Related Words:
- scattered
collapse - occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space; "scattered showers"; "scattered villages" related words >
- alienated,
- all up with,
- anarchic,
- arsy-varsy,
- ass-backwards,
- balled up,
- beat,
- beaten,
- bested,
- bollixed up,
- broadcast,
- chaotic,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- confounded,
- confused,
- defeated,
- deflected,
- deflective,
- detached,
- diffracted,
- diffractive,
- diffuse,
- diffused,
- disarticulated,
- discomfited,
- disconnected,
- discrete,
- disengaged,
- disjoined,
- disjoint,
- disjointed,
- disjunct,
- dislocated,
- dispersed,
- dispread,
- disseminated,
- dissipated,
- distorted,
- distributed,
- disunited,
- divided,
- divorced,
- done for,
- done in,
- down,
- estranged,
- exiguous,
- fallen,
- fixed,
- flectional,
- flexed,
- floored,
- fouled up,
- galley-west,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hors de combat,
- hugger-mugger,
- in a mess,
- inflective,
- infrequent,
- isolated,
- jumbled,
- lambasted,
- lathered,
- licked,
- meager,
- miserly,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- muddled,
- niggardly,
- on the skids,
- outdone,
- overborne,
- overcome,
- overmastered,
- overmatched,
- overpowered,
- overridden,
- overthrown,
- overturned,
- overwhelmed,
- panicked,
- piddling,
- poor,
- put to rout,
- rare,
- refracted,
- refractile,
- refractive,
- refrangible,
- removed,
- routed,
- ruined,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- screwed up,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- segregated,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- separated,
- sequestered,
- settled,
- shut off,
- silenced,
- skew,
- skewed,
- skimble-skamble,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- skinned,
- skinned alive,
- slim,
- snafu,
- sparse,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- spread,
- sprinkled,
- stampeded,
- stingy,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- strewn,
- strown,
- thin,
- tight,
- topsy-turvy,
- trimmed,
- trounced,
- undone,
- upset,
- upside-down,
- whelmed,
- whipped,
- widespread,
- worsted
- spotty
collapse
- lacking consistency; "the golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty" related words >
- bad,
- bespangled,
- bespeckled,
- blotched,
- blotchy,
- brindled,
- broken,
- broken off,
- capricious,
- careening,
- catchy,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- chopped-off,
- choppy,
- dappled,
- decousu,
- desultory,
- deviative,
- dirty,
- disconnected,
- discontinued,
- discontinuous,
- discrete,
- disjunctive,
- dotted,
- dotty,
- eccentric,
- episodic,
- erratic,
- exiguous,
- fitful,
- flea-bitten,
- flecked,
- fleckered,
- flickering,
- fluctuating,
- foxed,
- frecked,
- freckle-faced,
- freckled,
- freckly,
- guttering,
- halting,
- herky-jerky,
- heteroclite,
- immethodical,
- incoherent,
- inconstant,
- infrequent,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- interrupted,
- irregular,
- jagged,
- jerky,
- lurching,
- macular,
- maculate,
- maculated,
- marked,
- meager,
- miserly,
- motley,
- mottled,
- niggardly,
- noncontinuous,
- nonlinear,
- nonsequential,
- nonserial,
- nonuniform,
- on-again-off-again,
- parenthetic,
- patchy,
- peppered,
- piddling,
- piebald,
- pied,
- pimpled,
- pimply,
- pocked,
- pockmarked,
- pocky,
- pointille,
- pointillistic,
- polka-dot,
- poor,
- punctated,
- rambling,
- rare,
- rough,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scrappy,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- skewbald,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slim,
- snatchy,
- soiled,
- spangled,
- sparse,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- spattered,
- specked,
- speckled,
- speckledy,
- speckly,
- splashed,
- splattered,
- splotched,
- splotchy,
- sporadic,
- spotted,
- sprinkled,
- staggering,
- stained,
- stingy,
- stippled,
- studded,
- suspended,
- thin,
- tight,
- uncertain,
- unconnected,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unregular,
- unrhythmical,
- unsettled,
- unsteady,
- unsuccessive,
- unsystematic,
- variable,
- veering,
- wandering,
- wavering,
- wobbling,
- wobbly
- austere
collapse
- of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
- severely simple; "a stark interior" related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Lenten,
- Sabbatarian,
- Spartan,
- Spartanic,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- abstemious,
- abstinent,
- amaroidal,
- anchoritic,
- ascetic,
- astringent,
- authoritarian,
- bald,
- bare,
- basic,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- candid,
- chaste,
- common,
- commonplace,
- demanding,
- direct,
- dour,
- dry,
- dull,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- earnest,
- elementary,
- eremitic,
- essential,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exiguous,
- flagellant,
- frank,
- frugal,
- fundamental,
- grave,
- grim,
- hard,
- harsh,
- homely,
- homespun,
- homogeneous,
- impoverished,
- inclement,
- indivisible,
- inornate,
- irreducible,
- jejune,
- keen,
- lean,
- limited,
