Related Words:
- lighting
collapse - the craft of providing artificial light; "an interior decorator must understand lighting"
- apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film related words >
- arc lighting,
- black and white,
- brightening,
- chiaroscuro,
- contrast,
- decorative lighting,
- direct lighting,
- electric lighting,
- enkindling,
- enlightening,
- enlightenment,
- festoon lighting,
- firing,
- flammation,
- floodlighting,
- fluorescent lighting,
- gaslighting,
- glow lighting,
- highlights,
- ignition,
- illuminating,
- illumination,
- illumining,
- incandescent lighting,
- incendiary,
- indirect lighting,
- inflaming,
- inflammation,
- inflammative,
- inflammatory,
- irradiation,
- kindling,
- light and shade,
- lightening,
- lighting up,
- overhead lighting,
- radiation,
- spot lighting,
- stage lighting,
- strip lighting,
- tonality
- irascibility
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- a feeling of resentful anger related words >
- aggressiveness,
- agitability,
- bearishness,
- bellicosity,
- belligerence,
- bickering,
- bitchiness,
- cantankerousness,
- churlishness,
- combativeness,
- combustibility,
- contentiousness,
- contrariness,
- crabbedness,
- crankiness,
- crossness,
- crustiness,
- cussedness,
- difficultness,
- disagreeability,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- dourness,
- edginess,
- emotional instability,
- emotionalism,
- eruptiveness,
- excitability,
- excitableness,
- explosiveness,
- faction,
- factiousness,
- flak,
- fractiousness,
- frowardness,
- huffiness,
- huffishness,
- infighting,
- inflammability,
- irritability,
- latent violence,
- litigiousness,
- meanness,
- nervousness,
- orneriness,
- partisan spirit,
- partisanship,
- perturbability,
- perverseness,
- perversite,
- perversity,
- prickliness,
- pugnacity,
- quarrelsomeness,
- sensitivity,
- shrewishness,
- skittishness,
- snappishness,
- startlishness,
- stuffiness,
- sulkiness,
- sullenness,
- tempestuousness,
- testiness,
- touchiness,
- ugliness,
- violence,
- waspishness,
- waywardness,
- wrongheadedness
- demeaning
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- causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game" related words >
- beneath one,
- cheap,
- common,
- debasing,
- degrading,
- deplorable,
- disadvantaged,
- disgraceful,
- gutter,
- humble,
- humiliating,
- humiliative,
- in the shade,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- infra indignitatem,
- junior,
- less,
- lesser,
- low,
- lower,
- lowly,
- minor,
- modest,
- opprobrious,
- ordinary,
- outrageous,
- pitiful,
- sad,
- scandalous,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- servile,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- sorry,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subject,
- subordinate,
- subservient,
- third rank,
- third string,
- too bad,
- unbecoming,
- underprivileged,
- unworthy of one,
- vulgar
- sapling
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- young tree related words >
- adolescent,
- baby,
- conifer,
- evergreen,
- fledgling,
- fruit tree,
- hardwood tree,
- hopeful,
- infant,
- junior,
- juvenal,
- juvenile,
- minor,
- pollard,
- pubescent,
- scion,
- seedling,
- set,
- shade tree,
- shoot,
- slip,
- softwood tree,
- sprig,
- sprout,
- stripling,
- sucker,
- teenager,
- teener,
- teenybopper,
- timber,
- timber tree,
- tree,
- twig,
- young hopeful,
- young person,
- younger,
- youngest,
- youngling,
- youngster,
- youth
- amount,
- caliber,
- compass,
- cut,
- degree,
- doorstep,
- extent,
- footrest,
- footstep,
- grade,
- height,
- interval,
- leap,
- level,
- mark,
- measure,
- notch,
- nuance,
- pas,
- peg,
- period,
- pitch,
- plane,
- plateau,
- point,
- proportion,
- range,
- ratio,
- reach,
- remove,
- rest,
- riser,
- round,
- rundle,
- rung,
- scale,
- scope,
- shade,
- shadow,
- space,
- spoke,
- standard,
- stave,
- step,
- step stool,
- stepping-stone,
- stint,
- string,
- tread
- explosive
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- a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck
- serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst; "an explosive device"; "explosive gas"; "explosive force"; "explosive violence"; "an explosive temper"
- sudden and loud; "an explosive laugh"
- liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation" related words >
- Ballistite,
- TNT,
- agitable,
- alarming,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- anxious,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilation,
- bad,
- banging,
- bilabial,
- blasting,
- bursting,
- cacuminal,
- cellulose nitrate,
- cerebral,
- chancy,
- check,
- combustible,
- consonant,
- continuant,
- cordite,
- cracking,
- crashing,
- critical,
- dangerous,
- dangersome,
- delicate,
- dental,
- detonating,
- dicey,
- diphthong,
- dissimilation,
- dynamite,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- epenthetic vowel,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explodable,
- exploding,
- explosible,
- fiery,
- flapping,
- fraught,
- fraught with danger,
- fulminating,
- gelignite,
- glide,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- gunpowder,
- guttural,
- hasty,
- hazardous,
- high explosive,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hot,
