Related Words:
- hardness
collapse - the quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"; "the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail"
- the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale related words >
- Philistinism,
- abstruseness,
- arduousness,
- armor,
- asperity,
- astringency,
- austerity,
- bothersomeness,
- burdensomeness,
- callosity,
- callousness,
- callus,
- closeness,
- cohesiveness,
- coldbloodedness,
- coldheartedness,
- coldness,
- compactness,
- complexity,
- complication,
- congestedness,
- congestion,
- consistence,
- consistency,
- crabbedness,
- crampedness,
- crowdedness,
- cruelty,
- deepness,
- denseness,
- density,
- difficultness,
- difficulty,
- durability,
- esoterica,
- firmness,
- flintiness,
- formidable defenses,
- fundamentalism,
- gluiness,
- grimness,
- hairiness,
- hard heart,
- hard shell,
- hardenedness,
- hardheartedness,
- hardiness,
- hardness of heart,
- hardship,
- harshness,
- heart of stone,
- heartlessness,
- impenetrability,
- impenitence,
- impenitentness,
- impermeability,
- imperviousness,
- impliability,
- imporosity,
- inclemency,
- incompressibility,
- induration,
- inexorability,
- inexorableness,
- inflexibility,
- infrangibility,
- insensitiveness,
- insensitivity,
- insolence,
- intricacy,
- inuredness,
- irrepentance,
- jammedness,
- knottiness,
- laboriousness,
- lastingness,
- leatherlikeness,
- mercilessness,
- nonrepentance,
- obduracy,
- obdurateness,
- obstinacy,
- onerousness,
- oppressiveness,
- orthodoxy,
- pitilessness,
- precisianism,
- profoundness,
- profundity,
- purism,
- puritanism,
- reconditeness,
- relative density,
- relentlessness,
- remorselessness,
- resistance,
- rhinoceros hide,
- rigidity,
- rigidness,
- rigor,
- rigorousness,
- ropiness,
- roughness,
- ruggedness,
- ruthlessness,
- seared conscience,
- severity,
- short shrift,
- solidity,
- solidness,
- soundness,
- specific gravity,
- spissitude,
- stability,
- stamina,
- staunchness,
- sternness,
- stiffness,
- stoniness,
- stoutness,
- strength,
- strenuousness,
- stringency,
- stringiness,
- stubbornness,
- sturdiness,
- temper,
- tenacity,
- tender mercies,
- thick skin,
- thickness,
- toilsomeness,
- toughness,
- troublesomeness,
- unabjectness,
- unbendingness,
- unbreakability,
- unbreakableness,
- uncompassionateness,
- uncompromisingness,
- uncontriteness,
- unfeeling,
- unfeelingness,
- unforgivingness,
- ungentleness,
- unmercifulness,
- unnaturalness,
- unrelentingness,
- unremorsefulness,
- unresponsiveness,
- unsympatheticness,
- unyieldingness,
- vicissitude,
- vigor,
- viscidity,
- viscosity,
- viscousness,
- vitality
- gaudy
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- a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- bedizened,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blinding,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- brummagem,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- coarse,
- colorful,
- common,
- contemptible,
- convoluted,
- crass,
- crude,
- crummy,
- declamatory,
- despicable,
- earthy,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fake,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gross,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- honky-tonk,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mean,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pedantic,
- phony,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pompous,
- poor,
- pretentious,
- raffish,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- ribald,
- rough,
- rubbishy,
- rude,
- sad,
- screaming,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shabby,
- sham,
- shameless,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- sonorous,
- sorry,
- spectacular,
- stilted,
- tacky,
- tall,
- tasteless,
- tatty,
- tawdry,
- tinsel,
- tinselly,
- tortuous,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- valueless,
- vile,
- vulgar,
- worthless,
- wretched
- tangle
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- something jumbled or confused; "a tangle of government regulations"
- a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven; "they carved their way through the tangle of vines" related words >
- Chinese puzzle,
- Gordian knot,
- Rube Goldberg contraption,
- a outrance,
- absorb,
- allure,
- bag,
- bait the hook,
- ball up,
- bandy with,
- battle,
- battle it out,
- birdlime,
- bump heads,
- burden,
- can of worms,
- catch,
- catch out,
- catch up,
- catch up in,
- coil,
- come up against,
- complex,
- complexity,
- complicate,
- complication,
- concern,
- confound,
- confuse,
- confusion,
- contend with,
- cope with,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- cross swords with,
- cumber,
- decoy,
- disagree with,
- dispute,
- draw in,
- embarrass,
- embrangle,
- embroil,
- encumber,
- engage,
- engage with,
- enmesh,
- ensnare,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- entanglement,
- entoil,
- entrammel,
- entrap,
- entwine,
