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- calculating
collapse - used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- artful,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- chiseling,
- circumspect,
- collusive,
- computational,
- computative,
- computing,
- connivent,
- conniving,
- considerate,
- conspiring,
- contriving,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- designing,
- devious,
- discreet,
- disingenuous,
- enumerative,
- estimating,
- estimative,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- finagling,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- intriguing,
- knowing,
- manipulative,
- numerative,
- pawky,
- perjured,
- plotting,
- quantifying,
- safe,
- scheming,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaky,
- statistical,
- stratagemical,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- surreptitious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- up to,
- wary,
- wily
- furtive
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- marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch" related words >
- artful,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- collusive,
- conspiratorial,
- covert,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- doggo,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- guileful,
- hidden,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- lurking,
- on tiptoe,
- private,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quiet,
- scheming,
- secret,
- secretive,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- surreptitious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- under cover,
- under the table,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- untrustworthy,
- waiting concealed,
- wily
- accede
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- take on duties or office; "accede to the throne" related words >
- OK,
- abide by,
- accede to,
- accept,
- acclaim,
- accord to,
- acquiesce,
- acquiesce in,
- agree,
- agree to,
- agree with,
- allow,
- applaud,
- approve,
- approve of,
- assent,
- attain to,
- be agreeable,
- be instated,
- be willing,
- buy,
- cheer,
- comply,
- concur,
- condescend,
- connive at,
- consent,
- consent to silently,
- cooperate,
- deign,
- endorse,
- face the music,
- give consent,
- give the nod,
- go along with,
- grant,
- hail,
- have no objection,
- hold with,
- in toto,
- knock under,
- knuckle down,
- knuckle under,
- let,
- live with it,
- mount the throne,
- nod,
- nod assent,
- not refuse,
- not resist,
- obey,
- okay,
- permit,
- ratify,
- receive,
- relent,
- resign,
- sanction,
- say aye,
- say yes,
- submit,
- subscribe,
- subscribe to,
- succumb,
- swallow it,
- swallow the pill,
- take,
- take it,
- take kindly to,
- take office,
- vote affirmatively,
- vote aye,
- vote for,
- welcome,
- wink at,
- yes,
- yield assent
- exercise
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- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit; "the doctor recommended regular exercise"; "he did some exercising"; "the physical exertion required by his work kept him fit"
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding; "you must work the examples at the end of each chapter in the textbook"
- systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes perfect"
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches; "academic exercises"
- do physical exercise; "She works out in the gym every day"
- give a workout to; "Some parents exercise their infants"; "My personal trainer works me hard"; "work one's muscles" related words >
- Nachtmusik,
- abrade,
- absolute music,
- absorb,
- absorb the attention,
- act,
- acting,
- action,
- active use,
- activism,
- activity,
- adaptation,
- aerobics,
- agency,
- aggravate,
- agitate,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- annoy,
- appliance,
- application,
- apply,
- apprentice,
- apprenticeship,
- arrangement,
- arrest,
- assignment,
- athletics,
- baccalaureate service,
- badger,
- bait,
- basic training,
- be at,
- bedevil,
- behavior,
- beset,
- bestow,
- boning,
- bother,
- brainwork,
- break,
- break in,
- breaking,
- breather,
- breed,
- breeding,
- bring to bear,
- bring up,
- bristle,
- brown off,
- bug,
- bullyrag,
- burden,
- burn up,
- busywork,
- calisthenics,
- callisthenics,
- carry on,
- catch,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- chafe,
- chalk talk,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- chare,
- charge,
- charm,
- chivy,
- chore,
- commencement,
- commission,
- composition,
- concern,
- condition,
- conditioning,
- conduct,
- conning,
- constitutional,
- consumption,
- contemplation,
- convocation,
- cram,
- cramming,
- cultivate,
- cultivation,
- daily dozen,
- descant,
- develop,
- development,
- devil,
- direction,
- discharge,
- discipline,
- discompose,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- distemper,
- distress,
- disturb,
- do,
- do with,
- dog,
- doing,
- drill,
- drilling,
- driving,
- duty,
- effect,
- electronic music,
- employ,
- employment,
- empty formality,
- enchant,
- engage,
- engage in,
- engage the attention,
- engage the mind,
- engage the thoughts,
- engross,
- engross the mind,
- engross the thoughts,
- engrossment,
- enthrall,
- errand,
- etude,
- exasperate,
- execute,
- execution,
- exercises,
- exercising,
- exert,
- exertion,
- exploit,
- exposition,
- extensive study,
- fascinate,
- fash,
- fetch up,
- fetching-up,
- fish to fry,
- fit,
- fix,
- follow,
- form,
- formal,
- formality,
- foster,
- fostering,
- fret,
- function,
- functioning,
- gall,
- get,
- go in for,
- good use,
- grab,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- grind,
- grinding,
- grip,
- gripe,
- groom,
- grooming,
- gymnastic exercises,
- gymnastics,
- handle,
- handling,
- harangue,
- harass,
- hard usage,
- hard use,
- harmonization,
- harry,
- headwork,
- heckle,
- hector,
- hold,
- hold spellbound,
- hold the interest,
- homework,
- homily,
- hound,
- house-train,
- housebreak,
- housebreaking,
- hypnotize,
- ill use,
- immerse,
- improve,
- improvement,
- in-service training,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- incidental music,
- initiation,
- inspection,
- instruction,
- instrumental music,
- invention,
- involve,
- involve the interest,
- irk,
- irritate,
- isometrics,
- job,
- job of work,
- labor,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- lick into shape,
- limber up,
- liturgy,
- lucubration,
- make use of,
- make-work,
- manage,
- management,
- manipulate,
- manipulation,
- manual training,
- matters in hand,
- mental labor,
- mesmerize,
- miff,
- military training,
- mission,
- misuse,
- molest,
- monopolize,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- movement,
- movements,
- mummery,
- nag,
- needle,
- nettle,
- nocturne,
- nudzh,
- nurse,
- nurture,
- nurturing,
- object lesson,
- observance,
- obsess,
