Related Words:
- brusque
collapse - marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him" related words >
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- abrupt,
- aggressive,
- aposiopestic,
- artless,
- bearish,
- beastly,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- brash,
- brief,
- broad,
- candid,
- cavalier,
- churlish,
- clipped,
- close,
- close-tongued,
- closemouthed,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- contracted,
- crisp,
- crusty,
- curt,
- cut,
- direct,
- discourteous,
- docked,
- downright,
- dumb,
- economical of words,
- elliptic,
- epigrammatic,
- explicit,
- forthright,
- frank,
- frankhearted,
- free,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- free-tongued,
- genuine,
- gnomic,
- gruff,
- harsh,
- heart-to-heart,
- ill-mannered,
- impolite,
- indisposed to talk,
- ingenuous,
- laconic,
- mum,
- mute,
- open,
- openhearted,
- outspoken,
- overbearing,
- pithy,
- plain,
- plain-spoken,
- pointed,
- pruned,
- quiet,
- reserved,
- rough,
- round,
- rude,
- sententious,
- severe,
- sharp,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- silent,
- sincere,
- snippety,
- snippy,
- snug,
- sparing of words,
- speechless,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- straightforward,
- succinct,
- summary,
- surly,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- terse,
- tight,
- tight-lipped,
- to the point,
- tongue-tied,
- transparent,
- truculent,
- truncated,
- unchecked,
- uncivil,
- unconstrained,
- unequivocal,
- ungracious,
- unguarded,
- unloquacious,
- unmannerly,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- untalkative,
- word-bound,
- wordless
- fleet
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- a group of warships organized as a tactical unit
- a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership
- group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
- group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
- moving very fast; "fleet of foot"; "the fleet scurrying of squirrels"; "a swift current"; "swift flight of an arrow"; "a swift runner" related words >
- Naval Construction Battalion,
- RN,
- Royal Navy,
- Seabees,
- USN,
- United States Navy,
- age group,
- agile,
- alert,
- animated,
- argosy,
- armada,
- ball the jack,
- band,
- barrel,
- battalion,
- beguile,
- bevy,
- body,
- boom,
- bottoms,
- bowl along,
- breakneck,
- breeze,
- breeze along,
- brief,
- brigade,
- brisk,
- brush,
- bunch,
- cabal,
- cast,
- clip,
- clique,
- coast guard,
- cohort,
- cometary,
- company,
- complement,
- contingent,
- convoy,
- corps,
- coterie,
- covey,
- crew,
- crowd,
- cut along,
- dally,
- dashing,
- detachment,
- detail,
- disappear,
- division,
- double-quick,
- eagle-winged,
- escadrille,
- evanesce,
- evaporate,
- expeditious,
- express,
- faction,
- fade,
- fast,
- featly,
- flashing,
- flickering,
- flit,
- flotilla,
- fly,
- fly low,
- flying,
- foot,
- fritter,
- galloping,
- gang,
- go fast,
- graceful,
- group,
- grouping,
- groupment,
- hair-trigger,
- hasty,
- headlong,
- highball,
- hustling,
- idle,
- in-group,
- junta,
- light,
- light of heel,
- light-footed,
- line,
- lively,
- make good,
- make knots,
- marine,
- melt,
- melt like snow,
- merchant fleet,
- merchant marine,
- merchant navy,
- mercurial,
- meteoric,
- mob,
- mosquito fleet,
- movement,
- naval forces,
- naval militia,
- naval reserve,
- navy,
- neat-fingered,
- neat-handed,
- nimble,
- nimble-footed,
- nip,
- nit,
- out-group,
- outfit,
- outstrip the wind,
- pack,
- party,
- pass,
- pass away,
- peart,
- peer group,
- phalanx,
- platoon,
- posse,
- potter,
- pour it on,
- precipitate,
- prompt,
- quick,
- quick as lightning,
- quick as thought,
- rapid,
- reckless,
- regiment,
- rip,
- running,
- sail,
- salon,
- scorch,
- set,
- shipping,
- ships,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-term,
- short-termed,
- sink,
- sizzle,
- skim,
- snappy,
- spanking,
- speed,
- speedy,
- spirited,
- sprightly,
- spry,
- squad,
- squadron,
- squander,
- stable,
- storm along,
- string,
- sure-footed,
- sweep,
- swift,
- task force,
- task group,
- tatter,
- team,
- tear,
- tear along,
- thunder along,
- tonnage,
- tribe,
- troop,
- troupe,
- vanish,
- vivacious,
- waste,
- whaling fleet,
- whisk,
- whiz,
- wile,
- wing,
- winged,
- zing,
- zip,
- zoom
- forehand
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- (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) related words >
- cut across
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- be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations; "Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines" related words >
- bar,
