| mo
|
(noun) an indefinitely short time |
Synonyms:
moment,
second,
bit,
minute |
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| moa
|
(noun) extinct flightless bird of New Zealand |
- |
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| moan
|
(verb) indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure |
Synonyms:
groan |
|---|
| (noun) an utterance expressing pain or disapproval |
Synonyms:
groan |
| moaner
|
(noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining |
Synonyms:
squawker,
grumbler,
whiner,
sniveller,
complainer,
crybaby,
bellyacher |
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| moat
|
(noun) ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water |
Synonyms:
fosse |
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| moated
|
(adjective) protected by a deep wide ditch usually filled with water |
- |
|---|
| mob
|
(verb) press tightly together or cram |
Synonyms:
jam,
pack,
pile,
throng |
|---|
| (noun) a disorderly crowd of people |
Synonyms:
rabble,
rout |
| (noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities |
Synonyms:
syndicate,
crime syndicate,
family |
| (noun) an association of criminals |
Synonyms:
ring,
pack,
gang |
| mobbish
|
(adjective) characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless |
Synonyms:
moblike |
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| mobcap
|
(noun) large high frilly cap with a full crown; formerly worn indoors by women |
- |
|---|
| mobile
|
(noun) sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place) |
- |
| (adjective) migratory |
Synonyms:
roving,
nomadic,
peregrine,
wandering |
| (adjective) having transportation available |
- |
| (adjective) capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another |
- |
| (adjective) affording change (especially in social status) |
Synonyms:
fluid |
| mobilisation
|
(noun) act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action |
Synonyms:
mobilization |
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| (noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: |
Synonyms:
militarisation,
militarization,
mobilization |
| mobilise
|
(verb) call to arms; of military personnel |
Synonyms:
call up,
rally,
mobilize |
|---|
| (verb) get ready for war |
Synonyms:
mobilize |
| (verb) make ready for action or use |
Synonyms:
marshal,
mobilize,
summon |
| (verb) cause to move around |
Synonyms:
mobilize |
| mobility
|
(noun) the quality of moving freely |
- |
|---|
| mobilization
|
(noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: |
Synonyms:
militarisation,
militarization,
mobilisation |
|---|
| (noun) act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action |
Synonyms:
mobilisation |
| mobilize
|
(verb) make ready for action or use |
Synonyms:
marshal,
mobilise,
summon |
|---|
| (verb) call to arms; of military personnel |
Synonyms:
call up,
rally,
mobilise |
| (verb) get ready for war |
Synonyms:
mobilise |
| (verb) cause to move around |
Synonyms:
mobilise |
| moblike
|
(adjective) characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless |
Synonyms:
mobbish |
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| mobocracy
|
(noun) a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses |
Synonyms:
ochlocracy |
|---|
| mobster
|
(noun) a criminal who is a member of gang |
Synonyms:
gangster |
|---|
| mocassin
|
(noun) soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans |
Synonyms:
moccasin |
|---|
| moccasin
|
(noun) soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans |
Synonyms:
mocassin |
|---|
| mocha
|
(noun) soft suede glove leather from goatskin |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a flavoring made from coffee mixed with chocolate |
- |
| (noun) a superior dark coffee made from beans from Arabia |
Synonyms:
mocha coffee |
| (noun) a dark brown color |
- |
| mock
|
(noun) the act of mocking or ridiculing |
- |
|---|
| (verb) treat with contempt |
Synonyms:
bemock |
| (verb) imitate with mockery and derision |
- |
| (adjective) constituting a copy or imitation of something |
- |
| mocker
|
(noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision |
Synonyms:
jeerer,
scoffer,
flouter |
|---|
| (noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds |
Synonyms:
Mimus polyglotktos,
mockingbird |
| mockernut
|
(noun) smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut |
Synonyms:
mockernut hickory,
white-heart hickory,
Carya tomentosa,
big-bud hickory,
black hickory |
|---|
| mockery
|
(noun) showing your contempt by derision |
Synonyms:
jeer,
jeering,
scoff,
scoffing |
|---|
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way |
Synonyms:
parody,
put-on,
takeoff,
pasquinade,
send-up,
sendup,
spoof,
burlesque,
travesty,
lampoon |
| (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry |
Synonyms:
parody,
takeoff |
| mocking
|
(adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule |
Synonyms:
jeering,
derisive,
gibelike,
taunting |
|---|
| (adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) |
