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adv
noun
adj
- (figurative) Confused or complicated.
- Tangled or twisted together.
- (quantum mechanics, of two quantum states) Correlated, even though physically separated; (referring to a state of a composite system) not separable.
- deeply involved especially in something complicated
- involved in difficulties
- twisted together in a tangled mass
verb
adj
- Ambiguously or unclearly expressed.
- Deprived of sight; blind.
- (gambling, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
- (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- (of a time period) Lacking progress in science or the arts.
- (broadcasting, of a television station) Off the air; not transmitting.
- Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension
- Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- With emphasis placed on the unpleasant and macabre aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
- (of a source of light) Extinguished.
- Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
- showing a brooding ill humor
- (used of color) having a dark hue
- brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
- causing dejection
- not giving performances; closed
- secret
- marked by difficulty of style or expression
- devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
noun
- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
- (uncountable) Nightfall.
- A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
- (uncountable) Ignorance.
- absence of light or illumination
- the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
- an unilluminated area
- absence of moral or spiritual values
- an unenlightened state
verb
noun
- A vague understanding.
- An intuitive ability.
- An act of fondling.
- A vague mental impression.
- (chiefly US, slang) A feeling; an emotion.
- A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch.
- an intuitive awareness
- manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- a property perceived by touch
verb
- (intransitive) To search by sense of touch.
- (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
- (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
- (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
- (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.
- (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
- (transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
- (transitive) To be or become aware of.
- (transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
- (transitive) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
- (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
- have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude
- examine (a body part) by palpation
- undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
- be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state
- perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles
- undergo passive experience of
- pass one's hands over the sexual organs of
- grope or feel in search of something
- find by testing or cautious exploration
- be felt or perceived in a certain way
- produce a certain impression
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- examine by touch
verb
- utter unclearly
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- engulf and destroy
- keep from expressing
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- take back what one has said
- believe or accept without questioning or challenge
- (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- (transitive) To retract; to recant.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
noun
- small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- the act of swallowing
- a small amount of liquid food
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing, commonly paired and eaten with various types of soup.
- (nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
adj
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
noun
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
verb
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
adj
- Vague or unclear.
- Without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite.
- (linguistics) Designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing or group of persons or things.
- (mathematics) Being an integral without specified limits.
- Undecided or uncertain.
- vague or not clearly defined or stated
- not decided or not known
noun
adj
adv
- (figuratively) In a manner which tends to produce uncertainty or confusion; bewilderingly.
- (figuratively) In a manner which is not readily visible or noticeable; inconspicuously.
- (figuratively) In a manner which is difficult to understand, or which retards or prevents understanding; incomprehensibly.
- (figuratively) In a manner which produces an inward conviction of future misfortune; ominously.
- With a dark appearance.
- With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension.
- (figuratively) In a morbid manner; morbidly, sinisterly.
- (figuratively) In a manner which retards or prevents discernment; clandestinely.
- without light
- in a dark glowering menacing manner
adj
adj
- of uncertain or ambiguous nature
- Imprecise or vague.
- not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance
- having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex
- not leading to a definite ending or result
- (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved
- (botany, of inflorescences) Not topped with some form of terminal bud.
- Intersex.
- (mathematical analysis, of certain forms of limit) Not definitively or precisely determined, because of the presence of infinity or zero symbols used in any of several improper combinations.
- (biology, of growth) With no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.
- (architecture) Designed to allow the incorporation of future changes whose nature is not yet known.
- Not accurately determined or determinable.
noun
adj
- Not clear.
- Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
- Of light: cloudy, opaque.
- (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
- Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
- (chiefly literary, poetic) Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
- dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
- (of soil) soft and watery
noun
verb
- To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
- To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
- To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
- To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
- (also figuratively) Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
- Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
- (figuratively) To become contaminated or impure.
- To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
- To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
- To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
- cause to become muddy
- make turbid
- dirty with mud
adj
adj
noun
adj
- Figuratively
- Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.
- Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.
- (mathematics, logic, of a proof) Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.
- Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
- Not direct:
- extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
- not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination
- having intervening factors or persons or influences
- descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
- not as a direct effect or consequence
noun
verb
adj
noun
- (figurative) Something which obscures.
- (by extension) A flood of water; specifically, steep rapids in a river.
- (figurative) An overwhelming downpour or rush; a flood.
- A (large) waterfall, specifically one flowing over the edge of a cliff.
- (mechanics, chiefly historical) A type of governor used in single-acting steam engines, where a flow of water through an opening regulates the stroke.
- (ophthalmology, pathology) A clouding of the lens in the eye leading to a decrease in vision.
- an eye disease that involves the clouding or opacification of the natural lens of the eye
- a large waterfall; violent rush of water over a precipice
verb
verb
- (figuratively) To understand.
- (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- (by extension) Chiefly followed by that: to ensure that something happens, especially by personally witnessing it.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
- (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- To witness or observe by personal experience.
- (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.
- To date frequently.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
- (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- (ergative) To be the setting or time of.
- match or meet
- perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
- observe as if with an eye
- deliberate or decide
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- conduct someone someplace
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- take charge of or deal with
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- come together
- see and understand, have a good eye
- go to see for professional or business reasons
- deem to be
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- go to see for a social visit
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- go to see a place, as for entertainment
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- see or watch
- receive as a specified guest
intj
noun
- The office of a bishop or archbishop.
- Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin script letter C/c.
- A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
- A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.
- the seat within a bishop's diocese where the bishop's cathedral is located
adj
- (figurative) Convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.
- Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.
- (anatomy) Relating to the labyrinth of the inner ear.
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity
- relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear
adj
- Vague or imprecise.
- Not clear; unfocused.
- (computing theory) Employing or relating to fuzzy logic.
- Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals.
- Warm and comforting; affectionate.
- covering with fine light hairs
- confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out
- indistinct or hazy in outline
noun
- (slang) A police officer.
- (often in the plural) A very small piece of plush material such as lint.
- Something covered with fuzz or hair, as an animal or plush toy.
- (slang) A person, especially a college student, interested in humanities or social sciences, as opposed to one interested in mathematics, science, or engineering.
- (slang, military) A soldier with the rank of private.
noun
adj
- (figuratively) Confused, befuddled, etc.
- Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.
- Being, covered with, or pertaining to fog (“tall grass etc that grows after, or is left after, cutting; moss”)
- obscured by fog
- filled or abounding with fog or mist
- indistinct or hazy in outline
- stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
adj
- Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position — neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
noun
verb
- (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
- (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
- (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
noun
- an insubstantial or vague semblance
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing.
- A thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities; a thing which simulates another thing; an imitation; a semblance.
adj
- (figuratively) Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
- Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
- (computing) Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
- Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
- (figuratively) Obtuse, stupid.
- hard or impossible to understand
- not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight
noun
verb
adj
- ironically ambiguous
- rotating to the left
- lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
- (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior
- (of marriages) illicit or informal
- using or intended for the left hand
- Insincere or malicious.
- (occult, of magic) Performed with the intention of doing harm or in transgression against convention or taboo; following the left-hand path
- Awkward or maladroit.
- Of a coordinate system: not following the right-hand rule.
- Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
- Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise.
- Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand.
noun
adj
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- (music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Of twice the quantity.
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Designed for two (people, cars, etc.).
- (music) Of time, twice as fast.
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Stooping; bent over.
- having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- twice as great or many
- consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
- having two meanings with intent to deceive
- used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements
- large enough for two
adv
noun
- (music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- (cricket) The achievement of 1000 runs and 100 wickets taken in a single season.
- (Christianity) A double feast.
- (dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- (soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- (darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- (programming) A double-precision floating-point number.
- (historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- (rowing) A boat for two scullers.
- (bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”).
