Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
aganglionic |
adjective |
Without ganglia. |
agatiferous |
adjective |
Containing or producing agates. |
agglomerate |
verb t. |
To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass., To collect in a mass., Alt. of Agglomerated, A collection or mass., A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; — distinguished from conglomerate. |
agglutinant |
adjective |
Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion., Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere. |
agglutinate |
verb t. |
To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances., United with glue or as with glue; cemented together., Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2. |
aggrandized |
imp. & past participle |
of Aggrandize |
aggrandizer |
noun |
One who aggrandizes, or makes great. |
aggravating |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Aggravate, Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances., Exasperating; provoking; irritating. |
aggravation |
noun |
The act of aggravating, or making worse; — used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences., Exaggerated representation., An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity., Provocation; irritation. |
aggravative |
adjective |
Tending to aggravate., That which aggravates. |
aggregating |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Aggregate |
aggregately |
adverb |
Collectively; in mass. |
aggregation |
noun |
The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate. |
aggregative |
adjective |
Taken together; collective., Gregarious; social. |
aggrievance |
noun |
Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. |
aggroupment |
noun |
Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping. |
agnosticism |
noun |
That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies., The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); — opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism. |
agonistical |
adjective |
Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. |
agonizingly |
adverb |
With extreme anguish or desperate struggles. |
agonothetic |
adjective |
Pertaining to the office of an agonothete. |
agrammatist |
noun |
A illiterate person. |
agrarianism |
noun |
An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land. |
agrarianize |
verb t. |
To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism. |
agriculture |
noun |
The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming. |
agriologist |
noun |
One versed or engaged in agriology. |
agronomical |
|
Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms. |
agrostology |
noun |
That part of botany which treats of the grasses. |
aguardiente |
noun |
A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal., A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque. |