Related Words:
- meander
collapse - a bend or curve, as in a stream or river related words >
- Chinese puzzle,
- Gordian knot,
- Rube Goldberg contraption,
- S-curve,
- ambages,
- amble,
- anfractuosity,
- bat around,
- bend,
- bending,
- bends,
- bow,
- bowing,
- bum,
- can of worms,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumvolution,
- coils,
- complex,
- conflexure,
- contort,
- convolution,
- corkscrew,
- count ties,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- curves,
- deflection,
- divagate,
- drift,
- err,
- excurse,
- flection,
- flex,
- flexuosity,
- flexuousness,
- flexure,
- flit,
- gad,
- gad about,
- gallivant,
- geanticline,
- geosyncline,
- go about,
- go adrift,
- go astray,
- go the rounds,
- hairpin turn,
- hit the road,
- hit the trail,
- hobo,
- inflection,
- intorsion,
- intort,
- involution,
- jaunt,
- jungle,
- knock about,
- knock around,
- knot,
- labyrinth,
- loops,
- maze,
- meandering,
- mesh,
- mess,
- mooch,
- mosey,
- nomadize,
- oxbow,
- peregrinate,
- pererrate,
- perplex,
- prowl,
- ramble,
- range,
- ravel,
- reflection,
- rivulation,
- roam,
- rove,
- run about,
- saunter,
- scallop,
- screw,
- serpentine,
- sinuation,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- slink,
- slinkiness,
- snafu,
- snake,
- snake pit,
- snakiness,
- snarl,
- straggle,
- stray,
- stroll,
- sweep,
- swirl,
- tangle,
- tangled skein,
- torsion,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- traipse,
- tramp,
- turn,
- turning,
- twine,
- twirl,
- twist,
- twist and turn,
- twisting,
- undulation,
- vagabond,
- vagabondize,
- walk the tracks,
- wander,
- wave,
- waving,
- wayfare,
- webwork,
- wheels within wheels,
- whirl,
- whorl,
- wilderness,
- wind,
- winding,
- worm,
- wring,
- zigzag
- formative
collapse
- minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function
- forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning; "a formative influence"; "a formative experience"
- capable of forming new cells and tissues; "a formative zone in developing bone"
- susceptible to alteration by development and experience; "formative years" related words >
- IC analysis,
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- accidence,
- adaptable,
- affix,
- affixation,
- allomorph,
- antenatal,
- autochthonous,
- beginning,
- behind the scenes,
- bendable,
- bending,
- bound morpheme,
- budding,
- causal,
- causative,
- compliant,
- component,
- conjugation,
- constituent,
- constitutive,
- constructive,
- creative,
- cutting,
- decisive,
- declension,
- demiurgic,
- derivation,
- determinative,
- difference of form,
- ductile,
- effectual,
- elastic,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- enclitic,
- etiological,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fetal,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formal,
- formational,
- foundational,
- free form,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- gestatory,
- giving,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in the bud,
- inaugural,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- infant,
- infantile,
- infix,
- infixation,
- inflection,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- institutive,
- integral,
- integrant,
- introductory,
- inventive,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- moldable,
- morph,
- morpheme,
- morphemic analysis,
- morphemics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- morphotic,
- nascent,
- natal,
- occasional,
- original,
- originative,
- paradigm,
- parturient,
- pivotal,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- postnatal,
- prefix,
- prefixation,
- pregnant,
- prenatal,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- proclitic,
- procreative,
- productive,
- radical,
- receptive,
- responsive,
- root,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- shapable,
- springy,
- stem,
- submissive,
- suffix,
- suffixation,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- theme,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- ur,
- whippy,
- willowy,
- word-formation,
- yielding
- receptive
collapse
- able to absorb liquid (not repellent); "the paper is ink-receptive"
- open to arguments, ideas, or change; "receptive to reason and the logic of facts"
- ready or willing to receive favorably; "receptive to the proposals" related words >
- accessible,
- acquiescent,
- adaptable,
- admissible,
- admissive,
- admissory,
- agreeable,
- alacritous,
- alert,
- alive to,
- amenable,
- amiable,
- apt,
- ardent,
- astute,
- aware,
- bendable,
- bending,
- bright,
- clever,
- cognizant,
- compliant,
- conscious,
- consenting,
- content,
- cooperative,
- cordial,
- delicate,
- disposed,
- docile,
- ductile,
- eager,
- educable,
- elastic,
- emotionable,
- enthusiastic,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fain,
- favorable,
- favorably disposed,
- favorably inclined,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formative,
- forward,
- friendly,
- game,
- generous,
- genial,
- giving,
- gracious,
- hearty,
- hospitable,
- imbibitory,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- impressive,
- in the mind,
- in the mood,
- inclined,
- influenceable,
- ingestive,
- instructable,
- intelligent,
- interested,
- intromissive,
- intromittent,
- invitatory,
- inviting,
- keen,
- liberal,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- minded,
- moldable,
- motivated,
