Related Words:
- displacement
collapse - act of removing from office or employment
- to move something from its natural environment
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
- (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound related words >
- Doppler effect,
- agency,
- alienation,
- amotion,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avatar,
- avoidance mechanism,
- banishment,
- blame-shifting,
- cashiering,
- catabolism,
- catalysis,
- change,
- commutation,
- compensation,
- consubstantiation,
- decompensation,
- deconsecration,
- defense mechanism,
- defrocking,
- delegation,
- delocalization,
- deportation,
- deposal,
- deposition,
- deprivation,
- deputation,
- deputyship,
- deracination,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- dethronement,
- disarrangement,
- disarticulation,
- disbarment,
- disbarring,
- discontinuity,
- discrownment,
- disenthronement,
- disjointing,
- dislocation,
- dismissal,
- dissociation,
- draft,
- emotional insulation,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- exchange,
- excommunication,
- expulsion,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- firing,
- flight,
- forced resignation,
- forcible shift,
- heterotopia,
- impeachment,
- incoherence,
- isolation,
- kicking upstairs,
- liquidation,
- luxation,
- metabolism,
- metagenesis,
- metamorphism,
- metamorphosis,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- metempsychosis,
- movement,
- moving,
- mutant,
- mutated form,
- mutation,
- negativism,
- ostracism,
- ousting,
- overcompensation,
- overthrow,
- overthrowal,
- pensioning off,
- permutation,
- power of attorney,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- purge,
- quid pro quo,
- rationalization,
- red shift,
- reincarnation,
- relegation,
- relocation,
- remotion,
- removal,
- removement,
- replacement,
- representation,
- resistance,
- retirement,
- ripping out,
- shift,
- sinkage,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- sport,
- sublimation,
- submergence,
- submersion,
- subrogation,
- substitution,
- superannuation,
- supersedence,
- superseding,
- supersedure,
- supersession,
- supplantation,
- supplanting,
- supplantment,
- suspension,
- switch,
- tit for tat,
- transanimation,
- transfiguration,
- transfigurement,
- transformation,
- transformism,
- translation,
- translocation,
- transmigration,
- transmogrification,
- transmutation,
- transposition,
- transubstantiation,
- unchurching,
- unfrocking,
- unhinging,
- unjointing,
- unseating,
- uprooting,
- vicariousness,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal
- embryonic
collapse
- in an early stage of development; "the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"
- of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the embryonic stage"; "embryologic development" related words >
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- antenatal,
- arrested,
- atomic,
- autochthonous,
- backward,
- basal,
- basic,
- beginning,
- budding,
- callow,
- central,
- coarse,
- corpuscular,
- creative,
- crucial,
- crude,
- defective,
- deficient,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- evanescent,
- failing,
- fetal,
- formative,
- foundational,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- genetic,
- germinal,
- germinant,
- germinational,
- germinative,
- germiparous,
- gestatory,
- granular,
- hypoplastic,
- immature,
- impalpable,
- imperceptible,
- imponderable,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in ovo,
- in short supply,
- in the bud,
- in the rough,
- inadequate,
- inappreciable,
- inaugural,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incomplete,
- incunabular,
- indiscernible,
- infant,
- infantile,
- infinitesimal,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- intangible,
- introductory,
- inventive,
- invisible,
- lacking,
- larval,
- microcosmic,
- microscopic,
- missing,
- molecular,
- nascent,
- natal,
- needing,
- original,
- oversimple,
- part,
- partial,
- parturient,
- patchy,
- postnatal,
- pregnant,
- prenatal,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- primordial,
- pristine,
- procreative,
- protogenic,
- radical,
- reductionistic,
- reductive,
- rough,
- roughcast,
- roughhewn,
- rude,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrappy,
- seminal,
- short,
- shy,
- simplistic,
- sketchy,
- stunted,
- subatomic,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- ultramicroscopic,
- unblown,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- uncut,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unfashioned,
- unfinished,
- unformed,
- unhewn,
- unlabored,
- unlicked,
- unpolished,
- unprocessed,
- unrefined,
