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bright thought
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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
,
sally
,
scintillation
,
smart crack
,
smart saying
,
snappy comeback
,
stroke of wit
,
turn of thought
,
wisecrack
,
witticism
nasty crack
collapse
related words >
aphorism
,
apothegm
,
bon mot
,
boutade
,
bright idea
,
bright thought
,
brilliant idea
,
conceit
,
crack
,
epigram
,
facetiae
,
flash of wit
,
flight of wit
,
gibe
,
happy thought
,
mot
,
persiflage
,
play of wit
,
pleasantry
,
quip
,
quips and cranks
,
repartee
,
retort
,
riposte
,
sally
,
scintillation
,
smart crack
,
smart saying
,
snappy comeback
,
stroke of wit
,
turn of thought
,
wisecrack
,
witticism
persiflage
collapse
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
apothegm
collapse
related words >
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
,
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
aphorism
collapse
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
witticism
collapse
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
,
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
,
smart crack
,
smart saying
,
snappy comeback
,
stock saying
,
stroke of wit
,
sutra
,
teaching
,
text
,
turn of thought
,
verse
,
waggery
,
wisdom
,
wisdom literature
,
wise saying
,
wisecrack
,
word
,
words of wisdom
,
yak
repartee
collapse
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
introspective
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given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences
related words >
absorbed
,
abstracted
,
buried in thought
,
cogitative
,
cognitive
,
concentrating
,
concentrative
,
conceptive
,
conceptual
,
conceptualized
,
contemplating
,
contemplative
,
deliberating
,
deliberative
,
engaged in thought
,
engrossed
,
engrossed in thought
,
excogitating
,
ideative
,
immersed in thought
,
lost in thought
,
meditating
,
meditative
,
mental
,
museful
,
musing
,
noetic
,
occupied
,
pensive
,
pondering
,
prehensive
,
preoccupied
,
rapt
,
reflecting
,
reflective
,
ruminant
,
ruminating
,
ruminative
,
serious
,
sober
,
speculative
,
thinking
,
thought
,
thoughtful
,
wistful
,
wrapped in thought
scintillation
collapse
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
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
,
crazy idea
,
crotchet
,
deliriousness
,
delirium
,
drive
,
fad
,
fancy
,
fantastic notion
,
fantasy
,
flash
,
fleeting impulse
,
flimflam
,
fool notion
,
freak
,
freakish inspiration
,
good idea
,
gut response
,
harebrained idea
,
humor
,
impulse
,
incoherence
,
inspiration
,
instinct
,
involuntary impulse
,
kink
,
lingual delirium
,
maggot
,
megrim
,
natural impulse
,
notion
,
passing fancy
,
quick hunch
,
quirk
,
ranting
,
raving
,
reflex
,
sudden thought
,
toy
,
urge
,
vagary
,
wandering
,
whim
,
whim-wham
,
whimsy
lost in thought
collapse
related words >
absent
,
absentminded
,
absorbed
,
abstracted
,
bemused
,
buried in thought
,
castle-building
,
daydreaming
,
daydreamy
,
dreaming
,
dreamy
,
drowsing
,
ecstatic
,
elsewhere
,
engaged in thought
,
engrossed
,
engrossed in thought
,
faraway
,
half-awake
,
immersed in thought
,
in a reverie
,
in the clouds
,
introspective
,
lost
,
meditative
,
mooning
,
moonraking
,
museful
,
musing
,
napping
,
nodding
,
oblivious
,
occupied
,
pensive
,
pipe-dreaming
,
preoccupied
,
rapt
,
somewhere else
,
stargazing
,
taken up
,
transported
,
unconscious
,
woolgathering
