Related Words:
- respite
collapse - a pause from doing something (as work); "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate"
- a pause for relaxation; "people actually accomplish more when they take time for short rests" related words >
- abeyance,
- afterthought,
- bind,
- block,
- blockage,
- blow,
- break,
- breath,
- breather,
- breathing,
- breathing place,
- breathing space,
- breathing spell,
- breathing time,
- bureaucratic delay,
- caesura,
- catharsis,
- cease-fire,
- cigarette break,
- cleansing,
- cocktail hour,
- coffee break,
- day off,
- delay,
- delayage,
- delayed reaction,
- deliverance,
- detention,
- discharge,
- double take,
- downtime,
- dragging,
- drop,
- emotional release,
- enforced respite,
- extension,
- freeing,
- grace,
- grant a reprieve,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- halt,
- hang-up,
- happy hour,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- hindrance,
- holdup,
- holiday,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- jam,
- lag,
- lagging,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- letup,
- logjam,
- lull,
- moratorium,
- obstruction,
- off-time,
- paperasserie,
- pause,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- postponement,
- purgation,
- purge,
- purging,
- quiet spell,
- recess,
- red tape,
- red-tapeism,
- red-tapery,
- release,
- relief,
- remission,
- removal,
- reprieve,
- rest,
- resting point,
- retardance,
- retardation,
- slow-up,
- slowdown,
- slowness,
- spell,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- stay of execution,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- surcease,
- suspension,
- tea break,
- tie-up,
- time lag,
- time off,
- time out,
- truce,
- vacation,
- wait
- ball,
- bamboozle,
- be intimate,
- beat,
- beguile,
- beguile of,
- beguile the time,
- betray,
- bilk,
- bluff,
- bunco,
- burn,
- burn daylight,
- cajole,
- cheat,
- cheat on,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- chouse out of,
- circumvent,
- cog,
- cog the dice,
- cohabit,
- come together,
- commit adultery,
- con,
- conjure,
- consume time,
- copulate,
- couple,
- cover,
- cozen,
- crib,
- dabble,
- dally,
- dawdle,
- deceive,
- defraud,
- delude,
- dillydally,
- do,
- do in,
- do out of,
- doodle,
- double-cross,
- drone,
- dupe,
- euchre,
- finagle,
- flam,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- fob,
- footle,
- forestall,
- fornicate,
- fribble,
- frig,
- fritter away time,
- fudge,
- gammon,
- get around,
- gouge,
- gull,
- gyp,
- have,
- have sex,
- have sexual relations,
- hoax,
- hocus,
- hocus-pocus,
- hornswaggle,
- humbug,
- juggle,
- kill time,
- lag,
- lallygag,
- lay,
- laze,
- let down,
- lie with,
- linger,
- loaf,
- loiter,
- loll,
- lollygag,
- lose time,
- lounge,
- make it with,
- make love,
- make out,
- mate,
- mock,
- mount,
- mulct,
- outmaneuver,
- outreach,
- outsmart,
- outwit,
- overreach,
- pack the deal,
- pass the time,
- piddle,
- pigeon,
- play one false,
- poke,
- potter,
- practice fraud upon,
- put something over,
- putter,
- rook,
- scam,
- screw,
- sell gold bricks,
- serve,
- service,
- shave,
- shortchange,
- sleep with,
- snow,
- stack the cards,
- stick,
- sting,
- string along,
- swindle,
- take,
- take a dive,
- take in,
- thimblerig,
- throw a fight,
- trick,
- trifle,
- two-time,
- victimize,
- waste time
- ever
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- at any time; "did you ever smoke?"; "the best con man of all time"
- (intensifier for adjectives) very; "she was ever so friendly" related words >
- all the time,
- always,
- annoyingly,
- anytime,
- anyway,
- anywise,
- at all,
- at all times,
- at any cost,
- at any time,
- aye,
- by any chance,
- by any means,
- by merest chance,
- ceaselessly,
- confoundedly,
- consistently,
- constantly,
- consummately,
- continually,
- continuously,
- daily,
- daily and hourly,
- day after day,
- day and night,
- endlessly,
- eternally,
- even,
- ever and again,
- ever and anon,
- everlastingly,
- evermore,
- every day,
- every hour,
- every moment,
- excessively,
- extremely,
- for all time,
- for aye,
- for good,
- for keeps,
- forever,