- enweb,
- exchange shots,
- fetter,
- fight against,
- fight like devils,
- fight with,
- foul,
- foul up,
- gin,
- gnarl,
- go to loggerheads,
- grapple with,
- hamper,
- hamstring,
- handicap,
- harpoon,
- have it out,
- hobble,
- hook,
- hook in,
- impede,
- implicate,
- interest,
- interlace,
- intertwine,
- intertwist,
- interweave,
- inveigle,
- involve,
- jam,
- jumble,
- jungle,
- kink,
- knot,
- labyrinth,
- lame,
- land,
- lasso,
- lime,
- lock horns,
- louse up,
- lumber,
- lure,
- maze,
- meander,
- measure swords with,
- medley,
- mesh,
- mess,
- mess up,
- mishmash,
- mix up,
- mix-up,
- morass,
- muck,
- muck up,
- muddle,
- nail,
- net,
- noose,
- perplex,
- press down,
- puzzle,
- ramify,
- ravel,
- rope,
- sack,
- saddle with,
- scramble,
- screw up,
- settle it,
- shackle,
- shuffle,
- skein,
- snafu,
- snag,
- snake pit,
- snare,
- snarl,
- snarl up,
- sniggle,
- spear,
- spread the toils,
- strive with,
- struggle with,
- suck into,
- take,
- tangle up with,
- tangle with,
- tangled skein,
- tilt with,
- toil,
- trammel,
- trap,
- trip,
- try conclusions with,
- twist,
- web,
- webwork,
- weigh down,
- wheels within wheels,
- wilderness,
- wind,
- wrestle with
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blazon,
- blinding,
- brandish,
- brandishing,
- brave,
- bravura,
- braw,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- brilliancy,
- chichi,
- colorful,
- convoluted,
- crude,
- daring,
- dash,
- dashing,
- declamatory,
- demonstration,
- display,
- dramatics,
- dressy,
- eclat,
- elevated,
- etalage,
- euphuistic,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- exhibitionistic,
- extravagant,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- figure,
- flagrant,
- flair,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashing,
- flashy,
- flaunt,
- flourish,
- flourishing,
- frilly,
- frothy,
- fulsome,
- gallant,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gay,
- glaring,
- glittering,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- histrionics,
- inkhorn,
- jaunty,
- jazzy,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- manifestation,
- meretricious,
- obtrusive,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- rakish,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- screaming,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shaking,
- sham,
- shameless,
- show,
- showing-off,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- snazzy,
- sonorous,
- spectacle,
- spectacular,
- splash,
- splashy,
- splurge,
- splurgy,
- sporty,
- staginess,
- stilted,
- tall,
- tawdry,
- theatrics,
- tortuous,
- undulation,
- vaunt,
- vulgar,
- wave,
- wave motion,
- waving
- involvement
collapse
- a connection of inclusion or containment; "he escaped involvement in the accident"; "there was additional involvement of the liver and spleen" related words >
- absorbed attention,
- absorption,
- application,
- arraignability,
- arraignableness,
- assault,
- association,
- assumption,
- attack,
- bias,
- blameworthiness,
- bloody hands,
- burden,
- caring,
- censurability,
- censurableness,
- censure,
- chargeability,
- chord,
- cincture,
- circling,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumcincture,
- circumflexion,
- circumjacence,
- circumposition,
- citation,
- cochairmanship,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- complicity,
- concentration,
- concern,
- condominium,
- containment,
- contemplation,
- contribution,
- convolution,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- cotenancy,
- crabbedness,
- criminality,
- culpability,
- deep study,
- deep thought,
- dirty hands,
- discrimination,
- echo,
- embracement,
- embroilment,
- empathy,
- encincture,
- encirclement,
- enclosure,
- encompassment,
- enfoldment,
- engagement,
- engrossment,
- enmeshment,
- entailment,
- entanglement,
- envelopment,
- environment,
- favoritism,
- fellow feeling,
- girding,
- girdling,
- guilt,
- guiltiness,
- guilty conscience,
- having a part,
- identification,
- immersion,
- impeachability,
- impeachableness,
- implication,
- impugnment,
- inclination,
- inclusion,
- incrimination,
- inculpation,
- indictability,
- indictableness,
- inequality,
- intentness,
- interagency,
- intercession,
- interest,
- intermediation,
- interposition,
- intervention,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- involution,
- joint chairmanship,
- joint control,
- joint ownership,
- joint tenancy,
- leaning,
- mediation,
- meditation,
- monomania,
- nepotism,
- obsession,
- one-sidedness,
- onus,
- partaking,
- parti pris,
- partiality,
- participation,
- partisanism,
- partisanship,
- partnership,
- pathos,
- peccancy,
- perplexity,
- preference,
- preferential treatment,
- preoccupation,
- presumption,
- profound thought,
- ramification,
- rapt attention,
- red-handedness,
- relating,
- reprehensibility,
- reproachableness,
- reprovability,
- reprovableness,
- response,
- responsiveness,
- sharing,
- single-mindedness,
- stepping in,
