Related Words:
- commend
collapse - express approval of
- mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship; "Remember me to your wife"
- express a good opinion of
- give to in charge; "I commend my children to you"
- present as worthy of regard, kindness, or confidence; "His paintings commend him to the artistic world" related words >
- acclaim,
- advocate,
- applaud,
- approve,
- assign,
- back,
- boost,
- commit,
- compliment,
- confide,
- consign,
- countenance,
- cry up,
- delegate,
- endorse,
- enfeoff,
- entrust,
- eulogize,
- extol,
- give in charge,
- give in trust,
- hail,
- hand over,
- hype,
- infeudate,
- plug,
- praise,
- proffer,
- promote,
- puff,
- recommend,
- relegate,
- remand,
- remit,
- resign,
- speak highly of,
- speak warmly of,
- speak well of,
- support,
- tender,
- tout,
- trust,
- turn over,
- yield
- coordinated
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- being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements; "she was usually good with her hands and well coordinated"- Mary McCarthy
- operating as a unit; "a unified utility system"; "a coordinated program"
- intentionally matched; "curtains and walls were color coordinated" related words >
- Daedalian,
- adept,
- adroit,
- apt,
- artistic,
- authoritative,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- clean,
- clever,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- deft,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- diplomatic,
- excellent,
- expert,
- fancy,
- good,
- goodish,
- graceful,
- handy,
- ingenious,
- magisterial,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- neat,
- no mean,
- politic,
- professional,
- proficient,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- skillful,
- slick,
- some,
- statesmanlike,
- stylish,
- tactful,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- virtuoso,
- well-done,
- workmanlike
- apt,
- bright,
- clever,
- docile,
- educable,
- facile,
- formable,
- homely,
- humble,
- humble-looking,
- humble-visaged,
- humblest,
- impressionable,
- inglorious,
- innocuous,
- instructable,
- intelligent,
- least,
- low,
- lowest,
- lowliest,
- lowly,
- malleable,
- mean,
- modest,
- moldable,
- motivated,
- plain,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- poor,
- quick,
- ready,
- receptive,
- ripe for instruction,
- schoolable,
- simple,
- small,
- susceptible,
- thirsty for knowledge,
- trainable,
- undistinguished,
- unimportant,
- unpretentious,
- willing
- instant
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- in or of the present month; "your letter of the 10th inst" related words >
- a breath,
- about to be,
- actual,
- acute,
- alert,
- already in sight,
- approaching,
- apt,
- as is,
- at hand,
- being,
- bit,
- breath,
- breathing,
- brewing,
- burning,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- close,
- close at hand,
- coming,
- compelling,
- contemporaneous,
- contemporary,
- coup,
- crack,
- critical,
- crucial,
- crying,
- current,
- cursory,
- day,
- decisive,
- demanding,
- dire,
- direct,
- draining,
- earnest,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- existent,
- existing,
- exorbitant,
- expeditious,
- extant,
- extortionate,
- fateful moment,
- festinate,
- feverish,
- flash,
- flying,
- forthcoming,
- fresh,
- furious,
- future,
- gathering,
- going to happen,
- grasping,
- hair-trigger,
- half a jiffy,
- half a mo,
- half a second,
- half a shake,
- hasty,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- hour,
- hurried,
- immanent,
- immediate,
- imminent,
- impendent,
- impending,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- importunate,
- in danger imminent,
- in prospect,
- in reserve,
- in store,
- in the cards,
- in the offing,
- in the wind,
- in view,
- insistent,
- instantaneous,
- interval,
- jiff,
- jiffy,
- juncture,
- kairos,
- last-minute,
- latest,
- lightning-like,
- little,
- little bit,
- little while,
- looming,
- loud,
- lowering,
- lurking,
- menacing,
- microsecond,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- modern,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- momentaneous,
- momentary,
- near,
- near at hand,
- nearing,
- new,
- no time,
- on the horizon,
- on the spot,
- overhanging,
- overnight,
- pair of winks,
- passing,
- period,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- pivotal,
- point,
- pregnant moment,
- prepared,
- preparing,
- present,
- present-age,
- present-day,
- present-time,
- pressing,
- presto,
- prompt,
- psychological moment,
- punctual,
- quick,
- quick as lightning,
- quick as thought,
- ready,
- ready-made,
- ready-mixed,
- running,
- season,
- sec,
- second,
- shake,
- short spell,
- short time,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- small space,
- snap,
- space,
- span,
- speedy,
- spell,
- split second,
- spurt,
- stage,
- stretch,
- stroke,
- summary,
- superficial,
- swift,
- taxing,
- that be,
- that is,
- that will be,
- threatening,
- tick,
- time,
- time lag,
- to come,
- topical,
- trice,
- twink,
- twinkle,
- twinkling,
- twitch,
- two shakes,
- up-to-date,
- up-to-the-minute,
- upcoming,
- urgent,
- waiting,
- while,
- wink
- bruit,
- buzz,
- canard,
- character assassination,
- common talk,
- cry,
- dirty politics,
- flying rumor,
- grapevine,
- hearsay,
- idea afloat,
- last-minute lie,
- latrine rumor,
- muckraking,
- mudslinging,
- mudslinging campaign,
- news stirring,
- on-dit,
- political canard,
- report,
- rumble,
- rumor,
- scuttlebutt,
- smear campaign,
- talk,
- town talk,
- unconfirmed report,
- whisper,
- whispering campaign
- dissimilarity
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- the quality of being dissimilar related words >
- contrariety,
- contrast,
- departure,
- deviation,
- difference,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- disconformity,
- discongruity,
- discord,
- discordance,
- discrepancy,
- discreteness,
- disparity,
- dissemblance,
- dissent,
- dissimilitude,
- dissonance,
- distance,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversity,
- far cry,
- heterogeneity,
- inaccordance,
- incompatibility,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- inconsonance,
- inequality,
- inharmoniousness,
- inharmony,
- irreconcilability,
- margin,
- mixture,
- nonconformity,
- odds,
- offset,
- opposition,
- otherness,
- separateness,
- severance,
- unconformity,
- unlikeness,
- unorthodoxy,
- variance,
- variation,
- variegation,
- variety
- refined
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- (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
- freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare related words >
- Attic,
- Ciceronian,
- accurate,
- advanced,
- allergic,
- ameliorated,
- anaphylactic,
- appreciative,
- archetypical,
- aristocratic,
- assembled,
- attentive,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- beautified,
- bettered,
- bowdlerized,
- built,
- cast,
- chaste,
- civilized,
- clarified,
- classic,
- clean,
- cleaned,
- cleaned up,
- cleansed,
- clear,
- close,
- conscientious,
- constant,
- constructed,
- consummate,
- converted,
- correct,
- courteous,
- courtly,
- crafted,
- created,
- critical,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- custom,
- custom-built,
- custom-made,
- dainty,
- delicat,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- developed,
- differential,
- dignified,
- direct,
- discerning,
- discriminate,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distilled,
- distinctive,
- distingue,
- distinguishing,
- downy,
- easy,
- educated,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- embellished,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- enhanced,
- enriched,
- even,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exemplary,
- exigent,
- expert,
- express,
- expurgated,
- exquisite,
- extracted,
- fabricated,
- faithful,
- fashioned,
- fastidious,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- finished,
- fluffy,
- forged,
- formed,
- fully developed,
- fussy,
- fuzzy,
- gathered,
- gauzy,
- genteel,
- gentle,
- gentlemanlike,
- gentlemanly,
- goosy,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- gracious,
- grown,
- hairline,
- hairsplitting,
- handcrafted,
- handmade,
- harvested,
- highbred,
- homemade,
- homespun,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- improved,
- inerrable,
- inerrant,
- infallible,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- knowledgeable,
- ladylike,
- limpid,
- lucid,
- machine-made,
- machined,
- made,
- made to order,
- man-made,
- mannerly,
- manufactured,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- mathematical,
- mature,
- matured,
- meticulous,
- micrometrically precise,
- microscopic,
- milled,
- mined,
- minute,
- model,
- molded,
- narrow,
- natural,
- neat,
- nervous,
- nice,
- noble,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- particular,
- passible,
- pellucid,
- perfected,
- perspicuous,
- pinpoint,
- plain,
- polished,
- polite,
- posh,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- prefab,
- prefabricated,
- prickly,
- processed,
- proficient,
- pubescent,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- pure,
- purged,
- purified,
- put together,
- quintessential,
- raised,
- ready-for-wear,
- ready-formed,
- ready-made,
- ready-prepared,
- ready-to-wear,
- reformed,
- religious,
- religiously exact,
- responsive,
- restrained,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- ripe,
- ripened,
- round,
- satin,
- satiny,
- scientific,
- scientifically exact,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- shaped,
- silky,
- simple,
- skittish,
- smelted,
- smooth,
- sophisticated,
- spruce,
- square,
- straightforward,
- strict,
- subtle,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tasteful,
- tender,
- terse,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- thin-spun,
- ticklish,
- tidy,
- touchy,
- transfigured,
- transformed,
- trim,
- unaffected,
- undeviating,
- unerring,
- unlabored,
- urbane,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- well-bred,
- well-brought-up,
- well-built,
- well-constructed,
- well-made,
- well-mannered,
- wiredrawn
- pursuance
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- the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion related words >
- chase,
- chasing,
- continualness,
- continuance,
- continuation,
- continuity,
- dogging,
- endurance,
- extension,
- follow,
- follow-up,
- following,
- heeling,
- hounding,
- hue and cry,
- hunting,
- lengthening,
- maintenance,
- perpetuation,
- perseverance,
- persistence,
- progress,
- progression,
- prolongation,
- prosecution,
