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- inspiring
collapse - stimulating or exalting to the spirit related words >
- animating,
- auspicious,
- bright with promise,
- cheerful,
- cheering,
- cheery,
- dignified,
- elevated,
- encouraging,
- enlivening,
- exhilarating,
- exhilarative,
- favorable,
- full of promise,
- glad,
- gladdening,
- grand,
- grave,
- heart-warming,
- heartening,
- infusive,
- inspirational,
- inspiriting,
- intoxicating,
- invigorating,
- joyful,
- lofty,
- looking up,
- majestic,
- moving,
- noble,
- of promise,
- pregnant of good,
- promising,
- propitious,
- reassuring,
- rousing,
- serious,
- solemn,
- stately,
- stimulating,
- stirring,
- sublime,
- supportive,
- weighty
- Jim Crow
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- a crowbar fitted with a claw for pulling nails related words >
- Jim Crow law,
- alien,
- anti-Semitism,
- apartheid,
- apartness,
- black power,
- black supremacy,
- chauvinism,
- class consciousness,
- class distinction,
- class hatred,
- class prejudice,
- class war,
- color bar,
- color line,
- detachment,
- discrimination,
- division,
- ethnocentrism,
- exclusiveness,
- fascism,
- foreigner,
- insularity,
- insulation,
- isolation,
- isolationism,
- know-nothingism,
- male chauvinist,
- minority prejudice,
- narrowness,
- out-group,
- outcast,
- outsider,
- parochialism,
- persona non grata,
- privacy,
- privatism,
- privatization,
- quarantine,
- race hatred,
- race prejudice,
- race snobbery,
- racial discrimination,
- racial segregation,
- racialism,
- racism,
- recess,
- reclusion,
- red-baiting,
- retirement,
- retreat,
- rustication,
- seclusion,
- secrecy,
- segregation,
- separation,
- sequestration,
- sex discrimination,
- sexism,
- snobbishness,
- social barrier,
- social discrimination,
- splendid isolation,
- stranger,
- superpatriotism,
- tightness,
- ultranationalism,
- white power,
- white supremacy,
- withdrawal,
- xenophobia
- bleached,
- bright,
- clean,
- cleanly,
- dainty,
- dirt-free,
- fair,
- fastidious,
- fresh,
- immaculate,
- kosher,
- nonpolluted,
- of cleanly habits,
- pure,
- ritually pure,
- shiny,
- smut-free,
- smutless,
- spotless,
- stainless,
- sweet,
- tahar,
- tubbed,
- unadulterated,
- unbesmirched,
- unblemished,
- unblotted,
- undefiled,
- unmuddied,
- unsmirched,
- unsmudged,
- unsoiled,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- untarnished,
- well-scrubbed,
- well-washed,
- white,
- whitened
- bleached,
- bright,
- clean,
- cleanly,
- dainty,
- dirt-free,
- fair,
- fastidious,
- fresh,
- immaculate,
- kosher,
- of cleanly habits,
- pure,
- ritually pure,
- shiny,
- smut-free,
- smutless,
- spotless,
- stainless,
- sweet,
- tahar,
- tubbed,
- unadulterated,
- unbesmirched,
- unblemished,
- unblotted,
- undefiled,
- unmuddied,
- unpolluted,
- unsmirched,
- unsmudged,
- unsoiled,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- untarnished,
- well-scrubbed,
- well-washed,
- white,
- whitened
- bleached,
- bright,
- clean,
- cleanly,
- dainty,
- fair,
- fastidious,
- fresh,
- immaculate,
- kosher,
- nonpolluted,
- of cleanly habits,
- pure,
- ritually pure,
- shiny,
- smut-free,
- smutless,
- spotless,
- stainless,
- sweet,
- tahar,
- tubbed,
- unadulterated,
- unbesmirched,
- unblemished,
- unblotted,
- undefiled,
- unmuddied,
- unpolluted,
- unsmirched,
- unsmudged,
- unsoiled,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- untarnished,
- well-scrubbed,
- well-washed,
- white,
- whitened
- PR,
- ballyhoo,
- blurb,
- bright light,
- celebrity,
- common knowledge,
- cry,
- currency,
- daylight,
- eclat,
- exposure,
- fame,
- famousness,
- glare,
- hoopla,
- hue and cry,
- limelight,
- maximum dissemination,
- notoriety,
- plug,
- public eye,
- public knowledge,
- public relations,
- public report,
- publicity,
- publicity story,
- publicness,
- puff,
- reclame,
- report,
- spotlight,
- write-up
- public relations
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- a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution related words >
- PR,
- ballyhoo,
- blurb,
- bright light,
- celebrity,
- common knowledge,
- cry,
- currency,
- daylight,
- eclat,
- exposure,
- fame,
- famousness,
- glare,
- hoopla,
- hue and cry,
- limelight,
- maximum dissemination,
- notoriety,
- plug,
- press notice,
- public eye,
- public knowledge,
- public report,
- publicity,
- publicity story,
- publicness,
- puff,
- reclame,
- report,
- spotlight,
- write-up
- public knowledge
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- knowledge that is available to anyone related words >
- PR,
- ballyhoo,
- blurb,
- bright light,
- celebrity,
- common knowledge,
- cry,
- currency,
- daylight,
- eclat,
- exposure,
- fame,
- famousness,
- glare,
- hoopla,
- hue and cry,
- limelight,
- maximum dissemination,
- notoriety,
- plug,
- press notice,
- public eye,
- public relations,
- public report,
- publicity,
