Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
adaptedness |
noun |
The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness. |
additionary |
adjective |
Additional. |
addititious |
adjective |
Additive. |
addle-brain |
noun |
Alt. of Addle-pate |
addle-pated |
adjective |
Dull-witted; stupid. |
adenography |
noun |
That part of anatomy which describes the glands. |
adfiliation |
noun |
See Affiliation. |
adhortation |
noun |
Advice; exhortation. |
adhortatory |
adjective |
Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. |
adiaphorism |
noun |
Religious indifference. |
adiaphorist |
noun |
One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. |
adiaphorite |
noun |
Same as Adiaphorist. |
adiaphorous |
adjective |
Indifferent or neutral., Incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines. |
adiathermic |
adjective |
Not pervious to heat. |
adipocerate |
verb t. |
To convert into adipocere. |
adipocerous |
adjective |
Like adipocere. |
adiposeness |
noun |
Alt. of Adiposity |
adjectional |
adjective |
Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed. |
adjectiving |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Adjective |
adjectively |
adverb |
In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively. |
adjournment |
noun |
The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day., The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business. |
adjudicated |
imp. & past participle |
of Adjudicate |
adjudicator |
noun |
One who adjudicates. |
admarginate |
verb t. |
To write in the margin. |
admaxillary |
adjective |
Near to the maxilla or jawbone. |
adminicular |
adjective |
Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence. |
admiralship |
noun |
The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral. |
admiralties |
plural |
of Admiralty |
admonishing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Admonish |
adnubilated |
adjective |
Clouded; obscured. |
adolescence |
noun |
The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals. |
adolescency |
noun |
The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness. |
adoptionist |
noun |
One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption. |
adorability |
noun |
Adorableness. |
adscriptive |
adjective |
Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it. |
adstrictory |
adjective |
See Astrictory. |
adstringent |
adjective |
See Astringent. |
adulterated |
imp. & past participle |
of Adulterate |
adulterator |
noun |
One who adulterates or corrupts. |
adumbration |
noun |
The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth., A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing., The shadow or outlines of a figure. |
adumbrative |
adjective |
Faintly representing; typical. |
advancement |
verb t. |
The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning., An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5., Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution., Settlement on a wife, or jointure. |
advantaging |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Advantage |
adventuring |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Adventure |
adventuress |
noun |
A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means. |
adventurous |
noun |
Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; — applied to persons., Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; — applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song. |
adverbially |
adverb |
In the manner of an adverb. |
adversaries |
plural |
of Adversary |
adversative |
adjective |
Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force., An adversative word. |
adverseness |
noun |
The quality or state of being adverse; opposition. |
adversities |
plural |
of Adversity |
advertising |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Advertise |
advisedness |
noun |
Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution. |
advisership |
noun |
The office of an adviser. |