| ANTIPHRASTIC | • antiphrastic adj. (Rhetoric) of, or relating to antiphrasis. • ANTIPHRASTIC adj. involving antiphrasis, ironical, also ANTIPHRASTICAL. |
| CONTRASTABLE | • contrastable adj. Capable of being contrasted (with something else); admitting contrast. • CONTRASTABLE adj. able to be contrasted. |
| CONTRASTABLY | • CONTRASTABLE adv. able to be contrasted. |
| CONTRASTIEST | • CONTRASTY adj. of eg a photograph, showing strong contrasts. |
| HOLOPHRASTIC | • holophrastic adj. (Linguistics, of a sentence) Consisting of a single word, such as "Go." or "Whatever.". • holophrastic adj. (Linguistics) Pertaining to the stage of development where a child produces simple one-word utterances. • HOLOPHRASTIC adj. of or like a holophrase, a single word expressing a sentence or phrase. |
| HYDRASTININE | • hydrastinine n. (Organic chemistry) A semisynthetic alkaloid resulting from the hydrolysis of hydrastine. • HYDRASTININE n. a colourless crystalline water-soluble compound whose pharmacological action resembles that of hydrastine. |
| METAPHRASTIC | • metaphrastic adj. Of, relating to, or produced using metaphrase; literal in translation. • METAPHRASTIC adj. related to metaphrasis, also METAPHRASTICAL. |
| NEURASTHENIA | • neurasthenia n. (Psychiatry) An ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability… • NEURASTHENIA n. nervous debility or breakdown. |
| NEURASTHENIC | • neurasthenic adj. Of or pertaining to neurasthenia; that is, tendencies of a person who has suffered a nervous breakdown. • neurasthenic n. (Medicine, psychiatry, dated) An individual who has neurasthenia. • NEURASTHENIC n. one suffering from neurasthenia, also NEURASTHENIAC. |
| PAEDERASTIES | • PAEDERASTY n. anal intercourse between a man and a boy, also PEDERASTY. |
| PARAPHRASTIC | • paraphrastic adj. Pertaining to a paraphrase. • paraphrastic adj. (Grammar) Of a Latin conjugation: composed of the verb sum with participial forms of the verbs conjugated… • PARAPHRASTIC adj. of the nature of a paraphrase, also PARAPHRASTICAL. |
| PARASTICHIES | • parastichies n. Plural of parastichy. • PARASTICHY n. a secondary helix joining leaf-bases on an axis, visible where the leaves are crowded together, e.g. the scales of a pine cone. |
| PARASTICHOUS | • PARASTICHOUS adj. characterised by parastichy, i.e. having a secondary helix joining leaf-bases on an axis. |
| PERIPHRASTIC | • periphrastic adj. Expressed in more words than are necessary. • periphrastic adj. Indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory. • periphrastic adj. (Grammar) Characterized by periphrasis. |
| RASTAFARIANS | • Rastafarians n. Plural of Rastafarian. • RASTAFARIAN n. a member of rastafari, a West Indian cult which rejects western ideas and regards the Emperor Haile Selassie as divine. |
| TETRASTICHAL | • tetrastichal adj. In the form of a tetrastich. • TETRASTICHAL adj. of or like a tetrastich, also TETRASTICHIC. |
| TETRASTICHIC | • tetrastichic adj. In the form of a tetrastich. • TETRASTICHIC adj. of or like a tetrastich, also TETRASTICHAL. |