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spasmodic mimicry
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spasmodic mimicry
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Related Words:
protective coloration
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coloration making an organism less visible or attractive to predators
related words >
aggressive mimicry
,
apery
,
camouflage
,
cryptic mimicry
,
disguise
,
domino
,
false colors
,
false face
,
false front
,
incognito
,
mask
,
masque
,
masquerade
,
mimicry
,
mockery
,
mummery
,
parrotry
,
playing possum
,
smoke screen
,
synaposematic mimicry
,
visor
,
vizard
,
vizard mask
mimicry
collapse
the resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects; provides concealment and protection from predators
related words >
acting
,
aggressive mimicry
,
apery
,
aping
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
caricature
,
characterization
,
cryptic mimicry
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
gag
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
incarnation
,
masquerade
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
miming
,
mock
,
mockery
,
mummery
,
overacting
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
parody
,
parrotry
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
personification
,
playacting
,
playing
,
playing possum
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
projection
,
protective coloration
,
representation
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
stunt
,
synaposematic mimicry
,
taking a role
mockery
collapse
related words >
a continental
,
a curse
,
a damn
,
a darn
,
a hoot
,
absurdity
,
abuse
,
affront
,
aggressive mimicry
,
apery
,
aspersion
,
atrocity
,
bagatelle
,
banter
,
bauble
,
bean
,
bibelot
,
bit
,
booing
,
brass farthing
,
brickbat
,
burlesque
,
butt
,
button
,
byword
,
byword of reproach
,
caricature
,
casuistry
,
catcalling
,
cent
,
chaffing
,
contempt
,
contumely
,
crossed fingers
,
cryptic mimicry
,
curio
,
cut
,
decrial
,
derision
,
despite
,
disappointment
,
disdain
,
disingenuousness
,
disparagement
,
dump
,
dupe
,
emptiness
,
enormity
,
fair game
,
farce
,
farthing
,
feather
,
fig
,
figure of fun
,
fleabite
,
fleering
,
flippancy
,
flout
,
flouting
,
folderol
,
fool
,
fooling
,
fribble
,
frippery
,
game
,
gaud
,
gazingstock
,
gewgaw
,
gibe
,
gimcrack
,
goat
,
grinning
,
hair
,
halfpenny
,
hill of beans
,
hissing
,
hollow mockery
,
hollowness
,
hooting
,
humiliation
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
indignity
,
injury
,
insincerity
,
insult
,
jeer
,
jeering
,
jest
,
jester
,
jestingstock
,
jesuitry
,
joke
,
joshing
,
kickshaw
,
knickknack
,
knickknackery
,
lampoon
,
laugh
,
laughingstock
,
leering
,
levity
,
mimicry
,
minikin
,
miscarriage
,
mock
,
molehill
,
monkey
,
offense
,
outrage
,
panning
,
parody
,
parrotry
,
pasquinade
,
pastiche
,
peppercorn
,
picayune
,
pilgarlic
,
pin
,
pinch of snuff
,
pinprick
,
playing possum
,
protective coloration
,
put-down
,
ragging
,
raillery
,
rallying
,
rap
,
razzing
,
red cent
,
ridicule
,
roasting
,
row of pins
,
rush
,
satire
,
scoff
,
scoffing
,
scorn
,
scurrility
,
semblance
,
sham
,
shit
,
smart-aleckiness
,
smartness
,
smirking
,
snap
,
sneering
,
sneeshing
,
snickering
,
sniggering
,
snorting
,
sophistry
,
sou
,
spoof
,
sport
,
squib
,
stock
,
straw
,
synaposematic mimicry
,
take-off
,
takeoff
,
target
,
taunt
,
taunting
,
tongue in cheek
,
toy
,
travesty
,
trifle
,
trinket
,
triviality
,
tuppence
,
twitting
,
two cents
,
twopence
,
uncandidness
,
uncandor
,
uncomplimentary remark
,
unfrankness
,
victim
,
whim-wham
,
wicked imitation
personification
collapse
the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
a person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the personification of optimism"
related words >
acting
,
aping
,
characterization
,
corporealization
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
incarnation
,
incorporation
,
masquerade
,
materialization
,
metempsychosis
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
