Related Words:
- misapplication
collapse - wrong use or application related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abuse,
- abuse of office,
- abuse of terms,
- apparent soundness,
- befoulment,
- casuistry,
- catachresis,
- circularity,
- contorting,
- conversion,
- corrupt administration,
- debasement,
- defalcation,
- defectiveness,
- defilement,
- delusion,
- desecration,
- deviancy,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- diversion,
- eisegesis,
- embezzlement,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- evasive reasoning,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- fouling,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- illusion,
- insincerity,
- invalid linking,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- maladministration,
- malentendu,
- malfeasance,
- malobservation,
- malpractice,
- malversation,
- mesalliance,
- misalliance,
- misapplicability,
- misapprehension,
- misappropriation,
- miscitation,
- misconception,
- misconduct,
- misconnection,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misemployment,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misfeasance,
- mishandling,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mismanagement,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misreference,
- misrelation,
- misrendering,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- misuse of words,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oversubtlety,
- peccancy,
- peculation,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- pilfering,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pollution,
- poor stewardship,
- profanation,
- prostitution,
- rationalization,
- self-contradiction,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- squeezing,
- subtlety,
- torturing,
- twisting,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- violation,
- wrenching,
- wrong,
- wrongness
- 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
- painful
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- causing physical or psychological pain; "worked with painful slowness" related words >
- Herculean,
- aching,
- achy,
- acute,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- aggravating,
- agonizing,
- algetic,
- annoying,
- arduous,
- assiduous,
- atrocious,
- backbreaking,
- besetting,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- bothersome,
- burdensome,
- burning,
- careful,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- conscientious,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- crushing,
- demanding,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- detailed,
- diligent,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- disquieting,
- distasteful,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- earnest,
- effortful,
- exacting,
- exasperating,
- excruciating,
- forced,
- galling,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- grievous,
- griping,
- grueling,
- harassing,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- joyless,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- lamentable,
- meticulous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- painstaking,
- paroxysmal,
- pathetic,
- piercing,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- plaguey,
- poignant,
- pungent,
- punishing,
- racking,
- raw,
- regrettable,
- rigorous,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scrupulous,
- sedulous,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- smarting,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- tender,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- throbbing,
- toilsome,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- touching,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- trying,
- unappetizing,
- uncomfortable,
- unpalatable,
- unpleasant,
- unsavory,
- uphill,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worrisome,
- worrying,
- wretched
- deplorable
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- bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
- of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" related words >
- abominable,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- appalling,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- bad,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- beneath one,
- bitter,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- brutal,
- calamitous,
- cheap,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- contemptible,
- debasing,
- degrading,
- demeaning,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desperate,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- difficult,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- discomforting,
- disgraceful,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- disreputable,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- execrable,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grave,
- grievous,
- gross,
- gutter,
- hateful,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heinous,
- hopeless,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- horrifying,
- humiliating,
- humiliative,
- infamous,
- infra dig,
- infra indignitatem,
- intolerable,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- oppressive,
- opprobrious,
- outrageous,
- overwhelming,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poignant,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- serious,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- sharp,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sickening,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- squalid,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- touching,
- tragic,
- troubling,
- unbearable,
- unbecoming,
- unclean,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- unworthy of one,
- upsetting,
- vile,
