Related Words:
- pretentious
collapse - making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Johnsonian,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- arrogant,
- artificial,
- arty,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- chichi,
- classy,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- feigned,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- haughty,
- high and mighty,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-hat,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- histrionic,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperelegant,
- imposing,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- la-di-da,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- put-on,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- snobbish,
- snotty,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- stagy,
- stilted,
- studied,
- superficial,
- swank,
- swollen,
- tall,
- theatrical,
- tony,
- too-too,
- tortuous,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unnatural,
- utopian,
- vainglorious,
- vaunting,
- visionary,
- windy
- ana
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- a collection of anecdotes about a person or place
- mother of the ancient Irish gods; sometimes identified with Danu related words >
- Festschrift,
- adage,
- album,
- analects,
- anthology,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- aquarium,
- archives,
- axiom,
- beauties,
- biographical material,
- biographical records,
- body,
- byword,
- canon,
- catchword,
- chrestomathy,
- clippings,
- collectanea,
- collected sayings,
- collected works,
- collection,
- compilation,
- complete works,
- corpus,
- current saying,
- cuttings,
- data,
- delectus,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- epigram,
- excerpta,
- excerpts,
- expression,
- extracts,
- florilegium,
- flowers,
- fragments,
- fund,
- garden,
- garland,
- gleanings,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- government archives,
- government papers,
- historical documents,
- historical records,
- holdings,
- library,
- life records,
- maxim,
- memorabilia,
- menagerie,
- miscellanea,
- miscellany,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- museum,
- omnibus,
- oracle,
- papers,
- parish rolls,
- photograph album,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- posy,
- precept,
- prescript,
- presidential papers,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- public records,
- quotation book,
- raw data,
- saw,
- saying,
- scrapbook,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sloka,
- stock saying,
- sutra,
- symposium,
- teaching,
- text,
- treasure,
- verse,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom,
- zoo
- expressive
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- characterized by expression; "a very expressive face" related words >
- Christophanic,
- Satanophanic,
- alive,
- allegorical,
- allusive,
- angelophanic,
- appearing,
- associational,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- definable,
- delineative,
- demonstrating,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- designative,
- diagnostic,
- disclosive,
- displaying,
- eloquent,
- emblematic,
- emotional,
- epiphanic,
- evidential,
- evincive,
- exhibitive,
- explicit,
- expositional,
- expositive,
- expository,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facund,
- faithful,
- figural,
- figurative,
- forceful,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- graphic,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- imaginative,
- implicative,
- incarnating,
- incarnational,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- individual,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- lifelike,
- lively,
- loaded,
- manifestative,
- materializing,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- moving,
- naming,
- naturalistic,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- pictorial,
- pithy,
- pneumatophanic,
- poignant,
- pointed,
- pregnant,
- presentational,
- promulgatory,
- provocative,
- readable,
- realistic,
- referential,
- representative,
- responsive,
- revealing,
- revelational,
- revelatory,
- rich,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- sententious,
- showing,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- spirited,
- striking,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- telling,
- theophanic,
- thought-provoking,
- transferred,
- true to life,
- typical,
- vivid,
- well-drawn
- reserved
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- cool and formal in manner
- marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-Victoria Sackville-West
- set aside for the use of a particular person or party related words >
- Olympian,
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- aloof,
- antisocial,
- aposiopestic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- blank,
- brief,
- brusque,
- ceremonious,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-lipped,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- cold,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- conserved,
