Related Words:
- destitute
collapse - poor enough to need help from others related words >
- badly off,
- bankrupt,
- bereft of,
- broke,
- broken,
- busted,
- deficient,
- depleted,
- deprived of,
- destitute of,
- devoid of,
- divested,
- down-and-out,
- drained,
- empty,
- exhausted,
- failed,
- fortuneless,
- hard up,
- homeless,
- impecunious,
- impoverished,
- in need,
- in receivership,
- in the gutter,
- in the red,
- in want,
- indigent,
- innocent,
- insolvent,
- landless,
- moneyless,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- on the rocks,
- out of funds,
- penniless,
- penurious,
- poor,
- poverty,
- poverty-stricken,
- propertyless,
- ruined,
- stripped,
- void,
- without,
- without a sou
- mummery
collapse
- meaningless ceremonies and flattery related words >
- Pecksniffery,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- abracadabra,
- acting,
- affectation,
- baccalaureate service,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- camouflage,
- cant,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- characterization,
- commencement,
- convocation,
- disguise,
- domino,
- empty formality,
- empty gesture,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- false colors,
- false face,
- false front,
- false piety,
- falseness,
- formal,
- formality,
- function,
- gag,
- goody-goodiness,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hocus-pocus,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- hypocrisy,
- hypocriticalness,
- impersonation,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- incognito,
- initiation,
- insincerity,
- lip service,
- liturgy,
- mask,
- masque,
- masquerade,
- mealymouthedness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- mouthing,
- mumbo-jumbo,
- observance,
- office,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- overacting,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- playacting,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- projection,
- protective coloration,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- religious ceremony,
- representation,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-righteousness,
- service,
- slapstick,
- smoke screen,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soft soap,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stunt,
- sweet talk,
- taking a role,
- tokenism,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- visor,
- vizard,
- vizard mask
- eliminate
collapse
- kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
- terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"
- remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
- remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race" related words >
- abandon,
- abscind,
- abstract,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- assassinate,
- ban,
- bar,
- bate,
- blow,
- blow out,
- bob,
- cast,
- cast aside,
- cast away,
- cast off,
- cast out,
- chuck,
- clean out,
- clear,
- clear away,
- clear off,
- clear out,
- clear the decks,
- clip,
- count out,
- crop,
- cull,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- debar,
- deep-six,
- defecate,
- delete,
- deplete,
- deport,
- deracinate,
- discard,
- discharge,
- dismiss,
- dispel,
- dispose of,
- ditch,
- do away with,
- dock,
- drain,
- dump,
- effuse,
- egest,
- eighty-six,
- eject,
- elide,
- emit,
- empty,
- empty out,
- enucleate,
- eradicate,
- erase,
- evacuate,
- evict,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- excrete,
- exhaust,
- exile,
- expatriate,
- expel,
- expunge,
- exterminate,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- extravasate,
- exudate,
- exude,
- fling off,
- freeze out,
- get quit of,
- get rid of,
- get shut of,
- give away,
- give off,
- isolate,
- jettison,
- jilt,
- knock off,
- liquidate,
- lop,
- murder,
- mutilate,
- nip,
- oust,
- outlaw,
- pare,
- part with,
- pass,
- peel,
- pick out,
- prune,
- purge,
- reject,
- remove,
- root out,
- root up,
- rule out,
- scour out,
- secrete,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shake off,
- shave,
- shear,
- shoo,
- shut out,
- slough,
- stamp out,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- strip,
- strip off,
- suspend,
- sweep away,
- sweep out,
- take off,
- take out,
- throw away,
- throw off,
- throw out,
- throw over,
- throw overboard,
- toss overboard,
- transude,
- truncate,
- unclog,
- unfoul,
- uproot,
- vent,
- void,
- weed out,
- weep,
- wipe out
- flatulent
collapse
- generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal related words >
- bloated,
- blown up,
- bombastic,
- dilated,
- distended,
- dropsical,
- edematous,
- ejaculative,
- ejective,
