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related words >
actor-proof
,
all-star
,
ballet
,
balletic
,
cinematic
,
cinematographic
,
dramatic
,
dramatical
,
dramaturgic
,
film
,
filmic
,
ham
,
hammy
,
histrionic
,
legitimate
,
melodramatic
,
milked
,
monodramatic
,
overacted
,
overplayed
,
scenic
,
spectacular
,
stagelike
,
stageworthy
,
stagy
,
starstruck
,
stellar
,
theaterlike
,
theatrical
,
thespian
,
thrown away
,
underacted
,
vaudevillian
sketch
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preliminary drawing for later elaboration; "he made several studies before starting to paint"
short descriptive summary (of events)
a brief literary description
describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas"
make a sketch of; "sketch the building"
related words >
Grand Guignol
,
Passion play
,
Tom show
,
abbreviation
,
abbreviature
,
abrege
,
abridge
,
abridgment
,
abstract
,
act
,
act as foil
,
adumbrate
,
afterpiece
,
antimasque
,
appear
,
article
,
audience success
,
ballet
,
barnstorm
,
bit
,
black and white
,
block in
,
block out
,
blueprint
,
bomb
,
brief
,
bring to life
,
broadcast drama
,
brouillon
,
burlesque show
,
cameo
,
capsule
,
capsulize
,
cartoon
,
catalog
,
cataloging
,
causerie
,
chalk
,
chalk out
,
character
,
character sketch
,
characterization
,
characterize
,
charade
,
charcoal
,
charcoal drawing
,
chart
,
chaser
,
chiaroscuro
,
cliff hanger
,
closet drama
,
color
,
come out
,
comedy drama
,
compend
,
condensation
,
condense
,
condensed version
,
conspectus
,
copy
,
crayon
,
critical success
,
crosshatch
,
curtain
,
curtain call
,
curtain raiser
,
dash off
,
daub
,
daytime serial
,
delineate
,
delineation
,
depict
,
depiction
,
descant
,
describe
,
description
,
design
,
detail
,
details
,
develop
,
diagram
,
dialogue
,
digest
,
discourse
,
discussion
,
disquisition
,
dissertation
,
divertimento
,
divertissement
,
documentary drama
,
doodle
,
draft
,
drama
,
dramalogue
,
dramatic play
,
dramatic series
,
draw
,
drawing
,
duodrama
,
duologue
,
ebauche
,
elevation
,
emote
,
emotionalize
,
epic theater
,
epilogue
,
epitome
,
esquisse
,
essay
,
etude
,
evocation
,
evoke
,
examination
,
excursus
,
exode
,
exodus
,
experimental theater
,
exposition
,
expository scene
,
express
,
extravaganza
,
failure
,
feature
,
figure
,
finale
,
first approach
,
flop
,
gasser
,
get top billing
,
give words to
,
giveaway
,
graph
,
graphic account
,
ground plan
,
happening
,
hatch
,
head
,
hit
,
hit show
,
hoke act
,
homily
,
house plan
,
ichnography
,
image
,
imagery
,
impression
,
improvisational drama
,
interlude
,
intermezzo
,
intermission
,
introduction
,
introductory study
,
itemization
,
lay
,
lay off
,
lay out
,
legitimate drama
,
limn
,
limning
,
line
,
line drawing
,
lucubration
,
map
,
map out
,
mark off
,
mark out
,
masque
,
melodrama
,
memoir
,
mime
,
minstrel show
,
miracle
,
miracle play
,
monodrama
,
monograph
,
monologue
,
morality
,
morality play
,
morceau
,
music drama
,
musical revue
,
mystery
,
mystery play
,
note
,
number
,
nutshell
,
opera
,
outline
,
overview
,
pageant
,
paint
,
paint a picture
,
pandect
,
panel show
,
pantomime
,
paper
,
paragraph
,
particularization
,
pastel
,
pastoral
,
pastoral drama
,
patter
,
pattern
,
pen-and-ink
,
pencil
,
pencil drawing
,
perform
,
photograph
,
picture
,
picturize
,
piece
,
play
,
play the lead
,
playact
,
playlet
,
plot
,
plot out
,
portrait
,
portraiture
,
portray
,
portrayal
,
precis
,
preliminary study
,
problem play
,
profile
,
projection
,
prolegomenon
,
prologue
,
psychodrama
,
quiz show
,
radio drama
,
register
,
render
,
rendering
,
rendition
,
represent
,
representation
,
research paper
,
review
,
revue
,
rough
,
rough copy
,
rough draft
,
rough in
,
rough out
,
rough outline
,
routine
,
rubric
,
scene
,
scratch
,
screed
,
scumble
,
sensational play
,
serial
,
set forth
,
set out
,
shade
,
shorten
,
