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candid
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openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness; "his candid eyes"; "an open and trusting nature"; "a heart-to-heart talk"
informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared; "a candid photograph"; "a candid interview"
related words >
Olympian
,
Spartan
,
aboveboard
,
accessible
,
all jaw
,
approachable
,
artless
,
ascetic
,
austere
,
authentic
,
bald
,
bare
,
bluff
,
blunt
,
bona fide
,
born yesterday
,
broad
,
brusque
,
card-carrying
,
chatty
,
childlike
,
common
,
commonplace
,
communicative
,
confiding
,
conversable
,
conversational
,
demonstrative
,
detached
,
dinkum
,
direct
,
disinterested
,
dispassionate
,
downright
,
dry
,
dull
,
effusive
,
equal
,
equitable
,
expansive
,
explicit
,
extroverted
,
fair
,
flip
,
fluent
,
following the letter
,
forthright
,
frank
,
frankhearted
,
free
,
free hand
,
free-acting
,
free-going
,
free-moving
,
free-speaking
,
free-spoken
,
free-tongued
,
freehanded
,
gabby
,
garrulous
,
gassy
,
genuine
,
glib
,
good
,
gossipy
,
gregarious
,
guileless
,
gushy
,
heart-to-heart
,
homely
,
homespun
,
honest
,
honest-to-God
,
impartial
,
impersonal
,
impromptu
,
inartificial
,
informal
,
ingenu
,
ingenuous
,
innocent
,
just
,
lawful
,
lean
,
legitimate
,
lifelike
,
literal
,
lofty
,
long-winded
,
loquacious
,
matter-of-fact
,
multiloquent
,
multiloquious
,
naive
,
native
,
natural
,
naturalistic
,
neat
,
neutral
,
newsy
,
objective
,
open
,
openhearted
,
original
,
outgoing
,
outspoken
,
overtalkative
,
plain
,
plain-speaking
,
plain-spoken
,
prolix
,
prosaic
,
prosing
,
prosy
,
pure
,
real
,
realistic
,
rightful
,
round
,
rustic
,
scrupulous
,
self-revealing
,
self-revelatory
,
selfless
,
severe
,
simon-pure
,
simple
,
simple-speaking
,
simplehearted
,
simpleminded
,
sincere
,
single-hearted
,
single-minded
,
smooth
,
sober
,
sociable
,
spare
,
stark
,
sterling
,
straight
,
straight-out
,
straightforward
,
sure-enough
,
talkative
,
talky
,
transparent
,
true to life
,
true to nature
,
true to reality
,
trustful
,
trusting
,
truthful
,
unadorned
,
unadulterated
,
unaffected
,
unartificial
,
unassumed
,
unassuming
,
unbiased
,
unbigoted
,
uncalculated
,
uncalculating
,
unchecked
,
uncolored
,
unconcealed
,
unconcocted
,
unconstrained
,
uncontrived
,
uncopied
,
uncounterfeited
,
undeceitful
,
undeceiving
,
undisguised
,
undisguising
,
undissembled
,
undissembling
,
undistorted
,
unequivocal
,
unexaggerated
,
unfabricated
,
unfanciful
,
unfeigned
,
unfeigning
,
unfictitious
,
unflattering
,
unguarded
,
unhampered
,
unimaginative
,
unimagined
,
unimitated
,
uninfluenced
,
uninvented
,
unpoetical
,
unprejudiced
,
unpremeditated
,
unpretended
,
unpretending
,
unpretentious
,
unqualified
,
unrepressed
,
unreserved
,
unrestrained
,
unrestricted
,
unreticent
,
unromantic
,
unsecretive
,
unselfish
,
unshrinking
,
unsilent
,
unsimulated
,
unsophisticated
,
unspecious
,
unsuppressed
,
unsuspicious
,
unswayed
,
unsynthetic
,
unvarnished
,
unwary
,
upright
,
verbal
,
verbatim
,
verbose
,
veridical
,
verisimilar
,
voluble
,
windy
,
word-for-word
nonviolent
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achieved without bloodshed; "an unbloody transfer of power"
abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence
related words >
bland
,
civilian
,
conciliatory
,
dovish
,
gentle
,
irenic
,
judicious
,
mild
,
mild as milk
,
moderate
,
nonaggressive
,
noncombatant
,
nonmilitant
,
pacific
,
pacificatory
,
pacifist
,
pacifistic
,
peace-loving
,
peaceable
,
peaceful
,
prudent
,
sober
,
soft
,
tame
,
temperate
,
unbellicose
,
uncontentious
,
unhostile
,
unmilitant
,
unmilitary
unsuppressed
collapse
given vent to; "unsuppressed rage"; "unsuppressed feelings"
related words >
abandoned
,
accessible
,
approachable
,
candid
,
communicative
,
conversable
,
demonstrative
,
effusive
,
expansive
,
extroverted
,
frank
,
free
,
free-speaking
,
free-spoken
,
free-tongued
,
go-go
,
gossipy
,
immoderate
,
incontinent
,
indulgent
,
intemperate
,
irrepressible
,
lax
,
licentious
,
loose
,
newsy
,
nonrestrictive
,
open
,
out of control
,
out of hand
,
outgoing
,
outspoken
,
permissive
,
rampant
,
reinless
,
riotous
,
self-revealing
,
self-revelatory
,
sociable
,
talkative
,
unbridled
,
unchecked
,
uncoerced
,
uncompelled
,
unconstrained
,
uncontrolled
,
uncurbed
,
unforced
,
ungoverned
,
unhampered
,
uninhibited
,
unmastered
,
unmeasured
,
unmuzzled
,
unreined
,
unrepressed
,
unreserved
,
unrestrained
,
unrestricted
,
unrestrictive
,
unreticent
,
unruly
,
unsecretive
,
unshrinking
,
unsilent
,
unsubdued
,
wanton
,
wild
unrepressed
collapse
not repressed; "unrepressed hostilities"
related words >
abandoned
,
accessible
,
approachable
,
candid
,
communicative
,
conversable
,
demonstrative
,
effusive
,
expansive
,
extroverted
,
frank
,
free
,
free-speaking
,
free-spoken
,
free-tongued
,
go-go
,
gossipy
,
immoderate
,
incontinent
,
indulgent
,
intemperate
,
irrepressible
,
lax
,
licentious
,
loose
,
newsy
,
nonrestrictive
,
open
,
out of control
,
out of hand
,
outgoing
,
outspoken
,
permissive
,
rampant
,
reinless
,
riotous
,
self-revealing
,
self-revelatory
,
sociable
,
talkative
,
unbridled
,
unchecked
,
uncoerced
,
uncompelled
,
unconstrained
,
uncontrolled
,
uncurbed
,
unforced
,
ungoverned
,
unhampered
,
uninhibited
,
unmastered
,
unmeasured
,
unmuzzled
,
unreined
,
unreserved
,
unrestrained
,
unrestricted
,
unrestrictive
,
unreticent
,
unruly
,
unsecretive
,
unshrinking
,
unsilent
,
unsubdued
,
unsuppressed
,
wanton
,
wild
mild
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moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme; "a mild winter storm"; "a mild fever"; "fortunately the pain was mild"; "a mild rebuke"; "mild criticism"
related words >
Saturnian
,
accepting
,
aestival
,
affable
,
agreeable
,
amiable
,
balmy
,
benign
,
benignant
,
bland
,
blood-hot
,
blood-warm
,
bonhomous
,
bright
,
broken
,
calid
,
calm
,
calming
,
chastened
,
choice
,
clement
,
compassionate
,
complaisant
,
conciliatory
,
cordial
,
dainty
,
dead
,
deferential
,
delicate
,
demulcent
,
dilute
,
diluted
,
docile
,
domesticated
,
dovelike
,
easy
,
easy-natured
,
easygoing
,
emollient
,
equable
,
equatorial
,
exquisite
,
fade
,
faint
,
fair
,
flat
,
flavorless
,
forbearant
,
forbearing
,
forgiving
,
genial
,
gentle
,
good-humored
,
good-natured
,
good-tempered
,
gruelly
,
halcyon
,
housebroken
,
humane
,
humble
,
inane
,
indifferent
,
indulgent
,
inoffensive
,
insipid
,
jejune
,
judicious
,
kind
,
kindly
,
lamblike
,
lax
,
lenient
,
lenitive
,
luke
,
lukewarm
,
meek
,
mellow
,
mellowy
,
merciful
,
mild as milk
,
milk-and-water
,
moderate
,
modest
,
mollified
,
mollifying
,
nonresistive
,
nonrigid
,
nonviolent
,
obeisant
,
obliging
,
pacific
,
pacifistic
,
pappy
,
passive
,
patient
,
peaceable
,
peaceful
,
placid
,
pleasant
,
prudent
,
pulpy
,
quiet
,
room-temperature
,
sapless
,
savorless
,
serene
,
smooth
,
sober
,
soft
,
soft as putty
,
softened
,
softening
,
soothing
,
spiceless
,
stale
,
subdued
,
submissive
,
subservient
,
subtropical
,
summery
,
sunny
,
sunshiny
,
sweet
,
sweet-tempered
,
tame
,
tamed
,
tasteless
,
temperate
,
tender
,
tepid
,
thermal
,
thermic
,
thin
,
toasty
,
tolerant
,
tractable
,
tranquil
,
tropical
,
unassuming
,
unflavored
,
unfrozen
,
unsavory
,
vapid
,
warm
,
warm as toast
,
warmish
,
washy
,
watered
,
watered-down
,
watery
,
weak
,
well-natured
,
whisper-soft
,
wishy-washy
,
yielding
artlessness
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ingenuousness by virtue of being free from artful deceit
the quality of innocent naivete
related words >
absolute realism
,
authenticity
,
bluffness
,
bluntness
,
bona fideness
,
broadness
,
brusqueness
,
candidness
,
candor
,
directness
,
forthrightness
,
frankness
,
freedom
,
freeness
,
genuineness
,
honesty
,
inartificiality
,
ingenuousness
,
intactness
,
legitimacy
,
lifelikeness
,
literalism
,
literality
,
literalness
,
natural man
,
natural state
,
naturalism
,
naturalness
,
nature
,
openheartedness
,
openness
,
outspokenness
,
photographic realism
,
plain dealing
,
plain speaking
,
plainness
