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Open

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead.

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Similar meaning 52

Acceptant 84% connected

Accepting; receiving.

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Acceptant 84% connected

Accepting; receiving.

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Acceptive 84% connected

Fit for acceptance.

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Acceptive 84% connected

Fit for acceptance.

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Active 84% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Active 84% connected

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Admissive 84% connected

Implying an admission; tending to admit.

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Admissive 84% connected

Implying an admission; tending to admit.

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Agape 84% connected

Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention.

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Agape 84% connected

Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention.

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Ajar 84% connected

Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.

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Ajar 84% connected

Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.

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Artless 84% connected

Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.

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Artless 84% connected

Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.

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Assimilative 84% connected

Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance.

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Assimilative 84% connected

Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance.

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Available 84% connected

Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea.

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Available 84% connected

Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea.

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Bald 84% connected

Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.

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Bald 84% connected

Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.

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Barefaced 84% connected

With the face uncovered; not masked.

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Barefaced 84% connected

With the face uncovered; not masked.

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Coarse 84% connected

Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; ro…

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Coarse 84% connected

Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; ro…

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Gaping 84% connected

of Gape

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Gaping 84% connected

of Gape

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Harsh 84% connected

Rough; disagreeable; grating

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Harsh 84% connected

Rough; disagreeable; grating

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Hospitable 84% connected

Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality.

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Hospitable 84% connected

Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality.

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Ingenuous 84% connected

Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

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Ingenuous 84% connected

Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

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Naked 84% connected

Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

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Naked 84% connected

Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

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Opened 84% connected

of Open

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Opened 84% connected

of Open

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Public 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the pub…

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Public 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the pub…

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Raw 84% connected

Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suit…

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Raw 84% connected

Not altered from its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suit…

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staring 84% connected

of Stare

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staring 84% connected

of Stare

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Susceptible 84% connected

Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteratio…

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Susceptible 84% connected

Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteratio…

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Visible 84% connected

Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper.

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Visible 84% connected

Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper.

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Vulnerable 84% connected

Capable of being wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as, a vulnerable body.

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Vulnerable 84% connected

Capable of being wounded; susceptible of wounds or external injuries; as, a vulnerable body.

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Wide 84% connected

Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow…

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Wide 84% connected

Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow…

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Yawning 84% connected

of Yawn

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Yawning 84% connected

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Afford 76% connected

To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords frui…

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Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Area 76% connected

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

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Arise 76% connected

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Begin 76% connected

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Commence 76% connected

To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

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Country 76% connected

A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region o…

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Display 76% connected

To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.

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Exhibit 76% connected

To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to disp…

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Expose 76% connected

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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Exterior 76% connected

External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Outside 76% connected

The external part of a thing; the part, end, or side which forms the surface; that which appears, or is manifest; that which is superficial; the exte…

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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

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Tournament 76% connected

A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery;…

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Tourney 76% connected

A tournament.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Undo 76% connected

To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.

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Yield 76% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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Manner of action 30

Breach 76% connected

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

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Butterfly 76% connected

A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

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Divaricate 76% connected

To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.

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Establish 76% connected

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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Exfoliate 76% connected

To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.

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Found 76% connected

of Find

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Gap 76% connected

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or…

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Gape 76% connected

To open the mouth wide

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Grass 76% connected

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

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Inaugurate 76% connected

Invested with office; inaugurated.

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Integrate 76% connected

To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.

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Jimmy 76% connected

A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors.

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Lance 76% connected

A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag;…

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Launch 76% connected

To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

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Leak 76% connected

A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.

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Lever 76% connected

More agreeable; more pleasing.

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Mix 76% connected

To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or b…

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Prise 76% connected

An enterprise.

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Prize 76% connected

That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

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Pry 76% connected

A lever; also, leverage.

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Reopen 76% connected

To open again.

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Splay 76% connected

To display; to spread.

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Unbar 76% connected

To remove a bar or bars from; to unbolt; to open; as, to unbar a gate.

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Unbolt 76% connected

To remove a bolt from; to unfasten; to unbar; to open.

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Uncork 76% connected

To draw the cork from; as, to uncork a bottle.

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Unfasten 76% connected

To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.

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Unlock 76% connected

To unfasten, as what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest.

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Unseal 76% connected

To break or remove the seal of; to open, as what is sealed; as, to unseal a letter.

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Yaw 76% connected

To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.

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Yawn 76% connected

To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate.

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Clear 74% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Clear 74% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Gap 74% connected

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or…

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Gap 74% connected

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or…

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Opener 74% connected

One who, or that which, opens.

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Opener 74% connected

One who, or that which, opens.

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Openness 74% connected

The quality or state of being open.

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Openness 74% connected

The quality or state of being open.

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Orifice 74% connected

A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound.

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Orifice 74% connected

A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound.

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Outdoors 74% connected

Abread; out of the house; out of doors.

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Outdoors 74% connected

Abread; out of the house; out of doors.

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Receive 74% connected

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

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Receive 74% connected

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

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Receptivity 74% connected

The state or quality of being receptive.

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Receptivity 74% connected

The state or quality of being receptive.

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Undoer 74% connected

One who undoes anything; especially, one who ruins another.

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Undoer 74% connected

One who undoes anything; especially, one who ruins another.

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Explicit 66% connected

A word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end.

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Explicit 66% connected

A word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end.

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Impartial 66% connected

Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just.

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Impartial 66% connected

Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just.

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Pioneer 66% connected

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

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Pioneer 66% connected

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

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Public 66% connected

Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the pub…

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Public 66% connected

Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the pub…

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Unprejudiced 66% connected

Not prejudiced; free from undue bias or prepossession; not preoccupied by opinion; impartial; as, an unprejudiced mind; an unprejudiced judge.

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Unprejudiced 66% connected

Not prejudiced; free from undue bias or prepossession; not preoccupied by opinion; impartial; as, an unprejudiced mind; an unprejudiced judge.

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Synonym 14

Assailable 92% connected

Capable of being assailed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Candid 92% connected

White.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Capable 92% connected

Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Clear 92% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exposed 92% connected

of Expose

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Loose 92% connected

Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Opened 92% connected

of Open

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Outdoors 92% connected

Abread; out of the house; out of doors.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Overt 92% connected

Open to view; public; apparent; manifest.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Receptive 92% connected

Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Spread 92% connected

of Spread

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Subject 92% connected

Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Surface 92% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Unfold 92% connected

To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Near synonym 1

Begin 84% connected

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

general 62% interchangeable

Open overlaps with begin, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Antonym 8

Close 94% connected

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Close 94% connected

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

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Covert 94% connected

Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.

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Covert 94% connected

Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.

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Fold 94% connected

To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

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Fold 94% connected

To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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