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dead letter
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mail that can neither be delivered nor returned
the state of something that has outlived its relevance
related words >
Pastoral Epistle
,
aerogram
,
aimlessness
,
air letter
,
airgraph
,
billet-doux
,
bull
,
chain letter
,
dimissorial
,
dimissory letter
,
drop letter
,
emptiness
,
empty sound
,
encyclical
,
fan letter
,
form letter
,
futility
,
inanity
,
insignificance
,
letter of credit
,
letter of introduction
,
letters credential
,
letters of marque
,
letters of request
,
letters overt
,
letters patent
,
letters rogatory
,
love letter
,
meaninglessness
,
mere noise
,
monitory
,
newsletter
,
nixie
,
noise
,
nonsensicality
,
nullity
,
open letter
,
pastoral letter
,
phatic communion
,
poison-pen letter
,
purposelessness
,
round robin
,
senselessness
,
unmeaningness
,
unsignificancy
mud
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slanderous remarks or charges
water soaked soil; soft wet earth
plaster with mud
related words >
baygall
,
bog
,
bottom
,
bottomland
,
bottoms
,
buffalo wallow
,
clay
,
dirt
,
dust
,
everglade
,
fen
,
fenland
,
glade
,
grime
,
gumbo
,
hog wallow
,
holm
,
marais
,
marish
,
marsh
,
marshland
,
meadow
,
mere
,
mire
,
moor
,
moorland
,
morass
,
moss
,
muck
,
mud flat
,
muddle
,
muddy
,
ooze
,
peat bog
,
quagmire
,
quicksand
,
rile
,
salt marsh
,
slime
,
slip
,
slob
,
slob land
,
slop
,
slosh
,
slough
,
sludge
,
slush
,
smut
,
soot
,
sough
,
squash
,
sump
,
swale
,
swamp
,
swampland
,
swill
,
taiga
,
wallow
,
wash
grandiloquence
collapse
related words >
affectation
,
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
big talk
,
blowing up
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
command of language
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
expression of ideas
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
fashion
,
feeling for words
,
form of speech
,
grace of expression
,
hard word
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
jawbreaker
,
lexiphanicism
,
literary style
,
long word
,
magnification
,
manner
,
manner of speaking
,
mannerism
,
mode
,
mode of expression
,
orotundity
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
peculiarity
,
personal style
,
polysyllable
,
pomposity
,
pompousness
,
pontificality
,
pontification
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
rhetoric
,
self-importance
,
sensationalism
,
sense of language
,
sesquipedalian
,
strain
,
stretching
,
stuffiness
,
style
,
stylistic analysis
,
stylistics
,
superlative
,
tall talk
,
the grand style
,
the plain style
,
the sublime
,
touting
,
travesty
,
trick
,
turgidity
,
vein
,
way
prittle prattle
collapse
related words >
babble
,
babblement
,
bavardage
,
be closeted with
,
bibble-babble
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blah-blah
,
blather
,
blether
,
blethers
,
cackle
,
caquet
,
caqueterie
,
chat
,
chatter
,
chitter-chatter
,
clack
,
clatter
,
coze
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gam
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
gossip
,
guff
,
hot air
,
idle talk
,
jabber
,
make conversation
,
mere talk
,
natter
,
nonsense talk
,
palaver
,
prate
,
prating
,
prattle
,
talkee-talkee
,
tete-a-tete
,
tittle-tattle
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
visit
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
non sequitur
collapse
(logic) a conclusion that does not follow from the premises
a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it
related words >
argument
,
argument by analogy
,
argumentum ad baculum
,
argumentum ad captandum
,
argumentum ad hominem
,
bad case
,
begging the question
,
broken thread
,
brokenness
,
circular argument
,
claptrap
,
crowd-pleasing argument
,
disconnectedness
,
disconnection
,
discontinuance
,
discontinuation
,
discontinuity
,
discontinuousness
,
discreteness
,
disjunction
,
empty words
,
episode
,
fallacy
,
fitfulness
,
formal fallacy
,
hysteron proteron
,
incoherence
,
incompleteness
,
insincere argument
,
intermittence
,
irregularity
,
logical fallacy
,
material fallacy
,
mere rhetoric
,
moonshine
,
noncontinuance
,
nonlinearity
,
nonseriality
,
nonuniformity
,
paralogism
,
parenthesis
,
petitio principii
,
philosophism
,
pseudosyllogism
,
solecism
,
sophism
,
sophistry
,
verbal fallacy
,
weak point
paralogism
collapse
an unintentionally invalid argument
related words >
Aristotelian sorites
,
Goclenian sorites
,
argument
,
argument by analogy
,
argumentum ad baculum
,
argumentum ad captandum
,
argumentum ad hominem
,
bad case
,
begging the question
,
categorical syllogism
,
circular argument
,
claptrap
,
crowd-pleasing argument
,
dilemma
,
empty words
,
enthymeme
,
fallacy
,
figure
,
formal fallacy
,
hysteron proteron
,
insincere argument
,
logical fallacy
,
material fallacy
,
mere rhetoric
,
mode
,
modus tollens
,
mood
,
moonshine
,
non sequitur
,
petitio principii
,
philosophism
,
prosyllogism
,
pseudosyllogism
,
rule
,
rule of deduction
,
solecism
,
sophism
,
sophistry
,
sorites
,
syllogism
,
verbal fallacy
,
weak point
airs
collapse
affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me"
related words >
affectation
,
affectedness
,
airs and graces
,
arrogance
,
artificiality
,
clannishness
,
cliquishness
,
contempt
,
contemptuousness
,
contumely
,
despite
,
disdain
,
disdainfulness
,
disparagement
,
exclusiveness
,
facade
,
false front
,
false show
,
feigned belief
,
front
,
hauteur
,
highfaluting ways
,
hypocrisy
,
image
,
insincerity
,
insult
,
lofty airs
,
mannerism
,
mere show
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretensions
,
prunes and prisms
,
public image
,
put-on
,
putting on airs
,
ridicule
,
scorn
,
scornfulness
,
sham
,
show
,
side
,
sniffiness
,
snobbishness
,
snootiness
,
snottiness
,
sovereign contempt
,
stylishness
,
superciliousness
,
swank
,
toploftiness
,
unnaturalness
,
vain pretensions
,
vaporing
oaf
collapse
related words >
babe
,
baboon
,
beast
,
blockhead
,
blunderbuss
,
blunderer
,
blunderhead
,
boob
,
booby
,
boor
,
botcher
,
bruiser
,
brute
,
bull
,
bumbler
,
bumpkin
,
bungler
,
child
,
child of nature
,
chump
,
clod
,
clodhopper
,
clodknocker
,
clot
,
clown
,
dolt
,
dolthead
,
dove
,
dub
,
dupe
,
fathead
,
fumbler
,
galoot
,
gaum
,
gawk
,
gawky
,
gorilla
,
gowk
,
hayseed
,
hick
,
hulk
,
infant
,
ingenue
,
innocent
,
klutz
,
lamb
,
lobster
,
looby
,
lout
,
lubber
,
lug
,
lummox
,
lump
,
meathead
,
mere child
,
missing link
,
noble savage
,
ox
,
palooka
,
rube
,
simple soul
,
slob
,
slouch
,
slubberer
,
unsophisticate
,
yokel
epidermis
collapse
the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates
related words >
blastoderm
,
border
,
