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adj
- Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal.
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
- (philosophy, medicine) Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.
- Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.
- characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
- relating to or involving dogma
noun
adj
- Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
- Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
- (music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- (physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
- (informal, music) Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
- Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
- (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture
- of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome
- of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas
- of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors
- well-known and long-established in form or style
- of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.
noun
noun
- a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
- A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
- a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
- An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.
noun
- strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings
- A philosophical system which makes tradition the supreme criterion and rule of certitude; the doctrine that human reason is of itself radically unable to know with certainty any truth or, at least, the fundamental truths of the metaphysical, moral, and religious order.
- the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions
- adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters)
- The continuation of theological rituals on the basis that the ritual has always completed, rather than the ritual being a manifestation of theology.
- The adherence to traditional views or practices, especially with regard to cultural or religious matters.
noun
- the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc.
- (by extension) A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.
- a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth
- (religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
- (theology) A Christian movement that started in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants, which emphasizes literal interpretation of the Bible, and came up as a reaction to liberal theology and cultural modernism
- (finance) The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.
noun
- (religion) A Conformist.
- (physical chemistry, biochemistry) A particular folded state or conformation of a protein, especially an abnormal conformation of a prion
- (physical chemistry) Any of a set of stereoisomers characterized by a conformation that corresponds to a distinct potential energy minimum.
- A person who conforms; a conformist.
adj
- morally rigorous and strict
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- causing dejection
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
- (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
- (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Of a blue hue.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
- (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.
- (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
noun
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- the sky as viewed during daylight
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- blue clothing
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A bluefish.
- A blue cheese.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
- (particle physics) One of the three colour charges for quarks.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- (slang) A member of law enforcement.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- (British) A type of firecracker.
- (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- (now historical) A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- (slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- (uncountable) Blue clothing.
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
verb
- turn blue
- (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
- (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
adj
noun
adj
- Conforming to the accepted, established, or traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology.
- (botany) Of pollen, seed, or spores: viable for a long time; viable when dried to low moisture content.
- Adhering to whatever is customary, traditional, or generally accepted.
- Of a branch of Judaism.
- Of the eastern churches, Eastern Orthodox.
- adhering to what is commonly accepted
noun
- (especially religion) A formal statement of doctrine.
- (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
- (chiefly linguistics) A fixed phrase or set of words intended to be interpreted non-literally, typically used attitudinally or as part of convention; a formulation.
- A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
- A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
- (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula, drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
- (logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
- (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
- a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements
- directions for making something
- (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems
- a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle
- a liquid food for infants
- a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement
- something regarded as a normative example
noun
noun
- an adherent of fundamentalist principles
- One who reduces religion to strict interpretation of core or original texts.
- a supporter of fundamentalism
- (Christianity) Originally referred to an adherent of an American Christian movement that began as a response to the rejection of the accuracy of the Bible, the alleged deity of Christ, Christ's atonement for humanity, the virgin birth, and miracles.
- (finance) A trader who trades on the financial fundamentals of the companies involved, as opposed to a chartist or technician.
- (derogatory) A fundamentalist Christian.
adj
noun
noun
- (theology) Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
- Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
- (political science, sociology) The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; Synonym of despotism.
- (philosophy) Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute.
- (rare) The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
- an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government.
- dominance through threat of punishment and violence
- the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy.
adj
noun
- (telephony) A physical wire or cable connection; landline.
- (business) A retail product collection consisting primarily of hardware targeting the do-it-yourself customer.
- (business) A retail product collection which includes many non-information goods, such as home appliances, housewares, and sporting goods, in addition to the DIY hardware which is the focus of the first definition, above.
noun
- An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
- An arbitrament or award.
- The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
- A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
- an authoritative declaration
- an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding
noun
- followers of an exclusive system of beliefs and practices
- followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader
- an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- a system of religious beliefs and rituals
- a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false
- (religion) The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint; a subset of worship.
- (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
- (chiefly derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.
adj
noun
- a doctrine that is taught
- rule of personal conduct
- (UK) A tax rate set by such an order; the tax thus collected.
- (UK) An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
- (law) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
- A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
verb
noun
verb
adj
noun
adj
- Dogmatic.
- (algebra) positive; not negative
- positive
- pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
- (logic) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
- pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming
- Confirmative; ratifying.
- expecting the best
- affirming or giving assent
- expressing or manifesting praise or approval
intj
noun
noun
- an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
- a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions
- One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
- One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.
- (politics) An advocate of pragmatism.
- (linguistics, uncommon) One who studies pragmatics.
- One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs is the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consists in the actions they entail, successfully leading a believer to their goals.
adj
noun
- The process of becoming set in one's ways or beliefs; rigid conventionality.
- The calcification of tissue into a bonelike mass; the mass so formed.
- The normal process by which bone is formed.
- the developmental process of bone formation
- the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
- the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior
- hardened conventionality
noun
- A specified religious adherence, a creed; any school of thought or ideology.
