Related Words:
- polished
collapse - perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"
- showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters" related words >
- Attic,
- Ciceronian,
- accomplished,
- adept,
- advanced,
- ameliorated,
- archetypical,
- beautified,
- bettered,
- buffed,
- burnished,
- chaste,
- civilized,
- classic,
- clear,
- complete,
- consummate,
- converted,
- courtly,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- dainty,
- debonair,
- delicate,
- developed,
- direct,
- discriminating,
- distingue,
- easy,
- educated,
- elegant,
- embellished,
- enhanced,
- enriched,
- excellent,
- exemplary,
- exhaustive,
- expert,
- fastidious,
- faultless,
- fine,
- finished,
- flawless,
- fully developed,
- fully realized,
- furbished,
- genteel,
- gentle,
- gentlemanlike,
- gentlemanly,
- gifted,
- glace,
- glassy,
- glazed,
- gleaming,
- glistening,
- glossy,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- gracious,
- highbred,
- impeccable,
- improved,
- lacquered,
- ladylike,
- limpid,
- lucid,
- lustrous,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- mature,
- matured,
- model,
- natural,
- neat,
- nice,
- outstanding,
- pellucid,
- perfect,
- perfected,
- perspicuous,
- plain,
- polite,
- proficient,
- pure,
- quintessential,
- refined,
- reformed,
- restrained,
- ripe,
- ripened,
- round,
- rubbed,
- satiny,
- sheeny,
- shellacked,
- shined,
- shining,
- shiny,
- silken,
- silky,
- simple,
- sleek,
- slick,
- smarmy,
- soignee,
- sophisticated,
- straightforward,
- subtle,
- superb,
- superior,
- superlative,
- tasteful,
- terse,
- thorough,
- transfigured,
- transformed,
- trim,
- unaffected,
- unlabored,
- urbane,
- varnished,
- velvety,
- virtuoso,
- well-bred,
- well-brought-up,
- well-mannered
- shrinking
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- the act of becoming less
- process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage" related words >
- Olympian,
- Sanforizing,
- aloof,
- aseptic,
- atrophy,
- attenuation,
- backward,
- bashful,
- bashfulness,
- blank,
- boggle,
- boggling,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- compunction,
- constrained,
- consumption,
- cool,
- cowardly,
- declining,
- demur,
- demurral,
- demurring,
- detached,
- diffidence,
- diffident,
- diminishing,
- discreet,
- distant,
- drying,
- drying up,
- dwindling,
- dying,
- ebbing,
- emaceration,
- emaciation,
- expressionless,
- fading,
- falter,
- faltering,
- fearful,
- fearing,
- fearsome,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- goosy,
- guarded,
- hesitance,
- hesitancy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hesitation,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- in fear,
- inaccessible,
- introverted,
- jumpy,
- modest,
- modesty,
- mousy,
- nervous,
- objection,
- offish,
- parching,
- pause,
- preshrinkage,
- protest,
- qualm,
- qualm of conscience,
- qualmish,
- qualmishness,
- quiet,
- rabbity,
- receding,
- recoil,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- retreating,
- scary,
- scruple,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulous,
- scrupulousness,
- searing,
- shaky,
- shivery,
- shrinkage,
- shriveling,
- shy,
- shyness,
- sinking,
- skittery,
- skittish,
- squeamish,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- startlish,
- stickling,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- thinning,
- timid,
- timorous,
- trembling,
- tremulous,
- trepidant,
- trigger-happy,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- unexpansive,
- ungenial,
- waning,
- wasting,
- withdrawn,
- withering
- barred
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- firmly fastened or secured against opening; "windows and doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the house properly secured" related words >
- absurd,
- banded,
- banned,
- beleaguered,
- beset,
- besieged,
- blockaded,
- bound,
- brinded,
- brindle,
- brindled,
- cabined,
- caged,
