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adj
noun
- The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
- A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
- The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
- (architecture) a vaulted structure
- a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
verb
noun
- A hyperbole: excessiveness.
- (literature, art) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
- A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
- An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
- (literature, art) A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
- (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
- Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.
- Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
- insincere pathos
- triteness or triviality of style
- a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
noun
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adj
- (figurative) Exceeding reasonable limits; outrageous.
- Of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal; regarded as so immoral or wrong as to be extremely disgraceful; despicable, shameful.
- Of speech or writing: defamatory, malicious.
- Of a person: delighted by scandal.
- (law) Of information, a statement, etc.: not pertinent to a matter; irrelevant, and bringing the court into disrepute.
- giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
noun
- extravagant exaggeration
- the act of making something more noticeable than usual
- making to seem more important than it really is
- The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
- A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
- The act of heaping or piling up.
adj
- (figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated.
- (sometimes capitalized) Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
- Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
- Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
- Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
- Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
- having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
- of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750
noun
adj
- (figuratively, by extension) Excessive in some respect (without any implication of having been tuned).
- Of a string or string instrument: tuned so as to be excessively tight.
- Of an engine: tuned so as to be more powerful than intended by the manufacturer.
- Of a sense or mode of perception: trained so as to be excessively sensitive.
- (video games) Of a raid or similar challenge: excessively difficult.
- (video games) Of a character, item, ability, etc.: excessively powerful; overpowered.
- Tuned or adjusted so as to be excessive (in terms of some quality), especially:
verb
adj
adj
adj
- excessively elaborate or showily expressed
- of a color intermediate between red and blue
- belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
- (motor racing) Of a sector, lap, etc., completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
- (Belgium, Netherlands) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
- Of a purple hue.
- Imperial; regal.
- (US politics) Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
- (literature) Of language, extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
- Blood-red; bloody.
noun
- (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status
- (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes
- a color between red and blue
- A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
- Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
- (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
- A cardinalate.
- The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
- Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
- (by extension) Imperial power.
- (UK, slang) Synonym of snakebite and black.
- Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
- Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
- (slang, US) Ellipsis of purple drank.
- (medicine) Purpura.
verb
- become purple
- color purple
- (intransitive) To turn purple in colour.
- (intransitive, US, Canada informal) To pursue the opposite gender in inappropriate circumstances, usually of adolescents. (From the metaphor of mixing blue [boys] and pink [girls].)
- (transitive) To dye purple.
- (transitive) To clothe in purple.
verb
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
noun
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
adj
noun
adj
- Using hyperbole: exaggerated.
- (color theory) Of a perceived color, having a saturation exceeding 100%.
- Of or relating to hyperbole.
- (topology) Of, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).
- (mathematics, of a metric space or a geometry) Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
- (geometry, topology, of an automorphism) Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
- Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.
- Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
- enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness
- of or relating to a hyperbola
noun
- (figuratively) Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
- A speed of 100 mph.
- Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.
- The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- 100 pounds sterling.
- The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
- The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
- (HVAC) A unit of thermal power equal to 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.5 kW), approximating the idealized rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of 1 short ton of ice per day at 0°C.
- The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
- (darts, snooker, etc.) 100 points.
- The metric ton of 1000 kilograms (about 2205 lb), 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
- Fashionable society; those in style.
- (cricket) 100 runs.
- Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
- a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds
- a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
noun
- A hyperbole: excessiveness.
- (literature, art) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
- A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
- An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
- (literature, art) A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
- (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
- Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.
- Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
- insincere pathos
- triteness or triviality of style
- a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
noun
noun
- extravagant exaggeration
- the act of making something more noticeable than usual
- making to seem more important than it really is
- The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
- A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
- The act of heaping or piling up.
noun
- (figuratively) Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.
- A speed of 100 mph.
- Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.
- The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- 100 pounds sterling.
- The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
- The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
- (HVAC) A unit of thermal power equal to 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.5 kW), approximating the idealized rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of 1 short ton of ice per day at 0°C.
- The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
- (darts, snooker, etc.) 100 points.
- The metric ton of 1000 kilograms (about 2205 lb), 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
- Fashionable society; those in style.
- (cricket) 100 runs.
- Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
- a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds
- a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
verb
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
noun
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
adj
noun
- The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
- A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
- The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
- (architecture) a vaulted structure
- a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
verb
adj
- (figurative) Exceeding reasonable limits; outrageous.
- Of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal; regarded as so immoral or wrong as to be extremely disgraceful; despicable, shameful.
- Of speech or writing: defamatory, malicious.
- Of a person: delighted by scandal.
- (law) Of information, a statement, etc.: not pertinent to a matter; irrelevant, and bringing the court into disrepute.
- giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
adj
- (figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated.
- (sometimes capitalized) Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
- Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
- Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
- Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
- Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
- having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
- of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750
noun
adj
- (figuratively, by extension) Excessive in some respect (without any implication of having been tuned).
- Of a string or string instrument: tuned so as to be excessively tight.
- Of an engine: tuned so as to be more powerful than intended by the manufacturer.
- Of a sense or mode of perception: trained so as to be excessively sensitive.
- (video games) Of a raid or similar challenge: excessively difficult.
- (video games) Of a character, item, ability, etc.: excessively powerful; overpowered.
- Tuned or adjusted so as to be excessive (in terms of some quality), especially:
verb
adj
adj
adj
- excessively elaborate or showily expressed
- of a color intermediate between red and blue
- belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
- (motor racing) Of a sector, lap, etc., completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
- (Belgium, Netherlands) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
- Of a purple hue.
- Imperial; regal.
- (US politics) Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
- (literature) Of language, extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
- Blood-red; bloody.
noun
- (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status
- (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes
- a color between red and blue
- A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
- Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
- (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
- A cardinalate.
- The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
- Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
- (by extension) Imperial power.
- (UK, slang) Synonym of snakebite and black.
- Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
- Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
- (slang, US) Ellipsis of purple drank.
- (medicine) Purpura.
verb
- become purple
- color purple
- (intransitive) To turn purple in colour.
- (intransitive, US, Canada informal) To pursue the opposite gender in inappropriate circumstances, usually of adolescents. (From the metaphor of mixing blue [boys] and pink [girls].)
- (transitive) To dye purple.
- (transitive) To clothe in purple.
adj
noun
adj
- Using hyperbole: exaggerated.
- (color theory) Of a perceived color, having a saturation exceeding 100%.
- Of or relating to hyperbole.
- (topology) Of, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).
- (mathematics, of a metric space or a geometry) Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
- (geometry, topology, of an automorphism) Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
- Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.
- Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
- enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness
- of or relating to a hyperbola