Related Words:
- utility
collapse - the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility; "the cost of utilities never decreases"; "all the utilities were lost after the hurricane"
- a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal; "the price of the house included all utilities"
- the quality of being of practical use
- a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice related words >
- Aktiengesellschaft,
- account,
- advantage,
- advantageousness,
- aktiebolag,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- appliance,
- applicability,
- appropriateness,
- availability,
- backup,
- beneficialness,
- body corporate,
- business,
- business establishment,
- cartel,
- chamber of commerce,
- combine,
- commercial enterprise,
- compagnie,
- company,
- concern,
- conglomerate,
- conglomerate corporation,
- consolidating company,
- consortium,
- convenience,
- copartnership,
- corporate body,
- corporation,
- counterfeit,
- diversified corporation,
- drive,
- dummy,
- effectiveness,
- efficacy,
- efficiency,
- engine,
- enginery,
- enterprise,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- facility,
- fake,
- favorableness,
- firm,
- fitness,
- fixture,
- functionality,
- helpfulness,
- holding company,
- house,
- imitation,
- industry,
- joint-stock association,
- joint-stock company,
- machine,
- machinery,
- makeshift,
- mechanical aid,
- mechanical device,
- mechanism,
- mock,
- motive power,
- motor,
- operability,
- operating company,
- partnership,
- phony,
- pinch,
- plunderbund,
- pool,
- power plant,
- power source,
- practicability,
- practical utility,
- practicality,
- profitability,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- public utility,
- relevance,
- reserve,
- secondary,
- service,
- serviceability,
- spare,
- stock company,
- stopgap,
- substitute,
- syndicate,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- token,
- trade association,
- trust,
- usability,
- use,
- usefulness,
- utilizability,
- vicarious
- gambit
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- a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position
- an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker related words >
- alpha,
- approach,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- assay,
- attempt,
- bag of tricks,
- bid,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- breaking-in,
- catch,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- crack,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dodge,
- effort,
- endeavor,
- essay,
- expedient,
- experiment,
- fakement,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- first,
- first blush,
- first glance,
- first impression,
- first inning,
- first lap,
- first move,
- first round,
- first sight,
- first stage,
- first step,
- fling,
- game,
- gimmick,
- go,
- googly,
- grift,
- hocus-pocus,
- initial,
- initiative,
- intrigue,
- jig,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- le premier pas,
- lick,
- little game,
- maneuver,
- move,
- offer,
- opening move,
- pass,
- plan,
- play,
- plot,
- ploy,
- prime,
- primitiveness,
- primitivity,
- racket,
- red herring,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- shift,
- shot,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- stab,
- step,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- stroke,
- strong bid,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- tentative,
- trial,
- trial and error,
- trick,
- trickery,
- try,
- undertaking,
- warming-up,
- whack,
- whizzer,
- wile,
- wily device
- cogent
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- powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument" related words >
- acute,
- admissible,
- advantageous,
- apperceptive,
- appercipient,
- argute,
- armipotent,
- astute,
- auspicious,
- authoritative,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- binding,
- bon,
- bonny,
- braw,
- bueno,
- capital,
- commendable,
- compelling,
- consequential,
- consistent,
- constraining,
- convincing,
- credible,
- discerning,
- dynamic,
- effective,
- elegant,
- energetic,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- expedient,
- fair,
- famous,
- farseeing,
- farsighted,
- favorable,
- fine,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- foreseeing,
- foresighted,
- forethoughted,
- forethoughtful,
- good,
- goodly,
- grand,
- healthy,
- helpful,
- high-potency,
- high-powered,
- high-pressure,
- high-tension,
- in force,
- in power,
- incisive,
- inducing,
- influential,
- irresistible,
- just,
- justifiable,
- justified,
- kind,
- laudable,
- lawful,
- legal,
