Related Words:
- guarded
collapse - prudent; "guarded optimism" related words >
- Argus-eyed,
- Olympian,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- aloof,
- apprehensive,
- armed,
- arrested,
- aux aguets,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- bridled,
- buried,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- circumspect,
- cloaked,
- cold,
- concealed,
- considerate,
- constrained,
- controlled,
- cool,
- copyrighted,
- covered,
- covert,
- curbed,
- custodial,
- defended,
- deliberate,
- detached,
- discreet,
- disinclined to believe,
- disposed to doubt,
- distant,
- eagle-eyed,
- expressionless,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- gingerly,
- hard of belief,
- hawk-eyed,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hidden,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- impervious to persuasion,
- in check,
- in leading strings,
- in remission,
- inaccessible,
- inconvincible,
- incredulous,
- inhibited,
- introverted,
- invulnerable,
- judicious,
- keen-eyed,
- leaving out nothing,
- leery,
- lidless,
- loath,
- mindful,
- modest,
- noncommittal,
- obscured,
- observant,
- offish,
- on guard,
- on leash,
- on the lookout,
- on the watch,
- open-eyed,
- overlooking no possibility,
- patented,
- pawky,
- pent-up,
- policed,
- politic,
- privy,
- protected,
- prudent,
- regardful,
- reluctant,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- retarded,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- safe,
- safeguarded,
- screened,
- sharp-eyed,
- sheltered,
- shielded,
- shrinking,
- shrouded,
- shy of belief,
- skeptical,
- sleepless,
- slow to act,
- slowed down,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- unadventurous,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncongenial,
- unconvincible,
- uncredulous,
- undaring,
- undemonstrative,
- under control,
- under discipline,
- under restraint,
- unenterprising,
- unexpansive,
- ungenial,
- unpersuadable,
- unpersuasible,
- unprecipitate,
- unwilling to accept,
- vigilant,
- wary,
- watchful,
- with open eyes,
- withdrawn
- antisocial,
- at odds,
- autistic,
- averse,
- bad-tempered,
- balking,
- balky,
- bashful,
- beetle-browed,
- bigoted,
- black,
- black-browed,
- brooding,
- broody,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- cantankerous,
- case-hardened,
- chapfallen,
- choleric,
- churlish,
- close,
- contrary,
- crabbed,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- crestfallen,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crotchety,
- crusty,
- cursory,
- cynical,
- dark,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- differing,
- difficult,
- disagreeing,
- disinclined,
- dismal,
- disobedient,
- dissociable,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- dour,
- dreary,
- dumpish,
- dyspeptic,
- fanatic,
- forced,
- fractious,
- fretful,
- froward,
- frowning,
- funereal,
- gloomy,
- glowering,
- glum,
- grim,
- grum,
- grumpy,
- hardheaded,
- headstrong,
- hostile,
- ill-humored,
- ill-natured,
- ill-tempered,
- incompatible,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- insociable,
- intolerant,
- involuntary,
- irascible,
- long-faced,
- lowering,
- lugubrious,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- mean,
- melancholy,
- moodish,
- moody,
- mopey,
- moping,
- mopish,
- morose,
- mulish,
- mumpish,
- mutinous,
- nongregarious,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- opposed,
- ornery,
- out of humor,
- out of sorts,
- overzealous,
- peevish,
- perfunctory,
- persevering,
- pertinacious,
- perverse,
- pessimistic,
- petulant,
- pigheaded,
- pouting,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- resistant,
- restive,
- runty,
- saturnine,
- scowling,
- self-contained,
- self-sufficient,
- self-willed,
- set,
- snug,
- socially incompatible,
- sour,
- splenetic,
- stiff-necked,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- sulking,
- sulky,
- surly,
- temperamental,
- tenacious,
- tenebrose,
- tenebrous,
- ugly,
- unclubbable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncompanionable,
- uncongenial,
- unconsenting,
- uncooperative,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unregenerate,
- unsociable,
- unsocial,
- unwilling,
- wayward,
- willful,
- wrongheaded
- Pyrrhonic,
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- absurd,
- agnostic,
- amoral,
- apprehensive,
- arguable,
- at issue,
- beyond belief,
- borderline,
- cagey,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- confutable,
- conjectural,
- conscienceless,
- contestable,
- controversial,
- controvertible,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- dark,
- debatable,
- deniable,
- devious,
- disbelieving,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- disinclined to believe,
- disposed to doubt,
- disputable,
- distrustful,
- distrustfully,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- doubtfully,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- envious,
- evasive,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- from Missouri,
- green,
- green with jealousy,
- green-eyed,
