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slight stretching
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slight stretching
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Related Words:
half truth
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related words >
blague
,
cock-and-bull story
,
exaggeration
,
fairy tale
,
falsehood
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
ghost story
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
mendacity
,
pious fiction
,
prevarication
,
slight stretching
,
story
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
trumped-up story
,
untruth
,
white lie
,
yarn
white lie
collapse
an unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite)
related words >
blague
,
cock-and-bull story
,
exaggeration
,
fairy tale
,
falsehood
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
ghost story
,
half-truth
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
mendacity
,
pious fiction
,
prevarication
,
slight stretching
,
story
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
trumped-up story
,
untruth
,
yarn
tall story
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related words >
big talk
,
blague
,
bullshit
,
bunk
,
bunkum
,
cock-and-bull story
,
exaggeration
,
fairy tale
,
falsehood
,
falsity
,
fancy talk
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fine talk
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
gas
,
ghost story
,
half-truth
,
highfalutin
,
highfaluting
,
hot air
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
mendacity
,
pious fiction
,
prevarication
,
slight stretching
,
story
,
tale
,
tall tale
,
tall talk
,
taradiddle
,
trumped-up story
,
untruth
,
white lie
,
yarn
fish story
collapse
related words >
big talk
,
blague
,
bullshit
,
bunk
,
bunkum
,
cock-and-bull story
,
exaggeration
,
fairy tale
,
falsehood
,
falsity
,
fancy talk
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fine talk
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
gas
,
ghost story
,
half-truth
,
highfalutin
,
highfaluting
,
hot air
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
mendacity
,
pious fiction
,
prevarication
,
slight stretching
,
story
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
tall talk
,
taradiddle
,
trumped-up story
,
untruth
,
white lie
,
yarn
mendacity
collapse
the tendency to be untruthful
related words >
blague
,
boggling
,
caviling
,
cock-and-bull story
,
credibility gap
,
dishonesty
,
dodging
,
equivocation
,
exaggeration
,
fairy tale
,
falsehood
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fib
,
fibbery
,
fibbing
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
ghost story
,
half-truth
,
hedging
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
lying
,
mendaciousness
,
mythomania
,
pious fiction
,
prevarication
,
pseudology
,
quibbling
,
shifting
,
sidestepping
,
slight stretching
,
story
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
trumped-up story
,
truthlessness
,
untruth
,
untruthfulness
,
unveraciousness
,
white lie
,
yarn
fib
collapse
a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
tell a relatively insignificant lie; "Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying"
related words >
be untruthful
,
blague
,
bouncer
,
canard
,
cock-and-bull story
,
concoct
,
deceive
,
draw the longbow
,
equivocate
,
equivocation
,
evasiveness
,
exaggerate
,
exaggeration
,
fabricate
,
fairy tale
,
falsehood
,
falsify
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
ghost story
,
half-truth
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
lie flatly
,
little white lie
,
make up
,
mendacity
,
mislead
,
palter
,
pious fiction
,
prevaricate
,
prevarication
,
slight stretching
,
speak falsely
,
story
,
stretch the truth
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
tell a lie
,
trump up
,
trumped-up story
,
untruth
,
untruthfulness
,
white lie
,
yarn
falsehood
collapse
a false statement
related words >
blague
,
canard
,
cock-and-bull story
,
credibility gap
,
deceit
,
dishonesty
,
dissimulation
,
distortion
,
erroneousness
,
error
,
exaggeration
,
fabrication
,
fairy tale
,
fakery
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
feigning
,
fib
,
fibbery
,
fibbing
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
fraud
,
ghost story
,
half-truth
,
inveracity
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
lying
,
mendaciousness
,
