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arid
,
barren
,
derivative
,
dry
,
dull
,
earthbound
,
infecund
,
infertile
,
literal
,
mundane
,
noncreative
,
nongerminal
,
nonseminal
,
prosaic
,
prosing
,
prosy
,
staid
,
sterile
,
stolid
,
stuffy
,
uncreative
,
unfanciful
,
unideal
,
unimaginative
,
uninspired
,
unoriginal
,
unpoetic
,
unpregnant
,
unromantic
,
unromanticized
Spartan
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a resident of Sparta
resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; "spartan courage"
of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people
related words >
Apostolic
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Encratic
,
Laconian
,
Lenten
,
Pythagorean
,
Rechabite
,
Shaker
,
Spartanic
,
Stoic
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
abstemious
,
abstinent
,
accepting
,
aposiopestic
,
armed with patience
,
ascetic
,
astringent
,
austere
,
authoritarian
,
bald
,
bare
,
brief
,
brusque
,
candid
,
celibate
,
chaste
,
clam
,
clipped
,
close
,
common
,
commonplace
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
continent
,
contracted
,
controlled
,
crisp
,
curt
,
cut
,
demanding
,
direct
,
disciplined
,
docked
,
dour
,
dry
,
dull
,
dwarfed
,
dwarfish
,
elliptic
,
endurant
,
enduring
,
epigrammatic
,
exacting
,
exigent
,
exiguous
,
forbearing
,
frank
,
frugal
,
fruitarian
,
gnomic
,
grim
,
hard
,
harsh
,
homely
,
homespun
,
impoverished
,
indulgent
,
inornate
,
jejune
,
laconic
,
lean
,
lenient
,
limited
,
long-suffering
,
longanimous
,
man of iron
,
matter-of-fact
,
meager
,
mean
,
meticulous
,
miserly
,
narrow
,
natural
,
neat
,
nephalistic
,
niggardly
,
on the wagon
,
open
,
paltry
,
parsimonious
,
patient
,
patient as Job
,
persevering
,
philosophical
,
pithy
,
plain
,
plain-speaking
,
plain-spoken
,
pointed
,
poor
,
prosaic
,
prosing
,
prosy
,
pruned
,
puny
,
pure
,
reserved
,
rigid
,
rigorous
,
rugged
,
rustic
,
scant
,
scanty
,
scrawny
,
scrimp
,
scrimpy
,
self-controlled
,
self-denying
,
sententious
,
severe
,
sexually abstinent
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
simple
,
simple-speaking
,
skimp
,
skimpy
,
slender
,
slight
,
slim
,
small
,
sober
,
spare
,
sparing
,
stark
,
starvation
,
stern
,
stingy
,
stinted
,
stoic
,
straightforward
,
straitened
,
strict
,
stringent
,
stunted
,
subsistence
,
succinct
,
summary
,
sworn off
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
teetotal
,
terse
,
thin
,
tight
,
to the point
,
tolerant
,
tolerating
,
tolerative
,
tough
,
truncated
,
unadorned
,
unaffected
,
understanding
,
unelaborate
,
unfancy
,
unfussy
,
unimaginative
,
unnourishing
,
unnutritious
,
unornate
,
unpoetical
,
unsparing
,
unvarnished
,
vegetarian
,
watered
,
watery
clunk
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related words >
bump
,
chink
,
click
,
clink
,
clop
,
clump
,
crump
,
dull thud
,
flick
,
flump
,
pad
,
pat
,
patter
,
pitapat
,
pitter-patter
,
plump
,
plunk
,
pop
,
rap
,
tap
,
thud
,
thump
,
tick
,
tinkle
,
tunk
taciturn
collapse
habitually reserved and uncommunicative
related words >
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
aposiopestic
,
brief
,
brooding
,
brusque
,
clipped
,
close
,
close-lipped
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
curt
,
cut
,
docked
,
dour
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
elliptic
,
epigrammatic
,
gnomic
,
indisposed to talk
,
laconic
,
mum
,
mute
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pruned
,
quiet
,
reserved
,
reticent
,
sententious
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
succinct
,
summary
,
synopsized
,
terse
,
tight
,
tight-lipped
,
to the point
,
tongue-tied
,
truncated
,
uncommunicative
,
