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- amiable
collapse - disposed to please; "an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin"- Hal Hinson related words >
- accommodating,
- affable,
- affectionate,
- agreeable,
- amicable,
- approachable,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- blissful,
- bonhomous,
- brotherly,
- cheerful,
- civil,
- clubbable,
- clubbish,
- clubby,
- communicative,
- companionable,
- companionate,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- congenial,
- cordial,
- courteous,
- decent,
- desirable,
- dulcet,
- easy,
- easy-natured,
- en rapport,
- enjoyable,
- fair,
- fair and pleasant,
- favorable,
- felicific,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- fit for society,
- fond of society,
- fraternal,
- friendlike,
- friendly,
- generous,
- genial,
- gentle,
- good,
- good-hearted,
- good-humored,
- good-natured,
- good-tempered,
- goodly,
- gracious,
- grateful,
- gratifying,
- gregarious,
- harmonious,
- heart-warming,
- hearty,
- honeyed,
- hospitable,
- indulgent,
- kind,
- kindly,
- lenient,
- liberal,
- likable,
- mannerly,
- mellifluous,
- mellow,
- mild,
- neighborlike,
- neighborly,
- nice,
- obliging,
- open,
- openhearted,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- peaceable,
- permissive,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pleasurable,
- pleasure-giving,
- pleasureful,
- receptive,
- responsive,
- rewarding,
- satisfying,
- simpatico,
- sisterly,
- sociable,
- social,
- social-minded,
- sweet,
- sweet-tempered,
- sympathique,
- tractable,
- unhostile,
- urbane,
- warm,
- warmhearted,
- welcome,
- welcoming,
- well-affected,
- well-disposed,
- well-intentioned,
- well-meaning,
- well-meant,
- well-natured,
- winning,
- winsome
- thoughtful
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- considerate of the feelings or well-being of others
- having intellectual depth; "a deeply thoughtful essay"
- acting with or showing thought and good sense; "a sensible young man"
- exhibiting or characterized by careful thought; "a thoughtful paper" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- analytical,
- attentive,
- brainy,
- brooding,
- calculating,
- careful,
- caring,
- cautious,
- charitable,
- circumspect,
- civil,
- cogitative,
- cognitive,
- compassionate,
- complaisant,
- concentrating,
- concentrative,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- conceptualized,
- considerate,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- courteous,
- curious,
- decorous,
- deep,
- deferential,
- deliberating,
- deliberative,
- delicate,
- demure,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- earnest,
- engrossed,
- enlightened,
- excogitating,
- fair,
- formal,
- frowning,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- grave,
- grim,
- grim-faced,
- grim-visaged,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- ideative,
- indulgent,
- intellectual,
- introspective,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- kind,
- kindly,
- lenient,
- logical,
- long-faced,
- loving,
- meditating,
- meditative,
- melancholy,
- mental,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- museful,
- musing,
- noetic,
- obliging,
- pensive,
- polite,
- politic,
- pondering,
- prehensive,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- rapt,
- rational,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- ruminant,
- ruminating,
- ruminative,
- sedate,
- serious,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sobersided,
- solemn,
- solicitous,
- somber,
- speculative,
- staid,
- stone-faced,
- straight-faced,
- studious,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tender,
- thinking,
- thought,
- tolerant,
- unsmiling,
- unthoughtful,
- urbane,
- wary,
- weighty,
- well-advised,
- well-judged,
- wistful
- adoption,
- appropriation,
- arrogation,
- assumption,
- bad faith,
- bankruptcy,
- borrowed plumes,
- breach,
- breach of contract,
- breach of faith,
- breach of law,
- breach of privilege,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- breakage,
- breakdown,
- breaking,
- civil disobedience,
- collapse,
- contravention,
- copying,
- crack-up,
- crippling,
- damage,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- dilapidation,
- disablement,
- disobedience,
- disrepair,
- encroachment,
- entrance,
- entrenchment,
- frowardness,
- harm,
- hobbling,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- imitation,
- impairment,
- impingement,
- imposition,
- incapacitation,
- incursion,
- indiscipline,
- indocility,
- infiltration,
- influx,
- infraction,
- injection,
- injury,
- inroad,
- insinuation,
- insubordination,
- interference,
- interjection,
- interloping,
- interposition,
- interposure,
- interruption,
- intervention,
- intractability,
- intrusion,
- invasion,
- irruption,