- catercorner,
- chiasmal,
- chiasmic,
- chiastic,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- crossbar,
- crosscut,
- crossed,
- crossing,
- cruciate,
- cut,
- cut a corner,
- cut corners,
- cut crosswise,
- cut through,
- decussate,
- decussated,
- diagonalize,
- intercross,
- intersect,
- intersected,
- intersecting,
- lie across,
- make a beeline,
- secant,
- short-cut,
- slant across,
- slash,
- slash across,
- transverse,
- traverse
- least
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- something that is of no importance; "it is the least I can do"; "that is the least of my concerns"
- used to form the superlative; "The garter snake is the least dangerous snake" related words >
- at a disadvantage,
- at the nadir,
- below,
- below the mark,
- few,
- homely,
- humble,
- humble-looking,
- humble-visaged,
- humblest,
- in the gutter,
- inglorious,
- innocuous,
- least of all,
- less,
- littlest,
- low,
- lowest,
- lowliest,
- lowly,
- mean,
- minim,
- minimum,
- minority,
- minority group,
- modest,
- plain,
- poor,
- short of,
- shortest,
- simple,
- slightest,
- small,
- smallest,
- teachable,
- the few,
- the minority,
- under,
- under par,
- undistinguished,
- unimportant,
- unpretentious,
- we happy few
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- passing,
- perishable,
- short-lived,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- volatile
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- passing,
- perishable,
- short-lived,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- volatile
- inconsiderable
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- too small or unimportant to merit attention; "passed his life in an inconsiderable village"; "their duties were inconsiderable"; "had no inconsiderable influence" related words >
- back-burner,
- cursory,
- depthless,
- dinky,
- dispensable,
- few,
- footling,
- immaterial,
- inappreciable,
- inconsequential,
- inessential,
- inferior,
- insignificant,
- irrelevant,
- little,
- low,
- meager,
- miniature,
- minor,
- minute,
- negligible,
- no great shakes,
- nonessential,
- not vital,
- petit,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- shallow,
- short,
- skin-deep,
- small,
- superficial,
- technical,
- tiny,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- unessential,
- unimpressive,
- unnoteworthy
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugitive,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- passing,
- perishable,
- short-lived,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- volatile
- anecdotist,
- creative artist,
- fableist,
- fabler,
- fabulist,
- fancier,
- fantasist,
- fantast,
- fictionist,
- imaginer,
- inventor,
- mythicizer,
- mythifier,
- mythopoet,
- narrator,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- poet,
- raconteur,
- reciter,
- recounter,
- relator,
- romancer,
- romancist,
- sagaman,
- short-story writer,
- spinner of yarns,
- storier,
- storyteller,
- taleteller,
- teller of tales,
- word painter,
- yarn spinner
- below
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- at a later place; "see below"
- in or to a place that is lower
- (in writing) see below; "vide infra" related words >
- adown,
- at a disadvantage,
- at the nadir,
- behind,
- below deck,
- below par,
- below the mark,
- belowstairs,
- beneath,
- beneath the sky,
- down,
- down below,
- down south,
- downgrade,
- downhill,
- downline,
- downright,
- downstairs,
- downstream,
- downstreet,
- downtown,
- downward,
- downwards,
- downwith,
- following,
- hellishly,
- here,
- here below,
- in hell,
- in hellfire,
- in the gutter,
- in the world,
- infernally,
- infra,
- least,
- least of all,
- less,
- neath,
- next,
- on earth,
- short of,
- since,
- subordinate to,
- subsequent to,
- unbefitting,
- under,
- under heaven,
- under par,
- under the stars,
- under the sun,
- underfoot,
- underneath
- scurry
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- to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground" related words >
- bolt,
- bundle,
- burst,
- burst of speed,
- bustle,
- canter,
- career,
- chase,
- crowd,
- dart,
- dash,
- dash off,
- dash on,
- dead run,
- dogtrot,
- double-time,
- drive,
- festinate,
- flank speed,
- flat-out speed,
- fling,
- flurry,
- flutter,
- fly,
- forced draft,
- full gallop,
- gallop,
- get going,
- get moving,
- hand gallop,
- haste,
- hasten,
- headlong rush,
- heavy right foot,
- helter-skelter,
- hie,
- high lope,
- hump,
- hump it,
- hurry,
- hurry on,
- hurry through,
- hurry up,
- hurry-scurry,
- hurtle,
- hustle,
- jog trot,
- leap,
- lope,
- lose no time,
- make haste,
- maximum speed,
- move quickly,
- open throttle,
- plunge,
- post,
- press on,
- push on,
- race,
- rip,
- run,
- rush,
- rush through,
- scamper,
- scoot,
- scour,
- scramble,
- scud,
- scuffle,
- scuttle,
- shin,
- shoot,
- skedaddle,
- speed,
- sprint,
- spurt,
- step on it,
- tear,
- trot,
- wide-open speed,
- zip,
- zoom
- a continental,
- a curse,
- a damn,
- a darn,
- a hoot,
- bagatelle,
- bauble,
- bean,
- bibelot,
- bickering,
- bit,
- brass farthing,
- button,
- captious,
- caviling,
- cent,
- choplogic,
- curio,
- cursory,
- depthless,
- detailed,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- exact,
- farce,
- farthing,
- feather,
- few,
- fig,
- finicky,
- fleabite,
- folderol,
- footling,
- fribble,
- frippery,
- full,
- fussy,
- gaud,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- hair,
- hairsplitting,
- halfpenny,
- hedging,
- hill of beans,
- immateriality,
- inconsequence,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsequentiality,
- inconsiderable,
- inconsiderableness,
- indifference,
- ineffectuality,
- inferiority,
- insignificance,
- insignificant,
- irrelevance,
- jerkwater,
- jest,
- joke,
- kickshaw,
- knickknack,
- knickknackery,
- little,
- littleness,
- logic-chopping,
- low,
- low priority,
- marginality,
- meager,
- measly,
- meticulous,
- miniature,
- minikin,
- minute,
- mockery,
- molehill,
- negligibility,
- negligible,
- nice,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- no great shakes,
- one-horse,
- paltering,
- paltry,
- particular,
- peppercorn,
- pettifogging,
- pettiness,
- petty,
- picayunish,
- picayunishness,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- pin,
- pinch of snuff,
- pinprick,
- pokiness,
- poky,
- precise,
- puniness,
- punk,
- puny,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- red cent,
- row of pins,
- rush,
- secondariness,
- shallow,
- shit,
- short,
- shuffling,
- skin-deep,
- slightness,
- small,
- small-beer,
- small-time,
- smallness,
- snap,
- sneeshing,
- sou,
- special,
- specific,
- straw,
- superficial,
- tinhorn,
- tiny,
- toy,
- trichoschistic,
- trifle,
- trifling,
- trinket,
- trivial,
- triviality,
- tuppence,
- two cents,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- twopence,
- unimportance,
- unimpressiveness,
- unnoteworthiness,
- whim-wham
- survival
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- something that survives
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- a state of surviving; remaining alive related words >
- abidingness,
- afterglow,
- afterimage,
- age,
- ancient manuscript,
- antique,
- antiquity,
- archaism,
- artifact,
- balance,
- butt,
- butt end,
- candle ends,
- cave painting,
- chaff,
- constancy,
- continuance,
- debris,
- defeat of time,
- defiance of time,
- detritus,
- diuturnity,
- durability,
- durableness,
- duration,
- end,
- endurance,
- eolith,
- fag end,
- filings,
- fossil,
- holdover,
- husks,
- lastingness,
- leavings,
- leftovers,
- long standing,
- long-lastingness,
- long-livedness,
- longevity,
- maintenance,
- mezzolith,
- microlith,
- neolith,
- odds and ends,
- offscourings,
- orts,
- paleolith,
- parings,
- perdurability,
- perennation,
- permanence,
- perpetuity,
- persistence,
- petrification,
- petrified forest,
- petrified wood,
- petroglyph,
- plateaulith,
- rags,
- refuse,
- relic,
- relics,
- reliquiae,
- remainder,
- remains,
- remnant,
- residue,
- residuum,
- rest,
- roach,
- rubbish,
- ruin,
- ruins,
- rump,
- sawdust,
- scourings,
- scraps,
- shadow,
- shavings,
- stability,
- standing,
- steadfastness,
- straw,
- stubble,
- stump,
- survivance,
- sweepings,
- trace,
- vestige,
- waste
- CD,
- IOU,
- MO,
- acceptance,
- acceptance bill,
- arrangement,
- bank acceptance,
- bank check,
- bill,
- bill of draft,
- bill of exchange,
- blank check,
- bond,
- certificate,
- certificate of deposit,
- certified check,
- check,
- checkbook,
- cheque,
- commercial paper,
- contract by deed,
- contract of record,
- contract quasi,
- covenant of indemnity,
- debenture,
- debenture bond,
- deed,
- deed of trust,
- deed poll,
- demand bill,
- demand draft,
- draft,
- due bill,
- exchequer bill,
- formal contract,
- group policy,
- implied contract,
- indent,
- indenture,
- insurance policy,
- letter of credit,
- money order,
- mortgage deed,
- negotiable instrument,
- note,
- note of hand,
- paper,
- parol contract,
- policy,
- postal order,
- recognizance,
- sight bill,
- sight draft,
- special contract,
- specialty,
- specialty contract,
- time bill,
- time draft,
- title deed,
- trade acceptance,
- treasury bill,
- voucher,
- warrant
- badly off,
- depressed,
- dire,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- hapless,
- ill off,
- ill-fated,