,
wrapped in thought
revaluation
collapse
related words >
afterthought
,
circulation
,
demonetization
,
devaluation
,
developed thought
,
issuance
,
mature thought
,
monetization
,
re-examination
,
reappraisal
,
recheck
,
reconsideration
,
reinquiry
,
rethinking
,
review
,
revision
,
ripe idea
,
second thought
,
second thoughts
thought provoking
collapse
related words >
exciting
,
interesting
,
inviting
,
juicy
,
lively
,
piquant
,
provocative
,
provoking
,
racy
,
readable
,
rich
,
spicy
,
stimulating
,
succulent
,
tantalizing
,
thought-challenging
,
thought-inspiring
,
tickling
,
titillating
stream of consciousness
collapse
the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience
a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
related words >
association
,
association by contiguity
,
association of ideas
,
chain of thought
,
clang association
,
controlled association
,
current of thought
,
flow of thought
,
free association
,
identification
,
inmost thoughts
,
mental linking
,
negative transference
,
positive transference
,
secret thoughts
,
synesthesia
,
thoughts
,
train of thought
,
transference
quip
collapse
related words >
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
ratiocination
collapse
logical and methodical reasoning
related words >
abstract thought
,
act of thought
,
brainwork
,
cerebration
,
cogitation
,
conceit
,
conception
,
conceptualization
,
conclusion
,
creative thought
,
deduction
,
deductive reasoning
,
demonstration
,
discourse
,
discourse of reason
,
discursive reason
,
excogitation
,
headwork
,
heavy thinking
,
idea
,
ideation
,
illation
,
imageless thought
,
induction
,
inductive reasoning
,
intellection
,
intellectual exercise
,
intellectualization
,
judgment
,
logical thought
,
mental act
,
mental labor
,
mental process
,
mentation
,
noesis
,
philosophy
,
proof
,
rationalism
,
rationality
,
rationalization
,
rationalizing
,
reason
,
reasonableness
,
reasoning
,
sequitur
,
sophistry
,
specious reasoning
,
straight thinking
,
sweet reason
,
thinking
,
thinking aloud
,
thinking out
,
thought
riposte
collapse
(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
occupied
collapse
resided in; having tenants; "not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up"
held or filled or in use; "she keeps her time well occupied"; "the wc is occupied"
seized and controlled as by military invasion; "the occupied countries of Europe"
related words >
absorbed
,
absorbed in
,
abstracted
,
at it
,
at work
,
buried in
,
buried in thought
,
busy
,
caught up in
,
colonized
,
contemplating
,
contemplative
,
devoted
,
devoted to
,
empeopled
,
employed
,
engaged
,
engaged in thought
,
engrossed
,
engrossed in
,
engrossed in thought
,
full of business
,
hard at it
,
hard at work
,
immersed in
,
immersed in thought
,
in harness
,
inhabited
,
intent
,
intent on
,
introspective
,
involved
,
lost in
,
lost in thought
,
meditating
,
meditative
,
monomaniacal
,
monopolized
,
obsessed
,
on duty
,
on the go
,
on the hop
,
on the job
,
on the jump
,
on the move
,
on the run
,
peopled
,
populated
,
populous
,
preoccupied
,
rapt
,
settled
,
single-minded
,
studious
,
studying
,
submerged in
,
swept up
,
taken up with
,
tenanted
,
tied up
,
totally absorbed
,
working
,
wrapped in
,
wrapped in thought
,
wrapped up in
headwork
collapse
related words >
abstract thought
,
act of thought
,
application
,
boning
,
brainwork
,
cerebration
,
cogitation
,
conceit
,
conception
,
conceptualization
,
conning
,
contemplation