- occupation,
- occupy,
- occupy the attention,
- odd job,
- office,
- on-the-job training,
- operancy,
- operate,
- operation,
- operations,
- opus,
- orchestration,
- peeve,
- performance,
- performing,
- persecute,
- perturb,
- perusal,
- pester,
- physical education,
- physical jerks,
- pick on,
- piece,
- piece of work,
- pique,
- plague,
- play,
- pluck the beard,
- ply,
- pother,
- practice,
- praxis,
- preachment,
- preoccupy,
- preparation,
- prepare,
- production,
- program music,
- project,
- prosecute,
- provoke,
- pursue,
- put forth,
- put in tune,
- put into practice,
- put out,
- put to school,
- put to use,
- raise,
- raising,
- reading,
- ready,
- readying,
- rear,
- rearing,
- recital,
- recitation,
- rehearsal,
- rehearse,
- religious ceremony,
- responsibility,
- restudy,
- restudying,
- review,
- ricercar,
- ride,
- rile,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- roil,
- rough usage,
- ruffle,
- running,
- score,
- send to school,
- sermon,
- service,
- set,
- set task,
- setting-up exercises,
- skull session,
- sloyd,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- specialize in,
- spellbind,
- steering,
- stint,
- stretch,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- study,
- studying,
- subject,
- swing,
- swotting,
- tackle,
- take in hand,
- take on,
- take to,
- take up,
- talk,
- task,
- teaching,
- tease,
- theme and variations,
- things to do,
- throw,
- torment,
- train,
- training,
- trio,
- trouble,
- try,
- try the patience,
- tweak the nose,
- undertake,
- upbringing,
- usage,
- use,
- using up,
- utilization,
- utilize,
- variation,
- vex,
- vocational education,
- vocational training,
- wage,
- warm up,
- warm-up,
- wide reading,
- wield,
- work,
- work at,
- work out,
- working,
- working-out,
- workings,
- workout,
- worry,
- wrong use,
- yoga
- simulated
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- reproduced or made to resemble; imitative in character; "under simulated combat conditions" related words >
- affected,
- alike,
- aped,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- colorable,
- colored,
- consimilar,
- copied,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- favoring,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- following,
- garbled,
- homogeneous,
- hypocritical,
- identical,
- illegitimate,
- imitated,
- imitation,
- junky,
- like,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mimicked,
- mock,
- nearly reproduced,
- not unlike,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- resembling,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- similar,
- smacking of,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- something like,
- spurious,
- substitute,
- suggestive of,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- uniform with,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped
- artful,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- collusive,
- concealed,
- covert,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- doggo,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hidden,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush-hush,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- lurking,
- on the sly,
- on tiptoe,
- private,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quiet,
- scheming,
- secret,
- secretive,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- under cover,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- veiled,
- waiting concealed,
- wily
- dance
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- an artistic form of nonverbal communication
- a party for social dancing
- a party of people assembled for dancing
- move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance; "My husband and I like to dance at home to the radio"
- move in a graceful and rhythmical way; "The young girl danced into the room"
- skip, leap, or move up and down or sideways; "Dancing flames"; "The children danced with joy" related words >
- Charleston,
- Highland fling,
- Lambeth Walk,
- Mexican hat dance,
- Portland fancy,
- Virginia reel,
- Watusi,
- acid rock,
- allemande,
- antic,
- arabesque,
- assemblee,
- assembly,
- assignation,
- at home,
- avant-garde jazz,
- bal,
- bal costume,
- bal masque,
- ball,
- ballet,
- balletic,
- ballroom dancing,
- ballroom music,
- barn dance,
- beam,
- beat,
- beating,
- bebop,
- belly dance,
- bicker,
- bolero,
- boogaloo,
- boogie-woogie,
- bop,
- bourree,
- boutade,
- branle,
- brawl,
- breakdown,
- bunny hop,
- cakewalk,
- can-can,
- caper,
- caracole,
- carol,
- carry on,
- caucus,
- cavort,
- cha-cha,
- chasse,
- chirp,
- chirrup,
- chonchina,
- choreodrama,
- choreography,
- clap hands,
- classical ballet,
- clog,
- colloquium,
- comedy ballet,
- commission,
- committee,
- conclave,
- concourse,
- conga,
- congregation,
- congress,
- conventicle,
- convention,
- convocation,
- cotillion,
- council,
- country dance,
- country rock,
- coupe,
- courante,
- curvet,
- cut a dido,
- cut capers,
- cut up,
- dance drama,
- dance music,
- dances,
- dancing,
- date,
- delight,
- diet,
- disport,
- eisteddfod,
- exult,
- fan dance,
- fancy-dress ball,
- fandango,
- festivity,
- fete,
- flamenco,
- flap,
- flick,
- flicker,
- flickering,
- flickering light,
- fling,
- flip,
- flit,
- flitter,
- flop,
- flounce,
- flutter,
- fluttering,
- folk dance,
- folk rock,
- fool around,
- foot,
- foot it,
- forgathering,
- forum,
- fox trot,
- fox-trot,
- frisk,
- frolic,
- galliard,
- gambade,
- gambado,
- gambol,
- gathering,
- gavotte,
- german,
- get-together,
- glancing light,
- glory,
- glow,
- go pitapat,
- grapevine,
- gutter,
- hard rock,
- hokey-pokey,
- hoof,
- hoof it,
- hoofing,
- hootchy-kootchy,
- hop,
- hopak,
- hornpipe,
- horse around,
- hot jazz,
- housewarming,
- hover,
- hula,
- hula-hula,
- hustle,
- interpretative dance,
- jazz,
- jig,
- jive,
- joy,
- jubilate,
- kola,
- lambency,
- lancers,
- laugh,
- leap,
- levee,
- light show,
- lilt,
- limbo,
- lindy,
- mainstream jazz,
- mambo,
- mask,
- masked ball,
- masque,
- masquerade,
- masquerade ball,
- mazurka,
- meet,
- meeting,
- minuet,
- mixer,
- modern ballet,
- modern dance,
- monkey,
- musical suite,
- ox dance,
- pachanga,
- palpitate,
- palpitation,
- panel,
- party,
- pas,
- pas de deux,
- pas seul,
- paso doble,
- passamezzo,
- peabody,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- play,
- play of light,
- plenum,
- polka,
- polonaise,
- prance,
- prom,
- promenade,
- pulse,
- quadrille,
- quaver,
- quickstep,
- quiver,
- quivering,
- quorum,
- radiate cheer,
- rag,
- ragtime,
- rain dance,
- rally,
- reception,
- record hop,
- reel,
- rejoice,
- rendezvous,
- revel,
- rhythm-and-blues,
- rigadoon,
- rock,
- rock-and-roll,
- rollick,
- romp,
- rumba,
- samba,
- sashay,
- seance,
- session,
- shake,
- shimmy,
- shindig,
- shindy,
- shuffle,
- sing,
- sit-in,
- sitting,
- skip,
- skip for joy,
- slat,
- smile,