shortened version
,
show
,
shtick
,
silhouette
,
silver-print drawing
,
sinopia
,
sitcom
,
situation comedy
,
skeleton
,
sketch out
,
skit
,
soap
,
soap opera
,
sociodrama
,
song and dance
,
special article
,
specification
,
spectacle
,
stage play
,
stage show
,
stand-up comedy act
,
star
,
steal the show
,
stencil
,
stooge
,
straight drama
,
striptease
,
study
,
success
,
summarize
,
survey
,
suspense drama
,
syllabus
,
synopsis
,
synopsize
,
table
,
tableau
,
tableau vivant
,
talk show
,
teleplay
,
television drama
,
television play
,
term paper
,
theater of cruelty
,
theme
,
thesis
,
thumbnail sketch
,
tint
,
topical outline
,
total theater
,
trace
,
tracing
,
tract
,
tractate
,
tread the boards
,
treatise
,
treatment
,
troupe
,
turn
,
upstage
,
variety show
,
vaudeville
,
vaudeville show
,
vehicle
,
vignette
,
vivid description
,
word painting
,
word-of-mouth success
,
work
,
working drawing
,
write
pass for
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related words >
act
,
act a part
,
act as
,
act out
,
answer for
,
ape
,
be accepted for
,
be regarded as
,
be taken as
,
copy
,
count for
,
do
,
enact
,
go as
,
go for
,
impersonate
,
make false pretenses
,
masquerade as
,
mime
,
mimic
,
pantomime
,
pass as
,
perform
,
personate
,
play
,
play a part
,
pose as
,
pretend to be
,
serve as
,
take off
hash up
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related words >
ball up
,
bitch
,
bitch up
,
bobble
,
bollix
,
bollix up
,
bonehead into it
,
bugger
,
bugger up
,
cook
,
drop a brick
,
flub
,
foul up
,
goof
,
goof up
,
gum up
,
louse up
,
mess up
,
muck up
,
play hell with
,
play hob with
,
queer
,
screw up
,
sink
,
snafu
,
snarl up
play the game
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related words >
act well
,
be good
,
be nice
,
behave
,
conform
,
do right
,
fall in with
,
fall into line
,
fit in
,
follow the crowd
,
follow the fashion
,
follow the rule
,
get in line
,
go through channels
,
keep in step
,
observe the proprieties
,
pass muster
,
play fair
,
stay in line
,
toe the mark
exert
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put to use; "exert one's power or influence"
make a great effort at a mental or physical task; "exert oneself"
related words >
apply
,
attempt
,
bring into play
,
bring to bear
,
bust a gut
,
do with
,
employ
,
endeavor
,
exercise
,
expend
,
go all out
,
handle
,
make an effort
,
make use of
,
manage
,
manipulate
,
operate
,
play
,
ply
,
practice
,
push
,
put forth
,
put out
,
strain
,
strive
,
struggle
,
throw
,
toil
,
try
,
use
,
utilize
,
wield
,
work
overplayed
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related words >
actor-proof
,
all-star
,
ballet
,
balletic
,
cinematic
,
cinematographic
,
dramatic
,
dramatical
,
dramaturgic
,
film
,
filmic
,
ham
,
hammy
,
histrionic
,
legitimate
,
melodramatic
,
milked
,
monodramatic
,
movie
,
operatic
,
overacted
,
scenic
,
spectacular
,
stagelike
,
stageworthy
,
stagy
,
starstruck
,
stellar
,
theaterlike
,
theatrical
,
thespian
,
thrown away
,
underacted
,
underplayed
,
vaudevillian
emote
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give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role
related words >
act
,
act as foil
,
appear
,
barnstorm
,
be theatrical
,
carry on
,
come out
,
emotionalize
,
get top billing
,
gush
,
ham it up
,
make a scene
,
mime
,
pantomime
,
patter
,
perform
,
play
,
play the lead
,
playact
,
rage
,
rant
,
register
,
sentimentalize
,
sketch
,
slobber over
,
slop over
,
star
,
steal the show
,
stooge
,
storm
,
take on
,
theatricalize
,
tread the boards
,
troupe
,
upstage
Pierian
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related words >
Alcaic
,
Anacreontic
,
Castalian
,
Homeric
,
Hudibrastic
,
Pindaric
,
Theocritean
,
bardic
,
bucolic
,
didactic
,
dithyrambic
,
dramatic
,
eclogic
,
elegiac
,
epic
,
heroic
,
idyllic
,
mock-heroic
,
narrative
,
