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Is there a single word meaning 'a person who loves to represent their city'? [duplicate]
A person who is especially proud to be from a particular city, and puts down others from opposing cities. They rep their city as if it's a sports team. This is especially true in the US.
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What is the single word for "suppression of one's right by using muscle power" or "not letting one exercise one's power by using force" [closed]
Is there any single word for "suppression of one's right by using muscle power" or "not letting one exercise one's power by using force"?
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Adjective for a thing/place well-known by a minority of people
What would you call a place or thing that's well-known or renowned but only among a locality, family, or small group? I've looked into it and have failed to find anything that fits.
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Word to describe someone who is skilled at inspecting the inner qualities or state of another [duplicate]
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Hi, I'm looking for an adjective that can be used to describe someone who is skilled at easily identifying the thoughts, abilities, and perspectives of another.
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What is a word for someone who does things to forget about painful things?
For example, if someone lost a family member and decides that instead of crying they're gonna rub off their pain by playing basketball for 8 hours of their day.
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A word that means "given to frequent censorship"?
I always assumed that the word censorious meant someone or something that is given to censorship. Like if you say that a community, an organization, or a person is overly-censorious, that means they ...
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Adjective that explains a variable (e.g. curve in a diagram) is growing slightly exponential
I am writing some sentences describing the diagram below. From my perspective, the GDP resembles a bit like a curve (exponentially growing) rather than roughly a straight line.
Is there a particular ...
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Is there a term that describes reducing a person's identity to certain characteristics?
Is there a term that describes reducing a person's identity to certain characteristics, behaviours or traits that are not physical? The term should have a negative connotation. I've heard the ...
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Adjective for the name 'Grothendieck'
Grothendieck was a major mathematician in the 20th century.
I would like to know how one can use his name to talk about the content of a study.
For example in French we would say
Hi all,
Études ...
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What's the adjective for "register" in the linguistic sense?
What's the adjective for register in the linguistic sense (formal, informal, frozen, etc.)?
There is a ___________ difference between "how do you do" and "howdy".
I thought up ...
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What's a good word to describe someone who is prone to sudden changes of mood? [closed]
I'm looking for an adjective, preferably a kind of "fancy" one that I can use to describe a character who has frequent changes of mood, often in a very sudden or extreme way. It also causes ...
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How do I express the quality of being alien as a noun? [duplicate]
Alien can be a noun and an adjective. In this case, I am using it as an adjective. I am wondering how to express the quality of being alien as a noun (for example, happy expressed as a noun is ...
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Is there an adjective to describe an action that's done to fake being carefree?
I've thought about using nonchalant, insouciant, carefree, blithe, and so on, but they don't really communicate that the character does actually care about what they're doing, they're just pretending ...
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What's a word that means "once rich but now poor"?
I'm looking for a one-to-two word adjective that describes a person that was once rich, but after several unfortunate events has much less money. However, the person is not suffering, but the person ...
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Is there an adjective for a word that contains multiple connotations as implied by its contextual usage? [duplicate]
I recognized in the process of writing this clause,
Resulting in the discretion of death as we know it
That the “discretion of death” could encompass a range of semantic vectors depending on how one ...
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