Related Words:
- expansive
collapse - friendly and open and willing to talk; "wine made the guest expansive"
- marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur
- able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion; "Expansive materials"; "the expansive force of fire"
- of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand manner"; "collecting on a grand scale"; "heroic undertakings" related words >
- accessible,
- affable,
- airy,
- all jaw,
- all-embracing,
- all-inclusive,
- amiable,
- ample,
- amplitudinous,
- approachable,
- big,
- bouncy,
- broad,
- buoyant,
- candid,
- capacious,
- chatty,
- commodious,
- communicable,
- communicative,
- comprehensive,
- conversable,
- conversational,
- copious,
- deep,
- demonstrative,
- dilatable,
- dilatant,
- distensive,
- easy,
- effervescent,
- effusive,
- elastic,
- enlarging,
- expandable,
- expanding,
- expansible,
- expansile,
- expansional,
- extendable,
- extended,
- extending,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- extensional,
- extensive,
- extroverted,
- far-reaching,
- flip,
- fluent,
- frank,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- friendly,
- full,
- gabby,
- garrulous,
- gassy,
- generous,
- genial,
- glib,
- gossipy,
- great,
- gregarious,
- gushy,
- infinite,
- inflatable,
- inflationary,
- large,
- lavish,
- liberal,
- long-winded,
- loquacious,
- multiloquent,
- multiloquious,
- newsy,
- open,
- openhanded,
- outgoing,
- outspoken,
- overtalkative,
- prolix,
- resilient,
- roomy,
- scopic,
- self-revealing,
- self-revelatory,
- smooth,
- sociable,
- spacious,
- spreading,
- talkative,
- talky,
- unconstrained,
- unhampered,
- unrepressed,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unrestricted,
- unreticent,
- unsecretive,
- unshrinking,
- unsilent,
- unsuppressed,
- vast,
- verbose,
- volatile,
- voluble,
- voluminous,
- warm,
- wide,
- wide-ranging,
- widespread,
- windy
- poultice
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- a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
- dress by covering with a therapeutic substance related words >
- Ace bandage,
- Band-Aid,
- abate,
- adhesive tape,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- anesthetize,
- appease,
- application,
- assuage,
- band,
- bandage,
- bandaging,
- bathe,
- benumb,
- binder,
- brace,
- butter,
- care for,
- cast,
- cataplasm,
- compress,
- cotton,
- court plaster,
- cravat,
- crush,
- cure,
- cushion,
- deaden,
- deaden the pain,
- dental pulp,
- diagnose,
- diminish,
- doctor,
- dressing,
- dull,
- ease,
- ease matters,
- elastic bandage,
- epithem,
- flux,
- foment,
- four-tailed bandage,
- gauze,
- give care to,
- give relief,
- heal,
- lay,
- lessen,
- lint,
- lull,
- mash,
- massage,
- minister to,
- mitigate,
- mollify,
- mush,
- numb,
- nurse,
- operate on,
- pad,
- palliate,
- paper pulp,
- paste,
- physic,
- pith,
- plaster,
- plaster cast,
- pledget,
- porridge,
- pour balm into,
- pour oil on,
- pudding,
- pulp,
- pulp lead,
- pulpwood,
- purge,
- rag pulp,
- reduce,
- relieve,
- remedy,
- roller,
- roller bandage,
- rub,
- rubber bandage,
- salve,
- sauce,
- slacken,
- slake,
- sling,
- smash,
- soften,
- soothe,
- splint,
- sponge,
- squash,
- strap,
- stupe,
- subdue,
- sulfate pulp,
- sulfite pulp,
- tampon,
- tape,
- tent,
- tourniquet,
- treat,
- triangular bandage,
- white lead,
- wood pulp
- flexible
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- bending and snapping back readily without breaking
- able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches"
- capable of being changed; "flexible schedules" related words >
- able to adapt,
- acquiescent,
- adaptable,
- adaptive,
- adjustable,
- all-around,
- alterable,
- alterative,
- ambidextrous,
- amenable,
- amphibious,
- bendable,
- bending,
- biddable,
- bouncy,
- buoyant,
- changeable,
- checkered,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- conformable,
- convenient,
- cooperative,
- creased,
- crimped,
- docile,
- dog-eared,
- doubled,
- ductile,
- easy,
- elastic,
- ever-changing,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- feasible,
- fictile,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- flounced,
- fluid,
- fluted,
- foldable,
- folded,
- folding,
- foolproof,
- formable,
- formative,
- gathered,
- generally capable,
- giving,
- handy,
- impermanent,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- kaleidoscopic,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- lively,
- malleable,
- manageable,
- maneuverable,
- many-sided,
- metamorphic,
- mobile,
- modifiable,
- moldable,
- movable,
- mutable,
- nonuniform,
- obedient,
- other-directed,