- publicity story,
- publicness,
- puff,
- reclame,
- report,
- spotlight,
- write-up
- absolute,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- bedazzling,
- blatant,
- blazing,
- blinding,
- bold,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- bright,
- bright and shining,
- brilliant,
- capital,
- cheap,
- chintzy,
- classical,
- clean-cut,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- clear-cut,
- coarse,
- colorful,
- complete,
- conspicuous,
- consummate,
- crass,
- crude,
- crystal-clear,
- dazzling,
- decided,
- defined,
- definite,
- definitive,
- disgraceful,
- distinct,
- downright,
- effulgent,
- egregious,
- evident,
- excessive,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- flagitious,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulgent,
- fulgid,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glary,
- gorgeous,
- gross,
- hanging out,
- harsh,
- heinous,
- in focus,
- in relief,
- in the foreground,
- inordinate,
- intolerable,
- loud,
- lurid,
- manifest,
- meretricious,
- notable,
- noticeable,
- notorious,
- obtrusive,
- obvious,
- ostensible,
- out-and-out,
- outrageous,
- outright,
- outstanding,
- overbright,
- overt,
- patent,
- perfect,
- plain,
- positive,
- precious,
- profound,
- prominent,
- pronounced,
- proper,
- rank,
- raw,
- refulgent,
- regular,
- resplendent,
- salient,
- scandalous,
- screaming,
- sensational,
- shameless,
- shattering,
- shocking,
- shrieking,
- spectacular,
- splendent,
- splendid,
- splendorous,
- staring,
- stark,
- stark-staring,
- sticking out,
- striking,
- strong,
- superlative,
- surpassing,
- tawdry,
- the veriest,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- tinsel,
- total,
- unbearable,
- unconcealed,
- unconscionable,
- undeniable,
- unequivocal,
- unmistakable,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unrelieved,
- unspoiled,
- utter,
- visible,
- vivid,
- vulgar,
- well-defined,
- well-marked,
- well-pronounced,
- well-resolved
- smirk
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- a smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure
- smile affectedly or derisively related words >
- beam,
- bridle,
- bright smile,
- broad grin,
- crack a smile,
- ear-to-ear grin,
- fleer,
- gleaming smile,
- glowing smile,
- grimace,
- grin,
- grinning,
- idiotic grin,
- leer,
- mince,
- mince it,
- prink,
- sardonic grin,
- scornful laugh,
- simper,
- smile,
- smile brightly,
- smiling,
- sneer,
- snicker,
- snigger,
- snort,
- stupid grin,
- toothful grin
- apartheid
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- a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa related words >
- Jim Crow,
- Jim Crow law,
- alien,
- anti-Semitism,
- apartness,
- black power,
- black supremacy,
- chauvinism,
- class consciousness,
- class distinction,
- class hatred,
- class prejudice,
- class war,
- color bar,
- color line,
- detachment,
- discrimination,
- division,
- ethnocentrism,
- exclusiveness,
- fascism,
- foreigner,
- insularity,
- insulation,
- isolation,
- isolationism,
- know-nothingism,
- male chauvinist,
- minority prejudice,
- narrowness,
- out-group,
- outcast,
- outsider,
- parochialism,
- persona non grata,
- privacy,
- privatism,
- privatization,
- quarantine,
- race hatred,
- race prejudice,
- race snobbery,
- racial discrimination,
- racial segregation,
- racialism,
- racism,
- recess,
- reclusion,
- red-baiting,
- retirement,
- retreat,
- rustication,
- seclusion,
- secrecy,
- segregation,
- separateness,
- separation,
- separatism,
- sequestration,
- sex discrimination,
- sexism,
- snobbishness,
- social barrier,
- social discrimination,
- splendid isolation,
- stranger,
- superpatriotism,
- tightness,
- ultranationalism,
- white power,
- white supremacy,
- withdrawal,
- xenophobia
- exotic
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- strikingly strange or unusual; "an exotic hair style"; "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"; "the exotic landscape of a dead planet" related words >
- alien,
- alluring,
- apart,
- appealing,
- appetizing,
- asunder,
- at a distance,
- attractive,
- away,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- beguiling,
- belly,
- bewitching,
- bizarre,
- blandishing,
- bottomless,
- bright,
- bright-hued,
- brilliant,
- burning,
- cajoling,
- captivating,
- catching,
- charismatic,
- charming,
- coaxing,
- colorful,
- colory,
- come-hither,
- coquettish,
- crazy,
- deep-colored,
- detached,
- different,
- disconnected,
- discrete,
- disjunct,
- disrelated,
- dissociated,
- distal,
- distant,
- enchanting,
- engaging,
- enravishing,
- enthralling,
- enticing,
- entrancing,
- exciting,
- exterior,
- external,
- extraneous,
- extraordinary,
- extraterrestrial,
- extrinsic,
- far,
- far off,
- faraway,
- fascinating,
- fetching,
- flirtatious,
- foreign,
- foreign-born,
- gay,
- gay-colored,
- glamorous,
- go-go,
- gorgeous,
