(verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: billow, surge |
(verb) move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position | - |
helve | (noun) the handle of a weapon or tool | Synonyms: haft |
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hive | (noun) a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees | Synonyms: beehive |
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(noun) a teeming multitude | - |
(noun) a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree | Synonyms: beehive |
(verb) gather into a hive | - |
(verb) move together in a hive or as if in a hive | - |
(verb) store, like bees | - |
hortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortatory |
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hyperactive | (adjective) more active than normal | Synonyms: overactive |
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hypersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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hypertensive | (adjective) having abnormally high blood pressure | - |
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(noun) a person who has abnormally high blood pressure | - |
hypoactive | (adjective) abnormally inactive | Synonyms: underactive |
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hypotensive | (adjective) having abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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(noun) a person who has abnormally low blood pressure | - |
illative | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of illation or inference | Synonyms: inferential |
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(adjective) expressing or preceding an inference | - |
(adjective) resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference | Synonyms: inferential |
illusive | (adjective) based on or having the nature of an illusion | Synonyms: illusory |
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illustrative | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: exemplifying |
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(adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: demonstrative |
imaginative | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: inventive |
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imitative | (adjective) marked by or given to imitation | - |
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(adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic |
(adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: counterfeit |
immunosuppressive | (adjective) of or relating to a substance that lowers the body's normal immune response and induces immunosuppression | - |
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(noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
impassive | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, expressionless, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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(adjective) having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: stolid |
imperative | (adjective) requiring attention or action | - |
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(adjective) relating to verbs in the imperative mood | - |
(noun) some duty that is essential and urgent | - |
(noun) a verb in the imperative mood. | Synonyms: imperative verb |
(noun) a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior | Synonyms: imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood |
imperfective | (noun) aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the action of the verb | Synonyms: imperfective aspect |
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implicative | (adjective) tending to suggest or imply | Synonyms: suggestive |
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impressive | (adjective) making a strong or vivid impression | - |
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(adjective) producing a strong effect | Synonyms: telling |
improve | (verb) get better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, meliorate |
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(verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, meliorate |
impulsive | (adjective) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | Synonyms: capricious, whimsical |
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(adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: driving |
(adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, madcap, tearaway |
(adjective) proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus | Synonyms: unprompted |
(adjective) without forethought | - |
inactive | (adjective) (military) not involved in military operations | Synonyms: nonoperational |
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(adjective) not active physically or mentally | - |
(adjective) (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly | - |
(adjective) lacking activity; lying idle or unused | - |
(adjective) lacking in energy or will | Synonyms: passive |
(adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct | Synonyms: dormant |
(adjective) not exerting influence or change | - |
(adjective) not engaged in full-time work | - |
(adjective) not in physical motion | Synonyms: motionless, static, still |
(adjective) (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert | - |
inattentive | (adjective) showing a lack of attention or care | - |
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(adjective) not showing due care or attention | Synonyms: neglectful |
incentive | (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: inducement, motivator |
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(noun) an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output | Synonyms: bonus |
inceptive | (adjective) in an initial stage | Synonyms: inchoative |
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inchoative | (adjective) in an initial stage | Synonyms: inceptive |
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(noun) aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb | Synonyms: inchoative aspect |