Related Words:
- exaggeration
collapse - the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"
- making to seem more important than it really is related words >
- abandon,
- abstractionism,
- accelerando,
- acceleration,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- aggravation,
- amplification,
- beefing-up,
- blague,
- blowing up,
- blowup,
- boundlessness,
- cock-and-bull story,
- coloring,
- command of language,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- confabulation,
- consolidation,
- deepening,
- deformation,
- distortion,
- egregiousness,
- embellishment,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- enormousness,
- equivocation,
- exacerbation,
- excess,
- excessiveness,
- exorbitance,
- exorbitancy,
- explosion,
- expression of ideas,
- expressionism,
- extravagance,
- extravagancy,
- extreme,
- extremes,
- extremism,
- extremity,
- fabulousness,
- fairy tale,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsehood,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- falsity,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- fib,
- fiction,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flight of fancy,
- flimflam,
- form of speech,
- garbling,
- ghost story,
- giantism,
- gigantism,
- gluttony,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- half-truth,
- heating-up,
- heightening,
- hyperbole,
- hypertrophy,
- immoderacy,
- immoderateness,
- immoderation,
- inaccuracy,
- incontinence,
- inflation,
- information explosion,
- injustice,
- inordinacy,
- inordinance,
- inordinateness,
- intemperance,
- intemperateness,
- intensification,
- inundation,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- literary style,
- litotes,
- little white lie,
- magnification,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- mendacity,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misdrawing,
- mispainting,
- misquotation,
- misreport,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- misteaching,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- monstrousness,
- nimiety,
- nonrealism,
- outrageousness,
- overappraisal,
- overassessment,
- overcalculation,
- overdevelopment,
- overdrawing,
- overestimate,
- overestimation,
- overflowing,
- overgreatness,
- overgrowth,
- overindulgence,
- overlargeness,
- overmuch,
- overmuchness,
- overpass,
- overrating,
- overreaction,
- overreckoning,
- overrun,
- overrunning,
- overspreading,
- overstatement,
- overvaluation,
- peculiarity,
- perjury,
- personal style,
- perversion,
- pickup,
- pious fiction,
- population explosion,
- prevarication,
- radicalism,
- redoubling,
- reinforcement,
- rhetoric,
- romance,
- sense of language,
- slanting,
- slight stretching,
- speedup,
- step-up,
- story,
- strain,
- straining,
- strengthening,
- stretching,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- superiority,
- surplus,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- tall talk,
- taradiddle,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- tightening,
- too much,
- too-muchness,
- trick,
- trumped-up story,
- twisting,
- unconscionableness,
- understatement,
- undueness,
- unreasonableness,
- unrestrainedness,
- untruth,
- vein,
- way,
- white lie,
- yarn
- amoral,
- artful,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- collusive,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covert,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- evasive,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- not kosher,
- privy,
- questionable,
- quiet,
- rotten,
- scheming,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealthy,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- undermanned,
- understaffed,
- unethical,
- unobtrusive,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- wily,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- anticipate,
- avert,
- bamboozle,
- bar,
- beguile,
- betray,
- bluff,
- cajole,
- calculate on,
- cheat on,
- circumvent,
- conjure,
- corner,
- count on,
- debar,
- deceive,
- deflect,
- delay,
- delude,
- deter,
- diddle,
- discourage,
- dishearten,
- double-cross,
- dupe,
- engross,
- estop,
- exclude,
- fend,
- fend off,
- forbid,
- foreclose,
- foreglimpse,
- forerun,
- foresee,
- foretaste,
- frustrate,
- gammon,
- get ahead of,
- get around,
- go before,
- go off half-cocked,
- gull,
- help,
- hinder,
- hoax,
- hocus-pocus,
- hog,
- hornswaggle,
- humbug,
- intercept,
- juggle,
- jump the gun,
- keep from,
- keep off,
- let down,
- look for,
- look forward to,
- look out for,
- look to,
- mock,
- monopolize,
- obstruct,
- obviate,
- outmaneuver,
- outreach,
- outsmart,
- outwit,
- overreach,
- parry,
- pigeon,
- play one false,
- preclude,
- prevent,
- prohibit,
- put something over,
- reckon on,
- repel,
- rule out,
- save,
- snow,
- stave off,
- stop,
- string along,
