Related Words:
- preliminary
collapse - something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner"
- a minor match preceding the main event
- designed to orient or acquaint with a situation before proceeding; "a preliminary investigation" related words >
- advance,
- advanced,
- antecedent,
- anterior,
- arrangement,
- avant-garde,
- avant-propos,
- basic training,
- beginning,
- breakthrough,
- briefing,
- chief,
- clearing the decks,
- coming out,
- curtain raiser,
- debut,
- embarkation,
- embarkment,
- equipment,
- exordial,
- exordium,
- exploratory,
- familiarization,
- first,
- first appearance,
- fixing,
- floating,
- flotation,
- foremost,
- forerunning,
- foreword,
- foundation,
- front matter,
- frontispiece,
- groundwork,
- headmost,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- inauguration,
- induction,
- initial,
- initiation,
- initiatory,
- innovation,
- installation,
- installment,
- introduction,
- introductory,
- launching,
- leading,
- leap,
- maiden speech,
- makeready,
- making ready,
- manufacture,
- mobilization,
- opener,
- opening,
- original,
- overture,
- planning,
- postulate,
- preamble,
- prearrangement,
- precedence,
- precedent,
- preceding,
- precessional,
- precursory,
- preface,
- prefatory,
- prefix,
- prefixed,
- prefixture,
- preliminaries,
- preliminary act,
- preliminary step,
- prelude,
- preludial,
- prelusive,
- premise,
- premonitory,
- prep,
- preparation,
- preparatory,
- preparatory study,
- preparing,
- prepositive,
- prepping,
- prerequisite,
- presupposition,
- pretreatment,
- prevenient,
- prior,
- processing,
- prodromal,
- prodrome,
- prodromic,
- proem,
- proemial,
- prolegomena,
- prolegomenon,
- prolepsis,
- prologue,
- propaedeutic,
- protasis,
- provision,
- readying,
- spadework,
- training,
- treatment,
- trial,
- tryout,
- unveiling,
- verse,
- voluntary,
- warm-up
- agog
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- highly excited related words >
- advertent,
- agape,
- aghast,
- alacritous,
- alert,
- all agog,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- amazed,
- animated,
- anticipant,
- anticipating,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- anxious,
- aquiver,
- ardent,
- aroused,
- assiduous,
- astonished,
- astounded,
- at gaze,
- athirst,
- atingle,
- attentive,
- atwitter,
- avid,
- awaiting,
- aware,
- awed,
- awestruck,
- beguiled,
- bewildered,
- bewitched,
- breathless,
- burning with curiosity,
- bursting,
- bursting to,
- captivated,
- careful,
- carried away,
- certain,
- concentrated,
- confident,
- confounded,
- conscious,
- consumed with curiosity,
- curious,
- desirous,
- diligent,
- dumbfounded,
- dumbstruck,
- eager,
- earnest,
- ebullient,
- effervescent,
- enchanted,
- enraptured,
- enravished,
- enthralled,
- enthusiastic,
- entranced,
- excited,
- exhilarated,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- fascinated,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- fired,
- flabbergasted,
- forearmed,
- forestalling,
- forewarned,
- forward,
- full of life,
- galvanized,
- gaping,
- gauping,
- gazing,
- ghoulish,
- gossipy,
- heedful,
- high,
- hopeful,
- hopped up,
- hypnotized,
- impassioned,
- impatient,
- in anticipation,
- in awe,
- in awe of,
- in expectation,
- inflamed,
- inquiring,
- inquisitive,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- interested,
- itchy,
- keen,
- keyed up,
- lathered up,
- lively,
- looking for,
- looking forward to,
- lost in wonder,
- manic,
- marveling,
- mesmerized,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- moved,
- nice,
- niggling,
- not surprised,
- observant,
- observing,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- optimistic,
- overcurious,
- overwhelmed,
- panting,
- popeyed,
- prepared,
- prompt,
- prurient,
- puzzled,
- quick,
- quizzical,
- rapt in wonder,
- raring to,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- ready to burst,
- regardful,
- restive,
- roused,
- sanguine,
- scopophiliac,
- spellbound,
- spirited,
- staggered,
- staring,
- steamed up,
- stimulated,
- stirred,
- stirred up,
- stupefied,
- supercurious,
- sure,
- surprised,
- thirsty,
- thrilled,
- thunderstruck,
- tingling,
- tingly,
- turned-on,
- under a charm,
- unsurprised,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- voyeuristic,
- waiting,
- waiting for,
- watchful,
- watching for,
- whipped up,
- wide-eyed,
- wonder-struck,
