Related Words:
- slacken
collapse - make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
- become looser or slack; "the rope slackened" related words >
- abate,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- anesthetize,
- appease,
- arrest,
- assuage,
- attemper,
- attenuate,
- backpedal,
- backwater,
- bank the fire,
- bate,
- benumb,
- block,
- blunt,
- bog down,
- bottle up,
- brake,
- chasten,
- check,
- clip the wings,
- come apart,
- confine,
- constrain,
- control,
- countercheck,
- curb,
- cushion,
- dam up,
- damp,
- dampen,
- de-emphasize,
- deaden,
- deaden the pain,
- decelerate,
- degenerate,
- delay,
- detain,
- deteriorate,
- die down,
- diffuse,
- dilute,
- diminish,
- disimprove,
- disintegrate,
- disjoin,
- disperse,
- dissolve into chaos,
- downplay,
- drag,
- draw rein,
- dull,
- ease,
- ease matters,
- ease off,
- ease up,
- ebb,
- extenuate,
- fall,
- fall back,
- foment,
- free,
- get worse,
- give relief,
- grow worse,
- hang up,
- hinder,
- hold back,
- hold in check,
- hold up,
- impede,
- inhibit,
- intercept,
- interfere,
- intermeddle,
- interrupt,
- intervene,
- keep back,
- keep in check,
- keep within bounds,
- lag,
- lax,
- lay,
- lenify,
- lessen,
- let down,
- let go,
- let up,
- let up on,
- lighten,
- loose,
- loosen,
- lose ground,
- lose momentum,
- lose speed,
- lull,
- make late,
- meddle,
- mire,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modulate,
- mollify,
- numb,
- obstruct,
- obtund,
- oppose,
- pad,
- palliate,
- play down,
- poultice,
- pour balm into,
- pour oil on,
- reduce,
- reduce the temperature,
- reef,
- regress,
- rein in,
- relapse,
- relax,
- relent,
- relieve,
- remit,
- repress,
- resist,
- restrain,
- retard,
- retrograde,
- retrogress,
- salve,
- scatter,
- scotch,
- set back,
- sicken,
- slack,
- slack off,
- slack up,
- slackening,
- slake,
- slip back,
- slow,
- slow down,
- slow up,
- slow-up,
- smother,
- snub,
- sober,
- sober down,
- soften,
- soothe,
- stay,
- stifle,
- stop,
- stupe,
- subdue,
- subside,
- suppress,
- take in sail,
- tame,
- temper,
- throttle down,
- tone down,
- tune down,
- unbend,
- unbrace,
- underplay,
- unglue,
- unlax,
- unleash,
- unstick,
- unstrain,
- unstring,
- untighten,
- untune,
- unwind,
- wane,
- water down,
- weaken,
- worsen
- tolerance
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- the act of tolerating something
- the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions
- willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others related words >
- a habit,
- acceptance,
- acquired tolerance,
- acute alcoholism,
- addictedness,
- addiction,
- admissibility,
- admission,
- alcoholism,
- allowance,
- amphetamine withdrawal symptoms,
- ample scope,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- barbiturate addiction,
- barbiturism,
- benevolence,
- blank check,
- broad-mindedness,
- carte blanche,
- chain smoking,
- charitableness,
- charity,
- chronic alcoholism,
- clearance,
- clemency,
- clementness,
- cocainism,
- compassion,
- completeness,
- comprehension,
- comprehensiveness,
- comprisal,
- condonation,
- connivance,
- coverage,
- crash,
- craving,
- dependence,
- deviation,
- dipsomania,
- disregard,
- drug addiction,
- drug culture,
- drug dependence,
- easiness,
- easygoingness,
- elbowroom,
- eligibility,
- embodiment,
- embracement,
- encompassment,
- endurance,
- envisagement,
- exhaustiveness,
- field,
- forbearance,
- forbearing,
- forbearingness,
- forgiveness,
- forgivingness,
- fortitude,
- free course,
- free hand,
- free play,
- free scope,
- free thought,
- freethinking,
- full scope,
- full swing,
- generousness,
- gentleness,
- grit,
- guts,
- habituation,
- humaneness,
- humanity,
- immunity,
- imperviousness,
- imprecision,
- inaccuracy,
- inaccurateness,
- inclusion,
- inclusiveness,
- incorporation,
- incorrectness,
- indulgence,
- inexactitude,
- inexactness,
- insensitivity,
- kindness,
- latitude,
- latitudinarianism,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- leeway,
- lenience,
- leniency,
- lenientness,
- lenity,
- liberalism,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- liberation,
- libertarianism,
- libertinism,
- long rope,
- long-sufferance,
- long-suffering,
- longanimity,
- looseness,
- magnanimity,
- maneuvering space,
- margin,
- membership,
- mercifulness,
- mercy,
- mildness,
- moderateness,
- negligence,
- nicotine addiction,
- no holds barred,
- open space,
- open-mindedness,
- openness,
- opposition,
- overlooking,
- participation,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- patientness,
- permissiveness,
- perseverance,
- physical dependence,
- pity,
- play,
- predictable error,
- probable error,
- psychological dependence,
- range,
- reception,
- resistance,
- room,
- rope,
- scope,
- sea room,
- self-control,
- softness,
- space,
- stamina,
- standard deviation,
- steadfastness,
- steadiness,
- stoicism,
- strength,
- sufferance,
- sweet reasonableness,
- swing,
- tenderness,
- toleration,
- unbigotedness,
- uncorrectness,
- unfactualness,
- unpreciseness,
- unrevengefulness,
- unrigorousness,
