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- black humor
collapse - the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect related words >
- comeliness
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- the quality of being good looking and attractive related words >
- Atticism,
- agreeability,
- agreeableness,
- appropriateness,
- becomingness,
- bonniness,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clearness,
- correctness,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- ease,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- fairness,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- good taste,
- goodliness,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- limpidity,
- lucidity,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- pellucidity,
- personableness,
- perspicuity,
- plainness,
- pleasingness,
- polish,
- propriety,
- purity,
- refinement,
- restraint,
- seemliness,
- sightliness,
- simplicity,
- smoothness,
- straightforwardness,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- terseness,
- unaffectedness
- Atticism,
- agile wit,
- black humor,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- comedy,
- dry wit,
- esprit,
- farce,
- hatchet job,
- hit off on,
- humor,
- imitation,
- irony,
- malicious parody,
- mock,
- mockery,
- nimble wit,
- parody,
- pasquil,
- pasquin,
- pasquinade,
- pastiche,
- pleasantry,
- poison pen,
- pretty wit,
- put down,
- quick wit,
- ready wit,
- ridicule,
- run down,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satirize,
- savor of wit,
- send up,
- skewer,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- squib,
- subtle wit,
- take off,
- take off on,
- take-off,
- takeoff,
- travesty,
- visual humor,
- wicked imitation,
- wit
- sarcasm
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- witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift related words >
- Atticism,
- acerbity,
- acridity,
- acridness,
- acrimony,
- agile wit,
- asperity,
- bitterness,
- black humor,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- causticity,
- comedy,
- contumely,
- corrosiveness,
- cynicism,
- derision,
- disdain,
- dry wit,
- esprit,
- farce,
- gibe,
- harshness,
- humor,
- innuendo,
- invective,
- irony,
- jest,
- lampoon,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- maliciousness,
- mockery,
- nimble wit,
- parody,
- pleasantry,
- poison,
- poisonousness,
- pretty wit,
- quick wit,
- raillery,
- rancor,
- ready wit,
- repartee,
- ridicule,
- salt,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- savor of wit,
- scorn,
- sharpness,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- sneering,
- spite,
- spitefulness,
- squib,
- subtle wit,
- travesty,
- venom,
- venomousness,
- virulence,
- visual humor,
- wit
- squib
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- firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise related words >
- Atticism,
- agile wit,
- black humor,
- blasting cap,
- burlesque,
- cap,
- caricature,
- comedy,
- detonating powder,
- detonator,
- dry wit,
- electric detonator,
- esprit,
- exploder,
- farce,
- fulminating mercury,
- fuse,
- hatchet job,
- humor,
- imitation,
- irony,
- lampoon,
- malicious parody,
- mercury fulminate,
- mockery,
- nimble wit,
- parody,
- pasquil,
- pasquin,
- pasquinade,
- pastiche,
- percussion cap,
- pleasantry,
- poison pen,
- pretty wit,
- primacord,
- primer,
- priming,
- quick wit,
- ready wit,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- savor of wit,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- subtle wit,
- takeoff,
- travesty,
- visual humor,
- wicked imitation,
- wit
- neatness
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- the state of being neat and smart and trim related words >
- Atticism,
- anality,
- apple-pie order,
- appropriateness,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- chic,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clearness,
- clothes-consciousness,
- comeliness,
- correctness,
- coxcombry,
- dandyism,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discipline,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- ease,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- fine fettle,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- foppery,
- foppishness,
- good condition,
- good shape,
- good taste,
- good trim,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- jauntiness,
- limpidity,
- lucidity,
- method,
- methodicalness,
- methodology,
- nattiness,
- naturalness,
- orderliness,
- pellucidity,
- perspicuity,
- plainness,
- polish,
- propriety,
- purity,
- refinement,
- restraint,
- seemliness,
- sharpness,
- simplicity,
- sleekness,
- smartness,
- smoothness,
- spiffiness,
- straightforwardness,
- system,
- systematicness,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- terseness,
- tidiness,
- trimness,
- unaffectedness
- irony
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- incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
- a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs related words >
- Atticism,
- Janus,
