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- brainstorm
collapse - try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it related words >
- absurd idea,
- afebrile delirium,
- automatic response,
- blind impulse,
- boutade,
- brain wave,
- brainchild,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- capriccio,
- caprice,
- conceit,
- crank,
- craze,
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- deliriousness,
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- freak,
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- gut response,
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- humor,
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- kink,
- lingual delirium,
- maggot,
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- reflex,
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- vagary,
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- whim,
- whim-wham,
- whimsy
- bon mot
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- a clever remark related words >
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- conceit,
- crack,
- epigram,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- gibe,
- happy thought,
- mot,
- nasty crack,
- persiflage,
- play of wit,
- pleasantry,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- repartee,
- retort,
- riposte,
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- stroke of wit,
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- witticism
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
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- play of wit,
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- quips and cranks,
- repartee,
- retort,
- riposte,
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- scintillation,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- stroke of wit,
- turn of thought,
- wisecrack,
- witticism
- persiflage
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- light teasing related words >
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- backchat,
- badinage,
- banter,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- chaff,
- conceit,
- crack,
- cross,
- epigram,
- exchange,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- gibe,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- happy thought,
- harmless teasing,
- jape,
- jest,
- jive,
- joke,
- josh,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- mot,
- nasty crack,
- play of wit,
- pleasantry,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- repartee,
- retort,
- ridicule,
- riposte,
- sally,
- scintillation,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- sport,
- stroke of wit,
- turn of thought,
- twit,
- wisecrack,
- witticism
- wisecrack
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- witty remark
- make a comment, usually ironic related words >
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- be merry with,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- conceit,
- crack,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- epigram,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- fleer at,
- flight of wit,
- fun,
- gag,
- gibe,
- gibe at,
- happy thought,
- jape,
- jest,
- joke,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- mock,
- mot,
- nasty crack,
- persiflage,
- play of wit,
- play on words,
- pleasantry,
- poke fun at,
- pun,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- repartee,
- retort,
- ridicule,
- riposte,
- sally,
- scintillate,
- scintillation,
- scoff at,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- sparkle,
- stroke of wit,
- turn of thought,
- utter a mot,
- waggery,
- witticism,
- yak
- mot
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- a compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumes related words >
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- axiom,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- byword,
- catchword,
- collected sayings,
- conceit,
- crack,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- epigram,
- expression,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- gibe,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- happy thought,
- maxim,
- moral,
- motto,
- nasty crack,
- oracle,
- persiflage,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- play of wit,
- pleasantry,
- precept,
- prescript,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- repartee,
- retort,
- riposte,
- sally,
- saw,
- saying,
- scintillation,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sloka,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- stock saying,
- stroke of wit,
- sutra,
- teaching,
- text,
- turn of thought,
- verse,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- wisecrack,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- axiom,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- brocard,
- byword,
- catchword,
- collected sayings,
- conceit,
- crack,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- epigram,
- expression,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- gibe,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- happy thought,
- maxim,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- nasty crack,