- cancellated,
- cloistered,
- closed-in,
- closed-out,
- confined,
- contraband,
- contrary to reason,
- cooped,
- cordoned,
- cordoned off,
- corralled,
- cramped,
- cribbed,
- crossbarred,
- debarred,
- deported,
- ejected,
- enclosed,
- excluded,
- exiled,
- expelled,
- fenced,
- filigreed,
- forbade,
- forbid,
- forbidden,
- grated,
- gridded,
- hedged,
- hemmed,
- hopeless,
- illegal,
- illicit,
- immured,
- impossible,
- imprisoned,
- incarcerated,
- inconceivable,
- jailed,
- laced,
- lacelike,
- lacy,
- latticelike,
- leaguered,
- left out,
- liquidated,
- listed,
- logically impossible,
- marbled,
- marbleized,
- meshed,
- meshy,
- mewed,
- mullioned,
- netlike,
- netted,
- netty,
- nonpermissible,
- not in it,
- not included,
- not permitted,
- not possible,
- off limits,
- out of bounds,
- outlawed,
- oxymoronic,
- paled,
- paradoxical,
- penned,
- pent-up,
- plexiform,
- precluded,
- preposterous,
- prohibited,
- purged,
- quarantined,
- railed,
- restrained,
- reticular,
- reticulate,
- reticulated,
- retiform,
- ridiculous,
- ruled out,
- ruled-out,
- self-contradictory,
- shut out,
- shut-in,
- streaked,
- streaky,
- striatal,
- striate,
- striated,
- strigate,
- strigose,
- striolate,
- striped,
- stripy,
- tabby,
- taboo,
- tabooed,
- unallowed,
- unauthorized,
- under the ban,
- unimaginable,
- unlawful,
- unlicensed,
- unpermissible,
- unsanctioned,
- unthinkable,
- untouchable,
- veined,
- verboten,
- vetoed,
- walled,
- walled-in,
- watered
- chilly
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- not characterized by emotion; "a female form in marble--a chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract virtues"-C.W.Cunningham
- lacking warmth of feeling; "a chilly greeting" related words >
- Olympian,
- above all that,
- affectless,
- aguey,
- aguish,
- algid,
- aloof,
- anesthetized,
- arctic,
- autistic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- blue with cold,
- blunt,
- bracing,
- catatonic,
- chattering,
- chill,
- chilled,
- cold,
- cold as charity,
- cold-blooded,
- coldhearted,
- constrained,
- cool,
- coolish,
- crisp,
- detached,
- disaccordant,
- discreet,
- dispassionate,
- distant,
- dithery,
- drugged,
- dull,
- emotionally dead,
- emotionless,
- exclusive,
- expressionless,
- forbidding,
- freezing,
- fresh,
- frigid,
- frosted,
- frosty,
- frozen,
- frozen to death,
- gelid,
- glacial,
- guarded,
- half-frozen,
- heartless,
- hostile,
- icy,
- immovable,
- impassible,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- inaccessible,
- incompatible,
- inexcitable,
- inhospitable,
- inimical,
- insusceptible,
- introverted,
- invigorating,
- modest,
- nippy,
- nonemotional,
- objective,
- obtuse,
- offish,
- out of touch,
- passionless,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- seclusive,
- self-absorbed,
- shaky,
- shivering,
- shivery,
- shrinking,
- soulless,
- spiritless,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- stimulating,
- strained,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- temperate,
- tense,
- unaffable,
- unaffectionate,
- unamiable,
- unamicable,
- unapproachable,
- uncongenial,
- uncordial,
- undemonstrative,
- unemotional,
- unenthusiastic,
- unexpansive,
- unfeeling,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unharmonious,
- unimpassioned,
- unimpressionable,
- unloving,
- unpassionate,
- unreceptive,
- unresponding,
- unresponsive,
- unsociable,
- unsusceptible,
- unsympathetic,
- untouchable,
- with chattering teeth,
- withdrawn
- in hand
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- under control; "the riots were in hand" related words >
- accepted,
- accidental,
- accompanying,
- acting,
- active,
- ado,
- afloat,
- afoot,
- arranged,
- assumed,
- at work,
- brewing,
- businesslike,
- by one,
- chanced,
- chastened,
- circumstantial,
- constrained,
- controlled,
- current,
- doing,
- eventuating,
- extra,
- formal,
- forthcoming,
- free and clear,
- fresh,
- functional,
- functioning,
- going,
- going on,
- habitual,
- happening,
- harmonious,
- held,
- held back,
- held in reserve,
- held out,
- hushed,
- in abeyance,
- in control,
- in embryo,
- in exercise,
- in fee,
- in fee simple,
- in force,
- in operation,
- in play,
- in practice,
- in preparation,
- in process,
- in production,
- in progress,
- in seisin,
- in stock,
- in store,
- in the oven,
- in the wind,
- in the works,
- inaction,
- incidental,
- limited,
- methodical,
- mint,
- new,
- normal,
- occasional,
- occurring,
- on,
- on foot,
- on hand,
- on stream,
- on the anvil,
- on the fire,
- on the way,
- ongoing,
- operating,
- operational,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- original,
- own,
- owned,
- passing,
- possessed,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- pristine,
- put aside,
- put by,
- quelled,
- regular,
- reserve,
- restrained,
- resultant,
- routine,
- running,
- saved,
- softened,
- spare,
- stable,
- steady,
- stored,
- subdued,
- suspended,
- symmetrical,
- systematic,
- taking place,
- tempered,
- to spare,
- unapplied,
- unbeaten,
- unconsumed,
- under construction,
- under control,
- under revision,
- under way,
- undertaken,
- unemployed,
- unexercised,
- unexpended,
- unhandled,
- uniform,
- unspent,
- untapped,
- untouched,
- untrodden,
- unused,
- unutilized,
- usual,
- waived,
- well in hand,
- well-ordered,
- well-regulated,
- working
- distant
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- apart in space; "distant lands"; "remote stars"
- separate or apart in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or future"
- separated in space or coming from or going to a distance; "distant villages"; "the sound of distant traffic"; "a distant sound"; "a distant telephone call"
- far apart in relevance or relationship; "a distant cousin"; "a distant likeness" related words >
- Olympian,
- above all that,
- aloof,
- apart,
- apathetic,
- arrogant,
- asunder,
- at a distance,
- away,
- backward,
- barely audible,
- bashful,
- blank,
- bored,
- careless,
- ceremonious,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- constrained,
- cool,
- decrescendo,
- detached,
- dim,
- discreet,
- disinterested,
- disparate,
- dissimilar,
- distal,
- divergent,
- diverse,
- exclusive,
- exotic,
- expressionless,
- faint,
- faint-voiced,
- far,
- far off,
- far-flung,
- far-off,
- faraway,
- farfetched,
- feeble,
- forbidding,
- forced,
- formal,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- gentle,
- guarded,
- half-heard,
- haughty,
- heedless,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- improbable,
- inaccessible,
- incurious,
- indifferent,
- indistinct,
- insociable,
- insouciant,
- introverted,
- isolated,
- listless,
- long-distance,
- long-range,
- low,
- mindless,
- modest,
- murmured,
- obscure,
- off,
- offish,
- out-of-the-way,
- outlying,
- phlegmatic,
- pianissimo,
- piano,
- proud,
- quite another thing,
- regardless,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retired,
- retiring,
- rigid,
- scarcely heard,
- secluded,
- seclusive,
- secret,
- separated,
- sequestered,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- soft,
- soft-sounding,
- soft-voiced,
- solitary,
- something else again,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- stiff,
- stolid,
- strained,
- subaudible,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- unaffable,
- unalike,
- unapproachable,
- unclear,
- uncompanionable,
- unconcerned,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- unequal,
- unexpansive,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- uninquiring,
- uninterested,
- uninvolved,
- unlike,
- unmindful,
- unsimilar,
- various,
- weak,
- weak-voiced,
- whispered,
- withdrawn
- Olympian,
- alien,
- alienated,
- alone,
- aloof,
- apart,
- asunder,
- at a distance,
- away,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- cold,
- companionless,
- constrained,
- cool,
- detached,
- devious,
- disarticulated,
- disconnected,
- discreet,
- discrete,
- disengaged,
- disjoined,
- disjoint,
- disjointed,
- disjunct,
- dislocated,
- dispersed,
- disrelated,
- dissociated,
- distal,
- distant,
- disunited,
- divided,
- divorced,
- estranged,
- exclusive,
- exotic,
- expressionless,
- extraneous,
- far,
- far off,
- far-flung,
- far-off,
- faraway,
- forbidding,
- foreign,
- friendless,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- guarded,
- homeless,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- in a backwater,
- inaccessible,
- incommensurable,
- incomparable,
- independent,
- insular,
- interspaced,
- intervaled,
- introverted,
- irrelative,
- isolate,
- isolated,
- kithless,
- lone,
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- long-distance,
- long-range,
- modest,
- offish,
- other,
- out-of-the-way,
- out-of-the-world,
- outlandish,
- outlying,
- parted,
- quarantined,
- remote,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retired,
- retiring,
- rootless,
- scattered,
- secluded,
- seclusive,
- secret,
- segregate,
- segregated,
- separate,
- separated,
- sequestered,
- set at intervals,
- shrinking,
- shut off,
- single-handed,
- solitary,
- solo,
- spaced,
- spaced out,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- strange,
- subdued,
- suppressed,
- unabetted,
- unaccompanied,
- unaffable,
- unaffiliated,
- unaided,
- unallied,
- unapproachable,
- unassisted,
- unassociated,
- unattended,
- uncongenial,
- unconnected,
- undemonstrative,
- unescorted,
- unexpansive,
- unfrequented,
- ungenial,
- unrelatable,
- unrelated,
- unseconded,
- unsupported,
- unvisited,
- with an interval,
- with intervals,
- withdrawn
- reasonable
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- marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy"
- showing reason or sound judgment; "a sensible choice"; "a sensible person" related words >
- acceptable,
- admissible,
- all there,
- allowable,
- apparent,
- appropriate,
- arguable,
- balanced,
- believable,
- bright,
- budget,
- cheap,
- clearheaded,
- clearminded,
- cogent,
- commonsense,
- compos mentis,
- conceivable,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- condonable,
- consequent,
- conservative,
- controlled,
- cool,
- coolheaded,
- credible,
- defensible,
- discreet,
- discursive,
- dispensable,
- down-to-earth,
- earthy,
- easy,
- economic,
- economical,
- economy,
- equitable,
- excusable,
- exemptible,
- expiable,
- fair,
- forgivable,
- frugal,
- hardheaded,
- healthy-minded,
- ideational,
- inexpensive,
- inoffensive,
- intellectual,
- intelligent,
- judicious,
- just,
- justifiable,
- knowing,
- legitimate,
- levelheaded,
- logical,
- low,
- low-priced,
- lucid,
- manageable,
- matter-of-fact,
- mentally sound,
- moderate,
- modest,
- noetic,
- nominal,
- normal,
- not so dumb,
- of sound mind,
- pardonable,
- philosophical,
- plausible,
- popular,
- positivistic,
- practical,
- practical-minded,
- pragmatic,
- proper,
- rational,
- realist,
- realistic,
- reasoned,
- remissible,
- restrained,
- right,
- sane,
- sane-minded,
- scientific,
- scientistic,
- secular,
- sensible,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sophic,
- sound,
- sound-minded,
- sound-thinking,
- straight-thinking,
- strong-minded,
- suitable,
- temperate,
- tenable,
- thinking,
- together,
- token,
- tolerable,
- understanding,
- unexcessive,
- unexpensive,
- unextravagant,
- unextreme,
- unideal,
- unidealistic,
- unobjectionable,
- unromantic,
- unsentimental,
- venial,
- vindicable,
- warrantable,
- well-argued,
- well-balanced,
- well-founded,
- well-grounded,
- well-thought-out,
- wholesome,
- wise,
- within means,
- within reason,
- worldly,
- worth the money
- Laodicean,
- Olympian,
- alienated,
- alone,
- aloof,
- anonymous,
- apart,
- apathetic,
- aseptic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- blank,
- blase,
- bored,
- careless,
- casual,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- closet,
