narcissistic | (adjective) characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-loving |
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narcissus | (noun) bulbous plant having erect linear leaves and showy yellow or white flowers either solitary or in clusters | - |
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narcist | (noun) someone in love with themselves | Synonyms: narcissist |
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narcodollar | (noun) money (especially in the form of US dollars) obtained from narcotrafficking. | Synonyms: narco-dollar |
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narcolepsy | (noun) a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep | - |
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narcoleptic | (adjective) of or relating to narcolepsy | - |
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(noun) a soporific drug that produces an uncontrollable desire to sleep | - |
(noun) a person who has narcolepsy | - |
narcosis | (noun) unconsciousness induced by narcotics or anesthesia | - |
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narcoterrorism | (noun) the financing of terrorist activities by participation in the drug trade | - |
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narcotic | (adjective) of or relating to or designating narcotics | - |
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(adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotising, narcotizing |
(adjective) inducing mental lethargy | Synonyms: soporiferous, soporific |
(noun) a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction | - |
narcotise | (verb) administer narcotics to | Synonyms: narcotize |
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narcotised | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: doped, drugged, narcotized |
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narcotising | (adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotic, narcotizing |
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narcotize | (verb) administer narcotics to | Synonyms: narcotise |
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narcotized | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: doped, drugged, narcotised |
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narcotizing | (adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotic, narcotising |
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narcotraffic | (noun) traffic in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug traffic, drug trafficking |
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nard | (noun) an aromatic ointment used in antiquity | Synonyms: spikenard |
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nardo | (noun) Australian clover fern | Synonyms: common nardoo, Marsilea drummondii, nardoo |
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nardoo | (noun) Australian clover fern | Synonyms: common nardoo, Marsilea drummondii, nardo |
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narghile | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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nargileh | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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narial | (adjective) of or relating to or near the nares | - |
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naris | (noun) any of the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx | - |
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nark | (noun) an informer or spy working for the police | Synonyms: copper's nark |
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(noun) a lawman concerned with narcotics violations | Synonyms: narc, narcotics agent |
(verb) inform or spy (for the police) | - |
(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
narrate | (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: recite, recount, tell |
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(verb) provide commentary for a film, for example | - |
narration | (noun) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | Synonyms: recital, yarn |
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(noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narrative, story, tale |
(noun) (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth | - |
narrative | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story | - |
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(noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, story, tale |
narrator | (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: storyteller, teller |
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narrow | (adjective) not wide | - |
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(adjective) very limited in degree | - |
(adjective) lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view | Synonyms: narrow-minded |
(adjective) characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination | Synonyms: minute |
(adjective) limited in extent or scope | - |
(noun) a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water | - |
(verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: contract |
(verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constrict, constringe |
(verb) become more focused on an area of activity or field of study | Synonyms: narrow down, specialise, specialize |
(verb) define clearly | Synonyms: nail down, narrow down, peg down, pin down, specify |
narrowboat | (noun) a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals | Synonyms: canal boat, narrow boat |
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narrowed | (adjective) made narrow; limited in breadth | - |
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(adjective) reduced in size as by squeezing together | - |
narrowing | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, constrictive |
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(adjective) becoming gradually narrower | Synonyms: tapered, tapering |
(noun) the act of making something narrower | - |
(noun) an instance of becoming narrow | - |
(noun) a decrease in width | - |
narrowly | (adverb) in a narrow manner; not allowing for exceptions | - |
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narrowness | (noun) the property of being narrow; having little width | - |
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(noun) a small margin | Synonyms: narrow margin, slimness |
(noun) an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior | Synonyms: narrow-mindedness |
(noun) a restriction of range or scope | - |
narthex | (noun) a vestibule leading to the nave of a church | - |
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(noun) portico at the west end of an early Christian basilica or church | - |
narwal | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwhal, narwhale |
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narwhal | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhale |
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narwhale | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhal |
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nary | (adjective) (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a' | - |
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nasal | (adjective) of or in or relating to the nose | Synonyms: rhinal |
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(adjective) sounding as if the nose were pinched | Synonyms: adenoidal, pinched |
(noun) an elongated rectangular bone that forms the bridge of the nose | Synonyms: nasal bone, os nasale |
(noun) a consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed | Synonyms: nasal consonant |
nasale | (verb) speak in a nasal voice | - |
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nasalisation | (noun) the act of nasalizing; the utterance of sounds modulated by the nasal resonators | Synonyms: nasalization |
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nasalise | (verb) pronounce with a lowered velum | Synonyms: nasalize |
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(verb) speak nasally or through the nose | Synonyms: nasalize |
nasality | (noun) a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators | - |
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nasalization | (noun) the act of nasalizing; the utterance of sounds modulated by the nasal resonators | Synonyms: nasalisation |
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nasalize | (verb) pronounce with a lowered velum | Synonyms: nasalise |
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(verb) speak nasally or through the nose | Synonyms: nasalise |
nasally | (adverb) in a nasal manner | - |
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nascence | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascency, nativity |
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nascency | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascence, nativity |
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nascent | (adjective) being born or beginning | - |
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nasion | (noun) the craniometric point at the bridge of the nose where the frontal and nasal bones of the skull meet | - |
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nasopharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to or located near the nasopharynx | - |
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nasopharynx | (noun) cavity forming the upper part of the pharynx | - |
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nastika | (noun) Technical term in Hinduism used to classify philosophical schools and persons that do not accept the authority of the Vedas as supreme revealed scriptures. | - |
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nastily | (adverb) in a nasty ill-tempered manner | Synonyms: meanly |
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nastiness | (noun) the quality of being highly unpleasant | - |
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(noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, cattiness, spite, spitefulness |
(noun) a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse | Synonyms: filth, filthiness, foulness |
nasturtium | (noun) flowers and seeds and leaves all used as flavorings | - |
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(noun) any tropical American plant of the genus Tropaeolum having pungent juice and long-spurred yellow to red flowers | - |