,
plainspokenness
,
pristineness
,
realism
,
realness
,
roundness
,
sincerity
,
state of nature
,
straightforwardness
,
true-to-lifeness
,
truth to nature
,
unadulteration
,
unaffectedness
,
unconstraint
,
unfictitiousness
,
unreserve
,
unrestraint
,
unspeciousness
,
unspuriousness
,
unsyntheticness
,
verisimilitude
,
virginity
prawn
collapse
shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
any of various edible decapod crustaceans
fish for prawns
related words >
Dungeness crab
,
Japanese crab
,
blue point
,
clam
,
coquillage
,
crab
,
crawdad
,
crawfish
,
crayfish
,
langouste
,
limpet
,
littleneck clam
,
lobster
,
mussel
,
oyster
,
periwinkle
,
quahog
,
scallop
,
shellfish
,
shrimp
,
snail
,
soft-shell crab
,
steamer
,
whelk
shellfish
collapse
meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
related words >
Dungeness crab
,
Japanese crab
,
blue point
,
clam
,
coquillage
,
crab
,
crawdad
,
crawfish
,
crayfish
,
langouste
,
limpet
,
littleneck clam
,
lobster
,
mussel
,
oyster
,
periwinkle
,
prawn
,
quahog
,
scallop
,
shrimp
,
snail
,
soft-shell crab
,
steamer
,
whelk
silken
collapse
related words >
buffed
,
burnished
,
cottony
,
deferential
,
disarming
,
finished
,
furbished
,
glace
,
glassy
,
glazed
,
gleaming
,
glossy
,
insinuating
,
insinuative
,
lacquered
,
plush
,
plushy
,
polished
,
rubbed
,
saccharine
,
satinlike
,
satiny
,
sericeous
,
shellacked
,
shiny
,
silklike
,
silky
,
sleek
,
slick
,
soft as silk
,
varnished
,
velutinous
,
velvetlike
,
velvety
forthright
collapse
related words >
aboveboard
,
artless
,
bluff
,
blunt
,
broad
,
brusque
,
candid
,
dead
,
dead ahead
,
direct
,
directly
,
downright
,
due
,
due north
,
explicit
,
frank
,
frankhearted
,
free
,
free-speaking
,
free-spoken
,
free-tongued
,
genuine
,
heart-to-heart
,
in a beeline
,
in line with
,
ingenuous
,
open
,
openhearted
,
outspoken
,
plain
,
plain dealing
,
plain-spoken
,
right
,
round
,
sincere
,
single
,
straight
,
straight across
,
straight ahead
,
straight-out
,
straightforward
,
straightforwards
,
straightly
,
transparent
,
unambiguous
,
unchecked
,
unconstrained
,
undeviatingly
,
undisguised
,
unequivocal
,
unguarded
,
uninhibited
,
unreserved
,
unrestrained
,
unswervingly
,
unvarnished
,
unveeringly
usage
collapse
related words >
acceptance
,
acceptation
,
acception
,
active use
,
adjectival phrase
,
antonym
,
appliance
,
application
,
articulation
,
automatism
,
bad habit
,
bon ton
,
care
,
ceremony
,
characteristic
,
choice
,
choice of words
,
clause
,
composition
,
conformity
,
construction
,
consuetude
,
consumption
,
convenance
,
convention
,
creature of habit
,
custodianship
,
custom
,
dialect
,
diction
,
employ
,
employment
,
established way
,
etiquette
,
exercise
,
exertion
,
expression
,
fashion
,
folkway
,
force of habit
,
form
,
formality
,
formulation
,
free form
,
good use
,
grammar
,
guidance
,
guiding
,
habit
,
habit pattern
,
habitude
,
handling
,
hard usage
,
hard use
,
headed group
,
homograph
,
homonym
,
homophone
,
idiom
,
idiotism
,
ill use
,
language
,
langue
,
lead
,
lexeme
,
lingo
,
lingua
,
linguistic form
,
locution
,
logos
,
management
,
manipulation
,
manner
,
manner of speaking
,
manners
,
means of dealing
,
metonym
,
minimum free form
,
misuse
,
monosyllable
,
mores
,
noun phrase
,
observance
,
operation
,
paragraph
,
parlance
,
parole
,
pattern
,
peculiar expression
,
peculiarity
,
period
,
personal usage
,
phrasal idiom
,
phrase
,
phraseology
,
phrasing
,
polysyllable
,
practice
,
praxis
,
preference
,
prescription
,
procedure
,
proceeding
,
process
,
proper thing
,
received meaning
,
rhetoric
,
ritual
,
rough usage
,
routine
,
second nature
,
sentence
,
set phrase
,
social convention
,
speech
,
standard behavior
,
standard phrase
,
standard usage
,
standing custom
,
stereotype
,
stereotyped behavior
,
stewardship
,
syllable
,
synonym
,
syntactic structure
,
talk
,
term
,
time-honored practice
,
tongue
,
tradition
,
treatment
,
trick
,
turn of expression
,
turn of phrase
,
use
,
use of words
,
using up
,
usus loquendi
,
utterance
,
verb complex
,
verb phrase
,
verbalism
,