reembodiment
,
reincarnation
,
substantiation
,
transmigration
stage presence
collapse
related words >
acting
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
characterization
,
gag
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
impersonation
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
mummery
,
overacting
,
pantomiming
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
playacting
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
projection
,
representation
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stunt
,
taking a role
miming
collapse
related words >
acting
,
aping
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
characterization
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
gag
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
incarnation
,
masquerade
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
mummery
,
overacting
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
personification
,
playacting
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
projection
,
representation
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
stunt
,
taking a role
personation
collapse
related words >
acting
,
aping
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
characterization
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
gag
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
incarnation
,
masquerade
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
mummery
,
overacting
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personification
,
playacting
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
projection
,
representation
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
stunt
,
taking a role
dumb show
collapse
related words >
acting
,
aping
,
bearing
,
beck
,
beckon
,
body language
,
carriage
,
characterization
,
charade
,
chironomy
,
dactylology
,
deaf-and-dumb alphabet
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
gesticulation
,
gesture
,
gesture language
,
hand signal
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
incarnation
,
kinesics
,
masquerade
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
motion
,
movement
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
personification
,
playing
,
poise
,
portrayal
,
pose
,
posing
,
posture
,
shrug
,
sign language
,
stance
hoke
collapse
related words >
acting
,
balls
,
baloney
,
blague
,
bosh
,
buffoonery
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bunk
,
bunkum
,
business
,
characterization
,
claptrap
,
crap
,
eyewash
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
gag
,
gammon
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hogwash
,
hokum
,
hooey
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
impersonation
,
jiggery-pokery
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
moonshine
,
mummery
,
overacting
,
pantomiming
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
playacting
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
projection
,
representation
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
stunt
,
taking a role
impersonation
collapse
imitating the mannerisms of another person
related words >
acting
,
aping
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
characterization
,
copying
,
counterfeiting
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
emulation
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
fakery
,
following
,
forgery
,
gag
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hit-off
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
imitation
,
imposture
,
impression
,
incarnation
,
masquerade
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
mirroring
,
mummery
,
onomatopoeia
,
overacting
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
parody
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
personification
,
plagiarism
,
plagiary
,
playacting
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
projection
,
repetition
,
representation
,
simulation
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
stunt
,
takeoff
,
taking a role
incarnation
collapse
(Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ
time passed in a particular bodily form; "he believes that his life will be better in his next incarnation"
related words >
Christophany
,
Satanophany
,
acting
,
angelophany
,
aping
,
apparition
,
appearance
,
appearing
,
arising
,
avatar
,
characterization
,
coming
,
coming into being
,
coming-forth
,
concretization
,
corporealization
,
disclosure
,
dissemination
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
emergence
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
epiphany
,
evidence
,
evincement
,
exposure
,
expression
,
forthcoming
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
incorporation
,
indication
,
issuance
,
manifestation
,
masquerade
,
materialization
,
materializing
,
metempsychosis
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
occurrence
,
opening
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
personification
,
playing
,
pneumatophany
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
presentation
,
proof
,
publication
,
realization
,
reembodiment
,
reification
,
reincarnation
,
revelation
,
rise
,
rising
,
showing
,
showing forth
,
substantiation
,
theophany
,
transmigration
,
unfolding
,
unfoldment
,
wild
twitchy
collapse
related words >
agitated
,
all shook up
,
all-overish
,
convulsive
,
eclamptic
,
fidgeting
,
fidgety
,
fitful
,
fluttery
,
in a quiver
,
jerking
,
jerky
,
jiggety
,
jittery
,
jumpy
,
orgasmic
,
quivering
,
quivery
,
saltatory
,
shaking
,
shaky
,
shivering
,
shivery
,
shook up
,
skittery
,
spasmodic
,
spastic
,
trembling
,
trembly
,
tremulant
,
tremulous
,
twitchety
,
twitching
,
twittery
,
vellicative
broken off
collapse
related words >
broken
,
chopped-off
,
choppy
,
decousu
,
disconnected
,
discontinued
,
discontinuous
,
discrete
,
disjunctive
,
episodic
,
fitful
,
herky-jerky
,
incoherent
,
intermittent
,
interrupted
,
irregular
,
jagged
,
jerky
,
noncontinuous
,
nonlinear
,
nonsequential
,
nonserial
,
nonuniform
,
parenthetic
,
patchy
,
scrappy
,
snatchy
,
spasmodic
,
spotty
,
suspended
,
unconnected
,
unjoined
,
unsuccessive
interrupted
collapse
discontinued temporarily; "we resumed the interrupted discussion"
related words >
broken
,
broken off
,
chopped-off
,
choppy
,
decousu
,
disconnected
,
discontinued
,
discontinuous
,
discrete
,
disjunctive
,
episodic
,
fitful
,
herky-jerky
,
incoherent
,
intermittent
,
irregular
,
jagged
,
jerky
,
noncontinuous
,
nonlinear
,
nonsequential
,
nonserial
,
nonuniform
,
parenthetic
,
patchy
,
scrappy
,
snatchy
,
spasmodic
,
spotty
,
suspended
,
unconnected
,
unjoined
,
unsuccessive
performing
collapse
related words >
acting
,
action
,
agency
,
aping
,
behavioral
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
characterization
,
conduct
,
direction
,
driving
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
execution
,
exercise
,
functional
,
functioning
,
gag
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
handling
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
inaction
,
incarnation
,
management
,
manipulation
,
masquerade
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
mummery
,
occupation
,
operancy
,
operating
,
operation
,
operational
,
overacting
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
patter
,
performance
,
personation
,
personification
,
playacting
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
practice
,
practicing
,
projection
,
representation
,
responsibility
,
running
,
serving
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
steering
,
stunt
,
taking a role
,
work
,
working
,
workings
hokum
collapse
related words >
acting
,
balls
,
baloney
,
bilge
,
blague
,
blah
,
blah-blah
,
bop
,
bosh
,
buffoonery
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bunk
,
bunkum
,
business
,
characterization
,
claptrap
,
crap
,
eyewash
,
flam
,
flapdoodle
,
flimflam
,
gag
,
gammon
,
gas
,
guff
,
gup
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hogwash
,
hoke
,
hooey
,
hot air