- variation,
- vigor,
- waiting game,
- waiting it out,
- way,
- whole,
- wide berth,
- winking,
- withdrawal sickness,
- withdrawal symptoms
- fastidious
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- giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
- having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements" related words >
- accurate,
- appreciative,
- bleached,
- bright,
- careful,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- civilized,
- clean,
- cleanly,
- conscientious,
- critical,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- differential,
- difficult,
- dirt-free,
- discriminate,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- elegant,
- exact,
- exacting,
- fair,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicky,
- fresh,
- fussy,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- gracious,
- hypercritical,
- immaculate,
- kosher,
- meticulous,
- nice,
- nit-picking,
- nonpolluted,
- of cleanly habits,
- overconscientious,
- overscrupulous,
- particular,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- polished,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- pure,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- refined,
- religious,
- ritually pure,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- shiny,
- smut-free,
- smutless,
- sophisticated,
- spotless,
- squeamish,
- stainless,
- strict,
- subtle,
- sweet,
- tactful,
- tahar,
- tender-conscienced,
- tubbed,
- unadulterated,
- unbesmirched,
- unblemished,
- unblotted,
- undefiled,
- unmuddied,
- unpolluted,
- unsmirched,
- unsmudged,
- unsoiled,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- untarnished,
- well-scrubbed,
- well-washed,
- white,
- whitened
- get by
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- pass or move in front of; "Bride's Biscuit got by the other dogs to win the race" related words >
- accomplish,
- achieve,
- answer,
- avail,
- be equal to,
- be missed,
- be so,
- be such,
- bear,
- bring off,
- bring through,
- carry off,
- clear,
- clear the hurdle,
- come along,
- come on,
- come out,
- come through,
- compass,
- contrive,
- cop a plea,
- cop out,
- cope,
- crown with success,
- cut the mustard,
- do,
- do it,
- do the trick,
- do with,
- eke out,
- engineer,
- escape attention,
- escape notice,
- escape one,
- escape without penalty,
- fare,
- fill the bill,
- fulfill,
- get along,
- get along on,
- get away with,
- get by on,
- get off,
- get off cheap,
- get on,
- go along,
- go around,
- go at liberty,
- go free,
- go on,
- go scot free,
- hack it,
- hold,
- hold up,
- just do,
- keep afloat,
- make do,
- make ends meet,
- make it,
- make out,
- make the grade,
- makeshift,
- manage,
- manage somehow,
- manage with,
- meet,
- meet requirements,
- muddle through,
- negotiate,
- not register,
- pass,
- pass muster,
- pull off,
- put across,
- put over,
- put through,
- qualify,
- reach,
- satisfy,
- scrape along,
- serve,
- serve the purpose,
- shape up,
- stack up,
- stagger,
- stand,
- stand the test,
- stand up,
- stretch,
- subsist,
- succeed in,
- suffice,
- survive,
- swing,
- swing the deal,
- take it,
- turn out,
- turn the trick,
- win freedom,
- work,
- worry along
- election
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- the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice; "her election of medicine as a profession"
- a vote to select the winner of a position or political office; "the results of the election will be announced tonight"
- the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
- the status or fact of being elected; "they celebrated his election" related words >
- Calvinism,
- accession,
- alternative,
- alternativity,
- anointing,
- anointment,
- apostolic orders,
- appointment,
- arrogation,
- assignment,
- assumption,
- authorization,
- by-election,
- calling,
- canonization,
- caucus,
- choice,
- choosing,
- closed primary,
- co-optation,
- co-option,
- conferment,
- congressional election,
- consecration,
- contested election,
- coronation,
- decision,
- delegation,
- deputation,
- designation,
- determinism,
- direct primary,
- druthers,
- electing,
- empowerment,
- fatalism,
- first choice,
- free choice,
- free will,
- general election,
- holy orders,
- induction,
- installation,
- institution,
- investiture,
- legitimate succession,
- major orders,
- mandatory primary,
- minor orders,
- nomination,
- nonpartisan primary,
- open primary,
- option,
- optional primary,
- ordainment,
- orders,
- ordination,
- partisan election,
- pick,
- plebiscite,
- political election,
- poll,
- predestinarianism,
- predeterminism,
- preference,
- preference primary,
- preferment,
- preoption,
- presentation,
- presidential election,
- presidential preference primary,
- presidential primary,
- primary,
- primary election,
- reading in,
- referendum,
- runoff,
- runoff election,
- runoff primary,
- seizure,
- selection,
- succession,
- taking over,
- the pick,
- usurpation,
- volition,
- vote,
- voting,
- will
- lie in
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- be in confinement for childbirth related words >