mendacity
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
mythomania
,
pious fiction
,
pretense
,
prevarication
,
pseudology
,
sham
,
slight stretching
,
story
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
trumped-up story
,
truthlessness
,
untrueness
,
untruth
,
untruthfulness
,
unveraciousness
,
white lie
,
yarn
untruth
collapse
related words >
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
blague
,
canard
,
cock-and-bull story
,
defectiveness
,
delusion
,
deviancy
,
distortion
,
errancy
,
erroneousness
,
error
,
exaggeration
,
fairy tale
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falsehood
,
falseness
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fault
,
faultiness
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flaw
,
flawedness
,
flimflam
,
ghost story
,
half-truth
,
hamartia
,
heresy
,
heterodoxy
,
illusion
,
inveracity
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
mendacity
,
misapplication
,
misconstruction
,
misdoing
,
misfeasance
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
misrepresentation
,
peccancy
,
perversion
,
pious fiction
,
prevarication
,
self-contradiction
,
sin
,
sinfulness
,
slight stretching
,
story
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
trumped-up story
,
truthlessness
,
unorthodoxy
,
untrueness
,
untruthfulness
,
white lie
,
yarn
ghost story
collapse
related words >
Marchen
,
Western
,
Western story
,
Westerner
,
adventure story
,
allegory
,
apologue
,
bedtime story
,
blague
,
cock-and-bull story
,
detective story
,
exaggeration
,
fable
,
fabliau
,
fairy tale
,
falsehood
,
falsity
,
fantasy
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
folk story
,
folktale
,
gest
,
half-truth
,
horse opera
,
legal fiction
,
legend
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
love story
,
mendacity
,
mystery
,
mystery story
,
myth
,
mythology
,
mythos
,
nursery tale
,
parable
,
pious fiction
,
prevarication
,
romance
,
science fiction
,
shocker
,
slight stretching
,
space fiction
,
space opera
,
story
,
suspense story
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
thriller
,
trumped-up story
,
untruth
,
white lie
,
whodunit
,
work of fiction
,
yarn
fairy tale
collapse
related words >
Marchen
,
Western
,
Western story
,
Westerner
,
adventure story
,
allegory
,
apologue
,
bedtime story
,
blague
,
cock-and-bull story
,
detective story
,
exaggeration
,
fable
,
fabliau
,
falsehood
,
falsity
,
fantasy
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
folk story
,
folktale
,
gest
,
ghost story
,
half-truth
,
horse opera
,
legal fiction
,
legend
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
love story
,
mendacity
,
mystery
,
mystery story
,
myth
,
mythology
,
mythos
,
nursery tale
,
parable
,
pious fiction
,
prevarication
,
romance
,
science fiction
,
shocker
,
slight stretching
,
space fiction
,
space opera
,
story
,
suspense story
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
thriller
,
trumped-up story
,
untruth
,
white lie
,
whodunit
,
work of fiction
,
yarn
laugh at
collapse
related words >
deride
,
despise
,
disdain
,
disregard
,
flout
,
grin at
,
hold in derision
,
laugh to scorn
,
make fun of
,
make game of
,
make merry with
,
pan
,
pillory
,
point at
,
poke fun at
,
put one on
,
rag
,
razz
,
ride
,
ridicule
,
roast
,
scoff at
,
scorn
,
scout
,
set at defiance
,
slight
,
slight over
,
smile at
,
snicker at
,
snigger at
,
treat with contempt
prevarication
collapse
related words >
bickering
,
blague
,
boggling
,
bouncer
,
canard
,
captiousness
,
caviling
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
cock-and-bull story
,
coloring
,
confabulation
,
distortion
,
dodging
,
equivocation
,
evasion
,
exaggeration
,
fairy tale
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falsehood
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fencing
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
ghost story
,
hairsplitting
,
half-truth
,
hedging
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
logic-chopping
,
mendacity
,
miscoloring
,
misconstruction
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
nit-picking
,
paltering
,
parrying
,
perjury
,
perversion
,
pettifoggery
,
pious fiction
,
pussyfooting
,
quibbling
,
shifting
,
shuffle
,
shuffling
,
sidestepping
,
slight stretching
,
story
,
straining
,
subterfuge
,
suppressio veri
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
tergiversation
