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- impulse
collapse - the act of applying force suddenly; "the impulse knocked him over" related words >
- actuation,
- archetypal pattern,
- archetype,
- atomic power,
- automatic writing,
- automatism,
- blind impulse,
- catalyst,
- collective unconscious,
- compulsion,
- compulsiveness,
- conditioning,
- constraint,
- drive,
- echolalia,
- echopraxia,
- electric power,
- electropower,
- excitant,
- exigency,
- forwardness,
- goad,
- haste,
- hastiness,
- horsepower,
- hydraulic power,
- hydroelectric power,
- id,
- impetus,
- impulsion,
- impulsiveness,
- inborn proclivity,
- incentive,
- incitation,
- incitement,
- instinct,
- instinctiveness,
- involuntariness,
- jet power,
- libido,
- lust,
- manpower,
- motivation,
- natural instinct,
- natural tendency,
- nuclear power,
- overhastiness,
- passion,
- pinch,
- piston power,
- precipitation,
- precociousness,
- precocity,
- prematureness,
- prematurity,
- press,
- pressure,
- primitive self,
- propulsion,
- push,
- rash impulse,
- reflex action,
- rocket power,
- rush,
- sheer chemistry,
- solar power,
- spur,
- steam power,
- stimulant,
- stress,
- subconscious urge,
- thermonuclear power,
- thrust,
- unlearned capacity,
- unreasoning impulse,
- untimeliness,
- unwilledness,
- urge,
- urgency,
- vital impulse,
- water power
- about the bush,
- alternate,
- around the bush,
- avoid,
- back and fill,
- be untruthful,
- beat about,
- beat around,
- beg the question,
- bicker,
- boggle,
- cavil,
- change,
- choplogic,
- deceive,
- dither,
- dodge,
- double-talk,
- draw the longbow,
- duck,
- elude,
- escape,
- eschew,
- evade,
- evade the issue,
- exaggerate,
- falsify,
- fence,
- fib,
- fluctuate,
- hedge,
- hem and haw,
- hum and haw,
- lie,
- lie flatly,
- mince the truth,
- mince words,
- mislead,
- mystify,
- nitpick,
- obscure,
- oscillate,
- palter,
- parry,
- pendulate,
- pick nits,
- prevaricate,
- pull away,
- pull back,
- pussyfoot,
- put off,
- quibble,
- recoil,
- sheer off,
- shift,
- shift off,
- shilly-shally,
- shrink,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- shy away,
- shy off,
- sidestep,
- skirt,
- speak falsely,
- split hairs,
- step aside,
- story,
- stretch the truth,
- swerve,
- teeter,
- tell a lie,
- tergiversate,
- totter,
- vacillate,
- vary,
- waffle,
- ward off,
- waver,
- weasel,
- wobble
- unadorned
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- not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction related words >
- Spartan,
- arcadian,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bald,
- bare,
- basic,
- blank,
- bucolic,
- candid,
- chaste,
- common,
- commonplace,
- direct,
- dry,
- dull,
- elementary,
- essential,
- frank,
- fundamental,
- genuine,
- homely,
- homespun,
- homogeneous,
- inartificial,
- indivisible,
- irreducible,
- lean,
- matter-of-fact,
- mere,
- monolithic,
- naked,
- native,
- natural,
- naturelike,
- neat,
- nude,
- of a piece,
- open,
- pastoral,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- primal,
- primary,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- pure,
- pure and simple,
- rural,
- rustic,
- severe,
- sheer,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- single,
- sober,
- spare,
- stark,
- straightforward,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unarrayed,
- unartificial,
- unassuming,
- uncluttered,
- uncomplicated,
- undecked,
- undecorated,
- undesigning,
- undifferenced,
- undifferentiated,
- undisguising,
- undissembling,
- undissimulating,
- undressed,
- unelaborate,
- unembellished,
- unenhanced,
- unfeigning,
- unfurbished,
- ungarnished,
- uniform,
- unimaginative,
- unornamented,
- unostentatious,
- unpoetical,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unsophisticated,
- unspoiled,
- untrimmed,
- unvarnished
- apple-polish,
- avoid,
- bend,
- bend the knee,
- bend the neck,
- bend to,
- blench,
- blink,
- bootlick,
- bow,
- bow and scrape,
- bow down,
- bow to,
- brown-nose,
- cower,
- crawl,
- creep,
- cringe to,
- croodle,
- crouch,
- crouch before,
- curtsy,
- defer,
- do homage,
- do obeisance,
- dodge,
- draw back,
- draw in,
- duck,
- eat dirt,
- evade,
- fade,
- fall back,
- fawn,
- flatter,
- flinch,
- funk,
- genuflect,
- get down,
- grovel,
- hang back,
- hunch,
- hunch down,
- jib,
- kneel,
- kneel to,
- knuckle to,
- kowtow,
- lick the dust,
- lickspittle,
- pull back,
- pull in,
- pull out,
- quail,
- quiver,
- recoil,
- reel back,
- retract,
- retreat,
- scrouch down,
- sheer off,
- shrink,
- shrink back,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- skulk,
