Related Words:
- backwater
collapse - any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress
- a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam; "the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos" related words >
- Charybdis,
- Maelstrom,
- abjure,
- arrest,
- back,
- back away,
- back down,
- back off,
- back out,
- back stream,
- back up,
- backcountry,
- backflow,
- backpedal,
- backtrack,
- backtrail,
- backwash,
- backwoods,
- boondocks,
- brake,
- bush,
- check,
- climb down,
- clip the wings,
- countercurrent,
- counterflow,
- counterflux,
- countermarch,
- crawfish out,
- cry off,
- curb,
- decelerate,
- delay,
- deny,
- detain,
- disavow,
- disclaim,
- disown,
- dodge,
- draw rein,
- duck,
- ease off,
- ease up,
- eat crow,
- eat humble pie,
- eddy,
- elude,
- evade,
- forswear,
- get around,
- go astern,
- go into reverse,
- gulf,
- gurge,
- hinterland,
- hold back,
- hold in check,
- hold up,
- impede,
- keep back,
- let down,
- let up,
- lose ground,
- lose momentum,
- lose speed,
- maelstrom,
- make sternway,
- moderate,
- obstruct,
- recant,
- reef,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regurgitation,
- rein in,
- relax,
- renege,
- renounce,
- repudiate,
- resile,
- retard,
- retract,
- reverse,
- revoke,
- set back,
- shirk,
- sidestep,
- slack off,
- slack up,
- slacken,
- slow,
- slow down,
- slow up,
- stay,
- sticks,
- swallow,
- swirl,
- take back,
- take in sail,
- throttle down,
- twirl,
- unsay,
- up-country,
- vortex,
- welsh,
- whirl,
- whirlpool,
- withdraw
- set back
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- slow down the progress of; hinder; "His late start set him back"
- cost a certain amount; "My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000" related words >
- arrest,
- backpedal,
- backwater,
- bog down,
- bottle up,
- brake,
- bridle,
- check,
- clip the wings,
- constrain,
- contain,
- control,
- cool,
- cool off,
- countercheck,
- curb,
- curtail,
- dam up,
- damp,
- dampen,
- decelerate,
- delay,
- dent,
- depress,
- detain,
- dimple,
- dint,
- dompt,
- draw rein,
- ease off,
- ease up,
- engrave,
- enjoin,
- govern,
- guard,
- hang up,
- hinder,
- hold,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold fast,
- hold in,
- hold in check,
- hold in leash,
- hold up,
- impede,
- impress,
- imprint,
- indent,
- inhibit,
- intercept,
- interfere,
- intermeddle,
- interrupt,
- intervene,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep from,
- keep in,
- keep in check,
- keep under control,
- lay under restraint,
- let down,
- let up,
- lose ground,
- lose momentum,
- lose speed,
- meddle,
- mire,
- moderate,
- notch,
- obstruct,
- oppose,
- pit,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- press in,
- prohibit,
- pull,
- pull in,
- punch,
- punch in,
- recess,
- reef,
- rein,
- rein in,
- relax,
- repress,
- resist,
- restrain,
- retard,
- retrench,
- scotch,
- set in,
- slack off,
- slack up,
- slacken,
- slow,
- slow down,
- slow up,
- snub,
- stamp,
- stay,
- straiten,
- suppress,
- take in sail,
- tamp,
- throttle down,
- withhold
- acclimated,
- acclimatized,
- accommodated,
- accustomed,
- adapted,
- adjusted,
- apprehend,
- arrest,
- barney,
- bust,
- call on,
- call upon,
- capture,
- case-hardened,
- collar,
- collide,
- come by,
- come over,
- conditioned,
- cram in,
- crowd in,
- detain,
- drag in,
- drive in,
- drop in,
- dustup,
- edge in,
- experienced,
- fall aboard,
- familiarized,
- foist in,
- force in,
- fudge in,
- grab,
- hardened,
- hassle,
- head into,
- impact,
- implant in,
- inject in,
- insert in,
- insinuate in,
- intercalate,
- interjaculate,
- interject,
- interpolate,
- interpose,
- intervene,
- introduce in,
- intrude,
- inured,
- jam in,
- knock in,
- knock-down-and-drag-out,
- look in,
- look up,
- lug in,
- make a pinch,
- nab,
- naturalized,
- orientated,
- oriented,
- pack in,
- pay a visit,
- pick up,
- pinch,
- plunge in,