unexpressive
,
unloquacious
,
untalkative
,
word-bound
,
wordless
saw toothed
collapse
related words >
V-shaped
,
Y-shaped
,
akimbo
,
angular
,
battlemented
,
bent
,
chopped
,
cornered
,
corrugated
,
cragged
,
craggy
,
crenate
,
crenated
,
crenellated
,
crenulate
,
crinkled
,
crooked
,
crotched
,
crumpled
,
dentate
,
dentated
,
embrasured
,
erose
,
forked
,
furcal
,
furcate
,
gashed
,
geniculate
,
geniculated
,
gravelly
,
harsh
,
hooked
,
incised
,
indented
,
ironbound
,
jagged
,
jaggy
,
knee-shaped
,
lacerate
,
lacerated
,
nicked
,
notched
,
pointed
,
ragged
,
rockbound
,
rocky
,
rugged
,
rugose
,
rugous
,
sawlike
,
sawtooth
,
scalloped
,
scored
,
scragged
,
scraggly
,
scraggy
,
serrate
,
serrated
,
serrulated
,
sharp
,
sharp-cornered
,
snagged
,
snaggled
,
snaggy
,
stony
,
toothed
,
wrinkled
,
zigzag
feeble-minded
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related words >
boneheaded
,
deficient
,
dim-witted
,
dull-witted
,
dumb
,
empty-headed
,
exceptional
,
idiotic
,
imbecilic
,
mentally defective
,
moronic
,
retarded
,
simple
,
slow-witted
,
stupid
,
subnormal
,
thick
,
vacant
,
weak-minded
,
witless
sluggish
collapse
with little movement; very slow; "a sluggish stream"
related words >
Laodicean
,
Micawberish
,
Olympian
,
abeyant
,
affluent
,
aloof
,
ambling
,
apathetic
,
backward
,
benumbed
,
blah
,
blase
,
blunt
,
blunt-witted
,
bored
,
cataleptic
,
catatonic
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
comatose
,
confluent
,
costive
,
coursing
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
dallying
,
dead
,
debilitated
,
decurrent
,
defluent
,
delaying
,
deliberate
,
desensitized
,
detached
,
diffluent
,
dilatory
,
dillydallying
,
dim
,
dim-witted
,
disinterested
,
dopey
,
dormant
,
down
,
dragging
,
draggy
,
droopy
,
drugged
,
dull
,
dull of mind
,
dull-headed
,
dull-pated
,
dull-witted
,
easy
,
easygoing
,
enervated
,
exanimate
,
faltering
,
fat-witted
,
flagging
,
flat
,
flowing
,
fluent
,
fluxional
,
fluxive
,
foot-dragging
,
foul
,
gentle
,
gradual
,
groggy
,
gross-headed
,
gulfy
,
gushing
,
halting
,
heartless
,
heavy
,
hebetudinous
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
hopeless
,
idle
,
in a stupor
,
in abeyance
,
in suspense
,
inactive
,
inanimate
,
indifferent
,
indolent
,
inert
,
insouciant
,
jaded
,
lackadaisical
,
laggard
,
lagging
,
languid
,
languorous
,
latent
,
lax
,
lazy
,
leaden
,
leisurely
,
lethargic
,
lifeless
,
limping
,
lingering
,
listless
,
logy
,
loitering
,
lumbering
,
lumpish
,
mazy
,
meandering
,
moderate
,
moribund
,
nonchalant
,
numb
,
numbed
,
obtuse
,
off
,
passive
,
phlegmatic
,
pluckless
,
poking
,
poky
,
pooped
,
pouring
,
procrastinating
,
procrastinative
,
procrastinatory
,
profluent
,
racing
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
remiss
,
resigned
,
running
,
rushing
,
sated
,
sauntering
,
sedentary
,
serpentine
,
shuffling
,
slack
,
sleeping
,
sleepy
,
slothful
,
slow
,
slow as death
,
slow as molasses
,
slow as slow
,
slow-crawling
,
slow-foot
,
slow-going
,
slow-legged
,
slow-moving
,
slow-paced
,
slow-poky
,
slow-running
,
slow-sailing
,
slow-stepped
,
slow-witted
,
slumbering
,
slumberous
,
smoldering
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
somnolent
,
soporific
,
spiritless
,
spunkless
,
staggering
,
stagnant
,
stagnating
,
standing
,
static
,
stiff
,
stoic
,
streaming
,
strolling
,
stultified
,
stupefied
,
stupid
,
supine
,
surging
,
surgy
,
suspended
,
tame
,
tentative
,
thick-brained
,
thick-headed
,
thick-pated
,
thick-witted
,
thickskulled
,
tidal
,
toddling
,
torpid
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unaroused
,
uncaring
,
unconcerned
,
unhurried
,
uninterested
,
vegetable
,
vegetative
,
vortical