- protraction,
- pursual,
- pursuing,
- pursuit,
- quest,
- repetition,
- run,
- search,
- searching,
- seeking,
- sequel,
- sequence,
- series,
- shadowing,
- stalking,
- staying power,
- straight course,
- sustained action,
- sustenance,
- tailing,
- tracking,
- tracking down,
- trailing,
- uninterrupted course,
- unremittingness,
- way
- applause
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- a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together related words >
- acclaim,
- acclamation,
- alleluia,
- approbation,
- approval,
- big hand,
- burst of applause,
- cheer,
- cheering,
- cheers,
- chorus of cheers,
- clap,
- clapping,
- clapping of hands,
- commendation,
- cry,
- eclat,
- encore,
- hallelujah,
- hand,
- handclap,
- handclapping,
- hooray,
- hosanna,
- hurrah,
- hurray,
- huzzah,
- kudos,
- ovation,
- paean,
- plaudit,
- plaudits,
- popularity,
- praise,
- rah,
- rooting,
- round,
- round of applause,
- shout,
- thunder of applause,
- yell,
- yippee
- bleat
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- the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)
- cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating"
- talk whiningly related words >
- bark,
- bawl,
- bay,
- beef,
- bell,
- bellow,
- bellyache,
- bitch,
- blare,
- blat,
- blate,
- blow off,
- bray,
- call,
- caterwaul,
- crab,
- cry,
- fuss,
- give tongue,
- give voice,
- howl,
- low,
- meow,
- mew,
- mewl,
- miaow,
- moo,
- neigh,
- nicker,
- pule,
- roar,
- screak,
- scream,
- screech,
- squall,
- squawk,
- squeak,
- squeal,
- troat,
- ululate,
- wail,
- whicker,
- whine,
- whinny,
- yammer,
- yap,
- yawl,
- yawp,
- yelp,
- yip,
- yowl
- Daedalian,
- adept,
- adroit,
- apt,
- artistic,
- authoritative,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- clean,
- clever,
- coordinated,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- deft,
- dexterous,
- dextromanual,
- diplomatic,
- excellent,
- expert,
- fancy,
- good,
- goodish,
- graceful,
- handy,
- ingenious,
- magisterial,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- neat,
- no mean,
- politic,
- professional,
- proficient,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- right-handed,
- skillful,
- slick,
- some,
- statesmanlike,
- stylish,
- tactful,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- virtuoso,
- well-done,
- workmanlike
- uncombed
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- (of hair) not combed; "he was unwashed and uncombed with his clothes half buttoned"; "wild unkempt hair" related words >
- Gothic,
- Neanderthal,
- animal,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- bestial,
- brutal,
- brutish,
- disheveled,
- ill-bred,
- impolite,
- matted,
- messed up,
- messy,
- mussed up,
- noncivilized,
- outlandish,
- primitive,
- rough-and-ready,
- ruffled,
- rumpled,
- savage,
- shaggy,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- snaggy,
- snarled,
- tousled,
- tously,
- troglodytic,
- tumbled,
- uncivil,
- uncivilized,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- unfastidious,
- unkempt,
- unlicked,
- unneat,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- untamed,
- untidy,
- wild
- abject,
- accepting,
- accordant,
- acquiescent,
- acquiescing,
- affirmative,
- agreeable,
- agreed,
- agreeing,
- approving,
- assentatious,
- complaisant,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- complying,
- conceding,
- concessive,
- consentient,
- consenting,
- content,
- eager,
- endorsing,
- favorable,
- nondissenting,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- nothing loath,
- obedient,
- passive,
- permissive,
- prompt,
- ratifying,
- ready,
- resigned,
- sanctioning,
- servile,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- supine,
- unassertive,
- uncomplaining,
- ungrudging,
- unloath,
- unrefusing,
- unreluctant,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- willing
- ill-bred
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- (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace related words >
- Gothic,
- Neanderthal,
- animal,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- bestial,
- boorish,
- brutal,
- brutish,
- caddish,
- coarse,
- crude,
- impolite,
- inconsiderate,
- insensitive,
- loutish,
- louty,
- nasty,
- noncivilized,
- offensive,
- outlandish,
- primitive,
- rough-and-ready,
- savage,
- tactless,
- troglodytic,
- uncivil,
- uncivilized,
- uncombed,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- unfeminine,
- ungenteel,
- ungentle,
- ungentlemanly,
- unkempt,
- unladylike,
- unlicked,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unsolicitous,
- untamed,
- vulgar,
- wild
- mature
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- fully considered and perfected; "mature plans"
- having reached full natural growth or development; "a mature cell"
- characteristic of maturity; "mature for her age"
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast"
- become due for repayment; "These bonds mature in 2005"
- develop and work out fully in one's mind; "I need to mature my thoughts" related words >
- accomplish,
- accrue,
- adult,
- advance,
- age,
- aged,
- all ready,
- all set,
- archetypical,
- armed,
- armed and ready,
- assemble,
- attain majority,
- back,
- bear fruit,
- beautify,
- beget,
- big,
- blase,
- bloom,
- blooming,
- blossom,
- blossoming,
- blow,
- booted and spurred,
- breed,
- brew,
- briefed,
- bring forth,
- bring into being,
- bring to completion,
- bring to fruition,
- bring to maturity,
- budding,
- build,
- burgeon,
- burgeoning,
- call into being,
- cast,
- classic,
- coached,
- cocked,
- coin,
- come of age,
- come to fruition,
- come to maturity,
- complete,
- compose,
- compound,
- conceive,
- concoct,
- construct,
- consummate,
- consummated,
- contrive,
- cook up,
- cosmopolitan,
- cosmopolite,
- create,
- crescent,
- crown,
- culminate,
- cultivate,
- design,
- develop,
- developed,
- devise,
- discover,
- do to perfection,
- dream up,
- due,
- eke out,
- elaborate,
- embellish,
- engender,
- entire,
- equipped,
- erect,
- evolute,
- evolve,
- exemplary,
- experienced,
- expert,
- extrude,
- fabricate,
- fall due,
- familiarized,
- fashion,
- fill in,
- fill out,
- finish,
- finished,
- fledge,
- florescent,
- flourish,
- flourishing,
- flower,
- flowering,
- form,
- formulate,
- frame,
- fudge together,
- fulfill,
- full,
- full-blown,
- full-fledged,
- full-grown,
- full-scale,
- fully developed,
- gather,
- generate,
- germinate,
- get up,
- give being to,
- give rise to,
- global,
- good and ready,
- groomed,
- grow,
- grow up,
- growing,
- grown,
- grown up,
- grown-up,
- hatch,
- hypertrophied,
- hypertrophy,
- improve,
- improvise,
- in arms,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in battle array,
- in full bloom,
- in readiness,
- in the saddle,
- increase,
- indite,
- informed,
- intact,
- invent,
- knowing,
- knowledgeable,
- leave the nest,
- loaded,
- loaded for bear,
- make,
- make do with,
- make good,
- make up,
- manufacture,
- marriable,
- marriageable,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- maturate,
- maturated,
- matured,
- maturescent,
- mellow,
- mellowed,
- mint,
- mobilized,
- model,
- mold,
- mushroom,
- not born yesterday,
- nubile,
- of age,
- of marriageable age,
- old,
- on the mark,
- originate,
- outgrow,
- outstanding,
- overdevelop,
- overdeveloped,
- overdue,
- overgrow,
- overgrown,
- overtop,
- owed,
- owing,
- patch together,
- payable,
- perfect,
- perfected,
- piece out,
- piece together,
- plan,
- planned,
- polish,
- polished,
- practiced,
- prearranged,
- prefabricate,
- prepare,
- prepared,
- prepared and ready,
- prepped,
- primed,
- procreate,
- produce,
- proficient,
- progress,
- provided,
- psyched up,
- pullulate,
- put together,
- put up,
- quintessential,
- raise,
- reach its season,
- reach manhood,
- reach maturity,
- reach twenty-one,
- reach voting age,
- ready,
- ready for anything,
- rear,
- receivable,
- redeemable,
- refill,
- refine,
- refined,
- replenish,
- reproduce,
- ripe,
- ripen,
- ripened,
- round out,
- run up,
- sagacious,
- season,
- seasoned,
- set,
- set up,
- settle down,
- shape,
- shoot up,
- solid,
- sophisticated,
- spawn,
- spring up,
- sprout,
- sprout up,
- sprouting,
- strike out,
- temper,
- tempered,
- think out,
- think up,
- thrive,
- thriving,
- toga virilis,
- top off,
- total,
- tower,
- tried,
- tried and true,
- unabbreviated,
- uncut,
- undiminished,
- unexpurgated,
- unpaid,
- unsettled,
- up in arms,
- upshoot,
- upspear,
- upspring,
- upsprout,
- vegetate,
- veteran,
- vigilant,
- wax,
- well-prepared,
- whole,
- whomp up,
- world-wise,
- worldly,
- worldly-wise,
- write
- SRO,
- awash,
- brimful,
- brimming,
- bulging,
- bursting,
- capacity,
- chuck-full,
- congested,
- cram-full,
- crammed,
- crowded,
- farci,
- filled,
- flush,
- full,
- full to bursting,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- loaded,
- overfull,
- overstuffed,
- packed,
- packed like sardines,
- plenary,
- ready to burst,
- replete,
- round,
- satiated,
- saturated,
- soaked,
- standing room only,
- stuffed,
- surfeited,
- swollen,
- topful
- abandon,
- abdicate,
- abjure,
- abort,
- acknowledge defeat,
- belay,
- cancel,
- cease,
- cede,
- come off,
- cry quits,
- cut it out,
- cut out,
- desist from,
- discontinue,
- disuse,
- drop,
- drop it,
- end,
- forgo,
- forswear,
- give,
- give over,
- give up,
- halt,
- hand over,
- have done with,
- hold,
- knock it off,
- lay down,
- lay off,
- leave off,
- let go,
- nol-pros,
- not pursue with,
- put behind one,
- quit,
- refrain,
- relinquish,
- renounce,
- resign,
- scrub,
- stay,
- stop,
- surrender,
- terminate,
- throw up,
- waive,
- yield
- automatic tracking,
- chase,
- data transmission,
- dogging,
- flector tuning,
- follow,
- follow-up,
- following,
- hue and cry,
- hunting,
- locking on,
- locking signals,
- mapping,
- phase adjustment,
- pinpointing,
- precision focusing,
- prosecution,
- pursuance,
- pursuing,
- pursuit,
- quest,
- radar navigation,
- radar-telephone relay,
- range finding,
- scan conversion,
- scanning,
- searching,
- seeking,
- shadowing,
- signal modulation,
- stalking,
- three-pointing,
- tracking down,
- trailing,
- triangulation,
- triggering signals
- absolve,
- account for,
- acquit,
- amnesty,
- clear,
- cry sour grapes,
- decontaminate,
- discharge,
- dismiss,
- dispense from,
- do justice to,
- exculpate,
- excuse,
- exempt,
- exempt from,
- exonerate,
- explain,
- forgive,
- free,
- give absolution,
- grant amnesty to,
- grant immunity,
- grant remission,
- justify,
- let go,
- let off,
- nonpros,
- pardon,
- purge,
- quash the charge,
- rationalize,
- rehabilitate,
- reinstate,
- release,
- remit,
- restore,
- set free,
- shrive,
- vindicate,
- warrant,
- whitewash,
- withdraw the charge
- anxious
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- causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind" related words >
- aching,
- aghast,
- agitated,
- agog,
- alacritous,
- alarmed,
- all agog,
- all-overish,
- anguished,
- animated,
- annoyed,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- ardent,
- athirst,
- avid,
- beset,
- bored,
- bothered,
- breathless,
- bursting to,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chafing,
- cheerless,
- concerned,
- depressed,
- desirous,
- disgusted,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- eager,
- edgy,
- embarrassed,
- enthusiastic,
- excited,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- forward,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- frightened,
- full of life,
- grim,
- harassed,
- hasty,
- hopped-up,
- ill at ease,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- importunate,
- in a lather,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in suspense,
- inconvenienced,
- irked,
- jittery,
- joyless,
- keen,
- keyed-up,
- lively,
- longing,
- misgiving,
- nauseated,
- nauseous,
- nervous,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- panting,
- perturbed,
- plagued,
- pleasureless,
- pressing,
- prey to malaise,
- prompt,
- put to it,
- puzzled,
- qualmish,
- qualmy,
- quick,
- quivering,
- raring to,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- repelled,
- restive,
- restless,
- revolted,
- sad,
- scared,
- scary,
- sickened,
- solicitous,
- sore beset,
- spirited,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- strained,
- suffering angst,
- suspenseful,
- taut,
- tense,
- terrified,
- thirsty,
- troubled,
- uncertain,
- uneasy,
- unfulfilled,
- ungratified,
- unhappy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- unsatisfied,
- upset,
- urgent,
- vexed,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- wary,
- watchful,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense,
- worried,
- yearning,
- zealous,
- zestful
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- apt,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- careful,
- concentrated,
- conscious,
- decisive,
- diligent,
- earnest,
- expeditious,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- heedful,
- immediate,
- instant,
- instantaneous,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- nice,
- niggling,
- observant,
- observing,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- prompt,
- punctual,
- quick,
- ready,
- regardful,
- speedy,
- summary,
- swift,
- watchful
- uncivil
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- lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather related words >
- Gothic,
- Neanderthal,
- animal,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- bestial,
- brutal,
- brutish,
- coarse,
- crass,
- crude,
- discourteous,
- disrespectful,
- ill-bred,
- ill-mannered,
- impertinent,
- impolite,
- inaffable,
- insolent,
- noncivilized,
- outlandish,
- primitive,
- rough-and-ready,
- rude,
- savage,
- troglodytic,
- unaccommodating,
- uncivilized,
- uncombed,
- uncomplaisant,
- uncourteous,
- uncourtly,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- ungallant,
- ungracious,
- unkempt,
- unlicked,
- unpolished,
- unpolite,
- unrefined,
- untamed,
- wild
- unsurprised
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- not surprised or expressing surprise; "that unsuprised obstinate look on his face" related words >
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- anticipant,
- anticipating,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- awaiting,
- aweless,
- calm,
- certain,
- composed,
- confident,
- cool,
- eager,
- expectant,
- expected,
- expecting,
- forearmed,
- forestalling,
- forewarned,
- gaping,
- hopeful,
- in anticipation,
- in expectation,
- inexcitable,
- looking for,
- looking forward to,
- not surprised,
- optimistic,
- prepared,
- ready,
- sanguine,
- sure,
- unamazed,
- unastonished,
- unastounded,
- unawed,
- unbewildered,
- undazed,
- undazzled,
- undumbfounded,
- unimpressed,
- unmarveling,
- unmoved,
- unwondering,
- waiting,
- waiting for,
- watching for,
- wonderless
- aspiration,
- bated breath,
- breath,
- breathy voice,
- buzz,
- cry,
- drone,
- droning,
- exhalation,
- gabble,
- gibber,
- gibbering,
- gossip,
- grapevine,
- hearsay,
- jabber,
- jibber,
- little voice,
- low voice,
- maundering,
- mouthing,
- mumble,
- mumbling,
- murmur,
- murmuration,
- murmuring,
- murmurish,
- murmurous,
- mutter,
- muttering,
- rumble,
- rumor,
- rustling,
- scuttlebutt,
- sigh,
- soft voice,
- stage whisper,
- still small voice,
- susurrant,
- susurration,
- susurrous,
- susurrus,
- talk,
- underbreath,
- undertone,
- whisper,
- whispery
- SRO,
- awash,
- brimful,
- bulging,
- bursting,
- capacity,
- chock-full,
- chuck-full,
- congested,
- cram-full,
- crammed,
- crowded,
- farci,
- filled,
- flush,
- full,
- full to bursting,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- loaded,
- overfull,
- overstuffed,
- packed,
- packed like sardines,
- plenary,
- ready to burst,
- replete,
- round,
- satiated,
- saturated,
- soaked,
- standing room only,
- stuffed,
- surfeited,
- swelling,
- swollen,
- teeming,
- topful
- acclaim,
- bruit,
- buzz,
- canard,
- celebrity,
- character,
- common talk,
- cry,
- eclat,
- fame,
- famousness,
- figure,
- flying rumor,
- glory,
- grapevine,
- hearsay,
- idea afloat,
- kudos,
- latrine rumor,
- name,
- news stirring,
- notoriety,
- notoriousness,
- on-dit,
- popularity,
- publicity,
- reclame,
- recognition,
- renown,
- report,
- reputation,
- repute,
- roorback,
- rumble,
- rumor,
- scuttlebutt,
- talk,
- the bubble reputation,
- town talk,
- unconfirmed report,
- vogue,
- whisper
- Angelus,
- Ave,
- Ave Maria,
- Hail Mary,
- Kyrie Eleison,
- Paternoster,
- adjuration,
- aid prayer,
- appeal,
- beadroll,
- beads,
- bid,
- bidding prayer,
- breviary,
- call,
- chaplet,
- clamor,
- collect,
- communion,
- contemplation,
- cry,
- devotions,
- entreaty,
- grace,
- impetration,
- imploration,
- imploring,
- imprecation,
- intercession,
- invocation,
- invocatory plea,
- litany,
- meditation,
- obsecration,
- obtestation,
- orison,
- petition,
- plea,
- prayer,
- prayer wheel,
- rogation,
- rosary,
- silent prayer,
- suit,
- supplication,
- thanks,
- thanksgiving
- according as,
- answerable for,
- apt to,
- based on,
- boxed in,
- capable of,
- circumscribed by,
- contingent,
- contingent on,
- dependent,
- dependent on,
- depending,
- depending on,
- depending on circumstances,
- exposed to,
- hedged about by,
- hinging on,
- in danger of,
- incident to,
- incidental to,
- it being provided,
- liable to,
- likely to,
- naked to,
- obliged to,
- on condition,
- on condition that,
- open to,
- predicated on,
- prone to,
- provided,
- provided always,
- provided that,
- providing,
- ready for,
- responsible for,
- revolving on,
- standing to,
- susceptive to,
- turning on,
- with the stipulation,
- with the understanding,
- with this proviso,
- within range of
- divinatory
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- resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" related words >
- anticipant,
- anticipatory,
- apocalyptic,
- augural,
- auguring,
- clairvoyant,
- farseeing,
- farsighted,
- fatidic,
- forecasting,
- forehanded,
- foreknowing,
- foreseeing,
- foresighted,
- foretelling,
- forethoughted,
- forethoughtful,
- forewarning,
- fortunetelling,
- haruspical,
- intuitive,
- longsighted,
- mantic,
- oracular,
- precognitive,
- precognizant,
- predictional,
- predictive,
- predictory,
- prefigurative,
- prefiguring,
- prepared,
- presageful,
- presaging,
- prescient,
- presignificative,
- presignifying,
- prognostic,
- prognosticative,
- prophetic,
- provident,
- providential,
- prudent,
- ready,
- sagacious,
- sibyllic,
- sibylline,
- vaticinal,
- vaticinatory,
- weather-wise
- agog,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- aquiver,
- aroused,
- atingle,
- atwitter,
- bursting,
- carried away,
- ebullient,
- effervescent,
- excited,
- exhilarated,
- fired,
- high,
- hopped up,
- impassioned,
- in suspense,
- inflamed,
- keyed up,
- lathered up,
- manic,
- moved,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- quivering,
- ready to burst,
- roused,
- steamed up,
- stimulated,
- stirred,
- stirred up,
- taut,
- tense,
- thrilled,
- tingling,
- tingly,
- turned-on,
- whipped up,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense,
- worked up,
- wrought up,
- yeasty
- need
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- anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"
- a condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs"
- have or feel a need for; "always needing friends and money" related words >
- absence,
- ardor,
- arrearage,
- ask,
- bare cupboard,
- bare necessities,
- bare subsistence,
- basic,
- be forced,
- be hurting for,
- be in for,
- be in want,
- be indicated,
- be necessary,
- be obliged,
- be pinched,
- be poor,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- break,
- call,
- call for,
- cannot do otherwise,
- cannot help but,
- charge,
- claim,
- clamor for,
- commitment,
- committal,
- concupiscence,
- constraint,
- covet,
- crave,
- cry for,
- cry out for,
- curiosity,
- dearth,
- defalcation,
- defect,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- demand,
- demand for,
- deprivation,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- desire,
- destitution,
- devoir,
- difficulty,
- discontinuity,
- distress,
- drive,
- drought,
- duty,
- eagerness,
- emergency,
- empty purse,
- essential,
- essentials,
- exact,
- exaction,
- exigency,
- extremity,
- famine,
- fancy,
- fantasy,
- fundamental,
- gap,
- go on welfare,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- hanker,
- have,
- have got to,
- have need to,
- have occasion for,
- have to,
- hiatus,
- homelessness,
- hope,
- horme,
- hunger,
- impecuniousness,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- incompleteness,
- indigence,
- indispensable,
- insufficiency,
- intellectual curiosity,
- interval,
- lack,
- lacuna,
- libido,
- long,
- lust for learning,
- mendicancy,
- mind,
- miss,
- missing link,
- moneylessness,
- must,
- must item,
- necessaries,
- necessary,
- necessities,
- necessitousness,
- necessity,
- need for,
- need to,
- needfulness,
- neediness,
- needs must,
- occasion,
- omission,
- ought,
- outage,
- passion,
- paucity,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- pinch,
- pine,
- pleasure,
- pleasure principle,
- poorness,
- poverty,
- prerequire,
- prerequirement,
- prerequisite,
- privation,
- require,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- requisition,
- right,
- run short of,
- scarcity,
- sexual desire,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- should,
- sine qua non,
- starvation,
- starve,
- stress,
- take doing,
- the necessary,
- the needful,
- thirst,
- thirst for knowledge,
- trouble,
- ullage,
- urge,
- use,
- want,
- want doing,
- wantage,
- wanting,
- will,
- will and pleasure,
- wish,
- wish fulfillment,
- yearn
- entreaty
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- earnest or urgent request; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm" related words >
- Angelus,
- Ave,
- Ave Maria,
- Hail Mary,
- Kyrie Eleison,
- Paternoster,
- adjuration,
- aid prayer,
- appeal,
- application,
- beadroll,
- beads,
- beseechment,
- bid,
- bidding prayer,
- breviary,
- call,
- chaplet,
- clamor,
- collect,
- communion,
- contemplation,
- cry,
- devotions,
- grace,
- impetration,
- imploration,
- imploring,
- imprecation,
- intercession,
- invocation,
- invocatory plea,
- litany,
- meditation,
- obsecration,
- obtestation,
- orison,
- petition,
- plea,
- prayer,
- prayer wheel,
- rogation,
- rosary,
- silent prayer,
- suit,
- supplication,
- thanks,
- thanksgiving
- abdicate
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- give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee" related words >
- abandon,
- abjure,
- acknowledge defeat,
- be pensioned,
- be superannuated,
- cashier,
- cast,
- cease,
- cede,
- cry quits,
- demit,
- desist from,
- drop,
- forgo,
- forswear,
- give over,
- give up,
- hand over,
- have done with,
- jettison,
- lay down,
- leave,
- leave off,
- pension off,
- quit,
- reject,
- relinquish,
- renounce,
- renounce the throne,
- resign,
- retire,
- retire from office,
- scrap,
- shed,
- slough,
- stand aside,
- stand down,
- step aside,
- superannuate,
- surrender,
- throw away,
- throw out,
- throw up,
- vacate,
- waive,
- withdraw from,
- wrest,
- yield
- spotlight
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- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater related words >
- PR,
- accent,
- accentuate,
- affect,
- arc,
- arc light,
- ballyhoo,
- beacon,
- belabor,
- betoken,
- blurb,
- brandish,
- breathe,
- bright light,
- brighten,
- brighten up,
- bring forth,
- bring forward,
- bring into view,
- bring out,
- bring to notice,
- celebrity,
- color filter,
- common knowledge,
- cry,
- currency,
- dangle,
- daylight,
- demonstrate,
- develop,
- dimmer,
- disclose,
- display,
- divulge,
- dramatize,
- dwell on,
- eclat,
- embody,
- emphasize,
- enact,
- enlighten,
- evidence,
- evince,
- exhibit,
- expose to view,
- exposure,
- express,
- fame,
- famousness,
- feature,
- flaunt,
- floats,
- flood,
- flood with light,
- floodlight,
- flourish,
- focus of attention,
- footlights,
- foots,
- gelatin,
- give emphasis to,
- give sign,
- give token,
- glare,
- harp on,
- highlight,
- hoopla,
- hue and cry,
- illume,
- illuminate,
- illumine,
- incarnate,
- indicate,
- irradiate,
- italicize,
- klieg light,
- light,
- light plot,
- light up,
- lighten,
- lights,
- limelight,
- luminate,
- make clear,
- make plain,
- manifest,
- marquee,
- materialize,
- maximum dissemination,
- mean,
- medium,
- notoriety,
- overaccentuate,
- overemphasize,
- overshine,
- overstress,
- parade,
- perform,
- place emphasis on,
- plug,
- point up,
- present,
- press notice,
- produce,
- public eye,
- public knowledge,
- public relations,
- public report,
- publicity,
- publicity story,
- publicness,
- puff,
- punctuate,
- reclame,
- relume,
- relumine,
- report,
- represent,
- reveal,
- roll out,
- rub in,
- searchlight,
- set forth,
- shed light upon,
- shine upon,
- show,
- show forth,
- spot,
- star,
- stress,
- throw light upon,
- token,
- trot out,
- underline,
- underscore,
- unfold,
- wave,
- write-up
- animated
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- having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news"
- made to appear to move as living creatures do; "an animated cartoon"; "animated puppets" related words >
- aboveground,
- activated,
- active,
- activist,
- activistic,
- actuated,
- acute,
- aggressive,
- alert,
- alive,
- alive and kicking,
- all agog,
- among the living,
- animate,
- antic,
- anxious,
- ardent,
- automated,
- avid,
- bouncing,
- bouncy,
- breathing,
- breathless,
- breezy,
- brisk,
- bubbly,
- bursting to,
- cant,
- capable of life,
- capersome,
- chipper,
- coltish,
- conscious,
- desirous,
- dynamic,
- eager,
- ebullient,
- effervescent,
- endowed with life,
- energetic,
- energized,
- enlivened,
- enterprising,
- enthusiastic,
- excited,
- exhilarated,
- existent,
- exuberant,
- fervent,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forward,
- frisky,
- frolicsome,
- full of beans,
- full of go,
- full of life,
- full of pep,
- gamesome,
- gay,
- go-go,
- hearty,
- high-spirited,
- impassioned,
- impatient,
- impelled,
- impetuous,
- in the flesh,
- incisive,
- inclined,
- inner-directed,
- inspirited,
- instinct with life,
- intense,
- invigorated,
- keen,
- kinetic,
- lifelike,
- live,
- lively,
- living,
- long-lived,
- lusty,
- mechanical,
- mercurial,
- mettlesome,
- militant,
- minded,
- motivated,
- moved,
