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noun
- intensity or forcefulness of expression
- special importance or significance
- special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
- the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
- Special attention or prominence given to something.
- (typography) The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text.
- Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
- Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
- (phonology) The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.
adj
- forceful and definite in expression or action
- Characterized by emphasis; forceful.
- spoken with emphasis
- sudden and strong
- Ejective consonants in Ge'ez, Amharic, other Ethiopic Semitic languages, Chadic and Cushitic languages.
- Stated with conviction.
- (grammar) Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do plus an infinitive without to.
- (phonology, archaic except in layman’s use) Referring to the above consonants as well as /ħ/ and /ʕ/ (these being seen as emphatic equivalents of /h/ and /ʔ/).
- Phrayngealized consonants in Arabic, Hebrew, other Northwest Semitic languages, and Berber languages.
noun
noun
- Fervor, intensity of emotion or expression.
- Friendliness, kindness or affection.
- A moderate degree of heat; the sensation of being warm.
- (art) The effect of using mostly red and yellow hues.
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love
- the sensation caused by heat energy
- the quality of having a moderate degree of heat
- a warmhearted feeling
adj
- acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity
- effected by force or injury rather than natural causes
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- characterized by violence or bloodshed
- marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid
- Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
- Intensely vivid.
- Involving physical conflict.
- Acute, extreme, sharp.
- Involving extreme force or motion.
- Likely to use physical force.
noun
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
- An inclination or talent.
- Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).
- Old dried stalks of grasses.
- Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- a special way of doing something
- grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges
adj
- (with about) Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
- (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
- (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
- (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
- (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
- (with on) Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
- (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
- of metal e.g.
- used of the back and knees; stooped
- fixed in your purpose
verb
noun
- The intensity of a force or power; potency.
- A positive attribute.
- (graph theory) The minimum ratio of the number of edges removed from a given graph to components created, over all possible removals.
- The quality or degree of being strong.
- The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
- the condition of financial success
- capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects
- physical energy or intensity
- the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)
- an asset of special worth or utility
- the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty
- capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
- permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force
- the property of being physically or mentally strong
adv
- powerfully or vigorously
- (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
- (now literary) With much physical force, power, or strength; also, with divine or superhuman power or strength.
- (now chiefly informal) To a great extent; extremely, greatly.
- With much emotional, intellectual, or mental force or power; vehemently.
- (prepositive, before an adjective or participial adjective) Of a characteristic: provided or present to a powerful or strong extent.
particle
- Used as an intensifier in fixed expressions, sometimes exhortative in meaning.
- A confirmative final particle used in the middle of a sentence to ascertain the continued attention of the listener.
- (interrogative) Marks a yes–no tag question prompting the listener to clarify or confirm something.
- Emphasizes the need for absolute confirmation, permission or acknowledgment.
- Tagged at the end of non-interrogative sentence to convey a sense of informality or resignation.
- A particle indicating the topic of a sentence from its comment.
- A vocative particle, now mostly used by Chinese elders for direct address (over telephone calls, or if the addressee is far away).
- (interrogative) Reinforces a short, non-rhetorical wh-question.
intj
noun
pron
verb
adj
- characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality
- of or relating to dynamics
- (used of verbs (e.g. ‘to run’) and participial adjectives (e.g. ‘running’ in ‘running water’)) expressing action rather than a state of being
- Changing; active; in motion.
- (computing) Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.
- Able to change and adapt.
- (grammar) Of a verb: not stative, but fientive; indicating continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (music) Having to do with the volume of sound.
- Powerful; energetic.
- Pertaining to dynamics, the branch of mechanics concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
noun
- an efficient incentive
- (physics) A moving force.
- (grammar) A verb that indicates continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (music) A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.
- (music) The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness.
- A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior.
adj
- tending to give force or emphasis
- characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form
- of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor
- Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
- (agriculture, economics) Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land.
- Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
- Being made more intense.
- Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
- Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
- (linguistics) Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.
- (medicine) Chiefly in intensive care: of care or treatment: involving a great degree of life support, monitoring, and other forms of effort in order to manage life-threatening conditions.
noun
- a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
- (education) A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.
- A thing which makes something more intense; specifically (linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense than the root on which it is built.
verb
- (intransitive) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
- (transitive) To render more intense.