- constrained,
- contracted,
- controlled,
- conventional,
- cool,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- demure,
- detached,
- diffident,
- dignified,
- discreet,
- distant,
- docked,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- expressionless,
- forbidding,
- formal,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- gnomic,
- guarded,
- held,
- held back,
- held in reserve,
- ice-cold,
- icy,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- inaccessible,
- incommunicable,
- introverted,
- kept,
- laconic,
- modest,
- modified,
- noncommittal,
- offish,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- poker-faced,
- preserved,
- prim,
- pruned,
- put by,
- quiet,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- restrained,
- retained,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- rigid,
- saved,
- sedate,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- silent,
- spare,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- strait-laced,
- subdued,
- succinct,
- summary,
- suppressed,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- tights,
- to the point,
- truncated,
- unaffable,
- unapproachable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncongenial,
- undemonstrative,
- unemotional,
- unexpansive,
- ungenial,
- unresponsive,
- unsocial,
- withdrawn,
- withheld
- contracted
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- reduced in size or pulled together; "the contracted pupils of her eyes" related words >
- Spartan,
- abated,
- abbreviated,
- ablated,
- abridged,
- affianced,
- agreed,
- aposiopestic,
- arranged,
- assured,
- attenuated,
- bated,
- belittled,
- betrothed,
- blank,
- blind,
- blind-alley,
- bound,
- brief,
- brusque,
- cecal,
- choked,
- choked off,
- clamped,
- clipped,
- close,
- closed,
- committed,
- compact,
- compacted,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- compromised,
- concentrated,
- concise,
- condensed,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- consumed,
- covenanted,
- cramped,
- crisp,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- dead,
- dead-end,
- decreased,
- deflated,
- diminished,
- dissipated,
- docked,
- dropped,
- elliptic,
- engaged,
- epigrammatic,
- eroded,
- fallen,
- gnomic,
- guaranteed,
- intended,
- knitted,
- laconic,
- less,
- lesser,
- lower,
- lowered,
- miniaturized,
- nipped,
- obligated,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- pithy,
- pledged,
- plighted,
- pointed,
- promised,
- pruned,
- puckered,
- pursed,
- reduced,
- reserved,
- retrenched,
- scaled-down,
- sealed,
- sententious,
- settled,
- shorn,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- shorter,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- shut,
- signed,
- smaller,
- solidified,
- squeezed,
- squeezed shut,
- stipulated,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- succinct,
- summary,
- sworn,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- truncated,
- undertaken,
- underwritten,
- unopen,
- unopened,
- unvented,
- unventilated,
- warranted,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered-down,
- weakened,
- worn,
- wrinkled
- brusque
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- marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abrupt,
- aggressive,
- aposiopestic,
- artless,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- brash,
- brief,
- broad,
- candid,
- cavalier,
- churlish,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- crusty,
- curt,
- cut,
- direct,
- discourteous,
- docked,
- downright,
- dumb,
- economical of words,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- explicit,
- forthright,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- genuine,
- gnomic,
- gruff,
- harsh,
- heart-to-heart,
- ill-mannered,
- impolite,
- indisposed to talk,
- ingenuous,
- laconic,
- mum,
- mute,
- open,
- openhearted,
- outspoken,
- overbearing,
- pithy,
- plain,
- plain-spoken,
- pointed,
- pruned,
- quiet,
- reserved,
- rough,
- round,
- rude,
- sententious,
- severe,
- sharp,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- silent,
- sincere,
- snippety,
- snippy,
- snug,
- sparing of words,
- speechless,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straightforward,
- succinct,
- summary,
- surly,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- to the point,
- tongue-tied,
- transparent,
- truculent,
- truncated,
- unchecked,
- uncivil,
- unconstrained,
- unequivocal,
- ungracious,
- unguarded,
- unloquacious,
- unmannerly,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- untalkative,
- word-bound,
- wordless
- teaching
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- the profession of a teacher; "he prepared for teaching while still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"
- a doctrine that is taught; "the teachings of religion"; "he believed all the Christian precepts" related words >
- a belief,
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- article of faith,
- assignment,
- autodidactic,
- axiom,
- belief,
- byword,
- canon,
- catchword,
- chalk talk,
- charge,
- coeducational,
- collected sayings,
- command,
- commission,
- credo,
- creed,
- cultural,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- didactic,
- direction,
- disciplinary,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- distich,
- doctrine,
- dogma,
- edifying,
- educating,
- educational,
- educative,
- enlightening,
- epigram,
- exercise,
- exhortatory,
- exposition,
- expression,
- faith,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- harangue,
- homework,
- homiletic,
- homily,
- hortatory,
- illuminating,
- informative,
- initiatory,
- injunction,
- instruction,
- instructive,
- introductory,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lecturing,
- lesson,
- maxim,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- mot,
- motto,
- object lesson,
- oracle,
- order,
- orthodoxy,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- precept,
- preceptive,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- principle,
- propaedeutic,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- recital,
- recitation,
- religion,
- religious belief,
- religious faith,
- saw,
- saying,
- self-teaching,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sermon,
- set task,
- skull session,
- sloka,
- stock saying,
- sutra,
- system of beliefs,
- talk,
- task,
- tenet,
- text,
- theology,
- tradition,
- tuitionary,
- verse,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- amplified,
- arabesque,
- ballyhooed,
- baroque,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- busy,
- chichi,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- distracted,
- edgy,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fancy,
- fidgety,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frilly,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- hyperbolic,
- in a dither,
- in a tizzy,
- in a twitter,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- moresque,
- nervous,
- on edge,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overcome,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overexcited,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlabored,
- overlarge,
- overmastered,
- overpowered,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstrained,
- overstressed,
- overwhelmed,
- overworked,
- pedantic,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- puffed,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- strung out,
- superlative,
- tall,
- tense,
- tortuous,
- touchy,
- touted,
- upset,
- uptight,
- wound up
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apophthegm,
- apothegm,
- appellation,
- appellative,
- axiom,
- binomen,
- binomial name,
- burning shame,
- butt,
- byname,
- byword of reproach,
- catch phrase,
- catchword,
- cliche,
- cognomen,
- collected sayings,
- cry,
- cryptonym,
- current saying,
- denomination,
- derision,
- designation,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- dirty shame,
- disgrace,
- distich,
- dupe,
- empty title,
- epigram,
- epithet,
- eponym,
- euonym,
- expression,
- fad word,
- fair game,
- figure of fun,
- fool,
- game,
- gazingstock,
- gnome,
- goat,
- golden saying,
- handle,
- honorific,
- humiliation,
- hyponym,
- jest,
- jestingstock,
- joke,
- label,
- laughingstock,
- low-down dirty shame,
- maxim,
- mockery,
- moniker,
- monkey,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- name,
- namesake,
- nomen,
- nomen nudum,
- oracle,
- parable,
- pet expression,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- precept,
- prescript,
- proper name,
- proper noun,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- reproach,
- saw,
- saying,
- scandal,
- scientific name,
- secret name,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- shame,
- shibboleth,
- slogan,
- sloka,
- sobriquet,
- stock,
- stock saying,
- style,
- sutra,
- tag,
- target,
- tautonym,
- teaching,
- text,
- title,
- toy,
- trinomen,
- trinomial name,
- verse,
- victim,
- vogue word,
- watchword,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- gaudy
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- a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- bedizened,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blinding,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- brummagem,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- coarse,
- colorful,
- common,
- contemptible,
- convoluted,
- crass,
- crude,
- crummy,
- declamatory,
- despicable,
- earthy,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fake,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gross,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- honky-tonk,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mean,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pedantic,
- phony,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pompous,
- poor,
- pretentious,
- raffish,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- ribald,
- rough,
- rubbishy,
- rude,
- sad,
- screaming,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shabby,
- sham,
- shameless,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- sonorous,
- sorry,
- spectacular,
