Related Words:
- futile
collapse - producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt" related words >
- abortive,
- absurd,
- airy,
- apish,
- asinine,
- bad,
- barren,
- batty,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- besotted,
- bootless,
- brainless,
- buffoonish,
- catchpenny,
- cockeyed,
- counterproductive,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dazed,
- dizzy,
- doomed,
- doting,
- dumb,
- effete,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- failed,
- failing,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- flaky,
- flimsy,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- foredoomed,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fruitless,
- fuddled,
- gaga,
- goofy,
- gulled,
- hollow,
- idiotic,
- idle,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-suited,
- ill-timed,
- imbecile,
- impolitic,
- impotent,
- improper,
- in vain,
- inadequate,
- inadvisable,
- inane,
- inappropriate,
- inapt,
- incongruous,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inefficient,
- inept,
- inexpedient,
- infatuated,
- infelicitous,
- inoperative,
- inopportune,
- insane,
- insufficient,
- invalid,
- kooky,
- lame,
- light,
- loony,
- mad,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- manque,
- maudlin,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- moronic,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- nutty,
- of no effect,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- out of place,
- profitless,
- sappy,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- shallow,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- sterile,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- stupid,
- successless,
- superficial,
- thoughtless,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- unavailable,
- unavailing,
- unbefitting,
- undesirable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unmeet,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unsatisfactory,
- unseasonable,
- unseemly,
- unsuccessful,
- unsuitable,
- untimely,
- unwise,
- useless,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- vapid,
- wacky,
- wet,
- windy,
- witless,
- worthless,
- wrong
- frivolous
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- not serious in content or attitude or behavior; "a frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman" related words >
- aimless,
- airy,
- amorphous,
- asinine,
- birdbrained,
- birdwitted,
- brainless,
- buxom,
- capricious,
- casual,
- catchpenny,
- childish,
- desultory,
- disarticulated,
- discontinuous,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- dizzy,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- erratic,
- fatuous,
- featherbrained,
- featherheaded,
- fitful,
- flighty,
- flimsy,
- flip,
- flippant,
- fluffy,
- fluttery,
- foolish,
- formless,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frothy,
- futile,
- gaga,
- giddy,
- giddy-brained,
- giddy-headed,
- giddy-pated,
- giddy-witted,
- gleeful,
- gratuitous,
- haphazard,
- harebrain,
- harebrained,
- hilarious,
- hit-or-miss,
- idle,
- immethodical,
- inane,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconsequential,
- indiscriminate,
- insignificant,
- irregular,
- irresponsible,
- jocular,
- jocund,
- jolly,
- jovial,
- joyful,
- joyous,
- laughter-loving,
- light,
- meaningless,
- merry,
- minor,
- mirth-loving,
- mirthful,
- misshapen,
- niggling,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- orderless,
- otiose,
- paltry,
- peripheral,
- petty,
- planless,
- playful,
- promiscuous,
- puerile,
- random,
- rattlebrained,
- rattleheaded,
- rattlepated,
- rejoicing,
- risible,
- scatterbrained,
- scramblebrained,
- senseless,
- shallow,
- shallow-headed,
- shallow-minded,
- shallow-pated,
- shallow-witted,
- shapeless,
- shatterbrained,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- small-time,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- superficial,
- systemless,
- thoughtless,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- two-bit,
- twopenny,
- unarranged,
- unclassified,
- undirected,
- ungraded,
- unimportant,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unprofound,
- unsorted,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- vacuous,
- vague,
- vain,
- vapid,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- windy,
- witless,
- worthless
- silly
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- a word used for misbehaving children; "don't be a silly" related words >
- Pickwickian,
- absurd,
- airy,
- apish,
- asinine,
- balmy,
- batty,
- bedazzled,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- benumbed,
- besotted,
- blockhead,
- bonehead,
- booby,
- brainless,
- buffoonish,
- catchpenny,
- childish,
- clod,
- clot,
- cockeyed,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- daffy,
- daft,
- daze,
- dazed,
- dazzled,
- dippy,
- dizzy,
- dolt,
- dope,
- dopey,
- doting,
- drip,
- dumb,
- dummy,
- dunce,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- featherbrained,
- flaky,
- flighty,
- flimsy,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolhardy,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fuddled,
- futile,
- gaga,
- giddy,
- goofy,
- goose,
- groggy,
- gulled,
- harebrained,
- idiot,
- idiotic,
- idle,
- ignoramus,
- ignorant,
- illogical,
- imbecile,
- imbecilic,
- in a daze,
- inane,
- inept,
- infatuated,
- insane,
- irrational,
- irresponsible,
- jackass,
- jerk,
- knocked silly,
- kooky,
- laughable,
- light,
- light-headed,
- loony,
- ludicrous,
- mad,
- maudlin,
- mazed,
- moronic,
- muzzy,
- nerd,
- nincompoop,
- ninny,
- nitwit,
- nitwitted,
- nonsensical,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- numskull,
- nutty,
- off,
- otiose,
- pointless,
- poppycockish,
- preposterous,
- puerile,
- punch-drunk,
- punchy,
- rattlebrained,
- ridiculous,
- risible,
- rubbishy,
- sappy,
- scatterbrained,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- shallow,
- silly Billy,
- silly ass,
- simpleton,
- skimble-skamble,
- slaphappy,
- slender,
- slight,
- stunned,
- stupefied,
- stupid,
- superficial,
- thoughtless,
- trashy,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- twaddling,
