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noun
- the trait of seeming ill at ease
- embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
- feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
- physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
- inability to rest or relax or be still
- An anxious state of mind; anxiety.
- The state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.
noun
- Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
- Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.
- Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
- Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
- the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
- excessive sternness
- the property of moving with pain or difficulty
- the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
- firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
adj
intj
verb
noun
- Freedom from inhibition and awkwardness: grace.
- State or quality of being promiscuous, of consenting readily to sex; sluttiness.
- Lack of concern or care: carelessness, indolence.
- Freedom from discomfort and worry: comfort.
- Looseness or pliancy, often derogatory
- Lack of harshness: gentleness, kindness.
- Lack of difficulty or trouble: facility; simplicity.
- Lack of firm conviction: gullibility, credulity.
- Lack of difficulty; quality of not being frustrating, difficult, or dense (compact).
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry
- the quality of being easy in behavior or style
adj
noun
- (by extension) A person with low endurance.
- A person who cannot handle their drink; one who gets drunk on very little alcohol.
- Something that is light in weight, or relatively so.
- One of little consequence or ability.
- (rowing) A particular weight category as prescribed by the rules, separate from an open or heavyweight class.
- (combat sports) A particular weight class, or member of such, as prescribed by the rules, between that of the heavier welterweight and the lighter featherweight. See Wikipedia for the specifics of each sport.
- A political candidate with little chance of winning.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weight division as prescribed by the rules, between the heavier middleweight and the lighter featherweight.
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
- A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division.
- a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
- someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
verb
noun
- A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
- (medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
- (figuratively) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
- an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
verb
adj
- Ungraceful; lacking grace.
- (organic chemistry) Composed of three or more rings attached to a single carbon atom (the rings not all being in the same plane).
- Relating or pertaining to an angle, or angles.
- (figuratively) Sharp and stiff in character.
- Lean, lank.
- Measured by an angle.
- Having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner.
- Sharp-cornered; pointed.
- measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle
- having angles or an angular shape
noun
adj
- lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
- not elegant or graceful in expression
- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
- socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
- causing inconvenience
- Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.
- Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
- Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle.
- Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction.
noun
noun
- Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
- (clothing) Additional space provided to allow greater movement.
- Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
- Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference.
- Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth.
- Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position.
- Freedom from effort; leisure, rest.
- Lack of difficulty; the ability to do something easily.
- Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
- a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- freedom from constraint or embarrassment
verb
- (intransitive) To lessen in intensity.
- (transitive) To move (something) slowly and carefully.
- (transitive) To give respite to (someone).
- To reduce speed.
- (transitive) To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
- (transitive) To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce the difficulty of (something).
- (intransitive) To proceed with little effort.
- (nautical, transitive) To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
- lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate
- lessen the intensity of or calm
- move gently or carefully
- make easier
adj
- Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
- Excess; surplus to requirements.
- Weak; not holding fast.
- Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
- Moderately warm.
- (linguistics) Lax.
- Moderate in speed.
- (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
- not tense or taut
- flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
adv
noun
- (rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
- (mining) Small coal; coal dust.
- (uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
- In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.
- (countable) A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.
- (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
- (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.
- A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.
- Attributive form of slacks (“semi-formal trousers”).
- A dip in a surface.
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
verb
- To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.
- (ambitransitive) To slacken.
- To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
- become less in amount or intensity
- make less active or intense
- be inattentive to, or neglect
- avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- become slow or slower
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- make less active or fast
- release tension on
adj
- lacking grace in movement or posture
- not elegant or graceful in expression
- showing lack of skill or aptitude
- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
- Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety.
- Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous.
- Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape.
noun
adj
- marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
- not initiated; deficient in relevant experience
- lacking information or instruction
- inexperienced
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
- (computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
- (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
- Not having been exposed to something.
- Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
noun
adj
- lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view
- not wide
- very limited in degree
- characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
- limited in extent or scope
- Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
- (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
- Having a small margin or degree.