- wondering,
- worked up,
- wrought up,
- yeasty,
- zestful
- planning
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- the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise
- an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action; "the planning was more fun than the trip itself"
- the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening; "his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties" related words >
- adjustment,
- approach,
- arrangement,
- attack,
- basic training,
- blueprint,
- blueprinting,
- briefing,
- calculation,
- charting,
- clearing the decks,
- codification,
- conception,
- contrivance,
- coordination,
- design,
- device,
- disposition,
- enterprise,
- envisagement,
- equipment,
- familiarization,
- figuring,
- fixing,
- foresight,
- forethought,
- foundation,
- frame-up,
- game,
- graphing,
- ground plan,
- groundwork,
- guidelines,
- harmonization,
- idea,
- intention,
- layout,
- lineup,
- long-range plan,
- makeready,
- making ready,
- manufacture,
- mapping,
- master plan,
- method,
- methodization,
- methodology,
- mobilization,
- normalization,
- operations research,
- ordination,
- organization,
- packed deal,
- packed jury,
- plan,
- planning function,
- plotting,
- prearrangement,
- preconcertedness,
- preliminaries,
- preliminary,
- preliminary act,
- preliminary step,
- premeditation,
- preordering,
- prep,
- preparation,
- preparatory study,
- preparing,
- prepping,
- prerequisite,
- pretreatment,
- procedure,
- processing,
- program,
- program of action,
- propaedeutic,
- provision,
- put-up job,
- rationalization,
- readying,
- regularization,
- regulation,
- rigged jury,
- routinization,
- schedule,
- schema,
- schematism,
- schematization,
- scheme,
- scheme of arrangement,
- scheming,
- setup,
- spadework,
- stacked deck,
- strategic plan,
- strategy,
- system,
- systematization,
- tactical plan,
- tactics,
- the big picture,
- the picture,
- training,
- treatment,
- trial,
- tryout,
- warm-up,
- way,
- working plan
- restriction
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- the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
- a principle that limits the extent of something; "I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements" related words >
- allowance,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- ban,
- bar,
- barring,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- boundary,
- bounds,
- boycott,
- brake,
- caging,
- cession,
- check,
- circumscription,
- clogging,
- closeness,
- closing up,
- closure,
- concession,
- condition,
- confinement,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- continence,
- control,
- cramp,
- cramping,
- crowdedness,
- curb,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- delay,
- demarcation,
- detainment,
- detention,
- discipline,
- embargo,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- exemption,
- extenuating circumstances,
- fixation,
- foot-dragging,
- grain of salt,
- grant,
- hair,
- hairbreadth,
- hairsbreadth,
- hampering,
- hedge,
- hedging,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- impediment,
- impoundment,
- inadmissibility,
- incapaciousness,
- incommodiousness,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interference,
- interruption,
- let,
- limit,
- limitation,
- lockout,
- lockup,
- mental reservation,
- moderation,
- modification,
- narrow gauge,
- narrowing,
- narrowness,
- nearness,
- negativism,
- nonadmission,
- nuisance value,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- omission,
- opposition,
- penning,
- preclusion,
- prescription,
- prohibition,
- proscription,
- provision,
- proviso,
- qualification,
- rejection,
- relegation,
- repression,
- repudiation,
- reservation,
- resistance,
- restrain,
- restraint,
- restrictedness,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- salvo,
- setback,
- slenderness,
- special case,
- special treatment,
- specialness,
- specification,
- squeeze,
- stint,
- stipulation,
- straitness,
- stranglehold,
- strictness,
- stricture,
- suppression,
- taboo,
- tight squeeze,
- tightness,
- waiver
- paragraph
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- one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line
- write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher
- write about in a paragraph; "All her friends were paragraphed in last Monday's paper"
- divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed" related words >
- adjectival phrase,
- article,
- back matter,
- book,
- causerie,
- chapter,
- clause,
- column,
- conceive,
- construction,
- couch,
- couch in terms,
- descant,
- discourse,
- discussion,
- disquisition,
- dissertation,
- embody in words,
- essay,
- etude,
- examination,
- excursus,
- exposition,
- express,
- expression,
- fascicle,
- feature,
- first approach,
- folio,
- formularize,
- formulate,
- frame,
- front matter,
- gathering,
- give expression to,
- give words to,
- headed group,
- homily,
- idiom,
- idiotism,
- installment,
- introductory study,
- livraison,
- locution,
- lucubration,
- manner of speaking,
- memoir,
- monograph,
- morceau,
- note,
- noun phrase,
- number,
- outline,
- page,
- pandect,
- paper,
- part,
- passage,
- peculiar expression,
- period,
- phrasal idiom,
- phrase,
- piece,
- preliminary study,
- present,
- prolegomenon,
- put,
- put in words,
- research paper,
- rhetorize,
- screed,
- section,
- sentence,
- serial,
- set out,
- set phrase,
- sheet,
- signature,
- sketch,
- special article,
- standard phrase,
- state,
- study,
- style,
- survey,
- syntactic structure,
- term,
- term paper,
- text,
- theme,
- thesis,
- tract,
- tractate,
- treatise,
- treatment,
- turn of expression,
- turn of phrase,
- usage,
- utterance,
- verb complex,
- verb phrase,
- verbalism,
- verse,
- volume,
- way of speaking,
- word,
- word-group
- big
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- conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"
- given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
- generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies"
- marked by intense physical force; "a big wind"
- significant; "graduation was a big day in his life"
- loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"
- feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
- in a major way; "the play failed big at the box office"
- on a grand scale; "think big"
- extremely well; "his performance went over big" related words >
- adult,
- aggrandized,
- ample,
- apotheosized,
- arrogant,
- arty,
- awash,
- awesome,
- awful,
- awfully,
- beatified,
- benevolent,
- big boy,
- big cheese,
- big noise,
- big shot,
- big-league,
- big-name,
- big-time,
- bighearted,
- bigwig,
- bigwigged,
- bombastic,
- brimful,
- brimming,
- bull,
- bumper,
- canonized,
- capacious,
- chivalrous,
- chock-full,
- cloyed,
- clumsy,
- commodious,
- comprehensive,
- condescending,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- considerate,
- copious,
- crammed,
- crowded,
- damned,
- deified,
- distended,
- domineering,
- double-barreled,
- earthshaking,
- elevated,
- eminent,
- ennobled,
- enshrined,
- enthroned,
- exalted,
- excellent,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- extensive,
- extravagant,
- extremely,
- fat,
- flushed,
- full to bursting,
- gassy,
- generous,
- glorified,
- glutted,
- gone,
- goodly,
- grand,
- gravid,
- great,
- great gun,
- great of heart,
- greathearted,
- greatly,
- grown,
- grown-up,
- handsome,
- haughty,
- healthy,
- heavy,
- heavyweight,
- hefty,
- held in awe,
- heroic,
- high,
- high and mighty,
- high-faluting,
- high-flown,
- high-headed,
- high-minded,
- high-nosed,
- high-powered,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hoity-toity,
- hugely,
- hulking,
- husky,
- idealistic,
- immortal,
- immortalized,
- important,
- imposing,
- inflated,
- knightly,
- large,
- large-scale,
- largehearted,
- liberal,
- lion,
- lofty,
- magnanimous,
- magnified,
- major,
- man-sized,
- marriable,
- marriageable,
- material,
- mature,
- maturescent,
- meaningful,
- mighty,
- momentous,
- much,
- name,
- noble,
- noble-minded,
- nubile,
- numerous,
- of age,
- of marriageable age,
- old,
- openhanded,
- overbearing,
- overblown,
- overflowing,
- packed,
- parturient,
- patronizing,
- pretentious,
- princely,
- proud,
- purse-proud,
- replete,
- roomy,
- sainted,
- sanctified,
- sated,
- satiated,
- satisfied,
- self-important,
- shrined,
- significant,
- sizable,
- spacious,
- stuck-up,
- stuffed,
- sublime,
- substantial,
- supereminent,
- superior,
- swollen,
- tall,
- throned,
- tidy,
- toplofty,
- unwieldy,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- upstage,
- voluminous,
- weighty,
- whacking,
- whopping,
- windy,
- world-shaking
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