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- Mumbo jumbo; obscure language or technicalities; jargon.
- A use of the mystical term ‘abracadabra’, supposed to work as part of a healing charm or a magical spell; any spell or incantation making use of the word.
- Arcane and obscure language of occult rituals or mystical practices.
- gibberish and nonsense
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adj
- lacking fine distinctions or detail
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- before any deductions
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- repellently fat
- (informal, Australia, Canada, US) Causing disgust.
- (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- (of a substance) Dense, heavy.
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
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- a lack of sophistication
- a partiality for some particular place
- (linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
- (politics) Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
- The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
noun
- A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
- (law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
- Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
- A duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
- (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand) The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
- The state of being redundant.
- repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
- repetition of an act needlessly
- (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
- the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
noun
- Ambiguous or meaningless language.
- (informal) Something presenting itself in a fanciful and showy, often unrealistic manner, especially when intended to impress and confuse.
- Empty and tiresome speculation.
- (rare) A long and imposing series of mindless but necessary tasks.
- any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent
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
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- cause to become widely known
- spread or diffuse through
- move outward
- (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
- (transitive) To spread (something) over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
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- (Internet slang): information that is too technical or difficult for the audience to understand, though they may be too embarrassed to ask questions or admit their confusion.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of my eyes glaze over: used to indicate the speaker's boredom or impatience with some subject or activity.
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- A language lacking standardization or a written form.
- Language unique to a particular group of people.
- (architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
- Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
- Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- The language of a people or a national language.
- the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
- a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
adj
- Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
- (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
- (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
- Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- (taxonomy) Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
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noun
- A bite-sized sponge cake, with a layer of cream, covered in icing.
- A diamond with a distinctive colour.
- The object of inclination or liking.
- The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
- Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
- In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
- Love or amorous attachment.
- An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.
- An opinion or notion formed without much reflection.
- A whim.
- That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
- The imagination.
- a predisposition to like something
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
verb
- (British) Would like; have a desire for.
- (transitive) To breed (animals) as a hobby.
- (British, informal) To be sexually, aesthetically or romantically attracted to.
- To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
- To form a conception of; to portray in the mind.
- (formal) To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
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- Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
- Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
- So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
- In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
- associated with academia or an academy
- hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
- marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
noun
- (plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
- A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
- (plural only) Academic studies.
- A member of the Academy; an academician.
- (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
- an educator who works at a college or university
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- Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
- (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
- Heavy in build; thickset.
- Impenetrable to sight.
- Deep, intense, or profound.
- Having a viscous consistency.
- Densely crowded or packed.
- Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
- (informal) Friendly or intimate.
- (informal) Stupid.
- Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
- Abounding in number.
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
- (academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.
- (used informally) associated on close terms
- spoken as if with a thick tongue
- not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
- abounding; having a lot of
- (of darkness) densely dark
- relatively dense in consistency
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
- (used informally) stupid
- having a short and solid form or stature
- having component parts closely crowded together
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- Technical in nature, difficult for non-specialists to understand.
- Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
- Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
- (informal, computing) Suffering from intermittent bugs.
- (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Feeble, shaky or rickety.
- (informal) Generally incorrect.
- turned or twisted toward one side
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
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- (slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
- The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
- (nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
- (nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
- (uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
- water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
- where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
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adj
- (figuratively) Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
- Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
- (computing) Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
- Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
- (figuratively) Obtuse, stupid.
- hard or impossible to understand
- not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight
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verb
adj
- lacking subtlety; obvious
- not detailed or specific
- being at a peak or culminating point
- showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
- having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
- (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional
- broad in scope or content
- very large in expanse or scope
- Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
- Plain; evident.
- General rather than specific.
- Wide in extent or scope.
- (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
- Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
- (of an accent) Strongly regional.
- Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
- (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
- Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
noun
- slang term for a woman
- A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
- (UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight.
- (UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
adj
- Primitive; lacking complexity or sophistication.
- (US, slang) Severe, rude, aggressive.
- Wild; not cultivated or tamed.
- Barbaric; not civilized.
- (Ireland, US, slang) Great, brilliant, amazing.