- ill-starred,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inauspicious,
- miserable,
- ominous,
- out of luck,
- planet-struck,
- sad,
- short of luck,
- star-crossed,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential,
- untoward,
- wretched
- path
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- a way especially designed for a particular use
- an established line of travel or access
- a line or route along which something travels or moves; "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river" related words >
- air lane,
- air line,
- air route,
- airway,
- alameda,
- approach,
- artery,
- avenue,
- beat,
- beaten path,
- beaten track,
- berm,
- bicycle path,
- boardwalk,
- boulevard,
- break,
- bridle path,
- broken circuit,
- catwalk,
- channel,
- circuit,
- circuital field,
- closed circuit,
- complete circuit,
- condensation trail,
- contrail,
- corridor,
- course,
- dead circuit,
- direction,
- drag,
- esplanade,
- fastwalk,
- flight path,
- foot pavement,
- footpath,
- footway,
- galvanic circuit,
- game plan,
- garden path,
- groove,
- highway,
- hiking trail,
- hot circuit,
- itinerary,
- lane,
- lateral circuit,
- leg,
- line,
- live circuit,
- loop,
- magnetic circuit,
- mall,
- means,
- method,
- microcircuit,
- multiple circuit,
- multiple series,
- orbit,
- parade,
- passage,
- pathway,
- piste,
- plan,
- prado,
- primrose path,
- printed circuit,
- procedure,
- process,
- promenade,
- public walk,
- road,
- round,
- route,
- run,
- runway,
- rut,
- scenario,
- scent,
- scheme,
- sea lane,
- series multiple,
- short,
- short circuit,
- shortcut,
- sidewalk,
- signs,
- spoor,
- strategy,
- street,
- technique,
- thoroughfare,
- tour,
- towing path,
- towpath,
- traces,
- track,
- trade route,
- trail,
- traject,
- trajectory,
- trajet,
- trottoir,
- vapor trail,
- vector field,
- wake,
- walk,
- walkway,
- way
- loafer
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- a low leather step-in shoe; the top resembles a moccasin but it has a broad flat heel related words >
- Arab,
- beach bum,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- bo,
- bum,
- bummer,
- cadger,
- clock watcher,
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- do-nothing,
- dogie,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- drone,
- faineant,
- gamin,
- gamine,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- guttersnipe,
- hobo,
- homeless waif,
- idler,
- laggard,
- landloper,
- lazybones,
- lazzarone,
- lingerer,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- losel,
- lotus-eater,
- lounge lizard,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- mendicant,
- mendicant friar,
- mendicant order,
- moocher,
- mope,
- moper,
- mudlark,
- panhandler,
- piker,
- potterer,
- putterer,
- ragamuffin,
- ragman,
- ragpicker,
- rounder,
- schnorrer,
- scrounger,
- shirker,
- ski bum,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slug,
- slugabed,
- sluggard,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- stiff,
- stray,
- street Arab,
- street urchin,
- sundowner,
- surf bum,
- swagman,
- swagsman,
- tatterdemalion,
- tennis bum,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- tramp,
- trifler,
- turnpiker,
- urchin,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- waif,
- waifs and strays,
- waiter on Providence,
- wastrel
- perishable
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- food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated
- liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay; "this minute and perishable planet"; "perishable foods such as butter and fruit" related words >
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- passing,
- short-lived,
- subject to death,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- volatile
- adulterated,
- blemished,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- erroneous,
- failing,
- fallible,
- faulty,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incompetent,
- incomplete,
- inexact,
- insufficient,
- lacking,
- makeshift,
- mediocre,
- mixed,
- not enough,
- not perfect,
- off,
- partial,
- patchy,
- short,
- sketchy,
- too little,
- undeveloped,
- unequal to,
- uneven,
- unfinished,
- unperfected,
- unqualified,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsatisfying,
- unsound,
- unsufficing,
- unthorough,
- wanting
- idler
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- person who does no work; "a lazy bum" related words >
- Arab,
- beach bum,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- bo,
- bum,
- bummer,
- bungler,
- clock watcher,
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- disregarder,
- do-nothing,
- dodger,
- dogie,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- drone,
- faineant,
- gamin,
- gamine,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- guttersnipe,
- hobo,
- homeless waif,
- ignorer,
- laggard,
- landloper,
- lazybones,
- lazzarone,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- losel,
- lotus-eater,
- lounge lizard,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- malingerer,
- mope,
- moper,
- mudlark,
- neglecter,
- negligent,
- piker,
- potterer,
- procrastinator,
- putterer,
- ragamuffin,
- ragman,
- ragpicker,
- rounder,
- shirker,
- ski bum,
- slacker,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- sloven,
- slug,
- slugabed,
- sluggard,
- slut,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- stiff,
- stray,
- street Arab,
- street urchin,
- sundowner,
- surf bum,
- swagman,
- swagsman,
- tatterdemalion,
- tennis bum,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- tramp,
- trifler,
- turnpiker,
- urchin,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- waif,
- waifs and strays,
- waiter on Providence,
- wastrel
- ablation,
- abrasion,
- atomization,
- attrition,
- beating,
- breakup,
- brecciation,
- coming apart,
- comminution,
- corrosion,
- cracking,
- crushing,
- decadent,
- decay,
- declining,
- decomposition,
- decrepit,
- degenerate,
- degradation,
- deteriorating,
- detrition,
- dilapidated,
- dilapidation,
- disintegrating,
- disintegration,
- disjunction,
- disorganization,
- dissolution,
- draining,
- drooping,
- dusty,
- dwindling,
- ebbing,
- effete,
- erosion,
- fading,
- failing,
- falling,
- flagging,
- fragmentation,
- fragmenting,
- fusty,
- going to pieces,
- gone to seed,
- granulation,
- granulization,
- grating,
- grinding,
- incoherence,
- infirm,
- languishing,
- levigation,
- marcescent,
- mashing,
- mildewed,
- moldering,
- moldy,
- moss-grown,
- moth-eaten,
- musty,
- pining,
- poor,
- poorish,
- pounding,
- powdering,
- ravages of time,
- regressive,
- resolution,
- retrograde,
- retrogressive,
- rotten,
- rotten at,
- ruined,
- ruinous,
- rusty,
- shredding,
- shriveling,
- sinking,
- sliding,
- slipping,
- slumping,
- smashing,
- stale,
- subsiding,
- tabetic,
- time-scarred,
- timeworn,
- trituration,
- unfirm,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsturdy,
- unsubstantial,
- waning,
- wasting,
- wear,
- wear and tear,
- wilting,
- withering,
- worn,
- worsening
- retrench
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- make a reduction, as in one's workforce; "The company had to retrench"
- tighten one's belt; use resources carefully related words >
- abate,
- abbreviate,
- abrade,
- abridge,
- abstract,
- arrest,
- bate,
- bob,
- boil down,
- bridle,
- capsulize,
- check,
- clip,
- compress,
- condense,
- constrain,
- contain,
- contract,
- control,
- cool,
- cool off,
- crop,
- curb,
- curtail,
- curtail expenses,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut corners,
- cut down,
- cut off short,
- cut short,
- damp,
- dampen,
- decelerate,
- decrease,
- deduct,
- deflate,
- depreciate,
- depress,
- derogate,
- detract,
- diminish,
- disparage,
- dock,
- dompt,
- downgrade,
- drain,
- eat away,
- elide,
- enjoin,
- epitomize,
- erode,
- extract,
- file away,
- foreshorten,
- govern,
- guard,
- hinder,
- hold,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold fast,
- hold in,
- hold in check,
- hold in leash,
- hold up,
- impair,
- inhibit,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep from,
- keep in,
- keep in check,
- keep under control,
- lay under restraint,
- leach,
- lessen,
- lower,
- mow,
- nip,
- pare,
- pare down expenses,
- poll,
- pollard,
- prohibit,
- prune,
- pull,
- pull in,
- purify,
- reap,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- refine,
- rein,
- rein in,
- remove,
- restrain,
- retard,
- roll back,
- rub away,
- scale down,
- set back,
- shave,
- shear,
- shorten,
- simplify,
- slash,
- slow down,
- snub,
- step down,
- straiten,
- stunt,
- subduct,
- subtract,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- synopsize,
- take a reef,
- take away,
- take from,
- take in,
- telescope,
- thin,
- thin out,
- trim,
- truncate,
- tune down,
- wear away,
- weed,
- withdraw,
- withhold
- ad-lib,
- astonished,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporized,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- impromptu,
- improvised,
- makeshift,
- precipitate,
- rough-and-ready,
- snap,
- struck with surprise,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- tripped up,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unconcocted,
- uncontrived,
- undeliberated,
- undevised,
- unhatched,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unready,
