Related Words:
- Parthian shot,
- back answer,
- badinage,
- banter,
- barrack,
- be merry with,
- belly laugh,
- blue story,
- caustic remark,
- chaff,
- comeback,
- crack,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- cut,
- cut at,
- cutting remark,
- dig,
- dig at,
- dirty joke,
- dirty story,
- double entendre,
- drollery,
- dump,
- dump on,
- ethnic joke,
- exchange,
- fleer,
- fleer at,
- flout,
- foolery,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- fun,
- funny story,
- gag,
- gibe,
- gibe at,
- gibing retort,
- give-and-take,
- good one,
- good story,
- good-natured banter,
- harmless teasing,
- haze,
- howler,
- jab,
- jab at,
- jeer,
- jest,
- jestbook,
- jive,
- joke,
- jolly,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- laugh,
- leg-pull,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- mock,
- needle,
- panic,
- parting shot,
- persiflage,
- play,
- play on words,
- pleasantry,
- point,
- poke fun at,
- pooh,
- pooh-pooh,
- pun,
- put down,
- put on,
- put-down,
- put-on,
- quip,
- rag,
- rail at,
- raillery,
- rally,
- rallying,
- rank out,
- razz,
- revile,
- rib,
- rib tickler,
- ride,
- ridicule,
- riot,
- roast,
- rude reproach,
- scintillate,
- scoff,
- scoff at,
- scout,
- scream,
- scurrility,
- short answer,
- sick joke,
- sidesplitter,
- sight gag,
- slam,
- slap,
- slap at,
- sneer,
- sneer at,
- sparkle,
- sport,
- story,
- swipe,
- taunt,
- tease,
- twit,
- utter a mot,
- verbal thrust,
- visual joke,
- waggery,
- wheeze,
- wisecrack,
- witticism,
- wow,
- yak,
- yarn
- at a loss,
- badly off,
- bankrupt in,
- bare of,
- bereft of,
- denuded of,
- deprived of,
- destitute of,
- devoid of,
- distressed,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- empty of,
- feeling the pinch,
- for want of,
- forlorn of,
- hard up,
- ill off,
- impecunious,
- in Queer Street,
- in default of,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- in the red,
- in want of,
- lacking,
- land-poor,
- missing,
- narrow,
- needing,
- on the edge,
- out,
- out of,
- pinched,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- reduced,
- scant of,
- short,
- short of,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- shy,
- shy of,
- squeezed,
- straitened,
- strapped,
- to the bad,
- unblessed with,
- unmoneyed,
- unpossessed of,
- unprofitably,
- unprosperous,
- void of,
- wanting
- fiction
collapse - a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact related words >
- Marchen,
- Western,
- Western story,
- Westerner,
- adventure story,
- allegory,
- anecdote,
- apologue,
- apparition,
- article,
- autograph,
- bedtime story,
- blague,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- canard,
- chimera,
- cock-and-bull story,
- composition,
- computer printout,
- concoction,
- copy,
- delirium,
- detective story,
- document,
- draft,
- edited version,
- eidolon,
- engrossment,
- essay,
- exaggeration,
- extravaganza,
- fable,
- fabliau,
- fabrication,
- fair copy,
- fairy tale,
- falsehood,
- falsity,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fib,
- figment,
- final draft,
- finished version,
- first draft,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- flimsy,
- folk story,
- folktale,
- forgery,
- gest,
- ghost story,
- half-truth,
- hallucination,
- holograph,
- horse opera,
- idle fancy,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- legal fiction,
- legend,
- letter,
- lie,
- literae scriptae,
- literary artefact,
- literary production,
- literature,
- little white lie,
- love story,
- lucubration,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- manuscript,
- matter,
- mendacity,
- misrepresentation,
- mystery,
- mystery story,
- myth,
- mythology,
- mythos,
- narrative,
- nonfiction,
- nursery tale,
- opus,
- original,
- paper,
- parable,
- parchment,
- penscript,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- piece,
- piece of writing,
- pious fiction,
- play,
- poem,
- prevarication,
- printed matter,
- printout,
- production,
- reading matter,
- recension,
- romance,
- science fiction,
- screed,
- scrip,
- script,
- scrive,
- scroll,
- second draft,
- shocker,
- sick fancy,
- slight stretching,
- space fiction,