- hot-tempered,
- hotheaded,
- iffy,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jeopardous,
- knocking,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- manner of articulation,
- melinite,
- menacing,
- mettlesome,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- nasal,
- nasty,
- nervous,
- nitrocotton,
- nitroglycerin,
- occlusive,
- palatal,
- parasitic vowel,
- parlous,
- passionate,
- peak,
- peppery,
- periculous,
- perilous,
- perturbable,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- plastic,
- plastic explosive,
- plosive,
- popping,
- powder,
- precarious,
- prickly,
- prothetic vowel,
- quick,
- quick-tempered,
- rapping,
- retroflex,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- sensitive,
- serious,
- shaky,
- short-tempered,
- skittish,
- slapping,
- slatting,
- smokeless powder,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- spunky,
- startlish,
- stop,
- surd,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tapping,
- tense,
- threatening,
- touch-and-go,
- touchy,
- transition sound,
- trinitrotoluol,
- triphthong,
- ugly,
- uncertain,
- unpredictable,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- velar,
- villanous saltpetre,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- vowel
- add,
- amalgamate,
- assimilate,
- blend,
- coalesce,
- combine,
- come together,
- compound,
- comprise,
- connect,
- consolidate,
- diffuse,
- embody,
- encompass,
- flux,
- fuse,
- immingle,
- impregnate,
- include,
- incorporate,
- infuse,
- integrate,
- interblend,
- interlard,
- intermingle,
- intermix,
- interpenetrate,
- intersow,
- intersperse,
- intersprinkle,
- join,
- lump together,
- make one,
- meld,
- melt into one,
- merge,
- mingle,
- mix,
- penetrate,
- percolate,
- pervade,
- put together,
- reembody,
- roll into one,
- saturate,
- shade into,
- solidify,
- syncretize,
- syndicate,
- synthesize,
- transfuse,
- unify,
- unite
- abandonment,
- break,
- breakoff,
- breath,
- breather,
- breathing place,
- breathing space,
- breathing spell,
- breathing time,
- catharsis,
- cease,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- cigarette break,
- cleansing,
- close,
- closing,
- cocktail hour,
- coffee break,
- deliverance,
- desinence,
- desist,
- desistance,
- discharge,
- discontinuance,
- discontinuation,
- discontinue,
- downtime,
- emotional release,
- enforced respite,
- freeing,
- give over,
- halt,
- happy hour,
- interlude,
- intermission,
- knock off,
- leave off,
- letup,
- lull,
- pause,
- purgation,
- purge,
- purging,
- quit,
- recess,
- release,
- relinquishment,
- removal,
- renunciation,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- rest,
- shutdown,
- spell,
- stay,
- stopping,
- suspension,
- tea break,
- termination,
- time out
- rung
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- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair related words >
- amount,
- caliber,
- compass,
- cut,
- degree,
- doorstep,
- extent,
- footrest,
- footstep,
- grade,
- height,
- interval,
- leap,
- level,
- mark,
- measure,
- notch,
- nuance,
- pas,
- peg,
- period,
- pitch,
- plane,
- plateau,
- point,
- proportion,
- range,
- ratio,
- reach,
- remove,
- rest,
- riser,
- round,
- rundle,
- scale,
- scope,
- shade,
- shadow,
- space,
- spoke,
- stage,
- stair,
- standard,
- stave,
- step,
- step stool,
- stepping-stone,
- stint,
- string,
- tread
- chorea
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- any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs related words >
- MS,
- ague,
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
- brain disease,
- bumpiness,
- cephalalgia,
- cerebral palsy,
- chattering,
- cold shivers,
- emotional disorder,
- epilepsy,
- falling sickness,
- fits and starts,
- glossopharyngeal neuralgia,
- headache,
- herpes zoster,
- ischialgia,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jerkiness,
- joltiness,
- migraine,
- multiple sclerosis,
- nervous disorder,
- neuralgia,
- neuritis,
- neuropathy,
- organic psychosis,
- palsy,
- polyneuritis,
- pressure neuropathy,
- priapism,
- quaking,
- quavering,
- quivering,
- radiculitis,
- sciatic neuritis,
- sciatica,
- shakes,
- shaking,
- shaking palsy,
- shingles,
- shivering,
- shivers,
- shuddering,
- spasms,
- spastic paralysis,
- succussion,
- the jerks,
- tic douloureux,
- toxic psychosis,
- trembling,
- tremulousness,
- vibration
- Emancipation Proclamation,
- affranchisement,
- break,
- breaking out,
- breakout,
- catharsis,
- cleansing,
- clearing,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- disburdening,
- discharge,
- disembarrassment,
- disembroilment,
- disencumbrance,
- disengagement,
- disentanglement,
- disenthrallment,
- disinvolvement,
- dislodgment,
- emancipation,
- emergence,
- emotional release,
- enfranchisement,
- escape,
- escapism,
- evasion,
- extrication,
- flight,
- gay liberation,
- getaway,
- intermission,
- issuance,
- issue,
- jailbreak,
- leak,
- leakage,
- liberation,
- lifesaving,
- manumission,
- outlet,
- prisonbreak,
- purgation,
- purge,
- purging,
- ransom,
- recovery,
- redemption,
- release,
- releasing,
- removal,
- reprieve,
- rescue,
- respite,
- retrieval,
- riddance,
- salvage,
- salvation,
- saving,
- setting at liberty,
