Related Words:
- adversative,
- adverse,
- adversive,
- allegory,
- amendatory,
- amends,
- analogy,
- antagonistic,
- anti,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- antonymous,
- at cross-purposes,
- atonement,
- clashing,
- commutation,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- compensating,
- compensation,
- compensatory,
- conflicting,
- confrontation,
- confronting,
- confrontment,
- contradictory,
- contradistinct,
- contrapositive,
- contrarious,
- contrary,
- contrast,
- contrasted,
- contrastiveness,
- converse,
- coordination,
- correlation,
- counter,
- counteracting,
- counteraction,
- counteractive,
- counterbalancing,
- counterpoised,
- countervailing,
- dead against,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- equalization,
- evening,
- expiation,
- expiatory,
- eyeball to eyeball,
- harmonization,
- hostile,
- inconsistent,
- indemnification,
- indemnificatory,
- indemnity,
- inimical,
- integration,
- inverse,
- lex talionis,
- likening,
- matching,
- metaphor,
- obverse,
- offsetting,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- opposition,
- oppositional,
- oppositive,
- oppugnant,
- parallelism,
- penitential,
- perverse,
- proportion,
- recompense,
- recompensive,
- rectification,
- rectifying,
- redress,
- regularization,
- relation,
- reparation,
- reparative,
- repayment,
- repugnant,
- restitution,
- retaliation,
- retaliatory,
- revenge,
- reverse,
- satisfaction,
- simile,
- similitude,
- squared off,
- substitution,
- symmetrization,
- trope of comparison,
- weigh-in,
- weighing,
- weighing-in,
- weighing-out
- confrontation
collapse - a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison
- the act of hostile groups opposing each other; "the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions"; "the invaders encountered stiff opposition"
- a hostile disagreement face-to-face
- discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions
- a bold challenge related words >
- allegory,
- analogy,
- antagonism,
- anteposition,
- antipathy,
- antithesis,
- audience,
- balancing,
- bargaining,
- bargaining session,
- clashing,
- collision,
- collision course,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conclave,
- confab,
- confabulation,
- conference,
- conflict,
- confrontment,
- congress,
- consultation,
- contention,
- contradiction,
- contradistinction,
- contraindication,
- contraposition,
- contrariety,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- convention,
- correlation,
- council,
- council fire,
- council of war,
- counterposition,
- cross-purposes,
- disagreement,
- discrepancy,
- discussion,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- encounter,
- exchange of views,
- eyeball-to-eyeball encounter,
- high-level talk,
- hostility,
- huddle,
- inconsistency,
- inimicalness,
- interchange of views,
- interview,
- joining,
- likening,
- matching,
- meeting,
- metaphor,
- narrow squeak,
- near thing,
- near-miss,
- negotiations,
- news conference,
- opposing,
- oppositeness,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnance,
- oppugnancy,
- palaver,
- parallelism,
- parley,
- perversity,
- polar opposition,
- polarity,
- polarization,
- posing against,
- pourparler,
- powwow,
- press conference,
- proportion,
- relation,
- rencontre,
- repugnance,
- seance,
- session,
- showdown,
- simile,
- similitude,
- sitting,
- summit,
- summit conference,
- summitry,
- trope of comparison,
- weighing
- analogy
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- drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; "the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain"; "the models show by analogy how matter is built up"
- an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others related words >
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agent,
- agreement,
- alignment,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- ambiguity,
- aping,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- backup,
- balancing,
- change,
- changeling,
- closeness,
- coextension,
- collineation,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- concurrence,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- copy,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equidistance,
- equivalent,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- identity,
- imitation,
- likeness,
- likening,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- matching,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- next best thing,
- nondivergence,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- proportion,
- proxy,
- relation,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- resemblance,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- sameness,
- second string,
- secondary,
- semblance,
- sign,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- tergiversation,
- third string,
- token,
- trope of comparison,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- weighing
- expressive
