Related Words:
- diligent
collapse - characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks; "a diligent detective investigates all clues"; "a diligent search of the files"
- quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness; "a diligent (or patient) worker"; "with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business" related words >
- academic,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- ardent,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- bookish,
- careful,
- concentrated,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- constant,
- continuing,
- devoted to studies,
- dogged,
- donnish,
- dryasdust,
- earnest,
- elaborate,
- enduring,
- energetic,
- faithful,
- fervent,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- hard,
- hard-working,
- hardworking,
- heedful,
- immutable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- insistent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- invincible,
- laborious,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- mandarin,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- never idle,
- never-tiring,
- nice,
- niggling,
- observant,
- observing,
- obstinate,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- operose,
- owlish,
- painstaking,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- pedantic,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- professorial,
- punctilious,
- rabbinic,
- rapt,
- regardful,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- scrupulous,
- sedulous,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- strenuous,
- stubborn,
- studious,
- tenacious,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- tireless,
- unabating,
- unconquerable,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unsparing,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- vehement,
- watchful,
- weariless,
- zealous
- colorless
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- weak in color; not colorful
- lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade" related words >
- abstract,
- achromatic,
- achromic,
- aloof,
- anemic,
- arid,
- ashen,
- ashy,
- barren,
- blah,
- blanched,
- bland,
- blank,
- bled white,
- bloodless,
- blurry,
- boring,
- cadaverous,
- characterless,
- chloranemic,
- cold,
- dead,
- deadly pale,
- deathly pale,
- detached,
- dim,
- dimmed,
- dingy,
- discolored,
- disinterested,
- dismal,
- dispassionate,
- doughy,
- drab,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exsanguinated,
- exsanguine,
- exsanguineous,
- fade,
- faded,
- faint,
- fallow,
- feeble,
- flat,
- ghastly,
- gray,
- haggard,
- hazy,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- hueless,
- hypochromic,
- impersonal,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- jejune,
- lackluster,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- livid,
- low-spirited,
- lurid,
- lusterless,
- mat,
- mealy,
- milk-and-water,
- muddy,
- namby-pamby,
- neutral,
- obscure,
- pale,
- pale as death,
- pale-faced,
- pallid,
- pasty,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poker-faced,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- prosaic,
- prosy,
- remote,
- sallow,
- sickly,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tallow-faced,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- toneless,
- uncolored,
- unimaginative,
- uninspired,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- vacuous,
- vague,
- vapid,
- wan,
- washed out,
- washed-out,
- waxen,
- weak,
- whey-faced,
- white,
- wishy-washy,
- withdrawn,
- wooden
- abiding,
- arrogant,
- assiduous,
- assured,
- balanced,
- calm,
- cocksure,
- confident,
- constant,
- continuing,
- convinced,
- cool,
- coolheaded,
- decided,
- determined,
- diligent,
- dogged,
- enduring,
- faithful,
- fast,
- fiducial,
- firm,
- firm as Gibraltar,
- fixed,
- hubristic,
- immutable,
- imperturbable,
- in equilibrium,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- inexcitable,
- insistent,
- invincible,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- nerveless,
- never-failing,
- never-tiring,
- obstinate,
- overconfident,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- persuaded,
- pertinacious,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- poised,
- pompous,
- positive,
- predictable,
- preoccupied,
- proud,
- rapt,
- reassured,
- relaxed,
- relentless,
- reliable,
- resolute,
- rock-steady,
- secure,
- sedulous,
- self-assured,
- self-confident,
- self-important,
- self-reliant,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- solid,
- sound,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- steady-handed,
- steady-nerved,
- steel-nerved,
- strong-nerved,
- stubborn,
- substantial,
- sure,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- unabating,
- unafraid,
- unblenching,
- unblinking,
- unconquerable,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undoubting,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflappable,
- unflinching,
- unhesitating,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnervous,
- unnodding,
- unqualified,
- unquivering,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unshakable,
- unshaken,
- unshaky,
- unshrinking,
- unsleeping,
- unstrained,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- untremulous,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- weariless,
- well-balanced,
- without a tremor,
- without nerves
- sterile
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- deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"
- incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple" related words >
- abortive,
- acarpous,
- antiseptic,
- arid,
- aseptic,
- bare,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- boiled,
- bootless,
- celibate,
- characterless,
- childless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- counterproductive,
- dead,
- decontaminated,
- desert,
- desolate,
- disinfected,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drained,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- fade,
- fallow,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- flat,
- fruitless,
- futile,
- gainless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- hygienic,
- impotent,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inexcitable,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- inoperative,
- insipid,
- invalid,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- leached,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- low-spirited,
- menopausal,
- noncreative,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- nonremunerative,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pasteurized,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- profitless,
- prophylactic,
- pure,
- rewardless,
- sanitary,
- sine prole,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- stale,
- sterilized,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- sucked dry,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- teemless,
- unavailing,
- uncontaminated,
- uncreative,
- uncultivated,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- uninfected,
- uninspired,
- uninventive,
- unlively,
- unplowed,
- unpolluted,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unprolific,
- unremunerative,
- unrewarding,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- useless,
- vain,
- vapid,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- without issue,
- wooden,
- worn-out
- arid
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- lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
- lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross" related words >
- Saharan,
- academic,
- acarpous,
- anhydrous,
- athirst,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- bone-dry,
- bookish,
- boring,
- bromidic,
- celibate,
- characterless,
- childless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- dead,
- desert,
- desolate,
- dismal,
- drab,
- draggy,
- drained,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dried-up,
- droughty,
- dry,
- dry as dust,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- earthbound,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- fade,
- fallow,
- flat,
- fruitless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- heavy,
- high and dry,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- impotent,
- inane,
- ineffectual,
- inexcitable,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- insipid,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- juiceless,
- lackluster,
- leached,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- like parchment,
- literal,
- low-spirited,
- menopausal,
- moistureless,
- monotonous,
- mundane,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedantic,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- sandy,
- sapless,
- sere,
- sine prole,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- staid,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stolid,
- stuffy,
- sucked dry,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- teemless,
- thirsting,
- thirsty,
- unanimated,
- uncultivated,
- undamped,
- unfanciful,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- unideal,
- unimaginative,
- uninspired,
- uninteresting,
- uninventive,
- unlively,
- unoriginal,
- unplowed,
- unpoetic,
- unproductive,
- unprolific,
- unromantic,
- unromanticized,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- unwatered,
- vapid,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- waterless,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- without issue,
- wooden
- patience
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- good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence related words >
- acceptance,
- application,
- assiduity,
- assiduousness,
- ataraxia,
- ataraxy,
- benevolence,
- bovinity,
- bulldog tenacity,
- calmness,
- charitableness,
- charity,
- clemency,
- clementness,
- compassion,
- composure,
- concentration,
- condonation,
- constancy,
- cool,
- determination,
- diligence,
- dispassion,
- dispassionateness,
- disregard,
- dogged perseverance,
- doggedness,
- dullness,
- easiness,
- easy temper,
- easygoingness,
- endurance,
- engrossment,
- equanimity,
- even temper,
- fidelity,
- firmness,
- forbearance,
- forbearing,
- forgiveness,
- forgivingness,
- fortitude,
- generousness,
- gentleness,
- good temper,
- humaneness,
- humanity,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- imperturbability,
- imperturbableness,
- indefatigability,
- indulgence,
- industriousness,
- industry,
- inexcitability,
- inexcitableness,
- inirritability,
- insistence,
- insistency,
- kindness,
- laxness,
- lenience,
- leniency,
- lenientness,
- lenity,
- long-suffering,
- longanimity,
- loyalty,
- magnanimity,
- mercifulness,
- mercy,
- mildness,
- moderateness,
- nonresistance,
- obstinacy,
- overlooking,
- passiveness,
- patience of Job,
- patientness,
- permanence,
- permissiveness,
- perseverance,
- persistence,
- persistency,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- pity,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupation,
- relentlessness,
- resignation,
- resolution,
- resolve,
- restraint,
- sedulity,
- sedulousness,
- self-control,
- serenity,
- single-mindedness,
- singleness of purpose,
- slogging,
- smooth temper,
- softness,
- stability,
- stamina,
- staying power,
- steadfastness,
- steadiness,
- stick-to-itiveness,
- stoicism,
- stolidity,
- stubbornness,
- submission,
- submissiveness,
- sufferance,
- suffering,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- tenderness,
- tirelessness,
- tolerance,
- toleration,
- uncomplainingness,
- unirritableness,
- unnervousness,
- unpassionateness,
- unremittingness,
- unrevengefulness,
- unswerving attention
- bloat,
- bloating,
- bolting,
- breaking point,
- cautious,
- clarification,
- colature,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- corruption,
- demurring,
- destructive distillation,
- diffident,
- distension,
- distillation,
- distortion,
- draining,
- drudging,
- edulcoration,
- effusion,
- elution,
- elutriation,
- equivocation,
- essentialization,
- exaggeration,
- excretion,
- exfiltration,
- exhausting,
- extraction,
- extravasation,
- extreme tension,
- exudation,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- faltering,
- fatiguesome,
- fatiguing,
- filtering,
- filtration,
- grinding,
- grubbing,
- grueling,
- hardworking,
- haul,
- heave,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- inflation,
- jibbing,
- killing,
- laboring,
- leaching,
- lixiviation,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misdirection,
- misinterpretation,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- misuse,
- ooze,
- oozing,
- overdistension,
- overdrawing,
- overexertion,
- overexpansion,
- overextension,
- overstrain,
- overstraining,
- overstress,
- overstretching,
- overtaxing,
- pegging,
- percolating,
- percolation,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- prevarication,
- pull,
- punishing,
- purification,
- rack,
- refinement,
- riddling,
- screening,
- scrupling,
- seep,
- seepage,
- separation,
- shilly-shallying,
- sieving,
- sifting,
- slanting,
- slaving,
- slogging,
- snapping point,
- spiritualization,
- sticking,
- stickling,
- strain,
- stress,
- stress and strain,
- stressful,
- stressfulness,
- stretch,
- stretching,
- striving,
- struggling,
- sublimation,
- sweating,
- swelling,
- taxing,
- tension,
- tentative,
- timid,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- toiling,
- toilsome,
- torturing,
- transudation,
- trying,
- tug,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- weep,
- weeping,
- winnowing,
- working
- humdrum
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- tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea" related words >
- alliterating,
- alliteration,
- alliterative,
- assonance,
- assonant,
- banal,
- banausic,
- belabored,
- blah,
- bore,
- boring,
- broken record,
- broken-record,
- buttonholer,
- chanting,
- chime,
- chiming,
- cliche-ridden,
- common,
- commonplace,
- crashing bore,
- dim,
- dingdong,
- drab,
- drag,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- drip,
- drone,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- everlasting,
- flat,
- flat tire,
- frightful bore,
- gray,
- harping,
- headache,
- insipid,
- invariability,
- invariable,
- irk,
- irksomeness,
- jejune,
- jingle,
- jingle-jangle,
- jog-trot,
- labored,
- long-winded,
- matter-of-fact,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- monotonousness,
- monotony,
- mundane,
- near rhyme,
- nuisance,
- ordinary,
- pedestrian,
- pest,
- pill,
- pitter-patter,
- plain,
- plodding,
- poetryless,
- prolix,
- prosaic,
- proser,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- repeated sounds,
- repetitious,
- repetitiousness,
- repetitive,
- repetitiveness,
- rhyme,
- rhymed,
- rhyming,
- routine,
- same,
- sameliness,
- samely,
- sameness,
- singsong,
- slant rhyme,
- stale repetition,
- stodgy,
- tedious,
- tedium,
- the beaten track,
- the daily round,
- the round,
- the squirrel cage,
- the treadmill,
- the weary round,
- tiresome,
- treadmill,
- trot,
- twaddler,
- unchanging,
- undeviation,
- undiversified,
- unembellished,
- uneventful,
- unexciting,
- unidealistic,
- unimaginative,
- unimpassioned,
- uninteresting,
- unnecessary repetition,
- unpoetic,
- unrelieved,
- unromantic,
- unvariation,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- vapid,
- wearisome,
- wearisome sameness,
- wet blanket
- alliterating,
- alliterative,
- arid,
- assonant,
- automatic,
- banal,
- barren,
- belabored,
- betwixt and between,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- boresome,
- boring,
- broken-record,
- bromidic,
- changeless,
- chanting,
- characterless,
- chiming,
- cliche-ridden,
- cold,
- colorless,
- dead,
- dingdong,
- dismal,
- drab,
- dragging,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- drudging,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- endless,
- etiolated,
- everlasting,
- exhausting,
- fade,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- fatiguing,
- flat,
- gray,
- harping,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- inane,
- indifferent,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- invariable,
- jejune,
- jingle-jangle,
- jog-trot,
- labored,
- laborious,
- lackluster,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-winded,
- low-spirited,
- mechanical,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- middling,
- moderate,
- modest,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- mortal,
- namby-pamby,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- pale,
- pallid,
- passable,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- prolix,
- prolonged,
- prosaic,
- prosy,
- repetitious,
- repetitive,
- respectable,
- rhymed,
- rhyming,
- routine,
- same,
- samely,
- singsong,
- slow,
- so-so,
- solemn,
- soporific,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- tolerable,
- treadmill,
- unchanging,
- unending,
- uneventful,
- unexciting,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- unrelieved,
- unvarying,
- vapid,
- weariful,
- wearing,
- wearisome,
- wearying,
- wishy-washy,
- wooden
- ponderous
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- having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons"
- labored and dull; "a ponderous speech" related words >
- Latinate,
- all thumbs,
- arid,
- awkward,
- barren,
- big,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- blunderheaded,
- blundering,
- bombastic,
- boorish,
- boring,
- bulky,
- bumbling,
- bungling,
- butterfingered,
- careless,
- characterless,
- clownish,
- clumsy,
- clumsy-fisted,
- cold,
- colorless,
- contrary,
- cramped,
- crosswise,
- cumbersome,
- cumbrous,
- dead,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- fat,
- fingers all thumbs,
- flat,
- forced,
- formal,
- fumbling,
- gauche,
- gawkish,
- gawky,
- graceless,
- grandiloquent,
- guinde,
- halting,
- ham-fisted,
- ham-handed,
- heavy,
- heavy-handed,
- heavyweight,
- hefty,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- huge,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- impractical,
- inane,
- inconvenient,
- inelegant,
- inexcitable,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- insipid,
- jejune,
- labored,
- laborious,
- large,
- leaden,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- lifeless,
- long-winded,
- loutish,
- low-spirited,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- lumpy,
- maladroit,
- massive,
- massy,
- oafish,
- overdone,
- overweight,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedestrian,
- perverse,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- pompous,
- prolix,
- sesquipedalian,
- sloppy,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- tiresome,
- turgid,
- uncouth,
- ungainly,
- ungraceful,
- unhandy,
- unlively,
- unmanageable,
- unwieldy,
- vapid,
- verbose,
- weighty,
- windy,
- wooden,
- wordy
- application,
- assiduity,
- assiduous,
- assiduousness,
- bulldog tenacity,
- concentration,
- constancy,
- constant,
- continuing,
- diligence,
- diligent,
- dogged,
- dogged perseverance,
- doggedness,
- donkeywork,
- drudge,
- drudgery,
- drudging,
- endurance,
- enduring,
- engrossment,
- faithful,
- fidelity,
- grind,
- grinding,
- grubbing,
- hardworking,
- immutable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigability,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- industriousness,
- industry,
- insistence,
- insistency,
- insistent,
- invincible,
- labor,
- laboring,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- loyalty,
- moil,
- never-tiring,
- obstinacy,
- obstinate,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- pegging,
- permanence,
- permanent,
- perseverance,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistence,
- persistency,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- plodding,
- preoccupation,
- preoccupied,
- rapt,
- relentless,
- relentlessness,
- resolute,
- resolution,
- sedulity,
- sedulous,
- sedulousness,
- single-minded,
- single-mindedness,
- singleness of purpose,
- slavery,
- slaving,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stability,
- stable,
- stamina,
- staying power,
- steadfast,
- steadfastness,
- steadiness,
- steady,
- stick-to-itiveness,
- straining,
- striving,
- struggling,
- stubborn,
- stubbornness,
- sweating,
- tenacious,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- tireless,
- tirelessness,
- toil,
- toiling,
- unabating,
- unconquerable,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unremittingness,
- unsleeping,
- unswerving,
- unswerving attention,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- weariless,
- working
- fidelity
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- accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
- the quality of being faithful related words >
- abandon,
- absoluteness,
- accuracy,
- adherence,
- adhesion,
- allegiance,
- application,
- ardency,
- ardor,
- assiduity,
- assiduousness,
- attachment,
- attention to fact,
- bona fides,
- bond,
- bonne foi,
- bulldog tenacity,
- care for truth,
- commitment,
- committedness,
- concentration,
- constancy,
- correctness,
- dedication,
- delicacy,
