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- elocution
collapse - an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture related words >
- accents,
- chatter,
- comment,
- conversation,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- discourse,
- eloquence,
- forensics,
- gab,
- homiletics,
- language,
- lecturing,
- oral communication,
- oratory,
- palaver,
- parole,
- platform oratory,
- prattle,
- public speaking,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rapping,
- rhetoric,
- speaking,
- speech,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- stump speaking,
- talk,
- talking,
- wordcraft,
- words,
- yakkety-yak,
- yakking
- Attic,
- Spartan,
- actual,
- arid,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bald,
- banal,
- banausic,
- bare,
- barren,
- bland,
- boring,
- breadwinning,
- businesslike,
- candid,
- characterless,
- chaste,
- classic,
- classical,
- cliched,
- commercial,
- common,
- commonplace,
- dead,
- direct,
- drab,
- dry,
- dull,
- earthbound,
- everyday,
- factual,
- flat,
- frank,
- garden,
- garden-variety,
- hackneyed,
- ho-hum,
- homely,
- homespun,
- household,
- humdrum,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- insipid,
- irksome,
- jejune,
- lackluster,
- lean,
- lifeless,
- literal,
- lowly,
- lusterless,
- materialistic,
- matter-of-fact,
- mediocre,
- moneymaking,
- monotonous,
- mouldy,
- mundane,
- natural,
- neat,
- nondescript,
- open,
- ordinary,
- overdone,
- pedestrian,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- poetryless,
- practicable,
- practical,
- prose,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- realistic,
- routine,
- run-of-the-mill,
- rustic,
- severe,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- sober,
- spare,
- staid,
- stale,
- stark,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- stolid,
- straightforward,
- stuffy,
- tedious,
- threadbare,
- tired,
- tiresome,
- trite,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- undistinguished,
- unembellished,
- uneventful,
- unexceptional,
- unfanciful,
- unideal,
- unidealistic,
- unimaginative,
- unimpassioned,
- uninspired,
- uninteresting,
- uninventive,
- unnoteworthy,
- unoriginal,
- unpoetic,
- unpoetical,
- unromantic,
- unromanticized,
- unvarnished,
- utilitarian,
- vapid,
- workaday,
- workday,
- working
- frankness
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- the trait of being blunt and outspoken related words >
- accessibility,
- approachability,
- artlessness,
- austerity,
- baldness,
- bareness,
- big mouth,
- bluffness,
- bluntness,
- broadness,
- brusqueness,
- candidness,
- candor,
- coarseness,
- common speech,
- communicativeness,
- conversableness,
- directness,
- earthiness,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- extroversion,
- flow of words,
- flowing tongue,
- fluency,
- fluent tongue,
- flux de bouche,
- flux de paroles,
- flux of words,
- forthrightness,
- freedom,
- freeness,
- garrulity,
- garrulousness,
- gassiness,
- genuineness,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- gregariousness,
- grossness,
- gush,
- gushiness,
- homespun,
- household words,
- ingenuousness,
- leanness,
- long-windedness,
- loose tongue,
- loquaciousness,
- loquacity,
- matter-of-factness,
- naturalness,
- openheartedness,
- openness,
- outgoingness,
- outspokenness,
- plain English,
- plain dealing,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- plainspokenness,
- prolixity,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- raciness,
- rankness,
- rawness,
- restrainedness,
- roundness,
- rustic style,
- saltiness,
- severity,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- sincerity,
- slush,
- soberness,
- sociability,
- spareness,
- spate of words,
- spiciness,
- starkness,
- straightforwardness,
- talkativeness,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unaffectedness,
- unconstraint,
- uncouthness,
- unimaginativeness,
- unpoeticalness,
- unrepression,
- unreserve,
- unreservedness,
- unrestraint,
- unrestriction,
- unreticence,
- unsecretiveness,
- unsuppression,
- untaciturnity,
- verbosity,
- vernacular,
- volubility,
- vulgarity,
- windiness
- chiefly
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- for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies" related words >
- a fortiori,
- ab initio,
- ab ovo,
- aborigine,
- above all,
- all in all,
- all the more,
- all things considered,
- almost entirely,
- altogether,
- approximately,
- as a rule,
- as a whole,
- as an approximation,
- as per usual,
- as things go,
- as usual,
- at first,
- at large,
- at the start,
- before everything,
- broadly,
- broadly speaking,
- by and large,
- commonly,
- customarily,
- dominantly,
- effectually,
- especially,
- essentially,
- even,
- ever so,
- first,
- first and foremost,
- first of all,
- first thing,
- firstly,
- from the beginning,
- generally,
- generally speaking,
- habitually,
- in chief,
- in general,
- in particular,
- in the beginning,
- in the main,
- indeed,
- initially,
- largely,
- mainly,
- more than ever,
- most often,
- mostly,
- naturally,
- never so,
- no end,
- normally,
- normatively,
- on balance,
- on the whole,
- ordinarily,
- originally,
- overall,
- particularly,
- peculiarly,
- predominantly,
- prescriptively,
- prevailingly,
- primarily,
- primo,
- principally,
- regularly,
- roughly,
- roughly speaking,
- routinely,
- speaking generally,
- still more,
- substantially,
- to be expected,
- usually,
- virtually,
- yea
- artlessness
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- ingenuousness by virtue of being free from artful deceit
- the quality of innocent naivete related words >
- absolute realism,
- authenticity,
- bluffness,
- bluntness,
- bona fideness,
- broadness,
- brusqueness,
- candidness,
- candor,
- directness,
- forthrightness,
- frankness,
- freedom,
- freeness,
- genuineness,
- honesty,
- inartificiality,
- ingenuousness,
- intactness,
- legitimacy,
- lifelikeness,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- natural man,
- natural state,
- naturalism,
- naturalness,
- nature,
- openheartedness,
- openness,
- outspokenness,
- photographic realism,
- plain dealing,
- plain speaking,
- plainness,
- plainspokenness,
- pristineness,
- realism,
- realness,
- roundness,
- sincerity,
- state of nature,
- straightforwardness,
- true-to-lifeness,
- truth to nature,
- unadulteration,
- unaffectedness,
- unconstraint,
- unfictitiousness,
- unreserve,
- unrestraint,
- unspeciousness,
- unspuriousness,
- unsyntheticness,
- verisimilitude,
- virginity
- a fortiori,
- ab initio,
- ab ovo,
- aborigine,
- above all,
- all in all,
- all the more,
- all things considered,
- almost entirely,
- altogether,
- approximately,
- as a rule,
- as a whole,
- as an approximation,
- as per usual,
- as things go,
- as usual,
- at bottom,
- at first,
- at large,
- at the start,
- before everything,
- broadly,
- broadly speaking,
- by and large,
- chiefly,
- commonly,
- customarily,
- dominantly,
- effectively,
- effectually,
- especially,
- essentially,
- even,
- ever so,
- first,
- first and foremost,
- first of all,
- first thing,
- firstly,
- from the beginning,
- generally,
- generally speaking,
- habitually,
- in chief,
- in general,
- in the beginning,
- in the main,
- indeed,
- initially,
