Related Words:
- elephantine
collapse - of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" related words >
- Atlantean,
- Brobdingnagian,
- Cyclopean,
- Gargantuan,
- Herculean,
- Homeric,
- Latinate,
- abysmal,
- arid,
- astronomic,
- awkward,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- bombastic,
- bulky,
- characterless,
- clumsy,
- cold,
- colorless,
- colossal,
- cramped,
- cumbersome,
- cumbrous,
- dead,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantlike,
- empty,
- enormous,
- epic,
- etiolated,
- fade,
- flat,
- forced,
- formal,
- gargantuan,
- giant,
- giantlike,
- gigantic,
- graceless,
- guinde,
- halting,
- heavy,
- heavy-handed,
- heroic,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- huge,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- immense,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- infinite,
- inkhorn,
- insipid,
- jejune,
- jumbo,
- labored,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- low-spirited,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- lumpy,
- maladroit,
- mammoth,
- massive,
- massy,
- mighty,
- monster,
- monstrous,
- monumental,
- mountainous,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedestrian,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- prodigious,
- profound,
- sesquipedalian,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- stupendous,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- titanic,
- towering,
- tremendous,
- turgid,
- ungraceful,
- uninspired,
- unlively,
- unwieldy,
- vapid,
- vast,
- wooden
- purport
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- have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming; "The letter purports to express people's opinion" related words >
- academic,
- acceptation,
- affective meaning,
- aim,
- aim at,
- allege,
- aspire after,
- aspire to,
- avow,
- be after,
- bearing,
- burden,
- claim,
- coloring,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- core,
- denotation,
- design,
- desire,
- destine,
- determine,
- drift,
- drive at,
- effect,
- essence,
- extension,
- force,
- gist,
- go for,
- grammatical meaning,
- harbor a design,
- have every intention,
- idea,
- impact,
- implication,
- import,
- intend,
- intendment,
- intension,
- lexical meaning,
- literal meaning,
- matter,
- mean,
- meaning,
- meat,
- message,
- ostensible,
- overtone,
- pertinence,
- pith,
- plan,
- point,
- postulated,
- practical consequence,
- presupposed,
- pretend,
- pretended,
- pretext,
- profess,
- professed,
- project,
- propose,
- protest too much,
- purported,
- purpose,
- range of meaning,
- real meaning,
- reference,
- referent,
- relation,
- relevance,
- reputed,
- resolve,
- rumored,
- scope,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- sense,
- significance,
- significancy,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- so-called,
- span of meaning,
- speculative,
- spirit,
- structural meaning,
- substance,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- supposed,
- suppositional,
- suppositive,
- suspected,
- symbolic meaning,
- tenor,
- theoretical,
- think,
- thrust,
- totality of associations,
- transferred meaning,
- unadorned meaning,
- understanding,
- undertone,
- upshot,
- value
- Laodicean,
- airy,
- apathetic,
- at odds,
- ataractic,
- automatic,
- averse,
- backward,
- balking,
- balky,
- blase,
- businesslike,
- careless,
- casual,
- cold,
- cool,
- cursory,
- degage,
- devil-may-care,
- differing,
- dilatory,
- disagreeing,
- disinclined,
- disinterested,
- dismissive,
- disobedient,
- dispassionate,
- disregardant,
- disregardful,
- distant,
- easygoing,
- fervorless,
- fleeting,
- flippant,
- forced,
- forgetful,
- formal,
- fractious,
- free and easy,
- grudging,
- halfhearted,
- hasty,
- heedless,
- hurried,
- impersonal,
- inattentive,
- inconsiderate,
- incurious,
- indifferent,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- inexcitable,
- insouciant,
- involuntary,
- lackadaisical,
- laggard,
- lazy,
- listless,
- loath,
- lukewarm,
