giant | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: elephantine, gargantuan, jumbo |
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(noun) any creature of exceptional size | - |
(noun) an unusually large enterprise | - |
(noun) a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun) | Synonyms: giant star |
(noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, goliath, monster |
(noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, heavyweight, titan |
(noun) an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales | - |
(noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: heavyweight, hulk, whale |
giantess | (noun) a female giant | - |
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giantism | (noun) excessive largeness of stature | Synonyms: gigantism |
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(noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: gigantism, overgrowth |
giardia | (noun) a suspected cause of diarrhea in humans | - |
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giardiasis | (noun) infection of the intestines with protozoa found in contaminated food and water; characterized by diarrhea and nausea and flatulence and abdominal discomfort | - |
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gib | (noun) a castrated tomcat | - |
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gibber | (noun) unintelligible talking | Synonyms: gibberish |
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(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
(verb) chatter inarticulately; of monkeys | - |
gibberellin | (noun) a plant hormone isolated from a fungus; used in promoting plant growth | - |
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gibberish | (noun) unintelligible talking | Synonyms: gibber |
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gibbet | (noun) alternative terms for gallows | Synonyms: gallous, gallows-tree, gallows tree |
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(verb) hang on an execution instrument | - |
(verb) expose to ridicule or public scorn | Synonyms: pillory |
gibbon | (noun) smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies | Synonyms: Hylobates lar |
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gibbose | (adjective) (used of the moon) more than half full | Synonyms: gibbous |
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gibbosity | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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gibbous | (adjective) (used of the moon) more than half full | Synonyms: gibbose |
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(adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
gibbousness | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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gibbsite | (noun) white crystalline mineral consisting of aluminum hydroxide; a constituent of bauxite and a source of alumina | - |
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gibe | (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, jibe, shaft, shot, slam |
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(verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, jeer, scoff |
(verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, jibe, match, tally |
gibelike | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, jeering, mocking, taunting |
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gibibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibits or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bits | Synonyms: Gibit |
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gibibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB, GiB, gigabyte |
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gibingly | (adverb) in a disrespectful jeering manner | Synonyms: jeeringly, mockingly |
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giblet | (noun) edible viscera of a fowl | Synonyms: giblets |
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giblets | (noun) edible viscera of a fowl | Synonyms: giblet |
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giddily | (adverb) in a giddy light-headed manner | Synonyms: dizzily, light-headedly |
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giddiness | (noun) an impulsive scatterbrained manner | Synonyms: silliness |
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(noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, lightheadedness, vertigo |
giddy | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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(adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: dizzy, vertiginous, woozy |
gidgee | (noun) scrubby Australian acacia having extremely foul-smelling blossoms | Synonyms: Acacia cambegei, stinking wattle |
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gifset | (noun) A set of images in the GIF format | - |
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gift | (noun) the act of giving | Synonyms: giving |
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(noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: endowment, natural endowment, talent |
(noun) something acquired without compensation | - |
(verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: give, present |
(verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, indue, invest |
gifted | (adjective) endowed with talent or talents | Synonyms: talented |
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gig | (noun) a booking for musicians | - |
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(noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood | - |
(noun) tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain | - |
(noun) long and light rowing boat; especially for racing | - |
(noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, lance, spear |
(noun) a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting | - |
gigabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Gb, Gbit |
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gigabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB, GiB, gibibyte |
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(noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB |
gigacycle | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle per second, gigahertz |
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gigaflop | (noun) a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating point operations per second. | Synonyms: billion floating point operations per second, GFLOPS |
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gigahertz | (noun) 1,000,000,000 periods per second | Synonyms: Gc, GHz, gigacycle, gigacycle per second |
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gigantic | (adjective) so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth | Synonyms: mammoth |
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gigantism | (noun) excessive largeness of stature | Synonyms: giantism |
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(noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: giantism, overgrowth |
gigatonne | (noun) a unit of weight equivalent to 1 billion tonnes. | Synonyms: Gt |
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giggle | (noun) a foolish or nervous laugh | - |
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(verb) laugh nervously | Synonyms: titter |
giggler | (noun) a person who laughs nervously | Synonyms: titterer |
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gigolo | (noun) a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman | - |
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gigot | (noun) lamb leg suitable for roasting | Synonyms: leg of lamb |
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gigue | (noun) music in three-four time for dancing a jig | Synonyms: jig |
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gilbert | (noun) a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns | Synonyms: Gb, Gi |
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gild | (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, guild, lodge, order, social club, society |
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(verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: begild, engild |
gilded | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilt, gold, golden |
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(adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: glossy, meretricious, specious |
(adjective) made from or covered with gold | Synonyms: gold, golden |
(adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
gilder | (noun) someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt | - |
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gildhall | (noun) the meeting place of a medieval guild | - |
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gilding | (noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold | Synonyms: gilt |
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gill | (noun) respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water | Synonyms: branchia |
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(noun) any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus | Synonyms: lamella |
(noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 4 fluid ounces | - |
(noun) a British imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters | - |
gilled | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: branchiate |
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gillie | (noun) a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep | Synonyms: ghillie |
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(noun) a young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief | - |
gillyflower | (noun) Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors | Synonyms: carnation, clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus |
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(noun) any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers | Synonyms: stock |
gilt | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: aureate, gilded, gold, golden |
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(noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold | Synonyms: gilding |
gimbal | (noun) an appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips | - |
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gimbaled | (adjective) supported on gimbals and remaining steady or level when the base tips | - |
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gimcrack | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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(noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
gimcrackery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery |
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gimel | (noun) the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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gimlet | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: auger, screw auger, wimble |
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(noun) a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice | - |
gimmick | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: device, twist |
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(noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
(noun) a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident | Synonyms: catch |
gimmickry | (noun) a collection of gimmicks | - |
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gimp | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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(verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: hitch, hobble, limp |
gimpiness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, lameness, limping |
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gimpy | (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, halt, halting, lame |
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gin | (noun) a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points | Synonyms: gin rummy, knock rummy |
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(noun) a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers | Synonyms: cotton gin |
(noun) a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose | Synonyms: noose, snare |
(noun) strong liquor flavored with juniper berries | - |
(verb) trap with a snare | - |
(verb) separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin | - |
ginep | (noun) tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp | Synonyms: genip, honey berry, mamoncillo, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree |
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ginger | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: gingery |
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(noun) liveliness and energy | Synonyms: pep, peppiness |
(noun) dried ground gingerroot | Synonyms: powdered ginger |
(noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: gingerroot |
(noun) perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems | - |
(verb) add ginger to in order to add flavor | - |
gingerbread | (noun) cake flavored with ginger | - |
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gingerly | (adjective) with extreme care or delicacy | - |
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(adverb) in a gingerly manner | - |
gingerol | (noun) derived from ginger; source of the hotness of ginger | - |
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gingerroot | (noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery | Synonyms: ginger |
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gingersnap | (noun) a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger | Synonyms: ginger nut, ginger snap, snap |
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gingery | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: ginger |
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(adjective) having a taste like that of ginger | - |
gingham | (noun) a clothing fabric in a plaid weave | - |
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gingiva | (noun) the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth | Synonyms: gum |
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gingival | (adjective) of or relating to the gums | - |
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gingivitis | (noun) inflammation of the gums | - |
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gingko | (noun) deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree | Synonyms: ginkgo, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree |
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ginglymus | (noun) a freely moving joint in which the bones are so articulated as to allow extensive movement in one plane | Synonyms: ginglymoid joint, hinge joint |
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ginkgo | (noun) deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree | Synonyms: gingko, Ginkgo biloba, maidenhair tree |
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ginmill | (noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: bar, barroom, saloon, taproom |
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ginseng | (noun) Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers | Synonyms: nin-sin, Panax ginseng, Panax pseudoginseng, Panax schinseng |
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(noun) aromatic root of ginseng plants | - |
ginzo | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, greaseball, Guinea, wop |
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gip | (noun) (sometimes offensive) an act of swindling or cheating | Synonyms: gyp |
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(verb) (sometimes offensive) to cheat or swindle | Synonyms: gyp |
gipsy | (noun) a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment | Synonyms: gypsy, itinerant |
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(noun) a person who resembles a Romani in leading an unconventional, nomadic way of life | Synonyms: gypsy |
gipsywort | (noun) hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers | Synonyms: gypsywort, Lycopus europaeus |
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giraffe | (noun) tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa | Synonyms: camelopard, Giraffa camelopardalis |
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girandola | (noun) an ornate candle holder; often with a mirror | Synonyms: girandole |
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girandole | (noun) an ornate candle holder; often with a mirror | Synonyms: girandola |
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girasol | (noun) tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers | Synonyms: Helianthus tuberosus, Jerusalem artichoke, Jerusalem artichoke sunflower |
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(noun) an opal with flaming orange and yellow and red colors | Synonyms: fire opal |
gird | (verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: arm, build up, fortify |
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(verb) bind with something round or circular | Synonyms: encircle |
(verb) put a girdle on or around | Synonyms: girdle |
girder | (noun) a beam made usually of steel; a main support in a structure | - |
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girdle | (noun) a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | Synonyms: corset, stays |
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(noun) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | Synonyms: cincture, sash, waistband, waistcloth |
(noun) an encircling or ringlike structure | - |
(verb) put a girdle on or around | Synonyms: gird |
(verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: deaden |
girl | (noun) a young female | Synonyms: fille, miss, missy, young lady, young woman |
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(noun) a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved | Synonyms: girlfriend, lady friend |
(noun) a youthful female person | Synonyms: female child, little girl |
(noun) a friendly informal reference to a grown woman | - |
(noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: daughter |
girlfriend | (noun) a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved | Synonyms: girl, lady friend |
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(noun) any female friend | - |
girlhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: maidenhood, maidhood |
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girlish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young girl | Synonyms: schoolgirlish |
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girlishly | (adverb) like a girl | - |
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