Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (28)

n. the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen

manner, personal manner

n. a way of acting or behaving

manner, ilk

n. a kind of person; "I don't like people of his ilk"

inch, in

n. a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot

A, ampere, amp

n. the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; "a typical household circuit carries 15 to 50 amps"

A, angstrom, angstrom unit

n. a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation

A, vitamin A, axerophthol, antiophthalmic factor

n. any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes

way, fashion, style, manner, mode

n. how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"

indium, In, atomic number 49

n. a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite

Indiana, Hoosier State, IN

n. federate state in the United States of America

Verbs (0)

Adverbs (5)

in, inside an enclosed space

adv. to or toward the inside of; "come in"; "smash in the door"

in, inward, inwards

adv. to or toward the inside of; "come in"; "smash in the door"

Adjectives (17)

formal

adj. being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress); "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education"

formal

adj. (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms; "the paper was written in formal English"

formal

adj. logically deductive; "formal proof"

formal

adj. characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal duties"; "an official banquet"

adj. holding office; "the in party"

adj. currently fashionable; "the in thing to do"; "large shoulder pads are in"

adj. directed or bound inward; "took the in bus"; "the in basket"

adj. currently fashionable; "the in thing to do"; "large shoulder pads are in"

cool, formal

adj. (reserved)

courtly, elegant, formal, stately

adj. refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"

schematic, conventional, formal

adj. represented in simplified or symbolic form

Fuzzynyms (103)

personality

n. the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others"

disposition, temperament

n. your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"

way, fashion, style, manner, mode

bearing, carriage, posture

n. characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture"

division, section, part

n. one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division"

image, prototype, paradigm, epitome

n. a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"

bit, morsel

n. a small quantity of anything; "a bit of paper was all he needed"

dash, style, panache, elan, flair

n. distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"

molecule

n. (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound

particle, speck, atom, molecule, mote

n. (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

procedure, function, routine, subroutine, subprogram, program module, subprogramme, programme module

n. a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

position, attitude, posture

n. the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender"

bearing, carriage, posture

n. characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture"

behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment

n. (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people

mania, manic disorder

n. a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently

passion, mania

n. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

personality

disposition, temperament

n. your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"

manner, personal manner

n. a way of acting or behaving

extravagance, luxury

n. something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity

customary

adj. in accordance with convention or custom; "sealed the deal with the customary handshake"

stodgy, stuffy

adj. excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"

standard

adj. established or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence; "a standard reference work"

denotative, explicit

adj. in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term

sound, legal

adj. having legal efficacy or force; "a sound title to the property"

true, rightful, lawful

adj. having a legally established claim; "the legitimate heir"; "the true and lawful king"

legal

adj. established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules

lawful

adj. conformable to or allowed by law; "lawful methods of dissent"

artificial, contrived, stilted

adj. artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

gallant, chivalrous, knightly

adj. being attentive to women like an ideal knight

mannered

adj. having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom"

urbane, refined, polished, svelte, cultured

adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"

debonair, debonaire, suave, polished, debonnaire

adj. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"

civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel

adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

refined

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

neat, refined, tasteful

adj. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"

gentlemanlike, gentlemanly

adj. befitting a man of good breeding; "gentlemanly behavior"

Synonyms (87)

conventional

adj. following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"

formal

adj. (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms; "the paper was written in formal English"

formal

rhetorical

adj. concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"

discursive, dianoetic

adj. proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition

ratiocinative

adj. based on exact thinking; "one's ratiocinative powers"

rational

adj. consistent with or based on or using reason; "rational behavior"; "a process of rational inference"; "rational thought"

authorized, authoritative

adj. sanctioned by established authority; "an authoritative communique"; "the authorized biography"

ex-officio

adj. by virtue of an office or position; "the head of the department serves as an ex officio member of the board"

formalized

adj. given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures

semiofficial

adj. having some official authority or sanction

modish, stylish, in vogue, in style, a la mode, à la mode

adj. in the current fashion or style

chichi

adj. affectedly trendy and fashionable

spruce, jaunty, raffish, rakish, snappy, dapper, dashing, natty

adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"

faddish, faddy

adj. intensely fashionable for a short time

mod, modern, up-to-date, up to date

adj. relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs";

smart

adj. of or associated with people of fashion; "the fashionable side of town"; "the smart set"

trendsetting, trend-setting

adj. initiating or popularizing a trend

trendy, voguish

adj. in accord with the latest fad; "trendy ideas"; "trendy clothes"; "voguish terminology"

inward, arriving, inbound

adj. directed or moving inward or toward a center; "the inbound train"; "inward flood of capital"

entering, ingoing

adj. "incoming class"; "the ingoing administration"; "ingoing data"

designate

adj. appointed but not yet installed in office

elect

adj. elected but not yet installed in office; "the president elect"

future, succeeding, next

adj. (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving; "our next president"

inflowing, influent

adj. flowing inward

inpouring

adj. pouring inward; "inpouring throngs of immigrants"

prosperous, flourishing, thriving, booming, roaring, palmy, prospering

adj. very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids"

triple-crown

adj. unofficial championship title for player who heads the league in batting average and home runs and runs batted in

eminent

adj. having achieved eminence; "an eminent physician"

hitless, no-hit

adj. of a game (or the pitching) in which a pitcher allows the opponent no hits; "a no-hit pitcher"; "a no-hit game"

made

adj. successful or assured of success; "now I am a made man forever"- Christopher Marlowe

productive

adj. yielding positive results

self-made

adj. having achieved success or recognition by your own efforts; "a self-made millionaire"

winning, victorious

adj. having won; "the victorious entry"; "the winning team"

winning

adj. bringing success; "the winning run"

unapproachable, distant, aloof, offish

adj. remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"

diffident

adj. showing modest reserve; "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture"

indrawn, withdrawn

adj. tending to reserve or introspection; "a quiet indrawn man"

distinguished, imposing, magisterial

adj. used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"

abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective

adj. not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; "a large abstract painting"

geometric, geometrical

adj. characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration; "a buffalo hide painted with red and black geometric designs"

protogeometric

adj. characteristic of the earliest phase of geometric art especially in Greece

semiabstract

adj. characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter

Antonyms (15)

informal

adj. not formal; "conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress"; "an informal free-and-easy manner"; "an informal gathering of friends"

casual, free-and-easy

adj. natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style"

knockabout, casual, everyday

adj. suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"

informal

adj. used of spoken and written language

colloquial, conversational

adj. characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"

vernacular, common, vulgar, nonliterary

adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"

out

adj. not worth considering as a possibility; "a picnic is out because of the weather"

out

adv. outside of an enclosed space: "She is out"

in a formal manner

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