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oewn-00098000-s | defunct | the will of a defunct aunt | having ceased to exist or live |
oewn-00098000-s | defunct | a defunct Indian tribe | having ceased to exist or live |
oewn-00098158-s | doomed | the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed | marked for certain death |
oewn-00098305-s | executed | claimed the body of the executed traitor | put to death as punishment |
oewn-00098430-s | fallen | to honor fallen soldiers | killed in battle |
oewn-00098527-s | late | her late husband | having died recently |
oewn-00098621-s | lifeless | a lifeless body | deprived of life; no longer living |
oewn-00099000-s | slain | a picture of St. George and the slain dragon | killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors" |
oewn-00099160-s | stillborn | a stillborn baby | (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn |
oewn-00099382-a | apocrine | mother's milk is one apocrine secretion | (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion |
oewn-00099786-a | artesian | an artesian well | (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure |
oewn-00099786-a | artesian | artesian pressure | (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure |
oewn-00100143-a | live | live coals | exerting force or containing energy |
oewn-00100143-a | live | tossed a live cigarette out the window | exerting force or containing energy |
oewn-00100143-a | live | got a shock from a live wire | exerting force or containing energy |
oewn-00100143-a | live | live ore is unmined ore | exerting force or containing energy |
oewn-00100143-a | live | a live bomb | exerting force or containing energy |
oewn-00100143-a | live | a live ball is one in play | exerting force or containing energy |
oewn-00100594-a | dead | Mars is a dead planet | not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat |
oewn-00100594-a | dead | dead soil | not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat |
oewn-00100594-a | dead | dead coals | not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat |
oewn-00100594-a | dead | the fire is dead | not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat |
oewn-00100933-s | extinct | threw his extinct cigarette into the stream | being out or having grown cold |
oewn-00100933-s | out | the fire is out | being out or having grown cold |
oewn-00101092-s | lifeless | a lifeless planet | not having the capacity to support life |
oewn-00101225-s | out of play | a ball that is out of play is dead | (of a ball) not available to be played during a game |
oewn-00101395-a | alphabetic | an alphabetic arrangement | arranged in order according to the alphabet |
oewn-00101395-a | alphabetic | dictionaries list words in alphabetical order | arranged in order according to the alphabet |
oewn-00101395-a | alphabetical | dictionaries list words in alphabetical order | arranged in order according to the alphabet |
oewn-00101750-s | alphabetized | the cards are all alphabetized, as you requested | having been put in alphabetical order |
oewn-00101913-a | analphabetic | an analphabetic arrangement of letters | not alphabetic |
oewn-00101913-a | analphabetic | Jesperson's system of phonetic transcription is analphabetic | not alphabetic |
oewn-00103000-a | ambiguous | ambiguous words | having more than one possible meaning |
oewn-00103000-a | ambiguous | frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy | having more than one possible meaning |
oewn-00103729-s | oracular | the oracular sayings of Victorian poets | resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought |
oewn-00103729-s | enigmatic | so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it | resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought |
oewn-00103729-s | enigmatic | an enigmatic smile | resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought |
oewn-00104101-s | multivalent | subtle, multivalent allegory | having many values, meanings, or appeals |
oewn-00104366-s | uncertain | she spoke in no uncertain terms | ambiguous (especially in the negative) |
oewn-00105117-s | pushful | a pushful insurance agent | marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative |
oewn-00105996-s | shiftless | a shiftless student | lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative |
oewn-00105996-s | shiftless | studied in a shiftless way | lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative |
oewn-00105996-s | shiftless | shiftless idle youth | lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative |
oewn-00106545-a | ample | had ample food for the party | more than enough in size or scope or capacity |
oewn-00106545-a | ample | an ample supply | more than enough in size or scope or capacity |
oewn-00106981-s | generous | a generous portion | more than is usual or necessary |
oewn-00107089-s | wide | the current taste for wide trousers | having ample fabric |
oewn-00107089-s | full | a full skirt | having ample fabric |
oewn-00107268-a | meager | meager resources | deficient in amount or quality or extent |
oewn-00107268-a | meager | meager fare | deficient in amount or quality or extent |
