Related Words:
- unreal
collapse - lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"
- not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary; "this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the unreal world of advertising art" related words >
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- affected,
- air-built,
- airy,
- apocryphal,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- autistic,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- chimeric,
- chimerical,
- cloud-built,
- colorable,
- colored,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- deceptive,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- distorted,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- erroneous,
- ersatz,
- ethereal,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsified,
- fancied,
- fanciful,
- fantastic,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feigned,
- fictional,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- figmental,
- fraudulent,
- garbled,
- gaseous,
- gossamery,
- hypothetical,
- illegitimate,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imaginational,
- imagined,
- imitation,
- immaterial,
- junky,
- made-up,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- merely nominal,
- misleading,
- mock,
- mythical,
- nonexistent,
- not real,
- notional,
- ostensible,
- perverted,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- phantomlike,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- rarefied,
- seeming,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- self-styled,
- shadowy,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- specious,
- spectral,
- spirituous,
- spurious,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supposititious,
- synthesized,
- synthetic,
- tenuous,
- theoretical,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unactual,
- unauthentic,
- unfounded,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unrealistic,
- unsubstantial,
- vaporous,
- visional,
- visionary,
- warped,
- windy
- absurd,
- air-built,
- airy,
- apish,
- asinine,
- barren,
- batty,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- besotted,
- blank,
- blankminded,
- bootless,
- brainless,
- buffoonish,
- calm,
- catchpenny,
- chimerical,
- cloud-built,
- cockeyed,
- counterproductive,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dazed,
- dizzy,
- doting,
- dreamlike,
- dumb,
- effete,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- ethereal,
- etiolated,
- fanciful,
- fatuitous,
- feckless,
- flaky,
- flimsy,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fruitless,
- fuddled,
- futile,
- gaga,
- gaseous,
- goofy,
- gossamery,
- gulled,
- hollow,
- idiotic,
- idle,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imbecile,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- incogitant,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inept,
- infatuated,
- inoperative,
- insane,
- insensate,
- invalid,
- kooky,
- light,
- loony,
- mad,
- maudlin,
- moronic,
- nirvanic,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- nutty,
- oblivious,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- passive,
- phantomlike,
- quietistic,
- rarefied,
- relaxed,
- sappy,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- shadowy,
- shallow,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- spirituous,
- sterile,
- stupid,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- superficial,
- tenuous,
- thoughtfree,
- thoughtless,
- tranquil,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- unavailing,
- unideaed,
- unintellectual,
- unoccupied,
- unreal,
- unreasoning,
- unthinking,
- unwitty,
- useless,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- vapid,
- vaporous,
- wacky,
- weak-minded,
- wet,
- windy,
- witless
- abiotic,
- anarchic,
- anesthetic,
- angry,
- asleep,
- azoic,
- benumbed,
- bloodless,
- blustering,
- blusterous,
- blustery,
- brainless,
- callous,
- chaotic,
- dead,
- deadened,
- dull,
- dumb,
- exanimate,
- fatuous,
- foolish,
- frantic,
- frenzied,
- furious,
- hard,
- headless,
- hellish,
- ignorant,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-contrived,
- ill-devised,
- ill-gauged,
- ill-judged,
- impassible,
- imperceptive,
- impercipient,
- impolitic,
- impossible,
- imprudent,
- inadvisable,
- inanimate,
- inanimated,
- inconsiderate,
- indiscreet,
- inept,
- inert,
- inexpedient,
- infuriate,
- injudicious,
- insensible,
- insensitive,
- insentient,
- irrational,
- lackbrained,
- lean-minded,
- lean-witted,
- lifeless,
- mad,
- mindless,
- misadvised,
- misguided,
- mute,
- myopic,
- nitwitted,
- nonconscious,
- nonliving,
- not bright,
- numb,
- numbed,
- obdurate,
- obtuse,
- of little brain,
- orgasmic,
- orgastic,
- pandemoniac,
- pea-brained,
- pin-brained,
- raging,
- ravening,
- raving,
- reasonless,
- reckless,
- rip-roaring,
- rocky,
- senseless,
- shortsighted,
- silly,
- slackminded,
- slackwitted,
- soulless,
- storming,
- stormy,
- tempestuous,
- thick-skinned,
- thick-witted,
- thoughtless,
- troublous,
- tumultuous,
- turbulent,
- unadvised,
- unanimated,
- unconscious,
- unconsidered,
- undiscerning,
- unfeeling,
- unfelt,
- unforeseeing,
- ungifted,
- unintellectual,
- unintelligent,
- unperceptive,
- unreasonable,
- unreasoning,
- unreflecting,
- unreflective,
- unseeing,
- unsensible,
- unsound,
- untalented,
- unthinking,
- unthoughtful,
- unwise,
- uproarious,
- wild,
- witless
- tenuous
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- very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"
- having thin consistency; "a tenuous fluid" related words >
- adulterated,
- aerial,
- air-built,
- airy,
- aloof,
- atomic,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- boyish,
- broken,
- chimerical,
- cloud-built,
- corpuscular,
- cut,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- detached,
- diaphanous,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- discrete,
- doubtful,
- dreamlike,
- dubious,
- embryonic,
- ethereal,
- evanescent,
- fanciful,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feeble,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- gapped,
- gaseous,
- gauzy,
- germinal,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- gracile,
- granular,
- hazy,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- impalpable,
- imperceptible,
- imponderable,
- inappreciable,
- incoherent,
- inconsistent,
- indiscernible,
- infinitesimal,
- insignificant,
- insubstantial,
- intangible,
- invisible,
- lacy,
- light,
- microcosmic,
- microscopic,
- misty,
- molecular,
- nebulous,
- negligible,
- nonadherent,
- nonadhesive,
- noncoherent,
- noncohesive,
- open,
- paltry,
- papery,
- phantomlike,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- reedy,
- shadowy,
- shaky,
- sketchy,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- small,
- spirituous,
- subatomic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinned,
- thinned-out,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- trifling,
- twiggy,
- ultramicroscopic,
- unadhesive,
- uncoherent,
- uncohesive,
- uncompact,
- uncompressed,
- unconnected,
- unjoined,
- unreal,
- unseeable,
- unsubstantial,
- untenacious,
- vague,
- vaporous,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- willowy,
- windy,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy
- sterile
collapse
- deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"
- incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple" related words >
- abortive,
- acarpous,
- antiseptic,
- arid,
- aseptic,
- bare,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- boiled,
- bootless,
- celibate,
- characterless,
- childless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- counterproductive,
- dead,
- decontaminated,
- desert,
- desolate,
- disinfected,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drained,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- fade,
- fallow,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- flat,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- gainless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- hygienic,
- impotent,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inexcitable,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- inoperative,
- insipid,
- invalid,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- leached,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- low-spirited,
- menopausal,
- noncreative,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- nonremunerative,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pasteurized,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- profitless,
- prophylactic,
- pure,
- rewardless,
- sanitary,
- sine prole,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- stale,
- sterilized,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- sucked dry,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- teemless,
- unavailing,
- uncontaminated,
- uncreative,
- uncultivated,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- uninfected,
- uninspired,
- uninventive,
- unlively,
- unplowed,
- unpolluted,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unprolific,
- unremunerative,
- unrewarding,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- useless,
- vain,
- vapid,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- without issue,
- wooden,
- worn-out
- air-built,
- airy,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- bubbly,
- capillary,
- cheap-jack,
- chimerical,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- cloud-built,
- cobwebby,
- crumbly,
- crystal,
- crystal-clear,
- crystalline,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diaphane,
- diaphanous,
- downy,
- dreamlike,
- effeminate,
- ethereal,
- fanciful,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feathery,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- flagelliform,
- flimsy,
- flossy,
- fluffy,
- foamy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- frothy,
- funicular,
- fuzzy,
- gaseous,
- gauzy,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamer,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imponderous,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- leger,
- ligamental,
- light,
- light as air,
- light-pervious,
- lighter than vanity,
- lightweight,
- limpid,
- lucid,
- mousse,
- namby-pamby,
- nonopaque,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- peekaboo,
- pellucid,
- phantomlike,
- pubescent,
- puny,
- rarefied,
- refined,
- revealing,
- ropy,
- satin,
- satiny,
- see-through,
- shadowy,
- shattery,
- sheer,
- silky,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- smooth,
- souffle,
- spirituous,
- stringy,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- tacky,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-spun,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- transparent,
- transpicuous,
- unclouded,
- unheavy,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- vaporous,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- volatile,
- weightless,
- windy,
- wiredrawn,
- wiry,
- wispy,
- womanish,
- yeasty
- inadequate
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- (sometimes followed by `to') not meeting the requirements especially of a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was inadequate to the job"
- not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience" related words >
- adulterated,
- arrested,
- asymmetric,
- barren,
- base,
- blemished,
- bootless,
- callow,
- counterproductive,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- disappointing,
- disheartening,
- disparate,
- displeasing,
- disproportionate,
- dissatisfactory,
- effete,
- emasculate,
- embryonic,
- empty,
- erroneous,
- etiolated,
- failing,
- fallible,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- faulty,
- feckless,
- forceless,
- found wanting,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- half-assed,
- hypoplastic,
- ill-matched,
- ill-qualified,
- ill-sorted,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- impotent,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in short supply,
- inaccurate,
- inane,
- inappreciable,
- incapable,
- incommensurate,
- incompetent,
- incomplete,
- inconsiderable,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inexact,
- infant,
- inferior,
- inoperative,
- insufficient,
- invalid,
- invertebrate,
- irregular,
- lacking,
- little,
- makeshift,
- maladjusted,
- maladroit,
- mean,
- mediocre,
- minus,
- mismatched,
- missing,
- mixed,
- needing,
- not comparable,
- not enough,
- not equal to,
- not good enough,
- not in it,
- not perfect,
- not up to,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- odd,
- of no force,
- off,
- out of it,
- out of proportion,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- petty,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scrappy,
- scrimpy,
- shabby,
- short,
- short of,
- shy,
- sketchy,
- skew,
- skewed,
- skimpy,
- small,
- spineless,
- sterile,
- too little,
- trivial,
- unable,
- unadapted,
- unadjusted,
- unavailing,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unequal,
- unequal to,
- unequipped,
- uneven,
- unfinished,
- unfit,
- unfitted,
- unfulfilling,
- ungratifying,
- unperfected,
- unqualified,
- unreached,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsatisfying,
- unskillful,
- unsound,
- unsufficing,
- unthorough,
- useless,
- vain,
- wanting,
- weak
- fiery
collapse
- like or suggestive of fire; "the burning sand"; "a fiery desert wind"; "an igneous desert atmosphere"
- very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions" related words >
- Titian,
- Titian-red,
- abandoned,
- ablaze,
- accendible,
- afire,
- aflame,
- aglow,
- algetic,
- alight,
- angry,
- ardent,
- beany,
- blaring,
- blazing,
- boiling,
- boiling over,
- breathless,
- bricky,
- brilliant,
- broiling,
- burnable,
- burning,
- burning with excitement,
- cardinal,
- carmine,
- carnation,
- carnelian,
- cerise,
- chafed,
- cherry,
- cherry-colored,
- cherry-red,
- combustible,
- combustive,
- committed,
- conflagrant,
- conflagrative,
- cordial,
- crimson,
- damask,
- dedicated,
- delirious,
- devoted,
- devout,
- drunk,
- eager,
- earnest,
- edgy,
- emphatic,
- enthusiastic,
- excitable,
- excited,
- exciting,
- explosive,
- exuberant,
- faithful,
- fanatic,
- febrile,
- ferruginous,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- festering,
- fevered,
- feverish,
- feverous,
- fierce,
- fire-red,
- firelike,
- flame-colored,
- flame-red,
- flaming,
- flammable,
- flaring,
- flushed,
- furious,
- galled,
- glaring,
- gleaming,
- glowing,
- gules,
- hard-core,
- hasty,
- headlong,
- hearty,
- heated,
- hectic,
- het up,
- high-spirited,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- hot-tempered,
- hotheaded,
- hyperpyretic,
- hyperthermic,
- igneous,
- ignited,
- impassioned,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- in a fever,
- in earnest,
- in flames,
- in rut,
- incandescent,
- incarmined,
- inflamed,
- inflammable,
- infrared,
- intense,
- intent,
- intent on,
- intoxicated,
- irascible,
- iron-red,
- irritable,
- irritated,
- keen,
- lake-colored,
- laky,
- lateritious,
- lively,
- lobster-red,
- loyal,
- luminous,
- lurid,
- madcap,
- maroon,
- mettlesome,
- on fire,
- overheated,
- passionate,
- peppery,
- perfervid,
- port-wine,
- precipitate,
- provoking,
- puce,
- pyretic,
- pyric,
- quick,
- quick-tempered,
- radiant,
- rankling,
- raw,
- red,
- red-dyed,
- red-hot,
- red-looking,
- reddened,
- reddish,
- reddish-amber,
- reddish-brown,
- resolute,
- rubicund,
- rubiginous,
- rubric,
- rubricose,
- ruby,
- ruby-colored,
- ruby-red,
- ruddied,
- ruddy,
- rufescent,
- rufous,
- rust,
- rust-red,
- rusty,
- scalding,
- scarlet,
- scorching,
- seething,
- sensitive,
- serious,
- sexually excited,
- short-tempered,
- simmering,
- sincere,
- sizzling,
- smarting,
- sore,
- spirited,
- spunky,
- stammel,
- steaming,
- steamy,
- stimulating,
- stirring,
- stormy,
- tempestuous,
- tender,
- tile-red,
- tingling,
- tornadic,
- torrid,
- totally committed,
- touchy,
- unrestrained,
- urgent,
- vehement,
- vermilion,
- vigorous,
- vinaceous,
- violent,
- volcanic,
- warm,
- white-hot,
- wild,
- wine,
- wine-colored,
- wine-red,
- zealous
- Mickey Mouse,
- airy,
- asinine,
- banal,
- bickering,
- brimful,
- brimming,
- captious,
- catchpenny,
- caviling,
- chic,
- chipper,
- chitchat,
- chitter-chatter,
- choplogic,
- classy,
- commonplace,
- coquetry,
- crammed,
- crowded,
- cursory,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- dashing,
- dawdling,
- depthless,
- dillydallying,
- dolce far niente,
- empty,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- fashionable,
- fatuous,
- few,
- fiddling,
- flimsy,
- flirtation,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- foolish,
- footling,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- futile,
- goofing off,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- hollow,
- idle,
- idling,
- inane,
- incidental,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- insignificant,
- insipid,
- jammed,
- jejune,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- lazing,
- light,
- lingering,
- little,
- loaded,
- loafing,
- logic-chopping,
- loitering,
- lolling,
- lounging,
- low,
- meager,
- measly,
- messing around,
- miniature,
- minor,
- modish,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- mopery,
- neat,
- negligible,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- no great shakes,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- orderly,
- otiose,
- packed,
- paltering,
- paltry,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pottering,
- puny,
- pussyfooting,
- puttering,
- quibbling,
- shallow,
- sharp,
- shipshape,
- short,
- shuffling,
- silly,
- skin-deep,
- slender,
- slight,
- small,
- smart,
- smattering,
- snappy,
- snug,
- spick-and-span,
- superficial,
- swank,
- tarrying,
- tidy,
- tinkering,
- tiny,
- toying,
- trichoschistic,
- trig,
- trim,
- trite,
- trivial,
- uncluttered,
- unimportant,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- valueless,
- vapid,
- well-groomed,
- windy,
- worthless
- Gascon,
- abortive,
- absurd,
- airy,
- arrogant,
- asinine,
- barren,
- baseless,
- boastful,
- boasting,
- bootless,
- bootlessly,
- braggart,
- bragging,
- catchpenny,
- cocky,
- complacent,
- conceited,
- consequential,
- counterproductive,
- coxcombical,
- dandyish,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- doomed,
- effete,
- egocentric,
- egoistic,
- egotistical,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fanfaron,
- fanfaronading,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- flimsy,
- foolish,
- foppish,
- foredoomed,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fruitless,
- fruitlessly,
- futile,
- futilely,
- gasconading,
- groundless,
- haughty,
- hollow,
- idle,
- ill-founded,
- improperly,
- in vain,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inoperative,
- invalid,
- light,
- misleading,
- narcissan,
- narcissine,
- narcissistic,
- narcistic,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- overproud,
- overweening,
- paltry,
- petty,
- pointless,
- profitless,
- proud,
- puny,
- self-admiring,
- self-advertising,
- self-applauding,
- self-approving,
- self-assuming,
- self-complacent,
- self-conceited,
- self-congratulating,
- self-congratulatory,
- self-content,
- self-contented,
- self-delighting,
- self-endeared,
- self-esteeming,
- self-flattering,
- self-glorious,
- self-gratulating,
- self-gratulatory,
- self-important,
- self-lauding,
- self-loving,
- self-respecting,
- self-satisfied,
- self-sufficient,
- self-vaunting,
- shallow,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- smug,
- sterile,
- stuck-up,
- superficial,
- thrasonic,
- thrasonical,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- unavailable,
- unavailing,
- unbased,
- unfounded,
- ungrounded,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unsuccessful,
- unsuccessfully,
- unsupportable,
- unsupported,
- unsustainable,
- unsustained,
- untenable,
- unwarranted,
- useless,
- vacuous,
- vainglorious,
- vainly,
- valueless,
- vapid,
- vaporing,
- vaunting,
- void,
- windy,
- without basis,
- without foundation,
- worthless
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