- slaver,
- slink,
- sneak,
- squat,
- start aside,
- start back,
- stoop,
- swerve,
- toadeat,
- toady,
- tremble,
- truckle,
- truckle to,
- turn aside,
- wallow,
- weasel,
- weasel out,
- welter,
- wince,
- withdraw
- comprehensive
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- including all or everything; "comprehensive coverage"; "a comprehensive history of the revolution"; "a comprehensive survey"; "a comprehensive education"
- broad in scope; "a comprehensive survey of world affairs" related words >
- absolute,
- across-the-board,
- aggregate,
- all,
- all-comprehensive,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-inclusive,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- ample,
- blanket,
- born,
- broad,
- broad-based,
- capacious,
- clean,
- clear,
- coincident,
- compact,
- compendious,
- complete,
- concurrent,
- congenital,
- conjoint,
- conjugate,
- conjunct,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- consummate,
- copious,
- corporate,
- deep,
- deep-dyed,
- downright,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- egregious,
- encompassing,
- encyclopedic,
- entire,
- exhaustive,
- expansive,
- extensive,
- full,
- generous,
- global,
- grand,
- grave,
- great,
- gross,
- heavy,
- holistic,
- inclusive,
- integral,
- integrated,
- intense,
- intensive,
- irresistible,
- joined,
- joint,
- main,
- maximum,
- mighty,
- omnibus,
- omnipresent,
- one,
- one and indivisible,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- over-all,
- overall,
- panoramic,
- perfect,
- pervasive,
- plain,
- plenary,
- plumb,
- powerful,
- pure,
- radical,
- regular,
- serious,
- sheer,
- spacious,
- straight,
- strong,
- sweeping,
- synoptic,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- through-and-through,
- total,
- ubiquitous,
- unconditional,
- universal,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- utter,
- veritable,
- voluminous,
- whole,
- wholesale,
- wide,
- without exception,
- without omission
- unsophisticated
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- not wise in the ways of the world; "either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman"- Kate O'Brien related words >
- absolute,
- artless,
- authentic,
- bald,
- bare,
- blank,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- bona fide,
- born yesterday,
- callow,
- candid,
- childlike,
- clarified,
- clear,
- confiding,
- crude,
- cullible,
- deceivable,
- deludable,
- direct,
- distilled,
- dupable,
- easy,
- exploitable,
- foolable,
- frank,
- genuine,
- green,
- guileless,
- gullible,
- hoaxable,
- hoodwinkable,
- humbugable,
- inexperienced,
- ingenu,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- naive,
- naked,
- neat,
- nude,
- open,
- openhearted,
- outspoken,
- persuadable,
- plain,
- purified,
- rectified,
- seduceable,
- sheer,
- simple,
- simplehearted,
- simpleminded,
- sincere,
- single-hearted,
- single-minded,
- soft,
- straight,
- trustful,
- trusting,
- unadorned,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unalloyed,
- unarrayed,
- unartificial,
- unblended,
- uncombined,
- uncomplicated,
- uncompounded,
- uncorrupted,
- uncouth,
- undecked,
- undecorated,
- undiluted,
- undressed,
- unembellished,
- unfortified,
- unfurbished,
- ungarnished,
- unguarded,
- uninvolved,
- unleavened,
- unmingled,
- unmixed,
- unornamented,
- unrefined,
- unreserved,
- unschooled,
- unstudied,
- unsuspicious,
- untinged,
- untrimmed,
- untutored,
- unvarnished,
- unwary,
- unworldly,
- victimizable
- weasel
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- small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck related words >
- Argus,
- Cape polecat,
- Skimobile,
- Sno-Cat,
- ape,
- avoid,
- back and fill,
- bar,
- bear,
- blade,
- blench,
- blink,
- cat,
- cavy,
- chimp,
- chimpanzee,
- coon,
- cringe,
- dodge,
- draw back,
- duck,
- eagle,
- equivocate,
- evade,
- fade,
- fall back,
- ferret,
- flinch,
- foumart,
- glutton,
- groundhog,
- guinea pig,
- hang back,
- hawk,
- hedge,
- hedgehog,
- hem and haw,
- hum and haw,
- jib,
- lynx,
- mince the truth,
- mince words,
- monk,
- monkey,
- mousehound,
- opossum,
- palter,
- parry,
- polecat,
- porcupine,
- possum,
- prairie dog,
- prevaricate,
- pull back,
- pussyfoot,
- quail,
- quill pig,
- raccoon,
- recoil,
- reel back,
- retreat,
- runner,
- sheer off,
- shrink,
- shrink back,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- skunk,
- sled,
- sleigh,
- slink,
- sneaker,
- snowmobile,
- start aside,
- start back,
- swerve,
- tergiversate,
- turn aside,
- waffle,
- weasel out,
- whistle-pig,
- wince,
- wolverine,
