Exact Match:
- solicitous
- showing hovering attentiveness; "solicitous about her health"; "made solicitous inquiries about our family"
- full of anxiety and concern; "solicitous parents"; "solicitous about the future"
Synonyms:
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- affable,
- agitated,
- agreeable,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- ardent,
- athirst,
- attentive,
- avid,
- bothered,
- careful,
- caring,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- civil,
- complaisant,
- concerned,
- considerate,
- courteous,
- curious,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- desirous,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- eager,
- earnest,
- fair,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- impatient,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- indulgent,
- keen,
- lenient,
- loving,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- misgiving,
- nervous,
- obliging,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- perturbed,
- polite,
- raring,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tense,
- thirsty,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- troubled,
- uneasy,
- urbane,
- worried,
- zealous
Related Words:
- polite
collapse - showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc. related words >
- paternal
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- characteristic of a father
- belonging to or inherited from one's father; "spent his childhood on the paternal farm"; "paternal traits" related words >
- adoring,
- affectionate,
- ancestorial,
- ancestral,
- concerned,
- conjugal,
- demonstrative,
- devoted,
- faithful,
- fatherlike,
- fatherly,
- filial,
- fond,
- grandfatherly,
- grandmotherly,
- grandparental,
- husbandly,
- indulgent,
- kindly,
- languishing,
- lovelorn,
- lovesick,
- lovesome,
- loving,
- maternal,
- melting,
- mother,
- motherlike,
- motherly,
- parent,
- parental,
- patriarchal,
- patrilateral,
- patrilineal,
- patrilinear,
- patrimonial,
- romantic,
- sentimental,
- soft,
- solicitous,
- tender,
- uxorious,
- wifely
- overanxious
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- anxious or nervous to an excessive degree related words >
- agitated,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- at fever pitch,
- bothered,
- concerned,
- delirious,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- fanatical,
- fearful,
- febrile,
- feverish,
- foreboding,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- furious,
- hectic,
- hysteric,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- infatuated,
- insane,
- misgiving,
- nervous,
- on tenterhooks,
- overapprehensive,
- overdesirous,
- overeager,
- overenthusiastic,
- overzealous,
- perfervid,
- perturbed,
- solicitous,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- troubled,
- ultrazealous,
- uneasy,
- wild,
- zealous
- accommodating,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- attentive,
- cap in hand,
- ceremonious,
- civil,
- complaisant,
- conscientious,
- considerate,
- courteous,
- crouching,
- disarming,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- ethical,
- fair,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- honorific,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- moral,
- obedient,
- obeisant,
- obliging,
- obsequious,
- observant,
- on bended knee,
- polite,
- prone,
- prostrate,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- saccharine,
- scrupulous,
- servile,
- silken,
- silky,
- solicitous,
- subservient,
- tactful,
- thoughtful,
- urbane
- respectful
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- full of or exhibiting respect; "respectful behavior"; "a respectful glance"
- feeling or manifesting veneration related words >
- acclamatory,
- accommodating,
- admiring,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- appreciative,
- approbatory,
- attentive,
- cap in hand,
- ceremonious,
- civil,
- commendatory,
- complaisant,
- complimentary,
- conscientious,
- considerate,
- cordial,
- courteous,
- deferential,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- encomiastic,
- ethical,
- eulogistic,
- fair,
- flattering,
- gentlemanly,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- honorific,
- ladylike,
- laudatory,
- mannerly,
- moral,
- obedient,
- obliging,
- observant,
- panegyric,
- polite,
- regardful,
- reverent,
- reverential,
- scrupulous,
- solicitous,
- tactful,
- thoughtful,
- urbane,
- well-behaved,
- well-mannered
- concerned
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- feeling or showing worry or solicitude; "concerned parents of youthful offenders"; "was concerned about the future"; "we feel concerned about accomplishing the task at hand"; "greatly concerned not to disappoint a small child"
- involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in; "a memorandum to those concerned"; "an enterprise in which three men are concerned"; "factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics"; "the interested parties met to discuss the business"
- in relation (or in regard) to; especially as in the phrases; "as far as x is concerned"; "where x is concerned" related words >
- a party to,
- active,
- affected,
- agitated,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- attracted,
- bothered,
- caring,
- cathectic,
- curious,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- enthusiastic,
- excited,
- fascinated,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- implicated,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- included,
- interested,
- involved,
- keen on,
- misgiving,
- nervous,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- passionate,
- perturbed,
- piqued,
- responsible,
- solicitous,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tantalized,
- tense,
- tickled,
- titillated,
- troubled,
- turned-on,
- uneasy,
- upset,
- vexed,
- worried,
- zealous
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amenable,
- amiable,
- attentive,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- civil,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- considerate,
- courteous,
- decent,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- easy,
- fair,
- friendly,
- generous,
- good-humored,
- good-natured,
- good-tempered,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- indulgent,
- kind,
- kindly,
- lenient,
- mild,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- permissive,
- polite,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- solicitous,
- supportive,
- tactful,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- urbane,
- willing
- addled,
- agitated,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- at a loss,
- baffled,
- bamboozled,
- beat,
- bothered,
- buffaloed,
- concerned,
- confounded,
- dazed,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- fearful,
- floored,
- foreboding,
- fuddled,
- in a dilemma,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in suspense,
- keyed-up,
- licked,
- misgiving,
- muddled,
- mystified,
- nervous,
- nonplussed,
- on edge,
- on tiptoe,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- perplexed,
- perturbed,
- puzzled,
- quivering,
- solicitous,
- strained,
- stuck,
- stumped,
- suspenseful,
- taut,
- tense,
- thrown,
- troubled,
- uneasy,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense,
- zealous
- accommodating,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- appropriate,
- attentive,
- balanced,
- becoming,
- bland,
- civil,
- civilized,
- clubbable,
- clubbish,
- clubby,
- communicative,
- companionable,
- companionate,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- congenial,
- considerate,
- courteous,
- decent,
- decorous,
- deferential,
- fair,
- felicitous,
- fit for society,
- fitting,
- fond of society,
- friendly,
- genial,
- genteel,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- gregarious,
- happy,
- hospitable,
- meet,
- metropolitan,
- obliging,
- poised,
- polite,
- proper,
- respectful,
- right,
- seemly,
- smooth,
- sociable,
- social,
- social-minded,
- solicitous,
- suitable,
- tactful,
- thoughtful
- courteous
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- characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners; "if a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world"-Francis Bacon
- exhibiting courtesy and politeness; "a nice gesture" related words >
- accommodating,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- attentive,
- cap in hand,
- ceremonious,
- civil,
- civilized,
- clubbable,
- clubbish,
- clubby,
- communicative,
- companionable,
- companionate,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- congenial,
- considerate,
- courtly,
- decorous,
- deferential,
- diplomatic,
- dutiful,
- fair,
- fit for society,
- fond of society,
- friendly,
- genial,
- genteel,
- gentlemanly,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- gregarious,
- honorific,
- hospitable,
- ladylike,
- mannerly,
- obliging,
- polished,
- polite,
- proper,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- sociable,
- social,
- social-minded,
- solicitous,
- tactful,
- thoughtful,
- urbane,
- well-behaved,
- well-bred,
- well-mannered
- accommodating
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- helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation; "the warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in"; "made a special effort to be accommodating"
- obliging; willing to do favors; "made a special effort to be accommodating" related words >
- accessible,
- accommodative,
- acquiescent,
- adapting,
- adaptive,
- adjusting,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amenable,
- amiable,
- attentive,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- bribable,
- civil,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- conciliatory,
- considerate,
- cooperative,
- corruptible,
- courteous,
- decent,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- fair,
- friendly,
- generous,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- hospitable,
- humble,
- indulgent,
- kind,
- kindly,
- lenient,
- meek,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- obedient,
- obliging,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- passive,
- permissive,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- polite,
- reconciled,
- regardful,
- resigned,
- respectful,
- solicitous,
- submissive,
- tactful,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- uncomplaining,
- unresisting,
- urbane,
- yielding
- considerate
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- showing concern for the rights and feelings of others; "friends considerate enough to leave us alone" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- attentive,
- benevolent,
- big,
- calculating,
- careful,
- cautious,
- charitable,
- chary,
- chivalrous,
- circumspect,
- civil,
- compassionate,
- complaisant,
- courteous,
- curious,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- enlightened,
- fair,
- friendly,
- generous,
- gingerly,
- good-hearted,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- greathearted,
- guarded,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- indulgent,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- kind,
- kindly,
- lenient,
- lofty,
- loving,
- magnanimous,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- obliging,
- polite,
- politic,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- safe,
- sensitive,
- solicitous,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tender,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- unselfish,
- urbane,
- warmhearted,
- wary,
- well-advised,
- well-judged
- disquieted
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- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; "too upset to say anything"; "spent many disquieted moments"; "distressed about her son's leaving home"; "lapsed into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents"; "a worried frown"; "one last worried check of the sleeping children" related words >
- abashed,
- afflicted,
- affrighted,
- agitated,
- alarmed,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- beset,
- bothered,
- cast down,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- concerned,
- confused,
- consternated,
- daunted,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- excited,
- fearful,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- foreboding,
- frightened,
- hung up,
- ill at ease,
- in a fright,
- in a funk,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- misgiving,
- mortified,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on tenterhooks,
- out of countenance,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- perturbed,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- restless,
- ruffled,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- solicitous,
- startled,
- stirred up,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unsettled,
- upset,
- zealous
- apprehensive
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- in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"
- mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; "apprehensive about her job"; "not used to a city and worried about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences"
- quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne related words >
- afraid,
- agitated,
- alive,
- all nerves,
- all-knowing,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apperceptive,
- appercipient,
- apprehending,
- awake,
- aware,
- bothered,
- cognizant,
- comprehending,
- concerned,
- conscious,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- edgy,
- excitable,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- frightened,
- high-strung,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in suspense,
- insightful,
- intelligent,
- irritable,
- keyed-up,
- knowing,
- knowledgeable,
- mindful,
- misgiving,
- nerves on edge,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- omniscient,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overstrung,
- panicky,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- perturbed,
- prehensile,
- qualmish,
- qualmy,
- quivering,
- sagacious,
- sensible,
- sentient,
- shrewd,
- solicitous,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- taut,
- tense,
- troubled,
- understanding,
- uneasy,
- ware,
- wise,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense,
- witting,
- zealous
- heedful
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- taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- advertent,
- agog,
- agreeable,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- complaisant,
- concentrated,
- conscientious,
- conscionable,
- conscious,
- considerate,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- delicate,
- diligent,
- discreet,
- earnest,
- exact,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- fussy,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- helpful,
- hesitant,
- indulgent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- judicious,
- leaving out nothing,
- lenient,
- loving,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- nice,
- niggling,
- noncommittal,
- obliging,
- observant,
- observing,
- on guard,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overlooking no possibility,
- painstaking,
- pawky,
- politic,
- prudent,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- regardful,
- safe,
- scrupulous,
- slow to act,
- solicitous,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- watchful
- tolerant
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- showing the capacity for endurance; "injustice can make us tolerant and forgiving"; "a man patient of distractions"
- able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress; "the plant is tolerant of saltwater"; "these fish are quite tolerant as long as extremes of pH are avoided"; "the new hybrid is more resistant to drought"
- showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others related words >
- Spartan,
- accepting,
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- admissive,
- advanced,
- agreeable,
- allowing,
- armed with patience,
- attentive,
- benevolent,
- broad,
- broad-minded,
- catholic,
- charitable,
- clement,
- compassionate,
- complaisant,
- conciliatory,
- consenting,
- considerate,
- delicate,
- disciplined,
- dispassionate,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- endurant,
- enduring,
- fair,
- forbearant,
- forbearing,
- forgiving,
- freethinking,
- generous,
- gentle,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- humane,
- indulgent,
- kind,
- latitudinarian,
- lax,
- lenient,
- liberal,
- libertarian,
- libertine,
- long-suffering,
- longanimous,
- magnanimous,
- merciful,
- mild,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- moderate,
- nonprohibitive,
- objective,
- obliging,
- open-minded,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permissive,
- permitting,
- persevering,
- philosophical,
- placable,
- regardful,
- self-controlled,
- soft,
- solicitous,
- sparing,
- stoic,
- suffering,
- tactful,
- tender,
- thoughtful,
- tolerating,
- tolerative,
- unbigoted,
- understanding,
- unprejudiced,
- unprohibitive,
- unresentful,
- unrevengeful
- agitated
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- troubled emotionally and usually deeply; "agitated parents"
- physically disturbed or set in motion; "the agitated mixture foamed and bubbled"
- thrown from side to side; "a tossing ship" related words >
- abashed,
- afflicted,
- all shook up,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- aroused,
- beset,
- bothered,
- bustling,
- cast down,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- concerned,
- confused,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- excited,
- fearful,
- feverish,
- fidgeting,
- fidgety,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- foreboding,
- fretful,
- fussing,
- fussy,
- hung up,
- ill at ease,
- in a pucker,
- in a quiver,
- in a stew,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- misgiving,
- mortified,
- moved,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- on tenterhooks,
- out of countenance,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- perturbed,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- rattled,
- restless,
- roused,
- ruffled,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- shivering,
- shivery,
- shook up,
- skittery,
- solicitous,
- stirred up,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- trembling,
- trembly,
- tremulant,
- tremulous,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- twitchy,
- twittery,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- unnerved,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unsettled,
- upset,
- wrought up,
- zealous
- troubled
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- characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need; "troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"; "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers" related words >
- abashed,
- afflicted,
- aggravated,
- agitated,
- all-overish,
- angry,
- annoyed,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- beset,
- bothered,
- browned-off,
- bugged,
- burnt-up,
- cast down,
- chafed,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- concerned,
- confused,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- disquieted,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- exasperated,
- excited,
- fearful,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- foreboding,
- galled,
- griped,
- harassed,
- hung up,
- ill at ease,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- inconvenienced,
- irked,
- irritated,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- miffed,
- misgiving,
- mortified,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- nettled,
- on tenterhooks,
- out of countenance,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- peeved,
- perturbed,
- piqued,
- plagued,
- provoked,
- put to it,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- puzzled,
- resentful,
- restless,
- riled,
- roiled,
- ruffled,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- solicitous,
- sore beset,
- stirred up,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- tormented,
- troublous,
- turbulent,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unsettled,
- upset,
- vexed,
- worried,
- zealous
- lenient
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- characterized by tolerance and mercy related words >
- Spartan,
- accepting,
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- admissive,
- agreeable,
- allowing,
- armed with patience,
- attentive,
- balmy,
- bland,
- bleeding,
- careless,
- charitable,
- clement,
- commiserative,
- compassionate,
- complaisant,
- condolent,
- consenting,
- considerate,
- delicate,
- disciplined,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- endurant,
- enduring,
- faint,
- forbearant,
- forbearing,
- forgiving,
- generous,
- gentle,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- human,
- humane,
- impotent,
- imprecise,
- indifferent,
- indulgent,
- kind,
- kindly,
- lax,
- long-suffering,
- longanimous,
- loose,
- magnanimous,
- melting,
- merciful,
- mild,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- moderate,
- negligent,
- nonprohibitive,
- obliging,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permissive,
- permitting,
- persevering,
- philosophical,
- pitying,
- regardful,
- relaxed,
- remiss,
