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- critic
collapse - someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments
- anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something
- a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art related words >
- advertising writer,
- aficionado,
- allegorist,
- amateur,
- annalist,
- annotator,
- arbiter,
- arbiter elegantiarum,
- arbiter of taste,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- authority,
- belittler,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- bon vivant,
- book reviewer,
- buff,
- captious,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- carping,
- caviler,
- caviling,
- censor,
- censorious,
- censurer,
- cicerone,
- clarifier,
- coauthor,
- cognoscente,
- collaborator,
- collector,
- columnist,
- commentator,
- commenter,
- common scold,
- compiler,
- complainer,
- composer,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- criticaster,
- criticizer,
- critickin,
- criticule,
- cryptanalyst,
- cryptographer,
- cryptologist,
- dance critic,
- decoder,
- definer,
- demonstrator,
- demythologizer,
- diarist,
- diaskeuast,
- dilettante,
- disparager,
- dragoman,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- editor,
- editorial writer,
- editorialist,
- emendator,
- emender,
- encyclopedist,
- epicure,
- epicurean,
- essayist,
- euhemerist,
- exegesist,
- exegete,
- exegetist,
- expert,
- explainer,
- explicator,
- exponent,
- expositor,
- expounder,
- fan,
- faultfinder,
- faultfinding,
- freak,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- frondeur,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- glossarist,
- glossographer,
- go-between,
- good judge,
- gourmand,
- gourmet,
- guide,
- hermeneut,
- humorist,
- hypercritical,
- inditer,
- interpreter,
- judge,
- knocker,
- leader writer,
- lexicographer,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- maven,
- metaphrast,
- momus,
- monographer,
- muckraker,
- mudslinger,
- music critic,
- news analyst,
- newspaperman,
- nitpicker,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- nut,
- oneirocritic,
- overcritical,
- pamphleteer,
- paraphrast,
- penwoman,
- pettifogger,
- poet,
- prose writer,
- publicist,
- pundit,
- quibbler,
- refined palate,
- reviewer,
- savant,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scholar,
- scholiast,
- scold,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- smellfungus,
- social critic,
- specialist,
- storyteller,
- technical expert,
- technical writer,
- technician,
- textual critic,
- translator,
- virtuoso,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer
- censor
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- a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable
- someone who censures or condemns
- subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government" related words >
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- annotator,
- asphyxiate,
- belittler,
- black out,
- bleach,
- blip,
- blot out,
- blue-pencil,
- bottle up,
- bowdlerize,
- cancel,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censurer,
- choke off,
- clamp down on,
- clean up,
- cognoscente,
- commentator,
- commenter,
- common scold,
- connoisseur,
- conscience,
- conscientiousness,
- cork,
- cork up,
- crack down on,
- critic,
- criticaster,
- criticizer,
- critickin,
- criticule,
- cross out,
- crush,
- cut,
- cut out,
- damp down,
- delete,
- drown,
- edit,
- edit out,
- editor,
- erase,
- ethical self,
- excise,
- expunge,
- expurgate,
- extinguish,
- faultfinder,
- frondeur,
- gag,
- grace,
- hold down,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush,
- hush up,
- hush-hush,
- inner arbiter,
- inward monitor,
- jump on,
- keep down,
- keep under,
- kill,
- literary critic,
- man of letters,
- momus,
- monopolist,
- moral censor,
- muckraker,
- muffle,
- muzzle,
- narrow,
- nitpicker,
- omit,
- pettifogger,
- pour water on,
- protectionist,
- purge,
- purify,
- put down,
- quash,
- quell,
- quench,
- quibbler,
- repress,
- rescind,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- restrictionist,
- reviewer,
- rub out,
- scholiast,
- scold,
- screen,
- shush,
- shut down on,
- silence,
- sit down on,
- sit on,
- smash,
- smellfungus,
- smother,
- social conscience,
- social critic,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stanch,
- stifle,
- strangle,
- strike,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- stultify,
- subdue,
- suffocate,
- superego,
- suppress,
- tender conscience,
- textual critic,
- throttle,
- twinge of conscience,
- voice of conscience,
- void
- agitator,
- anarch,
- anarchist,
- belittler,
- bellyacher,
- brawler,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- common scold,
