dark lightning - Wordage.info - Free Thesaurus Tool for Word Discovery - Expanded Thesaurus, Reverse Dictionary Lookup

fall upon collapse: find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"

smothered collapse: held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"; completely covered; "bonnets smothered with flowers"; "smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy"

colorful collapse: having striking color; "colorful autumn leaves"; striking in variety and interest; "a colorful period of history"; "a colorful character"; "colorful language"

breakneck collapse: moving at very high speed; "a breakneck pace"

lame duck collapse: an elected official still in office but not slated to continue

wishbone collapse: the furcula of a domestic fowl

ill-gotten collapse

dim sighted collapse

unspoken collapse

sotto voce collapse: in an undertone; "he uttered a curse sotto voce"

unenlightened collapse: not enlightened; ignorant; "the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order"

ambush collapse: the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise; wait in hiding to attack

with bated breath collapse

black collapse: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"; (board games) the darker pieces; the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white); a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa); popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928); British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799); marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"; of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.; extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"; being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"; (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"; soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"; dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars"; (of coffee) without cream or sugar; (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"; stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy; (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"; offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"; (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"; harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

candidate collapse: someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)

improbability collapse: the quality of being improbable; "impossibility should never be confused with improbability"; "the improbability of such rare coincidences"

indistinguishable collapse: not capable of being distinguished or differentiated; "the two specimens are actually different from each other but the differences are almost indistinguishable"; "the twins were indistinguishable"; "a colorless person quite indistinguishable from the colorless mass of humanity"

bulwark collapse: a fencelike structure around a deck (usually plural); defend with a bulwark

cerulean collapse

morose collapse

overcast collapse: a cast that falls beyond the intended spot; a long whip stitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling; sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next; "overcast books"; sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches; make overcast or cloudy; "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"

outside chance collapse

off chance collapse

classify collapse: arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"; declare unavailable, as for security reasons; "Classify these documents"

low profile collapse: a state of low visibility in which public notice is avoided; "he was never one to keep a low profile"

aspirant collapse: an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes"; desiring or striving for recognition or advancement

under wraps collapse

agile collapse: moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it"; mentally quick; "an agile mind"; "nimble wits"

dead of night collapse

pilot collapse: someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight; a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor

rapid collapse: a part of a river where the current is very fast; done or occurring in a brief period of time; "a rapid rise through the ranks"; characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed; "a rapid movement"; "a speedy car"; "a speedy errand boy"

tricolor collapse: a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French flag)

funicular collapse: relating to or operated by a cable; "funicular railway"

flash collapse: a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph; a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification; "red flashes adorned the airplane"; "a flash sewn on his sleeve indicated the unit he belonged to"; a momentary brightness; a sudden brilliant understanding; "he had a flash of intuition"; a short vivid experience; "a flash of emotion swept over him"; "the flashings of pain were a warning"; a sudden intense burst of radiant energy; appear briefly; "The headlines flashed on the screen"; emit a brief burst of light; "A shooting star flashed and was gone"; make known or cause to appear with great speed; "The latest intelligence is flashed to all command posts"; protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal; "flash the roof"; expose or show briefly; "he flashed a $100 bill"; gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"

bare possibility collapse

giblets collapse

Wordage.info

the free tool for word discovery

Related Words: