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- hugger-mugger
- a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses; "he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance"
- in secrecy; "they did it all hugger-mugger"
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Related Words:
- arcane,
- cabalistic,
- censored,
- clandestine,
- classified,
- close,
- closed,
- concealed,
- covert,
- cryptic,
- dark,
- enigmatic,
- esoteric,
- hermetic,
- hidden,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- hush,
- latent,
- mysterious,
- occult,
- restricted,
- secret,
- secretiveness,
- secretness,
- silence,
- smothered,
- stifled,
- suppressed,
- top secret,
- ulterior,
- unbreatheable,
- under security,
- under wraps,
- under-the-table,
- undisclosable,
- undisclosed,
- undivulgable,
- undivulged,
- unrevealable,
- unrevealed,
- unspoken,
- untellable,
- untold,
- unutterable,
- unuttered,
- unwhisperable
- clandestine
collapse - conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance" related words >
- backstairs
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- a second staircase at the rear of a building related words >
- sub rosa
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- in secret or covertly; "held a meeting sub rosa to avoid general criticism" related words >
- behind the curtain,
- behind the scenes,
- behind the veil,
- by stealth,
- covertly,
- furtively,
- hugger-mugger,
- in a corner,
- in a whisper,
- in camera,
- in darkness,
- in hidlings,
- in secret,
- in the background,
- in the dark,
- nobody the wiser,
- privately,
- secretly,
- sotto voce,
- stealthily,
- surreptitiously,
- under the breath,
- under the rose,
- undercover,
- underground,
- with bated breath
- privately
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- kept private or confined to those intimately concerned; "it was discussed privately between the two men"; "privately, she thought differently"; "some member of his own party hoped privately for his defeat"; "he was questioned in private"
- by a private person or interest; "a privately financed campaign" related words >
- a huis clos,
- apart,
- aside,
- behind closed doors,
- by stealth,
- covertly,
- furtively,
- hugger-mugger,
- in camera,
- in chambers,
- in executive session,
- in person,
- in privacy,
- in private,
- in private conference,
- in privy,
- in propria persona,
- in the flesh,
- individually,
- januis clausis,
- personally,
- privily,
- stealthily,
- sub rosa,
- surreptitiously
- secretly
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- not openly; inwardly; "they were secretly delighted at his embarrassment"; "hoped secretly she would change her mind"
- in secrecy; not openly; "met secretly to discuss the invasion plans"; "the children secretly went to the movies when they were supposed to be at the library"; "they arranged to meet in secret" related words >
- behind closed doors,
- behind the curtain,
- behind the scenes,
- behind the veil,
- by stealth,
- confidentially,
- covertly,
- furtively,
- hugger-mugger,
- in a corner,
- in a whisper,
- in camera,
- in darkness,
- in hidlings,
- in secret,
- in the background,
- in the dark,
- mysteriously,
- nobody the wiser,
- on the quiet,
- on the sly,
- privately,
- privily,
- quietly,
- slyly,
- sotto voce,
- stealthily,
- sub rosa,
- surreptitiously,
- under the breath,
- under the rose,
- undercover,
- underground,
- with bated breath
- secrecy
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- the trait of keeping things secret related words >
- Jim Crow,
- apartheid,
- apartness,
- burial,
- burying,
- censorship,
- clandestineness,
- clouding,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- confidentiality,
- confidentially,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertly,
- covertness,
- darkening,
- deception,
- detachment,
- disappearance,
- furtively,
- furtiveness,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- hush,
- hush-hush,
- immateriality,
- imperceptibility,
- indiscernibility,
- interment,
- invisibility,
- isolation,
- isolationism,
- masking,
- mysteriously,
- mystery,
- mystification,
- nonappearance,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- occultation,
- privacy,
- privately,
- privatism,
- privatization,
- putting away,
- quarantine,
- recess,
