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- selection
collapse - an assortment of things from which a choice can be made; "the store carried a large selection of shoes" related words >
- abstract,
- acumen,
- allocation,
- alternative,
- alternativity,
- appointment,
- assignment,
- assortment,
- attribution,
- batch,
- categorization,
- characterization,
- choice,
- choosing,
- co-optation,
- co-option,
- collection,
- culling,
- decision,
- denomination,
- denotation,
- designation,
- determination,
- differentiation,
- discernment,
- disclosure,
- discrimination,
- draft,
- drafting,
- druthers,
- electing,
- election,
- excerpt,
- excerption,
- expression,
- extract,
- extraction,
- fingering,
- first choice,
- fixing,
- free choice,
- free will,
- gradation,
- group,
- grouping,
- hint,
- identification,
- indication,
- indicativeness,
- insight,
- manifestation,
- meaning,
- naming,
- nomination,
- number,
- option,
- ordainment,
- ordination,
- passage,
- pick,
- picking,
- picking out,
- piece,
- pinning down,
- placement,
- pointing,
- pointing out,
- pointing to,
- posting,
- precision,
- preference,
- preoption,
- quotation,
- quote,
- range,
- ranking,
- screening,
- selected passage,
- selecting,
- series,
- set,
- show,
- showing,
- sifting,
- signification,
- sorting,
- sorting out,
- specification,
- stipulation,
- subordination,
- suggestion,
- symptomaticness,
- tabbing,
- taxonomy,
- the pick,
- transferral,
- triage,
- variety,
- volition,
- will
- independent
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- not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
- not contingent
- free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"; "an independent republic"
- (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence; "the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb"
- not controlled by a party or interest group related words >
- Laodicean,
- abounding in riches,
- affluent,
- alien,
- anythingarian,
- apart,
- apart from,
- apathetic,
- arbitrary,
- aside from,
- autarchic,
- autarkic,
- autonomous,
- barring,
- besides,
- beyond,
- big-rich,
- bold,
- centrist,
- comfortable,
- competent,
- controlled,
- detached,
- disconnected,
- discrete,
- discretional,
- discretionary,
- disgustingly rich,
- disinterested,
- disjunct,
- disrelated,
- dissociated,
- distinct,
- elective,
- erect,
- even,
- except for,
- excluding,
- exclusive of,
- exotic,
- external,
- extraneous,
- fat,
- fence-sitter,
- fifty-fifty,
- firm-minded,
- flush,
- foreign,
- forward,
- free,
- free lance,
- free spirit,
- free trader,
- free will,
- free-spirited,
- freethinker,
- freewheeling,
- frightfully rich,
- gratuitous,
- half-and-half,
- house-proud,
- ignoring,
- impartial,
- importunate,
- in funds,
- in the money,
- incommensurable,
- incomparable,
- independently rich,
- independently wealthy,
- indifferent,
- individual,
- individualist,
- individualistic,
- inner-directed,
- insular,
- irrelative,
- irrespective of,
- isolated,
- isolationist,
- latitudinarian,
- liberal,
- libertarian,
- libertine,
- loaded,
- loner,
- luxurious,
- made of money,
- maverick,
- midway,
- moderate,
- moneyed,
- mugwump,
- mugwumpian,
- mugwumpish,
- neuter,
- neutral,
- nonaligned,
- noncommitted,
- nonconformist,
- nonmandatory,
- nonpartisan,
- nothingarian,
- notwithstanding,
- offered,
- on the fence,
- oofy,
- optional,
- opulent,
- other,
- outlandish,
- outside,
- passive,
- prideful,
- proffered,
- prosperous,
- proud,
- proud as Lucifer,
- proud-blooded,
- proud-looking,
- proud-minded,
- proud-spirited,
- proudful,
- proudhearted,
- provided for,
- purse-proud,
- pushy,
- removed,
- rich,
- rich as Croesus,
- rolling in money,
- rugged individualist,
- segregate,
- self-acting,
- self-active,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-assured,
- self-centered,
- self-confident,
- self-contained,
- self-controlled,
- self-dependent,
- self-determined,
- self-determining,
- self-directing,
- self-esteeming,
- self-expressive,
- self-governed,
- self-governing,
- self-helpful,
- self-helping,
- self-improving,
- self-possessed,
- self-reliant,
- self-respecting,
- self-restrained,
- self-subsistent,
- self-sufficient,
- self-supporting,
- self-sustained,
- self-sustaining,
- separate,
- separated,
- sovereign,
- spontaneous,
- stiff-necked,
- strange,
- strong-minded,
- strong-willed,
- swing vote,
- third force,
- third world,
- third-force,
- third-world,
- unaffiliated,
- unallied,
- unasked,
- unassociated,
- unbesought,
- unbiased,
- unbidden,
- uncalled-for,
- uncoerced,
- uncommitted,
- uncommitted voter,
- uncompelled,
- unconnected,
- uncontrolled,
- undecided,
- unearned,
- unfettered,
- unforced,
- uninfluenced,
- uninvited,
- uninvolved,
- unlimited,
- unprejudiced,
- unpressured,
- unprompted,
- unrelatable,
- unrelated,
- unrequested,
- unrequired,
- unrestrained,
- unrestricted,
- unsolicited,
- unsought,
- voluntary,
- volunteer,
- wallowing in wealth,
- warm,
- wealthy,
- well provided for,
- well-fixed,
- well-heeled,
- well-off,
- well-to-do,
- willful
- bakehead,
- black gang,
- blue-collar worker,
- boilerman,
- breadwinner,
- bungs,
- cabin boy,
- casual,
- casual laborer,
- chips,
- commissary steward,
- common laborer,
- complement,
- day laborer,
- deckhand,
- deckie,
- docker,
- dockhand,
- employee,
- factory worker,
- fireman,
- flunky,
- free lance,
- free-lancer,
- full-time worker,
- gun loader,
- gunner,
- hand,
- hospital steward,
- industrial worker,
- jobber,
- jobholder,
- laborer,
- laboring man,
- landing signalman,
- loader,
- longshoreman,
- mail orderly,
- menial,
- migrant,
- moiler,
- navigator,
- navvy,
- office temporary,
- oiler,
- operative,
- proletarian,
- purser,
- radio operator,
- salaried worker,
- self-employed person,
- servant,
- snip,
- snips,
- sparks,
- stevedore,
- steward,
- stewardess,
- stiff,
- stoker,
- temporary,
- toiler,
- torpedoman,
- wage earner,
- wage slave,
- wageworker,
- watch,
- wharf hand,
- worker,
- workgirl,
- workhand,
- working girl,
- workingman,
- workingwoman,
- workman,
- yeoman
- space
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- the unlimited expanse in which everything is located; "they tested his ability to locate objects in space"; "the boundless regions of the infinite"
- a blank area; "write your name in the space provided"
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet"
- one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff; "the spaces are the notes F-A-C-E"
- an area reserved for some particular purpose; "the laboratory's floor space"
- an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things); "the architect left space in front of the building"; "they stopped at an open space in the jungle"; "the space between his teeth"
- place at intervals; "Space the interviews so that you have some time between the different candidates" related words >
- 3-D,
- CAT,
- accommodation,
- aerospace,
- aerosphere,
- aesthetic distance,
- air hole,
- air pocket,
- airspace,
- alien,
- align,
- allocate,
- allot,
- amount,
- ample scope,
- amplitude,
- aperture,
- apportion,
- area,
- arrange,
- array,
- astronomical unit,
- bar,
- bar line,
- belt,
- berth,
- bit,
- blank,
- blank check,
- brace,
- breadth,
- break,
- broaching,
- bump,
- burden,
- caesura,
- caliber,
- capacity,
- carte blanche,
- cavity,
- ceiling,
- celestial spaces,
- chaos,
- chasm,
- check,
- chronology,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- cleft,
- collocate,
- compass,
- compose,
- confines,
- content,
- continental shelf,
- continuity,
- cordage,
- corridor,
- cosmic space,
- country,
- crack,
- crosswind,
- cubic,
- cut,
- day,
- deal,
- deal out,
- deep space,
- degree,
- department,
- depths of space,
- dimensional,
- disclosure,
- discontinuity,
- dispart,
- dispose,
- distance,
- distance between,
- distribute,
- district,
- divergence,
- division,
- double space,
- duration,
- duree,
- elbowroom,
- em,
- em quad,
- em space,
- empty space,
- en,
- en quad,
- en space,
- environs,
- ether space,
- expanse,
- expansion,
- extent,
- exterrestrial,
- extramundane,
- extrasolar,
- extraterrene,
- extraterrestrial,
- farness,
- fateful moment,
- favorable wind,
- fenestra,
- field,
- fistula,
- five-em space,
- fix,
- flat,
- fog,
- fontanel,
- foramen,
- four-em space,
- fourth-dimensional,
- free course,
- free hand,
- free play,
- free scope,
- freeboard,
- front,
- full scope,
- full swing,
- gap,
- gape,
- gat,
- grade,
- ground,
- gulf,
- hair space,
- half space,
- head wind,
- heartland,
- height,
- hiatus,
- high-pressure area,
- hinterland,
- hole,
- hollow,
- hour,
- infinity,
- inlet,
- instant,
- interim,
- intermediate space,
- intermission,
- interruption,
- interspace,
- interstellar space,
- interstice,
- interval,
- ionosphere,
- jetstream,
- jump,
- juncture,
- justification space,
- justifying space,
- kairos,
- keep apart,
- lacuna,
- land,
- lapse,
- lastingness,
- latitude,
- lay out,
- laying open,
- leak,
- leap,
- ledger line,
- leeway,
- length,
- level,
- light-year,
- light-years,
- limit,
- line,
- line up,
- long rope,
- low-pressure area,
- make a space,
- maneuvering space,
- margin,
- mark,
- marshal,
- measure,
- measure out,
- metagalactic space,
- mileage,
- milieu,
- minute,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- neighborhood,
- no holds barred,
- notch,
- nuance,
- ocean of emptiness,
- offshore rights,
- open space,
- opening,
- opening up,
- order,
- organize,
- orifice,
- otherworldly,
- outer space,
- outlet,
- overcast,
- parcel out,
- parsec,
- parsecs,
- part,
- parts,
- pas,
- passageway,
- patent space,
- pause,
- peg,
- period,
- perspective,
- piece,
- pitch,
- place,
- plane,
- plateau,
- play,
- pocket,
- point,
- pore,
- poundage,
- precincts,
- pregnant moment,
- premises,
- pressureless space,
- proportion,
- proportional,
- psychological moment,
- psychological time,
- purlieus,
- quad,
- quadrat,
- quantity,
- quarter,
- rally,
- range,
- rank,
- ratio,
- reach,
- regiment,
- region,
- remoteness,
- remove,
- room,
- rope,
- roughness,
- round,
- rung,
- salient,
- scale,
- scope,
- sea room,
- season,
- seat,
- section,
- separate,
- separation,
- set apart,
- set at intervals,
- set out,
- shade,
- shadow,
- single space,
- slot,
- slug,
- soil,
- soup,
- space between,
- space out,
- space-time,
- spaceband,
- spaciousness,
- span,
- spatial,
- spatiotemporal,
- spell,
- spherical,
- split,
- spread,
- staff,
- stage,
- stair,
- standard,
- stave,
- step,
- stereoscopic,
- stint,
- stoma,
- stowage,
- stratosphere,
- stretch,
- stride,
- substratosphere,
- superficial,
- surface,
- swing,
- tail wind,
- tense,
- term,
- terrain,
- territory,
- the future,
- the past,
- the present,
- the void,
- the void above,
- thick space,
- thin space,
- three-dimensional,
- three-mile limit,
- throwing open,
- tide,
- time,
- time interval,
- time lag,
- timebinding,
- tolerance,
- tonnage,
- transcendental,
- transmundane,
- tread,
- tropopause,
- troposphere,
- trough,
- turbulence,
- twelve-mile limit,
- two-dimensional,
- uncorking,
- unstopping,
- vicinage,
- vicinity,
- visibility,
- visibility zero,
- volume,
- volumetric,
- wait,
- way,
- ways,
- whet,
- while,
- wide berth,
- yawn,
- zone
- italicize
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- print in italics related words >
- abuse,
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- assail,
- attack,
- bankruptcy,
- befoul,
- bewitch,
- blight,
- blister,
- breakage,
- breakdown,
- castigate,
- collapse,
- condemn,
- corrupt,
- crack-up,
- crippling,
- crucify,
- curse,
- damage,
- defile,
- deprave,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- dilapidation,
- disablement,
- disadvantage,
- disrepair,
- disserve,
- distress,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doom,
- encroachment,
- envenom,
- excoriate,
- flay,
- fustigate,
- get into trouble,
- give the business,
- harass,
- harm,
- hex,
- hobbling,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- impair,
- impairment,
- incapacitation,
- infect,
- infringement,
- injure,
- injury,
- inroad,
- jinx,
- lash,
- loss,
- maiming,
- maltreat,
- mayhem,
- menace,
- mischief,
- mistreat,
- molest,
- mutilation,
- outrage,
- persecute,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- pollute,
- prejudice,
- roast,
- ruination,
- ruinousness,
- sabotage,
- savage,
- scarify,
- scorch,
- scourge,
- sickening,
- skin alive,
- slash,
- spoiling,
- taint,
- threaten,
- torment,
- torture,
- trounce,
- violate,
- weakening,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wrong
- fastidious
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- giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
- having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements" related words >
- accurate,
- appreciative,
- bleached,
- bright,
- careful,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- civilized,
- clean,
- cleanly,
- conscientious,
- critical,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- differential,
- difficult,
- dirt-free,
- discriminate,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- elegant,
- exact,
- exacting,
- fair,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicky,
- fresh,
- fussy,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- gracious,
- hypercritical,
- immaculate,
- kosher,
- meticulous,
- nice,
- nit-picking,
- nonpolluted,
- of cleanly habits,
- overconscientious,
- overscrupulous,
- particular,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- polished,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- pure,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- refined,
- religious,
- ritually pure,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- shiny,
- smut-free,
- smutless,
- sophisticated,
- spotless,
- squeamish,
- stainless,
- strict,
- subtle,
- sweet,
- tactful,
- tahar,
- tender-conscienced,
- tubbed,
- unadulterated,
- unbesmirched,
- unblemished,
- unblotted,
- undefiled,
- unmuddied,
- unpolluted,
- unsmirched,
- unsmudged,
- unsoiled,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- untarnished,
- well-scrubbed,
- well-washed,
- white,
- whitened
- get by
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- pass or move in front of; "Bride's Biscuit got by the other dogs to win the race" related words >
- accomplish,
- achieve,
- answer,
- avail,
- be equal to,
- be missed,
- be so,
- be such,
- bear,
- bring off,
- bring through,
- carry off,
- clear,
- clear the hurdle,
- come along,
- come on,
- come out,
- come through,
- compass,
- contrive,
- cop a plea,
- cop out,
- cope,
- crown with success,
- cut the mustard,
- do,
- do it,
- do the trick,
- do with,
- eke out,
- engineer,
- escape attention,
- escape notice,
- escape one,
- escape without penalty,
- fare,
- fill the bill,
- fulfill,
- get along,
- get along on,
- get away with,
- get by on,
- get off,
- get off cheap,
- get on,
- go along,
- go around,
- go at liberty,
- go free,
- go on,
- go scot free,
- hack it,
- hold,
- hold up,
- just do,
- keep afloat,
- make do,
- make ends meet,
- make it,
- make out,
- make the grade,
- makeshift,
- manage,
- manage somehow,
- manage with,
- meet,
- meet requirements,
- muddle through,
- negotiate,
- not register,
- pass,
- pass muster,
- pull off,
- put across,
- put over,
- put through,
- qualify,
- reach,
- satisfy,
- scrape along,
- serve,
- serve the purpose,
- shape up,
- stack up,
- stagger,
- stand,
- stand the test,
- stand up,
- stretch,
- subsist,
- succeed in,
- suffice,
- survive,
- swing,
- swing the deal,
- take it,
- turn out,
- turn the trick,
- win freedom,
- work,
- worry along
- election
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- the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice; "her election of medicine as a profession"
- a vote to select the winner of a position or political office; "the results of the election will be announced tonight"
- the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
- the status or fact of being elected; "they celebrated his election" related words >
- Calvinism,
- accession,
- alternative,
- alternativity,
- anointing,
- anointment,
- apostolic orders,
- appointment,
- arrogation,
- assignment,
- assumption,
- authorization,
- by-election,
- calling,
- canonization,
- caucus,
- choice,
- choosing,
- closed primary,
- co-optation,
- co-option,
- conferment,
- congressional election,
- consecration,
- contested election,
- coronation,
- decision,
- delegation,
- deputation,
- designation,
- determinism,
- direct primary,
- druthers,
- electing,
- empowerment,
- fatalism,
- first choice,
- free choice,
- free will,
- general election,
- holy orders,
- induction,
- installation,
- institution,
- investiture,
- legitimate succession,
- major orders,
- mandatory primary,
- minor orders,
- nomination,
- nonpartisan primary,
- open primary,
- option,
- optional primary,
- ordainment,
- orders,
- ordination,
- partisan election,
- pick,
- plebiscite,
- political election,
- poll,
- predestinarianism,
- predeterminism,
- preference,
- preference primary,
- preferment,
- preoption,
- presentation,
- presidential election,
- presidential preference primary,
- presidential primary,
- primary,
- primary election,
- reading in,
- referendum,
- runoff,
- runoff election,
- runoff primary,
- seizure,
- selection,
- succession,
- taking over,
- the pick,
- usurpation,
- volition,
- vote,
- voting,
- will
- trivialize
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- make trivial or insignificant; "Don't trivialize the seriousness of the issue!" related words >
- idolization
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- the act of worshiping blindly and to excess related words >
- Amor,
- Christian love,
- Eros,
- Platonic love,
- admiration,
- adoration,
- affection,
- agape,
- anthropolatry,
- apotheosis,
- appreciation,
- approbation,
- approval,
- arborolatry,
- ardency,
- ardor,
- attachment,
- awe,
- bibliolatry,
- bodily love,
- breathless adoration,
- brotherly love,
- caritas,
- charity,
- conjugal love,
- consideration,
- courtesy,
- deference,
- deification,
- demonolatry,
- desire,
- devotion,
- duty,
- esteem,
- estimation,
- exaggerated respect,
- faithful love,
- fancy,
- favor,
- fervor,
- fetishization,
- flame,
- fondness,
- free love,
- free-lovism,
- great respect,
- heart,
- hero worship,
- high regard,
- homage,
- honor,
- hygeiolatry,
- iconolatry,
- idolatry,
- idolism,
- lasciviousness,
- libido,
- like,
- liking,
- litholatry,
- love,
- lovemaking,
- married love,
- monolatry,
- ophiolatry,
- passion,
- patriolatry,
- physical love,
- physiolatry,
- phytolatry,
- popular regard,
- popularity,
- prestige,
- pyrolatry,
- regard,
- respect,
- reverence,
- reverential regard,
- sentiment,
- sex,
- sexual love,
- shine,
- spiritual love,
- tender feeling,
- tender passion,
- truelove,
- uxoriousness,
- veneration,
- weakness,
- worship,
- yearning
- writer
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- writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