- increase in extent or intensity
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
- become more intense
adj
- Forceful (typically in a negative way) or obtrusive.
- (nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides; forceful in a positive way.
- Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding.
- Grating or obnoxious.
- of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as ‘f’, ‘s’, ‘z’, or ‘th’ in both ‘thin’ and ‘then’)
- unpleasantly loud and harsh
- conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
- being sharply insistent on being heard
noun
adj
- Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading.
- Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive.
- Very deep; very serious.
- Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
- Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough.
- of the greatest intensity; complete
- showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something
- situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
- coming from deep within one
adj
- Expressed loudly. (of emotions or feelings)
- Creating a loud noise. (of people, animals or things)
- Of great intensity. (of sounds)
- Filled with or accompanied by a great deal of noise. (of times, places, events or activities)
- Having especially (and often unpleasantly) bright or contrasting colours or patterns.
- (of people or speech) Insistently expressing a desire for something.
- conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
adj
- intense or extreme
- marked by depth of thinking
- having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
- with head or back bent low
- (of darkness) densely dark
- very distant in time or space
- exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
- relatively thick from top to bottom
- relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
- strong; intense
- of an obscure nature
- having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination
- large in quantity or size
- extending relatively far inward
- difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
- Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
- (anatomy, often with to) Further into the body.
- Positioned far from the surface or other reference point, especially down through something or into something.
- (sports such as soccer, tennis) Penetrating a long way, especially a long way forward.
- Inner, underlying, true; relating to one’s inner or private being rather than what is visible on the surface.
- In a (specified) number of rows or layers.
- (cricket, baseball, softball) Far from the center of the playing area, near to the boundary of the playing area, either in absolute terms or relative to a point of reference.
- (sound, voice) Low in pitch.
- Extending far down from the top, or surface, to the bottom, literally or figuratively.
- Far in extent in another (non-downwards, but generally also non-upwards) direction, especially front-to-back.
- Voluminous.
- (sleep) Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken).
- Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; intricate; obscure.
- (of time) Distant in the past, ancient.
- Significant, not superficial, in extent.
- (in combination) Extending to a level or length equivalent to the stated thing.
- (sports such as soccer, American football, tennis) Positioned back, or downfield, towards one's own goal, or towards or behind one's baseline or similar reference point.
- (of a color or flavour) Highly saturated; rich.
- Profound, having great meaning or import, but possibly obscure or not obvious.
- Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.
noun
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- literary term for an ocean
- the central and most intense or profound part
- A deep or innermost part of something in general.
- (US, rare) The profound part of a problem.
- (literary, with "the") The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
- (literary, with "the") A silent time; quiet isolation.
- (cricket) A fielding position near the boundary.
- A deep hole or pit, a water well; an abyss.
- (with "the") The sea, the ocean.
- (rare) A deep shade of colour.
adv
- to a great distance
- to an advanced time
- to a great depth; far down or in
- (also deeply) In a profound, not superficial, manner.
- (sports) Back towards one's own goal, baseline, or similar.
- (also deeply) In large volume.
- Far, especially far down through something or into something, physically or figuratively.
verb
verb
- To elicit, evoke, or emphasize (a particular quality).
- (chiefly British) To make (a shy person) more confident.
- (chiefly British) To place (something new for public sale) on the market; roll out.
- (LGBTQ slang) To introduce (a person) to gay life and traditions.
- (historical, transitive) To introduce (a young woman) formally into society.
- (chiefly British) To cause a visible symptom, such as spots or a rash, in (a person).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, out.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- bring out of a specific state
- make manifest
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- bring onto the market or release
- take out of a container or enclosed space
- bring before the public for the first time, as of an actor, song, etc.
- direct attention to, as if by means of contrast
- encourage to be less reserved
noun
- a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning
- a current below the surface of a fluid
- A current of water which flows under the surface, and often in a different direction from surface currents.
- (figuratively) A tendency of feeling or opinion that is concealed rather than exposed.
verb
noun
- a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning
- a pale or subdued color
- a quiet or hushed tone of voice
- An auditory tone of low pitch or volume.
- An implicit message perceived subtly alongside, but not detracting noticeably from, the explicit message conveyed in or by a book, film, speech or similar (contrast with overtone); an undercurrent.
- A low state of the physical faculties.
