Related Words:
- onslaught
collapse - a sudden and severe onset of trouble related words >
- abuse,
- aggravated assault,
- aggression,
- amphibious attack,
- appulse,
- armed assault,
- assailing,
- assailment,
- assault,
- attack,
- banzai attack,
- battering,
- berating,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- blitz,
- blitzkrieg,
- breakthrough,
- brunt,
- bulldozing,
- bulling,
- bump,
- butchery,
- cannon,
- carambole,
- carom,
- charge,
- clash,
- collision,
- concussion,
- contumely,
- counterattack,
- counteroffensive,
- coup de main,
- crack-up,
- crash,
- crippling attack,
- crump,
- crunch,
- dead set at,
- descent on,
- diatribe,
- disorderliness,
- diversion,
- diversionary attack,
- drive,
- encounter,
- execration,
- flank attack,
- forcible seizure,
- frontal attack,
- gas attack,
- hammering,
- hard words,
- head-on attack,
- impact,
- impingement,
- infiltration,
- invective,
- jawing,
- jeremiad,
- killing,
- laying waste,
- lightning attack,
- lightning war,
- looting,
- mass attack,
- massacre,
- mauling,
- meeting,
- megadeath,
- mugging,
- obstreperousness,
- offense,
- offensive,
- onset,
- overkill,
- panzer warfare,
- percussion,
- philippic,
- pillaging,
- push,
- ramming,
- rape,
- rating,
- revilement,
- riot,
- rioting,
- run against,
- run at,
- rush,
- sacking,
- sally,
- screed,
- shock,
- shock tactics,
- sideswipe,
- slaughter,
- sledgehammering,
- smash,
- smash-up,
- smashing,
- sortie,
- sowing with salt,
- strike,
- thrusting,
- tirade,
- tongue-lashing,
- unprovoked assault,
- unruliness,
- vilification,
- violation,
- vituperation,
- whomp
- painful
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- causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful slowness" related words >
- Herculean,
- aching,
- achy,
- acute,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- aggravating,
- agonizing,
- algetic,
- annoying,
- arduous,
- assiduous,
- atrocious,
- backbreaking,
- besetting,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- bothersome,
- burdensome,
- burning,
- careful,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- conscientious,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- crushing,
- demanding,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- detailed,
- diligent,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- distasteful,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- earnest,
- effortful,
- exacting,
- exasperating,
- excruciating,
- forced,
- galling,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- grievous,
- griping,
- grueling,
- harassing,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- joyless,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- lamentable,
- meticulous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- painstaking,
- paroxysmal,
- pathetic,
- piercing,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- plaguey,
- poignant,
- pungent,
- punishing,
- racking,
- raw,
- regrettable,
- rigorous,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scrupulous,
- sedulous,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- smarting,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- tender,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- throbbing,
- toilsome,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- touching,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- trying,
- unappetizing,
- uncomfortable,
- unpalatable,
- unpleasant,
- unsavory,
- uphill,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worrisome,
- worrying,
- wretched
- deplorable
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- bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
- of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" related words >
- abominable,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- appalling,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- bad,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- beneath one,
- bitter,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- brutal,
- calamitous,
- cheap,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- contemptible,
- debasing,
- degrading,
- demeaning,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desperate,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- difficult,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- discomforting,
- disgraceful,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- disreputable,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- execrable,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grave,
- grievous,
- gross,
- gutter,
- hateful,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heinous,
- hopeless,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- horrifying,
- humiliating,
- humiliative,
- infamous,
- infra dig,
- infra indignitatem,
- intolerable,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- oppressive,
- opprobrious,
- outrageous,
- overwhelming,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poignant,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- serious,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- sharp,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sickening,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- squalid,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- touching,
- tragic,
- troubling,
- unbearable,
- unbecoming,
- unclean,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- unworthy of one,
