Words and phrases whose definition contains meaning: (282 results)
black, bunk, cool, core, dig, drift, fine, firth, gist, glimpse, grasp, hold, lick, nee, plain, point, read, see, sense, shade, solve, stretch, take, touch, twist, work
adjunct, ahead, answer, burden, canvas, canvass, clouded, compass, construe, cryptic, define, denote, dilate, double, draw out, educe, effect, either, enlarge, essence, evoke, expand, expound, extract, fewer, flesh out, follow, forsooth, hokum, import, intent, jacob, layer, lexis, more than, mosta, mystique, nonce word, nonsense, nuance, pervert, pithy, ploce, pointed, pregnant, purport, reading, refer, resolve, savvy, spirit, study, treble, twisted, version, word sense, work out
agrostis, anagram, analyse, analyze, apprehend, come across, come over, comprehend, confusing, construal, content word, convolute, cryptical, distorted, elaborate, elicit, empyreal, examine, expletive, explicit, exposit, extension, figure out, function word, homograph, homophone, important, intensive, interpret, ironic, j. r. firth, latterly, limiting, literal, lucubrate, meaningful, meaningless, mindlessness, misguided, mistaking, moralise, moralize, morea, newcastle, nicety, opaqueness, overtone, perplexing, pertainym, perverted, pointlessness, purposeful, puzzle out, puzzling, qualified, radical, reference, refinement, rendering, rendition, restricted, semantic, semantics, senselessness, sententious, sibylline, signified, signify, subtlety, transitive, translation, twist around, understand, understood, undertone, well-meaning, wordmonger, word meaning, you're welcome
acceptation, ambiguous, appreciate, cabalistic, characterised, characterized, comprehension, continual, data mining, dead metaphor, deconstruction, definition, denotation, denotative, descriptive clause, discernible, distortable, enigmatic, expatiate, explication, exposition, fathomable, formalism, futurism, get the picture, implication, importantly, inanity, john rupert firth, kabbalistic, latent content, meaninglessness, melioration, millennium, modifier, monosemous, monosemy, nonmeaningful, nonsensical, opacity, polysemant, polysemous word, pragmatism, punctuation, qabalistic, qualifier, qualifying, reinterpret, restrictiveness, restrictive clause, semantically, semanticist, significance, significant, sophisticate, spiritualise, spiritualize, sursum corda, symbolism, synonymous, synonymy, to that effect, undercurrent, underlying, univocal, unrestricted, vacuity
agglutination, agglutinative, ambiguity, anagrammatise, anagrammatize, appreciation, equivocalness, frame of reference, frozen metaphor, genus agrostis, hapax legomenon, iconology, inescapably, intensifier, interpretation, lexical meaning, misrepresented, modification, nonrestrictive clause, polysynthetic, punctuation mark, semiotician, symbolisation, symbolization, synonymity, synonymousness, unambiguous, unequivocal
alpha and omega, deconstructionism, disambiguator, dramatic irony, explication de texte, grammatical meaning, higher criticism, indecipherable, newcastle-upon-tyne, noninterchangeable, nonsensicality, polysemantic word, reinterpretation, religious ritual
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