- A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- (music) A secondary instrument with which a musician is skilled.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
- (darts) A hit on this ring.
- (sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- (sports, chiefly swimming and track) The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
- (baseball) A two-base hit.
- (historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
- (billiards, snooker) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base
- a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
- raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
- a quantity that is twice as great as another
verb
- (music, intransitive, usually followed by "on") To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- (intransitive) To serve a second role or have a second purpose. [with as]
- (intransitive) To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- (theater) To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
- (transitive) To fold over so as to make two folds.
- (radio, informal, of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- (military) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- (nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).
- (transitive) To repeat exactly; copy.
- (transitive, sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- (transitive, often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- (espionage, intransitive) To operate as a double agent.
- (transitive) To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- (music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- (ambitransitive, sometimes with "for") To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
- (card games, intransitive) To double down.
- (bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- (intransitive) To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- (transitive) To multiply by two.
- (baseball) To get a two-base hit.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
- (intransitive) To turn sharply, following a winding course.
- hit a two-base hit
- bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
- increase twofold
- do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions
- make or do or perform again
- make a demand for (a card or suit)
noun
- intentionally vague or ambiguous
- a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
- falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
- (logic) A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.
- The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.
noun
- intentionally vague or ambiguous
- a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
- Evasion of the truth.
- A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
- (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
- (Ancient Rome, law, historical) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
adj
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- Relaxed.
- Not fitting closely.
- (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Indiscreet.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- Not held or packaged together.
- (of volumes of materials) Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Not compact.
- (US, slang, motor racing, of a stock car) Having oversteer.
- having escaped, especially from confinement
- not tense or taut
- emptying easily or excessively
- not officially recognized or controlled
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- not affixed
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- not carefully arranged in a package
- not literal
intj
noun
verb
- (archery) To shoot (an arrow).
- Misspelling of lose.
- (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
- (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
- (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
- become loose or looser or less tight
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- turn loose or free from restraint
- make loose or looser
adv
noun
- A vague understanding.
- An intuitive ability.
- An act of fondling.
- A vague mental impression.
- (chiefly US, slang) A feeling; an emotion.
- A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch.
- an intuitive awareness
- manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- a property perceived by touch
verb
- (intransitive) To search by sense of touch.
- (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
- (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
- (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
- (intransitive, copulative) To experience an emotion or other mental state.
- (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
- (transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
- (transitive) To be or become aware of.
- (transitive) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
- (transitive) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
- (intransitive) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
- have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude
- examine (a body part) by palpation
- undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
- be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state
- perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles
- undergo passive experience of
- pass one's hands over the sexual organs of
- grope or feel in search of something
- find by testing or cautious exploration
- be felt or perceived in a certain way
- produce a certain impression
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- examine by touch
noun
- (figurative) Something which obscures.
- (by extension) A flood of water; specifically, steep rapids in a river.
- (figurative) An overwhelming downpour or rush; a flood.
- A (large) waterfall, specifically one flowing over the edge of a cliff.
- (mechanics, chiefly historical) A type of governor used in single-acting steam engines, where a flow of water through an opening regulates the stroke.
- (ophthalmology, pathology) A clouding of the lens in the eye leading to a decrease in vision.
- an eye disease that involves the clouding or opacification of the natural lens of the eye
- a large waterfall; violent rush of water over a precipice
verb
noun
noun
- an insubstantial or vague semblance
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing.
- A thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities; a thing which simulates another thing; an imitation; a semblance.
noun
- intentionally vague or ambiguous
- a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
- falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
- (logic) A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.
- The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.
noun
- intentionally vague or ambiguous
- a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
- Evasion of the truth.
- A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
- (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
- (Ancient Rome, law, historical) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
verb
- utter unclearly
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- engulf and destroy
- keep from expressing
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- take back what one has said
- believe or accept without questioning or challenge
- (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- (transitive) To retract; to recant.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
noun
- small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- the act of swallowing
- a small amount of liquid food
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing, commonly paired and eaten with various types of soup.
