effectuation | (noun) the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect | Synonyms: implementation |
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effeminacy | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
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effeminate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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effeminateness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
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effeminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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effeminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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effendi | (noun) a former Turkish term of respect; especially for government officials | - |
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efferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS | Synonyms: motorial |
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(noun) a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands | Synonyms: efferent nerve, motor nerve |
effervesce | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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effervescence | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, frothiness |
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(noun) the process of bubbling as gas escapes | - |
effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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(adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
(adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
effervescing | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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effete | (adjective) deprived of vigor and the ability to be effective | - |
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(adjective) affected, overrefined, and effeminate | - |
efficacious | (adjective) marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect | - |
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(adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effective, effectual |
efficaciously | (adverb) in an effective manner | Synonyms: effectively |
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efficaciousness | (noun) capacity or power to produce a desired effect | Synonyms: efficacy |
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efficacy | (noun) capacity or power to produce a desired effect | Synonyms: efficaciousness |
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efficiency | (noun) skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort | - |
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(noun) the ratio of the output to the input of any system | - |
efficient | (adjective) being effective without wasting time or effort or expense | - |
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(adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: effective |
efficiently | (adverb) with efficiency; in an efficient manner | Synonyms: expeditiously |
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effigy | (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: image, simulacrum |
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effleurage | (noun) a rhythmic stroking | - |
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effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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(verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
(verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
efflorescence | (noun) a powdery deposit on a surface | Synonyms: bloom |
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(noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
(noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: rash, roseola, skin rash |
(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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effluence | (noun) the process of flowing out | Synonyms: efflux, outflow |
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effluent | (adjective) that is flowing outward | Synonyms: outflowing |
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(noun) water mixed with waste matter | Synonyms: sewer water, wastewater |
effluvium | (noun) a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) | - |
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efflux | (noun) the process of flowing out | Synonyms: effluence, outflow |
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effort | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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(noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail |
(noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: exploit, feat |
(noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement |
effortful | (adjective) requiring great physical effort | - |
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effortfulness | (noun) the quality of requiring deliberate effort | - |
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effortless | (adjective) requiring or apparently requiring no effort | - |
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(adjective) not showing effort or strain | Synonyms: casual |
effortlessly | (adverb) without effort or apparent effort | - |
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effortlessness | (noun) the quality of requiring little effort | - |
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effrontery | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, presumption, presumptuousness |
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effulgence | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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effulgent | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, radiant, refulgent |
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effuse | (verb) give out or emit (also metaphorically) | - |
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(verb) flow or spill forth | Synonyms: flow out |
(verb) pour out liberally | Synonyms: pour out |
effusion | (noun) flow under pressure | - |
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(noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, ebullition, gush, outburst |
effusive | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: gushing, gushy |
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(adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, gushing |
effusively | (adverb) in an effusive manner | - |
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effusiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: expansiveness, expansivity |
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eft | (noun) a newt in its terrestrial stage of development | - |
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egalitarian | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: classless |
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(noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: equalitarian |
egalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: equalitarianism |
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egalite | (noun) social and political equality | Synonyms: egality |
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egality | (noun) social and political equality | Synonyms: egalite |
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egest | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: eliminate, excrete, pass |
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egg | (noun) animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds | - |
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(noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
(noun) oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food | Synonyms: eggs |
(verb) coat with beaten egg | - |
(verb) throw eggs at | - |
eggar | (noun) moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults; larvae feed on tree foliage and spin egg-shaped cocoons | Synonyms: egger |
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eggbeater | (noun) a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream | Synonyms: eggwhisk |
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(noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: chopper, helicopter, whirlybird |
eggcup | (noun) dishware consisting of a small cup for serving a boiled egg | Synonyms: egg cup |
