Related Words:
- tragic
collapse - very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident"
- of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy; "tragic hero" related words >
- appalling,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- baneful,
- beastly,
- black,
- buskined,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- cheerless,
- cothurned,
- crushing,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- destructive,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- dismal,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dolorous,
- dreadful,
- fatal,
- forlorn,
- funereal,
- grievous,
- grim,
- hapless,
- heavy,
- hideous,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- horrific,
- horrifying,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- inauspicious,
- lachrymose,
- lamentable,
- lugubrious,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- morose,
- mournful,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- rotten,
- ruinous,
- sad,
- shocking,
- star-crossed,
- terrible,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unspeakable,
- upsetting,
- wreckful,
- wretched
- uncomfortable
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- providing or experiencing physical discomfort; "an uncomfortable chair"; "an uncomfortable day in the hot sun"
- conducive to or feeling mental discomfort; "this kind of life can prove disruptive and uncomfortable"; "the uncomfortable truth"; "grew uncomfortable beneath his appraising eye"; "an uncomfortable way of surprising me just when I felt surest"; "the teacher's presence at the conference made the child very uncomfortable" related words >
- abashed,
- affecting,
- afflicted,
- afflictive,
- agitated,
- beset,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- bothered,
- cast down,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- confused,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomforting,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbed,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- embarrassed,
- grievous,
- harsh,
- hung up,
- ill at ease,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- mortified,
- mournful,
- moving,
- out of countenance,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- perturbed,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- poignant,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- regrettable,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- sharp,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- touching,
- troubled,
- uneasy,
- upset,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- bark,
- bawl,
- bay,
- bell,
- bellow,
- bewail,
- blare,
- blat,
- blate,
- bleat,
- bray,
- call,
- caterwaul,
- creak,
- cry,
- cry out,
- give tongue,
- give voice,
- groan,
- howl,
- keen,
- low,
- make an outcry,
- meow,
- mew,
- mewl,
- miaow,
- moan,
- moo,
- neigh,
- nicker,
- pipe,
- pule,
- quest,
- roar,
- screak,
- scream,
- screech,
- shriek,
- shrill,
- skirl,
- skreigh,
- squall,
- squawk,
- squeak,
- squeal,
- tirade,
- troat,
- wail,
- whicker,
- whine,
- whinny,
- whistle,
- wrawl,
- yammer,
- yap,
- yawl,
- yawp,
- yell,
- yelp,
- yip,
- yowl
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- chalk talk,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- sales talk,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address
- allocution
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- (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- chalk talk,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- lecture,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address
- sermon
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- a moralistic rebuke; "your preaching is wasted on him"
- an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) related words >
- address,
- admonishment,
- admonition,
- assignment,
- castigation,
- chalk talk,
- chastisement,
- chiding,
- correction,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- dressing-down,
- exercise,
- exhortation,
- exposition,
- harangue,
- homework,
- homily,
- instruction,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- object lesson,
- objurgation,
- preach,
- preachification,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- prelection,
- rating,
- rebuke,
- recital,
- recitation,
- religious discourse,
- remonstrance,
- remonstration,
- reprehension,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- reprobation,
- reproof,
- reproval,
- scolding,
- sermonette,
- sermonizing,
- set task,
- skull session,
- spanking,
- speech,
- talk,
- talking-to,
- task,
- teaching,
- tirade,
- travelogue,
- upbraiding
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- alarming,
- awing,
- baffling,
- bewildering,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- bothering,
- cheerless,
- chilling,
- comfortless,
- confounding,
- confusing,
- daunting,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- discomforting,
- discomposing,
- disconcerting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismal,
- disquieting,
- distracting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- embarrassing,
- enigmatic,
- fear-inspiring,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- frightening,
- frightful,
- grievous,
- intricate,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- mournful,
- moving,
- mysterious,
- mystifying,
- overawing,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- perplexing,
- perturbing,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- poignant,
- problematic,
- puzzling,
- regrettable,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scaring,
- scary,
- sharp,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- startling,
- touching,
- uncomfortable,
- upsetting,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- oration
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- an instance of oratory; "he delivered an oration on the decline of family values" related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- chalk talk,
- debate,
- declamation,
- declaration,
- diatribe,
- discourse,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- lecture,
- monologue,
- panegyric,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- spiel,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address
- forlorn
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- marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause" related words >
- abandoned,
- affording no hope,
- alone,
- apathetic,
- bereft,
- bleak,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- cynical,
- defenseless,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- deserted,
- desolate,
- desole,
- despairing,
- desperate,
- despondent,
- desponding,
- disconsolate,
- dismal,
- dispirited,
- dolorous,
- down,
- fatherless,
- forgotten,
- forsaken,
- friendless,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- godforsaken,
- grim,
- heartsick,
- heartsore,
- helpless,
- homeless,
- hopeless,
- in despair,
- inconsolable,
- joyless,
- kithless,
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- lost,
- low-spirited,
- lugubrious,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- motherless,
- mournful,
- neglected,
- oppressed,
- outcast,
- pathetic,
- pessimistic,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- sad,
- shunned,
- sick,
- sick at heart,
- solitary,
- sorrowful,
- soul-sick,
- unconsolable,
- unfriended,
- unhappy,
- unhopeful,
- vain,
- without hope,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- plangent
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- loud and resounding; "plangent bells"; "the plangent minority" related words >
- Jeremianic,
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- booming,
- careworn,
- complaining,
- consonant,
- deafening,
- doleful,
- dolorous,
- dumb with grief,
- ear-piercing,
- ear-rending,
- ear-splitting,
- earthshaking,
- faultfinding,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- fretful,
- full,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- grieved,
- grievous,
- howling,
- in grief,
- lamentable,
- lamentive,
- loud,
- loud-sounding,
- loudish,
- lugubrious,
- mellow,
- moanful,
- mournful,
- orotund,
- pealing,
- peevish,
- petulant,
- piercing,
- plaintive,
- plunged in grief,
- puling,
- pulsing,
- querulous,
- resonant,
- resonating,
- resounding,
- rich,
- ringing,
- rolling,
- rotund,
- round,
- rueful,
- sonorous,
- sorrowed,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowing,
- stentoraphonic,
- stentorian,
- stentorious,
- tearful,
- throbbing,
- thunderous,
- tonitruant,
- tonitruous,
- ululant,
- vibrant,
- vibrating,
- wailful,
- whimpering,
- whining,
- whiny,
- window-rattling,
- woeful
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- chalk talk,
- cloture,
- committee consideration,
- debate,
- declamation,
- deliberation,
- diatribe,
- division,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- filibuster,
- filibustering,
- filing,
- first reading,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- introduction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- logrolling,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- roll call,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- second reading,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- steamroller methods,
- tabling,
- talk,
- third reading,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- vote
- pathetic
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- inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett
- inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice" related words >
- affecting,
- affective,
- afflictive,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- cheap,
- cheerless,
- cheesy,
- comfortless,
- common,
- contemptible,
- crummy,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- despicable,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- emotional,
- emotive,
- feeble,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- grievous,
- heartrending,
- inadequate,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- mean,
- measly,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- mournful,
- moving,
- painful,
- paltry,
- petty,
- piddling,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plaintive,
- poignant,
- poor,
- puny,
- regrettable,
- rubbishy,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- shabby,
- sharp,
- shoddy,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- stirring,
- touching,
- tragic,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- uncomfortable,
- valueless,
- vile,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worthless,
- wretched
- abuse,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assailing,
- assault,
- attack,
- berating,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- chalk talk,
- contumely,
- debate,
- declamation,
- eulogy,
- execration,
- exhortation,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- hard words,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- invective,
- jawing,
- jeremiad,
- onslaught,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- rating,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- revilement,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- tongue-lashing,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- vilification,
- vituperation
- abuse,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assailing,
- assault,
- attack,
- berating,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- chalk talk,
- contumely,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- eulogy,
- execration,
- exhortation,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- hard words,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- invective,
- jawing,
- jeremiad,
- onslaught,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- pitch,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- rating,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- revilement,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- tongue-lashing,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- vilification,
- vituperation
- pep talk
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- a speech of exhortation attempting to instill enthusiasm and determination in a team or staff related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- agitation,
- allocution,
- arousal,
- chalk talk,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- eulogy,
- exasperation,
- excitation,
- excitement,
- exhortation,
- filibuster,
- firing,
- fomentation,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- incitation,
- incitement,
- inflammation,
- instigation,
- invective,
- irritation,
- jeremiad,
- oration,
- pep rally,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- provocation,
- public speech,
- rabble-rousing,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- stimulation,
- stirring,
- stirring-up,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address
- execration
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- the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated
- an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group related words >
- Anglophobia,
- Russophobia,
- abhorrence,
- abomination,
- abuse,
- anathema,
- anti-Semitism,
- antipathy,
- assailing,
- assault,
- attack,
- aversion,
- ban,
- berating,
- bigotry,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- blasphemy,
- commination,
- contumely,
- curse,
- cursing,
- cussing,
- damnation,
- denunciation,
- despitefulness,
- detestation,
- diatribe,
- dislike,
- evil eye,
- excommunication,
- fulmination,
- hard words,
- hate,
- hatred,
- hex,
- imprecation,
- invective,
- jawing,
- jeremiad,
- loathing,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- malignity,
- malison,
- malocchio,
- misandry,
- misanthropy,
- misogyny,
- odium,
- onslaught,
- peeve,
- pet peeve,
- philippic,
- phobia,
- profanity,
- proscription,
- race hatred,
- racism,
- rating,
- repugnance,
- revilement,
- screed,
- spite,
- spitefulness,
- swearing,
- thundering,
- tirade,
- tongue-lashing,
- vials of hate,
- vials of wrath,
- vilification,
- vituperation,
- whammy,
- xenophobia
- addicted,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- ashamed,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- careworn,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- conscience-smitten,
- conscience-stricken,
- deplorable,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- despairing,
- despondent,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- dumb with grief,
- full of remorse,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- grieved,
- grievous,
- hopeless,
- in grief,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- mournful,
- moving,
- oppressed,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- plunged in grief,
- poignant,
- poor,
- regretful,
- regrettable,
- remorseful,
- repining,
- ruthful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- self-accusing,
- self-condemning,
- self-convicting,
- self-debasing,
- self-flagellating,
- self-humiliating,
- self-punishing,
- self-reproaching,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shameful,
- sharp,
- sore,
- sorrowed,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowing,
- sorry,
- tearful,
- touching,
- uncomfortable,
- unhappy about,
- wistful,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- cheerless
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- lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" related words >
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- affording no hope,
- anguished,
- anxious,
- apathetic,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- bored,
- comfortless,
- deplorable,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- despairing,
- desperate,
- despondent,
- discomforting,
- disconsolate,
- discontented,
- disgusted,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispiriting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- forlorn,
- funereal,
- grievous,
- grim,
- hopeless,
- humorless,
- in bad humor,
- in despair,
- infestive,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- mirthless,
- miserable,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nauseated,
- nauseous,
- oppressive,
- out of humor,
- out of sorts,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pleasureless,
- poignant,
- prey to malaise,
- regrettable,
- repelled,
- revolted,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- sharp,
- sickened,
- somber,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- sorryish,
- suffering angst,
- touching,
- uncheerful,
- uncheery,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unhopeful,
- unjoyful,
- unmirthful,
- unquiet,
- unsatisfied,
- unsmiling,
- without hope,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- valedictory
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- of a speech expressing leave-taking; "a valedictory address"
- of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell; "a valedictory address"; "valedictory praise for his uniformly manly course"; "a suitable valedictory gesture" related words >
- Godspeed,
- address,
- adieu,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- aloha,
- chalk talk,
- conge,
- debate,
- declamation,
- departing,
- diatribe,
- doch-an-dorrach,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- farewell,
- filibuster,
- final,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- good-bye,
- harangue,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- last,
- leave,
- leave-taking,
- leaving,
- oration,
- outward-bound,
- parting,
- parting words,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- send-off,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- stirrup cup,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictorian,
- valedictory address,
- viaticum
- tautology
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- useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"
- (logic) a statement that is necessarily true; "the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology" related words >
- abundance,
- amplitude,
- battology,
- bedizenment,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- cloud of words,
- copiousness,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusiveness,
- duplication,
- duplication of effort,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- embellishment,
- expletive,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- fat,
- featherbedding,
- fecundity,
- fertility,
- filling,
- fluency,
- formlessness,
- frill,
- frills,
- frippery,
- gingerbread,
- gush,
- gushing,
- iteration,
- logorrhea,
- long-windedness,
- luxury,
- macrology,
- needlessness,
- ornamentation,
- outpour,
- overadornment,
- overflow,
- overlap,
- padding,
- palilogy,
- payroll padding,
- periphrase,
- periphrasis,
- pleonasm,
- prodigality,
- productivity,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- prolixity,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- redundance,
- redundancy,
- reiteration,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitiousness,
- repetitiveness,
- roundabout,
- stammering,
- stuttering,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- superfluousness,
- superflux,
- talkativeness,
- tautologism,
- teemingness,
- tirade,
- unnecessariness,
- verbality,
- verbiage,
- verbosity,
- wordiness
- chalk talk
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- a talk that uses a blackboard and chalk related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assignment,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exhortation,
