Related Words:
- blind alley
collapse - (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement; "all the clues led the police into blind alleys"; "so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley"
- a street with only one way in or out related words >
- Autobahn,
- US highway,
- alley,
- alleyway,
- arterial,
- arterial highway,
- arterial street,
- artery,
- autoroute,
- autostrada,
- avenue,
- bar,
- barrier,
- belt highway,
- blank wall,
- blind gut,
- block,
- blockade,
- blockage,
- bottleneck,
- boulevard,
- box,
- bypass,
- byway,
- camino real,
- carriageway,
- causeway,
- causey,
- cecum,
- chaussee,
- choking,
- choking off,
- circumferential,
- clog,
- close,
- congestion,
- constipation,
- corduroy road,
- corner,
- costiveness,
- county road,
- court,
- crescent,
- cul-de-sac,
- dead end,
- dead-end street,
- deadlock,
- dike,
- dirt road,
- drive,
- driveway,
- embolism,
- embolus,
- expressway,
- extremity,
- freeway,
- gorge,
- gravel road,
- halt,
- highroad,
- highway,
- highways and byways,
- hole,
- impasse,
- impediment,
- infarct,
- infarction,
- interstate highway,
- jam,
- lane,
- local road,
- main drag,
- main road,
- mews,
- motorway,
- obstacle,
- obstipation,
- obstruction,
- parkway,
- pave,
- paved road,
- pike,
- place,
- plank road,
- pocket,
- primary highway,
- private road,
- right-of-way,
- ring road,
- road,
- roadbed,
- roadway,
- route nationale,
- row,
- royal road,
- sealing off,
- secondary road,
- speedway,
- stalemate,
- stand,
- standstill,
- state highway,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- strangulation,
- street,
- superhighway,
- terrace,
- thoroughfare,
- through street,
- thruway,
- toll road,
- township road,
- turnpike,
- wynd
- pat
collapse
- the sound made by a gentle blow
- exactly suited to the occasion; "a pat reply"
- completely or perfectly; "he has the lesson pat"; "had the system down pat" related words >
- a propos,
- ad rem,
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- adapted,
- applicable,
- apposite,
- appreciated,
- apprehended,
- appropriate,
- apropos,
- apt,
- artful endearments,
- ascertained,
- at a standstill,
- batch,
- beak,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- blandishments,
- block,
- brush,
- bulk,
- bump,
- bunt,
- caress,
- chink,
- chuck,
- chunk,
- click,
- clink,
- clod,
- clop,
- clump,
- clunk,
- cocker,
- coddle,
- comprehended,
- conceived,
- cosset,
- crump,
- dab,
- dandle,
- discerned,
- dovetailing,
- down pat,
- dull thud,
- endearment,
- felicitous,
- fillip,
- firm,
- fit,
- fitted,
- fitting,
- flick,
- flip,
- flirt,
- flump,
- fondle,
- frozen,
- geared,
- gob,
- grasped,
- graze,
- happy,
- honeyed words,
- hunk,
- immobile,
- immotile,
- immotive,
- immovable,
- inflexible,
- irremovable,
- just right,
- known,
- likely,
- loaf,
- lump,
- mass,
- meshing,
- nugget,
- on the button,
- opportune,
- pad,
- patter,
- peck,
- perceived,
- pet,
- pick,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- plump,
- plunk,
- pop,
- prehended,
- qualified,
- quantity,
- rap,
- realized,
- recognized,
- relevant,
- right,
- rigid,
- seasonable,
- seized,
- snap,
- soft words,
- sortable,
- standpat,
- stationary,
- suitable,
- suited,
- suiting,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- tailored,
- tap,
- thud,
- thump,
- tick,
- tickle,
- tinkle,
- tip,
- to the point,
- to the purpose,
- touch,
- tunk,
- understood,
- unmovable,
- unmoving,
- unyielding,
- wad,
- whisk
- cessation
collapse
- a stopping; "a cessation of the thunder" related words >
- Z,
- abandonment,
- abeyance,
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- absentation,
- apodosis,
- breach,
- break,
- caesura,
- casting away,
- catastrophe,
- cease,
- ceasing,
- close,
- closing,
- coda,
- cold storage,
- conclusion,
- consummation,
- crack of doom,
- culmination,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- dead set,
- dead stand,
- dead stop,
- deadlock,
- death,
- decease,
- decline,
- denouement,
- desistance,
- destination,
- destiny,
- desuetude,
- discontinuance,
- disuse,
- doom,
- dying down,
- ebb,
- ebbing,
- effect,
- end,
- end point,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- evacuation,
- expiration,
- fate,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finis,
- finish,
- fissure,
- forbearance,
- forsaking,
- full stop,
- gap,
- goal,
- halt,
- hiatus,
- homestretch,
- interim,
- intermission,
- interruption,
- interval,
- izzard,
- jettison,
- jettisoning,
- lacuna,
- lapse,
- last,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last lap,
- last round,
- last stage,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- leaving,
- letup,
- lock,
- lull,
- nonexercise,
- omega,
- pause,
- payoff,
- period,
- peroration,
- pulling out,
- quietus,
- relinquishment,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- resignation,
