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- peculiar
collapse - markedly different from the usual; "a peculiar hobby of stuffing and mounting bats"; "a man...feels it a peculiar insult to be taunted with cowardice by a woman"-Virginia Woolf related words >
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- anomalous,
- another,
- appropriate,
- appropriate to,
- arbitrary,
- atypical,
- bizarre,
- categorical,
- characteristic,
- characterizing,
- classificational,
- classificatory,
- connotative,
- contrastive,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- curious,
- defining,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotative,
- designative,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- deviative,
- diacritical,
- diagnostic,
- differencing,
- different,
- differential,
- differentiative,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinct,
- distinctive,
- distinguished,
- distinguishing,
- divergent,
- divisional,
- divisionary,
- dotty,
- eccentric,
- else,
- emblematic,
- erratic,
- evidential,
- exceptional,
- exhibitive,
- expressive,
- extraordinary,
- fey,
- figural,
- figurative,
- flaky,
- freaked out,
- freakish,
- freaky,
- funny,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- implicative,
- in character,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- individual,
- individualizing,
- individuating,
- intrinsic,
- irregular,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- maggoty,
- marked,
- meaningful,
- metaphorical,
- naming,
- native to,
- natural to,
- not that sort,
- not the same,
- not the type,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- of a sort,
- of another sort,
- of sorts,
- off,
- off the wall,
- offbeat,
- ordinal,
- other,
- other than,
- otherwise,
- out,
- out-of-the-way,
- outlandish,
- particular,
- passing strange,
- pathognomonic,
- personal,
- personalizing,
- private,
- proper,
- quaint,
- queer,
- quintessential,
- quirky,
- rare,
- representative,
- rum,
- screwball,
- screwy,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- separative,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- single,
- singular,
- sort,
- special,
- specific,
- strange,
- subdivisional,
- suggestive,
- sui generis,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- taxonomic,
- true to form,
- twisted,
- typal,
- typical,
- uncommon,
- unconventional,
- uncustomary,
- unearthly,
- unique,
- unnatural,
- unorthodox,
- unusual,
- wacky,
- weird,
- whimsical,
- wondrous strange
- bearing
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- a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily
- dignified manner or conduct
- the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
- relevant relation or interconnection; "those issues have no bearing on our situation"
- producing or yielding; "an interest-bearing note"; "fruit-bearing trees" related words >
- Zeitgeist,
- action,
- actions,
- activity,
- acts,
- address,
- affectation,
- affective meaning,
- aftermath,
- aim,
- air,
- air express,
- airfreight,
- airlift,
- applicability,
- application,
- appositeness,
- aspect,
- asportation,
- attitude,
- axis,
- azimuth,
- backing,
- ball bearing,
- bearings,
- beck,
- beckon,
- behavior,
- behavior pattern,
- behavioral norm,
- behavioral science,
- bent,
- bevel bearing,
- birthing,
- body language,
- bolstering,
- boost,
- born,
- bracing,
- brow,
- bump,
- bumper crop,
- bunt,
- burdened,
- bushing,
- butt,
- buttressing,
- calved,
- carriage,
- carry,
- carrying,
- cartage,
- cast,
- cast of countenance,
- celestial navigation,
- charade,
- chassis,
- childbearing,
- childbirth,
- chironomy,
- color,
- coloring,
- complexion,
- comportment,
- concern,
- concernment,
- conduct,
- connection,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- conveyance,
- correlation,
- countenance,
- course,
- crop,
- culture pattern,
- current,
