Related Words:
- stingy
collapse - unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" related words >
- Lenten,
- Scotch,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- avaricious,
- cheap,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- close,
- closefisted,
- costive,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- economical,
- exiguous,
- frugal,
- hardfisted,
- illiberal,
- impoverished,
- infrequent,
- jejune,
- lean,
- limited,
- little,
- meager,
- mean,
- mingy,
- miserly,
- narrow,
- near,
- niggard,
- niggardly,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- penny-pinching,
- penny-wise,
- penurious,
- petty,
- piddling,
- pinchfisted,
- pinching,
- pinchpenny,
- poor,
- puny,
- rare,
- save-all,
- scaly,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scrawny,
- screwy,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- starvation,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- thrifty,
- tight,
- tightfisted,
- unchivalrous,
- ungenerous,
- ungiving,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- watered,
- watery
- Scotch,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- conserving,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- curtailment,
- cutback,
- economic,
- economization,
- economizing,
- economy,
- economy of assumption,
- economy of means,
- elegance,
- exiguous,
- forehanded,
- frugal,
- frugal to excess,
- frugality,
- infrequent,
- labor-saving,
- law of parsimony,
- low growth rate,
- meager,
- miserly,
- money-saving,
- niggardly,
- overfrugal,
- parsimonious,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- penny-wise,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- piddling,
- pinching,
- poor,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- rare,
- reduction of expenses,
- reduction of spending,
- retrenchment,
- saving,
- scamping,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scraping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slim,
- slowdown,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- stingy,
- stinting,
- thin,
- thrifty,
- tight,
- time-saving,
- too frugal,
- unwasteful
- playing
collapse
- the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation
- the act of playing a musical instrument related words >
- acting,
- aflicker,
- aping,
- betting,
- bickering,
- blinking,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- cardsharping,
- casting lots,
- characterization,
- coquetry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- dancing,
- dumb show,
- embodiment,
- enacting,
- enactment,
- fiddling,
- flashing,
- flickering,
- flickery,
- flicky,
- flirtation,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- gag,
- gambling,
- gaming,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hazarding,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- idling,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- incarnation,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- lambent,
- loitering,
- masquerade,
- messing around,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- mummery,
- overacting,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- personification,
- piddling,
- play,
- playacting,
- playing around,
- portrayal,
- posing,
- pottering,
- projection,
- puttering,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- representation,
- risking,
- slapstick,
- smattering,
- sortition,
- speculation,
- sporting,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- staking,
- stroboscopic,
- stunt,
- taking a role,
- tinkering,
- toying,
- trifling,
- wagering,
- wavering,
- wavery
- adulterous affair,
- adultery,
- affair,
- agacerie,
- allure,
- allurement,
- amorous looks,
- amour,
- appeal,
- attraction,
- attractiveness,
- beguilement,
- beguiling,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- blandishment,
- cajolery,
- captivation,
- charisma,
- charm,
- charmingness,
- come-hither,
- come-hither look,
- coquetry,
- coquettish glances,
- coquettishness,
- coyness,
- cuckoldry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- enchantment,
- entanglement,
- enthrallment,
- enticement,
- entrapment,
- eternal triangle,
- fascination,
- fiddling,
- flirtatiousness,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidden love,
- glamour,
- goo-goo eyes,
- hanky-panky,
- idling,
- illicit love,
- inducement,
- infidelity,
- interest,
- intrigue,
- inveiglement,
- invitation,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- liaison,
- loitering,
- love affair,
- magnetism,
- messing around,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- ogle,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pottering,
- puttering,
- romance,
- romantic tie,
- seducement,
- seduction,
- seductiveness,
- sex appeal,
- smattering,
- snaring,
- tantalization,
- temptation,
- tinkering,
- toying,
- triangle,
- trifling,
- unfaithfulness,
- winning ways,
- winsomeness,
- witchery,
- wooing
- cheeseparing
collapse
- giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man" related words >
- Scotch,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheap,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- close,
- closefisted,
- conserving,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- curtailment,
- cutback,
- economic,