- stilted,
- tacky,
- tall,
- tasteless,
- tatty,
- tawdry,
- tinsel,
- tinselly,
- tortuous,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- valueless,
- vile,
- vulgar,
- worthless,
- wretched
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blazon,
- blinding,
- brandish,
- brandishing,
- brave,
- bravura,
- braw,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- brilliancy,
- chichi,
- colorful,
- convoluted,
- crude,
- daring,
- dash,
- dashing,
- declamatory,
- demonstration,
- display,
- dramatics,
- dressy,
- eclat,
- elevated,
- etalage,
- euphuistic,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- exhibitionistic,
- extravagant,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- figure,
- flagrant,
- flair,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashing,
- flashy,
- flaunt,
- flourish,
- flourishing,
- frilly,
- frothy,
- fulsome,
- gallant,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gay,
- glaring,
- glittering,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- histrionics,
- inkhorn,
- jaunty,
- jazzy,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- manifestation,
- meretricious,
- obtrusive,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- rakish,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- screaming,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shaking,
- sham,
- shameless,
- show,
- showing-off,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- snazzy,
- sonorous,
- spectacle,
- spectacular,
- splash,
- splashy,
- splurge,
- splurgy,
- sporty,
- staginess,
- stilted,
- tall,
- tawdry,
- theatrics,
- tortuous,
- undulation,
- vaunt,
- vulgar,
- wave,
- wave motion,
- waving
- wisdom
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- the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
- the quality of being prudent and sensible
- ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
- accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment related words >
- Sophia,
- adage,
- advantage,
- advantageousness,
- advisability,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- apprehension,
- appropriateness,
- axiom,
- beneficialness,
- broad-mindedness,
- byword,
- catchword,
- clairvoyance,
- collected sayings,
- command,
- comprehension,
- conception,
- conceptualization,
- convenience,
- current saying,
- decency,
- depth,
- desirability,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- epigram,
- erudition,
- expedience,
- expediency,
- expression,
- feasibility,
- fitness,
- fittingness,
- foreknowledge,
- fruitfulness,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- good sense,
- good understanding,
- grasp,
- grip,
- gumption,
- horse sense,
- ideation,
- information,
- insight,
- intellection,
- intelligence,
- judgment,
- judiciousness,
- know-it-all,
- lore,
- mastery,
- maxim,
- mellow wisdom,
- mental grasp,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- opportuneness,
- oracle,
- percentage,
- perspicacity,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- politicness,
- precept,
- precognition,
- prehension,
- prescript,
- profit,
- profitability,
- profoundness,
- profundity,
- propriety,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- prudence,
- rightness,
- ripe wisdom,
- sagaciousness,
- sagacity,
- sageness,
- saneness,
- sapience,
- savvy,
- saw,
- saying,
- science,
- seasonableness,
- seasoned understanding,
- seemliness,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- shrewdness,
- sloka,
- smart,
- smarty,
- smarty-pants,
- sound understanding,
- stock saying,
- suitability,
- sutra,
- teaching,
- text,
- timeliness,
- understanding,
- usefulness,
- verse,
- wisdom literature,
- wise guy,
- wise saying,
- wiseacre,
- wisecracker,
- wisehead,
- wiseness,
- wisenheimer,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom,
- worthwhileness
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- absurd,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- ambitious,
- amplified,
- arrogant,
- ballyhooed,
- bedizened,
- beyond belief,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bizarre,
- bombastic,
- classy,
- cockamamie,
- condescending,
- convoluted,
- crazy,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- domineering,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fancy,
- fantastic,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- foolish,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- grotesque,
- haughty,
- high,
- high-faluting,
- high-flowing,
- high-flying,
- high-headed,
- high-minded,
- high-nosed,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperbolic,
- incredible,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- labyrinthine,
- laughable,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- ludicrous,
- lurid,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- monstrous,
- nonsensical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overbearing,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlarge,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstressed,
- overwrought,
