Related Words:
- temperamental
collapse - relating to or caused by temperament; "temperamental indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities" related words >
- affective,
- arbitrary,
- atavistic,
- bluff,
- bodily,
- born,
- brusque,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- characteristic,
- coeval,
- congenital,
- connatal,
- connate,
- connatural,
- constitutional,
- crabbed,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- curt,
- dispositional,
- emotional,
- erratic,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- fanciful,
- fantasied,
- fantastic,
- fickle,
- flaky,
- freakish,
- genetic,
- grouchy,
- gruff,
- grumpy,
- harebrained,
- hereditary,
- high-strung,
- hot-blooded,
- hot-tempered,
- hotheaded,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- humorsome,
- hypersensitive,
- impatient,
- in the blood,
- inborn,
- inbred,
- incarnate,
- inconsistent,
- indigenous,
- inherited,
- innate,
- instinctive,
- instinctual,
- intellectual,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- kinky,
- maggoty,
- mental,
- mercurial,
- miffy,
- moody,
- motiveless,
- native,
- native to,
- natural,
- natural to,
- notional,
- organic,
- oversensitive,
- peevish,
- petulant,
- physical,
- prickly,
- primal,
- quirky,
- sensitive,
- short,
- short-tempered,
- snappish,
- spiritual,
- testy,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- uncertain,
- undependable,
- uneven,
- unpredictable,
- unreasonable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unstable,
- vagarious,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- volatile,
- wanton,
- waspish,
- wayward,
- whimsical
- brash
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- offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say" related words >
- abrupt,
- aggressive,
- arrogant,
- audacious,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- biggety,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- bold,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- brusque,
- bumptious,
- cavalier,
- challenging,
- cheeky,
- churlish,
- chutzpadik,
- cocksure,
- cocky,
- contemptuous,
- crusty,
- curt,
- daring,
- defiant,
- defying,
- derisive,
- disdainful,
- disregardful,
- disrespectful,
- ebullient,
- effervescent,
- facy,
- flip,
- flippant,
- forward,
- fresh,
- gally,
- gratuitous,
- greatly daring,
- gruff,
- harsh,
- hasty,
- headlong,
- high-spirited,
- hubristic,
- ill-advised,
- impertinent,
- impetuous,
- impolitic,
- improvident,
- imprudent,
- impudent,
- impulsive,
- incautious,
- inconsiderate,
- indiscreet,
- injudicious,
- insolent,
- madcap,
- maladroit,
- malapert,
- nervy,
- overbold,
- overcareless,
- overconfident,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- pert,
- precipitate,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- rash,
- reckless,
- regardless of consequences,
- rough,
- rude,
- sassy,
- saucy,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- severe,
- sharp,
- short,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- snippy,
- surly,
- tactless,
- temerarious,
- thoughtless,
- truculent,
- uncalled-for,
- unchary,
- undiplomatic,
- untactful,
- unwary,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- vivacious,
- wise-ass
- compressed
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- reduced in volume by pressure; "compressed air"
- pressed tightly together; "with lips compressed"
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clamped,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-knit,
- close-textured,
- close-woven,
- compact,
- compacted,
- compendious,
- concentrated,
- concise,
- concrete,
- condensed,
- congested,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- contracted,
- crammed,
- crammed full,
- cramped,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- crowded,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- dense,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- firm,
- gluey,
- gnomic,
- hard,
- heavy,
- impenetrable,
- impermeable,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- knitted,
- laconic,
- massive,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- nonporous,
- packed,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- puckered,
- pursed,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- serried,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- solid,
- solidified,
- squeezed,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- thick,
- thick-growing,
- thickset,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- wasp-waisted,
- wrinkled
- Attic,
- Ciceronian,
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abrupt,
- aphoristic,
- aposiopestic,
- axiomatic,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- brief,
