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accomplice
3
n 1: a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan
(especially an unethical or illegal plan) [syn:
accomplice, confederate]
-
altocumulus
0
n 1: a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles
[syn: altocumulus, altocumulus cloud]
-
annulus
0
n 1: a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo
of smoke" [syn: ring, halo, annulus, doughnut,
anchor ring]
2: (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature
mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar [syn: annulus,
skirt]
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artless
0
adj 1: characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not
devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility" [syn:
ingenuous, artless] [ant: artful, disingenuous]
2: simple and natural; without cunning or deceit; "an artless
manner"; "artless elegance" [ant: artful]
3: showing lack of art; "an artless translation"
4: (of persons) lacking art or knowledge [syn: artless,
uncultivated, uncultured]
-
atlas
0
n 1: (Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear
the sky on his shoulders
2: a collection of maps in book form [syn: atlas, book of
maps, map collection]
3: the 1st cervical vertebra [syn: atlas, atlas vertebra]
4: a figure of a man used as a supporting column [syn: atlas,
telamon]
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bibulous
0
adj 1: given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a
bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy
drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken
binge"; "two drunken gentlemen holding each other up";
"sottish behavior" [syn: bibulous, boozy, drunken,
sottish]
-
bolus
0
n 1: a small round soft mass (as of chewed food)
2: a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine
-
bootless
0
adj 1: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile
years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a
vain attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile,
sleeveless, vain]
-
calculus
0
n 1: a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts;
found in hollow organs or ducts of the body; "renal calculi
can be very painful" [syn: calculus, concretion]
2: an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums [syn:
tartar, calculus, tophus]
3: the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and
with the differentiation and integration of functions [syn:
calculus, infinitesimal calculus]
-
cirrocumulus
0
n 1: a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of
regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples [syn:
cirrocumulus, cirrocumulus cloud]
-
collarless
0
adj 1: without a collar
-
colourless
0
adj 1: lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and
unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the
parade" [syn: colorless, colourless] [ant:
colorful, colourful]
2: weak in color; not colorful [syn: colorless, colourless]
[ant: colorful, colourful]
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comfortless
0
adj 1: without comfort; "a comfortless room"
-
cumulous
0
adj 1: thrown together in a pile; "a desk heaped with books";
"heaped-up ears of corn"; "ungraded papers piled high"
-
cumulus
0
n 1: a globular cloud [syn: cumulus, cumulus cloud]
2: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn:
pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation,
cumulus]
-
cutlass
0
n 1: a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by
sailors [syn: cutlas, cutlass]
-
dateless
0
adj 1: having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the
dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless";
"sempiternal truth" [syn: dateless, endless,
sempiternal]
2: of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of
being assigned a date; "dateless customs"
3: not bearing a date; "a dateless letter" [syn: dateless,
undated]
4: unaffected by time; "few characters are so dateless as
Hamlet"; "Helen's timeless beauty" [syn: dateless,
timeless]
-
doubtless
0
adv 1: without doubt; certainly; "it's undoubtedly very
beautiful" [syn: undoubtedly, doubtless,
doubtlessly]
-
effortless
0
adj 1: requiring or apparently requiring no effort; "the
swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy
air" [ant: effortful]
2: not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed
with casual mastery"; "careless grace" [syn: casual,
effortless]
-
emulous
0
adj 1: characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation
2: eager to surpass others [syn: emulous, rivalrous]
-
fabulous
0
adj 1: extremely pleasing; "a fabulous vacation" [syn:
fabulous, fab]
2: based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual
basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the
fabulous unicorn" [syn: fabulous, mythic, mythical,
mythologic, mythological]
3: barely credible; "the fabulous endurance of a marathon
runner"
-
flightless
0
adj 1: incapable of flying
-
footless
0
adj 1: having no feet or analogous appendages [ant: footed]
-
fruitless
0
adj 1: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile
years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a
vain attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile,
sleeveless, vain]
-
gladiolus
0
n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native
chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped
leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-
shaped flowers; widely cultivated [syn: gladiolus,
gladiola, glad, sword lily]
2: the large central part of the breastbone [syn: gladiolus,
corpus sternum]
-
gutless
0
adj 1: lacking courage or vitality; "he was a yellow gutless
worm"; "a spineless craven fellow" [ant: gutsy,
plucky]
2: weak in willpower, courage or vitality [syn: namby-pamby,
gutless, spineless, wishy-washy]
-
hapless
0