- woodchuck,
- zoril
- about ship,
- alternate,
- battledore and shuttlecock,
- bear away,
- bear off,
- bear to starboard,
- beat,
- beat about,
- box off,
- break,
- bring about,
- bring round,
- cant,
- cant round,
- cast,
- cast about,
- change,
- change course,
- change the heading,
- come about,
- come and go,
- dither,
- double a point,
- ebb and flow,
- equivocate,
- fetch about,
- flounder,
- fluctuate,
- go about,
- go through phases,
- gybe,
- heave round,
- hitch and hike,
- jibe,
- jibe all standing,
- miss stays,
- oscillate,
- pass and repass,
- pendulate,
- ply,
- reciprocate,
- ride and tie,
- ring the changes,
- round a point,
- seesaw,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shilly-shally,
- shuffle,
- shuttle,
- shuttlecock,
- slew,
- stagger,
- sway,
- swerve,
- swing,
- swing round,
- swing the stern,
- tack,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- tergiversate,
- throw about,
- to-and-fro,
- totter,
- turn,
- turn back,
- vacillate,
- vary,
- veer,
- waver,
- wax and wane,
- wear,
- wear ship,
- wibble-wabble,
- wigwag,
- wind,
- wobble,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- quail
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- small gallinaceous game birds
- flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised related words >
- Cornish hen,
- avoid,
- blanch,
- blench,
- blink,
- boggle,
- broiler,
- caille,
- canard,
- caneton,
- capon,
- chapon,
- chicken,
- cower,
- cringe,
- crouch,
- damsel,
- demur,
- dindon,
- dodge,
- draw back,
- duck,
- duckling,
- evade,
- fade,
- faisan,
- fall back,
- falter,
- fight shy of,
- flinch,
- fowl,
- fryer,
- funk,
- gal,
- goose,
- grouse,
- guinea hen,
- hang back,
- hang off,
- have qualms,
- hesitate,
- hold off,
- jib,
- lass,
- lassie,
- maid,
- maiden,
- make bones about,
- miss,
- missy,
- oie,
- partridge,
- pause,
- pheasant,
- pigeon,
- pigeonneau,
- poulet,
- pull back,
- quiff,
- recoil,
- reel back,
- retreat,
- roaster,
- scruple,
- sheer off,
- shrink,
- shrink back,
- shy,
- shy at,
- sidestep,
- skulk,
- slink,
- sneak,
- squab,
- squinch,
- start,
- start aside,
- start back,
- stewing chicken,
- stick at,
- stickle,
- strain,
- swerve,
- turkey,
- turn aside,
- volaille,
- waver,
- weasel,
- weasel out,
- wild duck,
- wince
- avoid,
- back down,
- balance,
- be dilatory,
- blench,
- blink,
- boggle,
- cringe,
- dawdle,
- debate,
- deliberate,
- demur,
- dodge,
- drag,
- draw back,
- duck,
- evade,
- fade,
- fall back,
- fall behind,
- falter,
- fear,
- fight shy of,
- filibuster,
- flinch,
- gain time,
- get behind,
- hang,
- hang fire,
- hang off,
- have qualms,
- hem and haw,
- hesitate,
- hold off,
- hover,
- hum and haw,
- jib,
- lag,
- linger,
- linger behind,
- loiter,
- make bones about,
- make time,
- pause,
- play for time,
- ponder,
- procrastinate,
- pull back,
- quail,
- recoil,
- reel back,
- retreat,
- scruple,
- sheer off,
- shilly-shally,
- shrink,
- shrink back,
- shy,
- shy at,
- sidestep,
- stall,
- stall for time,
- stall off,
- start aside,
- start back,
- stick at,
- stickle,
- stooge around,
- stop to consider,
- straddle the fence,
- straggle,
- strain,
- strain at,
- swerve,
- talk against time,
- temporize,
- think twice about,
- trail,
- trail behind,
- turn aside,
- waver,
- weasel,
- weasel out,
- wince,
- withdraw,
- yield
- sidetrack
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- wander from a direct or straight course related words >
- L,
- avert,
- bear off,
- branch,
- bypath,
- byway,
- cable railway,
- cog railway,
- deflect,
- departure,
- deviation,
- digression,
- discursion,
- distract,
- divert,
- draw aside,
- draw off,
- ease off,
- edge off,
- el,
- electric railway,
- elevated,
- elevated railway,
- embankment,
- episode,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- feeder,
- feeder line,
- fly off,
- gee,
- glance,
- glance off,
- go off,
- gravity-operated railway,
- haw,
- head off,
- horse railway,
- jib,
- junction,
- light railroad,
- line,
- main line,
- make way for,
- metro,
- monorail,
- move aside,
- rack railway,
- rack-and-pinion railway,
- rail,
- rail line,
- railroad,
- railway,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- sheer off,
- shove aside,
- shunt,
- shy,
- shy off,
- side,
- side path,
- side road,
- sidestep,
- siding,
- sidle,
- steer clear of,
- step aside,
- street railway,
- streetcar line,
- subway,
- switch,
- switchback,
- terminal,
- terminus,
- track,
- tram,
- tramline,
- trestle,
- trolley line,
- trunk,
- trunk line,
- tube,
- turn aside,
- turn away,
- turn back,
- turnout,
- underground,
- veer off