- mechanical,
- mindless,
- mutinous,
- negligent,
- neuter,
- neutral,
- nonchalant,
- oblivious,
- offhand,
- opposed,
- pococurante,
- recalcitrant,
- reckless,
- refractory,
- regardless,
- reluctant,
- removed,
- renitent,
- resistant,
- respectless,
- restive,
- routine,
- rushed,
- sketchy,
- slipshod,
- slovenly,
- slow,
- slow to,
- spotty,
- standard,
- stock,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- superficial,
- tactless,
- tepid,
- thoughtless,
- turned-off,
- unanxious,
- unaware,
- unconcerned,
- unconsenting,
- undiplomatic,
- undiscriminating,
- unenthusiastic,
- unheedful,
- unheeding,
- uninterested,
- uninvolved,
- unmindful,
- unprepared,
- unready,
- unsolicitous,
- untactful,
- unthinking,
- unwilling,
- unzealous,
- usual,
- wooden,
- zealless
- procrastination
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- the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time related words >
- Fabian policy,
- Micawberism,
- a wise passiveness,
- backwardness,
- contemplation,
- contemplative life,
- continuation,
- culpa,
- culpable negligence,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- dawdling,
- default,
- dereliction,
- dilatoriness,
- dillydallying,
- disregard,
- do-nothing policy,
- do-nothingism,
- do-nothingness,
- dormancy,
- extension,
- failure,
- hesitation,
- hold-off,
- idleness,
- immobility,
- inaction,
- inactivity,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- inattention,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- laches,
- lag,
- lagging,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- lapse,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- lengthening,
- lingering,
- loitering,
- lollygagging,
- looseness,
- meditation,
- mugwump,
- neglect,
- neglectfulness,
- negligence,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- neutralness,
- nonfeasance,
- noninterference,
- noninvolvement,
- nonparticipation,
- nonperformance,
- nonresistance,
- nonrestriction,
- nonviolence,
- nonviolent resistance,
- omission,
- overlooking,
- oversight,
- pacifism,
- paralysis,
- passive resistance,
- passive self-annihilation,
- passiveness,
- passivism,
- passivity,
- permissiveness,
- policy,
- poor stewardship,
- prolongation,
- protraction,
- quiescence,
- quietism,
- remissness,
- shilly-shallying,
- slackness,
- slight,
- slowness,
- stagnancy,
- stagnation,
- stall,
- standpattism,
- stasis,
- tarrying,
- temporization,
- unrigorousness,
- vegetation,
- vita contemplativa,
- waiting game,
- watching and waiting
- sustenance
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- the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; "they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing was their main sustainment" related words >
- TLC,
- aid,
- aliment,
- alimentation,
- alimony,
- backing,
- board,
- bread,
- bread and butter,
- care,
- carriage,
- carrying,
- cheer,
- chow,
- comestibles,
- continualness,
- continuance,
- continuation,
- continuity,
- creature comfort,
- cuisine,
- daily bread,
- eatables,
- eats,
- economic support,
- edibles,
- endowment,
- endurance,
- extension,
- fare,
- fast food,
- feast,
- food,
- food and drink,
- foodstuff,
- foodstuffs,
- groceries,
- grub,
- health food,
- ingesta,
- junk food,
- keep,
- kitchen stuff,
- lengthening,
- livelihood,
- living,
- maintenance,
- manna,
- meat,
- moral support,
- mothering,
- nosh,
- nourishment,
- nurture,
- nutriment,
- pabulum,
- pap,
- perpetuation,
- perseverance,
- persistence,
- price support,
- progress,
- progression,
- prolongation,
- protraction,
- provender,
- provision,
- provisions,
- psychological support,
- pursuance,
- rations,
- refection,
- refreshment,
- reliance,
- repetition,
- run,
- salt,
- scoff,
- security blanket,
- spread,
- staying power,
- straight course,
- subsidization,
- subsidy,
- subsistence,
- subvention,
- support,
- supportive relationship,
- supportive therapy,
- sustained action,
- sustaining,
- sustainment,
- sustentation,
- table,