- lawbreaking,
- lawlessness,
- loss,
- maiming,
- mayhem,
- mischief,
- mocking,
- mutilation,
- naughtiness,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformity,
- noncooperation,
- nonobedience,
- obtrusion,
- offense,
- overstepping,
- passive resistance,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playing God,
- recusancy,
- ruination,
- ruinousness,
- sabotage,
- scathe,
- seizure,
- sickening,
- simulation,
- spoiling,
- taking,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trespassing,
- uncooperativeness,
- unduteousness,
- undutifulness,
- unlawful entry,
- unsubmissiveness,
- usurpation,
- violation,
- violation of law,
- waywardness,
- weakening,
- willful disobedience
- compatible
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- able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination; "a compatible married couple"; "her deeds were compatible with her ideology"
- capable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification
- capable of forming a homogeneous mixture that neither separates nor is altered by chemical interaction
- having similar disposition and tastes; "a compatible married couple"; "with their many similar tastes, he found her a most sympathetic companion"
- (of a couple) existing together harmoniously related words >
- accordant,
- affable,
- affirmative,
- agreeable,
- agreeing,
- akin,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- answerable,
- appropriate,
- at one,
- attuned,
- blissful,
- cheerful,
- civil,
- clubbable,
- clubbish,
- clubby,
- coexistent,
- coexisting,
- coherent,
- coincident,
- coinciding,
- commensurate,
- communicative,
- companionable,
- companionate,
- complaisant,
- concordant,
- concurring,
- conformable,
- congenial,
- congruent,
- congruous,
- consentaneous,
- consentient,
- consistent,
- consonant,
- cooperating,
- cooperative,
- cordial,
- correspondent,
- corresponding,
- courteous,
- desirable,
- dulcet,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- en rapport,
- enjoyable,
- equivalent,
- fair,
- fair and pleasant,
- felicific,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- fit,
- fit for society,
- fitting,
- fond of society,
- frictionless,
- friendly,
- genial,
- good,
- goodly,
- gracious,
- grateful,
- gratifying,
- gregarious,
- harmonious,
- heart-warming,
- honeyed,
- hospitable,
- in accord,
- in agreement,
- in concert,
- in rapport,
- in sync,
- in synchronization,
- in tune,
- inaccordance,
- inharmony,
- likable,
- like-minded,
- meet,
- mellifluous,
- mellow,
- nice,
- of a piece,
- of like mind,
- of one mind,
- on all fours,
- peaceful,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pleasurable,
- pleasure-giving,
- pleasureful,
- positive,
- proper,
- proportionate,
- reconcilable,
- rewarding,
- satisfying,
- self-consistent,
- sociable,
- social,
- social-minded,
- suitable,
- sweet,
- symbiotic,
- sympathetic,
- synchronized,
- synchronous,
- together,
- unanimous,
- understanding,
- uniform,
- unisonant,
- unisonous,
- united,
- urbane,
- welcome
- Philistine,
- annual,
- biannual,
- biennial,
- bimonthly,
- biweekly,
- bodily,
- brother,
- carnal,
- carnal-minded,
- catamenial,
- catechumen,
- centenary,
- centennial,
- centesimal,
- centigrado,
- centuple,
- centuplicate,
- centurial,
- church member,
- churchman,
- churchwoman,
- civil,
- communicant,
- congregational,
- corporal,
- corporeal,
- daily,
- decennial,
- diurnal,
- down-to-earth,
- earthly,
- earthy,
- fleshly,
- fortnightly,
- hardheaded,
- hebdomadal,
- hourly,
- hundredfold,
- hundredth,
- hylic,
- laic,
- laical,
- lay,
- lay brother,
- lay sister,
- layman,
- laywoman,
- material,
- materialistic,
- materiate,
- matter-of-fact,
- menstrual,
- momentary,
- momently,
- monthly,
- mundane,
- nonclerical,
- nonecclesiastical,
- nonministerial,
- nonordained,
- nonpastoral,
- nonreligious,
- nonsacred,
- nonspiritual,
- parishioner,
- physical,
- popular,
- positivistic,
- practical,
- practical-minded,
- pragmatic,
- profane,
- quarterly,
- quotidian,
- rational,
- realist,
- realistic,
- reasonable,
- reprobate,
- sane,
- scientific,
- scientistic,
- secularist,
- secularistic,
- semestral,
- semiannual,
- semimonthly,
- semiweekly,
- semiyearly,
- sensible,
- sister,
- sober-minded,
- somatic,
- sound,
- sound-thinking,
- state,
- straight-thinking,
- substantial,
- temporal,
- terrestrial,
- tertian,
- triennial,
- unblessed,
- unhallowed,
- unholy,
- unideal,
- unidealistic,
- unregenerate,
- unromantic,
- unsacred,
- unsanctified,
- unsentimental,
- unspiritual,
- weekly,
- worldly,
- yearly
- complaisant
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- showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others; "to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover"; "the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave" related words >
