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slow to act
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slow to act
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turtlelike
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related words >
ambling
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
deliberate
,
easy
,
faltering
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
gentle
,
gradual
,
halting
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
indolent
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
lumbering
,
moderate
,
poking
,
poky
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
sauntering
,
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
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
staggering
,
strolling
,
tentative
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
unhurried
,
waddling
circumspect
collapse
heedful of potential consequences; "circumspect actions"; "physicians are now more circumspect about recommending its use"; "a discreet investor"
related words >
ambling
,
attentive
,
calculating
,
canny
,
careful
,
cautious
,
chary
,
claudicant
,
considerate
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
curious
,
deliberate
,
discreet
,
discriminating
,
discriminative
,
easy
,
enlightened
,
faltering
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
gentle
,
gingerly
,
gradual
,
guarded
,
halting
,
heedful
,
hesitant
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
indolent
,
judgmatic
,
judicial
,
judicious
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leaving out nothing
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
loving
,
lumbering
,
meticulous
,
mindful
,
moderate
,
noncommittal
,
on guard
,
overlooking no possibility
,
pawky
,
poking
,
poky
,
politic
,
provident
,
prudent
,
prudential
,
punctilious
,
reflecting
,
reflective
,
regardful
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
safe
,
sauntering
,
scrupulous
,
shuffling
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slow
,
slow as death
,
slow as molasses
,
slow as slow
,
slow to act
,
slow-crawling
,
slow-foot
,
slow-going
,
slow-legged
,
slow-moving
,
slow-paced
,
slow-poky
,
slow-running
,
slow-sailing
,
slow-stepped
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
solicitous
,
staggering
,
strolling
,
tender
,
tentative
,
thorough
,
thoughtful
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unadventurous
,
uncommunicative
,
undaring
,
unenterprising
,
unhurried
,
unprecipitate
,
waddling
,
wary
,
well-advised
,
well-judged
gradual
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(Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass
proceeding in small stages; "a gradual increase in prices"
(of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt; "a gradual slope"
related words >
ambling
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
deliberate
,
dilatory
,
easy
,
even
,
faltering
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
gentle
,
halting
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
inchmeal
,
indolent
,
lagging
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
lumbering
,
moderate
,
piecemeal
,
poking
,
poky
,
regular
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
sauntering
,
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
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
staggering
,
steady
,
step-by-step
,
strolling
,
tentative
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unhurried
,
waddling
unhurried
collapse
relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste; "people strolling about in an unhurried way"; "an unhurried walk"; "spoke in a calm and unhurried voice"
capable of accepting delay with equanimity; "was unhurried with the small children"
related words >
ambling
,
calm
,
casual
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
deliberate
,
dilatory
,
easy
,
easygoing
,
faltering
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
gentle
,
gradual
,
halting
,
hasteless
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
inactive
,
indolent
,
laggard
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
lumbering
,
moderate
,
poking
,
poky
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
sauntering
,
sedate
,
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
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
staggering
,
steady
,
strolling
,
tentative
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unhasty
,
waddling
poking
collapse
related words >
ambling
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
deliberate
,
delving
,
digging
,
easy
,
faltering
,
fishing
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
gentle
,
gradual
,
halting
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
in search of
,
indolent
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
loaded for bear
,
looking for
,
lumbering
,
moderate
,
nosy
,
out for
,
out for bear
,
poky
,
probing
,
prying
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
sauntering
,
searching
,
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
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
staggering
,
strolling
,
tentative
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unhurried
,
waddling
limping
collapse
related words >
ambling
,
bad
,
castrated
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
crippled
,
deliberate
,
disabled
,
easy
,
emasculated
,
faltering
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
game
,
gentle
,
gradual
,
halt
,
halting
,
hamstrung
,
handicapped
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
incapacitated
,
indolent
,
lame
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leisurely
,
lumbering
,
maimed
,
moderate
,
poking
,
poky
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
sauntering
,
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
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
spavined
,
staggering
,
strolling
,
tentative
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unhurried
,
waddling
ambling
collapse
related words >
ambulation
,
backpacking
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
deliberate
,
easy
,
faltering
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
footing
,
footing it
,
footwork
,
gentle
,
going on foot
,
gradual
,
halting
,
hiking
,
hitchhiking
,
hitching
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
hoofing
,
idle
,
indolent
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
legwork
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
lumbering
,
marching
,
moderate
,
pedestrianism
,
perambulation
,
poking
,
poky
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
sauntering
,
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
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
staggering
,
strolling
,
tentative
,
thumbing
,
thumbing a ride
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
tramping
,
treading
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unhurried
,
waddling
,
walking
trudging
collapse
related words >
ambling
,
ambulation
,
backpacking
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
deliberate
,
easy
,
faltering
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
footing
,
footing it
,
footwork
,
gentle
,
going on foot
,
gradual
,
halting
,
hiking
,
hitchhiking
,
hitching
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
hoofing
,
idle
,
indolent
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
legwork
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
lumbering
,
marching
,
moderate
,
pedestrianism
,
perambulation
,
poking
,
poky
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
sauntering
,
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
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
staggering
,
strolling
,
tentative
,
thumbing
,
thumbing a ride
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
tramping
,
treading
,
turtlelike
,
unhurried
,
waddling
,
walking
toddling
collapse
related words >
ambling
,
ambulation
,
backpacking
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
deliberate
,
easy
,
faltering
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
footing
,
footing it
,
footwork
,
gentle
,
going on foot
,
gradual
,
halting
,
hiking
,
hitchhiking
,
hitching
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
hoofing
,
idle
,
indolent
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
legwork
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
lumbering
,
marching
,
moderate
,
pedestrianism
,
perambulation
,
poking
,
poky
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
sauntering
,
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
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
staggering
,
strolling
,
tentative
,
thumbing
,
thumbing a ride
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
tramping
,
treading
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unhurried
,
waddling
,
walking
cautious
collapse
cautious in attitude and careful in actions; prudent; "a cautious answer"; "very cautious about believing everything she was told"
showing careful forethought; "reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions"; "a cautious driver"
avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"
related words >
alert
,
ambling
,
attentive
,
cagey
,
calculating
,
canny
,
careful
,
chary
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
considerate
,
cozy
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
curious
,
deliberate
,
demurring
,
diffident
,
discreet
,
disinclined to believe
,
disposed to doubt
,
easy
,
expedient
,
faltering
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
foresighted
,
forethoughtful
,
gentle
,
gingerly
,
gradual
,
guarded
,
halting
,
hard of belief
,
heedful
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
impervious to persuasion
,
inconvincible
,
incredulous
,
indolent
,
jibbing
,
judicious
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leaving out nothing
,
leery
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
loving
,
lumbering
,
mindful
,
moderate
,
noncommittal
,
on guard
,
overlooking no possibility
,
pawky
,
poking
,
poky
,
politic
,
precautious
,
provident
,
prudent
,
regardful
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
safe
,
sauntering
,
scheming
,
scrupling
,
shilly-shallying
,
shrewd
,
shuffling
,
shy of belief
,
skeptical
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slow
,
slow as death
,
slow as molasses
,
slow as slow
,
slow to act
,
slow-crawling
,
slow-foot
,
slow-going
,
slow-legged
,
slow-moving
,
slow-paced
,
slow-poky
,
slow-running
,
slow-sailing
,
slow-stepped
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
solicitous
,
staggering
,
sticking
,
stickling
,
straining
,
strolling
,
suspecting
,
suspicious
,
tender
,
tentative
,
thorough
,
thoughtful
,
timid
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unadventurous
,
uncommunicative
,
unconvincible
,
uncredulous
,
undaring
,
unenterprising
,
unhurried
,
unpersuadable
,
unpersuasible
,
unprecipitate
,
unwilling to accept
,
vigilant
,
waddling
,
wary
,
watchful
faltering
collapse
unsteady in speech or action
related words >
ambling
,
balbutient
,
bashful
,
boggling
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
deliberate
,
demurring
,
diffident
,
easy
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
gentle
,
gradual
,
halting
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
indecisive
,
indolent
,
irresolute
,
jibbing
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
lukewarm
,
lumbering
,
moderate
,
modest
,
poking
,
poky
,
qualmish
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
sauntering
,
scrupling
,
scrupulous
,
shilly-shallying
,
shrinking
,
shuffling
,
shy
,
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
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
squeamish
,
staggering
,
stammering
,
sticking
,
stickling
,
straining
,
strolling
,
stumbling
,
stuttering
,
tentative
,
timid
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
uncertain
,
unhurried
,
vacillatory
,
waddling
,
wavering
,
wobbly
slothful
collapse
related words >
ambling
,
apathetic
,
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
,
hebetudinous
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
inactive
,
indifferent
,
indolent
,
inert
,
lackadaisical
,
laggard
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lax
,
lazy
,
leisurely
,
lethargic
,
limping
,
lumbering
,
moderate
,
nonaggressive
,
parasitic
,
phlegmatic
,
pococurante
,
poking
,
poky
,
procrastinative
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
remiss
,
sauntering
,
scrounging
,
shiftless
,
shuffling
,
slack
,
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
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
sponging
,
staggering
,
strolling
,
tentative
,
toddling
,
torpid
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unenterprising
,
unhurried
,
waddling
,
work-shy
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
leisurely
collapse
related words >
ambling
,
cautious
,
cautiously
,
circumspect
,
circumspectly
,
claudicant
,
comfortable
,
crawling
,
crawlingly
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
creepingly
,
delayed
,
deliberate
,
deliberately
,
dilatorily
,
dilatory
,
easily
,
easy
,
faltering
,
falteringly
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
gentle
,
gently
,
gradual
,
halting
,
haltingly
,
hasteless
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
idly
,
in low gear
,
in march time
,
in slow motion
,
in slow tempo
,
inactive
,
indolent
,
indolently
,
lackadaisically
,
laggard
,
languid
,
languidly
,
languorous
,
languorously
,
lax
,
lazy
,
limping
,
limpingly
,
lingeringly
,
loiteringly
,
lumbering
,
moderate
,
moderately
,
pokily
,
poking
,
pokingly
,
poky
,
relaxed
,
relaxedly
,
reluctant
,
reluctantly
,
restful
,
retarded
,
sauntering
,
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
,
slowly
,
sluggish
,
sluggishly
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
staggering
,
strolling
,
tardily
,
tarryingly
,
tentative
,
tentatively
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
under easy sail
,
unhasty
,
unhurried
,
unhurriedly
,
waddling
,
with agonizing slowness
,
with deliberation
reluctant
collapse
not eager; "foreigners stubbornly uneager to accept our ways"; "fresh from college and uneager for the moment to marry him"; "reluctant to help"
unwilling to become involved; "they were usually reluctant to socialize"; "reluctant to help"
related words >
afraid
,
ambling
,
antagonistic
,
apathetic
,
averse
,
backward
,
balking
,
balky
,
calculating
,
careful
,
cautious
,
chary
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
complaining
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
deliberate
,
dilatory
,
disinclined
,
disputatious
,
disputing
,
dissentient
,
dissenting
,
easy
,
faltering
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
fractious
,
gentle
,
gradual
,
grudging
,
halting
,
hesitant
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
indifferent
,
indisposed
,
indolent
,
laggard
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leery
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
loath
,
lumbering
,
moderate
,
noncooperative
,
objecting
,
obstructive
,
on the barricades
,
opposed
,
perfunctory
,
poking
,
poky
,
proof against
,
protesting
,
rebellious
,
recalcitrant
,
refractory
,
relaxed
,
renitent
,
repellent
,
resistant
,
resisting
,
resistive
,
restive
,
retardant
,
retardative
,
sauntering
,
shuffling
,
shy
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slow
,
slow as death
,
slow as molasses
,
slow as slow
,
slow to
,
slow-crawling
,
slow-foot
,
slow-going
,
slow-legged
,
slow-moving
,
slow-paced
,
slow-poky
,
slow-running
,
slow-sailing
,
slow-stepped
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
staggering
,
strolling
,
tentative
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
uncooperative
,
uneager
,
unenthusiastic
,
unhurried
,
unsubmissive
,
unwilling
,
unyielding
,
unzealous
,
up in arms
,
waddling
,
wary
,
withstanding
unenterprising
collapse
lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome
related words >
bone-lazy
,
cadging
,
canny
,
careful
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
deliberate
,
dilatory
,
discreet
,
do-nothing
,
doless
,
dronish
,
drony
,
easy
,
ergophobic
,
faineant
,
gingerly
,
good-for-nothing
,
guarded
,
heedful
,
hesitant
,
indolent
,
judicious
,
laggard
,
lax
,
lazy
,
leaving out nothing
,
mindful
,
nonaggressive
,
noncommittal
,
on guard
,
overlooking no possibility
,
parasitic
,
pawky
,
politic
,
procrastinative
,
prudent
,
regardful
,
remiss
,
safe
,
scrounging
,
shiftless
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slow
,
slow to act
,
sponging
,
tentative
,
thorough
,
unadventurous
,
uncommunicative
,
undaring
,
unprecipitate
,
work-shy
pose as
collapse
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
act as
,
act out
,
ape
,
copy
,
do
,
enact
,
impersonate
,
make false pretenses
,
masquerade as
,
mime
,
mimic
,
pantomime
,
pass for
,
perform
,
personate
,
play
,
play a part
,
pretend to be
,
take off
pass for
collapse
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
act as
,
act out
,
answer for
,
ape
,
be accepted for
,
be regarded as
,
be taken as
,
copy
,
count for
,
do
,
enact
,
go as
,
go for
,
impersonate
,
make false pretenses
,
masquerade as
,
mime
,
mimic
,
pantomime
,
pass as
,
perform
,
personate
,
play
,
play a part
,
pose as
,
pretend to be
,
serve as
,
take off
act as
collapse
function as or act like; "This heap of stones will act as a barrier"
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
act out
,
ape
,
copy
,
do
,
do duty
,
enact
,
function
,
function as
,
impersonate
,
masquerade as
,
mime
,
mimic
,
officiate
,
pantomime
,
pass for
,
perform
,
perform as
,
personate
,
play
,
play a part
,
pose as
,
pretend to be
,
serve
,
take off
,
work as
unadventurous
collapse
lacking in boldness
related words >
canny
,
careful
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
deliberate
,
discreet
,
gingerly
,
guarded
,
heedful
,
hesitant
,
judicious
,
leaving out nothing
,
mindful
,
noncommittal
,
on guard
,
overlooking no possibility
,
pawky
,
politic
,
prudent
,
regardful
,
safe
,
slow to act
,
tentative
,
thorough
,
uncommunicative
,
undaring
,
unenterprising
,
unprecipitate
act out
collapse
represent an incident, state, or emotion by action, especially on stage; "She could act neurotic anxiety"
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
act as
,
ape
,
copy
,
create a role
,
depict
,
do
,
enact
,
impersonate
,
masquerade as
,
mime
,
mimic
,
pantomime
,
pass for
,
perform
,
personate
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a role
,
play opposite
,
portray
,
pose as
,
pretend to be
,
represent
,
support
,
sustain a part
,
take a part
,
take off
flagging
collapse
a walk of flagstones; "the flagging in the garden was quite imaginative"
flagstones collectively; "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place"
related words >
ambling
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
coming apart
,
cracking
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
crumbling
,
debilitated
,
decadent
,
declining
,
degenerate
,
deliberate
,
deteriorating
,
disintegrating
,
draining
,
drooping
,
droopy
,
dwindling
,
easy
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
enervated
,
enfeebled
,
fading
,
fagged
,
failing
,
faint
,
fainting
,
falling
,
faltering
,
fatigued
,
feeling faint
,
foot-dragging
,
footsore
,
fragmenting
,
frazzled
,
gentle
,
going to pieces
,
good and tired
,
gradual
,
halting
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
indolent
,
jaded
,
languid
,
languishing
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
lumbering
,
marcescent
,
moderate
,
pining
,
poking
,
poky
,
ready to drop
,
regressive
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
run ragged
,
run-down
,
sagging
,
sauntering
,
seedy
,
shriveling
,
shuffling
,
sinking
,
slack
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
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
,
sluggish
,
slumping
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
staggering
,
strolling
,
subsiding
,
tabetic
,
tentative
,
tired
,
tired-winged
,
toddling
,
toilworn
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unhurried
,
unrefreshed
,
unrestored
,
waddling
,
waning
,
wasting
,
way-weary
,
wayworn
,
weak
,
weakened
,
wearied
,
weariful
,
weary
,
weary-footed
,
weary-laden
,
weary-winged
,
weary-worn
,
wilting
,
withering
,
worn
,
worn-down
,
worsening
strolling
collapse
related words >
ambling
,
ambulant
,
ambulation
,
ambulative
,
ambulatory
,
backpacking
,
cautious
,
circuit-riding
,
circumforaneous
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
deliberate
,
discursive
,
divagatory
,
drifting
,
easy
,
errant
,
expeditionary
,
faltering
,
flagging
,
flitting
,
floating
,
foot-dragging
,
footing
,
footing it
,
footloose
,
footloose and fancy-free
,
footwork
,
fugitive
,
gadding
,
gentle
,
globe-girdling
,
globe-trotting
,
going
,
going on foot
,
gradual
,
gypsy-like
,
gypsyish
,
halting
,
hiking
,
hitchhiking
,
hitching
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
hoofing
,
idle
,
indolent
,
itinerant
,
itinerary
,
journeying
,
landloping
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
legwork
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
locomotive
,
lumbering
,
marching
,
meandering
,
migrational
,
migratory
,
moderate
,
moving
,
mundivagant
,
nomad
,
nomadic
,
on tour
,
passing
,
pedestrian
,
pedestrianism
,
perambulating
,
perambulation
,
perambulatory
,
peregrinative
,
peregrine
,
peripatetic
,
pilgrimlike
,
poking
,
poky
,
progressing
,
rambling
,
ranging
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
roaming
,
roving
,
sauntering
,
shifting
,
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
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
staggering
,
straggling
,
straying
,
tentative
,
thumbing
,
thumbing a ride
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
touring
,
touristic
,
touristy
,
traipsing
,
tramping
,
transient
,
transitory
,
transmigratory
,
traveling
,
treading
,
trekking
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unhurried
,
vagabond
,
vagrant
,
waddling
,
walking
,
wandering
,
wayfaring
reluctantly
collapse
with reluctance
related words >
cautiously
,
circumspectly
,
crawlingly
,
creepingly
,
deliberately
,
dilatorily
,
easily
,
falteringly
,
gently
,
grudgingly
,
haltingly
,
idly
,
in low gear
,
in march time
,
in slow motion
,
in slow tempo
,
indolently
,
languidly
,
languorously
,
leisurely
,
limpingly
,
lingeringly
,
loiteringly
,
moderately
,
perfunctorily
,
pokily
,
pokingly
,
relaxedly
,
slow
,
slowly
,
sluggishly
,
sulkily
,
sullenly
,
tarryingly
,
tentatively
,
under easy sail
,
under protest
,
unhurriedly
,
with agonizing slowness
,
with deliberation
,
with dragging feet
,
with no heart
noncommittal
collapse
refusing to bind oneself to a particular course of action or view or the like; "her boyfriend was noncommittal about their future together"
related words >
canny
,
careful
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
constrained
,
cool
,
deliberate
,
discreet
,
gingerly
,
guarded
,
heedful
,
hesitant
,
incommunicable
,
judicious
,
leaving out nothing
,
mindful
,
on guard
,
overlooking no possibility
,
pawky
,
politic
,
precautional
,
precautionary
,
precautious
,
prudent
,
regardful
,
reserved
,
restrained
,
safe
,
slow to act
,
tentative
,
thorough
,
unadventurous
,
uncommunicative
,
undaring
,
unenterprising
,
unprecipitate
,
wary
,
watchful
loath
collapse
unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; "a reluctant smile"; "loath to admit a mistake"; "unwilling to face facts"
related words >
afraid
,
apathetic
,
averse
,
backward
,
balking
,
balky
,
dilatory
,
disinclined
,
grudging
,
hesitant
,
indifferent
,
indisposed
,
laggard
,
perfunctory
,
reluctant
,
renitent
,
restive
,
slow
,
slow to
,
uneager
,
unenthusiastic
,
unwilling
,
unzealous
staggering
collapse
related words >
amazing
,
ambling
,
ambulation
,
astonishing
,
astounding
,
backpacking
,
breathtaking
,
broken
,
capricious
,
careening
,
catchy
,
cautious
,
choppy
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
confounding
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
deliberate
,
desultory
,
deviative
,
disconnected
,
discontinuous
,
easy
,
eccentric
,
electrifying
,
erratic
,
eye-opening
,
faltering
,
fitful
,
flagging
,
flickering
,
fluctuating
,
foot-dragging
,
footing
,
footing it
,
footwork
,
gentle
,
going on foot
,
gradual
,
guttering
,
halting
,
herky-jerky
,
heteroclite
,
hiking
,
hitchhiking
,
hitching
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
hoofing
,
idle
,
immethodical
,
inconstant
,
indolent
,
intermittent
,
intermitting
,
irregular
,
jarring
,
jerky
,
jolting
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
legwork
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
lumbering
,
lurching
,
marching
,
mind-boggling
,
miraculous
,
moderate
,
nonuniform
,
overwhelming
,
patchy
,
pedestrianism
,
perambulation
,
poking
,
poky
,
rambling
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
rough
,
sauntering
,
scrappy
,
shocking
,
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