- largely,
- more than ever,
- most often,
- mostly,
- naturally,
- never so,
- no end,
- normally,
- normatively,
- on balance,
- on the whole,
- ordinarily,
- originally,
- overall,
- particularly,
- peculiarly,
- predominantly,
- prescriptively,
- prevailingly,
- primarily,
- primo,
- principally,
- regularly,
- roughly,
- roughly speaking,
- routinely,
- speaking generally,
- still more,
- substantially,
- to be expected,
- usually,
- virtually,
- yea
- autodidactic,
- coeducational,
- cultural,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- didactic,
- disciplinary,
- edifying,
- educating,
- educational,
- educative,
- elocution,
- eloquence,
- enlightening,
- exhortatory,
- forensics,
- homiletic,
- homiletics,
- hortatory,
- illuminating,
- informative,
- initiatory,
- instructive,
- introductory,
- oratory,
- platform oratory,
- preaching,
- preceptive,
- propaedeutic,
- public speaking,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rhetoric,
- self-teaching,
- speaking,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- stump speaking,
- teaching,
- tuitionary,
- wordcraft
- articulate
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- expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate orator"; "articulate beings"
- express or state clearly related words >
- Ciceronian,
- Demosthenian,
- Demosthenic,
- Tullian,
- accouple,
- accumulate,
- adjust,
- agglutinate,
- amass,
- apprehensible,
- assemble,
- associate,
- audible,
- band,
- batten,
- batten down,
- bolt,
- bond,
- bracket,
- breathe,
- bridge,
- bridge over,
- buckle,
- butt,
- button,
- cement,
- chain,
- chime,
- chorus,
- clap together,
- clasp,
- clear,
- cleat,
- clip,
- cognizable,
- collect,
- combine,
- come out with,
- communicate,
- comprehensible,
- comprise,
- concatenate,
- conglobulate,
- conjoin,
- conjugate,
- connect,
- contrastive,
- convey,
- coordinate,
- copulate,
- couple,
- cover,
- definite,
- deliver,
- disclose,
- distinct,
- distinctive,
- dovetail,
- easily understood,
- easy to understand,
- eloquent,
- embrace,
- emit,
- encompass,
- enunciate,
- exoteric,
- express,
- facund,
- fathomable,
- felicitous,
- fling off,
- fluent,
- formulate,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- garrulous,
- gather,
- give,
- give expression,
- give out with,
- give tongue,
- give utterance,
- give voice,
- glib,
- glue,
- harmonize,
- hasp,
- hearable,
- hi-fi,
- high-fidelity,
- hinge,
- hitch,
- hook,
- impart,
- include,
- intelligible,
- jam,
- join,
- joint,
- jointed,
- knot,
- knowable,
- latch,
- lay together,
- league,
- let out,
- link,
- lip,
- lock,
- loud-speaking,
- loud-spoken,
- lump together,
- marry,
- marshal,
- mass,
- meaningful,
- merge,
- methodize,
- miter,
- mobilize,
- mortise,
- nail,
- oral,
- order,
- organize,
- out with,
- outspoken,
- pair,
- peg,
- penetrable,
- phonate,
- phrase,
- piece together,
- pin,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- plumbable,
- pour forth,
- prehensible,
- present,
- prolix,
- pronounce,
- put forth,
- put in words,
- put together,
- rabbet,
- raise,
- readable,
- regulate,
- relate,
- rivet,
- roll into one,
- say,
- scarf,
- screw,
- scrutable,
- set forth,
- sew,
- significant,
- silver,
- silver-tongued,
- skewer,
- slick,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- snap,
- soft-speaking,
- soft-spoken,
- solder,
- sonant,
- sound,
- span,
- speaking,
- spellbinding,
- splice,
- spoken,
- staple,
- stick,
- stick together,
- stitch,
- systematize,
- tack,
- take in,
- talkative,
- talking,
- tape,
- tell,
- throw off,
- tie,
- toggle,
- true-speaking,
- understandable,
- unify,
- unite,
- utter,
- venting,
- verbalize,
- viva voce,
- vocalize,
- voice,
- voiced,
- wedge,
- weld,
- well-spoken,
- whisper,
- word,
- yoke,
- zipper
- again and again,
- all in all,
- all things considered,
- altogether,
- as a rule,
- as a whole,
- as an approximation,
- as per usual,
- as things go,
- as usual,
- at large,
- banally,
- basely,
- broadly,
- broadly speaking,
- by and large,
- chiefly,
- commonplacely,
- communally,
- customarily,
- each to each,
- entre nous,
- familiarly,
- frequently,
- generally,
- generally speaking,
- habitually,
- hackneyedly,
- in general,
- in many instances,
- inferiorly,
- inter se,
- jointly,
- mainly,
- many a time,
- many times,
- matter-of-factly,
- meanly,
- most often,
- mostly,
- mutually,
- naturally,
- normally,
- normatively,
- not infrequently,
- not seldom,
- oft,
- often,
- often enough,
- oftentimes,
- ofttimes,
- on balance,
- on the whole,
- ordinarily,
- overall,
- plainly,
- poorly,
- predominantly,
- prescriptively,
- prevailingly,
- prosaically,
- regularly,
- repeatedly,
- respectively,
- roughly,
- roughly speaking,
- routinely,
- simply,
- speaking generally,
- stalely,
- to be expected,
- tritely,
- truistically,
- unoriginally,
- unseldom,
- usually,
- whenever you wish
- straightforward
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- pointed directly ahead; "a straightforward gaze"
- free from ambiguity; "a straightforward set of instructions" related words >
- Attic,
- Ciceronian,
- Mickey Mouse,
- Spartan,
- aboveboard,
- apparent,
- artless,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bald,
- bare,
- barefaced,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- broad,
- brusque,
- candid,
- casual,
- chaste,
- classic,
- clean-cut,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- clear as day,
- clear-cut,
- coherent,
- common,
- commonplace,
- connected,
- consistent,
- crisp,
- crystal-clear,
- crystalline,
- cushy,
- dead,
- dead ahead,
- defined,
- definite,
- direct,
- directly,
- distinct,
- downright,
- dry,
- due,
- due north,
- dull,
- easy,
- easy as pie,
- effortless,
- elegant,
- evident,
- explicit,
- express,
- facile,
- finished,
- forthright,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- genuine,
- glib,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- heart-to-heart,
- homely,
- homespun,
- honest,
- honorable,
- immediate,
- in a beeline,
- in line with,
- inartificial,
- incomplex,
- ingenuous,
- irreversible,
- just,
- lean,
- light,
- limpid,
- loud and clear,
- lucid,
- luminous,
- manifest,
- matter-of-fact,
- native,
- natural,
- neat,
- nothing to it,
- one-way,
- open,
- openhearted,
- outspoken,
- painless,
- palpable,
- patent,
- pellucid,
- perspicuous,
- plain,
- plain dealing,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- polished,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pure,
- refined,
- restrained,
- right,
- round,
- rustic,
- severe,
- simple,
- simple as ABC,
- simple-speaking,
- sincere,
- smooth,
- sober,
- soft,
- spare,
- stark,
- straight,
- straight across,
- straight ahead,
- straight-out,
- straightaway,
- straightforwards,
- straightly,
- straightway,
- tasteful,
- terse,
- through,
- translucent,
- transparent,
- transpicuous,
- trim,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- unambiguous,
- unartificial,
- unassuming,
- unbroken,
- unburdensome,
- unchecked,
- uncomplicated,
- unconcealed,
- unconfused,
- unconstrained,
- undeviating,
- undeviatingly,
- undisguised,
- undissembled,
- undissembling,
- unequivocal,
- unfeigning,
- unguarded,
- unidirectional,
- unimaginative,
- uninterrupted,
- uninvolved,
- univocal,
- unlabored,