- abide in,
- approach anchorage,
- be coextensive with,
- be comprised in,
- be confined,
- be constituted by,
- be contained in,
- be found,
- be located,
- be present in,
- be situated,
- bear,
- bear a child,
- bear down on,
- bear down upon,
- bear up for,
- bear up to,
- bear young,
- calve,
- cast,
- close with,
- consist in,
- drop,
- dwell in,
- exist in,
- farrow,
- fawn,
- fetch,
- foal,
- give birth,
- go aboard,
- go alongside,
- have,
- have a baby,
- have young,
- inhabit,
- inhere in,
- kitten,
- labor,
- lamb,
- lay aboard,
- lay for,
- lay in,
- lie,
- litter,
- make,
- make at,
- make for,
- pup,
- put away for,
- put in,
- put into port,
- reach,
- repose,
- repose in,
- reside in,
- rest,
- rest in,
- run for,
- sail for,
- stand,
- stand for,
- steer toward,
- subsist in,
- throw,
- travail,
- whelp,
- yean
- idolization
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- the act of worshiping blindly and to excess related words >
- Amor,
- Christian love,
- Eros,
- Platonic love,
- admiration,
- adoration,
- affection,
- agape,
- anthropolatry,
- apotheosis,
- appreciation,
- approbation,
- approval,
- arborolatry,
- ardency,
- ardor,
- attachment,
- awe,
- bibliolatry,
- bodily love,
- breathless adoration,
- brotherly love,
- caritas,
- charity,
- conjugal love,
- consideration,
- courtesy,
- deference,
- deification,
- demonolatry,
- desire,
- devotion,
- duty,
- esteem,
- estimation,
- exaggerated respect,
- faithful love,
- fancy,
- favor,
- fervor,
- fetishization,
- flame,
- fondness,
- free love,
- free-lovism,
- great respect,
- heart,
- hero worship,
- high regard,
- homage,
- honor,
- hygeiolatry,
- iconolatry,
- idolatry,
- idolism,
- lasciviousness,
- libido,
- like,
- liking,
- litholatry,
- love,
- lovemaking,
- married love,
- monolatry,
- ophiolatry,
- passion,
- patriolatry,
- physical love,
- physiolatry,
- phytolatry,
- popular regard,
- popularity,
- prestige,
- pyrolatry,
- regard,
- respect,
- reverence,
- reverential regard,
- sentiment,
- sex,
- sexual love,
- shine,
- spiritual love,
- tender feeling,
- tender passion,
- truelove,
- uxoriousness,
- veneration,
- weakness,
- worship,
- yearning
- writer
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- writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
- a person who is able to write and has written something related words >
- addressee,
- advertising writer,
- amanuensis,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- calligrapher,
- chirographer,
- clerk,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- communicator,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copier,
- copyist,
- copywriter,
- correspondent,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- descanter,
- diarist,
- discourser,
- disquisitor,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- expositor,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- humorist,
- inditer,
- ink spiller,
- inkslinger,
- letter writer,
- letterer,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- monographer,
- monographist,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- pen,
- pen pal,
- pencil driver,
- penman,
- penner,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prose writer,
- recording secretary,
- reviewer,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scribbler,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- scrivener,
- secretary,
- short-story writer,
- storyteller,
- technical writer,
- tractation,
- transcriber,
- word painter,
- word-slinger,
- wordsmith
- haltingly
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- in a halting manner; "he spoke haltingly" related words >
- at irregular intervals,
- at random,
- brokenly,
- by catches,
- by fits,
- by jerks,
- by snatches,
- capriciously,
- cautiously,
- circumspectly,
- crawlingly,
- creepingly,
- deliberately,
- desultorily,
- dilatorily,
- disconnectedly,
- discontinuously,
- easily,
- eccentrically,
- erratically,
- falteringly,
- fitfully,
- gently,
- idly,
- in low gear,
- in march time,
- in slow motion,
- in slow tempo,
- in snatches,
- in spots,
- inconstantly,
- indolently,
- intermittently,
- irregularly,
- jerkily,
- languidly,
- languorously,
- leisurely,
- limpingly,
- lingeringly,
- loiteringly,
- lurchingly,
- moderately,
- nonuniformly,
- off and on,
- patchily,
- pokily,
- pokingly,
- relaxedly,
- reluctantly,
- roughly,
- slow,
- slowly,
- sluggishly,
- spasmodically,
- sporadically,
- spottily,
- tarryingly,
- tentatively,
- uncertainly,
- under easy sail,
- unevenly,
- unhurriedly,
- unmethodically,
- unpredictably,
- unrhythmically,
- unsteadily,
- unsystematically,
- variably,
- whimsically,
- with agonizing slowness,
- with deliberation,
- wobblingly
- academician,
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- bookman,
- classicist,
- clerk,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- colossus of knowledge,
- columnist,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- diarist,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- genius,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- giant of learning,
