dampish | (adjective) slightly wet | Synonyms: damp, moist |
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damply | (adverb) in a damp manner | Synonyms: moistly |
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dampness | (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: damp, moistness |
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damsel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, demoiselle |
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damselfish | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: demoiselle |
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damselfly | (noun) slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest | - |
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damson | (noun) dark purple plum of the damson tree | Synonyms: damson plum |
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danaid | (noun) large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste | Synonyms: danaid butterfly |
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dance | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dancing, saltation, terpsichore |
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(noun) an artistic form of nonverbal communication | - |
(noun) a party for social dancing | - |
(noun) a party of people assembled for dancing | - |
(verb) move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance | Synonyms: trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe |
(verb) move in a graceful and rhythmical way | - |
(verb) skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways | - |
danceable | (adjective) suitable for dancing | - |
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dancer | (noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: professional dancer, terpsichorean |
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(noun) a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball) | Synonyms: social dancer |
dancing | (noun) taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music | Synonyms: dance, saltation, terpsichore |
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dandelion | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls | Synonyms: blowball |
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dander | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: hackles |
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(noun) small scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people | - |
dandified | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandyish, foppish |
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dandify | (verb) dress like a dandy | - |
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dandily | (adverb) in a dandy manner | - |
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dandle | (verb) pet | - |
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(verb) move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees | - |
dandruff | (noun) loose scales shed from the scalp | - |
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(noun) a condition in which white scales of dead skin are shed by the scalp | - |
dandy | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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(noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost | Synonyms: yawl |
(noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
dandyish | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandified, foppish |
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dandyism | (noun) the manner and dress of a fop or dandy | Synonyms: foppishness |
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danewort | (noun) dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor | Synonyms: dwarf elder, Sambucus ebulus |
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danger | (noun) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury | Synonyms: peril, risk |
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(noun) a dangerous place | - |
(noun) the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury | - |
(noun) a cause of pain or injury or loss | - |
dangerous | (adjective) involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm | Synonyms: unsafe |
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(adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
dangerously | (adverb) in a dangerous manner | Synonyms: hazardously, perilously |
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dangerousness | (noun) the quality of not being safe | - |
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dangle | (verb) cause to dangle or hang freely | - |
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(verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: drop, swing |
dangleberry | (noun) huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit | Synonyms: dangle-berry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
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dangling | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: hanging, suspension |
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danish | (noun) light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese | Synonyms: danish pastry |
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dank | (adjective) of high quality especially of marijuana | - |
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(adjective) unpleasantly cool and humid | Synonyms: clammy |
dankness | (noun) unpleasant wetness | Synonyms: clamminess |
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danseur | (noun) a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina | Synonyms: danseur noble |
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danseuse | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: ballerina |
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daphne | (noun) any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers | - |
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daphnia | (noun) minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae | Synonyms: water flea |
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dapper | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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dapperness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: jauntiness, nattiness, rakishness |
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dapple | (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: fleck, maculation, patch, speckle, spot |
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(verb) colour with streaks or blotches of different shades | Synonyms: cloud, mottle |
dappled | (adjective) having spots or patches of color | Synonyms: mottled |
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dapsone | (noun) antibacterial drug used to treat leprosy and some kinds of skin diseases | - |
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daraf | (noun) a unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad | - |
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dare | (noun) a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy | Synonyms: daring |
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(verb) challenge | Synonyms: defy |
(verb) take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission | Synonyms: make bold, presume |
(verb) to be courageous enough to try or do something | - |
daredevil | (adjective) presumptuously daring | Synonyms: temerarious |
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(noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler |
daredevilry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredeviltry |
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daredeviltry | (noun) boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior | Synonyms: daredevilry |
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daring | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: audacious, venturesome, venturous |
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(adjective) radically new or original | Synonyms: avant-garde |
(noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: boldness, hardihood, hardiness |
(noun) a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy | Synonyms: dare |
daringly | (adverb) in an adventurous manner | - |
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(adverb) in an original manner | - |
dark | (adjective) devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black | - |
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(adjective) (used of color) having a dark hue | - |
(adjective) brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) | - |
(adjective) secret | - |
(adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
(adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: black, sinister |
(adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
(adjective) not giving performances; closed | - |
(adjective) marked by difficulty of style or expression | Synonyms: obscure |
(adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: benighted |
(noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: darkness |
(noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: darkness, shadow |
(noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: darkness |
(noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: darkness, wickedness |
(noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: night, nighttime |
darken | (verb) become dark or darker | - |
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(verb) make dark or darker | - |
(verb) tarnish or stain | - |
darkened | (adjective) become or made dark by lack of light | - |
