despising | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despisal |
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despite | (noun) contemptuous disregard | - |
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(noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, disdain, scorn |
despiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: spiteful, vindictive |
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despitefully | (adverb) in a maliciously spiteful manner | Synonyms: spitefully |
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despoil | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: plunder, rape, spoil, violate |
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(verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
despoilation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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despoiled | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked |
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despoiler | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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despoilment | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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despoliation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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despond | (verb) lose confidence or hope; become dejected | - |
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despondence | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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despondency | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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despondent | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: heartsick |
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despondently | (adverb) with desperation | Synonyms: despairingly |
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despot | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: autocrat, tyrant |
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despotic | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotical |
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(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
(adjective) ruled by or characteristic of a despot | - |
despotical | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotic |
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despotism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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(noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence | Synonyms: absolutism, tyranny |
desquamate | (verb) peel off in scales | Synonyms: peel off |
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desquamation | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: peeling, shedding |
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dessert | (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: afters, sweet |
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dessertspoon | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoonful |
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dessertspoonful | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoon |
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dessiatine | (noun) a former Russian unit of area equal to 2.7 acres | - |
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destabilisation | (noun) the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy) | Synonyms: destabilization |
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destabilise | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
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(verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
destabilization | (noun) the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy) | Synonyms: destabilisation |
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(noun) an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft) | - |
destabilize | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
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(verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
destain | (verb) remove stain from (a laboratory specimen) to enhance contrast | - |
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destalinisation | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinization |
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destalinise | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinize |
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destalinization | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinisation |
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destalinize | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinise |
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destination | (noun) the ultimate goal for which something is done | Synonyms: terminus |
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(noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: address, name and address |
(noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: finish, goal |
destine | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, intend, specify |
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(verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, doom, fate |
destined | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Synonyms: bound |
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(adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Synonyms: bound |
destiny | (noun) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future | Synonyms: fate |
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(noun) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events | Synonyms: fate |
(noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
destitute | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, devoid, free, innocent |
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(adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
destitution | (noun) a state without friends or money or prospects | - |
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destress | (verb) reduce the emphasis | Synonyms: de-emphasise, de-emphasize |
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destroy | (verb) defeat soundly and humiliatingly | Synonyms: demolish |
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(verb) destroy completely; damage irreparably | Synonyms: ruin |
(verb) put (an animal) to death | Synonyms: put down |
(verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destruct |
destroyable | (adjective) capable of being destroyed | - |
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destroyed | (adjective) spoiled or ruined or demolished | - |
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(adjective) destroyed physically or morally | Synonyms: ruined |
destroyer | (noun) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship | Synonyms: guided missile destroyer |
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(noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster |
destruct | (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destroy |
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(verb) destroy (one's own missile or rocket) | - |
destructibility | (noun) vulnerability to destruction | - |
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destructible | (adjective) easily destroyed | - |
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destruction | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: devastation |
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(noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, wipeout |
(noun) a final state | Synonyms: death, end |
destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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destructively | (adverb) in a destructive manner | - |
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destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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desuetude | (noun) a state of inactivity or disuse | - |
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desulfurize | (verb) remove sulfur from | Synonyms: desulphurize |
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desulphurize | (verb) remove sulfur from | Synonyms: desulfurize |
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desultory | (adjective) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another | - |
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desynchronisation | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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desynchronise | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronize |
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desynchronization | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronizing |
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desynchronize | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronise |
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desynchronizing | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization |
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