- upsetting,
- vile,
- villainous,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched
- abundance,
- acres,
- amenity,
- amplitude,
- bags,
- barrels,
- bedizenment,
- bravery,
- bushel,
- chiffon,
- clinquant,
- cloud of words,
- copiousness,
- countlessness,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusiveness,
- duplication,
- duplication of effort,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- embellishment,
- excess,
- expletive,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- fat,
- featherbedding,
- fecundity,
- fertility,
- festoons,
- filling,
- finery,
- flood,
- fluency,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- formlessness,
- frill,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- froufrou,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- gaudery,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gingerbread,
- glut,
- gush,
- gushing,
- load,
- logorrhea,
- luxury,
- macrology,
- mass,
- mountain,
- much,
- multitude,
- needlessness,
- numerousness,
- ocean,
- oceans,
- ornamentation,
- outpour,
- overabundance,
- overadornment,
- overage,
- overflow,
- overflowing,
- overkill,
- overlap,
- overmuch,
- overplus,
- oversupply,
- padding,
- palilogy,
- paste,
- payroll padding,
- peck,
- pinchbeck,
- plenitude,
- plenty,
- pleonasm,
- plethora,
- prodigality,
- productivity,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- prolixity,
- quantities,
- quantity,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- redundance,
- redundancy,
- reiteration,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitiveness,
- sea,
- spate,
- superabundance,
- superfluousness,
- superflux,
- supersaturation,
- surfeit,
- surplus,
- surplusage,
- swarming,
- talkativeness,
- tautology,
- teeming,
- teemingness,
- tinsel,
- tirade,
- tons,
- trappings,
- trickery,
- trumpery,
- unnecessariness,
- verbosity,
- volume,
- world,
- worlds
- filibuster
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- a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
- a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes
- obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- be dilatory,
- chalk talk,
- cloture,
- committee consideration,
- constitute,
- debate,
- declamation,
- decree,
- deliberation,
- diatribe,
- division,
- enact,
- enact laws,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- filibusterer,
- filibustering,
- filing,
- first reading,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- frustrater,
- funeral oration,
- gain time,
- get the floor,
- hang,
- hang back,
- hang fire,
- harangue,
- have the floor,
- hesitate,
- hinderer,
- hold off,
- hortatory address,
- impeder,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- introduction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- kill,
- legislate,
- lobby through,
- logroll,
- logrolling,
- make time,
- marplot,
- negativist,
- obstructer,
- obstructionist,
- oration,
- ordain,
- outlast,
- outspeak,
- outtalk,
- pass,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pigeonhole,
- pitch,
- play for time,
- pocket,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- procrastinate,
- public speech,
- put in force,
- put through,
- railroad through,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- roll call,
- roll logs,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- second reading,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- stall,
- stall for time,
- stall off,
- steamroller methods,
- stooge around,
- table,
- tabling,
- take the floor,
- talk,
- talk against time,
- talk down,
- talkathon,
- temporize,
- third reading,
- thwarter,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- veto,
- vote,
- yield the floor
- exhortation
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- a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action
- the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion related words >
- address,
- admonition,
- advice,
- advising,
- advocacy,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- allurement,
- blandishment,
- briefing,
- bugle call,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- call to arms,
- call-up,
- catchword,
- caution,
- caveat,
- chalk talk,
- clarion,
- clarion call,
- coaxing,
- conning,
- conscription,
- consultation,
- council,
- counsel,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- direction,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- eulogy,
- expostulation,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- go for broke,
- guidance,
- gung ho,
- harangue,
- hortation,
- hortatory address,
- idea,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- inducement,
- instruction,
- invective,
- jawboning,
- jeremiad,
- levy,
- lobbying,
- mobilization,
- monition,
- muster,
- opinion,
- oration,
- parley,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- persuasion,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- proposal,
- public speech,
- rally,
- rallying cry,
- reading,
- rebel yell,
- recital,
- recitation,
- recommendation,
- recruitment,
- remonstrance,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- selling,
- set speech,
- slogan,
- snow job,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- suasion,
- suggestion,
- sweet talk,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- thought,
- tirade,
