Related Words:
- broke
collapse - lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term" related words >
- bankrupt,
- beat,
- beggared,
- broken,
- busted,
- dead,
- destitute,
- down-and-out,
- failed,
- flat,
- flat broke,
- hard up,
- impoverished,
- in receivership,
- indigent,
- insolvent,
- needy,
- on the rocks,
- on the skids,
- oofless,
- penniless,
- penurious,
- poor,
- poverty-stricken,
- ruined,
- short,
- stone-broke,
- stony,
- strapped,
- up against it
- rationale
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- (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature); "the rationale for capital punishment"; "the principles of internal-combustion engines" related words >
- account,
- allegorization,
- clarification,
- cracking,
- decipherment,
- decoding,
- demonstration,
- demythologization,
- editing,
- elucidation,
- emendation,
- enlightenment,
- euhemerism,
- excuse,
- exegesis,
- exemplification,
- explanation,
- explication,
- exposition,
- expounding,
- grounds,
- illumination,
- illustration,
- justification,
- light,
- logic,
- philosophy,
- pretense,
- pretext,
- principle,
- rational ground,
- rationalization,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- reasoning,
- simplification,
- solution,
- stated cause,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- theory,
- underlying reason,
- unlocking
- account,
- assessed valuation,
- assets,
- assets and liabilities,
- circumstances,
- conversion factor,
- current assets,
- deferred assets,
- face,
- face value,
- fixed assets,
- frozen assets,
- funds,
- intangible assets,
- intangibles,
- liquid assets,
- market value,
- material assets,
- means,
- net assets,
- par value,
- pennyworth,
- quick assets,
- rate,
- resources,
- stock,
- stock-in-trade,
- tangible assets,
- tangibles,
- value,
- value received,
- wealth,
- worth
- account,
- accounts,
- body count,
- capitulation,
- census,
- copy,
- count,
- critique,
- dwelling upon,
- elaboration,
- going over,
- head count,
- inventory,
- iteration,
- narration,
- narrative,
- nose count,
- practicing,
- reaffirmation,
- recap,
- recapitulation,
- recital,
- reckoning,
- recount,
- recountal,
- rehash,
- rehearsal,
- reissue,
- reiteration,
- relation,
- repertory,
- reprint,
- restatement,
- resume,
- retelling,
- review,
- statement,
- summary,
- summation,
- summing,
- summing up,
- tale-telling,
- telling,
- yarn spinning
- adulterated,
- blemished,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- erroneous,
- fallible,
- faulty,
- found wanting,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incomplete,
- inexact,
- lacking,
- makeshift,
- mediocre,
- mixed,
- not perfect,
- off,
- partial,
- patchy,
- short,
- sketchy,
- undeveloped,
- uneven,
- unfinished,
- unsound,
- unthorough,
- wanting
- blood money
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- paid to a hired murderer
- a reward for information about a murderer
- compensation paid to the family of a murdered person related words >
- account,
- allowance,
- amends,
- assessment,
- atonement,
- bill,
- blackmail,
- compensation,
- consideration,
- damages,
- emolument,
- fee,
- footing,
- guerdon,
- honorarium,
- hush money,
- indemnification,
- indemnity,
- initiation fee,
- meed,
- mileage,
- price,
- quittance,
- reckoning,
- recompense,
- redress,
- remuneration,
- reparation,
