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detract from
collapse
related words >
bedwarf
,
belittle
,
bring down
,
bring into discredit
,
bring low
,
cry down
,
de-emphasize
,
debase
,
decrease
,
decry
,
degrade
,
depreciate
,
derogate
,
derogate from
,
diminish
,
disapprove of
,
discount
,
discredit
,
disgrace
,
disparage
,
dispraise
,
downplay
,
dwarf
,
hold in contempt
,
knock
,
lessen
,
libel
,
make little of
,
minify
,
minimize
,
play down
,
put down
,
reduce
,
reflect discredit upon
,
run down
,
slander
,
slight
,
speak ill of
,
submit to indignity
,
underplay
,
write off
forget
collapse
be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!"
dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "i tried to bury these unpleasant memories"
leave behind unintentionally; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors"
forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!"
related words >
abandon
,
blink at
,
blow up
,
brush aside
,
brush off
,
bury the hatchet
,
charge off
,
charge to experience
,
consign to oblivion
,
discount
,
dismiss
,
disregard
,
draw a blank
,
drop the subject
,
fail
,
fluff
,
forget about it
,
forget it
,
forgive and forget
,
ignore
,
lay aside
,
leave behind
,
let it go
,
let it pass
,
let slip
,
lose
,
lose sight of
,
not remember
,
omit
,
overlook
,
overpass
,
push aside
,
put aside
,
set aside
,
shrug off
,
slight
,
sneeze at
,
think nothing of
,
thrust aside
,
turn away from
,
write off
slim
collapse
related words >
Lenten
,
Spartan
,
abstemious
,
adroit
,
airy
,
ascetic
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
austere
,
barebones
,
bean pole
,
beanstalk
,
boyish
,
broomstick
,
canny
,
cheeseparing
,
chinchy
,
chintzy
,
clothes pole
,
corpse
,
cunning
,
delicate
,
dexterous
,
diaphanous
,
diet
,
diluted
,
dwarfed
,
dwarfish
,
ethereal
,
exiguous
,
fat
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
frail
,
frugal
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gracile
,
impoverished
,
infrequent
,
ingenious
,
insubstantial
,
jejune
,
lacy
,
lanky
,
lean
,
light
,
limited
,
lissome
,
lithe
,
lithesome
,
lose weight
,
meager
,
mean
,
miserly
,
misty
,
narrow
,
negligible
,
niggardly
,
off
,
outside
,
paltry
,
papery
,
parsimonious
,
piddling
,
poor
,
puny
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
rattlebones
,
reduce
,
reedy
,
scant
,
scanty
,
scarce
,
scattered
,
scrawny
,
scrimp
,
scrimping
,
scrimpy
,
seldom met with
,
seldom seen
,
shadow
,
skeleton
,
skimp
,
skimping
,
skimpy
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slenderize
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
sly
,
small
,
spare
,
sparing
,
sparse
,
spindlelegs
,
spindleshanks
,
spotty
,
sprinkled
,
stack of bones
,
starvation
,
stilt
,
stingy
,
stinted
,
straitened
,
stunted
,
subsistence
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
tight
,
twiggy
,
unnourishing
,
unnutritious
,
vague
,
walking skeleton
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
negligible
collapse
so small as to be meaningless; insignificant; "the effect was negligible"
not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"
related words >
back-burner
,
cursory
,
depthless
,
dinky
,
dispensable
,
fat
,
few
,
footling
,
immaterial
,
inappreciable
,
inconsequential
,
inconsiderable
,
inessential
,
inferior
,
insignificant
,
irrelevant
,
little
,
low
,
meager
,
miniature
,
minor
,
minute
,
niggling
,
no great shakes
,
nonessential
,
not vital
,
nugatory
,
off
,
outside
,
paltry
,
petit
,
petty
,
picayune
,
picayunish
,
piddling
,
shallow
,
short
,
skin-deep
,
slender
,
slight
,
slim
,
small
,
superficial
,
technical
,
tiny
,
trifling
,
trivial
,
unessential
,
unimportant
,
unimpressive
,
unnoteworthy
,
worthless
huckstering
collapse
related words >
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
big talk
,
blowing up
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
consumer preference study
,
consumer research
,
consumer survey
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
direct-mail selling
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
grandiloquence
,
hard sell
,
hawking
,
heightening
,
high-pressure salesmanship
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
jobbing
,
low-pressure salesmanship
,
magnification
,
mail-order selling
,
market research
,
marketing
,
marketing research
,
merchandising
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
peddling
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
promotion
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
retailing
,
sales campaign
,
sales promotion
,
salesmanship
,
selling
,
sellout
,
sensationalism
,
soft sell
,
stretching
,
superlative
,
tall talk
,
touting
,
travesty
,
wholesaling
gossamer
collapse
a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture
related words >
air
,
airy
,
animal fiber
,
artificial fiber
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
bubble
,
cambric tea
,
capillament
,
chaff
,
chip
,
cilium
,
cirrus
,
clear
,
clear as crystal
,
cobweb
,
cork
,
crystal
,
crystal-clear
,
crystalline
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
denier
,
diaphane
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
dishwater
,
down
,
downy
,
dust
,
ether
,
ethereal
,
fairy
,
feather
,
fiber
,
fibrilla
,
filament
,
filamentule
,
filmy
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
fine-grained
,
finespun
,
flagellum
,
flimsy
,
flue
,
fluff
,
fluffy
,
foam
,
frail
,
froth
,
fuzz
,
fuzzy
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamery
,
gracile
,
gruel
,
hair
,
hank
,
house of cards
,
insubstantial
,
lacy
,
light
,
light-pervious
,
limpid
,
lucid
,
matchwood
,
milk and water
,
misty
,
mote
,
nonopaque
,
papery
,
peekaboo
,
pellucid
,
pubescent
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
reed
,
refined
,
revealing
,
rope of sand
,
sand castle
,
satin
,
satiny
,
see-through
,
sheer
,
silky
,
skein
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
smooth
,
sponge
,
spume
,
strand
,
straw
,
subtle
,
suture
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tendril
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
thistledown
,
thread
,
threadlet
,
threadlike
,
transparent
,
transpicuous
,
unclouded
,
vague
,
velutinous
,
velvety
,
wasp-waisted
,
water
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
web
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
breakable
collapse
an article that is fragile and easily broken; "pack the breakables separately"
capable of being broken or damaged; "earthenware pottery is breakable"; "breakable articles should be packed carefully"
related words >
brittle
,
brittle as glass
,
cheap-jack
,
cobwebby
,
crackable
,
crisp
,
crispy
,
crumbly
,
crushable
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
delicately weak
,
effeminate
,
fissile
,
flimsy
,
fracturable
,
fragile
,
frail
,
frangible
,
friable
,
gimcrack
,
gimcracky
,
gossamery
,
jerry
,
jerry-built
,
lacerable
,
light
,
lightweight
,
namby-pamby
,
papery
,
pasteboardy
,
puny
,
scissile
,
shatterable
,
shattery
,
shivery
,
sissified
,
sleazy
,
slight
,
splintery
,
tacky
,
unsubstantial
,
vulnerable
,
wispy
,
womanish
frangible
collapse
capable of being broken; "the museum stored all frangible articles in locked showcases"
related words >
breakable
,
brittle
,
brittle as glass
,
cheap-jack
,
cobwebby
,
crackable
,
crisp
,
crispy
,
crumbly
,
crushable
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
delicately weak
,
effeminate
,
fissile
,
flimsy
,
fracturable
,
fragile
,
frail
,
friable
,
gimcrack
,
gimcracky
,
gossamery
,
jerry
,
jerry-built
,
lacerable
,
light
,
lightweight
,
namby-pamby
,
papery
,
pasteboardy
,
puny
,
scissile
,
shatterable
,
shattery
,
shivery
,
sissified
,
sleazy
,
slight
,
splintery
,
tacky
,
unsubstantial
,
vulnerable
,
wispy
,
womanish
inobservance
collapse
related words >
absentmindedness
,
carelessness
,
default
,
delinquency
,
dereliction
,
disconformity
,
disregard
,
disregardfulness
,
distraction
,
failure
,
flightiness
,
flippancy
,
frivolousness
,
giddiness
,
heedlessness
,
inadvertence
,
inadvertency
,
inattention
,
inattentiveness
,
inconsideration
,
incuriosity
,
indifference
,
laxity
,
levity
,
lightmindedness
,
neglect
,
negligence
,
nonadherence
,
noncompliance
,
nonconformance
,
nonconformity
,
nonfeasance
,
nonfulfillment
,
nonobservance
,
nonperformance
,
obliviousness
,
omission
,
oversight
,
regardlessness
,
shallowness
,
slight
,
superficiality
,
thoughtlessness
,
unalertness
,
unawareness
,
unconsciousness
,
unheedfulness
,
unintentiveness
,
unmindfulness
,
unobservance
,
unwariness
,
unwatchfulness
knee high
collapse
related words >
couchant
,
cramped
,
crouched
,
debased
,
depressed
,
dinky
,
exiguous
,
flat
,
half-pint
,
knocked flat
,
laid low
,
limited
,
little
,
low
,
low-built
,
low-hung
,
low-level
,
low-leveled
,
low-lying
,
low-set
,
low-statured
,
neap
,
one-horse
,
petite
,
piddling
,
pindling
,
pint-sized
,
poky
,
prone
,
puny
,
recumbent
,
runty
,
short
,
slight
,
small
,
smallish
,
squat
,
squatty
,
stooped
,
stumpy
,
supine
,
two-by-four
,
unelevated
nonfulfillment
collapse
related words >
Sisyphean labor
,
default
,
delinquency
,
dereliction
,
disconformity
,
disregard
,
endless task
,
failure
,
falling short
,
inadequacy
,
inadequateness
,
inattention
,
incompetence
,
inexecution
,
inobservance
,
insufficiency
,
insufficientness
,
laxity
,
loose ends
,
neglect
,
negligence
,
nonaccomplishment
,
nonachievement
,
nonadherence
,
noncompliance
,
nonconformance
,
nonconformity
,
nonconsummation
,
nondischarging
,
none to spare
,
nonexecution
,
nonfeasance
,
nonobservance
,
nonperformance
,
nonsatisfaction
,
omission
,
oversight
,
rough edges
,
short supply
,
slight
,
too late
,
too little
,
unfulfillment
,
unobservance
,
unqualification
,
unsuitability
,
work of Penelope
attenuated
collapse
of an electrical signal; reduced in amplitude with little or no distortion
related words >
Sanforized
,
abated
,
ablated
,
adulterated
,
airy
,
attenuate
,
bated
,
belittled
,
boyish
,
cadaverous
,
consumed
,
contracted
,
corky
,
corpselike
,
curtailed
,
cut
,
dainty
,
decreased
,
deflated
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
dilute
,
diluted
,
diminished
,
dissipated
,
downy
,
dried-up
,
dropped
,
emacerated
,
emaciate
,
emaciated
,
eroded
,
ethereal
,
fallen
,
filmy
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
fine-grained
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
fluffy
,
frail
,
fuzzy
,
gaseous
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gossamery
,
gracile
,
haggard
,
hollow-eyed
,
insubstantial
,
jejune
,
lacy
,
less
,
lesser
,
light
,
lower
,
lowered
,
marantic
,
marasmic
,
miniaturized
,
misty
,
papery
,
parched
,
peaked
,
peaky
,
pinched
,
poor
,
preshrunk
,
pubescent
,
puny
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
reduced
,
refined
,
retrenched
,
satin
,
satiny
,
scaled-down
,
sear
,
shorn
,
shorter
,
shriveled
,
shriveled up
,
shrunk
,
shrunken
,
silky
,
skeletal
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
smaller
,
smooth
,
starved
,
starveling
,
subtile
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tabetic
,
tabid
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinned
,
thinned-out
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
uncompact
,
uncompressed
,
underfed
,
undernourished
,
unsubstantial
,
vague
,
vaporous
,
velutinous
,
velvety
,
wasp-waisted
,
wasted
,
wasted away
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
weakened
,
weazened
,
weazeny
,
willowy
,
windy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
,
withered
,
wizen
,
wizen-faced
,
wizened
,
worn
,
wraithlike
dilation
collapse
the act of expanding an aperture; "the dilation of the pupil of the eye"
a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic
related words >
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
big talk
,
bloat
,
bloatedness
,
bloating
,
blowing up
,
boil
,
bump
,
bunion
,
burlesque
,
carbuncle
,
caricature
,
corn
,
cyst
,
development
,
diastole
,
dilatation
,
distension
,
dropsy
,
edema
,
elaboration
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
expatiation
,
explication
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
flatus
,
furuncle
,
gassiness
,
grandiloquence
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
intumescence
,
lump
,
magnification
,
meteorism
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
pimple
,
pock
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
puff
,
puffery
,
puffiness
,
puffing
,
puffing up
,
pustule
,
rising
,
sebaceous cyst
,
sensationalism
,
stretching
,
superlative
,
swell
,
swellage
,
swelling
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
touting
,
travesty
,
tumefaction
,
tumescence
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
tumor
,
turgescence
,
turgescency
,
turgidity
,
turgidness
,
tympanism
,
tympany
,
unfolding
,
wen
,
windiness
,
working-out
pooh pooh
collapse
related words >
barrack
,
bird
,
boo
,
chaff
,
cut
,
cut at
,
cut dead
,
dig at
,
dismiss
,
disregard
,
dump on
,
fleer
,
flout
,
gibe
,
give the go-by
,
ignore
,
jab
,
jab at
,
jape
,
jeer
,
look right through
,
make little of
,
mock
,
neglect
,
overlook
,
pass by
,
pass up
,
pooh
,
put down
,
rail at
,
rally
,
rank out
,
razz
,
refuse to acknowledge
,
refuse to recognize
,
revile
,
scoff
,
scout
,
slam
,
slap at
,
slight
,
sneer
,
sneer at
,
swipe
,
taunt
,
twit
flimflam
collapse
related words >
balderdash
,
ballot-box stuffing
,
balls
,
baloney
,
bamboozle
,
bamboozlement
,
beat
,
befool
,
befooling
,
beguile of
,
bilk
,
blague
,
bluffing
,
bosh
,
boutade
,
brainstorm
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bunco
,
bunk
,
bunkum
,
burn
,
calculated deception
,
capriccio
,
caprice
,
cardsharping
,
cheat
,
cheating
,
chicane
,
chisel
,
chouse
,
chouse out of
,
circumvention
,
claptrap
,
cock-and-bull story
,
cog
,
cog the dice
,
con
,
conceit
,
conning
,
cozen
,
cozenage
,
crank
,
crap
,
craze
,
crazy idea
,
crib
,
crotchet
,
deceit
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defraud
,
defrauding
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
diddle
,
diddling
,
dishonesty
,
do
,
do in
,
do out of
,
dodge
,
double-talk
,
drivel
,
dupery
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
entrapment
,
euchre
,
exaggeration
,
eyewash
,
fad
,
fairy tale
,
fake
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falsehood
,
falseness
,
falsity
,
fancy
,
fantastic notion
,
fantasy
,
farfetched story
,
farrago
,
fib
,
fiction
,
finagle
,
fish story
,
fishy transaction
,
flam
,
fleece
,
flimflammery
,
fob
,
fond illusion
,
fool
,
fool notion
,
fooling
,
fraud
,
fraudulence
,
fraudulency
,
freak
,
freakish inspiration
,
fudge
,
gammon
,
gerrymandering
,
ghost story
,
gouge
,
graft
,
grift
,
gull
,
gyp
,
gyp joint
,
half-truth
,
hallucination
,
harebrained idea
,
have
,
hoax
,
hocus
,
hocus-pocus
,
hogwash
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
hoodwink
,
hoodwinking
,
hooey
,
hot air
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
humor
,
illicit business
,
illusion
,
imposition
,
imposture
,
jazz
,
jiggery-pokery
,
kidding
,
kink
,
legal fiction
,
lie
,
little white lie
,
maggot
,
megrim
,
mendacity
,
mirage
,
moonshine
,
mulct
,
notion
,
outwitting
,
overreach
,
overreaching
,
pack the deal
,
passing fancy
,
phantasm
,
pigeon
,
pious fiction
,
practice fraud upon
,
prevarication
,
putting on
,
quirk
,
racket
,
rook
,
scam
,
screw
,
self-deception
,
sell
,
sell gold bricks
,
sham
