empale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: impale, spike, transfix |
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empanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: impanel, panel |
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(verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: impanel |
empathetic | (adjective) showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states | Synonyms: empathic |
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empathetically | (adverb) in a sympathetic manner | Synonyms: sympathetically |
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empathic | (adjective) showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states | Synonyms: empathetic |
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empathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathize, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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empathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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empathy | (noun) understanding and entering into another's feelings | - |
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empennage | (noun) the rear part of an aircraft | Synonyms: tail, tail assembly |
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emperor | (noun) large richly colored butterfly | Synonyms: emperor butterfly |
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(noun) large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings | Synonyms: emperor moth, Saturnia pavonia |
(noun) red table grape of California | - |
(noun) the male ruler of an empire | - |
emphasis | (noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression | Synonyms: vehemence |
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(noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: accent, stress |
(noun) special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. | - |
(noun) special importance or significance | Synonyms: accent |
emphasise | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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(verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasize, underline, underscore |
emphasised | (adjective) spoken with emphasis | Synonyms: emphasized, emphatic |
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emphasize | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress |
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(verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, underline, underscore |
emphasized | (adjective) spoken with emphasis | Synonyms: emphasised, emphatic |
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emphasizing | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, accentuation |
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emphatic | (adjective) forceful and definite in expression or action | Synonyms: forceful |
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(adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: exclamatory |
(adjective) spoken with emphasis | Synonyms: emphasised, emphasized |
emphatically | (adverb) without question and beyond doubt | Synonyms: by all odds, decidedly, definitely, in spades, unquestionably |
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emphysema | (noun) an abnormal condition of the lungs marked by decreased respiratory function; associated with smoking or chronic bronchitis or old age | Synonyms: pulmonary emphysema |
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emphysematous | (adjective) relating to or resembling or being emphysema | - |
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empire | (noun) a monarchy with an emperor as head of state | - |
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(noun) a group of countries under a single authority | - |
(noun) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | Synonyms: conglomerate |
(noun) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | Synonyms: imperium |
empiric | (adjective) derived from experiment and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: empirical |
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(adjective) relying on medical quackery | Synonyms: empirical |
empirical | (adjective) derived from experiment and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: empiric |
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(adjective) relying on medical quackery | Synonyms: empiric |
empirically | (adverb) in an empirical manner | Synonyms: by trial and error, through empirical observation |
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empiricism | (noun) the application of empirical methods in any art or science | - |
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(noun) medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings | Synonyms: quackery |
(noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricist philosophy, sensationalism |
empiricist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism | - |
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emplace | (verb) put into place or position | - |
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(verb) provide a new emplacement for guns | - |
emplacement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: locating, location, placement, position, positioning |
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(noun) military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon | - |
emplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: enplane |
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employ | (noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employment |
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(verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: apply, use, utilise, utilize |
(verb) engage or hire for work | Synonyms: engage, hire |
employable | (adjective) physically and mentally capable of working at a regular job and available | - |
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(noun) a person who is qualified and ready to work | - |
employed | (adjective) having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary | - |
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(adjective) made useful | Synonyms: utilised, utilized |
employee | (noun) a worker who is hired to perform a job | - |
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employer | (noun) a person or firm that employs workers | - |
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employment | (noun) the occupation for which you are paid | Synonyms: work |
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(noun) the act of using | Synonyms: exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization |
(noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: engagement |
(noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employ |
emporium | (noun) a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain | Synonyms: department store |
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empower | (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, authorize |
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(verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: endow, endue, gift, indue, invest |
empowered | (adjective) invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter | Synonyms: sceptered, sceptred |
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empowerment | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
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empress | (noun) a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor | - |
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emptiness | (noun) the quality of being valueless or futile | Synonyms: vanity |
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(noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: vacancy, vacuum, void |
(noun) the state of containing nothing | - |
(noun) having an empty stomach | - |
emptor | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, purchaser, vendee |
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empty | (adjective) holding or containing nothing | - |
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(adjective) emptied of emotion | - |
(adjective) needing nourishment | Synonyms: empty-bellied |
(adjective) devoid of significance or force | Synonyms: hollow, vacuous |
(noun) a container that has been emptied | - |
(verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: evacuate, void |
(verb) become empty or void of its content | Synonyms: discharge |
(verb) make void or empty of contents | - |
(verb) remove the contents of a container | - |
(verb) leave behind empty; move out of | Synonyms: abandon, vacate |
emptying | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: evacuation, voidance |
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empurple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: purple, purpurate |
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empurpled | (adjective) excessively elaborate or showily expressed | Synonyms: over-embellished, purple |
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empyema | (noun) a collection of pus in a body cavity (especially in the lung cavity) | - |
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empyreal | (adjective) of or relating to the sky or heavens | Synonyms: empyrean |
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(adjective) inspiring awe | Synonyms: empyrean, sublime |
empyrean | (adjective) of or relating to the sky or heavens | Synonyms: empyreal |
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(adjective) inspiring awe | Synonyms: empyreal, sublime |
(noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |