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Mark G. (Japan)
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  1. haggard
    showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
  2. careworn
    showing the effects of overwork or suffering
  3. raddled
    showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
  4. drawn
    showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
  5. inviolate
    not injured physically or mentally
  6. sacrosanct
    treated as if holy and kept free from violation or criticism
  7. inviolable
    incapable of being transgressed or dishonored
  8. infrangible
    difficult or impossible to break or separate into parts
  9. apocryphal
    being of questionable authenticity
  10. soused
    very drunk
  11. besotted
    marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness
  12. cockeyed
    turned or twisted toward one side
  13. pixilated
    naughtily or annoyingly playful
  14. blotto
    very drunk
  15. sozzled
    very drunk
  16. fuddled
    disoriented or confused
  17. squiffy
    very drunk
  18. inimical
    tending to obstruct or cause harm
  19. pellucid
    transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
  20. perspicuous
    transparently clear; easily understandable
  21. luculent
    (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
  22. limpid
    clear and bright
  23. jocular
    characterized by jokes and good humor
  24. jocose
    characterized by jokes and good humor
  25. fatuous
    devoid of intelligence
  26. asinine
    devoid of intelligence
  27. vacuous
    devoid of matter
  28. inane
    devoid of intelligence
  29. volute
    ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
  30. turbinate
    in the shape of a coil
  31. implacable
    incapable of being appeased or pacified
  32. unmitigable
    incapable of being mitigated
  33. placable
    easily calmed or pacified
  34. verisimilar
    appearing to be true or real
  35. politic
    marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness
  36. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
  37. perspicacious
    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  38. sapient
    acutely insightful and wise
  39. impolitic
    lacking tact, shrewdness, or prudence
  40. erudite
    having or showing profound knowledge
  41. innocuous
    not injurious to physical or mental health
  42. noxious
    injurious to physical or mental health
  43. vesicatory
    causing blisters
  44. pestilent
    likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
  45. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  46. pestiferous
    contaminated with infecting organisms
  47. nettlesome
    causing irritation or annoyance
  48. peckish
    somewhat hungry
  49. peevish
    easily irritated or annoyed
  50. petulant
    easily irritated or annoyed
  51. fractious
    easily irritated or annoyed
  52. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  53. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  54. galling
    causing irritation or annoyance
  55. vexatious
    causing irritation or annoyance
  56. insensate
    devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation
  57. insentient
    lacking consciousness, responsiveness, or emotions
  58. anodyne
    capable of relieving pain
  59. analgesic
    capable of relieving pain
  60. analgetic
    capable of relieving pain
  61. epistolary
    written in the form of letters or correspondence
  62. epistolatory
    written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence
  63. prodigious
    great in size, force, extent, or degree
  64. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  65. pontifical
    proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope
  66. grandiloquent
    lofty in style
  67. magniloquent
    lofty in style
  68. evanescent
    short-lived; tending to vanish or disappear
  69. fleeting
    lasting for a markedly brief time
  70. fugitive
    someone who is sought by law officers
  71. opprobrious
    expressing offensive reproach
  72. scurrilous
    expressing offensive, insulting, or scandalous criticism
  73. ignominious
    deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
  74. imponderable
    difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision
  75. acrid
    strong and sharp, as a taste or smell
  76. acerbic
    sour or bitter in taste
  77. caustic
    capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
  78. mordant
    harshly ironic or sinister
  79. vitriolic
    harsh, bitter, or malicious in tone
  80. virulent
    extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
  81. salubrious
    promoting health
  82. feckless
    generally incompetent and ineffectual
  83. disparate
    fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
  84. averse
    strongly opposed
  85. ebullient
    joyously unrestrained
  86. reticent
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  87. polysemous
    having many meanings
  88. polysemantic
    of words; having many meanings
  89. chimerical
    like a grotesque product of the imagination
  90. unsavory
    morally offensive
  91. pallid
    pale, as of a person's complexion
  92. wan
    pale, as of a person's complexion
  93. tangential
    of superficial relevance if any
  94. digressive
    (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
  95. insuperable
    incapable of being surpassed or excelled
  96. sententious
    concise and full of meaning
  97. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  98. pretentious
    creating an appearance of importance or distinction
  99. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  100. sesquipedalian
    a very long word (a foot and a half long)
  101. parvenu
    a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status
  102. refulgent
    radiating or as if radiating light
  103. effulgent
    radiating or as if radiating light
  104. staid
    characterized by dignity and propriety
  105. amatory
    expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
  106. vituperative
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  107. scathing
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  108. lithe
    moving and bending with ease
  109. sylphlike
    moving and bending with ease
  110. svelte
    being of delicate or slender build
  111. urbane
    showing a high degree of refinement
  112. lissom
    moving and bending with ease
  113. premonitory
    warning of future misfortune
  114. precursory
    warning of future misfortune
  115. tautological
    characterized by unnecessary repetition
  116. pleonastic
    repetition of same sense in different words
  117. admonitory
    expressing reprimand, criticism, or censure
  118. reproachful
    expressing disapproval, blame, or disappointment
  119. saprozoic
    feeding on dead or decaying animal matter
  120. saprophagous
    feeding on dead or decaying animal matter
  121. carpophagous
    feeding on fruit
  122. baccivorous
    feeding on berries
  123. anthophilous
    feeding on flowers
  124. anthophagous
    feeding on flowers
  125. phytophilous
    (of animals) feeding on plants
  126. phytophagic
    (of animals) feeding on plants
  127. phytophagous
    (of animals) feeding on plants
  128. anterior
    of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body
  129. posterior
    located at or near the end of a structure
  130. oviparous
    egg-laying
  131. ovoviviparous
    producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body
  132. viviparous
    producing living young and not eggs
  133. salient
    conspicuous, prominent, or important
  134. austere
    of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor
  135. ascetic
    someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
  136. spartan
    unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment
  137. hermetic
    completely sealed or airtight
  138. inalienable
    incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another
  139. prurient
    characterized by lust
  140. lubricious
    characterized by lust
  141. salacious
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
  142. assiduous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  143. sedulous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  144. elegiac
    resembling or characteristic of a lament for the dead
  145. forensic
    used in the investigation of facts or evidence in court
  146. secular
    someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
  147. profane
    grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
  148. depraved
    deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper
  149. reprobate
    a person without moral scruples
  150. tessellated
    decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone
  151. penitent
    feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
  152. libidinous
    driven by lust
  153. lascivious
    driven by lust
  154. lewd
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
  155. fallow
    left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
  156. picayune
    small and of little importance
  157. lilliputian
    very small
  158. niggling
    (informal) small and of little importance
  159. piffling
    (informal) small and of little importance
  160. caecilian
    of or relating to or belonging to the family Caeciliidae
  161. mordant
    harshly ironic or sinister
  162. imprudent
    not sensible, responsible, or wise
  163. improvident
    not supplying something useful for the future
  164. injudicious
    lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise
  165. miserly
    characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
  166. mingy
    characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
  167. dolorous
    showing sorrow
  168. lachrymose
    showing sorrow
  169. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  170. reticent
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  171. voluble
    marked by a ready flow of speech
  172. garrulous
    full of trivial conversation
  173. prolix
    tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at length
  174. antediluvian
    of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
  175. jaundiced
    affected by yellowing of the skin
  176. icteric
    affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc
  177. contentious
    showing an inclination to disagree
  178. litigious
    of or relating to legal proceedings
  179. abysmal
    exceptionally bad or displeasing
  180. abyssal
    relating to ocean depths from 2000 to 5000 meters
  181. rhapsodic
    feeling great rapture or delight
  182. enraptured
    feeling great rapture or delight
  183. rapturous
    feeling great delight
  184. rapt
    feeling great delight and interest
  185. permeative
    spreading or spread throughout
  186. desultory
    marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
  187. blase
    nonchalantly unconcerned
  188. pensive
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  189. wistful
    showing pensive sadness
  190. ruminative
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  191. eclectic
    selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
  192. bandy
    discuss lightly
  193. atonal
    characterized by avoidance of traditional musical scales
  194. unkeyed
    characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality
  195. heraldic
    indicative of or announcing something to come
  196. intractable
    difficult to manage or mold