- forever and aye,
- forevermore,
- grievously,
- hour after hour,
- hourly,
- if at all,
- immensely,
- in all ages,
- in any case,
- in any way,
- incessantly,
- inordinately,
- invariably,
- month after month,
- mortally,
- night and day,
- now and forever,
- on and on,
- once,
- over,
- overfull,
- overly,
- overmuch,
- perennially,
- perpetually,
- plaguey,
- rapidly,
- regularly,
- right along,
- steadily,
- still,
- super,
- sustainedly,
- throughout the ages,
- till doomsday,
- till time stops,
- too,
- unceasingly,
- unduly,
- unintermittently,
- uninterruptedly,
- unvaryingly,
- usually,
- without cease,
- without letup,
- without stopping,
- year after year,
- yet
- aforetime,
- already,
- as yet,
- before,
- before all,
- before now,
- beforetime,
- by this time,
- earlier,
- early,
- ere,
- ere then,
- erenow,
- erewhile,
- erst,
- erstwhile,
- formerly,
- hereunto,
- historically,
- hitherto,
- in the past,
- in times past,
- once,
- only yesterday,
- or ever,
- prehistorically,
- previously,
- priorly,
- recently,
- so far,
- still,
- then,
- then as previously,
- theretofore,
- thus far,
- till now,
- to date,
- to this day,
- until now,
- until this time,
- up to now,
- whilom,
- yesterday,
- yet
- timing
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- the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics)
- the time when something happens related words >
- ability,
- accommodation,
- accord,
- accordance,
- adaptation,
- address,
- adeptness,
- adjustment,
- adroitness,
- affinity,
- agreement,
- airmanship,
- andante tempo,
- artfulness,
- artisanship,
- artistry,
- assent,
- assimilation,
- attunement,
- beat,
- bravura,
- brilliance,
- calendar-making,
- capability,
- capacity,
- chorus,
- chronology,
- chronoscopy,
- cleverness,
- clock-making,
- clocking,
- coaptation,
- coherence,
- coincidence,
- command,
- compatibility,
- competence,
- compound time,
- concert,
- concord,
- concordance,
- conformance,
- conformation,
- conformity,
- congeniality,
- congruence,
- congruency,
- congruity,
- consistency,
- consonance,
- consort,
- control,
- cooperation,
- coordination,
- correspondence,
- craft,
- craftsmanship,
- cunning,
- dating,
- deftness,
- dendrochronology,
- dexterity,
- dexterousness,
- dextrousness,
- diplomacy,
- duple time,
- efficiency,
- equivalence,
- expertise,
- facility,
- finesse,
- grace,
- grip,
- handiness,
- harmonization,
- harmony,
- horology,
- horometry,
- horsemanship,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- integration,
- intersection,
- know-how,
- largo,
- march tempo,
- marksmanship,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- mixed times,
- oneness,
- overlap,
- parallelism,
- peace,
- practical ability,
- presto,
- proficiency,
- prowess,
- quickness,
- rag,
- ragtime,
- rapport,
- readiness,
- reconcilement,
- reconciliation,
- regulation,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- rubato,
- savoir-faire,
- savvy,
- seamanship,
- self-consistency,
- sextuple time,
- simple time,
- skill,
- skillfulness,
- squaring,
- style,
- symmetry,
- sync,
- synchronism,
- synchronization,
- syncopation,
- syncope,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- tally,
- technical brilliance,
- technical mastery,
- technical skill,
- technique,
- tempo,
- tempo rubato,
- three-quarter time,
- time,
- time pattern,
- timekeeping,
- triple time,
- triplet,
- two-four time,
- uniformity,
- union,
- unison,
- unisonance,
- virtuosity,
- waltz time,
- wit,
- wizardry,
- workmanship
- ageing,
- ancient,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- archaic,
- broken-down,
- dated,
- decrepit,
- dilapidated,
- dog-eared,
- hackneyed,
- moth-eaten,
- obsolescent,
- obsolete,
- old,
- old hat,
- old-fashioned,
- overused,
- passe,
- ragged,
- ramshackle,
- run-down,
- seedy,
- shabby,
- stale,
- stereotyped,
- threadbare,
- time-scarred,
- tired,
- trite,
- tumbledown,
- well-worn,
- worn,
- worn out
- after a fashion,
- already,
- appreciably,
- as yet,
- at any rate,
- at best,
- at least,
- at most,
- at the outside,
- at worst,
- by this time,
- comparatively,
- detectably,
- earlier,