- oracle,
- persiflage,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- play of wit,
- pleasantry,
- precept,
- prescript,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- repartee,
- retort,
- riposte,
- rule,
- sally,
- saw,
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- scintillation,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sloka,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- stock saying,
- stroke of wit,
- sutra,
- teaching,
- text,
- truism,
- turn of thought,
- verse,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- wisecrack,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- aphorism
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- a short pithy instructive saying related words >
- abridgment,
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- apothegm,
- axiom,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- brocard,
- byword,
- catchword,
- collected sayings,
- conceit,
- crack,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- epigram,
- expression,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- gibe,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- happy thought,
- maxim,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- nasty crack,
- oracle,
- persiflage,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- play of wit,
- pleasantry,
- precept,
- prescript,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- repartee,
- retort,
- riposte,
- rule,
- sally,
- saw,
- saying,
- scintillation,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sloka,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- stock saying,
- stroke of wit,
- sutra,
- teaching,
- text,
- truism,
- turn of thought,
- verse,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- wisecrack,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- axiom,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- byword,
- catchword,
- collected sayings,
- conceit,
- crack,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- drollery,
- epigram,
- expression,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- gag,
- gibe,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- happy thought,
- jape,
- jest,
- maxim,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- nasty crack,
- oracle,
- persiflage,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- play of wit,
- pleasantry,
- precept,
- prescript,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- repartee,
- retort,
- riposte,
- sally,
- saw,
- saying,
- scintillation,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sloka,
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- verse,
- waggery,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- wisecrack,
- word,
- words of wisdom,
- yak
- repartee
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- adroitness and cleverness in reply related words >
- acknowledgment,
- answer,
- answering,
- antiphon,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- back answer,
- back talk,
- backchat,
- badinage,
- banter,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- comeback,
- conceit,
- crack,
- echo,
- epigram,
- evasive reply,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- gibe,
- give and take,
- happy thought,
- humor,
- irony,
- mot,
- nasty crack,
- patter,
- persiflage,
- play of wit,
- pleasantry,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- raillery,
- reaction,
- ready reply,
- receipt,
- rejoinder,
- replication,
- reply,
- repost,
- rescript,
- rescription,
- respondence,
- response,
- responsion,
- responsory,
- retort,
- return,
- reverberation,
- riposte,
- sally,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- scintillation,
- short answer,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- stroke of wit,
- turn of thought,
- wisecrack,
- wit,
- witticism,
- witty reply,
- witty retort,
- wordplay,
- yes-and-no answer
- scintillation
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- the twinkling of the stars caused when changes in the density of the earth's atmosphere produce uneven refraction of starlight
- a brilliant display of wit
- (physics) a flash of light that is produced in a phosphor when it absorbs a photon or ionizing particle related words >
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- black spot,
- blink,
- blinking,
- bloom,
- blooping,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- conceit,
- coruscation,
- crack,
- definition,
- epigram,
- facetiae,
- firefly,
- flare,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- fringe area,
- ghost,
- gibe,
- glance,
- glimmer,
- glimmering,
- glint,
- glisten,
- glister,
- glitter,
- glittering,
- glowworm,
- granulation,
- grid,
- happy thought,
- hard shadow,
- image,
- mot,
- multiple image,
- nasty crack,
- noise,
- persiflage,
- picture,
- picture noise,
- picture shifts,
- play of wit,
- pleasantry,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- rain,
- repartee,
- retort,
- riposte,
- rolling,
- sally,
- scanning pattern,
- scintilla,
- shading,
- shimmer,
- shimmering,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- snow,
- snowstorm,
- spangle,
- spark,
- sparkle,
