Related Words:
- able to adapt,
- adaptable,
- adjustable,
- alterable,
- alterative,
- brief,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- checkered,
- circumforaneous,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- discursive,
- divagatory,
- drifting,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- errant,
- evanescent,
- ever-changing,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flexible,
- flitting,
- floating,
- fluid,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- gadding,
- gypsy-like,
- gypsyish,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- kaleidoscopic,
- landloping,
- malleable,
- many-sided,
- meandering,
- metamorphic,
- migrational,
- migratory,
- mobile,
- modifiable,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- movable,
- mutable,
- nomad,
- nomadic,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- nonuniform,
- passing,
- perishable,
- permutable,
- plastic,
- protean,
- proteiform,
- rambling,
- ranging,
- resilient,
- roaming,
- roving,
- rubbery,
- shifting,
- short-lived,
- short-term,
- straggling,
- straying,
- strolling,
- supple,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- traipsing,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transmigratory,
- transubstantiate,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- volatile,
- wandering
- brittle
collapse - caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
- having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"
- (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured
- lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and calculating woman" related words >
- atrophied,
- breakable,
- brittle as glass,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- corruptible,
- crackable,
- crisp,
- crispy,
- crumbly,
- crump,
- crushable,
- dainty,
- deciduous,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- desiccated,
- dried-up,
- dying,
- effeminate,
- emaciated,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fissile,
- fleeting,
- flimsy,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fracturable,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- friable,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lacerable,
- light,
- lightweight,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- namby-pamby,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- papery,
- parchmenty,
- passing,
- pasteboardy,
- perishable,
- puny,
- scissile,
- sensitive,
- sere,
- shatterable,
- shattery,
- shivery,
- short-lived,
- shriveled,
- shrunken,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- splintery,
- tacky,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- unsubstantial,
- volatile,
- vulnerable,
- wasted,
- weak,
- wilted,
- wispy,
- withered,
- wizened,
- womanish,
- wrinkled
- Pax Dei,
- Pax Romana,
- Peace of God,
- abandon,
- abdicate,
- abeyance,
- armistice,
- back out,
- be pensioned,
- be superannuated,
- beg off,
- break,
- breathing spell,
- buffer zone,
- caesura,
- cease-fire,
- cooling-off period,
- cry off,
- day off,
- demilitarized zone,
- demit,
- depart from,
- discard,
- drop,
- drop out,
- evacuate,
- forsake,
- give up,
- go back on,
- hesitation,
- holiday,
- hollow truce,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interval,
- jettison,
- jilt,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leave,
- leave behind,
- leave flat,
- letup,
- lull,
- maroon,
- modus vivendi,
- neutral territory,
- pacification,
- pause,
- pax in bello,
- peace,
- pension off,
- pull out,
- quit,
- quit cold,
- recess,
- relinquish,
- remission,
- renege,
- renounce the throne,
- resign,
- respite,
- rest,
- retire,
- retire from office,
- say goodbye to,
- stand aside,
- stay,
- step aside,
- superannuate,
- suspension,
- suspension of hostilities,
- take leave of,
- temporary arrangement,
- throw over,
- treaty of peace,
- truce,
- vacate,
- vacation,
- withdraw,
- withdraw from
- adrift,
- afloat,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- dangerous,
- derelict,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- disaffected,
- disloyal,
- dizzy,
- eccentric,
- erratic,
- faithless,
- false,
- fast and loose,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- freakish,
- giddy,
- hazardous,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- mobile,
- moody,
- moving,
- not true to,
- of bad faith,
- perilous,
- precarious,
- provisional,
- rambling,
- recreant,
- restless,
- risky,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- shaky,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- slippery,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- treacherous,
- trothless,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- unfaithful,
- unfaithworthy,
- unfixed,
- unloyal,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrue,
- untrustworthy,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy
- temporal
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- of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence"
- not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt
- concerned with secular rather than sacred matters; "lords temporal and spiritual"
- of the material world; "temporal possessions of the church"
- of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit); "temporal bone"
- of or relating to or limited by time; "temporal processing"; "temporal dimensions"; "temporal and spacial boundaries"; "music is a temporal art" related words >
- Philistine,
- annalistic,
- banausic,
- bodily,
- brittle,
- calendarial,
- calendric,
- capricious,
- carnal,
- carnal-minded,
- changeable,
- chronogrammatic,
- chronographic,
- chronologic,
- chronological,
- chronoscopic,
- civil,
- congregational,
- continuous,
- corporal,
- corporeal,
- corruptible,
- dated,
- deciduous,
- diaristic,
- durational,
- durative,
- dying,
- earthly,
- earthy,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- fleshly,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- horologic,
- hylic,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- intercalary,
- intercalated,
- laic,
- laical,
- lasting,
- lay,
- material,
- materialistic,
- materiate,
- metronomic,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mundane,
- mutable,
- nonclerical,
- nondurable,
- nonecclesiastical,
- nonministerial,
- nonordained,
- nonpastoral,
- nonpermanent,
- nonreligious,
- nonsacred,
- nonspiritual,
- passing,
- perishable,
- physical,
- popular,
- profane,
- reprobate,
- secular,
- secularist,
- secularistic,
- sensual,
- short-lived,
- somatic,
- substantial,
- temporary,
- terrene,
- terrestrial,
- timekeeping,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- unblessed,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unhallowed,
- unholy,
- unregenerate,
- unsacred,
- unsanctified,
- unspiritual,
- unstable,
- volatile,
- worldly
- alternative
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- necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "`either' and `or' in `either this or that'"
- pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style" related words >
- additional,
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternate choice,
- analogy,
- another,
- attainable,
- backup,
- change,
- changeling,
- choice,
- comparison,
- contingency,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- different,
- discretion,
- discretional,
- disjunctive,
- double,
- druthers,
- dummy,
- election,
- elective,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- exchange,
- exchangeable,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- imitation,
- interchangeable,
- locum tenens,
- loophole,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mock,
- next best thing,
- option,
- optional,
- optionality,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch,
- pinch hitter,
- pleasure,
- possibility,
- possible choice,
- preference,
- pretext,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- replacing,
- representative,
- reserve,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- saving clause,
- second string,
- secondary,
- selection,
- sign,
- spare,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- stopgap,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- third string,
- token,
- understudy,
- utility,
- utility player,
- variant,
- vicar,
- vicarious,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- volitional,
- voluntary,
- way of escape,
- way out,
- will and pleasure
- interim
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- the time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"
- serving during an intermediate interval of time; "an interim agreement" related words >
- abeyance,
- acting,
- ad interim,
- afterthought,
- bind,
- block,
- blockage,
- breach,
- break,
- bureaucratic delay,
- caesura,
- cease-fire,
- cessation,
- clearance,
- day off,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- detention,
- discontinuity,
- distance between,
- double space,
- double take,
- dragging,
- drop,
- em space,
- en space,
- fissure,
- freeboard,
- gap,
- hair space,
- half space,
- halt,
- hang-up,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- hindrance,
- holdup,
- holiday,
- interlude,
- intermediate space,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interspace,
- interstice,
- interval,
- jam,
- jump,
- lacuna,
- lag,
- lagging,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leap,
- leeway,
- letup,
- logjam,
- lull,
- margin,
- moratorium,
- obstruction,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- pro,
- provisional,
- provisory,
- recess,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- remission,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- rest,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- room,
- single space,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- space,
- space between,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- supply,
- suspension,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- tie-up,
- time interval,
- time lag,
- truce,
- vacation,
- wait
- undependable
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- liable to be erroneous or misleading; "an undependable generalization" related words >
- adrift,
- afloat,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- coquettish,
- dangerous,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dizzy,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- eccentric,
- erratic,
- faddish,
- fast and loose,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flirtatious,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- fly-by-night,
- freakish,
- giddy,
- hazardous,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- light,
- mazy,
- mercurial,
- moody,
- perilous,
- precarious,
- provisional,
- quicksilver,
- rambling,
- restless,
- risky,
- rocky,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- shaky,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- skittish,
- slippery,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- tottery,
- toying,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- trustless,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undisciplined,
- unfaithworthy,
- unfixed,
- unhealthy,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsafe,
- unsettled,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- untrusty,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- versatile,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy
- accidental,
- ad hoc,
- adventitious,
- aleatory,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- backup,
- band-aid,
- casual,
- circumstantial,
- conditional,
- contingent,
- counterfeit,
- cut-and-try,
- dangerous,
- dependent,
- desultory,
- dummy,
- empirical,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- experimental,
- fake,
- fixed,
- forehanded,
- foreseeing,
- foresighted,
- forethoughted,
- forethoughtful,
- given,
- hazardous,
- heuristic,
- hit-or-miss,
- imitation,
- improvisational,
- improvised,
- incidental,
- inessential,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- interim,
- jury-rigged,
- makeshift,
- makeshifty,
- mock,
- nonessential,
- occasional,
- perilous,
- phony,
- pilot,
- pinch,
- precarious,
- precautional,
- precautionary,
- precautious,
- preparative,
- preparatory,
- prerequisite,
- pro tem,
- probationary,
- probative,
- probatory,
- propaedeutic,
- provident,
- proving,
- provisory,
- proxy,
- qualified,
- reserve,
- risky,
- rough-and-ready,
- rough-and-tumble,
- secondary,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- spare,
- specificative,
- specified,
- stated,
- stipulated,
- stipulatory,
- stopgap,
- substitute,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- test,
- testing,
- ticklish,
- token,
- transitional,
- treacherous,
- trial,
- trial-and-error,
- trying,
- undependable,
- unessential,
- unfaithworthy,
- unreliable,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- utility,
- verificatory,
- vicarious
- backup
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- (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device; "he made a backup in case the original was accidentally damaged or erased"
- an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage; "a traffic backup on the main street"; "he discovered a backup in the toilet" related words >
- about-face,
- about-turn,
- advocate,
- agent,
- alter ego,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- amicus curiae,
- analogy,
- attorney,
- back track,
- back trail,
- backing,
- backing off,
- backing out,
- backing up,
- backup man,
- champion,
- change,
- changeling,
- comparison,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- double,
- dummy,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- executive officer,
- exponent,
- fake,
- figurehead,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- imitation,
- lieutenant,
- locum,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mock,
- next best thing,
- paranymph,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch,
- pinch hitter,
- pleader,
- procurator,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserve,
- reserves,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reversing,
- reversion,
- right-about,
- right-about-face,
- ringer,
- second in command,
- second string,
- secondary,
- sign,
- spare,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- stopgap,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- swingaround,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- third string,
- token,
- turnabout,
- turnaround,
- understudy,
- utility,
- utility man,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vicar general,
- vicarious,
- vice,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- vicegerent,
- volte-face
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- arduous,
- awkward,
- brutal,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- complex,
- critical,
- dangerous,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- desultory,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- exacting,
- fickle,
- formidable,
- fragile,
- goosy,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- hazardous,
- high-strung,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- intricate,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- jawbreaking,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- laborious,
- mean,
- mercurial,
- miffy,
- nervous,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- on slippery ground,
- on thin ice,
- operose,
- overrefined,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- overtender,
- passible,
- perilous,
- precarious,
- prickly,
- provisional,
- refined,
- responsive,
- rigorous,
- risky,
- rocky,
- rough,
- rugged,
- sensitive,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- skittish,
- slippery,
- slippy,
- spiny,
- steep,
- strenuous,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- temperamental,
- temporary,
- tender,
- tentative,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- thorny,
- tickling,
- tickly,
- titillative,
- toilsome,
- touch-and-go,
- touchy,
- tough,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- uncertain,
- undependable,
- unfaithworthy,
- unreliable,
- unsettled,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- uphill,
- variable,
- volatile,
- wicked
- agnostic,
- ambiguous,
- awkward,
- blankminded,
- borderline,
- callow,
- capricious,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- dangerous,
- desultory,
- dicey,
- dickey,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- dumb,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- equivocal,
- erratic,
- fickle,
- fluctuant,
- fly-by-night,
- gauche,
- green,
- groping,
- hazardous,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- ignorant,
- inane,
- incalculable,
- indecisive,
- indemonstrable,
- inexperienced,
- infirm,
- innocent,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- know-nothing,
- naive,
- nescient,
- open,
- perilous,
- polysemous,
- precarious,
- problematic,
- provisional,
- questionable,
- raw,
- risky,
- rocky,
- rootless,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- simple,
- skeptical,
- slippery,
- strange to,
- suspicious,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- tottery,
- touch-and-go,
- treacherous,
- trustless,
- unaccountable,
- unacquainted,
- unapprized,
- unassured,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- uncomprehending,
- unconfident,
- unconfirmable,
- unconversant,
- unconvinced,
- undecided,
- undependable,
- undivinable,
- unenlightened,
- unfaithworthy,
- unfamiliar,
- unforeseeable,
- unhealthy,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- unintelligent,
- unknowing,
- unpersuaded,
- unposted,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unreliable,
- unripe,
- unsafe,
- unselfassured,
- unselfconfident,
- unselfreliant,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- untrustworthy,
- untrusty,
- unverifiable,
- unversed,
- vacillating,
- vacuous,
- variable,
- wavering,
- weak,
- whimsical,
- wobbly
- utility
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- 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
- trump
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- (bridge or whist) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand; "clubs were declared trumps"; "a trump can take a trick even when a card of a different suit is led"
- a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps; "the ace of trumps is a sure winner"
- proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare
- play a trump
- produce a sound as if from a trumpet related words >
- ace,
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- answer,
- artifice,
- beat,
- best,
- best bower,
- better,
- bower,
- brick,
- cap,
- cards,
- clubs,
- contrivance,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- crackerjack,
- deck,
- demarche,
- deuce,
- device,
- diamonds,
- dodge,
- doll,
- dummy,
- effort,
- exceed,
- excel,
- expedient,
- face cards,
- flush,
- full house,
- gimmick,
- go one better,
- good Joe,
- good egg,
- good guy,
- hand,
- hearts,
- improve on,
- improvisation,
- jack,
- joker,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- king,
- knave,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- left bower,
- likely lad,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- move,
- nice guy,
- no slouch,
- outdo,
- outstrip,
- outweigh,
- overbalance,
- overbear,
- overcome,
- overpass,
- overtop,
- pack,
- pair,
- pass,
- perfect,
- picture cards,
- pis aller,
- playing cards,
- predominate,
- preponderate,
- prevail,
- pussycat,
- queen,
- resort,
- resource,
- round,
- royal flush,
- rubber,
- ruff,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- singleton,
- solution,
- spades,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stout fellow,
- straight,
- stratagem,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- surpass,
- tactic,
- temporary expedient,
- top,
- tower above,
- tower over,
- transcend,
- trey,
- trick,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
- solution
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- the successful action of solving a problem; "the solution took three hours"
- a method for solving a problem; "the easy solution is to look it up in the handbook"
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem; "they were trying to find a peaceful solution"; "the answers were in the back of the book"; "he computed the result to four decimal places"
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution; "he used a solution of peroxide and water" related words >
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- adaptation,
- allegorization,
- answer,
- arrangement,
- artifice,
- blend,
- chemical solution,
- clarification,
- colliquation,
- compound,
- conclusion,
- contrivance,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- cracking,
- decipherment,
- decoagulation,
- decoction,
- decoding,
- deliquescence,
- deliquium,
- demarche,
- demonstration,
- demythologization,
- denouement,
- device,
- discovery,
- dissolution,
- dissolving,
- dodge,
- editing,
- effort,
- elucidation,
- emendation,
- emulsion,
- enlightenment,
- euhemerism,
- exegesis,
- exemplification,
- expedient,
- explanation,
- explication,
- exposition,
- expounding,
- finding out,
- fluid,
- fluidification,
- fluidization,
- fusing,
- fusion,
- gimmick,
- harmonization,
- illumination,
- illustration,
- improvisation,
- infusion,
- instrumentation,
- intonation,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- key,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- leach,
- leachate,
- leaching,
- light,
- liquefaction,
- liquescence,
- liquescency,
- liquid,
- lixiviation,
- lixivium,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- melting,
- mixing,
- mixture,
- modulation,
- move,
- orchestration,
- outcome,
- percolation,
- phrasing,
- pis aller,
- preparation,
- rationale,
- reason,
- resolution,
- resort,
- resource,
- result,
- revelation,
- running,
- setting,
- settlement,
- settling,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- simplification,
- solubilization,
- solving,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- suspension,
- tactic,
- temporary expedient,
- thawing,
- tone painting,
- transcription,
- trick,
- trump,
- unclotting,
- unlocking,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
- 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
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