,
trichoschistism
,
trumped-up story
,
untruth
,
weasel words
,
white lie
,
yarn
svelte
collapse
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
ethereal
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
frail
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gracile
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
light
,
misty
,
papery
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
subtle
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
vague
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
overexpansion
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related words >
bloat
,
bloating
,
breaking point
,
distension
,
extreme tension
,
inflation
,
overdistension
,
overdrawing
,
overextension
,
overstrain
,
overstraining
,
overstretching
,
snapping point
,
strain
,
straining
,
stretch
,
stretching
,
swelling
,
tension
breaking point
collapse
the degree of tension or stress at which something breaks
(psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial
related words >
bloat
,
bloating
,
distension
,
extreme tension
,
inflation
,
overdistension
,
overdrawing
,
overexpansion
,
overextension
,
overstrain
,
overstraining
,
overstretching
,
snapping point
,
strain
,
straining
,
stretch
,
stretching
,
swelling
,
tension
yarn
collapse
tell or spin a yarn
related words >
account
,
anecdotage
,
anecdote
,
belly laugh
,
blague
,
blue story
,
braid
,
brail
,
cable
,
causerie
,
chat
,
chin
,
chronicle
,
cock-and-bull story
,
colloque
,
cord
,
dirty joke
,
dirty story
,
double entendre
,
epic
,
epos
,
ethnic joke
,
exaggeration
,
fable
,
fabrication
,
fairy tale
,
falsehood
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
fun
,
funny story
,
gag
,
ghost story
,
good one
,
good story
,
half-truth
,
howler
,
jape
,
jest
,
jestbook
,
joke
,
laugh
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
ligament
,
ligation
,
ligature
,
line
,
little white lie
,
mendacity
,
narration
,
narrative
,
panic
,
pious fiction
,
play
,
point
,
prevarication
,
prose
,
rap
,
rib tickler
,
riot
,
rope
,
saga
,
scream
,
sick joke
,
sidesplitter
,
sight gag
,
slight stretching
,
sport
,
spun yarn
,
story
,
strand
,
string
,
tale
,
talk
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
tendon
,
thong
,
thread
,
trumped-up story
,
twine
,
twist
,
untruth
,
visit
,
visual joke
,
wheeze
,
white lie
,
whopper
,
wire
,
wow
tale
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related words >
account
,
aggregate
,
all
,
amount
,
anecdotage
,
anecdote
,
back-fence gossip
,
backbiting
,
backstabbing
,
be-all and end-all
,
belittlement
,
blague
,
box score
,
calumny
,
canard
,
cast
,
chitchat
,
chronicle
,
cock-and-bull story
,
count
,
defamation
,
depreciation
,
difference
,
disparagement
,
entirety
,
enumerate
,
epic
,
epos
,
exaggeration
,
fabrication
,
fairy tale
,
falsehood
,
falsification
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
ghost story
,
gossip
,
gossiping
,
gossipmongering
,
gossipry
,
groundless rumor
,
half-truth
,
history
,
idle talk
,
legal fiction
,
libel
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
mendacity
,
misrepresentation
,
myth
,
narration
,
narrative
,
newsmongering
,
number
,
numerate
,
piece of gossip
,
pious fiction
,
prevarication
,
product
,
quantity
,
recital
,
reckoning
,
record
,
report
,
rumor
,
saga
,
scandal
,
score
,
scuttlebutt
,
slander
,
slight stretching
,
story
,
sum
,
sum total
,
summation
,
talebearing
,
taletelling
,
talk
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
tally
,
taradiddle
,
tattle
,
tell
,
the bottom line
,
the story
,
the whole story
,
tittle-tattle
,
total
,
totality
,
tote
,
trumped-up story
,
untruth
,
white lie
,
whole
,
x number
,
yam
,
yarn
sylphlike
collapse
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
elfin
,
elfish
,
elflike
,
ethereal
,
faery
,
fairy
,
fairyish
,
fairylike
,
fay
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
frail
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gnomelike
,
gnomish
,
gossamer
,
gracile
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
light
,
misty
,
papery
,
pixieish
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphidine
,
sylphine
,
sylphish
,
sylphy
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
vague
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
fine drawn
collapse
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
downy
,
ethereal
,
filmy
