Exact Match:
Synonyms:
- adventuresome,
- adventurous,
- aggressive,
- ambitious,
- arrogant,
- assertive,
- audacious,
- bold,
- brash,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- busy,
- busybody,
- cheeky,
- cocky,
- cold,
- controlled,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- disdainful,
- driving,
- dynamic,
- enterprising,
- familiar,
- firm-minded,
- forceful,
- forward,
- go-ahead,
- hubristic,
- hustling,
- impertinent,
- importunate,
- independent,
- inquisitive,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- loud,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- militant,
- nosy,
- obnoxious,
- obtrusive,
- offensive,
- officious,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- procacious,
- prying,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- self-appointed,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-controlled,
- self-expressive,
- self-possessed,
- self-restrained,
- showy,
- snoopy,
- strong-minded,
- strong-willed,
- up-and-coming,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- venturesome,
- venturous
Related Words:
- self-appointed
collapse - designated or chosen by yourself; "a self-appointed guardian of public morals" related words >
- assertive
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- confidently aggressive; "too assertive as a salesman"; "his self-assertive and unflagging energy"
- inclined to bold and confident assertion; aggressively self-assured; "an energetic assertive boy who was always ready to argue"; "pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act" related words >
- meddling
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- the act of altering something secretly or improperly related words >
- busy,
- busybody,
- butting-in,
- forward,
- forwardness,
- impertinence,
- impertinent,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitiveness,
- intermeddling,
- intrusiveness,
- meddlesome,
- meddlesomeness,
- nosy,
- obtrusiveness,
- officious,
- officiousness,
- presumption,
- presumptuous,
- presumptuousness,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- self-appointed,
- snoopy
- pushful
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- marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative; "an aggressive young executive"; "a pushful insurance agent"; "a pushing youth intent on getting on in the world" related words >
- busy,
- busybody,
- curious,
- delving,
- digging,
- fishing,
- forward,
- impertinent,
- in search of,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- nosy,
- obtrusive,
- officious,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poking,
- presumptuous,
- probing,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- searching,
- self-appointed,
- snooping,
- snoopy
- nosy
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- offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day" related words >
- busy,
- busybody,
- curious,
- delving,
- digging,
- eavesdropping,
- fishing,
- forward,
- impertinent,
- in search of,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- officious,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poking,
- presumptuous,
- probing,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- searching,
- self-appointed,
- snooping,
- snoopy,
- spying
- abusive,
- arrogant,
- atrocious,
- audacious,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- bumptious,
- calumnious,
- cold,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- degrading,
- disdainful,
- familiar,
- forward,
- hubristic,
- humiliating,
- insolent,
- left-handed,
- obtrusive,
- offensive,
- outrageous,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- procacious,
- pushy,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- unspeakable,
- uppish,
- uppity
- bright,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- controlled,
- discursive,
- firm-minded,
- forward,
- ideational,
- importunate,
- independent,
- intellectual,
- intelligent,
- knowing,
- noetic,
- not so dumb,
- pushy,
- rational,
- reasonable,
- sane,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-controlled,
- self-expressive,
- self-possessed,
- self-restrained,
- sensible,
- sophic,
- strong-willed,
- understanding
- assertive,
- audacious,
- bold,
- cocksure,
- controlled,
- firm-minded,
- forward,
- impertinent,
- importunate,
- independent,
- intrusive,
- meddlesome,
- militant,
- obtrusive,
- officious,
- overweening,
- presuming,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- self-asserting,
- self-controlled,
- self-expressive,
- self-possessed,
- self-restrained,
- strong-minded,
- strong-willed,
- sure,
- uppish,
- uppity
- assured,
- balanced,
- collected,
- composed,
- confident,
- controlled,
- equanimous,
- equilibrious,
- firm-minded,
- forward,
- importunate,
- independent,
- levelheaded,
- poised,
- pushy,
- recollected,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-assured,
- self-confident,
- self-controlled,
- self-expressive,
- self-possessed,
- strong-minded,
- strong-willed,
- together,
- well-balanced
- adventuresome,
- adventurous,
- aggressive,
- ambitious,
- assertive,
- brash,
- busy,
- busybody,
- driving,
- dynamic,
- enterprising,
- forceful,
- forward,
- go-ahead,
- hustling,
- impertinent,
- inquisitive,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- militant,
- motive,
- nosy,
- officious,
- overweening,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- propellant,
- propelling,
- propulsive,
- propulsory,
- prying,
- pulsive,
- pushful,
- pushy,
- self-appointed,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- shoving,
- snoopy,
- up-and-coming,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- venturesome,
- venturous
- adventuresome,
- adventurous,
- aggressive,
- aleatory,
- ambitious,
- audacious,
- bold,
- brave,
- chancy,
- courageous,
- daredevil,
- daring,
- determined,
- dicey,
- doughty,
- driving,
- dynamic,
- enterprising,
- experimental,
- fearless,
- foolhardy,
- forceful,
- full of risk,
- game,
- go-ahead,
- hazardous,
- hustling,
- intrepid,
- overbold,
- plucky,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- rash,
- reckless,
- resolute,
- riskful,
- risky,
- speculative,
- spirited,
- sporting,
- stalwart,
- stout,
- sturdy,
- temerarious,
- tentative,
- trial,
- up-and-coming,
- venturous,
- wildcat,
- willing
- inquisitive
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- showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow"
- inquiring or appearing to inquire; "an inquiring look"; "the police are proverbially inquisitive" related words >
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- analytical,
- burning with curiosity,
- busy,
- busybody,
- consumed with curiosity,
- curious,
- exploring,
- forward,
- ghoulish,
- gossipy,
- impertinent,
- inquiring,
- inquisitorial,
- interested,
- intrusive,
- investigative,
- itchy,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- nosy,
- officious,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overcurious,
- presumptuous,
- probing,
- prurient,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- questioning,
- quizzical,
- scopophiliac,
- searching,
- self-appointed,
- snooping,
- snoopy,
- supercurious,
- voyeuristic
- arrogant,
- audacious,
- big,
- brash,
- bumptious,
- cold,
- condescending,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- disdainful,
- domineering,
- familiar,
- forward,
- haughty,
- high-faluting,
- high-flown,
- high-headed,
- high-nosed,
- hoity-toity,
- hubristic,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- lofty,
- obtrusive,
- overbearing,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- patronizing,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- procacious,
- proud,
- purse-proud,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- stuck-up,
- superior,
- toplofty,
- uppish,
- upstage
- aloof,
- assured,
- balanced,
- calm,
- collected,
- composed,
- confident,
- controlled,
- cool,
- detached,
- dignified,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- equanimous,
- equilibrious,
- even-tempered,
- firm-minded,
- forward,
- imperturbable,
- importunate,
- independent,
- levelheaded,
- peaceful,
- placid,
- poised,
- pushy,
- recollected,
- refined,
- reserved,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-assured,
- self-confident,
- self-contained,
- self-controlled,
- self-expressive,
- self-restrained,
- serene,
- strong-minded,
- strong-willed,
- together,
- tranquil,
- undisturbed,
- unflappable,
- unperturbed,
- unruffled,
- well-balanced
- bumptious
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- offensively self-assertive related words >
- aggressively self-confident,
- arrogant,
- audacious,
- biggety,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- challenging,
- cheeky,
- chesty,
- cocky,
- cold,
- conceited,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- daring,
- defiant,
- defying,
- derisive,
- disdainful,
- disregardful,
- familiar,
- forward,
- greatly daring,
- hubristic,
- immodest,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- know-it-all,
- obtrusive,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- overwise,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- perk,
- perky,
- pert,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- procacious,
- puffed up,
- pushy,
- regardless of consequences,
- saucy,
- self-conceited,
- self-opinionated,
- smart-alecky,
- stuck-up,
- swelled-headed,
- uppish,
- uppity
- arrogant,
- assured,
- audacious,
- brash,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- cocksure,
- cocky,
- confident,
- convinced,
- decided,
- determined,
- foolhardy,
- hasty,
- heedless,
- hubristic,
- improvident,
- imprudent,
- impudent,
- incautious,
- indiscreet,
- injudicious,
- insolent,
- overbearing,
- overbold,
- overcareless,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- persuaded,
- poised,
