Related Words:
- intricate
collapse - having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate; "intricate lacework" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Daedalian,
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- amalgamated,
- ambiguous,
- ambivalent,
- amphibious,
- anfractuous,
- arduous,
- baffling,
- balled up,
- bewildering,
- beyond one,
- blended,
- bothering,
- brutal,
- combined,
- complex,
- complicated,
- composite,
- compound,
- compounded,
- confounded,
- confounding,
- confused,
- confusing,
- conglomerate,
- convoluted,
- crabbed,
- cramp,
- critical,
- daedal,
- dappled,
- dedal,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- devious,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- discomposing,
- disconcerting,
- dismaying,
- distracting,
- disturbing,
- eclectic,
- elaborate,
- embarrassing,
- embrangled,
- enigmatic,
- entangled,
- equivocal,
- exacting,
- fancy,
- fifty-fifty,
- formidable,
- fouled up,
- garbled,
- gordian,
- hairy,
- half-and-half,
- hard,
- hard to understand,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heterogeneous,
- implicated,
- indiscriminate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- ironic,
- jawbreaking,
- jumbled,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- laborious,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- many-sided,
- matted,
- mazy,
- mean,
- meandering,
- medley,
- messed up,
- mingled,
- miscellaneous,
- mixed,
- mixed up,
- motley,
- mucked up,
- multifaceted,
- multifarious,
- multinational,
- multiracial,
- mysterious,
- mystifying,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- operose,
- ornate,
- overtechnical,
- patchy,
- perplexed,
- perplexing,
- perturbing,
- pluralistic,
- problematic,
- promiscuous,
- puzzling,
- ramified,
- rigorous,
- rococo,
- rough,
- roundabout,
- rugged,
- scrambled,
- screwed up,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- sinuous,
- snarled,
- sophisticated,
- spiny,
- steep,
- strenuous,
- subtle,
- syncretic,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- thorny,
- thrown together,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- tortuous,
- tough,
- tricky,
- twisted,
- uphill,
- upsetting,
- varied,
- wicked,
- winding
- balk
collapse
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline; "a player with ball in hand must play from the balk" related words >
- baffle,
- bafflement,
- balk at,
- balking,
- be unwilling,
- beam,
- beat,
- begrudge,
- betrayed hope,
- bevue,
- bilk,
- blast,
- blasted expectation,
- blighted hope,
- blow,
- boggle,
- brave,
- buffet,
- cast down,
- challenge,
- check,
- checkmate,
- circumvent,
- comedown,
- confound,
- confounding,
- confront,
- confusion,
- contravene,
- counter,
- counteract,
- countermand,
- counterwork,
- cross,
- cruel disappointment,
- dash,
- dashed hope,
- decline,
- defeat,
- defeat expectation,
- defy,
- destroy,
- die hard,
- disappoint,
- disappointment,
- discomfit,
- discomfiture,
- disconcert,
- disconcertion,
- discountenance,
- dish,
- disillusion,
- disillusionment,
- disrupt,
- dissatisfaction,
- dissatisfy,
- elude,
- failure,
- fallen countenance,
- false move,
- false step,
- fiasco,
- fizzle,
- flinch,
- flummox,
- foil,
- foiling,
- forlorn hope,
- frustrate,
- frustration,
- gag,
- grudge,
- hang back,
- hold out,
- hope deferred,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- jib,
- knock the chocks,
- lapse,
- lapsus calami,
- lapsus linguae,
- let down,
- letdown,
- loose thread,
- mind,
- mirage,
- miscue,
- misstep,
- nonplus,
- not budge,
- not care to,
- not feel like,
- object to,
- omission,
- oversight,
- perplex,
- persevere,
- quail,
- rebuff,
- recoil,
- refuse,
- repulse,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- rout,
- ruin,
- sabotage,
- scotch,
- scruple,
- setback,
- shrink,
- shy,
- slip,
- slipup,
- sore disappointment,
- spike,
- spoil,
- stand out,
- stand pat,
- stick,
- stickle,
- stonewall,
- strain,
- stumble,
- stump,
- take no denial,
- tantalization,
- tantalize,
- tease,
- thwart,
- thwarting,
- trip,
- turn down,
- upset,
- would rather not,
- wrong step
- amazing,
- ambling,
- ambulation,
- astonishing,
- astounding,
- backpacking,
- breathtaking,
- broken,
- capricious,
- careening,
- catchy,
- cautious,
- choppy,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- confounding,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- desultory,
- deviative,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- easy,
- eccentric,
- electrifying,
- erratic,
- eye-opening,
- faltering,
- fitful,
- flagging,
- flickering,
- fluctuating,
- foot-dragging,
