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- down-to-earth
collapse - sensible and practical; "has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense" related words >
- earthy,
- hard,
- hard-boiled,
- hardheaded,
- matter,
- matter-of-fact,
- positivistic,
- practical,
- practical-minded,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatical,
- rational,
- realist,
- realistic,
- reasonable,
- sane,
- scientific,
- scientistic,
- secular,
- sensible,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sound,
- sound-thinking,
- straight-thinking,
- unideal,
- unidealistic,
- unromantic,
- unsentimental,
- utilitarian,
- worldly
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- ardent,
- arduous,
- assiduous,
- backbreaking,
- brutal,
- burdensome,
- careful,
- complex,
- critical,
- crushing,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- determined,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- diligent,
- dogged,
- effortful,
- energetic,
- exacting,
- exhausting,
- exhaustive,
- fatiguing,
- fervent,
- forced,
- formidable,
- grueling,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- hard-working,
- hardworking,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- indefatigable,
- industrious,
- intricate,
- jawbreaking,
- killing,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- labored,
- mean,
- never idle,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- overworked,
- painful,
- painstaking,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- ponderous,
- punishing,
- relentless,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- scrupulous,
- sedulous,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- sleepless,
- spiny,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- steep,
- stiff,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- stubborn,
- taxing,
- thorny,
- thorough,
- ticklish,
- tireless,
- tiring,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- unflagging,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unsparing,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- uphill,
- vehement,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- wicked,
- zealous
- personable
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- (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality related words >
- Junoesque,
- agreeable,
- amply endowed,
- authoritative,
- becoming,
- bonny,
- braw,
- built,
- built for comfort,
- buxom,
- callipygian,
- callipygous,
- charismatic,
- charming,
- comely,
- consequential,
- curvaceous,
- curvy,
- effective,
- effectual,
- efficacious,
- enchanting,
- estimable,
- fair,
- goddess-like,
- good-looking,
- goodly,
- important,
- influential,
- likely,
- lovely to behold,
- magnetic,
- momentous,
- persuasive,
- pleasing,
- pneumatic,
- potent,
- powerful,
- presentable,
- prestigious,
- reputable,
- shapely,
- sightly,
- slender,
- stacked,
- statuesque,
- strong,
- suasive,
- substantial,
- telling,
- weighty,
- well-built,
- well-favored,
- well-formed,
- well-made,
- well-proportioned,
- well-shaped,
- well-stacked,
- winning
- in extremis
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- at the point of death related words >
- bad,
- between two fires,
- cornered,
- despaired of,
- desperate,
- done for,
- dying,
- endangered,
- expiring,
- facing death,
- given up,
- going,
- hard pressed,
- hard up,
- hopeless,
- imperiled,
- in a predicament,
- in articulo mortis,
- in danger,
- in desperate case,
- in desperate straits,
- in extremities,
- in jeopardy,
- incapable of life,
- jeopardized,
- low,
- moribund,
- near death,
- nonviable,
- on the spot,
- pinched,
- sinking,
- slipping,
- slipping away,
- sorely pressed,
- straitened,
- terminal,
- threatened,
- up against it
- uncompassionate
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- lacking compassion or feeling for others; "nor silver-shedding tears could penetrate her uncompassionate sire"- Shakespeare related words >
- bowelless,
- callous,
- coldhearted,
- cruel,
- disagreeable,
- dog-eat-dog,
- flinty,
- hard,
- hard-boiled,
- hardhearted,
- harsh,
- heartless,
- ill,
- inclement,
- inexorable,
- inhospitable,
- merciless,
- obdurate,
- pitiless,
- relentless,
- remorseless,
- ruthless,
- unaffectionate,
- unamiable,
- unbenign,
- unbenignant,
- uncompassioned,
- uncordial,
- unemotional,
- unfeeling,
- unforgiving,
- ungenial,
- ungracious,
- unkind,
- unkindly,
- unloving,
- unmerciful,
- unpitiful,
- unpitying,
- unremorseful,
- unsympathetic,
- unsympathizing,
- unyielding,
- without mercy
- amain,
- apace,
- at flank speed,
- at the double,
- crowded,
- double-quick,
- double-time,
- expeditiously,
- fast,
- hand over fist,
- hand over hand,
- hard-pressed,
- hard-pushed,
- hard-run,
- hastily,
- hell for leather,
- hell-bent,
- hell-bent for election,
- hurried,
- in double time,
- in double-quick time,
- in high,
- in high gear,
- in seven-league boots,
- lickety-cut,
- lickety-split,
- post,
- posthaste,
- pressed,
- pressed for time,
- promptly,
- pushed,
- quick,
- quickly,
- rapidly,
- rushed,
- snappily,
- speedily,
- swiftly,
- trippingly,
- under forced draft,
- whip and spur,
- with all haste,
- with giant strides,
- with rapid strides,
- with speed
- beautiful
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- aesthetically pleasing
- delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration; "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party"
- (of weather) highly enjoyable; "what a beautiful day" related words >
- admirable,
- aesthetic,
- aesthetically appealing,
- alluring,
- appealing,
- art-conscious,
- artistic,
- arty,
- attractive,
- beauteous,
- bonny,
- charming,
- choice,
- comely,
- delightful,
- elegant,
- endowed with beauty,
- excellent,
- exquisite,
- eye-filling,
- fair,
- fine,
- first-rate,
- flowerlike,
- glorious,
- good-looking,
- gorgeous,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- handsome,
- hear,
- heavy,
- incomparable,
- lovely,
- magnificent,
- of consummate art,
- ornamental,
- painterly,
- personable,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pretty,
- proper,
- pulchritudinous,
- radiant,
- resplendent,
- smashing,
- spectacular,
- splendid,
- stunning,
- sublime,
- superb,
- superior,
- tasteful,
- well done,
- well-favored,
- wonderful
- favored
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- supremely favored or fortunate; "golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust"
- preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child" related words >
- accepted,
- acclaimed,
- admired,
- admitted,
- advantaged,
- advocated,
- affluent,
- applauded,
- approved,
- auspicious,
- backed,
- better,
- blessed,
- blessed with luck,
- chartered,
- choice,
- chosen,
- cried up,
- excepted,
- excused,
- exempt,
- exempted,
- favoring,
- favorite,
- fortunate,
- highly touted,
- immune,
- in good odor,
- in luck,
- irresponsible,
- let off,
- licensed,
- lucky,
- more desirable,
- of choice,
- permitted,
- pet,
- popular,
- preferable,
- preferential,
- preferred,
- preferring,
- privileged,
- prosperous,
- providential,
- received,
- recommended,
- released,
- rich,
- selected,
- spared,
- supported,
- to be preferred,
- unaccountable,
- unanswerable,
- unliable,
- unsubject,
- wealthy,
- well-liked,
- well-thought-of
- strenuously
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- in a strenuous manner; strongly or vigorously; "he objected strenuously to the stand his party was taking" related words >
- actively,
- animatedly,
- ardently,
- arduously,
- assiduously,
- bec et ongles,
- briskly,
- con brio,
- difficultly,
- diligently,
- effortfully,
- energetically,
- fervently,
- forcefully,
- forcibly,
- hammer and tongs,
- hard,
- hardly,
- heart and soul,
- heartily,
- indefatigably,
- industriously,
- intensely,
- keenly,
- laboriously,
- lustily,
- manfully,
- operosely,
- painfully,
- relentlessly,
- sedulously,
- spiritedly,
- the hard way,
- tirelessly,
- toilsomely,
- tooth and nail,
- unsparingly,
- vehemently,
- vigorously,
- vivaciously,
- with a will,
- with difficulty,
- with effort,
- with much ado,
- with pep,
- zealously,
- zestfully
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- absurd,
- beyond belief,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- implausible,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- not deserving belief,
- open to doubt,
- open to suspicion,
- passing belief,
- preposterous,
- problematic,
- questionable,
- ridiculous,
- staggering belief,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- tall,
- thick,
- thin,
- unbelievable,
- unconvincing,
- unearthly,
- ungodly,
- unimaginable,
- unthinkable,
- unworthy of belief
- clean,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- clear as day,
- clear-cut,
- coherent,
- comely,
- connected,
- consistent,
- conspicuous,
- crisp,
- crystal-clear,
- crystalline,
- defined,
- definite,
- direct,
- distinct,
- evident,
- explicit,
- express,
- glaring,
- in focus,
- limpid,
- loud and clear,
- lucid,
- luminous,
- neat,
- obvious,
- patent,
- pellucid,
- perspicuous,
- plain,
- prominent,
- pronounced,
- shapely,
- simple,
- staring,
- straightforward,
- translucent,
- transparent,
- transpicuous,
- trim,
- unambiguous,
- unconfused,
- unequivocal,
- univocal,
- unmistakable,
- well-defined,
- well-favored,
- well-formed,
- well-made,
- well-marked,
- well-pronounced,
- well-proportioned,
- well-resolved,
- well-shaped
- fortunate
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- presaging good fortune; "she made a fortunate decision to go to medical school"; "rosy predictions"
- having unexpected good fortune; "other, less fortunate, children died"; "a fortunate choice" related words >
- advantageous,
- appropriate,
- assured of success,
- auspicious,
- befitting,
- benign,
- benignant,
- blessed,
- blessed with luck,
- bright,
- coming,
- convenient,
- crowned with success,
- dexter,
- expedient,
- fair,
- favorable,
- favored,
- favoring,
- felicitous,
- fit,
- fitting,
- fortuitous,
- full of promise,
- golden,
- good,
- happy,
- in luck,
- lucky,
- lucky dog,
- made,
- man of substance,
- meet,
- of good omen,
- of happy portent,
- of promise,
- on the up-and-up,
- on top,
- opportune,
- out in front,
- promising,
- propitious,
- prosperous,
- providential,
- ripe,
- seasonable,
- sortable,
- succeeding,
- successful,
- suitable,
- surefire,
- timely,
- triumphant,
- well,
- well-timed,
- white
- objectionable
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- causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person" related words >
- abhorrent,
- abominable,
- base,
- beastly,
- below contempt,
- beneath contempt,
- censurable,
- contemptible,
- crude,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- disagreeable,
- discommendable,
- disgusting,
- distasteful,
- exceptionable,
- execrable,
- fetid,
- forbidding,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- gross,
- hateful,
- heinous,
- ignoble,
- ill-favored,
- illaudable,
- impossible,
- inadmissible,
- indefensible,
- intolerable,
- invidious,
- loathsome,
- malodorous,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmic,
- nasty,
- nauseating,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- obnoxious,
- obscene,
- odious,
- offensive,
- rebarbative,
- repellent,
- reprehensible,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- sickening,
- stinking,
- unacceptable,
- uncommendable,
- undesirable,
- unfit,
- unpleasant,
- unpraiseworthy,
- unsuitable,
- untenable,
- unwanted,
- unwelcome,
- vile
- unconvincing
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- not convincing; "unconvincing excuses"; "as unconvincing as a forced smile" related words >
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- absurd,
- beyond belief,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- flimsy,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- not deserving belief,
- open to doubt,
- open to suspicion,
- passing belief,
- preposterous,
- problematic,
- questionable,
- ridiculous,
- staggering belief,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- tall,
- thick,
- thin,
- unbelievable,
- unearthly,
- ungodly,
- unimaginable,
- unsubstantial,
- unthinkable,
- unworthy of belief,
- weak
- overload
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- an excessive burden
- an electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power
- place too much a load on; "don't overload the car"
- become overloaded; "The aerator overloaded" related words >
- adorn,
- bale,
- bear hard upon,
- burden,
- burdening,
- burthen,
- cargo,
- charge,
- charging,
- choke,
- congest,
- congestion,
- convolute,
- cram,
- crowd,
- cumber,
- cumbrance,
- deadweight,
- decorate,
- drag,
- drench,
- elaborate,
- embellish,
- embroider,
- encumber,
- encumbrance,
- engorgement,
- enrich,
- festoon,
- flourish,
- freight,
- gild,
- glut,
- gluttonize,
- go hard with,
- go ill with,
- gorge,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- hindrance,
- hyperemia,
- impede,
- impediment,
- incubus,
- incumbency,
- involve,
- jam,
- jam-pack,
- lade,
- lading,
- lie on,
- load,
- load with ornament,
- loading,
- millstone,
- oppress,
- oppression,
- ornament,
- overbrimming,
- overburden,
- overcharge,
- overfeed,
- overfill,
- overflow,
- overfreight,
- overfullness,
- overlade,
- overlay,
- overspill,
- overstuff,
- overtax,
- overtaxing,
- overweigh,
- overweight,
- overweighting,
- pack,
- plethora,
- press hard upon,
- pressure,
- repletion,
- rest hard upon,
- saddle,
- saddle with,
- saddling,
- satiate,
- satiety,
- saturate,
- saturation,
- soak,
- strain,
- stuff,
- supercharge,
- superincumbency,
- supersaturate,
- supersaturation,
- surcharge,
- surfeit,
- tax,
- taxing,
- trick out,
- try one,
- varnish,
- weigh down,
- weigh heavy on,
- weigh on,
- weigh upon
- arduously,
- bec et ongles,