- twaddly,
- twit,
- unintelligent,
- unreasonable,
- unwise,
- unwitty,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- vapid,
- wacky,
- weak-minded,
- wet,
- windy,
- witless,
- woozy
- windy
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- resembling the wind in speed,force, or variability; "a windy dash home" related words >
- adulterated,
- aeolian,
- air-built,
- airish,
- airy,
- all jaw,
- asinine,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- big,
- blasty,
- bloated,
- blown up,
- blowy,
- blustering,
- blusterous,
- blustery,
- bombastic,
- boreal,
- breezy,
- brisk,
- candid,
- catchpenny,
- chatty,
- chimerical,
- cloud-built,
- communicative,
- conversational,
- cut,
- de longue haleine,
- diffuse,
- dilated,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- distended,
- drafty,
- dreamlike,
- dropsical,
- edematous,
- effusive,
- empty,
- enchymatous,
- endless,
- ethereal,
- expansive,
- extended,
- extravagant,
- fanciful,
- fat,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- favonian,
- filled out,
- fine,
- flatulent,
- flawy,
- flimsy,
- flip,
- fluent,
- foolish,
- frank,
- fresh,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fustian,
- futile,
- gabby,
- garrulous,
- gaseous,
- gassy,
- glib,
- gossamery,
- gossipy,
- gregarious,
- gushy,
- gusty,
- high-flown,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- idle,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- inane,
- incrassate,
- inflated,
- insubstantial,
- lengthy,
- light,
- long,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-spun,
- long-winded,
- longiloquent,
- loquacious,
- mouthy,
- multiloquent,
- multiloquious,
- newsy,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- otiose,
- overblown,
- overtalkative,
- padded,
- phantomlike,
- plethoric,
- pretentious,
- prolix,
- protracted,
- puffed up,
- puffy,
- pursy,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- redundant,
- shadowy,
- shallow,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- smooth,
- sociable,
- spirituous,
- spun-out,
- squally,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- superficial,
- swelled,
- swollen,
- talkative,
- talky,
- tall,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thinned,
- thinned-out,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- tumescent,
- tumid,
- turgescent,
- turgid,
- uncompact,
- uncompressed,
- unreal,
- unrelenting,
- unsubstantial,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- vapid,
- vaporous,
- ventose,
- verbose,
- voluble,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- wordy
- flimsy
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- having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
- lacking solidity or strength and liable to break; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past"
- resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"
- very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses" related words >
- adulterated,
- airy,
- asinine,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- boyish,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- brittle as glass,
- catchpenny,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- crackable,
- crisp,
- crispy,
- crumbly,
- crushable,
- cut,
- dainty,
- decrepit,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diaphanous,
- dilapidated,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- effeminate,
- empty,
- ethereal,
- fatuous,
- feeble,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- fissile,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- floppy,
- foolish,
- fracturable,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- friable,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- futile,
- gaseous,
- gauzy,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- gracile,
- idle,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- inconceivable,
- inconclusive,
- incredible,
- infirm,
- insubstantial,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lacerable,
- lacy,
- lax,
- light,
- lightweight,
- limp,
- loose,
- makeshift,
- misty,
- namby-pamby,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- otiose,
- paltry,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- poor,
- puny,
- ramshackle,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- relaxed,
- rickety,
- rubbery,
- scissile,
- shaky,
- shallow,
- shatterable,
- shattery,
- sheer,
- shivery,
- silly,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- small,
- splintery,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- superficial,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- tacky,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinned,
- thinned-out,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- transparent,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- unbelievable,
- uncompact,
- uncompressed,
- unconvincing,
- unproved,
- unrigorous,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- unsustained,
- vacuous,
- vague,
- vain,
- vapid,
- vaporous,
- vulnerable,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- weakly,
- willowy,
- windy,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy,
- womanish
- vapid
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- lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls" related words >
- airy,
- arid,
- asinine,
- barren,
- betwixt and between,
- blah,
- bland,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- boring,
- catchpenny,
- changeable,
- characterless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- common,
- commonplace,
- dead,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- driveling,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- empty-minded,
- empty-pated,
- empty-skulled,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- fatuous,
- flat,
- flavorless,
- flimsy,
- foolish,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- futile,
- gruelly,
- halfhearted,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- idle,
- inane,
- indecisive,
- indifferent,
- inexcitable,
- infirm of purpose,
- infirm of will,
- innocuous,
- insipid,
- irresolute,
- jejune,
- lackluster,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- light,
