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citizenry
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the body of citizens of a state or country; "the Spanish people"
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Everyman
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John Doe
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Public
,
body politic
,
common man
,
commonwealth
,
community
,
community at large
,
constituency
,
cultural community
,
demos
,
dwellers
,
estate
,
everybody
,
everyman
,
everyone
,
everywoman
,
folk
,
folks
,
general public
,
gentry
,
habitancy
,
hoi polloi
,
inhabitants
,
linguistic community
,
men
,
nation
,
nationality
,
people
,
people at large
,
people in general
,
persons
,
polity
,
populace
,
population
,
public
,
society
,
speech community
,
state
,
the citizenry
,
the general public
,
the people
,
the populace
,
the population
,
the public
,
whole people
,
world
,
you and me
cult
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a system of religious beliefs and rituals; "devoted to the cultus of the Blessed Virgin"
adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices
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Sabbatarianism
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Weltanschauung
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adoration
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articles of religion
,
catechism
,
celebration
,
ceremonialism
,
church
,
co-worship
,
communion
,
connection
,
credenda
,
credo
,
creed
,
cultism
,
cultus
,
denomination
,
devotion
,
doctrinal statement
,
dulia
,
faith
,
formalism
,
formulated belief
,
gospel
,
homage
,
hyperdulia
,
ideology
,
idolatry
,
ism
,
latria
,
liturgics
,
liturgiology
,
liturgism
,
mystique
,
persuasion
,
political faith
,
political philosophy
,
prostration
,
religion
,
reverence
,
ritualism
,
rituality
,
ritualization
,
sabbatism
,
sacramentalism
,
sacramentarianism
,
school
,
sect
,
solemn observance
,
solemnization
,
symbolics
,
symbolism
,
system of belief
,
transcendent wonder
,
veneration
,
world view
,
worship
,
worshiping
orthodoxy
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the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion)
a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards
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accommodation
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accord
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accordance
,
acquiescence
,
adaptation
,
adaption
,
adjustment
,
agreement
,
belief
,
compliance
,
conformance
,
conformation other-direction
,
conformity
,
congruity
,
consistency
,
conventionality
,
correspondence
,
credo
,
creed
,
doctrine
,
faith
,
firmness
,
flexibility
,
fundamentalism
,
hardness
,
harmony
,
impliability
,
inexorability
,
inflexibility
,
keeping
,
line
,
malleability
,
obduracy
,
obdurateness
,
obedience
,
observance
,
obstinacy
,
pliancy
,
precisianism
,
purism
,
puritanism
,
reconcilement
,
reconciliation
,
relentlessness
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religion
,
religious belief
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religious faith
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rigidity
,
rigidness
,
rigor
,
rigorousness
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stiffness
,
strictness
,
stubbornness
,
system of beliefs
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teaching
,
theology
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tradition
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traditionalism
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unbendingness
,
uncompromisingness
,
uniformity
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unrelentingness
,
unyieldingness
catechism
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an elementary book summarizing the principles of a Christian religion; written as questions and answers
a series of question put to an individual (such as a political candidate) to elicit their views
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Weltanschauung
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articles of religion
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bone of contention
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credenda
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credo
,
creed
,
cross-interrogatory
,
cross-question
,
cult
,
debating point
,
demand
,
doctrinal statement
,
faith
,
feeler
,
formulated belief
,
gospel
,
ideology
,
inquiry
,
interrogation
,
interrogative
,
interrogatory
,
ism
,
issue
,
leader
,
leading question
,
moot point
,
point at issue
,
point in question
,
political faith
,
political philosophy
,
problem
,
query
,
question
,
question at issue
,
question mark
,
quodlibet
,
religion
,
school
,
system of belief
,
topic
,
trial balloon
,
vexed question
,
world view
self-reliance
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Declaration of Independence
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arrogance
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assurance
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assuredness
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autarchy
,
autarky
,
autonomy
,
belief
,
boastfulness
,
certitude
,
cocksureness
,
conceit
,
confidence
,
confidentness
,
conviction
,
courage
,
face
,
faith
,
haughtiness
,
home rule
,
hubris
,
independence
,
individualism
,
inner-direction
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweening
,
overweeningness
,
pardonable pride
,
poise
,
pomposity
,
positiveness
,
pride
,
pridefulness
,
proudness
,
purse-pride
,
rugged individualism
,
security
,
self-assurance
,
self-confidence
,
self-consequence
,
self-containment
,
self-determination
,
self-direction
,
self-esteem
,
self-government
,
self-importance
,
self-respect
,
self-sufficiency
,
settled belief
,
stiff-necked pride
,
stiff-neckedness
,
subjective certainty
,
sureness
,
surety
,
trust
,
vanity
maxim
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a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916)
