Related Words:
- formalistic
collapse - concerned with or characterized by rigorous or adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art); "highly formalized plays like `Waiting for Godot'" related words >
- accordant,
- anal,
- bourgeois,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformist,
- conventional,
- conventionalized,
- corresponding,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- extrinsic,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formulary,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- harmonious,
- impersonal,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- kosher,
- legalistic,
- mincing,
- namby-pamby,
- nominal,
- orthodox,
- outward,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- pedantic,
- plastic,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- puristic,
- simpering,
- square,
- straight,
- stuffy,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- traditionalist,
- uptight
- cheering
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- encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators; "it's all over but the shouting"
- bringing cheer or gladness; "cheering news" related words >
- animating,
- assuring,
- auspicious,
- bracing,
- bright with promise,
- brisk,
- cheerful,
- cheery,
- comforting,
- condolatory,
- condolent,
- condoling,
- consolatory,
- consoling,
- cordial,
- crisp,
- crispy,
- encouraging,
- energizing,
- enlivening,
- exhilarating,
- favorable,
- fresh,
- full of promise,
- glad,
- gladdening,
- heart-warming,
- heartening,
- hospitable,
- inspiring,
- inspiriting,
- invigorating,
- joyful,
- looking up,
- of good comfort,
- of promise,
- pregnant of good,
- promising,
- propitious,
- reassuring,
- refreshful,
- refreshing,
- regaling,
- relieving,
- rousing,
- stimulating,
- supportive,
- sympathetic,
- tonic,
- zestful,
- zesty
- supportive
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- furnishing support or assistance; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer" related words >
- assuring,
- auspicious,
- bearing,
- bolstering,
- bracing,
- bright with promise,
- burdened,
- buttressing,
- carrying,
- cheering,
- comforting,
- condolatory,
- condolent,
- condoling,
- confirmative,
- confirmatory,
- confirming,
- consolatory,
- consoling,
- corroborating,
- corroborative,
- corroboratory,
- encouraging,
- favorable,
- full of promise,
- heartening,
- helpful,
- holding,
- hospitable,
- inspiring,
- inspiriting,
- looking up,
- maintaining,
- of good comfort,
- of promise,
- pregnant of good,
- promising,
- propitious,
- propping,
- reassuring,
- relieving,
- shoring,
- substantiating,
- supporting,
- suspensory,
- sustaining,
- sustentative,
- sympathetic,
- understanding,
- upholding,
- verificative,
- verifying
- OK,
- Roger,
- absolutely,
- actually,
- all right,
- almighty,
- alright,
- alrighty,
- amen,
- as you say,
- assuredly,
- at bottom,
- authentically,
- awfully,
- aye,
- by all means,
- categorically,
- certainly,
- clearly,
- da,
- de facto,
- decidedly,
- definitely,
- demonstrably,
- doubtlessly,
- easily,
- exactly,
- exceedingly,
- exceptionally,
- extraordinarily,
- extremely,
- factually,
- fine,
- for a certainty,
- for real,
- forsooth,
- genuinely,
- good,
- good enough,
- hear,
- historically,
- honestly,
- in actuality,
- in all conscience,
- in effect,
- in fact,
- in reality,
- in truth,
- in very sooth,
- indeed,
- indeedy,
- indubitably,
- ja,
- just,
- just so,
- legitimately,
- mais oui,
- manifestly,
- mightily,
- mighty,
- most assuredly,
- naturally,
- naturellement,
- nothing else but,
- noticeably,
- observably,
- obviously,
- of a truth,
- of course,
- okay,
- only too,
- oui,
- patently,
- positively,
- powerful,
- powerfully,
- precisely,
- pretty,
- quite,
- rather,
- real,
- really-truly,
- remarkably,
- right,
- righto,
- sensibly,
- seriously,
- so,
- sure,
- sure thing,
- surely,
- terribly,
- terrifically,
- to be sure,
- truly,
- unaffectedly,
- unambiguously,
- unassumedly,
- uncommonly,
- undeniably,
- undoubtedly,
- unmistakably,
- unquestionably,
- unusually,
- veridically,
- verily,
- veritably,
- very,
- very well,
- visibly,
- warts and all,
- well and good,
- why yes,
- with truth,
- without doubt,
- yea,
- yeah,
- yep,
- yes,
- yes indeed,
- yes indeedy,
- yes sir,
- yes sirree
- beat,
- chase,
- course,
- determine,
- dig out,
- discover,
- dog,
- drive,
- falcon,
- find,
- find out,
- flush,
- follow,
- follow a clue,
- follow the hounds,
- follow up,
- fowl,
- get,
- go hunting,
- gun,
- hawk,
- hit,
- hound,
- hunt,
- invent,
- jack,
- jacklight,
- locate,
- nose,
- nose out,
- prowl after,
- rediscover,
- ride to hounds,
- rout,
- run,
- run down,
- run to earth,
- shadow,
- shikar,
- shoot,
- smell out,
- sniff out,
- sport,
- stalk,
- start,
- still-hunt,
- strike,
- tail,
- trace,
- trace down,
- track,
- track down,
- trail
- benign
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- pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence; "a benign smile"; "the benign sky"; "the benign influence of pure air"
- kindness of disposition or manner; "the benign ruler of millions"; "benign intentions"
- not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor) related words >
- Christian,
- Christlike,
- Christly,
- accommodating,
- affable,
- affectionate,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- auspicious,
- beneficent,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- benignant,
