Related Words:
- dateless
collapse - unaffected by time; "few characters are so dateless as Hamlet"; "Helen's timeless beauty"
- not bearing a date; "a dateless letter"
- of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; "dateless customs"
- having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless"; "sempiternal truth" related words >
- age-old,
- ageless,
- ancient,
- antique,
- auld,
- ceaseless,
- coeternal,
- constant,
- continual,
- continuous,
- elderly,
- endless,
- eternal,
- eterne,
- ever-being,
- ever-durable,
- ever-during,
- everlasting,
- everliving,
- hoary,
- immemorial,
- incessant,
- indestructible,
- infinite,
- interminable,
- never-ceasing,
- never-ending,
- nonstop,
- nonterminating,
- nonterminous,
- of old,
- of yore,
- olamic,
- old,
- old as Methuselah,
- old as history,
- old as time,
- old-time,
- olden,
- perdurable,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- sempiternal,
- steady,
- timeless,
- unceasing,
- unending,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unremitting,
- venerable,
- without end
- give up
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- allow the other (baseball) team to score; "give up a run" related words >
- abandon,
- abandon hope,
- abdicate,
- abjure,
- acknowledge defeat,
- back down,
- be at sea,
- be innocent of,
- be lost,
- be pensioned,
- be superannuated,
- break off combat,
- break the habit,
- cave in,
- cease,
- cease resistance,
- cede,
- come off,
- coquet with,
- cry quits,
- cut out,
- dabble,
- demit,
- desist,
- desist from,
- despair,
- despair of,
- despond,
- discontinue,
- disgorge,
- dispense with,
- dispose of,
- disuse,
- do without,
- drop,
- dump,
- falter,
- forgo,
- forswear,
- get along without,
- get rid of,
- give away,
- give ground,
- give in,
- give over,
- give up hope,
- give way,
- hand,
- hand over,
- have done with,
- have no idea,
- kick,
- kiss good-bye,
- know a little,
- know not,
- know not what,
- know nothing of,
- lay down,
- leave,
- leave off,
- let go,
- lose heart,
- lose hope,
- make a sacrifice,
- make nothing of,
- nol-pros,
- not know,
- not pursue with,
- not rightly know,
- not understand,
- part with,
- pass,
- pension off,
- put behind one,
- quit,
- quit the field,
- quitclaim,
- recant,
- relinquish,
- render up,
- renounce,
- renounce the throne,
- resign,
- retire,
- retire from office,
- retract,
- sacrifice,
- scratch the surface,
- shake,
- sink into despair,
- smatter,
- spare,
- stand aside,
- stand down,
- step aside,
- stop,
- superannuate,
- surrender,
- swear off,
- take the pledge,
- throw off,
- throw up,
- toy with,
- vacate,
- waive,
- withdraw from,
- wonder,
- wonder whether,
- wot not of,
- yield,
- yield to despair
- Cronus,
- Kronos,
- Methuselah,
- Nestor,
- Old Paar,
- Time,
- centenarian,
- dotard,
- elder,
- gaffer,
- geezer,
- golden-ager,
- gramps,
- grandfather,
- grandsire,
- graybeard,
- nonagenarian,
- octogenarian,
- old chap,
- old codger,
- old dog,
- old duffer,
- old geezer,
- old gent,
- old gentleman,
- old man,
- old party,
- old-timer,
- older,
- oldster,
- pantaloon,
- patriarch,
- presbyter,
- senior citizen,
- septuagenarian,
- sexagenarian,
- the greatest innovator,
- the quiet-voiced elders,
- venerable sir,
- veteran
- stay up
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- not go to bed; "Don't stay up so late--you have to go to work tomorrow"; "We sat up all night to watch the election" related words >
- contemporaneity,
- contemporaneousness,
- historical present,
- modernity,
- newness,
- now,
- nowadays,
- nowness,
- our times,
- present,
- present tense,
- presentness,
- the Now Generation,
- the nonce,
- the now,
- the present,
- the present age,
- the present day,
- the present hour,
- the present juncture,
- the present time,
- the time being,
- the times,
- these days,
- this day,
- this hour,
- this instant,
- this moment,
- this point,
- this stage,
- today
- beg,
- cast off,
- circumvent,
- clear,
- dispel,
- ditch,
- do away with,
- double,
- eliminate,
- elude,
- escape,
- evade,
- exterminate,
- fling off,
- get around,
- get away from,
- get clear of,
- get free of,
- get out of,
- get quit of,
- get rid of,
- liquidate,
- lose,
- purge,
- rid,
- shake,
- shoo,
- shuffle out of,
- skirt,
- throw away,
- throw off,
- unburden
- happy hour
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- the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price related words >
- tarry
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- leave slowly and hesitantly related words >
- abide,
- await,
- be still,
- bide,
- bide the issue,
- carry on,
- cease not,
- coast,
- continue,
- continue to be,
- crawl,
- creep,
- dally,
- dawdle,
- defeat time,
- defy time,
- delay,
- dillydally,
- drag,
- drag along,
- drag on,
- dwell,
- endure,
- exist,
- extend,
- falter,
- flag,
- freeze,
- go along,
- go on,
- goof off,
- halt,
- hang about,
- hang around,
- hang back,
- hold,
- hold everything,
- hold on,
- hold out,
- hold steady,
- hold your horses,
- jog on,
- keep,
- keep going,
- keep on,
- keep quiet,
- lag,
- last,
- last long,
- last out,
- lie still,
- linger,
- linger on,
- live,
- live on,
- live through,
- loiter,
- lollygag,
- maintain,
- mark time,
- never cease,
- not breathe,
- not stir,
- pause,
- perdure,
- perennate,
- persist,
- poke,
- prevail,
