Related Words:
- tenuous
collapse - very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"
- having thin consistency; "a tenuous fluid" related words >
- adulterated,
- aerial,
- air-built,
- airy,
- aloof,
- atomic,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- boyish,
- broken,
- chimerical,
- cloud-built,
- corpuscular,
- cut,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- detached,
- diaphanous,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- discrete,
- doubtful,
- dreamlike,
- dubious,
- embryonic,
- ethereal,
- evanescent,
- fanciful,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feeble,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- gapped,
- gaseous,
- gauzy,
- germinal,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- gracile,
- granular,
- hazy,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- impalpable,
- imperceptible,
- imponderable,
- inappreciable,
- incoherent,
- inconsistent,
- indiscernible,
- infinitesimal,
- insignificant,
- insubstantial,
- intangible,
- invisible,
- lacy,
- light,
- microcosmic,
- microscopic,
- misty,
- molecular,
- nebulous,
- negligible,
- nonadherent,
- nonadhesive,
- noncoherent,
- noncohesive,
- open,
- paltry,
- papery,
- phantomlike,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- reedy,
- shadowy,
- shaky,
- sketchy,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- small,
- spirituous,
- subatomic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinned,
- thinned-out,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- trifling,
- twiggy,
- ultramicroscopic,
- unadhesive,
- uncoherent,
- uncohesive,
- uncompact,
- uncompressed,
- unconnected,
- unjoined,
- unreal,
- unseeable,
- unsubstantial,
- untenacious,
- vague,
- vaporous,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- willowy,
- windy,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy
- air-built,
- airy,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- bubbly,
- capillary,
- cheap-jack,
- chimerical,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- cloud-built,
- cobwebby,
- crumbly,
- crystal,
- crystal-clear,
- crystalline,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diaphane,
- diaphanous,
- downy,
- dreamlike,
- effeminate,
- ethereal,
- fanciful,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feathery,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- flagelliform,
- flimsy,
- flossy,
- fluffy,
- foamy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- frothy,
- funicular,
- fuzzy,
- gaseous,
- gauzy,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamer,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imponderous,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- leger,
- ligamental,
- light,
- light as air,
- light-pervious,
- lighter than vanity,
- lightweight,
- limpid,
- lucid,
- mousse,
- namby-pamby,
- nonopaque,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- peekaboo,
- pellucid,
- phantomlike,
- pubescent,
- puny,
- rarefied,
- refined,
- revealing,
- ropy,
- satin,
- satiny,
- see-through,
- shadowy,
- shattery,
- sheer,
- silky,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- smooth,
- souffle,
- spirituous,
- stringy,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- tacky,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-spun,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- transparent,
- transpicuous,
- unclouded,
- unheavy,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- vaporous,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- volatile,
- weightless,
- windy,
- wiredrawn,
- wiry,
- wispy,
- womanish,
- yeasty
- fuzzy
collapse
- confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out; "a vague and fuzzy idea of the world of finance" related words >
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- amorphic,
- amorphous,
- anarchic,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- baggy,
- blear,
- bleared,
- bleary,
- blind,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- bristly,
- broad,
- bushy,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- characterless,
- cirrose,
- clear as mud,
- cloudy,
- confused,
- dainty,
- dark,
- delicate,
- dim,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- distorted,
- downy,
- faint,
- feathery,
- featureless,
- feeble,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- fleecy,
- flocculent,
- flossy,
- fluffy,
- foggy,
- formless,
- frizzy,
- furry,
- gauzy,
- general,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- hairy,
- half-seen,
- half-visible,
- hazy,
- hirsute,
- hispid,
- hit-or-miss,
- ill-defined,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconspicuous,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- indistinguishable,
- inexact,
- inform,
- kaleidoscopic,
- lanate,
- lax,
- loose,
- low-profile,
- lumpen,
- matted,
- merely glimpsed,
- misty,
- muddy,
- murky,
- nappy,
- nebulous,
- nondescript,
- nonspecific,
- obscure,
- opaque,
- orderless,
- out of focus,
- pale,
- peachy,
- pilose,
- pinnate,
- pubescent,
- random,
- refined,
- satin,
- satiny,
- semivisible,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shagged,
- shaggy,
- shapeless,
- silky,
- smooth,
- stochastic,
- sweeping,
- thin-spun,
- transcendent,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unplain,
- unrecognizable,
- unshorn,
- unspecified,
- vague,
- veiled,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- weak,
- wiredrawn,
- woolly
- deaden
collapse
- convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
- become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
- lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
- make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine" related words >
- KO,
- abate,
- absorb the shock,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- anesthetize,
- appease,
- assuage,
- attemper,
- attenuate,
- baffle,
- bank the fire,
- bedaze,
- benumb,
- besot,
- blunt,
- break the fall,
- chasten,
- chloroform,
- coldcock,
- constrain,
- control,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- cushion,
- damp,
- dampen,
- de-emphasize,
- deaden the pain,
- deafen,
- debilitate,
- desensitize,
- devitalize,
- diminish,
- dope,
- downplay,
- drug,
- dull,
- ease,
- ease matters,
- enervate,
- enfeeble,
- etherize,
- eviscerate,
- exhaust,
- extenuate,
- foment,
- freeze,
- give relief,
- gruel,
- kayo,
- keep within bounds,
- knock out,
- knock senseless,
- knock stiff,
- knock unconscious,
- lay,
- lay low,
- lay out,
- lenify,
- lessen,
- lighten,
- lull,
- mat,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modulate,
- mollify,
- muffle,
- mull,
- mute,
- narcotize,
- neutralize,
- numb,
- obtund,
- offset,
- pad,
- palliate,
- palsy,
- paralyze,
- play down,
- poultice,
- pour balm into,
- pour oil on,
- put to sleep,
- rattle,
- reduce,
- reduce the temperature,
- relieve,
- restrain,
- salve,
- sap,
- shake,
- shake up,
- show consideration,
- show mercy,
- show pity,
- slacken,
- slake,
- slow down,
- smother,
- sober,
- sober down,
- soft-pedal,
- soften,
- soften the blow,
- soften up,
- soothe,
- stifle,
- stop,
- stun,
- stupe,
- stupefy,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- tame,
- temper,
- tone down,
- tune down,
- unbrace,
- undermine,
- underplay,
- unman,
- unnerve,
- unstrengthen,
- unstring,
- weaken
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