- poke in,
- pop in,
- pound in,
- press in,
- pull in,
- push in,
- put between,
- put under arrest,
- ram,
- ram in,
- rhubarb,
- row,
- ruckus,
- ruction,
- rumpus,
- run broadside on,
- run down,
- run into,
- sail into,
- sandwich,
- scrap,
- seasoned,
- see,
- set-to,
- shindy,
- smuggle in,
- squeeze in,
- step in,
- stop by,
- stop off,
- stop over,
- stuff in,
- take in,
- take into custody,
- take prisoner,
- tamp in,
- throw in,
- thrust in,
- trained,
- used to,
- visit,
- wedge in,
- wont,
- wonted,
- work in,
- worm in
- beneficial
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- promoting or enhancing well-being; "an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries"; "the beneficial effects of a temperate climate"; "the experience was good for her"
- tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health; "beneficial effects of a balanced diet"; "a good night's sleep"; "the salutary influence of pure air" related words >
- advantageous,
- aidful,
- appropriate,
- auspicious,
- banausic,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- bon,
- bonny,
- bracing,
- braw,
- bueno,
- capital,
- cogent,
- commendable,
- commodious,
- conducive,
- constitutional,
- constructive,
- contributory,
- effective,
- efficacious,
- elegant,
- employable,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- expedient,
- fair,
- famous,
- favorable,
- fine,
- fitting,
- functional,
- furthersome,
- good,
- good for,
- goodly,
- grand,
- health-enhancing,
- health-preserving,
- healthful,
- healthy,
- helpful,
- hygeian,
- hygienic,
- invigorating,
- kind,
- laudable,
- nice,
- noble,
- of general utility,
- of help,
- of service,
- of use,
- pleasant,
- positive,
- practical,
- pragmatical,
- profitable,
- proper,
- refreshing,
- regal,
- remedial,
- royal,
- salubrious,
- salutary,
- sanitary,
- serviceable,
- skillful,
- sound,
- splendid,
- supportive,
- therapeutic,
- tonic,
- useful,
- utilitarian,
- valid,
- very good,
- virtuous,
- wholesome
- Lilliputian,
- Tom Thumb,
- bairn,
- bantam,
- banty,
- bitsy,
- bitty,
- brownie,
- button,
- cherub,
- child,
- chit,
- darling,
- diminutive,
- dwarf,
- dwarfish,
- elf,
- featherweight,
- fine,
- fingerling,
- gnome,
- homunculus,
- innocent,
- itsy-bitsy,
- kid,
- kitten,
- lamb,
- lambkin,
- lightweight,
- lilliputian,
- little bugger,
- little fellow,
- little guy,
- little innocent,
- little one,
- little tad,
- little tot,
- manikin,
- midge,
- midget,
- mini,
- miniature,
- minikin,
- minnow,
- minny,
- minute,
- mite,
- mouse,
- nipper,
- nubbin,
- offspring,
- pip-squeak,
- pony,
- pygmy,
- runt,
- shaver,
- shrimp,
- slip,
- small fry,
- snip,
- snippet,
- tad,
- teeny,
- teeny-weeny,
- tiny,
- tit,
- tot,
- wart,
- wee,
- wee tot,
- wisp
- euphonious
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- having a pleasant sound; "a euphonious trill of silver laughter"
- (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident; "her euphonious Southern speech" related words >
- achingly sweet,
- agreeable,
- agreeable-sounding,
- appealing,
- ariose,
- arioso,
- balanced,
- canorous,
- cantabile,
- catchy,
- concinnate,
- concinnous,
- dulcet,
- euphonic,
- euphonical,
- euphonous,
- fine-toned,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- golden,
- golden-tongued,
- golden-voiced,
- harmonious,
- honeyed,
- measured,
- melic,
- mellifluent,
- mellifluous,
- mellisonant,
- mellow,
- melodic,
- melodious,
- music-flowing,
- music-like,
- musical,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- pleasant,
- pleasant-sounding,
- rich,
- silver-toned,
- silver-tongued,
- silver-voiced,
- silvery,
- singable,
- smooth,
- smooth-sounding,
- songful,
- songlike,
- sonorous,
- sweet,
- sweet-flowing,
- sweet-sounding,
- symmetrical,
- tripping,
- tunable,
- tuneful
- 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
- arsy-varsiness,
- bind,
- clutch,
- clutter,
- complication,