- agile wit,
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- antinomy,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- black humor,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- causticity,
- comedy,
- complexity of meaning,
- conjugation,
- cynicism,
- dichotomy,
- double entendre,
- double meaning,
- double reference,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dry wit,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- duplicity,
- equivocacy,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- esprit,
- farce,
- halving,
- humor,
- innuendo,
- invective,
- lampoon,
- levels of meaning,
- multivocality,
- nimble wit,
- oxymoron,
- pairing,
- paradox,
- parody,
- paronomasia,
- pleasantry,
- polarity,
- polysemousness,
- polysemy,
- pretty wit,
- punning,
- quick wit,
- ready wit,
- richness of meaning,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- savor of wit,
- self-contradiction,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- squib,
- subtle wit,
- travesty,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- uncertainty,
- visual humor,
- wit
- Atticism,
- acquired taste,
- appreciation of excellence,
- appropriateness,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- choiceness,
- civilized taste,
- civilizedness,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clearness,
- comeliness,
- correctness,
- cultivated taste,
- cultivation,
- culture,
- daintiness,
- delectability,
- delicacy,
- deliciousness,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- ease,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- excellence,
- fastidiousness,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- fine flavor,
- finesse,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flavorfulness,
- flavoriness,
- flavorousness,
- flavorsomeness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- full flavor,
- good flavor,
- goodness,
- gourmet quality,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- graciosity,
- graciousness,
- gustatory delightfulness,
- limpidity,
- lucidity,
- lusciousness,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- niceness,
- nicety,
- pellucidity,
- perspicuity,
- plainness,
- polish,
- propriety,
- purity,
- quality,
- refinement,
- restraint,
- right taste,
- sapidity,
- savoriness,
- scrumptiousness,
- seemliness,
- simplicity,
- smoothness,
- sophistication,
- straightforwardness,
- subtlety,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- tastiness,
- terseness,
- toothsomeness,
- unaffectedness
- comedy
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- light and humorous drama with a happy ending related words >
- Atticism,
- Thalia,
- agile wit,
- arlequinade,
- black comedy,
- black humor,
- bladder,
- broad comedy,
- burlesque,
- burletta,
- camp,
- cap and bells,
- caricature,
- comedie bouffe,
- comedie larmoyante,
- comedie rosse,
- comedietta,
- comedy ballet,
- comedy of humors,
- comedy of ideas,
- comedy of intrigue,
- comedy of manners,
- comedy of situation,
- comedy relief,
- comic muse,
- comic opera,
- comic relief,
- comicality,
- comicalness,
- coxcomb,
- dark comedy,
- domestic comedy,
- drollery,
- drollness,
- dry wit,
- esprit,
- exode,
- farce,
- farce comedy,
- funniness,
- genteel comedy,
- harlequinade,
- high camp,
- humor,
- humorousness,
- irony,
- lampoon,
- light comedy,
- low camp,
- low comedy,
- mime,
- motley,
- musical,
- musical comedy,
- nimble wit,
- opera buffa,
- parody,
- pleasantry,
- pretty wit,
- quick wit,
- raw comedy,
- ready wit,
- realistic comedy,
- romantic comedy,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satyr play,
- savor of wit,
- sentimental comedy,
- situation comedy,
- slapstick,
- slapstick comedy,
- slapstick humor,
- sock,
- squib,
- subtle wit,
- tragicomedy,
- travesty,
- visual humor,
- wit,
- wittiness
- chastity
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- abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) related words >
- Atticism,
- Encratism,
- Friday,
- Lenten fare,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- Shakerism,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoicism,
- absoluteness,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- appropriateness,
- asceticism,
- avoidance,
- banyan day,
- celibacy,
- chasteness,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clearness,
- comeliness,
- continence,
- correctness,
- defectlessness,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- ease,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- eschewal,
- fast,
- faultlessness,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- finish,
- fish day,
- fittingness,
- flawlessness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- forbearance,
- fruitarianism,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- guiltlessness,
- gymnosophy,
- immaculacy,
- immaculateness,
- impeccability,
- infallibility,
- innocence,
- limpidity,
- lucidity,
- maidenhead,
- maidenhood,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- nephalism,
- pellucidity,
- perfection,
- perspicuity,
- plain living,
