Related Words:
- pinchbeck
collapse - an alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold
- serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism" related words >
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- bravery,
- brummagem,
- cheat,
- chiffon,
- clinquant,
- colorable,
- colored,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- fakement,
- false,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- festoons,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- finery,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- forgery,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- froufrou,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- garbled,
- gaudery,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gingerbread,
- hoax,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- impostor,
- junk,
- junky,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mock,
- paste,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- quasi,
- queer,
- rip-off,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulacrum,
- simulated,
- snide,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- superfluity,
- supposititious,
- swindle,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- trappings,
- trickery,
- trumpery,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped,
- whited sepulcher
- idiosyncratic
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- peculiar to the individual; "we all have our own idiosyncratic gestures"; "Michelangelo's highly idiosyncratic style of painting" related words >
- abnormal,
- anomalous,
- appropriate,
- characteristic,
- characterizing,
- connotative,
- contrastive,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotative,
- designative,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- diacritical,
- diagnostic,
- differencing,
- different,
- differential,
- differentiative,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinctive,
- distinguished,
- distinguishing,
- divergent,
- dotty,
- eccentric,
- emblematic,
- erratic,
- evidential,
- exceptional,
- exhibitive,
- expressive,
- fey,
- figural,
- figurative,
- flaky,
- freakish,
- funny,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiocratic,
- implicative,
- in character,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- individual,
- individualizing,
- individuating,
- intrinsic,
- irregular,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- maggoty,
- marked,
- meaningful,
- metaphorical,
- naming,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- personal,
- personalizing,
- private,
- proper,
- queer,
- quintessential,
- quirky,
- representative,
- screwball,
- screwy,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- separative,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- single,
- singular,
- strange,
- suggestive,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- true to form,
- twisted,
- typical,
- unconventional,
- unique,
- unnatural,
- wacky,
- whimsical
- absurd,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- amusing,
- bantering,
- bizarre,
- booing,
- burning with curiosity,
- catcalling,
- catechistic,
- chaffing,
- consumed with curiosity,
- curious,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- disbelieving,
- droll,
- eccentric,
- fleering,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- funny,
- ghoulish,
- gossipy,
- grinning,
- hilarious,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- humorous,
- incongruous,
- inquiring,
- inquisitional,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- interested,
- interrogational,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- itchy,
- jeering,
- jollying,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- laughable,
- leering,
- ludicrous,
- mocking,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- odd,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overcurious,
- panning,
- priceless,
- probing,
- prurient,
- puzzled,
- quaint,
- queer,
- querying,
- questioning,
- quizzing,
- ragging,
- railing,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- rich,
- ridiculing,
- ridiculous,
- risible,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- scopophiliac,
- screaming,
- searching,
- skeptical,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- supercurious,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- twitting,
- unbelieving,
- voyeuristic,
- whimsical,
- witty
- distressed
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- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found themselves in a bad way financially" related words >
- abashed,
- afflicted,
- agitated,
- agonized,
- annoyed,
- anxious,
- badly off,
- beset,
- bothered,
- cast down,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- confused,
- convulsed,
- crucified,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- disquieted,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- disturbed,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- feeling the pinch,
