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Exact Match:
- optative
- relating to a mood of verbs in some languages; "optative verb endings"
- indicating an option or wish
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- appetitive,
- aspiring,
- assured,
- confident,
- desiderative,
- desireful,
- desiring,
- desirous,
- eager,
- expectant,
- fond,
- full of hope,
- hopeful,
- hormic,
- in good heart,
- in hopes,
- lascivious,
- libidinal,
- libidinous,
- lickerish,
- lustful,
- needing,
- of good cheer,
- of good hope,
- optative,
- sanguine,
- tempted,
- undespairing,
- wanting,
- wishing
- libidinal
collapse - belonging to the libido; "libidinal impulses"; "libidinal gratification" related words >
- amorous,
- appetitive,
- automatic,
- carnal,
- desiderative,
- desireful,
- desiring,
- desirous,
- eager,
- erogenic,
- erogenous,
- erotic,
- erotogenic,
- fleshly,
- gamic,
- heterosexual,
- hoping,
- hormic,
- impulsive,
- inherent,
- innate,
- instinctive,
- involuntary,
- lascivious,
- libidinous,
- lickerish,
- lustful,
- natural,
- needing,
- nuptial,
- optative,
- oversexed,
- potent,
- procreative,
- sensual,
- sex,
- sexed,
- sexlike,
- sexual,
- sexy,
- spontaneous,
- straight,
- subliminal,
- tempted,
- unconscious,
- undersexed,
- unlearned,
- venereal,
- voluptuous,
- wanting,
- wishing
- animal,
- aphrodisiomaniacal,
- appetitive,
- bawdy,
- carnal,
- clitoromaniacal,
- concupiscent,
- desiderative,
- desireful,
- desiring,
- desirous,
- dirty,
- eager,
- ejaculatory,
- erotic,
- eroticomaniacal,
- erotomaniacal,
- fleshly,
- goatish,
- gynecomaniacal,
- hoping,
- hormic,
- horny,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- hysteromaniacal,
- itching,
- ithyphallic,
- lascivious,
- lecherous,
- lewd,
- libidinal,
- libidinous,
- lubricious,
- lustful,
- needing,
- nymphomaniacal,
- obscene,
- optative,
- orgasmic,
- orgastic,
- passionate,
- priapic,
- prurient,
- randy,
- salacious,
- satyric,
- sensual,
- sex-starved,
- sexual,
- sexy,
- steamy,
- tempted,
- unsatisfied,
- wanting,
- wishing
- desirous
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- having or expressing desire for something; "desirous of high office"; "desirous of finding a quick solution to the problem" related words >
- acquisitive,
- agog,
- alacritous,
- all agog,
- amative,
- amatory,
- amorous,
- animated,
- anxious,
- appetitive,
- ardent,
- avid,
- breathless,
- bursting to,
- desiderative,
- desireful,
- desiring,
- eager,
- erotic,
- forward,
- full of life,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- hopeful,
- hoping,
- hormic,
- impassioned,
- impatient,
- itchy,
- keen,
- lascivious,
- libidinal,
- libidinous,
- lickerish,
- lively,
- longing,
- loverlike,
- loverly,
- lustful,
- needing,
- optative,
- panting,
- passionate,
- prehensile,
- prompt,
- quick,
- raring to,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- sexual,
- spirited,
- tempted,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- wanting,
- wishful,
- wishing,
- yearning,
- zestful
- libidinous
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- having lustful desires related words >
- animal,
- aphrodisiomaniacal,
- appetitive,
- bawdy,
- carnal,
- clitoromaniacal,
- coarse,
- concupiscent,
- desiderative,
- desireful,
- desiring,
- desirous,
- dirty,
- eager,
- ejaculatory,
- erotic,
- eroticomaniacal,
- erotomaniacal,
- fast,
- fleshly,
- goatish,
- gross,
- gynecomaniacal,
- hoping,
- hormic,
- horny,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- hysteromaniacal,
- incontinent,
- itching,
- ithyphallic,
- lascivious,
- lecherous,
- lewd,
- libertine,
- libidinal,
- lickerish,
- lubricious,
- lustful,
- needing,
- nymphomaniacal,
- obscene,
- optative,
- orgasmic,
- orgastic,
- passionate,
- priapic,
- prurient,
- randy,
- salacious,
- satyric,
- sensual,
- sex-starved,
- sexual,
- sexy,
- steamy,
- tempted,
- unsatisfied,
- wanting,
- wishing
- lustful
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- vigorously passionate related words >
- animal,
- aphrodisiomaniacal,
- appetitive,
- bawdy,
- burning,
- carnal,
- clitoromaniacal,
- concupiscent,
- desiderative,
- desireful,
- desiring,
- desirous,
- dirty,
- eager,
- ejaculatory,
- erotic,
- eroticomaniacal,
- erotomaniacal,
- fast,
- fleshly,
- goatish,
- gynecomaniacal,
- hoping,
- hormic,
- horny,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- hysteromaniacal,
