Related Words:
- pinchbeck
collapse - an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold
- serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism" related words >
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- bravery,
- brummagem,
- cheat,
- chiffon,
- clinquant,
- colorable,
- colored,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- fakement,
- false,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- festoons,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- finery,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- forgery,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- froufrou,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- garbled,
- gaudery,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gingerbread,
- hoax,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- impostor,
- junk,
- junky,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mock,
- paste,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- quasi,
- queer,
- rip-off,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulacrum,
- simulated,
- snide,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- superfluity,
- supposititious,
- swindle,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- trappings,
- trickery,
- trumpery,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped,
- whited sepulcher
- enactment
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- the passing of a law by a legislative body related words >
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- acting,
- administration,
- aping,
- bill,
- bylaw,
- canon,
- characterization,
- commission,
- completion,
- concurrent resolution,
- conduct,
- constitution,
- decree,
- demonstration,
- dictate,
- dictation,
- discharge,
- dispatch,
- display,
- dumb show,
- edict,
- effectuation,
- embodiment,
- enacting,
- enaction,
- execution,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exposition,
- exposure,
- form,
- formality,
- formula,
- formulary,
- handling,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- implementation,
- incarnation,
- institution,
- joint resolution,
- jus,
- law,
- lawmaking,
- legislation,
- legislature,
- lex,
- management,
- masquerade,
- measure,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- opening,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- ostentation,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- passage,
- passing,
- performance,
- performing,
- perpetration,
- personation,
- personification,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- posing,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- production,
- projection,
- regulation,
- representation,
- resolution,
- retrospective,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- show,
- showing,
- standing order,
- statute,
- transaction,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- unveiling,
- varnishing day,
- vernissage
- comparison
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- examining resemblances or differences
- qualities that are comparable; "no comparison between the two books"; "beyond compare"
- relation based on similarities and differences related words >
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agent,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- alliance,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- aping,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- backup,
- balance,
- balancing,
- change,
- changeling,
- closeness,
- commensurability,
- community,
- comparability,
- conformity,
- contrast,
- contrasting,
- copy,
- copying,
- correspondence,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- identity,
- imitation,
- juxtaposing,
- juxtaposition,
- kinship,
- likeness,
- likening,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- match,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- next best thing,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- proxy,
- relation,
- relationship,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- resemblance,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- sameness,
- second string,
- secondary,
- semblance,
- sign,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- token,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- weighing
- playing
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- the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation
- the act of playing a musical instrument related words >
- acting,
- aflicker,
- aping,
- betting,
- bickering,
- blinking,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- cardsharping,
- casting lots,
- characterization,
- coquetry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- dancing,
- dumb show,
- embodiment,
- enacting,
- enactment,
- fiddling,
- flashing,
- flickering,
- flickery,
- flicky,
- flirtation,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- gag,
- gambling,
- gaming,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hazarding,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- idling,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- incarnation,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- lambent,
- loitering,
- masquerade,
- messing around,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- mummery,
- overacting,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- personification,
