Words that rhyme with annul

• invitational 3
  adj 1: pertaining to or characteristic of an invitation
• abdominal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or near the abdomen; "abdominal muscles" n 1: the muscles of the abdomen [syn: abdominal, abdominal muscle, ab]
• aboriginal 0
  adj 1: of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of Australia; "an Aboriginal rite" 2: characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia" [syn: native, aboriginal] [ant: nonnative] 3: having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life" [syn: aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial] n 1: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: Aborigine, Abo, Aboriginal, native Australian, Australian Aborigine] 2: an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students" [syn: native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal]
• additional 0
  adj 1: further or added; "called for additional troops"; "need extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes" [syn: extra, additional]
• anal 0
  adj 1: of or related to the anus; "anal thermometer" 2: a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc. [syn: anal, anal retentive] [ant: oral]
• angle 0
  n 1: the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians 2: a biased way of looking at or presenting something [syn: slant, angle] 3: a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons v 1: move or proceed at an angle; "he angled his way into the room" 2: to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister" [syn: lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle] 3: seek indirectly; "fish for compliments" [syn: fish, angle] 4: fish with a hook 5: present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders" [syn: slant, angle, weight]
• arbitrational 0
  adj 1: relating to or resulting from arbitration; "the arbitral adjustment of the controversy"; "an arbitrational settlement" [syn: arbitral, arbitrational]
• arsenal 0
  n 1: all the weapons and equipment that a country has [syn: arsenal, armory, armoury] 2: a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms [syn: arsenal, armory, armoury] 3: a place where arms are manufactured [syn: armory, armoury, arsenal]
• attitudinal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to attitudes
• bisectional 0
  adj 1: of or relating to bisection
• cacuminal 0
  adj 1: pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate [syn: cacuminal, retroflex]
• cantonal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a canton
• cardinal 0
  adj 1: serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure" [syn: cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal] 2: being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers" [ant: ordinal] n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes 2: the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order [syn: cardinal number, cardinal] 3: a variable color averaging a vivid red [syn: cardinal, carmine] 4: crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male [syn: cardinal, cardinal grosbeak, Richmondena Cardinalis, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird]
• channel 0
  n 1: a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company" [syn: channel, transmission channel] 2: a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; "the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"; "gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street" 3: a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) [syn: groove, channel] 4: a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels; "the ship went aground in the channel" 5: (often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms" [syn: channel, communication channel, line] 6: a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; "the tear duct was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs" [syn: duct, epithelial duct, canal, channel] 7: a television station and its programs; "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels" [syn: channel, television channel, TV channel] 8: a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors; "possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores" [syn: distribution channel, channel] v 1: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel] 2: direct the flow of; "channel information towards a broad audience" [syn: channel, canalize, canalise] 3: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise]
• coeducational 0
  adj 1: attended by members of both sexes [syn: co-ed, coeducational]
• computational 0
  adj 1: of or involving computation or computers; "computational linguistics"
• conditional 0
  adj 1: qualified by reservations 2: imposing or depending on or containing a condition; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid" [ant: unconditional, unconditioned]
• confessional 0
  n 1: a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
• congregational 0
  adj 1: relating to or conducted or participated in by a congregation; "congregational membership"; "congregational singing" 2: of or pertaining to or characteristic of a Congregational church [syn: Congregational, Congregationalist]
• congressional 0
  adj 1: of or relating to congress; "congressional hearing"
• constitutional 0
  adj 1: of benefit to or intended to benefit your physical makeup; "constitutional walk" 2: sanctioned by or consistent with or operating under the law determining the fundamental political principles of a government; "the constitutional right of free speech"; "constitutional government"; "constitutional guarantees" [ant: unconstitutional] 3: existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; "the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity"; "a constitutional inability to tell the truth" [syn: built- in, constitutional, inbuilt, inherent, integral] 4: constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) [syn: constituent(a), constitutional, constitutive(a), organic] n 1: a regular walk taken as a form of exercise
• conventional 0
