sag | (noun) a shape that sags | Synonyms: droop |
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(verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: droop, flag, swag |
(verb) cause to sag | Synonyms: sag down |
saga | (noun) a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account | - |
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sagacious | (adjective) skillful in statecraft or management | - |
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(adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: perspicacious, sapient |
sagaciously | (adverb) in a shrewd manner | Synonyms: acutely, astutely, sapiently, shrewdly |
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sagaciousness | (noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating | Synonyms: judiciousness, sagacity |
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(noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, judgment, sagacity |
sagacity | (noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating | Synonyms: judiciousness, sagaciousness |
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(noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, judgment, sagaciousness |
sagamore | (noun) a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief) | Synonyms: sachem |
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sage | (adjective) of the grey-green color of sage leaves | Synonyms: sage-green |
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(adjective) having wisdom that comes with age and experience | - |
(noun) aromatic fresh or dried grey-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc | - |
(noun) a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom | - |
(noun) any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb | Synonyms: salvia |
sagebrush | (noun) any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium | Synonyms: sage brush |
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sagely | (adverb) in a wise manner | Synonyms: wisely |
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sagging | (adjective) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | Synonyms: drooping, droopy |
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sagitta | (noun) any arrowworm of the genus Sagitta | - |
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sagittal | (adjective) located in a plane that is parallel to the central plane of the sagittal suture | - |
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sagittate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes | Synonyms: arrow-shaped, sagittiform |
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sagittiform | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes | Synonyms: arrow-shaped, sagittate |
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sago | (noun) powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener | - |
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saguaro | (noun) extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit | Synonyms: Carnegiea gigantea, sahuaro |
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