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
impersonation
,
jazz
,
jiggery-pokery
,
malarkey
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
moonshine
,
mummery
,
overacting
,
pantomiming
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
piffle
,
playacting
,
playing
,
poppycock
,
portrayal
,
projection
,
representation
,
rot
,
scat
,
shit
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
stunt
,
taking a role
,
tommyrot
,
tripe
,
wind
torturous
collapse
related words >
acute
,
afflictive
,
agonizing
,
atrocious
,
biting
,
consuming
,
cramping
,
cruel
,
desolating
,
distressing
,
excruciating
,
gnawing
,
grave
,
griping
,
hard
,
harrowing
,
harsh
,
heartbreaking
,
heartrending
,
heartsickening
,
heartwounding
,
hurtful
,
hurting
,
painful
,
paroxysmal
,
piercing
,
poignant
,
pungent
,
racking
,
rending
,
severe
,
sharp
,
shooting
,
spasmatic
,
spasmic
,
spasmodic
,
stabbing
,
stinging
,
tearing
,
tormenting
,
torturing
posing
collapse
related words >
acting
,
affectation
,
aping
,
appearance
,
attitudinarianism
,
attitudinizing
,
bluff
,
bluffing
,
characterization
,
cheating
,
color
,
coloring
,
deception
,
delusion
,
disguise
,
dissemblance
,
dissembling
,
dissimulation
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
facade
,
face
,
fakery
,
faking
,
false air
,
false front
,
false show
,
falsity
,
feigning
,
feint
,
four-flushing
,
fraud
,
front
,
gilt
,
gloss
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
imposture
,
incarnation
,
masquerade
,
meretriciousness
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
ostentation
,
outward show
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
peacockery
,
peacockishness
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
personification
,
playacting
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
pose
,
posture
,
posturing
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretext
,
representation
,
seeming
,
semblance
,
sham
,
show
,
simulacrum
,
simulation
,
speciousness
,
varnish
,
window dressing
variform
collapse
varying in form or shape
related words >
capricious
,
changeable
,
changing
,
choppy
,
deviating
,
deviative
,
deviatory
,
different
,
disorderly
,
divaricate
,
divergent
,
diversified
,
diversiform
,
erose
,
erratic
,
impulsive
,
inconsistent
,
inconstant
,
irregular
,
jagged
,
jerky
,
mercurial
,
motley
,
mutable
,
nonconformist
,
nonstandard
,
nonuniform
,
pluralistic
,
ragged
,
rough
,
spasmodic
,
sporadic
,
unequable
,
unequal
,
uneven
,
unorthodox
,
unstable
,
unsteady
,
unsystematic
,
ununiform
,
variable
,
variegated
,
various
,
varying
,
wavering
racking
collapse
causing great physical or mental suffering; "a wrenching pain"
related words >
acute
,
afflictive
,
agonizing
,
atrocious
,
barbarous
,
biting
,
consuming
,
cramping
,
cruel
,
desolating
,
distressing
,
excruciating
,
ferocious
,
fierce
,
gnawing
,
grave
,
griping
,
hard
,
harrowing
,
harsh
,
heartbreaking
,
heartrending
,
heartsickening
,
heartwounding
,
hurtful
,
hurting
,
inhuman
,
painful
,
paroxysmal
,
piercing
,
poignant
,
pungent
,
rending
,
savage
,
severe
,
sharp
,
shooting
,
spasmatic
,
spasmic
,
spasmodic
,
stabbing
,
stinging
,
tearing
,
tormenting
,
torturing
,
torturous
buffoonery
collapse
acting like a clown or buffoon
related words >
acting
,
asininity
,
banter
,
battiness
,
brainlessness
,
business
,
characterization
,
clownishness
,
crackpottedness
,
crankiness
,
craziness
,
daffiness
,
desipience
,
eccentricity
,
fatuity
,
fatuousness
,
folly
,
foolery
,
foolheadedness
,
fooling
,
foolishness
,
frivolity
,
frivolousness
,
gag
,
giddiness
,
goofiness
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
harlequinade
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
horseplay
,
idiocy
,
imbecility
,
impersonation
,
inanity
,
ineptitude
,
insanity
,
lunacy
,
madness
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
mindlessness
,
monkeyshines
,
mummery
,
niaiserie
,
nugacity
,
nuttiness
,
overacting
,
pantomiming
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
playacting
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
