distressful | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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distressfully | (adverb) with distress | - |
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distressfulness | (noun) the quality of arousing fear or distress | Synonyms: seriousness |
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distressing | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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(adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
distressingly | (adverb) unpleasantly | Synonyms: painfully |
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distressingness | (noun) the quality of being painful | Synonyms: painfulness |
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distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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distribute | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread |
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(verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: stagger |
(verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: spread |
(verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on |
(verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
(verb) give to several people | Synonyms: give out, hand out, pass out |
(verb) release | - |
(verb) be mathematically distributive | - |
(verb) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses | - |
(verb) spread throughout a given area | - |
distributed | (adjective) spread out or scattered about or divided up | - |
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distributer | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributor, electrical distributor |
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(noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributor |
distribution | (noun) the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning | - |
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(noun) the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer | - |
(noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: dispersion |
(noun) (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence | Synonyms: statistical distribution |
distributional | (adjective) of or relating to spatial distribution | - |
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distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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distributively | (adverb) in a distributive manner | - |
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(adverb) as individuals or as separate units (not collectively) | - |
distributor | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributer, electrical distributor |
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(noun) a company that markets merchandise | - |
(noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributer |
(noun) a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion | Synonyms: allocator |
district | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: dominion, territorial dominion, territory |
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(verb) regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns | Synonyms: zone |
distrust | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrustfulness, mistrust |
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(noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: misgiving, mistrust, suspicion |
(verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: mistrust, suspect |
distrustful | (adjective) having or showing distrust | - |
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distrustfully | (adverb) with distrust | Synonyms: mistrustfully |
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distrustfulness | (noun) the trait of not trusting others | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust |
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disturb | (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: interrupt |
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(verb) damage as if by shaking or jarring | - |
(verb) tamper with | Synonyms: touch |
(verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, commove, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
(verb) move deeply | Synonyms: trouble, upset |
disturbance | (noun) the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion | - |
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(noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, fray, ruffle |
(noun) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | Synonyms: perturbation |
(noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: interference, noise |
(noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
(noun) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | Synonyms: folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
(noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: perturbation, upset |
disturbed | (adjective) having the place or position changed | - |
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(adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
(adjective) emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships | Synonyms: maladjusted |
(adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, upset, worried |
disturber | (noun) a troubler who interrupts or interferes with peace and quiet; someone who causes disorder and commotion | - |
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disturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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disturbingly | (adverb) in a disturbing manner | - |
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disulfiram | (noun) a drug (trade name Antabuse) used in the treatment of alcoholism; causes nausea and vomiting if alcohol is ingested | Synonyms: Antabuse |
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disunify | (verb) break up or separate | Synonyms: break apart |
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disunion | (noun) the termination or destruction of union | - |
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disunite | (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: divide, part, separate |
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(verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, divorce |
disunited | (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disconnected, fragmented, split |
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disunity | (noun) lack of unity (usually resulting from dissension) | - |
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disuse | (noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | Synonyms: neglect |
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disused | (adjective) no longer in use | Synonyms: obsolete |
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disyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of two syllables | - |
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disyllable | (noun) a word having two syllables | Synonyms: dissyllable |
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dit | (noun) the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dot |
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(noun) a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. | Synonyms: ban, Hart, hartley |
dita | (noun) evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Alstonia scholaris, devil tree, dita bark |
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ditch | (noun) a long narrow excavation in the earth | - |
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(noun) any small natural waterway | - |
(verb) crash or crash-land | - |
(verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: trench |
(verb) make an emergency landing on water | - |
(verb) forsake | - |
(verb) throw away | Synonyms: chuck |
(verb) sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly | Synonyms: dump |
ditchmoss | (noun) submerged freshwater perennials | Synonyms: Elodea, genus Elodea, pondweed |
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dither | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: flap, fuss, pother, tizzy |
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(verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: flap, pother |
(verb) act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain | - |
dithering | (noun) the process of representing intermediate colors by patterns of tiny colored dots that simulate the desired color | - |
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dithyramb | (noun) (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus) | - |
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(noun) a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing | - |
dithyrambic | (adjective) of or in the manner of a dithyramb | - |
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dittany | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather | Synonyms: burning bush, Dictamnus alba, fraxinella, gas plant |
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ditto | (noun) a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated | Synonyms: ditto mark |
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(verb) repeat an action or statement | - |
ditty | (noun) a short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung) | - |
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diuresis | (noun) increased secretion of urine; if not due to increased liquid intake or to the action of a diuretic drug it can be a symptom of diabetes mellitus | - |
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diuretic | (noun) any substance that tends to increase the flow of urine, which causes the body to get rid of excess water | Synonyms: diuretic drug, water pill |
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diurnal | (adjective) of or belonging to or active during the day | - |
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(adjective) having a daily cycle or occurring every day | - |
diva | (noun) a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star | Synonyms: prima donna |
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divagate | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, stray, wander |
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divagation | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, diversion |
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(noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, excursus, parenthesis |
divalent | (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: bivalent |
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divan | (noun) a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall) | - |