- high-colored,
- hypnotic,
- imported,
- incommensurable,
- incomparable,
- independent,
- insular,
- intense,
- interesting,
- intriguing,
- intrusive,
- inviting,
- irrelative,
- irresistible,
- isolated,
- long-distance,
- long-range,
- mesmeric,
- mouth-watering,
- mysterious,
- naturalized,
- nude,
- odd,
- other,
- outland,
- outlandish,
- outside,
- peculiar,
- piquant,
- prepossessing,
- provocative,
- provoquant,
- ravishing,
- remarkable,
- remote,
- removed,
- rich,
- rich-colored,
- romanesque,
- romantic,
- seducing,
- seductive,
- segregate,
- separate,
- separated,
- singular,
- siren,
- sirenic,
- spellbinding,
- spellful,
- strange,
- striptease,
- taking,
- tantalizing,
- teasing,
- tempting,
- tickling,
- titillating,
- titillative,
- topless,
- ulterior,
- unaffiliated,
- unallied,
- unassociated,
- unconnected,
- unearthly,
- unfamiliar,
- unique,
- unrelatable,
- unrelated,
- unusual,
- vivid,
- weird,
- winning,
- winsome,
- witching
- ambrosial,
- aromatic,
- balmy,
- bawdy,
- biting,
- blue,
- brisk,
- broad,
- burning,
- curried,
- essenced,
- exciting,
- fiery,
- flavorful,
- flavorsome,
- flowery,
- fragrant,
- fruity,
- full-bodied,
- high-seasoned,
- high-spirited,
- hot,
- hot as pepper,
- improper,
- incense-breathing,
- indecent,
- indecorous,
- indelicate,
- interesting,
- intimate,
- inviting,
- juicy,
- lively,
- musky,
- nippy,
- notorious,
- odorate,
- odoriferous,
- odorous,
- off color,
- off-color,
- offensive,
- outrageous,
- peppery,
- perfumed,
- perfumy,
- piquant,
- poignant,
- provocative,
- provoking,
- pungent,
- purple,
- racy,
- readable,
- redolent,
- revealing,
- revelatory,
- ribald,
- rich,
- risky,
- risque,
- salty,
- savory,
- scabrous,
- scandalous,
- scented,
- seasoned,
- sensational,
- sexy,
- shady,
- sharp,
- snappy,
- sophisticated,
- spiced,
- spirited,
- stimulating,
- succulent,
- suggestive,
- sweet,
- sweet-scented,
- sweet-smelling,
- tangy,
- tantalizing,
- thought-challenging,
- thought-inspiring,
- thought-provoking,
- thuriferous,
- tickling,
- titillating,
- unseemly,
- wicked,
- with a kick,
- zestful,
- zesty,
- zippy
- fable
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- a short moral story (often with animal characters) related words >
- Marchen,
- Western,
- Western story,
- Westerner,
- action,
- adventure story,
- allegory,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- apologue,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- atmosphere,
- background,
- bedtime story,
- canard,
- catastrophe,
- characterization,
- color,
- complication,
- concoction,
- continuity,
- contrivance,
- denouement,
- design,
- detective story,
- development,
- device,
- episode,
- extravaganza,
- fabliau,
- fabrication,
- fairy tale,
- falling action,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figment,
- folk story,
- folktale,
- forgery,
- gest,
- ghost story,
- gimmick,
- horse opera,
- incident,
- invention,
- legend,
- line,
- local color,
- love story,
- mood,
- motif,
- movement,
- mystery,
- mystery story,
- myth,
- mythology,
- mythos,
- nursery tale,
- parable,
- peripeteia,
- plan,
- plot,
- recognition,
- rising action,
- romance,
- scheme,
- science fiction,
- secondary plot,
- shocker,
- slant,
- space fiction,
- space opera,
- story,
- structure,
- subject,
- subplot,
- suspense story,
- switch,
- thematic development,
- theme,
- thriller,
- tone,
- topic,
- twist,
- whodunit,
- work of fiction
- darken
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- make dark or darker; "darken a room"
- become dark or darker; "The sky darkened"
- tarnish or stain; "a scandal that darkened the family's good name"
- become or make darker; "The screen darkened"; "He darkened the colors by adding brown" related words >
- attaint,
- bandage,
- beat down,
- becloud,
- bedarken,
- bedaub,
- bedazzle,
- bedim,
- befog,
- begloom,
- bemist,
- benight,
- besmear,
- besmirch,
- besmoke,
- bestain,
- black,
- black out,
- blacken,
- blackwash,
- blanch,
- blind,
- blind the eyes,
- blindfold,
- block the light,
- blot,
- blot out,
- blotch,
- blur,
- blush,
- brand,
- brown,
- cast a shadow,
- cast down,
- change color,
- charcoal,
- clabber up,
- cloud,
- cloud over,
- cloud up,
- color,
- cork,
- crimson,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dampen the spirits,
- darken over,
- darkle,
- dash,
- daub,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- deject,
- denigrate,
- depress,
- deprive of sight,
- dim,
- dim out,
- dinge,
- dirty,
- discolor,
- discourage,
- dishearten,
- dispirit,
- dusk,
- ebonize,
- eclipse,
- encloud,
- encompass with shadow,
- enmist,
- excecate,
- flush,
- fog,
- glare,
- gloam,
- gloom,
- glow,
- gouge,
- grow dark,
- grow dim,
- haze,
- hoodwink,
- ink,
- knock down,
- look black,
- lower,
- lower the spirits,
- make blind,
- mantle,
- mark,
- melanize,
- mist,
- murk,
- nigrify,
- nubilate,
