Related Words:
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- acute,
- antenatal,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- autochthonous,
- beginning,
- budding,
- cagey,
- canny,
- causative,
- clever,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- constructive,
- crafty,
- creative,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- demiurgic,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- esemplastic,
- fecund,
- feline,
- fertile,
- fetal,
- formative,
- foundational,
- foxy,
- fruitful,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- germinal,
- gestatory,
- guileful,
- ideational,
- ideative,
- imaginative,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in the bud,
- inaugural,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- infant,
- infantile,
- ingenious,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- innovational,
- innovative,
- insidious,
- inspired,
- introductory,
- knowing,
- nascent,
- natal,
- notional,
- original,
- originative,
- parturient,
- pawky,
- politic,
- postnatal,
- pregnant,
- prenatal,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- procreative,
- productive,
- prolific,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- scheming,
- seminal,
- serpentine,
- shaping,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- teeming,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- ur,
- visioned,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- adept
collapse - having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching" related words >
- Admirable Crichton,
- Daedalian,
- able,
- accomplished,
- adept in,
- adroit,
- anthroposophist,
- apt,
- artisan,
- artist,
- artistic,
- at home in,
- attache,
- authoritative,
- authority,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- cabalist,
- clean,
- clever,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- consultant,
- coordinated,
- cordon bleu,
- crack,
- crack shot,
- crackerjack,
- craftsman,
- cunning,
- cute,
- dabster,
- daedal,
- dead shot,
- deft,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- diplomat,
- diplomatic,
- diplomatist,
- elder statesman,
- esoteric,
- excellent,
- experienced hand,
- expert,
- expert at,
- expert consultant,
- fancy,
- good,
- good at,
- goodish,
- graceful,
- graduate,
- handy,
- handy at,
- handy man,
- ingenious,
- journeyman,
- magisterial,
- mahatma,
- marksman,
- master,
- master of,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- mystagogue,
- mystic,
- neat,
- no mean,
- no slouch,
- old hand,
- past master,
- polished,
- politic,
- politician,
- pro,
- professional,
- professor,
- proficient,
- proficient in,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- savant,
- shark,
- sharp,
- skilled,
- skilled in,
- skillful,
- slick,
- some,
- specialist,
- statesman,
- statesmanlike,
- strong in,
- stylish,
- supernaturalist,
- tactful,
- technical adviser,
- technician,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- theosophist,
- transcendentalist,
- up on,
- versed,
- versed in,
- virtuoso,
- well up on,
- well-done,
- well-versed,
- whiz,
- wizard,
- workmanlike,
- yogi,
- yogin,
- yogist
- daedal
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- complex and ingenious in design or function; "the daedal hand of nature" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Daedalian,
- adept,
- adroit,
- apt,
- artistic,
- authoritative,
- balled up,
- bicolor,
- bicolored,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- clean,
- clever,
- colorful,
- colory,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- convoluted,
- coordinated,
- crabbed,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- crazy,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deft,
- devious,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- dichromatic,
- diplomatic,
- divers-colored,
- elaborate,
- embrangled,
- entangled,
- excellent,
- expert,
- fancy,
- fouled up,
- good,
- goodish,
- gordian,
- graceful,
- handy,
- harlequin,
- implicated,
- ingenious,
- intricate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- kaleidoscopic,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- loused up,
- magisterial,
- many-colored,
- many-faceted,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- medley,
- messed up,
- mixed up,
- motley,
- mucked up,
- multicolor,
- multicolored,
- multicolorous,
- multifarious,
- neat,
- no mean,
- parti-color,
- parti-colored,
- perplexed,
- politic,
- polychromatic,
- polychrome,
- polychromic,
- prismal,
- professional,
- proficient,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ramified,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- roundabout,
- screwed up,
- shot,
- shot through,
- skillful,
- slick,
- snarled,
- some,
- sophisticated,
- spectral,
- statesmanlike,
- stylish,
- subtle,
- tactful,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- thunder and lightning,
- trichromatic,
- trichromic,
- tricolor,
- tricolored,
- twisted,
- two-tone,
- varicolored,
- variegated,
- versicolor,
- versicolored,
- virtuoso,
- well-done,
- workmanlike
- scintillating
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- brilliantly clever; "scintillating wit"; "a play full of scintillating dialogue" related words >
- Attic,
- ablaze,
- adroit,
- afire,
- aflame,
- aflicker,
- aglow,
- alight,
- apt,
- ardent,
- biting,
- blazing,
- blinking,
- blinky,
- brainy,
- bright,
- brilliant,
- burning,
- candent,
- candescent,
- clever,
- comburent,
- conflagrant,
