Related Words:
- hardhearted
collapse - devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch"
- lacking in feeling or pity or warmth related words >
- Philistine,
- brazen,
- callous,
- calloused,
- case-hardened,
- cold,
- cold of heart,
- coldblooded,
- coldhearted,
- conscienceless,
- flinthearted,
- flinty,
- hard,
- hard of heart,
- hard-boiled,
- hardened,
- heartless,
- impervious,
- indurated,
- insensitive,
- inured,
- lost to shame,
- obdurate,
- pachydermatous,
- proof against,
- seared,
- shameless,
- steeled against,
- steely,
- stony,
- stonyhearted,
- thick-skinned,
- unblushing,
- uncompassionate,
- unemotional,
- unfeeling,
- unmerciful,
- unnatural,
- unresponsive,
- unsympathetic
- Biblical,
- Christian,
- Gospel,
- Mariological,
- Mosaic,
- New-Testament,
- Old-Testament,
- abbatial,
- abbatical,
- accepted,
- apocalyptic,
- apostolic,
- approved,
- archiepiscopal,
- authentic,
- authoritative,
- binding,
- canonic,
- capitular,
- capitulary,
- churchly,
- clerical,
- confessional,
- conventional,
- correct,
- creedal,
- customary,
- dictated,
- didactic,
- divine,
- doctrinal,
- doctrinary,
- dogmatic,
- ecclesiastic,
- episcopal,
- episcopalian,
- evangelic,
- evangelical,
- evangelistic,
- faithful,
- firm,
- formulary,
- gospel,
- hard and fast,
- inspired,
- instructive,
- literal,
- mandatory,
- ministerial,
- of the faith,
- official,
- orthodox,
- orthodoxical,
- pastoral,
- physicotheological,
- preceptive,
- prelatial,
- prelatic,
- prescribed,
- prescript,
- prescriptive,
- priest-ridden,
- priestish,
- priestly,
- proper,
- prophetic,
- rabbinic,
- received,
- regulation,
- religious,
- revealed,
- revelational,
- right,
- rubric,
- sacerdotal,
- sanctioned,
- scriptural,
- sound,
- standard,
- statutory,
- textual,
- textuary,
- theological,
- theopneustic,
- traditional,
- traditionalistic,
- true,
- true-blue,
- ultramontane
- prescriptive
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- pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage" related words >
- absolute,
- accepted,
- accustomed,
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- autocratic,
- average,
- binding,
- canonical,
- commanding,
- common,
- commonplace,
- compelling,
- compulsory,
- conclusive,
- conformable,
- constrictive,
- consuetudinary,
- conventional,
- current,
- customary,
- decisive,
- decretal,
- decretive,
- decretory,
- dictated,
- dictating,
- dictatorial,
- didactic,
- directive,
- dogmatic,
- entailed,
- established,
- ethnocentric,
- everyday,
- exceptional,
- excluding,
- exclusive,
- exclusory,
- familiar,
- final,
- fixed,
- folk,
- formulary,
- generally accepted,
- habitual,
- hallowed,
- handed down,
- hard and fast,
- hard-and-fast,
- heroic,
- hoary,
- household,
- immemorial,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- imposed,
- inadmissible,
- instructive,
- insular,
- inveterate,
- irrevocable,
- jussive,
- legendary,
- long-established,
- long-standing,
- mandated,
- mandating,
- mandatory,
- must,
- mythological,
- narrow,
- normal,
- normative,
- obligating,
- obligatory,
- obtaining,
- of long standing,
- of the folk,
- official,
- oral,
- ordinary,
- overbearing,
- parochial,
- peremptory,
- popular,
- preceptive,
- preclusive,
- predominating,
- prescribed,
- prescript,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- preventive,
- prohibitive,
- received,
- recognized,
- regular,
- regulation,
- required,
- restrictive,
- rooted,
- rubric,
- seclusive,
- segregative,
- select,
- selective,
- separative,
- set,
- snobbish,
- standard,
- statutory,
- stock,
- time-honored,
- traditional,
- tried and true,
- true-blue,
- ultimate,
- understood,
- universal,
- unwritten,
- usual,
- venerable,
- vernacular,
- widespread,
- without appeal,
- wonted,
- worshipful,
- xenophobic
- fastener
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- restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
- a person who fastens or makes fast; "he found the door fastened and wondered who the fastener was" related words >
- adhesive,
- affixation,
- anchor,
- annexation,
- attachment,
- band,
- bandage,
- bar,
- barrette,
- bellyband,
- belt,
- bind,
- binding,
- binding stone,
- binding twine,
- bobby pin,
- bollard,
- bolt,
- bond,
- bonder,
- bondstone,
- box hook,
- brace,
- braces,
- brad,
- braid,
- buckle,
- button,
- cable,
- carpet tack,
- catch,
- chain,
- cinch,
- cincture,
- clamp,
- clasp,
- clasping,
- cleat,
- click,
- clinch,
- clip,
- clothespin,
- corking pin,
- cotter,
- dowel,
- fastening,
- fibula,
- fillet,
- fishhook,
- funiculus,
- garter,
- girding,
- girdle,
- girth,
- grab,
- grapnel,
- grappler,
- grappling iron,
- guy,
- hairpin,
- hank,
- hasp,
- hawser,
- haywire,
- hitch,
- hitching post,
- holdfast,
- hook,
- hook and eye,
- hooking,
- inkle,
- interlocker,
- kevel,
- kingpin,
- knot,
- lace,
- lacing,
- lariat,
- lashing,
- latch,
- latchet,
- leader,
- ligament,
- ligation,
- line,
- lock,
- loop,
- moorings,
- nail,
- noose,
- nut,
- padlock,
- paper clip,
- pawl,
- peg,
- pin,
- pintle,
- ring,
- rivet,
- roller,
- rope,
- safety pin,
- screw,
- seal,
- sennit,
- setscrew,
- skewer,
- slide fastener,
- snap,
- snubbing post,
- spike,
- splice,
- staple,
- sticking,
- strap,
- string,
- strop,
- stub tenon,
- suspenders,
- tack,
- tag,
- tendon,
- terret,
- thole,
- tholepin,
- thong,
- thumbtack,
- tie,
- tie beam,
- tieing,
- toggle,
- treenail,
- tug,
- twine,
- vise,
- whang,
- wire,
- zipper,
- zipping
- adverse circumstances,
- adversity,
- affliction,
- aggravation,
- annoyance,
- blight,
- broken fortune,
- bummer,
- care,
- cross,
- curse,
- difficulty,
- distress,
- downer,
- embarrassment,
- genteel poverty,
- hard knocks,
- hard life,
- hard lot,
- hard pinch,
- hardcase,
- hardship,
- impecuniosity,
- impecuniousness,
- insolvency,
- irritation,
- light purse,
- narrow means,
- plight,
- poorness,
- poverty,
- predicament,
- pressure,
- rigor,
- sea of troubles,
- slender means,
- straitened circumstances,
- straits,
- stress,
- stress of life,
- tight squeeze,
- trial,
- tribulation,
- trouble,
- troubles,
- unprosperousness,
- vale of tears,
- vicissitude,
- voluntary poverty,
- vows of poverty
- adverse circumstances,
- adversity,
- affliction,
- aggravation,
- annoyance,
- blight,
- bummer,
- calvary,
- care,
- cross,
- crucible,
- curse,
- difficulties,
- difficulty,
- downer,
- fiery ordeal,
- hard knocks,
- hard life,
- hard lot,
- hardcase,
- hardship,
- irritation,
- oppression,
- ordeal,
- persecution,
- plight,
- predicament,
- pressure,
- rigor,
- sea of troubles,
- stress,
- stress of life,
- trial,
- trials and tribulations,
- trouble,
- troubles,
- vale of tears,
- vicissitude,
- visitation
- de rigueur
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- required by etiquette or usage or fashion; "instruction as to when and where a silk hat is de rigueur" related words >
- accepted,
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- approved,
- au fait,
- becoming,
- being done,
- binding,
- comme il faut,
- conformable,
- conventional,
- correct,
- customary,
- decent,
- decorous,
- done,
- formal,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- mandatory,
- meet,
- must,
- necessary,
- nice,
- obligatory,
- orthodox,
- peremptory,
- proper,
- received,
- recognized,
- required,
- right,
- seemly,
- traditional
- punishing
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- resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax" related words >
- Herculean,
- arduous,
- backbreaking,
- burdensome,
- castigatory,
- chastening,
- chastising,
- corrective,
- crushing,
- demanding,
- disciplinary,
- draining,
- effortful,
- exhausting,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- forced,
- grueling,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- inflictive,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- penal,
- penological,
- punitive,
- punitory,
- retributive,
- strained,
- straining,
- strenuous,
- stressful,
- taxing,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- torturous,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- trying,
- uphill,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying
- didactic
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- instructive (especially excessively) related words >
- Alcaic,
- Anacreontic,
- Castalian,
- Homeric,
- Hudibrastic,
- Pierian,
- Pindaric,
- Theocritean,
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- authoritative,
- autodidactic,
- bardic,
- binding,
- bucolic,
- canonical,
- cautionary,
- coeducational,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- cultural,
- dictated,
- directive,
- disciplinary,
- dithyrambic,
- dramatic,
- eclogic,
- edifying,
- educating,
- educational,
- educative,
- elegiac,
- enlightening,
- epic,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- formulary,
- hard and fast,
- heroic,
- homiletic,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- idyllic,
- illuminating,
- informative,
- initiatory,
- instructive,
- introductory,
- lecturing,
- mandatory,
- mock-heroic,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moral,
- moralistic,
- moralizing,
- narrative,
- official,
- pastoral,
- poetic,
- poetico-mystical,
- poetico-mythological,
- poetico-philosophic,
- poetlike,
- preaching,
- preachy,
- preceptive,
- prescribed,
- prescript,
- prescriptive,
- propaedeutic,
- recommendatory,
- regulation,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- rhapsodic,
- rubric,
- runic,
- sapphic,
- self-teaching,
- sententious,
- sermonizing,
- skaldic,
- standard,
- statutory,
- teaching,
- teachy,
- tuitionary,
- warning
- manfully
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- in a manful manner; with qualities thought to befit a man; "having said her say Peggy manfully shouldered her burden and prepared to break up yet another home" related words >
- adverse circumstances,
- adversity,
- affliction,
- aggravation,
- almsman,
- almswoman,
- annoyance,
- bankrupt,
- beggar,
- blight,
- bummer,
- care,
- casual,
- charity case,
- cross,
- curse,
- difficulties,
- difficulty,
- down-and-out,
- down-and-outer,
- downer,
- hard knocks,
- hard life,
- hard lot,
- hard-luck guy,
- hardship,
- indigent,
- irritation,
- loser,
- pauper,
- penniless man,
- plight,
- poor devil,
- poor man,
- poor unfortunate,
- poorling,
- predicament,
- pressure,
- rigor,
- sad sack,
- schlemiel,
- schlimazel,
- sea of troubles,
- starveling,
- stress,
- stress of life,
- sure loser,
- trial,
- tribulation,
- trouble,
- troubles,
- unfortunate,
- vale of tears,
- vicissitude,
- victim,
- welfare client
- bear hard upon,
- bear on,
- bear upon,
- beat down,
- burden,
- burthen,
- cast down,
- charge,
- crush one,
- cumber,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dampen the spirits,
- darken,
- dash,
- deject,
- depress,
- discourage,
- dishearten,
- dispirit,
- encumber,
- exhaust,
- freight,
- go hard with,
- go ill with,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- haunt,
- haunt the memory,
- knock down,
- lade,
- lie on,
- load,
- lower,
- lower the spirits,
- obsess,
- oppress,
- overburden,
- overload,
- overtax,
- overweight,
- press,
- press down,
- press hard upon,
- prey on,
- rest hard upon,
- rest on,
- sadden,
- saddle,
- sink,
- tax,
- tire,
- try one,
- wear out,
- wear upon one,
- weary,
- weigh down,
- weigh heavy on,
- weigh heavy upon,
- weigh on,
- weight down
- a bit previous,
- advanced,
- at the double,
- crowded,
- double-quick,
- double-time,
- far ahead,
- forward,
- half-baked,
- half-cocked,
- hard-pressed,
- hard-pushed,
- hard-run,
- hasty,
- hurried,
- ill-considered,
- impulsive,
- not firm,
- on the double,
- overhasty,
- oversoon,
- precipitate,
- precocious,
- premature,
- pressed,
- pressed for time,
- previous,
- pushed,
- too early,
- too soon,
- uncrystallized,
- unjelled,
- unmatured,
- unmeditated,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unripe,
- untimely
- backing
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- the act of providing approval and support; "his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives"
- something forming a back that is added for strengthening related words >
- Brownian movement,
- Smyth sewing,
- abetment,
- about-face,
- about-turn,
- advance,
- advocacy,
- advocate,
- advocating,
- aegis,
- affirmation,
- aid,
- alpenstock,
- angular motion,
- approval,
- approving,
- arm,
- ascending,
- ascent,
- assistance,
- athletic supporter,
- attestation,
- auspices,
- authentication,
- axial motion,
- back,
- back track,
- back trail,
- backbone,
- backflowing,
- backing off,
- backing out,
- backing up,
- backsliding,
- backup,
- backward motion,
- bandeau,
- bearer,
- bearing,
- bearing out,
- bibliofilm,
- bibliopegy,
- binder board,
- binding,
- bipack,
- black-and-white film,
- bolstering,
- book cloth,
- book cover,
- book jacket,
- bookbinding,
- bookcase,
- bra,
- brace,
- bracer,
- bracket,
- brassiere,
- bushing,
- buttress,
- buttressing,
- cane,
- capitalization,
- care,
- career,
- carriage,
- carrier,
- carrying,
- cartridge,
- case,
- casemaking,
- casing-in,
- certification,
- cervix,
- championship,
- charity,
- chassis,
- circumstantiation,
- climbing,
- collating,
- collating mark,
- color film,
- color negative film,
- confirmation,
- cooperation,
- corroboration,
- corroboratory evidence,
- corset,
- countenance,
- course,
- cover,
- crook,
- crutch,
- current,
- deficit financing,
- descending,
- descent,
- disenchantment,
- documentation,
- dope,
- downward motion,
- drift,
- driftage,
- dry plate,
- dust cover,
- dust jacket,
- ebbing,
- emulsion,
- encouragement,
- endorsement,
- favor,
- favorable,
- favoring,
- film,
- financial backing,
- financial support,
- financing,
- flight,
- flip-flop,
- flow,
- flux,
- folding,
- footband,
- fortification,
- forward motion,
- fosterage,
- foundation garment,
- frame,
- fulcrum,
- funding,
- funds,
- gathering,
- girdle,
- gluing-off,
- goodwill,
- grant,
- grubstake,
- guidance,
- guy,
- guywire,
- hard binding,
- headband,
- help,
- infrastructure,
- interest,
- investment,
- jacket,
- jock,
- jockstrap,
- lapse,
- library binding,
- lining,
- lining-up,
- mainstay,
- maintainer,
- maintenance,
- mast,
- mechanical binding,
- microfilm,
- money,
- monochromatic film,
- moral support,
- motion-picture film,
- mount,
- mounting,
- neck,
- negative,
- niggerhead,
- oblique motion,
- ongoing,
- onrush,
- orthochromatic film,
- pack,
- panchromatic film,
- passage,
- patronage,
- patronization,
- perfect binding,
- photographic paper,
- plastic binding,
- plate,
- plunging,
- printing paper,
- pro,
- progress,
- proof,
- prop,
- proving,
- proving out,
- provision of capital,
- psychological support,
- radial motion,
- random motion,
- ratification,
- recidivation,
- recidivism,
- reclamation,
- reconversion,
- reflowing,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regress,
- regression,
- rehabilitation,
- reinforce,
- reinforcement,
- reinforcer,
- reinstatement,
- relapse,
- reliance,
- rest,
- resting place,
- restitution,
- restoration,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- retroversion,
- return,
- returning,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reversing,
- reversion,
- reverting,
- revulsion,
- rigging,
- right-about,
- right-about-face,
- rising,
- roll,
- rounding,
- run,
- rush,
- saddle stitching,
- seconding,
- security blanket,
- set,
- setting,
- sewing,
- shoulder,
- shroud,
- side sewing,
- sideward motion,
- signature,
- sinking,
- skeleton,
- slipcase,
- slipcover,
- slipping back,
- smashing,
- soaring,
- soft binding,
- sound film,
- sound track,
- sound-on-film,
- soundstripe,
- spine,
- spiral binding,
- sponsorship,
- sprit,
- staff,
- stake,
- stamping,
- standing rigging,
- stapling,
- stave,
- stay,
- sternway,
- stick,
- stiffener,
- stream,
- strengthener,
- strengthening,
- subsiding,
- subsidy,
- substantiation,
- subvention,
- succor,
- support,
- supporter,
- supporting,
- supporting evidence,
- supportive relationship,
- supportive therapy,
- sustainer,
- sustaining,
- sustainment,
- sustenance,
- sustentation,
- swingaround,
- sympathy,
- tailband,
- tipping,
- traject,
- trajet,
- trend,
- trimming,
- tripack,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- turnaround,
- tutelage,
- underframe,
- undergirding,
- upholder,
- upholding,
- upkeep,
- upward motion,
- validation,
- vehicle,
- verification,
- volte-face,
- walking stick,
- well-disposed,
- well-inclined,
- wire stitching,
- wrapper
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- arduous,
- backbreaking,
- brutal,
- burdensome,
- complex,
- critical,
- crushing,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- effortful,
- exacting,
- forced,
- formidable,
- grueling,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- intricate,
- jawbreaking,
- killing,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- labored,
- laborious,
- mean,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- punishing,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- spiny,
- steep,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- thorny,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- uphill,
- wearisome,
- wicked
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- arduous,
- backbreaking,
- brutal,
- burdensome,
- complex,
- critical,
- crushing,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- effortful,
- exacting,
- forced,
- formidable,
- grueling,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- intricate,
- jawbreaking,
- killing,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- labored,
- laborious,
- mean,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- punishing,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- spiny,
- steep,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- thorny,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- uphill,
- wearisome,
- wicked
- astir,
- at it,
- at work,
- busy,
- employed,
- en route,
- engaged,
- full of business,
- hard at it,
- hard at work,
- in harness,
- in motion,
- in transit,
- occupied,
- on duty,
- on the bum,
- on the gad,
- on the hop,
- on the job,
- on the jump,
- on the move,
- on the road,
- on the run,
- on the tramp,
- on the wing,
- tied up,
- under sail,
- under way,
- working
- astir,
- at it,
- at work,
- busy,
- employed,
- en route,
- engaged,
- full of business,
- hard at it,
- hard at work,
- in harness,
- in motion,
- in transit,
- occupied,
- on duty,
- on the bum,
- on the gad,
- on the go,
- on the hop,
- on the job,
- on the jump,
- on the road,