- tender loving care,
- tucker,
- uninterrupted course,
- unremittingness,
- upholding,
- upkeep,
- viands,
- victuals,
- vittles,
- way
- ballooning
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- flying in a balloon related words >
- access,
- accession,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accruement,
- accumulation,
- addition,
- advance,
- aeronautics,
- aggrandizement,
- air service,
- airline,
- amplification,
- appreciation,
- ascent,
- astronautics,
- augmentation,
- aviation,
- bagging,
- baggy,
- bellying,
- billowing,
- billowy,
- blind flying,
- bloated,
- bloating,
- boom,
- boost,
- bosomy,
- broadening,
- buildup,
- bulbose,
- bulbous,
- bulging,
- bumped,
- bumpy,
- bunched,
- bunchy,
- cloud-seeding,
- commercial aviation,
- contact flying,
- crescendo,
- cruising,
- development,
- distended,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- edema,
- elevation,
- enlargement,
- expansion,
- extension,
- flight,
- flood,
- floppy,
- flying,
- gain,
- general aviation,
- gliding,
- greatening,
- growth,
- gush,
- hike,
- hillocky,
- hummocky,
- increase,
- increment,
- inflation,
- jump,
- leap,
- limp,
- loose,
- lop,
- lop-eared,
- loppy,
- mounting,
- moutonnee,
- multiplication,
- nodding,
- pilotage,
- pneumatic,
- potbellied,
- pouching,
- productiveness,
- proliferation,
- raise,
- rise,
- rounded,
- sagging,
- sagging in folds,
- saggy,
- sailing,
- sailplaning,
- snowballing,
- soaring,
- spread,
- surge,
- swag,
- swelling,
- tumescence,
- up,
- upping,
- upsurge,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- verrucated,
- verrucose,
- warty,
- waxing,
- widening,
- winging
- annexation
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- the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation; "the French annexation of Madagascar as a colony in 1896"; "a protectorate has frequently been a first step to annexation"
- incorporation by joining or uniting related words >
- abstraction,
- accession,
- accessory,
- accompaniment,
- addenda,
- addendum,
- additament,
- addition,
- additive,
- additory,
- additum,
- adhesive,
- adjunct,
- adjunction,
- adjuvant,
- affixation,
- agglutination,
- angary,
- annex,
- annexure,
- appanage,
- appendage,
- appendant,
- appropriation,
- appurtenance,
- appurtenant,
- attachment,
- augment,
- augmentation,
- binding,
- bond,
- boosting,
- clasping,
- coda,
- collectivization,
- commandeering,
- communalization,
- communization,
- complement,
- concomitant,
- confiscation,
- continuation,
- conversion,
- conveyance,
- corollary,
- distraint,
- distress,
- embezzlement,
- eminent domain,
- execution,
- expropriation,
- extension,
- extrapolation,
- fastener,
- fastening,
- filching,
- fixture,
- fraud,
- garnishment,
- girding,
- graft,
- hooking,
- impoundment,
- impressment,
- increase,
- increment,
- joining,
- junction,
- juxtaposition,
- knot,
- lashing,
- levy,
- liberation,
- lifting,
- ligation,
- nationalization,
- offshoot,
- pendant,
- pilferage,
- pilfering,
- pinching,
- poaching,
- prefixation,
- reinforcement,
- right of angary,
- scrounging,
- sequestration,
- shoplifting,
- side effect,
- side issue,
- snatching,
- sneak thievery,
- snitching,
- socialization,
- splice,
- stealage,
- stealing,
- sticking,
- suffixation,
- superaddition,
- superfetation,
- superjunction,
- superposition,
- supplement,
- supplementation,
- swindle,
- swiping,
- tailpiece,
- theft,
- thievery,
- thieving,
- tieing,
- undergirding,
- uniting,
- zipping
- Jonathan Oldbuck,
- Miniver Cheevy,
- Pre-Raphaelite,
- academic,
- antiquarian,
- antiquary,
- antique collector,
- antique dealer,
- antique-car collector,
- archaeologist,
- archaist,
- arid,
- barren,
- blah,
- blank,
- bloodless,
- bookish,
- bore,
- broken-record,
- bromidic,
- buttonholer,
- characterless,
- classicist,
- cold,
- colorless,
- crashing bore,
- dead,
- devoted to studies,
- diligent,
- dismal,
- donnish,
- drag,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- drip,
- dry,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- everlasting,