,
fine
,
fine-grained
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
fluffy
,
frail
,
fuzzy
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gossamery
,
gracile
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
light
,
misty
,
papery
,
pubescent
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
refined
,
satin
,
satiny
,
silky
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
smooth
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
vague
,
velutinous
,
velvety
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
wiredrawn
collapse
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
downy
,
ethereal
,
filmy
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
fine-grained
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
fluffy
,
frail
,
fuzzy
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gossamery
,
gracile
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
light
,
misty
,
papery
,
pubescent
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
refined
,
satin
,
satiny
,
silky
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
smooth
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
vague
,
velutinous
,
velvety
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wispy
exaggeration
collapse
the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"
making to seem more important than it really is
related words >
abandon
,
abstractionism
,
accelerando
,
acceleration
,
affectation
,
aggrandizement
,
aggravation
,
amplification
,
beefing-up
,
blague
,
blowing up
,
blowup
,
boundlessness
,
cock-and-bull story
,
coloring
,
command of language
,
concentration
,
condensation
,
confabulation
,
consolidation
,
deepening
,
deformation
,
distortion
,
egregiousness
,
embellishment
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
enormousness
,
equivocation
,
exacerbation
,
excess
,
excessiveness
,
exorbitance
,
exorbitancy
,
explosion
,
expression of ideas
,
expressionism
,
extravagance
,
extravagancy
,
extreme
,
extremes
,
extremism
,
extremity
,
fabulousness
,
fairy tale
,
false coloring
,
false swearing
,
falsehood
,
falsification
,
falsifying
,
falsity
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fashion
,
feeling for words
,
fib
,
fiction
,
fish story
,
flam
,
flight of fancy
,
flimflam
,
form of speech
,
garbling
,
ghost story
,
giantism
,
gigantism
,
gluttony
,
grace of expression
,
grandiloquence
,
half-truth
,
heating-up
,
heightening
,
hyperbole
,
hypertrophy
,
immoderacy
,
immoderateness
,
immoderation
,
inaccuracy
,
incontinence
,
inflation
,
information explosion
,
injustice
,
inordinacy
,
inordinance
,
inordinateness
,
intemperance
,
intemperateness
,
intensification
,
inundation
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
literary style
,
litotes
,
little white lie
,
magnification
,
manner
,
manner of speaking
,
mannerism
,
mendacity
,
miscoloring
,
misconstruction
,
misdrawing
,
mispainting
,
misquotation
,
misreport
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
misteaching
,
mode
,
mode of expression
,
monstrousness
,
nimiety
,
nonrealism
,
outrageousness
,
overappraisal
,
overassessment
,
overcalculation
,
overdevelopment
,
overdrawing
,
overestimate
,
overestimation
,
overflowing
,
overgreatness
,
overgrowth
,
overindulgence
,
overlargeness
,
overmuch
,
overmuchness
,
overpass
,
overrating
,
overreaction
,
overreckoning
,
overrun
,
overrunning
,
overspreading
,
overstatement
,
overvaluation
,
peculiarity
,
perjury
,
personal style
,
perversion
,
pickup
,
pious fiction
,
population explosion
,
prevarication
,
radicalism
,
redoubling
,
reinforcement
,
rhetoric
,
romance
,
sense of language
,
slanting
,
slight stretching
,
speedup
,
step-up
,
story
,
strain
,
straining
,
strengthening
,
stretching
,
style
,
stylistic analysis
,
stylistics
,
superiority
,
surplus
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
tall talk
,
taradiddle
,
the grand style
,
the plain style
,
the sublime
,
tightening
,
too much
,
too-muchness
,
trick
,
trumped-up story
,
twisting
,
unconscionableness
,
understatement
,
undueness
,
unreasonableness
,
unrestrainedness
,
untruth
,
vein
,
way
,
white lie
,
yarn
finespun
collapse
developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"
developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense"
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
downy
,
ethereal
,
filmy
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