Synonyms:
quizzical,
teasing |
| mockingbird
|
(noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds |
Synonyms:
Mimus polyglotktos,
mocker |
|---|
| mockingly
|
(adverb) in a disrespectful jeering manner |
Synonyms:
jeeringly,
gibingly |
|---|
| (adverb) in a disrespectful and mocking manner |
Synonyms:
derisively,
derisorily,
scoffingly |
| mod
|
(adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style |
Synonyms:
modern,
modernistic |
|---|
| (noun) a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers |
- |
| modal
|
(adjective) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution |
Synonyms:
average |
|---|
| (adjective) of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode |
- |
| (adjective) relating to or expressing the mood of a verb |
- |
| (noun) an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality |
Synonyms:
modal auxiliary,
modal auxiliary verb,
modal verb |
| modality
|
(noun) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility |
Synonyms:
mode |
|---|
| (noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker |
Synonyms:
mode,
mood |
| (noun) a particular sense |
Synonyms:
sense modality,
sensory system |
| (noun) a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment |
- |
| mode
|
(noun) how something is done or how it happens |
Synonyms:
way,
fashion,
manner,
style |
|---|
| (noun) a particular functioning condition or arrangement |
- |
| (noun) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility |
Synonyms:
modality |
| (noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker |
Synonyms:
modality,
mood |
| (noun) any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave |
Synonyms:
musical mode |
| (noun) the most frequent value of a random variable |
Synonyms:
modal value |
| model
|
(noun) a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process |
Synonyms:
framework,
theoretical account |
|---|
| (noun) a type of product |
- |
| (noun) a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor |
Synonyms:
poser |
| (noun) representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) |
Synonyms:
simulation |
| (noun) something to be imitated |
Synonyms:
example,
good example,
exemplar |
| (noun) someone worthy of imitation |
Synonyms:
role model |
| (noun) a representative form or pattern |
Synonyms:
example |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions |
Synonyms:
manakin,
manikin,
mannequin,
mannikin,
fashion model |
| (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) |
Synonyms:
modeling,
modelling |
| (adjective) worthy of imitation |
Synonyms:
exemplary |
| (verb) plan or create according to a model or models |
Synonyms:
pattern |
| (verb) form in clay, wax, etc |
Synonyms:
mold,
mould |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes |
Synonyms:
pose,
sit,
posture |
| (verb) display (clothes) as a mannequin |
- |
| (verb) create a representation or simulation of |
Synonyms:
simulate |
| (verb) construct a model in the likeness of |
Synonyms:
mock up |
| modeled
|
(adjective) resembling sculpture |
Synonyms:
sculptural,
sculptured,
sculpturesque |
|---|
| modeler
|
(noun) a person who creates models |
Synonyms:
modeller |
|---|
| modeling
|
(noun) sculpture produced by molding |
Synonyms:
molding,
moulding,
mold,
mould,
clay sculpture |
|---|
| (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied |
Synonyms:
modelling,
molding,
moulding |
| (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) |
Synonyms:
model,
modelling |
| modeller
|
(noun) a person who creates models |
Synonyms:
modeler |
|---|
| modelling
|
(noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied |
Synonyms:
modeling,
molding,
moulding |
|---|
| (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) |
Synonyms:
model,
modeling |
| modem
|
(noun) (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line |
- |
|---|
| moderate
|
(verb) preside over |
Synonyms:
lead,
chair |
|---|
| (verb) make less fast or intense |
- |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits |
Synonyms:
hold,
check,
control,
contain,
hold in,
curb |
| (verb) make less severe or harsh |
Synonyms:
mince,
soften |
| (verb) make less strong or intense; soften |
Synonyms:
tame,
tone down |
| (verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else |
Synonyms:
mollify,
season,
temper |
| (adjective) being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme |
- |
| (adjective) not extreme |
Synonyms:
temperate |
| (adjective) marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes |
Synonyms:
restrained |
| (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center |
Synonyms:
middle of the roader,
moderationist,
centrist |
| moderately
|
(adverb) to certain extent or degree |
Synonyms:
reasonably,
jolly,
middling,
passably,
pretty,
somewhat,
fairly |
|---|
| (adverb) with moderation; in a moderate manner |
- |
| moderateness
|
(noun) the property of being moderate in price or expenditures |
Synonyms:
reasonableness,
modestness |
|---|
