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adj
noun
adj
- lacking wit or imagination
- not fanciful or imaginative
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
- (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
adj
- deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention
- incapable of reproducing
- free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms
- (US, military) Of weapons: foreign-made and untraceable to the United States.
- Free from dangerous objects, as a zone in an airport that can be only be entered via a security checkpoint.
- Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms.
- (not comparable) Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
- (figurative) Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking.
- Permanently uninhabitable (as in a planet like Earth) to all life, including even microbes.
- (figurative) Fruitless, uninspiring, or unproductive.
noun
- (figurative) A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning.
- (pathology) A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it.
- (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred
noun
- the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
- the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
- Ability to cause growth or increase.
- Ability to produce offspring.
- Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
- Rate of production of young by a female.
adj
noun
verb
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- check or slow down the action or effect of
- reduce the air supply
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- wring the neck of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- become or cause to become obstructed
- cause to retch or choke
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- be too tight; rub or press
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
- (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
- (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
- (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
- (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
- (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
- (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
- To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
- (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
- (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
- (transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
- (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
noun
- a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
- a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
- A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
- (electronics) A choking coil.
- A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
- (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
- The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
- A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
- A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
verb
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
- (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
- (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
- (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
- (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
noun
- Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
- The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
- A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.
- A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
- any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
adj
noun
- (by extension) A person with low endurance.
- A person who cannot handle their drink; one who gets drunk on very little alcohol.
- Something that is light in weight, or relatively so.
- One of little consequence or ability.
- (rowing) A particular weight category as prescribed by the rules, separate from an open or heavyweight class.
- (combat sports) A particular weight class, or member of such, as prescribed by the rules, between that of the heavier welterweight and the lighter featherweight. See Wikipedia for the specifics of each sport.
- A political candidate with little chance of winning.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weight division as prescribed by the rules, between the heavier middleweight and the lighter featherweight.
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
- A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division.
- a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
- someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
verb
noun
- The imagination.
- A bite-sized sponge cake, with a layer of cream, covered in icing.
- A diamond with a distinctive colour.
- The object of inclination or liking.
- The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
- Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
- In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
- Love or amorous attachment.
- An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.
- An opinion or notion formed without much reflection.
- A whim.
- That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
- a predisposition to like something
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
adj
adv
verb
- (British) Would like; have a desire for.
- (transitive) To breed (animals) as a hobby.
- (British, informal) To be sexually, aesthetically or romantically attracted to.
- To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
- To form a conception of; to portray in the mind.
- (formal) To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
noun
- Unpractical character; visionariness.
- Lack of reality or real existence.
- (countable) That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or imaginary
- (uncountable) The state of being unreal.
- ineptitude in dealing with reality.
- the quality possessed by something that is unreal
- the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact
noun
- Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
- The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
- Lack of complication; efficiency.
- The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts.
- Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
- Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
- a lack of penetration or subtlety
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- lack of ornamentation
- the quality of being simple or uncompounded
- absence of affectation or pretense
noun
- imagination unrestricted by reality
- something many people believe that is false
- fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
- A fantastical design.
- (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
- That which comes from one's imagination.
- (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
verb
adj
- Of an idea, writing, etc.: dull, uninteresting.
- Of a person or animal, or their body functions: flagging from weakness, or inactive or weak, especially due to illness or tiredness; faint, listless.
- Of a colour: not bright; dull, muted.
- Of a person or their actions, character, etc.: lacking drive, emotion, or enthusiasm; apathetic, listless, spiritless, unenthusiastic.
- Of a person or their movement: showing a dislike for physical effort; leisurely, unhurried.
- Of a thing: lacking energy, liveliness, or strength; inactive, slow-moving, weak.
- Of a period of time: characterized by lack of activity; pleasant and relaxed; unstressful.
- lacking spirit or liveliness
noun
noun
- a grotesque product of the imagination
- a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail
- A cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin
- Alternative spelling of chimera.
noun
- a grotesque product of the imagination
- (zoology) Alternative form of chimaera, a cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.
- (figurative) Synonym of bogeyman: any terrifying thing, especially as an unreal, imagined threat.
- (figurative) Anything composed of very disparate parts.
- (genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
- (Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Chimera, a supposed monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or serpent, killed by the hero Bellerophon.
- (mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.
- (figurative) A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
- (architecture) A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
noun
- a lack of sophistication
- a partiality for some particular place
- (linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
- (politics) Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
- The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
adj
- Lacking the ability to reason.
- Contrary to reason; lacking an appropriate or sufficient reason; irrational.
- (economics, social sciences, public policy) Not based on one's own interests; inconsistent with utility maximization.
- (often philosophy) Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; outside the competence of the rules of reason.
noun
- (figurative) A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning.
- (pathology) A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it.