- (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
- Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
- Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
- (computing) Of or supporting only those text characters that can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
noun
verb
- define clearly
- become tight or as if tight
- become more focused on an area of activity or field of study
- make or become more narrow or restricted
- (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
- (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
- (intransitive) To get narrower.
- (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
adj
- lacking mental capacity and subtlety
- exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
- (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
- having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
- easy and not involved or complicated
- unornamented
- (module theory, of a module) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial submodules (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient modules).
- Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
- Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
- (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
- Easy; not difficult.
- (now colloquial, euphemistic) Feeble-minded; foolish.
- (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
- (algebra, of a Lie algebra) Being non-abelian and having no proper non-zero ideals. (Note that this is non-equivalent to the usual algebra sense; in particular, the abelian Lie algebra of dimension 1 over any given field is non-trivial and has no proper non-zero ideals, but is by convention not considered simple.)
- (mineralogy) Homogenous.
- (ring theory, of a ring) Being non-zero, and having no proper non-zero two-sided ideals (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient rings). For commutative rings, this definition coincides with that of a field.
- Without ornamentation; plain.
- (mathematics, real analysis, measure theory, of a real-valued function) Equal to a finite linear combination of indicator functions on measurable sets.
- (group theory, of a group) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial normal subgroups (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient groups).
- Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
- (category theory, of an object in a category with a terminal object) Being non-isomorphic to the terminal object, and such that its only quotient objects (up to isomorphism) are the terminal object and itself.
- (chemistry, pharmacology) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
- Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
- (universal algebra, of an algebraic structure) Containing more than one element, and such that the only congruences on the structure are the diagonal relation (the equivalence relation a≡b⟺a=b) and the universal relation (the equivalence relation such that a≡b for all a,b). Equivalently, containing more than one element and having no proper non-trivial quotient algebras.
noun
- a person lacking intelligence or common sense
- any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
- (weaving) A drawloom.
- (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
- (pharmacology) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
- (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
- (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
adj
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- emptying easily or excessively
- pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘bet’)
- lacking in firmness or tension; not taut
- (linguistics) (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.
- Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
- Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
- (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
- Loose; not tight or taut.
noun
noun
adj
- Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
- Lacking in vigour or expression.
- (often with for) Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.
- (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
- Limp, soft.
- (Germanic languages, of verbs) Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense with -d- or -t-.
- Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
- Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
- (photography) Lacking contrast.
- Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
- (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
- Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
- (slang) Bad or uncool.
- (mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)
- Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
- Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
- (Germanic languages, of nouns) Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
- (stock market) Tending towards lower prices.
- (Germanic languages, of adjectives) Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.
- tending downward in price
- (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
- overly diluted; thin and insipid
- lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- deficient or lacking in some skill
- not having authority, political strength, or governing power
- (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection
- wanting in physical strength
- deficient in intelligence or mental power
- deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
- likely to fail under stress or pressure
adj
- (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
- lacking civility or good manners
- socially incorrect in behavior
- (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
- Crudely made; primitive.
- Hearty, vigorous; found particularly in the phrase rude health.
- Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
- Undeveloped, unskilled, inelegant.
- Violent; abrupt; turbulent.
- Lacking in refinement or civility; bad-mannered; discourteous.
- (MLE, slang) Good, awesome.
- (MLE, slang) Sexy, hot, overtly attractive.
- Lacking refinement or skill; untaught; ignorant; raw.
noun
- the trait of seeming ill at ease
- embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
- feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
- physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
- inability to rest or relax or be still
- An anxious state of mind; anxiety.
- The state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.
noun
- Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
- Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.
- Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
- Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
- the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
- excessive sternness
- the property of moving with pain or difficulty
- the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
- firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
noun
- Freedom from inhibition and awkwardness: grace.
- State or quality of being promiscuous, of consenting readily to sex; sluttiness.
- Lack of concern or care: carelessness, indolence.
