adj. grudging
(a) injurious to physical or mental health
(b) marked by refinement in taste and manners; cultivated; cultured; polite
(c) petty or reluctant in giving or spending; scrimy
(d) repetition of same sense in different words
adj. verbose
(a) characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is
(b) using or containing too many words; windy; wordy
(c) (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; implanted; planted
(d) pleasing to the sense of taste; savoury
adj. conventional
(a) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; practical
(b) fragmentary from emotional strain
(c) unpleasant to look at
(d) customary; routine; formal
adj. downcast
(a) characterized by extravagance and profusion; lush; plush; plushy
(b) worthy of religious veneration
(c) hand-woven
(d) filled with melancholy and despondency; grim; blue; depressed; dispirited; low-spirited
adj. demographic
(a) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
(b) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses; rueful; ruthful
(c) marked by utter benignity; saintlike; saintly; sainted
(d) of or relating to demography |
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adj. asymmetric
(a) intangible; unconnected to concrete reality
(b) characterized by ascetic solitude; eremitical; hermitic; hermitical
(c) characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components
(d) rendered competent through trial and experience
adj. outmoded
(a) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; emaciated; haggard; pinched; skeletal; wasted
(b) ex; old-fashioned; passe; passee
(c) having or causing a whirling sensation; vertiginous
(d) feeding on animals (used of plants as well as animals)
adj. flint
(a) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; granitic; obdurate; stony
(b) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed
(c) showing sorrow; lachrymose; tearful; weeping
(d) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; menacing
adj. chatoyant
(a) required by obligation or compulsion or convention
(b) pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space
(c) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; iridescent; shot
(d) smelling of fermentation or staleness
adj. finical
(a) having cusps or points; cusped; cuspidal; cuspidate; cuspidated
(b) exacting especially about details; fussy; particular; picky
(c) inconceivably extended in space or time
(d) not given careful consideration; shortsighted |
