Related Words:
- clean
collapse - free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years"
- free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed; "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean throw"; "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife"
- not carrying concealed weapons
- (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense; "a clean voting record"; "a clean driver's license"
- free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals"
- (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke"
- not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean"
- ritually clean or pure
- thorough and without qualification; "a clean getaway"; "a clean sweep"; "a clean break"
- exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct"
- (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections; "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript"
- morally pure; "led a clean life"
- without difficulties or problems; "a clean test flight"
- free from impurities; "clean water"; "fresh air"
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims; "efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings"; "clear laughter like a waterfall"; "clear reds and blues"; "a light lilting voice like a silver bell"
- free of restrictions or qualifications; "a clean bill of health"; "a clear winner"
- completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey"
- remove shells or husks from; "clean grain before milling it"
- remove while making clean; "Clean the spots off the rug"
- make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"
- deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.; "The other players cleaned him completely"
- be cleanable; "This stove cleans easily" related words >
- Christian,
- Daedalian,
- absolute,
- absolutely,
- acknowledge,
- adept,
- admit,
- adroit,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- altogether,
- antiseptic,
- apt,
- artistic,
- authoritative,
- bath,
- bathe,
- blameless,
- bleach,
- bleached,
- blotless,
- born,
- bowdlerize,
- bravura,
- bright,
- brighten,
- brilliant,
- broad-based,
- chaste,
- clarify,
- clean,
- clean out,
- clean up,
- clean-cut,
- cleanly,
- cleanse,
- cleansed,
- clear,
- clear out,
- clever,
- come clean,
- comely,
- completely,
- comprehensive,
- confess,
- congenital,
- consummate,
- coordinated,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- creditable,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- dainty,
- decent,
- decontaminate,
- decontaminated,
- deep-dyed,
- definite,
- deft,
- delouse,
- deplete,
- depurate,
- deterge,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- diplomatic,
- dirt-free,
- disinfect,
- disinfected,
- do,
- do up,
- downright,
- dry-clean,
- dust,
- dust off,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- egregious,
- empty,
- entirely,
- erect,
- estimable,
- ethical,
- evacuate,
- even,
- excellent,
- exhaust,
- exhaustive,
- expert,
- expurgate,
- fair,
- fancy,
- fastidious,
- faultless,
- fresh,
- freshen,
- full of integrity,
- fully,
- furbish,
- good,
- goodish,
- graceful,
- guiltless,
- gut,
- handy,
- high-minded,
- high-principled,
- highly respectable,
- honest,
- honorable,
- immaculate,
- immaculately,
- impeccable,
- inculpable,
- ingenious,
- innocent,
- inoffensive,
- intensive,
- inviolate,
- irreproachable,
- irretrievably,
- irrevocably,
- just,
- kosher,
- launder,
- lave,
- law-abiding,
- law-loving,
- law-revering,
- lustrate,
- magisterial,
- manly,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- modest,
- mop,
- moral,
- neat,
- neaten,
- no mean,
- noble,
- nonpolluted,
- of cleanly habits,
- omnibus,
- omnipresent,
- order,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- own up,
- perfect,
- perfectly,
- pervasive,
- plain,
- plumb,
- police,
- polish,
- politic,
- principled,
- professional,
- proficient,
- pure,
- pure in heart,
- purehearted,
- purely,
- purge,
- purified,
- purify,
- quick,
- quite,
- quite some,
- radical,
- ready,
- recondition,
- reform,
- regular,
- renew,
- renovate,
- reputable,
- resourceful,
- respectable,
- reveal,
- right,
- right-minded,
- righteous,
- ritually pure,
- sanitary,
- sanitize,
- scavenge,
- scour,
- scrub,
- scrubbed,
- sexually innocent,
- shapely,
- sheer,
- shining,
- shiny,
- simple,
- sing,
- skillful,
- slick,
- smooth,
- smut-free,
- smutless,
- snowy,
- some,
- sparkling,
- spill the beans,
- sponge,
- sportsmanlike,
- sportsmanly,
- spotless,
- spotlessly,
- spruce,
- stainless,
- stark,
- statesmanlike,
- steam-clean,
- sterile,
- sterling,
- straight,
- straighten out,
- straighten up,
- stylish,
- sweep,
- sweep out,
- sweeping,
- sweet,
- sweeten,
- tactful,
- tahar,
- taintless,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- thoroughly,
- through-and-through,
- tidy,
- total,
- totally,
- trim,
- true-dealing,
- true-devoted,
- true-disposing,
- true-souled,
- true-spirited,
- truehearted,
- tubbed,
- ubiquitous,
- unadulterated,
- unarmed,
- unbesmirched,
- unblemished,
- unblotted,
- unclutter,
- uncomplicated,
- unconditional,
- uncontaminated,
- uncorrupt,
- uncorrupted,
- undefiled,
- unimpeachable,
- uninfected,
- universal,
- unmitigated,
- unmixed,
- unmuddied,
- unpolluted,
- unqualified,
- unrelievedly,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- unsmirched,
- unsmudged,
- unsoiled,
- unspoiled,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- untarnished,
- upright,
- uprighteous,
- upstanding,
- utter,
- utterly,
- vacuum,
- veritable,
- virtuoso,
- virtuous,
- wash,
- wash up,
- weaponless,
- well-done,
- well-favored,
- well-formed,
- well-made,
- well-proportioned,
- well-scrubbed,
- well-shaped,
- well-washed,
- white,
- whiten,
- whitened,
- wholesale,
- wholesome,
- wholly,
- wipe,
- wipe off,
- wipe out,
- wipe up,
- workmanlike,
- worthy,
- yeomanly
- chimerical
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- produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush related words >
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- absurd,
- aerial,
- air-built,
- airy,
- ambitious,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- autistic,
- chimeric,
- cloud-born,
- cloud-built,
- cloud-woven,
- deceptive,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- erroneous,
- ethereal,
- fabulous,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fanciful,
- fantastic,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- fictional,
- fictive,
- gaseous,
- gossamery,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- misleading,
- mythical,
- ostensible,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- phantomlike,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- rarefied,
- seeming,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- shadowy,
- specious,
- spectral,
- spirituous,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supposititious,
- tenuous,
- unactual,
- unfounded,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- utopian,
- vaporous,
- vapory,
- visionary,
- windy
- glossy
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- a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper
- (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and glossy especially by pressing between rollers; "calendered paper"; "a dress of glossy sateen"
- having a smooth, gleaming surface; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters" related words >
- Photostat,
- Xerox,
- Xerox copy,
- artificial,
- blowup,
- blueprint,
- bogus,
- buffed,
- burnished,
- contact printing,
- contrived,
- counterfeit,
- cyanotype,
- enlargement,
- false,
- feigned,
- finished,
- fraudulent,
- furbished,
- glace,
- glassy,
- glazed,
- gleaming,
- glistening,
- hologram,
- imitation,
- insincere,
- lacquered,
- lantern slide,
- lustrous,
- matte,
- meretricious,
- microcopy,
- microprint,
- photocopy,
- photogravure,
- photostatic copy,
- polished,
- positive,
- pretended,
- print,
- projection printing,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- rubbed,
- satiny,
- semi-matte,
- sheeny,
- shellacked,
- shined,
- shining,
- shiny,
- silken,
- silky,
- simulated,
- sleek,
- slick,
- slide,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- specious,
- transparency,
- unreal,
- varnished,
- velvety,
- waxed
- calculating
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- 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
- scrupulous
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- having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled; "less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance" related words >
- Pyrrhonic,
- accurate,
- active,
- agnostic,
- analyze,
- attentive,
- bashful,
- boggling,
- canvass,
- careful,
- case,
- cautious,
- censorious,
- check over,
- check up,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- close,
- comb,
- compliant,
- con,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscionable,
- consider,
- constant,
- contemplate,
- correct,
- critical,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- demurring,
- detailed,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diffident,
- dig into,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- dissect,
- distrustful,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- ethical,
- exact,
- exacting,
- examine,
- exigent,
- exquisite,
- eye,
- eyeball,
- fair-minded,
- faithful,
- faltering,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- from Missouri,
- fussy,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- high-minded,
- honest,
- honorable,
- in doubt,
- inspect,
- just,
- leery,
- look over,
- loyal,
- methodical,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- minute,
- mistrustful,
- mistrusting,
- modest,
- moral,
- narrow,
- neat,
- nice,
- obedient,
- observant,
- orderly,
- overconscientious,
- overlook,
- overscrupulous,
- painstaking,
- particular,
- penetrate,
- perfectionistic,
- perlustrate,
- peruse,
- picky,
- pierce,
- pore over,
- practicing,
- precious,
- precise,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- precisionistic,
- priggish,
- principled,
- probe,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- qualmish,
- questioning,
- refined,
- regardful,
- religious,
- respectful,
- right,
- righteous,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- scan,
- scrutinize,
- scrutinizing,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skeptical,
- squeamish,
- stickling,
- strict,
- study,
- subtle,
- survey,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tender-conscienced,
- true,
- uncertain,
- untrusting,
- upstanding,
- vet,
- view,
- wary,
- watch,
- weigh
- 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
- 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
- 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
- noble
collapse
- having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character; "a noble spirit"; "noble deeds"
