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incompetent
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someone who is not competent to take effective action
not qualified or suited for a purpose; "an incompetent secret service"; "the filming was hopeless incompetent"
not doing a good job; "incompetent at chess"
related words >
awkward
,
base
,
blank cartridge
,
bungling
,
castrato
,
clumsy
,
defective
,
deficient
,
disqualified
,
dud
,
dull tool
,
eunuch
,
failing
,
found wanting
,
gauche
,
gelding
,
greenhorn
,
ill-equipped
,
ill-fitted
,
ill-furnished
,
ill-provided
,
ill-qualified
,
imperfect
,
impotent
,
inadequate
,
incapable
,
incapable of
,
incomplete
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
inefficient
,
ineligible
,
inept
,
inexpert
,
inferior
,
insufficient
,
invalid
,
lacking
,
little
,
maladjusted
,
maladroit
,
mean
,
mediocre
,
mediocrity
,
no conjuror
,
not comparable
,
not enough
,
not equal to
,
not in it
,
not up to
,
out of it
,
petty
,
shabby
,
small
,
too little
,
trivial
,
unable
,
unable to
,
unadapted
,
unadjusted
,
unarmed
,
unendowed
,
unequal to
,
unequipped
,
unfit
,
unfitted
,
ungifted
,
unprovided
,
unqualified
,
unsatisfactory
,
unsatisfying
,
unskilled
,
unskillful
,
unsufficing
,
unsuited
,
untalented
,
unworkmanlike
,
useless
,
wanting
,
weakling
comrade
collapse
a fellow member of the Communist Party
related words >
Bolshevik
,
Bolshie
,
Greek
,
Red
,
ace
,
adjunct
,
affiliate
,
ally
,
amigo
,
associate
,
auxiliary
,
bedfellow
,
bedmate
,
belonger
,
bosom buddy
,
brother
,
brother-in-arms
,
buddy
,
bunkie
,
bunkmate
,
butty
,
camarade
,
card-carrier
,
card-carrying member
,
cardholder
,
chamberfellow
,
charter member
,
chum
,
classmate
,
clubber
,
clubman
,
clubwoman
,
coadjutor
,
cohort
,
colleague
,
comate
,
commie
,
committeeman
,
companion
,
company
,
compatriot
,
compeer
,
confederate
,
confrere
,
consociate
,
consort
,
conventioneer
,
conventioner
,
conventionist
,
copartner
,
crony
,
dues-paying member
,
enlistee
,
enrollee
,
fellow
,
fellow member
,
fellow student
,
fraternity man
,
friend
,
girl friend
,
gossip
,
guildsman
,
honorary member
,
initiate
,
insider
,
joiner
,
life member
,
mate
,
member
,
messmate
,
old crony
,
one of us
,
pal
,
pard
,
pardner
,
partner
,
playfellow
,
playmate
,
pledge
,
roommate
,
running mate
,
schoolfellow
,
schoolmate
,
shipmate
,
side partner
,
sidekick
,
sister
,
socius
,
sorority girl
,
sorority woman
,
teammate
,
workfellow
,
yokefellow
,
yokemate
missing
collapse
not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person"
related words >
absconded
,
absent
,
arrested
,
away
,
bankrupt in
,
bare of
,
bereft of
,
callow
,
defective
,
deficient
,
deleted
,
denuded of
,
departed
,
deprived of
,
destitute of
,
devoid
,
devoid of
,
disappeared
,
embryonic
,
empty of
,
existless
,
extinct
,
failing
,
for want of
,
forlorn of
,
gone
,
gone away
,
hypoplastic
,
immature
,
in arrear
,
in arrears
,
in default
,
in default of
,
in short supply
,
in want of
,
inadequate
,
incomplete
,
infant
,
lacking
,
lost
,
lost to sight
,
lost to view
,
minus
,
needing
,
negative
,
no longer present
,
no more
,
nonattendant
,
nonexistent
,
not found
,
not present
,
null
,
omitted
,
out of
,
out of pocket
,
out of sight
,
part
,
partial
,
past and gone
,
patchy
,
scant
,
scant of
,
scanty
,
scrappy
,
short
,
short of
,
shy
,
shy of
,
sketchy
,
subtracted
,
taken away
,
unblessed with
,
underdeveloped
,
undeveloped
,
unexisting
,
unpossessed of
,
vacuous
,
vanished
,
void
,
void of
,
wanting
,
without being
auditor
collapse
a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization
a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit
related words >
Big Brother
,
CA
,
CPA
,
accepter
,
accountant
,
accountant general
,
acquirer
,
actuary
,
addressee
,
audience
,
audient
,
autodidact
,
bank accountant
,
bank examiner
,
beholder
,
boatswain
,
bookkeeper
,
boss
,
bursar
,
calculator
,
cashier
,
cashkeeper
,
certified public accountant
,
chamberlain
,
chartered accountant
,
chief
,
clerk
,
comptroller
,
consignee
,
controller
,
cost accountant
,
cost keeper
,
curator
,
depositary
,
depository
,
eavesdropper
,
educatee
,
financial officer
,
floor manager
,
floorman
,
floorwalker
,
foreman
,
gaffer
,
ganger
,
getter
,
head
,
headman
,
hearer
,
hearkener
,
holder
,
inquirer
,
inspector
,
journalizer
,
learner
,
liquidator
,
listener
,
looker
,
monitor
,
noncommissioned officer
,
obtainer
,
overhearer
,
overman
,
overseer
,
payee
,
paymaster
,
praepostor
,
prefect
,
proctor
,
procurer
,
pupil
,
purse bearer
,
purser
,
receiver
,
recipient
,
reckoner
,
recorder
,
registrar
,
scholar
,
self-taught person
,
sirdar
,
slave driver
,
snoop
,
spectator
,
steward
,
straw boss
,
student
,
studier
,
subforeman
,
super
,
superintendent
,
supervisor
,
surveyor
,
taker
,
taskmaster
,
trainee
,
treasurer
,
trustee
,
viewer
,
visitor
defalcation
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the sum of money that is misappropriated
related words >
abuse
,
abuse of office
,
arrear
,
arrearage
,
arrears
,
befoulment
,
break
,
conversion
,
corrupt administration
,
debasement
,
decline
,
default
,
defect
,
defectiveness
,
deficiency
,
deficit
,
defilement
,
delinquency
,
desecration
,
discontinuity
,
diversion
,
embezzlement
,
failing
,
failure
,
falling short
,
fault
,
fouling
,
gap
,
hiatus
,
imperfection
,
inadequacy
,
inferiority
,
insufficiency
,
interval
,
lack
,
lacuna
,
laxness
,
maladministration
,
malfeasance
,
malpractice
,
malversation
,
misapplication
,
misappropriation
,
misconduct
,
misemployment
,
misfeasance
,
mishandling
,
mismanagement
,
missing link
,
misusage
,
misuse
,
need
,
negligence
,
omission
,
outage
,
paucity
,
peculation
,
perversion
,
pilfering
,
pollution
,
poor stewardship
,
poverty
,
profanation
,
prostitution
,
remissness
,
scant
,
scantiness
,
scarceness
,
short measure
,
shortage
,
shortcoming
,
shortfall
,
slackness
,
slump
,
ullage
,
underage
,
violation
,
want
,
wantage
retrogressive
collapse
related words >
ascending
,
atavistic
,
axial
,
back
,
back-flowing
,
backward
,
coming apart
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
decadent
,
declining
,
degenerate
,
descending
,
deteriorating
,
disintegrating
,
down-trending
,
downward
,
draining
,
drifting
,
drooping
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling
,
flagging
,
flowing
,
fluent
,
flying
,
fragmenting
,
going
,
going to pieces
,
gyrational
,
gyratory
,
languishing
,
marcescent
,
mounting
,
passing
,
pining
,
plunging
,
progressive
,
reactionary
,
recessive
,
recidivist
,
recidivous
,
reflowing
,
refluent
,
regressive
,
retroactive
,
retrocessive
,
retrograde
,
retrorse
,
retroverse
,
returnable
,
reversible
,
reversional
,
reversionary
,
revertible
,
revulsionary
,
rising
,
rotary
,
rotational
,
rotatory
,
running
,
rushing
,
shriveling
,
sideward
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
soaring
,
streaming
,
subsiding
,
tabetic
,
up-trending
,
upward
,
waning
,
wasting
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worsening
falling
collapse
becoming lower or less in degree or value; "a falling market"; "falling incomes"
decreasing in amount or degree; "falling temperature"
related words >
cascading
,
collapsing
,
coming apart
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
dangling
,
decadent
,
deciduous
,
declined
,
declining
,
declivate
,
declivitous
,
declivous
,
decurrent
,
degenerate
,
dependent
,
depending
,
descendant
,
descending
,
deteriorating
,
dipping
,
disintegrating
,
down
,
down-reaching
,
downcoming
,
downfalling
,
downgoing
,
downgrade
,
downhill
,
downsinking
,
downward
,
draining
,
drooping
,
dropping
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling loosely
,
flagging
,
flowing
,
fragmenting
,
going to pieces
,
hanging
,
hung
,
languishing
,
marcescent
,
on the descendant
,
on the downgrade
,
pendent
,
pending
,
pendulant
,
pendular
,
penduline
,
pendulous
,
pensile
,
pining
,
plummeting
,
plunging
,
regressive
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
sagging
,
setting
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
submerging
,
subsiding
,
suspended
,
swinging
,
tabetic
,
tottering
,
tumbledown
,
waning
,
wasting
,
weeping
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worsening
derogation
collapse
(law) the partial taking away of the effectiveness of a law; a partial repeal or abolition of a law; "any derogation of the common law is to be strictly construed"
related words >
attrition
,
belittling
,
comedown
,
contempt
,
curtailment
,
cut
,
cutting
,
debasement
,
decadence
,
decadency
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
decrial
,
deformation
,
degeneracy
,
degenerateness
,
degeneration
,
degradation
,
demotion
,
depletion
,
depravation
,
depravedness
,
depreciation
,
descent
,
deterioration
,
detraction
,
devolution
,
diminution
,
dip
,
disapproval
,
discrediting
,
disgrace
,
disparagement
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
downward mobility
,
downward trend
,
drop
,
dying
,
ebb
,
effeteness
,
extraction
,
fading
,
failing
,
failure
,
failure of nerve
,
faint praise
,
fall
,
falling-off
,
impairment
,
indignity
,
involution
,
knocking
,
lapse
,
lessening
,
loss of tone
,
lukewarm support
,
minimizing
,
putting down
,
reduction
,
regression
,
remission
,
retraction
,
retrenchment
,
retrocession
,
retrogradation
,
retrogression
,
shortening
,
shrinkage
,
slighting
,
slippage
,
slump
,
sour grapes
,
truncation
,
wane
scholar
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a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
a student who holds a scholarship
related words >
academic
,
academician
,
aficionado
,
amateur
,
auditor
,
authority
,
autodidact
,
bookman
,
bookworm
,
brain
,
buff
,
classicist
,
clerk
,
colossus of knowledge
,
connoisseur
,
critic
,
dilettante
,
doctor
,
educatee
,
egghead
,
elder
,
elder statesman
,
experimental scientist
,
expert
,
fan
,
freak
,
genius
,
giant of learning
,
great soul
,
guru
,
highbrow
,
humanist
,
illuminate
,
inquirer
,
intellect
,
intellectual
,
learned clerk
,
learned man
,
learner
,
literary man
,
litterateur
,
longhair
,
lover of learning
,
lover of wisdom
,
mahatma
,
man of intellect
,
man of learning
,
man of letters
,
man of science
,
man of wisdom
,
mandarin
,
master
,
mastermind
,
mentor
,
mine of information
,
monitor
,
nut
,
oracle
,
pedagogue
,
philologist
,
philologue
,
philomath
,
philosophe
,
philosopher
,
polyhistor
,
polymath
,
practical scientist
,
praepostor
,
prefect
,
professor
,
pundit
,
pupil
,
rabbi
,
rishi
,
sage
,
sapient
,
savant
,
scholastic
,
schoolboy
,
schoolgirl
,
schoolman
,
scientist
,
seer
,
self-taught person
,
specialist
,
starets
,
student
,
studier
,
teacher
,
technical expert
,
technician
,
technologist
,
thinker
,
trainee
,
undergraduate
,
walking encyclopedia
,
wise man
,
wise old man
stillborn
collapse
(of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn; "a stillborn baby"
related words >
abortive
,
asleep
,
asleep in Jesus
,
at rest
,
bearing
,
bereft of life
,
bootless
,
born
,
breathless
,
called home
,
calved
,
carrion
,
cast
,
croaked
,
dead
,
dead and gone
,
death-struck
,
deceased
,
defunct
,
demised
,
departed
,
departed this life
,
destitute of life
,
done for
,
dropped
,
exanimate
,
failed
,
failing
,
fallen
,
finished
,
foaled
,
food for worms
,
fruitless
,
futile
,
given birth
,
giving birth
,
gone
,
gone to glory
,
gone west
,
hatched
,
inanimate
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
inefficacious
,
lame
,
late
,
late lamented
,
launched into eternity
,
lifeless
,
manque
,
martyred
,
miscarried
,
miscarrying
,
nee
,
newborn
,
no more
,
of no effect
,
passed on
,
pushing up daisies
,
released
,
reposing
,
resting easy
,
sainted
,
sleeping
,
smitten with death
,
stickit
,
still
,
successless
,
taken away
,
taken off
,
unfortunate
,
unsuccessful
,
useless
,
whelped
,
with the Lord
,
with the saints
,
without life
,
without vital functions
demotion
collapse
act of lowering in rank or position
related words >
banishment
,
blackballing
,
comedown
,
concavity
,
de-escalation
,
debasement
,
decadence
,
decadency
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
deformation
,
defrocking
,
degeneracy
,
degenerateness
,
degeneration
,
degradation
,
depluming
,
deportation
,
depravation
,
depravedness
,
depreciation
,
depression
,
deprivation
,
derogation
,
descent
,
deterioration
,
detrusion
,
devolution
,
diminution
,
disbarment
,
disfellowship
,
displuming
,
downgrading
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
downward mobility
,
downward trend
,
drop
,
ducking
,
dying
,
ebb
,
effeteness
,
exclusion
,
excommunication
,
exile
,
expatriation
,
extradition
,
fading
,
failing
,
failure
,
failure of nerve
,
fall
,
falling-off
,
fugitation
,
hauling down
,
hollowness
,
humbling
,
humiliation
,
involution
,
lapse
,
loss of tone
,
lowering
,
ostracism
,
ostracization
,
outlawing
,
outlawry
,
reduction
,
regression
,
relegation
,
retrocession
,
retrogradation
,
retrogression
,
rustication
,
sinking
,
slippage
,
slump
,
stripping
,
submergence
,
suspension
,
thrusting under
,
transportation
,
unfrocking
,
wane
regressive
collapse
opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state
(of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases
related words >
apostate
,
ascending
,
atavistic
,
axial
,
back
,
back-flowing
,
backsliding
,
backward
,
coming apart
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
decadent
,
declining
,
degenerate
,
descending
,
deteriorating
,
disintegrating
,
down-trending
,
downward
,
draining
,
drifting
,
drooping
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling
,
flagging
,
flowing
,
fluent
,
flying
,
fragmenting
,
going
,
going to pieces
,
gyrational
,
gyratory
,
languishing
,
lapsing
,
marcescent
,
mounting
,
passing
,
pining
,
plunging
,
progressive
,
reactionary
,
recessive
,
recidivist
,
recidivous
,
recrudescent
,
reflowing
,
refluent
,
relapsing
,
retroactive
,
retrocessive
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
retrorse
,
retroverse
,
returnable
,
reversible
,
reversional
,
reversionary
,
revertible
,
revulsionary
,
rising
,
rotary
,
rotational
,
rotatory
,
running
,
rushing
,
shriveling
,
sideward
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
soaring
,
streaming
,
subsiding
,
tabetic
,
up-trending
,
upward
,
waning
,
wasting
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worsening
shortcoming
collapse
related words >
absence
,
adulteration
,
asymmetry
,
beggary
,
blemish
,
bug
,
catch
,
contrariety
,
crack
,
defect
,
defectibility
,
defection
,
defectiveness
,
deficiency
,
deficit
,
demerit
,
deprivation
,
destitution
,
difference
,
disequilibrium
,
disparity
,
disproportion
,
drawback
,
drought
,
erroneousness
,
failing
,
failure
,
fallibility
,
famine
,
fault
,
faultiness
,
faute
,
flaw
,
foible
,
frailty
,
heterogeneity
,
hole
,
imbalance
,
immaturity
,
impairment
,
imperfection
,
impoverishment
,
impurity
,
inaccuracy
,
inadequacy
,
inadequateness
,
incompleteness
,
inequality
,
inequity
,
inexactitude
,
inexactness
,
infirmity
,
injustice
,
insufficiency
,
irregularity
,
kink
,
lack
,
liability
,
little problem
,
mediocrity
,
need
,
nonuniformity
,
odds
,
omission
,
overbalance
,
patchiness
,
problem
,
rift
,
shortage
,
shortfall
,
sin
,
sketchiness
,
snag
,
something missing
,
starvation
,
taint
,
unbalance
,
undevelopment
,
unevenness
,
unfair discrimination
,
unperfectedness
,
unsoundness
,
vulnerable place
,
want
,
wantage
,
weak link
,
weak point
,
weakness
abiding
collapse
unceasing; "an abiding belief"; "imperishable truths"
related words >
age-long
,
aged
,
ancient
,
antique
,
changeless
,
chronic
,
commorant
,
constant
,
continuing
,
continuous
,
diuturnal
,
durable
,
dwelling
,
enduring
,
evergreen
,
firm
,
fixed
,
frozen
,
hardy
,
immobile
,
immutable
,
in residence
,
indefatigable
,
intact
,
intransient
,
inveterate
,
inviolate
,
lasting
,
living
,
living in
,
lodging
,
long-lasting
,
long-lived
,
long-standing
,
long-term
,
longeval
,
longevous
,
macrobiotic
,
never-failing
,
of long duration
,
of long standing
,
perdurable
,
perduring
,
perennial
,
permanent
,
perpetual
,
persistent
,
persisting
,
quiescent
,
remaining
,
resident
,
residentiary
,
residing
,
rigid
,
sempervirent
,
solid
,
stable
,
static
,
stationary
,
staying
,
steadfast
,
steady
,
sticking
,
sustained
,
torpid
,
tough
,
unaltered
,
unceasing
,
unchangeable
,
unchanged
,
unchanging
,
unchecked
,
undestroyed
,
undying
,
unfading
,
unfailing
,
unfaltering
,
unqualified
,
unquestioning
,
unremitting
,
unshifting
,
unvaried
,
unvarying
,
vital
,
wholehearted
disciple
collapse
someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another
related words >
Ambrose of Milan
,
Athanasius
,
Barnabas
,
Basil
,
Christian
,
Clement of Alexandria
,
Clement of Rome
,
Cyprian of Carthage
,
Cyril of Jerusalem
,
God-fearing man
,
Gregory of Nyssa
,
Hermas
,
Ignatius
,
Irenaeus
,
Jerome
,
John
,
John Chrysostom
,
Justin Martyr
,
Lactantius Firmianus
,
Luke
,
Mark
,
Origen
,
Papias
,
Paul
,
Peter
,
Polycarp
,
Tertullian
,
accepter
,
adherent
,
admirer
,
aficionado
,
ante-Nicene Fathers
,
apostle
,
appendage
,
apprentice
,
attendant
,
believer
,
buff
,
catechumen
,
cavaliere servente
,
churchgoer
,
churchite
,
churchman
,
cohort
,
communicant
,
convert
,
courtier
,
creature
,
daily communicant
,
dangler
,
dependent
,
devotee
,
devotionalist
,
dummy
,
enthusiast
,
evangelist
,
fan
,
fanatic
,
figurehead
,
flunky
,
follower
,
following
,
gillie
,
good Christian
,
goon
,
hanger-on
,
henchman
,
homme de cour
,
jackal
,
lackey
,
learner
,
man
,
minion
,
myrmidon
,
neophyte
,
parasite
,
partisan
,
pietist
,
proselyte
,
public
,
pupil
,
puppet
,
pursuer
,
pursuivant
,
receiver
,
religionist
,
saint
,
satellite
,
scholar
,
sectary
,
shadow
,
stooge
,
student
,
successor
,
supporter
,
sycophant
,
tagtail
,
tail
,
theist
,
thug
,
trainbearer
,
truster
,
votary
,
ward heeler
,
zealot
waning
collapse
a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent; "the waning of his enthusiasm was obvious"; "the waxing and waning of the moon"
(of the moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases; "after full moon comes the waning moon"
related words >
aging
,
at rest
,
calm
,
cloistered
,
coming apart
,
contractive
,
cool
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
decadent
,
declining
,
decreasing
,
decrescendo
,
decrescent
,
degenerate
,
deliquescent
,
deteriorating
,
diminishing
,
diminuendo
,
disintegrating
,
doting
,
draining
,
drooping
,
dwindling
,
dying
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
even-tenored
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling
,
flagging
,
fragmenting
,
getting on
,
going to pieces
,
growing old
,
halcyon
,
hushed
,
impassive
,
isolated
,
languishing
,
lessening
,
marcescent
,
moldering
,
on the wane
,
pacific
,
peaceable
,
peaceful
,
pining
,
placid
,
quiescent
,
quiet
,
receding
,
reductive
,
regressive
,
reposeful
,
reposing
,
restful
,
resting
,
retiring
,
retreating
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
secluded
,
senescent
,
sequestered
,
sequestrated
,
sheltered
,
shrinking
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
smooth
,
still
,
still as death
,
stillish
,
stilly
,
stoic
,
stolid
,
subsiding
,
tabetic
,
tranquil
,
unagitated
,
undisturbed
,
unmoved
,
unperturbed
,
unruffled
,
unstirring
,
untroubled
,
wasting
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worsening
fruitless
collapse
related words >
abortive
,
acarpous
,
arid
,
barren
,
bootless
,
celibate
,
childless
,
counterproductive
,
desert
,
desolate
,
drained
,
dried-up
,
dry
,
effete
,
empty
,
etiolated
,
exhausted
,
failed
,
failing
,
fallow
,
fatuitous
,
fatuous
,
feckless
,
foiled
,
frustrated
,
futile
,
gainless
,
gaunt
,
gelded
,
idle
,
impotent
,
inadequate
,
inane
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
inefficacious
,
infecund
,
infertile
,
inoperative
,
invalid
,
issueless
,
jejune
,
lame
,
leached
,
manque
,
menopausal
,
miscarried
,
miscarrying
,
nonfertile
,
nonproducing
,
nonproductive
,
nonprolific
,
nonremunerative
,
nugacious
,
nugatory
,
of no effect
,
of no force
,
otiose
,
pointless
,
profitless
,
rewardless
,
sine prole
,
sterile
,
stickit
,
stillborn
,
successless
,
sucked dry
,
teemless
,
thwarted
,
unavailable
,
unavailing
,
uncultivated
,
unfertile
,
unfortunate
,
unfruitful
,
unplowed
,
unproductive
,
unprofitable
,
unprolific
,
unremunerative
,
unrewarding
,
unsown
,
unsuccessful
,
untilled
,
useless
,
vain
,
virgin
,
waste
,
wasted
,
without issue
,
worthless
fly in the ointment
collapse
an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something
related words >
abomination
,
atrocity
,
bad
,
bane
,
befoulment
,
blemish
,
blight
,
block
,
blockade
,
bottleneck
,
bug
,
catch
,
cordon
,
corruption
,
crack
,
crying evil
,
curtain
,
damage
,
defect
,
defection
,
deficiency
,
defilement
,
despoliation
,
destruction
,
determent
,
deterrent
,
detriment
,
difficulty
,
drawback
,
evil
,
failing
,
failure
,
fault
,
faute
,
flaw
,
foible
,
frailty
,
grievance
,
hang-up
,
harm
,
havoc
,
hazard
,
hitch
,
hole
,
hurdle
,
hurt
,
ill
,
imperfection
,
inadequacy
,
infection
,
infirmity
,
injury
,
joker
,
kink
,
little problem
,
mischief
,
objection
,
obstacle
,
obstruction
,
obstructive
,
one small difficulty
,
outrage
,
poison
,
pollution
,
problem
,
rift
,
rub
,
shortcoming
,
snag
,
something missing
,
stumbling block
,
stumbling stone
,
taint
,
the worst
,
toxin
,
venom
,
vexation
,
vulnerable place
,
weak link
,
weak point
,
weakness
,
woe
,
wrong
imperfection
collapse
the state or an instance of being imperfect
related words >
absence
,
arrear
,
arrearage
,
arrears
,
bad habit
,
baseness
,
beggary
,
besetting sin
,
blemish
,
bug
,
catch
,
crack
,
damage
,
decline
,
defalcation
,
default
,
defect
,
defection
,
defectiveness
,
deficiency
,
deficit
,
delinquency
,
demerit
,
deprivation
,
destitution
,
drawback
,
drought
,
error
,
failing
,
failure
,
fallibility
,
falling short
,
famine
,
fault
,
faute
,
fewness
,
flaw
,
foible
,
frailty
,
hole
,
impoverishment
,
inadequacy
,
incompetence
,
incompleteness
,
inferiority
,
infirmity
,
insufficiency
,
kink
,
lack
,
little problem
,
littleness
,
maladroitness
,
meanness
,
mediocrity
,
moral flaw
,
need
,
omission
,
peccadillo
,
pettiness
,
problem
,
rift
,
shabbiness
,
short measure
,
shortage
,
shortcoming
,
shortfall
,
sin
,
slump
,
smallness
,
snag
,
something missing
,
starvation
,
subnormality
,
taint
,
triviality
,
underage
,
unskillfulness
,
vice
,
vulgarity
,
vulnerable place
,
want
,
wantage
,
weak link
,
weak point
,
weak side
,
weakness
savant
collapse
related words >
Admirable Crichton
,
academician
,
adept
,
aficionado
,
amateur
,
artisan
,
artist
,
attache
,
authority
,
bookman
,
buff
,
classicist
,
clerk
,
colossus of knowledge
,
connaisseur
,
connoisseur
,
consultant
,
cordon bleu
,
crack shot
,
craftsman
,
critic
,
dead shot
,
dilettante
,
diplomat
,
diplomatist
,
doctor
,
elder
,
elder statesman
,
experienced hand
,
experimental scientist
,
expert
,
expert consultant
,
fan
,
freak
,
genius
,
giant of learning
,
graduate
,
great soul
,
guru
,
handy man
,
humanist
,
illuminate
,
intellect
,
intellectual
,
journeyman
,
learned clerk
,
learned man
,
literary man
,
litterateur
,
lover of learning
,
lover of wisdom
,
mahatma
,
man of intellect
,
man of learning
,
man of letters
,
man of science
,
man of wisdom
,
mandarin
,
marksman
,
master
,
mastermind
,
mentor
,
mine of information
,
no slouch
,
nut
,
oracle
,
philologist
,
philologue
,
philomath
,
philosophe
,
philosopher
,
politician
,
polyhistor
,
polymath
,
practical scientist
,
pro
,
professional
,
professor
,
proficient
,
pundit
,
rabbi
,
rishi
,
sage
,
sapient
,
scholar
,
scholastic
,
schoolman
,
scientist
,
seer
,
shark
,
sharp
,
specialist
,
starets
,
statesman
,
student
,
technical adviser
,
technical expert
,
technician
,
technologist
,
thinker
,
walking encyclopedia
,
wise man
,
wise old man
unhealthy
collapse
not conducive to good health; "an unhealthy diet of fast foods"; "an unhealthy climate"
not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"
related words >
ailing
,
bad
,
bad for
,
cachectic
,
chancy
,
contaminated
,
corrupt
,
damaging
,
dangerous
,
debilitated
,
degenerate
,
depraved
,
destructive
,
detrimental
,
diseased
,
doubtful
,
drained
,
dubious
,
enervated
,
exhausted
,
failing
,
feeble
,
flagitious
,
foul
,
frail
,
hairy
,
harmful
,
hazardous
,
healthless
,
ill
,
in poor health
,
indisposed
,
infirm
,
injurious
,
insalubrious
,
insanitary
,
insecure
,
invalid
,
jeopardous
,
languishing
,
malign
,
morbid
,
morbific
,
moribund
,
nefarious
,
noisome
,
noxious
,
pale
,
pathogenic
,
pathological
,
peaked
,
peaky
,
peccant
,
perilous
,
perverse
,
pestiferous
,
polluted
,
putrid
,
reduced
,
reduced in health
,
risky
,
rocky
,
rotten
,
run-down
,
septic
,
shaky
,
sick
,
sickly
,
tainted
,
tottery
,
touch-and-go
,
treacherous
,
uncertain
,
undependable
,
unhealthful
,
unhygienic
,
unpredictable
,
unreliable
,
unsafe
,
unsanitary
,
unsound
,
unstable
,
unsteady
,
unsure
,
untrustworthy
,
unwell
,
unwholesome
,
valetudinarian
,
valetudinary
,
vicious
,
villainous
,
weakened
,
weakly
,
wicked
,
with low resistance
delinquent
collapse
a young offender
past due; not paid at the scheduled time; "an overdue installment"; "a delinquent account"
persistently bad; "school for delinquent boys"
guilty of a minor misdeed; "delinquent minors"
related words >
aberrant
,
abnormal
,
abominable
,
atrocious
,
bad person
,
behindhand
,
careless
,
criminal
,
crook
,
culprit
,
deceiver
,
defaulter
,
defaulting
,
derelict
,
deviant
,
disgraceful
,
disregardful
,
evil
,
evil man
,
evil person
,
evildoer
,
failing
,
felon
,
gangster
,
hardly the thing
,
hooligan
,
ignominious
,
illegal
,
improper
,
in arrear
,
in arrears
,
inappropriate
,
incorrect
,
indecorous
,
infamous
,
late
,
lawbreaker
,
lax
,
levanter
,
malefactor
,
malevolent
,
malfeasant
,
malfeasor
,
miscreant
,
misdemeanant
,
misdemeanist
,
misfeasor
,
mobster