- space opera,
- story,
- suspense story,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- the written word,
- thick-coming fancies,
- thriller,
- transcript,
- transcription,
- trip,
- trumped-up story,
- typescript,
- untruth,
- vapor,
- version,
- vision,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- white lie,
- whodunit,
- wildest dreams,
- work,
- work of fiction,
- writing,
- yarn
- auld lang syne,
- banality,
- bromide,
- chestnut,
- cliche,
- commonplace,
- commonplace expression,
- corn,
- days beyond recall,
- days of old,
- days of yore,
- early times,
- eld,
- familiar tune,
- good old times,
- hackneyed saying,
- lang syne,
- lieu commun,
- locus communis,
- long ago,
- old days,
- old joke,
- old saw,
- old song,
- old times,
- olden times,
- platitude,
- prosaicism,
- prosaism,
- prose,
- reiteration,
- retold story,
- same old story,
- stereotyped saying,
- the olden time,
- times of old,
- times of yore,
- trite saying,
- triticism,
- twice-told tale,
- way back,
- yore,
- yoretime
- hard up
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- not having enough money to pay for necessities related words >
- badly off,
- desperate,
- distressed,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- feeling the pinch,
- hard pressed,
- ill off,
- impecunious,
- in Queer Street,
- in desperate straits,
- in extremis,
- in extremities,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- land-poor,
- narrow,
- on the edge,
- out of pocket,
- pinched,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- reduced,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- sorely pressed,
- squeezed,
- straitened,
- strapped,
- unmoneyed,
- unprosperous,
- up against it
- depressed,
- dire,
- distressed,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- feeling the pinch,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- hapless,
- hard up,
- ill off,
- ill-starred,
- impecunious,
- in Queer Street,
- in adverse circumstances,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- inauspicious,
- land-poor,
- luckless,
- narrow,
- ominous,
- on the edge,
- out of luck,
- out of pocket,
- pinched,
- planet-struck,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- reduced,
- sad,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of luck,
- short of money,
- squeezed,
- star-crossed,
- straitened,
- strapped,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unmoneyed,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential
- clipped
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- (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent"
- cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- laconic,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated
- abbreviated
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- (of clothing) very short; "an abbreviated swimsuit"; "a brief bikini"
- cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation" related words >
- Spartan,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- laconic,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated
- abridged
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- (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewriting; "an abridged version" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- laconic,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- laconic,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
- docked,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- gnomic,
- laconic,
- mowed,
- mown,
- nipped,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated
- flashing
collapse
- sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing
- emitting light in sudden short or intermittent bursts; "flashing lightning and roaring thunder" related words >
- ablaze,
- aflame,
- aflicker,
- bickering,
- blazing,
- blinking,
- brave,
- bravura,
- braw,
- brief,
- brisk,
- burning,
- chichi,
- cometary,
- dancing,
- daring,
- dashing,
- dressy,
- exhibitionistic,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fleet,
- flickering,
- flickery,
- flicky,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- frilly,
- frothy,
- fulgurant,
