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- figurative
collapse - (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language" related words >
- adorned,
- algorismic,
- algorithmic,
- aliquot,
- allegoric,
- allegorical,
- allusive,
- anagogic,
- apish,
- associational,
- befrilled,
- cardinal,
- colored,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- decimal,
- decorated,
- definable,
- delineatory,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- depictive,
- designative,
- diagnostic,
- differential,
- digital,
- echoic,
- embellished,
- emblematic,
- embodying,
- embroidered,
- even,
- evidential,
- exhibitive,
- exponential,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- fancy,
- festooned,
- figural,
- figurate,
- figured,
- finite,
- florid,
- flowery,
- fractional,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- graphic,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- illustrational,
- illustrative,
- imaginary,
- imitative,
- impair,
- implicative,
- impossible,
- incarnating,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- individual,
- infinite,
- integral,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- irrational,
- limning,
- logarithmic,
- logometric,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- mannered,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- mimetic,
- mimish,
- naming,
- negative,
- numeral,
- numerary,
- numerative,
- numeric,
- odd,
- onomatopoeic,
- ordinal,
- ornamented,
- ornate,
- overcharged,
- overloaded,
- pair,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- personifying,
- pictographic,
- pictorial,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- portraying,
- positive,
- possible,
- pregnant,
- prime,
- purple,
- radical,
- rational,
- readable,
- real,
- reciprocal,
- referential,
- representational,
- representative,
- representing,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- sententious,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- simulative,
- submultiple,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- surd,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbolizing,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- transcendental,
- transferred,
- trolatitious,
- tropological,
- typical,
- typifying,
- vivid
- erroneous
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- containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"; "the answer was inaccurate" related words >
- Albigensian,
- Arian,
- Catharist,
- Donatist,
- Ebionitist,
- Erastian,
- Gnostic,
- Jansenist,
- Jansenistic,
- Jovinianist,
- Jovinianistic,
- Lollard,
- Manichaean,
- Monophysite,
- Monophysitic,
- Montanist,
- Montanistic,
- Pelagian,
- Sabellian,
- Waldensian,
- Wyclifite,
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- adulterated,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- antinomian,
- apocryphal,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- barbarous,
- beside the mark,
- blemished,
- botched,
- bungled,
- careless,
- contrary to fact,
- corrupt,
- counterfeit,
- damaged,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- deficient,
- delusive,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- distorted,
- emanationist,
- errant,
- erring,
- fallacious,
- fallible,
- false,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- found wanting,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hylotheist,
- hylotheistic,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- improper,
- impure,
- in error,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incomplete,
- incorrect,
- inexact,
- infelicitous,
- invalid,
- lacking,
- loose,
- makeshift,
- mediocre,
- misguided,
- misleading,
- mistaken,
- mixed,
- nonorthodox,
- not perfect,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- out,
- pantheist,
- pantheistic,
- partial,
- patchy,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- planetary,
- self-contradictory,
- short,
- sketchy,
- slipshod,
- slovenly,
- solecistic,
- specious,
- spurious,
- straying,
- truthless,
- unaccepted,
- unapproved,
- unauthentic,
- unauthoritative,
- uncanonical,
- undeveloped,
- uneven,
- unfactual,
- unfinished,
- unfounded,
- ungrammatic,
- unorthodox,
- unperfected,
- unproved,
- unscriptural,
- unsound,
- unthorough,
- untrue,
- wanting,
- wide,
- wrong
- fabulous
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- barely credible; "the fabulous endurance of a marathon runner"
- extremely pleasing; "a fabulous vacation"
- based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn" related words >
- a bit much,
- abandoned,
- ace,
- allegoric,
- amazing,
- appalling,
- astonishing,
- astounding,
- beguiling,
- bewildering,
- boundless,
- celebrated,
- concocted,
- conspicuous,
- cooked-up,
- cool,
- copacetic,
- egregious,
- enigmatic,
- enormous,
- exaggerated,
- exceptional,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extraordinary,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fab,
- fabled,
- fabricated,
- fancied,
- fanciful,
- fancy,
- fantasied,
- fantastic,
- fascinating,
- fictional,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- figmental,
- forged,
- formidable,
- gigantic,
- gluttonous,
- great,
- groovy,
- hatched,
- high,
- hot,
- howling,
- hyperbolic,
- hypertrophied,
- imaginary,
- immoderate,
- incomprehensible,
- inconceivable,
- incontinent,
- incredible,
- indescribable,
- ineffable,
- inordinate,
- intemperate,
- invented,
- keen,
- legendary,
- made-up,
- magic,
- make-believe,
- manufactured,
- marked,
- marvelous,
- miraculous,
- monstrous,
- mythic,
- mythical,
- mythicized,
- mythified,
- mythological,
- mythopoeic,
- mythopoetic,
- neat,
- nonactual,
- nonfactual,
- nonrealistic,
- notable,
- noteworthy,
- noticeable,
- of mark,
- out of bounds,
- out of sight,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- outstanding,
- overbig,
- overdeveloped,
- overgreat,
- overgrown,
- overlarge,
- overmuch,
- overweening,
- parabolic,
- passing strange,
- phenomenal,
- portentous,
- preposterous,
- prodigious,
- put-up,
- puzzling,
- rare,
- rattling,
- remarkable,
- romantic,
- romanticized,
- sensational,
- signal,
- smashing,
- steep,
- stiff,
- storied,
- strange,
- striking,
- stupefying,
- stupendous,
- super,
- superb,
- superior,
- terrific,
- thumping,
- thundering,
- too much,
- trumped-up,
- unbelievable,
- unbridled,
- uncommon,
- unconscionable,
- undue,
- unexampled,
- unheard-of,
- unimaginable,
- unique,
- unparalleled,
- unprecedented,
- unreal,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- unspeakable,
- whopping,
- wonderful,
- wondrous
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- absonant,
- actionable,
- adrift,
- against the law,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- anarchic,
- anarchistic,
- anomic,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- beside the mark,
- black-market,
- blemished,
- bootleg,
- chargeable,
- checked,
- cicatrized,
- contraband,
- contradictory,
- contrary to law,
- contrary to reason,
- corrupt,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- criminal,
- damaged,
- deceptive,
- defaced,
- defective,
- deformed,
- delusive,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- disfigured,
- distorted,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- false,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- felonious,
- harmed,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illegal,
- illegitimate,
- illicit,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- impermissible,
- inauthentic,
- inconclusive,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsistent,
- invalid,
- irrational,
- irregular,
- justiciable,
- keloidal,
- kinked,
- lawless,
- loose,
- marred,
- nonconstitutional,
- nonlegal,
- nonlicit,
- nonscientific,
- not following,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- out,
- outlaw,
- outlawed,
- paralogical,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- pimpled,
- pimply,
- punishable,
- reasonless,
- scabbed,
- scabby,
- scarified,
- scarred,
- self-annulling,
- self-contradictory,
- self-refuting,
- senseless,
- sick,
- split,
- spoiled,
- stained,
- straying,
- tainted,
- tarnished,
- triable,
- twisted,
- unallowed,
- unauthentic,
- unauthorized,
- unconnected,
- unconstitutional,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- unfactual,
- unlawful,
- unofficial,
- unorthodox,
- unphilosophical,
- unproved,
- unreasonable,
- unscientific,
- unsound,
- unstatutory,
- untrue,
- unwarrantable,
- unwarranted,
- warped,
- weakened,
- wide,
- without reason,
- wrong,
- wrongful
- drained
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- emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid); "a drained marsh"; "a drained tank"; "a drained and apathetic old man...not caring any longer about anything" related words >
- ablated,
- acarpous,
- all in,
- arid,
- ausgespielt,
- barren,
- beat,
- beat up,
- beaten,
- blanched,
- bleached,
- bleached white,
- bone-weary,
- burned-out,
- burnt up,
- bushed,
- cachectic,
- celibate,
- childless,
- consumed,
- dead,
- dead-and-alive,
- dead-tired,
- deadbeat,
- debilitated,
- decolored,
- decolorized,
- depleted,
- desert,
- desolate,
- devitalized,
- disabled,
- dissipated,
- dog-tired,
- dog-weary,
- done,
- done in,
- done up,
- drained of color,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- eaten up,
- effete,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- eroded,
- eviscerated,
- exhausted,
- fagged out,
- failing,
- fallow,
- fatigued,
- feeble,
- finished,
- frail,
- fruitless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- gone,
- healthless,
- impotent,
- impoverished,
- in poor health,
- incapacitated,
- ineffectual,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- infirm,
- invalid,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- knocked out,
- languishing,
- leached,
- lightened,
- menopausal,
- moribund,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- pale,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- played out,
- pooped,
- pooped out,
- prostrate,
- ready to drop,
- reduced,
- reduced in health,
- run-down,
- sapped,
- sickly,
- sine prole,
- spent,
- sterile,
- sucked dry,
- teemless,
- tired out,
- tired to death,
- tuckered out,
- uncultivated,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- unhealthy,
- unplowed,
- unproductive,
- unprolific,
- unsound,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- used up,
- valetudinarian,
- valetudinary,
- virgin,
- washed-up,
- waste,
- wasted,
- weakened,
- weakly,
- weary unto death,
- whacked,
- whitened,
- wiped out,
- with low resistance,
- without issue,
- worn,
- worn away,
- worn-out
- sterile
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- 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
- misapplication
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- wrong use or application related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abuse,
- abuse of office,
- abuse of terms,
- apparent soundness,
- befoulment,
- casuistry,
- catachresis,
- circularity,
- contorting,
- conversion,
- corrupt administration,
- debasement,
- defalcation,
- defectiveness,
- defilement,
- delusion,
- desecration,
- deviancy,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- diversion,
- eisegesis,
- embezzlement,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- evasive reasoning,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- fouling,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- illusion,
- insincerity,
- invalid linking,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- maladministration,
- malentendu,
- malfeasance,
- malobservation,
- malpractice,
- malversation,
- mesalliance,
- misalliance,
- misapplicability,
- misapprehension,
- misappropriation,
- miscitation,
- misconception,
- misconduct,
- misconnection,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misemployment,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misfeasance,
- mishandling,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mismanagement,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misreference,
- misrelation,
- misrendering,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- misuse of words,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oversubtlety,
- peccancy,
- peculation,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- pilfering,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pollution,
- poor stewardship,
- profanation,
- prostitution,
- rationalization,
- self-contradiction,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- squeezing,
- subtlety,
- torturing,
- twisting,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- violation,
- wrenching,
- wrong,
- wrongness
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