,
shave
,
shortchange
,
slight stretching
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
stack the cards
,
stick
,
sting
,
story
,
subterfuge
,
swindle
,
swindling
,
take a dive
,
tale
,
tall story
,
tall tale
,
taradiddle
,
thimblerig
,
throw a fight
,
toy
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
trumped-up story
,
untruth
,
vagary
,
victimization
,
victimize
,
vision
,
whim
,
whim-wham
,
whimsy
,
white lie
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
,
yarn
not listen
collapse
related words >
be blind to
,
be caught out
,
be inattentive
,
be unwary
,
blink at
,
break the law
,
care naught for
,
connive at
,
defy
,
disobey
,
disregard
,
flout
,
give no heed
,
go counter to
,
hear nothing
,
ignore
,
let pass
,
make light of
,
miss
,
not attend
,
not conform
,
not heed
,
not keep
,
not mind
,
not notice
,
not observe
,
overlook
,
pass by
,
pass over
,
pay no attention
,
pay no mind
,
refuse to cooperate
,
scoff at
,
see nothing
,
set at defiance
,
set at naught
,
set naught by
,
slight
,
think little of
,
transgress
,
violate
,
wink at
crumbly
collapse
apt to break into small fragments or disintegrate; "crumbly cookies"
related words >
breakable
,
brittle
,
brittle as glass
,
cheap-jack
,
cobwebby
,
crackable
,
crimp
,
crisp
,
crispy
,
crump
,
crushable
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
delicately weak
,
effeminate
,
fissile
,
flimsy
,
fracturable
,
fragile
,
frail
,
frangible
,
friable
,
gimcrack
,
gimcracky
,
gossamery
,
jerry
,
jerry-built
,
lacerable
,
light
,
lightweight
,
namby-pamby
,
papery
,
pasteboardy
,
pulverizable
,
pulverulent
,
puny
,
rubbery
,
scissile
,
shatterable
,
shattery
,
shivery
,
sissified
,
sleazy
,
slight
,
splintery
,
tacky
,
triturable
,
unsubstantial
,
vulnerable
,
wispy
,
womanish
stinted
collapse
related words >
Lenten
,
Spartan
,
abstemious
,
ascetic
,
austere
,
boxed in
,
circumscribed
,
confined
,
cramped
,
dwarfed
,
dwarfish
,
exiguous
,
frugal
,
hedged about
,
hedged in
,
hemmed in
,
icebound
,
impoverished
,
jejune
,
landlocked
,
lean
,
limited
,
meager
,
mean
,
miserly
,
narrow
,
niggardly
,
paltry
,
parsimonious
,
poor
,
puny
,
qualified
,
restricted
,
scant
,
scanty
,
scrawny
,
scrimp
,
scrimpy
,
skimp
,
skimpy
,
slender
,
slight
,
slim
,
small
,
snowbound
,
spare
,
sparing
,
starvation
,
stingy
,
straitened
,
stunted
,
subsistence
,
thin
,
unnourishing
,
unnutritious
,
watered
,
watery
,
windbound
cut corners
collapse
do something the cheapest or easiest way; "Cut corners to make a cheaper product"
related words >
blink
,
carefully ignore
,
cold-shoulder
,
curtail expenses
,
cut a corner
,
cut across
,
cut back
,
cut down
,
cut through
,
dodge
,
fudge
,
make a beeline
,
pare down expenses
,
pass over
,
pass over lightly
,
retrench
,
roll back
,
scamp
,
short-cut
,
skim
,
skim over
,
skim the surface
,
skimp
,
skip over
,
slight
,
slow down
,
slubber over
,
slur
,
slur over
,
take a reef
,
touch upon
,
touch upon lightly
grandiloquence
collapse
related words >
affectation
,
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
big talk
,
blowing up
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
command of language
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
expression of ideas
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
fashion
,
feeling for words
,
form of speech
,
grace of expression
,
hard word
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
jawbreaker
,
lexiphanicism
,
literary style
,
long word
,
magnification
,
manner
,
manner of speaking
,
mannerism
,
mode
,
mode of expression
,
orotundity
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
peculiarity
,
personal style
,
polysyllable
,
pomposity
,
pompousness
,
pontificality
,
pontification
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
rhetoric
,
self-importance
,
sensationalism
,
sense of language
,
sesquipedalian
,
strain
,
stretching
,
stuffiness
,
style
,
stylistic analysis
,
stylistics
,
superlative
,
tall talk
,
the grand style
,
the plain style
,
the sublime
,
touting
,
travesty
,
trick
,
turgidity
,
vein
,
way
look the other way
collapse
related words >
abide with
,
accept
,
be big
,
be blind
,
be blind to
,
be caught out
,
be content with
,
be easy with
,
be inattentive
,
be unwary
,
blink at
,
brook
,
condone
,
connive at
,
disregard
,
give no heed
,
go blind
,
hear nothing
,
ignore
,
judge not
,
lean over backwards
,
let pass
,
listen to reason
,
live with
,
make light of
,
miss
,
not attend
,
not heed
,
not listen
,
not notice
,
not see
,
not write off
,
overlook
,
pass by
,
pass over
,
pay no attention
,
pay no mind
,
see both sides
,
see nothing
,
slight
,
suspend judgment
,
think little of
,
tolerate
,
view with indulgence
,
walk in darkness
,
wear blinkers
,
wink at
skin deep
collapse
related words >
ankle-deep
,
cortical
,
cursory
,
cutaneous
,
depthless
,
dermal
,
dermic
,
ecderonic
,
ectodermal
,
ectodermic
,
endermatic
,
endermic
,
epicarpal
,
epidermal
,
epidermic
,
few
,
footling
,
furry
,
hypodermal
,
hypodermic
,
inconsequential
,
inconsiderable
,
insignificant
,
jejune
,
knee-deep
,
light
,
little
,
low
,
meager
,
miniature
,
negligible
,
no great shakes
,
not deep
,
on the surface
