dervish | (noun) an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements | - |
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dovish | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: pacifist, pacifistic |
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elvish | (adjective) usually good-naturedly mischievous | Synonyms: elfin, elfish |
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knavish | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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lavish | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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(adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lucullan, plush, plushy |
(verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: shower |
peevish | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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ravish | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, transport |
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(verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, violate |
slavish | (adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: submissive, subservient |
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(adjective) blindly imitative | - |
thievish | (adjective) given to thievery | Synonyms: thieving |
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