Related Words:
- tortuous
collapse - not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"
- marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- ambagious,
- ambiguous,
- anamorphous,
- anfractuous,
- askew,
- asymmetric,
- bedizened,
- bent,
- big-sounding,
- billowing,
- billowy,
- bowed,
- circuitous,
- circumlocutory,
- cockeyed,
- complicated,
- contorted,
- convoluted,
- convolutional,
- cranky,
- crazy,
- crooked,
- crumpled,
- crunched,
- curled,
- curling,
- curvaceous,
- curvate,
- curvated,
- curve,
- curved,
- curvesome,
- curviform,
- curvilineal,
- curvilinear,
- curving,
- curvy,
- deceptive,
- declamatory,
- deviative,
- devious,
- distorted,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flexuose,
- flexuous,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- geosynclinal,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- incurvate,
- incurvated,
- incurved,
- incurving,
- indirect,
- inkhorn,
- intricate,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involutional,
- involved,
- irregular,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lopsided,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- meretricious,
- misleading,
- nonsymmetric,
- one-sided,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- recurvate,
- recurvated,
- recurved,
- recurving,
- rhetorical,
- rivose,
- rivulose,
- roundabout,
- ruffled,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- serpentine,
- showy,
- sinuate,
- sinuose,
- sinuous,
- snaky,
- sonorous,
- sprung,
- stilted,
- tall,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- undulant,
- unstraightforward,
- unsymmetric,
- wandering,
- warped,
- wavy,
- whorled,
- winding,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- zigzag
- pompous
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- characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Latinate,
- affected,
- arrogant,
- assured,
- aureate,
- awkward,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bloated,
- boastful,
- bombastic,
- braggart,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- cocksure,
- conceited,
- confident,
- conventional,
- convinced,
- convoluted,
- cramped,
- cumbrous,
- decided,
- declamatory,
- decorous,
- determined,
- egotistical,
- elephantine,
- elevated,
- embroidered,
- euphuistic,
- exhibitionist,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flatulent,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- forced,
- formal,
- fulsome,
- fustian,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- guinde,
- halting,
- haughty,
- heavy,
- hieratic,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-hat,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hoity-toity,
- hubristic,
- imperious,
- important,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- leaden,
- lexiphanic,
- liturgic,
- lofty,
- lumbering,
- lurid,
- magisterial,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- narcissistic,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbearing,
- overblown,
- overconfident,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- persuaded,
- poised,
- ponderous,
- pontifical,
- positive,
- presumptuous,
- pretentious,
- proud,
- puffy,
- reassured,
- rhetorical,
- ritual,
- ritualistic,
- sacerdotal,
- secure,
- self-assured,
- self-centered,
- self-conceited,
- self-confident,
- self-important,
- self-reliant,
- selfish,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- snobbish,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- solemn,
- sonorous,
- stately,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stuck-up,
- stuffy,
- sure,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unafraid,
- undoubting,
- unfaltering,
- unhesitating,
- unwavering,
- unwieldy,
- uppity,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- well-mannered,
- windy
- tasteless
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- lacking aesthetic or social taste
- lacking flavor related words >
- Doric,
- arid,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- barren,
- base,
- blah,
- bland,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- boorish,
- cacophonous,
- changeable,
- characterless,
- cheap,
- chintzy,
- clumsy,
- coarse,
- cold,
- colorless,
- crude,
- dead,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- dismal,
- distasteful,
- doggerel,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- dysphemistic,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- flashy,
- flat,
- flavorless,
- garish,
- gauche,
- gaudy,
- graceless,
- gross,
- gruelly,
- halfhearted,
- harsh,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- ill-flavored,
- improper,
- impure,
- in bad taste,
- inane,
- inappropriate,
- inconcinnate,
- inconcinnous,
- incorrect,
- indecent,
- indecisive,
- indecorous,
- indelicate,
- indifferent,
- inelegant,
- inexcitable,
- infelicitous,
- infirm of purpose,
- infirm of will,
- insipid,
- irresolute,
- jejune,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- loud,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- maladroit,
- meretricious,
- mild,
- milk-and-water,
- milky,
- mushy,
- neutral,
- offensive,
- outlandish,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pappy,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- pulpy,
- rude,
- sapless,
- savorless,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiceless,
- spiritless,
- stale,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tawdry,
- tedious,
- thin,
- unaesthetic,
- unappetizing,
- unbecoming,
- unbeseeming,
- uncourtly,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- undignified,
- uneuphonious,
- unfelicitous,
- unfitting,
- unflavored,
- ungenteel,
