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- amiss
collapse - in an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner; "if you think him guilty you judge amiss"; "he spoke amiss"; "no one took it amiss when she spoke frankly" related words >
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- afield,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- bad,
- badly,
- below the mark,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- blamable,
- blameful,
- bootlessly,
- bum,
- censurable,
- cockeyed,
- confused,
- convulsed,
- corrupt,
- crappy,
- culpable,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- delusive,
- deranged,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- disarranged,
- discomfited,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dislocated,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- disorganized,
- dissatisfactory,
- distorted,
- disturbed,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- erroneously,
- evil,
- evilly,
- fallacious,
- fallaciously,
- false,
- falsely,
- far from it,
- faultful,
- faultfully,
- faultily,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- fruitlessly,
- guilty,
- haywire,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- ill,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- imperfect,
- imperfectly,
- improper,
- improperly,
- in disorder,
- in vain,
- inaccurately,
- inappropriately,
- incorrect,
- incorrectly,
- indiscreetly,
- inopportunely,
- misinterpret,
- misplaced,
- mistake,
- mistakenly,
- misunderstand,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- on the fritz,
- out,
- out of gear,
- out of joint,
- out of kelter,
- out of kilter,
- out of order,
- out of place,
- out of tune,
- out of whack,
- peccant,
- perturbed,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- poor,
- poorly,
- punk,
- reprehensible,
- roily,
- rotten,
- self-contradictory,
- shuffled,
- sick,
- sinful,
- straying,
- to no purpose,
- turbid,
- turbulent,
- unfactual,
- unfavorably,
- unholy,
- unorthodox,
- unpropitiously,
- unproved,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsettled,
- untoward,
- untrue,
- untruly,
- unwisely,
- up,
- upset,
- vainly,
- wide,
- wrong,
- wrongly
- overweening
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- presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times related words >
- a bit much,
- abandoned,
- arrogant,
- assuming,
- assured,
- audacious,
- boundless,
- brash,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- bumptious,
- cocksure,
- cold,
- complacent,
- confident,
- consequential,
- contumelious,
- convinced,
- cool,
- decided,
- determined,
- disdainful,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fabulous,
- familiar,
- fancy,
- forward,
- gigantic,
- gluttonous,
- high,
- hubristic,
- hyperbolic,
- hypertrophied,
- immoderate,
- improvident,
- imprudent,
- impudent,
- incautious,
- incontinent,
- indiscreet,
- injudicious,
- inordinate,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- intemperate,
- monstrous,
- narcissan,
- narcissine,
- narcissistic,
- narcistic,
- obtrusive,
- out of bounds,
- out of sight,
- outrageous,
- overbig,
- overbold,
- overcareless,
- overconfident,
- overdeveloped,
- overgreat,
- overgrown,
- overlarge,
- overmuch,
- overpresumptuous,
- overproud,
- oversure,
- persuaded,
- poised,
- pompous,
- positive,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- procacious,
- proud,
- pushful,
- pushy,
- rash,
- reassured,
- secure,
- self-admiring,
- self-appointed,
- self-approving,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-assuming,
- self-assured,
- self-complacent,
- self-confident,
- self-congratulating,
- self-congratulatory,
- self-content,
- self-contented,
- self-delighting,
- self-elect,
- self-endeared,
- self-esteeming,
- self-gratulating,
- self-gratulatory,
- self-important,
- self-loving,
- self-reliant,
- self-respecting,
- self-satisfied,
- self-sufficient,
- smug,
- steep,
- stiff,
- sure,
- temerarious,
- too much,
- unafraid,
- unbridled,
- unchary,
- unconscionable,
- undoubting,
- undue,
- unfaltering,
- unhesitating,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- unwary,
- unwavering,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- would-be
- smug
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- marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction; "a smug glow of self-congratulation" related words >
- Quakerish,
- Victorian,
- bland,
- bovine,
- braw,
- buttery,
- censorious,
- chic,
- classy,
- clothes-conscious,
- complacent,
- conceited,
- consequential,
- cosmopolitan,
- dapper,
- dashing,
- deck out,
- demure,
- disarming,
- doll up,
- dress up,
- dressed to advantage,
- dressed to kill,
- elegant,
- exquisite,
- fair-spoken,
- fine-spoken,
- fulsome,
- genteel,
- glib,
- gussy up,
- hidebound,
- holier-than-thou,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- ingratiating,
- jaunty,
- mid-Victorian,
- narcissan,
- narcissine,
- narcissistic,
- narcistic,
- narrow,
- natty,
- neat,
- nifty,
- nobby,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- old-maidish,
- overconfident,
- overmodest,
- overproud,
- overweening,
- posh,
- priggish,
- prim,
- primp,
- prudish,
- puritanical,
- recherche,
- ritzy,
- sanctimonious,
- self-admiring,
- self-approving,
- self-assuming,