- detour
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- a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
- travel via a detour related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- ambages,
- back door,
- back road,
- back stairs,
- back street,
- back way,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bias,
- branch off,
- branching off,
- by-lane,
- bypass,
- bypath,
- byroad,
- bystreet,
- byway,
- change the bearing,
- circuit,
- circuitousness,
- circumbendibus,
- circumnavigate,
- circumvent,
- corner,
- crook,
- curve,
- declination,
- depart from,
- departure,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviate,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- digress,
- digression,
- discursion,
- divagate,
- divagation,
- divaricate,
- divarication,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- divert,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- errantry,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- go around,
- go round about,
- hairpin,
- heel,
- indirection,
- make a detour,
- obliquity,
- pererration,
- rambling,
- roundabout,
- roundabout way,
- runaround,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- side door,
- side road,
- side street,
- skew,
- slant,
- straying,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- trend,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn away from,
- turning,
- twist,
- variation,
- vary,
- veer,
- wandering,
- warp,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- very
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- used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn"
- precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite" related words >
- a bit,
- a little,
- absolutely,
- actually,
- acutely,
- almighty,
- almost,
- altogether,
- awful,
- awfully,
- bare,
- barest,
- big,
- bleeding,
- bloody,
- bona fide,
- certainly,
- completely,
- correct,
- crazy,
- damned,
- danged,
- darned,
- de facto,
- decidedly,
- deeply,
- definitely,
- dreadful,
- dreadfully,
- eminently,
- entirely,
- especial,
- exact,
- exactly,
- exceedingly,
- exceptionally,
- express,
- extraordinarily,
- extremely,
- fairly,
- genuine,
- genuinely,
- greatly,
- highly,
- hugely,
- hundred-percent,
- ideal,
- identical,
- in a measure,
- in a way,
- in some measure,
- in truth,
- indubitable,
- jolly,
- just,
- kind of,
- larruping,
- least,
- main,
- mere,
- mightily,
- mighty,
- model,
- monstrous,
- mortally,
- most,
- much,
- nearly,
- notably,
- only too,
- parlous,
- particular,
- passing,
- perfect,
- perfectly,
- pesky,
- plumb,
- powerful,
- powerfully,
- practically,
- precise,
- precisely,
- pretty,
- profoundly,
- pure,
- quite,
- rather,
- rattling,
- real,
- really,
- remarkably,
- right,
- same,
- scarcely,
- selfsame,
- seriously,
- sheer,
- significantly,
- simple,
- slightly,
- snapping,
- so,
- somewhat,
- sort of,
- spanking,
- special,
- strikingly,
- super,
- sure-enough,
- surely,
- surpassingly,
- tellingly,
- terribly,
- terrifically,
- thoroughly,
- to a degree,
- to some extent,
- too,
- totally,
- true,
- truly,
- uncommonly,
- undoubted,
- unequivocally,
- unquestionable,
- unquestionably,
- unusually,
- utter,
- vastly,
- veritable,
- veritably,
- very much,
- vitally,
- whacking,
- whopping
- absolute,
- admitting no exception,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- arrant,
- born,
- broad-based,
- categorical,
- classical,
- clean,
- clear,
- complete,
- comprehensive,
- conclusive,
- congenital,
- consummate,
- crass,
- decided,
- decisive,
- deep-dyed,
- definite,
- definitive,
- determinate,
- downright,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- egregious,
- entire,
- exhaustive,
- explicit,
- express,
- final,
- fixed,
- flagrant,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- glaring,
- global,
- gross,
- implicit,
- inappealable,
- indisputable,
- intensive,
- intolerable,
- omnibus,
- omnipresent,
- outright,
- peremptory,
- perfect,
- pervasive,
- plain,
- plumb,
- positive,
- precious,
- profound,
- pronounced,
- proper,
- pure,
- radical,
- rank,
- regular,
- round,
- shattering,
- sheer,
- shocking,
- stark,
- stark-staring,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- superlative,
- surpassing,
- sweeping,
- the veriest,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- through-and-through,
- total,
- ubiquitous,
- unbearable,
- uncircumscribed,
- unconditional,
- unconditioned,
- unconscionable,
- undeniable,
- undoubting,
- unequivocal,
- unhampered,
- unhesitating,
- universal,
- unlimited,