- complainant,
- complainer,
- crab,
- crank,
- critic,
- criticizer,
- croaker,
- extremist,
- faultfinder,
- griper,
- grouch,
- grouser,
- growler,
- grumbler,
- insubordinate,
- insurgent,
- insurrectionary,
- insurrectionist,
- insurrecto,
- kicker,
- kvetch,
- malcontent,
- maverick,
- momus,
- murmurer,
- mutineer,
- mutterer,
- nitpicker,
- nonconformist,
- pettifogger,
- querulous person,
- quibbler,
- reactionary,
- reactionist,
- rebel,
- revolter,
- revolutionary,
- revolutionist,
- rioter,
- scold,
- smellfungus,
- sorehead,
- subversive,
- traitor,
- whiner
- hatchet man
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- one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior
- a professional killer related words >
- Cain,
- Thersites,
- apache,
- assassin,
- assassinator,
- backbiter,
- battler,
- belittler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- blade,
- bloodletter,
- bloodshedder,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bruiser,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- burker,
- butcher,
- button man,
- calumniator,
- cannibal,
- caustic critic,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- contender,
- contestant,
- cutthroat,
- cynic,
- debunker,
- decrier,
- defamer,
- deflater,
- depreciator,
- derogator,
- desperado,
- detractor,
- disparager,
- disputant,
- duelist,
- enforcer,
- eradicator,
- executioner,
- exterminator,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- gamecock,
- garroter,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- gun,
- gunman,
- gunsel,
- gunslinger,
- hanger-on,
- head-hunter,
- heeler,
- hellion,
- henchman,
- hit man,
- holy terror,
- homicidal maniac,
- homicide,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- jouster,
- killer,
- knight,
- knocker,
- libeler,
- man-eater,
- man-killer,
- manslayer,
- massacrer,
- matador,
- militant,
- muckraker,
- mudslinger,
- mug,
- mugger,
- murderer,
- muscle man,
- pesticide,
- plug-ugly,
- poison,
- poisoner,
- quarreler,
- railer,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rodman,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- slanderer,
- slaughterer,
- slayer,
- social critic,
- squabbler,
- strangler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- terror,
- thug,
- tilter,
- torpedo,
- tough,
- traducer,
- trigger man,
- tussler,
- ugly customer,
- ward heeler,
- wrangler
- lexicographer
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- a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language related words >
- allegorist,
- annotator,
- cicerone,
- clarifier,
- commentator,
- critic,
- cryptanalyst,
- cryptographer,
- cryptologist,
- decoder,
- definer,
- demonstrator,
- demythologizer,
- dialectician,
- diaskeuast,
- dragoman,
- editor,
- emendator,
- emender,
- etymologer,
- etymologist,
- euhemerist,
- exegesist,
- exegete,
- exegetist,
- explainer,
- explicator,
- exponent,
- expositor,
- expounder,
- glossarist,
- glossographer,
- go-between,
- grammarian,
- grammaticaster,
- grammatist,
- guide,
- hermeneut,
- interpreter,
- lexicologist,
- linguist,
- linguistic scholar,
- linguistic scientist,
- linguistician,
- metaphrast,
- oneirocritic,
- orthoepist,
- paleographer,
- paraphrast,
- philologaster,
- philologer,
- philologian,
- philologist,
- phonemicist,
- phonetician,
- phoneticist,
- phonologist,
- scholiast,
- semanticist,
- semasiologist,
- textual critic,
- translator
- radium
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- an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores related words >
- acid,
- actual cautery,
- americium,
- astatine,
- atomic cocktail,
- berkelium,
- brand,
- brand iron,
- branding iron,
- caustic,
- cauter,
- cauterant,
- cauterizer,
- cautery,
- cobalt,
- corrosive,
- curium,
- einsteinium,
- electrocautery,
- escharotic,
- fermium,
- francium,
- hahnium,
- hot iron,
- lunar caustic,
- mendelevium,
- mordant,
- moxa,
- neptunium,
- plutonium,
- polonium,
- potential cautery,
- promethium,
- protactinium,
- radiocalcium,
- radiocarbon,
- radioelement,
- radioiodine,
- radioisotope,
- radiosodium,
- radon,
- tagged element,
- technetium,
- tracer,
- uranium
- adventurer,
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- ask no favors,
- ask no quarter,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- blue-collar worker,
- breadwinner,
- casual,
- casual laborer,
- coauthor,
- collaborate,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- common laborer,
- compiler,
- compose,
- composer,
- condottiere,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- dash off,
- day laborer,
- diarist,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- editorialize,