- requital,
- requitement,
- restitution,
- retainer,
- retaining fee,
- retribution,
- return,
- reward,
- salvage,
- satisfaction,
- scot,
- smart money,
- solatium,
- stipend,
- tribute,
- wergild
- shorten
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- become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"
- make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches" related words >
- abate,
- abbreviate,
- abrade,
- abridge,
- abstract,
- bate,
- be telegraphic,
- bob,
- bobtail,
- boil down,
- brief,
- capsule,
- capsulize,
- circumscribe,
- clip,
- coarct,
- compact,
- compress,
- concentrate,
- condense,
- consolidate,
- constrict,
- constringe,
- contract,
- cramp,
- crop,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off short,
- cut short,
- damp,
- dampen,
- decrease,
- deduct,
- deflate,
- depreciate,
- depress,
- derogate,
- detract,
- digest,
- diminish,
- disparage,
- dock,
- downgrade,
- drain,
- draw,
- draw in,
- draw together,
- eat away,
- elide,
- epitomize,
- erode,
- excerpt,
- extract,
- file away,
- foreshorten,
- hem,
- impair,
- knit,
- leach,
- lessen,
- lower,
- minify,
- minimize,
- mow,
- narrow,
- nip,
- nutshell,
- outline,
- pare,
- poll,
- pollard,
- prune,
- pucker,
- pucker up,
- purify,
- purse,
- reap,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- refine,
- remove,
- retrench,
- roll back,
- rub away,
- scale down,
- shave,
- shear,
- shrink,
- simplify,
- sketch,
- sketch out,
- slash,
- snub,
- solidify,
- step down,
- strangle,
- strangulate,
- stunt,
- subduct,
- subtract,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- synopsize,
- take away,
- take from,
- take in,
- telescope,
- thin,
- thin out,
- trim,
- truncate,
- tune down,
- waste no words,
- wear away,
- weed,
- withdraw,
- wrinkle
- botched,
- bungled,
- castrated,
- cut short,
- docked,
- fumbled,
- garbled,
- hashed,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-contrived,
- ill-devised,
- ill-done,
- ill-executed,
- ill-managed,
- impolitic,
- lopped,
- mangled,
- misconducted,
- misdirected,
- misguided,
- mismanaged,
- muffed,
- murdered,
- mutilated,
- negligent,
- spoiled,
- truncated
- operate
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- happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"
- handle and cause to function; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan" related words >
- act,
- angle,
- be caught short,
- be effective,
- be in action,
- be responsible for,
- be short,
- behave,
- belong,
- brew,
- bucket,
- bucketshop,
- cabal,
- carry on,
- carry out,
- carry through,
- chart a course,
- collude,
- complot,
- concoct,
- cond,
- conduct,
- conn,
- connive,
- conspire,
- control,
- cook up,
- countermine,
- counterplot,
- coxswain,
- cut,
- deal with,
- deposit margin,
- direct,
- do with,
- drive,
- employ,
- engineer,
- exercise,
- exert,
- finagle,
- finesse,
- frame,
- frame up,
- function,
- go,
- go long,
- guide,
- handle,
- hatch,
- hatch a plot,
- hatch up,
- have effect,
- have free play,
- have play,
- have the conn,
- helm,
- hold on,
- intrigue,
- keep,
- lay a plot,
- machinate,
- make,
- make a killing,
- make a scoop,
- make go,
- make use of,
- manage,
- maneuver,
- manipulate,
- margin up,
- militate,
- miss the market,
- move,
- navigate,
- open up,
- ordain,
- overstay the market,
- percolate,