- villainous,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched
- about,
- abutting,
- adjoining,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- against,
- anent,
- apropos of,
- as for,
- as regards,
- as respects,
- as to,
- attouchement,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- bordering,
- borrowing,
- brush,
- brushing,
- caress,
- caressing,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- compassionate,
- concerning,
- contact,
- contacting,
- conterminous,
- contiguous,
- contingence,
- contingent,
- debt,
- debtor,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreary,
- emotional,
- emotive,
- feeling,
- financing,
- fingering,
- friction,
- frottage,
- glance,
- glancing,
- graze,
- grazing,
- grievous,
- handling,
- heartrending,
- hire purchase,
- hitting,
- hitting-up,
- hocking,
- impingement,
- impingence,
- impingent,
- impinging,
- impressive,
- in connection with,
- in contact,
- in point of,
- in re,
- in reference to,
- in regard to,
- in relation to,
- in relation with,
- in respect to,
- installment buying,
- installment plan,
- joyless,
- juxtaposed,
- kiss,
- lamentable,
- manipulation,
- meeting,
- money-raising,
- mortgaging,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nudge,
- nudging,
- of,
- on,
- osculation,
- osculatory,
- overlapping,
- painful,
- palpation,
- pathetic,
- pawning,
- pertaining to,
- pertinent to,
- petting,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pledging,
- poignant,
- pressure,
- re,
- referring to,
- regarding,
- regrettable,
- relating to,
- relative to,
- respecting,
- responsive,
- rub,
- rubbing,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- sharp,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- soul-stirring,
- speaking of,
- stirring,
- stroking,
- sympathetic,
- taction,
- tangency,
- tangent,
- tangential,
- tear-jerking,
- tender,
- tentative contact,
- to,
- touch,
- uncomfortable,
- up against,
- upon,
- with regard to,
- with respect to,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- worthless
collapse
- lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler" related words >
- NG,
- abominable,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- beneath notice,
- blameworthy,
- bootless,
- brutal,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- common,
- contemptible,
- crummy,
- defective,
- deleterious,
- deplorable,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- detrimental,
- dire,
- disadvantageous,
- disgusting,
- disserviceable,
- dreadful,
- dusty,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- flawed,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- fustian,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- grievous,
- gross,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- imperfect,
- incapable,
- incompetent,
- ineffectual,
- infamous,
- inferior,
- injurious,
- junk,
- junky,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- mean,
- meaningless,
- mediocre,
- meretricious,
- meritless,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- no-account,
- no-good,
- noisome,
- not worth having,
- not worth mentioning,
- not worthwhile,
- nothing,
- notorious,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- outrageous,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poor,
- prejudicial,
- purposeless,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rubbishy,
- sad,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- second-rate,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sorry,
- squalid,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- trashy,
- trivial,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- unadvantageous,
- unavailing,
- unclean,
- unfavorable,
- unprofitable,
- unpurposed,
- unqualified,
- unrewarding,
- unworthy,
- unworthy of regard,
- useless,
- valueless,
- vile,
- villainous,
- woeful,
- worst,
- wretched
- Masan,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- astral,
- astral spirit,
- bamboozlement,
- banshee,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- calculated deception,
- chimera,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- control,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delirium,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- departed spirit,
- disembodied spirit,
- dupery,
- duppy,
- dybbuk,
- eidolon,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figment,
- figure,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- form,
- ghost,
- grateful dead,
- guide,
- hallucination,
- hant,
- haunt,
- hoodwinking,
- idle fancy,
- idolum,
- illusion,
- image,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- immateriality,
- incorporeal,
- incorporeal being,
- incorporeity,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- kidding,
- larva,
- lemures,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- manes,
- materialization,
- mirage,
- myth,
- oni,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- phantasma,
- phantasmagoria,
- phantom,
- poltergeist,
- presence,
- putting on,
- revenant,
- romance,
- self-deception,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shape,
- shrouded spirit,
- sick fancy,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- specter,
- spectral ghost,
- spirit,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- spook,
- sprite,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- theophany,
- thick-coming fancies,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trip,
- unsubstantiality,
- vapor,
- victimization,
- vision,
- waking dream,
- walking dead man,
- wandering soul,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dream,
- wildest dreams,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- wraith,
- zombie
- casuistry
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- moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
- argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading related words >
- Christian ethics,
- Stoicism,
- aesthetics,
- altruistic ethics,
- apologetics,
- apologia,
- apology,
- apparent soundness,
- aretaics,
- argument,
- argumentation,
- axiology,
- bicker,
- bickering,
- categorical imperative,
- circularity,
- comparative ethics,
- contention,
- controversy,
- cosmology,
- crossed fingers,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defense,
- delusion,
- deontology,
- disingenuousness,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- distortion,
- egoistic ethics,
- empiricism,
- emptiness,
- epistemology,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- ethical formalism,
- ethical philosophy,
- ethics,
- ethology,
- ethonomics,
- eudaemonics,
- evasive reasoning,
- evolutionism,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- first philosophy,
- flyting,
- gnosiology,
- golden rule,
- hassle,
- hedonism,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hubbub,
- insincerity,
- intuitionism,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- litigation,
- logic,
- logomachy,
- mental philosophy,
- metaphysics,
- misapplication,
- mockery,
- moral philosophy,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- ontology,
- oversubtlety,
- paper war,
- passage of arms,
- perfectionism,
- perversion,
- phenomenology,
- philosophastry,
- philosophic doctrine,
- philosophic system,
- philosophic theory,
- philosophical inquiry,
- philosophical speculation,
- philosophism,
- philosophy,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- polemic,
- polemics,
- rationalization,
- rhubarb,
- school of philosophy,
- school of thought,
- science of being,
- set-to,
- situation ethics,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- subtlety,
- theory of beauty,
- theory of knowledge,
- tongue in cheek,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unfrankness,
- utilitarianism,
- value theory,
- verbal engagement,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- war of words,
- wrangling
- scurvy
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- a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) related words >
- Lombardy leprosy,
- abject,
- abominable,
- anemia,
- ariboflavinosis,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- bad,
- base,
- base-minded,
- beastly,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- beriberi,
- blameworthy,
- brutal,
- cachexia,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- chlorosis,
- common,
- contemptible,
- crummy,
- debased,
- deficiency anemia,
- degraded,
- deplorable,
- depraved,
- dermatitis,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- dirty,
- disgusting,
- dishonorable,
- dreadful,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- execrable,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- goiter,
- grave,
- greensickness,
- grievous,
- gross,
- hateful,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- ignoble,
- infamous,
- keratomalacia,
- kwashiorkor,
- lamentable,
- little,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- low,
- low-down,
- low-minded,
- lumpen,
- maidism,
- malnutrition,
- mangy,
- mean,
- measly,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- night blindness,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- osteomalacia,
- osteoporosis,
- outrageous,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pellagra,
- pernicious anemia,
- petty,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poky,
- poor,
- protein deficiency,
- rachitis,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- reptilian,
- repulsive,
- rickets,
- rotten,
- rubbishy,
- sad,
- scabby,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scuzzy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- small,
- sordid,
- sorry,
- squalid,
- struma,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- unclean,
- unmentionable,
- valueless,
- vile,
- villainous,
- vitamin deficiency,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- xerophthalmia
- Lenten,
- Mickey Mouse,
- Spartan,
- abject,
- abominable,
- abstemious,
- arrant,
- ascetic,
- atrocious,
- austere,
- base,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- borne,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- coarse,
- common,
- contemptible,
- crummy,
- debased,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- despicable,
- dirty,
- disgusting,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- execrable,
- exiguous,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fourth-class,
- frugal,
- fulsome,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- grave,
- gross,
- heinous,
- illiberal,
- impoverished,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- ineffectual,
- inferior,
- insignificant,
- irregular,
- jejune,
- lean,
- limited,
- little,
- low,
- low-class,
- low-down,
- low-grade,
- low-quality,
- low-test,
- lumpen,
- mangy,
- meager,
- mean,
- measly,
- meretricious,
- mingy,
- miserable,
- miserly,
- monstrous,
- narrow,
- nefarious,
- niggardly,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- parsimonious,
- pathetic,
- petty,
- picayune,
- piddling,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poky,
- poor,
- punk,
- puny,
- rank,
- reptilian,
- rubbishy,
- sad,
- scabby,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- second-best,
- second-class,
- seedy,
- set,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- sleazy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sorry,
- spare,
- sparing,
- squalid,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- tacky,
- tatty,
- thin,
- third-class,
- third-rate,
- tinny,
- trashy,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- unchivalrous,
- ungenerous,
- unimportant,
