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Having much weight; very heavy; ponderous
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- Having much weight; very heavy; ponderous
- Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
- Of great consequence; serious or momentous:
Having great bulk; large; massive
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- Having great bulk; large; massive
- (Bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
- Awkwardly large; big and clumsy
(Mineralogy) Irregular in form, though occasionally crystalline in internal structure
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- (Mineralogy) Irregular in form, though occasionally crystalline in internal structure
- (--- Geology) Without internal structure or layers and homogeneous in composition. Used of a rock.
- Consisting of or making up a large mass; bulky, heavy, and solid:
(Now Rare) Awkward; clumsy
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- (Now Rare) Awkward; clumsy
- Hard to wield, manage, handle, or deal with, as because of large size or weight, or awkward form
Difficult to maneuver or control because of great bulk or weight:
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- Difficult to maneuver or control because of great bulk or weight:
- That seems heavy; bulky; massive
- Slow or difficult to manage, especially because of complexity:
(Informal) Extremely popular, successful, etc.
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- (Informal) Extremely popular, successful, etc.
- Of exceedingly great scope or nature:
- (Informal) Contributing in a major way to success; very important:
Above the normal, desirable, or allowed weight
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- Above the normal, desirable, or allowed weight
- (Finance) Holding or containing relatively more of a specified asset, security, etc., as in relation to some benchmark
- Weighing more than is normal, necessary, or allowed, especially having more body weight than is considered normal or healthy for one's age or build.
Likely to topple because of an uneven distribution of weight, with the majority being at the top.
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- Likely to topple because of an uneven distribution of weight, with the majority being at the top.
- Having a disproportionately large number of administrators.
- So heavy at the top relative to the base as to be likely to fall over or collapse
Stout; corpulent
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- Stout; corpulent
- Having a round, stout body.
- Large and heavy in a dignified and stately way
Unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome.
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- Unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome.
- Cumbersome
Strong in construction; firm; substantial
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- Strong in construction; firm; substantial
- Strong in body; sturdy
- Thick or strong in structure or substance; solid or substantial:
Loud and firm; resounding:
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- Loud and firm; resounding:
- Having or exercising considerable authority, control, or influence:
- Filled up; brimming over:
Difficult to understand because of complexity or obscurity:
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- Difficult to understand because of complexity or obscurity:
- Permitting little light to pass through, because of compactness of matter:
- Opaque, with good contrast between light and dark areas. Used of a photographic negative.
An island of southeast Egypt in the Nile River below the First Cataract near Aswan. In ancient times it was a military post guarding the southern frontier of Egypt. A series of Jewish papyrus documents dating from the 5th century bc were discovered at Elephantine in the early 1900s.
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- An island of southeast Egypt in the Nile River below the First Cataract near Aswan. In ancient times it was a military post guarding the southern frontier of Egypt. A series of Jewish papyrus documents dating from the 5th century bc were discovered at Elephantine in the early 1900s.
- Enormous in size or strength:
- Like an elephant in size or gait; huge, heavy, slow, clumsy, ungainly, etc.
Yielding profit or plenty; lucrative or rewarding:
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- Yielding profit or plenty; lucrative or rewarding:
- Containing or full of fat; oily, greasy, etc.
- Any of a large number of oily compounds that are widely found in plant and animal tissues and serve mainly as a reserve source of energy. In mammals, fat, or adipose tissue , is deposited beneath the skin and around the internal organs, where it also protects and insulates against heat loss. Fat is a necessary, efficient source of energy. An ounce of fat contains more than twice as much stored energy as does an ounce of protein or carbohydrates and is digested more slowly, resulting in the sensation of satiety after eating. It also enhances the taste, aroma, and texture of food. Fats are made chiefly of triglycerides, each molecule of which contains three fatty acids. Dietary fat supplies humans with essential fatty acids, such as linoleic acid and linolenic acid . Fat also regulates cholesterol metabolism and is a precursor of prostaglandins .
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Enough to fulfill the needs or purpose; adequate
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- Enough to fulfill the needs or purpose; adequate
- Fully sufficient to meet a need or purpose:
- Of large or great size, amount, extent, or capacity:
Having an abundance or excess of flesh or fat.
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- Having an abundance or excess of flesh or fat.