,
waddling
,
wan
,
weary
,
withdrawn
,
wooden
,
world-weary
metaphorical
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expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another; "a metaphorical expression"; "metaphoric language"
related words >
allegoric
,
allegorical
,
allusive
,
anagogic
,
associational
,
connotational
,
connotative
,
definable
,
demonstrative
,
denominative
,
denotational
,
denotative
,
designative
,
diagnostic
,
emblematic
,
evidential
,
exhibitive
,
expressive
,
extended
,
extensional
,
figural
,
figurative
,
figured
,
flowery
,
full of meaning
,
full of point
,
full of substance
,
identifying
,
ideographic
,
idiosyncratic
,
implicative
,
indicating
,
indicative
,
indicatory
,
individual
,
intelligible
,
intensional
,
interpretable
,
mannered
,
meaning
,
meaningful
,
meaty
,
naming
,
ornamented
,
pathognomonic
,
peculiar
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pregnant
,
readable
,
referential
,
representative
,
semantic
,
semiotic
,
sententious
,
signalizing
,
significant
,
significative
,
signifying
,
substantial
,
suggestive
,
symbolic
,
symbolistic
,
symbological
,
symptomatic
,
symptomatologic
,
transferred
,
trolatitious
,
tropological
,
typical
axiomatic
collapse
evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident"
of or relating to or derived from axioms; "axiomatic physics"; "the postulational method was applied to geometry"- S.S.Stevens
containing aphorisms or maxims; "axiomatic wisdom"
related words >
absolute
,
actual
,
admitting no question
,
aphoristic
,
apparent
,
clear
,
clear as crystal
,
confirmable
,
crisp
,
crystal-clear
,
demonstrable
,
demonstratable
,
discernible
,
distinct
,
epigrammatic
,
evident
,
explicit
,
express
,
factual
,
formulaic
,
formulistic
,
gnomic
,
historical
,
inappealable
,
incontestable
,
incontrovertible
,
indisputable
,
indubitable
,
irrefragable
,
irrefutable
,
manifest
,
noticeable
,
observable
,
obvious
,
open-and-shut
,
palpable
,
patent
,
perceivable
,
perceptible
,
perspicuous
,
pithy
,
plain
,
plain as day
,
platitudinous
,
pointed
,
provable
,
proverbial
,
pungent
,
real
,
seeable
,
self-evident
,
self-explaining
,
self-explanatory
,
sententious
,
succinct
,
tangible
,
terse
,
testable
,
to be seen
,
unanswerable
,
unconfutable
,
undeniable
,
unimpeachable
,
unmistakable
,
unquestionable
,
unrefutable
,
verifiable
,
visible
crybaby
collapse
related words >
Milquetoast
,
baby
,
big baby
,
chicken
,
doormat
,
dull tool
,
gutless wonder
,
invertebrate
,
jellyfish
,
lightweight
,
meek soul
,
milksop
,
mollycoddle
,
namby-pamby
,
nebbish
,
nonentity
,
pansy
,
pantywaist
,
pushover
,
sad sack
,
sissy
,
softling
,
softy
,
sop
,
weak sister
,
weakling
softy
collapse
a person who is weak and excessively sentimental
related words >
Milquetoast
,
baby
,
big baby
,
chicken
,
crybaby
,
doormat
,
dull tool
,
gutless wonder
,
invertebrate
,
jellyfish
,
lightweight
,
meek soul
,
milksop
,
mollycoddle
,
namby-pamby
,
nebbish
,
nonentity
,
pansy
,
pantywaist
,
pushover
,
sad sack
,
sissy
,
softling
,
sop
,
weak sister
,
weakling
concise
collapse
expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation"
related words >
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
aposiopestic
,
brief
,
brusque
,
clipped
,
close
,
close-tongued
,
closemouthed
,
cogent
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
curt
,
curtailed
,
curtal
,
curtate
,
cut
,
decurtate
,
direct
,
docked
,
dumb
,
economical of words
,
elliptic
,
epigrammatic
,
gnomic
,
indisposed to talk
,
instantaneous
,
laconic
,
little
,
low
,
mum
,
mute
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pruned
,
quiet
,
reserved
,
sententious
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