- empty,
- enchymatous,
- eructative,
- expulsive,
- extrusive,
- fat,
- formal,
- fustian,
- gassy,
- grandiloquent,
- hollow,
- incrassate,
- inflated,
- mouthy,
- overblown,
- plethoric,
- pompous,
- pontifical,
- puffed up,
- puffy,
- pursy,
- self-important,
- shallow,
- solemn,
- stilted,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- swelled,
- swollen,
- tumescent,
- tumid,
- turgescent,
- turgid,
- vain,
- ventose,
- vomitive,
- vomitory,
- windy
- Gothic,
- Philistine,
- barbarous,
- benighted,
- bookless,
- deceived,
- empty-headed,
- functionally illiterate,
- grammarless,
- heathen,
- hoodwinked,
- ill-educated,
- illiterate,
- led astray,
- lowbrow,
- misinformed,
- misinstructed,
- mistaught,
- nonintellectual,
- pagan,
- rude,
- unbooked,
- unbookish,
- unbooklearned,
- unbriefed,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- unedified,
- uneducated,
- unerudite,
- unguided,
- uninstructed,
- unintellectual,
- unlearned,
- unliterary,
- unread,
- unrefined,
- unscholarly,
- unschooled,
- unstudious,
- untaught,
- untutored
- destitution
collapse
- a state without friends or money or prospects related words >
- absence,
- adversity,
- bare cupboard,
- bare subsistence,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- dearth,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- deprivation,
- drought,
- empty purse,
- famine,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- homelessness,
- impecuniousness,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- incompleteness,
- indigence,
- lack,
- mendicancy,
- misfortune,
- moneylessness,
- necessitousness,
- necessity,
- need,
- neediness,
- omission,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- pinch,
- privation,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- starvation,
- want,
- wantage
- rite of passage
collapse
- a ritual performed in some cultures at times when a individual changes his status (as from adolescence to adulthood) related words >
- baccalaureate service,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- commencement,
- convocation,
- empty formality,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- formal,
- formality,
- function,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- initiation,
- liturgy,
- mummery,
- observance,
- office,
- performance,
- religious ceremony,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- ritual,
- service,
- solemnity,
- solemnization
- benighted
collapse
- lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education"
- overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home" related words >
- ableptical,
- amaurotic,
- backward,
- bereft of light,
- blind,
- color-blind,
- dark,
- dim-sighted,
- empty-headed,
- eyeless,
- hemeralopic,
- ignorant,
- illiterate,
- in darkness,
- in the dark,
- know-nothing,
- mind-blind,
- naive,
- night-overtaken,
- nyctalopic,
- rayless,
- sightless,
- spiritually blind,
- stark blind,
- stone-blind,
- undiscerning,
- uneducated,
- unenlightened,
- uninformed,
- uninstructed,
- unlettered,
- unobserving,
- unperceiving,
- unprogressive,
- unschooled,
- unseeing,
- untaught,
- untutored,
- visionless
- Pecksniffery,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- cant,
- drone,
- droning,
- empty gesture,
- face,
- false piety,
- gabble,
- gibber,
- gibbering,
- grimace,
- hypocrisy,
- hypocriticalness,
- jabber,
- jibber,
- lip service,
- maundering,
- mealymouthedness,
- moue,
- mouth,
- mow,
- mug,
- mumble,
- mumbling,
- mummery,
- murmuring,
- mutter,
- muttering,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- pharisaism,
- religiosity,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- snuffling,
- soft soap,
- susurration,
- sweet talk,
- tokenism,
- unctuousness,
- whisper,
- whispering
- sword of Damocles
collapse
- a constant and immanent peril; "the possibility hangs over their heads like the sword of Damocles" related words >
- bulldozing,
- chanciness,
- commination,
- criticalness,
- delicacy,
- denunciation,
- doubtfulness,
- dubiousness,
- empty threat,
- foreboding,
- hazardousness,
- idle threat,
- imminence,
- implied threat,
- insecurity,
- instability,
- intimidation,
- menace,
- perilousness,
- precariousness,
- promise of harm,
- riskiness,
- shakiness,
- slipperiness,
- threat,
- threateningness,
- threatfulness,
- ticklish business,
- ticklishness,
- totteriness,
- touchiness,
- uncertainty,
- undependability,
- unhealthiness,
- unpredictability,
- unreliability,
- unsafeness,
- unsoundness,
- unsteadiness,
- unsureness,
- untrustworthiness,
- warning
- saber rattling
collapse
- the ostentatious display of military power (with the implied threat that it might be used) related words >