- legitimate,
- logical,
- longheaded,
- longsighted,
- meaningful,
- mighty,
- mighty in battle,
- momentous,
- nice,
- noble,
- operative,
- penetrating,
- perceptive,
- percipient,
- perspicacious,
- perspicuous,
- persuasive,
- piercing,
- plausible,
- pleasant,
- potent,
- powerful,
- prepotent,
- profitable,
- provident,
- puissant,
- rational,
- reasonable,
- regal,
- royal,
- ruling,
- sagacious,
- sane,
- satisfactory,
- satisfying,
- self-consistent,
- sensible,
- significant,
- skillful,
- solid,
- sound,
- splendid,
- striking,
- strong,
- substantial,
- sufficient,
- telling,
- trenchant,
- understanding,
- useful,
- valid,
- very good,
- vigorous,
- virtuous,
- vital,
- weighty,
- well-argued,
- well-founded,
- well-grounded,
- wholesome
- felicitous
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- exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style; "a felicitous speaker"
- marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome" related words >
- Ciceronian,
- Demosthenian,
- Demosthenic,
- Tullian,
- a propos,
- ad rem,
- adapted,
- advantageous,
- advisable,
- affable,
- agreeable,
- amiable,
- amicable,
- applicable,
- apposite,
- appropriate,
- apropos,
- apt,
- articulate,
- auspicious,
- becoming,
- befitting,
- blissful,
- cheerful,
- civil,
- comely,
- compatible,
- complaisant,
- congenial,
- congruous,
- convenient,
- convincing,
- cordial,
- correct,
- decent,
- decorous,
- desirable,
- dovetailing,
- dulcet,
- eloquent,
- en rapport,
- enjoyable,
- expedient,
- facund,
- fair,
- fair and pleasant,
- favorable,
- feasible,
- felicific,
- fine,
- fit,
- fitted,
- fitten,
- fitting,
- fortunate,
- fructuous,
- geared,
- genial,
- genteel,
- germane,
- glib,
- good,
- goodly,
- gracious,
- grateful,
- gratifying,
- happy,
- harmonious,
- heart-warming,
- honeyed,
- inspired,
- just,
- just right,
- likable,
- likely,
- lucky,
- meet,
- mellifluous,
- mellow,
- meshing,
- nice,
- on the button,
- opportune,
- pat,
- pertinent,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pleasurable,
- pleasure-giving,
- pleasureful,
- politic,
- profitable,
- proper,
- propitious,
- providential,
- qualified,
- recommendable,
- relevant,
- rewarding,
- right,
- ripe,
- satisfying,
- seasonable,
- seemly,
- silver,
- silver-tongued,
- slick,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sortable,
- spellbinding,
- suitable,
- suited,
- suiting,
- sweet,
- tailored,
- telling,
- timely,
- to be desired,
- to the point,
- to the purpose,
- urbane,
- useful,
- welcome,
- well-chosen,
- well-expressed,
- well-put,
- well-spoken,
- well-timed,
- wise,
- worthwhile
- Junoesque,
- advantageous,
- agreeable,
- amply endowed,
- auspicious,
- becoming,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- bon,
- bonny,
- brave,
- bravura,
- bueno,
- built,
- built for comfort,
- buxom,
- callipygian,
- callipygous,
- capital,
- chic,
- chichi,
- classy,
- clothes-conscious,
- cogent,
- comely,
- commendable,
- cosmopolitan,
- curvaceous,
- curvy,
- dapper,
- daring,
- dashing,
- dressed to advantage,
- dressed to kill,
- dressy,
- elegant,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- exhibitionistic,
- expedient,
- exquisite,
- fair,
- famous,
- favorable,
- fine,
- flashing,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- frilly,
- frothy,
- gallant,
- gay,
- genteel,
- glittering,
- goddess-like,
- good,
- good-looking,
- goodly,
- grand,
- healthy,
- helpful,
- jaunty,
- jazzy,
- kind,
- laudable,
- likely,
- lovely to behold,
- natty,
- neat,
- nice,
- nifty,
- nobby,
- noble,
- personable,
- pleasant,
- pleasing,
- pneumatic,
- posh,
- presentable,
- profitable,
- rakish,
- recherche,
- regal,
- ritzy,
- royal,
- shapely,
- sharp,
- showy,
- sightly,
- skillful,
- sleek,
- slender,
- smart,
- smug,
- snazzy,
- soigne,
- soignee,
- sophisticated,
- sound,
- spiffy,
- splashy,
- splendid,
- splurgy,
- sporty,
- spruce,
- stacked,
- statuesque,
- style-conscious,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- tricksy,
- trig,
- trim,
- useful,
- valid,
- very good,
- virtuous,
- well-built,
- well-dressed,
- well-favored,
- well-formed,
- well-groomed,
- well-made,
- well-proportioned,
- well-shaped,
- well-stacked
- strategy
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- the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war related words >
- aerial tactics,
- airborne tactics,
- applied tactics,
- approach,
- armored tactics,
- arrangement,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- attack,
- barrier tactics,
- blind,
- blueprint,
- blueprinting,
- calculation,
- cavalry tactics,