,
neglectful
,
negligent
,
nonpayer
,
nonpaying
,
not done
,
not the thing
,
off-base
,
off-color
,
offender
,
out-of-line
,
outlaw
,
overdue
,
past due
,
public enemy
,
racketeer
,
regardless
,
remiss
,
roughneck
,
ruffian
,
sacrilegious
,
scandalous
,
shameful
,
shameless
,
sinful
,
sinner
,
slack
,
tax dodger
,
tax evader
,
terrible
,
thief
,
transgressor
,
undue
,
unfit
,
unfitting
,
unlawful
,
unpaid
,
unrighteous
,
unseemly
,
unsuitable
,
villain
,
welsher
,
wicked
,
worker of ill
,
wrong
,
wrongdoer
,
wrongful
deficient
collapse
inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"
related words >
adulterated
,
amiss
,
arrested
,
bad
,
base
,
blemished
,
botched
,
bungling
,
callow
,
clumsy
,
damaged
,
defective
,
embryonic
,
erroneous
,
failing
,
fallible
,
faulty
,
flawed
,
found wanting
,
half-assed
,
haphazard
,
hit-and-miss
,
hit-or-miss
,
hypoplastic
,
immature
,
impaired
,
imperfect
,
imprecise
,
impure
,
in arrear
,
in arrears
,
in default
,
in short supply
,
in want of
,
inaccurate
,
inadequate
,
incompetent
,
incomplete
,
inexact
,
infant
,
inferior
,
infrequent
,
injured
,
insufficient
,
lacking
,
little
,
makeshift
,
maladroit
,
marred
,
mean
,
mediocre
,
messy
,
minus
,
missing
,
mixed
,
needing
,
not comparable
,
not enough
,
not in it
,
not perfect
,
off
,
out of it
,
part
,
partial
,
patchy
,
petty
,
promiscuous
,
rare
,
scant
,
scanty
,
scarce
,
scrappy
,
scrimpy
,
shabby
,
short
,
short of
,
shy
,
sketchy
,
skimpy
,
slipshod
,
slipshoddy
,
sloppy
,
slovenly
,
sluttish
,
small
,
too little
,
trivial
,
uncommon
,
underdeveloped
,
undeveloped
,
unequal to
,
uneven
,
unfinished
,
unperfected
,
unqualified
,
unreached
,
unsatisfactory
,
unsatisfying
,
unskillful
,
unsound
,
unsufficing
,
unthorough
,
untidy
,
wanting
lame
collapse
a fabric interwoven with threads of metal; "she wore a gold lame dress"
related words >
abortive
,
awkward
,
bad
,
bootless
,
bugger
,
burden
,
castrate
,
castrated
,
clumsy
,
cramp
,
cripple
,
crippled
,
cumber
,
de-energize
,
debilitate
,
disable
,
disabled
,
disenable
,
drain
,
emasculate
,
emasculated
,
embarrass
,
encumber
,
enfeeble
,
enmesh
,
ensnarl
,
entangle
,
entoil
,
entrammel
,
entrap
,
entwine
,
failed
,
failing
,
feeble
,
fetter
,
flimsy
,
fruitless
,
futile
,
game
,
half-baked
,
halt
,
halting
,
hamper
,
hamstring
,
hamstrung
,
handicap
,
handicapped
,
hobble
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
hors de combat
,
impaired
,
impede
,
inactivate
,
incapacitate
,
incapacitated
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
inefficacious
,
involve
,
kibosh
,
lime
,
limping
,
lumber
,
maim
,
maimed
,
manque
,
miscarried
,
miscarrying
,
net
,
of no effect
,
poor
,
press down
,
put
,
queer
,
queer the works
,
sabotage
,
saddle with
,
shackle
,
snarl
,
spavined
,
spike
,
stickit
,
stillborn
,
successless
,
tangle
,
thin
,
toil
,
trammel
,
unconvincing
,
unfit
,
unfortunate
,
unsuccessful
,
useless
,
weak
,
weaken
,
weigh down
,
wing
,
wreck
weak point
collapse
an attribute that is inadequate or deficient
related words >
argument
,
argument by analogy
,
argumentum ad baculum
,
argumentum ad captandum
,
argumentum ad hominem
,
assailability
,
bad case
,
bad habit
,
begging the question
,
besetting sin
,
blemish
,
bug
,
catch
,
chink
,
circular argument
,
claptrap
,
crack
,
crowd-pleasing argument
,
defect
,
defection
,
deficiency
,
drawback
,
empty words
,
failing
,
failure
,
fallacy
,
fault
,
faute
,
feet of clay
,
flaw
,
foible
,
formal fallacy
,
frailty
,
heel of Achilles
,
hole
,
hysteron proteron
,
imperfection
,
inadequacy
,
infirmity
,
insincere argument
,
kink
,
little problem
,
logical fallacy
,
material fallacy
,
mere rhetoric
,
moonshine
,
moral flaw
,
non sequitur
,
paralogism
,
penetrability
,
petitio principii
,
philosophism
,
pregnability
,
problem
,
pseudosyllogism
,
rift
,
shortcoming
,
snag
,
soft spot
,
solecism
,
something missing
,
sophism
,
sophistry
,
taint
,
verbal fallacy
,
vice
,
vincibility
,
vulnerability
,
vulnerable place
,
vulnerable point
,
weak link
,
weak side
,
weakness
moribund
collapse
being on the point of death; breathing your last; "a moribund patient"
related words >
apathetic
,
bad
,
benumbed
,
blase
,
bored
,
cachectic
,
dead
,
debilitated
,
decadent
,
declining
,
despaired of
,
deteriorating
,
done for
,
dopey
,
dormant
,
drained
,
droopy
,
drugged
,
dull
,
dying
,
ending
,
enervated
,
exanimate
,
exhausted
,
expiring
,
facing death
,
fading
,
failing
,
feeble
,
frail
,
given up
,
going
,
healthless
,
heavy
,
hebetudinous
,
hopeless
,
in articulo mortis
,
in extremis
,
in poor health
,
inanimate
,
incapable of life
,
inert
,
infirm
,
invalid
,
jaded
,
lackadaisical
,
languid
,
languishing
,
languorous
,
leaden
,
lethargic
,
lifeless
,
listless
,
low
,
lumpish
,
near death
,
nonviable
,
numb
,
obsolescent
,
on the wane
,
pale
,
peaked
,
peaky
,
phlegmatic
,
pooped
,
reduced
,
reduced in health
,
run-down
,
sated
,
sickly
,
sinking
,
sleepy
,
slipping
,
slipping away
,
slow
,
sluggish
,
somnolent
,
stagnant
,
stagnating
,
stultified
,
supine
,
terminal
,
torpid
,
unhealthy
,
unsound
,
valetudinarian
,
valetudinary
,
vegetable
,
vegetative
,
wan
,
waning
,
weak
,
weakened
,
weakly
,
weary
,
with low resistance
,
world-weary
intern
collapse
an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)
work as an intern; "The young doctor is interning at the Medical Center this year"
deprive of freedom; "During WW II, Japanese were interned in camps in the West"
related words >
Doctor of Medicine
,
GP
,
MD
,
addressee
,
allopath
,
allopathist
,
apprentice teacher
,
artist-in-residence
,
attending physician
,
bastille
,
bolt in
,
bosom
,
cast in prison
,
center
,
clap in jail
,
clap up
,
confine
,
constrain
,
core
,
coroner
,
country doctor
,
croaker
,
deepest recesses
,
denizen
,
doc
,
doctor
,
dweller
,
family doctor
,
gaol
,
general practitioner
,
graduate assistant
,
habitant
,
heart
,
heart of hearts
,
hold captive
,
hold in captivity
,
hold prisoner
,
house detective
,
house physician
,
immure
,
imprison
,
incarcerate
,
incumbent
,
inhabitant
,
inhabiter
,
inmate
,
inner
,
inner landscape
,
inner life
,
inner man
,
inner nature
,
inner recess
,
inner self
,
inpatient
,
inside
,
interior
,
interior man
,
internal
,
intrados
,
inward
,
jail
,
jug
,
leech
,
live-in maid
,
lock in
,
lock up
,
locum tenens
,
medical attendant
,
medical examiner
,
medical man
,
medical practitioner
,
medico
,
monitor
,
occupant
,
occupier
,
paraprofessional
,
penetralia
,
physician
,
physician in ordinary
,