- ruthful,
- self-controlled,
- slack,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- smooth,
- soft,
- softhearted,
- solicitous,
- sparing,
- stoic,
- suffering,
- sympathetic,
- sympathizing,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tenderhearted,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- tolerating,
- tolerative,
- understanding,
- unprohibitive,
- unrestrained,
- warmhearted,
- weak
- agitated,
- agitating,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- at issue,
- bothered,
- breathtaking,
- charged,
- cliff-hanging,
- concerned,
- conditional,
- conditioned,
- contingent,
- dependent,
- depending,
- disquieted,
- disquieting,
- distracting,
- disturbed,
- disturbing,
- electric,
- exciting,
- exhilarating,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- galvanic,
- heady,
- heart-expanding,
- heart-stirring,
- heart-swelling,
- heart-thrilling,
- impressive,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- in question,
- in suspense,
- in the balance,
- inflammatory,
- intoxicating,
- jarring,
- jolting,
- maddening,
- mind-blowing,
- misgiving,
- moving,
- nervous,
- on tenterhooks,
- open,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- overcoming,
- overmastering,
- overpowering,
- overwhelming,
- pendent,
- pending,
- perturbed,
- perturbing,
- piquant,
- provocative,
- provoking,
- ravishing,
- solicitous,
- soul-stirring,
- spirit-stirring,
- stimulating,
- stimulative,
- stirring,
- strained,
- striking,
- suspensive,
- tantalizing,
- telling,
- tense,
- thrilling,
- thrilly,
- troubled,
- troubling,
- uncounted,
- undecided,
- undetermined,
- uneasy,
- unestablished,
- unfixed,
- unsettled,
- unsettling,
- untold,
- up for grabs,
- upsetting,
- zealous
- active,
- actuating,
- acute,
- animating,
- ardent,
- begging,
- burning,
- cajoling,
- causal,
- causative,
- choiceless,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- coaxing,
- compelling,
- compulsory,
- critical,
- crucial,
- crying,
- cursory,
- demanding,
- directive,
- draining,
- driving,
- dunning,
- earnest,
- emergency,
- emphatic,
- energetic,
- enthusiastic,
- exacting,
- exciting,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- expeditious,
- extortionate,
- fervent,
- festinate,
- feverish,
- fiery,
- firm,
- flying,
- forceful,
- furious,
- glowing,
- grasping,
- hasty,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- hurried,
- immediate,
- impassioned,
- impelling,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- important,
- importunate,
- impulsive,
- inducive,
- insistent,
- instant,
- last-minute,
- life-and-death,
- life-or-death,
- loud,
- mandatory,
- motivating,
- motivational,
- motive,
- moving,
- nagging,
- necessary,
- necessitous,
- obligatory,
- on the spot,
- passing,
- passionate,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- pestering,
- pivotal,
- plaguing,
- pressing,
- prompt,
- provoking,
- quick,
- rush,
- serious,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- snap,
- solicitous,
- speedy,
- stimulating,
- stirring,
- superficial,
- swift,
- taxing,
- teasing,
- tenacious,
- vehement,
- vital,
- warm,
- wheedling,
- without choice
- helpful
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- showing a willingness to cooperate; "a helpful cooperative patient"; "parents hope to raise children who are considerate and helpful to others"
- providing assistance or serving a useful function
- of service or assistance; "a child who is helpful around the house can save the mother many steps" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- advantageous,
- agential,
- agentival,
- agentive,
- agreeable,
- aidful,
- aiding,
- appropriate,
- assisting,
- attentive,
- auspicious,
- banausic,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- bon,
- bonny,
- brave,
- braw,
- bueno,
- capital,
- caring,
- cogent,
- commendable,
- commodious,
- complaisant,
- conducive,
- considerate,
- constructive,
- contributory,
- cooperative,
- delicate,
- effective,
- elegant,
- employable,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- expedient,
- facilitating,
- fair,
- famous,
- favorable,
- favoring,
- fine,
- fitting,
- forwarding,
- friendly,
- functional,
- furthersome,
- good,
- good for,
- goodly,
- grand,
- handy,
- healthy,
- heedful,
- indulgent,
- instrumental,
- intermediary,
- kind,
- laudable,
- lenient,
- mediating,
- mediatorial,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- ministerial,
- ministering,
- nice,
- noble,
- obliging,
- of general utility,
- of help,
- of service,
- of use,
- pleasant,
- positive,
- practical,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatical,
- productive,
- profitable,
- promoting,
- proper,
- propitious,
- reassuring,
- regal,
- regardful,
- remedial,
- royal,
- salutary,
- serviceable,
- skillful,
- solicitous,
- sound,
- splendid,
- subservient,
- supportive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- therapeutic,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- toward,
- usable,
- useful,
- utilitarian,
- valid,
- valuable,
- very good,
- virtuous
- abashed,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- agitated,
- all-overish,
- antsy,
- antsy-pantsy,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- astray,
- at sea,
- balled-up,
- bewildered,
- bothered,
- breathless,
- chafing,
- chaotic,
- clueless,
- concerned,
- confused,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- disordered,
- disorganized,
- disoriented,
- disquieted,
- distracted,
- distraught,
- disturbed,
- eager,
- edgy,
- embarrassed,
- excited,
- fearful,
- flustered,
- fluttered,
- foreboding,
- fretful,
- fretting,
- fussed,
- guessing,
- hasty,
- hopped-up,
- impatient,
- impetuous,
- in a bother,
- in a dither,
- in a ferment,
- in a fix,
- in a flurry,
- in a fluster,
- in a flutter,
- in a foofaraw,
- in a huff,
- in a jumble,
- in a lather,
- in a maze,
- in a pet,
- in a pickle,
- in a pother,
- in a pucker,
- in a quiver,
- in a scrape,
- in a sweat,
- in a swivet,
- in a temper,
- in a tizzy,
- in a turmoil,
- in a twitter,
- in an uproar,
- jumbled,
- lost,
- mazed,
- misgiving,
- mixed-up,
- nervous,
- off the track,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- perplexed,
- perturbed,
- put-out,
- rattled,
- restive,
- restless,
- ruffled,
- shaken,
- shook,
- shuffled,
- solicitous,
- squirming,
- squirmy,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- troubled,
- turned around,
- uneasy,
- unpatient,
- unquiet,
- unsettled,
- upset,
- without a clue,
- zealous
- indulgent
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- being favorably inclined; "an indulgent attitude"
- characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone ; "indulgent grandparents"
- tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "too soft on the children"; "they are soft on crime" related words >
- Spartan,
- accepting,
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- admissive,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- allowing,
- amiable,
- armed with patience,
- attentive,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- bibulous,
- broad-minded,
- charitable,