- stroboscopic light,
- stroke of wit,
- tinsel,
- turn of thought,
- twinkle,
- twinkling,
- wisecrack,
- witticism
- big idea,
- canon,
- code,
- commandment,
- convention,
- course,
- creed,
- dictum,
- form,
- formula,
- fundamental idea,
- general principle,
- golden rule,
- guideline,
- guiding principles,
- idee-maitresse,
- imperative,
- law,
- leading idea,
- line,
- main idea,
- maxim,
- mitzvah,
- moral,
- norm,
- ordinance,
- plan of action,
- platform,
- policy,
- polity,
- position paper,
- principal idea,
- principium,
- principle,
- principles,
- procedure,
- regulation,
- rubric,
- rule,
- settled principle,
- standard,
- tenet,
- working principle,
- working rule
- Geistesgeschichte,
- Hegelian idea,
- Kantian idea,
- Platonic form,
- Platonic idea,
- aerosphere,
- all that lives,
- archetype,
- atmosphere,
- biochore,
- biocycle,
- biosphere,
- biota,
- biotope,
- brawn,
- complex idea,
- ecosphere,
- eternal object,
- eternal universal,
- exemplar,
- fiber,
- flesh,
- flora and fauna,
- formal cause,
- gaseous envelope,
- highest category,
- history of ideas,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideate,
- ideatum,
- idee-force,
- innate idea,
- lift,
- living matter,
- living nature,
- model,
- noumenon,
- organic matter,
- organic nature,
- organized matter,
- pattern,
- percept,
- plasm,
- prototype,
- regulative first principle,
- simple idea,
- subsistent form,
- the Absolute,
- the Absolute Idea,
- the Self-determined,
- the realized ideal,
- tissue,
- transcendent idea,
- transcendent nonempirical concept,
- transcendent universal,
- universal,
- universal concept,
- universal essence,
- welkin
- exemplar
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- something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general" related words >
- Geistesgeschichte,
- Hegelian idea,
- Kantian idea,
- Platonic form,
- Platonic idea,
- archetype,
- beau ideal,
- case,
- case in point,
- classic,
- complex idea,
- demonstration,
- emblem,
- eternal object,
- eternal universal,
- example,
- exemplification,
- explanation,
- exponent,
- formal cause,
- good example,
- highest category,
- history of ideas,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideate,
- ideatum,
- idee-force,
- illustration,
- innate idea,
- instance,
- man of men,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- mirror,
- model,
- nonpareil,
- noosphere,
- noumenon,
- object lesson,
- paradigm,
- paragon,
- pattern,
- pattern of perfection,
- percept,
- prototype,
- quintessence,
- regulative first principle,
- relevant instance,
- representative,
- shining example,
- simple idea,
- soul,
- standard,
- subsistent form,
- symbol,
- the Absolute,
- the Absolute Idea,
- the Self-determined,
- the realized ideal,
- transcendent idea,
- transcendent nonempirical concept,
- transcendent universal,
- type,
- typical example,
- universal,
- universal concept,
- universal essence,
- very model
- absurd idea,
- boutade,
- brainstorm,
- capriccio,
- caprice,
- conceit,
- crank,
- craze,
- crazy idea,
- crotchet,
- fad,
- fancy,
- fantastic notion,
- fantasy,
- flimflam,
- freak,
- freakish inspiration,
- harebrained idea,
- humor,
- kink,
- maggot,
- megrim,
- notion,
- passing fancy,
- quirk,
- toy,
- vagary,
- whim,
- whim-wham,
- whimsy
- Parthian shot,
- ad lib,
- aphorism,
- apophthegm,
- apothegm,
- back answer,
- barb,
- be merry with,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- caustic remark,
- cavil,
- chestnut,
- comeback,
- conceit,
- crack,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- cut,
- cutting remark,
- dig,
- dodge,
- double entendre,
- drollery,
- dump,
- epigram,
- equivoque,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- fleer,
- fleer at,
- flight of wit,
- flout,
- foolery,
- fun,
- gag,
- gibe,
- gibe at,
- gibing retort,
- happy thought,
- jab,
- jape,
- jeer,
- jest,
- jesuitism,
- joke,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- leg-pull,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- mock,
- mot,
- nasty crack,
- parting shot,
- persiflage,
- play of wit,
- play on words,
- pleasantry,
- poke fun at,
- pun,
- put-down,
- put-on,
- quibble,
- quiddity,
- quillet,
- quips and cranks,
- quirk,
- quodlibet,
- repartee,
- retort,
- ridicule,
- riposte,
- rude reproach,
- sally,
- scintillate,
- scintillation,
- scoff,
- scoff at,
- scurrility,
- short answer,
- shuffle,
- slam,
- slap,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- sparkle,
- stroke of wit,
- swipe,
- taunt,
- turn of thought,
- twit,
- utter a mot,
- verbal thrust,
- wheeze,
- wisecrack,
- witticism,
- yak
- inkling
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- a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no inkling what was about to happen" related words >
- bare suggestion,
- broad hint,
- clue,
- cue,
- dash,
- gentle hint,
- gesture,
- glimmer,
- glimmering,
- half an idea,
- hazy idea,
- hint,
- idea,
- implication,
- impression,
- index,
- indication,
- infusion,
- innuendo,
- insinuation,
- intimation,
- kick,
- look,
- mere notion,
- nod,
- notion,
- nudge,
- prompt,
- sauce,
- scent,
- seasoning,
- shade,
- sign,
- signal,
- smack,
- sneaking suspicion,