practice teacher
,
praepostor
,
prefect
,
prison
,
proctor
,
pupil teacher
,
quod
,
recesses
,
residencer
,
resident
,
resident physician
,
residentiary
,
resider
,
sawbones
,
secret place
,
secret places
,
sojourner
,
soul
,
student assistant
,
teaching assistant
,
teaching fellow
,
teaching intern
,
tenant
,
throw into jail
,
treat
,
vital center
,
vitals
consort
collapse
the husband or wife of a reigning monarch
keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues"
related words >
accompanier
,
accompanist
,
accompanyist
,
accord
,
accordance
,
ace
,
adjunct
,
affinity
,
agreement
,
ally
,
amigo
,
assent
,
associate
,
attendant
,
attune
,
attunement
,
bedfellow
,
bedmate
,
better half
,
bosom buddy
,
brother
,
brother-in-arms
,
buddy
,
bunkie
,
bunkmate
,
butty
,
camarade
,
chamberfellow
,
chime
,
chiming
,
chorus
,
chum
,
classmate
,
coadjutor
,
coherence
,
cohort
,
coincidence
,
colleague
,
comate
,
companion
,
companion piece
,
company
,
compatibility
,
compatriot
,
compeer
,
comport
,
comrade
,
concentus
,
concert
,
concomitant
,
concord
,
concordance
,
confederate
,
conform
,
conformance
,
conformation
,
conformity
,
confrere
,
congeniality
,
congruence
,
congruency
,
congruity
,
consistency
,
consociate
,
consonance
,
consonancy
,
cooperation
,
copartner
,
correspond
,
correspondence
,
crony
,
diapason
,
dovetail
,
equivalence
,
euphony
,
fellow
,
fellow member
,
fellow student
,
girl friend
,
gossip
,
harmonics
,
harmonize
,
harmony
,
heavy harmony
,
homophony
,
intersection
,
march
,
mate
,
messmate
,
monochord
,
monody
,
old crony
,
oneness
,
overlap
,
pal
,
parallelism
,
pard
,
pardner
,
partner
,
peace
,
playfellow
,
playmate
,
rapport
,
roommate
,
schoolfellow
,
schoolmate
,
self-consistency
,
shipmate
,
side partner
,
sidekick
,
spouse
,
square
,
symmetry
,
symphony
,
sync
,
synchronism
,
synchronization
,
tally
,
teammate
,
three-part harmony
,
timing
,
tune
,
uniformity
,
union
,
unison
,
unisonance
,
workfellow
,
yokefellow
,
yokemate
subsiding
collapse
related words >
at rest
,
calm
,
cloistered
,
collapsing
,
coming apart
,
contractive
,
cool
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
decadent
,
deciduous
,
declining
,
declivitous
,
decreasing
,
decrescendo
,
decrescent
,
decurrent
,
degenerate
,
deliquescent
,
descendant
,
descending
,
deteriorating
,
diminishing
,
diminuendo
,
disintegrating
,
down
,
down-reaching
,
downcoming
,
downfalling
,
downgoing
,
downhill
,
downsinking
,
downward
,
draining
,
drooping
,
dropping
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
even-tenored
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling
,
flagging
,
fragmenting
,
going to pieces
,
halcyon
,
hushed
,
impassive
,
isolated
,
languishing
,
lessening
,
marcescent
,
moldering
,
on the descendant
,
on the downgrade
,
on the wane
,
pacific
,
peaceable
,
peaceful
,
pining
,
placid
,
plummeting
,
plunging
,
quiescent
,
quiet
,
reductive
,
regressive
,
reposeful
,
reposing
,
restful
,
resting
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
sagging
,
secluded
,
sequestered
,
sequestrated
,
setting
,
sheltered
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
smooth
,
still
,
still as death
,
stillish
,
stilly
,
stoic
,
stolid
,
submerging
,
tabetic
,
tottering
,
tranquil
,
tumbledown
,
unagitated
,
undisturbed
,
unmoved
,
unperturbed
,
unruffled
,
unstirring
,
untroubled
,
waning
,
wasting
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worsening
crumbling
collapse
related words >
ablation
,
abrasion
,
atomization
,
attrition
,
beating
,
breakup
,
brecciation
,
coming apart
,
comminution
,
corrosion
,
cracking
,
crushing
,
decadent
,
decay
,
declining
,
decomposition
,
decrepit
,
degenerate
,
degradation
,
deteriorating
,
detrition
,
dilapidated
,
dilapidation
,
disintegrating
,
disintegration
,
disjunction
,
disorganization
,
dissolution
,
draining
,
drooping
,
dusty
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
erosion
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling
,
flagging
,
fragmentation
,
fragmenting
,
fusty
,
going to pieces
,
gone to seed
,
granulation
,
granulization
,
grating
,
grinding
,
incoherence
,
infirm
,
languishing
,
levigation
,
marcescent
,
mashing
,
mildewed
,
moldering
,
moldy
,
moss-grown
,
moth-eaten
,
musty
,
pining
,
poor
,
poorish
,
pounding
,
powdering
,
ravages of time
,
regressive
,
resolution
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
rotten
,
rotten at
,
ruined
,
ruinous
,
rusty
,
shredding
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
smashing
,
stale
,
subsiding
,
tabetic
,
time-scarred
,
timeworn
,
trituration
,
unfirm
,
unsolid
,
unsound
,
unstable
,
unsturdy
,
unsubstantial
,
waning
,
wasting
,
wear
,
wear and tear
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worn
,
worsening
valetudinarian
collapse
weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health
of or relating to or characteristic of a person who is a valetudinarian
related words >
alcoholic
,
alternating personality
,
antisocial personality
,
apoplectic
,
arthritic
,
cachectic
,
case
,
consumptive
,
debilitated
,
disordered personality
,
disturbed personality
,
double personality
,
drained
,
drug user
,
dual personality
,
dyspeptic
,
emotionally unstable personality
,
enervated
,
epileptic
,
escapist
,
exhausted
,
failing
,
feeble
,
frail
,
healthless
,
hostile personality
,
hypochondriac
,
hypochondriast
,
idiot
,
imaginary invalid
,
immature personality
,
in poor health
,
inadequate personality
,
incurable
,
inferior personality
,
infirm
,
inpatient
,
invalid
,
languishing
,
malade imaginaire
,
maladjusted personality
,
mentally defective personality
,
moral insanity
,
moribund
,
multiple personality
,
neuropath
,
neurotic
,
neurotic personality
,
outpatient
,
pale
,
paranoid personality
,
patient
,
peaked
,
peaky
,
perverse personality
,
psychoneurotic
,
psychopath
,
psychopathic personality
,
psychotic
,
psychotic personality
,
reduced
,
reduced in health
,
rheumatic
,
run-down
,
schizoid
,
schizoid personality
,
seclusive personality
,
sexual psychopath
,
shut-in
,
shut-in personality
,
sick person
,
sickly
,
sociopath
,
spastic
,
split personality
,
sufferer
,
terminal case
,
the sick
,
unhealthy
,
unsound
,
valetudinary
,
weak personality
,
weakened
,
weakly
,
with low resistance
pining
collapse
a feeling of deep longing
related words >
Heimweh
,
aching
,
agony
,
anguish
,
bowed-down
,
care
,
carking care
,
cast down
,
coming apart
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
dashed
,
decadent