- permutable,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- plaited,
- plastic,
- pleated,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- plicate,
- plicated,
- plicatile,
- practical,
- protean,
- proteiform,
- quilled,
- receptive,
- resilient,
- resourceful,
- responsive,
- rubbery,
- ruffled,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- shapable,
- springy,
- stretch,
- stretchable,
- stretchy,
- submissive,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- tensile,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- transient,
- transitory,
- tucked,
- twilled,
- two-handed,
- unaustere,
- undemanding,
- unexacting,
- unharsh,
- unsevere,
- unstrict,
- untroublesome,
- variable,
- versatile,
- whippy,
- wieldable,
- wieldy,
- willowy,
- yielding
- abulic,
- accessible,
- adaptable,
- afraid,
- amenable,
- appliable,
- applicable,
- apt,
- bendable,
- bending,
- bendy,
- biddable,
- bright,
- clever,
- compliant,
- convenient,
- cowardly,
- creased,
- crimped,
- docile,
- dog-eared,
- doubled,
- ductile,
- educable,
- elastic,
- exploitable,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- faint,
- fainthearted,
- feasible,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- flounced,
- fluted,
- foldable,
- folded,
- folding,
- foolproof,
- formable,
- formative,
- frail,
- gathered,
- giving,
- handy,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- infirm,
- influenceable,
- instructable,
- intelligent,
- invertebrate,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- manageable,
- maneuverable,
- manipulable,
- manipulatable,
- moldable,
- motivated,
- movable,
- open,
- open-minded,
- operable,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- pervious,
- plaited,
- plastic,
- pleated,
- pliant,
- plicate,
- plicated,
- plicatile,
- practical,
- quick,
- quilled,
- ready,
- receptive,
- responsive,
- reusable,
- ripe for instruction,
- ruffled,
- schoolable,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- shapable,
- spineless,
- springy,
- suasible,
- submissive,
- suggestible,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- swayable,
- teachable,
- thirsty for knowledge,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- trainable,
- tucked,
- twilled,
- untroublesome,
- usable,
- utilizable,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- whippy,
- wieldable,
- wieldy,
- willing,
- willowy,
- workable,
- yielding
- susceptible
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- (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof"
- easily impressed emotionally related words >
- accessible,
- adaptable,
- affected,
- alive to,
- amenable,
- answerable for,
- apt,
- apt to,
- aroused,
- aware,
- bendable,
- bending,
- bright,
- capable of,
- clever,
- cognizant,
- compliant,
- conscious,
- delicate,
- dependent on,
- disposed,
- docile,
- ductile,
- educable,
- elastic,
- emotionable,
- exposed,
- exposed to,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formative,
- giving,
- gullible,
- impressed,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- impressive,
- in danger of,
- incident to,
- inclined,
- influenceable,
- influenced,
- instructable,
- intelligent,
- liable,
- liable to,
- like putty,
- likely to,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- moldable,
- motivated,
- movable,
- naive,
- naked,
- naked to,
- nonimmune,
- nonresistant,
- obliged to,
- obnoxious,
- open,
- open to,
- open-minded,
- passible,
- perceptive,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- pervious,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- predisposed,
- prone,
- prone to,
- quick,
- ready,
- ready for,
- receptive,
- responsible for,
- responsive,
- ripe for instruction,
- roused,
- schoolable,
- sensible,
- sensile,
- sensitive,
- sensitive to,
- sentient,
- sequacious,
- shapable,
- soft,
- softhearted,
- springy,
- standing to,
- stirred,
- suasible,
- subject,
- subject to,
- submissive,
- suggestible,
- supple,
- susceptive,
- susceptive to,
- swayable,
- swayed,
- sympathetic,
- teachable,
- tender,
- tenderhearted,
- thirsty for knowledge,
- touched,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- trainable,
- warmhearted,
- weak,
- whippy,
- willing,
- willowy,
- within range of,
- yielding
- sling
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- bandage to support an injured forearm; consisting of a wide triangular piece of cloth hanging from around the neck
- a simple weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a projectile is whirled and then released
- a highball with liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice
- hurl as if with a sling related words >
