EMINENT | • eminent adj. Noteworthy, remarkable, great. • eminent adj. (Of a person) Distinguished, important, noteworthy. • eminent adj. (Archaic) High, lofty. |
DESINENT | • desinent adj. (Obsolete) Ending; forming an end; lowermost. • DESINENT adj. terminal; ending, also DESINENTIAL. |
IMMINENT | • imminent adj. About to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won’t last long. • IMMINENT adj. impending. |
ABSTINENT | • abstinent adj. Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite. • abstinent n. One who abstains; a faster. • abstinent n. (Usually capitalized, religion, historical) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3rd… |
CONTINENT | • continent n. Each of the main continuous land-masses on the earth’s surface, now generally regarded as seven in number… • continent n. (Obsolete in general sense) A large contiguous landmass considered independent of its islands, peninsulas… • continent n. (Obsolete) Land (as opposed to the water). |
PERTINENT | • pertinent n. (Law) A right that attaches to land, in Scots law. • pertinent adj. Important with regard to (a subject or matter); pertaining; relevant. • PERTINENT adj. belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand. |
PROMINENT | • prominent adj. Standing out, or projecting; jutting; protuberant. • prominent adj. Likely to attract attention from its size or position; conspicuous. • prominent adj. Eminent; distinguished above others. |
SUSTINENT | • sustinent adj. (Biology, archaic) Serving to sustain; offering sustenance. • SUSTINENT adj. sustaining. |
PREEMINENT | • preeminent adj. Exceeding others in quality or rank; of outstanding excellence, extremely notable or important. • preëminent adj. Alternative spelling of preeminent. • pre-eminent adj. Alternative spelling of preeminent. |
APPERTINENT | • appertinent n. (Obsolete) That which belongs to something else; an appurtenant. • appertinent adj. Belonging; appertaining; appurtenant. • APPERTINENT adj. appertaining. |
IMPERTINENT | • impertinent adj. Insolent, ill-mannered. • impertinent adj. Irrelevant, useless. • impertinent n. An impertinent individual. |
INCONTINENT | • incontinent adj. (Often followed by of) Unable to contain or retain. • incontinent adj. Plagued by incontinence; unable to retain natural discharges or evacuations of urine or feces. • incontinent adj. Lacking moral or sexual restraint, moderation or self-control, especially of sexual desire. |
SUBCONTINENT | • subcontinent n. A large landmass which is either smaller than a continent (such as Greenland), or part of an even larger… • subcontinent prop.n. The Indian subcontinent, South Asia. • Subcontinent prop.n. Alternative letter-case form of subcontinent (“the Indian subcontinent”). |
SUPEREMINENT | • supereminent adj. Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding; supremely remarkable. • SUPEREMINENT adj. outstandingly eminent. |
SUPERCONTINENT | • supercontinent n. (Geology) A very large continent that split into smaller ones in the Earth’s geologic past. • supercontinent n. A modern landmass composed of multiple continents, i.e. Afro-Eurasia or the Americas. • SUPERCONTINENT n. a hypothetical former large continent from which other continents are held to have broken off and drifted away. |