| (noun) quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes |
Synonyms:
moderation |
| moderating
|
(adjective) lessening in intensity or strength |
- |
|---|
| moderation
|
(noun) quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes |
Synonyms:
moderateness |
|---|
| (noun) a change for the better |
Synonyms:
relief,
easing |
| (noun) the trait of avoiding excesses |
Synonyms:
temperance |
| (noun) the action of lessening in severity or intensity |
Synonyms:
mitigation |
| moderationism
|
(noun) the policy of being moderate or acting with moderation |
- |
|---|
| moderationist
|
(noun) a moderate drinker (as opposed to a total abstainer) |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center |
Synonyms:
middle of the roader,
moderate,
centrist |
| moderatism
|
(noun) a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action |
Synonyms:
centrism |
|---|
| moderato
|
(adjective) (of tempo) moderate |
- |
|---|
| moderator
|
(noun) any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors |
- |
|---|
| (noun) in the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly |
- |
| (noun) someone who presides over a forum or debate |
- |
| (noun) someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence |
- |
| moderatorship
|
(noun) the position of moderator |
- |
|---|
| modern
|
(adjective) belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style |
Synonyms:
mod,
modernistic |
| (adjective) characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture |
- |
| (adjective) ahead of the times |
Synonyms:
innovative,
advanced,
forward-looking |
| (noun) a contemporary person |
- |
| (noun) a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes |
Synonyms:
Bodoni,
modern font,
Bodoni font |
| moderne
|
(adjective) of or relating to a popularization of art deco that used bright colors and rectangular shapes |
- |
|---|
| modernisation
|
(noun) making modern in appearance or behavior |
Synonyms:
modernization |
|---|
| modernise
|
(verb) become technologically advanced |
Synonyms:
develop,
modernize |
|---|
| (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to |
Synonyms:
overhaul,
modernize |
| modernised
|
(adjective) brought up to date |
Synonyms:
modernized |
|---|
| modernism
|
(noun) genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres |
- |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of being current or of the present |
Synonyms:
modernity,
modernness,
contemporaneity,
contemporaneousness |
| (noun) practices typical of contemporary life or thought |
- |
| modernist
|
(noun) an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles |
- |
|---|
| modernistic
|
(adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style |
Synonyms:
mod,
modern |
|---|
| modernity
|
(noun) the quality of being current or of the present |
Synonyms:
modernism,
modernness,
contemporaneity,
contemporaneousness |
|---|
| modernization
|
(noun) making modern in appearance or behavior |
Synonyms:
modernisation |
|---|
| (noun) a modernized version (as of a play) |
- |
| modernize
|
(verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to |
Synonyms:
overhaul,
modernise |
|---|
| (verb) become technologically advanced |
Synonyms:
develop,
modernise |
| modernized
|
(adjective) brought up to date |
Synonyms:
modernised |
|---|
| modernness
|
(noun) the quality of being current or of the present |
Synonyms:
modernism,
modernity,
contemporaneity,
contemporaneousness |
|---|
| modest
|
(adjective) marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance |
- |
| (adjective) not large but sufficient in size or amount |
Synonyms:
small |
| (adjective) free from pomp or affectation |
- |
| (adjective) low or inferior in station or quality |
Synonyms:
humble,
small,
low,
lowly |
| (adjective) humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness |
Synonyms:
meek,
mild |
| (adjective) relatively moderate, limited, or small |
Synonyms:
minor,
pocket-size,
pocket-sized,
small,
small-scale |
| modestly
|
(adverb) with modesty; in a modest manner |
- |
|---|
| modestness
|
(noun) the property of being moderate in price or expenditures |
Synonyms:
reasonableness,
moderateness |
|---|
| (noun) freedom from vanity or conceit |
Synonyms:
modesty |
| modesty
|
(noun) freedom from vanity or conceit |
Synonyms:
modestness |
|---|
| (noun) formality and propriety of manner |
Synonyms:
reserve |
| modicum
|
(noun) a small or moderate or token amount |
- |
|---|
| modifiable
|
(adjective) capable of being modified in form or character or strength (especially by making less extreme) |
- |
|---|
| modification
|
(noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) |
Synonyms:
adjustment,
alteration |
|---|
| (noun) slightly modified copy; not an exact copy |
- |
| (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase |
Synonyms:
qualifying,
limiting |
| (noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another |
Synonyms:
change,
alteration |
| modified
|
(adjective) changed in form or character |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) mediocre |