- economization,
- economizing,
- economy,
- economy of assumption,
- economy of means,
- elegance,
- exiguous,
- forehanded,
- frugal,
- frugal to excess,
- frugality,
- grudging,
- illiberal,
- infrequent,
- labor-saving,
- law of parsimony,
- low growth rate,
- meager,
- mean,
- miserly,
- money-saving,
- niggardly,
- overfrugal,
- parsimonious,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- penny-pinching,
- penny-wise,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- penurious,
- piddling,
- pinching,
- poor,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- rare,
- reduction of expenses,
- reduction of spending,
- retrenchment,
- saving,
- scamping,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scraping,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- shabby,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slim,
- slowdown,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- stingy,
- stinting,
- thin,
- thrifty,
- tight,
- tightfisted,
- time-saving,
- too frugal,
- unwasteful
- measly
collapse
- contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans" related words >
- abject,
- abominable,
- allergic,
- anemic,
- apoplectic,
- arrant,
- arthritic,
- atrocious,
- base,
- beggarly,
- bilious,
- cancerous,
- cheesy,
- chlorotic,
- colicky,
- consumptive,
- contemptible,
- crummy,
- debased,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- despicable,
- dirty,
- disgusting,
- dropsical,
- dyspeptic,
- edematous,
- encephalitic,
- epileptic,
- execrable,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grave,
- gross,
- heinous,
- jerkwater,
- laryngitic,
- leprous,
- little,
- low,
- low-down,
- luetic,
- lumpen,
- malarial,
- malignant,
- mangy,
- mean,
- mingy,
- miserable,
- miserly,
- monstrous,
- nefarious,
- nephritic,
- neuralgic,
- neuritic,
- niggardly,
- niggling,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- one-horse,
- palsied,
- paltry,
- paralytic,
- pathetic,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- phthisic,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- pleuritic,
- pneumonic,
- pocky,
- podagric,
- poky,
- poor,
- punk,
- puny,
- rachitic,
- rank,
- reptilian,
- rheumatic,
- rickety,
- scabby,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scorbutic,
- scrofulous,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- skimpy,
- small,
- small-beer,
- small-time,
- sparse,
- squalid,
- stingy,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- tinhorn,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- tubercular,
- tuberculous,
- tumorigenic,
- tumorous,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- unmentionable,
- vile,
- wretched
- Lenten,
- Scotch,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- budget,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheap,
- cheeseparing,
- conservational,
- conservative,
- conserving,
- discreet,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- easy,
- economic,
- economical,
- economizing,
- economy,
- exiguous,
- forehanded,
- frugal to excess,
- impoverished,
- inexpensive,
- jejune,
- labor-saving,
- lean,
- limited,
- low,
- low-priced,
- manageable,
- meager,
- mean,
- measured,
- meticulous,
- miserly,
- moderate,
- modest,
- money-saving,
- narrow,
- negligible,
- niggardly,
- nominal,
- overfrugal,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- penny-pinching,
- penny-wise,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- penurious,
- piddling,
- poor,
- preserving,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- puny,
- reasonable,
- restrained,
- saving,
- scamping,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- sensible,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sober,
- spare,
- sparing,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- stinting,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- temperate,
- thin,
- thrifty,
- tight-fisted,
- time-saving,
- token,
- too frugal,
- unexpensive,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unwasteful,
- wary,
- watered,
- watery,
- within means,
- worth the money
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- angustifoliate,
- angustirostrate,
- angustisellate,
- angustiseptal,
- arrested,
- ascetic,
- at a premium,
- austere,
- barely sufficient,
- callow,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- circumscribed,
- close,
- close-fitting,
- confined,
- constricted,
- cramp,
- cramped,
- crowded,
- defective,
- deficient,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- embryonic,
- exiguous,
- failing,
- frugal,
- hypoplastic,
- immature,
- impoverished,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in short supply,
- inadequate,
- incapacious,
- incommodious,
- incomplete,
- infant,
- infrequent,
- insufficient,
- isthmian,
- isthmic,
- jejune,
- lacking,
- lean,
- limited,
- little,
- meager,
- mean,
- measly,
- minimal,
- miserly,
- missing,
- narrow,
- near,
- needing,
- niggardly,
- out of print,
- out of season,
- out of stock,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- piddling,
- poor,
- puny,
- rare,
- restricted,
- scant,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scrappy,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- short,
- shy,
- sketchy,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- strait,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- tight,
- uncommon,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- wanting,
- watered,
- watery
- Scotch,
- canny,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- conserving,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- culpably negligent,
- curtailment,
- cutback,
- derelict,
- economic,
- economization,
- economizing,
- economy,
- economy of assumption,
- economy of means,
- elegance,
- exiguous,
- forehanded,
- frugal,
- frugal to excess,
- frugality,
- inadvertent,
- inattentive,
- infrequent,
- labor-saving,
- laissez-faire,
- law of parsimony,
- lax,
- loose,
- low growth rate,
- meager,
- miserly,
- money-saving,
- neglectful,
- neglecting,
- negligent,
- niggardly,
- noninterfering,
- nonrestrictive,
- off-guard,
- overfrugal,
- overly permissive,
- parsimonious,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- penny-wise,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- permissive,
- piddling,
- pinching,
- poor,
- procrastinating,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- rare,
- reduction of expenses,
- reduction of spending,
- relaxed,
- remiss,
- retrenchment,
- saving,
- scamping,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scraping,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- skimpy,
- slack,
- slighting,
- slim,
- slowdown,
- slurring,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- stingy,
- stinting,
- thin,
- thrifty,
- tight,
- time-saving,
- too frugal,
- uncircumspect,
- unguarded,
- unrigorous,
- unwary,
- unwasteful,
- unwatchful
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- a hog for,
- abject,
- abstemious,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- bottomless,
- cheap,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- close,
- closefisted,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- devouring,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- esurient,
- exiguous,
- frugal,
- gluttonous,
- gobbling,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- hardfisted,
- hoggish,
- ignoble,
- illiberal,
- impoverished,
- infrequent,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- jejune,
- lean,
- limited,
- limitless,
- meager,
- mean,
- mercenary,
- mingy,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- narrow,
- near,
- niggardly,
- omnivorous,
- overgreedy,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- penny-pinching,
- penurious,
- piddling,
- piggish,
- pinchfisted,
- pinching,
- poor,
- puny,
- quenchless,
- rapacious,
- rare,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- save-all,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slakeless,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sordid,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- swinish,
- thin,
- tight,
- tight-fisted,
- tightfisted,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- ungenerous,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- venal,
- voracious,
- watered,
- watery
- Mickey Mouse,
- adverse criticism,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- animadversion,
- annoying,
- aspersion,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- careful,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- concentrated,
- conscious,
- critical,
- criticism,
- cynical,
- diligent,
- earnest,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- flak,
- frivolous,
- fussy,
- hairsplitting,
- heedful,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercritical,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- inconsequential,
- insignificant,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- jerkwater,
- knock,
- measly,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- nagging,
- nice,
- niggle,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- nugatory,
- obloquy,
- observant,
- observing,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- one-horse,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overcritical,
- overcriticalness,
- paltry,
- peanut,
- pestering,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- poky,
- priggishness,
- punk,
- puny,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- reflection,
- regardful,
- reproachfulness,
- slam,
- small-beer,
- small-time,
- stricture,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- tinhorn,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- troublesome,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- ultracritical,
- unimportant,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- watchful,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- adroit,
- airy,
- ascetic,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- austere,
- barebones,
- bean pole,
- beanstalk,
- boyish,
- broomstick,
- canny,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- clothes pole,
- corpse,
- cunning,
- delicate,
- dexterous,
- diaphanous,
- diet,
- diluted,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- ethereal,
- exiguous,
- fat,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- flimsy,
- frail,
- frugal,
- gauzy,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gracile,
- impoverished,
- infrequent,
- ingenious,
- insubstantial,
- jejune,
- lacy,
- lanky,
- lean,
- light,
- limited,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- lose weight,
- meager,
- mean,
- miserly,
- misty,
- narrow,
- negligible,
- niggardly,
- off,
- outside,
- paltry,
- papery,
- parsimonious,
- piddling,
- poor,
- puny,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- rattlebones,
- reduce,
- reedy,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- shadow,
- skeleton,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slenderize,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- sly,
- small,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spindlelegs,
- spindleshanks,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- stack of bones,
- starvation,
- stilt,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- subtle,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- tight,
- twiggy,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- vague,
- walking skeleton,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- willowy,
- wiredrawn,
- wispy
- Mickey Mouse,
- airy,
- asinine,
- banal,
- bickering,
- brimful,
- brimming,
- captious,
- catchpenny,
- caviling,
- chic,
- chipper,
- chitchat,
- chitter-chatter,
- choplogic,
- classy,
- commonplace,
- coquetry,
- crammed,
- crowded,
- cursory,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- dashing,
- dawdling,
- depthless,
- dillydallying,
- dolce far niente,
- empty,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- fashionable,
- fatuous,
- few,
- fiddling,
- flimsy,
- flirtation,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- foolish,
- footling,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- futile,
- goofing off,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- hollow,
- idle,
- idling,
- inane,
- incidental,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- insignificant,
- insipid,
- jammed,
- jejune,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- lazing,
- light,
- lingering,
- little,
- loaded,
- loafing,
- logic-chopping,
- loitering,
- lolling,
- lounging,
- low,
- meager,
- measly,
- messing around,
- miniature,
- minor,
- modish,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- mopery,
- neat,
- negligible,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- no great shakes,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- orderly,
- otiose,
- packed,
- paltering,
- paltry,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pottering,
- puny,
- pussyfooting,
- puttering,
- quibbling,
- shallow,
- sharp,
- shipshape,
- short,
- shuffling,
- silly,
- skin-deep,
- slender,
- slight,
- small,
- smart,
- smattering,
- snappy,
- snug,
- spick-and-span,
- superficial,
- swank,
- tarrying,
- tidy,
- tinkering,
- tiny,
- toying,
- trichoschistic,
- trig,
- trim,
- trite,
- trivial,
- uncluttered,
- unimportant,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- valueless,
- vapid,
- well-groomed,
- windy,
- worthless
- 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
- scattered
collapse
- occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space; "scattered showers"; "scattered villages" related words >
- alienated,
- all up with,
- anarchic,
- arsy-varsy,
- ass-backwards,
- balled up,
- beat,
- beaten,
- bested,
- bollixed up,
- broadcast,
- chaotic,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- confounded,
- confused,
- defeated,
- deflected,
- deflective,
- detached,
- diffracted,
- diffractive,
- diffuse,
- diffused,
- disarticulated,
- discomfited,
- disconnected,
- discrete,
- disengaged,
- disjoined,
- disjoint,
- disjointed,
- disjunct,
- dislocated,
- dispersed,
- dispread,
- disseminated,
- dissipated,
- distorted,
- distributed,
- disunited,
- divided,
- divorced,
- done for,
- done in,
- down,
- estranged,
- exiguous,
- fallen,
- fixed,
- flectional,
- flexed,
- floored,
- fouled up,
- galley-west,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hors de combat,
- hugger-mugger,
- in a mess,
- inflective,
- infrequent,
- isolated,
- jumbled,
- lambasted,
- lathered,
- licked,
- meager,
- miserly,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- muddled,
- niggardly,
- on the skids,
- outdone,
- overborne,
- overcome,
- overmastered,
- overmatched,
- overpowered,
- overridden,
- overthrown,
- overturned,
- overwhelmed,
- panicked,
- piddling,
- poor,
- put to rout,
- rare,
- refracted,
- refractile,
- refractive,
- refrangible,
- removed,
- routed,
- ruined,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- screwed up,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- segregated,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- separated,
- sequestered,
- settled,
- shut off,
- silenced,
- skew,
- skewed,
- skimble-skamble,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- skinned,
- skinned alive,
- slim,
- snafu,
- sparse,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- spread,
- sprinkled,
- stampeded,
- stingy,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- strewn,
- strown,
- thin,
- tight,
- topsy-turvy,
- trimmed,
- trounced,
- undone,
- upset,
- upside-down,
- whelmed,
- whipped,
- widespread,
- worsted
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- bagatelle,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bickering,
- bit,
- brass farthing,
- button,
- captious,
- caviling,
- cent,
- choplogic,
- curio,
- cursory,
- depthless,
- detailed,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- exact,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- few,
- fig,
- finicky,
- fleabite,
- folderol,
- footling,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- full,
- fussy,
- gaud,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- hair,
- hairsplitting,
- halfpenny,
- hedging,
- hill of beans,
- immateriality,
- inconsequence,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsequentiality,
- inconsiderable,
- inconsiderableness,
- indifference,
- ineffectuality,
- inferiority,
- insignificance,
- insignificant,
- irrelevance,
- jerkwater,
- jest,
- joke,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- little,
- littleness,
- logic-chopping,
- low,
- low priority,
- marginality,
- meager,
- measly,
- meticulous,
- miniature,
- minikin,
- minute,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- negligibility,
- negligible,
- nice,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- no great shakes,
- one-horse,
- paltering,
- paltry,
- particular,
- peppercorn,
- pettifogging,
- pettiness,
- petty,
- picayunish,
- picayunishness,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- pokiness,
- poky,
- precise,
- puniness,
- punk,
- puny,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- red cent,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- secondariness,
- shallow,
- shit,
- short,
- shuffling,
- skin-deep,
- slightness,
- small,
- small-beer,
- small-time,
- smallness,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- special,
- specific,
- straw,
- superficial,
- tinhorn,
- tiny,
- toy,
- trichoschistic,
- trifle,
- trifling,
- trinket,
- trivial,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- two cents,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- twopence,
- unimportance,
- unimpressiveness,
- unnoteworthiness,
- whim-wham
- spotty
collapse
- lacking consistency; "the golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty" related words >
- bad,
- bespangled,
- bespeckled,
- blotched,
- blotchy,
- brindled,
- broken,
- broken off,
- capricious,
- careening,
- catchy,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- chopped-off,
- choppy,
- dappled,
- decousu,
- desultory,
- deviative,
- dirty,
- disconnected,
- discontinued,
- discontinuous,
- discrete,
- disjunctive,
- dotted,
- dotty,
- eccentric,
- episodic,
- erratic,
- exiguous,
- fitful,
- flea-bitten,
- flecked,
- fleckered,
- flickering,
- fluctuating,
- foxed,
- frecked,
- freckle-faced,
- freckled,
- freckly,
- guttering,
- halting,
- herky-jerky,
- heteroclite,
- immethodical,
- incoherent,
- inconstant,
- infrequent,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- interrupted,
- irregular,
- jagged,
- jerky,
- lurching,
- macular,
- maculate,
- maculated,
- marked,
- meager,
- miserly,
- motley,
- mottled,
- niggardly,
- noncontinuous,
- nonlinear,
- nonsequential,
- nonserial,
- nonuniform,
- on-again-off-again,
- parenthetic,
- patchy,
- peppered,
- piddling,
- piebald,
- pied,
- pimpled,
- pimply,
- pocked,
- pockmarked,
- pocky,
- pointille,
- pointillistic,
- polka-dot,
- poor,
- punctated,
- rambling,
- rare,
- rough,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scrappy,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- skewbald,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slim,
- snatchy,
- soiled,
- spangled,
- sparse,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- spattered,
- specked,
- speckled,
- speckledy,
- speckly,
- splashed,
- splattered,
- splotched,
- splotchy,
- sporadic,
- spotted,
- sprinkled,
- staggering,
- stained,
- stingy,
- stippled,
- studded,
- suspended,
- thin,
- tight,
- uncertain,
- unconnected,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unregular,
- unrhythmical,
- unsettled,
- unsteady,
- unsuccessive,
- unsystematic,
- variable,
- veering,
- wandering,
- wavering,
- wobbling,
- wobbly
- 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
- meager
collapse
- deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare" related words >
- Lenten,
- Lilliputian,
- Spartan,
- Tom Thumb,
- abstemious,
- angular,
- angustifoliate,
- angustirostrate,
- angustisellate,
- angustiseptal,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bare,
- bony,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- circumscribed,
- close,
- close-fitting,
- confined,
- constricted,
- cramp,
- cramped,
- crowded,
- cursory,
- deficient,
- depthless,
- dumpy,
- dwarf,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- elfin,
- exiguous,
- few,
- flat,
- flat-chested,
- fleshless,
- footling,
- frugal,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- gaunt,
- gawky,
- impoverished,
- inadequate,
- inappreciable,
- incapacious,
- incipient,
- incommodious,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- infrequent,
- insignificant,
- insufficient,
- isthmian,
- isthmic,
- jejune,
- lank,
- lanky,
- lean,
- lean-fleshed,
- lean-looking,
- limited,
- little,
- low,
- mean,
- mere,
- midget,
- miniature,
- minimum,
- miserable,
- miserly,
- nanoid,
- narrow,
- near,
- negligible,
- niggardly,
- no great shakes,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- poor,
- puny,
- pygmy,
- rare,
- rawboned,
- restricted,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- runty,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scraggy,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- scrubby,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- shabby,
- shallow,
- short,
- shriveled,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- skeletal,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- skin-deep,
- skinny,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spidery,
- spindling,
- spindly,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- squat,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- strait,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- superficial,
- thin,
- thin-bellied,
- thin-fleshed,
- tight,
- tiny,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- twiggy,
- undersize,
- undersized,
- underweight,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- watered,
- watery,
- wizened
- puny
collapse
- (used especially of persons) of inferior size
- inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses" related words >
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- attenuated,
- austere,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cadaverous,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- corpselike,
- cramped,
- crumbly,
- dainty,
- decrepit,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diminutive,
- dinky,
- dwarf,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- effeminate,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- emaciated,
- exiguous,
- feeble,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- frugal,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- haggard,
- half-pint,
- hollow-eyed,
- impoverished,
- inconsequential,
- inferior,
- infirm,
- insignificant,
- jejune,
- jerkwater,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- knee-high,
- lean,
- light,
- lightweight,
- limited,
- little,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- meager,
- mean,
- measly,
- midget,
- minor,
- minute,
- miserly,
- namby-pamby,
- narrow,
- negligible,
- niggardly,
- niggling,
- nugatory,
- one-horse,
- paltry,
- papery,
- parsimonious,
- pasteboardy,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- petite,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- pinched,
- pindling,
- pint-sized,
- poky,
- poor,
- punk,
- pygmy,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- shattery,
- short,
- shriveled,
- sickly,
- sissified,
- skeletal,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- sleazy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- small-beer,
- small-time,
- smallish,
- spare,
- sparing,
- starvation,
- starved,
- starveling,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- tacky,
- thin,
- tinhorn,
- tiny,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- underdeveloped,
- underfed,
- undernourished,
- undersized,
- unimportant,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- useless,
- wasted,
- watered,
- watery,
- weak,
- weakly,
- weazeny,
- wispy,
- withered,
- wizened,
- womanish,
- worthless,
- wraithlike
- scant
collapse
- limit in quality or quantity related words >
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- angustifoliate,
- angustirostrate,
- angustisellate,
- angustiseptal,
- arrested,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bankrupt in,
- bare of,
- begrudge,
- bereft of,
- bound,
- callow,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- circumscribed,
- close,
- close-fitting,
- condition,
- confine,
- confined,
- constricted,
- contain,
- copyright,
- cramp,
- cramped,
- crowded,
- defective,
- deficient,
- denuded of,
- deprived of,
- destitute of,
- devoid of,
- discipline,
- draw the line,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- embryonic,
- empty of,
- exiguous,
- failing,
- famish,
- for want of,
- forlorn of,
- frugal,
- grudge,
- hedge about,
- hypoplastic,
- immature,
- impoverished,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in default of,
- in short supply,
- in want of,
- inadequate,
- incapacious,
- incommodious,
- incomplete,
- infant,
- infrequent,
- insufficiency,
- insufficient,
- isthmian,
- isthmic,
- jejune,
- lacking,
- lean,
- limit,
- limited,
- live upon nothing,
- meager,
- mean,
- miserly,
- missing,
- moderate,
- narrow,
- near,
- needing,
- niggard,
- niggardly,
- out of,
- out of pocket,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- patent,
- paucity,
- piddling,
- pinch,
- pinch pennies,
- poor,
- poverty,
- puny,
- qualify,
- rare,
- register,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- restricted,
- save-all,
- scamp,
- scant of,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scarceness,
- scattered,
- scrappy,
- scrawny,
- screw,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- short,
- short of,
- shy,
- shy of,
- sketchy,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- specialize,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- starvation,
- starve,
- stingy,
- stint,
- stinted,
- strait,
- straiten,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- tight,
- tightfisted,
- unblessed with,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unpossessed of,
- void of,
- wanting,
- watered,
- watery
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