having a specified direction; often used in combination; as, goal-directed.

One who directs; a director.

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.

of or pertaining to direction (definition 2).

the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive to signal arriving from one direction than from another.

purposeless. Opposite of purposeful.

Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.

the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive to sounds coming from one direction than from another.

In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.

The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.

The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.

Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive.

The condition or office of a director; directorate.

A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.

A woman who directs.

A directress.

Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.

In a dire manner.

To separate by force; to tear apart.

A tearing apart; violent separation.

Terribleness; horror; woefulness.

The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away.

Characterized by direption.

With plundering violence; by violent injustice.

A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.

Funereal; moaning.

A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge.

The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix.

Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.

The practice or inclination to direct (activities) by a central authority; as, the linguistic dirigisme of prescriptivists clashes with the modern tendency toward acceptance of multiculturalism. See also dirigiste.

Directed by a central authority; as, a dirigiste economy; with respect to economics, opposed to free-market. See also dirigisme.

Absolute.

To darken.

Darkness.

To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate.

To make foul of filthy; to dirty.

costing much less than standard price; as, the store went out of business and sold their remaining stock for dirt-cheap prices.

In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.

The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.

the act of soiling something.

Disruption.

The god Pluto, god of the underworld; also called Dis Pater.

to treat in a disrespectful manner; to insult, disparage or belittle.

any orchid of the genus Disa, a genus of beautiful orchids with dark green leaves and usually hooded flowers; -- they are much prized as emblematic flowers in their native regions.

State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.

To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair.

injured so as to be unable to function; as, disabled veterans.

Deprivation of ability; incapacity.

causing or having caused disability; rendering disabled; as, disabling injury.

To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right; -- often used with of; as, to disabuse one of his illusions.

To put to inconvenience; to incommode.

A state of being unaccommodated or unsuited.

Disagreement.

Not accordant.

To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom.

To free from acid.

To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown.

To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar.

A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein.

To deprive of ornaments.

To draw back, or cause to draw back.

To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to.

Injurious; disadvantageous.

Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense.

Misfortune; mishap.

Unprosperous; unfortunate.

To advise against; to dissuade from.

To alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness.

Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal.

State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike.

Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected.

To assert the contrary of; to contradict; to deny; -- said of that which has been asserted.

The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.

The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.

To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws.

To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass.

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.

Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.

The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.

In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.

Disagreement.

The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.

One who disagrees.

To alienate from allegiance.

To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

Not allowable; not to be suffered.

The act of disallowing; refusal to admit or permit; rejection.

To part, as an alliance; to sunder.

To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor.

Not angelical.

To deprive of life.

Privation of life.

To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of.

To annul completely; to render void or of no effect.

One who disannuls.

Complete annulment.

To invalidate the consecration of; as, to disanoint a king.

To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked.

To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.

The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing.

p. pr. vb. n. of Disappear.

A detachment or separation from a former connection.

Freed from a former connection or dependence; disconnected.

To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil.

Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.

the act of disappointing someone.

The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.

To undervalue; not to esteem.

The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure.

Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.

To release from individual ownership or possession.

The act of disappropriating.

Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.

To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others.

One who disapproves.

expressing disapproval.

In a disapproving manner.