- self-complacent,
- self-congratulating,
- self-congratulatory,
- self-content,
- self-contented,
- self-delighting,
- self-endeared,
- self-esteeming,
- self-gratulating,
- self-gratulatory,
- self-important,
- self-loving,
- self-respecting,
- self-satisfied,
- self-sufficient,
- sharp,
- sleek,
- slick,
- smart,
- smarten up,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- snazzy,
- soapy,
- soft-spoken,
- soigne,
- soignee,
- sophisticated,
- spiffy,
- spruce,
- spruce up,
- stiff-necked,
- straitlaced,
- stuffy,
- style-conscious,
- suave,
- suave-spoken,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- tricksy,
- trig,
- trim,
- unctuous,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- well-dressed,
- well-groomed
- consequential
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- having important issues or results; "the year's only really consequential legislation"; "an eventful decision" related words >
- absolute,
- ascendant,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- authorized,
- autocratic,
- big,
- big-league,
- big-name,
- big-time,
- bigwig,
- bigwigged,
- charismatic,
- charming,
- clothed with authority,
- commanding,
- competent,
- complacent,
- comprehensive,
- consequent,
- considerable,
- conspicuous,
- controlling,
- deep,
- derivational,
- derivative,
- dominant,
- double-barreled,
- duly constituted,
- earthshaking,
- effective,
- effectual,
- efficacious,
- eminent,
- empowered,
- enchanting,
- ensuing,
- estimable,
- ex officio,
- exhaustive,
- final,
- following,
- full,
- governing,
- grand,
- grave,
- great,
- heavy,
- heavyweight,
- hegemonic,
- hegemonistic,
- high-powered,
- imperative,
- important,
- in the limelight,
- influential,
- intense,
- irresistible,
- leading,
- magnetic,
- main,
- major,
- material,
- maximum,
- meaningful,
- mighty,
- momentous,
- monocratic,
- name,
- narcissan,
- narcissine,
- narcissistic,
- narcistic,
- official,
- outstanding,
- overproud,
- overweening,
- personable,
- persuasive,
- plenary,
- potent,
- powerful,
- preeminent,
- prestigious,
- prominent,
- puissant,
- ranking,
- reputable,
- resultant,
- resulting,
- ruling,
- self-admiring,
- self-approving,
- self-assuming,
- self-complacent,
- self-congratulating,
- self-congratulatory,
- self-content,
- self-contented,
- self-delighting,
- self-endeared,
- self-esteeming,
- self-gratulating,
- self-gratulatory,
- self-important,
- self-loving,
- self-respecting,
- self-satisfied,
- self-sufficient,
- senior,
- sequacious,
- sequent,
- sequential,
- serious,
- significant,
- smug,
- strong,
- suasive,
- substantial,
- superior,
- supreme,
- telling,
- to the front,
- total,
- totalitarian,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- weighty,
- winning,
- world-shaking
- 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
- 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
- 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
- hopeless
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- (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
- without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"
- certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"
- of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics" related words >
- Laodicean,
- Olympian,
- Pollyanna,
- absurd,
- affording no hope,
- aloof,
- apathetic,
- bad,
- barred,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- blase,
- bleak,
- bootless,
- cheerless,
- closed-out,
- comatose,
- comfortless,
- contrary to reason,
- cureless,
- deadly,
- deficient,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- desensitized,
- despaired of,
- despairing,
- desperate,
- despondent,
- desponding,
- detached,
- disconsolate,
- discouraged,
- disinterested,
- dismal,
- done for,
- downcast,
- dull,
- dying,
- excluded,
- expiring,
- facing death,
- fatal,
- forlorn,
- funereal,
- futile,
- given up,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- going,
- gone,
- grim,
- heartless,
- hebetudinous,
- hoper,
- immedicable,
- impossible,
- impracticable,
- in a stupor,
- in articulo mortis,
- in despair,
- in extremis,
- inadequate,
- incapable of life,
- incompetent,
- inconceivable,
- inconsolable,
- incorrigible,
- incurable,
- indifferent,
- inept,
- inferior,
- insoluble,
- insouciant,
- irredeemable,
- irremediable,
- irreparable,
- irretrievable,
- languid,
- lethal,
- lethargic,
- listless,
- logically impossible,
- lost,
- low,
- lugubrious,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- moribund,
- morose,
- near death,
- nonchalant,
- nonviable,
- not possible,
- numb,
- numbed,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- passive,
- phlegmatic,
- pluckless,
- pointless,
- poor,
- preposterous,
- prohibited,
- resigned,
- ridiculous,
- ruled-out,
- sad,
- self-contradictory,
- sinking,
- slack,
- slipping,
- slipping away,
- sluggish,
- soporific,
- sorrowful,
- spiritless,
- spunkless,
- stoic,
- stupefied,
- supine,
- terminal,
- torpid,
- unavailing,
- uncaring,
- unconcerned,
- uncorrectable,
- unfit,
- unhappy,
- unhopeful,
- unimaginable,
- uninterested,
- unqualified,
- unthinkable,
- unworkable,
- useless,
- vain,
- withdrawn,
- without hope,
- woebegone,
- worthless,
- wretched
- 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
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