- ungraceful,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unsavory,
- unseemly,
- unsuitable,
- untasteful,
- vapid,
- vulgar,
- washy,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- wild,
- wishy-washy,
- wooden,
- wrong
- tinsel
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- a thread with glittering metal foil attached
- a showy decoration that is basically valueless; "all the tinsel of self-promotion"
- interweave with tinsel; "tinseled velvet"
- adorn with tinsel; "snow flakes tinseled the trees"
- impart a cheap brightness to; "his tinseled image of Hollywood" related words >
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- apparent,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bead,
- bejewel,
- beribbon,
- bespangle,
- blatant,
- blink,
- blinking,
- bogus,
- bravery,
- brazen,
- brummagem,
- cheat,
- chiffon,
- chintzy,
- clinquant,
- colorable,
- colored,
- coruscate,
- coruscation,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- diamond,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- engrave,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- fakement,
- falsified,
- feather,
- feigned,
- festoons,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- figure,
- filigree,
- finery,
- firefly,
- flag,
- flashy,
- flounce,
- flower,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- forgery,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- froufrou,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- garbled,
- garish,
- garland,
- gaudery,
- gem,
- gilded,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gingerbread,
- glaring,
- glimmer,
- glimmering,
- glisk,
- glisten,
- glister,
- glitter,
- glittering,
- glowworm,
- hoax,
- illegitimate,
- illuminate,
- imitation,
- impostor,
- jewel,
- junk,
- junky,
- loud,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- meretricious,
- mock,
- ostensible,
- paint,
- paste,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- plausible,
- plume,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- quasi,
- queer,
- ribbon,
- rip-off,
- scintilla,
- scintillate,
- scintillation,
- seeming,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shimmer,
- shimmering,
- shoddy,
- simulacrum,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spangle,
- spark,
- sparkle,
- specious,
- spurious,
- stroboscopic light,
- superfluity,
- supposititious,
- swindle,
- synthetic,
- tawdry,
- tin,
- titivated,
- trappings,
- trickery,
- trumpery,
- twinkle,
- twinkling,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped,
- whited sepulcher,
- wreathe
- sententious
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- abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- affected,
- allegorical,
- aphoristic,
- aposiopestic,
- associational,
- axiomatic,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- brief,
- brusque,
- cautionary,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- contracted,
- convoluted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- declamatory,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- didactic,
- directive,
- docked,
- elevated,
- elliptic,
- eloquent,
- epigrammatic,
- euphuistic,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facund,
- figurative,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gnomic,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- indicative,
- inkhorn,
- instructive,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- labyrinthine,
- laconic,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- meretricious,
- metaphorical,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- piquant,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- pointed,
- pompous,
- preachy,
- pregnant,
- pretentious,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- pungent,
- readable,
- recommendatory,
- referential,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- reserved,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- showy,
- significant,
- significative,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- suggestive,
- summary,
- symbolic,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tall,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- tortuous,
- transferred,
- truncated,
- warning
- tall
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- a garment size for a tall person
- great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- a mile long,
- absurd,
- affected,
- altitudinous,
- bedizened,
- beyond belief,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- bumper,
- colossal,
- considerable,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- extensive,
- extravagant,
- far-flung,
- far-reaching,
- fargoing,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- giant,
- gigantic,
- goodly,
- grand,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- great,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- healthy,
- high,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-reaching,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- huge,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- interminable,
- labyrinthine,
- lank,
- lanky,
- large,
- large-scale,
- leggy,
- lengthy,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- long,
- long-legged,
- longish,
- longsome,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- man-sized,
- meretricious,
- no end of,
- not deserving belief,
- numerous,
- open to doubt,
- open to suspicion,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- outrageous,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- passing belief,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- problematic,
- questionable,
- rangy,
- rhetorical,
