Related Words:
- Kilkenny cats,
- aflicker,
- aggressive,
- aggressiveness,
- altercation,
- apologetics,
- apologia,
- apology,
- argument,
- argumentation,
- bellicose,
- bellicosity,
- belligerence,
- belligerent,
- bicker,
- blinking,
- boggling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- casuistry,
- cat-and-dog life,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- combat,
- combative,
- combativeness,
- conflict,
- contention,
- contentiousness,
- contest,
- contestation,
- controversy,
- cut and thrust,
- dancing,
- debate,
- defense,
- disputation,
- disputatious,
- dispute,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- divisive,
- dodging,
- embroilment,
- enmity,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- eristic,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- faction,
- factional,
- factious,
- factiousness,
- fencing,
- fighting,
- flak,
- flashing,
- flickering,
- flickery,
- flicky,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- flyting,
- hairsplitting,
- hassle,
- hedging,
- hostility,
- hubbub,
- infighting,
- irascibility,
- irascible,
- irritability,
- irritable,
- lambent,
- litigation,
- litigious,
- litigiousness,
- logic-chopping,
- logomachy,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- paper war,
- parrying,
- partisan,
- partisan spirit,
- partisanship,
- passage of arms,
- pettifoggery,
- petty,
- picayune,
- playing,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- polemics,
- prevarication,
- pugnacious,
- pugnacity,
- pussyfooting,
- quarrel,
- quarreling,
- quarrelsome,
- quarrelsomeness,
- quibbling,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- rhubarb,
- row,
- run-in,
- scrapping,
- set-to,
- shifting,
- shrewish,
- shrewishness,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- spat,
- squabble,
- squabbling,
- strife,
- stroboscopic,
- struggle,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- verbal engagement,
- war,
- war of words,
- warfare,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- words,
- wrangle,
- wrangling
- customary
collapse - in accordance with convention or custom; "sealed the deal with the customary handshake" related words >
- Christian,
- accepted,
- accustomed,
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- approved,
- authentic,
- authoritative,
- average,
- being done,
- canonical,
- chronic,
- comme il faut,
- common,
- commonplace,
- conformable,
- consuetudinary,
- conventional,
- correct,
- current,
- de rigueur,
- decent,
- decorous,
- established,
- evangelical,
- everyday,
- faithful,
- familiar,
- firm,
- fixed,
- folk,
- formal,
- frequent,
- general,
- generally accepted,
- habitual,
- hallowed,
- handed down,
- heroic,
- hoary,
- household,
- immemorial,
- inveterate,
- legendary,
- literal,
- long-established,
- long-standing,
- meet,
- mythological,
- normal,
- normative,
- obtaining,
- of long standing,
- of the faith,
- of the folk,
- oral,
- ordinary,
- orthodox,
- orthodoxical,
- popular,
- predominating,
- prescribed,
- prescriptive,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- proper,
- received,
- recognized,
- regular,
- regulation,
- right,
- rooted,
- routine,
- scriptural,
- seemly,
- set,
- sound,
- standard,
- stipulated,
- stock,
- textual,
- time-honored,
- traditional,
- traditionalistic,
- tried and true,
- true,
- true-blue,
- understood,
- universal,
- unwritten,
- usual,
- venerable,
- vernacular,
- widespread,
- wonted,
- worshipful
- weak point
collapse
- an attribute that is inadequate or deficient related words >
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- assailability,
- bad case,
- bad habit,
- begging the question,
- besetting sin,
- blemish,
- bug,
- catch,
- chink,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- crack,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- defect,
- defection,
- deficiency,
- drawback,
- empty words,
- failing,
- failure,
- fallacy,
- fault,
- faute,
- feet of clay,
- flaw,
- foible,
- formal fallacy,
- frailty,
- heel of Achilles,
- hole,
- hysteron proteron,
- imperfection,
- inadequacy,
- infirmity,
- insincere argument,
- kink,
- little problem,
- logical fallacy,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- moonshine,
- moral flaw,
- non sequitur,
- paralogism,
- penetrability,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- pregnability,
- problem,
- pseudosyllogism,
- rift,
- shortcoming,
- snag,
- soft spot,
- solecism,
- something missing,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- taint,
- verbal fallacy,
- vice,
- vincibility,
- vulnerability,
- vulnerable place,
- vulnerable point,
- weak link,
- weak side,
- weakness
- equivocation
collapse
- falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
- intentionally vague or ambiguous related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- antinomy,
- apparent soundness,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- casuistry,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circularity,
- circumvention,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- counterword,
- defense mechanism,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double,
