Related Words:
- hairsplitting
collapse - making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously" related words >
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- contradistinction,
- critical,
- criticism,
- cynical,
- delicate,
- demarcation,
- differentiation,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- distinguishment,
- division,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- fencing,
- finespun,
- flak,
- hairline,
- hedging,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercritical,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- hypersensitive,
- hypersensitivity,
- imputation,
- knock,
- logic-chopping,
- microscopic distinction,
- morbid sensibility,
- morbidly sensitive,
- nagging,
- nice,
- nice distinction,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- nuance,
- obloquy,
- overconscientious,
- overconscientiousness,
- overcritical,
- overcriticalness,
- overfastidious,
- overfastidiousness,
- overmeticulous,
- overmeticulousness,
- overnice,
- overniceness,
- overnicety,
- overparticular,
- overparticularity,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- overrefinement,
- overscrupulous,
- overscrupulousness,
- oversensitive,
- oversensitivity,
- oversqueamish,
- oversqueamishness,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pestering,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevarication,
- priggishness,
- pussyfooting,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- refined,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- segregation,
- separation,
- shade of difference,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- slam,
- stricture,
- subterfuge,
- subtle,
- subtle distinction,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- ultracritical
- differentiate
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- become distinct and acquire a different character
- become different during development; "cells differentiate"
- calculate a derivative; take the derivative related words >
- adapt,
- adjust,
- alter,
- analyze,
- anatomize,
- argue,
- atomize,
- be characteristic,
- be indicative of,
- be significant of,
- be symptomatic of,
- bespeak,
- betoken,
- break up,
- calibrate,
- calibrated,
- change,
- characterize,
- chop logic,
- comprehend,
- connote,
- contradistinguish,
- contrast,
- convert,
- decrease,
- define,
- demarcate,
- demark,
- denominate,
- denote,
- describe,
- desynonymize,
- differ,
- difference,
- discern,
- disclose,
- discriminate,
- disequalize,
- disjoin,
- display,
- dissent,
- distinguish,
- disunify,
- divaricate,
- diverge,
- diversify,
- divide,
- draw the line,
- earmark,
- entail,
- express,
- extricate,
- give evidence,
- give token,
- gradational,
- grade,
- gradual,
- graduate,
- graduated,
- hierarchic,
- highlight,
- hint,
- identify,
- increase,
- indicate,
- individualize,
- individuate,
- involve,
- keynote,
- make a distinction,
- manifest,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- mark the interface,
- mean,
- modify,
- note,
- oppose,
- particularize,
- personalize,
- pick out,
- progressive,
- refine a distinction,
- regular,
- relieve,
- reveal,
- scalar,
- screen,
- screen out,
- segregate,
- select,
- separate,
- set a limit,
- set apart,
- set off,
- set the pace,
- set the tone,
- sever,
- severalize,
- shade off,
- show,
- sieve,
- sieve out,
- sift,
- sift out,
- signify,
- sort,
- sort out,
- sound the keynote,
- specialize,
- split hairs,
- stand for,
- subdivide,
- subtilize,
- suggest,
- symptomatize,
- symptomize,
- tell apart,
- testify,
- transform,
- transmute,
- understand,
- variate,
- variegate,
- vary,
- winnow
- segregate
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- someone who is or has been segregated
- separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others; "the sun segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"
- divide from the main body or mass and collect; "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"
- separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county" related words >
- abrupt,
- alien,
- alienate,
- analyze,
- anatomize,
- apart,
- atomize,
- bolt,
- cast off,
- cast out,
- change,
- choose,
- chop logic,
- close off,
- contradistinguish,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- cull out,
- cut adrift,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- delete,
- demarcate,
- demark,
- depart,
- desynonymize,
- detached,
- difference,
- differentiate,
- disarticulate,
- disconnect,
- disconnected,
- discrete,
- discriminate,
- disengage,
- disequalize,
- disjoin,
- disjoint,
- disjunct,
- disrelated,
- dissociate,
- dissociated,
- distinguish,
- disunite,
- diversify,
- divide,
- divorce,
- draw the line,
- eject,
- enisle,
- estrange,
- exotic,
- expel,
- extraneous,
- foreign,
- ghettoize,
- gin,
- incommensurable,
- incomparable,
- independent,
- individualize,
- individuate,
- insular,
- insulate,
- irrelative,
- island,
- isolate,
- isolated,
- keep apart,
- keep aside,
- lay aside,
- leave,
- make a distinction,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- mark the interface,
- modify,
- other,
- outlandish,
- part,
- particularize,
- personalize,
- pick out,
- pull away,
- pull back,
- pull out,
- put aside,
- quarantine,
- refine a distinction,
- removed,
- riddle,
- rope off,
- screen,
- screen out,
- seal off,
- seclude,
- select,
- separate,
- separated,
- sequester,
- set a limit,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- set off,
- sever,
- severalize,
- shut off,
- sieve,
- sieve out,
- sift,
- sift out,
- single,
- sort,
- sort out,
- specialize,
- split,
- split hairs,
- stand aloof,
- stand apart,
- stand aside,
- step aside,
- strange,
- subdivide,
- subtilize,
- subtract,
- thrash,
- thresh,
- throw off,
- throw out,
- unaffiliated,
- unallied,
- unassociated,
- unconnected,
- uncouple,
- unrelatable,
- unrelated,
- unyoke,
- vary,
- winnow,
- withdraw
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- bag of tricks,
- baseness,
- bickering,
- blind,
- bluff,
- boggling,
- bosey,
- captiousness,
- catch,
- caviling,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chouse,
- collusion,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- degradation,
- design,
- device,
- deviousness,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dishonesty,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- dodging,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fencing,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- foul play,
- fraud,
- furtiveness,
- gambit,
- game,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- grift,
- hairsplitting,
- hanky-panky,
- hedging,
- hocus-pocus,
- intrigue,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- knavishness,
- little game,
- logic-chopping,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- moral turpitude,
- move,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pass,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- plot,
- ploy,
- prevarication,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- racket,
- rascality,
- rascalry,
- red herring,
- reprobacy,
- roguery,
- roguishness,
- ruse,
- scampishness,
- scheme,
- scoundrelism,
- scurvy trick,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- sophistry,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- supercherie,
- surreptitiousness,
- tactic,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistism,
- trick,
- trickery,
- turpitude,
- underhand dealing,
- underhandedness,
- vileness,
- villainousness,
- villainy,
- wile,
- wily device
- quibble
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- an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
- argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
- evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections related words >
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- argue,
- argufy,
- around the bush,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- bandy words,
- beat about,
- beg the question,
- bicker,
- boggle,
- captiousness,
- carp,
- carping,
- catch at straws,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- chicane,
- chop logic,
- choplogic,
- contend,
- contest,
- criticism,
- criticize,
- cross swords,
- cut and thrust,
- cut up,
- discept,
- dispute,
- dodge,
- equivocate,
- equivocation,
- evade,
- evade the issue,
- evasion,
- exception,
- fault-find,
- faultfinding,
- fence,
- find fault,
- flak,
- give and take,
- hair-splitting,
- hairsplitting,
- hassle,
- have it out,
- hedge,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- jesuitism,
- join issue,
- knock,
- lock horns,
- logomachize,
- moot,
- mystify,
- nagging,
- nicety,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- nitpick,
- obloquy,
- obscure,
- overcriticalness,
- palter,
- paltering,
- parry,
- pestering,
- pettifog,
- pettifogging,
- pick holes,
- pick nits,
- pick to pieces,
- plead,
- polemicize,
- polemize,
- prevaricate,
- priggishness,
- pull apart,
- pull to pieces,
- pussyfoot,
- quibbling,
- quiddity,
- quillet,
- quip,
- quirk,
- quodlibet,
- rap,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- shift,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- slam,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- spar,
- split hairs,
- squabble,
- stricture,
- subtlety,
- swipe,
- take exception,
- take sides,
- taking exception,
- tear apart,
- tear to pieces,
- tergiversate,
- thrash out,
- trichoschistism,
- try conclusions,
- wrangle
- distinguish
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- mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him from his peers" related words >
- adorn,
- aggrandize,
- analyze,
- anatomize,
- atomize,
- be characteristic,
- behold,
- bestow honor upon,
- call attention to,
- catch sight of,
- categorize,
- change,
- characterize,
- chop logic,
- clap eyes on,
- classify,
- confer distinction on,
- contradistinguish,
- decide,
- define,
- demarcate,
- demark,
- denote,
- describe,
- descry,
- designate,
- desynonymize,
- detach,
- detect,
- determinate,
- determine,
- diagnose,
- difference,
- differentiate,
- dignify,
- discern,
- discover,
- discriminate,
- disengage,
- disequalize,
- disjoin,
- diversify,
- divide,
- draw the line,
- earmark,
- ennoble,
- erect,
- espy,
- extricate,
- feel,
- finger,
- glimpse,
- glorify,
- grace,
- grade,
- group,
- have,
- have in sight,
- hear,
- honor,
- identify,
- indicate,
- individualize,
- individuate,
- judge,
- ken,
- keynote,
- know,
- know again,
- lay eyes on,
- look on,
- look upon,
- magnify,
- make a distinction,
- make out,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- mark the interface,
- modify,
- nail,
- note,
- notice,
- observe,
- part,
- particularize,
- peg,
- perceive,
- personalize,
- pick out,
- pick up,
- pinpoint,
- place,
- qualify,
- realize,
- recall knowledge of,
- recognize,
- refine a distinction,
- reidentify,
- remark,
- screen,
- screen out,
- see,
- segregate,
- select,
- sense,
- separate,
- set a limit,
- set apart,
- set off,
- set the pace,
- set the tone,
- sever,
- severalize,
- sieve,
- sieve out,
- sift,
- sift out,
- sight,
- signalize,
- single out,
- smell,
- sort,
- sort out,
- sound the keynote,
- specialize,
- split hairs,
- spot,
- spy,
- subdivide,
- sublime,
- subtilize,
- take in,
- taste,
- tell,
- tell apart,
- twig,
- uprear,
- vary,
- view,
- winnow,
- witness
- 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
- casuistry
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- moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
- argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading related words >
- Christian ethics,
- Stoicism,
- aesthetics,
- altruistic ethics,
- apologetics,
- apologia,
- apology,
- apparent soundness,
- aretaics,
- argument,
- argumentation,
- axiology,
- bicker,
- bickering,
- categorical imperative,
- circularity,
- comparative ethics,
- contention,
- controversy,
- cosmology,
- crossed fingers,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defense,
- delusion,
- deontology,
- disingenuousness,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- distortion,
- egoistic ethics,
- empiricism,
- emptiness,
- epistemology,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- ethical formalism,
- ethical philosophy,
- ethics,
- ethology,
- ethonomics,
- eudaemonics,
- evasive reasoning,
- evolutionism,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- first philosophy,
- flyting,
- gnosiology,
- golden rule,
- hassle,
- hedonism,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hubbub,
- insincerity,
- intuitionism,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- litigation,
- logic,
- logomachy,
- mental philosophy,
- metaphysics,
- misapplication,
- mockery,
- moral philosophy,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- ontology,
- oversubtlety,
- paper war,
- passage of arms,
- perfectionism,
- perversion,
- phenomenology,
- philosophastry,
- philosophic doctrine,
- philosophic system,
- philosophic theory,
- philosophical inquiry,
- philosophical speculation,
- philosophism,
- philosophy,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- polemic,
- polemics,
- rationalization,
- rhubarb,
- school of philosophy,
- school of thought,
- science of being,
- set-to,
- situation ethics,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- subtlety,
- theory of beauty,
- theory of knowledge,
- tongue in cheek,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unfrankness,
- utilitarianism,
- value theory,
- verbal engagement,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- war of words,
- wrangling
- analyze
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- subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound"
- consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"
- break down into components or essential features; "analyze today's financial market" related words >
- air,
- alphabetize,
- anatomize,
- apply reason,
- arrange,
- assay,
- assort,
- atomize,
- bracket,
- break down,
- break up,
- canvass,
- catalog,
- categorize,
- change,
- chop logic,
- class,
- classify,
- codify,
- comment upon,
- conjugate,
- consider,
- contradistinguish,
- controvert,
- deal with,
- debate,
- decline,
- decompose,
- deduce,
- deliberate,
- deliberate upon,
- demarcate,
- demark,
- desynonymize,
- difference,
- differentiate,
- digest,
- discourse about,
- discriminate,
- discuss,
- disequalize,
- disjoin,
- dissect,
- distinguish,
- diversify,
- divide,
- draw the line,
- examine,
- exchange views,
- file,
- generalize,
- go into,
- grade,
- group,
- handle,
- hyphenate,
- hypothesize,
- index,
- individualize,
- individuate,
- infer,
- inflect,
- inspect,
- intellectualize,
- investigate,
- knock around,
- list,
- logicalize,
- logicize,
- make a distinction,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- mark the interface,
- modify,
- order,
- parenthesize,
- parse,
- part,
- particularize,
- pass under review,
- personalize,
- philosophize,
- pick out,
- pigeonhole,
- place,
- point,
- provide a rationale,
- punctuate,
- range,
- rank,
- rap,
- rate,
- rationalize,
- reason,
- reason about,
- reason the point,
- reduce,
- reduce to elements,
- refine a distinction,
- resolve,
- review,
- screen,
- screen out,
- scrutinize,
- segment,
- segregate,
- select,
- separate,
- set a limit,
- set apart,
- set off,
- sever,
- severalize,
- sieve,
- sieve out,
- sift,
- sift out,
- sort,
- sort out,
- specialize,
- split hairs,
- study,
- subdivide,
- subtilize,
- syllogize,
- synthesize,
- tabulate,
- take up,
- talk,
- talk about,
- talk of,
- talk over,
- theorize,
- thresh out,
- treat,
- type,
- use reason,
- vary,
- ventilate,
- winnow
- Kilkenny cats,
- aflicker,
- aggressive,
- aggressiveness,
- altercation,
- apologetics,
- apologia,
- apology,
- argument,
- argumentation,
- bellicose,
- bellicosity,
- belligerence,
- belligerent,
- bicker,
- blinking,
- boggling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- casuistry,
- cat-and-dog life,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- combat,
- combative,
- combativeness,
- conflict,
- contention,
- contentiousness,
- contest,
- contestation,
- controversy,
- cut and thrust,
- dancing,
- debate,
- defense,
- disputation,
- disputatious,
- dispute,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- divisive,
- dodging,
- embroilment,
- enmity,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- eristic,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- faction,
- factional,
- factious,
- factiousness,
- fencing,
- fighting,
- flak,
- flashing,
- flickering,
- flickery,
- flicky,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- flyting,
- hairsplitting,
- hassle,
- hedging,
- hostility,
- hubbub,
- infighting,
- irascibility,
- irascible,
- irritability,
- irritable,
- lambent,
- litigation,
- litigious,
- litigiousness,
- logic-chopping,
- logomachy,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- paper war,
- parrying,
- partisan,
- partisan spirit,
- partisanship,
- passage of arms,
- pettifoggery,
- petty,
- picayune,
- playing,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- polemics,
- prevarication,
- pugnacious,
- pugnacity,
- pussyfooting,
- quarrel,
- quarreling,
- quarrelsome,
- quarrelsomeness,
- quibbling,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- rhubarb,
- row,
- run-in,
- scrapping,
- set-to,
- shifting,
- shrewish,
- shrewishness,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- spat,
- squabble,
- squabbling,
- strife,
- stroboscopic,
- struggle,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- verbal engagement,
- war,
- war of words,
- warfare,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- words,
- wrangle,
- wrangling
- equivocation
collapse
- falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
- intentionally vague or ambiguous related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- antinomy,
- apparent soundness,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- casuistry,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circularity,
- circumvention,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- counterword,
- defense mechanism,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double,
- double entendre,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivoque,
- escape,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasive reasoning,
- evasiveness,
- exaggeration,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- fencing,
- fluctuation,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- getting around,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- insincerity,
- irony,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- jink,
- logic-chopping,
- lying,
- misapplication,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- mystification,
- neutrality,
- nit-picking,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oscillation,
- oversubtlety,
- oxymoron,
- paltering,
- paradox,
- parrying,
- pendulation,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pettifoggery,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- polysemant,
- portmanteau word,
- prevarication,
- prevention,
- pun,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rationalization,
- refraining,
- self-contradiction,
- shifting,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- squinting construction,
- straining,
- subterfuge,
- subtlety,
- suppressio veri,
- tergiversation,
- the runaround,
- trichoschistism,
- vacillation,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- wavering,
- weasel word,
- weasel words,
- wobbling,
- zigzag
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- bagatelle,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bickering,
- bit,
- brass farthing,
- button,
- captious,
- caviling,
- cent,
- choplogic,
- curio,
- cursory,
- depthless,
- detailed,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- exact,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- few,
- fig,
- finicky,
- fleabite,
- folderol,
- footling,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- full,
- fussy,
- gaud,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- hair,
- hairsplitting,
- halfpenny,
- hedging,
- hill of beans,
- immateriality,
- inconsequence,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsequentiality,
- inconsiderable,
- inconsiderableness,
- indifference,
- ineffectuality,
- inferiority,
- insignificance,
- insignificant,
- irrelevance,
- jerkwater,
- jest,
- joke,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- little,
- littleness,
- logic-chopping,
- low,
- low priority,
- marginality,
- meager,
- measly,
- meticulous,
- miniature,
- minikin,
- minute,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- negligibility,
- negligible,
- nice,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- no great shakes,
- one-horse,
- paltering,
- paltry,
- particular,
- peppercorn,
- pettifogging,
- pettiness,
- petty,
- picayunish,
- picayunishness,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- pokiness,
- poky,
- precise,
- puniness,
- punk,
- puny,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- red cent,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- secondariness,
- shallow,
- shit,
- short,
- shuffling,
- skin-deep,
- slightness,
- small,
- small-beer,
- small-time,
- smallness,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- special,
- specific,
- straw,
- superficial,
- tinhorn,
- tiny,
- toy,
- trichoschistic,
- trifle,
- trifling,
- trinket,
- trivial,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- two cents,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- twopence,
- unimportance,
- unimpressiveness,
- unnoteworthiness,
- whim-wham
- evasion
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- the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"
- the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment"
- a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth related words >
- abstention,
- airtight secrecy,
- anythingarianism,
- artifice,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- break,
- breakout,
- buck-passing,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circumvention,
- close secrecy,
- closeness,
- concealment,
- cop-out,
- cringe,
- crypticness,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deception,
- defense mechanism,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double-talk,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- emergence,
- equivocating,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- escapism,
- eschewal,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- excuse,
- extrication,
- fallback,
- fence-sitting,
- fencing,
- flight,
- flinch,
- foiling,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- freeing,
- frustration,
- fudging,
- getaway,
- getting around,
- getting round,
- haggling,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- hiddenness,
- hugger-mugger,
- hugger-muggery,
- impartiality,
- independence,
- issuance,
- issue,
- jailbreak,
- jink,
- leak,
- leakage,
- liberation,
- logic-chopping,
- lying,
- mugwumpery,
- mugwumpism,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- nit-picking,
- nonalignment,
- noncommitment,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- nonpartisanism,
- nothingarianism,
- outguessing,
- outlet,
- outmaneuvering,
- outwitting,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- passing the buck,
- pettifoggery,
- prevarication,
- prevention,
- prisonbreak,
- pullback,
- pullout,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- recoil,
- refraining,
- release,
- rescue,
- retreat,
- riddance,
- runaround,
- secrecy,
- secretiveness,
- secretness,
- setting-free,
- shifting,
- shirking,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sophistry,
- strict neutrality,
- subterfuge,
- suppressio veri,
- tergiversation,
- the dark,
- the runaround,
- the slip,
- thwarting,
- trichoschistism,
- trickery,
- uncommunicativeness,
- vent,
- weasel words,
- wince,
- zigzag
- mark off
collapse
- set boundaries to and delimit; "mark out the territory" related words >
- allocate,
- allot,
- analyze,
- anatomize,
- appoint,
- appropriate to,
- assign,
- assign to,
- atomize,
- be characteristic,
- blaze,
- blaze a trail,
- blemish,
- blotch,
- blueprint,
- bound,
- brand,
- chalk,
- chalk up,
- change,
- characterize,
- chart,
- check,
- check off,
- chop logic,
- cicatrize,
- circle in,
- circumscribe,
- dapple,
- dash,
- define,
- delimit,
- delimitate,
- demarcate,
- describe,
- destine,
- desynonymize,
- detail,
- determine,
- diagram,
- difference,
- differentiate,
- discolor,
- discriminate,
- disequalize,
- disjoin,
- distinguish,
- diversify,
- divide,
- dot,
- earmark,
- enclose,
- engrave,
- fate,
- fix,
- fleck,
- freckle,
- gash,
- graph,
- hatch,
- impress,
- imprint,
- individualize,
- individuate,
- keynote,
- lay off,
- lay out,
- line,
- lot,
- make a distinction,
- make a mark,
- make assignments,
- map,
- map out,
- mark,
- mark boundaries,
- mark out,
- mark out for,
- mark the periphery,
- measure off,
- measure out,
- modify,
- mottle,
- nick,
- notch,
- ordain,
- pace off,
- particularize,
- pencil,
- pepper,
- personalize,
- plot,
- plot out,
- point,
- portion off,
- prick,
- print,
- punch,
- punctuate,
- puncture,
- refine a distinction,
- reserve,
- restrict,
- restrict to,
- riddle,
- rope off,
- rule off,
- scar,
- scarify,
- schedule,
- score,
- scotch,
- scratch,
- seal,
- seam,
- segregate,
- separate,
- set,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- set off,
- set out,
- set the limit,
- set the pace,
- set the tone,
- sever,
- severalize,
- sketch,
- sketch out,
- sound the keynote,
- specialize,
- specify,
- speck,
- speckle,
- split hairs,
- splotch,
- spot,
- stain,
- stake out,
- stamp,
- step off,
- stigmatize,
- streak,
- striate,
- stripe,
- surround,
- tag,
- tattoo,
- tick,
- tick off,
- trace,
- underline,
- underscore,
- vary
- rhyme
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- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
- compose rhymes
- be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme" related words >
- English sonnet,
- Horatian ode,
- Italian sonnet,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- Sapphic ode,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- accord,
- alba,
- alliterate,
- alliteration,
- anacreontic,
- assonance,
- assonate,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- beat,
- blank verse,
- bucolic,
- cadence,
- cadency,
- canso,
- cap verses,
- chanson,
- check,
- chime,
- clerihew,
- clink,
- cohere,
- common sense,
- comport,
- conform,
- consist,
- consonance,
- consort,
- correspond,
- crambo,
- dingdong,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- double rhyme,
- dovetail,
- drone,
- eclogue,
- elegy,
- epic,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- eye rhyme,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- harping,
- humdrum,
- idyll,
- intelligence,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- limerick,
- logic,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- meaning,
- measure,
- meter,
- monody,
- monotone,
- monotony,
- musical thought,
- narrative poem,
- near rhyme,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- organization,
- palinode,
- paronomasia,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- pitter-patter,
- poem,
- poesy,
- poetry,
- prothalamium,
- pun,
- rationale,
- rationality,
- repeated sounds,
- repetitiousness,
- repetitiveness,
- rhyme royal,
- rhyme scheme,
- rhyming dictionary,
- rime,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- rune,
- satire,
- scan,
- sestina,
- single rhyme,
- singsong,
- slant rhyme,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- soundness,
- stale repetition,
- structure,
- swing,
- tail rhyme,
- tanka,
- tedium,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- the supreme fiction,
- threnody,
- triolet,
- trot,
- troubadour poem,
- unnecessary repetition,
- unrhymed poetry,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- versification,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- wisdom
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