appalachians
— Noun
– English
~ a mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States
appalled
— Adjective
– English
~ struck with fear, dread, or consternation
appalling
— Adjective
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~ causing consternation; "appalling conditions"
appalling
— Noun
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~ an experience that appalls; "is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?"
appallingly
— Adverb
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~ to an appalling extent; "the prisoners were appallingly thin"
appaloosa
— Noun
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~ a hardy breed of saddle horse developed in western North America and characteristically having a spotted rump
appanage
— Noun
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~ any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life; "for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use"
appanage
— Noun
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~ a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family; "bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families"
apparatchik
— Noun
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~ a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization); "Democratic apparatchiks"
apparatchik
— Noun
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~ a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party
apparatus
— Noun
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~ (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function; "the breathing apparatus"
apparatus
— Noun
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~ equipment designed to serve a specific function
apparel
— Noun
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~ clothing in general; "she was refined in her choice of apparel"; "he always bought his clothes at the same store"; "fastidious about his dress"
appareled
— Adjective
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~ dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination; "the elegantly attired gentleman"; "neatly dressed workers"; "monks garbed in hooded robes"; "went about oddly garmented"; "professors robed in crimson"; "tuxedo-attired gentlemen"; "crimson-robed Harvard professors"
apparency
— Noun
– English
~ the property of being apparent
apparent
— Adjective
– English
~ appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"
apparent
— Adjective
– English
~ clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"; "a palpable lie"
apparently
— Adverb
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~ from appearances alone; "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"; "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the problem seems minor"
apparently
— Adverb
– English
~ unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn"
apparentness
— Noun
– English
~ the property of being apparent