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(adjective) (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time | - |
darkening | (adjective) becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over | - |
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(noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: blackening |
darkey | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkie, darky |
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darkie | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darky |
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darkish | (adjective) slightly dark | - |
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darkling | (adjective) (poetic) occurring in the dark or night | - |
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(adjective) uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure | - |
darkly | (adverb) without light | Synonyms: in darkness |
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(adverb) in a dark glowering menacing manner | - |
darkness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: duskiness, swarthiness |
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(noun) having a dark or somber color | - |
(noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: dark |
(noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, shadow |
(noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: dark |
(noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: dark, wickedness |
darkroom | (noun) a room in which photographs are developed | - |
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darky | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | Synonyms: darkey, darkie |
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darling | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: beloved, dear |
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(noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
darmstadtium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 110 | Synonyms: atomic number 110, Ds, element 110 |
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darn | (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: mend, patch |
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(noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
(verb) repair by sewing | - |
darned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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darnel | (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum, tare |
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darner | (noun) a person who mends by darning | - |
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darning | (noun) the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads | - |
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dart | (noun) a sudden quick movement | Synonyms: flit |
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(noun) a tapered tuck made in dressmaking | - |
(noun) a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot | - |
(verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dash, flash, scoot, scud, shoot |
(verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: fleet, flit, flutter |
(verb) move with sudden speed | - |
dartboard | (noun) a circular board of wood or cork used as the target in the game of darts | Synonyms: dart board |
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darter | (noun) a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly | - |
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(noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: anhinga, snakebird |
darts | (noun) a game in which small pointed missiles are thrown at a dartboard | - |
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das | (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: coney, cony, dassie, hyrax |
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dash | (noun) a quick run | Synonyms: sprint |
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(noun) the act of moving with great haste | Synonyms: bolt |
(noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: elan, flair, panache, style |
(noun) the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dah |
(noun) a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text | Synonyms: hyphen |
(noun) a footrace run at top speed | - |
(verb) break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over | Synonyms: smash |
(verb) add an enlivening or altering element to | - |
(verb) hurl or thrust violently | Synonyms: crash |
(verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
(verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, flash, scoot, scud, shoot |
(verb) destroy or break | - |
dashboard | (noun) instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls | Synonyms: fascia |
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(noun) protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc. | Synonyms: splashboard, splasher |
dashcam | (noun) A camera filming from the dashboard of a car | - |
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dashed | (adjective) having gaps or spaces | Synonyms: dotted |
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dasheen | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, edda, taro, taro root |
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(noun) herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves | Synonyms: Colocasia esculenta, dalo, taro, taro plant |
(noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, eddo, taro |
dashiki | (noun) a loose and brightly colored African shirt | Synonyms: daishiki |
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dashing | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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(adjective) lively and spirited | Synonyms: gallant |
dashingly | (adverb) in a highly fashionable manner | - |
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dassie | (noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: coney, cony, das, hyrax |
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dastard | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastardly |
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(noun) a despicable coward | - |
dastardliness | (noun) despicable cowardice | - |
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dastardly | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastard |
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dasymeter | (noun) densimeter consisting of a thin glass globe that is weighed in a gas to determine its density | - |
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dasyure | (noun) any of several more or less arboreal marsupials somewhat resembling martens | - |
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dasyurid | (noun) small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania | Synonyms: dasyurid marsupial |
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data | (noun) a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn | Synonyms: information |
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database | (noun) an organized body of related information | - |
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datable | (adjective) that can be given a date | Synonyms: dateable |
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date | (noun) sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed | - |
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(noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: appointment, engagement |
(noun) a participant in a date | Synonyms: escort |
(noun) the specified day of the month | Synonyms: day of the month |
(noun) the present | - |
(noun) the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred | - |
(noun) a particular day specified as the time something happens | - |
(verb) assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of | - |
(verb) provide with a dateline; mark with a date | - |
(verb) stamp with a date | Synonyms: date stamp |
(verb) go on a date with | - |
(verb) date regularly; have a steady relationship with | Synonyms: go out, go steady, see |
dateable | (adjective) that can be given a date | Synonyms: datable |
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dated | (adjective) marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past | - |
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dateless | (adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: endless, sempiternal |
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(adjective) unaffected by time | Synonyms: timeless |
(adjective) not bearing a date | Synonyms: undated |
(adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date | - |
dateline | (noun) a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch | - |
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(noun) an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian | Synonyms: date line, International Date Line |
(verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, datemark |
datemark | (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, dateline |
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dating | (noun) use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens | Synonyms: geological dating |
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dative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | Synonyms: dative case |
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datum | (noun) an item of factual information derived from measurement or research | Synonyms: data point |
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