verbiage
,
verbum
,
vocable
,
way
,
way of speaking
,
what is done
,
wont
,
wonting
,
word
,
word-group
,
wordage
,
wording
,
wrong use
wheedling
collapse
related words >
adulation
,
adulatory
,
allurement
,
bland
,
blandishing
,
blandishment
,
blarney
,
blarneying
,
bunkum
,
buttery
,
buttonholing
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
cajoling
,
coaxing
,
compliment
,
complimentary
,
conning
,
courtierly
,
courtly
,
demanding
,
dunning
,
engagement
,
enlistment
,
exhortation
,
exhortative
,
exhortatory
,
eyewash
,
fair words
,
fair-spoken
,
fawning
,
fine-spoken
,
flattering
,
flattery
,
fulsome
,
grease
,
gushing
,
honey-mouthed
,
honey-tongued
,
honeyed
,
honeyed phrases
,
honeyed words
,
hortation
,
hortative
,
hortatory
,
importunate
,
importunateness
,
importunity
,
incense
,
inducement
,
insincere
,
insinuating
,
insistent
,
jawboning
,
lobbying
,
mealymouthed
,
nagging
,
obsequious
,
oil
,
oily
,
oily-tongued
,
palaver
,
persuading
,
persuasion
,
persuasive
,
pestering
,
plaguing
,
plying
,
praise
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
pressing
,
pressure
,
pretty lies
,
sales talk
,
salesmanship
,
selling
,
slimy
,
slobbery
,
smarmy
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smooth-tongued
,
snow job
,
soap
,
soapy
,
soft soap
,
soft-soaping
,
solicitation
,
suasion
,
suasive
,
sweet nothings
,
sweet talk
,
sweet words
,
sycophancy
,
sycophantic
,
teasing
,
unctuous
,
urgency
,
urgent
,
urging
,
working on
homelike
collapse
having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn"
related words >
cheerful
,
comfortable
,
comfy
,
commodious
,
contented
,
convenient
,
cozy
,
cushioned
,
cushiony
,
cushy
,
easeful
,
easy
,
friendly
,
habitable
,
homely
,
homey
,
homish
,
inhabitable
,
intimate
,
livable
,
lived-in
,
lodgeable
,
luxurious
,
occupiable
,
peaceful
,
plain
,
relaxing
,
reposeful
,
restful
,
roomy
,
simple
,
snug
,
soft
,
tenantable
,
unpretending
,
warm
steamer
collapse
a ship powered by one or more steam engines
a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it
travel by means of steam power; "The ship steamed off into the Pacific"
related words >
Dungeness crab
,
Japanese crab
,
blue point
,
clam
,
coquillage
,
crab
,
crawdad
,
crawfish
,
crayfish
,
langouste
,
limpet
,
littleneck clam
,
lobster
,
mussel
,
oyster
,
periwinkle
,
prawn
,
quahog
,
scallop
,
shellfish
,
shrimp
,
snail
,
soft-shell crab
,
steamboat
,
steamship
,
whelk
command of language
collapse
related words >
affectation
,
articulateness
,
command of words
,
effective style
,
eloquence
,
eloquent tongue
,
exaggeration
,
expression
,
expression of ideas
,
expressiveness
,
facundity
,
fashion
,
feeling for words
,
felicitousness
,
felicity
,
form of speech
,
gift of expression
,
gift of gab
,
glibness
,
grace of expression
,
grandiloquence
,
graphicness
,
inflation
,
literary style
,
manner
,
manner of speaking
,
mannerism
,
meaningfulness
,
mode
,
mode of expression
,
oratory
,
peculiarity
,
personal style
,
rhetoric
,
sense of language
,
silver tongue
,
slickness
,
smoothness
,
strain
,
style
,
stylistic analysis
,
stylistics
,
the grand style
,
the plain style
,
the sublime
,
trick
,
vein
,
vividness
,
way
stage whisper
collapse
a loud whisper that can be overheard; on the stage it is heard by the audience but it supposed to be inaudible to the rest of the cast
related words >
aspiration
,
bated breath
,
breath
,
breathy voice
,
exhalation
,
little voice
,
low voice
,
mumble
,
mumbling
,
murmur
,
murmuration
,
murmuring
,
mutter
,
muttering
,
sigh
,
soft voice
,
still small voice
,
susurration
,
susurrus
,
underbreath
,
undertone
,
whisper
,
whispering
low voice
collapse
related words >
aspiration
,
bated breath
,
breath
,
breathy voice
,
exhalation
,
little voice
,
mumble
,
mumbling
,
murmur
,
murmuration
,
murmuring
,
mutter
,
muttering
,
sigh
,
soft voice
,
stage whisper
,
still small voice
,
susurration
,
susurrus
,
underbreath
,
undertone
,
whisper
,
whispering
bated breath
collapse
related words >
aspiration
,
breath
,
breathy voice
,
exhalation
,
little voice
,