- brusque,
- chaste,
- classic,
- clear,
- clear-cut,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- direct,
- distilled,
- docked,
- dumb,
- easy,
- economical of words,
- elegant,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- finished,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- gnomic,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- gruff,
- incisive,
- indisposed to talk,
- laconic,
- lean,
- limpid,
- lucid,
- mum,
- mute,
- natural,
- neat,
- pellucid,
- perspicuous,
- petulant,
- pithy,
- plain,
- platitudinous,
- pointed,
- polished,
- precise,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- pungent,
- pure,
- quiet,
- refined,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- round,
- rude,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- silent,
- simple,
- snug,
- sparing of words,
- speechless,
- straightforward,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tart,
- tasteful,
- taut,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- to the point,
- tongue-tied,
- trim,
- truncated,
- unaffected,
- ungracious,
- unlabored,
- unloquacious,
- untalkative,
- word-bound,
- wordless
- crusty
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- brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply" related words >
- abrupt,
- aggressive,
- backed,
- barnyard,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- biggety,
- bitchy,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- brash,
- brief,
- brusque,
- calcified,
- callous,
- calloused,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- case-hardened,
- cavalier,
- cheeky,
- choleric,
- churlish,
- chutzpadik,
- coarse,
- cocky,
- contemptuous,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crusted,
- crystallized,
- curt,
- cussed,
- derisive,
- dirty,
- disagreeable,
- disrespectful,
- dour,
- excitable,
- facy,
- feisty,
- filthy,
- flip,
- flippant,
- fossilized,
- foul,
- fractious,
- fresh,
- gally,
- granulated,
- gratuitous,
- gross,
- gruff,
- hardened,
- harsh,
- hornified,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- incrusted,
- indurate,
- indurated,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- lapidified,
- malapert,
- mean,
- nervy,
- ornery,
- ossified,
- pert,
- perverse,
- petrified,
- rank,
- raunchy,
- reinforced,
- rigidified,
- rough,
- rude,
- sassy,
- saturnine,
- saucy,
- sclerotic,
- set,
- severe,
- sharp,
- short,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- snappish,
- snippety,
- snippy,
- solidified,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- steeled,
- stiffened,
- strengthened,
- surly,
- testy,
- toughened,
- truculent,
- ugly,
- uncalled-for,
- vitrified,
- waspish,
- wise-ass
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- bobtail,
- bobtailed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- canned,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clamped,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-knit,
- close-textured,
- close-woven,
- compact,
- compacted,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- concise,
- concrete,
- congested,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- contracted,
- crammed,
- crammed full,
- cramped,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- crowded,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- dense,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- firm,
- gluey,
- gnomic,
- hard,
- heavy,
- impenetrable,
- impermeable,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- knitted,
- laconic,
- massive,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- nonporous,
- packed,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- pithy,
- pocket,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- potted,
- pruned,
- puckered,
- pursed,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- serried,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- solid,
- solidified,
- squeezed,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- thick,
- thick-growing,
- thickset,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- wasp-waisted,
- wrinkled
- reserved
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- cool and formal in manner
- marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-Victoria Sackville-West
- set aside for the use of a particular person or party related words >
- Olympian,
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- aloof,
- antisocial,
- aposiopestic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- brief,
- brusque,
- ceremonious,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-lipped,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- cold,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- conserved,
- constrained,
