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- avoirdupois
collapse - a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains) related words >
- poundage
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- weight expressed in pounds
- a fee charged for the recovery of impounded animals
- a charge based on weight measured in pounds related words >
- accommodation,
- avoirdupois,
- beef,
- beefiness,
- burden,
- capacity,
- carriage,
- cartage,
- content,
- cordage,
- deadweight,
- drayage,
- expressage,
- fatness,
- freight,
- freightage,
- gravity,
- gross weight,
- haulage,
- heaviness,
- heft,
- heftiness,
- limit,
- liveweight,
- measure,
- neat weight,
- net,
- net weight,
- overbalance,
- overweight,
- ponderability,
- ponderosity,
- ponderousness,
- quantity,
- room,
- space,
- stowage,
- tonnage,
- underweight,
- volume,
- weight,
- weightiness
- heft
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- the property of being large in mass
- test the weight of something by lifting it related words >
- avoirdupois,
- balance,
- be heavy,
- beef,
- beefiness,
- boost,
- buoy up,
- carry weight,
- cast up,
- counterbalance,
- deadweight,
- elevate,
- erect,
- escalate,
- fatness,
- gravity,
- gross weight,
- have weight,
- heave,
- heaviness,
- heftiness,
- heighten,
- heist,
- hike,
- hoick,
- hoist,
- hold the scales,
- hold up,
- jerk up,
- knock up,
- levitate,
- lie heavy,
- lift,
- lift up,
- liveweight,
- lob,
- loft,
- neat weight,
- net,
- net weight,
- overbalance,
- overweight,
- perk up,
- ponderability,
- ponderosity,
- ponderousness,
- poundage,
- raise,
- raise up,
- rear,
- rear up,
- rise,
- set up,
- sky,
- stick up,
- strike a balance,
- throw up,
- tip the scales,
- tonnage,
- underweight,
- up,
- upbuoy,
- upcast,
- upheave,
- uphoist,
- uphold,
- uplift,
- upraise,
- uprear,
- upthrow,
- weigh,
- weigh heavy,
- weigh in,
- weigh out,
- weight,
- weightiness
- tonnage
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- a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship related words >
- accommodation,
- argosy,
- avoirdupois,
- beef,
- beefiness,
- bottoms,
- burden,
- capacity,
- carriage,
- cartage,
- content,
- cordage,
- deadweight,
- drayage,
- expressage,
- fatness,
- fleet,
- flotilla,
- freight,
- freightage,
- gravity,
- gross weight,
- haulage,
- heaviness,
- heft,
- heftiness,
- limit,
- line,
- liveweight,
- measure,
- merchant fleet,
- merchant navy,
- navy,
- neat weight,
- net,
- net weight,
- overbalance,
- overweight,
- ponderability,
- ponderosity,
- ponderousness,
- poundage,
- quantity,
- room,
- shipping,
- ships,
- space,
- stowage,
- underweight,
- volume,
- weight,
- weightiness,
- whaling fleet
- avoirdupois,
- bale,
- beef,
- beefiness,
- burden,
- burdening,
- burthen,
- cargo,
- charge,
- charging,
- cross,
- cumber,
- cumbrance,
- difficulty,
- disadvantage,
- drag,
- duty,
- embarrassment,
- encumbrance,
- fatness,
- freight,
- gravity,
- gross weight,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- heaviness,
- heft,
- heftiness,
- impediment,
- impedimenta,
- imposition,
- inconvenience,
- incubus,
- incumbency,
- lading,
- liveweight,
- load,
- loading,
- lumber,
- millstone,
- neat weight,
- net,
- net weight,
- onus,
- oppression,
- overbalance,
- overload,
- overtaxing,
- overweight,
- overweighting,
- pack,
- penalty,
- ponderability,
- ponderosity,
- ponderousness,
- poundage,
- pressure,
- saddling,
- superincumbency,
- surcharge,
- task,
- tax,
- taxing,
- tonnage,
- trouble,
- underweight,
- weight,
- weightiness,
- white elephant
- carry weight
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- have influence to a specified degree; "Her opinion carries a lot of weight" related words >
- amount to something,
- balance,
- be featured,
- be heavy,
- be influential,
- be persuasive,
- be prominent,
- be somebody,
- be something,
- count,
- counterbalance,
- cut ice,
- cut some ice,
- get top billing,
- have an in,
- have full play,
- have influence,
- have personality,
- have pull,
- have weight,
- heft,
- hold the scales,
- import,
- lie heavy,
- matter,
- signify,
- stand out,
- star,
- strike a balance,
- tell,
- tip the scales,
- weigh,
- weigh heavy,
- weigh in,
- weigh out,
- weight
- unload
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- take the load off (a container or vehicle); "unload the truck"; "offload the van" related words >
- alleviate,
- be light,
- break bulk,
- clear the trade,
- close out,
- convert,
- convert into cash,
- cut under,
- debark,
- disburden,