- (slang) Of an insult or person: disrespectful, audacious, and either blunt or sarcastic, in a hilarious way.
- Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
- (UK, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
- Fierce and ferocious.
- wild and menacing
- without civilizing influences
- (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
- marked by extreme and violent energy
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- (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
- Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
- Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
- ostentatiously lofty in style
- abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
adj
- excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
- affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction
- lacking fresh air
- Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
- Boring, old-fashioned, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
- Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
- (Scotland) Stout; sturdy.
- Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
- (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
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adj
- (figurative, colloquial) Synonym of incomprehensible, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.
- (US, not comparable) Of or relating to collegiate fraternities, sororities, or (uncommon) honor societies.
- Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture.
- of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language
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- (uncountable, figurative, colloquial) Synonym of gibberish, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.
- (uncountable, figurative, metonymic, colloquial) Synonym of lorem ipsum, dummy placeholder text used in greeking.
- (countable, US, metonymic, colloquial) A member of a collegiate fraternity or sorority.
- (uncountable) Greek cuisine, traditional or representative Greek food.
- (uncountable, slang) Anal sex.
- (countable) A person from Greece or of Greek descent.
- (finance, chiefly in the plural) One of the Greeks, measures of derivative price sensitivity.
- the Greek language as spoken and written today
- the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
- a native or inhabitant of Greece
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- (uncountable, derogatory) Displeasingly abstruse, complex material on any subject.
- plural of metaphysic
- (philosophy, uncountable) The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (Latin: ens in quantum ens).
- (logic, uncountable, by extension from the philosophical sense) The metalogic of physics; the logical framework of physics.
- (uncountable, by extension from the philosophical sense) Any fundamental principles or rules.
- (philosophy, countable) The view or theory of a particular philosopher or school of thinkers concerning the first principles which describe or explain all that is.
- (uncountable) The study of a supersensual realm or of phenomena which transcend the physical world.
- the philosophical study of being and knowing
adj
- Lazy, simplistic, superficial (especially of explanations, discussions etc.).
- Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
- (now usually derogatory) Easy; contemptibly easy.
- (chemistry) Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.
- performing adroitly and without effort
- expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
- superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
adj
- Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
- Relating to gender.
- Very broad; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific instances.
- (pharmacology) Of a product or drug, not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
- (geometry) Of a point, having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
- Relating to genre.
- (computing) Of a procedure, written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
- (grammar, nonstandard) Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex.
- Having no distinguishing characteristics; unoriginal.
- (taxonomy) Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.
- relating to or common to or descriptive of all members of a genus
- applicable to an entire class or group
- (of drugs) not protected by trademark
noun
- (toponymy) The part of a toponym that identifies the feature's type.
- A wine that is a combination of several wines, or made from a combination of several grape varieties.
- A product sold under a generic name.
- (grammar) A term that specifies neither male nor female.
- any product that can be sold without a brand name
- wine that does not meet the minimum qualifications and standards for use of a designation by appellation of origin (where the grapes are grown) or by varietal content; may only be labeled by proprietary (made-up) name, by general color (such as ‘vin rouge’, ‘vino rosso’, ‘rotwein’, ‘red wine’, etc.), or by general class (as ‘vin ordinaire’, ‘vin de table’, ‘vino da tavola’, ‘tafelwein’, ‘table wine’, etc.)
noun
- Formulaic or hackneyed language.
- Standard text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels.
- (UK) The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882).
- A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler.
- A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.
- (journalism) Syndicated material.
- (skiing) Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous for skiing.
- (computing) A standard piece of program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor.
- thick plate iron used in the production of boilers
- standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories
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adj
- Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
- Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
- Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.
- Of special beauty or rare excellence.
- Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
- lavishly elegant and refined
- of extreme beauty
- delicately beautiful
- intense or sharp
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noun
- pompously embellished language
- a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal
- The release of such gas; breaking wind.
- The state of having gas, often smelly, trapped (and when released, frequently with noise) in the digestive system of a human and some other animals; wind; and when released, a flatus, a fart.
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- (computing, slang) Complicated or esoteric code that is not expected to be generally understood.