- setting-free,
- surcease,
- suspension,
- uncluttering,
- unhampering,
- unknotting,
- unraveling,
- unscrambling,
- unsnarling,
- untangling,
- vent
- X-ray eye,
- cover,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- defense,
- eagle eye,
- eye,
- gimlet eye,
- guard,
- guardedness,
- guardianship,
- invigilation,
- keen eye,
- lee,
- lookout,
- monitoring,
- observance,
- peeled eye,
- penetrating eye,
- preservation,
- proctoring,
- protection,
- protective custody,
- prudence,
- qui vive,
- refuge,
- safekeeping,
- safety,
- shade,
- shadow,
- sharp eye,
- shelter,
- stewardship,
- surveillance,
- vigil,
- vigilance,
- wariness,
- watch,
- watch and ward,
- watchfulness,
- watching,
- weather eye
- sensitive
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- of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security
- hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw"
- responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"
- being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others; "sensitive to the local community and its needs" related words >
- accurate,
- acute,
- adaptable,
- affected,
- agitable,
- algetic,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- angry,
- appreciative,
- attuned,
- aware,
- bendable,
- bending,
- burning,
- censorious,
- chafed,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- cognizant,
- compliant,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- critical,
- delicate,
- differential,
- discriminate,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- disposed,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- ductile,
- edgy,
- elastic,
- emotionable,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- eruptive,
- exact,
- exacting,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- exposed,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fastidious,
- feeling,
- festering,
- fictile,
- fiery,
- fine,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- formable,
- formative,
- galled,
- giving,
- goosy,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hot-tempered,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- impressed,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- inclined,
- inflamed,
- inflammable,
- influenced,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- irritated,
- itchy,
- keen,
- knowing,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- meticulous,
- mettlesome,
- miffy,
- moldable,
- nervous,
- nice,
- obnoxious,
- open,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- particular,
- passible,
- perceiving,
- perceptive,
- perfectionistic,
- perturbable,
- petulant,
- picky,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- precarious,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- predisposed,
- prickly,
- priggish,
- prone,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- quarrelsome,
- quick-tempered,
- rankling,
- raw,
- reactive,
- receptive,
- red,
- refined,
- responsive,
- scrupulous,
- seeing,
- selective,
- sensational,
- sensatory,
- sensible,
- sensile,
- sensimotor,
- sensorial,
- sensorimotor,
- sensory,
- sensual,
- sensuous,
- sentient,
- sequacious,
- shapable,
- sharp,
- skittish,
- smarting,
- soft,
- softhearted,
- sore,
- springy,
- startlish,
- strict,
- subject,
- submissive,
- subtle,
- supersensitive,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- susceptive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- temperamental,
- tender,
- tenderhearted,
- tense,
- testy,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- tingling,
- touchy,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- tricky,
- understanding,
- unstable,
- volatile,
- volcanic,
- vulnerable,
- warmhearted,
- whippy,
- willowy,
- yielding
- phantasmagoria
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- a constantly changing medley or real or imagined images (as in a dream) related words >
- apparition,
- appearance,
- cosmorama,
- cyclorama,
- diorama,
- display,
- eidolon,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exposition,
- fantasy,
- figure,
- form,
- georama,
- idolum,
- image,
- light show,
- myriorama,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- panorama,
- parade,
- phantasm,
- phantasma,
- phantom,
- pomp,
- presence,
- presentation,
- psychedelic show,
- representation,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shape,
- shifting scene,
- show,
- sight,
- spectacle,
- specter,
- stage show,
- tableau,
- tableau vivant,
- vision,
- waking dream,
- wildest dream,
- wraith
- absolution,
- abstergent,
- abstersion,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- assassination,
- bloody murder,
- bowdlerization,
- bumping-off,
- catharsis,
- cathartic,
- cleaning,
- cleansing,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- compurgation,
- deliverance,
- depurative,
- destigmatization,
- destigmatizing,
- detergent,
- detersion,
- discharge,
- disculpation,
- dismissal,
- diuretic,
- dry cleaning,
- elimination,
- emetic,
- emotional release,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exoneration,
- explanation,
- expurgation,
- expurgatory,
- forgiveness,
- foul play,
- freeing,
- homicide,
- intermission,
- justification,
- liquidation,