- unmistakable,
- unpoetical,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unswerving,
- unswervingly,
- unvarnished,
- unveeringly,
- upright,
- upstanding,
- well-defined
- all joking aside,
- bluffly,
- bluntly,
- broadly,
- brusquely,
- candidly,
- directly,
- genuinely,
- in all conscience,
- in all seriousness,
- in plain English,
- in plain words,
- openheartedly,
- openly,
- outspokenly,
- plain-spokenly,
- plainly,
- roundly,
- sincerely,
- straightforwardly,
- unconstrainedly,
- unreservedly,
- unrestrainedly,
- with no nonsense
- Spartan,
- arcadian,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- authentic,
- bald,
- bare,
- blank,
- bona fide,
- bucolic,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- common,
- commonplace,
- dinkum,
- direct,
- dry,
- dull,
- following the letter,
- frank,
- genuine,
- good,
- guileless,
- homely,
- homespun,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- inartificial,
- lawful,
- lean,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- matter-of-fact,
- naked,
- native,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- naturelike,
- neat,
- nude,
- open,
- openhearted,
- original,
- outspoken,
- pastoral,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- rightful,
- rural,
- rustic,
- severe,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- sincere,
- sober,
- spare,
- stark,
- sterling,
- straight,
- straightforward,
- sure-enough,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadorned,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unarrayed,
- unartificial,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- unbeguileful,
- unbeguiling,
- uncalculating,
- uncolored,
- uncomplicated,
- unconcealed,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undeceitful,
- undeceiving,
- undeceptive,
- undecked,
- undecorated,
- undesigning,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undissembled,
- undissembling,
- undissimulated,
- undissimulating,
- undistorted,
- undressed,
- unembellished,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unfurbished,
- ungarnished,
- unimaginative,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unornamented,
- unpoetical,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unsophisticated,
- unspecious,
- unspoiled,
- unsynthetic,
- untrimmed,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- word-for-word
- agitation,
- agitational,
- agitative,
- arousal,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- elocution,
- eloquence,
- exasperation,
- excitation,
- excitement,
- firing,
- fomentation,
- fomenting,
- forensics,
- homiletics,
- incendiary,
- incentive,
- incitation,
- incitement,
- inciting,
- incitive,
- inflammation,
- inflammatory,
- instigating,
- instigation,
- instigative,
- irritation,
- lecturing,
- oratory,
- pep rally,
- pep talk,
- platform oratory,
- provocation,
- public speaking,
- pyrotechnics,
- rhetoric,
- speaking,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- stimulation,
- stirring,
- stirring-up,
- stump speaking,
- wordcraft
- about,
- all but,
- almost,
- approximately,
- approximatively,
- as good as,
- circa,
- fairly,
- for practical purposes,
- generally,
- generally speaking,
- in round numbers,
- just about,
- kind of,
- moderately,
- most,
- nearly,
- plus ou moins,
- practically,
- pretty,
- rather,
- roughly,
- roughly speaking,
- roundly,
- say,
- some,
- something,
- sort of,
- well-nigh
- overall
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- (usually plural) work clothing consisting of denim trousers (usually with a bib and shoulder straps)
- a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work
- involving only main features; "the overall pattern of his life"
- including everything; "the overall cost"; "the total amount owed" related words >
- accumulative,
- across-the-board,
- ad infinitum,
- all in all,
- all over,
- all round,
- all things considered,
- all-comprehensive,
- all-embracing,
- all-inclusive,
- altogether,
- as a rule,
- as a whole,
- as an approximation,
- at all points,
- at full length,
- at large,
- blanket,
- broadly,
- broadly speaking,
- by and large,
- chiefly,
- commonly,
- compendious,
- complete,
- comprehensive,
- cumulative,
- encyclopedic,
- entire,
- every bit,
- every inch,
- every whit,
- general,
- generally,
- generally speaking,
- global,
- head and shoulders,
- heart and soul,
- in all respects,
- in every respect,
- in extenso,
- in general,
- inclusive,
- inside and out,
- mainly,
- mostly,
- neck deep,
- normally,
- omnibus,
- on all counts,
- on balance,
- on the whole,
- ordinarily,
- over-all,
- panoramic,
- predominantly,
- prevailingly,
- principally,
- root and branch,
- roughly,
- roughly speaking,
- routinely,
- speaking generally,
- sweeping,
- synoptic,
- through and through,
- throughout,
- to the brim,
- to the death,
- to the end,
- to the hilt,
- total,
- universal,
- usually,
- whole,
- without exception,
- without omission,
- you name it
- austere
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- of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
- severely simple; "a stark interior" related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Lenten,
- Sabbatarian,
- Spartan,
- Spartanic,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- abstemious,
- abstinent,
- amaroidal,
- anchoritic,
- ascetic,
- astringent,
- authoritarian,
- bald,
- bare,
- basic,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- candid,
- chaste,
- common,
- commonplace,
- demanding,
- direct,
- dour,
- dry,
- dull,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- earnest,
- elementary,
- eremitic,
- essential,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exiguous,
- flagellant,
- frank,
- frugal,
- fundamental,
- grave,
- grim,
- hard,
- harsh,
- homely,
- homespun,
- homogeneous,
- impoverished,
- inclement,
- indivisible,
- inornate,
- irreducible,
- jejune,
- keen,
- lean,
- limited,
- matter-of-fact,
- meager,
- mean,
- mendicant,
- mere,
- meticulous,
- miserly,
- monolithic,
- mortified,
- narrow,
- natural,
- neat,
- niggardly,
- of a piece,
- open,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- poor,
- primal,
- primary,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- puny,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- puritanical,
- rigoristic,
- rough,
- rugged,
- rustic,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- self-denying,
- serious,
- severe,
- sharp,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- single,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sober,
- somber,
- spare,
- sparing,
- stark,
- starvation,
- stern,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straightforward,
- straitened,
- strict,
- stringent,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- tough,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- uncluttered,
- undecorated,
- undifferenced,
- undifferentiated,
- unelaborate,
- unembellished,
- unfancy,
- unfussy,
- ungentle,
- uniform,
- unimaginative,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unornamented,
- unornate,
- unpoetical,
- unsparing,
- unvarnished,
- watered,
- watery,
- wedded to poverty
- clarity,
- clear-cutness,
- clearness,
- coherence,
- connectedness,
- consistency,
- crystallinity,
- definition,
- directness,
- distinctness,
- explicitness,
- limpidity,
- lucidity,
- pellucidity,
- perspicuity,
- plain English,
- plain style,
- plainness,
- simplicity,
- straightforwardness,
- structure,
- transparency,
- transpicuity,
- unadorned style,
- unambiguousness,
- unequivocalness,
- unmistakableness
- stark
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- complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
- completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open" related words >
- Spartan,
- absolute,
- absolutely,
- altogether,
- arrant,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bald,
- bare,
- barren,
- basic,
- blasted,
- bleak,
- blessed,
- blunt,
- candid,
- chaste,
- classical,
- clean,
- clear,
- clearly,
- cold,
- common,
- commonplace,
- complete,
- completely,
- confounded,
- consummate,
- crass,
- decided,
- definitive,
- depressing,
- desolate,
- direct,
- downright,
- drear,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dull,
- egregious,
- elementary,
- empty,
- entirely,
- essential,
- evident,
- flagrant,
- frank,
- fully,
- fundamental,
- glaring,
- grey,
- grim,
- gross,
- hard,
- harsh,
- homely,
- homespun,
- homogeneous,
- indivisible,
- infernal,
- inornate,
- intolerable,
- irreducible,
- irretrievably,
- irrevocably,
- lean,
- matter-of-fact,
- mere,
- monolithic,
- naked,
- natural,
- neat,
- nude,
- obvious,
- obviously,
- of a piece,
- open,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- patent,
- perfect,
- perfectly,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- plainly,
- plumb,
- positive,
- primary,
- profound,
- pronounced,
- proper,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- quite,
- rank,
- ravaged,
- raw,
- regular,
- right,
- rustic,
- severe,
- shattering,
- sheer,
- shocking,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- single,
- sober,
- spare,
- spooky,
- stark-naked,
- stark-staring,
- straightforward,
- stripped,
- superlative,
- surpassing,
- the veriest,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- total,
- totally,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- unbearable,
- unclad,
- unclothed,
- uncluttered,
- unconditional,
- unconscionable,
- undeniable,
- undifferenced,
- undifferentiated,
- unelaborate,
- unembellished,
- unenhanced,
- unequivocal,
- unfancy,
- unfussy,
- uniform,
- unimaginative,
- unmitigated,
- unornate,
- unpoetical,
- unqualified,
- unrelieved,
- unrelievedly,
- unspoiled,
- unvarnished,
- utter,
- utterly,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- void,
- wholly
- directness
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- trueness of course toward a goal; "rivaling a hawk in directness of aim" related words >
- Atticism,
- appropriateness,
- artlessness,
- austerity,
- baldness,
- bareness,
- bluffness,
- bluntness,
- broadness,
- brusqueness,
- candidness,
- candor,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- childlikeness,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clear-cutness,
- clearness,
- coherence,
- comeliness,
- common speech,
- connectedness,
- consistency,
- correctness,
- crystallinity,
- definition,
- dignity,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- ease,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- explicitness,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flatness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- forthrightness,
- frankness,
- freedom,
- freeness,
- genuineness,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- guilelessness,
- homespun,
- horizontalness,
- household words,
- inartificiality,
- ingenuousness,
- innocence,
- leanness,
- limpidity,
- lineality,
- linearity,
- lucidity,
- matter-of-factness,
- naiveness,
- naivete,
- naivety,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- openheartedness,
- openness,
- outspokenness,
- pellucidity,
- perspicuity,
- plain English,
- plain dealing,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- plainspokenness,
- polish,
- propriety,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- purity,
- rectilinearity,
- refinement,
- restrainedness,
- restraint,
- roundness,
- rustic style,
- seemliness,
- severity,
- simpleheartedness,
- simplemindedness,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- sincerity,
- single-heartedness,
- single-mindedness,
- singleness of heart,
- smoothness,
- soberness,
- spareness,
- starkness,
- straightforwardness,
- straightness,
- structure,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- terseness,
- transparency,
- transpicuity,
- trustfulness,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unaffectedness,
- unambiguousness,
- unassumingness,
- unconstraint,
- unequivocalness,
- unguardedness,
- unimaginativeness,
- unmistakableness,
- unpoeticalness,
- unpretentiousness,
- unreserve,
- unrestraint,
- unsophisticatedness,
- unsophistication,
- unsuspiciousness,
- unswervingness,
- unwariness,
- vernacular,
- verticalness
- approximately
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- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party" related words >
- about,
- all but,
- all in all,
- almost,
- almost entirely,
- approaching,
- approximatively,
- around,
- by and large,
- chiefly,
- circa,
- close to,
- effectually,
- essentially,
- for practical purposes,
- generally,
- generally speaking,
- in round numbers,
- in the main,
- mainly,
- more or less,
- most,
- mostly,
- much,
- nearabout,
- nearly,
- nigh,
- on balance,
- on the whole,
- plus ou moins,
- practically,
- roughly,
- roughly speaking,
- roundly,
- say,
- some,
- substantially,
- virtually,
- well-nigh
- absolute,
- admitting no exception,
- all-out,
- artless,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- broad,
- brusque,
- candid,
- categorical,
- clear,
- complete,
- conclusive,
- decided,
- decisive,
- definite,
- definitive,
- determinate,
- direct,
- downright,
- entire,
- explicit,
- express,
- final,
- fixed,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- forthright,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- genuine,
- global,
- gross,
- heart-to-heart,
- implicit,
- inappealable,
- indisputable,
- ingenuous,
- open,
- openhearted,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- outspoken,
- peremptory,
- perfect,
- plain,
- plain-spoken,
- positive,
- rank,
- round,
- sincere,
- straight,
- straightforward,
- thoroughgoing,
- total,
- transparent,
- unchecked,
- uncircumscribed,
- unconditional,
- unconditioned,
- unconstrained,
- undoubting,
- unequivocal,
- unguarded,
- unhampered,
- unhesitating,
- unlimited,
- unmistakable,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unquestioning,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unrestricted,
- unwaivable,
- utter,
- whole,
- without exception,
- without reserve
- for all practical purposes
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- in every practical sense; "to all intents and purposes the case is closed"; "the rest are for all practical purposes useless" related words >
- all in all,
- almost entirely,
- approximately,
- approximatively,
- by and large,
- chiefly,
- effectually,
- essentially,
- for practical purposes,
- generally,
- generally speaking,
- in round numbers,
- in the main,
- mainly,
- more or less,
- mostly,
- on balance,
- on the whole,
- practically,
- roughly,
- roughly speaking,
- roundly,
- say,
- substantially,
- virtually
- rustic
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- an unsophisticated country person related words >
- Arcadian,
- Bauer,
- Spartan,
- agrarian,
- agrestic,
- agricultural,
- agriculturalist,
- agriculturist,
- agrologist,
- agronomist,
- apple knocker,
- artless,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- awkward,
- backwoods,
- backwoodsman,
- bald,
- bare,
- boor,
- boorish,
- bucolic,
- bumpkin,
- campestral,
- candid,
- clod,
- cloddish,
- clodhopper,
- clown,
- coffee-planter,
- collective farm worker,
- common,
- commonplace,
- countrified,
- country,
- country bumpkin,
- country cousin,
- countryman,
- countrywoman,
- crofter,
- cropper,
- crude,
- cultivator,
- direct,
- dirt farmer,
- dry,
- dry farmer,
- dull,
- exurbanite,
- farm,
- farm laborer,
- farmer,
- farmhand,
- frank,
- gawky,
- gentleman farmer,
- granger,
- greenhorn,
- grower,
- guileless,
- harvester,
- harvestman,
- haymaker,
- hayseed,
- hick,
- hillbilly,
- homely,
- homespun,
- husbandman,
- ingenuous,
- jay,
- kibbutznik,
- kolkhoznik,
- kulak,
- lean,
- looby,
- lout,
- loutish,
- lowland,
- lumpen,
- matter-of-fact,
- mossback,
- mountaineer,
- muzhik,
- naive,
- natural,
- neat,
- oaf,
- oafish,
- open,
- outland,
- pastoral,
- peasant,
- peasant holder,
- picker,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- planter,
- plodding,
- plowboy,
- plowman,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- provincial,
- pure,
- raiser,
- rancher,
- ranchman,
- reaper,
- redneck,
- ridge runner,
- rough,
- rube,
- rural,
- severe,
- sharecropper,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- sober,
- sower,
- spare,
- stark,
- straightforward,
- suburbanite,
- tea-planter,
- tenant farmer,
- tiller,
- tree farmer,
- truck farmer,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- uncomplicated,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- ungainly,
- unimaginative,
- unmannerly,
- unpoetical,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unsophisticated,
- unvarnished,
- upland,
- woodsy,
- yap,
- yeoman,
- yokel
- affectation,
- command of language,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- form of speech,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- inflation,
- literary style,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- rhetoric,
- sense of language,
- stylistic analysis,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- trick,
- vein,
- way
- affectation,
- command of language,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- form of speech,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- inflation,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- rhetoric,
- sense of language,
- strain,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- trick,
- vein,
- way
- candor
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- the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech related words >
- accessibility,
- approachability,
- artlessness,
- austerity,
- baldness,
- bareness,
- big mouth,
- bluffness,
- bluntness,
- broadness,
- brusqueness,
- candidness,
- childlikeness,
- common speech,
- communicativeness,
- conversableness,
- cricket,
- directness,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- extroversion,
- fair play,
- fair shake,
- fair-mindedness,
- fairness,
- flow of words,
- flowing tongue,
- fluency,
- fluent tongue,
- flux de bouche,
- flux de paroles,
- flux of words,
- forthrightness,
- frankness,
- freedom,
- freeness,
- garrulity,
- garrulousness,
- gassiness,
- genuineness,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- good sportsmanship,
- gregariousness,
- guilelessness,
- gush,
- gushiness,
- homespun,
- honesty,
- household words,
- impartiality,
- ingenuousness,
- innocence,
- justice,
- leanness,
- long-windedness,
- loose tongue,
- loquaciousness,
- loquacity,
- matter-of-factness,
- naiveness,
- naivete,
- naivety,
- naturalness,
- objectivity,
- open-mindedness,
- openheartedness,
- openness,
- outgoingness,
- outspokenness,
- plain English,
- plain dealing,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- plainspokenness,
- prolixity,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- restrainedness,
- roundness,
- rustic style,
- severity,
- simpleheartedness,
- simplemindedness,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- sincerity,
- single-heartedness,
- single-mindedness,
- singleness of heart,
- slush,
- soberness,
- sociability,
- spareness,
- spate of words,
- sportsmanlikeness,
- sportsmanliness,
- sportsmanship,
- square deal,
- starkness,
- straightforwardness,
- talkativeness,
- the fair thing,
- the handsome thing,
- the proper thing,
- trustfulness,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unaffectedness,
- unconstraint,
- unequivocalness,
- unguardedness,
- unimaginativeness,
- unpoeticalness,
- unrepression,
- unreserve,
- unreservedness,
- unrestraint,
- unrestriction,
- unreticence,
- unsecretiveness,
- unsophisticatedness,
- unsophistication,
- unsuppression,
- unsuspiciousness,
- untaciturnity,
- unwariness,
- verbosity,
- vernacular,
- volubility,
- windiness
- vernacular
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- the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) related words >
- Babbittish,
- Philistine,
- aboriginal,
- accustomed,
- ancient language,
- argot,
- austerity,
- autochthonous,
- average,
- baldness,
- bareness,
- bourgeois,
- campy,
- candor,
- cant,
- classical language,
- colloquial,
- colloquial speech,
- colloquial usage,
- colloquialism,
- common,
- common speech,
- commonplace,
- confined,
- conventional,
- conversational,
- conversationalism,
- current,
- customary,
- dead language,
- directness,
- easy,
- endemic,
- everyday,
- familiar,
- frankness,
- general,
- geographically limited,
- gibberish,
- gobbledygook,
- habitual,
- high-camp,
- homebred,
- homegrown,
- homely,
- homespun,
- household,
- household words,
- idiom,
- illiterate speech,
- indigenous,
- informal,
- informal English,
- informal language,
- informal speech,
- insular,
- jargon,
- kitschy,
- language,
- leanness,
- limited,
- lingo,
- living language,
- local,
- localized,
- low-camp,
- matter-of-factness,
- mother tongue,
- mumbo jumbo,
- natal,
- native,
- native language,
- native speech,
- native tongue,
- native-born,
- naturalness,
- nonstandard,
- normative,
- of a place,
- openness,
- ordinary,
- original,
- parent language,
- parochial,
- patois,
- patter,
- phraseology,
- plain,
- plain English,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- plebeian,
- pop,
- popular,
- predominating,
- prescriptive,
- prevailing,
- primitive,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- provincial,
- public,
- regional,
- regular,
- regulation,
- restrainedness,
- rustic style,
- scatology,
- severity,
- simple,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- slang,
- soberness,
- spareness,
- speech,
- spoken,
- spoken language,
- standard,
- starkness,
- stock,
- straightforward,
- straightforwardness,
- substandard,
- substandard language,
- taboo language,
- talk,
- topical,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unaffectedness,
- uneducated,
- unimaginativeness,
- universal,
- unliterary,
- unpoeticalness,
- unstudied,
- usual,
- vernacularism,
- vocabulary,
- vulgar,
- vulgar language,
- vulgar tongue,
- vulgate,
- wonted
- austerity
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- the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) related words >
- Albigensianism,
- Catharism,
- Franciscanism,
- Lenten fare,
- Sabbatarianism,
- Spartan simplicity,
- Spartanism,
- Trappism,
- Waldensianism,
- Yoga,
- abstinence,
- anchoritic monasticism,
- anchoritism,
- asceticism,
- astringency,
- austerity program,
- authoritarianism,
- baldness,
- bareness,
- candor,
- canniness,
- care,
- carefulness,
- chariness,
- common speech,
- demandingness,
- directness,
- discipline,
- economic planning,
- economicalness,
- economy,
- economy of means,
- eremitism,
- exactingness,
- exiguity,
- exiguousness,
- false economy,
- fasting,
- flagellation,
- forehandedness,
- frankness,
- frugality,
- frugalness,
- good management,
- grimness,
- hardness,
- harshness,
- homespun,
- household words,
- husbandry,
- inclemency,
- inornateness,
- jejuneness,
- jejunity,
- leanness,
- maceration,
- management,
- matter-of-factness,
- meagerness,
- meanness,
- mendicantism,
- meticulousness,
- miserliness,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- mortification,
- narrowness,
- naturalness,
- niggardliness,
- openness,
- paltriness,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- plain English,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- providence,
- prudence,
- prudential administration,
- puniness,
- puritanism,
- regimentation,
- restrainedness,
- rigid discipline,
- rigor,
- roughness,
- ruggedness,
- rustic style,
- scantiness,
- scantness,
- scrawniness,
- scrimpiness,
- self-denial,
- self-mortification,
- severity,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- skimpiness,
- slenderness,
- slightness,
- slim pickings,
- slimness,
- smallness,
- soberness,
- spareness,
- sparingness,
- starkness,
- sternness,
- stinginess,
- straightforwardness,
- strictness,
- stringency,
- thinness,
- thrift,
- thriftiness,
- tight purse strings,
- toughness,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unaffectedness,
- unelaborateness,
- unfanciness,
- unfussiness,
- ungentleness,
- unimaginativeness,
- unpoeticalness,
- unwastefulness,
- vernacular,
- voluntary poverty
- at large
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- in a general fashion; "he talked at large about his plans" related words >
- across the board,
- afoot and lighthearted,
- all,
- all in all,
- all put together,
- all things considered,
- altogether,
- as a body,
- as a rule,
- as a whole,
- as an approximation,
- at length,
- at liberty,
- bodily,
- broadly,
- broadly speaking,
- by and large,
- chiefly,
- clear,
- collectively,
- commonly,
- corporately,
- detached,
- diffusely,
- disengaged,
- dispersedly,
- easygoing,
- emancipated,
- en bloc,
- en masse,
- entirely,
- escaped,
- everywhere,
- fled,
- flown,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- free,
- free and easy,
- free as air,
- freeborn,
- freed,
- fugitive,
- generally,
- generally speaking,
- go-as-you-please,
- here and there,
- in a body,
- in all,
- in all quarters,
- in all respects,
- in bulk,
- in detail,
- in extenso,
- in full,
- in general,
- in its entirety,
- in places,
- in spots,
- in the aggregate,
- in the clear,
- in the gross,
- in the lump,
- in the mass,
- in toto,
- liberated,
- loose,
- mainly,
- mostly,
- normally,
- on all counts,
- on balance,
- on the loose,
- on the whole,
- ordinarily,
- out of,
- overall,
- passim,
- predominantly,
- prevailingly,
- released,
- roughly,
- roughly speaking,
- routinely,
- runaway,
- scot-free,
- sparsely,
- sparsim,
- speaking generally,
- sporadically,
- throughout,
- totally,
- tout ensemble,
- unattached,
- uncommitted,
- unengaged,
- uninvolved,
- usually,
- well out of,
- wherever you look,
- wholly
- oratory
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- addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous); "he loved the sound of his own oratory" related words >
- Lady chapel,
- address,
- articulateness,
- articulation,
- chantry,
- chapel,
- chapel of ease,
- chapel royal,
- command of language,
- command of words,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- diction,
- effective style,
- elocution,
- eloquence,
- eloquent tongue,
- enunciation,
- expression,
- expressiveness,
- facundity,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- fluency,
- forensics,
- gift of expression,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- grandiloquence,
- graphicness,
- homiletics,
- lecturing,
- magniloquence,
- meaningfulness,
- oratorium,
- platform oratory,
- public speaking,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rhetoric,
- sacellum,
- sacrament chapel,
- sacrarium,
- school chapel,
- side chapel,
- silver tongue,
- slickness,
- smoothness,
- speaking,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- stump speaking,
- vividness,
- wordcraft
- absolutely,
- actually,
- all joking aside,
- artlessly,
- authentically,
- bluffly,
- bluntly,
- broadly,
- brusquely,
- candidly,
- de facto,
- directly,
- frankly,
- guilelessly,
- honestly,
- in actuality,
- in all conscience,
- in all seriousness,
- in effect,
- in fact,
- in plain English,
- in plain words,
- in reality,
- ingenuously,
- legitimately,
- manifestly,
- naturally,
- obviously,
- openheartedly,
- openly,
- outspokenly,
- plain-spokenly,
- plainly,
- positively,
- really,
- roundly,
- simply,
- sincerely,
- straightforwardly,
- truly,
- unaffectedly,
- unassumedly,
- unconstrainedly,
- unreservedly,
- unrestrainedly,
- veridically,
- veritably,
- warts and all,
- with no nonsense
- openhearted
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- freely communicative; candidly straightforward; "openhearted advice" related words >
- amiable,
- artless,
- bighearted,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- born yesterday,
- bounteous,
- bountiful,
- broad,
- brusque,
- candid,
- childlike,
- confiding,
- cordial,
- direct,
- downright,
- explicit,
- forthright,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- freehanded,
- freehearted,
- friendly,
- generous,
- genial,
- genuine,
- giving,
- gracious,
- greathearted,
- guileless,
- handsome,
- heart-to-heart,
- hearty,
- hospitable,
- ingenu,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- large,
- largehearted,
- lavish,
- liberal,
- magnanimous,
- munificent,
- naive,
- neighborly,
- open,
- openhanded,
- outspoken,
- plain,
- plain-spoken,
- princely,
- profuse,
- receptive,
- round,
- simple,
- simplehearted,
- simpleminded,
- sincere,
- single-hearted,
- single-minded,
- stintless,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straightforward,
- transparent,
- trustful,
- trusting,
- unchecked,
- unconcealed,
- unconstrained,
- undisguised,
- undissembled,
- undissembling,
- unequivocal,
- ungrudging,
- unguarded,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unselfish,
- unsophisticated,
- unsparing,
- unstinted,
- unstinting,
- unsuspicious,
- unvarnished,
- unwary,
- warm,
- warmhearted,
- welcoming
- manner of speaking
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- your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech" related words >
- adjectival phrase,
- affectation,
- asiaticism,
- clause,
- command of language,
- construction,
- device,
- euphuism,
- exaggeration,
- expression,
- expression of ideas,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- figurative language,
- figurativeness,
- figure,
- figure of speech,
- floridity,
- flourish,
- flower,
- flowery style,
- form of speech,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- headed group,
- idiom,
- idiotism,
- image,
- imagery,
- inflation,
- literary style,
- locution,
- manner,
- mannerism,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- nonliterality,
- nonliteralness,
- noun phrase,
- ornament,
- paragraph,
- peculiar expression,
- peculiarity,
- period,
- personal style,
- phrasal idiom,
- phrase,
- purple passage,
- rhetoric,
- sense of language,
- sentence,
- set phrase,
- standard phrase,
- strain,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- syntactic structure,
- term,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- timbre,
- tone,
- tone of voice,
- trick,
- trope,
- turn of expression,
- turn of phrase,
- usage,
- utterance,
- vein,
- verb complex,
- verb phrase,
- verbalism,
- voce,
- voice,
- voice qualifier,
- voice quality,
- way,
- way of saying,
- way of speaking,
- word-group
- Spartan
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- a resident of Sparta
- resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; "spartan courage"
- of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people related words >
- Apostolic,
- Encratic,
- Laconian,
- Lenten,
- Pythagorean,
- Rechabite,
- Shaker,
- Spartanic,
- Stoic,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstemious,
- abstinent,
- accepting,
- aposiopestic,
- armed with patience,
- ascetic,
- astringent,
- austere,
- authoritarian,
- bald,
- bare,
- brief,
- brusque,
- candid,
- celibate,
- chaste,
- clam,
- clipped,
- close,
- common,
- commonplace,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- continent,
- contracted,
- controlled,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- demanding,
- direct,
- disciplined,
- docked,
- dour,
- dry,
- dull,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- elliptic,
- endurant,
- enduring,
- epigrammatic,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exiguous,
- forbearing,
- frank,
- frugal,
- fruitarian,
- gnomic,
- grim,
- hard,
- harsh,
- homely,
- homespun,
- impoverished,
- indulgent,
- inornate,
- jejune,
- laconic,
- lean,
- lenient,
- limited,
- long-suffering,
- longanimous,
- man of iron,
- matter-of-fact,
- meager,
- mean,
- meticulous,
- miserly,
- narrow,
- natural,
- neat,
- nephalistic,
- niggardly,
- on the wagon,
- open,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- persevering,
- philosophical,
- pithy,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- pointed,
- poor,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pruned,
- puny,
- pure,
- reserved,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rugged,
- rustic,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- self-controlled,
- self-denying,
- sententious,
- severe,
- sexually abstinent,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sober,
- spare,
- sparing,
- stark,
- starvation,
- stern,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- stoic,
- straightforward,
- straitened,
- strict,
- stringent,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- succinct,
- summary,
- sworn off,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- teetotal,
- terse,
- thin,
- tight,
- to the point,
- tolerant,
- tolerating,
- tolerative,
- tough,
- truncated,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- understanding,
- unelaborate,
- unfancy,
- unfussy,
- unimaginative,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unornate,
- unpoetical,
- unsparing,
- unvarnished,
- vegetarian,
- watered,
- watery
- naturalness
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- the likeness of a representation to the thing represented; "engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music"
- the quality of being natural or based on natural principles; "he accepted the naturalness of death"; "the spontaneous naturalness of his manner" related words >
- Atticism,
- Bohemianism,
- abandon,
- absolute realism,
- affability,
- appropriateness,
- artlessness,
- austerity,
- authenticity,
- baldness,
- bareness,
- bona fideness,
- candor,
- casualness,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clearness,
- comeliness,
- common speech,
- common touch,
- cordiality,
- correctness,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- ease,
- easiness,
- easygoingness,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- familiarity,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- finish,
- fittingness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- folksiness,
- frankness,
- genuineness,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- graciousness,
- health,
- homeliness,
- homespun,
- homeyness,
- honesty,
- household words,
- inartificiality,
- informality,
- informalness,
- intactness,
- irregularity,
- leanness,
- legitimacy,
- lifelikeness,
- limpidity,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- looseness,
- lucidity,
- matter-of-factness,
- natural man,
- natural state,
- naturalism,
- nature,
- naturism,
- neatness,
- normalcy,
- normality,
- normalness,
- offhandedness,
- openness,
- order,
- pellucidity,
- perspicuity,
- photographic realism,
- plain English,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- polish,
- pristineness,
- propriety,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- purity,
- realism,
- realness,
- refinement,
- regularity,
- relaxedness,
- restrainedness,
- restraint,
- rustic style,
- seemliness,
- severity,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- sincerity,
- smoothness,
- soberness,
- sociability,
- spareness,
- spontaneity,
- starkness,
- state of nature,
- straightforwardness,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- terseness,
- true-to-lifeness,
- truth to nature,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unadulteration,
- unaffectation,
- unaffectedness,
- unartificialness,
- unassumingness,
- unceremoniousness,
- unconstrainedness,
- unconstraint,
- unconventionality,
- undisguise,
- unfictitiousness,
- unimaginativeness,
- unpoeticalness,
- unpretentiousness,
- unrestraint,
- unspeciousness,
- unspoiledness,
- unspuriousness,
- unsyntheticness,
- verisimilitude,
- vernacular,
- virginity,
- wholesomeness
- purple passage
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- a passage full of ornate and flowery language related words >
- adornment,
- asiaticism,
- beauties,
- colors,
- colors of rhetoric,
- device,
- elegant variation,
- embellishment,
- embroidery,
- euphuism,
- figurative language,
- figurativeness,
- figure,
- figure of speech,
- fine writing,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- flower,
- floweriness,
- flowers of speech,
- flowery style,
- frill,
- image,
- imagery,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- manner of speaking,
- nonliterality,
- nonliteralness,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- purple patches,
- trope,
- turn of expression,
- way of speaking
- Bohemianism,
- abandon,
- abandonment,
- accessibility,
- affability,
- approachability,
- artlessness,
- bluffness,
- bluntness,
- broadness,
- brusqueness,
- candidness,
- candor,
- casualness,
- common touch,
- communicativeness,
- conversableness,
- cordiality,
- crapulence,
- crapulency,
- crapulousness,
- directness,
- drunkenness,
- ease,
- easiness,
- easygoingness,
- excess,
- excessiveness,
- extravagance,
- extroversion,
- familiarity,
- folksiness,
- forthrightness,
- frankness,
- freedom,
- freeness,
- genuineness,
- gluttony,
- graciousness,
- homeliness,
- homeyness,
- immoderacy,
- immoderateness,
- immoderation,
- impulsiveness,
- incontinence,
- indiscipline,
- indulgence,
- informality,
- informalness,
- ingenuousness,
- inordinacy,
- inordinateness,
- instinctiveness,
- intemperance,
- intemperateness,
- irregularity,
- irrepressibility,
- laxness,
- licentiousness,
- looseness,
- naivete,
- naturalness,
- noncoercion,
- nonintimidation,
- offhandedness,
- openheartedness,
- openness,
- outgoingness,
- outspokenness,
- overdoing,
- overindulgence,
- permissiveness,
- plain dealing,
- plain speaking,
- plainness,
- plainspokenness,
- prodigality,
- relaxedness,
- riotousness,
- roundness,
- self-indulgence,
- simplicity,
- sincerity,
- sociability,
- spontaneity,
- straightforwardness,
- swinishness,
- talkativeness,
- too much,
- too-muchness,
- unaffectedness,
- unceremoniousness,
- unconstrainedness,
- uncontrol,
- unconventionality,
- uninhibitedness,
- unpretentiousness,
- unrepression,
- unreserve,
- unreservedness,
- unrestraint,
- unrestriction,
- unreticence,
- unruliness,
- unsecretiveness,
- unsophistication,
- unstrictness,
- unsuppression,
- untaciturnity,
- wantonness,
- wildness
- rhetoric
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- study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
- using language effectively to please or persuade related words >
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- articulateness,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- bluster,
- bombast,
- choice of words,
- command of language,
- command of words,
- composition,
- convolution,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- dialect,
- diction,
- effective style,
- elocution,
- eloquence,
- eloquent tongue,
- exaggeration,
- expression,
- expression of ideas,
- expressiveness,
- facundity,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- forensics,
- form of speech,
- formulation,
- fulsomeness,
- fustian,
- garishness,
- gasconade,
- gaudiness,
- gift of expression,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- grace of expression,
- grammar,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- graphicness,
- high-flown diction,
- highfalutin,
- homiletics,
- hot air,
- idiom,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- language,
- lecturing,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- locution,
- loftiness,
- long-windedness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- meaningfulness,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- oratory,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- parlance,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- platform oratory,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prolixity,
- prose run mad,
- public speaking,
- puffery,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rant,
- rhapsody,
- rhetoricalness,
- rodomontade,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sententiousness,
- sesquipedality,
- showiness,
- silver tongue,
- slickness,
- smoothness,
- speaking,
- speech,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- stiltedness,
- strain,
- stump speaking,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- talk,
- tall talk,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- vein,
- verbiage,
- verbosity,
- vividness,
- way,
- windiness,
- wordage,
- wordcraft,
- wordiness,
- wording
- frank
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- a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll
- a member of the ancient Germanic peoples who spread from the Rhine into the Roman Empire in the 4th century
- clearly manifest; evident; "frank enjoyment"
- exempt by means of an official pass or letter, as from customs or other checks related words >
- PP,
- RD,
- RFD,
- Spartan,
- Vienna sausage,
- accessible,
- airmail,
- all jaw,
- approachable,
- artless,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bald,
- bangers,
- bare,
- barefaced,
- black pudding,
- blood pudding,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- bologna,
- book post,
- born yesterday,
- braunschweiger,
- brazen,
- broad,
- brusque,
- cancellation,
- candid,
- chatty,
- childlike,
- coarse,
- common,
- commonplace,
- communicative,
- confiding,
- conversable,
- conversational,
- correspondence,
- demonstrative,
- direct,
- direct mail,
- direct-mail selling,
- dispassionate,
- dog,
- downright,
- dry,
- dull,
- earthy,
- effusive,
- expansive,
- explicit,
- express,
- extroverted,
- fair,
- flip,
- fluent,
- forthright,
- fourth-class mail,
- frankfurter,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- gabby,
- garrulous,
- gassy,
- genuine,
- glib,
- gooseliver,
- gossipy,
- gregarious,
- gross,
- guileless,
- gushy,
- gutter,
- halfpenny post,
- headcheese,
- heart-to-heart,
- homely,
- homespun,
- honest,
- hot dog,
- impartial,
- ingenu,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- junk mail,
- just,
- knockwurst,
- lean,
- letter post,
- letters,
- liver sausage,
- liverwurst,
- long-winded,
- loquacious,
- low,
- mail,
- mail-order selling,
- mailing list,
- matter-of-fact,
- multiloquent,
- multiloquious,
- naive,
- natural,
- neat,
- newspaper post,
- newsy,
- on the level,
- open,
- openhearted,
- outgoing,
- outspoken,
- overtalkative,
- parcel post,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- plainspoken,
- post,
- post day,
- postage,
- postage stamp,
- postmark,
- prolix,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pure,
- rank,
- raw,
- registered mail,
- round,
- rural delivery,
- rural free delivery,
- rustic,
- salami,
- saucisse,
- sausage,
- scrupulous,
- sea mail,
- seapost,
- self-revealing,
- self-revelatory,
- severe,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- simplehearted,
- simpleminded,
- sincere,
- single,
- single-hearted,
- single-minded,
- smooth,
- sober,
- sociable,
- spare,
- special delivery,
- special handling,
- stamp,
- stark,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straightforward,
- surface mail,
- talkative,
- talky,
- transparent,
- trustful,
- trusting,
- truthful,
- unabashed,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- unbiased,
- unchecked,
- unconcealed,
- unconstrained,
- uncouth,
- undisguised,
- undissembled,
- undissembling,
- unequivocal,
- unguarded,
- unhampered,
- unimaginative,
- uninhibited,
- unmannered,
- unpoetical,
- unrepressed,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unrestricted,
- unreticent,
- unsecretive,
- unshrinking,
- unsilent,
- unsophisticated,
- unsuppressed,
- unsuspicious,
- unvarnished,
- unwary,
- upright,
- verbose,
- voluble,
- vulgar,
- weenie,
- wiener,
- wienerwurst,
- wienie,
- windy
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