Related Words:
- accustomedly,
- again and again,
- all in all,
- all things considered,
- altogether,
- as a rule,
- as a whole,
- as an approximation,
- as is usual,
- as per usual,
- as things go,
- as usual,
- at large,
- broadly,
- broadly speaking,
- by and large,
- chiefly,
- commonly,
- consistently,
- conventionally,
- customarily,
- frequently,
- generally,
- generally speaking,
- habitually,
- in general,
- in many instances,
- in the main,
- inveterately,
- mainly,
- many a time,
- many times,
- most often,
- mostly,
- naturally,
- normally,
- normatively,
- not infrequently,
- not seldom,
- oft,
- often,
- often enough,
- oftentimes,
- ofttimes,
- on balance,
- on the whole,
- ordinarily,
- overall,
- predominantly,
- prescriptively,
- prevailingly,
- regularly,
- repeatedly,
- roughly,
- roughly speaking,
- routinely,
- speaking generally,
- to be expected,
- unseldom,
- whenever you wish,
- wontedly
- rare
collapse - not widely distributed; "rare herbs"; "rare patches of green in the desert"
- not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness; "a rare word"; "rare books"
- (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside; "rare roast beef"
- recurring only at long intervals; "a rare appearance"; "total eclipses are rare events"
- marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind; "what is so rare as a day in June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree"
- having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air" related words >
- a cut above,
- above,
- admirable,
- adulterated,
- ahead,
- airy,
- almost unheard-of,
- another,
- ascendant,
- at a premium,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- atypical,
- beguiling,
- better,
- bewildering,
- boyish,
- breakaway,
- capping,
- celebrated,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- choice,
- chosen,
- collectable,
- conspicuous,
- crude,
- cut,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- diaphanous,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- distinguished,
- eclipsing,
- elegant,
- else,
- eminent,
- enigmatic,
- esteemed,
- estimable,
- ethereal,
- exceeding,
- excellent,
- excelling,
- exceptional,
- exiguous,
- exquisite,
- extraordinary,
- fabulous,
- fallen,
- fantastic,
- fascinating,
- few,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finer,
- finespun,
- first-class,
- first-rate,
- flimsy,
- frail,
- gaseous,
- gauzy,
- girlish,
- good,
- gossamer,
- gracile,
- greater,
- higher,
- in ascendancy,
- in short supply,
- in the ascendant,
- incomparable,
- incomprehensible,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- infrequent,
- insubstantial,
- lacy,
- light,
- limited,
- major,
- marked,
- marvelous,
- matchless,
- meager,
- memorable,
- miraculous,
- miserly,
- misty,
- niggardly,
- noble,
- not done,
- not that sort,
- not the same,
- not the type,
- notable,
- noteworthy,
- occasional,
- of a sort,
- of another sort,
- of choice,
- of mark,
- of sorts,
- offbeat,
- one up on,
- other,
- other than,
- otherwise,
- out of print,
- out of season,
- out of stock,
- outlandish,
- outstanding,
- over,
- papery,
- passing strange,
- peculiar,
- peerless,
- phenomenal,
- piddling,
- poor,
- prestigious,
- prodigious,
- prominent,
- puzzling,
- rarefied,
- raw,
- recherche,
- red,
- remarkable,
- rememberable,
- reputable,
- rivaling,
- saignant,
- salient,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- select,
- sensational,
- signal,
- singular,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- slow,
- small,
- sodden,
- sparse,
- special,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- stingy,
- strange,
- striking,
- stupendous,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- sui generis,
- super,
- superior,
- superlative,
- surpassing,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- telling,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinned,
- thinned-out,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- tight,
- topping,
- transcendent,
- transcendental,
- transcending,
- unbaked,
- unboiled,
- uncommon,
- uncompact,
- uncompressed,
- uncooked,
- uncustomary,
- undercooked,
- underdone,
- undreamed-of,
- unexpected,
- unfamiliar,
- unforgettable,
- unfrequent,
- unheard-of,
- unimaginable,
- unique,
- unordinary,
- unparalleled,
- unprecedented,
- unsubstantial,
- unthinkable,
- unthought-of,
- unusual,
- unwonted,
- upper,
- vague,
- vaporous,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- willowy,
- windy,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy,
- wonderful,
- wondrous
- accessory,
- accidental,
- accompanying,
- additional,
- ado,
- adventitious,
- afloat,
- afoot,
- aleatory,
- auxiliary,
- behind the scenes,
- by-the-way,
- casual,
- causal,
- causative,
- ceremonial,
- circumstantial,
- conditional,
- constitutive,
- contingent,
- current,
- decisive,
- determinative,
- doing,
- effectual,
- etiological,
- eventuating,
- extra,
- few,
- formative,
- going on,
- happening,
- in hand,
- in the wind,
- incidental,
- inessential,
- infrequent,
- institutive,
- intermittent,
- irregular,
- nonessential,
- occurring,
- odd,
- off,
- on,
- on foot,
- ongoing,
- originative,
- out-of-the-way,
- parenthetical,
- part-time,
- particular,
- passing,
- periodic,
- pivotal,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- provisional,
- random,
- rare,
- resultant,
- ritual,
- scarce,
- seldom,
- side,
- spare,
- special,
- sporadic,
- supplementary,
- taking place,
- uncommon,
- under way,
- unessential,
- unfrequent
- again and again,
- all in all,
- all things considered,
- altogether,
- as a rule,
- as a whole,
- as an approximation,
- as per usual,
- as things go,
- as usual,
- at large,
- banally,
- basely,
- broadly,
- broadly speaking,
- by and large,
- chiefly,
- commonplacely,
- communally,
- customarily,
- each to each,
- entre nous,
- familiarly,
- frequently,
- generally,
- generally speaking,
- habitually,
- hackneyedly,
- in general,
- in many instances,
- inferiorly,
- inter se,
- jointly,
- mainly,
- many a time,
- many times,
- matter-of-factly,
- meanly,
- most often,
- mostly,
- mutually,
- naturally,
- normally,
- normatively,
- not infrequently,
- not seldom,
- oft,
- often,
- often enough,
- oftentimes,
- ofttimes,
- on balance,
- on the whole,
- ordinarily,
- overall,
- plainly,
- poorly,
- predominantly,
- prescriptively,
- prevailingly,
- prosaically,
- regularly,
- repeatedly,
- respectively,
- roughly,
- roughly speaking,
- routinely,
- simply,
- speaking generally,
- stalely,
- to be expected,
- tritely,
- truistically,
- unoriginally,
- unseldom,
- usually,
- whenever you wish
- sporadic
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- recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids" related words >
- aimless,
- amorphous,
- broadcast,
- broken,
- capricious,
- careening,
- casual,
- catching,
- catchy,
- chance,
- changeable,
- changing,
- choppy,
- communicable,
- contagious,
- desultory,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- different,
- diffuse,
- disarticulated,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- discrete,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- dispersed,
- dispread,
- disproportionate,
- disseminated,
- dissipated,
- distributed,
- divaricate,
- divergent,
- diversified,
- diversiform,
- eccentric,
- endemic,
- epidemial,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- erose,
- erratic,
- few,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- fluctuating,
- formless,
- frivolous,
- gratuitous,
- guttering,
- halting,
- haphazard,
- herky-jerky,
- heteroclite,
- hit-or-miss,
- immethodical,
- impulsive,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indiscriminate,
- infectious,
- infective,
- inoculable,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- irregular,
- jagged,
- jerky,
- lurching,
- meaningless,
- mercurial,
- misshapen,
- motley,
- mutable,
- nonconformist,
- nonstandard,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- occasional,
- on-again-off-again,
- orderless,
- pandemic,
- patchy,
- periodical,
- pestiferous,
- pestilential,
- planless,
- pluralistic,
- promiscuous,
- ragged,
- rambling,
- random,
- rare,
- rough,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scrappy,
- seldom,
- senseless,
- separate,
- shapeless,
- single,
- snatchy,
- sparse,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spasmodical,
- spastic,
- spotty,
- spread,
- spreading,
- staggering,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- strewn,
- strown,
- systemless,
- taking,
- unarranged,
- uncertain,
- unclassified,
- uncommon,
- undirected,
- unequable,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unexpected,
- unfrequent,
- ungraded,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unorthodox,
- unregular,
- unrhythmical,
- unsettled,
- unsorted,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- vague,
- variable,
- variegated,
- variform,
- various,
- varying,
- veering,
- wandering,
- wavering,
- widespread,
- wobbling,
- wobbly,
- zymotic
- tight
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- affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow; "tight money"; "a tight market"
- packed closely together; "the stood in a tight little group"; "hair in tight curls"; "the pub was packed tight"
- of such close construction as to be impermeable; "a tight roof"; "warm in our tight little house"
- closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "tight skirts"; "he hated tight starched collars"; "fingers closed in a tight fist"; "a tight feeling in his chest"
- securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid; "the bolts are tight"
- set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration; "in tight formation"; "a tight blockade" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- afflicted,
- airtight,
- all ataunto,
- anal,
- angustifoliate,
- angustirostrate,
- angustisellate,
- angustiseptal,
- aposiopestic,
- arduous,
- ataunt,
- austere,
- autocratic,
- avaricious,
- ballproof,
- bent,
- binding,
- boiled,
- bombed,
- bombproof,
- bonded,
- boozy,
- brief,
- brusque,
- bulletproof,
- bungup and bilge-free,
- burglarproof,
- canned,
- cemented,
- cheap,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- circumscribed,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-fitting,
- closefisted,
- closely,
- cockeyed,
- cockeyed drunk,
- compact,
- compactly,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- confined,
- connected,
- consecutive,
- consistent,
- constricted,
- continuous,
- contracted,
- corrosionproof,
- cramp,
- cramped,
- crisp,
- critical,
- crocked,
- crocko,
- crowded,
- curt,
- cut,
- dampproof,
- dangerous,
- dear,
- dense,
- densely,
- difficult,
- dinky,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- docked,
- dragged out,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- drunk,
- drunken,
- dustproof,
- dusttight,
- elevated,
- elliptic,
- elongated,
- epigrammatic,
- exacting,
- exiguous,
- expensive,
- extended,
- fast,
- fastened,
- fire-resisting,
- fireproof,
- firm,
- firmly,
- fixed,
- fixedly,
- flameproof,
- foolproof,
- fried,
- fuddled,
- gasproof,
- gastight,
- glued,
- gnomic,
- half-seas over,
- hard and fast,
- hardfisted,
- harsh,
- hazardous,
- hermetic,
- hermetically sealed,
- high,
- holeproof,
- illiberal,
- illuminated,
- impenetrable,
- impermeable,
- impervious,
- impervious to,
- incapacious,
- incommodious,
- inebriated,
- inflexible,
- infrequent,
- inseparably,
- intoxicated,
- isthmian,
- isthmic,
- jammed,
- joined,
- laconic,
- leakproof,
- lengthened,
- lightproof,
- lighttight,
- limited,
- lit,
- lit up,
- loaded,
- lubricated,
- lushy,
- meager,
- mean,
- mingy,
- miserly,
- muzzy,
- narrow,
- near,
- neat,
- niggardly,
- noiseproof,
- oiled,
- oilproof,
- oiltight,
- orderly,
- organized,
- parsimonious,
- penny-pinching,
- penurious,
- perilous,
- pickled,
- piddling,
- pie-eyed,
- pinchfisted,
- pinching,
- pissed,
- pissy-eyed,
- pithy,
- plastered,
- pointed,
- pokerlike,
- polluted,
- poor,
- potted,
- precarious,
- problematic,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- proof,
- proof against,
- protracted,
- pruned,
- pulled,
- punctureproof,
- punishing,
- raddled,
- rainproof,
- raintight,
- ramrodlike,
- rare,
- renitent,
- reserved,
- resistant,
- restricted,
- restrictive,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- risky,
- rodlike,
- rough,
- rustproof,
- save-all,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- sealed,
- secure,
- secured,
- securely,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- sententious,
- sequent,
- sequential,
- serial,
- set,
- severe,
- shatterproof,
- shellacked,
- shellproof,
- shipshape,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- shut fast,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- skintight,
- skunk-drunk,
- sleek,
- slender,
- slick,
- slim,
- smart,
- smashed,
- smokeproof,
- smoketight,
- snug,
- soaked,
- solid,
- solidly,
- soundproof,
- soused,
- sparse,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- spruce,
- spun out,
- squiffy,
- starched,
- starchy,
- staunch,
- steadfast,
- steadfastly,
- stern,
- stewed,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stiff as buckram,
- stingy,
- stinko,
- stormproof,
- stormtight,
- straggling,
- strained,
- strait,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- strict,
- stringent,
- strung out,
- stuck,
- succinct,
- summary,
- swacked,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tanked,
- taped,
- taut,
- tenacious,
- tense,
- terse,
- thick,
- thin,
- ticklish,
- tiddly,
- tidy,
- tight-fisted,
- tightened,
- tightfisted,
- tightly,
- tipsy,
- to the point,
- touch-and-go,
- touchy,
- tough,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- trig,
- trim,
- truncated,
- trying,
- uncompromising,
- under the influence,
- ungenerous,
- uninterrupted,
- unrelaxed,
- unyielding,
- upsetting,
- virgate,
- water-repellant,
- waterproof,
- watertight,
- weatherproof,
- wedged,
- well-cared-for,
- well-groomed,
- windproof,
- windtight,
- woozy
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