projection
,
queerness
,
representation
,
sappiness
,
screwiness
,
senselessness
,
shenanigans
,
silliness
,
slapstick
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
stunt
,
stupidity
,
taking a role
,
thoughtlessness
,
tomfoolery
,
triflingness
,
triviality
,
wackiness
,
weirdness
,
witlessness
,
zaniness
,
zanyism
agonizing
collapse
extremely painful
related words >
acute
,
afflictive
,
atrocious
,
biting
,
consuming
,
cramping
,
cruel
,
desolating
,
distressful
,
distressing
,
excruciating
,
exquisite
,
fierce
,
gnawing
,
grave
,
griping
,
hard
,
harrowing
,
harsh
,
heartbreaking
,
heartrending
,
heartsickening
,
heartwounding
,
hurtful
,
hurting
,
intense
,
painful
,
paroxysmal
,
piercing
,
poignant
,
pungent
,
racking
,
rending
,
severe
,
sharp
,
shooting
,
spasmatic
,
spasmic
,
spasmodic
,
stabbing
,
stinging
,
tearing
,
tormented
,
tormenting
,
tortured
,
torturing
,
torturous
,
vehement
,
violent
playacting
collapse
related words >
acting
,
affectation
,
appearance
,
attitudinizing
,
bluff
,
bluffing
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
characterization
,
cheating
,
color
,
coloring
,
deception
,
delusion
,
disguise
,
dissemblance
,
dissembling
,
dissimulation
,
facade
,
face
,
fakery
,
faking
,
false air
,
false front
,
false show
,
falsity
,
feigning
,
feint
,
four-flushing
,
fraud
,
front
,
gag
,
gilt
,
gloss
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
impersonation
,
imposture
,
masquerade
,
meretriciousness
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
mummery
,
ostentation
,
outward show
,
overacting
,
pantomiming
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
pose
,
posing
,
posture
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretext
,
projection
,
representation
,
seeming
,
semblance
,
sham
,
show
,
simulacrum
,
simulation
,
slapstick
,
speciousness
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
stunt
,
taking a role
,
varnish
,
window dressing
excruciating
collapse
related words >
acute
,
afflictive
,
agonizing
,
atrocious
,
biting
,
consuming
,
cramping
,
cruel
,
desolating
,
distressful
,
distressing
,
exquisite
,
extreme
,
gnawing
,
grave
,
griping
,
hard
,
harrowing
,
harsh
,
heartbreaking
,
heartrending
,
heartsickening
,
heartwounding
,
hurtful
,
hurting
,
insufferable
,
intense
,
keen
,
painful
,
paroxysmal
,
piercing
,
poignant
,
pungent
,
racking
,
rending
,
severe
,
sharp
,
shooting
,
spasmatic
,
spasmic
,
spasmodic
,
stabbing
,
stinging
,
tearing
,
tormenting
,
torturing
,
torturous
,
unbearable
,
unendurable
,
vivid
episodic
collapse
limited in duration to a single episode; "an account concerned primarily with episodic events such as the succession of rulers"
occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals; "episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches"
of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes; "the book is episodic and the incidents don't always hang together"
related words >
aimless
,
broken
,
broken off
,
by the way
,
chopped-off
,
choppy
,
decousu
,
desultory
,
deviative
,
digressive
,
disconnected
,
discontinued
,
discontinuous
,
discrete
,
discursive
,
disjunctive
,
excursive
,
fitful
,
herky-jerky
,
incoherent
,
intercalary
,
interjectional
,
intermittent
,
interpolative
,
interrupted
,
irregular
,
jagged
,
jerky
,
loose
,
maundering
,
noncontinuous
,
nonlinear
,
nonsequential
,
nonserial
,
nonuniform
,
parenthetic
,
parenthetical
,
patchy
,
rambling
,
roving
,
scrappy
,
snatchy
,
spasmodic
,
spotty
,
suspended
,
unconnected
,
unjoined
,
unsuccessive
,
wandering
saltatory
collapse
related words >
anabatic
,
ascendant
,
ascending
,
ascensional
,
ascensive
,
bouncing
,
bounding
,
climbing
,
convulsive
,
eclamptic
,
fidgety
,
fitful
,
hopping
,
in the ascendant
,
jerking
,
jerky
,
jiggety
,
jumping
,
jumpy
,
leaping
,
mounting
,
orgasmic
,
prancing
,
rampant
,
rearing
,
rising
,
saltant
,
saltatorial
,
scandent
,
scansorial
,
skipping
,
skyrocketing
,
spasmodic
,
spastic
,
spiraling
,
springing
,
twitchety
,
twitching
,
