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hoping against hope
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forbidden fruit
collapse
originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality)
related words >
Eighteenth Amendment
,
Prohibition Party
,
Volstead Act
,
agacerie
,
allure
,
allurement
,
ambition
,
appeal
,
attraction
,
attractiveness
,
ban
,
beguilement
,
beguiling
,
bewitchery
,
bewitchment
,
blandishment
,
cajolery
,
captivation
,
catch
,
charisma
,
charm
,
charmingness
,
come-hither
,
contraband
,
dearest wish
,
denial
,
desideration
,
desideratum
,
desire
,
disallowance
,
embargo
,
enchantment
,
enthrallment
,
enticement
,
entrapment
,
exclusion
,
fascination
,
flirtation
,
forbiddance
,
forbidding
,
glamour
,
glimmering goal
,
golden vision
,
hope
,
index
,
index expurgatorius
,
index librorum prohibitorum
,
inducement
,
inhibition
,
injunction
,
interdict
,
interdiction
,
interdictum
,
interest
,
inveiglement
,
invitation
,
law
,
lodestone
,
magnet
,
magnetism
,
no-no
,
plum
,
preclusion
,
prevention
,
prize
,
prohibition
,
prohibitory injunction
,
proscription
,
refusal
,
rejection
,
repression
,
restrictive covenants
,
ruling out
,
seducement
,
seduction
,
seductiveness
,
sex appeal
,
snaring
,
statute
,
sumptuary laws
,
suppression
,
taboo
,
tantalization
,
temptation
,
tree of knowledge
,
trophy
,
winning ways
,
winsomeness
,
wish
,
witchery
,
wooing
,
zoning
,
zoning laws
sureness
collapse
the quality of being steady and unfailing; "sureness of hand"
related words >
absolute certainty
,
absoluteness
,
acceptation
,
acception
,
acquiescence
,
act of God
,
arrogance
,
assurance
,
assuredness
,
belief
,
certain knowledge
,
certainness
,
certainty
,
certitude
,
cocksureness
,
confidence
,
confidentness
,
conviction
,
courage
,
credence
,
credit
,
credulity
,
dead certainty
,
definiteness
,
dependability
,
dependence
,
determinacy
,
determinateness
,
faith
,
faithworthiness
,
fate
,
fatefulness
,
force majeure
,
hope
,
hubris
,
incorruptibility
,
indefeasibility
,
ineluctability
,
inerrability
,
inerrancy
,
inescapableness
,
inevasibleness
,
inevitability
,
inevitable accident
,
inevitableness
,
inexorability
,
infallibilism
,
infallibility
,
inflexibility
,
inviolability
,
irrevocability
,
necessity
,
nonambiguity
,
noncontingency
,
overconfidence
,
oversureness
,
overweening
,
overweeningness
,
poise
,
pomposity
,
positiveness
,
predestination
,
predetermination
,
pride
,
probatum
,
proved fact
,
reception
,
relentlessness
,
reliability
,
reliance
,
reliance on
,
responsibility
,
security
,
self-assurance
,
self-confidence
,
self-importance
,
self-reliance
,
settled belief
,
stock
,
store
,
subjective certainty
,
surety
,
suspension of disbelief
,
trust
,
trustability
,
trustiness
,
trustworthiness
,
truth
,
unambiguity
,
unavoidable casualty
,
unavoidableness
,
uncontrollability
,
undeflectability
,
unequivocalness
,
unfalseness
,
univocity
,
unmistakableness
,
unperfidiousness
,
unpreventability
,
untreacherousness
,
unyieldingness
,
vis major
ambition
collapse
a strong drive for success
a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"
have as one's ambition
related words >
aim
,
ambitiousness
,
animus
,
anxiety
,
appetite
,
aspiration
,
avidity
,
basis
,
calling