- dependability,
- devotedness,
- devotion,
- devoutness,
- diligence,
- dogged perseverance,
- doggedness,
- earnestness,
- endurance,
- engrossment,
- exactitude,
- exactness,
- faith,
- faithfulness,
- faultlessness,
- fealty,
- fervency,
- fervidness,
- fervor,
- fineness,
- fire,
- firmness,
- flawlessness,
- good faith,
- heartiness,
- heat,
- heatedness,
- homage,
- impassionedness,
- indefatigability,
- industriousness,
- industry,
- insistence,
- insistency,
- intensity,
- intentness,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- loyalty,
- mathematical precision,
- meticulousness,
- niceness,
- nicety,
- obstinacy,
- passion,
- passionateness,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- perfection,
- permanence,
- perseverance,
- persistence,
- persistency,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- piety,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preciseness,
- precision,
- preoccupation,
- refinement,
- relentlessness,
- reliability,
- resolution,
- right,
- rightness,
- rigidity,
- rigor,
- rigorousness,
- sedulity,
- sedulousness,
- seriousness,
- severity,
- sincerity,
- single-mindedness,
- singleness of purpose,
- slogging,
- spirit,
- stability,
- stamina,
- staunchness,
- staying power,
- steadfastness,
- steadiness,
- stick-to-itiveness,
- strictness,
- stubbornness,
- subtlety,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- textualism,
- the letter,
- tie,
- tirelessness,
- troth,
- true blue,
- trueness,
- trustworthiness,
- unremittingness,
- unswerving attention,
- vehemence,
- warmth,
- zeal
- stodgy
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- excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"
- heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full" related words >
- Spartan,
- adhesive,
- aloof,
- amylaceous,
- apathetic,
- arid,
- banausic,
- barren,
- blah,
- bland,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- boring,
- characterless,
- clabbered,
- clammy,
- clotted,
- coagulated,
- cold,
- colorless,
- curdled,
- dead,
- deadly,
- detached,
- dim,
- dismal,
- doughy,
- dowdy,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- flat,
- fogyish,
- frumpish,
- frumpy,
- fuddy-duddy,
- gaumy,
- gelatinous,
- glairy,
- gluelike,
- gluey,
- glutenous,
- glutinose,
- glutinous,
- gooey,
- grumous,
- gumbo,
- gumbolike,
- gumlike,
- gummous,
- gummy,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- inane,
- indifferent,
- indomitable,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- inspissated,
- jejune,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- jellylike,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- long-suffering,
- low-spirited,
- matter-of-fact,
- monotone,
- monotonous,
- mucilaginous,
- old-fogy,
- old-fogyish,
- out-of-date,
- outmoded,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pasty,
- patient,
- pedantic,
- pedestrian,
- phlegmatic,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- ravaged with age,
- resigned,
- ropy,
- self-controlled,
- senile,
- slabby,
- slimy,
- slithery,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- starchy,
- sterile,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- stringy,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- syrupy,
- tacky,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- tenacious,
- thick,
- thickened,
- tiresome,
- tough,
- tremelloid,
- tremellose,
- turgid,
- unassailable,
- unconcerned,
- unexciting,
- unimaginative,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- vapid,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- weighty,
- wooden
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- assiduous,
- cast-iron,
- constant,
- continuing,
- de longue haleine,
- diligent,
- dogged,
- dour,
- endless,
- enduring,
- extended,
- faithful,
- filled out,
- firm,
- flinty,
- fundamentalist,
- grim,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- hidebound,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- inelastic,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- insistent,
- intransigent,
- invincible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- irreconcilable,
- lasting,
- lengthy,
- long,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-spun,
- long-winded,
- longiloquent,
- loyal,
- merciless,
- mortal,
- muscle-bound,
- never-tiring,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orthodox,
- padded,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- procrustean,
- prolix,
- protracted,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- rapt,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- rockbound,
- ruthless,
- sedulous,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- spun-out,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- stubborn,
- talkative,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- unabating,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unappeasable,
- unbending,
- unchangeable,
- uncompromising,
- unconquerable,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- ungiving,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unmoved,
- unnodding,
- unrelaxing,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- unyielding,
- utterly attentive,
- verbose,
- weariless,
- windy,
- wordy
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