- movable,
- neighborly,
- open,
- open-minded,
- openhearted,
- passible,
- perceptive,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- pervious,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- predisposed,
- prompt,
- prone,
- quick,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- receivable,
- receiving,
- receptible,
- recipient,
- responsive,
- ripe for instruction,
- schoolable,
- sensatory,
- sensible,
- sensile,
- sensimotor,
- sensitive,
- sensitive to,
- sensorial,
- sensorimotor,
- sensory,
- sensuous,
- sentient,
- sequacious,
- shapable,
- sharp,
- sib,
- soft,
- softhearted,
- springy,
- suasible,
- submissive,
- suggestible,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- susceptive,
- swayable,
- sympathetic,
- teachable,
- tender,
- tenderhearted,
- thirsty for knowledge,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- trainable,
- warm,
- warmhearted,
- weak,
- welcoming,
- well-disposed,
- well-inclined,
- whippy,
- willed,
- willing,
- willinghearted,
- willowy,
- yielding,
- zealous
- giving
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- disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return; "the alumni followed a program of annual giving"
- the act of giving
- the imparting of news or promises etc.; "he gave us the news and made a great show of the giving"; "giving his word of honor seemed to come too easily" related words >
- BOMFOG,
- Benthamism,
- Christian charity,
- Christian love,
- abalienation,
- adaptable,
- administration,
- agape,
- alienation,
- altruism,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- announcement,
- application,
- applying,
- assignation,
- assignment,
- bargain and sale,
- barter,
- bendable,
- bending,
- beneficence,
- benevolence,
- benevolent disposition,
- benevolentness,
- bequeathal,
- bestowal,
- bighearted,
- bigheartedness,
- bounteous,
- bountiful,
- brotherly love,
- caritas,
- cession,
- charitableness,
- charity,
- compliant,
- conferment,
- conferral,
- consignation,
- consignment,
- conveyance,
- conveyancing,
- deeding,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- demise,
- disclosure,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- do-goodism,
- dosage,
- dosing,
- ductile,
- elastic,
- enfeoffment,
- enforcing,
- exchange,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- flower power,
- forcing,
- forcing on,
- formable,
- formative,
- free,
- freehanded,
- freehearted,
- generosity,
- generous,
- goodwill,
- grace,
- gracious,
- greathearted,
- greatheartedness,
- handsome,
- hospitable,
- humanitarianism,
- impartation,
- imparting,
- impartment,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- large,
- largehearted,
- largeheartedness,
- lavish,
- lease and release,
- liberal,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- love,
- love of mankind,
- magnanimous,
- malleable,
- meting out,
- moldable,
- munificent,
- notification,
- open,
- openhanded,
- openhearted,
- philanthropism,
- philanthropy,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- prescribing,
- princely,
- profuse,
- publication,
- receptive,
- responsive,
- sale,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- settlement,
- settling,
- shapable,
- sharing,
- springy,
- stintless,
- submissive,
- supple,
- surrender,
- susceptible,
- telling,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- trading,
- transfer,
- transference,
- transmission,
- transmittal,
- ungrudging,
- unselfish,
- unsparing,
- unstinted,
- unstinting,
- utilitarianism,
- vesting,
- welfarism,
- well-disposedness,
- whippy,
- willowy,
- yielding
- yielding
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- tending to give in or surrender or agree; "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments"- V.I.Parrington
- lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure; "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber"
- inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person" related words >
- abandonment,
- abatement of differences,
- abdication,
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- acceptance,
- accommodating,
- accommodation,
- acquiescence,
- acquiescent,
- adaptable,
- adjustment,
- agreeable,
- amenable,
- arrangement,
- assent,
- bargain,
- bearing,
- bendable,
- bending,
- biddable,
- bouncy,
- cession,
- complaisance,
- compliance,
- compliant,
- composition,
- compromise,
- concession,
- consent,
- convenient,
- cop-out,
- deal,
- deference,
- desertion of principle,
- dispensation,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- docile,
- dropping out,
- ductile,
- dumping,
- elastic,
- evasion of responsibility,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- feasible,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- foolproof,
- forgoing,
- formable,
- formative,
- forswearing,
- fructiferous,
- fructification,
- fruitbearing,
- fruiting,
- fruition,
- getting rid of,
- give-and-take,
- giving,
- giving up,
- giving way,
- handing over,
- handy,
- homage,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- kneeling,
- letting go,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- manageable,
- maneuverable,
- manipulable,
- moldable,
- mushy,
- mutual concession,
- nonopposal,
- nonopposition,
- nonresistance,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- obedience,
- obedient,
- obeisance,
- obliging,
- pappy,
- passiveness,