- unmistakable,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unquestioning,
- unrelieved,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- unspoiled,
- unwaivable,
- utter,
- veritable,
- whole,
- wholesale,
- without exception,
- without reserve
- about ship,
- agonize over,
- angle for,
- ask for,
- back and fill,
- be at sea,
- be hard put,
- be uncertain,
- bear away,
- bear off,
- bear to starboard,
- beat,
- beat about for,
- box off,
- break,
- bring about,
- bring round,
- cant,
- cant round,
- cast,
- cast about,
- change course,
- change the heading,
- come about,
- delve for,
- dig for,
- double a point,
- doubt,
- feel around,
- feel for,
- feel unsure,
- fetch about,
- fish for,
- flounder,
- follow,
- fumble,
- go about,
- go gunning for,
- grabble,
- grope,
- grope for,
- gun for,
- gybe,
- have trouble,
- heave round,
- hunt,
- hunt for,
- hunt up,
- jibe,
- jibe all standing,
- labor under difficulties,
- look,
- look for,
- look up,
- miss stays,
- ply,
- poke around,
- prowl after,
- pry around,
- pursue,
- put about,
- put back,
- puzzle over,
- quest,
- question,
- round a point,
- scrabble,
- search for,
- see to,
- seek,
- seek for,
- sheer,
- shift,
- slew,
- still-hunt,
- struggle,
- swerve,
- swing round,
- swing the stern,
- tack,
- thrash about,
- throw about,
- try to find,
- turn,
- turn back,
- veer,
- walk on eggshells,
- wear,
- wear ship,
- wind,
- wonder,
- wonder whether,
- yaw
- turn away
collapse
- move so as not face somebody or something related words >
- abjure,
- avert,
- bear off,
- blunt,
- bow out,
- brush aside,
- bundle,
- bundle off,
- chill,
- chuck,
- chuck out,
- contemn,
- contradict,
- cool,
- damp,
- dampen,
- decline,
- deflect,
- deny,
- despise,
- deter,
- disaffect,
- disapprove,
- discard,
- disclaim,
- discount,
- discourage,
- disdain,
- disincline,
- disinterest,
- dismiss,
- disown,
- disregard,
- distract,
- divert,
- draw aside,
- ease off,
- edge off,
- except,
- exclude,
- fly off,
- forswear,
- gee,
- give the air,
- give the gate,
- glance,
- glance off,
- go off,
- haw,
- head off,
- hustle out,
- ignore,
- indispose,
- jib,
- make way for,
- move aside,
- pack off,
- pass by,
- pass up,
- push aside,
- put off,
- quench,
- rebuff,
- recant,
- refuse,
- refuse to consider,
- reject,
- renounce,
- repel,
- repudiate,
- repulse,
- scout,
- send away,
- send off,
- send packing,
- sheer off,
- shove aside,
- shove away,
- show the door,
- show the gate,
- shunt,
- shy,
- shy off,
- side,
- sidestep,
- sidetrack,
- sidle,
- spurn,
- steer clear of,
- step aside,
- switch,
- throw away,
- throw out,
- turn aside,
- turn back,
- turn from,
- turn off,
- turn out,
- veer off,
- waive,
- wean from
- deflect
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- turn aside and away from an initial or intended course
- turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest related words >
- angle,
- angle off,
- anticipate,
- arch,
- avert,
- bar,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bend back,
- bias,
- blunt,
- bow,
- change,
- chill,
- cool,
- crook,
- curl,
- curve,
- damp,
- dampen,
- debar,
- decurve,
- deter,
- deviate,
- diffract,
- diffuse,
- disaffect,
- discourage,
- dishearten,
- disincline,
- disinterest,
- disperse,
- distort,
- distract,
- divagate,
- diverge,
- divert,
- dogleg,
- dome,
- embow,
- estop,
- exclude,
- fend,
- fend off,
- flex,
- forbid,
- foreclose,
- forestall,
- hairpin,
- help,
- hold off,
- hook,
- hump,
- hunch,
- incurvate,
- incurve,
- indispose,
- inflect,
- keep from,
- keep off,
- loop,
- oblique,
- obviate,
- parry,
- pivot,
- preclude,
- prevent,
- prohibit,
- pull,
- put off,
- quench,
- recurve,
- reflect,
- reflex,
- refract,
- repel,
- retroflex,
- round,
- rule out,
- sag,
- save,
- scatter,
- sheer,
- shy,
- sidetrack,
- skew,
- slue,
- stave off,
- swag,
- sway,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- switch,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn away,
- turn from,
- turn off,
- twist,
- vault,
- veer,
- volte-face,
- ward off,
- warp,
- wean from,
- wheel,
- whip,
- whirl,
- wind,
- zigzag
- abate,
- arrest,
- avert,
- backpedal,
- backwater,
- bate,
- bear off,
- brake,
- check,
- clip the wings,
- curb,
- decelerate,
- delay,
- detain,
- die down,
- diffuse,
- disjoin,
- disperse,
- draw aside,
- draw rein,
- ease,
- ease up,
- ebb,
- edge off,
- fall,
- fly off,
- free,
- gee,
- glance,
- glance off,
- go off,
- haw,
- head off,
- hold back,
- hold in check,
- hold up,
- impede,
- jib,
- keep back,
- lax,
- let down,
- let go,
- let up,
- let up on,
- loose,
- loosen,
- loosen up,
- lose ground,
- lose momentum,
