Related Words:
- animalism
collapse - preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites
- the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature related words >
- Adam,
- Marxism,
- animality,
- atomism,
- beastliness,
- behaviorism,
- bestiality,
- brutality,
- brutishness,
- carnal nature,
- carnal-mindedness,
- carnality,
- coarseness,
- commonsense realism,
- dialectical materialism,
- earthiness,
- earthliness,
- empiricism,
- epiphenomenalism,
- fallen nature,
- fallen state,
- flesh,
- fleshliness,
- grossness,
- historical materialism,
- hylomorphism,
- hylotheism,
- hylozoism,
- lapsed state,
- lasciviousness,
- lecherousness,
- lechery,
- licentiousness,
- lustfulness,
- materialism,
- mechanism,
- natural realism,
- naturalism,
- new realism,
- nonspirituality,
- physicalism,
- physicism,
- positive philosophy,
- positivism,
- postlapsarian state,
- pragmaticism,
- pragmatism,
- realism,
- representative realism,
- secularism,
- sensualism,
- sensuality,
- substantialism,
- swinishness,
- temporality,
- the Old Adam,
- the beast,
- the flesh,
- the offending Adam,
- unchastity,
- unspirituality,
- voluptuousness,
- worldliness
- unconventional
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- not conforming to accepted rules or standards; "her unconventional dress and hair style"
- not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles" related words >
- Bohemian,
- abnormal,
- affable,
- anomalous,
- beat,
- breakaway,
- casual,
- cordial,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- degage,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- different,
- divergent,
- dotty,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- eccentric,
- erratic,
- exceptional,
- familiar,
- far out,
- fey,
- flaky,
- folksy,
- freakish,
- free and easy,
- fringy,
- funny,
- gracious,
- haymish,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hippie,
- homely,
- homey,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- informal,
- irregular,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- loose,
- maggoty,
- maverick,
- natural,
- not cricket,
- not done,
- not kosher,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- offbeat,
- offhand,
- offhanded,
- original,
- peculiar,
- plain,
- queer,
- quirky,
- relaxed,
- screwball,
- screwy,
- simple,
- singular,
- sociable,
- strange,
- twisted,
- unaffected,
- unassuming,
- unceremonious,
- unconstrained,
- unfashionable,
- unnatural,
- unofficial,
- unorthodox,
- unstudied,
- wacky,
- way out,
- whimsical
- ammonia
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- a pungent gas compounded of nitrogen and hydrogen (NH3) related words >
- Dry Ice,
- Freon,
- acetylene,
- argon,
- asphyxiating gas,
- butane,
- carbon dioxide,
- carbon monoxide,
- castor-bean meal,
- chlorine,
- coal gas,
- commercial fertilizer,
- compost,
- coolant,
- dressing,
- dung,
- enrichener,
- ethane,
- ether,
- ethyl chloride,
- ethylene,
- fertilizer,
- fluorine,
- formaldehyde,
- freezing mixture,
- guano,
- helium,
- hydrogen,
- ice,
- ice cubes,
- illuminating gas,
- krypton,
- lewisite,
- liquid air,
- liquid helium,
- liquid oxygen,
- manure,
- marsh gas,
- methane,
- muck,
- mustard gas,
- natural gas,
- neon,
- night soil,
- nitrate,
- nitrogen,
- organic fertilizer,
- oxygen,
- ozone,
- phosphate,
- poison gas,
- propane,
- radon,
- refrigerant,
- sewer gas,
- superphosphate,
- xenon
- maintenance
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- the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community; "unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit"
- means of maintenance of a family or group related words >
- TLC,
- abidingness,
- age,
- aid,
- alimentation,
- alimony,
- allowance,
- antiquity,
- backing,
- bottling up,
- bread,
- care,
- carriage,
- carrying,
- conservancy,
- conservation,
- conservationism,
- constancy,
- continualness,
- continuance,
- continuation,
- continuity,
- contribution,
- corking up,
- daily bread,
- defeat of time,
- defiance of time,
- diuturnity,
- durability,
- durableness,
- duration,
- economic support,
- endowment,
- endurance,
- environmental conservation,
- extension,
- forest conservation,
- forest management,
- holding,
- holding in,
- inhibition,
- keep,
- keeping,
- lastingness,
- lengthening,
- livelihood,
- living,
- locking in,
- long standing,
- long-lastingness,
- long-livedness,
- longevity,
- maintaining,
- manna,
- meat,
- moral support,
- mothering,
- nourishment,
- nurture,
- paying the bills,
- perdurability,
- perennation,
- permanence,
- perpetuation,
- perpetuity,
- perseverance,
- persistence,
- prehension,
- preserval,
- preservation,
- price support,
- progress,
- progression,
- prolongation,
- protection,
- protraction,
- provision,
- psychological support,
- pursuance,
- reliance,
- repetition,
- repression,
- retainment,
- retention,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- run,
- safekeeping,
- salt,
- salvage,
- salvation,
- saving,
- security blanket,
- soil conservation,
- stability,
- standing,
- standing treat,
- staying power,
- steadfastness,
- stipend,
- straight course,
- stream conservation,
- subsidization,
