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ad - just - er
Variant(s): also ad - jus - tor /&-'j&s-t&r/
Function: noun
Date: 1673
: one that adjusts; especially : an insurance
agent who investigates personal or property damage and makes estimates
for effecting settlements
ad - just
Pronunciation: &-'j&st
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English ajusten, from Middle
French ajuster to gauge, adjust, from a- (from Latin ad-)
+ juste right, exact -- more at JUST
Date: 14th century
transitive senses
1 a : to bring to a more satisfactory state: (1) :
SETTLE, RESOLVE (2) : RECTIFYb : to make correspondent or conformable :
ADAPTc : to bring the parts of to a true or more effective relative position
<adjust a carburetor
2 : to reduce to a system : REGULATE
3 : to determine the amount to be paid under an insurance
policy in settlement of (a loss)
(Dicionário Webster)
adjuster n : one who investigates
insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement
[syn: {adjustor}, {claimsadjuster}, {claimsadjustor}, {claimagent}]
Adjust \Ad*just"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adjusted};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Adjusting}.] [OF. ajuster, ajoster (whence F. ajouter
to add), LL. adjuxtare to fit; fr. L. ad + juxtanear; confusedlaterwith
L. ad andjustusjust, right, whence F. ajuster to adjust. See {Just}, v.
t. and cf. {Adjute}.] 1. To makeexact; to fit; to makecorrespondent or
conformable; to bringintoproperrelations; as, to adjust a garment to thebody,
or things to a standard.
2. To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.
Adjustingtheorthography. --Johnson.
3. To settle or bring to a satisfactorystate, so thatpartiesareagreed
in theresult; as, to adjustaccounts; thedifferencesareadjusted.
4. To bring to a truerelativeposition, as theparts
of an instrument; to regulateforuse; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.
Syn: To adapt; suit; arrange; regulate; accommodate;
setright; rectify; settle.
(Dicionário Wordsmith)
Definition:
1. to bring to a more fitting or more correct state, relationship,
position, or the like.
Synonyms: adapt, suit (3),
Similar Words: fine-tune, alter,
modify, shape, fashion, change, accommodate, repair1, fix
Definition:
2. to change or adapt.
Synonyms: change, shape,mold1
Definition:
3. in insurance, to settle (a claim).
Definition
(intransitive verb): 4. to fit into or adapt oneself to conditions.
Synonyms: adapt, accommodate, acclimate,
fit1 (2), conform (1)
Similar words: naturalize, suit,
assimilate
Definition (intransitive verb) :
5. to become adapted.
Synonyms: adapt, accommodate, acclimate,
fit1 (2), naturalize, assimilate (3)
conform, suit, modify
Similar words: conform, suit, modify
Derived words: adjustable, adj.
; adjustably, adv. ; adjustable, adj. ; adjuster,
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Unqualified Absolute |
Absoluto Inqualificável*
*Observações:
Acepção: que não se pode qualificar,
indicar a(s) qualidade(s)
Inqualificado (opção descartada):
senso comum de inabilitado, incapacitado.
Opção alternativa:
Incondicionado.
Irrestrito.
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un - qual - i - fied
Pronunciation: "&n-'kwä-l&-"fId
Function: adjective
Date: 1556
1 : not fit : not having requisite qualifications
2 : not modified or restricted by reservations : COMPLETE
<an unqualified denial
- un - qual - i - fied - ly /-"fI(-&)d-lE/
adverb
(Dicionário: Thesaurus
Universidade de Chicago)
Impotence.
N. impotence; inability, disability; disablement, impuissance,
imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence,
unproductivity[obs3]; indocility[obs3]; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency,
wastefulness.
telum imbelle[Lat], brutum fulmen[Lat], blank, blank cartridge,
flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil[Lat], dead letter, bit of waste
paper, dummy; paper tiger; Quaker gun.
inefficacy &c. (inutility) 645[obs3]; failure
&c. 732.
helplessness &c. adj.; prostration, paralysis,
palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration|, deliquium|[Lat], collapse, exhaustion,
softening of the brain, inanition; emasculation, orchiotomy [Med], orchotomy[Med].
cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff,
pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle; eunuch.