- trumpet call,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- war cry,
- war whoop,
- warning,
- watchword,
- wheedling,
- working on
- about,
- abutting,
- adjoining,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- against,
- anent,
- apropos of,
- as for,
- as regards,
- as respects,
- as to,
- attouchement,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- bordering,
- borrowing,
- brush,
- brushing,
- caress,
- caressing,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- compassionate,
- concerning,
- contact,
- contacting,
- conterminous,
- contiguous,
- contingence,
- contingent,
- debt,
- debtor,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- emotional,
- emotive,
- feeling,
- financing,
- fingering,
- friction,
- frottage,
- glance,
- glancing,
- graze,
- grazing,
- grievous,
- handling,
- heartrending,
- hire purchase,
- hitting,
- hitting-up,
- hocking,
- impingement,
- impingence,
- impingent,
- impinging,
- impressive,
- in connection with,
- in contact,
- in point of,
- in re,
- in reference to,
- in regard to,
- in relation to,
- in relation with,
- in respect to,
- installment buying,
- installment plan,
- joyless,
- juxtaposed,
- kiss,
- lamentable,
- manipulation,
- meeting,
- money-raising,
- mortgaging,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nudge,
- nudging,
- of,
- on,
- osculation,
- osculatory,
- overlapping,
- painful,
- palpation,
- pathetic,
- pawning,
- pertaining to,
- pertinent to,
- petting,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pledging,
- poignant,
- pressure,
- re,
- referring to,
- regarding,
- regrettable,
- relating to,
- relative to,
- respecting,
- responsive,
- rub,
- rubbing,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- sharp,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- soul-stirring,
- speaking of,
- stirring,
- stroking,
- sympathetic,
- taction,
- tangency,
- tangent,
- tangential,
- tear-jerking,
- tender,
- tentative contact,
- to,
- touch,
- uncomfortable,
- up against,
- upon,
- with regard to,
- with respect to,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- eulogy
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- a formal expression of praise for someone who has died recently related words >
- acclaim,
- acclamation,
- accolade,
- address,
- adulation,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- apotheosis,
- applause,
- bepraisement,
- burial service,
- chalk talk,
- citation,
- commendation,
- compliment,
- congratulation,
- coronach,
- dead march,
- death knell,
- death song,
- deathwatch,
- debate,
- declamation,
- deification,
- diatribe,
- dirge,
- elegy,
- eloge,
- encomium,
- epicedium,
- eulogium,
- exaltation,
- excessive praise,
- exequies,
- exhortation,
- extreme unction,
- filibuster,
- flattery,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral march,
- funeral oration,
- funeral rites,
- funeral song,
- glorification,
- glory,
- graveside oration,
- harangue,
- hero worship,
- homage,
- hommage,
- honor,
- honorable mention,
- hortatory address,
- idolatry,
- idolizing,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- keen,
- knell,
- kudos,
- last duty,
- last honors,
- last offices,
- last rites,
- laud,
- laudation,
- lionizing,
- magnification,
- meed of praise,
- mention,
- monody,
- muffled drums,
- obsequies,
- oration,
- overpraise,
- paean,
- panegyric,
- passing bell,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- plaudits,
- praise,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- requiem,
- requiem mass,
- sales talk,
- salutation,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- threnode,
- threnody,
- tirade,
- tribute,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- viaticum,
- wake
- redundancy
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- repetition of an act needlessly
- the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers"
- (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
- repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission related words >
- EDP,
- abundance,
- amplitude,
- avalanche,
- battology,
- bedizenment,
- bit,
- channel,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- cloud of words,
- communication explosion,
- communication theory,
- copiousness,
- data retrieval,
- data storage,
- decoding,
- deluge,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusiveness,
- duplication,
- duplication of effort,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- electronic data processing,
- embarras de richesses,
- embellishment,
- encoding,
- enough,
- entropy,
- excess,
- expletive,
- extravagance,
- extravagancy,
- exuberance,
- fat,
- featherbedding,
- fecundity,
- fertility,
- filling,
- flatulence,
- flood,
- fluency,
- formlessness,
- frill,
- frills,
- frippery,
- gingerbread,
- gush,
- gushing,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- information explosion,
- information theory,
- inundation,
- landslide,
- lavishness,
- logorrhea,
- luxury,
- macrology,
- money to burn,
- more than enough,
- needlessness,
- noise,
- ornamentation,
- outpour,
- overabundance,
- overaccumulation,
- overadornment,
- overage,
- overbounteousness,
- overcopiousness,
- overdose,
- overflow,
- overlap,
- overlavishness,
- overluxuriance,
- overmeasure,
- overmuchness,
- overnumerousness,
- overplentifulness,
- overplenty,
- overplus,
- overpopulation,
- overprofusion,
- oversufficiency,
- oversupply,