- Freedom from discomfort and worry: comfort.
- Looseness or pliancy, often derogatory
- Lack of harshness: gentleness, kindness.
- Lack of difficulty or trouble: facility; simplicity.
- Lack of firm conviction: gullibility, credulity.
- Lack of difficulty; quality of not being frustrating, difficult, or dense (compact).
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry
- the quality of being easy in behavior or style
noun
- A lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
- (medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
- (figuratively) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
- an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
verb
noun
- Freedom from embarrassment or awkwardness; grace.
- (clothing) Additional space provided to allow greater movement.
- Freedom from financial effort or worry; affluence.
- Freedom from worry and concern; peace; sometimes (derogatory, archaic) indifference.
- Freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance, sometimes (derogatory, archaic) idleness, sloth.
- Release from constraint, obligation, or a constrained position.
- Freedom from effort; leisure, rest.
- Lack of difficulty; the ability to do something easily.
- Followed by of or from: release from or reduction of pain, hardship, or annoyance.
- a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- freedom from constraint or embarrassment
verb
- (intransitive) To lessen in intensity.
- (transitive) To move (something) slowly and carefully.
- (transitive) To give respite to (someone).
- To reduce speed.
- (transitive) To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
- (transitive) To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce the difficulty of (something).
- (intransitive) To proceed with little effort.
- (nautical, transitive) To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
- lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate
- lessen the intensity of or calm
- move gently or carefully
- make easier
noun
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adj
intj
verb
adj
noun
- (by extension) A person with low endurance.
- A person who cannot handle their drink; one who gets drunk on very little alcohol.
- Something that is light in weight, or relatively so.
- One of little consequence or ability.
- (rowing) A particular weight category as prescribed by the rules, separate from an open or heavyweight class.
- (combat sports) A particular weight class, or member of such, as prescribed by the rules, between that of the heavier welterweight and the lighter featherweight. See Wikipedia for the specifics of each sport.
- A political candidate with little chance of winning.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weight division as prescribed by the rules, between the heavier middleweight and the lighter featherweight.
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
- A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division.
- a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
- someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
verb
adj
- Ungraceful; lacking grace.
- (organic chemistry) Composed of three or more rings attached to a single carbon atom (the rings not all being in the same plane).
- Relating or pertaining to an angle, or angles.
- (figuratively) Sharp and stiff in character.
- Lean, lank.
- Measured by an angle.
- Having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner.
- Sharp-cornered; pointed.
- measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle
- having angles or an angular shape
noun
adj
- lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
- not elegant or graceful in expression
- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
- socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
- causing inconvenience
- Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.
- Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.
- Perverse; adverse; difficult to handle.
- Lacking social skills, or uncomfortable with social interaction.
noun
adj
- Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
- Excess; surplus to requirements.
- Weak; not holding fast.
- Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
- Moderately warm.
- (linguistics) Lax.
- Moderate in speed.
- (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
- not tense or taut
- flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
adv
noun
- (rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
- (mining) Small coal; coal dust.
- (uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
- In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.
- (countable) A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.
- (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
- (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.
- A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.
- Attributive form of slacks (“semi-formal trousers”).
- A dip in a surface.
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
verb
- To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.
- (ambitransitive) To slacken.
- To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
- become less in amount or intensity
- make less active or intense
- be inattentive to, or neglect
- avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- become slow or slower
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- make less active or fast
- release tension on
adj
- lacking grace in movement or posture
- not elegant or graceful in expression
- showing lack of skill or aptitude
- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
- Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety.
- Awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous.
- Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape.
noun
adj
- marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
- not initiated; deficient in relevant experience
- lacking information or instruction
- inexperienced
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
- (computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
- (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
- Not having been exposed to something.
- Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
noun
adj
- lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view
- not wide
- very limited in degree
- characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
- limited in extent or scope
- Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
- (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
- Having a small margin or degree.