- charting,
- chicanery,
- conception,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- defensive strategy,
- design,
- device,
- disposition,
- diversion,
- dodge,
- encirclement,
- enterprise,
- envisagement,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- feint,
- fetch,
- figuring,
- fire tactics,
- foresight,
- forethought,
- gambit,
- game,
- game plan,
- gimmick,
- graphing,
- grift,
- ground plan,
- guidelines,
- idea,
- infantry tactics,
- infiltration,
- intention,
- intrigue,
- investment,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- layout,
- lineup,
- little game,
- long-range plan,
- maneuver,
- mapping,
- master plan,
- method,
- methodology,
- mob tactics,
- mobile tactics,
- move,
- operations research,
- organization,
- pincers movement,
- plan,
- planning,
- planning function,
- plot,
- ploy,
- policy,
- prearrangement,
- procedure,
- program,
- program of action,
- project,
- racket,
- rationalization,
- red herring,
- ruse,
- scenario,
- schedule,
- schema,
- schematism,
- schematization,
- scheme,
- scheme of arrangement,
- setup,
- shift,
- shock tactics,
- sleight,
- stratagem,
- strategic plan,
- subterfuge,
- system,
- systematization,
- tactic,
- tactical plan,
- tactics,
- the big picture,
- the picture,
- trick,
- trickery,
- way,
- wile,
- wily device,
- working plan
- unreliable
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- not worthy of reliance or trust; "in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable"; "an undependable assistant"
- lacking a sense of responsibility related words >
- adrift,
- afloat,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- coquettish,
- dangerous,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- disreputable,
- dizzy,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- eccentric,
- erratic,
- faddish,
- faithless,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- fast and loose,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flimsy,
- flirtatious,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- fly-by-night,
- freakish,
- garbled,
- giddy,
- hazardous,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inaccurate,
- inauthentic,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- inexact,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- light,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- miscited,
- misquoted,
- misreported,
- misstated,
- moody,
- perfidious,
- perilous,
- precarious,
- provisional,
- questionable,
- quicksilver,
- rambling,
- restless,
- risky,
- rocky,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- shaky,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- skittish,
- slick,
- slippery,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- spurious,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- tottery,
- toying,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- trustless,
- unaccountable,
- unassured,
- unauthentic,
- unauthoritative,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- unfaithful,
- unfaithworthy,
- unfixed,
- unfounded,
- unhealthy,
- unpredictable,
- unrestrained,
- unsafe,
- unsettled,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrue,
- untrustworthy,
- untrusty,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- versatile,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- weak,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy,
- workaday
- mutable
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- capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature; "a mutable substance"; "the mutable ways of fortune"; "mutable weather patterns"; "a mutable foreign policy" related words >
- able to adapt,
- adaptable,
- adjustable,
- alterable,
- alterative,
- ambitendent,
- ambivalent,
- at loose ends,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- changing,
- checkered,
- choppy,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- different,
- disorderly,
- divaricate,
- divergent,
- diversified,
- diversiform,
- double-minded,
- dubious,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- erose,
- erratic,
- evanescent,
- ever-changing,
- fading,
- fence-sitting,
- fence-straddling,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flexible,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- fluid,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- infirm of purpose,
- insubstantial,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresolved,
- jagged,
- jerky,
- kaleidoscopic,
- lubricious,
- malleable,
- many-sided,
- mercurial,
- metamorphic,
- mobile,
- modifiable,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- motley,