,
cram
,
cramming
,
creative thought
,
drill
,
engrossment
,
excogitation
,
exercise
,
extensive study
,
grind
,
grinding
,
heavy thinking
,
idea
,
ideation
,
imageless thought
,
inspection
,
intellection
,
intellectual exercise
,
intellectualization
,
lucubration
,
mental act
,
mental labor
,
mental process
,
mentation
,
noesis
,
perusal
,
practice
,
ratiocination
,
reading
,
reasoning
,
restudy
,
restudying
,
review
,
straight thinking
,
study
,
studying
,
subject
,
swotting
,
thinking
,
thinking aloud
,
thinking out
,
thought
,
wide reading
pleasantry
collapse
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
collapse
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
brainwork
collapse
related words >
abstract thought
,
act of thought
,
application
,
boning
,
cerebration
,
cogitation
,
conceit
,
conception
,
conceptualization
,
conning
,
contemplation
,
cram
,
cramming
,
creative thought
,
deliberation
,
drill
,
engrossment
,
excogitation
,
exercise
,
extensive study
,
grind
,
grinding
,
headwork
,
heavy thinking
,
idea
,
ideation
,
imageless thought
,
inspection
,
intellection
,
intellectual exercise
,
intellectualization
,
lucubration
,
mental act
,
mental labor
,
mental process
,
mentation
,
noesis
,
perusal
,
practice
,
ratiocination
,
reading
,
reasoning
,
reflection
,
restudy
,
restudying
,
review
,
speculation
,
straight thinking
,
study
,
studying
,
subject
,
swotting
,
thinking
,
thinking aloud
,
thinking out
,
thought
,
wide reading
abstracted
collapse
taken out of or separated from; "possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A.N.Whitehead
related words >
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
absent
,
absentminded
,
absorbed
,
bemused
,
bobbed
,
buried in thought
,
capsule
,
capsulized
,
castle-building
,
clipped
,
compressed
,
condensed
,
cropped
,
curtailed
,
cut short
,
daydreaming
,
daydreamy
,
digested
,
distrait
,
docked
,
dreaming
,
dreamy
,
drowsing
,
ecstatic
,
elided
,
elliptic
,
elsewhere
,
engaged in thought
,
engrossed
,
engrossed in thought
,
faraway
,
half-awake
,
heedless
,
immersed in thought
,
in a reverie
,
in the clouds
,
inattentive
,
intent
,
introspective
,
lost
,
lost in thought
,
meditative
,
mooning
,
moonraking
,
mowed
,
mown
,
museful
,
musing
,
napping
,
nipped
,
nodding
,
oblivious
,
occupied
,
pensive
,
pipe-dreaming
,
pollard
,
polled
,
preoccupied
,
pruned
,
rapt
,
reaped
,
shaved
,
sheared
,
short-cut
,
shortened
,
snub
,
snubbed
,
somewhere else
,
stargazing
,
taken up
,
transported
,
trimmed
,
unconscious
,
unmindful
,
woolgathering
,
wrapped in thought
reconsideration
collapse
thinking again about a choice previously made; "he had second thoughts about his purchase"
a consideration of a topic (as in a meeting) with a view to changing an earlier decision
related words >
afterthought
,
commitment to memory
,
developed thought
,
exercise of memory
,
flashback
,
hindsight
,
learning by heart
,
looking back
,
mature thought
,
memoir
,
memorization
,
memorizing
,
re-examination
,
reappraisal
,
recall
,
recalling
,
recollecting
,
recollection
,
reflection
,
remembering
,
remembrance
,
reminiscence
,
rethinking
,
retrospect
,
retrospection
,
revaluation
,
review
,
revision
,
ripe idea
,
rote
,
rote memory
,
second thought
,
second thoughts
,
study
absorbed
collapse
taken in through the pores of a surface; "the absorbed water expanded the sponge"
retained without reflection; "the absorbed light intensity"
related words >
absent
,
absentminded