- A pale colour, or one seen underneath another colour.
verb
verb
- make (an emotion) fiercer
- blow away or off with a current of air
- agitate the air
- strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
- (transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
- (baseball, intransitive) To strike out.
- (firearms, transitive) To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
- (baseball, transitive) To strike out (a batter).
- (intransitive, usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
- (transitive) To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.
- (figurative) To invigorate, like flames when fanned.
- To winnow grain.
- (rail transport, transitive) To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession.
- (transitive) To slap (a behind, especially).
noun
- an enthusiastic devotee of sports
- a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
- an ardent follower and admirer
- A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
- Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
- The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
- A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
- An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
- An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
- A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.
- (mathematics) A section of a tree having a finite number of branches
adj
intj
noun
verb
verb
- Of a person: to display intense emotion.
- To be very hot; also, to be on fire; to burn.
- (figurative, Internet slang, alt-right) To expose (someone) to the authorities.
- To emit heat and light without a flame.
- Of a fire: to emit heat and light.
- To emit light brightly and steadily as if heated to a high temperature; to shine.
- (intransitive, obsolete except UK, dialectal) To look intently; to stare.
- Of a person's body or a part of it: to feel hot and often to flush (“become suffused with a reddish colour”) as well, due to an emotional response, exertion, etc.
- (chiefly US, Internet slang) To be involved in an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
- Of a colour: to be bright; also, of a thing: to have a bright colour.
- (chiefly US, Internet slang, alt-right) To create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.
- shine intensely, as if with heat
- emit a steady even light without flames
- be exuberant or high-spirited
- have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
noun
- A state of heat being emitted by a person or an animal's body.
- A state of brightness or warmth of colour; specifically, a reddish colour on a person's face indicating health or youth; a flush.
- A state of light being emitted by something (for example, a bioluminescent animal or fungus, or a mineral) which is not hot; luminescence.
- A state of heat and light being emitted by a hot object.
- A condition of being passionate or having warm feelings; an ardour.
- light from nonthermal sources
- a steady even light without flames
- an appearance of reflected light
- the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
- the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
- a feeling of considerable warmth
- an alert and refreshed state
verb
noun
- (ceramics) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
- (physics) The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, and jounce), i.e. the rate of change of jounce.
- A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound.
- Synonym of crackling (“crispy rind of roast pork”).
- glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
- the sharp sound of snapping noises
adj
adj
adv
verb
- (transitive) To give off or radiate a certain quality or emotion, often strongly.
- (intransitive) To flow out through the pores.
- (transitive) To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.
- make apparent by one's mood or behavior
- release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
adj
- Showing or having strong emotion.
- Fraught with emotion; tense.
- Arousing strong emotion.
- Having electricity.
- of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge
- supplied with carbon dioxide
- capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy
- fraught with great emotion
verb
noun
- The energy, force, or power of speech or writing; specifically, such force or power due to conciseness; punch, punchiness.
- (Ireland, Southern England, West Country) The soft inner portion of a loaf of bread.
- Chiefly of animals: the soft tissue inside a spinal cord; the spinal marrow; also, the spinal cord itself.
- Chiefly in of (great) pith and moment: gravity, importance, substance, weight.
- The central or innermost part of something; the core, the heart.
- A quality of courage and endurance; backbone, mettle, spine.
- The essential or vital part of something; the essence.
- (mathematics) One divided by pi, that is, 1/π (approximately 0.31831…).
- The albedo (“whitish inner portion of the rind”) of a citrus fruit.
- The soft, spongy substance inside plant parts; specifically, the parenchyma in the centre of the roots and stems of many plants and trees.
- Physical power or strength; force, might.
- The soft tissue inside a human or animal body or one of their organs; specifically, the spongy interior substance of a horn or the shaft of a feather.
- soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
adj
verb
noun
- A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.
- An act or instance of bursting.
- (military) The explosion of a bomb or missile.
- A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
- a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)
- the act of exploding or bursting
- a sudden intense happening
- rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
verb
- (transitive) To produce as an effect of bursting.
- (intransitive) To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting.
- (intransitive) To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
- (transitive) To interrupt suddenly in a violent or explosive manner; to shatter.
- (intransitive) To break from internal pressure.
- (transitive) To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines.
- (transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- burst outward, usually with noise
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
- cause to burst
- emerge suddenly
- be in a state of movement or action
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- move suddenly, energetically, or violently
noun
- The quality of being intense.