adj 1: deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim";
"miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her
as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous
appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a
pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted
limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: hapless, miserable,
misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable,
pitiful, poor, wretched]
-
hatless
0
adj 1: not wearing a hat; "stood hatless in the rain with water
dripping down his neck" [ant: hatted]
-
heartless
0
adj 1: lacking in feeling or pity or warmth [syn: hardhearted,
heartless] [ant: soft-boiled, softhearted]
2: devoid of courage or enthusiasm
-
helpless
0
adj 1: lacking in or deprived of strength or power; "lying ill
and helpless"; "helpless with laughter" [syn: helpless,
incapacitated]
2: unable to function; without help [syn: helpless, lost]
3: unable to manage independently; "as helpless as a baby"
-
homunculus
0
n 1: a person who is very small but who is not otherwise
deformed or abnormal [syn: manikin, mannikin,
homunculus]
2: a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the
discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present
in the sperm cell
-
hopeless
0
adj 1: without hope because there seems to be no possibility of
comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief";
"with a hopeless sigh he sat down" [ant: hopeful]
2: of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless
at mathematics"
3: certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"
4: (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of
management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of
papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
-
jobless
0
adj 1: not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless
transients"; "many people in the area were out of work"
[syn: idle, jobless, out of work]
-
lightless
0
adj 1: giving no light; "lightless stars `visible' only to radio
antennae"
2: without illumination; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the
unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or
unlit) streets" [syn: lightless, unilluminated,
unlighted, unlit]
-
limitless
0
adj 1: without limits in extent or size or quantity; "limitless
vastness of our solar system" [syn: illimitable,
limitless, measureless]
2: having no limits in range or scope; "to start with a theory
of unlimited freedom is to end up with unlimited despotism"-
Philip Rahv; "the limitless reaches of outer space" [syn:
unlimited, limitless] [ant: limited]
3: seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially
extent; "unbounded enthusiasm"; "children with boundless
energy"; "a limitless supply of money" [syn: boundless,
unbounded, limitless]
-
limulus
0
n 1: type genus of the family Limulidae [syn: Limulus, genus
Limulus]
-
meticulous
0
adj 1: marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous
research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of
etiquette" [syn: meticulous, punctilious]
2: marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a meticulous
craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business
formalities"
-
miraculous
0
adj 1: being or having the character of a miracle [syn:
marvelous, marvellous, miraculous]
2: peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine
intervention; "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"; "a
providential recovery" [syn: heaven-sent, providential,
miraculous]
-
nebulous
0
adj 1: lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy
issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous
distinction between pride and conceit" [syn: cloudy,
nebulose, nebulous]
2: of or relating to or resembling a nebula; "the nebular
hypothesis of the origin of the solar system" [syn:
nebular, nebulous]
3: lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons";
"unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to
be"- Jane Austen [syn: nebulous, unfixed]
-
profitless
0
adj 1: without profit or reward; "let us have no part in
profitless quarrels"- D.D.Eisenhower; "How weary, flat,
stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this
world"- Shakespeare
-
ridiculous
0
adj 1: inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and
unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on
in years"- Dashiell Hammett [syn: pathetic,
ridiculous, silly]
2: incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the
dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a
nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a
contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous
to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn
back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of
universal interest in her rather dull children was
ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory,
idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical,
preposterous, ridiculous]
3: broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the
wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"
[syn: farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous]
-
rootless
0
adj 1: wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community;
"led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer" [syn:
rootless, vagabond]
-
sapless
0
adj 1: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a
feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn:
decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety,
sapless, weak, weakly]
2: destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry; "the rats and
roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"- Norman Mailer
-
scrofulous
0
adj 1: afflicted with scrofula
2: morally contaminated; "denounce the scrofulous wealth of the
times"- J.D.Hart
3: having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula; "our