fine-grained
,
flimsy
,
fluffy
,
frail
,
fuzzy
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gossamery
,
gracile
,
hairline
,
hairsplitting
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
light
,
misty
,
nice
,
papery
,
pubescent
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
refined
,
satin
,
satiny
,
silky
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
smooth
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
vague
,
velutinous
,
velvety
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
boyish
collapse
befitting or characteristic of a young boy; "a boyish grin"; "schoolboyish pranks"
related words >
adolescent
,
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
beardless
,
boylike
,
calflike
,
childish
,
childlike
,
coltish
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
ethereal
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
frail
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
girllike
,
gossamer
,
gracile
,
immature
,
insubstantial
,
juvenile
,
kiddish
,
lacy
,
light
,
maiden
,
maidenly
,
misty
,
papery
,
puerile
,
puplike
,
puppyish
,
puppylike
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
vague
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
,
young
,
youthful
wasp waisted
collapse
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
clamped
,
compressed
,
concentrated
,
condensed
,
consolidated
,
constricted
,
contracted
,
cramped
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
ethereal
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
frail
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gracile
,
insubstantial
,
knitted
,
lacy
,
light
,
misty
,
nipped
,
papery
,
pinched
,
pinched-in
,
puckered
,
pursed
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
solidified
,
squeezed
,
strangled
,
strangulated
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
vague
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
,
wrinkled
threadlike
collapse
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
capillary
,
cirrose
,
cirrous
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
ethereal
,
fibered
,
fibroid
,
fibrous
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flagelliform
,
flimsy
,
flossy
,
frail
,
funicular
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gossamery
,
gracile
,
hairlike
,
hairy
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
ligamental
,
light
,
misty
,
papery
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
ropy
,
silky
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
stringy
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
taeniate
,
taeniform
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
thready
,
vague
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wiry
,
wispy
lacy
collapse
made of or resembling lace; "a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf"
having open interstices or resembling a web
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
barred
,
boyish
,
cancellated
,
crossbarred
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
ethereal
,
filigreed
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
frail
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gracile
,
grated
,
gridded
,
insubstantial
,
laced
,
lacelike
,
latticelike
,
light
,
meshed
,
meshy
,
misty
,
mullioned
,
netlike
,
netted
,
netty
,
papery
,
plexiform
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
reticular
,
reticulate
,
reticulated
,
retiform
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
streaked
,
striped
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
vague
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
wispy
collapse
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
breakable
,
brittle
,
cheap-jack
,
cobwebby
,
crumbly
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
delicately weak
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
effeminate
,
ethereal
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
fragile
,
frail
,
frangible
,
gauzy
,
gimcrack
,
gimcracky
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gossamery
,
gracile
,
insubstantial
,
jerry
,
jerry-built
,
lacy
,
light
,
lightweight
,
misty
,
namby-pamby
,
papery
,
pasteboardy
,
puny
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
shattery
,
sissified
,
sleazy
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tacky