- perform,
- perform on,
- perk,
- pilot,
- play,
- play the market,
- plot,
- plunge,
- ply,
- practice,
- proceed,
- pyramid,
- react,
- rig,
- run,
- scalp,
- scheme,
- scoop the market,
- see to,
- serve,
- shape a course,
- speculate,
- stag,
- stag the market,
- steer,
- take,
- take a flier,
- take care of,
- take effect,
- tick,
- trade on margin,
- use,
- utilize,
- venture,
- wangle,
- wield,
- work
- after all,
- all in all,
- all things considered,
- almost entirely,
- altogether,
- approximately,
- as a rule,
- as a whole,
- as an approximation,
- at large,
- before the bench,
- before the court,
- broadly,
- broadly speaking,
- by and large,
- ceteris paribus,
- chiefly,
- commonly,
- considering,
- effectually,
- essentially,
- everything being equal,
- generally,
- generally speaking,
- in court,
- in general,
- in round numbers,
- in the main,
- mainly,
- mostly,
- normally,
- on balance,
- on the average,
- ordinarily,
- overall,
- predominantly,
- prevailingly,
- roughly,
- roughly speaking,
- routinely,
- speaking generally,
- sub judice,
- substantially,
- taking into account,
- therefore,
- this being so,
- usually,
- virtually,
- wherefore
- abruptly,
- bang,
- by surprise,
- dash,
- hastily,
- impetuously,
- implausibly,
- improbably,
- impulsively,
- like a flash,
- like a thunderbolt,
- of a sudden,
- on short notice,
- plop,
- plump,
- plunk,
- pop,
- precipitantly,
- precipitately,
- precipitously,
- sharp,
- slap,
- smack,
- startlingly,
- sudden,
- suddenly,
- surprisingly,
- unanticipatedly,
- unawares,
- unexpectedly,
- unforeseeably,
- unpredictably,
- without notice
- account,
- account book,
- accounts payable ledger,
- accounts receivable ledger,
- active list,
- adversaria,
- aide-memoire,
- annals,
- annotation,
- archives,
- balance sheet,
- bank ledger,
- bankbook,
- blacklist,
- booking,
- books,
- card ledger,
- cashbook,
- catalog,
- cataloging,
- chancery,
- check sheet,
- checklist,
- chronicle,
- chronicling,
- chronology,
- civil list,
- clock card,
- correspondence,
- cost card,
- cost ledger,
- cost sheet,
- date slip,
- datebook,
- daybook,
- diary,
- docket,
- documentation,
- enlistment,
- enrollment,
- entering,
- entry,
- enumeration,
- factory ledger,
- files,
- filing,
- footnote,
- history,
- impanelment,
- indexing,
- inscribing,
- inscription,
- insertion,
- inventory,
- inventorying,
- item,
- itemization,
- items,
- jotting,
- journal,
- ledger,
- letters,
- list,
- listing,
- log,
- logbook,
- logging,
- marginal note,
- marginalia,
- matriculation,
- memo,
- memoir,
- memorandum,
- memorial,
- minutes,
- notation,
- note,
- passbook,
- pipe roll,
- posting,
- purchase ledger,
- record,
- record book,
- record keeping,
- recordation,
- recording,
- register,
- register office,
- registration,
- relic,
- remains,
- reminder,
- repertory,
- retired list,
- roll,
- rolls,
- roster,
- rota,
- sales journal,
- sales ledger,
- schedule,
- scholia,
- scholium,
- scroll,
- sick list,
- stock ledger,
- stores ledger,
- suspense ledger,
- table,
- tabulation,
- tally,
- tally sheet,
- time book,
- time chart,
- time scale,
- time schedule,
- time sheet,
- time study,
- timecard,
- timetable,
- token,
- trace,
- vestige
- under
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- further down; "see under for further discussion"
- down below; "get under quickly!"
