| DEMOTIVATING | • demotivating v. Present participle of demotivate. • DEMOTIVATE v. to remove motivation from. |
| DEMOTIVATION | • demotivation n. A feeling or state of being demotivated. • DEMOTIVATION n. the act of demotivating. |
| DENOMINATIVE | • denominative adj. Being a name. • denominative adj. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. • denominative adj. (Grammar) Deriving from a noun, or from an adjective, such as the verb destruct from the noun destruction. |
| DEVIATIONISM | • deviationism n. Deviation from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of communism. • DEVIATIONISM n. the deviation of a doctrine from the strictly orthodox. |
| DISIMPROVING | • disimproving v. Present participle of disimprove. • DISIMPROVE v. to make worse. |
| DIVERTIMENTO | • divertimento n. (Music) composition that has several short movements, a style that composers started to use in the 18th century. • DIVERTIMENTO n. (Italian) a genre of 18th century chamber music having several short movements. |
| DIVISIONISMS | • divisionisms n. Plural of divisionism. • DIVISIONISM n. pointillism. |
| IMPOVERISHED | • impoverished adj. Reduced to poverty. • impoverished adj. Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted. • impoverished v. Simple past tense and past participle of impoverish. |
| IMPROVIDENCE | • improvidence n. The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift. • IMPROVIDENCE n. the state of being improvident. |
| IMPROVISATED | • improvisated v. Simple past tense and past participle of improvisate. • IMPROVISATE v. (obsolete) to improvise. |
| MISCONCEIVED | • misconceived v. Simple past tense and past participle of misconceive. • misconceived adj. Badly or wrongly conceived. • MISCONCEIVE v. to conceive wrongly. |
| MISDEVOTIONS | • misdevotions n. Plural of misdevotion. • MISDEVOTION n. a wrong devotion. |
| MISDIVISIONS | • misdivisions n. Plural of misdivision. • MISDIVISION n. a wrong division. |
| MODIFICATIVE | • modificative n. (Grammar) That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause. • modificative adj. Modificatory; tending to modify. • MODIFICATIVE adj. tending to modify, also MODIFICATORY. |