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- prescriptive
collapse - pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage" related words >
- absolute,
- accepted,
- accustomed,
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- autocratic,
- average,
- binding,
- canonical,
- commanding,
- common,
- commonplace,
- compelling,
- compulsory,
- conclusive,
- conformable,
- constrictive,
- consuetudinary,
- conventional,
- current,
- customary,
- decisive,
- decretal,
- decretive,
- decretory,
- dictated,
- dictating,
- dictatorial,
- didactic,
- directive,
- dogmatic,
- entailed,
- established,
- ethnocentric,
- everyday,
- exceptional,
- excluding,
- exclusive,
- exclusory,
- familiar,
- final,
- fixed,
- folk,
- formulary,
- generally accepted,
- habitual,
- hallowed,
- handed down,
- hard and fast,
- hard-and-fast,
- heroic,
- hoary,
- household,
- immemorial,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- imposed,
- inadmissible,
- instructive,
- insular,
- inveterate,
- irrevocable,
- jussive,
- legendary,
- long-established,
- long-standing,
- mandated,
- mandating,
- mandatory,
- must,
- mythological,
- narrow,
- normal,
- normative,
- obligating,
- obligatory,
- obtaining,
- of long standing,
- of the folk,
- official,
- oral,
- ordinary,
- overbearing,
- parochial,
- peremptory,
- popular,
- preceptive,
- preclusive,
- predominating,
- prescribed,
- prescript,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- preventive,
- prohibitive,
- received,
- recognized,
- regular,
- regulation,
- required,
- restrictive,
- rooted,
- rubric,
- seclusive,
- segregative,
- select,
- selective,
- separative,
- set,
- snobbish,
- standard,
- statutory,
- stock,
- time-honored,
- traditional,
- tried and true,
- true-blue,
- ultimate,
- understood,
- universal,
- unwritten,
- usual,
- venerable,
- vernacular,
- widespread,
- without appeal,
- wonted,
- worshipful,
- xenophobic
- access,
- accession,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accruement,
- accumulation,
- addition,
- advance,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- anabasis,
- appreciation,
- arise,
- ascend,
- ascension,
- ascent,
- augment,
- augmentation,
- ballooning,
- bloating,
- boom,
- boost,
- broadening,
- build,
- buildup,
- clamber,
- climb,
- climbing,
- come up,
- crescendo,
- curl upwards,
- development,
- edema,
- elevation,
- enlarge,
- enlargement,
- escalade,
- expand,
- expansion,
- extension,
- flood,
- fountain,
- gain,
- go up,
- greatening,
- grow up,
- growth,
- gush,
- gyring up,
- heighten,
- hike,
- increase,
- increment,
- inflation,
- jet,
- jump,
- leap,
- levitate,
- levitation,
- loom,
- mount,
- mounting,
- multiplication,
- multiply,
- productiveness,
- proliferation,
- raise,
- rear,
- rear up,
- rise,
- rise up,
- rising,
- rocketing up,
- saltation,
- shooting up,
- snowballing,
- soaring,
- spiral,
- spire,
- spout,
- spread,
- spring,
- spurt,
- stand up,
- surge,
- swarm up,
- sweep up,
- swelling,
- takeoff,
- taking off,
- tower,
- tumescence,
- up,
- upclimb,
- upcoming,
- updraft,
- upgang,
- upgo,
- upgoing,
- upgrade,
- upgrow,
- upgrowth,
- upheave,
- uphill,
- upleap,
- uplift,
- upping,
- uprisal,
- uprise,
- uprising,
- uprush,
- upshoot,
- upslope,
- upspin,
- upstream,
- upsurgence,
- upswarm,
- upsweep,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- upwind,
- vault,
- wax,
- waxing,
- widening,
- zooming
- flank
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- the side between ribs and hipbone
- a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg
- the side of military or naval formation; "they attacked the enemy's right flank"
- a subfigure consisting of a side of something
- be located at the sides of something or somebody related words >
- Chateaubriand,
- advance against,
- advance upon,
- advocate,
- bank,
- beam,
- bear down upon,
- blade roast,
- border,
- breast,
- brisket,
- broadside,
- champion,
- cheek,
- chop,
- chuck,
- chuck roast,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circuiteer,
- circulate,
- circumambulate,
- circummigrate,
- circumnavigate,
- circumvent,
- clod,
- close the circle,
- coast,
- cold cuts,
- come full circle,
- compass,
- counterattack,
- cycle,
- defend,
- describe a circle,
- drive,
- edge,
- encircle,
- encompass,
- filet mignon,
- gas,
- girdle,
- girdle the globe,
- go about,
- go around,
- go round,
- go the round,
- guard,
- guard against,
- gyre,
- hand,
- handedness,
- haunch,
- hip,
- infiltrate,
- jowl,
- knuckle,
- lap,
- laterality,
- launch an attack,
- line,
- loin,
- make a circuit,
- many-sidedness,
- march against,
- march upon,
- mount an attack,
- multilaterality,
- open an offensive,
- orbit,
- outflank,
- planking,
- plate,
- plate piece,
- pot roast,
- profile,
- protect,
- push,
- quarter,
- rack,
- revolve,
- rib roast,
- ribs,
- roast,
- rolled roast,
- round,
- rump,
- rump roast,
- saddle,
- safeguard,
- screen,
- secure,
- shank,
- shield,
- shore,
- short ribs,
- shoulder,
- shoulder clod,
- side,
- siding,
- sirloin,
- skirt,
- spiral,
- strike,
- surround,
- temple,
- tenderloin,
- thrust,
- unilaterality,
- wheel
- motif
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- a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors
- a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music related words >
- action,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- atmosphere,
- background,
- background detail,
- basis,
- beading,
- binding,
- bordering,
- bordure,
- burden,
- case,
- catastrophe,
- chapter,
- characterization,
- color,
- complication,
- concept,
- concern,
- continuity,
- contrivance,
- convention,
- decoration,
- decorative composition,
- decorative style,
- denouement,
- design,
- detail,
- development,
- device,
- edging,
- element,
- episode,
- essence,
- fable,
- falling action,
- figure,
- fimbria,
- fimbriation,
- flounce,
- focus of attention,
- focus of interest,
- foil,
- foreground detail,
- form,
- frill,
- frilling,
- fringe,
- furbelow,
- galloon,
- gimmick,
- gist,
- head,
- heading,
- hem,
- idea,
- incident,
- issue,
- leitmotif,
- leitmotiv,
- line,
- list,
- living issue,
- local color,
- main point,
- matter,
- matter in hand,
- meat,
- mood,
- motive,
- movement,
- mythos,
- national style,
- ornament,
- ornamental motif,
- pattern,
- period style,
- peripeteia,
- phrase,
- plan,
- plot,
- point,
- point at issue,
- point in question,
- problem,
- question,
- recognition,
- refrain,
- repeated figure,
- rising action,
- rubric,
- ruffle,
- scheme,
- secondary plot,
- selvage,
- setting,
- skirting,
- slant,
- story,
- structure,
- style,
- subject,
- subject matter,
- subject of thought,
- subplot,
- substance,
- switch,
- text,
- thematic development,
- theme,
- tone,
- topic,
- touch,
- trimming,
- twist,
- valance,
- welt
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- ambagious,
- assorted,
- at odds,
- at variance,
- backhanded,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changing,
- choppy,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- contrary,
- contrasted,
- contrasting,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- different,
- differentiated,
- differing,
- digressive,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeing,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- discrete,
- discriminated,
- discursive,
- disjoined,
- disorderly,
- disparate,
- dissimilar,
- dissonant,
- distinct,
- distinguished,
- divaricate,
- divergent,
- diverging,
- divers,
- diverse,
- diversified,
- diversiform,
- erose,
- errant,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- helical,
- heterogeneous,
- impulsive,
- in disagreement,
- inaccordant,
- incompatible,
- incongruous,
- inconsistent,
- inconsonant,
- inconstant,
- indirect,
- inharmonious,
- irreconcilable,
- irregular,
- jagged,
- jerky,
- labyrinthine,
- many,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- mercurial,
- motley,
- multifarious,
- mutable,
- nonconformist,
- nonstandard,
- nonuniform,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- planetary,
- pluralistic,
- poles apart,
- poles asunder,
- ragged,
- rambling,
- rotary,
- rough,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- separate,
- separated,
- serpentine,
- several,
- shifting,
- snaky,
- spasmodic,
- spiral,
- sporadic,
- stray,
- swerving,
- turning,
- twisting,
- unconformable,
- undirected,
- unequable,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unlike,
- unorthodox,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- variant,
- varied,
- variegated,
- variform,
- various,
- varying,
- veering,
- wandering,
- wavering,
- widely apart,
- winding,
- worlds apart,
- zigzag
- upheave
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- lift forcefully from beneath related words >
- arise,
- ascend,
- boost,
- bring to ruin,
- bristle,
- buoy up,
- cast up,
- cock up,
- come up,
- condemn,
- confound,
- consume,
- curl upwards,
- damn,
- deal destruction,
- decimate,
- depredate,
- desolate,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- devastate,
- devour,
- dissolve,
- elevate,
- engorge,
- erect,
- escalate,
- get up,
- go up,
- gobble,
- gobble up,
- grow up,
- gut,
- gut with fire,
- havoc,
- heave,
- heft,
- heighten,
- heist,
- hike,
- hoick,
- hoist,
- hold up,
- incinerate,
- jerk up,
- jump up,
- knock up,
- lay in ruins,
- lay waste,
- levitate,
- lift,
- lift up,
- lob,
- loft,
- loom,
- mount,
- perk up,
- pitch,
- raise,