- cold,
- comatose,
- companionless,
- constrained,
- cool,
- desensitized,
- detached,
- discreet,
- disinterested,
- distant,
- dull,
- exclusive,
- expressionless,
- forbidding,
- friendless,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- guarded,
- heartless,
- hebetudinous,
- heedless,
- homeless,
- hopeless,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- in a backwater,
- in a stupor,
- inaccessible,
- incognito,
- incurious,
- indifferent,
- inmost,
- innermost,
- insociable,
- insouciant,
- insular,
- interior,
- intimate,
- introverted,
- inward,
- isolated,
- kithless,
- languid,
- lethargic,
- listless,
- lone,
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- mindless,
- modest,
- nonchalant,
- numb,
- numbed,
- offish,
- out-of-the-way,
- out-of-the-world,
- passive,
- personal,
- phlegmatic,
- pluckless,
- private,
- privy,
- quarantined,
- regardless,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- resigned,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- retired,
- retiring,
- rootless,
- secluded,
- seclusive,
- segregated,
- separate,
- separated,
- sequestered,
- shrinking,
- shut off,
- single-handed,
- slack,
- sluggish,
- solitary,
- solo,
- soporific,
- spiritless,
- spunkless,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- stupefied,
- subdued,
- supine,
- suppressed,
- torpid,
- unabetted,
- unaccompanied,
- unaffable,
- unaided,
- unapproachable,
- unassisted,
- unattended,
- uncaring,
- uncompanionable,
- unconcerned,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- unescorted,
- unexpansive,
- unfrequented,
- ungenial,
- uninquiring,
- uninterested,
- uninvolved,
- unmindful,
- unseconded,
- unsupported,
- unvisited
- measured
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- determined by measurement; "the measured distance was less than a mile"
- the rhythmic arrangement of syllables related words >
- a,
- accordant,
- admeasured,
- alike,
- alternate,
- an,
- antispastic,
- any,
- appraised,
- assessed,
- automatic,
- balanced,
- beating,
- cadenced,
- cadent,
- calculated,
- careful,
- cautious,
- certain,
- circling,
- concinnate,
- concinnous,
- considered,
- consistent,
- consonant,
- constant,
- continuous,
- correspondent,
- cyclic,
- dactylic,
- deliberate,
- dignified,
- epochal,
- equable,
- equal,
- euphonic,
- euphonical,
- euphonious,
- even,
- every other,
- exact,
- flat,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- frugal,
- gauged,
- harmonious,
- homogeneous,
- iambic,
- immutable,
- in numbers,
- in rhythm,
- intentional,
- intermittent,
- invariable,
- isochronal,
- known by measurement,
- leisurely,
- level,
- majestic,
- mapped,
- mechanical,
- metered,
- methodic,
- metric,
- metronomic,
- moderate,
- modulated,
- monolithic,
- monotonous,
- of a piece,
- one,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- oscillatory,
- periodical,
- persistent,
- planned,
- plotted,
- precise,
- predetermined,
- premeditated,
- prosodic,
- prudent,
- pulsating,
- pulsative,
- pulsatory,
- pulsing,
- pyrrhic,
- quantified,
- quantitative,
- quantitive,
- quantized,
- reasoned,
- reciprocal,
- recurrent,
- recurring,
- regular,
- regulated,
- restrained,
- rhythmic,
- rhythmical,
- robotlike,
- rotary,
- scanning,
- seasonal,
- sedate,
- serial,
- slow,
- smooth,
- smooth-sounding,
- sober,
- solemn,
- some,
- sparing,
- spondaic,
- stable,
- stately,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stinting,
- studied,
- surveyed,
- sweet,
- symmetrical,
- systematic,
- temperate,
- throbbing,
- triangulated,
- tripping,
- trochaic,
- unbroken,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- undeviating,
- undifferentiated,
- undiversified,
- undulant,
- undulatory,
- unhurried,
- uniform,
- unruffled,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- valuated,
- valued,
- wavelike,
- well-thought-out,
- wheeling
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