| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| adagio | adjective & adverb | Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow., A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn. |
| adamic | adjective | Alt. of Adamical |
| adance | adverb | Dancing. |
| adarce | noun | A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy. |
| adatis | noun | A fine cotton cloth of India. |
| adaunt | verb t. | To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate. |
| adding | present participle & vb. noun | of Add |
| addeem | verb t. | To award; to adjudge. |
| addice | noun | See Adze. |
| addict | past participle | Addicted; devoted., To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; — with to., To adapt; to make suitable; to fit. |
| addled | imp. & past participle | of Addle |
| addoom | verb t. | To adjudge. |
| adduce | verb t. | To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. |
| adduct | verb t. | To draw towards a common center or a middle line. |
| adempt | past participle | Takes away. |
| adeno- | Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; — used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands. | |
| adesmy | noun | The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire. |
| adhere | verb i. | To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura., To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church., To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree. |
| adhort | verb t. | To exhort; to advise. |
| adieus | plural | of Adieu |
| adight | past participle | of Adight, To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress. |
| adipic | adjective | Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; — applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid. |
| adipsy | noun | Absence of thirst. |
| adject | verb t. | To add or annex; to join. |
| adjoin | verb t. | To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append., To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin., To join one’s self. |
| adjure | verb t. | To charge, bind, or command, solemnly, as if under oath, or under the penalty of a curse; to appeal to in the most solemn or impressive manner; to entreat earnestly. |
| adjust | verb t. | To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard., To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system., To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted., To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope. |
| adjute | verb t. | To add. |
| admire | verb t. | To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at., To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape., To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; — sometimes with at. |
| admove | verb t. | To move or conduct to or toward. |
| adnate | adjective | Grown to congenitally., Growing together; — said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts., Growing with one side adherent to a stem; — a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals. |
| adnoun | noun | An adjective, or attribute. |
| adonic | adjective | Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty., An Adonic verse. |
| adonis | noun | A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar., A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy., A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant’s eye (Adonis autumnalis); — named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower. |
| adoors | At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. | |
| adorer | noun | One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer. |
| adread | verb t. & i. | To dread. |
| adrian | adjective | Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows. |
| adrift | adverb & adjective | Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. |
| adroit | adjective | Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; — applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply. |
| advene | verb i. | To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential. |
| advent | noun | The period including the four Sundays before Christmas., The first or the expected second coming of Christ., Coming; any important arrival; approach. |
| adverb | noun | A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white. |
| advert | verb i. | To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; — with to; as, he adverted to what was said. |
| advice | noun | An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel., Deliberate consideration; knowledge., Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; — commonly in the plural., Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. |
| advise | verb t. | To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn., To give information or notice to; to inform; — with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk., To consider; to deliberate., To take counsel; to consult; — followed by with; as, to advise with friends. |
| adviso | noun | Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat. |
| advoke | verb t. | To summon; to call. |
| adward | noun | Award. |
| adytum | noun | The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum. |