- Ace bandage,
- Band-Aid,
- adhesive tape,
- application,
- arbalest,
- ballista,
- band,
- bandage,
- bandaging,
- belt,
- binder,
- bowl,
- brace,
- bung,
- cast,
- cast at,
- cataplasm,
- catapult,
- change of pace,
- change-up,
- chuck,
- chuck at,
- chunk,
- compress,
- cotton,
- court plaster,
- cravat,
- curve,
- dangle,
- dart,
- dash,
- depend,
- downcurve,
- dressing,
- elastic bandage,
- epithem,
- fastball,
- fasten up,
- fire,
- fire at,
- fling,
- fling at,
- flip,
- fork,
- forward pass,
- four-tailed bandage,
- gauze,
- hang,
- hang up,
- heave,
- heave at,
- hurl,
- hurl against,
- hurl at,
- hurtle,
- incurve,
- jerk,
- knuckleball,
- lance,
- lateral,
- lateral pass,
- launch,
- let fly,
- let fly at,
- lint,
- lob,
- march,
- outcurve,
- pass,
- peg,
- pelt,
- pitch,
- pitchfork,
- plaster,
- plaster cast,
- pledget,
- poultice,
- propel,
- put,
- put the shot,
- put up,
- roller,
- roller bandage,
- rubber bandage,
- screwball,
- serve,
- service,
- shoot,
- shot-put,
- shy,
- shy at,
- sinker,
- slider,
- sling at,
- slingshot,
- snap,
- sock,
- spitball,
- spitter,
- splint,
- sponge,
- stalk,
- strap,
- stupe,
- support,
- suspend,
- tampon,
- tape,
- tent,
- throw,
- throw at,
- throw stick,
- throwing-stick,
- tilt,
- toss,
- toss at,
- tourniquet,
- trebuchet,
- triangular bandage,
- upcurve,
- wommera
- supple
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- make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- able to adapt,
- accommodating,
- acquiescent,
- acute,
- adaptable,
- adjustable,
- agile,
- all-around,
- alterable,
- alterative,
- ambidextrous,
- amphibious,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- athletic,
- bendable,
- bending,
- cagey,
- canny,
- changeable,
- checkered,
- clever,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- ductile,
- elastic,
- ever-changing,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fawning,
- feline,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- fluid,
- formable,
- formative,
- foxy,
- generally capable,
- giving,
- graceful,
- guileful,
- impermanent,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- ingenious,
- ingratiating,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- kaleidoscopic,
- knowing,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- many-sided,
- metamorphic,
- mobile,
- modifiable,
- moldable,
- movable,
- mutable,
- nimble,
- nonuniform,
- obliging,
- obsequious,
- pawky,
- permutable,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- politic,
- protean,
- proteiform,
- ready,
- receptive,
- resilient,
- resourceful,
- responsive,
- rubbery,
- scheming,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- serpentine,
- servile,
- shapable,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- springy,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stretch,
- stretchy,
- submissive,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- susceptible,
- tactical,
- temporizing,
- timeserving,
- toadying,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- transient,
- transitory,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- trimming,
- two-handed,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- variable,
- versatile,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- whippy,
- willowy,
- wily,
- wiry,
- yielding
- compress
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- a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever)
- squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
- make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data" related words >
- Ace bandage,
- Band-Aid,
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- abstract,
- adhesive tape,
- application,
- band,
- bandage,
- bandaging,
- bear,
- binder,
- bob,
- boil down,
- brace,
- capsulize,
- cast,
- cataplasm,
- circumscribe,
- clamp,
- clip,
- coarct,
- compact,
- concentrate,
- condense,
- congest,
- consolidate,
- constrict,
- constringe,
- contract,
- cotton,
- court plaster,
- cram,
- cramp,
- cravat,
- crop,
- crowd,
- crush,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off short,
- cut short,
- damp,
- dampen,
- decrease,
- deduct,
- deflate,
- densen,
- densify,
- depreciate,
- depress,
- diminish,
- dock,
- downgrade,
- draw,
- draw in,
- draw together,
- dressing,
- elastic bandage,
- elide,
- ensphere,
- epithem,
- epitomize,
- foreshorten,
- four-tailed bandage,
- gauze,
- jam,
- knit,
- lessen,
- lint,
- lower,
- mow,
- narrow,
- nip,
- pare,
- pinch,
- plaster,
- plaster cast,
- pledget,
- poll,
- pollard,
- poultice,
- press,
- prune,
- pucker,
- pucker up,
- purse,
- push,
- ram down,
- reap,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- retrench,
- roll back,
- roller,
- roller bandage,
- rubber bandage,
- scale down,
- shave,
- shear,
- shorten,
- shrink,
- simplify,
- sling,
- snub,
- solidify,
- splint,
- sponge,
- squab,
- squash,
- squeeze,
- squish,
- step down,
- strangle,
- strangulate,
- stunt,
- stupe,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- synopsize,
- take from,
- take in,
- tampon,
- tape,
- telescope,
- tent,
- tighten,
- tourniquet,
- triangular bandage,
- trim,
- truncate,
- tune down,
- tweak,
- wad up,
- wrinkle
- formative
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- minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function
- forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning; "a formative influence"; "a formative experience"
- capable of forming new cells and tissues; "a formative zone in developing bone"
- susceptible to alteration by development and experience; "formative years" related words >
- IC analysis,
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- accidence,
- adaptable,
- affix,
- affixation,
- allomorph,
- antenatal,
- autochthonous,
- beginning,
- behind the scenes,
- bendable,
- bending,
- bound morpheme,
- budding,
- causal,
- causative,
- compliant,
- component,
- conjugation,
- constituent,
- constitutive,
- constructive,
- creative,
- cutting,
- decisive,
- declension,
- demiurgic,
- derivation,
- determinative,
- difference of form,
- ductile,
- effectual,
- elastic,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- enclitic,
- etiological,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fetal,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formal,
- formational,
- foundational,
- free form,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- gestatory,
- giving,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in the bud,
- inaugural,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- infant,
- infantile,
- infix,
- infixation,
- inflection,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- institutive,
- integral,
- integrant,
- introductory,
- inventive,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- moldable,
- morph,
- morpheme,
- morphemic analysis,
- morphemics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- morphotic,
- nascent,
- natal,
- occasional,
- original,
- originative,
- paradigm,
- parturient,
- pivotal,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- postnatal,
- prefix,
- prefixation,
- pregnant,
- prenatal,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- proclitic,
- procreative,
- productive,
- radical,
- receptive,
- responsive,
- root,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- shapable,
- springy,
- stem,
- submissive,
- suffix,
- suffixation,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- theme,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- ur,
- whippy,
- willowy,
- word-formation,
- yielding
- bandage
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- a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
- dress by covering or binding; "The nurse bandaged a sprained ankle"; "bandage an incision" related words >
- Ace bandage,
- Band-Aid,
- Mystik tape,
- Scotch tape,
- adhesive tape,
- application,
- band,
- bandaging,
- bathe,
- batten,
- bedazzle,
- belt,
- bend,
- benight,
- bind,
- bind up,
- binder,
- binding,
- blind,
- blind the eyes,
- blindfold,
- brace,
- bundle,
- care for,
- cast,
- cataplasm,
- cellophane tape,
- chain,
- cinch,
- cloth tape,
- compress,
- cotton,
- court plaster,
- cravat,
- cure,
- darken,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- deprive of sight,
- diagnose,
- dim,
- do up,
- doctor,
- dress,
- dressing,
- dust jacket,
- eclipse,
- elastic bandage,
- envelope,
- envelopment,
- epithem,
- excecate,
- fascia,
- fillet,
- flux,
- four-tailed bandage,
- friction tape,
- gauze,
- gift wrapping,
- gird,
- girdle,
- girt,
- girth,
- give care to,
- glare,
- gouge,
- heal,
- hoodwink,
- jacket,
- lace,
- lash,
- lath,
- leash,
- ligula,
- ligule,
- lint,
- list,
- make blind,
- masking tape,
- massage,
- minister to,
- nurse,
- obscure,
- operate on,
- physic,
- plank,
- plaster,
- plaster cast,
- plastic tape,
- pledget,
- poultice,
- purge,
- remedy,
- ribband,
- ribbon,
- roller,
- roller bandage,
- rope,
- rub,
- rubber bandage,
- shred,
- slat,
- sling,
- slip,
- snow-blind,
- spill,
- splice,
- spline,
- splint,
- sponge,
- strake,
- strap,
- strike blind,
- strip,
- strop,
- stupe,
- swaddle,
- swathe,
- taenia,
- tampon,
- tape,
- tape measure,
- tapeline,
- tent,
- ticker tape,
- tie,
- tie up,
- tourniquet,
- treat,
- triangular bandage,
- truss,
- wire,
- wrap,
- wrap up,
- wrapper,
- wrapping
- racket
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- an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
- a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games
- a loud and disturbing noise
- hit (a ball) with a racket
- make loud and annoying noises related words >
- Babel,
- Bedlam let loose,
- Cosa Nostra,
- Lastex,
- Mafia,
- ado,
- agate,
- agitation,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- babel,
- baleen,
- ball,
- ballot-box stuffing,
- ballyhoo,
- baseball bat,
- bat,
- battledore,
- bauble,
- bedlam,
- black market,
- blast,
- blind,
- blocks,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- bootlegging,
- bother,
- brattle,
- brawl,
- broil,
- brouhaha,
- bunco,
- business,
- cacophony,
- calling,
- caper,
- cardsharping,
- career,
- career building,
- careerism,
- chaos,
- charivari,
- chatter,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- checkerboard,
- chessboard,
- chewing gum,
- chicanery,
- chirm,
- clack,
- clacket,
- clamor,
- clangor,
- clap,
- clatter,
- clitter,
- clitterclatter,
- club,
- clunter,
- cockhorse,
- commotion,
- confusion of tongues,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- cozenage,
- craft,
- cricket bat,
- cue,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- design,
- device,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- din,
- discord,
- dishonesty,
- disturbance,
- dodge,
- doll,
- doll carriage,
- donnybrook,
- donnybrook fair,
- drunken brawl,
- dustup,
- ebullition,
- elastic,
- elastomer,
- embroilment,
- employment,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- fanaticism,
- feint,
- ferment,
- fetch,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- flap,
- flimflam,
- fomentation,
- foofaraw,
- fracas,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- free-for-all,
- frenzy,
- fume,
- furor,
- furore,
- fury,
- fuss,
- gambit,
- gambling,
- game,
- gerrymandering,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- gimmick,
- golf club,
- graft,
- gray market,
- grift,
- gum,
- gum elastic,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- handball,
- handicraft,
- hassle,
- hell,
- hell broke loose,
- helter-skelter,
- hobbyhorse,
- howl,
- hubbub,
- hue and cry,
- hullabaloo,
- illegal commerce,
- illegal operations,
- illegitimate business,
- illicit business,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- intrigue,
- jack-in-the-box,
- jacks,
- jackstones,
- jackstraws,
- jangle,
- job,
- jugglery,
- jumping jack,
- kickshaw,
- knavery,
- knickknack,
- lifework,
- line,
- line of business,
- line of work,
- little game,
- livelihood,
- loan-sharking,
- loud noise,
- maneuver,
- marble,
- marionette,
- melee,
- metier,
- mig,
- mission,
- moonshining,
- move,
- mystery,
- narcotics traffic,
- noise,
- noise and shouting,
- number,
- occupation,
- organized crime,
- outcry,
- pandemonium,
- paper doll,
- passion,
- pell-mell,
- pick-up sticks,
- pinwheel,
- plaything,
- plot,
- ploy,
- pother,
- practice,
- profession,
- prostitution,
- protection racket,
- puppet,
- pursuit,
- rag doll,
- rage,
- rampage,
- rattle,
- rattletybang,
- rattling,
- red herring,
- rhubarb,
- riot,
- roar,
- rocking horse,
- rough-and-tumble,
- roughhouse,
- row,
- rubber,
- rubber ball,
- rubber band,
- ruckle,
- ruckus,
- ruction,
- rumble,
- rumpus,
- ruse,
- scam,
- scheme,
- scramble,
- shady dealings,
- shift,
- shindy,
- shivaree,
- sleight,
- spandex,
- specialization,
- specialty,
- sport,
- spring,
- springboard,
- static,
- steelie,
- stir,
- storminess,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- stretch fabric,
- subterfuge,
- swindle,
- tactic,
- taw,
- teetotum,
- tempestuousness,
- the rackets,
- the syndicate,
- thunder,
- thunderclap,
- tintamarre,
- to-do,
- top,
- toy,
- toy soldier,
- trade,
- traffic in women,
- trampoline,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trinket,
- trouble,
- tumult,
- tumultuousness,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- uproar,
- upset,
- usury,
- vocation,
- walk,
- walk of life,
- whalebone,
- whim-wham,
- white slavery,
- wildness,
- wile,
- wily device,
- work,
- zeal,
- zealousness
- receptive
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- able to absorb liquid (not repellent); "the paper is ink-receptive"
- open to arguments, ideas, or change; "receptive to reason and the logic of facts"
- ready or willing to receive favorably; "receptive to the proposals" related words >
- accessible,
- acquiescent,
- adaptable,
- admissible,
- admissive,
- admissory,
- agreeable,
- alacritous,
- alert,
- alive to,
- amenable,
