Related Words:
- timid
collapse - people who are fearful and cautious; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid"
- showing fear and lack of confidence related words >
- afraid,
- apprehensive,
- bashful,
- cautious,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- confused,
- conscious,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- coy,
- craven,
- daunted,
- demure,
- demurring,
- diffident,
- dismayed,
- fainthearted,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- frightened,
- funking,
- funky,
- goosy,
- gutless,
- henhearted,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- humble,
- in fear,
- inarticulate,
- intimidated,
- jibbing,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- modest,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- retiring,
- scared,
- scary,
- scrupling,
- self-conscious,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shilly-shallying,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- soft,
- stammering,
- startlish,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- tentative,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unassertive,
- unassured,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- afraid
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- filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement; "I'm afraid I won't be able to come"; "he was afraid he would have to let her go"; "I'm afraid you're wrong"
- feeling worry or concern or insecurity; "She was afraid that I might be embarrassed"; "terribly afraid of offending someone"; "I am afraid we have witnessed only the first phase of the conflict"
- having feelings of aversion or unwillingness; "afraid of hard work"; "afraid to show emotion" related words >
- abulic,
- afeared,
- aghast,
- anxious,
- apologetic,
- apprehensive,
- averse,
- backward,
- cautious,
- chary,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- craven,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- edgy,
- faint,
- fainthearted,
- fear-struck,
- feared,
- fearful,
- feeble,
- feebleminded,
- frail,
- frightened,
- fritter,
- funking,
- funky,
- haunted with fear,
- henhearted,
- hesitant,
- indisposed,
- infirm,
- intimidated,
- invertebrate,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- lily-livered,
- loath,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- on edge,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- panic-prone,
- panic-stricken,
- panicky,
- pigeonhearted,
- pliable,
- pusillanimous,
- rabbity,
- regretful,
- reluctant,
- rueful,
- scared,
- scared to death,
- scary,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- skittish,
- soft,
- sorry,
- spineless,
- spooked,
- terrified,
- timid,
- timorous,
- uneager,
- unhappy,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unwilling,
- wary,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weak-minded,
- weak-willed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- faltering
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- unsteady in speech or action related words >
- ambling,
- balbutient,
- bashful,
- boggling,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- demurring,
- diffident,
- easy,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gentle,
- gradual,
- halting,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- indecisive,
- indolent,
- irresolute,
- jibbing,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- lukewarm,
- lumbering,
- moderate,
- modest,
- poking,
- poky,
- qualmish,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- sauntering,
- scrupling,
- scrupulous,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrinking,
- shuffling,
- shy,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- squeamish,
- staggering,
- stammering,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- strolling,
- stumbling,
- stuttering,
- tentative,
- timid,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- uncertain,
- unhurried,
- vacillatory,
- waddling,
- wavering,
- wobbly
- discreet
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- marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint; "his trusted discreet aide"; "a discreet, finely wrought gold necklace" related words >
- Olympian,
- aloof,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- circumspect,
- close,
- closemouthed,
- cold,
- considerate,
- constrained,
- controlled,
- cool,
- dark,
- deliberate,
- detached,
- diplomatic,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distant,
- dry,
- enlightened,
- evasive,
- expressionless,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- inaccessible,
- introverted,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- leaving out nothing,
- mindful,
- moderate,
- modest,
- noncommittal,
- offish,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- politic,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- reasonable,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- safe,
- secret,
- secretive,
- shifty,
- shrinking,
- simple,
- slow to act,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- tactful,
- temperate,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- unadorned,
- unadventurous,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncongenial,
- undaring,
- undemonstrative,
- unelaborate,
- unenterprising,
- unexcessive,
- unexpansive,
- unextreme,
- ungenial,
- unostentatious,
- unprecipitate,
- unpretentious,
- wary,
- watchful,
- well-advised,
- well-judged,
- withdrawn
- wobbly
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- a member of the Industrial Workers of the World related words >
- aspen,
- broken,
- capricious,
- careening,
- catchy,
- chattering,
- choppy,
- desultory,
- deviative,
- dickey,
- dilapidated,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- doddering,
- eccentric,
- erratic,
- faltering,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- fluctuant,
- fluctuating,
- groggy,
- guttering,
- halting,
- herky-jerky,
- hesitant,
- heteroclite,
- immethodical,
- inconstant,
- insecure,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- jerky,
- lurching,
- nonuniform,
- oscillating,
- oscillatory,
- palsied,
- patchy,
- pendulating,
- quaking,
- quavering,
- quavery,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- rachitic,
- rackety,
- rambling,
- ramshackle,
- rattletrap,
- ricketish,
- rickety,
- rocky,
- rootless,
- rough,
- scrappy,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shivering,
- shivery,
- shuddering,
- snatchy,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- spidery,
- spindly,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- staggering,
- succussatory,
- succussive,
- teetering,
- teetery,
- tentative,