- employee,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- factory worker,
- flunky,
- formulate,
- free spirit,
- free trader,
- free-lance writer,
- free-lancer,
- freethinker,
- full-time worker,
- ghost,
- ghostwrite,
- ghostwriter,
- go it alone,
- gun,
- gunman,
- hand,
- hired gun,
- hired killer,
- hireling,
- humorist,
- independent,
- indite,
- inditer,
- individualist,
- industrial worker,
- isolationist,
- jobber,
- jobholder,
- knock off,
- knock out,
- laborer,
- laboring man,
- latitudinarian,
- liberal,
- libertarian,
- libertine,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- menial,
- mercenary,
- migrant,
- moiler,
- monographer,
- mugwump,
- music critic,
- navvy,
- neutral,
- newspaperman,
- nonpartisan,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- novelize,
- office temporary,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prepare,
- produce,
- professional killer,
- proletarian,
- prose writer,
- reviewer,
- roustabout,
- rugged individualist,
- salaried worker,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scenarize,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- self-employed person,
- servant,
- short-story writer,
- soldier of fortune,
- stiff,
- storyteller,
- technical writer,
- temporary,
- third force,
- third world,
- throw on paper,
- toiler,
- wage earner,
- wage slave,
- wageworker,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- worker,
- workgirl,
- workhand,
- working girl,
- workingman,
- workingwoman,
- workman,
- write,
- writer
- expositor
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- a person who explains related words >
- Boanerges,
- allegorist,
- annotator,
- author,
- book reviewer,
- chalk talker,
- cicerone,
- clarifier,
- commentator,
- commenter,
- critic,
- cryptanalyst,
- cryptographer,
- cryptologist,
- decoder,
- definer,
- demonstrator,
- demythologizer,
- descanter,
- diaskeuast,
- discourser,
- disquisitor,
- dragoman,
- editor,
- editorial writer,
- editorialist,
- emendator,
- emender,
- essayist,
- euhemerist,
- exegesist,
- exegete,
- exegetist,
- explainer,
- explicator,
- exponent,
- expounder,
- glossarist,
- glossographer,
- go-between,
- guide,
- hermeneut,
- homilist,
- interpreter,
- leader writer,
- lecturer,
- lexicographer,
- metaphrast,
- monographer,
- monographist,
- news analyst,
- oneirocritic,
- paraphrast,
- praelector,
- preacher,
- publicist,
- pulpitarian,
- pulpiteer,
- reader,
- reviewer,
- scholiast,
- sermoner,
- sermonist,
- sermonizer,
- textual critic,
- tractation,
- translator,
- writer
- scribe
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- informal terms for journalists
- French playwright (1791-1861)
- score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking related words >
- Levite,
- accountant,
- advertising writer,
- amanuensis,
- annalist,
- archivist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- baal kore,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- bookkeeper,
- calligrapher,
- cantor,
- carve,
- chase,
- chief rabbi,
- chirographer,
- clerk,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- commentator,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copier,
- copy,
- copy out,
- copyist,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- diarist,
- documentalist,
- draft,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- dramaturge,
- draw up,
- edit,
- editor,
- enchase,
- encyclopedist,
- enface,
- engrave,
- engraver,
- engross,
- essayist,
- etch,
- filing clerk,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- gossip columnist,
- grave,
- hack,
- high priest,
- humorist,
- incise,
- indite,
- inditer,
- ink spiller,
- inkslinger,
- inscribe,
- journalist,
- kohen,
- letterer,
- librarian,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- make a recension,
- make out,
- man of letters,
- mark,
- marker,
- monographer,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- newspaperwoman,
- newswriter,
- notary,
- notary public,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- paragraphist,
- pen,
- pencil,
- pencil driver,
- penman,
- penner,
- penny-a-liner,
- penwoman,
- playwright,
- poet,
- priest,
- prose writer,
- prothonotary,
- push the pen,
- put in writing,
- rabbi,
- rabbin,
- recense,
- record,
- record clerk,
- recorder,
- recording secretary,
- recordist,
- register,
- registrar,
- reporter,
- reviewer,
- revise,
- rewrite,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- score,
- scorekeeper,
- scorer,
- scratch,
- scribbler,
- scriptwriter,
- scrive,
- scrivener,
- scroll,
- secretary,
- short-story writer,
- sob sister,
- spill ink,
- spoil paper,
- stenographer,
- stonecutter,
- storyteller,
- superscribe,
- technical writer,
- timekeeper,
- trace,
- transcribe,
- transcriber,