- committedly,
- decidedly,
- decisively,
- determinedly,
- devotedly,
- earnestly,
- effortfully,
- firmly,
- fixedly,
- hard,
- heart and soul,
- in all seriousness,
- in earnest,
- in good earnest,
- industriously,
- inflexibly,
- laboriously,
- like a bulldog,
- like a leech,
- manfully,
- obstinately,
- operosely,
- perseveringly,
- persistently,
- purposefully,
- relentlessly,
- resolutely,
- resolvedly,
- seriously,
- sincerely,
- singlemindedly,
- staunchly,
- steadfastly,
- steadily,
- strenuously,
- tenaciously,
- the hard way,
- toilsomely,
- tooth and nail,
- unswervingly,
- unyieldingly,
- wholeheartedly,
- with a will,
- with constancy,
- with effort,
- with total dedication
- exempt
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- (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject; "a beauty somehow exempt from the aging process"; "exempt from jury duty"; "only the very poorest citizens should be exempt from income taxes"
- grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam" related words >
- absolve,
- acquit,
- amnesty,
- chartered,
- clear,
- decontaminate,
- destigmatize,
- discharge,
- dismiss,
- dispense from,
- dispense with,
- except,
- excepted,
- exculpate,
- excuse,
- excused,
- exempt from,
- exempted,
- exonerate,
- favored,
- forgive,
- free,
- give absolution,
- give dispensation from,
- grant amnesty to,
- grant immunity,
- grant remission,
- immune,
- irresponsible,
- justify,
- let go,
- let off,
- liberated,
- licensed,
- nonpros,
- pardon,
- permitted,
- privileged,
- purge,
- quash the charge,
- release,
- released,
- remise,
- remit,
- save the necessity,
- set free,
- shrive,
- spare,
- spared,
- unaccountable,
- unanswerable,
- unliable,
- unsubject,
- vindicate,
- whitewash,
- withdraw the charge
- barbarous,
- bowelless,
- brutal,
- brutish,
- callous,
- calloused,
- cold,
- cold of heart,
- coldblooded,
- coldhearted,
- cruel,
- dog-eat-dog,
- flinthearted,
- flinty,
- hard,
- hard of heart,
- hardened,
- hardhearted,
- harsh,
- heartless,
- inclement,
- inexorable,
- insensitive,
- mean,
- merciless,
- obdurate,
- pitiless,
- relentless,
- remorseless,
- ruthless,
- savage,
- stonyhearted,
- uncompassionate,
- uncompassioned,
- unfeeling,
- unforgiving,
- unkind,
- unnatural,
- unpitiful,
- unpitying,
- unremorseful,
- unresponsive,
- unsparing,
- unsympathetic,
- unsympathizing,
- unyielding,
- vicious,
- without mercy
- weigh down
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- be oppressive or disheartening to related words >
- ballast,
- bear hard upon,
- burden,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- cumber,
- embarrass,
- encumber,
- enmesh,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- entoil,
- entrammel,
- entrap,
- entwine,
- fetter,
- go hard with,
- go ill with,
- hamper,
- hamstring,
- handicap,
- hobble,
- impede,
- involve,
- lame,
- lead,
- lie on,
- lime,
- load,
- lumber,
- net,
- oppress,
- overburden,
- overload,
- press,
- press down,
- sadden,
- saddle with,
- sandbag,
- shackle,
- snarl,
- tangle,
- toil,
- trammel,
- try one,
- weigh heavy on,
- weigh on,
- weigh upon,
- weight,
- weight down
- about,
- all but,
- almost,
- along toward,
- approach,
- approaching,
- approximate,
- approximating,
- arm-in-arm,
- around,
- as good as,
- aside,
- at close quarters,
- at hand,
- at next hand,
- beside,
- bordering on,
- burning,
- by,
- cheek-by-jowl,
- circa,
- close,
- close about,
- close at hand,
- close by,
- close to,
- close upon,
- closely,
- come near,
- converge,
- counterclockwise,
- draw near,
- draw nigh,
- fast by,
- hand-in-hand,
- hard,
- hard by,
- hard on,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- hot,
- immediate,
- in spitting distance,
- intimate,
- just about,
- larboard,
- left,
- left-hand,
- left-wing,
- left-wingish,
- levorotatory,
- liberal,
- near,
- near at hand,
- near the mark,
- near to,
- near upon,
- nearabout,
- nearabouts,
- nearby,
- nearing,
- nearish,
- nearly,
- next door to,
- nigh about,
- nighhand,
- nighish,
- not far,
- not far from,
- not quite,
- only a step,
- port,
- pretty near,
- propinque,
- proximal,
- proximate,
- radical,
- round,
- side-by-side,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinistrocerebral,
- sinistrocular,
- sinistrogyrate,
- sinistrorse,
- thereabout,
- thereabouts,
- verging on,
- verging upon,
- vicinal,
- warm,
- well-nigh,
- within call,
- within earshot,
- within hearing,
- within reach
- gutsy
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- marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; "you have to admire her; it was a gutsy thing to do"; "the gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith Crist; "a gutsy red wine" related words >
- acid,
- beefy,
- biting,
- bold,
- bouncing,
- bulldoggish,
- corrosive,
- courageous,
- cutting,
- dauntless,
- doughty,
- driving,
- effective,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forcy,
- full-blooded,
- full-strength,
- game,
- gamy,
- gritty,
- gutty,
- hale,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardy,
- hearty,
- hefty,
- husky,
- imperative,
- impressive,
- incisive,
- intrepid,
- iron-hard,
- lusty,
- manful,
- manly,
- mettlesome,
- mighty,
- mordant,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- obstinate,
- penetrating,
- pertinacious,
- piercing,
- plucky,
- poignant,
- potent,
- powerful,
- puissant,
- punchy,
- red-blooded,
- resolute,
- robust,
- robustious,
- rugged,
- sensational,
- sinewed,
- sinewy,
- slashing,
- spirited,
- spiritful,
- spunky,
- stalwart,
- steely,
- stout,
- strapping,
- striking,
- strong,
- strong as brandy,
- strong as strong,
- strong-willed,
- sturdy,
- telling,
- tenacious,
- tough,
- trenchant,
- unfearful,
- valiant,
- vigorous,
- vital
- beefy,
- blooming,
- blowzed,
- blowzy,
- blue-blooded,
- bouncing,
- burnt,
- doughty,
- florid,
- flush,
- flushed,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forcy,
- full-strength,
- glowing,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- hale,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardy,
- hearty,
- hectic,
- hefty,
- highborn,
- highbred,
- husky,
- iron-hard,
- lusty,
- mighty,
- nervy,
- obstinate,
- of good breed,
- pedigree,
- pedigreed,
- potent,
- powerful,
- puissant,
- pur sang,
- pure-blooded,
- purebred,
- red-blooded,
- red-complexioned,
- red-faced,
- red-fleshed,
- robust,
- robustious,
- rosy,
- rosy-cheeked,
- rubicund,
- ruddy,
- ruddy-complexioned,
- ruddy-faced,
- rugged,
- sanguine,
- stalwart,
- steely,
- stout,
- strapping,
- strong,
- strong as brandy,
- strong as strong,
- strong-willed,
- sturdy,
- sunburned,
- thoroughbred,
- vigorous,
- well-bred,
- wellborn
- accepted,
- acclaimed,
- admired,
- admitted,
- adored,
- advocated,
- applauded,
- appreciated,
- approved,
- backed,
- creditable,
- cried up,
- esteemed,
- estimable,
- favored,
- favorite,
- held in esteem,
- held in respect,
- highly considered,
- highly esteemed,
- highly regarded,
- highly reputed,
- highly respectable,
- highly touted,
- honorable,
- honored,
- in favor,
- in good odor,
- in high esteem,
- in high favor,
- meritorious,
- much-admired,
- noble,
- popular,
- prestigious,
- prized,
- received,
- recommended,
- reputable,
- respectable,
- respected,
- revered,
- reverenced,
- reverend,
- supported,
- valued,
- venerable,
- venerated,
- well-considered,
- worshiped,
- worshipful,
- worthy
- about,
- accessible,
- along toward,
- approachable,
- around,
- at close quarters,
- at hand,
- attainable,
- attendant,
- available,
- close,
- close about,
- close at hand,
- close by,
- come-at-able,
- fast by,
- findable,
- getatable,
- gettable,
- hard,
- hard by,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- immanent,
- immediate,
- in spitting distance,
- in view,
- indwelling,
- inherent,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearabout,
- nearabouts,
- nearby,
- nigh,
- nigh about,
- not far,
- obtainable,
- on board,
- on deck,
- on hand,
- only a step,
- open,
- open to,
- penetrable,
- pervious,
- present,
- procurable,
- reachable,
- securable,
- thereabout,
- thereabouts,
- to be had,
- within call,
- within earshot,
- within hearing,
- within sight
- inelastic
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- not elastic; "economists speak of an inelastic price structure" related words >
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- cast-iron,
- dour,
- firm,
- flinty,
- grim,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- inductile,
- inexorable,
- inextensible,
- inextensile,
- inextensional,
- inflexible,
- intractable,
- intractile,
- intransigent,
- iron,
- irreconcilable,
- irresilient,
- nonelastic,
- nonstretchable,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- stubborn,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unbending,
- unchangeable,
- uncompromising,
- unextendible,
- unextensible,
- unflexible,
- ungiving,
- unlimber,
- unmalleable,
- unmoved,
- unpliable,
- unpliant,
- unrelenting,
- untractable,
- unyielding
- Junoesque,
- agreeable,
- amply endowed,
- attractive,
- becoming,
- bent,
- billowing,
- billowy,
- bonny,
- braw,
- built,
- built for comfort,
- buxom,
- callipygian,
- callipygous,
- charming,
- comely,
- curvate,
- curvated,
- curve,
- curved,
- curvesome,
- curviform,
- curvilineal,
- curvilinear,
- curving,
- curvy,
- fair,
- geosynclinal,
- goddess-like,
- good-looking,
- goodly,
- incurvate,
- incurvated,
- incurved,
- incurving,
- labyrinthine,
- likely,
- lovely to behold,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- personable,
- pleasing,
- pneumatic,
- presentable,
- recurvate,
- recurvated,
- recurved,
- recurving,
- rounded,
- serpentine,
- shapely,
- sightly,
- sinuous,
- slender,
- stacked,
- statuesque,
- tortuous,
- undulant,
- wavy,
- well-built,
- well-developed,
- well-favored,
- well-formed,
- well-made,
- well-proportioned,
- well-shaped,
- well-stacked
- nearby
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- close at hand; "the nearby towns"; "concentrated his study on the nearby planet Venus"
- not far away in relative terms; "she works nearby"; "the planets orbiting nearby are Venus and Mars" related words >
- about,
- accessible,
- adjacent,
- along toward,
- around,
- aside,
- at close quarters,
- at hand,
- away,
- beside,
- by,
- circa,
- close,
- close about,
- close at hand,
- close by,
- convenient,
- convenient to,
- easily reached,
- fast by,
- handy,
- hard,
- hard by,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- immediate,
- in juxtaposition,
- in spitting distance,
- in the vicinity,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearabout,
- nearabouts,
- nigh,
- nigh about,
- not far,
- on one side,
- on the side,
- only a step,
- propinquant,
- propinquous,
- ready at hand,
- round,
- sidelong,
- thereabout,
- thereabouts,
- to hand,
- to one side,
- to the side,
- within call,
- within earshot,
- within hearing,
- within reach
- medium of exchange
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- anything that is generally accepted as a standard of value and a measure of wealth in a particular country or region related words >
- and pence,
- cash,
- circulating medium,
- coinage,
- coined liberty,
- cold cash,
- currency,
- dollars,
- emergency money,
- filthy lucre,
- fractional currency,
- gold,
- hard cash,
- hard currency,
- legal tender,
- lucre,
- mammon,
- managed currency,
- mintage,
- money,
- necessity money,
- pelf,
- postage currency,
- postal currency,
- pounds,
- scrip,
- shillings,
- silver,
- soft currency,
- specie,
- sterling,
- the almighty dollar,
- the wherewith,
- the wherewithal
- and pence,
- cash,
- circulating medium,
- coinage,
- coined liberty,
- cold cash,
- currency,
- dollars,
- emergency money,
- filthy lucre,
- fractional currency,
- gold,
- hard cash,
- hard currency,
- lucre,
- mammon,
- managed currency,
- medium of exchange,
- mintage,
- money,
- necessity money,
- pelf,
- postage currency,
- postal currency,
- pounds,
- scrip,
- shillings,
- silver,
- soft currency,
- specie,
- sterling,
- the almighty dollar,
- the wherewith,
- the wherewithal
- hard core
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- the most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movement related words >
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- ardent,
- cast-iron,
- dour,
- fanatic,
- fiery,
- firm,
- flaming,
- flinty,
- grim,
- hard,
- heated,
- hot,
- hotheaded,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- inelastic,
- inexorable,
- inflamed,
- inflexible,
- intransigent,
- iron,
- irreconcilable,
- madcap,
- passionate,
- red-hot,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- scorching,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- totally committed,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unbending,
- unchangeable,
- uncompromising,
- ungiving,
- unmoved,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- white-hot,
- zealous
- Junoesque,
- agreeable,
- amply endowed,
- appealing,
- appropriate,
- apt,
- attractive,
- beauteous,
- beautiful,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- bonny,
- braw,
- built,
- built for comfort,
- buxom,
- callipygian,
- callipygous,
- civilized,
- clean,
- clean-cut,
- comme il faut,
- conforming,
- correct,
- curvaceous,
- curvy,
- fair,
- felicitous,
- fit,
- fitting,
- goddess-like,
- good-looking,
- goodly,
- handsome,
- happy,
- inspired,
- just,
- likely,
- lovely,
- lovely to behold,
- neat,
- nice,
- personable,
- pleasing,
- pneumatic,
- presentable,
- pretty,
- proper,
- pulchritudinous,
- seemly,
- shapely,
- sightly,
- slender,
- stacked,
- statuesque,
- trim,
- well-built,
- well-chosen,
- well-expressed,
- well-favored,
- well-formed,
- well-made,
- well-proportioned,
- well-put,
- well-shaped,
- well-stacked,
- wholesome,
- winsome
- puritan
