Related Words:
- improvised
collapse - done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer" related words >
- ad hoc,
- ad libitum,
- ad-lib,
- band-aid,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporary,
- extempore,
- extemporized,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- impromptu,
- improvisational,
- improvisatorial,
- improvise,
- improviso,
- jury-rigged,
- makeshift,
- makeshifty,
- off-the-cuff,
- offhand,
- precipitate,
- provisional,
- rough-and-ready,
- snap,
- stopgap,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- tripped up,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unconcocted,
- uncontrived,
- undeliberated,
- undevised,
- unhatched,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unready,
- unrehearsed,
- unstudied
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- answer,
- artifice,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- course of action,
- demarche,
- device,
- dodge,
- effort,
- expedient,
- gimmick,
- improvisation,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- move,
- pis aller,
- resort,
- resource,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- solution,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- tactic,
- temporary expedient,
- trick,
- trump,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- answer,
- artifice,
- contrivance,
- countermove,
- coup,
- demarche,
- device,
- dodge,
- effort,
- expedient,
- gimmick,
- improvisation,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- move,
- pis aller,
- resort,
- resource,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- solution,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- tactic,
- temporary expedient,
- trick,
- trump,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
- fleeting
collapse
- lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" related words >
- abrupt,
- blunt,
- brief,
- brittle,
- brusque,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- compendious,
- corruptible,
- crusty,
- curt,
- deciduous,
- disappearing,
- dissolving,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- evaporating,
- fading,
- fickle,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- gruff,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- laconic,
- melting,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- passing,
- perishable,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-lived,
- snippety,
- snippy,
- succinct,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- terse,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- vanishing,
- volatile
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- answer,
- artifice,
- contrivance,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- demarche,
- dernier ressort,
- device,
- dodge,
- effort,
- expedient,
- gimmick,
- hope,
- improvisation,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- last expedient,
- last shift,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- move,
- pis aller,
- recourse,
- resort,
- resource,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- solution,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- tactic,
- temporary expedient,
- trick,
- trump,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
- Pax Dei,
- Pax Romana,
- Peace of God,
- abeyance,
- armistice,
- break,
- breathing spell,
- buffer zone,
- caesura,
- cooling-off period,
- day off,
- demilitarized zone,
- drop,
- hesitation,
- holiday,
- hollow truce,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interval,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- letup,
- lull,
- modus vivendi,
- neutral territory,
- pacification,
- pause,
- pax in bello,
- peace,
- recess,
- remission,
- respite,
- rest,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- suspension,
- suspension of hostilities,
- temporary arrangement,
- treaty of peace,
- truce,
- vacation
- flunky
collapse
- a person of unquestioning obedience related words >
- adherent,
- appendage,
- apple-polisher,
- ass-licker,
- attendant,
- backscratcher,
- backslapper,
- blue-collar worker,
- bootlick,
- bootlicker,
- breadwinner,
- brown-nose,
- brownie,
- buff,
- casual,
- casual laborer,
- cavaliere servente,
- clawback,
- cog,
- common laborer,
- commonality,
- commonalty,
- courtier,
- creature,
- cringer,
- dangler,
- day laborer,
- dependent,
- disciple,
- dummy,
- dupe,
- employee,
- factory worker,
- fan,
- fawner,
- feudatory,
- figurehead,
- flatterer,
- follower,
- following,
- footlicker,
- footman,
- free lance,
- free-lancer,
- full-time worker,