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- characterized by expression; "a very expressive face" related words >
- Christophanic,
- Satanophanic,
- alive,
- allegorical,
- allusive,
- angelophanic,
- appearing,
- associational,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- definable,
- delineative,
- demonstrating,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- designative,
- diagnostic,
- disclosive,
- displaying,
- eloquent,
- emblematic,
- emotional,
- epiphanic,
- evidential,
- evincive,
- exhibitive,
- explicit,
- expositional,
- expositive,
- expository,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facund,
- faithful,
- figural,
- figurative,
- forceful,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- graphic,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- imaginative,
- implicative,
- incarnating,
- incarnational,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- individual,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- lifelike,
- lively,
- loaded,
- manifestative,
- materializing,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- moving,
- naming,
- naturalistic,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- pictorial,
- pithy,
- pneumatophanic,
- poignant,
- pointed,
- pregnant,
- presentational,
- promulgatory,
- provocative,
- readable,
- realistic,
- referential,
- representative,
- responsive,
- revealing,
- revelational,
- revelatory,
- rich,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- sententious,
- showing,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- spirited,
- striking,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- telling,
- theophanic,
- thought-provoking,
- transferred,
- true to life,
- typical,
- vivid,
- well-drawn
- parallelism
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- similarity by virtue of corresponding related words >
- accompaniment,
- accord,
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- analogy,
- aping,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assent,
- assimilation,
- balance,
- balancing,
- bilateral symmetry,
- chorus,
- closeness,
- co-occurrence,
- coequality,
- coextension,
- coherence,
- coincidence,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- compatibility,
- concert,
- concomitance,
- concomitancy,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concurrence,
- conformance,
- conformation,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- congeniality,
- congruence,
- congruency,
- congruity,
- consistency,
- consonance,
- consort,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- cooperation,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- dynamic symmetry,
- equality,
- equation,
- equilibrium,
- equipoise,
- equipollence,
- equiponderance,
- equity,
- equivalence,
- equivalency,
- eurythmics,
- eurythmy,
- evenness,
- finish,
- harmony,
- identity,
- imitation,
- intersection,
- justice,
- keeping,
- levelness,
- likeness,
- likening,
- matching,
- metaphor,
- mimicking,
- multilateral symmetry,
- nearness,
- oneness,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- overlap,
- par,
- parity,
- peace,
- poise,
- polarity,
- proportion,
- proportionality,
- rapport,
- regularity,
- relation,
- resemblance,
- sameness,
- self-consistency,
- semblance,
- shapeliness,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- simultaneity,
- symmetricalness,
- symmetry,
- sync,
- synchronism,
- tally,
- timing,
- togetherness,
- trilateral symmetry,
- trope of comparison,
- uniformity,
- union,
- unison,
- unisonance,
- weighing,
- withness
- lingual
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- a consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs
- pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue; "lingual inflammation"; "the lingual surface of the teeth" related words >
- accented,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- assimilated,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- checked,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- dental,
- descriptive,
- dissimilated,
- dorsal,
- enunciated,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottochronological,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- high,
- intonated,
- labial,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- lateral,
- lax,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- light,
- linguiform,
- linguistic,
- lingulate,
- liquid,
- low,
- metalinguistic,
- mid,
- monophthongal,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- nuncupative,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oral,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- parol,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealized,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- phonological,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- posttonic,
- pronounced,
- psycholinguistic,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- said,
- semantic,
- semivowel,