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Procrustean law
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a belief
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adage
,
aphorism
,
apophthegm
,
apothegm
,
article of faith
,
axiom
,
brocard
,
byword
,
canon
,
cliche
,
code
,
commandment
,
commonplace
,
convention
,
criterion
,
dictum
,
doctrine
,
dogma
,
epigram
,
form
,
formality
,
formula
,
formulary
,
general principle
,
gnome
,
golden rule
,
guideline
,
guiding principle
,
imperative
,
law
,
law of nature
,
mitzvah
,
moral
,
mot
,
motto
,
norm
,
norma
,
order of nature
,
ordinance
,
platitude
,
precept
,
prescribed form
,
prescript
,
prescription
,
principium
,
principle
,
proverb
,
regulation
,
rubric
,
rule
,
rule of thumb
,
saw
,
saying
,
set form
,
settled principle
,
slogan
,
standard
,
standing order
,
teaching
,
tenet
,
theorem
,
truism
,
universal law
,
witticism
,
working principle
,
working rule
courage
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a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear
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arrogance
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assurance
,
assuredness
,
audacity
,
backbone
,
balls
,
belief
,
boldness
,
bottle
,
bottom
,
bravery
,
certitude
,
cocksureness
,
confidence
,
confidentness
,
conviction
,
daring
,
dauntlessness
,
determination
,
doughtiness
,
faith
,
fearlessness
,
firmness
,
fortitude
,
gallantry
,
gameness
,
grit
,
guts
,
heart
,
heroism
,
hubris
,
intrepidity
,
mettle
,
mettlesomeness
,
moxie
,
nerve
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweening
,
overweeningness
,
persistence
,
pith
,
pluck
,
pluckiness
,
poise
,
pomposity
,
positiveness
,
pride
,
resolution
,
sand
,
security
,
self-assurance
,
self-confidence
,
self-importance
,
self-reliance
,
settled belief
,
spirit
,
spunk
,
spunkiness
,
stamina
,
subjective certainty
,
sureness
,
surety
,
tenacity
,
toughness
,
true grit
,
trust
,
valor
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related words >
AB
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ADC
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Ancient Mariner
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Argonaut
,
CO
,
Dylan
,
Flying Dutchman
,
Neptune
,
Poseidon
,
Varuna
,
able seaman
,
able-bodied seaman
,
aide
,
aide-de-camp
,
asphyxiate
,
be brought down
,
be felled
,
be killed
,
be struck down
,
be traumatized
,
bluejacket
,
boatswain
,
break out
,
brigadier
,
brigadier general
,
buccaneer
,
captain
,
catch
,
catch cold
,
chicken colonel
,
chief engineer
,
chief mate
,
chief of staff
,
choke
,
collapse
,
colonel
,
come down with
,
commandant
,
commander
,
commander in chief
,
commanding officer
,
commissioned officer
,
commit hara-kiri
,
commit suicide
,
company officer
,
contract
,
deck officer
,
deep-sea man
,
drown
,
erupt
,
exec
,
executive officer
,
fair-weather sailor
,
famish
,
fever
,
field marshal
,
field officer
,
first lieutenant
,
fisherman
,
five-star general
,
four-star general
,
general
,
general officer
,
generalissimo
,
get
,
go into shock
,
hearty
,
jack
,
jack afloat
,
jack-tar
,
jacky
,
jemadar
,
junior officer
,
lieutenant
,
lieutenant colonel
,
lieutenant general
,
limey
,
lobsterman
,
major
,
major general
,
marechal
,
mariner
,
marshal
,
master
,
mate
,
matelot
,
naval officer
,
navigating officer
,
navigator
,
officer
,
one-star general
,
orderly officer
,
overdose
,
patron
,
pipes
,
pirate
,
privateer
,
quartermaster
,
risaldar
,
run a temperature
,
sailing master
,
sailor
,
salt
,
sea dog
,
sea rover
,
seafarer
,
seafaring man
,
seaman
,
second mate
,
senior officer
,
shavetail
,
shipman
,
shipmaster
,
sicken
,
sirdar
,
skipper
,
smother
,
staff officer
,
starve
,
strangle
,
subahdar
,
subaltern
,
sublieutenant
,
suffocate
,
take
,
take an overdose
,
take ill
,
tar
,
the Old Man
,
the brass
,
three-star general
,
top brass
,
two-star general
,
viking
,
watch officer
,
water dog
,
whaler
,
windjammer
,
windsailor
persons
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Everyman
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John Doe
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Public
,
body politic
,
citizenry
,
common man
,
commonwealth
,
community
,
community at large
,
estate
,
everybody
,
everyman
,
everyone
,
everywoman
,
folk
,
folks
,
general public
,
gentry
,
men
,
nation
,
nationality
,
people
,
people in general
,
polity
,
populace
,
population
,
public
,
society
,
state
,
world
,
you and me
humanities
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academic specialty
,
area
,
classical education
,
core curriculum
,
course
,
course of study
,
curriculum
,
discipline
,
elective
,
field
,
general education
,
general studies
,
liberal arts
,
major
,
minor
,
proseminar
,
quadrivium
,
refresher course
,
scientific education
,
seminar
,
specialty
,
study
,
subdiscipline
,
subject
,
technical education
,
trivium
liberal arts
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related words >
academic specialty
,
area
,
classical education
,
core curriculum
,
course
,
course of study
,
curriculum
,
discipline
,
elective
,
field
,
general education
,
general studies
,
humanities
,
major
,
minor
,
proseminar
,
quadrivium
,
refresher course
,
scientific education
,
seminar
,
specialty
,
study
,
subdiscipline
,
subject
,
technical education
,
trivium
curriculum
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related words >
academic specialty
,
area
,
classical education
,
core curriculum
,
course
,
course of study
,
discipline
,
elective
,
field
,
general education
,
general studies
,
humanities
,
liberal arts
,
major
,
minor
,
proseminar
,
quadrivium
,
refresher course
,
scientific education
,
seminar
,
specialty
,
study
,
subdiscipline
,
subject
,
technical education
,
trivium
refresher course
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a course that reviews and updates a topic for those who have not kept abreast of developments
related words >
academic specialty
,
area
,
classical education
,
core curriculum
,
course
,
course of study
,