V. be impotent &c. adj.; not have a leg to stand
on.
vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou [French], vouloir
prendre la lune avec les dents [French].
collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go
by the board, go by the wayside; go up in smoke, end in smoke &c. (fail)
732.
render powerless &c. adj.; deprive of power; disable,
disenable[obs3]; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden,
cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple,
becripple[obs3], maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle,
garrotte, garrote; ratten[obs3], silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put
hors de combat[Fr], spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch
the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back;
unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.
unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld,
alter, neuter, sterilize, fix.
shatter, exhaust, weaken &c. 160.
Adj. powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent;
inefficient, ineffective; inept; unfit, unfitted; unqualified, disqualified;
unendowed; inapt, unapt; crippled, disabled &c. v.; armless[obs3].
harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu[Lat],
unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable.
paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless,
sinewless[obs3], marrowless[obs3], pithless[obs3], lustless[obs3]; emasculate,
disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged,
on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat,
exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled &c. (in difficulty) 704;
helpless, unfriended[obs3], fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors
de combat[Fr], laid on the shelf.
null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing;
ineffectual &c. (failing) 732; inadequate &c. 640; inefficacious
&c. (useless) 645.
Phr. der kranke Mann[Ger]; "desirous still but impotent
to rise" [Shenstone]; the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
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Certainty.
N. certainty; necessity &c. 601; certitude, surety,
assurance; dead certainty, moral certainty; infallibleness &c. adj.;
infallibility, reliability; indubitableness, inevitableness, unquestionableness[obs3].
gospel, scripture, church, pope, court of final appeal;
res judicata[Lat], ultimatum positiveness; dogmatism, dogmatist, dogmatizer;
doctrinaire, bigot, opinionist[obs3], Sir Oracle; ipse dixit[Lat].
fact; positive fact, matter of fact; fait accompli[Fr].
V. be certain &c. adj.; stand to reason.
render certain &c. adj.; insure, ensure, assure;
clinch, make sure; determine, decide, set at rest, " make assurance double
sure " [Macbeth]; know &c. (believe) 484.
dogmatize, lay down the law.
Adj. certain, sure, assured &c. v.; solid, well-founded.
unqualified, absolute, positive, determinate, definite,
clear, unequivocal, categorical, unmistakable, decisive, decided, ascertained.
inevitable, unavoidable, avoidless[obs3]; ineluctable.
unerring, infallible; unchangeable &c. 150; to
be depended on, trustworthy, reliable, bound.
unimpeachable, undeniable, unquestionable; indisputable,
incontestable, incontrovertible, indubitable; irrefutable &c. (proven)
478; conclusive, without power of appeal.
indubious[obs3]; without doubt, beyond a doubt, without
a shade or shadow of doubt, without question, beyond question; past dispute;
clear as day; beyond all question, beyond all dispute; undoubted, uncontested,
unquestioned, undisputed; questionless[obs3], doubtless.
authoritative, authentic, official.
sure as fate, sure as death and taxes, sure as a gun.
evident, self-evident, axiomatic; clear, clear as
day, clear as the sun at noonday.
Adv. certainly &c. adj.; for certain, certes[Lat],
sure, no doubt, doubtless, and no mistake, flagrante delicto[Lat], sure
enough, to be sure, of course, as a matter of course , a coup sur, to a
certainty; in truth &c. (truly) 494; at any rate, at all events; without
fail; coute que coute[Fr], coute qu'il coute[Fr]; whatever may happen,
if the worst come to the worst; come what may, happen what may, come what
will; sink or swim; rain or shine.
Phr. cela va sans dire[Fr]; there is -no question,
- not a shadow of doubt; the die is cast &c. (necessity) 601; " facts
are stubborn things " [Smollett].
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[Object of knowledge.] Truth.