- coruscant,
- coruscating,
- dazzling,
- dexterous,
- droll,
- dynamic,
- effervescent,
- effulgent,
- engaging,
- entrancing,
- exciting,
- facetious,
- fascinating,
- flagrant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashing,
- flickering,
- fuming,
- funny,
- gifted,
- gleaming,
- glimmering,
- glimmerous,
- glimmery,
- glistening,
- glistering,
- glittering,
- glittery,
- glowing,
- good,
- guttering,
- humorous,
- humorsome,
- ignescent,
- ignited,
- in a blaze,
- in a glow,
- in flames,
- incandescent,
- inflamed,
- invigorating,
- jesting,
- jocose,
- jocular,
- joking,
- joky,
- joshing,
- keen,
- keen-witted,
- kindled,
- live,
- lively,
- living,
- lustrous,
- mordant,
- nimble,
- nimble-witted,
- no dumbbell,
- not born yesterday,
- on fire,
- pointed,
- pungent,
- quick,
- quick-thinking,
- quick-witted,
- radiant,
- rapier-like,
- reeking,
- salt,
- salty,
- scintillant,
- scintillescent,
- sharp,
- sharp-witted,
- shimmering,
- shimmery,
- shining,
- smart,
- smoking,
- smoldering,
- spangly,
- sparking,
- sparkling,
- sprightly,
- steel-trap,
- stimulating,
- talented,
- tinselly,
- twinkling,
- twinkly,
- unextinguished,
- unquenched,
- vivacious,
- whimsical,
- witty
- diplomatic
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- skilled in dealing with sensitive matters or people
- relating to or characteristic of diplomacy; "diplomatic immunity" related words >
- Daedalian,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adept,
- adroit,
- ambassadorial,
- apt,
- arch,
- artful,
- artistic,
- astute,
- authoritative,
- bland,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- cagey,
- canny,
- civic,
- clean,
- clever,
- consular,
- coordinated,
- courteous,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deft,
- delicate,
- designing,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- discerning,
- discreet,
- excellent,
- expert,
- fancy,
- feline,
- foxy,
- geopolitical,
- good,
- goodish,
- governmental,
- graceful,
- guileful,
- handy,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- magisterial,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- ministerial,
- neat,
- no mean,
- pawky,
- perceptive,
- perspicacious,
- plenipotentiary,
- polite,
- politic,
- political,
- politico-commercial,
- politico-diplomatic,
- politico-economic,
- politico-geographical,
- politico-judicial,
- politico-military,
- politico-moral,
- politico-religious,
- politico-scientific,
- politico-social,
- politico-theological,
- professional,
- proficient,
- prudent,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- sensitive,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skillful,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- some,
- sophistical,
- statesmanlike,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stylish,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- suffragist,
- supple,
- tactful,
- tactical,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- thoughtful,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- virtuoso,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- well-done,
- wily,
- wise,
- workmanlike
- handy
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- United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958)
- skillful with the hands; "handy with an axe"
- easy to use; "a handy gadget" related words >
- Daedalian,
- accessible,
- adaptable,
- adept,
- adjacent,
- adroit,
- agential,
- agentival,
- agentive,
- all-around,
- apt,
- artistic,
- assisting,
- at hand,
- authoritative,
- available,
- baby,
- baby-sized,
- bantam,
- banty,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- clean,
- clever,
- close by,
- close-by,
- compact,
- conducive,
- convenient,
- convenient to,
- coordinated,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- deft,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- diminutive,
- diplomatic,
- ductile,
- duodecimo,
- easily reached,
- employable,
- excellent,
- expert,
- facilitating,
- fancy,
- favoring,
- feasible,
- flexible,
- foolproof,
- forwarding,
- good,
- goodish,
- graceful,
- helpful,
- ingenious,
- instrumental,
- intermediary,
- magisterial,
- malleable,
- manageable,
- maneuverable,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- mediating,
- mediatorial,
- miniature,
- miniaturized,
- minikin,
- minimal,
- ministerial,
- ministering,
- minuscule,
- nearby,
- neat,
- nimble,
- no mean,
- of all work,
- on call,
- on deck,
- on hand,
- on tap,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- pocket,
- pocket-sized,
- politic,
- pony,
- practical,
- professional,
- proficient,
- promoting,
- propinquant,
- propinquous,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ready,
- ready at hand,
- resourceful,
- serviceable,
- skilled,
- skillful,
- slick,
- small-scale,
- some,
- statesmanlike,
- stylish,
- subminiature,
- subservient,
- tactful,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- to hand,
- toy,
- tractable,
- twelvemo,
- untroublesome,
- usable,
- useful,
- versatile,
- vest-pocket,
- virtuoso,
- well-done,
- wieldable,
- wieldy,
- workmanlike,
- yielding
- 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
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Titian,
- acute,
- adust,
- alluring,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- attractive,
- auburn,
- bay,
- bay-colored,
- bayard,
- besmirched,
- blackened,
- brazen,
- bronze,
- bronze-colored,
- bronzed,
- brownish-red,
- cagey,
- cagy,
- calculating,
- canine,