- tottering,
- tottery,
- trembling,
- trembly,
- tremulous,
- tumbledown,
- uncertain,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unregular,
- unrhythmical,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unsure,
- unsystematic,
- vacillating,
- vacillatory,
- variable,
- veering,
- vibrating,
- wandering,
- wavering,
- weak,
- wobbling
- incalculable
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- not capable of being computed or enumerated related words >
- able,
- agnostic,
- all-comprehensive,
- all-inclusive,
- ambiguous,
- boundless,
- capricious,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- countless,
- dicey,
- doubting,
- endless,
- enigmatic,
- equivocal,
- erratic,
- eternal,
- exhaustless,
- extending everywhere,
- fickle,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- illimitable,
- illimited,
- immeasurable,
- immense,
- incognizable,
- incomprehensible,
- indecisive,
- indemonstrable,
- inestimable,
- inexhaustible,
- infinite,
- infinitely continuous,
- innumerable,
- interminable,
- interminate,
- irresolute,
- limitless,
- measureless,
- mysterious,
- no end of,
- numberless,
- perpetual,
- polysemous,
- puzzling,
- sealed,
- shoreless,
- skeptical,
- strange,
- sumless,
- surreptitiously,
- termless,
- touch-and-go,
- unaccountable,
- unapparent,
- unapprehended,
- unascertained,
- unbeknown,
- unbounded,
- uncertain,
- uncharted,
- uncircumscribed,
- unclassified,
- unconfirmable,
- unconvinced,
- uncountable,
- uncounted,
- undisclosed,
- undiscoverable,
- undiscovered,
- undivinable,
- undivulged,
- unexplained,
- unexplored,
- unexposed,
- unfamiliar,
- unfathomable,
- unfathomed,
- unforeseeable,
- unheard,
- unheard-of,
- unidentified,
- uninvestigated,
- universal,
- unknowable,
- unknown,
- unlimited,
- unmeasurable,
- unmeasured,
- unnumbered,
- unperceived,
- unpersuaded,
- unplumbed,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unrevealed,
- unsure,
- unsuspected,
- untold,
- untouched,
- unverifiable,
- variable,
- virgin,
- wavering,
- whimsical,
- without bound,
- without end,
- without limit,
- without measure,
- without number
- acclamatory,
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- active,
- admiring,
- advertent,
- agog,
- agreeable,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- appreciative,
- approbatory,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- canny,
- cap in hand,
- careful,
- cautious,
- ceremonious,
- circumspect,
- commendatory,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- complimentary,
- concentrated,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- considerate,
- constant,
- courteous,
- curious,
- deferential,
- deliberate,
- delicate,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diligent,
- discreet,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- earnest,
- encomiastic,
- eulogistic,
- faithful,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- flattering,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- hesitant,
- honorific,
- indulgent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- judicious,
- laudatory,
- leaving out nothing,
- lenient,
- loving,
- loyal,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- nice,
- niggling,
- noncommittal,
- obliging,
- observant,
- observing,
- on guard,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overlooking no possibility,
- panegyric,
- pawky,
- politic,
- practicing,
- prudent,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- respectful,
- safe,
- scrupulous,
- slow to act,
- solicitous,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- true,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- watchful
- alternate,
- back and fill,
- bob,
- bobble,
- careen,
- change,
- changeable,
- chop and change,
- coggle,
- dally,
- dallying,
- dangle,
- demurring,
- dickey,
- dillydallying,
- dither,
- double-minded,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- ebb and flow,
- eccentric,
- equivocate,
- erratic,
- falter,
- faltering,
- fickle,
- fiddle-faddle,
- flounder,
- fluctuant,
- fluctuate,
- fluctuating,
- flutter,
- go through phases,
- halt,
- halting,
- hang in doubt,
- hem and haw,
- hesitant,
- hesitate,
- hesitating,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- insecure,
- irresolute,
- librate,
- lurch,
- mercurial,
- nutate,
- oscillate,
- oscillating,
- pendulate,
- pendulous,
- pitch,
- reel,
- resonate,
- ring the changes,
- rock,
- roll,
- rootless,
- seesaw,
- shake,
- shaky,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffle,
- stagger,
- stop to consider,
- swag,
- sway,
- swing,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- tentative,
- tergiversate,
- think twice,
- timid,
- toss,
- totter,
- turn,
- uncertain,
- unresolved,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unsure,
- vacillating,
- vacillatory,
- vary,
- vibrate,
- volatile,
- wag,
- waggle,
- wave,
- waver,
- wavering,
- wax and wane,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- whiffle,
- wigwag,
- wobble,
- wobbly
- circumspect
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- heedful of potential consequences; "circumspect actions"; "physicians are now more circumspect about recommending its use"; "a discreet investor" related words >
- ambling,
- attentive,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- claudicant,
- considerate,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- easy,
- enlightened,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gentle,
- gingerly,
- gradual,
- guarded,
- halting,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- indolent,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leaving out nothing,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- loving,
- lumbering,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- moderate,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- poking,
- poky,
- politic,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- punctilious,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- safe,
- sauntering,
- scrupulous,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow to act,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- solicitous,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unhurried,
- unprecipitate,
- waddling,
- wary,
- well-advised,
- well-judged
- chancy
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- subject to accident or chance or change; "a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition"
- of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker related words >
- accidental,
- adventitious,
- adventurous,
- agnostic,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- ambiguous,
- amorphous,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- broad,
- capricious,
- casual,
- causeless,
- chance,
- changeable,
- chaotic,
- confused,
- contingent,
- destinal,
- dicey,
- disordered,
- doubting,
- equivocal,
- erratic,
- fatal,
- fatidic,
- fickle,
- fluctuant,
- fluky,
- foggy,
- fortuitous,
- full of risk,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- hairy,
- hazardous,
- hazy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hit-or-miss,
- iffy,
- ill-defined,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- incalculable,
- inchoate,
- incidental,
- incoherent,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indemonstrable,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- inexact,
- irresolute,
- jeopardous,
- lax,
- loose,
- nonspecific,
- obscure,
- on thin ice,
- orderless,
- perilous,
- polysemous,
- precarious,
- random,
- riskful,
- risky,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shapeless,
- skeptical,
- speculative,
- stochastic,
- sweeping,
- ticklish,
- touch-and-go,
- touchy,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- unaccountable,
- uncaused,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- unconfirmable,
- unconvinced,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- undivinable,
- unexpected,
- unforeseeable,
- unforeseen,
- unhealthy,
- unlooked-for,
- unpersuaded,
- unplain,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unsound,
- unspecified,
- unsure,
- unverifiable,
- vague,
- variable,
- veiled,
- venturesome,
- venturous,
- wavering,
- whimsical,
- wicked,
- wildcat
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Scotch,
- acute,
- adroit,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- circumspect,
- clever,
- conserving,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deliberate,
- designing,
- devious,
- dexterous,
- diplomatic,
- discreet,
- economic,
- economical,
- economizing,
- feline,
- forehanded,
- foxy,
- frugal,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- guileful,
- heedful,
- hep,
- hesitant,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- judicious,
- knowing,
- labor-saving,
- leaving out nothing,
- mindful,
- money-saving,
- nimble-witted,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- parsimonious,
- pawky,
- penny-wise,
- politic,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- quick,
- quick-witted,
- ready,
- regardful,
- resourceful,
- safe,
- saving,
- scheming,
- scrimping,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- sharp-witted,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skimping,
- slick,
- slim,
- slippery,
- slow to act,
- sly,
- smart,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- spare,
- sparing,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- unwasteful,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- reluctant
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- not eager; "foreigners stubbornly uneager to accept our ways"; "fresh from college and uneager for the moment to marry him"; "reluctant to help"
- unwilling to become involved; "they were usually reluctant to socialize"; "reluctant to help" related words >
- afraid,
- ambling,
- antagonistic,
- apathetic,
- averse,
- backward,
- balking,
- balky,
- calculating,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- complaining,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- dilatory,
- disinclined,
- disputatious,
- disputing,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- easy,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- fractious,
- gentle,
- gradual,
- grudging,
- halting,
- hesitant,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- indifferent,
- indisposed,
- indolent,
- laggard,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leery,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- loath,
- lumbering,
- moderate,
- noncooperative,
- objecting,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- opposed,
- perfunctory,
- poking,
- poky,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- relaxed,
- renitent,
- repellent,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- restive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- sauntering,
- shuffling,
- shy,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow to,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- tentative,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- uncooperative,
- uneager,
- unenthusiastic,
- unhurried,
- unsubmissive,
- unwilling,
- unyielding,
- unzealous,
- up in arms,
- waddling,
- wary,
- withstanding
- agnostic,
- ambiguous,
- awkward,
- blankminded,
- borderline,
- callow,
- capricious,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- dangerous,
- desultory,
- dicey,
- dickey,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- dumb,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- equivocal,
- erratic,
- fickle,
- fluctuant,
- fly-by-night,
- gauche,
- green,
- groping,
- hazardous,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- ignorant,
- inane,
- incalculable,
- indecisive,
- indemonstrable,
- inexperienced,
- infirm,
- innocent,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- know-nothing,
- naive,
- nescient,
- open,
- perilous,
- polysemous,
- precarious,
- problematic,
- provisional,
- questionable,
- raw,
- risky,
- rocky,
- rootless,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- simple,
- skeptical,
- slippery,
- strange to,
- suspicious,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- tottery,
- touch-and-go,
- treacherous,
- trustless,
- unaccountable,
- unacquainted,
- unapprized,
- unassured,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- uncomprehending,
- unconfident,
- unconfirmable,
- unconversant,
- unconvinced,
- undecided,
- undependable,
- undivinable,
- unenlightened,
- unfaithworthy,
- unfamiliar,
- unforeseeable,
- unhealthy,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- unintelligent,
- unknowing,
- unpersuaded,
- unposted,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unreliable,
- unripe,
- unsafe,
- unselfassured,
- unselfconfident,
- unselfreliant,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- untrustworthy,
- untrusty,
- unverifiable,
- unversed,
- vacillating,
- vacuous,
- variable,
- wavering,
- weak,
- whimsical,
- wobbly
- bashful
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- disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)
- self-consciously timid; "I never laughed, being bashful; lowering my head, I looked at the wall"- Ezra Pound related words >
- Olympian,
- abashed,
- aloof,
- autistic,
- awkward,
- backward,
- blank,
- blushful,
- boggling,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- close,
- cold,
- confused,
- conscious,
- constrained,
- cool,
- cowardly,
- coy,
- demure,
- demurring,
- detached,
- diffident,
- discreet,
- dissociable,
- distant,
- embarrassed,
- expressionless,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- goosy,
- guarded,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- icy,
- ill at ease,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- in a tizzy,
- in fear,
- inaccessible,
- inarticulate,
- incompatible,
- insociable,
- introverted,
- jumpy,
- meek,
- modest,
- mopey,
- mopish,
- morose,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- nongregarious,
- offish,
- qualmish,
- rabbity,
- recoiling,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- scary,
- scrupulous,
- self-conscious,
- self-contained,
- self-effacing,
- self-sufficient,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- sheepish,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- snug,
- socially incompatible,
- squeamish,
- stammering,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- startlish,
- stickling,
- subdued,
- sullen,
- suppressed,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- unassertive,
- unassuming,
- unassured,
- unclubbable,
- uncomfortable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncompanionable,
- unconfident,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- uneasy,
- unexpansive,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unostentatious,
- unsociable,
- unsocial,
- withdrawn
- careful
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- exercising caution or showing care or attention; "they were careful when crossing the busy street"; "be careful to keep her shoes clean"; "did very careful research"; "careful art restorers"; "careful of the rights of others"; "careful about one's behavior"
- with care and dignity; "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed"
- mindful of the future in spending money; "careful with money"
- cautiously attentive; "careful of her feelings"; "heedful of his father's advice"
- full of cares or anxiety; "Thou art careful and troubled about many things"-Luke 10.41 related words >
- Scotch,
- accurate,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- calculating,
- canny,
- cautious,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- circumspect,
- concentrated,
- conscientious,
- conscionable,
- conscious,
- conserving,
- considerate,
- critical,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- diligent,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- earnest,
- economic,
- economizing,
- enlightened,
- exact,
- fastidious,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- forehanded,
- foresighted,
- frugal,
- fussy,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- labor-saving,
- leaving out nothing,
- loving,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- money-saving,
- nice,
- niggling,
- noncommittal,
- observant,
- observing,
- on guard,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overconscientious,
- overlooking no possibility,
- overscrupulous,
- painstaking,
- parsimonious,
- particular,
- pawky,
- penny-wise,
- politic,
- precise,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- religious,
- safe,
- saving,
- scrimping,
- scrupulous,
- skimping,
- slow to act,
- solicitous,
- spare,
- sparing,
- strict,
- studied,
- systematic,
- tender,
- tender-conscienced,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- unwasteful,
- vigilant,
- wary,
- watchful,
- well-advised,
- well-judged
- ambiguous
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- having more than one possible meaning; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"
- having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns; "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"; "ambiguous inkblots" related words >
- Greek to one,
- agnostic,
- amalgamated,
- ambivalent,
- amphibious,
- amphibolic,
- amphibological,
- amphibolous,
- antinomic,
- beyond understanding,
- blended,
- capricious,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- combined,
- complex,
- composite,
- compound,
- compounded,
- confusable,
- conglomerate,
- cryptic,
- dappled,
- dicey,
- double-faced,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- eclectic,
- enigmatic,
- enigmatical,
- equivocal,
- equivocatory,
- erratic,
- fickle,
- fifty-fifty,
- fishy,
- foggy,
- half-and-half,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- heterogeneous,
- impenetrable,
- inarticulate,
- incalculable,
- incognizable,
- incoherent,
- incomprehensible,
- inconclusive,
- indecisive,
- indefinite,
- indemonstrable,
- indeterminate,
- indiscriminate,
- indistinct,
- inscrutable,
- intricate,
- ironic,
- irresolute,
- jumbled,
- many-sided,
- medley,
- mingled,
- miscellaneous,
- misleading,
- misty,
- mixed,
- motley,
- multifaceted,
- multinational,
- multiracial,
- multivocal,
- mysterious,
- numinous,
- obscure,
- opaque,
- oracular,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- past comprehension,
- patchy,
- pluralistic,
- polysemantic,
- polysemous,
- problematic,
- promiscuous,
- puzzling,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- scrambled,
- self-contradictory,
- skeptical,
- suspect,
- syncretic,
- tenebrous,
- thrown together,
- touch-and-go,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- unconfirmable,
- unconnected,
- unconvinced,
- undefined,
- undependable,
- undivinable,
- unfathomable,
- unforeseeable,
- unintelligible,
- unknowable,
- unpersuaded,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unreliable,
- unsearchable,
- unsettled,
- unsure,
- unverifiable,
- vague,
- variable,
- varied,
- wavering,
- whimsical
- shrinking
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- the act of becoming less
- process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage" related words >
- Olympian,
- Sanforizing,
- aloof,
- aseptic,
- atrophy,
- attenuation,
- backward,
- bashful,
- bashfulness,
- blank,
- boggle,
- boggling,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- compunction,
- constrained,
- consumption,
- cool,
- cowardly,
- declining,
- demur,
- demurral,
- demurring,
- detached,
- diffidence,
- diffident,
- diminishing,
- discreet,
- distant,
- drying,
- drying up,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- emaceration,
- emaciation,
- expressionless,
- fading,
- falter,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- goosy,
- guarded,
- hesitance,
- hesitancy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hesitation,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- in fear,
- inaccessible,
- introverted,
- jumpy,
- modest,
- modesty,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- objection,