- soupcon,
- spice,
- spoor,
- sprinkling,
- suggestion,
- suspicion,
- symptom,
- taint,
- telltale,
- tempering,
- thought,
- tinct,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tint,
- tip,
- tip-off,
- touch,
- trace,
- track,
- vague idea,
- vestige,
- whisper,
- wind,
- wink
- apparition,
- art object,
- article,
- artifact,
- autograph,
- brainstorm,
- bric-a-brac,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- bubble,
- child,
- chimera,
- classic,
- coinage,
- composition,
- computer printout,
- concoction,
- contrivance,
- copy,
- creation,
- creature,
- crowning achievement,
- delirium,
- design,
- distillation,
- document,
- draft,
- edited version,
- effect,
- eidolon,
- end product,
- engrossment,
- essay,
- essence,
- extract,
- fair copy,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figment,
- final draft,
- finished version,
- first draft,
- flimsy,
- fruit,
- good idea,
- grotesque,
- hallucination,
- handiwork,
- holograph,
- idle fancy,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- inspiration,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- issue,
- kitsch,
- letter,
- literae scriptae,
- literary artefact,
- literary production,
- literature,
- lucubration,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- manufacture,
- manuscript,
- master,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- matter,
- mintage,
- mobile,
- museum piece,
- myth,
- new mintage,
- nonfiction,
- nude,
- offspring,
- old master,
- opera,
- opus,
- opuscule,
- original,
- origination,
- outcome,
- outgrowth,
- paper,
- parchment,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- penscript,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- piece,
- piece of virtu,
- piece of writing,
- play,
- poem,
- printed matter,
- printout,
- product,
- production,
- reading matter,
- recension,
- result,
- romance,
- screed,
- scrip,
- script,
- scrive,
- scroll,
- second draft,
- sick fancy,
- stabile,
- statue,
- still life,
- study,
- the written word,
- thick-coming fancies,
- transcript,
- transcription,
- trip,
- typescript,
- vapor,
- version,
- virtu,
- vision,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams,
- work,
- work of art,
- writing
- 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
- 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
- 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
- prototype
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- a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" related words >
- Geistesgeschichte,
- Hegelian idea,
- Kantian idea,
- Platonic form,
- Platonic idea,
- aesthetic form,
- analogue,
- ancestor,
- antecedent,
- antetype,
- antitype,
- archetype,
- art form,
- biotype,
- build,
- cast,
- classic,
- classic example,
- complex idea,
- configuration,
- conformation,
- criterion,
- cut,
- epitome,
- eternal object,
- eternal universal,
- example,
- exemplar,
- fashion,
- figuration,
- figure,
- first,
- foregoer,
- form,
- formal cause,
- format,
- formation,
- frame,
- fugleman,
- fugler,
- genotype,
- genre,
- highest category,
- history of ideas,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideate,
- ideatum,
- idee-force,
- illustration,
- imitatee,
- impression,
- innate idea,
- inner form,
- innovation,
- instance,
- layout,
- lead,
- make,
- makeup,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- matrix,
- metaphor,
- mirror,
- modality,
- mode,
- model,
- mold,
- mould,
- new departure,
- noosphere,
- norm,
- noumenon,
- original,
- paradigm,
- paragon,
- pattern,
- pattern of perfection,
- percept,
- pilot model,
- precedent,
- precursor,
- predecessor,
- quintessence,
- referent,
- regulative first principle,
- representative,
- rule,
- sample,
- set,
- shape,
- significant form,
- simple idea,
- stamp,
- standard,
- structure,
- style,
- subsistent form,
- the Absolute,
- the Absolute Idea,
- the Self-determined,
- the realized ideal,
- transcendent idea,
- transcendent nonempirical concept,
- transcendent universal,
- turn,
- type,
- type species,
- type specimen,
- universal,
- universal concept,
- universal essence,
- urtext,
- very model
- sally
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- a venture off the beaten path; "a sally into the wide world beyond his home" related words >
- access,
- aggravated assault,
- aggression,
- amphibious attack,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- arise,
- armed assault,
- assailing,
- assailment,
- assault,
- attack,
- bail out,
- banzai attack,
- be off,
- blitz,
- blitzkrieg,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- break cover,
- break forth,
- breakthrough,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- burst,
- burst forth,
- campaign,
- charge,
- circuit,
- come,
- come forth,
- come out,
- conceit,
- counterattack,
- counteroffensive,
- coup de main,
- course,
- crack,
- crippling attack,
- dead set at,
- debouch,
- descent on,
- disembogue,
- diversion,
- diversionary attack,
- drive,
- drollery,
- effuse,
- emanate,
- emerge,
- epigram,
- erupt,
- eruption,
- excursion,
- expedition,
- explosion,
- extrude,
- facetiae,
- flank attack,
- flare-up,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- frontal attack,