- aggression,
- aggressiveness,
- antagonism,
- bellicism,
- bellicose,
- bellicosity,
- belligerence,
- belligerency,
- bulldozing,
- chauvinism,
- combativeness,
- commination,
- contentiousness,
- denunciation,
- empty threat,
- ferocity,
- fierceness,
- fight,
- foreboding,
- hostility,
- idle threat,
- imminence,
- implied threat,
- intimidate,
- intimidation,
- jingoism,
- martialism,
- menace,
- militancy,
- militarism,
- promise of harm,
- pugnaciousness,
- pugnacity,
- quarrelsomeness,
- sword of Damocles,
- threat,
- threateningness,
- threatfulness,
- truculence,
- unfriendliness,
- unpeacefulness,
- warmongering,
- warning,
- warpath
- baseless,
- empty,
- feeble,
- flimsy,
- groundless,
- idle,
- ill-founded,
- inconclusive,
- indecisive,
- insubstantial,
- not following,
- not proved,
- poor,
- unascertained,
- unattested,
- unauthenticated,
- unbased,
- uncertified,
- unconfirmed,
- uncorroborated,
- undemonstrated,
- undetermined,
- unestablished,
- unfixed,
- unfounded,
- ungrounded,
- unproved,
- unproven,
- unrigorous,
- unsettled,
- unshown,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- unsubstantiated,
- unsupportable,
- unsupported,
- unsupported by evidence,
- unsustainable,
- untenable,
- untested,
- untried,
- unvalidated,
- unverified,
- unwarranted,
- vain,
- weak,
- without basis,
- without foundation,
- without grounds
- affectionate name,
- agnomen,
- appellation,
- appellative,
- binomen,
- binomial name,
- byname,
- byword,
- cryptonym,
- denomination,
- designation,
- diminutive,
- empty title,
- epithet,
- eponym,
- euonym,
- family name,
- handle,
- honorific,
- hypocoristic,
- hyponym,
- label,
- last name,
- maiden name,
- married name,
- matronymic,
- moniker,
- name,
- namesake,
- nickname,
- nomen,
- nomen nudum,
- patronymic,
- pet name,
- praenomen,
- proper name,
- proper noun,
- scientific name,
- secret name,
- sobriquet,
- style,
- surname,
- tag,
- tautonym,
- title,
- trinomen,
- trinomial name
- bare-handed,
- beggared,
- beggarly,
- bereaved,
- bereft,
- deprived,
- disadvantaged,
- empty-handed,
- famished,
- fleeced,
- ghettoized,
- half-starved,
- ill off,
- ill-equipped,
- ill-furnished,
- ill-provided,
- impoverished,
- in need,
- in rags,
- in want,
- indigent,
- mendicant,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- on relief,
- on short commons,
- out at elbows,
- poor,
- poverty-stricken,
- shorthanded,
- starved,
- starveling,
- starving,
- stripped,
- underfed,
- undermanned,
- undernourished,
- underprivileged,
- unfed,
- unprovided,
- unreplenished,
- unsupplied
- beggary
collapse
- a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)
- the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy" related words >
- absence,
- bare cupboard,
- bare subsistence,
- beggarliness,
- begging,
- bumming,
- cadging,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- deprivation,
- destitution,
- drought,
- empty purse,
- famine,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- homelessness,
- impecuniousness,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- incompleteness,
- indigence,
- lack,
- mendicancy,
- mendicity,
- moneylessness,
- mooching,
- necessitousness,
- necessity,
- need,
- neediness,
- omission,
- panhandling,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- pinch,
- privation,
- scrounging,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- starvation,
- want,
- wantage
- drought
collapse
- a shortage of rainfall; "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season"
- a prolonged shortage; "when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought" related words >
- absence,
- appetite,
- aridity,
- aridness,
- beggary,
- canine appetite,
- corkiness,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- deprivation,
- destitution,
- dryness,
- emptiness,
- empty stomach,
- famine,
- hollow hunger,
- hunger,
- hungriness,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- incompleteness,
- juicelessness,
- lack,
- need,
- omission,
- polydipsia,
- relish,
- saplessness,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- starvation,
- stomach,
- sweet tooth,
- tapeworm,
- taste,
- thirst,
- thirstiness,
- torment of Tantalus,
- want,
- wantage,
- waterlessness,
- watertight integrity,
- watertightness
- bootless
collapse
- unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt" related words >
- abortive,
- barren,
- counterproductive,
- effete,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- failed,
- failing,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- fruitless,
- frustrating,
- futile,
- gainless,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inoperative,
- invalid,
- lame,
- manque,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- nonremunerative,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no effect,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- pointless,
- profitless,
- purposeless,
- rewardless,
- sterile,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- successless,
- unavailable,
- unavailing,
- unfortunate,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unremunerative,
- unrewarding,
- unsuccessful,
- useless,
- vain,
- wasteful,
- worthless
- inoperative
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- not operating; "an inoperative law" related words >
- barren,
- bootless,
- broken,
- counterproductive,
- effete,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- fruitless,
- functionless,
- futile,
- haywire,
- in disrepair,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- inapplicable,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inoperable,
- invalid,
- nonfunctional,
- nonutilitarian,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no force,
- on the blink,
- on the fritz,
- otiose,
- out of commission,
- out of condition,
- out of gear,
- out of joint,
- out of kelter,
- out of kilter,
- out of order,
- out of repair,
- out of tune,
- out of whack,
- sterile,
- unavailing,
- unconducive,
- unemployable,
- unfit,
- unhelpful,
- unsuitable,
- unusable,
- unworkable,
- useless,
- vain
- aidless,
- baseless,
- defenseless,
- empty,
- exceptionable,
- fatherless,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- friendless,
- groundless,
- guideless,
- helpless,
- idle,
- ill-founded,
- illogical,
- implausible,
- impossible,
- inadmissible,
- indefensible,
- inexpiable,
- insupportable,
- intolerable,
- leaderless,
- motherless,
- objectionable,
- pregnable,
- specious,
- unacceptable,
- unbased,
- undesirable,
- unforgivable,
- unfounded,
- unfriended,
- ungrounded,
- unjustifiable,
- unjustified,
- unpardonable,
- unprotected,
- unreasonable,
- unsound,
- unsuitable,
- unsupportable,
- unsupported,
- unsustainable,
- unsustained,
- unwarranted,
- vain,
- vulnerable,
- weak,
- without basis,
- without foundation
- null
collapse
- lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" related words >
- aimless,
- bad,
- bare,
- barren,
- bland,
- blank,
- bleached,
- characterless,
- clear,
- designless,
- devoid,
- empty,
- existless,
- featureless,
- garbled,
- hollow,
- importless,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- insignificant,
- insipid,
- invalid,
- lacking,
- meaningless,
- minus,
- missing,
- negative,
- nonconnotative,
- nondenotative,
- nonexistent,
- null and void,
- phatic,
- purportless,
- purposeless,
- scrambled,
- senseless,
- unexisting,
- unmeaning,
- unrelieved,
- unsignificant,
- useless,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- void,
- white,
- with nothing inside,
- without being,
- without content,
- worthless
- arid,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- characterless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- dead,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- flat,
- heavy,
- hollow,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- jejune,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- low-spirited,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- unlively,
- vapid,
- wooden
- at large,
- away from,
- bankrupt in,
- bare of,
- bereaved,
- bereaved of,
- bereft,
- bereft of,
- cut off,
- denuded,
- denuded of,
- deprived of,
- destitute of,
- devoid of,
- disengaged,
- divested,
- empty of,
- escaped,
- ex,
- fled,
- flown,
- for want of,
- forlorn of,
- free,
- from,
- fugitive,
- in default of,
- in want of,
- lacking,
- loose,
- minus,
- missing,
- needing,
- on the loose,
- out,
- out of pocket,
- parted from,
- robbed of,
- runaway,
- scant of,
- scot-free,
- shorn of,
- short,
- short of,
- shy,
- shy of,
- stripped of,
- unblessed with,
- unpossessed of,
- void of,
- wanting,
- well out of
- air pocket
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- a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly related words >
- CAT,
- aerospace,
- aerosphere,
- air hole,
- airspace,
- bump,
- ceiling,
- crosswind,
- empty space,
- favorable wind,
- fog,
- front,
- head wind,
- high-pressure area,
- hole,
- ionosphere,
- jetstream,
- low-pressure area,
- overcast,
- pocket,
- roughness,
- soup,
- space,
- stratosphere,
- substratosphere,
- tail wind,
- tropopause,
- troposphere,
- trough,
- turbulence,
- visibility,
- visibility zero
- excess
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- immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits
- a quantity much larger than is needed
- more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" related words >
- Saturnalia,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- big talk,
- blowing up,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- crapulence,
- crapulency,
- crapulousness,
- de trop,
- debauchery,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- disentitlement,
- dispensable,
- dissipation,
- dissoluteness,
- drunkenness,
- empty claim,
- empty title,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excessive,
- excessiveness,
- exorbitance,
- exorbitancy,
- expansion,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- extortionateness,
- extra,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- false claim,
- fat,
- glut,
- gluttony,
- grandiloquence,
- gratuitous,
- heightening,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- immoderacy,
- immoderateness,
- immoderation,
- impropriety,
- in excess,
- inappropriateness,
- incontinence,
- indiscipline,
- indulgence,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- inordinateness,
- intemperance,
- intemperateness,
- inundation,
- invalid claim,
- lack of claim,
- leftover,
- leftovers,
- magnification,
- needless,
- nimiety,
- no claim,
- nonessential,
- outrageousness,
- overabundance,
- overage,
- overbalance,
- overdoing,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overflow,
- overflowing,
- overgrowth,
- overindulgence,
- overkill,
- overmeasure,
- overmuch,
- overpass,
- overplus,
- overproduction,
- overrun,
- overrunning,
- overspill,
- overspreading,
- overstatement,
- overstock,
- oversupply,
- pleonastic,
- plethora,
- plus,
- preposterousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolix,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- redundancy,
- redundant,
- remaining,
- residual,
- self-indulgence,
- self-restraint,
- sensationalism,
- spare,
- stretching,
- superabundance,
- supererogation,
- supererogatory,
- superfluity,
- superfluous,
- superiority,
- superlative,
- supernumerary,
- surfeit,
- surplus,
- surplusage,
- swinishness,
- tall talk,
- tautologic,
- tautologous,
- to spare,
- too much,
- too-muchness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- uncalled-for,
- unconscionableness,
- unconstraint,
- uncontrol,
- undeservedness,
- undeservingness,
- undueness,
- unentitledness,
- unessential,
- unmeritedness,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unreasonableness,
- unrestraint,
- verbose
- awkward
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- not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner; "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with strangers"
- causing inconvenience; "they arrived at an awkward time"
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"
- not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"
- lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"
- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl" related words >
- Latinate,
- all thumbs,
- blankminded,
- blunderheaded,
- blundering,
- bombastic,
- boorish,
- bulky,
- bumbling,
- bungling,
- butterfingered,
- callow,
- careless,
- clownish,
- clumsy,
- clumsy-fisted,
- confused,
- contrary,
- cramped,
- crosswise,
- crushing,
- cumbersome,
- cumbrous,
- dangerous,
- delicate,
- difficult,
- discomfited,
- discommodious,
- disconcerted,
- disconcerting,
- disturbing,
- dumb,
- elephantine,
- embarrassed,
- embarrassing,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- fingers all thumbs,
- forced,
- formal,
- fumbling,
- gauche,
- gawkish,
- gawky,
- graceless,
- green,
- groping,
- guinde,
- halting,
- ham-fisted,
- ham-handed,
- hazardous,
- heavy,
- heavy-handed,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- humiliating,
- ignorant,
- ill at ease,
- ill-chosen,
- impractical,
- inane,
- incommodious,
- inconvenient,
- inefficient,
- inelegant,
- inept,
- inexperienced,
- inexpert,
- inkhorn,
- innocent,
- know-nothing,
- labored,
- leaden,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- loutish,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- lumpy,
- maladroit,
- massive,
- massy,
- mortifying,
- naive,
- nescient,
- oafish,
- out of place,
- perilous,
- perverse,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- precarious,
- raw,
- rigid,
- risky,
- sensitive,
- sesquipedalian,
- shamefaced,
- simple,
- sloppy,
- splay,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- strange to,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- trying,
- turgid,
- unacquainted,
- unapprized,
- uncomfortable,
- uncomprehending,
- unconversant,
- uncouth,