- Fat and fleshy; stout; obese
Very plentiful; more than sufficient; ample
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- Very plentiful; more than sufficient; ample
- Well-supplied; rich (in something)
- Having an abundance of something; abounding:
(Of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built.
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- (Of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built.
- Strong, bulky
- Big or fairly big
Heavy or bulky; blocky:
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- Heavy or bulky; blocky:
- Containing chunks
- Containing small thick pieces:
Difficult to understand because of complexity or obscurity:
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- Difficult to understand because of complexity or obscurity:
- Permitting little light to pass through, because of compactness of matter:
- Hard to penetrate; thick:
Thick and adhesive. Used of a fluid.
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- Thick and adhesive. Used of a fluid.
- Having a cohesive and sticky fluid consistency; viscous
- Covered with a sticky or clammy coating.
Overly sentimental; cloyingly sweet, as in tone or manner
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- Overly sentimental; cloyingly sweet, as in tone or manner
- Overly sweet or sentimental.
- Resembling syrup in taste or consistency.
Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
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- Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
- Characterized by or causing trouble, irritation, difficulty, distress, inconvenience, etc.
Burdensome or difficult to bear.
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- Burdensome or difficult to bear.
- Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
- Difficult to cope with; causing hardship or depressed spirits:
Causing or creating vexation; annoying:
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- Causing or creating vexation; annoying:
- (Law, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
- Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
Characterized by a lack of energy or interest:
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- Characterized by a lack of energy or interest:
- Lacking energy or disinclined to exert effort; lethargic:
- Having no interest in what is going on about one, as a result of illness, weariness, dejection, etc.; spiritless; languid
Allowing movement or action only at a low speed:
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- Allowing movement or action only at a low speed:
- Not having or exhibiting intellectual or mental quickness:
- Marked by a retarded tempo:
Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.
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- Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.
- Feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent.
- Feeling or showing little or no emotion; unresponsive.
In low spirits; depressed; disheartened
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- In low spirits; depressed; disheartened
- Sad and dispirited.
Open to more than one interpretation.
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- Open to more than one interpretation.
- Full of or covered with clouds; overcast.
- Not transparent or clear.
Cloudy; dark
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- Cloudy; dark
- Sewn with long, overlying stitches in order to prevent raveling, as the raw edges of fabric.
- (Meteorology) The sky is said to be overcast, when it is more than 90% covered by clouds.
Containing intricately combined or involved parts.
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- Containing intricately combined or involved parts.
- Made up of parts intricately involved; hard to untangle, solve, understand, analyze, etc.
- Not easy to understand or analyze because of being intricate:
Characterized by or causing trouble, irritation, difficulty, distress, inconvenience, etc.
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- Characterized by or causing trouble, irritation, difficulty, distress, inconvenience, etc.
- Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
Having or full of knots
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- Having or full of knots
- Full of knots.
- Complicated or tricky; complex; difficult.
Not edible; not fit to be eaten
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- Not edible; not fit to be eaten
- Unfit to be eaten; not edible.
- Not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat
Humid:
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- Humid:
- Somewhat moist or wet; humid
- Slightly wet:
Thoroughly soaked; saturated.
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- Thoroughly soaked; saturated.
- Soggy and heavy from improper cooking; doughy.
- Filled with moisture; soaked through
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Impressive, mighty
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- Impressive, mighty
- (Of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built.
- Heavy
(--- Geology) Without internal structure or layers and homogeneous in composition. Used of a rock.
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- (--- Geology) Without internal structure or layers and homogeneous in composition. Used of a rock.
- (Mineralogy) Irregular in form, though occasionally crystalline in internal structure
- Consisting of or making up a large mass; bulky, heavy, and solid:
Difficult to maneuver or control because of great bulk or weight:
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- Difficult to maneuver or control because of great bulk or weight:
- Slow or difficult to manage, especially because of complexity:
- That seems heavy; bulky; massive
Having much weight; very heavy; ponderous
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- Having much weight; very heavy; ponderous
- Of great significance or moment; serious
- Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
Unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome.
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- Unwieldy because of its weight; cumbersome.
- Cumbersome
- Shaped like a lump, ill defined in shape.
- Heavy, clumsy, dull, stupid, etc.
- Clumsy or cumbersome.
Rough
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- Rough
- Like a lump; heavy; clumsy
- Thickset or cumbersome.