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egger | (noun) moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults; larvae feed on tree foliage and spin egg-shaped cocoons | Synonyms: eggar |
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eggfruit | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: canistel |
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egghead | (noun) an intellectual; a very studious and academic person | - |
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eggnog | (noun) a punch made of sweetened milk or cream mixed with eggs and usually alcoholic liquor | - |
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eggplant | (noun) egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow | Synonyms: aubergine, mad apple |
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(noun) hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable | Synonyms: aubergine, brinjal, eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, Solanum melongena |
eggs | (noun) oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food | Synonyms: egg |
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eggshake | (noun) a milkshake with egg in it | - |
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eggshell | (noun) the exterior covering of a bird's egg | Synonyms: shell |
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eggwhisk | (noun) a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream | Synonyms: eggbeater |
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egis | (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: aegis, breastplate |
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eglantine | (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, brier, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
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ego | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind | - |
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(noun) your consciousness of your own identity | Synonyms: self |
(noun) an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others | Synonyms: egotism, self-importance |
egocentric | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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(noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egoist |
egocentrism | (noun) concern for your own interests and welfare | Synonyms: egoism, self-centeredness, self-concern, self-interest |
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egoism | (noun) concern for your own interests and welfare | Synonyms: egocentrism, self-centeredness, self-concern, self-interest |
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(noun) (ethics) the theory that the pursuit of your own welfare is the basis of morality | - |
egoist | (noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egocentric |
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(noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egotist, swellhead |
egoistic | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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egoistical | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistic, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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egomania | (noun) an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs | - |
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egomaniac | (noun) an abnormally egotistical person | - |
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egotism | (noun) an exaggerated opinion of your own importance | Synonyms: self-importance, swelled head |
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(noun) an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others | Synonyms: ego, self-importance |
egotist | (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egoist, swellhead |
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egotistic | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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(adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistical, narcissistic, self-loving |
egotistical | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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(adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistic, narcissistic, self-loving |
egotistically | (adverb) in an egotistical manner | Synonyms: selfishly |
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egotrip | (verb) act in a way that attracts attention | - |
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egregious | (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank |
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egress | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egression, emergence |
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(noun) (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse | Synonyms: emersion |
(noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: emergence, issue |
(verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, emerge, go forth, issue |
egression | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egress, emergence |
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egret | (noun) any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season | - |
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eider | (noun) duck of the Northern Hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females | Synonyms: eider duck |
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eiderdown | (noun) down of the eider duck | - |
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(noun) a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider | Synonyms: continental quilt, duvet |
eidetic | (adjective) of visual imagery of almost photographic accuracy | - |
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eidos | (noun) (anthropology) the distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or a social group | - |
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eigenvalue | (noun) (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant | Synonyms: characteristic root of a square matrix, eigenvalue of a matrix, eigenvalue of a square matrix |
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eight | (adjective) being one more than seven | Synonyms: 8, viii |
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(noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face | Synonyms: eight-spot |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
eighteen | (adjective) being one more than seventeen | Synonyms: 18, xviii |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one | Synonyms: 18, XVIII |
eighteenth | (adjective) coming next after the seventeenth in position | Synonyms: 18th |
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(noun) position 18 in a countable series of things | - |
eighter | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
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eightfold | (adjective) having eight units or components | Synonyms: eight-fold, octuple |
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eighth | (adjective) coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position | Synonyms: 8th |
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(noun) one part in eight equal parts | Synonyms: one-eighth |
(noun) position eight in a countable series of things | - |
eighties | (noun) the time of life between 80 and 90 | Synonyms: mid-eighties |
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(noun) the decade from 1980 to 1989 | Synonyms: 1980s |
(noun) the decade from 1880 to 1889 | Synonyms: 1880s |
eightieth | (adjective) the ordinal number of eighty in counting order | Synonyms: 80th |
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(noun) position 80 in a countable series of things | - |
eightpence | (noun) a coin worth eight pennies | - |
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eightpenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 2 1/2 in or 6.4 cm long | - |
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eightsome | (noun) a Scottish reel for eight dancers | - |
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(noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet, octette |
eightvo | (noun) the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves | Synonyms: 8vo, octavo |
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