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author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta
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Meistersinger
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Parnassian
,
arch-poet
,
arranger
,
ballad maker
,
balladeer
,
balladist
,
balladmonger
,
bard
,
beat poet
,
bucoliast
,
choreographer
,
comedian
,
composer
,
contrapuntist
,
dramatist
,
dramatizer
,
dramaturge
,
elegist
,
epic poet
,
ethnomusicologist
,
farcer
,
farceur
,
farceuse
,
farcist
,
fili
,
gagman
,
harmonist
,
harmonizer
,
hymnist
,
hymnographer
,
hymnologist
,
idyllist
,
imagist
,
joke writer
,
jokesmith
,
jongleur
,
laureate
,
madrigalist
,
major poet
,
maker
,
melodist
,
melodizer
,
melodramatist
,
mimographer
,
minnesinger
,
minor poet
,
minstrel
,
modernist
,
monodramatist
,
musicographer
,
musicologist
,
occasional poet
,
odist
,
orchestrator
,
pastoral poet
,
pastoralist
,
play doctor
,
play fixer
,
playwright
,
playwriter
,
poet
,
poet laureate
,
poetress
,
rhapsode
,
rhapsodist
,
satirist
,
scenario writer
,
scenarioist
,
scenarist
,
scop
,
scorer
,
scriptwriter
,
skald
,
song writer
,
songsmith
,
sonneteer
,
symbolist
,
symphonist
,
tone poet
,
tragedian
,
troubadour
,
trouveur
,
trovatore
,
tunesmith
,
vers libriste
,
vers-librist
journalist
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a writer for newspapers and magazines
related words >
anchorman
,
broadcaster
,
city editor
,
columnist
,
commentator
,
copy chief
,
copy editor
,
copyman
,
copyreader
,
correspondent
,
cub reporter
,
diaskeuast
,
editor
,
editorial writer
,
feature editor
,
foreign correspondent
,
gazetteer
,
hack
,
interviewer
,
leader writer
,
leg man
,
managing editor
,
news editor
,
newscaster
,
newsman
,
newsmonger
,
newspaperman
,
newspaperwoman
,
newswriter
,
own correspondent
,
paragrapher
,
paragraphist
,
pressman
,
publicist
,
reader
,
reporter
,
reviser
,
rewrite man
,
rewriter
,
scribe
,
slotman
,
sob sister
,
special correspondent
,
sports editor
,
stringer
,
subeditor
,
war correspondent
old saw
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related words >
banality
,
bromide
,
chestnut
,
cliche
,
commonplace
,
commonplace expression
,
corn
,
familiar tune
,
hackneyed saying
,
lieu commun
,
locus communis
,
old joke
,
old song
,
old story
,
platitude
,
prosaicism
,
prosaism
,
prose
,
reiteration
,
retold story
,
stereotyped saying
,
trite saying
,
triticism
,
twice-told tale
impecunious
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related words >
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
scholiast
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a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)
related words >
allegorist
,
annotator
,
book reviewer
,
captious critic
,
carper
,
caviler
,
censor
,
censurer
,
cicerone
,
clarifier
,
cognoscente
,
commentator
,
commenter
,
connoisseur
,
critic
,
criticaster
,
criticizer
,
critickin
,
criticule
,
cryptanalyst
,
cryptographer
,
cryptologist
,
decoder
,
definer
,
demonstrator
,
demythologizer
,
diaskeuast
,
dragoman
,
editor
,
editorial writer
,
editorialist
,
emendator
,
emender
,
euhemerist
,
exegesist
,
exegete
,
exegetist
,
explainer
,
explicator
,
exponent
,
expositor
,
expounder
,
faultfinder
,
glossarist
,
glossographer
,
go-between
,
guide
,
hermeneut
,
interpreter
,
leader writer
,
lexicographer
,
literary critic
,
man of letters
,
metaphrast
,
muckraker
,
news analyst
,
oneirocritic
,
paraphrast
,
publicist
,
reviewer
,
smellfungus
,
social critic
,
textual critic
,
translator
roman
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a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
a resident of modern Rome
an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire
of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome); "Roman architecture"; "the old Roman wall"
relating to or characteristic of people of Rome; "Roman virtues"; "his Roman bearing in adversity"; "a Roman nose"
of or relating to or supporting Romanism; "the Roman Catholic Church"
characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions
related words >
Bildungsroman
,
Gothic novel
,
ascender
,
back
,
bastard type
,
beard
,
belly
,
bevel
,
black letter
,
body
,
cap
,
capital
,
case
,
comic novel
,
counter
,
descender
,
detective novel
,
dime novel
,
dreadful
,
em
,
en
,
epistolary novel
,
erotic novel
,
face
,
fat-faced type
,
feet
,
font
,
groove
,
historical novel
,
italic
,
letter
,
ligature
,
logotype
,
lower case
,
majuscule
,
minuscule
,
nick
,
nouvelle
,
novel
,
novel of character
,
novel of ideas
,
novel of incident
,
novel of manners
,
novel of sensibility
,
novelette
,
novella
,
penny dreadful
,
pi
,
pica
,
picaresque novel
,
point
,
pornographic novel
,
print
,
problem novel
,
proletarian novel
,
propaganda novel
,
psychological novel
,
regional novel
,
river novel
,
roman a clef
,
roman-fleuve
,
sans serif
,
satirical novel
,
science-fiction novel
,
script
,
sentimental novel
,
shank
,
shilling shocker
,
short story
,
short-short
,
shoulder
,
small cap
,
small capital
,
sociological novel
,
stamp
,
stem
,
storiette
,
stream-of-consciousness novel
,
thesis novel
,
type
,
type body
,
type class
,
type lice
,
typecase
,
typeface
,
typefounders
,
typefoundry
,
upper case
,
vignette
allegory
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an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
related words >
Marchen
,
Western
,
Western story
,
Westerner
,
adventure story
,
allusion
,
analogy
,
apologue
,
arcane meaning
,
assumption
,
balancing
,
bedtime story
,
charactery
,
cipher
,
coloration
,
comparative anatomy
,
comparative degree
,
comparative grammar
,
comparative judgment
,
comparative linguistics
,
comparative literature
,
comparative method
,
compare
,
comparing
,
comparison
,
confrontation
,
confrontment
,
connotation
,
contrast
,
contrastiveness
,
conventional symbol
,
correlation
,
detective story
,
distinction
,
distinctiveness
,
emblem
,
fable
,
fabliau
,
fairy tale
,
fantasy
,
fiction
,
figuration
,
folk story
,
folktale
,
gest
,
ghost story
,
hint
,
horse opera
,
iconology
,
ideogram
,
implication
,
implied meaning
,
import
,
inference
,
innuendo
,
intimation
,
ironic suggestion
,
legend
,
likening
,
logogram
,
logotype
,
love knot
,
love story
,
matching
,
meaning
,
metaphor
,
metaphorical sense
,
mystery
,
mystery story
,
myth
,
mythology
,
mythos
,
nuance
,
nursery tale
,
occult meaning
,
opposing
,
opposition
,
overtone
,
parable
,
parallelism
,
pictogram
,
presumption
,
presupposition
,
proportion
,
relation
,
romance
,
science fiction
,
shocker
,
simile
,
similitude
,
space fiction
,
space opera
,
subsense
,
subsidiary sense
,
suggestion
,
supposition
,
suspense story
,
symbol
,
symbolic system
,
symbolism
,
symbolization
,
symbology
,
thriller
,
tinge
,
token
,
totem
,
totem pole
,
touch
,
trope of comparison
,
type
,
typification
,
undercurrent
,
undermeaning
,
undertone
,
weighing
,
whodunit
,
work of fiction
jape
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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
out of pocket
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related words >
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
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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
old story
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related words >
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
spitting distance
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related words >
ace
,
bit
,
bowshot
,
brief span
,
close quarters
,
close range
,
crack
,
earreach
,
earshot
,
gunshot
,
hair
,
hair space
,
hairbreadth
,
hairsbreadth
,
inch
,
little
,
little ways
,
pistol shot
,
short distance
,
short piece
,
short way
,
span
,
step
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
badly off
collapse
related words >
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
shortened
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related words >
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
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