- low-spirited,
- matter-of-fact,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- middling,
- mild,
- milk-and-water,
- milky,
- moderate,
- modest,
- mundane,
- mushy,
- namby-pamby,
- neutral,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- ordinary,
- otiose,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pappy,
- passable,
- pedestrian,
- plain,
- plodding,
- poetryless,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pulpy,
- rattlebrained,
- rattleheaded,
- respectable,
- sapless,
- savorless,
- scatterbrained,
- shallow,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- slow,
- so-so,
- solemn,
- spiceless,
- spiritless,
- stale,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tame,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- thin,
- tiresome,
- tolerable,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- unembellished,
- unflavored,
- unidealistic,
- unimaginative,
- unimpassioned,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- unpalatable,
- unpoetic,
- unromantic,
- unsavory,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- washy,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- windy,
- wishy-washy,
- wooden
- flighty
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- guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls" related words >
- abnormal,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- bereft of reason,
- birdbrained,
- birdwitted,
- brainsick,
- buoyant,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- coquettish,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dippy,
- disoriented,
- distraught,
- dizzy,
- dotty,
- eccentric,
- effervescent,
- empty-headed,
- erratic,
- faddish,
- fanciful,
- fast and loose,
- featherbrained,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flirtatious,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- fluffy,
- freakish,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- gay,
- giddy,
- hallucinated,
- harebrained,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- infirm,
- insane,
- irrational,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- light,
- light-headed,
- lively,
- loco,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mazy,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- mercurial,
- meshuggah,
- moody,
- moon-struck,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- not all there,
- not right,
- nutty,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- psycho,
- queer,
- quicksilver,
- rambling,
- rattlebrained,
- reasonless,
- reckless,
- restless,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- shallow,
- shallow-headed,
- shallow-minded,
- shallow-pated,
- shallow-witted,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- sick,
- silly,
- skittish,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- sprightly,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- superficial,
- tetched,
- thoughtless,
- touched,
- toying,
- unaccountable,
- unbalanced,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- unfixed,
- unhinged,
- unpredictable,
- unprofound,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- versatile,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wild,
- wishy-washy,
- witless
- volatile
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- a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor; "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles"
- tending to vary often or widely; "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions"
- evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures; "volatile oils"; "volatile solvents" related words >
- adrift,
- afloat,
- agitable,
- airy,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- birdbrained,
- birdwitted,
- bouncy,
- brittle,
- bubbly,
- buoyant,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- charged,
- coquettish,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dizzy,
- downy,
- dying,
- eccentric,
- edgy,
- effervescent,
- ephemeral,
- erratic,
- eruptive,
- ethereal,
- evanescent,
- evaporable,
- evaporative,
- expansive,
- explosive,
- faddish,
- fading,
- fast and loose,
- featherbrained,
- feathery,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- fleeting,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flippant,
- flirtatious,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- fluffy,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- foamy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- freakish,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- giddy,
- gossamery,
- hair-trigger,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- imponderous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- infirm,
- insubstantial,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- leger,
- light,
- light as air,
- light-minded,
- lighter than vanity,
- lubricious,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- momentary,
- moody,
- mortal,
- mousse,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- passing,
- perishable,
- protean,
- quicksilver,
- rambling,
- resilient,
- restless,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- sensitive,
- shallow,
- shallow-headed,
- shallow-minded,
- shallow-pated,
- shallow-witted,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- short-lived,
- shuffling,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- souffle,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- startlish,
- superficial,
- temperamental,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- tense,
- ticklish,
- toying,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unfixed,
- unheavy,
- unpredictable,
- unprofound,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- vaporable,
- vaporescent,
- vaporizable,
- vaporizing,
- variable,
- versatile,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatilizable,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- weightless,
- whimsical,
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- unafraid,
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- vaunt,
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- venturesomeness,
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