- patronizing,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- poppycockish,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- proud,
- puffed,
- purse-proud,
- rhetorical,
- ridiculous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- stuck-up,
- superior,
- superlative,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tony,
- toplofty,
- tortuous,
- touted,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- upstage,
- vaunting,
- weird,
- wild,
- windy
- meretricious
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- like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- apparent,
- bedizened,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- coarse,
- colorable,
- colored,
- colorful,
- common,
- contemptible,
- convoluted,
- crass,
- crude,
- crummy,
- deceptive,
- declamatory,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- despicable,
- earthy,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fallen,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gilded,
- gimcracky,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gross,
- harlot,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hustling,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mean,
- miserable,
- misleading,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- on the,
- on the town,
- orotund,
- ostensible,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pave,
- pedantic,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plausible,
- pompous,
- poor,
- pretentious,
- prostitute,
- prostituted,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- ribald,
- rough,
- rubbishy,
- rude,
- sad,
- scarlet,
- screaming,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- seeming,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shabby,
- shameless,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- sorry,
- specious,
- spectacular,
- spurious,
- stilted,
- streetwalking,
- tall,
- tawdry,
- tinsel,
- tortuous,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- valueless,
- vile,
- vulgar,
- whorish,
- worthless,
- wretched
- extended
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- beyond the literal or primary sense; "`hot off the press' shows an extended sense of `hot'"
- fully extended or stretched forth; "an extended telescope"; "his extended legs reached almost across the small room"; "refused to accept the extended hand" related words >
- accelerated,
- aggrandized,
- allegorical,
- ample,
- ampliate,
- amplified,
- amplitudinous,
- associational,
- augmented,
- beefed-up,
- bloated,
- boosted,
- broad,
- broadened,
- built-up,
- capacious,
- commodious,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- crescendoed,
- de longue haleine,
- deep,
- deepened,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- dragged out,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- drawn-out,
- elevated,
- elongate,
- elongated,
- endless,
- enhanced,
- enlarged,
- expanded,
- expansive,
- expressive,
- extending,
- extensional,
- extensive,
- far-flung,
- far-reaching,
- figurative,
- filled out,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- heightened,
- hiked,
- increased,
- indicative,
- infinite,
- inflated,
- intelligible,
- intensified,
- intensional,
- interminable,
- interpretable,
- jazzed up,
- languishing,
- lasting,
- lengthened,
- lengthy,
- lingering,
- long,
- long-continuing,
- long-drawn,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-pending,
- long-spun,
- long-winded,
- longiloquent,
- magnified,
- marathon,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- multiplied,
- overlong,
- padded,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pregnant,
- proliferated,
- prolix,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- pulled,
- raised,
- readable,
- referential,
- reinforced,
- roomy,
- scopic,
- sententious,
- significant,
- significative,
- spacious,
- spread,
- spread out,
- spreading,
- spun out,
- spun-out,
- stiffened,
- straggling,
- strained,
- strengthened,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- stretched-out,
- strung out,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- swollen,
- symbolic,
- talkative,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight,
- tightened,
- transferred,
- unrelenting,
- upped,
- vast,
- verbose,
- voluminous,
- wide,
- widened,
- widespread,
- windy,
- wordy
- summary
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- a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form; "he gave a summary of the conclusions" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abbreviation,
- abridged,
- abridgement,
- abridgment,
- abrupt,
- abstract,
- account,
- accounts,
- alert,
- apocope,
- aposiopestic,
- apt,
- body count,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capitulation,
- census,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compacted,
- compendious,
- compendium,
- compressed,
- compression,
- concise,
- condensation,
- condensed,
- consolidation,
- conspectus,
- contracted,
- copy,
- core,
- count,
- crisp,
- critique,
- curt,
- curtailment,
- curtal,
- curtate,
- cut,
- decisive,
- decurtate,
- digest,
- distillate,
- docked,
