Related Words:
- arid
collapse - lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
- lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross" related words >
- Saharan,
- academic,
- acarpous,
- anhydrous,
- athirst,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- bone-dry,
- bookish,
- boring,
- bromidic,
- celibate,
- characterless,
- childless,
- cold,
- colorless,
- dead,
- desert,
- desolate,
- dismal,
- drab,
- draggy,
- drained,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dried-up,
- droughty,
- dry,
- dry as dust,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- earthbound,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- exhausted,
- fade,
- fallow,
- flat,
- fruitless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- heavy,
- high and dry,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- impotent,
- inane,
- ineffectual,
- inexcitable,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- insipid,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- juiceless,
- lackluster,
- leached,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- like parchment,
- literal,
- low-spirited,
- menopausal,
- moistureless,
- monotonous,
- mundane,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedantic,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- sandy,
- sapless,
- sere,
- sine prole,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- staid,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stolid,
- stuffy,
- sucked dry,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- teemless,
- thirsting,
- thirsty,
- unanimated,
- uncultivated,
- undamped,
- unfanciful,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- unideal,
- unimaginative,
- uninspired,
- uninteresting,
- uninventive,
- unlively,
- unoriginal,
- unplowed,
- unpoetic,
- unproductive,
- unprolific,
- unromantic,
- unromanticized,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- unwatered,
- vapid,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- waterless,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- without issue,
- wooden
- recount
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- an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election
- count again; "We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made" related words >
- account,
- accounts,
- add up,
- allegorize,
- battologize,
- body count,
- capitulation,
- cast up,
- census,
- cipher up,
- communicate,
- count,
- count up,
- describe,
- detail,
- election returns,
- enumerate,
- fable,
- fabulize,
- fictionalize,
- figure up,
- fill,
- foot up,
- give an encore,
- go over,
- go through,
- head count,
- impart,
- inventory,
- itemize,
- iterate,
- landslide,
- mythicize,
- mythify,
- mythologize,
- narrate,
- nose count,
- novelize,
- official count,
- pad,
- particularize,
- poll,
- practice,
- reaffirm,
- reassert,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- recapitulation,
- recite,
- reckon up,
- reckoning,
- recounting,
- rehash,
- rehearsal,
- rehearse,
- reissue,
- reiterate,
- relate,
- repertory,
- report,
- reprint,
- restate,
- resume,
- retail,
- retell,
- returns,
- review,
- reword,
- romance,
- run over,
- say over,
- say over again,
- score up,
- specify,
- state,
- statement,
- storify,
- sum,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- summary,
- summate,
- summation,
- summing,
- summing up,
- tally up,
- tautologize,
- tell,
- tell a story,
- tidal wave,
- tot up,
- total,
- total up,
- tote up,
- unfold,
- unfold a tale
- exhausted
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- completely emptied of resources or properties; "impossible to grow tobacco on the exhausted soil"; "the exhausted food sources"; "exhausted oil wells"
- drained physically; "the day's events left her completely exhausted--her strength drained"
- drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out" related words >
- ablated,
- acarpous,
- all in,
- arid,
- at an end,
- ausgespielt,
- bare,
- barren,
- beat,
- beat up,
- beaten,
- bleary,
- bone-weary,
- burned-out,
- burnt up,
- bushed,
- cachectic,
- celibate,
- childless,
- consumed,
- dead,
- dead-and-alive,
- dead-tired,
- deadbeat,
- debilitated,
- depleted,
- desert,
- desolate,
- devitalized,
- disabled,
- dissipated,
- dog-tired,
- dog-weary,