- of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times; "of noble birth"
- inert especially toward oxygen; "a noble gas such as helium or neon"; "noble metals include gold and silver and platinum" related words >
- Babylonian,
- Brahman,
- Christian,
- Corinthian,
- acclaimed,
- admirable,
- advantageous,
- archduke,
- aristocrat,
- aristocratic,
- armiger,
- august,
- auspicious,
- awe-inspiring,
- awful,
- barbaric,
- baron,
- baronet,
- baronial,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- big,
- bighearted,
- blameless,
- blue blood,
- blue-blooded,
- bon,
- bonny,
- braw,
- bueno,
- capital,
- celebrated,
- changeless,
- chivalrous,
- clean,
- cogent,
- commendable,
- conspicuous,
- constant,
- count,
- courtly,
- creditable,
- daimio,
- decent,
- deluxe,
- dignified,
- distinguished,
- ducal,
- duke,
- earl,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- eminent,
- erect,
- esquire,
- esteemed,
- estimable,
- ethical,
- exalted,
- excellent,
- exceptional,
- expedient,
- exquisite,
- extraordinary,
- extravagant,
- fair,
- faithful,
- famous,
- fancy,
- favorable,
- fine,
- full of integrity,
- generous,
- genteel,
- gentle,
- gentleman,
- gentlemanlike,
- gentlemanly,
- gentlewoman,
- glorious,
- godlike,
- good,
- goodly,
- grand,
- grand duke,
- grandee,
- grandiose,
- grave,
- great,
- great of heart,
- greathearted,
- handsome,
- healthy,
- held in esteem,
- helpful,
- heroic,
- hidalgo,
- high,
- high-class,
- high-minded,
- high-principled,
- high-ranking,
- highly esteemed,
- highly regarded,
- highly reputed,
- highly respectable,
- honest,
- honorable,
- honored,
- idealistic,
- illustrious,
- immaculate,
- immutable,
- imposing,
- impressive,
- in favor,
- in good odor,
- in high favor,
- incommutable,
- inconvertible,
- incorruptible,
- indefeasible,
- inert,
- inspiring,
- insusceptible of change,
- intransmutable,
- invariable,
- inviolate,
- irreproachable,
- irretrievable,
- irreversible,
- irrevocable,
- just,
- kind,
- kinglike,
- kingly,
- knightly,
- lace-curtain,
- lady,
- ladylike,
- laird,
- landgrave,
- largehearted,
- lasting,
- laudable,
- lauded,
- law-abiding,
- law-loving,
- law-revering,
- liberal,
- lofty,
- lord,
- lordling,
- lordly,
- loyal,
- luxurious,
- magisterial,
- magnanimous,
- magnate,
- magnificent,
- magnifico,
- majestic,
- manly,
- margrave,
- marked,
- marquis,
- memorable,
- meritorious,
- moral,
- moralistic,
- moving,
- nice,
- noble-minded,
- nobleman,
- noblewoman,
- none,
- nonreturnable,
- nonreversible,
- notable,
- noted,
- noteworthy,
- of gentle blood,
- of mark,
- of rank,
- openhanded,
- optimate,
- outstanding,
- palatial,
- palsgrave,
- patrician,
- peer,
- permanent,
- pleasant,
- plush,
- posh,
- prestigious,
- princelike,
- princely,
- principled,
- profitable,
- prominent,
- proud,
- pure,
- queenlike,
- queenly,
- quite the lady,
- rare,
- regal,
- remarkable,
- rememberable,
- renowned,
- reputable,
- respectable,
- respected,
- revered,
- reverend,
- reverseless,
- rich,
- right,
- right-minded,
- righteous,
- ritzy,
- royal,
- salient,
- sedate,
- seigneur,
- seignior,
- self-sacrificing,
- serious,
- signal,
- silk-stocking,
- skillful,
- soaring,
- sober,
- solemn,
- sound,
- special,
- splendacious,
- splendid,
- splendiferous,
- spotless,
- squire,
- stainless,
- stately,
- statuesque,
- staunch,
- steadfast,
- sterling,
- striking,
- stunning,
- sublime,
- sumptuous,
- superb,
- superfancy,
- superfine,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- telling,
- thoroughbred,
- titled,
- towering,
- true,
- true-dealing,
- true-devoted,
- true-disposing,
- true-souled,
- true-spirited,
- truehearted,
- trustworthy,
- unalterable,
- unalterative,
- unaltered,
- unblemished,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- uncorrupt,
- uncorrupted,
- undefiled,
- undeflectable,
- undeviating,
- unforgettable,
- unimpeachable,
- unmodifiable,
- unremitting,
- unrestorable,
- unreturnable,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- unsusceptible,
- untarnished,
- unvariable,
- unvarying,
- upper-cruster,
- upright,
- uprighteous,
- upstanding,
- useful,
- valid,
- venerable,
- venerated,
- very good,
- virtuous,
- viscount,
- waldgrave,
- weighty,
- well-thought-of,
- worshipful,
- worthy,
- yeomanly
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- outsmart,
- outwit,
- overreach,
- paste,
- phony,
- pigeon,
- pinchbeck,
- play one false,
- put something over,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- rip-off,
- scam,
- sell,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulacrum,
- snow,
- snow job,
- spoof,
- string along,
- swindle,
- take in,
- tinsel,
- trick,
- two-time,
- whited sepulcher
- perversion
collapse
- the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); "it was a perversion of justice"
- an aberrant sexual practice that is preferred to normal intercourse
- a curve that reverses the direction of something; "the tendrils of the plant exhibited perversion"; "perversion also shows up in kinky telephone cords" related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abnormality,
- abstractionism,
- abuse,
- abuse of office,
- abuse of terms,
- adulteration,
- apparent soundness,
- befouling,
- befoulment,
- casuistry,
- catachresis,
- circularity,
- college of Laputa,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- contamination,
- contorting,
- conversion,
- corrupt administration,
- corruption,
- debasement,
- debauchery,
- defalcation,
- defectiveness,