- unstudied
- ad-lib,
- astonished,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporized,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- impromptu,
- improvised,
- makeshift,
- precipitate,
- rough-and-ready,
- snap,
- struck with surprise,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- tripped up,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unconcocted,
- uncontrived,
- undeliberated,
- undevised,
- unhatched,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unready,
- unstudied
- probably
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- with considerable certainty; without much doubt; "He is probably out of the country"; "in all likelihood we are headed for war" related words >
- after a time,
- after a while,
- afterward,
- afterwards,
- all things considered,
- anon,
- assumably,
- before long,
- by all odds,
- by and by,
- by destiny,
- dollars to doughnuts,
- doubtless,
- doubtlessly,
- fatally,
- hopefully,
- imminently,
- in aftertime,
- in all likelihood,
- in all probability,
- in the future,
- indubitably,
- later,
- like enough,
- likely,
- most likely,
- no doubt,
- perhaps,
- possibly,
- predictably,
- presumably,
- presumptively,
- proximo,
- quite,
- soon,
- ten to one,
- tomorrow,
- undoubtedly,
- unquestionably,
- very like,
- very likely
- never
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- not ever; at no time in the past or future; "I have never been to China"; "I shall never forget this day"; "had never seen a circus"; "never on Sunday"; "I will never marry you!"
- not at all; certainly not; not in any circumstances; "never fear"; "bringing up children is never easy"; "that will never do"; "what is morally wrong can never be politically right" related words >
- God forbid,
- at no hand,
- at no time,
- au contraire,
- by no means,
- far from it,
- in no case,
- in no respect,
- in no way,
- in no wise,
- never on earth,
- nevermore,
- no matter what,
- nohow,
- not,
- not a bit,
- not a jot,
- not a speck,
- not a whit,
- not an iota,
- not at all,
- not ever,
- not much,
- not nearly,
- noway,
- noways,
- nowhere near,
- nowise,
- on no account,
- on no condition,
- on no occasion,
- quite the contrary,
- to the contrary,
- under no circumstances
- venerable
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- impressive by reason of age; "a venerable sage with white hair and beard" related words >
- acknowledged,
- admirable,
- admitted,
- advanced,
- advanced in life,
- advanced in years,
- age-old,
- aged,
- ageless,
- along in years,
- ancient,
- antediluvian,
- antique,
- aristocratic,
- august,
- auld,
- awe-inspiring,
- awesome,
- awful,
- conventional,
- courtly,
- creditable,
- customary,
- dateless,
- dignified,
- divine,
- dreadful,
- elderly,
- established,
- esteemed,
- estimable,
- fixed,
- folk,
- grand,
- grave,
- gray,
- gray with age,
- gray-haired,
- gray-headed,
- grown old,
- hallowed,
- handed down,
- heavenly,
- held in esteem,
- heroic,
- highly esteemed,
- highly regarded,
- highly reputed,
- highly respectable,
- hoar,
- hoary,
- holy,
- honorable,
- honored,
- immemorial,
- imposing,
- impressive,
- in favor,
- in good odor,
- in high favor,
- ineffable,
- inenarrable,
- inexpressible,
- inveterate,
- inviolable,
- inviolate,
- kingly,
- legendary,
- long-established,
- long-standing,
- lordly,
- magisterial,
- majestic,
- meritorious,
- mythological,
- noble,
- numinous,
- of long standing,
- of old,
- of the folk,
- of yore,
- old,
- old as Methuselah,
- old as history,
- old as time,
- old-time,
- olden,
- oral,
- patriarchal,
- prescriptive,
- prestigious,
- princely,
- queenly,
- received,
- recognized,
- regal,
- religious,
- reputable,
- respectable,
- respected,
- revered,
- reverenced,
- reverend,
- reverential,
- rooted,
- royal,
- sacred,
- sacrosanct,
- sedate,
- senectuous,
- sober,
- solemn,
- spiritual,
- stately,
- statuesque,
- time-honored,
- timeless,
- timeworn,
- traditional,
- tried and true,
- true-blue,
- understood,
- unspeakable,
- untouchable,
- unutterable,
- unwritten,
- venerated,
- well-thought-of,
- white,
- white with age,
- white-bearded,
- white-crowned,
- white-haired,
- worshipful,
- worthy,
- wrinkled,
- wrinkly,
- years old
- prune
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- dried plum related words >
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- abscind,
- abstract,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- ax,
- backset,
- ban,
- bar,
- bisect,
- blockhead,
- bob,
- boil down,
- brash,
- butcher,
- capsulize,
- carve,
- chop,
- chump,
- cleave,
- clip,
- compress,
- condense,
- contract,
- crop,
- cull,
- cultivate,