- a person who is able to write and has written something related words >
- addressee,
- advertising writer,
- amanuensis,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- calligrapher,
- chirographer,
- clerk,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- communicator,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copier,
- copyist,
- copywriter,
- correspondent,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- descanter,
- diarist,
- discourser,
- disquisitor,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- expositor,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- humorist,
- inditer,
- ink spiller,
- inkslinger,
- letter writer,
- letterer,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- monographer,
- monographist,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- pen,
- pen pal,
- pencil driver,
- penman,
- penner,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prose writer,
- recording secretary,
- reviewer,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scribbler,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- scrivener,
- secretary,
- short-story writer,
- storyteller,
- technical writer,
- tractation,
- transcriber,
- word painter,
- word-slinger,
- wordsmith
- anagram
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- read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning related words >
- academician,
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- bookman,
- classicist,
- clerk,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- colossus of knowledge,
- columnist,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- diarist,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- genius,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- giant of learning,
- humanist,
- humorist,
- inditer,
- learned clerk,
- learned man,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- logographer,
- lover of learning,
- magazine writer,
- man of learning,
- man of letters,
- mastermind,
- mine of information,
- monographer,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- philologist,
- philologue,
- philomath,
- philosophe,
- philosopher,
- poet,
- polyhistor,
- polymath,
- prose writer,
- pundit,
- reviewer,
- savant,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scholar,
- scholastic,
- schoolman,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- storyteller,
- student,
- technical writer,
- walking encyclopedia,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer
- straightforward
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- pointed directly ahead; "a straightforward gaze"
- free from ambiguity; "a straightforward set of instructions" related words >
- Attic,
- Ciceronian,
- Mickey Mouse,
- Spartan,
- aboveboard,
- apparent,
- artless,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bald,
- bare,
- barefaced,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- broad,
- brusque,
- candid,
- casual,
- chaste,
- classic,
- clean-cut,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- clear as day,
- clear-cut,
- coherent,
- common,
- commonplace,
- connected,
- consistent,
- crisp,
- crystal-clear,
- crystalline,
- cushy,
- dead,
- dead ahead,
- defined,
- definite,
- direct,
- directly,
- distinct,
- downright,
- dry,
- due,
- due north,
- dull,
- easy,
- easy as pie,
- effortless,
- elegant,
- evident,
- explicit,
- express,
- facile,
- finished,
- forthright,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- genuine,
- glib,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- heart-to-heart,
- homely,
- homespun,
- honest,
- honorable,
- immediate,
- in a beeline,
- in line with,
- inartificial,
- incomplex,
- ingenuous,
- irreversible,
- just,
- lean,
- light,
- limpid,
- loud and clear,
- lucid,
- luminous,
- manifest,
- matter-of-fact,
- native,
- natural,
- neat,
- nothing to it,
- one-way,
- open,
- openhearted,
- outspoken,
- painless,
- palpable,
- patent,
- pellucid,
- perspicuous,
- plain,
- plain dealing,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- polished,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pure,
- refined,
- restrained,
- right,
- round,
- rustic,
- severe,
- simple,
- simple as ABC,
- simple-speaking,
- sincere,
- smooth,
- sober,
- soft,
- spare,
- stark,
- straight,
- straight across,
- straight ahead,
- straight-out,
- straightaway,
- straightforwards,
- straightly,
- straightway,
- tasteful,
- terse,
- through,
- translucent,
- transparent,
- transpicuous,
- trim,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- unambiguous,
- unartificial,
- unassuming,
- unbroken,
- unburdensome,
- unchecked,
- uncomplicated,
- unconcealed,
- unconfused,
- unconstrained,
- undeviating,
- undeviatingly,
- undisguised,
- undissembled,
- undissembling,
- unequivocal,
- unfeigning,
- unguarded,
- unidirectional,
- unimaginative,
- uninterrupted,
- uninvolved,
- univocal,
- unlabored,
- unmistakable,
- unpoetical,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unswerving,
- unswervingly,
- unvarnished,
- unveeringly,
- upright,
- upstanding,
- well-defined
- informal
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- not formal; "conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress"; "an informal free-and-easy manner"; "an informal gathering of friends"
- used of spoken and written language
- not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers" related words >
- Bohemian,
- affable,
- beat,
- beat-up,
- bedraggled,
- blowzy,
- breakaway,
- careless,
- casual,
- chintzy,
- colloquial,
- common,
- conversational,
- cordial,
- degage,
- dilapidated,
- drabbletailed,
- draggled,
- draggletailed,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- en deshabille,
- everyday,
- familiar,
- far out,
- folksy,
- free,
- free and easy,
- fringy,
- frowzy,
- frumpish,
- frumpy,
- garden-variety,
- gracious,
- grubby,
- haymish,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hippie,
- homely,
- homey,
- in dishabille,
- in rags,
- irregular,
- kinky,
- loose,
- lumpen,
- maverick,
- messy,
- mussy,
- natural,
- negligent,
- nonstandard,
- not cricket,
- not done,
- not kosher,
- offbeat,
- offhand,
- offhanded,
- ordinary,
- original,
- plain,
- poky,
- private,
- ragged,
- raggedy,
- relaxed,
- ruinous,
- scraggly,
- seedy,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- simple,
- slack,
- slatternly,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- sluttish,
- sociable,
- sordid,
- special,
- spoken,
- spontaneous,
- sporty,
- squalid,
- substandard,
- tacky,
- tattered,
- unaffected,
- unassuming,
- unauthorized,
- unceremonious,
- unconstrained,
- unconventional,
- uneducated,
- unfashionable,
- unkempt,
- unliterary,
- unneat,
- unofficial,
- unorthodox,
- unpretentious,
- unsightly,
- unstudied,
- untidy,
- vernacular,
- way out
- snafu
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- an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up
- cause to be in a state of complete confusion related words >
- Chinese puzzle,
- Gordian knot,
- Rube Goldberg contraption,
- anarchic,
- anarchy,
- arsy-varsy,
- ass-backwards,
- ball up,
- balled up,
- bollix,
- bollix up,
- bollixed up,
- bugger,
- bugger up,
- can of worms,
- chaos,
- chaotic,
- complex,
- confound,
- confuse,
- confused,
- confusion,
- cook,
- crab,
- cramp,
- crimp,
- fabulous formless darkness,
- foul up,
- foul-up,
- fouled up,
- fumble,
- galley-west,
- garble,
- gum,
- gum up,
- hash up,
- hassle,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hugger-mugger,
- in a mess,
- jumble,
- jumbled,
- jungle,
- knot,
- labyrinth,
- license,
- louse up,
- maze,
- meander,
- mesh,
- mess,
- mess up,
- misrule,
- mix up,
- mix-up,
- mixed up,
- morass,
- muck up,
- mucked up,
- muddle,
- muddled,
- perplex,
- pi,
- play hell with,
- play hob with,
- queer,
- ravel,
- riffle,
- scattered,
- scramble,
- screw up,
- screw-up,
- screwed up,
- shuffle,
- sink,
- skimble-skamble,
- snake pit,
- snarl,
- snarl up,
- tangle,
- tangled skein,
- topsy-turvy,
- tumble,
- upside-down,
- webwork,
- wheels within wheels,
- wilderness
- dash off
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- write quickly; "She dashed off a note to her husband saying she would not be home for supper"; "He scratched off a thank-you note to the hostess" related words >
- ad-lib,
- author,
- bat out,
- botch,
- bundle,
- bungle,
- bustle,
- cartoon,
- chalk,
- charcoal,
- chase,
- coauthor,
- collaborate,
- color,
- compose,
- cook up,
- copy,
- crayon,
- crosshatch,
- crowd,
- dash,
- dash on,
- daub,
- delineate,
- depict,
- design,
- diagram,
- dig out,
- do anyhow,
- do by halves,
- do carelessly,
- do offhand,
- doodle,
- double-time,
- draft,
- draw,
- editorialize,
- extemporize,
- fake,
- fake up,
- festinate,
- formulate,
- free-lance,
- fudge up,
- get going,
- get moving,
- ghost,
- ghostwrite,
- hasten,
- hasten off,
- hatch,
- hurry,
- hurry away,
- hurry on,
- hurry through,
- hurry up,
- hurry-scurry,
- hustle,
- improvisate,
- improvise,
- indite,
- jury-rig,
- knock off,
- knock out,
- knock together,
- lash up,
- leap,
- light out,
- limn,
- lose no time,
- make haste,
- make up,
- move quickly,
- nip,
- nip off,
- novelize,
- paint,
- paint a picture,
- pamphleteer,
- patch,
- patch together,
- patch up,
- pencil,
- picture,
- picturize,
- play by ear,
- plunge,
- portray,
- post,
- pound out,
- prepare,
- press on,
- produce,
- push on,
- race,
- rough out,
- roughcast,
- roughhew,
- run,
- rush,
- rush through,
- scamper,
- scamper off,
- scenarize,
- scramble,
- scrap the plan,
- scratch,