- contracted,
- controlled,
- conventional,
- cool,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- demure,
- detached,
- diffident,
- dignified,
- discreet,
- distant,
- docked,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- expressionless,
- forbidding,
- formal,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- gnomic,
- guarded,
- held,
- held back,
- held in reserve,
- ice-cold,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- inaccessible,
- incommunicable,
- introverted,
- kept,
- laconic,
- modest,
- modified,
- noncommittal,
- offish,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- poker-faced,
- preserved,
- prim,
- pruned,
- put by,
- quiet,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- restrained,
- retained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- rigid,
- saved,
- sedate,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- silent,
- spare,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- strait-laced,
- subdued,
- succinct,
- summary,
- suppressed,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- tights,
- to the point,
- truncated,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- unemotional,
- unexpansive,
- ungenial,
- unresponsive,
- unsocial,
- withdrawn,
- withheld
- contracted
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- reduced in size or pulled together; "the contracted pupils of her eyes" related words >
- Spartan,
- abated,
- abbreviated,
- ablated,
- abridged,
- affianced,
- agreed,
- aposiopestic,
- arranged,
- assured,
- attenuated,
- bated,
- belittled,
- betrothed,
- blank,
- blind,
- blind-alley,
- bound,
- brief,
- brusque,
- cecal,
- choked,
- choked off,
- clamped,
- clipped,
- close,
- closed,
- committed,
- compact,
- compacted,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- compromised,
- concentrated,
- concise,
- condensed,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- consumed,
- covenanted,
- cramped,
- crisp,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- dead,
- dead-end,
- decreased,
- deflated,
- diminished,
- dissipated,
- docked,
- dropped,
- elliptic,
- engaged,
- epigrammatic,
- eroded,
- fallen,
- gnomic,
- guaranteed,
- intended,
- knitted,
- laconic,
- less,
- lesser,
- lower,
- lowered,
- miniaturized,
- nipped,
- obligated,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- pithy,
- pledged,
- plighted,
- pointed,
- promised,
- pruned,
- puckered,
- pursed,
- reduced,
- reserved,
- retrenched,
- scaled-down,
- sealed,
- sententious,
- settled,
- shorn,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- shorter,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- shut,
- signed,
- smaller,
- solidified,
- squeezed,
- squeezed shut,
- stipulated,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- succinct,
- summary,
- sworn,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- truncated,
- undertaken,
- underwritten,
- unopen,
- unopened,
- unvented,
- unventilated,
- warranted,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered-down,
- weakened,
- worn,
- wrinkled
- brusque
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- marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abrupt,
- aggressive,
- aposiopestic,
- artless,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- brash,
- brief,
- broad,
- candid,
- cavalier,
- churlish,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- crusty,
- curt,
- cut,
- direct,
- discourteous,
- docked,
- downright,
- dumb,
- economical of words,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- explicit,
- forthright,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- genuine,
- gnomic,
- gruff,
- harsh,
- heart-to-heart,
- ill-mannered,
- impolite,
- indisposed to talk,
- ingenuous,
- laconic,
- mum,
- mute,
- open,
- openhearted,
- outspoken,
- overbearing,
- pithy,
- plain,
- plain-spoken,
- pointed,
- pruned,
- quiet,
- reserved,
- rough,
- round,
- rude,
- sententious,
- severe,
- sharp,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- silent,
- sincere,
- snippety,
- snippy,
- snug,
- sparing of words,
- speechless,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straightforward,
- succinct,
- summary,
- surly,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- to the point,
- tongue-tied,
- transparent,
- truculent,
- truncated,
- unchecked,
- uncivil,
- unconstrained,
- unequivocal,
- ungracious,
- unguarded,
- unloquacious,
- unmannerly,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- untalkative,
- word-bound,
- wordless
- cavalier
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- a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War
- a gallant or courtly gentleman
- given to haughty disregard of others related words >
- Bayard,
- Casanova,