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
snatchy
,
spasmatic
,
spasmic
,
spasmodic
,
spastic
,
spectacular
,
sporadic
,
spotty
,
startling
,
strange
,
strolling
,
stunning
,
surprising
,
tentative
,
thumbing
,
thumbing a ride
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
tramping
,
treading
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
uncertain
,
unequal
,
uneven
,
unhurried
,
unmethodical
,
unmetrical
,
unregular
,
unrhythmical
,
unsettled
,
unsteady
,
unsystematic
,
variable
,
veering
,
waddling
,
walking
,
wandering
,
wavering
,
wobbling
,
wobbly
,
wonderful
,
wondrous
creeping
collapse
related words >
all fours
,
ambling
,
amphibian
,
anguine
,
atiptoe
,
atmospherics
,
batrachian
,
blaring
,
blasting
,
blind spot
,
cautious
,
cautiousness
,
circumspect
,
circumspection
,
claudicant
,
colubriform
,
crawl
,
crawling
,
creep
,
creeping like snail
,
crocodilian
,
deliberate
,
deliberateness
,
deliberation
,
drawl
,
drift
,
easy
,
fade-out
,
fading
,
faltering
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
froggy
,
gentle
,
gradual
,
gumshoeing
,
halting
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
honeycombed
,
idle
,
idleness
,
indolence
,
indolent
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
interference
,
languid
,
languor
,
languorous
,
laziness
,
lazy
,
leisureliness
,
leisurely
,
lentitude
,
lentor
,
limping
,
lizardlike
,
lumbering
,
moderate
,
nightwalking
,
noise
,
on all fours
,
on tippytoe
,
on tiptoe
,
ophidian
,
padding
,
permeated
,
pokiness
,
poking
,
poky
,
prowling
,
pussyfooting
,
reception
,
relaxed
,
reluctance
,
reluctant
,
repent
,
reptant
,
reptatorial
,
reptile
,
reptilelike
,
reptilian
,
reptiliform
,
reptiloid
,
saturated
,
sauntering
,
saurian
,
scrabble
,
scramble
,
serpentiform
,
serpentile
,
serpentine
,
serpentlike
,
serpentoid
,
shot through
,
shuffling
,
sidling
,
slack
,
slackness
,
slinking
,
slithering
,
sloth
,
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
,
slowness
,
sluggardy
,
sluggish
,
sluggishness
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
snakelike
,
snaking
,
snaky
,
sneaking
,
staggering
,
static
,
stealing
,
strolling
,
swarming
,
teeming
,
tentative
,
tentativeness
,
tippytoe
,
tiptoe
,
tiptoeing
,
toadish
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unhurried
,
viperiform
,
viperish
,
viperlike
,
viperoid
,
viperous
,
vipery
,
waddling
,
worming
personate
collapse
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
act as
,
act out
,
adumbrate
,
ape
,
body forth
,
copy
,
create a role
,
demonstrate
,
depict
,
do
,
embody
,
enact
,
exemplify
,
figure
,
foreshadow
,
illustrate
,
image
,
impersonate
,
incarnate
,
masquerade as
,
mime
,
mimic
,
mirror
,
pantomime
,
pass for
,
perform
,
personify
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a role
,
play opposite
,
portray
,
pose as
,
prefigure
,
pretend to be
,
pretypify
,
project
,
realize
,
reflect
,
represent
,
shadow
,
shadow forth
,
support
,
sustain a part
,
take a part
,
take off
lazy
collapse
moving slowly and gently; "up a lazy river"; "lazy white clouds"; "at a lazy pace"
related words >
Micawberish
,
airy
,
ambling
,
backward
,
bone-lazy
,
bum
,
bum around
,
cadging
,
careless
,
casual
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
comatose
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
cursory
,
dallying
,
degage
,
delaying
,
deliberate
,
dilatory
,
dillydallying
,
disregardant
,
disregardful
,
do nothing
,
do-nothing
,
doless
,
dronish
,
drony
,
easy
,
easygoing
,
ergophobic
,
faineant
,
faltering
,
flagging
,
flippant
,
foot-dragging
,
forgetful
,
free and easy
,
gentle
,
goldbrick
,
good-for-nothing
,
goof off
,
gradual
,
halting
,
hang around
,
heedless
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
inactive
,
inconsiderate
,
indifferent
,
indolent
,
inert
,
insouciant
,
lackadaisical
,
laggard
,
lagging
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lax
,
laze
,
leisurely
,
lethargic
,
lie around
,
limping
,
lingering
,
listless
,
loaf
,
loiter
,
loiter about
,
loitering
,
loll
,
loll around
,
lollop around
,
lounge
,
lounge around
,
lumbering
,
moderate
,
mooch around
,
moon
,
moon around
,
neglectful
,
negligent
,
nonaggressive
,
oblivious
,
offhand
,
otiose
,
parasitic
,
passive
,
perfunctory
,
poking
,
poky
,
procrastinating
,
procrastinative
,
procrastinatory
,
reckless
,
regardless
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
remiss
,
respectless
,
sauntering
,
scrounging
,
shiftless
,
shuffling
,
sit around
,
slack
,
slothful
,
slouch
,
slouch around
,
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
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
sponging
,
staggering
,
stand around
,
strolling
,
supine
,
tactless
,
tentative
,
thoughtless
,
toddling
,
torpid
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trifling
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
undiplomatic
,
unenterprising
,
unheedful
,
unheeding
,
unhurried
,
unmindful
,
unprepared
,
unready
,
unsolicitous
,
untactful
,
unthinking
,
waddling
,
work-shy
curtain call
collapse
related words >
