Related Words:
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Johnsonian,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- arabesque,
- artificial,
- baroque,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- busy,
- chichi,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- frilly,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- hyperelegant,
- inkhorn,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magniloquent,
- mannered,
- meretricious,
- moresque,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overlabored,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- studied,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- unnatural
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- adorned,
- affected,
- beaded,
- bedecked,
- befrilled,
- bejeweled,
- beribboned,
- bespangled,
- big-sounding,
- convoluted,
- decked out,
- declamatory,
- decorated,
- elevated,
- embellished,
- euphuistic,
- feathered,
- festooned,
- figured,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flowered,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- garnished,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- jeweled,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- ornamented,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- plumed,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- spangled,
- spangly,
- stilted,
- studded,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- tricked out,
- trimmed,
- wreathed
- big time
collapse - the highest level of an occupation (especially in entertainment) related words >
- action,
- ball,
- big,
- big-league,
- big-name,
- bigwig,
- bigwigged,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- double-barreled,
- earthshaking,
- fun,
- fun and games,
- funmaking,
- game,
- good time,
- grand,
- great,
- great fun,
- heavyweight,
- high old time,
- high time,
- high-powered,
- important,
- laughs,
- lovely time,
- major,
- material,
- momentous,
- name,
- picnic,
- play,
- pleasant time,
- self-important,
- significant,
- sport,
- substantial,
- superior,
- world-shaking
- agitable,
- all nerves,
- apprehensive,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- fearful,
- fidgety,
- frightened,
- goosey,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- highly emotional,
- hypersensitive,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- mettlesome,
- miffy,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- oversensitive,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- perturbable,
- prickly,
- sensitive,
- skittish,
- spooky,
- startlish,
- taut,
- temperamental,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- tight,
- touchy,
- twittery,
- uneasy,
- unrelaxed,
- unrestful,
- uptight,
- volcanic
- volcanic
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- igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt; "volcanic rock includes the volcanic glass obsidian"
- explosively unstable; "a volcanic temper"
- relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes; "volcanic steam"; "volcanic islands such as Iceland"; "a volcanic cone is a conical mountain or hill built up of material from volcanic eruptions" related words >
- agitable,
- bursting,
- combustible,
- detonating,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explodable,
- explosible,
- explosive,
- fierce,
- fiery,
- fulminating,
- furious,
- hasty,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hot,
- hot-tempered,
- hotheaded,
- impetuous,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- mettlesome,
- nervous,
- passionate,
- peppery,
- perturbable,
- prickly,
- quick,
- quick-tempered,
- sensitive,
- short-tempered,
- simmering,
- skittish,
- spunky,
- startlish,
- stormy,
- tempestuous,
- tornadic,
- touchy,
- vehement,
- violent,
- wild
- Olympian,
- acclinate,
- acclivitous,
- aerial,
- airy,
- altitudinous,
- anabatic,
- ascendant,
- ascensional,
- ascensive,
- aspiring,
- axial,
- back,
- back-flowing,
- backward,
- climbing,
- colossal,
- descending,
- dominating,
- down-trending,
- downward,
- drifting,
- elevated,
- eminent,
- ethereal,
- exalted,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- flying,
- going,
- gyrational,
- gyratory,
- haughty,
- high,
- high-pitched,
- high-reaching,
- high-set,
- high-up,
- in the ascendant,
- leaping,
- lofty,
- monumental,
- mounting,
- outtopping,
- overlooking,
- overtopping,
- passing,
- plunging,
- progressive,
- prominent,
- rampant,
- rearing,
- reflowing,
- refluent,
- regressive,
- retrogressive,
- rising,
- rotary,
- rotational,
- rotatory,
- running,
- rushing,
- saltatory,
- scandent,
- scansorial,
- sideward,
- sinking,
- skyrocketing,
- soaring,
- spiraling,
- spiring,
- springing,
- steep,
