ADVENTURISTIC | • adventuristic adj. Relating to or exhibiting adventurism. • ADVENTURISTIC adj. of or like adventurism. |
CONTRADICTIVE | • contradictive adj. (Now rare) Contradictory. • CONTRADICTIVE adj. contradicting or tending to contradict. |
DESCRIPTIVIST | • descriptivist adj. Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism. • descriptivist n. (Linguistics) Someone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes… • DESCRIPTIVIST adj. relating to descriptivism, a theory of ethics by which only empirical statements are acceptable. |
DESTRUCTIVELY | • destructively adv. In a destructive manner: in a way that causes destruction. • DESTRUCTIVE adv. causing destruction. |
DESTRUCTIVISM | • destructivism n. An art movement that involves destroying objects in front of spectators. • DESTRUCTIVISM n. the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole. |
DESTRUCTIVIST | • destructivist n. A representative of destructive principles, as in biblical criticism. • destructivist n. An artist involved in destructivism. • DESTRUCTIVIST n. a representative of destructive principles. |
DESTRUCTIVITY | • destructivity n. Destructiveness. • DESTRUCTIVITY n. capacity for destruction. |
DIRECTIVITIES | • directivities n. Plural of directivity. • DIRECTIVITY n. the property of being directional. |
DISTRACTIVELY | • DISTRACTIVE adv. serving to distract. |
DIVERTICULATE | • diverticulate adj. Related to a diverticulum. • DIVERTICULATE adj. having diverticula, intestinal pouches, also DIVERTICULATED. |
OVERCOMMITTED | • overcommitted v. Simple past tense and past participle of overcommit. • overcommitted adj. Having committed too much of one’s time or resources. • OVERCOMMIT v. to commit excessively. |
OVERPROTECTED | • overprotected v. Simple past tense and past participle of overprotect. • OVERPROTECT v. to protect to excess. |
OVERSTRETCHED | • overstretched v. Simple past tense and past participle of overstretch. • overstretched adj. Subject to demands that are more than can be reasonably handled. • OVERSTRETCH v. to stretch excessively. |
PRIVATDOCENTS | • privatdocents n. Plural of privatdocent. • privat-docents n. Plural of privat-docent. • PRIVATDOCENT n. (German) in German universities, a recognized teacher who is not a member of the salaried staff, also PRIVATDOZENT. |
RADIOACTIVATE | • radioactivate v. To make something radioactive. • RADIOACTIVATE v. to activate by radio. |
UNDERACTIVITY | • underactivity n. Insufficient activity. • UNDERACTIVITY n. the state of being underactive. |
VERTICILLATED | • verticillated adj. Alternative form of verticillate. • VERTICILLATED adj. whorled, also VERTICILLATE. |