- incontinent,
- itching,
- ithyphallic,
- lascivious,
- lecherous,
- lewd,
- libertine,
- libidinal,
- libidinous,
- licentious,
- lickerish,
- lubricious,
- needing,
- nymphomaniacal,
- obscene,
- optative,
- orgasmic,
- orgastic,
- passionate,
- priapic,
- prurient,
- randy,
- ruttish,
- rutty,
- salacious,
- satyric,
- sensual,
- sex-starved,
- sexual,
- sexy,
- steamy,
- tempted,
- unsatisfied,
- wanting,
- wishing
- appetitive,
- arrested,
- bankrupt in,
- bare of,
- bereft of,
- callow,
- defective,
- deficient,
- denuded of,
- deprived of,
- desiderative,
- desireful,
- desiring,
- desirous,
- destitute of,
- devoid of,
- eager,
- embryonic,
- empty of,
- failing,
- for want of,
- forlorn of,
- hoping,
- hormic,
- hypoplastic,
- immature,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in default of,
- in short supply,
- in want of,
- inadequate,
- incomplete,
- infant,
- lacking,
- lascivious,
- libidinal,
- libidinous,
- lickerish,
- lustful,
- missing,
- optative,
- out of,
- out of pocket,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- scant,
- scant of,
- scanty,
- scrappy,
- short,
- short of,
- shy,
- shy of,
- sketchy,
- tempted,
- unblessed with,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unpossessed of,
- void of,
- wanting,
- wishing
- lascivious
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- driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies" related words >
- Cyprian,
- Fescennine,
- amative,
- amatory,
- amorous,
- animal,
- aphrodisiomaniacal,
- appetitive,
- ardent,
- bawdy,
- blue,
- carnal,
- clitoromaniacal,
- coarse,
- concupiscent,
- debauched,
- desiderative,
- desireful,
- desiring,
- desirous,
- dirty,
- eager,
- ejaculatory,
- erotic,
- eroticomaniacal,
- erotomaniacal,
- fast,
- filthy,
- fleshly,
- goatish,
- gross,
- gynecomaniacal,
- hircine,
- hoping,
- hormic,
- horny,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- hysteromaniacal,
- impassioned,
- incontinent,
- indecent,
- itching,
- ithyphallic,
- lecherous,
- lewd,
- libertine,
- libidinal,
- libidinous,
- licentious,
- lickerish,
- loverlike,
- loverly,
- lubricious,
- lubricous,
- lurid,
- lustful,
- needing,
- nymphomaniacal,
- obscene,
- offensive,
- optative,
- orgasmic,
- orgastic,
- passionate,
- pornographic,
- priapic,
- prurient,
- randy,
- ribald,
- ruttish,
- salacious,
- satyric,
- sensual,
- sex-starved,
- sexual,
- sexy,
- smutty,
- steamy,
- tempted,
- unsatisfied,
- vile,
- wanting,
- wanton,
- wishing
- permissive
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- granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline; "direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive"; "permissive parents"
- not preventive related words >
- accommodating,
- accordant,
- acquiescent,
- admissive,
- affable,
- affirmative,
- agreeable,
- agreeing,
- allowing,
- amiable,
- approving,
- assenting,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- broad-minded,
- careless,
- complaisant,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- conditional,
- consentient,
- consenting,
- content,
- culpably negligent,
- decent,
- derelict,
- eager,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- endorsing,
- favorable,
- freethinking,
- generous,
- gracious,
- imperative,
- impotent,
- imprecise,
- inadvertent,
- inattentive,
- indicative,
- indifferent,
- indulgent,
- jussive,
- kind,
- kindly,
- laissez-faire,
- latitudinarian,
- lax,
- lenient,
- liberal,
- libertarian,
- libertine,
- loose,
- mode,
- mood,
- neglectful,
- neglecting,
- negligent,
- noninterfering,
- nonprohibitive,
- nonrestrictive,
- nothing loath,
- obligative,
- obliging,
- off-guard,
- open-minded,
- optative,
- overindulgent,
- overly permissive,
- overpermissive,
- permitting,
- potential,
- procrastinating,
- prompt,
- ratifying,
- ready,
- relaxed,
- remiss,
- sanctioning,
- scamping,
- skimping,
- slack,
- slighting,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- slurring,
- soft,
- subjunctive,
- submissive,
- suffering,
- tolerant,
- tolerating,
- unbigoted,
- uncircumspect,
- ungrudging,
- unguarded,
- unloath,
- unprohibitive,
- unrefusing,
- unreluctant,
- unrestrained,
- unrigorous,
- unwary,
- unwatchful,
- weak,
- willing
- mood
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- verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker related words >