- snake dance,
- social,
- soiree,
- sparkle,
- splutter,
- sport,
- sputter,
- square dance,
- stag dance,
- step,
- strathspey,
- suite,
- suite of dances,
- swim,
- swing,
- sword dance,
- symposium,
- syncopated music,
- syncopation,
- synod,
- tango,
- tap dance,
- tap dancing,
- tap-dance,
- tarantella,
- tea dance,
- terpsichore,
- terpsichorean,
- the dansant,
- the new music,
- throb,
- tread,
- tremble,
- trepak,
- trip,
- truck,
- turkey trot,
- turnout,
- twist,
- valse,
- waltz,
- war dance,
- wave,
- waver,
- whistle,
- wobble
- cantor
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- the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos related words >
- Heldentenor,
- Levite,
- Meistersinger,
- alto,
- aria singer,
- baal kore,
- baritenor,
- baritone,
- bass,
- basso,
- basso buffo,
- basso cantante,
- basso profundo,
- blues singer,
- canary,
- cantatrice,
- caroler,
- chanter,
- chantress,
- chief rabbi,
- choir chaplain,
- choirmaster,
- choral director,
- chorister,
- coloratura soprano,
- comic bass,
- contralto,
- countertenor,
- crooner,
- deep bass,
- diva,
- dramatic soprano,
- heroic tenor,
- high priest,
- hymner,
- improvisator,
- kohen,
- lead singer,
- lieder singer,
- melodist,
- mezzo-soprano,
- minister of music,
- opera singer,
- precentor,
- priest,
- prima donna,
- psalm singer,
- rabbi,
- rabbin,
- rock-and-roll singer,
- scribe,
- singer,
- singstress,
- songbird,
- songster,
- songstress,
- soprano,
- tenor,
- torch singer,
- vocalist,
- vocalizer,
- voice,
- warbler,
- yodeler
- pious
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- having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity; "pious readings" related words >
- Christian,
- Christianlike,
- Christianly,
- God-fearing,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- adoring,
- affected,
- angelic,
- assured,
- believing,
- canting,
- certain,
- confident,
- convinced,
- cultish,
- cultist,
- cultistic,
- dedicated,
- devoted,
- devout,
- dogmatic,
- doubtless,
- dutiful,
- faithful,
- false,
- fideistic,
- fraudulent,
- godlike,
- godly,
- good,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- holier-than-thou,
- holy,
- hypocritical,
- impressed with,
- insincere,
- mealy-mouthed,
- mealymouthed,
- moral,
- oily,
- persuaded,
- pharisaic,
- pietistic,
- pistic,
- positive,
- prayerful,
- pretended,
- priestly,
- religious,
- reverent,
- reverential,
- right-minded,
- saintly,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- satisfied,
- secure,
- self-righteous,
- seraphic,
- smarmy,
- sniveling,
- sold on,
- solemn,
- spiritual,
- sure,
- theistic,
- unctuous,
- under the impression,
- undoubtful,
- undoubting,
- venerational,
- venerative,
- virtuous,
- worshipful
- unscrupulous
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- without scruples or principles; "unscrupulous politicos who would be happy to sell...their country in order to gain power" related words >
- amoral,
- artful,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- disingenuous,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- evasive,
- evil,
- faithless,
- false,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- improper,
- inaccurate,
- indirect,
- inexact,
- insidious,
- knavish,
- mercenary,
- not kosher,
- perfidious,
- questionable,
- roguish,
- rotten,
- scheming,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaky,
- stick-at-nothing,
- suspicious,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- uncritical,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unexacting,
- unfinical,
- unfussy,
- unmeticulous,
- unpainstaking,
- unparticular,
- unprecise,
- unprincipled,
- unpunctilious,
- unpunctual,
- unrigorous,
- unsavory,
- unseemly,
- unstraightforward,
- untrustworthy,
- venal,
- wicked,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- wrongful
- acting,
- action,
- actions,
- activity,
- acts,
- address,
- affect,
- affectation,
- affectivity,
- air,
- appearance,
- arrangement,
- array,
- assumption,
- attitude,
- attitudinize,
- attitudinizing,
- bearing,
- bearings,
- beck,
- beckon,
- behavior,
- behavior pattern,
- behavioral norm,
- behavioral science,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- body language,
- brow,
- carriage,
- case,
- cast,
- cast of countenance,
- charade,
- cheating,
- chironomy,
- circumstance,
- climate of opinion,
- color,
- coloring,
- common belief,
- community sentiment,
- complexion,
- comportment,
- conceit,
- concept,
- conception,
- conclusion,
- condition,
- conduct,
- consensus gentium,
- consideration,
- countenance,
- culture pattern,
- custom,
- dactylology,
- deaf-and-dumb alphabet,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demeanor,
- deportment,
- disguise,
- disposition,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- doing,
- doings,
- dumb show,
- emotion,
- emotivity,
- estate,
- estimate,
- estimation,
- ethos,
- eye,
- facade,
- face,
- facial appearance,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- favor,
- feature,
- features,
- feeling,
- feeling tone,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fix,
- folkway,
- footing,
- format,
- four-flushing,
- frame of mind,
- fraud,
- front,
- garb,
- general belief,
- gesticulation,
- gesture,
- gesture language,
- gestures,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- goings-on,
- guise,
- hand signal,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- idea,
- imposture,
- impression,
- jam,
- judgment,
- kinesics,
- layout,
- lights,
- lineaments,
- lines,
- location,
- looks,
- lot,
- maintien,
- manner,
- manners,
- masquerade,
- mental attitude,
- meretriciousness,
- method,
- methodology,
- methods,
- mien,
- mind,
- modality,
- mode,
- modus vivendi,
- mood,
- motion,
- motions,
- movement,
- movements,
- moves,
- mystique,
- notion,
- observable behavior,
- observation,
- opinion,
- organization,
- orientation,
- ostentation,
- outlook,
- outward show,
- pantomime,
- pass,
- pass for,
- pass off,
- pattern,
- peacock,
- personal judgment,
- physiognomy,
- pickle,
- place,
- playacting,
- plight,
- point of view,
- poise,
- popular belief,
- port,
- pose,
- pose for effect,
- posing,
- position,
- practice,
- praxis,
- predicament,
- presence,
- presumption,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prevailing belief,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- promptness,
- psychology,
- public belief,
- public opinion,
- quickness,
- rank,
- reaction,
- readiness,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sentiment,
- sham,
- show,
- show off,
- shrug,
- sight,
- sign language,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sit,
- situation,
- social science,
- speciousness,
- spot,
- stance,
- standing,
- state,
- station,
- status,
- strike a pose,
- strike an attitude,
- style,
- tactics,
- theory,
- thinking,
- thought,
- tone,
- traits,
- turn,
- varnish,
- view,
- viewpoint,
- visage,
- way,
- way of life,
- way of thinking,
- ways,
- window dressing
- crooked
collapse
- having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Roman-nosed,
- V-shaped,
- Y-shaped,
- agee,
- agee-jawed,
- akimbo,
- ambidextrous,
- amoral,
- anamorphous,
- angular,
- aquiline,
- aquiline-nosed,
- artful,
- askance,
- askant,
- askew,
- askewgee,
- asquint,
- asymmetric,
- awry,
- beak-nosed,
- beak-shaped,
- beaked,
- bending,
- bendy,
- bent,
- bill-like,
- bill-shaped,
- billed,
- bowed,
- catawampous,
- catawamptious,
- chevronwise,
- chevrony,
- circuitous,
- clawlike,
- cockeyed,
- conscienceless,
- contorted,
- cornered,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- crafty,
- crankled,
- crazy,
- criminal,
- crookbilled,
- crooknosed,
- crotched,
- crumpled,
- crunched,
- cunning,
- curving,
- curvy,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deformed,
- deviative,
- devious,
- disfigured,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- distorted,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- doubtful,
- down-curving,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- errant,
- evasive,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- flexuous,
- forked,
- fraudulent,
- furcal,
- furcate,
- geniculate,
- geniculated,
- gnarled,
- hairpin,
- hamate,
- hamiform,
- hamulate,
- hooked,
- hooklike,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- illegal,
- illicit,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- irregular,
- jagged,
- knee-shaped,
- labyrinthine,
- lopsided,
- lying,
- meandering,
- misshapen,
- nonsymmetric,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- one-sided,
- parrot-nosed,
- perfidious,
- perverse,
- pointed,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- rhamphoid,
- rostrate,
- rostriform,
- rotten,
- roundabout,
- ruthless,
- saw-toothed,
- sawtooth,
- serpentine,
- serrate,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- sharp-cornered,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- skew,
- skew-jawed,
- skewed,
- slaunchways,
- slippery,
- snaky,
- snide,
- sprung,
- squinting,
- staggered,
- suspicious,
- tortuous,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- two-faced,
- unciform,
- uncinate,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unguiform,
- unlawful,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- unsymmetric,
- untruthful,
- wamper-jawed,
- warped,
- winding,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- wrong,
- wry,
- yaw-ways,
- zigzag,
- zigzaggy,
- zigzagways
- stumble
collapse
- make an error; "She slipped up and revealed the name"
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall; "She stumbled over the tree root"
- walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"
- encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant" related words >
- bad job,
- balk,
- barge,
- be all thumbs,
- bevue,
- blunder,
- blunder away,
- blunder into,
- blunder on,
- blunder upon,
- bobble,
- boggle,
- bonehead play,
- boner,
- boo-boo,
- botch,
- breakdown,
- bumble,
- bump,
- bump into,
- bungle,
- butcher,
- capsize,
- careen,
- career,
- chance,
- clump,
- clumsy performance,
- collapse,
- come a cropper,
- come across,
- come up against,
- comedown,
- commit a gaffe,
- crash,
- cropper,
- culbute,
- deflation,
- deviate,
- discover,
- dive,
- downfall,
- encounter,
- err,
- error,
- etourderie,
- fall,
- fall down,
- fall flat,
- fall headlong,
- fall into error,
- fall over,
- fall prostrate,
- fall upon,
- false move,
- false step,
- falter,
- faux pas,
- find,
- flop,
- flounce,
- flounder,
- flub,
- fluff,
- foozle,
- forced landing,
- fumble,
- gag,
- gaucherie,
- get a cropper,
- go amiss,
- go astray,
- go awry,
- go wrong,
- halt,
- hash,
- have two minds,
- haw,
- header,
- hem,
- hem and haw,
- hesitate,
- hit,
- hit upon,
- hum,
- hum and haw,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- jib,
- labor,
- lapse,
- lapsus calami,
- lapsus linguae,
- light,
- limp,
- list,
- loose thread,
- luck,
- lumber,
- lurch,
- mammer,
- mar,
- meet,
- mess,
- miscalculate,
- miscue,
- misstep,
- mistake,
- muck,
- muddle,
- muff,
- murder,
- nose dive,
- off day,
- omission,
- oversight,
- pause,
- pitch,
- pitch and plunge,
- play havoc with,
- plunge,
- pose,
- pratfall,
- reel,
- rock,
- roll,
- run across,
- sad work,
- scruple,
- seethe,
- shy,
- slip,
- slip up,
- slipup,
- smash,
- snapper,
- spill,
- spoil,
- sprawl,
- spread-eagle,
- stagger,
- stammer,
- stick,
- stickle,
- strain,
- stray,
- struggle,
- stump,
- stutter,
- sway,
- swing,
- tailspin,
- take a fall,
- take a flop,
- take a header,
- take a pratfall,
- take a spill,
- thrash about,
- tilt,
- topple,
- topple down,
- topple over,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- toss and turn,
- totter,
- trip,
- tumble,
- turn turtle,
- volutation,
- wallop,
- wallow,
- wander,
- waver,
- welter,
- wobble,
- wrong step
- outwit
collapse
- beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" related words >
- bamboozle,
- befool,
- beguile,
- betray,
- bluff,
- cajole,
- cheat on,
- circumvent,
- conjure,
- deceive,
- delude,
- diddle,
- double-cross,
- dupe,
- elude,
- evade,
- foil,
- forestall,
- frustrate,
- gammon,
- get around,
- get round,
- give the runaround,
- give the slip,
- go one better,
- gull,
- have,
- hoax,
- hocus-pocus,
- hoodwink,
- hornswaggle,
- humbug,
- juggle,
- let down,
- mock,
- outclass,
- outdo,
- outfigure,
- outflank,
- outfox,
- outgeneral,
- outgo,
- outguess,
- outjump,
- outleap,
- outmaneuver,
- outmarch,
- outpace,
- outperform,
- outplay,
- outpoint,
- outrange,
- outreach,
- outride,
- outrival,
- outrun,
- outshine,
- outsmart,
- outstep,
- outstrip,
- outvie,
- overjump,
- overleap,
- overmatch,
- overplay,
- overreach,
- override,
- pass the buck,
- pigeon,
- play one false,
- put something over,
- snow,
- stonewall,
- string along,
- take in,
- trick,
- two-time,
- undo,
- victimize
- smugness
collapse
- an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction related words >
- Quakerishness,
- amour-propre,
- autoeroticism,
- blandness,
- bovinity,
- butter,
- censoriousness,
- complacence,
- complacency,
- consequentiality,
- demureness,
- demurity,
- ego trip,
- fair words,
- false modesty,
- fulsomeness,
- glibness,
- hideboundness,
- honeyed words,
- incense,
- mauvaise honte,
- narcism,
- narcissism,
- narrowness,
- oiliness,
- overmodesty,
- overproudness,
- overweening pride,
- priggishness,
- primness,
- prudery,
- prudishness,
- puritanicalness,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-admiration,
- self-approbation,
- self-complacency,
- self-congratulation,
- self-content,
- self-contentedness,
- self-delight,
- self-endearment,
- self-esteem,
- self-gratulation,
- self-importance,
- self-infatuation,
- self-love,
- self-respect,
- self-satisfaction,