low voice
,
mumble
,
mumbling
,
murmur
,
murmuration
,
murmuring
,
mutter
,
muttering
,
sigh
,
soft voice
,
stage whisper
,
still small voice
,
susurration
,
susurrus
,
underbreath
,
undertone
,
whisper
,
whispering
tropism
collapse
an involuntary orienting response; positive or negative reaction to a stimulus source
related words >
a thing for
,
affinity
,
aptitude
,
aptness
,
bent
,
bias
,
cast
,
conatus
,
conduciveness
,
delight
,
diathesis
,
disposition
,
eagerness
,
feeling for
,
inclination
,
leaning
,
liability
,
liking
,
penchant
,
predilection
,
predisposition
,
prejudice
,
probability
,
proclivity
,
proneness
,
propensity
,
readiness
,
sensitivity to
,
soft spot
,
susceptibility
,
tendency
,
turn
,
twist
,
warp
,
weakness
,
willingness
sensitivity to
collapse
related words >
a thing for
,
affinity
,
aptitude
,
aptness
,
bent
,
bias
,
cast
,
conatus
,
conduciveness
,
delight
,
diathesis
,
disposition
,
eagerness
,
feeling for
,
inclination
,
leaning
,
liability
,
liking
,
penchant
,
predilection
,
predisposition
,
prejudice
,
probability
,
proclivity
,
proneness
,
propensity
,
readiness
,
soft spot
,
susceptibility
,
tendency
,
tropism
,
turn
,
twist
,
warp
,
weakness
,
willingness
feeling for
collapse
related words >
a thing for
,
affinity
,
aptitude
,
aptness
,
bent
,
bias
,
cast
,
conatus
,
conduciveness
,
delight
,
diathesis
,
disposition
,
eagerness
,
inclination
,
leaning
,
liability
,
liking
,
penchant
,
predilection
,
predisposition
,
prejudice
,
probability
,
proclivity
,
proneness
,
propensity
,
readiness
,
sensitivity to
,
soft spot
,
susceptibility
,
tendency
,
tropism
,
turn
,
twist
,
warp
,
weakness
,
willingness
effortless
collapse
requiring or apparently requiring no effort; "the swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air"
related words >
Mickey Mouse
,
adept
,
casual
,
clear
,
cursive
,
cushy
,
easy
,
easy as pie
,
expert
,
facile
,
flowing
,
fluent
,
glib
,
light
,
masterly
,
nothing to it
,
painless
,
plain
,
proficient
,
ready
,
royal
,
running
,
simple
,
simple as ABC
,
skilled
,
skillful
,
smooth
,
soft
,
straightforward
,
unburdensome
,
uncomplicated
,
untroublesome
automatism
collapse
any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)
related words >
Ouija
,
automatic control
,
automatic writing
,
automation
,
automatization
,
bad habit
,
blind impulse
,
characteristic
,
compulsiveness
,
conditioning
,
creature of habit
,
custom
,
echolalia
,
echopraxia
,
force of habit
,
habit
,
habit pattern
,
habitude
,
impulse
,
instinct
,
instinctiveness
,
involuntariness
,
levitation
,
materialization
,
pattern
,
peculiarity
,
planchette
,
poltergeist
,
poltergeistism
,
practice
,
praxis
,
psychography
,
psychorrhagy
,
reflex action
,
second nature
,
self-action
,
self-activity
,
self-determination
,
self-direction
,
self-government
,
self-motion
,
self-propulsion
,
self-regulation
,
sheer chemistry
,
spirit manifestation
,
spirit rapping
,
stereotype
,
stereotyped behavior
,
table tipping
,
telekinesis
,
teleportation
,
telesthesia
,
trance speaking
,
trick
,
unwilledness
,
usage
,
use
,
way
,
wont
outgoing
collapse
leaving a place or a position; "an outgoing steamship"; "the outgoing president"
related words >
accessible
,
affable
,
amenable
,
amiable
,
amicable
,
approachable
,
candid
,
communicative
,
congenial
,
conversable
,
cordial
,
demonstrative
,
departing
,
departure
,
easygoing
,
effluent
,
effused
,
effusive
,
egress
,
egression
,
emeritus
,
exit
,
exodus
,
expansive
,
extraction
,
extravasated
,
extroversive
,
extrovert
,
extroverted
,
familiar
,
former
,
forthcoming
,
frank
,
free
,
free-speaking
,
free-spoken
,
free-tongued
,
friendly
,
genial
,
going out
,
gossipy
,
informal
,
leaving
,
newsy
,
open
,
other-directed
,
outbound
,
outcome
,
outcoming
,
outflowing
,
outgo
,
outpouring
,
outspoken
,
outward-bound
,
past
,
retiring
,
self-revealing
,
self-revelatory
,
sociable
,
talkative
,
unconstrained
,
unhampered
,
unrepressed
,
unreserved
,
unrestrained
,
unrestricted
,
unreticent
,
unsecretive
,
unshrinking
,
unsilent
,
unsuppressed
,
warm
,
