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oewn-00339449-a | unconvinced | I remain unconvinced | lacking conviction |
oewn-00339567-s | dubious | they admitted the force of my argument but remained dubious | not convinced |
oewn-00340055-s | assured | she paints with an assured hand | marked by assurance; exhibiting confidence |
oewn-00340186-s | cocksure | an arrogant and cocksure materialist | marked by excessive confidence |
oewn-00340186-s | overconfident | so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen | marked by excessive confidence |
oewn-00340186-s | positive | the less he knows the more positive he gets | marked by excessive confidence |
oewn-00340497-s | reassured | reassured by her praise he pressed on | having confidence restored; freed from anxiety |
oewn-00340839-a | diffident | stood in the doorway diffident and abashed | lacking self-confidence |
oewn-00340839-a | timid | problems that call for bold not timid responses | lacking self-confidence |
oewn-00340839-a | unsure | a very unsure young man | lacking self-confidence |
oewn-00341524-s | bound | bound to happen | (usually followed by `to') governed by fate |
oewn-00341524-s | destined | an old house destined to be demolished | (usually followed by `to') governed by fate |
oewn-00341524-s | destined | he is destined to be famous | (usually followed by `to') governed by fate |
oewn-00341725-s | doomed | doomed to unhappiness | (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate |
oewn-00341725-s | fated | fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination | (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate |
oewn-00341915-s | foreordained | his place in history was foreordained | established or prearranged unalterably |
oewn-00341915-s | predestinate | a sense of predestinate inevitability about it | established or prearranged unalterably |
oewn-00341915-s | predestined | it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world | established or prearranged unalterably |
oewn-00342190-s | in for | he knew he was in for a licking | certain to get or have |
oewn-00342303-a | uncertain | everything is uncertain about the army | not certain to occur; not inevitable |
oewn-00342303-a | uncertain | the issue is uncertain | not certain to occur; not inevitable |
oewn-00342553-s | chancy | a chancy appeal at best | subject to accident or chance or change |
oewn-00342553-s | fluky | getting that job was definitely fluky | subject to accident or chance or change |
oewn-00342553-s | fluky | a fluky wind | subject to accident or chance or change |
oewn-00342553-s | iffy | an iffy proposition | subject to accident or chance or change |
oewn-00343037-s | up in the air | plans are still up in the air | not yet determined |
oewn-00343148-a | certified | a certified public accountant | endorsed authoritatively as having met certain requirements |
oewn-00343386-s | certifiable | a certifiable fact | capable of being guaranteed or certified |
oewn-00343653-s | credentialled | credentialled day care workers | certified as professional by evidence or testimonials |
oewn-00343913-a | inevitable | the inevitable result | incapable of being avoided or prevented |
oewn-00344124-s | fatal | a fatal series of events | controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined |
oewn-00344258-s | inescapable | inescapable conclusion | impossible to avoid or evade |
oewn-00344258-s | ineluctable | an ineluctable destiny | impossible to avoid or evade |
oewn-00344258-s | unavoidable | an unavoidable accident | impossible to avoid or evade |
oewn-00344451-s | necessary | the necessary consequences of one's actions | unavoidably determined by prior circumstances |
oewn-00344923-a | unpreventable | unpreventable hysteria | not preventable |
oewn-00345024-a | changeable | changeable behavior | such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change |
oewn-00345024-a | changeable | changeable moods | such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change |
oewn-00345024-a | changeable | changeable prices | such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change |
oewn-00345807-s | checkered | a checkered business career | marked by changeable fortune |
oewn-00345922-s | distortable | our words are distortable things--as in a crooked mirror held up to nature | capable of having the meaning altered or twisted |
oewn-00346106-s | erratic | erratic behavior | liable to sudden unpredictable change |
oewn-00346106-s | fickle | fickle weather | liable to sudden unpredictable change |
oewn-00346106-s | mercurial | mercurial twists of temperament | liable to sudden unpredictable change |
oewn-00346106-s | quicksilver | a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next | liable to sudden unpredictable change |
oewn-00346411-s | fluid | a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty | subject to change; variable |
oewn-00346411-s | unstable | everything was unstable following the coup | subject to change; variable |
oewn-00346611-s | fluid | Britain is not a truly fluid society | affording change (especially in social status) |
oewn-00346611-s | mobile | upwardly mobile | affording change (especially in social status) |
oewn-00347020-s | mobile | a highly mobile face | capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another |
oewn-00347163-s | mutable | It is likely, too, that the chromosomes of all eubacteria are as mutable as that of E. coli | tending to undergo genetic mutation |