,
petty
,
picayune
,
picayunish
,
shallow
,
shallow-rooted
,
shoal
,
short
,
skinny
,
slight
,
small
,
subcutaneous
,
superficial
,
surface
,
testaceous
,
thin
,
tiny
,
trifling
,
trivial
,
unprofound
misty
collapse
wet with mist; "the misty evening"
related words >
addlebrained
,
addled
,
addleheaded
,
addlepated
,
airy
,
amorphic
,
amorphous
,
anarchic
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
baggy
,
beclouded
,
befuddled
,
blear
,
bleared
,
bleary
,
blind
,
blinding
,
blobby
,
blurred
,
blurry
,
boyish
,
cat-and-doggish
,
chaotic
,
characterless
,
clear as mud
,
cloudy
,
confused
,
dark
,
delicate
,
diaphanous
,
diluted
,
dim
,
disorderly
,
drippy
,
driving
,
drizzling
,
drizzly
,
drumming
,
ethereal
,
faint
,
featureless
,
feeble
,
filmy
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
flimsy
,
fogged
,
foggy
,
formless
,
frail
,
fuddlebrained
,
fuddled
,
fuzzy
,
gauzy
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gracile
,
half-seen
,
half-visible
,
hazy
,
ill-defined
,
in a fog
,
in a muddle
,
inchoate
,
inconspicuous
,
indecisive
,
indefinite
,
indeterminate
,
indistinct
,
indistinguishable
,
inform
,
insubstantial
,
kaleidoscopic
,
lacy
,
light
,
low-profile
,
lumpen
,
merely glimpsed
,
misted
,
misty-moisty
,
mizzly
,
muddled
,
muddleheaded
,
muddy
,
murky
,
muzzy
,
nebulous
,
nondescript
,
obscure
,
opaque
,
orderless
,
out of focus
,
pale
,
papery
,
pea-soupy
,
pelting
,
pluvial
,
pluviose
,
pluvious
,
pouring
,
puzzleheaded
,
rainy
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
semivisible
,
shadowy
,
shapeless
,
showery
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
smoggy
,
soupy
,
streaming
,
subtle
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
transcendent
,
uncertain
,
unclear
,
undefined
,
unintelligible
,
unordered
,
unorganized
,
unplain
,
unrecognizable
,
vague
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
willowy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
indignity
collapse
an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem
related words >
abuse
,
affront
,
aspersion
,
atrocity
,
belittling
,
brickbat
,
comedown
,
contempt
,
contumely
,
cut
,
decrial
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
despite
,
detraction
,
disapproval
,
discourtesy
,
discrediting
,
disgrace
,
dishonor
,
disparagement
,
disrespect
,
dump
,
enormity
,
faint praise
,
flout
,
flouting
,
gibe
,
grievance
,
humiliation
,
injury
,
injustice
,
insult
,
jeer
,
jeering
,
knocking
,
lukewarm support
,
minimizing
,
mock
,
mockery
,
obloquy
,
offense
,
outrage
,
put-down
,
putting down
,
reproach
,
scoff
,
scorn
,
scurrility
,
slap
,
slight
,
slighting
,
snub
,
sour grapes
,
taunt
,
uncomplimentary remark
,
wrong
disdain
collapse
related words >
abhor
,
abjure
,
airs
,
antipathetic
,
antipathy
,
aristocratic disdain
,
arrogance
,
arrogant
,
audacity
,
averse
,
aversion
,
be above
,
be contemptuous of
,
bold front
,
boldness
,
brash bearing
,
brashness
,
brassiness
,
bravado
,
brazenness
,
brush aside
,
bumptiousness
,
care nothing for
,
cavalier
,
cavalierness
,
cheekiness
,
chuck
,
chuck out
,
clannishness
,
cliquishness
,
cockiness
,
contemn
,
contempt
,
contemptuousness
,
contradict
,
contumeliousness
,
contumely
,
daring
,
daringness
,
decline
,
defial
,
defiance
,
defying
,
denigrate
,
deny
,
deprecate
,
depreciate
,
deride
,
derision
,
despisal
,
despise
,
despising
,
despite
,
disapprove
,
discard
,
disclaim
,
discommend
,
discount
,
disdainful
,
disdainfulness
,
dismiss
,
disown
,
disparage
,
disparagement
,
dispraise
,
disprize
,
disregard
,
disvalue
,
dump on
,
except
,
exclude
,
exclusiveness
,
feel contempt for
,
feel superior to
,
flout
,
forswear
,
fuss
,
haughtiness
,
haughty
,
hauteur
,
high-and-mighty
,
hold beneath one
,
hold cheap
,
hold in contempt
,
hold in derision
,
ignore
,
impertinence
,
impudence
,
insolence
,
insolent
,
insult
,
laugh at
,
laugh to scorn
,
loftiness
,
look down upon
,
lordly
,
misprize
,
morgue
,
overbearing
,
pass by
,
pass up
,
pertness
,
pick and choose
,
push aside
,
put down
,
rank low
,
rebuff
,
recant
,
refuse
,
refuse to consider
,
reject
,
rejecting
,
renounce
,
repel
,
repudiate
,
repulse
,
ridicule
,
sauciness
,
scoff at
,
scorn
,
scornfulness
,
scorning
,
scout
,
scouting
,
set at defiance
,
set at naught
,
shove away
,
slight
,
slight over
,
sneer at
,
sneeze at
,
sniff at
,
sniffiness
,
snobbishness
,
snootiness
,
snort at
,
snottiness
,
sovereign contempt
,
spurn
,
spurning
,
supercilious
,
superciliousness
,
superior
,
think nothing of
,
throw away
,
throw out
,
toploftiness
,
treat with contempt
,
turn away
,
turn out
,
unsympathetic
,
waive
tumescence
collapse
tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues
related words >
access
,
accession
,
accretion
,
accrual
,
accruement
,
accumulation
,
addition
,
advance
,
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
appreciation
,
ascent
,
augmentation
,
ballooning
,
bloat
,
bloatedness
,
bloating
,
blowing up
,
boil
,
boom
,
boost
,
broadening
,
buildup
,
bump
,
bunion
,
carbuncle
,
corn
,
crescendo
,
cyst
,
development
,
diastole
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
distension
,
dropsy
,
edema
,
elevation
,
enlargement
,
expansion
,
extension
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
flatus
,
flood
,
furuncle
,
gain
,
gassiness
,
greatening
,
growth
,
gush
,
hike
,
increase
,
increment
,
inflation
,
intumescence
,
jump
,
leap
,
lump
,
meteorism
,
mounting
,
multiplication
,
pimple
,
pock
,
productiveness
,
proliferation
,
puff
,
puffiness
,
puffing
,
pustule
,
raise
,
rise
,
rising
,
sebaceous cyst
,
snowballing
,
spread
,
stretching
,
surge
,
swell
,
swellage
,
swelling
,
swollenness
,
tumefaction
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
tumor
,
turgescence
,
turgescency
,
turgidity
,
turgidness
,
tympanism
,
tympany
,
up
,
upping
,
upsurge
,
upswing
,
uptrend
,
upturn
,
waxing
,
wen
,
widening
,
windiness
make light of
collapse
related words >
be blind to
,
be caught out
,
be inattentive
,
be unwary
,
belittle
,
blink at
,
connive at
,
cool it
,
de-emphasize
,
deprecate
,
depreciate
,
disparage
,
disregard
,
downplay
,
give no heed
,
go easy
,
hear nothing
,
ignore
,
let pass
,
make little of
,
make nothing of
,
minimize
,
misestimate
,
misprize
,
miss
,
not attend
,
not heed
,
not listen
,
not notice
,
not sweat it
,
overlook
,
pass by
,
pass over
,
pay no attention
,
pay no mind
,
play down
,
see nothing
,
sell short
,
set at naught
,
set little by
,
shrug off
,
slight
,
take it easy
,
think little of
,
think nothing of
,
underestimate
,
underplay
,
underprize
,
underrate
,
underreckon
,
undervalue
,
wink at
flout
collapse
related words >
Parthian shot
,
abase
,
affront
,
aspersion
,
atrocity
,
back answer
,
barrack
,
belittle
,
blaspheme
,
break
,
break the law
,
brickbat
,
call names
,
care naught for
,
caustic remark
,
chaff
,
comeback
,
contemn
,
contempt
,
contravene
,
contumely
,
crack
,
cut
,
cut at
,
cutting remark
,
decry
,
defy
,
degrade
,
denigrate
,
denounce
,
deprecate
,
depreciate
,
deride
,
despise
,
despite
,
dig
,
dig at
,
disdain
,
dishonor
,
disobey
,
disoblige
,
disparage
,
disregard
,
do violence to
,
dump
,
dump on
,
enormity
,
fleer
,
fleer at
,
flouting
,
foolery
,
gibe
,
gibe at
,
gibing retort
,
gird
,
give offense to
,
go counter to
,
guy
,
hold in derision
,
humiliate
,
humiliation
,
hurl a brickbat
,
ignore
,
indignity
,
infringe
,
injury
,
insult
,
jab
,
jab at
,
jape
,
jeer
,
jeer at
,
jeering
,
jest
,
jibe at
,
knock
,
laugh at
,
laugh to scorn
,
leg-pull
,
minimize
,
misprize
,
mock
,
mockery
,
not conform
,
not heed
,
not keep
,
not listen
,
not mind
,
not observe
,
offend
,
offense
,
outrage
,
parting shot
,
pooh
,
pooh-pooh
,
put down
,
put-down
,
put-on
,
quip
,
rag
,
rail at
,
rally
,
rank out
,
refuse to cooperate
,
repudiate
,
revile
,
ridicule
,
rude reproach
,
scoff
,
scoff at
,
scorn
,
scout
,
scurrility
,
set at defiance
,
set at naught
,
set naught by
,
short answer
,
slam
,
slap
,
slap at
,
slight
,
slight over
,
sneer
,
sneer at
,
spurn
,
swipe
,
taunt
,
trample on
,
trample underfoot
,
trample upon
,
transgress
,
treat with contempt
,
treat with indignity
,
trespass
,
twit
,
uncomplimentary remark
,
verbal thrust
,
violate
cold shoulder
collapse
related words >
blink
,
brush-off
,
carefully ignore
,
cut
,
cut a corner
,
cut corners
,
cut direct
,
dismissal
,
disregard
,
dodge
,
fudge
,
high-hat
,
humiliation
,
not receive
,
ostracize
,
pass over
,
pass over lightly
,
rebuff
,
refusal
,
repulse
,
scamp
,
skim
,
skim over
,
skim the surface
,
skimp
,
skip over
,
slight
,
slubber over
,
slur
,
slur over
,
sneer
,
sniff
,
snob
,
snort
,
snub
,
spurn
,
spurning
,
the cold shoulder
,
the go-by
,
touch upon
,
touch upon lightly
,
turn away from
,
upstage
dinky
collapse
a small locomotive
(British informal) pretty and neat; "what a dinky little hat"
small and insignificant; "we stayed in a dinky old hotel"
related words >
anal
,
back-burner
,
cramped
,
dispensable
,
exiguous
,
half-pint
,
immaterial
,
inappreciable
,
inconsequential
,
inconsiderable
,
inessential
,
inferior
,
insignificant
,
irrelevant
,
knee-high
,
lesser
,
limited
,
little
,
minor
,
minute
,
neat
,
negligible
,
nonessential
,
not vital
,
one-horse
,
petit
,
petite
,
piddling
,
pindling
,
pint-sized
,
poky
,
puny
,
secondary
,
shipshape
,
short
,
sleek
,
slick
,
slight
,
small
,
small-fry
,
small-time
,
smallish
,
smart
,
snug
,
spruce
,
technical
,
tidy
,
tight
,
trig
,
trim
,
two-by-four
,
unessential
,
unimpressive
,
unnoteworthy
,
well-cared-for
,
well-groomed
nonperformance
collapse
related words >
Sisyphean labor
,
culpa
,
culpable negligence
,
default
,
delinquency
,
dereliction
,
disconformity
,
disregard
,
endless task
,
failure
,
inadvertence
,
inadvertency
,
inattention
,
inexecution
,
inobservance
,
laches
,
laissez-faire
,
lapse
,
laxity
,
laxness
,
loose ends
,
looseness
,
neglect
,
neglectfulness
,
negligence
,
nonaccomplishment
,
nonachievement
,
nonadherence
,
noncompliance
,
nonconformance
,
nonconformity
,
nonconsummation
,
nondischarging
,
nonexecution
,
nonfeasance
,
nonfulfillment
,
noninterference
,
nonobservance
,
nonrestriction
,
omission
,
overlooking
,
oversight
,
permissiveness
,
poor stewardship
,
procrastination
,
remissness
,
rough edges
,
slackness
,
slight
,
unfulfillment
,
unobservance
,