- footing,
- footing it,
- footwork,
- gentle,
- going on foot,
- gradual,
- guttering,
- halting,
- herky-jerky,
- heteroclite,
- hiking,
- hitchhiking,
- hitching,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- hoofing,
- idle,
- immethodical,
- inconstant,
- indolent,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- irregular,
- jarring,
- jerky,
- jolting,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- legwork,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- lumbering,
- lurching,
- marching,
- mind-boggling,
- miraculous,
- moderate,
- nonuniform,
- overwhelming,
- patchy,
- pedestrianism,
- perambulation,
- poking,
- poky,
- rambling,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- rough,
- sauntering,
- scrappy,
- shocking,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- snatchy,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- spectacular,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- startling,
- strange,
- strolling,
- stunning,
- surprising,
- tentative,
- thumbing,
- thumbing a ride,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- tramping,
- treading,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- uncertain,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unhurried,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unregular,
- unrhythmical,
- unsettled,
- unsteady,
- unsystematic,
- variable,
- veering,
- waddling,
- walking,
- wandering,
- wavering,
- wobbling,
- wobbly,
- wonderful,
- wondrous
- contradiction
collapse
- the speech act of contradicting someone; "he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction"
- (logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction"
- opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas related words >
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- abrogation,
- absolute contradiction,
- annulment,
- answer,
- antagonism,
- antipathy,
- antithesis,
- argumentation,
- backlash,
- bucking,
- challenge,
- chucking,
- chucking out,
- clashing,
- collision,
- complete answer,
- conflict,
- confounding,
- confrontation,
- confutation,
- contempt,
- contention,
- contradistinction,
- contraindication,
- contraposition,
- contrariety,
- contrary assertion,
- contrast,
- contravention,
- contraversion,
- controversion,
- controversy,
- counteraction,
- countering,
- counterposition,
- counterworking,
- crankiness,
- cross-purposes,
- crosscurrent,
- crossing,
- crotchetiness,
- declination,
- declining,
- demolition,
- denial,
- despisal,
- despising,
- difference,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disaffirmation,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disapproval,
- disavowal,
- discard,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- discord,
- discordance,
- discordancy,
- discounting,
- discrediting,
- discrepancy,
- disharmony,
- dismissal,
- disownment,
- disparity,
- disproof,
- disregard,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- dissonance,
- disunion,
- disunity,
- divergence,
- diversity,
- effective rejoinder,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- faction,
- forswearing,
- friction,
- gainsaying,
- head wind,
- hostility,
- ignoring,
- impugnation,
- impugnment,
- inaccordance,
- inconsistency,
- inequality,
- inimicalness,
- interference,
- jarring,
- kick,
- negation,
- nonacceptance,
- nonapproval,
- nonconformity,
- nonconsideration,
- nullification,
- opposing,
- oppositeness,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnance,
- oppugnancy,
- oppugnation,
- overthrow,
- overthrowal,
- passing by,
- perverseness,
- perversity,
- polarity,
- putting away,
- putting out,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- rebutment,
- rebuttal,
- recalcitrance,
- recantation,
- recoil,
- refusal,
- refutal,
- refutation,
- rejection,
- renitency,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- repercussion,
- repudiation,
- repugnance,
- repulse,
- resistance,
- retractation,
- retraction,
- revocation,
- revolt,
- scouting,
- showdown,
- spurning,
- squelch,
- standing against,
- subversion,
- swimming upstream,
- throwing out,
- traversal,
- turning out,
- undercurrent,
- undermining,
- unharmoniousness,
- upset,
- upsetting,
- variance
- contradictory
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- two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time
- unable to be both true at the same time
- of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false; "`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms" related words >
- abjuratory,
- abnegative,
- absonant,
- adversary,
- adversative,
- adverse,
- adversive,
- alien,
