| min | (noun) a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour | Synonyms: minute |
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| mina | (noun) tropical Asian starlings | Synonyms: minah, myna, myna bird, mynah, mynah bird |
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| minacious | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: menacing, minatory, ominous, sinister, baleful, forbidding, threatening |
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| minah | (noun) tropical Asian starlings | Synonyms: mina, myna, myna bird, mynah, mynah bird |
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| minaret | (noun) slender tower with balconies | - |
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| minatory | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: menacing, minacious, ominous, sinister, baleful, forbidding, threatening |
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| mince | (verb) make less severe or harsh | Synonyms: moderate, soften |
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| (verb) walk daintily | - |
| (verb) cut into small pieces | - |
| (noun) food chopped into small bits | - |
| mincemeat | (noun) spiced mixture of chopped raisins and apples and other ingredients with or without meat | - |
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| mincer | (noun) a kitchen utensil that cuts or chops food (especially meat) into small pieces | Synonyms: mincing machine |
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| mincing | (adjective) affectedly dainty or refined | Synonyms: niminy-piminy, prim, twee |
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| mincingly | (adverb) in a mincing manner | - |
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| mind | (verb) be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by | - |
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| (verb) be concerned with or about something or somebody | - |
| (verb) be in charge of or deal with | Synonyms: take care |
| (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, listen |
| (verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: beware |
| (verb) keep in mind | Synonyms: bear in mind |
| (noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: head, nous, psyche, brain |
| (noun) recall or remembrance | - |
| (noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
| (noun) an important intellectual | Synonyms: creative thinker, thinker |
| (noun) attention | - |
| (noun) your intention; what you intend to do | Synonyms: idea |
| (noun) knowledge and intellectual ability | Synonyms: intellect |
| minded | (adjective) (used in combination) mentally oriented toward something specified | - |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: disposed, given, apt, tending |
| minder | (noun) someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors | - |
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| (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, babyminder |
| mindfuck | (noun) Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses or manipulates the mind of another person | - |
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| mindful | (adjective) bearing in mind; attentive to | Synonyms: aware |
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| mindfully | (adverb) in a careful deliberate manner | Synonyms: heedfully, advertently |
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| mindfulness | (noun) the trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedfulness |
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| mindless | (adjective) not mindful or attentive | Synonyms: unmindful, forgetful |
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| (adjective) lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being | - |
| (adjective) requiring little mental effort | - |
| (adjective) devoid of intelligence or thought | Synonyms: vacant, vacuous |
| (adjective) not marked by the use of reason | Synonyms: reasonless, senseless |
| mindlessly | (adverb) without intellectual involvement | - |
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| (adverb) in an unreasonably senseless manner | Synonyms: senselessly |
| mindlessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: vacuity, inanity, pointlessness, senselessness |
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| (noun) the trait of acting rashly and without prudence | Synonyms: heedlessness, rashness |
| mindset | (noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: outlook, mentality, mind-set |
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| mine | (verb) get from the earth by excavation | - |
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| (verb) lay mines | - |
| (noun) excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted | - |
| (noun) explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel | - |
| mined | (adjective) extracted from a source of supply as of minerals from the earth | - |
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| minefield | (noun) a region in which explosives mines have been placed | - |
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| minelayer | (noun) ship equipped for laying marine mines | - |
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| minelaying | (noun) laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment | Synonyms: mining |
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| miner | (noun) laborer who works in a mine | Synonyms: mineworker |
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| mineral | (noun) solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition | - |
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| (adjective) composed of matter other than plant or animal | - |
| (adjective) relating to minerals | - |
| mineralize | (verb) convert into a mineral substance | - |
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| (verb) transform (a metal) into an ore | - |
| mineralocorticoid | (noun) hormone that is one of the steroids of the adrenal cortex that influences the metabolism of sodium and potassium | - |
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| mineralogist | (noun) a scientist trained in mineralogy | - |
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| mineralogy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies minerals: their structure and properties and the ways of distinguishing them | - |
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| mineshaft | (noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine | - |
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| minestrone | (noun) soup made with a variety of vegetables | Synonyms: petite marmite, vegetable soup |
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| minesweeper | (noun) ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines | - |
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| minesweeping | (noun) the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines | - |
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| mineworker | (noun) laborer who works in a mine | Synonyms: miner |
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| minge | (noun) vulgar term for a woman's pubic hair or genitals | - |
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| minginess | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: tightness, niggardliness, niggardness, meanness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, closeness, tightfistedness |
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| mingle | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: unify, mix, commix, amalgamate |
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| (verb) get involved or mixed-up with | - |
| (verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: jumble |
| mingling | (noun) the action of people mingling and coming into contact | - |
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| mingy | (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mean, miserly, tight |
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| mini | (noun) a very short skirt | Synonyms: miniskirt |
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| (adjective) used of women's clothing; very short with hemline above the knee | - |
| miniate | (verb) paint with red lead or vermilion | - |
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| (verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red | Synonyms: rubricate |
| miniature | (noun) painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) | Synonyms: illumination |
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| (noun) a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size | Synonyms: toy |
| (adjective) being on a very small scale | - |
| miniaturisation | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturization |
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| miniaturise | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturize |
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| miniaturist | (noun) someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail | - |
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| miniaturization | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturisation |
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| miniaturize | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturise |
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| minibar | (noun) sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | Synonyms: cellaret |
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| minibike | (noun) small motorcycle with a low frame and small wheels and elevated handlebars | Synonyms: motorbike |
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| minibus | (noun) a light bus (4 to 10 passengers) | - |
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| minicab | (noun) a minicar used as a taxicab | - |
