Related Words:
- simplify
collapse - make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives" related words >
- abridge,
- account for,
- aid,
- allegorize,
- boil down,
- chasten,
- clarify,
- clean up,
- clear the way,
- clear up,
- compress,
- crack,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- damp,
- dampen,
- decipher,
- decrease,
- deduct,
- deflate,
- demonstrate,
- demythologize,
- depreciate,
- depress,
- diminish,
- disentangle,
- disinvolve,
- distill,
- downgrade,
- ease,
- elucidate,
- enlighten,
- euhemerize,
- exemplify,
- expedite,
- explain,
- explain away,
- explicate,
- exposit,
- expound,
- facilitate,
- get across,
- get over,
- give reason for,
- give the meaning,
- grease,
- grease the ways,
- grease the wheels,
- hasten,
- help along,
- illuminate,
- illustrate,
- lessen,
- loose,
- lower,
- lubricate,
- make clear,
- make it clear,
- make plain,
- make way for,
- narrow,
- oil,
- open the way,
- open up,
- oversimplify,
- paraphrase,
- pare,
- pave the way,
- popularize,
- prepare the way,
- purify,
- put across,
- put over,
- quicken,
- rationalize,
- reduce,
- reduce to elements,
- refine,
- remove friction,
- restrain,
- retrench,
- roll back,
- run interference for,
- scale down,
- shed light upon,
- shorten,
- show,
- show how,
- show the way,
- smooth,
- smooth the way,
- soap the ways,
- solve,
- speed,
- spell out,
- step down,
- straighten,
- streamline,
- strip down,
- take from,
- throw light upon,
- tune down,
- unbar,
- unblock,
- unclog,
- unfold,
- unjam,
- unlock,
- unravel,
- untangle,
- vulgarize
- starlit
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- lighted only by stars; "the starlit darkness" related words >
- moonlit
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- lighted by moonlight; "the moonlit landscape" related words >
- sunlit
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- lighted by sunlight; "the sunlit slopes of the canyon"; "violet valleys and the sunstruck ridges"- Wallace Stegner related words >
- abet,
- aching for,
- aggravate,
- agitate,
- alienate,
- ambush,
- arouse,
- assail,
- assault,
- attack,
- bed on,
- bent on,
- blitz,
- blow the coals,
- bottom on,
- build on,
- bushwhack,
- come at,
- come between,
- come down on,
- crack down on,
- crazy to,
- dead set on,
- decided upon,
- descend on,
- descend upon,
- desirous of,
- determined upon,
- disaffect,
- disunite,
- divide,
- dying for,
- dying to,
- estrange,
- excite,
- fain of,
- fall on,
- fall upon,
- fan,
- fan the flame,
- feed the fire,
- ferment,
- fire,
- fixed upon,
- foment,
- fond of,
- found on,
- gang up on,
- go at,
- go for,
- ground on,
- harry,
- have at,
- heat,
- heat up,
- hell-bent on,
- hit,
- hit like lightning,
- impassion,
- incense,
- incite,
- inclined toward,
- inflame,
- instigate,
- intent upon,
- irritate,
- itching for,
- jump,
- keen on,
- land on,
- lay at,
- lay hands on,
- lay into,
- leaning toward,
- light into,
- light the fuse,
- mad on,
- make trouble,
- mug,
- nettle,
- partial to,
- pique,
- pit against,
- pitch into,
- pounce upon,
- pound,
- provoke,
- put up to,
- raise,
- rally,
- resolved upon,
- sail into,
- separate,
- set,
- set against,
- set at odds,
- set at variance,
- set upon,
- settled upon,
- sic on,
- sot on,
- sow dissension,
- spoiling for,
- stir the embers,
- stir up,
- stir up trouble,
- strike,
- surprise,
- swoop down on,
- take the offensive,
- tickle,
- undergird,
- underlie,
- wade into,
- whet,
- whip up,
- wild to,
- work up
- puppet show
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- a show in which the actors are puppets related words >
- criticism
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- a serious examination and judgment of something; "constructive criticism is always appreciated"
- a written evaluation of a work of literature
- disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings; "the senator received severe criticism from his opponent" related words >
- adverse criticism,
- analysis,
- animadversion,
- appraisal,
- approval,
- aspersion,
- assessment,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- book review,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- censure,
- comment,
- commentary,
- commentation,
- condemnation,
- critical bibliography,
- critical journal,
- critical notice,
- critical review,
- critique,
- cryptanalysis,
- cryptography,
- cryptology,
- diagnostics,
- disapproval,
- disparagement,
- editorial,
- epigraphy,
- estimate,
- estimation,
- evaluation,
- examination,
- exception,
- exegetics,
- faultfinding,
- flak,
- gloss,
- hairsplitting,
