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nicety.noun
inflected
form(s).plural.niceties
the quality or state of being nice; an elegant,
delicate, or civilized feature (enjoy the niceties of life); a fine point
or distinction; subtlety (the niceties of table manners); careful attention
to details;
meticulous;
delicate exactness; precision; delicacy of taste or feeling; fastidiousness
naive.adjective
inflected form(s)-naiver,
naivest
marked by unaffected simplicity; natural honesty;
lacking in poise, glamor
and grace; natural; ingenuous; deficient
in worldly
wisdom or informed judgment; credulous;
self taught; primitive
naiveness.noun
naively.adverb
naivety.noun
artlessness or credulity;
naiveté
naiveté.noun
the state or quality of being artless, credulous,
or uncritical; an artless, credulous, or uncritical statement or act
neglect, neglected,
neglecting,
neglects.transitive
verbs
to pay little or no attention to; fail to heed;
disregard.(neglected
warnings); to fail to care for or attend to properly (neglects her appearance);
to fail to do or carry out, as through carelessness or oversight (neglected
to return the call)
neglect.noun
the act or an instance of neglecting something;
the state of being neglected
neglecter.noun
negligent.adjective
an insignificant or imperceptible amount; marked
by or given to neglect especially habitually or culpably;
not taking prudent care; marked by a carelessly easy manner or informality;
careless ease; casual; negligent implies inattention to one's duty or business
(negligent about writing a note of thanks); habitual neglect
negligently.adverb
synonyms.remiss,
neglectful, lax, slack
remiss
means
culpably
careless or indicative of such carelessness. remiss
implies
blameworthy carelessness shown in slackness, forgetfulness, or neglect
(had been remiss in her familial duties)
neglectful
adds a more disapproving implication of laziness or deliberate inattention
(a society callously neglectful
of the poor)
lax
implies a blameworthy lack of strictness, severity, or precision (a reporter
lax about accurate quotation)
slack
implies want of due or necessary diligence or care (slack workmanship and
slipshod construction)
nitwit.noun
a scatterbrained or stupid person; a dullard;
a dimwit
neurotic.adjective
a person having a neurosis, which is, excessive
or abnormal anxieties disorganizing the personality prior to its more serious
and psychotic (very severe disorganization
of the personality) form, the beginning of which can, one way, be observed
by lack of compassion toward
one in need, and can be characterized by over concern for the self as evidenced
by excessive and chronic
mental anxiety, compulsions, obsessions, phobias (fears), etc. See psychoanalysis
neurosis.noun,.plural.neuroses
any of various mental or emotional disorders,
such as hypochondria (a disease arising from the belief that one is unwell
and therefor must be sick) arising from no apparent
organic lesion (wound or injury) or change and involving symptoms such
as insecurity, anxiety, depression, and irrational
fears - all negative thinking
nevertheless.adverb
in spite
of that;
afterall; in spite of
everything to the contrary;
everything else having been considered; ultimately;
however;
howbeit
nonetheless.adverb
nevertheless
nullify,
nullified,
nullifying,
nullifies.transitive
verbs
make void;
to bring to nothing by depriving
of effectiveness;
invalidate; bring
to nothing; neutralize
nullification, nullifier.nouns
null.adjective
not binding; of no value or effect
nurture.noun
anything that nourishes; the act or process of
raising or promoting the development of; instruction towards upbringing
notwithstanding.preposition
not stopped by; regardless of; in spite of (they
traveled on notwithstanding the storm; she remarried notwithstanding the
death of her husband); despite
adverb-nevertheless-(they
will do it notwithstanding)
Nietzsche,
Friedrich, Wilhelm.(1844-1900), German
philosopher, poet, and classical philologist, who became one of the most
provocative and influential thinkers of the 19th century.
His father, a Lutheran minister, died when Nietzsche
was five. One of Nietzsche's fundamental contentions was that traditional
values (represented primarily by Christianity) had lost their power in
the lives of individuals. He expressed this in his proclamation "God is
dead." He was convinced that traditional values represented a "slave morality,"
a morality created by weak and resentful individuals who encouraged such
behavior as gentleness and kindness because the behavior served their interests..comprised
from Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 99. © 1993-1998 Microsoft
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nth.adjective
extreme, utmost
nethermost.adjective
lowest; farthest down
non sequitur.noun
it does not follow; a conclusion or inference
which does not follow from the premises
or evidence upon which it is based
notion.noun
an idea; a mental image
nomad.noun
a member of a group of people who have no fixed
home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of
food, water and grazing land; a person with no fixed residence who roams
about; a wanderer
nomadic.adjective
nomadically.adverb
native.adjective
existing in or belonging to one by nature; innate.(native
ability) being such by birth or origin (a native Scot, a native Canadian);
being one's own because of the place or circumstances of one's birth (our
native land); originating, growing, or produced in a certain place or region;
indigenous.(a
plant native to Asia); of, belonging to, or characteristic of the original
inhabitants of a particular place; occurring in nature pure or uncombined
with other substances (native copper); natural; unaffected (native beauty);
closely related, as by birth or race
native.noun
one born in or connected with a place by birth
(a native of Scotland now living in Canada); one of the original inhabitants
or lifelong residents of a place
natively.adverb
nativeness.noun
negative.adjective
unable to generate energy for good things for
self or others; expressing, containing, or consisting of a negation, refusal,
or denial (gave a negative answer to our request for funding); indicating
opposition or resistance (a negative reaction to the new advertising campaign);
having no positive features (negative ideas; a negative outlook on life);
marked by or exhibiting features, such as hostility, that cannot be deemed
positive or constructive (conducted a negative campaign against his opponent)
negative.noun
a statement or an act indicating or expressing
a contradiction, denial, or refusal; a statement or an act that is highly
critical of another or of others (campaign advertising that was based solely
on negatives); something that lacks all positive, affirmative, or encouraging
features; an element that is the counterpoint of the positive; a feature
or characteristic that is
not deemed positive, affirmative,
or desirable; the side in a debate that contradicts or opposes the question
being debated; an image in which the light areas of the object rendered
appear dark and the dark areas appear light; a film, plate, or other photographic
material containing such an image
negative, negatived,
negativing,
negatives.transitive
verbs
to refuse to approve; veto; to deny; contradict;
to demonstrate to be false; disprove; to counteract or neutralize
negatively.adverb
negativeness.or.negativity.noun
nobility.noun,.plural.nobilities
a class of persons distinguished by high birth
or rank and in Great Britain including dukes
(a nobleman with the highest hereditary rank) and duchesses, marquises
(ranking below a duke and above an earl or a count) and marchionesses,
earls
(ranks above a viscount and below a marquis) and countesses, viscounts
(ranking below an earl or a count and above a baron) and viscountesses,
and barons (a British nobleman of the lowest
rank) and baronesses
noble, nobler,
noblest.adjectives
having or showing qualities of high moral
character, such as courage, generosity, or honor (a noble spirit); proceeding
from or indicative of such a
character;
showing magnanimity grand and
stately in appearance; majestic
noble.noun
a member of the nobility
nobleness.noun
nobly.adverb
nefarious.adjective
infamous
by way of being extremely wicked
nefariously.adverb
nefariousness.noun
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