- procrastinate,
- put off,
- remain,
- remain motionless,
- repose,
- rest,
- run,
- run on,
- settle,
- shilly-shally,
- sit tight,
- sit up,
- slog on,
- sojourn,
- stagger on,
- stall,
- stand,
- stand fast,
- stand firm,
- stand still,
- stay,
- stay on,
- stay put,
- stay up,
- stick,
- stick around,
- stick fast,
- stop,
- stop over,
- subsist,
- survive,
- sustain,
- take time,
- temporize,
- tide over,
- trail,
- tread water,
- wait,
- wait a minute,
- wait and see,
- waste time,
- wear,
- wear on,
- wear well
- daybook
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- an accounting journal as a physical object; "he bought a new daybook"
- a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred related words >
- Domesday Book,
- account book,
- accounts payable ledger,
- accounts receivable ledger,
- address book,
- adversaria,
- album,
- annals,
- annual,
- appointment calendar,
- appointment schedule,
- balance sheet,
- bank ledger,
- bankbook,
- bimonthly,
- biweekly,
- blankbook,
- blotter,
- books,
- calendar,
- card ledger,
- cashbook,
- catalog,
- check sheet,
- chronicle,
- chronology,
- classified catalog,
- clock card,
- commonplace book,
- cost card,
- cost ledger,
- cost sheet,
- court calendar,
- daily,
- date slip,
- datebook,
- desk calendar,
- diary,
- diptych,
- docket,
- engagement book,
- ephemeris,
- factory ledger,
- fortnightly,
- gazette,
- inventory,
- journal,
- ledger,
- log,
- logbook,
- loose-leaf notebook,
- magazine,
- memo book,
- memorandum book,
- memory book,
- monthly,
- newsmagazine,
- notebook,
- organ,
- pad,
- passbook,
- periodical,
- petty cashbook,
- pictorial,
- pocket notebook,
- pocketbook,
- police blotter,
- purchase ledger,
- quarterly,
- record,
- record book,
- register,
- registry,
- review,
- sales journal,
- sales ledger,
- scrapbook,
- scratch pad,
- serial,
- slick magazine,
- spiral notebook,
- stock ledger,
- stores ledger,
- suspense ledger,
- table,
- tablet,
- time book,
- time chart,
- time scale,
- time schedule,
- time sheet,
- time study,
- timecard,
- timetable,
- trade magazine,
- triptych,
- weekly,
- workbook,
- writing tablet,
- yearbook
- PDQ,
- abruptly,
- all at once,
- all together,
- apace,
- at a blow,
- at a stroke,
- at once,
- at one blow,
- at one jump,
- at one stroke,
- at one swoop,
- at one time,
- away,
- decisively,
- directly,
- expeditiously,
- immediately,
- in a hurry,
- in no time,
- instanter,
- instantly,
- now,
- on the instant,
- on the spot,
- per saltum,
- pretty damned quick,
- promptly,
- pronto,
- quickly,
- right away,
- right now,
- right off,
- simultaneously,
- smartly,
- speedily,
- straightaway,
- straightway,
- subito,
- sudden,
- suddenly,
- summarily,
- swiftly,
- then and there,
- this minute,
- this very minute,
- uno saltu,
- with all speed,
- without delay,
- without further delay
- ablate,
- atomize,
- be angry,
- be excitable,
- bellow,
- blow a gasket,
- blow up,
- break,
- break open,
- break up,
- burst,
- carry away,
- catch fire,
- catch the infection,
- cave in,
- collapse,
- come off,
- come undone,
- come unstuck,
- conk out,
- consume,
- corrode,
- crack,
- crack up,
- crumble,
- crumble into dust,
- decay,
- decline,
- decompose,
- degenerate,
- disintegrate,
- disjoin,
- disorganize,
- dissolve,
- dissolve into chaos,
- droop,
- drop,
- erode,
- excite easily,
- explode,
- fade,
- fail,
- faint,
- fall off,
- fall to pieces,
- fire up,
- fission,
- fissure,
- fizzle out,
- flag,
- flame up,
- flare up,
- flash up,
- flip,
- fly apart,
- fracture,
- get excited,
- get loose,
- give away,
- give out,
- give way,
- go downhill,
- go haywire,
- go into hysterics,
- go soft,
- go to pieces,
- have a tantrum,
- hit the ceiling,
- hit the skids,
- languish,
- lose courage,
- lose self-control,
- molder,
- peel off,
- peg out,
- peter out,
- pine,
- poop out,
- rage,
- ramp,
- rant,
- rant and rave,
- rave,
- run a temperature,
- rupture,
- seethe,
- sink,
- slacken,
- smolder,
- snap,
- split,
- spring a leak,
- spring apart,
- start,
- storm,
- take fire,
- turn a hair,
- unravel,
- untune,
- waste away,
- weaken,
- wear away,
- wear thin,
- wilt,
- yield
- newness
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- the quality of being new; the opposite of oldness related words >
- authenticity,
- contemporaneity,
- contemporaneousness,
- creativeness,
- creativity,
- freshness,
- historical present,
- innovation,
- inventiveness,
- modernity,
- nonimitation,
- novelty,
- now,
- nowadays,
- nowness,
- originality,
- our times,
- present,
- present tense,
- presentness,
- the Now Generation,
- the nonce,
- the now,
- the present,
- the present age,
- the present day,
- the present hour,
- the present juncture,
- the present time,
- the time being,
- the times,
- these days,
- this day,
- this hour,
- this instant,
- this moment,
- this point,
- this stage,
- today,
- uniqueness
- early
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- at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time; "early morning"; "an early warning"; "early diagnosis"; "an early death"; "took early retirement"; "an early spring"; "early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties"
- being or occurring at an early stage of development; "in an early stage"; "early forms of life"; "early man"; "an early computer"
- of an early stage in the development of a language or literature; "the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries B.C."; "Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700"
- very young; "at an early age"
- expected in the near future; "look for an early end to the negotiations"
- before the usual time or the time expected; "she graduated early"; "the house was completed ahead of time"
- in good time; "he awoke betimes that morning" related words >
- a priori,
- advanced,
- ages ago,
- ahead,
- ahead of time,
- already,
- anachronistic,
- ancient,
- anciently,
- antecedent,
- antedated,
- antediluvian,
- anterior,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- away back,
- back,
- backward,
- before,
- before all,
- beforehand,
- beforetime,
- beginning,
- behind time,
- behindhand,
- betimes,
- bright and early,
- ci-devant,
- dated,
- earlier,
- elder,
- ere,
- ere then,
- erenow,
- erstwhile,
- ex post facto,
- first,
- fore,
- foredated,
- foregoing,
- forehand,
- forehanded,
- foresighted,
- foresightedly,
- former,
- formerly,
- heretofore,
- hitherto,
- immemorial,
- in advance,
- in ancient times,
- in anticipation,
- in good time,
- in olden times,
- in times past,
- inappropriate,
- initial,
- initially,
- inopportune,
- into the past,
- late,
- long ago,
- long since,
- metachronistic,
- misdated,
- mistimed,
- of old,
- of yore,
- old,
- olden,
- older,
- once,
- onetime,
- or ever,
- original,
- originally,
- out of date,
- out of season,
- overdue,
- oversoon,
- parachronistic,
- past,
- past due,
- pioneer,
- postdated,
- preceding,
- precipitant,
- precocious,
- precociously,
- precurrent,
- preexistent,
- prehistoric,
- premature,
- prematurely,
- prevenient,
- previous,
- previously,
- primal,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primordial,
- prior,
- priorly,
- pristine,
- prochronistic,
- quondam,
- recent,
- retroactive,
- retrospective,
- seasonably,
- senior,
- some time ago,
- some time back,
- sometime,
- soon,
- tardy,
- then,
- theretofore,
- timely,
- unanticipated,
- unexpected,
- unpunctual,
- unseasonable,
- untimely,
- years ago,
- yet
- bide
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- dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" related words >
- abide,
- abide with,
- await,
- bear,
- bear with,
- bide the issue,
- brave,
- brook,
- carry on,
- cease not,
- continue,
- continue to be,
- dally,
- dawdle,
- defeat time,
- defy time,
- delay,
- dig,
- dillydally,
- drag on,
- dwell,
- endure,
- exist,
- extend,
- go along,
- go on,
- hang about,
- hang around,
- hang in,
- hang in there,
- hang out,
- hang tough,
- hold,
- hold everything,
- hold on,
- hold out,
- hold steady,
- hold your horses,
- jog on,
- keep,
- keep going,
- keep on,
- last,
- last long,
- last out,
- linger,
- live,
- live on,
- live through,
- loiter,
- lump,
- lump it,
- maintain,
- mark time,
- never cease,
- perdure,
- perennate,
- persevere,
- persist,
- prevail,
- put up with,
- remain,
- run,
- run on,
- sit tight,
- sit up,
- sit up for,
- slog on,
- stagger on,
- stand,
- stand for,
- stay,
- stay on,
- stay up,
- stay up for,
- stick,
- stick around,
- subsist,
- suffer,
- support,
- survive,
- sustain,
- sweat,
- sweat it out,
- sweat out,
- take time,
- take up with,
- tarry,
- tide over,
- tolerate,
- wait,
- wait a minute,
- wait and see,
- wait for,
- wait on,
- wait up for,
- watch,
- watch and wait,
- wear,
- wear well
- intermezzo
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- a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera
- a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony related words >
- abeyance,
- act,
- afterpiece,
- anacrusis,
- bass passage,
- bit,
- bourdon,
- break,
- bridge,
- burden,
- cadence,
- caesura,
- cease-fire,
- chaser,
- chorus,
- coda,
- coffee break,
- curtain,
- curtain call,
- curtain raiser,
- day off,
- development,
- divertimento,
- divertissement,
- division,
- downtime,
- drop,
- epilogue,
- exode,
- exodus,
- exposition,
- expository scene,
- figure,
- finale,
- folderol,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- harmonic close,
- hesitation,
- hoke act,
- holiday,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- introduction,
- introductory phrase,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- letup,
- lull,
- measure,
- movement,
- musical phrase,
- musical sentence,
- number,
- off-time,
- ornament,
- part,
- passage,
- pause,
- period,
- phrase,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- prologue,
- quiet spell,
- recess,
- refrain,
- relief,
- remission,
- resolution,
- respite,
- response,
- rest,
- resting point,
- ritornello,
- routine,
- scene,
- section,
- shtick,
- sketch,
- skit,
- song and dance,
- stand-down,
- stand-up comedy act,
- stanza,
- statement,
- stay,
- strain,
- striptease,
- suspension,
- tailpiece,
- time off,
- time out,
- truce,
- turn,
- tutti,
- tutti passage,
- vacation,
- variation,
- verse
- putterer
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- a person who putters about related words >
- Sunday painter,
- amateur,
- clock watcher,
- coquet,
- dabbler,
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dilettante,
- dillydallier,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- faineant,
- flirt,
- fribble,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- laggard,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- mope,
- moper,
- piddler,
- potterer,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- smatterer,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- trifler,
- waiter on Providence
- accompany
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- go or travel along with; "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere" related words >
- agree,
- associate,
- associate with,
- assort with,
- attend,
- band together,
- be in phase,
- be in time,
- chaperon,
- chaperone,
- chord,
- coexist,
- coextend,
- coincide,
- combine,
- companion,
- concertize,
- concur,
- confederate,
- consociate,
- consort with,
- contemporize,
- convoy,
- couple with,
- do,
- escort,
- execute,
- flock together,
- go along with,
- go with,
- hang around with,
- herd together,
- interpret,
- isochronize,
- keep company with,
- keep in step,
- keep pace with,
- make music,
- match,
- perform,
- play,
- play by ear,
- render,
- run with,
- squire,
- symphonize,
- synchronize,
- time,
- usher,
- wait on
- abide,
- await,
- bide,
- bide the issue,
- clock watcher,
- continue,
- dallier,
- dally,
- dawdler,
- delay,
- diddle,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- dillydally,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodle,
- doodler,
- drag,
- drag out,
- draw out,
- drone,
- dwell on,
- extend,
- faineant,
- fall behind,
- falter,
- flag,
- foot-dragger,
- gentleman of leisure,
- get behind,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof off,
- goof-off,
- halt,
- hang about,
- hang around,
- hang back,
- hold everything,
- hold on,
- hold your horses,
- idle,
- idler,
- lag,
- laggard,
- laze,
- lengthen,
- lengthen out,
- lie-abed,
- linger,
- linger behind,
- linger on,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiter,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lollygag,
- lotus-eater,
- lounge,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- mark time,
- mope,
- moper,
- piddle,
- plodder,
- poke,
- potterer,
- procrastinate,
- procrastinator,
- prolong,
- protract,
- putterer,
- shilly-shally,
- sit tight,
- sit up,
- sleepyhead,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slow goer,
- slow-foot,
- slowbelly,
- slowpoke,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- snail,
- spin out,
- stay,
- stay up,
- stick around,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- straggle,
- stretch out,
- take time,
- tarry,
- temporize,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- tortoise,
- trail,
- trail behind,
- trifler,
- wait,
- wait a minute,
- wait and see,
- waiter on Providence,
- waste time
- acceleration
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- the act of accelerating; increasing the speed
- an increase in rate of change; "modern science caused an acceleration of cultural change"
- (physics) a rate of increase of velocity related words >
- accelerando,
- aggravation,
- beefing-up,
- blowing up,
- blowup,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- consolidation,
- deepening,
- double time,
- double-quick,
- double-quick time,
- drive,
- enhancement,
- exacerbation,
- exaggeration,
- explosion,
- festination,
- forced march,
- forwarding,
- getaway,
- hastening,
- heating-up,
- heightening,
- hurrying,
- impetus,
- information explosion,
- intensification,
- magnification,
- pickup,
- population explosion,
- quickening,
- redoubling,
- reinforcement,
- speeding,
- speedup,
- step-up,
- strengthening,
- thrust,
- tightening
- albeit,
- although,
- as,
- as far as,
- as long as,
- as things go,
- at which time,
- because,
- being as how,
- boundary condition,
- catch,
- cause,
- clause,
- condition,
- considering,
- donnee,
- during which time,
- escalator clause,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- fine print,
- for,
- forasmuch as,
- given,
- grounds,
- howbeit,
- in that,
- inasmuch as,
- insofar as,
- insomuch as,
- joker,
- kicker,
- limiting condition,
- now,
- obligation,
- parameter,
- parce que,
- prerequisite,
- provision,
- provisions,
- proviso,
- requisite,
- saving clause,
- seeing,
- seeing as how,
- seeing that,
- since,
- sine qua non,
- small print,
- specification,
- stipulation,
- string,
- terms,
- the while,
- ultimatum,
- when,
- while,
- whilst
- despair
collapse
- the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
- a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"
- abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart; "Don't despair--help is on the way!" related words >
- Schmerz,
- Slough of Despond,
- abandon,
- abandon hope,
- acedia,
- aching heart,
- agony,
- agony of mind,
- anguish,
- apathy,
- bale,
- become suicidal,
- bitterness,
- blank despondency,
- bleeding heart,
- broken heart,
- cave of Trophonius,
- cave of despair,
- crushing,
- death wish,
- dejectedness,
- dejection,
- depression,
- depth of misery,
- desolation,
- despair of,
- desperateness,
- desperation,
- despond,
- despondency,
- despondentness,
- disconsolateness,
- discouragement,
- disheartenment,
- dispiritedness,
- distress,
- down trip,
- downcastness,
- downer,
- downheartedness,
- droop,
- drooping spirits,
- drop,
- extremity,
- falter,
- forlornness,
- give up,
- give up hope,
- give way,
- gloom,
- gloominess,
- grief,
- heartache,
- heartlessness,
- heavy heart,
- hit rock bottom,
- hopelessness,
- infelicity,
- languish,
- lose heart,
- lose hope,
- low spirits,
- lowness,
- lowness of spirit,
- malaise,
- melancholia,
- melancholy,
- miserableness,
- misery,
- no exit,
- no way,
- no way out,
- oppression,
- pessimism,
- plumb the depths,
- prostration,
- quit,
- reach the depths,
- relinquish,
- renounce,
- resign,
- resignation,
- sadness,
- self-destructive urge,
- sink,
- sink into despair,
- sinking heart,
- sloth,
- spiritlessness,
- suicidal despair,
- surrender,
- taedium vitae,
- touch bottom,
- weariness of life,
- woe,
- wretchedness,
- yield,
- yield to despair
- eleventh hour
collapse
- the latest possible moment; "money became available at the eleventh hour"; "at the last minute the government changed the rules" related words >
- A-day,
- D day,
- H hour,
- bedtime,
- belatedness,
- charged moment,
- critical moment,
- crucial moment,
- curfew,
- deadline,
- deathbed,
- decisive moment,
- high time,
- kairos,
- kairotic moment,
- last minute,
- last-minute,
- late hour,
- lateness,
- later,
- moment of truth,
- nick of time,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- small hours,
- tardiness,
- target date,
- unpreparedness,
- unpunctuality,
- unreadiness,
- untimeliness,
- zero hour
- imminence
collapse
- the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon related words >
- access,
- accession,
- advance,
- advent,
- afflux,
- affluxion,
- aftertime,
- afteryears,
- anticipation,
- approach,
- approaching,
- appropinquation,
- approximation,
- appulse,
- bulldozing,
- by-and-by,
- certainty,
- coming,
- coming near,
- coming toward,
- commination,
- confidence,
- contemplation,
- course ahead,
- crystal ball,
- denunciation,
- determinism,
- distant future,
- empty threat,
- eventuality,
- expectancy,
- expectation,
- flowing toward,
- foreboding,
- foresight,
- forthcoming,
- forward look,
- future,
- future tense,
- futurism,
- futurity,
- hereafter,
- idle threat,
- immediate future,
- immediate prospect,
- implied threat,
- intimidation,
- menace,
- near future,
- nearing,
- nearness,
- offing,
- oncoming,
- outlook,
- posteriority,
- prediction,
- probability,
- project,
- promise of harm,
- prophecy,
- prospect,
- proximation,
- reliance,
- sword of Damocles,
- the future,
- the morrow,
- the sweet by-and-by,
- thought,
- threat,
- threateningness,
- threatfulness,
- time ahead,
- time just ahead,
- time to come,
- tomorrow,
- unastonishment,
- warning
- hurry
collapse
- a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; "in a hurry to lock the door" related words >
- accelerate,
- ado,
- agitation,
- air speed,
- bolt,
- brouhaha,
- bundle,
- bustle,
- buzz about,
- career,
- celerity,
- chase,
- cheer on,
- commotion,
- crowd,
- dart,
- dash,
- dash off,
- dash on,
- dig out,
- dispatch,
- disquiet,
- disturbance,
- dither,
- double-time,
- drive,
- drive on,
- eagerness,
- ebullience,
- ebullition,
- eddy,
- effervescence,
- egg,
- egg on,
- embroilment,
- expedite,
- expedition,
- expeditiousness,
- fastness,
- feery-fary,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- festinate,
- flight,
- fling,
- flit,
- flurry,
- flutter,
- fly,
- forward,
- fume,
- fuss,
- get cracking,
- get going,
- get moving,
- goad on,
- ground speed,
- haste,
- hasten,
- hasten off,
- hasten on,
- helter-skelter,
- hie,
- hie on,
- hound on,
- hump,
- hump it,
- hurly-burly,
- hurry about,
- hurry along,
- hurry away,
- hurry on,
- hurry through,
- hurry up,
- hurry-scurry,
- hurtle,
- hustle,
- hustle up,
- instantaneousness,
- knots,
- leap,
- light out,
- lightning speed,
- lose no time,
- make a fuss,
- make haste,
- miles per hour,
- move quickly,
- nip,
- nip off,
- pell-mell,
- perturbation,
- plunge,
- post,
- pother,
- precipitate,
- precipitation,
- press,
- press on,
- promptitude,
- promptness,
- push,
- push on,
- push through,
- quicken,
- quickness,
- race,
- railroad through,
- rapidity,
- root on,
- round pace,
- rpm,
- ruffle,
- run,
- rush,
- rush about,
- rush along,
- rush around,
- rush through,
- rustle,
- scamper,
- scamper off,
- scoot,
- scour,
- scramble,
- scud,
- scurry,
- scuttle,
- shake a leg,
- shoot,
- skedaddle,
- skin out,
- snappiness,
- speed,
- speed along,
- speed on,
- speed up,
- speediness,
- spur,
- spur on,
- spurt,
- stampede,
- step on it,
- stew,
- stir,
- sweat,
- swift rate,
- swiftness,
- swirl,
- swirling,
- tear,
- tear around,
- tear off,
- tear out,
- to-do,
- tumult,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- uproar,
- upset,
- urge,
- urge on,
- urgency,
- velocity,
- vortex,
- whip,
- whip along,
- whip off,
- whip on,
- whirl,
- whiz about,
- whiz off,
- yeastiness
- a breath,
- bit,
- breath,
- coup,
- crack,
- flash,
- half a jiffy,
- half a mo,
- half a second,
- half a shake,
- instant,
- jiff,
- jiffy,
- little,
- little bit,
- little while,
- microsecond,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- moment,
- no time,
- pair of winks,
- sec,
- second,
- shake,
- short spell,
- short time,
- small space,
- span,
- split second,
- spurt,
- stroke,
- tick,
- trice,
- twink,
- twinkle,
- twinkling,
- twitch,
- wink
- yet
collapse
- up to the present time; "I have yet to see the results"; "details are yet to be worked out" related words >
- above,
- additionally,
- after a while,
- after all,
- again,
- albeit,
- all included,
- all the same,
- along,
- already,
- also,
- although,
- altogether,
- among other things,
- and all,
- and also,
- and so,
- as well,
- as yet,
- at all events,
- at any rate,
- au reste,
- before,
- before all,
- beside,
- besides,
- beyond,
- but,
- by this time,
- earlier,
- early,
- else,
- en plus,
- ere,
- ere then,
- erenow,
- even,
- even so,
- eventually,
- except,
- extra,
- farther,
- finally,
- for all that,
- for lagniappe,
- formerly,
- further,
- furthermore,
- heretofore,
- hereunto,
- hitherto,
- howbeit,
- however,
- in addition,
- in any case,
- in any event,
- in due course,
- inter alia,
- into the bargain,
- item,
- just the same,
- likewise,
- more,
- moreover,
- nevertheless,
- nonetheless,
- notwithstanding,
- on the side,
- on top of,
- or ever,
- over,
- plus,
- previously,
- priorly,
- rather,
- save,
- similarly,
- so far,
- someday,
- sometime,
- somewhen,
- sooner or later,
- still,
- then,
- then as previously,
- theretofore,
- therewith,
- though,
- thus far,
- till now,
- to boot,
- to date,
- to this day,
- too,
- ultimately,
- until now,
- until this time,
- up to now,
- when
- rob
collapse
- take something away by force or without the consent of the owner; "The burglars robbed him of all his money" related words >
- bereave,
- cheat,
- commit robbery,
- defraud,
- despoil,
- disinherit,
- dispossess,
- divest,
- filch,
- heist,
- hijack,
- hold up,
- hustle,
- knock off,
- knock over,
- lift,
- loot,
- lose,
- mug,
- oust,
- pilfer,
- pillage,
- plunder,
- purloin,
- ransack,
- ravage,
- relieve,
- rifle,
- rip off,
- roll,
- sack,
- steal,
- stick up,
- strong-arm,
- swindle,
- thieve
- interminably
collapse
- all the time; seemingly without stopping; "a theological student with whom I argued interminably"; "her nagging went on endlessly" related words >
- ad infinitum,
- again and again,
- and night,
- at a stretch,
- boundlessly,
- ceaselessly,
- connectedly,
- constantly,
- continually,
- continuously,
- cumulatively,
- cyclically,
- day after day,
- endlessly,
- enduringly,
- eternally,
- everlastingly,
- for an age,
- for life,
- for long,
- forever,
- hour after hour,
- illimitably,
- immeasurably,
- immensely,
- in perpetuity,
- incalculably,
- incessantly,
- incomprehensibly,
- indestructibly,
- infinitely,
- innumerably,
- limitlessly,
- long,
- long ago,
- long since,
- measurelessly,
- monotonously,
- month after month,
- morning,
- never-endingly,
- noon,
- on a stretch,
- on and on,
- on end,
- perdurably,
- perennially,
- permanently,
- perpetually,
- persistently,
- protractedly,
- repetitively,
- round the clock,
- since time began,
- steadily,
- the livelong day,
- till doomsday,
- time immemorial,
- time without end,
- to infinity,
- together,
- unbrokenly,
- unceasingly,
- undyingly,
- unendingly,
- unintermittently,
- uninterruptedly,
- unrelievedly,
- without a break,
- without cease,
- without end,
- without limit,
- without stopping,
- world without end,
- year after year
- abide,
- bide,
- carry on,
- carry through,
- continue,
- continue to be,
- defeat time,
- defy time,
- dwell,
- endure,
- exist,
- extend,
- go on,
- hold,
- hold on,
- hold out,
- keep,
- keep on,
- last,
- last long,
- last out,
- live,
- live on,
- live through,
- maintain,
- perennate,
- persist,
- prevail,
- remain,
- run,
- run on,
- stand,
- stay,
- stay on,
- subsist,
- survive,
- sustain,
- tarry,
- tide over,
- wear,
- wear well
- diary
collapse
- a personal journal (as a physical object)
- a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations related words >
- Clio,
- Domesday Book,
- Muse of history,
- account book,
- address book,
- adventures,
- adversaria,
- album,
- annals,
- annual,
- appointment calendar,
- appointment schedule,
- autobiography,
- bimonthly,
- biographical sketch,
- biography,
- biweekly,
- blankbook,
- blotter,
- calendar,
- case history,
- cashbook,
- catalog,
- check sheet,
- chronicle,
- chronicles,
- chronology,
- classified catalog,
- clock card,
- commonplace book,
- confessions,
- court calendar,
- curriculum vitae,
- daily,
- date slip,
- datebook,
- daybook,
- desk calendar,
- diptych,
- docket,
- engagement book,
- ephemeris,
- experiences,
- fortnightly,
- fortunes,
- gazette,
- hagiography,
- hagiology,
- historiography,
- history,
- journal,
- ledger,
- legend,
- life,
- life and letters,
- life story,
- log,
- logbook,
- loose-leaf notebook,
- magazine,
- martyrology,
- memo book,
- memoir,
- memoirs,
- memorabilia,
- memorandum book,
- memorial,
- memorials,
- memory book,
- monthly,
- necrology,
- newsmagazine,
- notebook,
- obituary,
- organ,
- pad,
- periodical,
- petty cashbook,
- photobiography,
- pictorial,
- pocket notebook,
- pocketbook,
- police blotter,
- profile,
- quarterly,
- record,
- register,
- registry,
- resume,
- review,
- scrapbook,
- scratch pad,
- serial,
- slick magazine,
- spiral notebook,
- story,
- table,
- tablet,
- theory of history,
- time book,
- time chart,
- time scale,
- time schedule,
- time sheet,
- time study,
- timecard,
- timetable,
- trade magazine,
- triptych,
- weekly,
- workbook,
- writing tablet,
- yearbook
- trifle
collapse
- sponge cake spread with jam and soaked in wine; served with a custard sauce related words >
- Charlotte,
- Danish pastry,
- French pastry,
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- abandon,
- bagatelle,
- baklava,
- bauble,
- be foolish,
- be stupid,
- bean,
- beguile the time,
- bibelot,
- bill and coo,
- bit,
- blintz,
- brass farthing,
- bric-a-brac,
- burn daylight,
- button,
- carrot pudding,
- cent,
- chaff,
- chicken feed,
- chickenshit,
- chocolate eclair,
- chocolate mousse,
- cipher,
- clown,
- clown around,
- consume time,
- copulate,
- coquet,
- cream puff,
- curio,
- custard,
- cut,
- dab,
- dabble,
- dally,
- dally away,
- dandle,
- dash,
- details,
- diddle,
- diddle away,
- doodle,
- dowdy,
- dribble away,
- drivel away,
- drop,
- dud,
- duff,
- dummy,
- eclair,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- fiddle,
- fiddle with,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fidget,
- fidget with,
- fig,
- finger with,
- flan,
- fleabite,
- flirt,
- flirt with,
- folderol,
- fool,
- fool around,
- fool away,
- fool with,
- footle,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- fritter away,
- fritter away time,
- frivol,
- froth,
- gaud,
- get funny,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- gimcrackery,
- go haywire,
- goldbrick,
- goof off,
- hair,
- halfpenny,
- hardly anything,
- hill of beans,
- hollow man,
- horse around,
- idle,
- idle away,
- invite ridicule,
- iota,
- jackstraw,
- jerk off,
- jest,
- joke,
- jot,
- jump,
- junket,
- kickshaw,
- kid around,
- kill time,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- lay figure,
- lead on,
- leave,
- leave loose ends,
- leave undone,
- let alone,
- let be,
- let dangle,
- let go,
- little,
- loiter,
- lollygag,
- lose time,
- make love,
- make out,
- malinger,
- man of straw,
- mash,
- mere nothing,
- mess around,
- minikin,
- minutiae,
- miss,
- mite,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- monkey,
- monkey around,
- mousse,
- muck,
- mucker,
- muddle away,
- nebbish,
- neck,
- next to nothing,
- nobody,
- nonentity,
- nothing,
- novelty,
- nullity,
- omit,
- pandowdy,
- pass over,
- pass the time,
- pass up,
- pastry,
- pasty,
- patisserie,
- patty,
- patty-shell,
- peanuts,
- peppercorn,
- pet,
- philander,
- picayune,
- piddle,
- pie,
- pin,
- pinch,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- piss away,
- play,
- play around,
- play the buffoon,
- play the fool,
- play with,
- plaything,
- plum pudding,
- potter,
- potter away,
- pretermit,
- procrastinate,
- pudding,
- puff,
- puppet,
- pushover,
- putter,
- quiche,
- rap,
- red cent,
- rennet,
- rosette,
- row of pins,
- rubbish,
- rush,
- scintilla,
- shade,
- shirk,
- shit,
- skip,
- slack,
- smack,
- small beer,
- small change,
- smatter,
- smidgen,
- smidgin,
- smooch,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- soupcon,
- spice,
- spoon,
- steamed pudding,
- straw,
- string along,
- strudel,
- suggestion,
- suspicion,
- sweet-talk,
- syllabub,
- tad,
- tapioca pudding,
- tart,
- thing of naught,
- timbale,
- tinker,
- tipsy cake,
- tittle,
- tomfool,
- touch,
- toy,
- toy with,
- trace,
- trash,
- trifle away,
- trifle with,
- trifles,
- trinket,
- trivia,
- triviality,
- trumpery,
- tuppence,
- turnover,
- twiddle,
- two cents,
- twopence,
- vanilla pudding,
- vol-au-vent,
- wanton,
- waste time,
- whatnot,
- whiff,
- while away,
- whim-wham,
- whisper sweet nothings,
- whit,
- zero
- vacation
collapse
- the act of making something legally void
- leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure; "we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico"
- spend or take a vacation related words >
- AWOL,
- Christmas,
- French leave,
- Sunday,
- abeyance,
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- abrogation,
- abscondence,
- absence,
- absence without leave,
- absentation,
- absenteeism,
- absenting,
- annulment,
- break,
- breathing space,
- caesura,
- cancel,
- canceling,
- cancellation,
- cassation,
- cease-fire,
- coffee break,
- countermand,
- counterorder,
- cut,
- day off,
- default,
- defeasance,
- departure,
- disappearance,
- downtime,
- drop,
- escape,
- excused absence,
- fleeing,
- furlough,
- go on furlough,
- go on leave,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- hesitation,
- holiday,
- hooky,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- invalidation,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leave,
- leave of absence,
- leaving,
- letup,
- liberty,
- lull,
- make holiday,
- nonappearance,
- nonattendance,
- nullification,
- off-time,
- paid holiday,
- paid vacation,
- pause,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- quiet spell,
- recall,
- recantation,
- recess,
- relief,
- remission,
- renege,
- repeal,
- rescinding,
- rescindment,
- rescission,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting point,
- retraction,
- reversal,
- revocation,
- revoke,
- revokement,
- running away,
- sabbatical,
- sabbatical leave,
- sabbatical year,
- setting aside,
- shore leave,
- sick leave,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- suspension,
- take a holiday,
- take leave,
- time off,
- time out,
- truancy,
- truantism,
- truce,
- unexcused absence,
- vacatur,
- voidance,
- voiding,
- waiver,
- waiving,
- weekend,
- withdrawal,
- write-off
- enlist
collapse
- join the military
- engage somebody to enter the army related words >
- affiliate,
- affiliate with,
- alternate,
- associate,
- bring,
- call up,
- carry,
- combine,
- come into,
- commandeer,
- conscript,
- cover,
- creep in,
- decide,
- detach,
- detach for service,
- determine,
- dispose,
- do a hitch,
- do a stint,
- do a tour,
- do time,
- draft,
- employ,
- engage,
- enroll,
- enter,
- fill in for,
- gather,
- get,
- get into,
- get to do,
- go into,
- have a go,
- have tenure,
- hire,
- hold office,
- impress,
- inaugurate,
- incline,
- induce,
- induct,
- influence,
- initiate,
- install,
- instate,
- interest in,
- invest,
- join,
- join up,
- keep a watch,
- lead,
- league with,
- levy,
- list,
- lure,
- make available,
- mobilize,
- muster,
- muster in,
- obtain,
- ordain,
- organize,
- press,
- procure,
- prompt,
- raise,
- re-up,
- recruit,
- reenlist,
- register,
- relieve,
- retain,
- secure,
- serve time,
- sign on,
- sign up,
- sneak in,
- spell,
- spell off,
- summon,
- sway,
- take out membership,
- take turns,
- take up membership,
- team up with,
- team with,
- tempt,
- time off,
- volunteer
- prophecy
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- knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)
- a prediction uttered under divine inspiration related words >
- actuarial prediction,
- afflatus,
- aftertime,
- afteryears,
- apocalypse,
- augury,
- by-and-by,
- cast,
- course ahead,
- crystal ball,
- determinism,
- direct communication,
- distant future,
- divination,
- divine inspiration,
- divine revelation,
- epiphany,
- eventuality,
- expectation,
- foreboding,
- forecast,
- forecasting,
- foreshowing,
- foresight,
- foretelling,
- forward look,
- future,
- future tense,
- futurism,
- futurity,
- guesswork,
- hereafter,
- immediate future,
- immediate prospect,
- imminence,
- improbability,
- inspiration,
- mystical experience,
- mysticism,
- near future,
- offing,
- omen,
- oracle,
- outlook,
- posteriority,
- prediction,
- prefiguration,
- prefigurement,
- prefiguring,
- presage,
- presaging,
- presentiment,
- preshowing,
- presignifying,
- prognosis,
- prognostication,
- project,
- promise,
- prophesying,
- prospect,
- prospectus,
- revelation,
- soothsay,
- soothsaying,
- speculation,
- statistical prediction,
- the future,
- the morrow,
- the sweet by-and-by,
- theophania,
- theophany,
- theopneustia,
- theopneusty,
- time ahead,
- time just ahead,
- time to come,
- tomorrow,
- vaticination,
- vision,
- weird
- filibuster
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- a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
- a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes
- obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- be dilatory,
- chalk talk,
- cloture,
- committee consideration,
- constitute,
- debate,
- declamation,
- decree,
- deliberation,
- diatribe,
- division,
- enact,
- enact laws,
- eulogy,
- exhortation,
- filibusterer,
- filibustering,
- filing,
- first reading,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- frustrater,
- funeral oration,
- gain time,
- get the floor,
- hang,
- hang back,
- hang fire,
- harangue,
- have the floor,
- hesitate,
- hinderer,
- hold off,
- hortatory address,
- impeder,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- introduction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- kill,
- legislate,
- lobby through,
- logroll,
- logrolling,
- make time,
- marplot,
- negativist,
- obstructer,
- obstructionist,
- oration,
- ordain,
- outlast,
- outspeak,
- outtalk,
- pass,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pigeonhole,
- pitch,
- play for time,
- pocket,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- procrastinate,
- public speech,
- put in force,
- put through,
- railroad through,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- roll call,
- roll logs,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- second reading,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- stall,
- stall for time,
- stall off,
- steamroller methods,
- stooge around,
- table,
- tabling,
- take the floor,
- talk,
- talk against time,
- talk down,
- talkathon,
- temporize,
- third reading,
- thwarter,
- tirade,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- veto,
- vote,
- yield the floor
- clock watcher
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- a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time related words >
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- eye-servant,
- faineant,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- laggard,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- malingerer,
- mope,
- moper,
- old soldier,
- potterer,
- putterer,
- shirk,
- shirker,
- skulk,
- skulker,
- slacker,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- soldier,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- tax dodger,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- trifler,
- truant,
- waiter on Providence,
- welsher
- unburden
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- take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the donkey"
- free or relieve (someone) of a burden related words >
- alleviate,
- be light,
- break bulk,
- clear,
- disburden,
- discharge,
- disembarrass,
- disencumber,
- dump,
- ease,
- have little weight,
- kick the beam,
- lighten,
- lose,
- make light,
- make lighter,
- off-load,
- reduce weight,
- relieve,
- rid,
- set at ease,
- shake off,
- throw off,
- unballast,
- unfreight,
- unlade,
- unload,
- unpack,
- unship,
- weigh lightly
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