- moving,
- other-directed,
- panting,
- passionate,
- peppy,
- perky,
- pert,
- playful,
- prompt,
- prompted,
- quick,
- quicksilver,
- raring to,
- ready,
- ready and willing,
- reanimated,
- recharged,
- recreated,
- refreshed,
- renewed,
- revived,
- robust,
- rollicking,
- rollicksome,
- rompish,
- skittish,
- smacking,
- snappy,
- spanking,
- spirited,
- sportive,
- sprightly,
- spry,
- stimulated,
- strenuous,
- strong,
- take-charge,
- take-over,
- tenacious of life,
- trenchant,
- very much alive,
- viable,
- vibrant,
- vigorous,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- vivid,
- vivified,
- zestful,
- zesty,
- zingy,
- zippy,
- zoetic
- recondition
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- bring into an improved condition; "He reconditioned the old appliances" related words >
- cobble,
- commission,
- condition,
- darn,
- do up,
- doctor,
- face-lift,
- fix,
- fix up,
- furbish,
- mend,
- overhaul,
- patch,
- patch up,
- put in commission,
- put in order,
- put in repair,
- put in shape,
- ready,
- recap,
- reclaim,
- reeducate,
- refit,
- refresh,
- refurbish,
- rehabilitate,
- reinstruct,
- renew,
- renovate,
- repair,
- repatriate,
- retread,
- revamp,
- service,
- set to rights,
- sew up,
- tinker,
- tinker up
- complain
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- make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge; "The plaintiff's lawyer complained that he defendant had physically abused his client"
- express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" related words >
- accuse,
- ail,
- air a grievance,
- allege,
- arraign,
- article,
- be affected with,
- beef,
- bellyache,
- bemoan,
- bitch,
- boggle,
- book,
- boycott,
- bring accusation,
- bring charges,
- bring to book,
- call in question,
- carp at,
- challenge,
- charge,
- cite,
- clamor,
- complain loudly,
- complain of,
- confront,
- contend with,
- crab,
- croak,
- cry,
- cry out against,
- demonstrate,
- demonstrate against,
- demur,
- denounce,
- denunciate,
- dispute,
- dissent,
- enter a protest,
- expostulate,
- face down,
- face out,
- face up to,
- fasten on,
- fasten upon,
- feel ill,
- find fault,
- finger,
- fret,
- fret and fume,
- front,
- fuss,
- gripe,
- groan,
- grouch,
- grouse,
- growl,
- grumble,
- grunt,
- hang something on,
- holler,
- howl,
- impeach,
- imply,
- impute,
- indict,
- inform against,
- inform on,
- insinuate,
- kick,
- kick against,
- labor under,
- lament,
- lay charges,
- lodge a complaint,
- lodge a plaint,
- make a stand,
- march,
- meet head-on,
- moan,
- murmur,
- mutter,
- nag,
- object,
- offer resistance,
- oppose,
- pester,
- picket,
- pin on,
- prefer charges,
- press charges,
- press objections,
- protest,
- put on report,
- raise a howl,
- rally,
- recalcitrate,
- register a complaint,
- reluct,
- remonstrate,
- repine,
- report,
- reproach,
- revolt,
- scruple,
- show fight,
- sing the blues,
- sit in,
- squawk,
- stand,
- stand at bay,
- stand up against,
- stand up to,
- state a grievance,
- strike,
- strive against,
- suffer,
- take on,
- take to task,
- task,
- taunt with,
- tax,
- teach in,
- twit,
- wail,
- whimper,
- whine,
- withstand,
- worry,
- yap,
- yell bloody murder,
- yelp
- bark,
- bawl,
- bay,
- bell,
- bellow,
- blare,
- blat,
- blate,
- bleat,
- bray,
- call,
- caterwaul,
- creak,
- cry,
- give tongue,
- give voice,
- howl,
- keen,
- low,
- meow,
- mew,
- mewl,
- miaow,
- moo,
- neigh,
- nicker,
- pipe,
- pule,
- roar,
- scream,
- screech,
- shriek,
- shrill,
- skirl,
- skreigh,
- squall,
- squawk,
- squeak,
- squeal,
- troat,
- ululate,
- ululation,
- wail,
- whicker,
- whine,
- whinny,
- whistle,
- wrawl,
- yammer,
- yap,
- yawl,
- yawp,
- yelp,
- yip,
- yowl
- absolve,
- account for,
- acquit,
- amnesty,
- clear,
- condone,
- cry sour grapes,
- decontaminate,
- destigmatize,
- discharge,
- dismiss,
- dispense from,
- do justice to,
- excuse,
- exempt,
- exempt from,
- exonerate,
- explain,
- forgive,
- free,
- give absolution,
- grant amnesty to,
- grant forgiveness,
- grant immunity,
- grant remission,
- justify,
- let go,
- let off,
- nonpros,
- pardon,
- purge,
- quash the charge,
- rationalize,
- rehabilitate,
- reinstate,
- release,
- remit,
- restore,
- set free,
- shrive,
- spare,
- vindicate,
- warrant,
- whitewash,
- withdraw the charge
- intuitive
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- obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
- spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency; "an intuitive revulsion" related words >
- anticipant,
- anticipatory,
- augural,
- clairvoyant,
- direct,
- divinatory,
- farseeing,
- farsighted,
- feeling,
- forehanded,
- foreknowing,
- forerunning,
- foreseeing,
- foreshadowing,
- foreshowing,
- foresighted,
- forethoughted,
- forethoughtful,
- foretokening,
- forewarning,
- heavy with meaning,
- immediate,
- indicative,
- instinctual,
- intuitional,
- longsighted,
- meaningful,
- monitory,
- precognitive,
- precognizant,
- precursive,
- precursory,
- predictive,
- prefigurative,
- preindicative,
- premonitory,
- prepared,
- presageful,
- presaging,
- prescient,
- prognostic,
- prognosticative,
- provident,
- providential,
- prudent,
- ready,
- sagacious,
- second-sighted,
- sensing,
- significant,
- visceral,
- warning
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