- guarded,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- horn-mad,
- iffy,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- impervious to persuasion,
- implausible,
- in dispute,
- in doubt,
- in dubio,
- in question,
- inconceivable,
- inconvincible,
- incredible,
- incredulous,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- invidious,
- jaundice-eyed,
- jaundiced,
- jealous,
- leery,
- mistakable,
- mistrustful,
- mistrusting,
- moot,
- not deserving belief,
- not kosher,
- open,
- open to doubt,
- open to question,
- open to suspicion,
- passing belief,
- preposterous,
- problematic,
- queer,
- questionable,
- questioning,
- refutable,
- ridiculous,
- rotten,
- sceptical,
- scrupulous,
- shady,
- shaky,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- shy,
- shy of belief,
- sinister,
- skeptical,
- skeptically,
- slippery,
- speculative,
- staggering belief,
- suppositional,
- suspect,
- suspected,
- suspecting,
- suspiciously,
- tall,
- thick,
- thin,
- tricky,
- unbelievable,
- unbelieving,
- uncertain,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- unconvincible,
- unconvincing,
- uncredulous,
- under suspicion,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unearthly,
- uneasy,
- unethical,
- ungodly,
- unimaginable,
- unpersuadable,
- unpersuasible,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- unsure,
- unthinkable,
- untrusting,
- unwilling to accept,
- unworthy of belief,
- wary,
- watchful,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- yellow,
- yellow-eyed
- resistant
collapse
- impervious to being affected; "resistant to the effects of heat"; "resistant to persuasion" related words >
- against,
- airtight,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- at odds,
- averse,
- ballproof,
- beyond control,
- bombproof,
- bony,
- breachy,
- breakaway,
- bulletproof,
- burglarproof,
- cartilaginous,
- cement,
- cemental,
- chewy,
- clashing,
- cohesive,
- complaining,
- concrete,
- conflicting,
- contradicting,
- contradictory,
- contumacious,
- coriaceous,
- corneous,
- corrosionproof,
- counteractant,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- countervailing,
- counterworking,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- cursory,
- dampproof,
- defiant,
- dense,
- diamondlike,
- differing,
- disagreeing,
- disinclined,
- disobedient,
- disputatious,
- disputing,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- dissident,
- durable,
- dure,
- fibrous,
- fire-resisting,
- fireproof,
- flameproof,
- flintlike,
- flinty,
- foolproof,
- forced,
- fractious,
- granitelike,
- granitic,
- gristly,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardhearted,
- hardy,
- hermetic,
- holeproof,
- horny,
- hostile,
- immovable,
- immune,
- impervious,
- impervious to,
- incorrigible,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- indomitable,
- inimical,
- insuppressible,
- intractable,
- intransigent,
- involuntary,
- iron-hard,
- ironlike,
- irrepressible,
- lapideous,
- lasting,
- leakproof,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- lithoid,
- lithoidal,
- marble,
- marblelike,
- mutinous,
- noiseproof,
- nonconformist,
- noncooperative,
- nonsusceptible to disease,
- obdurate,
- objecting,
- obstinate,
- obstreperous,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- oppositional,
- oppugnant,
- osseous,
- out of hand,
- perfunctory,
- perverse,
- proof,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- punctureproof,
- reactionary,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- reluctant,
- renitent,
- repellent,
- repugnant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- restive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- revolutionary,
- rocklike,
- rocky,
- ropy,
- rustproof,
- shatterproof,
- shedding,
- shellproof,
- shrewish,
- sinewy,
- solid,
- soundproof,
- steellike,
- steely,
- stiff,
- stonelike,
- stony,
- stringy,
- strong,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- tenacious,
- tight,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- unaffected,
- unbiddable,
- uncompliant,
- unconsenting,
- uncontrollable,
- uncooperative,
- ungovernable,
- unmalleable,
- unmanageable,
- unmoldable,
- unruly,
- unsubmissive,
- untiring,
- unwilling,
- unyielding,
- up in arms,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- watertight,
- weatherproof,
- wild,
- wiry,
- withstanding
- antagonistic
collapse
- incapable of harmonious association
- used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect
- arousing animosity or hostility; "his antagonistic brusqueness"; "Europe was antagonistic to the Unites States"
- characterized by antagonism or antipathy; "slaves antagonistic to their masters"; "antipathetic factions within the party"
- indicating opposition or resistance related words >
- acrid,
- adversary,
- adversative,
- adverse,
- adversive,
- aggressive,
- alien,
- anti,
- antipathetic,
- antithetic,
- antonymous,
- at cross-purposes,
- at loggerheads,
- at odds,
- at variance,
- at war,
- averse,
- balancing,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bitter,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- breakaway,
