Words that rhyme with resemblant

n 1: a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult" [syn: insult, affront] v 1: treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone" [syn: diss, insult, affront]

adj 1: uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow; "was ambivalent about having children"

adj 1: able to walk about; "the patient is ambulatory" [syn: ambulant, ambulatory]

n 1: medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood [syn: anticoagulant, anticoagulant medication, decoagulant]

adj 1: of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals); "appellate court" [syn: appellate, appellant] n 1: the party who appeals a decision of a lower court [syn: appellant, plaintiff in error]

n 1: someone who attacks [syn: attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter]

adj 1: intending or showing kindness; "a benevolent society" 2: showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity; "was charitable in his opinions of others"; "kindly criticism"; "a kindly act"; "sympathetic words"; "a large-hearted mentor" [syn: charitable, benevolent, kindly, sympathetic, good-hearted, openhearted, large-hearted] 3: generous in providing aid to others [syn: benevolent, freehearted] 4: generous in assistance to the poor; "a benevolent contributor"; "eleemosynary relief"; "philanthropic contributions" [syn: beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic]

adj 1: having a valence of two or having two valences [syn: bivalent, divalent] 2: used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis [syn: bivalent, double] [ant: multivalent, univalent]

adj 1: having a broad or rounded end; "thick marks made by a blunt pencil" 2: used of a knife or other blade; not sharp; "a blunt instrument" 3: characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation" [syn: blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder] 4: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline" [syn: blunt, crude(a), stark(a)] v 1: make less intense; "blunted emotions" 2: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull] 3: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" [syn: dull, blunt] [ant: sharpen] 4: make less sharp; "blunt the knives" 5: make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound" [syn: deaden, blunt] [ant: animate, enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up]

adj 1: of surpassing excellence; "a brilliant performance"; "a superb actor" [syn: brilliant, superb] 2: having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence; "some men dislike brainy women"; "a brilliant mind"; "a brilliant solution to the problem" [syn: brainy, brilliant, smart as a whip] 3: 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] 4: having striking color; "bright dress"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" [syn: bright, brilliant, vivid] 5: full of light; shining intensely; "a brilliant star"; "brilliant chandeliers" 6: clear and sharp and ringing; "the bright sound of the trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets" [syn: bright, brilliant]

n 1: main force of a blow etc; "bore the brunt of the attack"

n 1: (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat 2: disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores [syn: bunt, stinking smut] 3: similar to Tilletia caries [syn: bunt, stinking smut, Tilletia foetida] 4: fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores [syn: bunt, Tilletia caries] v 1: hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance [syn: bunt, drag a bunt] 2: to strike, thrust or shove against; "He butted his sister out of the way"; "The goat butted the hiker with his horns" [syn: butt, bunt]

n 1: an agent that produces coagulation [syn: coagulant, coagulator]

v 1: oppose, as in hostility or a competition; "You must confront your opponent"; "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring"; "The two enemies finally confronted each other" [syn: confront, face] 2: deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes" [syn: confront, face up, face] [ant: avoid] 3: present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize; "We confronted him with the evidence"; "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions"; "An enormous dilemma faces us" [syn: confront, face, present] 4: be face to face with; "The child screamed when he confronted the man in the Halloween costume"

n 1: a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transferring heat away from one part to another; "he added more coolant to the car's radiator"; "the atomic reactor used a gas coolant"; "lathe operators use an emulsion of oil and water as a coolant for the cutting tool"

adj 1: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund]

adj 1: of or relating to or characterized by covalence; "covalent bond"

adj 1: suffering from excessive eating or drinking; "crapulent sleep"; "a crapulous stomach" [syn: crapulent, crapulous]

adj 1: having a valence of two or having two valences [syn: bivalent, divalent]

n 1: someone who leaves one country to settle in another [syn: emigrant, emigre, emigree, outgoer]

n 1: a commodity that enters competition with established merchandise; "a well publicized entrant is the pocket computer" 2: any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant] 3: someone who enters; "new entrants to the country must go though immigration procedures" 4: one who enters a competition

adj 1: being essentially equal to something; "it was as good as gold"; "a wish that was equivalent to a command"; "his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt" [syn: equivalent, tantamount(p)] n 1: a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc; "send two dollars or the equivalent in stamps" 2: the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen [syn: equivalent, equivalent weight, combining weight, eq]

adj 1: very good;of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first- class mind" [syn: excellent, first-class, fantabulous, splendid]

adj 1: foul with waste matter

n 1: a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual gratification 2: a person who whips himself as a religious penance

adj 1: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]

adj 1: generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal 2: suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal [syn: colicky, flatulent, gassy]

adj 1: having a fluffy character or appearance [syn: flocculent, woolly, wooly]

n 1: the part in the front or nearest the viewer; "he was in the forefront"; "he was at the head of the column" [syn: forefront, head] 2: the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field; "the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England"; "the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy" [syn: vanguard, forefront, cutting edge]

adj 1: pleasant-smelling [ant: ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling]

adj 1: 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]

adj 1: relating to or located in the front; "the front lines"; "the front porch" [ant: back(a)] n 1: the side that is forward or prominent [syn: front, front end, forepart] [ant: back end, backside, rear] 2: the line along which opposing armies face each other [syn: battlefront, front, front line] 3: the outward appearance of a person; "he put up a bold front" 4: the side that is seen or that goes first [ant: back, rear] 5: a person used as a cover for some questionable activity [syn: front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman] 6: a sphere of activity involving effort; "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts" 7: (meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses 8: the immediate proximity of someone or something; "she blushed in his presence"; "he sensed the presence of danger"; "he was well behaved in front of company" [syn: presence, front] 9: the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer; "he walked to the front of the stage" [ant: back, rear] 10: a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front" [syn: movement, social movement, front] v 1: be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to; "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park" [syn: front, look, face] [ant: back] 2: confront bodily; "breast the storm" [syn: front, breast]

adj 1: unflinching in battle or action; "a gallant warrior"; "put up a gallant resistance to the attackers" 2: lively and spirited; "a dashing hero" [syn: dashing, gallant] 3: having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks" [syn: gallant, lofty, majestic, proud] 4: being attentive to women like an ideal knight [syn: chivalrous, gallant, knightly] n 1: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse] 2: a man who attends or escorts a woman [syn: squire, gallant]

n 1: the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs [syn: grunt, oink] 2: an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker; "infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"; "he went from grunt to chairman in six years" 3: medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught v 1: issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise; "He grunted his reluctant approval"

n 1: Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) [syn: Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt] 2: United States architect (1827-1895) [syn: Hunt, Richard Morris Hunt] 3: British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) [syn: Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt] 4: an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport [syn: hunt, hunt club] 5: an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines" 6: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone [syn: search, hunt, hunting] 7: the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts [syn: hunt, hunting] 8: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport [syn: hunt, hunting] v 1: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" [syn: hunt, run, hunt down, track down] 2: pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him" [syn: hound, hunt, trace] 3: chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood" 4: yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed" 5: oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency" 6: seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them" 7: search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"

n 1: a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask [syn: water faucet, water tap, tap, hydrant] 2: a discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks

n 1: a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there

adj 1: inhaling or serving for inhalation; "an inhalant pore" n 1: something that is inhaled 2: a medication to be taken by inhaling it [syn: inhalant, inhalation]

adj 1: marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior" [syn: impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed, flip] 2: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]

adj 1: joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout" [syn: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant] 2: full of high-spirited delight; "a joyful heart" [syn: elated, gleeful, joyful, jubilant]

n 1: land bordering a lake

adj 1: (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn: limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear, perspicuous]

adj 1: wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; "a gossipy malevolent old woman"; "failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful" 2: having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" [syn: malefic, malevolent, malign, evil]

n 1: an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime)

adj 1: habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers" [syn: migrant, migratory] n 1: traveler who moves from one region or country to another [syn: migrant, migrator]

adj 1: giving practical help to; "a ministering angel"; "the angels ministrant sang"; "the attending physician" n 1: someone who serves as a minister

adj 1: containing only one kind of antibody [ant: polyvalent] 2: having a valence of 1 [syn: monovalent, univalent] [ant: multivalent, polyvalent]

adj 1: used of the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis [ant: bivalent, double, univalent] 2: having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher [syn: polyvalent, multivalent] [ant: monovalent, univalent] 3: having many values, meanings, or appeals; "subtle, multivalent allegory" [syn: multivalent, multi-valued]

adj 1: marked by blithe unconcern; "an ability to interest casual students"; "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"; "an utterly insouciant financial policy"; "an elegantly insouciant manner"; "drove his car with nonchalant abandon"; "was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner" [syn: casual, insouciant, nonchalant]

n 1: land bordering an ocean

adj 1: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms" [syn: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous]

adj 1: 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]

adj 1: arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching" [syn: affecting, poignant, touching] 2: keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety"

adj 1: containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen; "a polyvalent vaccine" [ant: monovalent] 2: having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher [syn: polyvalent, multivalent] [ant: monovalent, univalent]

n 1: one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order

adj 1: most frequent or common; "prevailing winds" [syn: prevailing, prevalent, predominant, dominant, rife]

adj 1: tending to or capable of propelling; "propellant fuel for submarines"; "the faster a jet plane goes the greater its propulsive efficiency"; "universities...the seats of propulsive thought" [syn: propellant, propellent, propelling, propulsive] n 1: any substance that propels [syn: propellant, propellent]

n 1: formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence [syn: Irish pound, Irish punt, punt, pound] 2: an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole 3: (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground; "the punt traveled 50 yards"; "punting is an important part of the game" [syn: punt, punting] v 1: kick the ball 2: propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge" [syn: punt, pole] 3: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt]

adj 1: containing pus; "a purulent wound" [syn: purulent, pussy]