- streaming,
- sublime,
- superlative,
- supernal,
- topless,
- toplofty,
- topping,
- towering,
- towery,
- up-trending,
- uparching,
- upcoming,
- upgoing,
- upgrade,
- uphill,
- uphillward,
- uplifted,
- upreared,
- uprising,
- upsloping,
- upward,
- upwith
- flamboyant
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- richly and brilliantly colorful related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- arabesque,
- baroque,
- bedazzling,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- blinding,
- bright,
- bright and shining,
- brilliant,
- busy,
- chichi,
- convoluted,
- dashing,
- dazzling,
- declamatory,
- decorated,
- effulgent,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- embellished,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- frilly,
- fulgent,
- fulgid,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glaring,
- glary,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- jaunty,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luscious,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- moresque,
- ornamented,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overlabored,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- rakish,
- refulgent,
- resplendent,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- splendent,
- splendid,
- splendorous,
- stilted,
- swank,
- swashbuckling,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- vivid,
- wide
- agitable,
- bearish,
- bitchy,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- churlish,
- contrary,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- difficult,
- disagreeable,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- feisty,
- fractious,
- froward,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- inflammable,
- irritable,
- mean,
- mettlesome,
- nervous,
- ornery,
- perturbable,
- perverse,
- prickly,
- sensitive,
- skittish,
- snappish,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- startlish,
- stuffy,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- testy,
- touchy,
- ugly,
- volcanic,
- waspish,
- wayward,
- wrongheaded
- classy
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- elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a classy dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child related words >
- ambitious,
- braw,
- chic,
- clothes-conscious,
- cosmopolitan,
- dapper,
- dashing,
- dressed to advantage,
- dressed to kill,
- elegant,
- exquisite,
- fancy,
- fashionable,
- flossy,
- genteel,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- in,
- jaunty,
- lofty,
- modish,
- natty,
- neat,
- nifty,
- nobby,
- ostentatious,
- posh,
- pretentious,
- recherche,
- ritzy,
- sharp,
- sleek,
- smart,
- smug,
- snazzy,
- soigne,
- soignee,
- sophisticated,
- spiffy,
- spruce,
- style-conscious,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- swish,
- tony,
- tricksy,
- trig,
- trim,
- vaunting,
- well-dressed,
- well-groomed
- assurance
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- freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority"
- a statement intended to inspire confidence; "the President's assurances were not respected"
- a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something; "an assurance of help when needed"; "signed a pledge never to reveal the secret"
- a British term for some kinds of insurance related words >
- Bible oath,
- absolute certainty,
- absoluteness,
- acceptation,
- acception,
- accident insurance,
- acquiescence,
- actuary,
- agreement,
- aid and comfort,
- annuity,
- aplomb,
- arrogance,
- ascertainment,
- aspiration,
- assumption,
- assured faith,
- assuredness,
- audacity,
- aviation insurance,
- avouch,
- avouchment,
- avow,
- bail bond,
- balance,
- belief,
- boldness,
- bond,
- brashness,
- brass,
- brazenness,
- bumptiousness,
- business life insurance,
- casualty insurance,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certificate of insurance,
- certification,
- certitude,
- check,
- checking,
- cheek,
- cheerful expectation,
- chutzpah,
- clear sailing,
- cockiness,
- cocksureness,
- collation,
- comfort,
- commitment,
- compact,
- composure,
- conceit,
- condolence,
- confidence,
- confidentness,
- confirmation,
- consolation,
- control,
- contumely,
- conviction,
- coolness,
- courage,
- court bond,
- covenant,
- credence,
- credit,
- credit insurance,
- credit life insurance,
- credulity,
- dead certainty,
- deductible,
- definiteness,
- dependence,
- desire,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- determination,
- doomed hope,
- easement,
- effrontery,
- emboldening,
- encouragement,
- endowment insurance,
- ensuring,
- equability,
- equanimity,
- equilibrium,
- establishment,
- expectation,
- extrajudicial oath,
