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commodious
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adj 1: large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense);
"a commodious harbor"; "a commodious building suitable
for conventions" [syn: commodious, convenient] [ant:
incommodious]
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compendious
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adj 1: briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and
compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy";
"succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-
ranging subject" [syn: compendious, compact,
succinct, summary]
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fastidious
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adj 1: giving careful attention to detail; hard to please;
excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and
incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal
cleanliness" [ant: unfastidious]
2: having complicated nutritional requirements; especially
growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious
microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are
extremely exacting in their requirements" [syn: fastidious,
exacting] [ant: unfastidious]
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hideous
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adj 1: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror;
"subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of
injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
[syn: hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous]
2: so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a
repulsive mask" [syn: hideous, repulsive]
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incommodious
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adj 1: uncomfortably or inconveniently small; "incommodious
hotel accommodations" [ant: commodious, convenient]
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insidious
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adj 1: beguiling but harmful; "insidious pleasures"
2: intended to entrap
3: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way;
"glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison" [syn:
insidious, pernicious, subtle]
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invidious
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adj 1: containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice;
"discriminatory attitudes and practices"; "invidious
comparisons" [syn: discriminatory, invidious]
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melodious
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adj 1: having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune [syn:
tuneful, melodious] [ant: tuneless, unmelodious,
untuneful]
2: containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing
melody; "the melodious song of a meadowlark" [syn:
melodious, melodic, musical] [ant: unmelodic,
unmelodious, unmusical]
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odious
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adj 1: unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of
prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes";
"consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
[syn: abominable, detestable, execrable, odious]
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perfidious
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adj 1: tending to betray; especially having a treacherous
character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the
Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the
fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous
intrigues" [syn: punic, perfidious, treacherous]
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radius
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n 1: the length of a line segment between the center and
circumference of a circle or sphere [syn: radius, r]
2: a straight line from the center to the perimeter of a circle
(or from the center to the surface of a sphere)
3: a circular region whose area is indicated by the length of
its radius; "they located it within a radius of 2 miles"
4: the outer and slightly shorter of the two bones of the human
forearm
5: support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the
hub to the rim [syn: spoke, wheel spoke, radius]
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studious
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adj 1: marked by care and effort; "made a studious attempt to
fix the television set"
2: characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading; "a
bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket"; "a quiet
studious child" [syn: bookish, studious]
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studiously
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adv 1: in a studious manner; "she examined the data studiously"
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tedious
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adj 1: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a
boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening
effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his
competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who
couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task
the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious
days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"-
Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully
wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum,
irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]
2: using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy)
speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods";
"newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials";
"proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes" [syn: long-
winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordy]
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unmelodious
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adj 1: not having a musical sound or pleasing tune [syn:
tuneless, untuneful, unmelodious] [ant:
melodious, tuneful]
2: lacking melody [syn: unmelodious, unmelodic, unmusical]
[ant: melodic, melodious, musical]
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claudius
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n 1: Roman Emperor after his nephew Caligula was murdered;
consolidated the Roman Empire and conquered southern
Britain; was poisoned by his fourth wife Agrippina after
her son Nero was named as Claudius' heir (10 BC to AD 54)
[syn: Claudius, Claudius I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus
Nero Germanicus]
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sardius
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n 1: a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony [syn: sard,
sardine, sardius]
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herodias
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methodius
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