- custom,
- dactylology,
- dead reckoning,
- deaf-and-dumb alphabet,
- delivery,
- demeanor,
- denotation,
- deportment,
- dig,
- direction,
- direction line,
- display,
- doing,
- doings,
- drayage,
- drift,
- dropped,
- dumb show,
- effect,
- endurance,
- enduring,
- essence,
- exposure,
- expressage,
- extension,
- face,
- facial appearance,
- favor,
- feature,
- features,
- ferriage,
- fix,
- foaled,
- folkway,
- force,
- frame,
- freight,
- freightage,
- front,
- frontage,
- fructiferous,
- fructification,
- fruit,
- fruitbearing,
- fruiting,
- fruition,
- fulcrum,
- garb,
- germaneness,
- gesticulation,
- gesture,
- gesture language,
- gestures,
- gist,
- given birth,
- giving birth,
- glacial movement,
- goings-on,
- grammatical meaning,
- guise,
- hand signal,
- harvest,
- hatched,
- haulage,
- hauling,
- head,
- heading,
- headstock,
- helmsmanship,
- holding,
- hustle,
- idea,
- impact,
- implication,
- import,
- inclination,
- infrastructure,
- intension,
- interest,
- jab,
- jewel,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jolt,
- jostle,
- kinesics,
- lay,
- lexical meaning,
- lie,
- lighterage,
- line,
- line of direction,
- line of march,
- line of position,
- lineaments,
- lines,
- literal meaning,
- look,
- looks,
- lugging,
- main current,
- mainstream,
- maintaining,
- maintien,
- make,
- manner,
- manners,
- materiality,
- meaning,
- method,
- methodology,
- methods,
- mien,
- modus vivendi,
- motion,
- motions,
- mount,
- mounting,
- movement,
- movements,
- moves,
- navigation,
- nee,
- needle bearing,
- newborn,
- nudge,
- oarlock,
- observable behavior,
- orientation,
- output,
- overtone,
- packing,
- pantomime,
- parturition,
- pattern,
- pertinence,
- physiognomy,
- pilotage,
- piloting,
- pith,
- pivot,
- point,
- poise,
- poke,
- port,
- portage,
- porterage,
- pose,
- position,
- position line,
- posture,
- practical consequence,
- practice,
- praxis,
- presence,
- press,
- pressure,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- proceeds,
- prod,
- produce,
- producing,
- product,
- production,
- propping,
- punch,
- purport,
- push,
- quarter,
- radio bearing,
- railway express,
- range,
- range of meaning,
- real meaning,
- reference,
- referent,
- regard,
- relatedness,
- relation,
- relationship,
- relevance,
- respect,
- rest,
- resting point,
- roller bearing,
- rowlock,
- run,
- scope,
- second crop,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- sense,
- set,
- setting,
- shipment,
- shipping,
- shoring,
- shove,
- shrug,
- sign language,
- significance,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- skeleton,
- social science,
- span of meaning,
- spirit,
- stance,
- stand,
- steerage,
- steering,
- stillborn,
- stream,
- stress,
- structural meaning,
- style,
- substance,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- supporting,
- supportive,
- suspensory,
- sustaining,
- sustentative,
- swing,
- symbolic meaning,
- tactics,
- telpherage,
- tendency,
- tenor,
- the general tendency,
- the main course,
- thole,
- tholepin,
- thrust,
- thrust bearing,
- time spirit,
- tone,
- totality of associations,
- toting,
- track,
- traits,
- transferred meaning,
- transport,
- transportation,
- transshipment,
- trend,
- truckage,
- turn,
- unadorned meaning,
- underframe,
- undertone,
- upholding,
- value,
- vintage,
- visage,
- waft,
- waftage,
- wagonage,
- way,
- way of life,
- ways,
- whelped,
- yield,
- yielding
- flourish
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- (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
- the act of waving
- a display of ornamental speech or language
- a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"
- an ornamental embellishment in writing related words >
- acciaccatura,
- adjunct,
- adorn,
- adornment,
- advertise,
- affect,
- air,
- amplify,
- appoggiatura,
- arabesque,
- arrangement,
- arrive,
- asiaticism,
- augment,