- defilement,
- deformation,
- delusion,
- depravity,
- desecration,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- diversion,
- eisegesis,
- embezzlement,
- envenoming,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- evasive reasoning,
- exaggeration,
- expressionism,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falseness,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- festering,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- fouling,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- hyperbole,
- illusion,
- inaccuracy,
- infection,
- injustice,
- insincerity,
- irregularity,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- kink,
- litotes,
- maladministration,
- malentendu,
- malfeasance,
- malobservation,
- malpractice,
- malversation,
- misapplication,
- misapprehension,
- misappropriation,
- miscitation,
- miscoloring,
- misconception,
- misconduct,
- misconstruction,
- misdirection,
- misdoing,
- misdrawing,
- misemployment,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misfeasance,
- misguidance,
- mishandling,
- misinformation,
- misinstruction,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misknowledge,
- misleading,
- mismanagement,
- mispainting,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misrendering,
- misreport,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- misteaching,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- misuse of words,
- mystification,
- nonrealism,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- overdrawing,
- overstatement,
- oversubtlety,
- peccancy,
- peculation,
- perjury,
- philosophism,
- pilfering,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- poisoning,
- pollution,
- poor stewardship,
- prevarication,
- profanation,
- prostitution,
- psychopathia sexualis,
- psychosexual disorder,
- rationalization,
- self-contradiction,
- sex crime,
- sexual abnormality,
- sexual deviance,
- sexual deviation,
- sexual pathology,
- sexual perversion,
- sexual psychopathy,
- sidetracking,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- slanting,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- squeezing,
- straining,
- subtlety,
- subversion,
- suppuration,
- torturing,
- twisting,
- understatement,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- vice,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- violation,
- vitiation,
- wrenching,
- wrong,
- wrongness
- hypocritical
collapse
- professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise" related words >
- Pecksniffian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- affected,
- alleged,
- ambidextrous,
- assumed,
- avowed,
- bland,
- canting,
- casuistic,
- claimed,
- counterfeited,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- dissembling,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- fake,
- faked,
- faking,
- false,
- feigned,
- feigning,
- glib,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritic,
- in name only,
- insincere,
- left-handed,
- lying,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- moralistic,
- oily,
- ostensible,
- pecksniffian,
- perfidious,
- pharisaic,
- pharisaical,
- pharisean,
- phony,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- pretended,
- pretending,
- pretexted,
- professed,
- purported,
- put-on,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- sham,
- simon-pure,
- simulated,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- so-called,
- specious,
- spurious,
- treacherous,
- two-faced,
- unctuous,
- underhand,
- untrustworthy
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- airy,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- autistic,
- beguiling,
- bewildering,
- bum steer,
- catchy,
- chimeric,
- college of Laputa,
- conflict,
- confounding,
- corruption,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- deluding,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- disaccord,
- discord,
- distracting,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- dubious,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fantastic,
- fishy,
- hallucinatory,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- inaccurate,
- jangle,
- jar,
- misdirecting,
- misdirection,
- miseducative,
- misguidance,
- misguiding,
- misinformation,
- misinforming,
- misinstruction,
- misinstructive,
- misknowledge,
- mismatch,
- misteaching,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- ostensible,
- perplexing,
- perversion,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- puzzling,
- questionable,
- seeming,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- sophistical,
- sophistry,
- specious,
- spectral,
- supposititious,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- unactual,
- unfounded,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- visionary,
- wrong
- vaunt
collapse
- extravagant self-praise related words >
- advertise,
- air,
- blazon,
- blazon forth,
- blow,
- bluster,
- boast,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombast,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- brandish,
- bravado,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- cock-a-doodle-doo,
- conceit,
- crow,
- dangle,
- daring,
- dash,
- demonstrate,
- demonstration,
- display,
- dramatics,
- draw the longbow,
- eclat,
- emblazon,
- etalage,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- figure,
- flair,
- flash,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- heroics,
- histrionics,