withdrawing
squishy
collapse
related words >
baccate
,
dirty
,
doughy
,
flabby
,
fleshy
,
macerated
,
masticated
,
miry
,
mucky
,
muddy
,
mushy
,
oozy
,
pasty
,
pithy
,
plashy
,
pulpal
,
pulpar
,
pulped
,
pulplike
,
pulpy
,
quaggy
,
slabby
,
slobby
,
sloppy
,
sloshy
,
sloughy
,
sludgy
,
slushy
,
soft
,
splashy
,
spongy
,
sposhy
,
squashy
,
squelchy
,
squushy
,
succulent
,
turbid
,
yielding
clement
collapse
(used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy; "a more clement judge reduced the sentence"
(of weather or climate) physically mild; "clement weather"
related words >
accepting
,
benevolent
,
benign
,
benignant
,
bleeding
,
charitable
,
commiserative
,
compassionate
,
condolent
,
easy
,
easygoing
,
forbearant
,
forbearing
,
forgiving
,
gentle
,
human
,
humane
,
indulgent
,
kind
,
kindly
,
lax
,
lenient
,
melting
,
merciful
,
mild
,
moderate
,
patient
,
pitying
,
ruthful
,
soft
,
softhearted
,
sympathetic
,
sympathizing
,
tender
,
tenderhearted
,
tolerant
,
understanding
,
warmhearted
what for
collapse
a strong reprimand
related words >
ass-reaming
,
bawling-out
,
castigation
,
chastening
,
chastisement
,
chewing
,
condign punishment
,
correction
,
cussing-out
,
deserts
,
disciplinary measures
,
discipline
,
dressing
,
dressing-down
,
excuse
,
explanation
,
ferule
,
for which
,
for why
,
from what cause
,
going-over
,
how come
,
infliction
,
jacking-up
,
judgment
,
judicial punishment
,
nemesis
,
on what account
,
pains
,
pains and punishments
,
pay
,
payment
,
penal retribution
,
penalty
,
penology
,
pourquoi
,
pretense
,
pretext
,
punishment
,
punition
,
raking-down
,
rational ground
,
rationale
,
reaming
,
reaming-out
,
reason
,
reason for
,
reason why
,
retribution
,
retributive justice
,
roasting
,
scourge
,
setdown
,
speaking-to
,
stated cause
,
talking-to
,
the big idea
,
the idea
,
the whatfor
,
the wherefore
,
the why
,
underlying reason
,
well-deserved punishment
,
wherefore
,
why
,
whyever
,
whyfor
Spartan
collapse
a resident of Sparta
resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; "spartan courage"
of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people
related words >
Apostolic
,
Encratic
,
Laconian
,
Lenten
,
Pythagorean
,
Rechabite
,
Shaker
,
Spartanic
,
Stoic
,
abbreviated
,
abridged
,
abstemious
,
abstinent
,
accepting
,
aposiopestic
,
armed with patience
,
ascetic
,
astringent
,
austere
,
authoritarian
,
bald
,
bare
,
brief
,
brusque
,
candid
,
celibate
,
chaste
,
clam
,
clipped
,
close
,
common
,
commonplace
,
compact
,
compendious
,
compressed
,
concise
,
condensed
,
continent
,
contracted
,
controlled
,
crisp
,
curt
,
cut
,
demanding
,
direct
,
disciplined
,
docked
,
dour
,
dry
,
dull
,
dwarfed
,
dwarfish
,
elliptic
,
endurant
,
enduring
,
epigrammatic
,
exacting
,
exigent
,
exiguous
,
forbearing
,
frank
,
frugal
,
fruitarian
,
gnomic
,
grim
,
hard
,
harsh
,
homely
,
homespun
,
impoverished
,
indulgent
,
inornate
,
jejune
,
laconic
,
lean
,
lenient
,
limited
,
long-suffering
,
longanimous
,
man of iron
,
matter-of-fact
,
meager
,
mean
,
meticulous
,
miserly
,
narrow
,
natural
,
neat
,
nephalistic
,
niggardly
,
on the wagon
,
open
,
paltry
,
parsimonious
,
patient
,
patient as Job
,
persevering
,
philosophical
,
pithy
,
plain
,
plain-speaking
,
plain-spoken
,
pointed
,
poor
,
prosaic
,
prosing
,
prosy
,
pruned
,
puny
,
pure
,
reserved
,
rigid
,
rigorous
,
rugged
,
rustic
,
scant
,
scanty
,
scrawny
,
scrimp
,
scrimpy
,
self-controlled
,
self-denying
,
sententious
,
severe
,
sexually abstinent
,
short
,
short and sweet
,
shortened
,
simple
,
simple-speaking
,
skimp
,
skimpy
,
slender
,
slight
,
slim
,
small
,
sober
,
spare
,
sparing
,
stark
,
starvation
,
stern
,
stingy
,
stinted
,
stoic
,
straightforward
,
straitened
,
strict
,
stringent
,
stunted
,
subsistence
,
succinct
,
summary
,
sworn off
,
synopsized
,
taciturn
,
teetotal
,
terse
,
thin
,
tight
,
to the point
,
tolerant
,
tolerating
,
tolerative
,
tough
,
truncated
,
unadorned
,
unaffected
,
understanding
,
unelaborate
,
unfancy
,
unfussy
,
unimaginative
,
unnourishing
,
unnutritious
,
unornate
,