unrigorousness
,
work of Penelope
womanish
collapse
having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men; "womanish tears"
related words >
breakable
,
brittle
,
cheap-jack
,
chicken
,
cobwebby
,
crumbly
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
delicately weak
,
distaff
,
effeminate
,
female
,
feminine
,
flimsy
,
fragile
,
frail
,
frangible
,
gentlewomanlike
,
gimcrack
,
gimcracky
,
girlish
,
gossamery
,
gynecic
,
gynecoid
,
gynic
,
jerry
,
jerry-built
,
kittenish
,
ladylike
,
light
,
lightweight
,
little-girlish
,
maidenly
,
matronal
,
matronlike
,
matronly
,
muliebral
,
muliebrous
,
namby-pamby
,
old-womanish
,
papery
,
pasteboardy
,
petticoat
,
prissy
,
puny
,
shattery
,
sissified
,
sissy
,
sissyish
,
sleazy
,
slight
,
soft
,
tacky
,
unmanly
,
unsubstantial
,
wispy
,
womanlike
,
womanly
adulterated
collapse
related words >
airy
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
blemished
,
cut
,
damaged
,
defective
,
deficient
,
dilute
,
diluted
,
erroneous
,
ethereal
,
fallible
,
faulty
,
fine
,
flimsy
,
found wanting
,
gaseous
,
immature
,
impaired
,
imperfect
,
imprecise
,
impure
,
inaccurate
,
inadequate
,
incomplete
,
inexact
,
insubstantial
,
lacking
,
makeshift
,
mediocre
,
mixed
,
not perfect
,
off
,
partial
,
patchy
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
reduced
,
short
,
sketchy
,
slight
,
subtile
,
subtle
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thinned
,
thinned-out
,
uncompact
,
uncompressed
,
undeveloped
,
uneven
,
unfinished
,
unperfected
,
unsound
,
unsubstantial
,
unthorough
,
vaporous
,
wanting
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
windy
flimsy
collapse
having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
lacking solidity or strength and liable to break; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past"
resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"
very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"
related words >
adulterated
,
airy
,
asinine
,
attenuate
,
attenuated
,
boyish
,
breakable
,
brittle
,
brittle as glass
,
catchpenny
,
cheap-jack
,
cobwebby
,
crackable
,
crisp
,
crispy
,
crumbly
,
crushable
,
cut
,
dainty
,
decrepit
,
delicate
,
delicately weak
,
diaphanous
,
dilapidated
,
dilute
,
diluted
,
effeminate
,
empty
,
ethereal
,
fatuous
,
feeble
,
filmy
,
fine
,
fine-drawn
,
finespun
,
fissile
,
flabby
,
flaccid
,
floppy
,
foolish
,
fracturable
,
fragile
,
frail
,
frangible
,
friable
,
fribble
,
fribbling
,
frivolous
,
frothy
,
futile
,
gaseous
,
gauzy
,
gimcrack
,
gimcracky
,
girlish
,
gossamer
,
gossamery
,
gracile
,
idle
,
implausible
,
improbable
,
inadequate
,
inane
,
inconceivable
,
inconclusive
,
incredible
,
infirm
,
insubstantial
,
jerry
,
jerry-built
,
lacerable
,
lacy
,
lax
,
light
,
lightweight
,
limp
,
loose
,
makeshift
,
misty
,
namby-pamby
,
nugacious
,
nugatory
,
otiose
,
paltry
,
papery
,
pasteboardy
,
poor
,
puny
,
ramshackle
,
rare
,
rarefied
,
relaxed
,
rickety
,
rubbery
,
scissile
,
shaky
,
shallow
,
shatterable
,
shattery
,
sheer
,
shivery
,
silly
,
sissified
,
sleazy
,
slender
,
slenderish
,
slight
,
slight-made
,
slim
,
slimmish
,
slinky
,
small
,
splintery
,
subtile
,
subtle
,
superficial
,
svelte
,
sylphlike
,
tacky
,
tenuous
,
thin
,
thin-bodied
,
thin-set
,
thin-spun
,
thinned
,
thinned-out
,
thinnish
,
threadlike
,
transparent
,
trifling
,
trite
,
trivial
,
unbelievable
,
uncompact
,
uncompressed
,
unconvincing
,
unproved
,
unrigorous
,
unsatisfactory
,
unsound
,
unsubstantial
,
unsustained
,
vacuous
,
vague
,
vain
,
vapid
,
vaporous
,
vulnerable
,
wasp-waisted
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
weakly
,
willowy
,
windy
,
wiredrawn
,
wispy
,
womanish
flatulence
collapse
a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal
related words >
Barnumism
,
aeriness
,
affectation
,
bedizenment
,
big talk
,
bloat
,
bloatedness
,
bloating
,
blowing up
,
convolution
,
diastole
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
distension
,
dropsy
,
edema
,
ethereality
,
fart
,
flashiness
,
flatulency
,
flatuosity
,
flatus
,
fluidity
,
fulsomeness
,
garishness
,
gas
,
gaseity
,
gaseous state
,
gaseousness
,
gassiness
,
gaudiness
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
high-flown diction
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
intumescence
,
lexiphanicism
,
loftiness
,
luridness
,
magniloquence
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
meteorism
,
orotundity
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomposity
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pontification
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
prose run mad
,
puff
,
puffiness
,
puffing
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
sensationalism
,
sententiousness
,
showiness
,
stiltedness
,
stretching
,
swell
,
swellage
,
swelling
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
tumefaction
,
tumescence
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
turgidness
,
tympanism
,
tympany
,
vapor pressure
,
vaporiness
,
vaporousness
,
wind
,
windiness
undersized
collapse
related words >
Lilliputian
,
Tom Thumb
,
bantam
,
bony
,
dumpy
,
dwarf
,
dwarfed
,
dwarfish
,
elfin
,