- movable,
- mugwumpian,
- mugwumpish,
- nonconformist,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- nonstandard,
- nonuniform,
- of two minds,
- passing,
- perishable,
- permutable,
- plastic,
- pluralistic,
- protean,
- proteiform,
- ragged,
- resilient,
- rough,
- rubbery,
- shifty,
- shilly-shally,
- short-lived,
- slippery,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- subject to death,
- supple,
- swaying,
- swinging,
- temperamental,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- ticklish,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- uncertain,
- undecided,
- undetermined,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unequable,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unorthodox,
- unresolved,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- vacillating,
- variable,
- variegated,
- variform,
- various,
- varying,
- volatile,
- wavering
- virtuous
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- morally excellent related words >
- Christian,
- advantageous,
- angelic,
- auspicious,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- blameless,
- blotless,
- bon,
- bonny,
- braw,
- bueno,
- capital,
- chaste,
- clean,
- cleanly,
- cogent,
- commendable,
- creditable,
- decent,
- effectual,
- efficacious,
- efficient,
- elegant,
- erect,
- estimable,
- ethical,
- excellent,
- exemplary,
- expedient,
- fair,
- fair-minded,
- faithful,
- famous,
- faultless,
- favorable,
- fine,
- full of integrity,
- godly,
- good,
- goodly,
- grand,
- guiltless,
- healthy,
- helpful,
- high-minded,
- high-principled,
- highly respectable,
- honest,
- honorable,
- immaculate,
- in the clear,
- incorruptible,
- inculpable,
- innocent,
- inviolate,
- irreproachable,
- just,
- kind,
- laudable,
- law-abiding,
- law-loving,
- law-revering,
- manly,
- moral,
- moralistic,
- nice,
- noble,
- pleasant,
- principled,
- profitable,
- proper,
- pure,
- pure in heart,
- purehearted,
- regal,
- reputable,
- respectable,
- right,
- right-minded,
- righteous,
- royal,
- saintlike,
- saintly,
- scrupulous,
- seraphic,
- sexually innocent,
- sinless,
- skillful,
- snowy,
- sound,
- splendid,
- spotless,
- stainless,
- sterling,
- straight,
- taintless,
- true,
- true-dealing,
- true-devoted,
- true-disposing,
- true-souled,
- true-spirited,
- truehearted,
- trustworthy,
- unblamable,
- unblemished,
- unblotted,
- uncorrupt,
- uncorrupted,
- undefiled,
- unimpeachable,
- unsoiled,
- unspotted,
- unstained,
- unsullied,
- untainted,
- untarnished,
- upright,
- uprighteous,
- upstanding,
- useful,
- valid,
- very good,
- virgin,
- virginal,
- white,
- without reproach,
- worthy,
- yeomanly
- trickery
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- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way related words >
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- blind,
- bravery,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chiffon,
- clinquant,
- collusion,
- conjuration,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- covin,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deception,
- design,
- device,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- double-cross,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- escamotage,
- evasiveness,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- feint,
- festoons,
- fetch,
- finery,
- flippancy,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- foul play,
- fraud,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- frivolity,
- froufrou,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- gambit,
- game,
- gaudery,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gimmick,
- gingerbread,
- grift,
- guile,
- hanky-panky,
- hocus-pocus,
- hokey-pokey,
- imposture,
- intrigue,
- jiggery-pokery,
- jugglery,
- juggling,
- knavery,
- legerdemain,
- levity,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuver,
- merriment,
- monkey business,
- move,
- mumbo jumbo,
- paste,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- pinchbeck,
- playfulness,
- plot,
- ploy,
- prankishness,
- pranksomeness,
- prestidigitation,
- racket,
- red herring,
- roguishness,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- sharp practice,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- slyness,
- sportiveness,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- supercherie,
- superfluity,
- swindling,
- tactic,
- tinsel,
- trappings,
- trick,
- trickiness,
- trumpery,
- underhand dealing,
- underhandedness,
- waggery,
- waggishness,
- wile,
- wily device
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