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Flatness

The quality or state of being flat.

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Dullness 76% connected

The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightn…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Inactivity 76% connected

The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.

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Inertia 76% connected

That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direc…

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Style 76% connected

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Taste 76% connected

To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.

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Flat 74% connected

Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Flat 74% connected

Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.

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Plane 74% connected

Any tree of the genus Platanus.

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Plane 74% connected

Any tree of the genus Platanus.

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Sluggish 74% connected

Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sluggish 74% connected

Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.

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Languor 92% connected

A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lethargy 92% connected

Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mat 92% connected

A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Matt 92% connected

See Matte.

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Matte 92% connected

A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and call…

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Phlegm 92% connected

One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.

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