- lustral,
- lustration,
- manslaughter,
- murder,
- pardon,
- purgation,
- purgative,
- purge,
- purification,
- purificatory,
- purifying,
- quietus,
- quittance,
- rationalization,
- rehabilitation,
- reinstatement,
- release,
- remission,
- removal,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- restoration,
- steam cleaning,
- surcease,
- suspension,
- thuggee,
- thuggery,
- thuggism,
- verdict of acquittal,
- vindication
- straight face
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- a serious facial expression giving no evidence of interest or amusement related words >
- anesthesia,
- autism,
- catatonia,
- chill,
- chilliness,
- cold blood,
- cold heart,
- coldheartedness,
- coldness,
- coolness,
- deadpan,
- decorousness,
- demureness,
- dispassion,
- dispassionateness,
- dullness,
- earnestness,
- emotional deadness,
- emotionlessness,
- expressionlessness,
- formality,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- gravity,
- grimness,
- heartlessness,
- iciness,
- immovability,
- impassibility,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- inexcitability,
- inexpressiveness,
- lack of affect,
- lack of feeling,
- lack of touch,
- long face,
- objectivity,
- obtuseness,
- passionlessness,
- poker face,
- sedateness,
- self-absorption,
- seriousness,
- sober-mindedness,
- soberness,
- sobersidedness,
- sobersides,
- sobriety,
- solemnity,
- solemnness,
- somberness,
- soullessness,
- spiritlessness,
- staidness,
- thoughtfulness,
- unemotionalism,
- unexcitability,
- unexpressiveness,
- unfeeling,
- unfeelingness,
- unimpressibility,
- unimpressionableness,
- unpassionateness,
- unresponsiveness,
- unsusceptibility,
- unsympatheticness,
- untouchability,
- weightiness,
- withdrawal
- objectivity
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- judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices related words >
- anesthesia,
- autism,
- catatonia,
- chill,
- chilliness,
- cold blood,
- cold heart,
- coldheartedness,
- coldness,
- coolness,
- deadpan,
- detachment,
- discreteness,
- disinterest,
- disinterestedness,
- dispassion,
- dispassionateness,
- dullness,
- emotional deadness,
- emotionlessness,
- equitability,
- equitableness,
- evenhandedness,
- externality,
- extraneousness,
- extrinsicality,
- fair-mindedness,
- fairness,
- foreignness,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- heartlessness,
- iciness,
- immovability,
- impartiality,
- impassibility,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impersonality,
- indifference,
- inexcitability,
- justness,
- lack of affect,
- lack of feeling,
- lack of touch,
- neutrality,
- nonsubjectivity,
- obtuseness,
- otherness,
- outwardness,
- passionlessness,
- poker face,
- self-absorption,
- soullessness,
- spiritlessness,
- straight face,
- unbiasedness,
- unemotionalism,
- unexcitability,
- unfeeling,
- unfeelingness,
- unimpressibility,
- unimpressionableness,
- unopinionatedness,
- unpassionateness,
- unprejudicedness,
- unresponsiveness,
- unsusceptibility,
- unsympatheticness,
- untouchability,
- withdrawal
- migraine
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- a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men related words >
- MS,
- ache,
- aching,
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
- angina,
- backache,
- bellyache,
- brain disease,
- cephalalgia,
- cerebral palsy,
- chorea,
- colic,
- collywobbles,
- earache,
- emotional disorder,
- epilepsy,
- falling sickness,
- fret,
- glossopharyngeal neuralgia,
- gnawing,
- gripe,
- gripes,
- gut-ache,
- headache,
- heartburn,
- hemicrania,
- herpes zoster,
- ischialgia,
- megrim,
- multiple sclerosis,
- nervous disorder,
- neuralgia,
- neuritis,
- neuropathy,
- odontalgia,
- organic psychosis,
- otalgia,
- palsy,
- polyneuritis,
- pressure neuropathy,
- priapism,
- pyrosis,
- radiculitis,
- sciatic neuritis,
- sciatica,
- shaking palsy,
- shingles,
- sick headache,
- spastic paralysis,
- splitting headache,
- stomachache,
- the jerks,
- throbbing pain,
- tic douloureux,
- toothache,
- toxic psychosis
- bogey
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- an evil spirit
- (golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole
- to shoot in one stroke over par related words >
- Dracula,
- Frankenstein,
- Mumbo Jumbo,
- Wolf-man,
- air armada,
- air force,
- bandit,
- bogeyman,
- boggart,
- bogle,
- booger,
- boogerman,
- boogeyman,
- bug,
- bugaboo,
- bugbear,
- bugger,
- combat plane,
- enemy aircraft,
- fee-faw-fum,
- frightener,
- ghost,
- ghoul,
- haunt,
- hobgoblin,
- holy terror,
- horror,
- incubus,
- monster,
- nightmare,
- ogre,
- ogress,
- phantom,
- revenant,
- scarebabe,
- scarecrow,
- scarer,
- shade,
- specter,
- spirit,
- spook,
- succubus,
- terror,
- vampire,
- werewolf,
- wraith
- histrionics
collapse
- a deliberate display of emotion for effect related words >
- Thespian art,
- amateur theatricals,
- blazon,
- blood and thunder,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- daring,
- dash,
- demonstration,
- demonstrativeness,
- display,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramaturgy,
- eclat,
- emotional appeal,
- emotionalism,
- emotionality,
- emotionalization,
- emotionalizing,
- emotiveness,