- crunch,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- farrago,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- hash,
- hell to pay,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hobble,
- hodgepodge,
- hot water,
- how-do-you-do,
- hysteron proteron,
- imbroglio,
- jam,
- jumble,
- litter,
- mess,
- mishmash,
- mix,
- morass,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- pickle,
- pinch,
- plight,
- predicament,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- quagmire,
- quicksand,
- scramble,
- scrape,
- slough,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- stew,
- sticky wicket,
- strait,
- straits,
- swamp,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tightrope,
- topsy-turviness,
- topsy-turvydom,
- tricky spot,
- tumble,
- turmoil,
- welter
- weather
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- the meteorological conditions: temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "they were hoping for good weather"; "every day we have weather conditions and yesterday was no exception"
- change under the action or influence of the weather; "A weathered old hut"
- sail to the windward of
- cause to slope
- face or endure with courage; "She braved the elements" related words >
- ablate,
- abrade,
- be safe,
- be unflappable,
- beat the game,
- beat the system,
- bring to,
- calm weather,
- climate,
- clime,
- cold weather,
- come through,
- come up fighting,
- come up smiling,
- erode,
- fair weather,
- flanking,
- forces of nature,
- fray,
- frazzle,
- fret,
- get home free,
- glancing,
- good weather,
- halcyon days,
- haul,
- haul off,
- haul the wind,
- haul to,
- haul up,
- head to windward,
- heave to,
- hold fast,
- hold out,
- hold up,
- hot weather,
- keep safe,
- lateral,
- lee,
- leeward,
- live through,
- macroclimate,
- make heavy weather,
- microclimate,
- next-beside,
- not budge,
- outride,
- persevere,
- rainy weather,
- remain firm,
- ride,
- ride it out,
- ride out,
- rub off,
- sail to windward,
- side,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- sideward,
- sidewards,
- sideway,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- skirting,
- stand fast,
- stand firm,
- stand pat,
- stay put,
- stick it out,
- stormy weather,
- tatter,
- the elements,
- tide over,
- triumph,
- uphelm,
- wear,
- wear away,
- wear down,
- wear off,
- wear out,
- wear ragged,
- weather deck,
- weather helm,
- weather out,
- weather sheet,
- weather side,
- weather tack,
- weather the storm,
- weather wheel,
- weatherboard,
- win out,
- win through,
- windiness,
- windward,
- windward ebb,
- windward flood
- fuzz
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- the first beard of an adolescent boy related words >
- Dogberry,
- John Law,
- air,
- bluecoat,
- bobby,
- bubble,
- bull,
- chaff,
- chip,
- cobweb,
- confuse,
- cop,
- copper,
- cork,
- daintiness,
- delicacy,
- dick,
- down,
- downiness,
- dust,
- eiderdown,
- ether,
- fairy,
- feather,
- filminess,
- fine-grainedness,
- fineness,
- flatfoot,
- flattie,
- floss,
- flue,
- fluff,
- fluffiness,
- foam,
- fog,
- froth,
- fur,
- fuzziness,
- gendarme,
- gossamer,
- gossameriness,
- gumshoe,
- heat,
- lint,
- make uncertain,
- mote,
- muddle,
- muddy,
- obscure,
- officer,
- peach fuzz,
- peeler,
- pig,
- pile,
- police,
- police officer,
- pubescence,
- refinement,
- satin,
- satininess,
- shamus,
- silk,
- silkiness,
- smoothness,
- softness,
- sponge,
- spume,
- straw,
- swansdown,
- the cops,
- the fuzz,
- the law,
- thistledown,
- velvet,
- velvetiness
- get to
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- arrive at the point of; "She gets to fretting if I stay away from home too long" related words >
- accomplish,
- achieve,
- answer,
- approach,
- arrive,
- arrive at,
- arrive in,
- assail the ear,
- attain,
- attain to,
- be heard,
- be received,
- begin,
- blast away,
- blast off,
- blow in,
- bob up,
- bribe,
- buy,
- buy off,
