Words that rhyme with hippocurius

adj 1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular] 2: eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings" [ant: incurious] 3: having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me curious"

adj 1: experiencing delirium [syn: delirious, hallucinating] 2: marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" [syn: delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained]

adj 1: marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: ferocious, fierce, furious, savage] 2: marked by extreme anger; "the enraged bull attached"; "furious about the accident"; "a furious scowl"; "infuriated onlookers charged the police who were beating the boy"; "could not control the maddened crowd" [syn: angered, enraged, furious, infuriated, maddened] 3: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous, wild]

adj 1: having or deserving or conferring glory; "a long and glorious career"; "our glorious literature" [ant: inglorious] 2: characterized by grandeur; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony" [syn: brilliant, glorious, magnificent, splendid] 3: having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity" [syn: glorious, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous]

adj 1: showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity; "strangely incurious about the cause of the political upheaval surrounding them" [ant: curious]

adj 1: harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives" [syn: deleterious, hurtful, injurious]

adj 1: of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying] 2: having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients" [syn: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic]

adj 1: showing excessive curiosity

n 1: a large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach; secretes pancreatic juice and insulin

adj 1: concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so serious!" [ant: frivolous] 2: of great consequence; "marriage is a serious matter" 3: causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease" [syn: dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening] 4: appealing to the mind; "good music"; "a serious book" [syn: good, serious] 5: completely lacking in playfulness [syn: unplayful, serious, sober] [ant: playful] 6: requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve; "raised serious objections to the proposal"; "the plan has a serious flaw"

adj 1: plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences" [syn: specious, spurious] 2: born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman [syn: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious] 3: intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art" [syn: inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious]

adj 1: greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending" [syn: exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious]

adj 1: having won; "the victorious entry"; "the winning team" [syn: victorious, winning] 2: experiencing triumph [syn: triumphant, victorious]

adj 1: of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye; "the vitreous chamber" 2: relating to or resembling or derived from or containing glass; "vitreous rocks"; "vitreous silica" 3: (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures" [syn: glassy, vitreous, vitrified]

n 1: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aquarius [syn: Aquarius, Water Bearer] 2: a zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere; between Capricornus and Pisces 3: the eleventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about January 20 to February 18 [syn: Aquarius, Aquarius the Water Bearer, Water Bearer]

n 1: Italian violin maker who developed the modern violin and created violins of unequaled tonal quality (1644?-1737) [syn: Stradivari, Antonio Stradivari, Stradivarius, Antonius Stradivarius]

n 1: (Greek mythology) a sea god son of Pontus and Gaea; lived in the depths of the sea with his wife Doris and their daughters the Nereids

n 1: Italian violin maker and grandson of Andrea Guarneri (1687?-1745) [syn: Guarneri, Guarnieri, Guarnerius, Guiseppe Guarneri] 2: founder of a family of Italian violin makers (1626?-1698) [syn: Guarneri, Guarnieri, Guarnerius, Andrea Guarneri] 3: a violin made by a member of the Guarneri family

n 1: Byzantine general under Justinian I; he recovered former Roman territories in northern Africa and fought against the Persians

n 1: son of Antigonus Cyclops and king of Macedonia; he and his father were defeated at the battle of Ipsus (337-283 BC) [syn: Demetrius, Demetrius I, Demetrius Poliorcetes]

adj 1: inhabiting or frequenting trees; "arboreal apes" [syn: arboreal, arboreous, tree-living] [ant: nonarboreal] 2: abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway" [syn: arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody] 3: resembling a tree in form and branching structure; "arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda"; "dendriform sponges" [syn: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped]

n 1: Syrian who was a Christian bishop and Patriarch of Constantinople in the early fifth century; one of the major heresies concerning the doctrine of the hypostasis of Christ was named after him (died in 451)