- clement,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- consenting,
- considerate,
- cosseting,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- decent,
- delicate,
- disciplined,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- endurant,
- enduring,
- excessive,
- excusing,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- forbearant,
- forbearing,
- forgiving,
- freethinking,
- generous,
- gluttonous,
- gracious,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- immoderate,
- incontinent,
- inordinate,
- intemperate,
- kind,
- kindly,
- latitudinarian,
- lax,
- lenient,
- liberal,
- libertarian,
- libertine,
- long-suffering,
- longanimous,
- magnanimous,
- merciful,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- nonprohibitive,
- obliging,
- open-minded,
- overindulgent,
- overindulging,
- overpermissive,
- pampering,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permissive,
- permitting,
- persevering,
- philosophical,
- prodigal,
- regardful,
- relaxed,
- self-controlled,
- self-indulgent,
- solicitous,
- stoic,
- suffering,
- swinish,
- tactful,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- tolerating,
- tolerative,
- too much,
- unbigoted,
- unbridled,
- unconstrained,
- uncontrolled,
- understanding,
- undisciplined,
- unfrugal,
- unlimited,
- unmeasured,
- unprohibitive,
- unrestrained,
- unthrifty,
- well-disposed
- acclamatory,
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- active,
- admiring,
- advertent,
- agog,
- agreeable,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- appreciative,
- approbatory,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- canny,
- cap in hand,
- careful,
- cautious,
- ceremonious,
- circumspect,
- commendatory,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- complimentary,
- concentrated,
- conforming,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- considerate,
- constant,
- courteous,
- curious,
- deferential,
- deliberate,
- delicate,
- devoted,
- devout,
- diligent,
- discreet,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- earnest,
- encomiastic,
- eulogistic,
- faithful,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- flattering,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- hesitant,
- honorific,
- indulgent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- judicious,
- laudatory,
- leaving out nothing,
- lenient,
- loving,
- loyal,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- nice,
- niggling,
- noncommittal,
- obliging,
- observant,
- observing,
- on guard,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overlooking no possibility,
- panegyric,
- pawky,
- politic,
- practicing,
- prudent,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- respectful,
- safe,
- scrupulous,
- slow to act,
- solicitous,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- true,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- watchful
- loving
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- feeling or showing love and affection; "loving parents"; "loving glances" related words >
- Christian,
- Christlike,
- Christly,
- adoring,
- affectionate,
- all-knowing,
- all-powerful,
- all-seeing,
- all-wise,
- almighty,
- amatory,
- amorous,
- ardent,
- attached,
- attentive,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- bound,
- boundless,
- brotherly,
- careful,
- caring,
- cautious,
- changeless,
- circumspect,
- compassionate,
- conjugal,
- considerate,
- cordial,
- creating,
- creative,
- curious,
- dear,
- decent,
- demonstrative,
- devoted,
- doting,
- enamored,
- erotic,
- eternal,
- eternally the same,
- everlasting,
- faithful,
- fervent,
- filial,
- fond,
- fraternal,
- glorious,
- good,
- gracious,
- hallowed,
- heedful,
- highest,
- holy,
- human,
- humane,
- husbandly,
- immortal,
- immutable,
- impassioned,
- infatuated,
- infinite,
- just,
- kind,
- kindhearted,
- kindly,
- kindly-disposed,
- languishing,
- limitless,
- lovelorn,
- lovesick,
- lovesome,
- luminous,
- majestic,
- making,
- maternal,
- melting,
- merciful,
- mindful,
- nice,
- numinous,
- omnipotent,
- omnipresent,
- omniscient,
- one,
- parental,
- passionate,
- paternal,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- radiant,
- regardful,
- romantic,
- sacred,
- sentimental,
- shaping,
- soft,
- softhearted,
- solicitous,
- sovereign,
- supreme,
- sympathetic,
- sympathizing,
- tender,
- tenderhearted,
- thoughtful,
- timeless,
- ubiquitous,
- unbounded,
- unchanging,
- undefined,
- unlimited,
- uxorious,
- warm,
- warmhearted,
- wifely
- strained
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- under great stress; "her voice was strained as she asked the question" related words >
- Herculean,
- agitated,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- arduous,
- artificial,
- awkward,
- backbreaking,
- biased,
- bothered,
- burdensome,
- chill,
- chilly,
- cold,
- concerned,
- cooked,
- cool,
- crushing,
- difficult,
- disaccordant,
- disquieted,
- distant,
- disturbed,
- doctored,
- dragged out,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- effortful,
- elongated,
- extended,
- farfetched,
- fearful,
- forced,
- foreboding,
- frosty,
- garbled,
- grueling,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- icy,
- improbable,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- incompatible,
- inhospitable,
- inimical,
- insincere,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- lengthened,
- misgiving,
- misquoted,
- misrepresented,
- nervous,
- on tenterhooks,
- onerous,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- out-of-the-way,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- painful,
- perturbed,
- perverted,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- pulled,
- punishing,
- put-on,
- quite another thing,
- remote,
- self-conscious,
- slanted,
- solicitous,
- something else again,
- spun out,
- stiff,
- straggling,
- strenuous,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- stretched tight,
- strung out,
- suspenseful,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight,
- toilsome,
- tortured,
- tough,
- troubled,
- troublesome,
- twisted,
- unamiable,
- unamicable,
- uncomfortable,
- uncordial,
- under a strain,
- uneasy,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unharmonious,
- unnatural,
- unrelaxed,
- unsociable,
- uphill,
- uptight,
- wearisome,
- zealous
- curious
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- eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings"
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"
- having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me curious" related words >
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- analytical,
- attentive,
- attracted,
- barmy,
- bizarre,
- burning with curiosity,
- careful,
- catechistic,
- cathectic,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- concerned,
- considerate,
- consumed with curiosity,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- eccentric,
- enthusiastic,
- erratic,
- examining,
- excited,
- exotic,
- extraordinary,
- fascinated,
- freaked out,
- freakish,
- freaky,
- funny,
- ghoulish,
- gossipy,
- grotesque,
- heedful,
- impertinent,
- inquiring,