Labored and dull
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- Labored and dull
- That seems heavy; bulky; massive
- Slow or difficult to manage, especially because of complexity:
Having great bulk; large; massive
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- Having great bulk; large; massive
- Being large in size, mass, or volume.
- (Bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
- Strong, bulky
- (Of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built.
- Big and strong; stout or muscular.
Large, heavy, and often unwieldy or clumsy
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- Large, heavy, and often unwieldy or clumsy
- (man) Tall and heavily built.
- Unwieldy or bulky; massive.
- Large; hulking.
Full of, containing, or consisting of husks
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- Full of, containing, or consisting of husks
- Sounding deep and hoarse; rough
- Hoarse or rough in quality:
Bulky in figure; thickset or corpulent.
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- Bulky in figure; thickset or corpulent.
- Strong in body; sturdy
- Thick or strong in structure or substance; solid or substantial:
Having an abundance of something; abounding:
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- Having an abundance of something; abounding:
- Occurring in abundance:
- Very plentiful; more than sufficient; ample
More than enough; abundant
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- More than enough; abundant
- Fully sufficient to meet a need or purpose:
- Of large or great size, amount, extent, or capacity:
Existing in, characterized by, or producing abundance:
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- Existing in, characterized by, or producing abundance:
- Giving freely and generously, without restraint
- Provided in abundance; plentiful
Large in quantity; abundant:
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- Large in quantity; abundant:
- Yielding or containing plenty; affording ample supply:
- Very plentiful; abundant
Marked by abundance; ample:
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- Marked by abundance; ample:
- Showing kindness and magnanimity:
- Large; ample
Stout; obese
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- Stout; obese
- Marked by plenitude; abundant; full
(Archaic) Producing or yielding in abundance:
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- (Archaic) Producing or yielding in abundance:
- Producing abundantly; fruitful; productive
- Marked by or being in abundance; plentiful; copious
Intense in activity or feeling; vigorous or ardent:
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- Intense in activity or feeling; vigorous or ardent:
- Extremely powerful or destructive:
- Intensely eager; intense; ardent
Possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to an extreme degree:
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- Possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to an extreme degree:
- Extreme in degree, strength, or size:
- Involving or showing strain or extreme effort:
Relating to or being a method especially of land cultivation intended to increase the productivity of a fixed area by means of an increase in capital and labor.
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- Relating to or being a method especially of land cultivation intended to increase the productivity of a fixed area by means of an increase in capital and labor.
- (Grammar) Tending to emphasize or intensify:
- Of or characterized by intensity; thorough, profound, and intense; concentrated or exhaustive
Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
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- Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
- Lacking in shade; undiminished:
- Marked by stubborn refusal to compromise or yield; uncompromising:
Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress:
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- Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress:
- Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
- Extremely difficult to perform or endure; trying:
Hostile and violent, especially by nature or temperament; ferocious:
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- Hostile and violent, especially by nature or temperament; ferocious:
- Intense in activity or feeling; vigorous or ardent:
- Extremely powerful or destructive:
Very great; intense
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- Very great; intense
- Full of or characterized by extreme anger; raging.
- Full of intensity; energetic or fierce:
Far or farther from a reference point:
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- Far or farther from a reference point:
- Advanced in development or complexity:
- Serious; grave:
Having or showing ability or achievement in a specified field:
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- Having or showing ability or achievement in a specified field:
- Having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient:
- (Chem.) Having a high ion concentration, as certain acids and bases
Not bright and clear in color; somewhat dull or drab. Often used in combination:
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- Not bright and clear in color; somewhat dull or drab. Often used in combination:
- Covered or marked with dirt or an unwanted substance; unclean.
- Extremely unfortunate or regrettable:
Remarkable; extraordinary:
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- Remarkable; extraordinary:
- Very active and unpredictable; volatile:
Characterized by violence or crime:
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- Characterized by violence or crime:
- Difficult to endure or live through, especially because of harsh or inclement weather:
- Not easily traveled over or through because rocky, overgrown, wild, etc.
Subject to, characterized by, or affected by storms; tempestuous.
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- Subject to, characterized by, or affected by storms; tempestuous.
- Characterized by violent emotions, passions, speech, or actions:
- Violent, raging, turbulent, etc.