- reclusion,
- retirement,
- retreat,
- rustication,
- screening,
- seclusion,
- secretion,
- secretively,
- secretiveness,
- secretly,
- secretness,
- segregation,
- separation,
- sequestration,
- silence,
- sneakily,
- splendid isolation,
- stealth,
- stealthily,
- subterfuge,
- suppression,
- surreptitiously,
- surreptitiousness,
- the invisible,
- the unseen,
- uncommunicativeness,
- unperceivability,
- unseeableness,
- unsubstantiality,
- viewlessness,
- withdrawal
- anarchic,
- arsy-varsy,
- ass-backwards,
- balled up,
- buggered,
- buggered up,
- chaotic,
- confused,
- cooked,
- fouled up,
- galley-west,
- gummed up,
- hashed up,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hugger-mugger,
- in a mess,
- jumbled,
- loused up,
- messed up,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- muddled,
- queered,
- scattered,
- screwed up,
- shot,
- skimble-skamble,
- snafu,
- snafued,
- snarled up,
- sunk,
- topsy-turvy,
- upside-down
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- clandestine,
- covert,
- cowering,
- cringing,
- doggo,
- feline,
- furtive,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- lurking,
- on tiptoe,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quailing,
- quiet,
- shifty,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- surreptitious,
- under cover,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- waiting concealed
- concealment
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- the activity of keeping something secret related words >
- abri,
- air-raid shelter,
- airtight secrecy,
- asylum,
- bolt-hole,
- bomb shelter,
- bombproof,
- bunker,
- cache,
- cave,
- close secrecy,
- closeness,
- corner,
- cover,
- covert,
- coverture,
- cranny,
- crypticness,
- cubby,
- cubbyhole,
- cyclone cellar,
- dark corner,
- den,
- disappearance,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- dugout,
- earth,
- evasion,
- evasiveness,
- fallout shelter,
- foxhole,
- funk hole,
- hiddenness,
- hideaway,
- hideout,
- hidey hole,
- hiding,
- hiding place,
- hole,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- immateriality,
- imperceptibility,
- indiscernibility,
- invisibility,
- lair,
- niche,
- nonappearance,
- nook,
- recess,
- refuge,
- retreat,
- safety zone,
- sanctuary,
- secrecy,
- secret place,
- secretiveness,
- secretness,
- shelter,
- stash,
- storm cave,
- storm cellar,
- subterfuge,
- the dark,
- the invisible,
- the unseen,
- trench,
- uncommunicativeness,
- undercovert,
- unperceivability,
- unseeableness,
- unsubstantiality,
- viewlessness
- all over,
- all over hell,
- at intervals,
- brokenly,
- by catches,
- by fits,
- by jerks,
- by skips,
- by snatches,
- come what may,
- compulsorily,
- disconnectedly,
- discontinuously,
- every which way,
- fitfully,
- from necessity,
- haphazardly,
- harum-scarum,
- helplessly,
- helter-skelter,
- here and there,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hugger-mugger,
- in a jumble,
- in a mess,
- in a muddle,
- in confusion,
- in disarray,
- in disorder,
- in spots,
- inescapably,
- inevitably,
- infrequently,
- intermittently,
- necessarily,
- need,
- needfully,
- needs,
- nolens volens,
- occasionally,
- of necessity,
- per saltum,
- perforce,
- randomly,
- requisitely,
- skimble-skamble,
- skippingly,
- unavoidably,
- without choice
- all over,
- all over hell,
- anarchic,
- arsy-varsy,
- ass-backwards,
- balled up,
- bollixed up,
- capriciously,
- chaotic,
- chaotically,
- confused,
- erratically,
- every which way,
- fouled up,
- galley-west,
- harum-scarum,
- helter-skelter,
- hugger-mugger,
- impulsively,
- in a jumble,
- in a mess,
- in a muddle,
- in confusion,
- in disarray,
- in disorder,
- inconsistently,
- inconstantly,
- irregularly,
- jumbled,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- muddled,
- nonuniformly,
- scattered,
- screwed up,
- skimble-skamble,
- snafu,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- topsy-turvy,
- unequally,
- unevenly,
- unsteadily,
- unsystematically,
- ununiformly,
- upside-down,
- willy-nilly
- accident-prone,
- all over,
- all over hell,
- boisterous,
- breakneck,
- careless,
- desperate,
- devil-may-care,
- every which way,
- furious,
- hasty,
- headlong,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hotheaded,
- hugger-mugger,
- hurried,
- impetuous,
- in a jumble,
