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- contracted
collapse - reduced in size or pulled together; "the contracted pupils of her eyes" related words >
- Spartan,
- abated,
- abbreviated,
- ablated,
- abridged,
- affianced,
- agreed,
- aposiopestic,
- arranged,
- assured,
- attenuated,
- bated,
- belittled,
- betrothed,
- blank,
- blind,
- blind-alley,
- bound,
- brief,
- brusque,
- cecal,
- choked,
- choked off,
- clamped,
- clipped,
- close,
- closed,
- committed,
- compact,
- compacted,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- compromised,
- concentrated,
- concise,
- condensed,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- consumed,
- covenanted,
- cramped,
- crisp,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- dead,
- dead-end,
- decreased,
- deflated,
- diminished,
- dissipated,
- docked,
- dropped,
- elliptic,
- engaged,
- epigrammatic,
- eroded,
- fallen,
- gnomic,
- guaranteed,
- intended,
- knitted,
- laconic,
- less,
- lesser,
- lower,
- lowered,
- miniaturized,
- nipped,
- obligated,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- pithy,
- pledged,
- plighted,
- pointed,
- promised,
- pruned,
- puckered,
- pursed,
- reduced,
- reserved,
- retrenched,
- scaled-down,
- sealed,
- sententious,
- settled,
- shorn,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- shorter,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- shut,
- signed,
- smaller,
- solidified,
- squeezed,
- squeezed shut,
- stipulated,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- succinct,
- summary,
- sworn,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- truncated,
- undertaken,
- underwritten,
- unopen,
- unopened,
- unvented,
- unventilated,
- warranted,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered-down,
- weakened,
- worn,
- wrinkled
- dossier
collapse
- a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record) related words >
- essential
collapse
- basic and fundamental; "the essential feature"
- absolutely required and not to be used up or sacrificed
- absolutely necessary; vitally necessary; "essential tools and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker"
- being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc; "essential oil" related words >
- ab ovo,
- austere,
- axiom,
- bare,
- bare necessities,
- basal,
- basic,
- basilar,
- bedrock,
- bench mark,
- brass tacks,
- call for,
- called for,
- capital,
- cardinal,
- cardinal point,
- center,
- central,
- chaste,
- chief,
- chief thing,
- climax,
- condition,
- congenital,
- connate,
- constituent,
- constitutional,
- constitutive,
- core,
- cornerstone,
- crisis,
- critical point,
- crux,
- deep-seated,
- demand,
- demand for,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- element,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- elixir,
- essence,
- essential facts,
- essential matter,
- essentials,
- flower,
- focal,
- focus,
- foremost,
- fundamental,
- gist,
- gravamen,
- great point,
- gut,
- heart,
- high point,
- homely,
- homespun,
- homogeneous,
- hypostasis,
- imperative,
- important,
- important thing,
- inborn,
- inbred,
- indicated,
- indispensable,
- indivisible,
- innate,
- inner essence,
- intrinsic,
- irreducible,
- irreductible,
- irreplaceable,
- issue,
- kernel,
- key,
- keystone,
- landmark,
- leading,
- life-and-death,
- life-or-death,
- main,
- main point,
- main thing,
- marrow,
- material,
- material point,
- meat,
- mere,
- milestone,
- monolithic,
- must,
- must item,
- necessaries,
- necessary,
- necessities,
- necessitous,
- necessity,
- need,
- need for,
- needed,
- needful,
- nub,
- nucleus,
- nuts and bolts,
- occasion,
- of a piece,
- of the essence,
- of vital importance,
- original,
- part and parcel,
- pith,
- pivot,
- plain,
- postulate,
- prerequirement,
- prerequisite,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primitive,
- principal,
- principle,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- quid,
- quiddity,
- quintessence,
- quintessential,
- radical,
- real issue,
- required,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- requisition,
- right-hand,
- rudiment,
- rudimentary,
- salient point,
- sap,
- severe,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sine qua non,
- single,
- soul,
- spare,
- spirit,
- stark,
- stuff,
- substance,
- substantial,
- substantive,
- substantive point,
- the bottom line,
- the data,
- the details,
- the dope,
- the facts,
- the information,
- the necessary,
- the needful,
- the nitty-gritty,
- the particulars,
- the picture,
- the point,
- the scoop,
- the score,
- the specifics,
- the whole story,
- turning point,
- unadorned,
- uncluttered,
- underlying,
- undifferenced,
- undifferentiated,
- unforgoable,
- uniform,
- vital,
- want,
- wanted
- zenith
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- the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected related words >
- Olympian heights,
- acme,
- aerial heights,
- apex,
- apogee,
- authority,
- authorization,
- be-all and end-all,
- blue ribbon,
- brow,
- cap,
- capstone,
- championship,
- climax,
- cloud nine,
- command,
- control,
- crest,
- crown,
- culmen,
- culmination,
- directorship,
- dizzy heights,
- dominion,
- edge,
- effectiveness,
- elevation,
- eminence,
- ether,
- extreme limit,
- extremity,
- first place,
- first prize,
- headship,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- hegemony,
- height,
- heights,
- high noon,
- high point,
- highest,
- highest pitch,
- highest point,
- imperium,
- influence,
- jurisdiction,
- kingship,
- leadership,
- lift,
- limit,
- lordship,
- management,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- most,
- mountaintop,
- ne plus ultra,
- new high,
- no place higher,
- noon,
- palms,
- paramountcy,
- peak,
- pinnacle,
- pitch,
- point,
- pole,
- power,
- presidency,
- primacy,
- raise,
- record,
- ridge,
- rise,
- rising ground,
- rule,
- say,
- seventh heaven,
- sky,
- sovereignty,
- spire,
- steep,
- stratosphere,
- summit,
- supremacy,
- sway,
- tip,
- tip-top,
- top,
- top spot,
- upmost,
- upper extremity,
- uppermost,
- uprise,
- utmost,
- vantage ground,
- vantage point,
- vertex,
- very top
- deadline
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- the point in time at which something must be completed related words >
- A-day,
- D day,
- H hour,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- ceiling,
- charged moment,
- circumscription,
- compass,
- confine,
- critical moment,
- crucial moment,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- decisive moment,
- delimitation,
- determinant,
- division line,
- eleventh hour,
- end,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- frontier,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- interface,
- kairos,
- kairotic moment,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- moment of truth,
- nick of time,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit,
- zero hour
- A-day,
- D day,
- H hour,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- ceiling,
- charged moment,
- circumscription,
- compass,
- confine,
- critical moment,
- crucial moment,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- deadline,
- decisive moment,
- delimitation,
- determinant,
- division line,
- eleventh hour,
- end,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- frontier,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- interface,
- kairos,
- kairotic moment,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- moment of truth,
- nick of time,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit,
- zero hour
- uncomplicated
collapse
- lacking complexity; "small and uncomplicated cars for those really interested in motoring"; "an unsophisticated machine" related words >
- Mickey Mouse,
- bald,
- bare,
- blank,
- casual,
- clear,
- cushy,
- easy,
- easy as pie,
- effortless,
- facile,
- glib,
- incomplex,
- light,
- naked,
- nothing to it,
- nude,
- painless,
- plain,
- simple,
- simple as ABC,
- smooth,
- soft,
- straightforward,
- unadorned,
- unadulterated,
- unarrayed,
- unburdensome,
- undecked,
- undecorated,
- undressed,
- unembellished,
- unfurbished,
- ungarnished,
- uninvolved,
- unornamented,
- unsophisticated,
- untrimmed,
- unvarnished
- vantage
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- place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective) related words >
- advantage,
- allowance,
- ambit,
- angle,
- angle of vision,
- bailiwick,
- bulge,
- coign of vantage,
- constituency,
- deadwood,
- draw,
- drop,
- edge,
- flying start,
- footing,
- handicap,
- head start,
- inside track,
- jump,
- mental outlook,
- odds,
- orbit,
- outlook,
- point of view,
- running start,
- something extra,
- something in reserve,
- sphere of influence,
- stamping ground,
- standpoint,
- start,
- territory,
- turf,
- upper hand,
- vantage ground,
- vantage point,
- viewpoint,
- whip hand
- cecal
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- of or like a cecum related words >
- abdominal,
- anal,
- appendical,
- blank,
- blind,
- blind-alley,
- cardiac,
- choked,
- choked off,
- closed,
- colic,
- colonic,
- constricted,
- contracted,
- coronary,
- dead,
- dead-end,
- duodenal,
- enteric,
- gastric,
- ileac,
- intestinal,
- jejunal,
- mesogastric,
- pyloric,
- rectal,
- shut,
- splanchnic,
- squeezed shut,
- strangulated,
- unopen,
- unopened,
- unvented,
- unventilated,
- visceral
- vulnerability
collapse
- susceptibility to injury or attack
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed; "his vulnerability to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule" related words >
- ad lib,
- assailability,
- breakability,
- breakableness,
- brittleness,
- chink,
- crackability,
- crackableness,
- crispness,
- crumbliness,
- crushability,
- crushableness,
- delicacy,
- disqualification,
- exposure,
- extemporaneousness,
- fissility,
- flimsiness,
- fracturableness,
- fragility,
- frailty,
- frangibility,
- friability,
- heel of Achilles,
- improvisation,
- incapability,
- incompetence,
- lacerability,
- lack of preparation,
- liability,
- nonpreparation,
- nonpreparedness,
- openness,
- penetrability,
- planlessness,
- pregnability,
- soft spot,
- susceptibility,
- susceptivity,
- unfitness,
- unfittedness,
- unpreparedness,
- unqualification,
- unqualifiedness,
- unreadiness,
- unsuitability,
- unsuitableness,
- unsuitedness,
- vincibility,
- vulnerable point,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weakness
- bar,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- blind alley,
- blind gut,
- block,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- bottleneck,
- cecum,
- choking,
- choking off,
- clog,
- congestion,
- constipation,
- costiveness,
- cul-de-sac,
- dead end,
- embolism,
- embolus,
- fence,
- gorge,
- impasse,
- impediment,
- infarct,
- infarction,
- jam,
- obstacle,
- obstipation,
- obstruction,
- roadblock,
- sealing off,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- strangulation,
- wall
- gravitate
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- move due to the pull of gravitation; "The stars gravitate towards each other"
- be attracted to; "Boys gravitate towards girls at that age"
- move toward; "The conversation gravitated towards politics" related words >
- bend to,
- bias,
- cascade,
- cataract,
- collapse,
- come down,
- conduce,
- contribute,
- crash,
- descend,
- dip down,
- dispose,
- down,
- drop,
- drop down,
- drop off,
- fall,
- fall down,
- fall off,
- go,
- go down,
- go downhill,
- have a tendency,
- head,
- incline,
- lead,
- lean,
- look to,
- lose altitude,
- parachute,
- pitch,
- plummet,
- plunge,
- point,
- point to,
- pounce,
- pour down,
- precipitate,
- rain,
- redound to,
- serve,
- set,
- set toward,
- settle,
- show a tendency,
- sink,
- stoop,
- subside,
- swoop,
- tend,
- tend to go,
- trend,
- trend downward,
- turn,
- verge,
- warp,
- work toward
- absolutely
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- totally and definitely; without question; "we are absolutely opposed to the idea"; "he forced himself to lie absolutely still"; "iron is absolutely necessary"
- completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right" related words >
- OK,
- Roger,
- a outrance,
- actually,
- affirmatively,
- all out,
- all right,
- alright,
- alrighty,
- altogether,
- amen,
- and no mistake,
- as you say,
- assertively,
- assuredly,
- at all events,
- at any rate,
- aye,
- beyond all bounds,
- beyond compare,
- beyond comparison,
- beyond measure,
- by all means,
- categorically,
- certainly,
- clean,
- clearly,
- completely,
- da,
- de facto,
- dead,
- decidedly,
- decisively,
- declaratively,
- definitely,
- directly,
- distinctly,
- doubtless,
- doubtlessly,
- downright,
- emphatically,
- entirely,
- essentially,
- even,
- exactly,
- expressly,
- extremely,
- faithfully,
- faultlessly,
- fine,
- flat out,
- flawlessly,
- for a certainty,
- for a fact,
- for certain,
- for sure,
- forsooth,
- fully,
- fundamentally,
- genuinely,
- good,
- good enough,
- hear,
- ideally,
- immaculately,
- immeasurably,
- impeccably,
- in actuality,
- in all respects,
- in effect,
- in every respect,
- in fact,
- in reality,
- in the extreme,
- in truth,
- incalculably,
- indeed,
- indeedy,
- indefinitely,
- indubitably,
- infallibly,
- infinitely,
- ipsissimis verbis,
- irretrievably,
- irrevocably,
- ja,
- just,
- just right,
- just so,
- literally,
- literatim,
- mais oui,
- manifestly,
- most,
- most assuredly,
- most certainly,
- naturally,
- naturellement,
- nothing else but,
- obviously,
- of course,
- okay,
- oui,
- perfectly,
- plain,
- plumb,
- point-blank,
- positively,
- precisely,
- predicatively,
- purely,
- quite,
- radically,
- rather,
- really,
- right,
- righto,
- rigidly,
- rigorously,
- sheer,
- spotlessly,
- square,
- squarely,
- stark,
- straight,
- strictly,
- sure,
- sure thing,
- surely,
- thoroughly,
- to a certainty,
- to be sure,
- to the letter,
- totally,
- truly,
- unconditionally,
- under oath,
- undeviatingly,
- unequivocally,
- unerringly,
- unmistakably,
- unquestionably,
- unrelievedly,
- unreservedly,
- utterly,
- verbally,
- verbatim,
- verbatim et litteratim,
- veritably,
- very well,
- well and good,
- wholly,
- why yes,
- with a vengeance,
- with emphasis,
- word by word,
- word for word,
- yea,
- yeah,
- yep,
- yes,
- yes indeed,
- yes indeedy,
- yes sir,
- yes sirree
- Schmerz,
- Slough of Despond,
- blank despondency,
- dejectedness,
- dejection,
- depression,
- despair,
- despondency,
- despondentness,
- discouragement,
- disheartenment,
- dispiritedness,
- down trip,
- downcastness,
- downer,
- downheartedness,
- drooping spirits,
- heartlessness,
- hopelessness,
- low spirits,
- lowness,
- lowness of spirit,
- malaise,
- oppression,
- pessimism,
- self-destructive urge,
- sinking heart,
- spiritlessness,
- suicidal despair,
- taedium vitae,
- weariness of life
- low spirits
collapse
- a state of mild depression related words >
- Schmerz,
- Slough of Despond,
- blank despondency,
- death wish,
- dejectedness,
- dejection,
- depression,
- despair,
- despondency,
- despondentness,
- discouragement,
- disheartenment,
- dispiritedness,
- down trip,
- downcastness,
- downer,
- downheartedness,
- drooping spirits,
- heartlessness,
- hopelessness,
- lowness,
- lowness of spirit,
- malaise,
- oppression,
- pessimism,
- self-destructive urge,
- sinking heart,
- spiritlessness,
- suicidal despair,
- taedium vitae,
- weariness of life
- disobedience
collapse
- the failure to obey
- the trait of being unwilling to obey related words >
- abnegation,
- antipathy,
- averseness,
- aversion,
- backwardness,
- contradiction,
- cursoriness,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declining,
- denial,
- deprivation,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- disinclination,
- disrelish,
- dissent,
- distaste,
- foot-dragging,
- fractiousness,
- grudging consent,
- grudgingness,
- holding back,
- indiscipline,
- indisposedness,
- indisposition,
- indocility,
- insubordination,
- interregnum,
- intractableness,
- irresponsibility,
- lack of enthusiasm,
- lack of zeal,
- lawlessness,
- license,
- licentiousness,
- mutinousness,
- mutiny,
- nay,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- nix,
- no,
- nolition,
- nonacceptance,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonobservance,
- obstinacy,
- opposition,
- perfunctoriness,
- power vacuum,
- rampant will,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recantation,
- refractoriness,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- reluctance,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repudiation,
- repugnance,
- resistance,
- retention,
- slowness,
- stubbornness,
- sulk,
- sulkiness,
- sulks,
- sullenness,
- thumbs-down,
- turndown,
- unaccountability,
- uncontrol,
- unenthusiasm,
- unrestraint,
- unwillingness,
- willfulness,
- withholding
- blank,
- blind,
- blind-alley,
- cecal,
- choked,
- choked off,
- clamped,
- closed,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- condensed,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- contracted,
- cramped,
- dead,
- dead-end,
- knitted,
- nipped,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- puckered,
- pursed,
- shut,
- solidified,
- squeezed,
- squeezed shut,
- strangled,
- unopen,
- unopened,
- unvented,
- unventilated,
- wasp-waisted,
- wrinkled
- bourn
collapse
- an archaic term for a goal or destination
- an archaic term for a boundary related words >
- adolescent stream,
- anchorage,
- arroyo,
- beck,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- braided stream,
- branch,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- brook,
- brooklet,
- burn,
- ceiling,
- channel,
- circumscription,
- compass,
- confine,
- creek,
- crick,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- deadline,
- delimitation,
- destination,
- determinant,
- division line,
- end,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- flowing stream,
- fluviation,
- fresh,
- freshet,
- frontier,
- gill,
- goal,
- harbor,
- haven,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- interface,
- kill,
- last stop,
- lazy stream,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- meandering stream,
- mete,
- midchannel,
- midstream,
- millstream,
- moving road,
- navigable river,
- port,
- race,
- racing stream,
- river,
- rivulet,
- run,
- rundle,
- runlet,
- runnel,
- sike,
- spill stream,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- stop,
- stopping place,
- stream,
- stream action,
- streamlet,
- subterranean river,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal,
- terminal date,
- terminal point,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit,
- wadi,
- watercourse,
- waterway
- antipathy,
- averseness,
- aversion,
- backwardness,
- civil disobedience,
- contumaciousness,
- contumacy,
- cursoriness,
- defiance,
- disagreement,
- disinclination,
- disobedience,
- disrelish,
- dissent,
- distaste,
- foot-dragging,
- fractiousness,
- frowardness,
- grudging consent,
- grudgingness,
- incorrigibility,
- indiscipline,
- indisposedness,
- indisposition,
- indomitability,
- infraction,
- infringement,
- insubordination,
- insuppressibility,
- intractability,
- intractableness,
- irrepressibility,
- lack of enthusiasm,
- lack of zeal,
- lawbreaking,
- lawlessness,
- mutinousness,
- naughtiness,
- nolition,
- noncompliance,
- nonconformity,
- noncooperation,
- nonobedience,
- obstinacy,
- obstreperousness,
- opposition,
- passive resistance,
- perfunctoriness,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recusancy,
- refractoriness,
- refusal,
- reluctance,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repugnance,
- resistance,
- restiveness,
- shrewishness,
- slowness,
- stubbornness,
- sulk,
- sulkiness,
- sulks,
- sullenness,
- transgression,
- uncontrollability,
- uncooperativeness,
- unduteousness,
- undutifulness,
- unenthusiasm,
- ungovernability,
- unmalleability,
- unmanageability,
- unmoldableness,
- unruliness,
- unsubmissiveness,
- untamableness,
- unwillingness,
- violation,
- waywardness,
- wildness,
- willful disobedience
- gelding
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- castrated male horse related words >
- Houyhnhnm,
- altering,
- blank cartridge,
- brood mare,
- castration,
- castrato,
- charger,
- colt,
- courser,
- critter,
- dobbin,
- dud,
- emasculation,
- entire,
- entire horse,
- equine,
- eunuch,
- filly,
- fixing,
- foal,
- horse,
- impotent,
- incompetent,
- invalid,
- mare,
- mount,
- nag,
- prancer,
- spaying,
- stallion,
- steed,
- stud,
- studhorse,
- tarpan,
- top horse,
- war-horse,
- weakling,
- wild horse
- today
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- the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow); "Today is beautiful"; "did you see today's newspaper?"
- the present time or age; "the world of today"; "today we have computers"
- on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow; "I can't meet with you today" related words >
- as of now,
- as things are,
- at present,
- at this juncture,
- at this moment,
- at this point,
- at this time,
- but now,
- contemporaneity,
- contemporaneousness,
- even now,
- for the nonce,
- for this occasion,
- here,
- here and now,
- hereat,
- hic et nunc,
- historical present,
- in our time,
- in these days,
- just now,
- modernity,
- newness,
- now,
- nowadays,
- nowness,
- on the spot,
- our times,
- present,
- present tense,
- presently,
- presentness,
- the Now Generation,
- the nonce,
- the now,
- the present,
- the present age,
- the present day,
- the present hour,
- the present juncture,
- the present time,
- the time being,
- the times,
- these days,
- this day,
- this hour,
- this instant,
- this moment,
- this night,
- this point,
- this stage,
- tonight
- exigency
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- a pressing or urgent situation; "the health-care exigency" related words >
- case of need,
- climacteric,
- clutch,
- compulsion,
- constraint,
- contingency,
- convergence of events,
- crisis,
- critical juncture,
- critical point,
- crossroads,
- crucial period,
- crunch,
- demandingness,
- dire necessity,
- drive,
- emergency,
- exigence,
- extremity,
- high pressure,
- hinge,
- immediacy,
- imperative,
- imperativeness,
- importunacy,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- impulse,
- impulsion,
- insistence,
- matter of necessity,
- pass,
- persistence,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- pinch,
- predicament,
- press,
- pressingness,
- pressure,
- push,
- rash impulse,
- rub,
- strait,
- stress,
- tension,
- turn,
- turning,
- turning point,
- urge,
- urgency,
- urgent need
- rocker
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- a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro
- an ice skate with a curved blade
- a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold
- a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles
- a performer or composer or fan of rock music
- an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle related words >
- burin,
- clarifier,
- colander,
- cradle,
- cribble,
- die,
- engraving tool,
- etching ball,
- etching ground,
- etching needle,
- etching point,
- filter,
- graver,
- intaglio,
- lixiviator,
- metronome,
- needle,
- oscillator,
- pendulum,
- percolator,
- point,
- punch,
- purifier,
- refiner,
- refinery,
- riddle,
- rocking chair,
- rocking stone,
- scorper,
- screen,
- seal,
- seesaw,
- shuttle,
- shuttlecock,
- sieve,
- sifter,
- stamp,
- strainer,
- style,
- swing,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- teeterboard,
- teetery-bender,
- vibrator,
- winnow,
- winnowing basket,
- winnowing fan,
- winnowing machine
- flying start
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- a quick and auspicious beginning
- a racing start in which the contestants are already in full motion when they pass the starting line related words >
- A,
- advantage,
- alpha,
- beginning,
- blast-off,
- bulge,
- coign of vantage,
- commencement,
- creation,
- cutting edge,
- dawn,
- drop,
- edge,
- establishment,
- foundation,
- fresh start,
- head start,
- inside track,
- institution,
- jump,
- jump-off,
- kick-off,
- leading edge,
- new departure,
- odds,
- oncoming,
- onset,
- opening,
- origin,
- origination,
- outbreak,
- outset,
- running start,
- send-off,
- setting in motion,
- setting-up,
- something extra,
- something in reserve,
- square one,
- start,
- start-off,
- starting point,
- take-off,
- upper hand,
- vantage,
- vantage ground,
- vantage point,
- whip hand
- absolute,
- accused,
- arraigned,
- blankety-blank,
- blasted,
- blessed,
- bloody,
- charged,
- cited,
- complete,
- confounded,
- consummate,
- dadburned,
- damnable,
- danged,
- darn,
- darned,
- dashed,
- denounced,
- deuced,
- doggone,
- doggoned,
- downright,
- execrable,
- goldanged,
- goldarned,
- goshdarn,
- gross,
- impeached,
- implicated,
- impugned,
- in complicity,
- incriminated,
- inculpated,
- indicted,
- infernal,
- involved,
- out-and-out,
- perfect,
- rank,
- regular,
- reproached,
- ruddy,
- straight-out,
- tasked,
- taxed,
- under attack,
- under fire,
- unmitigated
- abhorrence,
- antipathy,
- averseness,
- aversion,
- backwardness,
- bad books,
- ban,
- blackball,
- blackballing,
- complaint,
- cursoriness,
- dim view,
- disaffection,
- disaffinity,
- disagreement,
- disappointment,
- disapprobation,
- disapproval,
- discontent,
- discontentedness,
- discontentment,
- disenchantment,
- disesteem,
- disfavor,
- disgruntlement,
- disgust,
- disillusion,
- disillusionment,
- disinclination,
- dislike,
- disliking,
- disobedience,
- displeasure,
- disrelish,
- disrespect,
- dissatisfaction,
- dissent,
- exclusion,
- foot-dragging,
- fractiousness,
- grudging consent,
- grudgingness,
- horror,
- hostility,
- indignation,
- indisposedness,
- indisposition,
- indocility,
- intractableness,
- lack of enthusiasm,
- lack of zeal,
- loathing,
- low estimation,
- low opinion,
- mutinousness,
- nausea,
- nolition,
- objection,
- obstinacy,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- ostracism,
- perfunctoriness,
- protest,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- refractoriness,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- reluctance,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repugnance,
- repulsion,
- resistance,
- revulsion,
- slowness,
- stubbornness,
- sulk,
- sulkiness,
- sulks,
- sullenness,
- thumbs-down,
- unenthusiasm,
- unhappiness,
- unwillingness
- celestial navigation
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- navigating according to the positions of the stars related words >
- VAR,
- aspect,
- astronavigation,
- attitude,
- automatic electronic navigation,
- azimuth,
- bearing,
- bearings,
- chronometer,
- coastwise navigation,
- consolan,
- dead reckoning,
- electronic navigation,
- exposure,
- fix,
- frontage,
- lay,
- lie,
- line of position,
- loran,
- navar,
- navigation,
- omnidirectional range,
- omnirange,
- orientation,
- pilotage,
- plane sailing,
- point-to-point navigation,
- position,
- position line,
- radar,
- radio beacon,
- radio bearing,
- radio navigation,
- set,
- sextant,
- shoran,
- sofar,
- sonar,
- tables,
- tacan,
- teleran,
- visual-aural range
- iota
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- the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet related words >
- ace,
- atom,
- bit,
- crumb,
- dab,
- dole,
- dot,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- drop,
- droplet,
- dwarf,
- farthing,
- fleck,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- gnat,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- granule,
- groat,
- hair,
- handful,
- jot,
- little,
- little bit,
- microbe,
- microorganism,
- midge,
- minim,
- minimum,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- mote,
- nutshell,
- ounce,
- particle,
- pebble,
- pinch,
- pinhead,
- pinpoint,
- pittance,
- point,
- ray,
- scrap,
- scruple,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- snip,
- snippet,
- speck,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- thimbleful,
- tiny bit,
- tittle,
- trifling amount,
- trivia,
- vanishing point,
- whit
- cussed
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- stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing related words >
- baleful,
- bearish,
- bitchy,
- blankety-blank,
- blasted,
- blessed,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- churlish,
- confounded,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crusty,
- cursed,
- disagreeable,
- doggone,
- excitable,
- feisty,
- fractious,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- infernal,
- iniquitous,
- invidious,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- malefic,
- maleficent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mean,
- nasty,
- noxious,
- ornery,
- perverse,
- snappish,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- testy,
- ugly,
- waspish,
- wicked
- rattlebrained
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- lacking sense or discretion; "his rattlebrained crackpot ideas"; "how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"- Glenway Westcott related words >
- blank,
- brainless,
- dizzy,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- empty-minded,
- empty-pated,
- empty-skulled,
- featherbrained,
- featherheaded,
- flighty,
- fluttery,
- frivolous,
- gaga,
- giddy,
- giddy-brained,
- giddy-headed,
- giddy-pated,
- giddy-witted,
- harebrain,
- harebrained,
- hollow,
- inane,
- jejune,
- rattleheaded,
- rattlepated,
- scatterbrained,
- scramblebrained,
- shatterbrained,
- silly,
- skittish,
- thoughtless,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- vapid,
- witless
- cutoff
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- a device that terminates the flow in a pipe
- a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated related words >
- air line,
- arrest,
- beeline,
- bell,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- ceiling,
- check,
- checkmate,
- circumscription,
- compass,
- confine,
- cut,
- cutoff point,
- dead stop,
- deadline,
- deadlock,
- delimitation,
- determinant,
- division line,
- end,
- endgame,
- ending,
- extremity,
- final whistle,
- finish,
- floor,
- frontier,
- full stop,
- grinding halt,
- gun,
- halt,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- interface,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- lockout,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- shortcut,
- shortest way,
- sit-down strike,
- stalemate,
- stand,
- standoff,
- standstill,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- stay,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- strike,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- upper limit,
- walkout,
- work stoppage
- abnegation,
- civil disobedience,
- contradiction,
- contrariety,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declining,
- default,
- delinquency,
- denial,
- deprivation,
- dereliction,
- deviation,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- disconformity,
- disobedience,
- disregard,
- dissent,
- failure,
- frowardness,
- holding back,
- inaccordance,
- inattention,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- indiscipline,
- indocility,
- infraction,
- infringement,
- inobservance,
- insubordination,
- intractability,
- lawbreaking,
- lawlessness,
- laxity,
- naughtiness,
- nay,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- neglect,
- negligence,
- nix,
- no,
- nonacceptance,
- nonadherence,
- nonconcurrence,
- nonconformance,
- nonconformism,
- nonconformity,
- nonconsent,
- noncooperation,
- nonfeasance,
- nonfulfillment,
- nonobedience,
- nonobservance,
- nonperformance,
- omission,
- originality,
- oversight,
- passive resistance,
- protest,
- recalcitrance,
- recantation,
- recusance,
- recusancy,
- refractoriness,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- repudiation,
- retention,
- slight,
- thumbs-down,
- transgression,
- turndown,
- unconformity,
- uncooperativeness,
- unduteousness,
- undutifulness,
- unobservance,
- unsubmissiveness,
- unwillingness,
- violation,
- waywardness,
- willful disobedience,
- withholding
- sky
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- the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth related words >
- Caelus,
- Olympian heights,
- acme,
- aerial heights,
- air,
- apex,
- apogee,
- azure,
- blue sky,
- brow,
- caelum,
- canopy,
- canopy of heaven,
- cap,
- cerulean,
- climax,
- cloud nine,
- cope,
- crest,
- crown,
- culmen,
- culmination,
- dizzy heights,
- edge,
- elevation,
- eminence,
- empyrean,
- ether,
- extreme limit,
- extremity,
- firmament,
- heaven,
- heavens,
- height,
- heights,
- high noon,
- highest pitch,
- highest point,
- hyaline,
- lift,
- lifts,
- limit,
- maximum,
- meridian,
- mountaintop,
- ne plus ultra,
- no place higher,
- noon,
- peak,
- pinnacle,
- pitch,
- point,
- pole,
- raise,
- ridge,
- rise,
- rising ground,
- seventh heaven,
- spire,
- starry heaven,
- steep,
- stratosphere,
- summit,
- the blue,
- the blue serene,
- tip,
- tip-top,
- top,
- upmost,
- upper extremity,
- uppermost,
- uprise,
- utmost,
- vantage ground,
- vantage point,
- vault,
- vault of heaven,
- vertex,
- very top,
- welkin,
- zenith
- forget
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- be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!"
- dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "i tried to bury these unpleasant memories"
- leave behind unintentionally; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors"
- forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!" related words >
- abandon,
- blink at,
- blow up,
- brush aside,
- brush off,
- bury the hatchet,
- charge off,
- charge to experience,
- consign to oblivion,
- discount,
- dismiss,
- disregard,
- draw a blank,
- drop the subject,
- fail,
- fluff,
- forget about it,
- forget it,
- forgive and forget,
- ignore,
- lay aside,
- leave behind,
- let it go,
- let it pass,
- let slip,
- lose,
- lose sight of,
- not remember,
- omit,
- overlook,
- overpass,
- push aside,
- put aside,
- set aside,
- shrug off,
- slight,
- sneeze at,
- think nothing of,
- thrust aside,
- turn away from,
- write off
- pith
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- soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants
- remove the pith from (a plant) related words >
- affective meaning,
- axiom,
- axis,
- backbone,
- bearing,
- bench mark,
- bottom,
- burden,
- butter,
- cardinal point,
- cataplasm,
- center,
- center of action,
- center of gravity,
- centroid,
- centrum,
- chief thing,
- chutzpah,
- climax,
- coloring,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- core,
- cornerstone,
- courage,
- crisis,
- critical point,
- crush,
- crux,
- dead center,
- denotation,
- dental pulp,
- depth,
- distillate,
- distillation,
- drift,
- effect,
- elixir,
- epicenter,
- essence,
- essential,
- essential matter,
- essentiality,
- extension,
- fabric,
- flower,
- focal point,
- focus,
- force,
- fulcrum,
- fundamental,
- gameness,
- gist,
- grammatical meaning,
- gravamen,
- gravity,
- great point,
- grit,
- guts,
- gutsiness,
- guttiness,
- heart,
- heart of oak,
- high point,
- hub,
- hypostasis,
- idea,
- impact,
- implication,
- import,
- importance,
- important thing,
- inner essence,
- intension,
- intestinal fortitude,
- issue,
- kernel,
- keystone,
- landmark,
- lexical meaning,
- literal meaning,
- magnitude,
- main point,
- main thing,
- marrow,
- mash,
- material,
- material point,
- matter,
- meaning,
- meaningfulness,
- meat,
- medium,
- medulla,
- metacenter,
- mettle,
- mettlesomeness,
- middle,
- milestone,
- moment,
- momentousness,
- moxie,
- mush,
- nave,
- navel,
- nerve,
- nub,
- nucleus,
- nuts and bolts,
- omphalos,
- overtone,
- paper pulp,
- paste,
- pertinence,
- pivot,
- plaster,
- pluck,
- pluckiness,
- point,
- porridge,
- postulate,
- poultice,
- practical consequence,
- principle,
- pudding,
- pulp,
- pulp lead,
- pulpwood,
- purport,
- quick,
- quid,
- quiddity,
- quintessence,
- quintessential,
- rag pulp,
- range of meaning,
- real issue,
- real meaning,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- reference,
- referent,
- relation,
- relevance,
- resume,
- rock bottom,
- root,
- run-through,
- rundown,
- salient point,
- sap,
- sauce,
- scope,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- sense,
- short,
- significance,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- sine qua non,
- smash,
- soul,
- span of meaning,
- spirit,
- sponge,
- spunk,
- spunkiness,
- squash,
- stamina,
- storm center,
- stout heart,
- structural meaning,
- stuff,
- substance,
- substantive point,
- sulfate pulp,
- sulfite pulp,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- summary,
- summation,
- symbolic meaning,
- tenor,
- the bottom line,
- the nitty-gritty,
- the point,
- thrust,
- totality of associations,
- toughness,
- transferred meaning,
- true grit,
- turning point,
- umbilicus,
- unadorned meaning,
- undertone,
- upshot,
- value,
- virtuality,
- weight,
- weightiness,
- white lead,
- wood pulp
- sextant
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- a measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects; resembles an octant
- a unit of angular distance equal to 60 degrees related words >
- astrolabe,
- astronavigation,
- azimuth circle,
- azimuth compass,
- bevel,
- bevel protractor,
- bevel square,
- celestial navigation,
- chronometer,
- clinometer,
- coastwise navigation,
- consolan,
- crescent,
- dead reckoning,
- fix,
- goniometer,
- graphometer,
- half circle,
- hemicycle,
- line of position,
- loran,
- pantometer,
- pilotage,
- plane sailing,
- point-to-point navigation,
- protractor,
- quadrant,
- radar,
- radio beacon,
- radio navigation,
- radiogoniometer,
- sector,
- semicircle,
- shoran,
- sofar,
- sonar,
- tables,
- theodolite,
- transit,
- transit circle,
- transit instrument,
- transit theodolite
- specify
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- decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
- be specific about; "Could you please specify your criticism of my paper?"
- determine the essential quality of related words >
- address to,
- adduce,
- advert to,
- allude to,
- anatomize,
- assign,
- atomize,
- baptize,
- be taken as,
- bound,
- bring to attention,
- bring to notice,
- call,
- call attention to,
- christen,
- circle in,
- circumscribe,
- circumstantiate,
- cite,
- condition,
- define,
- delimit,
- delimitate,
- delineate,
- demarcate,
- denominate,
- denote,
- descend to particulars,
- designate,
- detail,
- determine,
- direct attention to,
- direct to,
- document,
- dub,
- emblematize,
- enclose,
- enter into detail,
- entitle,
- enumerate,
- establish,
- figure,
- finger,
- fix,
- focus on,
- give full particulars,
- identify,
- indicate,
- individualize,
- instance,
- inventory,
- itemize,
- label,
- lay off,
- limit,
- list,
- mark,
- mark boundaries,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- mark the periphery,
- mention,
- name,
- nickname,
- nominate,
- particularize,
- pick out,
- pin down,
- point at,
- point out,
- point to,
- precise,
- refer to,
- rope off,
- select,
- set,
- set forth,
- set out,
- set the limit,
- settle,
- signify,
- specialize,
- spell out,
- stake out,
- stand for,
- state,
- stigmatize,
- stipulate,
- style,
- substantiate,
- surround,
- symbol,
- symbolize,
- tag,
- term,
- title,
- touch on,
- typify
- abnegation
collapse
- renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
- the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief; "abnegation of the Holy Trinity" related words >
- abstinence,
- calm,
- calmness,
- conservatism,
- constraint,
- continence,
- contradiction,
- control,
- cool,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declining,
- denial,
- deprivation,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- disobedience,
- dispassion,
- dissent,
- evenness,
- forbearance,
- frugality,
- gentleness,
- golden mean,
- happy medium,
- holding back,
- impartiality,
- judiciousness,
- juste-milieu,
- lenity,
- meden agan,
- middle way,
- mildness,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- moderationism,
- nay,
- naysaying,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- negative attitude,
- negativeness,
- negativism,
- negativity,
- neutrality,
- nix,
- no,
- nonacceptance,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonobservance,
- nonviolence,
- nothing in excess,
- pacifism,
- prudence,
- recantation,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- repose,
- repudiation,
- restraint,
- retention,
- self-abnegation,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-discipline,
- self-mastery,
- self-restraint,
- serenity,
- soberness,
- sobriety,
- sophrosyne,
- stability,
- steadiness,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- thumbs-down,
- tranquillity,
- turndown,
- unexcessiveness,
- unextravagance,
- unextremeness,
- unwillingness,
- via media,
- withholding
- threshold
collapse
- the smallest detectable sensation
- the starting point for a new state or experience; "on the threshold of manhood" related words >
- French door,
- archway,
- back door,
- barway,
- beginning,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- brink,
- bulkhead,
- carriage entrance,
- ceiling,
- cellar door,
- cellarway,
- circumscription,
- commencement,
- compass,
- confine,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- dawn,
- deadline,
- delimitation,
- determinant,
- division line,
- door,
- doorjamb,
- doorpost,
- doorsill,
- doorstep,
- doorstone,
- doorway,
- edge,
- end,
- entrance,
- entrance hall,
- entranceway,
- entry,
- entryway,
- extremity,
- finish,
- floor,
- foyer,
- front door,
- frontier,
- galilee,
- gate,
- gatepost,
- gateway,
- groundsel,
- hatch,
- hatchway,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- interface,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- lintel,
- lobby,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- march,
- mark,
- mete,
- mudsill,
- narthex,
- outset,
- point,
- porch,
- portal,
- porte cochere,
- portico,
- postern,
- propylaeum,
- pylon,
- scuttle,
- side door,
- sill,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- stile,
- stoa,
- storm door,
- target date,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- time allotment,
- tollgate,
- trap,
- trap door,
- turnpike,
- turnstile,
- upper limit,
- verge,
- vestibule,
- window sill
- hairline
collapse
- the natural margin formed by hair on the head
- a very thin line related words >
- band,
- bar,
- cross-hatching,
- dash,
- delicacy,
- delicate,
- delicate distinction,
- delineation,
- diagonal,
- differentia,
- differential,
- distinction,
- dotted line,
- fine point,
- finespun,
- hachure,
- hairsplitting,
- hatching,
- line,
- lineation,
- margin,
- narrow margin,
- nice,
- nice distinction,
- nicety,
- nuance,
- particle of difference,
- point of difference,
- refined,
- refinement,
- score,
- shade of difference,
- slash,
- streak,
- streaking,
- striation,
- strip,
- stripe,
- striping,
- stroke,
- sublineation,
- subtle,
- subtle distinction,
- subtlety,
- underline,
- underlining,
- underscore,
- underscoring,
- virgule,
- wide margin
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