- double entendre,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivoque,
- escape,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasive reasoning,
- evasiveness,
- exaggeration,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- fencing,
- fluctuation,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- getting around,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- insincerity,
- irony,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- jink,
- logic-chopping,
- lying,
- misapplication,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- mystification,
- neutrality,
- nit-picking,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oscillation,
- oversubtlety,
- oxymoron,
- paltering,
- paradox,
- parrying,
- pendulation,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pettifoggery,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- polysemant,
- portmanteau word,
- prevarication,
- prevention,
- pun,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rationalization,
- refraining,
- self-contradiction,
- shifting,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- squinting construction,
- straining,
- subterfuge,
- subtlety,
- suppressio veri,
- tergiversation,
- the runaround,
- trichoschistism,
- vacillation,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- wavering,
- weasel word,
- weasel words,
- wobbling,
- zigzag
- impersonal
collapse
- having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a neutral observer"
- not relating to or responsive to individual persons; "an impersonal corporation"; "an impersonal remark" related words >
- Olympian,
- abstract,
- aloof,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- candid,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- cold-blooded,
- colorless,
- constrained,
- conventionalized,
- cool,
- detached,
- discreet,
- disinterested,
- dispassionate,
- distant,
- emotionless,
- equal,
- equitable,
- evenhanded,
- expressionless,
- external,
- extraneous,
- extraorganismal,
- extrinsic,
- fair,
- forbidding,
- foreign,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formulary,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- guarded,
- icy,
- impartial,
- impassive,
- inaccessible,
- indifferent,
- introverted,
- just,
- legalistic,
- lofty,
- matter-of-fact,
- mechanical,
- modest,
- neutral,
- nominal,
- nonsubjective,
- objective,
- offish,
- outlying,
- outside,
- outward,
- pedantic,
- poker-faced,
- prim,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- rigid,
- selfless,
- shrinking,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- stiff,
- strait-laced,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- subdued,
- superficial,
- suppressed,
- surface,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- unbiased,
- uncolored,
- uncongenial,
- undazzled,
- undemonstrative,
- unexpansive,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unimpassioned,
- uninfluenced,
- unjaundiced,
- unprejudiced,
- unprepossessed,
- unselfish,
- unswayed,
- withdrawn,
- wooden
- Irish bull,
- anachronism,
- anacoluthon,
- antiphrasis,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- bad case,
- barbarism,
- begging the question,
- bloomer,
- blooper,
- blunder,
- boner,
- boo-boo,
- boob,
- botch,
- breach,
- break,
- bull,
- bungle,
- catachresis,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- corruption,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- empty words,
- error,
- fallacy,
- fault,
- faux pas,
- flub,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- formal fallacy,
- fumble,
- gaffe,
- gaucherie,
- grammatical error,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- hysteron proteron,
- impropriety,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- indecorum,
- indiscretion,
- infelicity,
- insincere argument,
- lapse,
- logical fallacy,
- malaprop,
- malapropism,
- marrowsky,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- misconstruction,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- mistake,
- misusage,
- moonshine,
- non sequitur,
- paralogism,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- pseudosyllogism,
- slip,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- spoonerism,
- stupidity,
- ungrammaticism,
- verbal fallacy,
- vernacularism,
- violation,
- vulgarism,
- weak point
- traditional
collapse
- consisting of or derived from tradition; "traditional history"; "traditional morality"
- pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines; "the simple security of traditional assumptions has vanished" related words >
- Christian,
- accepted,
- accustomed,
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- ancestral,
- approved,
- authentic,
- authoritative,
- autobiographical,
- being done,
- biographical,
- canonical,
- chronologic,
- comme il faut,
- common,
- conformable,
- consuetudinary,
- conventional,
- correct,
- current,
- customary,
- de rigueur,
- decent,
- decorous,
- established,
- evangelical,
- everyday,
- faithful,
- familiar,
- firm,
- fixed,
- folk,
- formal,
- generally accepted,
- habitual,
- hagiographic,
- hallowed,
- handed down,
- heroic,
- historic,
- historied,