,
absorbed in
,
abstracted
,
bemused
,
buried
,
buried in
,
buried in thought
,
castle-building
,
caught up in
,
concentrating
,
contemplating
,
contemplative
,
daydreaming
,
daydreamy
,
deep
,
devoted
,
devoted to
,
dreaming
,
dreamy
,
drowsing
,
ecstatic
,
elsewhere
,
engaged
,
engaged in thought
,
engrossed
,
engrossed in
,
engrossed in thought
,
enmeshed in
,
entangled in
,
far-gone
,
faraway
,
half-awake
,
immersed
,
immersed in
,
immersed in thought
,
implicated in
,
in a reverie
,
in the clouds
,
intent
,
intent on
,
introspective
,
involved
,
involved in
,
lost
,
lost in
,
lost in thought
,
meditating
,
meditative
,
monomaniacal
,
monopolized
,
mooning
,
moonraking
,
museful
,
musing
,
napping
,
nodding
,
oblivious
,
obsessed
,
occupied
,
pensive
,
pipe-dreaming
,
preoccupied
,
rapt
,
single-minded
,
somewhere else
,
stargazing
,
studious
,
studying
,
submerged in
,
swept up
,
taken up
,
taken up with
,
tied up in
,
totally absorbed
,
transported
,
unconscious
,
woolgathering
,
wrapped
,
wrapped in
,
wrapped in thought
,
wrapped up
,
wrapped up in
sally
collapse
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
epigram
collapse
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
gibe
collapse
related words >
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
reputed
collapse
related words >
alleged
,
assumed
,
believed
,
conjectural
,
considered
,
creditable
,
deemed
,
estimable
,
held
,
hypothetical
,
judged
,
presumed
,
purported
,
putative
,
regarded
,
reputable
,
rumored
,
said
,
supposed
,
suppositional
,
supposititious
,
suppositive
,
suppository
,
thought
,
viewed
,
well-thought-of
noddle
collapse
an informal British expression for head or mind; "use your noddle"
related words >
bean
,
belfry
,
brain
,
brow
,
conk
,
crown
,
dome
,
encephalon
,
gray matter
,
head
,
headpiece
,
noggin
,
noodle
,
organ of thought
,
pate
,
poll
,
ridge
,
sconce
,
seat of thought
,
sensation
,
sensorium
,
sensory
noggin
collapse
related words >
bean
,
brain
,
brow
,
chump
,
conk
,
crown
,
dome
,
encephalon
,
gray matter
,
head
,
headpiece
,
noddle
,
noodle
,
organ of thought
,
pate
,
poll
,
ridge
,
sconce
,
seat of thought
,
sensation
,
sensorium
,
sensory
noetic
collapse
related words >
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
ideation
collapse
the process of forming and relating ideas
related words >
IQ
,
abstract thought
,
act of thought
,
apprehension
,
brainwork
,
caliber
,
capacity
,
cerebration
,
clairvoyance
,
cogitation
,
command
,
comprehension
,
conceit
,
conception
,
conceptualization
,
creative thought
,
deductive power
,
esemplastic power
,
excogitation
,
foreknowledge
,
grasp
,
grip
,
headwork
,
heavy thinking
,
idea
,
imageless thought
,
integrative power
,
intellect
,
intellection
,
intellectual exercise
,
intellectual grasp
,
intellectual power
,
intellectualism
,
intellectuality
,
intellectualization
,
intelligence
,
intelligence quotient
,
knowledge
,
mastery
,
mental act
,
mental age
,
mental capacity
,
mental grasp
,
mental labor
,
mental process
,
mental ratio
,
mentality
,
mentation
,
mother wit
,
native wit
,
noesis
,
power of mind
,
precognition
,
prehension
,
ratiocination
,
rationality
,
reasoning
,
reasoning power
,
sanity
,
savvy
,
scope of mind
,
sense
,
straight thinking
,
thinking
,
thinking aloud
,
thinking out
,
thinking power
,
thought
,
understanding
,
wisdom
,
wit
reverie
collapse
an abstracted state of absorption
absentminded dreaming while awake
related words >
Walter Mitty
