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Adjective word or phrase to mean "We built it for ourselves"
I'm having a bit of a block here. I'm trying to describe a piece of machinery. It doesn't exist anywhere else. We didn't build it, but we designed it to maximize our productivity. It only exists in ...
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What is the adjective for something which has vertices?
I am looking for a word which describes an object which has vertices. It will be applied in the statement "Think Outside of the Eight ____ Regular Hexahedron," which is a play on words of ...
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Looking for a word meaning small/petite
Help I’m drawing a blank!
Looking for a word that describes a person as having a small build and also fits into the sentence “she was a _______ of a woman”
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How to say with one word: "it has a tree structure"
When objects relate to each other as pearls on a string (open, not closed), then we can say that the whole structure is "sequential" or "linear".
The same way, we can call something "cyclic" if its ...
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a person who behaves in an overly familiar way [closed]
What do you call a person who behaves in an overly familiar way, taking too many liberties, saying things that only someone with a closer relationship with you would normally say?
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Word for a team whose members play perfectly together all having different talents
I am looking for a word that describes a team whose members all have different talents, excel at those talents perfectly and are able to, despite their different skillsets, work together seamlessly ...
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What do you call a person who keeps talking about art; studies art, criticizes art, and thinks he'd be amazing with it. But he doesn't practice it
I've come across this word before. It's not "hypocrite". But the definition of the word was very specific. Basically it's an adjective, it's something you call a person who's really into art; like for ...
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What is the adjective for this kind of presentation of data?
For example, one can state
Jane is a student. She is 20 years old. Jane likes swimming and reading. Jane's closest friends are Carmen, Mia and Alison.
Otherwise, this can be stated as
Name: ...
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Adjective for not knowing any better
I can't think of a word that would describe the feeling of not knowing any better.
The description is for a child, and the sentence would go like:
He was young and an adjective with this meaning ...
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What adjective would you choose if you want to elevate a workaholic to a higher degree?
I want to refer a hard-working person something far more than referring him a mere "workaholic". What adjective should I choose with "workaholic", if I want to refer him as someone working even harder ...
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Is there one word for people who always keep others above themselves? [duplicate]
For people who go an extra mile to make others comfortable, be it friends, family, etc.
I need an adjective or a noun, most probably one word, that can describe people who always keep others above or ...
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Is there a single word (or expression) used to describe a person who does their job only when their boss is watching?
"Quick the boss is coming, we need to look busy"
Is there a single word (or expression) to describe a person who only does their job while someone (the boss/manager) is watching, but who does ...
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What's the word for 'new yet old'? [closed]
I am trying to think of the word that describes something that is new yet old, contemporary yet classic, progressive yet traditional or any other similar meanings.
The word is used to describe a ...
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What can we call " an employee who is under-productive but the quality of his work is enviable"
A pleasant expression for an employee who has remained
under-productive despite several feedback.
(QUANTITATIVELY WORST)
There are workers who are unable to churn up BIG numbers but the
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Single word for "pleasant to look at" [closed]
Consider:
It is pleasant to look at.
So pleasant that you do not want to let it wander out of your sight.
What would be a word for pleasant to look at?
Something that's pleasant to my eyes......
