Related Words:
- agape,
- aghast,
- agog,
- all agog,
- amazed,
- arrant,
- astonished,
- astounded,
- at gaze,
- awed,
- awestruck,
- beguiled,
- bewildered,
- bewitched,
- blatant,
- bold,
- breathless,
- captivated,
- clean-cut,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- clear-cut,
- confounded,
- conspicuous,
- crystal-clear,
- defined,
- definite,
- distinct,
- dumbfounded,
- dumbstruck,
- enchanted,
- enraptured,
- enravished,
- enthralled,
- entranced,
- evident,
- fascinated,
- flabbergasted,
- flagrant,
- gaping,
- gauping,
- gazing,
- glaring,
- hanging out,
- hypnotized,
- in awe,
- in awe of,
- in focus,
- in relief,
- in the foreground,
- lost in wonder,
- marveling,
- mesmerized,
- notable,
- noticeable,
- notorious,
- obtrusive,
- obvious,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- ostensible,
- outstanding,
- overwhelmed,
- patent,
- plain,
- popeyed,
- prominent,
- pronounced,
- puzzled,
- rapt in wonder,
- salient,
- spellbound,
- staggered,
- stark-staring,
- sticking out,
- striking,
- stupefied,
- surprised,
- thunderstruck,
- under a charm,
- unmistakable,
- well-defined,
- well-marked,
- well-pronounced,
- well-resolved,
- wide-eyed,
- wonder-struck,
- wondering
- surrogate
collapse - someone who takes the place of another person related words >
- advocate,
- agent,
- alter ego,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- amicus curiae,
- analogy,
- attorney,
- backup,
- backup man,
- champion,
- change,
- changeling,
- comparison,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- executive officer,
- exponent,
- fake,
- father figure,
- father image,
- figurehead,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- imitation,
- lieutenant,
- locum,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mother figure,
- mother surrogate,
- next best thing,
- paranymph,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- pleader,
- procurator,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- second in command,
- second string,
- secondary,
- sign,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- token,
- understudy,
- utility man,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vicar general,
- vice,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- vicegerent
- abate,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- anesthetize,
- assuage,
- benumb,
- calm,
- calm down,
- cater to,
- coddle,
- compose,
- conciliate,
- content,
- cool,
- cradle,
- cushion,
- deaden,
- deaden the pain,
- defuse,
- diminish,
- dulcify,
- dull,
- ease,
- ease matters,
- even out,
- extenuate,
- feast,
- feed,
- foment,
- gentle,
- give relief,
- gloss over,
- gratify,
- hush,
- immolate before,
- lay,
- lay the dust,
- lessen,
- lull,
- make propitiation,
- make sacrifice to,
- mitigate,
- mollify,
- numb,
- offer sacrifice,
- pacify,
- pad,
- palliate,
- pamper,
- placate,
- poultice,
- pour balm into,
- pour balm on,
- pour oil on,
- propitiate,
- quell,
- quench,
- quiet,
- reduce,
- regale,
- relieve,
- rest,
- rock,
- rock to sleep,
- sacrifice,
- salve,
- sate,
- satiate,
- satisfy,
- slacken,
- slake,
- smooth,
- smooth down,
- smooth over,
- smoothen,
- soften,
- soothe,
- spoil,
- stabilize,
- steady,
- still,
- stupe,
- subdue,
- sweeten,
- tranquilize,
- whitewash
- mollify
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- make less rigid or softer related words >
- abate,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- anesthetize,
- appease,
- assuage,
- benumb,
- calm,
- calm down,
- compose,
- conciliate,
- cool,
- cradle,
- cushion,
- deaden,
- deaden the pain,
- decrease,
- defuse,
- diminish,
- dulcify,
- dull,
- ease,
- ease matters,
- even out,
- fluff,
- foment,
- gentle,
- give relief,
- hush,
- knead,
- laxate,
- lay,
- lay the dust,
- lessen,
- lighten,
- limber,
- limber up,
- loosen,
- lull,
- mash,
- massage,
- mellow,
- milden,
- mitigate,
- numb,
- pacify,
- pad,
- palliate,
- placate,
- plump,
- poultice,
- pour balm into,
- pour balm on,
- pour oil on,
- propitiate,
- pulp,
- quell,
- quiet,
- reduce,
- relax,
- relieve,
- rest,
- rock,
- rock to sleep,
- salve,
- shake up,
- slacken,
- slake,
- smash,
- smooth,
- smooth down,
- smooth over,
- smoothen,
- soften,
- soften up,
- soothe,
- squash,
- stabilize,
- steady,
- still,
- stupe,
- subdue,
- supple,
- sweeten,
- temper,
- tenderize,
- tone down,
- tranquilize,
- tune down
- abatement,
- abating,
- allaying,
- allayment,
- alleviating,
- alleviation,
- alleviative,
- analgesia,
- analgesic,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetic,
- anesthetizing,
- anodyne,
- appeasement,
- assuagement,
- assuaging,
- assuasive,
- attenuation,
- attrition,
- balmy,
- balsamic,
- benumbing,
- blunting,
- calming,
- cathartic,
- chastening,
- cleansing,
- cushioning,
- dampening,
- damping,
- debilitation,
- demulcent,
- demulsion,
- devitalization,
- dilution,
- diminishing,
- diminishment,
- diminution,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- ease,
- easement,
- easing,
- effemination,
- emollient,
- enervation,
- enfeeblement,
- evisceration,
- exhaustion,
- extenuation,
- falling-off,
- fatigue,
- hushing,
- inanition,
- languishment,
- leniency,
- lenitive,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- mitigating,
- mitigation,
- mitigative,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- narcotic,
- numbing,
- pacification,
- pain-killing,
- palliation,
- palliative,
- purgative,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reducing,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- relaxing,
- relief,
- relieving,
- remedial,
- remedy,
- remission,
- salving,
- slackening,
- softening,
- soothing,
- stunning,
- stupefying,
- subduement,
- subduing,
- tempering,
- thinning,
- tranquilization,
- weakening
- diminution
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- the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original) related words >
- abatement,
- abridgment,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- analgesia,
- anesthesia,
- anesthetizing,
- appeasement,
- assuagement,
- attenuation,
- attrition,
- blunting,
- calming,
- concavity,
- contraction,
- curtailment,
- cut,
- cutting,
- dampening,
- damping,
- de-escalation,
- deadening,
- debasement,
- decrease,
- decrement,
- decrescence,
- deduction,
- deflation,
- degradation,
- demotion,
- demulsion,
- depletion,
- depreciation,
- depression,
- derogation,
- descent,
- detraction,
- detrusion,
- diminishment,
- dip,
- disparagement,
- ducking,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- dying,
- dying off,
- ease,
- easement,
- easing,
- extenuation,
- extraction,
- fade-out,
- falling-off,
- hauling down,
- hollowness,
- hushing,
- impairment,
- languishment,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lowering,
- lulling,
- miniaturization,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- mollification,
- numbing,
- pacification,
- palliation,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- relief,
- remedy,
- remission,
- retraction,
- retrenchment,
- sagging,
- salving,
- scaling down,
- shortening,
- shrinkage,
- simplicity,
- sinking,
- slackening,
- softening,
- soothing,
- subduement,
- submergence,
- subtraction,
- tempering,
- thrusting under,
- tranquilization,
- truncation,
- weakening
- entertain
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- take into consideration, have in view; "He entertained the notion of moving to South America"
- provide entertainment for related words >
- accommodate,
- admit,
- allow,
- amuse,
- amusement,
- bear,
- beguile,
- bestow,
- billet,
- board,
- bosom,
- cater to,
- cherish,
- cling to,
- clip,
- consider,
- contemplate,
- convulse,
- cultivate,
- delight,
- disport,
- dissipation,
- distraction,
- diversion,
- divert,
- divertissement,
- do the honors,
- domicile,
- embosom,
- embrace,
- enjoyment,
- enliven,
- entertain guests,
- entertainment,
- exhilarate,
- feed,
- fondle,
- foster,
- fracture one,
- gaiety,
- give a party,
- gladden,
- gratify,
- guest,
- harbor,
- have,
- have and hold,
- hold,
- hold on to,
- host,
- house,
- hug,
- inquire into,
- invite,
- keep,
- kill,
- knock dead,
- lodge,
- loosen up,
- maintain,
- nourish,
- nurse,
- nurture,
- occupy,
- play,
- please,
- pleasure,
- preside,
- put up,
- quarter,
- raise a laugh,
- raise a smile,
- receive,
- recreate,
- recreation,
- refresh,
- regale,
- rejoice,
- relax,
- relaxation,
- relief,
- room,
- see about,
- slay,
- sleep upon,
- solace,
- sport,
- support,
- sustain,
- take under advisement,
- take under consideration,
- think it over,
- throw a party,
- tickle,
- titillate,
- tolerate,
- treasure,
- treasure up,
- treat,
- wow
- coffee break
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- a snack taken during a break in the work day; "a ten-minute coffee break"; "the British have tea breaks" related words >
- TV dinner,
- alfresco meal,
- barbecue,
- break,
- breakfast,
- breath,
- breather,
- breathing place,
- breathing space,
- breathing spell,
- breathing time,
- brunch,
- buffet supper,
- cigarette break,
- clambake,
- cocktail hour,
- cookout,
- diner,
- dinner,
- downtime,
- elevenses,
- enforced respite,
- fish fry,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- halt,
- happy hour,
- high tea,
- holiday,
- hot luncheon,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- letup,
- lull,
- lunch,
- luncheon,
- mash,
- meat breakfast,
- off-time,
- pause,
- petit dejeuner,
- picnic,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- quiet spell,
- recess,
- relief,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting point,
- spell,
- stay,
- supper,
- surcease,
- suspension,
- tea,
- tea break,
- teatime,
- tiffin,
- time off,
- time out,
- vacation,
- wiener roast,
- wienie roast
- abstract art,
- albertype,
- art,
- art form,
- artist,
- arts and crafts,
- arts of design,
- book printing,
- calligraphy,
- cave art,
- ceramics,
- chromotypography,
- chromotypy,
- chromoxylography,
- collotype,
- color printing,
- decoration,
- design,
- designing,
- electronography,
- electrostatic printing,
- engraving,
- etching,
- fine arts,
- folk art,
- gravure,
- halftone engraving,
- history of printing,
- job printing,
- letterpress,
- letterpress photoengraving,
- line engraving,
- lithography,
- lithogravure,
- lithophotogravure,
- mimeograph,
- offset,
- offset lithography,
- onset,
- palaeotypography,
- photo-offset,
- photochemical process,
- photoengraving,
- photogelatin process,
- photographic reproduction,
- photography,
- photolithography,
- phototypography,
- phototypy,
- photozincography,
- planographic printing,
- planography,
- plastic art,
- primitive art,
- printing,
- printmaking,
- publication,
- publishing,
- relief printing,
- rotary photogravure,
- rotogravure,
- sculpture,
- sheetwork,
- stencil,
- the arts,
- three-color printing,
- two-color printing,
- typography,
- typolithography,
- wood-block printing,
- xerography,
- xeroprinting,
- xylotypography,
- zincography
- blatant
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- conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob"
- without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious; "blatant disregard of the law"; "a blatant appeal to vanity"; "a blazing indiscretion" related words >
- arrant,
- barefaced,
- bawling,
- bellowing,
- blaring,
- blatting,
- blustering,
- boanergean,
- boisterous,
- bold,
- brassy,
- brawling,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- chintzy,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- clamoursome,
- clanging,
- clangorous,
- clattery,
- colorful,
- conspicuous,
- crude,
- crying,
- extravagant,
- flagrant,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- hanging out,
- howling,
- impudent,
- in relief,
- in the foreground,
- loud,
- loudmouthed,
- lowing,
- lurid,
- mafficking,
- meretricious,
- mugient,
- multivocal,
- noiseful,
- noisy,
- notable,
- noticeable,
- notorious,
- obstreperous,
- obtrusive,
- obvious,
- openmouthed,
- ostensible,
- outstanding,
- overbold,
- overt,
- palpable,
- prominent,
- pronounced,
- puling,
- rackety,
- rip-roaring,
- rowdy,
- salient,
- screaming,