- type,
- word painter,
- word-slinger,
- wordsmith,
- write,
- write down,
- write out,
- writer
- editor
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- a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine) related words >
- allegorist,
- annotator,
- bibliognost,
- bibliographer,
- biblioklept,
- bibliolater,
- bibliomane,
- bibliomaniac,
- bibliopegist,
- bibliophage,
- bibliophile,
- bibliopole,
- bibliopolist,
- bibliotaph,
- bibliothec,
- bibliothecaire,
- bibliothecary,
- book agent,
- book collector,
- book printer,
- book publisher,
- book reviewer,
- book salesman,
- book-stealer,
- bookbinder,
- bookdealer,
- booklover,
- bookmaker,
- bookman,
- bookseller,
- bookworm,
- captious critic,
- carper,
- cataloger,
- caviler,
- censor,
- censurer,
- chief librarian,
- cicerone,
- city editor,
- clarifier,
- cognoscente,
- collector,
- college editor,
- columnist,
- commentator,
- commenter,
- compiler,
- connoisseur,
- copy chief,
- copy editor,
- copyman,
- copyreader,
- correspondent,
- critic,
- criticaster,
- criticizer,
- critickin,
- criticule,
- cryptanalyst,
- cryptographer,
- cryptologist,
- cub reporter,
- curator,
- decoder,
- definer,
- demonstrator,
- demythologizer,
- diaskeuast,
- dictionary editor,
- dragoman,
- editor-in-chief,
- editorial writer,
- editorialist,
- emendator,
- emender,
- euhemerist,
- executive editor,
- exegesist,
- exegete,
- exegetist,
- explainer,
- explicator,
- exponent,
- expositor,
- expounder,
- faultfinder,
- feature editor,
- foreign correspondent,
- gazetteer,
- glossarist,
- glossographer,
- go-between,
- guide,
- hermeneut,
- interpreter,
- interviewer,
- journalist,
- juvenile editor,
- leader writer,
- leg man,
- lexicographer,
- librarian,
- library director,
- literary critic,
- man of letters,
- managing editor,
- metaphrast,
- muckraker,
- news analyst,
- news editor,
- newsman,
- newspaperman,
- newspaperwoman,
- newswriter,
- oneirocritic,
- own correspondent,
- paragrapher,
- paragraphist,
- paraphrast,
- permissions editor,
- philobiblist,
- pressman,
- printer,
- production editor,
- publicist,
- publisher,
- reader,
- redactor,
- reference editor,
- reference librarian,
- reporter,
- reviewer,
- reviser,
- rewrite man,
- rewriter,
- scholiast,
- slotman,
- smellfungus,
- sob sister,
- social critic,
- special correspondent,
- sports editor,
- subeditor,
- textbook editor,
- textual critic,
- trade editor,
- translator,
- war correspondent,
- writer
- author
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- be the author of; "She authored this play" related words >
- actor,
- advertising writer,
- agent,
- ancestor,
- ancestors,
- annalist,
- apprentice,
- architect,
- art critic,
- artificer,
- artist,
- authoress,
- bear,
- beget,
- begetter,
- beginner,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- breed,
- bring about,
- bring forth,
- bring to effect,
- bring to pass,
- builder,
- catalyst,
- cause,
- causer,
- coauthor,
- collaborate,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- compiler,
- compose,
- composer,
- conceive,
- conceiver,
- constructor,
- copywriter,
- craftsman,
- create,
- creative writer,
- creator,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- dash off,
- descanter,
- designer,
- deviser,
- diarist,
- discourser,
- discoverer,
- disquisitor,
- do,
- doer,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- editorialize,
- effect,
- effector,
- effectuate,
- encyclopedist,
- engender,
- engenderer,
- engineer,
- essayist,
- establish,
- executant,
- executor,
- executrix,
- expositor,
- fabricator,
- father,
- formulate,
- found,
- founder,
- framer,
- free lance,
- free-lance,
- free-lance writer,
- generate,
- generator,
- gestate,
- ghost,
- ghostwrite,
- ghostwriter,
- give birth to,
- give occasion to,
- give origin to,
- give rise to,
- grower,
- humorist,
- inaugurate,
- inaugurator,
- indite,
- inditer,
- industrialist,
- initiator,
- inspirer,
- instigator,
- institute,
- institutor,
- introducer,
- inventor,
- journeyman,
- knock off,
- knock out,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- make,
- maker,
- man of letters,
- manufacturer,
- master,
- master craftsman,
- medium,
- monographer,
- monographist,
- mother,
- mover,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- novelize,
- occasion,
- operant,
- operative,
- operator,
- organizer,
- origin,
- originate,
- originator,
- pamphleteer,
- parent,
- past master,
- patriarch,
- penwoman,
- performer,
- perpetrator,
- planner,
- poet,
- practitioner,
- precursor,
- prepare,
- prime mover,
- primum mobile,
- procreator,
- produce,
- producer,
- prose writer,
- raiser,
- realize,
- realizer,
- reviewer,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scenarize,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- set afloat,