- bland,
- bracing,
- bright,
- brotherly,
- charitable,
- clement,
- compassionate,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- congenial,
- constitutional,
- cooperative,
- cordial,
- curable,
- decent,
- dexter,
- fair,
- favorable,
- favoring,
- forbearing,
- fortunate,
- fraternal,
- friendly,
- full of promise,
- generous,
- genial,
- gentle,
- golden,
- good,
- good for,
- good-hearted,
- gracious,
- happy,
- harmless,
- health-enhancing,
- health-preserving,
- healthful,
- healthy,
- human,
- humane,
- hygeian,
- hygienic,
- indulgent,
- innocent,
- innocuous,
- inoffensive,
- invigorating,
- kind,
- kindhearted,
- kindly,
- kindly-disposed,
- loving,
- lucky,
- merciful,
- mild,
- neighborly,
- nice,
- nonmalignant,
- nonpoisonous,
- nontoxic,
- nonvirulent,
- obliging,
- of good omen,
- of happy portent,
- of promise,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- permissive,
- promising,
- propitious,
- prosperous,
- refreshing,
- salubrious,
- salutary,
- sanitary,
- softhearted,
- sympathetic,
- sympathizing,
- tender,
- tenderhearted,
- tonic,
- undamaging,
- unhurtful,
- uninjurious,
- unobnoxious,
- warm,
- warm-hearted,
- warmhearted,
- well-affected,
- well-disposed,
- well-intentioned,
- well-meaning,
- well-meant,
- white,
- wholesome
- Christian,
- bourgeoisie,
- burgher,
- champion,
- choice,
- chosen,
- common people,
- common run,
- common sort,
- commonage,
- commonality,
- commonalty,
- commoners,
- commons,
- cream,
- elect,
- elite,
- exemplary citizen,
- faithful,
- fat,
- flower,
- galantuomo,
- gentilhomme,
- gentleman,
- good citizen,
- good man,
- good neighbor,
- good woman,
- honest man,
- honest woman,
- laborers,
- lady,
- linendrapers,
- lower classes,
- lower middle class,
- lower orders,
- lumpen proletariat,
- man of honor,
- middle class,
- middle orders,
- nonesuch,
- nonpareil,
- optimum,
- ordinary people,
- paragon,
- peasantry,
- pick,
- pillar of society,
- plain folks,
- plain people,
- prime,
- prize,
- proletariat,
- queen,
- quintessence,
- rank and file,
- real lady,
- respectable citizen,
- select,
- shopkeepers,
- small tradesmen,
- straight shooter,
- superlative,
- the best,
- the best ever,
- the lower cut,
- the other half,
- the third estate,
- the tops,
- the very best,
- toilers,
- toiling class,
- true Christian,
- true blue,
- truepenny,
- trusty,
- upper middle class,
- vulgus,
- woman of honor,
- working class,
- working people
- beneficence
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- the quality of being kind or helpful or generous
- doing good; feeling beneficent related words >
- BOMFOG,
- Benthamism,
- Christian charity,
- Christian love,
- agape,
- alms,
- altruism,
- auspiciousness,
- benefaction,
- benevolence,
- benevolent disposition,
- benevolentness,
- benignancy,
- benignity,
- bigheartedness,
- brightness,
- brotherly love,
- caritas,
- charitableness,
- charity,
- cheerfulness,
- cheeriness,
- contribution,
- do-goodism,
- favorableness,
- flower power,
- fortunateness,
- generosity,
- giving,
- good auspices,
- good omen,
- goodwill,
- grace,
- greatheartedness,
- humanitarianism,
- largeheartedness,
- love,
- love of mankind,
- luckiness,
- offering,
- philanthropism,
- philanthropy,
- propitiousness,
- prosperousness,
- utilitarianism,
- welfarism,
- well-disposedness
- beachcomber
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- a vagrant living on a beach related words >
- Arab,
- Bowery bum,
- beach bum,
- beggar,
- beggarly fellow,
- blighter,
- bo,
- budmash,
- bum,
- bummer,
- caitiff,
- derelict,
- devil,
- dogie,
- drifter,
- drunkard,
- gamin,
- gamine,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- guttersnipe,
- hobo,
- homeless waif,
- human wreck,
- idler,
- landloper,
- lazzarone,
- loafer,
- losel,
- lowlife,
- mauvais sujet,
- mean wretch,
- mucker,
- mudlark,
- no-good,
- pauvre diable,
- piker,
- pilgarlic,
- poor creature,
- poor devil,
- ragamuffin,
- ragman,
- ragpicker,
- rounder,
- sad case,
- sad sack,
- ski bum,
- skid-row bum,
- stiff,
- stray,
- street Arab,
- street urchin,
- sundowner,
- surf bum,
- swagman,
- swagsman,
- tatterdemalion,
- tennis bum,
- tramp,
- truant,
- turnpiker,
- urchin,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vaurien,
- waif,
- waifs and strays,
- wastrel,
- worthless fellow,
- wretch
- pussycat
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- a person who is regarded as easygoing and agreeable related words >
- Cheshire cat,
- Chinchilla cat,
- Maltese cat,
- Miss America,
- alley cat,
- bathing beauty,
- beau ideal,
- beaut,
- beauty,
- beauty contest winner,
- beauty queen,
- belle,
- blue cat,
- brick,
- bunny,
- calico cat,
- cat,
- charmer,
- cover girl,
- crackerjack,
- dazzler,
- doll,
- dream,
- enchantress,
- feline,
- gib,
- gib-cat,
- good Joe,
- good egg,
- good guy,
- great beauty,
- grimalkin,
- house cat,
- kit,
- kitling,
- kitten,
- kitty,
- kitty-cat,
- knockout,
- lady fair,
- likely lad,
- looker,
- model,
- mouser,
- nice guy,
- no slouch,
- paragon,
- peach,
- pinup,
- pinup girl,
- puss,
- pussy,
- raving beauty,
- reigning beauty,
- sex kitten,
- silver cat,
- slick chick,
- stout fellow,
- stunner,
- tabby,
- tabby cat,
- tiger cat,
- tom,
- tomcat,
- tortoise-shell cat,
- trump
- speculator
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- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts related words >
- adventurer,