- gillie,
- goon,
- groveler,
- hand,
- handshaker,
- hanger-on,
- helot,
- henchman,
- hoi polloi,
- homager,
- homme de cour,
- industrial worker,
- inferior,
- instrument,
- jackal,
- jobber,
- jobholder,
- junior,
- kowtower,
- laborer,
- laboring man,
- lackey,
- led captain,
- lickspit,
- lickspittle,
- liege,
- liege man,
- lightweight,
- liveried servant,
- lower class,
- lower orders,
- man,
- masses,
- mealymouth,
- menial,
- migrant,
- minion,
- moiler,
- myrmidon,
- navvy,
- office temporary,
- parasite,
- partisan,
- pawn,
- peon,
- proletarian,
- public,
- puppet,
- pursuer,
- pursuivant,
- retainer,
- roustabout,
- salaried worker,
- satellite,
- second fiddle,
- secondary,
- sectary,
- self-employed person,
- serf,
- servant,
- shadow,
- slave,
- spaniel,
- stiff,
- stooge,
- subaltern,
- subordinate,
- successor,
- suck,
- supporter,
- sycophant,
- tagtail,
- tail,
- temporary,
- third stringer,
- thug,
- timeserver,
- toad,
- toady,
- toiler,
- tool,
- trainbearer,
- truckler,
- tufthunter,
- underling,
- understrapper,
- vassal,
- votary,
- wage earner,
- wage slave,
- wageworker,
- ward heeler,
- worker,
- workgirl,
- workhand,
- working girl,
- workingman,
- workingwoman,
- workman,
- yeoman,
- yes-man
- adventurer,
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- ask no favors,
- ask no quarter,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- blue-collar worker,
- breadwinner,
- casual,
- casual laborer,
- coauthor,
- collaborate,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- common laborer,
- compiler,
- compose,
- composer,
- condottiere,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- dash off,
- day laborer,
- diarist,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- editorialize,
- employee,
- encyclopedist,
- essayist,
- factory worker,
- flunky,
- formulate,
- free spirit,
- free trader,
- free-lance writer,
- free-lancer,
- freethinker,
- full-time worker,
- ghost,
- ghostwrite,
- ghostwriter,
- go it alone,
- gun,
- gunman,
- hand,
- hired gun,
- hired killer,
- hireling,
- humorist,
- independent,
- indite,
- inditer,
- individualist,
- industrial worker,
- isolationist,
- jobber,
- jobholder,
- knock off,
- knock out,
- laborer,
- laboring man,
- latitudinarian,
- liberal,
- libertarian,
- libertine,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- menial,
- mercenary,
- migrant,
- moiler,
- monographer,
- mugwump,
- music critic,
- navvy,
- neutral,
- newspaperman,
- nonpartisan,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- novelize,
- office temporary,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prepare,
- produce,
- professional killer,
- proletarian,
- prose writer,
- reviewer,
- roustabout,
- rugged individualist,
- salaried worker,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scenarize,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- self-employed person,
- servant,
- short-story writer,
- soldier of fortune,
- stiff,
- storyteller,
- technical writer,
- temporary,
- third force,
- third world,
- throw on paper,
- toiler,
- wage earner,
- wage slave,
- wageworker,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- worker,
- workgirl,
- workhand,
- working girl,
- workingman,
- workingwoman,
- workman,
- write,
- writer
- impermanent
collapse
- existing or enduring for a limited time only
- not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing" related words >
- able to adapt,
- adaptable,
- adjustable,
- alterable,
- alterative,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- checkered,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- ever-changing,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flexible,
- flitting,
- fluid,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- kaleidoscopic,
- malleable,
- many-sided,
- metamorphic,
- mobile,
- modifiable,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- movable,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- nonuniform,
- passing,
- perishable,
- permutable,
- plastic,
- protean,
- proteiform,
- resilient,
- rubbery,
- short-lived,
- supple,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- variable,
- volatile
- evanescent
collapse
- tending to vanish like vapor; "evanescent beauty" related words >
- atomic,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- corpuscular,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- disappearing,
- dissolving,
- dying,
- embryonic,
- ephemeral,
- evaporating,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- germinal,
- granular,
- impalpable,
- imperceptible,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- imponderable,
- impulsive,
- inappreciable,
- inconstant,
- indiscernible,
- infinitesimal,
- insubstantial,
- intangible,
- invisible,
- melting,
- microcosmic,
- microscopic,
- molecular,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- passing,
- perishable,
- short-lived,
- subatomic,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- ultramicroscopic,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unseeable,
- unstable,
- vanishing,
- volatile
- insecure
collapse
- lacking self-confidence or assurance; "an insecure person lacking mental stability"
- lacking in security or safety; "his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future"
- not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way; "the hinge is insecure"
- not safe from attack related words >
- afraid,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- dangerous,
- desultory,
- dickey,
- disconcerted,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- exposed,
- fearful,
- flimsy,
- fluctuant,
- frail,
- hazardous,
- hesitant,
- in suspense,
- infirm,
- insubstantial,
- jumpy,
- nervous,
- open,
- perilous,
- precarious,
- provisional,
- questioning,
- rickety,
- risky,
- rocky,
- rootless,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- tottery,
- treacherous,
- unassured,
- uncertain,
- uncomfortable,
- unconfident,
- undefended,
- undependable,
- unfaithworthy,
- unguarded,
- unhealthy,
- unnerved,
- unpredictable,
- unprotected,
- unreliable,
- unsafe,
- unselfassured,
- unselfconfident,
- unselfreliant,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- vacillating,
- vulnerable,
- wavering,
- weak,
- wobbly,
- worried
- pacification
collapse
- actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
- the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined; "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob" related words >
- Pax Dei,
- Pax Romana,
- Peace of God,
- abatement,
- allayment,
- alleviation,
- armistice,
- assuagement,
- blunting,
- breathing spell,
- buffer zone,
- calming,
- cease-fire,
- cooling-off period,
- damping,
- deadening,
- demilitarized zone,
- demulsion,
- diminution,
- dulcification,
- dulling,
- easing,
- falling-off,
- hollow truce,
- hushing,
- leniency,
- lessening,
- letdown,
- letup,
- lightening,
- loosening,
- lulling,
- mitigation,
- modulation,
- modus vivendi,
- mollification,
- neutral territory,
- palliation,
- pax in bello,
- peace,
- quietening,
- quieting,
- reduction,
- relaxation,
- remission,
- slackening,
- softening,
- soothing,
- stand-down,
- subduement,
- suspension of hostilities,
- tempering,
- temporary arrangement,
- tranquilization,
- treaty of peace,
- truce
- Pax Dei,
- Pax Romana,
- Peace of God,
- abeyance,
- accord,
- agreement,
- armistice,
- break,
- breather,
- breathing spell,
- buffer zone,
- caesura,
- cease-fire,
- compact,
- cooling-off period,
- day off,
- de-escalation,
- demilitarized zone,
- drop,
- hesitation,
- holiday,
- hollow truce,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interval,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- letup,
- lull,
- modus vivendi,
- moratorium,
- neutral territory,
- pacification,
- pact,
- pause,
- pax in bello,
- peace,
- recess,
- reconciliation,
- remission,
- respite,
- rest,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- suspension,
- suspension of hostilities,
- temporary arrangement,
- treaty,
- treaty of peace,
- vacation,
- wind down
- ability,
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- answer,
- artifice,
- capacity,
- capital,
- contrivance,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- demarche,
- device,
- devices,
- disposable resources,
- dodge,
- effort,
- expedient,
- funds,
- gimmick,
- improvisation,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- method,
- move,
- pis aller,
- power,
- recourses,
- resort,
- resorts,
- resource,
- resources,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- solution,
- step,
- stock,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- supply,
- tactic,
- temporary expedient,
- trick,
- trump,
- ways,
- ways and means,
- wherewith,
- wherewithal,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
- accidental,
- adventitious,
- adventurous,
- aleatory,
- blue,
- broad,
- casual,
- causeless,
- chance,
- chancy,
- contingent,
- dangerous,
- delicate,
- destinal,
- desultory,
- dicey,
- fatal,
- fatidic,
- fluky,
- fortuitous,
- full of risk,
- hairy,
- hazardous,
- iffy,
- incidental,
- indeterminate,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insubstantial,
- jeopardous,
- off-color,
- on thin ice,
- perilous,
- precarious,
- provisional,
- racy,
- riskful,
- risque,
- salty,
- scabrous,
- sensitive,
- shady,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- speculative,
- spicy,
- suggestive,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- touch-and-go,
- touchy,
- treacherous,
- uncaused,
- uncertain,
- undependable,
- undetermined,
- unexpected,
- unfaithworthy,
- unforeseeable,
- unforeseen,
- unhealthy,
- unlooked-for,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- venturesome,
- venturous,
- wicked,
- wildcat
- annual,
- biannual,
- biennial,
- bimonthly,
- biweekly,
- brief,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- catamenial,
- centenary,
- centennial,
- changeable,
- corruptible,
- daily,
- decennial,
- deciduous,
- diurnal,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fortnightly,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- hasty,
- hebdomadal,
- hourly,
- immediate,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- instant,
- instantaneous,
- insubstantial,
- lightning-like,
- menstrual,
- momentaneous,
- momently,
- monthly,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- passing,
- perishable,
- presto,
- quarterly,
- quick,
- quick as lightning,
- quick as thought,
- quotidian,
- secular,
- semestral,
- semiannual,
- semimonthly,
- semiweekly,
- semiyearly,
- short,
- short-lived,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- tertian,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- triennial,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- volatile,
- weekly,
- yearly
- transient
collapse
- (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load
- one who stays for only a short time; "transient laborers" related words >
- able to adapt,
- adaptable,
- adjustable,
- adventurer,
- alpinist,
- alterable,
- alterative,
- arising,
- astronaut,
- board-and-roomer,
- boarder,
- brief,
- brittle,
- camper,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- checkered,
- circumforaneous,
- climber,
- comers and goers,
- coming,
- commuter,
- compact,
- compendious,
- concise,
- corruptible,
- cosmopolite,
- cruiser,
- curt,
- curtal,
- curtate,
- deciduous,
- decurtate,
- disappearing,
- discursive,
- dissolving,
- divagatory,
- drifting,
- dying,
- emanating,
- emanative,
- emanent,
- emergent,
- emerging,
- ephemeral,
- errant,
- evanescent,
- evaporating,
- ever-changing,
- excursionist,
- explorer,
- fading,
- fare,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flexible,
- flitting,
- floating,
- fluid,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- forthcoming,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- gadding,
- globe-girdler,
- globe-trotter,
- goer,
- gypsy-like,
- gypsyish,
- hajji,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- instantaneous,
- insubstantial,
- issuing,
- jet set,
- jet-setter,
- journeyer,
- kaleidoscopic,
- landloping,
- lessee,
- little,
- lodger,
- low,
- malleable,
- many-sided,
- mariner,
- meandering,
- melting,
- metamorphic,
- migrational,
- migratory,
- mobile,
- modifiable,
- momentaneous,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mountaineer,
- movable,
- mutable,
- nomad,
- nomadic,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- nonuniform,
- palmer,
- passenger,
- passer,
- passerby,
- passing,
- pathfinder,
- paying guest,
- perishable,
- permutable,
- pilgrim,
- pioneer,
- plastic,
- protean,
- proteiform,
- rambling,
- ranging,
- renter,
- resilient,
- roaming,
- roomer,
- roving,
- rubberneck,
- rubbernecker,
- rubbery,
- sailor,
- shifting,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-lived,
- short-term,
- sightseer,
- sojourner,
- straggling,
- straphanger,
- straying,
- strolling,
- subject to death,
- succinct,
- summary,
- supple,
- surfacing,
- synoptic,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- temporary lodger,
- tenant,
- tourer,
- tourist,
- trailblazer,
- trailbreaker,
- traipsing,
- transeunt,
- transient guest,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- transmigratory,
- traveler,
- trekker,
- tripper,
- underlessee,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vanishing,
- variable,
- viator,
- visiting fireman,
- volatile,
- voortrekker,
- voyager,
- voyageur,
- wandering,
- wayfarer,
- world-traveler
- transitive
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- designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning related words >