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- someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures
- a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Grundy,
- Sabbatarian,
- Trappist,
- Victorian,
- Waldensian,
- abstainer,
- anchorite,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bhikshu,
- bigoted,
- bluenose,
- dervish,
- disapproving,
- dour,
- fakir,
- fanatic,
- firm,
- flagellant,
- fundamentalist,
- goody-goody,
- hard,
- hard-line,
- hard-nosed,
- hermit,
- hidebound,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- intolerant,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- mendicant,
- mid-Victorian,
- moralistic,
- muscle-bound,
- narrow-minded,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- old maid,
- orthodox,
- pietist,
- pietistic,
- prig,
- prim,
- procrustean,
- proper,
- prude,
- prudish,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- relentless,
- religionist,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- sannyasi,
- severe,
- stern,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- straightlaced,
- strait-laced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- uptight,
- yogi,
- yogin,
- zealot
- difficult
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- not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
- requiring much effort and trouble; "the mountain climb was long, steep, and difficult" related words >
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- adverse,
- antagonistic,
- arduous,
- awkward,
- baffling,
- beyond one,
- bloody-minded,
- brutal,
- burdensome,
- cantankerous,
- complex,
- complicated,
- conflicting,
- contrary,
- counter,
- counteractive,
- crabbed,
- cramp,
- critical,
- cross-grained,
- dark,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detrimental,
- difficile,
- effortful,
- enigmatical,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- finikin,
- formidable,
- froward,
- fuss-budgety,
- fussy,
- garbled,
- grim,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard to please,
- hard to understand,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- harmful,
- hostile,
- ill-behaved,
- in opposition,
- inimical,
- intractable,
- intricate,
- irascible,
- jawbreaking,
- jumbled,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- labored,
- laborious,
- mean,
- miserable,
- naughty,
- nit-picking,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- obstinate,
- obstructive,
- onerous,
- operose,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- ornery,
- overtechnical,
- particular,
- pawky,
- pernickety,
- perplexed,
- perplexing,
- persnickety,
- perverse,
- problem,
- problematic,
- problematical,
- profound,
- puzzling,
- queasy,
- recalcitrant,
- recondite,
- refractory,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- scabrous,
- scrambled,
- sensitive,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- sinister,
- spiny,
- squeamish,
- steep,
- strenuous,
- stressful,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- thorny,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- tricky,
- troubled,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- troublous,
- trying,
- unaccommodating,
- uncompromising,
- unfavorable,
- unmanageable,
- untoward,
- unyielding,
- uphill,
- wayward,
- wicked,
- wretched,
- wrongheaded
- Herculean
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- extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules; "a herculean task"
- displaying superhuman strength or power; "herculean exertions" related words >
- Antaean,
- Atlantean,
- Briarean,
- Brobdingnagian,
- Cyclopean,
- Gargantuan,
- Homeric,
- abstruse,
- abysmal,
- arduous,
- astronomic,
- backbreaking,
- brutal,
- burdensome,
- colossal,
- complex,
- critical,
- crushing,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- effortful,
- elephantine,
- enormous,
- epic,
- exacting,
- forced,
- formidable,
- gargantuan,
- giant,
- giantlike,
- gigantic,
- grueling,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- heroic,
- huge,
- immense,
- infinite,
- intricate,
- jawbreaking,
- jumbo,
- killing,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- labored,
- laborious,
- mammoth,
- mean,
- mighty,
- monster,
- monstrous,
- monumental,
- mountainous,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- prodigious,
- profound,
- punishing,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- spiny,
- steep,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- stupendous,
- thorny,
- ticklish,
- titanic,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- towering,
- tremendous,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- uphill,