- armchair authority,
- betting ring,
- bettor,
- big operator,
- boneshaker,
- cardshark,
- cardsharp,
- cardsharper,
- casuist,
- compulsive gambler,
- cosmologist,
- crap shooter,
- doctrinaire,
- doctrinarian,
- gambler,
- gamester,
- gunslinger,
- hazarder,
- hypothesist,
- hypothesizer,
- lame duck,
- margin purchaser,
- metaphysician,
- operator,
- petty gambler,
- philosophaster,
- philosophe,
- philosopher,
- philosophizer,
- piker,
- player,
- plunger,
- punter,
- scalper,
- sharp,
- sharper,
- sharpie,
- smart operator,
- sophist,
- sport,
- sporting man,
- sportsman,
- stag,
- theoretic,
- theoretician,
- theorist,
- theorizer,
- thinker,
- tinhorn,
- tipster,
- tout,
- venturer,
- wagerer
- truly
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- in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us" related words >
- OK,
- Roger,
- absolutely,
- accurately,
- actually,
- all right,
- alright,
- alrighty,
- amen,
- and no mistake,
- as you say,
- assuredly,
- at all events,
- at any rate,
- aye,
- beyond question,
- by all means,
- certainly,
- clearly,
- confidently,
- da,
- de facto,
- decidedly,
- decisively,
- definitely,
- demonstrably,
- distinctly,
- doubtlessly,
- duly,
- easily,
- exactly,
- factually,
- fine,
- for a certainty,
- for a fact,
- for certain,
- for real,
- for sure,
- forsooth,
- genuinely,
- good,
- good enough,
- hear,
- historically,
- honestly,
- in actuality,
- in all conscience,
- in effect,
- in fact,
- in reality,
- in sooth,
- in truth,
- in very sooth,
- indeed,
- indeedy,
- indubitably,
- ja,
- just so,
- justifiably,
- justly,
- legitimately,
- mais oui,
- manifestly,
- most assuredly,
- most certainly,
- naturally,
- naturellement,
- nay,
- nothing else but,
- noticeably,
- observably,
- obviously,
- of a truth,
- of course,
- okay,
- oui,
- patently,
- positively,
- precisely,
- probably,
- properly,
- quite,
- rather,
- really,
- really-truly,
- right,
- rightfully,
- rightly,
- righto,
- sensibly,
- seriously,
- sincerely,
- sure,
- sure thing,
- surely,
- to a certainty,
- to be sure,
- to speak truthfully,
- truthfully,
- unambiguously,
- undeniably,
- undoubtedly,
- unequivocally,
- unmistakably,
- unquestionably,
- veraciously,
- verily,
- veritably,
- very well,
- visibly,
- well and good,
- why yes,
- with truth,
- without doubt,
- yea,
- yeah,
- yep,
- yes,
- yes indeed,
- yes indeedy,
- yes sir,
- yes sirree
- catalysis
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- acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction; "of the top 50 commodity chemicals, 30 are created directly by catalysis and another 6 are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced" related words >
- acetification,
- acidification,
- acidulation,
- alkalization,
- avatar,
- carbonation,
- catabolism,
- catalyst,
- chemicalization,
- consubstantiation,
- decay,
- dialysis,
- displacement,
- dissociation,
- electrolysis,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fission,
- heterotopia,
- hydrogenation,
- hydrolysis,
- hydrolyst,
- isomerism,
- metabolism,
- metagenesis,
- metamerism,
- metamerization,
- metamorphism,
- metamorphosis,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- metempsychosis,
- mutant,
- mutated form,
- mutation,
- nitration,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- permutation,
- phosphatization,
- photolysis,
- polymerism,
- polymerization,
- position isomerism,
- reduction,
- reincarnation,
- saturization,
- splitting,
- sport,
- thermolysis,
- transanimation,
- transfiguration,
- transfigurement,
- transformation,
- transformism,
- translation,
- translocation,
- transmigration,
- transmogrification,
- transmutation,
- transposition,
- transubstantiation,
- working
- plunger
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- hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains related words >
- adventurer,
- betting ring,
- bettor,
- big operator,
- boneshaker,
- cardshark,
- cardsharp,
- cardsharper,
- compulsive gambler,
- crap shooter,
- deep-sea diver,
- diver,
- free diver,
- frogman,
- gambler,
- gamester,
- gunslinger,
- hazarder,
- jumper,
- lame duck,
- margin purchaser,
- operator,
- parachute jumper,
- pearl diver,
- petty gambler,
- piker,
- player,
- punter,
- scalper,
- scuba diver,
- sharp,
- sharper,
- sharpie,
- skin diver,
- sky diver,
- smart operator,
- snorkel diver,
- speculator,
- sport,
- sporting man,
- sportsman,
- stag,
- tinhorn,
- tipster,
- tout,
- venturer,
- wagerer
- clotheshorse
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- a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying) related words >
- Beau Brummel,
- arbiter of fashion,
- beau,
- blade,
- blood,
- boulevardier,
- buck,
- clubman,
- clubwoman,
- coxcomb,
- dandy,
- deb,
- debutante,
- dude,
- exquisite,
- fashion plate,
- fashionable,
- fine gentleman,
- fop,
- fribble,
- gallant,
- horse,
- jack-a-dandy,
- jackanapes,
- lady-killer,
- macaroni,
- man-about-town,
- masher,
- mondain,
- mondaine,
- puppy,
- sawbuck,
- sawhorse,
- socialite,
- spark,
- sport,
- subdeb,
- subdebutante,
- swell,
- swinger,
- taste-maker,
- tone-setter,
- trend-setter,
- trestle,
- trestle and table,
- trestle board,
- trestle table,
- trestlework,
- trestling
- antic,
- beam,
- bob,
- bounce,
- bound,
- caper,
- capriole,
- caracole,
- carol,
- carry on,
- cavort,
- chirp,
- chirrup,
- clap hands,
- curvet,
- cut a dido,
- cut capers,
- cut up,
- dance,
- delight,
- dido,
- disport,
- exult,
- falcade,
- flounce,
- fool around,
- frisk,
- frolic,
- gambade,
- gambado,
- glory,
- glow,
- horse around,
- joy,
- jubilate,
- jump about,
- lark,
- laugh,
- leap,
- let off steam,
- lilt,
- play,
- prance,
- radiate cheer,
- ramp,
- rejoice,
- revel,
- roister,
- rollick,
- romp,
- sing,
- skip,
- skip for joy,
- smile,
- sparkle,
- sport,
- spring,
- trip,
- whistle
- individualist
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- a person who pursues independent thought or action
- marked by or expressing individuality; "an individualistic way of dressing" related words >
- Narcissus,
- anomaly,
- braggart,
- capitalist,
- careerist,
- crosspatch,
- egocentric,
- egoist,
- egotist,
- fortune hunter,
- freak,
- free lance,
- free spirit,
- free trader,
- freethinker,
- hog,
- independent,
- individualistic,
- inner-directed person,
- isolationist,
- know-it-all,
- latitudinarian,
- liberal,
- libertarian,
- libertine,
- lone wolf,
- loner,
- maverick,
- misfit,
- monopolist,
- mugwump,
- narcissist,
- narcist,
- naysayer,
- neutral,
- no modest violet,
- nonconformist,
- nonpartisan,
- oddball,
- rich man,
- road hog,
- rugged individualist,
- self-advancer,
- self-pleaser,
- self-seeker,
- self-server,
- smart aleck,
- sport,
- swellhead,
- temporizer,
- third force,
- third world,
- timepleaser,
- timeserver,
- tufthunter
- bout,
- clover,
- contest,
- decathlon,
- deuce-ace,
- double-header,
- doubles,
- event,
- foursome,
- game,
- games of chance,
- go,
- leash,
- match,
- meet,
- pentathlon,
- play,
- play-off,
- race,
- runoff,
- set of three,
- shamrock,
- singles,
- sport,
- tercet,
- ternary,
- ternion,
- terzetto,
- three,
- tierce,
- trefoil,
- trey,
- triad,
- trialogue,
- triangle,
- tricorn,
- trident,
- triennium,
- trihedron,
- trilogy,
- trimester,
- trine,
- trinity,
- trinomial,
- trio,
- triphthong,
- triple,
- triple crown,
- triple threat,
- triplet,
- triplopy,
- tripod,
- triptych,
- trireme,
- triseme,
- triskelion,
- trisul,
- triumvirate,
- triune,
- triunity,
- trivet,
- troika,
- twosome
- pleasantry
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- an agreeable or amusing remark; "they exchange pleasantries" related words >
- Atticism,
- affability,
- agile wit,
- agreeability,
- agreeableness,
- amenity,
- amiability,
- amicability,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- badinage,
- banter,
- black humor,
- bliss,
- blissfulness,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliance,
- brilliant idea,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- chaff,
- cleverness,
- comedy,
- compatibility,
- complaisance,
- conceit,
- congeniality,
- cordiality,
- crack,
- dry wit,
- enjoyableness,
- epigram,
- esprit,
- exchange,
- facetiae,
- facetiousness,
- farce,
- felicitousness,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- funniness,
- geniality,
- gibe,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- goodliness,
- goodness,
- graciousness,
- happy thought,
- harmless teasing,
- harmoniousness,
- humor,
- humorousness,
- irony,
- jape,
- jest,
- jive,
- jocoseness,
- jocularity,
- joke,
- joking,
- josh,
- joshing,
- keen-wittedness,
- keenness,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- lampoon,
- mellifluousness,
- mellowness,
- mot,
- nasty crack,
- niceness,
- nimble wit,
- nimble-wittedness,
- parody,
- persiflage,
- play of wit,
- pleasance,
- pleasantness,
- pleasingness,
- pleasurability,
- pleasurableness,
- pleasure,
- pleasurefulness,
- pretty wit,
- pungency,
- quick wit,
- quick-wittedness,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- rapport,
- ready wit,
- repartee,
- retort,
- ridicule,
- riposte,
- sally,
- salt,
- saltiness,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- savor of wit,
- scintillation,
- sharpness,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- smartness,
- snappy comeback,
- sport,
- squib,
- stroke of wit,
- subtle wit,
- sweetness,
- travesty,
- turn of thought,
- twit,
- visual humor,
- welcomeness,
- wisecrack,
- wit,
- witticism,
- wittiness
- law of averages
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- a law affirming that in the long run probabilities will determine performance related words >
- accidentality,
- actuarial calculation,
- adventitiousness,
- break,
- casualness,
- chance,
- destiny,
- fate,
- flukiness,
- fortuitousness,
- fortuity,
- fortune,
- gamble,
- good fortune,
- good luck,
- hap,
- happenstance,
- happy chance,
- heedless hap,
- how they fall,
- indeterminacy,
- indeterminateness,
- lot,
- luck,
- moira,
- opportunity,
- principle of indeterminacy,
- probability,
- problematicness,
- random sample,
- risk,
- run of luck,
- serendipity,
- statistical probability,
- the breaks,
- theory of probability,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- whatever comes
- decorum
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- propriety in manners and conduct related words >
- amenities,
- appropriateness,
- becomingness,
- bienseance,
- ceremoniousness,
- civilities,
- civility,
- comity,
- conformity,
- convenance,
- convention,
- conventional usage,
- conventionalism,
- conventionality,
- correctitude,
- correctness,
- courtliness,
- custom,
- decencies,
- decency,
- decorousness,
- delicacy,
- deportment,
- dignity,
- diplomatic code,
- elegance,
- elegancies,
- etiquette,
- exquisite manners,
- felicity,
- fitness,
- fittingness,
- form,