- fade,
- flat,
- flat tire,
- frightful bore,
- harping,
- headache,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- hollow,
- humdrum,
- inane,
- inexcitable,
- insipid,
- invariable,
- jejune,
- jog-trot,
- laudator temporis acti,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- long-winded,
- low-spirited,
- mandarin,
- medievalist,
- monotonous,
- nuisance,
- owlish,
- pale,
- pallid,
- pedantic,
- pedestrian,
- pest,
- pill,
- plodding,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- professorial,
- prolix,
- proser,
- rabbinic,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- singsong,
- slow,
- solemn,
- spiritless,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- studious,
- stuffy,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- treadmill,
- twaddler,
- uneventful,
- uninteresting,
- unlively,
- unvarying,
- vapid,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- wet blanket,
- wooden
- overtone
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- a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
- (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality; "overtones of despair" related words >
- AF,
- affective meaning,
- air,
- allegory,
- allusion,
- arcane meaning,
- assumption,
- atmosphere,
- audio frequency,
- aura,
- bearing,
- climate,
- coloration,
- coloring,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- denotation,
- drift,
- effect,
- essence,
- extension,
- feel,
- feeling,
- flageolet tone,
- force,
- frequency,
- fundamental,
- fundamental tone,
- gist,
- grammatical meaning,
- harmonic,
- harmonic tone,
- hint,
- idea,
- impact,
- implication,
- implied meaning,
- import,
- indication,
- inference,
- innuendo,
- insinuation,
- intension,
- intimation,
- intonation,
- ironic suggestion,
- lexical meaning,
- literal meaning,
- meaning,
- metaphorical sense,
- milieu,
- monotone,
- monotony,
- note,
- nuance,
- occult meaning,
- partial,
- partial tone,
- pertinence,
- pitch,
- pith,
- point,
- practical consequence,
- presumption,
- presupposition,
- purport,
- quality,
- range of meaning,
- real meaning,
- reference,
- referent,
- relation,
- relevance,
- scope,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- sense,
- significance,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- span of meaning,
- spirit,
- structural meaning,
- subsense,
- subsidiary sense,
- substance,
- suggestion,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- supposition,
- symbolic meaning,
- symbolism,
- tenor,
- tinge,
- tone,
- tonelessness,
- totality of associations,
- touch,
- transferred meaning,
- unadorned meaning,
- undercurrent,
- undermeaning,
- undertone,
- value
- accumulation
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- the act of accumulating
- (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation related words >
- abundance,
- access,
- accession,
- accretion,
- accrual,
- accruement,
- acervation,
- addition,
- advance,
- agglomerate,
- agglomeration,
- aggrandizement,
- aggregate,
- aggregation,
- amassing,
- amassment,
- amplification,
- appreciation,
- ascent,
- assemblage,
- assembling,
- augmentation,
- backlog,
- ballooning,
- bank,
- bloating,
- boom,
- boost,
- bringing together,
- broadening,
- budget,
- buildup,
- chunk,
- collecting,
- collection,
- colluvies,
- commissariat,
- commissary,
- congeries,
- conglobation,
- conglomerate,
- conglomeration,
- cornucopia,
- crescendo,
- cumulation,
- cumulus,
- development,
- dump,
- edema,
- elevation,
- enlargement,
- expansion,
- extension,
- flood,
- gain,
- gathering,
- gleaning,
- glomeration,
- gob,
- greatening,
- growth,
- gush,
- heap,
- hike,
- hoard,
- hunk,
- increase,
- increment,
- inflation,
- inventory,
- jump,
- larder,
- leap,
- lump,
- mass,
- material,
- materials,
- materiel,
- mounting,
- multiplication,
- munitions,
- pile,
- piling,
- plenitude,
- plenty,
- productiveness,
- proliferation,
- provisionment,
- provisions,
- raise,
- rations,
- repertoire,