- abject,
- accepting,
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- acquiescent,
- adaptable,
- adaptive,
- adjustable,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- assenting,
- attentive,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- blissful,
- cheerful,
- civil,
- compatible,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- complying,
- conformable,
- congenial,
- consenting,
- considerate,
- cordial,
- courteous,
- decent,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- desirable,
- dulcet,
- easy,
- en rapport,
- enjoyable,
- fair,
- fair and pleasant,
- felicific,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- flexible,
- generous,
- genial,
- gentle,
- good,
- good-humored,
- good-natured,
- good-tempered,
- goodly,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- grateful,
- gratifying,
- harmonious,
- heart-warming,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- honeyed,
- indulgent,
- kind,
- kindly,
- lenient,
- likable,
- malleable,
- mellifluous,
- mellow,
- mellowy,
- mild,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- mollified,
- nice,
- nondissenting,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- nonrigid,
- obedient,
- obliging,
- other-directed,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- passive,
- permissive,
- plastic,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pleasurable,
- pleasure-giving,
- pleasureful,
- pliant,
- polite,
- regardful,
- resigned,
- respectful,
- rewarding,
- satisfying,
- servile,
- soft,
- soft as putty,
- softened,
- solicitous,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- supine,
- sweet,
- tactful,
- tender,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- tractable,
- unassertive,
- uncomplaining,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- urbane,
- welcome,
- whisper-soft
- passive resistance
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- peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate related words >
- Quakerism,
- a wise passiveness,
- acquiescence,
- amenability,
- challenge,
- civil disobedience,
- combative reaction,
- complaint,
- compliance,
- contemplation,
- contemplative life,
- counteraction,
- defiance,
- demur,
- disobedience,
- dispute,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- do-nothing policy,
- do-nothingism,
- do-nothingness,
- dormancy,
- fractiousness,
- frowardness,
- humbleness,
- humility,
- idleness,
- immobility,
- inaction,
- inactivity,
- indiscipline,
- indocility,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- infraction,
- infringement,
- insubordination,
- intractability,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- lawbreaking,
- lawlessness,
- meditation,
- meekness,
- naughtiness,
- negativism,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- neutralness,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformity,
- noncooperation,
- noninvolvement,
- nonobedience,
- nonparticipation,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolence,
- nonviolent resistance,
- obedience,
- objection,
- obstinacy,
- opposition,
- pacifism,
- paralysis,
- passive self-annihilation,
- passiveness,
- passivism,
- passivity,
- policy,
- procrastination,
- protest,
- quiescence,
- quietism,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recalcitration,
- recusancy,
- refractoriness,
- reluctance,
- remonstrance,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repellence,
- repellency,
- repulse,
- repulsion,
- resignation,
- resistance,
- revolt,
- stagnancy,
- stagnation,
- stand,
- standpattism,
- stasis,
- submission,
- submissiveness,
- transgression,
- uncomplainingness,
- uncooperativeness,
- unduteousness,
- undutifulness,
- unsubmissiveness,
- vegetation,
- violation,
- vita contemplativa,
- waiting game,
- watching and waiting,
- waywardness,
- willful disobedience,
- withstanding
- interior
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- of or coming from the middle of a region or country; "upcountry districts"
- inside and toward a center; "interior regions of the earth"
- situated within or suitable for inside a building; "an interior scene"; "interior decoration"; "an interior bathroom without windows" related words >
- airscape,
- amidships,
- anonymous,
- average,
- belly,
- bosom,
- center,
- central,
- cityscape,
- civil,
- closet,
- cloudscape,
- core,
- deep,
- deepest recesses,
- depths,
- diameter,
- diaphragm,
- diorama,
- domestic,
- equator,
- equatorial,
- equidistant,
- exterior,
- farmscape,
- gut,
- halfway,
- heart,
- heart of hearts,
- heartland,
- hidden,
- hinterland,
- home,
- incognito,
- individual,
- indoor,
- inland,
- inlands,
- inmost,
- innards,
- inner,
- inner landscape,
- inner life,
- inner man,
- inner nature,
- inner recess,
- inner self,
- innermost,