,
absence of mind
,
absentmindedness
,
absorption
,
abstractedness
,
abstraction
,
amnesia
,
bad dream
,
bemusement
,
brown study
,
castle-building
,
catalepsy
,
cataplexy
,
catatonic stupor
,
close study
,
concentration
,
contemplation
,
contemplativeness
,
daydream
,
daydreamer
,
daydreaming
,
daze
,
deep thought
,
depth of thought
,
dream
,
dream state
,
dreaming
,
engrossment
,
fantasy
,
fantasying
,
fit of abstraction
,
fugue
,
fugue state
,
hypnotic trance
,
incubus
,
meditation
,
melancholy
,
mooning
,
moonraking
,
muse
,
musefulness
,
musing
,
muted ecstasy
,
nightmare
,
pensiveness
,
pipe dream
,
pipe-dreaming
,
preoccupation
,
profound thought
,
reflectiveness
,
sleepwalking
,
somnambulism
,
speculativeness
,
stargazing
,
study
,
stupor
,
thought
,
thoughtfulness
,
trance
,
vision
,
wistfulness
,
woolgathering
conceit
collapse
the trait of being unduly vain and conceited
an artistic device or effect; "the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree"
a witty or ingenious turn of phrase; "he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit"
an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things
related words >
abstract thought
,
act of thought
,
affectation
,
aggressive self-confidence
,
amour propre
,
aphorism
,
apothegm
,
apprehension
,
arrogance
,
assume
,
assumption
,
assurance
,
attitude
,
bee
,
believe
,
bluster
,
boast
,
boastfulness
,
boasting
,
bombast
,
bon mot
,
boutade
,
brag
,
braggadocio
,
braggartism
,
bragging
,
brainstorm
,
brainwork
,
bravado
,
bright idea
,
bright thought
,
brilliant idea
,
bumptiousness
,
capriccio
,
caprice
,
cerebration
,
chestiness
,
climate of opinion
,
cockiness
,
cogitation
,
common belief
,
community sentiment
,
complacence
,
complacency
,
conceitedness
,
conceive
,
concept
,
conception
,
conceptualization
,
conclusion
,
consensus gentium
,
consequence
,
consideration
,
coxcombry
,
crack
,
crank
,
craze
,
crazy idea
,
creative thought
,
crotchet
,
dandyism
,
egoism
,
egotism
,
epigram
,
estimate
,
estimation
,
ethos
,
excogitation
,
expect
,
eye
,
face
,
facetiae
,
fad
,
fancy
,
fanfaronade
,
fantastic notion
,
fantasticism
,
fantasy
,
feeling
,
flash of wit
,
flight of fancy
,
flight of wit
,
flimflam
,
fool notion
,
foppery
,
foppishness
,
freak
,
freakish inspiration
,
fumes of fancy
,
gasconade
,
gasconism
,
gather
,
general belief
,
gibe
,
happy thought
,
harebrained idea
,
haughtiness
,
headwork
,
heavy thinking
,
heroics
,
humor
,
idea
,
ideation
,
image
,
imageless thought
,
imagination
,
imaginativeness
,
imagine
,
imagining
,
imago
,
immodesty
,
impression
,
independence
,
intellection
,
intellectual exercise
,
intellectual object
,
intellectualization
,
jactation
,
jactitation
,
judgment
,
kink
,
lights
,
maggot
,
megrim
,
memory-trace
,
mental act
,
mental image
,
mental impression
,
mental labor
,
mental process
,
mentation
,
mind
,
mot
,
mystique
,
narcissism
,
nasty crack
,
noesis
,
notion
,
observation
,
obtrusiveness
,
opinion
,
pardonable pride
,
passing fancy
,
perception
,
perkiness
,
persiflage
,
personal judgment
,
pertness
,
play of wit
,
pleasantry
,
point of view
,
pomposity
,
popular belief
,
position
,
posture
,
presumption
,
prevailing belief
,
pride
,
pridefulness
,
proudness
,
public belief
,
public opinion
,
puppyism
,
purse-pride
,
quip
,
quips and cranks
,
quirk
,
ratiocination
,
reaction
,
reasoning
,
recept
,
reckon
,
reflection
,
repartee
,
representation
,
retort
,
riposte
,
rodomontade
,
sally
,
scintillation
