Related Words:
- hardheaded
collapse - guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"
- unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack related words >
- balking,
- balky,
- bigoted,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- case-hardened,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- down-to-earth,
- earthy,
- fanatic,
- hard,
- hard-boiled,
- headstrong,
- hoaxproof,
- intolerant,
- matter-of-fact,
- mulish,
- not born yesterday,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- overzealous,
- persevering,
- pertinacious,
- pigheaded,
- positivistic,
- practical,
- practical-minded,
- pragmatic,
- rational,
- realist,
- realistic,
- reasonable,
- restive,
- sane,
- scientific,
- scientistic,
- secular,
- self-willed,
- sensible,
- set,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sophisticated,
- sound,
- sound-thinking,
- stiff-necked,
- straight-thinking,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- tenacious,
- tough-minded,
- uncooperative,
- uncullible,
- undeceivable,
- undeludable,
- undupable,
- unfoolable,
- ungullible,
- unhoaxable,
- unideal,
- unidealistic,
- unregenerate,
- unromantic,
- unseduceable,
- unsentimental,
- willful,
- wise,
- worldly
- annuity
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- income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments; "his retirement fund was set up to be paid as an annuity" related words >
- accident insurance,
- actuary,
- aid,
- alimony,
- allotment,
- allowance,
- assistance,
- assurance,
- aviation insurance,
- bail bond,
- bond,
- bounty,
- business life insurance,
- casualty insurance,
- certificate of insurance,
- court bond,
- credit insurance,
- credit life insurance,
- deductible,
- depletion allowance,
- dole,
- endowment insurance,
- family maintenance policy,
- fellowship,
- fidelity bond,
- fidelity insurance,
- financial assistance,
- flood insurance,
- fraternal insurance,
- government insurance,
- grant,
- grant-in-aid,
- guaranteed annual income,
- health insurance,
- help,
- industrial life insurance,
- insurance,
- insurance agent,
- insurance broker,
- insurance company,
- insurance man,
- insurance policy,
- interinsurance,
- liability insurance,
- license bond,
- limited payment insurance,
- major medical insurance,
- malpractice insurance,
- marine insurance,
- mutual company,
- ocean marine insurance,
- old-age insurance,
- pecuniary aid,
- pension,
- permit bond,
- policy,
- price support,
- public assistance,
- public welfare,
- relief,
- retirement benefits,
- robbery insurance,
- scholarship,
- social security,
- stipend,
- stock company,
- subsidization,
- subsidy,
- subvention,
- support,
- tax benefit,
- term insurance,
- theft insurance,
- underwriter,
- welfare,
- welfare aid,
- welfare payments
- helpless
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- unable to manage independently; "as helpless as a baby"
- unable to function; without help
- lacking in or deprived of strength or power; "lying ill and helpless"; "helpless with laughter" related words >
- abandoned,
- aidless,
- at sea,
- baffled,
- bare-handed,
- bewildered,
- blind,
- blind drunk,
- blotto,
- confounded,
- confused,
- crippled,
- debilitated,
- defenseless,
- dependent,
- deserted,
- desolate,
- disabled,
- enervated,
- enfeebled,
- exhausted,
- faint,
- fatherless,
- feeble,
- forlorn,
- forsaken,
- friendless,
- godforsaken,
- guardless,
- guideless,
- helpless,
- homeless,
- impotent,
- incapable,
- incompetent,
- inefficient,
- inept,
- infirm,
- kithless,
- lame,
- leaderless,
- motherless,
- muddled,
- mystified,
- nonplussed,
- out,
- out cold,
- outcast,
- overcome,
- paralyzed,
- passed out,
- perplexed,
- pregnable,
- prostrate,
- spent,
- stiff,
- stoned,
- unarmed,
- unarmored,
- unattended,
- unavailing,
- uncovered,
- undefended,
- under the table,
- unfit,
- unfortified,
- unfriended,
- ungarrisoned,
- unguarded,
- unprotected,
- unqualified,
- unscreened,
- unsheltered,
- unshielded,
- unsuspecting,
- untenable,
- unwarned,
- unwatched,
- useless,
- vulnerable,
- weak,
- weakened,
- weaponless,
- worn out,
- worthless
- Arab,
- Babbitt,
- Philistine,
- arriviste,
- beach bum,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- bo,
- boor,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- brat,
- bum,
- bummer,
- cad,
- churl,
- clown,
- dogie,
- epicier,
- gamin,
- gamine,
- groundling,
- hobo,
- homeless waif,
