| longingly | (adverb) in a yearning manner | Synonyms: yearningly |
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| longish | (adjective) somewhat long | - |
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| longitude | (noun) the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich | - |
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| longitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to lines of longitude | - |
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| (adjective) running lengthwise | - |
| (adjective) over an extended time | - |
| longitudinally | (adverb) with respect to longitude | - |
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| (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, lengthwise, longways, longwise |
| (adverb) across time | - |
| longlegs | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, stilt, stilt plover, stiltbird |
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| longness | (noun) the property of being of long spatial extent | - |
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| (noun) duration as an extension | - |
| longroot | (noun) deep-rooted perennial of southeastern United States | Synonyms: Arenaria caroliniana, pine-barren sandwort |
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| longship | (noun) a type of ship invented and used by the Vikings for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age. | - |
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| longshoreman | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, lumper, stevedore |
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| longshot | (noun) a photograph taken from a distance | - |
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| longsighted | (adjective) capable of seeing to a great distance | Synonyms: eagle-eyed, farseeing, keen-sighted |
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| (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, prospicient |
| longsightedness | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia |
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| longstanding | (adjective) having existed for a long time | Synonyms: long-standing |
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| longtime | (adjective) having existed or persisted or continued in a particular role or state for a long time | Synonyms: long-time |
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| longueur | (noun) a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) | - |
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| longways | (noun) country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other | Synonyms: longways dance |
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| (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, lengthwise, longitudinally, longwise |
| longwise | (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, lengthwise, longitudinally, longways |
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| longwool | (noun) a domestic long-wool sheep | - |
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| longyi | (noun) a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma | Synonyms: lungi, lungyi |
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| lontar | (noun) tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving | Synonyms: Borassus flabellifer, longar palm, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm |
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| loo | (noun) a toilet in Britain | Synonyms: closet, W.C., water closet |
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| loofa | (noun) the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer | Synonyms: loofah, loufah sponge, luffa |
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| loofah | (noun) the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit | Synonyms: Luffa cylindrica, vegetable sponge |
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| (noun) the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer | Synonyms: loofa, loufah sponge, luffa |
| look | (noun) the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look | Synonyms: looking, looking at |
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| (noun) physical appearance | - |
| (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: aspect, expression, face, facial expression |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, smell, spirit, tone |
| (verb) to physically appear a certain way to another individual or group | - |
| (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, expect, wait |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) convey by one's expression | - |
| (verb) perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; look | - |
| (verb) give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect | Synonyms: appear, seem |
| (verb) search or seek | Synonyms: search |
| (verb) take charge of or deal with | Synonyms: attend, see, take care |
| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: face, front |
| (verb) accord in appearance with | - |
| lookdown | (noun) similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead | Synonyms: lookdown fish, Selene vomer |
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| looker | (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
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| (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: spectator, viewer, watcher, witness |
| looking | (adjective) appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms | Synonyms: sounding |
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| (noun) the act of searching visually | Synonyms: looking for |
| (noun) the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look | Synonyms: look, looking at |
| lookout | (noun) the act of looking out | Synonyms: outlook |
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| (noun) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings | Synonyms: lookout station, observation tower, observatory |
| (noun) an elevated post affording a wide view | Synonyms: observation post |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| lookup | (noun) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property | Synonyms: search |
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| loom | (noun) a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile | - |
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| (verb) weave on a loom | - |
| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, predominate, tower |
| (verb) come into view indistinctly, often threateningly | - |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: brood, bulk large, hover |
| loon | (noun) large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes | Synonyms: diver |
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| (noun) a worthless lazy fellow | - |
| (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, addlehead, birdbrain |
| looney | (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, loony, nutcase, weirdo |
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| loonie | (noun) the basic unit of money in Canada | Synonyms: Canadian dollar |
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| loony | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, nutcase, weirdo |
| loop | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane | Synonyms: loop-the-loop |
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| (noun) an intrauterine device in the shape of a loop | - |
| (noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: cringle, eyelet, grommet, grummet |