- set on foot,
- set up,
- shaper,
- short-story writer,
- sire,
- smith,
- source,
- storyteller,
- subject,
- technical writer,
- throw on paper,
- tractation,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- work,
- worker,
- wright,
- write,
- writer
- caviling
collapse
- quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics" related words >
- hyperbola
collapse
- an open curve formed by a plane that cuts the base of a right circular cone related words >
- parabola
collapse
- a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve related words >
- sardonic
collapse
- disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking; "his rebellion is the bitter, sardonic laughter of all great satirists"- Frank Schoenberner; "a wry pleasure to be...reminded of all that one is missing"- Irwin Edman related words >
- ellipse
collapse
- a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; "the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant" related words >
- hypercritical
collapse
- inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality" related words >
- captious,
- carping,
- caviling,
- censorious,
- critic,
- critical,
- cynical,
- faultfinding,
- hairsplitting,
- hypersensitive,
- morbidly sensitive,
- nagging,
- niggling,
- overconscientious,
- overcritical,
- overfastidious,
- overmeticulous,
- overnice,
- overparticular,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overscrupulous,
- oversensitive,
- oversqueamish,
- pettifogging,
- quibbling,
- trichoschistic,
- ultracritical
- satirical
collapse
- exposing human folly to ridicule; "a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine" related words >
- JP,
- Justice,
- arbiter,
- bencher,
- broker,
- connection,
- contact,
- critic,
- go-between,
- his honor,
- his lordship,
- his worship,
- impartial arbitrator,
- indicator,
- interagent,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- intermedium,
- internuncio,
- interpleader,
- judge,
- justice,
- magistrate,
- mediator,
- medium,
- middleman,
- moderator,
- negotiant,
- negotiator,
- referee,
- third party,
- umpire,
- unbiased observer
- catenary
collapse
- the curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points related words >
- adept,
- amateur,
- arbiter,
- arbiter elegantiarum,
- arbiter of taste,
- authority,
- bon vivant,
- cognoscente,
- collector,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- critic,
- dab,
- dabster,
- dilettante,
- epicure,
- epicurean,
- expert,
- good judge,
- gourmand,
- gourmet,
- judge,
- master,
- past master,
- professional,
- proficient,
- refined palate,
- virtuoso
- Charlie McCarthy,
- Hermes,
- Iris,
- Mercury,
- Paul Revere,
- Pheidippides,
- agent,
- allegorist,
- ancilla,
- annotator,
- appliance,
- arbitrator,
- broker,
- carrier,
- cicerone,
- clarifier,
- commentator,
- commissionaire,
- connection,
- contact,
- contrivance,
- courier,
- creature,
- critic,
- cryptanalyst,
- cryptographer,
- cryptologist,
- decoder,
- definer,
- demonstrator,
- demythologizer,
- deputy,
- device,
- diaskeuast,
- diplomatic courier,
- distributor,
- dragoman,
- dummy,
- dupe,
- editor,
- emendator,
- emender,
- emissary,
- estafette,
- euhemerist,
- exegesist,
- exegete,
- exegetist,
- explainer,
- explicator,
- exponent,
- expositor,
- expounder,
- express,
- front,
- front man,
- guide,
- handmaid,
- handmaiden,
- hermeneut,
- implement,
- instrument,
- interagent,
- interceder,
- intercessor,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- intermediate agent,
- intermediator,
- intermedium,
- internuncio,
- interpleader,
- interpreter,
- intervener,
- interventionist,
- interventor,
- jobber,
- lever,
- lexicographer,
- liaison,
- link,
- mechanism,
- mediary,
- mediator,
- medium,
- message-bearer,
- messenger,
- metaphrast,
- middleman,
- midwife,
- minion,
- mouthpiece,
- negotiant,
- negotiator,
- negotiatress,
- negotiatrix,
- nuncio,
- ombudsman,
- oneirocritic,
- organ,
- paraphrast,
- pawn,
- plaything,
- post,
- postboy,
- postrider,
- puppet,
- runner,
- scholiast,
- servant,
- slave,
- spokesman,
- spokeswoman,
- stooge,
- textual critic,
- tie,
- tool,
- toy,
- translator,
- vehicle,
- wholesaler
- despiteful
collapse
- showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; "a despiteful fiend"; "a truly spiteful child"; "a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment" related words >
- acrid,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- belligerent,
- bitchy,
- bitter,
- cattish,
- catty,
- caustic,
- clashing,
- colliding,
- conflicting,
- detestable,
- evil,
- full of hate,
- hateful,
- hostile,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malignant,