- fair prospect,
- faith,
- family maintenance policy,
- fervent hope,
- fidelity bond,
- fidelity insurance,
- flood insurance,
- fraternal insurance,
- gall,
- good cheer,
- good hope,
- government insurance,
- great expectations,
- guarantee,
- guaranty,
- gumption,
- guts,
- gutsiness,
- hardihood,
- hardiness,
- harmlessness,
- health insurance,
- heartening,
- high hopes,
- hope,
- hopeful prognosis,
- hopefulness,
- hopes,
- hoping,
- hoping against hope,
- hubris,
- immunity,
- impudence,
- indemnity,
- industrial life insurance,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inevitability,
- infallibilism,
- infallibility,
- insolence,
- inspiration,
- inspiriting,
- inspiritment,
- insurance,
- insurance agent,
- insurance broker,
- insurance company,
- insurance man,
- insurance policy,
- interinsurance,
- intrepidity,
- invulnerability,
- ironclad oath,
- judicial oath,
- level head,
- levelheadedness,
- liability insurance,
- license bond,
- limited payment insurance,
- loyalty oath,
- major medical insurance,
- malpractice insurance,
- marine insurance,
- mutual company,
- necessity,
- nerve,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- oath,
- oath of allegiance,
- oath of office,
- obtrusiveness,
- ocean marine insurance,
- official oath,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- pact,
- parole,
- permit bond,
- pledge,
- plight,
- poise,
- policy,
- pomposity,
- positiveness,
- possession,
- prayerful hope,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- presence of mind,
- presumption,
- presumptuousness,
- pride,
- probatum,
- procacity,
- promise,
- prospect,
- prospects,
- protection,
- proved fact,
- pushiness,
- reassurance,
- reassurement,
- reception,
- reliance,
- reliance on,
- relief,
- resolve,
- restraint,
- risklessness,
- robbery insurance,
- safeguard,
- safeness,
- safety,
- sangfroid,
- sanguine expectation,
- security,
- self-assurance,
- self-command,
- self-conceit,
- self-confidence,
- self-control,
- self-importance,
- self-possession,
- self-reliance,
- self-restraint,
- settled belief,
- shred of comfort,
- social security,
- solace,
- solacement,
- solemn declaration,
- solemn oath,
- steadiness,
- stock,
- stock company,
- stocks and bonds,
- store,
- subjective certainty,
- substantiation,
- support,
- sureness,
- surety,
- suspension of disbelief,
- sympathy,
- term insurance,
- test oath,
- theft insurance,
- tie,
- troth,
- trust,
- truth,
- unambiguity,
- understanding,
- underwriter,
- unequivocalness,
- univocity,
- unmistakableness,
- uppishness,
- uppityness,
- validation,
- vanity,
- verification,
- vow,
- warrant,
- warranty,
- well-grounded hope,
- well-regulated mind,
- word,
- word of honor
- AF,
- CPS,
- EHF,
- HF,
- Hz,
- MF,
- RF,
- SHF,
- UHF,
- VHF,
- VLF,
- carrier frequency,
- cycles,
- extremely high frequency,
- frequency,
- frequency spectrum,
- fundamental,
- fundamental tone,
- harmonic,
- hertz,
- high frequency,
- intermediate frequency,
- intonation,
- kilocycles,
- kilohertz,
- low frequency,
- lower frequencies,
- medium frequency,
- megacycles,
- megahertz,
- monotone,
- monotony,
- overtone,
- partial,
- partial tone,
- pitch,
- radio frequency,
- spark frequency,
- spectrum,
- superhigh frequency,
- tone,
- tonelessness,
- ultrahigh frequency,
- upper frequencies,
- very high frequency,
- very low frequency
- High Church
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- a group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority) related words >
- aggrandized,
- apotheosized,
- awesome,
- beatified,
- big,
- canonized,
- deified,
- elevated,
- eminent,
- ennobled,
- enshrined,
- enthroned,
- exalted,
- excellent,
- glorified,
- grand,
- great,
- held in awe,
- high,
- high and mighty,
- immortal,
- lofty,
- magnified,
- mighty,
- sainted,
- sanctified,
- shrined,
- sublime,
- supereminent,
- throned
- agitable,
- arch,
- beany,
- brash,
- devilish,
- ebullient,
- edgy,
- effervescent,
- elfish,
- elvish,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- fiery,
- foolish,
- full of mischief,
- high-mettled,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- impish,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jolly,
- knavish,
- lighthearted,
- merry,
- mettlesome,
- mirthful,
- mischief-loving,
- mischievous,
- nervous,
- peppery,
- perturbable,
- playful,
- prankish,
- pranksome,
- pranky,
- prickly,
- puckish,
- roguish,
- scampish,
- scapegrace,
- sensitive,
- skittish,
- sportive,
- spunky,
- startlish,
- touchy,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- vivacious,
- volcanic,
- waggish
- expensive
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- high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop" related words >