- drumhead,
- dwelling upon,
- elaboration,
- elision,
- ellipsis,
- elliptic,
- encapsulation,
- epigrammatic,
- epitome,
- epitomization,
- essence,
- expeditious,
- foreshortening,
- gist,
- gnomic,
- going over,
- head count,
- immediate,
- instant,
- instantaneous,
- inventory,
- iteration,
- laconic,
- little,
- low,
- main point,
- meat,
- nose count,
- outline,
- peremptory,
- perfunctory,
- pith,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- practicing,
- precis,
- prompt,
- pruned,
- punctual,
- quick,
- ready,
- reaffirmation,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- recital,
- reckoning,
- recount,
- recountal,
- recounting,
- reduction,
- rehash,
- rehearsal,
- reissue,
- reiteration,
- repertory,
- reprint,
- reserved,
- restatement,
- resume,
- retelling,
- retrenchment,
- review,
- roundup,
- run-through,
- rundown,
- sententious,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- shortening,
- speedy,
- statement,
- substance,
- succinct,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- summation,
- summing,
- summing up,
- summing-up,
- swift,
- syncope,
- synopsis,
- synopsized,
- synoptic,
- taciturn,
- telescoping,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- transient,
- truncated,
- truncation
- tortuous
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- not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"
- marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- ambagious,
- ambiguous,
- anamorphous,
- anfractuous,
- askew,
- asymmetric,
- bedizened,
- bent,
- big-sounding,
- billowing,
- billowy,
- bowed,
- circuitous,
- circumlocutory,
- cockeyed,
- complicated,
- contorted,
- convoluted,
- convolutional,
- cranky,
- crazy,
- crooked,
- crumpled,
- crunched,
- curled,
- curling,
- curvaceous,
- curvate,
- curvated,
- curve,
- curved,
- curvesome,
- curviform,
- curvilineal,
- curvilinear,
- curving,
- curvy,
- deceptive,
- declamatory,
- deviative,
- devious,
- distorted,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flexuose,
- flexuous,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- geosynclinal,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- incurvate,
- incurvated,
- incurved,
- incurving,
- indirect,
- inkhorn,
- intricate,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involutional,
- involved,
- irregular,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lopsided,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- meretricious,
- misleading,
- nonsymmetric,
- one-sided,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- recurvate,
- recurvated,
- recurved,
- recurving,
- rhetorical,
- rivose,
- rivulose,
- roundabout,
- ruffled,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- serpentine,
- showy,
- sinuate,
- sinuose,
- sinuous,
- snaky,
- sonorous,
- sprung,
- stilted,
- tall,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- undulant,
- unstraightforward,
- unsymmetric,
- wandering,
- warped,
- wavy,
- whorled,
- winding,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- zigzag
- warning
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- a message informing of danger related words >
- admonishing,
- admonition,
- admonitory,
- advice,
- advising,
- advisory,
- advocacy,
- alerting,
- augural,
- blackmail,
- briefing,
- bulldozing,
- call,
- call for,
- caution,
- cautionary,
- cautioning,
- caveat,
- claim,
- clue,
- commination,
- consultation,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- contribution,
- council,
- counsel,
- cue,
- demand,
- demand for,
- denunciation,
- determent,
- deterrence,
- deterrent,
- didactic,
- direction,
- directive,
- draft,
- drain,
- duty,
- empty threat,
- exaction,
- exemplary,
- exhortation,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulation,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- extortion,
- extortionate demand,
- foreboding,
- forerunning,
- foreshadowing,
- foreshowing,
- foretokening,
- forewarning,
- frightening off,
- guidance,
- heavy demand,
- heavy with meaning,
- hint,
- hortation,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- idea,
- idle threat,
- imminence,
- implied threat,
- imposition,
- impost,
- indent,
- indicative,
- insistent demand,
- instruction,
- instructive,
- intimidation,
- intuitive,
- levy,
- meaningful,
- menace,
- monition,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- nonnegotiable demand,
- notice,
- notificational,
- notifying,
- office,
- opinion,
- order,
- parley,
- passing word,
- pointer,
- preachy,
- precursive,
- precursory,
- predictive,
- prefigurative,
- preindicative,
- premonitory,
- presageful,
- presaging,
- prognostic,
- prognosticative,
- promise of harm,
- proposal,
- recommendation,
- recommendatory,
- remonstrance,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- requirement,
- requisition,
- rush,
- rush order,
- sententious,
- significant,
- steer,
- suggestion,
- sword of Damocles,
- talking out of,
- tax,
- taxing,
- thought,
- threat,
- threateningness,
- threatfulness,
- tip,
- tip-off,
- tribute,
- ultimatum,
- whisper
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