- padding,
- palilogy,
- payroll padding,
- periphrase,
- periphrasis,
- plenty,
- pleonasm,
- plethora,
- prodigality,
- productivity,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- prolixity,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- redundance,
- reiteration,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitiveness,
- roundabout,
- signal,
- spate,
- stammering,
- stuttering,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- superfluousness,
- superflux,
- surplus,
- surplusage,
- talkativeness,
- tautologism,
- tautology,
- teemingness,
- tirade,
- tumidity,
- turgidity,
- unnecessariness,
- verbality,
- verbosity
- abominable,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- bitter,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- brutal,
- calamitous,
- careworn,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- contemptible,
- crushed,
- cut up,
- deep-troubled,
- dejected,
- deplorable,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- discomforting,
- disconsolate,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispirited,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- dumb with grief,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grave,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- grieved,
- grievous,
- gross,
- harrowed,
- hateful,
- heart-stricken,
- heart-struck,
- heartbreaking,
- heartsick,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- in grief,
- in the dumps,
- inconsolable,
- infamous,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- low-spirited,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- on the rack,
- outrageous,
- overcome,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- plunged in grief,
- poignant,
- racked,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rueful,
- ruthful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- sharp,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorrowed,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowing,
- squalid,
- stricken,
- suicidal,
- tearful,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- tortured,
- touching,
- unclean,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- unprecedented,
- vile,
- villainous,
- woebegone,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- wrung
- productivity
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- (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time related words >
- abundance,
- amperage,
- amplitude,
- armipotence,
- authority,
- beef,
- black power,
- bountifulness,
- brute force,
- charge,
- charisma,
- cloud of words,
- clout,
- cogence,
- cogency,
- compulsion,
- copiousness,
- creativeness,
- creativity,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusiveness,
- dint,
- drive,
- duress,
- effect,
- effectiveness,
- effectuality,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- energy,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- fecundity,
- fertile mind,
- fertility,
- flower power,
- fluency,
- force,
- force majeure,
- forcefulness,
- formlessness,
- fructiferousness,
- fruitfulness,
- full blast,
- full force,
- generousness,
- gush,
- gushing,
- influence,
- ingenuity,
- invention,
- inventiveness,
- logorrhea,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- macrology,
- main force,
- main strength,
- mana,
- might,
- might and main,
- mightiness,
- moxie,
- muscle power,
- originality,
- outpour,
- overflow,
- palilogy,
- pizzazz,
- plenteousness,
- plentifulness,
- pleonasm,
- poop,
- potence,
- potency,
- potentiality,
- power,
- power pack,
- power structure,
- power struggle,
- powerfulness,
- pregnancy,
- pregnant imagination,
- prepotency,
- procreativeness,
- prodigality,
- productive capacity,
- productiveness,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- puissance,
- pull,
- punch,
- push,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- redundancy,
- reiteration,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitiveness,
- richness,
- sinew,
- steam,
- strength,
- strong arm,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- superflux,
- superiority,
- superpower,
- swarmingness,
- talkativeness,
- tautology,
- teeming imagination,
- teeming womb,
- teemingness,
- tirade,
- validity,
- vehemence,
- vigor,
- vim,
- virility,
- virtue,
- virulence,
- vitality,
- wattage,
- weight
- recital
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- performance of music or dance especially by soloists
- a detailed account or description of something; "he was forced to listen to a recital of his many shortcomings"
- a detailed statement giving facts and figures; "his wife gave a recital of his infidelities" related words >
- Philharmonic concert,
- account,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assignment,
- band concert,
- chalk talk,
- chamber concert,
- concert,
- copy,
- critique,
- debate,
- declamation,
- description,
- diatribe,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- dwelling upon,
- elaboration,
- entertainment,
- enumeration,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exhortation,
- exposition,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- going over,
- harangue,
- homework,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- instruction,
- interpretation,
- invective,
- iteration,
- jeremiad,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- musical performance,
- musical program,