,
self-admiration
,
self-assertiveness
,
self-complacency
,
self-conceit
,
self-confidence
,
self-consequence
,
self-esteem
,
self-importance
,
self-love
,
self-reliance
,
self-respect
,
self-sufficiency
,
sentiment
,
side
,
sight
,
smart crack
,
smart saying
,
smugness
,
snappy comeback
,
stance
,
stiff-necked pride
,
stiff-neckedness
,
straight thinking
,
stroke of wit
,
stuffiness
,
suppose
,
supposition
,
swagger
,
swelled head
,
swelled-headedness
,
theory
,
think
,
thinking
,
thinking aloud
,
thinking out
,
thought
,
toy
,
turn of thought
,
vagary
,
vainglory
,
vainness
,
vanity
,
vaunt
,
vauntery
,
vaunting
,
view
,
way of thinking
,
whim
,
whim-wham
,
whimsy
,
wisecrack
,
witticism
reasoning
collapse
thinking that is coherent and logical
related words >
Vernunft
,
abstract thought
,
act of thought
,
analysis
,
analytic
,
arguments
,
brain
,
brains
,
brainwork
,
cerebral
,
cerebration
,
cogitation
,
conceit
,
conception
,
conceptive
,
conceptual
,
conceptualization
,
creative thought
,
discourse of reason
,
discursive reason
,
endopsychic
,
esprit
,
excogitation
,
explanation
,
explication
,
gray matter
,
head
,
headpiece
,
headwork
,
heavy thinking
,
hypothesis
,
idea
,
ideation
,
imageless thought
,
intellect
,
intellection
,
intellectual
,
intellectual exercise
,
intellectual faculty
,
intellectualization
,
intelligence
,
intelligent
,
internal
,
logic
,
mens
,
mental
,
mental act
,
mental capacity
,
mental labor
,
mental process
,
mentality
,
mentation
,
mind
,
noesis
,
noetic
,
noological
,
nous
,
phrenic
,
postulate
,
power of reason
,
premises
,
psyche
,
psychic
,
psychologic
,
ratio
,
ratiocination
,
ratiocinative
,
ratiocinatory
,
rational
,
rationale
,
rationality
,
rationalization
,
reason
,
reasoning faculty
,
reasons
,
smarts
,
spiritual
,
straight thinking
,
subjective
,
theory
,
thinking
,
thinking aloud
,
thinking out
,
thought
,
understanding
brown study
collapse
a state of deep absorption or thoughtfulness
related words >
Walter Mitty
,
absence of mind
,
absentmindedness
,
absorption
,
abstractedness
,
abstraction
,
bad dream
,
bemusement
,
castle-building
,
close study
,
concentration
,
contemplativeness
,
daydream
,
daydreamer
,
daydreaming
,
deep thought
,
depth of thought
,
dream
,
dreaming
,
engrossment
,
fantasy
,
fantasying
,
fit of abstraction
,
incubus
,
melancholy
,
mooning
,
moonraking
,
muse
,
musefulness
,
musing
,
muted ecstasy
,
nightmare
,
pensiveness
,
pipe dream
,
pipe-dreaming
,
preoccupation
,
profound thought
,
reflectiveness
,
reverie
,
speculativeness
,
stargazing
,
study
,
thoughtfulness
,
trance
,
vision
,
wistfulness
,
woolgathering
second thoughts
collapse
related words >
about-face
,
afterthought
,
afterthoughts
,
ambitendency
,
ambivalence
,
better thoughts
,
capriciousness
,
change of mind
,
changeableness
,
developed thought
,
double-mindedness
,
dubiety
,
dubiousness
,
fence-sitting
,
fence-straddling
,
fickleness
,
flip
,
flip-flop
,
inconstancy
,
indecision
,
indecisiveness
,
infirmity of purpose
,
instability
,
irresolution
,
mature judgment
,
mature thought
,
mercuriality
,
mugwumpery
,
mugwumpism
,
re-examination
,
reappraisal
,
reconsideration
,
rethinking
,
revaluation
,
reversal
,
reverse
,
review
,
right-about
,
right-about-face
,
ripe idea
,
second thought
,
tergiversating
,
tergiversation
,
turnabout
,
turnaround
,
uncertainty
,
undecidedness
,
undeterminedness
,
unsettledness
,
unsettlement
,
volte-face
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