N. fact, reality &c. (existence) 1; plain fact, plain
matter of fact; nature &c. (principle) 5; truth, verity; gospel, gospel
truth, God's honest truth; orthodoxy &c. 983a; authenticity; veracity
&c. 543; correctness, correctitude[obs3].
accuracy, exactitude; exactness, preciseness &c.
adj.; precision, delicacy; rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality;
clockwork precision &c. (regularity) 80; conformity to rule; nicety.
orthology[obs3]; ipsissima verba[Lat]; realism.
plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth,
unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic
truth; nuda veritas[Lat]; the very thing; not an -illusion &c 495;
real Simon Pure; unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth; the truth the whole
truth and nothing but the truth; just the thing.
V. be true &c. adj., be the case; sand the test;
have the true ring; hold good, hold true, hold water.
render true, prove true &c. adj.; substantiate
&c. (evidence) 467.
get at the truth &c. (discover) 480a.
Adj. real, actual &c. (existing) 1; veritable,
true; right, correct; certain &c. 474; substantially true, categorically
true, definitively true &c; true to the letter, true as gospel; unimpeachable;
veracious &c. 543; unreconfuted[obs3], unconfuted[obs3]; unideal[obs3],
unimagined; realistic.
exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined,
just, just so, so; strict, severe; close &c. (similar) 17; literal;
rigid, rigorous; scrupulous &c. (conscientious) 939; religiously exact,
punctual, mathematical, scientific; faithful, constant, unerring; curious,
particular, nice, delicate, fine; clean-cut, clear-cut.
verified, empirically true, experimentally verified,
substantiated, proven (demonstrated) 478.
rigorously true, unquestionably true.
true by definition.
genuine, authentic, legitimate; orthodox &c. 983a;
official, ex officio.
pure, natural, sound, sterling; unsophisticated, unadulterated,
unvarnished, unalloyed, uncolored; in its true colors; pukka[obs3].
well-grounded, well founded; solid, substantial, tangible,
valid; undistorted, undisguised; unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic,
unflattering.
Adv. truly &c. adj.; verily, indeed, really, in
reality; with truth &c. (veracity) 543; certainly &c. (certain)
474; actually &c. (existence) 1; in effect &c (intrinsically) 5.
exactly &c. adj.; ad amussim[Lat]; verbatim, verbatim
et literatim [Lat]; word for word, literally, literatim[Lat], totidem vervis[Lat],
sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis[Lat]; ad unguem[Lat];
to an inch; to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T; au
pied de la lettre [Fr]; neither more nor less; in every respect, in all
respects; sous tous les rapports[Fr]; at any rate, at all events; strictly
speaking.
Phr. the truth is, the fact is; rem acu tetigisti[obs3][Lat];
en suivant la verite [Fr]; ex facto jus oritur [Lat]; la verita e figlia
del empo [It]; locos y ninos dicen la verdad [Spanish: crazy people and
children tell the truth]; nihil est veritatis luce dulcius [Lat][Cicero];
veritas nunquam perit [Lat][Seneca]; veritatem dies aperit [Lat][Seneca];
" the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth "; " just the facts,
ma'am, just the facts." [Dragnet].
Completeness.
N. completeness &c. adj.; completion &c. 729;
integration; allness[obs3].
entirety; perfection &c. 650; solidity, solidarity;
unity; all; ne plus ultra[Lat], ideal, limit.
complement, supplement, make-weight; filling, up &c.
v.
impletion[obs3]; saturation, saturity|; high water;
high tide, flood tide, spring tide; fill, load, bumper, bellyful[obs3];
brimmer[obs3]; sufficiency &c. 639.
V. be complete &c. adj.; come to a head.
render complete &c. adj.; complete &c. (accomplish)
729; fill, charge, load, replenish; make up, make good; piece out[Fr],
eke out; supply deficiencies; fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill
the
measure of; saturate.
go the whole hog, go the whole length; go all lengths.
Adj. complete, entire; whole &c. 50; perfect &c.
650; full, good, absolute, thorough, plenary; solid, undivided; with all
its parts; all- sided.
exhaustive, radical, sweeping, thorough-going; dead.
regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified,
unconditional, free; abundant &c. (sufficient) 639.
brimming; brimful, topful, topfull; chock full, choke
full; as full as an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch; saturated, crammed;
replete &c. (redundant) 641; fraught, laden; full-laden, full-fraught,
full-charged; heavy laden.
completing &c. v.; supplemental, supplementary;
ascititious[obs3].