- historiographic,
- hoary,
- household,
- immemorial,
- inveterate,
- legendary,
- literal,
- long-established,
- long-standing,
- martyrologic,
- meet,
- mouth,
- mythological,
- normal,
- obtaining,
- of long standing,
- of the faith,
- of the folk,
- old,
- oral,
- ordinary,
- orthodox,
- orthodoxical,
- popular,
- prescribed,
- prescriptive,
- prevalent,
- proper,
- received,
- recognized,
- regular,
- regulation,
- right,
- ritual,
- rooted,
- routine,
- scriptural,
- seemly,
- set,
- sound,
- spoken,
- standard,
- stock,
- textual,
- time-honored,
- traditionalistic,
- tried and true,
- true,
- true-blue,
- understood,
- unwritten,
- usual,
- venerable,
- verbal,
- well-known,
- widespread,
- wonted,
- worshipful
- gassy
collapse
- resembling gas related words >
- aerial,
- aerodynamic,
- aerostatic,
- aery,
- airy,
- all jaw,
- big,
- bloated,
- blown up,
- bombastic,
- candid,
- chatty,
- communicative,
- conversational,
- dilated,
- distended,
- dropsical,
- edematous,
- effusive,
- enchymatous,
- ethereal,
- expansive,
- extravagant,
- fat,
- flatulent,
- flip,
- fluent,
- formal,
- frank,
- fuming,
- fumy,
- fustian,
- gabby,
- garrulous,
- gaseous,
- gasified,
- gasiform,
- gaslike,
- glib,
- gossipy,
- grandiloquent,
- gregarious,
- gushy,
- high-flown,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- incrassate,
- inflated,
- long-winded,
- loquacious,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmatic,
- miasmic,
- mouthy,
- multiloquent,
- multiloquious,
- newsy,
- overtalkative,
- oxyacetylene,
- oxygenous,
- ozonic,
- plethoric,
- pneumatic,
- pompous,
- pontifical,
- pretentious,
- prolix,
- puffed up,
- puffy,
- pursy,
- reeking,
- reeky,
- self-important,
- smoking,
- smoky,
- smooth,
- sociable,
- solemn,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- stilted,
- stuffy,
- swelled,
- swollen,
- talkative,
- talky,
- tall,
- tumescent,
- tumid,
- turgescent,
- turgid,
- vaporing,
- vaporish,
- vaporlike,
- vaporous,
- vapory,
- ventose,
- verbose,
- voluble,
- windy
- accident insurance,
- actuary,
- annuity,
- arrangement,
- assurance,
- aviation insurance,
- bail bond,
- bond,
- business life insurance,
- casualty insurance,
- certificate of insurance,
- contract by deed,
- contract of record,
- contract quasi,
- court bond,
- covenant of indemnity,
- credit insurance,
- credit life insurance,
- debenture,
- debenture bond,
- deductible,
- deed,
- deed of trust,
- deed poll,
- endowment insurance,
- family maintenance policy,
- fidelity bond,
- fidelity insurance,
- flood insurance,
- formal contract,
- fraternal insurance,
- government insurance,
- group policy,
- health insurance,
- implied contract,
- indent,
- indenture,
- industrial life insurance,
- insurance,
- insurance agent,
- insurance broker,
- insurance company,
- insurance man,
- interinsurance,
- liability insurance,
- license bond,
- limited payment insurance,
- major medical insurance,
- malpractice insurance,
- marine insurance,
- mortgage deed,
- mutual company,
- ocean marine insurance,
- parol contract,
- permit bond,
- policy,
- promissory note,
- recognizance,
- robbery insurance,
- social security,
- special contract,
- specialty,
- specialty contract,
- stock company,
- term insurance,
- theft insurance,
- title deed,
- underwriter
- CD,
- IOU,
- MO,
- acceptance,
- acceptance bill,
- arrangement,
- bank acceptance,
- bank check,
- bill,
- bill of draft,
- bill of exchange,
- blank check,
- bond,
- certificate,
- certificate of deposit,
- certified check,
- check,
- checkbook,
- cheque,
- commercial paper,
- contract by deed,
- contract of record,
- contract quasi,
- covenant of indemnity,
- debenture,
- debenture bond,
- deed,
- deed of trust,
- deed poll,
- demand bill,
- demand draft,
- draft,
- due bill,
- exchequer bill,
- formal contract,
- group policy,
- implied contract,
- indent,
- indenture,
- insurance policy,
- letter of credit,
- money order,
- mortgage deed,
- negotiable instrument,
- note,
- note of hand,
- paper,
- parol contract,
- policy,
- postal order,
- recognizance,
- sight bill,
- sight draft,
- special contract,
- specialty,
- specialty contract,
- time bill,
- time draft,
- title deed,
- trade acceptance,
- treasury bill,
- voucher,
- warrant
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- bagatelle,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bickering,
- bit,
- brass farthing,
- button,
- captious,
- caviling,
- cent,
- choplogic,
- curio,
- cursory,
- depthless,
- detailed,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- exact,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- few,
- fig,
- finicky,
- fleabite,
- folderol,
- footling,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- full,
- fussy,
- gaud,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- hair,
- hairsplitting,
- halfpenny,
- hedging,
- hill of beans,
- immateriality,
- inconsequence,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsequentiality,
- inconsiderable,
- inconsiderableness,
- indifference,
- ineffectuality,
- inferiority,
- insignificance,
- insignificant,
- irrelevance,
- jerkwater,
- jest,
- joke,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- little,