oewn-00107633-s | bare | a bare livelihood | lacking in magnitude or quantity |
oewn-00107633-s | scanty | a scanty harvest | lacking in magnitude or quantity |
oewn-00107633-s | spare | a spare diet | lacking in magnitude or quantity |
oewn-00107829-s | exiguous | an exiguous budget | extremely scanty |
oewn-00108062-s | hardscrabble | the sharecropper's hardscrabble life | barely satisfying a lower standard |
oewn-00108195-s | measly | a measly tip | contemptibly small in amount |
oewn-00108195-s | miserable | the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief | contemptibly small in amount |
oewn-00108195-s | paltry | a paltry wage | contemptibly small in amount |
oewn-00108195-s | miserable | almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans | contemptibly small in amount |
oewn-00108459-a | anabolic | some athletes take anabolic steroids to increase muscle size temporarily | characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism |
oewn-00110444-a | anabatic | an anabatic wind | of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope |
oewn-00111308-a | analogue | analogue device | of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input |
oewn-00111308-a | analog | analogue device | of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input |
oewn-00111308-a | linear | linear amplifier | of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input |
oewn-00111512-a | digital | digital computer | of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits |
oewn-00111664-a | analytic | `all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition | of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience |
oewn-00111940-a | synthetic | `all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition | of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts |
oewn-00113042-a | analytic | an analytic experiment | using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) |
oewn-00113042-a | analytic | an analytic approach | using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) |
oewn-00113042-a | analytic | a keenly analytic man | using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) |
oewn-00113042-a | analytic | analytical reasoning | using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) |
oewn-00113042-a | analytical | analytical reasoning | using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) |
oewn-00113042-a | analytic | an analytical mind | using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) |
oewn-00113042-a | analytical | an analytical mind | using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) |
oewn-00113826-a | inflectional | inflectional morphology is used to indicate number and case and tense and person etc. | characterized by inflections indicating grammatical distinctions |
oewn-00114056-a | derivational | the morphological relation between `sing' and `singer' and `song' is derivational | characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base |
oewn-00114629-a | angry | angry at the weather | feeling or showing anger |
oewn-00114629-a | angry | angry customers | feeling or showing anger |
oewn-00114629-a | angry | an angry silence | feeling or showing anger |
oewn-00114629-a | angry | sending angry letters to the papers | feeling or showing anger |
oewn-00115077-s | aggravated | aggravated by passive resistance | incited, especially deliberately, to anger |
oewn-00115077-s | provoked | the provoked animal attacked the child | incited, especially deliberately, to anger |
oewn-00115265-s | enraged | the enraged bull attached | marked by extreme anger |
oewn-00115265-s | furious | furious about the accident | marked by extreme anger |
oewn-00115265-s | furious | a furious scowl | marked by extreme anger |
oewn-00115265-s | infuriated | infuriated onlookers charged the police who were beating the boy | marked by extreme anger |
oewn-00115265-s | maddened | could not control the maddened crowd | marked by extreme anger |
oewn-00115608-s | black | black looks | marked by anger or resentment or hostility |
oewn-00115608-s | black | black words | marked by anger or resentment or hostility |
oewn-00115732-s | choleric | a choleric outburst | characterized by anger |
oewn-00115732-s | irascible | an irascible response | characterized by anger |
oewn-00116305-s | indignant | an indignant denial | angered at something unjust or wrong |
oewn-00116305-s | incensed | incensed at the judges' unfairness | angered at something unjust or wrong |
oewn-00116305-s | outraged | a look of outraged disbelief | angered at something unjust or wrong |
oewn-00116305-s | umbrageous | umbrageous at the loss of their territory | angered at something unjust or wrong |
oewn-00116588-s | irate | irate protesters | feeling or showing extreme anger |
oewn-00116588-s | ireful | ireful words | feeling or showing extreme anger |
oewn-00116717-s | livid | willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid | furiously angry |
oewn-00117056-s | wrathful | they trembled before the wrathful queen | vehemently incensed and condemnatory |
oewn-00117056-s | wroth | but wroth as he was, a short struggle ended in reconciliation | vehemently incensed and condemnatory |