- exposition,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- homework,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- instruction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- object lesson,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- sermon,
- set speech,
- set task,
- skull session,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- task,
- teaching,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address
- sales talk
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- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- allurement,
- ballyhoo,
- blandishment,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- chalk talk,
- coaxing,
- conning,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- hortation,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- inducement,
- invective,
- jawboning,
- jeremiad,
- lobbying,
- oration,
- patter,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- persuasion,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- sales pitch,
- salesmanship,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- selling,
- set speech,
- snow job,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- spiel,
- suasion,
- sweet talk,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- wheedling,
- working on
- recitation
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- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance; "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems"
- written matter that is recited from memory related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assignment,
- chalk talk,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exhortation,
- exposition,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- homework,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- instruction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- monologue,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- object lesson,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- performance,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- sermon,
- set speech,
- set task,
- skull session,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- task,
- teaching,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address
- sorrowful
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- experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13 related words >
- Jeremianic,
- affecting,
- afflicted,
- afflictive,
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- blue,
- careworn,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- complaining,
- crestfallen,
- dejected,
- deplorable,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- discomforting,
- disconsolate,
- disheartened,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispirited,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- downcast,
- dreary,
- dumb with grief,
- faultfinding,
- fretful,
- gloomy,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- grieved,
- grievous,
- hapless,
- heartsick,
- howling,
- in grief,
- in the doldrums,
- inconsolable,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- lamentive,
- lugubrious,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- moanful,
- mournful,
- moving,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- peevish,
- petulant,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- plunged in grief,
- poignant,
- puling,
- querulous,
- regretful,
- regrettable,
- rueful,
- ruthful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- sharp,
- sore,
- sorrow-laden,
- sorrow-stricken,
- sorrowed,
- sorrowing,
- sorry,
- tearful,
- touching,
- troublous,
- ululant,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- wailful,
- whimpering,
- whining,
- whiny,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- woebegone
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- affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier related words >
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- bitter,
- black,
- bleak,
- blue,
- bowed-down,
- cast down,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- crestfallen,
- crushed,
- cut up,
- dashed,
- deep-troubled,
- dejected,
- deplorable,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- despairing,
- despondent,
- desponding,
- dilapidated,
- discomforting,
- disconsolate,
- discouraged,
- disheartened,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispirited,
- dispiriting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- down,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- dreary,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- feeling low,
- funereal,
- grievous,
- heart-stricken,
- heart-struck,
- heartless,
- heartsick,
- hypochondriac,
- hypochondriacal,
- in low spirits,
- in the depths,
- in the doldrums,
- in the dumps,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- languishing,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- lugubrious,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- mournful,
- moving,
- oppressive,
- outworn,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- pessimistic,
- pining,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- poignant,
- regrettable,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- shabby,
- sharp,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- spiritless,
- stricken,
- subdued,
- suicidal,
- touching,
- uncomfortable,
- weary of life,
- woeful,
- world-weary,
- worn,
- wretched
- abuse,
- affront,
- airs,
- animadversion,
- arrogance,
- aspersion,
- assailing,
- assault,
- assurance,
- atrocity,
- attack,
- audacity,
- berating,
- billingsgate,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- boldness,
- brickbat,
- bumptiousness,
- calumny,
- clannishness,
- cliquishness,
- contempt,
- contemptuousness,
- cut,
- despite,
- diatribe,
- disdain,
- disdainfulness,
- disparagement,
- dump,
- effrontery,
- enormity,
- exclusiveness,
- execration,
- flout,
- flouting,
- gibe,
- hard words,
- hardihood,
- hauteur,
- hubris,
- humiliation,
- indignity,
- injury,
- insolence,
- insult,
- invective,
- jawing,
- jeer,
- jeering,
- jeremiad,
- mock,
- mockery,
- obloquy,
- obtrusiveness,
- offense,
- onslaught,
- opprobrium,
- outrage,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- philippic,
- presumption,
- presumptuousness,
- procacity,
- pushiness,
- put-down,
- rating,
- reflection,
- revilement,
- ridicule,
- scoff,
- scorn,
- scornfulness,
- screed,
- scurrility,
- slap,
- sniffiness,
- snobbishness,
- snootiness,
- snottiness,
- sovereign contempt,