  adj 1: following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" [ant: unconventional] 2: conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" [syn: conventional, established] 3: (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons" [ant: atomic, nuclear] 4: unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" [ant: unconventional] 5: represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn: conventional, formal, schematic] 6: in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake" 7: rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt" [syn: ceremonious, conventional]
• conversational 0
  adj 1: characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English" [syn: colloquial, conversational]
• coronal 0
  n 1: flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes [syn: wreath, garland, coronal, chaplet, lei]
• correctional 0
  adj 1: concerned with or providing correction; "a correctional institution"
• criminal 0
  adj 1: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious] 2: guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of God and man" 3: involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent" [syn: criminal, felonious] n 1: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime [syn: criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor]
• cull 0
  n 1: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality [syn: cull, reject] v 1: remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd" 2: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn: pick, pluck, cull]
• delusional 0
  adj 1: suffering from or characterized by delusions
• denominational 0
  adj 1: relating to or characteristic of a particular religious denomination; "denominational politics" 2: relating to the face value of a banknote, coin, or stamp 3: adhering or confined to a particular sect or denomination; "denominational prejudice"
• devotional 0
  adj 1: relating to worship; "a devotional exercise" n 1: a short religious service
• diagonal 0
  adj 1: connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face; "a diagonal line across the page" 2: having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping] n 1: (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent 2: a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric [syn: diagonal, bias] 3: an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard; "the bishop moves on the diagonals" 4: (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry 5: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information [syn: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix]
• dimensional 0
  adj 1: of or relating to dimensions 2: having dimension--the quality or character or stature proper to a person; "never matures as a dimensional character; he is pasty, bland, faceless"- Norman Cousins
• directional 0
  adj 1: relating to or indicating directions in space; "a directional microphone" [ant: omnidirectional] 2: relating to direction toward a (nonspatial) goal; "he tried to explain the directional trends of modern science" 3: showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on; "felt his mother's directing arm around him"; "the directional role of science on industrial progress" [syn: directing, directional, directive, guiding]
• dismantle 0
  v 1: tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled" [syn: level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down] [ant: erect, put up, raise, rear, set up] 2: take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart] [ant: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together] 3: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn: strip, dismantle]
• disproportional 0
  adj 1: out of proportion [syn: disproportionate, disproportional] [ant: proportionate]
• divisional 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a military division; "divisional artillery" 2: serving to divide or marking a division; "the divisional line between two states" 3: constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit; "American divisional (fractional) coins include the dime and the nickel"; "fractional currency is currency in denominations less than the basic monetary unit"
• doctrinal 0
  adj 1: relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine; "quibbling over doctrinal minutiae"
• dull 0
  adj 1: lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods" [ant: lively] 2: emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" [ant: bright] 3: being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets" [syn: dull, muffled, muted, softened] 4: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome] 5: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues" 6: not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" [ant: sharp] 7: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow] 8: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow, sluggish] 9: not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" [ant: sharp] 10: blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather 11: not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets" [syn: dull, thudding] 12: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick" [syn: dull, leaden] v 1: make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface" 2: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time" 3: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down] 4: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull] 5: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" [syn: dull, blunt] [ant: sharpen] 6: become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull] 7: make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"
• duodenal 0
  adj 1: in or relating to the duodenum; "duodenal ulcer"
• educational 0
  adj 1: relating to the process of education; "educational psychology" 2: providing knowledge; "an educational film"
• emotional 0
  adj 1: determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason; "it was an emotional judgment" [ant: cerebral, intellectual] 2: of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional" [ant: unemotional] 3: of or pertaining to emotion; "emotional health"; "an emotional crisis" 4: (of persons) excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise" [syn: aroused, emotional, excited, worked up]
• empanel 0
  v 1: enter into a list of prospective jurors [syn: empanel, impanel] 2: select from a list; "empanel prospective jurors" [syn: empanel, impanel, panel]