- passivity,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- practical,
- producing,
- pulpy,
- quaggy,
- recantation,
- receptive,
- release,
- relinquishment,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- resignation,
- resigned,
- resignedness,
- resilient,
- responsive,
- retraction,
- riddance,
- rubbery,
- sacrifice,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- settlement,
- shapable,
- soft,
- spongy,
- springy,
- squashy,
- squelchy,
- squishy,
- squushy,
- subjection,
- submission,
- submissive,
- submittal,
- supineness,
- supple,
- surrender,
- susceptible,
- swearing off,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- unaustere,
- undemanding,
- understanding,
- unexacting,
- unharsh,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- unsevere,
- unstrict,
- untroublesome,
- waiver,
- whippy,
- wieldable,
- wieldy,
- willowy,
- withdrawing
- compliant
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- disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will" related words >
- abject,
- accepting,
- accommodating,
- accordant,
- acquiescent,
- acquiescing,
- active,
- adaptable,
- adapting,
- adaptive,
- adjustable,
- adjusting,
- affable,
- affirmative,
- agreeable,
- agreed,
- agreeing,
- alacritous,
- amenable,
- amiable,
- appliable,
- applicable,
- approving,
- ardent,
- assentatious,
- assenting,
- bendable,
- bending,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- complaisant,
- compliable,
- complying,
- conceding,
- concessive,
- conformable,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- consentient,
- consenting,
- constant,
- content,
- cooperative,
- decent,
- devoted,
- devout,
- disposed,
- docile,
- ductile,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- eager,
- elastic,
- endorsing,
- enthusiastic,
- exploitable,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fain,
- faithful,
- favorable,
- favorably disposed,
- favorably inclined,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formative,
- forward,
- game,
- generous,
- giving,
- gracious,
- humble,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- in the mind,
- in the mood,
- inclined,
- indulgent,
- kind,
- kindly,
- law-abiding,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- loyal,
- malleable,
- manipulable,
- meek,
- meticulous,
- minded,
- mindful,
- moldable,
- nondissenting,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- nothing loath,
- obedient,
- obliging,
- observant,
- operable,
- other-directed,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- passive,
- permissive,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- practical,
- practicing,
- predisposed,
- prompt,
- prone,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- quick,
- ratifying,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- receptive,
- reconciled,
- regardful,
- resigned,
- responsive,
- reusable,
- sanctioning,
- scrupulous,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- servile,
- shapable,
- springy,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- supine,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- true,
- unassertive,
- uncomplaining,
- ungrudging,
- unloath,
- unrefusing,
- unreluctant,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- usable,
- utilizable,
- well-disposed,
- well-inclined,
- whippy,
- willed,
- willing,
- willinghearted,
- willowy,
- yielding,
- zealous
- devious
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- deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading; "used devious means to achieve success"; "gave oblique answers to direct questions"; "oblique political maneuvers"
- characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes" related words >
- Byzantine,
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- ambagious,
- amoral,
- anfractuous,
- artful,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- balled up,
- bending,
- calculating,
- canny,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- conscienceless,
- convoluted,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- crabbed,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- curving,
- daedal,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- designing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- diverting,
- double-dealing,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- elaborate,
- embrangled,
- entangled,
- errant,
- erratic,
- erring,
- evasive,
- excursive,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fouled up,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- helical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- implicated,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- intricate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- knotted,
- knowing,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- left-handed,
- lonesome,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- messed up,
- misleading,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- multifarious,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- pawky,
- perplexed,
- planetary,
- plotting,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- ramified,
- remote,
- removed,
- retired,
- rotary,
- rotten,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- scheming,
- screwed up,
- secret,
