Words that rhyme with preconscious

adj 1: eagerly desirous; "anxious to see the new show at the museum"; "dying to hear who won" [syn: anxious(p), dying(p)] 2: causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind" [syn: anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet]

adj 1: resembling or containing clay; "argillaceous rocks" [syn: argillaceous, clayey] [ant: arenaceous, sandlike, sandy]

adj 1: shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit" [syn: atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous] 2: exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" [syn: atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable] 3: provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly]

adj 1: offensively self-assertive [syn: bumptious, self- assertive]

adj 1: tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor" [syn: captious, faultfinding]

adj 1: showing careful forethought; "reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions"; "a cautious driver" [ant: incautious] 2: avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" [syn: cautious, conservative] n 1: people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid" [syn: timid, cautious] [ant: brave]

adj 1: characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details" [syn: conscientious, painstaking, scrupulous] 2: guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice" [ant: unconscientious]

adj 1: intentionally conceived; "a conscious effort to speak more slowly"; "a conscious policy" [syn: conscious, witting] 2: knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts; "remained conscious during the operation"; "conscious of his faults"; "became conscious that he was being followed" [ant: unconscious] 3: (followed by `of') showing realization or recognition of something; "few voters seem conscious of the issue's importance"; "conscious of having succeeded"; "the careful tread of one conscious of his alcoholic load"- Thomas Hardy

adj 1: inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and acrimonious spirit" [syn: contentious, combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious] 2: involving or likely to cause controversy; "a central and contentious element of the book"- Tim W.Ferfuson

adj 1: (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress" [syn: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well- endowed]

adj 1: dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) [syn: dissentious, divisive, factious]

adj 1: containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument" [syn: fallacious, unsound] 2: intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes" [syn: deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent] 3: based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope"

adj 1: resembling starch [syn: starchlike, amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceous] 2: composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue" [syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy]

adj 1: marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: ferocious, fierce, furious, savage]

adj 1: stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child" [syn: fractious, refractory, recalcitrant] 2: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy] 3: unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"

adj 1: of or relating to or resembling a gallinacean

adj 1: lacking in caution; "an incautious remark"; "incautious talk" [ant: cautious] 2: carelessly failing to exercise proper caution; "an incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs"

adj 1: caused by infection or capable of causing infection; "viruses and other infective agents"; "a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease" [syn: infectious, infective] 2: easily spread; "fear is exceedingly infectious; children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell [ant: noninfectious] 3: of or relating to infection; "infectious hospital"; "infectious disease"

adj 1: lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained; "coarse and licentious men"

adj 1: full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky]

adj 1: having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman"; "a toothsome blonde in a tight dress" [syn: juicy, luscious, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous] 2: extremely pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy]

adj 1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile] 2: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish]

adj 1: injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas" [ant: innocuous]

adj 1: causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person" [syn: objectionable, obnoxious]

adj 1: unnecessarily cautious; "sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business"

adv 1: extremely; "there is precious little time left" [syn: precious, preciously] adj 1: characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for; "a cherished friend"; "children are precious"; "a treasured heirloom"; "so good to feel wanted" [syn: cherished, precious, treasured, wanted] 2: of high worth or cost; "diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and emeralds are precious stones" 3: held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature; "a valued friend"; "precious memories" [syn: valued, precious] 4: obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms" [syn: cute, precious]

adj 1: characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude); "a precocious child"; "a precocious achievement" [ant: retarded] 2: appearing or developing early; "precocious flowers appear before the leaves as in some species of magnolias"

adj 1: making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition" [ant: unpretentious] 2: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat" [syn: ostentatious, pretentious] [ant: unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious] 3: (of a display) tawdry or vulgar [syn: ostentatious, pretentious]

adj 1: noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class" [syn: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly]

adj 1: characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lubricious, lustful, prurient, salacious] 2: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn: lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious]

adj 1: extremely pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant- tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy]

adj 1: used of gemstones having less commercial value than precious stones; "such semiprecious stones as amethyst, garnet, jade, and tourmaline"

adj 1: abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes 2: concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [syn: pithy, sententious]

adj 1: just below the level of consciousness n 1: psychic activity just below the level of awareness [syn: subconscious mind, subconscious]

adj 1: having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one; "a tendentious account of recent elections"; "distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion" [syn: tendentious, tendencious]

adj 1: not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay unconscious on the floor" [ant: conscious] 2: without conscious volition 3: (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving; "happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dickens n 1: that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware [syn: unconscious mind, unconscious]

adj 1: lacking charm and good taste; "an ungracious industrial city"; "this curt summary is not meant to be ungracious"; "ungracious behavior" [ant: gracious] 2: lacking social graces [syn: discourteous, ungracious]

adj 1: lacking pretension or affectation; "an unpretentious country church"; "her quiet unpretentious demeanor" [ant: pretentious] 2: not ostentatious; "his unostentatious office"; "unostentatious elegance" [syn: unostentatious, unpretentious, unpretending] [ant: ostentatious, pretentious] 3: exhibiting restrained good taste; "the room is pleasant and understated" [syn: understated, unostentatious, unpretentious]

adj 1: not self-conscious; "she grew up with him in unselfconscious friendship"

adj 1: habitually speaking the truth; "a veracious witness" 2: precisely accurate; "a veracious account" [syn: veracious, right]

adj 1: causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong" [syn: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing]

adj 1: vigorous and animated; "a vibrant group that challenged the system"; "a charming and vivacious hostess"; "a vivacious folk dance" [syn: vibrant, vivacious]

adj 1: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" [syn: rapacious, ravening, voracious] 2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish]

adj 1: of or pertaining to the nature of a tort; "tortious acts"

adj 1: having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one; "a tendentious account of recent elections"; "distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion" [syn: tendentious, tendencious]

adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Rosaceae 2: of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn" [syn: rose, roseate, rosaceous]

adj 1: abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway" [syn: arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody]

adj 1: of or relating to plants of the family Solanaceae (the potato family)

n 1: Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC) [syn: Confucius, Kongfuze, K'ung Futzu, Kong the Master]

adj 1: having no adverse effect

adj 1: anxious or nervous to an excessive degree