- batten,
- be energetic,
- be somebody,
- be something,
- be vigorous,
- bear fruit,
- beauties,
- betoken,
- blazon,
- blazon forth,
- bloom,
- blossom,
- blow,
- bluster,
- boast,
- bonus,
- boom,
- brag,
- brandish,
- brandishing,
- bravura,
- breathe,
- brew,
- brilliancy,
- bring forth,
- bring forward,
- bring into view,
- bring out,
- bring to maturity,
- bring to notice,
- bud,
- burgeon,
- burst forth,
- burst with energy,
- burst with health,
- cadence,
- cadenza,
- color,
- color patterns,
- coloratura,
- colors,
- colors of rhetoric,
- come to fruition,
- convolute,
- curlicue,
- cut a dash,
- cut a figure,
- dangle,
- daring,
- dash,
- decor,
- decorate,
- decoration,
- demonstrate,
- demonstration,
- develop,
- device,
- disclose,
- display,
- division,
- divulge,
- do well,
- dramatics,
- dramatize,
- draw the longbow,
- eclat,
- elaborate,
- elaboration,
- elegant variation,
- embellish,
- embellishment,
- emblazon,
- emblazonment,
- emblazonry,
- embody,
- embroider,
- embroidery,
- enact,
- enjoy good health,
- enrich,
- etalage,
- euphuism,
- evidence,
- evince,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- expand,
- expose to view,
- express,
- extempore,
- extra,
- extra added attraction,
- extra dash,
- false front,
- fanfare,
- fanfaronade,
- fare well,
- fatten,
- feel fine,
- feel good,
- festoon,
- figurative language,
- figurativeness,
- figure,
- figure of speech,
- filigree,
- filling,
- fillip,
- fine writing,
- fioritura,
- flair,
- flap,
- flash,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flight,
- float,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourishing,
- flower,
- flower arrangement,
- floweriness,
- flowers of speech,
- flowery style,
- flutter,
- fly,
- frill,
- fructify,
- furbelow,
- furniture arrangement,
- garnish,
- garnishment,
- garniture,
- gasconade,
- gather,
- gemmate,
- germinate,
- gesturing,
- get ahead,
- gild,
- give sign,
- give token,
- gleam,
- glitter,
- glow,
- go,
- go great guns,
- grace,
- grace note,
- grow,
- grow fat,
- grow rank,
- grow up,
- have energy,
- highlight,
- histrionics,
- hold up,
- hot lick,
- hypertrophy,
- illuminate,
- illumination,
- image,
- imagery,
- impromptu,
- improvisation,
- in full swing,
- incarnate,
- incidental,
- incidental note,
- increase,
- indicate,
- interpolation,
- involve,
- keep fit,
- lagniappe,
- leaf,
- leaf out,
- leave,
- lick,
- live,
- load with ornament,
- long mordent,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriate,
- make a figure,
- make a splash,
- make clear,
- make good,
- make out,
- make plain,
- manifest,
- manifestation,
- manner of speaking,
- materialize,
- maturate,
- mature,
- mean,
- mellow,
- mordent,
- multiply,
- mushroom,
- never feel better,
- nonliterality,
- nonliteralness,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- outgrow,
- overcharge,
- overdevelop,
- overflow with energy,
- overgrow,
- overlay,
- overload,
- overrun,
- overtop,
- padding,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- passage,
- perform,
- pralltriller,
- premium,
- present,
- procreate,
- produce,
- prosper,
- puff,
- pullulate,
- purple passage,
- purple patches,
- put forth,
- put forth leaves,
- put forward,
- put out buds,
- reach its season,
- reach maturity,
- represent,
- reproduce,
- reveal,
- riff,
- riot,
- ripe,
- ripen,
- roll out,
- root,
- roulade,
- run,
- score,
- set forth,
- shake,
- shaking,
- sham,
- shine,
- shoot,
- shoot up,
- show,
- show forth,
- showiness,
- showing-off,
- single mordent,
- something extra,
- speak for Buncombe,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- sport,
- spotlight,
- spring up,
- sprout,
- sprout up,
- staginess,
- stay in shape,
- stay young,
- strike root,
- stuffing,
- succeed,
- superaddition,
- swagger,
- swing,
- swish,
- take root,
- theatrics,
- thrive,
- token,
- tower,
- trick out,
- trim,
- trimming,
- trope,
