n. a brief experience of something; "he got a taste of life on the wild side"; "she enjoyed her brief taste of independence"

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

n. a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds; "a wine tasting"

n. a small amount eaten or drunk; "take a taste--you'll like it"

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

n. the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth; "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste"

n. delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"

n. a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

n. the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste"

n. federate state in the United States of America

v. perceive by the sense of taste; "Can you taste the garlic?"

v. distinguish flavors; "We tasted wines last night"

v. take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes"

v. have flavor; taste of something

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

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

adj. holding office; "the in party"

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

adj. unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"

adj. unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor"

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

adj. having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"

adj. characterized by or indicating poverty; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town"

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

adj. lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"

adj. not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"

adj. not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"

adj. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"

adj. deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

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

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

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

n. (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

n. (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops

n. the expression of approval and support

n. a single serving of a beverage; "I asked for a hot drink"; "likes a drink before dinner"

n. a large and hurried swallow; "he finished it at a single gulp"

n. a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor)

n. a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture; "always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers"

n. a short mixed drink

n. the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

n. knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress; "the servants showed great tact and discretion"

n. the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished

n. one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

n. an ability that has been acquired by training

n. natural abilities or qualities

n. a special way of doing something; "he had a bent for it"; "he had a special knack for getting into trouble"; "he couldn't get the hang of it"

n. possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; "danger heightened his powers of discrimination"

n. inherent ability

n. a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration"

n. a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way; "the set of his mind was obvious"

n. a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

n. an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"

n. an intense desire for some particular thing

n. the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state

n. strong feeling or emotion

n. an appetite for food; "exercise gave him a good stomach for dinner"

n. the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished

n. the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor"

n. one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse"

n. refined taste; tact

n. the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions

n. a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation"

n. the right or chance to choose; "given my druthers, I'd eat cake"

n. a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love"

n. the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising

n. a feeling of friendship and esteem; "she mistook his manly regard for love"; "he inspires respect"

n. vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment

n. an attitude of admiration or esteem; "she lost all respect for him"

n. a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure"

n. the contentment you feel when you have done something right; "the chef tasted the sauce with great satisfaction"

n. the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention; "the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith

n. an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict"

n. a natural attraction or feeling of kinship; "an affinity for politics"; "the mysterious affinity between them"; "James's affinity with Sam"

v. get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions

v. go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam"

adj. having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"

adj. lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

adj. lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"

adj. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"

adj. inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"

adj. being neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French"

adj. lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"

adj. about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"

adj. of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"

adj. lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"

adj. having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"

adj. arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"

adj. inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"

adj. characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"

adj. very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"

adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

adj. having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"

adj. not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome

adj. having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency"

adj. (usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune

adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

adj. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

adj. in the current fashion or style

adj. affectedly trendy and fashionable

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

adj. intensely fashionable for a short time

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

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

adj. initiating or popularizing a trend

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

adj. exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"

adj. badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a naughty boy"

adj. (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin; "a corked port"

adj. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

adj. very bad in degree or extent; "a severe worldwide depression"; "the house suffered severe damage"

adj. causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"

adj. (used ironically) unexpectedly bad; "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish"

adj. unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"

adj. exceedingly bad; "when she was bad she was horrid"

adj. not doing a good job; "incompetent at chess"

adj. having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant; "ran a negative campaign"; "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life"

adj. severe; punishingly bad; "swingeing taxation"; "swingeing damages awarded by the judge"

adj. not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt"

adj. not favorable; "made an unfavorable impression"; "unfavorable reviews"

adj. "the pay is unsatisfactory and the conditions are unacceptable"

adj. not conducive to good moral development; "the movie is unsuitable for children"

adj. lowered in value; "the dollar is low"; "a debased currency"

adj. lower than previously; "the market is depressed"; "prices are down"

adj. not intense; "low-level radiation"

adj. well below normal (especially in price)

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

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

adj. appointed but not yet installed in office

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

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

adj. flowing inward

adj. pouring inward; "inpouring throngs of immigrants"

adj. lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society

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"

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

adj. having achieved eminence; "an eminent physician"

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

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

adj. yielding positive results

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

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

adj. bringing success; "the winning run"

adj. failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President"

adj. producing no fruit

adj. without offspring; "in some societies a childless woman is rejected by her tribesmen"

adj. no longer sufficient; "supplies are low"; "our funds are depleted"

adj. containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

adj. containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

adj. not enough; hard to find; "meat was scarce during the war"

adj. short; "eleven is one shy of a dozen"

adj. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"

adj. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"

adj. of very poor quality; flimsy

adj. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"

adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"

adj. made coarse or crude by lack of skill

adj. of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"

adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

adj. (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"

adj. of inferior quality

adj. (British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"

adj. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

adj. of inferior status or quality; "a second-class citizen"; "second-class accommodations"

adj. of lesser quality than second-rate

adj. used of beef; usable but inferior

adj. most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"

adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"

adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"

adj. aground as a consequence of a shipwreck

adj. physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern

adj. marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott

adj. marked by or producing unhappiness; "infelicitous circumstances"; "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"- American Guide Series

adj. deserving regret; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church"

n. a feeling of intense dislike

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

adj. possessing material wealth; "her father is extremely rich"; "many fond hopes are pinned on rich uncles"

adj. in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich; "they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards"; "easy living"; "a prosperous family"; "his family is well-situated financially"; "well-to-do members of the community"

adj. having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations"

adj. suggestive of or characterized by great expense; "a rich display"

adj. rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"

adj. having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources); "blessed with a land rich in minerals"; "rich in ideas"; "rich with cultural interest"

adj. productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be fruitful and multiply"

adj. of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant; "sufficient food"

adj. of high or superior quality or performance; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students"

adj. of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"

adj. highest in excellence or achievement; "supreme among musicians"; "a supreme endxxeavor"; "supreme courage"

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