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- attributive,
- auxiliary,
- auxiliary verb,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- conjunctive,
- copula,
- copulative,
- correct,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- defective verb,
- deponent verb,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fickle,
- finite verb,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- formal,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- functional,
- glossematic,
- grammatic,
- impermanent,
- impersonal verb,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- infinitive,
- insubstantial,
- intransitive,
- intransitive verb,
- linking,
- linking verb,
- modal auxiliary,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- neuter verb,
- nominal,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- participial,
- passing,
- perishable,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pronominal,
- short-lived,
- structural,
- substantive,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- transient,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- verb,
- verb phrase,
- verbal,
- volatile
- meteoric
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- like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience; "a meteoric rise to fame"
- pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids; "meteoric shower"; "meteoric impacts" related words >
- Cynthian,
- ablaze,
- aflame,
- anagalactic,
- asteroidal,
- astral,
- astrologic,
- astrologistic,
- astrologous,
- astronomic,
- astrophysical,
- blazing,
- brief,
- brilliant,
- brisk,
- burning,
- celestial,
- circumplanetary,
- cislunar,
- cometary,
- dazzling,
- empyreal,
- empyrean,
- ephemeral,
- equinoctial,
- evanescent,
- extragalactic,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashing,
- flashy,
- fleet,
- fleeting,
- flickering,
- fulgurant,
- fulgurating,
- galactic,
- heavenly,
- heliacal,
- impermanent,
- intercosmic,
- interplanetary,
- intersidereal,
- interstellar,
- lunar,
- lunary,
- lunate,
- lunular,
- lunulate,
- meteoritic,
- momentary,
- nebular,
- nebulose,
- nebulous,
- overnight,
- planetal,
- planetarian,
- planetary,
- planetesimal,
- quick,
- semilunar,
- sensational,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- short-lived,
- short-term,
- short-termed,
- sidereal,
- solar,
- spectacular,
- speedy,
- sphery,
- star-spangled,
- star-studded,
- starry,
- stellar,
- stellary,
- swift,
- temporary,
- terrestrial,
- transient,
- transitory,
- uranic,
- zodiacal
- modus vivendi
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- a temporary accommodation of a disagreement between parties pending a permanent settlement related words >
- Pax Dei,
- Pax Romana,
- Peace of God,
- action,
- actions,
- activity,
- acts,
- address,
- affectation,
- air,
- armistice,
- bearing,
- behavior,
- behavior pattern,
- behavioral norm,
- behavioral science,
- breathing spell,
- buffer zone,
- carriage,
- cease-fire,
- comportment,
- conduct,
- cooling-off period,
- culture pattern,
- custom,
- demeanor,
- demilitarized zone,
- deportment,
- doing,
- doings,
- folkway,
- gestures,
- goings-on,
- guise,
- hollow truce,
- maintien,
- manner,
- manners,
- method,
- methodology,
- methods,
- mien,
- motions,
- movements,
- moves,
- neutral territory,
- observable behavior,
- pacification,
- pattern,
- pax in bello,
- peace,
- poise,
- port,
- pose,
- posture,
- practice,
- praxis,
- presence,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- social science,
- stand-down,
- style,
- suspension of hostilities,
- tactics,
- temporary arrangement,
- tone,
- treaty of peace,
- truce,
- way,
- way of life,
- ways
- servant
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- a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) related words >
- Charlie McCarthy,
- Ganymede,
- acolyte,
- adherent,
- adjutant,
- agent,
- aid,
- aide,
- aide-de-camp,
- aider,
- amah,
- ancilla,
- appendage,
- appliance,
- assistant,
- attendant,
- au pair girl,
- auxiliary,
- ayah,
- best man,
- blue-collar worker,
- bondmaid,
- bondman,
- bondslave,
- bondsman,
- bondswoman,
- boots,
- boy,
- breadwinner,
- butler,
- captive,
- casual,
- casual laborer,
- charwoman,
- chatelaine,
- chattel,
- chattel slave,
- chauffeur,
- chef,
- churl,
- civil servant,
- cleaner,
- cleaning man,
- cleaning woman,
- coachman,
- coadjutant,
- coadjutor,
- coadjutress,
- coadjutrix,
- common laborer,
- concubine,
- contrivance,
- cook,
- creature,
- daily,
- dangler,
- day laborer,
- debt slave,
- dependent,
- deputy,
- device,
- domestic servant,