- hold up,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- manifest,
- manifestation,
- mouth,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- prate,
- puff,
- put forth,
- put forward,
- rodomontade,
- sham,
- show,
- show off,
- showing-off,
- side,
- speak for Buncombe,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- sport,
- staginess,
- swagger,
- theatrics,
- trumpet,
- trumpet forth,
- vanity,
- vapor,
- vauntery,
- vaunting,
- wave
- amoral,
- artful,
- bent,
- brigandish,
- burglarious,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- collusive,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- counterfeit,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- double-dealing,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- evasive,
- fake,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- falsified,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- forged,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- imitation,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- kleptomaniac,
- larcenous,
- light-fingered,
- not kosher,
- pinchbeck,
- piratelike,
- piratic,
- questionable,
- rotten,
- scheming,
- shady,
- sham,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- spurious,
- sticky-fingered,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- thieving,
- thievish,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- wily,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- unproved
collapse
- not proved; "unproved allegations"; "unproved assumptions" related words >
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- apocryphal,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- beside the mark,
- corrupt,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- delusive,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- distorted,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- false,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- feeble,
- flawed,
- flimsy,
- groundless,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- inconclusive,
- indecisive,
- insubstantial,
- nonofficial,
- not following,
- not proved,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- out,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- poor,
- self-contradictory,
- straying,
- unascertained,
- unattested,
- unauthentic,
- unauthenticated,
- unauthoritative,
- uncertified,
- unchecked,
- unconfirmed,
- uncorroborated,
- undemonstrated,
- undetermined,
- unestablished,
- unfactual,
- unfixed,
- unfounded,
- unofficial,
- unorthodox,
- unpracticed,
- unproven,
- unrigorous,
- unsettled,
- unshown,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- unsubstantiated,
- unsupported,
- unsupported by evidence,
- unsustained,
- untested,
- untried,
- untrue,
- unvalidated,
- unverified,
- unwarranted,
- weak,
- wide,
- without basis,
- without grounds,
- wrong
- fishy
collapse
- not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior"
- of or relating to or resembling fish; "the soup had a fishy smell" related words >
- ambiguous,
- amoral,
- beguiling,
- blank,
- catchy,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- dark,
- deadpan,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- eellike,
- empty,
- equivocal,
- evasive,
- expressionless,
- fallacious,
- false,
- felonious,
- fraudulent,
- funny,
- glassy,
- hallucinatory,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- immoral,
- impassive,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- indirect,
- inexpressive,
- insidious,
- misleading,
- not kosher,
- odd,
- peculiar,
- piscatorial,
- piscatory,
- pisciform,
- piscine,
- poker-faced,
- problematic,
- queer,
- questionable,
- rotten,
- selachian,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharkish,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- slippery,
- strange,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- uncertain,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unexpressive,
- unlikely,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vacant,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- wooden
- misconception
collapse
- an incorrect conception related words >
- abuse of terms,
- airy nothing,
- autism,
- bubble,
- catachresis,
- chimera,
- clerical error,
- contorting,
- corrigendum,
- daydream,
- deception,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- distortion,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- eisegesis,
- erratum,
- error,
- failure,
- false belief,
- fault,
- faute,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- human error,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- malentendu,
- malobservation,
- misapplication,
- misapprehension,
- misbelief,
- miscalculation,
- miscarriage,
- miscitation,
- misconstruction,
- miscount,
- misdeal,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misidentification,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misplay,
- misprint,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misrendering,
- misreport,
- miss,
- misstatement,
- mistake,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misuse,
- misuse of words,
- perversion,
- pipe dream,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- squeezing,
- torturing,
- trick,
- trip,
- twisting,
- typo,
- typographical error,
- vapor,
- wrenching,
- wrong impression
- 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
- 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
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