- ambiguous,
- ambivalent,
- antagonistic,
- anti,
- antipathetic,
- antipodal,
- antipode,
- antipodean,
- antipole,
- antithesis,
- antithetic,
- antithetical,
- antonymous,
- at cross-purposes,
- at loggerheads,
- at odds,
- at variance,
- at war,
- balancing,
- breakaway,
- clashing,
- compensating,
- competitive,
- con,
- conflicting,
- confounding,
- confronting,
- confutative,
- confuting,
- contra,
- contradicting,
- contradistinct,
- contrapositive,
- contrarious,
- contrary,
- contrary to reason,
- contrasted,
- converse,
- counter,
- counteractant,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- counterbalancing,
- counterpoised,
- counterpole,
- countervailing,
- counterworking,
- cranky,
- cross,
- crotchety,
- dead against,
- denying,
- differing,
- disaccordant,
- disaffirming,
- disagreeable,
- disagreeing,
- disallowing,
- disavowing,
- disclaiming,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- disharmonious,
- disowning,
- disproportionate,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- dissonant,
- divergent,
- enemy,
- eyeball to eyeball,
- fallacious,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- fractious,
- grating,
- hostile,
- illogical,
- immiscible,
- inaccordant,
- inauthentic,
- incompatible,
- inconclusive,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsistent,
- inharmonious,
- inimical,
- invalid,
- inverse,
- irrational,
- jangling,
- jarring,
- loose,
- negating,
- negative,
- negatory,
- nonconformist,
- noncooperative,
- nonscientific,
- not following,
- nullifying,
- obstinate,
- obverse,
- opponent,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- oppositional,
- oppositive,
- oppugnant,
- out of accord,
- out of whack,
- overthwart,
- paradoxical,
- paralogical,
- perverse,
- polar,
- reactionary,
- reasonless,
- recalcitrant,
- recanting,
- refractory,
- refutative,
- refutatory,
- refuting,
- renitent,
- renunciative,
- renunciatory,
- repudiative,
- repugnant,
- resistant,
- reverse,
- revocative,
- revocatory,
- revolutionary,
- rival,
- self-annulling,
- self-contradictory,
- self-refuting,
- senseless,
- squared off,
- unauthentic,
- uncongenial,
- unconnected,
- uncooperative,
- unfavorable,
- unfriendly,
- unharmonious,
- unphilosophical,
- unpropitious,
- unreasonable,
- unscientific,
- variant,
- without reason
- squelch
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- suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion"
- walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow"
- make a sucking sound related words >
- answer,
- answer conclusively,
- argue down,
- asphyxiate,
- assibilate,
- assibilation,
- barb,
- black out,
- bottle up,
- buzz,
- censor,
- choke,
- choke off,
- clamp down on,
- comeback,
- complete answer,
- confound,
- confounding,
- confutation,
- confute,
- contradict,
- contradiction,
- controversion,
- controvert,
- cork,
- cork up,
- crack down on,
- crush,
- damp down,
- defeat,
- demolish,
- demolition,
- denial,
- deny,
- discrediting,
- dismiss,
- dispose of,
- drown,
- dumbfound,
- effective rejoinder,
- effervesce,
- effervescence,
- effervescing,
- extinguish,
- finish,
- fizz,
- fizzle,
- fizzling,
- floor,
- frication,
- frictional rustling,
- gag,
- gibe,
- hiss,
- hissing,
- hold down,
- hugger-mugger,
- humiliate,
- hush,
- hush up,
- hush-hush,
- hushing,
- jibe,
- jump on,
- keep down,
- keep under,
- kill,
- lisp,
- muffle,
- muzzle,
- nonplus,
- outdo,
- overcome,
- overthrow,
- overthrowal,
- overturn,
- overwhelm,
- parry,
- pour water on,
- put down,
- put out,
- put to silence,
- put-down,
- quash,
- quell,
- quench,
- quiet,
- quieten,
- quip,
- rebut,
- rebuttal,
- reduce to silence,
- refutal,
- refutation,
- refute,
- repress,
- retort,
- rhonchus,
- riposte,
- sally,
- settle,
- shoot down,
- shush,
- shushing,
- shut down on,
- shut up,
- sibilance,
- sibilate,
- sibilation,
- siffle,
- sigmatism,
- silence,
- siss,
- sissing,
- sit down on,
- sit on,
- sizz,
- sizzle,
- sizzling,
- smash,
- smash all opposition,
- smother,
- sneeze,
- sneezing,
- sniff,
- sniffle,
- snore,
- snort,
- snuff,
- snuff out,
- snuffle,
- soft-pedal,
- spit,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- squash,
- squish,
- stamp out,
- stanch,
- sternutation,
- stertor,
- stifle,
- still,
- strangle,
- strike dumb,
- stultify,
- subdue,
- subversion,
- subvert,
- suffocate,
- suppress,
- swish,
- throttle,
- trample out,
- trample underfoot,
- undermine,
- undermining,
- upset,
- upsetting,
- wheeze,
- whish,
- whistle,
- whistling,
- white noise,
- whiz,
- whoosh,
- wisecrack,
- zip
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