- Heldentenor,
- Meistersinger,
- alto,
- aria singer,
- baritenor,
- baritone,
- bass,
- basso,
- basso buffo,
- basso cantante,
- basso profundo,
- blues singer,
- canary,
- cantatrice,
- cantor,
- caroler,
- chanter,
- chantress,
- coloratura soprano,
- comic bass,
- contralto,
- countertenor,
- crooner,
- deep bass,
- diva,
- dramatic soprano,
- falsetto,
- head register,
- head tone,
- head voice,
- heroic tenor,
- high,
- high-pitched,
- high-sounding,
- high-toned,
- hymner,
- improvisator,
- lead singer,
- lieder singer,
- male alto,
- melodist,
- opera singer,
- prima donna,
- psalm singer,
- rock-and-roll singer,
- singer,
- singstress,
- songbird,
- songster,
- songstress,
- soprano,
- tenor,
- torch singer,
- treble,
- vocalist,
- vocalizer,
- voice,
- warbler,
- yodeler
- imperious
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- able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand" related words >
- U,
- absolute,
- absolutist,
- absolutistic,
- acute,
- arbitrary,
- aristocratic,
- arrogant,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- autocratic,
- binding,
- bossy,
- clamorous,
- coactive,
- compelling,
- compulsatory,
- compulsive,
- compulsory,
- constraining,
- critical,
- crucial,
- crying,
- de rigueur,
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- domineering,
- driving,
- dynastic,
- elitist,
- exigent,
- feudal,
- grinding,
- heavy-handed,
- high and mighty,
- high-handed,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- hubristic,
- imperative,
- imperatorial,
- imperatorious,
- imperial,
- insistent,
- instant,
- irresistible,
- kinglike,
- kingly,
- lordly,
- magisterial,
- magistral,
- majestic,
- mandatory,
- masterful,
- monarchal,
- monarchial,
- monarchic,
- monocratic,
- must,
- necessary,
- obligatory,
- oppressive,
- overbearing,
- overruling,
- peremptory,
- pivotal,
- pressing,
- princelike,
- princely,
- purple,
- queenlike,
- queenly,
- regal,
- repressive,
- required,
- restraining,
- royal,
- severe,
- sovereign,
- strict,
- stringent,
- suppressive,
- tyrannical,
- tyrannous,
- urgent
- domineering
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- tending to domineer related words >
- Olympian detachment,
- Olympian loftiness,
- absolute,
- absolutist,
- absolutistic,
- arbitrariness,
- arbitrary,
- argumentum baculinum,
- aristocratic,
- arrogance,
- arrogant,
- arrogantness,
- assumption of superiority,
- authoritarian,
- authoritarianism,
- authoritative,
- authoritativeness,
- autocratic,
- autocraticalness,
- big,
- big stick,
- bossism,
- bossy,
- condescendence,
- condescending,
- condescension,
- despotic,
- despotism,
- dictatorial,
- domination,
- domineeringness,
- fascism,
- feudal,
- grinding,
- hard,
- harsh,
- haughtiness,
- haughty,
- haughty airs,
- hauteur,
- heavy hand,
- high and mighty,
- high hand,
- high horse,
- high-faluting,
- high-flown,
- high-handed,
- high-headed,
- high-nosed,
- hoity-toitiness,
- hoity-toity,
- imperative,
- imperativeness,
- imperial,
- imperious,
- imperiousness,
- insolent,
- iron boot,
- iron hand,
- iron heel,
- loftiness,
- lofty,
- lordliness,
- lordly,
- magisterial,
- magisterialness,
- magistral,
- magistrality,
- masterful,
- masterfulness,
- monocratic,
- officious,
- oppression,
- oppressive,
- overbearance,
- overbearing,
- overbearing pride,
- overbearingness,
- overruling,
- overweening pride,
- patronization,
- patronizing,
- patronizing attitude,
- peremptoriness,
- peremptory,
- pride,
- proud,
- proudness,
- purse-pride,
- purse-proud,
- pushy,
- reign of terror,
- repressive,
- severe,
- side,
- stiff-necked pride,
- strict,
- stuck-up,
- superbia,
- superior,
- suppressive,
- terrorism,
- thought control,
- toploftiness,
- toplofty,
- tough,
- tyrannical,
- tyrannicalness,
- tyrannous,
- tyranny,
- uppish,
- uppishness,
- uppity,
- uppityness,
- upstage
- AF,
- CPS,
- EHF,
- G,
- HF,
- Hz,
- M,
- MF,
- RF,
- SHF,
- UHF,
- VHF,
- VLF,
- audio frequency,
- carrier frequency,
- chiliad,
- chiliagon,
- chiliahedron,
- chiliarch,
- chiliarchia,
- cycles,
- extremely high frequency,
- frequency,
- frequency spectrum,
- grand,
- hertz,
- high frequency,
- intermediate frequency,
- kilo,
- kilocycles,
- kilogram,
- kilohertz,
- kiloliter,
- kilometer,
- lakh,
- low frequency,
- lower frequencies,
- medium frequency,
- megacycles,
- megahertz,
- millennium,
- millepede,
- milligram,
- milliliter,
- myriad,
- one hundred thousand,
- radio frequency,
- spark frequency,
- spectrum,
- superhigh frequency,
- ten thousand,
- thou,
- thousand,
- ultrahigh frequency,
- upper frequencies,
- very high frequency,
- very low frequency,
- yard
- assumption
