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| capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin. |
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1. understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval.
2. silent; saying nothing: a tacit partner.
3. unvoiced or unspoken: a tacit prayer. |
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1. the gradual recovery of health and strength after illness.
2. the period during which one is convalescing. |
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1. tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome: a contentious crew.
2. causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy: contentious issues.
3. Law. pertaining to causes between contending parties. |
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1. prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
2. projecting or pointing outward: a salient angle.
3. leaping or jumping: a salient animal.
4. Heraldry. (of a beast) represented as leaping: a lion salient |
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1. the quality or state of being impressive or awesome: the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains.
2. the quality or state of being lofty or elevated in conception or treatment: the grandeur of a prose style.
3. the quality or state of being exalted in some deliberate way: the grandeur of a royal court.
4. an instance of something that is grand: the grandeurs of Rembrandt's paintings. |
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| to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote): They demoted the careless waiter to busboy |
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1. angry; enraged: an irate customer.
2. arising from or characterized by anger: an irate letter to the editor. |
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1. extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
2. wonderful or marvelous: a prodigious feat.
3. abnormal; monstrous.
4. Obsolete. ominous. |
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1. to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually fol. by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
2. to acquire, win, or obtain by beguiling talk or methods (usually fol. by from or away): to inveigle a theater pass from a person. |
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| reverberating; reechoing: the reverberant booms of cannon. |
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1. warmly and pleasantly cheerful; cordial: a genial disposition; a genial host.
2. favorable for life, growth, or comfort; pleasantly warm; comfortably mild: the genial climate of Hawaii.
3. characterized by genius. |
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| To think it appropriate to one's dignity; condescend: wouldn't deign to greet the servant who opened the door. |
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1. without civilizing influences; uncivilized; primitive: barbaric invaders.
2. of, like, or befitting barbarians: a barbaric empire; barbaric practices.
3. crudely rich or splendid: barbaric decorations. |
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1. to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually fol. by to): inured to cold.
–verb (used without object) 2. to come into use; take or have effect.
3. to become beneficial or advantageous. |
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