- formalities,
- formality,
- genteelness,
- gentility,
- good form,
- good manners,
- goodness,
- happiness,
- mannerliness,
- manners,
- meetness,
- modesty,
- mores,
- natural politeness,
- niceness,
- normality,
- normativeness,
- order,
- orderliness,
- point of etiquette,
- politeness,
- politesse,
- properness,
- proprieties,
- propriety,
- protocol,
- pudency,
- pudicity,
- punctilio,
- quiet good manners,
- respectability,
- righteousness,
- rightness,
- rules of conduct,
- seemliness,
- shame,
- social code,
- social conduct,
- social convention,
- social graces,
- social procedures,
- social usage,
- solemnity,
- suitability,
- urbanity,
- usage
- energetically
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- in an energetic manner related words >
- actively,
- all out,
- allegretto,
- allegro,
- animatedly,
- ardently,
- assiduously,
- breezily,
- briskly,
- busily,
- cogently,
- con brio,
- diligently,
- dynamically,
- effectively,
- effectually,
- fervently,
- firmly,
- forcefully,
- forcibly,
- full tilt,
- hardly,
- heartily,
- in full swing,
- indefatigably,
- industriously,
- intensely,
- keenly,
- laboriously,
- lively,
- lustily,
- might and main,
- mightily,
- potently,
- powerfully,
- productively,
- relentlessly,
- sedulously,
- spiritedly,
- sprightly,
- strenuously,
- strikingly,
- strongly,
- tellingly,
- tirelessly,
- to good account,
- to good purpose,
- unsparingly,
- vehemently,
- vigorously,
- vivaciously,
- with a vengeance,
- with pep,
- with telling effect,
- zealously,
- zestfully
- hobbyhorse
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- a topic to which one constantly reverts; "don't get him started on his hobbyhorse" related words >
- agate,
- avocation,
- ball,
- baseball bat,
- bat,
- battledore,
- bauble,
- blocks,
- by-line,
- checkerboard,
- chessboard,
- club,
- cockhorse,
- cricket bat,
- cue,
- doll,
- doll carriage,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- golf club,
- hobby,
- jack-in-the-box,
- jacks,
- jackstones,
- jackstraws,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- marble,
- marionette,
- mig,
- paper doll,
- pastime,
- pick-up sticks,
- pinwheel,
- plaything,
- puppet,
- racket,
- rag doll,
- rocking horse,
- side interest,
- sideline,
- spare-time activity,
- sport,
- steelie,
- taw,
- teetotum,
- top,
- toy,
- toy soldier,
- trinket,
- whim-wham
- abounding in riches,
- affluent,
- appropriate,
- assured of success,
- auspicious,
- benign,
- benignant,
- booming,
- comfortable,
- comfortably situated,
- coming,
- convenient,
- crowned with success,
- desirable,
- disgustingly rich,
- easy,
- fair,
- fat,
- favorable,
- favoring,
- felicitous,
- flourishing,
- flush,
- fortunate,
- frightfully rich,
- full of promise,
- golden,
- good,
- halcyon,
- happy,
- in clover,
- in funds,
- in good case,
- in luxury,
- in the money,
- independent,
- independently rich,
- independently wealthy,
- loaded,
- lucky,
- luxurious,
- made,
- made of money,
- moneyed,
- monied,
- of good omen,
- of happy portent,
- of promise,
- on Easy Street,
- on the up-and-up,
- on top,
- on velvet,
- oofy,
- opportune,
- opulent,
- out in front,
- promising,
- propitious,
- prospering,
- provided for,
- rich,
- rich as Croesus,
- rolling in money,
- seasonable,
- snug,
- strong,
- substantial,
- succeeding,
- successful,
- surefire,
- thriving,
- triumphant,
- wallowing in wealth,
- warm,
- wealthy,
- well,
- well provided for,
- well-fixed,
- well-heeled,
- well-off,
- well-timed,
- well-to-do
- BOMFOG,
- Benthamism,
- Christian charity,
- Christian love,
- abetment,
- acquiescence,
- advocacy,
- aegis,
- agreeableness,
- alacrity,
- altruism,
- amenability,
- amity,
- an in,
- ardor,
- auspices,
- backing,
- beneficence,
- benevolence,
- benevolent disposition,
- benevolentness,
- bigheartedness,
- brotherly love,
- care,
- caritas,
- championship,
- charitableness,
- charity,
- cheerful consent,
- comity,
- compliance,
- consent,
- cooperativeness,
- countenance,
- custom,
- dispatch,
- do-goodism,
- docility,
- eagerness,
- encouragement,
- enthusiasm,
- expedition,
- favor,
- favorable disposition,
- favorable regard,
- favorableness,
- fellow feeling,
- flower power,
- forwardness,
- fosterage,
- friendliness,
- friendly relations,
- friendship,
- gameness,
- generosity,
- giving,
- good graces,
- good name,
- good terms,
- good understanding,
- grace,
- greatheartedness,
- guidance,
- harmony,
- helpfulness,
- humanitarianism,
- interest,
- kindliness,
- kindness,
- largeheartedness,
- love,
- love of mankind,
- mutual regard,
- patronage,
- philanthropism,
- philanthropy,
- pliability,
- pliancy,
- promptitude,
- promptness,
- rapport,
- readiness,
- receptive mood,
- receptiveness,
- receptivity,
- regard,
- repute,
- respect,
- responsiveness,
- right mood,
- seconding,
- sponsorship,
- sympathy,
- tolerance,
- tractability,
- trade,
- tutelage,
- ungrudgingness,
- unloathness,
- unreluctance,
- utilitarianism,
- welfarism,
- well-disposedness,
- willing ear,
- willing heart,
- willingness,
- zeal,
- zealousness
- fooling
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- characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter" related words >
- badinage,
- bamboozlement,
- banter,
- bantering,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- booing,
- buffoonery,
- calculated deception,
- catcalling,
- chaff,
- chaffing,
- circumvention,
- clownishness,
- conning,