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
unsubstantial
,
vague
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
womanish
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
slinky
collapse
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
back-door
,
backstairs
,
boyish
,
clandestine
,
covert
,
cowering
,
cringing
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
ethereal
,
feline
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
frail
,
furtive
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gracile
,
hidlings
,
hole-and-corner
,
hugger-mugger
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
light
,
misty
,
papery
,
privy
,
quailing
,
quiet
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
shifty
,
skulking
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinking
,
sly
,
small
,
sneaking
,
sneaky
,
stealthy
,
subtle
,
surreptitious
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
under-the-counter
,
under-the-table
,
undercover
,
underground
,
underhand
,
underhanded
,
unobtrusive
,
vague
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
girlish
collapse
befitting or characteristic of a young girl; "girlish charm"; "a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear"
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
beardless
,
boyish
,
boylike
,
calflike
,
childish
,
childlike
,
coltish
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
distaff
,
ethereal
,
female
,
feminine
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
frail
,
gauzy
,
gentlewomanlike
,
girllike
,
gossamer
,
gracile
,
gynecic
,
gynecoid
,
gynic
,
insubstantial
,
kiddish
,
kittenish
,
lacy
,
ladylike
,
light
,
little-girlish
,
maiden
,
maidenly
,
matronal
,
matronlike
,
matronly
,
misty
,
muliebral
,
papery
,
petticoat
,
puerile
,
puplike
,
puppyish
,
puppylike
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
vague
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
,
womanish
,
womanlike
,
womanly
diaphanous
collapse
so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
clear
,
clear as crystal
,
cloudless
,
crystal
,
crystal-clear
,
crystalline
,
delicate
,
diaphane
,
diluted
,
ethereal
,
filmy
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
frail
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gossamery
,
gracile
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
light
,
light-pervious
,
lightish
,
lightsome
,
limpid
,
lucent
,
lucid
,
luculent
,
misty
,
nonopaque
,
papery
,
peekaboo
,
pellucid
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
relucent
,
revealing
,
see-through
,
serene
,
sheer
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
translucent
,
translucid
,
transparent
,
transpicuous
,
unclouded
,
unobscured
,
vague
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
overextension
collapse
related words >
bloat
,
bloating
,
breaking point
,
distension
,
extreme tension
,
franticness
,
frenziedness
,
haul
,
heave
,
hyperactivity
,
hyperkinesia
,
hyperkinesis
,
inflation
,
officiousness
,
overactivity
,
overdistension
,
overdrawing
,
overexertion
,
overexpansion
,
overstrain
,
overstraining
,
overstress
,
overstretching
,
overtaxing
,
pull
,
rack
,
snapping point
,
strain
,
straining
,
stress
,
stress and strain
,
stressfulness
,
stretch
,
stretching
,
swelling
,
taxing
,
tension
,
tug
gauzy
collapse
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
clear
,
clear as crystal
,
crystal
,
crystal-clear
,
crystalline
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
diaphane
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
downy
,
ethereal
,
filmy
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
fine-grained
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
fluffy
,
frail
,
fuzzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gossamery
,
gracile
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
light
,
light-pervious
,
limpid
,
lucid
,
misty
,
nonopaque
,
papery
,
peekaboo
,
pellucid
,
pubescent
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
refined
,
revealing
,
satin
,
satiny
,
see-through
,
sheer
,
silky
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
smooth
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
transparent
,
transpicuous
,
unclouded
,
vague
,
velutinous
,
velvety
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
lengthening
collapse
related words >
continualness
,
continuance
,
continuation
,
continuity