curriculum
,
discipline
,
elective
,
field
,
general education
,
general studies
,
humanities
,
liberal arts
,
major
,
minor
,
proseminar
,
quadrivium
,
scientific education
,
seminar
,
specialty
,
study
,
subdiscipline
,
subject
,
technical education
,
trivium
skeptical
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related words >
Humean
,
Pyrrhonic
,
agnostic
,
ambiguous
,
capricious
,
cautious
,
chancy
,
changeable
,
cynical
,
dicey
,
disbelieving
,
disinclined to believe
,
disposed to doubt
,
dissenting
,
distrustful
,
doubtful
,
doubting
,
dubious
,
equivocal
,
erratic
,
fickle
,
freethinking
,
from Missouri
,
guarded
,
hard of belief
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
impervious to persuasion
,
in doubt
,
incalculable
,
inconvincible
,
incredulous
,
indecisive
,
indemonstrable
,
irresolute
,
leery
,
mistrustful
,
mistrusting
,
polysemous
,
questioning
,
scrupulous
,
shy
,
shy of belief
,
skeptic
,
suspecting
,
suspicious
,
touch-and-go
,
unaccountable
,
unbelieving
,
uncertain
,
unconfirmable
,
unconvinced
,
unconvincible
,
uncredulous
,
undivinable
,
unforeseeable
,
unpersuadable
,
unpersuaded
,
unpersuasible
,
unpredictable
,
unprovable
,
unsure
,
untrusting
,
unverifiable
,
unwilling to accept
,
variable
,
wary
,
wavering
,
whimsical
top brass
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the most important persons in a governing body
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ADC
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CO
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Establishment
,
OD
,
VIP
,
aide
,
aide-de-camp
,
baron
,
big gun
,
big man
,
big name
,
bigwig
,
board
,
board of directors
,
board of regents
,
board of trustees
,
brass
,
brass hat
,
brigadier
,
brigadier general
,
bureaucracy
,
cabinet
,
cadre
,
captain
,
celebrity
,
chicken colonel
,
chief of staff
,
colonel
,
commandant
,
commander
,
commander in chief
,
commanding officer
,
commissioned officer
,
company officer
,
council
,
dignitary
,
dignity
,
directorate
,
directory
,
elder
,
exec
,
executive arm
,
executive committee
,
executive hierarchy
,
executive officer
,
father
,
field marshal
,
field officer
,
figure
,
first lieutenant
,
five-star general
,
four-star general
,
general
,
general officer
,
generalissimo
,
governing board
,
governing body
,
great man
,
hierarchy
,
higher echelons
,
higher-ups
,
important person
,
infrastructure
,
interests
,
interlocking directorate
,
jemadar
,
junior officer
,
lieutenant
,
lieutenant colonel
,
lieutenant general
,
lion
,
lords of creation
,
magnate
,
major
,
major general
,
man of mark
,
management
,
marechal
,
marshal
,
ministry
,
mogul
,
nabob
,
name
,
notability
,
notable
,
officer
,
officialdom
,
one-star general
,
orderly officer
,
panjandrum
,
person of renown
,
personage
,
personality
,
pillar of society
,
power
,
power elite
,
prelacy
,
risaldar
,
ruling circle
,
ruling class
,
ruling classes
,
sachem
,
senior officer
,
shavetail
,
sirdar
,
somebody
,
something
,
staff officer
,
steering committee
,
subahdar
,
subaltern
,
sublieutenant
,
the Establishment
,
the Old Man
,
the administration
,
the authorities
,
the brass
,
the executive
,
the great
,
the ingroup
,
the interests
,
the people upstairs
,
the power elite
,
the power structure
,
the top
,
them
,
they
,
three-star general
,
top people
,
two-star general
,
tycoon
,
very important person
,
worthy
self-confidence
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aplomb
,
arrogance
,
assurance
,
assuredness
,
balance
,
belief
,
boastfulness
,
certitude
,
cockiness
,
cocksureness
,
conceit
,
confidence
,
confidentness
,
conviction
,
courage
,
equability
,
equanimity
,
equilibrium
,
face
,
faith
,
haughtiness
,
hubris
,
independence
,
level head
,
levelheadedness
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweening
,
overweeningness
,
pardonable pride
,
poise
,
pomposity
,
positiveness
,
possession
,
presence of mind
,
pride
,
pridefulness
,
proudness
,
purse-pride
,
restraint
,
sanguineness
,
security
,
self-assurance
,
self-command
,
self-consequence
,
self-control
,
self-esteem
,
self-importance
,
self-possession
,
self-reliance
,
self-respect
,
self-restraint
,
self-sufficiency
,
settled belief
,
stiff-necked pride
,
stiff-neckedness
,
subjective certainty
,
sureness
,
surety
,
trust
,
vanity
,
well-regulated mind
fondness
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a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"
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Amor
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Christian love
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Eros
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Platonic love
,
admiration
,
adoration
,
affection
,
agape
,
ardency
,
ardor
,
attachment
,
blind faith
,
bodily love
,
brotherly love
,
caritas
,
charity
,
conjugal love
,
credulity
,
credulousness
,
crush
,
delicacy
,
desire
,
devotion
,
disposition to believe
,
dotage
,
ease of belief
,
faithful love
,
fancy
,
fervor
,
flame
,
free love
,
free-lovism
,
gentleness
,
gross credulity
,
gust
,
gusto
,
heart
,
hero worship
,
idolatry
,
idolism
,
idolization
,
inclination
,
infatuation
,
lasciviousness
,
libido
,
like
,
likes
,
liking
,
love
,
lovemaking
,
married love
,
overcredulity
,
overcredulousness
,
overopenness to conviction
,
overtrustfulness
,
partiality
,
passion
,
physical love
,
popular regard
,
popularity
,
predilection
,
rash conviction
,
regard
,
relish
,
sentiment
,
sex
,
sexual love
,
shine
,
soft spot
,
softheartedness
,
softness
,
spiritual love
,
taste
,
tender feeling
,
tender passion
,
tenderheartedness
,
tenderness
,
truelove
,
trustfulness
,
uncritical acceptance
,
uncriticalness
,
unquestioning belief
,
unripe acceptation
,
unskepticalness
,
unsuspectingness
,
unsuspiciousness
,
uxoriousness
,
warm heart
,
warmheartedness
,
weakness
,
will to believe
,
willingness to believe
,
wishful belief
,
wishful thinking
,
worship
,
yearning
hubris
collapse
overbearing pride or presumption
related words >
arrogance
,
assumption
,
assurance
,
assuredness
,
audacity
,
belief
,
boldness
,
brashness
,
brass
,
brazen boldness
,
bumptiousness
,
certitude
,
cheek
,
chutzpah
,
cocksureness
,
confidence
,
confidentness
,
contumely
,
conviction
,
courage
,
effrontery
,
faith
,
familiarity
,
gall
,
hardihood
,
heroics
,
imposition
,
improvidence
,
imprudence
,
impudence
,
indiscretion
,
injudiciousness
,
insolence
,
lawlessness
,
liberties
,
liberty abused
,
license
,
licentiousness
,
obtrusiveness
,
overboldness
,
overcarelessness
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweening
,
overweeningness
,
poise
,
pomposity
,
positiveness
,
presumption
,
presumptuousness
,
pride
,
procacity
,
pushiness
,
rashness
,
security
,
self-assurance
,
self-confidence
,
self-importance
,
self-reliance
,
settled belief
,
subjective certainty
,
sureness
,
surety
,
temerariousness
,
temerity
,
trust
,
unchariness
,
undue liberty
,
unwariness
,
uppishness
,
uppityness
dubious
collapse
not convinced; "they admitted the force of my argument but remained dubious"
related words >
Humean
,
Pyrrhonic
,
a bit thick
,
a bit thin
,
absurd
,
agnostic
,
ambitendent
,
ambivalent
,
amoral
,
arguable
,
at issue
,
at loose ends
,
beguiling
,
beyond belief
,
capricious
,
catchy
,
changeable
,
confutable
,
conjectural
,
conscienceless
,
contestable
,
controversial
,
controvertible
,
corrupt
,
corrupted
,
criminal
,
crooked
,
dark
,
debatable
,
deceiving
,
deceptive
,
delusive
,
delusory
,
deniable
,
devious
,
dishonest
,
dishonorable
,
disinclined
,
disputable
,
distrustful
,
double-minded
,
doubtable
,
doubtful
,
doubting
,
dubitable
,
equivocal
,
evasive
,
fallacious
,
false
,
felonious
,
fence-sitting
,
fence-straddling
,
fickle
,
fishy
,
fly-by-night
,
fraudulent
,
from Missouri
,
hallucinatory
,
hard of belief
,
hard to believe
,
hardly possible
,
hesitant
,
iffy
,
ill-got
,
ill-gotten
,
illusive
,
illusory
,
immoral
,
implausible
,
improbable
,
in dispute
,
in doubt
,
in dubio
,
in question
,
inconceivable
,
incredible
,
incredulous
,
indecisive
,
indirect
,
infirm of purpose
,
insecure
,
insidious
,
irresolute
,
irresolved
,
leery
,
mercurial
,
misleading
,
mistakable
,
mistrustful
,
mistrusting
,
moot
,
more than doubtful
,
mugwumpian
,
mugwumpish
,
mutable
,
not deserving belief
,
not kosher
,
of two minds
,
open
,
open to doubt
,
open to question
,
open to suspicion
,
passing belief
,
preposterous
,
problematic
,
questionable
,
questioning
,
refutable
,
reluctant
,
ridiculous
,
rocky
,
rotten
,
scrupulous
,
shady
,
shaky
,
shameless
,
shifty
,
shy
,
sinister
,
skeptic
,
skeptical
,
slippery
,
speculative
,
staggering belief
,
suppositional
,
suspect
,
suspecting
,
suspicious
,
tall
,
thick
,
thin
,
tottery
,
treacherous
,
trickish
,
tricksy
,
tricky
,
trustless
,
unbelievable
,
uncertain
,
unclear
,
unconscienced
,
unconscientious
,
unconscionable
,
unconvincing
,
undecided
,
undependable
,
underhand
,
underhanded
,
undetermined
,
unearthly
,
unethical
,
ungodly
,
unhealthy
,
unimaginable
,
unlikely
,
unpredictable
,
unprincipled
,
unpromising
,
unreliable
,
unresolved
,
unsafe
,
unsavory
,
unscrupulous
,
unsettled
,
unsound
,
unstable
,
unsteady
,
unstraightforward
,
unsure
,
unthinkable
,
untrusting
,
untrustworthy
,
untrusty
,
unworthy of belief
,
wary
,
without remorse
,
without shame
avow
collapse
admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about
related words >
accept
,
acknowledge
,
admit
,
admit everything
,
affirm
,
agree provisionally
,
allege
,
allow
,
announce
,
annunciate
,
argue
,
assent grudgingly
,
assert
,
assever
,
asseverate
,
attest
,
aver
,
avouch
,
bear witness
,
certify
,
claim
,
come clean
,
concede
,
confess
,
contend
,
cop a plea
,
declare
,
defend
,
depone
,
depose
,
disclose
,
enunciate
,
express
,
express general agreement
,
express the belief
,
give evidence
,
go along with
,
grant
,
have
,
hold
,
insist
,
issue a manifesto
,
lay down
,
let on
,
maintain
,
manifesto
,
not oppose
,
open up
,
out with it
,
own
,
own up
,
plead guilty
,
predicate
,
pretend
,
pretext
,
proclaim
,
profess
,
pronounce
,
protest
,
protest too much
,
purport
,
put
,
put it
,
recognize
,
say
,
set down
,
speak
,
speak out
,
speak up
,
spill
,
spill it
,
spit it out
,
stand for
,
stand on
,
state
,
submit
,
swear
,
tell all
,
tell the truth
,
testify
,
vindicate
,
vouch
,
vow
,
warrant
,
witness
,
yield
conclusion
collapse
an intuitive assumption; "jump to a conclusion"
the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..."
the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
a final settlement; "the conclusion of a business deal"; "the conclusion of the peace treaty"
related words >
PS
,
Parthian shot
,
Z
,
accommodation
,
addendum
,
adjustment
,
affirmance
,
affirmation
,
aftermath
,
afterthought
,
allegation
,
announcement
,
annunciation
,
apodosis
,
appendix
,
arrangement
,
assertion
,
asseveration
,
assumption
,
attitude
,
averment
,
avouchment
,
avowal
,
back matter
,
bitter end
,
catastrophe
,
cease
,
ceasing
,
cessation
,
chorus
,
clear
,
climate of opinion
,
climax
,
close
,
closing
,
closure
,
coda
,
codicil
,
cogent
,
colophon
,
common belief
,
community sentiment
,
compelling
,
completing
,
completion
,
conceit
,
concept
,
conception
,
conclusive
,
consensus gentium
,
consequence
,
consequent
,
consideration
,
consummation
,
continuance
,
continuation
,
convincing
,
corollary
,
crack of doom
,
creed
,
culmination
,
curtain
,
curtains
,
death
,
decease
,
deciding
,
decisive
,
declaration
,
deduction
,
definitive
,
denouement
,
derivation
,
descendant
,
desistance
,
destination
,
destiny
,
determinant
,
determinate
,
determination
,
determinative
,
dictum
,
doom
,
double take
,
dying words
,
dynasty
,
effect
,
end
,
end point
,
end result
,
ending
,
enunciation
,
envoi
,
epilogue
,
eschatology
,
estimate
,
estimation
,
ethos
,
expiration
,
eye
,
fate
,
feeling
,
final result
,
final solution
,
final twitch
,
final words
,
finale
,
finality
,
finis
,
finish
,
finishing
,
follow-through
,
follow-up
,
full development
,
general belief
,
goal
,
heir
,
idea
,
illation
,
impression
,
incontrovertible
,
induction
,
inference
,
ipse dixit
,
irrefragable
,
irrefutable
,
izzard
,
judgment