- caress the ear,
- carry to,
- check in,
- clock in,
- come,
- come in,
- come to,
- come to hand,
- commence,
- communicate with,
- contact,
- correspond,
- corrupt,
- dive in,
- establish connection,
- extend to,
- fall to,
- fetch,
- fetch up at,
- find,
- fix,
- gain,
- gain a hearing,
- get across,
- get at,
- get in,
- get there,
- get through to,
- go ahead,
- go to,
- grease,
- grease the palm,
- head into,
- hit,
- hit town,
- interrogate,
- jump off,
- kick off,
- lead to,
- maintain connection,
- make,
- make advances,
- make an impression,
- make contact with,
- make it,
- make oneself heard,
- make overtures,
- make up to,
- pay off,
- pitch in,
- plunge into,
- pop up,
- pull in,
- punch in,
- purchase,
- question,
- raise,
- reach,
- reach the ear,
- reach to,
- register,
- relate to,
- reply to,
- respond to,
- ring in,
- roll in,
- run to,
- send off,
- set about,
- set in,
- set out,
- set sail,
- set to,
- show up,
- sign in,
- start,
- start in,
- start off,
- start out,
- stretch away to,
- stretch to,
- suborn,
- take care of,
- take off,
- tamper with,
- tickle the palm,
- time in,
- turn to,
- turn up
- abundantly,
- acutely,
- amazingly,
- amply,
- aright,
- astonishingly,
- awesomely,
- brightly,
- brilliantly,
- capitally,
- conspicuously,
- copiously,
- dazzlingly,
- devastatingly,
- divinely,
- elaborately,
- elegantly,
- eminently,
- emphatically,
- excellently,
- exceptionally,
- exquisitely,
- extraordinarily,
- extravagantly,
- exuberantly,
- famously,
- fine,
- finely,
- generously,
- glaringly,
- gloriously,
- glowingly,
- gorgeously,
- grandiosely,
- grandly,
- imposingly,
- impressively,
- incredibly,
- intensely,
- luxuriously,
- magically,
- magnanimously,
- magnificently,
- majestically,
- markedly,
- marvelously,
- nicely,
- nobly,
- notably,
- particularly,
- peculiarly,
- pointedly,
- preeminently,
- profusely,
- prominently,
- pronouncedly,
- proudly,
- radiantly,
- ravingly,
- ravishingly,
- remarkably,
- richly,
- right,
- royally,
- signally,
- singularly,
- splendaciously,
- splendiferously,
- splendorously,
- splendrously,
- strikingly,
- stunningly,
- sublimely,
- sumptuously,
- superbly,
- superlatively,
- surpassingly,
- surprisingly,
- uncommonly,
- unusually,
- very well,
- well,
- wonderfully,
- wondrous,
- worthily
- blissful
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- completely happy and contented; "blissful young lovers"; "in blissful ignorance" related words >
- Elysian,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- beaming,
- beatific,
- beatified,
- blessed,
- capering,
- cheerful,
- chirping,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- congenial,
- cordial,
- dancing,
- desirable,
- divine,
- dulcet,
- empyreal,
- empyrean,
- en rapport,
- enjoyable,
- fair,
- fair and pleasant,
- felicific,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- flushed with joy,
- gay,
- genial,
- glad,
- glowing,
- good,
- goodly,
- gracious,
- grateful,
- gratifying,
- happy,
- harmonious,
- heart-warming,
- heavenly,
- honeyed,
- joyful,
- joyous,
- laughing,
- leaping,
- likable,
- mellifluous,
- mellow,
- nice,
- paradisiac,
- paradisial,
- paradisian,
- paradisic,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pleasurable,
- pleasure-giving,
- pleasureful,
- purring,
- radiant,
- rewarding,
- saintly,
- satisfying,
- singing,
- smiling,
- smirking,
- sparkling,
- starry-eyed,
- sublime,
- sweet,
- thrice happy,
- welcome
- distinctive
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- of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; "Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor"- Curtis Wilkie; "that is typical of you!" related words >
- accurate,
- appreciative,
- appropriate,
- articulate,
- audible,
- categorical,
- characteristic,
- characterizing,
- classificational,
- classificatory,
- clear,
- contrastive,
- critical,
- defining,
- definite,
- delicate,
- denominative,