- obfuscate,
- obnubilate,
- obscure,
- obumbrate,
- occult,
- occultate,
- opaque,
- oppress,
- overcast,
- overcloud,
- overshadow,
- oversmoke,
- pale,
- press down,
- redden,
- sadden,
- scorch,
- sear,
- shade,
- shadow,
- singe,
- sink,
- slubber,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- smog,
- smoke,
- smudge,
- smut,
- smutch,
- snow-blind,
- soil,
- somber,
- soot,
- strike blind,
- taint,
- tarnish,
- turn color,
- turn pale,
- turn red,
- weigh heavy upon,
- weigh upon,
- whiten
- staining
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- (histology) the use of a dye to color specimens for microscopic study
- the act of spotting or staining something related words >
- lucky
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- blessed with good fortune; "considered himself lucky that the tornado missed his house"; "a lucky guess"
- having or bringing good fortune; "my lucky day" related words >
- advantageous,
- appropriate,
- auspicious,
- befitting,
- beneficial,
- benign,
- benignant,
- blessed,
- blessed with luck,
- bright,
- charmed,
- convenient,
- expedient,
- fair,
- favorable,
- favored,
- favoring,
- felicitous,
- fit,
- fitting,
- fortuitous,
- fortunate,
- full of promise,
- golden,
- good,
- happy,
- in luck,
- meet,
- of good omen,
- of happy portent,
- of promise,
- opportune,
- profitable,
- promising,
- propitious,
- prosperous,
- providential,
- ripe,
- seasonable,
- sortable,
- suitable,
- timely,
- well,
- well-timed
- comer
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- someone with a promising future related words >
- Young Turk,
- arrival,
- arriviste,
- bright young man,
- entrant,
- fledgling,
- immigrant,
- in-migrant,
- incomer,
- intruder,
- modern,
- modern generation,
- modern man,
- modernist,
- modernizer,
- neologism,
- neologist,
- neology,
- neonate,
- neoteric,
- neoterism,
- neoterist,
- new generation,
- new man,
- newcomer,
- nouveau riche,
- novus homo,
- parvenu,
- rising generation,
- settler,
- star,
- stripling,
- success,
- upstart,
- victor,
- visitant,
- visitor,
- winner
- annoying,
- belie,
- color,
- devilment,
- devilry,
- deviltry,
- diablerie,
- distort,
- evil,
- falsify,
- garble,
- harm,
- hurt,
- impishness,
- injury,
- mischief,
- miscolor,
- misstate,
- odiousness,
- offensiveness,
- pervert,
- roguery,
- roguishness,
- sportiveness,
- teasing,
- twist,
- waggery,
- waggishness,
- warp
- riposte
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- (fencing) a counterattack made immediately after successfully parrying the opponents lunge
- make a return thrust; "his opponent riposted" related words >
- acknowledge,
- acknowledgment,
- advocate,
- allege in support,
- answer,
- answer back,
- answering,
- antiphon,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- argue for,
- argument,
- assert,
- back answer,
- back talk,
- backchat,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- champion,
- come back,
- come back at,
- comeback,
- conceit,
- contend for,
- counter,
- counterstatement,
- crack,
- defend,
- defense,
- demurrer,
- denial,
- echo,
- epigram,
- espouse,
- evasive reply,
- exception,
- facetiae,
- flash back,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- gibe,
- give acknowledgment,
- give answer,
- happy thought,
- maintain,
- make a plea,
- mot,
- nasty crack,
- objection,
- persiflage,
- play of wit,
- plea,
- plead for,
- pleading,
- pleasantry,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- react,
- reaction,
- ready reply,
- rebut,
- rebuttal,
- receipt,
- reecho,
- refutation,
- refute,
- rejoin,
- rejoinder,
- repartee,
- replication,
- reply,
- repost,
- rescript,
- rescription,
- respond,
- respondence,
- response,
- responsion,
- responsory,
- retort,
- return,
- return answer,
- return for answer,
- reverberate,
- reverberation,
- sally,
- say,
- say in defense,
- say in reply,
- scintillation,
- shoot back,
- short answer,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snap back,
- snappy comeback,
- speak for,
- speak up for,
- special demurrer,
- special pleading,
- stand up for,
- statement of defense,
- stick up for,
- stroke of wit,
- support,
- sustain,
- take the bait,
- talk back,
- turn of thought,
- uphold,
- urge reasons for,
- wisecrack,
- witticism,
- witty reply,
- witty retort,
- yes-and-no answer
- atmosphere
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- the mass of air surrounding the Earth; "there was great heat as the comet entered the atmosphere"; "it was exposed to the air"
- the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body
- the weather or climate at some place; "the atmosphere was thick with fog"
- a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement" related words >
- action,
- aerial,
- aerodynamics,
- aerosphere,
- air,
- ambience,
- ambient,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- arrangement,
- atmospheric,