- (gaming, countable) The ability to cast a magic spell.
- (countable) One such conjuring trick or illusion.
- Something producing successful and remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.
- (entertainment) The art or practice of performing conjuring tricks and illusions to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers.
- (rare, countable) A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell; a magical ability.
- The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual.
- The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them.
- any art that invokes supernatural powers
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
adj
- Producing extraordinary results, as though through the use of magic.
- (programming) Being a literal number or string value with no meaning or context, not defined as a constant or variable
- (physics) Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184.
- (colloquial) Great; excellent.
- Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic.
- Pertaining to conjuring tricks or illusions performed for entertainment etc.
- possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
verb
adj
- Lacking depth or substance; insubstantial, thoughtless, vague.
- Breathing out or giving off vapour.
- Of a place: filled with vapour; foggy, misty.
- Feeling melancholy; experiencing the vapors.
- Of a thing: covered or hidden by vapour, fog, or mist.
- Of clothes or fabric: thin and translucent; filmy, gauzy.
- Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.
- resembling or characteristic of vapor
- filled with vapor
- so thin as to transmit light
verb
- To make (something) overly complicated or elaborate; to overcomplicate, to overwork.
- (intransitive) To raise unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
- To raise to (someone) unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
- (business) To release (a large amount of information about the poor financial results of a company) in one go, in the hope that there will be less impact.
adj
- (by extension, drama, fiction, film, television, originally derogatory) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century (especially 1950s–1960s) genre of drama, fiction, etc., in Britain depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; also, of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre.
- (painting) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century realist style of painting in Britain characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors such as kitchens in the homes of urban working-class people; also, of or pertaining to an artist or group of artists painting in this style.
noun
- (also attributive) A miscellaneous item or a miscellany, especially exemplifying an indiscriminate profusion.
- (metonymic) In chained or tied to the kitchen sink, etc.: domestic chores or housework, especially when regarded as menial and tedious.
- A sink in a kitchen used for washing crockery, cutlery, utensils, food, etc., and disposing of waste.
- a sink in a kitchen
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adj
noun
- Mumbo jumbo; obscure language or technicalities; jargon.
- A use of the mystical term ‘abracadabra’, supposed to work as part of a healing charm or a magical spell; any spell or incantation making use of the word.
- Arcane and obscure language of occult rituals or mystical practices.
- gibberish and nonsense
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noun
- a lack of sophistication
- a partiality for some particular place
- (linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
- (politics) Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
- The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
noun
- A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
- (law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
- Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
- A duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
- (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand) The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
- The state of being redundant.
- repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
- repetition of an act needlessly
- (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
- the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
noun
- Ambiguous or meaningless language.
- (informal) Something presenting itself in a fanciful and showy, often unrealistic manner, especially when intended to impress and confuse.
- Empty and tiresome speculation.
- (rare) A long and imposing series of mindless but necessary tasks.
- any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent
noun
- A language lacking standardization or a written form.
- Language unique to a particular group of people.
- (architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
- Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
- Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- The language of a people or a national language.
- the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
- a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
adj
- Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
- (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
- (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
- Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- (taxonomy) Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
noun
noun
- (slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
- The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
- (nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
- (nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
- (uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
- water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
- where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
verb
noun
- (uncountable, derogatory) Displeasingly abstruse, complex material on any subject.
- plural of metaphysic
- (philosophy, uncountable) The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (Latin: ens in quantum ens).
- (logic, uncountable, by extension from the philosophical sense) The metalogic of physics; the logical framework of physics.
- (uncountable, by extension from the philosophical sense) Any fundamental principles or rules.
- (philosophy, countable) The view or theory of a particular philosopher or school of thinkers concerning the first principles which describe or explain all that is.
- (uncountable) The study of a supersensual realm or of phenomena which transcend the physical world.
- the philosophical study of being and knowing
noun
- Formulaic or hackneyed language.
- Standard text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels.
- (UK) The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882).
- A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler.
- A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements.
- (journalism) Syndicated material.
- (skiing) Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous for skiing.
- (computing) A standard piece of program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor.
