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| strikingly unusual or incongruous; fantastic or jolting in impact |
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| ordinary, unexciting, dull, unimaginative |
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| wacky, absurd, ludicrous, "crazy" |
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| unchanging; quiet, at rest; stationary, fixed |
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| smooth and sophisticated (said of men); suave |
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| difficult to explain or to understand; mentally slow, obtuse, thick-skulled; also, not allowing light to pass through |
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| showing no feeling or pain; impassive |
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| not obvious in any way; elusive; hard to understand (as "a subtle language"); keenly discerning (as "subtle interpretation"); extremely clever; behaving in an insidious way (as "a subtle disease") |
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| hidden, submerged, waiting to be aroused or discovered; inactive, dormant, potential |
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| inborn, inherent, natural |
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| ineffective, useless; vain ( as "a futile hope") |
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| honest, open, without guile or deceit; frank, even blunt |
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