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1. light, playful banter or raillery.
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2. to banter with or tease (someone) playfully. |
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1. bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like: beatific peace.
2. blissful; saintly: a beatific smile. |
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1. to express distress or grief over; lament: to bemoan one's fate.
2. to regard with regret or disapproval. |
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1. to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably; be niggling in criticizing; cavil: to carp at minor errors.
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2. a peevish complaint. |
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feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health. |
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1. a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.
2. any composition resembling such a song or tune in character, as a poem of lament for the dead or solemn, mournful music: Tennyson's dirge for the Duke of Wellington.
3. a mournful sound resembling a dirge: The autumn wind sang the dirge of summer.
4. Ecclesiastical. the office of the dead, or the funeral service as sung. |
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1. without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
2. characterized by or causing dejection; cheerless; gloomy: disconsolate prospects. |
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displeased and discontented; sulky; peevish: Her disgruntled husband refused to join us. |
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sorrowful; mournful; melancholy: a doleful look on her face. |
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1. amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
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2. a droll person; jester; wag.
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3. Archaic. to jest; joke. |
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1. well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate: The chairman's felicitous anecdote set everyone at ease.
2. having a special ability for suitable manner or expression, as a person. |
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1. the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation; obsequies.
2. a funeral procession.
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3. of or pertaining to a funeral: funeral services; funeral expenses. |
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1. an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor when burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
2. the perfume or smoke arising from such a substance when burned.
3. any pleasant perfume or fragrance.
4. homage or adulation.
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5. to perfume with incense.
6. to burn incense for.
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7. to burn or offer incense. |
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given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious: jocular remarks about opera stars. |
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1. suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
2. given to shedding tears readily; tearful. |
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1. the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
2. a lament.
3. Lamentations, (used with a singular verb) a book of the Bible, traditionally ascribed to Jeremiah. Abbreviation: Lam. |
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mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love. |
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1. cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
2. showing annoyance, irritation, or bad mood: a peevish reply; a peevish frown.
3. perverse or obstinate. |
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–adjective Chiefly British Informal.
1. somewhat hungry: By noon we were feeling a bit peckish.
2. rather irritable: He's always a bit peckish after his nap. |
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1. full of complaints; complaining.
2. characterized by or uttered in complaint; peevish: a querulous tone; constant querulous reminders of things to be done. |
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1. causing or capable of causing laughter; laughable; ludicrous.
2. having the ability, disposition, or readiness to laugh.
3. pertaining to or connected with laughing. |
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1. cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
2. reddish; ruddy: a sanguine complexion.
3. (in old physiology) having blood as the predominating humor and consequently being ruddy-faced, cheerful, etc.
4. bloody; sanguinary.
5. blood-red; red.
6. Heraldry. a reddish-purple tincture. |
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–adjective, -li⋅er, -li⋅est.
1. churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter.
2. unfriendly or hostile; menacingly irritable: a surly old lion.
3. dark or dismal; menacing; threatening: a surly sky.
4. Obsolete. lordly; arrogant. |
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1. beset with woe; affected by woe, esp. in appearance.
2. showing or indicating woe: He always had a woebegone look on his face. |
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