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  • 41complex — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. intricate, manifold, complicated, involved, knotty. n. tangle, knot, maze; informal, obsession, fixation; inferiority, persecution, Oedipus, etc. complex. See disorder, insanity, intellect. II… …

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  • 42deep — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. & n. See depth, cunning. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Situated or extending far down] Syn. low, below, beneath, profound, bottomless, submerged, subterranean, submarine, inmost, deep seated, rooted,… …

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  • 43supernatural — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. miraculous, preternatural; abnormal, unearthly, superhuman, occult. See demon, universe.Ant., earthly, worldly. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Divine] Syn. celestial, godlike, almighty, spiritual,… …

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  • 44difficult — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Hard to achieve] Syn. laborious, hard, arduous, strenuous, demanding, exacting, hard won, stiff, heavy, painful, labored, trying, titanic, bothersome, troublesome, burdensome, backbreaking, not easy, wearisome, onerous,… …

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  • 45mysterious — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Puzzling] Syn. puzzling, enigmatic, perplexing, strange, baffling, inexplicable, insoluble, unaccountable, inscrutable, confounding, shrouded in mystery; see also difficult 2 , unnatural 1 . 2. [Concerning powers beyond… …

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  • 46groundless — O.E. grundleas bottomless, unfathomable, vast; see GROUND (Cf. ground) (n.) + LESS (Cf. less). Figurative sense of unfathomable is from early 14c. Related: Groundlessly; groundlessness …

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  • 47deep — 1. adjective 1) a deep ravine Syn: cavernous, yawning, gaping, huge, extensive; bottomless, fathomless, unfathomable Ant: shallow 2) two inches deep Syn …

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  • 48abysm — noun a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively) • Syn: ↑abyss • Derivationally related forms: ↑abysmal, ↑abyssal (for: ↑abyss) • …

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  • 49unfathomableness — noun see unfathomable * * * unfathˈomableness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑unfathomable …

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  • 50a|byss|al — «uh BIHS uhl», adjective. 1. of or inhabiting the depths of the ocean to which light does not penetrate: »an abyssal mollusk. 2. = unfathomable. (Cf. ↑unfathomable) 3. = plutonic: (Cf. ↑plutonic) »abyssal rock …

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