act
,
afterpiece
,
bit
,
chaser
,
curtain
,
curtain raiser
,
divertimento
,
divertissement
,
epilogue
,
exode
,
exodus
,
expository scene
,
finale
,
hoke act
,
interlude
,
intermezzo
,
intermission
,
introduction
,
number
,
prologue
,
routine
,
scene
,
shtick
,
sketch
,
skit
,
song and dance
,
stand-up comedy act
,
striptease
,
turn
shtick
collapse
related words >
act
,
afterpiece
,
bit
,
chaser
,
curtain
,
curtain call
,
curtain raiser
,
divertimento
,
divertissement
,
epilogue
,
exode
,
exodus
,
expository scene
,
finale
,
hoke act
,
interlude
,
intermezzo
,
intermission
,
introduction
,
number
,
prologue
,
routine
,
scene
,
sketch
,
skit
,
song and dance
,
stand-up comedy act
,
striptease
,
turn
lumbering
collapse
the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber
related words >
Christmas tree farming
,
Latinate
,
afforestation
,
all thumbs
,
ambling
,
ambulation
,
arboriculture
,
awkward
,
backpacking
,
blunderheaded
,
blundering
,
bombastic
,
boorish
,
bulky
,
bumbling
,
bungling
,
butterfingered
,
careless
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
clownish
,
clumsy
,
clumsy-fisted
,
cramped
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
cumbersome
,
cumbrous
,
deliberate
,
easy
,
elephantine
,
faltering
,
fingers all thumbs
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
footing
,
footing it
,
footwork
,
forced
,
forest management
,
forestation
,
forestry
,
formal
,
fumbling
,
gauche
,
gawkish
,
gawky
,
gentle
,
going on foot
,
graceless
,
gradual
,
guinde
,
halting
,
ham-fisted
,
ham-handed
,
heavy
,
heavy-handed
,
hiking
,
hitchhiking
,
hitching
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
hoofing
,
hulking
,
hulky
,
idle
,
indolent
,
inelegant
,
inept
,
inkhorn
,
labored
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leaden
,
left-hand
,
left-handed
,
legwork
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
logging
,
loutish
,
lubberly
,
lumpish
,
lumpy
,
maladroit
,
marching
,
massive
,
massy
,
moderate
,
oafish
,
pedestrianism
,
perambulation
,
poking
,
poky
,
pompous
,
ponderous
,
reforestation
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
sauntering
,
sesquipedalian
,
shuffling
,
silviculture
,
slack
,
sloppy
,
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
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
splay
,
staggering
,
stiff
,
stilted
,
strolling
,
tentative
,
thumbing
,
thumbing a ride
,
toddling
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
tramping
,
treading
,
tree farming
,
trudging
,
turgid
,
turtlelike
,
uncouth
,
ungainly
,
ungraceful
,
unhandy
,
unhurried
,
unwieldy
,
waddling
,
walking
,
woodcraft
,
wooden
slowpoke
collapse
related words >
dawdle
,
dawdler
,
drone
,
foot-dragger
,
goldbrick
,
goof-off
,
laggard
,
lie-abed
,
lingerer
,
loiterer
,
plodder
,
procrastinator
,
sleepyhead
,
slow goer
,
slow-foot
,
slowbelly
,
slug
,
sluggard
,
snail
,
stick-in-the-mud
,
straggler
,
tortoise
languorous
collapse
related words >
abeyant
,
ambling
,
anemic
,
apathetic
,
asthenic
,
benumbed
,
blase
,
bloodless
,
bored
,
cataleptic
,
catatonic
,
cautious
,
chicken
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
cowardly
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
dead
,
debilitated
,
deliberate
,
dilatory
,
dopey
,
dormant
,
drooping
,
droopy
,
drugged
,
dull
,
easy
,
effete
,
enervated
,
etiolated
,
exanimate
,
faineant
,
faint
,
faintish
,
faltering
,
feeble
,
flabby
,
flaccid
,
flagging
,
flat
,
floppy
,
foot-dragging
,
foul
,
gentle
,
gone
,
gradual
,
groggy
,
gutless
,
halting
,
heavy
,
hebetudinous
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
imbecile
,
impotent
,
in abeyance
,
in suspense
,
inactive
,
inanimate
,
indolent
,
indulged
,
inert
,
jaded
,
lackadaisical
,
laggard
,
languid
,
languishing
,
latent
,
lax
,
lazy
,
leaden
,
leisurely
,
lethargic
,
lifeless
,
limber
,
limp
,
limping
,
listless
,
logy
,
loose
,
lumbering
,
lumpish
,
lustless
,
marrowless
,
moderate
,
moribund
,
nerveless
,
numb
,
pampered
,
passive
,
phlegmatic
,
pithless
,
poking
,
poky
,
pooped
,
powerless
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
rubbery
,
sapless
,
sated
,
sauntering
,
sedentary
,
shuffling
,
sinewless
,
slack
,
sleeping
,
sleepy
,
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
,
sluggish
,
slumbering
,
smoldering
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
soft
,
somnolent
,
spineless
,
spiritless
,
staggering
,
stagnant
,
stagnating
,
standing
,
static
,
strengthless
,
strolling
,
stultified
,
supine
,
suspended
,
tame
,
tentative
,
toddling
,
torpid
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
trudging
,
turtlelike
,
unaroused
,
unhardened
,
unhurried
,
unnerved
,
unstrung
,
vegetable
,
vegetative
,
waddling
,
wan
,
weak
,
weakly
,
weary
,
world-weary
tentative
collapse
related words >
acting
,
ad hoc
,
ad interim
,
alternate
,
alternative
,
ambling
,
analytic
,
apprehensive
,
awkward
,
backup
,
band-aid
,
blankminded
,
callow
,
canny
,
careful
,
cautious
,
circumspect
,
claudicant
,
counterfeit
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