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(noun) a Muslim council chamber or law court | Synonyms: diwan |
(noun) a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) | Synonyms: diwan |
(noun) a Muslim council of state | Synonyms: diwan |
divaricate | (verb) spread apart | - |
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(verb) branch off | - |
divarication | (noun) branching at a wide angle | - |
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dive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: nose dive, nosedive |
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(noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: diving |
(noun) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall | Synonyms: honkytonk |
(verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: plunge, plunk |
(verb) swim under water | - |
(verb) plunge into water | - |
diver | (noun) large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes | Synonyms: loon |
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(noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: plunger |
(noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: frogman, underwater diver |
diverge | (verb) move or draw apart | - |
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(verb) extend in a different direction | - |
(verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, deviate, vary |
(verb) have no limits as a mathematical series | - |
divergence | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergency |
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(noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, variance |
(noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergency |
(noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, difference |
divergency | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergence |
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(noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergence |
divergent | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: diverging |
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(adjective) diverging from another or from a standard | - |
diverging | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: divergent |
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divers | (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: diverse |
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diverse | (adjective) distinctly dissimilar or unlike | Synonyms: various |
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(adjective) many and different | Synonyms: divers |
diversely | (adverb) in diverse ways | Synonyms: multifariously, variously |
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diverseness | (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diversity, multifariousness, variety |
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diversification | (noun) the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered) | Synonyms: variegation |
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(noun) the condition of being varied | - |
diversified | (adjective) having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety | - |
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diversify | (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, broaden |
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(verb) make (more) diverse | - |
(verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: radiate |
diversion | (noun) an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates | Synonyms: recreation |
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(noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation |
(noun) an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack | Synonyms: diversionary attack |
diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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diversionist | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker |
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diversity | (noun) the condition or result of being changeable | - |
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(noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diverseness, multifariousness, variety |
divert | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: deviate |
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(verb) send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one | - |
(verb) withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions | Synonyms: hive off |
(verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, disport |
diverted | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: amused, entertained |
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diverticulitis | (noun) inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation | - |
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diverticulosis | (noun) presence of multiple diverticula in the walls of the colon | - |
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diverticulum | (noun) a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon) | - |
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divertimento | (noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: serenade |
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diverting | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, amusive |
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divertingly | (adverb) in an entertaining and amusing manner | Synonyms: amusingly |
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divest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, strip, undress |
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(verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: disinvest |
(verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: deprive, strip |
(verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: disinvest |
divestiture | (noun) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division | - |
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(noun) an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior | - |
dividable | (adjective) can be divided usually without leaving a remainder | - |
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divide | (noun) a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems | Synonyms: water parting, watershed |
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(noun) a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility) | - |
(verb) perform a division | Synonyms: fraction |
(verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: part, separate |
(verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, part, separate |
(verb) make a division or separation | Synonyms: separate |
(verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, separate, split, split up |
(verb) act as a barrier between; stand between | Synonyms: separate |
divided | (adjective) separated into parts or pieces | - |
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(adjective) distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose | Synonyms: divided up, shared, shared out |
(adjective) having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions | Synonyms: dual-lane |
dividend | (noun) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly | - |
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(noun) a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus) | - |
(noun) a number to be divided by another number | - |
divider | (noun) a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) | Synonyms: partition |
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(noun) a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements | - |
(noun) a person who separates something into parts or groups | - |
(noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: splitter |
divination | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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(noun) a prediction uttered under divine inspiration | Synonyms: prophecy |
(noun) successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck | - |
divinatory | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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(adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
divine | (adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods | Synonyms: elysian, inspired |
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(adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: godly |
(adjective) devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity | - |
(adjective) appropriate to or befitting a god | Synonyms: godlike |
(adjective) being or having the nature of a god | Synonyms: godlike |
(adjective) resulting from divine providence | Synonyms: providential |
(noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic |
(verb) search by divining, as if with a rod | - |
(verb) perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers | - |
divinely | (adverb) by divine means | - |
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diviner | (noun) someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers | - |
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diving | (noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: dive |
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(noun) an athletic competition that involves diving into water | Synonyms: diving event |
divinity | (noun) the quality of being divine | - |
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(noun) the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth | Synonyms: theology |
(noun) white creamy fudge made with egg whites | Synonyms: divinity fudge |
(noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, god, immortal |
divisibility | (noun) the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons | - |
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divisible | (adjective) capable of being or liable to be divided or separated | - |
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division | (noun) the act or process of dividing | - |
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(noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed | - |
(noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
(noun) one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole | Synonyms: part, section |
(noun) discord that splits a group | Synonyms: variance |
(noun) an army unit large enough to sustain combat | - |
(noun) a group of ships of similar type | Synonyms: naval division |
(noun) a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings | Synonyms: air division |
(noun) an administrative unit in government or business | - |
(noun) (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum | - |
(noun) (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category | - |
(noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: class |