- lose speed,
- make way for,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- move aside,
- obstruct,
- reef,
- rein in,
- relax,
- relent,
- remit,
- retard,
- scatter,
- set back,
- sheer off,
- shove aside,
- shunt,
- shy,
- shy off,
- side,
- sidestep,
- sidetrack,
- sidle,
- slack,
- slack off,
- slack up,
- slacken,
- slake,
- slow,
- slow down,
- slow up,
- stay,
- steer clear of,
- step aside,
- subside,
- switch,
- take in sail,
- throttle down,
- turn aside,
- turn away,
- turn back,
- unbend,
- unbrace,
- unglue,
- unlax,
- unleash,
- unstick,
- unstrain,
- unstring,
- untighten,
- unwind,
- veer off,
- wane
- absolute,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- born,
- broad-based,
- chronic,
- clean,
- clear,
- colorfast,
- comprehensive,
- confirmed,
- congenital,
- constant,
- consummate,
- deep-dyed,
- deep-engraven,
- deep-fixed,
- deep-grounded,
- deep-laid,
- deep-rooted,
- deep-seated,
- deep-set,
- deep-settled,
- double-dyed,
- downright,
- egregious,
- embedded,
- embossed,
- engrafted,
- engraved,
- entrenched,
- established,
- etched,
- exhaustive,
- fadeless,
- fast,
- firmly established,
- fixed,
- graven,
- implanted,
- impressed,
- imprinted,
- incorrigible,
- inculcated,
- indelible,
- indelibly impressed,
- infixed,
- ingrain,
- ingrained,
- ingrown,
- instilled,
- intensive,
- inveterate,
- inwrought,
- irreversible,
- long-established,
- old-line,
- omnibus,
- omnipresent,
- on a rock,
- on bedrock,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- perfect,
- pervasive,
- plain,
- plumb,
- pure,
- radical,
- regular,
- rooted,
- set,
- settled,
- settled in habit,
- sheer,
- stabilized,
- straight,
- sweeping,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- through-and-through,
- total,
- ubiquitous,
- unconditional,
- unfading,
- universal,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- utter,
- veritable,
- vested,
- well-established,
- well-founded,
- well-grounded,
- well-set,
- well-settled,
- wholesale
- absolute,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- born,
- broad-based,
- chronic,
- clean,
- clear,
- colorfast,
- comprehensive,
- confirmed,
- congenital,
- constant,
- consummate,
- deep-engraven,
- deep-fixed,
- deep-grounded,
- deep-laid,
- deep-rooted,
- deep-seated,
- deep-set,
- deep-settled,
- double-dyed,
- downright,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- egregious,
- embedded,
- embossed,
- engrafted,
- engraved,
- entrenched,
- established,
- etched,
- exhaustive,
- fadeless,
- fast,
- firmly established,
- fixed,
- graven,
- implanted,
- impressed,
- imprinted,
- incorrigible,
- inculcated,
- indelible,
- indelibly impressed,
- infixed,
- ingrain,
- ingrained,
- ingrown,
- instilled,
- intensive,
- inveterate,
- inwrought,
- irreversible,
- long-established,
- old-line,
- omnibus,
- omnipresent,
- on a rock,
- on bedrock,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- perfect,
- pervasive,
- plain,
- plumb,
- pure,
- radical,
- regular,
- rooted,
- set,
- settled,
- settled in habit,
- sheer,
- stabilized,
- straight,
- sweeping,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- through-and-through,
- total,
- ubiquitous,
- unconditional,
- unfading,
- universal,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- utter,
- veritable,
- vested,
- well-established,
- well-founded,
- well-grounded,
- well-set,
- well-settled,
- wholesale
- oblique
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- any grammatical case other than the nominative
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base" related words >
- O-shaped,
- across,
- ambagious,
- angle,
- angle off,
- angling,
- askew,
- aslant,
- athwart,
- atilt,
- awry,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- banked,
- banking,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bias,
- cambered,
- canted,
- canting,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- clandestine,
- collateral,
- crook,
- crooked,
- cross,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deflect,
- deflectional,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- devious,
- diagonal,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- divagate,
- divagational,
- diverge,
- divergent,
- diverging,
- evasive,
- excursive,
- false,
- furtive,
- helical,
- implied,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- indirect,
- leaning,
- left-handed,
- meandering,
- oblique angle,
- oblique figure,
- oblique line,
- offhand,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- overthwart,
- periphrastic,
- pitched,
- pitching,
- rhomboid,
- rotary,
- round,
- roundabout,
- scratch comma,
- separatrix,
- sheer,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- skew,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slash,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- slue,
- sly,
- solidus,
- spiral,
- surreptitious,
- sway,
- swerve,
- thwart,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- traverse,
- turn,
- twist,
- underhanded,
- veer,
- virgule
- digression
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- wandering from the main path of a journey
- a message that departs from the main subject related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- ambages,
- apostrophe,
- aside,
- bend,
- bias,
- branching off,
- bypass,
- bypath,
- byway,
- circling,
- circuit,
- circuition,
- circuitousness,
- circuitry,
- circularity,
- circulation,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumambulation,
- circumbendibus,
- circumflexion,
- circumlocution,
- circummigration,
- circumnavigation,
- corner,
- crook,
- crosswiseness,
- curve,
- declination,
- deflection,
- deflexure,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviating,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- diagonality,
- digressing,
- discursion,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- episode,
- errantry,
- excurse,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- gyre,
- gyring,
- hairpin,
- incident,
- indirection,
- indirectness,
- meandering,
- nonconformity,
- obiter dictum,
- obliqueness,
- obliquity,
- orbit,
- orbiting,
- parenthesis,
- pererration,
- rambling,
- roundabout,
- roundabout way,
- roundaboutness,
- rounding,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- side path,
- side road,
- sidetrack,
- skew,
- skewness,
- slant,
- spiral,
- spiraling,
- squint,
- straying,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- transverseness,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- vagary,
- variation,
- veer,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wheeling,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- Wanderjahr,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- afoot and lighthearted,
- bend,
- bias,
- bigheartedness,
- bigness,
- branching off,
- bumming,
- chivalrousness,
- chivalry,
- circuitousness,
- corner,
- crook,
- curve,
- declination,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- digression,
- discursion,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- elevation,
- exaltation,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- flitting,
- gadding,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- great heart,
- greatheartedness,
- greatness,
- greatness of heart,
- hairpin,
- heroism,
- high-mindedness,
- hoboism,
- idealism,
- indirection,
- itineracy,
- itinerancy,
- knight-errantry,
- knightliness,
- largeheartedness,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- loftiness,
- magnanimity,
- magnanimousness,
- nobility,
- noble-mindedness,
- nobleness,
- nomadism,
- obliquity,
- openhandedness,
- peregrination,
- pererration,
- princeliness,
- ramble,
- rambling,
- roam,
- roaming,
- rove,
- roving,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- skew,
- slant,
- straying,
- sublimity,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- traipsing,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- vagabondage,
- vagabondia,
- vagabondism,
- vagrancy,
- variation,
- veer,
- wandering,
- wanderlust,
- warp,
- wayfaring,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- bring round
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- cause to adopt an opinion or course of action; "His urgent letter finally brought me around to give money to the school" related words >
- about ship,
- argue into,
- assure,
- back and fill,
- be convincing,
- bear away,
- bear off,
- bear to starboard,
- beat,
- beat about,
- box off,
- break,
- bring about,
- bring around,
- bring home to,
- bring over,
- bring to reason,
- cant,
- cant round,
- captivate,
- carry conviction,
- cast,
- cast about,
- change course,
- change the heading,
- charm,
- come about,
- con,
- convert,
- convict,
- convince,
- cure,
- double a point,
- draw over,
- drive home to,
- fetch about,
- gain,
- gain over,
- go about,
- gybe,
- heal,
- heave round,
- hook,
- hook in,
- inspire belief,
- jibe,
- jibe all standing,
- lead to believe,
- miss stays,
- outtalk,
- persuade,
- ply,
- prevail on,
- prevail upon,
- prevail with,
- pull round,
- put about,
- put back,
- recure,
- remedy,
- restore to health,
- round a point,
- satisfy,
- sell,
- sell one on,
- sheer,
- shift,