- unmentionable,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- valueless,
- vile,
- watered,
- watery,
- worthless,
- wretched
- beggarly
collapse
- (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
- marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut" related words >
- abject,
- abominable,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- backscratching,
- bare-handed,
- base,
- base-minded,
- beggared,
- beneath contempt,
- bereaved,
- bereft,
- bootlicking,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- common,
- contemptible,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- crummy,
- debased,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- deprived,
- despicable,
- dirty,
- disadvantaged,
- disgusting,
- empty-handed,
- execrable,
- famished,
- fawning,
- flagrant,
- flattering,
- fleeced,
- footlicking,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- gaudy,
- ghettoized,
- gimcracky,
- grave,
- gross,
- groveling,
- half-starved,
- hangdog,
- heinous,
- ignoble,
- ill off,
- ill-equipped,
- ill-furnished,
- ill-provided,
- impoverished,
- in need,
- in rags,
- in want,
- indigent,
- ingratiating,
- little,
- low,
- low-down,
- low-minded,
- lumpen,
- mangy,
- mealymouthed,
- mean,
- measly,
- mendicant,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- nefarious,
- obeisant,
- obnoxious,
- obsequious,
- odious,
- on bended knee,
- on relief,
- on short commons,
- out at elbows,
- paltry,
- parasitic,
- pathetic,
- pauperized,
- petty,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poky,
- poor,
- poverty-stricken,
- prostrate,
- rank,
- reptilian,
- rubbishy,
- sad,
- scabby,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- shorthanded,
- small,
- sniveling,
- sorry,
- sponging,
- squalid,
- starved,
- starveling,
- starving,
- stripped,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- trashy,
- truckling,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- underfed,
- undermanned,
- undernourished,
- underprivileged,
- unfed,
- unmentionable,
- unprovided,
- unreplenished,
- unsupplied,
- valueless,
- vile,
- worthless,
- wretched
- Lilliputian,
- Tom Thumb,
- abject,
- abominable,
- afforestational,
- arborary,
- arboreal,
- arboreous,
- arborescent,
- arboresque,
- arborical,
- arboriform,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- base,
- base-minded,
- bedraggled,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- bosky,
- braky,
- broken-down,
- bushlike,
- bushy,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- citrous,
- common,
- coniferous,
- contemptible,
- copsy,
- crummy,
- debased,
- deciduous,
- degraded,
- dendriform,
- dendritic,
- dendroid,
- dendrologic,
- depraved,
- despicable,
- dingy,
- dirty,
- disgusting,
- down-at-heel,
- dumpy,
- dwarf,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- elfin,
- evergreen,
- execrable,
- faded,
- flagrant,
- forest,
- forestal,
- forested,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- grave,
- gross,
- hardwood,
- heinous,
- ignoble,
- incipient,
- little,
- low,
- low-down,
- low-minded,
- lumpen,
- mangy,
- meager,
- mean,
- measly,
- meretricious,
- midget,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- nanoid,
- nefarious,
- nondeciduous,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- petty,
- piny,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poky,
- poor,
- pygmy,
- rank,
- reforestational,
- reptilian,
- rubbishy,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- run-down,
- runty,
- sad,
- scabby,
- scraggy,
- scrubbly,
- scrublike,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- seedy,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- shriveled,
- shrubby,
- shrublike,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- silvicultural,
- small,
- softwood,
- sorry,
- squalid,
- squat,
- stunted,
- sylvan,
- tacky,
- timbered,
- trashy,
- treelike,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- undersize,
- undersized,
- unmentionable,
- valueless,
- vile,
- wizened,
- wooded,
- woodland,
- woodsy,
- woody,
- worthless,
- wretched
- illusion
collapse
- something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
- an erroneous mental representation related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- air,
- airy nothing,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- bamboozlement,
- bedevilment,
- befooling,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- bluffing,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- calculated deception,
- captivation,
- chimera,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defectiveness,
- defrauding,
- delirium,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- deviancy,
- distortion,
- dream,
- dupery,
- eidolon,
- enchantment,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrancement,
- entrapment,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- ether,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fascination,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- fiction,
- figment,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- hallucination,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- hoodwinking,
- idle fancy,
- ignis fatuus,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- kidding,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- maya,
- mirage,
- misapplication,
- misapprehension,
- misconception,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mist,
- mistake,
- myth,
- obsession,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- peccancy,
- perversion,
- phantasm,
- phantasmagoria,
- phantom,
- pipe,
- pipe dream,
- possession,
- putting on,
- rainbow,
- romance,
- seeming,
- self-contradiction,
- self-deception,
- semblance,
- shadow,
- sick fancy,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- smoke,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spirit,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- thick-coming fancies,
- thin air,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trip,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- vapor,
- victimization,
- vision,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- witchery,
- wrong,
- wrongness
- equivocation
collapse
- falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
- intentionally vague or ambiguous related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- antinomy,
- apparent soundness,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- casuistry,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circularity,
- circumvention,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- counterword,
- defense mechanism,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double,
- double entendre,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivoque,
- escape,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasive reasoning,
- evasiveness,
- exaggeration,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- fencing,
- fluctuation,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- getting around,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- insincerity,
- irony,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- jink,
- logic-chopping,
- lying,
- misapplication,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- mystification,
- neutrality,
- nit-picking,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oscillation,
- oversubtlety,
- oxymoron,
- paltering,
- paradox,
- parrying,
- pendulation,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pettifoggery,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- polysemant,
- portmanteau word,
- prevarication,
- prevention,
- pun,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rationalization,
- refraining,
- self-contradiction,
- shifting,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- squinting construction,
- straining,
- subterfuge,
- subtlety,
- suppressio veri,
- tergiversation,
- the runaround,
- trichoschistism,
- vacillation,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- wavering,
- weasel word,
- weasel words,
- wobbling,
- zigzag
- misfeasance
collapse
- doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abuse,
- abuse of office,
- atrocity,
- bad policy,
- befoulment,
- breach,
- conversion,
- corrupt administration,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- criminal tendency,
- criminality,
- criminosis,
- deadly sin,
- debasement,
- defalcation,
- defectiveness,
- defilement,
- delinquency,
- delusion,
- dereliction,
- desecration,
- deviancy,
- distortion,
- diversion,
- embezzlement,
- enormity,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- evil,
- evil courses,
- evildoing,
- failure,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- feloniousness,
- felony,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- fouling,
- genocide,
- guilty act,
- hamartia,
- heavy sin,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- illusion,
- impolicy,
- impropriety,
- indiscretion,
- inexpedience,
- inexpediency,
- inexpiable sin,
- iniquity,
- injury,
- injustice,
- lapse,
- lawbreaking,
- maladministration,
- malefaction,
- malfeasance,
- malpractice,
- malum,
- malversation,
- minor wrong,
- misadministration,
- misapplication,
- misappropriation,
- misconduct,
- misconstruction,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misdirection,
- misdoing,
- misemployment,
- misgovernment,
- misguidance,
- mishandling,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mismanagement,
- misprision,
- misprision of treason,
- misrule,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- mortal sin,
- neglect,
- negligence,
- nonfeasance,
- offense,
- omission,
- outrage,
- peccadillo,
- peccancy,
- peculation,
- perversion,
- pilfering,
- pollution,
- poor stewardship,
- positive misprision,
- profanation,
- prostitution,
- self-contradiction,
- sin,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful act,
- sinfulness,
- slip,
- thou scarlet sin,
- tort,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trip,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- unutterable sin,
- venial sin,
- vice,
- viciousness,
- violation,
- wrong,
- wrong conduct,
- wrongdoing,
- wrongness
- abominable,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- bitter,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- brutal,
- calamitous,
- careworn,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- contemptible,
- crushed,
- cut up,
- deep-troubled,
- dejected,
- deplorable,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- discomforting,
- disconsolate,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispirited,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- dumb with grief,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grave,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- grieved,
- grievous,
- gross,
- harrowed,
- hateful,
- heart-stricken,
- heart-struck,
- heartbreaking,
- heartsick,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- in grief,
- in the dumps,
- inconsolable,
- infamous,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- low-spirited,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- on the rack,
- outrageous,
- overcome,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- plunged in grief,
- poignant,
- racked,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rueful,
- ruthful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- sharp,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorrowed,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowing,
- squalid,
- stricken,
- suicidal,
- tearful,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- tortured,
- touching,
- unclean,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- unprecedented,
- vile,
- villainous,
- woebegone,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- wrung
- wishful thinking
collapse
- the illusion that what you wish for is actually true related words >
- alienation,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- blame-shifting,
- blind faith,
- bluffing,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- compensation,
- conning,
- credulity,
- credulousness,
- daydream,
- daydreaming,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- displacement,
- disposition to believe,
- dissociation,
- dotage,
- dreamery,
- dupery,
- ease of belief,
- emotional insulation,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- flight of fancy,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fondness,
- fooling,
- gross credulity,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- illusion,
- imaginative exercise,
- impracticality,
- infatuation,
- isolation,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- negativism,
- nostalgia,
- outwitting,
- overcompensation,
- overcredulity,
- overcredulousness,
- overopenness to conviction,
- overreaching,
- overtrustfulness,
- phantasm,
- play of fancy,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- putting on,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- rash conviction,
- rationalization,
- resistance,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- self-deception,
- snow job,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trustfulness,
- uncritical acceptance,
- uncriticalness,
- unpracticalness,
- unquestioning belief,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- unripe acceptation,
- unskepticalness,
- unsuspectingness,
- unsuspiciousness,
- utopianism,
- victimization,
- vision,
- visionariness,
- will to believe,
- willful misconception,
- willingness to believe,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful belief,
- wishfulness,
- wistful eye,
- wistfulness,
- withdrawal,
- yearnfulness
- fooling
collapse
- characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter" related words >
- badinage,
- bamboozlement,
- banter,
- bantering,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- booing,
- buffoonery,
- calculated deception,
- catcalling,
- chaff,
- chaffing,
- circumvention,
- clownishness,
- conning,
- coquetry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- derision,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- exchange,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fiddling,
- fleering,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- flippancy,
- flippant,
- flirtation,
- fond illusion,
- foolery,
- fooling around,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- grinning,
- hallucination,
- harlequinade,
- harmless teasing,
- hazing,
- high jinks,
- hissing,
- hoodwinking,
- hooting,
- horseplay,
- idling,
- illusion,
- jape,
- jeering,
- jerking off,
- jest,
- jesting,
- jive,
- joke,
- joking,
- jollying,
- josh,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- leering,
- levity,
- loitering,
- messing around,
- mirage,
- mockery,
- mocking,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- monkeyshines,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- panning,
- persiflage,
- phantasm,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pleasantry,
- pottering,
- puttering,
- putting on,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ribbing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- roughhouse,
- rowdiness,
- scoffing,
- self-deception,
- shenanigans,
- skylarking,
- smart,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smartness,
- smattering,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- sport,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- tinkering,
- tomfoolery,
- toying,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trifling,
- twit,
- twitting,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking
- grievous
collapse
- causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter" related words >
- abominable,
- acute,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- appalling,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- bitter,
- black,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- brutal,
- burdensome,
- calamitous,
- careworn,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- contemptible,
- damaging,
- dangerous,
- demanding,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- despicable,
- destructive,
- detestable,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- discomforting,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distasteful,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- dumb with grief,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- fatal,
- fell,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- galling,
- grave,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- grieved,
- gross,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- heartbreaking,
- heartrending,
- heavy,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- hurtful,
- in grief,
- infamous,
- intolerable,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- lugubrious,
- major,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- oppressive,
- outrageous,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- plunged in grief,
- poignant,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rueful,
- ruinous,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- serious,
- severe,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- sharp,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorrowed,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowing,
- squalid,
- superincumbent,
- taxing,
- tearful,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- touching,
- tough,
- tragic,
- ugly,
- unbearable,
- unclean,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- unpalatable,
- vile,
- villainous,
- weighty,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wounding,
- wreckful,
- wretched
- cheap
collapse
- relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"
- embarrassingly stingy related words >
- Mickey Mouse,
- NG,
- at cost,
- avaricious,
- bad,
- base,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- beneath one,
- brummagem,
- budget,
- cheapjack,
- cheaply,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- close,
- closefisted,
- coarse,
- common,
- contemptible,
- crummy,
- debasing,
- degrading,
- demeaning,
- deplorable,
- despicable,
- disgraceful,
- easily,
- easy,
- economic,
- economical,
- economy,
- fake,
- flashy,
- for a song,
- fourth-class,
- frugal,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- gutter,
- hardfisted,
- humiliating,
- humiliative,
- illiberal,
- inexpensive,
- inexpensively,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- infra indignitatem,
- irregular,
- junk,
- junky,
- lousy,
- low,
- low-class,
- low-grade,
- low-priced,
- low-quality,
- low-test,
- manageable,
- mean,
- measly,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- miserly,
- moderate,
- modest,
- near,
- niggardly,
- no-account,
- no-good,
- nominal,
- not worth having,
- not worth mentioning,
- not worthwhile,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- on the cheap,
- opprobrious,
- ornery,
- outrageous,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- penny-pinching,
- penurious,
- petty,
- phony,
- pinchfisted,
- pinching,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poor,
- popular,
- punk,
- reasonable,
- reasonably,
- reduced,
- rotten,
- rubbishy,
- sad,
- save-all,
- scandalous,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- second-best,
- second-class,
- second-rate,
- seedy,
- sensible,
- shabby,
- sham,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sleazy,
- sorry,
- stingy,
- tacky,
- tatty,
- tawdry,
- terrible,
- third-class,
- third-rate,
- tight,
- tight-fisted,
- tightfisted,
- tinny,
- token,
- too bad,
- trashy,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- trumpery,
- two-bit,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- unbecoming,
- unexpensive,
- ungenerous,
- unworthy of one,
- valueless,
- vile,
- within means,
- worth the money,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- wrong
- abatis,
- absorption,
- adulterous affair,
- adultery,
- advanced work,
- affair,
- amour,
- association,
- balistraria,
- bamboozlement,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- breastwork,
- bulwark,
- calculated deception,
- casemate,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumvallation,
- circumvention,
- cobweb,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- conning,
- contact,
- contravallation,
- convolution,
- counterscarp,
- crabbedness,
- cuckoldry,
- curtain,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- drawbridge,
- dupery,
- earthwork,
- embarrassment,
- embroilment,
- enclosure,
- engagement,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entrapment,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- eternal triangle,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- flirtation,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- forbidden love,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- glacis,
- hallucination,
- hanky-panky,
- hoodwinking,
- illicit love,
- illusion,
- implication,
- inclusion,
- infidelity,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- intrigue,
- involution,
- involvement,
- kidding,
- liaison,
- loophole,
- love affair,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- merlon,
- meshes,
- mirage,
- mound,
- outwitting,
- outwork,
- overreaching,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- perplexity,
- phantasm,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- putting on,
- ramification,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- relation,
- romance,
- romantic tie,
- sally port,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- self-deception,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- stockade,
- subterfuge,
- subtlety,
- swindling,
- tanglement,
- technicality,
- tenaille,
- toils,
- triangle,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- unfaithfulness,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- victimization,
- vision,
- web,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- work
- poignant
collapse
- keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety" related words >
- absorbing,
- acerbic,
- acid,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- acute,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- agitating,
- agonizing,
- asperous,
- astringent,
- atrocious,
- barbed,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- blue,
- caustic,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- corrosive,
- cramping,
- cruel,
- cutting,
- deep,
- deep-felt,
- deepgoing,
- deplorable,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- disastrous,
- discomforting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- double-edged,
- dramatic,
- dreary,
- driving,
- earnest,
- edged,
- effective,
- emotional,
- escharotic,
- excruciating,
- exquisite,
- extreme,
- fierce,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- gnawing,
- grave,
- grievous,
- griping,
- gutsy,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- heartfelt,
- homefelt,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- imperative,
- impressive,
- incisive,
- indelible,
- intense,
- irritating,
- joyless,
- keen,
- lamentable,
- lively,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nervous,
- nose-tickling,
- painful,
- paroxysmal,
- pathetic,
- penetrating,
- peppery,
- peppy,
- perturbing,
- pervading,
- piercing,
- piquant,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pointed,
- powerful,
- profound,
- punchy,
- pungent,
- racking,
- racy,
- regrettable,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rueful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- sarcastic,
- sardonic,
- scathing,
- sensational,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- sincere,
- sinewed,
- sinewy,
- slashing,
- snappy,
- sore,
- sorrowful,
- sour,
- sparkling,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spicy,
- spirited,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- stirring,
- strident,
- striking,
- stringent,
- strong,
- tart,
- telling,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- touching,
- tragic,
- trenchant,
- uncomfortable,
- upsetting,
- vehement,
- vigorous,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vital,
- vitriolic,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched,
- zesty
- miserable
collapse
- characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
- very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" related words >
- abject,
- abominable,
- adverse,
- afflicted,
- antagonistic,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- bad,
- base,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- cheap,
- cheerless,
- cheesy,
- common,
- conflicting,
- contemptible,
- contrary,
- counter,
- counteractive,
- crummy,
- crushed,
- cut up,
- debased,
- deep-troubled,
- degraded,
- dejected,
- deplorable,
- depraved,
- depressed,
- desolate,
- despairing,
- desperate,
- despicable,
- despondent,
- detrimental,
- difficult,
- dirty,
- disconsolate,
- discontented,
- disgraceful,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- doleful,
- dolorous,
- downhearted,
- execrable,
- flagrant,
- forlorn,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- grave,
- grim,
- gross,
- hard,
- harmful,
- heart-stricken,
- heart-struck,
- heartbroken,
- heartsick,
- heinous,
- hopeless,
- hostile,
- humorless,
- in bad humor,
- in opposition,
- inadequate,
- inclement,
- inconvenient,
- infestive,
- inimical,
- joyless,
- lachrymose,
- lamentable,
- little,
- lousy,
- low,
- low-down,
- low-spirited,
- lumpen,
- mangy,
- mean,
- measly,
- melancholy,
- meretricious,
- mirthless,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- nefarious,
- not easy,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- out of humor,
- out of sorts,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- petty,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pleasureless,
- poky,
- poor,
- rank,
- reptilian,
- rigorous,
- rotten,
- rubbishy,
- rueful,
- ruthful,
- sad,
- scabby,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shoddy,
- sinister,
- small,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- sorryish,
- squalid,
- stressful,
- stricken,
- suicidal,
- tearful,
- terrible,
- trashy,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- trumpery,
- trying,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- uncheerful,
- uncheery,
- unfavorable,
- unhappy,
- unjoyful,
- unmentionable,
- unmirthful,
- unpleasant,
- unsmiling,
- untoward,
- unworthy,
- valueless,
- vile,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- worthless,
- wretched
- unfortunate
collapse
- a person who suffers misfortune
- unsuitable or regrettable; "an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech"
- not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" related words >
- abortive,
- afflictive,
- apocalyptic,
- awful,
- awkward,
- bad,
- badly off,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- bootless,
- calamitous,
- catastrophic,
- cursed,
- dark,
- deplorable,
- depressed,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- dismal,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- donsie,
- doomed,
- doomful,
- dreary,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- failed,
- failing,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- foreboding,
- forlorn,
- fortuneless,
- fruitless,
- funest,
- futile,
- gloomy,
- graceless,
- grievous,
- hapless,
- hard-luck guy,
- hardcase,
- heartbreaking,
- ill,
- ill off,
- ill-advised,
- ill-boding,
- ill-chosen,
- ill-considered,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-seasoned,
- ill-starred,
- ill-suited,
- ill-timed,
- impolitic,
- improper,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inadvisable,
- inappropriate,
- inapt,
- inauspicious,
- incongruous,
- inconvenient,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inept,
- inexpedient,
- infelicitous,
- inopportune,
- intempestive,
- intrusive,
- irrelevant,
- lame,
- lamentable,
- late,
- loser,
- lowering,
- luckless,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- malefic,
- manque,
- menacing,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- miserable,
- mistimed,
- of evil portent,
- of no effect,
- off base,
- ominous,
- out of line,
- out of luck,
- out of phase,
- out of place,
- out of time,
- pathetic,
- pitiable,
- planet-struck,
- poor,
- poor unfortunate,
- portending,
- portentous,
- premature,
- regrettable,
- ruinous,
- sad,
- sad sack,
- schlemiel,
- schlimazel,
- short of luck,
- sinister,
- somber,
- star-crossed,
- starred,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- successless,
- sure loser,
- terrible,
- threatening,
- too late,
- too soon,
- tragic,
- unbefitting,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- undesirable,
- unfavorable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unmeet,
- unprofitable,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential,
- unready,
- unripe,
- unseasonable,
- unseemly,
- unsuccessful,
- unsuitable,
- untimely,
- untoward,
- unwise,
- upsetting,
- useless,
- victim,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched,
- wrong
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