- done,
- done in,
- done up,
- drained,
- dried-up,
- dry,
- eaten up,
- effete,
- emptied,
- empty,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- eroded,
- eviscerated,
- fagged out,
- failing,
- fallow,
- far-gone,
- fatigued,
- feeble,
- finished,
- frail,
- frazzled,
- fruitless,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- gone,
- healthless,
- impotent,
- impoverished,
- in poor health,
- incapacitated,
- ineffectual,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- infirm,
- invalid,
- issueless,
- jaded,
- jejune,
- knocked out,
- laid low,
- languishing,
- leached,
- limp,
- menopausal,
- moribund,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- pale,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- played out,
- pooped,
- pooped out,
- poor,
- prostrate,
- ready to drop,
- reduced,
- reduced in health,
- run-down,
- sapped,
- shotten,
- sickly,
- sine prole,
- spent,
- sterile,
- sucked dry,
- teemless,
- tired,
- tired out,
- tired to death,
- tuckered out,
- uncultivated,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- unhealthy,
- unplowed,
- unproductive,
- unprolific,
- unsound,
- unsown,
- untilled,
- used up,
- valetudinarian,
- valetudinary,
- virgin,
- washed-out,
- washed-up,
- waste,
- wasted,
- weak,
- weakened,
- weakly,
- wearied,
- weary,
- weary unto death,
- whacked,
- wiped out,
- with low resistance,
- without issue,
- worn,
- worn away,
- worn out,
- worn-out
- A-blast,
- A-bomb shelter,
- Cloudcuckooland,
- H-blast,
- Mach front,
- airborne radioactivity,
- alto-cumulus,
- alto-stratus,
- anvil cloud,
- atom blast,
- banner cloud,
- billowy cloud,
- blast wave,
- cap cloud,
- cirro-cumulus,
- cirro-fillum,
- cirro-nebula,
- cirro-stratus,
- cirro-velum,
- cirrus,
- cirrus cloud,
- cirrus haze,
- cirrus stripe,
- cloud,
- cloud band,
- cloud bank,
- cloud drift,
- cloud mass,
- cloud street,
- cloudland,
- cloudling,
- cloudscape,
- cocktail,
- cottony cloud,
- cumulo-cirro-stratus,
- cumulo-cirrus,
- cumulo-nimbus,
- cumulo-stratus,
- cumulus,
- cumulus cloud,
- curl cloud,
- dust cloud,
- fallout,
- fallout shelter,
- fission particles,
- flash burn,
- fleecy cloud,
- fractocumulus,
- ground zero,
- high fog,
- hydrogen blast,
- mackerel sky,
- mammatocumulus,
- nimbus,
- nimbus cloud,
- radioactive dust,
- rain cloud,
- scud,
- snail cloud,
- squall cloud,
- storm cloud,
- strato-cumulus,
- stratus,
- stratus cloud,
- thundercloud,
- thunderhead,
- water carrier,
- woolpack
- pulsation
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- (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"
- a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity related words >
- alternation,
- arrhythmia,
- bar beat,
- barrage,
- beat,
- beating,
- ceaselessness,
- chattering,
- constancy,
- constant flow,
- continualness,
- continuity,
- cyclicalness,
- downbeat,
- drum,
- drum music,
- drumbeat,
- drumfire,
- drumming,
- flutter,
- heartbeat,
- heartthrob,
- incessancy,
- intermittence,
- intermittency,
- meter,
- noninterruption,
- offbeat,
- oscillation,
- palpitation,
- paradiddle,
- patter,
- pendulum motion,
- periodicalness,
- periodicity,
- perpetuity,
- piston motion,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- pound,
- pounding,
- pulse,
- quick fire,
- rapid fire,
- rapid recurrence,
- rapid succession,
- rapidity,
- rat-a-tat,
- rat-tat,
- rat-tat-tat,
- rataplan,
- rattattoo,
- reappearance,
- recurrence,
- regular wave motion,
- regularity,
- reoccurrence,
- repetition,
- return,
- rhythm,
- roll,
- rub-a-dub,
- ruff,
- ruffle,
- seasonality,
- spatter,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- staccato,
- steadiness,
- stuttering,
- sustainment,
- tat-tat,
- tattoo,
- tempo,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- thrum,
- thumping,
- tom-tom,
- undulation,
- unintermission,
- uninterruption,
- upbeat,
- vibration
- specification
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- (patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and use of an invention
- a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work
- naming explicitly related words >
- allocation,
- allowance,
- analysis,
- anatomization,
- assignment,
- atomization,
- attribution,
- boundary condition,
- bounding,
- cameo,
- catalog,
- cataloging,
