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beatific
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adj 1: experiencing or bestowing celestial joy; "beatific peace"
2: marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel
or saint; "angelic beneficence"; "a beatific smile"; "a
saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother"
[syn: angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike,
saintly, sainted]
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calorific
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adj 1: heat-generating; "the calorific properties of fuels"
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hieroglyphic
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adj 1: resembling hieroglyphic writing [syn: hieroglyphic,
hieroglyphical]
2: written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial
symbols [syn: hieroglyphic, hieroglyphical]
n 1: writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being
illegible) [syn: hieroglyph, hieroglyphic]
2: a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt
[syn: hieroglyph, hieroglyphic]
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honorific
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adj 1: conferring or showing honor or respect; "honorific social
status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized
profession"
n 1: an expression of respect; "the Japanese use many
honorifics"
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horrific
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adj 1: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror;
"subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of
injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
[syn: hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous]
2: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful
risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that
London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster";
"polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a
dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions
shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire,
direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful,
fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific,
terrible]
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pacific
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adj 1: relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean; "Pacific
islands"
2: disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature; "the pacific
temper seeks to settle disputes on grounds of justice rather
than by force"; "a quiet and peaceable person"; "in a
peaceable and orderly manner" [syn: pacific, peaceable]
3: promoting peace; "the result of this pacific policy was that
no troops were called up"
n 1: the largest ocean in the world [syn: Pacific, Pacific
Ocean]
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prolific
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adj 1: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund
imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific]
2: bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are
extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" [syn: prolific,
fertile]
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pseudoscientific
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adj 1: based on theories and methods erroneously regarded as
scientific
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scientific
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adj 1: of or relating to the practice of science; "scientific
journals"
2: conforming with the principles or methods used in science; "a
scientific approach" [ant: unscientific]
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specific
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adj 1: (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized
by or distinguishing something particular or special or
unique; "rules with specific application"; "demands
specific to the job"; "a specific and detailed account of
the accident" [ant: general, nonspecific]
2: stated explicitly or in detail; "needed a specific amount"
3: relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic
species; "specific characters"
4: being or affecting a disease produced by a particular
microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used
in making microscope slides; "quinine is highly specific for
malaria"; "a specific remedy"; "a specific stain is one
having a specific affinity for particular structural
elements" [ant: nonspecific]
n 1: a fact about some part (as opposed to general); "he always
reasons from the particular to the general" [syn:
particular, specific] [ant: general]
2: a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific
disease; "quinine is a specific for malaria"
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terrific
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adj 1: very great or intense; "a terrific noise"; "a terrific
thunderstorm storm"; "fought a terrific battle"
2: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as
intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was
fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of
rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a
tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, grand,
howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a),
terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous]
3: causing extreme terror; "a terrifying wail" [syn: terrific,
terrifying]
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topographic
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adj 1: concerned with topography; "a topographical engineer"; "a
topographical survey"; "topographic maps" [syn:
topographical, topographic]
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traffic
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n 1: the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming
and going in a particular locality during a specified
period of time
2: buying and selling; especially illicit trade
3: the amount of activity over a communication system during a
given period of time; "heavy traffic overloaded the trunk
lines"; "traffic on the internet is lightest during the
night"
4: social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')
[syn: dealings, traffic]
v 1: deal illegally; "traffic drugs"
2: trade or deal a commodity; "They trafficked with us for gold"
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typographic
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adj 1: relating to or occurring or used in typography; "the
typographic art"; "a typographical error" [syn:
typographic, typographical]
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unscientific
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adj 1: not consistent with the methods or principles of science;
"an unscientific lack of objectivity" [ant: scientific]
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unspecific
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adj 1: not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad
outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread" [syn:
broad, unspecific]
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xerographic
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adj 1: of or relating to xerography
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sapphic
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adj 1: a meter used by Sappho and named after her
2: of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations
between woman [syn: lesbian, sapphic]
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barographic
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adj 1: relating to or registered by a barograph
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nonspecific
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adj 1: not caused by a specific agent; used also of staining in
making microscope slides; "nonspecific enteritis" [ant:
specific]
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calcific
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adj 1: involving or resulting from calcification
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conspecific
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adj 1: belonging to the same species; "cultivated cabbage and
wild cabbage are conspecific"
n 1: an organism belonging to the same species as another
organism
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transpacific
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zoogeographic
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orographic
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reprographic
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tomographic
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maffick
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edaphic
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cacographic
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colorific
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