- emotivity,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- figure,
- flair,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- histrionism,
- human interest,
- love interest,
- making scenes,
- manifestation,
- melodrama,
- melodramatics,
- nonrationalness,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- play construction,
- sensationalism,
- sham,
- show,
- showing-off,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- staginess,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- theatrics,
- unreasoningness,
- vaunt,
- visceralness,
- yellow journalism
- Thespian art,
- amateur theatricals,
- blazon,
- blood and thunder,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- daring,
- dash,
- demonstration,
- demonstrativeness,
- display,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramaturgy,
- eclat,
- emotional appeal,
- emotionalism,
- emotionality,
- emotionalization,
- emotionalizing,
- emotiveness,
- emotivity,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- figure,
- flair,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- histrionics,
- histrionism,
- human interest,
- love interest,
- making scenes,
- manifestation,
- melodrama,
- melodramatics,
- nonrationalness,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- play construction,
- sensationalism,
- sham,
- show,
- showing-off,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- staginess,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- unreasoningness,
- vaunt,
- visceralness,
- yellow journalism
- crosshatch
collapse
- shade with multiple crossing lines; "the draftsman crosshatched the area" related words >
- autolithograph,
- be a printmaker,
- cartoon,
- carve,
- chalk,
- character,
- charcoal,
- chisel,
- color,
- copy,
- crayon,
- crease,
- cribble,
- cut,
- dash off,
- daub,
- delineate,
- depict,
- design,
- diagram,
- doodle,
- draft,
- draw,
- enchase,
- engrave,
- furrow,
- grave,
- groove,
- hatch,
- incise,
- inscribe,
- limn,
- line,
- lithograph,
- make prints,
- mark,
- paint,
- paint a picture,
- pencil,
- picture,
- picturize,
- portray,
- print,
- score,
- scrape,
- scratch,
- sculpture,
- scumble,
- shade,
- sketch,
- stencil,
- stipple,
- tint,
- tool,
- trace
- disconnection
collapse
- the act of breaking a connection related words >
- abstraction,
- alienation,
- alternating personality,
- broken thread,
- brokenness,
- depersonalization,
- detachment,
- disarticulation,
- disassociation,
- disconnectedness,
- discontinuance,
- discontinuation,
- discontinuity,
- discontinuousness,
- discreteness,
- disengagement,
- disjointing,
- disjunction,
- disjuncture,
- dislocation,
- dissociation,
- dissociation of personality,
- disunion,
- division,
- divorce,
- divorcement,
- double personality,
- dual personality,
- emotional dissociation,
- episode,
- fitfulness,
- immateriality,
- impertinence,
- inapplicability,
- inappositeness,
- incoherence,
- incompleteness,
- inconnection,
- inconsequence,
- independence,
- intermittence,
- irregularity,
- irrelation,
- irrelevance,
- isolation,
- luxation,
- mental dissociation,
- multiple personality,
- non sequitur,
- noncontinuance,
- nonlinearity,
- nonseriality,
- nonuniformity,
- paranoia,
- paranoid personality,
- parenthesis,
- parting,
- partition,
- personality disorganization,
- removal,
- schizoid personality,
- schizoidism,
- schizophrenia,
- schizothymia,
- segmentation,
- separateness,
- separation,
- separatism,
- split personality,
- subdivision,
- subtraction,
- unconnectedness,
- unrelatedness,
- withdrawal,
- zoning
- apparition,
- appearance,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- chimera,
- delirium,
- eidolon,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figment,
- figure,
- form,
- hallucination,
- idle fancy,
- idolum,
- illusion,
- image,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- myth,
- phantasm,
- phantasma,
- phantasmagoria,
- phantom,
- presence,
- romance,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shape,
- sick fancy,
- specter,
- thick-coming fancies,
- trip,
- vapor,
- vision,
- waking dream,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams,
- wraith
- autism
collapse
- (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people related words >
- acquisitiveness,
- airy nothing,
- alienation,
- anesthesia,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- bashfulness,
- blame-shifting,
- bubble,
- careerism,
- catatonia,
- chill,
- chilliness,
- chimera,
- cold blood,
- cold heart,
- coldheartedness,
- coldness,
- compensation,
- coolness,
- daydream,
- deadpan,
- deception,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- dispassion,
- dispassionateness,
- displacement,
- dissociability,
- dissociation,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamery,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- dullness,
- ego trip,
- egotism,
- emotional deadness,
- emotional insulation,
- emotionlessness,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- false belief,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- flight of fancy,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- graspingness,
- greed,
- heartlessness,
- iciness,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- imaginative exercise,
- immovability,
