vi | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units | Synonyms: 6, half-dozen, half dozen, six |
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viability | (noun) (of living things) capable of normal growth and development | - |
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(noun) capable of being done in a practical and useful way | - |
viable | (adjective) capable of life or normal growth and development | - |
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(adjective) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are | Synonyms: executable, feasible, practicable, workable |
viaduct | (noun) bridge consisting of a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railroad) over a valley | - |
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vial | (noun) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) | Synonyms: ampoule, ampul, ampule, phial |
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viand | (noun) a choice or delicious dish | - |
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viands | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, provisions, victuals |
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viatical | (adjective) pertaining to the purchase of insurance policies from terminally ill policy holders | - |
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viatication | (noun) purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders | Synonyms: viaticus |
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viaticus | (noun) purchasing insurance policies for cash from terminally ill policy holders | Synonyms: viatication |
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vibe | (noun) a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively | Synonyms: vibration |
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(verb) to feel emotionally | - |
vibes | (noun) a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | Synonyms: vibraharp, vibraphone |
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vibist | (noun) a musician who plays the vibraphone | Synonyms: vibraphonist |
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vibraharp | (noun) a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | Synonyms: vibes, vibraphone |
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vibrancy | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness |
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vibrant | (adjective) of colors that are bright and striking | - |
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(adjective) of sounds that are strong and resonating | - |
(adjective) vigorous and animated | Synonyms: vivacious |
vibraphone | (noun) a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound | Synonyms: vibes, vibraharp |
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vibraphonist | (noun) a musician who plays the vibraphone | Synonyms: vibist |
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vibrate | (verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: thrill, tickle |
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(verb) shake, quiver, or throb; move back and forth rapidly, usually in an uncontrolled manner | - |
(verb) move or swing from side to side regularly | Synonyms: oscillate |
(verb) sound with resonance | Synonyms: resonate |
(verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action | Synonyms: hover, oscillate, vacillate |
vibration | (noun) the act of vibrating | Synonyms: quiver, quivering |
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(noun) a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively | Synonyms: vibe |
(noun) (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean | Synonyms: oscillation |
(noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, trembling |
vibrational | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by vibration | - |
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vibrato | (noun) (music) a pulsating effect in an instrumental or vocal tone produced by slight and rapid variations in pitch | - |
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vibrator | (noun) mechanical device that produces vibratory motion; used for massage | - |
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(noun) a mechanical device that vibrates | - |
vibratory | (adjective) moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down | - |
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vibrio | (noun) curved rodlike motile bacterium | Synonyms: vibrion |
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vibrion | (noun) curved rodlike motile bacterium | Synonyms: vibrio |
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vibrionic | (adjective) caused by bacteria of the genus Vibrio | - |
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vibrissa | (noun) a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat | Synonyms: sensory hair, whisker |
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vicar | (noun) a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman | - |
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(noun) (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish | - |
(noun) (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel | - |
vicarage | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: parsonage, rectory |
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vicarial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a vicar | - |
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vicariate | (noun) the religious institution under the authority of a vicar | Synonyms: vicarship |
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vicarious | (adjective) occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function | - |
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(adjective) suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another | - |
(adjective) experienced at secondhand | - |
vicariously | (adverb) indirectly, as, by, or through a substitute | - |
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vicarship | (noun) the religious institution under the authority of a vicar | Synonyms: vicariate |
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vice | (noun) a specific form of evildoing | - |
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(noun) a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place | Synonyms: bench vise, vise |
(noun) moral weakness | Synonyms: frailty |
vicegerent | (noun) someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy | - |
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vicenary | (adjective) of or relating to or based on 20 | - |
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vicennial | (adjective) occurring once every 20 years | - |
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viceregal | (adjective) of or relating to a viceroy | - |
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vicereine | (noun) governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign | Synonyms: viceroy |
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(noun) wife of a viceroy | - |
viceroy | (noun) showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller | Synonyms: Limenitis archippus |
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(noun) governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign | Synonyms: vicereine |
viceroyalty | (noun) a district or province governed by a viceroy | - |
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viceroyship | (noun) the position of viceroy | - |
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vichyssoise | (noun) a creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions; usually served cold | - |
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vicinal | (adjective) belonging to or limited to a vicinity | - |
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vicinity | (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood |
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vicious | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage |
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(adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: poisonous, venomous |
(adjective) having the nature of vice | Synonyms: evil |
(adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible |
viciously | (adverb) in a vicious manner | Synonyms: brutally, savagely |
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viciousness | (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: brutality, ferociousness, savagery |
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vicissitude | (noun) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another) | - |
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(noun) a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something | - |
victim | (noun) an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance | - |
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(noun) a person who is tricked or swindled | Synonyms: dupe |
victimisation | (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: exploitation, using, victimization |
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victimise | (verb) punish unjustly | Synonyms: victimize |
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(verb) make a victim of | Synonyms: victimize |
