| adulate | (verb) flatter in an obsequious manner | - |
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| adulation | (noun) servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise | - |
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| adulator | (noun) a person who uses flattery | Synonyms: flatterer |
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| adulatory | (adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: flattering |
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| adult | (adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup |
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| (adjective) designed to arouse lust | Synonyms: pornographic |
| (noun) any mature animal | - |
| (noun) a fully developed person from maturity onward | Synonyms: grownup |
| adulterant | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterating |
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| (noun) any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | Synonyms: adulterator |
| adulterate | (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterated, debased |
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| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: debase, dilute, load, stretch |
| adulterated | (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterate, debased |
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| adulterating | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterant |
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| adulteration | (noun) the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another) | - |
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| (noun) being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating | Synonyms: debasement |
| adulterator | (noun) a changer who lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | - |
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| (noun) any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | Synonyms: adulterant |
| adulterer | (noun) someone who commits adultery or fornication | Synonyms: fornicator |
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| adulteress | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
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| adulterine | (adjective) conceived in adultery | - |
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| adulterous | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: extracurricular, extramarital |
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| (adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: cheating, two-timing |
| adulterously | (adverb) in an adulterous manner | - |
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| adulterousness | (noun) The quality of being adulterous, involving sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. | - |
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| adultery | (noun) extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations | Synonyms: criminal conversation, fornication |
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| adulthood | (noun) the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity | - |
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| (noun) the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed | Synonyms: maturity |
| adulting | (noun) acting like an adult | - |
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| adumbrate | (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: outline, sketch |
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| (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: insinuate, intimate |
| adumbration | (noun) a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation | - |
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| (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefiguration |
| adumbrative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefigurative |
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| adust | (adjective) burned brown by the sun | - |
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| (adjective) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | Synonyms: baked, parched, scorched, sunbaked |
| advance | (adjective) being ahead of time or need | Synonyms: beforehand |
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| (adjective) situated ahead or going before | Synonyms: advanced, in advance |
| (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression |
| (noun) increase in price or value | Synonyms: rise |
| (noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: approach, feeler, overture |
| (noun) a movement forward | Synonyms: progress, progression |
| (noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: betterment, improvement |
| (noun) an amount paid before it is earned | Synonyms: cash advance |
| (verb) develop in a positive way | Synonyms: come along, come on, get along, get on, progress, shape up |
| (verb) rise in rate or price | Synonyms: gain |
| (verb) increase or raise | Synonyms: boost, supercharge |
| (verb) develop further | - |
| (verb) bring forward for consideration or acceptance | Synonyms: throw out |
| (verb) obtain advantages, such as points, etc. | Synonyms: gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win |
| (verb) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense | Synonyms: go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress |
| (verb) cause to move forward | Synonyms: bring forward |
| (verb) move forward | Synonyms: set ahead |
| (verb) pay in advance | - |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: boost, encourage, further, promote |
| advanced | (adjective) (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry | - |
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| (adjective) situated ahead or going before | Synonyms: advance, in advance |
| (adjective) ahead in development; complex or intricate | Synonyms: sophisticated |
| (adjective) far along in time | Synonyms: ripe |
| (adjective) comparatively late in a course of development | - |
| (adjective) farther along in physical or mental development | - |
| (adjective) ahead of the times | Synonyms: forward-looking, innovative, modern |
| (adjective) at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill | - |
| advancement | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression |
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| (noun) gradual improvement or growth or development | Synonyms: progress |
| (noun) encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something | Synonyms: furtherance, promotion |
| advancer | (noun) someone who advances | - |
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| advancing | (adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: forward-moving, forward |
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| advantage | (noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position | Synonyms: vantage |
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| (noun) benefit resulting from some event or action | Synonyms: reward |
| (noun) (tennis) first point scored after deuce | - |
| (verb) give an advantage to | - |
| advantageous | (adjective) giving an advantage | Synonyms: favorable, favourable |
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| (adjective) appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness | - |
| advantageously | (adverb) in a manner affording benefit or advantage | Synonyms: well |
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| advantageousness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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| advect | (verb) convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid | - |
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| advection | (noun) (meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties | - |
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| advective | (adjective) of or relating to advection | - |
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| advent | (noun) arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous) | Synonyms: coming |
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| adventitia | (noun) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue | Synonyms: tunic, tunica |
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| adventitial | (adjective) of or pertaining to the adventitia | - |
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| adventitious | (adjective) associated by chance and not an integral part | - |
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| adventive | (adjective) not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized | - |
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| adventure | (noun) a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) | Synonyms: dangerous undertaking, escapade, risky venture |
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| (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardize, stake, venture |
| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: chance, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| adventurer | (noun) a person who enjoys taking risks | Synonyms: venturer |