- fulgurating,
- gallant,
- gay,
- glittering,
- jaunty,
- jazzy,
- lambent,
- meteoric,
- playing,
- quick,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- rakish,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-term,
- short-termed,
- showy,
- snazzy,
- speedy,
- splashy,
- splurgy,
- sporty,
- stroboscopic,
- swift,
- wavering,
- wavery
- badly off,
- clamped,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- condensed,
- consolidated,
- constricted,
- contracted,
- cramped,
- distressed,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- feeling the pinch,
- hard up,
- ill off,
- impecunious,
- in Queer Street,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- knitted,
- land-poor,
- narrow,
- nipped,
- on the edge,
- out of pocket,
- pinched,
- pinched-in,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- puckered,
- pursed,
- reduced,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- solidified,
- straitened,
- strangled,
- strangulated,
- strapped,
- unmoneyed,
- unprosperous,
- wasp-waisted,
- wrinkled
- Joe Miller,
- banality,
- bromide,
- chestnut,
- cliche,
- commonplace,
- commonplace expression,
- corn,
- familiar tune,
- hackneyed saying,
- joke with whiskers,
- lieu commun,
- locus communis,
- old joke,
- old saw,
- old song,
- old story,
- old turkey,
- old wheeze,
- platitude,
- prosaicism,
- prosaism,
- prose,
- reiteration,
- retold story,
- stereotyped saying,
- trite joke,
- trite saying,
- triticism,
- warmed-over cabbage
- badly off,
- broke,
- depressed,
- destitute,
- dire,
- distressed,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- feeling the pinch,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- hapless,
- hard up,
- ill off,
- ill-starred,
- impecunious,
- impoverished,
- in Queer Street,
- in adverse circumstances,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- inauspicious,
- indigent,
- land-poor,
- low,
- luckless,
- narrow,
- needy,
- ominous,
- on the edge,
- out of luck,
- out of pocket,
- pinched,
- planet-struck,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- reduced,
- sad,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of luck,
- short of money,
- squeezed,
- star-crossed,
- straitened,
- strapped,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unmoneyed,
- unprovidential
- a tale-bearing animal,
- anecdotist,
- busybody,
- fableist,
- fabler,
- fabulist,
- fictionist,
- gossip,
- gossip columnist,
- gossiper,
- gossipmonger,
- mythmaker,
- mythopoet,
- narrator,
- newsmonger,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- quidnunc,
- raconteur,
- reciter,
- recounter,
- relator,
- reporter,
- romancer,
- romancist,
- rumormonger,
- sagaman,
- scandalmonger,
- short-story writer,
- spinner of yarns,
- storier,
- storyteller,
- tabby,
- talebearer,
- tattler,
- tattletale,
- teller of tales,
- telltale,
- tittle-tattler,
- word painter,
- yarn spinner,
- yenta
- Don Quixote,
- Quixote,
- anecdotist,
- daydreamer,
- dreamer,
- dreamer of dreams,
- enthusiast,
- escapist,
- fableist,
- fabler,
- fabulist,
- fictionist,
- idealist,
- lotus-eater,
- mythmaker,
- mythopoet,
- narrator,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- prophet,
- raconteur,
- reciter,
- recounter,
- relator,
- rhapsodist,
- romancist,
- romantic,
- romanticist,
- sagaman,
- seer,
- short-story writer,
- spinner of yarns,
- storier,
- storyteller,
- taleteller,
- teller of tales,
- utopian,
- utopianist,
- utopianizer,
- visionary,
- wishful thinker,
- word painter,
- yarn spinner
- ballot-box stuffing,
- balls,
- baloney,
- beat,
- beguile of,
- bilk,
- blague,
- bosh,
- bull,
- bullshit,
- bunco,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- burn,
- cardsharping,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- chouse out of,
- claptrap,
- cock-and-bull story,
- cog,
- cog the dice,
- con,
- cozen,
- cozenage,
- crap,
- crib,
- deception,
- defraud,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- dishonesty,
- do in,
- do out of,
- dodge,
- euchre,
- exaggeration,
- eyewash,
- fairy tale,
- fake,
- fakement,
- falsehood,
- falsity,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fib,
- fiction,
- finagle,