- thick plate iron used in the production of boilers
- standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories
adj
verb
noun
- pompously embellished language
- a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal
- The release of such gas; breaking wind.
- The state of having gas, often smelly, trapped (and when released, frequently with noise) in the digestive system of a human and some other animals; wind; and when released, a flatus, a fart.
noun
- (computing, slang) Complicated or esoteric code that is not expected to be generally understood.
- (gaming, countable) The ability to cast a magic spell.
- (countable) One such conjuring trick or illusion.
- Something producing successful and remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.
- (entertainment) The art or practice of performing conjuring tricks and illusions to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers.
- (rare, countable) A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell; a magical ability.
- The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual.
- The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them.
- any art that invokes supernatural powers
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
adj
- Producing extraordinary results, as though through the use of magic.
- (programming) Being a literal number or string value with no meaning or context, not defined as a constant or variable
- (physics) Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184.
- (colloquial) Great; excellent.
- Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic.
- Pertaining to conjuring tricks or illusions performed for entertainment etc.
- possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
verb
verb
- To make (something) overly complicated or elaborate; to overcomplicate, to overwork.
- (intransitive) To raise unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
- To raise to (someone) unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument.
- (business) To release (a large amount of information about the poor financial results of a company) in one go, in the hope that there will be less impact.
adj
- (by extension, drama, fiction, film, television, originally derogatory) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century (especially 1950s–1960s) genre of drama, fiction, etc., in Britain depicting the harsh lives of working-class people; also, of or pertaining to a film, novel, play, etc., of this genre.
- (painting) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century realist style of painting in Britain characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors such as kitchens in the homes of urban working-class people; also, of or pertaining to an artist or group of artists painting in this style.
noun
- (also attributive) A miscellaneous item or a miscellany, especially exemplifying an indiscriminate profusion.
- (metonymic) In chained or tied to the kitchen sink, etc.: domestic chores or housework, especially when regarded as menial and tedious.
- A sink in a kitchen used for washing crockery, cutlery, utensils, food, etc., and disposing of waste.
- a sink in a kitchen
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noun
adj
- lacking fine distinctions or detail
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- before any deductions
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- repellently fat
- (informal, Australia, Canada, US) Causing disgust.
- (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- (of a substance) Dense, heavy.
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
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- (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
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- cause to become widely known
- spread or diffuse through
- move outward
- (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
- (transitive) To spread (something) over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
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- A bite-sized sponge cake, with a layer of cream, covered in icing.
- A diamond with a distinctive colour.
- The object of inclination or liking.
- The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
- Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
- In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
- Love or amorous attachment.
- An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.
- An opinion or notion formed without much reflection.
- A whim.
- That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
- The imagination.
- a predisposition to like something
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
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- (British) Would like; have a desire for.
- (transitive) To breed (animals) as a hobby.
- (British, informal) To be sexually, aesthetically or romantically attracted to.
- To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
- To form a conception of; to portray in the mind.
- (formal) To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
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- Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
- Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
- So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
- In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
- associated with academia or an academy
- hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
- marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
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- (plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
- A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
- (plural only) Academic studies.
- A member of the Academy; an academician.
- (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
- an educator who works at a college or university
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- Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
- (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
- Heavy in build; thickset.
- Impenetrable to sight.
- Deep, intense, or profound.
- Having a viscous consistency.
- Densely crowded or packed.
- Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
- (informal) Friendly or intimate.
- (informal) Stupid.
- Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
- Abounding in number.
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
- (academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.
- (used informally) associated on close terms
- spoken as if with a thick tongue
- not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
- abounding; having a lot of
- (of darkness) densely dark
- relatively dense in consistency
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
- (used informally) stupid
- having a short and solid form or stature
- having component parts closely crowded together
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- Technical in nature, difficult for non-specialists to understand.
- Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
- Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
- (informal, computing) Suffering from intermittent bugs.
- (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Feeble, shaky or rickety.
- (informal) Generally incorrect.
- turned or twisted toward one side
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
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- (figuratively) Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
- Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
- (computing) Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
- Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
- (figuratively) Obtuse, stupid.