- below the horizon; "the sun went under"
- below some quantity or limit; "fifty dollars or under"
- in or into a state of subordination or subjugation; "we must keep our disappointment under"
- down to defeat, death, or ruin; "their competitors went under"
- into unconsciousness; "this will put the patient under"
- through a range downward; "children six and under will be admitted free" related words >
- answerable to,
- at a disadvantage,
- at the nadir,
- below,
- below deck,
- below par,
- below the mark,
- belowstairs,
- beneath,
- collateral,
- dependent,
- down,
- down below,
- downstairs,
- drunk,
- earlier,
- high,
- impaired,
- in the gutter,
- inferior,
- infra,
- least,
- least of all,
- less,
- lesser,
- low,
- lower,
- lowest,
- neath,
- nether,
- out of sight,
- secondary,
- short of,
- sub,
- subjacent,
- subject,
- subordinate to,
- tipsy,
- tributary,
- under par,
- under the influence,
- underfoot,
- underneath,
- underwater
- narrator
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- someone who tells a story related words >
- anecdotalist,
- anecdotist,
- annalist,
- author,
- chronicler,
- describer,
- fableist,
- fabler,
- fabulist,
- fictionist,
- mythmaker,
- mythopoet,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- raconteur,
- reciter,
- recounter,
- relator,
- reporter,
- romancer,
- romancist,
- sagaman,
- short-story writer,
- spinner of yarns,
- storier,
- storyteller,
- taleteller,
- teller of tales,
- word painter,
- yarn spinner
- impotent
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- lacking power or ability; "Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent"- Freeman J.Dyson; "felt impotent rage"
- (of a male) unable to copulate related words >
- acarpous,
- aimless,
- anemic,
- arid,
- asexual,
- asthenic,
- barren,
- blank cartridge,
- bloodless,
- careless,
- castrated,
- castrato,
- celibate,
- chicken,
- childless,
- cold,
- cowardly,
- crippled,
- debilitated,
- desert,
- desolate,
- disabled,
- drained,
- dried-up,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dry,
- dud,
- dull,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- effete,
- emasculate,
- emasculated,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- etiolated,
- eunuch,
- eunuchized,
- exhausted,
- faint,
- faintish,
- fallow,
- featherweight,
- feckless,
- feeble,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- floppy,
- forceless,
- frail,
- frigid,
- fruitless,
- frustrated,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- gelding,
- gone,
- gutless,
- helpless,
- imbecile,
- imprecise,
- inadequate,
- incompetent,
- indifferent,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inept,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- infirm,
- invalid,
- invertebrate,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lax,
- leached,
- lenient,
- lightweight,
- limber,
- limp,
- listless,
- loose,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- meaningless,
- menopausal,
- negligent,
- nerveless,
- neuter,
- neutral,
- no go,
- no-account,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- of no account,
- of no use,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- permissive,
- pithless,
- pointless,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- purposeless,
- relaxed,
- remiss,
- rubbery,
- sapless,
- sexless,
- sine prole,
- sinewless,
- slack,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- soft,
- spineless,
- sterile,
- strengthless,
- sucked dry,
- superfluous,
- teemless,
- unauthoritative,
- unavailing,
- uncultivated,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- unhardened,
- unnerved,
- unplowed,
- unproductive,
- unprolific,
- unrestrained,
- unsexed,
- unsexual,
- unsown,
- unstrung,
- untilled,
- useless,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- weak,
- weakling,
- weakly,
- without any weight,
- without issue
- ambush,
- appear unexpectedly,
- assail,
- assault,
- astonish,
- attack,
- be unexpected,
- blitz,
- bob up,
- bounce,
- bound,
- buck,
- buckjump,
- bushwhack,
- capriole,
- catch at,
- catch off-guard,
- catch unawares,
- clear,
- come at,
- come down on,
- come from behind,
- come unawares,
- come upon,
- come upon unexpectedly,
- crack down on,
- creep up on,
- curvet,
- descend on,
- descend upon,
- dive,
- do the unexpected,
- drop,
- drop in on,
- fall,
- fall on,
- fall upon,
- fasten upon,
