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naif
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a naive or inexperienced person
related words >
babe
,
boob
,
child
,
child of nature
,
chump
,
cinch
,
credulous person
,
cull
,
dove
,
dupe
,
easy mark
,
easy pickings
,
fall guy
,
fish
,
fool
,
gobe-mouches
,
greener
,
greenhorn
,
greeny
,
gudgeon
,
gull
,
hick
,
infant
,
ingenue
,
innocent
,
lamb
,
leadpipe cinch
,
lout
,
mere child
,
monkey
,
noble savage
,
oaf
,
patsy
,
pigeon
,
plaything
,
prize sap
,
pushover
,
rube
,
sap
,
saphead
,
schlemiel
,
simple soul
,
sitting duck
,
stooge
,
sucker
,
toy
,
trusting soul
,
unsophisticate
,
victim
,
yokel
bog
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wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
related words >
baygall
,
bemire
,
bog down
,
bottom
,
bottomland
,
bottoms
,
buffalo wallow
,
cesspool
,
cloaca
,
cloaca maxima
,
drain
,
dump
,
everglade
,
fen
,
fenland
,
garbage dump
,
glade
,
hog wallow
,
holm
,
marais
,
marish
,
marsh
,
marshland
,
meadow
,
mere
,
mire
,
moor
,
moorland
,
morass
,
moss
,
mud
,
mud flat
,
peat bog
,
quag
,
quagmire
,
quicksand
,
salt marsh
,
septic tank
,
sewer
,
sink
,
sink in
,
slob land
,
slough
,
sough
,
stodge
,
sump
,
swale
,
swamp
,
swampland
,
taiga
,
wallow
,
wash
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
husbandry
collapse
related words >
agrarianism
,
agricultural geology
,
agriculture
,
agrology
,
agronomics
,
agronomy
,
austerity
,
austerity program
,
authority
,
canniness
,
care
,
carefulness
,
chariness
,
command
,
conduct
,
contour farming
,
control
,
cultivation
,
culture
,
direction
,
dirt farming
,
domestic economy
,
domestic management
,
dry farming
,
dryland farming
,
economic planning
,
economicalness
,
economy
,
economy of means
,
false economy
,
farm economy
,
farming
,
forehandedness
,
frugality
,
frugalness
,
fruit farming
,
geoponics
,
good management
,
governance
,
government
,
grain farming
,
guidance
,
handling
,
home economics
,
homemaking
,
housekeeping
,
housewifery
,
hydroponics
,
intensive farming
,
lead
,
leading
,
management
,
managery
,
managing
,
manipulation
,
menage
,
mixed farming
,
ordering
,
parsimoniousness
,
parsimony
,
pilotage
,
providence
,
prudence
,
prudential administration
,
regulation
,
running
,
rural economy
,
sharecropping
,
sparingness
,
steerage
,
steering
,
strip farming
,
subsistence farming
,
tank farming
,
the conn
,
the helm
,
the wheel
,
thremmatology
,
thrift
,
thriftiness
,
tight purse strings
,
tillage
,
tilth
,
truck farming
,
unwastefulness
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
stunted
collapse
related words >
Lenten
,
Lilliputian
,
Spartan
,
Tom Thumb
,
abstemious
,
arrested
,
ascetic
,
austere
,
backward
,
coarse
,
crude
,
diminutive
,
dumpy
,
dwarf
,
dwarfed
,
dwarfish
,
elfin
,
embryonic
,
exiguous
,
frugal
,
impoverished
,
in embryo
,
in ovo
,
in the rough
,
incipient
,
jejune
,
lean
,
limited
,
little
,
meager
,
mean
,
midget
,
miserly
,
nanoid
,
narrow
,
niggardly
,
oversimple
,
paltry
,
parsimonious
,
poor
,
puny
,