- hard or impossible to understand
- not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight
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- lacking subtlety; obvious
- not detailed or specific
- being at a peak or culminating point
- showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
- having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
- (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional
- broad in scope or content
- very large in expanse or scope
- Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
- Plain; evident.
- General rather than specific.
- Wide in extent or scope.
- (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
- Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
- (of an accent) Strongly regional.
- Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
- (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
- Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
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- slang term for a woman
- A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
- (UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight.
- (UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
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- Primitive; lacking complexity or sophistication.
- (US, slang) Severe, rude, aggressive.
- Wild; not cultivated or tamed.
- Barbaric; not civilized.
- (Ireland, US, slang) Great, brilliant, amazing.
- (slang) Of an insult or person: disrespectful, audacious, and either blunt or sarcastic, in a hilarious way.
- Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
- (UK, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
- Fierce and ferocious.
- wild and menacing
- without civilizing influences
- (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
- marked by extreme and violent energy
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- (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
- Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
- Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
- ostentatiously lofty in style
- abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
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- excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
- affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction
- lacking fresh air
- Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
- Boring, old-fashioned, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
- Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
- (Scotland) Stout; sturdy.
- Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
- (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
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- (figurative, colloquial) Synonym of incomprehensible, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.
- (US, not comparable) Of or relating to collegiate fraternities, sororities, or (uncommon) honor societies.
- Of or relating to Greece, its people, its language, or its culture.
- of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language
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- (uncountable, figurative, colloquial) Synonym of gibberish, used for foreign speech or text, technical jargon, or advanced subjects.
- (uncountable, figurative, metonymic, colloquial) Synonym of lorem ipsum, dummy placeholder text used in greeking.
- (countable, US, metonymic, colloquial) A member of a collegiate fraternity or sorority.
- (uncountable) Greek cuisine, traditional or representative Greek food.
- (uncountable, slang) Anal sex.
- (countable) A person from Greece or of Greek descent.
- (finance, chiefly in the plural) One of the Greeks, measures of derivative price sensitivity.
- the Greek language as spoken and written today
- the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
- a native or inhabitant of Greece
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- Lazy, simplistic, superficial (especially of explanations, discussions etc.).
- Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
- (now usually derogatory) Easy; contemptibly easy.
- (chemistry) Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.
- performing adroitly and without effort
- expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
- superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
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- Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
- Relating to gender.
- Very broad; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific instances.
- (pharmacology) Of a product or drug, not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
- (geometry) Of a point, having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
- Relating to genre.
- (computing) Of a procedure, written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
- (grammar, nonstandard) Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex.
- Having no distinguishing characteristics; unoriginal.
- (taxonomy) Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.
- relating to or common to or descriptive of all members of a genus
- applicable to an entire class or group
- (of drugs) not protected by trademark
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- (toponymy) The part of a toponym that identifies the feature's type.
- A wine that is a combination of several wines, or made from a combination of several grape varieties.
- A product sold under a generic name.
- (grammar) A term that specifies neither male nor female.
- any product that can be sold without a brand name
- wine that does not meet the minimum qualifications and standards for use of a designation by appellation of origin (where the grapes are grown) or by varietal content; may only be labeled by proprietary (made-up) name, by general color (such as ‘vin rouge’, ‘vino rosso’, ‘rotwein’, ‘red wine’, etc.), or by general class (as ‘vin ordinaire’, ‘vin de table’, ‘vino da tavola’, ‘tafelwein’, ‘table wine’, etc.)
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- Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
- Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
- Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.
- Of special beauty or rare excellence.
- Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
- lavishly elegant and refined
- of extreme beauty
- delicately beautiful
- intense or sharp
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- Lacking depth or substance; insubstantial, thoughtless, vague.
- Breathing out or giving off vapour.
- Of a place: filled with vapour; foggy, misty.
- Feeling melancholy; experiencing the vapors.
- Of a thing: covered or hidden by vapour, fog, or mist.
- Of clothes or fabric: thin and translucent; filmy, gauzy.
- Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.
- resembling or characteristic of vapor
- filled with vapor
- so thin as to transmit light