just
sole
nothing but
first and last
simply
eeny
nobbut
one
but
singularly
secundum quid
pure
atself
only
nonsimply
if only
all
mere
strictly
purely
evendown
although
pro tanto
half-human
is all
few
singular
hardly
merely
scarcely
solitary
vanitous
unheard-of
arcane
swash someone's buckle
unigenital
js
verbal
a fat lot
other than
mono-
monopersonal
one-handed
so as
tout court
bar
lone
besides
me, myself and I
soleless
monosemous
short of
all of
alone
verbless
wanting
semifactual
plain
scratch the surface
verblessly
save
monotransitive verb
semilogical
outside
nay
mereologically
plainly
barring
onlyer
semicitizenship
vaguish
in a nutshell
monospermal
very
hesitater
monospermous
nonexcepted
unsimple
noncomprehensively
nonsimple
shit all
not entirely
exclusive
hand-to-mouth
lone wolfer
Rhadamanthine
least of all
apart
solely
a bit
monanthous
a tad
semicitizen
bare
sole
first and last
one
pure
mere
evendown
half-human
singular
solitary
vanitous
unheard-of
arcane
unigenital
verbal
monopersonal
one-handed
lone
soleless
monosemous
verbless
semifactual
semilogical
vaguish
monospermal
very
monospermous
nonexcepted
unsimple
nonsimple
hand-to-mouth
Rhadamanthine
monanthous
bare
just
nothing but
simply
eeny
nobbut
but
singularly
secundum quid
atself
nonsimply
strictly
purely
pro tanto
only
is all
hardly
merely
scarcely
tout court
all of
alone
plain
verblessly
nay
mereologically
plainly
in a nutshell
noncomprehensively
not entirely
least of all
solely
a bit
a tad
a fat lot
only
monotransitive verb
onlyer
semicitizenship
hesitater
shit all
exclusive
lone wolfer
semicitizen
swash someone's buckle
scratch the surface
adj
- Only.
- Unique; unsurpassed.
- With independent power; unfettered.
- Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
noun
- The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
- The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- The bottom of a furrow.
- The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
- The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
- The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
- The bottom of an embrasure.
- The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
- A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
verb
adv
adj
- Sole, only.
- Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
- Whole, entire.
- Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".
- The same.
- In agreement.
- Being a preeminent example.
- Of a period of time, being particular.
num
- The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
- The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
- The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
- The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
particle
- Used to emphasize or explain something, with an implied antecedent.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
- A nominalizer; used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
verb
noun
- One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
- A joke or amusing anecdote.
- A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
- A one-dollar bill.
- Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
- The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
- One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- The digit or figure 1.
pron
- The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
- Functions as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.
- Any person (applying to people in general).
- One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
- Any person, entity or thing.
- Used as a noun substituent following a possessive determiner.
adv
conj
- Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "except such that".
- However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (introducing a clause contrary to prior belief or in contrast with the preceding clause or sentence).
- Used to link an interjection to the following remark as an intensifier.
- On the contrary, rather (as a regular adversative conjunction, introducing a word or clause in contrast or contradiction with the preceding negative clause or sentence).
- Used at the beginning of a sentence to express opposition to a remark.
noun
- An instance or example of using the word "but".
- A limit; a boundary.
- The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
- The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
prep
adj
- Mere; that and that only.
- Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
- Free of foreign material or pollutants.
- Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
- Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
- Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
- A lot of.
- Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
adv
noun
verb
adv
det
- Only; alone; nothing but.
- Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or uncountable).
- Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer).
pron
- The only thing(s).
- Used after who, what, where, how and similar words, either without changing their meaning, or indicating that one expects that they cover more than one element, e.g. that "who all attended" is more than one person. (Some dialects only allow this to follow some words and not others.)
- Everything.
- Everyone.
adv
noun
adj
adj
verb
noun
pron
det
- Obscuring one to two oktas (eighths) of the sky.
- There are a few cars (=some, but a relatively small number) in the street.
- An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
- Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
- (US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.
adj
- Referring to only one thing or person.
- Being the only one of the kind; unique.
- Distinguished by superiority: peerless, unmatched, eminent, exceptional, extraordinary.
- Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.
- Out of the ordinary; curious.
- Each; individual.
- Being only one of a larger population.
- Not equal to its own cofinality.
- Having no inverse.
noun
adj
- Single; individual; sole.
- Performed, passed, or endured alone
- Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
- Not much visited or frequented; remote from society
- gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
- Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
- Not associated with others of the same kind.
noun
adj
phrase
noun
prefix
prep
- Except, other than, besides.
- Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
verb
- To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
- To prohibit.
- To lock or bolt with a bar.
noun
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A drilling or tamping rod.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- The counter of such premises.
- The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- The crossbar.
- Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
- Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- One of those musical sections.
- A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
adj
adj
adv
noun
- A lamentation.
- An expanse of land with relatively low relief, usually exclusive of forests, deserts, and wastelands.
adj
- Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).
- Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
- Not a trump.
- Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).
- Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
- Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
- Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.
- Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.
- Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
- Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.
- Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.
adv
prep
verb
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To store for future use.
- To economize or avoid waste.
- To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- To accumulate money or valuables.
conj
noun
- The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- A saving throw.
- A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
prep
- Except, apart from.
- Near, but not in.
- Beyond the scope, limits, or borders of.
- On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building).
noun
- The part of a road towards the central division: towards the right if one drives on the left, or towards the left if one drives on the right.
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the longer arc length; the side of a racetrack furthest from the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- The outer part of the sea, away from the peak of a wave.
- The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
- The external appearance of someone or something.
- The space beyond some limit or boundary.
- The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
adv
- Outdoors.
- To or in the outdoors or outside; to or in an area that is beyond the scope, limits, or borders of a given place.
- Not in prison.
verb
adj
- Away from the interior or center of something.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc.
- Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.
- Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
- Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.
- Positioned towards the shoulder of a road: towards the left-hand side if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)
- Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right.
prep
noun
adj
noun
adj
adj
adv
adj
noun
- A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only, solely, or simply.
- A member of a group who exclude others from their society.
- Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
adj
- Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.
- Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
- Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of celebrity, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
- Exclusionary.
- Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
- Whole, undivided, entire.
adv
adj
- Mere; without embellishment.
- A lot or lots of.
- Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
- Having no decoration.
- Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
- Threadbare, very worn.
- Naked, uncovered.
- Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
- Having no supplies.
- With head uncovered; bareheaded.
- Not insured.
verb
adv
noun
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