- littleness,
- logic-chopping,
- low,
- low priority,
- marginality,
- meager,
- measly,
- meticulous,
- miniature,
- minikin,
- minute,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- negligibility,
- negligible,
- nice,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- no great shakes,
- one-horse,
- paltering,
- paltry,
- particular,
- peppercorn,
- pettifogging,
- pettiness,
- petty,
- picayunish,
- picayunishness,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- pokiness,
- poky,
- precise,
- puniness,
- punk,
- puny,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- red cent,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- secondariness,
- shallow,
- shit,
- short,
- shuffling,
- skin-deep,
- slightness,
- small,
- small-beer,
- small-time,
- smallness,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- special,
- specific,
- straw,
- superficial,
- tinhorn,
- tiny,
- toy,
- trichoschistic,
- trifle,
- trifling,
- trinket,
- trivial,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- two cents,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- twopence,
- unimportance,
- unimpressiveness,
- unnoteworthiness,
- whim-wham
- self-contained
collapse
- constituting a complete and independent unit in and of itself; "the university is like a self-contained city with shops and all amenities" related words >
- acquisitive,
- aloof,
- ambitious for self,
- autarchic,
- autarkic,
- autistic,
- autonomous,
- bashful,
- calm,
- careerist,
- close,
- collected,
- complete,
- composed,
- controlled,
- cool,
- detached,
- dissociable,
- distant,
- egotistical,
- entire,
- even-tempered,
- formal,
- free-spirited,
- freewheeling,
- grasping,
- grave,
- greedy,
- imperturbable,
- in control,
- incompatible,
- independent,
- individualistic,
- inner-directed,
- insociable,
- mopey,
- mopish,
- morose,
- narcissistic,
- neutral,
- nonaligned,
- nongregarious,
- nonpartisan,
- peaceful,
- personalistic,
- placid,
- possessive,
- privatistic,
- remote,
- reserved,
- reticent,
- self-absorbed,
- self-admiring,
- self-advancing,
- self-besot,
- self-centered,
- self-considerative,
- self-controlled,
- self-dependent,
- self-determined,
- self-devoted,
- self-directing,
- self-esteeming,
- self-governed,
- self-governing,
- self-indulgent,
- self-interested,
- self-jealous,
- self-occupied,
- self-pleasing,
- self-possessed,
- self-reliant,
- self-seeking,
- self-serving,
- self-subsistent,
- self-sufficient,
- self-supporting,
- selfish,
- serene,
- serious,
- snug,
- sober,
- socially incompatible,
- solemn,
- sovereign,
- standoffish,
- sullen,
- third-force,
- third-world,
- tranquil,
- unclubbable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncompanionable,
- uncongenial,
- undisturbed,
- unemotional,
- unflappable,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unitary,
- unperturbed,
- unruffled,
- unsociable,
- unsocial,
- whole,
- withdrawn
- arrogant,
- assured,
- big,
- big-league,
- big-name,
- big-time,
- bigwig,
- bigwigged,
- bloated,
- bombastic,
- cocksure,
- complacent,
- conceited,
- confident,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- convinced,
- decided,
- determined,
- double-barreled,
- earthshaking,
- egotistical,
- flatulent,
- formal,
- gassy,
- grand,
- grandiloquent,
- great,
- haughty,
- heavyweight,
- high-powered,
- hubristic,
- important,
- inflated,
- magisterial,
- major,
- material,
- momentous,
- name,
- narcissan,
- narcissine,
- narcissistic,
- narcistic,
- overbearing,
- overconfident,
- overproud,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- persuaded,
- poised,
- pompous,
- pontifical,
- positive,
- presumptuous,
- proud,
- puffy,
- reassured,
- secure,
- self-absorbed,
- self-admiring,
- self-approving,
- self-assuming,
- self-assured,
- self-complacent,
- self-confident,
- self-congratulating,
- self-congratulatory,
- self-content,
- self-contented,
- self-delighting,
- self-endeared,
- self-esteeming,
- self-gratulating,
- self-gratulatory,
- self-loving,
- self-reliant,
- self-respecting,
- self-satisfied,
- self-seeking,
- self-sufficient,
- significant,
- smug,
- snobbish,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- solemn,
- stilted,
- stuck-up,
- stuffy,
- substantial,
- superior,
- sure,
- swollen,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unafraid,
- undoubting,
- unfaltering,
- unhesitating,
- unwavering,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- world-shaking
- forced
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- made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"
- forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor"
- produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators" related words >
- Herculean,
- Latinate,
- affected,
- arduous,
- artificial,
- at odds,
- automatic,
- averse,
- awkward,
- backbreaking,
- blind,
- bombastic,
- burdensome,
- calculated,
- coerced,
- compelled,
- compulsive,
- conditioned,
- constrained,
- contrived,
- cramped,
- crushing,
- cumbrous,
- cursory,
- differing,
- disagreeing,
- disinclined,
- disobedient,
- distant,
- effortful,
- elephantine,
- exhausting,
- factitious,
- faked,