- offish,
- parching,
- pause,
- preshrinkage,
- protest,
- qualm,
- qualm of conscience,
- qualmish,
- qualmishness,
- quiet,
- rabbity,
- receding,
- recoil,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- scary,
- scruple,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulous,
- scrupulousness,
- searing,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinkage,
- shriveling,
- shy,
- shyness,
- sinking,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- squeamish,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- startlish,
- stickling,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- thinning,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- unexpansive,
- ungenial,
- waning,
- wasting,
- withdrawn,
- withering
- equivocal
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- uncertain as a sign or indication; "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"
- open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"
- open to question; "aliens of equivocal loyalty"; "his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son"-Anna Jameson related words >
- agnostic,
- amalgamated,
- ambagious,
- ambiguous,
- ambivalent,
- amphibious,
- amphibolic,
- amphibological,
- amphibolous,
- antinomic,
- blended,
- borderline,
- capricious,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- circumlocutory,
- clear as mud,
- clouded,
- combined,
- complex,
- composite,
- compound,
- compounded,
- conglomerate,
- dappled,
- dicey,
- dishonest,
- disreputable,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- eclectic,
- enigmatic,
- enigmatical,
- equivocatory,
- erratic,
- evasive,
- fickle,
- fifty-fifty,
- fishy,
- forsworn,
- half-and-half,
- hazy,
- hedging,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- heterogeneous,
- incalculable,
- indecisive,
- indefinite,
- indemonstrable,
- indeterminate,
- indiscriminate,
- indistinct,
- intricate,
- ironic,
- irresolute,
- jumbled,
- lying,
- many-sided,
- medley,
- mendacious,
- mingled,
- miscellaneous,
- misleading,
- mixed,
- motley,
- multifaceted,
- multinational,
- multiracial,
- multivocal,
- mysterious,
- oblique,
- obscure,
- open,
- open to question,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- patchy,
- perjured,
- perplexing,
- pluralistic,
- polysemantic,
- polysemous,
- prevaricating,
- problematic,
- promiscuous,
- puzzling,
- questionable,
- roundabout,
- scrambled,
- self-contradictory,
- skeptical,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- syncretic,
- tenebrous,
- tergiversant,
- tergiversating,
- thrown together,
- touch-and-go,
- truthless,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- unconfirmable,
- unconvinced,
- undecided,
- undivinable,
- unforeseeable,
- unintelligible,
- unpersuaded,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unsure,
- untruthful,
- unveracious,
- unverifiable,
- vague,
- variable,
- varied,
- waffling,
- wavering,
- weasel-worded,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy
- irresolute
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- uncertain how to act or proceed; "the committee was timid and mediocre and irresolute" related words >
- adrift,
- afloat,
- agnostic,
- alternating,
- ambiguous,
- ambitendent,
- ambivalent,
- amorphous,
- at loose ends,
- bland,
- capricious,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- changing,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dicey,
- dizzy,
- double-minded,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- eccentric,
- equivocal,
- erratic,
- faltering,
- fast and loose,
- fence-sitting,
- fence-straddling,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- freakish,
- giddy,
- halfhearted,
- halting,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- incalculable,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indemonstrable,
- infirm,
- infirm of purpose,
- infirm of will,
- insipid,
- irregular,
- irresolved,
- irresponsible,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- milk-and-water,
- milky,
- moody,
- mugwumpian,
- mugwumpish,
- mushy,
- mutable,
- neutral,
- of two minds,
- polysemous,
- rambling,
- restless,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffling,
- skeptical,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- tasteless,
- tentative,
- touch-and-go,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- unconfirmable,
- uncontrolled,
- unconvinced,
- undecided,
- undependable,
- undetermined,
- undisciplined,
- undivinable,
- unfixed,
- unforeseeable,
- unpersuaded,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unreliable,
- unresolved,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsure,
- unverifiable,
- vacillating,
- vacillatory,
- vagrant,
- vapid,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- watery,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy,
- wobbly
- prudent
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- careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment; "a prudent manager"; "prudent rulers"; "prudent hesitation"; "more prudent to hide than to fight" related words >
- Argus-eyed,
- Scotch,
- advisable,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- anticipant,
- anticipatory,
- attentive,
- aux aguets,
- bland,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- circumspect,
- clairvoyant,
- conserving,
- considerate,
- custodial,
- deliberate,
- discerning,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- divinatory,
- eagle-eyed,
- economic,
- economical,
- economizing,
- enlightened,
- farseeing,
- farsighted,
- forehanded,
- foreknowing,
- foreseeing,
- foresighted,
- forethoughted,
- forethoughtful,
- frugal,
- gentle,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- hawk-eyed,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- intuitive,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- keen-eyed,
- labor-saving,
- leaving out nothing,
- lidless,
- longsighted,
- mild,
- mild as milk,
- mindful,
- moderate,
- money-saving,
- noncommittal,
- nonviolent,
- observant,
- on guard,
- on the lookout,
- on the watch,
- open-eyed,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pacifistic,
- parsimonious,
- pawky,
- peaceable,
- peaceful,
- penny-wise,
- politic,
- precognitive,
- precognizant,
- prepared,
- prescient,
- provident,
- providential,
- prudential,
- ready,
- reasonable,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- safe,
- sagacious,
- sage,
- sane,
- sapient,
- saving,
- scrimping,
- sensible,
- sharp-eyed,
- shrewd,
- skimping,
- sleepless,
- slow to act,
- sober,
- soft,
- spare,
- sparing,
- tactical,
- tame,
- temperate,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- unwasteful,
- vigilant,