- Don Juan,
- Don Quixote,
- Gawain,
- Lancelot,
- Lothario,
- Ritter,
- Romeo,
- Sidney,
- Sir Galahad,
- abrupt,
- aggressive,
- amoroso,
- arrogant,
- bachelor,
- banneret,
- baronet,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- beau,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- bodyguard,
- boyfriend,
- brash,
- broncobuster,
- brusque,
- buckaroo,
- caballero,
- cavaliere servente,
- cavalryman,
- chaperon,
- chevalier,
- churlish,
- circus rider,
- companion,
- conductor,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- convoy,
- cowboy,
- cowgirl,
- cowpuncher,
- crusty,
- curt,
- disdainful,
- dismissive,
- duenna,
- equestrian,
- equestrienne,
- escort,
- esquire,
- fellow,
- fellow traveler,
- flame,
- gallant,
- gaucho,
- gigolo,
- gruff,
- guard,
- harsh,
- haughty,
- high-and-mighty,
- horse soldier,
- horseback rider,
- horsebacker,
- horseman,
- horsewoman,
- inamorato,
- insolent,
- jockey,
- knight,
- knight bachelor,
- knight banneret,
- knight baronet,
- knight-errant,
- lady-killer,
- lofty,
- love-maker,
- man,
- mounted policeman,
- necker,
- old man,
- overbearing,
- petter,
- philanderer,
- postboy,
- postilion,
- puncher,
- rider,
- rough,
- roughrider,
- safe-conduct,
- seducer,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sheik,
- shepherd,
- short,
- snippy,
- squire,
- steeplechaser,
- sugar daddy,
- supercilious,
- superior,
- surly,
- swain,
- trick rider,
- truculent,
- usher,
- vaquero,
- young man
- truculent
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- defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new government" related words >
- Draconian,
- Tartarean,
- abrupt,
- aggressive,
- animal,
- antagonistic,
- anthropophagous,
- atrocious,
- bad-tempered,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- battling,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bestial,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- brash,
- browbeating,
- brusque,
- brutal,
- brutalized,
- brute,
- brutish,
- bullying,
- cannibalistic,
- cavalier,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- churlish,
- combative,
- contentious,
- contumelious,
- cowing,
- cruel,
- cruel-hearted,
- crusty,
- curt,
- demoniac,
- demoniacal,
- devilish,
- diabolic,
- enemy,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fiendish,
- fiendlike,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- frightening,
- full of fight,
- grim,
- gruff,
- harsh,
- hawkish,
- hellish,
- hostile,
- ill-tempered,
- infernal,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- inimical,
- intimidating,
- invective,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- martial,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- murderous,
- nasty,
- obstreperous,
- offensive,
- opprobrious,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- rough,
- rude,
- ruthless,
- saber-rattling,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- scathing,
- scrappy,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- severe,
- sharkish,
- sharp,
- short,
- slavering,
- snippy,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- subhuman,
- sullen,
- surly,
- terrifying,
- terrorizing,
- trigger-happy,
- unchristian,
- uncivilized,
- unfriendly,
- unhuman,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- unpleasant,
- vicious,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vituperative,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wolfish
- summary
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- a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form; "he gave a summary of the conclusions" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abbreviation,
- abridged,
- abridgement,
- abridgment,
- abrupt,
- abstract,
- account,
- accounts,
- alert,
- apocope,
- aposiopestic,
- apt,
- body count,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capitulation,
- census,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compacted,
- compendious,
- compendium,
- compressed,
- compression,
- concise,
- condensation,
- condensed,
- consolidation,
- conspectus,
- contracted,
- copy,
- core,
- count,
- crisp,
- critique,
- curt,
- curtailment,
- curtal,
- curtate,
- cut,
- decisive,
- decurtate,
- digest,
- distillate,
- docked,
- drumhead,
- dwelling upon,
- elaboration,
- elision,
- ellipsis,
- elliptic,
- encapsulation,
- epigrammatic,
- epitome,
- epitomization,
- essence,
- expeditious,
- foreshortening,
- gist,
- gnomic,
- going over,
- head count,
- immediate,
- instant,
- instantaneous,
- inventory,
- iteration,
- laconic,
- little,
- low,
- main point,
- meat,
- nose count,
- outline,
- peremptory,
- perfunctory,
- pith,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- practicing,
- precis,
- prompt,
- pruned,