- musicale,
- narration,
- narrative,
- object lesson,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- performance,
- peroration,
- philharmonic,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- pop concert,
- pops,
- popular concert,
- practicing,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- presentation,
- program,
- program of music,
- prom,
- promenade concert,
- public speech,
- reading,
- reaffirmation,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- recitation,
- recountal,
- recounting,
- rehash,
- rehearsal,
- reissue,
- reiteration,
- relation,
- rendition,
- repetition,
- report,
- reprint,
- restatement,
- resume,
- retelling,
- review,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- sermon,
- service of music,
- set speech,
- set task,
- show,
- skull session,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- story,
- summary,
- summing up,
- symphony concert,
- tale-telling,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- task,
- teaching,
- telling,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- version,
- yarn spinning
- grievous
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- causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter" related words >
- abominable,
- acute,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- appalling,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- bitter,
- black,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- brutal,
- burdensome,
- calamitous,
- careworn,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- contemptible,
- damaging,
- dangerous,
- demanding,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- despicable,
- destructive,
- detestable,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- discomforting,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distasteful,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- dumb with grief,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- fatal,
- fell,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- galling,
- grave,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- grieved,
- gross,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heavy,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- hurtful,
- in grief,
- infamous,
- intolerable,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- lugubrious,
- major,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- oppressive,
- outrageous,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- plunged in grief,
- poignant,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rueful,
- ruinous,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- serious,
- severe,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- sharp,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorrowed,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowing,
- squalid,
- superincumbent,
- taxing,
- tearful,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- touching,
- tough,
- tragic,
- ugly,
- unbearable,
- unclean,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- unpalatable,
- vile,
- villainous,
- weighty,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wounding,
- wreckful,
- wretched
- peroration
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- (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"
- a flowery and highly rhetorical oration related words >
- PS,
- Parthian shot,
- Z,
- addendum,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- afterthought,
- allocution,
- apodosis,
- appendix,
- back matter,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- chalk talk,
- chorus,
- coda,
- codicil,
- colophon,
- conclusion,
- consequence,
- consummation,
- continuance,
- continuation,
- crack of doom,
- culmination,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- death,
- debate,
- decease,
- declamation,
- denouement,
- destination,
- destiny,
- diatribe,
- doom,
- double take,
- dying words,
- effect,
- end,
- end point,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- expiration,
- fate,
- filibuster,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finis,
- finish,
- follow-through,
- follow-up,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- goal,
- harangue,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- invective,
- izzard,
- jeremiad,
- last,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- omega,
- oration,
- parting shot,
- payoff,
- pep talk,
- period,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- postface,
- postfix,
- postlude,
- postscript,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- quietus,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- refrain,
- resolution,
- resting place,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- second thought,
- sequel,
- sequela,
- sequelae,
- sequelant,
- sequent,
- sequitur,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- subscript,
- suffix,
- supplement,
- swan song,
- tag,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- windup
- abundance,
- acres,
- affluence,
- ample sufficiency,
- ampleness,
- amplitude,
- avalanche,
- bags,
- barrels,
- bonanza,
- bountifulness,
- bountiousness,
- bumper crop,
- bushel,
- cloud of words,
- copiousness,
- countlessness,
- deluge,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusiveness,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- embarras de richesses,
- enough,
- extravagance,
- extravagancy,