- matter-of-fact,
- meager,
- mean,
- mendicant,
- mere,
- meticulous,
- miserly,
- monolithic,
- mortified,
- narrow,
- natural,
- neat,
- niggardly,
- of a piece,
- open,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- poor,
- primal,
- primary,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- puny,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- puritanical,
- rigoristic,
- rough,
- rugged,
- rustic,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- self-denying,
- serious,
- severe,
- sharp,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- single,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sober,
- somber,
- spare,
- sparing,
- stark,
- starvation,
- stern,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straightforward,
- straitened,
- strict,
- stringent,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- tough,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- uncluttered,
- undecorated,
- undifferenced,
- undifferentiated,
- unelaborate,
- unembellished,
- unfancy,
- unfussy,
- ungentle,
- uniform,
- unimaginative,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unornamented,
- unornate,
- unpoetical,
- unsparing,
- unvarnished,
- watered,
- watery,
- wedded to poverty
- meager
collapse
- deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare" related words >
- Lenten,
- Lilliputian,
- Spartan,
- Tom Thumb,
- abstemious,
- angular,
- angustifoliate,
- angustirostrate,
- angustisellate,
- angustiseptal,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bare,
- bony,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- circumscribed,
- close,
- close-fitting,
- confined,
- constricted,
- cramp,
- cramped,
- crowded,
- cursory,
- deficient,
- depthless,
- dumpy,
- dwarf,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- elfin,
- exiguous,
- few,
- flat,
- flat-chested,
- fleshless,
- footling,
- frugal,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- gaunt,
- gawky,
- impoverished,
- inadequate,
- inappreciable,
- incapacious,
- incipient,
- incommodious,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- infrequent,
- insignificant,
- insufficient,
- isthmian,
- isthmic,
- jejune,
- lank,
- lanky,
- lean,
- lean-fleshed,
- lean-looking,
- limited,
- little,
- low,
- mean,
- mere,
- midget,
- miniature,
- minimum,
- miserable,
- miserly,
- nanoid,
- narrow,
- near,
- negligible,
- niggardly,
- no great shakes,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- poor,
- puny,
- pygmy,
- rare,
- rawboned,
- restricted,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- runty,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scraggy,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- scrubby,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- shabby,
- shallow,
- short,
- shriveled,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- skeletal,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- skin-deep,
- skinny,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spidery,
- spindling,
- spindly,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- squat,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- strait,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- superficial,
- thin,
- thin-bellied,
- thin-fleshed,
- tight,
- tiny,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- twiggy,
- undersize,
- undersized,
- underweight,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- watered,
- watery,
- wizened
- puny
collapse
- (used especially of persons) of inferior size
- inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses" related words >
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- attenuated,
- austere,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cadaverous,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- corpselike,
- cramped,
- crumbly,
- dainty,
- decrepit,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diminutive,
- dinky,
- dwarf,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- effeminate,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- emaciated,
- exiguous,
- feeble,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- frugal,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- haggard,
- half-pint,
- hollow-eyed,
- impoverished,
- inconsequential,
- inferior,
- infirm,
- insignificant,
- jejune,
- jerkwater,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- knee-high,
- lean,
- light,
- lightweight,
- limited,
- little,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- meager,
- mean,
- measly,
- midget,
- minor,
- minute,
- miserly,
- namby-pamby,
- narrow,
- negligible,
- niggardly,
- niggling,
- nugatory,
- one-horse,
- paltry,
- papery,
- parsimonious,
- pasteboardy,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- petite,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- pinched,
- pindling,
- pint-sized,
- poky,
- poor,
- punk,
- pygmy,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- shattery,
- short,
- shriveled,
- sickly,
- sissified,
- skeletal,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- sleazy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- small-beer,