- (astronomy) Synonym of radiance.
- (geology) The severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings. The value depends on the distance from the epicentre, and is not to be confused with the magnitude.
- (physics) Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance.
- The degree of strength.
- (optics) Can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.
- chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
- high level or degree; the property of being intense
- the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
- the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)
noun
- (figuratively) the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
- (algebra, ring theory) An invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory).
- the most severe part
- the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
- (statistics) the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
- lowness
- (literary, usually in the plural) the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
- (logic) the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
- the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
- (horology) a pair of toothed wheels which work together
- (art, photography) the property of appearing three-dimensional
- (cryptography) A set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key.
- (computing, colors) the total palette of available colors
- (aeronautics) the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
- (literary, usually in the plural) a very remote part.
- (usually plural) a low moral state
- the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense
- degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
- the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- the extent downward or backward or inward
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
- (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
- To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
- To sell; to vend.
- (intransitive, video games, slang) To use a vent in the video game Among Us. [with to ‘to go (somewhere)’]
- (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
- (transitive) To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).
- (medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.
- (transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
- give expression or utterance to
- expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
noun
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of ventilation or ventilator.
- The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
- The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
- Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
- Ventriloquism.
- In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
- A slit in the seam of a garment.
- A small aperture.
- A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
- An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
- An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
- Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
- external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate
- a hole for the escape of gas or air
- a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket)
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
- a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
adj
- of force; of the greatest possible intensity
- most important element
- (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
- Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
- (nautical) Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
- Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
- (dialectal) Big; angry.
noun
- any very large body of (salt) water
- a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage
- (nautical) Ellipsis of mainsail.
- (not in generic modern use) That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
- (informal) Ellipsis of main course (“the principal dish of a meal”).
- A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main.
- (Internet slang) A main account.
- (video games) The primary character that one plays in a video game in which one can play more than one character.
- (now poetic) The high seas.
- A banker's shovel for coins.
adv
verb
adj
- characterized by intense emotion
- passionate or quick-tempered
- like or suggestive of fire
- Tempestuous or emotionally volatile; sulfurous.
- Spirited or filled with emotion.
- Burning or glowing.
- Of or relating to fire.
- (butchery) Having the capillaries contracted due to stress at time of slaughter, causing blood to not drain properly.
- Having the colour of fire.
- Hot or inflamed.
- Inflammable or easily ignited.
adj
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- of great intensity or power or force
- (of a person) Heavyset: overweight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- (of weather) Hot and humid.
- (of any physical thing) Having great weight.
- (oil industry) Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
- (of a topic) Serious, somber.
- (nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
- (of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
- (of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
- (physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
- (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- (of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- (slang) Armed.
- (finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Having the heaves.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- (of a rate of flow) High, great.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- slow and laborious because of weight
- prodigious
- of relatively large extent and density
- full and loud and deep
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
- darkened by clouds
- full of; bearing great weight
- (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- sharply inclined
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
- requiring or showing effort
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
adv
noun
- (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
- (aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
- (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
- (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
- (military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.
- A prominent figure; a "major player".
- an actor who plays villainous roles
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
verb
adj
- Of an expression or behavior, vigorous; colorful; stimulating.
- Of a food, flavor, or odor, tangy, zesty, or pungent.
- (Internet slang) Risky; mildly aggressive or dangerous.
- Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.
- (Internet slang) Risqué, sexy, racy; mildly pornographic.
- (informal, idiomatic) Scandalous.
- Of a flavor, provoking a burning sensation due to the presence of capsaicin or a similar chemical.
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves
noun
- a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate)
- a fit of weeping
- the characteristic utterance of an animal
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- a slogan used to rally support for a cause
- A clamour or outcry.
- A shout or scream.
- Words shouted or screamed.
- (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
- A desperate or urgent request.
- (collectively) A group of hounds.
- A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
verb
- proclaim or announce in public
- utter a characteristic sound
- shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
- bring into a particular state by crying
- utter a sudden loud cry
- demand immediate action
- utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
- (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep, especially in anger or sadness.
- (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
- (ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
- (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.
- Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
- To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
- (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
noun
verb
- utter a sudden loud cry
- utter or declare in a very loud voice
- (transitive) To convey by shouting.