- false,
- farfetched,
- fatiguing,
- feigned,
- formal,
- fractious,
- grueling,
- guinde,
- halting,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- improbable,
- impulsive,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- inflexible,
- inkhorn,
- instinctive,
- involuntary,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- leaden,
- lumbering,
- mannered,
- mechanical,
- mutinous,
- onerous,
- operose,
- opposed,
- oppressive,
- out-of-the-way,
- painful,
- perfunctory,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- punishing,
- quite another thing,
- recalcitrant,
- reflex,
- reflexive,
- refractory,
- remote,
- resistant,
- rigid,
- self-conscious,
- sesquipedalian,
- something else again,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- studied,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- turgid,
- unconscious,
- unconsenting,
- unintentional,
- unnatural,
- unthinking,
- unwieldy,
- unwilled,
- unwilling,
- unwitting,
- uphill,
- wearisome,
- wooden
- evasion
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- the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"
- the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment"
- a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth related words >
- abstention,
- airtight secrecy,
- anythingarianism,
- artifice,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- break,
- breakout,
- buck-passing,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circumvention,
- close secrecy,
- closeness,
- concealment,
- cop-out,
- cringe,
- crypticness,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deception,
- defense mechanism,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double-talk,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- emergence,
- equivocating,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- escapism,
- eschewal,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- excuse,
- extrication,
- fallback,
- fence-sitting,
- fencing,
- flight,
- flinch,
- foiling,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- freeing,
- frustration,
- fudging,
- getaway,
- getting around,
- getting round,
- haggling,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- hiddenness,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- impartiality,
- independence,
- issuance,
- issue,
- jailbreak,
- jink,
- leak,
- leakage,
- liberation,
- logic-chopping,
- lying,
- mugwumpery,
- mugwumpism,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- nit-picking,
- nonalignment,
- noncommitment,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- nonpartisanism,
- nothingarianism,
- outguessing,
- outlet,
- outmaneuvering,
- outwitting,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- passing the buck,
- pettifoggery,
- prevarication,
- prevention,
- prisonbreak,
- pullback,
- pullout,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- recoil,
- refraining,
- release,
- rescue,
- retreat,
- riddance,
- runaround,
- secrecy,
- secretiveness,
- secretness,
- setting-free,
- shifting,
- shirking,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sophistry,
- strict neutrality,
- subterfuge,
- suppressio veri,
- tergiversation,
- the dark,
- the runaround,
- the slip,
- thwarting,
- trichoschistism,
- trickery,
- uncommunicativeness,
- vent,
- weasel words,
- wince,
- zigzag
- mark off
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- set boundaries to and delimit; "mark out the territory" related words >
- allocate,
- allot,
- analyze,
- anatomize,
- appoint,
- appropriate to,
- assign,
- assign to,
- atomize,
- be characteristic,
- blaze,
- blaze a trail,
- blemish,
- blotch,
- blueprint,
- bound,
- brand,
- chalk,
- chalk up,
- change,
- characterize,
- chart,
- check,
- check off,
- chop logic,
- cicatrize,
- circle in,
- circumscribe,
- dapple,
- dash,
- define,
- delimit,
- delimitate,
- demarcate,
- describe,
- destine,
- desynonymize,
- detail,
- determine,
- diagram,
- difference,
- differentiate,
- discolor,
- discriminate,
- disequalize,
- disjoin,
- distinguish,
- diversify,
- divide,
- dot,
- earmark,
- enclose,
- engrave,
- fate,
- fix,
- fleck,
- freckle,
- gash,
- graph,
- hatch,
- impress,
- imprint,
- individualize,
- individuate,
- keynote,
- lay off,
- lay out,
- line,
- lot,
- make a distinction,
- make a mark,
- make assignments,
- map,
- map out,
- mark,
- mark boundaries,
- mark out,
- mark out for,
- mark the periphery,
- measure off,
- measure out,
- modify,
- mottle,
- nick,
- notch,
- ordain,
- pace off,
- particularize,
- pencil,
- pepper,
- personalize,
- plot,
- plot out,
- point,
- portion off,
- prick,
- print,
- punch,
- punctuate,
- puncture,
- refine a distinction,
- reserve,
- restrict,
- restrict to,
- riddle,
- rope off,
- rule off,
- scar,
- scarify,
- schedule,
- score,
- scotch,
- scratch,
- seal,
- seam,
- segregate,
- separate,
- set,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- set off,
- set out,
- set the limit,
- set the pace,
- set the tone,
- sever,
- severalize,
- sketch,
- sketch out,
- sound the keynote,
- specialize,
- specify,
- speck,
- speckle,
- split hairs,
- splotch,
- spot,
- stain,
- stake out,
- stamp,
