| proscribed |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of proscribe | |
| utter |
| 1. adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote. | |
| 2. adj. (obsolete) Outward. | |
| 3. adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete. | |
| utter ruin; utter darkness | |
| 4. v. To say | |
| Don't you utter another word! | |
| 5. v. To use the voice | |
| Sally uttered a sigh of relief. | |
| The dog uttered a growling bark. | |
| 6. v. To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved | |
| Sally is uttering some fairly strange things in her illness. | |
| 7. v. To make (a noise) | |
| Sally's car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes. | |
| 8. v. (legal, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside. | |
| complete |
| 1. v. To finish; to make done; to reach the end. | |
| He completed the assignment on time. | |
| 2. v. To make whole or entire. | |
| The last chapter completes the book nicely. | |
| 3. adj. With all parts included; with nothing missing; full. | |
| My life will be complete once I buy this new television. | |
| She offered me complete control of the project. | |
| After she found the rook, the chess set was complete. | |
| 4. adj. Finished; ended; concluded; completed. | |
| When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin. | |
| 5. adj. Generic intensifier. | |
| He is a complete bastard! | |
| It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep. | |
| Our vacation was a complete disaster. | |
| 6. adj. (analysis, of a metric space) In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space. | |
| 7. adj. (algebra, of a lattice) In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound. | |
| 8. adj. (math, of a category) In which all small limits exist. | |
| 9. adj. (logic, of a proof system of a formal system with respect to a given semantics) In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.Sainsbury, Mark 2001 Logical Forms : An Introduction t | |
| 10. adj. (computing theory, of a problem) That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space). | |
| 11. n. A completed survey. | |
| negative |
| 1. adj. Not positive or neutral. | |
| 2. adj. (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles | |
| 3. adj. (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero | |
| 4. adj. (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition. | |
| 5. adj. Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable. | |
| 6. adj. Often used pejoratively: pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. | |
| 7. adj. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed. | |
| 8. adj. (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic. | |
| The nitro group is negative. | |
| 9. adj. (New Age jargon, pejorative) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted. | |
| 10. adj. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis. | |
| 11. n. Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto | |
| 12. n. (law) A right of veto. | |
| 13. n. (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse. | |
| 14. n. (grammar) A word that indicates negation. | |
| 15. n. (mathematics) A negative quantity. | |
| 16. n. (weightlifting): A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement. | |
| 17. n. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. | |
| 18. v. To refuse; to veto. | |
| 19. v. To contradict. | |
| 20. v. To disprove. | |
| 21. v. To make ineffective; to neutralize. | |
| 22. interj. (law, signalling) An elaborate synonym for no. | |
| arrant |
| 1. adj. Utter; complete (with a negative sense). | |
| arrant nonsense!Thomas Bennet, A Brief History of the Joint Use of Recompos'd Set Forms of Prayer...to wich is annexed a Discourse of the Gost of Prayer | |
| 2. adj. obsolete form of errant | |