- driver,
- dummy,
- dupe,
- employee,
- executive officer,
- factory worker,
- factotum,
- flunky,
- follower,
- footman,
- free lance,
- free-lancer,
- full-time worker,
- galley slave,
- go-between,
- governess,
- groom,
- hand,
- handmaid,
- handmaiden,
- hanger-on,
- heeler,
- helot,
- help,
- helper,
- helpmate,
- helpmeet,
- henchman,
- homager,
- houseboy,
- housekeeper,
- houseman,
- implement,
- industrial worker,
- inferior,
- instrument,
- interagent,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- intermedium,
- jobber,
- jobholder,
- junior,
- laborer,
- laboring man,
- lackey,
- lever,
- liege,
- liege man,
- liege subject,
- lieutenant,
- maid,
- maidservant,
- man,
- manservant,
- mechanism,
- mediator,
- medium,
- menial,
- midwife,
- migrant,
- minion,
- moiler,
- nanny,
- navvy,
- nurse,
- nursemaid,
- odalisque,
- office temporary,
- organ,
- page,
- paranymph,
- paraprofessional,
- pawn,
- peon,
- plaything,
- postilion,
- proletarian,
- public servant,
- puppet,
- retainer,
- right-hand man,
- roustabout,
- salaried worker,
- satellite,
- scullion,
- second,
- secondary,
- self-employed person,
- seneschal,
- serf,
- servitor,
- shadow,
- sideman,
- slave,
- steward,
- stewardess,
- stiff,
- stooge,
- subject,
- subordinate,
- supporting actor,
- supporting instrumentalist,
- tagtail,
- temporary,
- theow,
- thrall,
- toiler,
- tool,
- toy,
- tweeny,
- underling,
- understrapper,
- upstairs maid,
- valet,
- vassal,
- vehicle,
- villein,
- wage earner,
- wage slave,
- wageworker,
- waiter,
- waitress,
- ward heeler,
- wine steward,
- worker,
- workgirl,
- workhand,
- working girl,
- workingman,
- workingwoman,
- workman
- treacherous
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- dangerously unstable and unpredictable; "treacherous winding roads"; "an unreliable trestle" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Punic,
- ambidextrous,
- artful,
- calculating,
- chancy,
- chiseling,
- collusive,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dangerous,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- desultory,
- dishonest,
- disloyal,
- double,
- double-crossing,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- faithless,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- finagling,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- hairy,
- hazardous,
- indirect,
- infirm,
- insecure,
- insidious,
- insubstantial,
- jeopardous,
- misleading,
- perfidious,
- perilous,
- precarious,
- precariousness,
- provisional,
- recreant,
- risky,
- rocky,
- scheming,
- shaky,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- surreptitious,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- tottery,
- traitorous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncertain,
- undependable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unfaithful,
- unfaithworthy,
- unhealthy,
- unloyal,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unsafe,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrue,
- untrustworthy,
- wicked,
- wily
- deciduous
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- (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season
- (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth; "deciduous teeth" related words >
- arborary,
- arboreal,
- arboreous,
- arborescent,
- arboresque,
- arborical,
- arboriform,
- brittle,
- bushlike,
- bushy,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- citrous,
- collapsing,
- coniferous,
- corruptible,
- declining,
- declivitous,
- decurrent,
- dendriform,
- dendritic,
- dendroid,
- descendant,
- descending,
- down,
- down-reaching,
- downcoming,
- downfalling,
- downgoing,
- downhill,
- downsinking,
- downward,
- drooping,
- dropping,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- evergreen,
- fading,
- falling,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- half-hardy,
- hardwood,
- hardy,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- nondeciduous,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- on the descendant,
- on the downgrade,
- passing,
- perennial,
- perishable,
- piny,
- plummeting,
- plunging,
- sagging,
- scrubbly,
- scrubby,
- scrublike,
- setting,
- short-lived,
- shrubby,
- shrublike,
- sinking,
- softwood,
- submerging,
- subsiding,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- tottering,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- treelike,
- tumbledown,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- volatile
- tactic
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- a plan for attaining a particular goal related words >