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| minicalculator | (noun) (old-fashioned) a very small handheld calculator. | - |
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| minicar | (noun) a car that is even smaller than a subcompact car | - |
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| minicomputer | (noun) a digital computer of medium size | - |
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| minify | (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: decrease, lessen |
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| minim | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters | - |
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| (noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram | - |
| (noun) a musical note having the time value of half a whole note | Synonyms: half note |
| minimal | (adjective) the least possible | Synonyms: minimum |
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| minimalism | (noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | Synonyms: reductivism, minimal art |
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| minimalist | (adjective) advocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics) | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to artistic minimalism | - |
| (noun) a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics | - |
| (noun) a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism | - |
| minimality | (noun) The state of being the smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree. | - |
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| minimally | (adverb) to a minimal degree | - |
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| minimisation | (noun) the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position | Synonyms: minimization |
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| minimise | (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: minimize, downplay, understate |
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| (verb) make small or insignificant | Synonyms: minimize |
| minimization | (noun) the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position | Synonyms: minimisation |
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| minimize | (verb) make small or insignificant | Synonyms: minimise |
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| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: minimise, downplay, understate |
| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, denigrate, derogate |
| minimized | (adjective) reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree | - |
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| minimum | (noun) the smallest possible quantity | Synonyms: lower limit |
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| (noun) the point on a curve where the tangent changes from negative on the left to positive on the right | - |
| (adjective) the least possible | Synonyms: minimal |
| minimus | (noun) the fifth digit; the little finger or little toe | - |
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| mining | (noun) the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth | Synonyms: excavation |
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| (noun) laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment | Synonyms: minelaying |
| minion | (noun) a servile or fawning dependant | - |
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| miniscule | (adjective) extremely small | Synonyms: minuscule |
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| miniskirt | (noun) a very short skirt | Synonyms: mini |
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| minister | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: rector, minister of religion, parson, pastor, curate |
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| (noun) a person appointed to a high office in the government | Synonyms: government minister |
| (noun) a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador | Synonyms: diplomatic minister |
| (noun) the job of a head of a government department | - |
| (verb) attend to the wants and needs of others | - |
| (verb) work as a minister | - |
| ministerial | (adjective) of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a government minister or ministry | - |
| ministerially | (adverb) in the manner of a minister or clergyman | - |
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| ministrant | (adjective) giving practical help to | Synonyms: attending |
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| (noun) someone who serves as a minister | - |
| ministration | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: relief, succor, succour |
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| ministry | (noun) religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian) | - |
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| (noun) building where the business of a government ministry is transacted | - |
| (noun) a government department under the direction of a minister of state | - |
| (noun) the work of a minister of religion | - |
| minisub | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisubmarine |
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| minisubmarine | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisub |
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| minium | (noun) a reddish oxide of lead (Pb3O4) used as a pigment in paints and in glass and ceramics | Synonyms: red lead |
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| minivan | (noun) a small box-shaped passenger van; usually has removable seats; used as a family car | - |
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| miniver | (noun) trimming on ceremonial robes consisting of white or light grey fur | - |
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| mink | (noun) the expensive fur of a mink | - |
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| (noun) fur coat made from the soft lustrous fur of minks | Synonyms: mink coat |
| (noun) slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur | - |
| minniebush | (noun) low shrub of the eastern United States with downy twigs | Synonyms: Menziesia pilosa, minnie bush |
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| minnow | (noun) very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams | Synonyms: Phoxinus phoxinus |
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| minocycline | (noun) tetracycline antibiotic (trade name Minocin) used to treat a variety of bacterial and rickettsial infections | Synonyms: Minocin |
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| minor | (verb) have as one's secondary field of study | - |
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| (adjective) of lesser importance or stature or rank | - |
| (adjective) lesser in scope or effect | - |
| (adjective) inferior in number or size or amount | - |
| (adjective) (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees | - |
| (adjective) not of legal age | Synonyms: underage, nonaged |
| (adjective) of lesser seriousness or danger | - |
| (adjective) of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization | - |
| (adjective) of the younger of two boys with the same family name | - |
| (adjective) warranting only temporal punishment | Synonyms: venial |
| (adjective) relatively moderate, limited, or small | Synonyms: modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale |
| (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: kid, shaver, nestling, nipper, small fry, child, fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
| minority | (noun) a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part | - |
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| (noun) being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts | - |
| (noun) any age prior to the legal age | Synonyms: nonage |
| minors | (noun) a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball) | Synonyms: minor league, bush league |
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| minoxidil | (noun) a vasodilator (trade name Loniten) used to treat severe hypertension; one side effect is hirsutism so it is also sold (trade name Rogaine) as a treatment for male-patterned baldness | Synonyms: Rogaine, Loniten |
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| minster | (noun) any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery | - |
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| minstrel | (verb) celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels | - |
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| (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: jongleur, poet-singer, folk singer, troubadour |
| (noun) a performer in a minstrel show | - |
| minstrelsy | (noun) a troupe of minstrels | - |
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| (noun) ballads sung by minstrels | - |
| (noun) the art of a minstrel | - |
| mint | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: lot, deal, peck, sight, wad, heap, mass, pile, stack, batch, flock, raft, mess, pot, mountain, spate, plenty, hatful, mickle, muckle, passel, quite a little, good deal, great deal, slew, tidy sum |
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| (noun) any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers | - |
| (noun) any member of the mint family of plants | - |
| (noun) the leaves of a mint plant used fresh or candied | - |
| (noun) a candy that is flavored with a mint oil | Synonyms: mint candy |
| (noun) a plant where money is coined by authority of the government | - |
| (adjective) as if new | - |
| (verb) form by stamping, punching, or printing | Synonyms: strike, coin |
| mintage | (noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: coinage, metal money, specie |
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| (noun) fee paid to a mint by the government for minting a coin | - |
| (noun) act or process of minting coins | - |