- punctual,
- quick,
- ready,
- reaffirmation,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- recital,
- reckoning,
- recount,
- recountal,
- recounting,
- reduction,
- rehash,
- rehearsal,
- reissue,
- reiteration,
- repertory,
- reprint,
- reserved,
- restatement,
- resume,
- retelling,
- retrenchment,
- review,
- roundup,
- run-through,
- rundown,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- shortening,
- speedy,
- statement,
- substance,
- succinct,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- summation,
- summing,
- summing up,
- summing-up,
- swift,
- syncope,
- synopsis,
- synopsized,
- synoptic,
- taciturn,
- telescoping,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- transient,
- truncated,
- truncation
- aggressive
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- having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends; "an aggressive businessman"; "an aggressive basketball player"; "he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions"; "aggressive drivers"
- characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight; "aggressive acts against another country"; "a belligerent tone"
- tending to spread quickly; "an aggressive tumor" related words >
- abrupt,
- active,
- acute,
- adventuresome,
- adventurous,
- ambitious,
- animated,
- antagonistic,
- assertive,
- battling,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- bold,
- brash,
- brisk,
- brusque,
- cavalier,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- churlish,
- combative,
- contentious,
- crusty,
- curt,
- disputatious,
- divisive,
- domineering,
- driving,
- dynamic,
- enemy,
- energetic,
- enterprising,
- enthusiastic,
- eristic,
- factional,
- factious,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forward,
- full of fight,
- full of pep,
- go-ahead,
- go-go,
- gruff,
- hard-hitting,
- harsh,
- hawkish,
- hearty,
- hostile,
- hustling,
- imperious,
- impetuous,
- incisive,
- inimical,
- intense,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- keen,
- kinetic,
- litigious,
- lively,
- living,
- lusty,
- martial,
- masterful,
- mettlesome,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- offensive,
- on the offensive,
- partisan,
- peppy,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- pugnacious,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- quarrelsome,
- robust,
- rough,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- scrappy,
- self-assertive,
- severe,
- sharp,
- short,
- shrewish,
- smacking,
- snappy,
- snippy,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- spanking,
- spirited,
- strenuous,
- strong,
- surly,
- take-charge,
- take-over,
- tough,
- trenchant,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- up-and-coming,
- venturesome,
- venturous,
- vibrant,
- vigorous,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wrangling,
- zestful,
- zesty,
- zippy
- snug
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- well and tightly constructed; "a snug house"; "a snug little sailboat"
- offering safety; well protected or concealed; "a snug harbor"; "a snug hideout" related words >
- airtight,
- airworthy,
- anal,
- autistic,
- bashful,
- bold,
- brief,
- brusque,
- burrow,
- casual,
- cheerful,
- chipper,
- close,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- comfortable,
- comfy,
- commodious,
- compact,
- concise,
- contented,
- convenient,
- cosy,
- cozy,
- croodle,
- cuddle,
- curt,
- cushioned,
- cushiony,
- cushy,
- dinky,
- dissociable,
- dumb,
- dustproof,
- dusttight,
- easeful,
- easy,
- economical of words,
- fast,
- firm,
- fit for sea,
- friendly,
- gasproof,
- gastight,
- hermetic,
- hermetically sealed,
- homelike,
- homely,
- homey,
- homish,
- incompatible,
- indisposed to talk,
- insociable,
- intimate,
- laconic,
- lightproof,
- lighttight,
- lived-in,
- luxurious,
- mopey,
- mopish,
- morose,
- mum,
- mute,
- neat,
- nestle,
- nongregarious,
- nuzzle,
- oilproof,
- oiltight,
- orderly,
- peaceful,
- plain,
- quiet,
- rainproof,
- raintight,
- relaxing,
- reposeful,
- restful,
- roomy,
- sea-kindly,
- sealed,
- seaworthy,
- self-contained,
- self-sufficient,
- sheltered,
- shipshape,
- short,
- shut fast,
- silent,
- simple,
- sleek,
- slick,
- smart,
- smokeproof,
- smoketight,
- snug down,
- snug up,
- socially incompatible,
- soft,
- sparing of words,
- speechless,
- spick-and-span,
- spruce,
- staunch,
- stiff,
- stormproof,
- stormtight,
- sullen,
- taciturn,
- tender,
- terse,
- tidy,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- tongue-tied,
- trig,
- trim,
- tuck in,
- unclubbable,
- uncluttered,
- uncommunicative,
- uncompanionable,
- uncongenial,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unloquacious,
- unpretending,
- unsociable,
- unsocial,