- gag,
- gas attack,
- get off,
- gibe,
- go forth,
- grand tour,
- gust,
- happy thought,
- head-on attack,
- infiltration,
- issue,
- issue forth,
- jape,
- jaunt,
- jest,
- journey,
- jump out,
- junket,
- lightning attack,
- lightning war,
- mass attack,
- megadeath,
- mot,
- mugging,
- nasty crack,
- offense,
- offensive,
- onset,
- onslaught,
- outing,
- outset,
- outstart,
- overkill,
- package tour,
- panzer warfare,
- peregrination,
- persiflage,
- pilgrimage,
- play of wit,
- pleasantry,
- pleasure trip,
- progress,
- protrude,
- push,
- put forth,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- repartee,
- retort,
- riposte,
- round trip,
- roundabout,
- rubberneck tour,
- run,
- run against,
- run at,
- rush,
- safari,
- sally forth,
- scintillation,
- set forth,
- set forward,
- set off,
- set out,
- shock tactics,
- shoot,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- sortie,
- stalk,
- start,
- start off,
- start out,
- strike,
- strike out,
- stroke of wit,
- surface,
- tour,
- trek,
- trip,
- turn,
- turn of thought,
- unprovoked assault,
- voyage,
- waggery,
- wisecrack,
- witticism
- idealism
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- impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality related words >
- Berkeleianism,
- Geistesgeschichte,
- Hegelian idea,
- Hegelianism,
- Kantian idea,
- Kantianism,
- Neoplatonism,
- Platonic form,
- Platonic idea,
- Platonism,
- absolute idealism,
- animatism,
- animism,
- archetype,
- aspiration,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- bigheartedness,
- bigness,
- chivalrousness,
- chivalry,
- complex idea,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- dream,
- dreamery,
- elevation,
- errantry,
- eternal object,
- eternal universal,
- exaltation,
- exemplar,
- flight of fancy,
- form,
- formal cause,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- great heart,
- greatheartedness,
- greatness,
- greatness of heart,
- heroism,
- high goal,
- high-mindedness,
- highest category,
- history of ideas,
- hylozoism,
- ideal,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- ideals,
- ideate,
- ideatum,
- idee-force,
- imaginative exercise,
- immaterialism,
- impracticality,
- innate idea,
- knight-errantry,
- knightliness,
- largeheartedness,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- loftiness,
- magnanimity,
- magnanimousness,
- materialism,
- metaphysical idealism,
- model,
- monistic idealism,
- nobility,
- noble-mindedness,
- nobleness,
- noosphere,
- noumenon,
- openhandedness,
- panpsychism,
- pattern,
- percept,
- personalism,
- play of fancy,
- princeliness,
- prototype,
- psychism,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- reaching high,
- regulative first principle,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- simple idea,
- solipsism,
- spiritualism,
- subjectivism,
- sublimity,
- subsistent form,
- the Absolute,
- the Absolute Idea,
- the Self-determined,
- the realized ideal,
- transcendent idea,
- transcendent nonempirical concept,
- transcendent universal,
- transcendental,
- universal,
- universal concept,
- universal essence,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- upward looking,
- utopianism,
- visionariness,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking
- epigram
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- 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
- apparition,
- bee,
- boutade,
- brainchild,
- brainstorm,
- bubble,
- capriccio,
- caprice,
- chimera,
- conceit,
- crank,
- craze,
- crazy idea,
- crotchet,
- delirium,
- disposition,
- dream,
- eidolon,
- fad,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantastic notion,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figment,
- flimflam,
- fool notion,
- freak,
- freakish inspiration,
- hallucination,
- harebrained idea,
- humor,
- idea,
- idle fancy,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- inclination,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- kink,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- megrim,
- myth,
- notion,
- passing fancy,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- quirk,
- romance,
- sick fancy,
- thick-coming fancies,
- thought,
- toy,
- trip,
- vagary,
- vapor,
- vision,
- whim-wham,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams
- Parthian shot,
- affront,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- aspersion,
- atrocity,
- back answer,
- barrack,
- be merry with,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- brickbat,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- call names,
- caustic remark,
- chaff,
- comeback,
- conceit,
- contempt,
- contumely,
- crack,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- cut,
- cut at,
- cutting remark,
- deride,
- derision,
- despite,
- dig,
- dig at,
- dishonor,
- disoblige,
- dump,
- dump on,
- enormity,
- epigram,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- fleer,
- fleer at,
- flight of wit,
- flout,
- flouting,
- foolery,
- fun,
- gibe at,
- gibing retort,
- gird,
- give offense to,
- happy thought,
- heckle,
- humiliate,
- humiliation,
- hurl a brickbat,