- unseeable,
- untreated,
- unworked,
- unwrought,
- ur,
- wanting
- ab ovo,
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- antenatal,
- arch,
- atavistic,
- austere,
- autochthonous,
- banner,
- bare,
- basal,
- basic,
- basilar,
- beginning,
- bodily,
- born,
- budding,
- capital,
- cardinal,
- central,
- champion,
- chaste,
- chief,
- coeval,
- congenital,
- connatal,
- connate,
- connatural,
- constituent,
- constitutional,
- constitutive,
- creative,
- crowning,
- crucial,
- dominant,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- essential,
- fetal,
- first,
- focal,
- foremost,
- formative,
- foundational,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- genetic,
- germinal,
- gestatory,
- great,
- gut,
- headmost,
- hegemonic,
- hereditary,
- homely,
- homespun,
- homogeneous,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in ovo,
- in the blood,
- in the bud,
- inaugural,
- inborn,
- inbred,
- incarnate,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- indigenous,
- indivisible,
- infant,
- infantile,
- inherited,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- innate,
- instinctive,
- instinctual,
- introductory,
- inventive,
- irreducible,
- leading,
- magisterial,
- main,
- master,
- material,
- mere,
- monolithic,
- nascent,
- natal,
- native,
- native to,
- natural,
- natural to,
- of a piece,
- of the essence,
- organic,
- original,
- overruling,
- paramount,
- parturient,
- physical,
- plain,
- postnatal,
- predominant,
- preeminent,
- pregnant,
- prenatal,
- preponderant,
- prevailing,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- primordial,
- principal,
- pristine,
- procreative,
- protogenic,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- radical,
- ranking,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- ruling,
- seminal,
- severe,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- single,
- sovereign,
- spare,
- star,
- stark,
- stellar,
- substantial,
- substantive,
- supereminent,
- temperamental,
- topflight,
- unadorned,
- uncluttered,
- underlying,
- undifferenced,
- undifferentiated,
- uniform,
- ur
- pristine
collapse
- immaculately clean and unused; "handed her his pristine white handkerchief"
- completely free from dirt or contamination; "pristine mountain snow" related words >
- aboriginal,
- ancestral,
- angelic,
- antepatriarchal,
- artless,
- atavistic,
- autochthonous,
- basal,
- basic,
- blameless,
- bright,
- callow,
- central,
- chaste,
- childlike,
- clear,
- crucial,
- dewy,
- dovelike,
- earliest,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- ever-new,
- evergreen,
- extra,
- faultless,
- first,
- firsthand,
- fledgling,
- fresh,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- genetic,
- germinal,
- green,
- guiltless,
- harmless,
- held back,
- held in reserve,
- held out,
- humanoid,
- immaculate,
- immature,
- in abeyance,
- in embryo,
- in hand,
- in ovo,
- in the clear,
- in the raw,
- inartificial,
- incorrupt,
- initial,
- innocent,
- intact,
- inviolate,
- lamblike,
- maiden,
- maidenly,
- mint,
- native,
- natural,
- neoteric,
- nestling,
- new,
- not guilty,
- offenseless,
- original,
- patriarchal,
- preadamite,
- preglacial,
- pregnant,
- prehistoric,
- prehuman,
- prelapsarian,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- primoprimitive,
- primordial,
- protogenic,
- protohistoric,
- protohuman,
- pure,
- put aside,
- put by,
- radical,
- raw,
- reproachless,
- reserve,
- rudimentary,
- sans reproche,
- saved,
- scatheless,
- seminal,
- sempervirent,
- sinless,
- spare,
- spotless,
- stored,
- suspended,
- to spare,
- unapplied,
- unbeaten,
- unbroken,
- unbruised,
- unconsumed,
- uncorrupted,
- undamaged,
- undefaced,
- undefiled,
- undeformed,
- undemolished,
- undestroyed,
- undeveloped,
- unemployed,
- unexercised,
- unexpended,
- unfaded,
- unfallen,
- unfledged,
- unhandled,
- unharmed,
- unhurt,
- unimpaired,
- uninjured,
- unlapsed,
- unmaimed,
- unmangled,
- unmarked,
- unmarred,
- unpolluted,
- unscarred,
- unscathed,
- unscratched,
- unshattered,
- unspent,
- unspoiled,
- unsullied,
- untapped,
- untarnished,
- untorn,
- untouched,
- untouched by evil,
- untried,
- untrodden,
- unused,
- unutilized,
- unwithered,
- unworn,
- vernal,
- virgin,
- virginal,
- waived,
- with clean hands,
- without reproach,
- young
- pregnant
collapse
- carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life related words >
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- abounding,
- abundant,
- allegorical,
- antenatal,
- anticipating,
- associational,
- autochthonous,
- basal,
- basic,
- beginning,
- big,
- big with child,
- big-laden,
- blooming,
- bountiful,
- breeding,
- budding,
- bursting,
