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Nouns (1)

one

n. a single person or thing; "he is the best one"; "this is the one I ordered"

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Adverbs (16)

only

adv. as recently as; "I spoke to him only an hour ago"

only

adv. in the final outcome; "These news will only make you more upset"

only

adv. with nevertheless the final result; "He arrived only to find his wife dead"; "We won only to lose again in the next round"

only, only if, only when

adv. never except when; "call me only if your cold gets worse"

entirely, exclusively, solely, alone, only

adv. without any others being included or involved; "was entirely to blame"; "a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children"; "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively"; "did it solely for money"; "the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone"; "a privilege granted only to him"

merely, simply, just, only, but

adv. and nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a child"; "hopes that last but a moment"

Adjectives (8)

one

adj. indefinite in time or position; "he will come one day"; "one place or another"

one

adj. being a single entity made by combining separate components; "three chemicals combining into one solution"

one

adj. being a single entity made by combining separate components; "three chemicals combining into one solution"

one

adj. being a single entity made by combining separate components; "three chemicals combining into one solution"

one, 1, i, ane

adj. used of a single unit or thing; not two or more; "`ane' is Scottish"

Fuzzynyms (9)

individually, separately, singly, severally, one by one, on an individual basis

adv. apart from others; "taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square"; "the fine points are treated singly"

aside, apart

adv. placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose; "had a feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart"; "a day set aside for relaxing"

independently

adv. on your own; without outside help; "the children worked on the project independently"

Synonyms (39)

single, ace, unit, unity

n. a definite quantity expressing "one"

n. the Arabic numeral representing "one"

n. the smallest whole number or numeral in Roman notation representing "one"

azygous, azygos

adj. occurring singly; not one of a pair; "the azygous muscle of the uvula"

one-man, one-person, one-woman

adj. designed for or restricted to a single person: "a one-man show"; "a one-person tent"

sui generis

adj. constituting a class of its own; unique; "a history book sui generis"; "sui generis works like Mary Chestnut's Civil War diary"

solitary

adj. being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky"

unary

adj. consisting of or involving a single element or component; "in a unary operation in a mathematical system one element is used to yield a single result"

uninominal, one-member

adj. based on the system of having only one member from each district (as of a legislature); "a uninominal electoral system"

compounded

adj. combined into or constituting a chemical compound

condensed

adj. (psychol) representing two or more ideas or emotions by a single symbol: "a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas"

conglomerate

adj. composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass; "the conglomerate peoples of New England"

occluded, sorbed

adj. (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance; "the sorbed oil mass"; "large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium"

integrated

adj. (combined)

bonzer

adj. remarkable or wonderful

pyrotechnic

adj. suggestive of fireworks; "pyrotechnic keyboard virtuosity"; "a pyrotechnic wit"

great

adj. remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; "a great crisis"; "had a great stake in the outcome"

terrific

adj. very great or intense; "a terrific noise"; "a terrific thunderstorm storm"; "fought a terrific battle"

preternatural, uncanny

adj. surpassing the ordinary or normal; "Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel" - George Will; "his uncanny sense of direction"

some

adj. remarkable; "that was some party"; "she is some skier"

special

adj. for a special service or occasion; "a special correspondent"; "a special adviser to the committee"; "had to get special permission for the event"

wonderworking

adj. performing or able to perform wonders or miracles

assonant

adj. having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables; "note the assonant words and syllables in `tilting at windmills'"

indistinguishable, undistinguishable

adj. not capable of being distinguished or differentiated; "the two specimens are actually different from each other but the differences are almost indistinguishable"; "the twins were indistinguishable"; "a colorless person quite indistinguishable from the colorless mass of humanity"

comparable, corresponding, like

adj. conforming in every respect; "boxes with corresponding dimensions"; "the like period of the preceding year"

synoptic, synoptical

adj. presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament; "synoptic sayings"

Antonyms (0)

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