- inshore,
- inside,
- interior man,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- intern,
- internal,
- internals,
- intestine,
- intimate,
- intrados,
- intrinsic,
- inward,
- inwards,
- isolated,
- kernel,
- landscape,
- local,
- mean,
- medial,
- median,
- mediocre,
- mediterranean,
- medium,
- mesial,
- mezzo,
- mid,
- middle,
- middlemost,
- middling,
- midland,
- midlands,
- midmost,
- midriff,
- midships,
- midst,
- midway,
- national,
- nuclear,
- nucleus,
- pastoral,
- penetralia,
- personal,
- private,
- privy,
- recesses,
- retired,
- riverscape,
- scape,
- scene,
- seapiece,
- seascape,
- secluded,
- secret,
- secret place,
- secret places,
- sequestered,
- skyscape,
- snowscape,
- soul,
- thick,
- thick of things,
- townscape,
- up-country,
- upland,
- uplands,
- veiled,
- view,
- viscera,
- visceral,
- vital center,
- vitals,
- waist,
- waistline,
- waterscape,
- withdrawn,
- within,
- zone
- tactful
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- showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people; "by diplomatic conduct he avoided antagonizing anyone"; "a tactful way of correcting someone"; "the agency got the kid-glove treatment on Capitol Hill"
- having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others; "she was tactful enough not to shatter his illusion"; "a tactful remark eased her embarrassment" related words >
- Daedalian,
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- accurate,
- acute,
- adept,
- adroit,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- appreciative,
- apt,
- artistic,
- attentive,
- authoritative,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- careful,
- civil,
- clean,
- clever,
- complaisant,
- considerate,
- coordinated,
- courteous,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- critical,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- deferential,
- deft,
- delicate,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- differential,
- diplomatic,
- discerning,
- discreet,
- discriminate,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- exact,
- excellent,
- expert,
- fair,
- fancy,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- good,
- goodish,
- goosy,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- handy,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- indulgent,
- ingenious,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- judicious,
- lenient,
- magisterial,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- neat,
- nervous,
- nice,
- no mean,
- obliging,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- passible,
- perceptive,
- polished,
- polite,
- politic,
- precise,
- prickly,
- professional,
- proficient,
- prudent,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ready,
- refined,
- regardful,
- resourceful,
- respectful,
- responsive,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- skilled,
- skillful,
- skittish,
- slick,
- solicitous,
- some,
- statesmanlike,
- stylish,
- suave,
- subtle,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactical,
- tender,
- tetchy,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- thin-skinned,
- thoughtful,
- ticklish,
- tolerant,
- touchy,
- understanding,
- urbane,
- virtuoso,
- well-done,
- workmanlike
- affable
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- diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host" related words >
- Bohemian,
- accommodating,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- attentive,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- blissful,
- bonhomous,
- casual,
- cheerful,
- civil,
- clubbable,
- clubbish,
- clubby,
- communicative,
- companionable,
- companionate,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- congenial,
- considerate,
- cordial,
- courteous,
- decent,
- deferential,
- degage,
- desirable,
- dulcet,
- easy,
- easy-natured,
- easygoing,
- en rapport,
- enjoyable,
- fair,
- fair and pleasant,
- familiar,
- felicific,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- fit for society,
- folksy,
- fond of society,
- free and easy,
- friendly,
- generous,
- genial,
- gentle,
- good,
- good-humored,
- good-natured,
- good-tempered,
- goodly,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- grateful,
- gratifying,
- gregarious,
- harmonious,
- haymish,
- heart-warming,
- homely,
- homey,
- honeyed,
- hospitable,
- indulgent,
- informal,
- irregular,
- kind,
- kindly,
- likable,
- loose,
- loquacious,
- mellifluous,
- mellow,
- mild,
- natural,
- nice,
- obliging,
- offhand,
- offhanded,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- permissive,
- plain,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pleasurable,
- pleasure-giving,
- pleasureful,
- polite,
- relaxed,
- respectful,
- rewarding,
- satisfying,
- simple,
- sociable,
- social,
- social-minded,