twitchy
,
uparching
,
upcoming
,
upgoing
,
upgrade
,
uphill
,
uphillward
,
uprising
,
upsloping
,
upward
,
upwith
,
vellicative
ungraded
collapse
not arranged in order hierarchically
related words >
aimless
,
amorphous
,
capricious
,
casual
,
desultory
,
disarticulated
,
discontinuous
,
disjunct
,
disordered
,
dispersed
,
disproportionate
,
erratic
,
fitful
,
formless
,
frivolous
,
gratuitous
,
haphazard
,
hit-or-miss
,
immethodical
,
inchoate
,
incoherent
,
indiscriminate
,
irregular
,
meaningless
,
misshapen
,
nonsymmetrical
,
nonsystematic
,
nonuniform
,
orderless
,
planless
,
promiscuous
,
random
,
senseless
,
shapeless
,
spasmodic
,
sporadic
,
straggling
,
straggly
,
systemless
,
unarranged
,
unclassified
,
undirected
,
unjoined
,
unmethodical
,
unordered
,
unorganized
,
unsorted
,
unsymmetrical
,
unsystematic
,
ununiform
,
vague
,
wandering
planless
collapse
related words >
aimless
,
amorphous
,
capricious
,
casual
,
desultory
,
disarticulated
,
discontinuous
,
disjunct
,
disordered
,
dispersed
,
disproportionate
,
erratic
,
fitful
,
formless
,
frivolous
,
gratuitous
,
haphazard
,
hit-or-miss
,
immethodical
,
inchoate
,
incoherent
,
indiscriminate
,
irregular
,
meaningless
,
misshapen
,
nonsymmetrical
,
nonsystematic
,
nonuniform
,
orderless
,
promiscuous
,
random
,
senseless
,
shapeless
,
spasmodic
,
sporadic
,
straggling
,
straggly
,
systemless
,
unarranged
,
unclassified
,
undirected
,
ungraded
,
unjoined
,
unmethodical
,
unordered
,
unorganized
,
unsorted
,
unsymmetrical
,
unsystematic
,
ununiform
,
vague
,
wandering
unrhythmical
collapse
not rhythmic; irregular in beat or accent
related words >
broken
,
capricious
,
careening
,
catchy
,
choppy
,
desultory
,
deviative
,
disconnected
,
discontinuous
,
eccentric
,
erratic
,
fitful
,
flickering
,
fluctuating
,
guttering
,
halting
,
herky-jerky
,
heteroclite
,
immethodical
,
inconstant
,
intermittent
,
intermitting
,
irregular
,
jerky
,
lurching
,
nonuniform
,
patchy
,
rambling
,
rough
,
scrappy
,
snatchy
,
spasmatic
,
spasmic
,
spasmodic
,
spastic
,
sporadic
,
spotty
,
staggering
,
uncertain
,
unequal
,
uneven
,
unmethodical
,
unmetrical
,
unregular
,
unsettled
,
unsteady
,
unsystematic
,
variable
,
veering
,
wandering
,
wavering
,
wobbling
,
wobbly
enactment
collapse
the passing of a law by a legislative body
related words >
accomplishment
,
achievement
,
act
,
acting
,
administration
,
aping
,
bill
,
bylaw
,
canon
,
characterization
,
commission
,
completion
,
concurrent resolution
,
conduct
,
constitution
,
decree
,
demonstration
,
dictate
,
dictation
,
discharge
,
dispatch
,
display
,
dumb show
,
edict
,
effectuation
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enaction
,
execution
,
exhibit
,
exhibition
,
exposition
,
exposure
,
form
,
formality
,
formula
,
formulary
,
handling
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
implementation
,
incarnation
,
institution
,
joint resolution
,
jus
,
law
,
lawmaking
,
legislation
,
legislature
,
lex
,
management
,
masquerade
,
measure
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
opening
,
ordinance
,
ordonnance
,
ostentation
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
passage
,
passing
,
performance
,
performing
,
perpetration
,
personation
,
personification
,
playing
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
prescript
,
prescription
,
presentation
,
presentment
,
production
,
projection
,
regulation
,
representation
,
resolution
,
retrospective
,
rubric
,
rule
,
ruling
,
show
,
showing
,
standing order
,
statute
,
transaction
,
unfolding
,
unfoldment
,
unveiling
,
varnishing day
,
vernissage
jerking
collapse
related words >
anhydration
,
blast-freezing
,
bottling
,
brining
,
canning
,
convulsive
,
corning
,
curing
,
dehydration
,
desiccation
,
dry-curing
,
drying
,
eclamptic
,
embalming
,
evaporation
,
fidgetiness
,
fidgets
,
fidgety
,
fitful
,
formication
,
freeze-drying
,
freezing
,
fuming
,
irradiation
,
itchiness
,
jerky
,
jiggety
,
jumpy
,
marination
,
mummification
,
orgasmic
,
pickling
,
potting
,
pruritus
,
quick-freezing
,
refrigeration