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- the act of taking possession of or power over something; "his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba"; "the Nazi assumption of power in 1934"; "he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts"
- the act of assuming or taking for granted; "your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted"
- a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"
- (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended
- celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox church related words >
- a priori principle,
- about-face,
- acceptance,
- accession,
- acquisition,
- admission,
- admittance,
- adoption,
- affirmation,
- alchemy,
- allegory,
- allusion,
- anointing,
- anointment,
- apotheosis,
- appointment,
- appropriation,
- apriorism,
- arcane meaning,
- arrogation,
- ascension,
- ascent,
- aspiration,
- assertion,
- assignment,
- assimilation,
- assumed position,
- assumption,
- assurance,
- assured faith,
- attitude,
- authorization,
- axiom,
- basis,
- beatification,
- becoming,
- borrowed plumes,
- canonization,
- categorical proposition,
- change,
- change-over,
- cheerful expectation,
- climate of opinion,
- colonization,
- coloration,
- common belief,
- community sentiment,
- conceit,
- concept,
- conception,
- conclusion,
- confidence,
- conjecture,
- connotation,
- conquest,
- consecration,
- consensus gentium,
- consideration,
- conversion,
- conviction,
- copying,
- coronation,
- data,
- deification,
- delegation,
- dependence,
- deputation,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- desire,
- doomed hope,
- election,
- elevation,
- empowerment,
- encroachment,
- enshrinement,
- enslavement,
- entailment,
- erection,
- escalation,
- estimate,
- estimation,
- ethos,
- exaltation,
- expectation,
- eye,
- fair prospect,
- faith,
- familiarity,
- feeling,
- fervent hope,
- first principles,
- flip-flop,
- foundation,
- fundamental,
- gathering,
- general belief,
- getting,
- good cheer,
- good hope,
- great expectations,
- ground,
- growth,
- guess,
- guesswork,
- height,
- high hopes,
- hint,
- hope,
- hopeful prognosis,
- hopefulness,
- hopes,
- hoping,
- hoping against hope,
- hubris,
- hypothesis,
- hypothesis ad hoc,
- idea,
- imitation,
- implication,
- implied meaning,
- import,
- imposition,
- impression,
- indent,
- inference,
- infringement,
- innuendo,
- insolence,
- intimation,
- invasion,
- involvement,
- ironic suggestion,
- judgment,
- lapse,
- law,
- lawlessness,
- legitimate succession,
- lemma,
- liberties,
- liberty abused,
- license,
- licentiousness,
- lifting,
- lights,
- major premise,
- meaning,
- metaphorical sense,
- mind,
- minor premise,
- mocking,
- mystique,
- naturalization,
- notion,
- nuance,
- observation,
- occult meaning,
- occupation,
- opinion,
- overtone,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- passage,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- personal judgment,
- philosopheme,
- philosophical proposition,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playing God,
- point of view,
- popular belief,
- posit,
- position,
- postulate,
- postulation,
- postulatum,
- posture,
- prayerful hope,
- preemption,
- premise,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- presumption,
- presumptuousness,
- presupposal,
- presupposition,
- prevailing belief,
- principle,
- progress,
- promise,
- proposition,
- propositional function,
- prospect,
- prospects,
- public belief,
- public opinion,
- raising,
- re-formation,
- reaction,
- rearing,
- receipt,
- receival,
- receiving,
- reception,
- reconversion,
- reduction,
- reliance,
- requisition,
- resolution,
- resurrection,
- reversal,
- sanguine expectation,
- security,
- seizure,
- sentiment,
- set of postulates,
- shift,
- sight,
- simulation,
- stance,
- statement,
- subjugation,
- subsense,
- subsidiary sense,
- subsumption,
- succession,
- suggestion,
- sumption,
- supposal,
- supposing,
- supposition,
- surmise,
- sursum corda,
- switch,
- switch-over,
- symbolism,
- takeover,
- taking,
- taking over,
- the Ascension,
- the Assumption,
- theorem,
- theory,
- thesis,
- thinking,
- thought,
- tinge,
- touch,
- transformation,
- transit,
- transition,
- translation,
- trespass,
- trespassing,
- trust,
- truth table,
- truth-function,
- truth-value,
- turning into,
- undercurrent,
- undermeaning,
- undertone,
- undue liberty,
- upbuoying,
- upcast,
- upheaval,
- uplift,
- uplifting,
- upping,
- uprearing,
- upthrow,
- upthrust,
- usurpation,
- view,
- volte-face,
- way of thinking,
- well-grounded hope,
- working hypothesis
- edgy
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- being in a tense state related words >
- agitable,
- all nerves,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- breathless,
