Definition Dictionary

A remark that attacks someone's character or reputation.

Genuine in origin or character rather than copied, invented, or falsely presented.

Characteristic of ordinary informal conversation.

Having a rural style or character; sometimes used critically to mean unsophisticated.

Able to recognize fine differences in quality or character.

Different in important qualities or characteristics.

Having a quality that makes someone or something recognizable and different from others.

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

Regularly present or characteristic within a particular place or group.

To represent the essential qualities of something.

A substantial transformation in form or character.

A distinctive or unusual characteristic, habit, or feature.

Concerned with qualities, characteristics, or meaning rather than numerical amounts.

Representing the most characteristic or ideal example of a type.

Characteristic of country life or a simple rural style.

Inappropriate to a person's role, character, or expected standards of conduct.

Characterized by sensuous pleasure or a full, curving form.