- quarrelsome,
- rancorous,
- repugnant,
- set against,
- sore,
- spiteful,
- unlikable,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- wicked
- mordant
collapse
- a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process related words >
- Attic,
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- actual cautery,
- asperous,
- astringent,
- biting,
- bitter,
- brand,
- brand iron,
- branding iron,
- brilliant,
- caustic,
- cauter,
- cauterant,
- cauterizer,
- cautery,
- clever,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- cutting,
- double-edged,
- driving,
- droll,
- edged,
- effective,
- electrocautery,
- escharotic,
- facetious,
- fierce,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- funny,
- gutsy,
- harsh,
- hot iron,
- humorous,
- humorsome,
- imperative,
- impressive,
- incisive,
- irritating,
- jesting,
- jocose,
- jocular,
- joking,
- joky,
- joshing,
- keen,
- keen-witted,
- lunar caustic,
- mordacious,
- moxa,
- nervous,
- nimble-witted,
- nose-tickling,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- piquant,
- poignant,
- pointed,
- potential cautery,
- powerful,
- punchy,
- pungent,
- quick-witted,
- radium,
- rapier-like,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- salt,
- salty,
- scathing,
- scintillating,
- scorching,
- sensational,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sinewed,
- sinewy,
- slashing,
- smart,
- sour,
- sparkling,
- sprightly,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- strident,
- striking,
- stringent,
- strong,
- tart,
- telling,
- trenchant,
- vehement,
- vigorous,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vital,
- vitriolic,
- whimsical,
- withering,
- witty
- captious
collapse
- tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor" related words >
- bickering,
- carping,
- caviling,
- censorious,
- choplogic,
- contrary,
- critic,
- critical,
- cynical,
- demanding,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- exacting,
- faultfinding,
- finicky,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- hypercritical,
- irritable,
- logic-chopping,
- nagging,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- overcritical,
- paltering,
- particular,
- peevish,
- pernickety,
- perverse,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- petulant,
- picayune,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- shuffling,
- snappish,
- snappy,
- testy,
- trichoschistic,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- ultracritical
- exponent
collapse
- a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
- someone who expounds and interprets or explains related words >
- Maecenas,
- abettor,
- admirer,
- advocate,
- aficionado,
- allegorist,
- alter ego,
- alternate,
- amicus curiae,
- angel,
- annotator,
- apologist,
- attorney,
- backer,
- backup,
- backup man,
- booster,
- buff,
- case,
- case in point,
- champion,
- cicerone,
- clarifier,
- commentator,
- critic,
- cross section,
- cryptanalyst,
- cryptographer,
- cryptologist,
- decoder,
- defender,
- definer,
- demonstration,
- demonstrator,
- demythologizer,
- dependence,
- deputy,
- diaskeuast,
- dragoman,
- dummy,
- editor,
- emblem,
- embodiment,
- emendator,
- emender,
- encourager,
- endorser,
- euhemerist,
- example,
- executive officer,
- exegesist,
- exegete,
- exegetist,
- exemplar,
- exemplification,
- explainer,
- explanation,
- explicator,
- expositor,
- expounder,
- fan,
- favorer,
- figurehead,
- friend at court,
- go-between,
- guide,
- hermeneut,
- illustration,
- instance,
- interpreter,
- lexicographer,
- lieutenant,
- locum,
- locum tenens,
- lover,
- mainstay,
- maintainer,
- metaphrast,
- object lesson,
- oneirocritic,
- paranymph,
- paraphrast,
- partisan,
- patron,
- pinch hitter,
- pleader,
- procurator,
- promoter,
- proponent,
- protagonist,
- proxy,
- relevant instance,
- reliance,
- representation,
- representative,
- scholiast,
- second,
- second in command,
- secondary,
- seconder,
- sectary,
- sider,
- specimen,
- sponsor,
- stalwart,
- stand-in,
- standby,
- substitute,
- support,
- supporter,
- surrogate,
- sustainer,
- symbol,
- sympathizer,
- textual critic,
- translator,
- type,
- typical example,
- typification,
- understudy,
- upholder,
- utility man,
- vicar,
- vicar general,
- vice,
- vicegerent,
- votary,
- well-wisher
- arbiter
collapse
- someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
- someone with the power to settle matters at will; "she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion" related words >
- JP,
- Justice,
- amateur,
- arbiter elegantiarum,
- arbiter of taste,
- arbitrator,
- authority,
- bencher,
- bon vivant,
- cognoscente,
- collector,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- critic,
- dilettante,