- aura,
- background,
- balance,
- biosphere,
- brushwork,
- catastrophe,
- character,
- characteristic,
- characterization,
- climate,
- color,
- complication,
- composition,
- continuity,
- contrivance,
- denouement,
- design,
- development,
- device,
- draftsmanship,
- ecosphere,
- episode,
- fable,
- falling action,
- feel,
- feeling,
- flavor,
- fluid,
- gas,
- gaseous envelope,
- gimmick,
- grouping,
- halogen gas,
- impression,
- incident,
- individuality,
- inert gas,
- lift,
- line,
- local color,
- medium,
- milieu,
- mise-en-scene,
- mood,
- motif,
- movement,
- mythos,
- noosphere,
- note,
- overtone,
- painterliness,
- peculiarity,
- peripeteia,
- perspective,
- plan,
- plot,
- pneumatic,
- pneumatics,
- property,
- quality,
- recognition,
- rising action,
- scheme,
- secondary plot,
- semblance,
- sense,
- shading,
- shadow,
- slant,
- spirit,
- story,
- structure,
- subject,
- subplot,
- suggestion,
- surroundings,
- switch,
- technique,
- thematic development,
- theme,
- tone,
- topic,
- treatment,
- twist,
- undertone,
- values,
- welkin
- bedizen
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- dress up garishly and tastelessly
- decorate tastelessly related words >
- adorn,
- apply paint,
- array,
- beautify,
- bedaub,
- bedeck,
- begild,
- besmear,
- blazon,
- brush on paint,
- calcimine,
- coat,
- color,
- complexion,
- cover,
- dab,
- dandify,
- daub,
- deck,
- deck out,
- decorate,
- deep-dye,
- dip,
- distemper,
- dizen,
- doll up,
- double-dye,
- dress,
- dress up,
- dye,
- embellish,
- emblazon,
- embroider,
- enamel,
- engild,
- enrich,
- face,
- fancy up,
- fast-dye,
- fig out,
- fix up,
- fresco,
- furbish,
- garnish,
- get up,
- gild,
- glaze,
- gloss,
- grace,
- grain,
- gussy up,
- hue,
- illuminate,
- imbue,
- ingrain,
- japan,
- lacquer,
- lay on color,
- ornament,
- overdress,
- paint,
- parget,
- pigment,
- prank,
- prank up,
- preen,
- prettify,
- pretty up,
- prime,
- primp,
- primp up,
- prink,
- prink up,
- rag out,
- redecorate,
- redo,
- refurbish,
- set off,
- set out,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shellac,
- slick up,
- slop on paint,
- smarten,
- smarten up,
- smear,
- spruce up,
- stain,
- stipple,
- tinct,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tint,
- titivate,
- tone,
- trick out,
- trick up,
- trim,
- undercoat,
- varnish,
- wash,
- whitewash
- acute,
- anticipant,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- apperceptive,
- appercipient,
- argute,
- astute,
- beforetime,
- bright and early,
- clairvoyant,
- cogent,
- discerning,
- divinatory,
- early,
- farseeing,
- farsighted,
- forehand,
- forehanded,
- foreknowing,
- foreseeing,
- forethoughted,
- forethoughtful,
- in good time,
- incisive,
- intuitive,
- longheaded,
- longsighted,
- penetrating,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- perspicuous,
- piercing,
- precautional,
- precautionary,
- precautious,
- precognitive,
- precognizant,
- prepared,
- prescient,
- prevenient,
- provident,
- providential,
- provisional,
- prudent,
- ready,
- sagacious,
- trenchant,
- understanding
- baby blues,
- banjo eyes,
- bright eyes,
- bug-eyes,
- clear eyes,
- cockeyes,
- cornea,
- cross-eyes,
- eye,
- eyeball,
- eyelid,
- goggle eyes,
- iris,
- lens,
- lid,
- naked eye,
- nictitating membrane,
- oculus,
- optic,
- optic nerve,
- orb,
- organ of vision,
- peeper,
- pupil,
- retina,
- saucer eyes,
- sclera,
- squint eyes,
- starry orbs,
- swivel eyes,
- unaided eye,
- visual organ,
- walleyes
- baby blues,
- banjo eyes,
- bright eyes,
- bug-eyes,
- clear eyes,
- cockeyes,
- cornea,
- cross-eyes,
- eye,
- eyeball,
- eyelid,
- iris,
- lens,
- lid,
- naked eye,
- nictitating membrane,
- oculus,
- optic,
- optic nerve,
- orb,
- organ of vision,
- peeper,
- popeyes,
- pupil,
- retina,
- saucer eyes,
- sclera,
- squint eyes,
- starry orbs,
- swivel eyes,
- unaided eye,
- visual organ,
- walleyes
- sexy
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- marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes" related words >
- alluring,
- amorous,
- animal,
- aphrodisiomaniacal,
- appealing,
- arousing,
- bawdy,
- bedroom,
- blue,
- broad,
- captivating,
- carnal,
- clitoromaniacal,
- coarse,
- come-hither,
- concupiscent,
- dirty,
- ejaculatory,
- enchanting,
- erogenic,
- erogenous,
- erotic,
- eroticomaniacal,
- erotogenic,
- erotomaniacal,
- exciting,
- explicit,
- fascinating,
- filthy,
- fleshly,
- flirtatious,
- foul,
- gamic,
- goatish,
- gross,
- gynecomaniacal,
- heterosexual,
- horny,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- hysteromaniacal,
- immodest,
- improper,
- indecent,
- indecorous,
- indelicate,
- inviting,
- itching,
- ithyphallic,
- lascivious,
- lecherous,
- lewd,
- libidinal,
- libidinous,
- lickerish,
- lubricious,
- lustful,
- lusty,
- naughty,
- nuptial,
- nymphomaniacal,
- obscene,
- off color,
- off-color,
- orgasmic,
- orgastic,