- trot out,
- trumpet,
- trumpet forth,
- turn,
- turn of expression,
- twirl,
- twist,
- undulate,
- undulation,
- unfold,
- upshoot,
- upspear,
- upspring,
- upsprout,
- vamp,
- vapor,
- varnish,
- vaunt,
- vegetate,
- wag,
- wave,
- wave motion,
- waving,
- wax,
- way of speaking,
- wear well,
- wield,
- wigwag,
- window dressing,
- wrinkle
- speaking
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- the utterance of intelligible speech related words >
- ESP,
- accents,
- answer,
- articulate,
- breathing,
- chatter,
- comment,
- commerce,
- communication,
- communion,
- congress,
- connection,
- contact,
- conversation,
- converse,
- correspondence,
- dealing,
- dealings,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- discourse,
- elocution,
- eloquence,
- eloquent,
- exchange,
- faithful,
- forensics,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- gab,
- homiletics,
- information,
- interaction,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunion,
- intercourse,
- interplay,
- language,
- lecturing,
- lifelike,
- linguistic act,
- linguistic intercourse,
- living,
- locution,
- loud-speaking,
- loud-spoken,
- message,
- natural,
- oral communication,
- oratory,
- outspoken,
- palaver,
- parol,
- parole,
- phonation,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- platform oratory,
- prattle,
- public speaking,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rapping,
- realistic,
- reply,
- response,
- rhetoric,
- sequence of phonemes,
- social intercourse,
- soft-speaking,
- soft-spoken,
- speech,
- speech act,
- speech circuit,
- speech situation,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- string,
- stump speaking,
- talk,
- talkative,
- talking,
- telepathy,
- the spoken word,
- to the life,
- tongue,
- touch,
- traffic,
- truck,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true-speaking,
- two-way communication,
- utterance,
- utterance string,
- verbalization,
- vocable,
- voice,
- well-spoken,
- word,
- word of mouth,
- wordcraft,
- words,
- yakkety-yak,
- yakking
- comment
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- a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal"
- explain or interpret something
- make or write a comment on; "he commented the paper of his colleague" related words >
- Parthian shot,
- accents,
- address,
- affirmation,
- allegation,
- allude to,
- analysis,
- animadversion,
- animadvert,
- annotate,
- annotation,
- answer,
- apostrophe,
- apparatus criticus,
- approval,
- assertion,
- averment,
- blurt,
- blurt out,
- book review,
- call attention to,
- censure,
- chatter,
- clarification,
- commentary,
- commentate,
- commentation,
- construe,
- conversation,
- crack,
- critical bibliography,
- critical journal,
- critical notice,
- critical review,
- criticism,
- critique,
- declaration,
- dictum,
- discourse,
- discuss,
- editorial,
- elocution,
- elucidate,
- elucidation,
- exclaim,
- exclamation,
- exegesis,
- expansion,
- explain,
- explanation,
- explicate,
- expose,
- exposition,
- expound,
- expression,
- footnote,
- gab,
- gloss,
- greeting,
- interject,
- interjection,
- language,
- leader,
- leading article,
- let drop,
- let fall,
- literary criticism,
- make reference to,
- mention,
- muse,
- notation,
- note,
- note of explanation,
- notice,
- obiter dictum,
- observation,
- observe,
- opine,
- opinion,
- oral communication,
- palaver,
- parole,
- phrase,
- position,
- prattle,
- pronouncement,
- question,
- rapping,
- reaction,
- refer to,
- reference,
- reflect,
- reflection,
- remark,
- report,
- reveal,
- review,
- running commentary,
- say,
- saying,
- scholium,
- sentence,
- speak,
- speaking,
- speech,
- statement,
- subjoinder,
- talk,
- talk about,
- talking,
- thought,
- utterance,
- view,
- word,
- word of explanation,
- words,
- write-up,
- yakkety-yak,
- yakking
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