- Aristotelian sorites,
- Goclenian sorites,
- action,
- affection,
- air,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- atmosphere,
- attitude,
- aura,
- background,
- catastrophe,
- categorical syllogism,
- character,
- characterization,
- color,
- complication,
- conditional,
- continuity,
- contrivance,
- cue,
- denouement,
- design,
- development,
- device,
- dilemma,
- disposition,
- eager,
- emotion,
- enthymeme,
- episode,
- fable,
- falling action,
- feel,
- feeling,
- figure,
- frame,
- frame of mind,
- gimmick,
- heart,
- humor,
- imperative,
- in the mood,
- incident,
- inclination,
- inclined,
- indicative,
- individuality,
- jussive,
- keen,
- line,
- local color,
- mind,
- minded,
- mode,
- modus tollens,
- morale,
- motif,
- movement,
- mythos,
- nature,
- note,
- obligative,
- optative,
- paralogism,
- peripeteia,
- permissive,
- personality,
- plan,
- plot,
- potential,
- prosyllogism,
- pseudosyllogism,
- ready,
- recognition,
- response,
- rising action,
- rule,
- rule of deduction,
- scheme,
- secondary plot,
- semblance,
- sense,
- slant,
- sorites,
- soul,
- spirit,
- spirits,
- state of mind,
- story,
- strain,
- structure,
- subject,
- subjunctive,
- subplot,
- switch,
- syllogism,
- sympathetic,
- temper,
- temperament,
- thematic development,
- theme,
- timbre,
- tone,
- topic,
- twist,
- vein,
- well-disposed,
- willing
- absconded,
- absent,
- adulterated,
- appetitive,
- arrested,
- away,
- bankrupt in,
- bare of,
- bereaved,
- bereaved of,
- bereft,
- bereft of,
- blemished,
- callow,
- cut off,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- deleted,
- denuded,
- denuded of,
- departed,
- deprived of,
- desiderative,
- desireful,
- desiring,
- desirous,
- destitute of,
- devoid of,
- disappeared,
- divested,
- eager,
- embryonic,
- empty of,
- erroneous,
- failing,
- fallible,
- fate,
- faulty,
- for want of,
- forlorn of,
- found wanting,
- gone,
- half-assed,
- hoping,
- hormic,
- hypoplastic,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in default of,
- in short supply,
- in want of,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incompetent,
- incomplete,
- inexact,
- infant,
- inferior,
- insufficient,
- lacking,
- lascivious,
- libidinal,
- libidinous,
- lickerish,
- lustful,
- makeshift,
- mediocre,
- minus,
- missing,
- mixed,
- needing,
- no longer present,
- nonattendant,
- nonexistent,
- not enough,
- not found,
- not perfect,
- not present,
- off,
- omitted,
- optative,
- out of,
- out of pocket,
- out of sight,
- part,
- parted from,
- partial,
- patchy,
- robbed of,
- sans,
- scant,
- scant of,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scrappy,
- shorn of,
- short,
- short of,
- shy,
- shy of,
- sketchy,
- stripped of,
- subtracted,
- taken away,
- tempted,
- too little,
- unblessed with,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unequal to,
- uneven,
- unfinished,
- unperfected,
- unpossessed of,
- unqualified,
- unreached,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsatisfying,
- unsound,
- unsufficing,
- unthorough,
- vanished,
- void of,
- wishing
- potential
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- the inherent capacity for coming into being
- existing in possibility; "a potential problem"; "possible uses of nuclear power" related words >
- EMF,
- ability,
- aptitude,
- bare possibility,
- between the lines,
- budding,
- bump,
- caliber,
- capability,
- capacity,
- chance,
- cogitable,
- concealed,
- conceivability,
- conceivable,
- conceivableness,
- conceivably possible,
- conditional,
- contingency,
- contingent,
- covert,
- cryptic,
- delitescent,
- developing,
- dormant,
- dower,
- dowry,
- electric potential,
- electromotive force,
- electromotivity,
- embryonic,
- endowment,
- equipment,
- esoteric,
- even chance,
- eventuality,
- faculty,
- flair,
- forte,
- future,
- genius,
- gift,
- good chance,
- good possibility,
- hibernating,
- hidden,
- hope,
- humanly possible,
- imaginable,
- imminent,
- imperative,
- implicit,
- implied,
- indicative,
- instinct,
- jussive,
- latent,
- likelihood,
- likely,
- long suit,
- lurking,
- makings,
- metier,
- mode,
- mood,
- muffled,
- mystic,
- natural endowment,
- natural gift,
- obfuscated,
- obligative,
- obscured,
- occult,
- off chance,
- optative,
- outside chance,
- outside hope,
- parts,
- passive,
- permissive,
- plausible,
- possibilities,
- possibility,
- possible,
- possibleness,
