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  • 51obscure# — obscure adj 1 murky, gloomy, *dark, dim, dusky Analogous words: shady, shadowy, umbrageous (see corresponding nouns at SHADE) Contrasted words: *clear, lucid: *bright, brilliant, luminous 2 Obscure, dark, vague, enigmatic, cryptic, ambiguous …

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  • 52orderly — adj Orderly, methodical, systematic, regular are comparable when they mean following closely a set arrangement, design, or pattern. Orderly implies observance of due sequence or proper arrangement especially in the harmonious or careful… …

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  • 53black — adj 1. dark, pitch black, coal black, jet, jetty; ebony, ebon, raven, sable; inky, pitchy, nigritu dinous, atramentous; blackish, nigrescent, swarthy, swart, dark skinned. 2.Negro, Negroid, colored, Afro American, Afra merican; Negrito, Papuan,… …

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  • 54murky — adj 1. dark, dusky, gloomy, dismal, dreary, bleak, grim; funereal, somber, solemn, grave, heavy; cheerless, joyless, desolate; discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, depressing, hopeless. 2. foggy, rainy, misty, Archaic. caliginous, hazy,… …

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  • 55sensitive — adj 1. impressionable, susceptible, receptive, susceptive; responsive, reactive, alive to, sentient, sensible, conscious; feeling, intuitive, perceptive, aware, insightful; refined, cultivated, aesthetic. 2. sympathetic, compassionate, concerned …

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  • 56shady — adj 1. bowery, bosky, arbory; shaded, arbored. 2. dark, umbrageous, umbral, penumbral, obum brate, Archaic. caliginous. 3. shadowy. See shadowy(defs. 1, 2). 4.Informal. of dubious character, disreputable, discreditable, dishonorable; dishonest,… …

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  • 57sunless — adj 1. dark, Literary. darkling, unlight ed, tenebrous; black, black as pitch, inky black, pitchy, Cimmerian, like Erebus, dark as a well; nightlike, dim, darksome, darkish, dusky, subfuscous, murky; hazy, misty, Archaic. caliginous, cloudy,… …

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  • 58sylvan — adj 1. woody, woodsy, bosky, forested, arboreous; forestal, forestial, forestlike; shady, shaded, umbrageous, bowery, leafy; treelike, arboreal, arborescent; rustic, bucolic, scenic; wild, uncultivated. n 2. rustic, peasant, provincial,… …

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  • 59twilight — n 1. dusk, crepuscule, Literary. gloaming; late afternoon, Inf. shank of the evening, evening, Brit. Dial. cockshut, eventide, evenfall, eve, Archaic. even, Archaic. evensong, Archaic. vesper, sundown, sunset, moonrise, day s end, decline of day …

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  • 60envious — [adj] jealous, resentful appetent, aspiring, begrudging, coveting, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, distrustful, fain, grasping, greedy, green eyed*, green with envy*, grudging, hankering, invidious, jaundiced, longing for, malicious,… …

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