- inquisitional,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- interested,
- interfering,
- intermeddling,
- interrogational,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- intrusive,
- investigative,
- irregular,
- itchy,
- keen on,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- loving,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- mindful,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- nosy,
- nuts,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off the wall,
- offbeat,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- out,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overcurious,
- passing strange,
- passionate,
- peculiar,
- piqued,
- pixilated,
- prurient,
- prying,
- quaint,
- queer,
- querying,
- questioning,
- quizzical,
- quizzing,
- regardful,
- scopophiliac,
- scrutinizing,
- searching,
- singular,
- snooping,
- snoopy,
- solicitous,
- strange,
- supercurious,
- tantalized,
- tender,
- thoughtful,
- tickled,
- titillated,
- turned-on,
- unconventional,
- unearthly,
- unusual,
- voyeuristic,
- weird,
- wondrous strange
- circumspect
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- 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
- bothered
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- caused to show discomposure; "refused to be fazed by the objections" related words >
- abashed,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- afflicted,
- aggravated,
- agitated,
- all-overish,
- angry,
- annoyed,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- astray,
- at sea,
- balled-up,
- beset,
- bewildered,
- browned-off,
- bugged,
- burnt-up,
- cast down,
- chafed,
- chagrined,
- chaotic,
- chapfallen,
- clueless,
- concerned,
- confused,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- disordered,
- disorganized,
- disoriented,
- disquieted,
- distracted,
- distraught,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- exasperated,
- fearful,
- flustered,
- fluttered,
- foreboding,
- fussed,
- galled,
- griped,
- guessing,
- harassed,
- hung up,
- ill at ease,
- in a fix,
- in a jumble,
- in a maze,
- in a pickle,
- in a pother,
- in a pucker,
- in a scrape,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in a swivet,
- in a tizzy,
- inconvenienced,
- irked,
- irritated,
- jumbled,
- lost,
- mazed,
- miffed,
- misgiving,
- mixed-up,
- mortified,
- nervous,
- nettled,
- off the track,
- on tenterhooks,
- out of countenance,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- peeved,
- perplexed,
- perturbed,
- piqued,
- plagued,
- provoked,
- put to it,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- puzzled,
- rattled,
- resentful,
- riled,
- roiled,
- ruffled,
- shaken,
- shook,
- shuffled,
- solicitous,
- sore beset,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- troubled,
- turned around,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- unsettled,
- upset,
- vexed,
- without a clue,
- worried,
- zealous
- misgiving
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- doubt about someone's honesty related words >
- Pyrrhonism,
- agitated,
- agitation,
- all-overish,
- all-overs,
- angst,
- anxiety,
- anxiety hysteria,
- anxiety neurosis,
- anxious,
- anxious bench,
- anxious concern,
- anxious seat,
- anxioused up,
- anxiousness,
- apprehension,
- apprehensive,
- apprehensiveness,
- boding,
- bothered,
- cankerworm of care,
- care,
- concern,
- concerned,
- concernment,
- diffidence,
- discomfort,
- disquiet,
- disquieted,
- disquietude,
- distress,
- distrust,
- distrustfulness,
- disturbance,
- disturbed,
- doubt,
- doubtfulness,
- dread,
- dubiety,
- dubiousness,
- fear,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- forebodingness,
- funny feeling,
- half-belief,
- hesitation,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- inquietude,
- leeriness,
- malaise,
- misdoubt,
- mistrust,
- mistrustfulness,
- nervous,
- nervous strain,
- nervous tension,
- nervousness,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxiety,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- perturbation,
- perturbed,
- pins and needles,
- premonition,
- prenotion,
- presage,
- presentiment,
- pucker,
- qualm,
- qualmish,
- qualmishness,
- qualmy,
- question,
- scruple,
- scrupulousness,
- self-doubt,
- shadow of doubt,
- skepticalness,
- skepticism,
- solicitous,
- solicitude,
- stew,
- strain,
- strained,
- suspense,
- suspenseful,
- suspicion,
- suspiciousness,
- tense,
- tension,
- total skepticism,
- trouble,
- troubled,
- uncertainty,
- unease,
- uneasiness,
- uneasy,
- unquietness,
- upset,
- vexation,
- wariness,
- worry,
- zeal,
- zealous
- thoughtful
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- considerate of the feelings or well-being of others
- having intellectual depth; "a deeply thoughtful essay"
- acting with or showing thought and good sense; "a sensible young man"
- exhibiting or characterized by careful thought; "a thoughtful paper" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- analytical,
- attentive,
- brainy,
- brooding,
- calculating,
- careful,
- caring,
- cautious,
- charitable,
- circumspect,
- civil,
- cogitative,
- cognitive,
- compassionate,
- complaisant,
- concentrating,
- concentrative,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- conceptualized,
- considerate,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- courteous,
- curious,
- decorous,
- deep,
- deferential,
- deliberating,
- deliberative,
- delicate,
- demure,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- earnest,
- engrossed,
- enlightened,
- excogitating,
- fair,
- formal,
- frowning,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- grave,
- grim,
- grim-faced,
- grim-visaged,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- ideative,
- indulgent,
- intellectual,
- introspective,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- kind,
- kindly,
- lenient,
- logical,
- long-faced,
- loving,
- meditating,
- meditative,
- melancholy,
- mental,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- museful,
- musing,
- noetic,
- obliging,
- pensive,
- polite,
- politic,
- pondering,
- prehensive,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- rapt,
- rational,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- ruminant,
- ruminating,
- ruminative,
- sedate,
- serious,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sobersided,
- solemn,
- solicitous,
- somber,
- speculative,
- staid,
- stone-faced,
- straight-faced,
- studious,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tender,
- thinking,
- thought,
- tolerant,
- unsmiling,
- unthoughtful,
- urbane,
- wary,
- weighty,
- well-advised,
- well-judged,
- wistful
- careful
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- exercising caution or showing care or attention; "they were careful when crossing the busy street"; "be careful to keep her shoes clean"; "did very careful research"; "careful art restorers"; "careful of the rights of others"; "careful about one's behavior"
- with care and dignity; "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed"
- mindful of the future in spending money; "careful with money"
- cautiously attentive; "careful of her feelings"; "heedful of his father's advice"
