| DEPRAVATION | • depravation n. Detraction; depreciation. (Can we add an example for this sense?) • depravation n. The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting. • depravation n. The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity. |
| DEPRAVITIES | • depravities n. Plural of depravity. • DEPRAVITY n. wickedness. |
| DEPRECATIVE | • deprecative adj. Tending to deprecate; disapproving. • deprecative adj. (Archaic) Tending to avert evil by prayer. • DEPRECATIVE adj. serving to deprecate. |
| DEPRIVATION | • deprivation n. (Countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. • deprivation n. (Uncountable) The state of being deprived. • deprivation n. (Countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. |
| DEPRIVATIVE | • deprivative adj. Depriving. • DEPRIVATIVE adj. serving to deprive. |
| DEPURATIVES | • depuratives n. Plural of depurative. • DEPURATIVE n. a purifying agent, also DEPURANT. |
| DIAPOSITIVE | • diapositive n. (Photography) slide (used with a projector for projecting images). • DIAPOSITIVE n. a transparent photographic positive; a slide. |
| DISPUTATIVE | • disputative adj. Tending to dispute. • DISPUTATIVE adj. inclined to dispute. |
| DISSIPATIVE | • dissipative adj. That dissipates, or causes dissipation. • DISSIPATIVE adj. relating to dissipation esp. of heat. |
| DUPLICATIVE | • duplicative adj. Of, related to, or being a duplicate. • DUPLICATIVE adj. serving to duplicate. |
| LIVETRAPPED | • livetrapped v. Simple past tense and past participle of livetrap. • live-trapped v. Simple past tense and past participle of live-trap. • LIVETRAP v. to capture in a type of animal trap. |
| MALADAPTIVE | • maladaptive adj. (Psychology, chiefly of behaviour) Showing inadequate or counterproductive mental and behavioral adaptation… • maladaptive adj. (Evolution, of anatomy, physiology, or behavior) Showing inadequate or counterproductive evolutionary… • MALADAPTIVE adj. marked by poor or inadequate adaptation. |
| NONADAPTIVE | • nonadaptive adj. Not adaptive; unable to adapt. • NONADAPTIVE adj. not adaptive. |
| OVERPAINTED | • overpainted v. Simple past tense and past participle of overpaint. • OVERPAINT v. to color or describe too strongly. |
| PREADAPTIVE | • preadaptive adj. Serving as an adaptation for something to occur in the future. • PREADAPTIVE adj. of, relating to, or characterized by preadaptation. |
| PREDICATIVE | • predicative adj. (Grammar, of an adjectival or nominal phrase) Modifying a noun while in a predicate phrase, which predicate… • predicative n. (Grammar) An element of the predicate of a sentence which complements the subject or object by means… • predicative n. (Grammar) In some languages, a special part of speech used as a predicate and denoting a state of being. |
| PRIVATEERED | • privateered v. Simple past tense and past participle of privateer. • PRIVATEER v. to operate as a pirate. |
| REPUDIATIVE | • REPUDIATIVE adj. serving to repudiate. |
| VIDEOTAPING | • videotaping v. Present participle of videotape. • videotaping n. A recording onto videotape. • VIDEOTAPE v. to record on videotape. |
| VITUPERATED | • vituperated v. Simple past tense and past participle of vituperate. • VITUPERATE v. to abuse or censure severely or abusively. |