- stricture,
- superciliousness,
- taunt,
- tirade,
- tongue-lashing,
- toploftiness,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- uppishness,
- uppityness,
- vilification,
- vituperation
- afflicted
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- mentally or physically unfit
- grievously affected especially by disease related words >
- abashed,
- agitated,
- agonized,
- bent,
- beset,
- boiled,
- bombed,
- boozy,
- bothered,
- canned,
- cast down,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- cockeyed,
- cockeyed drunk,
- confused,
- convulsed,
- crocked,
- crocko,
- crucified,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- doleful,
- dolorous,
- elevated,
- embarrassed,
- fried,
- fuddled,
- half-seas over,
- harrowed,
- high,
- hung up,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- ill at ease,
- illuminated,
- in distress,
- in pain,
- lacerated,
- lit,
- lit up,
- loaded,
- lubricated,
- lushy,
- martyred,
- martyrized,
- miserable,
- mortified,
- muzzy,
- oiled,
- on the rack,
- organized,
- out of countenance,
- pained,
- perturbed,
- pickled,
- pie-eyed,
- pissed,
- pissy-eyed,
- plastered,
- polluted,
- potted,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- racked,
- raddled,
- rueful,
- ruthful,
- shellacked,
- skunk-drunk,
- smashed,
- soaked,
- sorrowful,
- soused,
- squiffy,
- stewed,
- stinko,
- suffering,
- swacked,
- tanked,
- tight,
- tormented,
- tortured,
- troubled,
- twisted,
- uncomfortable,
- under the harrow,
- uneasy,
- upset,
- wounded,
- wretched,
- wrung
- joyless
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- not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings" related words >
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- anguished,
- anxious,
- austere,
- bitter,
- black,
- bleak,
- bored,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- crestfallen,
- dejected,
- deplorable,
- depressant,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- despondent,
- discomforting,
- disconsolate,
- discontented,
- disgusted,
- disheartened,
- disheartening,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispirited,
- dispiriting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- down,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- dreary,
- gloomy,
- grief-stricken,
- grievous,
- grim,
- heartsick,
- humorless,
- in bad humor,
- inconsolable,
- infestive,
- inhospitable,
- lamentable,
- lugubrious,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- mirthless,
- miserable,
- morose,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nauseated,
- nauseous,
- oppressive,
- out of humor,
- out of sorts,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pleasureless,
- poignant,
- prey to malaise,
- regrettable,
- repelled,
- revolted,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddened,
- saddening,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sickened,
- somber,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- sorryish,
- suffering angst,
- touching,
- triste,
- uncheerful,
- uncheery,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unjoyful,
- unmirthful,
- unquiet,
- unsatisfied,
- unsmiling,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- regrettable
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- deserving regret; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church" related words >
- abominable,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- bitter,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- brutal,
- calamitous,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- contemptible,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- discomforting,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- execrable,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grievous,
- gross,
- hateful,
- heartbreaking,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- infamous,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- outrageous,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poignant,
- rank,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rough,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shaming,
- sharp,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- squalid,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- touching,
- tough,
- unclean,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- upsetting,
- vile,
- villainous,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- wrong
- mournful
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- expressing sorrow related words >
- Jeremianic,
- affecting,
- afflicted,
- afflictive,
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- blue,
- calamitous,
- careworn,
- catastrophic,
- cheerless,
- cinerary,
- comfortless,
- complaining,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- despairing,
- despondent,
- dirgelike,
- disastrous,
- discomforting,
- disconsolate,
- disheartening,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispirited,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- downhearted,
- dreary,
- dumb with grief,
- epitaphic,
- exequial,
- faultfinding,
- feral,
- forlorn,
- fretful,
- funebrial,
- funebrious,
- funebrous,
- funeral,
- funerary,
- funereal,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- grieved,
- grievous,
- heartbroken,
- heartsick,
- howling,
- in grief,
- inconsolable,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- lamentive,
- lugubrious,
- melancholy,
- moanful,
- mortuary,
- moving,
- necrological,
- obituary,
- obsequial,
- overcome,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- peevish,
- petulant,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- plunged in grief,
- poignant,
- prostrate,
- puling,
- querulous,
- regrettable,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- sepulchral,
- sharp,
- sore,
- sorrowed,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowing,
- tearful,
- touching,
- tragic,
- ululant,
- uncomfortable,
- unhappy,
- upsetting,
- wailful,
- whimpering,
- whining,
- whiny,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- abundance,
- amplitude,
- banality,
- bromide,
- chestnut,
- cliche,
- cloud of words,
- commonplace,
- commonplace expression,
- conduplication,
- copiousness,
- copy,
- copying,
- corn,
- critique,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusiveness,
- doubling,
- duplicate,
- duplication,
- dwelling upon,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- elaboration,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- familiar tune,
- fecundity,
- fertility,
- fluency,
