Related Words:
- indolent
collapse - (of tumors e.g) slow to heal or develop and usually painless; "an indolent ulcer"; "leprosy is an indolent infectious disease" related words >
- ambling,
- bone-lazy,
- cadging,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- dilatory,
- do-nothing,
- doless,
- dronish,
- drony,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- ergophobic,
- faineant,
- faltering,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gentle,
- good-for-nothing,
- gradual,
- halting,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- inactive,
- inert,
- laggard,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lax,
- lazy,
- lazybones,
- lazyboots,
- lazylegs,
- leisurely,
- lethargic,
- lie-abed,
- limping,
- listless,
- lumbering,
- moderate,
- nonaggressive,
- parasitic,
- poking,
- poky,
- procrastinative,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- remiss,
- sauntering,
- scrounging,
- shiftless,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- slugabed,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- sponging,
- staggering,
- stagnant,
- strolling,
- tentative,
- toddling,
- torpid,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unenterprising,
- unhurried,
- waddling,
- work-shy
- weasel
collapse
- small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck related words >
- Argus,
- Cape polecat,
- Skimobile,
- Sno-Cat,
- ape,
- avoid,
- back and fill,
- bar,
- bear,
- blade,
- blench,
- blink,
- cat,
- cavy,
- chimp,
- chimpanzee,
- coon,
- cringe,
- dodge,
- draw back,
- duck,
- eagle,
- equivocate,
- evade,
- fade,
- fall back,
- ferret,
- flinch,
- foumart,
- glutton,
- groundhog,
- guinea pig,
- hang back,
- hawk,
- hedge,
- hedgehog,
- hem and haw,
- hum and haw,
- jib,
- lynx,
- mince the truth,
- mince words,
- monk,
- monkey,
- mousehound,
- opossum,
- palter,
- parry,
- polecat,
- porcupine,
- possum,
- prairie dog,
- prevaricate,
- pull back,
- pussyfoot,
- quail,
- quill pig,
- raccoon,
- recoil,
- reel back,
- retreat,
- runner,
- sheer off,
- shrink,
- shrink back,
- shuffle,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- skunk,
- sled,
- sleigh,
- slink,
- sneaker,
- snowmobile,
- start aside,
- start back,
- swerve,
- tergiversate,
- turn aside,
- waffle,
- weasel out,
- whistle-pig,
- wince,
- wolverine,
- woodchuck,
- zoril
- inarticulate
collapse
- without or deprived of the use of speech or words; "inarticulate beasts"; "remained stupidly inarticulate and saying something noncommittal"; "inarticulate with rage"; "an inarticulate cry" related words >
- Greek to one,
- ambiguous,
- anaudic,
- aphasic,
- aphonic,
- bashful,
- beyond understanding,
- blurred,
- breathless,
- breathy,
- choked,
- choking,
- confused,
- conscious,
- coy,
- croaking,
- demure,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- disjointed,
- drawling,
- drawly,
- dumb,
- dumbfounded,
- dumbstricken,
- dumbstruck,
- dysphonic,
- faltering,
- garbled,
- guttural,
- halting,
- harsh,
- hawking,
- hesitating,
- hoarse,
- illogical,
- impenetrable,
- implicit,
- implied,
- incognizable,
- incoherent,
- incomprehensible,
- indistinct,
- inferred,
- inscrutable,
- irrational,
- jumbled,
- lisping,
- maundering,
- mispronounced,
- mixed-up,
- mousy,
- muddled,
- muffled,
- mum,
- mumbled,
- mumbling,
- mute,
- muzzy,
- nasal,
- numinous,
- past comprehension,
- quavering,
- rambling,
- scrambled,
- self-conscious,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- shy,
- silent,
- skittish,
- snuffling,
- speechless,
- stammering,
- stifled,
- strangled,
- stricken dumb,
- thick,
- throaty,
- timid,
- timorous,
- tongue-tied,
- tongueless,
- tremulous,
- twangy,
- unclear,
- unconnected,
- undeclared,
- unexpressed,
- unfathomable,
- unintelligible,
- unknowable,
- unsaid,
- unsearchable,
- unspoken,
- unuttered,
- velar,
- voiceless,
- wild,
- wordless
- defense mechanism
collapse
- (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires related words >
- alienation,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance,
- avoidance mechanism,
- avoidance reaction,
- avoiding reaction,
- blame-shifting,
- block,
- blocking,
- circumvention,
- compensation,
- conversion,
- decompensation,
- defence,
- defense,
- defense in depth,
- defenses,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- deterrent capacity,
- displacement,
- dissociation,
- dodge,
- duck,
- ego defenses,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- emotional insulation,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- getting around,
- guard,
- isolation,
- jink,
- mental block,
- negative taxis,
- negativism,
- neutrality,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- overcompensation,
- prevention,
- projection,
- protection,
- psychological defenses,
- psychotaxis,
- rationalization,
- refraining,
- repression,
- resistance,
- self-defense,
- self-preservation,
- self-protection,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- suppression,
- symbolization,
- the defensive,
- the runaround,
- ward,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal,