- coquetry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- derision,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- exchange,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fiddling,
- fleering,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- flippancy,
- flippant,
- flirtation,
- fond illusion,
- foolery,
- fooling around,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- grinning,
- hallucination,
- harlequinade,
- harmless teasing,
- hazing,
- high jinks,
- hissing,
- hoodwinking,
- hooting,
- horseplay,
- idling,
- illusion,
- jape,
- jeering,
- jerking off,
- jest,
- jesting,
- jive,
- joke,
- joking,
- jollying,
- josh,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- leering,
- levity,
- loitering,
- messing around,
- mirage,
- mockery,
- mocking,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- monkeyshines,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- panning,
- persiflage,
- phantasm,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pleasantry,
- pottering,
- puttering,
- putting on,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ribbing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- roughhouse,
- rowdiness,
- scoffing,
- self-deception,
- shenanigans,
- skylarking,
- smart,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smartness,
- smattering,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- sport,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- tinkering,
- tomfoolery,
- toying,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trifling,
- twit,
- twitting,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking
- tolerable
collapse
- capable of being borne or endured; "the climate is at least tolerable" related words >
- OK,
- acceptable,
- adequate,
- admissible,
- all right,
- allowable,
- average,
- bearable,
- better than nothing,
- betwixt and between,
- common,
- decent,
- dull,
- endurable,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- good enough,
- goodish,
- indifferent,
- insipid,
- lackluster,
- livable,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- middling,
- moderate,
- modest,
- namby-pamby,
- not amiss,
- not bad,
- not half bad,
- not so bad,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- okay,
- ordinary,
- passable,
- presentable,
- pretty good,
- respectable,
- run-of-the-mill,
- satisfactory,
- so so,
- so-so,
- sufferable,
- sufficient,
- supportable,
- sustainable,
- tedious,
- tidy,
- unexceptionable,
- unexceptional,
- unimpeachable,
- unobjectionable,
- vapid,
- wishy-washy,
- workmanlike
- mutation
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- a change or alteration in form or qualities
- (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism related words >
- ablaut,
- acoustic phonetics,
- alteration,
- altering,
- anomaly,
- articulatory phonetics,
- avatar,
- betacism,
- catabolism,
- catalysis,
- change,
- changing,
- consubstantiation,
- departure,
- deviant,
- deviation,
- displacement,
- evolution,
- evolving,
- gradation,
- heterotopia,
- innovation,
- metabolism,
- metagenesis,
- metamorphism,
- metamorphosing,
- metamorphosis,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- metempsychosis,
- modification,
- modifying,
- morphophonemics,
- mutant,
- mutated form,
- novelty,
- orthoepy,
- permutation,
- phonetics,
- phonology,
- reincarnation,
- rhotacism,
- sound shift,
- sport,
- transanimation,
- transfiguration,
- transfigurement,
- transformation,
- transforming,
- transformism,
- translation,
- translocation,
- transmigration,
- transmogrification,
- transmutation,
- transmuting,
- transposition,
- transubstantiation,
- turn,
- umlaut,
- variant,
- variation,
- varying,
- vicissitude
- swagman
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- an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work related words >
- Arab,
- Bowery bum,
- beach bum,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- beggarly fellow,
- blighter,
- bo,
- budmash,
- bum,
- bummer,
- caitiff,
- derelict,
- devil,
- dogie,
- drifter,
- drunkard,
- fence,
- floater,
- gamin,
- gamine,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- guttersnipe,
- hobo,
- homeless waif,
- human wreck,
- idler,
- landloper,
- lazzarone,
- loafer,
- losel,
- lowlife,
- mauvais sujet,
- mean wretch,
- mucker,
- mudlark,
- no-good,
- pauvre diable,
- piker,
- pilgarlic,
- poor creature,
- poor devil,
- ragamuffin,
- ragman,
- ragpicker,
- receiver,
- roadster,
- rounder,
- sad case,
- sad sack,
- shack,
- ski bum,
- skid-row bum,
- stiff,
- stray,
- street Arab,
- street urchin,
- sundowner,
- surf bum,
- swagsman,
- tatterdemalion,
- tennis bum,
- tramp,
- traveler,
- truant,
- turnpiker,
- urchin,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vaurien,
- waif,
- waifs and strays,
- wastrel,
- worthless fellow,
- wretch
- Bowery bum,
- Milquetoast,
- baby,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- beggarly fellow,
- big baby,
- blighter,
- budmash,
- bum,
- bummer,
- caitiff,
- chicken,
- crybaby,
- derelict,
- devil,
- doormat,
- drifter,
- drunkard,
- dull tool,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- gutless wonder,
- hard-luck guy,
- hardcase,
- hobo,
- human wreck,
- invertebrate,
- jellyfish,
- lightweight,
- loser,
- lowlife,
- mauvais sujet,
- mean wretch,
- meek soul,
- milksop,
- mollycoddle,
- mucker,
- namby-pamby,
- nebbish,
- no-good,
- nonentity,
- pansy,
- pantywaist,
- pauvre diable,
- pilgarlic,
