| 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. |
| DEPRAVEMENT | • depravement n. (Archaic) Depravity; corruption. • DEPRAVEMENT n. (archaic) vitiation. |
| 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. |
| DEPRIVEMENT | • deprivement n. Deprivation. • DEPRIVEMENT n. the act of depriving. |
| DEVELOPMENT | • development n. (Uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change. • development n. (Uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is… • development n. (Countable) Something which has developed. |
| IMPROVIDENT | • improvident adj. Failing to provide for the future; reckless. • improvident adj. Incautious; prone to rashness. • IMPROVIDENT adj. lacking foresight, thoughtless, also UNPROVIDENT. |
| 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. |
| OVERPLANTED | • overplanted v. Simple past tense and past participle of overplant. • OVERPLANT v. to plant to excess. |
| OVERPRINTED | • overprinted v. Simple past tense and past participle of overprint. • OVERPRINT v. to print over something already printed. |
| PENDENTIVES | • pendentives n. Plural of pendentive. • PENDENTIVE n. one of four spherical triangles formed by a dome springing from a square base. |
| PREDEVOTING | • PREDEVOTE v. to devote or dedicate beforehand. |
| PROVIDENTLY | • providently adv. In a provident manner. • PROVIDENT adv. seeing beforehand, and providing for the future. |
| UNPERVERTED | • unperverted adj. Not perverted. • UNPERVERT v. to free from perversion. |
| UNPREVENTED | • unprevented adj. Not having been prevented. • UNPREVENTED adj. not prevented. |
| UNPROVIDENT | • unprovident adj. (Obsolete) lacking caution; lacking foresight; improvident. • unprovident adj. (Obsolete) lacking thrift. • UNPROVIDENT adj. (Shakespeare) improvident. |
| VIDEOTAPING | • videotaping v. Present participle of videotape. • videotaping n. A recording onto videotape. • VIDEOTAPE v. to record on videotape. |