- humanist,
- humorist,
- inditer,
- learned clerk,
- learned man,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- logographer,
- lover of learning,
- magazine writer,
- man of learning,
- man of letters,
- mastermind,
- mine of information,
- monographer,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- philologist,
- philologue,
- philomath,
- philosophe,
- philosopher,
- poet,
- polyhistor,
- polymath,
- prose writer,
- pundit,
- reviewer,
- savant,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scholar,
- scholastic,
- schoolman,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- storyteller,
- student,
- technical writer,
- walking encyclopedia,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer
- straightforward
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- pointed directly ahead; "a straightforward gaze"
- free from ambiguity; "a straightforward set of instructions" related words >
- Attic,
- Ciceronian,
- Mickey Mouse,
- Spartan,
- aboveboard,
- apparent,
- artless,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bald,
- bare,
- barefaced,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- broad,
- brusque,
- candid,
- casual,
- chaste,
- classic,
- clean-cut,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- clear as day,
- clear-cut,
- coherent,
- common,
- commonplace,
- connected,
- consistent,
- crisp,
- crystal-clear,
- crystalline,
- cushy,
- dead,
- dead ahead,
- defined,
- definite,
- direct,
- directly,
- distinct,
- downright,
- dry,
- due,
- due north,
- dull,
- easy,
- easy as pie,
- effortless,
- elegant,
- evident,
- explicit,
- express,
- facile,
- finished,
- forthright,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- genuine,
- glib,
- graceful,
- gracile,
- heart-to-heart,
- homely,
- homespun,
- honest,
- honorable,
- immediate,
- in a beeline,
- in line with,
- inartificial,
- incomplex,
- ingenuous,
- irreversible,
- just,
- lean,
- light,
- limpid,
- loud and clear,
- lucid,
- luminous,
- manifest,
- matter-of-fact,
- native,
- natural,
- neat,
- nothing to it,
- one-way,
- open,
- openhearted,
- outspoken,
- painless,
- palpable,
- patent,
- pellucid,
- perspicuous,
- plain,
- plain dealing,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- polished,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pure,
- refined,
- restrained,
- right,
- round,
- rustic,
- severe,
- simple,
- simple as ABC,
- simple-speaking,
- sincere,
- smooth,
- sober,
- soft,
- spare,
- stark,
- straight,
- straight across,
- straight ahead,
- straight-out,
- straightaway,
- straightforwards,
- straightly,
- straightway,
- tasteful,
- terse,
- through,
- translucent,
- transparent,
- transpicuous,
- trim,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- unambiguous,
- unartificial,
- unassuming,
- unbroken,
- unburdensome,
- unchecked,
- uncomplicated,
- unconcealed,
- unconfused,
- unconstrained,
- undeviating,
- undeviatingly,
- undisguised,
- undissembled,
- undissembling,
- unequivocal,
- unfeigning,
- unguarded,
- unidirectional,
- unimaginative,
- uninterrupted,
- uninvolved,
- univocal,
- unlabored,
- unmistakable,
- unpoetical,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unswerving,
- unswervingly,
- unvarnished,
- unveeringly,
- upright,
- upstanding,
- well-defined
- informal
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- not formal; "conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress"; "an informal free-and-easy manner"; "an informal gathering of friends"
- used of spoken and written language
- not officially recognized or controlled; "an informal agreement"; "a loose organization of the local farmers" related words >
- Bohemian,
- affable,
- beat,
- beat-up,
- bedraggled,
- blowzy,
- breakaway,
- careless,
- casual,
- chintzy,
- colloquial,
- common,
- conversational,
- cordial,
- degage,
- dilapidated,
- drabbletailed,
- draggled,
- draggletailed,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- en deshabille,
- everyday,
- familiar,
- far out,
- folksy,
- free,
- free and easy,
- fringy,
- frowzy,
- frumpish,
- frumpy,
- garden-variety,
- gracious,
- grubby,
- haymish,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hippie,
- homely,
- homey,
- in dishabille,
- in rags,
- irregular,
- kinky,
- loose,
- lumpen,
- maverick,
- messy,
- mussy,
- natural,
- negligent,
- nonstandard,
- not cricket,
- not done,
- not kosher,
- offbeat,
- offhand,
- offhanded,
- ordinary,
- original,
- plain,
- poky,
- private,
- ragged,
- raggedy,
- relaxed,
- ruinous,
- scraggly,
- seedy,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- simple,
- slack,
- slatternly,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- sluttish,
- sociable,
- sordid,
- special,
- spoken,
- spontaneous,
- sporty,
- squalid,
- substandard,
- tacky,
- tattered,
- unaffected,
- unassuming,
- unauthorized,
- unceremonious,
- unconstrained,
- unconventional,
- uneducated,
- unfashionable,
- unkempt,
- unliterary,
- unneat,
- unofficial,
- unorthodox,
- unpretentious,
- unsightly,
- unstudied,