- hooligan,
- idler,
- ill-bred fellow,
- landloper,
- lazzarone,
- loafer,
- looby,
- losel,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- mucker,
- mudlark,
- nouveau riche,
- parvenu,
- peasant,
- piker,
- ragamuffin,
- ragman,
- ragpicker,
- ribald,
- rogue,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rounder,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- ski bum,
- stiff,
- stray,
- street Arab,
- street urchin,
- sundowner,
- surf bum,
- swagman,
- swagsman,
- tatterdemalion,
- tennis bum,
- tramp,
- turnpiker,
- upstart,
- urchin,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- waif,
- waifs and strays,
- wastrel,
- yokel
- slope
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- an elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain"
- be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down" related words >
- acclivity,
- angle,
- angularity,
- ascend,
- ascent,
- bank,
- bend,
- bevel,
- bezel,
- camber,
- cant,
- careen,
- chute,
- climb,
- decline,
- declivity,
- deflection,
- descend,
- descent,
- deviation,
- dip,
- downgrade,
- drop,
- drop off,
- easy slope,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall off,
- fleam,
- gentle slope,
- glacis,
- go downhill,
- go uphill,
- grade,
- gradient,
- hanging gardens,
- heel,
- helicline,
- hill,
- hillside,
- inclination,
- incline,
- inclined plane,
- keel,
- launching ramp,
- lean,
- leaning,
- leaning tower,
- list,
- mount,
- obliqueness,
- obliquity,
- pitch,
- rake,
- ramp,
- recline,
- retreat,
- rise,
- scarp,
- shelve,
- shelving beach,
- side,
- sidle,
- sink,
- skew,
- slant,
- steep slope,
- stiff climb,
- swag,
- sway,
- talus,
- tilt,
- tip,
- tower of Pisa,
- upgrade,
- uprise
- truant
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- one who is absent from school without permission
- absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week" related words >
- AWOL,
- Bowery bum,
- absent,
- absent without leave,
- absentee,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- beggarly fellow,
- blighter,
- budmash,
- bum,
- bummer,
- caitiff,
- clock watcher,
- delinquent,
- derelict,
- devil,
- dodger,
- drifter,
- drunkard,
- eye-servant,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- hobo,
- human wreck,
- idler,
- loafer,
- loafing,
- lowlife,
- malingerer,
- malingering,
- mauvais sujet,
- mean wretch,
- mucker,
- no-good,
- old soldier,
- pauvre diable,
- pilgarlic,
- poor creature,
- poor devil,
- runaway,
- sad case,
- sad sack,
- shirk,
- shirker,
- shirking,
- skid-row bum,
- skulk,
- skulker,
- slacker,
- soldier,
- stiff,
- sundowner,
- swagman,
- tax dodger,
- tramp,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vaurien,
- wastrel,
- welsher,
- worthless fellow,
- wretch
- unwieldy
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- difficult to work or manipulate; "unwieldy rules and regulations"
- difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape; "we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter"; "almost dropped the unwieldy parcel" related words >
- Latinate,
- all thumbs,
- awkward,
- blunderheaded,
- blundering,
- bombastic,
- boorish,
- bulky,
- bumbling,
- bungling,
- burdensome,
- butterfingered,
- careless,
- clownish,
- clumsy,
- clumsy-fisted,
- contrary,
- cramped,
- crosswise,
- cumbersome,
- cumbrous,
- discommodious,
- elephantine,
- encumbering,
- fingers all thumbs,
- forced,
- formal,
- fumbling,
- gauche,
- gawkish,
- gawky,
- graceless,
- guinde,
- halting,
- ham-fisted,
- ham-handed,
- heavy,
- heavy-handed,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- impractical,
- incommodious,
- inconvenient,
- incumbent,
- inelegant,
- inkhorn,
- labored,
- leaden,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- loutish,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- lumpy,
- maladroit,
- massive,
- massy,
- oafish,
- onerous,
- oppressive,
- oversized,
- perverse,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- sesquipedalian,
- sloppy,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- superincumbent,
- troublesome,
- turgid,
- uncontrollable,
- uncouth,
- ungainly,
- ungraceful,
- unhandy,
- unmanageable
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- ardent,
- assiduous,
- bound,
- bound and determined,
- bowelless,
- cast-iron,
- ceaseless,
- certain,
- committed,
- constant,
- continual,
- continuing,
- continuous,
- cruel,
- decided,