- harassed,
- hard up,
- harrowed,
- hung up,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- ill at ease,
- ill off,
- impecunious,
- in Queer Street,
- in distress,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in pain,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- inconvenienced,
- irked,
- lacerated,
- land-poor,
- martyred,
- martyrized,
- mortified,
- narrow,
- on the edge,
- on the rack,
- out of countenance,
- out of pocket,
- pained,
- perturbed,
- pinched,
- plagued,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- put to it,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- puzzled,
- racked,
- reduced,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- sore beset,
- squeezed,
- straitened,
- strapped,
- suffering,
- tormented,
- tortured,
- troubled,
- twisted,
- uncomfortable,
- under the harrow,
- uneasy,
- unmoneyed,
- unprosperous,
- upset,
- vexed,
- worried,
- wounded,
- wrung
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- bereft of reason,
- beside the mark,
- brainsick,
- corrupt,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- deluded,
- delusive,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- disoriented,
- distorted,
- distraught,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- false,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- flighty,
- hallucinated,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- insane,
- irrational,
- loco,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- moon-struck,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- not all there,
- not true,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- off the track,
- out,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- psycho,
- queer,
- reasonless,
- self-contradictory,
- senseless,
- sick,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- straying,
- tetched,
- touched,
- unbalanced,
- unfactual,
- unhinged,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- untrue,
- wandering,
- wide,
- witless,
- wrong
- unbalanced
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- debits and credits are not equal
- being or thrown out of equilibrium related words >
- abnormal,
- asymmetric,
- asymmetrical,
- batty,
- bereft of reason,
- bonkers,
- brainsick,
- canted,
- certifiable,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daffy,
- daft,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- disoriented,
- disproportionate,
- distraught,
- disturbed,
- dizzy,
- eccentric,
- flighty,
- hallucinated,
- heeling,
- ill-balanced,
- illegal,
- inequitable,
- iniquitous,
- insane,
- irrational,
- irregular,
- leaning,
- listing,
- loco,
- lopsided,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- moon-struck,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- nonsymmetrical,
- not all there,
- not right,
- nuts,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- off-balance,
- off-center,
- overbalanced,
- psycho,
- queer,
- reasonless,
- senseless,
- shaky,
- sick,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- tetched,
- top-heavy,
- touched,
- uncentered,
- undeserved,
- undue,
- unequal,
- unequitable,
- uneven,
- unhinged,
- unjust,
- unlawful,
- unmeet,
- unmerited,
- unrightful,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unsymmetrical,
- wacky,
- wandering,
- witless,
- wobbly,
- wrong,
- wrongful
- assumed
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- accepted as real or true without proof; "an assumed increase in population"; "the assumed reason for his absence"; "assumptive beliefs"; "his loyalty was taken for granted"
- adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
- taken as your right without justification; "was hearing evidence in an assumed capacity"; "Congress's arrogated powers over domains hitherto belonging to the states" related words >
- accepted,
- accounted as,
- affected,
- alleged,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumptive,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- chanced,
- colorable,
- colored,
- conjectured,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- deceptive,
- deemed,
- delusory,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- expected,
- expropriated,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- garbled,
- given,
- granted,
- hinted,
- hypocritical,
- hypothetical,
- illegitimate,
- illusory,
- imitation,
- implicated,
- implied,
- in hand,
- in process,
- in progress,
- in the works,
- indicated,
- inferred,
- insubstantial,
- intimated,
- involved,
- junky,
- made-up,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- meant,
- mock,
- on the anvil,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- postulated,
- postulational,
- premised,
- presumed,
- presumptive,
- presupposed,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put on,
