(medicine, psychiatry) In a phase of mental activity in which one begins to recognize and acknowledge the maladaptiveness of someone's behavior (such as own's own, or that of a family member or friend); usually with reference to substance use.
Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
Pertaining to a religious contemplative, or a contemplative religious orders, especially the Roman Catholic varieties.
noun
Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious or philosophical contemplation.
developmental
developmental
adj
Related to development.
noun
A trainee flight controller.
imperativally
imperceivable
imperceivable
adj
that cannot be perceived; imperceptible
imperceivably
imperceivably
adv
imperceptibly
impervertible
implicatively
implicatively
adv
In an implicative way.
impreventable
impreventable
adj
Not preventable; inevitable.
improvability
improvability
noun
The condition of being improvable
improvidently
improvidently
adv
In an improvident manner.
impulsiveness
impulsiveness
noun
The quality of being impulsive.
noncompulsive
noncompulsive
adj
Not compulsive.
omniprevalent
omniprevalent
adj
Prevalent everywhere or in all things.
overamplified
overamplified
adj
Excessively amplified
verb
past participle of overamplify
overamplifies
overamplifies
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overamplify
overcompliant
overcompliant
adj
Excessively compliant.
overempirical
overplacement
overplacement
noun
Assignment to a placement requiring greater talent than the person has.
Extreme overconfidence.
Placement over or above others.
overplumpness
overplumpness
noun
Excessive plumpness.
overpolemical
overpolemical
adj
Excessively polemical.
palaeoatavism
plumbisolvent
plumbisolvent
adj
Alternative form of plumbosolvent
plumbosolvent
plumbosolvent
adj
Exhibiting plumbosolvency.
postmediaeval
presumptively
presumptively
adv
As is presumed to be the case
In a presumptive manner
proslaveryism
proverbialism
proverbialism
noun
A proverbial phrase.
provincialism
provincialism
noun
(linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
(politics) Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
redevelopment
redevelopment
noun
The demolition of old, redundant or unfashionable buildings or infrastructure and the construction of new ones on the same site.
The process of developing something anew.
semideveloped
semideveloped
adj
Half or partly developed.
semipassively
speculativism
speculativism
noun
An approach based on speculation rather than any formal method.