,
last
,
last act
,
last breath
,
last gasp
,
last things
,
last trumpet
,
last words
,
latter end
,
lights
,
line
,
lineage
,
manifesto
,
maturation
,
maturity
,
mind
,
mystique
,
notion
,
observation
,
offspring
,
omega
,
opinion
,
parting shot
,
payoff
,
perfection
,
period
,
peroration
,
personal judgment
,
point of view
,
popular belief
,
position
,
position paper
,
positive declaration
,
posterity
,
postface
,
postfix
,
postlude
,
postscript
,
posture
,
precise
,
predicate
,
predication
,
presumption
,
prevailing belief
,
proclamation
,
profession
,
pronouncement
,
proposition
,
protest
,
protestation
,
public belief
,
public opinion
,
quietus
,
ratiocination
,
reaction
,
refrain
,
resolution
,
resting place
,
ripeness
,
rounding off
,
rounding out
,
say
,
say-so
,
saying
,
sealing
,
second thought
,
sentiment
,
sequel
,
sequela
,
sequelae
,
sequelant
,
sequent
,
sequitur
,
settlement
,
sight
,
signature
,
signing
,
solemnization
,
stance
,
stand
,
statement
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
stopping place
,
subscript
,
successor
,
suffix
,
supplement
,
swan song
,
tag
,
telling
,
term
,
terminal
,
termination
,
terminus
,
theory
,
thinking
,
thought
,
topping off
,
unambiguous
,
unanswerable
,
utterance
,
view
,
vouch
,
way of thinking
,
windup
,
word
presumption
collapse
a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming; "his presumption was intolerable"
audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"
(law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed
related words >
adventurousness
,
allegory
,
allusion
,
apriorism
,
aptitude
,
arcane meaning
,
arrogance
,
aspiration
,
assumption
,
assurance
,
assured faith
,
attitude
,
audaciousness
,
audacity
,
axiom
,
basis
,
belief
,
bias
,
boldness
,
brashness
,
brass
,
brazenness
,
brinkmanship
,
bumptiousness
,
butting-in
,
chance
,
cheek
,
cheekiness
,
cheerful expectation
,
chutzpah
,
climate of opinion
,
coloration
,
common belief
,
community sentiment
,
conceit
,
concept
,
conception
,
conclusion
,
confidence
,
conjecture
,
connotation
,
consensus gentium
,
consideration
,
contumely
,
conviction
,
courage fou
,
courting disaster
,
crust
,
daredevilry
,
daredeviltry
,
daring
,
deduction
,
dependence
,
desire
,
doomed hope
,
effrontery
,
entailment
,
estimate
,
estimation
,
ethos
,
evidence
,
expectation
,
eye
,
face
,
fair expectation
,
fair prospect
,
faith
,
familiarity
,
favorable prospect
,
feasibility
,
feeling
,
fervent hope
,
fire-eating
,
flirting with death
,
foolhardiness
,
forejudgment
,
forwardness
,
gall
,
general belief
,
going for broke
,
good chance
,
good cheer
,
good hope
,
great expectations
,
grounds
,
guess
,
guesswork
,
hardihood
,
harebrainedness
,
high hopes
,
hint
,
hope
,
hopeful prognosis
,
hopefulness
,
hopes
,
hoping
,
hoping against hope
,
hubris
,
hypothesis
,
idea
,
immodesty
,
impertinence
,
implication
,
implied meaning
,
import
,
imposition
,
impression
,
impudence
,
inference
,
innuendo
,
inquisitiveness
,
insolence
,
intermeddling
,
intimation
,
intrusiveness
,
involvement
,
ironic suggestion
,
judgment
,
lawlessness
,
liability
,
liberties
,
liberty abused
,
license
,
licentiousness
,
lights
,
likelihood
,
likeliness
,
meaning
,
meddlesomeness
,
meddling
,
metaphorical sense
,
mind
,
mystique
,
nerve
,
notion
,
nuance
,
observation
,
obtrusiveness
,
occult meaning
,
odds
,
officiousness
,
opinion
,
outlook
,
overconfidence
,
overtone
,
overweening
,
overweeningness
,
parti pris
,
personal judgment
,
plausibility
,
playing with fire
,
point of view
,
popular belief
,
posit
,
position
,
postulate
,
postulation
,
postulatum
,
posture
,
prayerful hope
,
preapprehension
,
preconception
,
preconclusion
,
preconsideration
,
predecision
,
predetermination
,
predilection
,
predisposition
,
prejudgment
,
prejudication
,
prejudice
,
premature judgment
,
premise
,
premiss
,
prenotion
,
prepossession
,
presumptive evidence
,
presumptuousness
,
presupposal
,
presupposition
,
presurmise
,
prevailing belief
,
pride
,
probabilism
,
probability
,
procacity
,
promise
,
proposition
,
prospect
,
prospects
,
public belief
,
public opinion
,
pushiness
,
reaction
,
reason
,
reasonable ground
,
reasonable hope
,
reliance
,
sanguine expectation
,
security
,
sentiment
,
set of postulates
,
sight
,
stance
,
stand
,
subsense
,
subsidiary sense
,
subsumption
,
suggestion
,
supposal
,
supposing
,
supposition
,
surmise
,
suspicion
,
symbolism
,
temerity
,
tendency
,
theory
,
thesis
,
thinking
,
thought
,
tinge
,
touch
,
trust
,
undercurrent
,
undermeaning
,
undertone
,
undue liberty
,
uppishness
,
uppityness
,
verisimilitude
,
view
,
way of thinking
,
well-grounded hope
,
working hypothesis
confess
collapse
confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
related words >
absolve
,
accept
,
account for
,
accredit with
,
accrete to
,
acknowledge
,
administer absolution
,
administer extreme unction
,
admit
,
admit everything
,
affirm
,
agree provisionally
,
allow
,
apply to
,
ascribe to
,
assent grudgingly
,
assert
,
asseverate
,
assign to
,
attach to
,
attribute to
,
aver
,
avouch
,
avow
,
blame
,
blame for
,
blame on
,
bring home to
,
charge on
,
charge to
,
come clean
,
concede
,
confirm
,
connect with
,
cop a plea
,
credit with
,
declare
,
disclose
,
divulge
,
express general agreement
,
express the belief
,
fasten upon
,
father upon
,
fix on
,
fix upon
,
go along with
,
grant
,
hang on
,
hear confession
,
impute to
,
lay to
,
let on
,
make confession
,
not oppose
,
open up
,
out with it
,
own
,
own up
,
pin on
,
pinpoint
,
place upon
,
plead guilty
,
point to
,
profess
,
receive absolution
,
recognize
,
refer to
,
reveal
,
saddle on
,
saddle with
,
set down to
,
settle upon
,
shrive
,
spill
,
spill it
,
spit it out
,
state
,
swear
,
tell all
,
tell the truth
,
testify
,
vow
,
warrant
,
yield
datum
collapse
an item of factual information derived from measurement or research
related words >
absolute fact
,
accepted fact
,
account
,
acquaintance
,
actual fact
,
admitted fact
,
announcement
,
article
,
aspect
,
axiom
,
bald fact
,
bare fact
,
basis for belief
,
blue book
,
body of evidence
,
briefing