- zigzag
- suppression
collapse
- forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
- the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper"
- (botany) the failure to develop of some part or organ of a plant related words >
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- Prohibition Party,
- Volstead Act,
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- aloofness,
- annihilation,
- annulment,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- backwardness,
- bamboo curtain,
- ban,
- barrier of secrecy,
- bashfulness,
- blackout,
- blankness,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bottling up,
- breaking,
- ceasing,
- censoring,
- censorship,
- cessation,
- check,
- checking,
- chilliness,
- choking,
- choking off,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- coldness,
- concealing,
- concealment,
- conquering,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- contraband,
- control,
- controlling,
- conversion,
- coolness,
- corking up,
- crackdown,
- cramp,
- crushing,
- curtain,
- defense mechanism,
- delay,
- denial,
- deracination,
- detachment,
- detainment,
- detention,
- disallowance,
- discontinuation,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- distance,
- domestication,
- elimination,
- embargo,
- end,
- ending,
- eradication,
- exclusion,
- expressionlessness,
- extermination,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- extirpation,
- fixation,
- foot-dragging,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- gentling,
- guardedness,
- halt,
- halting,
- hampering,
- hiding,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holding,
- holding in,
- holdup,
- humbling,
- humiliation,
- hush-up,
- iciness,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impediment,
- impersonality,
- inaccessibility,
- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- interdicting,
- interdiction,
- interdictum,
- interference,
- interruption,
- introversion,
- iron curtain,
- ironbound security,
- keeping,
- law,
- let,
- liquidation,
- locking in,
- maintenance,
- mental block,
- modesty,
- negation,
- negativism,
- no-no,
- nuisance value,
- nullification,
- oath of secrecy,
- obstructing,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- official secrecy,
- opposition,
- pall,
- precluding,
- preclusion,
- prehension,
- preservation,
- prevention,
- prohibiting,
- prohibition,
- prohibitory injunction,
- proscription,
- psychological block,
- purge,
- put-down,
- putting down,
- quashing,
- quelling,
- quenching,
- quieting,
- reduction,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- remoteness,
- repression,
- reserve,
- reservedness,
- resistance,
- restraining,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- restrictive covenants,
- retainment,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retention,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- reticence,
- reticency,
- retirement,
- rooting out,
- ruling out,
- seal of secrecy,
- security,
- setback,
- silencing,
- smashing,
- smothering,
- snuffing out,
- squashing,
- squeeze,
- squelching,
- standoffishness,
- statute,
- stifling,
- stop,
- stopping,
- stranglehold,
- strangling,
- strangulation,
- stricture,
- subdual,
- subduedness,
- subduing,
- sublimation,
- suffocating,
- suffocation,
- sumptuary laws,
- surcease,
- symbolization,
- taboo,
- taming,
- tenacity,
- terminating,
- termination,
- throttling,
- treading down,
- unaffability,
- unapproachability,
- uncongeniality,
- undemonstrativeness,
- unexpansiveness,
- uprooting,
- veil,
- veil of secrecy,
- voiding,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawnness,
- withholding,
- wraps,
- zoning,
- zoning laws
- good-for-nothing
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- without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk" related words >
- Bowery bum,
- NG,
- bad lot,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- beggarly fellow,
- blighter,
- bone-lazy,
- budmash,
- bum,
- bummer,
- cadging,
- caitiff,
- cheap,
- derelict,
- devil,
- dilatory,
- do-nothing,
- doless,
- drifter,
- dronish,
- drony,
- drunkard,
- easy,
- ergophobic,
- faineant,
- good-for-naught,
- hobo,
- human wreck,
- indolent,
- junk,
- junky,
- laggard,
- lax,
- lazy,
- lazzarone,
- lowlife,
- mauvais sujet,
- mean wretch,
- mucker,
- no-account,
- no-good,
- nonaggressive,
- not worth having,
- not worth mentioning,
- not worthwhile,
- nothing,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- parasitic,
- pauvre diable,
- pilgarlic,
- poor creature,
- poor devil,
- procrastinative,
- profligate,
- remiss,
- rounder,
- sad case,
- sad sack,
- scapegrace,
- scrounging,
- shabby,
- shiftless,
- shoddy,
- skid-row bum,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- sponging,
- stiff,
- sundowner,
- swagman,
- tramp,
- trashy,
- trivial,
- truant,
- unenterprising,
- unworthy,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- valueless,
- vaurien,
- waster,
- wastrel,
- work-shy,
- worthless,
- worthless fellow,
- wretch
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