- on the run,
- on the tramp,
- on the wing,
- tied up,
- under sail,
- under way,
- working
- irrevocable
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- incapable of being retracted or revoked; "firm and irrevocable is my doom"- Shakespeare related words >
- absolute,
- beyond recall,
- beyond remedy,
- binding,
- certain,
- changeless,
- compulsory,
- conclusive,
- constant,
- cureless,
- decisive,
- decretory,
- dictated,
- enduring,
- entailed,
- established,
- everlasting,
- fated,
- fateful,
- final,
- fixed,
- gone,
- hard-and-fast,
- immedicable,
- immutable,
- imperative,
- imposed,
- incommutable,
- inconvertible,
- incorrigible,
- incurable,
- indefeasible,
- ineluctable,
- inert,
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- inoperable,
- insusceptible of change,
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- invariable,
- irreclaimable,
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- lost,
- mandated,
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- must,
- necessary,
- noble,
- nonreturnable,
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- obligatory,
- past hope,
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- prescript,
- prescriptive,
- relentless,
- remediless,
- required,
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- sure,
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- ultimate,
- unalterable,
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- unvariable,
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- without appeal
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
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- antagonistic,
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- complex,
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- critical,
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- demanding,
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- exacting,
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- hairy,
- hard,
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- hostile,
- in opposition,
- inimical,
- intricate,
- jawbreaking,
- knotted,
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- laborious,
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- miserable,
- no picnic,
- operose,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- sinister,
- spiny,
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- tough,
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- uphill,
- wicked,
- wretched
- employed
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- having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary; "most of our graduates are employed"
- put to use related words >
- applied,
- at it,
- at work,
- busy,
- chartered,
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- rented,
- secondhand,
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- tied up,
- used,
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- complex,
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- crabbed,
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- intricate,
- jumbled,
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- obfuscated,
- obscure,
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- perplexed,
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- tough,
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- unattainable,
- uncompassable,
- undoable,
- uneffectible,
- unnegotiable,
- unperformable,
- unrealizable,
- unsurmountable,
- unworkable
- uncompromising
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- not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty" related words >
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- cast-iron,
- dour,
- firm,
- flinty,
- fundamentalist,
- grim,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- hard-line,
- hidebound,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- inelastic,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- intransigent,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- irreconcilable,
- muscle-bound,
- obdurate,
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- orthodox,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
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- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- rockbound,
- single-minded,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- stubborn,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unbending,
- unchangeable,
- uncompliant,
- ungiving,
- unmoved,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding
- Herculean,
- annoying,
- arduous,
- besetting,
- bothersome,
- burdensome,
- crushing,
- effortful,
- forced,
- grueling,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- irksome,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- plaguey,
- punishing,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- trying,
- uphill,
- vexatious,
- wearisome
- beefy,
- bouncing,
- bulldoggish,
- doughty,
- dynamic,
- energetic,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forcy,
- full-blooded,
- full-strength,
- game,
- gamy,
- gritty,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- hale,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardy,
- hearty,
- hefty,
- husky,
- iron-hard,
- lusty,
- mettlesome,
- mighty,
- nervy,
- obstinate,
- pertinacious,
- plucky,
- potent,
- powerful,
- puissant,
- resolute,
- robust,
- robustious,
- rugged,
- spirited,
- spiritful,
- spunky,
- stalwart,
- steely,
- stout,
- strapping,
- strenuous,
- strong,
- strong as brandy,
- strong as strong,
- strong-willed,
- sturdy,
- tenacious,
- tough,
- vigorous,
- vital
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- arduous,
- assiduous,
- backbreaking,
- brutal,
- burdensome,
- complex,
- critical,
- crushing,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- diligent,
- effortful,
- elaborate,
- exacting,
- forced,
- formidable,
- grueling,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- industrious,
- intricate,
- jawbreaking,
- killing,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- labored,
- laborious,
- mean,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- onerous,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- painstaking,
- punishing,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- sedulous,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- spiny,
- steep,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- thorny,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- uphill,
- wearisome,
- wicked
- Philistinism,
- armor,
- callosity,
- callousness,
- callus,
- flintiness,
- formidable defenses,
- hard heart,
- hard shell,
- hardenedness,
- hardheartedness,
- hardness,
- hardness of heart,
- heart of stone,
- imperviousness,
- insensitiveness,
- insensitivity,
- inuredness,
- obduracy,
- obdurateness,
- rhinoceros hide,
- stoniness,
- thick skin
- laboriously
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- in a laborious manner; "their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them" related words >
- ardently,
- arduously,
- assiduously,
- bec et ongles,
- burdensomely,
- difficultly,
- diligently,
- effortfully,
- energetically,
- fervently,
- hammer and tongs,
- hard,
- hardly,
- heart and soul,
- indefatigably,
- industriously,
- manfully,
- onerously,
- operosely,
- painfully,
- relentlessly,
- sedulously,
- strenuously,
- the hard way,
- tirelessly,
- toilsomely,
- tooth and nail,
- unsparingly,
- vehemently,
- with a will,
- with difficulty,
- with effort,
- with much ado,
- zealously
- connecting
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- syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence; "`and' is a copulative conjunction" related words >
- adjacent,
- adjoining,
- binding,
- bordering,
- coalescent,
- coalescing,
- combinative,
- combinatory,
- combining,
- communicating,
- conjunctival,
- conjunctive,
- connectional,
- connective,
- conterminous,
- contiguous,
- copulative,
- coterminous,
- end to end,
- endways,
- endwise,
- face to face,
- immediate,
- intercommunicating,
- joined,
- joining,
- juxtaposed,
- juxtapositional,
- juxtapositive,
- linking,
- meeting,
- neighbor,
- neighboring,
- next,
- unific,
- unifying,
- uniting
- Byzantine,
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- arduous,
- beyond one,
- brutal,
- burled,
- complex,
- complicated,
- crabbed,
- cramp,
- critical,
- daedal,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- effortful,
- elaborate,
- exacting,
- formidable,
- garbled,
- gnarled,
- gnarly,
- gordian,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard to understand,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- intricate,
- involved,
- jawbreaking,
- jumbled,
- knobbed,
- knobbly,
- knobby,
- knoblike,
- knotted,
- knurled,
- knurly,
- laborious,
- labyrinthine,
- lumpy,
- mean,
- no picnic,
- nodal,
- noded,
- nodiform,
- nodose,
- nodular,
- nodulated,
- noduled,
- not easy,
- nubbled,
- nubbly,
- nubby,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- operose,
- overtechnical,
- perplexed,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- scrambled,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- sophisticated,
- spiny,
- steep,
- sticky,
- strenuous,
- studded,
- terrible,
- thorny,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- torose,
- tough,
- tricky,
- tubercular,
- tuberculous,
- tuberose,
- tuberous,
- uphill,
- wicked
- adamantness,
- dourness,
- firmness,
- flintiness,
- grimness,
- hard-bittenness,
- hard-nosedness,
- immovability,
- immutability,
- implacability,
- impliability,
- inelasticity,
- inexorability,
- inflexibility,
- intransigeance,
- intransigency,
- intransigentism,
- irreconcilability,
- obduracy,
- relentlessness,
- rigidity,
- rigorism,
- steeliness,
- sternness,
- stiff temper,
- stiffness,
- toughness,
- unalterability,
- unbendingness,
- unchangeability,
- uncompromisingness,
- ungivingness,
- unrelentingness,
- unyieldingness
- adamant,
- asleep,
- benumbed,
- bony,
- brazen,
- callous,
- calloused,
- case-hardened,
- cement,
- cemental,
- cold,
- cold of heart,
- coldblooded,
- coldhearted,
- concrete,
- conscienceless,
- corneous,
- dead,
- deadened,
- dense,
- diamondlike,
- dogged,
- dour,
- dull,
- dure,
- firm,
- flinthearted,
- flintlike,
- flinty,
- fundamentalist,
- granitelike,
- granitic,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hard of heart,
- hard-bitten,
- hard-boiled,
- hard-nosed,
- hard-set,
- hardened,
- hardhearted,
- heartless,
- hidebound,
- horny,
- immovable,
- impassible,
- impenitent,
- imperceptive,
- impercipient,
- impliable,
- indurated,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- insensate,
- insensible,
- insensitive,
- insentient,
- insolent,
- inured,
- iron,
- iron-hard,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- ironlike,
- lapideous,
- lithoid,
- lithoidal,
- lost to shame,
- marble,
- marblelike,
- mulish,
- muscle-bound,
- numb,
- numbed,
- obstinate,
- obtuse,
- orthodox,
- osseous,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- relentless,
- resistant,
- resistive,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- rocklike,
- rocky,
- seared,
- shameless,
- solid,
- steellike,
- steely,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- stonelike,
- stony,
- stonyhearted,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- stubborn,
- thick-skinned,
- thick-witted,
- tough,
- unabject,
- unbending,
- unblushing,
- uncompassionate,
- uncompromising,
- uncontrite,
- unemotional,
- unfeeling,
- unfelt,
- unmelted,
- unmerciful,
- unnatural,
- unperceptive,
- unrelenting,
- unrepentant,
- unrepenting,
- unresponsive,
- unsoftened,
- unsympathetic,
- untouched,
- unyielding
- formulary
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- (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation; "postexposure prophylaxis is an integral part of the pharmacopeia in preventing severe disease after acute infections"
- of or relating to or of the nature of a formula related words >
- High-Church,
- Procrustean law,
- act,
- authoritative,
- baptismal,
- bill,
- binding,
- bylaw,
- canon,
- canonical,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- ceremony,
- code,
- conventionalized,
- criterion,
- decree,
- dictate,
- dictated,
- dictation,
- didactic,
- duty,
- edict,
- enactment,
- eucharistic,
- extrinsic,
- form,
- form of worship,
- formal,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- formality,
- formula,
- formular,
- function,
- guideline,
- hard and fast,
- holy rite,
- impersonal,
- institution,
- instructive,
- jus,
- law,
- law of nature,
- legalistic,
- legislation,
- lex,
- liturgic,
- liturgistic,
- liturgy,
- mandatory,
- maxim,
- measure,
- mode of worship,
- mystery,
- nominal,
- norm,
- norma,
- observance,
- office,
- official,
- order of nature,
- order of worship,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- outward,
- paschal,
- pedantic,
- practice,
- preceptive,
- prescribed,
- prescribed form,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- prescriptive,
- principle,
- receipt,
- recipe,
- regulation,
- rite,
- ritual,
- ritual observance,
- ritualistic,
- rituality,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- sacrament,
- sacramental,
- sacramentarian,
- service,
- set form,
- solemnity,
- standard,
- standing order,
- statute,
- statutory,
- stylized,
- superficial,
- surface,
- universal law
- hardship
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- something that causes or entails suffering; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life" related words >
- adverse circumstances,
- adversity,
- affliction,
- aggravation,
- annoyance,
- asperity,
- austerity,
- bad luck,
- blight,
- broken fortune,
- bummer,
- care,
- cross,
- curse,
- danger,
- deprivation,
- difficulties,
- difficulty,
- discomfort,
- distress,
- downer,
- drudgery,
- embarrassment,
- genteel poverty,
- hard knocks,
- hard life,
- hard lot,
