definition mendacious
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- LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. adjective. The definition of mendacious describes a dishonest person or thing. An example of mendacious used as an adjective is a mendacious person, a dishonest person.endacis) ; from Indo-European base an unverified form mend-, a flaw from source Classical Latin emendare, emend.
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precocious Precocious would be a toddler who can read. adjective. The definition of precocious is a person who is more developed or more mature than expected for their age. An example of precocious is a two year old being able to read. precocious. precocious.
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- Meaning of “commencement” in the English Dictionary. See all translations. uk ​ /kəˈmens.mənt/ us ​ /kəˈmens.mənt/. › [ C or U ] formal the beginning of something: Would passengers please turn off their mobile phones before the commencement of the flight.
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-ment a suffix of nouns, often concrete, denoting an action or resulting state (abridgment; refreshment), a product (fragment), or means (ornament). Origin of -ment Expand.
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- The definition of audacious is bold, daring or fearless. 1  Wearing a very low cut dress to a conservative event is an example of audacious. 2  A shy housewife traveling to a war torn country alone is an example of an audacious act. 3  bold or daring; fearless.
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- Learner's definition of VIVACIOUS. [more vivacious; most vivacious] : happy and lively in a way that is attractive — used especially of a woman. She has a vivacious personality. his vivacious wife.
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- : the quality or state of being tenacious.
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- Definition of MALADAPTIVE. 1. : marked by poor or inadequate adaptation. 2. : not conducive to adaptation.
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- Were I to use the word in a sentence, for example, I could write, The Worcester police chief was mendacious when he claimed in 2011 that he never threw his top-ranked female under the bus. overworked emperors, mendacious generals and pragmatic collaborators'.
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- Precocious would be a toddler who can read. The definition of precocious is a person who is more developed or more mature than expected for their age. An example of precocious is a two year old being able to read. precocious. precocious.
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- Definition of PERTINACIOUS. 1. a: adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design b: perversely persistent. 2. : stubbornly tenacious. — per·ti·na·cious·ly adverb. — per·ti·na·cious·ness noun. — per·ti·nac·i·ty \-ˈna-sə-tē\ noun. See pertinacious defined for kids.
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remarkable remarkable definition: The definition of remarkable is something unusual, extraordinary or worthy of attention. (adjective) An example of something that would be described as remarkable is a painting by Picasso....
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loquacious talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous: a loquacious dinner guest. 2. characterized by excessive talk; wordy: easily the most loquacious play of the season. Origin of loquacious. 1660-1670.
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fatal fatal. adj. 1. resulting in or capable of causing death: a fatal accident. 2. bringing ruin; disastrous. 3. decisively important; fateful.
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- perspicacious From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English perspicacious per‧spi‧ca‧cious / ˌpɜːspɪˈkeɪʃəs $ ˌpɜːr-/ adjective formal JUDGE good at judging and understanding people and situations SYN perceptive — perspicaciously adverb — perspicacity /-ˈkæsəti / noun [uncountable]
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tenacious The definition of tenacious is someone or something that holds on firmly. An example of tenacious is a person who lives for another twenty years with a terminal disease. An example of tenacious is the way a lady bug goes after its garden prey.
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profound 1. deep, sagacious. 1. shallow, superficial. 1  penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding:a profound thinker. 2  originating in or penetrating to the depths of one's being; profound grief.
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SAPIENT Meaning: Acutely insightful and wise. Synonyms: perspicacious; sagacious; sapient. Context examples: much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument / observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions / a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators. Similar:
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- The definition of mendacious describes a dishonest person or thing. An example of mendacious used as an adjective is a mendacious person, a dishonest person. mendacious. ; from Classical Latin mendax (gen.
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perspicacious Synonym Discussion of astute. shrewd, sagacious, perspicacious, astute mean acute in perception and sound in judgment. shrewd stresses practical, hardheaded cleverness and judgment. ⟨a shrewd judge of character⟩ sagacious suggests wisdom, penetration, and farsightedness.
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- 1 It is an outright lie, a fabrication by a mendacious and unscrupulous writer. 2  He wanted me to know the sort of country I was living in and what was going on around me, in defiance of the chronically mendacious official propaganda. He wanted me to know the sort of country I was living in and what was going on around me, in defiance of the chronically mendacious official propaganda. 2  Overall, Wittenberg portrays him as a petty, hypocritical, mendacious man whose primary focus was self-promotion.
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About Audacious About Audacious. Audacious is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists.
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tenacious We use tenacious of a good memory, too - one that has a better than average capacity to hold information. But you can also have too much of a good thing. The addition in Latin of the prefix per-(thoroughly) to tenax led to the English word pertinacious, meaning perversely persistent.
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- audacious-disposed to venture or take risks; audacious visions of the total conquest of space; an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas; the most daring of contemporary fiction writers; a venturesome investor; a venturous spirit. daring, venturesome, venturous.
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- Tess of the d'Urbervilles-A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context. Mildred had become great friends with her and had given her an elaborate but mendacious account of the circumstances which had brought her to the pass she was in.es--what the mendacious family chronicles call extinct in the male line--that is, gone down--gone under.
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promiscuousadjective uk ​ /prəˈmɪs.kju.əs/ us ​ /prəˈmɪs.kju.əs/ disapproving. › (of a person) having a lot of different sexual partners or sexual relationships, or (of sexual habits) involving a lot of different partners: I suppose I was quite promiscuous in my youth. It's a fallacy that gay men are more promiscuous than heterosexuals. promiscuously.