- amiable,
- apt,
- ardent,
- astute,
- aware,
- bendable,
- bending,
- bright,
- clever,
- cognizant,
- compliant,
- conscious,
- consenting,
- content,
- cooperative,
- cordial,
- delicate,
- disposed,
- docile,
- ductile,
- eager,
- educable,
- elastic,
- emotionable,
- enthusiastic,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fain,
- favorable,
- favorably disposed,
- favorably inclined,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formative,
- forward,
- friendly,
- game,
- generous,
- genial,
- giving,
- gracious,
- hearty,
- hospitable,
- imbibitory,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- impressive,
- in the mind,
- in the mood,
- inclined,
- influenceable,
- ingestive,
- instructable,
- intelligent,
- interested,
- intromissive,
- intromittent,
- invitatory,
- inviting,
- keen,
- liberal,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- minded,
- moldable,
- motivated,
- movable,
- neighborly,
- open,
- open-minded,
- openhearted,
- passible,
- perceptive,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- pervious,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- predisposed,
- prompt,
- prone,
- quick,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- receivable,
- receiving,
- receptible,
- recipient,
- responsive,
- ripe for instruction,
- schoolable,
- sensatory,
- sensible,
- sensile,
- sensimotor,
- sensitive,
- sensitive to,
- sensorial,
- sensorimotor,
- sensory,
- sensuous,
- sentient,
- sequacious,
- shapable,
- sharp,
- sib,
- soft,
- softhearted,
- springy,
- suasible,
- submissive,
- suggestible,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- susceptive,
- swayable,
- sympathetic,
- teachable,
- tender,
- tenderhearted,
- thirsty for knowledge,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- trainable,
- warm,
- warmhearted,
- weak,
- welcoming,
- well-disposed,
- well-inclined,
- whippy,
- willed,
- willing,
- willinghearted,
- willowy,
- yielding,
- zealous
- roller
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- a grounder that rolls along the infield
- pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground
- Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers
- a cylinder that revolves
- a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate)
- a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore related words >
- Ace bandage,
- Band-Aid,
- abradant,
- abrasive,
- adhesive tape,
- application,
- band,
- bandage,
- bandaging,
- barrel,
- billow,
- binder,
- bole,
- bore,
- brace,
- breaker,
- breakers,
- burnish,
- calender,
- carousel,
- cask,
- cast,
- cataplasm,
- cheese grater,
- chop,
- choppiness,
- chopping sea,
- column,
- comb,
- comber,
- comminutor,
- compress,
- cotton,
- court plaster,
- cravat,
- crusher,
- cylinder,
- cylindroid,
- dirty water,
- disk,
- dressing,
- drum,
- eagre,
- elastic bandage,
- epithem,
- four-tailed bandage,
- gauze,
- granulator,
- grater,
- gravity wave,
- grinder,
- ground swell,
- heave,
- heavy sea,
- heavy swell,
- kominuter,
- lawn-roller,
- levigator,
- lift,
- lint,
- lop,
- mangle,
- masher,
- merry-go-round,
- mill,
- millstone,
- mortar and pestle,
- nutmeg grater,
- peak,
- pestle,
- pillar,
- pipe,
- plaster,
- plaster cast,
- pledget,
- polish,
- popple,
- poultice,
- pulverizer,
- quern,
- quernstone,
- riffle,
- ripple,
- rise,
- rock crusher,
- roll,
- roller bandage,
- rolling stone,
- rotator,
- rotor,
- rough water,
- rouleau,
- roundabout,
- rubber bandage,
- rundle,
- scend,
- sea,
- send,
- shredder,
- sleeker,
- slicker,
- sling,
- smooth,
- smoother,
- splint,
- sponge,
- steamroller,
- stupe,
- surf,
- surge,
- swell,
- tampon,
- tape,
- tent,
- tidal bore,
- tidal wave,
- tide wave,
- top,
- tourniquet,
- triangular bandage,
- triturator,
- trough,
- trunk,
- tsunami,
- tube,
- undulation,
- water wave,
- wave,
- wavelet,
- wheel,
- whirlabout,
- whirler,
- whirligig,
- white horses,
- whitecaps,
- windlass,
- wringer
- giving
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- disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return; "the alumni followed a program of annual giving"
- the act of giving
- the imparting of news or promises etc.; "he gave us the news and made a great show of the giving"; "giving his word of honor seemed to come too easily" related words >
- BOMFOG,
- Benthamism,
- Christian charity,
- Christian love,
- abalienation,
- adaptable,
- administration,
- agape,
- alienation,
- altruism,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- announcement,
- application,
- applying,
- assignation,
- assignment,
- bargain and sale,
- barter,
- bendable,
- bending,
- beneficence,
- benevolence,