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- answer,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- blind,
- campaign,
- caper,
- chicanery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- craft,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- demarche,
- design,
- device,
- dodge,
- effort,
- engineering,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- feint,
- fetch,
- gambit,
- game,
- generalship,
- gimmick,
- grift,
- improvisation,
- intrigue,
- jugglery,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- knavery,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- little game,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- military operations,
- move,
- orchestration,
- pis aller,
- plan,
- plans,
- plot,
- ploy,
- racket,
- red herring,
- resort,
- resource,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- sleight,
- solution,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- subterfuge,
- tactics,
- tactual,
- temporary expedient,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trump,
- wile,
- wily device,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
- fragile
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- vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth" related words >
- breakable,
- brittle,
- brittle as glass,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- cheap-jack,
- cobwebby,
- corruptible,
- crackable,
- crisp,
- crispy,
- crumbly,
- crushable,
- dainty,
- deciduous,
- decrepit,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- dying,
- effeminate,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- feeble,
- fickle,
- fissile,
- fleeting,
- flimsy,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fracturable,
- frail,
- frangible,
- friable,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamery,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- infirm,
- insubstantial,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- lacerable,
- light,
- lightweight,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- namby-pamby,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- papery,
- passing,
- pasteboardy,
- perishable,
- puny,
- rickety,
- scissile,
- shaky,
- shatterable,
- shattery,
- shivery,
- short,
- short-lived,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- splintery,
- tacky,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsubstantial,
- volatile,
- vulnerable,
- weak,
- weakly,
- wispy,
- womanish
- 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
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- 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
- passerby
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- a person who passes by casually or by chance related words >
- TV-viewer,
- adventurer,
- alpinist,
- astronaut,
- attestant,
- attestator,
- attester,
- beholder,
- bird-watcher,
- bystander,
- camper,
- climber,
- cojuror,
- comers and goers,
- commuter,
- compurgator,
- cosmopolite,
- cruiser,
- deponent,
- drugstore cowboy,
- earwitness,
- excursionist,
- explorer,
- eyewitness,
- fare,
- gaper,
- gazer,
- gazer-on,
- girl-watcher,
- globe-girdler,
- globe-trotter,
- goer,
- goggler,
- hajji,
- informant,
- informer,
- jet set,
- jet-setter,
- journeyer,
- kibitzer,
- looker,
- looker-on,
- mariner,
- mountaineer,
- observer,
- ogler,
- onlooker,
- palmer,
- passenger,
- passer,
- pathfinder,
- perceiver,
- percipient,
- pilgrim,
- pioneer,
- rubberneck,
- rubbernecker,
- sailor,
- seer,
- sidewalk superintendent,
- sightseer,
- sojourner,
- spectator,
- spectatress,
- spectatrix,
- straphanger,
- swearer,
- televiewer,
- television-viewer,
- temporary lodger,
- testifier,
- tourer,
- tourist,
- trailblazer,
- trailbreaker,
- transient,
- transient guest,
- traveler,
- trekker,
- tripper,
- viator,
- video-gazer,
- viewer,
- visiting fireman,
- voortrekker,
- voucher,
- voyager,
- voyageur,
- watcher,
- wayfarer,
- witness,
- world-traveler
- 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
- 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
- alternative
collapse
- 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
collapse
- 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
collapse
- 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
collapse
- (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
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
- trump
collapse
- (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
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