| (noun) a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates | Synonyms: closed circuit |
| (noun) the topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component | Synonyms: loop topology |
| (noun) the basic pattern of the human fingerprint | - |
| (noun) a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied | - |
| (noun) an inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan) | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated | Synonyms: iteration |
| (noun) anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself) | - |
| (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: coil, curl |
| (verb) fasten or join with a loop | - |
| (verb) make a loop in | Synonyms: intertwine |
| (verb) fly loops, perform a loop | - |
| (verb) move in loops | - |
| looper | (noun) small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae | Synonyms: inchworm, measuring worm |
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| loophole | (noun) a small hole in a fortified wall; for observation or discharging weapons | - |
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| (noun) an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation | - |
| looping | (noun) (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained | Synonyms: iteration |
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| loopy | (adjective) consisting of or covered with or having loops | - |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
| loose | (adjective) not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting | - |
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| (adjective) not compact or dense in structure or arrangement | - |
| (adjective) not affixed | Synonyms: unaffixed |
| (adjective) (of textures) full of small openings or gaps | Synonyms: open |
| (adjective) not literal | Synonyms: free, liberal |
| (adjective) lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility | Synonyms: idle |
| (adjective) not tense or taut | Synonyms: slack |
| (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton |
| (adjective) emptying easily or excessively | Synonyms: lax |
| (adjective) (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player | - |
| (adjective) not officially recognized or controlled | Synonyms: informal |
| (adjective) not carefully arranged in a package | - |
| (adjective) having escaped, especially from confinement | Synonyms: at large, escaped, on the loose |
| (adverb) without restraint | Synonyms: free |
| (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loosen, relax |
| (verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) turn loose or free from restraint | Synonyms: let loose, unleash |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen |
| looseleaf | (adjective) being or having leaves that can be easily removed or rearranged | - |
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| loosely | (adverb) in a relaxed manner; not rigid | Synonyms: slackly |
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| (adverb) structurally open and not compact or close | - |
| (adverb) without regard to specific details or exceptions | Synonyms: broadly, broadly speaking, generally |
| (adverb) in a loose manner | - |
| loosen | (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loose, relax |
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| (verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loose |
| (verb) make less dense | - |
| (verb) disentangle and raise the fibers of | Synonyms: tease, tease apart |
| (verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: undo, untie |
| (verb) become less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
| (verb) make less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
| loosened | (adjective) straightened out | Synonyms: disentangled, unsnarled |
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| looseness | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, profligacy |
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| (noun) movement or space for movement | Synonyms: play |
| (noun) a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice | - |
| (noun) freedom from restraint | - |
| (noun) the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints | - |
| (noun) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor | Synonyms: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels |
| loosening | (noun) the act of making something less tight | Synonyms: laxation |
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| (noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: relaxation, slackening |
| loosestrife | (noun) any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum | - |
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| (noun) any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia | - |
| loot | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, pillage, plunder, prize, swag |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| (verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: plunder |
| looted | (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: pillaged, plundered, ransacked |
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| looter | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| looting | (noun) plundering during riots or in wartime | Synonyms: robbery |
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| lop | (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, prune, snip, trim |
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| (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: discerp, sever |
| lope | (noun) a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop | Synonyms: canter |
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| (noun) a slow pace of running | Synonyms: jog, trot |
| (verb) run easily | - |
| lopper | (noun) a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees | Synonyms: pruner, pruning hook |
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| lopsided | (adjective) having one side lower or smaller or lighter than the other | - |
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| (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, awry, cockeyed, skew-whiff, wonky |
| lopsidedly | (adverb) in a crooked lopsided manner | Synonyms: crookedly |
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| lopsidedness | (noun) an oblique or slanting asymmetry | Synonyms: skewness |
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| loquacious | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, garrulous, talkative, talky |
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| loquaciously | (adverb) in a chatty loquacious manner | Synonyms: garrulously, talkatively, talkily |
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| loquaciousness | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, garrulousness, loquacity, talkativeness |
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| loquacity | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, talkativeness |
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| loquat | (noun) yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies | Synonyms: Japanese plum |
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| (noun) evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan | Synonyms: Eriobotrya japonica, Japanese medlar, Japanese plum, loquat tree |
| lorazepam | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Ativan) used to treat anxiety and tension and insomnia | Synonyms: Ativan |