circumference
,
corium
,
cortex
,
covering
,
crust
,
cursoriness
,
cutis
,
cutis vera
,
derma
,
dermis
,
ectoblast
,
ectoderm
,
endothelium
,
entoderm
,
envelope
,
epiblast
,
epithelium
,
exterior
,
exteriority
,
external
,
facade
,
face
,
facet
,
fringe
,
front
,
gloss
,
hypodermis
,
integument
,
lineaments
,
mere scratch
,
mesoderm
,
no depth
,
no water
,
outer face
,
outer layer
,
outer side
,
outer skin
,
outline
,
outside
,
pavement epithelium
,
periphery
,
pinprick
,
rind
,
scarfskin
,
scratch
,
shallowness
,
shell
,
shoaliness
,
skin
,
slightness
,
superficiality
,
superficies
,
superstratum
,
surface
,
top
,
triviality
,
true skin
,
veneer
technicality
collapse
a detail that is considered insignificant
related words >
a little thing
,
area
,
bag
,
complexity
,
complexness
,
complication
,
convolution
,
crabbedness
,
cup of tea
,
entanglement
,
field
,
forte
,
hardly anything
,
inessential
,
insignificancy
,
intricacy
,
intricateness
,
involution
,
involvement
,
jargon word
,
line
,
long suit
,
main interest
,
manner
,
marginal matter
,
matter of indifference
,
mere nothing
,
metier
,
minor matter
,
naught
,
nihility
,
no great matter
,
nothing
,
nothing in particular
,
nothing to signify
,
nullity
,
paltry affair
,
perplexity
,
pet subject
,
peu de chose
,
pursuit
,
ramification
,
rien du tout
,
scarcely anything
,
specialism
,
speciality
,
specialization
,
specialty
,
strong point
,
style
,
subtlety
,
tanglement
,
technical term
,
thing
,
thing of naught
,
type
,
vocation
,
way
,
weakness
inkling
collapse
a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no inkling what was about to happen"
related words >
bare suggestion
,
broad hint
,
clue
,
cue
,
dash
,
gentle hint
,
gesture
,
glimmer
,
glimmering
,
half an idea
,
hazy idea
,
hint
,
idea
,
implication
,
impression
,
index
,
indication
,
infusion
,
innuendo
,
insinuation
,
intimation
,
kick
,
look
,
mere notion
,
nod
,
notion
,
nudge
,
prompt
,
sauce
,
scent
,
seasoning
,
shade
,
sign
,
signal
,
smack
,
sneaking suspicion
,
soupcon
,
spice
,
spoor
,
sprinkling
,
suggestion
,
suspicion
,
symptom
,
taint
,
telltale
,
tempering
,
thought
,
tinct
,
tincture
,
tinge
,
tint
,
tip
,
tip-off
,
touch
,
trace
,
track
,
vague idea
,
vestige
,
whisper
,
wind
,
wink
superficiality
collapse
lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something; "he ignored the wound because of its superficiality"
related words >
a little learning
,
absentmindedness
,
amateurism
,
apparent character
,
appearance
,
appearances
,
aridity
,
barrenness
,
big deal
,
bloodlessness
,
carelessness
,
characterlessness
,
colorlessness
,
cursoriness
,
deadness
,
dilettantism
,
dilettantship
,
dismalness
,
display
,
disregard
,
disregardfulness
,
distraction
,
dragginess
,
dreariness
,
dryness
,
dullness
,
dustiness
,
effeteness
,
emptiness
,
epidermis
,
etiolation
,
exteriority
,
exteriors
,
external appearance
,
externality
,
externalness
,
externals
,
extrinsicality
,
facade
,
flatness
,
flightiness
,
flimsiness
,
flippancy
,
fluffiness
,
foolishness
,
foreignness
,
frivolity
,
frivolousness
,
front
,
frothiness
,
futility
,
gaudiness
,
giddiness
,
glimmering
,
glimpse
,
gloss
,
half-learning
,
heaviness
,
heedlessness
,
hollowness
,
idleness
,
imperfect knowledge
,
inadvertence
,
inadvertency
,
inanity
,
inattention
,
inattentiveness
,
inconsideration
,
incuriosity
,
indifference
,
inexcitability
,
inobservance
,
insipidity
,
insipidness
,
jejunity
,
lack of depth
,
leadenness
,
levity
,
lifelessness
,
lightmindedness
,
lightness
,
lowness of spirit
,
manner
,
mere externals
,
mere scratch
,
meretriciousness
,
mien
,
negligence
,
no depth
,
no water
,
nonobservance
,
nugacity
,
obliviousness
,
openness
,
ostent
,
outerness
,
outward appearance
,
outward show
,
outwardness
,
paleness
,
pallor
,
pinprick
,
pointlessness
,
pokiness
,
ponderousness
,
public image
,
regardlessness
,
rind
,
sciolism
,
scratch
,
seeming
,
semi-learning
,
shallow-wittedness
,
shallowness
,
shoaliness
,
show
,
silliness
,
skin
,
slenderness
,
slight knowledge
,
slightness
,
slowness
,
smattering
,
smattering of ignorance
,
smattering of knowledge
,
solemnity
,
speciousness
,
spiritlessness
,
sterility
,
stiffness
,
stodginess
,
stuffiness
,
superficies
,
surface
,
surface appearance
,
surface show
,
surface-scratching
,
tastelessness
,
tediousness
,
thinness
,
thoughtlessness
,
triflingness
,
triteness
,
triviality
,
trivialness
,
unalertness
,
unawareness
,
unconsciousness
,
unheedfulness
,
unintentiveness
,
uninterestingness
,
unliveliness
,
unmindfulness
,
unobservance
,
unprofoundness
,
unprofundity
,
unwariness
,
unwatchfulness
,
vacuity
,
vague notion
,
vain show
,
vanity
,
vapidity
,
vapidness
,
veneer
,
volatility
,
woodenness
belie
collapse
related words >
abjure
,
assert the contrary
,
be contrary to
,
blow sky-high
,
blow up
,
burlesque
,
call into question
,
camouflage
,
caricature
,
challenge
,
color
,
conceal
,
contest
,
contradict
,
contravene
,
controvert
,
counter
,
cross
,
deflate
,
deny
,
disaffirm
,
disallow
,
disavow
,
disclaim
,
disconfirm
,
discredit
,
disguise
,
disown
,
disprove
,
dispute
,
distort
,
dress up
,
embellish
,
embroider
,
exaggerate
,
explode
,
expose
,
falsify
,
forswear
,
fudge
,
gainsay
,
garble
,
gild
,
gloss
,
gloss over
,
hide
,
impugn
,
invalidate
,
join issue upon
,
mask
,
miscite
,
miscolor
,
misquote
,
misreport
,
misrepresent
,
misstate
,
misteach
,
negate
,
negative
,
not accept
,
not admit
,
nullify
,
oppose
,
oppugn
,
overdraw
,
overstate
,
parody
,
pervert
,
prove the contrary
,
puncture
,
rebut
,
recant
,
refuse to admit
,
refute
,
reject
,
renounce
,
repudiate
,
retract
,
revoke
,
show up
,
slant
,
strain
,
take back
,
take issue with
,
titivate
,
traverse
,
travesty
,
trick out
,
twist
,
undercut
,
understate
,
varnish
,
warp
,
whitewash
,
wrench
puddle
collapse
a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry
make a puddle by splashing water
mess around, as in a liquid or paste; "The children are having fun puddling in paint"
work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
dip into mud before planting; "puddle young plants"
subject to puddling or form by puddling; "puddle iron"
wade or dabble in a puddle; "The ducks and geese puddled in the backyard"
related words >
artificial lake
,
bayou lake
,
chuckhole
,
cistern
,
dam
,
dead water
,
dike
,
doodle
,
etang
,
farm pond
,
fishpond
,
freshwater lake
,
glacial lake
,
hog wallow
,
inland sea
,
lagoon
,
laguna
,
lake
,
lakelet
,
landlocked water
,
linn
,
loblolly
,
loch
,
lough
,
mere
,
mess
,
mess around
,
millpond
,
millpool
,
muckhole
,
mud puddle
,
mudhole
,
nyanza
,
oxbow lake
,
plash
,
pond
,
pondlet
,
pool
,
potter
,
putter
,
reservoir
,