- catch,
- cession,
- character,
- character sketch,
- characterization,
- circling-in,
- circumscribing,
- circumscription,
- circumstantiation,
- clause,
- concession,
- condition,
- consideration,
- definition,
- delimitation,
- delineation,
- demarcation,
- denomination,
- denotation,
- depiction,
- describing,
- description,
- designation,
- detail,
- details,
- determination,
- differentiation,
- disclosure,
- donnee,
- encincture,
- enumeration,
- escalator clause,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- evocation,
- exception,
- exemption,
- expression,
- extenuating circumstances,
- fine print,
- fingering,
- fixing,
- given,
- grain of salt,
- grant,
- graphic account,
- grounds,
- hedge,
- hedging,
- hint,
- identification,
- identifying,
- image,
- imagery,
- impression,
- inclusion-exclusion,
- indication,
- indicativeness,
- inventory,
- itemization,
- itemizing,
- joker,
- kicker,
- limitation,
- limiting condition,
- limning,
- list,
- listing,
- manifestation,
- meaning,
- mental reservation,
- modification,
- naming,
- obligation,
- parameter,
- particularization,
- photograph,
- picking out,
- picture,
- pinning down,
- pointing,
- pointing out,
- pointing to,
- portrait,
- portraiture,
- portrayal,
- precision,
- prerequisite,
- profile,
- provision,
- provisions,
- proviso,
- qualification,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- representation,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- reservation,
- restriction,
- salvo,
- saving clause,
- selection,
- show,
- showing,
- signification,
- sine qua non,
- sketch,
- small print,
- special case,
- special treatment,
- specialness,
- specifying,
- stipulation,
- string,
- suggestion,
- symptomaticness,
- terms,
- ultimatum,
- vignette,
- vivid description,
- waiver,
- whereas,
- word painting
- impotent
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- lacking power or ability; "Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent"- Freeman J.Dyson; "felt impotent rage"
- (of a male) unable to copulate related words >
- acarpous,
- aimless,
- anemic,
- arid,
- asexual,
- asthenic,
- barren,
- blank cartridge,
- bloodless,
- careless,
- castrated,
- castrato,
- celibate,
- chicken,
- childless,
- cold,
- cowardly,
- crippled,
- debilitated,
- desert,
- desolate,
- disabled,
- drained,
- dried-up,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- dry,
- dud,
- dull,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- effete,
- emasculate,
- emasculated,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- etiolated,
- eunuch,
- eunuchized,
- exhausted,
- faint,
- faintish,
- fallow,
- featherweight,
- feckless,
- feeble,
- flabby,
- flaccid,
- floppy,
- forceless,
- frail,
- frigid,
- fruitless,
- frustrated,
- gaunt,
- gelded,
- gelding,
- gone,
- gutless,
- helpless,
- imbecile,
- imprecise,
- inadequate,
- incompetent,
- indifferent,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inept,
- infecund,
- infertile,
- infirm,
- invalid,
- invertebrate,
- issueless,
- jejune,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lax,
- leached,
- lenient,
- lightweight,
- limber,
- limp,
- listless,
- loose,
- lustless,
- marrowless,
- meaningless,
- menopausal,
- negligent,
- nerveless,
- neuter,
- neutral,
- no go,
- no-account,
- nonfertile,
- nonproducing,
- nonproductive,
- nonprolific,
- of no account,
- of no use,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- permissive,
- pithless,
- pointless,
- pooped,
- powerless,
- purposeless,
- relaxed,
- remiss,
- rubbery,
- sapless,
- sexless,
- sine prole,
- sinewless,
- slack,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- soft,
- spineless,
- sterile,
- strengthless,
- sucked dry,
- superfluous,
- teemless,
- unauthoritative,
- unavailing,
- uncultivated,
- unfertile,
- unfruitful,
- unhardened,
- unnerved,
- unplowed,
- unproductive,
- unprolific,
- unrestrained,
- unsexed,
- unsexual,
- unsown,
- unstrung,
- untilled,
- useless,
- virgin,
- waste,
- wasted,
- weak,
- weakling,
- weakly,
- without any weight,
- without issue
- television
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- a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points
- broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects; "she is a star of screen and video"; "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done" - Ernie Kovacs related words >