- hermeneutics,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- judgement,
- knock,
- leader,
- leading article,
- lexicography,
- literary criticism,
- metoposcopy,
- nagging,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- notice,
- obloquy,
- observation,
- oneirology,
- opinion,
- overcriticalness,
- paleography,
- pathognomy,
- pestering,
- pettifogging,
- physiognomics,
- physiognomy,
- priggishness,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- rating,
- reflection,
- remark,
- renew,
- report,
- reproachfulness,
- review,
- running commentary,
- semeiology,
- semeiotics,
- slam,
- stricture,
- study,
- swipe,
- symptomatology,
- taking exception,
- textual criticism,
- trichoschistism,
- tropology,
- valuation,
- write-up
- A per se,
- Big Brother,
- ace,
- achievement,
- acmatic,
- alerion,
- all-absorbing,
- animal charge,
- annulet,
- anointed king,
- antecedent,
- anterior,
- apical,
- arch,
- argent,
- armorial bearings,
- armory,
- arms,
- ascendant,
- at the head,
- auditor,
- azure,
- bandeau,
- banner,
- bar,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- bearings,
- bend,
- bend sinister,
- big cheese,
- big wheel,
- big-timer,
- bigwig,
- billet,
- blazon,
- blazonry,
- boatswain,
- bordure,
- boss,
- broad arrow,
- bwana,
- cadency mark,
- canton,
- capital,
- captain,
- cardinal,
- central,
- champion,
- chaplet,
- charge,
- chef,
- chevron,
- chieftain,
- church dignitary,
- coat of arms,
- cock,
- cockatrice,
- commander,
- commanding,
- comptroller,
- consequential,
- consummate,
- controller,
- controlling,
- coronet,
- crescent,
- crest,
- cross,
- cross moline,
- crown,
- crowned head,
- crowning,
- dean,
- device,
- dictator,
- difference,
- differencing,
- dignitary,
- directing,
- directive,
- directorial,
- directory,
- dominant,
- doyen,
- doyenne,
- duce,
- dynast,
- eagle,
- ecclesiarch,
- effective,
- elder,
- electronics king,
- eminence,
- emperor,
- employer,
- ermine,
- ermines,
- erminites,
- erminois,
- escutcheon,
- essential,
- exordial,
- falcon,
- fess,
- fess point,
- field,
- file,
- first,
- first and foremost,
- flanch,
- fleur-de-lis,
- floor manager,
- floorman,
- floorwalker,
- focal,
- fore,
- foregoing,
- forehand,
- foreman,
- foremost,
- forward,
- fret,
- front,
- frontal,
- fugleman,
- fuhrer,
- fur,
- fusil,
- gaffer,
- ganger,
- garland,
- general,
- genius,
- goodman,
- governing,
- governor,
- grand duke,
- great,
- greatest,
- griffin,
- guiding,
- gules,
- guru,
- gyron,
- hatchment,
- head,
- heading,
- headman,
- headmost,
- hegemonic,
- hegemonistic,
- helmet,
- heraldic device,
- hierarch,
- high chief,
- high priest,
- higher-up,
- highest,
- himself,
- honcho,
- honor point,
- husband,
- impalement,
- impaling,
- imperator,
- important,
- important person,
- in ascendancy,
- in charge,
- in chief,
- in the ascendant,
- inescutcheon,
- initiatory,
- inspector,
- key,
- king,
- king-emperor,
- kingfish,
- kinglet,
- kingpin,
- label,
- laureate,
- lead,
- leader,
- leading,
- leading light,
- liege,
- liege lord,
- lion,
- lord,
- lord paramount,
- lozenge,
- luminary,
- magisterial,
- maiden,
- main,
- majesty,
- major,
- man,
- manager,
- managerial,
- managing,
- mantling,
- marshaling,
- martlet,
- mascle,
- master,
- master spirit,
- maximal,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- meridional,
- metal,
- momentous,
- monarch,
- monitor,
- motto,
- mullet,
- nombril point,
- noncommissioned officer,
- nonpareil,
- notability,
- number one,
- octofoil,
- or,
- ordinary,
- orle,
- outstanding,
- overlord,
- overman,
- overmost,
- overriding,
- overruling,
- overseer,
- padrone,
- pale,
- paly,
- paragon,
- paramount,
- paterfamilias,
- patriarch,
- patron,
- pean,
- personage,
- petty king,
- pheon,
- potent,
- potentate,
- precedent,
- preceding,
- precessional,
- precursory,
- predominant,
- predominate,
- preeminent,
- prefatory,
- preliminary,
- preludial,
- prelusive,
- premier,
- preparatory,
- prepollent,
- preponderant,
- preponderate,
- prepotent,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- prevenient,
- prima donna,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- prince,
- prince consort,
- principal,
- prior,
- proctor,
- prodigy,
- proemial,
- prominent,
- propaedeutic,
- purpure,
- quarter,
- quartering,
- rabbi,
- ranking,
- regnant,
- regulating,
- regulative,
- regulatory,
- reigning,
- ringleader,
- rose,
- royal,
- royal personage,
- royalty,
- ruler,
- ruling,
- sable,
- sahib,
- saltire,
- scutcheon,
- seigneur,
- seignior,
- senior,
- shield,
- significant,
- sirdar,
- slave driver,
- sovereign,
- spread eagle,
- star,
- starets,
- stellar,
- straw boss,
- subforeman,
- subordinary,
- summital,
- super,
- supereminent,
- superintendent,
- superior,
- superman,
- superstar,
- supervisor,
- supreme,
- surveyor,
- suzerain,
- taskmaster,
- teacher,
- telling,
- tenne,
- tetrarch,
- the greatest,
- the most,
- tincture,
- tip-top,
- top,
- top dog,
- topflight,
- topmost,
- torse,
- tressure,
- ultimate,
- unicorn,
- upmost,
- uppermost,
- vair,
- vert,
- vertical,
- virtuoso,
- visitor,
- weighty,
- wreath,
- yale,
- zenithal
- volatile
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- a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor; "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles"
- tending to vary often or widely; "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions"
- evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures; "volatile oils"; "volatile solvents" related words >
- adrift,
- afloat,
- agitable,
- airy,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- birdbrained,
- birdwitted,
- bouncy,
- brittle,
- bubbly,
- buoyant,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- charged,
- coquettish,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dizzy,
- downy,
- dying,
- eccentric,
- edgy,
- effervescent,
- ephemeral,
- erratic,
- eruptive,
- ethereal,
- evanescent,
- evaporable,
- evaporative,
- expansive,
- explosive,
- faddish,
- fading,
- fast and loose,
- featherbrained,
- feathery,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- fleeting,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flippant,
- flirtatious,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- fluffy,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- foamy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- freakish,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- giddy,
- gossamery,
- hair-trigger,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- imponderous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- infirm,
- insubstantial,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- leger,
- light,
- light as air,
- light-minded,
- lighter than vanity,
- lubricious,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- momentary,
- moody,
- mortal,
- mousse,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- passing,
- perishable,
- protean,
- quicksilver,
- rambling,
- resilient,
- restless,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- sensitive,
- shallow,
- shallow-headed,
- shallow-minded,
- shallow-pated,
- shallow-witted,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- short-lived,
- shuffling,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- souffle,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- startlish,
- superficial,
- temperamental,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- tense,
- ticklish,
- toying,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unfixed,
- unheavy,
- unpredictable,
- unprofound,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- vaporable,
- vaporescent,
- vaporizable,
- vaporizing,
- variable,
- versatile,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatilizable,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- weightless,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy,
- yeasty
- breath,
- brush,
- caress,
- contact,
- cutaneous sense,
- feel,
- feeling,
- fingertip caress,
- flick,
- glance,
- graze,
- hand-mindedness,
- kiss,
- lambency,
- lap,
- lick,
- rub,
- sense of touch,
- stroke,
- tactile sense,
- taction,
- tap,
- tentative poke,
- touch,
- whisper
- A,
- alpha,
- base,
- basis,
- beginning,
- blast-off,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- ceiling,
- circumscription,
- commencement,
- compass,
- confine,
- creation,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- cutting edge,
- dawn,
- deadline,
- delimitation,
- determinant,
- division line,
- edge,
- end,
- establishment,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- flying start,
- foundation,
- fresh start,
- frontier,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- institution,
- interface,
- jump-off,
- kick-off,
- leading edge,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- line of departure,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- new departure,
- oncoming,
- onset,
- opening,
- origin,
- origination,
- outbreak,
- outset,
- point of departure,
- port of embarkation,
- running start,
- send-off,
- setting in motion,
- setting-up,
- square one,
- start,
- start-off,
- starting gate,
- starting line,
- starting place,
- starting post,
- take-off,
- takeoff,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit
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