- wary,
- watchful,
- well-advised,
- well-judged,
- wise,
- with open eyes
- indefinite
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- not decided or not known; "were indefinite about their plans"; "plans are indefinite"
- vague or not clearly defined or stated; "must you be so indefinite?"; "amorphous blots of color having vague and indefinite edges"; "he would not answer so indefinite a proposal" related words >
- abstract,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- ambiguous,
- amorphic,
- amorphous,
- anarchic,
- baffling,
- baggy,
- bewildering,
- bland,
- blear,
- bleared,
- bleary,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- boundless,
- broad,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- characterless,
- collective,
- confused,
- confusing,
- cryptic,
- dark,
- dim,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- endless,
- enduring,
- equivocal,
- faint,
- featureless,
- feeble,
- filmy,
- foggy,
- formless,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- generalized,
- generic,
- half-seen,
- half-visible,
- hazy,
- hesitant,
- hit-or-miss,
- ill-defined,
- immeasurable,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- incalculable,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconspicuous,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indelible,
- indestructible,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- indistinguishable,
- ineffaceable,
- ineradicable,
- inexact,
- inexplicit,
- infinite,
- inform,
- kaleidoscopic,
- lax,
- limitless,
- loose,
- low-profile,
- lumpen,
- measureless,
- merely glimpsed,
- misty,
- mystifying,
- nebulous,
- neutral,
- nondescript,
- nonspecific,
- obscure,
- orderless,
- out of focus,
- pale,
- permanent,
- puzzling,
- random,
- semivisible,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shapeless,
- shilly-shallying,
- stochastic,
- sub judice,
- sweeping,
- unbounded,
- uncertain,
- uncharacterized,
- unclear,
- uncountable,
- uncounted,
- undecided,
- undefinable,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undestroyable,
- undetermined,
- undifferentiated,
- unerasable,
- unfixed,
- unknown,
- unlimited,
- unmeasured,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unplain,
- unrecognizable,
- unsettled,
- unspecific,
- unspecified,
- unsure,
- vacillating,
- vague,
- veiled,
- wavering,
- weak,
- wide,
- wishy-washy
- bloat,
- bloating,
- bolting,
- breaking point,
- cautious,
- clarification,
- colature,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- corruption,
- demurring,
- destructive distillation,
- diffident,
- distension,
- distillation,
- distortion,
- draining,
- drudging,
- edulcoration,
- effusion,
- elution,
- elutriation,
- equivocation,
- essentialization,
- exaggeration,
- excretion,
- exfiltration,
- exhausting,
- extraction,
- extravasation,
- extreme tension,
- exudation,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- faltering,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- filtering,
- filtration,
- grinding,
- grubbing,
- grueling,
- hardworking,
- haul,
- heave,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- inflation,
- jibbing,
- killing,
- laboring,
- leaching,
- lixiviation,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misdirection,
- misinterpretation,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- misuse,
- ooze,
- oozing,
- overdistension,
- overdrawing,
- overexertion,
- overexpansion,
- overextension,
- overstrain,
- overstraining,
- overstress,
- overstretching,
- overtaxing,
- pegging,
- percolating,
- percolation,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- prevarication,
- pull,
- punishing,
- purification,
- rack,
- refinement,
- riddling,
- screening,
- scrupling,
- seep,
- seepage,
- separation,
- shilly-shallying,
- sieving,
- sifting,
- slanting,
- slaving,
- slogging,
- snapping point,
- spiritualization,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- strain,
- stress,
- stress and strain,
- stressful,
- stressfulness,
- stretch,
- stretching,
- striving,
- struggling,
- sublimation,
- sweating,
- swelling,
- taxing,
- tension,
- tentative,
- timid,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- toiling,
- toilsome,
- torturing,
- transudation,
- trying,
- tug,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- weep,
- weeping,
- winnowing,
- working
- cautious
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- cautious in attitude and careful in actions; prudent; "a cautious answer"; "very cautious about believing everything she was told"
- showing careful forethought; "reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions"; "a cautious driver"
- avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" related words >
- alert,
- ambling,
- attentive,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- considerate,
- cozy,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- demurring,
- diffident,
- discreet,
- disinclined to believe,
- disposed to doubt,
- easy,
- expedient,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- foresighted,
- forethoughtful,
- gentle,
- gingerly,
- gradual,
- guarded,
- halting,
- hard of belief,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- impervious to persuasion,
- inconvincible,
- incredulous,
- indolent,
- jibbing,
- judicious,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leaving out nothing,
- leery,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- loving,
- lumbering,
- mindful,
- moderate,
- noncommittal,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- poking,
- poky,
- politic,
- precautious,
- provident,
- prudent,
- regardful,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- safe,
- sauntering,
- scheming,
- scrupling,
- shilly-shallying,
- shrewd,
- shuffling,
- shy of belief,
- skeptical,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow to act,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- solicitous,
- staggering,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- straining,
- strolling,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- timid,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- unconvincible,
- uncredulous,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unhurried,
- unpersuadable,
- unpersuasible,
- unprecipitate,
- unwilling to accept,
- vigilant,
- waddling,
- wary,
- watchful
- safe
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- strongbox where valuables can be safely kept
- a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests
- (of an undertaking) secure from risk
- free from danger or the risk of harm; "a safe trip"; "you will be safe here"; "a safe place"; "a safe bet"
- in safekeeping; "your secret is safe with me" related words >
