| nourishing | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive |
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| nourishment | (noun) the act of nourishing | - |
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| (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals |
| nous | (noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: brain, head, mind, psyche |
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| (noun) common sense | - |
| nova | (noun) a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and becomes more luminous in the process | - |
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| novate | (verb) replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one | - |
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| novation | (noun) (law) the replacement of one obligation by another by mutual agreement of both parties; usually the replacement of one of the original parties to a contract with the consent of the remaining party | - |
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| novel | (adjective) pleasantly new or different | Synonyms: refreshing |
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| (adjective) original and of a kind not seen before | Synonyms: fresh, new |
| (noun) a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction | - |
| (noun) an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story | - |
| novelette | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novella |
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| novelisation | (noun) converting something into the form of a novel | Synonyms: novelization |
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| novelise | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize, novelize |
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| novelist | (noun) one who writes novels | - |
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| novelization | (noun) converting something into the form of a novel | Synonyms: novelisation |
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| novelize | (verb) convert into the form or the style of a novel | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize, novelise |
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| novella | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novelette |
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| novelty | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, trinket |
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| (noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: knickknack |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel | Synonyms: freshness |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being new and surprising | Synonyms: freshness |
| novena | (noun) a Roman Catholic devotion consisting of prayers on nine consecutive days | - |
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| novice | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, initiate, tiro, tyro |
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| (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novitiate |
| noviciate | (noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: novitiate |
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| novillada | (noun) a bullfight in which the bulls are less than four years old | - |
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| novillero | (noun) a bullfighter who is required to fight bulls less than four years of age | - |
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| novitiate | (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novice |
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| (noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: noviciate |
| novobiocin | (noun) an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used to treat infections by Gram-positive bacteria | - |
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| novocaine | (noun) procaine administered as a hydrochloride (trade name Novocain) | Synonyms: Novocain, procaine hydrochloride |
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| now | (noun) the momentary present | - |
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| (adverb) in these times | Synonyms: nowadays, today |
| (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, immediately, instantly, like a shot, right away, straight off, straightaway |
| (adverb) used to preface a command or reproof or request | - |
| (adverb) at the present moment | Synonyms: at present |
| (adverb) in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events | - |
| (adverb) in the immediate past | - |
| (adverb) (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity | - |
| nowadays | (noun) the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech | Synonyms: present |
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| (adverb) in these times | Synonyms: now, today |
| nowhere | (noun) an insignificant place | - |
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| (adverb) not anywhere; in or at or to no place | - |
| nowise | (adverb) in no manner | Synonyms: to no degree |
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| nowness | (noun) the quality of being the present | Synonyms: presentness |
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| noxious | (adjective) injurious to physical or mental health | - |
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| noxiously | (adverb) in a detrimental manner | Synonyms: detrimentally, harmfully |
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| noxiousness | (noun) the quality of being noxious | Synonyms: harmfulness, noisomeness |
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| nozzle | (noun) a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged | Synonyms: nose |
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| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
| nth | (adjective) last or greatest in an indefinitely large series | Synonyms: n-th |
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| nu | (noun) the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| nuance | (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, refinement, shade, subtlety |
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| nub | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, pith, substance, sum |
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| (noun) a small piece | Synonyms: stub |
| (noun) a small lump or protuberance | Synonyms: nubble |
| nubbin | (noun) a small nub (especially an undeveloped fruit or ear of corn) | - |
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| nubbiness | (noun) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) | Synonyms: coarseness, tweediness |
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| nubble | (noun) a small lump or protuberance | Synonyms: nub |
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| nubbly | (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: homespun, nubby, slubbed, tweedy |
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| nubby | (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: homespun, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy |
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| nubile | (adjective) of girls or women who are eligible to marry | Synonyms: marriageable |
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| nucellus | (noun) central part of a plant ovule; contains the embryo sac | - |
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| nucha | (noun) the back side of the neck | Synonyms: nape, scruff |
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| nuclear | (adjective) (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy | Synonyms: atomic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or constituting the nucleus of an atom | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or constituting the nucleus of a cell | - |
| (adjective) constituting or like a nucleus | - |
| nuclease | (noun) general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units | - |
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| nucleate | (adjective) having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus | Synonyms: nucleated |
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| (verb) form into a nucleus | - |
| nucleated | (adjective) having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus | Synonyms: nucleate |
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| nucleole | (noun) a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis | Synonyms: nucleolus |
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| nucleolus | (noun) a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis | Synonyms: nucleole |
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| nucleon | (noun) a constituent (proton or neutron) of an atomic nucleus | - |
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| nucleonics | (noun) the branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei | Synonyms: atomic physics, nuclear physics |
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| nucleoplasm | (noun) the protoplasm that constitutes the nucleus of a cell | Synonyms: karyoplasm |
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| nucleoprotein | (noun) any of several substances found in the nuclei of all living cells; consists of a protein bound to a nucleic acid | - |
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| nucleoside | (noun) a glycoside formed by partial hydrolysis of a nucleic acid | - |