- raise aloft,
- raise up,
- ramp,
- ravage,
- rear,
- rear aloft,
- rear up,
- rise,
- rise up,
- ruin,
- ruinate,
- set up,
- shipwreck,
- sit bolt upright,
- sit up,
- sky,
- spiral,
- spire,
- stand up,
- stand upright,
- stick up,
- surge,
- swallow up,
- swarm up,
- sweep up,
- throw into disorder,
- throw up,
- tower,
- unleash destruction,
- unleash the hurricane,
- up,
- upbuoy,
- upcast,
- upend,
- upgo,
- upgrow,
- uphoist,
- uphold,
- uplift,
- upraise,
- uprear,
- upright,
- uprise,
- upspin,
- upstream,
- upsurge,
- upswarm,
- upthrow,
- upwind,
- vandalize,
- vaporize,
- waste,
- wrack,
- wreak havoc,
- wreck
- encircle
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- form a circle around; "encircle the errors" related words >
- admit,
- assimilate,
- band,
- begird,
- beleaguer,
- belt,
- belt in,
- beset,
- besiege,
- blockade,
- bound,
- box in,
- cage,
- chamber,
- cincture,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circuiteer,
- circulate,
- circumambulate,
- circummigrate,
- circumnavigate,
- circumvent,
- close in,
- close the circle,
- come full circle,
- compass,
- complete,
- comprehend,
- comprise,
- confine,
- contain,
- coop,
- coop in,
- coop up,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- corral,
- count in,
- cover,
- cycle,
- describe a circle,
- embody,
- embrace,
- encincture,
- enclose,
- encompass,
- engird,
- enshrine,
- ensphere,
- envelop,
- environ,
- envisage,
- fence in,
- fill,
- fill in,
- fill out,
- flank,
- gird,
- girdle,
- girdle the globe,
- go about,
- go around,
- go round,
- go the round,
- gyre,
- halo,
- harass,
- harry,
- hedge in,
- hem,
- hem in,
- hold,
- hold in,
- house in,
- impound,
- imprison,
- incarcerate,
- include,
- incorporate,
- invest,
- jail,
- kennel,
- lap,
- lay siege to,
- leaguer,
- loop,
- make a circuit,
- mew,
- mew up,
- number among,
- occupy,
- orbit,
- pen,
- pen in,
- pocket,
- quarantine,
- rail in,
- receive,
- reckon among,
- reckon in,
- reckon with,
- revolve,
- ring,
- round,
- shrine,
- shut in,
- shut up,
- skirt,
- soften up,
- spiral,
- stable,
- surround,
- take in,
- take into account,
- take into consideration,
- take up,
- twine around,
- wall in,
- wheel,
- wrap,
- wreathe,
- wreathe around,
- yard,
- yard up,
- zone
- conclusive
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- forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question; "conclusive proof"; "the evidence is conclusive"
- final and deciding; "the conclusive reason" related words >
- absolute,
- adducible,
- admissible,
- admitting no exception,
- all-out,
- apodictic,
- assuring,
- attestative,
- attestive,
- authentic,
- authoritative,
- based on,
- binding,
- bound,
- boundary,
- categorical,
- caudal,
- certain,
- circumstantial,
- clear,
- clear and distinct,
- clear as day,
- complete,
- completing,
- completive,
- completory,
- compulsory,
- concluding,
- consummative,
- convictional,
- convincing,
- crowning,
- culminating,
- cumulative,
- damning,
- decided,
- decisive,
- decretory,
- definite,
- definitive,
- determinate,
- determinative,
- dictated,
- documentary,
- documented,
- downright,
- endmost,
- entailed,
- entire,
- eventual,
- evidential,
- evidentiary,
- ex parte,
- explicit,
- express,
- extreme,
- eye-witness,
- factual,
- farthest,
- final,
- finalizing,
- finishing,
- firsthand,
- fixed,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- founded on,
- fulfilling,
- global,
- grounded on,
- hard-and-fast,
- hearsay,
- imperative,
- implicit,
- imposed,
- impressive,
- inappealable,
- incontrovertible,
- indicative,
- indisputable,
- ineluctable,
- inevitable,
- irrefutable,
- irresistible,
- irrevocable,
- last,
- limiting,
- mandated,
- mandatory,
- material,
- must,
- necessary,
- nuncupative,
- obligatory,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- overwhelming,
- peremptory,
- perfect,
- perfectly sure,
- persuasive,
- polar,
- positive,
- predestined,
- predetermined,
- prescript,
- prescriptive,
- presumptive,
- probative,
- reliable,
- required,
- round,
- satisfactory,
- satisfying,
- significant,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- suggestive,
- sure,
- sure-enough,
- symptomatic,
- tail,
- telling,
- terminal,
- terminating,
- terminative,
- total,
- true,
- ultimate,
- unambiguous,
- uncircumscribed,
- unconditional,
- unconditioned,
- undoubting,
- unequivocal,
- unhampered,
- unhesitating,
- univocal,
- unlimited,
- unmistakable,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unquestioning,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- unwaivable,
- utter,
- valid,
- weighty,
- whole,
- without appeal,
- without exception,
- without reserve
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