showing a tendency
41visionary — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. idealistic, unpractical, quixotic, Utopian; imaginary, delusory, chimerical. n. dreamer, idealist, theorist, theorizer. See imagination, heterodoxy, nonexistence. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …
42idealistic — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. lofty, exalted, utopian, unrealistic; see impractical , visionary 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. unrealistic, visionary, optimistic, utopian, Pollyannish, dreaming, romantic, naive. ANT.: realistic, skeptical,… …
43inclined — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Disposed] Syn. prone, willing, tending; see likely 4 . 2. [Diagonal] Syn. tilted, slanted, tipped, sloping; see oblique 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. disposed, prone, tending, liable, likely, predisposed. ANT.:… …
44liable — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Responsible] Syn. answerable, subject, accountable; see responsible 1 . 2. [Likely] Syn. likely, subject, apt, inclined; see likely 4 . See Synonym Study at likely . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. responsible… …
45Herri Batasuna — Herri Batasuna (HB) Basque for People s Unity is ETA s political wing. It was founded in 1978 by four left wing nationalist parties, two of which had themselves emerged from ETA, together with a number of prominent independents without party… …
46clumpy — adjective 1》 (also clompy) Brit. (of shoes or boots) heavy and inelegant. 2》 forming or showing a tendency to form clumps …
47convergent — adjective 1》 coming closer together; converging. 2》 Biology (of unrelated animals and plants) showing a tendency to evolve superficially similar characteristics under similar environmental conditions. 3》 Psychology (of thought) tending to follow… …
48combustible — adj Combustible, inflammable, flammable, incendiary, inflammatory, which are not close synonyms, since they apply to different types of nouns, are comparable because they mean showing a tendency to catch or be set on fire. Combustible applies… …
49recessive — /rəˈsɛsɪv / (say ruh sesiv) adjective 1. tending to recede; receding. 2. Biology relating to or exhibiting a recessive, as opposed to a dominant. 3. Phonetics (of stress) showing a tendency to recede from the end towards the beginning of a word.… …
50petty — [pet′ē] adj. pettier, pettiest [ME pety < OFr petit < * pit , little < baby talk] 1. relatively worthless or unimportant; trivial; insignificant 2. small scale; minor 3. a) having or showing a tendency to make much of small matters b) …
