(economics, business) Acting to hinder or obstruct competition.
camptonville
chapmanville
comparativeness
comparativeness
noun
The state or quality of being comparative.
compensative
compensative
adj
that compensates for something; compensatory
noun
(obsolete) compensation
compensatively
compensatively
adv
In a compensative manner; compensatorily
compensativeness
compensativeness
noun
The quality of being compensative.
competitiveness
competitiveness
noun
The state of being competitive.
complaintive
complaintive
adj
Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
complaintiveness
complaintiveness
noun
The quality of being complaintive.
complementative
complimentative
complimentative
adj
(archaic) complimentary
comprehensive
comprehensive
adj
Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
noun
(Britain) A comprehensive school.
comprehensively
comprehensively
adv
In a comprehensive manner; in an all-inclusive or wide-ranging fashion.
comprehensiveness
comprehensiveness
noun
The state of being comprehensive.
comprehensivenesses
comprehensives
comprehensives
noun
plural of comprehensive
comprovincial
comprovincial
adj
Being part of the same province.
noun
One who comes from the same province.
compulsiveness
compulsiveness
noun
the state of being compulsive
compunctive
compunctive
adj
(obsolete) Sensitive with regard to wrongdoing; conscientious.
computativeness
computativeness
noun
The quality of being computative.
consumptive
consumptive
adj
(pathology) Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
Of, or relating to consumption.
noun
A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
consumptively
consumptively
adv
In a consumptive manner.
consumptiveness
consumptiveness
noun
The state of being consumptive.
consumptives
consumptives
noun
plural of consumptive
consumptivity
consumptivity
noun
The quality or degree of being consumptive.
contemplative
contemplative
adj
(medicine, psychiatry) In a phase of mental activity in which one begins to recognize and acknowledge the maladaptiveness of someone's behavior (such as own's own, or that of a family member or friend); usually with reference to substance use.
Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
Pertaining to a religious contemplative, or a contemplative religious orders, especially the Roman Catholic varieties.
noun
Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious or philosophical contemplation.
contemplatively
contemplatively
adv
In a contemplative manner.
contemplativeness
contemplativeness
noun
The state or quality of being contemplative.
counterdevelopment
counterdevelopment
noun
A development that counteracts another development.
cryptovolcanism
emancipative
emancipative
adj
emancipatory
hyperconservatism
hyperconservatism
noun
The quality of being hyperconservative.
imperceivableness
imperceivableness
noun
The quality of being imperceivable.
imperceiverant
imperceptiveness
imperceptiveness
noun
The quality of being imperceptive.
implicativeness
implicativeness
noun
The quality of being implicative.
imprevalency
improvidence
improvidence
noun
The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.
improvidences
improvidences
noun
plural of improvidence
incomprehensive
incomprehensive
adj
Not comprehensive; shallow, incomplete.
uncomprehending
incomprehensively
incomprehensively
adv
In an incomprehensive manner.
incomprehensiveness
incomprehensiveness
noun
The condition of being incomprehensive.
inmprovidence
introspectivism
mancipative
mancipative
adj
Of or relating to mancipation.
mechanoreceptive
mechanoreceptive
adj
Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch
misperceiving
misperceiving
verb
present participle of misperceive
misprovidence
noncircumscriptive
noncompensative
noncompetitive
noncompetitive
adj
That does not involve competition or rivalry.
noncompetitively
noncompetitively
adv
In a noncompetitive way.
noncompetitiveness
noncompetitiveness
noun
The quality of not being competitive.
noncomprehensive
noncomprehensive
adj
Not comprehensive.
noncomprehensively
noncomprehensiveness
noncompressive
noncompressive
adj
Not compressive
noncompressively
noncompulsive
noncompulsive
adj
Not compulsive.
noncompulsively
nonconsumptive
nonconsumptive
adj
Not suffering from consumption, or tuberculosis.
That does not consume a resource.
That is not consumed (eaten).
nonconsumptively
nonconsumptiveness
noncontemplative
noncontemplatively
noncontemplativeness
nonemancipative
nonimplicative
nonimplicatively
nonmultiplicative
nonmultiplicative
adj
Not multiplicative.
nonmultiplicatively
omniprevalence
omniscriptive
omnispective
omnispective
adj
Beholding everything; all-seeing.
ovariosalpingectomy
ovariosalpingectomy
noun
Surgical removal of the ovaries and Fallopian tubes.
overcircumspection
overcompensate
overcompensate
verb
(intransitive) To do an excessive amount in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
(transitive) To provide with excessive pay or reward for work performed.
overcompensated
overcompensated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overcompensate
overcompensates
overcompensates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate
overcompensating
overcompensating
verb
present participle of overcompensate
overcompensation
overcompensation
noun
An excess amount provided in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
Excessive pay or reward provided for work performed.
overcompensations
overcompensations
noun
plural of overcompensation
overcompensators
overcompensators
noun
plural of overcompensator
overcompensatory
overcompensatory
adj
Tending to overcompensate; providing excessive compensation.
Assignment to a placement requiring greater talent than the person has.
Extreme overconfidence.
Placement over or above others.
overpolemicalness
overprominence
overprominence
noun
Excessive prominence.
oversimplification
oversimplification
noun
An explanation that excludes important information for the sake of brevity, or of making the explanation or presentation easy to understand.
The process of making such an explanation.
oversimplifications
oversimplifications
noun
plural of oversimplification
plumbosolvency
plumbosolvency
noun
The ability of a solvent, notably water, to dissolve lead.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
noun
(nonce word) A disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from the eruption of a volcano.
pneumoventriculography
pneumoventriculography
noun
ventriculography of the ventricles of the larynx
preadvancement
precomprehensive
precomprehensively
precomprehensiveness
predivorcement
provincialism
provincialism
noun
(linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
(politics) Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
provincialisms
provincialisms
noun
plural of provincialism
provinculum
psychogalvanometer
psychogalvanometer
noun
A device that makes psychogalvanic measurements (typically of the skin)
recompensive
recompensive
adj
Serving to recompense.
semiproductiveness
semiprovincial
semiprovincially
semispeculativeness
semperjuvenescent
semperjuvenescent
adj
(rare, literary) Forever young or growing younger.
subcompensative
superachievement
temperanceville
tympanocervical
uncircumspective
uncompensative
uncompetitive
uncompetitive
adj
That does not involve competition; not competitive