- (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred
noun
- the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
- the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
- Ability to cause growth or increase.
- Ability to produce offspring.
- Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
- Rate of production of young by a female.
noun
- Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
- The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
- A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.
- A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
- any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
noun
- The imagination.
- A bite-sized sponge cake, with a layer of cream, covered in icing.
- A diamond with a distinctive colour.
- The object of inclination or liking.
- The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
- Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
- In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
- Love or amorous attachment.
- An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.
- An opinion or notion formed without much reflection.
- A whim.
- That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
- a predisposition to like something
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
adj
adv
verb
- (British) Would like; have a desire for.
- (transitive) To breed (animals) as a hobby.
- (British, informal) To be sexually, aesthetically or romantically attracted to.
- To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
- To form a conception of; to portray in the mind.
- (formal) To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
noun
- Unpractical character; visionariness.
- Lack of reality or real existence.
- (countable) That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or imaginary
- (uncountable) The state of being unreal.
- ineptitude in dealing with reality.
- the quality possessed by something that is unreal
- the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact
noun
- Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
- The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
- Lack of complication; efficiency.
- The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts.
- Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
- Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
- a lack of penetration or subtlety
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- lack of ornamentation
- the quality of being simple or uncompounded
- absence of affectation or pretense
noun
- imagination unrestricted by reality
- something many people believe that is false
- fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
- A fantastical design.
- (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
- That which comes from one's imagination.
- (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
verb
noun
- a grotesque product of the imagination
- a deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail
- A cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin
- Alternative spelling of chimera.
noun
- a grotesque product of the imagination
- (zoology) Alternative form of chimaera, a cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.
- (figurative) Synonym of bogeyman: any terrifying thing, especially as an unreal, imagined threat.
- (figurative) Anything composed of very disparate parts.
- (genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
- (Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Chimera, a supposed monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or serpent, killed by the hero Bellerophon.
- (mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.
- (figurative) A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
- (architecture) A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
noun
- a lack of sophistication
- a partiality for some particular place
- (linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
- (politics) Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
- The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
verb
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- check or slow down the action or effect of
- reduce the air supply
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- wring the neck of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- become or cause to become obstructed
- cause to retch or choke
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- be too tight; rub or press
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
- (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
- (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
- (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
- (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
- (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
- (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
- To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
- (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
- (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
- (transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
- (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
noun
- a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
- a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
- A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
- (electronics) A choking coil.
- A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
- (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
- The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
- A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
- A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
verb
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
- feel uncomfortable for lack of fresh air
- (ergative, figuratively) To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
- (ergative) To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
- (ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
- (transitive) To destroy; to extinguish.
adj
noun
adj
- lacking wit or imagination
- not fanciful or imaginative
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
- (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
adj
- deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention
- incapable of reproducing
- free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms
- (US, military) Of weapons: foreign-made and untraceable to the United States.
- Free from dangerous objects, as a zone in an airport that can be only be entered via a security checkpoint.
- Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms.
- (not comparable) Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
- (figurative) Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking.
- Permanently uninhabitable (as in a planet like Earth) to all life, including even microbes.
- (figurative) Fruitless, uninspiring, or unproductive.
adj
noun
adj
noun
- (by extension) A person with low endurance.
- A person who cannot handle their drink; one who gets drunk on very little alcohol.
- Something that is light in weight, or relatively so.
- One of little consequence or ability.
- (rowing) A particular weight category as prescribed by the rules, separate from an open or heavyweight class.
- (combat sports) A particular weight class, or member of such, as prescribed by the rules, between that of the heavier welterweight and the lighter featherweight. See Wikipedia for the specifics of each sport.
- A political candidate with little chance of winning.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weight division as prescribed by the rules, between the heavier middleweight and the lighter featherweight.
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
- A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division.
- a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
- someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
verb
adj
- Of an idea, writing, etc.: dull, uninteresting.
- Of a person or animal, or their body functions: flagging from weakness, or inactive or weak, especially due to illness or tiredness; faint, listless.
- Of a colour: not bright; dull, muted.
- Of a person or their actions, character, etc.: lacking drive, emotion, or enthusiasm; apathetic, listless, spiritless, unenthusiastic.
- Of a person or their movement: showing a dislike for physical effort; leisurely, unhurried.
- Of a thing: lacking energy, liveliness, or strength; inactive, slow-moving, weak.
- Of a period of time: characterized by lack of activity; pleasant and relaxed; unstressful.
- lacking spirit or liveliness
noun
adj
- Lacking the ability to reason.
- Contrary to reason; lacking an appropriate or sufficient reason; irrational.
- (economics, social sciences, public policy) Not based on one's own interests; inconsistent with utility maximization.
- (often philosophy) Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; outside the competence of the rules of reason.