- (nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
verb
- (figuratively) To understand.
- (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- (by extension) Chiefly followed by that: to ensure that something happens, especially by personally witnessing it.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
- (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- To witness or observe by personal experience.
- (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.
- To date frequently.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
- (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- (ergative) To be the setting or time of.
- match or meet
- perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
- observe as if with an eye
- deliberate or decide
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- conduct someone someplace
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- take charge of or deal with
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- come together
- see and understand, have a good eye
- go to see for professional or business reasons
- deem to be
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- go to see for a social visit
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- go to see a place, as for entertainment
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- see or watch
- receive as a specified guest
intj
noun
- The office of a bishop or archbishop.
- Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin script letter C/c.
- A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
- A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.
- the seat within a bishop's diocese where the bishop's cathedral is located
adv
- (figuratively) In a manner which tends to produce uncertainty or confusion; bewilderingly.
- (figuratively) In a manner which is not readily visible or noticeable; inconspicuously.
- (figuratively) In a manner which is difficult to understand, or which retards or prevents understanding; incomprehensibly.
- (figuratively) In a manner which produces an inward conviction of future misfortune; ominously.
- With a dark appearance.
- With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension.
- (figuratively) In a morbid manner; morbidly, sinisterly.
- (figuratively) In a manner which retards or prevents discernment; clandestinely.
- without light
- in a dark glowering menacing manner
adj
adj
- (figurative) Confused or complicated.
- Tangled or twisted together.
- (quantum mechanics, of two quantum states) Correlated, even though physically separated; (referring to a state of a composite system) not separable.
- deeply involved especially in something complicated
- involved in difficulties
- twisted together in a tangled mass
verb
adj
- Ambiguously or unclearly expressed.
- Deprived of sight; blind.
- (gambling, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
- (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- (of a time period) Lacking progress in science or the arts.
- (broadcasting, of a television station) Off the air; not transmitting.
- Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension
- Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- With emphasis placed on the unpleasant and macabre aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
- (of a source of light) Extinguished.
- Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
- showing a brooding ill humor
- (used of color) having a dark hue
- brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
- causing dejection
- not giving performances; closed
- secret
- marked by difficulty of style or expression
- devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
noun
- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
- (uncountable) Nightfall.
- A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
- (uncountable) Ignorance.
- absence of light or illumination
- the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
- an unilluminated area
- absence of moral or spiritual values
- an unenlightened state
verb
adj
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
noun
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
verb
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
adj
- Vague or unclear.
- Without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite.
- (linguistics) Designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing or group of persons or things.
- (mathematics) Being an integral without specified limits.
- Undecided or uncertain.
- vague or not clearly defined or stated
- not decided or not known
noun
adj
adj
- of uncertain or ambiguous nature
- Imprecise or vague.
- not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance
- having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex
- not leading to a definite ending or result
- (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved
- (botany, of inflorescences) Not topped with some form of terminal bud.
- Intersex.
- (mathematical analysis, of certain forms of limit) Not definitively or precisely determined, because of the presence of infinity or zero symbols used in any of several improper combinations.
- (biology, of growth) With no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.
- (architecture) Designed to allow the incorporation of future changes whose nature is not yet known.
- Not accurately determined or determinable.
noun
adj
- Not clear.
- Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
- Of light: cloudy, opaque.
- (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
- Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
- (chiefly literary, poetic) Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
- dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
- (of soil) soft and watery
noun
verb
- To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
- To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
- To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
- To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
- (also figuratively) Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
- Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
- (figuratively) To become contaminated or impure.
- To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
- To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
- To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
- cause to become muddy
- make turbid
- dirty with mud
adj
adj
noun
adj
- Figuratively
- Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.
- Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.
- (mathematics, logic, of a proof) Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.
- Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
- Not direct:
- extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
- not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination
- having intervening factors or persons or influences
- descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
- not as a direct effect or consequence
noun
verb
adj
adj
- (figurative) Convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.
- Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.
- (anatomy) Relating to the labyrinth of the inner ear.
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity
- relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear
adj
- Vague or imprecise.
- Not clear; unfocused.
- (computing theory) Employing or relating to fuzzy logic.
- Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals.
- Warm and comforting; affectionate.
- covering with fine light hairs
- confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out
- indistinct or hazy in outline
noun
- (slang) A police officer.
- (often in the plural) A very small piece of plush material such as lint.
- Something covered with fuzz or hair, as an animal or plush toy.
- (slang) A person, especially a college student, interested in humanities or social sciences, as opposed to one interested in mathematics, science, or engineering.
- (slang, military) A soldier with the rank of private.
adj
- (figuratively) Confused, befuddled, etc.
- Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.
- Being, covered with, or pertaining to fog (“tall grass etc that grows after, or is left after, cutting; moss”)
- obscured by fog
- filled or abounding with fog or mist
- indistinct or hazy in outline
- stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion)
adj
- Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
- (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
- (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position — neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
noun
verb
- (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
- (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
- (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
adj
- (figuratively) Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
- Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
- (computing) Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
- Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
- (figuratively) Obtuse, stupid.
- hard or impossible to understand
- not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight
noun
verb
adj
- ironically ambiguous
- rotating to the left
- lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
- (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior
- (of marriages) illicit or informal
- using or intended for the left hand
- Insincere or malicious.
- (occult, of magic) Performed with the intention of doing harm or in transgression against convention or taboo; following the left-hand path
- Awkward or maladroit.
- Of a coordinate system: not following the right-hand rule.
- Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
- Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise.
- Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand.
noun
adj
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- (music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Of twice the quantity.
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Designed for two (people, cars, etc.).
- (music) Of time, twice as fast.
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Stooping; bent over.
- having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- twice as great or many
- consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
- having two meanings with intent to deceive
- used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements
- large enough for two
adv
noun
- (music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- (cricket) The achievement of 1000 runs and 100 wickets taken in a single season.
- (Christianity) A double feast.
- (dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- (soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- (darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- (programming) A double-precision floating-point number.
- (historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- (rowing) A boat for two scullers.
- (bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”).
- A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- (music) A secondary instrument with which a musician is skilled.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
- (darts) A hit on this ring.
- (sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- (sports, chiefly swimming and track) The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
- (baseball) A two-base hit.
- (historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
- (billiards, snooker) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base
- a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
- raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
- a quantity that is twice as great as another
verb
- (music, intransitive, usually followed by "on") To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- (intransitive) To serve a second role or have a second purpose. [with as]
- (intransitive) To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- (theater) To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
- (transitive) To fold over so as to make two folds.
- (radio, informal, of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- (military) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- (nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).
- (transitive) To repeat exactly; copy.
- (transitive, sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- (transitive, often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- (espionage, intransitive) To operate as a double agent.
- (transitive) To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- (music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- (ambitransitive, sometimes with "for") To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
- (card games, intransitive) To double down.
- (bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- (intransitive) To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- (transitive) To multiply by two.
- (baseball) To get a two-base hit.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
- (intransitive) To turn sharply, following a winding course.
- hit a two-base hit
- bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
- increase twofold
- do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions
- make or do or perform again
- make a demand for (a card or suit)
adj
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- Relaxed.
- Not fitting closely.
- (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Indiscreet.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- Not held or packaged together.
- (of volumes of materials) Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Not compact.
- (US, slang, motor racing, of a stock car) Having oversteer.
- having escaped, especially from confinement
- not tense or taut
- emptying easily or excessively
- not officially recognized or controlled
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- not affixed
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- not carefully arranged in a package
- not literal
intj
noun
verb
- (archery) To shoot (an arrow).
- Misspelling of lose.
- (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
- (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
- (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
- become loose or looser or less tight
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- turn loose or free from restraint
- make loose or looser