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adj
Of or relating to the members of the class Reptilia (reptiles).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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Synonyms: reptilious, reptitious
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Reptilelike.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: reptitious, saurian, reptilelike, reptilian, reptilious, sauroid
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Unthinking, low, base, contemptible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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Synonyms: despicable, loathsome, abject, filthy, base, beggarly, blameworthy, carrion, cheap, choical, contemptible, cringing, damnable, dedecorous, degraded, deplorable, deridable, derisible, despisable, dirty, discreditable, disdainable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, execrable, groveling, hylic, hylical, ignoble, ignominious, inglorious, lame, laughable, lousy, low, ludicrous, mean, mean-spirited, miserable, obscene, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, pissass, pitiable, pitiful, plebeian, punk, putrid, reprehensible, reprehensive, reptile, reptilian, reptitious, ridiculous, risible, roynish, scabbed, scald, scornworthy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shit, sleazy, slavish, slimy, sordid, sorry, trashy, ugly, uncommendable, uncool, unmentionable, unwashed, unsophisticated, unworthy, vile, vulgar, weak, worthless, wretched
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Cold-blooded, treacherous, unavoidably selfish and hostile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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Synonyms: emotionless, reptitious, viperish, viperous, alexithymic, apathistical, clinical, dull, phlegmatic, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, dead inside, dispassionate, immovable, impassible, impassive, insensible, nonemotional, nonfeeling, nonpassionate, nonsentimental, stolid, unemotional, unfeeling, unmovable, unpassionate, unsentimental, booky, dastardly, disleal, disloyal, double-crossing, double-dealing, double-faced, double-hearted, doublehearted, faithless, false, falseheart, false-hearted, guiled, guileful, hollow-hearted, illoyal, infidelitous, insidious, Judaslike, Judasly, nonfaithful, perfidious, proditorious, proditory, Punic, ratlike, recreant, renegade, reptilian, swike, traitorish, traitorlike, traitorly, traitorous, traitorsome, treacherous, treachersome, trothless, unfaithful, unleal, unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A reptilian animal: a reptile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: creeper, reptile
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A reptilian person, especially (ethnic slur) a Jew.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A reptilian alien, especially (ufology, often capitalized) of a shapeshifting race alleged to secretly control the world.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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Synonyms: reptoid
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
of or relating to the class Reptilia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: reptile
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: vertebrate, craniate
Narrower terms: anapsid, anapsid reptile, diapsid, diapsid reptile, Diapsida, subclass Diapsida, synapsid, synapsid reptile
History
From reptile + -ian, replacing earlier reptilious and adjectival reptile.