- put-on,
- putative,
- quasi,
- queer,
- reputed,
- seized,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- suggested,
- supposed,
- suppositional,
- supposititious,
- suppositive,
- synthetic,
- taken,
- taken for granted,
- theoretical,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- under way,
- understood,
- undertaken,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped
- gum
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- any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
- exude or form gum; "these trees gum in the Spring"
- become sticky
- cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum; "if you gum the tape it is stronger" related words >
- Lastex,
- acaroid resins,
- agglutinate,
- alveolar ridge,
- amber,
- baleen,
- battledore,
- bind,
- bite,
- bollix,
- braze,
- bridgework,
- bubble gum,
- cement,
- champ,
- chaw,
- chew,
- chew the cud,
- chew up,
- chewing gum,
- chicle,
- chicle gum,
- chomp,
- colophony,
- coumarone resins,
- crab,
- cramp,
- crimp,
- dental bridge,
- dentition,
- denture,
- elastic,
- elastomer,
- false teeth,
- fossil resins,
- foul up,
- fuse,
- glue,
- gnash,
- gnaw,
- grind,
- gum elastic,
- gum rosin,
- gum up,
- gums,
- handball,
- ivories,
- jumping jack,
- lac resins,
- louse up,
- masticate,
- mouth,
- mumble,
- munch,
- nibble,
- paste,
- periodontal tissue,
- pine resins,
- plastic,
- plate,
- queer,
- racket,
- resin,
- resina,
- resinate,
- resinoid,
- rosin,
- rubber,
- rubber ball,
- rubber band,
- ruminate,
- set of teeth,
- snafu,
- solder,
- spandex,
- spring,
- springboard,
- stick together,
- stretch fabric,
- synthetic resin,
- teeth,
- trampoline,
- uppers and lowers,
- vegetable resins,
- weld,
- whalebone
- artificial
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- artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
- contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"
- not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- colorable,
- colored,
- concocted,
- contrived,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cute,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- euphuistic,
- fabricated,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- fashioned,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- forced,
- garbled,
- goody-goody,
- high-sounding,
- histrionic,
- hollow,
- hyperelegant,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- insincere,
- junky,
- la-di-da,
- labored,
- made,
- made-up,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- manufactured,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- mock,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- painted,
- papier-mache,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- plastic,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- pretend,
- pretended,
- pretentious,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quaint,
- quasi,
- queer,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simpering,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- stagy,
- studied,
- substitute,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- theatrical,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped
- abnormal,
- amiss,
- askew,
- awry,
- balmy,
- bananas,
- barmy,
- bats,
- batty,
- bereft of reason,
- berserk,
- bonkers,
- brainsick,
- cockeyed,
- convulsed,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- cuckoo,
- daft,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- dippy,
- disarranged,
- discomfited,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dislocated,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- disorganized,
- disoriented,
- distraught,
- disturbed,
- dotty,
- flighty,
- hallucinated,
- haywire,
- in disorder,
- insane,
- irrational,
- kooky,
- loco,
- loony,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- maniac,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- misplaced,
- moon-struck,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- not all there,
- not right,
- nuts,
- nutty,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- on the fritz,
- out of gear,
- out of joint,
- out of kelter,
- out of kilter,
- out of order,
- out of place,
- out of tune,
- out of whack,
- perturbed,
- potty,
- psycho,
- psychotic,
- queer,
- reasonless,
- roily,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- shuffled,
- sick,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- tetched,
- touched,
- turbid,
- turbulent,
- unbalanced,
- unhinged,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- upset,
- wacky,
- wandering,
- witless
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- absurd,
- amusing,
- antic,
- barred,
- beyond belief,
- bizarre,
- closed-out,
- cockamamie,
- comic,
- comical,
- contrary to reason,
- crazy,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- droll,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- eccentric,
- excluded,
- extravagant,
- fantastic,
- farcical,
- foolish,
- funny,
- grotesque,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- high-flown,
- hilarious,
- hopeless,
- humorous,
- implausible,
- impossible,
- improper,
- inane,
- inconceivable,
- incongruous,
- incredible,
- indecent,
- indelicate,
- insane,
- laughable,
- logically impossible,
- ludicrous,
- malodorous,
- mirthful,
- monstrous,
- nonsensical,
- not deserving belief,
- not possible,
- open to doubt,
- open to suspicion,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- passing belief,
- poppycockish,
- preposterous,
- priceless,
- problematic,
- prohibited,
- quaint,
- queer,
- questionable,
- quizzical,
- rich,
- risible,
- rough,
- ruled-out,
- screaming,
- self-contradictory,
- silly,
- staggering belief,
- stupid,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- tall,
- thick,
- thin,
- unbecoming,
- unbelievable,
- unconvincing,
- undecorous,
- unearthly,
- ungodly,
- unimaginable,
- unseemly,
- unthinkable,
- unworthy of belief,
- weird,
- whimsical,
- wild,
- witty,
- zany
- snafu
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- an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up
- cause to be in a state of complete confusion related words >
- Chinese puzzle,
- Gordian knot,
- Rube Goldberg contraption,
- anarchic,
- anarchy,
- arsy-varsy,
- ass-backwards,
- ball up,
- balled up,
- bollix,
- bollix up,
- bollixed up,
- bugger,
- bugger up,
- can of worms,
- chaos,
- chaotic,
- complex,
- confound,
- confuse,
- confused,
- confusion,
- cook,
- crab,
- cramp,
- crimp,
- fabulous formless darkness,
- foul up,
- foul-up,
- fouled up,
- fumble,
- galley-west,
- garble,
- gum,
- gum up,
- hash up,
- hassle,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hugger-mugger,
- in a mess,
- jumble,
- jumbled,
- jungle,
- knot,
- labyrinth,
- license,
- louse up,
- maze,
- meander,
- mesh,
- mess,
- mess up,
- misrule,
- mix up,
- mix-up,
- mixed up,
- morass,
- muck up,
- mucked up,
- muddle,
- muddled,
- perplex,
- pi,
- play hell with,
- play hob with,
- queer,
- ravel,
- riffle,
- scattered,
- scramble,
- screw up,
- screw-up,
- screwed up,
- shuffle,
- sink,
- skimble-skamble,
- snake pit,
- snarl,
- snarl up,
- tangle,
- tangled skein,
- topsy-turvy,
- tumble,
- upside-down,
- webwork,
- wheels within wheels,
- wilderness
- on the spot
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- without delay or immediately; "we hired her on the spot"; "thought they were going to shoot us down on the spot"
- at the place in question; there; "they were on the spot when it happened"; "it had to be decided by the man on the spot"
- in a difficult situation; "that question really put him on the spot" related words >
- PDQ,
- aboard,
- among us,
- apace,
- as of now,
- as things are,
- at once,
- at present,
- at this juncture,
- at this moment,
- at this point,
- at this time,
- between two fires,
- but now,
- cornered,
- cursory,
- decisively,
- directly,
- endangered,
- even now,
- expeditious,
- expeditiously,
- festinate,
- feverish,
- flying,
- for the nonce,
- for this occasion,
- forthwith,
- furious,
- hasty,
- here,
- here and now,
- hereabout,
- hereabouts,
- hereat,
- hereinto,
- hereto,
- hereunto,
- hic et nunc,
- hither,
- hitherward,
- hitherwards,
- hurried,
- immediate,
- immediately,
- imperiled,
- in Dutch,
- in a bind,
- in a fix,
- in a mess,
- in a pickle,
- in a predicament,
- in a scrape,
- in a spot,
- in danger,
- in deep water,
- in desperate case,
- in extremis,
- in jeopardy,
- in no time,
- in our time,
- in these days,
- in this place,
- in this vicinity,
- in trouble,
- instant,
- instantaneously,
- instanter,
- instantly,
- jeopardized,
- just here,
- just now,
- just then,
- last-minute,
- momentaneously,
- momentarily,
- momently,
- now,
- nowadays,
- on Queer Street,
- on board,
- on the dot,
- on the instant,
- on the nail,
- passing,
- pretty damned quick,
- prompt,
- promptly,
- pronto,
- quick,
- quickly,
- right away,
- right off,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- smartly,
- snap,
- somewhere about,
- speedily,
- speedy,
- straightaway,
- straightway,
- subito,
- summarily,
- superficial,
- swift,
- swiftly,
- this day,
- this night,
- threatened,
- to this place,
- today,
- tonight,
- urgent,
- with all speed,
- with us,
- without delay,
- without further delay
- embarrass
collapse
- cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious related words >
- abash,
- absorb,
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- agitate,
- awkward,
- ball up,
- becloud,
- bedazzle,
- befuddle,
- bewilder,
- bother,
- bug,
- burden,
- cast down,
- catch up in,
- chagrin,
- cloud,
- concern,
- confound,
- confuse,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- cumber,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- deflate,
- discombobulate,
- discomfit,
- discommodious,
- discompose,
- disconcert,
- discountenance,
- disgrace,
- dismay,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- distress,
- disturb,
- draw in,
- embarrassing,
- encumber,
- engage,
- enmesh,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- entoil,
- entrammel,
- entrap,
- entwine,
- faze,
- fetter,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fuddle,
- fuss,
- hamper,
- hamstring,
- handicap,
- hobble,
- humble,
- humiliate,
- impede,
- implicate,
- incommodious,
- interest,
- involve,
- lame,
- let down,
- lime,
- lumber,
- maze,
- mist,
- mix up,
- moider,
- mortify,
- muddle,
- net,
- nonplus,
- perplex,
- perturb,
- pother,
- press down,
- put out,
- put to shame,
- queer,
- raise hell,
- rattle,
- ruffle,
- saddle with,
- shackle,
- shame,
- show up,
- snarl,
- suck into,
- tangle,
- throw into confusion,
- toil,
- trammel,
- unsettle,
- upset,
- vex,
- weigh down
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assembled,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- built,
- cast,
- colorable,
- colored,
- constructed,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- crafted,
- created,
- custom,
- custom-built,
- custom-made,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- extracted,
- fabricated,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- fashioned,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- forged,
- formed,
- garbled,
- gathered,
- grown,
- handcrafted,
- handmade,
- harvested,
- homemade,
- homespun,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- junky,
- machine-made,
- machined,
- made,
- made to order,
- make-believe,
- manufactured,
- milled,
- mined,
- mock,
- molded,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- prefab,
- prefabricated,
- pretended,
- processed,
- pseudo,
- put together,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- raised,
- ready-for-wear,
- ready-formed,
- ready-made,
- ready-prepared,
- ready-to-wear,
- refined,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shaped,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- smelted,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped,
- well-built,
- well-constructed,
- well-made
- wreck
collapse
- a ship that has been destroyed at sea
- something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation; "the house was a wreck when they bought it"; "thanks to that quack I am a human wreck" related words >
- accident,
- assault,
- atomize,
- attack,
- auto,
- autocar,
- automobile,
- bankrupt,
- barbarize,
- batter,
- beach,
- blight,
- bloodbath,
- blow,
- blue ruin,
- boat,
- botch,
- break to pieces,
- breakdown,
- breaking up,
- breakup,
- bring to ruin,
- brutalize,
- bugger,
- buggy,
- burn,
- bus,
- butcher,
- calamity,
- car,
- carcass,
- carnage,
- carry on,
- cast away,
- casualty,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- cave,
- cave-in,
- cleave,
- collapse,
- collision,
- condemn,
- confound,
- consume,
- consumption,
- contretemps,
- crack-up,
- crash,
- crate,
- cripple,
- damn,
- damnation,
- de-energize,
- deal destruction,
- debacle,
- debilitate,
- decimate,
- decimation,
- demolish,
- depredate,
- depredation,
- desolate,
- desolation,
- despoil,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destroy,
- destruction,
- devastate,
- devastation,
- devour,
- dilapidate,
- disable,
- disassemble,
- disaster,
- disenable,
- disintegrate,
- disintegration,
- dismantle,
- disorganization,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- dissolve,
- do in,
- dog,
- drain,
- enfeeble,
- engorge,
- force,
- fragment,
- go on,
- gobble,
- gobble up,
- grief,
- ground,
- gut,
- gut with fire,
- hammer,
- hamstring,
- havoc,
- heap,
- hecatomb,
- holocaust,
- hors de combat,
- hulk,
- ill hap,
- impose,
- inactivate,
- incapacitate,
- incinerate,
- jalopy,
- kibosh,
- lame,
- lay in ruins,
- lay waste,
- loot,
- machine,
- maim,
- make mincemeat of,
- mar,
- maul,
- mere wreck,
- misadventure,
- mischance,
- misfortune,
- mishap,
- motor,
- motor vehicle,
- motorcar,
- motorized vehicle,
- mug,
- nasty blow,
- nervous wreck,
- perdition,
- pick to pieces,
- pile up,
- pileup,
- pillage,
- play havoc with,
- plunder,
- pull in pieces,
- pull to pieces,
- pulverize,
- put,
- queer,
- queer the works,
- rage,
- ramp,
- rampage,
- rant,
- rape,
- rattletrap,
- ravage,
- rave,
- raze,
- reduce to rubble,
- rend,
- riot,
- roar,
- ruin,
- ruinate,
- ruination,
- ruins,
- run aground,
- sabotage,
- sack,
- savage,
- shambles,
- shatter,
- shipwreck,
- shock,
- skeleton,
- slaughter,
- smash,
- smashup,
- sow chaos,
- spike,
- split,
- spoil,
- spoliation,
- staggering blow,
- storm,
- strand,
- subvert,
- sunder,
- swallow up,
- take apart,
- take the ground,
- tear,
- tear apart,
- tear around,
- tear to pieces,
- tear to shreds,
- tear to tatters,
- terrorize,
- throw into disorder,
- total,
- total loss,
- tragedy,
- trash,
- tub,
- unbuild,
- undermine,
- undo,
- undoing,
- unfit,
- unleash destruction,
- unleash the hurricane,
- unmake,
- upheave,
- vandalism,
- vandalize,
- vaporize,
- violate,
- visit,
- voiture,
- washout,
- waste,
- weaken,
- wheels,
- wing,
- wrack,
- wrack and ruin,
- wrack up,
- wreak,
- wreak havoc
- embellished
collapse
- rich in decorative detail
- excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away" related words >
- adorned,
- advanced,
- affected,
- ameliorated,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- beaded,
- beautified,
- bedecked,
- bedizened,
- befrilled,
- bejeweled,
- beribboned,
- bespangled,
- bettered,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- civilized,
- colorable,
- colored,
- converted,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- decked out,
- decorated,
- developed,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- educated,
- embroidered,
- enhanced,
- enriched,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- fancy,
- feathered,
- feigned,
- festooned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- figurative,
- figured,
- florid,
- flowered,
- flowery,
- garbled,
- garnished,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- improved,
- jeweled,
- junky,
- lush,
- luxuriant,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mock,
- ornamented,
- ornate,
- overcharged,
- overloaded,
- perfected,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- plumed,
- polished,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- purple,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- refined,
- reformed,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spangled,
- spangly,
- spurious,
- studded,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- transfigured,
- transformed,
- tricked out,
- trimmed,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped,
- wreathed
- distraught
collapse
- deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief" related words >
- abashed,
- abnormal,
- abroad,
- addled,
- adrift,
- agitated,
- astray,
- at sea,
- batty,
- bereft of reason,
- berserk,
- bewildered,
- bothered,
- brainsick,
- clueless,
- concerned,
- confused,
- crackbrained,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- daft,
- delirious,
- deluded,
- demented,
- deprived of reason,
- deranged,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- disoriented,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- excited,
- feverish,
- flighty,
- flustered,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- guessing,
- hallucinated,
- harassed,
- hysterical,
- in a fix,
- in a maze,
- in a pickle,
- in a scrape,
- in a stew,
- insane,
- irrational,
- loco,
- lost,
- lunatic,
- mad,
- maddened,
- manic,
- mazed,
- mental,
- mentally deficient,
- meshuggah,
- moon-struck,
- muddled,
- nervous,
- non compos,
- non compos mentis,
- nonplussed,
- not all there,
- not right,
- nuts,
- odd,
- of unsound mind,
- off,
- off the track,
- overwrought,
- perturbed,
- psycho,
- put-out,
- queer,
- rambling,
- reasonless,
- senseless,
- sick,
- stark-mad,
- stark-staring mad,
- strange,
- tetched,
- tormented,
- touched,
- troubled,
- turned around,
- unbalanced,
- unhinged,
- unsane,
- unsettled,
- unsound,
- upset,
- wandering,
- wild,
- without a clue,
- witless,
- worked up,
- wrought up
- funny
collapse
- experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest" related words >
- Attic,
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- amusing,
- anomalous,
- antic,
- biting,
- bizarre,
- brilliant,
- clever,
- comic,
- comical,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- curious,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- different,
- divergent,
- diverting,
- dotty,
- droll,
- eccentric,
- entertaining,
- erratic,
- exceptional,
- facetious,
- fantastic,
- farcical,
- fey,
- flaky,
- freaked out,
- freakish,
- freaky,
- grotesque,
- hilarious,
- humorous,
- humorsome,
- hysterical,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- incongruous,
- irregular,
- jesting,
- jocose,
- jocular,
- joking,
- joky,
- joshing,
- keen,
- keen-witted,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- laughable,
- ludicrous,
- maggoty,
- merry,
- mordant,
- mysterious,
- mystifying,
- nimble-witted,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off the wall,
- out,
- outlandish,
- passing strange,
- peculiar,
- pointed,
- priceless,
- pungent,
- puzzling,
- quaint,
- queer,
- quick-witted,
- quirky,
- quizzical,
- rapier-like,
- remarkable,
- rich,
- ridiculous,
- risible,
- salt,
- salty,
- scintillating,
- screaming,
- screwball,
- screwy,
- sharp,
- singular,
- slapstick,
- smart,
- sparkling,
- sprightly,
- strange,
- twisted,
- unconventional,
- unearthly,
- unnatural,
- unusual,
- uproarious,
- wacky,
- waggish,
- weird,
- whimsical,
- witty,
- wondrous strange,
- zany
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- anomalous,
- balmy,
- bananas,