- oversexed,
- passionate,
- pornographic,
- potent,
- priapic,
- procreative,
- provocative,
- prurient,
- purple,
- racy,
- randy,
- raunchy,
- ribald,
- risque,
- rough,
- rude,
- salacious,
- salty,
- satyric,
- seductive,
- sensual,
- sensuous,
- sex,
- sex-starved,
- sexed,
- sexlike,
- sexual,
- shady,
- shameless,
- smutty,
- spicy,
- steamy,
- straight,
- striking,
- stunning,
- suggestive,
- tempting,
- titillating,
- undersexed,
- unsatisfied,
- unseemly,
- venereal,
- voluptuous,
- vulgar
- fascism
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- a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) related words >
- Jim Crow,
- Jim Crow law,
- Nazism,
- anti-Semitism,
- apartheid,
- argumentum baculinum,
- big stick,
- black power,
- black supremacy,
- centralism,
- chauvinism,
- class consciousness,
- class distinction,
- class hatred,
- class prejudice,
- class war,
- collectivism,
- color bar,
- color line,
- communism,
- constitutionalism,
- democratism,
- despotism,
- discrimination,
- domination,
- domineering,
- federalism,
- feudalism,
- feudality,
- governmentalism,
- heavy hand,
- high hand,
- imperialism,
- iron boot,
- iron hand,
- iron heel,
- know-nothingism,
- male chauvinist,
- minority prejudice,
- monarchism,
- national socialism,
- neofascism,
- oppression,
- parliamentarianism,
- parliamentarism,
- pluralism,
- political principles,
- race hatred,
- race prejudice,
- race snobbery,
- racial discrimination,
- racialism,
- racism,
- red-baiting,
- reign of terror,
- republicanism,
- royalism,
- segregation,
- sex discrimination,
- sexism,
- social barrier,
- social discrimination,
- socialism,
- statism,
- superpatriotism,
- terrorism,
- thought control,
- tyranny,
- ultranationalism,
- white power,
- white supremacy,
- xenophobia
- bright,
- crude,
- fresh,
- going strong,
- harmless,
- impure,
- in full force,
- in full swing,
- inviolate,
- mint,
- native,
- pristine,
- raw,
- run-of-mine,
- scatheless,
- unabated,
- unallayed,
- unbated,
- unbroken,
- unbruised,
- undamaged,
- undefaced,
- undeformed,
- undemolished,
- undestroyed,
- undiminished,
- unexhausted,
- unflagging,
- unharmed,
- unhurt,
- unimpaired,
- uninjured,
- unmaimed,
- unmangled,
- unmarked,
- unmarred,
- unscarred,
- unscathed,
- unscratched,
- unshaken,
- unshattered,
- unsorted,
- unspoiled,
- untorn,
- untouched,
- unweakened,
- unweakening,
- unwithered,
- unworn,
- virgin
- baby blues,
- banjo eyes,
- bright eyes,
- clear eyes,
- cornea,
- eye,
- eyeball,
- eyelid,
- goggle eyes,
- iris,
- lens,
- lid,
- naked eye,
- nictitating membrane,
- ocular,
- oculus,
- ophthalmic,
- ophthalmologic,
- optic nerve,
- optical,
- optometrical,
- orb,
- organ of vision,
- peeper,
- popeyes,
- pupil,
- retina,
- saucer eyes,
- sclera,
- seeing,
- starry orbs,
- unaided eye,
- visible,
- visional,
- visual,
- visual organ
- funk
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- an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
- United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)
- a state of nervous depression; "he was in a funk" related words >
- Milquetoast,
- abject fear,
- affright,
- alarm,
- awe,
- baby,
- back out,
- big baby,
- blench,
- blink,
- blue funk,
- boggle,
- change color,
- chicken,
- chicken liver,
- chicken out,
- consternation,
- coward,
- cowardice,
- craven,
- cringe,
- curdle the blood,
- dastard,
- desert under fire,
- dismay,
- disquiet,
- draw back,
- dread,
- falter,
- fear,
- flinch,
- fraid-cat,
- fraidy-cat,
- freeze,
- fright,
- frighten,
- funk out,
- funker,
- get cold feet,
- grow pale,
- horrification,
- horripilate,
- horror,
- invertebrate,
- jellyfish,
- lily liver,
- lose courage,
- make one tremble,
- milksop,
- mouse,
- pale,
- panic,
- panic fear,
- phobia,
- poltroon,
- quail,
- quitter,
- raise apprehensions,
- recoil,
- reek,
- scare,
- scaredy-cat,
- scuttle,
- shake,
- shrink,
- sissy,
- skedaddle,
- spook,
- stagger,
- stampede,
- startle,
- stench,
- stink,
- take alarm,
- take fright,
- terror,
- turn color,
- turn pale,
- unholy dread,
- unman,
- unnerve,
- unstring,
- weak sister,
- weakling,
- white feather,
- white liver,
- wince
- scabrous
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- dealing with salacious or indecent material; "a scabrous novel" related words >
- 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
- cheerful
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- being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"
- pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic related words >
- Leibnizian,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- airy,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- animated,
- animating,
- beaming,
- beatific,
- beatified,
- blessed,
- blissful,
- blithe,
- blithesome,
- bright,
- bright and sunny,
- buoyant,
- capering,
- carefree,
- cheering,
- cheery,
- chiliastic,