- piddling,
- play,
- playacting,
- playing around,
- portrayal,
- posing,
- pottering,
- projection,
- puttering,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- representation,
- risking,
- slapstick,
- smattering,
- sortition,
- speculation,
- sporting,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- staking,
- stroboscopic,
- stunt,
- taking a role,
- tinkering,
- toying,
- trifling,
- wagering,
- wavering,
- wavery
- hardy
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- English novelist and poet (1840-1928)
- United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)
- able to survive under unfavorable conditions; "strawberries are hardy and easy to grow"; "camels are tough and hardy creatures"
- having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes" related words >
- abiding,
- able-bodied,
- age-long,
- aged,
- ancient,
- antique,
- beefy,
- bold,
- bold-spirited,
- bouncing,
- brave,
- cartilaginous,
- chewy,
- chivalric,
- chivalrous,
- chronic,
- cohesive,
- constant,
- continuing,
- coriaceous,
- courageous,
- daring,
- deciduous,
- diuturnal,
- doughty,
- durable,
- enduring,
- ephemeral,
- evergreen,
- fearless,
- fibrous,
- fit,
- flush,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forcy,
- full-blooded,
- full-strength,
- gallant,
- greathearted,
- gristly,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- hale,
- hale and hearty,
- half-hardy,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- healthy,
- hearty,
- hefty,
- heroic,
- herolike,
- husky,
- immutable,
- intransient,
- intrepid,
- inveterate,
- iron-hard,
- ironhearted,
- knightlike,
- knightly,
- lasting,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- lionhearted,
- long-lasting,
- long-lived,
- long-standing,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- lusty,
- macrobiotic,
- manful,
- manly,
- mighty,
- nervy,
- obstinate,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- plucky,
- potent,
- powerful,
- puissant,
- red-blooded,
- remaining,
- resistant,
- robust,
- robustious,
- robustuous,
- ropy,
- rude,
- rugged,
- sempervirent,
- sinewy,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- sound,
- stable,
- stalwart,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- steely,
- stiff,
- stout,
- stouthearted,
- strapping,
- stringy,
- strong,
- strong as brandy,
- strong as strong,
- strong-willed,
- stubborn,
- sturdy,
- tenacious,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- unfading,
- untiring,
- valiant,
- valorous,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- vital,
- wiry
- assumed
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- accepted as real or true without proof; "an assumed increase in population"; "the assumed reason for his absence"; "assumptive beliefs"; "his loyalty was taken for granted"
- adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
- taken as your right without justification; "was hearing evidence in an assumed capacity"; "Congress's arrogated powers over domains hitherto belonging to the states" related words >
- accepted,
- accounted as,
- affected,
- alleged,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumptive,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- chanced,
- colorable,
- colored,
- conjectured,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- deceptive,
- deemed,
- delusory,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- expected,
- expropriated,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- garbled,
- given,
- granted,
- hinted,
- hypocritical,
- hypothetical,
- illegitimate,
- illusory,
- imitation,
- implicated,
- implied,
- in hand,
- in process,
- in progress,
- in the works,
- indicated,
- inferred,
- insubstantial,
- intimated,
- involved,
- junky,
- made-up,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- meant,
- mock,
- on the anvil,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- postulated,
- postulational,
- premised,
- presumed,
- presumptive,
- presupposed,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put on,
- put-on,
- putative,
- quasi,
- queer,
- reputed,
- seized,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- suggested,
- supposed,
- suppositional,
- supposititious,
- suppositive,
- synthetic,
- taken,
- taken for granted,
- theoretical,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- under way,
- understood,
- undertaken,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped
- quotation
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- the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.; "since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation"
- a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
- a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity related words >
- allusion,
- asking price,
- bargain price,
- bearish prices,
- bid,
- bid price,
- book value,
- bullish prices,
- call price,
- case,
- cash price,
- charge,
- citation,
- closing price,
- controlled price,
- cost,
- cross reference,
- current price,
- current quotation,
- cut price,
- decline,
- demonstration,
- doubling,
- duplication,
- echo,
- example,
- excerpt,
- exemplification,
- extract,
- face value,
- fixed price,
- flash price,
- flat rate,
- flurry,
- flutter,
- going price,
- high,
- illustration,