- (by extension, often humorous) Another personal, animal or inanimate trait that is not (very) liable to be changed by persuasion, such as sex, gender, ethnicity, origin, profession or nature.
- The act of persuading, or trying to do so; the addressing of arguments to someone with the intention of changing their mind or convincing them of a certain point of view, course of action etc.
- An argument or other statement intended to influence one's opinions or beliefs; a way of persuading someone.
- One's ability or power to influence someone's opinions or feelings; persuasiveness.
- (euphemistic) All activity attempting to influence or control others' behavior or profession of beliefs, from convincing to threatening, assault, or battery.
- A strongly held conviction, opinion or belief.
- a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
- the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action
adj
- of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations
- not concerned with or devoted to religion
- of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows
- characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
- characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy
- Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
- (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a religious order.
- (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
- Happening once in an age or century.
- (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
- Continuing over a long period of time.
- (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
- Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
noun
noun
- orthodoxy in thoughts and belief
- acting according to certain accepted standards
- correspondence in form or appearance
- concurrence of opinion
- hardened conventionality
- The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.
- A point of resemblance; a similarity.
- The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.
- The state of things being similar or identical.
adj
- Insistent upon something, not accepting dissent.
- Not frivolous or fallacious; trustworthy; solid; dependable.
- Fixed (in opinion).
- Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)
- Durable, rigid (material state).
- Mentally resistant to hurt or stress.
- strong and sure
- not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall
- possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue
- not subject to revision or change
- securely established
- securely fixed in place
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
- not soft or yielding to pressure
- (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.
- (transitive, colloquial) To grit one's teeth and bear; to push through something unpleasant.
- (transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.
- (transitive) To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
- (intransitive, Australia) To shorten (of betting odds).
- (intransitive) To improve after decline.
- make taut or tauter
- become taut or tauter
adv
noun
- (theology, chiefly Catholicism) The casuistic doctrine that, in difficult matters of conscience, one may safely follow a doctrine that is probable, e.g. approved by a recognized Doctor of the Church, even if the opposite opinion is more probable.
- (philosophy) The doctrine that, in the absence of certainty, probability is the best criterion.
- a Roman Catholic system of casuistry that when expert opinions differ an actor can follow any solidly probable opinion that they wish even though some different opinion might be more probable
- (philosophy) the doctrine that (since certainty is unattainable) probability is a sufficient basis for belief and action
noun
- a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
- A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
- a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
- An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.
noun
- strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings
- A philosophical system which makes tradition the supreme criterion and rule of certitude; the doctrine that human reason is of itself radically unable to know with certainty any truth or, at least, the fundamental truths of the metaphysical, moral, and religious order.
- the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions
- adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters)
- The continuation of theological rituals on the basis that the ritual has always completed, rather than the ritual being a manifestation of theology.
- The adherence to traditional views or practices, especially with regard to cultural or religious matters.
noun
- the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc.
- (by extension) A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.
- a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth
- (religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
- (theology) A Christian movement that started in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants, which emphasizes literal interpretation of the Bible, and came up as a reaction to liberal theology and cultural modernism
- (finance) The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.
noun
- (religion) A Conformist.
- (physical chemistry, biochemistry) A particular folded state or conformation of a protein, especially an abnormal conformation of a prion
- (physical chemistry) Any of a set of stereoisomers characterized by a conformation that corresponds to a distinct potential energy minimum.
- A person who conforms; a conformist.
noun
- (especially religion) A formal statement of doctrine.
- (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
- (chiefly linguistics) A fixed phrase or set of words intended to be interpreted non-literally, typically used attitudinally or as part of convention; a formulation.
- A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
- A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
- (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula, drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
- (logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
- (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
- a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements
- directions for making something
- (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems
- a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle
- a liquid food for infants
- a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement
- something regarded as a normative example
noun
noun
- an adherent of fundamentalist principles
- One who reduces religion to strict interpretation of core or original texts.
- a supporter of fundamentalism
- (Christianity) Originally referred to an adherent of an American Christian movement that began as a response to the rejection of the accuracy of the Bible, the alleged deity of Christ, Christ's atonement for humanity, the virgin birth, and miracles.
- (finance) A trader who trades on the financial fundamentals of the companies involved, as opposed to a chartist or technician.
- (derogatory) A fundamentalist Christian.
adj
noun
noun
- (theology) Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
- Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
- (political science, sociology) The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; Synonym of despotism.
- (philosophy) Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute.
- (rare) The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
- an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government.
- dominance through threat of punishment and violence
- the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy.
noun
- An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
- An arbitrament or award.
- The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
- A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
- an authoritative declaration
- an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding
noun
- followers of an exclusive system of beliefs and practices
- followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader
- an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- a system of religious beliefs and rituals
- a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false
- (religion) The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint; a subset of worship.
- (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
- (chiefly derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.
adj
noun
- a doctrine that is taught
- rule of personal conduct
- (UK) A tax rate set by such an order; the tax thus collected.