- secretive,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinuous,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- snarled,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- swerving,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- tortuous,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undirected,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- vulpine,
- wandering,
- wily,
- winding,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- zigzag
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- abstractionism,
- abuse of terms,
- ambages,
- ambagious,
- anfractuosity,
- anfractuous,
- bending,
- braiding,
- catachresis,
- circuitous,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumlocutory,
- circumvolution,
- coloring,
- contorting,
- convolution,
- convolutional,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- curving,
- deformation,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- distortion,
- eisegesis,
- enlacement,
- entwinement,
- entwining,
- errant,
- erratic,
- error,
- exaggeration,
- excursive,
- expressionism,
- fabric,
- false coloring,
- falsification,
- flexuose,
- flexuosity,
- flexuous,
- flexuousness,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- hyperbole,
- inaccuracy,
- indirect,
- injustice,
- interknitting,
- interlacement,
- interlacery,
- interlacing,
- intertexture,
- interthreading,
- intertieing,
- intertwinement,
- intertwining,
- intertwisting,
- interweavement,
- interweaving,
- intorsion,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involution,
- involutional,
- knitting,
- labyrinthine,
- lacing,
- litotes,
- malentendu,
- malobservation,
- mazy,
- meander,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- misapplication,
- misapprehension,
- miscitation,
- miscoloring,
- misconception,
- misconstruction,
- misdrawing,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mispainting,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misrendering,
- misreport,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- misteaching,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misuse of words,
- nonrealism,
- out-of-the-way,
- overdrawing,
- overstatement,
- perversion,
- plaiting,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- rivose,
- rivulation,
- rivulose,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- ruffled,
- serpentine,
- shifting,
- sinuate,
- sinuation,
- sinuose,
- sinuosity,
- sinuous,
- sinuousness,
- slanting,
- slinkiness,
- snakiness,
- snaky,
- squeezing,
- stray,
- swerving,
- texture,
- tissue,
- torsion,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuous,
- tortuousness,
- torturing,
- turning,
- twining,
- twisty,
- understatement,
- undirected,
- undulation,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- warp and woof,
- warpage,
- wave,
- waving,
- weave,
- weaving,
- web,
- weftage,
- whorled,
- winding,
- wreathing,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- wrenching,
- zigzag
- submissive
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- inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people" related words >
- abject,
- abused,
- accepting,
- accommodating,
- accordant,
- acquiescent,
- acquiescing,
- adaptable,
- adapting,
- adaptive,
- adjustable,
- adjusting,
- affirmative,
- agreeable,
- agreed,
- agreeing,
- amenable,
- approving,
- ass-kissing,
- assentatious,
- assenting,
- base,
- bendable,
- bending,
- biddable,
- bow,
- bring,
- browbeaten,
- brown-nosing,
- capitulate,
- cave,
- complaisant,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- complying,
- conceding,
- concessive,
- conformable,
- conforming,
- consentient,
- consenting,
- content,
- defer,
- deferential,
- deliver,
- devoted,
- docile,
- domestic,
- domesticated,
- downtrod,
- downtrodden,
- ductile,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- eager,
- elastic,
- endorsing,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- faithful,
- favorable,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formative,
- giving,
- ground down,
- hand in,
- henpecked,
- humble,
- humble-minded,
- humble-spirited,
- humblehearted,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- in leading strings,
- ingratiating,
- knuckle,
- knuckle under,
- law-abiding,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- loyal,
- malleable,
- manageable,
- mean,
- meek,
- meek-minded,
- meek-spirited,
- meekhearted,
- menial,
- misused,
- moldable,
- nondissenting,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- nothing loath,
- obedient,
- obeisant,
- obeying,
- obsequious,
- offer,
- on bended knee,
- oppressed,
- ordered around,
- other-directed,
- overborne,
- passive,
- permissive,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- poor in spirit,
- present,
- proffer,
- prompt,
- prostrate,
- ratifying,
- ready,
- receptive,
- reconciled,
- refer,
- regimented,
- resigned,
- responsive,
- sanctioning,
- send,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- servile,
- shapable,
- slavish,
- springy,
- subdued,
- submit,
- subservient,
- succumb,
- supine,
- supple,
- surrender,
- susceptible,
- sycophantic,
- tender,
- timid,
- toadying,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- trampled,
- truckling,
- tyrannized,
- unassertive,
- uncomplaining,
- ungrudging,
- unloath,
- unmanned,
- unrefusing,
- unreluctant,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- whippy,
- willing,
- willowy,
- yielding
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