flat
,
flat-chested
,
fleshless
,
gangling
,
gangly
,
gaunt
,
gawky
,
incipient
,
lank
,
lanky
,
lean
,
lean-fleshed
,
lean-looking
,
little
,
meager
,
midget
,
nanoid
,
petite
,
pygmy
,
rawboned
,
rudimental
,
rudimentary
,
runty
,
scraggy
,
scrawny
,
scrubby
,
short
,
shriveled
,
shrunk
,
shrunken
,
skeletal
,
skinny
,
slight
,
small
,
spare
,
spidery
,
spindling
,
spindly
,
squat
,
stunted
,
thin-bellied
,
thin-fleshed
,
tiny
,
twiggy
,
underdeveloped
,
undersize
,
underweight
,
undeveloped
,
wizened
effeminate
collapse
having unsuitable feminine qualities
related words >
AC-DC
,
amphierotic
,
autoerotic
,
bent
,
bisexed
,
bisexual
,
breakable
,
brittle
,
butch
,
campy
,
cheap-jack
,
chicken
,
cobwebby
,
crumbly
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
delicately weak
,
deviant
,
flimsy
,
fragile
,
frail
,
frangible
,
gay
,
gimcrack
,
gimcracky
,
gossamery
,
homoerotic
,
homosexual
,
jerry
,
jerry-built
,
lesbian
,
light
,
lightweight
,
mannish
,
muliebrous
,
namby-pamby
,
old-womanish
,
papery
,
pasteboardy
,
perverted
,
prissy
,
puny
,
queer
,
sapphic
,
shattery
,
sissified
,
sissy
,
sissyish
,
sleazy
,
slight
,
soft
,
tacky
,
transvestite
,
tribadistic
,
unmanly
,
unsubstantial
,
weak
,
wispy
,
womanish
,
womanly
hyperbole
collapse
extravagant exaggeration
related words >
abandon
,
abstractionism
,
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
big talk
,
blowing up
,
boundlessness
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
coloring
,
deformation
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
distortion
,
egregiousness
,
embellishment
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
enormousness
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
excessiveness
,
exorbitance
,
exorbitancy
,
expansion
,
expressionism
,
extravagance
,
extravagancy
,
extreme
,
extremes
,
extremism
,
extremity
,
fabulousness
,
false coloring
,
falsification
,
garbling
,
giantism
,
gigantism
,
gluttony
,
grandiloquence
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbolism
,
hypertrophy
,
immoderacy
,
immoderateness
,
immoderation
,
inaccuracy
,
incontinence
,
inflation
,
injustice
,
inordinacy
,
inordinance
,
inordinateness
,
intemperance
,
intemperateness
,
litotes
,
magnification
,
miscoloring
,
misdrawing
,
mispainting
,
misquotation
,
misreport
,
misrepresentation
,
misstatement
,
misteaching
,
monstrousness
,
nimiety
,
nonrealism
,
outrageousness
,
overdevelopment
,
overdrawing
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overgreatness
,
overgrowth
,
overindulgence
,
overkill
,
overlargeness
,
overmuch
,
overmuchness
,
overstatement
,
perversion
,
prodigality
,
profuseness
,
puffery
,
puffing up
,
radicalism
,
sensationalism
,
slanting
,
stretching
,
superlative
,
tall talk
,
too much
,
too-muchness
,
touting
,
travesty
,
twisting
,
unconscionableness
,
understatement
,
undueness
,
unreasonableness
,
unrestrainedness
nugatory
collapse
of no real value; "a nugatory law"
related words >
NG
,
airy
,
asinine
,
barren
,
bootless
,
catchpenny
,
cheap
,
counterproductive
,
effete
,
empty
,
etiolated
,
fatuitous
,
fatuous
,
feckless
,
flimsy
,
foolish
,
fribble
,
fribbling
,
frivolous
,
frothy
,
fruitless
,
futile
,
good-for-naught
,
good-for-nothing
,
hollow
,
idle
,
inadequate
,
inane
,
ineffective
,
ineffectual
,
inefficacious
,
inoperative
,
invalid
,
junk
,
junky
,
light
,
no-account
,
no-good
,
not worth having
,
not worth mentioning
,
not worthwhile
,
nugacious
,
of no force
,
otiose
,
shabby
,
shallow
,
shoddy
,
silly
,
slender
,
slight
,
sterile
,
superficial
,
trashy
,
trifling
,
trite
,
trivial
,
unavailing
,
useless
,
vacuous
,
vain
,
valueless
,
vapid
,
windy
,
worthless
stretching
collapse
act of expanding by lengthening or widening
related words >
aggrandizement
,
amplification
,
ballyhoo
,
big talk
,
bloat
,
bloatedness
,
bloating
,
blowing up
,
breaking point
,
burlesque
,
caricature
,
diastole
,
dilatation
,
dilation
,
distension
,
doziness
,
dropsy
,
drowsiness
,
edema
,
elongation
,
enhancement
,
enlargement
,
exaggerating
,
exaggeration
,
excess
,
exorbitance
,
expansion
,
extension
,
extravagance
,
extreme
,
extreme tension
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
flatus
,
gassiness
,
grandiloquence
,
heaviness
,
heightening
,
huckstering
,
hyperbole
,
hyperbolism
,
inflation
,
inordinacy
,
intumescence
,
languor
,
lengthening
,
lethargy
,
magnification
,
meteorism
,
oscitancy
,
oscitation
,
overdistension
,
overdrawing
,
overemphasis
,
overestimation
,
overexpansion
,
overextension
,
overkill
,
overstatement
,
overstrain
,
overstraining
,
overstretching
,
pandiculation
,
prodigality
,
production
,
profuseness
,
prolongation
,
protraction
,
puff
,
puffery
,
puffiness
,
puffing
,
puffing up
,
sensationalism
,
sleepiness
,
snapping point
,
somnolence
,
somnolency
,
strain
,
straining
,
stretch
,
stringing out
,
superlative
,
swell
,
swellage
,
swelling
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tension
,
touting
,
travesty
,
tumefaction
,
tumescence
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
turgidness
,
tympanism
,
tympany
,
windiness
,
yawning
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