- impassibility,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impracticality,
- incompatibility,
- individualism,
- inexcitability,
- insociability,
- interest,
- isolation,
- lack of affect,
- lack of feeling,
- lack of touch,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mopishness,
- moroseness,
- narcissism,
- negativism,
- objectivity,
- obtuseness,
- overcompensation,
- passionlessness,
- personal aims,
- personal ambition,
- personal desires,
- personalism,
- pipe dream,
- play of fancy,
- poker face,
- possessiveness,
- privatism,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- rationalization,
- remoteness,
- resistance,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- self-absorption,
- self-admiration,
- self-advancement,
- self-centeredness,
- self-consideration,
- self-containment,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- self-devotion,
- self-esteem,
- self-indulgence,
- self-interest,
- self-interestedness,
- self-jealousy,
- self-occupation,
- self-pleasing,
- self-seeking,
- self-serving,
- self-solicitude,
- self-sufficiency,
- selfishness,
- selfism,
- social incompatibility,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- soullessness,
- spiritlessness,
- straight face,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- sullenness,
- trick,
- trip,
- uncommunicativeness,
- uncompanionability,
- uncongeniality,
- unemotionalism,
- unexcitability,
- unfeeling,
- unfeelingness,
- unfriendliness,
- ungeniality,
- ungregariousness,
- unimpressibility,
- unimpressionableness,
- unpassionateness,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- unresponsiveness,
- unsociability,
- unsociableness,
- unsusceptibility,
- unsympatheticness,
- untouchability,
- utopianism,
- vapor,
- visionariness,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal,
- wrong impression
- conceal
collapse
- hold back; keep from being perceived by others; "She conceals her anger well" related words >
- becloud,
- befog,
- blanket,
- blind,
- bosom,
- bury,
- cache,
- camouflage,
- classify,
- cloak,
- cloud,
- cover,
- cover up,
- curtain,
- disguise,
- dissemble,
- distract attention from,
- ditch,
- eclipse,
- ensconce,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- file and forget,
- gloss over,
- hide,
- hold out on,
- in petto,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep between us,
- keep buttoned up,
- keep close,
- keep dark,
- keep from,
- keep hidden,
- keep in ignorance,
- keep mum,
- keep secret,
- keep snug,
- keep under cover,
- keep under wraps,
- make no sign,
- mask,
- never let on,
- not give away,
- not tell,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- occult,
- play dumb,
- screen,
- secrete,
- shade,
- shroud,
- slur over,
- stash,
- varnish,
- veil,
- whitewash,
- withhold
- atavism
collapse
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic related words >
- Mnemosyne,
- aboriginality,
- affect memory,
- age,
- ancien regime,
- ancientness,
- anterograde memory,
- antiquity,
- backset,
- backward deviation,
- cobwebs of antiquity,
- collective memory,
- computer memory,
- disk memory,
- drum memory,
- dust of ages,
- eld,
- elderliness,
- eldership,
- emotional response,
- engram,
- falling back,
- great age,
- hoary age,
- hoary eld,
- information storage,
- inveteracy,
- kinesthetic memory,
- lapse,
- memory,
- memory bank,
- memory circuit,
- memory trace,
- mind,
- mneme,
- old age,
- old order,
- old style,
- oldness,
- primitiveness,
- primogeniture,
- primordialism,
- primordiality,
- race memory,
- recollection,
- recrudescence,
- recurrence,
- regression,
- relapse,
- remembrance,
- renewal,
- return,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reversion,
- screen memory,
- senility,
- seniority,
- setback,
- skill,
- souvenir,
- tape memory,
- throwback,
- venerableness,
- verbal response,
- visual memory
- split personality
collapse
- a relatively rare dissociative disorder in which the usual integrity of the personality breaks down and two or more independent personalities emerge related words >
- alcoholic,
- alternating personality,
- antisocial personality,
- catatonia,
- catatonic schizophrenia,
- dementia praecox,
- depersonalization,
- disconnection,
- disordered personality,
- dissociation,
- dissociation of personality,
- disturbed personality,
- double personality,
- drug user,
- dual personality,
- emotional dissociation,
- emotionally unstable personality,
- escapist,
- hebephrenia,
- hebephrenic schizophrenia,
- hostile personality,
- hypochondriac,
- hypochondriast,
- idiot,
- imaginary invalid,
- immature personality,
- inadequate personality,
- inferior personality,
- malade imaginaire,
- maladjusted personality,
- mental dissociation,
- mentally defective personality,
- moral insanity,
- multiple personality,
- neuropath,
- neurotic,
- neurotic personality,
- paranoia,
- paranoid personality,
- paranoid psychosis,
- paraphrenia,
- personality disorganization,
- perverse personality,
- psychoneurotic,
- psychopath,
- psychopathic personality,
- psychotic,
- psychotic personality,
- schizoid,
- schizoid personality,
- schizoidism,
- schizophrenia,
- schizothymia,
- seclusive personality,
- sexual psychopath,
- shut-in personality,
- sociopath,
- valetudinarian,