- epicure,
- epicurean,
- expert,
- good judge,
- gourmand,
- gourmet,
- his honor,
- his lordship,
- his worship,
- impartial arbitrator,
- indicator,
- judge,
- justice,
- magistrate,
- maven,
- moderator,
- referee,
- refined palate,
- third party,
- umpire,
- unbiased observer,
- virtuoso
- captious,
- carping,
- caviling,
- cavilling,
- censorious,
- critic,
- critical,
- cynical,
- demanding,
- difficult,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- faultfinding,
- finicky,
- fussy,
- hair-splitting,
- hairsplitting,
- harsh,
- hypercritical,
- hypersensitive,
- morbidly sensitive,
- nagging,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- overconscientious,
- overfastidious,
- overmeticulous,
- overnice,
- overparticular,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overscrupulous,
- oversensitive,
- oversqueamish,
- pettifogging,
- picayune,
- picky,
- querulous,
- quibbling,
- severe,
- small,
- small-minded,
- trichoschistic,
- ultracritical
- corrosive
collapse
- a substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali) related words >
- ablative,
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- actual cautery,
- angry,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- biodegradable,
- biting,
- bitter,
- brand,
- brand iron,
- branding iron,
- caustic,
- cauter,
- cauterant,
- cauterizer,
- cautery,
- corroding,
- corrupting,
- corruptive,
- counterproductive,
- cutting,
- damaging,
- deadly,
- decomposable,
- decomposing,
- degradable,
- deleterious,
- detrimental,
- dilapidated,
- disadvantageous,
- discontented,
- disintegrable,
- disintegrated,
- disintegrating,
- disintegrative,
- disjunctive,
- disruptive,
- disserviceable,
- distressing,
- driving,
- effective,
- electrocautery,
- eroding,
- erosive,
- escharotic,
- feeling evil,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- gutsy,
- harmful,
- hot iron,
- hurtful,
- imperative,
- impressive,
- incisive,
- injurious,
- keen,
- lethal,
- lunar caustic,
- malefic,
- malevolent,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mischievous,
- moldering,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- moxa,
- nervous,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- ominous,
- out of humor,
- out of sorts,
- out of temper,
- penetrating,
- pernicious,
- piercing,
- poignant,
- poisonous,
- potential cautery,
- powerful,
- prejudicial,
- punchy,
- radium,
- ravaged,
- resolvent,
- ruinous,
- scatheful,
- scathing,
- scorching,
- sensational,
- separative,
- sharp,
- sinewed,
- sinewy,
- slashing,
- solvent,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- striking,
- strong,
- tart,
- telling,
- toxic,
- trenchant,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- vigorous,
- virulent,
- vital,
- withering,
- worn
- referee
collapse
- (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play
- an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case
- evaluate professionally a colleague's work
- be a referee or umpire in a sports competition related words >
- JP,
- Justice,
- act between,
- adjudge,
- adjudicate,
- arbiter,
- arbitrate,
- arbitrator,
- bargain,
- bencher,
- critic,
- go between,
- hear,
- his honor,
- his lordship,
- his worship,
- hold court,
- hold the scales,
- impartial arbitrator,
- indicator,
- intercede,
- intermediate,
- interpose,
- intervene,
- judge,
- judger,
- justice,
- magistrate,
- make terms,
- mediate,
- meet halfway,
- moderate,
- moderator,
- negotiate,
- officiate,
- represent,
- sit in judgment,
- step in,
- third party,
- treat with,
- try,
- umpire,
- unbiased observer
- scold
collapse
- someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault related words >
- Xanthippe,
- admonish,
- amazon,
- baste,
- battle-ax,
- bawl out,
- beldam,
- belittler,
- berate,
- bitch,
- blame,
- blister,
- brace,
- bring to book,
- cackle,
- call,
- call to account,
- captious critic,
- carol,
- carper,
- carpet,
- castigate,
- cat,
- caviler,
- caw,
- censor,
- censure,
- censurer,
- chastise,
- chatter,
- cheep,
- chew,
- chew out,
- chide,
- chirk,
- chirp,
- chirr,
- chirrup,
- chitter,
- chuck,
- clack,
- cluck,
- cock-a-doodle-doo,
- common scold,
- coo,
- correct,
- critic,
- criticize,
- criticizer,
- croak,
- cronk,
- crow,
- cuckoo,
- denounce,
- dress down,
- drum,
- excoriate,
- execrate,
- faultfinder,
- fishwife,
- frondeur,
- fury,
- gabble,
- gaggle,
- gobble,
- grill,
- grouch,
- grouse,
- grunt,
- guggle,
- harass,
- harpy,
- harridan,
- have words with,
- honk,
- hoo,
- hoot,
- hound,
- jaw,
- lash,
- lecture,
- mob,
- momus,
- murmur,
- mutter,
- nag,
- nitpicker,
- objurgate,
- ogress,
- peep,
- pettifogger,
- pip,
- pipe,
- quack,
- quibbler,
- rag,
- rail,
- rant,
- rate,
- ream out,