- fish story,
- fishy transaction,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- fob,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- fudge,
- gammon,
- gerrymandering,
- ghost story,
- gouge,
- graft,
- grift,
- gull,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- half-truth,
- have,
- hoax,
- hocus,
- hocus-pocus,
- hogwash,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- hooey,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- illicit business,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- jiggery-pokery,
- legal fiction,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- mendacity,
- moonshine,
- mulct,
- pack the deal,
- phony,
- pigeon,
- pious fiction,
- practice fraud upon,
- prevarication,
- put-on,
- racket,
- rip-off,
- rook,
- scam,
- screw,
- sell,
- sell gold bricks,
- sham,
- shave,
- shortchange,
- slight stretching,
- spoof,
- stack the cards,
- stick,
- sting,
- story,
- swindle,
- take a dive,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- thimblerig,
- throw a fight,
- trumped-up story,
- untruth,
- victimize,
- white lie,
- yarn
- banalness,
- bromide,
- chestnut,
- cliche,
- commonness,
- commonplace,
- commonplace expression,
- commonplaceness,
- corn,
- corniness,
- familiar tune,
- familiarness,
- fustiness,
- hackneyed saying,
- hackneyedness,
- lieu commun,
- locus communis,
- mustiness,
- old joke,
- old saw,
- old song,
- old story,
- platitude,
- platitudinousness,
- prosaicism,
- prosaism,
- prose,
- reiteration,
- retold story,
- rubber stamp,
- shibboleth,
- squareness,
- staleness,
- stereotyped saying,
- tag,
- trite saying,
- triteness,
- triticism,
- truism,
- twice-told tale,
- unoriginality
- docked
collapse
- that in a dock; "a docked ship" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abstracted,
- aposiopestic,
- bobbed,
- brief,
- brusque,
- butchered,
- capsule,
- capsulized,
- castrated,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- cropped,
- curt,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- cut short,
- digested,
- elided,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- garbled,
- gnomic,
- hashed,
- laconic,
- lopped,
- mangled,
- mowed,
- mown,
- mutilated,
- nipped,
- pithy,
- pointed,
- pollard,
- polled,
- pruned,
- reaped,
- reserved,
- sententious,
- shaved,
- sheared,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-cut,
- shortened,
- snub,
- snubbed,
- succinct,
- summary,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- trimmed,
- truncated
- Clio,
- Muse of history,
- adventures,
- annals,
- autobiography,
- biographical sketch,
- biography,
- case history,
- chronicle,
- chronicles,
- chronology,
- confessions,
- curriculum vitae,
- diary,
- experiences,
- fortunes,
- hagiography,
- hagiology,
- historiography,
- history,
- journal,
- legend,
- life,
- life and letters,
- martyrology,
- memoir,
- memoirs,
- memorabilia,
- memorial,
- memorials,
- necrology,
- obituary,
- photobiography,
- profile,
- record,
- resume,
- story,
- theory of history
- Clio,
- Muse of history,
- adventures,
- annals,
- autobiography,
- biographical sketch,
- biography,
- case history,
- chronicle,
- chronicles,
- chronology,
- curriculum vitae,
- diary,
- experiences,
- fortunes,
- hagiography,
- hagiology,
- historiography,
- history,
- journal,
- legend,
- life,
- life and letters,
- life story,
- martyrology,
- memoir,
- memoirs,
- memorabilia,
- memorial,
- memorials,
- necrology,
- obituary,
- photobiography,
- profile,
- record,
- resume,
- story,
- theory of history
- earshot
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- the range within which a voice can be heard; "the children were told to stay within earshot" related words >
- ace,
- auditory range,
- bit,
- bowshot,
- brief span,
- carrying distance,
- close quarters,
- close range,
- crack,
- earreach,
- gunshot,
- hair,
- hair space,
- hairbreadth,
- hairsbreadth,
- hearing,
- inch,
- little,
- little ways,
- pistol shot,
- range,
- reach,
- short distance,
- short piece,
- short way,
- sound,
- span,
- spitting distance,
- step
- fall short
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- fail to meet (expectations or standards) related words >