- studiousness,
- study,
- submersion,
- subsumption,
- subtlety,
- suffrage,
- surrounding,
- sympathetic chord,
- sympathetic response,
- sympathy,
- tanglement,
- technicality,
- undetachment,
- undispassionateness,
- unneutrality,
- vibes,
- vibrations,
- voting
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- absurd,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- ambitious,
- amplified,
- arrogant,
- ballyhooed,
- bedizened,
- beyond belief,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bizarre,
- bombastic,
- classy,
- cockamamie,
- condescending,
- convoluted,
- crazy,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- domineering,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fancy,
- fantastic,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- foolish,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- grotesque,
- haughty,
- high,
- high-faluting,
- high-flowing,
- high-flying,
- high-headed,
- high-minded,
- high-nosed,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperbolic,
- incredible,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- labyrinthine,
- laughable,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- ludicrous,
- lurid,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- monstrous,
- nonsensical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overbearing,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlarge,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstressed,
- overwrought,
- patronizing,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- poppycockish,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- proud,
- puffed,
- purse-proud,
- rhetorical,
- ridiculous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- stuck-up,
- superior,
- superlative,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tony,
- toplofty,
- tortuous,
- touted,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- upstage,
- vaunting,
- weird,
- wild,
- windy
- abounding,
- abundant,
- adorned,
- affluent,
- all-sufficing,
- ample,
- aplenty,
- arabesque,
- baroque,
- befrilled,
- blooming,
- bottomless,
- bounteous,
- bountiful,
- bursting,
- bursting out,
- busy,
- chichi,
- colored,
- copious,
- creative,
- decorated,
- deluxe,
- dense,
- diffuse,
- effuse,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- epidemic,
- exhaustless,
- extravagant,
- exuberant,
- fancy,
- fat,
- fecund,
- fertile,
- festooned,
- figurative,
- figured,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flashy,
- florid,
- flourishing,
- flowery,
- flush,
- frilly,
- fructiferous,
- fruitful,
- full,
- fussy,
- galore,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- generous,
- gross,
- heavy,
- high-wrought,
- impenetrable,
- in plenty,
- in quantity,
- inexhaustible,
- jungled,
- jungly,
- labored,
- lavish,
- liberal,
- luscious,
- lush,
- luxurious,
- many,
- maximal,
- moresque,
- much,
- numerous,
- opulent,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- overcharged,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overflowing,
- overgrown,
- overlabored,
- overloaded,
- overrun,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- palatial,
- picturesque,
- plenitudinous,
- plenteous,
- plentiful,
- plenty,
- plush,
- pregnant,
- pretty-pretty,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- prodigal,
- productive,
- profuse,
- profusive,
- proliferous,
- prolific,
- purple,
- rampant,
- rank,
- replete,
- rich,
- rife,
- riotous,
- rococo,
- running over,
- seminal,
- showy,
- sumptuous,
- superabundant,
- swarming,
- teeming,
- thick,
- thriving,
- uberous,
- unweeded,
- wealthy,
- weed-choked,
- weed-ridden,
- weedy,
- well-found,
- well-furnished,
- well-provided,
- well-stocked,
- wholesale
- mummery
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- meaningless ceremonies and flattery related words >
- Pecksniffery,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- abracadabra,
- acting,
- affectation,
- baccalaureate service,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- camouflage,
- cant,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- characterization,
- commencement,
- convocation,
- disguise,
- domino,
- empty formality,
- empty gesture,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- false colors,
- false face,
- false front,
- false piety,
- falseness,
- formal,
- formality,
- function,
- gag,
- goody-goodiness,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hocus-pocus,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- hypocrisy,
- hypocriticalness,
- impersonation,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- incognito,
- initiation,
- insincerity,
- lip service,
- liturgy,
- mask,
- masque,
- masquerade,
- mealymouthedness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- mouthing,
- mumbo-jumbo,
- observance,
- office,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- overacting,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- playacting,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- projection,
- protective coloration,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- religious ceremony,
- representation,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-righteousness,
- service,
- slapstick,
- smoke screen,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soft soap,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stunt,
- sweet talk,
- taking a role,
- tokenism,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- visor,
- vizard,
- vizard mask
- meretricious
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- like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- apparent,
- bedizened,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- coarse,
- colorable,
- colored,
- colorful,
- common,
- contemptible,
- convoluted,
- crass,
- crude,
- crummy,
- deceptive,
- declamatory,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- despicable,
- earthy,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fallen,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gilded,
- gimcracky,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gross,
- harlot,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hustling,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mean,
- miserable,
- misleading,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- on the,
- on the town,
- orotund,
- ostensible,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pave,
- pedantic,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plausible,
- pompous,
- poor,
- pretentious,
- prostitute,
- prostituted,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- ribald,
- rough,
- rubbishy,
- rude,
- sad,
- scarlet,
- screaming,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- seeming,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shabby,
- shameless,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- sorry,
- specious,
- spectacular,
- spurious,
- stilted,
- streetwalking,
- tall,
- tawdry,
- tinsel,
- tortuous,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- valueless,
- vile,
- vulgar,
- whorish,
- worthless,
- wretched
- soft soap
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- a soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseases related words >
- Pecksniffery,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- adulation,
- advocate,
- allurement,
- be hypocritical,
- blandish,
- blandishment,
- blandness,
- blarney,
- bunkum,
- butter,
- butter up,
- cajole,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- call on,
- call upon,
- cant,
- coax,
- coaxing,
- compliment,
- conning,
- empty gesture,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhort,
- exhortation,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- false piety,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- fulsomeness,
- get around,
- give lip service,
- give mouth honor,
- glibness,
- grease,
- high-pressure,
- honey,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hortation,
- hypocrisy,
- hypocriticalness,
- importune,
- incense,
- inducement,
- insist,
- insist upon,
- jawbone,
- jawboning,
- jolly,
- kid along,
- lay it on,
- lip service,
- lobby,
- lobbying,
- mealymouthedness,
- mouth,
- mouthing,
- mummery,
- nag,
- oil,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- overdo it,
- palaver,
- persuasion,
- pharisaism,
- play the hypocrite,
- play up to,
- plead with,
- praise,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- press,
- pressure,
- pretty lies,
- push,
- recommend,
- reek of piety,
- religiosity,
- render lip service,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- selling,
- smoothness,
- smugness,
- snivel,
- snow job,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soap,
- soft words,
- soften up,
- solicitation,
- string along,
- stroke,
- suasion,
- suaveness,
- suavity,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sweet-talk,
- sycophancy,
- tokenism,
- unctuousness,
- urge,
- wheedle,
- wheedling,
- work on,
- working on
- mesh
collapse
- the act of interlocking or meshing; "an interlocking of arms by the police held the crowd in check"
- the number of opening per inch of a screen; measures size of particles; "a 100 mesh screen"; "100 mesh powdered cellulose"
- work together in harmony related words >
- Chinese puzzle,
- Gordian knot,
- Rube Goldberg contraption,
- allure,
- alternation,
- arabesque,
- bag,
- bait the hook,
- basketry,
- basketwork,
- birdlime,
- can of worms,
- cancellation,
- catch,
- catch out,
- clutches,
- coact,
- coaction,
- cobweb,
- complementary distribution,
- complex,
- complexity,
- concurrence,
- cooperate,
- cooperation,
- cross-hatching,
- crossing-out,
- decoy,
- decussation,
- dovetail,
- engage,
- engagement,
- enmesh,
- ensnare,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- entanglement,
- entoil,
- entrap,
- enweb,
- filigree,
- fit together,
- foul,
- fret,
- fretwork,
- gin,
- grab,
- grasp,
- grate,
- grater,
- grating,
- grid,
- gridiron,
- grille,
- grillwork,
- grip,
- hachure,
- harpoon,
- hatching,
- hook,
- hook in,
- interact,
- interaction,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercourse,
- interlace,
- interlacement,
- interlacing,
- interlock,
- intermesh,
- intermeshing,
- interplay,
- interstice,
- intertexture,
- intertwine,
- intertwinement,
- intertwining,
- interweave,
- interweaving,
- interwork,
- interworking,
- intricacy,
- inveigle,
- involve,
- jungle,
- knit,
- knot,
- labyrinth,
- lace,
- lacery,
- lacework,
- lacing,
- land,
- lasso,
- lattice,
- lattice-work,
- latticework,
- lime,
- lure,
- match,
- maze,
- meander,
- meshes,
- meshing,
- meshwork,
- mess,
- morass,
- mortise,
- nail,
- net,
- netting,
- network,
- noose,
- perplex,
- plexure,
- plexus,
- quid pro quo,
- raddle,
- ravel,
- reticle,
- reticulation,
- reticule,
- reticulum,
- riddle,
- rope,
- sack,
- screen,
- screening,
- seesaw,
- sieve,
- skein,
- snafu,
- snag,
- snake pit,
- snare,
- snarl,
- sniggle,
- spear,
- spread the toils,
- strainer,
- take,
- tangle,
- tangle up with,
- tangled skein,
- texture,
- tissue,
- tit for tat,
- toils,
- tracery,
- trap,
- trellis,
- trellis-work,
- trelliswork,
- trip,
- wattle,
- weave,
- weaving,
- web,
- webbing,
- webwork,
- weft,
- wheels within wheels,
- wicker,
- wickerwork,
- wilderness,
- wind
- tortuous
collapse
- not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"
- marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- ambagious,
- ambiguous,
- anamorphous,
- anfractuous,
- askew,
- asymmetric,
- bedizened,
- bent,
- big-sounding,
- billowing,
- billowy,
- bowed,
- circuitous,
- circumlocutory,
- cockeyed,
- complicated,
- contorted,
- convoluted,
- convolutional,
- cranky,
- crazy,
- crooked,
- crumpled,
- crunched,
- curled,
- curling,
- curvaceous,
- curvate,
- curvated,
- curve,
- curved,
- curvesome,
- curviform,
- curvilineal,
- curvilinear,
- curving,
- curvy,
- deceptive,
- declamatory,
- deviative,
- devious,
- distorted,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flexuose,
- flexuous,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- geosynclinal,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- incurvate,
- incurvated,
- incurved,
- incurving,
- indirect,
- inkhorn,
- intricate,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involutional,
- involved,
- irregular,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lopsided,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- meretricious,
- misleading,
- nonsymmetric,
- one-sided,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- recurvate,
- recurvated,
- recurved,
- recurving,
- rhetorical,
- rivose,
- rivulose,
- roundabout,
- ruffled,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- serpentine,
- showy,
- sinuate,
- sinuose,
- sinuous,
- snaky,
- sonorous,
- sprung,
- stilted,
- tall,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- undulant,
- unstraightforward,
- unsymmetric,
- wandering,
- warped,
- wavy,
- whorled,
- winding,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- zigzag
- difficulty
collapse
- the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
- a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result; "serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent"
- a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties" related words >
- Gordian knot,
- abstruseness,
- adverse circumstances,
- adversity,
- affliction,
- aggravation,
- agreement to disagree,
- altercation,
- annoyance,
- arduousness,
- asperity,
- bad news,
- bedevilment,
- beef,
- bickering,
- blight,
- block,
- blockade,
- bore,
- bother,
- botheration,
- bothersomeness,
- bottleneck,
- bummer,
- burden,
- burthen,
- care,
- cargo,
- catch,
- challenge,
- charge,
- complexity,
- complication,
- controversy,
- cordon,
- crabbedness,
- crampedness,
- crashing bore,
- cross,
- cross-purposes,
- cumbrance,
- curse,
- curtain,
- deadweight,
- deepness,
- demurral,
- demurrer,
- determent,
- deterrent,
- devilment,
- difference,
- difference of opinion,
- difficulties,
- dilemma,
- disadvantage,
- disagreement,
- disparity,
- dispute,
- distress,
- dividedness,
- division,
- dogging,
- downer,
- drag,
- drawback,
- embarrassment,
- emergency,
- encumbrance,
- esoterica,
- exasperation,
- exigency,
- falling-out,
- fight,
- fix,
- formidableness,
- freight,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- hang-up,
- harassment,
- hard knocks,
- hard life,
- hard lot,
- hardcase,
- hardness,
- hardship,
- harrying,
- hassle,
- hazard,
- headache,
- heavy sledding,
- hindrance,
- hitch,
- hot water,
- hounding,
- hurdle,
- impediment,
- impedimenta,
- imposition,
- inconvenience,
- intricacy,
- irritation,
- jam,
- joker,
- knottiness,
- laboriousness,
- load,
- lumber,
- mess,
- misunderstanding,
- molestation,
- nuisance,
- objection,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- obstructive,
- odds,
- one small difficulty,
- onus,
- pack,
- painfulness,
- pass,
- penalty,
- persecution,
- pest,
- pickle,
- pinch,
- pitfall,
- plight,
- polarization,
- predicament,
- pressure,
- problem,
- profoundness,
- profundity,
- protest,
- quandary,
- question,
- reconditeness,
- remonstrance,
- remonstration,
- rigor,
- rub,
- scrape,
- sea of troubles,
- snag,
- squabble,
- strain,
- strait,
- straits,
- stress,
- stress of life,
- stumbling block,
- stumbling stone,
- trial,
- tribulation,
- trouble,
- troubles,
- vale of tears,
- variance,
- vexation,
- vexatiousness,
- vicissitude,
- vigor,
- weight,
- white elephant,
- worriment,
- worry
- theatrical
collapse
- suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater; "a theatrical pose"; "one of the most theatrical figures in public life"
- of or relating to the theater related words >
- Roscius,
- Thespian art,
- actor,
- actor-proof,
- actress,
- affected,
- all-star,
- amateur theatricals,
- antagonist,
- artificial,
- bad guy,
- ballet,
- balletic,
- barnstormer,
- camp,
- campy,
- character,
- character actor,
- character man,
- character woman,
- child actor,
- cinematic,
- cinematographic,
- diseur,
- diseuse,
- dramatic,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramatical,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramatizer,
- dramaturgic,
- dramaturgy,
- emotionalistic,
- emotive,
- exaggerated,
- extravagant,
- fake,
- false,
- feeder,
- film,
- filmic,
- foil,
- forced,
- grandstand,
- ham,
- hammy,
- heavy,
- histrio,
- histrion,
- histrionic,
- histrionics,
- histrionism,
- hysteric,
- ingenue,
- insincere,
- juvenile,
- la-di-da,
- legitimate,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- matinee idol,
- melodramatic,
- melodramatics,
- milked,
- mime,
- mimer,
- mimic,
- monodramatic,
- monologist,
- movie,
- mummer,
- nonrational,
- operatic,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overacting,
- overdone,
- overemotional,
- overplayed,
- overwrought,
- pantomime,
- pantomimist,
- play construction,
- playactor,
- player,
- pretentious,
- protean actor,
- reciter,
- repertory,
- scenic,
- sensational,
- sensationalism,
- sensationalistic,
- showy,
- soubrette,
- spectacular,
- stage,
- stage performer,
- stage player,
- stagelike,
- stageworthy,
- staginess,
- stagy,
- starstruck,
- stellar,
- stooge,
- straight man,
- stroller,
- strolling player,
- theaterlike,
- theatric,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- theatrics,
- thespian,
- thrown away,
- trouper,
- underacted,
- underplayed,
- unnatural,
- unreasoning,
- utility man,
- vaudevillian,
- villain
- pompous
collapse
- characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Latinate,
- affected,
- arrogant,
- assured,
- aureate,
- awkward,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bloated,
- boastful,
- bombastic,
- braggart,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- cocksure,
- conceited,
- confident,
- conventional,
- convinced,
- convoluted,
- cramped,
- cumbrous,
- decided,
- declamatory,
- decorous,
- determined,
- egotistical,
- elephantine,
- elevated,
- embroidered,
- euphuistic,
- exhibitionist,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flatulent,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- forced,
- formal,
- fulsome,
- fustian,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- guinde,
- halting,
- haughty,
- heavy,
- hieratic,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-hat,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hoity-toity,
- hubristic,
- imperious,
- important,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- leaden,
- lexiphanic,
- liturgic,
- lofty,
- lumbering,
- lurid,
- magisterial,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- narcissistic,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbearing,
- overblown,
- overconfident,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- persuaded,
- poised,
- ponderous,
- pontifical,
- positive,
- presumptuous,
- pretentious,
- proud,
- puffy,
- reassured,
- rhetorical,
- ritual,
- ritualistic,
- sacerdotal,
- secure,
- self-assured,
- self-centered,
- self-conceited,
- self-confident,
- self-important,
- self-reliant,
- selfish,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- snobbish,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- solemn,
- sonorous,
- stately,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stuck-up,
- stuffy,
- sure,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unafraid,
- undoubting,
- unfaltering,
- unhesitating,
- unwavering,
- unwieldy,
- uppity,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- well-mannered,
- windy
- Pecksniffery,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- adulation,
- advocate,
- allurement,
- artful endearments,
- be hypocritical,
- bill and coo,
- blandish,
- blandishment,
- blandishments,
- blandness,
- blarney,
- bunkum,
- butter,
- cajole,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- call on,
- call upon,
- cant,
- caress,
- coax,
- coaxing,
- compliment,
- conning,
- copulate,
- dally,
- empty gesture,
- endearment,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhort,
- exhortation,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- false piety,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- fulsomeness,
- give lip service,
- give mouth honor,
- glibness,
- grease,
- high-pressure,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hortation,
- hypocrisy,
- hypocriticalness,
- importune,
- incense,
- inducement,
- insist,
- insist upon,
- jawbone,
- jawboning,
- lip service,
- lobby,
- lobbying,
- lollygag,
- make love,
- make out,
- mealymouthedness,
- mouth,
- mouthing,
- mummery,
- nag,
- neck,
- oil,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- palaver,
- pat,
- persuasion,
- pet,
- pharisaism,
- play the hypocrite,
- plead with,
- praise,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- press,
- pressure,
- pretty lies,
- push,
- recommend,
- reek of piety,
- religiosity,
- render lip service,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- selling,
- smooch,
- smoothness,
- smugness,
- snivel,
- snow job,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- soft-soap,
- solicitation,
- spoon,
- suasion,
- suaveness,
- suavity,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- tokenism,
- toy,
- trifle,
- unctuousness,
- urge,
- wanton,
- wheedle,
- wheedling,
- whisper sweet nothings,
- work on,
- working on
- sententious
collapse
- abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- affected,
- allegorical,
- aphoristic,
- aposiopestic,
- associational,
- axiomatic,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- brief,
- brusque,
- cautionary,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- contracted,
- convoluted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- declamatory,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- didactic,
- directive,
- docked,
- elevated,
- elliptic,
- eloquent,
- epigrammatic,
- euphuistic,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facund,
- figurative,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gnomic,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- indicative,
- inkhorn,
- instructive,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- labyrinthine,
- laconic,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- meretricious,
- metaphorical,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- piquant,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- pointed,
- pompous,
- preachy,
- pregnant,
- pretentious,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- pungent,
- readable,
- recommendatory,
- referential,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- reserved,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- showy,
- significant,
- significative,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- suggestive,
- summary,
- symbolic,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tall,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- tortuous,
- transferred,
- truncated,
- warning
- tall
collapse
- a garment size for a tall person
- great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- a mile long,
- absurd,
- affected,
- altitudinous,
- bedizened,
- beyond belief,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- bumper,
- colossal,
- considerable,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- extensive,
- extravagant,
- far-flung,
- far-reaching,
- fargoing,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- giant,
- gigantic,
- goodly,
- grand,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- great,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- healthy,
- high,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-reaching,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- huge,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- interminable,
- labyrinthine,
- lank,
- lanky,
- large,
- large-scale,
- leggy,
- lengthy,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- long,
- long-legged,
- longish,
- longsome,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- man-sized,
- meretricious,
- no end of,
- not deserving belief,
- numerous,
- open to doubt,
- open to suspicion,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- outrageous,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- passing belief,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- problematic,
- questionable,
- rangy,
- rhetorical,
- ridiculous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedal,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- sizable,
- sky-high,
- skyscraping,
- soaring,
- sonorous,
- staggering belief,
- statuesque,
- steep,
- stilted,
- substantial,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- swollen,
- thick,
- thin,
- tidy,
- tortuous,
- towering,
- unbelievable,
- unconvincing,
- unearthly,
- ungodly,
- unimaginable,
- unthinkable,
- unworthy of belief,
- windy,
- without end
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