- full of cares or anxiety; "Thou art careful and troubled about many things"-Luke 10.41 related words >
- Scotch,
- accurate,
- advertent,
- agog,
- alert,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- assiduous,
- attentive,
- aware,
- calculating,
- canny,
- cautious,
- chary,
- cheeseparing,
- circumspect,
- concentrated,
- conscientious,
- conscionable,
- conscious,
- conserving,
- considerate,
- critical,
- curious,
- deliberate,
- diligent,
- discreet,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- earnest,
- economic,
- economizing,
- enlightened,
- exact,
- fastidious,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- forehanded,
- foresighted,
- frugal,
- fussy,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- heedful,
- hesitant,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- judgmatic,
- judicial,
- judicious,
- labor-saving,
- leaving out nothing,
- loving,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- money-saving,
- nice,
- niggling,
- noncommittal,
- observant,
- observing,
- on guard,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overconscientious,
- overlooking no possibility,
- overscrupulous,
- painstaking,
- parsimonious,
- particular,
- pawky,
- penny-wise,
- politic,
- precise,
- provident,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- reflecting,
- reflective,
- regardful,
- religious,
- safe,
- saving,
- scrimping,
- scrupulous,
- skimping,
- slow to act,
- solicitous,
- spare,
- sparing,
- strict,
- studied,
- systematic,
- tender,
- tender-conscienced,
- tentative,
- thorough,
- thoughtful,
- thrifty,
- time-saving,
- unadventurous,
- uncommunicative,
- undaring,
- unenterprising,
- unprecipitate,
- unwasteful,
- vigilant,
- wary,
- watchful,
- well-advised,
- well-judged
- complaisant
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- showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others; "to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover"; "the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave" related words >
- abject,
- accepting,
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- acquiescent,
- adaptable,
- adaptive,
- adjustable,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- assenting,
- attentive,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- blissful,
- cheerful,
- civil,
- compatible,
- compliable,
- compliant,
- complying,
- conformable,
- congenial,
- consenting,
- considerate,
- cordial,
- courteous,
- decent,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- desirable,
- dulcet,
- easy,
- en rapport,
- enjoyable,
- fair,
- fair and pleasant,
- felicific,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- flexible,
- generous,
- genial,
- gentle,
- good,
- good-humored,
- good-natured,
- good-tempered,
- goodly,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- grateful,
- gratifying,
- harmonious,
- heart-warming,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- honeyed,
- indulgent,
- kind,
- kindly,
- lenient,
- likable,
- malleable,
- mellifluous,
- mellow,
- mellowy,
- mild,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- mollified,
- nice,
- nondissenting,
- nonresistant,
- nonresisting,
- nonresistive,
- nonrigid,
- obedient,
- obliging,
- other-directed,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- passive,
- permissive,
- plastic,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pleasurable,
- pleasure-giving,
- pleasureful,
- pliant,
- polite,
- regardful,
- resigned,
- respectful,
- rewarding,
- satisfying,
- servile,
- soft,
- soft as putty,
- softened,
- solicitous,
- submissive,
- subservient,
- supine,
- sweet,
- tactful,
- tender,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- tractable,
- unassertive,
- uncomplaining,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- urbane,
- welcome,
- whisper-soft
- tactful
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- showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people; "by diplomatic conduct he avoided antagonizing anyone"; "a tactful way of correcting someone"; "the agency got the kid-glove treatment on Capitol Hill"
- having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others; "she was tactful enough not to shatter his illusion"; "a tactful remark eased her embarrassment" related words >
- Daedalian,
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- accurate,
- acute,
- adept,
- adroit,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- appreciative,
- apt,
- artistic,
- attentive,
- authoritative,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- careful,
- civil,
- clean,
- clever,
- complaisant,
- considerate,
- coordinated,
- courteous,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- critical,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- deferential,
- deft,
- delicate,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- differential,
- diplomatic,
- discerning,
- discreet,
- discriminate,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- exact,
- excellent,
- expert,
- fair,
- fancy,
- fastidious,
- fine,
- good,
- goodish,
- goosy,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- handy,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- indulgent,
- ingenious,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- judicious,
- lenient,
- magisterial,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- neat,
- nervous,
- nice,
- no mean,
- obliging,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- passible,
- perceptive,
- polished,
- polite,
- politic,
- precise,
- prickly,
- professional,
- proficient,
- prudent,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ready,
- refined,
- regardful,
- resourceful,
- respectful,
- responsive,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- skilled,
- skillful,
- skittish,
- slick,
- solicitous,
- some,
- statesmanlike,
- stylish,
- suave,
- subtle,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactical,
- tender,
- tetchy,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- thin-skinned,
- thoughtful,
- ticklish,
- tolerant,
- touchy,
- understanding,
- urbane,
- virtuoso,
- well-done,
- workmanlike
- affable
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- diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host" related words >
- Bohemian,
- accommodating,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- attentive,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- blissful,
- bonhomous,
- casual,
- cheerful,
- civil,
- clubbable,
- clubbish,
- clubby,
- communicative,
- companionable,
- companionate,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- congenial,
- considerate,
- cordial,
- courteous,
- decent,
- deferential,
- degage,
- desirable,
- dulcet,
- easy,
- easy-natured,
- easygoing,
- en rapport,
- enjoyable,
- fair,
- fair and pleasant,
- familiar,
- felicific,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- fit for society,
- folksy,
- fond of society,
- free and easy,
- friendly,
- generous,
- genial,
- gentle,
- good,
- good-humored,
- good-natured,
- good-tempered,
- goodly,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- grateful,
- gratifying,
- gregarious,