- untalkative,
- warm,
- water-repellant,
- waterproof,
- watertight,
- weatherly,
- well-cared-for,
- well-groomed,
- well-to-do,
- windproof,
- windtight,
- word-bound,
- wordless
- sententious
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- abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- affected,
- allegorical,
- aphoristic,
- aposiopestic,
- associational,
- axiomatic,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- brief,
- brusque,
- cautionary,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- contracted,
- convoluted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- declamatory,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- didactic,
- directive,
- docked,
- elevated,
- elliptic,
- eloquent,
- epigrammatic,
- euphuistic,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facund,
- figurative,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gnomic,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- indicative,
- inkhorn,
- instructive,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- labyrinthine,
- laconic,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- meretricious,
- metaphorical,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- piquant,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- pointed,
- pompous,
- preachy,
- pregnant,
- pretentious,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- pungent,
- readable,
- recommendatory,
- referential,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- reserved,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- showy,
- significant,
- significative,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- suggestive,
- summary,
- symbolic,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tall,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- tortuous,
- transferred,
- truncated,
- warning
- disagreeable
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- not to your liking; "a most disagreeable journey"; "a disagreeable old man"; "in a disagreeable mood"
- not agreeing with your tastes or expectations; "found the task disagreeable and decided to abandon it"; "a job temperamentally unsympathetic to him" related words >
- abominable,
- abrupt,
- annoying,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- at cross-purposes,
- at loggerheads,
- at odds,
- at variance,
- at war,
- bad-tempered,
- bearish,
- bitchy,
- bitter,
- blunt,
- brusque,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- churlish,
- clashing,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crusty,
- curt,
- cussed,
- differing,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeing,
- discordant,
- discourteous,
- discrepant,
- disgusting,
- disharmonious,
- dislikable,
- disobliging,
- displeasing,
- disproportionate,
- dissident,
- dissonant,
- distasteful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- divergent,
- excitable,
- feisty,
- foul-tasting,
- fractious,
- fretful,
- grating,
- grouchy,
- had,
- hostile,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- ill,
- ill-flavored,
- ill-humored,
- ill-mannered,
- ill-tempered,
- immiscible,
- impolite,
- inaccordant,
- incompatible,
- inharmonious,
- inhospitable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jangling,
- jarring,
- mean,
- morose,
- nasty,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- negative,
- noxious,
- objectionable,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- ornery,
- out of accord,
- out of whack,
- peevish,
- perverse,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- querulous,
- repellent,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- rotten,
- rude,
- short,
- sickening,
- snappish,
- snappy,
- sour,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- testy,
- thankless,
- ugly,
- unaffectionate,
- unalluring,
- unamiable,
- unappealing,
- unappetizing,
- unattractive,
- unbenign,
- unbenignant,
- uncivil,
- uncompassionate,
- uncompassioned,
- uncongenial,
- uncooperative,
- uncordial,
- uncourtly,
- undelectable,
- undelicious,
- undesirable,
- unengaging,
- unenjoyable,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- ungracious,
- unhappy,
- unharmonious,
- uninviting,
- unkind,
- unkindly,
- unlikable,
- unloving,
- unpalatable,
- unpleasant,
- unpleasing,
- unsavory,
- unsympathetic,
- unsympathizing,
- untasteful,
- untasty,
- unwelcome,
- variant,
- waspish,
- whiny,
- woeful
- offhand
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- casually thoughtless or inconsiderate; "an offhand manner"; "she treated most men with offhand contempt"
- in a casually inconsiderate manner; "replied offhand, his mind a million miles away"; "she threw him over offhandedly without even a Dear-John letter"
