striking character or quality

  • 1striking qualities — index character (personal quality) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2character — I (an individual) noun being, body, figure, human, human being, man, mortal, party, person, personage, personality, self determined being, somebody, someone II (personal quality) noun animus, aspects, attribute, bent, characteristic mood,… …

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  • 3character — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. kind, class; nature, disposition, temperament, personality; part, role; sign, brand, stamp; figure, letter, hieroglyphic, ideograph, pictograph; informal, personage, eccentric, crank, original. See… …

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  • 4character — n. 1. Mark, figure, sign, symbol, emblem, letter. 2. Constitution, quality, nature, disposition, cast, turn, bent. 3. Moral qualities, personal traits, habitual conduct. 4. Marked traits, strongly marked personality, striking qualities. 5. Person …

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  • 5boldness — n. 1. Fearlessness, dauntlessness, intrepidity, courage, bravery, doughtiness, dauntlessness, adventurousness, gallantry, spirit, mettle, valor, audacity, daring, pluck, heroism, hardihood, spunk. 2. Confidence, assurance, self reliance, self… …

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  • 6arts, East Asian — Introduction       music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature.       Some studies of East Asia… …

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  • 7Glasgow —    GLASGOW, a city, the seat of a university, and a sea port, having separate jurisdiction, locally in the Lower ward of the county of Lanark, and situated in longitude 4° 15 51 (W.), and latitude 55° 52 10 (N.), 23 miles (E. by S.) from Greenock …

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  • 8caliber — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. gauge, bore; quality; ability, capability. See size, breadth, intelligence, degree. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A measurement] Syn. diameter, bore, gauge, striking power; see diameter , length 1 ,… …

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  • 9fruit farming — Introduction       growing of fruit crops, including nuts, primarily for use as human food.       The subject of fruit and nut production deals with intensive culture of perennial plants, the fruits of which have economic significance (a nut is a …

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  • 10strange — strange, *singular, unique, peculiar, eccentric, erratic, odd, queer, quaint, outlandish, curious can mean varying from what is ordinary, usual, and to be expected. Strange, the most comprehensive of these terms, suggests unfamiliarity; it may… …

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