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| nucleosynthesis | (noun) (astronomy) the cosmic synthesis of atoms more complex than the hydrogen atom | - |
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| nucleotide | (noun) a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) | Synonyms: base |
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| nucleus | (noun) a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction | Synonyms: cell nucleus, karyon |
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| (noun) any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord | - |
| (noun) the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex | Synonyms: lens nucleus |
| (noun) a small group of indispensable persons or things | Synonyms: core, core group |
| (noun) the positively charged dense center of an atom | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail | - |
| nude | (adjective) having no clothes on the body | Synonyms: au naturel, bare, naked |
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| (noun) a painting of a naked human figure | Synonyms: nude painting |
| (noun) a statue of a naked human figure | Synonyms: nude sculpture, nude statue |
| (noun) a naked person | Synonyms: nude person |
| (noun) without clothing (especially in the phrase `in the nude') | - |
| nudeness | (noun) the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind | Synonyms: nakedness, nudity |
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| nudge | (noun) a slight push or shake | Synonyms: jog |
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| (verb) push into action by pestering or annoying gently | - |
| (verb) to push against gently | Synonyms: poke at, prod |
| nudger | (noun) someone who nudges; someone who gives a gentle push | - |
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| nudibranch | (noun) any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body | Synonyms: sea slug |
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| nudism | (noun) going without clothes as a social practice | Synonyms: naturism |
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| nudist | (noun) a person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion | Synonyms: naturist |
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| nudity | (noun) the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind | Synonyms: nakedness, nudeness |
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| nudnick | (noun) (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest | Synonyms: nudnik |
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| nudnik | (noun) (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest | Synonyms: nudnick |
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| nugatory | (adjective) of no real value | - |
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| nugget | (noun) a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth | - |
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| nuisance | (noun) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
| nuke | (noun) the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb | Synonyms: atomic warhead, nuclear warhead, thermonuclear warhead |
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| (verb) cook or heat in a microwave oven | Synonyms: micro-cook, microwave, zap |
| (verb) strike at with firepower or bombs | Synonyms: atomise, atomize, zap |
| (verb) bomb with atomic weapons | Synonyms: atom-bomb |
| null | (adjective) lacking any legal or binding force | Synonyms: void |
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| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
| nullah | (noun) a ravine or gully in southern Asia | - |
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| nullification | (noun) the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something | Synonyms: override |
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| (noun) the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress | - |
| nullified | (adjective) deprived of legal force | Synonyms: invalidated |
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| nullifier | (noun) an advocate of nullification; someone who believes that a state can resist federal laws | - |
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| (noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: invalidator, voider |
| nullify | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralise, neutralize |
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| (verb) show to be invalid | Synonyms: invalidate |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, quash, void |
| nullipara | (noun) (obstetrics) a woman who has never give birth to a child | - |
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| nullity | (noun) something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity) | - |
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| (noun) the state of nonexistence | Synonyms: nihility, nothingness, void |
| numb | (adjective) so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified | - |
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| (adjective) lacking sensation | Synonyms: asleep, benumbed |
| (adjective) (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive | Synonyms: dead |
| (verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: benumb, blunt, dull |
| numbat | (noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct | Synonyms: anteater, banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus |
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| number | (noun) an item of clothing | - |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: figure |
| (noun) a clothing measurement | - |
| (noun) one of a series published periodically | Synonyms: issue |
| (noun) a symbol used to represent a number | Synonyms: numeral |
| (noun) a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification and may be attached to accounts, memberships, etc. | - |
| (noun) the number is used in calling a particular telephone | Synonyms: phone number, telephone number |
| (noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, routine, turn |
| (noun) the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural) | - |
| (noun) a numbered item in a series | - |
| (noun) a select company of people | - |
| (noun) a concept of quantity involving zero and units | - |
| (verb) place a limit on the number of | Synonyms: keep down |
| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, enumerate, numerate |
| (verb) enumerate | Synonyms: list |
| (verb) give numbers to | - |
| (verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, come, total |
| (verb) put into a group | Synonyms: count |
| numbering | (noun) a numbered list | Synonyms: enumeration |
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| numberless | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| numberplate | (noun) a plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number | Synonyms: license plate |
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| numbers | (noun) an illegal daily lottery | Synonyms: numbers game, numbers pool, numbers racket |
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| numbfish | (noun) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges | Synonyms: crampfish, electric ray, torpedo |
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| numbing | (adjective) causing numbness or insensitivity | - |
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| numbly | (adverb) in a numb manner; without feeling | Synonyms: insensibly |
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| numbness | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: apathy, indifference, spiritlessness |
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| (noun) partial or total lack of sensation in a part of the body; a symptom of nerve damage or dysfunction | - |
| numdah | (noun) an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt | Synonyms: nammad, numdah rug |
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| numen | (noun) a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion) | - |
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| numerable | (adjective) that can be counted | Synonyms: countable, denumerable, enumerable |
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| numeracy | (noun) skill with numbers and mathematics | - |
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| numeral | (adjective) of or relating to or denoting numbers | Synonyms: numeric, numerical |
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| (noun) a symbol used to represent a number | Synonyms: number |
| (noun) a word expressing a number. | - |
| numerate | (adjective) able to understand and use numbers | - |
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| (verb) read out loud as words written numbers | - |
| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, enumerate, number |
| numeration | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, reckoning, tally |
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| (noun) naming numbers | - |
| numerator | (noun) the dividend of a fraction | - |
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| numeric | (adjective) of or relating to or denoting numbers | Synonyms: numeral, numerical |
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| (adjective) measured or expressed in numbers | Synonyms: numerical |