  197. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  198. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  199. vociferous
    conspicuously and offensively loud
  200. strident
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
  201. clamorous
    conspicuously and offensively loud
  202. bohemian
    a nonconformist who lives an unconventional life
  203. recusant
    someone who refuses to conform to standards of conduct
  204. dissentient
    refusing to attend services of the Church of England
  205. chary
    characterized by great caution
  206. cagy
    characterized by great caution and wariness
  207. dank
    unpleasantly cool and humid
  208. clammy
    unpleasantly cool and humid
  209. invidious
    containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice
  210. hortatory
    giving strong encouragement
  211. hortative
    serving to urge or call to action
  212. exhortative
    giving strong encouragement
  213. demotic
    of or for the common people
  214. judicious
    marked by the exercise of common sense in practical matters
  215. laudable
    worthy of high praise
  216. ad hominem
    appealing to personal considerations rather than to reason
  217. impolitic
    lacking tact, shrewdness, or prudence
  218. somnolent
    inclined to or marked by drowsiness
  219. slumbrous
    inclined to or marked by drowsiness
  220. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  221. morose
    showing a brooding ill humor
  222. puissant
    powerful
  223. astral
    being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars
  224. nascent
    being born or beginning
  225. parturient
    of or relating to or giving birth
  226. dissilient
    bursting open with force, as do some ripe seed vessels
  227. roseate
    of something having a dusty purplish pink color
  228. rosaceous
    of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Rosaceae
  229. choleric
    characterized by anger
  230. irascible
    quickly aroused to anger
  231. nefarious
    extremely wicked
  232. perennial
    lasting an indefinitely long time
  233. dogged
    stubbornly unyielding
  234. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  235. pertinacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  236. tractable
    easily managed
  237. intractable
    difficult to manage or mold
  238. balky
    stopping short and refusing to go on
  239. obstinate
    refusing to change one's mind or ways; difficult to convince
  240. wry
    humorously sarcastic or mocking
  241. ambulant
    able to walk about
  242. gustatory
    of or relating to the sense of taste
  243. nonpareil
    model of excellence or perfection of a kind
  244. apposite
    being of striking appropriateness and pertinence
  245. soi-disant
    as claimed by and for yourself often without justification
  246. self-styled
    as claimed by and for yourself often without justification
  247. shambolic
    (British slang) disorderly or chaotic
  248. erudite
    having or showing profound knowledge
  249. latent
    potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
  250. attentive
    taking heed
  251. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  252. jocose
    characterized by jokes and good humor
  253. jocular
    characterized by jokes and good humor
  254. verbose
    using or containing too many words
  255. bountiful
    producing in abundance
  256. bounteous
    given or giving freely
  257. glum
    moody and sorrowful
  258. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  259. sullen
    showing a brooding ill humor
  260. glowering
    showing a brooding ill humor
  261. unremitting
    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
  262. episodic
    divided into or composed of distinct scenes or events
  263. temporal
    of or relating to or limited by time
  264. profane
    grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
  265. polymorphous
    having or occurring in several distinct forms
  266. brackish
    slightly salty
  267. briny
    slightly salty
  268. peregrine
    a powerful falcon formerly used in falconry
  269. ornate
    marked by complexity and richness of detail
  270. svelte
    being of delicate or slender build
  271. urbane
    showing a high degree of refinement
  272. sylphlike
    moving and bending with ease
  273. lithesome
    moving and bending with ease
  274. lissom
    moving and bending with ease
  275. impassive
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  276. deadpan
    deliberately impassive in manner
  277. stolid
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  278. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  279. baneful
    evil or sinister
  280. pestilent
    likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
  281. tantamount
    being essentially equal to something
  282. retiring
    of a person who has held and relinquished a position
  283. reticent
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  284. self-effacing
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  285. unassuming
    not arrogant
  286. panegyric
    formally expressing praise
  287. panegyrical
    formally expressing praise
  288. encomiastic
    formally expressing praise
  289. eulogistic
    formally expressing praise
  290. recusant
    someone who refuses to conform to standards of conduct
  291. dissentient
    refusing to attend services of the Church of England
  292. dissident
    a person who objects to some established policy
  293. heretical
    departing from accepted beliefs or standards
  294. dissenter
    a person who objects to some established policy
  295. diminutive
    very small
  296. bantam
    any of various small breeds of fowl
  297. lilliputian
    very small
  298. picayune
    small and of little importance
  299. piddling