- untidy,
- vernacular,
- way out
- voluntary
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- composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance
- of your own free will or design; not forced or compelled; "man is a voluntary agent"; "participation was voluntary"; "voluntary manslaughter"; "voluntary generosity in times of disaster"; "voluntary social workers"; "a voluntary confession"
- controlled by individual volition; "voluntary motions"; "voluntary muscles" related words >
- Vorspiel,
- advised,
- aimed,
- aimed at,
- alternative,
- arbitrary,
- autonomous,
- avant-propos,
- breakthrough,
- calculated,
- chosen,
- conative,
- concert overture,
- conscious,
- considered,
- contemplated,
- curtain raiser,
- deliberate,
- deliberated,
- descant,
- designed,
- discretional,
- discretionary,
- disjunctive,
- dramatic overture,
- elected,
- elective,
- envisaged,
- envisioned,
- exordium,
- foreword,
- free,
- free will,
- front matter,
- frontispiece,
- gratuitous,
- independent,
- innovation,
- intended,
- intentional,
- introduction,
- knowing,
- leap,
- meant,
- meditated,
- nonmandatory,
- of design,
- offered,
- operatic overture,
- optional,
- overture,
- planned,
- postulate,
- preamble,
- preface,
- prefix,
- prefixture,
- preliminary,
- prelude,
- premeditated,
- premise,
- presupposition,
- proem,
- proffered,
- projected,
- prolegomena,
- prolegomenon,
- prolepsis,
- prologue,
- proposed,
- protasis,
- purposed,
- purposeful,
- purposive,
- self-acting,
- self-active,
- self-determined,
- self-determining,
- spontaneous,
- studied,
- teleological,
- unasked,
- unbesought,
- unbidden,
- uncalled-for,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- unconstrained,
- unforced,
- uninfluenced,
- uninvited,
- unpressured,
- unprompted,
- unrequested,
- unrequired,
- unsolicited,
- unsought,
- vamp,
- verse,
- volitional,
- volunteer,
- willful,
- willing,
- witting
- fall upon
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- find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake" related words >
- alight upon,
- ambush,
- appear unexpectedly,
- arrive at,
- arrive upon,
- assail,
- assault,
- attack,
- be unexpected,
- blitz,
- bob up,
- bump into,
- bushwhack,
- come across,
- come among,
- come at,
- come down on,
- come unawares,
- come up against,
- come upon,
- confront,
- crack down on,
- creep up on,
- descend on,
- descend upon,
- drop on,
- encounter,
- fall across,
- fall among,
- fall foul of,
- fall on,
- flash upon one,
- gang up on,
- get at,
- go at,
- go for,
- harry,
- have at,
- hit,
- hit like lightning,
- hit upon,
- jump,
- land on,
- lay at,
- lay hands on,
- lay into,
- light into,
- light upon,
- meet,
- meet head-on,
- meet up with,
- meet with,
- mug,
- pitch into,
- pitch upon,
- pop up,
- pounce upon,
- pound,
- reach,
- run across,
- run into,
- run smack into,
- run up against,
- run upon,
- sail into,
- set on,
- set upon,
- settle on,
- strike,
- strike upon,
- stumble on,
- stumble upon,
- surprise,
- swoop down on,
- take the offensive,
- turn up,
- wade into
- accept,
- ambush,
- assail,
- assault,
- assume,
- attack,
- attempt,
- blitz,
- buckle to,
- bushwhack,
- come at,
- come down on,
- crack down on,
- descend on,
- descend upon,
- dive into,
- draw first blood,
- embark in,
- embark upon,
- endeavor,
- engage in,
- enter on,
- enter upon,
- fall into,
- fall on,
- fall to,
- fall upon,
- gang up on,
- get busy,
- get cracking,
- get going,
- get under way,
- get with it,
- go about,
- go at,
- go for,
- go in for,
- go into,
- go to it,
- go upon,
- harry,
- have at,
- hit,
- hit like lightning,
- hop to it,
- jump,
- jump to it,
- land on,
- launch forth,
- launch into,
- lay about,
- lay about one,
- lay at,
- lay hands on,
- lay into,
- lay on,
- light into,
- make war on,
- move into,
- mug,
- pitch in,
- plunge into,
- pounce upon,
- pound,
- proceed to,
- sail into,
- set about,
- set at,
- set forward,
- set going,
- set on,
- set to,
- set to work,
- set upon,
- square up,
- start in,
- strike,
- surprise,
- swoop down on,
- tackle,
- take on,
- take the offensive,
- take up,
- turn to,
- undertake,
- venture upon,
- wade into
- sincere
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- open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship" related words >
- abandoned,
- aboveboard,
- actual,
- afire,
- ardent,
- artless,
- authentic,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- bona fide,
- born yesterday,
- bound,
- bound and determined,
- broad,
- brusque,
- burning,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- childlike,
- committed,
- confiding,
- dear,
- decided,
- decisive,
- dedicated,
- definite,
- determined,
- devoted,
- devout,
- dinkum,
- direct,
- downright,
- earnest,
- explicit,
- faithful,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fiery,
- flaming,
- following the letter,
- forthright,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- genuine,
- good,
- guileless,
- heart-to-heart,
- heartfelt,
- hearty,
- heated,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- impassioned,