- subsidy,
- subsistence,
- subvention,
- support,
- supportive relationship,
- supportive therapy,
- suppression,
- survival,
- survivance,
- sustained action,
- sustaining,
- sustainment,
- sustenance,
- sustentation,
- tenacity,
- tender loving care,
- treat,
- uninterrupted course,
- unremittingness,
- upholding,
- upkeep,
- water conservation,
- way,
- wetlands conservation,
- wildlife conservation
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- baseborn,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- colorable,
- colored,
- contrived,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- deceitful,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- fatherless,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- forged,
- fraudulent,
- garbled,
- hypocritical,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- inauthentic,
- junky,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- meretricious,
- misbegotten,
- miscited,
- miscreated,
- misquoted,
- misreported,
- misstated,
- mock,
- natural,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pretend,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- snide,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- substitute,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- unauthoritative,
- unfounded,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- unreliable,
- warped
- vested interest
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- groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit
- (law) an interest in which there is a fixed right to present or future enjoyment and that can be conveyed to another related words >
- Black Power,
- Italian vote,
- Jewish vote,
- Polish Power,
- White Power,
- absolute interest,
- appurtenance,
- authority,
- benefit,
- birthright,
- black vote,
- claim,
- common,
- conjugal right,
- contingent interest,
- demand,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- easement,
- equitable interest,
- equity,
- estate,
- faculty,
- farm interests,
- financial interests,
- holding,
- inalienable right,
- interest,
- interest group,
- labor interests,
- limitation,
- natural right,
- part,
- percentage,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- pressure group,
- presumptive right,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- right,
- right of entry,
- settlement,
- special interests,
- special-interest group,
- stake,
- strict settlement,
- title,
- trust,
- use,
- vested interests,
- vested right
- involuntary
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- not subject to the control of the will; "involuntary manslaughter"; "involuntary servitude"; "an involuntary shudder"; "It (becoming a hero) was involuntary. They sank my boat"- John F.Kennedy
- controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control; "involuntary muscles"; "gave an involuntary start" related words >
- at odds,
- automatic,
- averse,
- binding,
- blind,
- casual,
- compulsive,
- compulsory,
- conditioned,
- cursory,
- dictated,
- differing,
- disagreeing,
- disinclined,
- disobedient,
- forced,
- fractious,
- gut,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-devised,
- imperative,
- impulsive,
- inadvertent,
- indeliberate,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- inevitable,
- inherent,
- innate,
- instinctive,
- instinctual,
- libidinal,
- mandatory,
- mechanical,
- mutinous,
- natural,
- necessary,
- obligatory,
- opposed,
- perfunctory,
- recalcitrant,
- reflex,
- reflexive,
- refractory,
- required,
- resistant,
- snap,
- spontaneous,
- subliminal,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- unadvised,
- uncalculated,
- unconscious,
- unconsenting,
- unconsidered,
- uncontrollable,
- uncontrolled,
- undeliberate,
- undeliberated,
- undesigned,
- unguarded,
- unguided,
- unintended,
- unintentional,
- unlearned,
- unmeant,
- unmeditated,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprompted,
- unpurposed,
- unstudied,
- unthinking,
- unthought-of,
- unwilled,
- unwilling,
- unwitting
- distinctive
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- of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; "Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor"- Curtis Wilkie; "that is typical of you!" related words >
- accurate,
- appreciative,
- appropriate,
- articulate,
- audible,
- categorical,
- characteristic,
- characterizing,
- classificational,
- classificatory,
- clear,
- contrastive,
- critical,
- defining,
- definite,
- delicate,
- denominative,
- diacritical,
- diagnostic,
- differencing,
- differential,
- differentiative,
- discrete,
- discriminate,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinct,
- distinguished,
- distinguishing,
- divisional,
- divisionary,
- exact,
- exemplary,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- hearable,
- hi-fi,
- high-fidelity,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- in character,
- individual,
- individualizing,
- individuating,
- intrinsic,
- marked,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- nice,
- normal,
- ordinal,
- particular,
- peculiar,
- personalizing,
- plain,
- precise,
- proper,
- quintessential,
- realistic,
- refined,
- regular,
- sample,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- separate,
- separative,
- several,
- single,
- singular,
- special,
- specific,
- subdivisional,
- subtle,
- tactful,
- taxonomic,
- true to form,
- true to type,
- typal,
- typic,
- typical,
- unique,
- usual
- astrology
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- a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon related words >
- Friday,
- Friday the thirteenth,
- appointed lot,
- aspect,
- astral influences,
- astrodiagnosis,
- astromancy,
- augury,
- book of fate,
- clairvoyance,
- constellation,
- crystal ball,
- crystal gazing,
- cup,
- destination,
- destiny,
- dies funestis,
- divination,
- divining,
- doom,
- end,
- fatality,
- fate,
- foredoom,
- fortune,
- fortunetelling,
- future,
- genethliac astrology,
- genethliacism,
- genethliacs,
- genethlialogy,
- haruspication,
- haruspicy,
- horoscope,
- horoscopy,
- house,
- ides of March,
- inevitability,
- kismet,
- lot,
- mansion,
- mantic,
- mantology,
- moira,
- mundane astrology,
- mundane house,
- nativity,
- natural astrology,
- palm-reading,
- palmistry,
- planetary house,
- planets,
- portion,
- pythonism,
- sorcery,
- stargazing,
- stars,
- unlucky day,
- weird,
- wheel of fortune,
- will of Heaven,
- zodiac
- exemplary
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- worthy of imitation; "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens" related words >
- admirable,
- admonishing,
- admonitory,
- archetypal,
- archetypical,
- beyond all praise,
- blameless,
- cautionary,
- cautioning,
- characteristic,
- classic,
- classical,
- commendable,
- consummate,
- creditable,
- deserving,
- deterrent,
- developed,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- expert,
- finished,
- fully developed,
- guiltless,
- ideal,
- illustrative,
- inculpable,
- innocent,
- irreprehensible,
- laudable,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- mature,
- matured,
- meritorious,
- model,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- normal,
- noteworthy,
- notificational,
- notifying,
- outstanding,
- paradigmatic,
- perfected,
- polished,
- praiseworthy,
- precedential,
- proficient,
- prototypal,
- pure,
- quintessential,
- realistic,
- refined,
- regular,
- representative,
- righteous,
- ripe,
- ripened,
- sample,
- standard,
- superior,
- t,
- true to form,
- true to type,
- typal,
- typic,
- typical,
- unblamable,
- unexceptionable,
- usual,
- virtuous,
- warning,
- well-deserving,
- worthy
- courtliness
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- elegance suggestive of a royal court related words >
- amenities,
- augustness,
- chivalrousness,
- chivalry,
- civilities,
- civility,
- comity,
- convention,
- courtly politeness,
- decencies,
- decorum,
- dignifiedness,
- dignity,
- diplomatic code,
- elegance,
- elegancies,
- etiquette,
- exquisite manners,
- formalities,
- gallantness,
- gallantry,
- good form,
- good manners,
- grandeur,
- gravity,
- kingliness,
- knightliness,
- loftiness,
- lordliness,
- majesty,
- manners,
- mores,
- natural politeness,
- nobility,
- noblesse oblige,
- point of etiquette,
- politeness,
- politesse,
- pride of bearing,
- pride of place,
- princeliness,
- proprieties,
- protocol,
- proud bearing,
- punctilio,
- quiet good manners,
- regality,
- rules of conduct,
- sedateness,
- sobriety,
- social code,
- social conduct,
- social graces,
- social procedures,
- social usage,
- solemnity,
- stateliness,
- venerability,
- worthiness
- accendible,
- agitable,
- alcohol,
- benzine,
- briquette,
- burnable,
- butane,
- carbon,
- charcoal,
- coal,
- coke,
- combustible,
- dope,
- edgy,
- emotional,
- emotionally unstable,
- eruptive,
- ethane,
- ethanol,
- excitable,
- explosive,
- fiery,
- fireball,
- firing,
- flammable,
- flammable material,
- fuel,
- fuel additive,
- fuel dope,
- gas,
- gas carbon,
- gasoline,
- heptane,
- hexane,
- high-mettled,
- high-spirited,
- high-strung,
- highly emotional,
- inflammable material,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- isooctane,
- jet fuel,
- kerosene,
- methane,
- methanol,
- mettlesome,
- natural gas,
- nervous,
- octane,
- oil,
- paraffin,
- peat,
- pentane,
- perturbable,
- prickly,
- propane,
- propellant,
- rocket fuel,
- sensitive,
- skittish,
- startlish,
- touchy,
- turf,
- volcanic
- honest-to-God
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- (used informally especially for emphasis); "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel" related words >
- absolute,
- actual,
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- de facto,
- dinkum,
- factual,
- following the letter,
- for real,
- genuine,
- good,
- historical,
- honest,
- inartificial,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- original,
- positive,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- rightful,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- sterling,
- substantial,
- sure-enough,
- true,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undeniable,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- veritable,
- word-for-word
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