unpoetical
,
unsparing
,
unvarnished
,
vegetarian
,
watered
,
watery
wear thin
collapse
related words >
bomb
,
break
,
cave in
,
collapse
,
come apart
,
come unstuck
,
conk out
,
crumble
,
decline
,
disintegrate
,
droop
,
drop
,
fade
,
fail
,
faint
,
fall flat
,
fizzle out
,
flag
,
give out
,
give way
,
go downhill
,
go soft
,
go to pieces
,
hit the skids
,
languish
,
peg out
,
peter out
,
pine
,
poop out
,
sink
,
weaken
,
wear away
,
wilt
,
yield
squelchy
collapse
related words >
baccate
,
dirty
,
doughy
,
flabby
,
fleshy
,
macerated
,
masticated
,
miry
,
mucky
,
muddy
,
mushy
,
oozy
,
pappy
,
pasty
,
pithy
,
plashy
,
pulpal
,
pulpar
,
pulped
,
pulplike
,
pulpy
,
quaggy
,
slabby
,
slobby
,
sloppy
,
sloshy
,
sloughy
,
sludgy
,
slushy
,
soft
,
splashy
,
spongy
,
sposhy
,
squashy
,
squishy
,
squushy
,
succulent
,
turbid
,
yielding
squashy
collapse
related words >
baccate
,
dirty
,
doughy
,
flabby
,
fleshy
,
macerated
,
masticated
,
miry
,
mucky
,
muddy
,
mushy
,
oozy
,
pappy
,
pasty
,
pithy
,
plashy
,
pulpal
,
pulpar
,
pulped
,
pulplike
,
pulpy
,
quaggy
,
slabby
,
slobby
,
sloppy
,
sloshy
,
sloughy
,
sludgy
,
slushy
,
soft
,
splashy
,
spongy
,
sposhy
,
squelchy
,
squishy
,
squushy
,
succulent
,
turbid
,
yielding
endearment
collapse
the act of showing affection
related words >
artful endearments
,
bait
,
baited trap
,
blandishments
,
caress
,
charm
,
come-on
,
decoy
,
decoy duck
,
drawcard
,
drawing card
,
ground bait
,
honeyed words
,
hook
,
lure
,
pat
,
snare
,
soft words
,
sweet nothings
,
sweet talk
,
trap
butter
collapse
an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head
spread butter on; "butter bread"
related words >
albumen
,
batter
,
bedaub
,
besmear
,
blandness
,
blarney
,
blubber
,
bonnyclabber
,
breeze
,
butter up
,
buttermilk
,
cataplasm
,
certified milk
,
cheese
,
clabber
,
clay
,
coat
,
condensed milk
,
cornstarch
,
cream
,
crush
,
curd
,
cushion
,
dab
,
dairy products
,
daub
,
dental pulp
,
dough
,
down
,
egg white
,
eiderdown
,
enamel
,
fair words
,
feather bed
,
feathers
,
fleece
,
floss
,
flue
,
fluff
,
foam
,
fulsomeness
,
gaum
,
gel
,
gelatin
,
get around
,
ghee
,
gild
,
glair
,
glibness
,
glop
,
gloss
,
glue
,
gluten
,
goo
,
gook
,
goop
,
gruel
,
gumbo
,
gunk
,
half-and-half
,
heavy cream
,
honey
,
honeyed words
,
incense
,
jam
,
jell
,
jelly
,
jolly
,
kapok
,
kid along
,
lacquer
,
lay it on
,
lay on
,
light cream
,
loblolly
,
margarine
,
mash
,
milk
,
molasses
,
mucilage
,
mucus
,
mush
,
nonfat dry milk
,
oil
,
oiliness
,
oleo
,
oleomargarine
,
overdo it
,
pap
,
paper pulp
,
paste
,
pillow
,
pith
,
plaster
,
play up to
,
plush
,
porridge
,
poultice
,
prime
,
pudding
,
puff
,
pulp
,
pulp lead
,
pulpwood
,
puree
,
putty
,
rag pulp
,
raw milk
,
rob
,
rubber
,
satin
,
sauce
,
semifluid
,
semiliquid
,
silk
,
size
,
skim milk
,
slap on
,
slather
,
smash
,
smear
,
smear on
,
smoothness
,
smugness
,
soap
,
soft soap
,
soft words
,
soft-soap
,
soften up
,
soup
,
sour cream
,
sponge
,
spread on
,
spread with
,
squash
,
starch
,
sticky mess
,
string along
,
stroke
,
suaveness
,
suavity
,
sulfate pulp
,
sulfite pulp
,
swansdown
,
sweet talk
,
sweet words
,
syrup
,
tar
,
thistledown
,
treacle
,
unctuousness
,
undercoat
,
velvet
,
wax
,
whey
,
whipping cream
,
white lead
,
wood pulp
,
wool
,
yogurt
,
zephyr
feminine
collapse
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female
associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition"
of grammatical gender
(music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; "a feminine ending"
related words >
affected
,
amenable
,
animate
,
common gender
,
deferential
,
delicate
,
distaff
,
docile
,
effeminate
,
effete
,
female
,
gender
,
gentle
,
gentlewomanlike
,
girlish
,
gynecic
,
gynecoid
,
gynic
,
inanimate
,
kittenish
,
ladylike
,
little-girlish
,
maidenly
,
masculine
,
matronal
,
matronlike
,
matronly
,
muliebral
,
neuter
,
petticoat
,
soft
,
submissive
,
tender
,
unmanly
,
womanish
,
womanlike
,
womanly
conversation
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the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.