- (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
- Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
- Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
- (computing) Of or supporting only those text characters that can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
noun
verb
- define clearly
- become tight or as if tight
- become more focused on an area of activity or field of study
- make or become more narrow or restricted
- (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
- (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
- (intransitive) To get narrower.
- (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
adj
- lacking mental capacity and subtlety
- exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
- (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
- having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
- easy and not involved or complicated
- unornamented
- (module theory, of a module) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial submodules (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient modules).
- Uncomplicated; lacking complexity; taken by itself, with nothing added.
- Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
- (botany) Not compound, but possibly lobed.
- Easy; not difficult.
- (now colloquial, euphemistic) Feeble-minded; foolish.
- (zoology) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; not compound.
- (algebra, of a Lie algebra) Being non-abelian and having no proper non-zero ideals. (Note that this is non-equivalent to the usual algebra sense; in particular, the abelian Lie algebra of dimension 1 over any given field is non-trivial and has no proper non-zero ideals, but is by convention not considered simple.)
- (mineralogy) Homogenous.
- (ring theory, of a ring) Being non-zero, and having no proper non-zero two-sided ideals (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient rings). For commutative rings, this definition coincides with that of a field.
- Without ornamentation; plain.
- (mathematics, real analysis, measure theory, of a real-valued function) Equal to a finite linear combination of indicator functions on measurable sets.
- (group theory, of a group) Being non-trivial, and having no proper non-trivial normal subgroups (equivalently, no proper non-trivial quotient groups).
- Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
- (category theory, of an object in a category with a terminal object) Being non-isomorphic to the terminal object, and such that its only quotient objects (up to isomorphism) are the terminal object and itself.
- (chemistry, pharmacology) Consisting of one single substance; uncompounded.
- Using steam only once in its cylinders, in contrast to a compound engine, where steam is used more than once in high-pressure and low-pressure cylinders. (of a steam engine)
- (universal algebra, of an algebraic structure) Containing more than one element, and such that the only congruences on the structure are the diagonal relation (the equivalence relation a≡b⟺a=b) and the universal relation (the equivalence relation such that a≡b for all a,b). Equivalently, containing more than one element and having no proper non-trivial quotient algebras.
noun
- a person lacking intelligence or common sense
- any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
- (weaving) A drawloom.
- (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
- (pharmacology) A herbal preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
- (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
- (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
adj
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- emptying easily or excessively
- pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘bet’)
- lacking in firmness or tension; not taut
- (linguistics) (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.
- Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
- Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
- (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
- Loose; not tight or taut.
noun
adj
- Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
- Lacking in vigour or expression.
- (often with for) Having a strong, irrepressible emotional love for someone or (less often) something; sentimentally affected by such love.
- (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
- Limp, soft.
- (Germanic languages, of verbs) Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense with -d- or -t-.
- Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
- Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
- (photography) Lacking contrast.
- Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
- (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
- Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
- (slang) Bad or uncool.
- (mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a strong statement which implies it.)
- Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
- Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
- (Germanic languages, of nouns) Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
- (stock market) Tending towards lower prices.
- (Germanic languages, of adjectives) Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.
- tending downward in price
- (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
- overly diluted; thin and insipid
- lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- deficient or lacking in some skill
- not having authority, political strength, or governing power
- (used of verbs) having standard (or regular) inflection
- wanting in physical strength
- deficient in intelligence or mental power
- deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
- likely to fail under stress or pressure
adj
- (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
- lacking civility or good manners
- socially incorrect in behavior
- (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
- Crudely made; primitive.
- Hearty, vigorous; found particularly in the phrase rude health.
- Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
- Undeveloped, unskilled, inelegant.
- Violent; abrupt; turbulent.
- Lacking in refinement or civility; bad-mannered; discourteous.
- (MLE, slang) Good, awesome.
- (MLE, slang) Sexy, hot, overtly attractive.
- Lacking refinement or skill; untaught; ignorant; raw.