- without previous thought or preparation; "couldn't give the figures offhand"; "we decided offhand to go to Canada"; "she had made these remarks offhandedly" related words >
- Bohemian,
- abrupt,
- ad lib,
- ad libitum,
- ad-lib,
- affable,
- airily,
- airy,
- aloof,
- any old way,
- any which way,
- anyhow,
- at short notice,
- at sight,
- blase,
- brusque,
- bunglingly,
- by ear,
- by the by,
- by the way,
- careless,
- carelessly,
- casual,
- casually,
- cavalier,
- clumsily,
- cool,
- cordial,
- cursorily,
- cursory,
- curt,
- degage,
- devil-may-care,
- disregardant,
- disregardful,
- disregardfully,
- distant,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- en famille,
- en passant,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporaneously,
- extemporarily,
- extemporary,
- extempore,
- familiar,
- familiarly,
- flippant,
- folksy,
- forgetful,
- forgetfully,
- free and easy,
- glib,
- gracious,
- haphazardly,
- haymish,
- heedless,
- heedlessly,
- helter-skelter,
- hit and miss,
- hit or miss,
- homely,
- homey,
- impromptu,
- improvisatorial,
- improvise,
- improvised,
- improviso,
- in passing,
- inattentively,
- incidentally,
- inconsiderate,
- inconsiderately,
- indifferent,
- informal,
- informally,
- insouciant,
- irregular,
- jury-rigged,
- lackadaisical,
- lazy,
- light-hearted,
- loose,
- makeshift,
- messily,
- natural,
- naturally,
- nonchalant,
- oblivious,
- off the cuff,
- off the hip,
- off-the-cuff,
- offhanded,
- offhandedly,
- on sight,
- once over lightly,
- out of hand,
- parenthetically,
- perfunctorily,
- perfunctory,
- plain,
- plainly,
- promiscuously,
- reckless,
- recklessly,
- regardless,
- regardlessly,
- relaxed,
- relaxedly,
- respectless,
- sans ceremonie,
- simple,
- simply,
- slapdash,
- sloppily,
- smooth,
- sociable,
- spur-of-the-moment,
- stopgap,
- superficial,
- superficially,
- tactless,
- tactlessly,
- thoughtless,
- thoughtlessly,
- unaffected,
- unaffectedly,
- unassuming,
- unassumingly,
- unceremonious,
- unceremoniously,
- unconcerned,
- unconstrained,
- unconstrainedly,
- unconventional,
- undiplomatic,
- ungracious,
- unguardedly,
- unheedful,
- unheedfully,
- unheeding,
- unheedingly,
- uninterested,
- unmindful,
- unmindfully,
- unofficial,
- unofficially,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unready,
- unrehearsed,
- unsolicitous,
- unsolicitously,
- unstudied,
- untactful,
- unthinking,
- unthinkingly,
- unvigilantly,
- unwarily,
- without ceremony
- moody
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- United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906)
- subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer" related words >
- abrupt,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- arbitrary,
- beetle-browed,
- black,
- black-browed,
- blue,
- brooding,
- broody,
- cantankerous,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- chapfallen,
- cheerless,
- crabbed,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- crestfallen,
- crotchety,
- crusty,
- curt,
- dark,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- desolate,
- despondent,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- disconsolate,
- disheartened,
- dismal,
- dizzy,
- dour,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- dumpish,
- eccentric,
- erratic,
- fanciful,
- fantasied,
- fantastic,
- fast and loose,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flaky,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- freakish,
- frowning,
- giddy,
- gloomy,
- glowering,
- glum,
- grim,
- grum,
- harebrained,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- humorsome,
- ill-humored,
- ill-tempered,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- in the doldrums,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- infirm,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- irritable,
- kinky,
- long-faced,
- lowering,
- lugubrious,
- maggoty,
- mazy,
- melancholy,
- mercurial,
- moodish,
- mopey,
- moping,
- mopish,
- morose,
- motiveless,
- mumpish,
- notional,
- out of sorts,
- peevish,
- petulant,
- piqued,
- quirky,
- rambling,
- restless,
- roving,
- sad,
- saturnine,
- scatterbrained,
- scowling,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- short,
- short-tempered,
- shuffling,
- snappish,
- snappy,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- sulking,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- surly,
- temperamental,
- testy,
- touchy,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- uneven,
- unfixed,
- unhappy,
- unpredictable,
- unreasonable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- vacillating,
- vagarious,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- waspish,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy
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