- flash upon one,
- gang up on,
- go at,
- go for,
- harry,
- have at,
- hippety-hop,
- hit,
- hit like lightning,
- hop,
- hurdle,
- jump,
- jump at,
- jump over,
- land on,
- lay at,
- lay hands on,
- lay into,
- leap,
- leap over,
- leapfrog,
- light into,
- mug,
- negotiate,
- nose-dive,
- overjump,
- overleap,
- overskip,
- parachute,
- pitch,
- pitch into,
- plop,
- plummet,
- plump,
- plunge,
- plunk,
- pop up,
- pounce,
- pounce on,
- pound,
- pull up short,
- sail into,
- scramble for,
- seize on,
- set on,
- set upon,
- ski jump,
- skin-dive,
- skip,
- sky-dive,
- snap at,
- snatch at,
- sound,
- spring,
- spring a surprise,
- spring upon,
- start,
- start aside,
- start up,
- steeplechase,
- stoop,
- strike,
- surprise,
- swoop,
- swoop down,
- swoop down on,
- swoop down upon,
- take a header,
- take by surprise,
- take short,
- take the offensive,
- take unawares,
- turn up,
- updive,
- upleap,
- upspring,
- vault,
- wade into
- valueless
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- of no value related words >
- NG,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- common,
- contemptible,
- crummy,
- despicable,
- gaudy,
- gimcracky,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- junk,
- junky,
- mean,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- no-account,
- no-good,
- not worth having,
- not worth mentioning,
- not worthwhile,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poor,
- rubbishy,
- sad,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- sorry,
- trashy,
- trivial,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- vile,
- worthless,
- wretched
- badly off,
- depressed,
- dire,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- hapless,
- ill off,
- ill-starred,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inauspicious,
- luckless,
- ominous,
- planet-struck,
- sad,
- short of luck,
- star-crossed,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential
- badly off,
- depressed,
- dire,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- hapless,
- ill off,
- ill-starred,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inauspicious,
- luckless,
- ominous,
- out of luck,
- planet-struck,
- sad,
- short of luck,
- star-crossed,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unprosperous
- badly off,
- depressed,
- dire,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- hapless,
- ill off,
- ill-starred,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inauspicious,
- luckless,
- ominous,
- out of luck,
- planet-struck,
- sad,
- short of luck,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential
- pillory
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- a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn
- punish by putting in a pillory
- expose to ridicule or public scorn related words >
- Oregon boat,
- attaint,
- bespatter,
- bilbo,
- blacken,
- blot,
- blow upon,
- bond,
- bonds,
- brand,
- branks,
- bridle,
- bring into discredit,
- bring low,
- bring shame upon,
- bring to account,
- bring to book,
- call to account,
- camisole,
- cast reproach upon,
- castigate,
- censure,
- chains,
- chasten,
- chastise,
- collar,
- correct,
- crank,
- cucking stool,
- cuffs,
- deal with,
- debase,
- defame,
- defile,
- defrock,
- degrade,
- deplume,
- deride,
- disapprove,
- discipline,
- discredit,
- disgrace,
- dishonor,
- disparage,
- displume,
- ducking stool,
- expose,
- expose to infamy,
- fetter,
- finger pillory,
- gag,
- gibbet,
- grin at,
- gyves,
- halter,
- hamper,
- handcuffs,
- hang in effigy,
- hobbles,
- hold in derision,
- hopples,
- humiliate,
- impute shame to,
- inflict upon,
- irons,
- laugh at,
- laugh to scorn,
- leading strings,
- leash,
- make fun of,
- make game of,
- make merry with,
- manacle,
- masthead,
- muzzle,
- pan,
- penalize,
- point at,
- poke fun at,
- punish,
- put one on,
- put to shame,
- rag,
- razz,
- reflect discredit upon,
- reins,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- restraint,
- restraints,
- ride,
- ridicule,
- roast,
- settle with,
- shackle,
- shame,
- slur,
- smear,
- smile at,
- snicker at,
- snigger at,
- soil,
- square accounts,
- stain,
- stigmatize,
- stocks,
- straightjacket,
- strait-waistcoat,
- straitjacket,
- stranglehold,
- sully,
- taint,
- take to task,
- tarnish,
- tether,
- trammel,
- trammels,
- treadmill,
- trebuchet,
- triangle,
- triangles,
- unfrock,
- vilify,