- formlessness,
- gemination,
- going over,
- gush,
- gushing,
- hackneyed saying,
- imitation,
- ingemination,
- iteration,
- lieu commun,
- locus communis,
- logorrhea,
- macrology,
- old joke,
- old saw,
- old song,
- old story,
- outpour,
- overflow,
- palilogy,
- platitude,
- pleonasm,
- practicing,
- prodigality,
- productivity,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- prosaicism,
- prosaism,
- prose,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- reaffirmation,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- recital,
- recountal,
- recounting,
- redundancy,
- reduplication,
- rehash,
- rehearsal,
- reissue,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitiveness,
- replication,
- reprint,
- reproduction,
- restatement,
- resume,
- retelling,
- retold story,
- review,
- stereotyped saying,
- summary,
- summing up,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- superflux,
- talkativeness,
- tautology,
- teemingness,
- tirade,
- trite saying,
- triticism,
- twice-told tale,
- twinning
- yell
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- utter or declare in a very loud voice; "You don't have to yell--I can hear you just fine" related words >
- alleluia,
- applaud,
- applause,
- bark,
- battle cry,
- bawl,
- bellow,
- bemoan,
- bewail,
- blare,
- blat,
- blubber,
- boom,
- bray,
- breathe,
- buzz,
- cackle,
- call,
- caterwaul,
- chant,
- cheer,
- chirp,
- chorus of cheers,
- coo,
- crow,
- cry,
- cry for joy,
- cry out,
- deplore,
- drawl,
- exclaim,
- flute,
- gasp,
- give a cheer,
- groan,
- growl,
- grunt,
- hail,
- hallelujah,
- halloo,
- hiss,
- holler,
- hollo,
- hooray,
- hoot,
- hosanna,
- howl,
- hurrah,
- hurray,
- huzzah,
- keen,
- lament,
- lilt,
- make an outcry,
- moan,
- mumble,
- murmur,
- mutter,
- paean,
- pant,
- pipe,
- rah,
- rallying cry,
- roar,
- rumble,
- scream,
- screech,
- shout,
- shout hosanna,
- shriek,
- sibilate,
- sigh,
- sing,
- snap,
- snarl,
- snort,
- sob,
- squall,
- squawk,
- squeal,
- thunder,
- tirade,
- trumpet,
- twang,
- ululate,
- vociferate,
- wail,
- war cry,
- war whoop,
- warble,
- weep,
- whine,
- whisper,
- whoop,
- yammer,
- yap,
- yawl,
- yawp,
- yelp,
- yip,
- yippee,
- yo-ho,
- yowl
- distressing
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- causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time" related words >
- acute,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
- annoying,
- atrocious,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- bothersome,
- calamitous,
- chafing,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- corrupting,
- corruptive,
- counterproductive,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- damaging,
- deadly,
- deleterious,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- detrimental,
- dire,
- disadvantageous,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- disserviceable,
- distressful,
- disturbing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- excruciating,
- fretting,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- grievous,
- griping,
- harassing,
- hard,
- harmful,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heartbreaking,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- injurious,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- lethal,
- malefic,
- malevolent,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mischievous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- ominous,
- painful,
- paroxysmal,
- pathetic,
- pernicious,
- piercing,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- plaguing,
- poignant,
- poisonous,
- prejudicial,
- pungent,
- racking,
- regrettable,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scatheful,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- touching,
- toxic,
- troublesome,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- upsetting,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- virulent,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worrisome,
- worrying,
- wretched
- abominable,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- bitter,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- brutal,
- calamitous,
- careworn,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- contemptible,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- discomforting,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- dumb with grief,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- grieved,
- grievous,
- gross,
- hateful,
- heartbreaking,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- in grief,
- infamous,
- intolerable,
- joyless,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- outrageous,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- plunged in grief,
- poignant,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- sharp,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorrowed,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowing,
- squalid,
- tearful,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- touching,
- unclean,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- vile,
- villainous,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched
- abuse,
- abusive,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assailing,
- assault,
- attack,
- berating,
- billingsgate,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- blameful,
- calumny,
- causticity,
- censorious,
- chalk talk,
- condemnatory,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- contumely,
- cynicism,
- damnatory,
- debate,
- declamation,
- denunciatory,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- derisive,
- diatribe,
- disparaging,
- eulogy,
- execrating,
- execration,
- execrative,
- execratory,
- exhortation,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- hard words,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- innuendo,
- inveighing,
- irony,
- jawing,
- jeremiad,
- judgmental,
- objurgatory,
- obloquy,
- onslaught,
- opprobrious,
- opprobrium,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- priggish,
- public speech,
- rating,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- reproachful,
- reprobative,
- revilement,
- reviling,
- ridiculing,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- say,
- scoffing,
- screed,
- scurrile,
- scurrility,
- scurrilous,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- tongue-lashing,
- truculent,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- vilification,
- vilifying,
- vituperation,
- vituperative
- harangue
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- a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