- exuberance,
- fecundity,
- fertility,
- flood,
- flow,
- fluency,
- foison,
- formlessness,
- fructiferousness,
- fruitfulness,
- full measure,
- fullness,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- great abundance,
- great plenty,
- gush,
- gushing,
- inundation,
- landslide,
- lavishness,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- load,
- logorrhea,
- lots,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- macrology,
- mass,
- maximum,
- money to burn,
- more than enough,
- mountain,
- much,
- multitude,
- myriad,
- myriads,
- numerousness,
- ocean,
- oceans,
- opulence,
- opulency,
- outpour,
- outpouring,
- overabundance,
- overaccumulation,
- overbounteousness,
- overcopiousness,
- overdose,
- overflow,
- overlavishness,
- overluxuriance,
- overmeasure,
- overmuchness,
- overnumerousness,
- overplentifulness,
- overplenty,
- overpopulation,
- overprofusion,
- oversufficiency,
- oversupply,
- palilogy,
- peck,
- plenitude,
- plenteousness,
- plentifulness,
- plenty,
- pleonasm,
- plethora,
- pregnancy,
- prevalence,
- procreativeness,
- prodigality,
- productive capacity,
- productiveness,
- productivity,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- quantities,
- quantity,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- redundancy,
- reiteration,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitiveness,
- repleteness,
- repletion,
- rich harvest,
- rich vein,
- richness,
- riot,
- riotousness,
- scads,
- sea,
- shower,
- spate,
- stream,
- substantiality,
- substantialness,
- superfluity,
- superflux,
- swarmingness,
- talkativeness,
- tautology,
- teeming womb,
- teemingness,
- tirade,
- tons,
- volume,
- wealth,
- world,
- worlds
- gushing
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- flowing profusely; "a gushing hydrant"; "pouring flood waters" related words >
- abundance,
- abundant,
- adulatory,
- affluent,
- amplitude,
- bathetic,
- beery,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- cloud of words,
- cloying,
- complimentary,
- confluent,
- copious,
- copiousness,
- coursing,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- decurrent,
- defluent,
- diffluent,
- diffuse,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusive,
- diffusiveness,
- effusion,
- effusive,
- effusiveness,
- extravagance,
- extravagant,
- exuberance,
- exuberant,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fecund,
- fecundity,
- fertility,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- flowing,
- fluency,
- fluent,
- fluxional,
- fluxive,
- formless,
- formlessness,
- fulsome,
- gooey,
- gulfy,
- gush,
- gushy,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- logorrhea,
- macrology,
- maudlin,
- mawkish,
- mazy,
- mealymouthed,
- meandering,
- mushy,
- namby-pamby,
- nostalgic,
- nostomanic,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- outpour,
- overflow,
- overflowing,
- oversentimental,
- oversentimentalized,
- palilogy,
- pleonasm,
- pleonastic,
- pouring,
- prodigal,
- prodigality,
- productive,
- productivity,
- profluent,
- profuse,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- profusive,
- prolific,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- racing,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- redundancy,
- redundant,
- reiteration,
- reiterative,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitive,
- repetitiveness,
- romantic,
- running,
- rushing,
- sappy,
- sentimental,
- sentimentalized,
- serpentine,
- slimy,
- slobbering,
- slobbery,
- sloppy,
- sluggish,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- soapy,
- soft,
- soft-soaping,
- sticky,
- streaming,
- superabundance,
- superabundant,
- superfluity,
- superflux,
- surging,
- surgy,
- sycophantic,
- talkativeness,
- tautologous,
- tautology,
- tear-jerking,
- teary,
- teeming,
- teemingness,
- tidal,
- tirade,
- unctuous,
- vortical,
- wheedling
- poignant
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- keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety" related words >
- absorbing,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- acute,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- agitating,
- agonizing,
- asperous,
- astringent,
- atrocious,
- barbed,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- blue,
- caustic,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- corrosive,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- cutting,
- deep,
- deep-felt,
- deepgoing,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- disastrous,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- double-edged,
- dramatic,
- dreary,
- driving,
- earnest,
- edged,
- effective,
- emotional,
- escharotic,
- excruciating,
- exquisite,
- extreme,
- fierce,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- grievous,
- griping,
- gutsy,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heartfelt,
- homefelt,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- imperative,
- impressive,
- incisive,
- indelible,
- intense,
- irritating,
- joyless,
- keen,
- lamentable,
- lively,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nervous,
- nose-tickling,
- painful,
- paroxysmal,
- pathetic,
- penetrating,
- peppery,
- peppy,
- perturbing,
- pervading,
- piercing,
- piquant,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pointed,
- powerful,
- profound,
- punchy,
- pungent,
- racking,
- racy,
