Related Words:
- pungent
collapse - strong and sharp;"the pungent taste of radishes"; "the acrid smell of burning rubber" related words >
- Attic,
- acerb,
- acerbate,
- acerbic,
- acescent,
- acid,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- acute,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
- amaroidal,
- aphoristic,
- aromatic,
- asperous,
- astringent,
- atrocious,
- axiomatic,
- barbed,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitter as gall,
- brilliant,
- caustic,
- clever,
- coarse,
- consuming,
- crab,
- crabbed,
- cramping,
- crisp,
- cruel,
- cutting,
- deafening,
- distressing,
- droll,
- dry,
- epigrammatic,
- escharotic,
- exciting,
- excruciating,
- facetious,
- flavorful,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- funny,
- gnawing,
- gnomic,
- grave,
- green,
- griping,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- hot,
- humorous,
- humorsome,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- incisive,
- intense,
- irritating,
- jesting,
- jocose,
- jocular,
- joking,
- joky,
- joshing,
- keen,
- keen-witted,
- lively,
- loud,
- mordant,
- nimble-witted,
- nose-piercing,
- nose-tickling,
- oppressive,
- painful,
- paroxysmal,
- penetrating,
- peppery,
- peppy,
- pickled,
- piercing,
- piquant,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- poignant,
- pointed,
- proverbial,
- provocative,
- quick-witted,
- racking,
- racy,
- rapier-like,
- reeking,
- rich,
- rough,
- salt,
- salty,
- sapid,
- sarcastic,
- scathing,
- scintillating,
- seasoned,
- sec,
- sententious,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shooting,
- smart,
- snappy,
- sour,
- sour as vinegar,
- soured,
- sourish,
- sparkling,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spicy,
- spirited,
- sprightly,
- stabbing,
- stern,
- stimulating,
- stinging,
- strong,
- strong-scented,
- strong-smelling,
- succinct,
- suffocating,
- tangy,
- tart,
- tartish,
- tasty,
- terse,
- thundering,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- trenchant,
- uninteresting,
- unripe,
- unsweet,
- unsweetened,
- upsetting,
- vinegarish,
- vinegary,
- vitriolic,
- vivacious,
- whimsical,
- witty,
- zesty
- abominable,
- acclaimed,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- blackguardly,
- blameworthy,
- blatant,
- bold,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- brutal,
- celebrated,
- common,
- commonly known,
- commonplace,
- conspicuous,
- contemptible,
- current,
- degraded,
- deplorable,
- derogatory,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- discreditable,
- disgraceful,
- disgusting,
- dishonorable,
- disreputable,
- distinguished,
- dreadful,
- egregious,
- embarrassing,
- enormous,
- exhibitionistic,
- fabled,
- famed,
- familiar,
- famous,
- far-famed,
- far-heard,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- forward,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- glaring,
- grievous,
- gross,
- hackneyed,
- hanging out,
- hateful,
- heinous,
- honored,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- household,
- ignoble,
- ignominious,
- immodest,
- in relief,
- in the foreground,
- infamous,
- inglorious,
- knavish,
- lamentable,
- leading,
- legendary,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- marked,
- memorable,
- monstrous,
- much acclaimed,
- mythical,
- nasty,
- naughty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notable,
- noted,
- noticeable,
- obnoxious,
- obtrusive,
- odious,
- of mark,
- of note,
- offensive,
- opprobrious,
- ostensible,
- outrageous,
- outstanding,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- platitudinous,
- popular,
- prominent,
- pronounced,
- proverbial,
- public,
- rank,
- rascally,
- recreant,
- regrettable,
- renowned,
- reprehensible,
- reprobate,
- repulsive,
- roguish,
- rotten,
- sad,
- salient,
- scampish,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scoundrelly,
- scurvy,
- seamy,
- shabby,
- shady,
- shameful,
- shameless,
- shaming,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- squalid,
- staring,
- stark-staring,
- sticking out,
- striking,
- talked-about,
- talked-of,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- trite,
- truistic,
- unabashed,
- unashamed,
- unblushing,
- unclean,
- unembarrassed,
- universally admitted,
- universally recognized,
- unmodest,
- unpraiseworthy,
- unrespectable,
- unsavory,
- vile,
- villainous,
- well-kenned,
- well-known,
- well-recognized,
- well-understood,
- widely known,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched
- pedestrian
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- a person who travels by foot
- lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" related words >
- ambler,
- ambulant,
- ambulative,
- ambulator,
- ambulatory,
- arid,
- artless,
- backpacker,
- banal,
- banausic,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- boring,
- characterless,
- circuit-riding,
- cold,
- colorless,
- common,
- commonplace,
- dead,
- dim,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- expeditionary,
- fade,
- flat,
- foot passenger,
- foot soldier,
- foot traveler,
- footslogger,
- globe-girdling,
- globe-trotting,
- going,
- hackneyed,
- half-assed,
- heavy,
- hiker,
- hitchhiker,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- hoofer,
- humdrum,
- inadept,
- inane,
- inapt,
- inattentive,
- inefficient,
- inept,
- inexcitable,
- inexpert,
- infantryman,
- insipid,
- itinerant,
- itinerary,
- jaywalker,
- jejune,
- journeying,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- locomotive,
- low-spirited,
- marcher,
- matter-of-fact,
- mediocre,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- moving,
- mundane,
- mundivagant,
- on foot,
- on tour,
- ordinary,
- paddlefoot,
- pale,
- pallid,
- passing,
- perambulating,
- perambulatory,
- peregrinative,
- peregrine,
- peripatetic,
- pilgrimlike,
- plain,
- platitudinous,
- plodding,
- poetryless,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- poor,
- progressing,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- rambler,
- rambling,
- run-of-the-mill,
- skill-less,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- stale,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stock,
- stodgy,
- stroller,
- strolling,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- thoughtless,
- tiresome,
- touring,
- touristic,
- touristy,
- trailsman,
- tramper,
- traveling,
- trekking,
- trite,
- truistic,
- unapt,
- undeft,
- undexterous,
- undextrous,
- unembellished,
- unfacile,
- unidealistic,
- unimaginative,
- unimpassioned,
- uninspired,
- unintelligent,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- unpoetic,
- unproficient,
- unromantic,
- unskillful,
- vapid,
- walker,
- walking,
- walkist,
- wayfaring,
- wishy-washy,
- wooden
- sensationalism
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- the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation"
- subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes related words >
- Barnumism,
- Thespian art,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amateur theatricals,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- blood and thunder,
- blowing up,
- brazenness,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- colorfulness,
- convolution,
- crudeness,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- demonstrativeness,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramaturgy,
- emotional appeal,
- emotionalism,
- emotionality,
- emotionalization,
- emotionalizing,
- emotiveness,
- emotivity,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- extreme,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- fulsomeness,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- heightening,
- high-flown diction,
- histrionics,
- histrionism,
- huckstering,
- human interest,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- loudness,
- love interest,
- luridness,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- making scenes,
- melodrama,
- melodramatics,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- nonrationalness,
- obtrusiveness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- panache,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- play construction,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- prose run mad,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sententiousness,
- shamelessness,
- showiness,
- sportiness,
- staginess,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tawdriness,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- theatrics,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unreasoningness,
- visceralness,
- vulgarness,
- yellow journalism
- worn
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- affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket" related words >
- abated,
- ablated,
- ablative,
- attenuated,
- ausgespielt,
- back-number,
- banal,
- bare,
- bated,
- belittled,
- bewhiskered,
- biodegradable,
- bromidic,
- burned-out,
- careworn,
- common,
- commonplace,
- consumed,
- contracted,
- corny,
- corrosive,
- crumbling,
- curtailed,
- cut-and-dried,
- debilitated,
- decomposable,
- decomposing,
- decreased,
- deep-worn,
- deflated,
- degradable,
- devitalized,
- dilapidated,
- diminished,
- disabled,
- disintegrable,
- disintegrated,
- disintegrating,
- disintegrative,
- disjunctive,
- disruptive,
- dissipated,
- dog-eared,
- drained,
- drawn,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dropped,
- dusty,
- effete,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- eroded,
- erosive,
- eviscerated,
- exhausted,
- fade,
- fagged,
- faint,
- fainting,
- fallen,
- familiar,
- fatigued,
- feeling faint,
- flagging,
- footsore,
- frazzled,
- fusty,
- gone to seed,
- good and tired,
- hackney,
- hackneyed,
- haggard,
- hand-me-down,
- hollow-eyed,
- incapacitated,
- jaded,
- languid,
- less,
- lesser,
- lower,
- lowered,
- mildewed,
- miniaturized,
- moldering,
- moldy,
- moss-grown,
- moth-eaten,
- musty,
- not new,
- old hat,
- pawed-over,
- pinched,
- platitudinous,
- played out,
- ravaged,
- ready to drop,
- reduced,
- resolvent,
- retrenched,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- run ragged,
- run-down,
- rusty,
- sagging,
- sapped,
- scaled-down,
- secondhand,
- seedy,
- separative,
- sere,
- set,
- shelfworn,
- shopworn,
- shorn,
- shorter,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- smaller,
- solvent,
- spent,
- square,
- stale,
- stereotyped,
- stock,
- threadbare,
- time-scarred,
- timeworn,
- tired,
- tired-eyed,
- tired-faced,
- tired-looking,
- tired-winged,
- toilworn,
- trite,
- truistic,
- unnew,
- unoriginal,
- unrefreshed,
- unrestored,
- used,
- used up,
- wan,
- warmed-over,
- wasted,
- watered-down,
- way-weary,
- wayworn,
- weak,
- weakened,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- weary,
- weary-footed,
- weary-laden,
- weary-looking,
- weary-winged,
- weary-worn,
- well-known,
- well-worn,
- wilting,
- worn down,
- worn ragged,
- worn thin,
- worn to rags,
- worn to threads,
- worn-down,
- worn-out
- ostentation
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- pretentious or showy or vulgar display
- lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- a gaudy outward display related words >
- Barnumism,
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- arabesque,
- arrantness,
- attitudinizing,
- baroque,
- baroqueness,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- boldness,
- cheating,
- chinoiserie,
- color,
- coloring,
- conspicuousness,
- convolution,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- elaborateness,
- elegance,
- enactment,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- exposition,
- exposure,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fanciness,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fineness,
- flagrance,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flaunting,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- floweriness,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- high relief,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriousness,
- magniloquence,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- moresque,
- noticeability,
- notoriety,
- notoriousness,
- obtrusiveness,
- opening,
- orotundity,
- ostentatious complexity,
- outstandingness,
- outward show,
- overelaborateness,
- overelegance,
- overornamentation,
- parade,
- performance,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- production,
- projection,
- prominence,
- pronouncedness,
- prose run mad,
- representation,
- retrospective,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- richness,
- rococo,
- salience,
- saliency,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- showing,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- stiltedness,
- strikingness,
- strong relief,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- unveiling,
- varnish,
- varnishing day,
- vernissage,
- window dressing
- convolution
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- the action of coiling or twisting or winding together related words >
- Barnumism,
- aduncity,
- affectation,
- aquilinity,
- arachnoid,
- arbor vitae,
- arching,
- archipallium,
- arcuation,
- bedizenment,
- between brain,
- big talk,
- brain stem,
- cerebellar hemispheres,
- cerebellum,
- cerebral cortex,
- cerebrospinal fluid,
- cerebrum,
- circularity,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- concameration,
- concavity,
- convexity,
- corpus callosum,
- corpus striatum,
- crabbedness,
- crookedness,
- curvation,
- curvature,
- curving,
- curvity,
- decurvation,
- decurvature,
- diencephalon,
- dura mater,
- endbrain,
- entanglement,
- excurvation,
- excurvature,
- fissure,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- folia,
- forebrain,
- fornix,
- frontal lobe,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- glial cells,
- globus pallidus,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- gray matter,
- gyrus,
- high-flown diction,
- hindbrain,
- hippocampus,
- hookedness,
- hypothalamus,
- incurvation,
- incurvature,
- incurvity,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- involution,
- involvement,
- lenticular nucleus,
- lexiphanicism,
- limbic lobe,
- little brain,
- lobe,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- mantle,
- medulla oblongata,
- meninges,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- mesencephalon,
- metencephalon,
- midbrain,
- myelencephalon,
- neopallium,
- occipital lobe,
- optic chiasm,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- pallium,
- parietal lobe,
- perplexity,
- pia mater,
- pineal body,
- pituitary body,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pons,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prose run mad,
- ramification,
- recurvation,
- recurvature,
- recurvity,
- reticular system,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- rhombencephalon,
- rondure,
- rotundity,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- stiltedness,
- subthalamus,
- subtlety,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tanglement,
- technicality,
- telencephalon,
- temporal lobe,
- thalamus,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- vaulting,
- ventricle,
- vermis,
- white matter
- 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
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