- diacritical,
- diagnostic,
- differencing,
- differential,
- differentiative,
- discrete,
- discriminate,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinct,
- distinguished,
- distinguishing,
- divisional,
- divisionary,
- exact,
- exemplary,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- hearable,
- hi-fi,
- high-fidelity,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- in character,
- individual,
- individualizing,
- individuating,
- intrinsic,
- marked,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- nice,
- normal,
- ordinal,
- particular,
- peculiar,
- personalizing,
- plain,
- precise,
- proper,
- quintessential,
- realistic,
- refined,
- regular,
- sample,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- separate,
- separative,
- several,
- single,
- singular,
- special,
- specific,
- subdivisional,
- subtle,
- tactful,
- taxonomic,
- true to form,
- true to type,
- typal,
- typic,
- typical,
- unique,
- usual
- all right
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- being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine"
- without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion); "it's expensive all right" related words >
- OK,
- Roger,
- absolute,
- absolutely,
- acceptable,
- accurate,
- adequate,
- admissible,
- agreeable,
- agreed,
- alright,
- alrighty,
- amen,
- as you say,
- assuredly,
- aye,
- better than nothing,
- by all means,
- certainly,
- correct,
- da,
- dead right,
- decent,
- doing nicely,
- exactly,
- fair,
- fairish,
- faultless,
- fine,
- flawless,
- good,
- good enough,
- goodish,
- hear,
- indeed,
- indeedy,
- ja,
- just,
- just right,
- just so,
- letter-perfect,
- mais oui,
- meticulous,
- moderate,
- most assuredly,
- naturally,
- naturellement,
- not amiss,
- not bad,
- not half bad,
- not so bad,
- of course,
- okay,
- oui,
- passable,
- perfect,
- positively,
- precisely,
- presentable,
- pretty good,
- proper,
- quite,
- rather,
- really,
- respectable,
- right,
- righto,
- satisfactory,
- straight,
- straight-up-and-down,
- sufficient,
- sure,
- sure thing,
- surely,
- tenable,
- tidy,
- to be sure,
- tolerable,
- truly,
- unailing,
- unexceptionable,
- unexceptional,
- unimpeachable,
- unobjectionable,
- unsick,
- unsickly,
- up and about,
- very well,
- viable,
- well,
- well and good,
- why yes,
- workmanlike,
- yea,
- yeah,
- yep,
- yes,
- yes indeed,
- yes indeedy,
- yes sir,
- yes sirree
- ambling,
- cautious,
- cautiously,
- circumspect,
- circumspectly,
- claudicant,
- comfortable,
- crawling,
- crawlingly,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- creepingly,
- delayed,
- deliberate,
- deliberately,
- dilatorily,
- dilatory,
- easily,
- easy,
- faltering,
- falteringly,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gentle,
- gently,
- gradual,
- halting,
- haltingly,
- hasteless,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- idly,
- in low gear,
- in march time,
- in slow motion,
- in slow tempo,
- inactive,
- indolent,
- indolently,
- lackadaisically,
- laggard,
- languid,
- languidly,
- languorous,
- languorously,
- lax,
- lazy,
- limping,
- limpingly,
- lingeringly,
- loiteringly,
- lumbering,
- moderate,
- moderately,
- pokily,
- poking,
- pokingly,
- poky,
- relaxed,
- relaxedly,
- reluctant,
- reluctantly,
- restful,
- retarded,
- sauntering,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- slowly,
- sluggish,
- sluggishly,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- tardily,
- tarryingly,
- tentative,
- tentatively,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- under easy sail,
- unhasty,
- unhurried,
- unhurriedly,
- waddling,
- with agonizing slowness,
- with deliberation
- subtlety
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- the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze; "you had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew" related words >
- Italian hand,
- absoluteness,
- accuracy,