- small-time,
- smallish,
- spare,
- sparing,
- starvation,
- starved,
- starveling,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- tacky,
- thin,
- tinhorn,
- tiny,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- underdeveloped,
- underfed,
- undernourished,
- undersized,
- unimportant,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- useless,
- wasted,
- watered,
- watery,
- weak,
- weakly,
- weazeny,
- wispy,
- withered,
- wizened,
- womanish,
- worthless,
- wraithlike
- scant
collapse
- limit in quality or quantity related words >
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- angustifoliate,
- angustirostrate,
- angustisellate,
- angustiseptal,
- arrested,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bankrupt in,
- bare of,
- begrudge,
- bereft of,
- bound,
- callow,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- circumscribed,
- close,
- close-fitting,
- condition,
- confine,
- confined,
- constricted,
- contain,
- copyright,
- cramp,
- cramped,
- crowded,
- defective,
- deficient,
- denuded of,
- deprived of,
- destitute of,
- devoid of,
- discipline,
- draw the line,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- embryonic,
- empty of,
- exiguous,
- failing,
- famish,
- for want of,
- forlorn of,
- frugal,
- grudge,
- hedge about,
- hypoplastic,
- immature,
- impoverished,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in default of,
- in short supply,
- in want of,
- inadequate,
- incapacious,
- incommodious,
- incomplete,
- infant,
- infrequent,
- insufficiency,
- insufficient,
- isthmian,
- isthmic,
- jejune,
- lacking,
- lean,
- limit,
- limited,
- live upon nothing,
- meager,
- mean,
- miserly,
- missing,
- moderate,
- narrow,
- near,
- needing,
- niggard,
- niggardly,
- out of,
- out of pocket,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- patent,
- paucity,
- piddling,
- pinch,
- pinch pennies,
- poor,
- poverty,
- puny,
- qualify,
- rare,
- register,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- restricted,
- save-all,
- scamp,
- scant of,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scarceness,
- scattered,
- scrappy,
- scrawny,
- screw,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- short,
- short of,
- shy,
- shy of,
- sketchy,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- specialize,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- starvation,
- starve,
- stingy,
- stint,
- stinted,
- strait,
- straiten,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- tight,
- tightfisted,
- unblessed with,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unpossessed of,
- void of,
- wanting,
- watered,
- watery
- cramped
collapse
- constricted in size; "cramped quarters"; "trying to bring children up in cramped high-rise apartments" related words >
- Latinate,
- angustifoliate,
- angustirostrate,
- angustisellate,
- angustiseptal,
- authoritarian,
- awkward,
- barred,
- beleaguered,
- beset,
- besieged,
- bigot,
- bigoted,
- blockaded,
- bombastic,
- borne,
- bound,
- bounded,
- boxed in,
- cabined,
- caged,
- circumscribed,
- clamped,
- cloistered,
- close,
- close-fitting,
- closed,
- closed-in,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- condensed,
- conditioned,
- confined,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- contracted,
- cooped,
- copyrighted,
- cordoned,
- cordoned off,
- corralled,
- cramp,
- creedbound,
- cribbed,
- crowded,
- cumbrous,
- deaf,
- deaf to reason,
- dinky,
- disciplined,
- elephantine,
- enclosed,
- exiguous,
- fanatical,
- fenced,
- finite,
- forced,
- formal,
- guinde,
- half-pint,
- halting,
- heavy,
- hedged,
- hedged about,
- hedged in,
- hemmed,
- hemmed in,
- hidebound,
- icebound,
- illiberal,
- immured,
- imprisoned,
- incapacious,
- incarcerated,
- incommodious,
- inkhorn,
- insular,
- isthmian,
- isthmic,
- jailed,
- knee-high,
- knitted,
- labored,
- landlocked,
- leaden,
- leaguered,
- limited,
- little,
- little-minded,
- lumbering,
- meager,
- mean,
- mean-minded,
- mean-spirited,
- mewed,
- minute,
- moderated,
- narrow,
- narrow-hearted,
- narrow-minded,
- narrow-souled,
- narrow-spirited,
- near,
- nearsighted,
- nipped,
- one-horse,
- paled,
- parochial,
- patented,
- penned,
- pent-up,
- petite,
- petty,
- piddling,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- pindling,
- pint-sized,
- poky,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- prescribed,
- proscribed,
- provincial,
- puckered,
- puny,
- purblind,
- pursed,
- qualified,
- quarantined,
- railed,
- restrained,
- restricted,
- scant,
- scanty,
- sesquipedalian,
- short,
- shortsighted,
- shut-in,
- slender,
- slight,
- small,
- small-minded,
- smallish,
- snowbound,
- solidified,
- squeezed,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stinted,
- strait,
- straitened,
- straitlaced,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- stuffy,
- tight,
- tiny,
- turgid,
- two-by-four,
- uncatholic,
- uncharitable,
- uncomfortable,
- ungenerous,
- unliberal,
- unwieldy,
- walled,
- walled-in,
- wasp-waisted,
- windbound,
- wrinkled,
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