#definition
- Even more / Harder — A popular adverbial term used regionally (mainly in Muntenia and Moldova) to express superiority, increased intensity, or emphasis. It is used almost exclusively in the comparative construction 'mai abitir', meaning 'harder', 'more', 'fiercer', or 'all the more'.
- Habitual / Customary — A quality designating a fact, behavior, or action that has become a constant habit, an established custom, or a regularly repeated routine; habitual, customary, ingrained. In early philosophical contexts, it qualifies a permanent internal disposition of the mind.
- Despicable / Vile — A quality designating a person, act, or attitude of a base nature, completely devoid of dignity, honor, or moral scruples; causing profound revulsion, contempt, disgust, or loathing through its wickedness or baseness.
- Ablutomania — A psychological or behavioral disorder characterized by an obsessive, compulsive, and exaggerated tendency to wash one's body or hands repeatedly. It frequently manifests as an elaborate ritual within obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), driven by intense anxiety related to germs, dirt, or contamination.
- Abnegation / Self-denial — Complete devotion, altruism, and spirit of voluntary sacrifice that leads a person to entirely relinquish their own interests, desires, rights, or personality to serve a noble cause, a high idea, or to ensure the well-being of others.
- Self-sacrificing / Devoted — Quality of a person or an action characterized by self-sacrifice; full of devotion, always ready for self-denial, profoundly altruistic, entirely dedicated to an idea, mission, or the public good.
- Abnormal / Anomalous — A quality designating a fact, behavior, state, or phenomenon that deviates from the norm, rule, or standard state of normality; abnormal, unusual, irregular, or uncommon. It represents a neologism less frequent than its modern equivalent 'anormal'.
- Abnormality / Anomaly — The state, quality, or character of being abnormal; a clear deviation from the norm, rule, or the natural and customary state of things. In older academic or philosophical writings, the term is used as a learned variant of the noun 'anormalitate'.
- Abolished / Repealed — A quality designating a law, custom, privilege, or institution that has been officially abolished, annulled, or suppressed through a legislative act or an authoritative decree. It derives from the past participle of the verb 'to abolish'.
- Abominable / Detestable — A quality designating an act, behavior, or situation of extreme cruelty, wickedness, or baseness, which arouses profound revulsion, horror, disgust, or public opprobrium; horrific, monstrous, dreadful.
- Subscriber — A person or entity that holds a subscription based on a contract to regularly receive a service (publications, telecommunications, transport); (adjectival) registered for a periodic service or frequently visiting a specific place.
- Subscriber — A female person or a registered entity holding a subscription based on a contract to regularly receive a service; (adjectival) registered for a periodic service or frequently visiting a specific place.
- Abounding — The act of abounding or its result; a rare or obsolete term used to describe the process of accumulating in very large quantities or overflowing.
- Abounded — That existed in large quantities; a rare, literary, or regional past participle form used to express the state of being flooded, overwhelmed, or filled with plenty.
- Nauseating — An extremely rare term with an archaic or regional character, originating from the verb 'a aborî' (an old phonetic variant for throwing up / vomiting); it indicates the state of an object soiled with vomit or, figuratively and pejoratively, an object or situation that causes profound physical repulsion, extreme nausea, or deep disgust.
- Approach — The act of docking or touching the shore or another vessel (maritime term); (in medicine/surgery) the approach, technical modality, or anatomical pathway chosen by a surgeon to reach an organ, lesion, or blood vessel during an operation; (figurative, literary) a way of approaching, tackling, or handling a problem, a subject, or a person.
- Approachable — Easy to communicate with, friendly, sociable, benevolent, and open to dialogue (of people); capable of being understood, learned, or gone through without major difficulties (of texts, theories, subjects); having a moderate, reasonable, or convenient price, being financially accessible (of products, services, prices); (in a geographical or technical sense) easily reached, physically accessible.
- Ship boarding — An archaic, early, or regional form used in 19th-century legal-maritime language to denote the act of boarding or collision (the intentional or accidental crashing of two vessels); an obsolete term also used to describe the tax, process, or legal dispute resulting from a naval collision in territorial waters.
- Boarding — An attack executed at sea by forcing a vessel alongside an enemy ship and securing it to allow the crew to board and capture it through hand-to-hand combat; a mechanical collision, whether intentional or accidental, between two moving vessels on a navigable waterway; (figurative, modern sense) a sudden, direct, or bold approach toward a person in order to secure a favor, information, or an immediate interaction.
- Approach — The act of approaching a person, a problem, or a situation; a method, perspective, strategy, or conceptual angle adopted to study, analyze, treat, or solve a theoretical or practical matter; a specific modality of initial social interaction or interpersonal communication; (technical or maritime sense) the process of physical approach and guidance toward a fixed contact point, such as a shore, runway, or another vessel.