- visit upon,
- whipping post,
- wooden horse,
- yoke
- accelerando,
- accelerate,
- acceleration,
- accost,
- advance,
- aggravate,
- aggravation,
- amplify,
- approach,
- appropinquate,
- approximate,
- bear down on,
- bear down upon,
- bear up,
- beef up,
- beefing-up,
- blow up,
- blowing up,
- blowup,
- charge,
- close,
- close in,
- close with,
- come,
- come closer,
- come forward,
- come near,
- come on,
- come up,
- complicate,
- concentrate,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- condense,
- confront,
- consolidate,
- consolidation,
- crack on,
- deepen,
- deepening,
- double,
- draw near,
- draw nigh,
- drive,
- electrify,
- encounter,
- energize,
- enhance,
- enhancement,
- exacerbate,
- exacerbation,
- exaggerate,
- exaggeration,
- explosion,
- gain ground,
- gain upon,
- galvanize,
- generate,
- getaway,
- hasten,
- heat up,
- heating-up,
- heighten,
- heightening,
- hop up,
- hot up,
- hurry,
- hurry up,
- impetus,
- information explosion,
- intensification,
- intensify,
- jazz up,
- key up,
- loop in,
- magnification,
- magnify,
- make complex,
- narrow the gap,
- near,
- open the throttle,
- pick up speed,
- pickup,
- plug in,
- population explosion,
- proximate,
- put on,
- put on steam,
- quicken,
- quickening,
- race,
- ramify,
- redouble,
- redoubling,
- reinforce,
- reinforcement,
- rev,
- shake up,
- sharpen,
- shock,
- short,
- short-circuit,
- sidle up to,
- soup up,
- speed up,
- speedup,
- step down,
- step on it,
- stiffen,
- strengthen,
- strengthening,
- switch off,
- switch on,
- thrust,
- tightening,
- triple,
- turn off,
- turn on,
- whet
- absolve,
- account for,
- acquit,
- amnesty,
- clear,
- cry sour grapes,
- decontaminate,
- discharge,
- dismiss,
- dispense from,
- do justice to,
- exculpate,
- excuse,
- exempt,
- exempt from,
- exonerate,
- explain,
- forgive,
- free,
- give absolution,
- grant amnesty to,
- grant immunity,
- grant remission,
- justify,
- let go,
- let off,
- nonpros,
- pardon,
- purge,
- quash the charge,
- rationalize,
- rehabilitate,
- reinstate,
- release,
- remit,
- restore,
- set free,
- shrive,
- vindicate,
- warrant,
- whitewash,
- withdraw the charge
- bare-handed,
- beggarly,
- empty-handed,
- famished,
- half-starved,
- ill off,
- ill-equipped,
- ill-furnished,
- ill-provided,
- impoverished,
- on short commons,
- pauperized,
- poor,
- shorthanded,
- starved,
- starveling,
- starving,
- underfed,
- underhanded,
- undernourished,
- understaffed,
- unfed,
- unprovided,
- unreplenished,
- unsupplied
- beautiless,
- blemished,
- blotted,
- cacophonic,
- cacophonous,
- defaced,
- disfigured,
- dysphemistic,
- dysphemized,
- hideous,
- homely,
- ill-favored,
- ill-looking,
- inelegant,
- marred,
- plain,
- short on looks,
- spoiled,
- uglified,
- ugly,
- ugly as hell,
- ugly as sin,
- unaesthetic,
- unalluring,
- unattractive,
- unbeauteous,
- uncomely,
- unhandsome,
- unlovely,
- unpleasing,
- unpretty,
- unsightly
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- ablated,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- badly off,
- bankrupt,
- bare-handed,
- barren,
- beggared,
- beggarly,
- bereaved,
- bereft,
- burnt up,
- consumed,
- denuded,
- depleted,
- deprived,
- desolate,
- destitute,
- disadvantaged,
- dissipated,
- drained,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- eaten up,
- effete,
- empty,
- empty-handed,
- eroded,
- exhausted,
- exiguous,
- famished,
- finished,
- flat broke,
- fleeced,
- frugal,
- ghettoized,
- gone,
- half-starved,
- ill off,
- ill-equipped,
- ill-furnished,
- ill-provided,
- impecunious,
- in distress,
- in need,
- in rags,
- in want,
- indigent,
- insolvent,
- jejune,
- lean,
- limited,
- meager,
- mean,
- mendicant,
- miserly,
- narrow,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- niggardly,
- on relief,
- on short commons,
- out at elbows,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- pauperized,
- penurious,
- pinched,
- poor,
- poverty-stricken,
- puny,
- ruined,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- short,
- shorthanded,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- spare,
- sparing,
- spent,
- starvation,
- starved,
- starveling,
- starving,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- stone-broke,
- straitened,
- strapped,
- stripped,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- underfed,
- undermanned,
- undernourished,
- underprivileged,