- acquired taste,
- acuteness,
- airiness,
- airy nothing,
- animal cunning,
- apparent soundness,
- appreciation,
- appreciation of differences,
- appreciation of excellence,
- appreciativeness,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artistic judgment,
- astuteness,
- attention to detail,
- attention to fact,
- bodilessness,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- care for truth,
- casuistry,
- choiceness,
- circularity,
- circumstantiality,
- civilized taste,
- civilizedness,
- cleverness,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- connoisseurship,
- conscientiousness,
- convolution,
- correctness,
- crabbedness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- critical niceness,
- criticality,
- criticalness,
- cultivated taste,
- cultivation,
- culture,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- daintiness,
- deceptiveness,
- delicacy,
- delicate distinction,
- detail,
- deviousness,
- differentia,
- differential,
- discriminating taste,
- discriminatingness,
- discrimination,
- discriminativeness,
- disingenuousness,
- distinction,
- distortion,
- elegance,
- entanglement,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- ethereality,
- evasive reasoning,
- exactingness,
- exactitude,
- exactness,
- excellence,
- exquisiteness,
- faithfulness,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- fastidiousness,
- faultlessness,
- feel,
- feeling,
- fidelity,
- fine Italian hand,
- fine palate,
- fine point,
- fineness,
- finesse,
- finicality,
- finicalness,
- finickiness,
- finickingness,
- flawlessness,
- flimsiness,
- foxiness,
- fussiness,
- gamesmanship,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- graciosity,
- graciousness,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- hairline,
- immateriality,
- impalpability,
- imponderability,
- incorporeality,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- insincerity,
- insolidity,
- insubstantiality,
- intangibility,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- inventiveness,
- involution,
- involvement,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- judiciousness,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- low cunning,
- making distinctions,
- margin,
- mathematical precision,
- meticulousness,
- minuteness,
- misapplication,
- mistiness,
- mystification,
- narrow margin,
- nice distinction,
- niceness,
- niceness of distinction,
- nicety,
- nuance,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- one-upmanship,
- oversubtlety,
- palate,
- particle of difference,
- particularity,
- particularness,
- pawkiness,
- perfection,
- perplexity,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- point of difference,
- polish,
- preciseness,
- precisianism,
- precision,
- punctiliousness,
- punctuality,
- quality,
- ramification,
- rareness,
- rarity,
- rationalization,
- readiness,
- refined discrimination,
- refined palate,
- refinement,
- resourcefulness,
- right,
- rightness,
- rigidity,
- rigidness,
- rigor,
- rigorousness,
- satanic cunning,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulousness,
- selectiveness,
- sense,
- sensibility,
- sensitivity,
- severity,
- shade of difference,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- slickness,
- slightness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- strictness,
- subtility,
- subtilty,
- subtle distinction,
- subtleness,
- suppleness,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- tanglement,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- technicality,
- tenuity,
- tenuousness,
- textualism,
- the letter,
- thinness,
- treachery,
- trickiness,
- unconcreteness,
- unreality,
- unsolidity,
- unsubstantiality,
- unsubstantialness,
- vagueness,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- wariness,
- wide margin,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit
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