Related Words:
- nabob
collapse - a wealthy man (especially one who made his fortune in the Orient) related words >
- Daddy Warbucks,
- Establishment,
- VIP,
- baron,
- beg,
- beglerbeg,
- bey,
- big chief,
- big gun,
- big man,
- big name,
- bigwig,
- billionaire,
- bloated plutocrat,
- brass,
- brass hat,
- burgrave,
- capitalist,
- celebrity,
- collector,
- dey,
- dignitary,
- dignity,
- elder,
- eminence,
- eparch,
- exarch,
- fat cat,
- father,
- figure,
- gauleiter,
- governor,
- governor-general,
- great man,
- high-muck-a-muck,
- important person,
- interests,
- khedive,
- lieutenant governor,
- lion,
- lords of creation,
- magnate,
- man of mark,
- man of means,
- man of substance,
- man of wealth,
- millionaire,
- mogul,
- moneybags,
- moneyed man,
- multimillionaire,
- name,
- nawab,
- notability,
- notable,
- palatine,
- panjandrum,
- parvenu,
- person of renown,
- personage,
- personality,
- pillar of society,
- plutocrat,
- power,
- power elite,
- proconsul,
- provincial,
- rich man,
- richling,
- ruling circle,
- sachem,
- satrap,
- somebody,
- something,
- stadtholder,
- subahdar,
- tetrarch,
- the great,
- the top,
- top brass,
- top people,
- tycoon,
- vali,
- very important person,
- vice-king,
- viceroy,
- wali,
- warm man,
- wealthy man,
- worthy
- mushroom
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- fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
- a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
- any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
- common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
- grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed"
- pick or gather mushrooms; "We went mushrooming in the Fall" related words >
- Ectocarpales,
- Phaeophyceae,
- algae,
- autophyte,
- ball,
- balloon,
- bead,
- bean,
- blossom,
- blow up,
- bracken,
- brew,
- brown algae,
- burgeon,
- burst,
- climber,
- conferva,
- confervoid,
- conglobulate,
- creeper,
- detonate,
- develop,
- diatom,
- fern,
- flourish,
- fruits and vegetables,
- fucus,
- fungi,
- fungus,
- gather,
- germinate,
- globe,
- go off,
- grapevine,
- green algae,
- grow,
- grow up,
- gulfweed,
- herb,
- heterophyte,
- hypertrophy,
- increase,
- ivy,
- kelp,
- legume,
- lentil,
- liana,
- lichen,
- liverwort,
- mature,
- mold,
- molds,
- moss,
- newly-rich,
- nouveau-riche,
- outgrow,
- overdevelop,
- overgrow,
- overtop,
- parasite,
- parasitic plant,
- parvenu,
- pea,
- perthophyte,
- phytoplankton,
- planktonic algae,
- plant families,
- procreate,
- puffball,
- pullulate,
- pulse,
- red algae,
- reproduce,
- rockweed,
- rust,
- saprophyte,
- sargasso,
- sargassum,
- sea lentil,
- sea moss,
- sea wrack,
- seaweed,
- shoot up,
- smut,
- snowball,
- sphere,
- spherify,
- spring up,
- sprout,
- sprout up,
- succulent,
- thallogens,
- thrive,
- toadstool,
- tower,
- upshoot,
- upspear,
- upspring,
- upsprout,
- upstart,
- vegetate,
- vetch,
- vine,
- wax,
- wort,
- wrack
- sprout
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- a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)
- any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots; "the plant sprouted early this year" related words >
- accrue from,
- adventurer,
- arise,
- arise from,
- be contingent on,
- be due to,
- begin,
- bine,
- bloom,
- blossom,
- bough,
- bourgeois gentilhomme,
- branch,
- branchedness,
- branchiness,
- brew,
- bud,
- bud from,
- burgeon,
- burst forth,
- come from,
- come out of,
- come up,
- deadwood,
- depend on,
- derive from,
- descend from,
- develop,
- emanate from,
- emerge from,
- ensue from,
- filiation,
- flagellum,
- flourish,
- flow from,
- flower,
- follow from,
- fork,
- frond,
- gather,
- gemmate,
- germinate,
- germinate from,
- grow,
- grow from,
- grow out of,
- grow rank,
- grow up,
- hang on,
- hinge on,
- hypertrophy,
- increase,
- issue from,
- leaf,
- leaf out,
- leave,
- limb,
- luxuriate,
- mature,
- mushroom,
- name-dropper,
- newly-rich,
- nouveau riche,
- nouveau roturier,
- offset,
- offshoot,
- originate in,
- outgrow,
- overdevelop,
- overgrow,
- overrun,
- overtop,
- parvenu,
- pig in clover,
- proceed from,
- procreate,
- pullulate,
- put forth,
- put forth leaves,
- put out buds,
- ramage,
- ramification,
- reproduce,
- riot,
- root,
- runner,
- sapling,
- sarment,
- scion,
- seedling,
- set,
- shoot,
- shoot up,
- slip,
- social climber,
- spear,
- spray,
- sprig,
- spring from,
- spring up,
- sprit,
- sprout from,
- sprout up,
- status seeker,
- stem from,
- stolon,
- strike root,
- sucker,
- switch,
- take root,
- tendril,
- thallus,
- thrive,
- tower,
- tufthunter,
- turn on,
- twig,
- upshoot,
- upspear,
- upspring,
- upsprout,
- upstart,
- vegetate,
- wax,
- would-be gentleman
- Babbitt,
- Philistine,
- arriviste,
- bad boy,
- battler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- blade,
- booger,
- boor,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bucko,
- buffoon,
- bugger,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- cad,
- churl,
- clown,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- contender,
- contestant,
- cutthroat,
- cutup,
- desperado,
- devil,
- disputant,
- duelist,
- elf,
- enfant terrible,
- enforcer,
- epicier,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- funmaker,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- groundling,
- gunman,
- guttersnipe,
- hatchet man,
- hell-raiser,
- hellcat,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- ill-bred fellow,
- imp,
- joker,
- jokester,
- jouster,
- killer,
- knave,
- knight,
- little devil,
- little monkey,
- little rascal,
- looby,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- mad dog,
- militant,
- minx,
- mischief,
- mischief-maker,
- mucker,
- nouveau riche,
- parvenu,
- peasant,
- pixie,
- plug-ugly,
- practical joker,
- prankster,
- puck,
- punk,
- quarreler,
- rapscallion,
- rascal,
- ribald,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rogue,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- sabreur,
- scamp,
- scapegrace,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- squabbler,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- thug,
- tilter,
- tough,
- tussler,
- upstart,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- wag,
- wrangler,
- yahoo,
- yokel
- upstart
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- a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class
- an arrogant or presumptuous person related words >
- Babbitt,
- Philistine,
- Young Turk,
- adventurer,
- arriviste,
- bob up,
- boldface,
- boor,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- bourgeois gentilhomme,
- brazenface,
- break water,
- bright young man,
- cad,
- churl,
- chutzpanik,
- clown,
- comer,
- emigrant,
- epicier,
- fledgling,
- float up,
- fly up,
- fountain,
- gate-crasher,
- greenhorn,
- groundling,
- gush,
- guttersnipe,
- hooligan,
- hussy,
- ill-bred fellow,
- immigrant,
- intruder,
- jet,
- jump up,
- leap up,
- looby,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- malapert,
- minx,
- modern,
- modern generation,
- modern man,
- modernist,
- modernizer,
- mucker,
- mushroom,
- name-dropper,
- neologism,
- neologist,
- neology,
- neonate,
- neoteric,
- neoterism,
- neoterist,
- new arrival,
- new boy,
- new generation,
- new man,
- newcomer,
- newly-rich,
- nobody,
- nouveau riche,
- nouveau roturier,
- nouveau-riche,
- novus homo,
- outsider,
- parvenu,
- parvenue,
- peasant,
- pig in clover,
- pop up,
- pretender,
- pup,
- puppy,
- recruit,
- ribald,
- rising generation,
- rocket,
- rookie,
- roturier,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- saucebox,
- settler,
- shoot up,
- skyrocket,
- slob,
- smart aleck,
- smart-ass,
- smarty,
- smarty-pants,
- social climber,
- spring up,
- sprout,
- spurt,
- squatter,
- start up,
- status seeker,
- stowaway,
- stripling,
- surface,
- swaggerer,
- tenderfoot,
- tufthunter,
- upleap,
- upshoot,
- upspear,
- upspring,
- vault up,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- whippersnapper,
- wise guy,
- wise-ass,
- would-be gentleman,
- yokel
- Philistine
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- a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC
- a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
- of or relating to ancient Philistia or the culture of the Philistines related words >
- Babbitt,
- Babbittish,
- Gothic,
- Middle American,
- anal character,
- arriviste,
- barbarous,
- bookless,
- boor,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- burgher,
- cad,
- callous,
- calloused,
- campy,
- carnal,
- carnal-minded,
- case-hardened,
- churl,
- clown,
- common,
- commonplace,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventionalist,
- deceived,
- earthly,
- earthy,
- epicier,
- flinty,
- formalist,
- functionally illiterate,
- general,
- grammarless,
- groundling,
- guttersnipe,
- hard,
- hardened,
- hardhearted,
- heathen,
- high-camp,
- homely,
- homespun,
- hoodwinked,
- hooligan,
- ill-bred fellow,
- ill-educated,
- illiterate,
- impervious,
- indurated,
- insensitive,
- inured,
- kitschy,
- led astray,
- looby,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- low-camp,
- lowbrow,
- material,
- materialistic,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- misinformed,
- misinstructed,
- mistaught,
- model child,
- mucker,
- mundane,
- nonintellectual,
- nouveau riche,
- ordinary,
- organization man,
- pachydermatous,
- pagan,
- parrot,
- parvenu,
- peasant,
- pedant,
- perfectionist,
- plastic person,
- plebeian,
- pop,
- popular,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- profane,
- proof against,
- public,
- ribald,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- rude,
- ruffian,
- secular,
- sheep,
- square,
- steeled against,
- steely,
- stony,
- teenybopper,
- temporal,
- terrestrial,
- thick-skinned,
- trimmer,
- unbooked,
- unbookish,
- unbooklearned,
- unbriefed,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- unedified,
- uneducated,
- unerudite,
- unguided,
- uninstructed,
- unintellectual,
- unlearned,
- unlettered,
- unliterary,
- unread,
- unrefined,
- unscholarly,
- unschooled,
- unspiritual,
- unstudious,
- untaught,
- untutored,
- upstart,
- vernacular,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- worldly,
- yes-man,
- yokel
- Babbitt,
- Philistine,
- SOB,
- arriviste,
- bad boy,
- bastard,
- battler,
- belligerent,
- belted knight,
- bickerer,
- blade,
- booger,
- boor,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- bravo,
- brawler,
- bruiser,
- buffoon,
- bugger,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- cad,
- churl,
- clown,
- combatant,
- competitor,
- contender,
- contestant,
- creep,
- cutup,
- devil,
- disputant,
- duelist,
- elf,
- enfant terrible,
- enforcer,
- epicier,
- fart,
- fencer,
- feuder,
- fighter,
- fighting cock,
- foilsman,
- funmaker,
- gamecock,
- gladiator,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- groundling,
- gun,
- gunsel,
- guttersnipe,
- hatchet man,
- heel,
- hellion,
- holy terror,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- ill-bred fellow,
- imp,
- jerk,
- joker,
- jokester,
- jouster,
- knave,
- knight,
- little devil,
- little monkey,
- little rascal,
- looby,
- louse,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- meanie,
- militant,
- minx,
- mischief,
- mischief-maker,
- mother,
- mucker,
- mug,
- mugger,
- muscle man,
- nouveau riche,
- parvenu,
- peasant,
- pill,
- pixie,
- plug-ugly,
- practical joker,
- prankster,
- puck,
- quarreler,
- rapscallion,
- rascal,
- rat,
- ribald,
- rioter,
- rival,
- rodman,
- rogue,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- sabreur,
- scamp,
- scapegrace,
- scrapper,
- scuffler,
- shit,
- shithead,
- shitheel,
- squabbler,
- stinkard,
- stinker,
- strong arm,
- strong-arm man,
- strong-armer,
- struggler,
- swashbuckler,
- sword,
- swordplayer,
- swordsman,
- terror,
- thug,
- tilter,
- torpedo,
- tough,
- trigger man,
- turd,
- tussler,
- ugly customer,
- upstart,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- wag,
- wrangler,
- yokel
- adventurer
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- a person who enjoys taking risks related words >
- adventuress,
- alpinist,
- astronaut,
- betting ring,
- bettor,
- big operator,
- boneshaker,
- bounder,
- bourgeois gentilhomme,
- brazenface,
- cad,
- camper,
- cardshark,
- cardsharp,
- cardsharper,
- charlatan,
- cheat,
- climber,
- comers and goers,
- commuter,
- compulsive gambler,
- condottiere,
- cosmopolite,
- crap shooter,
- cruiser,
- daredevil,
- devil,
- excursionist,
- explorer,
- fare,
- fire-eater,
- free lance,
- gambler,
- gamester,
- globe-girdler,
- globe-trotter,
- goer,
- gun,
- gunman,
- gunslinger,
- hajji,
- harum-scarum,
- hazarder,
- hellcat,
- hero,
- heroine,
- hired gun,
- hired killer,
- hireling,
- hotspur,
- jet set,
- jet-setter,
- journeyer,
- knave,
- lame duck,
- madbrain,
- madcap,
- margin purchaser,
- mariner,
- mercenary,
- mountaineer,
- name-dropper,
- newly-rich,
- nouveau riche,
- nouveau roturier,
- operator,
- opportunist,
- palmer,
- parvenu,
- passenger,
- passerby,
- pathfinder,
- petty gambler,
- philanderer,
- pig in clover,
- piker,
- pilgrim,
- pioneer,
- player,
- plunger,
- professional killer,
- punter,
- rantipole,
- rogue,
- rubberneck,
- rubbernecker,
- sailor,
- scalper,
- scoundrel,
- sharp,
- sharper,
- sharpie,
- sightseer,
- smart operator,
- social climber,
- soldier of fortune,
- speculator,
- sport,
- sporting man,
- sportsman,
- sprout,
- stag,
- status seeker,
- straphanger,
- swashbuckler,
- swindler,
- tinhorn,
- tipster,
- tourer,
- tourist,
- tout,
- trailblazer,
- trailbreaker,
- transient,
- traveler,
- trekker,
- trickster,
- tripper,
- tufthunter,
- upstart,
- venturer,
- viator,
- visiting fireman,
- voortrekker,
- voyager,
- voyageur,
- wagerer,
- wayfarer,
- wild man,
- world-traveler,
- would-be gentleman
- bourgeois
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- a member of the middle class
- belonging to the middle class
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
- (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class related words >
- Babbitt,
- Babbittish,
- Cockney,
- Everyman,
- John Smith,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- accordant,
- anal,
- anal character,
- arriviste,
- average,
- average man,
- big-city man,
- boor,
- bounder,
- burgess,
- burgher,
- cad,
- campy,
- capitalist,
- churl,
- city dweller,
- city man,
- city slicker,
- clown,
- common,
- common man,
- commoner,
- commonplace,
- compulsive,
- compulsive character,
- concordant,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conventional,
- conventionalist,
- corresponding,
- epicier,
- exurbanite,
- formalist,
- formalistic,
- free-enterprise,
- garden,
- garden-variety,
- general,
- greedy,
- groundling,
- guttersnipe,
- harmonious,
- high-camp,
- homely,
- homespun,
- hooligan,
- ill-bred fellow,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- individualistic,
- kitschy,
- kosher,
- little fellow,
- little man,
- looby,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- low-camp,
- materialistic,
- methodologist,
- middle-class,
- middle-class type,
- model child,
- money-hungry,
- mucker,
- no great shakes,
- nonsocialistic,
- normal,
- nouveau riche,
- oppidan,
- ordinary,
- organization man,
- orthodox,
- parrot,
- parvenu,
- peasant,
- pedant,
- pedantic,
- perfectionist,
- philistine,
- plastic,
- plastic person,
- pleb,
- plebeian,
- pop,
- popular,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- private-enterprise,
- proletarian,
- propertied,
- public,
- regular,
- ribald,
- roturier,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- run-of-mine,
- run-of-the-mill,
- sheep,
- square,
- straight,
- stuffy,
- suburban,
- suburbanite,
- teenybopper,
- townee,
- towner,
- townfolk,
- townfolks,
- townsman,
- townspeople,
- townswoman,
- traditionalist,
- trimmer,
- unexceptional,
- unnoteworthy,
- unremarkable,
- unspectacular,
- upstart,
- uptight,
- urbanite,
- usual,
- vernacular,
- villager,
- villageress,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- working-class,
- yes-man,
- yokel
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