- unfed,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unprovided,
- unreplenished,
- unsupplied,
- up against it,
- used up,
- wasted,
- watered,
- watery,
- wiped out,
- worn away,
- worn-out
- petty
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- contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness" related words >
- Mickey Mouse,
- abject,
- abominable,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- authoritarian,
- base,
- beggarly,
- bickering,
- bigot,
- bigoted,
- borne,
- captious,
- casual,
- caviling,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- choplogic,
- close,
- closed,
- constricted,
- contemptible,
- cramped,
- creedbound,
- crummy,
- cursory,
- deaf,
- deaf to reason,
- debased,
- deficient,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- depthless,
- despicable,
- dinky,
- dirty,
- disgusting,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- execrable,
- fanatical,
- few,
- flagrant,
- footling,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grave,
- gross,
- grudging,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- heinous,
- hidebound,
- illiberal,
- imperfect,
- impertinent,
- inadequate,
- incompetent,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- inessential,
- inferior,
- insignificant,
- insufficient,
- insular,
- irrelevant,
- jerkwater,
- light,
- little,
- little-minded,
- logic-chopping,
- low,
- low-down,
- lumpen,
- maladroit,
- mangy,
- meager,
- mean,
- mean-minded,
- mean-spirited,
- measly,
- mediocre,
- mingy,
- miniature,
- minor,
- miserable,
- miserly,
- monstrous,
- narrow,
- narrow-hearted,
- narrow-minded,
- narrow-souled,
- narrow-spirited,
- nearsighted,
- nefarious,
- negligible,
- niggardly,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- no great shakes,
- not comparable,
- not in it,
- nugatory,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- of no account,
- one-horse,
- out of it,
- paltering,
- paltry,
- parochial,
- parsimonious,
- peanut,
- peddling,
- pettifogging,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- pimping,
- poky,
- poor,
- provincial,
- punk,
- puny,
- purblind,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rank,
- reptilian,
- scabby,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shallow,
- shoddy,
- shoestring,
- short,
- shortsighted,
- shuffling,
- skin-deep,
- slight,
- small,
- small-beer,
- small-minded,
- small-time,
- squalid,
- stingy,
- straitlaced,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tight,
- tight-fisted,
- tinhorn,
- tiny,
- trichoschistic,
- trifling,
- trinal,
- trivial,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- uncatholic,
- uncharitable,
- unchivalrous,
- unconsidered,
- ungenerous,
- unimportant,
- unliberal,
- unmentionable,
- unskillful,
- vile,
- wretched
- 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
- Lethe,
- absentmindedness,
- blot,
- blotting,
- blotting out,
- cancel,
- cancellation,
- decay of memory,
- deletion,
- effacement,
- erasure,
- expunction,
- forgetfulness,
- forgetting,
- forgiveness,
- grace period,
- hazy recollection,
- heedlessness,
- moratorium,
- nepenthe,
- nirvana,
- oblivion,
- obliviousness,
- scrubbing,
- short memory,
- unmindfulness,
- washing out,
- waters of oblivion,
- wiping out,
- write-off
- ad-lib,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporized,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- impromptu,
- improvised,
- makeshift,
- precipitate,
- rough-and-ready,
- snap,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- tripped up,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unconcocted,
- undeliberated,
- undevised,
- unhatched,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unready,
- unstudied
- unhatched
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- not yet hatched related words >
- ad-lib,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporized,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- impromptu,
- improvised,
- makeshift,
- precipitate,
- rough-and-ready,
- snap,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- tripped up,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unconcocted,
- uncontrived,
- undeliberated,
- undevised,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unready,
- unstudied
- 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
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