Adv. completely &c. adj.; altogether, outright,
wholly, totally, in toto, quite; all out; over head and ears; effectually,
for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders;
neck and heel, neck and crop; in all respects, in every respect; at all
points, out and out, to all intents and purposes; toto coelo[Lat]; utterly;
clean, clean as a whistle; to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone;
hollow, stark; heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground.
to the top of one's bent, as far as possible, a outrance[obs3].
throughout; from first to last, from beginning to
end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba,
from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble[Fr];
a fond, a capite ad calcem [Lat], ab ovo usque ad mala[Lat], fore and aft;
every, whit, every inch; cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter; up to the
brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes; as . . . as can be.
on all accounts;,sous tous les rapports[Fr]; with
a vengeance, with a witness.
Phr. falsus in uno falsus in omnibus [Latin: false
in one thing, false in everything]; omnem movere lapidem[Lat]; una scopa
nuova spazza bene [Italian].
Nonpreparation.
N. non-preparation, absence of preparation, want of preparation;
inculture|, inconcoction|, improvidence.
immaturity, crudity; rawness &c. Adj.; abortion;
disqualification.
[Absence of art] nature, state of nature; virgin soil,
unweeded garden; neglect &c. 460.
rough copy &c. (plan) 626; germ &c. 153; raw
material &c. 635.
improvisation &c. (impulse) 612.
V. be unprepared &c. Adj.; want preparation, lack
preparation; lie fallow; s'embarquer sans biscuits[Fr]; live from hand
to mouth.
[Render unprepared] dismantle &c. (render useless)
645; undress &c. 226. extemporize, improvise, ad lib.
Adj. unprepared &c. [prepare &c. 673]; without
preparation &c. 673; incomplete &c. 53; rudimental, embryonic,
abortive; immature, unripe, kachcha[obs3], raw, green, crude; coarse; rough
cast, rough hewn; in the rough; unhewn[obs3], unformed, unfashioned[obs3],
unwrought, unlabored[obs3], unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished.
unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured[obs3], unlicked[obs3],
untaught, uneducated, uncultivated,. untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised;
deckle-edged[obs3]; precocious, premature; undigested, indigested[obs3];
unmellowed[obs3], unseasoned, unleavened.
unrehearsed, unscripted, extemporaneous, improvised,
spontaneous, ad lib, ad libitem [Latin].
fallow; unsown, untilled; natural, in a state of nature;
undressed; in dishabille, en deshabille[Fr].
unqualified, disqualified; unfitted; ill-digested;
unbegun, unready, unarranged[obs3], unorganized, unfurnished, unprovided,
unequipped, untrimmed; out of gear, out of order; dismantled &c. v.
shiftless, improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, thoughtless,
unguarded; happy-go-lucky; caught napping &c. (inexpectant) 508[obs3];
unpremeditated &c. 612.
Adv. extempore &c. 612.
Unskillfulness.
N. unskillfulness &c. adj.; want of skill &c.
698; incompetence, incompentency[obs3]; inability, infelicity, indexterity[obs3],
inexperience; disqualification, unproficiency[obs3]; quackery.
folly, stupidity &c. 499; indiscretion &c.
(rashness) 863; thoughtlessness &c. (inattention) 458 (neglect) 460;
sabotage.
mismanagement, misconduct; impolicy[obs3]; maladministration;
misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance; petticoat
government.
absence of rule, rule of thumb; bungling &c. v.;
failure &c. 732; screw loose: too many cooks.
blunder &c. (mistake) 495; etourderie gaucherie[Fr],
act of folly, balourdise[obs3]; botch, botchery[obs3]; bad job, sad work.
sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing,
wild-goose chase.
bungler &c. 701; fool &c. 501.
V. be unskillful &c. adj.; not see an inch beyond
one's nose; blunder, bungle, boggle, fumble, botch, bitch, flounder, stumble,
trip; hobble &c. 275; put one's foot in it; make a mess of, make hash
of, make sad work of; overshoot the mark.
play tricks with, play Puck, mismanage, misconduct,
misdirect, misapply, missend.
stultify oneself, make a fool of oneself, commit oneself;
act foolishly; play the fool; put oneself out of court; lose control, lose
control of oneself, lose one's head, lose one's cunning.
begin at the wrong end; do things by halves &c.