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: marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"

adj 1: (of angles) pointing inward; "a polygon with re-entrant angles" [syn: re-entrant, reentrant] [ant: salient]

n 1: a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby)

adj 1: serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent" [syn: rebarbative, repellent, repellant] 2: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky] 3: incapable of absorbing or mixing with; "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water" [syn: repellent, resistant] n 1: a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water [syn: repellent, repellant] 2: a chemical substance that repels animals [syn: repellent, repellant] 3: the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances" [syn: repellent, repellant]

n 1: disparaging terms for small people [syn: runt, shrimp, peewee, half-pint]

n 1: a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface) [syn: sealant, sealer]

n 1: a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another; "an arteriovenus shunt" 2: a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current [syn: shunt, electrical shunt, bypass] 3: implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body v 1: transfer to another track, of trains 2: provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

adj 1: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') [syn: fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident] n 1: a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh) [syn: sibilant, sibilant consonant]

adj 1: marked by absence of sound; "a silent house"; "soundless footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still" [syn: silent, soundless, still] 2: failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent" [syn: mum, silent] 3: implied by or inferred from actions or statements; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement" [syn: silent, tacit, understood] 4: not made to sound; "the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'"; "in French certain letters are often unsounded" [syn: silent, unsounded] 5: having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility; "a silent dog whistle" 6: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: dumb, mute, silent]

n 1: the front side of a store facing the street; usually contains display windows [syn: shopfront, storefront]

n 1: a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention 2: a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth v 1: check the growth or development of; "You will stunt your growth by building all these muscles" 2: perform a stunt or stunts

adj 1: full of juice; "lush fruits"; "succulent roast beef"; "succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves" [syn: lush, succulent] n 1: a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs

n 1: natural abilities or qualities [syn: endowment, gift, talent, natural endowment] 2: a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity

adj 1: haveing a valence of four

n 1: a sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast [syn: topgallant, topgallant sail] 2: a mast fixed to the head of a topmast on a square-rigged vessel [syn: topgallant, topgallant mast]

adj 1: having a valence of three

adj 1: defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new government"

adj 1: characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood" [syn: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent] 2: (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence; "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids" [syn: churning, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent]

adj 1: resembling waves in form or outline or motion [syn: undulatory, undulant]

adj 1: offensively discourteous [syn: caddish, unchivalrous, ungallant]

adj 1: used of a chromosome that is not paired or united with its homologous chromosome during synapsis; "a univalent chromosome" [ant: bivalent, double, multivalent] 2: having a valence of 1 [syn: monovalent, univalent] [ant: multivalent, polyvalent]

adj 1: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant] n 1: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [syn: vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond]

adj 1: carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger; "a policy of open-eyed awareness"; "the vigilant eye of the town watch"; "there was a watchful dignity in the room"; "a watchful parent with a toddler in tow" [syn: argus-eyed, open-eyed, vigilant, wakeful]

adj 1: acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity; "a violent attack"; "a violent person"; "violent feelings"; "a violent rage"; "felt a violent dislike" [ant: nonviolent] 2: effected by force or injury rather than natural causes; "a violent death" 3: (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud; "a violent clash of colors"; "her dress was a violent red"; "a violent noise"; "wild colors"; "wild shouts" [syn: violent, wild] 4: marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions" [syn: fierce, tearing, vehement, violent, trigger-happy] 5: characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode [syn: crimson, red, violent]

adj 1: extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" [syn: deadly, venomous, virulent] 2: infectious; having the ability to cause disease [ant: avirulent] 3: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique" [syn: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic]

n 1: the area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of water

n 1: a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; "she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch" [syn: cunt, bitch] 2: obscene terms for female genitals [syn: cunt, puss, pussy, slit, snatch, twat]

adj 1: having a valence of five

adj 1: forcing forward or onward; impelling; "an impellent power"; "an impellent cause"

adj 1: tending to or capable of propelling; "propellant fuel for submarines"; "the faster a jet plane goes the greater its propulsive efficiency"; "universities...the seats of propulsive thought" [syn: propellant, propellent, propelling, propulsive] n 1: any substance that propels [syn: propellant, propellent]

adj 1: abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence [ant: violent] 2: achieved without bloodshed; "an unbloody transfer of power" [syn: nonviolent, unbloody]