- solicitous,
- suave,
- sweet,
- sweet-tempered,
- tactful,
- talkative,
- thoughtful,
- unaffected,
- unassuming,
- unceremonious,
- unconstrained,
- unconventional,
- unofficial,
- unstudied,
- urbane,
- welcome,
- well-natured
- felicitous
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- exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style; "a felicitous speaker"
- marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome" related words >
- Ciceronian,
- Demosthenian,
- Demosthenic,
- Tullian,
- a propos,
- ad rem,
- adapted,
- advantageous,
- advisable,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- applicable,
- apposite,
- appropriate,
- apropos,
- apt,
- articulate,
- auspicious,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- blissful,
- cheerful,
- civil,
- comely,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- congenial,
- congruous,
- convenient,
- convincing,
- cordial,
- correct,
- decent,
- decorous,
- desirable,
- dovetailing,
- dulcet,
- eloquent,
- en rapport,
- enjoyable,
- expedient,
- facund,
- fair,
- fair and pleasant,
- favorable,
- feasible,
- felicific,
- fine,
- fit,
- fitted,
- fitten,
- fitting,
- fortunate,
- fructuous,
- geared,
- genial,
- genteel,
- germane,
- glib,
- good,
- goodly,
- gracious,
- grateful,
- gratifying,
- happy,
- harmonious,
- heart-warming,
- honeyed,
- inspired,
- just,
- just right,
- likable,
- likely,
- lucky,
- meet,
- mellifluous,
- mellow,
- meshing,
- nice,
- on the button,
- opportune,
- pat,
- pertinent,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pleasurable,
- pleasure-giving,
- pleasureful,
- politic,
- profitable,
- proper,
- propitious,
- providential,
- qualified,
- recommendable,
- relevant,
- rewarding,
- right,
- ripe,
- satisfying,
- seasonable,
- seemly,
- silver,
- silver-tongued,
- slick,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sortable,
- spellbinding,
- suitable,
- suited,
- suiting,
- sweet,
- tailored,
- telling,
- timely,
- to be desired,
- to the point,
- to the purpose,
- urbane,
- useful,
- welcome,
- well-chosen,
- well-expressed,
- well-put,
- well-spoken,
- well-timed,
- wise,
- worthwhile
- civil
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- of or in a condition of social order; "civil peoples"
- not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others; "even if he didn't like them he should have been civil"- W.S. Maugham
- (of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life; "the civil calendar"; "a civil day begins at mean midnight"
- applying to ordinary citizens; "civil law"; "civil authorities"
- of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals; "civil rights"; "civil liberty"; "civic duties"; "civic pride"
- of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state; "civil affairs"; "civil strife"; "civil disobedience"; "civil branches of government" related words >
- absolute,
- accommodating,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- appropriate,
- aristocratic,
- attentive,
- authoritarian,
- autocratic,
- autonomous,
- becoming,
- bland,
- bureaucratic,
- civic,
- civilian,
- civilized,
- clubbable,
- clubbish,
- clubby,
- common,
- communal,
- communicative,
- companionable,
- companionate,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- congenial,
- congregational,
- considerate,
- constitutional,
- cordial,
- cosmopolitan,
- courteous,
- courtly,
- cultivated,
- decent,
- decorous,
- deferential,
- democratic,
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- diplomatic,
- domestic,
- fair,
- fascist,
- federal,
- federalist,
- federalistic,
- felicitous,
- fit for society,
- fitting,
- fond of society,
- formal,
- friendly,
- general,
- genial,
- genteel,
- governmental,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- gregarious,
- gubernatorial,
- happy,
- heteronomous,
- hospitable,
- impolite,
- internal,
- international,
- laic,
- laical,
- lay,
- mannered,
- mannerly,
- matriarchal,
- matriarchic,
- meet,
- monarchal,
- monarchial,
- monarchic,
- monocratic,
- national,
- nonclerical,
- nonecclesiastical,
- nonministerial,
- nonordained,
- nonpastoral,
- nonreligious,
- obliging,
- official,
- oligarchal,
- oligarchic,
- parliamentarian,
- parliamentary,
- patriarchal,
- patriarchic,
- pluralistic,
- polished,
- polite,
- politic,
- political,
- popular,
- proper,
- public,
- refined,
- republican,
- respectful,
- right,
- secular,
- secularist,
- secularistic,
- seemly,
- self-governing,
- sociable,
- social,
- social-minded,
- societal,
- solicitous,
- state,
- suave,
- suitable,
- supranational,
- tactful,
- temporal,
- theocratic,
- thoughtful,
- totalitarian,
- ungracious,
- urbane,
- well-bred,
- well-mannered
- license
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- the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