- step off,
- stigmatize,
- streak,
- striate,
- stripe,
- surround,
- tag,
- tattoo,
- tick,
- tick off,
- trace,
- underline,
- underscore,
- vary
- rhyme
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- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
- compose rhymes
- be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme" related words >
- English sonnet,
- Horatian ode,
- Italian sonnet,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- Sapphic ode,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- accord,
- alba,
- alliterate,
- alliteration,
- anacreontic,
- assonance,
- assonate,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- beat,
- blank verse,
- bucolic,
- cadence,
- cadency,
- canso,
- cap verses,
- chanson,
- check,
- chime,
- clerihew,
- clink,
- cohere,
- common sense,
- comport,
- conform,
- consist,
- consonance,
- consort,
- correspond,
- crambo,
- dingdong,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- double rhyme,
- dovetail,
- drone,
- eclogue,
- elegy,
- epic,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- eye rhyme,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- harping,
- humdrum,
- idyll,
- intelligence,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- limerick,
- logic,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- meaning,
- measure,
- meter,
- monody,
- monotone,
- monotony,
- musical thought,
- narrative poem,
- near rhyme,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- organization,
- palinode,
- paronomasia,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- pitter-patter,
- poem,
- poesy,
- poetry,
- prothalamium,
- pun,
- rationale,
- rationality,
- repeated sounds,
- repetitiousness,
- repetitiveness,
- rhyme royal,
- rhyme scheme,
- rhyming dictionary,
- rime,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- rune,
- satire,
- scan,
- sestina,
- single rhyme,
- singsong,
- slant rhyme,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- soundness,
- stale repetition,
- structure,
- swing,
- tail rhyme,
- tanka,
- tedium,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- the supreme fiction,
- threnody,
- triolet,
- trot,
- troubadour poem,
- unnecessary repetition,
- unrhymed poetry,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- versification,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- wisdom
- rite
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- an established ceremony prescribed by a religion; "the rite of baptism" related words >
- amenities,
- anniversaries,
- baccalaureate service,
- celebrating,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonies,
- ceremony,
- civilities,
- commemoration,
- commencement,
- convocation,
- custom,
- dignities,
- dressing ship,
- duty,
- elegancies,
- empty formality,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- fanfare,
- fanfaronade,
- festivity,
- flourish of trumpets,
- form,
- form of worship,
- formal,
- formalities,
- formality,
- formula,
- formulary,
- function,
- gentilities,
- graces,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- holiday,
- holy rite,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- initiation,
- institution,
- jubilee,
- liturgy,
- marking the occasion,
- memorialization,
- memory,
- mode of worship,
- mummery,
- mystery,
- observance,
- occasion,
- office,
- order of worship,
- ordinance,
- ovation,
- performance,
- practice,
- prescribed form,
- procedure,
- rejoicing,
- religious ceremony,
- religious rites,
- remembrance,
- revel,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- rites,
- ritual,
- ritual observance,
- rituality,
- rituals,
- routine,
- sacrament,
- sacramental,
- salute,
- salvo,
- service,
- solemn observance,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- testimonial,
- testimonial banquet,
- testimonial dinner,
- toast,
- tribute,
- triumph
- ceremonial
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- marked by pomp or ceremony or formality; "a ceremonial occasion"; "ceremonial garb" related words >
- High-Church,
- august,
- baccalaureate service,
- baptismal,
- buckram,
- celebration,
- celebratory,
- ceremonious,
- ceremoniousness,
- ceremony,
- commemorative,
- commencement,
- conventional,
- convocation,
- courtly,
- decorous,
- dignified,
- dignity,
- duty,
- empty formality,
- eucharistic,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- extrinsicality,
- form,
- form of worship,
- formal,
- formality,
- formalization,
- formula,
- formular,
- formulary,
- function,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- gravity,
- hieratic,
- holy rite,
- impersonality,
- imposing,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- initiation,
- institution,
- liturgic,
- liturgical,
- liturgistic,
- liturgy,
- lofty,
- mannered,
- mode of worship,
- mummery,
- mystery,
- observance,
- office,
- order of worship,
- ordinance,
- paschal,
- performance,
- pomp,
- pomposity,
- pompous,
- practice,
- prescribed form,
- primness,
- religious ceremony,
- rigid,
- rigidness,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- ritual observance,
- ritualistic,
- rituality,
- sacerdotal,
- sacrament,
- sacramental,
