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1: a creation created or assembled by needle and thread [syn: {needlecraft}] 2: work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle [syn: {needlecraft}]

1: someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle

1: in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: {inevitably}, {necessarily}, {of necessity}]

1: poor enough to need help from others [syn: {destitute}, {impoverished}, {indigent}, {necessitous}, {poverty-stricken}] [also: {neediest}, {needier}]

1: French physicist noted for research on magnetism (born in 1904) [syn: {Louis Eugene Felix Neel}]

1: large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia [syn: {neem tree}, {nim tree}, ...

1: residue after oil is pressed from neem seeds

1: seed of neem trees; source of pesticides and fertilizer and medicinal products

1: large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia [syn: {neem}, {nim tree}, {marg...

1: the part of the brain having the most recent phylogenetic origin; the cerebral cortex and related parts [syn: {neoencephalon}]

1: extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: {villainous}]

1: in a nefarious manner or to a nefarious degree; "nefariously involved in a conspiracy"

1: the quality of being wicked [syn: {wickedness}, {vileness}]

1: an antidepressant drug (trade name Serzone) [syn: {Serzone}]

1: queen of Egypt and wife of Akhenaton (14th century BC)

1: Chilean poet (1904-1973) [syn: {Neruda}, {Pablo Neruda}, {Reyes}]

1: lemon sharks [syn: {genus Negaprion}]

1: common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerous [syn: {lemon shark}]

1: a sultanate in northwestern Borneo; became independent of Great Britain in 1984 [syn: {Brunei}]

1: be in contradiction with [syn: {contradict}, {belie}] 2: deny the truth of [syn: {contradict}, {contravene}] 3: prove negative; show to be false [syn: {contradict}] [ant: {confirm}] 4: make ineffec...

1: a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement 2: the speech act of negating 3: (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false

1: characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features; "a negative outlook on life"; "a colorless negative personality"; "a negative evaluation"...

1: having a surplus of electrons; having a lower electric potential [ant: {positive charge}]

1: movement away from a chemical stimulus

1: a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with small values of the other; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and -1 [syn: {indirect correlation}]

1: feedback in opposite phase with (decreasing) the input

1: a feedback circuit that subtracts from the input [syn: {control circuit}]

1: evidence proving that you are not who you say you are not; evidence establishing that you are not among a group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to rejection; ...

1: the pole of a magnet that points toward the south when the magnet is suspended freely [syn: {negative pole}, {south-seeking pole}]

1: an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino [syn: {muon}, {mu-meson}]

1: the terminal of a battery that is connected to the negative plate 2: the pole of a magnet that points toward the south when the magnet is suspended freely [syn: {negative magnetic pole}, {south-see...

1: a reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it [syn: {negative reinforcing stimulus}]

1: a reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it [syn: {negative reinforcer}]

1: something causing antagonism or loss of interest [syn: {turnoff}]

1: a stimulus with undesirable consequences

1: in a harmful manner; "he was negatively affected" 2: in a negative way; "he was negatively inclined"

1: having a negative charge

1: the disagreeable quality of one who dissents [syn: {negativity}] [ant: {positiveness}]

1: characterized by habitual skepticism and a tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands [syn: {negativity}] [ant: {positivism}]

1: someone who is resigned to defeat [syn: {defeatist}]

1: the disagreeable quality of one who dissents [syn: {negativeness}] [ant: {positiveness}] 2: characterized by habitual skepticism and a tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands [...

1: an elementary particle with negative charge [syn: {electron}]

1: a desert in southern Israel [syn: {Negev Desert}]

1: a desert in southern Israel [syn: {Negev}]

1: antibacterial agent used especially to treat genitourinary infections [syn: {nalidixic acid}]

1: lack of attention and due care [syn: {disregard}] 2: the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect" [syn: {disuse}] 3: willful lack of car...

1: (law) breach of a duty

1: disregarded; "his cries were unheeded"; "Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'"; "her ignored advice" [syn: {ignored}, {unheeded}] 2: lacking a caretaker; "a neglected child"; "many c...

1: a person who is neglectful and gives little attention or respect to people or responsibilities; "he tried vainly to impress his neglecters"

1: leaving vulnerable; "neglectful of her own financial security" [syn: {neglectful of(p)}] 2: not showing due care or attention; "inattentive students"; "an inattentive babysitter"; "neglectful paren...

1: leaving vulnerable; "neglectful of her own financial security" [syn: {neglectful}, {neglectful of(p)}]

1: in a neglectful manner

1: the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern [syn: {negligence}, {neglect}]

1: a loose dressing gown for women [syn: {negligee}, {peignoir}, {wrapper}, {housecoat}]

1: a loose dressing gown for women [syn: {neglige}, {peignoir}, {wrapper}, {housecoat}]

1: failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances [syn: {carelessness}, {neglect}, {nonperformance}] 2: the trait of neglecting responsibilities ...

1: characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern; "negligent parents"; "negligent of detail"; "negligent in his correspondence" [ant: {diligent}] 2: marked by insufficient care or attention; "a n...

1: in a negligent manner; "he did his work negligently"

1: so small as to be meaningless; insignificant; "the effect was negligible" 2: not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling ...

1: be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negocia...

1: capable of being passed or negotiated; "a negotiable road" 2: able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise; "negotiable demands"; "the proposal is still on the table" [syn: {on the table}] 3: le...

1: an unconditional order or promise to pay an amount of money

1: someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) [syn: {negotiator}, {treater}]

1: discuss the terms of an arrangement; "They negotiated the sale of the house" [syn: {negociate}, {talk terms}]

1: a discussion intended to produce an agreement; "the buyout negotiation lasted several days"; "they disagreed but kept an open dialogue"; "talks between Israelis and Palestinians" [syn: {dialogue}, ...