salina
,
salt pond
,
slop
,
slough
,
stagnant water
,
standing water
,
still water
,
sump
,
tank
,
tarn
,
tidal pond
,
tinker
,
volcanic lake
,
water hole
,
water pocket
,
well
inflation
collapse
the act of filling something with air
(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
a general and progressive increase in prices; "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
related words >
Barnumism
,
access
,
accession
,
accretion
,
accrual
,
accruement
,
accumulation
,
addition
,
advance
,
affectation
,
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
appreciation
,
ascent
,
augmentation
,
ballooning
,
ballyhoo
,
bedizenment
,
big price tag
,
big talk
,
bloat
,
bloatedness
,
bloating
,
blowing up
,
boom
,
boost
,
bottom price
,
breaking point
,
broadening
,
buildup
,
burlesque
,
business index
,
caricature
,
ceiling
,
ceiling price
,
command of language
,
consumer price index
,
convolution
,
cost-of-living index
,
crescendo
,
demand curve
,
development
,
diastole
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
distension
,
dropsy
,
edema
,
elevation
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
expression of ideas
,
extension
,
extortionate price
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
extreme tension
,
famine price
,
fancy price
,
fashion
,
feeling for words
,
flashiness
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
flatus
,
flood
,
floor
,
floor price
,
form of speech
,
fulsomeness
,
gain
,
garishness
,
gassiness
,
gaudiness
,
good price
,
grace of expression
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
greatening
,
growth
,
gush
,
heightening
,
high price
,
high-flown diction
,
hike
,
hot economy
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
increase
,
increment
,
inflatedness
,
inflationary gap
,
inflationary pressure
,
inflationary prices
,
inflationary spiral
,
inordinacy
,
intumescence
,
jump
,
leap
,
lexiphanicism
,
literary style
,
loftiness
,
luridness
,
luxury price
,
magnification
,
magniloquence
,
manner
,
manner of speaking
,
mannerism
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
meteorism
,
mode
,
mode of expression
,
mounting
,
multiplication
,
orotundity
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
overdistension
,
overdrawing
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overexpansion
,
overextension
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
overstrain
,
overstraining
,
overstretching
,
peculiarity
,
personal style
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomposity
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontificality
,
pontification
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
pretty penny
,
price ceiling
,
price index
,
price level
,
prodigality
,
productiveness
,
profuseness
,
proliferation
,
prose run mad
,
puff
,
puffery
,
puffiness
,
puffing
,
puffing up
,
rack rent
,
raise
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
rise
,
rising prices
,
scarcity price
,
self-importance
,
sensationalism
,
sense of language
,
sententiousness
,
showiness
,
snapping point
,
snowballing
,
soaring costs
,
spiraling prices
,
spread
,
stiff price
,
stiltedness
,
strain
,
straining
,
stretch
,
stretching
,
stuffiness
,
style
,
stylistic analysis
,
stylistics
,
superlative
,
surge
,
swell
,
swellage
,
swelling
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tension
,
the grand style
,
the plain style
,
the sublime
,
top price
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
touting
,
travesty
,
trick
,
tumefaction
,
tumescence
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
turgidness
,
tympanism
,
tympany
,
up
,
upping
,
upsurge
,
upswing
,
uptrend
,
upturn
,
vein
,
waxing
,
way
,
widening
,
windiness
hyperbole
collapse
extravagant exaggeration
related words >
abandon
,
abstractionism
,
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
big talk
,
blowing up
,
boundlessness
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
coloring
,
deformation
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
distortion
,
egregiousness
,
embellishment
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
enormousness
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
excessiveness
,
exorbitance
,
exorbitancy
,
expansion
,
expressionism
,
extravagance
,
extravagancy
,
extreme
,
extremes
,
extremism
,
extremity
,
fabulousness
,
false coloring
,
falsification
,
garbling
,
giantism
,
gigantism
,
gluttony
,
grandiloquence
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbolism
,
hypertrophy
,
immoderacy
,
immoderateness
,
immoderation
,
inaccuracy
,
incontinence
,
inflation
,
injustice
,
inordinacy
,
inordinance
,
inordinateness
,
intemperance
,
intemperateness
,
litotes
,
magnification
,
miscoloring
,
misdrawing
,
mispainting
,
misquotation
,
misreport
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
misteaching
,
monstrousness
,
nimiety
,
nonrealism
,
outrageousness
,
overdevelopment
,
overdrawing
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overgreatness
,
overgrowth
,
overindulgence
,
overkill
,
overlargeness
,
overmuch
,
overmuchness
,
overstatement
,
perversion
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
radicalism
,
sensationalism
,
slanting
,
stretching
,
superlative
,
tall talk
,
too much
,
too-muchness
,
touting
,
travesty
,
twisting
,
unconscionableness
,
understatement
,
undueness
,
unreasonableness
,
unrestrainedness
stretching
collapse
act of expanding by lengthening or widening
related words >
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
big talk
,
bloat
,
bloatedness
,
bloating
,
blowing up
,
breaking point
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
diastole
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
distension
,
doziness
,
dropsy
,
drowsiness
,
edema
,
elongation
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
extension
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
extreme tension
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
flatus
,
gassiness
,
grandiloquence
,
heaviness
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
intumescence
,
languor
,
lengthening
,
lethargy
,
magnification
,
meteorism
,
oscitancy
,
oscitation
,
overdistension
,
overdrawing
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overexpansion
,
overextension
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
overstrain
,
overstraining
,
overstretching
,
pandiculation
,
prodigality
,
production
,
profuseness
,
prolongation
,
protraction
,
puff
,
puffery
,
puffiness
,
puffing
,
puffing up
,
sensationalism
,
sleepiness
,
snapping point
,
somnolence
,
somnolency
,
strain
,
straining
,
stretch
,
stringing out
,
superlative
,
swell
,
swellage
,
swelling
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tension
,
touting
,
travesty
,
tumefaction
,
tumescence
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
turgidness
,
tympanism
,
tympany
,
windiness
,
yawning
idle talk
collapse
related words >
babble
,
babblement
,
back-fence gossip
,
bavardage
,
bibble-babble
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blah-blah
,
blather
,
blether
,
blethers
,
cackle
,
caquet
,
caqueterie
,
chat
,
chatter
,
chitchat
,
chitter-chatter
,
clack
,
clatter
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
gossip
,
gossiping
,
gossipmongering
,
gossipry
,
groundless rumor
,
guff
,
hot air
,
jabber
,
mere talk
,
natter
,
newsmongering
,
nonsense talk
,
palaver
,
piece of gossip
,
prate
,
prating
,
prattle
,
prittle-prattle
,
story
,
tale
,
talebearing
,
taletelling
,
talk
,
talkee-talkee
,
tattle
,
tittle-tattle
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
meadow
collapse
related words >
baygall
,
bog
,
bottom
,
bottomland
,
bottoms
,
buffalo wallow
,
campo
,
everglade
,
fen
,
fenland
,
field
,
glade
,
grass
,
grass veld
,
grassland
,
grazing
,
haugh
,
haughland
,
hog wallow
,
holm
,
lea
,
llano
,
marais
,
marish
,
marsh
,
marshland
,
mead
,
meadow land
,
mere
,
mire
,
moor
,
moorland
,
morass
,
moss
,
mud
,
mud flat
,
pampa
,
pampas
,
park
,
pasturage
,
pasture
,
pasture land
,
peat bog
,
prairie
,
quagmire
,
quicksand
,
range
,
salt marsh
,
savanna
,
slob land
,
slough
,
sough
,
steppe
,
steppeland
,
sump
,
swale
,
swamp
,
swampland
,
taiga
,
vega
,
veld
,
wallow
,
wash
glade
collapse
related words >
Lebensraum
,
air space
,
back country
,
baygall
,
bog
,
bottom
,
bottomland
,
bottoms
,
buffalo wallow
,
clear space
,
clearance
,
clearing
,
desert
,
distant prospect
,
empty view
,
everglade
,
fen
,
fenland
,
hog wallow
,
holm
,
living space
,
marais
,
marish
,
marsh
,
marshland
,
meadow
,
mere
,
mire
,
moor
,
moorland
,
morass
,
moss
,
mud
,
mud flat
,
open country
,
open space
,
outback
,
peat bog
,
plain
,
prairie
,
quagmire
,
quicksand
,
salt marsh
,
slob land
,
slough
,
sough
,
steppe
,
sump
,
swale
,
swamp
,
swampland
,
taiga
,
terrain
,
territory
,
wallow
,
wash
,
wide-open spaces
,
wilderness
sloth
collapse
apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
a disinclination to work or exert yourself
related words >
Chiroptera
,
Lagomorpha
,
Primates
,
Rodentia
,
accidia
,
acedia
,
aloofness
,
anger
,
apathy
,
army
,
ataraxia
,
ataraxy
,
avarice
,
avaritia
,
benumbedness
,
blah
,
blahs
,
boredom
,
bunch
,
carelessness
,
casualness
,
cautiousness
,
cave of Trophonius
,
cave of despair
,
circumspection
,
colony
,
comatoseness
,
creeping
,
deadly sin
,
deliberateness
,
deliberation
,
despair
,
desperateness
,
desperation
,
despondency
,
detachment
,
dilatoriness
,
disconsolateness
,
disinterest
,
dispassion
,
disregard
,
disregardfulness
,
do-nothingness
,
drawl
,
drift
,
drive
,
drove
,
drowsiness
,
dullness
,
easygoingness
,
enervation
,
ennui
,
envy
,
ergophobia
,
faineancy
,
faineantise
,
fatigue
,
flock
,
foot-dragging
,
forlornness
,
gam
,
gang
,
gluttony
,
greed
,
gula
,
heartlessness
,
heaviness
,
hebetude
,
heedlessness
,
herd
,
hoboism
,
hopelessness
,
host
,
idleness
,
idling
,
inanimation
,
inappetence
,
inattention
,
inattentiveness
,
incuriosity
,
indifference
,
indiscrimination
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
inexcitability
,
inexertion
,
insouciance
,
invidia
,
ira
,
jadedness
,
just being
,
kennel
,
lack of affect
,
lack of appetite
,
lackadaisicalness
,
laggardness
,
languidness
,
languishment
,
languor
,
languorousness
,
lassitude
,
laze
,
laziness
,
lazing
,
leisureliness
,
lenitude
,
lentitude
,
lentor
,
lethargicalness
,
lethargy
,
lifelessness
,
listlessness
,
litter
,
loafing
,
lotus-eating
,
lust
,
luxuria
,
mere existence
,
mere tropism
,
mindlessness
,
negligence
,
no exit
,
no way
,
no way out
,
nonchalance
,
numbness
,
oscitancy
,
pack
,
passiveness
,
passivity
,
phlegm
,
phlegmaticalness
,
phlegmaticness
,
plucklessness
,
pococurantism
,
pod
,
pokiness
,
pride
,
recklessness
,
regardlessness
,
reluctance
,
remissness
,
resignation
,
resignedness
,
satedness
,
school
,
shiftlessness
,
shoal
,
skulk
,
slackness
,
sleepiness
,
slothfulness
,
slouch
,
slowness
,
sluggardy
,
sluggishness
,
somnolence
,
sopor
,
soporifousness
,
spiritlessness
,
spring fever
,
spunklessness
,
stagnation
,
stupefaction
,
stupor
,
superbia
,
supineness
,
tentativeness
,
torpidity
,
torpidness
,
torpitude
,
torpor
,
trip
,
troop
,
unanxiousness
,
unconcern
,
unmindfulness
,
unsolicitousness
,
vagrancy
,
vegetation
,
weariness
,
withdrawnness
,
world-weariness
,
wrath
natter
collapse
related words >
babble
,
babblement
,
bavardage
,
bibble-babble
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blah-blah
,
blather
,
blether
,
blethers
,
cackle
,
caquet
,
caqueterie
,
chat
,
chatter
,
chitter-chatter
,
clack
,
clatter
,
dither
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
go on
,
gossip
,
guff
,
gush
,
haver
,
hot air
,
idle talk
,
jabber
,
jaw
,
mere talk
,
nonsense talk
,
palaver
,
patter
,
pour forth
,
prate
,
prating
,
prattle
,
prittle-prattle
,
ramble on
,
rattle
,
rattle on
,
reel off
,
run on
,
spout
,
spout off
,
talk away
,
talk nonsense
,
talk on
,
talkee-talkee
,
tittle-tattle
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
waffle
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
overkill
collapse
any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal
the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required
related words >
aggrandizement
,
aggravated assault
,
aggression
,
amphibious attack
,
amplification
,
armed assault
,
assailing
,
assailment
,
assault
,
attack
,
ballyhoo
,
banzai attack
,
big talk
,
blitz
,
blitzkrieg
,
blowing up
,
breakthrough
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
charge
,
counterattack
,
counteroffensive
,
coup de main
,
crippling attack
,
dead set at
,
descent on
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
diversion
,
diversionary attack
,
drive
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
flank attack
,
frontal attack
,
gas attack
,
grandiloquence
,
head-on attack
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
infiltration
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
lightning attack
,
lightning war
,
magnification
,
mass attack
,
megadeath
,
mugging
,
offense
,
offensive
,
onset
,
onslaught
,
overabundance
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overflow
,
overmuch
,
overplus
,
overstatement
,
panzer warfare
,
plethora
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
push
,
run against
,
run at
,
rush
,
sally
,
sensationalism
,
shock tactics
,
sortie
,
stretching
,
strike
,
superfluity
,
superlative
,
surfeit
,
surplus
,
surplusage
,
tall talk
,
touting
,
travesty
,
unprovoked assault
skeleton
collapse
the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton"
a scandal that is kept secret; "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet"
something reduced to its minimal form; "the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"; "the bare skeleton of a novel"
related words >
abbreviation
,
abbreviature
,
abrege
,
abridgment
,
abstract
,
adumbrate
,
anatomy
,
appendicular skeleton
,
ashes
,
axial skeleton
,
backing
,
barebones
,
bean pole
,
beanstalk
,
bearing
,
block out
,
blueprint
,
body
,
bones
,
brief
,
broomstick
,
brouillon
,
bushing
,
cadaver
,
cadre
,
capsule
,
carcass
,
carrion
,
cartoon
,
case
,
casement
,
casing
,
chalk
,
chart
,
chassis
,
clay
,
clothes pole
,
compend
,
condensation
,
condensed version
,
configuration
,
conspectus
,
contour
,
copy
,
corpse
,
corpus delicti
,
crowbait
,
dead body
,
dead man
,
dead person
,
decedent
,
delineation
,
design
,
diagram
,
digest
,
doorframe
,
draft
,
drawing
,
dry bones
,
dust
,
earth
,
ebauche
,
elevation
,
embalmed corpse
,
epitome
,
esquisse
,
exoskeleton
,
fabric
,
features
,
figuration
,
figure
,
food for worms
,
frame
,
framework
,
framing
,
gestalt
,
graph
,
ground plan
,
gruel
,
head
,
house plan
,
hulk
,
ichnography
,
infrastructure
,
lanky
,
late lamented
,
lath
,
lattice
,
latticework
,
lineaments
,
lines
,
main features
,
mere shadow
,
mere wreck
,
mortal remains
,
mount
,
mounting
,
mummification
,
mummy
,
nervous wreck
,
organic remains
,
outline
,
overview
,
pandect
,
paper
,
pattern
,
picture frame
,
plot
,
precis
,
profile
,
projection
,
rail
,
rake
,
rattlebones
,
rattletrap
,
relics
,
relief
,
reliquiae
,
remains
,
review
,
rough
,
rubric
,
ruin
,
ruins
,
sash
,
setting
,
shadow
,
shapes
,
shaving
,
shell
,
shortened version
,
silhouette
,
skeletal
,
sketch
,
slat
,
slim
,
slip
,
soup
,
spindlelegs
,
spindleshanks
,
splinter
,
stack of bones
,
stiff
,
stilt
,
streak
,
survey
,
syllabus
,
synopsis
,
table
,
tenement of clay
,
the dead
,
the deceased
,
the defunct
,
the departed
,
the loved one
,
thumbnail sketch
,
topical outline
,
tournure
,
twiggy
,
underframe
,
vein
,
wafer
,
walking skeleton
,
window case
,
window frame
,
working drawing
,
wreck
facade
collapse
the face or front of a building
a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant
related words >
acting
,
affectation
,
affectedness
,
airs
,
airs and graces
,
alibi
,
anteriority
,
apology
,
apparent character
,
appearance
,
appearances
,
artificiality
,
attitudinizing
,
blind
,
bluff
,
bluffing
,
bold front
,
border
,
brave face
,
brave front
,
cheating
,
circumference
,
cloak
,
color
,
coloring
,
cortex
,
cover
,
cover story
,
cover-up
,
covering
,
crust
,
deception
,
delusion
,
device
,
disguise
,
display
,
dissemblance
,
dissembling
,
dissimulation
,
envelope
,
epidermis
,
excuse
,
exterior
,
exteriors
,
external
,
external appearance
,
externals
,
face
,
facet
,
facia
,
fakery
,
faking
,
false air
,
false front
,
false show
,
falsity
,
feigned belief
,
feigning
,
feint
,
fore
,
forefront
,
foreground
,
forehand
,
foreland
,
forepart
,
forequarter
,
foreside
,
foreword
,
four-flushing
,
fraud
,
fringe
,
front
,
front elevation
,
front man
,
front matter
,
front page
,
front view
,
frontage
,
frontal
,
frontier
,
frontispiece
,
gaudiness
,
gilt
,
gloss
,
guise
,
handle
,
head
,
heading
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
hypocrisy
,
image
,
imposture
,
insincerity
,
integument
,
lame excuse
,
lap
,
lineaments
,
locus standi
,
mannerism
,
mask
,
masquerade
,
mere externals
,
mere show
,
meretriciousness
,
obverse
,
ostensible motive
,
ostent
,
ostentation
,
outer face
,
outer layer
,
outer side
,
outer skin
,
outline
,
outside
,
outward appearance
,
outward show
,
periphery
,
playacting
,
poor excuse
,
pose
,
posing
,
posture
,
preface
,
prefix
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretext
,
priority
,
proscenium
,
protestation
,
prunes and prisms
,
public image
,
public motive
,
put-off
,
put-on
,
putting on airs
,
refuge
,
representation
,
rind
,
screen
,
seeming
,
semblance
,
sham
,
shell
,
show
,
simulacrum
,
simulation
,
skin
,
smoke screen
,
speciousness
,
stalking-horse
,
stratagem
,
stylishness
,
subterfuge
,
superficiality
,
superficies
,
superstratum
,
surface
,
surface appearance
,
surface show
,
top
,
trick
,
unnaturalness
,
vain show
,
varnish
,
veil
,
veneer
,
window dressing
comedy
collapse
light and humorous drama with a happy ending
related words >
Atticism
,
Thalia
,
agile wit
,
arlequinade
,
black comedy
,
black humor
,
bladder
,
broad comedy
,
burlesque
,
burletta
,
camp
,
cap and bells
,
caricature
,
comedie bouffe
,
comedie larmoyante
,
comedie rosse
,
comedietta
,
comedy ballet
,
comedy of humors
,
comedy of ideas
,
comedy of intrigue
,
comedy of manners
,
comedy of situation
,
comedy relief
,
comic muse
,
comic opera
,
comic relief
,
comicality
,
comicalness
,
coxcomb
,
dark comedy
,
domestic comedy
,
drollery
,
drollness
,
dry wit
,
esprit
,
exode
,
farce
,
farce comedy
,
funniness
,
genteel comedy
,
harlequinade
,
high camp
,
humor
,
humorousness
,
irony
,
lampoon
,
light comedy
,
low camp
,
low comedy
,
mime
,
motley
,
musical
,
musical comedy
,
nimble wit
,
opera buffa
,
parody
,
pleasantry
,
pretty wit
,
quick wit
,
raw comedy
,
ready wit
,
realistic comedy
,
romantic comedy
,
salt
,
sarcasm
,
satire
,
satyr play
,
savor of wit
,
sentimental comedy
,
situation comedy
,
slapstick
,
slapstick comedy
,
slapstick humor
,
sock
,
squib
,
subtle wit
,
tragicomedy
,
travesty
,
visual humor
,
wit
,
wittiness
makeup
collapse
cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance
an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event; "he missed the test and had to take a makeup"; "the two teams played a makeup one week later"
related words >
Platonic form
,
Platonic idea
,
acknowledgments
,
aesthetic form
,
anatomy
,
animus
,
aptitude
,
archetype
,
architectonics
,
architecture
,
arrangement
,
art form
,
assemblage
,
assembly
,
back
,
back matter
,
bad copy
,
bad likeness
,
base
,
bastard title
,
bent
,
bias
,
bibliography
,
blackface
,
body-build
,
brand
,
build
,
building
,
buildup
,
camouflage
,
cast
,
catch line
,
catchword
,
character
,
characteristic
,
characteristics
,
clown white
,
cold cream
,
colophon
,
combination
,
compact
,
complexion
,
composition
,
compound
,
configuration
,
conformation
,
constituents
,
constitution
,
construction
,
contents
,
contents page
,
contrast
,
copyright page
,
cosmetics
,
costume
,
crasis
,
creation
,
cut
,
dedication
,
dharma
,
diathesis
,
difference
,
disguise
,
disparity
,
disposition
,
dissemblance
,
dissimilarity
,
dissimilation
,
dissimilitude
,
divergence
,
diversity
,
drugstore complexion
,
eccentricity
,
embodiment
,
endleaf
,
endpaper
,
endsheet
,
errata
,
ethos
,
eye shadow
,
eyebrow pencil
,
fabric
,
fabrication
,
face
,
fashion
,
fashioning
,
fiber
,
figuration
,
figure
,
flyleaf
,
folio
,
fore edge
,
foreword
,
forging
,
form
,
format
,
formation
,
foundation
,
foundation cream
,
frame
,
front matter
,
genius
,
genre
,
getup
,
grain
,
greasepaint
,
habit
,
half-title page
,
hand cream
,
hand lotion
,
head
,
hue
,
humor
,
humors
,
idiosyncrasy
,
ilk
,
impression
,
imprint
,
inclination
,
incommensurability
,
incomparability
,
incorporation
,
index
,
individualism
,
individuality
,
inner form
,
inscription
,
introduction
,
junction
,
kidney
,
kind
,
layout
,
leaf
,
leaning
,
lip rouge
,
lipstick
,
make
,
making
,
manufacture
,
mascara
,
matrix
,
mental set
,
mere caricature
,
mettle
,
mind
,
mind-set
,
mixture
,
modality
,
mode
,
model
,
mold
,
molding
,
mudpack
,
nail polish
,
nature
,
nonuniformity
,
organic structure
,
organism
,
organization
,
page
,
paint
,
pattern
,
patterning
,
personality
,
physique
,
piecing together
,
plan
,
poor imitation
,
powder
,
powder puff
,
practical piece
,
predilection
,
predisposition
,
preface
,
preference
,
preliminaries
,
proclivity
,
production
,
prop
,
propensity
,
property
,
prototype
,
puff
,
putting together
,
quality
,
recto
,
reverso
,
rouge
,
running title
,
set
,
setup
,
shape
,
shaping
,
signature
,
significant form
,
slant
,
somatotype
,
sort
,
spirit
,
stamp
,
strain
,
streak
,
stripe
,
structure
,
structuring
,
style
,
subtitle
,
suchness
,
syneresis
,
synthesis
,
system
,
table of contents
,
tail
,
talcum
,
talcum powder
,
tectonics
,
temper
,
temperament
,
tendency
,
tenor
,
text
,
texture
,
theatrical makeup
,
tissue
,
title
,
title page
,
tone
,
trim size
,
turn
,
turn of mind
,
twist
,
type
,
type page
,
unlikeness
,
unresemblance
,
unsameness
,
unsimilarity
,
vanishing cream
,
vanity case
,
vein
,
verso
,
war paint
,
warp
,
warp and woof
,
way
,
weave
,
web
hysteron proteron
collapse
the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved
reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born')
related words >
anastrophe
,
argument
,
argument by analogy
,
argumentum ad baculum
,
argumentum ad captandum
,
argumentum ad hominem
,
arsy-varsiness
,
bad case
,
begging the question
,
chiasmus
,
circular argument
,
claptrap
,
clutter
,
crowd-pleasing argument
,
empty words
,
fallacy
,
farrago
,
formal fallacy
,
hash
,
helter-skelter
,
higgledy-piggledy
,
hodgepodge
,
hypallage
,
hyperbaton
,
insincere argument
,
jumble
,
litter
,
logical fallacy
,
material fallacy
,
mere rhetoric
,
mess
,
metastasis
,
metathesis
,
mishmash
,
moonshine
,
non sequitur
,
palindrome
,
paralogism
,
parenthesis
,
petitio principii
,
philosophism
,
pseudosyllogism
,
scramble
,
solecism
,
sophism
,
sophistry
,
synchysis
,
tmesis
,
topsy-turviness
,
topsy-turvydom
,
tumble
,
turmoil
,
unholy mess
,
verbal fallacy
,
weak point
,
welter
pinprick
collapse
small puncture (as if made by a pin)
a minor annoyance
related words >
a continental
,
a curse
,
a damn
,
a darn
,
a hoot
,
bagatelle
,
bauble
,
bean
,
bibelot
,
bit
,
brass farthing
,
button
,
cent
,
curio
,
cursoriness
,
epidermis
,
exteriority
,
farce
,
farthing
,
feather
,
fig
,
fleabite
,
folderol
,
fribble
,
frippery
,
gaud
,
gewgaw
,
gimcrack
,
gloss
,
hair
,
halfpenny
,
hill of beans
,
jest
,
joke
,
kickshaw
,
knickknack
,
knickknackery
,
mere scratch
,
minikin
,
mockery
,
molehill
,
no depth
,
no water
,
peppercorn
,
picayune
,
pin
,
pinch of snuff
,
rap
,
red cent
,
rind
,
row of pins
,
rush
,
scratch
,
shallowness
,
shit
,
shoaliness
,
skin
,
slightness
,
snap
,
sneeshing
,
sou
,
straw
,
superficiality
,
superficies
,
surface
,
toy
,
trifle
,
trinket
,
triviality
,
tuppence
,
two cents
,
twopence
,
veneer
,
whim-wham
lay it on thick
collapse
related words >
Barnumize
,
act a part
,
affect
,
aggrandize
,
amplify
,
assume
,
ballyhoo
,
bedaub
,
besmear
,
blarney
,
blow
,
blow off
,
blowhard
,
bombast
,
build up
,
burlesque
,
butter
,
butter up
,
caricature
,
carry too far
,
coat
,
counterfeit
,
dab
,
daub
,
do a bit
,
dramatize
,
draw the longbow
,
enamel
,
exaggerate
,
fake
,
feign
,
get around
,
gild
,
gloss
,
go to extremes
,
histrionize
,
honey
,
hyperbolize
,
inflate
,
jolly
,
kid along
,
lacquer
,
lay it on
,
lay on
,
magnify
,
make much of
,
make out like
,
oil
,
overact
,
overcharge
,
overdo
,
overdo it
,
overdraw
,
overestimate
,
overpraise
,
overreach
,
overreact
,
oversell
,
overspeak
,
overstate
,
overstress
,
pile it on
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a scene
,
play up to
,
playact
,
pontificate
,
pretend
,
prime
,
puff
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
sham
,
shoot the shit
,
simulate
,
slap on
,
slather
,
smear
,
smear on
,
soap
,
soft-soap
,
soften up
,
spread on
,
spread with
,
stretch
,
stretch the truth
,
string along
,
stroke
,
talk big
,
talk highfalutin
,
talk in superlatives
,
tar
,
tout
,
travesty
,
tug the heartstrings
,
undercoat
,
vapor
,
wear
irreducible
collapse
incapable of being made smaller or simpler; "an irreducible minimum"; "an irreducible formula"; "an irreducible hernia"
related words >
a certain
,
an
,
any
,
any one
,
atomic
,
austere
,
bare
,
basic
,
called for
,
chaste
,
deep-seated
,
either
,
elementary
,
esoteric
,
essential
,
exclusive
,
fundamental
,
homely
,
homespun
,
homogeneous
,
immanent
,
implanted
,
implicit
,
inalienable
,
indicated
,
indispensable
,
individual
,
indivisible
,
indwelling
,
inextricable
,
infixed
,
ingrained
,
inherent
,
inner
,
integral
,
internal
,
intrinsic
,
inward
,
inwrought
,
irreductible
,
irreplaceable
,
lone
,
mere
,
monadic
,
monistic
,
monolithic
,
necessary
,
needed
,
needful
,
of a piece
,
one
,
plain
,
prerequisite
,
primal
,
primary
,
private
,
pure
,
pure and simple
,
required
,
requisite
,
resident
,
secret
,
severe
,
simon-pure
,
simple
,
single
,
singular
,
sole
,
solid
,
solitary
,
spare
,
stark
,
subjective
,
unadorned
,
unalienable
,
unanalyzable
,
unchallengeable
,
uncluttered
,
undifferenced
,
undifferentiated
,
undivided
,
unforgoable
,
uniform
,
unique
,
unitary
,
unquestionable
,
unsolvable
,
vital
,
wanted
,
whole
hick
collapse
related words >
babe
,
boor
,
boorish
,
bucolic
,
bumpkin
,
butterfingers
,
child
,
child of nature
,
churlish
,
clod
,
cloddish
,
clodhopper
,
clodhopping
,
clown
,
clownish
,
clumsy
,
countrified
,
country bumpkin
,
country-born
,
country-bred
,
dove
,
dub
,
duffer
,
dupe
,
farmer
,
farmerish
,
foozler
,
foul-up
,
from the sticks
,
fumble-fist
,
gawk
,
gawky
,
goof
,
goofball
,
goofer
,
hayseed
,
hicky
,
hillbilly
,
hobnailed
,
infant
,
ingenue
,
innocent
,
inurbane
,
lamb
,
looby
,
lout
,
loutish
,
lubber
,
lummox
,
lump
,
lumpen
,
lumpish
,
mere child
,
muff
,
muffer
,
noble savage
,
oaf
,
provincial
,
rube
,
rustic
,
simple soul
,
slob
,
stumblebum
,
stumblebunny
,
uncouth
,
uncultivated
,
uncultured
,
unpolished
,
unrefined
,
unsophisticate
,
up-country
,
whistle-stop
,
yokel
,
yokelish
rube
collapse
related words >
babe
,
backwoodsman
,
boor
,
boorish
,
bucolic
,
bumpkin
,
butterfingers
,
child
,
child of nature
,
churlish
,
clod
,
cloddish
,
clodhopper
,
clodhopping
,
clown
,
clownish
,
clumsy
,
countrified
,
country bumpkin
,
country-born
,
country-bred
,
dove
,
dub
,
duffer
,
dupe
,
farmer
,
farmerish
,
foozler
,
foul-up
,
from the sticks
,
fumble-fist
,
gawk
,
gawky
,
goof
,
goofball
,
goofer
,
hayseed
,
hick
,
hicky
,
hillbilly
,
hobnailed
,
infant
,
ingenue
,
innocent
,
inurbane
,
lamb
,
looby
,
lout
,
loutish
,
lubber
,
lummox
,
lump
,
lumpen
,
lumpish
,
mere child
,
muff
,
muffer
,
noble savage
,
oaf
,
provincial
,
redneck
,
rustic
,
simple soul
,
slob
,
stumblebum
,
stumblebunny
,
uncouth
,
uncultivated
,
uncultured
,
unpolished
,
unrefined
,
unsophisticate
,
up-country
,
yokel
,
yokelish
overreach
collapse
fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
related words >
aggrandize
,
amplify
,
ballyhoo
,
bamboozle
,
beat
,
beguile
,
betray
,
bilk
,
bluff
,
build up
,
burlesque
,
cajole
,
caricature
,
carry too far
,
cheat on
,
chouse
,
circumvent
,
conjure
,
cozen
,
deceive
,
defraud
,
delude
,
diddle
,
do
,
double-cross
,
draw the longbow
,
dupe
,
elude
,
evade
,
exaggerate
,
exceed
,
flimflam
,
foil
,
forestall
,
frustrate
,
gammon
,
get around
,
get round
,
give the runaround
,
give the slip
,
go beyond
,
go one better
,
go to extremes
,
gull
,
gyp
,
have
,
hoax
,
hocus-pocus
,
hornswaggle
,
humbug
,
hyperbolize
,
juggle
,
lay it on
,
let down
,
magnify
,
make much of
,
mock
,
outfigure
,
outflank
,
outfox
,
outgeneral
,
outguess
,
outmaneuver
,
outplay
,
outreach
,
outsmart
,
outwit
,
overcharge
,
overdo
,
overdraw
,
overestimate
,
overgo
,
overjump
,
overleap
,
overpass
,
overpraise
,
overreact
,
overrun
,
oversell
,
overshoot
,
overshoot the field
,
overshoot the mark
,
overspeak
,
overstate
,
overstep
,
overstress
,
overstride
,
pass
,
pass the buck
,
pigeon
,
pile it on
,
play one false
,
puff
,
put something over
,
snow
,
stonewall
,
stretch
,
stretch the truth
,
string along
,
superabound
,
surpass
,
take in
,
talk big
,
talk in superlatives
,
tout
,
transcend
,
travesty
,
trick
,
two-time
,
undo
,
victimize
aggrandize
collapse
related words >
add to
,
advance
,
amplify
,
apotheose
,
apotheosize
,
augment
,
ballyhoo
,
beatify
,
beef up
,
bloat
,
blow up
,
boost
,
broaden
,
build
,
build up
,
bulk
,
bulk out
,
burlesque
,
canonize
,
caricature
,
carry too far
,
crescendo
,
crown
,
deify
,
develop
,
dignify
,
dilate
,
distend
,
distinguish
,
draw the longbow
,
elevate
,
enlarge
,
ennoble
,
enshrine
,
enthrone
,
erect
,
exaggerate
,
exalt
,
expand
,
extend
,
fatten
,
fill out
,
glamorize
,
glorify
,
go to extremes
,
graduate
,
heighten
,
hike
,
hike up
,
honor
,
huff
,
hyperbolize
,
immortalize
,
increase
,
inflate
,
jack up
,
jump up
,
kick upstairs
,
knight
,
lay it on
,
lengthen
,
lionize
,
magnify
,
make legendary
,
make much of
,
maximize
,
multiply
,
overcharge
,
overdo
,
overdraw
,
overestimate
,
overpraise
,
overreach
,
overreact
,
oversell
,
overspeak
,
overstate
,
overstress
,
parlay
,
pass
,
pile it on
,
prefer
,
promote
,
puff
,
puff up
,
pump
,
pump up
,
put up
,
pyramid
,
raise
,
rarefy
,
saint
,
sanctify
,
set up
,
stretch
,
stretch the truth
,
sublime
,
sufflate
,
swell
,
talk big
,
talk in superlatives
,
thicken
,
throne
,
tout
,
travesty
,
up
,
upgrade
,
uplift
,
uprear
,
widen
enhancement
collapse
an improvement that makes something more agreeable
related words >
Great Leap Forward
,
accelerando
,
acceleration
,
advance
,
advancement
,
aggrandizement
,
aggravation
,
amelioration
,
amendment
,
amplification
,
annoyance
,
ascent
,
augmentation
,
ballyhoo
,
beefing-up
,
bettering
,
betterment
,
big talk
,
blowing up
,
blowup
,
boost
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
complement
,
concentration
,
condensation
,
consolidation
,
contentiousness
,
deepening
,
deliberate aggravation
,
deterioration
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
embittering
,
embitterment
,
enlargement
,
enrichment
,
eugenics
,
euthenics
,
exacerbation
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
exasperation
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
explosion
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
furtherance
,
grandiloquence
,
headway
,
heating-up
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
improvement
,
increase
,
inflation
,
information explosion
,
inordinacy
,
intensification
,
irritation
,
lift
,
magnification
,
melioration
,
mend
,
mending
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
pickup
,
population explosion
,
preferment
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
progress
,
progression
,
promotion
,
provocation
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
recovery
,
redoubling
,
reinforcement
,
restoration
,
revival
,
rise
,
sensationalism
,
sharpening
,
souring
,
speedup
,
step-up
,
strengthening
,
stretching
,
superlative
,
tall talk
,
tightening
,
touting
,
travesty
,
upbeat
,
uplift
,
upping
,
upswing
,
uptrend
,
upward mobility
,
worsening
pittance
collapse
an inadequate payment; "they work all day for a mere pittance"
related words >
ace
,
alms
,
alms fee
,
atom
,
bit
,
charity
,
collection
,
contribution
,
dab
,
dole
,
donation
,
donative
,
dot
,
dram
,
dribble
,
driblet
,
dwarf
,
farthing
,
fleck
,
flyspeck
,
fragment
,
gobbet
,
grain
,
granule
,
groat
,
hair
,
half rations
,
handful
,
handout
,
inadequacy
,
insufficiency
,
iota
,
jot
,
little
,
little bit
,
mere subsistence
,
minim
,
minimum
,
minutiae
,
mite
,
modicum
,
molecule
,
mote
,
nutshell
,
offering
,
offertory
,
ounce
,
particle
,
peanuts
,
pebble
,
pinch
,
point
,
scrap
,
scrimption
,
scruple
,
shoestring
,
short allowance
,
short commons
,
small potatoes
,
smidgen
,
smitch
,
speck
,
spoonful
,
spot
,
starvation wages
,
subscription
,
thimbleful
,
tiny bit
,
tithe
,
tittle
,
trace
,
trifling amount
,
trivia
,
votive offering
,
whit
pretension
collapse
a false or unsupportable quality
the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"
related words >
Barnumism
,
acting
,
affectation
,
affectedness
,
airs
,
airs and graces
,
alibi
,
ambitions
,
ambitiousness
,
apology
,
appearance
,
appurtenance
,
artificiality
,
aspiration
,
attitudinizing
,
authority
,
bedizenment
,
big talk
,
birthright
,
blind
,
bluff
,
bluffing
,
charade
,
cheating
,
claim
,
cloak
,
color
,
coloring
,
conjugal right
,
cover story
,
cover-up
,
deception
,
delusion
,
demand
,
device
,
disguise
,
dissemblance
,
dissembling
,
dissimulation
,
divine right
,
droit
,
due
,
excuse
,
facade
,
face
,
faculty
,
fakery
,
faking
,
false air
,
false front
,
false show
,
falsity
,
feigned belief
,
feigning
,
feint
,
flashiness
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
four-flushing
,
fraud
,
front
,
fulsomeness
,
garishness
,
gaudiness
,
gilt
,
gloss
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
guise
,
handle
,
high-flown diction
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
hypocrisy
,
image
,
imposture
,
inalienable right
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
insincerity
,
interest
,
lame excuse
,
lexiphanicism
,
locus standi
,
loftiness
,
lofty affectations
,
luridness
,
magniloquence
,
make-believe
,
mannerism
,
mask
,
masquerade
,
mere rhetoric
,
mere show
,
meretriciousness
,
natural right
,
orotundity
,
ostensible motive
,
ostent
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
ostentatiousness
,
outward show
,
pageant
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
playacting
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomposity
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontification
,
poor excuse
,
pose
,
posing
,
posture
,
power
,
prerogative
,
prescription
,
presumptive right
,
pretending
,
pretense
,
pretensions
,
pretentiousness
,
pretext
,
proper claim
,
property right
,
prose run mad
,
protestation
,
prunes and prisms
,
public image
,
public motive
,
put-off
,
put-on
,
putting on airs
,
refuge
,
representation
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
right
,
screen
,
seeming
,
semblance
,
sensationalism
,
sententiousness
,
sham
,
show
,
showiness
,
simulacrum
,
simulation
,
smoke screen
,
speciousness
,
stalking-horse
,
stiltedness
,
stratagem
,
stylishness
,
subterfuge
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
title
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
trick
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
unnaturalness
,
varnish
,
veil
,
vested interest
,
vested right
,
window dressing
accident
collapse
anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause
a mishap; especially one causing injury or death
related words >
accessary
,
accessory
,
accidental
,
addendum
,
addition
,
adjunct
,
adventure
,
appendage
,
appurtenance
,
auxiliary
,
blow
,
blunder
,
calamity
,
casualty
,
cataclysm
,
catastrophe
,
chance
,
chance hit
,
collateral
,
collision
,
coming to be
,
contingency
,
contingent
,
contretemps
,
crack-up
,
crash
,
destiny
,
disaster
,
event
,
eventuality
,
eventuation
,
extra
,
fate
,
fluke
,
fortuity
,
fortune
,
freak accident
,
grief
,
hap
,
happening
,
happenstance
,
hazard
,
ill hap
,
incidence
,
incidental
,
inessential
,
kismet
,
long odds
,
long shot
,
luck
,
lucky shot
,
materialization
,
mere chance
,
misadventure
,
mischance
,
misfortune
,
mishap
,
mistake
,
nasty blow
,
nonessential
,
not-self
,
other
,
pileup
,
realization
,
secondary
,
serendipity
,
shipwreck
,
shock
,
smash
,
smashup
,
staggering blow
,
subsidiary
,
superaddition
,
supplement
,
tragedy
,
unessential
,
wreck
sham
collapse
related words >
Tartuffery
,
Tartuffism
,
act
,
act a part
,
acting
,
adulterated
,
affect
,
affectation
,
affected
,
affectedness
,
airs
,
airs and graces
,
alibi
,
ape
,
apocryphal
,
apology
,
appearance
,
artificial
,
artificiality
,
assume
,
assumed
,
attitudinizing
,
bastard
,
blagueur
,
blazon
,
blind
,
bluff
,
bluffer
,
bluffing
,
bogus
,
bravura
,
brilliancy
,
brummagem
,
burlesque
,
cant
,
caricature
,
charlatan
,
cheat
,
cheating
,
clinquant
,
cloak
,
color
,
colorable
,
colored
,
coloring
,
copy
,
counterfeit
,
counterfeited
,
cover
,
cover story
,
cover up
,
cover-up
,
create
,
daring
,
dash
,
deceit
,
deception
,
delusion
,
demonstration
,
device
,
disguise
,
display
,
dissemblance
,
dissemble
,
dissembling
,
dissimulate
,
dissimulation
,
distorted
,
do a bit
,
dramatics
,
dramatize
,
dressed up
,
dummy
,
eclat
,
embellished
,
embroidered
,
ersatz
,
etalage
,
excuse
,
exhibition
,
exhibitionism
,
facade
,
face
,
factitious
,
fake
,
faked
,
fakement
,
faker
,
fakery
,
faking
,
false
,
false air
,
false front
,
false show
,
falsified
,
falsity
,
fanfaronade
,
farce
,
feign
,
feigned
,
feigned belief
,
feigning
,
feint
,
fictitious
,
fictive
,
figure
,
flair
,
flam
,
flaunt
,
flaunting
,
flourish
,
forged
,
forgery
,
four-flush
,
four-flushing
,
fourflusher
,
frame-up
,
fraud
,
fraudulent
,
front
,
gammon
,
garbled
,
gilt
,
gloss
,
guise
,
handle
,
histrionics
,
histrionize
,
hoax
,
hokey
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
hypocrisy
,
hypocritical
,
hypocriticalness
,
illegitimate
,
image
,
imitate
,
imitation
,
impersonator
,
impostor
,
imposture
,
insincerity
,
invent
,
junk
,
junky
,
lame excuse
,
let on
,
let on like
,
lie
,
locus standi
,
made-up
,
make a pretense
,
make as if
,
make believe
,
make like
,
make out like
,
make-believe
,
malingerer
,
man-made
,
manifestation
,
mannerism
,
mask
,
masquerade
,
mere show
,
meretriciousness
,
mislead
,
mock
,
mountebank
,
ostensible motive
,
ostentation
,
outward show
,
overact
,
pageant
,
pageantry
,
parade
,
paste
,
pecksniffery
,
perverted
,
pharisaicalness
,
pharisaism
,
phony
,
pinchbeck
,
plagiarized
,
plaster
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a scene
,
play possum
,
playact
,
playacting
,
poor excuse
,
pose
,
poser
,
poseur
,
posing
,
posture
,
pretend
,
pretended
,
pretender
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretext
,
profess
,
protestation
,
prunes and prisms
,
pseudo
,
public image
,
public motive
,
put on
,
put on airs
,
put-off
,
put-on
,
put-up job
,
putting on airs
,
quack
,
quacksalver
,
quackster
,
quasi
,
queer
,
refuge
,
representation
,
ringer
,
rip-off
,
saltimbanco
,
sanctimoniousness
,
sanctimony
,
screen
,
seeming
,
self-styled
,
sell
,
semblance
,
shammer
,
shoddy
,
show
,
showing-off
,
simulacrum
,
simulate
,
simulated
,
simulation
,
smoke screen
,
snide
,
so-called
,
soi-disant
,
speciousness
,
spectacle
,
splash
,
splurge
,
spoof
,
spurious
,
staginess
,
stalking-horse
,
stratagem
,
stylishness
,
substitute
,
subterfuge
,
supposititious
,
swindle
,
synthetic
,
theatrics
,
tin
,
tinsel
,
titivated
,
travesty
,
trick
,
tug the heartstrings
,
twisted
,
unauthentic
,
ungenuine
,
unnatural
,
unnaturalness
,
unreal
,
varnish
,
vaunt
,
veil
,
warped
,
wear
,
whited sepulcher
,
window dressing
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