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| lorchel | (noun) a large fungus of the family Helvellaceae | - |
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| lord | (noun) a person who has general authority over others | Synonyms: master, overlord |
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| (verb) make a lord of someone | - |
| lordless | (adjective) having no lord or master | Synonyms: masterless |
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| lordliness | (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: dignity, gravitas |
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| (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness |
| lordly | (adjective) of or befitting a lord | Synonyms: august, grand |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
| lordolatry | (noun) the worship of a lord because of his rank or title | - |
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| lordosis | (noun) an abnormal inward (forward) curvature of the vertebral column | Synonyms: hollow-back |
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| lordotic | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, swayback, swaybacked |
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| lordship | (noun) the authority of a lord | - |
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| lore | (noun) knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote | Synonyms: traditional knowledge |
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| lorgnette | (noun) eyeglasses that are held to the eyes with a long handle | - |
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| lorica | (noun) a hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists, for example) | - |
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| lorikeet | (noun) any of various small lories | - |
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| lorry | (noun) a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides | Synonyms: camion |
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| (noun) a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides | - |
| lory | (noun) small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits | - |
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| lose | (verb) be set at a disadvantage | Synonyms: suffer |
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| (verb) withdraw, as from reality | - |
| (verb) fail to win | - |
| (verb) suffer the loss of a person through death or removal | - |
| (verb) allow to go out of sight or mind | - |
| (verb) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) fail to get or obtain | - |
| (verb) miss from one's possessions; lose sight of | - |
| (verb) fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense | - |
| (verb) fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit | Synonyms: turn a loss |
| loser | (noun) a gambler who loses a bet | - |
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| (noun) a contestant who loses the contest | Synonyms: also-ran |
| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: failure, nonstarter, unsuccessful person |
| losings | (noun) something lost (especially money lost at gambling) | Synonyms: losses |
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| loss | (noun) the act of losing someone or something | - |
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| (noun) the disadvantage that results from losing something | Synonyms: deprivation |
| (noun) military personnel lost by death or capture | Synonyms: personnel casualty |
| (noun) the experience of losing a loved one | - |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, passing, release |
| (noun) the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue | Synonyms: red, red ink |
| (noun) something that is lost | - |
| (noun) gradual decline in amount or activity | - |
| losses | (noun) something lost (especially money lost at gambling) | Synonyms: losings |
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| lossless | (adjective) characterized by or causing no dissipation of energy | - |
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| lossy | (adjective) characterized by or causing dissipation of energy | - |
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| lost | (adjective) no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered | - |
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| (adjective) spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed | - |
| (adjective) not gained or won | - |
| (adjective) unable to function; without help | Synonyms: helpless |
| (adjective) not caught with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: missed |
| (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up |
| (adjective) deeply absorbed in thought | Synonyms: bemused, preoccupied |
| (adjective) having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity | Synonyms: confused, disoriented |
| (adjective) cannot be recovered or regained | - |
| (noun) people who are destined to die soon | Synonyms: doomed |
| lot | (noun) anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random | Synonyms: draw |
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| (noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: band, circle, set |
| (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: bunch, caboodle |
| (noun) a parcel of land having fixed boundaries | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, luck, portion |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) divide into lots, as of land, for example | - |
| lota | (noun) a globular water bottle used in Asia | - |
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| loth | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, averse, indisposed, loath |
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| (adjective) unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom | Synonyms: loath, reluctant |
| loti | (noun) the basic unit of money in Lesotho | - |
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| lotic | (adjective) of or relating to or living in actively moving water | - |
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| lotion | (noun) any of various cosmetic preparations that are applied to the skin | - |
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| (noun) liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin | Synonyms: application |
| lots | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| (adverb) to a very great degree or extent | Synonyms: a good deal, a great deal, a lot |
| lotte | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, monkfish |
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| lottery | (noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: drawing |
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| (noun) something that is regarded as a chance event | - |
| lotto | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, bingo, keno |
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| lotus | (noun) white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians | Synonyms: Egyptian water lily, Nymphaea lotus, white lily, white lotus |
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| (noun) native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers | Synonyms: Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, sacred lotus |
| lotusland | (noun) an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence | Synonyms: lotus land |
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| louche | (adjective) disreputable and dissolute, somewhat agreeably | - |
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