- culture,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut in two,
- cut off,
- cut off short,
- cut out,
- cut short,
- delve,
- dichotomize,
- dig,
- dimwit,
- dissever,
- dock,
- dolt,
- dope,
- dress,
- dumbbell,
- elide,
- eliminate,
- enucleate,
- epitomize,
- eradicate,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- fallow,
- fertilize,
- fissure,
- force,
- foreshorten,
- gash,
- hack,
- halve,
- harrow,
- hew,
- hoe,
- idiot,
- ignoramus,
- incise,
- isolate,
- jigsaw,
- knock off,
- lance,
- list,
- lop,
- moron,
- mow,
- mulch,
- mutilate,
- nip,
- pare,
- peel,
- pick out,
- plow,
- poll,
- pollard,
- rake,
- reap,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- rend,
- retrench,
- rive,
- root out,
- rule out,
- saw,
- scissor,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- sever,
- shave,
- shear,
- shorten,
- skive,
- slash,
- slice,
- slit,
- snip,
- snub,
- spade,
- split,
- stamp out,
- strike off,
- strip,
- strip off,
- stunt,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- sunder,
- synopsize,
- take in,
- take off,
- take out,
- tear,
- telescope,
- thin,
- thin out,
- till,
- till the soil,
- trim,
- truncate,
- weed,
- weed out,
- whittle,
- wipe out,
- work
- stereoscopic
collapse
- of or relating to stereoscopy; "stereoscopic vision"
- of or relating to a stereoscope; "stereoscopic lenses" related words >
- hapless
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- deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" related words >
- badly off,
- depressed,
- dire,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- ill off,
- ill-fated,
- ill-starred,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inauspicious,
- infelicitous,
- luckless,
- miserable,
- ominous,
- out of luck,
- planet-struck,
- sad,
- short of luck,
- star-crossed,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential,
- untoward,
- woeful,
- wretched
- longevity
collapse
- the property of being long-lived
- duration of service; "her longevity as a star"; "had unusual longevity in the company" related words >
- abidingness,
- advanced age,
- advanced years,
- age,
- age of retirement,
- an incurable disease,
- anility,
- animal spirits,
- animate existence,
- animation,
- antiquity,
- being alive,
- birth,
- caducity,
- constancy,
- continuance,
- debility,
- decline of life,
- declining years,
- decrepitude,
- defeat of time,
- defiance of time,
- diuturnity,
- dotage,
- durability,
- durableness,
- duration,
- eld,
- elderliness,
- endurance,
- existence,
- feebleness,
- green old age,
- hale old age,
- haleness,
- hardiness,
- having life,
- heartiness,
- hoary age,
- immortality,
- infirm old age,
- infirmity,
- infirmity of age,
- lastingness,
- life,
- lifetime,
- liveliness,
- living,
- long life,
- long standing,
- long-lastingness,
- long-livedness,
- lustiness,
- maintenance,
- old age,
- oldness,
- pensionable age,
- perdurability,
- perennation,
- permanence,
- perpetuity,
- persistence,
- ricketiness,
- ripe old age,
- robustness,
- ruggedness,
- second childhood,
- senectitude,
- senility,
- senior citizenship,
- spriteliness,
- stability,
- standing,
- steadfastness,
- strength,
- superannuation,
- survival,
- survivance,
- the downward slope,
- the golden years,
- vale of years,
- viability,
- vigor,
- vigorousness,
- vitality,
- vivacity,
- white hairs
- Mickey Mouse,
- base,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- coarse,
- common,
- disappointing,
- falling short,
- fourth-class,
- inferior,
- irregular,
- low class,
- low quality,
- low-class,
- low-grade,
- low-quality,
- low-test,
- mean,
- paltry,
- poor,
- punk,
- second best,
- second-class,
- seedy,
- shabby,
- tacky,
- tantalizing,
- teasing,
- third-class,
- third-rate,
- tinny,
- unsatisfactory
- unmade
collapse
- (of a bed) not having the sheets and blankets set in order; "an unmade bed with tangled sheets and blankets" 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,
- unbegotten,
- unbegun,
- unborn,
- unconceived,
- unconcocted,
- uncontrived,
- uncreated,
- undeliberated,
- undevised,
- unhatched,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unproduced,
- unready,
- unstudied
- ad-lib,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporized,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- impromptu,
- improvised,
- inadvertent,
- makeshift,
- precipitate,
- rough-and-ready,
- snap,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- tripped up,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unconcocted,
- uncontrived,
- undeliberated,
- undesigned,
- unhatched,
- unintended,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unpurposed,
- unready,
- unstudied,