- poor creature,
- poor devil,
- poor unfortunate,
- pushover,
- sad case,
- schlemiel,
- schlimazel,
- sissy,
- skid-row bum,
- softling,
- softy,
- sop,
- stiff,
- sundowner,
- sure loser,
- swagman,
- tramp,
- truant,
- unfortunate,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vaurien,
- victim,
- wastrel,
- weak sister,
- weakling,
- worthless fellow,
- wretch
- likable
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- easy to like; agreeable; "an attractive and likable young man" related words >
- acceptable,
- admirable,
- adorable,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- ambrosial,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- angelic,
- appetizing,
- attractive,
- blissful,
- caressable,
- charming,
- cheerful,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- congenial,
- cordial,
- cuddlesome,
- dainty,
- delectable,
- delicate,
- delicious,
- delightful,
- desirable,
- dulcet,
- en rapport,
- enjoyable,
- enviable,
- exciting,
- exquisite,
- fair,
- fair and pleasant,
- felicific,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- genial,
- good,
- good to eat,
- good-tasting,
- goodly,
- gracious,
- grateful,
- gratifying,
- gustable,
- gusty,
- harmonious,
- heart-warming,
- honeyed,
- juicy,
- kissable,
- lovable,
- lovely,
- lovesome,
- luscious,
- lush,
- mellifluous,
- mellow,
- mouth-watering,
- nectareous,
- nectarous,
- nice,
- of gourmet quality,
- palatable,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pleasurable,
- pleasure-giving,
- pleasureful,
- provocative,
- rewarding,
- sapid,
- satisfying,
- savorous,
- savory,
- scrumptious,
- seductive,
- seraphic,
- succulent,
- sweet,
- taking,
- tantalizing,
- tasty,
- tempting,
- to be desired,
- toothsome,
- unobjectionable,
- welcome,
- winning,
- winsome,
- worth having,
- yummy
- aggravation,
- annoyance,
- bad child,
- bad example,
- bad man,
- bad person,
- bad woman,
- bedevilment,
- bore,
- bother,
- botheration,
- bothersomeness,
- crashing bore,
- devilment,
- difficulty,
- disreputable,
- disreputable person,
- dogging,
- downer,
- drag,
- evangel,
- exasperation,
- glad tidings,
- good news,
- good word,
- gospel,
- harassment,
- harrying,
- headache,
- hounding,
- molestation,
- nuisance,
- objectionable person,
- persecution,
- persona non grata,
- pest,
- problem,
- trial,
- trouble,
- unacceptable person,
- undesirable,
- unworthy,
- vexation,
- vexatiousness,
- worriment,
- worry
- advantageous
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- giving an advantage; "a contract advantageous to our country"; "socially advantageous to entertain often"
- appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness related words >
- acceptable,
- advisable,
- agreeable,
- appropriate,
- auspicious,
- banausic,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- bon,
- bonny,
- brave,
- braw,
- breadwinning,
- bueno,
- capital,
- cogent,
- commendable,
- commodious,
- conducive,
- congruous,
- contributory,
- convenient,
- decent,
- desirable,
- elegant,
- employable,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- expedient,
- fair,
- famous,
- fat,
- favorable,
- favoring,
- feasible,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- fit,
- fitten,
- fitting,
- fructuous,
- functional,
- gainful,
- good,
- good for,
- goodly,
- grand,
- happy,
- healthy,
- helpful,
- in the black,
- instrumental,
- kind,
- laudable,
- likely,
- lucrative,
- meet,
- moneymaking,
- nice,
- noble,
- of general utility,
- of help,
- of service,
- of use,
- opportune,
- paying,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- politic,
- practical,
- pragmatical,
- productive,
- profitable,
- proper,
- propitious,
- recommendable,
- regal,
- remedial,
- remunerative,
- right,
- royal,
- salutary,
- satisfactory,
- satisfying,
- seasonable,
- seemly,
- serviceable,
- skillful,
- sortable,
- sound,
- splendid,
- suitable,
- timely,
- to be desired,
- toward,
- useful,
- utilitarian,
- valid,
- valuable,
- very good,
- virtuous,
- well-paying,
- well-timed,
- wise,
- worthwhile
- dollhouse
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- a small model of a house used as a toy by children
- a house so small that it is likened to a child's plaything related words >
- agate,
- ball,
- baseball bat,
- bat,
- battledore,
- bauble,
- blocks,
- checkerboard,
- chessboard,
- club,
- cockhorse,
- cricket bat,
- cubby,
- cubbyhole,
- cue,
- doghouse,
- doll,
- doll carriage,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- golf club,
- hobbyhorse,
- hole,
- jack-in-the-box,
- jacks,
- jackstones,
- jackstraws,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- marble,
- marionette,
- mig,
- paper doll,
- pick-up sticks,
- pigeonhole,
- pinch,
- pinwheel,
- playhouse,
- plaything,
- puppet,
- racket,
- rag doll,
- rocking horse,
- sport,
- steelie,
- taw,
- teetotum,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- top,
- toy,
- toy soldier,
- trinket,
- whim-wham
- passable
collapse
- able to be passed or traversed or crossed; "the road is passable" related words >
- OK,
- acceptable,
- accessible,
- adequate,
- admissible,
- agreeable,
- all right,
- allowable,
- alright,
- attainable,
- average,
- better than nothing,
- betwixt and between,
- decent,
- dull,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- good enough,
- goodish,
- indifferent,
- insipid,
- lackluster,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- middling,
- moderate,