- plainness,
- polish,
- propriety,
- purity,
- refinement,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- restraint,
- seemliness,
- self-restraint,
- sexual abstinence,
- simple diet,
- simplicity,
- sinlessness,
- smoothness,
- spare diet,
- spotlessness,
- stainlessness,
- straightforwardness,
- taintlessness,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- teetotalism,
- terseness,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- unaffectedness,
- vegetarianism,
- virginity,
- virtue
- parody
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- humorous or satirical mimicry
- a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way
- make a spoof of or make fun of related words >
- Atticism,
- agile wit,
- anamorphosis,
- ape,
- bad likeness,
- belie,
- black humor,
- botch,
- burlesque,
- camouflage,
- caricature,
- color,
- comedy,
- copy,
- copying,
- corruption,
- counterfeiting,
- daub,
- debasement,
- deride,
- disguise,
- distort,
- distortion,
- dry wit,
- dummy,
- duplication,
- emulation,
- esprit,
- exaggerate,
- facsimile,
- fakery,
- falsify,
- farce,
- fleer,
- following,
- forgery,
- garble,
- guy,
- hit off on,
- hit-off,
- humor,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- impression,
- irony,
- kid,
- knockoff,
- lampoon,
- laugh at,
- make fun of,
- mimesis,
- mimic,
- mimicry,
- mirroring,
- miscolor,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misstate,
- misteach,
- mock,
- mock-up,
- mockery,
- model,
- nimble wit,
- onomatopoeia,
- overdraw,
- overstate,
- paraphrase,
- pastiche,
- perversion,
- pervert,
- pillory,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- pleasantry,
- poke fun at,
- poor imitation,
- pretty wit,
- quick wit,
- ready wit,
- repetition,
- replica,
- representation,
- reproduction,
- rib,
- ridicule,
- roast,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satirize,
- savor of wit,
- scoff at,
- scratch,
- scribble,
- send up,
- simulation,
- slant,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- sneer at,
- spoof,
- squib,
- subtle wit,
- take off,
- take off on,
- take-off,
- takeoff,
- tease,
- travesty,
- twist,
- twit,
- understate,
- version,
- visual humor,
- warp,
- wicked imitation,
- wit,
- wrench
- slapstick
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- acoustic device consisting of two paddles hinged together; used by an actor to make a loud noise without inflicting injury when striking someone
- a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes
- characterized by horseplay and physical action; "slapstick style of humor" related words >
- Atticism,
- Thalia,
- acting,
- agile wit,
- arlequinade,
- black comedy,
- black humor,
- bladder,
- broad,
- broad comedy,
- buffoonery,
- burlesque,
- burletta,
- business,
- camp,
- campy,
- cap and bells,
- caricature,
- characterization,
- comedie bouffe,
- comedie larmoyante,
- comedie rosse,
- comedietta,
- comedy,
- comedy ballet,
- comedy of humors,
- comedy of ideas,
- comedy of intrigue,
- comedy of manners,
- comedy of situation,
- comedy relief,
- comic,
- comic muse,
- comic opera,
- comic relief,
- comical,
- coxcomb,
- dark comedy,
- domestic comedy,
- dry wit,
- esprit,
- exode,
- farce,
- farce comedy,
- farcical,
- gag,
- genteel comedy,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- harlequinade,
- high camp,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- humor,
- impersonation,
- irony,
- lampoon,
- light,
- light comedy,
- low camp,
- low comedy,
- mime,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- mock-heroic,
- motley,
- mummery,
- musical,
- musical comedy,
- nimble wit,
- opera buffa,
- overacting,
- pantomiming,
- parody,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- playacting,
- playing,
- pleasantry,
- portrayal,
- pretty wit,
- projection,
- quick wit,
- raw comedy,
- ready wit,
- realistic comedy,
- representation,
- romantic comedy,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satyr play,
- savor of wit,
- sentimental comedy,
- situation comedy,
- slapstick comedy,
- slapstick humor,
- sock,
- squib,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stunt,
- subtle wit,
- taking a role,
- tragicomedy,
- tragicomic,
- travesty,
- visual humor,
- wit
- directness
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- trueness of course toward a goal; "rivaling a hawk in directness of aim" related words >
- Atticism,
- appropriateness,
- artlessness,
- austerity,
- baldness,
- bareness,
- bluffness,
- bluntness,
- broadness,
- brusqueness,
- candidness,
- candor,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- childlikeness,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clear-cutness,
- clearness,
- coherence,
- comeliness,
- common speech,
- connectedness,
- consistency,
- correctness,
- crystallinity,
- definition,
- dignity,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- ease,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- explicitness,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flatness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- forthrightness,