- (intransitive) To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement.
- (informal, usually followed by at) To tell someone off, to scold or rebuke, typically in a loud and angry manner.
adj
noun
- intensity or forcefulness of expression
- special importance or significance
- special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
- the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
- Special attention or prominence given to something.
- (typography) The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text.
- Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
- Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
- (phonology) The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.
noun
- Fervor, intensity of emotion or expression.
- Friendliness, kindness or affection.
- A moderate degree of heat; the sensation of being warm.
- (art) The effect of using mostly red and yellow hues.
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love
- the sensation caused by heat energy
- the quality of having a moderate degree of heat
- a warmhearted feeling
noun
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
- An inclination or talent.
- Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).
- Old dried stalks of grasses.
- Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- a special way of doing something
- grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges
adj
- (with about) Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
- (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
- (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
- (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
- (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
- (with on) Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
- (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
- of metal e.g.
- used of the back and knees; stooped
- fixed in your purpose
verb
noun
- The intensity of a force or power; potency.
- A positive attribute.
- (graph theory) The minimum ratio of the number of edges removed from a given graph to components created, over all possible removals.
- The quality or degree of being strong.
- The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
- the condition of financial success
- capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects
- physical energy or intensity
- the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)
- an asset of special worth or utility
- the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty
- capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
- permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force
- the property of being physically or mentally strong
noun
- a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning
- a current below the surface of a fluid
- A current of water which flows under the surface, and often in a different direction from surface currents.
- (figuratively) A tendency of feeling or opinion that is concealed rather than exposed.
verb
noun
- a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning
- a pale or subdued color
- a quiet or hushed tone of voice
- An auditory tone of low pitch or volume.
- An implicit message perceived subtly alongside, but not detracting noticeably from, the explicit message conveyed in or by a book, film, speech or similar (contrast with overtone); an undercurrent.
- A low state of the physical faculties.
- A pale colour, or one seen underneath another colour.
verb
noun
- The energy, force, or power of speech or writing; specifically, such force or power due to conciseness; punch, punchiness.
- (Ireland, Southern England, West Country) The soft inner portion of a loaf of bread.
- Chiefly of animals: the soft tissue inside a spinal cord; the spinal marrow; also, the spinal cord itself.
- Chiefly in of (great) pith and moment: gravity, importance, substance, weight.
- The central or innermost part of something; the core, the heart.
- A quality of courage and endurance; backbone, mettle, spine.
- The essential or vital part of something; the essence.
- (mathematics) One divided by pi, that is, 1/π (approximately 0.31831…).
- The albedo (“whitish inner portion of the rind”) of a citrus fruit.
- The soft, spongy substance inside plant parts; specifically, the parenchyma in the centre of the roots and stems of many plants and trees.
- Physical power or strength; force, might.
- The soft tissue inside a human or animal body or one of their organs; specifically, the spongy interior substance of a horn or the shaft of a feather.
- soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
adj
verb
noun
- A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.
- An act or instance of bursting.
- (military) The explosion of a bomb or missile.
- A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
- a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)
- the act of exploding or bursting
- a sudden intense happening
- rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
verb
- (transitive) To produce as an effect of bursting.
- (intransitive) To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting.
- (intransitive) To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
- (transitive) To interrupt suddenly in a violent or explosive manner; to shatter.
- (intransitive) To break from internal pressure.
- (transitive) To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines.
- (transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- burst outward, usually with noise
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
- cause to burst
- emerge suddenly
- be in a state of movement or action
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- move suddenly, energetically, or violently
noun
- The quality of being intense.
- (astronomy) Synonym of radiance.
- (geology) The severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings. The value depends on the distance from the epicentre, and is not to be confused with the magnitude.
- (physics) Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance.
- The degree of strength.
- (optics) Can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.
- chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
- high level or degree; the property of being intense
- the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
- the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)
noun
- (figuratively) the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
- (algebra, ring theory) An invariant of rings and modules, encoding information about dimensionality; see Depth (ring theory).
- the most severe part
- the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
- (statistics) the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
- lowness
- (literary, usually in the plural) the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
- (logic) the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
- the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
- (horology) a pair of toothed wheels which work together
- (art, photography) the property of appearing three-dimensional
- (cryptography) A set of more than one ciphertext enciphered with the same key.