- modest,
- namby-pamby,
- navigable,
- negotiable,
- not amiss,
- not bad,
- not half bad,
- not so bad,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- okay,
- open,
- presentable,
- pretty good,
- reachable,
- respectable,
- satisfactory,
- so so,
- so-so,
- sufficient,
- tedious,
- tenable,
- tidy,
- tolerable,
- traversable,
- unblocked,
- unexceptionable,
- unexceptional,
- unobjectionable,
- unobstructed,
- vapid,
- viable,
- wishy-washy,
- workmanlike
- Beau Brummel,
- Casanova,
- Don Juan,
- Lothario,
- Romeo,
- amoroso,
- beloved,
- blade,
- blood,
- boulevardier,
- boyfriend,
- caballero,
- cavalier,
- cavaliere servente,
- clotheshorse,
- coxcomb,
- dandy,
- dude,
- esquire,
- exquisite,
- fashion plate,
- fellow,
- fine gentleman,
- flame,
- fop,
- fribble,
- gallant,
- gentleman friend,
- gigolo,
- inamorato,
- jack-a-dandy,
- jackanapes,
- lady-killer,
- love-maker,
- lover,
- macaroni,
- man,
- man-about-town,
- masher,
- necker,
- old man,
- petter,
- philanderer,
- puppy,
- seducer,
- sheik,
- spark,
- sport,
- squire,
- steady,
- sugar daddy,
- swain,
- sweetheart,
- swell,
- truelove,
- young man
- encouraging
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- giving courage or confidence or hope; "encouraging advances in medical research"
- furnishing support and encouragement; "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher" related words >
- alluring,
- animating,
- assuring,
- auspicious,
- bright with promise,
- challenging,
- cheerful,
- cheering,
- cheery,
- comforting,
- condolatory,
- condolent,
- condoling,
- consolatory,
- consoling,
- couleur de rose,
- energizing,
- enlivening,
- exciting,
- exhilarating,
- favorable,
- full of promise,
- galvanic,
- galvanizing,
- glad,
- gladdening,
- heart-warming,
- heartening,
- hospitable,
- inspiring,
- inspiriting,
- invigorating,
- inviting,
- joyful,
- likely,
- looking up,
- of good comfort,
- of promise,
- piquant,
- pregnant of good,
- promising,
- prompting,
- propitious,
- provocative,
- provoking,
- reassuring,
- relieving,
- rose-colored,
- roseate,
- rosy,
- rousing,
- stimulant,
- stimulating,
- stimulative,
- stirring,
- supportive,
- sympathetic
- chipper
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- having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist" related words >
- active,
- activist,
- activistic,
- alert,
- alive,
- alive and kicking,
- animate,
- animated,
- bouncing,
- bouncy,
- breezy,
- bright,
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,
- brisk,
- bubbly,
- cheep,
- chip,
- chirk,
- chirm,
- chirpy,
- chirrup,
- chirrupy,
- chitter,
- ebullient,
- effervescent,
- energetic,
- enjoying health,
- eupeptic,
- fine,
- fit,
- fit and fine,
- frisky,
- full of beans,
- full of go,
- full of life,
- full of pep,
- gay,
- healthful,
- healthy,
- in condition,
- in fine fettle,
- in fine whack,
- in good case,
- in good health,
- in good shape,
- in health,
- in high feather,
- in mint condition,
- in shape,
- in the pink,
- keen,
- live,
- lively,
- mercurial,
- militant,
- neat,
- orderly,
- peart,
- peep,
- peppy,
- perky,
- pert,
- quicksilver,
- shipshape,
- smacking,
- snappy,
- snug,
- spanking,
- spick-and-span,
- spirited,
- sprightly,
- spry,
- tidy,
- trig,
- trim,
- tweedle,
- tweet,
- twitter,
- uncluttered,
- vivacious,
- well-groomed,
- zingy
- accord,
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agape,
- agreement,
- amity,
- bonds of harmony,
- brotherly love,
- caritas,
- cement of friendship,
- charity,
- communion,
- community,
- community of interests,
- compatibility,
- concord,
- concordance,
- congeniality,
- correspondence,
- empathy,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- feeling of identity,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- frictionlessness,
- good vibes,
- happy family,
- harmony,
- identity,
- kinship,
- like-mindedness,
- love,
- mutuality,
- oneness,
- peace,
- rapport,
- rapprochement,
- reciprocity,
- sharing,
- solidarity,
- sympathy,
- symphony,
- team spirit,
- understanding,
- union,
- unison,
- unity
- permutation
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- act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group
- complete change in character or condition; "the permutations...taking place in the physical world"- Henry Miller
- the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements related words >
- alteration,
- alternation,
- avatar,
- battledore and shuttlecock,
- catabolism,
- catalysis,
- commutation,
- consubstantiation,
- cooperation,
- counterchange,
- cross fire,
- displacement,
- exchange,
- give-and-take,
- heterotopia,
- innovation,
- interchange,
- intermutation,
- interplay,
- lex talionis,
- measure for measure,
- metabolism,
- metagenesis,
- metamorphism,
- metamorphosis,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- metempsychosis,
- modification,
- mutant,
- mutated form,
- mutation,
- mutual admiration,
- mutual support,
- mutual transfer,
- mutuality,
- novelty,
- quid pro quo,
- reciprocality,
- reciprocation,
- reciprocity,
- reincarnation,
- retaliation,
- something for something,
- sport,
- tit for tat,
- transanimation,
- transfiguration,
- transfigurement,
- transformation,
- transformism,
- translation,
- translocation,
- transmigration,
- transmogrification,
- transmutation,
- transposal,
- transposition,
- transubstantiation,
- vicissitude
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