- frankness,
- freedom,
- freeness,
- genuineness,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- guilelessness,
- homespun,
- horizontalness,
- household words,
- inartificiality,
- ingenuousness,
- innocence,
- leanness,
- limpidity,
- lineality,
- linearity,
- lucidity,
- matter-of-factness,
- naiveness,
- naivete,
- naivety,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- openheartedness,
- openness,
- outspokenness,
- pellucidity,
- perspicuity,
- plain English,
- plain dealing,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- plainspokenness,
- polish,
- propriety,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- purity,
- rectilinearity,
- refinement,
- restrainedness,
- restraint,
- roundness,
- rustic style,
- seemliness,
- severity,
- simpleheartedness,
- simplemindedness,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- sincerity,
- single-heartedness,
- single-mindedness,
- singleness of heart,
- smoothness,
- soberness,
- spareness,
- starkness,
- straightforwardness,
- straightness,
- structure,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- terseness,
- transparency,
- transpicuity,
- trustfulness,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unaffectedness,
- unambiguousness,
- unassumingness,
- unconstraint,
- unequivocalness,
- unguardedness,
- unimaginativeness,
- unmistakableness,
- unpoeticalness,
- unpretentiousness,
- unreserve,
- unrestraint,
- unsophisticatedness,
- unsophistication,
- unsuspiciousness,
- unswervingness,
- unwariness,
- vernacular,
- verticalness
- clarity
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- free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression related words >
- Atticism,
- accuracy,
- admission of light,
- appropriateness,
- articulateness,
- articulation,
- atmospheric visibility,
- care,
- ceiling,
- ceiling unlimited,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clear coast,
- clear road,
- clear-cutness,
- clearness,
- coherence,
- comeliness,
- comprehensibility,
- connectedness,
- consistency,
- conspicuity,
- conspicuousness,
- correctitude,
- correctness,
- crystal-clearness,
- crystallinity,
- definiteness,
- definition,
- diaphaneity,
- diaphanousness,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- ease,
- easiness,
- easy going,
- effortlessness,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- evidence,
- evidentness,
- exactitude,
- explicitness,
- facileness,
- facility,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- filminess,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- freedom,
- fussiness,
- gauziness,
- glassiness,
- glasslikeness,
- good taste,
- gossameriness,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- high visibility,
- highroad,
- intelligibility,
- lack of hindrance,
- limpidity,
- low visibility,
- lucidity,
- manifestness,
- meticulousness,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- nicety,
- nonopacity,
- obviousness,
- patentness,
- pellucidity,
- percipi,
- perspicuity,
- plain English,
- plain sailing,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plainness,
- plane sailing,
- polish,
- precision,
- prominence,
- propriety,
- purity,
- refinement,
- restraint,
- royal road,
- seeing,
- seemliness,
- sheerness,
- show-through,
- simplicity,
- smooth road,
- smooth sailing,
- smoothness,
- straight sailing,
- straightforwardness,
- structure,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- terseness,
- thinness,
- transmission of light,
- transparence,
- transparency,
- transpicuity,
- transpicuousness,
- unadorned style,
- unaffectedness,
- unambiguousness,
- uncloudedness,
- uncomplexity,
- uncomplicatedness,
- understandability,
- unequivocalness,
- unmistakableness,
- visibility unlimited,
- visibility zero,
- vitreosity,
- vitreousness,
- vitrescence
- pleasantry
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- an agreeable or amusing remark; "they exchange pleasantries" related words >
- Atticism,
- affability,
- agile wit,
- agreeability,
- agreeableness,
- amenity,
- amiability,
- amicability,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- badinage,
- banter,
- black humor,
- bliss,
- blissfulness,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliance,
- brilliant idea,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- chaff,
- cleverness,
- comedy,
- compatibility,
- complaisance,
- conceit,
- congeniality,
- cordiality,
- crack,
- dry wit,
- enjoyableness,
- epigram,
- esprit,
- exchange,
- facetiae,
- facetiousness,
- farce,
- felicitousness,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- funniness,
- geniality,
- gibe,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- goodliness,
- goodness,
- graciousness,
- happy thought,
- harmless teasing,
- harmoniousness,
- humor,
- humorousness,
- irony,
- jape,
- jest,
- jive,
- jocoseness,
- jocularity,
- joke,
- joking,
- josh,
- joshing,
- keen-wittedness,
- keenness,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- lampoon,
- mellifluousness,
- mellowness,
- mot,
- nasty crack,
- niceness,
- nimble wit,
- nimble-wittedness,
