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Usage

• Machiavellian

  If you describe someone as Machiavellian, you disapprove of him because he uses clever tricks and other dishonest methods to achieve his aims, especially in politics.

• nonpartisan

  A person or group is nonpartisan when it does not support the ideas of any particular political party or group.

• spartan

  A spartan lifestyle is very simple and severe; it has no luxuries or comforts.

• epicurean

  Someone who is epicurean derives great pleasure in material and sensual things, especially good food and drink.

• protean

  Something or someone that is protean is adaptable, variable, or changeable in nature.

• sylvan

  The adjective sylvan describes things that are related to forests or trees.

• antediluvian

  Something antediluvian is so old or old-fashioned that it seems to belong to a much earlier period in history.

• gargantuan

  Something gargantuan is extremely large.

• pedestrian

  If you describe something as pedestrian, you think that it is ordinary and not interesting.

• metropolitan

  A metropolitan area contains a very large city.

• subterranean

  A subterranean place is underground or below the earth, often hidden or secret.

• urban

  An urban setting is in or characteristic of a city.

• cosmopolitan

  A cosmopolitan area represents large cultural diversity and people from around the globe; a cosmopolitan person is broad-minded and wise in the ways of the world.

• empyrean

  The empyrean is another word for the sky or for the heavens.