- potency,
- potential difference,
- potentiality,
- power,
- powers,
- probability,
- probable,
- prospect,
- qualification,
- quiescent,
- remote possibility,
- sleeping,
- small hope,
- speciality,
- strong flair,
- strong point,
- subjunctive,
- submerged,
- talent,
- talents,
- the attainable,
- the feasible,
- the goods,
- the possible,
- the stuff,
- thinkability,
- thinkable,
- thinkableness,
- under the surface,
- underlying,
- undeveloped,
- unmanifested,
- unrealized,
- veiled,
- virtual,
- virtuality,
- volt,
- voltage,
- what is possible,
- what it takes,
- what may be,
- what might be
- indicative
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- (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly; "actions indicative of fear"
- relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple declarative statements; "indicative mood" related words >
- Christophanic,
- Satanophanic,
- absolute,
- adducible,
- admissible,
- allegorical,
- allusive,
- allusory,
- angelophanic,
- appearing,
- associational,
- attestative,
- attestive,
- augural,
- authentic,
- based on,
- certain,
- characteristic,
- circumstantial,
- conclusive,
- conditional,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- convincing,
- cumulative,
- damning,
- decisive,
- definable,
- demonstrating,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- designative,
- determinative,
- diagnostic,
- disclosive,
- displaying,
- documentary,
- documented,
- emblematic,
- epiphanic,
- evidential,
- evidentiary,
- evincive,
- ex parte,
- exhibitive,
- expositional,
- expository,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- eye-witness,
- factual,
- figural,
- figurative,
- final,
- firsthand,
- forerunning,
- foreshadowing,
- foreshowing,
- foretokening,
- forewarning,
- founded on,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- grounded on,
- hearsay,
- heavy with meaning,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- imperative,
- implicational,
- implicative,
- implicatory,
- implicit,
- incarnating,
- incarnational,
- incontrovertible,
- indicating,
- indicatory,
- indisputable,
- individual,
- inferential,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- insinuatory,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- intuitive,
- ironic,
- irrefutable,
- irresistible,
- jussive,
- manifestative,
- material,
- materializing,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- mode,
- monitory,
- mood,
- naming,
- nuncupative,
- obligative,
- optative,
- overwhelming,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- permissive,
- pithy,
- pneumatophanic,
- pointed,
- potential,
- precursive,
- precursory,
- predictive,
- prefigurative,
- pregnant,
- preindicative,
- premonitory,
- presageful,
- presaging,
- presentational,
- presumptive,
- probative,
- prognostic,
- prognosticative,
- promulgatory,
- readable,
- referential,
- reliable,
- representative,
- revelational,
- revelatory,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- sententious,
- showing,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- subjunctive,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- sure,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- telling,
- theophanic,
- transferred,
- typical,
- valid,
- warning,
- weighty
- eager
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- having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy; "eager to learn"; "eager to travel abroad"; "eager for success"; "eager helpers"; "an eager look" related words >
- accordant,
- acquiescent,
- acquisitive,
- affirmative,
- agape,
- agog,
- agreeable,
- agreeing,
- alacritous,
- all agog,
- ambitious,
- amenable,
- animated,
- anticipant,
- anticipating,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- appetitive,
- approving,
- ardent,
- assenting,
- athirst,
- avid,
- awaiting,
- breathless,
- bursting to,
- certain,
- chafing,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- confident,
- consentient,
- consenting,
- content,
- cooperative,
- covetous,
- craving,
- desiderative,
- desireful,
- desiring,
- desirous,
- disposed,
- docile,
- dying,
- earnest,
- edgy,
- endorsing,
- energetic,
- energized,
- enthusiastic,
- excited,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- fain,
- favorable,
- favorably disposed,
- favorably inclined,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- forearmed,
- forestalling,
- forewarned,
- forward,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- full of life,
- game,
- gaping,
- gung ho,
- hankering,
- hasty,
- heated,
- honing,
- hopeful,
- hoping,
- hopped-up,
- hormic,
- hot,
- hungry,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a lather,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in anticipation,
- in expectation,
- in the mind,
- in the mood,
- inclined,
- inspirited,
- intent,
- itchy,
- keen,
- lascivious,
- libidinal,
- libidinous,
- lickerish,
- lively,
- longing,
- looking for,
- looking forward to,
- lustful,
- minded,
- needing,
- not surprised,
- nothing loath,
- on edge,
- optative,
- optimistic,
- panting,
- passionate,
- permissive,
- pining,
- pliant,
- predisposed,
- prepared,
- prompt,
- prone,
- quick,
- raring,
- raring to,
- ratifying,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- receptive,
- responsive,
- restive,
- restless,
- sanctioning,
- sanguine,
- solicitous,
- spirited,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- stimulated,
- submissive,
- sure,
- tempted,
- thirsty,
- tractable,
- uneasy,
- ungrudging,
- unloath,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- unrefusing,
- unreluctant,
- unsurprised,
- vehement,
- vital,
- vitalized,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- waiting,
- waiting for,
- wanting,
- watching for,
- well-disposed,
- well-inclined,
- willed,
- willing,
- willinghearted,
- wishful,
- wishing,
- yearning,
- zealous,
- zestful
- mode
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- the most frequent value of a random variable
- any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
- a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched from keyboard to voice mode" related words >
- Aeolian mode,
- Aristotelian sorites,
- Dorian mode,
- Goclenian sorites,
- Greek modes,
- Hindu mode,
- Indian mode,
- Locrian mode,
- Lydian mode,
- MO,
- Phrygian mode,
- Platonic form,
- Platonic idea,
- SOP,
- aesthetic form,
- affectation,
- algorithm,
- approach,
- archetype,
- art form,
- attack,
- authentic mode,
- bearings,
- bon ton,
- build,
- case,
- cast,
- categorical syllogism,
- chic,
- circumstance,
- command of language,
- complexion,
- condition,
- conditional,
- configuration,
- conformation,
- convention,
- course,
- craze,
- cry,
- custom,
- cut,
- dilemma,
- enthymeme,
- estate,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- fad,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- figuration,
- figure,
- fix,
- footing,
- form,
- form of speech,
- format,
- formation,
- frame,
- furore,
- genre,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- guise,
- haute couture,
- high fashion,
- hypoaeolian mode,
- hypodorian mode,
- hypoionian mode,
- hypolocrian mode,
- hypolydian mode,
- hypomixolydian mode,
- hypophrygian mode,
- imperative,
- impression,
- indicative,
- inflation,
- inner form,
- jam,
- jussive,
- layout,
- line,
- line of action,
- lines,
- literary style,
- location,
- look,
- lot,
- major mode,
- make,
- makeup,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- manner of working,
- mannerism,
- matrix,
- means,
- method,
- methodology,
- minor mode,
- mixolydian mode,
- modality,
- mode of expression,
- mode of operation,
- mode of procedure,
- model,
- modus,
- modus operandi,
- modus tollens,
- mold,
- mood,
- obligative,
- octave species,
- optative,
- order,
- paralogism,
- pass,
- pattern,
- peculiarity,
- permissive,
- personal style,
- pickle,
- place,
- plagal mode,
- plight,
- position,
- posture,
- potential,
- practice,
- predicament,
- prevailing taste,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- process,
- proper thing,
- prosyllogism,
- prototype,
- pseudosyllogism,
- raga,
- rage,
- rank,
- rhetoric,
- routine,
- rule,
- rule of deduction,
- sense of language,
- set,
- set-up,
- shape,
- significant form,
- situation,
- sorites,
- spot,
- stamp,
- standard operating procedure,
- standing,
- state,
- station,
- status,
- strain,
- stream of fashion,
- structure,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- subjunctive,
- swim,
- syllogism,
- system,
- tack,
- technique,
- tenor,
- the drill,
- the grand style,
- the how,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- the way of,
- tone,
- trend,
- trick,
- turn,
- type,
- vein,
- vogue,
- way,
- wise
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