- in a mess,
- in a muddle,
- in confusion,
- in disarray,
- in disorder,
- knock-down-and-drag-out,
- knockabout,
- mad,
- overeager,
- overenthusiastic,
- overzealous,
- precipitant,
- precipitate,
- precipitous,
- rambunctious,
- rampageous,
- reckless,
- roisterous,
- rollicking,
- rough,
- rough-and-tumble,
- rowdy,
- skimble-skamble,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- wanton,
- wild,
- willy-nilly
- unobtrusive
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- not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable; "a quiet, unobtrusive life of self-denial" related words >
- Attic,
- aesthetic,
- artistic,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- chaste,
- choice,
- clandestine,
- classic,
- covert,
- excellent,
- feline,
- furtive,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- humble,
- in good taste,
- meek,
- modest,
- of choice,
- of quality,
- pleasing,
- privy,
- pure,
- quiet,
- restrained,
- shifty,
- simple,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealthy,
- subdued,
- surreptitious,
- tasteful,
- tasty,
- unaffected,
- unambitious,
- unaspiring,
- unassuming,
- unboastful,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- understated,
- unimposing,
- unostentatious,
- unpresuming,
- unpresumptuous,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- well-chosen
- hugger mugger
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- act stealthily or secretively related words >
- airtight secrecy,
- all over,
- all over hell,
- anarchic,
- arsy-varsy,
- ass-backwards,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- balled up,
- black out,
- bollixed up,
- by stealth,
- censor,
- chaotic,
- clandestine,
- close secrecy,
- closeness,
- concealment,
- confused,
- covert,
- covertly,
- crypticness,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- evasion,
- evasiveness,
- every which way,
- feline,
- fouled up,
- furtive,
- furtively,
- galley-west,
- harum-scarum,
- hash,
- helter-skelter,
- hiddenness,
- hidlings,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-muggery,
- hush,
- hush up,
- hush-hush,
- in a jumble,
- in a mess,
- in a muddle,
- in camera,
- in confusion,
- in disarray,
- in disorder,
- jumble,
- jumbled,
- jungle,
- kill,
- litter,
- mash,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- muddle,
- muddled,
- muffle,
- privately,
- privy,
- quash,
- quiet,
- repress,
- rummage,
- scattered,
- scramble,
- screwed up,
- secrecy,
- secretiveness,
- secretness,
- shifty,
- shush,
- silence,
- sit on,
- skimble-skamble,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- smother,
- snafu,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stealthily,
- stealthy,
- stifle,
- sub rosa,
- subterfuge,
- suppress,
- surreptitious,
- surreptitiously,
- the dark,
- topsy-turvy,
- tumble,
- uncommunicativeness,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- underneath,
- unobtrusive,
- upside-down,
- willy-nilly
- all over
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- over the entire area; "the wallpaper was covered all over with flowers"; "she ached all over"; "everything was dusted over with a fine layer of soot" related words >
- ad infinitum,
- all over hell,
- all round,
- all through,
- always,
- and everywhere,
- at about,
- at all points,
- at full length,
- cosmically,
- every bit,
- every inch,
- every which way,
- every whit,
- everywhere,
- everywheres,
- far and near,
- far and wide,
- galactically,
- harum-scarum,
- head and shoulders,
- heart and soul,
- helter-skelter,
- here,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- high and low,
- hugger-mugger,
- in a jumble,
- in a mess,
- in a muddle,
- in all creation,
- in all places,
- in all quarters,
- in all respects,
- in confusion,
- in disarray,
- in disorder,
- in every clime,
- in every instance,
- in every place,
- in every quarter,
- in every respect,
- in extenso,
- inside and out,
- internationally,
- invariably,
- neck deep,
- never otherwise,
- on all counts,
- over,
- overall,
- root and branch,
- round about,
- skimble-skamble,
- the world over,
- there,
- through,
- through and through,
- throughout,
- throughout the world,
- to the brim,
- to the death,
- to the end,
- to the hilt,
- under the sun,
- universally,
- upstairs and downstairs,
- willy-nilly,
- without exception,
- you name it
- a rebours,
- a reculons,
- against the grain,
- anarchic,
- anticlockwise,
- arear,
- arsy-varsy,
- astern,
- away,
- awkwardly,
- back,
- backward,
- backwards,
- balled up,
- bitched,
- bitched up,
- blunderingly,
- bollixed up,
- buggered,
- buggered up,
- bunglingly,
- chaotic,
- clumsily,
- confused,
- counterclockwise,
- cumbersomely,
- fouled up,
- fro,
- galley-west,
- gracelessly,
- gummed up,
- hashed up,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hindward,
- hindwards,
- hugger-mugger,
- hulkily,
- in a mess,
- in reverse,
- inelegantly,
- jumbled,
- loused up,
- maladroitly,
- messed up,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- muddled,
- ponderously,
- rearward,
- rearwards,
- retrad,
- scattered,
- screwed up,
- skimble-skamble,
- snafu,
- topsy-turvy,
- uncouthly,
- ungracefully,
- unhandily,
- upside-down,
- widdershins
- Byzantine,
- anarchic,
- arsy-varsy,
- ass-backwards,
- balled up,
- bollixed up,
- buggered,
- buggered up,
- chaotic,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- convoluted,
- cooked,
- crabbed,
- daedal,
- devious,
- elaborate,
- embrangled,
- entangled,
- fouled up,
- galley-west,
- gummed up,
- hashed up,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hugger-mugger,
- implicated,
- in a mess,
- intricate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- jumbled,
- knotted,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- messed up,
- mixed up,
- muddled,
- multifarious,
- perplexed,
- queered,
- ramified,
- roundabout,
- scattered,
- screwed up,
- shot,
- skimble-skamble,
- snafu,
- snafued,
- snarled,
- snarled up,
- subtle,
- sunk,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- topsy-turvy,
- twisted,
- upside-down
- black out
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- suppress by censorship as for political reasons; "parts of the newspaper article were blacked out"
- darken completely; "The dining room blackened out"
- obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived" related words >
- annul,
- becloud,
- bedarken,
- bedim,
- begloom,
- black,
- blacken,
- block the light,
- blot out,
- brown,
- cancel,
- cast a shadow,
- censor,
- cloud,
- cloud over,
- crap out,
- darken,
- darken over,
- delete,
- dim,
- dim out,
- drop,
- eclipse,
- efface,
- encloud,
- encompass with shadow,
- expunge,
- faint,
- fall senseless,
- gloom,
- gray out,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush,
- hush up,
- hush-hush,
- keel over,
- kill,
- muffle,
- murk,
- obfuscate,
- obliterate,
- obnubilate,
- obscure,
- obumbrate,
- occult,
- occultate,
- overcast,
- overcloud,
- overshadow,
- pass out,
- quash,
- repress,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shush,
- sit on,
- smother,
- somber,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stifle,
- succumb,
- suppress,
- swoon,
- wipe out
- furtive
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- marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch" related words >
- artful,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- collusive,
- conspiratorial,
- covert,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- doggo,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- guileful,
- hidden,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- lurking,
- on tiptoe,
- private,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quiet,
- scheming,
- secret,
- secretive,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- surreptitious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- under cover,
- under the table,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- untrustworthy,
- waiting concealed,
- wily
- absolute,
- abysmal,
- allegorical,
- anagogic,
- arcane,
- between the lines,
- cabalic,
- cabalistic,
- cabbalistic,
- categorical,
- clandestine,
- concealed,
- covert,
- cryptic,
- deep,
- delitescent,
- divine,
- dormant,
- enwrapped in mystery,
- epiphanic,
- esoteric,
- furtive,
- hibernating,
- hidden,
- hole-and-corner,
- holy,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush-hush,
- indefinable,
- ineffable,
- inexplicable,
- inextricable,
- insoluble,
- insolvable,
- latent,
- lurking,
- metaphysic,
- miraculous,
- muffled,
- mysterious,
- mystic,
- obfuscated,
- obscured,
- occult,
- possible,
- potential,
- preternatural,
- private,
- profound,
- sacred,
- secret,
- sleeping,
- sneak,
- spiritual,
- stealthy,
- submerged,
- supernatural,
- supranatural,
- symbolical,
- theosophical,
- theosophist,
- ultimate,
- unaccountable,
- undefinable,
- under the surface,
- underlying,
- unexplainable,
- uninterpretable,
- unmanifested,
- unrevealed,
- unsolvable,
- veiled,
- virtual
- a rebours,
- against the grain,
- anarchic,
- ass over elbows,
- ass-backwards,
- back-to-front,
- backwards,
- balled up,
- bollixed up,
- by contraries,
- capsized,
- chaotic,
- chiastic,
- confused,
- contra,
- contrarily,
- contrariously,
- contrariwise,
- conversely,
- everted,
- fouled up,
- galley-west,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hugger-mugger,
- hyperbatic,
- in a mess,
- in flat opposition,
- inside out,
- introverted,
- invaginated,
- inversed,
- inversely,
- inverted,
- jumbled,
- just the opposite,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- muddled,
- nay rather,
- on the contrary,
- oppositely,
- otherwise,
- outside in,
- palindromic,
- per contra,
- quite the contrary,
- rather,
- resupinate,
- retroverted,
- reversed,
- scattered,
- screwed up,
- skimble-skamble,
- snafu,
- to the contrary,
- topsy-turvy,
- tout au contraire,
- transposed,
- upside down,
- upside-down,
- vice versa,
- wrong side out
- artful,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- collusive,
- concealed,
- covert,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- doggo,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hidden,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush-hush,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- lurking,
- on the sly,
- on tiptoe,
- private,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- quiet,
- scheming,
- secret,
- secretive,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- under cover,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- veiled,
- waiting concealed,
- wily
- abate,
- abrogate,
- annihilate,
- annul,
- asphyxiate,
- black out,
- bottle up,
- cancel,
- censor,
- choke,
- choke off,
- clamp down on,
- cork,
- cork up,
- crack down on,
- crush,
- damp down,
- discharge,
- dissolve,
- drown,
- extinguish,
- gag,
- hold down,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush,
- hush up,
- hush-hush,
- invalidate,
- jump on,
- keep down,
- keep under,
- kill,
- muffle,
- muzzle,
- negate,
- nullify,
- overrule,
- overthrow,
- overwhelm,
- pour water on,
- put down,
- put out,
- quell,
- quench,
- reject,
- repress,
- rescind,
- reverse,
- revoke,
- set aside,
- shush,
- shut down on,
- silence,
- sit down on,
- sit on,
- smash,
- smother,
- snuff out,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stamp out,
- stanch,
- stifle,
- strangle,
- stultify,
- subdue,
- suffocate,
- suppress,
- throttle,
- throw out,
- trample out,
- trample underfoot,
- undo,
- vacate,
- vitiate,
- void
- upside down
collapse
- in an inverted manner; "the box was lying on the floor upside down" related words >
- a rebours,
- against the grain,
- anarchic,
- arsy-varsy,
- ass over elbows,
- ass-backwards,
- back-to-front,
- backwards,
- balled up,
- bollixed up,
- bottom side up,
- bottom up,
- by contraries,
- capsized,
- chaotic,
- chiastic,
- confused,
- contra,
- contrarily,
- contrariously,
- contrariwise,
- conversely,
- everted,
- fouled up,
- galley-west,
- haywire,
- head over heels,
- heels over head,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hugger-mugger,
- hyperbatic,
- in a mess,
- in flat opposition,
- inside out,
- introverted,
- invaginated,
- inversed,
- inversely,
- inverted,
- jumbled,
- just the opposite,
- mixed up,
- mixed-up,
- mucked up,
- muddled,
- nay rather,
- on the contrary,
- oppositely,
- otherwise,
- outside in,
- over,
- palindromic,
- per contra,
- quite the contrary,
- rather,
- resupinate,
- retroverted,
- reversed,
- scattered,
- screwed up,
- skimble-skamble,
- snafu,
- to the contrary,
- topsy-turvy,
- tout au contraire,
- transposed,
- turned around,
- vice versa,
- wrong side out
- shush
collapse
- silence (someone) by uttering `shush!' related words >
- assibilate,
- assibilation,
- black out,
- buzz,
- censor,
- choke,
- choke off,
- dumbfound,
- effervesce,
- effervescence,
- effervescing,
- fizz,
- fizzle,
- fizzling,
- frication,
- frictional rustling,
- gag,
- hiss,
- hissing,
- hugger-mugger,
- hush,
- hush up,
- hush-hush,
- hushing,
- kill,
- lisp,
- muffle,
- muzzle,
- put to silence,
- quash,
- quiet,
- quieten,
- repress,
- rhonchus,
- shushing,
- shut down on,
- shut up,
- sibilance,
- sibilate,
- sibilation,
- siffle,
- sigmatism,
- silence,
- siss,
- sissing,
- sit on,
- sizz,
- sizzle,
- sizzling,
- smother,
- sneeze,
- sneezing,
- sniff,
- sniffle,
- snore,
- snort,
- snuff,
- snuffle,
- soft-pedal,
- spit,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- squash,
- squelch,
- squish,
- sternutation,
- stertor,
- stifle,
- still,
- strangle,
- strike dumb,
- suppress,
- swish,
- throttle,
- wheeze,
- whish,
- whistle,
- whistling,
- white noise,
- whiz,
- whoosh,
- zip
- airy,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- boyish,
- clandestine,
- covert,
- cowering,
- cringing,
- delicate,
- diaphanous,
- diluted,
- ethereal,
- feline,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- flimsy,
- frail,
- furtive,
- gauzy,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gracile,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- insubstantial,
- lacy,
- light,
- misty,
- papery,
- privy,
- quailing,
- quiet,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- shifty,
- skulking,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinking,
- sly,
- small,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealthy,
- subtle,
- surreptitious,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- vague,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- willowy,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy
- amoral,
- artful,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- collusive,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covert,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- evasive,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- not kosher,
- privy,
- questionable,
- quiet,
- rotten,
- scheming,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- stealthy,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- undermanned,
- understaffed,
- unethical,
- unobtrusive,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- wily,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- a rebours,
- against the grain,
- anarchic,
- arsy-varsy,
- ass over elbows,
- ass-backwards,
- back-to-front,
- backwards,
- balled up,
- bollixed up,
- bottom side up,
- bottom up,
- by contraries,
- capsized,
- chaotic,
- chiastic,
- cockeyed,
- confused,
- contra,
- contrarily,
- contrariously,
- contrariwise,
- conversely,
- disarranged,
- disjointed,
- disordered,
- everted,
- fouled up,
- galley-west,
- head over heels,
- heels over head,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hugger-mugger,
- hyperbatic,
- in a mess,
- in flat opposition,
- inside out,
- introverted,
- invaginated,
- inversed,
- inversely,
- inverted,
- jumbled,
- just the opposite,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- muddled,
- nay rather,
- on the contrary,
- oppositely,
- otherwise,
- outside in,
- over,
- palindromic,
- per contra,
- quite the contrary,
- rather,
- resupinate,
- retroverted,
- reversed,
- scattered,
- screwed up,
- skimble-skamble,
- snafu,
- to the contrary,
- tout au contraire,
- transposed,
- turned around,
- unhinged,
- upside down,
- upside-down,
- vice versa,
- wrong side out
- Byzantine,
- anarchic,
- arsy-varsy,
- ass-backwards,
- balled up,
- balled-up,
- bollixed up,
- bothered,
- chaotic,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- convoluted,
- crabbed,
- daedal,
- devious,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- disordered,
- disorganized,
- disturbed,
- elaborate,
- embarrassed,
- embrangled,
- entangled,
- flustered,
- fluttered,
- fouled up,
- fussed,
- galley-west,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hugger-mugger,
- implicated,
- in a jumble,
- in a mess,
- in a pother,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in a swivet,
- in a tizzy,
- intricate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- jumbled,
- knotted,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- messed up,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- muddled,
- multifarious,
- perplexed,
- perturbed,
- put-out,
- ramified,
- rattled,
- roundabout,
- ruffled,
- scattered,
- screwed up,
- shaken,
- shook,
- shuffled,
- skimble-skamble,
- snafu,
- snarled,
- subtle,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- topsy-turvy,
- twisted,
- unsettled,
- upset,
- upside-down
- all fours,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- clandestine,
- covert,
- cowering,
- crawl,
- crawling,
- creep,
- creeping,
- cringing,
- deep-rooted,
- deep-seated,
- devious,
- doggo,
- duplicitous,
- feline,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- gumshoeing,
- gut,
- hidden,
- hidden out,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- in ambush,
- in hiding,
- in the wings,
- indirect,
- inherent,
- innate,
- intuitive,
- lingering,
- lurking,
- nagging,
- niggling,
- nightwalking,
- on tiptoe,
- padding,
- persistent,
- private,
- privy,
- prowling,
- pussyfoot,
- pussyfooted,
- pussyfooting,
- quailing,
- quiet,
- scrabble,
- scramble,
- secret,
- shifty,
- sidling,
- skulking,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- sly,
- snaking,
- sneaky,
- stealing,
- stealthy,
- suppressed,
- surreptitious,
- tippytoe,
- tiptoe,
- tiptoeing,
- undeclared,
- under cover,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undisclosed,
- undivulged,
- unexpressed,
- unobtrusive,
- unrevealed,
- unvoiced,
- waiting concealed,
- worming,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- evasion
collapse
- the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"
- the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment"
- a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth related words >
- abstention,
- airtight secrecy,
- anythingarianism,
- artifice,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- break,
- breakout,
- buck-passing,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circumvention,
- close secrecy,
- closeness,
- concealment,
- cop-out,
- cringe,
- crypticness,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deception,
- defense mechanism,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double-talk,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- emergence,
- equivocating,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- escapism,
- eschewal,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- excuse,
- extrication,
- fallback,
- fence-sitting,
- fencing,
- flight,
- flinch,
- foiling,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- freeing,
- frustration,
- fudging,
- getaway,
- getting around,
- getting round,
- haggling,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- hiddenness,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- impartiality,
- independence,
- issuance,
- issue,
- jailbreak,
- jink,
- leak,
- leakage,
- liberation,
- logic-chopping,
- lying,
- mugwumpery,
- mugwumpism,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- nit-picking,
- nonalignment,
- noncommitment,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- nonpartisanism,
- nothingarianism,
- outguessing,
- outlet,
- outmaneuvering,
- outwitting,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- passing the buck,
- pettifoggery,
- prevarication,
- prevention,
- prisonbreak,
- pullback,
- pullout,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- recoil,
- refraining,
- release,
- rescue,
- retreat,
- riddance,
- runaround,
- secrecy,
- secretiveness,
- secretness,
- setting-free,
- shifting,
- shirking,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sophistry,
- strict neutrality,
- subterfuge,
- suppressio veri,
- tergiversation,
- the dark,
- the runaround,
- the slip,
- thwarting,
- trichoschistism,
- trickery,
- uncommunicativeness,
- vent,
- weasel words,
- wince,
- zigzag
- sneaky
collapse
- marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- collusive,
- covert,
- covinous,
- cowering,
- crafty,
- cringing,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- duplicitous,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- pawky,
- politic,
- privy,
- quailing,
- quiet,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unobtrusive,
- unscrupulous,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- hush
collapse
- (poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night"
- run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
- wash by removing particles; "Wash ores"
- become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my baby!"
- cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!" related words >
- allay,
- appease,
- assibilate,
- assibilation,
- awful silence,
- black out,
- buzz,
- calm,
- calm down,
- censor,
- choke,
- choke off,
- compose,
- conceal,
- cool,
- cover up,
- cradle,
- dead,
- dead of night,
- deathlike silence,
- dulcify,
- dumbfound,
- ease,
- effervesce,
- effervescence,
- effervescing,
- even out,
- fall silent,
- fizz,
- fizzle,
- fizzling,
- frication,
- frictional rustling,
- gag,
- gentle,
- golden silence,
- hide,
- hiss,
- hissing,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- hush of night,
- hush up,
- hush-hush,
- hushing,
- inaudibility,
- keep quiet,
- kill,
- lisp,
- lucid stillness,
- lull,
- mollify,
- muffle,
- mum,
- mute,
- muzzle,
- noiseless,
- noiselessness,
- pacify,
- peace,
- pipe down,
- placate,
- pour balm into,
- put to silence,
- quash,
- quell,
- quiesce,
- quiescence,
- quiet,
- quiet down,
- quieten,
- quietness,
- quietude,
- repress,
- rest,
- rhonchus,
- rock,
- rock to sleep,
- secretiveness,
- secretness,
- shush,
- shushing,
- shut down on,
- shut up,
- sibilance,
- sibilate,
- sibilation,
- siffle,
- sigmatism,
- silence,
- silent,
- silentness,
- siss,
- sissing,
- sit on,
- sizz,
- sizzle,
- sizzling,
- smooth,
- smooth down,
- smooth over,
- smoothen,
- smother,
- sneeze,
- sneezing,
- sniff,
- sniffle,
- snore,
- snort,
- snuff,
- snuffle,
- soft-pedal,
- soften,
- solemn silence,
- soothe,
- soundless,
- soundlessness,
- spit,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- squash,
- squelch,
- squish,
- stabilize,
- steady,
- sternutation,
- stertor,
- stifle,
- still,
- stillness,
- stilly,
- strike dumb,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- swish,
- tacitness,
- taciturnity,
- throttle,
- tomblike silence,
- tranquilize,
- tranquillity,
- wheeze,
- whish,
- whisht,
- whisper,
- whist,
- whistle,
- whistling,
- white noise,
- whiz,
- whoosh,
- zip
- jungle
collapse
- a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival
- an impenetrable equatorial forest related words >
- Chinese puzzle,
- Gordian knot,
- Rube Goldberg contraption,
- afforestation,
- arboretum,
- boondocks,
- bush,
- bushveld,
- can of worms,
- chase,
- climax forest,
- cloud forest,
- complex,
- dendrology,
- forest,
- forest land,
- forest preserve,
- forestry,
- fringing forest,
- gallery forest,
- greenwood,
- hanger,
- hash,
- hugger-mugger,
- index forest,
- jumble,
- jungles,
- knot,
- labyrinth,
- litter,
- mash,
- maze,
- meander,
- mesh,
- mess,
- mishmash,
- morass,
- muddle,
- national forest,
- palmetto barrens,
- park,
- park forest,
- perplex,
- pine barrens,
- primeval forest,
- protection forest,
- rain forest,
- ravel,
- reforestation,
- rummage,
- scramble,
- scrub,
- scrubland,
- selection forest,
- shrubland,
- silviculture,
- skein,
- snafu,
- snake pit,
- snarl,
- sprout forest,
- stand of timber,
- state forest,
- tangle,
- tangled skein,
- timber,
- timberland,
- tree veld,
- virgin forest,
- web,
- webwork,
- wheels within wheels,
- wilderness,
- wildwood,
- wood,
- woodland,
- woods
- Byzantine,
- anarchic,
- arsy-varsy,
- ass-backwards,
- balled up,
- bollixed up,
- bothered,
- buggered,
- buggered up,
- chaotic,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- convoluted,
- cooked,
- crabbed,
- daedal,
- devious,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- disordered,
- disorganized,
- disturbed,
- elaborate,
- embarrassed,
- embrangled,
- entangled,
- flustered,
- fluttered,
- fouled up,
- fussed,
- galley-west,
- gummed up,
- hashed up,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hugger-mugger,
- implicated,
- in a jumble,
- in a mess,
- in a pother,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in a swivet,
- in a tizzy,
- intricate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- jumbled,
- knotted,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- messed up,
- mixed up,
- mixed-up,
- mucked up,
- muddled,
- multifarious,
- perplexed,
- perturbed,
- put-out,
- queered,
- ramified,
- rattled,
- roundabout,
- ruffled,
- scattered,
- screwed up,
- shaken,
- shook,
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