Of, involving, or like a tempest
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- Of, involving, or like a tempest
- Characterized by violent emotions or actions; tumultuous:
- Violent; turbulent
Making a tumult
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- Making a tumult
- Characterized by mental or emotional agitation:
- Full of or characterized by tumult; wild and noisy; uproarious
Moving rapidly or violently:
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- Moving rapidly or violently:
- Marked by or causing turmoil; unruly or boisterous
- Full of commotion or wild disorder
Bad, vile, repulsive, offensive, objectionable, etc.
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- Bad, vile, repulsive, offensive, objectionable, etc.
- Marked by or inclined to anger or bad feelings; disagreeable:
- (--- New England) Unmanageable. Used of animals, especially cows or horses.
Characterized by or displaying physical violence:
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- Characterized by or displaying physical violence:
- Causing or intending to cause damage, injury, or death, often when involving great force:
- Characterized by extreme emotion, especially anger:
Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed:
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- Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed:
- Based on little or no evidence or probability; unfounded:
- Characterized by a lack of moral restraint; dissolute or licentious:
Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
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- Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
- Lacking in shade; undiminished:
- Stern, strict, or demanding:
(Informal) Characterized by vigor, roughness, or aggression:
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- (Informal) Characterized by vigor, roughness, or aggression:
- Using or held by both hands:
- (Informal) Virile, rowdy, vigorous, etc.
Showing or expressing sincerity or seriousness:
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- Showing or expressing sincerity or seriousness:
- Serious and intense; not joking or playful; sincere, ardent, etc.
Requiring serious thought; important; weighty
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- Requiring serious thought; important; weighty
- Fraught with danger or harm:
- (--- Theol.) So evil as to cause spiritual death; mortal
Of great moment; very important
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- Of great moment; very important
- Of utmost importance; of outstanding significance or consequence:
Concerned with important rather than trivial matters:
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- Concerned with important rather than trivial matters:
- Giving cause for concern; dangerous
- Not joking or trifling:
Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
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- Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
- Serious or grave; forbidding, as in expression or manner
- Serious or grievous
Like gelatin or jelly; having the consistency of gelatin or jelly; viscous
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- Like gelatin or jelly; having the consistency of gelatin or jelly; viscous
- Of or containing gelatin
- Resembling gelatin; viscous.
Dull, unimaginative, and commonplace.
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- Dull, unimaginative, and commonplace.
- Heavy and unpalatable
- (Of food) having a thick, semi-solid consistency; glutinous; heavy on the stomach.
Impenetrable by the eyes:
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- Impenetrable by the eyes:
- Having or suggesting a heavy or viscous consistency:
- Very noticeable; pronounced:
Having an abundant supply:
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- Having an abundant supply:
- Very productive and therefore financially profitable:
- Magnificent; sumptuous:
Difficult to understand because of complexity or obscurity:
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- Difficult to understand because of complexity or obscurity:
- Permitting little light to pass through, because of compactness of matter:
- Hard to penetrate; thick:
Characterized by richness, abundance, or extravagance, as in ornamentation, invention, etc., often tending to excess
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- Characterized by richness, abundance, or extravagance, as in ornamentation, invention, etc., often tending to excess
- Of luxuriant growth
- Characterized by a rich growth of vegetation
- Abundant in growth or detail.
- Characterized by rich or profuse growth:
- Extremely productive:
Yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile:
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- Yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile:
- Strong and offensive in odor or flavor:
- Growing profusely or with excessive vigor:
Heavy in form, build, or stature; thickset:
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- Heavy in form, build, or stature; thickset:
- Having or suggesting a heavy or viscous consistency:
- Very noticeable; pronounced:
Loaded with great weight.
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- Loaded with great weight.
- Burdened with grievous cares.
- Laden, or loaded, heavily
Oppressed; burdened:
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- Oppressed; burdened:
- Weighed down with a load, burdened.
- Loaded
(Informal) Well equipped with accessories or features
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- (Informal) Well equipped with accessories or features
- Having great meaning, seriousness, or implication:
- Carrying a load
Using much energy; strenuous
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- Using much energy; strenuous
- Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount.
- Difficult to do; laborious; onerous
Requiring great physical exertion
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- Requiring great physical exertion
- (Figuratively) Of work, very physically tiring.