- deliver a harangue to; address forcefully related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assignment,
- chalk talk,
- debate,
- declaim,
- declamation,
- demagogue,
- diatribe,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- elocute,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exhortation,
- explain,
- exposit,
- exposition,
- expound,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- hold forth,
- homework,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- instruction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- moralize,
- mouth,
- object lesson,
- orate,
- oration,
- out-herod Herod,
- pep talk,
- perorate,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- point a moral,
- pontificate,
- preach,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- rabble-rouse,
- rant,
- rant and rave,
- rave,
- read,
- read a lesson,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- recite,
- rodomontade,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- sermon,
- sermonize,
- set speech,
- set task,
- skull session,
- soapbox,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- spiel,
- spout,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- task,
- teaching,
- tirade,
- tub-thump,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- vituperate,
- vituperation
- oppressive
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- marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"
- weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows" related words >
- Herculean,
- absolute,
- absolutist,
- absolutistic,
- agonizing,
- airless,
- annoying,
- arbitrary,
- arduous,
- aristocratic,
- arrogant,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- autocratic,
- backbreaking,
- besetting,
- black,
- bleak,
- bossy,
- bothersome,
- breathless,
- breezeless,
- brutal,
- burdensome,
- close,
- crushing,
- cumbersome,
- cumbrous,
- demanding,
- depressant,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismal,
- dispiriting,
- distressing,
- dolorous,
- domineering,
- down,
- effortful,
- encumbering,
- exacting,
- exhausting,
- exigent,
- feudal,
- forced,
- grievous,
- grinding,
- grueling,
- hampering,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- high-handed,
- humid,
- ill-ventilated,
- impedimental,
- impeding,
- impeditive,
- imperative,
- imperial,
- imperious,
- incumbent,
- intolerable,
- irksome,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- lordly,
- lumpish,
- magisterial,
- magistral,
- massive,
- masterful,
- miserable,
- monocratic,
- muggy,
- onerous,
- operose,
- overbearing,
- overburdensome,
- overpowering,
- overruling,
- overwhelming,
- painful,
- peremptory,
- plaguey,
- punishing,
- racking,
- repressive,
- severe,
- somber,
- sticky,
- stifling,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- strict,
- stuffy,
- suffocating,
- sultry,
- superincumbent,
- suppressive,
- taxing,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- trying,
- tyrannical,
- tyrannous,
- unbearable,
- uncomfortable,
- unendurable,
- unvented,
- unventilated,
- unwieldy,
- uphill,
- vexatious,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- weighty,
- windless,
- wretched
- fertility
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- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring related words >
- abundance,
- affluence,
- ample sufficiency,
- ampleness,
- amplitude,
- avalanche,
- bonanza,
- bountifulness,
- bountiousness,
- bumper crop,
- cloud of words,
- copiousness,
- creativeness,
- creativity,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusiveness,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- fecundity,
- fertile mind,
- flood,
- flow,
- fluency,
- foison,
- formlessness,
- fructiferousness,
- fruitfulness,
- full measure,
- fullness,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- great abundance,
- great plenty,
- gush,
- gushing,
- ingenuity,
- invention,
- inventiveness,
- landslide,
- lavishness,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- logorrhea,
- lots,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- macrology,
- maximum,
- more than enough,
- much,
- myriad,
- myriads,
- numerousness,
- opulence,
- opulency,
- originality,
- outpour,
- outpouring,
- overflow,
- palilogy,
- plenitude,
- plenteousness,
- plentifulness,
- plenty,
- pleonasm,
- pregnancy,
- pregnant imagination,
- prevalence,
- procreativeness,
- prodigality,
- productive capacity,
- productiveness,
- productivity,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- quantities,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- redundancy,
- reiteration,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitiveness,
- repleteness,
- repletion,
- resourcefulness,
- rich harvest,
- rich vein,
- richness,
- riot,
- riotousness,
- scads,
- shower,
- spate,
- stream,
- substantiality,
- substantialness,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- superflux,
- swarmingness,
- talkativeness,
- tautology,
- teeming imagination,
- teeming womb,
- teemingness,
- tirade,
- wealth
- keen
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- a funeral lament sung with loud wailing
- having a sharp cutting edge or point; "a keen blade" related words >
- Attic,
- OK,
- Siberian,
- ablaze,
- absorbing,
- ace-high,
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- active,
- acute,
- adroit,
- afire,
- aggressive,
- agile,
- agog,
- alacritous,
- alert,
- algid,
- alive,
- all agog,
- animate,
- animated,
- anxious,
- apt,
- arctic,
- ardent,
- argute,
- asperous,
- astringent,
- astute,
- athirst,
- attentive,
- avid,
- awake,
- bad,
- bang-up,
- bark,
- bawl,
- bellow,
- below zero,
- bemoan,
- bewail,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitterly cold,
- blare,
- blat,
- bleak,
- blubber,
- boiling over,
- bonzer,
- boom,
- boreal,
- boss,
- brainy,
- bray,
- breathe,
- breathless,
- bright,
- brilliant,
- brisk,
- brumal,
- buggy,
- bugs,
- bully,
- burning,
- bursting to,
- but good,
- buzz,
- cackle,
- canny,
- cant,
- caterwaul,
- caustic,
- chant,
- chirp,
- clever,
- cold,
- cold as charity,
- cold as death,
- cold as ice,
- cold as marble,
- coo,
- cool,
- cordial,
- corking,
- coronach,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- crackerjack,
- crafty,
- creak,
- creaky,
- crisp,
- crow,
- cry,
- cunning,
- cutting,
- dandy,
- dead march,
- death knell,
- death song,
- deep,
- deep-felt,
- deepgoing,
- delicious,
- delirious,
- deplore,
- desirous,
- detailed,
- devoted,
- devoted to,
- dexterous,
- dirge,