- in earnest,
- inartificial,
- ingenu,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intent on,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- loyal,
- meant,
- naive,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- obstinate,
- on fire,
- on the level,
- open,
- openhearted,
- original,
- outspoken,
- passionate,
- perfervid,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- plain,
- plain-spoken,
- pure,
- purposeful,
- real,
- realistic,
- red-hot,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- rightful,
- round,
- serious,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- simplehearted,
- simpleminded,
- single-hearted,
- single-minded,
- spirited,
- sterling,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straightforward,
- sure-enough,
- tenacious,
- transparent,
- true,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- trustful,
- trusting,
- truthful,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- unchecked,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- unconstrained,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undesigning,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undissembled,
- undissembling,
- undistorted,
- unequivocal,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unguarded,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unqualified,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unsophisticated,
- unspecious,
- unsuspicious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- unwary,
- vehement,
- veracious,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- warm,
- white-hot,
- wholehearted,
- word-for-word,
- zealous
- humorist
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- someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way related words >
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- banana,
- banterer,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- buffoon,
- burlesquer,
- card,
- caricaturist,
- clown,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- comedian,
- comic,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- cutup,
- dance critic,
- diarist,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- droll,
- encyclopedist,
- epigrammatist,
- essayist,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- funnyman,
- gag writer,
- gagman,
- gagster,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- inditer,
- ironist,
- jester,
- joker,
- jokesmith,
- jokester,
- kidder,
- lampooner,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- madcap,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- merry-andrew,
- monographer,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- parodist,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prankster,
- prose writer,
- punner,
- punster,
- quipster,
- reparteeist,
- reviewer,
- satirist,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- storyteller,
- technical writer,
- wag,
- wagwit,
- wisecracker,
- wit,
- witling,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer,
- zany
- accede,
- accept,
- acquiesce,
- assent,
- be agreeable,
- be conservative,
- be moderate,
- be pacifistic,
- bend,
- capitulate,
- come round,
- comply,
- compromise,
- consent,
- die down,
- ease off,
- ebb,
- face the music,
- fall,
- forbear,
- forgive,
- give,
- give ground,
- give quarter,
- give way,
- go along with,
- have mercy upon,
- have pity,
- keep the peace,
- keep within bounds,
- keep within compass,
- knock under,
- knuckle down,
- knuckle under,
- let up,
- let up on,
- live temperately,
- live with it,
- melt,
- moderate,
- not make waves,
- not resist,
- obey,
- pardon,
- practice nonviolence,
- practice self-control,
- relax,
- remit,
- reprieve,
- resign,
- settle down,
- show mercy,
- show pity,
- slacken,
- sober down,
- soften,
- spare,
- strike a balance,
- submit,
- subside,
- succumb,
- swallow it,
- swallow the pill,
- take,
- take in sail,
- take it,
- take pity on,
- thaw,
- unbend,
- wane,
- yield
- menial
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- a domestic servant related words >
- attendant,
- attending,
- base,
- blue-collar worker,
- bootlicker,
- breadwinner,
- brown-nosing,
- casual,
- casual laborer,
- common laborer,
- cringing,
- day laborer,
- degrading,
- demeaning,
- domestic,
- domestic servant,
- drudge,
- employee,
- factory worker,
- fag,
- fawning,
- flattering,
- flunky,
- free lance,
- free-lancer,
- full-time worker,
- gofer,
- hand,
- help,
- helping,
- humble,
- ignoble,
- industrial worker,
- jobber,
- jobholder,
- laborer,
- laboring man,
- lackey,
- leech,
- lickspittle,
- low,
- lowly,
- mean,
- migrant,
- minion,
- ministering,
- moiler,
- navvy,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- office temporary,
- parasite,
- proletarian,
- roustabout,
- routine,
- salaried worker,
- scullion,
- self-employed person,
- serf,
- servant,
- servile,
- serving,
- servitor,
- servitorial,
- slave,
- slavey,
- slavish,
- stiff,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- sycophant,
- sycophantic,
- temporary,
- toady,
- toadying,