- vast,
- wearisome,
- wicked
- absolute,
- authoritative,
- binding,
- canonical,
- choiceless,
- commanded,
- commanding,
- compelling,
- compulsatory,
- compulsory,
- conclusive,
- de rigueur,
- decisive,
- decretory,
- demanded,
- dictated,
- didactic,
- entailed,
- essential,
- exigent,
- final,
- forced,
- formulary,
- hard and fast,
- hard-and-fast,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- importunate,
- imposed,
- indispensable,
- inevitable,
- instructive,
- involuntary,
- irrevocable,
- mandated,
- must,
- necessary,
- necessitous,
- needed,
- needful,
- obligatory,
- official,
- peremptory,
- preceptive,
- prescribed,
- prescript,
- prescriptive,
- regulation,
- required,
- requisite,
- rubric,
- standard,
- statutory,
- ultimate,
- urgent,
- without appeal,
- without choice
- add,
- adjoin,
- affix,
- agglutinate,
- annex,
- append,
- attach,
- bear hard upon,
- block,
- burden,
- burthen,
- charge,
- clog,
- complicate,
- conjoin,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- cumber,
- decorate,
- discommode,
- embarrass,
- enmesh,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- entoil,
- entrammel,
- entrap,
- entwine,
- fetter,
- freight,
- glue on,
- hamper,
- hamstring,
- handicap,
- hinder,
- hitch on,
- hobble,
- impede,
- incommode,
- inconvenience,
- infix,
- involve,
- join with,
- lade,
- lame,
- lime,
- load,
- lumber,
- net,
- obstruct,
- oppress,
- ornament,
- overburden,
- overload,
- overtax,
- overweight,
- paste on,
- plus,
- postfix,
- prefix,
- press down,
- press hard upon,
- put with,
- rest hard upon,
- retard,
- saddle,
- saddle with,
- shackle,
- slap on,
- slow down,
- snarl,
- strain,
- subjoin,
- suffix,
- superadd,
- superpose,
- tack on,
- tag,
- tag on,
- tangle,
- tax,
- toil,
- trammel,
- unite with,
- weigh,
- weigh down,
- weigh heavy on,
- weigh on,
- weigh upon,
- weight
- common,
- commonplace,
- down-to-earth,
- dull,
- earthy,
- flat,
- hard,
- hard-boiled,
- hardheaded,
- humdrum,
- insipid,
- matter-of-fact,
- mundane,
- ordinary,
- pedestrian,
- plain,
- poetryless,
- positivistic,
- practical,
- practical-minded,
- pragmatic,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- rational,
- realist,
- realistic,
- reasonable,
- sane,
- scientific,
- scientistic,
- secular,
- sensible,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sound,
- sound-thinking,
- straight-thinking,
- tiresome,
- unembellished,
- unideal,
- unimaginative,
- unimpassioned,
- unpoetic,
- unromantic,
- unsentimental,
- vapid,
- worldly
- beefy
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- muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly' is a Scottish term" related words >
- adipose,
- big-bellied,
- bloated,
- blowzy,
- bosomy,
- bouncing,
- brawny,
- burly,
- buxom,
- chubby,
- chunky,
- corpulent,
- distended,
- doughty,
- dumpy,
- fat,
- fattish,
- fleshy,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forcy,
- full,
- full-blooded,
- full-strength,
- gross,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- hale,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardy,
- hearty,
- heavyset,
- hefty,
- hippy,
- husky,
- imposing,
- iron-hard,
- lusty,
- meaty,
- mighty,
- nervy,
- obese,
- obstinate,
- overweight,
- paunchy,
- plump,
- podgy,
- portly,
- potbellied,
- potent,
- powerful,
- pudgy,
- puffy,
- puissant,
- pursy,
- red-blooded,
- robust,
- robustious,
- roly-poly,
- rotund,
- rugged,
- square,
- squat,
- squatty,
- stalwart,
- steely,
- stocky,
- stout,
- strapping,
- strong,
- strong as brandy,
- strong as strong,
- strong-willed,
- sturdy,
- swollen,
- thick-bodied,
- thickset,
- top-heavy,
- tubby,
- vigorous,
- well-fed
- implausible
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- having a quality that provokes disbelief; "gave the teacher an implausible excuse" related words >
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- absurd,
- beyond belief,
- debatable,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- fishy,
- flimsy,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- hardly possible,
- improbable,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- more than doubtful,
- not deserving belief,
- open to doubt,
- open to suspicion,
- passing belief,
- preposterous,
- problematic,
- puzzling,
- questionable,
- ridiculous,
- staggering belief,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- tall,
- thick,
- thin,
- unbelievable,
- unconvincing,
- unearthly,
- ungodly,
- unimaginable,
- unlikely,
- unpromising,
- unreasonable,
- unsubstantial,
- unthinkable,
- unworthy of belief,
- weak
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