- chafing,
- combustible,
- eager,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- excitable,
- excited,
- explosive,
- fearful,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- frightened,
- hasty,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- hopped-up,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- inflammable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- mettlesome,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on edge,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- perturbable,
- prickly,
- restive,
- restless,
- sensitive,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- startlish,
- touchy,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- uptight,
- volatile,
- volcanic
- angelicalness,
- assured probity,
- blamelessness,
- character,
- cleanness,
- conscientiousness,
- correctness,
- decency,
- erectness,
- estimableness,
- fairness,
- godliness,
- good character,
- goodness,
- high ideals,
- high principles,
- high-mindedness,
- honesty,
- honor,
- honorableness,
- immaculacy,
- incorruptibility,
- integrity,
- irreproachability,
- irreproachableness,
- justice,
- justness,
- moral excellence,
- moral rectitude,
- moral strength,
- morale,
- morality,
- nobility,
- principle,
- principles,
- probity,
- propriety,
- pureness,
- purity,
- reputability,
- respectability,
- right conduct,
- righteousness,
- rightness,
- saintlikeness,
- saintliness,
- scrupulousness,
- stainlessness,
- unimpeachability,
- unimpeachableness,
- unspottedness,
- uprightness,
- upstandingness,
- virtue,
- virtuousness,
- worthiness
- adore,
- appreciate,
- bask in,
- be pleased with,
- delight in,
- derive pleasure from,
- devour,
- eat up,
- enjoy,
- feast on,
- freak out on,
- get high on,
- gloat over,
- groove on,
- indulge,
- indulge in,
- like,
- live high,
- live well,
- love,
- rejoice in,
- relish,
- revel in,
- riot in,
- roll in,
- savor,
- smack the lips,
- swim in,
- take pleasure in,
- wallow in
- adore,
- appreciate,
- bask in,
- be pleased with,
- delight in,
- derive pleasure from,
- devour,
- eat up,
- enjoy,
- feast on,
- freak out on,
- get high on,
- gloat over,
- groove on,
- indulge,
- indulge in,
- like,
- live high,
- live well,
- love,
- luxuriate in,
- rejoice in,
- relish,
- revel in,
- riot in,
- roll in,
- savor,
- smack the lips,
- swim in,
- take pleasure in
- expect
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- look forward to the birth of a child; "She is expecting in March"
- consider reasonable or due; "I'm expecting a full explanation as to why these files were destroyed"
- regard something as probable or likely; "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow"
- look forward to the probable occurrence of; "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted" related words >
- account as,
- anticipate,
- apprehend,
- approach,
- aspire to,
- assume,
- await,
- bank on,
- be afraid,
- be destined,
- be fated,
- be imminent,
- be to be,
- be to come,
- believe,
- come,
- come on,
- conceive,
- conclude,
- confide,
- conjecture,
- consider,
- contemplate,
- count,
- count on,
- daresay,
- deduce,
- deem,
- demand,
- desire,
- divine,
- draw near,
- draw on,
- dread,
- dream,
- envisage,
- envision,
- esteem,
- estimate,
- face,
- fancy,
- feel,
- feel confident,
- foreknow,
- foresee,
- foretell,
- gather,
- grant,
- guess,
- harbor the hope,
- have a hunch,
- have an idea,
- have an impression,
- have an inkling,
- have in mind,
- have in view,
- have the idea,
- hold,
- hold as,
- hope,
- hope against hope,
- hope and pray,
- hope for,
- hope in,
- hope to God,
- imagine,
- infer,
- judge,
- keep in view,
- lean upon,
- let,
- let be,
- lie ahead,
- live in hopes,
- look,
- look for,
- look forward to,
- look upon as,
- loom,
- maintain,
- near,
- need,
- nurture the hope,
- opine,
- plan,
- plot,
- predict,
- prefigure,
- presume,
- presuppose,
- presurmise,
- project,
- prophesy,
- provisionally accept,
- reckon,
- reckon on,
- regard,
- rely on,
- repute,
- require,
- rest assured,
- say,
- sense,
- set down as,
- suppose,
- surmise,
- suspect,
- take,
- take for,
- take for granted,
- take it,
- take to be,
- think,
- threaten,
- trow,
- trust,
- understand,
- view as,
- wait for,
- want,
- ween,
- wish
- showy
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- displaying brilliance and virtuosity
- marked by ostentation but often tasteless; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- arabesque,
- baroque,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- brave,
- bravura,
- braw,
- chichi,
- conspicuous,
- convoluted,
- daring,
- dashing,
- declamatory,
- dressy,
- elaborate,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exhibitionistic,