- (computing, colors) the total palette of available colors
- (aeronautics) the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
- (literary, usually in the plural) a very remote part.
- (usually plural) a low moral state
- the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense
- degree of psychological or intellectual profundity
- the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- the extent downward or backward or inward
noun
- a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate)
- a fit of weeping
- the characteristic utterance of an animal
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- a slogan used to rally support for a cause
- A clamour or outcry.
- A shout or scream.
- Words shouted or screamed.
- (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
- A desperate or urgent request.
- (collectively) A group of hounds.
- A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
verb
- proclaim or announce in public
- utter a characteristic sound
- shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
- bring into a particular state by crying
- utter a sudden loud cry
- demand immediate action
- utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy
- (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep, especially in anger or sadness.
- (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
- (ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
- (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.
- Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
- To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
- (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
noun
verb
- utter a sudden loud cry
- utter or declare in a very loud voice
- (transitive) To convey by shouting.
- (intransitive) To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement.
- (informal, usually followed by at) To tell someone off, to scold or rebuke, typically in a loud and angry manner.
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
- (transitive) To render more intense.
- increase in extent or intensity
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
- become more intense
verb
- To elicit, evoke, or emphasize (a particular quality).
- (chiefly British) To make (a shy person) more confident.
- (chiefly British) To place (something new for public sale) on the market; roll out.
- (LGBTQ slang) To introduce (a person) to gay life and traditions.
- (historical, transitive) To introduce (a young woman) formally into society.
- (chiefly British) To cause a visible symptom, such as spots or a rash, in (a person).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, out.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- bring out of a specific state
- make manifest
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- bring onto the market or release
- take out of a container or enclosed space
- bring before the public for the first time, as of an actor, song, etc.
- direct attention to, as if by means of contrast
- encourage to be less reserved
verb
- make (an emotion) fiercer
- blow away or off with a current of air
- agitate the air
- strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
- (transitive) To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
- (baseball, intransitive) To strike out.
- (firearms, transitive) To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
- (baseball, transitive) To strike out (a batter).
- (intransitive, usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
- (transitive) To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.
- (figurative) To invigorate, like flames when fanned.
- To winnow grain.
- (rail transport, transitive) To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession.
- (transitive) To slap (a behind, especially).
noun
- an enthusiastic devotee of sports
- a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
- an ardent follower and admirer
- A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
- Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
- The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
- A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
- An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
- An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
- A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.
- (mathematics) A section of a tree having a finite number of branches
verb
- Of a person: to display intense emotion.
- To be very hot; also, to be on fire; to burn.
- (figurative, Internet slang, alt-right) To expose (someone) to the authorities.
- To emit heat and light without a flame.
- Of a fire: to emit heat and light.
- To emit light brightly and steadily as if heated to a high temperature; to shine.
- (intransitive, obsolete except UK, dialectal) To look intently; to stare.
- Of a person's body or a part of it: to feel hot and often to flush (“become suffused with a reddish colour”) as well, due to an emotional response, exertion, etc.
- (chiefly US, Internet slang) To be involved in an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
- Of a colour: to be bright; also, of a thing: to have a bright colour.
- (chiefly US, Internet slang, alt-right) To create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.
- shine intensely, as if with heat
- emit a steady even light without flames
- be exuberant or high-spirited
- have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
noun
- A state of heat being emitted by a person or an animal's body.
- A state of brightness or warmth of colour; specifically, a reddish colour on a person's face indicating health or youth; a flush.
- A state of light being emitted by something (for example, a bioluminescent animal or fungus, or a mineral) which is not hot; luminescence.
- A state of heat and light being emitted by a hot object.
- A condition of being passionate or having warm feelings; an ardour.
- light from nonthermal sources
- a steady even light without flames
- an appearance of reflected light
- the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
- the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
- a feeling of considerable warmth
- an alert and refreshed state
verb
noun
- (ceramics) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
- (physics) The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, and jounce), i.e. the rate of change of jounce.
- A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound.
- Synonym of crackling (“crispy rind of roast pork”).
- glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
- the sharp sound of snapping noises
adj
verb
- (transitive) To give off or radiate a certain quality or emotion, often strongly.
- (intransitive) To flow out through the pores.
- (transitive) To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.
- make apparent by one's mood or behavior
- release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
- (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
- To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
- To sell; to vend.
