Synonym Dictionary

Challenging established beliefs, traditions, or admired institutions.

Entirely clean or free from flaws.

To destroy, especially by fire, or offer as a sacrifice.

Essential or urgently necessary.

A possible consequence or a meaning suggested without being stated directly.

Understood or suggested without being stated directly.

To suggest or communicate something indirectly.

A failure to meet a need or standard, or a deficiency that causes such a failure.

Insufficient in amount, quality, or ability for a particular purpose.

Made unable to function or act normally.

Required as a duty or responsibility.

Giving in to a desire or allowing oneself a pleasure.

A conclusion reached from evidence or reasoning rather than stated directly.

The willingness and ability to begin useful action without waiting to be directed.

An authoritative command, especially an order issued by a court.

An indirect suggestion, usually unfavorable or insulting.

To suggest something indirectly, often something unfavorable.

An indirect suggestion, often one that is insulting or unfavorable.

Extremely difficult to tolerate.

Seeming to continue endlessly.

To make something known indirectly or discreetly.

Expressing a meaning different from the literal words, or involving a striking contrast with expectation.