- indignity,
- injury,
- insult,
- jab,
- jab at,
- jape,
- jeer,
- jeer at,
- jeering,
- jest,
- jibe,
- jibe at,
- joke,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- leg-pull,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- mock,
- mockery,
- mot,
- nasty crack,
- offend,
- offense,
- outrage,
- parting shot,
- persiflage,
- play of wit,
- play on words,
- pleasantry,
- poke fun at,
- pooh,
- pooh-pooh,
- pun,
- put down,
- put-down,
- put-on,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- rag,
- rail,
- rail at,
- raillery,
- rally,
- rank out,
- razz,
- repartee,
- retort,
- revile,
- rib,
- ridicule,
- riposte,
- rude reproach,
- sally,
- scintillate,
- scintillation,
- scoff,
- scoff at,
- scoffing,
- scold,
- scout,
- scurrility,
- short answer,
- slam,
- slap,
- slap at,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- sneer,
- sneer at,
- sparkle,
- stroke of wit,
- swipe,
- taunt,
- tease,
- thrust,
- treat with indignity,
- turn of thought,
- twit,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- utter a mot,
- verbal thrust,
- wisecrack,
- witticism
- bear in mind,
- brood over,
- cherish,
- consider,
- contemplate,
- dwell on,
- dwell upon,
- entertain thoughts of,
- fan the embers,
- harbor an idea,
- have in mind,
- have regard for,
- have thoughts about,
- hold an idea,
- hold in mind,
- hold the thought,
- keep,
- keep in memory,
- keep in sight,
- keep in view,
- reckon with,
- retain,
- take account of,
- take cognizance of,
- take heed of,
- take into account,
- take into consideration,
- take note of,
- take notice of,
- think of,
- treasure
- brood over,
- cherish,
- consider,
- contemplate,
- dwell on,
- dwell upon,
- entertain thoughts of,
- fan the embers,
- harbor an idea,
- have in mind,
- have regard for,
- have thoughts about,
- hold an idea,
- hold in mind,
- hold the thought,
- keep,
- keep in memory,
- keep in mind,
- keep in sight,
- keep in view,
- reckon with,
- retain,
- take account of,
- take cognizance of,
- take heed of,
- take into account,
- take into consideration,
- take note of,
- take notice of,
- think of,
- treasure
- Geistesgeschichte,
- Hegelian idea,
- Kantian idea,
- Platonic form,
- Platonic idea,
- aesthetic form,
- antetype,
- antitype,
- archetypal pattern,
- art form,
- beau ideal,
- biotype,
- blind impulse,
- build,
- cast,
- classic,
- classic example,
- collective unconscious,
- complex idea,
- configuration,
- conformation,
- criterion,
- cut,
- engram,
- epitome,
- eternal object,
- eternal universal,
- example,
- exemplar,
- fashion,
- father image,
- figuration,
- figure,
- form,
- formal cause,
- format,
- formation,
- frame,
- fugleman,
- fugler,
- genotype,
- genre,
- highest category,
- history of ideas,
- id,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideate,
- ideatum,
- idee-force,
- image,
- imago,
- imitatee,
- impression,
- impulse,
- inborn proclivity,
- innate idea,
- inner form,
- innovation,
- instinct,
- layout,
- lead,
- libido,
- make,
- makeup,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- matrix,
- memory,
- memory trace,
- mirror,
- modality,
- mode,
- model,
- mold,
- natural instinct,
- natural tendency,
- new departure,
- noosphere,
- noumenon,
- original,
- paradigm,
- paragon,
- pattern,
- pattern of perfection,
- percept,
- pilot model,
- precedent,
- primitive self,
- prototype,
- quintessence,
- regulative first principle,
- representative,
- rule,
- set,
- shape,
- significant form,
- simple idea,
- stamp,
- standard,
- structure,
- style,
- subconscious urge,
- subsistent form,
- the Absolute,
- the Absolute Idea,
- the Self-determined,
- the realized ideal,
- transcendent idea,
- transcendent nonempirical concept,
- transcendent universal,
- traumatic trace,
- turn,
- type,
- type species,
- type specimen,
- unconscious memory,
- universal,
- universal concept,
- universal essence,
- unlearned capacity,
- unreasoning impulse,
- urtext,
- very model,
- vital impulse
- dazzling
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- amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning; "the skater's dazzling virtuosic leaps"; "these great best canvases still look as astonishing and as invitingly new as they did...when...his fulgurant popularity was in full growth"- Janet Flanner; "adventures related...in a style both vivid and fulgurous"- Idwal Jones related words >
- beaming,
- bedazzling,
- blinding,
- blooming,
- bright,
- bright and shining,
- brilliant,
- devastating,
- divine,
- effulgent,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- fulgent,
- fulgid,
- garish,
- glamorous,
- glaring,
- glary,
- glorious,
- glowing,
- gorgeous,
- heavenly,
- killing,
- magnificent,
- mind-boggling,
- obscuring,
- overpowering,
- overwhelming,
- radiant,
- raving,
- ravishing,
- refulgent,
- resplendent,
- scintillating,
- shining,
- sparkling,
- splendent,
- splendid,
- splendiferous,
- splendorous,
- splendrous,
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- (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature); "the rationale for capital punishment"; "the principles of internal-combustion engines" related words >
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