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Exact Match:

square

a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles; "the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square"

any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; "a checkerboard has 64 squares"

a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views

someone who doesn't understand what is going on

the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"

(geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon; "you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides"

something approximating the shape of a square

rigidly conventional or old-fashioned

having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner"

make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"

raise to the second power

position so as to be square; "He squared his shoulders"

pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him"

be compatible with; "one idea squares with another"

cause to match, as of ideas or acts

Synonyms:

• Babbitt,
• Little Joe,
• Methuselah,
• Middle American,
• Philistine,
• T square,
• aboveboard,
• absolutely,
• accommodate,
• accord,
• accordant,
• account with,
• accurate,
• accurately,
• adapt,
• adipose,
• adjust,
• agora,
• agree,
• agree with,
• alike,
• amortize,
• anal,
• anal character,
• answer to,
• antediluvian,
• antique,
• aplomb,
• arena,
• arrange,
• assent,
• assort with,
• at par,
• at right angles,
• atone,
• atone for,
• au pair,
• authentic,
• back number,
• back-number,
• balance,
• balanced,
• banal,
• bang,
• be consistent,
• be of one,
• be uniform with,
• beefy,
• behind the times,
• bewhiskered,
• biquadrate,
• bloated,
• block,
• blowzy,
• bob,
• bona fide,
• bosomy,
• bourgeois,
• brawny,
• bromidic,
• burgher,
• burly,
• button-down,
• buxom,
• buy,
• buy off,
• campo,
• cancel,
• change,
• check,
• check out,
• chime,
• chubby,
• chunky,
• cincture,
• city block,
• clean,
• clear,
• clear off,
• clear the board,
• clear up,
• clos,
• close,
• cohere,
• coincide,
• come to terms,
• commensurate,
• common,
• commonplace,
• compensate,
• comply with,
• compulsive,
• compulsive character,
• concordant,
• concur,
• confine,
• conform,
• conform to,
• conform with,
• conformer,
• conformist,
• conservative,
• consist with,
• constant,
• container,
• conventional,
• conventionalist,
• coop,
• cooperate,
• coordinate,
• corny,
• corpulent,
• correct,
• correspond,
• correspond to,
• correspond with,
• corresponding,
• counteract,
• counterbalance,
• counterpoise,
• countervail,
• counterweigh,
• court,
• courtyard,
• croft,
• cube,
• cube-shaped,
• cubed,
• cubic,
• cubiform,
• cuboid,
• curtilage,
• cut-and-dried,
• dad,
• dead,
• decent,
• defensible,
• definitely,
• delicate,
• delimited field,
• deserved,
• dice,
• diced,
• die-hard,
• direct,
• directly,
• discharge,
• distended,
• dodo,
• dovetail,
• drawn,
• due,
• dumpy,
• elder,
• enclave,
• enclosure,
• equal,
• equalize,
• equalized,
• equate,
• equilateral,
• equiponderate,
• equitable,
• ethical,
• even,
• even stephen,
• even the score,
• even up,
• evenhanded,
• exact,
• exactly,
• expiate,
• express,
• expressly,
• fade,
• fair,
• fair and square,
• faithful,
• faithfully,
• fall in together,
• familiar,
• fat,
• fattish,
• field,
• fifty-fifty,
• filling,
• fine,
• fit,
• fit in,
• fit together,
• fix,
• fleshy,
• flush,
• fogy,
• fold,
• form fours,
• formalist,
• formalistic,
• forty,
• forum,
• fossil,
• four,
• four-part diaphony,
• foursome,
• foursquare,
• fud,
• fuddy-duddy,
• full,
• fusty,
• gee,
• generous,
• genuine,
• get even with,
• give satisfaction,
• go together,
• go with,
• good,
• good-faith,
• granny,
• green,
• gross,
• ground,
• hackney,
• hackneyed,
• half-and-half,
• hang together,
• harmonious,
• harmonize,
• has-been,
• have,
• healthful,
• healthy,
• heavyset,
• hefty,
• hippy,
• hit,
• hold together,
• honest,
• honor,
• honorable,
• impartial,
• impersonal,
• imposing,
• in accord,
• in all respects,
• in every respect,
• in keeping,
• in line,
• in step,
• indemnify,
• inerrable,
• inerrant,
• infallible,
• innocent,
• integrate,
• interlock,
• intersect,
• ipsissimis verbis,
• jibe,
• just,
• justifiable,
• justified,
• kerplunk,
• knotted,
• kosher,
• kraal,
• lawful,
• lead,
• legal,
• level,
• lift,
• like,
• liquidate,
• list,
• literally,
• literatim,
