Related Words:
- meander
collapse - a bend or curve, as in a stream or river related words >
- Chinese puzzle,
- Gordian knot,
- Rube Goldberg contraption,
- S-curve,
- ambages,
- amble,
- anfractuosity,
- bat around,
- bend,
- bending,
- bends,
- bow,
- bowing,
- bum,
- can of worms,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumvolution,
- coils,
- complex,
- conflexure,
- contort,
- convolution,
- corkscrew,
- count ties,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- curves,
- deflection,
- divagate,
- drift,
- err,
- excurse,
- flection,
- flex,
- flexuosity,
- flexuousness,
- flexure,
- flit,
- gad,
- gad about,
- gallivant,
- geanticline,
- geosyncline,
- go about,
- go adrift,
- go astray,
- go the rounds,
- hairpin turn,
- hit the road,
- hit the trail,
- hobo,
- inflection,
- intorsion,
- intort,
- involution,
- jaunt,
- jungle,
- knock about,
- knock around,
- knot,
- labyrinth,
- loops,
- maze,
- meandering,
- mesh,
- mess,
- mooch,
- mosey,
- nomadize,
- oxbow,
- peregrinate,
- pererrate,
- perplex,
- prowl,
- ramble,
- range,
- ravel,
- reflection,
- rivulation,
- roam,
- rove,
- run about,
- saunter,
- scallop,
- screw,
- serpentine,
- sinuation,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- slink,
- slinkiness,
- snafu,
- snake,
- snake pit,
- snakiness,
- snarl,
- straggle,
- stray,
- stroll,
- sweep,
- swirl,
- tangle,
- tangled skein,
- torsion,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- traipse,
- tramp,
- turn,
- turning,
- twine,
- twirl,
- twist,
- twist and turn,
- twisting,
- undulation,
- vagabond,
- vagabondize,
- walk the tracks,
- wander,
- wave,
- waving,
- wayfare,
- webwork,
- wheels within wheels,
- whirl,
- whorl,
- wilderness,
- wind,
- winding,
- worm,
- wring,
- zigzag
- intricate
collapse
- having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate; "intricate lacework" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Daedalian,
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- amalgamated,
- ambiguous,
- ambivalent,
- amphibious,
- anfractuous,
- arduous,
- baffling,
- balled up,
- bewildering,
- beyond one,
- blended,
- bothering,
- brutal,
- combined,
- complex,
- complicated,
- composite,
- compound,
- compounded,
- confounded,
- confounding,
- confused,
- confusing,
- conglomerate,
- convoluted,
- crabbed,
- cramp,
- critical,
- daedal,
- dappled,
- dedal,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- devious,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- discomposing,
- disconcerting,
- dismaying,
- distracting,
- disturbing,
- eclectic,
- elaborate,
- embarrassing,
- embrangled,
- enigmatic,
- entangled,
- equivocal,
- exacting,
- fancy,
- fifty-fifty,
- formidable,
- fouled up,
- garbled,
- gordian,
- hairy,
- half-and-half,
- hard,
- hard to understand,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heterogeneous,
- implicated,
- indiscriminate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- ironic,
- jawbreaking,
- jumbled,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- laborious,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- many-sided,
- matted,
- mazy,
- mean,
- meandering,
- medley,
- messed up,
- mingled,
- miscellaneous,
- mixed,
- mixed up,
- motley,
- mucked up,
- multifaceted,
- multifarious,
- multinational,
- multiracial,
- mysterious,
- mystifying,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- operose,
- ornate,
- overtechnical,
- patchy,
- perplexed,
- perplexing,
- perturbing,
- pluralistic,
- problematic,
- promiscuous,
- puzzling,
- ramified,
- rigorous,
- rococo,
- rough,
- roundabout,
- rugged,
- scrambled,
- screwed up,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- sinuous,
- snarled,
- sophisticated,
- spiny,
- steep,
- strenuous,
- subtle,
- syncretic,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- thorny,
- thrown together,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- tortuous,
- tough,
- tricky,
- twisted,
- uphill,
- upsetting,
- varied,
- wicked,
- winding
- Wanderjahr,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- afoot and lighthearted,
- aimless,
- aimlessness,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- bumming,
- by the way,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- circuitous,
- circumforaneous,
- departing,
- desultoriness,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- digressiveness,
- discursion,
- discursive,
- discursiveness,
- divagation,
- divagatory,
- dizzy,
- drifting,
- eccentric,
- episodic,
- errant,
- errantry,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- fast and loose,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- floating,
- fluctuating,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- freakish,
- fugitive,
- gadding,
- giddy,
- gypsy-like,
- gypsyish,
- hoboism,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indirect,
- infirm,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- itineracy,
- itinerancy,
- labyrinthine,
- landloping,
- loose,
- maundering,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- mercurial,
- migrational,
- migratory,
- moody,
- nomad,
- nomadic,
- nomadism,
- out-of-the-way,
- perambulatory,
- peregrination,
- pererration,
- peripatetic,
- planetary,
- ramble,
- rambling,
- ranging,
- restless,
- roam,
- roaming,
- rove,
- scatterbrained,