- soft,
- sonant,
- sounded,
- speech,
- spoken,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- structural,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syntactic,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonguelike,
- tonic,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- unwritten,
- uttered,
- velar,
- verbal,
- viva voce,
- vocal,
- vocalic,
- vocalized,
- vocoid,
- voiced,
- voiceful,
- voiceless,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
- allegory
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- an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor related words >
- Marchen,
- Western,
- Western story,
- Westerner,
- adventure story,
- allusion,
- analogy,
- apologue,
- arcane meaning,
- assumption,
- balancing,
- bedtime story,
- charactery,
- cipher,
- coloration,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- connotation,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- conventional symbol,
- correlation,
- detective story,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- emblem,
- fable,
- fabliau,
- fairy tale,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figuration,
- folk story,
- folktale,
- gest,
- ghost story,
- hint,
- horse opera,
- iconology,
- ideogram,
- implication,
- implied meaning,
- import,
- inference,
- innuendo,
- intimation,
- ironic suggestion,
- legend,
- likening,
- logogram,
- logotype,
- love knot,
- love story,
- matching,
- meaning,
- metaphor,
- metaphorical sense,
- mystery,
- mystery story,
- myth,
- mythology,
- mythos,
- nuance,
- nursery tale,
- occult meaning,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- overtone,
- parable,
- parallelism,
- pictogram,
- presumption,
- presupposition,
- proportion,
- relation,
- romance,
- science fiction,
- shocker,
- simile,
- similitude,
- space fiction,
- space opera,
- subsense,
- subsidiary sense,
- suggestion,
- supposition,
- suspense story,
- symbol,
- symbolic system,
- symbolism,
- symbolization,
- symbology,
- thriller,
- tinge,
- token,
- totem,
- totem pole,
- touch,
- trope of comparison,
- type,
- typification,
- undercurrent,
- undermeaning,
- undertone,
- weighing,
- whodunit,
- work of fiction
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- ally,
- alter ego,
- analogon,
- analogue,
- analogy,
- aping,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- associate,
- balancing,
- brother,
- certified copy,
- close copy,
- close match,
- closeness,
- cognate,
- community,
- companion,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- complement,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- congenator,
- congener,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- coordinate,
- copy,
- copying,
- correlate,
- correlation,
- correlative,
- correspondence,
- correspondent,
- counterfeit,
- counterpart,
- dead ringer,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- double,
- duplicate,
- ectype,
- effigy,
- equivalent,
- exact likeness,
- fair copy,
- faithful copy,
- fake,
- fellow,
- forgery,
- icon,
- identity,
- idol,
- image,
- imitation,
- kindred spirit,
- like,
- likeness,
- likening,
- living image,
- living picture,
- match,
- matching,
- mate,
- metaphor,
- mimicking,
- miniature,
- mirroring,
- model,
- near duplicate,
- nearness,
- obverse,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- parallel,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pendant,
- phony,
- photograph,
- picture,
- portrait,
- proportion,
- reciprocal,
- reflection,
- relation,
- replica,
- representation,
- resemblance,
- rubbing,
- sameness,
- second self,
- semblance,
- shadow,
- similarity,
- simile,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sister,
- soul mate,
- spit and image,
- spitting image,
- such,
- suchlike,
- tally,
- the like of,
- the likes of,
- trace,
- tracing,
- trope of comparison,
- twin,
- very image,
- very picture,
- weighing
- phonetic
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- of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds; "phonetic analysis"
- of or relating to speech sounds; "phonetic transcription" related words >
- accented,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- arrowhead,
- articulated,
- assimilated,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- character,
- checked,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- cuneiform,
- demotic character,
- dental,
- descriptive,
- determinative,
- dissimilated,
- dorsal,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottochronological,
- grammalogue,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- hieratic symbol,
- hieroglyph,
- hieroglyphic,
- hieroglyphics,
- high,
- hiragana,
- ideogram,
- ideograph,
- intonated,
- kana,
- katakana,
- labial,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- lateral,
- lax,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- light,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- liquid,
- logogram,
- logograph,
- low,