- chirk,
- chirping,
- chirpy,
- chirrupy,
- comfortable,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- congenial,
- cordial,
- corky,
- couleur de rose,
- cozy,
- dancing,
- debonair,
- desirable,
- dulcet,
- elated,
- en rapport,
- encouraging,
- enjoyable,
- enlivening,
- eupeptic,
- euphoric,
- exalted,
- exhilarated,
- exhilarating,
- exuberant,
- fair,
- fair and pleasant,
- felicific,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- flushed,
- flushed with joy,
- friendly,
- gay,
- genial,
- glad,
- gladdening,
- gladsome,
- gleeful,
- glowing,
- good,
- goodly,
- gracious,
- grateful,
- gratifying,
- happy,
- harmonious,
- heart-warming,
- heartening,
- high,
- homelike,
- homely,
- homey,
- homish,
- honeyed,
- hopeful,
- in good spirits,
- in high spirits,
- inspiring,
- inspiriting,
- intimate,
- invigorating,
- irrepressible,
- jaunty,
- jolly,
- joyful,
- joyous,
- jubilant,
- laughing,
- leaping,
- light-hearted,
- lighthearted,
- lightsome,
- likable,
- lively,
- mellifluous,
- mellow,
- merry,
- millenarian,
- millennialistic,
- nice,
- of good cheer,
- optimistic,
- peaceful,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionist,
- plain,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pleasurable,
- pleasure-giving,
- pleasureful,
- purring,
- radiant,
- rewarding,
- riant,
- rose-colored,
- roseate,
- rosy,
- sanguine,
- sanguineous,
- satisfying,
- simple,
- singing,
- smiling,
- smirking,
- snug,
- sparkling,
- starry-eyed,
- sunny,
- sweet,
- thrice happy,
- unpretending,
- upbeat,
- utopian,
- vivacious,
- welcome,
- winsome
- air,
- bearing,
- brow,
- carriage,
- cast,
- cast of countenance,
- color,
- complexion,
- countenance,
- demeanor,
- face,
- facial appearance,
- favor,
- feature,
- features,
- garb,
- guise,
- lineaments,
- lines,
- mien,
- physiognomy,
- port,
- posture,
- presence,
- stance,
- traits,
- turn,
- visage
- retort
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- a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat
- answer back related words >
- acknowledge,
- acknowledgment,
- aerosol,
- alembic,
- answer,
- answer back,
- answering,
- antiphon,
- anvil,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- atomizer,
- back answer,
- back talk,
- backchat,
- backfire,
- bon mot,
- boomerang,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- caldron,
- come back,
- come back at,
- come in,
- comeback,
- conceit,
- counter,
- counterattack,
- counterblast,
- counterblow,
- countercharge,
- counterfire,
- counterinsurgency,
- countermeasure,
- counterrevolution,
- counterstep,
- counterstroke,
- crack,
- crucible,
- defense,
- echo,
- engine,
- epigram,
- evaporator,
- evasive reply,
- exchange,
- facetiae,
- flash back,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- gag,
- get back at,
- gibe,
- give acknowledgment,
- give and take,
- give answer,
- give in exchange,
- give in return,
- give-and-take,
- happy thought,
- hit back at,
- interchange,
- jape,
- jest,
- joke,
- lathe,
- machine,
- melting pot,
- mortar,
- mot,
- motor,
- nasty crack,
- persiflage,
- play of wit,
- pleasantry,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- react,
- reaction,
- ready reply,
- rebut,
- rebuttal,
- receipt,
- reciprocate,
- reciprocation,
- recoil,
- recrimination,
- reecho,
- rejoin,
- rejoinder,
- repartee,
- replication,
- reply,
- repost,
- reprisal,
- rescript,
- rescription,
- respond,
- respondence,
- response,
- responsion,
- responsory,
- retaliate,
- retaliation,
- return,
- return answer,
- return for answer,
- revenge,
- reverberate,
- reverberation,
- riposte,
- sally,
- say,
- say in reply,
- scintillation,
- shoot back,
- short answer,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- spray,
- still,
- strike back,
- stroke of wit,
- talk back,
- test tube,
- transducer,
- transformer,
- turn of thought,
- vaporizer,
- wisecrack,
- witticism,
- witty reply,
- witty retort,
- yes-and-no answer
- cheering
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- encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators; "it's all over but the shouting"
- bringing cheer or gladness; "cheering news" related words >
- animating,
- assuring,
- auspicious,
- bracing,
- bright with promise,
- brisk,
- cheerful,
- cheery,
- comforting,
- condolatory,
- condolent,
- condoling,
- consolatory,
- consoling,
- cordial,
- crisp,
- crispy,
- encouraging,
- energizing,
- enlivening,
- exhilarating,
- favorable,
- fresh,
- full of promise,
- glad,
- gladdening,
- heart-warming,
- heartening,
- hospitable,
- inspiring,
- inspiriting,
- invigorating,
- joyful,
- looking up,
- of good comfort,
- of promise,
- pregnant of good,
- promising,
- propitious,
- reassuring,
- refreshful,
- refreshing,
- regaling,
- relieving,
- rousing,
- stimulating,
- supportive,
- sympathetic,
- tonic,
- zestful,
- zesty
- supportive
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- furnishing support or assistance; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer" related words >
- assuring,
- auspicious,
- bearing,
- bolstering,
- bracing,
- bright with promise,
- burdened,
- buttressing,
- carrying,
- cheering,
- comforting,
- condolatory,
- condolent,
- condoling,
- confirmative,
- confirmatory,
- confirming,
- consolatory,
- consoling,
- corroborating,
- corroborative,
- corroboratory,
- encouraging,
- favorable,
- full of promise,
- heartening,
- helpful,
- holding,
- hospitable,
- inspiring,
- inspiriting,
- looking up,
- maintaining,
- of good comfort,
- of promise,
- pregnant of good,
- promising,
- propitious,
- propping,
- reassuring,
- relieving,
- shoring,
- substantiating,
- supporting,
- suspensory,
- sustaining,
- sustentative,
- sympathetic,
- understanding,
- upholding,
- verificative,
- verifying
- lightness
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- having a light color
- the property of being comparatively small in weight; "the lightness of balsa wood" related words >
- Munsell chroma,
- achroma,
- achromasia,
- achromatosis,
- agility,
- airiness,
- airy texture,
- albescence,
- albinism,
- albino,
- albinoism,
- amiable weakness,
- anemia,
- ashiness,
- attenuation,
- big deal,
- blondness,
- bloodlessness,
- bounce,
- breakability,
- breeziness,
- brightness,
- brittleness,
- buoyancy,
- cadaverousness,
- canescence,
- carefreeness,
- chalkiness,
- chambering,
- changeableness,
- cheerfulness,
- chirpiness,
- chloranemia,
- chroma,
- chromatic color,
- chromaticity,
- collapse,
- color quality,
- colorimetric quality,
- cool color,
- coquettishness,
- creaminess,
- daintiness,
- deathly hue,
- deathly pallor,
- debonairness,
- delicacy,
- destructibility,
- diaphanousness,
- dilutedness,
- dilution,
- dimness,
- disintegration,
- dullness,
- easy virtue,
- effeminacy,
- effervescence,
- elasticity,
- emptiness,
- ethereality,
- exiguity,
- exility,
- expansiveness,
- exsanguination,
- faddishness,
- faddism,
- fadedness,
- faintness,
- fairness,
- featliness,
- fickleness,
- fineness,
- flightiness,
- flimsiness,
- flippancy,
- fluffiness,
- foolishness,
- fragility,
- frailty,
- frangibility,
- frivolity,
- frivolousness,
- frostiness,
- frothiness,
- futility,
- gaiety,
- gauziness,
- ghastliness,
- glaucescence,
- glaucousness,
- gossameriness,
- gracility,
- grizzliness,
- haggardness,
- hoariness,
- hue,
- human frailty,
- hypochromia,
- hypochromic anemia,
- idleness,
- inanity,
- inconstancy,
- indecisiveness,
- infirmity of will,
- inherent vice,
- insubstantiality,
- irresolution,
- jauntiness,
- laciness,
- lack of depth,
- lactescence,
- laxity,
- leukoderma,
- levity,
- light heart,
- lightheartedness,
- lightsomeness,
- liveliness,
- lividness,
- loose morals,
- looseness,
- lucence,
- lucency,
- lucidity,
- luminosity,
- luminousness,
- mercuriality,
- mercurialness,
- milkiness,
- mistiness,
- moral weakness,
- muddiness,
- neutral color,
- nimbleness,
- nugacity,
- paleness,
- pallidity,
- pallidness,
- pallor,
- paperiness,
- pastiness,
- pearliness,
- perkiness,
- pertness,
- prison pallor,
- promiscuity,
- purity,
- rarity,
- resilience,
- resiliency,
- sallowness,
- saturation,
- shallow-wittedness,
- shallowness,
- sickliness,
- sickly hue,
- silliness,
- silver,
- silveriness,
- skittishness,
- sleaziness,
- sleeping around,
- slenderness,
- slightness,
- slimness,
- snowiness,
- spryness,
- subtility,
- superficiality,
- swinging,
- tenuity,
- thinness,
- tint,
- tone,
- translucence,
- translucency,
- triflingness,
- triteness,
- triviality,
- trivialness,
- undependability,
- unpredictability,
- unprofoundness,
- unprofundity,
- unreliability,
- unsubstantiality,
- vacuity,
- vagueness,
- value,
- vanity,
- vapidity,
- velleity,
- vitiligo,
- vivacity,
- volatility,
- wanness,
- wantonness,
- warm color,
- wateriness,
- waywardness,
- weakness,
- white,
- white race,
- whiteness,
- whitishness,
- whorishness,
- wispiness,
- womanishness
- bright,
- cerebral,
- cogitative,
- cognitive,
- concentrating,
- concentrative,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- conceptualized,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- deliberating,
- deliberative,
- discursive,
- endopsychic,
- excogitating,
- ideational,
- ideative,
- intellectual,
- intelligent,
- internal,
- introspective,
- knowing,
- meditating,
- meditative,
- mental,
- museful,
- musing,
- noological,
- not so dumb,
- pensive,
- phrenic,
- pondering,
- prehensive,
- psychic,
- psychologic,
- rational,
- reasonable,
- reasoning,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- ruminant,
- ruminating,
- ruminative,
- sane,
- sensible,
- serious,
- sober,
- sophic,
- speculative,
- spiritual,
- strong-minded,
- subjective,
- thinking,
- thought,
- thoughtful,
- understanding,
- wistful
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