- serpentine,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- snaky,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- straggling,
- stray,
- straying,
- strolling,
- swerving,
- traipsing,
- transient,
- transitory,
- transmigratory,
- turning,
- twisting,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undirected,
- undisciplined,
- unfixed,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- vacillating,
- vagabond,
- vagabondage,
- vagabondia,
- vagabondism,
- vagrancy,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- veering,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanderlust,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayfaring,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- winding,
- wishy-washy,
- zigzag
- automatic
collapse
- operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control; "automatic transmission"; "a budget deficit that caused automatic spending cuts"
- like the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an automatic `thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency"
- without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive" related words >
- accordant,
- accustomed,
- alike,
- automated,
- automatic device,
- automaton,
- automatous,
- balanced,
- beaten,
- blind,
- blowgun,
- blowpipe,
- casual,
- compulsive,
- conditioned,
- confirmed,
- consistent,
- consonant,
- constant,
- continuous,
- correspondent,
- cybernated,
- cyborg,
- equable,
- equal,
- even,
- firearm,
- flamethrower,
- flat,
- forced,
- frequent,
- gat,
- gun,
- gut,
- habitual,
- habituated,
- hackneyed,
- handgun,
- heater,
- homogeneous,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-devised,
- immutable,
- impulsive,
- inadvertent,
- indeliberate,
- ineluctable,
- inescapable,
- inevitable,
- inherent,
- innate,
- instinctive,
- instinctual,
- invariable,
- involuntary,
- level,
- libidinal,
- measured,
- mechanical,
- mechanical man,
- methodic,
- monolithic,
- musket,
- natural,
- of a piece,
- ordered,
- orderly,
- peashooter,
- persistent,
- piece,
- pistol,
- prompt,
- quick,
- ready,
- recurrent,
- recurring,
- reflex,
- reflexive,
- regular,
- repeater,
- repetitive,
- revolver,
- rifle,
- robot,
- robotlike,
- rod,
- routine,
- sawed-off shotgun,
- self-acting,
- self-active,
- self-adjusting,
- self-closing,
- self-controlled,
- self-cooking,
- self-directed,
- self-directing,
- self-dumping,
- self-governed,
- self-governing,
- self-lighting,
- self-mover,
- self-operative,
- self-regulating,
- self-regulative,
- self-starting,
- self-winding,
- self-working,
- semiautomatic,
- shooting iron,
- shotgun,
- six-gun,
- six-shooter,
- smooth,
- snap,
- spontaneous,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stereotyped,
- subliminal,
- systematic,
- trite,
- unadvised,
- unavoidable,
- unbroken,
- uncalculated,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- unconscious,
- unconsidered,
- undeliberate,
- undeliberated,
- undesigned,
- undeviating,
- undifferentiated,
- undiversified,
- uniform,
- unintended,
- unintentional,
- unlearned,
- unmeditated,
- unpremeditated,
- unprompted,
- unruffled,
- unstudied,
- unthinking,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- unwilled,
- unwilling,
- unwitting,
- well-trodden,
- well-worn
- out-of-the-way
collapse
- out of the ordinary; "out-of-the-way information"
- improper or even offensive; "out-of-the-way remarks"; "did you notice anything out-of-the-way?" related words >
- Bohemian,
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- adrift,
- ambagious,
- antipodean,
- apart,
- back of beyond,
- backhanded,
- beat,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- beside the question,
- beyond reach,
- beyond the bounds,
- breakaway,
- casual,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- departing,
- desultory,
- detached,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- distant,
- errant,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- extra,
- extraneous,
- extraordinary,
- extrinsic,
- far out,
- farfetched,
- forced,
- free and easy,
- fringy,
- godforsaken,
- helical,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hippie,
- hyperborean,
- immaterial,
- impertinent,
- improbable,
- in a backwater,
- inaccessible,
- inadmissible,
- inapplicable,
- inapposite,
- inappropriate,
- incidental,
- inconsequent,
- indirect,
- informal,
- insular,
- irrelative,
- irrelevant,
- isolated,
- kinky,
- labyrinthine,
- lonesome,
- maverick,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- more than expected,
- nihil ad rem,
- nonessential,
- not at issue,
- not cricket,
- not done,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- occasional,
- odd,
- off,
- off the subject,
- offbeat,
- orbital,
- original,
- out of earshot,
- out of hearing,
- out of range,
- out of reach,
- out of sight,
- out-of-the-world,
- parenthetical,
- part-time,
- past expectation,
- planetary,
- quarantined,
- quite another thing,
- rambling,
- rare,
- recherche,
- remote,
- removed,
- retired,
- rotary,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- secluded,
- secret,
- segregated,
- separate,
- separated,
- serpentine,
- shifting,
- shut off,
- side,
- snaky,
- something else again,
- spare,
- spiral,
- strained,
- stray,
- sudden,
- sui generis,
- swerving,
- turning,
- twisting,
- unannounced,
- unanticipated,
- unapproachable,
- uncommon,
- unconventional,
- uncustomary,
- undirected,