- imitation,
- instance,
- issue par,
- issue price,
- item,
- list price,
- low,
- market price,
- market value,
- neat price,
- net,
- nominal value,
- offering price,
- opening price,
- package price,
- par,
- par value,
- parity,
- particular,
- passage,
- piece price,
- plagiarism,
- price,
- price list,
- prices current,
- put price,
- quote,
- quoted price,
- rally,
- rate,
- reappearance,
- rebirth,
- recommended price,
- recurrence,
- redoubling,
- reduplication,
- reecho,
- reference,
- regurgitation,
- reincarnation,
- renewal,
- reoccurrence,
- repetition,
- reproduction,
- resumption,
- return,
- selection,
- selling price,
- settling price,
- stated value,
- stock market quotations,
- swings,
- trade price,
- unit price,
- value,
- wholesale price
- artificial
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- artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
- contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"
- not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- colorable,
- colored,
- concocted,
- contrived,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cute,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- euphuistic,
- fabricated,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- fashioned,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- forced,
- garbled,
- goody-goody,
- high-sounding,
- histrionic,
- hollow,
- hyperelegant,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- insincere,
- junky,
- la-di-da,
- labored,
- made,
- made-up,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- manufactured,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- mock,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- painted,
- papier-mache,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- plastic,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- pretend,
- pretended,
- pretentious,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quaint,
- quasi,
- queer,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simpering,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- stagy,
- studied,
- substitute,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- theatrical,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped
- vice president
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- an executive officer ranking immediately below a president; may serve in the president's place under certain circumstances related words >
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- archon,
- backup,
- chancellor,
- change,
- changeling,
- chief executive,
- chief executive officer,
- comparison,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- dean,
- deputy,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- executive,
- executive director,
- executive officer,
- executive secretary,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- imitation,
- locum tenens,
- magistrate,
- makeshift,
- management,
- managing director,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- next best thing,
- officer,
- official,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- prefect,
- president,
- prexy,
- provost,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- second string,
- secondary,
- secretary,
- sign,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- the administration,
- third string,
- token,
- treasurer,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-chairman,
- vice-chancellor,
- vice-consul,
- vice-director,
- vice-governor,
- vice-king,
- vice-legate,
- vice-master,
- vice-premier,
- vice-queen,
- vice-regent,
- vice-warden,
- vicegerent,
- viceroy,
- warden
- abundance,
- amplitude,
- banality,
- bromide,
- chestnut,
- cliche,
- cloud of words,
- commonplace,
- commonplace expression,
- conduplication,
- copiousness,
- copy,
- copying,
- corn,
- critique,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusiveness,
- doubling,
- duplicate,
- duplication,
- dwelling upon,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- elaboration,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- familiar tune,
- fecundity,
- fertility,
- fluency,
- formlessness,
- gemination,
- going over,
- gush,
- gushing,
- hackneyed saying,
- imitation,
- ingemination,
- iteration,
- lieu commun,
- locus communis,
- logorrhea,
- macrology,
- old joke,
- old saw,
- old song,
- old story,
- outpour,
- overflow,
- palilogy,
- platitude,
- pleonasm,
- practicing,
- prodigality,
- productivity,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- prosaicism,
- prosaism,
- prose,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- reaffirmation,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- recital,
- recountal,
- recounting,
- redundancy,
- reduplication,
- rehash,
- rehearsal,
- reissue,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitiveness,
- replication,
- reprint,
- reproduction,
- restatement,
- resume,
- retelling,
- retold story,
- review,
- stereotyped saying,
- summary,
- summing up,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- superflux,
- talkativeness,
- tautology,
- teemingness,
- tirade,
- trite saying,
- triticism,
- twice-told tale,
- twinning
- alternative
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- necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "`either' and `or' in `either this or that'"
- pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style" related words >
- additional,
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternate choice,
- analogy,
- another,
- attainable,
- backup,
- change,
- changeling,
- choice,
- comparison,
- contingency,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- different,
- discretion,
- discretional,
- disjunctive,
- double,
- druthers,
- dummy,
- election,
- elective,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- exchange,
- exchangeable,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- imitation,
- interchangeable,
- locum tenens,
- loophole,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mock,
- next best thing,
- option,
- optional,
- optionality,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch,
- pinch hitter,
- pleasure,
- possibility,
- possible choice,
- preference,
- pretext,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- replacing,
- representative,
- reserve,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- saving clause,
- second string,
- secondary,
- selection,
- sign,
- spare,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- stopgap,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- third string,
- token,
- understudy,
- utility,
- utility player,
- variant,
- vicar,
- vicarious,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- volitional,
- voluntary,
- way of escape,
- way out,
- will and pleasure
- advocate,
- agent,
- alter ego,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- amicus curiae,
- analogy,
- assistant,
- attorney,
- backup,
- backup man,
- bit player,
- champion,
- change,
- changeling,
- comparison,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- executive officer,
- exponent,
- extra,
- fake,
- figurant,
- figurante,
- figurehead,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- imitation,
- lieutenant,
- locum,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mute,
- next best thing,
- paranymph,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- pleader,
- procurator,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- second,
- second in command,
- second string,
- secondary,
- sign,
- spares,
- spear-carrier,
- standby,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- supe,
- super,
- supernumerary,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- support,
- supporting actor,
- supporting cast,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- token,
- understudy,
- utility man,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vicar general,
- vice,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- vicegerent,
- walk-on,
- walking gentleman
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assembled,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- built,
- cast,
- colorable,
- colored,
- constructed,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- crafted,
- created,
- custom,
- custom-built,
- custom-made,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- extracted,
- fabricated,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- fashioned,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- forged,
- formed,
- garbled,
- gathered,
- grown,
- handcrafted,
- handmade,
- harvested,
- homemade,
- homespun,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- junky,
- machine-made,
- machined,
- made,
- made to order,
- make-believe,
- manufactured,
- milled,
- mined,
- mock,
- molded,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- prefab,
- prefabricated,
- pretended,
- processed,
- pseudo,
- put together,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- raised,
- ready-for-wear,
- ready-formed,
- ready-made,
- ready-prepared,
- ready-to-wear,
- refined,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shaped,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- smelted,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped,
- well-built,
- well-constructed,
- well-made
- simile
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- a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') related words >
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- aping,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- balancing,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- closeness,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- conversion,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- exclamation,
- gemination,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- identity,
- imitation,
- inversion,
- irony,
- likeness,
- likening,
- litotes,
- malapropism,
- matching,
- meiosis,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- onomatopoeia,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- oxymoron,
- parallelism,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parity,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- proportion,
- regression,
- relation,
- repetition,
- resemblance,
- sameness,
- sarcasm,
- semblance,
- similarity,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- trope of comparison,
- weighing,
- zeugma
- embellished
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- rich in decorative detail
- excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away" related words >
- adorned,
- advanced,
- affected,
- ameliorated,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- beaded,
- beautified,
- bedecked,
- bedizened,
- befrilled,
- bejeweled,
- beribboned,
- bespangled,
- bettered,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- civilized,
- colorable,
- colored,
- converted,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- decked out,
- decorated,
- developed,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- educated,
- embroidered,
- enhanced,
- enriched,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- fancy,
- feathered,
- feigned,
- festooned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- figurative,
- figured,
- florid,
- flowered,
- flowery,
- garbled,
- garnished,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- improved,
- jeweled,
- junky,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mock,
- ornamented,
- ornate,
- overcharged,
- overloaded,
- perfected,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- plumed,
- polished,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- purple,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- refined,
- reformed,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spangled,
- spangly,
- spurious,
- studded,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- transfigured,
- transformed,
- tricked out,
- trimmed,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped,
- wreathed
- replacement
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- the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy" related words >
- agency,
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- backup,
- backup man,
- change,
- changeling,
- commutation,
- comparison,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- delegation,
- deputation,
- deputy,
- deputyship,
- descendant,
- displacement,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- heir,
- imitation,
- improvement,
- inheritor,
- instauration,
- locum,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- next best thing,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- posterity,
- power of attorney,
- proxy,
- quid pro quo,
- reactivation,
- reconstitution,
- reconversion,
- redintegration,
- reenactment,
- reestablishment,
- reformation,
- rehabilitation,
- reinstatement,
- reinstation,
- reinstitution,
- reinvestiture,
- reinvestment,
- relief,
- representation,
- representative,
- reserves,
- restitution,
- restoration,
- reversion,
- ringer,
- second string,
- secondary,
- sign,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- subrogation,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- successor,
- supersedence,
- superseder,
- superseding,
- supersedure,
- supersession,
- supplantation,
- supplanter,
- supplanting,
- supplantment,
- surrogate,
- switch,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- tit for tat,
- token,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vicariousness,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent
- simulation
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- the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training)
- (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program; "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated" related words >
- accordance,
- acting,
- adoption,
- affectation,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- alliance,
- analogy,
- aping,
- appearance,
- approach,
- appropriation,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- assumption,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- borrowed plumes,
- cheating,
- closeness,
- color,
- coloring,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- copying,
- correspondence,
- counterfeiting,
- deception,
- delusion,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- emulation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- hit-off,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- identity,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- impression,
- infringement,
- likeness,
- likening,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- metaphor,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mirroring,
- mocking,
- nearness,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- parody,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- repetition,
- representation,
- resemblance,
- sameness,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- speciousness,
- takeoff,
- taking,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- a corps perdu,
- abruptly,
- agilely,
- amain,
- apace,
- at flank speed,
- at half cock,
- at once,
- bang,
- by forced marches,
- carelessly,
- cursorily,
- dash,
- desperately,
- directly,
- double-quick,
- expeditiously,
- fast,
- feverishly,
- flat-out,
- furiously,
- hand over fist,
- hand over hand,
- happen what may,
- head over heels,
- headfirst,
- headforemost,
- headlong,
- heedlessly,
- heels over head,
- hell for leather,
- hell-bent,
- hell-bent for election,
- helter-skelter,
- holus-bolus,
- hotfoot,
- hotheadedly,
- hurriedly,
- hurry-scurry,
- immediately,
- impetuously,
- impulsively,
- in a flash,
- in a rush,
- in a wink,
- in double time,
- in double-quick time,
- in high,
- in high gear,
- in passing,
- in seven-league boots,
- incautiously,
- instantaneously,
- instantly,
- lickety-cut,
- lickety-split,
- like a flash,
- like a shot,
- like a thunderbolt,
- like crazy,
- like greased lightning,
- like mad,
- madly,
- nimbly,
- of a sudden,
- on short notice,
- on the double,
- on the run,
- overeagerly,
- overenthusiastically,
- overhastily,
- oversoon,
- overzealously,
- pell-mell,
- plop,
- plump,
- plunk,
- pop,
- post,
- posthaste,
- precipitantly,
- precipitately,
- precipitously,
- prematurely,
- promptly,
- pronto,
- quick,
- quickly,
- ramble-scramble,
- rapidly,
- rashly,
- recklessly,
- right away,
- sharp,
- slam-bang,
- slap,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- smack,
- snappily,
- speedily,
- startlingly,
- sudden,
- suddenly,
- superficially,
- surprisingly,
- swiftly,
- thoughtlessly,
- too early,
- too soon,
- trippingly,
- unawares,
- under forced draft,
- unexpectedly,
- unpremeditatedly,
- unthinkingly,
- untimely,
- wantonly,
- whip and spur,
- wildly,
- with a rush,
- with all haste,
- with dispatch,
- with giant strides,
- with haste,
- with rapid strides,
- with speed,
- without delay,
- without notice,
- without warning
- recurrence
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- happening again (especially at regular intervals); "the return of spring" related words >
- Indian file,
- alternation,
- array,
- articulation,
- atavism,
- backset,
- backward deviation,
- bank,
- beat,
- buzz,
- catena,
- catenation,
- chain,
- chain reaction,
- chaining,
- concatenation,
- connection,
- consecution,
- continuum,
- course,
- cycle,
- cyclicalness,
- descent,
- doubling,
- drone,
- duplication,
- echo,
- endless belt,
- endless round,
- falling back,
- file,
- filiation,
- frequency,
- gamut,
- gradation,
- hum,
- imitation,
- intermittence,
- intermittency,
- lapse,
- line,
- lineage,
- meter,
- monotone,
- nexus,
- oscillation,
- pendulum,
- pendulum motion,
- periodicalness,
- periodicity,
- piston motion,
- plagiarism,
- plenum,
- powder train,
- progression,
- pulsation,
- queue,
- quotation,
- range,
- rank,
- reappearance,
- rebirth,
- recrudescence,
- redoubling,
- reduplication,
- reecho,
- regression,
- regular wave motion,
- regurgitation,
- reincarnation,
- relapse,
- renewal,
- reoccurrence,
- repetition,
- reproduction,
- resumption,
- reticulation,
- return,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reversion,
- rhythm,
- rotation,
- round,
- routine,
- row,
- run,
- scale,
- seasonality,
- sequence,
- series,
- setback,
- single file,
- spectrum,
- string,
- succession,
- swath,
- thread,
- throwback,
- tier,
- train,
- undulation,
- windrow
- second string
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- a squad of players that are available either individually or as a team to relieve or replace the players who started the game related words >
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- back seat,
- backup,
- cast,
- change,
- changeling,
- common,
- company,
- comparison,
- complement,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- crew,
- demeaning,
- deputy,
- disadvantaged,
- double,
- dummy,
- eight,
- eleven,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- first string,
- first team,
- five,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- humble,
- humbleness,
- humility,
- imitation,
- in the shade,
- inferior,
- inferiority,
- infra dig,
- junior,
- juniority,
- less,
- lesser,
- locum tenens,
- low,
- lower,
- lowliness,
- lowly,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- minor,
- minority,
- modest,
- next best thing,
- nine,
- ordinary,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- platoon,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- rowing crew,
- second fiddle,
- second rank,
- second team,
- secondariness,
- secondary,
- servile,
- servility,
- sign,
- spares,
- squad,
- stand-in,
- string,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subject,
- subjection,
- subordinacy,
- subordinate,
- subordination,
- subservience,
- subservient,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- team,
- third rank,
- third string,
- token,
- underprivileged,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- varsity,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- vulgar
- accidental,
- ad hoc,
- adventitious,
- aleatory,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- backup,
- band-aid,
- casual,
- circumstantial,
- conditional,
- contingent,
- counterfeit,
- cut-and-try,
- dangerous,
- dependent,
- desultory,
- dummy,
- empirical,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- experimental,
- fake,
- fixed,
- forehanded,
- foreseeing,
- foresighted,
- forethoughted,
- forethoughtful,
- given,
- hazardous,
- heuristic,
- hit-or-miss,
- imitation,
- improvisational,
- improvised,
- incidental,
- inessential,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- interim,
- jury-rigged,
- makeshift,
- makeshifty,
- mock,
- nonessential,
- occasional,
- perilous,
- phony,
- pilot,
- pinch,
- precarious,
- precautional,
- precautionary,
- precautious,
- preparative,
- preparatory,
- prerequisite,
- pro tem,
- probationary,
- probative,
- probatory,
- propaedeutic,
- provident,
- proving,
- provisory,
- proxy,
- qualified,
- reserve,
- risky,
- rough-and-ready,
- rough-and-tumble,
- secondary,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- spare,
- specificative,
- specified,
- stated,
- stipulated,
- stipulatory,
- stopgap,
- substitute,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- test,
- testing,
- ticklish,
- token,
- transitional,
- treacherous,
- trial,
- trial-and-error,
- trying,
- undependable,
- unessential,
- unfaithworthy,
- unreliable,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- utility,
- verificatory,
- vicarious
- wallop
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- a severe blow
- defeat soundly and utterly; "We'll wallop them!" related words >
- bang,
- bash,
- baste,
- bastinado,
- bat,
- batter,
- beat,
- belabor,
- belt,
- biff,
- birch,
- blast,
- blunder,
- bonk,
- boot,
- bop,
- buffet,
- bump,
- cane,
- careen,
- career,
- clap,
- clash,
- clip,
- clobber,
- clout,
- club,
- clump,
- coldcock,
- collision,
- cowhide,
- crack,
- crash,
- cudgel,
- cut,
- dash,
- deal,
- deal a blow,
- deck,
- dress down,
- drub,
- falter,
- fetch,
- fetch a blow,
- flagellate,
- flail,
- flap,
- flax,
- flog,
- flounce,
- flounder,
- fustigate,
- give a dressing-down,
- give a whipping,
- give the stick,
- hammer,
- hide,
- hit,
- hit a clip,
- horsewhip,
- jab,
- jar,
- jolt,
- kick,
- knock,
- knock cold,
- knock down,
- knock out,
- knout,
- labor,
- lace,
- lambaste,
- larrup,
- lash,
- lather,
- lay on,
- leather,
- let have it,
- lick,
- lurch,
- maul,
- paddle,
- paste,
- patter,
- pelt,
- percussion,
- pistol-whip,
- pitch,
- pitch and plunge,
- plunge,
- plunk,
- poke,
- pommel,
- pound,
- pulverize,
- pummel,
- punch,
- rap,
- rawhide,
- reel,
- rock,
- roll,
- scourge,
- seethe,
- shellac,
- shock,
- slam,
- sledgehammer,
- slog,
- slug,
- smack,
- smash,
- smite,
- snap,
- soak,
- sock,
- spank,
- stagger,
- strap,
- strike,
- strike at,
- stripe,
- struggle,
- stumble,
- swat,
- sway,
- swing,
- swinge,
- swipe,
- switch,
- tan,
- thrash,
- thrash about,
- thresh,
- thump,
- thwack,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- toss and turn,
- totter,
- trim,
- trounce,
- truncheon,
- tumble,
- wallow,
- welt,
- welter,
- whack,
- whale,
- wham,
- whip,
- whop,
- yerk
- backup
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- (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device; "he made a backup in case the original was accidentally damaged or erased"
- an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage; "a traffic backup on the main street"; "he discovered a backup in the toilet" related words >
- about-face,
- about-turn,
- advocate,
- agent,
- alter ego,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- amicus curiae,
- analogy,
- attorney,
- back track,
- back trail,
- backing,
- backing off,
- backing out,
- backing up,
- backup man,
- champion,
- change,
- changeling,
- comparison,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- executive officer,
- exponent,
- fake,
- figurehead,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- imitation,
- lieutenant,
- locum,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mock,
- next best thing,
- paranymph,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch,
- pinch hitter,
- pleader,
- procurator,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserve,
- reserves,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reversing,
- reversion,
- right-about,
- right-about-face,
- ringer,
- second in command,
- second string,
- secondary,
- sign,
- spare,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- stopgap,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- swingaround,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- third string,
- token,
- turnabout,
- turnaround,
- understudy,
- utility,
- utility man,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vicar general,
- vicarious,
- vice,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- vicegerent,
- volte-face
- illegitimate
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- contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"
- of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful related words >
- actionable,
- affected,
- against the law,
- anarchic,
- anarchistic,
- anomic,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bantling,
- bar sinister,
- baseborn,
- bastard,
- bastard child,
- bastardy,
- black-market,
- bogus,
- bootleg,
- brummagem,
- by-blow,
- chargeable,
- colorable,
- colored,
- contraband,
- contrary to law,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- criminal,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- fatherless,
- feigned,
- felonious,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- flawed,
- garbled,
- illegal,
- illegitimacy,
- illegitimate child,
- illicit,
- imitation,
- impermissible,
- improper,
- incorrect,
- invalid,
- irregular,
- junky,
- justiciable,
- lawless,
- love child,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- misbegotten,
- miscreated,
- mock,
- natural,
- nonconstitutional,
- nonlegal,
- nonlicit,
- outlaw,
- outlawed,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- punishable,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- triable,
- twisted,
- unallowed,
- unauthentic,
- unauthorized,
- unconstitutional,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- ungenuine,
- unlawful,
- unnatural,
- unofficial,
- unreal,
- unstatutory,
- unwarrantable,
- unwarranted,
- warped,
- wrongful
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