    (informal) small and of little importance
  300. flyspeck
    a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly
  301. phlegmatic
    showing little emotion
  302. execrable
    unequivocally detestable
  303. odious
    extremely repulsive or unpleasant
  304. woeful
    affected by or full of grief or sadness
  305. ominous
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  306. minacious
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  307. baleful
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  308. inauspicious
    boding ill
  309. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  310. propitious
    presenting favorable circumstances
  311. judicious
    marked by the exercise of common sense in practical matters
  312. heady
    extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic
  313. somatic
    characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
  314. corporeal
    having material or physical form or substance
  315. viviparous
    producing living young and not eggs
  316. ovoviviparous
    producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body
  317. oviparous
    egg-laying
  318. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  319. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  320. libertine
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  321. spendthrift
    someone who spends money freely or wastefully
  322. nominal
    relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name
  323. tokenish
    insignificantly small; a matter of form only
  324. titular
    existing in name only
  325. macabre
    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  326. gruesome
    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
  327. overwrought
    deeply agitated especially from emotion
  328. pertinent
    being of striking appropriateness
  329. apposite
    being of striking appropriateness and pertinence
  330. primeval
    having existed from the beginning
  331. primordial
    having existed from the beginning
  332. riveting
    capable of arousing and holding the attention
  333. reverberant
    having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected
  334. puny
    of inferior size
  335. pugnacious
    ready and able to resort to force or violence
  336. hard-boiled
    (eggs) cooked until the yolk is solid
  337. torrid
    characterized by intense emotion
  338. perfervid
    characterized by intense emotion
  339. fervid
    characterized by intense emotion
  340. livid
    furiously angry
  341. gruff
    blunt and unfriendly or stern
  342. curmudgeonly
    brusque, surly, and forbidding
  343. insatiate
    impossible to satisfy
  344. extant
    still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost
  345. fortuitous
    lucky; occurring by happy chance
  346. tawdry
    tastelessly showy
  347. garish
    tastelessly showy
  348. gaudy
    tastelessly showy
  349. tacky
    tastelessly showy
  350. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  351. scathing
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  352. vituperative
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  353. grandiose
    impressive because of unnecessary largeness or magnificence
  354. highfaluting
    pretentious or excessively fancy
  355. genteel
    marked by refinement in taste and manners
  356. rambunctious
    noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
  357. boisterous
    marked by exuberance and high spirits
  358. penurious
    excessively unwilling to spend
  359. parsimonious
    excessively unwilling to spend
  360. impecunious
    not having enough money to pay for necessities
  361. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  362. caustic
    capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
  363. mordant
    harshly ironic or sinister
  364. fractious
    easily irritated or annoyed
  365. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  366. effectual
    producing or capable of producing an intended result
  367. efficacious
    giving the power to produce an intended result
  368. multifarious
    having many aspects
  369. multifaceted
    having many aspects
  370. episodic
    divided into or composed of distinct scenes or events
  371. sinister
    wicked, evil, or dishonorable
  372. sinistral
    of or on the left
  373. dextral
    preferring to use right foot or hand or eye
  374. dexter
    on or starting from the wearer's right
  375. lissome
    moving and bending with ease
  376. lithesome
    moving and bending with ease
  377. svelte
    being of delicate or slender build
  378. sylphlike
    moving and bending with ease
  379. oblique
    slanting or inclined in direction or course or position
  380. mincing
    affectedly dainty or refined
  381. twee
    excessively or affectedly dainty, sentimental, or refined
  382. prim
    affectedly dainty or refined
  383. prudish
    exaggeratedly proper
  384. prissy
    exaggeratedly proper
  385. priggish
    exaggeratedly or self-righteously proper
  386. straitlaced
    exaggeratedly proper or morally strict
  387. puritanical
    of or relating to a certain group of English Protestants
  388. tensile
    of or relating to physical stress or strain
  389. tractile
    capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  390. ductile
    capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  391. insidious
    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
  392. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  393. sacrosanct
    treated as if holy and kept free from violation or criticism
  394. inviolate
    not injured physically or mentally
Created on Tue Feb 09 05:35:31 EST 2010 (updated Tue Oct 12 20:44:19 EDT 2010)

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