- unthought
- puny
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- (used especially of persons) of inferior size
- inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses" related words >
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- attenuated,
- austere,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- cadaverous,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- corpselike,
- cramped,
- crumbly,
- dainty,
- decrepit,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diminutive,
- dinky,
- dwarf,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- effeminate,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- emaciated,
- exiguous,
- feeble,
- flimsy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- frugal,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- haggard,
- half-pint,
- hollow-eyed,
- impoverished,
- inconsequential,
- inferior,
- infirm,
- insignificant,
- jejune,
- jerkwater,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- knee-high,
- lean,
- light,
- lightweight,
- limited,
- little,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- meager,
- mean,
- measly,
- midget,
- minor,
- minute,
- miserly,
- namby-pamby,
- narrow,
- negligible,
- niggardly,
- niggling,
- nugatory,
- one-horse,
- paltry,
- papery,
- parsimonious,
- pasteboardy,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- petite,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- piffling,
- pinched,
- pindling,
- pint-sized,
- poky,
- poor,
- punk,
- pygmy,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- shattery,
- short,
- shriveled,
- sickly,
- sissified,
- skeletal,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- sleazy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- small-beer,
- small-time,
- smallish,
- spare,
- sparing,
- starvation,
- starved,
- starveling,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- tacky,
- thin,
- tinhorn,
- tiny,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- two-bit,
- two-by-four,
- underdeveloped,
- underfed,
- undernourished,
- undersized,
- unimportant,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- useless,
- wasted,
- watered,
- watery,
- weak,
- weakly,
- weazeny,
- wispy,
- withered,
- wizened,
- womanish,
- worthless,
- wraithlike
- all at once,
- all together,
- at a blow,
- at a stroke,
- at once,
- at one blow,
- at one jump,
- at one stroke,
- at one swoop,
- at one time,
- forthwith,
- in a hurry,
- now,
- per saltum,
- pronto,
- right away,
- right now,
- right off,
- simultaneously,
- straightaway,
- straightway,
- subito,
- this minute,
- this very minute,
- uno saltu,
- without delay
- ad lib
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- without advance preparation; "he spoke ad lib" related words >
- a beneplacito,
- a discretion,
- ad arbitrium,
- ad libitum,
- ad-libbing,
- al piacere,
- arrangement,
- at choice,
- at pleasure,
- at short notice,
- at sight,
- at will,
- be caught napping,
- be surprised,
- be taken unawares,
- be unprepared,
- by ear,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- cook up,
- dash off,
- disqualification,
- do offhand,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporaneously,
- extemporaneousness,
- extemporarily,
- extemporariness,
- extemporary,
- extempore,
- extemporization,
- extemporize,
- extemporized,
- fake,
- go off half-cocked,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- have no plan,
- impromptu,
- improvisate,
- improvisation,
- improvisatorial,
- improvise,
- improvised,
- improvision,
- improviso,
- incapability,
- incompetence,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged,
- knock off,
- lack of preparation,
- lash up,
- make up,
- makeshift,
- measure,
- nonpreparation,
- nonpreparedness,
- off the cuff,
- off the hip,
- off-the-cuff,
- offhand,
- on sight,
- out of hand,
- planlessness,
- play by ear,
- playing by ear,
- precipitate,
- pro tempore,
- rough-and-ready,
- scrap the plan,
- snap,
- stopgap,
- strike off,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- temporary arrangement,
- temporary measure,
- throw off,
- throw together,
- toss off,
- toss out,
- tripped up,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unconcocted,
- uncontrived,
- undeliberated,
- undevised,
- unfitness,
- unfittedness,
- unforced,
- unhatched,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unpreparedness,
- unprimed,
- unqualification,
- unqualifiedness,
- unreadiness,
- unready,
- unrehearsed,
- unstudied,
- unsuitability,
- unsuitableness,
- unsuitedness,
- vamp,
- vulnerability,
- whip up,
- whomp up,
- wing it,
- without coercion
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