• exceptional 0
  adj 1: far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents" [syn: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing] 2: surpassing what is common or usual or expected; "he paid especial attention to her"; "exceptional kindness"; "a matter of particular and unusual importance"; "a special occasion"; "a special reason to confide in her"; "what's so special about the year 2000?" [syn: especial(a), exceptional, particular(a), special] 3: deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence; "special educational provisions for exceptional children"
• fictional 0
  adj 1: related to or involving literary fiction; "clever fictional devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train robbery" [ant: nonfictional] 2: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character" [syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious]
• flannel 0
  n 1: a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing 2: bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body [syn: washcloth, washrag, flannel, face cloth] 3: (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth [syn: flannel, gabardine, tweed, white]
• fractional 0
  adj 1: constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety; "a fractional share of the vote"; "a partial dose" [ant: whole]
• functional 0
  adj 1: designed for or capable of a particular function or use; "a style of writing in which every word is functional"; "functional architecture" [ant: nonfunctional] 2: involving or affecting function rather than physiology; "functional deafness" [ant: organic] 3: relating to or based on function especially as opposed to structure; "the problem now is not a constitutional one; it is a functional one"; "delegates elected on a functional rather than a geographical basis" 4: fit or ready for use or service; "the toaster was still functional even after being dropped"; "the lawnmower is a bit rusty but still usable"; "an operational aircraft"; "the dishwasher is now in working order" [syn: functional, usable, useable, operable, operational] 5: designed for or adapted to a function or use; "functional education selects knowledge that is concrete and usable rather than abstract and theoretical"; "functional architecture" 6: (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes" [syn: running(a), operative, functional, working(a)]
• funnel 0
  n 1: a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends [syn: funnel, funnel shape] 2: a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth 3: (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship) v 1: move or pour through a funnel; "funnel the liquid into the small bottle"
• generational 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a generation
• gravel 0
  n 1: rock fragments and pebbles [syn: gravel, crushed rock] v 1: cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" [syn: annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil] 2: cover with gravel; "We gravelled the driveway" 3: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]
• gull 0
  n 1: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug] 2: mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs [syn: gull, seagull, sea gull] v 1: make a fool or dupe of [syn: fool, gull, befool] 2: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across]
• hexagonal 0
  adj 1: having six sides or divided into hexagons [syn: hexangular, hexagonal]
• hull 0
  n 1: dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut 2: persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry 3: United States naval officer who commanded the `Constitution' during the War of 1812 and won a series of brilliant victories against the British (1773-1843) [syn: Hull, Isaac Hull] 4: United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations (1871-1955) [syn: Hull, Cordell Hull] 5: a large fishing port in northeastern England [syn: Hull, Kingston-upon Hull] 6: the frame or body of ship v 1: remove the hulls from; "hull the berries"
• impersonal 0
  adj 1: not relating to or responsive to individual persons; "an impersonal corporation"; "an impersonal remark" [ant: personal] 2: having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a neutral observer" [syn: impersonal, neutral]
• intentional 0
  adj 1: characterized by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time" [syn: intentional, knowing] 2: done or made or performed with purpose and intent; "style...is more than the deliberate and designed creation"- Havelock Ellis; "games designed for all ages"; "well-designed houses" [syn: designed, intentional] [ant: undesigned]
• intestinal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or inside the intestines; "intestinal disease" [syn: intestinal, enteric, enteral]
• irrational 0
  adj 1: not consistent with or using reason; "irrational fears"; "irrational animals" [ant: rational] 2: real but not expressible as the quotient of two integers; "irrational numbers" [ant: rational] n 1: a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number [syn: irrational number, irrational]
• juvenile 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people; "juvenile diabetes"; "juvenile fashions" 2: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile] n 1: a young person, not fully developed [syn: juvenile, juvenile person] [ant: adult, grownup]
• latitudinal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to latitudes north or south
• longitudinal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to lines of longitude; "longitudinal reckoning by the navigator" 2: running lengthwise; "a thin longitudinal strip"; "longitudinal measurements of the hull" 3: over an extended time; "a longitudinal study of twins"
• lull 0
  n 1: a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished; "there was never a letup in the noise" [syn: letup, lull] 2: a period of calm weather; "there was a lull in the storm" [syn: lull, quiet] v 1: calm by deception; "Don't let yourself be lulled into a false state of security" 2: become quiet or less intensive; "the fighting lulled for a moment" [syn: lull, calm down] 3: make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear" [syn: calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still] [ant: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on]