- benevolent disposition,
- benevolentness,
- bequeathal,
- bestowal,
- bighearted,
- bigheartedness,
- bounteous,
- bountiful,
- brotherly love,
- caritas,
- cession,
- charitableness,
- charity,
- compliant,
- conferment,
- conferral,
- consignation,
- consignment,
- conveyance,
- conveyancing,
- deeding,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- demise,
- disclosure,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- do-goodism,
- dosage,
- dosing,
- ductile,
- elastic,
- enfeoffment,
- enforcing,
- exchange,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- flower power,
- forcing,
- forcing on,
- formable,
- formative,
- free,
- freehanded,
- freehearted,
- generosity,
- generous,
- goodwill,
- grace,
- gracious,
- greathearted,
- greatheartedness,
- handsome,
- hospitable,
- humanitarianism,
- impartation,
- imparting,
- impartment,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- large,
- largehearted,
- largeheartedness,
- lavish,
- lease and release,
- liberal,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- love,
- love of mankind,
- magnanimous,
- malleable,
- meting out,
- moldable,
- munificent,
- notification,
- open,
- openhanded,
- openhearted,
- philanthropism,
- philanthropy,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- prescribing,
- princely,
- profuse,
- publication,
- receptive,
- responsive,
- sale,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- settlement,
- settling,
- shapable,
- sharing,
- springy,
- stintless,
- submissive,
- supple,
- surrender,
- susceptible,
- telling,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- trading,
- transfer,
- transference,
- transmission,
- transmittal,
- ungrudging,
- unselfish,
- unsparing,
- unstinted,
- unstinting,
- utilitarianism,
- vesting,
- welfarism,
- well-disposedness,
- whippy,
- willowy,
- yielding
- yielding
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- tending to give in or surrender or agree; "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments"- V.I.Parrington
- lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure; "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber"
- inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person" related words >
- abandonment,
- abatement of differences,
- abdication,
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- acceptance,
- accommodating,
- accommodation,
- acquiescence,
- acquiescent,
- adaptable,
- adjustment,
- agreeable,
- amenable,
- arrangement,
- assent,
- bargain,
- bearing,
- bendable,
- bending,
- biddable,
- bouncy,
- cession,
- complaisance,
- compliance,
- compliant,
- composition,
- compromise,
- concession,
- consent,
- convenient,
- cop-out,
- deal,
- deference,
- desertion of principle,
- dispensation,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- docile,
- dropping out,
- ductile,
- dumping,
- elastic,
- evasion of responsibility,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- feasible,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- foolproof,
- forgoing,
- formable,
- formative,
- forswearing,
- fructiferous,
- fructification,
- fruitbearing,
- fruiting,
- fruition,
- getting rid of,
- give-and-take,
- giving,
- giving up,
- giving way,
- handing over,
- handy,
- homage,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- kneeling,
- letting go,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- manageable,
- maneuverable,
- manipulable,
- moldable,
- mushy,
- mutual concession,
- nonopposal,
- nonopposition,
- nonresistance,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- obedience,
- obedient,
- obeisance,
- obliging,
- pappy,
- passiveness,
- passivity,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- practical,
- producing,
- pulpy,
- quaggy,
- recantation,
- receptive,
- release,
- relinquishment,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- resignation,
- resigned,
- resignedness,
- resilient,
- responsive,
- retraction,
- riddance,
- rubbery,
- sacrifice,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- settlement,
- shapable,
- soft,
- spongy,
- springy,
- squashy,
- squelchy,
- squishy,
- squushy,
- subjection,
- submission,
- submissive,
- submittal,
- supineness,
- supple,
- surrender,
- susceptible,
- swearing off,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- unaustere,
- undemanding,
- understanding,
- unexacting,
- unharsh,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- unsevere,
- unstrict,
- untroublesome,
- waiver,
- whippy,
- wieldable,
- wieldy,
- willowy,
- withdrawing
- dressing
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- the act of applying a bandage
- the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes
- processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather
- a cloth covering for a wound or sore
- savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type related words >
- Ace bandage,
- Band-Aid,
- ablation,
- abrasion,
- abrasive,
- adhesive tape,
- ammonia,
- apparel,
- application,
- array,
- ass-reaming,
- attire,
- attrition,
- band,
- bandage,
- bandaging,
- bawling-out,
- bedizenment,
- binder,
- brace,
- buffing,
- burnishing,
- cast,
- castor-bean meal,
- cataplasm,
- chafe,
- chafing,
- chewing,
- clothes,
- clothing,
- commercial fertilizer,
- compost,
- compress,
- contour plowing,
- costume,
- cotton,
- court plaster,
- cravat,
- cultivating,
- cultivation,
- culture,
- cussing-out,
- detrition,
- drapery,
- dress,
- dressing-down,
- duds,
- dung,
- elastic bandage,
- enrichener,
- epithem,
- erasure,
- erosion,
- fallowing,
- farce,
- fashion,
- fatigues,
- feathers,
- fertilizer,
- fig,
- filing,
- forcemeat,
- four-tailed bandage,
- fretting,
- furrowing,
- galling,
- garb,
- garments,
- gauze,
- gear,
- going-over,
- grazing,
- grinding,
- guano,
- guise,
- habiliment,
- habit,
- harrowing,
- hoeing,
- investiture,
- investment,
- jacking-up,
- limation,
- linen,
- lint,
- listing,
- manure,
- muck,
- night soil,
- nitrate,
- nitrogen,
- organic fertilizer,
- phosphate,
- plaster,
- plaster cast,
- pledget,
- plowing,
- polishing,
- poultice,
- pruning,
- rags,
- raiment,
- raking-down,
- rasping,
- reaming,
- reaming-out,
- roasting,
- robes,
- roller,
- roller bandage,
- rubber bandage,
- rubbing away,
- sandblasting,
- sanding,
- scouring,
- scrape,
- scraping,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scuff,
- setdown,
- shining,
- sling,
- smoothing,
- speaking-to,
- splint,
- sponge,
- sportswear,
- stuffing,
- stupe,
- style,
- superphosphate,
- talking-to,
- tampon,
- tape,
- tent,
- thinning,
- threads,
- tilling,
- togs,
- toilette,
- tourniquet,
- triangular bandage,
- trim,
- vestment,
- vesture,
- wear,
- wearing apparel,
- wearing away,
- weeding,
- what-for,
- working
- compliant
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- disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental will" related words >
- abject,
- accepting,
- accommodating,
- accordant,
- acquiescent,
- acquiescing,
- active,
- adaptable,
- adapting,
- adaptive,
- adjustable,
- adjusting,
- affable,
- affirmative,
- agreeable,
- agreed,
- agreeing,
- alacritous,
- amenable,
- amiable,
- appliable,
- applicable,
- approving,
- ardent,
- assentatious,
- assenting,
- bendable,
- bending,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- complaisant,
- compliable,
- complying,
- conceding,
- concessive,
- conformable,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- consentient,
- consenting,
- constant,
- content,
- cooperative,
- decent,
- devoted,
- devout,
- disposed,
- docile,
- ductile,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- eager,
- elastic,
- endorsing,
- enthusiastic,
- exploitable,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fain,
- faithful,
- favorable,
- favorably disposed,
- favorably inclined,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formative,
- forward,
- game,
- generous,
- giving,
- gracious,
- humble,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- in the mind,
- in the mood,
- inclined,
- indulgent,
- kind,
- kindly,
- law-abiding,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- loyal,
- malleable,
- manipulable,
- meek,
- meticulous,
- minded,
- mindful,
- moldable,
- nondissenting,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- nothing loath,
- obedient,
- obliging,
- observant,
- operable,
- other-directed,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- passive,
- permissive,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- practical,
- practicing,
- predisposed,
- prompt,
- prone,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- quick,
- ratifying,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- receptive,
- reconciled,
- regardful,
- resigned,
- responsive,
- reusable,
- sanctioning,
- scrupulous,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- servile,
- shapable,
- springy,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- supine,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- true,
- unassertive,
- uncomplaining,
- ungrudging,
- unloath,
- unrefusing,
- unreluctant,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- usable,
- utilizable,
- well-disposed,
- well-inclined,
- whippy,
- willed,
- willing,
- willinghearted,
- willowy,
- yielding,
- zealous
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