- rebuke,
- reprehend,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- reprobate,
- reprove,
- revile,
- roll,
- row,
- set down,
- set straight,
- she-devil,
- she-wolf,
- shrew,
- sing,
- smellfungus,
- spank,
- spitfire,
- squawk,
- straighten out,
- take down,
- take to task,
- tell off,
- termagant,
- tigress,
- tongue,
- tongue-lash,
- trill,
- tweet,
- twit,
- twitter,
- upbraid,
- virago,
- vituperate,
- vixen,
- warble,
- whistle,
- wig,
- witch
- cynical
collapse
- believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others related words >
- Cassandra-like,
- Cassandran,
- Cassandrian,
- Rabelaisian,
- Timonistic,
- antisocial,
- captious,
- carping,
- caustic,
- caviling,
- critical,
- defeatist,
- dismal,
- downbeat,
- dry,
- faultfinding,
- gloomy,
- hairsplitting,
- hypercritical,
- ironic,
- man-hating,
- misogynous,
- nagging,
- negative,
- negativistic,
- niggling,
- nihilistic,
- overcritical,
- pessimist,
- pessimistic,
- pettifogging,
- quibbling,
- sarcastic,
- sardonic,
- satiric,
- sexist,
- trichoschistic,
- ultracritical,
- uncheerful,
- unsociable,
- woman-hating
- umpire
collapse
- an official at a baseball game related words >
- JP,
- Justice,
- act between,
- adjudge,
- adjudicate,
- adjudicator,
- arbiter,
- arbitrate,
- arbitrator,
- bargain,
- bencher,
- critic,
- go between,
- hear,
- his honor,
- his lordship,
- his worship,
- hold court,
- hold the scales,
- impartial arbitrator,
- indicator,
- intercede,
- intermediate,
- interpose,
- intervene,
- judge,
- judger,
- justice,
- magistrate,
- make terms,
- mediate,
- meet halfway,
- moderate,
- moderator,
- negotiate,
- official,
- officiate,
- referee,
- represent,
- sit in judgment,
- step in,
- third party,
- treat with,
- try,
- ump,
- unbiased observer
- ghost
collapse
- a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
- the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
- write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"
- move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard" related words >
- Doppelganger,
- Dracula,
- Frankenstein,
- Masan,
- Wolf-man,
- act for,
- advertising writer,
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- annalist,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- art critic,
- astral,
- astral spirit,
- author,
- authoress,
- backup,
- banshee,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- black spot,
- bloom,
- blooping,
- bogey,
- bogeyman,
- boggart,
- bugaboo,
- bugbear,
- change,
- change places with,
- changeling,
- coauthor,
- collaborate,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- comparison,
- compiler,
- compose,
- composer,
- control,
- copy,
- copywriter,
- counterfeit,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- crowd out,
- cut out,
- dance critic,
- dash off,
- definition,
- demon,
- departed spirit,
- deputy,
- devil,
- diarist,
- disembodied spirit,
- displace,
- double,
- double for,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- drift,
- dummy,
- duppy,
- dybbuk,
- editorialize,
- eidolon,
- encyclopedist,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- essayist,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fee-faw-fum,
- fill in for,
- fill-in,
- flare,
- float,
- foot,
- form,
- formulate,
- free lance,
- free-lance,
- free-lance writer,
- frightener,
- fringe area,
- ghostwrite,
- ghostwriter,
- ghoul,
- glide,
- glimmer,
- granulation,
- grateful dead,
- grid,
- guide,
- hallucination,
- hant,
- hard shadow,
- haunt,
- hint,
- hobgoblin,
- holy terror,
- horror,
- humorist,
- idolum,
- illusion,
- image,
- imitation,
- immateriality,
- incorporeal,
- incorporeal being,
- incorporeity,
- incubus,
- indite,
- inditer,
- knock off,
- knock out,
- larva,
- lemures,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- locum tenens,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- makeshift,
- man of letters,
- manes,
- materialization,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- monographer,
- monster,
- multiple image,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- next best thing,
- nightmare,
- noise,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- novelize,
- ogre,
- ogress,
- oni,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- personnel,
- phantasm,
- phantasma,
- phantom,
- phony,
- picture,
- picture noise,
- picture shifts,
- pinch hitter,
- pinch-hit,
- plow the deep,
- poet,
- poltergeist,
- prepare,
- presence,
- produce,
- prose writer,
- proxy,
- rain,
- relief,
- relieve,
- replace,
- replacement,
- represent,
- representative,
- reserves,
- revenant,
- reviewer,
- ride,
- ride the sea,
- ringer,
- rolling,
- run,
- sail,
- scanning pattern,
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