- TV,
- advice,
- adviser,
- announcer,
- annunciator,
- authority,
- automation,
- avionics,
- box,
- broadcast journalism,
- channel,
- communicant,
- communicator,
- electron microscopy,
- electron optics,
- electron physics,
- electronic engineering,
- electronics,
- electrophysics,
- enlightener,
- expert witness,
- gossipmonger,
- grapevine,
- informant,
- information,
- information center,
- information medium,
- informer,
- intelligence,
- interviewee,
- journalism,
- line radio,
- monitor,
- mouthpiece,
- news,
- news agency,
- news medium,
- news service,
- newsiness,
- newsletter,
- newsmagazine,
- newsmonger,
- newspaper,
- newsworthiness,
- notifier,
- photoelectricity,
- press,
- press association,
- public relations officer,
- publisher,
- radar,
- radio,
- radionics,
- radiophotography,
- radiotelegraphy,
- radiotelephony,
- reportage,
- reporter,
- source,
- spokesman,
- telegraph agency,
- teller,
- telly,
- the fourth estate,
- the press,
- tidings,
- tipster,
- tout,
- transistor physics,
- tube,
- wire service,
- wire wave communication,
- wired radio,
- wired wireless,
- wireless,
- wireless telegraphy,
- wireless telephony,
- witness,
- word
- crisis
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- a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better"
- an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis" related words >
- bench mark,
- boom,
- bottoming out,
- breakers ahead,
- business cycle,
- business fluctuations,
- bust,
- calamity,
- cardhouse,
- cardinal point,
- catastrophe,
- cause for alarm,
- chief thing,
- climacteric,
- climax,
- clutch,
- contingency,
- convergence of events,
- cooling off,
- core,
- cornerstone,
- critical juncture,
- critical moment,
- critical point,
- crossroads,
- crucial period,
- crunch,
- crux,
- danger,
- dangerous ground,
- depression,
- disaster,
- dollar crisis,
- dollar gap,
- downturn,
- economic cycle,
- economic expansion,
- economic growth,
- emergency,
- endangerment,
- essence,
- essential,
- essential matter,
- exigency,
- expanding economy,
- expansion,
- extremity,
- financial crisis,
- fundamental,
- gaping chasm,
- gathering clouds,
- gist,
- gravamen,
- great point,
- growth,
- hazard,
- heart,
- high growth rate,
- high point,
- high pressure,
- hinge,
- house of cards,
- imperativeness,
- imperilment,
- important thing,
- issue,
- jeopardy,
- kernel,
- keystone,
- landmark,
- low,
- main point,
- main thing,
- market expansion,
- material point,
- meat,
- menace,
- milestone,
- nub,
- pass,
- peak,
- peaking,
- peril,
- pinch,
- pith,
- pivot,
- plight,
- predicament,
- press,
- pressure,
- prosperity,
- push,
- quicksand,
- real issue,
- recession,
- recovery,
- risk,
- rocks ahead,
- rub,
- salient point,
- sine qua non,
- slowdown,
- slump,
- storm clouds,
- strait,
- stress,
- substance,
- substantive point,
- tension,
- the bottom line,
- the point,
- thin ice,
- threat,
- turn,
- turning point,
- upturn,
- urgency,
- zero hour
- a outrance,
- antagonize,
- bandy with,
- battle,
- battle it out,
- beat against,
- beat up against,
- box,
- brawl,
- breast the wave,
- broil,
- buck,
- buffet,
- buffet the waves,
- bump heads,
- clash,
- close,
- close with,
- collide,
- combat,
- come to blows,
- compete with,
- contend,
- contend against,
- contend with,
- contest,
- cope with,
- cross swords with,
- cut and thrust,
- duel,
- engage with,
- exchange blows,
- exchange shots,
- fence,
- feud,
- fight,
- fight a duel,
- fight against,
- fight like devils,
- fight with,
- give and take,
- give satisfaction,
- go to loggerheads,
- grapple,
- have it out,
- join battle with,
- jostle,
- joust,
- labor against,
- lock horns,
- measure swords with,
- militate against,
- mix it up,
- offer resistance,
- quarrel,
- rassle,
- reluct,
- reluctate,
- riot,
- rival,
- run a tilt,
- scramble,
- scuffle,
- settle it,
- skirmish,
- spar,
- stem the tide,
- strive,
- strive against,
- strive with,
- struggle,
- struggle against,
- struggle with,
- take on,
- tangle with,
- thrust and parry,
- tilt,
- tilt with,
- tourney,
- try conclusions with,
- tussle,
- vie with,
- wage war,
- war,
- wrestle,
- wrestle with
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