- bursting out,
- carrying,
- carrying a fetus,
- central,
- charged,
- climacteric,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- consequential,
- copious,
- creative,
- critical,
- crucial,
- decisive,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- eloquent,
- embryonic,
- emergent,
- esemplastic,
- exigent,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- exuberant,
- facund,
- fecund,
- fertile,
- fetal,
- figurative,
- flourishing,
- formative,
- foundational,
- fraught,
- fructiferous,
- fruitful,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- generous,
- genetic,
- germinal,
- gestating,
- gestatory,
- gone,
- gravid,
- great,
- heavy,
- heavy with child,
- ideational,
- ideative,
- imaginative,
- important,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in ovo,
- in the bud,
- inaugural,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- indicative,
- infant,
- infantile,
- ingenious,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- inspired,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- introductory,
- inventive,
- kairotic,
- knocked up,
- loaded,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- momentous,
- nascent,
- natal,
- notional,
- original,
- originative,
- parturient,
- pithy,
- pivotal,
- plenteous,
- plentiful,
- pointed,
- postnatal,
- preggers,
- prenatal,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- primordial,
- pristine,
- procreative,
- productive,
- proliferous,
- prolific,
- protogenic,
- radical,
- readable,
- referential,
- replete,
- rich,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- seminal,
- sententious,
- shaping,
- significant,
- significative,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- superabundant,
- superfetate,
- superimpregnated,
- swarming,
- symbolic,
- teeming,
- thriving,
- transferred,
- uberous,
- up the spout,
- ur,
- visioned,
- weighty,
- with child
- primitive
collapse
- a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
- a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
- used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking" related words >
- Bronze Age man,
- Gothic,
- Hominidae,
- Iron Age man,
- Neanderthal,
- Stone Age man,
- ab ovo,
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- aborigine,
- ancestral,
- ancient,
- animal,
- antediluvian,
- antenatal,
- antepatriarchal,
- anthropoid,
- ape-man,
- archaic,
- atavistic,
- autochthon,
- autochthonous,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- basal,
- basic,
- basilar,
- beginning,
- bestial,
- brutal,
- brutish,
- budding,
- bushman,
- cave dweller,
- caveman,
- central,
- childlike,
- coarse,
- cognate,
- constituent,
- constitutive,
- creative,
- crucial,
- crude,
- derivation,
- derivative,
- doublet,
- earliest,
- earliest inhabitant,
- early,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- endemic,
- eponym,
- erstwhile,
- essential,
- etymon,
- fetal,
- first,
- first comer,
- fore,
- formative,
- former,
- fossil man,
- foundational,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- genetic,
- germinal,
- gestatory,
- gut,
- homebred,
- homegrown,
- hominid,
- humanoid,
- ill-bred,
- immemorial,
- impolite,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in ovo,
- in the bud,
- inaugural,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- indigene,
- indigenous,
- infant,
- infantile,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- introductory,
- inventive,
- late,
- local,
- local yokel,
- man of old,
- material,
- missing link,
- naive,
- nascent,
- natal,
- native,
- native-born,
- noncivilized,
- of the essence,
- old,
- olden,
- once,
- onetime,
- original,
- outlandish,
- parturient,
- past,
- patriarchal,
- persistent,
- postnatal,
- preadamite,
- preglacial,
- pregnant,
- prehistoric,
- prehistoric man,
- prehuman,
- prenatal,
- previous,
- primal,
- primary,
- primate,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive settler,
- primogenial,
- primoprimitive,
- primordial,
- prior,
- pristine,
- procreative,
- protogenic,
- protohistoric,
- protohuman,
- quondam,
- radical,
- raw,
- recent,
- root,
- rough,
- rough-and-ready,
- rude,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- savage,
- seminal,
- simple,
- simplistic,
- sometime,
- substantial,
- substantive,
- then,
- troglodyte,
- troglodytic,
- uncivil,
- uncivilized,
- uncombed,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- underived,
- underlying,
- undeveloped,
- unkempt,
- unlicked,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unschooled,
- unsophisticated,
- untamed,
- untaught,
- untrained,
- untutored,
- ur,
- vernacular,
- wild
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