- metalinguistic,
- mid,
- monophthongal,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- ogham,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealized,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic symbol,
- phonic,
- phonological,
- pictogram,
- pictograph,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- posttonic,
- psycholinguistic,
- radical,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- rune,
- semantic,
- semivowel,
- shorthand,
- soft,
- sonant,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- structural,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syntactic,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voiced,
- voiceless,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wedge,
- wide,
- word letter
- naturalistic
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- representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers" related words >
- Cyrenaic,
- Eleatic,
- Epicurean,
- Marxian,
- Marxist,
- Megarian,
- Stoic,
- animist,
- animistic,
- atomistic,
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- characteristic,
- commonsense,
- cosmotheistic,
- delineative,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- dinkum,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- eclectic,
- empirical,
- eudaemonistic,
- exemplary,
- existential,
- expositive,
- expressive,
- faithful,
- following the letter,
- general,
- genuine,
- good,
- graphic,
- hedonic,
- hedonist,
- hedonistic,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- humanist,
- humanistic,
- hylomorphous,
- hylotheistic,
- idealistic,
- inartificial,
- instrumentalist,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- materialist,
- materialistic,
- mechanist,
- mechanistic,
- metaphysical,
- monistic,
- natural,
- naturalist,
- naturistic,
- nominalist,
- normal,
- orderly,
- original,
- panlogistical,
- pantheistic,
- positivist,
- positivistic,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatist,
- pure,
- quintessential,
- rationalistic,
- real,
- realist,
- realistic,
- regular,
- representative,
- rightful,
- sample,
- scholastic,
- sensationalistic,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- sterling,
- sure-enough,
- syncretistic,
- theistic,
- transcendentalist,
- transcendentalistic,
- true to form,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- true to type,
- typal,
- typic,
- typical,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unexceptional,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- usual,
- utilitarian,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- vitalistic,
- vivid,
- voluntarist,
- voluntaristic,
- well-drawn,
- word-for-word
- metaphor
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- a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity related words >
- accordance,
- agent,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogue,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- aping,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- backup,
- balancing,
- catachresis,
- change,
- changeling,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- closeness,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- conversion,
- copy,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- double,
- dummy,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- exclamation,
- fake,
- figure of speech,
- fill-in,
- gemination,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- identity,
- image,
- imagery,
- imitation,
- inversion,
- irony,
- likeness,
- likening,
- litotes,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- malapropism,
- matching,
- meiosis,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- next best thing,
- onomatopoeia,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- oxymoron,
- parallelism,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parity,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- proportion,
- proxy,
- reference,
- regression,
- relation,
- relief,
- repetition,
- replacement,
- representative,
- resemblance,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- sameness,
- sarcasm,
- second string,
- secondary,
- semblance,
- sign,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spares,
- spoonerism,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- syllepsis,
- symbol,
- symbolism,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- token,
- trope,
- trope of comparison,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- weighing,
- zeugma
- vivid
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- having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a vivid recollection" related words >
- active,
- acute,
- aggressive,
- agog,
- alacritous,
- alive,
- all agog,
- animate,
- animated,
- anxious,
- apish,
- avid,
- bedazzling,
- blinding,
- brave,
- breathless,
- bright,
- bright and shining,
- bright-hued,
- brilliant,
- brisk,
- burning,
- bursting to,
- clear,
- colorful,
- colory,
- creative,
