| disingenuous | (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: artful |
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| disingenuously | (adverb) in a disingenuous manner | Synonyms: artfully |
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| disingenuousness | (noun) the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor | - |
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| disinherit | (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disown |
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| disinheritance | (noun) the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit | - |
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| disinherited | (adjective) deprived of your rightful heritage | - |
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| disintegrable | (adjective) capable of melting | Synonyms: meltable |
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| disintegrate | (verb) break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity | - |
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| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, decompose |
| (verb) cause to undergo fission or lose particles | - |
| disintegration | (noun) total destruction | Synonyms: annihilation |
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| (noun) separation into component parts | Synonyms: dissolution |
| (noun) the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation | Synonyms: decay, radioactive decay |
| (noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: decomposition |
| (noun) a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system | - |
| disintegrative | (adjective) tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
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| disinter | (verb) dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies | Synonyms: exhume |
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| disinterest | (noun) tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement | Synonyms: neutrality |
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| (noun) lack of interest | - |
| disinterested | (adjective) unaffected by self-interest | - |
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| disinterestedly | (adverb) without bias; without selfish motives | - |
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| disinterestedness | (noun) freedom from bias or from selfish motives | - |
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| disinterment | (noun) the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | Synonyms: digging up, exhumation |
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| disinvest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: divest, strip, undress |
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| (verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: divest |
| (verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: divest |
| disinvestment | (noun) the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation | - |
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| disinvolve | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disentangle |
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| disjoin | (verb) become separated, disconnected or disjoint | Synonyms: disjoint |
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| (verb) make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of | Synonyms: disjoint |
| disjoined | (adjective) have the connection undone; having become separate | Synonyms: separate |
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| disjoint | (adjective) having no elements in common | - |
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| (verb) become separated, disconnected or disjoint | Synonyms: disjoin |
| (verb) make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of | Synonyms: disjoin |
| (verb) separate at the joints | Synonyms: disarticulate |
| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, dissociate, disunite, divorce |
| disjointed | (adjective) taken apart at the joints | - |
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| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
| (adjective) separated at the joint | Synonyms: dislocated, separated |
| disjointedly | (adverb) in a disjointed manner | - |
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| disjointedness | (noun) lacking order or coherence | - |
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| disjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals larger than a major second | - |
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| (adjective) used of distributions, as of statistical or natural populations | - |
| (adjective) having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects | - |
| (adjective) marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements | Synonyms: isolated |
| disjunction | (noun) the act of breaking a connection | Synonyms: disconnection |
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| (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjuncture |
| disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
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| disjuncture | (noun) state of being disconnected | Synonyms: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction |
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| disk | (noun) a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disc |
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| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disc, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record |
| (noun) (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored | Synonyms: disc, magnetic disc, magnetic disk |
| (noun) something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate | Synonyms: disc, saucer |
| (verb) draw a harrow over (land) | Synonyms: harrow |
| diskette | (noun) a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer | Synonyms: floppy, floppy disk |
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| disklike | (adjective) having a flat circular shape | Synonyms: disc-shaped, disclike, discoid, discoidal, disk-shaped |
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| dislikable | (adjective) such as to provoke dislike | - |
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| dislike | (noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disapproval, disfavor, disfavour |
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| (noun) a feeling of aversion or antipathy | - |
| (verb) have or feel a dislike or distaste for | - |
| disliked | (adjective) regarded with aversion | - |
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| dislocate | (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: luxate, slip, splay |
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| (verb) put out of its usual place, position, or relationship | - |
| dislocated | (adjective) separated at the joint | Synonyms: disjointed, separated |
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| dislocation | (noun) the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue | Synonyms: breakdown |
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| (noun) an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity | Synonyms: disruption |
| (noun) a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column) | - |
| dislodge | (verb) remove or force out from a position | Synonyms: free |
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| (verb) remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied | Synonyms: bump |
| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: reposition, shift |
| dislodgement | (noun) forced removal from a position of advantage | Synonyms: dislodgment |
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| dislodgment | (noun) forced removal from a position of advantage | Synonyms: dislodgement |
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| dislogistic | (adjective) expressing disapproval | Synonyms: dyslogistic, pejorative |
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| disloyal | (adjective) deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle | - |
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| (adjective) showing lack of love for your country | Synonyms: unpatriotic |
| disloyally | (adverb) without loyalty; in a disloyal manner | - |
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| disloyalty | (noun) the quality of being disloyal | - |
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| dismal | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| dismally | (adverb) in a dreadful manner | Synonyms: dreadfully |
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| (adverb) in a cheerless manner | Synonyms: drearily |
| dismantle | (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: strip |
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| (verb) take apart into its constituent pieces | Synonyms: break apart, break up, disassemble, take apart |
| (verb) tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Synonyms: level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down |
| dismantled | (adjective) torn down and broken up | Synonyms: demolished, razed |
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| dismantlement | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantling |
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| dismantling | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantlement |
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| dismay | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: alarm, consternation |
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| (noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: discouragement, disheartenment |