- undexterous,
- uneasy,
- unenlightened,
- unfamiliar,
- unfortunate,
- ungainly,
- ungraceful,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- unintelligent,
- unknowing,
- unmanageable,
- unpleasant,
- unposted,
- unripe,
- unskilled,
- unskillful,
- unsure,
- unversed,
- unwieldy,
- vacuous,
- wooden
- uninstructed
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- lacking information or instruction; "lamentably unenlightened as to the laws" related words >
- Gothic,
- Philistine,
- barbarous,
- benighted,
- bookless,
- deceived,
- empty-headed,
- functionally illiterate,
- grammarless,
- heathen,
- hoodwinked,
- ill-educated,
- illiterate,
- incognizant,
- know-nothing,
- led astray,
- lowbrow,
- misinformed,
- misinstructed,
- mistaught,
- nonintellectual,
- oblivious,
- pagan,
- rude,
- unacquainted,
- unaware,
- unbooked,
- unbookish,
- unbooklearned,
- unbriefed,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- unedified,
- uneducated,
- unerudite,
- unfamiliar,
- unguided,
- uninformed,
- unintellectual,
- unknowing,
- unlearned,
- unlettered,
- unliterary,
- unread,
- unrefined,
- unscholarly,
- unschooled,
- unstudious,
- untaught,
- untutored,
- unwitting
- Lethean,
- absent,
- absent-minded,
- absentminded,
- absorbed,
- abstracted,
- airy,
- amnestic,
- asleep,
- bemused,
- blank,
- blankminded,
- blind,
- blind to,
- blocked,
- calm,
- careless,
- castle-building,
- casual,
- cataleptic,
- catatonic,
- cold,
- comatose,
- converted,
- cursory,
- daydreaming,
- daydreamy,
- dead,
- dead asleep,
- dead to,
- deaf,
- deaf to,
- deep asleep,
- degage,
- detached,
- disregardant,
- disregardful,
- distant,
- doped,
- dormant,
- dreaming,
- dreamy,
- drowsing,
- drugged,
- easygoing,
- ecstatic,
- elsewhere,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- engrossed,
- faraway,
- fast asleep,
- fatuous,
- flaked-out,
- flippant,
- forgetful,
- forgetting,
- free and easy,
- half-awake,
- half-conscious,
- heedless,
- in a reverie,
- in the clouds,
- inane,
- inclined to forget,
- incogitant,
- incognizant,
- inconsiderate,
- indifferent,
- insensible,
- insensitive,
- insouciant,
- lazy,
- lost,
- lost in thought,
- lost to,
- meditative,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- museful,
- musing,
- napping,
- narcotized,
- nirvanic,
- nodding,
- offhand,
- out,
- out cold,
- out of it,
- passive,
- pensive,
- perfunctory,
- pipe-dreaming,
- preoccupied,
- quietistic,
- rapt,
- reckless,
- regardless,
- relaxed,
- removed,
- repressed,
- respectless,
- semiconscious,
- senseless,
- sleeping,
- slumbering,
- somewhere else,
- sound asleep,
- spaced out,
- stargazing,
- stoned,
- strung out,
- suppressed,
- tactless,
- taken up,
- thoughtfree,
- thoughtless,
- tranquil,
- transported,
- unacquainted,
- unaware,
- unconcerned,
- unconscious,
- undiplomatic,
- unfamiliar,
- unfeeling,
- unheedful,
- unheeding,
- unideaed,
- uninformed,
- uninstructed,
- unintellectual,
- unknowing,
- unmindful,
- unoccupied,
- unprepared,
- unready,
- unreasoning,
- unsolicitous,
- untactful,
- unthinking,
- unwitting,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- woolgathering,
- wrapped in thought,
- zonked,
- zonked out
- frivolous
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- not serious in content or attitude or behavior; "a frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman" related words >
- aimless,
- airy,
- amorphous,
- asinine,
- birdbrained,
- birdwitted,
- brainless,
- buxom,
- capricious,
- casual,
- catchpenny,
- childish,
- desultory,
- disarticulated,
- discontinuous,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- dizzy,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- erratic,
- fatuous,
- featherbrained,
- featherheaded,
- fitful,
- flighty,
- flimsy,
- flip,
- flippant,
- fluffy,
- fluttery,
- foolish,
- formless,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frothy,
- futile,
- gaga,
- giddy,
- giddy-brained,
- giddy-headed,
- giddy-pated,
- giddy-witted,
- gleeful,
- gratuitous,
- haphazard,
- harebrain,
- harebrained,
- hilarious,
- hit-or-miss,
- idle,
- immethodical,
- inane,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconsequential,
- indiscriminate,
- insignificant,
- irregular,
- irresponsible,
- jocular,
- jocund,
- jolly,
- jovial,
- joyful,
- joyous,
- laughter-loving,
- light,
- meaningless,
- merry,
- minor,
- mirth-loving,
- mirthful,
- misshapen,
- niggling,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- orderless,
- otiose,
- paltry,
- peripheral,
- petty,
- planless,
- playful,
- promiscuous,
- puerile,
- random,
- rattlebrained,
- rattleheaded,
- rattlepated,
- rejoicing,
- risible,