- self-sufficiency,
- self-worship,
- smoothness,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- stiff-neckedness,
- straitlacedness,
- stuffiness,
- suaveness,
- suavity,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- unctuousness,
- vaingloriousness,
- vainglory,
- vainness,
- vanity
- thrum
collapse
- a thrumming sound; "he could hear the thrum of a banjo" related words >
- barrage,
- beat,
- beat a ruffle,
- beat a tattoo,
- beat the drum,
- beat time,
- beating,
- birr,
- bombilate,
- bombinate,
- boom,
- bum,
- bumble,
- burr,
- buzz,
- count,
- count the beats,
- drone,
- drum,
- drum music,
- drumbeat,
- drumfire,
- drumming,
- flutter,
- go pitapat,
- hum,
- keep time,
- palpitate,
- palpitation,
- paradiddle,
- patter,
- pick,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- play drum,
- pluck,
- plunk,
- pound,
- pounding,
- pulsate,
- pulsation,
- purr,
- rat-a-tat,
- rat-tat,
- rat-tat-tat,
- rataplan,
- rattattoo,
- roll,
- rub-a-dub,
- ruff,
- ruffle,
- sound a tattoo,
- spatter,
- splatter,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- staccato,
- strum,
- sweep the strings,
- tap,
- tat-tat,
- tattoo,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- thump,
- thumping,
- tom-tom,
- twang,
- whir,
- whiz
- diarist
collapse
- someone who keeps a diary or journal related words >
- Boswell,
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- autobiographer,
- autobiographist,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- biographer,
- calendar maker,
- calendarist,
- chronicler,
- chronographer,
- chronologer,
- chronologist,
- clockmaker,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- historian,
- historiographer,
- horologist,
- humorist,
- inditer,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- memorialist,
- monographer,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prose writer,
- reviewer,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- storyteller,
- technical writer,
- timekeeper,
- timer,
- watchmaker,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- baseborn,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- colorable,
- colored,
- contrived,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- deceitful,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- fatherless,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- forged,
- fraudulent,
- garbled,
- hypocritical,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- inauthentic,
- junky,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- meretricious,
- misbegotten,
- miscited,
- miscreated,
- misquoted,
- misreported,
- misstated,
- mock,
- natural,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pretend,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- snide,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- substitute,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- unauthoritative,
- unfounded,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- unreliable,
- warped
- awful,
- banging,
- barrage,
- beat,
- beating,
- behemoth,
- bumping,
- clicking,
- colossal,
- complete,
- deadly,
- dreadful,
- drum,
- drum music,
- drumbeat,
- drumfire,
- drumming,
- elephantine,
- enormous,
- fearful,
- flutter,
- fluttering,
- frightful,
- gargantuan,
- gigantic,
- great,
- horrible,
- howling,
- huge,
- immense,
- jumbo,
- mammoth,
- massive,
- monumental,
- palpitant,
- palpitation,
- paradiddle,
- patter,
- perfect,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- pound,
- pounding,
- pulsation,
- rat-a-tat,
- rat-tat,
- rat-tat-tat,
- rataplan,
- rattattoo,
- roll,
- rousing,
- rub-a-dub,
- ruff,
- ruffle,
- slapping,
- spanking,
- spatter,
- spattering,
- splutter,
- spluttering,
- sputter,
- sputtering,
- staccato,
- stupendous,
- tat-tat,
- tattoo,
- terrible,
- terrific,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- thrum,
- thrumming,
- thundering,
- ticking,
- titanic,
- tom-tom,
- unmitigated,
- utter,
- walloping,
- whacking,
- whaling,
- whopping
- interpret
collapse
- make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"
- give an interpretation or rendition of; "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully" related words >
- accompany,
- annotate,
- answer,
- bottom,
- chord,
- clarify,
- clear up,
- comment,
- commentate,
- concertize,
- construe,
- crack,
- debug,
- decipher,
- decode,
- define,
- delineate,
- depict,
- describe,
- diagnose,
- disentangle,
- divine,
- do,
- dope,
- dope out,
- elucidate,
- execute,
- exemplify,
- explain,
- explicate,
- expound,
- fathom,
- figure out,
- find out,
- find the answer,
- find the solution,
- get,
- get right,
- gloss,
- guess,
- guess right,
- have it,
- hit it,
- illuminate,
- illustrate,
- image,
- limn,
- make music,
- make out,
- open the lock,
- paraphrase,
- perform,
- picture,
- play,
- play by ear,
- plumb,
- portray,
- psych,
- psych out,
- puzzle out,
- ravel,
- ravel out,
- read,
- read into,
- render,
- resolve,
- riddle,
- simplify,
- solve,
- sort out,
- spell out,
- symphonize,
- take,
- take it that,
- take to mean,
- translate,
- understand,
- understand by,
- undo,
- unlock,
- unravel,
- unriddle,
- unscramble,
- untangle,
- untwist,
- unweave,
- work,
- work out
- bugbear
collapse
- an object of dread or apprehension; "Germany was always a bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson related words >
- Dracula,
- Frankenstein,
- Mumbo Jumbo,
- Wolf-man,
- affliction,
- anathema,
- bane,
- bete noire,
- bogey,
- bogeyman,
- boggart,
- bogle,
- bogy,
- booger,
- boogerman,
- boogeyman,
- bug,
- bugaboo,
- bugger,
- burden,
- calamity,
- crushing burden,
- cry of wolf,
- curse,
- death,
- destruction,
- detestation,
- disease,
- dud,
- evil,
- false alarm,
- fee-faw-fum,
- frightener,
- ghost,
- ghoul,
- grievance,
- harm,
- hate,
- hobgoblin,
- holy terror,
- horror,
- incubus,
- infliction,
- monster,
- nemesis,
- nightmare,
- ogre,
- ogress,
- open wound,
- pest,
- pestilence,
- phantom,
- plague,
- revenant,
- running sore,
- scarebabe,
- scarecrow,
- scarer,
- scourge,
- specter,
- succubus,
- terror,
- thorn,
- torment,
- vampire,
- vexation,
- visitation,
- werewolf,
- woe
- coauthor
collapse
- a writer who collaborates with others in writing something related words >
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- collaborate,
- collaborationist,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- compiler,
- compose,
- composer,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- dash off,
- diarist,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- editorialize,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- formulate,
- free lance,
- free-lance,
- free-lance writer,
- ghost,
- ghostwrite,
- ghostwriter,
- humorist,
- indite,
- inditer,
- knock off,
- knock out,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- monographer,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- novelize,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prepare,
