Adverse
(a.) Acting against, or in a contrary direction |
Adverse
(a.) Opposite. |
Adverse
(a.) In hostile opposition to |
Adverse
(v. t.) To oppose |
Ameliorated
(imp. & p. p.) of Ameliorate |
Ameliorating
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ameliorate |
Ameliorate
(v. t.) To make better |
Ameliorate
(v. i.) To grow better |
Electro-negative
(a.) Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other. |
Electro-negative
(a.) Negative |
Electro-negative
(n.) A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis. |
Formal
(n.) See Methylal. |
Formal
(a.) Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. |
Formal
(a.) Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it |
Formal
(a.) Done in due form, or with solemnity |
Formal
(a.) Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules |
Formal
(a.) Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence |
Formal
(a.) Dependent in form |
Formal
(a.) Sound |
Long-suffering
(n.) Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time |
Long-suffering
(n.) Long patience of offense. |
Meliorated
(imp. & p. p.) of Meliorate |
Meliorating
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Meliorate |
Meliorate
(v. t.) To make better |
Meliorate
(v. i.) To grow better. |
Negative
(a.) Denying |
Negative
(a.) Not positive |
Negative
(a.) Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate |
Negative
(a.) Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed. |
Negative
(a.) Metalloidal |
Negative
(n.) A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden |
Negative
(n.) A word used in denial or refusal |
Negative
(n.) The refusal or withholding of assents |
Negative
(n.) That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party |
Negative
(n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture. |
Negative
(n.) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. |
Negative
(v. t.) To prove unreal or intrue |
Negative
(v. t.) To reject by vote |
Negative
(v. t.) To neutralize the force of |
Pain
(n.) Punishment suffered or denounced |
Pain
(n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence |
Pain
(n.) Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth. |
Pain
(n.) Uneasiness of mind |
Pain
(n.) See Pains, labor, effort. |
Pain
(n.) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty |
Pain
(n.) To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish |
Pain
(n.) To render uneasy in mind |
People
(n.) The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race |
People
(n.) Persons, generally |
People
(n.) The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class |
| negative chemotaxis | movement away from a chemical stimulus |
analgesic
anodyne
painkiller
pain pill | a medicine used to relieve pain |
control circuit
negative feedback circuit | a feedback circuit that subtracts from the input |
dinner dress
dinner gown
formal
evening gown | a gown for evening wear |
| formal garden | a garden laid out on regular lines with plants arranged in symmetrical locations or in geometrical designs |
| negative | a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed |
negative magnetic pole
negative pole
south-seeking pole | the pole of a magnet that points toward the south when the magnet is suspended freely |
| negative pole | the terminal of a battery that is connected to the negative plate |
long-sufferance
long-suffering | patient endurance of pain or unhappiness |
Rh-negative blood type
Rh-negative blood
Rh negative | the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
| pain threshold | the lowest intensity of stimulation at which pain is experienced, some people have much higher pain thresholds than do other people |
pain
pain sensation
painful sensation | a somatic sensation of acute discomfort, as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain |
| phantom limb pain | pain felt by an amputee that seems to be located in the missing limb |
turnoff
negative stimulation | something causing antagonism or loss of interest |
negative reinforcing stimulus
negative reinforcer | a reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it |
| negative stimulus | a stimulus with undesirable consequences |
annoyance
bother
botheration
pain infliction
pain in the neck
pain in the ass | something or someone that causes trouble, a source of unhappiness, washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer, a bit of a bother, he's not a friend, he's an infliction |
pleasure principle
pleasure-pain principle
pleasure-unpleasure principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id, the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality |
negative correlation
indirect correlation | a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with small values of the other, the correlation coefficient is between
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symbolic logic
mathematical logic
formal logic | any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity |
| formal semantics | the branch of semantics that studies the logical aspects of meaning |
| adverse opinion | an opinion concerning financial statements (usually based on an audit by a CPA) that the statements as a whole do not present results fairly or are not in conformity with the generally accepted accounting practices of the United States |
| negative identification | evidence proving that you are not who you say you are not, evidence establishing that you are not among a group of people already known to the system, recognition by the system leads to rejection, a system for negative identification can prevent the use of multiple identities by a single person |
| negative | a reply of denial, he answered in the negative |
| double negative | a grammatically substandard but emphatic negative, I don't never go |
| double negative | an affirmative constructed from two negatives, A not unwelcome outcome |
ball
formal | a lavish dance requiring formal attire |
pain
painfulness | emotional distress, a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid, the pain of loneliness |
| suffering hurt | feelings of mental or physical pain |
| distress hurt suffering | psychological suffering, the death of his wife caused him great distress |
| people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively, old people, there were at least people in the audience |
business people
businesspeople | people who transact business (especially business executives) |
country people
countryfolk | people raised in or living in a rural environment, rustics |
| country people countryfolk | people living in the same country, compatriots |
folk
folks common people | people in general (often used in the plural), they're just country folk, folks around here drink moonshine, the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next |
free
free people | people who are free, the home of the free and the brave |
color
colour
people of color
people of colour | a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) |
| people | members of a family line, his people have been farmers for generations, are your people still alive? |
Irish National Liberation Army
INLA
People's Liberation Army
People's Republican Army
Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization
MKO
MEK
People's Mujahidin of Iran | a terrorist organization formed in the s by children of Iranian merchants, sought to counter the Shah of Iran's pro-western policies of modernization and opposition to communism, following a philosophy that mixes Marxism and Islam it now attacks the Islamic fundamentalists who deposed the Shah |
New People's Army
NPA | a terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, a Maoist organization formed to overthrow the government, uses hit squads called Sparrow Units, opposes United States military presence in the Philippines |
People against Gangsterism and Drugs
PAGAD | a terrorist organization in South Africa formed in to fight drug lords, evolved into a vigilante group with anti-western views closely allied with Qibla, is believed to have ties to Islamic extremists in the Middle East, is suspected of conducting bouts of urban terrorism |
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party
Revolutionary People's Liberation Front | an extreme Marxist terrorist organization in Turkey that is opposed to NATO and the United States, attacks Turkish security and military officials |
Revolutionary People's Struggle
ELA | an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from to , a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and imperialism and the United States |
citizenry
people | the body of citizens of a state or country, the Spanish people |
poor people
poor | people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group), the urban poor need assistance |
rich people
rich | people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group), only the very rich benefit from this legislation |
multitude masses
mass hoi polloi
people the great unwashed | the common people generally, separate the warriors from the mass, power to the people |
People's Party
Populist Party | a former political party in the United States, formed in to advocate currency expansion and state control of railroads |
flower people
hippies
hipsters | a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the s, advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs, favored acid rock and progressive rock music |