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damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
irrepressibility
bite the bullet
think much of
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blow off course
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someone's arse off
-lord
come between
irrepressibleness
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hold up as
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trigger
wear rose-colored glasses
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counterconditioning
negativity
opposably
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global attribution
contrary
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affirmative
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toxic
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enemy image
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come between
hold up as
ameliorate
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trigger
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cast down
characterize
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negative
do someone like that
come home to roost
verb
- To be relatable in a negative way; to cause negative emotions by being similar or reminding; to be uncomfortably alike one's personal negative experiences.
- To occur too close for comfort; to happen dangerously or uncomfortably near.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hit, too, close, to, home.
adj
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- Not covered by funds on account.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Bold and daring.
- Malodorous; foul.
- Stop being bad, or you will get a spanking!
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Evil; wicked.
- Severe, urgent.
- Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- Faulty; not functional.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
adv
intj
verb
noun
verb
- To be similar (often used in the negative).
- To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective).
- To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things ["to compare X with Y"]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it similar to Y or different from Y.
- To declare two things to be similar in some respect ["to compare X to Y"].
noun
adj
- very good; often used in the negative
- characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense
- (color) bold and intense
- sexually excited or exciting
- recently stolen or smuggled
- very fast; capable of quick response and great speed
- wanted by the police
- producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves
- performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy
- very popular or successful
- very unpleasant or even dangerous
- newest or most recent
- having or bringing unusually good luck
- made recently
- having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm
- of a seeker; very near to the object sought
- having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity
- charged or energized with electricity
- marked by excited activity
adj
noun
- An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
- A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
- A small degree; a shade.
- Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.
- That which looms as though a shadow.
- A area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight).
- One who secretly or furtively follows another.
- An inseparable companion.
- A drop shadow effect applied to lettering in word processors etc.
- A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
- An unconscious aspect of the personality.
- A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.
- An imperfect and faint representation.
verb
- To accompany (a professional) during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
- To make (an identifier, usually a variable) inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
- To hide; to conceal.
- To represent faintly and imperfectly.
- To shade, cloud, or darken.
- To block light or radio transmission from.
- To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
- To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
adj
adj
- Not negative or neutral.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- Optimistic.
- Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Of number, greater than zero.
- Having more protons than electrons.
- HIV positive.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Formally laid down.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- electropositive
- Fully assured in opinion.
- Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
noun
- A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- A positive result of a test.
- An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
verb
- To affect negatively.
- To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- To come up to bat.
- To have sex with.
- To attack.
- To strike against something.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- to work out
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To switch on.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To reach or achieve.
- To use; to connect to.
- (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- To briefly visit.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
pron
adj
noun
- The hit was very slight.
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
adj
- Being positive rather than negative or zero.
- Electrically positive.
- (Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.
- Positive, or involving advantage.
noun
verb
- To add; to subject to addition.
- To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
- To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
- To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
- To increase in magnitude.
- To increase a correction.
- To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
- To improve.
prep
conj
noun
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- From the higher end to the lower of.
- At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
verb
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
adj
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
adv
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
adj
- Not positive nor neutral.
- Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
- Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
- Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
- Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
- Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- Denying a proposition.
- HIV negative.
- COVID-19 negative.
- Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
- Of a number: less than zero
- Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
verb
noun
- Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
- A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
- The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
- A right of veto.
- An unfavorable point or characteristic.
- A word that indicates negation.
- A negative quantity.
- An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
intj
adj
- Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
- Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
- Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
- Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
- Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
noun
- An ugly person or thing.
- Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.
- Ugliness.
verb
verb
- To have significant effect, often negative.
- To attack with the teeth.
- To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- To take or keep a firm hold.
- To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- To sting.
- To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- To plagiarize, to imitate.
- To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
noun
- A small meal or snack.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- Something unpleasant.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- aggression
- A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- The act of biting.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- An act of plagiarism.
verb
noun
- The acquisition of something, generally negative.
- A period of economic decline or negative growth.
- Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
- A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
- A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
- A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
- A reversible reduction in size.
- A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
- The process of contracting a disease.
- A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
- A shortening of a muscle during its use.
verb
- To spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (someone).
- To fire a weapon.
- To initiate something.
- To activate; to become active.
noun
- An electronic transducer allowing a drum, cymbal, etc. to control an electronic drum unit or similar device.
- An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or a strong reaction in a person.
- An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity.
- A concept or image that upsets somebody by sparking a negative emotional response.
- A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
- An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
- A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
- A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain command.
- A device that manually lengthens (or sometimes shortens) the slide or tubing of a brass instrument, allowing the pitch range to be altered while playing.
- A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
noun
- The tendency to increase ones value of or commitment to something when it involves unanticipated negative side effects.
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103117308259 -->
- A set of circumstances in which one phenomenon (such as a group of people) opposes or undermines another phenomenon that produces or sustains it (for example, peasants deforesting hillsides in order to expand cultivatable land, resulting in flooding and the loss of the same).
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6040204/
adj
- Severely negative or harmful.
- Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
- Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems.
- Hateful or strongly antipathetic.
adv
- To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
- To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
- To a given extent or degree.
noun
pron
- The known (thing); used to refer to something just said.
- That's my car over there.
- The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action, or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
- The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
- (plural that) Which, who; representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.
- Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
conj
- Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
- Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence, or effect.
- Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
- Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
- Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.
det
noun
- A negative reaction, objection or outcry, especially of a violent or abrupt nature.
- A sudden backward motion.
- The jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
- The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
verb
adj
- Unrestrained or unchecked, usually in a negative manner.
- Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended.
- Rearing up, especially on its hind leg(s), with a foreleg raised and in profile.
- Tilted, said of an arch with one side higher than the other, or a vault whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane.
- Rife, or occurring widely, frequently or menacingly.
adv
noun
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- the act of using
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
verb
adj
- Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.
- Having, or being in, a contrary order; said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel.
noun
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