- a legal document giving official permission to do something
- freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
- excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke
- authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state" related words >
- Lehrfreiheit,
- OK,
- academic freedom,
- accredit,
- admission,
- agency,
- agentship,
- allow,
- allowance,
- anarchy,
- approve,
- assign,
- assignment,
- assumption,
- authority,
- authorization,
- authorize,
- blank check,
- brevet,
- building permit,
- care,
- carte blanche,
- certificate,
- certify,
- chaos,
- charge,
- charter,
- commission,
- commissioning,
- commit,
- commitment,
- confusion,
- consent,
- consign,
- consignment,
- constitutional freedom,
- copyright,
- cure,
- debauchery,
- debauchment,
- delegate,
- delegated authority,
- delegation,
- deputation,
- depute,
- deputize,
- detach,
- detail,
- devolute,
- devolution,
- devolve,
- devolve upon,
- devolvement,
- diplomatic immunity,
- discharge,
- disobedience,
- dispensation,
- dissipation,
- dissoluteness,
- document,
- embassy,
- empower,
- empowerment,
- enable,
- enfranchise,
- entitle,
- entrust,
- entrusting,
- entrustment,
- errand,
- exception,
- executorship,
- exemption,
- exequatur,
- fabulous formless darkness,
- factorship,
- familiarity,
- fastness,
- favor,
- fishing license,
- foul-up,
- franchise,
- freedom,
- freedom from fear,
- freedom from want,
- freedom of worship,
- full power,
- gallantry,
- give in charge,
- give official sanction,
- give power,
- grant,
- hassle,
- hubris,
- hunting license,
- immunity,
- imposition,
- imprimatur,
- indiscipline,
- indulgence,
- insubordination,
- interregnum,
- irresponsibility,
- jurisdiction,
- lawlessness,
- laxity,
- leave,
- legalize,
- legation,
- legislative immunity,
- legitimize,
- let,
- liberties,
- libertinage,
- libertinism,
- liberty,
- liberty abused,
- licentiousness,
- lieutenancy,
- loose,
- looseness,
- mandate,
- misrule,
- mission,
- mix-up,
- morass,
- muddle,
- mutiny,
- nihil obstat,
- office,
- okay,
- patent,
- permission,
- permission to enter,
- permit,
- plenipotentiary power,
- post,
- power of attorney,
- power to act,
- power vacuum,
- presumption,
- presumptuousness,
- privilege,
- procuration,
- profligacy,
- proxy,
- purview,
- rakishness,
- rampant will,
- ratify,
- regency,
- regentship,
- relaxation,
- release,
- responsibility,
- run,
- sanction,
- screw-up,
- send out,
- slackness,
- snafu,
- special favor,
- special permission,
- suffer,
- task,
- the Four Freedoms,
- the run of,
- ticket,
- ticket of admission,
- transfer,
- trust,
- trusteeship,
- unaccountability,
- unbridledness,
- uncontrol,
- undue liberty,
- unrestraint,
- validate,
- venery,
- vicarious authority,
- vouchsafement,
- waiver,
- warrant,
- wenching,
- whoring,
- wildness,
- willfulness
- attentive
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- (often followed by `to') giving care or attention; "attentive to details"; "the nurse was attentive to her patient"; "an attentive suitor" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- accurate,
- advertent,
- affable,
- agile,
- agog,
- agreeable,
- alert,
- alive,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- assiduous,
- attenuate,
- awake,
- aware,
- bright,
- cap in hand,
- careful,
- cautious,
- ceremonious,
- circumspect,
- civil,
- close,
- complaisant,
- concentrated,
- concentrating,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- considerate,
- correct,
- courteous,
- courtly,
- critical,
- curious,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- diligent,
- dutiful,
- eager,
- earnest,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exquisite,
- fair,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- fussy,
- gallant,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- honorific,
- indulgent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- interested,
- keen,
- lenient,
- listening,
- loving,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- minute,
- narrow,
- nice,
- niggling,
- nimble,
- obliging,
- observant,
- observing,
- on the,
- on the alert,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- particular,
- polite,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- prompt,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- qui vive,
- quick,
- ready,
- reedy,
- refined,
- regardful,
- religious,
- respectful,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- sharp,
- sleepless,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- smart,
- solicitous,
- strict,
- subtle,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tenuous,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- twiggy,
- unblinking,
- unnodding,
- unsleeping,
- unwinking,
- urbane,
- wakeful,
- watchful,
- wide-awake
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