,
declining
,
degenerate
,
dejected
,
depressed
,
desiderium
,
despairing
,
despondent
,
desponding
,
deteriorating
,
discouraged
,
disheartened
,
disintegrating
,
dispirited
,
down
,
downcast
,
downhearted
,
draining
,
drooping
,
droopy
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling
,
feeling low
,
flagging
,
fragmenting
,
going to pieces
,
grief
,
hankering
,
heartfelt grief
,
heartgrief
,
heartless
,
homesick
,
homesickness
,
honing
,
hypochondriac
,
hypochondriacal
,
in low spirits
,
in the depths
,
in the doldrums
,
in the dumps
,
lamentation
,
languishing
,
languishment
,
longing
,
low
,
low-spirited
,
mal du pays
,
maladie du pays
,
marcescent
,
misery
,
nostalgia
,
nostalgic
,
nostomania
,
pessimistic
,
prostration
,
regressive
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
sorrow
,
sorrowing
,
spiritless
,
subdued
,
subsiding
,
suicidal
,
tabetic
,
waning
,
wasting
,
weary of life
,
wilting
,
wishful
,
wistful
,
withering
,
woe
,
woebegone
,
world-weary
,
worsening
,
yearnful
,
yearning
,
yen
mastermind
collapse
plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery"
related words >
academician
,
ace
,
architect
,
authority
,
be responsible for
,
bookman
,
brains
,
call the signals
,
captain
,
carry on
,
classicist
,
clerk
,
colossus of knowledge
,
command
,
conceive
,
conceiver
,
conduct
,
contriver
,
control
,
crackerjack
,
create
,
creator
,
design
,
develop
,
devise
,
direct
,
doctor
,
elder
,
elder statesman
,
engineer
,
first-rater
,
generate
,
genius
,
giant of learning
,
good hand
,
govern
,
great
,
great soul
,
guru
,
handle
,
head
,
head up
,
humanist
,
illuminate
,
intellect
,
intellectual
,
lead
,
lead on
,
learned clerk
,
learned man
,
literary man
,
litterateur
,
lover of learning
,
lover of wisdom
,
magician
,
mahatma
,
make the rules
,
man of genius
,
man of intellect
,
man of learning
,
man of letters
,
man of wisdom
,
manage
,
mandarin
,
maneuver
,
manipulate
,
master
,
master hand
,
mentor
,
mind
,
mine of information
,
officer
,
oracle
,
order
,
organize
,
past master
,
philologist
,
philologue
,
philomath
,
philosophe
,
philosopher
,
plan
,
planner
,
polyhistor
,
polymath
,
practiced hand
,
prescribe
,
prodigy
,
pull the strings
,
pundit
,
quarterback
,
rabbi
,
regulate
,
rishi
,
run
,
sage
,
sapient
,
savant
,
scholar
,
scholastic
,
schoolman
,
seer
,
skilled hand
,
skipper
,
star
,
starets
,
student
,
superstar
,
take command
,
take the lead
,
think up
,
thinker
,
topnotcher
,
virtuoso
,
walking encyclopedia
,
whiz
,
wise man
,
wise old man
,
wizard
,
work out
,
work up
dwindling
collapse
a becoming gradually less; "there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family"
gradually decreasing until little remains
related words >
at rest
,
calm
,
catabasis
,
cloistered
,
collapse
,
coming apart
,
contractive
,
cool
,
cracking
,
crash
,
crumbling
,
decadent
,
deceleration
,
declension
,
decline
,
decline and fall
,
declining
,
decreasing
,
decrescendo
,
decrescent
,
degenerate
,
deliquescent
,
deteriorating
,
diminishing
,
diminuendo
,
disintegrating
,
dive
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
draining
,
drooping
,
drop
,
dying
,
ebb
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
even-tenored
,
fading
,
failing
,
fall
,
falling
,
flagging
,
fragmenting
,
going to pieces
,
halcyon
,
hushed
,
impassive
,
isolated
,
languishing
,
lapse
,
lessening
,
marcescent
,
moldering
,
on the wane
,
pacific
,
peaceable
,
peaceful
,
pining
,
placid
,
plunge
,
quiescent
,
quiet
,
receding
,
reductive
,
regressive
,
remission
,
reposeful
,
reposing
,
restful
,
resting
,
retiring
,
retreat
,
retreating
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
secluded
,
sequestered
,
sequestrated
,
sheltered
,
shrinking
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slowdown
,
slump
,
slumping
,
smooth
,
still
,
still as death
,
stillish
,
stilly
,
stoic
,
stolid
,
subsidence
,
subsiding
,
tabetic
,
tranquil
,
unagitated
,
undisturbed
,
unmoved
,
unperturbed
,
unruffled
,
unstirring
,
untroubled
,
wane
,
waning
,
wasting
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worsening
retrograde
collapse
of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
going from better to worse
go back over; "retrograde arguments"
move back; "The glacier retrogrades"
move in a direction contrary to the usual one; "retrograding planets"
move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
related words >
aft
,
after
,
aftermost
,
atavistic
,
back
,
backslide
,
backward
,
cock
,
coming apart
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
decadent
,
decline
,
declining
,
degenerate
,
descend
,
deteriorate
,
deteriorating
,
disimprove
,
disintegrate
,
disintegrating
,
draining
,
drooping
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
fading
,
failing
,
fall astern
,
fall back
,
fall behind
,
falling
,
flagging
,
fragmenting
,
get behind
,
get worse
,
go backwards
,
go behind
,
going to pieces
,
grow worse
,
hind
,
hinder
,
hindermost
,
hindhand
,
hindmost
,
invert
,
jerk back
,
languishing
,
lapse
,
lapse back
,
let down
,
lose ground
,
marcescent
,
pining
,
posterior
,
postern
,
pull back
,
reactionary
,
rear
,
rearmost
,
rearward
,
recede
,
recessive
,
recidivate
,
recidivist
,
recidivous
,
regress
,
regressive
,
relapse
,
retract
,
retral
,
retreat
,
retroactive
,
retrocede
,
retrocessive
,
retroflex
,
retrogress
,
retrogressive
,
retrorse
,
retroverse
,
retrovert
,
return
,
returnable
,
reverse
,
reversible
,
reversional
,
reversionary
,
revert
,
revertible
,
revulsionary
,
rot
,
shriveling
,
sicken
,
sink
,
sinking
,
slacken
,
sliding
,
slip back
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
subsiding
,
tabetic
,
tail
,
waning
,
wasting
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worsen
,
worsening
imperfect
collapse
not perfect; defective or inadequate; "had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities"; "imperfect mortals"; "drainage here is imperfect"
related words >
adulterated
,
aggravated
,
amiss
,
aorist
,
base
,
blemished
,
broken
,
burned
,
burst
,
busted
,
checked
,
chipped
,
cracked
,
crazed
,
cut
,
damaged
,
defective
,
deficient
,
deteriorated
,
durative
,
embittered
,
erroneous
,
exacerbated
,
failing
,
fallible
,
faulty
,
flawed
,
found wanting
,
future
,
future perfect
,
harmed
,
historical present
,
hurt
,
immature
,
impaired
,
imprecise
,
impure
,
in bits
,
in pieces
,
in shards
,
inaccurate
,
inadequate
,
incompetent
,
incomplete
,
inexact
,
injured
,
insufficient
,
irritated
,