- (intransitive, video games, slang) To use a vent in the video game Among Us. [with to ‘to go (somewhere)’]
- (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
- (transitive) To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).
- (medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.
- (transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
- give expression or utterance to
- expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
noun
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of ventilation or ventilator.
- The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
- The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
- Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
- Ventriloquism.
- In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
- A slit in the seam of a garment.
- A small aperture.
- A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
- An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
- An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
- Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
- external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate
- a hole for the escape of gas or air
- a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket)
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
- a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
adv
- powerfully or vigorously
- (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
- (now literary) With much physical force, power, or strength; also, with divine or superhuman power or strength.
- (now chiefly informal) To a great extent; extremely, greatly.
- With much emotional, intellectual, or mental force or power; vehemently.
- (prepositive, before an adjective or participial adjective) Of a characteristic: provided or present to a powerful or strong extent.
adj
- forceful and definite in expression or action
- Characterized by emphasis; forceful.
- spoken with emphasis
- sudden and strong
- Ejective consonants in Ge'ez, Amharic, other Ethiopic Semitic languages, Chadic and Cushitic languages.
- Stated with conviction.
- (grammar) Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do plus an infinitive without to.
- (phonology, archaic except in layman’s use) Referring to the above consonants as well as /ħ/ and /ʕ/ (these being seen as emphatic equivalents of /h/ and /ʔ/).
- Phrayngealized consonants in Arabic, Hebrew, other Northwest Semitic languages, and Berber languages.
noun
adj
- acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity
- effected by force or injury rather than natural causes
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- characterized by violence or bloodshed
- marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid
- Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
- Intensely vivid.
- Involving physical conflict.
- Acute, extreme, sharp.
- Involving extreme force or motion.
- Likely to use physical force.
adj
- characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality
- of or relating to dynamics
- (used of verbs (e.g. ‘to run’) and participial adjectives (e.g. ‘running’ in ‘running water’)) expressing action rather than a state of being
- Changing; active; in motion.
- (computing) Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.
- Able to change and adapt.
- (grammar) Of a verb: not stative, but fientive; indicating continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (music) Having to do with the volume of sound.
- Powerful; energetic.
- Pertaining to dynamics, the branch of mechanics concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
noun
- an efficient incentive
- (physics) A moving force.
- (grammar) A verb that indicates continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (music) A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.
- (music) The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness.
- A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior.
adj
- tending to give force or emphasis
- characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form
- of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor
- Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
- (agriculture, economics) Of agriculture: increasing the productivity of an area of land.
- Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
- Being made more intense.
- Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
- Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
- (linguistics) Of a word: serving to give emphasis or force.
- (medicine) Chiefly in intensive care: of care or treatment: involving a great degree of life support, monitoring, and other forms of effort in order to manage life-threatening conditions.
noun
- a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
- (education) A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.
- A thing which makes something more intense; specifically (linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense than the root on which it is built.
adj
- Forceful (typically in a negative way) or obtrusive.
- (nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides; forceful in a positive way.
- Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding.
- Grating or obnoxious.
- of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as ‘f’, ‘s’, ‘z’, or ‘th’ in both ‘thin’ and ‘then’)
- unpleasantly loud and harsh
- conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
- being sharply insistent on being heard
noun
adj
- Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading.
- Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive.
- Very deep; very serious.
- Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
- Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough.
- of the greatest intensity; complete
- showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something
- situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
- coming from deep within one
adj
- Expressed loudly. (of emotions or feelings)
- Creating a loud noise. (of people, animals or things)
- Of great intensity. (of sounds)
- Filled with or accompanied by a great deal of noise. (of times, places, events or activities)
- Having especially (and often unpleasantly) bright or contrasting colours or patterns.
- (of people or speech) Insistently expressing a desire for something.
- conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
adj
- intense or extreme
- marked by depth of thinking
- having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
- with head or back bent low
- (of darkness) densely dark
- very distant in time or space
- exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
- relatively thick from top to bottom
- relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
- strong; intense
- of an obscure nature
- having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination
- large in quantity or size
- extending relatively far inward
- difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
- Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
- (anatomy, often with to) Further into the body.
- Positioned far from the surface or other reference point, especially down through something or into something.
- (sports such as soccer, tennis) Penetrating a long way, especially a long way forward.