- toiler,
- turnspit,
- underling,
- unskilled,
- wage earner,
- wage slave,
- wageworker,
- waiting,
- worker,
- workgirl,
- workhand,
- working girl,
- workingman,
- workingwoman,
- workman,
- yes-man
- unmarried
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- not married or related to the unmarried state; "unmarried men and women"; "unmarried life"; "sex and the single girl"; "single parenthood"; "are you married or single?" related words >
- relax
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- cause to feel relaxed; "A hot bath always relaxes me"
- become less tense, rest, or take one's ease; "He relaxed in the hot tub"; "Let's all relax after a hard day's work"
- make less tight; "relax the tension on the rope"
- become less severe or strict; "The rules relaxed after the new director arrived"
- make less severe or strict; "The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught"
- become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner; "our new colleague relaxed when he saw that we were a friendly group" related words >
- abate,
- admit,
- admit exceptions,
- allow,
- allow for,
- amuse,
- arrest,
- backpedal,
- backwater,
- bate,
- be at ease,
- be easy,
- be relaxed,
- beguile,
- beguile the time,
- bend,
- brake,
- calm down,
- check,
- clip the wings,
- collect,
- collect oneself,
- compose,
- compose oneself,
- concede,
- consider,
- consider the circumstances,
- consider the source,
- convulse,
- cool it,
- cool off,
- curb,
- cushion,
- decelerate,
- decrease,
- delay,
- delight,
- detain,
- diffuse,
- diminish,
- discount,
- disjoin,
- disperse,
- disregard,
- divert,
- draw rein,
- drown care,
- ease,
- ease off,
- ease up,
- enliven,
- entertain,
- exhilarate,
- feel at home,
- feel easy,
- fluff,
- forbear,
- forgive,
- fracture one,
- free,
- gentle,
- get organized,
- give,
- give quarter,
- give way,
- grant,
- have a ball,
- have fun,
- have mercy upon,
- have pity,
- hold back,
- hold in check,
- hold up,
- impede,
- keep back,
- kill,
- kill time,
- knead,
- knock dead,
- laugh it up,
- lax,
- laxate,
- lessen,
- let down,
- let go,
- let up,
- let up on,
- lift temporarily,
- limber,
- limber up,
- live it up,
- loose,
- loosen,
- loosen up,
- lose ground,
- lose momentum,
- lose speed,
- make,
- make allowance for,
- mash,
- massage,
- mellow,
- melt,
- milden,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modify,
- modulate,
- mollify,
- obstruct,
- pardon,
- plump,
- provide for,
- pulp,
- quiet down,
- raise a laugh,
- raise a smile,
- recreate,
- reduce,
- reef,
- refresh,
- regale,
- rein in,
- relax the condition,
- release,
- relent,
- relieve,
- remit,
- reprieve,
- rest,
- retard,
- scatter,
- set aside,
- set back,
- shake up,
- simmer down,
- slack,
- slack off,
- slack up,
- slacken,
- slake,
- slay,
- slow,
- slow down,
- slow up,
- smash,
- sober down,
- soften,
- soften up,
- solace,
- spare,
- squash,
- stand easy,
- stay,
- subdue,
- submit,
- supple,
- take account of,
- take in sail,
- take into account,
- take into consideration,
- take it easy,
- take pity on,
- temper,
- tenderize,
- thaw,
- throttle down,
- tickle,
- titillate,
- tone down,
- tune down,
- unbend,
- unbrace,
- unglue,
- unlax,
- unleash,
- unstick,
- unstrain,
- unstring,
- untighten,
- unwind,
- waive,
- weaken,
- wow,
- yield
- unconfined
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- not confined
- free from confinement or physical restraint related words >
- curb
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- an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)
- a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse
- keep to the curb; "curb your dogs" related words >
- American Stock Exchange,
- Amex,
- Tarmac,
- Tarvia,
- Wall Street,
- abstain,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- asphalt,
- back band,
- backpedal,
- backstrap,
- backwater,
- bearing rein,
- bellyband,
- bit,
- bitumen,
- bituminous macadam,
- blacktop,
- blinders,
- blinds,
- board,
- border stone,
- bottle up,
- bourse,
- brake,
- breeching,
- brick,
- bridle,
- caparison,
- cavesson,
- cement,
- chain,
- check,
- checkrein,
- cheekpiece,
- chinband,
- chock,
- cinch,
- clip the wings,
- clog,
- cobble,
- cobblestone,
- collar,
- commodity exchange,
- concrete,
- constrain,
- constraint,
- contain,
- control,
- cool,
- cool off,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- corn pit,
- countercheck,
- crownband,
- crupper,
- curb bit,
- curb exchange,
- curb market,
- curbing,
- curbstone,
- curtail,
- curtailment,
- dam up,
- damp,
- dampen,
- damper,
- decelerate,
- deceleration,
- delay,
- detain,
- dompt,
- doorstop,
- drag,
- drag sail,
- draw rein,
- drift anchor,
- drift sail,
- drogue,
- ease off,
- ease up,
- edgestone,
- enjoin,
- entrammel,
- exchange,
- exchange floor,
- fetter,
- flag,
- flagging,
- flagstone,
- gag swivel,
- girth,
- govern,
- gravel,
- guard,
- hackamore,
- halter,
- hames,
- hametugs,
- hamper,
- harness,
- headgear,
- headstall,
- hinder,
- hindrance,
- hip straps,
- hobble,
- hog-tie,