- caustic,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- clashing,
- colliding,
- combative,
- compensating,
- competitive,
- con,
- conflicting,
- confronting,
- contentious,
- contradicting,
- contradictory,
- contradistinct,
- contrapositive,
- contrarious,
- contrary,
- contrasted,
- converse,
- counter,
- counteractant,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- counterbalancing,
- counterpoised,
- countervailing,
- counterworking,
- cranky,
- cross,
- crotchety,
- dead against,
- despiteful,
- detrimental,
- differing,
- difficult,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeable,
- disagreeing,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- disharmonious,
- disinclined,
- disproportionate,
- dissentient,
- dissident,
- dissonant,
- divergent,
- enemy,
- eyeball to eyeball,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- fractious,
- full of fight,
- full of hate,
- grating,
- hard,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- hawkish,
- hostile,
- immiscible,
- in opposition,
- inaccordant,
- incompatible,
- inconsistent,
- inconsonant,
- indisposed,
- inharmonious,
- inimical,
- inverse,
- jangling,
- jarring,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malignant,
- martial,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- miserable,
- negative,
- nonconformist,
- noncooperative,
- not easy,
- obstinate,
- obverse,
- offensive,
- opponent,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- oppositional,
- oppositive,
- oppugnant,
- out of accord,
- out of whack,
- overthwart,
- perverse,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- rancorous,
- reactionary,
- reactive,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- renitent,
- repugnant,
- resistant,
- reverse,
- revolutionary,
- rigorous,
- rival,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- scrappy,
- set against,
- sinister,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- sore,
- spiteful,
- squared off,
- stressful,
- trigger-happy,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- truculent,
- trying,
- uncongenial,
- uncooperative,
- unfavorable,
- unfriendly,
- unharmonious,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- unpropitious,
- untoward,
- unwilling,
- variant,
- venomous,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wretched
- dubious
collapse
- not convinced; "they admitted the force of my argument but remained dubious" related words >
- Humean,
- Pyrrhonic,
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- absurd,
- agnostic,
- ambitendent,
- ambivalent,
- amoral,
- arguable,
- at issue,
- at loose ends,
- beguiling,
- beyond belief,
- capricious,
- catchy,
- changeable,
- confutable,
- conjectural,
- conscienceless,
- contestable,
- controversial,
- controvertible,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- dark,
- debatable,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- deniable,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- disinclined,
- disputable,
- distrustful,
- double-minded,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubitable,
- equivocal,
- evasive,
- fallacious,
- false,
- felonious,
- fence-sitting,
- fence-straddling,
- fickle,
- fishy,
- fly-by-night,
- fraudulent,
- from Missouri,
- hallucinatory,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- hardly possible,
- hesitant,
- iffy,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- immoral,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- in dispute,
- in doubt,
- in dubio,
- in question,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- incredulous,
- indecisive,
- indirect,
- infirm of purpose,
- insecure,
- insidious,
- irresolute,
- irresolved,
- leery,
- mercurial,
- misleading,
- mistakable,
- mistrustful,
- mistrusting,
- moot,
- more than doubtful,
- mugwumpian,
- mugwumpish,
- mutable,
- not deserving belief,
- not kosher,
- of two minds,
- open,
- open to doubt,
- open to question,
- open to suspicion,
- passing belief,
- preposterous,
- problematic,
- questionable,
- questioning,
- refutable,
- reluctant,
- ridiculous,
- rocky,
- rotten,
- scrupulous,
- shady,
- shaky,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- shy,
- sinister,
- skeptic,
- skeptical,
- slippery,
- speculative,
- staggering belief,
- suppositional,
- suspect,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tall,
- thick,
- thin,
- tottery,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- trustless,
- unbelievable,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- unconvincing,
- undecided,
- undependable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undetermined,
- unearthly,
- unethical,
- ungodly,
- unhealthy,
- unimaginable,
- unlikely,
- unpredictable,
- unprincipled,
- unpromising,
- unreliable,
- unresolved,
- unsafe,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unstraightforward,
- unsure,
- unthinkable,
- untrusting,
- untrustworthy,
- untrusty,
- unworthy of belief,
- wary,
- without remorse,
- without shame
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