- Fort Knox,
- OK,
- acceptable,
- all right,
- allowable,
- appropriate,
- armed,
- bank,
- bona fide,
- bursary,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- cash register,
- cashbox,
- cautious,
- chary,
- chest,
- circumspect,
- cloaked,
- coffer,
- coin box,
- conservative,
- considerate,
- copyrighted,
- correct,
- covered,
- crypt,
- defended,
- deliberate,
- dependable,
- depository,
- discreet,
- exchequer,
- fisc,
- gingerly,
- gold depository,
- guarded,
- guarding,
- harmless,
- healthy,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- immune,
- immunized,
- impregnable,
- innocent,
- innocuous,
- inoffensive,
- insured,
- intact,
- inviolable,
- invulnerable,
- judicious,
- justifiable,
- justified,
- leaving out nothing,
- locker,
- mindful,
- money chest,
- noncommittal,
- okay,
- on guard,
- overlooking no possibility,
- patented,
- pawky,
- penny bank,
- permissible,
- piggy bank,
- policed,
- politic,
- pork barrel,
- proper,
- protected,
- protecting,
- prudent,
- public crib,
- public till,
- public treasury,
- public trough,
- regardful,
- reliable,
- repository,
- right,
- riskless,
- safe and sound,
- safe-deposit box,
- safeguarded,
- safeguarding,
- safely,
- satisfactory,
- scatheless,
- screened,
- secure,
- secured,
- securely,
- sheltered,
- sheltering,
- shielded,
- shielding,
- slow to act,
- solid,
- sound,
- storehouse,
- strong room,
- strongbox,
- subtreasury,
- suitable,
- sure,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- till,
- timely,
- treasure-house,
- treasury,
- tried and true,
- unadventurous,
- unassailable,
- uncommunicative,
- undamaged,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unharmed,
- unhurt,
- uninjured,
- uninjurious,
- unpolluted,
- unprecipitate,
- unscathed,
- unthreatened,
- untouched,
- vault,
- wary,
- whole,
- wholesome
- unpredictable
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- unknown in advance; "an unpredictable (or indeterminable) future"
- not capable of being foretold related words >
- accidental,
- adrift,
- adventitious,
- afloat,
- agnostic,
- aleatory,
- alternating,
- ambiguous,
- amorphous,
- capricious,
- casual,
- causeless,
- chance,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- contingent,
- coquettish,
- destinal,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dicey,
- dizzy,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- eccentric,
- equivocal,
- erratic,
- extraordinary,
- faddish,
- fast and loose,
- fatal,
- fatidic,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flirtatious,
- flitting,
- fluctuant,
- fluctuating,
- fluky,
- fortuitous,
- freakish,
- giddy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- iffy,
- impetuous,
- improbable,
- impulsive,
- incalculable,
- incidental,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indemonstrable,
- indeterminate,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- light,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- moody,
- more than expected,
- out-of-the-way,
- past expectation,
- polysemous,
- quicksilver,
- rambling,
- restless,
- risky,
- rocky,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- shaky,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- skeptical,
- skittish,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- sudden,
- tottery,
- touch-and-go,
- toying,
- treacherous,
- unaccountable,
- unannounced,
- unanticipated,
- uncaused,
- uncertain,
- unconfirmable,
- uncontrolled,
- unconvinced,
- undependable,
- undetermined,
- undisciplined,
- undivinable,
- undivined,
- unexpected,
- unfixed,
- unforeseeable,
- unforeseen,
- unguessed,
- unhealthy,
- unheralded,
- unhoped for,
- unlooked-for,
- unpersuaded,
- unpredicted,
- unprepared for,
- unprovable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsafe,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- unverifiable,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- versatile,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy,
- without warning
- scrupulous
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- having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled; "less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance" related words >
- Pyrrhonic,
- accurate,
- active,
- agnostic,
- analyze,
- attentive,
- bashful,
- boggling,
- canvass,
- careful,
- case,
- cautious,
- censorious,
- check over,
- check up,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- close,
- comb,
- compliant,
- con,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscionable,
- consider,
- constant,
- contemplate,
- correct,
- critical,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- demurring,
- detailed,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diffident,
- dig into,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- dissect,
- distrustful,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- ethical,
- exact,
- exacting,
- examine,
- exigent,
- exquisite,
- eye,
- eyeball,
- fair-minded,
- faithful,
- faltering,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- from Missouri,
- fussy,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- high-minded,
- honest,
- honorable,
- in doubt,
- inspect,
- just,
- leery,
- look over,
- loyal,
- methodical,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- minute,
- mistrustful,
- mistrusting,
- modest,
- moral,
- narrow,
- neat,
- nice,
- obedient,
- observant,
- orderly,
- overconscientious,
- overlook,
- overscrupulous,
- painstaking,
- particular,
- penetrate,
- perfectionistic,
- perlustrate,
- peruse,
- picky,
- pierce,
- pore over,
- practicing,
- precious,
- precise,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- precisionistic,
- priggish,
- principled,
- probe,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- qualmish,
- questioning,
- refined,
- regardful,
- religious,
- respectful,
- right,
- righteous,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- scan,
- scrutinize,
- scrutinizing,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- skeptical,
- squeamish,
- stickling,
- strict,
- study,
- subtle,
- survey,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tender-conscienced,
- true,
- uncertain,
- untrusting,
- upstanding,
- vet,
- view,
- wary,
- watch,
- weigh
- mindful
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- bearing in mind; attentive to; "ever mindful of her health"; "mindful of his responsibilities"; "mindful of these criticisms, I shall attempt to justify my action" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- active,
- advertent,
- agog,
- agreeable,
- alert,
- alive,
- alive to,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- all-knowing,
- apperceptive,