- parody,
- persiflage,
- play of wit,
- pleasance,
- pleasantness,
- pleasingness,
- pleasurability,
- pleasurableness,
- pleasure,
- pleasurefulness,
- pretty wit,
- pungency,
- quick wit,
- quick-wittedness,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- rapport,
- ready wit,
- repartee,
- retort,
- ridicule,
- riposte,
- sally,
- salt,
- saltiness,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- savor of wit,
- scintillation,
- sharpness,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- smartness,
- snappy comeback,
- sport,
- squib,
- stroke of wit,
- subtle wit,
- sweetness,
- travesty,
- turn of thought,
- twit,
- visual humor,
- welcomeness,
- wisecrack,
- wit,
- witticism,
- wittiness
- lucidity
collapse
- a lucid state of mind; not confused related words >
- Atticism,
- ESP,
- admission of light,
- appropriateness,
- balance,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- clairsentience,
- clairvoyance,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clear-cutness,
- clearness,
- coherence,
- comeliness,
- comprehensibility,
- connectedness,
- consistency,
- contact with reality,
- correctness,
- crystal-clearness,
- crystallinity,
- definition,
- diaphaneity,
- diaphanousness,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- ease,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- explicitness,
- extrasensory perception,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- filminess,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- foresight,
- gauziness,
- glassiness,
- glasslikeness,
- good taste,
- gossameriness,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- healthy mind,
- insight,
- intelligibility,
- intuition,
- lightness,
- limpidity,
- lucence,
- lucency,
- lucid interval,
- luminosity,
- luminousness,
- marbles,
- mental balance,
- mental equilibrium,
- mental health,
- mental hygiene,
- mental poise,
- mind,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- nonopacity,
- normalcy,
- normality,
- normalness,
- pellucidity,
- perspicuity,
- plain English,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plainness,
- polish,
- premonition,
- propriety,
- psychometry,
- purity,
- rationality,
- reason,
- reasonableness,
- refinement,
- restraint,
- right mind,
- sanemindedness,
- saneness,
- sanity,
- second sight,
- seemliness,
- senses,
- sheerness,
- show-through,
- simplicity,
- sixth sense,
- smoothness,
- sober senses,
- sobriety,
- sound mind,
- soundness,
- soundness of mind,
- straightforwardness,
- structure,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- terseness,
- thinness,
- translucence,
- translucency,
- translucidity,
- transmission of light,
- transparence,
- transparency,
- transpicuity,
- transpicuousness,
- unadorned style,
- unaffectedness,
- unambiguousness,
- uncloudedness,
- understandability,
- unequivocalness,
- unmistakableness,
- vitreosity,
- vitreousness,
- vitrescence,
- wholesomeness,
- wit
- travesty
collapse
- make a travesty of related words >
- Atticism,
- aggrandize,
- aggrandizement,
- agile wit,
- amplification,
- amplify,
- anamorphosis,
- ape,
- bad likeness,
- ballyhoo,
- belie,
- big talk,
- black humor,
- blowing up,
- botch,
- build up,
- burlesque,
- camouflage,
- caricature,
- carry too far,
- color,
- comedy,
- copy,
- daub,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- disguise,
- distort,
- distortion,
- draw the longbow,
- dry wit,
- dummy,
- duplication,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- esprit,
- exaggerate,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- facsimile,
- falsify,
- farce,
- garble,
- go to extremes,
- grandiloquence,
- heightening,
- hit off on,
- huckstering,
- humor,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- hyperbolize,
- imitate,
- imitation,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- irony,
- knockoff,
- lampoon,
- lay it on,
- magnification,
- magnify,
- make much of,
- mimicry,
- miscolor,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misstate,
- misteach,
- mock,
- mock-up,
- mockery,
- model,
- nimble wit,
- overcharge,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overemphasis,
- overestimate,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overpraise,
- overreach,
- overreact,
- oversell,
- overspeak,
- overstate,
- overstatement,
- overstress,
- paraphrase,
- parody,
- pastiche,
- pervert,
- pile it on,
- pleasantry,
- pretty wit,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- puff,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- quick wit,
- ready wit,
- replica,
- representation,
- reproduction,
- ridicule,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satirize,
- savor of wit,
- scratch,
- scribble,
- sensationalism,
- sham,
- slant,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- squib,
- stretch,
- stretch the truth,
- stretching,
- subtle wit,
- superlative,
- take off,
- take off on,
- takeoff,
- talk big,
- talk in superlatives,
- tall talk,
- tout,
- touting,
- twist,
- understate,
- version,
- visual humor,
- warp,
- wicked imitation,
- wit,
- wrench
- perspicuity
collapse
- clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous related words >
- Atticism,
- acuity,
- acumen,
- acuteness,
- apparentness,
- apperception,
- appropriateness,
- astuteness,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clear sight,
- clear-cutness,
- clearness,
- cogency,
- coherence,
- color vision,
- comeliness,
- cone vision,
- connectedness,
- consistency,
- correctness,
- crystal-clearness,
- crystallinity,
- day vision,
- daylight vision,
- definition,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discernment,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- ease,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- evidence,
- evidentness,
- explicitness,
- eye,
- eye-mindedness,
- eyesight,
- farseeingness,
- farsight,
- farsightedness,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- field of view,
- field of vision,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- foresight,
- foresightedness,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- horizon,
- incisiveness,
- insight,
- intelligibility,
- keen sight,
- ken,
- limpidity,
- longheadedness,
- longsightedness,
- lucidity,
- manifestness,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- night vision,
- obviousness,
- openness,
- openness to sight,
- overtness,
- palpability,
- patentness,
- pellucidity,
- penetration,
- perception,
- perceptiveness,
- percipience,
- peripheral field,
- peripheral vision,
- perspicaciousness,
- perspicacity,
- perspicuousness,
- photopia,
- plain English,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plainness,
- polish,
- power of sight,
- propriety,
- providence,
- purity,
- purview,
- quick sight,
- range,
- refinement,
- restraint,
- rod vision,
- sagaciousness,
- sagacity,
- scope,
- scotopia,
- seeing,
- seemliness,
- sense of sight,
- sensibility,
- sight,
- sightedness,
- simplicity,
- smoothness,
- straightforwardness,
- structure,
- sweep,
- tangibility,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- terseness,
- transparency,
- transpicuity,
- trenchancy,
- twilight vision,
- unadorned style,
- unaffectedness,
- unambiguousness,
- unequivocalness,
- unmistakableness,
- unobstructed vision,
- unquestionability,
- visibility,
- vision,
- visual acuity,
- visual field,
- visual sense
- farce
collapse
- a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
- fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?" related words >
- Atticism,
- Thalia,
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- agile wit,
- arlequinade,
- bagatelle,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bit,
- black comedy,
- black humor,
- brass farthing,
- broad comedy,
- burlesque,
- burletta,
- button,
- camp,
- caricature,
- cent,
- comedie bouffe,
- comedie larmoyante,
- comedie rosse,
- comedietta,
- comedy,
- comedy ballet,
- comedy of humors,
- comedy of ideas,
- comedy of intrigue,
- comedy of manners,
- comedy of situation,
- comedy relief,
- comic muse,
- comic opera,
- comic relief,
- curio,
- dark comedy,
- domestic comedy,
- dressing,
- dry wit,
- esprit,
- exode,
- farce comedy,
- farthing,
- feather,
- fig,
- fleabite,
- folderol,
- forcemeat,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- gaud,
- genteel comedy,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- hair,
- halfpenny,
- harlequinade,
- high camp,
- hill of beans,
- humor,
- imitation,
- irony,
- jest,
- joke,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- lampoon,
- light comedy,
- low camp,
- low comedy,
- mime,
- minikin,
- mock,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- musical,
- musical comedy,
- nimble wit,
- opera buffa,
- parody,
- pastiche,
- peppercorn,
- picayune,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- pleasantry,
- pretty wit,
- quick wit,
- rap,
- raw comedy,
- ready wit,
- realistic comedy,
- red cent,
- romantic comedy,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satyr play,
- savor of wit,
- sentimental comedy,
- sham,
- shit,
- situation comedy,
- slapstick,
- slapstick comedy,
- slapstick humor,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- squib,
- straw,
- stuffing,
- subtle wit,
- takeoff,
- toy,
- tragicomedy,
- travesty,
- trifle,
- trinket,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- two cents,
- twopence,
- visual humor,
- whim-wham,
- wicked imitation,
- wit
- naturalness
collapse
- the likeness of a representation to the thing represented; "engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music"
- the quality of being natural or based on natural principles; "he accepted the naturalness of death"; "the spontaneous naturalness of his manner" related words >
- Atticism,
- Bohemianism,
- abandon,
- absolute realism,
- affability,
- appropriateness,
- artlessness,
- austerity,
- authenticity,
- baldness,
- bareness,
- bona fideness,
- candor,
- casualness,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clearness,
- comeliness,
- common speech,
- common touch,
- cordiality,
- correctness,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- ease,
- easiness,