- (UK) An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
- (law) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
- A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
- a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions
- One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
- One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.
- (politics) An advocate of pragmatism.
- (linguistics, uncommon) One who studies pragmatics.
- One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs is the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consists in the actions they entail, successfully leading a believer to their goals.
adj
noun
- The process of becoming set in one's ways or beliefs; rigid conventionality.
- The calcification of tissue into a bonelike mass; the mass so formed.
- The normal process by which bone is formed.
- the developmental process of bone formation
- the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
- the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior
- hardened conventionality
noun
- A specified religious adherence, a creed; any school of thought or ideology.
- (by extension, often humorous) Another personal, animal or inanimate trait that is not (very) liable to be changed by persuasion, such as sex, gender, ethnicity, origin, profession or nature.
- The act of persuading, or trying to do so; the addressing of arguments to someone with the intention of changing their mind or convincing them of a certain point of view, course of action etc.
- An argument or other statement intended to influence one's opinions or beliefs; a way of persuading someone.
- One's ability or power to influence someone's opinions or feelings; persuasiveness.
- (euphemistic) All activity attempting to influence or control others' behavior or profession of beliefs, from convincing to threatening, assault, or battery.
- A strongly held conviction, opinion or belief.
- a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
- the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action
noun
- orthodoxy in thoughts and belief
- acting according to certain accepted standards
- correspondence in form or appearance
- concurrence of opinion
- hardened conventionality
- The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.
- A point of resemblance; a similarity.
- The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.
- The state of things being similar or identical.
noun
- (theology, chiefly Catholicism) The casuistic doctrine that, in difficult matters of conscience, one may safely follow a doctrine that is probable, e.g. approved by a recognized Doctor of the Church, even if the opposite opinion is more probable.
- (philosophy) The doctrine that, in the absence of certainty, probability is the best criterion.
- a Roman Catholic system of casuistry that when expert opinions differ an actor can follow any solidly probable opinion that they wish even though some different opinion might be more probable
- (philosophy) the doctrine that (since certainty is unattainable) probability is a sufficient basis for belief and action
adj
- Pertaining to dogmas; doctrinal.
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
- (philosophy, medicine) Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.
- Asserting dogmas or beliefs in a superior or arrogant way; opinionated, dictatorial.
- characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
- relating to or involving dogma
noun
adj
- Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
- Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
- (music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- (physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
- (informal, music) Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
- Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
- (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture
- of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome
- of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas
- of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors
- well-known and long-established in form or style
- of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.
noun
adj
- morally rigorous and strict
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- causing dejection
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
- (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
- (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Of a blue hue.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
- (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.
- (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
noun
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- the sky as viewed during daylight
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- blue clothing
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A bluefish.
- A blue cheese.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
- (particle physics) One of the three colour charges for quarks.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- (slang) A member of law enforcement.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- (British) A type of firecracker.
- (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- (now historical) A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- (slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- (uncountable) Blue clothing.
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
verb
- turn blue
- (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
- (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
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noun
adj
- Conforming to the accepted, established, or traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology.
- (botany) Of pollen, seed, or spores: viable for a long time; viable when dried to low moisture content.
- Adhering to whatever is customary, traditional, or generally accepted.
- Of a branch of Judaism.
- Of the eastern churches, Eastern Orthodox.
- adhering to what is commonly accepted
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noun
- (telephony) A physical wire or cable connection; landline.
- (business) A retail product collection consisting primarily of hardware targeting the do-it-yourself customer.
- (business) A retail product collection which includes many non-information goods, such as home appliances, housewares, and sporting goods, in addition to the DIY hardware which is the focus of the first definition, above.
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noun
adj
- Dogmatic.
- (algebra) positive; not negative
- positive
- pertaining to any assertion or active confirmation that favors a particular result
- (logic) Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
- pertaining to truth; asserting that something is; affirming
- Confirmative; ratifying.
- expecting the best
- affirming or giving assent
- expressing or manifesting praise or approval
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noun
adj
- of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations
- not concerned with or devoted to religion
- of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows
- characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
- characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy
- Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
- (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a religious order.
- (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
- Happening once in an age or century.
- (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
- Continuing over a long period of time.
- (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
- Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
noun
adj
- Insistent upon something, not accepting dissent.
- Not frivolous or fallacious; trustworthy; solid; dependable.
- Fixed (in opinion).
- Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)
- Durable, rigid (material state).
- Mentally resistant to hurt or stress.
- strong and sure
- not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall
- possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue
- not subject to revision or change
- securely established
- securely fixed in place
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
- not soft or yielding to pressure
- (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
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verb
- (intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.
- (transitive, colloquial) To grit one's teeth and bear; to push through something unpleasant.
- (transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.
- (transitive) To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
- (intransitive, Australia) To shorten (of betting odds).
- (intransitive) To improve after decline.
- make taut or tauter
- become taut or tauter