,
crescendoing
,
crescent
,
elongation
,
endurance
,
expanding
,
extension
,
growing
,
increasing
,
incremental
,
intensifying
,
lingering
,
maintenance
,
multiplying
,
on the increase
,
perpetuation
,
perseverance
,
persistence
,
procrastination
,
production
,
progress
,
progression
,
proliferating
,
prolongation
,
protraction
,
pursuance
,
repetition
,
run
,
snowballing
,
spreading
,
staying power
,
straight course
,
strain
,
stretch
,
stretching
,
stringing out
,
sustained action
,
sustenance
,
swelling
,
tension
,
tightening
,
uninterrupted course
,
unremittingness
,
waxing
,
way
large scale
collapse
related words >
big
,
broad
,
bumper
,
considerable
,
diffuse
,
extensive
,
far-embracing
,
far-extending
,
far-flung
,
far-flying
,
far-going
,
far-ranging
,
far-reaching
,
goodly
,
grand
,
great
,
healthy
,
hefty
,
indiscriminate
,
large
,
liberal
,
major
,
man-sized
,
numerous
,
sizable
,
substantial
,
sweeping
,
tall
,
tidy
,
wholesale
,
wide
,
wide-extended
,
wide-extending
,
wide-ranging
,
wide-reaching
,
wide-stretching
,
widespread
drowsiness
collapse
related words >
acedia
,
apathy
,
boredom
,
doziness
,
dullness
,
enervation
,
ennui
,
fatigue
,
heaviness
,
hebetude
,
inanimation
,
indifference
,
jadedness
,
lackadaisicalness
,
languidness
,
languishment
,
languor
,
languorousness
,
lassitude
,
lenitude
,
lentor
,
lethargy
,
lifelessness
,
listlessness
,
oscitancy
,
oscitation
,
pandiculation
,
passivity
,
phlegm
,
satedness
,
sleepiness
,
sloth
,
slothfulness
,
slowness
,
sluggishness
,
somnolence
,
somnolency
,
stretching
,
stupefaction
,
stupor
,
supineness
,
torpidity
,
torpidness
,
torpitude
,
torpor
,
weariness
,
world-weariness
,
yawning
protraction
collapse
related words >
adjournal
,
adjournment
,
continualness
,
continuance
,
continuation
,
continuity
,
dallying
,
deferment
,
deferral
,
delay
,
elongation
,
endurance
,
extension
,
extension of time
,
lag
,
lengthening
,
lingering
,
maintenance
,
perpetuation
,
perseverance
,
persistence
,
postponement
,
procrastination
,
production
,
progress
,
progression
,
prolongation
,
prorogation
,
pursuance
,
putting-off
,
repetition
,
run
,
stay
,
staying power
,
straight course
,
strain
,
stretch
,
stretching
,
stringing out
,
suspension
,
sustained action
,
sustenance
,
tabling
,
tension
,
uninterrupted course
,
unremittingness
,
way
somnolence
collapse
related words >
acedia
,
apathy
,
boredom
,
doziness
,
drowsiness
,
dullness
,
enervation
,
ennui
,
fatigue
,
heaviness
,
hebetude
,
inanimation
,
indifference
,
jadedness
,
lackadaisicalness
,
languidness
,
languishment
,
languor
,
languorousness
,
lassitude
,
lenitude
,
lentor
,
lethargy
,
lifelessness
,
listlessness
,
oscitancy
,
oscitation
,
pandiculation
,
passivity
,
phlegm
,
satedness
,
sleepiness
,
sloth
,
slothfulness
,
slowness
,
sluggishness
,
somnolency
,
stretching
,
stupefaction
,
stupor
,
supineness
,
torpidity
,
torpidness
,
torpitude
,
torpor
,
weariness
,
world-weariness
,
yawning
scoff at
collapse
related words >
affront
,
be merry with
,
break the law
,
call names
,
care naught for
,
crack a joke
,
crack wise
,
defy
,
deride
,
despise
,
disdain
,
dishonor
,
disobey
,
disoblige
,
disregard
,
dump on
,
fleer at
,
flout
,
fun
,
gibe at
,
give offense to
,
go counter to
,
hold in derision
,
humiliate
,
hurl a brickbat
,
ignore
,
insult
,
jape
,
jeer at
,
jest
,
jibe at
,
joke
,
josh
,
kid
,
kid around
,
laugh at
,
laugh to scorn
,
make a funny
,
make fun
,
make fun of
,
mock
,
not conform
,
not heed
,
not keep
,
not listen
,
not mind
,
not observe
,
offend
,
outrage
,
play on words
,
poke fun at
,
pun
,
put down
,
quip
,
refuse to cooperate
,
ridicule
,
scintillate
,
scorn
,
scout
,
set at defiance
,
set at naught
,
set naught by
,
slight
,
slight over
,
sparkle
,
taunt
,
transgress
,
treat with contempt
,
treat with indignity
,
utter a mot
,
violate
,
wisecrack
far flung
collapse
related words >
a mile long
,
broad
,
diffuse
,
extensive
,
far
,
far-embracing
,
far-extending
,
far-flying
,
far-going
,
far-off
,
far-ranging
,
far-reaching
,
faraway
,
fargoing
,
indiscriminate
,
interminable
,
large-scale
,
lengthy
,
liberal
,
long
,
longish
,
longsome
,
no end of
,
off
,
removed
,
sesquipedal
,
sesquipedalian
,
sweeping
,
tall
,
wholesale
,
wide
,
wide-extended
,
wide-extending
,
wide-ranging
,
wide-reaching
,
wide-stretching
,
widespread
,
without end
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