(economics, business) Acting to hinder or obstruct competition.
avicularimorphae
camptonville
comparatival
comparatival
adj
(grammar) Expressing or relating to a comparison.
comparative
comparative
adj
(obsolete) Comparable; bearing comparison.
Approximated by comparison; relative.
Of or relating to comparison.
Using comparison as a method of study, or founded on something using it.
noun
(chiefly in the plural) Data used to make a comparison.
(grammar) A construction showing a relative quality, in English usually formed by adding more or appending -er. For example, the comparative of green is greener; of evil, more evil.
(grammar) A word in the comparative form.
(obsolete) An equal; a rival; a compeer.
(obsolete) One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.
comparatively
comparatively
adv
In a comparative manner.
When compared to other entities.
comparativeness
comparativeness
noun
The state or quality of being comparative.
comparatives
comparatives
noun
plural of comparative
comparativist
comparativist
noun
Alternative form of comparatist
compassive
compassivity
compellative
compellative
noun
(grammar) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.
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.
complaintive
complaintive
adj
Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
complaintiveness
complaintiveness
noun
The quality of being complaintive.
complementative
complicative
complicative
adj
Having a tendency to complicate.
complimentative
complimentative
adj
(archaic) complimentary
compluvia
compluvia
noun
plural of compluvium
comprovincial
comprovincial
adj
Being part of the same province.
noun
One who comes from the same province.
compulsative
compulsative
adj
(obsolete) compulsatory; employing force or constraint
compulsatively
compulsatively
Adverb
By compulsion.
computative
computative
adj
calculating, shrewdly or selfishly reckoning
of or relating to computation, computational
computatively
computativeness
computativeness
noun
The quality of being computative.
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.
corporativism
corporativism
noun
Synonym of corporatism
cryptovolcanism
hyperconservatism
hyperconservatism
noun
The quality of being hyperconservative.
improvisatrice
improvisatrice
noun
A female improvisatore.
mechanoreceptive
mechanoreceptive
adj
Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch
noncompensative
noncontemplative
noncontemplatively
noncontemplativeness
nonemancipative
nonimplicative
nonimplicatively
nonmultiplicative
nonmultiplicative
adj
Not multiplicative.
nonmultiplicatively
omniprevalence
ovariosalpingectomy
ovariosalpingectomy
noun
Surgical removal of the ovaries and Fallopian tubes.
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.
overcomplacence
overcomplacency
overcomplacency
noun
Excessive complacency.
overcomplacent
overcomplacent
adj
Excessively complacent.
overcomplacently
overcomplacently
adv
Too complacently.
overcompliant
overcompliant
adj
Excessively compliant.
overcomplicate
overcomplicate
verb
(transitive) To make something excessively complicated.
overcomplicated
overcomplicated
adj
excessively complicated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overcomplicate
overcomplicates
overcomplicates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcomplicate
overcomplicating
overcomplicating
verb
present participle of overcomplicate
overemphatic
overemphatic
adj
Excessively emphatic, particularly in musical or theatrical interpretation
Assignment to a placement requiring greater talent than the person has.
Extreme overconfidence.
Placement over or above others.
overpolemical
overpolemical
adj
Excessively polemical.
overpolemically
overpolemicalness
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
ovoplasmic
pluviometrical
pluviometrical
adj
Of or pertaining to a pluviometer.
pluviometrically
pluviometrically
adv
By means of, or in terms of, pluviometry.
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
proctovalvotomy
prostatovesiculectomy
prostatovesiculectomy
noun
(surgery) Removal of prostate and seminal vesicles
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
psychogalvanometer
psychogalvanometer
noun
A device that makes psychogalvanic measurements (typically of the skin)
semiprovincial
semiprovincially
subcompensative
tympanocervical
uncompensative
uncontemplative
uncontemplative
adj
Not contemplative.
uncontemplatively
uncontemplativeness
unprovincialism
vagosympathetic
vagosympathetic
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the vagus nerve and the sympathetic nervous system
vasculolymphatic
vasculolymphatic
adj
(anatomy) Relating to blood vessels and the lymphatic system.