- ridiculous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedal,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- sizable,
- sky-high,
- skyscraping,
- soaring,
- sonorous,
- staggering belief,
- statuesque,
- steep,
- stilted,
- substantial,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- swollen,
- thick,
- thin,
- tidy,
- tortuous,
- towering,
- unbelievable,
- unconvincing,
- unearthly,
- ungodly,
- unimaginable,
- unthinkable,
- unworthy of belief,
- windy,
- without end
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- achingly sweet,
- affected,
- agreeable,
- agreeable-sounding,
- appealing,
- ariose,
- arioso,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- booming,
- canorous,
- cantabile,
- catchy,
- clangorous,
- clattery,
- consonant,
- convoluted,
- deafening,
- declamatory,
- droning,
- dulcet,
- ear-piercing,
- ear-rending,
- ear-splitting,
- earthshaking,
- elevated,
- euphonic,
- euphonious,
- euphonous,
- euphuistic,
- fine-toned,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flowery,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- full,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- golden,
- golden-tongued,
- golden-voiced,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- honeyed,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- loud-sounding,
- loudish,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- melic,
- mellifluent,
- mellifluous,
- mellisonant,
- mellow,
- melodic,
- melodious,
- meretricious,
- monotone,
- monotonic,
- music-flowing,
- music-like,
- musical,
- noiseful,
- oratorical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pealing,
- pedantic,
- piercing,
- plangent,
- pleasant,
- pleasant-sounding,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pulsing,
- rackety,
- resonant,
- resonating,
- resounding,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- ringing,
- rolling,
- rotund,
- round,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- silver-toned,
- silver-tongued,
- silver-voiced,
- silvery,
- singable,
- songful,
- songlike,
- soniferous,
- sounded,
- sounding,
- stentoraphonic,
- stentorian,
- stentorious,
- stilted,
- sweet,
- sweet-flowing,
- sweet-sounding,
- tall,
- throbbing,
- thunderous,
- tonal,
- toneless,
- tonitruant,
- tonitruous,
- tortuous,
- tunable,
- tuneful,
- uproarious,
- vibrant,
- vibrating,
- window-rattling
- cheap
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- relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"
- embarrassingly stingy related words >
- Mickey Mouse,
- NG,
- at cost,
- avaricious,
- bad,
- base,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- beneath one,
- brummagem,
- budget,
- cheapjack,
- cheaply,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- close,
- closefisted,
- coarse,
- common,
- contemptible,
- crummy,
- debasing,
- degrading,
- demeaning,
- deplorable,
- despicable,
- disgraceful,
- easily,
- easy,
- economic,
- economical,
- economy,
- fake,
- flashy,
- for a song,
- fourth-class,
- frugal,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- gutter,
- hardfisted,
- humiliating,
- humiliative,
- illiberal,
- inexpensive,
- inexpensively,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- infra indignitatem,
- irregular,
- junk,
- junky,
- lousy,
- low,
- low-class,
- low-grade,
- low-priced,
- low-quality,
- low-test,
- manageable,
- mean,
- measly,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- miserly,
- moderate,
- modest,
- near,
- niggardly,
- no-account,
- no-good,
- nominal,
- not worth having,
- not worth mentioning,
- not worthwhile,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- on the cheap,
- opprobrious,
- ornery,
- outrageous,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- penny-pinching,
- penurious,
- petty,
- phony,
- pinchfisted,
- pinching,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poor,
- popular,
- punk,
- reasonable,
- reasonably,
- reduced,
- rotten,
- rubbishy,
- sad,
- save-all,
- scandalous,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- second-best,
- second-class,
- second-rate,
- seedy,
- sensible,
- shabby,
- sham,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sleazy,
- sorry,
- stingy,
- tacky,
- tatty,
- tawdry,
- terrible,
- third-class,
- third-rate,
- tight,
- tight-fisted,
- tightfisted,
- tinny,
- token,
- too bad,
- trashy,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- trumpery,
- two-bit,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- unbecoming,
- unexpensive,
- ungenerous,
- unworthy of one,
- valueless,
- vile,
- within means,
- worth the money,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- wrong
- shameless
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- feeling no shame; "a shameless imposter"; "an unblushing apologist for fascism" related words >
- abandoned,
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- abominable,
- amoral,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- audacious,
- aweless,
- barefaced,
- blatant,
- bold,
- bold as brass,
- boldfaced,
- brash,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- callous,
- calloused,
- case-hardened,
- cheeky,
- colorful,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- crude,
- dark,
- delinquent,
- deviant,
- devious,
- disgraceful,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- dissolute,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- evasive,
- evil,
- exhibitionistic,
- extravagant,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- flagrant,
- flaring,
- flaunting,
- forward,
- fraudulent,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- griefless,
- hard,
- hardened,
- hardhearted,
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