- scumble,
- scurry,
- scuttle,
- shade,
- sketch,
- skin out,
- slap up,
- spurt,
- stencil,
- strike off,
- tear,
- tear off,
- tear out,
- throw off,
- throw on paper,
- throw together,
- tint,
- toss off,
- toss out,
- toss together,
- trace,
- trifle with,
- vamp,
- whip off,
- whip up,
- whiz off,
- whomp up,
- wing it,
- write
- pastime
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- a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly); "sailing is her favorite pastime"; "his main pastime is gambling"; "he counts reading among his interests"; "they criticized the boy for his limited pursuits" related words >
- infect
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- contaminate with a disease or microorganism
- communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold"
- affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"
- contaminate with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected by racism" related words >
- abuse,
- activate,
- adulterate,
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- alloy,
- animate,
- befoul,
- benasty,
- bewitch,
- blight,
- canker,
- charge,
- cheapen,
- coarsen,
- condemn,
- confound,
- contaminate,
- corrupt,
- crucify,
- curse,
- damage,
- debase,
- debauch,
- defile,
- deflower,
- degenerate,
- degrade,
- denature,
- deprave,
- desecrate,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- devalue,
- disadvantage,
- disease,
- disserve,
- distort,
- distress,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doom,
- embue,
- enliven,
- envenom,
- exhilarate,
- fire,
- foul,
- get into trouble,
- harass,
- harm,
- hex,
- hurt,
- imbue,
- impair,
- inform,
- infuse,
- inject,
- injure,
- inoculate,
- inspire,
- inspirit,
- irradiate,
- jinx,
- maltreat,
- menace,
- mess,
- mess up,
- mistreat,
- misuse,
- molest,
- nasty,
- outrage,
- persecute,
- pervert,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- pollute,
- prejudice,
- prostitute,
- radiumize,
- ravage,
- ravish,
- savage,
- scathe,
- spirit,
- spirit up,
- sully,
- taint,
- tarnish,
- threaten,
- torment,
- torture,
- twist,
- ulcerate,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- vulgarize,
- warp,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wrong
- Broadway musical,
- Singspiel,
- Thalia,
- arlequinade,
- ballad opera,
- ballet,
- ballet divertissement,
- black comedy,
- broad comedy,
- burlesque,
- burletta,
- camp,
- chorus show,
- comedie bouffe,
- comedie larmoyante,
- comedie rosse,
- comedietta,
- comedy,
- comedy ballet,
- comedy of humors,
- comedy of ideas,
- comedy of intrigue,
- comedy of manners,
- comedy of situation,
- comedy relief,
- comic muse,
- comic opera,
- comic relief,
- dance drama,
- dark comedy,
- domestic comedy,
- exode,
- farce,
- farce comedy,
- genteel comedy,
- grand opera,
- harlequinade,
- high camp,
- light comedy,
- light opera,
- low camp,
- low comedy,
- lyric drama,
- mime,
- minstrel,
- minstrel show,
- music drama,
- musical,
- musical stage,
- musical theater,
- opera,
- opera ballet,
- opera bouffe,
- opera buffa,
- operetta,
- raw comedy,
- realistic comedy,
- romantic comedy,
- satyr play,
- sentimental comedy,
- situation comedy,
- slapstick,
- slapstick comedy,
- song-and-dance act,
- song-play,
- tragicomedy
- voluntary
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- composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance
- of your own free will or design; not forced or compelled; "man is a voluntary agent"; "participation was voluntary"; "voluntary manslaughter"; "voluntary generosity in times of disaster"; "voluntary social workers"; "a voluntary confession"
- controlled by individual volition; "voluntary motions"; "voluntary muscles" related words >
- Vorspiel,
- advised,
- aimed,
- aimed at,
- alternative,
- arbitrary,
- autonomous,
- avant-propos,
- breakthrough,
- calculated,
- chosen,
- conative,
- concert overture,
- conscious,
- considered,
- contemplated,
- curtain raiser,
- deliberate,
- deliberated,
- descant,
- designed,
- discretional,
- discretionary,
- disjunctive,
- dramatic overture,
- elected,
- elective,
- envisaged,
- envisioned,
- exordium,
- foreword,
- free,
- free will,
- front matter,
- frontispiece,
- gratuitous,
- independent,
- innovation,
- intended,
- intentional,
- introduction,
- knowing,
- leap,
- meant,
- meditated,
- nonmandatory,
- of design,
- offered,
- operatic overture,
- optional,
- overture,
- planned,
- postulate,
- preamble,
- preface,
- prefix,
- prefixture,
- preliminary,
- prelude,
- premeditated,
- premise,
- presupposition,
- proem,
- proffered,
- projected,
- prolegomena,
- prolegomenon,
- prolepsis,
- prologue,
- proposed,
- protasis,
- purposed,
- purposeful,
- purposive,
- self-acting,
- self-active,
- self-determined,
