partitive
notional opposite
undergeneralize
underrepresent
downwards
subdefinition
abapical
subsense
contrast
equivocal
fractional number
discern
excuse
antonym
antonymous
smaller
correspondent
contrapose
littler
analogous
minimizer
lowland
second best
heteronymy
-phobe
meronym
omental bursa
countersense
near-synonym
metonym
referential
Saker falcon
abbreviation
-ette
exception
partword
umbrella term
foil
differing
alternative
parasynonym
-less
confusable
somewhat
half-identical
subminimally
semimean
regionalism
unique
plesionym
diminutive
netherward
patch
altricious
not
pertainym
subceed
fraction
wanting
improper noun
referent
abbreviate
derogate
counterdefinition
partitionary
derivative
counter
reverse
foot
negatival
gimp
opposite
antipodes
otherly
contrariant
oppositeness
reciprocal
abstract language
ticky-tacky
undertone
micro
odd bod
metonymic
-phobia
wordlet
shortness
despective
flip side
minimize
subpartial
word
antigram
holy
metaphor
token
antiphrase
short
bizarro
particular
abapical
antonymous
smaller
correspondent
littler
analogous
partitive
referential
differing
alternative
half-identical
semimean
diminutive
netherward
altricious
abbreviate
partitionary
negatival
otherly
ticky-tacky
micro
metonymic
subpartial
holy
short
bizarro
particular
downwards
subminimally
not
partitive
notional opposite
subdefinition
subsense
contrast
equivocal
fractional number
excuse
antonym
minimizer
lowland
second best
heteronymy
meronym
omental bursa
countersense
near-synonym
metonym
Saker falcon
abbreviation
exception
partword
umbrella term
foil
parasynonym
confusable
somewhat
regionalism
unique
plesionym
patch
pertainym
fraction
improper noun
referent
counterdefinition
derivative
counter
reverse
foot
gimp
opposite
antipodes
contrariant
oppositeness
reciprocal
abstract language
odd bod
wordlet
shortness
despective
flip side
antigram
metaphor
token
antiphrase
undergeneralize
underrepresent
discern
contrapose
subceed
derogate
undertone
minimize
word
noun
- Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.
- A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
- Antithesis.
- is a substance used to increase the contrast of structures or fluids within the body in medical imaging.
- The degree of this difference.
- A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality.
- Explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.
- A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.
verb
noun
- The unrelatedness of words for items that are related by being members of a single category.
- Dissimilarity of people in a single group.
- The use of multiple names for a single person or thing; polyonymy
- A single word or symbol that can have different but related meanings.
- The condition of being heteronyms; the relationship between two words with different meanings and either the same spelling or the same pronunciation but not both.
- Resulting from the actions of multiple or external causal agents.
noun
noun
- That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.
- An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; — usually followed by to or against.
- An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
- An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be raised ("thrown") by one part of the program and handled ("caught") by another part.
- The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
noun
- Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
- Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
- A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
- A very thin sheet of metal.
- A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
- A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
- In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.
- One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
- A stylized flower or leaf.
- Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- The track of an animal.
verb
adj
- Other; different from something else.
- Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
- Presenting two or more alternatives.
- Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.
noun
- A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
- One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
- alternative rock
- A non-offensive word or phrase that serves as a replacement for a word deemed offensive or unacceptable, though not as a euphemism.
- The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
noun
- A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
- A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
- A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.
- A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
- A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
- A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
- An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
- A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
- A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.
- A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
- A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- A local region of professional responsibility.
- A piece of material used to cover a wound.
- An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
- A patch file, a file that describes changes to be made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug.
verb
- To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
- To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
- To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
- To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
- To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
- To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
- To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like
- To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
- To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
verb
noun
- A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.
- A ratio of two numbers (numerator and denominator), usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar called the vinculum or, alternately, in sequence on the same line and separated by a solidus (diagonal bar).
- A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.
- A small amount.
- In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the host.
verb
adj
verb
noun
- A word that derives from another one.
- A financial instrument whose value depends on the valuation of an underlying asset; such as a warrant, an option etc.
- The value of such a derived function for a given value of its independent variable: the rate of change of a function at a point in its domain.
- The linear operator that maps functions to their derived functions, usually written D; the simplest differential operator.
- Something derived.
- Any of several related generalizations of the derivative: the directional derivative, partial derivative, Fréchet derivative, functional derivative, etc.
- A chemical derived from another.
- The derived function of f(x): the function giving the instantaneous rate of change of f; equivalently, the function giving the slope of the line tangent to the graph of f. Written f'(x) or (df)/(dx) in Leibniz's notation, ̇f(x) in Newton's notation (the latter used particularly when the independent variable is time).
adj
- Having a value that depends on an underlying asset of variable value.
- Lacking originality.
- Imitative of the work of someone else.
- Obtained by derivation; not radical, original, or fundamental.
- Referring to a work, such as a translation or adaptation, based on another work that may be subject to copyright restrictions.
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
- The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
verb
- To contradict, oppose.
- To take action in response to; to respond.
- To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
adv
adj
noun
- The opposite of something.
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
- The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
verb
- To transpose the positions of two things.
- To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
- To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
- To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- To turn something inside out or upside down.
adj
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
- Reversed.
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
noun
- the lower part of anything
- the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
- a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
- the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
- lowest support of a structure
- any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
- travel by walking
- a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
- a support resembling a pedal extremity
verb
noun
- A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar
- The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
- Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
- A crippled leg.
- A character or ability that is underpowered.
- A limp or a limping gait.
- A sexual submissive, almost always male, dressed generally in a black leather suit. See Gimp (sadomasochism) in Wikipedia.
- A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
- A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
verb
- To limp; to hobble.
- To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.
- To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- An antonym.
- An additive inverse.
prep
adv
adj
- Facing in the other direction.
- Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
noun
- something (a term or expression or concept) that has an inverse relation to something else
- (mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7
- hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype
adj
adj
verb
- To present as less important, noticeable or prominent.
- To accompany as an undertone.
- To say or speak in an undertone.
noun
- A pale colour, or one seen underneath another colour.
- A low state of the physical faculties.
- An implicit message perceived subtly alongside, but not detracting noticeably from, the explicit message conveyed in or by a book, film, verbal dialogue or similar (contrast with overtone); an undercurrent.
- An auditory tone of low pitch or volume.
verb
- To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
- To conjure with a word.
- To ply or overpower with words.
intj
- Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond."
- An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.
noun
- An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
- A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
- A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning
- The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
- The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
- A minor reprimand.
- Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
- News; tidings
- A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
- A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
- A brief discussion or conversation.
- A promise; an oath or guarantee.
- See words.
- The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
- A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
- The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
- A finite string that is not a command or operator.
- A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
- Logos, Christ.
- Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
adj
- Separated or set apart from (something unto something or someone else).
- Revered in a religion.
- Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
- Morally perfect or flawless, or nearly so.
- Set apart or dedicated for a specific purpose, or for use by a single entity or person.
- Dedicated to a religious purpose or a god.
intj
noun
- The use of a word or phrase to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word or phrase.
- A word or phrase used in such implied comparison.
- The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.
verb
noun
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A keepsake.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- A tally.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
adj
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- He was hired as the company's token black person.
- Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
verb
adj
- Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
- bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Having little duration.
- that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Of comparatively small height.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- that is relatively close to the batsman.
- Undiluted; neat.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Doubtful of, skeptical of.
noun
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- A short film.
- A shortstop.
- A short seller.
- An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
- A short circuit.
- A short sale or short position.
- An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- A summary account.
prep
verb
- To shortchange.
- To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- To short circuit.
- To cause a short circuit in (something).
adv
adj
- Distinguished in some way; special (often in negative constructions).
- Specialised; characteristic of a specific person or thing.
- Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.
- Containing a part only; limited.
- Holding a particular estate.
- Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise.
- Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject.
- Specific; discrete; concrete.
noun
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