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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pliable, bendable |
| Synonyms: | adjustable, bending, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, flexile, formable, formative, impressionable, like putty, limber, lithe, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliant, soft, spongy, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, supple, tensile, tractable, tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding |
| Antonyms: | brittle, inflexible, resistant, rigid, stiff, unbendable, unpliable, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | supple |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bendable |
| Synonyms: | adaptable, agile, bending, ductile, elastic, flexible, graceful, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, resilient, rubber, springy, stretch, stretchy, svelte, willowy, wiry, yielding |
| Antonyms: | hard, rigid, stiff, unflexible |
| Main Entry: | overlong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | long |
| Synonyms: | continued, deep, distant, dragging, drawn out, drawn-out, elongate, elongated, enduring, enlarged, expanded, extensive, far-off, far-reaching, faraway, gangling, great, high*, lanky, lasting, lengthened, lengthy, lingering, lofty, long-drawn-out, longish, outstretched, prolonged, protracted, rangy, remote, running, spread out, spun out, stretch, stretched, stretching, stringy, sustained, tall, towering |
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| Main Entry: | protracted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | long |
| Synonyms: | continued, deep, distant, dragging, drawn out, drawn-out, elongate, elongated, enduring, enlarged, expanded, extensive, far-off, far-reaching, faraway, gangling, great, high*, lanky, lasting, lengthened, lengthy, lingering, lofty, long-drawn-out, longish, outstretched, overlong, prolonged, rangy, remote, running, spread out, spun out, stretch, stretched, stretching, stringy, sustained, tall, towering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | protractile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extensible |
| Synonyms: | approaching, continual, continuing, continuous, endless, expansible, expansile, extendible, extensile, going on, lengthening, perpetual, ranging, spanning, spreading, stretch, stretchable, stretching |
| Main Entry: | suggestible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flexible |
| Synonyms: | adjustable, bending, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, flexile, formable, formative, impressionable, like putty, limber, lithe, malleable, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, soft, spongy, springy, stretch, stretchable, stretchy, supple, tensile, tractable, tractile, whippy, willowy, yielding |
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| Concept: | Attack. |
| Category: | 1. Conditional antagonism |
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-adjectives
attacking; aggressive, offensive, obsidional., up in arms.
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| Antonyms: | defense |
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| Concept: | Distance. |
| Category: | 1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS |
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-adjectives
distant; far off, far away; remote, telescopic, distal, wide of; stretching to; yon, yonder; ulterior; transmarine, transpontine, transatlantic, transalpine; tramontane; ultramontane, ultramundane; hyperborean, antipodean; inaccessible, out of the way; unapproached, unapproachable; incontiguous.
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| Antonyms: | nearness |
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| Concept: | Exaggeration. |
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-adjectives
exaggerated; overwrought; bombastic (grandiloquent); hyperbolical, on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre, highflying.
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