- undivined,
- undreamed-of,
- unessential,
- unexpected,
- unfamiliar,
- unfashionable,
- unforeseeable,
- unforeseen,
- unfrequented,
- ungetatable,
- unguessed,
- unheard-of,
- unheralded,
- unhoped for,
- unique,
- unordinary,
- unorthodox,
- unpredictable,
- unpredicted,
- unprepared for,
- unthought-of,
- untouchable,
- unusual,
- unvisited,
- unwonted,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- way out,
- winding,
- withdrawn,
- without warning,
- zigzag
- devious
collapse
- deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading; "used devious means to achieve success"; "gave oblique answers to direct questions"; "oblique political maneuvers"
- characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes" related words >
- Byzantine,
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- ambagious,
- amoral,
- anfractuous,
- artful,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- balled up,
- bending,
- calculating,
- canny,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- conscienceless,
- convoluted,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- crabbed,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- curving,
- daedal,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- designing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- diverting,
- double-dealing,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- elaborate,
- embrangled,
- entangled,
- errant,
- erratic,
- erring,
- evasive,
- excursive,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fouled up,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- helical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- implicated,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- intricate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- knotted,
- knowing,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- left-handed,
- lonesome,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- messed up,
- misleading,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- multifarious,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- pawky,
- perplexed,
- planetary,
- plotting,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- ramified,
- remote,
- removed,
- retired,
- rotary,
- rotten,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- scheming,
- screwed up,
- secret,
- secretive,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinuous,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- snarled,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- swerving,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- tortuous,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undirected,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- vulpine,
- wandering,
- wily,
- winding,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- zigzag
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- abstractionism,
- abuse of terms,
- ambages,
- ambagious,
- anfractuosity,
- anfractuous,
- bending,
- braiding,
- catachresis,
- circuitous,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumlocutory,
- circumvolution,
- coloring,
- contorting,
- convolution,
- convolutional,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- curving,
- deformation,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- distortion,
- eisegesis,
- enlacement,
- entwinement,
- entwining,
- errant,
- erratic,
- error,
- exaggeration,
- excursive,
- expressionism,
- fabric,
- false coloring,
- falsification,
- flexuose,
- flexuosity,
- flexuous,
- flexuousness,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- hyperbole,
- inaccuracy,
- indirect,
- injustice,
- interknitting,
- interlacement,
- interlacery,
- interlacing,
- intertexture,
- interthreading,
- intertieing,
- intertwinement,
- intertwining,
- intertwisting,
- interweavement,
- interweaving,
- intorsion,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involution,
- involutional,
- knitting,
- labyrinthine,
- lacing,
- litotes,
- malentendu,
- malobservation,
- mazy,
- meander,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- misapplication,
- misapprehension,
- miscitation,
- miscoloring,
- misconception,
- misconstruction,
- misdrawing,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mispainting,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misrendering,
- misreport,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- misteaching,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misuse of words,
- nonrealism,
- out-of-the-way,
- overdrawing,
- overstatement,
- perversion,
- plaiting,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- rivose,
- rivulation,
- rivulose,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- ruffled,
- serpentine,
- shifting,
- sinuate,
- sinuation,
- sinuose,
- sinuosity,
- sinuous,
- sinuousness,
- slanting,
- slinkiness,
- snakiness,
- snaky,
- squeezing,
- stray,
- swerving,
- texture,
- tissue,
- torsion,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuous,
- tortuousness,
- torturing,
- turning,
- twining,
- twisty,
- understatement,
- undirected,
- undulation,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- warp and woof,
- warpage,
- wave,
- waving,
- weave,
- weaving,
- web,
- weftage,
- whorled,
- winding,
- wreathing,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- wrenching,
- zigzag
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