Related Words:
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- academic,
- accordant,
- affected,
- anal,
- arid,
- bedizened,
- bibliophagic,
- big-sounding,
- bluestocking,
- book-fed,
- book-learned,
- book-loving,
- book-minded,
- book-read,
- book-wise,
- bookish,
- booky,
- bourgeois,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformist,
- conventional,
- conventionalized,
- convoluted,
- corresponding,
- declamatory,
- devoted to studies,
- didactic,
- diligent,
- doctrinaire,
- donnish,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- erudite,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exact,
- exquisite,
- extrinsic,
- fastidious,
- finical,
- finicky,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- hair-splitting,
- harmonious,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- impersonal,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- inkhorn,
- kosher,
- labyrinthine,
- learned,
- legalistic,
- lexiphanic,
- literary,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mandarin,
- meretricious,
- meticulous,
- mincing,
- namby-pamby,
- nit-picking,
- nominal,
- orotund,
- orthodox,
- ostentatious,
- outward,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overscrupulous,
- overwrought,
- owlish,
- pedagogic,
- pedantical,
- perfectionist,
- plastic,
- pompous,
- preachy,
- preceptorial,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pretentious,
- professorial,
- professorlike,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- quibbling,
- rabbinic,
- rhetorical,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- schoolish,
- schoolmastering,
- schoolmasterish,
- schoolmasterlike,
- schoolmasterly,
- schoolmistressy,
- schoolteacherish,
- schoolteachery,
- scrupulous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- simpering,
- sonorous,
- square,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- straight,
- studious,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- tall,
- teacherish,
- teacherlike,
- teachery,
- teachy,
- tortuous,
- traditionalist,
- tutorial,
- uptight,
- vain
- adrift
collapse - off course, wandering aimlessly; "there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift"
- floating freely; not anchored; "the boat wasset adrift" related words >
- abashed,
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- afloat,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- alternating,
- amiss,
- amorphous,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- at sea,
- aweigh,
- awry,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- beside the question,
- bewildered,
- bothered,
- capricious,
- cast-off,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- clear,
- clueless,
- confused,
- corrupt,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- delusive,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- disoriented,
- distorted,
- distracted,
- distraught,
- disturbed,
- dizzy,
- eccentric,
- embarrassed,
- errant,
- erratic,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- extraneous,
- extrinsic,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fast and loose,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flawed,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- floating,
- fluctuating,
- freakish,
- free,
- giddy,
- guessing,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- immaterial,
- impertinent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- in a fix,
- in a maze,
- in a pickle,
- in a scrape,
- in a stew,
- inadmissible,
- inapplicable,
- inapposite,
- inappropriate,
- incidental,
- inconsequent,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- infirm,
- irregular,
- irrelative,
- irrelevant,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- loose,
- lost,
- mazed,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- moody,
- nihil ad rem,
- nonessential,
- not at issue,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the subject,
- off the track,
- out,
- out-of-the-way,
- parenthetical,
- peccant,
- perturbed,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- put-out,
- rambling,
- restless,
- rickety,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- self-contradictory,
- shaky,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- started,
- straying,
- turned around,
- unaccountable,
- unanchored,
- unbound,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- undone,
- unessential,
- unfactual,
- unfastened,
- unfixed,
- unmoored,
- unorthodox,
- unpredictable,
- unproved,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unstuck,
- untied,
- untrue,
- upset,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wide,
- wishy-washy,
- without a clue,
- wrong
- barbarous
collapse
- primitive in customs and culture
- (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" related words >
- Doric,
- Draconian,
- Gothic,
- Neanderthal,
- Philistine,
- Tartarean,
- alien,
- animal,
- anthropophagous,
- atrocious,
- backward,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- beastly,
- benighted,
- bestial,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- bookless,
- brutal,
- brutalized,
- brute,
- brutish,
- cacophonous,
- cannibalistic,
- careless,
- clumsy,
- coarse,
- cretinous,
- crude,
- cruel,
- cruel-hearted,
- deceived,
- demoniac,
- demoniacal,
- devilish,
- diabolic,
- doggerel,
- dysphemistic,
- erroneous,
- exotic,
- exterior,
- external,
- extraneous,
- extraterrestrial,
- extrinsic,
- faulty,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferine,
- ferocious,
- fiendish,
- fiendlike,
- fierce,
- foreign,
- foreign-born,
- functionally illiterate,
- graceless,
- grammarless,
- gross,
- harsh,
- heathen,
- hellish,
- hoodwinked,
- ignorant,
- ill-bred,
- ill-educated,
- illiterate,
- impolite,
- imprecise,
- improper,
- impure,
- in bad taste,
- inconcinnate,
- inconcinnous,
- incorrect,
- indecorous,
- inelegant,
- infelicitous,
- infernal,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- intrusive,
- kill-crazy,
- led astray,
- loose,
- low,
- lowbrow,
- malign,
- malignant,
- merciless,
- misinformed,
- misinstructed,
- mistaught,
- murderous,
- noncivilized,
- nonintellectual,
- outland,
- outlandish,
- outside,
- pagan,
- philistine,
- pitiless,
- primitive,
- rough-and-ready,
- rude,
- ruthless,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- sharkish,
- slavering,
- slipshod,
- slovenly,
- solecistic,
- strange,
- subhuman,
- tameless,
- tasteless,
- troglodytic,
- truculent,
- ulterior,
- unbooked,
- unbookish,
- unbooklearned,
- unbriefed,
- unchristian,
- uncivil,
- uncivilized,
- uncombed,
- unconscionable,
- uncourtly,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- undignified,
- unearthly,
- unedified,
- uneducated,
- unerudite,
- uneuphonious,
- unfelicitous,
- ungentle,
- ungodly,
- ungraceful,
- ungrammatic,
- unguided,
- unholy,
- unhuman,
- uninstructed,
- unintellectual,
- unkempt,
- unlearned,
- unlettered,
- unlicked,
- unliterary,
- unpolished,
- unread,
- unrefined,
- unscholarly,
- unschooled,
- unseemly,
- unstudious,
- untamed,
- untaught,
- untutored,
- vicious,
- vulgar,
- wicked,
- wild,
- wolfish
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