- appercipient,
- appreciative of,
- apprehending,
- apprehensive,
- apprised of,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- au courant,
- awake,
- awake to,
- aware,
- aware of,
- behind the curtain,
- behind the scenes,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- cognizant,
- cognizant of,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- comprehending,
- concentrated,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- conscious of,
- considerate,
- constant,
- conversant,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- delicate,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diligent,
- discreet,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- earnest,
- evocative,
- faithful,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- haunted,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- hep to,
- hesitant,
- in retrospect,
- in the know,
- in the secret,
- indulgent,
- informed of,
- insightful,
- intelligent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- judicious,
- knowing,
- knowledgeable,
- leaving out nothing,
- lenient,
- let into,
- loving,
- loyal,
- memoried,
- meticulous,
- mindful of,
- mindful of others,
- mnemonic,
- nagged,
- nice,
- niggling,
- no stranger to,
- noncommittal,
- obliging,
- observant,
- observing,
- obsessed,
- omniscient,
- on guard,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- on the lookout,
- on to,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overlooking no possibility,
- pawky,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- plagued,
- politic,
- practicing,
- prehensile,
- privy to,
- prudent,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- rankled,
- redolent,
- regardful,
- remembering,
- remindful,
- reminiscent,
- retentive,
- retrospective,
- safe,
- sagacious,
- scrupulous,
- seized of,
- sensible,
- sensible of,
- sensible to,
- shrewd,
- slow to act,
- solicitous,
- streetwise,
- suggestive,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- true,
- unable to forget,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- undeceived,
- understanding,
- unenterprising,
- unmindful,
- unprecipitate,
- vigilant,
- watchful,
- wise,
- wise to
- thorough
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- painstakingly careful and accurate; "our accountant is thorough"; "thorough research" related words >
- absolute,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-inclusive,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- arrant,
- assiduous,
- blow-by-blow,
- born,
- broad-based,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chronic,
- circumspect,
- classical,
- clean,
- clear,
- complete,
- comprehensive,
- confirmed,
- congenital,
- conscientious,
- consummate,
- crass,
- decided,
- deep-dyed,
- deep-fixed,
- deep-rooted,
- deep-seated,
- deep-set,
- deep-settled,
- definitive,
- deliberate,
- detailed,
- diligent,
- discreet,
- downright,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- egregious,
- elaborate,
- encyclopedic,
- established,
- exhaustive,
- extensive,
- fast,
- full,
- full-dress,
- fully realized,
- gingerly,
- glaring,
- gross,
- guarded,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- implanted,
- incorrigible,
- inculcated,
- industrious,
- infixed,
- ingrained,
- instilled,
- intensive,
- intolerable,
- inveterate,
- irreversible,
- itemized,
- judicious,
- leaving out nothing,
- long-established,
- methodical,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- minute,
- noncommittal,
- omnibus,
- omnipresent,
- on guard,
- operose,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- overlooking no possibility,
- painstaking,
- particular,
- particularized,
- pawky,
- perfect,
- pervasive,
- plain,
- plumb,
- polished,
- politic,
- positive,
- precious,
- profound,
- pronounced,
- proper,
- prudent,
- pure,
- radical,
- rank,
- regardful,
- regular,
- rooted,
- safe,
- scrupulous,
- sedulous,
- set,
- settled,
- settled in habit,
- shattering,
- sheer,
- shocking,
- slow to act,
- stark,
- stark-staring,
- straight,
- superlative,
- surpassing,
- sweeping,
- tentative,
- the veriest,
- thoroughgoing,
- through-and-through,
- total,
- ubiquitous,
- unadventurous,
- unalloyed,
- unbearable,
- uncommunicative,
- unconditional,
- unconscionable,
- undaring,
- undeniable,
- undiluted,
- unenterprising,
- unequivocal,
- universal,
- unmitigated,
- unmixed,
- unprecipitate,
- unqualified,
- unrelieved,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- unspoiled,
- utter,
- veritable,
- wholesale
- guarded
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- prudent; "guarded optimism" related words >
- Argus-eyed,
- Olympian,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- aloof,
- apprehensive,
- armed,
- arrested,
- aux aguets,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- bridled,
- buried,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- circumspect,
- cloaked,
- cold,
- concealed,
- considerate,
- constrained,
- controlled,
- cool,
- copyrighted,
- covered,
- covert,
- curbed,
- custodial,
- defended,
- deliberate,
- detached,
- discreet,
- disinclined to believe,
- disposed to doubt,
- distant,
- eagle-eyed,
- expressionless,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- gingerly,
- hard of belief,
- hawk-eyed,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- hidden,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- impervious to persuasion,
- in check,
- in leading strings,
- in remission,
- inaccessible,
- inconvincible,
- incredulous,
- inhibited,
- introverted,
- invulnerable,
- judicious,
- keen-eyed,
- leaving out nothing,
- leery,
- lidless,
- loath,
- mindful,
- modest,
- noncommittal,
- obscured,
- observant,
- offish,
- on guard,
- on leash,
- on the lookout,
- on the watch,
- open-eyed,
- overlooking no possibility,
- patented,
- pawky,
- pent-up,
- policed,
- politic,
- privy,
- protected,
- prudent,
- regardful,
- reluctant,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- retarded,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- safe,
- safeguarded,
- screened,
- sharp-eyed,
- sheltered,
- shielded,
- shrinking,
- shrouded,
- shy of belief,
- skeptical,
- sleepless,
- slow to act,
- slowed down,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- unadventurous,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncongenial,
- unconvincible,
- uncredulous,
- undaring,
- undemonstrative,
- under control,
- under discipline,
- under restraint,
- unenterprising,
- unexpansive,
- ungenial,
- unpersuadable,
- unpersuasible,
- unprecipitate,
- unwilling to accept,
- vigilant,
- wary,
- watchful,
- with open eyes,
- withdrawn
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