Related Words:
- gushing
collapse - flowing profusely; "a gushing hydrant"; "pouring flood waters" related words >
- abundance,
- abundant,
- adulatory,
- affluent,
- amplitude,
- bathetic,
- beery,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- cloud of words,
- cloying,
- complimentary,
- confluent,
- copious,
- copiousness,
- coursing,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- decurrent,
- defluent,
- diffluent,
- diffuse,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusive,
- diffusiveness,
- effusion,
- effusive,
- effusiveness,
- extravagance,
- extravagant,
- exuberance,
- exuberant,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fecund,
- fecundity,
- fertility,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- flowing,
- fluency,
- fluent,
- fluxional,
- fluxive,
- formless,
- formlessness,
- fulsome,
- gooey,
- gulfy,
- gush,
- gushy,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- logorrhea,
- macrology,
- maudlin,
- mawkish,
- mazy,
- mealymouthed,
- meandering,
- mushy,
- namby-pamby,
- nostalgic,
- nostomanic,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- outpour,
- overflow,
- overflowing,
- oversentimental,
- oversentimentalized,
- palilogy,
- pleonasm,
- pleonastic,
- pouring,
- prodigal,
- prodigality,
- productive,
- productivity,
- profluent,
- profuse,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- profusive,
- prolific,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- racing,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- redundancy,
- redundant,
- reiteration,
- reiterative,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitive,
- repetitiveness,
- romantic,
- running,
- rushing,
- sappy,
- sentimental,
- sentimentalized,
- serpentine,
- slimy,
- slobbering,
- slobbery,
- sloppy,
- sluggish,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- soapy,
- soft,
- soft-soaping,
- sticky,
- streaming,
- superabundance,
- superabundant,
- superfluity,
- superflux,
- surging,
- surgy,
- sycophantic,
- talkativeness,
- tautologous,
- tautology,
- tear-jerking,
- teary,
- teeming,
- teemingness,
- tidal,
- tirade,
- unctuous,
- vortical,
- wheedling
- pasty
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- (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers
- small meat pie or turnover
- resembling paste in color; pallid; "he looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white" related words >
- Danish pastry,
- French pastry,
- achromatic,
- achromic,
- adhesive,
- amylaceous,
- anemic,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- baccate,
- baklava,
- bled white,
- blintz,
- bloodless,
- cadaverous,
- chloranemic,
- chocolate eclair,
- clabbered,
- clammy,
- clayey,
- clotted,
- coagulated,
- colorless,
- cream puff,
- curdled,
- dead,
- deadly pale,
- deathly pale,
- dim,
- dimmed,
- dingy,
- discolored,
- doughy,
- dowdy,
- dull,
- eclair,
- etiolated,
- exsanguinated,
- exsanguine,
- exsanguineous,
- faded,
- faint,
- fallow,
- flabby,
- flat,
- fleshy,
- gaumy,
- gelatinous,
- ghastly,
- glairy,
- gluelike,
- gluey,
- glutenous,
- glutinose,
- glutinous,
- gooey,
- gray,
- grumous,
- gumbo,
- gumbolike,
- gumlike,
- gummous,
- gummy,
- haggard,
- heavy,
- hueless,
- hypochromic,
- inspissated,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- jellylike,
- lackluster,
- leaden,
- livid,
- loamy,
- lurid,
- lusterless,
- macerated,
- masticated,
- mat,
- mealy,
- mucilaginous,
- muddy,
- mushy,
- neutral,
- pale,
- pale as death,
- pale-faced,
- pallid,
- pandowdy,
- pastry,
- patisserie,
- patty,
- patty-shell,
- pie,
- pithy,
- puff,
- pulpal,
- pulpar,
- pulped,
- pulplike,
- pulpy,
- quiche,
- ropy,
- rosette,
- sallow,
- sickly,
- slabby,
- slimy,
- slithery,
- soft,
- spongy,
- squashy,
- squelchy,
- squishy,
- starchy,
- sticky,
- stodgy,
- stringy,
- strudel,
- succulent,
- syrupy,
- tacky,
- tallow-faced,
- tart,
- tenacious,
- thick,
- thickened,
- timbale,
- tipsy cake,
- toneless,
- tough,
- tremelloid,
- tremellose,
- trifle,
- turnover,
- uncolored,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- vol-au-vent,
- wan,
- washed-out,
- waxen,
- weak,
- whey-faced,
- white
- insipid
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- not pleasing to the sense of taste
- lacking interest or significance; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"
- lacking significance or impact; "an insipid novel" related words >
- arid,
- banal,
- bare,
- barren,
- betwixt and between,
- blah,
- bland,
- blank,
- bleached,
- bloodless,
- bromidic,
- changeable,
- characterless,
- clear,
- cold,
- colorless,
- common,
- commonplace,
- dead,
- devoid,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- dismal,
- distasteful,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- driveling,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- featureless,
- feeble,
- flat,
- flavorless,
- gruelly,
- halfhearted,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- ill-flavored,
- inane,
- indecisive,
- indifferent,
- inexcitable,
- infirm of purpose,
- infirm of will,
- innocuous,
- irresolute,
- jejune,
- lackluster,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- low-spirited,
- matter-of-fact,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- middling,