pastoral
,
poetic
,
poetico-mystical
,
poetico-mythological
,
poetico-philosophic
,
poetlike
,
rhapsodic
,
runic
,
sapphic
,
skaldic
runic
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relating to or consisting of runes; "runic inscription"
related words >
Alcaic
,
Anacreontic
,
Castalian
,
Homeric
,
Hudibrastic
,
Pierian
,
Pindaric
,
Theocritean
,
bardic
,
bucolic
,
didactic
,
dithyrambic
,
dramatic
,
eclogic
,
elegiac
,
epic
,
heroic
,
idyllic
,
mock-heroic
,
narrative
,
pastoral
,
poetic
,
poetico-mystical
,
poetico-mythological
,
poetico-philosophic
,
poetlike
,
rhapsodic
,
sapphic
,
skaldic
stagestruck
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related words >
actor-proof
,
all-star
,
ballet
,
balletic
,
cinematic
,
cinematographic
,
dramatic
,
dramatical
,
dramaturgic
,
film
,
filmic
,
ham
,
hammy
,
histrionic
,
legitimate
,
melodramatic
,
milked
,
monodramatic
,
movie
,
operatic
,
overacted
,
overplayed
,
scenic
,
spectacular
,
stagelike
,
stageworthy
,
stagy
,
starstruck
,
stellar
,
theaterlike
,
theatrical
,
thespian
,
thrown away
,
underacted
,
underplayed
,
vaudevillian
act as
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function as or act like; "This heap of stones will act as a barrier"
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
act out
,
ape
,
copy
,
do
,
do duty
,
enact
,
function
,
function as
,
impersonate
,
masquerade as
,
mime
,
mimic
,
officiate
,
pantomime
,
pass for
,
perform
,
perform as
,
personate
,
play
,
play a part
,
pose as
,
pretend to be
,
serve
,
take off
,
work as
twosome
collapse
related words >
both
,
bout
,
brace
,
contest
,
couple
,
couplet
,
decathlon
,
distich
,
double harness
,
double-header
,
doubles
,
doublet
,
duad
,
duet
,
duo
,
dyad
,
event
,
foursome
,
game
,
games of chance
,
go
,
match
,
mates
,
meet
,
pair
,
pentathlon
,
play
,
play-off
,
race
,
runoff
,
set of two
,
singles
,
span
,
sport
,
team
,
the two
,
threesome
,
twain
,
two
,
yoke
simulate
collapse
make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
act like
,
adopt
,
affect
,
ape
,
appear like
,
approach
,
appropriate
,
approximate
,
assume
,
be like
,
be redolent of
,
bear resemblance
,
bluff
,
borrow
,
bring to mind
,
call to mind
,
call up
,
chorus
,
come close
,
come near
,
compare with
,
copy
,
correspond
,
counterfeit
,
cover up
,
crib
,
derive from
,
dissemble
,
dissimulate
,
ditto
,
do
,
do a bit
,
do like
,
dramatize
,
echo
,
evoke
,
fake
,
favor
,
feature
,
feign
,
follow
,
forge
,
four-flush
,
gammon
,
go like
,
histrionize
,
hoke
,
hoke up
,
imitate
,
infringe
,
let on
,
let on like
,
look like
,
make a pretense
,
make like
,
make out like
,
make use of
,
match
,
mimic
,
mirror
,
mock
,
near
,
nearly reproduce
,
not tell apart
,
overact
,
parallel
,
partake of
,
pirate
,
plagiarize
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a scene
,
play possum
,
playact
,
pose
,
pretend
,
profess
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
reecho
,
reflect
,
remind one of
,
repeat
,
resemble
,
savor of
,
seem like
,
sham
,
smack of
,
sound like
,
stack up with
,
steal
,
suggest
,
take
,
take after
,
take on
,
take over
,
tug the heartstrings
,
wear
overact
collapse
exaggerate one's acting
related words >
act a part
,
affect
,
assume
,
carry too far
,
counterfeit
,
declaim
,
do a bit
,
dramatize
,
exaggerate
,
exhaust
,
fake
,
feign
,
go overboard
,
go to extremes
,
go too far
,
grimace
,
ham
,
ham it up
,
histrionize
,
know no bounds
,
make out like
,
mug
,
out-herod Herod
,
overcarry
,
overdevelop
,
overdo
,
overdramatize
,
overdrive
,
overelaborate
,
overemphasize
,
overexercise
,
overexert
,
overexpend
,
overindulge
,
overlabor
,
overplay
,
overreact
,
overspend
,
overstrain
,
overstress
,
overstudy
,
overtask
,
overtax
,
overtrain
,
overuse
,
overwork
,
pass all bounds
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a scene
,
playact
,
pretend
,
protest too much
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
rant
,
roar
,
sham
,
simulate
,
spout
,
throw away
,
tug the heartstrings
,
underact
,
wear
twiddle
collapse
a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns
manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner; "He twiddled her thumbs while waiting for the interview"
related words >
babble
,
cackle
,
chat
,
chatter
,
come in contact
,
coquet
,
dabble
,
dally
,
do nothing
,
feel
,
feel of
,
fiddle
,
fiddle with
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fidget
,
fidget with
,
finger
,
finger with
,
flick
,
flirt
,
fool
,
fool around
,
fool with
,
fribble
,
frivol
,
gab
,
handle
,
horse around
,
idle
,
jerk off
,
juggle
,
kid around
,
loiter
,
manipulate
,
mess around
,
mess with
,
monkey
,
monkey around
,
monkey with
,
palm
,
palpate
,
paw
,
piddle
,
play
,
play around
,
play with
,
ply
,
poke at
,
potter
,
prattle
,
prod
,
putter
,
rattle
,
smatter
,
tap
,
thumb
,
tinker
,
touch
,
toy
,
toy with
,
trifle
,
twirl
,
waste time
,
wield
,
wiggle
,
yak
balletic
collapse
characteristic of or resembling or suitable for ballet
related words >
actor-proof
,
all-star
,
ballet
,
cinematic
,
cinematographic
,
dance
,
dancing
,
dramatic
,
dramatical
,
dramaturgic
,
film
,
filmic
,
ham
,
hammy
,
histrionic
,
legitimate
,
melodramatic
,
milked
,
monodramatic
,
movie
,
operatic
,
overacted
,
overplayed
,
scenic
,
spectacular
,
stagelike
,
stageworthy
,
stagy
,
starstruck
,
stellar
,
terpsichorean
,
theaterlike
,
theatrical
,
thespian
,
thrown away
,
underacted
,
underplayed
,
vaudevillian
elegiac
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expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death"
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Alcaic
,
Anacreontic
,
Castalian
,
Homeric
,
Hudibrastic
,
Pierian
,
Pindaric
,
Theocritean
,
bardic
,
bucolic
,
didactic
,
dirgelike
,
dithyrambic
,
dramatic
,
eclogic
,
epic
,
heroic
,
idyllic
,
knell-like
,
mock-heroic
,
narrative
,
pastoral
,
poetic
,
poetico-mystical
,
poetico-mythological
,
poetico-philosophic
,
poetlike
,
rhapsodic
,
runic
,
sapphic
,
skaldic
,
threnodic
soprano
collapse
the pitch range of the highest female voice
the highest female voice; the voice of a boy before puberty
a female singer
having or denoting a high range; "soprano voice"; "soprano sax"; "the boy still had a fine treble voice"; "the treble clef"
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Heldentenor
,
Meistersinger
,
accompaniment
,
alto
,
aria singer
,
baritenor
,
baritone
,
bass
,
basso
,
basso buffo
,
basso cantante
,
basso continuo
,
basso ostinato
,
basso profundo
,
bassus
,
blues singer
,
bravura
,
canary
,
cantatrice
,
canto
,
cantor
,
cantus
,
cantus figuratus
,
cantus planus
,
caroler
,
chanter
,
chantress
,
choral
,
choric
,
coloratura
,
coloratura soprano
,
comic bass
,
continuo
,
contralto
,
countertenor
,
crooner
,
deep bass
,
descant
,
diva
,
dramatic
,
dramatic soprano
,
drone
,
falsetto
,
figured bass
,
ground bass
,
head register
,
head tone
,
head voice
,
heroic
,
heroic tenor
,
high
,
high-pitched
,
high-sounding
,
high-toned
,
hymnal
,
hymner
,
improvisator
,
lead singer
,
lieder singer
,
line
,
liturgical
,
lyric
,
male alto
,
melodist
,
mezzo-soprano
,
opera singer
,
operatic
,
part
,
plain chant
,
plain song
,
prick song
,
prima donna
,
psalm singer
,
psalmic
,
psalmodial
,
psalmodic
,
rock-and-roll singer
,
sacred
,
singer
,
singing
,
singstress
,
songbird
,
songster
,
songstress
,
tenor
,
thorough bass
,
torch singer
,
treble
,
undersong
,
vocal
,
vocalist
,
vocalizer
,
voice
,
voice part
,
warbler
,
yodeler
play with fire
collapse
related words >
bell the cat
,
brave
,
chance
,
court danger
,
court destruction
,
dare
,
defy danger
,
face up to
,
flirt with death
,
forget the odds
,
gamble
,
go for broke
,
hazard
,
play Russian roulette
,
risk
,
run the chance
,
run the risk
,
take a chance
,
take chances
,
tempt Providence
tempt Providence
collapse
related words >
bell the cat
,
brave
,
chance
,
court danger
,
court destruction
,
dare
,
defy danger
,
face up to
,
flirt with death
,
forget the odds
,
gamble
,
go for broke
,
hazard
,
play Russian roulette
,
play with fire
,
risk
,
run the chance
,
run the risk
,
take a chance
,
take chances
gum up
collapse
stick together as if with gum; "the inside of the pipe has gummed up"
related words >
ball up
,
bitch
,
bitch up
,
blow
,
bobble
,
bollix
,
bollix up
,
bonehead into it
,
bugger
,
bugger up
,
bungle
,
cook
,
crab
,
cramp
,
crimp
,
drop a brick
,
flub
,
foul up
,
goof
,
goof up
,
gum
,
hash up
,
louse up
,
mess up
,
muck up
,
mucker
,
play hell with
,
play hob with
,
queer
,
screw up
,
sink
,
snafu
,
snarl up
behave
collapse
behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"
behave well or properly; "The children must learn to behave"
related words >
acquit
,
act
,
act toward
,
act well
,
be good
,
be nice
,
bear
,
behave toward
,
carry
,
comport
,
conduct
,
control
,
cope with
,
deal by
,
deal with
,
demean
,
deport
,
direct
,
disport
,
do
,
do by
,
do right
,
function
,
go on
,
handle
,
make
,
make as if
,
manage
,
misbehave
,
move
,
operate
,
perform
,
play
,
play the game
,
practice
,
proceed
,
quit
,
react
,
respond to
,
serve
,
take
,
treat
,
use
,
work
snarl up
collapse
related words >
ball up
,
bollix
,
bollix up
,
bugger
,
bugger up
,
complicate
,
confound
,
confuse
,
cook
,
embrangle
,
entangle
,
foul up
,
fumble
,
garble
,
gum up
,
hash up
,
implicate
,
involve
,
jumble
,
knot
,
louse up
,
mess up
,
mix up
,
muck up
,
muddle
,
perplex
,
pi
,
play hell with
,
play hob with
,
queer
,
ramify
,
ravel
,
riffle
,
scramble
,
screw up
,
shuffle
,
sink
,
snafu
,
snarl
,
tangle
,
tumble
mock heroic
collapse
related words >
Alcaic
,
Anacreontic
,
Castalian
,
Homeric
,
Hudibrastic
,
Pierian
,
Pindaric
,
Theocritean
,
bardic
,
broad
,
bucolic
,
burlesque
,
comic
,
comical
,
didactic
,
dithyrambic
,
dramatic
,
eclogic
,
elegiac
,
epic
,
farcical
,
heroic
,
idyllic
,
narrative
,
pastoral
,
poetic
,
poetico-mystical
,
poetico-mythological
,
poetico-philosophic
,
poetlike
,
rhapsodic
,
runic
,
sapphic
,
skaldic
,
slapstick
,
tragicomic
overacted
collapse
related words >
actor-proof
,
affected
,
all-star
,
artificial
,
ballet
,
balletic
,
cinematic
,
cinematographic
,
dramatic
,
dramatical
,
dramaturgic
,
film
,
filmic
,
ham
,
hammy
,
histrionic
,
insincere
,
la-di-da
,
legitimate
,
maniere
,
mannered
,
melodramatic
,
milked
,
monodramatic
,
movie
,
operatic
,
overdone
,
overplayed
,
pretentious
,
scenic
,
spectacular
,
stagelike
,
stageworthy
,
stagy
,
starstruck
,
stellar
,
theaterlike
,
theatrical
,
thespian
,
thrown away
,
underacted
,
underplayed
,
unnatural
,
vaudevillian
stagy
collapse
having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality; "stagy heroics"
related words >
actor-proof
,
affected
,
all-star
,
artificial
,
ballet
,
balletic
,
cinematic
,
cinematographic
,
dramatic
,
dramatical
,
dramaturgic
,
film
,
filmic
,
ham
,
hammy
,
histrionic
,
insincere
,
la-di-da
,
legitimate
,
maniere
,
mannered
,
melodramatic
,
milked
,
monodramatic
,
movie
,
operatic
,
overacted
,
overdone
,
overplayed
,
pretentious
,
scenic
,
spectacular
,
stagelike
,
stageworthy
,
starstruck
,
stellar
,
theaterlike
,
theatrical
,
thespian
,
thrown away
,
underacted
,
underplayed
,
unnatural
,
vaudevillian
hammy
collapse
affectedly dramatic; overacted
related words >
actor-proof
,
all-star
,
ballet
,
balletic
,
cinematic
,
cinematographic
,
dramatic
,
dramatical
,
dramaturgic
,
emotionalistic
,
emotive
,
film
,
filmic
,
ham
,
histrionic
,
hysteric
,
legitimate
,
melodramatic
,
milked
,
monodramatic
,
movie
,
nonrational
,
operatic
,
overacted
,
overemotional
,
overplayed
,
scenic
,
sensational
,
sensationalistic
,
spectacular
,
stagelike
,
stageworthy
,
stagy
,
starstruck
,
stellar
,
theaterlike
,
theatrical
,
thespian
,
thrown away
,
underacted
,
underplayed
,
unreasoning
,
vaudevillian
farcer
collapse
related words >
choreographer
,
comedian
,
comedienne
,
comic
,
dramatist
,
dramatizer
,
dramaturge
,
farceur
,
farceuse
,
farcist
,
funnyman
,
gagman
,
genteel comedian
,
hoke comic
,
joke writer
,
jokesmith
,
librettist
,
light comedian
,
low comedian
,
melodramatist
,
mimographer
,
monodramatist
,
play doctor
,
play fixer
,
playwright
,
playwriter
,
scenario writer
,
scenarioist
,
scenarist
,
scriptwriter
,
slapstick comedian
,
stand-up comic
,
tragedian
mystery
collapse
something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"
a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
related words >
Chinese puzzle
,
Grand Guignol
,
Marchen
,
Passion play
,
Tom show
,
Western
,
Western story
,
Westerner
,
adventure story
,
allegory
,
ambiguity
,
ambiguousness
,
anagoge
,
anagogics
,
anthroposophy
,
antimasque
,
apologue
,
arcanum
,
art
,
audience success
,
awesomeness
,
baffle
,
bafflement
,
baffling problem
,
ballet
,
bedtime story
,
beguilingness
,
bewilderment
,
bomb
,
bother
,
brain twister
,
brain-teaser
,
broadcast drama
,
burlesque show
,
business
,
cabala
,
cabalism
,
career
,
career building
,
careerism
,
ceremonial
,
ceremony
,
charade
,
classified information
,
cliff hanger
,
closet drama
,
comedy drama
,
confidence
,
confidential communication
,
confoundment
,
confusion
,
conundrum
,
craft
,
critical success
,
crossword puzzle
,
crux
,
dark horse
,
daytime serial
,
detective novel
,
detective story
,
dialogue
,
dilemma
,
discomposure
,
disconcert
,
disconcertedness
,
disconcertion
,
disconcertment
,
disturbance
,
documentary drama
,
drama
,
dramalogue
,
dramatic play
,
dramatic series
,
duodrama
,
duologue
,
duty
,
eeriness
,
elfdom
,
embarrassment
,
enchantingness
,
enigma
,
enigmatic question
,
enigmaticalness
,
enticingness
,
epic theater
,
esoterica
,
esotericism
,
esoterics
,
esoterism
,
esotery
,
experimental theater
,
extraordinariness
,
extravaganza
,
fable
,
fabliau
,
faerie
,
failure
,
fairy tale
,
fantasy
,
fascination
,
fiction
,
fix
,
floorer
,
flop
,
folk story
,
folktale
,
form
,
form of worship
,
formality
,
formula
,
formulary
,
frontier
,
frontiers of knowledge
,
function
,
game
,
gasser
,
gest
,
ghost story
,
giveaway
,
glamorousness
,
guarded secret
,
handicraft
,
happening
,
hermetics
,
hit
,
hit show
,
hocus-pocus
,
holy rite
,
horse opera
,
improvisational drama
,
indefinability
,
indefiniteness
,
inexplicability
,
inextricability
,
inscrutability
,
insolvability
,
institution
,
jam
,
jigsaw puzzle
,
knot
,
knotty point
,
legend
,
legitimate drama
,
lifework
,
line
,
line of business
,
line of work
,
liturgy
,
love story
,
marvelousness
,
masque
,
matter of ignorance
,
melodrama
,
metier
,
mind-boggler
,
minstrel show
,
miracle
,
miracle play
,
miraculousness
,
mission
,
mode of worship
,
monodrama
,
monologue
,
morality
,
morality play
,
mumbo jumbo
,
music drama
,
musical revue
,
mysteriousness
,
mystery of mysteries
,
mystery play
,
mystery story
,
mysticism
,
mystification
,
myth
,
mythology
,
mythos
,
n
,
nebulousness
,
nonplus
,
number
,
numinousness
,
nursery tale
,
nut to crack
,
obscurity
,
observance
,
occultism
,
occupation
,
office
,
opera
,
order of worship
,
ordinance
,
otherworldliness
,
pageant
,
panel show
,
pantomime
,
parable
,
pastoral
,
pastoral drama
,
perplexed question
,
perplexity
,
personal matter
,
perturbation
,
phenomenalness
,
pickle
,
piece
,
play
,
playlet
,
plight
,
poser
,
pother
,
practice
,
predicament
,
prescribed form
,
preternaturalism
,
private matter
,
privileged communication
,
privity
,
problem
,
problem play
,
prodigiousness
,
profession
,
profound secret
,
psychodrama
,
pursuit
,
puzzle
,
puzzlement
,
puzzler
,
quandary
,
question
,
question mark
,
quiz show
,
racket
,
radio drama
,
remarkableness
,
restricted information
,
review
,
revue
,
riddle
,
rite
,
ritual
,
ritual observance
,
rituality
,
romance
,
sacrament
,
sacramental
,
science fiction
,
scrape
,
sealed book
,
secrecy
,
secret
,
seductiveness
,
sensational play
,
serial
,
service
,
shocker
,
show
,
sitcom
,
situation comedy
,
sixty-four dollar question
,
sketch
,
skit
,
soap
,
soap opera
,
sociodrama
,
solemnity
,
space fiction
,
space opera
,
specialization
,
specialty
,
spectacle
,
stage play
,
stage show
,
stew
,
sticker
,
straight drama
,
stumper
,
stupendousness
,
success
,
superhumanity
,
supernaturalism
,
supernaturality
,
supernaturalness
,
supernature
,
supernormalness
,
superphysicalness
,
supersensibleness
,
supranaturalism
,
supranature
,
suspense drama
,
suspense story
,
symbolics
,
symbolism
,
tableau
,
tableau vivant
,
talk show
,
teleplay
,
television drama
,
television play
,
terra incognita
,
the incalculable
,
the occult
,
the strange
,
the supernatural
,
the supersensible
,
the unfamiliar
,
the unknowable
,
the unknown
,
theater of cruelty
,
thriller
,
total theater
,
tough proposition
,
trade
,
transcendentalism
,
unaccountableness
,
unassuredness
,
undefinability
,
unearthliness
,
unexplainableness
,
unexplored ground
,
unexplored territory
,
unknown quantity
,
unworldliness
,
upset
,
vagueness
,
variety show
,
vaudeville
,
vaudeville show
,
vehicle
,
vexed question
,
vocation
,
walk
,
walk of life
,
whodunit
,
why
,
witchery
,
wonderfulness
,
wondrousness
,
word-of-mouth success
,
work
,
work of fiction
,
x
,
yoga
,
yogeeism
,
yogism
,
z
play by ear
collapse
related words >
accompany
,
ad-lib
,
be caught napping
,
be surprised
,
be taken unawares
,
be unprepared
,
chord
,
concertize
,
cook up
,
dash off
,
do
,
do offhand
,
execute
,
extemporize
,
fake
,
go off half-cocked
,
have no plan
,
improvisate
,
improvise
,
interpret
,
jury-rig
,
knock off
,
lash up
,
make music
,
make up
,
perform
,
play
,
render
,
scrap the plan
,
strike off
,
symphonize
,
throw off
,
throw together
,
toss off
,
toss out
,
vamp
,
whip up
,
whomp up
,
wing it
liturgic
collapse
related words >
High-Church
,
alto
,
baptismal
,
baritone
,
bass
,
bravura
,
ceremonial
,
ceremonious
,
choral
,
choric
,
coloratura
,
conventional
,
decorous
,
dramatic
,
eucharistic
,
falsetto
,
formal
,
formular
,
formulary
,
heroic
,
hieratic
,
hymnal
,
liturgical
,
liturgistic
,
lyric
,
operatic
,
paschal
,
pompous
,
psalmic
,
psalmodial
,
psalmodic
,
ritual
,
ritualistic
,
sacerdotal
,
sacramental
,
sacramentarian
,
sacred
,
singing
,
solemn
,
soprano
,
stately
,
tenor
,
treble
,
vocal
,
well-mannered
liturgical
collapse
of or relating to or in accord with liturgy
related words >
High-Church
,
alto
,
baptismal
,
baritone
,
bass
,
bravura
,
ceremonial
,
ceremonious
,
choral
,
choric
,
coloratura
,
conventional
,
decorous
,
dramatic
,
eucharistic
,
falsetto
,
formal
,
formular
,
formulary
,
heroic
,
hieratic
,
hymnal
,
liturgic
,
liturgistic
,
lyric
,
operatic
,
paschal
,
pompous
,
psalmic
,
psalmodial
,
psalmodic
,
ritual
,
ritualistic
,
sacerdotal
,
sacramental
,
sacramentarian
,
sacred
,
singing
,
solemn
,
soprano
,
stately
,
tenor
,
treble
,
vocal
,
well-mannered
play around with
collapse
related words >
assay
,
be abstracted
,
bring to test
,
brood
,
chew the cud
,
confirm
,
consider
,
contemplate
,
cut and try
,
debate
,
deliberate
,
digest
,
essay
,
experiment
,
give a try
,
give a tryout
,
have a go
,
introspect
,
meditate
,
muse
,
perpend
,
play with
,
ponder
,
practice upon
,
prove
,
put to trial
,
reflect
,
research
,
road-test
,
ruminate
,
run a sample
,
sample
,
shake down
,
speculate
,
study
,
substantiate
,
taste
,
test
,
toy with
,
try
,
try it on
,
try out
,
validate
,
verify
,
weigh
bell the cat
collapse
take a risk; perform a daring act; "Who is going to bell the cat?"
related words >
affront
,
beard
,
bite the bullet
,
brave
,
brazen
,
brazen out
,
confront
,
court danger
,
defy danger
,
face
,
face the music
,
face up
,
face up to
,
flirt with death
,
front
,
go for broke
,
meet
,
meet boldly
,
meet head-on
,
play Russian roulette
,
play with fire
,
run the gauntlet
,
set at defiance
,
speak out
,
speak up
,
stand up to
,
tempt Providence
piddle
collapse
waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
related words >
beguile the time
,
burn daylight
,
consume time
,
coquet
,
dabble
,
dally
,
dawdle
,
diddle
,
dillydally
,
doodle
,
fiddle
,
fiddle with
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fidget with
,
finger with
,
flirt
,
fool
,
fool around
,
fool with
,
footle
,
fribble
,
fritter away time
,
frivol
,
horse around
,
idle
,
jerk off
,
kid around
,
kill time
,
lag
,
linger
,
loiter
,
lollygag
,
lose time
,
make water
,
mess around
,
micturition
,
monkey
,
monkey around
,
number one
,
pass the time
,
pee
,
pee-pee
,
pish
,
piss
,
play
,
play around
,
play with
,
poke
,
potter
,
pump bilge
,
putter
,
smatter
,
spend a penny
,
stale
,
tinker
,
toy
,
toy with
,
trifle
,
twiddle
,
urea
,
urinate
,
urination
,
urine
,
waste time
,
water
,
wee-wee
,
wet
potter
collapse
a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln
work lightly; "The old lady is pottering around in the garden"
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beguile the time
,
burn daylight
,
ceramicist
,
ceramist
,
consume time
,
coquet
,
dabble
,
dally
,
dally away
,
diddle
,
diddle away
,
doodle
,
dribble away
,
drivel away
,
enamelist
,
fiddle
,
fiddle with
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fidget with
,
finger with
,
flirt
,
fool
,
fool around
,
fool away
,
fool with
,
footle
,
fribble
,
fritter away
,
fritter away time
,
frivol
,
glass cutter
,
glassblower
,
glazer
,
horse around
,
idle
,
idle away
,
jerk off
,
kid around
,
kill time
,
loiter
,
lose time
,
meddle with
,
mess
,
mess around
,
monkey
,
monkey around
,
muddle away
,
pass the time
,
piddle
,
piss away
,
play
,
play around
,
play with
,
potter away
,
puddle
,
putter
,
pyroglazer
,
smatter
,
tinker
,
toy
,
toy with
,
trifle
,
trifle away
,
trifle with
,
twiddle
,
waste time
,
while away
scenic
collapse
used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery; "scenic drives"
of or relating to the stage or stage scenery; "scenic design"
related words >
actor-proof
,
all-star
,
awe-inspiring
,
awesome
,
ballet
,
balletic
,
beautiful
,
breathtaking
,
cinematic
,
cinematographic
,
dramatic
,
dramatical
,
dramaturgic
,
film
,
filmic
,
grand
,
ham
,
hammy
,
histrionic
,
impressive
,
legitimate
,
melodramatic
,
milked
,
monodramatic
,
movie
,
operatic
,
overacted
,
overplayed
,
panoramic
,
picturesque
,
pretty
,
spectacular
,
stagelike
,
stageworthy
,
stagy
,
starstruck
,
stellar
,
striking
,
theaterlike
,
theatrical
,
thespian
,
thrown away
,
underacted
,
underplayed
,
vaudevillian
fiddle
collapse
play on a violin; "Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely"
play the violin or fiddle
commit fraud and steal from one's employer; "We found out that she had been fiddling for years"
avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
related words >
A string
,
Amati
,
Cremona
,
D string
,
E string
,
G string
,
Strad
,
Stradivari
,
Stradivarius
,
alter
,
bass
,
bass viol
,
bow
,
bridge
,
bull fiddle
,
cello
,
cheat
,
contrabass
,
cook
,
coquet
,
crowd
,
dabble
,
dally
,
doodle
,
double bass
,
falsify
,
feel
,
fiddle with
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fiddlebow
,
fiddlestick
,
fidget
,
fidget with
,
finagle
,
finger with
,
fingerboard
,
fix
,
flimflam
,
flirt
,
fool
,
fool around
,
fool with
,
fraud
,
fribble
,
frivol
,
handle
,
horse around
,
idle
,
interfere with
,
jerk off
,
kid around
,
kit
,
kit fiddle
,
kit violin
,
loiter
,
meddle with
,
mess
,
mess around
,
monkey
,
monkey around
,
monkey business
,
piddle
,
play
,
play around
,
play violin
,
play with
,
potter
,
puddle
,
putter
,
racket
,
saw
,
scrape
,
scroll
,
skin game
,
smatter
,
soundboard
,
string
,
swindle
,
tamper with
,
tenor violin
,
thimblerig
,
tinker
,
touch
,
toy
,
toy with
,
trifle
,
tuning peg
,
twiddle
,
viol
,
viola
,
violin
,
violinette
,
violoncello
,
violoncello piccolo
,
violone
,
violotta
accompany
collapse
go or travel along with; "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere"
related words >
agree
,
associate
,
associate with
,
assort with
,
attend
,
band together
,
be in phase
,
be in time
,
chaperon
,
chaperone
,
chord
,
coexist
,
coextend
,
coincide
,
combine
,
companion
,
concertize
,
concur
,
confederate
,
consociate
,
consort with
,
contemporize
,
convoy
,
couple with
,
do
,
escort
,
execute
,
flock together
,
go along with
,
go with
,
hang around with
,
herd together
,
interpret
,
isochronize
,
keep company with
,
keep in step
,
keep pace with
,
make music
,
match
,
perform
,
play
,
play by ear
,
render
,
run with
,
squire
,
symphonize
,
synchronize
,
time
,
usher
,
wait on
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