- hard pinch,
- hardcase,
- hardness,
- hazard,
- ill fortune,
- impecuniosity,
- impecuniousness,
- insolvency,
- irritation,
- light purse,
- mischance,
- misery,
- misfortune,
- narrow means,
- peril,
- plight,
- poorness,
- poverty,
- predicament,
- pressure,
- privation,
- rigor,
- sea of troubles,
- slender means,
- straitened circumstances,
- straits,
- stress,
- stress of life,
- suffering,
- tight squeeze,
- toil,
- travail,
- trial,
- tribulation,
- trouble,
- troubles,
- unhappiness,
- unprosperousness,
- vale of tears,
- vicissitude,
- voluntary poverty,
- vows of poverty,
- want
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- arduous,
- backbreaking,
- brutal,
- burdensome,
- complex,
- critical,
- crushing,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- draining,
- effortful,
- enervating,
- exacting,
- exhausting,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- forced,
- formidable,
- grueling,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- intricate,
- jawbreaking,
- killing,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- labored,
- laborious,
- mean,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- punishing,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- spiny,
- steep,
- strained,
- straining,
- strenuous,
- stressful,
- thorny,
- ticklish,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- tough,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- trying,
- uphill,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- wicked
- apprenticeship
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- the position of apprentice related words >
- basic training,
- binding over,
- breaking,
- breeding,
- conditioning,
- cultivation,
- development,
- discipline,
- drill,
- drilling,
- exercise,
- fetching-up,
- fostering,
- grooming,
- housebreaking,
- improvement,
- in-service training,
- indenture,
- manual training,
- military training,
- nurture,
- nurturing,
- on-the-job training,
- practice,
- preparation,
- raising,
- readying,
- rearing,
- rehearsal,
- sloyd,
- training,
- upbringing,
- vocational education,
- vocational training
- Herculean,
- annoying,
- arduous,
- arduously,
- backbreaking,
- besetting,
- bothersome,
- burdensome,
- burdensomely,
- crushing,
- cumbersome,
- cumbrous,
- demanding,
- difficult,
- difficultly,
- effortful,
- encumbering,
- exacting,
- exhausting,
- exigent,
- forced,
- grievous,
- grinding,
- grueling,
- hampering,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- hardly,
- harsh,
- heavy,
- heavy-handed,
- hefty,
- impedimental,
- impeding,
- impeditive,
- incumbent,
- irksome,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- laboriously,
- lumpish,
- massive,
- onerously,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- overburdensome,
- painful,
- plaguey,
- ponderous,
- punishing,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- superincumbent,
- taxing,
- toilsome,
- toilsomely,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- trying,
- tyrannous,
- unruly,
- unwieldy,
- uphill,
- vexatious,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- weighty
- adamantine,
- admissible,
- authoritative,
- binding,
- bulky,
- calculable,
- cogent,
- confirmed,
- consistent,
- credible,
- deep-dyed,
- deep-engraven,
- deep-fixed,
- deep-grounded,
- deep-laid,
- deep-rooted,
- deep-seated,
- deep-set,
- deep-settled,
- dense,
- dependable,
- durable,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- embedded,
- embossed,
- enduring,
- engrafted,
- engraved,
- entrenched,
- established,
- etched,
- faithful,
- faithworthy,
- fast,
- firm,
- firmly established,
- good,
- graven,
- hard,
- heavy,
- implanted,
- impressed,
- imprinted,
- indelibly impressed,
- infixed,
- ingrained,
- ingrown,
- inveterate,
- invincible,
- inwrought,
- just,
- justifiable,
- lasting,
- lawful,
- legal,
- legitimate,
- logical,
- long-established,
- massive,
- old-line,
- on a rock,
- on bedrock,
- plausible,
- predictable,
- rational,
- reasonable,
- reliable,
- rooted,
- rugged,
- sane,
- secure,
- self-consistent,
- sensible,
- set,
- settled,
- solid,
- sound,
- stabilized,
- stable,
- staunch,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stout,
- strong,
- sturdy,
- substantial,
- sufficient,
- sure,
- surefire,
- tough,
- trustworthy,
- trusty,
- unfailing,
- unyielding,
- valid,
- vested,
- weighty,
- well-argued,
- well-built,
- well-constructed,
- well-educated,
- well-established,
- well-founded,
- well-informed,
- well-made,
- well-posted,
- well-read,
- well-set,
- well-settled,
- well-versed,
- wholesome,
- widely read
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