- decisive,
- dedicated,
- definite,
- determined,
- devoted,
- diligent,
- dog-eat-dog,
- dogged,
- dour,
- earnest,
- enduring,
- energetic,
- faithful,
- fated,
- fateful,
- ferocious,
- fervent,
- fierce,
- firm,
- flinty,
- fundamentalist,
- grim,
- habitual,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- hardworking,
- harsh,
- heartless,
- hidebound,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- inalterable,
- incessant,
- inclement,
- indefatigable,
- indefeasible,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- inelastic,
- ineluctable,
- inescapable,
- inevasible,
- inevitable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- inhuman,
- insistent,
- intractable,
- intransigent,
- invincible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- irreconcilable,
- irresistible,
- irrevocable,
- laborious,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- merciless,
- mortal,
- muscle-bound,
- necessary,
- never idle,
- never-tiring,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- orthodox,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- pitiless,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- purposeful,
- rapt,
- regular,
- remorseless,
- resistless,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rock-ribbed,
- rockbound,
- ruthless,
- sedulous,
- serious,
- sincere,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- strenuous,
- strict,
- stringent,
- stubborn,
- sure,
- sure as death,
- sure as fate,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- tough,
- unabated,
- unabating,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unappeasable,
- unavoidable,
- unbending,
- unbroken,
- unceasing,
- unchangeable,
- uncompassionate,
- uncompassioned,
- uncompromising,
- unconquerable,
- uncontrollable,
- undaunted,
- undeflectable,
- undeviating,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unfeeling,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unforgiving,
- ungiving,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unmerciful,
- unmoved,
- unmoving,
- unnodding,
- unpitiful,
- unpitying,
- unpreventable,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unrelieved,
- unremitting,
- unremorseful,
- unsleeping,
- unsparing,
- unstoppable,
- unswerving,
- unsympathetic,
- unsympathizing,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- unyielding,
- utterly attentive,
- vehement,
- weariless,
- wholehearted,
- without mercy,
- zealous
- afraid,
- aghast,
- appalled,
- ashen,
- astounded,
- awed,
- awestricken,
- awestruck,
- blanched,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- daunted,
- deadly pale,
- dismayed,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- frozen,
- funking,
- funky,
- gray with fear,
- henhearted,
- horrified,
- horror-struck,
- intimidated,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- pale as death,
- pallid,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- paralyzed,
- petrified,
- pigeonhearted,
- rabbity,
- scared stiff,
- scared to death,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- stunned,
- stupefied,
- terrified,
- terror-crazed,
- terror-haunted,
- terror-ridden,
- terror-riven,
- terror-shaken,
- terror-smitten,
- terror-struck,
- terror-troubled,
- timid,
- timorous,
- undone,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
- intimidated
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- made timid or fearful as by threats related words >
- afraid,
- aghast,
- appalled,
- ashen,
- astounded,
- awed,
- awestricken,
- awestruck,
- blanched,
- chicken,
- chickenhearted,
- coward,
- cowardly,
- cowed,
- daunted,
- deadly pale,
- dismayed,
- fainthearted,
- fearful,
- frozen,
- funking,
- funky,
- gray with fear,
- henhearted,
- horrified,
- horror-struck,
- lily-livered,
- milk-livered,
- milksoppish,
- milksoppy,
- mousy,
- overtimid,
- overtimorous,
- pale as death,
- pallid,
- panic-prone,
- panicky,
- paralyzed,
- petrified,
- pigeonhearted,
- rabbity,
- scared stiff,
- scared to death,
- sissified,
- sissy,
- soft,
- stunned,
- stupefied,
- terrified,
- terror-crazed,
- terror-haunted,
- terror-ridden,
- terror-riven,
- terror-shaken,
- terror-smitten,
- terror-struck,
- terror-troubled,
- timid,
- timorous,
- undone,
- unmanly,
- unmanned,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- weak,
- weak-kneed,
- weakhearted,
- white-livered,
- yellow
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