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- English Word Adagial Definition Pertaining to an adage; proverbial.
- English Word Adagio Definition Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.
- English Word Adagio Definition A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.
- English Word Adam Definition The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.
- English Word Adam Definition "Original sin;" human frailty.
- English Word Adam's apple Definition See under Adam.
- English Word Adamant Definition A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
- English Word Adamant Definition Lodestone; magnet.
- English Word Adamantean Definition Of adamant; hard as adamant.
- English Word Adamantine Definition Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
- English Word Adamantine Definition Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
- English Word Adambulacral Definition Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.
- English Word Adamic Definition Alt. of Adamical
- English Word Adamical Definition Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him.
- English Word Adamite Definition A descendant of Adam; a human being.
- English Word Adamite Definition One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.
- English Word Adance Definition Dancing.
- English Word Adangle Definition Dangling.
- English Word Adansonia Definition A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.
- English Word Adapt Definition Fitted; suited.
- English Word Adapt Definition To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.
- English Word Adaptability Definition Alt. of Adaptableness
- English Word Adaptable Definition Capable of being adapted.
- English Word Adaptableness Definition The quality of being adaptable; suitableness.
- English Word Adaptation Definition The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.
- English Word Adaptation Definition The result of adapting; an adapted form.
- English Word Adaptative Definition Adaptive.
- English Word Adapted Definition of Adapt
- English Word Adaptedness Definition The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
- English Word Adapter Definition One who adapts.