related words >
ESP
,
accents
,
answer
,
chat
,
chatter
,
collegiality
,
colloquy
,
comment
,
commerce
,
communication
,
communion
,
community
,
confabulation
,
congress
,
connection
,
contact
,
converse
,
correspondence
,
dealing
,
dealings
,
debate
,
deliberation
,
dialogue
,
discourse
,
discussion
,
elocution
,
exchange
,
fellowship
,
gab
,
gossip
,
information
,
interaction
,
interchange
,
intercommunication
,
intercommunion
,
intercourse
,
interplay
,
language
,
linguistic intercourse
,
message
,
observation
,
oral communication
,
palaver
,
parley
,
parole
,
prattle
,
rapping
,
remark
,
repartee
,
reply
,
response
,
social activity
,
social intercourse
,
social relations
,
speaking
,
speech
,
speech circuit
,
speech situation
,
talk
,
talking
,
telepathy
,
touch
,
traffic
,
truck
,
two-way communication
,
ventilation
,
words
,
yakkety-yak
,
yakking
entice
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provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"
related words >
allure
,
attract
,
bait
,
bait the hook
,
beguile
,
blandish
,
cajole
,
coax
,
decoy
,
draw
,
draw in
,
draw on
,
ensnare
,
entrap
,
flirt
,
flirt with
,
give the come-on
,
inveigle
,
lead on
,
lure
,
offer bait to
,
persuade
,
prevail on
,
rope in
,
seduce
,
soft-soap
,
suck in
,
sweet-talk
,
tempt
,
toll
,
wheedle
,
woo
fawning
collapse
related words >
abject
,
adulation
,
adulatory
,
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
backscratching
,
beggarly
,
bland
,
blandishing
,
blandishment
,
blarney
,
blarneying
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
bunkum
,
buttery
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
cajoling
,
compliant
,
compliment
,
complimentary
,
courtierly
,
courtly
,
cowering
,
crawling
,
cringing
,
crouching
,
deferential
,
envious
,
eyewash
,
fair words
,
fair-spoken
,
fawnery
,
fine-spoken
,
flattering
,
flattery
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
fulsome
,
grease
,
groveling
,
gushing
,
handshaking
,
hangdog
,
honey-mouthed
,
honey-tongued
,
honeyed
,
honeyed phrases
,
honeyed words
,
humble
,
ignoble
,
incense
,
ingratiating
,
ingratiation
,
insincere
,
insinuating
,
insinuation
,
kowtowing
,
mealy-mouthed
,
mealymouthed
,
mealymouthedness
,
mean
,
obeisance
,
obeisant
,
obsequious
,
obsequiousness
,
oil
,
oily
,
oily-tongued
,
on bended knee
,
palaver
,
parasitic
,
parasitism
,
praise
,
pretty lies
,
prostrate
,
prostration
,
servile
,
slavish
,
slimy
,
slobbery
,
smarmy
,
smooth
,
smooth-spoken
,
smooth-tongued
,
sniveling
,
soap
,
soapy
,
soft soap
,
soft-soaping
,
spineless
,
sponging
,
submissive
,
subservient
,
sweet nothings
,
sweet talk
,
sweet words
,
sycophancy
,
sycophant
,
sycophantic
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyish
,
toadyism
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
,
unctuous
,
wheedling
,
yielding
amplifier
collapse
electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it
related words >
attenuator
,
audio-frequency tube
,
ballast regulator
,
ballast tube
,
beam-switching tube
,
convertor
,
current regulator
,
damper
,
detector
,
discriminator
,
doubler
,
ear trumpet
,
electronic hearing aid
,
focus tube
,
generator
,
hard-of-hearing aid
,
hearing aid
,
iconoscope
,
inverter
,
limiter
,
local-oscillator tube
,
megaphone
,
mixer tube
,
modulator
,
multiplier
,
multipurpose tube
,
multivibrator
,
oscillator
,
output tube
,
phase inverter
,
picture tube
,
power tube
,
preamp
,
preamplifier
,
pulse generator
,
radio-frequency tube
,
receiving tube
,
rectifier tube
,
regulator
,
repeater
,
speaking trumpet
,
stethoscope
,
transducer
,
transistor hearing aid
,
trigger tube
,
vacuum-tube hearing aid
thirst quencher
collapse
related words >
alcoholic drink
,
beverage
,
drink
,
drinkable
,
frosted
,
frosted shake
,
liquid
,
liquor
,
malt
,
pop
,
potable
,
potation
,
shake
,
soda
,
soda pop
,
soda water
,
soft drink
,
tonic
husbandly
collapse
related to or suited to a husband; "assumed husbandly duties like mowing the lawn"
befitting or characteristic of a husband
related words >
adoring
,
affectionate
,
bridal
,
cannily
,
carefully
,
charily
,
conjugal
,
connubial
,
demonstrative
,
devoted
,
economically
,
epithalamic
,
faithful
,
filial
,
fond
,
frugally
,
hymeneal
,
languishing
,
lovelorn
,
lovesick
,
lovesome
,
loving
,
marital
,
married
,
maternal
,
matrimonial
,
melting
,
nuptial
,
parental
,
paternal
,
providently
,
prudently
,
romantic
,
sentimental
,
soft
,
sparingly
,
spousal
,
tender
,
thriftily
,
uxorious
,
wedded
,
wifely
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