- repertory,
- reserve,
- rick,
- rise,
- snowball,
- snowballing,
- spread,
- stack,
- stock,
- stock-in-trade,
- stockpile,
- store,
- stores,
- supplies,
- supply on hand,
- surge,
- swelling,
- treasure,
- treasury,
- trove,
- tumescence,
- up,
- upping,
- upsurge,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upturn,
- wad,
- waxing,
- widening
- perseverance
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- the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior; "his perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate" related words >
- acceptance,
- assiduity,
- balkiness,
- bigotry,
- bullheadedness,
- commitment,
- continualness,
- continuance,
- continuation,
- continuity,
- decidedness,
- decision,
- decisiveness,
- dedication,
- definiteness,
- determinateness,
- determination,
- determinedness,
- devotion,
- diligence,
- doggedness,
- dogmatism,
- earnestness,
- endurance,
- extension,
- fanaticism,
- firmness,
- fixed mind,
- forbearance,
- forbearing,
- forbearingness,
- fortitude,
- grit,
- guts,
- hardheadedness,
- headstrongness,
- indefatigability,
- indulgence,
- inflexibility,
- inflexible will,
- intolerance,
- lengthening,
- lenience,
- leniency,
- long-sufferance,
- long-suffering,
- longanimity,
- maintenance,
- mulishness,
- obduracy,
- obdurateness,
- obstinacy,
- obstinateness,
- opinionatedness,
- overzealousness,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- patientness,
- perpetuation,
- persistence,
- pertinacity,
- pigheadedness,
- pluck,
- progress,
- progression,
- prolongation,
- protraction,
- purpose,
- purposefulness,
- pursuance,
- relentlessness,
- repetition,
- resoluteness,
- resolution,
- resolve,
- resolvedness,
- restiveness,
- run,
- sedulousness,
- self-control,
- self-will,
- seriousness,
- sincerity,
- single-mindedness,
- stamina,
- staying power,
- steadfastness,
- stiff neck,
- stiff-neckedness,
- stoicism,
- straight course,
- strongheadness,
- stubbornness,
- sufferance,
- sulkiness,
- sullenness,
- sustained action,
- sustenance,
- sweet reasonableness,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- tirelessness,
- tolerance,
- toleration,
- total commitment,
- uncooperativeness,
- uninterrupted course,
- unregenerateness,
- unremittingness,
- waiting game,
- waiting it out,
- way,
- will,
- willfulness
- asinine
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- devoid of intelligence related words >
- Boeotian,
- absurd,
- airy,
- apish,
- batty,
- beef-brained,
- beef-witted,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- besotted,
- blockish,
- bovid,
- bovine,
- brainless,
- buffoonish,
- caprid,
- caprine,
- catchpenny,
- chumpish,
- cloddish,
- cockeyed,
- cowish,
- cowlike,
- crass,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dazed,
- deerlike,
- dense,
- dizzy,
- doltish,
- doting,
- dullard,
- dumb,
- duncical,
- duncish,
- empty,
- equestrian,
- equine,
- fat,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- flaky,
- flimsy,
- fond,
- fool,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fuddled,
- futile,
- gaga,
- goatish,
- goatlike,
- goofy,
- gross,
- gulled,
- hircine,
- hoggish,
- hoofed,
- horsy,
- idiotic,
- idle,
- imbecile,
- inane,
- ineducable,
- inept,
- infatuated,
- insane,
- irrational,
- klutzy,
- kooky,
- light,
- loony,
- lumpish,
- mad,
- maudlin,
- mindless,
- moronic,
- mulish,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- nutty,
- oafish,
- opaque,
- otiose,
- ovine,
- piggish,
- puerile,
- ruminant,
- sappy,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- shallow,
- sheepish,
- sheeplike,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- sottish,
- stupid,
- superficial,
- swinish,
- thick,
- thoughtless,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- ungulate,
- unreasonable,
- unteachable,
- unwitty,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- vapid,
- wacky,
- weak-minded,
- wet,
- windy,
- witless,
- wrongheaded
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