| (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, horrify |
| (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dispirit, get down |
| dismayed | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: aghast, appalled, shocked |
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| dismaying | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: appalling |
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| dismember | (verb) separate the limbs from the body | - |
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| (verb) divide into pieces | Synonyms: discerp, take apart |
| dismemberment | (noun) the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces | Synonyms: taking apart |
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| dismiss | (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dissolve |
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| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, disregard, ignore, push aside |
| (verb) end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave | Synonyms: usher out |
| (verb) cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration | Synonyms: throw out |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| (verb) stop associating with | Synonyms: drop, send away, send packing |
| dismissal | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
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| (noun) a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial | Synonyms: judgement of dismissal, judgment of dismissal |
| (noun) official notice that you have been fired from your job | Synonyms: dismission, pink slip |
| (noun) permission to go; the sending away of someone | - |
| dismissed | (adjective) having lost your job | Synonyms: discharged, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped |
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| dismissible | (adjective) subject to dismissal | - |
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| dismission | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
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| (noun) official notice that you have been fired from your job | Synonyms: dismissal, pink slip |
| dismissive | (adjective) stopping to associate with | - |
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| (adjective) showing indifference or disregard | - |
| dismount | (noun) the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.) | - |
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| (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: get down, get off, light, unhorse |
| disobedience | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: noncompliance |
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| (noun) the trait of being unwilling to obey | - |
| disobedient | (adjective) not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority | - |
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| (adjective) unwilling to submit to authority | Synonyms: unruly |
| disobediently | (adverb) in a disobedient manner | - |
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| disobey | (verb) refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient | - |
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| disoblige | (verb) ignore someone's wishes | - |
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| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble |
| disobliging | (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: uncooperative |
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| disorder | (noun) a disturbance of the peace or of public order | - |
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| (noun) a condition in which things are not in their expected places | Synonyms: disorderliness |
| (noun) a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning | Synonyms: upset |
| (verb) bring disorder to | Synonyms: disarray |
| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disquiet, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| disordered | (adjective) not arranged in order | Synonyms: unordered |
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| (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: broken, confused, upset |
| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disjointed, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
| disorderliness | (noun) untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) | Synonyms: disarray |
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| (noun) a condition in which things are not in their expected places | Synonyms: disorder |
| (noun) rowdy behavior | Synonyms: roughness, rowdiness, rowdyism |
| disorderly | (adjective) undisciplined and unruly | - |
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| (adjective) in utter disorder | Synonyms: higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy |
| (adjective) completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing | Synonyms: chaotic |
| disorganisation | (noun) the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion | Synonyms: disorganization |
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| (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disarrangement, disorganization |
| disorganise | (verb) remove the organization from | Synonyms: disorganize |
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| disorganised | (adjective) lacking order or methodical arrangement or function | Synonyms: disorganized |
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| disorganization | (noun) the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion | Synonyms: disorganisation |
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| (noun) a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted | Synonyms: disarrangement, disorganisation |
| disorganize | (verb) remove the organization from | Synonyms: disorganise |
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| disorganized | (adjective) lacking order or methodical arrangement or function | Synonyms: disorganised |
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| disorient | (verb) cause to be lost or disoriented | Synonyms: disorientate |
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| disorientate | (verb) cause to be lost or disoriented | Synonyms: disorient |
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| disorientation | (noun) a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug) | Synonyms: freak out |
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| (noun) confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed; uncertainty as to direction | - |
| disoriented | (adjective) having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity | Synonyms: confused, lost |
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| (adjective) socially disoriented | Synonyms: alienated, anomic |
| disorienting | (adjective) causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings | - |
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| disown | (verb) cast off | Synonyms: renounce, repudiate |
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| (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disinherit |
| disowning | (noun) refusal to acknowledge as one's own | Synonyms: disownment |
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| disownment | (noun) refusal to acknowledge as one's own | Synonyms: disowning |
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| disparage | (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: belittle, pick at |
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| disparagement | (noun) the act of speaking contemptuously of | Synonyms: dispraise |
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| (noun) a communication that belittles somebody or something | Synonyms: depreciation, derogation |
| disparager | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, detractor, knocker |
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| disparaging | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, derogatory |
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| disparagingly | (adverb) in a disparaging manner | Synonyms: slightingly |
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| disparate | (adjective) fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind | - |
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| (adjective) including markedly dissimilar elements | - |
| disparateness | (noun) utter dissimilarity | Synonyms: distinctiveness |
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| disparity | (noun) inequality or difference in some respect | - |
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| dispassion | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassionateness, dryness |
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| dispassionate | (adjective) unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice | Synonyms: cold-eyed |
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| dispassionately | (adverb) in an impartially dispassionate manner | - |
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| dispassionateness | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassion, dryness |
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| dispatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: despatch, shipment |
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| (noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: despatch |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, despatch |
| (verb) kill without delay | - |
| (verb) send away towards a designated goal | Synonyms: despatch, send off |
| (verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: complete, discharge |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| (verb) dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently | - |