Related Words:
- stoic
collapse - a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno; "a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny"
- someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
- seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; "stoic courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer"
- pertaining to Stoicism or its followers related words >
- Laodicean,
- Olympian,
- Spartan,
- accepting,
- aloof,
- apathetic,
- armed with patience,
- at rest,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- blase,
- bovine,
- calm,
- cloistered,
- comatose,
- cool,
- desensitized,
- detached,
- disciplined,
- disinterested,
- dispassionate,
- dull,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- endurant,
- enduring,
- even-tempered,
- even-tenored,
- forbearing,
- halcyon,
- heartless,
- hebetudinous,
- hopeless,
- hushed,
- impassive,
- imperturbable,
- in a stupor,
- indifferent,
- indulgent,
- inexcitable,
- inirritable,
- insouciant,
- isolated,
- languid,
- lenient,
- lethargic,
- listless,
- long-suffering,
- longanimous,
- man of iron,
- moldering,
- nonchalant,
- numb,
- numbed,
- pacific,
- passive,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- persevering,
- philosophical,
- phlegmatic,
- placid,
- pluckless,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- resigned,
- restful,
- resting,
- secluded,
- self-controlled,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- sheltered,
- slack,
- sluggish,
- smooth,
- soporific,
- spiritless,
- spunkless,
- steady,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stolid,
- stupefied,
- subsiding,
- supine,
- tolerant,
- tolerating,
- tolerative,
- torpid,
- tranquil,
- unagitated,
- uncaring,
- unconcerned,
- understanding,
- undisturbable,
- undisturbed,
- unflappable,
- uninterested,
- unirritable,
- unmoved,
- unnervous,
- unpassionate,
- unperturbed,
- unruffled,
- unstirring,
- untroubled,
- waning,
- withdrawn
- peaceable
collapse
- inclined or disposed to peace; "they met in a peaceable spirit"; "peace-loving citizens" related words >
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- at peace,
- at rest,
- bland,
- bloodless,
- broken,
- brotherly,
- calm,
- chastened,
- civil,
- civilian,
- cloistered,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- conciliatory,
- concordant,
- congenial,
- cool,
- cordial,
- domesticated,
- dovelike,
- dovish,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- even-tenored,
- favorable,
- fraternal,
- friendlike,
- friendly,
- genial,
- gentle,
- halcyon,
- harmonious,
- housebroken,
- humble,
- hushed,
- idyllic,
- impassive,
- inoffensive,
- irenic,
- isolated,
- judicious,
- kind,
- lamblike,
- meek,
- mild,
- mild as milk,
- moderate,
- moldering,
- neighborlike,
- neighborly,
- nonaggressive,
- noncombatant,
- nonmilitant,
- nonviolent,
- orderly,
- pacific,
- pacificatory,
- pacifist,
- pacifistic,
- pastoral,
- peace-loving,
- peaceful,
- peacetime,
- piping,
- placid,
- pleasant,
- prudent,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- restful,
- resting,
- secluded,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- serene,
- sheltered,
- simpatico,
- sisterly,
- smooth,
- sober,
- sociable,
- soft,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- subdued,
- subsiding,
- sympathique,
- tame,
- tamed,
- temperate,
- tranquil,
- unagitated,
- unbellicose,
- uncontentious,
- undisturbed,
- unhostile,
- unmilitant,
- unmilitary,
- unmoved,
- unperturbed,
- unruffled,
- unstirring,
- untroubled,
- waning,
- well-affected,
- well-disposed,
- well-intentioned,
- well-meaning,
- well-meant
- draining
collapse
- having a debilitating effect; "an exhausting job in the hot sun" related words >
- aspiration,
- bleeding,
- bloodletting,
- breakdown,
- broaching,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- cleaning out,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- collapse,
- coming apart,
- crack-up,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- crying,
- cupping,
- decadent,
- declining,
- defecation,
- degenerate,
- demanding,
- depletion,
- deteriorating,
- devitalizing,
- discharging cargo,
- disintegrating,
- drafting,
- drainage,
- drawing,
- drooping,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- egress,
- elimination,
- emptying,
- enervating,
- enfeebling,
- evacuation,
- exacting,
- excretion,
- exhaustedness,
- exhausting,
- exhaustion,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionate,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- going to pieces,
- grasping,
- grueling,
- importunate,
- insistent,
- instant,
- killing,
- languishing,
- loud,
- marcescent,
- milking,
- nervous exhaustion,
- nervous prostration,
- off-loading,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- phlebotomy,
- pining,
- pipetting,
- pressing,
- prostration,
- pumping,
- punishing,
- regressive,
- removal,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- sapping,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- siphoning,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- straining,
- stressful,
- subsiding,
- sucking,
- suction,
- tabetic,
- tapping,
- taxing,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- trying,
- unloading,
- urgent,
- venesection,
- venting,
- voidance,
- voiding,
- waning,
- wasting,
- weakening,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- wilting,
- withering,
- worsening
- sequestered
collapse
- kept separate and secluded; "a sequestered jury" related words >
- abstruse,
- alienated,
- anchoritic,
- anonymous,
- at rest,
- beclouded,
- blind,
- buried,
- calm,
- cloistered,
- close,
- closet,
- closeted,
- clouded,
- concealed,
- cool,
- covered,
- covert,
- detached,
- disarticulated,
- disconnected,
- disengaged,
- disjoined,
- disjoint,
- disjointed,
- disjunct,
- dislocated,
- dispersed,
- disunited,
- divided,
- divorced,
- domestic,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- eclipsed,
- eremitic,
- estranged,
- even-tenored,
- halcyon,
- hermetic,
- hermitic,
- hermitish,
- hid,
- hidden,
- hushed,
- impassive,
- in a cloud,
- in a fog,
- in eclipse,
- in purdah,
- in the wings,
- incognito,
- incommunicado,
- inmost,
- innermost,
- interior,
- intimate,
- inward,
- isolated,
- latent,
- moldering,
- mysterious,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- occult,
- pacific,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- personal,
- placid,
- private,
- privy,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- recluse,
- recondite,
- removed,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- restful,
- resting,
- retired,
- scattered,
- secluded,
- secluse,
- seclusive,
- secret,
- segregated,
- separated,
- sequestrated,
- sheltered,
- shut in,
- shut off,
- shut up,
- smooth,
- stay-at-home,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- subsiding,
- tranquil,
- unagitated,
- under an eclipse,
- under cover,
- under house arrest,
- under wraps,
- underground,
- undisturbed,
- unknown,
- unmoved,
- unperturbed,
- unruffled,
- unstirring,
- untroubled,
- waning,
- withdrawn,
- wrapped in clouds
- worsening
collapse
- changing something with the result that it becomes worse
- changing for the worse; "worried by the worsening storm" related words >
- about-face,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- aggravation,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- amplification,
- annoyance,
- apostasy,
- augmentation,
- betterment,
- break,
- change,
- change of heart,
- changeableness,
- coming apart,
- constructive change,
- contentiousness,
- continuity,
- conversion,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- decadent,
- declining,
- deepening,
- defection,
- degenerate,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- deliberate aggravation,
- deteriorating,
- deterioration,
- deviation,
- difference,
- discontinuity,
- disintegrating,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- draining,
- drooping,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- embittering,
- embitterment,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exacerbation,
- exasperation,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- fitting,
- flagging,
- flip-flop,
- fragmenting,
- going to pieces,
- gradual change,
- heightening,
- improvement,
- increase,
- intensification,
- irritation,
- languishing,
- magnification,
- marcescent,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modulation,
- overthrow,
- pining,
- provocation,
- qualification,
- radical change,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- redesign,
- reform,
- reformation,
- regressive,
- remaking,
- renewal,
- reshaping,
- restructuring,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- sharpening,
- shift,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- souring,
- subsiding,
- sudden change,
- switch,
- tabetic,
- total change,
- transition,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- upheaval,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering
- peaceful
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- not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war; "a peaceful nation"; "peaceful times"; "a far from peaceful Christmas"; "peaceful sleep" related words >
- accordant,
- agreeable,
- agreeing,
- akin,
- amicable,
- at one,
- at peace,
- at rest,
- attuned,
- bland,
- bloodless,
- calm,
- cheerful,
- cloistered,
- collected,
- comfortable,
- comfy,
- commodious,
- compatible,
- composed,
- concordant,
- congenial,
- constant,
- contented,
- convenient,
- cool,
- coolheaded,
- corresponding,
- cozy,
- cushioned,
- cushiony,
- cushy,
- dwindling,
- easeful,
- easy,
- ebbing,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- en rapport,
- equable,
- even-tenored,
- frictionless,
- friendly,
- gentle,
- halcyon,
- harmonious,
- homelike,
- homely,
- homey,
- homish,
- hushed,
- idyllic,
- impassive,
- in accord,
- in concert,
- in rapport,
- in tune,
- inharmony,
- intimate,
- irenic,
- isolated,
- judicious,
- like-minded,
- lived-in,
- luxurious,
- mild,
- mild as milk,
- moderate,
- moldering,
- nonviolent,
- of one mind,
- orderly,
- pacific,
- pacificatory,
- pacifist,
- pacifistic,
- pastoral,
- peaceable,
- peacetime,
- philosophical,
- piping,
- placid,
- plain,
- prudent,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- relaxing,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- restful,
- resting,
- roomy,
- secluded,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- serene,
- sheltered,
- simple,
- smooth,
- snug,
- sober,
- soft,
- steady,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- subsiding,
- sympathetic,
- tame,
- temperate,
- together,
- tranquil,
- unagitated,
- understanding,
- undisturbed,
- united,
- unmoved,
- unperturbed,
- unpretending,
- unruffled,
- unstirring,
- untroubled,
- waning,
- warm
- quiescent
collapse
- causing no symptoms; "a quiescent tumor"
- being quiet or still or inactive
- not active or activated; "the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation"
- marked by a state of tranquil repose; "the quiescent melancholy of the town" related words >
- abeyant,
- abiding,
- at a standstill,
- at rest,
- calm,
- changeless,
- cloistered,
- constant,
- contemplative,
- continuing,
- cool,
- do-nothing,
- dormant,
- durable,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- echoless,
- enduring,
- even-tenored,
- firm,
- fixed,
- frozen,
- halcyon,
- hush as death,
- hushed,
- idle,
- immobile,
- immutable,
- impassive,
- inactive,
- inaudible,
- inert,
- intact,
- inviolate,
- isolated,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- lasting,
- lurking,
- meditative,
- moldering,
- motionless,
- mousy,
- neuter,
- neutral,
- noiseless,
- pacific,
- paralytic,
- paralyzed,
- passive,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- placid,
- potential,
- procrastinating,
- quiet,
- quietist,
- quietistic,
- remaining,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- restful,
- resting,
- rigid,
- secluded,
- sedentary,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- sheltered,
- silent,
- smooth,
- solid,
- soundless,
- stable,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- standpat,
- static,
- stationary,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- subaudible,
- subsiding,
- sustained,
- torpid,
- tranquil,
- unactive,
- unagitated,
- unaltered,
- unarticulated,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- unchecked,
- undestroyed,
- undisturbed,
- unfading,
- unfailing,
- unhearable,
- unmoved,
- unperturbed,
- unpronounced,
- unruffled,
- unshifting,
- unsounded,
- unstirring,
- untroubled,
- unuttered,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- unvocalized,
- unvoiced,
- vegetable,
- vegetative,
- waning,
- whist
- downturn
collapse
- a worsening of business or economic activity; "the market took a downturn" related words >
- boom,
- bottoming out,
- business cycle,
- business fluctuations,
- bust,
- cascade,
- catabasis,
- cataract,
- chute,
- collapse,
- comedown,
- cooling off,
- crash,
- crisis,
- debacle,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- deceleration,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- decrescendo,
- defluxion,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradation,
- demotion,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- derogation,
- descending,
- descension,
- descent,
- deterioration,
- devolution,
- diminuendo,
- dip,
- dive,
- down,
- downbend,
- downcome,
- downcurve,
- downfall,
- downflow,
- downgrade,
- downpour,
- downrush,
- downslide,
- downswing,
- downtrend,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- drop,
- dropping,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebb,
- economic cycle,
- economic expansion,
- economic growth,
- effeteness,
- expanding economy,
- expansion,
- fading,
- failing,
- failure,
- failure of nerve,
- fall,
- falling,
- falling-off,
- falloff,
- gravitation,
- growth,
- high growth rate,
- inclination,
- involution,
- lapse,
- loss of tone,
- low,
- market expansion,
- peak,
- peaking,
- plummeting,
- plunge,
- pounce,
- prosperity,
- rapids,
- recession,
- recovery,
- regression,
- remission,
- retreat,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- sag,
- slip,
- slippage,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- stoop,
- subsidence,
- swoop,
- upturn,
- wane,
- waterfall
- shrinking
collapse
- the act of becoming less
- process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage" related words >
- Olympian,
- Sanforizing,
- aloof,
- aseptic,
- atrophy,
- attenuation,
- backward,
- bashful,
- bashfulness,
- blank,
- boggle,
- boggling,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- compunction,
- constrained,
- consumption,
- cool,
- cowardly,
- declining,
- demur,
- demurral,
- demurring,
- detached,
- diffidence,
- diffident,
- diminishing,
- discreet,
- distant,
- drying,
- drying up,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- emaceration,
- emaciation,
- expressionless,
- fading,
- falter,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- goosy,
- guarded,
- hesitance,
- hesitancy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hesitation,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- in fear,
- inaccessible,
- introverted,
- jumpy,
- modest,
- modesty,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- objection,
- offish,
- parching,
- pause,
- preshrinkage,
- protest,
- qualm,
- qualm of conscience,
- qualmish,
- qualmishness,
- quiet,
- rabbity,
- receding,
- recoil,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- scary,
- scruple,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulous,
- scrupulousness,
- searing,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinkage,
- shriveling,
- shy,
- shyness,
- sinking,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- squeamish,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- startlish,
- stickling,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- thinning,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- unexpansive,
- ungenial,
- waning,
- wasting,
- withdrawn,
- withering
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- aloof,
- apathetic,
- at a standstill,
- at anchor,
- at rest,
- aweless,
- calm,
- cast-iron,
- cloistered,
- collected,
- composed,
- cool,
- dead-still,
- dispassionate,
- dour,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- even-tenored,
- expected,
- expecting,
- firm,
- fixed,
- flinty,
- grim,
- halcyon,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- hushed,
- idle,
- immobile,
- immotive,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- impassive,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- indifferent,
- inelastic,
- inexcitable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- intransigent,
- iron,
- irreconcilable,
- isolated,
- moldering,
- motionless,
- moveless,
- out of commission,
- pacific,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- placid,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- relentless,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- restful,
- resting,
- riding at anchor,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- secluded,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- sheltered,
- smooth,
- static,
- stationary,
- statuelike,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stock-still,
- stoic,
- stoical,
- stolid,
- stony,
- subsiding,
- tranquil,
- unaffected,
- unagitated,
- unalterable,
- unamazed,
- unanimated,
- unastonished,
- unastounded,
- unawed,
- unbending,
- unbewildered,
- unchangeable,
- uncompromising,
- unconcerned,
- undazed,
- undazzled,
- undisturbed,
- undumbfounded,
- unemotional,
- unemployed,
- unfeeling,
- ungiving,
- unimpressed,
- uninfluenced,
- uninspired,
- unmarveling,
- unmoving,
- unperturbed,
- unrelenting,
- unresponsive,
- unruffled,
- unstirred,
- unstirring,
- unstruck,
- unsurprised,
- unswayed,
- unsympathetic,
- untouched,
- untroubled,
- unwondering,
- unyielding,
- waning,
- wonderless
- decrescendo
collapse
- (music) a gradual decrease in loudness
- gradually decreasing in volume
- grow quieter; "The music decrescendoes here" related words >
- a cappella,
- abbandono,
- accrescendo,
- adagietto,
- adagio,
- affettuoso,
- agilmente,
- agitato,
- allegretto,
- allegro,
- amabile,
- amoroso,
- andante,
- andantino,
- appassionatamente,
- appassionato,
- barely audible,
- brillante,
- capriccioso,
- catabasis,
- collapse,
- con affetto,
- con agilita,
- con agitazione,
- con amore,
- contractive,
- crash,
- crescendo,
- deceleration,
- declension,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- declining,
- decreasing,
- decreasingly,
- decrescent,
- deliquescent,
- dim,
- diminishing,
- diminishingly,
- diminuendo,
- dimness,
- distant,
- dive,
- dolce,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- drop,
- dwindling,
- ebb,
- ever less,
- faint,
- faint-voiced,
- faintness,
- fall,
- feeble,
- feebleness,
- flatness,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- gentle,
- gentleness,
- half-heard,
- indistinct,
- indistinctness,
- lamentabile,
- languishing,
- lapse,
- larghetto,
- larghissimo,
- largo,
- legato,
- leggiero,
- less,
- less and less,
- lessening,
- low,
- lowness,
- marcando,
- morendo,
- murmured,
- on the wane,
- parlando,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- pizzicato,
- plunge,
- prestissimo,
- presto,
- rallentando,
- reductive,
- remission,
- retreat,
- ritardando,
- ritenuto,
- scarcely heard,
- scherzando,
- scherzo,
- scherzoso,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- soft,
- soft-sounding,
- soft-voiced,
- softness,
- sordo,
- sotto voce,
- spiccato,
- staccato,
- stretto,
- subaudibility,
- subaudible,
- subdued,
- subduedness,
- subsidence,
- subsiding,
- tremolando,
- tremoloso,
- trillando,
- unclear,
- unclearness,
- wane,
- waning,
- weak,
- weak-voiced,
- weakness,
- whispered
- Sanforizing,
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidic,
- acidulent,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- air-drying,
- anhydration,
- arrogant,
- atrophy,
- attenuation,
- baneful,
- biting,
- bitter,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- caustic,
- clannish,
- cliquish,
- coming apart,
- consuming,
- consumption,
- consumptive,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- cutting,
- deadly,
- decadent,
- declining,
- degenerate,
- dehumidification,
- dehydration,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- desiccation,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- deteriorating,
- devastating,
- disastrous,
- disdainful,
- disintegrating,
- doomful,
- drainage,
- draining,
- drooping,
- drying,
- drying up,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- emaceration,
- emaciation,
- evaporation,
- exclusive,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- fratricidal,
- going to pieces,
- haughty,
- incisive,
- insolation,
- internecine,
- keen,
- languishing,
- marcescence,
- marcescent,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- mummification,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- parching,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pining,
- preshrinkage,
- ravaging,
- regressive,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- scathing,
- scorching,
- scornful,
- searing,
- self-destructive,
- sharp,
- shrinkage,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- subsiding,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- supercilious,
- tabetic,
- tart,
- thinning,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- trenchant,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- waning,
- wastage,
- waste,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- worsening
- remission
collapse
- (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission" related words >
- abatement,
- abeyance,
- absolution,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- amnesty,
- assuagement,
- attrition,
- blunting,
- break,
- caesura,
- calming,
- catabasis,
- cease-fire,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- collapse,
- compurgation,
- crash,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- damping,
- day off,
- deadening,
- deceleration,
- declension,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescendo,
- deliverance,
- demulsion,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- destigmatization,
- destigmatizing,
- detraction,
- diminuendo,
- diminution,
- dip,
- discharge,
- disculpation,
- dismissal,
- disparagement,
- dive,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- drop,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dwindling,
- easing,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exemption,
- exoneration,
- extraction,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- forgiveness,
- grace,
- hesitation,
- holiday,
- hushing,
- immunity,
- impairment,
- indemnity,
- indulgence,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interval,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lull,
- lulling,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- pardon,
- pause,
- plunge,
- purgation,
- purging,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- quietus,
- quittance,
- recess,
- redemption,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- release,
- remission of sin,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- rest,
- retraction,
- retreat,
- retrenchment,
- shortening,
- shrift,
- shrinkage,
- slackening,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- softening,
- soothing,
- sparing,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- subduement,
- subsidence,
- suspension,
- tempering,
- tranquilization,
- truce,
- truncation,
- vacation,
- verdict of acquittal,
- vindication,
- wane
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- abnegation,
- aging,
- chucking,
- chucking out,
- collapsing,
- coming apart,
- contempt,
- contractive,
- contradiction,
- cracking,
- crumbling,
- decadent,
- deciduous,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declined,
- declivate,
- declivitous,
- declivous,
- decreasing,
- decrescendo,
- decrescent,
- decurrent,
- degenerate,
- deliquescent,
- denial,
- deprivation,
- descendant,
- descending,
- despisal,
- despising,
- deteriorating,
- diminishing,
- diminuendo,
- dipping,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disapproval,
- discard,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- discounting,
- disintegrating,
- dismissal,
- disobedience,
- disownment,
- disregard,
- dissent,
- doting,
- down,
- down-reaching,
- downcoming,
- downfalling,
- downgoing,
- downgrade,
- downhill,
- downsinking,
- downward,
- draining,
- drooping,
- dropping,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- flagging,
- fragmenting,
- getting on,
- going to pieces,
- growing old,
- holding back,
- ignoring,
- languishing,
- lessening,
- marcescent,
- nay,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- nix,
- no,
- nonacceptance,
- nonapproval,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonconsideration,
- nonobservance,
- on the descendant,
- on the downgrade,
- on the wane,
- passing by,
- pining,
- plummeting,
- plunging,
- putting away,
- putting out,
- rebuff,
- recantation,
- receding,
- reductive,
- refusal,
- regressive,
- rejection,
- renouncement,
- repudiation,
- repulse,
- retention,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- sagging,
- scouting,
- senescent,
- setting,
- shrinking,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- spurning,
- submerging,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- throwing out,
- thumbs-down,
- tottering,
- tumbledown,
- turndown,
- turning out,
- unwillingness,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wilting,
- withering,
- withholding,
- worsening
- flagging
collapse
- a walk of flagstones; "the flagging in the garden was quite imaginative"
- flagstones collectively; "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place" related words >
- ambling,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- coming apart,
- cracking,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- crumbling,
- debilitated,
- decadent,
- declining,
- degenerate,
- deliberate,
- deteriorating,
- disintegrating,
- draining,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dwindling,
- easy,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- fading,
- fagged,
- failing,
- faint,
- fainting,
- falling,
- faltering,
- fatigued,
- feeling faint,
- foot-dragging,
- footsore,
- fragmenting,
- frazzled,
- gentle,
- going to pieces,
- good and tired,
- gradual,
- halting,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- indolent,
- jaded,
- languid,
- languishing,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- lumbering,
- marcescent,
- moderate,
- pining,
- poking,
- poky,
- ready to drop,
- regressive,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- run ragged,
- run-down,
- sagging,
- sauntering,
- seedy,
- shriveling,
- shuffling,
- sinking,
- slack,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- 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,
- sluggish,
- slumping,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- tentative,
- tired,
- tired-winged,
- toddling,
- toilworn,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unhurried,
- unrefreshed,
- unrestored,
- waddling,
- waning,
- wasting,
- way-weary,
- wayworn,
- weak,
- weakened,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- weary,
- weary-footed,
- weary-laden,
- weary-winged,
- weary-worn,
- wilting,
- withering,
- worn,
- worn-down,
- worsening
- isolated
collapse
- not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh"
- under forced isolation especially for health reasons; "a quarantined animal"; "isolated patients"
- cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard" related words >
- abandoned,
- alien,
- alienated,
- alone,
- aloof,
- anchoretical,
- anomalous,
- anonymous,
- apart,
- archipelagian,
- archipelagic,
- at rest,
- calm,
- cloistered,
- closet,
- companionless,
- cool,
- cordoned,
- cordoned off,
- cut off,
- deserted,
- detached,
- disarticulated,
- disconnected,
- discrete,
- disengaged,
- disjoined,
- disjoint,
- disjointed,
- disjunct,
- dislocated,
- dispersed,
- disrelated,
- dissociated,
- disunited,
- divided,
- divorced,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- estranged,
- even-tenored,
- exceptional,
- excluded,
- exotic,
- extraneous,
- foreign,
- forlorn,
- forsaken,
- friendless,
- halcyon,
- hermitical,
- hidden,
- homeless,
- hushed,
- impassive,
- in a backwater,
- incognito,
- incommensurable,
- incomparable,
- independent,
- individual,
- inmost,
- innermost,
- insular,
- insulated,
- interior,
- intimate,
- inward,
- irrelative,
- island,
- island-dotted,
- islanded,
- islandish,
- islandlike,
- islandy,
- isleted,
- isolate,
- kithless,
- lone,
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- moldering,
- monastic,
- other,
- out-of-the-way,
- out-of-the-world,
- outlandish,
- pacific,
- particular,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- personal,
- placid,
- private,
- privy,
- quarantined,
- quiescent,
- quiet,
- remote,
- removed,
- reposeful,
- reposing,
- restful,
- resting,
- retired,
- rootless,
- roped off,
- scattered,
- seagirt,
- sealed off,
- secluded,
- secret,
- segregate,
- segregated,
- separate,
- separated,
- sequestered,
- sequestrated,
- set apart,
- sheltered,
- shut off,
- single,
- single-handed,
- singular,
- smooth,
- solitary,
- solo,
- special,
- still,
- still as death,
- stillish,
- stilly,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- stranded,
- strange,
- subsiding,
- tranquil,
- unabetted,
- unaccompanied,
- unaffiliated,
- unagitated,
- unaided,
- unallied,
- unassisted,
- unassociated,
- unattended,
- unconnected,
- undisturbed,
- unescorted,
- unfrequented,
- unique,
- unmoved,
- unperturbed,
- unrelatable,
- unrelated,
- unruffled,
- unseconded,
- unstirring,
- unsupported,
- untroubled,
- unvisited,
- waning,
- withdrawn
- declension
collapse
- a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms; "the first declension in Latin"
- the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages related words >
- IC analysis,
- abnegation,
- accidence,
- affix,
- affixation,
- allomorph,
- bound morpheme,
- cascade,
- catabasis,
- cataract,
- chute,
- collapse,
- comedown,
- conjugation,
- contradiction,
- crash,
- cutting,
- debacle,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- deceleration,
- declination,
- declinature,
- decline,
- decline and fall,
- declining,
- decrescendo,
- defluxion,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradation,
- demotion,
- denial,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depreciation,
- deprivation,
- derivation,
- derogation,
- descending,
- descension,
- descent,
- deterioration,
- devolution,
- difference of form,
- dilapidation,
- diminuendo,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- disobedience,
- dissent,
- dive,
- down,
- downbend,
- downcome,
- downcurve,
- downfall,
- downflow,
- downgrade,
- downpour,
- downrush,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- drop,
- dropping,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebb,
- effeteness,
- enclitic,
- fading,
- failing,
- fall,
- falling,
- falling-off,
- formative,
- free form,
- gravitation,
- holding back,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- inclination,
- infix,
- infixation,
- inflection,
- involution,
- lapse,
- loss of tone,
- morph,
- morpheme,
- morphemic analysis,
- morphemics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- nay,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- nix,
- no,
- nonacceptance,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonobservance,
- paradigm,
- plummeting,
- plunge,
- pounce,
- prefix,
- prefixation,
- proclitic,
- radical,
- rapids,
- recantation,
- refusal,
- regression,
- rejection,
- remission,
- repudiation,
- retention,
- retreat,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- root,
- ruination,
- slippage,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- stem,
- stoop,
- subsidence,
- suffix,
- suffixation,
- swoop,
- theme,
- thumbs-down,
- turndown,
- unwillingness,
- wane,
- waterfall,
- withholding,
- word-formation
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