• live down,
• lock,
• longhair,
• lot,
• lubricate,
• lusty,
• make accounts square,
• make amends,
• make compensation,
• make four,
• make good,
• make matters up,
• make reparation,
• make restitution,
• make right,
• make up for,
• market,
• market cross,
• marketplace,
• mart,
• match,
• mathematical,
• matriarch,
• meaty,
• meet,
• meet and right,
• merited,
• methodologist,
• micrometrically precise,
• microscopic,
• mid-Victorian,
• middle-class type,
• model child,
• modify,
• mossback,
• moth-eaten,
• musty,
• naive,
• nerd,
• nice,
• nip and tuck,
• nonpartisan,
• not with it,
• nutritious,
• obese,
• obey,
• objective,
• oblong,
• offset,
• old believer,
• old crock,
• old dodo,
• old fogy,
• old hat,
• old liner,
• old man,
• old poop,
• old woman,
• old-fashioned,
• old-timer,
• on a footing,
• on a level,
• on a par,
• on even ground,
• on the level,
• on the square,
• on the up-and-up,
• open,
• open and aboveboard,
• organization man,
• orthodox,
• orthogonal,
• out of it,
• outsider,
• overlap,
• overweight,
• pale,
• paling,
• par,
• parallel,
• parcel of land,
• park,
• parrot,
• patch,
• patch up,
• patriarch,
• paunchy,
• pay,
• pay back,
• pay damages,
• pay in full,
• pay off,
• pay old debts,
• pay out,
• pay the bill,
• pay the forfeit,
• pay the penalty,
• pay the shot,
• pay up,
• pedant,
• pedantic,
• pen,
• perfectionist,
• perpendicularly,
• piazza,
• pinpoint,
• place,
• plastic,
• plastic person,
• plat,
• platitudinous,
• plaza,
• plop,
• plot,
• plot of ground,
• plumb,
• plumb bob,
• plumb line,
• plumb rule,
• plumb-line,
• plummet,
• plump,
• plunk,
• podgy,
• point-blank,
• poise,
• pop,
• pops,
• portly,
• positively,
• potbellied,
• precise,
• precisely,
• precisian,
• precisianist,
• precisianistic,
• predictable,
• proper,
• propitiate,
• proportion,
• proportionate,
• provincial,
• pudgy,
• puffy,
• pursy,
• quad,
• quadrangle,
• quadrangular,
• quadrate,
• quadratic,
• quadrature,
• quadrennium,
• quadriform,
• quadrilateral,
• quadrille,
• quadrinomial,
• quadruplet,
• quartet,
• quatern,
• quaternary,
• quaternion,
• quaternity,
• quatrefoil,
• quit,
• quits,
• reactionary,
• real estate,
• reckon with,
• recompense,
• reconcile,
• rectangle,
• rectangular,
• redeem,
• redress,
• refined,
• refund,
• register,
• register with,
• regular old fogy,
• reimburse,
• relic,
• religious,
• religiously exact,
• repair,
• repay,
• requite,
• respond to,
• retire,
• rhombic,
• rhomboid,
• rialto,
• right,
• right and proper,
• right-angled,
• rightful,
• rigid,
• rigidly,
• rigorous,
• rigorously,
• roly-poly,
• rotund,
• rule,
• ruler,
• satisfy,
• satisfying,
• scientific,
• scientifically exact,
• section,
• set,
• set off,
• set square,
• settle,
• settle accounts with,
• settle with,
• settled,
• severe,
• sharp,
• sheep,
• sheer,
• sheerly,
• sing in chorus,
• single-hearted,
• smack,
• smack-dab,
• solid,
• sop,
• sort with,
• spang,
• square accounts,
• square dance,
• square it,
• square things,
• square up,
• square with,
• square-dealing,
• square-shooting,
• squarely,
• squaring,
• squat,
• squatty,
• stale,
• stalemated,
• stalwart,
• stand together,
• starets,
• stereotyped,
• stick-in-the-mud,
• stiffen,
• stock,
• stocky,
• stout,
• straight,
• straight-shooting,
• straightedge,
• straighten up,
• straightforward,
• strait-laced,
• strapping,
• strict,
• strictly,
• strike a balance,
• stuffed shirt,
• stuffy,
• substantial,
• subtle,
• suit,
• swollen,
• tailor,
• take up,
• tally,
• tally with,
• tamper with,
• teenybopper,
• tense,
• tetrad,
• tetragon,
• tetragonal,
• tetragram,
• tetragrammaton,
• tetrahedral,
• tetrahedron,
• tetralogy,
• tetraphony,
• tetrapody,
• theater,
• thick-bodied,
• thickset,
• threadbare,
• throw back,
• tied,
• timeworn,
• to the letter,
• toft,
• top-heavy,
• tract,
• traditionalist,
• trapezohedral,
• trapezoid,
• triangle,
• trimmer,
• trite,
• true,
• truistic,
• try square,
• tubby,
• unbiased,
• undeviating,
• undeviatingly,
• unerring,
• unerringly,
• unimaginative,
• unoriginal,
• unprejudiced,
• unsophisticated,
• unstinting,
• up and down,
• up-and-up,
• upright,
• uptight,
• verbally,
• verbatim,
• verbatim et litteratim,
• veritable,
• village green,
• warmed-over,
• warrantable,
• warranted,
• well-fed,
• well-known,
• well-worn,
• word by word,
• word for word,
• worn,
• worn thin,
• yard,
• yes-man