Requiring others to work hard or meet high expectations:
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- Requiring others to work hard or meet high expectations:
- Requiring much effort or attention:
- Making difficult or irksome demands on a person's resources, patience, energy, etc.
Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying:
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- Not easy to endure; full of hardship or trouble; trying:
- Hard to satisfy, persuade, please, etc.
- Not easy to comprehend, solve, or explain:
- Requiring or showing effort.
Requiring precise accuracy
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- Requiring precise accuracy
- Demanding great care, patience, effort, etc.; arduous
- Making excessive demands; hard to satisfy.
Calling for immediate action or attention; urgent; critical
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- Calling for immediate action or attention; urgent; critical
- Having or making urgent demands; demanding:
- Requiring immediate action; pressing:
Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder:
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- Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder:
- Difficult to undertake, surmount, or defeat:
- Hard to handle or overcome
Harsh or severe in effect or intention:
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- Harsh or severe in effect or intention:
- Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering:
- Marked by stubborn refusal to compromise or yield; uncompromising:
Marked by or requiring long, hard work:
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- Marked by or requiring long, hard work:
- Involving or calling for much hard work; difficult
- Mentally difficult; painstaking
Burdensome; laborious
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- Burdensome; laborious
- Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome.
- (Law) Involving a legal obligation that equals or exceeds the benefits
Hard to put up with; causing great discomfort or fatigue
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- Hard to put up with; causing great discomfort or fatigue
- Burdensome or difficult to bear.
- Difficult to cope with; causing hardship or depressed spirits:
Characterized by or adhering to strict standards or methods; exacting and thorough:
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- Characterized by or adhering to strict standards or methods; exacting and thorough:
- Rigidly precise; thoroughly accurate or exact
- Harsh, severe, or demanding:
Regarded as being risky, dangerous, offensive, etc., often as a result of lacking in conventional social controls
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- Regarded as being risky, dangerous, offensive, etc., often as a result of lacking in conventional social controls
- Difficult to endure or live through, especially because of harsh or inclement weather:
- Difficult to travel over or through:
Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress:
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- Causing great discomfort, damage, or distress:
- Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
- Extremely difficult to perform or endure; trying:
Burdensome; wearing:
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- Burdensome; wearing:
- With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
Difficult to endure; severe; harsh:
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- Difficult to endure; severe; harsh:
- Hard to cut or chew:
- Very difficult; toilsome
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- Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
- That tries one's patience; annoying; exasperating; irksome
- Difficult to endure; arduous.
Of great consequence; serious or momentous:
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- Of great consequence; serious or momentous:
- Having much weight; very heavy; ponderous
- Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
Difficult to understand; recondite:
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- Difficult to understand; recondite:
- Hard to understand because of being extremely complex, intellectually demanding, highly abstract, etc.; deep; recondite
Very absorbed or involved:
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- Very absorbed or involved:
- Far distant down or in:
- Coming from or penetrating to a depth:
Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest, or an enlightened inner circle.
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- Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest, or an enlightened inner circle.
- Having to do with concepts that are highly theoretical and without obvious practical application; often with mystical or religious connotations.
- Relating to or being a small group with specialized knowledge or interests:
Situated at, extending to, or coming from a great depth; deep:
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- Situated at, extending to, or coming from a great depth; deep:
- Marked by intellectual depth
- Very deep or low
Dealing with abstruse or difficult subjects
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- Dealing with abstruse or difficult subjects
- Concealed; hidden.
- Not easily understood; abstruse or obscure:
Something said to be the cause of particular trouble or an evil:
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- Something said to be the cause of particular trouble or an evil:
- A wicked or unprincipled character in a novel, play, etc., specif. the chief such character opposed to the protagonist
- A dramatic or fictional character who is typically at odds with the hero.
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- Cumbersome implies a heaviness and bulkiness that makes for awkward handling and, in extended use, connotes unwieldiness cumbersome formalities
- Massive stresses largeness and solidity rather than heaviness and connotes an impressiveness due to great size massive structures
- Weighty suggests heaviness as an absolute rather than a relative quality and figuratively connotes great importance or influence a weighty problem: ponderous applies to something that is very heavy because of size or bulk and figuratively connotes a labored or dull quality a ponderous dissertation
- Heavy implies relatively great density, quantity, intensity, etc. and figuratively connotes a pressing down on the mind, spirits, or senses heavy water, heavy-hearted
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