victimised | (adjective) (of persons) taken advantage of | Synonyms: exploited, ill-used, put-upon, used, victimized |
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victimiser | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimizer |
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victimization | (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: exploitation, using, victimisation |
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(noun) adversity resulting from being made a victim | - |
victimize | (verb) punish unjustly | Synonyms: victimise |
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(verb) make a victim of | Synonyms: victimise |
(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle |
victimized | (adjective) (of persons) taken advantage of | Synonyms: exploited, ill-used, put-upon, used, victimised |
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victimizer | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimiser |
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victor | (noun) the contestant who wins the contest | Synonyms: winner |
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(noun) a combatant who is able to defeat rivals | Synonyms: master, superior |
victorian | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced |
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victorious | (adjective) having won | Synonyms: winning |
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(adjective) experiencing triumph | Synonyms: triumphant |
victoriously | (adverb) in a victorious manner | - |
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victory | (noun) a successful ending of a struggle or contest | Synonyms: triumph |
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victual | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, pabulum, victuals |
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(verb) take in nourishment | - |
(verb) lay in provisions | - |
(verb) supply with food | - |
victualer | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, sutler, victualler |
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(noun) an innkeeper (especially British) | Synonyms: victualler |
victualler | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, sutler, victualer |
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(noun) an innkeeper (especially British) | Synonyms: victualer |
victuals | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, pabulum, victual |
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(noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance |
(noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, provisions, viands |
vicuna | (noun) small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat | Synonyms: Vicugna vicugna |
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(noun) a soft wool fabric made from the fleece of the vicuna | - |
(noun) the wool of the vicuna | - |
videlicet | (adverb) as follows | Synonyms: namely, that is to say, to wit, viz. |
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video | (noun) a recording of both the visual and audible components (especially one containing a recording of a movie or television program) | Synonyms: video recording |
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(noun) the visible part of a television transmission | Synonyms: picture |
(noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: telecasting, television, TV |
(noun) (computer science) the appearance of text and graphics on a video display | - |
videocassette | (noun) a cassette for videotape | - |
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videodisc | (noun) a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set | Synonyms: DVD, videodisk |
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videodisk | (noun) a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set | Synonyms: DVD, videodisc |
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videotape | (noun) a relatively wide magnetic tape for use in recording visual images and associated sound | - |
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(noun) a video recording made on magnetic tape | - |
(verb) record on videotape | Synonyms: tape |
vie | (verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: compete, contend |
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view | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: sight, survey |
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(noun) graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept | Synonyms: scene |
(noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: horizon, purview |
(noun) outward appearance | - |
(noun) purpose; the phrase `with a view to' means `with the intention of' or `for the purpose of' | - |
(noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, vista |
(noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: perspective, position |
(noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, sentiment, thought |
(noun) a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof | Synonyms: opinion |
(noun) the range of the eye | Synonyms: eyeshot |
(verb) deem to be | Synonyms: consider, reckon, regard, see |
(verb) look at carefully; study mentally | Synonyms: consider, look at |
(verb) see or watch | Synonyms: catch, see, take in, watch |
viewable | (adjective) capable of being viewed | - |
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viewer | (noun) an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies | - |
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(noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, spectator, watcher, witness |
viewers | (noun) the audience reached by television | Synonyms: TV audience, viewing audience |
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viewfinder | (noun) optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest | Synonyms: finder, view finder |
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viewgraph | (noun) a transparency for use with an overhead projector | Synonyms: overhead |
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viewing | (noun) a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial | Synonyms: wake |
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(noun) the display of a motion picture | Synonyms: screening, showing |
viewless | (adjective) not having or expressing opinions or views | - |
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viewpoint | (noun) a mental position from which things are viewed | Synonyms: point of view, stand, standpoint |
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(noun) a place from which something can be viewed | Synonyms: vantage point |
vigesimal | (adjective) relating to or based on the number twenty | - |
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vigil | (noun) a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe | Synonyms: watch |
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(noun) the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) | Synonyms: watch |
(noun) a period of sleeplessness | - |
vigilance | (noun) vigilant attentiveness | Synonyms: watchfulness, weather eye |
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(noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: alertness, wakefulness, watchfulness |
vigilant | (adjective) carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger | Synonyms: argus-eyed, open-eyed, wakeful, watchful |
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vigilante | (noun) member of a vigilance committee | Synonyms: vigilance man |
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vigilantism | (noun) the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws | - |
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vigilantly | (adverb) in a watchful manner | Synonyms: watchfully |
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vignette | (noun) a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books) | - |
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(noun) a photograph whose edges shade off gradually | - |
(noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: sketch |
vigor | (noun) active strength of body or mind | Synonyms: dynamism, heartiness, vigour |
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(noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, muscularity, vigour, vim |
(noun) forceful exertion | Synonyms: energy, vigour, zip |
vigorish | (noun) an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest | Synonyms: usury |
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(noun) a percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster | Synonyms: rake-off |
vigorous | (adjective) characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity | - |
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(adjective) strong and active physically or mentally | - |
vigorously | (adverb) with vigor; in a vigorous manner | Synonyms: smartly |
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vigour | (noun) active strength of body or mind | Synonyms: dynamism, heartiness, vigor |
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(noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, muscularity, vigor, vim |
(noun) forceful exertion | Synonyms: energy, vigor, zip |
vii | (adjective) being one more than six | Synonyms: 7, seven |
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