pygmy
,
reductionistic
,
reductive
,
rough
,
roughcast
,
roughhewn
,
rude
,
rudimental
,
rudimentary
,
runty
,
scant
,
scanty
,
scraggy
,
scrawny
,
scrimp
,
scrimpy
,
scrubby
,
shriveled
,
shrunk
,
shrunken
,
simplistic
,
skimp
,
skimpy
,
slender
,
slight
,
slim
,
small
,
spare
,
sparing
,
squat
,
starvation
,
stingy
,
stinted
,
straitened
,
stunt
,
subsistence
,
thin
,
tiny
,
unblown
,
uncultivated
,
uncultured
,
uncut
,
underdeveloped
,
undersize
,
undersized
,
undeveloped
,
unfashioned
,
unfinished
,
unformed
,
unhewn
,
unlabored
,
unlicked
,
unnourishing
,
unnutritious
,
unpolished
,
unprocessed
,
unrefined
,
untreated
,
unworked
,
unwrought
,
watered
,
watery
,
wee
,
wizened
dole
collapse
money received from the state
a share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given
related words >
accord
,
ace
,
adjunct
,
administer
,
administration
,
adversity
,
affliction
,
afford
,
aid
,
alimony
,
allocate
,
allocation
,
allot
,
allotment
,
allow
,
allowance
,
alms
,
alms fee
,
anguish
,
annuity
,
apportion
,
apportionment
,
assistance
,
atom
,
award
,
benefit
,
bestow
,
bestow on
,
big end
,
bigger half
,
bit
,
bite
,
bounty
,
budget
,
care
,
charity
,
chunk
,
collection
,
commission
,
communicate
,
compensation
,
component
,
confer
,
contingent
,
contretemps
,
contribution
,
cross section
,
cut
,
dab
,
deal
,
deal out
,
depletion allowance
,
destiny
,
detachment
,
detail
,
disbursal
,
disburse
,
disbursement
,
dish out
,
dispensation
,
dispense
,
disperse
,
dispersion
,
disposal
,
dispose
,
disposition
,
distribute
,
distribution
,
dividend
,
division
,
dole out
,
doling
,
doling out
,
donate
,
donation
,
donative
,
dot
,
dram
,
dribble
,
driblet
,
dwarf
,
end
,
equal share
,
extend
,
farthing
,
fate
,
fellowship
,
financial assistance
,
fleck
,
flyspeck
,
fork out
,
fraction
,
fragment
,
gift
,
gift with
,
give
,
give freely
,
give out
,
giving out
,
gobbet
,
grain
,
grant
,
grant-in-aid
,
granule
,
gratuity
,
grief
,
groat
,
guaranteed annual income
,
hair
,
half
,
half rations
,
halver
,
hand out
,
hand-out
,
handful
,
handout
,
heap
,
heartache
,
heartbreak
,
help
,
help to
,
helping
,
impart
,
installment
,
interest
,
iota
,
issuance
,
issue
,
item
,
jot
,
largesse
,
lavish
,
let have
,
little
,
little bit
,
lot
,
measure
,
measure out
,
meed
,
mere subsistence
,
mess
,
mete
,
mete out
,
minim
,
minimum
,
minutiae
,
mischance
,
mishap
,
mite
,
modicum
,
moiety
,
molecule
,
mote
,
nutshell
,
offer
,
offering
,
offertory
,
old-age insurance
,
ounce
,
parcel
,
parcel out
,
part
,
particle
,
particular
,
pass around
,
passing around
,
pay out
,
paying out
,
pebble
,
pecuniary aid
,
pension
,
percentage
,
piece
,
pinch
,
pittance
,
point
,
portion
,
portion out
,
pour
,
present
,
price support
,
proffer
,
proportion
,
public assistance
,
public welfare
,
quadrant
,
quantum
,
quarter
,
quota
,
rain
,
rake-off
,
random sample
,
ration
,
regret
,
relief
,
remainder
,
render
,
retirement benefits
,
rue
,
sample
,
sampling
,
scholarship
,
scrimption
,
scruple
,
section
,
sector
,
segment
,
serve
,
share
,
share out
,