- scatterbrained,
- scramblebrained,
- senseless,
- shallow,
- shallow-headed,
- shallow-minded,
- shallow-pated,
- shallow-witted,
- shapeless,
- shatterbrained,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- small-time,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- superficial,
- systemless,
- thoughtless,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- two-bit,
- twopenny,
- unarranged,
- unclassified,
- undirected,
- ungraded,
- unimportant,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unprofound,
- unsorted,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- vacuous,
- vague,
- vain,
- vapid,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- windy,
- witless,
- worthless
- absonant,
- aimless,
- arbitrarily,
- capriciously,
- contradictory,
- contrary to reason,
- designless,
- empty,
- fallacious,
- fancifully,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- flightily,
- garbled,
- illogical,
- importless,
- inane,
- inauthentic,
- inconclusive,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsistent,
- insignificant,
- invalid,
- irrational,
- lightly,
- loose,
- meaningless,
- nonconnotative,
- nondenotative,
- nonscientific,
- not following,
- null,
- paralogical,
- phatic,
- purportless,
- purposeless,
- reasonless,
- scrambled,
- self-annulling,
- self-contradictory,
- self-refuting,
- senseless,
- unauthentic,
- unconnected,
- unmeaning,
- unphilosophical,
- unreasonable,
- unreasonably,
- unscientific,
- unsignificant,
- whimsically,
- without reason
- hungry
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- feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food; "a world full of hungry people" related words >
- acquisitive,
- athirst,
- avid,
- consumed with desire,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- craving,
- deprived,
- desirous,
- devoured by desire,
- dog-hungry,
- dying,
- eager,
- empty,
- famished,
- famishing,
- fasting,
- fervid,
- greedy,
- half-famished,
- half-starved,
- hankering,
- hollow,
- hungering,
- insatiable,
- itching,
- keen,
- longing,
- mad with lust,
- peckish,
- pinched with hunger,
- prurient,
- rapacious,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- sharp-set,
- starved,
- starving,
- thirsting,
- thirsty,
- unfilled,
- voracious,
- wolfish,
- yearning
- light year
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- the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year; 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers related words >
- aesthetic distance,
- astronomical unit,
- celestial spaces,
- chaos,
- clearance,
- compass,
- cosmic space,
- deep space,
- depths of space,
- distance,
- divergence,
- empty space,
- ether space,
- extent,
- farness,
- infinity,
- interstellar space,
- leeway,
- length,
- light-years,
- margin,
- metagalactic space,
- mileage,
- ocean of emptiness,
- outer space,
- parsec,
- parsecs,
- perspective,
- piece,
- pressureless space,
- range,
- reach,
- remoteness,
- separation,
- space,
- span,
- stretch,
- stride,
- the void,
- the void above,
- way,
- ways
- birdbrained,
- birdwitted,
- brainless,
- capricious,
- dizzy,
- empty-headed,
- featherheaded,
- fickle,
- flighty,
- fluffy,
- fluttery,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- gaga,
- giddy,
- giddy-brained,
- giddy-headed,
- giddy-pated,
- giddy-witted,
- harebrain,
- harebrained,
- impulsive,
- light,
- rattlebrained,
- rattleheaded,
- rattlepated,
- scatterbrained,
- scramblebrained,
- shallow,
- shallow-headed,
- shallow-minded,
- shallow-pated,
- shallow-witted,
- shatterbrained,
- silly,
- skittish,
- superficial,
- thoughtless,
- unprofound,
- volatile,
- whimsical,
- witless
- attenuated,
- bare-handed,
- beggarly,
- cadaverous,
- corpselike,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- emaciated,
- empty-handed,
- famished,
- haggard,
- half-starved,
- hollow-eyed,
- ill off,
- ill-equipped,
- ill-furnished,
- ill-provided,
- impoverished,
- jejune,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- on short commons,
- pauperized,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- pinched,
- poor,
- puny,
- shorthanded,
- shriveled,
- skeletal,
- starved,
- starveling,
- starving,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- underfed,
- undermanned,
- unfed,
- unprovided,
- unreplenished,
- unsupplied,
- wasted,
- weazeny,
- withered,
- wizened,
- wraithlike
- attenuated,
- bare-handed,
- beggarly,
- cadaverous,
- corpselike,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- emaciated,
- empty-handed,
- famished,
- haggard,
- half-starved,
- hollow-eyed,
- ill off,
- ill-equipped,
- ill-furnished,
- ill-provided,
- impoverished,