- discerning,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinct,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- divine,
- dolorous tirade,
- double-edged,
- drastic,
- drawl,
- droll,
- drunk,
- ducky,
- dynamic,
- eager,
- ear-piercing,
- earnest,
- edged,
- elegize,
- elegy,
- enamored of,
- energetic,
- enterprising,
- enthusiastic,
- epicedium,
- escharotic,
- eulogy,
- excessive,
- excited,
- exclaim,
- excruciating,
- exorbitant,
- exquisite,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- exuberant,
- fab,
- facetious,
- featheredged,
- febrile,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fevered,
- feverish,
- fierce,
- fiery,
- fine,
- fine and dandy,
- fired,
- flaming,
- flushed,
- flute,
- fond of,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forward,
- freezing,
- freezing cold,
- frigid,
- full of life,
- full of pep,
- funeral march,
- funeral oration,
- funeral song,
- funny,
- furious,
- gasp,
- gay,
- gear,
- gelid,
- gifted,
- give sorrow words,
- glacial,
- glorious,
- glowing,
- go-go,
- graveside oration,
- great,
- grieve,
- grievous,
- groan,
- groovy,
- growl,
- grunt,
- gung ho,
- harsh,
- heartfelt,
- hearty,
- heated,
- heavy,
- hibernal,
- hiemal,
- hiss,
- homefelt,
- hot,
- howl,
- howling,
- humorous,
- humorsome,
- hunky-dory,
- hyperborean,
- ice-cold,
- ice-encrusted,
- icelike,
- icy,
- immoderate,
- impassioned,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- incisive,
- inclement,
- indelible,
- intelligent,
- intemperate,
- intense,
- intoxicated,
- irritating,
- itching,
- jam-up,
- jeremiad,
- jesting,
- jocose,
- jocular,
- joking,
- joky,
- joshing,
- just dandy,
- keen-edged,
- keen-witted,
- keening,
- kinetic,
- knell,
- knifelike,
- lament,
- lamentation,
- lilt,
- lively,
- living,
- lusty,
- marvy,
- mean,
- mettlesome,
- moan,
- monody,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- mourn,
- muffled drums,
- mumble,
- murmur,
- mutter,
- neat,
- nifty,
- nimble,
- nimble-witted,
- nipping,
- nippy,
- no dumbbell,
- nobby,
- nose-tickling,
- not born yesterday,
- numbing,
- nutty,
- okay,
- on fire,
- on the,
- on the alert,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- out of sight,
- outcry,
- outrageous,
- painful,
- pant,
- panting,
- passing bell,
- passionate,
- peachy,
- peachy-keen,
- penetrating,
- peppy,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perfervid,
- perspicacious,
- pervading,
- piercing,
- pinching,
- pipe,
- piping,
- piquant,
- plaint,
- planctus,
- poignant,
- pointed,
- profound,
- prompt,
- pungent,
- qui vive,
- quick,
- quick-thinking,
- quick-witted,
- rapier-like,
- raring to,
- raw,
- razor-edged,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- red-hot,
- reedy,
- repine,
- requiem,
- rigorous,
- ripping,
- roar,
- robust,
- rough,
- rum,
- rumble,
- salt,
- salty,
- sarcastic,
- sardonic,
- scathing,
- scintillating,
- scorching,
- screak,
- screaky,
- scream,
- screech,
- screeching,
- screechy,
- scrumptious,
- searing,
- sensitive,
- set,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sharp-sighted,
- sharp-witted,
- sharpened,
- shrewd,
- shriek,
- shrieking,
- shrieky,
- shrill,
- sibilate,
- sigh,
- sing,
- sing the blues,
- skirl,
- skreigh,
- slap-up,
- sleepless,
- sleety,
- slushy,
- smacking,
- smart,
- smashing,
- snap,
- snappy,
- snarl,
- snort,
- sob,
- solid,
- something else,
- sorrow,
- sough,
- sour,
- spanking,
- sparkling,
- specific,
- spiffing,
- spiffy,
- spirited,
- splitting,
- sprightly,
- squall,
- squawk,
- squeak,
- squeaking,
- squeaky,
- squeal,
- stabbing,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- steel-trap,
- stinging,
- stone-cold,
- strenuous,
- strident,
- stringent,
- strong,
- stunning,
- subzero,
- supercooled,
- swell,
- take-charge,
- take-over,
- talented,
- tart,
- thin,
- thirsty,
- threnode,
- threnody,
- thunder,
- tirade,
- tough,
- trenchant,
- trumpet,
- twang,
- two-edged,
- ululant,
- ululate,
- ululation,
- unblinking,
- unconscionable,
- unmistakable,
- unmistaken,
- unnodding,
- unrestrained,
- unsleeping,
- unwinking,
- vehement,
- venomous,
- vibrant,
- vigorous,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vital,
- vitriolic,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- wail,
- wail of woe,
- wailing,
- wakeful,
- warble,
- warm,
- weep,
- weep over,
- whimper,
- whimsical,
- whine,
- whining,
- whisper,
- whistle,
- whistling,
- wide-awake,
- winterbound,
- winterlike,
- wintery,
- wintry,
- wise,
- withering,
- witty,
- wizard,
- wrawl,
- yammer,
- yap,
- yawp,
- yell,
- yelp,
- yowl,
- zealous,
- zestful,
- zesty,
- zippy
- bleak
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- unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" related words >
- Siberian,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- affording no hope,
- algid,
- apathetic,
- arctic,
- austere,
- bare,
- barren,
- below zero,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitterly cold,
- black,
- blown,
- boreal,
- brisk,
- brumal,
- cheerless,
- chilly,
- cold,
- cold as charity,
- cold as death,
- cold as ice,
- cold as marble,
- comfortless,
- crisp,
- cutting,
- dark,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- despairing,
- desperate,
- despondent,
- discomforting,
- disconsolate,
- disheartening,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dour,
- drear,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- exposed,
- forlorn,
- freezing,
- freezing cold,
- frigid,
- funebrial,
- funereal,
- gelid,
- glacial,
- gloomy,
- grave,
- gray,
- grievous,
- grim,
- hard,
- harsh,
- hibernal,
- hiemal,
- hopeless,
- hyperborean,
- ice-cold,
- ice-encrusted,
- icelike,
- icy,
- in despair,
- inclement,
- joyless,
- keen,
- lamentable,
- melancholy,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nipping,
- nippy,
- numbing,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pinching,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- poignant,
- raw,
- regrettable,
- rigorous,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- saturnine,
- severe,
- sharp,
- sleety,
- slushy,
- snappy,
- solemn,
- somber,
- sombrous,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- stone-cold,
- stringent,
- subzero,
- supercooled,
- touching,
- triste,
- uncomfortable,
- unhappy,
- unhopeful,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- weary,
- windblown,
- windswept,
- winterbound,
- winterlike,
- wintery,
- wintry,
- without hope,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
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