,
saltatory
,
salting
,
seasoning
,
smoking
,
spasmodic
,
spastic
,
stuffing
,
taxidermy
,
tinning
,
twitchety
,
twitching
,
twitchy
,
vellication
,
vellicative
playing
collapse
the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation
the act of playing a musical instrument
related words >
acting
,
aflicker
,
aping
,
betting
,
bickering
,
blinking
,
buffoonery
,
business
,
cardsharping
,
casting lots
,
characterization
,
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
dancing
,
dumb show
,
embodiment
,
enacting
,
enactment
,
fiddling
,
flashing
,
flickering
,
flickery
,
flicky
,
flirtation
,
fluttering
,
fluttery
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
gag
,
gambling
,
gaming
,
ham
,
hammy acting
,
hazarding
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
idling
,
imitation
,
impersonation
,
incarnation
,
jerking off
,
kidding around
,
lambent
,
loitering
,
masquerade
,
messing around
,
mimesis
,
mimicking
,
mimicry
,
miming
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
mummery
,
overacting
,
pantomime
,
pantomiming
,
patter
,
performance
,
performing
,
personation
,
personification
,
piddling
,
play
,
playacting
,
playing around
,
portrayal
,
posing
,
pottering
,
projection
,
puttering
,
quivering
,
quivery
,
representation
,
risking
,
slapstick
,
smattering
,
sortition
,
speculation
,
sporting
,
stage business
,
stage directions
,
stage presence
,
staking
,
stroboscopic
,
stunt
,
taking a role
,
tinkering
,
toying
,
trifling
,
wagering
,
wavering
,
wavery
cataclysmic
collapse
related words >
baneful
,
black
,
calamitous
,
cataclysmal
,
catastrophic
,
consuming
,
consumptive
,
convulsive
,
deadly
,
demolishing
,
demolitionary
,
depredatory
,
desolating
,
destroying
,
destructive
,
devastating
,
dire
,
disastrous
,
doomful
,
fatal
,
fateful
,
fratricidal
,
grievous
,
herky-jerky
,
insurrectionary
,
internecine
,
jerky
,
nihilist
,
nihilistic
,
orgasmic
,
paroxysmal
,
radical
,
ravaging
,
revolutional
,
revolutionary
,
revulsionary
,
revulsive
,
ruining
,
ruinous
,
seismic
,
self-destructive
,
spasmodic
,
spastic
,
subversionary
,
subversive
,
suicidal
,
sweeping
,
tragic
,
transilient
,
upheaving
,
vandalic
,
vandalish
,
vandalistic
,
wasteful
,
wasting
,
withering
,
wreckful
harrowing
collapse
related words >
acute
,
afflictive
,
agonizing
,
alarming
,
atrocious
,
biting
,
chilling
,
consuming
,
cramping
,
cruel
,
daunting
,
desolating
,
disconcerting
,
dismaying
,
disquieting
,
distressing
,
disturbing
,
excruciating
,
frightening
,
gnawing
,
grave
,
griping
,
hard
,
harsh
,
heartbreaking
,
heartrending
,
heartsickening
,
heartwounding
,
horrible
,
horrifying
,
hurtful
,
hurting
,
nerve-racking
,
painful
,
paroxysmal
,
piercing
,
poignant
,
pungent
,
racking
,
rending
,
severe
,
sharp
,
shooting
,
spasmatic
,
spasmic
,
spasmodic
,
stabbing
,
stinging
,
tearing
,
terrifying
,
tormenting
,
torturing
,
torturous
,
traumatic
,
upsetting
,
vexing
,
worrisome
,
worrying
discontinued
collapse
stopped permanently or temporarily; "discontinued models"; "a discontinued magazine"; "a discontinued conversation"
related words >
abandoned
,
abjured
,
antiquated
,
antique
,
archaic
,
broken
,
broken off
,
chopped-off
,
choppy
,
decousu
,
deserted
,
disconnected
,
discontinuous
,
discrete
,
disjunctive
,
disused
,
done with
,
episodic
,
fitful
,
herky-jerky
,
incoherent
,
intermittent
,
interrupted
,
irregular
,
jagged
,
jerky
,
noncontinuous
,
nonlinear
,
nonsequential
,
nonserial
,
nonuniform
,
not worth saving
,
obsolescent
,
obsolete
,
old
,
old-fashioned
,
on the shelf
,
out
,
out of use
,
out-of-date
,
outdated
,
outmoded
,
outworn
,
parenthetic
,
past use
,
patchy
,
pensioned off
,
relinquished
,
renounced
,
resigned
,
retired
,
scrappy
,
snatchy
,
spasmodic
,
spotty
,
superannuate
,
superannuated
,
superseded
,
suspended
,
unconnected
,
unjoined
,
unsuccessive
,
worn-out
lurching
collapse
related words >
broken
,
capricious
,
careening
,
catchy
,
choppy
,
dangling
,
desultory
,
deviative
,
disconnected
,
discontinuous
,
eccentric
,
erratic
,
fitful