creeping like snail
,
cut-and-try
,
dangerous
,
deliberate
,
demurring
,
desultory
,
determined
,
diffident
,
discreet
,
disinclined
,
dumb
,
dummy
,
easy
,
empirical
,
empty
,
empty-headed
,
equivalent
,
ersatz
,
examinational
,
examinatorial
,
examining
,
experimental
,
explorational
,
explorative
,
exploratory
,
fact-finding
,
fake
,
faltering
,
feeling
,
flagging
,
foot-dragging
,
gauche
,
gentle
,
gingerly
,
gradual
,
green
,
groping
,
guarded
,
halting
,
hazardous
,
heedful
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
heuristic
,
hit-or-miss
,
hobbled
,
hobbling
,
idle
,
ignorant
,
imitation
,
improvisational
,
improvised
,
inane
,
indagative
,
indecisive
,
indolent
,
inexperienced
,
infirm
,
innocent
,
insecure
,
inspectional
,
inspectorial
,
insubstantial
,
interim
,
investigational
,
investigative
,
investigatory
,
irresolute
,
jibbing
,
judicious
,
jury-rigged
,
know-nothing
,
languid
,
languorous
,
lazy
,
leaving out nothing
,
leisurely
,
limping
,
lumbering
,
makeshift
,
makeshifty
,
mindful
,
mock
,
moderate
,
naive
,
nescient
,
noncommittal
,
on guard
,
overlooking no possibility
,
pawky
,
perilous
,
phony
,
pilot
,
pinch
,
poking
,
poky
,
politic
,
precarious
,
probationary
,
probative
,
probatory
,
proving
,
provisional
,
provisory
,
proxy
,
prudent
,
raw
,
regardful
,
relaxed
,
reluctant
,
reserve
,
resolute
,
risky
,
safe
,
sauntering
,
scrupling
,
secondary
,
shaky
,
shifting
,
shifty
,
shilly-shallying
,
shuffling
,
shy
,
simple
,
slack
,
slippery
,
slothful
,
slow
,
slow as death
,
slow as molasses
,
slow as slow
,
slow to act
,
slow-crawling
,
slow-foot
,
slow-going
,
slow-legged
,
slow-moving
,
slow-paced
,
slow-poky
,
slow-running
,
slow-sailing
,
slow-stepped
,
sluggish
,
snail-paced
,
snaillike
,
spare
,
speculative
,
staggering
,
sticking
,
stickling
,
stopgap
,
straining
,
strange to
,
strolling
,
substitute
,
temporary
,
test
,
testing
,
thorough
,
ticklish
,
timid
,
toddling
,
token
,
tortoiselike
,
tottering
,
treacherous
,
trial
,
trial-and-error
,
trudging
,
trying
,
turtlelike
,
unacquainted
,
unadventurous
,
unapprized
,
uncertain
,
uncommunicative
,
uncomprehending
,
unconversant
,
undaring
,
undependable
,
uneasy
,
unenlightened
,
unenterprising
,
unfaithworthy
,
unfamiliar
,
unhurried
,
unilluminated
,
uninformed
,
uninitiated
,
unintelligent
,
unknowing
,
unposted
,
unprecipitate
,
unreliable
,
unsound
,
unstable
,
unsteadfast
,
unsteady
,
unsubstantial
,
unsure
,
untrustworthy
,
unversed
,
utility
,
vacillatory
,
vacuous
,
venturesome
,
verificatory
,
vicarious
,
waddling
,
willing
,
wobbly
,
zetetic
behave
collapse
behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times"
behave well or properly; "The children must learn to behave"
related words >
acquit
,
act
,
act toward
,
act well
,
be good
,
be nice
,
bear
,
behave toward
,
carry
,
comport
,
conduct
,
control
,
cope with
,
deal by
,
deal with
,
demean
,
deport
,
direct
,
disport
,
do
,
do by
,
do right
,
function
,
go on
,
handle
,
make
,
make as if
,
manage
,
misbehave
,
move
,
operate
,
perform
,
play
,
play the game
,
practice
,
proceed
,
quit
,
react
,
respond to
,
serve
,
take
,
treat
,
use
,
work
grudging
collapse
petty or reluctant in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip"
of especially an attitude; "gave grudging consent"; "grudging acceptance of his opponent's victory"
related words >
apathetic
,
backward
,
balking
,
balky
,
begrudging
,
covetous
,
desirous of
,
dilatory
,
envious
,
envying
,
green with envy
,
indifferent
,
invidious
,
jealous
,
laggard
,
loath
,
mean
,
mingy
,
niggard
,
niggardly
,
penurious
,
perfunctory
,
pinchpenny
,
reluctant
,
renitent
,
restive
,
shabby
,
slow
,
slow to
,
sordid
,
unenthusiastic
,
unzealous
striptease
collapse
related words >
act
,
afterpiece
,
bit
,
chaser
,
curtain
,
curtain call
,
curtain raiser
,
disrobement
,
disrobing
,
divertimento
,
divertissement
,
epilogue
,
exode
,
exodus
,
expository scene
,
finale
,
hoke act
,
interlude
,
intermezzo
,
intermission
,
introduction
,
molting
,
number
,
peeling
,
prologue
,
routine
,
scene
,
shedding
,
shtick
,
sketch
,
skit
,
song and dance
,
stand-up comedy act
,
strip
,
stripping
,
turn
,
undressing
impersonate
collapse
represent another person with comic intentions
assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna"; "The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man"
related words >
act
,
act a part
,
act as
,
act out
,
adumbrate
,
ape
,
body forth
,
copy
,
copycat
,
create a role
,
demonstrate
,
depict
,
discourse
,
do
,
embody
,
enact
,
exemplify
,
figure
,
foreshadow
,
hit off
,
hit off on
,
illustrate
,
image
,
incarnate
,
make false pretenses
,
masquerade as
,
mime
,
mimic
,
mirror
,
mock
,
pantomime
,
parrot
,
pass for
,
perform
,
personate
,
personify
,
play
,
play a part
,
play a role
,
play opposite
,
playact
,
portray
,
pose as
,
prefigure
,
pretend to be
,
pretypify
,
project
,
realize
,
reflect
,
represent
,
shadow
,
shadow forth
,
support
,
sustain a part
,
take a part
,
take off
,
take off on
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