necromancy | (noun) conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying | - |
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(noun) the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world | Synonyms: black art, black magic, sorcery |
necromania | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necrophilia, necrophilism |
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necromantic | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantical |
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(adjective) given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead | - |
necromantical | (adjective) relating to or associated with necromancy | Synonyms: necromantic |
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necrophagia | (noun) feeding on corpses or carrion | Synonyms: necrophagy |
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necrophagy | (noun) feeding on corpses or carrion | Synonyms: necrophagia |
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necrophilia | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilism |
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necrophilism | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilia |
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necropolis | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, graveyard, memorial park |
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necropsy | (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: autopsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination |
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necrose | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, mortify, sphacelate |
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necrosis | (noun) the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) | Synonyms: gangrene, mortification, sphacelus |
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necrotic | (adjective) relating to or affected by necrosis | - |
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nectar | (noun) (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal | Synonyms: ambrosia |
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(noun) fruit juice especially when undiluted | - |
(noun) a sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators | - |
nectariferous | (adjective) possessing nectaries | - |
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nectarine | (noun) a variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin | - |
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(noun) variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh | Synonyms: nectarine tree, Prunus persica nectarina |
nectarous | (adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, ambrosian |
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nectary | (noun) a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar | Synonyms: honey gland |
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nee | (adjective) (meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman | - |
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need | (noun) the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior | Synonyms: motivation, motive |
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(noun) anything that is necessary but lacking | Synonyms: want |
(noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: demand |
(noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, pauperism, pauperization, penury |
(verb) have need of | Synonyms: require, want |
(verb) have or feel a need for | - |
(verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, postulate, require, take |
needed | (adjective) necessary for relief or supply | Synonyms: needful, required, requisite |
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needer | (noun) a person who wants or needs something | Synonyms: wanter |
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needful | (adjective) necessary for relief or supply | Synonyms: needed, required, requisite |
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needfully | (adverb) in an essential manner | Synonyms: necessarily |
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neediness | (noun) the quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree | - |
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(noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: deprivation, privation, want |
needle | (noun) a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) | - |
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(noun) a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument | - |
(noun) a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record | Synonyms: phonograph needle |
(noun) the leaf of a conifer | Synonyms: acerate leaf |
(verb) annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism | Synonyms: goad |
(verb) prick with a needle | - |
needlebush | (noun) shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea lissosperma, needle-bush, needle bush |
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needlecraft | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlework |
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(noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlework |
needled | (adjective) of trees whose leaves are acerate | - |
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needlefish | (noun) fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | Synonyms: pipefish |
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(noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: billfish, gar |
needlelike | (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, acute, sharp |
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needlepoint | (noun) embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry | Synonyms: needlepoint embroidery |
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(noun) lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern | Synonyms: point lace |
needless | (adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted | Synonyms: gratuitous, uncalled-for |
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needlessly | (adverb) without need | - |
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needlewoman | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, seamstress, sempstress |
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needlewood | (noun) large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea leucoptera, needle-wood, needle wood |
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needlework | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlecraft |
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(noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlecraft |
needleworker | (noun) someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle | - |
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needs | (adverb) in such a manner as could not be otherwise | Synonyms: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity |
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needy | (adjective) demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree | - |
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(adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, poverty-stricken |
(noun) needy people collectively | - |
neem | (noun) large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia | Synonyms: arishth, Azadirachta indica, margosa, Melia Azadirachta, neem tree, nim tree |
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neencephalon | (noun) the part of the brain having the most recent phylogenetic origin; the cerebral cortex and related parts | Synonyms: neoencephalon |
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nefarious | (adjective) extremely wicked | Synonyms: villainous |
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nefariously | (adverb) in a nefarious manner or to a nefarious degree | - |
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nefariousness | (noun) the quality of being wicked | Synonyms: ugliness, vileness, wickedness |
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nefazodone | (noun) an antidepressant drug (trade name Serzone) | Synonyms: Serzone |
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negate | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: neutralise, neutralize, nullify |
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(verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: contradict |
(verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, contravene |
(verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, contradict |
negation | (noun) the speech act of negating | - |
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(noun) a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement | - |
(noun) (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false | - |
negative | (adjective) expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial | - |
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(adjective) characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features | - |
(adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: disconfirming |
(adjective) reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive | - |
(adjective) having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant | - |
(adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: electronegative, negatively charged |
(adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: damaging |
(adjective) involving disadvantage or harm | Synonyms: minus |
(adjective) less than zero | - |
(noun) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | - |
(noun) a reply of denial | - |
(verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: blackball, veto |
negatively | (adverb) in a negative way | - |
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(adverb) in a harmful manner | - |
negativeness | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativism, negativity |
