hot
compare
redeeming quality
ex negativo
bad
dusty
ambiactive
ungood
alternating
negatory
someone's arse off
negatively
no
plus
goodish
out of the ordinary
any longer
downside
anymore
well-meaning
sour note
cruel mistress
nonpositive
poxy
benign
don't
skerrick
review bomb
negative
negativize
bite
hypernegative
affirmative
tchick
baddish
second string
not much chop
paradiastole
devalue
ameliorate
never
dis-
blurse
average
womp womp
poisonous
unimpress
well and good
sad trombone
absolute
pretty
belting
impinge
that
no dice
mixed bag
common
negate
by a long way
not much cop
coarse
mixed picture
toxic
negativeness
bring oneself
ass
disfavourable
uncertain
abdicative
double negative
big
shoddily
fair to middling
let-down
crook
pack a sad
less
all right
give a hoot
give a hang
borderline
negatival
disparage
Exhibit A
care a hang
belittle
give a damn
sweet
nor
pick at
marginal
positive
good
disfavour
unworthiness
hot
bad
dusty
ambiactive
ungood
alternating
negatory
plus
goodish
well-meaning
nonpositive
poxy
benign
negative
hypernegative
affirmative
baddish
second string
not much chop
average
poisonous
well and good
absolute
pretty
belting
common
not much cop
coarse
toxic
ass
disfavourable
uncertain
big
fair to middling
crook
less
all right
borderline
negatival
marginal
positive
ex negativo
someone's arse off
negatively
any longer
anymore
never
that
shoddily
redeeming quality
no
downside
sour note
cruel mistress
skerrick
paradiastole
blurse
nonpositive
mixed bag
mixed picture
negativeness
abdicative
double negative
let-down
review bomb
Exhibit A
ungood
good
unworthiness
compare
don't
review bomb
negativize
bite
devalue
ameliorate
unimpress
impinge
negate
bring oneself
pack a sad
give a hoot
give a hang
disparage
care a hang
belittle
give a damn
pick at
disfavour
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
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
- 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.
intj
adv
verb
noun
noun
adj
adv
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.
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.
noun
conj
prep
adj
- reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive
- characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features
- expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
- not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition
adj
- having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant
- less than zero
- designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
- having a negative charge
- involving disadvantage or harm
noun
- a reply of denial
- a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed
verb
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.
adj
- Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
- Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
- Constituting or relating to the average.
- Typical.
noun
- Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
- The arithmetic mean.
- Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
- An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
- Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
- In the corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
- Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
verb
adj
- Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).
- Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
- Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.
- Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
- Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
- Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".
- Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
- Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
- Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
- Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
- Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or (sometimes contextually) certain kinds of occurrence.
- Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
- Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
- Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
- Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.
- Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.
- Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".
- Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of particles or compounded with a preverb.
- Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".
- Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.
- Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
- As measured using an absolute value.
noun
- A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.
- A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
- In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
- That which exists (or has a certain property, nature, size, etc) independent of references to other standards or external conditions; that which is universally valid; that which is not relative, conditional, qualified or mitigated.
- The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.
adj
noun
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
det
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.
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.
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.
adj
particle
noun
- The anus.
- A stupid person.
- Sex; a person to have sex with; with vulgar emphasis on their corporeality (their body) over their personhood.
- Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.
- A person; the self; (reflexively) oneself or one's person, chiefly their body. By extension, one's personal safety, or figuratively one's job, prospects, etc.
- The buttocks.
- Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden.
adj
- Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
- Important or significant.
- Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.
- Popular.
- Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
- Enthusiastic (about).
- Fat.
- Adult; (of a child) older.
- Populous.
- Of great size, large.
- Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
- Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.
- Old, mature. Used to imply that somebody is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
adv
- In a large amount or to a large extent.
- On a large scale, expansively.
- You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
- In a boasting manner.
- Hard.
- In a loud manner.
noun
adj
verb
- To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
- To become bent or hooked.
- To bend, or form into a hook.
noun
- A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- A pothook.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
adj
adv
intj
intj
adj
- An intensifier.
- Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
- Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
- Having a pleasant smell.
- Not having a salty taste.
- Fresh; not salt or brackish.
- Doing well; in a good or happy position.
- Retaining a portion of sugar.
- Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
- Having a helpful disposition.
- Having a pleasing disposition.
- Having a taste of sugar.
- Very pleasing; agreeable.
- Romantically fixated; enamored with; fond of.
- Having a pleasant sound.
- Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair.
adv
noun
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.
noun
- A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
- The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
- The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
- An item of merchandise.
adv
intj
verb
- To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
- To benefit; gain.
- To make improvements or repairs.
- To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
- To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
- To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
- To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
- To make good; turn to good; improve.
adj
- Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
- True, valid, of explanatory strength.
- Beneficial; worthwhile.
- Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
- Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
- Reasonable in amount.
- Accepting of, OK with
- Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
- Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
- Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
- Effective.
- Favourable.
- Unblemished; honourable.
- Very, extremely. See good and.
- Large in amount or size.
- Full; entire; at least as much as.
- Ready
- Healthful.
- Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
- Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
- Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
- Having a particularly pleasant taste.
- Pleasant; enjoyable.
- Competent or talented.
- Holy (especially when capitalized) .
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