,
brutal fact
,
bulletin
,
case
,
chain of evidence
,
circumstance
,
clue
,
cold fact
,
communication
,
communique
,
conceded fact
,
corpus
,
count
,
data
,
demonstrable fact
,
detail
,
directory
,
dispatch
,
documentation
,
element
,
empirical fact
,
enlightenment
,
established fact
,
evidence
,
exhibit
,
experience
,
expertise
,
facet
,
fact
,
fact of experience
,
factor
,
facts
,
factual base
,
factual information
,
familiarity
,
familiarization
,
gen
,
general information
,
given fact
,
grounds
,
grounds for belief
,
guidebook
,
handout
,
hard fact
,
hard information
,
incidental
,
incidental information
,
indication
,
indisputable fact
,
inescapable fact
,
info
,
information
,
instance
,
instruction
,
intelligence
,
intimacy
,
item
,
item of evidence
,
ken
,
know-how
,
knowing
,
knowledge
,
light
,
manifestation
,
mark
,
material grounds
,
matter
,
matter of fact
,
mention
,
message
,
minor detail
,
minutia
,
minutiae
,
muniments
,
mute witness
,
naked fact
,
not guesswork
,
not opinion
,
notice
,
notification
,
particular
,
piece of evidence
,
plain
,
point
,
positive fact
,
postulate
,
practical knowledge
,
premises
,
presentation
,
private knowledge
,
privity
,
promotional material
,
proof
,
provable fact
,
publication
,
publicity
,
ratio cognoscendi
,
reason to believe
,
regard
,
release
,
relevant fact
,
report
,
respect
,
salient fact
,
self-evident fact
,
self-knowledge
,
sidelight
,
sign
,
significant fact
,
simple fact
,
sober fact
,
statement
,
stubborn fact
,
symptom
,
technic
,
technics
,
technique
,
the case
,
the dope
,
the goods
,
the know
,
the nitty-gritty
,
the scoop
,
thing
,
token
,
transmission
,
undeniable fact
,
well-known fact
,
white book
,
white paper
,
word
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
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
lieutenant
collapse
an officer in a police force
a commissioned military officer
an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade
related words >
ADC
,
CO
,
G-man
,
MP
,
OD
,
acolyte
,
adjutant
,
admiral
,
advocate
,
agent
,
aid
,
aide
,
aide-de-camp
,
aider
,
alter ego
,
alternate
,
amicus curiae
,
assistant
,
attendant
,
attorney
,
auxiliary
,
backup
,
backup man
,
bailiff
,
beadle
,
beagle
,
best man
,
bound bailiff
,
brigadier
,
brigadier general
,
captain
,
catchpole
,
champion
,
chicken colonel
,
chief of police
,
chief of staff
,
chief petty officer
,
coadjutant
,
coadjutor
,
coadjutress
,
coadjutrix
,
colonel
,
commandant
,
commander
,
commander in chief
,
commanding officer
,
commissioned officer
,
commissioner
,
commodore
,
company officer
,
constable
,
deputy
,
deputy sheriff
,
detective
,
dummy
,
ensign
,
exec
,
executive officer
,
exponent
,
fed
,
federal
,
field marshal
,
field officer
,
figurehead
,
first lieutenant
,
five-star general
,
fleet admiral
,
flic
,
four-star general
,
gendarme
,
general
,
general officer
,
generalissimo
,
government man
,
help
,
helper
,
helpmate
,
helpmeet
,
inspector
,
jemadar
,
junior officer
,
lictor
,
lieutenant colonel
,
lieutenant commander
,
lieutenant general
,
lieutenant junior grade
,
locum
,
locum tenens
,
mace-bearer
,
major
,
major general
,
marechal
,
marshal
,
mounted policeman
,
narc
,
naval officer
,
navarch
,
officer
,
one-star general
,
orderly officer
,
paranymph
,
paraprofessional
,
patrolman
,
peace officer
,
petty officer
,
pinch hitter
,
pleader
,
police captain
,
police commissioner
,
police constable
,
police inspector
,
police matron
,
police officer
,
police sergeant
,
policeman
,
policewoman
,
portreeve
,
procurator
,
proxy
,
rear admiral
,
reeve
,
representative
,
risaldar
,
roundsman
,
second
,
second in command
,
secondary
,
senior officer
,
sergeant
,
sergeant at arms
,
servant
,
shavetail
,
sheriff
,
sideman
,
sirdar
,
skipper
,
staff officer
,
stand-in
,
subahdar
,
subaltern
,
sublieutenant
,
substitute
,
superintendent
,
supporting actor
,
supporting instrumentalist
,
surrogate
,
the Old Man
,
the brass
,
three-star general
,
tipstaff
,
tipstaves
,
top brass
,
trooper
,
two-star general
,
understudy
,
utility man
,
vicar
,
vicar general
,
vice
,
vice admiral
,
vicegerent
,
warrant officer
posture
collapse
related words >
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
everybody
collapse
related words >
Everyman
,
John Doe
,
Public
,
all
,
all hands
,
all the world
,
body politic
,
citizenry
,
common man
,
commonwealth
,
community
,
community at large
,
estate
,
every man Jack
,
everyman
,
everyone
,
everywoman
,
folk
,
folks
,
general public
,
gentry
,
men
,
nation
,
nationality
,
one and all
,
people
,
people in general
,
persons
,
polity
,
populace
,
population
,
public
,
society
,
state
,
totality
,
tout le monde
,
whole
,
world
,
you and me
everyone
collapse
related words >
Everyman
,
John Doe
,
Public
,
all
,
all and sundry
,
all hands
,
all the world
,
body politic
,
citizenry
,
common man
,
commonwealth
,
community
,
community at large
,
estate
,
every man Jack
,
everybody
,
everyman
,
everywoman
,
folk
,
folks
,
general public
,
gentry
,
men
,
nation
,
nationality
,
one and all
,
people
,
people in general
,
persons
,
polity
,
populace
,
population
,
public
,
society
,
state
,
totality
,
tout le monde
,
whole
,
world
,
you and me
unearthly
collapse
related words >
Christlike
,
Christly
,
Elysian
,
God-fearing
,
Olympian
,
a bit thick
,
a bit thin
,
abnormal
,
absurd
,
airy
,
angelic
,
arcane
,
asomatous
,
astral
,
balmy
,
beatific
,
beatified
,
beyond belief
,
bizarre
,
blessed
,
blue
,
bodiless
,
cadaverous
,
celestial
,
corpselike
,
crazy
,
creepy
,
curious
,
deadly
,
deathlike
,
deathly
,
deathly pale
,
decarnate
,
decarnated
,
discarnate
,
disembodied
,
doubtable
,
doubtful
,
dubious
,
dubitable
,
eccentric
,
eerie
,
eldritch
,
esoteric
,
ethereal
,
extramundane
,
extraordinary
,
extrasensory
,
extraterrestrial
,
fantastic
,
fey
,
freaked out
,
freaky
,
from on high
,
funny
,
ghastly
,
ghostlike
,
ghostly
,
glorified
,
godlike
,
godly
,
godly-minded
,
good
,
grisly
,
gruesome
,
haggard
,
hard of belief
,
hard to believe
,
heavenly
,
holy
,
holy-minded
,
hypernormal
,
hyperphysical
,
immaterial
,
impalpable
,