- barmy,
- bats,
- batty,
- beany,
- besotted,
- bespangled,
- blotched,
- blotchy,
- bonkers,
- buggy,
- bughouse,
- bugs,
- crackers,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- crazy,
- crotchety,
- cuckoo,
- daffy,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- different,
- dippy,
- divergent,
- dotted,
- eccentric,
- enamored,
- erratic,
- exceptional,
- fantastic,
- fey,
- flaky,
- flea-bitten,
- flecked,
- fleckered,
- flipped,
- freaked-out,
- freakish,
- frecked,
- freckled,
- freckly,
- fruitcakey,
- fruity,
- funny,
- gaga,
- goofy,
- haywire,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- infatuate,
- insane,
- irregular,
- just plain nuts,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- loony,
- loopy,
- macular,
- maculate,
- maculated,
- maggoty,
- nuts,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off the hinges,
- off the track,
- off the wall,
- patchy,
- peculiar,
- peppered,
- pocked,
- pockmarked,
- pocky,
- pointille,
- pointillistic,
- polka-dot,
- potty,
- preposterous,
- punctated,
- queer,
- quirky,
- round the bend,
- screwball,
- screwballs,
- screwy,
- singular,
- slaphappy,
- spangled,
- specked,
- speckled,
- speckledy,
- speckly,
- splotched,
- splotchy,
- spotted,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- stippled,
- strange,
- studded,
- twisted,
- unconventional,
- unnatural,
- wacky,
- whimsical
- straitened
collapse
- distressed or embarrassed (especially financially) related words >
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- badly off,
- bound,
- bounded,
- conditioned,
- confined,
- copyrighted,
- cramped,
- desperate,
- destitute,
- disciplined,
- distressed,
- down to bedrock,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- embarrassed,
- exiguous,
- feeling the pinch,
- finite,
- frugal,
- hard pressed,
- hard up,
- ill off,
- impecunious,
- impoverished,
- in Queer Street,
- in desperate straits,
- in extremis,
- in extremities,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- inadequate,
- indigent,
- insolvent,
- insufficient,
- jejune,
- land-poor,
- lean,
- limited,
- meager,
- mean,
- miserly,
- moderated,
- narrow,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- niggardly,
- on the edge,
- oppressed,
- out of pocket,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- patented,
- penniless,
- pinched,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- poverty-stricken,
- prescribed,
- proscribed,
- puny,
- qualified,
- reduced,
- restricted,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sorely pressed,
- spare,
- sparing,
- squeezed,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- strait,
- strapped,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- unmoneyed,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unprosperous,
- up against it,
- watered,
- watery
- curious
collapse
- eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings"
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"
- having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me curious" related words >
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- analytical,
- attentive,
- attracted,
- barmy,
- bizarre,
- burning with curiosity,
- careful,
- catechistic,
- cathectic,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- concerned,
- considerate,
- consumed with curiosity,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- eccentric,
- enthusiastic,
- erratic,
- examining,
- excited,
- exotic,
- extraordinary,
- fascinated,
- freaked out,
- freakish,
- freaky,
- funny,
- ghoulish,
- gossipy,
- grotesque,
- heedful,
- impertinent,
- inquiring,
- inquisitional,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- interested,
- interfering,
- intermeddling,
- interrogational,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- intrusive,
- investigative,
- irregular,
- itchy,
- keen on,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- loving,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- mindful,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- nosy,
- nuts,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off the wall,
- offbeat,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- out,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overcurious,
- passing strange,
- passionate,
- peculiar,
- piqued,
- pixilated,
- prurient,
- prying,
- quaint,
- queer,
- querying,
- questioning,
- quizzical,
- quizzing,
- regardful,
- scopophiliac,
- scrutinizing,
- searching,
- singular,
- snooping,
- snoopy,
- solicitous,
- strange,
- supercurious,
- tantalized,
- tender,
- thoughtful,
- tickled,
- titillated,
- turned-on,
- unconventional,
- unearthly,
- unusual,
- voyeuristic,
- weird,
- wondrous strange
- anarchy,
- ball up,
- bitch,
- bitch up,
- bloomer,
- blooper,
- blow,
- bobble,
- bollix,
- bollix up,
- bonehead into it,
- bonehead play,
- boner,
- boo-boo,
- boob stunt,
- boot,
- bugger,
- bugger up,
- butterfingers,
- chaos,
- clumsy,
- complicate,
- confound,
- confuse,
- confusion,
- cook,
- crab,
- cramp,
- crimp,
- drop a brick,
- drop the ball,
- dub,
- duff,
- duffer,
- dumb trick,
- embrangle,
- entangle,
- fabulous formless darkness,
- flub,
- fluff,
- fool mistake,
- foozle,
- foozler,
- fumble,
- fumble-fist,
- garble,
- goof,
- goof up,
- goofball,
- goofer,
- gum,
- gum up,
- hash up,
- hassle,
- hick,
- howler,
- implicate,
- involve,
- jumble,
- knot,
- license,
- louse up,
- louse-up,
- lummox,
- lump,
- mess up,
- misrule,
- mix up,
- mix-up,
- morass,
- muck up,
- muck-up,
- muddle,
- muff,
- muffer,
- perplex,
- pi,
- play hell with,
- play hob with,
- pratfall,
- pull a boner,
- queer,
- ramify,
- ravel,
- riffle,
- rube,
- scramble,
- screamer,
- screw up,
- screw-up,
- shuffle,
- sink,
- slob,
- snafu,
- snarl,
- snarl up,
- stumblebum,
- stumblebunny,
- tangle,
- tumble
- thwart
collapse
- a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" related words >
- across,
- across the grain,
- annul,
- athwart,
- athwartships,
- baffle,
- balk,
- beat,
- bench,
- bendwise,
- bias,
- biased,
- biaswise,
- bilk,
- blast,
- block,
- brace,
- brave,
- bring to nothing,
- buffer,
- cancel,
- cancel out,
- cast down,
- catercorner,
- catercornered,
- challenge,
- check,
- checkmate,
- circumvent,
- come to nothing,
- confound,
- confront,
- contrariwise,
- contravene,
- contrawise,
- counter,
- counteract,
- counterbalance,
- countermand,
- counterwork,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crossing,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- curb,
- dash,
- defeat,
- defeat expectation,
- defy,
- destroy,
- diagonal,
- disappoint,
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- kittycorner,
- knock the chocks,
- let down,
- negate,
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- neutralize,
- nonplus,
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- oblique,
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- thwartly,
- thwartways,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- transversely,
- traverse,
- undo,
- upset,
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- void
- illegitimate
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- contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"
- of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful related words >
- actionable,
- affected,
- against the law,
- anarchic,
- anarchistic,
- anomic,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bantling,
- bar sinister,
- baseborn,
- bastard,
- bastard child,
- bastardy,
- black-market,
- bogus,
- bootleg,
- brummagem,
- by-blow,
- chargeable,
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- faked,
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- falsified,
- fatherless,
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- unreal,
- unstatutory,
- unwarrantable,
- unwarranted,
- warped,
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- tin
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- a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
- prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface
- plate with tin related words >
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- aureate,
- bag,
- barrel,
- basket,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- bottle,
- box,
- box up,
- brass,
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- bronze,
- bronzy,
- brummagem,
- can,
- capsule,
- carton,
- case,
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- colorable,
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- copper,
- coppery,
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- cupreous,
- cuprous,
- distorted,
- do up,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- encase,
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- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
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- feigned,
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- fictitious,
- fictive,
- garbled,
- gilt,
- gold,
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- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- iron,
- ironlike,
- jar,
- junky,
- lead,
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- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mercurial,
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- pinchbeck,
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- put up,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- quicksilver,
- sack,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- silver,
- silver-plated,
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- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- steel,
- steely,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tank,
- tinny,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped
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