• marginal 0
  adj 1: at or constituting a border or edge; "the marginal strip of beach" [syn: fringy, marginal] 2: of questionable or minimal quality; "borderline grades"; "marginal writing ability" [syn: borderline, marginal] 3: just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory" [syn: bare(a), marginal] 4: producing at a rate that barely covers production costs; "marginal industries"
• medicinal 0
  adj 1: having the properties of medicine; "medicative drugs"; "medicinal herbs"; "medicinal properties" [syn: medicative, medicinal]
• motivational 0
  adj 1: of or relating to motivation
• mull 0
  n 1: a term used in Scottish names of promontories; "the Mull of Kintyre" 2: an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides v 1: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate] 2: heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink; "mulled cider"
• national 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country; "national hero"; "national anthem"; "a national landmark" 2: limited to or in the interests of a particular nation; "national interests"; "isolationism is a strictly national policy" [ant: international] 3: concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country; "the national government"; "national elections"; "of national concern"; "the national highway system"; "national forests" [ant: local] 4: owned or maintained for the public by the national government; "national parks" 5: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a), internal, national] 6: characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation; "a national trait" 7: of or relating to nationality; "national origin" n 1: a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects" [syn: national, subject]
• navigational 0
  adj 1: of or relating to navigation; "navigational aids"
• nominal 0
  adj 1: relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name; "the Russian system of nominal brevity"; "a nominal lists of priests"; "taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls" 2: insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; "a toknenish gesture" [syn: nominal, token(a), tokenish] 3: pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase" 4: of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation; "the nominal GDP"; "nominal interest rates" [ant: real] 5: named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock" [syn: nominative, nominal] 6: existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party" [syn: nominal, titular] n 1: a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb [syn: noun phrase, nominal phrase, nominal]
• notional 0
  adj 1: not based on fact; unreal; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself" [syn: fanciful, imaginary, notional] 2: not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge" [syn: notional, speculative] 3: indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood" [syn: fanciful, notional] 4: being of the nature of a notion or concept; "a plan abstract and conceptional"; "to improve notional comprehension"; "a notional response to the question" [syn: conceptional, ideational, notional]
• null 0
  adj 1: lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" [syn: null, void] n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
• numskull 0
  n 1: a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead]
• nutritional 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or providing nutrition; "nutritional information" [syn: nutritional, nutritionary]
• occasional 0
  adj 1: occurring from time to time; "took an occasional glass of wine" 2: occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals; "episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches" [syn: episodic, occasional] 3: occurring from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker" [syn: casual, occasional] 4: recurring or reappearing from time to time; "periodic feelings of anxiety" [syn: periodic, occasional]
• occupational 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the activity or business for which you are trained; "occupational hazard"
• octagonal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or shaped like an octagon [syn: octangular, octagonal]
• operational 0
  adj 1: pertaining to a process or series of actions for achieving a result; "operational difficulties"; "they assumed their operational positions" 2: fit or ready for use or service; "the toaster was still functional even after being dropped"; "the lawnmower is a bit rusty but still usable"; "an operational aircraft"; "the dishwasher is now in working order" [syn: functional, usable, useable, operable, operational] 3: (military) of or intended for or involved in military operations [ant: inactive, nonoperational] 4: being in effect or operation; "de facto apartheid is still operational even in the `new' African nations"- Leslie Marmon Silko; "bus service is in operation during the emergency"; "the company had several operating divisions" [syn: operational, in operation(p), operating(a)]
• optional 0
  adj 1: possible but not necessary; left to personal choice [ant: obligatory]
• original 0
  adj 1: preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed; "the original inhabitants of the Americas"; "the book still has its original binding"; "restored the house to its original condition"; "the original performance of the opera"; "the original cast"; "retracted his original statement" 2: (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources" 3: being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind" [ant: unoriginal] 4: not derived or copied or translated from something else; "the play is original; not an adaptation"; "he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox"; "the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French" n 1: an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made [syn: master, master copy, original] 2: something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies; "this painting is a copy of the original" [syn: original, archetype, pilot]
• panel 0