canoe...lay with her scrofulous sides on the shore"- Farley
Mowat
-
scrupulous
0
adj 1: having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong;
principled; "less scrupulous producers sent bundles that
were deceptive in appearance" [ant: unscrupulous]
2: characterized by extreme care and great effort;
"conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking
research"; "scrupulous attention to details" [syn:
conscientious, painstaking, scrupulous]
-
shapeless
0
adj 1: having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous
clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles";
"a shapeless mass of protoplasm" [syn: amorphous,
formless, shapeless]
2: lacking symmetry or attractive form; "a shapeless hat on his
head"
-
sightless
0
adj 1: lacking sight; "blind as an eyeless beggar" [syn:
eyeless, sightless, unseeing]
-
sleepless
0
adj 1: experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac
old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all
night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"-
Shakespeare [syn: insomniac, sleepless, watchful]
2: always watchful; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of
the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson [syn: lidless,
sleepless]
-
spiritless
0
adj 1: lacking ardor or vigor or energy; "a spiritless reply to
criticism" [ant: spirited]
2: evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or
compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of
those of others"; "a fine fiery blast against meek
conformity"- Orville Prescott; "she looked meek but had the
heart of a lion"; "was submissive and subservient" [syn:
meek, spiritless]
-
spotless
0
adj 1: completely neat and clean; "the apartment was
immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-
and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps" [syn:
immaculate, speckless, spick-and-span, spic-and-
span, spic, spick, spotless]
-
stimulus
0
n 1: any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
[syn: stimulation, stimulus, stimulant, input]
-
strapless
0
adj 1: having no straps; "a strapless evening gown"
n 1: a woman's garment that exposes the shoulders and has no
shoulder straps
-
surplice
0
n 1: a loose-fitting white ecclesiastical vestment with wide
sleeves
-
surplus
0
adj 1: more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to
lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on
the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be
thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by
technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room";
"supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of
her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary)
words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary
internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the
needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare,
supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary,
surplus]
n 1: a quantity much larger than is needed [syn: excess,
surplus, surplusage, nimiety]
-
thoughtless
0
adj 1: showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into
thoughtless bickering" [ant: thoughtful]
2: without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying
of a great princess on being informed that the people had no
bread; `Let them eat cake'" [syn: thoughtless, uncaring,
unthinking]
-
toeless
0
adj 1: lacking a toe or toes; "a toeless shoe" [ant: toed]
-
topless
0
adj 1: having no top; "a topless jar" [ant: topped]
2: having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity;
"topless waitresses"; "a topless cabaret" [syn: bare-
breasted, braless, topless]
-
tremulous
0
adj 1: (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear; "the
old lady's quavering voice"; "spoke timidly in a
tremulous voice" [syn: quavering, tremulous]
-
tubeless
0
adj 1: of a tire; not needing an inner tube [ant: tubed]
n 1: pneumatic tire not needing an inner tube to be airtight
[syn: tubeless, tubeless tire]
-
tumulus
0
n 1: (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
[syn: burial mound, grave mound, barrow, tumulus]
-
unscrupulous
0
adj 1: without scruples or principles; "unscrupulous politicos
who would be happy to sell...their country in order to
gain power" [ant: scrupulous]
-
weightless
0
adj 1: having little or no weight or apparent gravitational
pull; light; "floating freely in a weightless condition";
"a baby bat...fluffy and weightless as a moth"; "jackets
made of a weightless polyester fabric" [ant: weighty]
-
witless
0
adj 1: (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or
judgment [syn: nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted,
witless]
-
meatless
0
adj 1: lacking meat; "meatless days" [ant: meaty]
-
troublous
0
adj 1: full of trouble; "these are troublous times"
-
mateless
0
adj 1: not mated sexually
2: of someone who has no marriage partner
-
famulus
0
n 1: a close attendant (as to a scholar)
-
fasciculus
0
n 1: a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) [syn: fiber
bundle, fibre bundle, fascicle, fasciculus]
-
funiculus
0
n 1: the stalk of a plant ovule or seed [syn: funicle,
funiculus]
2: any of several body structure resembling a cord
-
pilotless
0
adj 1: lacking a pilot; "a drone is a pilotless aircraft"
-
romulus
0
n 1: (Roman mythology) founder of Rome; suckled with his twin
brother Remus by a wolf after their parents (Mars and Rhea
Silvia) abandoned them; Romulus killed Remus in an argument
over the building of Rome
-
calculous
0
adj 1: relating to or caused by or having a calculus or calculi
-
loculus
0
n 1: a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or
animal [syn: locule, loculus]
-
bolas
0
-
cellulous
0
-
furless
0
-
furunculous
0
-
patulous
0
-
stratocumulus
0
-
solus
0
-
tholus
0
-
hamulus
0
-
pediculous
0
-
flocculus
0
-
ticketless
0