- resolution,
- resting place,
- stand,
- standstill,
- stillstand,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- subsidence,
- suspension,
- swan song,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- throwing overboard,
- waiver,
- wane,
- waning,
- windup,
- withdrawal
- immovable
collapse
- not able or intended to be moved; "the immovable hills" related words >
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- affectless,
- anchored,
- anesthetized,
- arctic,
- at a standstill,
- autistic,
- blunt,
- cast-iron,
- catatonic,
- chill,
- chilly,
- cold,
- cold as charity,
- cold-blooded,
- coldhearted,
- constant,
- cool,
- determined,
- dispassionate,
- dogged,
- dour,
- drugged,
- dull,
- emotionally dead,
- emotionless,
- fast,
- firm,
- fixed,
- flinty,
- frigid,
- frosted,
- frosty,
- frozen,
- grim,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- heartless,
- icy,
- immobile,
- immotile,
- immotive,
- immutable,
- impassible,
- impassive,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- inalterable,
- inductile,
- inelastic,
- inexcitable,
- inexorable,
- inextensible,
- inextensile,
- inextensional,
- inflexible,
- insusceptible,
- intractable,
- intractile,
- intransigent,
- invariable,
- iron,
- irreconcilable,
- irremovable,
- irresilient,
- loyal,
- motionless,
- nonelastic,
- nonemotional,
- nonstretchable,
- obdurate,
- objective,
- obtuse,
- out of touch,
- passionless,
- pat,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- riveted,
- rock-ribbed,
- rooted,
- self-absorbed,
- set,
- settled,
- sot,
- soulless,
- spiritless,
- stable,
- standpat,
- stationary,
- staunch,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- stony,
- stubborn,
- stuck,
- true,
- unaffected,
- unaffectionate,
- unalterable,
- unbending,
- unchangeable,
- uncompromising,
- undeflectable,
- unemotional,
- unextendible,
- unextensible,
- unfeeling,
- unflappable,
- unflexible,
- unflinching,
- ungiving,
- unimpassioned,
- unimpressionable,
- unlimber,
- unloving,
- unmalleable,
- unmodifiable,
- unmovable,
- unmoved,
- unmoving,
- unpassionate,
- unpliable,
- unpliant,
- unrelenting,
- unresponding,
- unresponsive,
- unshakable,
- unshakeable,
- unshaken,
- unsusceptible,
- unswerving,
- unsympathetic,
- untouchable,
- untractable,
- unwavering,
- unyielding
- inflexible
collapse
- resistant to being bent; "an inflexible iron bar"; "an inflexible knife blade";
- incapable of change; "a man of inflexible purpose"
- incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate" related words >
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- at a standstill,
- cast-iron,
- certain,
- changeless,
- closed to,
- constant,
- determinate,
- determined,
- dogged,
- dour,
- dyed,
- established,
- fated,
- fateful,
- firm,
- fixed,
- flinty,
- frozen,
- fundamentalist,
- grim,
- hard,
- hard and fast,
- hard-core,
- hard-line,
- headstrong,
- hidebound,
- immobile,
- immotile,
- immotive,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- impersuadable,
- impersuasible,
- impervious,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- inalterable,
- indefeasible,
- indomitable,
- inductile,
- inelastic,
- ineluctable,
- inescapable,
- inevasible,
- inevitable,
- inexorable,
- inextensible,
- inextensile,
- inextensional,
- intractable,
- intractile,
- intransigent,
- invariable,
- invincible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- irreconcilable,
- irremovable,
- irresilient,
- irresistible,
- irrevocable,
- loyal,
- mulish,
- muscle-bound,
- necessary,
- nonelastic,
- nonstretchable,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orthodox,
- pat,
- pigheaded,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- refractory,
- relentless,
- resistless,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- rockbound,
- set,
- settled,
- severe,
- single-minded,
- sot,
- standpat,
- stationary,
- staunch,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- stony,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- sure,
- sure as death,
- sure as fate,
- true,
- unaccommodating,
- unadaptable,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unamenable,
- unavoidable,
- unbending,
- unchangeable,
- unchanging,
- uncompliant,
- uncompromising,
- unconquerable,
- uncontrollable,
- undeflectable,
- unextendible,
- unextensible,
- unflappable,
- unflexible,
- ungiving,
- unimpressionable,
- uninfluenceable,
- unlimber,
- unmalleable,
- unmodifiable,
- unmovable,
- unmoved,
- unmoving,
- unpersuadable,
- unpliable,
- unpliant,
- unpreventable,
- unreceptive,
- unrelenting,
- unresponsive,
- unshakable,
- unshakeable,
- unshaken,
- unstoppable,
- unsuggestible,
- unsusceptible,
- unswayable,
- unswerving,
- untractable,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- unyielding
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