Definition Dictionary

To decline gradually in condition, quality, or effectiveness.

A feeling that someone or something is beneath consideration or respect.

To remove the internal organs; figuratively, to strip away essential substance.

Treating someone or something as unworthy of serious consideration.

A person's usual temperament or tendency to act in a certain way.

Characterized by activity or change, or by interactions that produce change.

Overflowing with cheerful energy and enthusiasm.

A community of organisms together with the physical environment with which they interact.

To decorate or add details, sometimes to exaggerate an account.

To cause a feeling, situation, or condition to arise.

A distinctive period marked by significant developments.

To remove or destroy something completely.

Treating a serious matter with deliberately inappropriate humor.

Using exaggerated flattery or submissive attention to gain favor.

An excessive supply of something.

Showing kindness, courtesy, and generous consideration for others.

Impressively large in appearance or excessively ambitious and pretentious.

Deliberate exaggeration used for effect.

Marked by exaggerated language; in mathematics, relating to a hyperbola or certain related structures.

Proposed for consideration without being established as fact.

Acting hastily on impulse without enough consideration.

Acting on a sudden urge without much prior consideration.

Not readily corrected or reformed; persistently fixed in a habit.

To formally accuse of a crime; more generally, to accuse strongly.