- jejune,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- on short commons,
- pauperized,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- pinched,
- poor,
- puny,
- shorthanded,
- shriveled,
- skeletal,
- starved,
- starveling,
- starving,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- undermanned,
- undernourished,
- unfed,
- unprovided,
- unreplenished,
- unsupplied,
- wasted,
- weazeny,
- withered,
- wizened,
- wraithlike
- glassy
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- (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom"
- (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures"
- resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness; "the glassy surface of the lake"; "the pavement was...glassy with water"- Willa Cather related words >
- blank,
- buffed,
- burnished,
- clear as glass,
- cold,
- dazed,
- deadpan,
- dull,
- empty,
- expressionless,
- finished,
- fishy,
- fixed,
- furbished,
- glace,
- glass,
- glasslike,
- glazed,
- gleaming,
- glossy,
- hyalescent,
- hyaline,
- hypnotic,
- icy,
- impassive,
- inexpressive,
- lacquered,
- lifeless,
- lustrous,
- poker-faced,
- polished,
- rubbed,
- satiny,
- sheeny,
- shellacked,
- shined,
- shining,
- shiny,
- silken,
- silky,
- sleek,
- slick,
- slippery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- staring,
- unexpressive,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- varnished,
- velvety,
- vitreous,
- vitriform,
- void,
- wooden
- insignificance
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- the quality of having little or no significance related words >
- aimlessness,
- daintiness,
- dead letter,
- delicacy,
- diminutiveness,
- emptiness,
- empty sound,
- exiguity,
- exiguousness,
- fewness,
- futility,
- immateriality,
- inanity,
- inconsequence,
- inconsequentiality,
- inconsiderableness,
- indifference,
- ineffectuality,
- inferiority,
- insufficiency,
- irrelevance,
- littleness,
- low priority,
- marginality,
- meagerness,
- meaninglessness,
- meanness,
- mere noise,
- minuteness,
- moderateness,
- negligibility,
- noise,
- nonsensicality,
- nullity,
- pettiness,
- phatic communion,
- picayune,
- picayunishness,
- pokiness,
- puniness,
- purposelessness,
- scantiness,
- secondariness,
- senselessness,
- slightness,
- smallness,
- tininess,
- triviality,
- unimportance,
- unimpressiveness,
- unmeaningness,
- unnoteworthiness,
- unsignificancy
- silly
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- a word used for misbehaving children; "don't be a silly" related words >
- Pickwickian,
- absurd,
- airy,
- apish,
- asinine,
- balmy,
- batty,
- bedazzled,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- benumbed,
- besotted,
- blockhead,
- bonehead,
- booby,
- brainless,
- buffoonish,
- catchpenny,
- childish,
- clod,
- clot,
- cockeyed,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- daffy,
- daft,
- daze,
- dazed,
- dazzled,
- dippy,
- dizzy,
- dolt,
- dope,
- dopey,
- doting,
- drip,
- dumb,
- dummy,
- dunce,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- featherbrained,
- flaky,
- flighty,
- flimsy,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolhardy,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fuddled,
- futile,
- gaga,
- giddy,
- goofy,
- goose,
- groggy,
- gulled,
- harebrained,
- idiot,
- idiotic,
- idle,
- ignoramus,
- ignorant,
- illogical,
- imbecile,
- imbecilic,
- in a daze,
- inane,
- inept,
- infatuated,
- insane,
- irrational,
- irresponsible,
- jackass,
- jerk,
- knocked silly,
- kooky,
- laughable,
- light,
- light-headed,
- loony,
- ludicrous,
- mad,
- maudlin,
- mazed,
- moronic,
- muzzy,
- nerd,
- nincompoop,
- ninny,
- nitwit,
- nitwitted,
- nonsensical,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- numskull,
- nutty,
- off,
- otiose,
- pointless,
- poppycockish,
- preposterous,
- puerile,
- punch-drunk,
- punchy,
- rattlebrained,
- ridiculous,
- risible,
- rubbishy,
- sappy,
- scatterbrained,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- shallow,
- silly Billy,
- silly ass,
- simpleton,
- skimble-skamble,
- slaphappy,
- slender,
- slight,
- stunned,
- stupefied,
- stupid,
- superficial,
- thoughtless,
- trashy,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- twaddling,
- twaddly,
- twit,
- unintelligent,
- unreasonable,
- unwise,
- unwitty,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- vapid,
- wacky,
- weak-minded,
- wet,
- windy,
- witless,
- woozy
- purposeless
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- not evidencing any purpose or goal related words >
- aimless,
- bootless,
- casual,
- causeless,
- designless,
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