  n 1: sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something 2: a committee appointed to judge a competition [syn: jury, panel] 3: (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen) [syn: panel, venire] 4: a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc 5: a soft pad placed under a saddle 6: a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails [syn: gore, panel] 7: (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with `okay' or `cancel' [syn: dialog box, panel] 8: electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices; "he checked the instrument panel"; "suddenly the board lit up like a Christmas tree" [syn: control panel, instrument panel, control board, board, panel] v 1: decorate with panels; "panel the walls with wood" 2: select from a list; "empanel prospective jurors" [syn: empanel, impanel, panel]
• phenomenal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a phenomenon; "phenomenal science" 2: exceedingly or unbelievably great; "the bomb did fantastic damage"; "Samson is supposed to have had fantastic strength"; "phenomenaRl feats of memory"
• polygonal 0
  adj 1: having many sides or relating to a surface marked by polygons; "polygonal structure"
• processional 0
  adj 1: intended for use in a procession; "processional music"; "processional cross" 2: of or relating to or characteristic of a procession; "in good processional order" n 1: religious music used in a procession [syn: processional, prosodion]
• professional 0
  adj 1: engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood; "the professional man or woman possesses distinctive qualifications"; "began her professional career after the Olympics"; "professional theater"; "professional football"; "a professional cook"; "professional actors and athletes" [ant: nonprofessional] 2: of or relating to or suitable as a profession; "professional organizations"; "a professional field such as law" 3: characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession; "professional conduct"; "professional ethics"; "a thoroughly professional performance" [ant: unprofessional] 4: of or relating to a profession; "we need professional advice"; "professional training"; "professional equipment for his new office" 5: engaged in by members of a profession; "professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching" n 1: a person engaged in one of the learned professions [syn: professional, professional person] 2: an athlete who plays for pay [syn: professional, pro] [ant: amateur] 3: an authority qualified to teach apprentices [syn: master, professional]
• promotional 0
  adj 1: of or relating to serving as publicity; "promotional fares" 2: of or relating to advancement; "promotional exams"
• proportional 0
  adj 1: properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'; "the punishment ought to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings relative to production" [syn: proportional, relative] 2: having a constant ratio n 1: one of the quantities in a mathematical proportion
• provisional 0
  adj 1: under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule" [syn: probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative]
• rational 0
  adj 1: consistent with or based on or using reason; "rational behavior"; "a process of rational inference"; "rational thought" [ant: irrational] 2: of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man" [syn: intellectual, rational, noetic] 3: capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers; "rational numbers" [ant: irrational] 4: having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion); "a rational analysis" n 1: an integer or a fraction [syn: rational number, rational]
• recessional 0
  adj 1: of or relating to receding n 1: the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service [syn: recession, recessional] 2: a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw
• recreational 0
  adj 1: of or relating to recreation; "a recreational area with a pool and ball fields" 2: engaged in as a pastime; "an amateur painter"; "gained valuable experience in amateur theatricals"; "recreational golfers"; "reading matter that is both recreational and mentally stimulating"; "unpaid extras in the documentary" [syn: amateur, recreational, unpaid]
• regional 0
  adj 1: characteristic of a region; "regional flora" 2: related or limited to a particular region; "a regional dialect"
• relational 0
  adj 1: having a relation or being related
• retinal 0
  adj 1: in or relating to the retina of the eye; "retinal cells" n 1: either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from rhodopsin by the action of light [syn: retinene, retinal]
• rotational 0
  adj 1: of or pertaining to rotation; "rotational inertia"
• runnel 0
  n 1: a small stream [syn: rivulet, rill, run, runnel, streamlet]
• scull 0
  n 1: a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward 2: each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman 3: a racing shell that is propelled by sculls v 1: propel with sculls; "scull the boat"
• seagull 0
  n 1: mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs [syn: gull, seagull, sea gull]
• seasonal 0
  adj 1: occurring at or dependent on a particular season; "seasonal labor"; "a seasonal rise in unemployment" [ant: year-around, year-round] n 1: a worker who finds employment only in certain seasons [syn: seasonal worker, seasonal]
• sectional 0
  adj 1: relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane); "a sectional view"; "sectional drawings" 2: consisting of or divided into sections; "a sectional sofa"; "sectioned plates" [syn: sectional, sectioned] 3: related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of a territory or community or group of people; "sectional tensions arose over slavery" n 1: a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together
• seminal 0
  adj 1: pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen; "seminal fluid" 2: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: germinal, originative, seminal]
• sensational 0
  adj 1: causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion [ant: unsensational] 2: commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance" [syn: arresting, sensational, stunning] 3: relating to or concerned in sensation; "the sensory cortex"; "sensory organs" [syn: sensational, sensory]

See also annul definition and annul synonyms