- sacramentarian,
- service,
- set,
- solemn,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- starchiness,
- starchy,
- stately,
- stiff,
- stiffness,
- stiltedness,
- studied,
- stylization,
- stylized,
- weight,
- well-mannered
- labored
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- lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" related words >
- Herculean,
- Latinate,
- affected,
- alliterating,
- alliterative,
- arabesque,
- arduous,
- artificial,
- assonant,
- awkward,
- backbreaking,
- baroque,
- belabored,
- bombastic,
- burdensome,
- busy,
- chanting,
- chichi,
- chiming,
- cliche-ridden,
- clumsy,
- contrived,
- cramped,
- crushing,
- cumbrous,
- difficult,
- dingdong,
- effortful,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elephantine,
- excessive,
- fancy,
- farfetched,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- florid,
- flowery,
- forced,
- formal,
- frilly,
- fussy,
- grueling,
- guinde,
- halting,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- harping,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- high-wrought,
- humdrum,
- inept,
- inkhorn,
- jingle-jangle,
- jog-trot,
- killing,
- laborious,
- leaden,
- lumbering,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- maladroit,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- moresque,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- painful,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- pretty-pretty,
- punishing,
- rhymed,
- rhyming,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sesquipedalian,
- singsong,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- tedious,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- turgid,
- unnatural,
- unwieldy,
- uphill,
- wearisome,
- weighty
- consortium
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- an association of companies for some definite purpose related words >
- Aktiengesellschaft,
- accord,
- agreement,
- aktiebolag,
- arrangement,
- bargain,
- binding agreement,
- body corporate,
- bond,
- business,
- business establishment,
- cartel,
- chamber of commerce,
- club,
- collective agreement,
- combine,
- commercial enterprise,
- compact,
- compagnie,
- company,
- concern,
- conglomerate,
- conglomerate corporation,
- congress,
- consolidating company,
- contract,
- convention,
- copartnership,
- cordial understanding,
- corporate body,
- corporation,
- covenant,
- covenant of salt,
- deal,
- dicker,
- diversified corporation,
- employment contract,
- entente,
- entente cordiale,
- enterprise,
- fellowship,
- firm,
- formal agreement,
- fraternity,
- guild,
- holding company,
- house,
- industry,
- ironclad agreement,
- joint-stock association,
- joint-stock company,
- league,
- legal agreement,
- legal contract,
- mutual agreement,
- mutual understanding,
- operating company,
- order,
- pact,
- paction,
- partnership,
- plunderbund,
- pool,
- promise,
- protocol,
- public utility,
- society,
- stipulation,
- stock company,
- syndicate,
- trade association,
- transaction,
- trust,
- understanding,
- union,
- union contract,
- utility,
- valid contract,
- wage contract
- sacramental
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- of or relating to or involving a sacrament related words >
- Agnus Dei,
- High-Church,
- Holy Grail,
- Host,
- Pieta,
- Sanctus bell,
- Sangraal,
- ark,
- asperger,
- asperges,
- aspergillum,
- bambino,
- baptismal,
- beadroll,
- beads,
- candle,
- censer,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- ceremony,
- chaplet,
- ciborium,
- cross,
- crucifix,
- cruet,
- duty,
- eucharistial,
- eucharistic,
- form,
- form of worship,
- formal,
- formality,
- formula,
- formular,
- formulary,
- function,
- holy cross,
- holy rite,
- holy water,
- holy-water sprinkler,
- icon,
- incensory,
- institution,
- liturgic,
- liturgistic,
- liturgy,
- matzo,
- menorah,
- mezuzah,
- mikvah,
- mode of worship,
- monstrance,
- mystery,
- observance,
- office,
- order of worship,
- ordinance,
- osculatory,
- ostensorium,
- paschal,
- paschal candle,
- pax,
- phylacteries,
- practice,
- prayer shawl,
- prayer wheel,
- prescribed form,
- pyx,
- relics,
- rite,
- ritual,
- ritual observance,
- ritualistic,
- rituality,
- rood,
- rosary,
- sacrament,
- sacramentarian,
- sacred relics,
- sacring bell,
- service,
- shofar,
- solemnity,
- sukkah,
- tabernacle,
- tallith,
- thurible,
- urceole,
- veronica,
- vigil light,
- votive candle
- formulary
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- (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation; "postexposure prophylaxis is an integral part of the pharmacopeia in preventing severe disease after acute infections"
- of or relating to or of the nature of a formula related words >
- High-Church,
- Procrustean law,
- act,
- authoritative,
- baptismal,
- bill,
- binding,
- bylaw,
- canon,
- canonical,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- ceremony,
- code,
- conventionalized,
- criterion,
- decree,
- dictate,
- dictated,
- dictation,
- didactic,
- duty,
- edict,
- enactment,
- eucharistic,
- extrinsic,
- form,
- form of worship,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formality,
- formula,