- easygoingness,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- familiarity,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- folksiness,
- frankness,
- genuineness,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- graciousness,
- health,
- homeliness,
- homespun,
- homeyness,
- honesty,
- household words,
- inartificiality,
- informality,
- informalness,
- intactness,
- irregularity,
- leanness,
- legitimacy,
- lifelikeness,
- limpidity,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- looseness,
- lucidity,
- matter-of-factness,
- natural man,
- natural state,
- naturalism,
- nature,
- naturism,
- neatness,
- normalcy,
- normality,
- normalness,
- offhandedness,
- openness,
- order,
- pellucidity,
- perspicuity,
- photographic realism,
- plain English,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- polish,
- pristineness,
- propriety,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- purity,
- realism,
- realness,
- refinement,
- regularity,
- relaxedness,
- restrainedness,
- restraint,
- rustic style,
- seemliness,
- severity,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- sincerity,
- smoothness,
- soberness,
- sociability,
- spareness,
- spontaneity,
- starkness,
- state of nature,
- straightforwardness,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- terseness,
- true-to-lifeness,
- truth to nature,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unadulteration,
- unaffectation,
- unaffectedness,
- unartificialness,
- unassumingness,
- unceremoniousness,
- unconstrainedness,
- unconstraint,
- unconventionality,
- undisguise,
- unfictitiousness,
- unimaginativeness,
- unpoeticalness,
- unpretentiousness,
- unrestraint,
- unspeciousness,
- unspoiledness,
- unspuriousness,
- unsyntheticness,
- verisimilitude,
- vernacular,
- virginity,
- wholesomeness
- caricature
collapse
- a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
- represent in or produce a caricature of; "The drawing caricatured the President" related words >
- Atticism,
- aggrandize,
- aggrandizement,
- agile wit,
- amplification,
- amplify,
- anamorphosis,
- animated cartoon,
- bad likeness,
- ballyhoo,
- belie,
- big talk,
- black humor,
- blowing up,
- bosh,
- botch,
- build up,
- bunk,
- burlesque,
- camouflage,
- carry too far,
- cartoon,
- cheat,
- clinquant,
- color,
- comedy,
- comic book,
- comic strip,
- comics,
- daub,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- disguise,
- distort,
- distortion,
- draw the longbow,
- dry wit,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- esprit,
- exaggerate,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- fake,
- falsify,
- farce,
- funnies,
- gammon,
- garble,
- go to extremes,
- grandiloquence,
- heightening,
- hit off on,
- hokum,
- huckstering,
- humor,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- hyperbolize,
- imitation,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- irony,
- lampoon,
- laughingstock,
- lay it on,
- libel,
- magnification,
- magnify,
- make much of,
- miscolor,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misstate,
- misteach,
- mock,
- mockery,
- moonshine,
- nimble wit,
- overcharge,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overemphasis,
- overestimate,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overpraise,
- overreach,
- overreact,
- oversell,
- overspeak,
- overstate,
- overstatement,
- overstress,
- parody,
- pasquinade,
- pastiche,
- pervert,
- phony,
- pile it on,
- pinchbeck,
- pleasantry,
- pretty wit,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- puff,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- quick wit,
- ready wit,
- ridicule,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satirize,
- savor of wit,
- scratch,
- scribble,
- send up,
- sensationalism,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- slant,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- spoof,
- squib,
- stretch,
- stretch the truth,
- stretching,
- subtle wit,
- superlative,
- take off,
- take off on,
- take-off,
- takeoff,
- talk big,
- talk in superlatives,
- tall talk,
- tinsel,
- tout,
- touting,
- travesty,
- twist,
- understate,
- visual humor,
- warp,
- wicked imitation,
- wit,
- wrench
- epigram
collapse
- a witty saying related words >
- Atticism,
- English sonnet,
- Horatian ode,
- Italian sonnet,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- Sapphic ode,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- abridgment,
- adage,
- alba,
- ana,
- anacreontic,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apophthegm,
- apothegm,
- axiom,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- bucolic,
- byword,
- canso,
- catchword,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- collected sayings,
- conceit,
- crack,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- dirge,
- distich,
- dithyramb,
- double entendre,
- eclogue,
- elegy,
- epic,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- equivoque,
- expression,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- gibe,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- haiku,
- happy thought,
- idyll,
