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bitterness
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n 1: a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will [syn:
resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour]
2: a rough and bitter manner [syn: bitterness, acrimony,
acerbity, jaundice, tartness, thorniness]
3: the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the
mouth [syn: bitter, bitterness]
4: the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste [syn:
bitterness, bitter]
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eagerness
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n 1: a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
[syn: eagerness, avidity, avidness, keenness]
2: prompt willingness; "readiness to continue discussions";
"they showed no eagerness to spread the gospel"; "they
disliked his zeal in demonstrating his superiority"; "he
tried to explain his forwardness in battle" [syn:
readiness, eagerness, zeal, forwardness]
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gelatinous
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adj 1: thick like gelatin [syn: gelatinous, gelatinlike,
jellylike]
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glutinous
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adj 1: having the sticky properties of an adhesive [syn:
gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty,
sticky, viscid, viscous]
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gluttonous
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adj 1: given to excess in consumption of especially food or
drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a
gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and
praise and pleasure" [ant: abstemious]
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libidinous
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adj 1: driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful
desires; "libidinous orgies" [syn: lascivious, lewd,
libidinous, lustful]
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monotonous
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adj 1: tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum
existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so
monotonous as the sea" [syn: humdrum, monotonous]
2: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's
faint monotonous hooting" [syn: flat, monotone,
monotonic, monotonous]
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mountainous
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adj 1: having hills and crags; "hilly terrain" [syn: cragged,
craggy, hilly, mountainous]
2: like a mountain in size and impressiveness; "mountainous
waves"; "a mountainous dark man"
3: containing many mountains
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multitudinous
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adj 1: too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches";
"countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons";
"innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas";
"myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: countless,
infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous,
myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable,
unnumbered, unnumerable]
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mutinous
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adj 1: disposed to or in a state of mutiny; "the men became
mutinous and insubordinate"
2: consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny;
"mutinous acts"; "mutinous thoughts"; "a mutinous speech"
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platitudinous
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adj 1: dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or
originality; "bromidic sermons" [syn: bromidic,
corny, platitudinal, platitudinous]
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pulchritudinous
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adj 1: used of persons only; having great physical beauty;
"pulchritudinous movie stars"
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slenderness
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n 1: the quality of being slight or inadequate; "he knew the
slenderness of my wallet"; "the slenderness of the chances
that anything would be done"; "the slenderness of the
evidence"
2: relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to
its length or width; "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness
of a rope" [syn: thinness, tenuity, slenderness] [ant:
thickness]
3: the property of an attractively thin person [syn:
slenderness, slightness, slimness]
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tenderness
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n 1: a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling
2: a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); "the best
results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into
the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a cold,
rawness of the larynx and trachea come on" [syn:
tenderness, soreness, rawness]
3: warm compassionate feelings [syn: tenderness,
tenderheartedness]
4: a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the
affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the
warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" [syn:
affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness,
heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia]
5: a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially
someone defenseless) [syn: softheartedness, tenderness]
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tetanus
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n 1: an acute and serious infection of the central nervous
system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms
of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late
stages [syn: tetanus, lockjaw]
2: a sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid
series of nerve impulses
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wilderness
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n 1: (politics) a state of disfavor; "he led the Democratic
party back from the wilderness"
2: a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania
where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the
American Civil War
3: a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition;
"it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and
mountaineers" [syn: wilderness, wild]
4: a bewildering profusion; "the duties of citizenship are lost
sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and
groups"; "a wilderness of masts in the harbor"
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chitinous
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adj 1: of or resembling chitin
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cretinous
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adj 1: afflicted with cretinism
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eridanus
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n 1: a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Fornax and
Cetus
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limberness
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patulous
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trichinous
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velutinous
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