- fancy,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashing,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- frilly,
- frothy,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- gallant,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gay,
- glittering,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- intricate,
- jaunty,
- jazzy,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luxurious,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- opulent,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- rakish,
- resplendent,
- rhetorical,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- show-off,
- snazzy,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- splurgy,
- sporty,
- stilted,
- sumptuous,
- swank,
- tall,
- tawdry,
- tortuous
- colossal
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- so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand" related words >
- Atlantean,
- Brobdingnagian,
- Cyclopean,
- Gargantuan,
- Herculean,
- Homeric,
- Olympian,
- abysmal,
- aerial,
- airy,
- altitudinous,
- amplitudinous,
- ascending,
- aspiring,
- astronomic,
- astronomical,
- awe-inspiring,
- awesome,
- boundless,
- bulky,
- cosmic,
- cyclopean,
- dominating,
- elephantine,
- elevated,
- eminent,
- enormous,
- epic,
- ethereal,
- exalted,
- extensive,
- extraordinary,
- galactic,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- gargantuan,
- giant,
- giantlike,
- gigantic,
- haughty,
- heroic,
- high,
- high-pitched,
- high-reaching,
- high-set,
- high-up,
- huge,
- immeasurable,
- immense,
- incredible,
- infinite,
- jumbo,
- king-size,
- lank,
- lanky,
- large,
- leggy,
- lengthy,
- lofty,
- long,
- long-legged,
- mammoth,
- massive,
- massy,
- mighty,
- monster,
- monstrous,
- monumental,
- mountainous,
- mounting,
- outsize,
- outtopping,
- overgrown,
- overlooking,
- overtopping,
- overwhelming,
- prodigious,
- profound,
- prominent,
- rangy,
- sizable,
- soaring,
- spacious,
- spectacular,
- spiring,
- staggering,
- statuesque,
- steep,
- stupendous,
- sublime,
- superlative,
- supernal,
- tall,
- titanic,
- topless,
- toplofty,
- topping,
- towering,
- towery,
- tremendous,
- unbelievable,
- uplifted,
- upreared,
- vast,
- voluminous,
- weighty,
- wonderful
- U,
- aggrandized,
- apotheosized,
- aristocratic,
- awesome,
- beatified,
- big,
- canonized,
- deified,
- dictatorial,
- elevated,
- elitist,
- eminent,
- ennobled,
- enshrined,
- enthroned,
- exalted,
- excellent,
- glorified,
- grand,
- great,
- held in awe,
- high,
- hubristic,
- immortal,
- immortalized,
- imperious,
- lofty,
- lordly,
- magisterial,
- magnified,
- masterful,
- mighty,
- sainted,
- sanctified,
- shrined,
- sublime,
- supereminent,
- throned
- U,
- absolute,
- absolutist,
- absolutistic,
- affected,
- arbitrary,
- aristocratic,
- arrogant,
- august,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- autocratic,
- bossy,
- cavalier,
- courtly,
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- dignified,
- disdainful,
- domineering,
- egotistic,
- elitist,
- feudal,
- grand,
- grandiose,
- grave,
- grinding,
- haughty,
- high and mighty,
- high-and-mighty,
- high-handed,
- hubristic,
- imperative,
- imperial,
- imperious,
- imposing,
- insolent,
- kingly,
- magisterial,
- magistral,
- magnificent,
- majestic,
- masterful,
- monocratic,
- noble,
- oppressive,
- overbearing,
- overruling,
- peremptory,
- princely,
- puffed,
- queenly,
- regal,
- repressive,
- royal,
- sedate,
- severe,
- snobbish,
- sober,
- solemn,
- stately,
- statuesque,
- strict,
- supercilious,
- superior,
- suppressive,
- swollen,
- tyrannical,
- tyrannous,
- venerable,
- worthy
- grandiloquent
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- puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
- lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- amplified,
- aureate,
- ballyhooed,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bloated,
- bombastic,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flatulent,
- flaunting,
- flowery,
- formal,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hyperbolic,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlarge,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstressed,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pontifical,
- pretentious,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- puffed,
- rhetorical,
- self-important,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- solemn,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- stuffy,
- superlative,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- touted,
- tumid,
- turgid
- topping
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- a flavorful addition on top of a dish related words >
- Olympian,
- a cut above,
- abacus,
- above,
- acanthus,
- aerial,
- ahead,
- airy,
- altitudinous,
- annulet,
- architrave,
- ascendant,
- ascending,
- aspiring,
- astragal,
- bell,
- better,
- capping,
- capstone,
- chosen,
- cima,
- colossal,
- console,
- consummating,
- coping,
- corbel,
- cornice,
- crown,
- crowning,
- culminating,
- cyma,
- dentil,
- distinguished,
- dominating,
- drip,
- drop,
- eclipsing,
- elevated,
- eminent,
- ethereal,
- exalted,
- exceeding,
- excellent,
- excelling,
- finer,
- finial,
- first-chop,
- first-class,
- first-rate,
- frieze,
- frontispiece,
- frosting,
- greater,
- haughty,
- head,
- header,
- heading,
- headpiece,
- high,
- high-pitched,
- high-reaching,
- high-set,
- high-up,
- higher,
- icing,
- in ascendancy,
- in the ascendant,
- keystone,
- lintel,
- lofty,
- major,
- marked,
- monumental,
- mounting,
- of choice,
- one up on,
- outstanding,
- outtopping,
- over,
- overlooking,
- overtopping,
- prominent,
- rare,
- rivaling,
- sconce,
- soaring,
- spiring,
- steep,
- sublime,
- super,
- superior,
- superlative,
- supernal,
- surpassing,
- taenia,
- tip-top,
- top-drawer,
- top-hole,
- top-notch,
- topflight,
- topless,
- toplofty,
- tops,
- towering,
- towery,
- transcendent,
- transcendental,
- transcending,
- treenail,
- tympanum,
- uplifted,
- upper,
- upreared
- tumbler
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- a glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem; originally had a round bottom
- a movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown
- a gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc. related words >
- acrobat,
- aerialist,
- bareback rider,
- circus artist,
- clown,
- contortionist,
- equestrian director,
- equilibrist,
- flier,
- funambulist,
- gymnast,
- high wire artist,
- high-wire artist,
- juggler,
- lion tamer,
- palaestrian,
- pancratiast,
- ringmaster,
- ropewalker,
- slack-rope artist,
- snake charmer,
- sword swallower,
- tightrope walker,
- trapeze artist,
- weightlifter
- aerialist
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- an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze) related words >
- acrobat,
- bareback rider,
- circus artist,
- clown,
- contortionist,
- equestrian director,
- equilibrist,
- flier,
- funambulist,
- gymnast,
- high wire artist,
- high-wire artist,
- juggler,
- lion tamer,
- palaestrian,
- pancratiast,
- ringmaster,
- ropewalker,
- slack-rope artist,
- snake charmer,
- sword swallower,
- tightrope walker,
- trapeze artist,
- tumbler,
- weightlifter
- acrobat,
- aerialist,
- bareback rider,
- circus artist,
- clown,
- contortionist,
- equestrian director,
- equilibrist,
- flier,
- funambulist,
- gymnast,
- high wire artist,
- high-wire artist,
- juggler,
- lion tamer,
- palaestrian,
- pancratiast,
- ringmaster,
- ropewalker,
- slack-rope artist,
- snake charmer,
- sword swallower,
- trapeze artist,
- tumbler,
- weightlifter
- acrobat
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- an athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination related words >
- aerialist,
- bareback rider,
- circus artist,
- clown,
- contortionist,
- equestrian director,
- equilibrist,
- flier,
- funambulist,
- gymnast,
- high wire artist,
- high-wire artist,
- juggler,
- lion tamer,
- palaestrian,
- pancratiast,
- ringmaster,
- ropewalker,
- slack-rope artist,
- snake charmer,
- sword swallower,
- tightrope walker,
- trapeze artist,
- tumbler,
- weightlifter
- rhetorical
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- concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"
- of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- articulate,
- artificial,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- chichi,
- contrived,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elevated,
- elocutionary,
- eloquent,
- embellished,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- expressive,
- extravagant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- fluent,
- for effect,
- forensic,
- fulsome,
- fustian,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- glib,
- grand,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- imposing,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- linguistic,
- lofty,
- long-winded,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- mouthy,
- oratorical,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- poetic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- prolix,
- purple,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stylistic,
- swelling,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- tumescent,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unanswerable,
- vocal,
- voluble,
- windy,
- wordy
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