- produce,
- prose writer,
- reviewer,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scenarize,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- storyteller,
- technical writer,
- throw on paper,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- write,
- writer
- annalist
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- a historian who writes annals related words >
- Boswell,
- advertising writer,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- autobiographer,
- autobiographist,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- biographer,
- calendar maker,
- calendarist,
- chronicler,
- chronographer,
- chronologer,
- chronologist,
- clockmaker,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- diarist,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- genealogist,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- historian,
- historiographer,
- horologist,
- humorist,
- inditer,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- memorialist,
- monographer,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prose writer,
- reviewer,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- storyteller,
- technical writer,
- timekeeper,
- timer,
- watchmaker,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer
- stadium
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- a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments related words >
- agora,
- amphitheater,
- arena,
- assembly hall,
- athletic field,
- auditorium,
- background,
- bear garden,
- bowl,
- boxing ring,
- bull ring,
- campus,
- canvas,
- chapel,
- circus,
- cockpit,
- coliseum,
- colosseum,
- concert hall,
- convention hall,
- course,
- dance hall,
- exhibition hall,
- field,
- floor,
- forum,
- gallery,
- garden,
- ground,
- gym,
- gymnasium,
- hall,
- hippodrome,
- lecture hall,
- lists,
- locale,
- marketplace,
- mat,
- meetinghouse,
- milieu,
- music hall,
- open forum,
- opera house,
- palaestra,
- parade ground,
- pit,
- place,
- platform,
- precinct,
- prize ring,
- public square,
- purlieu,
- range,
- ring,
- scene,
- scene of action,
- scenery,
- setting,
- site,
- sphere,
- spy,
- squared circle,
- stage,
- stage set,
- stage setting,
- terrain,
- theater,
- tilting ground,
- tiltyard,
- walk,
- wrestling ring
- specious
collapse
- plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences" related words >
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- airy,
- alleged,
- apparent,
- apparently sound,
- apparitional,
- autistic,
- avowed,
- beguiling,
- casuistic,
- chimeric,
- claimed,
- colorable,
- colored,
- conceivable,
- deceptive,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- disingenuous,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- empty,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fantastic,
- gilded,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- idle,
- illogical,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- in name only,
- inaccurate,
- incorrect,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- likely,
- meretricious,
- misleading,
- nugatory,
- ostensible,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- possible,
- presumable,
- presumed,
- pretended,
- pretexted,
- professed,
- purported,
- seeming,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- so-called,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- spectral,
- spurious,
- superficial,
- supposed,
- supposititious,
- tinsel,
- unactual,
- unfounded,
- unreal,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- untrue,
- vain,
- visionary,
- wrong
- ostensible
collapse
- represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity" related words >
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- airy,
- alleged,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- appearing,
- arrant,
- autistic,
- avowed,
- blatant,
- bold,
- chimeric,
- claimed,
- colorable,
- colored,
- conspicuous,
- deceptive,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fantastic,
- flagrant,
- gilded,
- glaring,
- hanging out,
- hypocritical,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- in name only,
- in relief,
- in the foreground,
- meretricious,
- misleading,
- notable,
- noticeable,
- notorious,
- obtrusive,
- outstanding,
- outward,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- plausible,
- pretended,
- pretexted,
- professed,
- prominent,
- pronounced,
- purported,
- salient,
- seeming,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- so-called,
- specious,
- spectral,
- staring,
- stark-staring,
- sticking out,
- striking,
- superficial,
- supposed,
- supposititious,
- surface,
- tinsel,
- to the eye,
- unactual,
- unfounded,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- visible,
- visionary
- pleasant
collapse
- pleasant in manner or behavior; "I didn`t enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around"
- affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings; "a pleasant person to be around"; "we had a pleasant evening together"; "a pleasant scene"; "pleasant sensations" related words >
- achingly sweet,
- advantageous,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- agreeable-sounding,
- alluring,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- appealing,
- approachable,
- appropriate,
- ariose,
- arioso,
- attractive,
- auspicious,
- balmy,
- beaming,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- blissful,
- blithe,
- blithesome,
- bon,
- bonny,
- braw,
- bright,
- bright and fair,
- bright and sunny,
- brotherly,
- bueno,
- canorous,
- cantabile,
- capital,
- catchy,
- charming,
- cheerful,
- cheering,
- cheery,
- clear,
- cloudless,
- cogent,
- commendable,
- companionable,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- congenial,
- convivial,
- cordial,
- courteous,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- debonair,
- delectable,
- delicious,
- delightful,
- desirable,
- dulcet,
- elated,
- elegant,
- en rapport,
- engaging,
- enjoyable,
- estimable,
- eupeptic,
- euphonic,
- euphonious,
- euphonous,
- euphoric,
- exalted,
- excellent,
- exhilarated,
- expedient,
- fair,
- fair and pleasant,
- famous,
- favorable,
- felicific,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- fine-toned,
- fitting,
- flushed,
- fraternal,
- friendlike,
- friendly,
- genial,
- genteel,
- glad,
- gladsome,
- glowing,
- golden,
- golden-tongued,
- golden-voiced,
- good,
- goodly,
- gracious,
- grand,
- grateful,
- gratifying,
- gregarious,
- happy,
- harmonious,
- healthy,
- heart-warming,
- helpful,
- high,
- honeyed,
- hopeful,
- hospitable,
- in good spirits,
- in high spirits,
- inviting,
- irrepressible,
- joyful,
- joyous,
- kind,
- laudable,
- laughing,
- likable,
- likeable,
- lovely,
- melic,
- mellifluent,
- mellifluous,
- mellisonant,
- mellow,
- melodic,
- melodious,