- slew,
- sway,
- swerve,
- swing round,
- swing the stern,
- tack,
- talk into,
- talk over,
- throw about,
- turn,
- turn back,
- veer,
- wangle,
- wangle into,
- wear,
- wear down,
- wear ship,
- win,
- win over,
- wind,
- work a cure,
- yaw
- aboveboard,
- absolute,
- actual,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- ascertained,
- attested,
- authentic,
- authenticated,
- bona fide,
- born,
- broad-based,
- categorically true,
- certain,
- certified,
- clean,
- clear,
- comprehensive,
- confirmed,
- congenital,
- consummate,
- corroborated,
- de facto,
- deep-dyed,
- demonstrated,
- determined,
- documentary,
- downright,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- effectual,
- egregious,
- established,
- exhaustive,
- factual,
- fair and square,
- for real,
- foursquare,
- genuine,
- good-faith,
- historical,
- honest-to-God,
- indubitable,
- intensive,
- legitimate,
- not in error,
- objectively true,
- omnibus,
- omnipresent,
- on the level,
- on the square,
- on the up-and-up,
- open,
- open and aboveboard,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- perfect,
- pervasive,
- plain,
- plumb,
- positive,
- proved,
- pure,
- radical,
- real,
- regular,
- sheer,
- single-hearted,
- square,
- square-dealing,
- square-shooting,
- straight,
- straight-shooting,
- substantial,
- substantiated,
- sure-enough,
- sweeping,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- through-and-through,
- total,
- true,
- true as gospel,
- truthful,
- ubiquitous,
- unconditional,
- unconfuted,
- undeniable,
- undenied,
- undoubted,
- unerroneous,
- unfallacious,
- unfalse,
- universal,
- unmistaken,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unquestionable,
- unrefuted,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- up-and-up,
- utter,
- validated,
- veracious,
- verified,
- very,
- virtual,
- wholesale
- transparent
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- easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety); "a transparent explanation"; "a transparent lie" related words >
- apparent,
- articulate,
- artless,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- broad,
- brusque,
- candid,
- clean-cut,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- clear as day,
- clear as glass,
- clear-cut,
- cloudless,
- coherent,
- connected,
- consistent,
- crisp,
- crystal,
- crystal-clear,
- crystalline,
- defined,
- definite,
- diaphane,
- diaphanous,
- direct,
- distinct,
- distinguishable,
- downright,
- evident,
- explicit,
- express,
- filmy,
- flimsy,
- forthright,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- gauzy,
- genuine,
- glassy,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- guileless,
- heart-to-heart,
- ingenuous,
- light,
- light-pervious,
- lightish,
- lightsome,
- limpid,
- loud and clear,
- lucent,
- lucid,
- luculent,
- luminous,
- manifest,
- naive,
- nonopaque,
- obvious,
- on the level,
- open,
- openhearted,
- outspoken,
- patent,
- peekaboo,
- pellucid,
- perspicuous,
- plain,
- plain-spoken,
- recognizable,
- relucent,
- revealing,
- round,
- see-through,
- serene,
- sheer,
- simple,
- sincere,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straightforward,
- thin,
- translucent,
- translucid,
- transpicuous,
- unambiguous,
- unchecked,
- unclouded,
- unconfused,
- unconstrained,
- understandable,
- undisguised,
- undissembling,
- unequivocal,
- unguarded,
- univocal,
- unmistakable,
- unobscured,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- well-defined
- omnibus
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- an anthology of articles on a related subject or an anthology of the works of a single author related words >
- Festschrift,
- absolute,
- across-the-board,
- aggregate,
- album,
- all,
- all-comprehensive,
- all-embracing,
- all-encompassing,
- all-inclusive,
- all-out,
- all-pervading,
- ana,
- analects,
- anthology,
- autobus,
- beauties,
- blanket,
- born,
- broad-based,
- bus,
- cab,
- canon,
- chartered bus,
- chrestomathy,
- clean,
- clear,
- collectanea,
- collected works,
- collection,
- compendious,
- compilation,
- complete,
- complete works,
- comprehensive,
- congenital,
- consummate,
- deep-dyed,
- delectus,
- diligence,
- double-decker,
- downright,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- egregious,
- encyclopedic,
- entire,
- exhaustive,
- florilegium,
- flowers,
- garden,
- garland,
- global,
- gross,
- hack,
- hired car,
- holistic,
- inclusive,
- integral,
- integrated,
- intensive,
- jitney,
- mail coach,
- miscellanea,
- miscellany,
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