implausible
,
imponderable
,
in glory
,
inconceivable
,
incorporate
,
incorporeal
,
incredible
,
insane
,
insubstantial
,
intangible
,
kooky
,
livid
,
loony
,
lurid
,
macabre
,
miraculous
,
mortuary
,
mysterious
,
nonmaterial
,
nonphysical
,
not deserving belief
,
numinous
,
occult
,
odd
,
oddball
,
off
,
off the wall
,
open to doubt
,
open to suspicion
,
otherworldly
,
out
,
outlandish
,
outrageous
,
pale
,
paradisaic
,
paradisal
,
paradisiac
,
paradisic
,
passing belief
,
passing strange
,
peculiar
,
phantom
,
preposterous
,
preterhuman
,
preternatural
,
preternormal
,
pretersensual
,
problematic
,
psychic
,
psychical
,
pure
,
pure in heart
,
purehearted
,
quaint
,
queer
,
questionable
,
ridiculous
,
righteous
,
saintlike
,
saintly
,
seraphic
,
shadowy
,
silly
,
singular
,
spectral
,
spiritual
,
spiritual-minded
,
spookish
,
spooky
,
staggering belief
,
strange
,
sublime
,
superhuman
,
superior
,
supermundane
,
supernal
,
supernatural
,
supernormal
,
superphysical
,
supersensible
,
supersensory
,
supersensual
,
supramundane
,
supranatural
,
suspect
,
suspicious
,
tall
,
thick
,
thin
,
transcendental
,
transmundane
,
unbelievable
,
uncanny
,
unconvincing
,
unembodied
,
unextended
,
unfleshly
,
ungodly
,
unheard-of
,
unhuman
,
unimaginable
,
unnatural
,
unphysical
,
unreal
,
unreasonable
,
unsubstantial
,
unthinkable
,
unusual
,
unworldly
,
unworthy of belief
,
wacky
,
wan
,
weird
,
wondrous strange
teaching
collapse
the profession of a teacher; "he prepared for teaching while still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"
a doctrine that is taught; "the teachings of religion"; "he believed all the Christian precepts"
related words >
a belief
,
adage
,
ana
,
analects
,
aphorism
,
apothegm
,
article of faith
,
assignment
,
autodidactic
,
axiom
,
belief
,
byword
,
canon
,
catchword
,
chalk talk
,
charge
,
coeducational
,
collected sayings
,
command
,
commission
,
credo
,
creed
,
cultural
,
current saying
,
dictate
,
dictum
,
didactic
,
direction
,
disciplinary
,
discourse
,
disquisition
,
distich
,
doctrine
,
dogma
,
edifying
,
educating
,
educational
,
educative
,
enlightening
,
epigram
,
exercise
,
exhortatory
,
exposition
,
expression
,
faith
,
gnome
,
golden saying
,
harangue
,
homework
,
homiletic
,
homily
,
hortatory
,
illuminating
,
informative
,
initiatory
,
injunction
,
instruction
,
instructive
,
introductory
,
lecture
,
lecture-demonstration
,
lecturing
,
lesson
,
maxim
,
moral
,
moral lesson
,
morality
,
moralization
,
mot
,
motto
,
object lesson
,
oracle
,
order
,
orthodoxy
,
phrase
,
pithy saying
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
precept
,
preceptive
,
prescript
,
prescription
,
principle
,
propaedeutic
,
proverb
,
proverbial saying
,
proverbs
,
recital
,
recitation
,
religion
,
religious belief
,
religious faith
,
saw
,
saying
,
self-teaching
,
sentence
,
sententious expression
,
sermon
,
set task
,
skull session
,
sloka
,
stock saying
,
sutra
,
system of beliefs
,
talk
,
task
,
tenet
,
text
,
theology
,
tradition
,
tuitionary
,
verse
,
wisdom
,
wisdom literature
,
wise saying
,
witticism
,
word
,
words of wisdom
conceit
collapse
the trait of being unduly vain and conceited
an artistic device or effect; "the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree"
a witty or ingenious turn of phrase; "he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit"
an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things
related words >
abstract thought
,
act of thought
,
affectation
,
aggressive self-confidence
,
amour propre
,
aphorism
,
apothegm
,
apprehension
,
arrogance
,
assume
,
assumption
,
assurance
,
attitude
,
bee
,
believe
,
bluster
,
boast
,
boastfulness
,
boasting
,
bombast
,
bon mot
,
boutade
,
brag
,
braggadocio
,
braggartism
,
bragging
,
brainstorm
,
brainwork
,
bravado
,
bright idea
,
bright thought
,
brilliant idea
,
bumptiousness
,
capriccio
,
caprice
,
cerebration
,
chestiness
,
climate of opinion
,
cockiness
,
cogitation
,
common belief
,
community sentiment
,
complacence
,
complacency
,
conceitedness
,
conceive
,
concept
,
conception
,
conceptualization
,
conclusion
,
consensus gentium
,
consequence
,
consideration
,
coxcombry
,
crack
,
crank
,
craze
,
crazy idea
,
creative thought
,
crotchet
,
dandyism
,
egoism
,
egotism
,
epigram
,
estimate
,
estimation
,
ethos
,
excogitation
,
expect
,
eye
,
face
,
facetiae
,
fad
,
fancy
,
fanfaronade
,
fantastic notion
,
fantasticism
,
fantasy
,
feeling
,
flash of wit
,
flight of fancy
,
flight of wit
,
flimflam
,
fool notion
,
foppery
,
foppishness
,
freak
,
freakish inspiration
,
fumes of fancy
,
gasconade
,
gasconism
,
gather
,
general belief
,
gibe
,
happy thought
,
harebrained idea
,
haughtiness
,
headwork
,
heavy thinking
,
heroics
,
humor
,
idea
,
ideation
,
image
,
imageless thought
,
imagination
,
imaginativeness
,
imagine
,
imagining
,
imago
,
immodesty
,
impression
,
independence
,
intellection
,
intellectual exercise
,
intellectual object
,
intellectualization
,
jactation
,
jactitation
,
judgment
,
kink
,
lights
,
maggot
,
megrim
,
memory-trace
,
mental act
,
mental image
,
mental impression
,
mental labor
,
mental process
,
mentation
,
mind
,
mot
,
mystique
,
narcissism
,
nasty crack
,
noesis
,
notion
,
observation
,
obtrusiveness
,
opinion
,
pardonable pride
,
passing fancy
,
perception
,
perkiness
,
persiflage
,
personal judgment
,
pertness
,
play of wit
,
pleasantry
,
point of view
,
pomposity
,
popular belief
,
position
,
posture
,
presumption
,
prevailing belief
,
pride
,
pridefulness
,
proudness
,
public belief
,
public opinion
,
puppyism
,
purse-pride
,
quip
,
quips and cranks
,
quirk
,
ratiocination
,
reaction
,
reasoning
,
recept
,
reckon
,
reflection
,
repartee
,
representation
,
retort
,
riposte
,
rodomontade
,
sally
,
scintillation
,
self-admiration
,
self-assertiveness
,
self-complacency
,
self-conceit
,
self-confidence
,
self-consequence
,
self-esteem
,
self-importance
,
self-love
,
self-reliance
,
self-respect
,
self-sufficiency
,
sentiment
,
side
,
sight
,
smart crack
,
smart saying
,
smugness
,
snappy comeback
,
stance
,
stiff-necked pride
,
stiff-neckedness
,
straight thinking
,