- be disappointing,
- be found wanting,
- be inferior,
- be insufficient,
- collapse,
- come short,
- crash,
- decline,
- fail,
- fail of,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall dead,
- fall down,
- fall flat,
- fall in,
- fall shy,
- fall stillborn,
- fall through,
- fizzle,
- fizzle out,
- follow,
- go to smash,
- go wrong,
- have nothing on,
- kick the beam,
- lack,
- lag,
- lose ground,
- miss,
- miss out,
- miss the mark,
- not answer,
- not approach,
- not bear inspection,
- not come near,
- not compare,
- not hack it,
- not make it,
- not make out,
- not measure up,
- not pass muster,
- not qualify,
- not stretch,
- not suffice,
- peter out,
- play second fiddle,
- rank under,
- run short,
- serve,
- slump,
- stop short,
- subserve,
- turn sour,
- want
- autobiography
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- a biography of yourself related words >
- Clio,
- Muse of history,
- adventures,
- annals,
- biographical sketch,
- biography,
- case history,
- chronicle,
- chronicles,
- chronology,
- confessions,
- curriculum vitae,
- diary,
- experiences,
- fortunes,
- hagiography,
- hagiology,
- historiography,
- history,
- journal,
- legend,
- letters,
- life,
- life and letters,
- life story,
- martyrology,
- memoir,
- memoirs,
- memorabilia,
- memorial,
- memorials,
- necrology,
- obituary,
- photobiography,
- profile,
- record,
- resume,
- story,
- theory of history
- biography
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- an account of the series of events making up a person's life related words >
- Clio,
- Muse of history,
- adventures,
- annals,
- autobiography,
- biographical sketch,
- case history,
- chronicle,
- chronicles,
- chronology,
- confessions,
- curriculum vitae,
- diary,
- experiences,
- fortunes,
- hagiography,
- hagiology,
- historiography,
- history,
- journal,
- legend,
- letters,
- life,
- life and letters,
- life story,
- martyrology,
- memoir,
- memoirs,
- memorabilia,
- memorial,
- memorials,
- necrology,
- obit,
- obituary,
- photobiography,
- profile,
- record,
- resume,
- story,
- theory of history
- badly off,
- bare-handed,
- beggarly,
- depressed,
- dire,
- distressed,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- empty-handed,
- evil-starred,
- famished,
- fatal,
- feeling the pinch,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- half-starved,
- hapless,
- hard up,
- ill-equipped,
- ill-furnished,
- ill-provided,
- ill-starred,
- impecunious,
- impoverished,
- in Queer Street,
- in adverse circumstances,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- inauspicious,
- land-poor,
- luckless,
- narrow,
- ominous,
- on short commons,
- on the edge,
- out of luck,
- out of pocket,
- pauperized,
- pinched,
- planet-struck,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- reduced,
- sad,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of luck,
- short of money,
- shorthanded,
- squeezed,
- star-crossed,
- starved,
- starveling,
- starving,
- straitened,
- strapped,
- unblessed,
- underfed,
- undermanned,
- undernourished,
- underprivileged,
- unfed,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unmoneyed,
- unprosperous,
- unprovided,
- unprovidential,
- unreplenished,
- unsupplied
- bromide
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- any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs related words >
- abstraction,
- banality,
- chestnut,
- cliche,
- commonplace,
- commonplace expression,
- corn,
- familiar tune,
- general idea,
- generalization,
- generalized proposition,
- glittering generality,
- hackneyed expression,
- hackneyed saying,
- lieu commun,
- locus communis,
- old joke,
- old saw,
- old song,
- old story,
- platitude,
- prosaicism,
- prosaism,
- prose,
- reiteration,
- retold story,
- rubber stamp,
- shibboleth,
- stereotyped saying,
- sweeping statement,
- tag,
- tired cliche,
- trite saying,
- triticism,
- truism,
- twice-told tale
- ace,
- bit,
- bowshot,
- brief span,
- close quarters,
- close range,
- closeness,
- confinement,
- crack,
- crowdedness,
- earreach,
- earshot,
- gunshot,
- hair,
- hair space,
- hairsbreadth,
- incapaciousness,
- inch,
- incommodiousness,
- limitation,
- little,
- little ways,
- narrow gauge,
- narrowness,
- nearness,
- pistol shot,
- restrictedness,
- restriction,
- short distance,
- short piece,
- short way,
- slenderness,
- span,
- spitting distance,
- step,
- straitness,
- strictness,
- tight squeeze,
- tightness,
- whisker
- romance
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- a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
- the group of languages derived from Latin
- relating to languages derived from Latin; "Romance languages"
- tell romantic or exaggerated lies; "This author romanced his trip to an exotic country"
- have a love affair with related words >
- Marchen,
- Western,
- Western story,
- Westerner,
- adulterous affair,
- adultery,
- adventure,
- adventure story,
- affair,
- allegorize,
- allegory,
- amor,
- amour,
- apologue,
- apparition,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- balderdash,
- bedtime story,
- brainchild,
- brown-nose,
- bubble,
- butter up,
- canard,
- capriccio,
- caprice,
- chimera,
- color,
- colorfulness,
- concoction,
- court,
- cuckoldry,
- dalliance,
- delirium,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- detective story,
- divertissement,
- dreamery,
- eidolon,
- entanglement,
- epic,
- eternal triangle,
- exaggeration,
- excitement,
- extravaganza,
- fable,
- fabliau,
- fabrication,
- fabulize,
- fairy tale,
- fancy,
- fantasia,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fascination,
- fib,
- fiction,
- fictionalize,
- figment,
- flatter,
- flight of fancy,
- flirtation,
- folk story,
- folktale,
- forbidden love,
- forgery,
- gest,
- ghost story,
- glamor,
- hallucination,
- hanky-panky,
- horse opera,
- humoresque,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- idealize,
- idle fancy,
- idyll,
- illicit love,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imaginative exercise,
- imaginativeness,
- imagining,
- impracticality,
- infidelity,
- insubstantial image,
- intrigue,
- invention,
- legend,
- liaison,
- love,
- love affair,
- love story,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- medley,
- melodrama,
- mystery,
- mystery story,
- myth,
- mythicize,
- mythify,
- mythologize,
- mythology,
- mythos,
- narrate,
- narrative,
- nonsense,
- nostalgia,
- novel,
- novelize,
- nursery tale,
- pander to,
- parable,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- play of fancy,
- potpourri,
- prevarication,
- quixotism,
- quixotize,
- quixotry,
- recite,
- recount,
- rehearse,
- relate,
- relationship,
- report,
- retell,
- rhapsodize,
- romantic tie,
- romanticism,
- romanticize,
- romanza,
- science fiction,
- sentiment,
- shocker,
- sick fancy,
- soft-soap,
- space fiction,
- space opera,
- storify,
- story,
- suspense story,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- tell,
- tell a story,
- thick-coming fancies,
- thriller,
- triangle,
- trip,
- unfaithfulness,
- unfold a tale,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- utopianism,
- utopianize,
- vapor,
- vision,
- visionariness,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- white lie,
- whodunit,
- wildest dreams,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- woo,
- work of fiction
- badly off,
- beat,
- beggared,
- bound,
- broke,
- busted,
- destitute,
- distressed,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- feeling the pinch,
- fettered,
- flat,
- flat broke,
- fortuneless,
- hampered,
- handcuffed,
- hard up,
- ill off,
- impecunious,
- in Queer Street,
- in bonds,
- in chains,
- in irons,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- ironbound,
- land-poor,
- manacled,
- narrow,
- on the edge,
- oofless,
- out of pocket,
- penurious,
- pinched,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- reduced,
- shackled,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- squeezed,
- stone-broke,
- stony,
- straitened,
- tethered,
- tied,
- tied down,
- tied up,
- trammeled,
- unmoneyed,
- unprosperous
- meteoric
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- like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience; "a meteoric rise to fame"
- pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids; "meteoric shower"; "meteoric impacts" related words >
- Cynthian,
- ablaze,
- aflame,
- anagalactic,
- asteroidal,
- astral,
- astrologic,
- astrologistic,
- astrologous,
- astronomic,
- astrophysical,
- blazing,
- brief,
- brilliant,
- brisk,
- burning,
- celestial,
- circumplanetary,
- cislunar,
- cometary,
- dazzling,
- empyreal,
- empyrean,
- ephemeral,
- equinoctial,
- evanescent,
- extragalactic,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashing,
- flashy,
- fleet,
- fleeting,
- flickering,
- fulgurant,
- fulgurating,
- galactic,
- heavenly,
- heliacal,
- impermanent,
- intercosmic,
- interplanetary,
- intersidereal,
- interstellar,
- lunar,
- lunary,
- lunate,
- lunular,
- lunulate,
- meteoritic,
- momentary,
- nebular,
- nebulose,
- nebulous,
- overnight,
- planetal,
- planetarian,
- planetary,
- planetesimal,
- quick,
- semilunar,
- sensational,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-lived,
- short-term,
- short-termed,
- sidereal,
- solar,
- spectacular,
- speedy,
- sphery,
- star-spangled,
- star-studded,
- starry,
- stellar,
- stellary,
- swift,
- temporary,
- terrestrial,
- transient,
- transitory,
- uranic,
- zodiacal
- wow
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- impress greatly; "The speaker wowed the audience" related words >
- amuse,
- bang,
- becharm,
- beguile,
- belly laugh,
- best seller,
- bewitch,
- big hit,
- birdies,
- blooping,
- blue story,
- blurping,
- brilliant success,
- captivate,
- carry away,
- charm,
- convulse,
- delectate,
- delight,
- dirty joke,
- dirty story,
- distortion,
- divert,
- double entendre,
- enchant,
- enliven,
- enrapture,
- enravish,
- entertain,
- enthrall,
- entrance,
- ethnic joke,
- exhilarate,
- fad,
- fascinate,
- feedback,
- flutter,
- fluttering,
- fracture one,
- freak out,
- fun,
- funny story,
- gag,
- gas,
- gasser,
- good one,
- good story,
- goody,
- great success,
- hissing,
- hit,
- howler,
- howling,
- hum,
- imparadise,
- jape,
- jest,
- jestbook,
- joke,
- kill,
- killing,
- knock dead,
- knock out,
- laugh,
- loosen up,
- meteoric success,
- momentary success,
- motorboating,
- panic,
- play,
- point,
- raise a laugh,
- raise a smile,
- ravish,
- recreate,
- refresh,
- regale,
- relax,
- resounding triumph,
- rib tickler,
- riot,
- roaring success,
- rumble,
- scratching,
- scream,
- send,
- sensation,
- shredding,
- sick joke,
- sidesplitter,
- sight gag,
- slay,
- smash,
- smash hit,
- solace,
- sport,
- squeals,
- static,
- story,
- successful,
- thrill,
- tickle,
- tickle pink,
- titillate,
- transport,
- triumph,
- visual joke,
- wheeze,
- whistles,
- woomping,
- wowwows,
- yarn
- panic
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- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"
- be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away" related words >
- abject fear,
- affright,
- agitation,
- alarm,
- anxiety,
- apprehension,
- apprehensiveness,
- attack of nerves,
- awe,
- bear panic,
- belly laugh,
- blue funk,
- blue story,
- boggle,
- buck fever,
- case of nerves,
- cold feet,
- confound,
- consternation,
- cowardice,
- dirty joke,
- dirty story,
- discomfit,
- dismay,
- double entendre,
- dread,
- ethnic joke,
- excessive irritability,
- fear,
- fidgetiness,
- fidgets,
- fight shy,
- frenzy,
- fright,
- frighten,
- fun,
- funk,
- funny story,
- gag,
- go to pieces,
- good one,
- good story,
- horrification,
- horror,
- howl,
- howler,
- hysteria,
- jape,
- jest,
- jestbook,
- jib,
- joke,
- jump,
- jump a mile,
- laugh,
- morbid excitability,
- nerves,
- nervosity,
- nervous stomach,
- nervousness,
- panic fear,
- panickiness,
- phobia,
- play,
- point,
- put in fear,
- put to flight,
- put to rout,
- rib tickler,
- riot,
- rout,
- scare,
- scatter,
- scream,
- send scuttling,
- shy,
- sick joke,
- sidesplitter,
- sight gag,
- skedaddle,
- spell of nerves,
- sport,
- stage fright,
- stampede,
- start,
- start aside,
- startle,
- state of nerves,
- story,
- terrify,
- terror,
- tic,
- trepidation,
- twitching,
- uneasiness,
- unholy dread,
- unnerve,
- vellication,
- visual joke,
- wheeze,
- wow,
- yarn
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