- regrettable,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- sarcastic,
- sardonic,
- scathing,
- sensational,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- sincere,
- sinewed,
- sinewy,
- slashing,
- snappy,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- sour,
- sparkling,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spicy,
- spirited,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- stirring,
- strident,
- striking,
- stringent,
- strong,
- tart,
- telling,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- touching,
- tragic,
- trenchant,
- uncomfortable,
- upsetting,
- vehement,
- vigorous,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vital,
- vitriolic,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched,
- zesty
- miserable
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- characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
- very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" related words >
- abject,
- abominable,
- adverse,
- afflicted,
- antagonistic,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- bad,
- base,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- cheap,
- cheerless,
- cheesy,
- common,
- conflicting,
- contemptible,
- contrary,
- counter,
- counteractive,
- crummy,
- crushed,
- cut up,
- debased,
- deep-troubled,
- degraded,
- dejected,
- deplorable,
- depraved,
- depressed,
- desolate,
- despairing,
- desperate,
- despicable,
- despondent,
- detrimental,
- difficult,
- dirty,
- disconsolate,
- discontented,
- disgraceful,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- doleful,
- dolorous,
- downhearted,
- execrable,
- flagrant,
- forlorn,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- grave,
- grim,
- gross,
- hard,
- harmful,
- heart-stricken,
- heart-struck,
- heartbroken,
- heartsick,
- heinous,
- hopeless,
- hostile,
- humorless,
- in bad humor,
- in opposition,
- inadequate,
- inclement,
- inconvenient,
- infestive,
- inimical,
- joyless,
- lachrymose,
- lamentable,
- little,
- lousy,
- low,
- low-down,
- low-spirited,
- lumpen,
- mangy,
- mean,
- measly,
- melancholy,
- meretricious,
- mirthless,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- nefarious,
- not easy,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- out of humor,
- out of sorts,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- petty,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pleasureless,
- poky,
- poor,
- rank,
- reptilian,
- rigorous,
- rotten,
- rubbishy,
- rueful,
- ruthful,
- sad,
- scabby,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shoddy,
- sinister,
- small,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- sorryish,
- squalid,
- stressful,
- stricken,
- suicidal,
- tearful,
- terrible,
- trashy,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- trumpery,
- trying,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- uncheerful,
- uncheery,
- unfavorable,
- unhappy,
- unjoyful,
- unmentionable,
- unmirthful,
- unpleasant,
- unsmiling,
- untoward,
- unworthy,
- valueless,
- vile,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worthless,
- wretched
- inaugural
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- serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage"
- occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction; "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball" related words >
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- address,
- advanced,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- antecedent,
- antenatal,
- anterior,
- autochthonous,
- avant-garde,
- baccalaureate service,
- beginning,
- budding,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- chalk talk,
- chief,
- commencement,
- convocation,
- creative,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- empty formality,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- exhortation,
- exordial,
- exploratory,
- fetal,
- filibuster,
- first,
- foremost,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal,
- formal speech,
- formality,
- formative,
- foundational,
- function,
- fundamental,
- funeral oration,
- gestatory,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- harangue,
- headmost,
- hortatory address,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in the bud,
- inaugural address,
- inauguration,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- induction,
- infant,
- infantile,
- initial,
- initiation,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- installation,
- introductory,
- invective,
- inventive,
- investiture,
- jeremiad,
- leading,
- liturgy,
- mummery,
- nascent,
- natal,
- observance,
- office,
- oration,
- original,
- parturient,
- pep talk,
- performance,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- postnatal,
- precedent,
- preceding,
- precessional,
- precursory,
- prefatory,
- pregnant,
- preliminary,
- preludial,
- prelusive,
- prenatal,
- preparatory,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- prevenient,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- prior,
- procreative,
- proemial,
- propaedeutic,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- religious ceremony,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- service,
- set speech,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- ur,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address
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