- mild,
- milk-and-water,
- milky,
- moderate,
- modest,
- mundane,
- mushy,
- namby-pamby,
- neutral,
- null,
- null and void,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- ordinary,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pappy,
- passable,
- pedestrian,
- plain,
- plodding,
- poetryless,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pulpy,
- respectable,
- sapless,
- savorless,
- slight,
- slow,
- so-so,
- soft,
- solemn,
- spiceless,
- spiritless,
- stale,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- subdued,
- superficial,
- swashy,
- tame,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- tiresome,
- tolerable,
- unappetizing,
- unembellished,
- unflavored,
- unidealistic,
- unimaginative,
- unimpassioned,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- unpoetic,
- unrelieved,
- unromantic,
- unsavory,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- vapid,
- void,
- washy,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- waterish,
- watery,
- weak,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- white,
- wishy-washy,
- with nothing inside,
- without content,
- wooden
- yielding
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- tending to give in or surrender or agree; "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments"- V.I.Parrington
- lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure; "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber"
- inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person" related words >
- abandonment,
- abatement of differences,
- abdication,
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- acceptance,
- accommodating,
- accommodation,
- acquiescence,
- acquiescent,
- adaptable,
- adjustment,
- agreeable,
- amenable,
- arrangement,
- assent,
- bargain,
- bearing,
- bendable,
- bending,
- biddable,
- bouncy,
- cession,
- complaisance,
- compliance,
- compliant,
- composition,
- compromise,
- concession,
- consent,
- convenient,
- cop-out,
- deal,
- deference,
- desertion of principle,
- dispensation,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- docile,
- dropping out,
- ductile,
- dumping,
- elastic,
- evasion of responsibility,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- feasible,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- foolproof,
- forgoing,
- formable,
- formative,
- forswearing,
- fructiferous,
- fructification,
- fruitbearing,
- fruiting,
- fruition,
- getting rid of,
- give-and-take,
- giving,
- giving up,
- giving way,
- handing over,
- handy,
- homage,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- kneeling,
- letting go,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- manageable,
- maneuverable,
- manipulable,
- moldable,
- mushy,
- mutual concession,
- nonopposal,
- nonopposition,
- nonresistance,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- obedience,
- obedient,
- obeisance,
- obliging,
- pappy,
- passiveness,
- passivity,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- practical,
- producing,
- pulpy,
- quaggy,
- recantation,
- receptive,
- release,
- relinquishment,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- resignation,
- resigned,
- resignedness,
- resilient,
- responsive,
- retraction,
- riddance,
- rubbery,
- sacrifice,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- settlement,
- shapable,
- soft,
- spongy,
- springy,
- squashy,
- squelchy,
- squishy,
- squushy,
- subjection,
- submission,
- submissive,
- submittal,
- supineness,
- supple,
- surrender,
- susceptible,
- swearing off,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- unaustere,
- undemanding,
- understanding,
- unexacting,
- unharsh,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- unsevere,
- unstrict,
- untroublesome,
- waiver,
- whippy,
- wieldable,
- wieldy,
- willowy,
- withdrawing
- vapid
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- lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls" related words >
- airy,
- arid,
- asinine,
- barren,
- betwixt and between,
- blah,
- bland,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- boring,
- catchpenny,
- changeable,
- characterless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- common,
- commonplace,
- dead,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- driveling,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- empty-minded,
- empty-pated,
- empty-skulled,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- fatuous,
- flat,
- flavorless,
- flimsy,
- foolish,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- futile,
- gruelly,
- halfhearted,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- idle,
- inane,
- indecisive,
- indifferent,
- inexcitable,
- infirm of purpose,
- infirm of will,
- innocuous,
- insipid,
- irresolute,
- jejune,
- lackluster,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- light,
- low-spirited,
- matter-of-fact,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- middling,
- mild,
- milk-and-water,
- milky,
- moderate,
- modest,
- mundane,
- mushy,
- namby-pamby,
- neutral,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- ordinary,
- otiose,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pappy,
- passable,
- pedestrian,
- plain,
- plodding,
- poetryless,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pulpy,
- rattlebrained,
- rattleheaded,
- respectable,
- sapless,
- savorless,
- scatterbrained,
- shallow,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- slow,
- so-so,
- solemn,
- spiceless,
- spiritless,
- stale,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tame,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- thin,
- tiresome,
- tolerable,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- unembellished,
- unflavored,
- unidealistic,
- unimaginative,
- unimpassioned,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- unpalatable,
- unpoetic,
- unromantic,
- unsavory,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- washy,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- windy,
- wishy-washy,
- wooden
- Milquetoast,
- baby,
- banal,
- bathetic,
- bathos,
- beery,
- betwixt and between,
- big baby,
- bland,
- bleeding heart,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cheap-jack,
- chicken,
- cloying,
- cloyingness,
- cobwebby,
- crumbly,
- crybaby,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- doormat,
- driveling,
- dull,
- dull tool,
- effeminate,
- elegant,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- flat,
- flimsy,
- formalistic,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- goo,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- gooey,
- gossamery,
- gushing,
- gutless wonder,
- hearts-and-flowers,
- inane,
- indifferent,
- innocuous,
- insipid,
- invertebrate,
- jejune,
- jellyfish,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lackluster,
- light,
- lightweight,
- maudlin,
- maudlinness,
- mawkish,
- mawkishness,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- meek soul,
- middling,
- milk-and-water,
- milksop,
- mincing,
- moderate,
- modest,
- mollycoddle,
- mush,
- mushiness,
- mushy,
- namby-pambyism,
- namby-pambyness,
- nebbish,
- nonentity,
- nostalgia,
- nostalgic,
- nostomania,
- nostomanic,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- overnice,
- overprecise,
- overrefined,
- oversentimental,
- oversentimentalism,
- oversentimentality,
- oversentimentalized,
- pansy,
- pantywaist,
- papery,
- passable,
- pasteboardy,
- pedantic,
- precieuse,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- puny,
- puristic,
- pushover,
- respectable,
- romantic,
- romanticism,
- sad sack,
- sapless,
- sappy,
- sentiment,
- sentimental,
- sentimentalism,
- sentimentality,
- sentimentalized,
- shattery,
- simpering,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- slop,
- sloppiness,
- sloppy,
- slush,
- so-so,
- soap opera,
- sob story,
- soft,
- softling,
- softy,
- sop,
- sticky,
- sweetness and light,
- tacky,
- tear-jerking,
- tearjerker,
- teary,
- tedious,
- tolerable,
- unsubstantial,
- vapid,
- weak sister,
- weakling,
- wishy-washy,
- wispy,
- womanish
- watery
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- overly diluted; thin and insipid; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea"
- relating to or resembling or consisting of water; "a watery substance"; "a watery color"
- filled with water; "watery soil" related words >
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- airy,
- anemic,
- aquatic,
- aqueous,
- ascetic,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- austere,
- banal,
- bland,
- bloodless,
- boyish,
- changeable,
- dead,
- delicate,
- diaphanous,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- ethereal,
- excretory,
- exiguous,
- fade,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- flat,
- flavorless,
- flimsy,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- fluid,
- fluidal,
- fluidic,
- fluxible,
- fluxile,
- fluxional,
- fluxionary,
- frail,
- frugal,
- gauzy,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gracile,
- gruelly,
- halfhearted,
- hydrated,
- hydraulic,
- hydrous,
- impoverished,
- inane,
- indecisive,
- indifferent,
- infirm of purpose,
- infirm of will,
- insipid,
- insubstantial,
- irresolute,
- jejune,
- juicy,
- lachrymal,
- lachrymose,
- lacrimatory,
- lactational,
- lacteal,
- lacteous,
- lacy,
- lean,
- light,
- limited,
- liquid,
- liquidy,
- meager,
- mean,
- mild,
- milk-and-water,
- milky,
- miserly,
- misty,
- mushy,
- namby-pamby,
- narrow,
- neutral,
- niggardly,
- pallid,
- paltry,
- papery,
- pappy,
- parsimonious,
- plashy,
- poor,
- pulpy,
- puny,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- rheumy,
- runny,
- salivant,
- salivary,
- salivous,
- sapless,
- sappy,
- savorless,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- secretional,
- secretive,
- secretory,
- seminal,
- serous,
- sialagogic,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- sloppy,
- small,
- spare,
- sparing,
- spermatic,
- spiceless,
- splashy,
- stale,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- subtle,
- succulent,
- svelte,
- swashy,
- sylphlike,
- tasteless,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- unflavored,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unsavory,
- vague,
- vapid,
- washy,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watering,
- waterish,
- weak,
- willowy,
- wiredrawn,
- wishy-washy,
- wispy
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