1: someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) [syn: {negotiant}, {treater}]

1: a woman negotiator [syn: {negotiatrix}]

1: a woman negotiator [syn: {negotiatress}]

1: a Black woman or girl

{negrillo}

{negrito}

1: an ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms; an affirmation of the African cultural heritage

1: relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair n : a person with dark skin who comes fro...

1: stout spreading or semi-climbing tropical shrub with round brownish-red warty fruit; Africa [syn: {Sarcocephalus latifolius}, {Sarcocephalus esculentus}]

1: tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine [syn: {Guinea pepper}, {Xylopia aethiopica}]

1: a dark-skinned race [syn: {Black race}, {Negroid race}]

1: a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States [syn: {spiritual}]

1: twining vine with hairy foliage and dark purplish-brown flowers [syn: {Vincetoxicum hirsutum}, {Vincetoxicum negrum}]

{negro}

1: characteristic of people traditionally classified as the Negro race; "negroid features" n : a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: {Black}, {Black...

1: a dark-skinned race [syn: {Black race}, {Negro race}]

1: wine and hot water with sugar and lemon juice and nutmeg

1: an Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became a leader in rebuilding Jeruslaem after the Babylonian Captivity [syn: {Book of Nehemiah}]

1: Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule; was the first prime minister of the Republic of India from 1947 to 1964 (1889-1964) [syn: {Jawaharlal Nehru}]

1: an autonomous region of northeastern China that was annexed by the Manchu rulers in 1635 and became an integral part of China in 1911 [syn: {Inner Mongolia}]

1: the characteristic sounds made by a horse [syn: {nicker}, {whicker}, {whinny}] v : characteristic of horses [syn: {nicker}, {whicker}, {whinny}]

1: situated near one another; "neighbor states" [syn: {neighbour}, {neighboring(a)}, {neighbouring(a)}] n 1: a person who lives (or is located) near another [syn: {neighbour}] 2: a nearby object of th...

1: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you th...

1: situated near one another; "neighbor states" [syn: {neighbor}, {neighbour}, {neighboring(a)}, {neighbouring(a)}] 2: having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots"; "adjoining rooms"; "...

1: a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors [syn: {neighbourliness}, {good-neighborliness}, {good-neighbourliness}] [ant: {unneighborliness}]

1: exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor [syn: {neighbourly}]

1: situated near one another; "neighbor states" [syn: {neighbor}, {neighboring(a)}, {neighbouring(a)}] n 1: a person who lives (or is located) near another [syn: {neighbor}] 2: a nearby object of the ...

1: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you th...

1: situated near one another; "neighbor states" [syn: {neighbor}, {neighbour}, {neighboring(a)}, {neighbouring(a)}]

1: a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors [syn: {neighborliness}, {good-neighborliness}, {good-neighbourliness}] [ant: {unneighborliness}]

1: exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor [syn: {neighborly}]

1: United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-) [syn: {Armstrong}]

1: United States playwright noted for light comedies (born in 1927) [syn: {Simon}, {Marvin Neil Simon}]

1: the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea [syn: {gonococcus}]

1: after a negative statement used to indicate that the next statement is similarly negative; "I was not happy and neither were they"; "just as you would not complain, neither should he"

1: a central plateau region of the Arabian Peninsula; formely an independent sultanate until 1932 when it united with Hejaz to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [syn: {Najd}]

1: the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales

1: a protease inhibitor (trade name Viracept) used in treating HIV usually in combination with other drugs [syn: {Viracept}]

1: English comedienne and mistress of Charles II (1650-1687) [syn: {Gwynn}, {Gywn}, {Gynne}, {Nell Gywn}, {Nell Gwynne}, {Eleanor Gwynn}, {Eleanor Gwyn}, {Eleanor Gwynne}]

1: English comedienne and mistress of Charles II (1650-1687) [syn: {Gwynn}, {Gywn}, {Gynne}, {Nell Gwynn}, {Nell Gywn}, {Eleanor Gwynn}, {Eleanor Gwyn}, {Eleanor Gwynne}]

1: English comedienne and mistress of Charles II (1650-1687) [syn: {Gwynn}, {Gywn}, {Gynne}, {Nell Gwynn}, {Nell Gwynne}, {Eleanor Gwynn}, {Eleanor Gwyn}, {Eleanor Gwynne}]

1: muckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922) [syn: {Seaman}, {Elizabeth Seaman}, {Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman}]

1: a politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977) [syn: {Ross}, {Nellie Tayloe Ross}]

1: a politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977) [syn: {Ross}, {Nellie Ross}]

1: English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805) [syn: {Horatio Nelson}, {Viscount Nelson}, {Admiral Nelson}, {Lord Nelson}]

1: United States writer (1909-1981) [syn: {Algren}]

1: South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) [syn: {Mandela}, {Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela}]

1: South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) [syn: {Mandela}, {Nelson Mandela}]

1: sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae: lotuses [syn: {genus Nelumbo}]

1: water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds [syn: {water chinquapin}, {American lotus}, {yanquapin}]

1: native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers [syn: {lotus}, {Indian lotus}, {sacred lotus}]

1: in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the single genus Nelumbo [syn: {subfamily Nelumbonaceae}]

1: of one mind; without dissent; "the Senate unanimously approved the bill"; "we voted unanimously" [syn: {unanimously}, {nemine contradicente}]

1: mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies [syn: {suborder Nematocera}]

1: unsegmented worms: roundworms; threadworms; eelworms [syn: {phylum Nematoda}, {Aschelminthes}, {phylum Aschelminthes}]