6296868278 | provocative | stimulating, exciting | 0 | |
6296868279 | audacious | daring, bold, insolent | 1 | |
6296869634 | persuasive | written to convince or win over | 2 | |
6296870676 | condescending | patronizing, arrogant | 3 | |
6296910794 | disdainful | arrogant, lordly, superior, unsympathetic | 4 | |
6296912524 | sarcastic | snide, mocking, sharp taunting that wounds | 5 | |
6296915121 | sardonic | derisively mocking, scornful and cynical | 6 | |
6296918899 | satiric | ridiculing, ironic, mocking, farcical, exposing folly | 7 | |
6296920601 | mock-heroic | ridiculing a "hero" | 8 | |
6296924876 | apprehensive | anxious, uneasy, worried | 9 | |
6296926642 | ominous | fateful, ill-boding, foreboding, dire | 10 | |
6296926643 | urgent | imperative, critical, intensely necessary | 11 | |
6296928945 | threatening | menacing, intimidating | 12 | |
6296932307 | horrific | appalling, shocking, gruesome | 13 | |
6296934004 | disappointed | deceived, crestfallen, let down | 14 | |
6296935475 | regretful | contrite, apologetic, sorry (spans mere disappointment to a painful sense of dissatisfaction or self-reproach) | 15 | |
6296938885 | remorseful | moral anguish, penitent, contrite, rueful over past misdeeds | 16 | |
6296941526 | somber | bleak, depressing, dismal | 17 | |
6296942775 | elegiac | lamenting, poignant, funereal | 18 | |
6296944909 | amused | entertaining in a light and playful manner (directing attention from serious matters in an agreeable and pleasing manner) | 19 | |
6296947265 | bantering | teasing, joking, playful | 20 | |
6296949137 | simpering | smiley in a silly, self-conscious, often coy way | 21 | |
6296952578 | whimsical | capricious, unpredictable | 22 | |
6296954289 | reverent | venerating, worshipping | 23 | |
6296954291 | reflective | contemplative, mediative, introspective | 24 | |
6296956941 | intimate | personal, informal, private | 25 | |
6296958468 | sympathetic | compassionate, sensitive, to share or understand feelings | 26 | |
6296960801 | factual | certain, absolute, irrefutable, unbiased | 27 | |
6296962554 | detached | aloof, impartial, disconnected emotionally | 28 | |
6296964407 | pedantic | scholarly, making a show of knowledge | 29 |
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