- sensational,
- shameless,
- shouting,
- spectacular,
- staring,
- stark-staring,
- sticking out,
- strepitant,
- strepitous,
- strident,
- striking,
- tawdry,
- tinsel,
- tumultuous,
- turbulent,
- ululant,
- unabashed,
- unashamed,
- unblushing,
- uproarious,
- vociferant,
- vociferating,
- vociferous,
- vulgar,
- wailing,
- whining,
- yammering,
- yapping,
- yelling,
- yelping
- abate,
- allay,
- anesthetize,
- appease,
- assuage,
- attemper,
- attenuate,
- bank the fire,
- bate,
- be light,
- benumb,
- blunt,
- chasten,
- constrain,
- control,
- cure,
- cushion,
- damp,
- dampen,
- de-emphasize,
- deaden,
- deaden the pain,
- dilute,
- diminish,
- disburden,
- disencumber,
- downplay,
- dull,
- ease,
- ease matters,
- extenuate,
- foment,
- give relief,
- have little weight,
- keep within bounds,
- kick the beam,
- lay,
- lenify,
- lessen,
- lighten,
- lull,
- make light,
- make lighter,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modulate,
- mollify,
- numb,
- obtund,
- off-load,
- pad,
- palliate,
- play down,
- poultice,
- pour balm into,
- pour oil on,
- reduce,
- reduce the temperature,
- reduce weight,
- relieve,
- remedy,
- remit,
- restrain,
- salve,
- slacken,
- slake,
- slow down,
- smother,
- sober,
- sober down,
- soften,
- soothe,
- stifle,
- stupe,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- tame,
- temper,
- tone down,
- tune down,
- unballast,
- unburden,
- underplay,
- unlade,
- unload,
- water down,
- weaken,
- weigh lightly
- comparison
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- examining resemblances or differences
- qualities that are comparable; "no comparison between the two books"; "beyond compare"
- relation based on similarities and differences related words >
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agent,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- alliance,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- aping,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- backup,
- balance,
- balancing,
- change,
- changeling,
- closeness,
- commensurability,
- community,
- comparability,
- conformity,
- contrast,
- contrasting,
- copy,
- copying,
- correspondence,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- identity,
- imitation,
- juxtaposing,
- juxtaposition,
- kinship,
- likeness,
- likening,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- match,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- next best thing,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- proxy,
- relation,
- relationship,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- resemblance,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- sameness,
- second string,
- secondary,
- semblance,
- sign,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- token,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- weighing
- abate,
- adjust to,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- alter,
- anesthetize,
- appease,
- attemper,
- bank the fire,
- benumb,
- blunt,
- box in,
- chasten,
- circumscribe,
- condition,
- constrain,
- control,
- cushion,
- damp,
- dampen,
- de-emphasize,
- deaden,
- deaden the pain,
- diminish,
- downplay,
- dull,
- ease,
- ease matters,
- extenuate,
- feast,
- feed,
- foment,
- give relief,
- gratify,
- hedge,
- hedge about,
- keep within bounds,
- lay,
- leaven,
- lenify,
- lessen,
- lighten,
- limit,
- lull,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modify,
- modulate,
- mollify,
- narrow,
- numb,
- obtund,
- pad,
- palliate,
- play down,
- poultice,
- pour balm into,
- pour oil on,
- qualify,
- quench,
- reduce,
- reduce the temperature,
- regale,
- regulate by,
- relieve,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- salve,
- sate,
- satiate,
- satisfy,
- season,
- set conditions,
- set limits,
- slacken,
- slake,
- slow down,
- smother,
- sober,
- sober down,
- soften,
- soothe,
- stifle,
- stupe,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- tame,
- temper,
- tone down,
- tune down,
- underplay,
- weaken
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