- Inner, underlying, true; relating to one’s inner or private being rather than what is visible on the surface.
- In a (specified) number of rows or layers.
- (cricket, baseball, softball) Far from the center of the playing area, near to the boundary of the playing area, either in absolute terms or relative to a point of reference.
- (sound, voice) Low in pitch.
- Extending far down from the top, or surface, to the bottom, literally or figuratively.
- Far in extent in another (non-downwards, but generally also non-upwards) direction, especially front-to-back.
- Voluminous.
- (sleep) Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken).
- Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; intricate; obscure.
- (of time) Distant in the past, ancient.
- Significant, not superficial, in extent.
- (in combination) Extending to a level or length equivalent to the stated thing.
- (sports such as soccer, American football, tennis) Positioned back, or downfield, towards one's own goal, or towards or behind one's baseline or similar reference point.
- (of a color or flavour) Highly saturated; rich.
- Profound, having great meaning or import, but possibly obscure or not obvious.
- Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.
noun
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- literary term for an ocean
- the central and most intense or profound part
- A deep or innermost part of something in general.
- (US, rare) The profound part of a problem.
- (literary, with "the") The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
- (literary, with "the") A silent time; quiet isolation.
- (cricket) A fielding position near the boundary.
- A deep hole or pit, a water well; an abyss.
- (with "the") The sea, the ocean.
- (rare) A deep shade of colour.
adv
- to a great distance
- to an advanced time
- to a great depth; far down or in
- (also deeply) In a profound, not superficial, manner.
- (sports) Back towards one's own goal, baseline, or similar.
- (also deeply) In large volume.
- Far, especially far down through something or into something, physically or figuratively.
verb
adj
intj
noun
verb
adj
adv
adj
- Showing or having strong emotion.
- Fraught with emotion; tense.
- Arousing strong emotion.
- Having electricity.
- of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge
- supplied with carbon dioxide
- capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy
- fraught with great emotion
verb
adj
- of force; of the greatest possible intensity
- most important element
- (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
- Of chief or leading importance; prime, principal.
- (nautical) Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
- Chief, most important, or principal in extent, size, or strength; consisting of the largest part.
- (dialectal) Big; angry.
noun
- any very large body of (salt) water
- a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage
- (nautical) Ellipsis of mainsail.
- (not in generic modern use) That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the bulk, the greater part, gross.
- (informal) Ellipsis of main course (“the principal dish of a meal”).
- A large cable or pipe providing utility service to an area or a building, such as a water main or electric main.
- (Internet slang) A main account.
- (video games) The primary character that one plays in a video game in which one can play more than one character.
- (now poetic) The high seas.
- A banker's shovel for coins.
adv
verb
adj
- characterized by intense emotion
- passionate or quick-tempered
- like or suggestive of fire
- Tempestuous or emotionally volatile; sulfurous.
- Spirited or filled with emotion.
- Burning or glowing.
- Of or relating to fire.
- (butchery) Having the capillaries contracted due to stress at time of slaughter, causing blood to not drain properly.
- Having the colour of fire.
- Hot or inflamed.
- Inflammable or easily ignited.
adj
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- of great intensity or power or force
- (of a person) Heavyset: overweight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- (of weather) Hot and humid.
- (of any physical thing) Having great weight.
- (oil industry) Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
- (of a topic) Serious, somber.
- (nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
- (of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
- (of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
- (physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
- (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- (of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- (slang) Armed.
- (finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Having the heaves.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- (of a rate of flow) High, great.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- slow and laborious because of weight
- prodigious
- of relatively large extent and density
- full and loud and deep
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
- darkened by clouds
- full of; bearing great weight
- (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- sharply inclined
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
- requiring or showing effort
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
adv
noun
- (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
- (aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
- (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
- (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
- (military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.
- A prominent figure; a "major player".
- an actor who plays villainous roles
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
verb
adj
- Of an expression or behavior, vigorous; colorful; stimulating.
- Of a food, flavor, or odor, tangy, zesty, or pungent.
- (Internet slang) Risky; mildly aggressive or dangerous.
- Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.
- (Internet slang) Risqué, sexy, racy; mildly pornographic.
- (informal, idiomatic) Scandalous.
- Of a flavor, provoking a burning sensation due to the presence of capsaicin or a similar chemical.
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves