English Adj. 1
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- abstemious abstemiously abstemisouness
- easting and drinking in moderation, charactized by abstinence or moderation
- auspicious
- attended by favorable circumstances, propitious, marked by sucess, prosperous
- deleterious
- having a harmful effect, injurious
- incontrovertable
- impossible to dispute, unquestionable
- onerous(adj) onerously(adv)
- involving, imposing, or onstitution a burden:troublesome 2. having legal obligations that outweigh the advantages
- pernicious (adj) perniciously (adv) perniciousness(n)
- 1. highly injurious or destructive, deadly 2. archaic: wicked
- pathos(n)
- an emotion of sympathetic pity, great deep earnest emotion or feeling or compassion, the quality of tugging at the heart-strings
- multitudinous (adj) -ly(adv) multitudinousness (n )
- existing in great multitude, existing in or consisting of innumerable elements or aspects, including a multitude of individuals
- mordant (adj)
- biting or caustic in thought, manner or style, :burning, pungent
- astringent (adj)
- causing contraction of soft organic tissue. 2. rigidly severe, austere, pungent caustic
- portentous (adj) -ly (adv) portentousness
- being a grave or serious manner, self-conciously solemn, 2. ponderously excessive
- insipid (adj) insipidity (n)
- lacking taste or savor to please 2. lacking in qualites that stimulate, interest, or challenge
- nebulous (adj) -ly (adv) nebulousness (n)
- indistinct or vague
- ancillary (adj)
- subordinate, subsidiary, auxillary, supplementary
- ostentatious (adj)
- marked by or fond of conspicious or vainglorious and sometimes pretentious display
- pretentious (adj)
- making unjustified or exessive claims, unwarranted or exxagerated importance worth or stature
- parochial (adj) parochially (adv)
- of or ralting to a church parish 2. confined or restricted as if within the boundaries or a parish: limited in range or scope (as to a narrow area or region) : provincial, narrow
- precarious(adj) precariously(adv) precariousness(n)
- 1. depending on the will or pleasure of another. 2. dependent on uncertain premises. 3. dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments, characterized by lack of security or stability
- rancor
- bitter deep-seated ill will
- antinomy(noun), antinomic(adj)
- a contradiction between two apparently equally valid principles or between inferences correctly drawn from such principles. 2. a fundamental and apparently unresolvable conflict or contradiction
- confluence (n)
- 1. a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point 2. the place of meeting or two streams formed by junction
- malignant (adj)
- evil in nature, disaffected 2. injurious, passionately and relentlessly malicious 3. tending to produce death or deterioration
- tenuous
- 1. having little substance or strength: flimsy weak 2. not thick (slender) 3. not dense