- formular,
- function,
- guideline,
- hard and fast,
- holy rite,
- impersonal,
- institution,
- instructive,
- jus,
- law,
- law of nature,
- legalistic,
- legislation,
- lex,
- liturgic,
- liturgistic,
- liturgy,
- mandatory,
- maxim,
- measure,
- mode of worship,
- mystery,
- nominal,
- norm,
- norma,
- observance,
- office,
- official,
- order of nature,
- order of worship,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- outward,
- paschal,
- pedantic,
- practice,
- preceptive,
- prescribed,
- prescribed form,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- prescriptive,
- principle,
- receipt,
- recipe,
- regulation,
- rite,
- ritual,
- ritual observance,
- ritualistic,
- rituality,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- sacrament,
- sacramental,
- sacramentarian,
- service,
- set form,
- solemnity,
- standard,
- standing order,
- statute,
- statutory,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- universal law
- liturgy
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- a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship related words >
- Mass,
- baccalaureate service,
- bedtime prayer,
- camp meeting,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- church,
- church service,
- commencement,
- compline,
- convocation,
- devotions,
- divine service,
- duty,
- empty formality,
- evening devotions,
- evensong,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- form,
- form of worship,
- formal,
- formality,
- formula,
- formulary,
- function,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- holy rite,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- initiation,
- institution,
- lauds,
- matins,
- meeting,
- mode of worship,
- morning devotions,
- mummery,
- mystery,
- night song,
- none,
- nones,
- novena,
- observance,
- office,
- order of worship,
- ordinance,
- performance,
- practice,
- praise meeting,
- prayer,
- prayer meeting,
- prayers,
- prescribed form,
- prime,
- prime song,
- public worship,
- religious ceremony,
- revival,
- revival meeting,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- ritual observance,
- rituality,
- sacrament,
- sacramental,
- service,
- sext,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- tent meeting,
- tierce,
- undersong,
- vesper,
- vespers,
- vigils,
- watch meeting,
- watch night,
- watch-night service
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Latinate,
- affected,
- artificial,
- aureate,
- awkward,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bloated,
- bombastic,
- buckram,
- cardboard,
- clumsy,
- conventional,
- convoluted,
- cramped,
- cumbrous,
- declamatory,
- decorous,
- elephantine,
- elevated,
- erect,
- euphuistic,
- exalted,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flatulent,
- flaunting,
- flowery,
- forced,
- formal,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- graceless,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- guinde,
- halting,
- heavy,
- high,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- in buckram,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- la-di-da,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- leaden,
- lexiphanic,
- lifted,
- lofty,
- lumbering,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mannered,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- muscle-bound,
- on stilts,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- pontifical,
- pretentious,
- prim,
- raised,
- rampant,
- rhetorical,
- rigid,
- self-important,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- solemn,
- sonorous,
- starch,
- starched,
- stiff,
- stuffy,
- sublime,
- swollen,
- tall,
- too-too,
- tortuous,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- ungraceful,
- unnatural,
- unwieldy,
- upcast,
- upflung,
- uplifted,
- upraised,
- upreared,
- upright,
- upthrown,
- wooden
- regalia
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- paraphernalia indicative of royalty (or other high office) related words >
- Sunday best,
- apparatus,
- appurtenances,
- armory,
- badge,
- badge of office,
- badges,
- baton,
- blazonry,
- brassard,
- bravery,
- button,
- cap and gown,
- cap of dignity,
- cap of maintenance,
- chain,
- chain of office,
- class ring,
- cockade,
- collar,
- coronet,
- cross,
- crown,
- decoration,
- decorations,
- diadem,
- dress,
- dress uniform,
- eagle,
- emblems,
- ensigns,
- equipage,
- equipment,
- ermine,
- evening dress,
- fasces,
- figurehead,
- finery,
- fleur-de-lis,
- formal dress,
- frippery,
- full dress,
- furnishings,
- gear,
- great seal,
- hammer and sickle,
- heraldry,
- insignia,
- lapel pin,
- livery,
- mace,
- mantle,
- markings,
- medal,
- mortarboard,
- old school tie,
- orb,
- paraphernalia,
- pin,
- privy seal,
- purple,
- purple pall,
- ring,
- robe of state,
- rod,
- rod of empire,
- rose,
- royal crown,
- scepter,
- school ring,
- seal,
- shamrock,
- sigillography,
- signet,
- skull and crossbones,
- sphragistics,
- staff,
- swastika,
- tackle,
- tails,
- tartan,
- thistle,
- tiara,
- tie,
- trappings,
- triple plume,
- tuxedo,
- uniform,
- uraeus,
- verge,
- wand,
- war paint
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