(not complete) 730; make two bites of a cherry; play at cross purposes;
strain at a gnat and swallow a camel &c. (caprice) 608; put the cart
before the horse; lock the stable door when the horse is stolen &c.
(too late) 135.
not know what one is about, not know one's own interest,
not know on which side one's bread is buttered; stand in one's own light,
quarrel with one's bread and butter, throw a stone in one's own garden,
kill the goose which lays the golden eggs, pay dear for one's whistle,
cut one's own throat, bum one's fingers; knock one's head against a stone
wall, beat one's head against a stone wall; fall into a trap, catch a Tartar,
bring the house about one's ears; have too many eggs in one basket (imprudent)
863, have too many irons in the fire.
mistake &c. 495; take the shadow for the substance
&c. (credulity) 486; bark up the wrong tree; be in the wrong box, aim
at a pigeon and kill a crow; take the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong
pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear, get the dirty end of the
stick; put the saddle on the wrong horse, put a square peg into a round
hole, put new wine into old bottles.
cut blocks with a razor; hold a farthing candle to
the sun &c. (useless) 645; fight with a shadow, grasp at a shadow;
catch at straws, lean on a broken reed, reckon without one's host, pursue
a wild goose chase; go on a fool's goose chase, sleeveless errand; go further
and fare worse; lose one's way, miss one's way; fail &c. 732.
Adj. unskillful &c. 698; inexpert; bungling &c.v.;
awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit; left-handed, heavy-handed;
slovenly, slatternly; gawky.
adrift, at fault.
inapt, unapt; inhabile[Fr]; untractable[obs3], unteachable;
giddy &c. (inattentive) 458; inconsiderate &c. (neglectful) 460;
stupid &c. 499; inactive &c. 683; incompetent; unqualified, disqualified,
ill-qualified; unfit; quackish; raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of
practice.
unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c. 537, uninitiated,
unconversant &c. (ignorant) 491[obs3]; shiftless; unstatesmanlike.
unadvised; ill-advised, misadvised; ill-devised, ill-imagined,
ill- judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted; unguided, misguided; misconducted,
foolish, wild; infelicitous; penny wise and pound foolish &c. (inconsistent)
608.
Phr. one's fingers being all thumbs; the right hand
forgets its cunning; il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau[Fr]; incidit
in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim[Lat]; out of the frying pan into the
fire; non omnia possumus omnes [Lat][Vergil].
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[Absence of right.] Undueness.
N. undueness &c. adj.; malum prohibitum[Lat]; impropriety;
illegality &c. 964.
falseness &c. adj.; emptiness of title, invalidity
of title; illegitimacy.
loss of right, disfranchisement, forfeiture.
usurpation, tort, violation, breach, encroachment,
presumption, assumption, seizure; stretch, exaction, imposition, lion's
share.
usurper, pretender.
V. be undue &c. adj.; not be due &c. 924.
infringe, encroach, trench on, exact; arrogate, arrogate
to oneself; give an inch and take an ell; stretch a point, strain a point;
usurp, violate, do violence to.
disfranchise, disentitle, disqualify; invalidate.
relax &c. (be lax) 738; misbehave &c. (vice)
945; misbecome[obs3].
Adj. undue; unlawful &c. (illegal) 964; unconstitutional;
illicit; unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed[obs3], unsanctioned,
unjustified; unentitled[obs3], disentitled, unqualified, disqualified;
unprivileged, unchartered.
illegitimate, bastard, spurious, supposititious, false;
usurped.
tortious [Law].
undeserved, unmerited, unearned; unfulfilled.
forfeited, disfranchised.
improper; unmeet, unfit, unbefitting, unseemly; unbecoming,
misbecoming[obs3]; seemless[obs3]; contra bonos mores[Lat]; not the thing,
out of the question, not to be thought of; preposterous, pretentious, would-be.
Phr. filius nullius.
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