- dazzling,
- deep-colored,
- delineative,
- delineatory,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- desirous,
- detailed,
- distinct,
- dramatic,
- dynamic,
- eager,
- echoic,
- effulgent,
- eidetic,
- eloquent,
- embodying,
- enduring,
- energetic,
- enliven,
- enterprising,
- enthusiastic,
- excite,
- excruciating,
- exotic,
- expositive,
- expressive,
- exquisite,
- extreme,
- faithful,
- fecund,
- fertile,
- figurative,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forward,
- fresh,
- fruitful,
- fulgent,
- fulgid,
- full of life,
- full of pep,
- galvanize,
- garish,
- gay,
- gay-colored,
- give life to,
- glaring,
- glary,
- glowing,
- go-go,
- gorgeous,
- graphic,
- green,
- hearty,
- high-colored,
- ideographic,
- illustrational,
- illustrative,
- imaginative,
- imitative,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- incarnating,
- incisive,
- intense,
- inventive,
- keen,
- kept in remembrance,
- kinetic,
- lasting,
- lifelike,
- limning,
- lively,
- liven,
- living,
- lucid,
- lusty,
- meaningful,
- memorable,
- mettlesome,
- mimetic,
- mimish,
- naturalistic,
- onomatopoeic,
- panting,
- peppy,
- personifying,
- photographic,
- pictographic,
- pictorial,
- picturesque,
- poignant,
- powerful,
- prolific,
- quick,
- raring to,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- realistic,
- recalled,
- recollected,
- refresh,
- refulgent,
- remembered,
- renew,
- representational,
- representative,
- representing,
- resplendent,
- restore,
- retained,
- rich,
- rich-colored,
- robust,
- sharp,
- simulative,
- smacking,
- snappy,
- spanking,
- spirited,
- splendent,
- splendid,
- splendorous,
- strenuous,
- striking,
- strong,
- suggestive,
- symbolizing,
- take-charge,
- take-over,
- theatrical,
- trenchant,
- true to life,
- typifying,
- unforgotten,
- vibrant,
- vigorous,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- vivify,
- well-drawn,
- zestful,
- zesty,
- zippy
- relation
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- an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
- (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations"
- an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable" related words >
- about,
- absorption,
- affective meaning,
- affiliation,
- agnation,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- analogy,
- ancestry,
- anent,
- apropos,
- association,
- associations,
- balancing,
- bearing,
- blood,
- blood relationship,
- blood relative,
- brotherhood,
- brothership,
- capacity,
- carnal knowledge,
- character,
- cognation,
- coitus,
- coloring,
- common ancestry,
- common descent,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- concerning,
- condition,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- connection,
- connotation,
- consanguinity,
- consequence,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- cousinhood,
- cousinship,
- criminal conversation,
- dealings,
- delineation,
- denotation,
- description,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- doings,
- drift,
- effect,
- embarrassment,
- enation,
- engagement,
- enmeshment,
- entanglement,
- essence,
- extension,
- fatherhood,
- filiation,
- force,
- fraternity,
- gist,
- grammatical meaning,
- idea,
- impact,
- implication,
- import,
- in relation to,
- inclusion,
- intension,
- interconnection,
- intercourse,
- interdependence,
- involution,
- involvement,
- kin,
- kindred,
- kinship,
- kinsman,
- kinswoman,
- lexical meaning,
- liaison,
- likening,
- link,
- links,
- literal meaning,
- matching,
- maternity,
- matrilineage,
- matriliny,
- matrisib,
- matrocliny,
- meaning,
- metaphor,
- motherhood,
- narration,
- narrative,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- overtone,
- parallelism,
- part,
- paternity,
- patrilineage,
- patriliny,
- patrisib,
- patrocliny,
- pertaining to,
- pertinence,
- pith,
- point,
- portrayal,
- position,
- practical consequence,
- propinquity,
- proportion,
- purport,
- quality,
- range of meaning,
- re,
- real meaning,
- recapitulation,
- recital,
- recitation,
- recountal,
- recounting,
- reference,
- referent,
- referring to,
- regarding,
- rehearsal,
- relations,
- relationship,
- relative,
- relevance,
- report,
- respecting,
- retelling,
- review,
- role,
- scope,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- sense,
- sex,
- sexual intercourse,
- sibship,
- significance,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- simile,
- similitude,
- sisterhood,
- sistership,
- span of meaning,
- spirit,
- status,
- story,
- structural meaning,
- substance,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- symbolic meaning,
- tale-telling,
- telling,
- tenor,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- ties of blood,
- totality of associations,
- transferred meaning,
- trope of comparison,
- truck,
- unadorned meaning,
- undertone,
- value,
- weighing,
- with regard to,
- with respect to,
- yarn spinning
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