- take in,
- take it all,
- thwart,
- tie up,
- trick,
- turn aside,
- two-time,
- ward,
- ward off,
- watch out for,
- win the start
- azimuth
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- the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian related words >
- Cartesian coordinates,
- abscissa,
- aim,
- altitude,
- aspect,
- attitude,
- bearing,
- bearings,
- bent,
- celestial navigation,
- compass bearing,
- compass direction,
- coordinates,
- course,
- current,
- cylindrical coordinates,
- dead reckoning,
- declination,
- direction,
- direction line,
- drift,
- equator coordinates,
- exposure,
- false horizon,
- fix,
- frontage,
- heading,
- helmsmanship,
- horizon,
- inclination,
- latitude,
- lay,
- lee side,
- lie,
- line,
- line of direction,
- line of march,
- line of position,
- longitude,
- magnetic bearing,
- navigation,
- ordinate,
- orientation,
- pilotage,
- piloting,
- point,
- polar coordinates,
- position,
- position line,
- quarter,
- radio bearing,
- range,
- relative bearing,
- right ascension,
- run,
- sea line,
- sensible horizon,
- set,
- skyline,
- steerage,
- steering,
- tack,
- tendency,
- tenor,
- track,
- trend,
- true bearing,
- vector,
- visible horizon,
- way,
- weather side
- interim
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- the time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"
- serving during an intermediate interval of time; "an interim agreement" related words >
- abeyance,
- acting,
- ad interim,
- afterthought,
- bind,
- block,
- blockage,
- breach,
- break,
- bureaucratic delay,
- caesura,
- cease-fire,
- cessation,
- clearance,
- day off,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detention,
- discontinuity,
- distance between,
- double space,
- double take,
- dragging,
- drop,
- em space,
- en space,
- fissure,
- freeboard,
- gap,
- hair space,
- half space,
- halt,
- hang-up,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- hindrance,
- holdup,
- holiday,
- interlude,
- intermediate space,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interspace,
- interstice,
- interval,
- jam,
- jump,
- lacuna,
- lag,
- lagging,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leap,
- leeway,
- letup,
- logjam,
- lull,
- margin,
- moratorium,
- obstruction,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- pro,
- provisional,
- provisory,
- recess,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- remission,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- rest,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- room,
- single space,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- space,
- space between,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- supply,
- suspension,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- tie-up,
- time interval,
- time lag,
- truce,
- vacation,
- wait
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- abject,
- affected,
- backscratching,
- bawling,
- beggarly,
- blubbering,
- bootlicking,
- canting,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- cry,
- crying,
- dissolved in tears,
- false,
- fawning,
- fit of crying,
- flattering,
- flood of tears,
- footlicking,
- good cry,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- greet,
- groveling,
- hangdog,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritical,
- in tears,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- lachryma,
- lachrymal,
- lachrymose,
- lachrymosity,
- lacrimatory,
- mealymouthed,
- melting mood,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- on bended knee,
- overflowing eyes,
- parasitic,
- pharisaic,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- prostrate,
- ready to cry,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- sobbing,
- sponging,
- sycophantic,
- tear,
- tear bottle,
- teardrop,
- tearful,
- tearful eyes,
- tearfulness,
- tears,
- teary,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- truckling,
- unctuous,
- weepiness,
- weeping,
- weepy,
- whimpering,
- with eyes suffused
- delusive
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- inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes" related words >
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- airy,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- autistic,
- awry,
- beguiling,
- beside the mark,
- catchy,
- chimeric,
- chimerical,
- corrupt,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- deluding,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- distorted,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- dubious,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fanciful,
- fantastic,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- fishy,
- flawed,
- hallucinatory,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illogical,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- misleading,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- ostensible,
- out,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- questionable,
- quixotic,
- seeming,
- self-contradictory,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- specious,
- spectral,
- straying,
- supposititious,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- unactual,
- unfactual,
- unfounded,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- untrue,
- visionary,
- wide,
- wrong
- astray
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- away from the right path or direction; "he was led astray" related words >
- abashed,
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- afield,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- askew,
- at fault,
- at sea,
- awry,
- badly,
- below the mark,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- bewildered,
- bootlessly,
- bothered,
- clear,
- clueless,
- confused,
- corrupt,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- delusive,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- disoriented,
- distorted,
- distracted,
- distraught,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- erroneously,
- fallacious,
- fallaciously,
- false,
- falsely,
- far afield,
- far from it,
- faultful,
- faultfully,
- faultily,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- fruitlessly,
- guessing,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- in a fix,
- in a maze,
- in a pickle,
- in a scrape,
- in a stew,
- in vain,
- lost,
- mazed,
- mistakenly,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- out,
- peccant,
- perturbed,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- put-out,
- self-contradictory,
- straying,
- to no purpose,
- turned around,
- unfactual,
- unfavorably,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- untrue,
- untruly,
- upset,
- vainly,
- wide,
- without a clue,
- wrong,
- wrongly
- unction
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- anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual
- excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm related words >
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- affectation,
- anointment,
- balm,
- balsam,
- brilliantine,
- cant,
- cerate,
- chrism,
- chrismal,
- chrismation,
- chrismatory,
- chrisom,
- cold cream,
- collyrium,
- cream,
- demulcent,
- embrocation,
- emollient,
- extreme unction,
- eye-lotion,
- eyewash,
- eyewater,
- face cream,
- false piety,
- falseness,
- flattering tongue,
- goody-goodiness,
- greasing,
- gush,
- hand lotion,
- hypocrisy,
- insincerity,
- inunction,
- inunctum,
- lanolin,
- last rites,
- lenitive,
- liniment,
- lotion,
- lubricating,
- lubrication,
- lubrification,
- mealymouthedness,
- mummery,
- nard,
- oil,
- oiliness,
- oiling,
- ointment,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- pomade,
- pomatum,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- sacramental anointment,
- sacred unction,
- salve,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-righteousness,
- slobber,
- smarm,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- soothing syrup,
- spikenard,
- that flattering unction,
- unctuousness,
- unguent,
- unguentum,
- viaticum,
- vulnerary
- outreach
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- the act of reaching out; "the outreach toward truth of the human spirit" related words >
- bamboozle,
- be lengthy,
- be prolonged,
- beguile,
- belong,
- betray,
- bluff,
- cajole,
- cheat on,
- circumvent,
- conjure,
- crane,
- deceive,
- delude,
- diddle,
- double-cross,
- dupe,
- elude,
- evade,
- extend,
- extend out,
- foil,
- forestall,
- frustrate,
- gammon,
- get around,
- get round,
- give the runaround,
- give the slip,
- go one better,
- gull,
- hoax,
- hocus-pocus,
- hornswaggle,
- humbug,
- juggle,
- let down,
- mock,
- outclass,
- outdo,
- outfigure,
- outflank,
- outfox,
- outgeneral,
- outgo,
- outguess,
- outjump,
- outleap,
- outmaneuver,
- outmarch,
- outpace,
- outperform,
- outplay,
- outpoint,
- outrange,
- outride,
- outrival,
- outrun,
- outshine,
- outsmart,
- outstep,
- outstretch,
- outstrip,
- outvie,
- outwit,
- overjump,
- overleap,
- overmatch,
- overplay,
- overreach,
- override,
- pass the buck,
- pigeon,
- play one false,
- put something over,
- reach out,
- snow,
- sprawl,
- stand on tiptoes,
- stonewall,
- straggle,
- stretch,
- stretch out,
- string along,
- take in,
- trick,
- two-time,
- undo,
- victimize
- mortification
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- (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself) related words >
- Albigensianism,
- Catharism,
- Day of Atonement,
- Franciscanism,
- Sabbatarianism,
- Trappism,
- Waldensianism,
- Yoga,
- Yom Kippur,
- abasement,
- abashment,
- abstinence,
- anchoritic monasticism,
- anchoritism,
- asceticism,
- austerity,
- awkwardness,
- caries,
- carrion,
- chagrin,
- cold purgatorial fires,
- comedown,
- confusion,
- debasement,
- decay,
- decomposition,
- deflation,
- descent,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- discountenance,
- disgrace,
- distress,
- disturbance,
- dry gangrene,
- dry rot,
- dump,
- embarrassment,
- eremitism,
- fasting,
- flagellation,
- foulness,
- gangrene,
- gas gangrene,
- hair shirt,
- hangdog look,
- humbled pride,
- humiliation,
- letdown,
- lustration,
- maceration,
- mendicantism,
- moist gangrene,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- necrosis,
- necrotic tissue,
- noma,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitential act,
- penitential exercise,
- purgation,
- purgatory,
- puritanism,
- put-down,
- putrefaction,
- putrescence,
- putridity,
- putridness,
- rancidity,
- rancidness,
- rankness,
- repentance,
- rigor,
- rot,
- rottenness,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- self-abasement,
- self-abnegation,
- self-denial,
- self-diminishment,
- self-mortification,
- setdown,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- slough,
- sphacelation,
- sphacelus,
- spoilage,
- tooth decay,
- voluntary poverty
- false
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- (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue"
- arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation"
- inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key"
- designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom"
- deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"
- not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"
- erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm" related words >
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- Machiavellian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- affected,
- airy,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- ambidextrous,
- amiss,
- apostate,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- artful,
- artificial,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- autistic,
- awry,
- backsliding,
- baseborn,
- bastard,
- beguiling,
- beside the mark,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- calculating,
- canting,
- catchy,
- chimeric,
- chiseling,
- collusive,
- concocted,
- contrary to fact,
- corrupt,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- deluding,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- derelict,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- devious,
- disaffected,
- dishonest,
- disloyal,
- distorted,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- dubious,
- dummy,
- duplicitous,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- ersatz,
- fabricated,
- factitious,
- faithless,
- fake,
- faked,
- fallacious,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- fantastic,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- feigned,
- fickle,
- fictitious,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- flawed,
- forged,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- guileful,
- hallucinatory,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- holier-than-thou,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- illegitimate,
- illogical,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imitation,
- imprecise,
- in error,
- inaccurate,
- inconstant,
- incorrect,
- indirect,
- inexact,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- invalid,
- lying,
- made-up,
- manufactured,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- meretricious,
- misbegotten,
- miscreated,
- misleading,
- mistaken,
- mock,
- not right,
- not true,
- not true to,
- of bad faith,
- off,
- off the track,
- ostensible,
- out,
- peccant,
- perfidious,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- pharisaic,
- phony,
- pietistic,
- pinchbeck,
- pious,
- pseudo,
- questionable,
- recreant,
- renegade,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- scheming,
- seeming,
- self-contradictory,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- self-righteous,
- sham,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- simulated,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- snide,
- sniveling,
- specious,
- spectral,
- spurious,
- straying,
- substitute,
- supposititious,
- surreptitious,
- synthetic,
- traitorous,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- trothless,
- truthless,
- two-faced,
- unactual,
- unctuous,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfactual,
- unfaithful,
- unfounded,
- unloyal,
- unnatural,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unreal,
- unsound,
- unsteadfast,
- unsubstantial,
- untrue,
- untrustworthy,
- untruthful,
- visionary,
- wide,
- wily,
- wrong
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