nasty | (adjective) offensive or even (of persons) malicious | Synonyms: awful |
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(adjective) exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent | Synonyms: tight |
(adjective) disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter | Synonyms: filthy, foul |
(adjective) characterized by obscenity | Synonyms: cruddy, filthy, foul, smutty |
natal | (adjective) relating to or accompanying birth | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the buttocks | - |
natality | (noun) the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year | Synonyms: birth rate, birthrate, fertility, fertility rate |
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natation | (noun) the act of someone who floats on the water | Synonyms: floating |
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natator | (noun) a person who travels through the water by swimming | Synonyms: bather, swimmer |
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natatorium | (noun) pool that provides a facility for swimming | Synonyms: swimming bath, swimming pool |
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nates | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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nation | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, res publica, state |
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(noun) the people who live in a nation or country | Synonyms: country, land |
(noun) a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes) | - |
national | (adjective) limited to or in the interests of a particular nation | - |
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(adjective) concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country | - |
(adjective) of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country | - |
(adjective) of or relating to nationality | - |
(adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation | - |
(adjective) inside the country | Synonyms: home, interior, internal |
(adjective) owned or maintained for the public by the national government | - |
(noun) a person who owes allegiance to that nation | Synonyms: subject |
nationalisation | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalization |
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(noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalization |
(noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalization |
nationalise | (verb) put under state control or ownership | Synonyms: nationalize |
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(verb) make national in character or scope | Synonyms: nationalize |
nationalism | (noun) love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | Synonyms: patriotism |
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(noun) the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other | - |
(noun) the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals | - |
(noun) the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination | - |
nationalist | (adjective) devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others | Synonyms: nationalistic |
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(noun) one who loves and defends his or her country | Synonyms: patriot |
(noun) an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government | - |
nationalistic | (adjective) devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others | Synonyms: nationalist |
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(adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, jingoistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
nationality | (noun) people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation | - |
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(noun) the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization | - |
nationalization | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalisation |
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(noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalisation |
(noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalisation |
nationalize | (verb) put under state control or ownership | Synonyms: nationalise |
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(verb) make national in character or scope | Synonyms: nationalise |
nationally | (adverb) extending throughout an entire nation | Synonyms: across the country, across the nation, nationwide |
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(adverb) with regard to a nation taken as a whole | - |
nationhood | (noun) the state of being a nation | - |
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nationwide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a country or nation | Synonyms: countrywide |
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(adverb) extending throughout an entire nation | Synonyms: across the country, across the nation, nationally |
native | (adjective) characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: aboriginal |
(adjective) belonging to one by birth | - |
(adjective) as found in nature in the elemental form | - |
(noun) indigenous plants and animals | - |
(noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene |
(noun) a person born in a particular place or country | - |
nativeness | (noun) the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin | - |
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nativism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate | - |
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(noun) the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation) | - |
nativist | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating nativism | Synonyms: nativistic |
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(adjective) advocating the perpetuation of native societies | Synonyms: nativistic |
(noun) a philosopher who subscribes to nativism | - |
nativistic | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating nativism | Synonyms: nativist |
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(adjective) advocating the perpetuation of native societies | Synonyms: nativist |
nativity | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascence, nascency |
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natriuresis | (noun) the presence of abnormally large amounts of sodium in the urine | - |
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natriuretic | (adjective) of or relating to natriuresis | - |
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natrolite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of sodium and aluminum | - |
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natter | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, shoot the breeze, visit |
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natterjack | (noun) common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops | Synonyms: Bufo calamita |
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nattily | (adverb) in a natty manner; with smartness | - |
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nattiness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, rakishness |
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natty | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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natural | (adjective) (of a parent or child) related by blood; genetically related | Synonyms: biological |
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(adjective) in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature | - |
(adjective) existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation | - |
(adjective) existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical | - |
(adjective) (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone | - |
(adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: born, innate |
(adjective) functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies | - |
(adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: instinctive |
(adjective) free from artificiality | Synonyms: lifelike |
(adjective) (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes | Synonyms: raw, rude |
(noun) (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake | - |
(noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat | Synonyms: cancel |
(noun) someone regarded as certain to succeed | - |
naturalisation | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalization |
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(noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalization |
(noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalization |
(noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalization |
naturalise | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalize |
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(verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalize |
(verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalize |
(verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalize, tame |
naturalised | (adjective) planted so as to give an effect of wild growth | Synonyms: naturalized |
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naturalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations | - |
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(noun) an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description | Synonyms: realism |
naturalist | (noun) a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) | Synonyms: natural scientist |
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(noun) an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms | - |
naturalistic | (adjective) representing what is real; not abstract or ideal | Synonyms: realistic |
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naturalization | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalisation |
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(noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalisation |
(noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalisation |
(noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalisation |
naturalize | (verb) make into a citizen | Synonyms: naturalise |
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(verb) make more natural or lifelike | Synonyms: naturalise |
(verb) adopt to another place | Synonyms: naturalise |
(verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame |
(verb) explain with reference to nature | - |