,
careerism
,
catch
,
cause
,
climbing
,
consideration
,
counsel
,
craving
,
dearest wish
,
desideration
,
desideratum
,
design
,
desire
,
determination
,
dream
,
drive
,
eagerness
,
effect
,
energy
,
enterprise
,
enthusiasm
,
fancy
,
fixed purpose
,
forbidden fruit
,
function
,
get-up-and-go
,
glimmering goal
,
go-ahead
,
goad
,
goal
,
golden vision
,
ground
,
guiding light
,
guiding star
,
hope
,
hunger
,
idea
,
ideal
,
incentive
,
initiative
,
inspiration
,
intendment
,
intent
,
intention
,
keenness
,
lodestar
,
lodestone
,
lofty ambition
,
magnanimity
,
magnet
,
mainspring
,
mark
,
matter
,
meaning
,
mind
,
motive
,
nirvana
,
nisus
,
object
,
objective
,
plan
,
plum
,
point
,
power-hunger
,
pretension
,
principle
,
prize
,
project
,
proposal
,
prospectus
,
purpose
,
push
,
reason
,
resolution
,
resolve
,
sake
,
score
,
social climbing
,
source
,
spirit
,
spring
,
spur
,
status-seeking
,
striving
,
study
,
target
,
temptation
,
thirst
,
trophy
,
ulterior motive
,
vaulting ambition
,
view
,
vigor
,
vocation
,
will
,
wish
,
zeal
sexual desire
collapse
a desire for sexual intimacy
related words >
an universal wolf
,
andromania
,
anger
,
animus
,
aphrodisia
,
appetence
,
appetency
,
appetite
,
appetition
,
ardency
,
ardor
,
biological urge
,
bodily appetite
,
carnal desire
,
choice
,
command
,
conation
,
conatus
,
concupiscence
,
coveting
,
craving
,
curiosity
,
decision
,
desideration
,
desire
,
determination
,
discretion
,
disposition
,
drive
,
eagerness
,
eromania
,
eroticism
,
eroticomaniac
,
erotism
,
erotomania
,
excitement
,
fancy
,
fantasy
,
fervency
,
fervidity
,
fervidness
,
fervor
,
fleshly lust
,
free choice
,
free will
,
furor uterinus
,
goatishness
,
gynecomania
,
hope
,
horme
,
horniness
,
hot blood
,
hot pants
,
hunger
,
inclination
,
indecency
,
infantile sexuality
,
intellectual curiosity
,
intention
,
itch
,
itching
,
lasciviousness
,
libidinousness
,
libido
,
liking
,
love
,
lust
,
lust for learning
,
lustfulness
,
mania
,
mind
,
need
,
nymphomania
,
objective
,
passion
,
pleasure
,
pleasure principle
,
polymorphous perversity
,
prurience
,
pruriency
,
resolution
,
satyriasis
,
satyrism
,
sexual longing
,
sexual passion
,
thirst
,
thirst for knowledge
,
urge
,
velleity
,
venereal appetite
,
volition
,
want
,
wanting
,
will
,
will and pleasure
,
will power
,
wish
,
wish fulfillment
bubble
collapse
a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
an impracticable and illusory idea; "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble"
a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling"
related words >
air
,
air pocket
,
airy hope
,
airy nothing
,
apparition
,
autism
,
babble
,
ball
,
balloon
,
be enthusiastic
,
bilge
,
bladder
,
blain
,
bleb
,
blister
,
blob
,
blubber
,
boil
,
boil over
,
boll
,
bolus
,
boss
,
bow
,
brainchild
,
bubble over
,
bubble up
,
bubbles
,
bulb
,
bulbil
,
bulblet
,
bulge
,
bulla
,
bump
,
bunch
,
burble
,
burl
,
button
,
cahot
,
carbonation
,
carry on over
,
chaff
,
chimera
,
china
,
chine
,
chip
,
churn
,
clump
,
cobweb
,
condyle
,
convex
,
cork
,
daydream
,
deception
,
delirium
,
deluded belief
,
delusion
,
dereism
,
dowel
,
down
,
dream
,
dream vision
,
dreamland
,
dreamworld
,
droplet
,
dust
,
ear
,
effervesce
,
effervescence
,
eggshell
,
eidolon
,
ellipsoid
,
enthuse
,
ephemera
,
ephemeral
,
ephemerid
,
ephemerides
,
ephemeris
,
ether
,
fairy
,
false belief
,
fancy
,
fantasque
,
fantasy
,
feather
,
ferment
,
fiction
,
figment
,
fizz
,
fizzle
,
flange
,
flap
,
flue
,
fluff
,
foam
,
froth
,
fuzz
,
gall
,
geoid
,
glass
,
glass house
,
globe
,
globelet
,
globoid
,
globule
,
glomerulus
,
gnarl
,
go on over
,
gob
,
gobbet
,
golden dream
,
gossamer
,
guggle
,
gurgle
,
gush
,
gush over
,
hallucination
,
handle
,
hill
,
hiss
,
house of cards
,
hump
,
hunch
,
ice
,
idle fancy
,
ignis fatuus
,
illusion
,
imagery
,
imagination
,
imagining
,
insubstantial image
,
invention
,
jog
,
joggle
,
knob
,
knot
,
knur
,
knurl
,
lap
,
lather
,
lip
,
loop
,
lump
,
maggot
,
make much of
,
make-believe
,
matchwood
,
mayfly
,
misbelief
,
misconception
,
mist
,
moil
,
mole
,
mote
,
mountain
,
myth
,
nevus
,
nub
,
nubbin
,
nubble
,
oblate spheroid
,
old paper
,
orb
,
orbit
,
orblet
,
papilloma
,
parchment
,
peg
,
pellet
,
phantasm
,
phantom
,
piecrust
,
pipe
,
pipe dream
,
plash
,
plop
,
prolate spheroid
,
purl
,
quixotic ideal
,
rainbow
,
rave
,
rave about
,
rhapsodize
,
rib
,
ridge
,
ring
,
ripple
,
romance
,
rondure
,
seethe
,
self-deceit
,
self-deception
,
self-delusion
,
shadow
,
shoulder
,
sick fancy
,
simmer
,
slosh
,
smoke
,
smolder
,
snows of yesteryear
,
sparkle
,
sphere
,
spheroid
,
spherule
,
spine
,
spirit
,
splash
,
sponge
,
spume
,
stir
,
straw
,
stud
,
style
,
suds
,
swash
,
swish
,
tab
,
take on over
,
thick-coming fancies
,
thin air
,
thistledown
,
trick
,
trill
,
trip
,
tubercle
,
tubercule
,
unreal hope
,
utopia
,
vapor
,
verruca
,
vesicle
,
vision
,
wale
,
wart
,
wash
,
welt
,
whim
,
whimsy
,
wildest dreams
,
work
,
wrong impression
contemplate
collapse
consider as a possibility; "I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job"
look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought; "contemplate one's navel"
related words >
aim
,
anticipate
,
be abstracted
,
bear in mind
,
behold
,
bone
,
brood
,
brood over
,
chew over
,
chew the cud
,
con
,
consider
,
debate
,
deliberate
,
deliberate over
,
design
,
dig
,
digest
,
dread
,
drift
,
drill
,
elucubrate
,
entertain thoughts of
,
envisage
,
envision
,
examine
,
excogitate
,
expect
,
eye
,
face
,
foreglimpse
,
foresee
,
foretaste
,
give the eye
,
give the once-over
,
go over
,
grind
,
harbor an idea
,
hard look
,
have in mind
,
have in view
,
have thoughts about
,
hold an idea
,
hold the thought
,
hope
,
image
,
imagine
,
inspect
,
intend
,
introspect
,
keep in mind
,
leer
,
leer at
,
look ahead
,
look at
,
look beyond
,
look forward to
,
look over
,
look upon
,
lucubrate
,
mean
,
meditate
,
mind
,
mull over
,
muse
,
muse on
,
muse over
,
observe
,
ogle
,
ogle at
,
perpend
,
peruse
,
plan
,
play around with
,
play with
,
plunge into
,
ponder
,
ponder over
,
pore
,
pore over
,
practice
,
predict
,
presume
,
read
,
reflect
,
regard
,
regard studiously
,
restudy
,
review
,
roam
,
ruminate
,
ruminate over
,
scan
,
scrutinize
,
see
,
see ahead
,
see beforehand
,
size up
,
speculate
,
study
,
survey
,
swot
,
take a long
,
take for granted
,
take stock of
,
think
,
think about
,
think of
,
think over
,
toy with
,
vet
,
view
,
visualize
,
wade through
,
weigh
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