Synonyms:
limited |
| modifier
|
(noun) a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb |
Synonyms:
qualifier |
|---|
| (noun) a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising |
- |
| (noun) a person who changes something |
Synonyms:
changer |
| (noun) a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene |
Synonyms:
modifier gene |
| modify
|
(verb) make less severe or harsh or extreme |
- |
|---|
| (verb) add a modifier to a constituent |
Synonyms:
qualify |
| (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
Synonyms:
change,
alter |
| modillion
|
(noun) (architecture) one of a set of ornamental brackets under a cornice |
- |
|---|
| modiolus
|
(noun) the central conical bony pillar of the cochlea |
- |
|---|
| modish
|
(adjective) in the current fashion or style |
Synonyms:
in style,
in vogue,
a la mode,
latest |
|---|
| modishly
|
(adverb) in a fashionable manner |
Synonyms:
smartly,
sprucely |
|---|
| modishness
|
(noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable |
Synonyms:
smartness,
chichi,
last word,
stylishness,
swank,
chic,
chicness |
|---|
| modiste
|
(noun) someone who makes and sells hats |
Synonyms:
hatmaker,
hatter,
milliner |
|---|
| (noun) someone who makes or mends dresses |
Synonyms:
needlewoman,
dressmaker,
seamstress,
sempstress |
| mods
|
(noun) a youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s; a working-class movement with highly stylized dress and short hair; listened to rhythm and blues music and travelled on motor scooters |
- |
|---|
| modular
|
(adjective) constructed with standardized units or dimensions allowing flexibility and variety in use |
- |
|---|
| modulate
|
(verb) change the key of, in music |
- |
|---|
| (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech |
Synonyms:
tone,
inflect |
| (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of |
Synonyms:
regulate |
| (verb) adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of |
- |
| (verb) vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves) |
- |
| modulated
|
(adjective) changed or adjusted in pitch, tone, or volume |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) altered in volume as well as tone or pitch |
- |
| modulation
|
(noun) a musical passage moving from one key to another |
Synonyms:
transition |
|---|
| (noun) (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase |
- |
| (noun) rise and fall of the voice pitch |
Synonyms:
intonation,
pitch contour |
| (noun) a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified |
Synonyms:
inflection |
| (noun) the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect) |
- |
| module
|
(noun) one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind |
Synonyms:
mental faculty,
faculty |
|---|
| (noun) detachable compartment of a spacecraft |
- |
| (noun) computer circuit consisting of an assembly of electronic components (as of computer hardware) |
- |
| (noun) a self-contained component (unit or item) that is used in combination with other components |
- |
| modulus
|
(noun) an integer that can be divided without remainder into the difference between two other integers |
- |
|---|
| (noun) the absolute value of a complex number |
- |
| (noun) (physics) a coefficient that expresses how much of a specified property is possessed by a specified substance |
- |
| mogul
|
(noun) a bump on a ski slope |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman |
Synonyms:
power,
king,
magnate,
baron,
big businessman,
business leader,
top executive,
tycoon |
| mohair
|
(noun) fabric made with yarn made from the silky hair of the Angora goat |
- |
|---|
| mohawk
|
(noun) haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp |
Synonyms:
mohawk haircut |
|---|
| moiety
|
(noun) one of two (approximately) equal parts |
Synonyms:
mediety |
|---|
| (noun) one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe |
- |
| moil
|
(verb) work hard |
Synonyms:
dig,
grind,
drudge,
fag,
toil,
travail,
labor,
labour |
|---|
| (verb) be agitated |
Synonyms:
roil,
churn,
boil |
| (verb) moisten or soil |
- |
| moire
|
(noun) silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern |
Synonyms:
watered-silk |
|---|
| (adjective) (of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern |
Synonyms:
watered |
| moist
|
(adjective) slightly wet |
Synonyms:
damp,
dampish |
|---|
| moisten
|
(verb) make moist |
Synonyms:
wash,
dampen |
|---|
| (verb) moisten with fine drops |
Synonyms:
drizzle |
| moistener
|
(noun) a device that dampens or moistens something |
Synonyms:
dampener |
|---|
| moistening
|
(noun) the act of making something slightly wet |
Synonyms:
dampening |
|---|
| moistly
|
(adverb) in a damp manner |
Synonyms:
damply |
|---|
| moistness
|
(noun) a slight wetness |
Synonyms:
damp,
dampness |
|---|
| moisture
|
(noun) wetness caused by water |
Synonyms:
wet |
|---|
| moisturise
|
(verb) make (more) humid |
Synonyms:
humidify,
moisturize |
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