stroke of wit
,
stuffiness
,
suppose
,
supposition
,
swagger
,
swelled head
,
swelled-headedness
,
theory
,
think
,
thinking
,
thinking aloud
,
thinking out
,
thought
,
toy
,
turn of thought
,
vagary
,
vainglory
,
vainness
,
vanity
,
vaunt
,
vauntery
,
vaunting
,
view
,
way of thinking
,
whim
,
whim-wham
,
whimsy
,
wisecrack
,
witticism
documentation
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documentary validation; "his documentation of the results was excellent"; "the strongest support for this view is the work of Jones"
confirmation that some fact or statement is true
related words >
account
,
affirmation
,
annals
,
attestation
,
authentication
,
backing
,
backing up
,
basis for belief
,
bearing out
,
body of evidence
,
bolstering
,
buttressing
,
catalog
,
certification
,
chain of evidence
,
chronicle
,
circumstantiation
,
clue
,
confirmation
,
correspondence
,
corroboration
,
corroboratory evidence
,
data
,
datum
,
evidence
,
exhibit
,
fact
,
facts
,
fortification
,
grounds
,
grounds for belief
,
history
,
indication
,
inventory
,
item of evidence
,
letters
,
list
,
manifestation
,
mark
,
material grounds
,
memorial
,
muniments
,
mute witness
,
piece of evidence
,
pipe roll
,
premises
,
proof
,
proving
,
proving out
,
ratification
,
reason to believe
,
record
,
recording
,
register
,
registry
,
reinforcement
,
relevant fact
,
relic
,
remains
,
roll
,
rolls
,
roster
,
rota
,
scroll
,
sign
,
strengthening
,
substantiation
,
support
,
supporting evidence
,
symptom
,
table
,
token
,
trace
,
undergirding
,
validation
,
verification
,
vestige
misconception
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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
defense counsel
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related words >
AG
,
DA
,
KC
,
QC
,
SSC
,
US attorney
,
attorney general
,
civilian
,
corporation lawyer
,
court-appointed lawyer
,
criminal lawyer
,
district attorney
,
junior counsel
,
law agent
,
leader
,
mouthpiece
,
private attorney
,
prosecuting attorney
,
prosecutor
,
public prosecutor
,
publicist
,
silk
,
silk gown
,
solicitor general
,
special pleader
,
stuff gown
,
stuff-gownsman
DA
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related words >
AG
,
KC
,
QC
,
SSC
,
US attorney
,
attorney general
,
civilian
,
corporation lawyer
,
court-appointed lawyer
,
criminal lawyer
,
defense counsel
,
district attorney
,
junior counsel
,
law agent
,
leader
,
mouthpiece
,
private attorney
,
prosecuting attorney
,
prosecutor
,
public prosecutor
,
publicist
,
silk
,
silk gown
,
solicitor general
,
special pleader
,
stuff gown
,
stuff-gownsman
district attorney
collapse
an official prosecutor for a judicial district
related words >
AG
,
DA
,
KC
,
QC
,
SSC
,
US attorney
,
attorney general
,
civilian
,
corporation lawyer
,
court-appointed lawyer
,
criminal lawyer
,
defense counsel
,
junior counsel
,
law agent
,
leader
,
mouthpiece
,
private attorney
,
prosecuting attorney
,
prosecutor
,
public prosecutor
,
publicist
,
silk
,
silk gown
,
solicitor general
,
special pleader
,
stuff gown
,
stuff-gownsman
officer
collapse
a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel; "he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines"
direct or command as an officer
related words >
ADC
,
CO
,
G-man
,
John Law
,
MP
,
OD
,
administrator
,
aide
,
aide-de-camp
,
apparatchik
,
archon
,
bailiff
,
beadle
,
beagle
,
boatswain
,
bound bailiff
,
brigadier
,
brigadier general
,
bureaucrat
,
captain
,
catchpole
,
chancellor
,
chicken colonel
,
chief engineer
,
chief executive
,
chief executive officer
,
chief mate
,
chief of police
,
chief of staff
,
civil servant
,
colonel
,
commandant
,
commander
,
commander in chief
,
commanding officer
,
commissioned officer
,
commissioner
,
company officer
,
constable
,
cop
,
copper
,
dean
,
deck officer
,
deputy
,
deputy sheriff
,
detective
,
dick
,
dignitary
,
director
,
exec
,
executive
,
executive director
,
executive officer
,
executive secretary
,
fed
,
federal
,
field marshal
,
field officer
,
first lieutenant
,
five-star general
,
flic
,
four-star general
,
functionary
,
functionnaire
,
fuzz
,
gendarme
,
general
,
general officer
,
generalissimo
,
government man
,
inspector
,
jack-in-office
,
jemadar
,
junior officer
,
lawman
,
lictor
,
lieutenant
,
lieutenant colonel
,
lieutenant general
,
mace-bearer
,
magistrate
,
major
,
major general
,
management
,
manager
,
managing director
,
mandarin
,
marechal
,
marshal
,
master
,
mate
,
mounted policeman
,
narc
,
naval officer
,
navigating officer
,
navigator
,
office-bearer
,
officeholder
,
official
,
officiary
,
one-star general
,
orderly officer
,
patrolman
,
patron
,
peace officer
,
petty tyrant
,
pipes
,
placeman
,
police
,
police captain
,
police commissioner
,
police constable
,
police inspector
,
police matron
,
police officer
,
police sergeant
,
policeman
,
policewoman
,
portreeve
,
prefect
,
president
,
prexy
,
provost
,
public official
,
public servant
,
quartermaster
,
red-tapist
,
reeve
,
risaldar
,
roundsman
,
sailing master
,
second mate
,
secretary
,
senior officer
,
sergeant
,
sergeant at arms
,
shavetail
,
sheriff
,
shipmaster
,
sirdar
,
skipper
,
staff officer
,
subahdar
,
subaltern
,
sublieutenant
,
superintendent
,
tec
,
the Old Man
,
the administration
,
the brass
,
three-star general
,
tipstaff
,
tipstaves
,
top brass
,
treasurer
,
trooper
,
two-star general
,
vice-chancellor
,
vice-president
,
warden
,
watch officer
civilian
collapse
a nonmilitary citizen
associated with or performed by civilians as contrasted with the military; "civilian clothing"; "civilian life"
related words >
AG
,
DA
,
KC
,
QC
,
SSC
,
US attorney
,
attorney general
,
citizen
,
corporation lawyer
,
court-appointed lawyer
,
criminal lawyer
,
defense counsel
,
district attorney
,
junior counsel
,
law agent
,
leader
,
mouthpiece
,
nonbelligerent
,
noncombatant
,
nonresistant
,
nonresister
,
private attorney
,
prosecuting attorney
,
prosecutor
,
public prosecutor
,
publicist
,
silk
,
silk gown
,
solicitor general
,
special pleader
,
stuff gown
,
stuff-gownsman
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