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circumstantial
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adj 1: fully detailed and specific about particulars; "a
circumstantial report about the debate"
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consubstantial
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adj 1: regarded as the same in substance or essence (as of the
three persons of the Trinity)
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essential
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adj 1: absolutely necessary; vitally necessary; "essential tools
and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the
project"; "an indispensable worker" [syn: essential,
indispensable]
2: basic and fundamental; "the essential feature" [ant:
inessential, unessential]
3: of the greatest importance; "the all-important subject of
disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves
are of the essence" [syn: all-important(a), all
important(p), crucial, essential, of the essence(p)]
4: being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant
etc; "essential oil"
5: defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by
which rights and duties are established; "substantive law"
[syn: substantive, essential] [ant: adjective,
procedural]
n 1: anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities
of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers
to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a
place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be
obtained" [syn: necessity, essential, requirement,
requisite, necessary] [ant: inessential,
nonessential]
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financial
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adj 1: involving financial matters; "fiscal responsibility"
[syn: fiscal, financial] [ant: nonfinancial]
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insubstantial
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adj 1: lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as
insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on
the horizon" [syn: insubstantial, unsubstantial,
unreal] [ant: material, real, substantial]
2: lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very
poor" [syn: insubstantial, jejune]
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penitential
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adj 1: showing or constituting penance; "penitential tears";
"wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty
words" [syn: penitential, penitentiary]
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pestilential
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adj 1: likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a
pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift;
"plaguey fevers" [syn: pestilent, pestilential,
pestiferous, plaguey]
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potential
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adj 1: existing in possibility; "a potential problem"; "possible
uses of nuclear power" [syn: potential, possible]
[ant: actual, existent]
2: expected to become or be; in prospect; "potential clients"
[syn: likely, potential]
n 1: the inherent capacity for coming into being [syn:
potential, potentiality, potency]
2: the difference in electrical charge between two points in a
circuit expressed in volts [syn: electric potential,
potential, potential difference, potential drop,
voltage]
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preferential
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adj 1: manifesting partiality; "a discriminatory tax";
"preferential tariff rates"; "preferential treatment"; "a
preferential shop gives priority or advantage to union
members in hiring or promoting" [syn: discriminatory,
preferential]
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presidential
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adj 1: relating to a president or presidency; "presidential
aides"; "presidential veto"
2: befitting a president; "criticized the candidate for not
looking presidential" [ant: unpresidential]
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providential
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adj 1: peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine
intervention; "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"; "a
providential recovery" [syn: heaven-sent,
providential, miraculous]
2: relating to or characteristic of providence; "assumption that
nature operates only according to a providential plan"-
M.R.Cohen
3: resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a
providential visitation" [syn: providential, divine]
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provincial
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adj 1: of or associated with a province; "provincial government"
2: characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply
provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I
felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
[ant: cosmopolitan]
n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an
ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general
of a religious order; "the general of the Jesuits receives
monthly reports from the provincials"
2: a country person [syn: peasant, provincial, bucolic]
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prudential
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adj 1: arising from or characterized by prudence especially in
business matters; "he abstained partly for prudential
reasons"
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quintessential
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adj 1: representing the perfect example of a class or quality
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referential
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adj 1: referring or pointing to something; "symbols are
inherently referential"
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residential
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adj 1: used or designed for residence or limited to residences;
"a residential hotel"; "a residential quarter"; "a
residential college"; "residential zoning" [ant:
nonresidential]
2: of or relating to or connected with residence; "a residential
requirement for the doctorate"
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reverential
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adj 1: feeling or manifesting veneration [syn: respectful,
reverential, venerating]
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sentential
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adj 1: of or relating to a sentence; "the sentential subject"
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sequential
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adj 1: in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts"
[syn: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial,
successive]
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substantial
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adj 1: fairly large; "won by a substantial margin" [syn:
significant, substantial]
2: having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important,
meaningful, or considerable; "substantial equivalents" [syn:
substantial, substantive]
3: having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not
imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither
substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial
things"- Shakespeare [syn: substantial, real, material]
[ant: insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial]
4: providing abundant nourishment; "a hearty meal"; "good solid
food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"; "four square meals a
day" [syn: hearty, satisfying, solid, square,
substantial]
5: of good quality and condition; solidly built; "a solid
foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings" [syn:
solid, strong, substantial]
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tangential
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adj 1: of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion
to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark" [syn:
digressive, tangential]
2: of or relating to or acting along or in the direction of a
tangent; "tangential forces"
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torrential
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adj 1: relating to or resulting from the action of a torrent;
"torrential erosion"; "torrential adaptations seen in
some aquatic forms"
2: resembling a torrent in force and abundance; "torrential
applause"; "torrential abuse"; "the torrential facility and
fecundity characteristic of his style"- Winthrop Sargeant
3: pouring in abundance; "torrential rains"
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uncial
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adj 1: relating to or written in majuscule letters (which
resemble modern capitals); "uncial letters"
n 1: a style of orthography characterized by somewhat rounded
capital letters; found especially in Greek and Latin
manuscripts of the 4th to 8th centuries
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unessential
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adj 1: not basic or fundamental [syn: inessential,
unessential] [ant: essential]
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unsubstantial
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adj 1: lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as
insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on
the horizon" [syn: insubstantial, unsubstantial,
unreal] [ant: material, real, substantial]
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conventual
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adj 1: of communal life sequestered from the world under
religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral,
conventual, monastic, monastical]
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nonfinancial
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adj 1: not involving financial matters [ant: financial,
fiscal]
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sapiential
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adj 1: characterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God; "a
sapiential government"
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cadential
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sciential
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