- jeu de mots,
- jingle,
- limerick,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- maxim,
- monody,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- narrative poem,
- nasty crack,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- oracle,
- palinode,
- paronomasia,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- persiflage,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- play of wit,
- play on words,
- pleasantry,
- poem,
- precept,
- prescript,
- prothalamium,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- pun,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- repartee,
- retort,
- rhyme,
- riposte,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- sally,
- satire,
- saw,
- saying,
- scintillation,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sestina,
- sloka,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- stock saying,
- stroke of wit,
- sutra,
- tanka,
- teaching,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- text,
- threnody,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- turn of phrase,
- turn of thought,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- wisecrack,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- Atticism,
- English sonnet,
- Goliardic verse,
- Horatian ode,
- Hudibrastic verse,
- Italian sonnet,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- Rabelaisian,
- Sapphic ode,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- agile wit,
- alba,
- amoebean verse,
- anacreontic,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- banter,
- black humor,
- bucolic,
- burlesque,
- canso,
- caricature,
- cartoon,
- causticity,
- chaffing,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- comedy,
- concrete poetry,
- cubist poetry,
- cynicism,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- dramatic poetry,
- dry wit,
- eclogue,
- elegiac poetry,
- elegy,
- epic,
- epic poetry,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- erotic poetry,
- esprit,
- exaggeration,
- farce,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- hatchet job,
- heroic poetry,
- humor,
- idyll,
- imagist verse,
- imitation,
- innuendo,
- invective,
- irony,
- jingle,
- lampoon,
- light verse,
- limerick,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- malicious parody,
- melic poetry,
- metaphysical poetry,
- mock-heroic poetry,
- mockery,
- monody,
- narrative poem,
- narrative poetry,
- nimble wit,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- oral poetry,
- palinode,
- parody,
- pasquil,
- pasquin,
- pasquinade,
- pastiche,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- persiflage,
- pleasantry,
- poem,
- poison pen,
- polyphonic prose,
- pretty wit,
- prose poetry,
- prothalamium,
- quick wit,
- raillery,
- ready wit,
- rhyme,
- ridicule,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- runic verse,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satiric wit,
- satirical poetry,
- savor of wit,
- sestina,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- spoof,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- squib,
- stichomythia,
- subtle wit,
- symbolist verse,
- take-off,
- takeoff,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- threnody,
- travesty,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- vers de societe,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- visual humor,
- wicked imitation,
- wit
- propriety
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- correct or appropriate behavior related words >
- Atticism,
- admissibility,
- advantage,
- advantageousness,
- advisability,
- amenities,
- applicability,
- appositeness,
- appropriateness,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- auspiciousness,
- becomingness,
- beneficialness,
- bienseance,
- breeding,
- ceremony,
- chargedness,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- civilities,
- civility,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clearness,
- comeliness,
- conformity,
- convenance,
- convenience,
- convention,
- conventional usage,
- conventionalism,
- conventionality,
- correctitude,
- correctness,
- courtesy,
- criticality,
- crucialness,
- custom,
- decencies,
- decency,
- decorousness,
- decorum,
- defensibility,
- delicacy,
- desirability,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- drumhead justice,
- dueness,
- ease,
- elegance,
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- etiquette,
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- wholesomeness,
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- fluency
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- the quality of being facile in speech and writing
- skillfulness in speaking or writing related words >
- Atticism,
- abundance,
- affluence,
- afflux,
- affluxion,
- amplitude,
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- taste,
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- tide,
- tirade,
- trend,
- unaffectedness,
- undercurrent,
- undertow,
- verbosity,
- volubility,
- water flow,
- wateriness,
- windiness
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