collapse
(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
abbreviated
collapse
(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
pruned
collapse
related words >
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
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
squeezed
collapse
related words >
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
satirist
collapse
a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm
related words >
Meistersinger
,
Parnassian
,
arch-poet
,
ballad maker
,
balladmonger
,
banana
,
bard
,
beat poet
,
bucoliast
,
burlesquer
,
caricaturist
,
clown
,
comedian
,
comic
,
cutup
,
elegist
,
epic poet
,
epigrammatist
,
fili
,
funnyman
,
gag writer
,
gagman
,
gagster
,
humorist
,
idyllist
,
imagist
,
ironist
,
jester
,
joker
,
jokesmith
,
jokester
,
jongleur
,
lampooner
,
lampoonist
,
laureate
,
librettist
,
madcap
,
major poet
,
maker
,
minnesinger
,
minor poet
,
minstrel
,
modernist
,
occasional poet
,
odist
,
parodist
,
pasquinader
,
pastoral poet
,
pastoralist
,
poet
,
poet laureate
,
poetress
,
poison-pen writer
,
prankster
,
punner
,
punster
,
quipster
,
reparteeist
,
rhapsode
,
rhapsodist
,
scop
,
skald
,
sonneteer
,
symbolist
,
troubadour
,
trouveur
,
trovatore
,
vers libriste
,
vers-librist
,
wag
,
wagwit
,
wisecracker
,
wit
,
witling
,
zany
twice told tale
collapse
related words >
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
unprosperous
collapse
related words >
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
flam
collapse
related words >
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
banality
collapse
related words >
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
life story
collapse
related words >
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
confessions
collapse
related words >
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
collapse
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
collapse
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
commentator
collapse
a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day
related words >
AFTRA
,
DJ
,
MC
,
allegorist
,
anchor man
,
annotator
,
announcer
,
book reviewer
,
broadcaster
,
captious critic
,
carper
,
caviler
,
censor
,
censurer
,
cicerone
,
clarifier
,
cognoscente
,
commenter
,
connoisseur
,
critic
,
criticaster
,
criticizer
,
critickin
,
criticule
,
cryptanalyst
,
cryptographer
,
cryptologist
,
decoder
,
definer
,
demonstrator
,
demythologizer
,
diaskeuast
,
disk jockey
,
dragoman
,
editor
,
editorial writer
,
editorialist
,
emcee
,
emendator
,
emender
,
euhemerist
,
exegesist
,
exegete
,
exegetist
,
explainer
,
explicator
,
exponent
,
expositor
,
expounder
,
faultfinder
,
glossarist
,
glossographer
,
go-between
,
guide
,
hermeneut
,
interpreter
,
leader writer
,
lexicographer
,
literary critic
,
man of letters
,
master of ceremonies
,
metaphrast
,
muckraker
,
news analyst
,
news commentator
,
newscaster
,
oneirocritic
,
paraphrast
,
program director
,
programmer
,
publicist
,
radiobroadcaster
,
reviewer
,
scholiast
,
smellfungus
,
social critic
,
sound-effects man
,
sportscaster
,
textual critic
,
translator
autobiography
collapse
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
collapse
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
ill-off
collapse
related words >
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
collapse
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
hairbreadth
collapse
related words >
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
not compare
collapse
related words >
be found wanting
,
be inferior
,
bear no resemblance
,
come short
,
differ
,
fail
,
fall short
,
follow
,
have nothing on
,
not approach
,
not come near
,
not compare with
,
not hack it
,
not look like
,
not make it
,
not measure up
,
play second fiddle
,
rank under
,
serve
,
subserve
,
want
romance
collapse
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
strapped
collapse
related words >
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
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