- valetudinary,
- weak personality
- alcoholic,
- alternating personality,
- antisocial personality,
- catatonia,
- catatonic schizophrenia,
- dementia praecox,
- depersonalization,
- disconnection,
- disordered personality,
- dissociation,
- dissociation of personality,
- disturbed personality,
- drug user,
- dual personality,
- emotional dissociation,
- emotionally unstable personality,
- escapist,
- hebephrenia,
- hebephrenic schizophrenia,
- hostile personality,
- hypochondriac,
- hypochondriast,
- idiot,
- imaginary invalid,
- immature personality,
- inadequate personality,
- inferior personality,
- malade imaginaire,
- maladjusted personality,
- mental dissociation,
- mentally defective personality,
- moral insanity,
- multiple personality,
- neuropath,
- neurotic,
- neurotic personality,
- paranoia,
- paranoid personality,
- paranoid psychosis,
- paraphrenia,
- personality disorganization,
- perverse personality,
- psychoneurotic,
- psychopath,
- psychopathic personality,
- psychotic,
- psychotic personality,
- schizoid,
- schizoid personality,
- schizoidism,
- schizophrenia,
- schizothymia,
- seclusive personality,
- sexual psychopath,
- shut-in personality,
- sociopath,
- split personality,
- valetudinarian,
- valetudinary,
- weak personality
- alcoholic,
- alternating personality,
- antisocial personality,
- catatonia,
- catatonic schizophrenia,
- dementia praecox,
- depersonalization,
- disconnection,
- disordered personality,
- dissociation,
- dissociation of personality,
- disturbed personality,
- double personality,
- drug user,
- emotional dissociation,
- emotionally unstable personality,
- escapist,
- hebephrenia,
- hebephrenic schizophrenia,
- hostile personality,
- hypochondriac,
- hypochondriast,
- idiot,
- imaginary invalid,
- immature personality,
- inadequate personality,
- inferior personality,
- malade imaginaire,
- maladjusted personality,
- mental dissociation,
- mentally defective personality,
- moral insanity,
- multiple personality,
- neuropath,
- neurotic,
- neurotic personality,
- paranoia,
- paranoid personality,
- paranoid psychosis,
- paraphrenia,
- personality disorganization,
- perverse personality,
- psychoneurotic,
- psychopath,
- psychopathic personality,
- psychotic,
- psychotic personality,
- schizoid,
- schizoid personality,
- schizoidism,
- schizophrenia,
- schizothymia,
- seclusive personality,
- sexual psychopath,
- shut-in personality,
- sociopath,
- split personality,
- valetudinarian,
- valetudinary,
- weak personality
- seedling
collapse
- young plant or tree grown from a seed related words >
- amphibian,
- angiosperm,
- annual,
- aquatic plant,
- biennial,
- conifer,
- cosmopolite,
- cutting,
- deciduous plant,
- dicot,
- dicotyledon,
- ephemeral,
- evergreen,
- exotic,
- flowering plant,
- fruit tree,
- fungus,
- gametophyte,
- gymnosperm,
- hardwood tree,
- hydrophyte,
- monocot,
- monocotyl,
- perennial,
- plant,
- pollard,
- polycot,
- polycotyl,
- polycotyledon,
- sapling,
- scion,
- seed plant,
- set,
- shade tree,
- shoot,
- slip,
- softwood tree,
- spermatophyte,
- sporophyte,
- sprig,
- sprout,
- sucker,
- thallophyte,
- timber,
- timber tree,
- tree,
- triennial,
- twig,
- vascular plant,
- vegetable,
- weed
- pathetic
collapse
- inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett
- inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice" related words >
- affecting,
- affective,
- afflictive,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- cheap,
- cheerless,
- cheesy,
- comfortless,
- common,
- contemptible,
- crummy,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- despicable,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- emotional,
- emotive,
- feeble,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- grievous,
- heartrending,
- inadequate,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- mean,
- measly,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- mournful,
- moving,
- painful,
- paltry,
- petty,
- piddling,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plaintive,
- poignant,
- poor,
- puny,
- regrettable,
- rubbishy,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- shabby,
- sharp,
- shoddy,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- stirring,
- touching,
- tragic,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- uncomfortable,
- valueless,
- vile,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worthless,
- wretched
- Masan,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- astral,
- astral spirit,
- banshee,
- control,
- disembodied spirit,
- duppy,
- dybbuk,
- eidolon,
- form,
- ghost,
- grateful dead,
- guide,
- hant,
- haunt,
- idolum,
- immateriality,
- incorporeal,
- incorporeal being,
- incorporeity,
- larva,
- lemures,
- manes,
- materialization,
- oni,
- phantasm,
- phantasma,
- phantom,
- poltergeist,
- presence,
- revenant,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shape,
- shrouded spirit,
- specter,
- spectral ghost,
- spirit,
- spook,
- sprite,
- theophany,
- unsubstantiality,
- vision,
- walking dead man,
- wandering soul,
- wraith,
- zombie
- apparition,
- appearance,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- chimera,
- delirium,
- eidolon,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figment,
- figure,