- hold,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold down,
- hold fast,
- hold in,
- hold in check,
- hold in leash,
- hold up,
- holdback,
- impede,
- inhibit,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- intercept,
- interdict,
- interfere,
- intermeddle,
- interrupt,
- intervene,
- jaquima,
- jerk line,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep from,
- keep in,
- keep in check,
- keep under control,
- kerb,
- kerbstone,
- lay under restraint,
- leash,
- legal restraint,
- let down,
- let up,
- lines,
- lose ground,
- lose momentum,
- lose speed,
- macadam,
- manacle,
- martingale,
- meddle,
- moderate,
- monopoly,
- noseband,
- obstruct,
- oppose,
- outside market,
- over-the-counter market,
- pavement,
- pavestone,
- paving,
- paving stone,
- pelham,
- pit,
- pole strap,
- prohibit,
- prohibition,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- pull,
- pull in,
- quotation board,
- rationing,
- reef,
- refrain,
- rein,
- rein in,
- reins,
- relax,
- remora,
- repress,
- resist,
- restrain,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- retard,
- retardation,
- retrench,
- retrenchment,
- ribbons,
- road metal,
- saddle,
- scotch,
- sea anchor,
- self-control,
- set back,
- shackle,
- shaft tug,
- side check,
- slack off,
- slack up,
- slacken,
- slow,
- slow down,
- slow up,
- slowing down,
- snaffle,
- snub,
- spoke,
- stay,
- stock exchange,
- stock market,
- stock ticker,
- stone,
- stop,
- straiten,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- surcingle,
- tack,
- tackle,
- take in sail,
- tariff wall,
- tarmacadam,
- telephone market,
- the Big Board,
- the Exchange,
- third market,
- thought control,
- throttle down,
- ticker,
- ticker tape,
- tie,
- tie up,
- tile,
- trammel,
- trappings,
- tug,
- washboard,
- wheat pit,
- winker braces,
- withhold,
- yoke
- absurd,
- arbitrary,
- autonomous,
- biggety,
- bluff,
- bottomless,
- brash,
- cheeky,
- chutzpadik,
- cocky,
- contemptuous,
- crusty,
- de trop,
- derisive,
- discourteous,
- discretional,
- discretionary,
- dispensable,
- disrespectful,
- elective,
- excess,
- expendable,
- expletive,
- facy,
- flip,
- flippant,
- foolish,
- free,
- free will,
- fresh,
- gally,
- gratuitous,
- groundless,
- ill-mannered,
- impertinent,
- impolite,
- impudent,
- in excess,
- independent,
- inessential,
- intrusive,
- malapert,
- needless,
- nervy,
- nonessential,
- nonmandatory,
- offered,
- officious,
- optional,
- pert,
- pleonastic,
- preposterous,
- proffered,
- prolix,
- redundant,
- rude,
- sassy,
- saucy,
- self-acting,
- self-active,
- self-determined,
- self-determining,
- silly,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- spare,
- spontaneous,
- supererogatory,
- superfluous,
- tautologic,
- tautologous,
- to spare,
- unasked,
- unasked-for,
- unbesought,
- unbidden,
- uncivil,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- undesired,
- unessential,
- unforced,
- unfounded,
- ungracious,
- ungrounded,
- uninfluenced,
- uninvited,
- unnecessary,
- unneeded,
- unpressured,
- unprompted,
- unrequested,
- unrequired,
- unsolicited,
- unsought,
- unwanted,
- unwarranted,
- unwelcome,
- unwished,
- verbose,
- voluntary,
- volunteer,
- wanton,
- willful,
- wise-ass
- collaborator
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- an associate who works with others toward a common goal; "the musician and the librettist were collaborators"
- someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force related words >
- Trojan horse,
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- apostate,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- backslider,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- bolter,
- coauthor,
- collaborationist,
- columnist,
- compiler,
- composer,
- convert,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- crypto,
- dance critic,
- defector,
- deserter,
- diarist,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- fellow traveler,
- fifth column,
- fifth columnist,
- fraternizer,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- humorist,
- inditer,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- monographer,
- mugwump,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prose writer,
- proselyte,
- quisling,
- recidivist,
- recreant,
- renegade,
- renegado,
- renegate,
- reversionist,
- reviewer,
- runagate,
- saboteur,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- schismatic,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- seceder,
- secessionist,
- security risk,
- separatist,
- short-story writer,
- storyteller,
- strikebreaker,
- subversive,
- technical writer,
- tergiversant,
- tergiversator,
- traitor,
- turnabout,
- turncoat,
- turntail,
- underground,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer
- unobstructed
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- free from impediment or obstruction or hindrance; "an unobstructed view" related words >
- unclogged
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- freed of obstructions; "an unclogged drain" related words >
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