shell out
,
short allowance
,
short commons
,
shower
,
slice
,
slip
,
small share
,
smidgen
,
smitch
,
snow
,
speck
,
spoon out
,
spoonful
,
spot
,
stake
,
starvation wages
,
stipend
,
stock
,
subdivision
,
subgroup
,
subscription
,
subsidization
,
subsidy
,
subspecies
,
subvention
,
support
,
tax benefit
,
tender
,
thimbleful
,
tiny bit
,
tithe
,
tittle
,
tragedy
,
trifling amount
,
trivia
,
votive offering
,
vouchsafe
,
welfare
,
welfare aid
,
welfare payments
,
whit
,
woe
,
yield
subsistence
collapse
minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting; "social security provided only a bare subsistence"
the state of existing in reality; having substance
a means of surviving; "farming is a hard means of subsistence"
related words >
Lenten
,
Spartan
,
TLC
,
abstemious
,
accommodation
,
accommodations
,
aliment
,
alimentation
,
alimony
,
ascetic
,
austere
,
bed
,
bed and board
,
being
,
board
,
board and room
,
bread
,
bread and butter
,
care
,
daily bread
,
dwarfed
,
dwarfish
,
economic support
,
endowment
,
ens
,
entity
,
esse
,
essence
,
exiguous
,
existence
,
facilities
,
food
,
frugal
,
impoverished
,
jejune
,
keep
,
lean
,
life
,
limited
,
livelihood
,
living
,
lodgings
,
maintenance
,
manna
,
materiality
,
meager
,
mean
,
meat
,
miserly
,
mothering
,
narrow
,
niggardly
,
nourishment
,
nurture
,
nutriment
,
occurrence
,
paltry
,
parsimonious
,
poor
,
presence
,
price support
,
provision
,
puny
,
rations
,
salt
,
scant
,
scanty
,
scrawny
,
scrimp
,
scrimpy
,
skimp
,
skimpy
,
slender
,
slight
,
slim
,
small
,
spare
,
sparing
,
starvation
,
stingy
,
stinted
,
straitened
,
stunted
,
subsidization
,
subsidy
,
subsisting
,
substantiality
,
subvention
,
support
,
survival
,
sustainment
,
sustenance
,
sustentation
,
tender loving care
,
thin
,
unnourishing
,
unnutritious
,
upkeep
,
victuals
,
watered
,
watery
dwarfed
collapse
related words >
Lenten
,
Lilliputian
,
Spartan
,
Tom Thumb
,
abstemious
,
ascetic
,
austere
,
bandy
,
bandy-legged
,
blemished
,
bloated
,
bowlegged
,
club-footed
,
defaced
,
deformed
,
disfigured
,
dumpy
,
dwarf
,
dwarfish
,
elfin
,
exiguous
,
flatfooted
,
frugal
,
grotesque
,
ill-made
,
ill-proportioned
,
ill-shaped
,
impoverished
,
incipient
,
jejune
,
knock-kneed
,
lean
,
limited
,
malformed
,
marred
,
meager
,
mean
,
midget
,
misbegotten
,
miserly
,
misproportioned
,
misshapen
,
monstrous
,
mutilated
,
nanoid
,
narrow
,
niggardly
,
out of shape
,
paltry
,
parsimonious
,
pigeon-toed
,
poor
,
pug-nosed
,
puny
,
pygmy
,
rachitic
,
rickety
,
rudimental
,
rudimentary
,
runty
,
scant
,
scanty
,
scraggy
,
scrawny
,
scrimp
,
scrimpy
,
scrubby
,
shriveled
,
shrunk
,
shrunken
,
simous
,
skimp
,
skimpy
,
slender
,
slight
,
slim
,
small
,
snub-nosed
,
spare
,
sparing
,
squat
,
starvation
,
stingy
,
stinted
,
straitened
,
stumpy
,
stunted
,
subsistence
,
swaybacked
,
talipedic
,
thin
,
truncated
,
undersize
,
undersized
,
unnourishing
,
unnutritious
,
watered
,
watery
,
wizened
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
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
subvention
collapse
the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort
grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution
related words >
TLC
,
accouterment
,
aid
,
alimony
,
allotment
,
allowance
,
annuity
,
armament
,
assistance
,
backing
,
bounty
,
bread
,
care
,
carriage
,
carrying
,
catering
,
chandlery
,
daily bread
,
depletion allowance
,
dole
,
economic support
,
endowment
,
equipment
,
fellowship
,
financial assistance
,
finding
,
fitting out
,
furnishing
,
furnishment
,
grant
,
grant-in-aid
,
guaranteed annual income
,
help
,
investment
,
keep
,
livelihood
,
living
,
logistics
,
maintenance
,
manna
,
meat
,
moral support
,
mothering
,
nourishment
,
nurture
,
old-age insurance
,
outfitting
,
pecuniary aid
,
pension
,
preparation
,
price support
,
procurement
,
providing
,
provision
,
provisioning
,
psychological support
,
public assistance
,
public welfare
,
purveyance
,
reinforcement
,
reliance
,
relief
,
replenishment
,
resupply
,
retailing
,
retirement benefits
,
scholarship
,
security blanket
,
selling
,
stipend
,
subsidization
,
subsidy
,
subsistence
,
supply
,
supplying
,
support
,
supportive relationship
,
supportive therapy
,
sustaining
,
sustainment
,
sustenance
,
sustentation
,
tax benefit
,
tender loving care
,
upholding
,
upkeep
,
victualing
,
welfare
,
welfare aid
,
welfare payments
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
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
materiality
collapse
the quality of being physical; consisting of matter
relevance requiring careful consideration
related words >
accent
,
air
,
applicability
,
application
,
appositeness
,
atom
,
atomic particles
,
bearing
,
being
,
body
,
brute matter
,
building block
,
chemical element
,
component
,
concern
,
concernment
,
concreteness
,
connection
,
consequence
,
consequentiality
,
consideration
,
constituent
,
density
,
durability
,
earth
,
element
,
elementary particle
,
elementary unit
,
emphasis
,
ens
,
entity
,
esse
,
essence
,
excellence
,
existence
,
fire
,
firmness
,
fundamental particle
,
germaneness
,
high order
,
high rank
,
hyle
,
hypostasis
,
import
,
importance
,
interest
,
life
,
mark
,
mass
,
material
,
material world
,
matter
,
merit
,
molecule
,
moment
,
monad
,
natural world
,
nature
,
note
,
occurrence
,
palpability
,
paramountcy
,
pertinence
,
physical world
,
plenum
,
ponderability
,
precedence
,
preeminence
,
presence
,
primacy
,
priority
,
reality
,
reference
,
regard
,
relatedness
,
relevance
,
respect
,
self-importance
,
significance
,
solidity
,
soundness
,
stability
,
steadiness
,
stoutness
,
strength
,
stress
,
stuff
,
sturdiness
,
subsistence
,
substance
,
substantiality
,
substantialness
,
substratum
,
superiority
,
supremacy
,
tangibility
,
the four elements
,
toughness
,
unit of being
,
value
,
water
,
weight
,
worth
straitened
collapse
distressed or embarrassed (especially financially)
related words >
Lenten
,
Spartan
,
abstemious
,
ascetic
,
austere
,
badly off
,
bound
,
bounded
,
conditioned
,
confined
,
copyrighted
,
cramped
,
desperate
,
destitute
,
disciplined
,
distressed
,
down to bedrock
,
dwarfed
,
dwarfish
,
embarrassed
,
exiguous
,
feeling the pinch
,
finite
,
frugal
,
hard pressed
,
hard up
,
ill off
,
impecunious
,
impoverished
,
in Queer Street
,
in desperate straits
,
in extremis
,
in extremities
,
in narrow circumstances
,
in reduced circumstances
,
in straitened circumstances
,
inadequate
,
indigent
,
insolvent
,
insufficient
,
jejune
,
land-poor
,
lean
,
limited
,
meager
,
mean
,
miserly
,
moderated
,
narrow
,
necessitous
,
needy
,
niggardly
,
on the edge
,
oppressed
,
out of pocket
,
paltry
,
parsimonious
,
patented
,
penniless
,
pinched
,
poor
,
poorly off
,
poverty-stricken
,
prescribed
,
proscribed
,
puny
,
qualified
,
reduced
,
restricted
,
scant
,
scanty
,
scrawny
,
scrimp
,
scrimpy
,
short
,
short of cash
,
short of funds
,
short of money
,
skimp
,
skimpy
,
slender
,
slight
,
slim
,
small
,
sorely pressed
,
spare
,
sparing
,
squeezed
,
starvation
,
stingy
,
stinted
,
strait
,
strapped
,
stunted
,
subsistence
,
thin
,
unmoneyed
,
unnourishing
,
unnutritious
,
unprosperous
,
up against it
,
watered
,
watery
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
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
frugal
collapse
related words >
Lenten
,
Scotch
,
Spartan
,
abstemious
,
ascetic
,
austere
,
budget
,
canny
,
careful
,
chary
,
cheap
,
cheeseparing
,
conservational
,
conservative
,
conserving
,
discreet
,
dwarfed
,
dwarfish
,
easy
,
economic
,
economical
,
economizing
,
economy
,
exiguous
,
forehanded
,
frugal to excess
,
impoverished
,
inexpensive
,
jejune
,
labor-saving
,
lean
,
limited
,
low
,
low-priced
,
manageable
,
meager
,
mean
,
measured
,
meticulous
,
miserly
,
moderate
,
modest
,
money-saving
,
narrow
,
negligible
,
niggardly
,
nominal
,
overfrugal
,
paltry
,
parsimonious
,
penny-pinching
,
penny-wise
,
penny-wise and pound-foolish
,
penurious
,
piddling
,
poor
,
preserving
,
provident
,
prudent
,
prudential
,
puny
,
reasonable
,
restrained
,
saving
,
scamping
,
scant
,
scanty
,
scrawny
,
scrimp
,
scrimping
,
scrimpy
,
sensible
,
shabby
,
shoddy
,
skimp
,
skimping
,
skimpy
,
slender
,
slight
,
slim
,
small
,
sober
,
spare
,
sparing
,
starvation
,
stingy
,
stinted
,
stinting
,
straitened
,
stunted
,
subsistence
,
temperate
,
thin
,
thrifty
,
tight-fisted
,
time-saving
,
token
,
too frugal
,
unexpensive
,
unnourishing
,
unnutritious
,
unwasteful
,
wary
,
watered
,
watery
,
within means
,
worth the money
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
sustenance
collapse
the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; "they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing was their main sustainment"
related words >
TLC
,
aid
,
aliment
,
alimentation
,
alimony
,
backing
,
board
,
bread
,
bread and butter
,
care
,
carriage
,
carrying
,
cheer
,
chow
,
comestibles
,
continualness
,
continuance
,
continuation
,
continuity
,
creature comfort
,
cuisine
,
daily bread
,
eatables
,
eats
,
economic support
,
edibles
,
endowment
,
endurance
,
extension
,
fare
,
fast food
,
feast
,
food
,
food and drink
,
foodstuff
,
foodstuffs
,
groceries
,
grub
,
health food
,
ingesta
,
junk food
,
keep
,
kitchen stuff
,
lengthening
,
livelihood
,
living
,
maintenance
,
manna
,
meat
,
moral support
,
mothering
,
nosh
,
nourishment
,
nurture
,
nutriment
,
pabulum
,
pap
,
perpetuation
,
perseverance
,
persistence
,
price support
,
progress
,
progression
,
prolongation
,
protraction
,
provender
,
provision
,
provisions
,
psychological support
,
pursuance
,
rations
,
refection
,
refreshment
,
reliance
,
repetition
,
run
,
salt
,
scoff
,
security blanket
,
spread
,
staying power
,
straight course
,
subsidization
,
subsidy
,
subsistence
,
subvention
,
support
,
supportive relationship
,
supportive therapy
,
sustained action
,
sustaining
,
sustainment
,
sustentation
,
table
,
tender loving care
,
tucker
,
uninterrupted course
,
unremittingness
,
upholding
,
upkeep
,
viands
,
victuals
,
vittles
,
way
scanty
collapse
related words >
Lenten
,
Spartan
,
abstemious
,
angustifoliate
,
angustirostrate
,
angustisellate
,
angustiseptal
,
arrested
,
ascetic
,
at a premium
,
austere
,
barely sufficient
,
callow
,
cheeseparing
,
chinchy
,
chintzy
,
circumscribed
,
close
,
close-fitting
,
confined
,
constricted
,
cramp
,
cramped
,
crowded
,
defective
,
deficient
,
dwarfed
,
dwarfish
,
embryonic
,
exiguous
,
failing
,
frugal
,
hypoplastic
,
immature
,
impoverished
,
in arrear
,
in arrears
,
in default
,
in short supply
,
inadequate
,
incapacious
,
incommodious
,
incomplete
,
infant
,
infrequent
,
insufficient
,
isthmian
,
isthmic
,
jejune
,
lacking
,
lean
,
limited
,
little
,
meager
,
mean
,
measly
,
minimal
,
miserly
,
missing
,
narrow
,
near
,
needing
,
niggardly
,
out of print
,
out of season
,
out of stock
,
paltry
,
parsimonious
,
part
,
partial
,
patchy
,
piddling
,
poor
,
puny
,
rare
,
restricted
,
scant
,
scarce
,
scattered
,
scrappy
,
scrawny
,
scrimp
,
scrimping
,
scrimpy
,
seldom met with
,
seldom seen
,
short
,
shy
,
sketchy
,
skimp
,
skimping
,
skimpy
,
slender
,
slight
,
slim
,
small
,
spare
,
sparing
,
sparse
,
spotty
,
sprinkled
,
starvation
,
stingy
,
stinted
,
strait
,
straitened
,
stunted
,
subsistence
,
thin
,
tight
,
uncommon
,
underdeveloped
,
undeveloped
,
unnourishing
,
unnutritious
,
wanting
,
watered
,
watery
loch
collapse
Scottish word for a lake
a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked)
related words >
arm
,
armlet
,
artificial lake
,
bay
,
bayou
,
bayou lake
,
belt
,
bight
,
boca
,
cistern
,
cove
,
creek
,
dam
,
dead water
,
dike
,
estuary
,
etang
,
euripus
,
farm pond
,
fishpond
,
fjord
,
freshwater lake
,
frith
,
glacial lake
,
gulf
,
gut
,
harbor
,
inland sea
,
inlet
,
kyle
,
lagoon
,
laguna
,
lake
,
lakelet
,
landlocked water
,
linn
,
lough
,
mere
,
millpond
,
millpool
,
mouth
,
narrow
,
narrow seas
,
narrows
,
natural harbor
,
nyanza
,
oxbow lake
,
plash
,
pond
,
pondlet
,
pool
,
puddle
,
reach
,
reservoir
,
road
,
roads
,
roadstead
,
salina
,
salt pond
,
sound
,
stagnant water
,
standing water
,
still water
,
strait
,
straits
,
sump
,
tank
,
tarn
,
tidal pond
,
volcanic lake
,
water hole
,
water pocket
,
well
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