- self-determining,
- spontaneous,
- studied,
- teleological,
- unasked,
- unbesought,
- unbidden,
- uncalled-for,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- unconstrained,
- unforced,
- uninfluenced,
- uninvited,
- unpressured,
- unprompted,
- unrequested,
- unrequired,
- unsolicited,
- unsought,
- vamp,
- verse,
- volitional,
- volunteer,
- willful,
- willing,
- witting
- sincere
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- open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship" related words >
- abandoned,
- aboveboard,
- actual,
- afire,
- ardent,
- artless,
- authentic,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- bona fide,
- born yesterday,
- bound,
- bound and determined,
- broad,
- brusque,
- burning,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- childlike,
- committed,
- confiding,
- dear,
- decided,
- decisive,
- dedicated,
- definite,
- determined,
- devoted,
- devout,
- dinkum,
- direct,
- downright,
- earnest,
- explicit,
- faithful,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fiery,
- flaming,
- following the letter,
- forthright,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- genuine,
- good,
- guileless,
- heart-to-heart,
- heartfelt,
- hearty,
- heated,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- impassioned,
- in earnest,
- inartificial,
- ingenu,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intent on,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- loyal,
- meant,
- naive,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- obstinate,
- on fire,
- on the level,
- open,
- openhearted,
- original,
- outspoken,
- passionate,
- perfervid,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- plain,
- plain-spoken,
- pure,
- purposeful,
- real,
- realistic,
- red-hot,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- rightful,
- round,
- serious,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- simplehearted,
- simpleminded,
- single-hearted,
- single-minded,
- spirited,
- sterling,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straightforward,
- sure-enough,
- tenacious,
- transparent,
- true,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- trustful,
- trusting,
- truthful,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- unchecked,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- unconstrained,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undesigning,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undissembled,
- undissembling,
- undistorted,
- unequivocal,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unguarded,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unqualified,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unsophisticated,
- unspecious,
- unsuspicious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- unwary,
- vehement,
- veracious,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- warm,
- white-hot,
- wholehearted,
- word-for-word,
- zealous
- humorist
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- someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way related words >
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- banana,
- banterer,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- buffoon,
- burlesquer,
- card,
- caricaturist,
- clown,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- comedian,
- comic,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- cutup,
- dance critic,
- diarist,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- droll,
- encyclopedist,
- epigrammatist,
- essayist,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- funnyman,
- gag writer,
- gagman,
- gagster,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- inditer,
- ironist,
- jester,
- joker,
- jokesmith,
- jokester,
- kidder,
- lampooner,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- madcap,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- merry-andrew,
- monographer,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- parodist,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prankster,
- prose writer,
- punner,
- punster,
- quipster,
- reparteeist,
- reviewer,
- satirist,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- storyteller,
- technical writer,
- wag,
- wagwit,
- wisecracker,
- wit,
- witling,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer,
- zany
- bosom,
- classify,
- conceal,
- file and forget,
- hold back,
- in petto,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep between us,
- keep buttoned up,
- keep close,
- keep dark,
- keep from,
- keep in ignorance,
- keep mum,
- keep secret,
- keep snug,
- keep under wraps,
- make no sign,
- never let on,
- not give away,
- not tell,
- play dumb,
- secrete,
- veil,
- withhold
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