- discharge,
- disembark,
- disembarrass,
- disencumber,
- dump,
- ease,
- effect a sale,
- empty,
- have little weight,
- jettison,
- job,
- kick the beam,
- land,
- lighten,
- liquidate,
- make a sale,
- make light,
- make lighter,
- market,
- merchandise,
- move,
- off-load,
- offload,
- reduce weight,
- relieve,
- resell,
- retail,
- sacrifice,
- sell,
- sell off,
- sell on consignment,
- sell out,
- sell over,
- sell retail,
- sell short,
- sell up,
- sell wholesale,
- set at ease,
- stevedore,
- terminate the account,
- turn into money,
- turn over,
- unballast,
- unburden,
- undercut,
- undersell,
- unfreight,
- unlade,
- unpack,
- unship,
- weigh lightly,
- wholesale
- avoirdupois,
- bantamweight,
- beef,
- beefiness,
- boniness,
- bony,
- deadweight,
- fatness,
- featherweight,
- flat,
- flat-chested,
- fleshless,
- fleshlessness,
- frailness,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- gaunt,
- gauntness,
- gawkiness,
- gawky,
- gravity,
- gross weight,
- haggardness,
- hatchet face,
- heaviness,
- heft,
- heftiness,
- lank,
- lankiness,
- lankness,
- lanky,
- lantern jaws,
- lean,
- lean-fleshed,
- lean-looking,
- leanness,
- lightweight,
- liveweight,
- meager,
- meagerness,
- neat weight,
- net,
- net weight,
- overbalance,
- overweight,
- paperiness,
- peakedness,
- ponderability,
- ponderosity,
- ponderousness,
- poorness,
- poundage,
- puniness,
- rawboned,
- scraggy,
- scrawniness,
- scrawny,
- skeletal,
- skin and bones,
- skinniness,
- skinny,
- slightness,
- spare,
- spareness,
- spidery,
- spindling,
- spindly,
- thin-bellied,
- thin-fleshed,
- tonnage,
- twigginess,
- twiggy,
- undersized,
- weight,
- weightiness
- badly off,
- destitute,
- distressed,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- feeling the pinch,
- hard up,
- ill off,
- in Queer Street,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- land-poor,
- narrow,
- on the edge,
- out of pocket,
- pinched,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- poverty-stricken,
- reduced,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of money,
- squeezed,
- straitened,
- strapped,
- unmoneyed,
- unprosperous
- unburden
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- take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the donkey"
- free or relieve (someone) of a burden related words >
- alleviate,
- be light,
- break bulk,
- clear,
- disburden,
- discharge,
- disembarrass,
- disencumber,
- dump,
- ease,
- have little weight,
- kick the beam,
- lighten,
- lose,
- make light,
- make lighter,
- off-load,
- reduce weight,
- relieve,
- rid,
- set at ease,
- shake off,
- throw off,
- unballast,
- unfreight,
- unlade,
- unload,
- unpack,
- unship,
- weigh lightly
- 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
- alleviate,
- be light,
- clear,
- disburden,
- disembarrass,
- disembroil,
- disengage,
- disentangle,
- disinvolve,
- ease,
- extricate,
- free,
- free up,
- have little weight,
- kick the beam,
- liberate,
- lighten,
- make light,
- make lighter,
- off-load,
- reduce weight,
- relieve,
- set at ease,
- unballast,
- unburden,
- unclutter,
- unfreight,
- unlade,
- unload,
- unscramble,
- unsnarl,
- untangle,
- untie,
- untwine,
- weigh lightly
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- flashing
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- 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
- quality control
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- maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods related words >
- bit-weight control,
- color control,
- density control,
- dimension control,
- diverse control,
- end-point control,
- examination,
- flavor control,
- flow control,
- fragrance control,
- hold control,
- humidity control,
- inspection,
- limit control,
- liquid-level control,
- load control,
- overhaul,
- overhauling,
- perlustration,
- perusal,
- precision-production control,
- pressure control,
- process control,
- proportional control,
- quantity control,
- review,
- revolution control,
- run-through,
- scan,
- scrutiny,
- study,
- survey,
- temperature control,
- time control,
- visitation,
- weight control
- 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
- weigh down
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- be oppressive or disheartening to related words >
- ballast,
- bear hard upon,
- burden,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- cumber,
- embarrass,
- encumber,
- enmesh,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- entoil,
- entrammel,
- entrap,
- entwine,
- fetter,
- go hard with,
- go ill with,
- hamper,
- hamstring,
- handicap,
- hobble,
- impede,
- involve,
- lame,
- lead,
- lie on,
- lime,
- load,
- lumber,
- net,
- oppress,
- overburden,
- overload,
- press,
- press down,
- sadden,
- saddle with,
- sandbag,
- shackle,
- snarl,
- tangle,
- toil,
- trammel,
- try one,
- weigh heavy on,
- weigh on,
- weigh upon,
- weight,
- weight down
- docked
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- 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
- 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
- short story
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- a prose narrative shorter than a novel related words >
- Bildungsroman,
- Gothic novel,
- comic novel,
- detective novel,
- dime novel,
- dreadful,
- epistolary novel,
- erotic novel,
- historical novel,
- nouvelle,
- novel,
- novel of character,
- novel of ideas,
- novel of incident,
- novel of manners,
- novel of sensibility,
- novelette,
- novella,
- penny dreadful,
- picaresque novel,
- pornographic novel,
- problem novel,
- proletarian novel,
- propaganda novel,
- psychological novel,
- regional novel,
- river novel,
- roman,
- roman a clef,
- roman-fleuve,
- satirical novel,
- science-fiction novel,
- sentimental novel,
- shilling shocker,
- short-short,
- sociological novel,
- storiette,
- stream-of-consciousness novel,
- thesis novel,
- vignette
- ballast
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- any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
- an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps
- an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings
- coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
- make steady with a ballast related words >
- balance,
- break bulk,
- break out ballast,
- clear for action,
- clear the decks,
- consideration,
- counterbalance,
- counterpoise,
- counterweight,
- equipoise,
- equivalent,
- firm,
- firm up,
- freeze,
- give-and-take,
- hold,
- immobilize,
- keep,
- lead,
- makeweight,
- nail down,
- offset,
- pin down,
- poise,
- quid pro quo,
- retain,
- sandbag,
- setoff,
- shift ballast,
- shoot ballast,
- something of value,
- stabilitate,
- stabilize,
- steady,
- stick,
- tit for tat,
- transfix,
- trim,
- trim ship,
- trim up,
- weigh down,
- weight,
- weight down,
- wing out ballast
- 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
- 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
- absence,
- adulteration,
- arrearage,
- arrestment,
- baseness,
- beggary,
- blemish,
- break,
- bug,
- callowness,
- catch,
- crack,
- dearth,
- defalcation,
- default,
- defect,
- defectibility,
- defection,
- defectiveness,
- deficit,
- demerit,
- deprivation,
- dereliction,
- destitution,
- discontinuity,
- drawback,
- drought,
- erroneousness,
- failing,
- failure,
- fallibility,
- famine,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- faute,
- fewness,
- flaw,
- foible,
- frailty,
- gap,
- hiatus,
- hole,
- immaturity,
- impairment,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- impurity,
- inaccuracy,
- inadequacy,
- inadequateness,
- incompetence,
- incompleteness,
- incompletion,
- inexactitude,
- inexactness,
- infirmity,
- insufficiency,
- interval,
- kink,
- lack,
- lacuna,
- little problem,
- littleness,
- maladroitness,
- meanness,
- mediocrity,
- miscarriage,
- missing link,
- need,
- neglect,
- omission,
- outage,
- patchiness,
- pettiness,
- privation,
- problem,
- rift,
- scantiness,
- scrappiness,
- shabbiness,
- short measure,
- short weight,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- sin,
- sketchiness,
- smallness,
- snag,
- something missing,
- starvation,
- subnormality,
- taint,
- triviality,
- ullage,
- underage,
- underdevelopment,
- undevelopment,
- unevenness,
- unperfectedness,
- unskillfulness,
- unsoundness,
- vulgarity,
- vulnerable place,
- want,
- wantage,
- weak link,
- weak point,
- weakness
- 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
- ace,
- bang,
- bark,
- bit,
- blast,
- bowshot,
- brief span,
- bullet,
- burst,
- cannon,
- close quarters,
- close range,
- crack,
- detonation,
- discharge,
- earreach,
- earshot,
- ejection,
- explosion,
- fulmination,
- fusillade,
- gun,
- gunfire,
- hair,
- hair space,
- hairbreadth,
- hairsbreadth,
- inch,
- little,
- little ways,
- pistol shot,
- pop,
- potshot,
- salvo,
- short distance,
- short piece,
- short way,
- shot,
- span,
- spitting distance,
- spray,
- step,
- stoneshot,
- tattoo,
- volley
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