- music-flowing,
- music-like,
- musical,
- neighborlike,
- neighborly,
- nice,
- noble,
- of good cheer,
- open,
- optimistic,
- outgoing,
- palatable,
- peaceable,
- pleasant-sounding,
- pleasing,
- pleasurable,
- pleasure-giving,
- pleasureful,
- polished,
- polite,
- pretty,
- profitable,
- radiant,
- rainless,
- regal,
- rewarding,
- riant,
- rich,
- rosy,
- royal,
- sanguine,
- sanguineous,
- satisfying,
- savory,
- silver-toned,
- silver-tongued,
- silver-voiced,
- silvery,
- simpatico,
- singable,
- sisterly,
- skillful,
- smiling,
- sociable,
- songful,
- songlike,
- sonorous,
- sound,
- sparkling,
- splendid,
- suave,
- suitable,
- sunny,
- sweet,
- sweet-flowing,
- sweet-sounding,
- sympathique,
- toothsome,
- tunable,
- tuneful,
- undarkened,
- unhostile,
- urbane,
- useful,
- valid,
- very good,
- virtuous,
- welcome,
- welcoming,
- well-affected,
- well-bred,
- well-disposed,
- well-intentioned,
- well-mannered,
- well-meaning,
- well-meant,
- winning,
- winsome
- histrionics
collapse
- a deliberate display of emotion for effect related words >
- Thespian art,
- amateur theatricals,
- blazon,
- blood and thunder,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- daring,
- dash,
- demonstration,
- demonstrativeness,
- display,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramaturgy,
- eclat,
- emotional appeal,
- emotionalism,
- emotionality,
- emotionalization,
- emotionalizing,
- emotiveness,
- emotivity,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- figure,
- flair,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- histrionism,
- human interest,
- love interest,
- making scenes,
- manifestation,
- melodrama,
- melodramatics,
- nonrationalness,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- play construction,
- sensationalism,
- sham,
- show,
- showing-off,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- staginess,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- theatrics,
- unreasoningness,
- vaunt,
- visceralness,
- yellow journalism
- Thespian art,
- amateur theatricals,
- blazon,
- blood and thunder,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- daring,
- dash,
- demonstration,
- demonstrativeness,
- display,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramaturgy,
- eclat,
- emotional appeal,
- emotionalism,
- emotionality,
- emotionalization,
- emotionalizing,
- emotiveness,
- emotivity,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- figure,
- flair,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- histrionics,
- histrionism,
- human interest,
- love interest,
- making scenes,
- manifestation,
- melodrama,
- melodramatics,
- nonrationalness,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- play construction,
- sensationalism,
- sham,
- show,
- showing-off,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- staginess,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- unreasoningness,
- vaunt,
- visceralness,
- yellow journalism
- dud
collapse
- failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive; "he stepped on a dud mine" related words >
- abortion,
- abortive attempt,
- also-ran,
- aspirant,
- baby kisser,
- bankrupt,
- blank cartridge,
- bogy,
- bomb,
- bugaboo,
- bugbear,
- bust,
- candidate,
- castrato,
- cipher,
- cry of wolf,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- dummy,
- eunuch,
- failure,
- false alarm,
- favorite son,
- flop,
- gelding,
- hollow man,
- hopeful,
- impotent,
- incompetent,
- invalid,
- jackstraw,
- lame duck,
- lay figure,
- lemon,
- loser,
- man of straw,
- merry chase,
- miscarriage,
- miscarrying,
- misfire,
- nebbish,
- nobody,
- nonentity,
- nothing,
- nullity,
- office seeker,
- political hopeful,
- presidential timber,
- puppet,
- pushover,
- running mate,
- stalking-horse,
- thing of naught,
- trifle,
- vain attempt,
- washout,
- weakling,
- wet squib,
- wild-goose chase,
- zero
- lying
collapse
- the deliberate act of deviating from the truth related words >
- accubation,
- accumbency,
- accumbent,
- couchancy,
- couchant,
- couche,
- crawling,
- credibility gap,
- debasement,
- deceit,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- decumbency,
- decumbent,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- depression,
- dishonest,
- dishonesty,
- draped,
- duplicitous,
- duplicity,
- equivocal,
- false,
- falsehood,
- falsification,
- fibbery,
- fibbing,
- flat,
- forsworn,
- groveling,
- hypocritical,
- knavish,
- loll,
- lolling,
- lounging,
- lowness,
- lying down,
- mendacious,
- mendaciousness,
- mendacity,
- misleading,
- mythomania,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- perjury,
- prevaricating,
- prevarication,
- procumbent,
- prone,
- proneness,
- prostrate,
- prostration,
- pseudology,
- reclination,
- reclining,
- recumbency,
- recumbent,
- repose,
- reposing,
- resupine,
- roguish,
- shifty,
- shortness,
- sprawl,
- sprawled,
- sprawling,
- spread,
- squatness,
- squattiness,
- stumpiness,
- subjacency,
- supine,
- supineness,
- treacherous,
- truthless,
- truthlessness,
- untruthful,
- untruthfulness,
- unveracious,
- unveraciousness,
- wrong
- obey
collapse
- be obedient to related words >
- abide by,
- accede,
- accept,
- acquiesce,
- acquiesce in,
- act,
- adhere to,
- agree,
- agree to,
- assent,
- attend to orders,
- be agreeable,
- bend to,
- bow,
- bow to,
- carry out,
- comply,
- comply with,
- condone,
- conform,
- conform to,
- conform with,
- consent,
- consent to,
- countenance,
- defer,
- defer to,
- discharge,
- do,
- effect,
- execute,
- face the music,
- follow,
- follow the book,
- fulfill,
- give way to,
- go along with,
- grin and abide,
- harken to,
- heed,
- keep,
- knock under,
- knuckle down,
- knuckle under,
- knuckle under to,
- let go by,
- let pass,
- listen to,
- live with it,
- mark,
- meet,
- mind,
- not resist,
- obey the rules,
- observe,
- overlook,
- perform,
- regard,
- relent,
- resign,
- respect,
- rise above,
- satisfy,
- serve,
- shrug,
- shrug it off,
- stay in line,
- submit,
- submit to,
- succumb,
- succumb to,
- swallow it,
- swallow the pill,
- take,
- take it,
- take orders,
- toe the line,
- truckle to,
- yield,
- yield to
- dramatist
collapse
- someone who writes plays related words >
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- choreographer,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- comedian,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- dramatizer,
- dramaturge,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- farcer,
- farceur,
- farceuse,
- farcist,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- gagman,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- humorist,
- inditer,
- joke writer,
- jokesmith,
- librettist,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- melodramatist,
- mimographer,
- monodramatist,
- monographer,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- play doctor,
- play fixer,