,
flickering
,
fluctuating
,
guttering
,
halting
,
herky-jerky
,
heteroclite
,
immethodical
,
inconstant
,
intermittent
,
intermitting
,
irregular
,
jerky
,
nonuniform
,
patchy
,
pitching
,
rambling
,
reeling
,
rocking
,
rolling
,
rough
,
scrappy
,
snatchy
,
spasmatic
,
spasmic
,
spasmodic
,
spastic
,
sporadic
,
spotty
,
staggering
,
swaying
,
swinging
,
tossing
,
uncertain
,
unequal
,
uneven
,
unmethodical
,
unmetrical
,
unregular
,
unrhythmical
,
unsettled
,
unsteady
,
unsystematic
,
variable
,
veering
,
wandering
,
wavering
,
wobbling
,
wobbly
parenthetic
collapse
qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses; "parenthetical remarks"
related words >
accidental
,
adrift
,
beside the mark
,
beside the point
,
beside the question
,
broken
,
broken off
,
by-the-way
,
casual
,
chopped-off
,
choppy
,
decousu
,
disconnected
,
discontinued
,
discontinuous
,
discrete
,
disjunctive
,
episodic
,
extraneous
,
extrinsic
,
fitful
,
herky-jerky
,
immaterial
,
impertinent
,
inadmissible
,
inapplicable
,
inapposite
,
inappropriate
,
incidental
,
incoherent
,
inconsequent
,
intercalary
,
interjectional
,
intermittent
,
interpolative
,
interrupted
,
irregular
,
irrelative
,
irrelevant
,
jagged
,
jerky
,
nihil ad rem
,
noncontinuous
,
nonessential
,
nonlinear
,
nonsequential
,
nonserial
,
nonuniform
,
not at issue
,
occasional
,
off the subject
,
out-of-the-way
,
parenthetical
,
patchy
,
scrappy
,
snatchy
,
spasmodic
,
spotty
,
suspended
,
unconnected
,
unessential
,
unjoined
,
unsuccessive
parenthetical
collapse
related words >
accidental
,
adrift
,
beside the mark
,
beside the point
,
beside the question
,
broken
,
broken off
,
by-the-way
,
casual
,
chopped-off
,
choppy
,
decousu
,
disconnected
,
discontinued
,
discontinuous
,
discrete
,
disjunctive
,
episodic
,
extraneous
,
extrinsic
,
fitful
,
herky-jerky
,
immaterial
,
impertinent
,
inadmissible
,
inapplicable
,
inapposite
,
inappropriate
,
incidental
,
incoherent
,
inconsequent
,
intercalary
,
interjectional
,
intermittent
,
interpolative
,
interrupted
,
irregular
,
irrelative
,
irrelevant
,
jagged
,
jerky
,
nihil ad rem
,
noncontinuous
,
nonessential
,
nonlinear
,
nonsequential
,
nonserial
,
nonuniform
,
not at issue
,
occasional
,
off the subject
,
out-of-the-way
,
parenthetic
,
patchy
,
scrappy
,
snatchy
,
spasmodic
,
spotty
,
suspended
,
unconnected
,
unessential
,
unjoined
,
unsuccessive
unsorted
collapse
not arranged according to size
related words >
aimless
,
amorphous
,
assorted
,
capricious
,
casual
,
crude
,
desultory
,
disarticulated
,
discontinuous
,
disjunct
,
disordered
,
dispersed
,
disproportionate
,
erratic
,
fitful
,
formless
,
frivolous
,
gratuitous
,
haphazard
,
heterogeneous
,
hit-or-miss
,
immethodical
,
impure
,
inchoate
,
incoherent
,
indiscriminate
,
irregular
,
meaningless
,
misshapen
,
mixed
,
motley
,
multifarious
,
native
,
nonsymmetrical
,
nonsystematic
,
nonuniform
,
orderless
,
planless
,
promiscuous
,
random
,
raw
,
run-of-mine
,
senseless
,
shapeless
,
spasmodic
,
sporadic
,
straggling
,
straggly
,
systemless
,
unarranged
,
unclassified
,
undirected
,
ungraded
,
unjoined
,
unmethodical
,
unordered
,
unorganized
,
unsymmetrical
,
unsystematic
,
ununiform
,
vague
,
varied
,
wandering
disastrous
collapse
related words >
appalling
,
awful
,
baneful
,
black
,
calamitous
,
cataclysmal
,
cataclysmic
,
catastrophic
,
consuming
,
consumptive
,
convulsive
,
deadly
,
demolishing
,
demolitionary
,
depredatory
,
desolating
,
destroying
,
destructive
,
detrimental
,
devastating
,
dire
,
doomful
,
dreadful
,
fatal
,
fateful
,
fratricidal
,
grievous
,
hapless
,
harmful
,
harrowing
,
herky-jerky
,
horrendous
,
horrible
,
horrifying
,
internecine
,
jerky
,
luckless
,
nihilist
,
nihilistic
,
orgasmic
,
paroxysmal
,
ravaging
,
ruining
,
ruinous
,
seismic
,
self-destructive
,
spasmodic
,
spastic
,
subversionary
,
subversive
,
suicidal
,
terrible
,
tragic
,
unfortunate
,
unlucky
,
upheaving
,
vandalic
,
vandalish
,
vandalistic
,
wasteful
,
wasting
,
withering
,
wreckful
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