silent
,
snug
,
sparing of words
,
speechless
,
succinct
,
summary
,
synopsized
,
synoptic
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight
,
tight-lipped
,
to the point
,
tongue-tied
,
transient
,
trenchant
,
truncated
,
unloquacious
,
untalkative
,
word-bound
,
wordless
earthbound
collapse
confined to the earth
related words >
arid
,
barren
,
dry
,
dull
,
earth
,
earthly
,
fluvioterrestrial
,
geophilous
,
infecund
,
infertile
,
literal
,
mundane
,
prosaic
,
prosing
,
prosy
,
staid
,
stolid
,
stuffy
,
subastral
,
sublunar
,
tellurian
,
telluric
,
terraqueous
,
terrene
,
terrestrial
,
unfanciful
,
unideal
,
unimaginative
,
uninspired
,
uninventive
,
unoriginal
,
unpoetic
,
unromantic
,
unromanticized
blockish
collapse
resembling a block in shape
related words >
Boeotian
,
asinine
,
beef-brained
,
beef-witted
,
blockheaded
,
bovine
,
chuckleheaded
,
chumpish
,
cloddish
,
cowish
,
crass
,
dense
,
doltish
,
dull
,
dullard
,
dumb
,
duncical
,
duncish
,
fat
,
gross
,
ineducable
,
klutzy
,
lumpish
,
numskulled
,
oafish
,
opaque
,
sottish
,
stupid
,
thick
,
unteachable
,
wrongheaded
doltish
collapse
related words >
Boeotian
,
asinine
,
beef-brained
,
beef-witted
,
beetleheaded
,
blockheaded
,
blockish
,
bovine
,
chumpish
,
cloddish
,
cowish
,
crass
,
dense
,
dull
,
dullard
,
dumb
,
duncical
,
duncish
,
fat
,
fatheaded
,
gross
,
ineducable
,
klutzy
,
lumpish
,
oafish
,
opaque
,
sottish
,
stupid
,
thick
,
unteachable
,
wrongheaded
uneventful
collapse
marked by no noteworthy or significant events; "an uneventful life"; "the voyage was pleasant and uneventful"; "recovery was uneventful"
related words >
blah
,
broken-record
,
commonplace
,
drearisome
,
dreary
,
dry
,
dryasdust
,
dull
,
dusty
,
everlasting
,
harping
,
humdrum
,
invariable
,
jog-trot
,
long-winded
,
monotonous
,
ordinary
,
prolix
,
prosaic
,
singsong
,
tedious
,
treadmill
,
unamusing
,
unenjoyable
,
unentertaining
,
unexceptional
,
unexciting
,
unfunny
,
uninteresting
,
unnoteworthy
,
unvarying
,
unwitty
desensitize
collapse
make insensitive; "His military training desensitized him"
cause not to be sensitive; "The war desensitized many soldiers"; "The photographic plate was desensitized"
related words >
KO
,
anesthetize
,
bedaze
,
benumb
,
besot
,
blunt
,
chloroform
,
coldcock
,
deaden
,
dope
,
drug
,
dull
,
etherize
,
freeze
,
hebetate
,
kayo
,
knock out
,
knock senseless
,
knock stiff
,
knock unconscious
,
lay out
,
mull
,
narcotize
,
numb
,
obtund
,
palsy
,
paralyze
,
put to sleep
,
stun
,
stupefy
elliptical
collapse
related words >
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
abstracted
,
aposiopestic
,
bell-like
,
bell-shaped
,
bobbed
,
brief
,
brusque
,
campaniform
,
campanular
,
campanulate
,
capsule
,
capsulized
,
clipped
,
close
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
cropped
,
curt
,
curtailed
,
cut
,
cut short
,
digested
,
docked
,
elided
,
ellipsoid
,
elliptic
,
elongated
,
epigrammatic
,
gnomic
,
laconic
,
mowed
,
mown
,
nipped
,
oblong
,
oblongated
,
oblongitudinal
,
parabolic
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pollard
,
polled
,
pruned
,
reaped
,
rectangular
,
reserved
,
saucer-shaped
,
sententious
,
shaved
,
sheared
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
short-cut
,
shortened
,
snub
,
snubbed
,
succinct
,
summary
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight
,
to the point
,
trimmed
,
truncated
elliptic
collapse
characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements; "the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints"; "the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity"- H.O.Taylor
of a leaf shape; in the form of an ellipse
related words >
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
abstracted
,
aposiopestic
,
bell-like
,
bell-shaped
,
bobbed
,
brief
,
brusque
,
campaniform
,
campanular
,
campanulate
,
capsule
,
capsulized
,
clipped
,
close
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
cropped
,
curt
,
curtailed
,
cut
,
cut short
,
digested
,
docked
,
elided
,
ellipsoid
,
elliptical
,
elongated
,
epigrammatic
,
gnomic
,
laconic
,
mowed
,
mown
,
nipped
,
oblong
,
oblongated
,
oblongitudinal
,
parabolic
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pollard
,
polled
,
pruned
,
reaped
,
rectangular
,
reserved
,
saucer-shaped
,
sententious
,
shaved
,
sheared
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
short-cut
,
shortened
,
snub
,
snubbed
,
succinct
,
summary
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
terse
,
tight
,
to the point
,
trimmed
,
truncated
symbolical
collapse
related words >
allegoric
,
allegorical
,
anagogic
,
associational
,
connotational
,
connotative
,
definable
,
demonstrative
,
denominative
,
denotational
,
denotative
,
designative
,
diagnostic
,
emblematic
,
evidential
,
exhibitive
,
expressive
,
extended
,
extensional
,
figural
,
figurative
,
full of meaning
,
full of point
,
full of substance
,
glossematic
,
iconic
,
identifying
,
ideographic
,
idiosyncratic
,
implicative
,
indicating
,
indicative
,
indicatory
,
individual
,
intelligible
,
intensional
,
interpretable
,
lexemic
,
lexical
,
meaning
,
meaningful
,
meaty
,
metaphorical
,
morphemic
,
naming
,
pathognomonic
,
peculiar
,
phrasal
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pregnant
,
readable
,
referential
,
representative
,
semantic
,
semantological
,
semasiological
,
sememic
,
semiotic
,
sententious
,
signalizing
,
significant
,
significative
,
signifying
,
substantial
,
suggestive
,
symbolic
,
symbolistic
,
symbological
,
symptomatic
,
symptomatologic
,
transferred
,
typical
,
verbal
logy
collapse
related words >
abeyant
,
apathetic
,
cataleptic
,
catatonic
,
dead
,
dopey
,
dormant
,
dull
,
flat
,
foul
,
groggy
,
heavy
,
in abeyance
,
in suspense
,
inactive
,
inert
,
languid
,
languorous
,
latent
,
leaden
,
lifeless
,
passive
,
phlegmatic
,
sedentary
,
slack
,
sleeping
,
sluggish
,
slumbering
,
smoldering
,
stagnant
,
standing
,
static
,
suspended
,
tame
,
torpid
,
unaroused
unaroused
collapse
related words >
abeyant
,
apathetic
,
cataleptic
,
catatonic
,
dead
,
dopey
,
dormant
,
dull
,
flat
,
foul
,
groggy
,
heavy
,
in abeyance
,
in suspense
,
inactive
,
inert
,
languid
,
languorous
,
latent
,
leaden
,
lifeless
,
logy
,
passive
,
phlegmatic
,
sedentary
,
slack
,
sleeping
,
sluggish
,
slumbering
,
smoldering
,
stagnant
,
standing
,
static
,
suspended
,
tame
,
torpid
symbolic
collapse
relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols; "symbolic logic"; "symbolic operations"; "symbolic thinking"
using symbolism; "symbolic art"
related words >
allegoric
,
allegorical
,
anagogic
,
associational
,
betokening
,
connotational
,
connotative
,
definable
,
demonstrative
,
denominative
,
denotational
,
denotative
,
designative
,
diagnostic
,
emblematic
,
evidential
,
exhibitive
,
expressive
,
extended
,
extensional
,
figural
,
figurative
,
full of meaning
,
full of point
,
full of substance
,
glossematic
,
iconic
,
identifying
,
ideographic
,
idiosyncratic
,
implicative
,
indicating
,
indicative
,
indicatory
,
individual
,
intelligible
,
intensional
,
interpretable
,
lexemic
,
lexical
,
meaning
,
meaningful
,
meaty
,
metaphorical
,
morphemic
,
naming
,
pathognomonic
,
peculiar
,
phrasal
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pregnant
,
readable
,
referential
,
representative
,
semantic
,
semantological
,
semasiological
,
sememic
,
semiotic
,
sententious
,
signalizing
,
significant
,
significative
,
signifying
,
substantial
,
suggestive
,
symbolistic
,
symbological
,
symptomatic
,
symptomatologic
,
tokening
,
transferred
,
typical
,
verbal
vacuity
collapse
related words >
bare
,
bareness
,
barrenness
,
blank
,
blankness
,
bleakness
,
cavity
,
clear
,
desolateness
,
dull
,
dullness
,
emptiness
,
empty
,
empty-headed
,
foolish
,
hollow
,
hollowness
,
inane
,
inanity
,
nada
,
nihility
,
nonexistence
,
nullity
,
shallow
,
silly
,
stark
,
stupidity
,
superficial
,
vacancy
,
vacant
,
vacuous
,
vacuousness
,
void
,
voidness
uninspired
collapse
having no intellectual or emotional or spiritual excitement; "the production was professional but uninspired"
related words >
arid
,
barren
,
dry
,
dull
,
earthbound
,
elephantine
,
handed
,
heavy
,
infecund
,
infertile
,
literal
,
mundane
,
noncreative
,
prosaic
,
prosing
,
prosy
,
staid
,
sterile
,
stolid
,
stuffy
,
unaffected
,
unanimated
,
uncreative
,
unfanciful
,
unideal
,
unimaginative
,
unimpressed
,
uninventive
,
unmoved
,
unoriginal
,
unpoetic
,
unromantic
,
unromanticized
,
unruffled
,
unstirred
,
unstruck
,
untouched
thud
collapse
strike with a dull sound; "Bullets were thudding against the wall"
make a dull sound; "the knocker thudded against the front door"
related words >
beat
,
bump
,
chink
,
click
,
clink
,
clop
,
clump
,
clunk
,
crump
,
dull thud
,
flick
,
flump
,
hit
,
pad
,
pat
,
patter
,
pitapat
,
pitter-patter
,
plump
,
plunk
,
pop
,
pound
,
rap
,
smite
,
strike
,
tap
,
thump
,
tick
,
tinkle
,
tunk
,
wham
,
whomp
hooked
collapse
related words >
Roman-nosed
,
V-shaped
,
Y-shaped
,
absorbed in
,
addicted
,
addicted to
,
akimbo
,
angular
,
aquiline
,
aquiline-nosed
,
beak-nosed
,
beak-shaped
,
beaked
,
bent
,
bill-like
,
bill-shaped
,
billed
,
caught up in
,
clawlike
,
cornered
,
crookbilled
,
crooked
,
crooknosed
,
crotched
,
dependent
,
dependent on
,
down-curving
,
enmeshed in
,
entangled in
,
far-gone
,
forked
,
furcal
,
furcate
,
geniculate
,
geniculated
,
habituated
,
habitue
,
hamate
,
hamiform
,
hamulate
,
hooked on
,
hooklike
,
immersed in
,
implicated in
,
in a rut
,
involved in
,
jagged
,
knee-shaped
,
never free from
,
parrot-nosed
,
pointed
,
rhamphoid
,
rostrate
,
rostriform
,
saw-toothed
,
sawtooth
,
serrate
,
sharp
,
sharp-cornered
,
spaced out
,
submerged in
,
tied up in
,
unciform
,
uncinate
,
unguiform
,
used to
,
wrapped up in
,
zigzag
philistine
collapse
a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC
a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
of or relating to ancient Philistia or the culture of the Philistines
related words >
Babbitt
,
Boeotian
,
barbarian
,
boeotian
,
boob
,
boor
,
boorish
,
boring
,
bourgeois
,
capitalist
,
clown
,
commercial
,
commonplace
,
crass
,
dull
,
ignoramus
,
lout
,
lowbrow
,
materialist
,
materialistic
,
middlebrow
,
narrow-minded
,
prosaic
,
tasteless
,
uncultivated
,
uncultured
,
uneducated
,
unenlightened
,
unlearned
,
unlettered
,
unread
,
unrefined
,
untutored
,
vulgarian
,
yahoo
besot
collapse
make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation
related words >
KO
,
addle
,
anesthetize
,
bedaze
,
befuddle
,
bemuse
,
benumb
,
blunt
,
chloroform
,
coldcock
,
deaden
,
desensitize
,
dope
,
drug
,
dull
,
etherize
,
freeze
,
inebriate
,
intoxicate
,
kayo
,
knock out
,
knock senseless
,
knock stiff
,
knock unconscious
,
lay out
,
narcotize
,
numb
,
obtund
,
palsy
,
paralyze
,
put to sleep
,
stun
,
stupefy
eviscerate
collapse
having been disembowelled
take away a vital or essential part of; "the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"
remove the contents of; "eviscerate the stomach"
related words >
abate
,
attenuate
,
blunt
,
bowel
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
damp
,
dampen
,
deaden
,
debilitate
,
devitalize
,
disembowel
,
draw
,
dull
,
enervate
,
enfeeble
,
exhaust
,
extenuate
,
gruel
,
gut
,
lay low
,
mitigate
,
paunch
,
rattle
,
reduce
,
sap
,
shake
,
shake up
,
soften up
,
unbrace
,
undermine
,
unman
,
unnerve
,
unstrengthen
,
unstring
,
weaken
redness
collapse
related words >
amblyopia
,
blearedness
,
bleariness
,
bloom
,
blurredness
,
blush
,
dim eyes
,
dim-sightedness
,
dull-sightedness
,
fieriness
,
flush
,
glow
,
gravel-blindness
,
hectic
,
hectic flush
,
incandescence
,
lippitude
,
purblindness
,
rosiness
,
sand-blindness
,
whiteness
thick skinned
collapse
related words >
Philistine
,
asleep
,
benumbed
,
callous
,
calloused
,
case-hardened
,
dead
,
deadened
,
dull
,
flinty
,
hard
,
hardened
,
hardhearted
,
impassible
,
imperceptive
,
impercipient
,
impervious
,
indurated
,
insensate
,
insensible
,
insensitive
,
insentient
,
inured
,
numb
,
numbed
,
obdurate
,
obtuse
,
pachydermatous
,
proof against
,
steeled against
,
steely
,
stony
,
thick-witted
,
unfeeling
,
unfelt
,
unperceptive
unperceptive
collapse
lacking sensitivity, taste, or judgment
lacking perception; "as unperceptive as a boulder"
related words >
asleep
,
benumbed
,
blind
,
blindfold
,
blindfolded
,
callous
,
dead
,
deadened
,
dim-sighted
,
dull
,
impassible
,
imperceptive
,
impercipient
,
insensate
,
insensible
,
insensitive
,
insentient
,
mind-blind
,
myopic
,
nearsighted
,
nonunderstanding
,
numb
,
numbed
,
obdurate
,
obtuse
,
purblind
,
shortsighted
,
thick-skinned
,
thick-witted
,
unapprehending
,
uncomprehending
,
undiscerning
,
unfeeling
,
unfelt
,
unperceiving
strengthless
collapse
related words >
anemic
,
asthenic
,
bloodless
,
chicken
,
cowardly
,
debilitated
,
drooping
,
droopy
,
dull
,
effete
,
etiolated
,
faint
,
faintish
,
feeble
,
flabby
,
flaccid
,
floppy
,
gone
,
gutless
,
imbecile
,
impotent
,
languid
,
languorous
,
limber
,
limp
,
listless
,
lustless
,
marrowless
,
nerveless
,
pithless
,
pooped
,
powerless
,
rubbery
,
sapless
,
sinewless
,
slack
,
soft
,
spineless
,
unhardened
,
unnerved
,
unstrung
,
weak
,
weakly
bated
collapse
diminished or moderated; "our bated enthusiasm"; "his bated hopes"
held back; "we watched the daring feats of the acrobats with bated breath"
related words >
abated
,
ablated
,
attenuated
,
belittled
,
consumed
,
contracted
,
curtailed
,
damped
,
dampened
,
dead
,
deadened
,
decreased
,
deflated
,
diminished
,
dissipated
,
dropped
,
dull
,
dulled
,
eroded
,
fallen
,
flat
,
less
,
lesser
,
lower
,
lowered
,
miniaturized
,
muffled
,
muted
,
reduced
,
retrenched
,
scaled-down
,
shorn
,
shorter
,
shrunk
,
shrunken
,
smaller
,
smothered
,
softened
,
sordo
,
stifled
,
subdued
,
watered-down
,
weakened
,
worn
to the point
collapse
related words >
Spartan
,
a propos
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
ad rem
,
adapted
,
admissible
,
aposiopestic
,
appertaining
,
applicable
,
applying
,
apposite
,
appropriate
,
apropos
,
apt
,
becoming
,
befitting
,
belonging
,
brief
,
brusque
,
clipped
,
close
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
curt
,
cut
,
docked
,
dovetailing
,
elliptic
,
epigrammatic
,
felicitous
,
fit
,
fitted
,
fitting
,
geared
,
germane
,
gnomic
,
happy
,
in plain English
,
in plain words
,
in point
,
involving
,
just right
,
laconic
,
likely
,
material
,
matter-of-factly
,
meshing
,
naturally
,
on the button
,
opportune
,
pat
,
pertaining
,
pertinent
,
pithy
,
plainly
,
point-blank
,
pointed
,
pruned
,
qualified
,
relevant
,
reserved
,
right
,
seasonable
,
sententious
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
simply
,
sortable
,
succinct
,
suitable
,
suited
,
suiting
,
summary
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
tailored
,
terse
,
tight
,
to the purpose
,
truncated
,
unaffectedly
truncated
collapse
related words >
Spartan
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
aposiopestic
,
bandy
,
bandy-legged
,
blemished
,
bloated
,
bowlegged
,
brief
,
brusque
,
butchered
,
castrated
,
clipped
,
close
,
club-footed
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
contracted
,
crisp
,
curt
,
cut
,
cut short
,
defaced
,
deformed
,
disfigured
,
docked
,
dwarfed
,
elliptic
,
epigrammatic
,
flatfooted
,
garbled
,
gnomic
,
grotesque
,
hashed
,
ill-made
,
ill-proportioned
,
ill-shaped
,
knock-kneed
,
laconic
,
lopped
,
malformed
,
mangled
,
marred
,
misbegotten
,
misproportioned
,
misshapen
,
monstrous
,
mutilated
,
out of shape
,
pigeon-toed
,
pithy
,
pointed
,
pruned
,
pug-nosed
,
rachitic
,
reserved
,
rickety
,
sententious
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
simous
,
snub-nosed
,
stumpy
,
succinct
,
summary
,
swaybacked
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
talipedic
,
terse
,
tight
,
to the point
insentient
collapse
devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation; "insentient (or insensate) stone"
related words >
abiotic
,
asleep
,
azoic
,
benumbed
,
callous
,
dead
,
deadened
,
dull
,
dumb
,
exanimate
,
impassible
,
impassive
,
imperceptive
,
impercipient
,
inanimate
,
inanimated
,
inert
,
insensate
,
insensible
,
insensitive
,
lifeless
,
mute
,
nonconscious
,
nonliving
,
numb
,
numbed
,
obdurate
,
obtuse
,
senseless
,
soulless
,
thick-skinned
,
thick-witted
,
unanimated
,
unconscious
,
unfeeling
,
unfelt
,
unimpressible
,
unimpressionable
,
unperceptive
,
unresponsive
,
unsusceptible
readable
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absorbing
,
allegorical
,
apprehensible
,
articulate
,
associational
,
cognizable
,
comprehensible
,
connotational
,
connotative
,
decipherable
,
definable
,
denotational
,
denotative
,
distinct
,
easily understood
,
easy to understand
,
engaging
,
enjoyable
,
entertaining
,
exciting
,
exoteric
,
expressive
,
extended
,
extensional
,
fair
,
fathomable
,
figurative
,
full of meaning
,
full of point
,
full of substance
,
in the clear
,
indicative
,
intelligible
,
intensional
,
interesting
,
interpretable
,
inviting
,
juicy
,
knowable
,
legible
,
lively
,
meaning
,
meaningful
,
meaty
,
metaphorical
,
penetrable
,
piquant
,
pithy
,
plain
,
pleasurable
,
plumbable
,
pointed
,
pregnant
,
prehensible
,
provocative
,
provoking
,
racy
,
referential
,
rich
,
scrutable
,
sententious
,
significant
,
significative
,
spicy
,
stimulating
,
substantial
,
succulent
,
suggestive
,
symbolic
,
tantalizing
,
thought-challenging
,
thought-inspiring
,
thought-provoking
,
tickling
,
titillating
,
transferred
,
uncoded
,
understandable
,
unenciphered
,
worthwhile
so so
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average
,
betwixt and between
,
dull
,
fair
,
fair to middling
,
fairish
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fairishly
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fairly
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indifferent
,
indifferently
,
insipid
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lackluster
,
mediocre
,
mediocrely
,
medium
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middling
,
middling well
,
middlingly
,
moderate
,
moderately
,
modest
,
modestly
,
namby-pamby
,
of a kind
,
of a sort
,
of sorts
,
passable
,
passably
,
rather
,
respectable
,
run-of-mine
,
run-of-the-mill
,
tedious
,
tolerable
,
tolerably
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vapid
,
wishy-washy
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