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| (noun) someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) | Synonyms: explorer |
| adventuresome | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventurous |
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| adventuress | (noun) a woman adventurer | - |
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| adventurism | (noun) recklessness in politics or foreign affairs | - |
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| adventuristic | (adjective) of or pertaining to adventurism | - |
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| adventurous | (adjective) willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises | Synonyms: adventuresome |
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| adventurousness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: venturesomeness |
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| adverb | (noun) a word that modifies something other than a noun | - |
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| (noun) the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses | - |
| adverbial | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adverb | - |
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| (noun) a word or group of words function as an adverb | - |
| adverbially | (adverb) as an adverb | - |
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| adversary | (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister |
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| adversative | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: oppositive |
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| adverse | (adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: contrary |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: inauspicious, untoward |
| adversely | (adverb) in an adverse manner | - |
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| adversity | (noun) a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event | - |
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| (noun) a state of misfortune or affliction | Synonyms: hard knocks, hardship |
| advert | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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| (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: allude, touch |
| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: bring up, cite, mention, name, refer |
| (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: attend, give ear, hang, pay heed |
| advertence | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertency |
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| advertency | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertence |
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| advertent | (adjective) giving attention | Synonyms: heedful |
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| advertently | (adverb) in a careful deliberate manner | Synonyms: heedfully, mindfully |
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| advertise | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertize, promote, push |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertize, publicise, publicize |
| advertised | (adjective) called to public attention | - |
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| advertisement | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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| advertiser | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: adman, advertizer |
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| advertising | (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: merchandising, publicizing |
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| (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertizement, advertizing |
| advertize | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, promote, push |
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| (verb) call attention to | Synonyms: advertise, publicise, publicize |
| advertizement | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizing |
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| advertizer | (noun) someone whose business is advertising | Synonyms: adman, advertiser |
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| advertizing | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizement |
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| advertorial | (noun) an advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report | - |
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| advice | (noun) a proposal for an appropriate course of action | - |
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| advisability | (noun) the quality of being advisable | - |
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| advisable | (adjective) worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise | - |
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| advise | (verb) give advice to | Synonyms: counsel, rede |
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| (verb) inform (somebody) of something | Synonyms: apprise, apprize, give notice, notify, send word |
| (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: propose, suggest |
| advised | (adjective) having the benefit of careful prior consideration or counsel | Synonyms: well-advised |
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| (adjective) having received information | - |
| advisedly | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely |
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| advisee | (noun) someone who receives advice | - |
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| advisement | (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: deliberation, weighing |
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| adviser | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: advisor, consultant |
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| advisor | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: adviser, consultant |
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| advisory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: consultative, consultatory, consultive |
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| (noun) an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threat | - |
| advocacy | (noun) active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something | Synonyms: protagonism |
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| advocate | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocator, exponent, proponent |
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| (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
| (verb) push for something | Synonyms: recommend, urge |
| (verb) speak, plead, or argue in favor of | Synonyms: preach |
| advocator | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, exponent, proponent |
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| advowson | (noun) the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice | - |
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| adynamia | (noun) lack of strength or vigor (especially from illness) | - |
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| adynamic | (adjective) characterized by an absence of force or forcefulness | Synonyms: undynamic |
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| (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: asthenic, debilitated, enervated |
| adz | (noun) an edge tool used to cut and shape wood | Synonyms: adze |
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| adze | (noun) an edge tool used to cut and shape wood | Synonyms: adz |
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| aecial | (adjective) of or belonging to an aecium | - |
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| aeciospore | (noun) spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium | - |
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| aecium | (noun) fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores | - |
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| aegir | (noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: bore, eager, eagre, tidal bore |
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| aegis | (noun) kindly endorsement and guidance | Synonyms: auspices, protection |
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| (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: breastplate, egis |
| aeolotropic | (adjective) having properties with different values along different axes | Synonyms: eolotropic |
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| aeon | (noun) (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe | Synonyms: eon |
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| (noun) an immeasurably long period of time | Synonyms: eon |
| (noun) the longest division of geological time | Synonyms: eon |
| aeonian | (adjective) of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era) | Synonyms: eonian |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
| aepyornis | (noun) huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar | Synonyms: elephant bird |
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