- form,
- hallucination,
- idle fancy,
- idolum,
- illusion,
- image,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- myth,
- phantasm,
- phantasma,
- phantasmagoria,
- phantom,
- presence,
- romance,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shape,
- sick fancy,
- specter,
- thick-coming fancies,
- trip,
- vapor,
- vision,
- waking dream,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dream,
- wildest dreams,
- wraith
- asperse,
- bedarken,
- besmirch,
- bespatter,
- black,
- blacken,
- blackwash,
- blot,
- blotch,
- call names,
- calumniate,
- charcoal,
- cork,
- darken,
- defame,
- defile,
- deprecate,
- depreciate,
- despise,
- dinge,
- discommend,
- disdain,
- disparage,
- dispraise,
- disvalue,
- ebonize,
- engage in personalities,
- heap dirt upon,
- hold in contempt,
- ink,
- libel,
- melanize,
- muckrake,
- murk,
- nigrify,
- oversmoke,
- put down,
- revile,
- ridicule,
- scandalize,
- shade,
- shadow,
- slander,
- smear,
- smirch,
- smoke,
- smudge,
- smut,
- smutch,
- soil,
- soot,
- stigmatize,
- sully,
- tarnish,
- tear down,
- throw mud at,
- traduce,
- vilify
- Dracula,
- Frankenstein,
- Wolf-man,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- atua,
- bogey,
- bogeyman,
- bugaboo,
- bugbear,
- daemon,
- demon,
- eidolon,
- evil spirits,
- fantasy,
- fee-faw-fum,
- figure,
- form,
- frightener,
- genius,
- ghost,
- ghoul,
- hobgoblin,
- holy terror,
- horror,
- idolum,
- image,
- incubus,
- intelligence,
- monster,
- nightmare,
- ogre,
- ogress,
- phantasm,
- phantasma,
- phantasmagoria,
- phantom,
- presence,
- revenant,
- scarebabe,
- scarecrow,
- scarer,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shape,
- spirit,
- succubus,
- supernatural being,
- terror,
- umbra,
- vampire,
- vision,
- waking dream,
- werewolf,
- wildest dream,
- wraith
- palsy
collapse
- a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor
- affect with palsy related words >
- MS,
- ague,
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
- apoplexy,
- brain disease,
- bumpiness,
- catalepsy,
- cataplexy,
- cephalalgia,
- cerebral palsy,
- chattering,
- chorea,
- cold shivers,
- diplegia,
- emotional disorder,
- epilepsy,
- falling sickness,
- fits and starts,
- glossopharyngeal neuralgia,
- headache,
- hemiplegia,
- herpes zoster,
- infantile paralysis,
- ischialgia,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jerkiness,
- joltiness,
- migraine,
- multiple sclerosis,
- nervous disorder,
- neuralgia,
- neuritis,
- neuropathy,
- organic psychosis,
- paralysis,
- paraplegia,
- paresis,
- polio,
- poliomyelitis,
- polyneuritis,
- pressure neuropathy,
- priapism,
- quaking,
- quavering,
- quivering,
- radiculitis,
- sciatic neuritis,
- sciatica,
- sensory paralysis,
- shakes,
- shaking,
- shaking palsy,
- shingles,
- shivering,
- shivers,
- shuddering,
- spasms,
- spastic paralysis,
- stroke,
- succussion,
- the jerks,
- tic douloureux,
- toxic psychosis,
- trembling,
- tremulousness,
- vibration
- becloud,
- bedim,
- bemist,
- bewilder,
- blanket,
- blind,
- blur,
- camouflage,
- cap,
- clabber up,
- cloak,
- cloud,
- cloud over,
- cloud up,
- conceal,
- confound,
- confuse,
- cover,
- cover up,
- curtain,
- darken,
- darken over,
- dim,
- disguise,
- dissemble,
- distract attention from,
- eclipse,
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- shroud,
- slur over,
- smog,
- smoke,
- stumble,
- varnish,
- veil,
- whitewash
- cleansing
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- abstergent,
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- deadening,
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- dry cleaning,
- dulling,
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- emetic,
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- emotional release,
- expiatory,
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- expurgatory,
- freeing,
- intermission,
- lenitive,
- lustral,
- lustration,
- lustrational,
- lustrative,
- mitigating,
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- numbing,
- pain-killing,
- palliative,
- penitential,
- piacular,
- propitiatory,
- purgation,
- purgative,
- purgatorial,
- purge,
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- purification,
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- reclamatory,
- recompensing,
- redeeming,
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- restitutory,
- righting,
- satisfactional,
- softening,
- soothing,
- squaring,
- steam cleaning,
- subduing,
- surcease,
- suspension
- attaint,
- bedarken,
- bedaub,
- besmear,
- besmoke,
- besmutch,
- besoil,
- bespatter,
- bestain,
- black,
- blacken,
- blackwash,
- blot,
- blotch,
- blur,
- brand,
- call names,
- charcoal,
- cork,
- darken,
- daub,
- defile,
- denigrate,
- dinge,
- dirty,
- discolor,
- ebonize,
- engage in personalities,
- heap dirt upon,
- ink,
- mark,
- melanize,
- muckrake,
- murk,
- nigrify,
- oversmoke,
- revile,
- scorch,
- sear,
- shade,
- shadow,
- singe,
- slubber,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- smoke,
- smouch,
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- smutch,
- soil,
- soot,
- spot,
- stain,
- stigmatize,
- sully,
- taint,
- tar,
- tarnish,
- throw mud at,
- vilify
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