| 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. |
| 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. |
| DIAPOSITIVE | • diapositive n. (Photography) slide (used with a projector for projecting images). • DIAPOSITIVE n. a transparent photographic positive; a slide. |
| DISPOSITIVE | • dispositive adj. Intending to or resulting in or capable of disposition (disposing of or settling a matter). • dispositive adj. (Obsolete) By natural disposition, having such an inclination. • dispositive adj. (Euro-English or non-native speakers’ English) Being a statutory provision not mandatory to the parties… |
| 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. |
| OVERPITCHED | • overpitched v. Simple past tense and past participle of overpitch. • OVERPITCH v. in cricket, to bowl a ball so that its trajectory brings it too close to the stumps. |
| OVERPREDICT | • overpredict v. To predict to be higher than the actual value. |
| OVERPRINTED | • overprinted v. Simple past tense and past participle of overprint. • OVERPRINT v. to print over something already printed. |
| OVERTRIPPED | • overtripped v. Simple past tense and past participle of overtrip. • OVERTRIP v. to trip nimbly over. |
| POSTDIVORCE | • postdivorce adj. After divorce. • POSTDIVORCE adj. following a divorce. |
| PREDEVOTING | • PREDEVOTE v. to devote or dedicate beforehand. |
| PROVEDITORE | • PROVEDITORE n. a purveyor, also PROVEDITOR, PROVEDOR, PROVEDORE, PROVIDOR, PROVISOR. |
| PROVEDITORS | • proveditors n. Plural of proveditor. • PROVEDITOR n. a purveyor, also PROVEDITORE, PROVEDOR, PROVEDORE, PROVIDOR, PROVISOR. |
| PROVIDENTLY | • providently adv. In a provident manner. • PROVIDENT adv. seeing beforehand, and providing for the future. |
| 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. |