lacerated
,
lacking
,
little
,
makeshift
,
maladroit
,
mangled
,
mean
,
mediocre
,
mixed
,
mutilated
,
not comparable
,
not enough
,
not in it
,
not perfect
,
off
,
out of it
,
partial
,
past
,
past perfect
,
patchy
,
perfect
,
petty
,
pluperfect
,
point tense
,
present
,
present perfect
,
preterit
,
progressive tense
,
rent
,
ruptured
,
scalded
,
scorched
,
shabby
,
shattered
,
short
,
sick
,
sketchy
,
slashed
,
slit
,
small
,
smashed
,
split
,
sprung
,
tense
,
the worse for
,
too little
,
torn
,
trivial
,
undeveloped
,
unequal to
,
uneven
,
unfinished
,
unperfected
,
unqualified
,
unsatisfactory
,
unsatisfying
,
unskillful
,
unsound
,
unsufficing
,
unthorough
,
wanting
,
weakened
,
worse
,
worse off
,
worsened
relapse
collapse
go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
related words >
about-face
,
apostasy
,
backing
,
backset
,
backslide
,
backsliding
,
backward motion
,
backward step
,
cock
,
decline
,
degenerate
,
degeneration
,
deteriorate
,
deterioration
,
disenchantment
,
disimprove
,
fade
,
fading
,
fail
,
failing
,
failure
,
fall
,
fall again into
,
fall astern
,
fall back
,
fall behind
,
fall from grace
,
falling back
,
flip-flop
,
get back
,
get behind
,
get worse
,
go back
,
go backwards
,
go behind
,
grow worse
,
have a relapse
,
jerk back
,
lapse
,
lapse back
,
lapsing
,
let down
,
lose ground
,
pull back
,
reaction
,
recede
,
recession
,
recidivate
,
recidivation
,
recidivism
,
reclamation
,
reconversion
,
recur to
,
reentry
,
refluence
,
reflux
,
regress
,
regressing
,
regression
,
rehabilitation
,
reinstatement
,
restitution
,
restoration
,
retreat
,
retroaction
,
retrocede
,
retrocession
,
retroflex
,
retroflexion
,
retrogradation
,
retrograde
,
retrogress
,
retrogression
,
retroversion
,
retrovert
,
retrusion
,
return
,
return to
,
returning
,
reversal
,
reverse
,
reversion
,
revert
,
revert to
,
reverting
,
revulsion
,
rollback
,
setback
,
sicken
,
sink
,
sink back
,
sinking
,
slacken
,
slide back
,
slip back
,
slipping back
,
sternway
,
throwback
,
turn
,
turnabout
,
weaken
,
weakening
,
worsen
,
worsening
,
yield again to
deficiency
collapse
related words >
absence
,
adulteration
,
arrearage
,
arrestment
,
baseness
,
beggary
,
blemish
,
break
,
bug
,
callowness
,
catch
,
crack
,
dearth
,
defalcation
,
default
,
defect
,
defectibility
,
defection
,
defectiveness
,
deficit
,
demerit
,
deprivation
,
dereliction
,
destitution
,
discontinuity
,
drawback
,
drought
,
erroneousness
,
failing
,
failure
,
fallibility
,
famine
,
fault
,
faultiness
,
faute
,
fewness
,
flaw
,
foible
,
frailty
,
gap
,
hiatus
,
hole
,
immaturity
,
impairment
,
imperfection
,
impoverishment
,
impurity
,
inaccuracy
,
inadequacy
,
inadequateness
,
incompetence
,
incompleteness
,
incompletion
,
inexactitude
,
inexactness
,
infirmity
,
insufficiency
,
interval
,
kink
,
lack
,
lacuna
,
little problem
,
littleness
,
maladroitness
,
meanness
,
mediocrity
,
miscarriage
,
missing link
,
need
,
neglect
,
omission
,
outage
,
patchiness
,
pettiness
,
privation
,
problem
,
rift
,
scantiness
,
scrappiness
,
shabbiness
,
short measure
,
short weight
,
shortage
,
shortcoming
,
shortfall
,
sin
,
sketchiness
,
smallness
,
snag
,
something missing
,
starvation
,
subnormality
,
taint
,
triviality
,
ullage
,
underage
,
underdevelopment
,
undevelopment
,
unevenness
,
unperfectedness
,
unskillfulness
,
unsoundness
,
vulgarity
,
vulnerable place
,
want
,
wantage
,
weak link
,
weak point
,
weakness
involution
collapse
the action of enfolding something
a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
related words >
absorption
,
addition
,
ambages
,
anfractuosity
,
approximation
,
circuitousness
,
circumambages
,
circumbendibus
,
circumlocution
,
circumvolution
,
comedown
,
complexity
,
complexness
,
complication
,
convolution
,
crabbedness
,
crinkle
,
crinkling
,
debasement
,
decadence
,
decadency
,
declension
,
declination
,
decline
,
deformation
,
degeneracy
,
degenerateness
,
degeneration
,
degradation
,
demotion
,
depravation
,
depravedness
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
descent
,
deterioration
,
devolution
,
differentiation
,
division
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
downward mobility
,
downward trend
,
drop
,
dying
,
ebb
,
effeteness
,
embarrassment
,
engagement
,
enmeshment
,
entanglement
,
equation
,
evolution
,
extrapolation
,
fading
,
failing
,
failure
,
failure of nerve
,
fall
,
falling-off
,
flexuosity
,
flexuousness
,
implication
,
inclusion
,
integration
,
interpolation
,
intorsion
,
intricacy
,
intricateness
,
inversion
,
involvement
,
lapse
,
loss of tone
,
meander
,
meandering
,
multiplication
,
notation
,
perplexity
,
practice
,
proportion
,
ramification
,
reduction
,
regression
,
relation
,
retrocession
,
retrogradation
,
retrogression
,
rivulation
,
sinuation
,
sinuosity
,
sinuousness
,
slinkiness
,
slippage
,
slump
,
snakiness
,
subtlety
,
subtraction
,
tanglement
,
technicality
,
torsion
,
tortility
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
transformation
,
turning
,
twisting
,
undulation
,
wane
,
wave
,
waving
,
winding
ineffectual
collapse
related words >
abortive
,
acarpous
,
aimless
,
arid
,
barren
,
bootless
,
borne
,
celibate
,
childless
,
counterproductive
,
desert
,
desolate
,
drained
,
dried-up
,
dry
,
effete
,
emasculate
,
empty
,
etiolated
,
exhausted
,
failed
,
failing
,
fallow
,
fatuitous
,
fatuous
,
featherweight
,
feckless
,
forceless
,
fruitless
,
futile
,
gaunt
,
gelded
,
ill-qualified
,
impotent
,
inadequate
,
inane
,
incapable
,
incompetent
,
ineffective
,
inefficacious
,
inefficient
,
infecund
,
infertile
,
inoperative
,
invalid
,
invertebrate
,
issueless
,
jejune
,
lame
,
leached
,
lightweight
,
limited
,
maladjusted
,
manque
,
mean
,
meaningless
,
menopausal
,
miscarried
,
miscarrying
,
narrow
,
no go
,
no-account
,
nonfertile
,
nonproducing
,
nonproductive
,
nonprolific
,
not equal to
,
not up to
,
nugacious
,
nugatory
,
of no account
,
of no effect
,
of no force
,
of no use
,
paltry
,
pointless
,
powerless
,
purposeless
,
set
,
sine prole
,
small
,
spineless
,
sterile
,
stickit
,
stillborn
,
successless
,
sucked dry
,
superfluous
,
teemless
,
unable
,
unadapted
,
unadjusted
,
unauthoritative
,
unavailable
,
unavailing
,
uncultivated
,
unequipped
,
unfertile
,
unfit
,
unfitted
,
unfortunate
,
unfruitful
,
unplowed
,
unproductive
,
unprolific
,
unqualified
,
unsown
,
unsuccessful
,
untilled
,
useless
,
vain
,
virgin
,
waste
,
wasted
,
weak
,
without any weight
,
without issue
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