- playwright,
- playwriter,
- poet,
- prose writer,
- reviewer,
- scenario writer,
- scenarioist,
- scenarist,
- screenwriter,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- storyteller,
- technical writer,
- tragedian,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer
- self-deception
collapse
- a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it related words >
- airy nothing,
- autism,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- bubble,
- calculated deception,
- chimera,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- daydream,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dereism,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false belief,
- falseness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- misinterpretation,
- misunderstanding,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- phantasm,
- pipe dream,
- putting on,
- self-deceit,
- self-delusion,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trick,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trip,
- vapor,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- wrong impression
- artifice,
- cabal,
- cheat,
- clinquant,
- collusion,
- complicity,
- complot,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- counterfeit,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- deep-laid plot,
- dummy,
- engineering,
- fake,
- fakement,
- false witness,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- forgery,
- frame,
- fraud,
- game,
- hoax,
- imitation,
- impostor,
- intrigue,
- junk,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- mock,
- packed deal,
- packed jury,
- paste,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- planning,
- plot,
- plotting,
- prearrangement,
- preconcertedness,
- premeditation,
- preordering,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- rigged jury,
- rigging,
- rip-off,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- setup,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulacrum,
- stacked deck,
- stratagem,
- swindle,
- tinsel,
- trick,
- underplot,
- web of intrigue,
- whited sepulcher,
- wire-pulling
- chimera
collapse
- a grotesque product of the imagination
- (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon related words >
- airy hope,
- airy nothing,
- apparition,
- autism,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- daydream,
- deception,
- delirium,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- eidolon,
- false belief,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figment,
- golden dream,
- hallucination,
- idle fancy,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mosaic,
- myth,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- pipe,
- pipe dream,
- pomato,
- potomato,
- quixotic ideal,
- rainbow,
- romance,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- sick fancy,
- thick-coming fancies,
- topato,
- trick,
- trip,
- unreal hope,
- utopia,
- vapor,
- vision,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams,
- wrong impression
- national anthem
collapse
- a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation related words >
- Brautlied,
- Christmas carol,
- Communist threat,
- Kunstlied,
- Liebeslied,
- Volkslied,
- Western imperialism,
- alba,
- anthem,
- art song,
- atrocity story,
- aubade,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- ballata,
- banner,
- barcarole,
- battle hymn,
- bloody shirt,
- blues,
- blues song,
- boat song,
- bridal hymn,
- brindisi,
- calypso,
- canso,
- canticle,
- canzone,
- canzonet,
- canzonetta,
- carol,
- cavatina,
- chanson,
- chant,
- chantey,
- colors,
- croon,
- croon song,
- crostarie,
- dirge,
- ditty,
- drinking song,
- epithalamium,
- expansionism,
- face,
- fiery cross,
- folk song,
- gonfalon,
- hymeneal,
- imperialist threat,
- independence,
- lay,
- lied,
- lilt,
- love song,
- love-lilt,
- manifest destiny,
- martial music,
- matin,
- minstrel song,
- minstrelsy,
- prothalamium,
- self-determination,
- serena,
- serenade,
- serenata,
- song,
- theme song,
- torch song,
- war song,
- wedding song,
- yellow peril
- hoax
collapse
- subject to a playful hoax or joke related words >
- bamboozle,
- befool,
- beguile,
- betray,
- bluff,
- cajole,
- cheat,
- cheat on,
- chicane,
- circumvent,
- clinquant,
- con,
- con game,
- conjure,
- counterfeit,
- cozen,
- deceive,
- deception,
- defraud,
- delude,
- diddle,
- double-cross,
- dummy,
- dupe,
- fake,
- fakement,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- fool,
- forestall,
- forgery,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- game,
- gammon,
- get around,
- gull,
- gyp,
- hocus-pocus,
- hoodwink,
- hornswaggle,
- humbug,
- imitation,
- impostor,
- imposture,
- juggle,
- junk,
- let down,
- mock,
- outmaneuver,
- outreach,
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- spoof,
- string along,
- swindle,
- take in,
- tinsel,
- trick,
- two-time,
- whited sepulcher
- novelist
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- one who writes novels related words >
- advertising writer,
- anecdotist,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
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- encyclopedist,
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- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- ghost,
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- humorist,
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- litterateur,
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- mythopoet,
- narrator,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prose writer,
- raconteur,
- reciter,
- recounter,
- relator,
- reviewer,
- romancer,
- romancist,
- sagaman,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- spinner of yarns,
- storier,
- storyteller,
- taleteller,
- technical writer,
- teller of tales,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer,
- yarn spinner
- scriptwriter
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- someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas related words >
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- choreographer,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- comedian,
- compiler,
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- humorist,
- inditer,
- joke writer,
- jokesmith,
- librettist,
- literary artist,
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- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- melodramatist,
- mimographer,
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- monographer,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- play doctor,
- play fixer,
- playwright,
- playwriter,
- poet,
- prose writer,
- reviewer,
- scenario writer,
- scenarioist,
- scenarist,
- scribe,
- short-story writer,
- storyteller,
- technical writer,
- tragedian,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer
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