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(noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativity |
(noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativity |
negativism | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativity |
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negativist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: defeatist |
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(noun) someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked | - |
negativity | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativism |
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(noun) (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | Synonyms: electronegativity |
(noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativeness |
(noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativeness |
negatron | (noun) an elementary particle with negative charge | Synonyms: electron |
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neglect | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, negligence, nonperformance |
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(noun) willful lack of care and attention | Synonyms: disregard |
(noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglectfulness, negligence |
(noun) lack of attention and due care | Synonyms: disregard |
(noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | Synonyms: disuse |
(verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
(verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, ignore |
(verb) fail to attend to | - |
(verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: fail |
neglected | (adjective) lacking a caretaker | Synonyms: unattended |
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(adjective) disregarded | Synonyms: ignored, unheeded |
neglecter | (noun) a person who is neglectful and gives little attention or respect to people or responsibilities | - |
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neglectful | (adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: delinquent, derelict, remiss |
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(adjective) not showing due care or attention | Synonyms: inattentive |
neglectfully | (adverb) in a neglectful manner | - |
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neglectfulness | (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, negligence |
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neglige | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, negligee, peignoir, wrapper |
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negligee | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, peignoir, wrapper |
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negligence | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, nonperformance |
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(noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, neglectfulness |
negligent | (adjective) characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern | - |
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negligently | (adverb) in a negligent manner | - |
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negligible | (adjective) so small as to be meaningless; insignificant | - |
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(adjective) not worth considering | Synonyms: paltry, trifling |
negociate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negotiate, talk terms |
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(verb) confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement | - |
(verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negotiate |
(verb) transfer by endorsement to another in return for value received | - |
(verb) sell or discount | - |
(verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, manage, pull off |
negotiable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: assignable, conveyable, transferable, transferrable |
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(adjective) able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise | Synonyms: on the table |
(adjective) capable of being passed or negotiated | - |
negotiant | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiator, treater |
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negotiate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negociate, talk terms |
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(verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negociate |
negotiation | (noun) the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms | - |
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(noun) a discussion intended to produce an agreement | Synonyms: dialogue, talks |
negotiator | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiant, treater |
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negotiatress | (noun) a woman negotiator | Synonyms: negotiatrix |
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negotiatrix | (noun) a woman negotiator | Synonyms: negotiatress |
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negro | (adjective) having skin rich in melanin pigments; | Synonyms: colored, coloured |
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negus | (noun) wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg | - |
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neigh | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
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(verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
neighbor | (noun) a nearby object of the same kind | Synonyms: neighbour |
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(noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another | Synonyms: neighbour |
(verb) be located near or adjacent to | Synonyms: neighbour |
(verb) live or be located as a neighbor | Synonyms: neighbour |
neighborhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighbourhood |
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(noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighbourhood, vicinity |
(noun) an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community) | - |
(noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | Synonyms: region |
neighboring | (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighbouring |
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neighborliness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors | Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighbourliness |
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neighborly | (adjective) exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: neighbourly |
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neighbour | (noun) a nearby object of the same kind | Synonyms: neighbor |
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(noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another | Synonyms: neighbor |
(verb) be located near or adjacent to | Synonyms: neighbor |
(verb) live or be located as a neighbor | Synonyms: neighbor |
neighbourhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighborhood |
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(noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, vicinity |
neighbouring | (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring |
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neighbourliness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors | Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighborliness |
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neighbourly | (adjective) exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: neighborly |
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neither | (adjective) not either; not one or the other; entity, dual, negative pronoun; quantifier, dual, negative | - |
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nekton | (noun) the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales | - |
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nelfinavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Viracept) used in treating HIV usually in combination with other drugs | Synonyms: Viracept |
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nelson | (noun) any of several wrestling holds in which an arm is passed under the opponent's arm from behind and the hand exerts pressure on the back of the neck | - |
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nematode | (noun) unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic | Synonyms: nematode worm, roundworm |
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nemertean | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertine, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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nemertine | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertean, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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nemesis | (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, scourge |
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nemophila | (noun) any plant of the genus Nemophila | - |
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neo | (adjective) (used as a combining form) recent or new | - |
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neobaroque | (noun) art or architecture based on study of 17th century baroque. | Synonyms: neo-baroque |
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neobehaviorism | (noun) a school of psychology based on the general principles of behaviorism but broader and more flexible in concept. It stresses experimental research and laboratory analyses in the study of overt behavior and in various subjective phenomena that cannot be directly observed and measured, such as fantasies, love, stress, empathy, trust, and personality. | - |
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