- pompous,
- positive,
- presuming,
- proud,
- pushful,
- pushy,
- rash,
- reassured,
- secure,
- self-assertive,
- self-assured,
- self-confident,
- self-important,
- self-reliant,
- short-sighted,
- sure,
- swaggering,
- temerarious,
- thoughtless,
- unafraid,
- unchary,
- undoubting,
- unfaltering,
- unhesitating,
- unwary,
- unwavering,
- uppity,
- vainglorious
- adventurous
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- willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy" related words >
- adventuresome,
- adversary,
- aggressive,
- aleatory,
- ambitious,
- antagonist,
- anti,
- assaulter,
- attacker,
- audacious,
- bold,
- brash,
- brave,
- chancy,
- con,
- courageous,
- daredevil,
- daring,
- death-defying,
- devil-may-care,
- dicey,
- doughty,
- driving,
- dynamic,
- enterprising,
- fire-eating,
- foolhardy,
- forceful,
- forward,
- full of risk,
- go-ahead,
- harebrained,
- hazardous,
- hotheaded,
- hustling,
- impetuous,
- imprudent,
- intrepid,
- madbrain,
- madbrained,
- madcap,
- match,
- opposer,
- oppugnant,
- overbold,
- overconfident,
- presumptuous,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- rash,
- reckless,
- riskful,
- risky,
- speculative,
- temerarious,
- up-and-coming,
- venturesome,
- venturous,
- wild,
- wild-ass,
- wildcat
- pugnacious
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- ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men" related words >
- aggressive,
- antagonistic,
- battling,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bickering,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- brawling,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- combative,
- contentious,
- disputatious,
- divisive,
- enemy,
- eristic,
- factional,
- factious,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fight,
- fighting,
- full of fight,
- hawkish,
- hostile,
- inimical,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- litigious,
- martial,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- offensive,
- partisan,
- polarizing,
- polemic,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- quarrelsome,
- rebellious,
- saber-rattling,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- savage,
- scrappy,
- self-assertive,
- shrewish,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- unfriendly,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wrangling
- ambitious
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- having a strong desire for success or achievement
- requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake" related words >
- adventuresome,
- adventurous,
- aggressive,
- anxious,
- aspiring,
- audacious,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- bold,
- careerist,
- careeristic,
- chimerical,
- classy,
- daring,
- driving,
- dynamic,
- eager,
- emulous,
- energetic,
- enterprising,
- enthusiastic,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- flossy,
- forceful,
- go-ahead,
- grandiose,
- greedy,
- hard-working,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-reaching,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hopeful,
- hustling,
- impractical,
- indefatigable,
- keen,
- lofty,
- on the make,
- ostentatious,
- overambitious,
- overzealous,
- power-hungry,
- pretentious,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- sky-aspiring,
- social-climbing,
- tony,
- unrealistic,
- up-and-coming,
- utopian,
- vaulting,
- vaunting,
- venturesome,
- venturous,
- vigorous,
- visionary,
- yuppy,
- zealous
- disdainful
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- having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer related words >
- abjuratory,
- arrogant,
- audacious,
- bold,
- brash,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- cavalier,
- challenging,
- cheeky,
- clannish,
- cliquish,
- cocky,
- cold,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- daring,
- declinatory,
- defiant,
- defying,
- derisive,
- despising,
- dismissive,
- disregardful,
- exclusive,
- familiar,
- forward,
- greatly daring,
- haughty,
- high and mighty,
- highfalutin,
- hoity-toity,
- hubristic,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- jeering,
- lordly,
- mocking,
- obtrusive,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- pert,
- pompous,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- prideful,
- procacious,
- proud,
- pushy,
- regal,
- regardless of consequences,
- rejective,
- renunciative,
- saucy,
- scornful,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- stuck-up,
- supercilious,
- superior,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- withering
- Spartan,
- accepting,
- armed with patience,
- assured,
- automated,
- automatic,
- automatous,
- balanced,
- collected,
- composed,
- confident,
- controlled,
- cybernated,
- disciplined,
- endurant,
- enduring,
- equanimous,
- equilibrious,
- firm-minded,
- forbearing,
- forward,
- importunate,
- independent,
- indulgent,
- lenient,
- levelheaded,
- long-suffering,
- longanimous,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- persevering,
- philosophical,
- poised,
- pushy,
- recollected,
- self-acting,
- self-active,
- self-adjusting,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-assured,
- self-closing,
- self-confident,
- self-cooking,
- self-directed,
- self-directing,
- self-dumping,
- self-expressive,
- self-governed,
- self-governing,
- self-lighting,
- self-operative,
- self-possessed,
- self-regulative,
- self-restrained,
- self-starting,
- self-winding,
- self-working,
- semiautomatic,
- spontaneous,
- stoic,
- strong-minded,
- strong-willed,
- together,
- tolerant,
- tolerating,
- tolerative,
- understanding,
- well-balanced
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- cajoling,
- choiceless,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- coaxing,
- compulsory,
- controlled,
- crying,
- demanding,
- disturbing,
- draining,
- dunning,
- exacting,
- exasperating,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionate,
- firm-minded,
- forward,
- galling,
- grasping,
- harassing,
- imperative,
- importune,
- independent,
- insistent,
- instant,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- loud,
- mandatory,
- nagging,
- necessary,
- necessitous,
- obligatory,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- pressing,
- provoking,
- pushy,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-controlled,
- self-expressive,
- self-possessed,
- self-restrained,
- strong-minded,
- strong-willed,
- taxing,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- urgent,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- wheedling,
- without choice,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- acceptable,
- adventurous,
- arrogant,
- assuming,
- audacious,
- bold,
- brash,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- busy,
- busybody,
- cheeky,
- cold,
- complacent,
- confident,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- daredevil,
- daring,
- death-defying,
- disdainful,
- egotistical,
- familiar,
- fire-eating,
- foolhardy,
- forward,
- gay,
- harebrained,
- hubristic,
- immodest,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- inexcusable,
- inquisitive,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- licentious,
- lofty,
- madbrain,
- madbrained,
- madcap,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- nosy,
- obtrusive,
- officious,
- outrageous,
- overconfident,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- pompous,
- presuming,
- pretentious,
- prideful,
- procacious,
- proud,
- prying,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- saucy,
- self-appointed,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-assured,
- self-conceited,
- self-elect,
- self-satisfied,
- smug,
- snoopy,
- supercilious,
- temerarious,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- wild,
- wild-ass,
- would-be
- enterprising
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- marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects; "an enterprising foreign policy"; "an enterprising young man likely to go far" related words >
- active,
- acute,
- adventuresome,
- adventurous,
- aggressive,
- ambitious,
- animated,
- aspiring,
- assiduous,
- audacious,
- bold,
- brave,
- brisk,
- busy,
- courageous,
- craving,
- daring,
- dashing,
- determined,
- diligent,
- driving,
- dynamic,
- eager,
- earnest,
- energetic,
- enthusiastic,
- foolhardy,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- full of pep,
- go-ahead,
- go-go,
- hard-working,
- hardworking,
- hearty,
- hungry,
- hustling,
- impetuous,
- incisive,
- indefatigable,
- industrious,
- intense,
- itching,
- keen,
- kinetic,
- lively,
- living,
- lusty,
- mettlesome,
- overbold,
- peppy,
- persevering,
- purposeful,
- purposive,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- resourceful,
- robust,
- smacking,
- snappy,
- spanking,
- spirited,
- strenuous,
- strong,
- take-charge,
- take-over,
- tireless,
- trenchant,
- up-and-coming,
- venturesome,
- venturous,
- vibrant,
- vigorous,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- yearning,
- zealous,
- zestful,
- zesty,
- zippy
- absolute,
- absolutist,
- absolutistic,
- arbitrary,
- aristocratic,
- arrogant,
- ascendant,
- assertive,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- autocratic,
- big,
- bossy,
- bullying,
- cavalier,
- condescending,
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- disdainful,
- dogmatic,
- domineering,
- feudal,
- grinding,
- haughty,
- high and mighty,
- high-and-mighty,
- high-faluting,
- high-flown,
- high-handed,
- high-headed,
- high-nosed,
- highfalutin,
- hoity-toity,
- imperative,
- imperial,
- imperious,
- insolent,
- lofty,
- lordly,
- magisterial,
- magistral,
- master,
- masterful,
- monocratic,
- officious,
- oppressive,
- overruling,
- overweening,
- paramount,
- patronizing,
- peremptory,
- predominant,
- predominate,
- preponderant,
- pretentious,
- prevalent,
- proud,
- purse-proud,
- pushy,
- regnant,
- repressive,
- severe,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- sovereign,
- strict,
- stuck-up,
- supercilious,
- superior,
- suppressive,
- toplofty,
- tyrannical,
- tyrannous,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- upstage
- impertinent
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- characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality; "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner" related words >
- adrift,
- arrogant,
- audacious,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- beside the question,
- biggety,
- bluff,
- bold,
- brash,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- busy,
- busybody,
- challenging,
- cheeky,
- chutzpadik,
- cocky,
- contemptuous,
- crusty,
- daring,
- defiant,
- defying,
- derisive,
- discourteous,
- disdainful,
- disregardful,
- disrespectful,
- extraneous,
- extrinsic,
- facy,
- flip,
- flippant,
- foreign,
- forward,
- fresh,
- gally,
- gratuitous,
- greatly daring,
- immaterial,
- impolite,
- impudent,
- inadmissible,
- inapplicable,
- inapposite,
- inappropriate,
- incidental,
- inconsequent,
- inquisitive,
- insolent,
- interfering,
- intrusive,
- irrelative,
- irrelevant,
- malapert,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- nervy,
- nihil ad rem,
- nonessential,
- nosy,
- not at issue,
- obtrusive,
- off the subject,
- offensive,
- officious,
- out-of-the-way,
- parenthetical,
- pert,
- presumptuous,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- regardless of consequences,
- rude,
- sassy,
- saucy,
- self-appointed,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- snoopy,
- uncalled-for,
- uncivil,
- unessential,
- wise-ass
- obtrusive
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- sticking out; protruding
- undesirably noticeable; "the obtrusive behavior of a spoiled child"; "equally obtrusive was the graffiti" related words >
- aggressively self-confident,
- arrant,
- arrogant,
- audacious,
- biggety,
- blatant,
- bold,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- bumptious,
- busy,
- chesty,
- cocky,
- cold,
- colorful,
- conceited,
- conspicuous,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- crude,
- disdainful,
- extravagant,
- familiar,
- flagrant,
- flaring,
- flaunting,
- forceful,
- forward,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- hanging out,
- hubristic,
- immodest,
- importunate,
- in relief,
- in the foreground,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- interfering,
- interruptive,
- intervenient,
- intrusive,
- invasive,
- know-it-all,
- loud,
- lurid,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- meretricious,
- notable,
- noticeable,
- notorious,
- officious,
- ostensible,
- outstanding,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- overwise,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- perk,
- perky,
- pert,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- procacious,
- prominent,
- pronounced,
- puffed up,
- pushy,
- salient,
- screaming,
- self-conceited,
- self-opinionated,
- sensational,
- shameless,
- smart-alecky,
- spectacular,
- staring,
- stark-staring,
- sticking out,
- striking,
- stuck-up,
- swelled-headed,
- tawdry,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- vulgar
- balking,
- balky,
- beefy,
- bigoted,
- bouncing,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- case-hardened,
- controlled,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- doughty,
- fanatic,
- firm-minded,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forcy,
- forward,
- full-blooded,
- full-strength,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- hale,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardheaded,
- hardy,
- headstrong,
- hearty,
- hefty,
- husky,
- importunate,
- independent,
- intolerant,
- iron-hard,
- lusty,
- mighty,
- mulish,
- nervy,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- overzealous,
- persevering,
- pertinacious,
- pigheaded,
- potent,
- powerful,
- puissant,
- pushy,
- red-blooded,
- restive,
- robust,
- robustious,
- rugged,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-controlled,
- self-expressive,
- self-possessed,
- self-restrained,
- self-willed,
- set,
- stalwart,
- steely,
- stiff-necked,
- stout,
- strapping,
- strong,
- strong as brandy,
- strong as strong,
- strong-minded,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- sturdy,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- tenacious,
- uncooperative,
- unregenerate,
- vigorous,
- willful
- audacious
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- disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit"
- unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
- invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers" related words >
- adventuresome,
- adventurous,
- arrogant,
- bold,
- brash,
- brassy,
- brave,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- careless,
- challenging,
- cheeky,
- cocky,
- cold,
- confident,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- courageous,
- daredevil,
- daring,
- dauntless,
- death-defying,
- defiant,
- defying,
- derisive,
- devil-may-care,
- disdainful,
- disregardful,
- disrespectful,
- doughty,
- easy,
- emancipated,
- enterprising,
- familiar,
- fearless,
- fire-eating,
- foolhardy,
- forward,
- free,
- greatly daring,
- harebrained,
- heedless,
- hubristic,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- independent,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- intrepid,
- madbrain,
- madbrained,
- madcap,
- mettlesome,
- obtrusive,
- overbold,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- pert,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- procacious,
- pushy,
- rash,
- reckless,
- regardless of consequences,
- relaxed,
- rude,
- saucy,
- self-absorbed,
- self-centered,
- selfish,
- shameless,
- temerarious,
- thoughtless,
- unabashed,
- unafraid,
- uncurbed,
- undaunted,
- ungoverned,
- unhampered,
- uninhibited,
- unrestrained,
- untrammeled,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- valiant,
- valorous,
- venturesome,
- venturous,
- wild,
- wild-ass
- intrusive
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- tending to intrude (especially upon privacy); "she felt her presence there was intrusive"
- thrusting inward; "an intrusive arm of the sea"
- of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock related words >
- alien,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- busy,
- entering,
- exotic,
- exterior,
- external,
- extraneous,
- extraterrestrial,
- extrinsic,
- foreign,
- foreign-born,
- forward,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- hectic,
- hyperactive,
- hyperkinetic,
- ill-considered,
- ill-seasoned,
- ill-timed,
- importunate,
- improper,
- in,
- inappropriate,
- inauspicious,
- inbound,
- incoming,
- inconvenient,
- inexpedient,
- infelicitous,
- inflooding,
- inflowing,
- ingoing,
- ingressive,
- inopportune,
- inpouring,
- inquisitive,
- intempestive,
- interfering,
- interruptive,
- intervenient,
- intruding,
- invasive,
- inward,
- inward-bound,
- irrelevant,
- irruptive,
- late,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- mistimed,
- nosy,
- obtrusive,
- off base,
- officious,
- out of line,
- out of phase,
- out of time,
- outland,
- outlandish,
- outside,
- premature,
- presumptuous,
- prying,
- pushy,
- snoopy,
- strange,
- too late,
- too soon,
- ulterior,
- unbefitting,
- uncalled-for,
- unearthly,
- unfavorable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unfortunate,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unpropitious,
- unready,
- unripe,
- unseasonable,
- unsought,
- unsuitable,
- untimely,
- untoward,
- unwanted,
- unwelcome,
- wrong
- dynamic
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- characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality; "a dynamic market"; "a dynamic speaker"; "the dynamic president of the firm"
- of or relating to dynamics related words >
- activating,
- active,
- acute,
- adventuresome,
- adventurous,
- aggressive,
- alive,
- ambitious,
- animated,
- armipotent,
- authoritative,
- brisk,
- cogent,
- driving,
- dynamical,
- eager,
- effective,
- electric,
- electrodynamic,
- emphatic,
- energetic,
- energizing,
- enterprising,
- enthusiastic,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- full of pep,
- functioning,
- geodynamic,
- go-ahead,
- go-go,
- hearty,
- high-potency,
- high-powered,
- high-pressure,
- high-tension,
- hustling,
- impetuous,
- in force,
- in power,
- incisive,
- intense,
- irresistible,
- keen,
- kinematic,
- kinetic,
- live,
- lively,
- living,
- lusty,
- mettlesome,
- mighty,
- mighty in battle,
- operative,
- peppy,
- potent,
- powerful,
- prepotent,
- puissant,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- radiodynamic,
- red-blooded,
- robust,
- ruling,
- running,
- smacking,
- snappy,
- spanking,
- spirited,
- spry,
- strenuous,
- striking,
- strong,
- take-charge,
- take-over,
- telling,
- trenchant,
- up-and-coming,
- valid,
- vehement,
- venturesome,
- venturous,
- vibrant,
- vigorous,
- violent,
- vital,
- vitalizing,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- working,
- zealous,
- zestful,
- zesty,
- zippy
- busy
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- crowded with or characterized by much activity; "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"
- actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"; "the line is busy"
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"
- keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection" related words >
- absorb,
- active,
- arabesque,
- assiduous,
- at it,
- at work,
- attend to business,
- baroque,
- burden,
- bustling,
- busybody,
- chichi,
- complex,
- complicated,
- detailed,
- devote,
- diligent,
- divert,
- drive,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- employ,
- employed,
- energetic,
- engage,
- engaged,
- engross,
- fag,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- florid,
- flowery,
- forward,
- frilly,
- full of business,
- fussy,
- hard at it,
- hard at work,
- hectic,
- high-wrought,
- hustling,
- immerse,
- impertinent,
- in harness,
- industrious,
- inquisitive,
- intricate,
- involve,
- involved,
- keep busy,
- labored,
- lively,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- mind the store,
- moresque,
- nosy,
- occupied,
- occupy,
- officious,
- on duty,
- on the go,
- on the hop,
- on the job,
- on the jump,
- on the move,
- on the run,
- oppress,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- overdrive,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overtask,
- overtax,
- overwork,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- pass the time,
- picturesque,
- presumptuous,
- pretty-pretty,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- rich,
- rococo,
- self-appointed,
- snoopy,
- soak,
- spend,
- spend the time,
- sweat,
- task,
- tax,
- tied up,
- work,
- working
- contumelious
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- arrogantly insolent related words >
- Rabelaisian,
- abusive,
- arrogant,
- atrocious,
- audacious,
- back-biting,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- belittling,
- bitchy,
- blasphemous,
- bold,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- calumniatory,
- calumnious,
- catty,
- cavalier,
- censorious,
- clannish,
- cliquish,
- cold,
- comminatory,
- contemptuous,
- cool,
- critical,
- cursing,
- damnatory,
- defamatory,
- degrading,
- denunciatory,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- depreciatory,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- derogative,
- derogatory,
- detractory,
- dirty,
- disdainful,
- dismissive,
- disparaging,
- dysphemistic,
- epithetic,
- exclusive,
- excommunicative,
- excommunicatory,
- execratory,
- familiar,
- forward,
- foul,
- fulminatory,
- haughty,
- hubristic,
- humiliating,
- impertinent,
- imprecatory,
- impudent,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- invective,
- left-handed,
- libelous,
- maledictory,
- minimizing,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- offensive,
- opprobrious,
- outrageous,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- pejorative,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- procacious,
- profane,
- pushy,
- railing,
- raw,
- ribald,
- ridiculing,
- risque,
- saucy,
- scandalous,
- scatologic,
- scolding,
- scornful,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- severe,
- slanderous,
- slighting,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- supercilious,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- truculent,
- unspeakable,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- vile,
- vilifying,
- vituperative,
- withering
- abusive,
- arrogant,
- assuming,
- atrocious,
- audacious,
- aweless,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- bold,
- brash,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- bumptious,
- callous,
- calumnious,
- cavalier,
- challenging,
- cheeky,
- cocky,
- cold,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- crude,
- daring,
- defiant,
- defying,
- degrading,
- derisive,
- dictatorial,
- discourteous,
- disdainful,
- disparaging,
- disregardful,
- disrespectful,
- familiar,
- forward,
- fresh,
- greatly daring,
- hard,
- hardened,
- haughty,
- high-and-mighty,
- hubristic,
- humiliating,
- impenitent,
- imperative,
- impertinent,
- impolite,
- improvident,
- imprudent,
- impudent,
- inaffable,
- incautious,
- indiscreet,
- injudicious,
- insubordinate,
- insulting,
- irreverent,
- left-handed,
- lofty,
- magisterial,
- obdurate,
- obtrusive,
- offensive,
- outrageous,
- overbearing,
- overbold,
- overcareless,
- overconfident,
- overpresumptuous,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- peremptory,
- pert,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- procacious,
- pushy,
- rash,
- regardless of consequences,
- ridiculing,
- rude,
- saucy,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- self-appointed,
- self-elect,
- supercilious,
- superior,
- temerarious,
- unabject,
- unaccommodating,
- unchary,
- uncivil,
- uncomplaisant,
- uncontrite,
- uncourteous,
- uncourtly,
- ungallant,
- ungracious,
- unmelted,
- unpolite,
- unrepentant,
- unrepenting,
- unsoftened,
- unspeakable,
- untouched,
- unwary,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- wise,
- would-be
- confident
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- not liable to error in judgment or action; "most surefooted of the statesmen who dealt with the depression"- Walter Lippman; "demonstrates a surefooted storytelling talent"- Michiko Kakutani
- having or marked by confidence or assurance; "a confident speaker"; "a confident reply"; "his manner is more confident these days"; "confident of fulfillment" related words >
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- anticipant,
- anticipating,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- arrogant,
- aspiring,
- assured,
- awaiting,
- aweless,
- balanced,
- believing,
- bold,
- brash,
- brave,
- certain,
- cocksure,
- cocky,
- collected,
- composed,
- convinced,
- cool,
- courageous,
- dauntless,
- decided,
- determined,
- devout,
- dogmatic,
- doubtless,
- dreadless,
- eager,
- equanimous,
- equilibrious,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- faithful,
- fearless,
- fideistic,
- fond,
- forearmed,
- forestalling,
- forewarned,
- full of hope,
- gaping,
- hopeful,
- hoping,
- hubristic,
- impressed with,
- in anticipation,
- in expectation,
- in good heart,
- in hopes,
- intrepid,
- levelheaded,
- looking for,
- looking forward to,
- not surprised,
- of good cheer,
- of good hope,
- optimistic,
- overconfident,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- perky,
- persuaded,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- pistic,
- poised,
- pompous,
- positive,
- prepared,
- presuming,
- proud,
- pushful,
- pushy,
- ready,
- reassured,
- recollected,
- reliant,
- sanguine,
- satisfied,
- secure,
- self-assertive,
- self-assured,
- self-confident,
- self-controlled,
- self-important,
- self-possessed,
- self-reliant,
- self-restrained,
- sold on,
- sure,
- together,
- unafraid,
- unapprehensive,
- unbashful,
- undaunted,
- under the impression,
- undespairing,
- undiffident,
- undoubtful,
- undoubting,
- unfaltering,
- unfearful,
- unfearing,
- unfrightened,
- unhesitating,
- unscared,
- unshy,
- unsurprised,
- unterrified,
- untimid,
- untimorous,
- unwavering,
- uppity,
- valiant,
- waiting,
- waiting for,
- watching for,
- well-balanced
- overweening
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- presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times related words >
- a bit much,
- abandoned,
- arrogant,
- assuming,
- assured,
- audacious,
- boundless,
- brash,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- bumptious,
- cocksure,
- cold,
- complacent,
- confident,
- consequential,
- contumelious,
- convinced,
- cool,
- decided,
- determined,
- disdainful,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fabulous,
- familiar,
- fancy,
- forward,
- gigantic,
- gluttonous,
- high,
- hubristic,
- hyperbolic,
- hypertrophied,
- immoderate,
- improvident,
- imprudent,
- impudent,
- incautious,
- incontinent,
- indiscreet,
- injudicious,
- inordinate,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- intemperate,
- monstrous,
- narcissan,
- narcissine,
- narcissistic,
- narcistic,
- obtrusive,
- out of bounds,
- out of sight,
- outrageous,
- overbig,
- overbold,
- overcareless,
- overconfident,
- overdeveloped,
- overgreat,
- overgrown,
- overlarge,
- overmuch,
- overpresumptuous,
- overproud,
- oversure,
- persuaded,
- poised,
- pompous,
- positive,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- procacious,
- proud,
- pushful,
- pushy,
- rash,
- reassured,
- secure,
- self-admiring,
- self-appointed,
- self-approving,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-assuming,
- self-assured,
- self-complacent,
- self-confident,
- self-congratulating,
- self-congratulatory,
- self-content,
- self-contented,
- self-delighting,
- self-elect,
- self-endeared,
- self-esteeming,
- self-gratulating,
- self-gratulatory,
- self-important,
- self-loving,
- self-reliant,
- self-respecting,
- self-satisfied,
- self-sufficient,
- smug,
- steep,
- stiff,
- sure,
- temerarious,
- too much,
- unafraid,
- unbridled,
- unchary,
- unconscionable,
- undoubting,
- undue,
- unfaltering,
- unhesitating,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- unwary,
- unwavering,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- would-be
- dogmatic
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- characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
- relating to or involving dogma; "dogmatic writings"
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative related words >
- Sabbatarian,
- a priori,
- antiblack,
- arbitrary,
- arrogant,
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- balking,
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- know-nothing,
- literalist,
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- magisterial,
- mulish,
- nonobjective,
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- oracular,
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- pietistic,
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- prejudiced,
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- racist,
- reasoned,
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- sexist,
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- undetached,
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- undoubtful,
- undoubting,
- unpersuadable,
- unregenerate,
- warped,
- willful,
- xenophobic
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