- harmonious,
- haymish,
- heart-warming,
- homely,
- homey,
- honeyed,
- hospitable,
- indulgent,
- informal,
- irregular,
- kind,
- kindly,
- likable,
- loose,
- loquacious,
- mellifluous,
- mellow,
- mild,
- natural,
- nice,
- obliging,
- offhand,
- offhanded,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- permissive,
- plain,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pleasurable,
- pleasure-giving,
- pleasureful,
- polite,
- relaxed,
- respectful,
- rewarding,
- satisfying,
- simple,
- sociable,
- social,
- social-minded,
- solicitous,
- suave,
- sweet,
- sweet-tempered,
- tactful,
- talkative,
- thoughtful,
- unaffected,
- unassuming,
- unceremonious,
- unconstrained,
- unconventional,
- unofficial,
- unstudied,
- urbane,
- welcome,
- well-natured
- civil
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- of or in a condition of social order; "civil peoples"
- not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others; "even if he didn't like them he should have been civil"- W.S. Maugham
- (of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life; "the civil calendar"; "a civil day begins at mean midnight"
- applying to ordinary citizens; "civil law"; "civil authorities"
- of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals; "civil rights"; "civil liberty"; "civic duties"; "civic pride"
- of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state; "civil affairs"; "civil strife"; "civil disobedience"; "civil branches of government" related words >
- absolute,
- accommodating,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- appropriate,
- aristocratic,
- attentive,
- authoritarian,
- autocratic,
- autonomous,
- becoming,
- bland,
- bureaucratic,
- civic,
- civilian,
- civilized,
- clubbable,
- clubbish,
- clubby,
- common,
- communal,
- communicative,
- companionable,
- companionate,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- congenial,
- congregational,
- considerate,
- constitutional,
- cordial,
- cosmopolitan,
- courteous,
- courtly,
- cultivated,
- decent,
- decorous,
- deferential,
- democratic,
- despotic,
- dictatorial,
- diplomatic,
- domestic,
- fair,
- fascist,
- federal,
- federalist,
- federalistic,
- felicitous,
- fit for society,
- fitting,
- fond of society,
- formal,
- friendly,
- general,
- genial,
- genteel,
- governmental,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- gregarious,
- gubernatorial,
- happy,
- heteronomous,
- hospitable,
- impolite,
- internal,
- international,
- laic,
- laical,
- lay,
- mannered,
- mannerly,
- matriarchal,
- matriarchic,
- meet,
- monarchal,
- monarchial,
- monarchic,
- monocratic,
- national,
- nonclerical,
- nonecclesiastical,
- nonministerial,
- nonordained,
- nonpastoral,
- nonreligious,
- obliging,
- official,
- oligarchal,
- oligarchic,
- parliamentarian,
- parliamentary,
- patriarchal,
- patriarchic,
- pluralistic,
- polished,
- polite,
- politic,
- political,
- popular,
- proper,
- public,
- refined,
- republican,
- respectful,
- right,
- secular,
- secularist,
- secularistic,
- seemly,
- self-governing,
- sociable,
- social,
- social-minded,
- societal,
- solicitous,
- state,
- suave,
- suitable,
- supranational,
- tactful,
- temporal,
- theocratic,
- thoughtful,
- totalitarian,
- ungracious,
- urbane,
- well-bred,
- well-mannered
- attentive
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- (often followed by `to') giving care or attention; "attentive to details"; "the nurse was attentive to her patient"; "an attentive suitor" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- accurate,
- advertent,
- affable,
- agile,
- agog,
- agreeable,
- alert,
- alive,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- assiduous,
- attenuate,
- awake,
- aware,
- bright,
- cap in hand,
- careful,
- cautious,
- ceremonious,
- circumspect,
- civil,
- close,
- complaisant,
- concentrated,
- concentrating,
- conscientious,
- conscious,
- considerate,
- correct,
- courteous,
- courtly,
- critical,
- curious,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- detailed,
- diligent,
- dutiful,
- eager,
- earnest,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exquisite,
- fair,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- fussy,
- gallant,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- honorific,
- indulgent,
- intense,
- intent,
- intentive,
- interested,
- keen,
- lenient,
- listening,
- loving,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- minute,
- narrow,
- nice,
- niggling,
- nimble,
- obliging,
- observant,
- observing,
- on the,
- on the alert,
- on the ball,
- on the job,
- open-eared,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- particular,
- polite,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- prompt,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- qui vive,
- quick,
- ready,
- reedy,
- refined,
- regardful,
- religious,
- respectful,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- sharp,
- sleepless,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- smart,
- solicitous,
- strict,
- subtle,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tenuous,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- twiggy,
- unblinking,
- unnodding,
- unsleeping,
- unwinking,
- urbane,
- wakeful,
- watchful,
- wide-awake
- abashed,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- afflicted,
- agitated,
- all-overish,
- amiss,
- annoyed,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- askew,
- astray,
- at sea,
- awry,
- balled-up,
- beset,
- bewildered,
- bothered,
- cast down,
- chagrined,
- chaotic,
- chapfallen,
- clueless,
- cockeyed,
- concerned,
- confused,
- convulsed,
- deranged,
- disarranged,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dislocated,
- dismayed,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- disorganized,
- disoriented,
- disquieted,
- distracted,
- distraught,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- excited,
- fearful,
- feverish,
- fidgety,
- flurried,
- flustered,
- fluttered,
- foreboding,
- fussed,
- guessing,
- harassed,
- haywire,
- hung up,
- ill at ease,
- in a fix,
- in a jumble,
- in a maze,
- in a pickle,
- in a pother,
- in a pucker,
- in a scrape,
- in a stew,
- in a sweat,
- in a swivet,
- in a tizzy,
- in disorder,
- inconvenienced,
- irked,
- jittery,
- jumbled,
- jumpy,
- lost,
- mazed,
- misgiving,
- misplaced,
- mixed-up,
- mortified,
- nervous,
- nervy,
- off the track,
- on tenterhooks,
- on the fritz,
- out of countenance,
- out of gear,
- out of joint,
- out of kelter,
- out of kilter,
- out of order,
- out of place,
- out of tune,
- out of whack,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- perplexed,
- plagued,
- put to it,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- puzzled,
- rattled,
- restless,
- roily,
- ruffled,
- shaken,
- shaken up,
- shook,
- shuffled,
- solicitous,
- sore beset,
- stirred up,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tense,
- troubled,
- troublous,
- turbid,
- turbulent,
- turned around,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- unpeaceful,
- unquiet,
- unsettled,
- upset,
- vexed,
- without a clue,
- worried,
- zealous
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