💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Procrustesian"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| procrustean | Enforcing strict conformity through disregard of individual differences or special circumstances. |
| procrustesnoun | (Greek mythology) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut off their legs to adapt them to its length. |
| proptosisnoun | exophthalmos |
| proclitic | (linguistics) A clitic that joins with the following word phonetically, graphically, or both. |
| proceptionnoun | (biology) Sexual behaviour that leads to conception. The term “proceptivity” was introduced into general sexological use by Frank A. Beach in 1976 |
| procerusnoun | (anatomy) A roughly triangular facial muscle that arises from the fascia of the nasal bone and a cartilage in the side of the nose and inserts into the skin between the eyebrows, drawing down the medial part of the eyebrow and the skin of the forehead. |
| proctologicnoun | Relating to proctology. |
| proctodaeumnoun | Alternative spelling of proctodeum. [The back ectodermal part of an alimentary canal.] |
| prothetic | (linguistics) of, relating to, or involving prothesis |
| prolationnoun | (music) The relative time value of a minim to a semibreve in medieval music. |
| proctoscopenoun | A tube-like instrument, equipped with a light, used to examine the rectum. |
| prostylenoun | A building having pillars only along the front side |
| subcrustal | (geology) Underneath the crust (of the Earth). |
| prochorusnoun | — |
| proterozoicnoun | (geology) The eon from 2,500 Ma to 541.0±1.0 Ma, the beginning of the Phanerozoic, marked by the build up of oxygen in the atmosphere and the emergence of primitive multicellular life. |
| protrepticnoun | A didactic speech, book, etc. |
| proleptic | Anticipatory; prescient or forward-looking. |
| procoelous | Hollowed or cupped in front. |
| prophasenoun | The first stage of mitosis, during which chromatin condenses to form the chromosomes. |
| diastrophismnoun | (geology) The deformation of the Earth's crust to form the continents, mountains and other large features |
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