- canny,
- castaneous,
- chestnut,
- chestnut-brown,
- clever,
- copper,
- copper-colored,
- coppery,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cupreous,
- cute,
- darkened,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- discolored,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- doggy,
- feline,
- ferruginous,
- foxed,
- foxlike,
- guileful,
- henna,
- ingenious,
- inky,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- liver-brown,
- liver-colored,
- livid-brown,
- lupine,
- mahogany,
- murky,
- pawky,
- plotting,
- politic,
- ready,
- reddish-brown,
- resourceful,
- roan,
- rubiginous,
- rufous,
- russet,
- russety,
- rust,
- rust-colored,
- rusty,
- scheming,
- seductive,
- serpentine,
- sexy,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smirched,
- smoky,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- soiled,
- sophistical,
- stained,
- stealthy,
- stigmatic,
- stigmatiferous,
- stigmatized,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- sunburned,
- supple,
- tactical,
- tainted,
- tarnished,
- terra-cotta,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily,
- wise,
- wolfish
- wary
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- marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; "they were wary in their movements"; "a wary glance at the black clouds"; "taught to be wary of strangers" related words >
- Argus-eyed,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Pyrrhonic,
- Scotch,
- acute,
- agnostic,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- aux aguets,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- clever,
- considerate,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- custodial,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- discreet,
- disinclined to believe,
- disposed to doubt,
- distrustful,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- eagle-eyed,
- feline,
- foxy,
- from Missouri,
- frugal,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- guileful,
- hard of belief,
- hawk-eyed,
- impervious to persuasion,
- in doubt,
- inconvincible,
- incredulous,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- keen-eyed,
- knowing,
- leery,
- lidless,
- mistrustful,
- mistrusting,
- observant,
- on guard,
- on the lookout,
- on the watch,
- open-eyed,
- pawky,
- politic,
- provident,
- prudent,
- questioning,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- safe,
- saving,
- scheming,
- scrupulous,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- sharp-eyed,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- shy,
- shy of belief,
- skeptical,
- sleepless,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tactical,
- thrifty,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- uncertain,
- unconvincible,
- uncredulous,
- unpersuadable,
- unpersuasible,
- untrusting,
- unwasteful,
- unwilling to accept,
- vigilant,
- vulpine,
- watchful,
- wily,
- with open eyes
- abulic,
- accessible,
- adaptable,
- afraid,
- amenable,
- appliable,
- applicable,
- apt,
- bendable,
- bending,
- bendy,
- biddable,
- bright,
- clever,
- compliant,
- convenient,
- cowardly,
- creased,
- crimped,
- docile,
- dog-eared,
- doubled,
- ductile,
- educable,
- elastic,
- exploitable,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- faint,
- fainthearted,
- feasible,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- flounced,
- fluted,
- foldable,
- folded,
- folding,
- foolproof,
- formable,
- formative,
- frail,
- gathered,
- giving,
- handy,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- infirm,
- influenceable,
- instructable,
- intelligent,
- invertebrate,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- manageable,
- maneuverable,
- manipulable,
- manipulatable,
- moldable,
- motivated,
- movable,
- open,
- open-minded,
- operable,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- pervious,
- plaited,
- plastic,
- pleated,
- pliant,
- plicate,
- plicated,
- plicatile,
- practical,
- quick,
- quilled,
- ready,
- receptive,
- responsive,
- reusable,
- ripe for instruction,
- ruffled,
- schoolable,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- shapable,
- spineless,
- springy,
- suasible,
- submissive,
- suggestible,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- swayable,
- teachable,
- thirsty for knowledge,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- trainable,
- tucked,
- twilled,
- untroublesome,
- usable,
- utilizable,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- whippy,
- wieldable,
- wieldy,
- willing,
- willowy,
- workable,
- yielding
- susceptible
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- (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof"
- easily impressed emotionally related words >
- accessible,
- adaptable,
- affected,
- alive to,
- amenable,
- answerable for,
- apt,
- apt to,
- aroused,
- aware,
- bendable,
- bending,
- bright,
- capable of,
- clever,
- cognizant,
- compliant,
- conscious,
- delicate,
- dependent on,
- disposed,
- docile,
- ductile,
- educable,
- elastic,
- emotionable,
- exposed,
- exposed to,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formative,
- giving,
- gullible,
- impressed,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- impressive,
- in danger of,
- incident to,
- inclined,
- influenceable,
- influenced,
- instructable,
- intelligent,
- liable,
- liable to,
- like putty,
- likely to,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- moldable,
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