oewn-00347728-s | reversible | a reversible chemical reaction | capable of assuming or producing either of two states |
oewn-00347728-s | reversible | a reversible cell | capable of assuming or producing either of two states |
oewn-00347949-s | volatile | volatile stocks | tending to vary often or widely |
oewn-00347949-s | volatile | volatile emotions | tending to vary often or widely |
oewn-00348093-a | unchangeable | the unchangeable seasons | not changeable or subject to change |
oewn-00348093-a | unchangeable | one of the unchangeable facts of life | not changeable or subject to change |
oewn-00348673-s | confirmed | a confirmed bachelor | of persons; not subject to change |
oewn-00348673-s | confirmed | a confirmed invalid | of persons; not subject to change |
oewn-00348809-s | fixed | living on fixed incomes | incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices" |
oewn-00348982-s | set in stone | the agreement is not yet set in stone | no longer changeable |
oewn-00349120-s | static | a static population | showing little if any change |
oewn-00349300-a | commutable | the death sentence was commutable to life imprisonment | subject to alteration or change |
oewn-00349639-s | transmutable | is lead really transmutable into gold? | capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy |
oewn-00349639-s | translatable | ideas translatable into reality | capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy |
oewn-00350250-s | unalterable | an unalterable death sentence | of a sentence; that cannot be changed |
oewn-00350397-a | alterable | alterable clothing | capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic |
oewn-00350397-a | alterable | alterable conditions of employment | capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic |
oewn-00350625-a | unalterable | unalterable resolve | not capable of being changed or altered |
oewn-00350625-a | unalterable | an unalterable ground rule | not capable of being changed or altered |
oewn-00350996-s | final | the judge's decision is final | not to be altered or undone |
oewn-00350996-s | last | the arbiter will have the last say | not to be altered or undone |
oewn-00351486-a | unmodifiable | these variations from custom are illogical, incomprehensible, and unmodifiable | incapable of being modified in form or character or strength (especially by making less extreme) |
oewn-00351723-a | adjusted | an adjusted insurance claim | altered to accommodate to certain requirements or bring into a proper relation |
oewn-00351723-a | adjusted | the car runs more smoothly with the timing adjusted | altered to accommodate to certain requirements or bring into a proper relation |
oewn-00352114-s | weighted | votes weighted according to the size of constituencies | adjusted to reflect value or proportion |
oewn-00352114-s | weighted | a law weighted in favor of landlords | adjusted to reflect value or proportion |
oewn-00352114-s | weighted | a weighted average | adjusted to reflect value or proportion |
oewn-00352328-a | unadjusted | an unadjusted figure of 8.5 percent | not altered to fit certain requirements |
oewn-00352328-a | unadjusted | the unadjusted clock is running fast | not altered to fit certain requirements |
oewn-00352521-s | maladjusted | a maladjusted carburetor | not well adjusted |
oewn-00352919-a | maladjusted | a maladjusted child | poorly adjusted to demands and stresses of daily living |
oewn-00353092-s | unadjusted | several unadjusted refugees | not having adapted to new conditions |
oewn-00353228-a | altered | the altered policy promised success | changed in form or character without becoming something else |
oewn-00353228-a | altered | following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization | changed in form or character without becoming something else |
oewn-00353817-s | changed | he's an altered (or changed) man since his election to Congress | made or become different in some respect |
oewn-00353978-s | emended | the emended text | improved or corrected by critical editing |
oewn-00354202-s | revised | a revised edition | improved or brought up to date |
oewn-00354307-a | unaltered | persisting unaltered through time | remaining in an original state |
oewn-00354532-s | dateless | few characters are so dateless as Hamlet | unaffected by time |
oewn-00354532-s | timeless | Helen's timeless beauty | unaffected by time |
oewn-00354705-s | in situ | the archeologists could date the vase because it was in situ | being in the original position; not having been moved |
oewn-00355080-s | unrevised | the book is still unrevised | not improved or brought up to date |
oewn-00355544-a | changed | changed attitudes | made or become different in nature or form |
oewn-00355544-a | changed | changed styles of dress | made or become different in nature or form |
oewn-00355544-a | changed | a greatly changed country after the war | made or become different in nature or form |
oewn-00355803-s | denatured | denatured alcohol | changed in nature or natural quality |
oewn-00356194-s | varied | her quickly varied answers indicated uncertainty | broken away from sameness or identity or duplication |
oewn-00356369-a | unchanged | the causes that produced them have remained unchanged | not made or become different |
oewn-00356564-s | idempotent | this matrix is idempotent | unchanged in value following multiplication by itself |