- fairly,
- heretofore,
- hereunto,
- in a manner,
- in a way,
- in part,
- in some measure,
- incompletely,
- leastwise,
- merely,
- mildly,
- moderately,
- modestly,
- not comprehensively,
- not exhaustively,
- only,
- part,
- partially,
- partly,
- pro tanto,
- purely,
- relatively,
- simply,
- so far,
- somewhat,
- still,
- then as previously,
- till now,
- to a degree,
- to date,
- to some degree,
- to this day,
- tolerably,
- until now,
- until this time,
- up to now,
- visibly,
- yet
- adjourn,
- be a sideliner,
- be dilatory,
- be still,
- be unproductive,
- bring up,
- bring up short,
- cease fire,
- coast,
- come to naught,
- come to nothing,
- come up short,
- continue,
- defer,
- delay,
- do nothing,
- drag out,
- draw up,
- drift,
- extend,
- fetch up,
- filibuster,
- fizzle out,
- fust,
- gain time,
- halt,
- hang,
- hang back,
- hang up,
- hesitate,
- hibernate,
- hold off,
- hold over,
- hold up,
- idle,
- lay aside,
- lay by,
- lay over,
- lie dormant,
- lie fallow,
- make time,
- not budge,
- not stir,
- peter out,
- pigeonhole,
- play for time,
- postpone,
- procrastinate,
- prolong,
- prorogate,
- prorogue,
- protract,
- pull up,
- push aside,
- put aside,
- put off,
- put on ice,
- recess,
- reserve,
- rest,
- set aside,
- set by,
- shelve,
- shift off,
- sit back,
- sit it out,
- sleep,
- sleep on,
- slumber,
- smolder,
- stagnate,
- stall,
- stall for time,
- stall off,
- stand over,
- stave off,
- stay,
- stick,
- stooge around,
- stop,
- stop dead,
- stop short,
- stretch out,
- suspend,
- table,
- take a recess,
- talk against time,
- temporize,
- vegetate,
- wait and see,
- waive,
- watch and wait
- so far
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- used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time; "So far he hasn't called"; "the sun isn't up yet"
- used after a superlative; "this is the best so far"; "the largest drug bust yet" related words >
- after a fashion,
- already,
- appreciably,
- as yet,
- at any rate,
- at best,
- at least,
- at most,
- at the least,
- at the most,
- at the outside,
- at worst,
- by this time,
- comparatively,
- detectably,
- earlier,
- fairly,
- heretofore,
- hereunto,
- hitherto,
- in a manner,
- in a way,
- in part,
- in some measure,
- incompletely,
- leastwise,
- merely,
- mildly,
- moderately,
- modestly,
- not comprehensively,
- not exhaustively,
- only,
- part,
- partially,
- partly,
- pro tanto,
- purely,
- relatively,
- simply,
- somewhat,
- still,
- then as previously,
- thus far,
- till now,
- to a degree,
- to date,
- to some degree,
- to this day,
- tolerably,
- until now,
- until this time,
- up to now,
- visibly,
- yet
- belated
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- after the expected or usual time; delayed; "a belated birthday card"; "I'm late for the plane"; "the train is late"; "tardy children are sent to the principal"; "always tardy in making dental appointments" related words >
- antique,
- archaic,
- arrested,
- back,
- backward,
- behind time,
- behindhand,
- blocked,
- dated,
- delayed,
- delayed-action,
- detained,
- held up,
- hung up,
- in a bind,
- in abeyance,
- jammed,
- late,
- latish,
- moratory,
- never on time,
- obstructed,
- oldfangled,
- out of date,
- out-of-date,
- outdated,
- outmoded,
- overdue,
- passe,
- retarded,
- slow,
- stopped,
- tardy,
- unpunctual,
- unready,
- untimely
- lounger
collapse
- an article of clothing designed for comfort and leisure wear related words >
- clock watcher,
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- do-nothing,
- dolittle,
- doodler,
- faineant,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- laggard,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lubber,
- mope,
- moper,
- potterer,
- putterer,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slug,
- sluggard,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- trifler,
- waiter on Providence
- aeons ago,
- after,
- after all,
- after that,
- afterwards,
- ages ago,
- ago,
- as,
- as long as,
- as things go,
- back,
- back when,
- backward,
- because,
- behind,
- being,
- being as how,
- below,
- cause,
- considering,
- ever since,
- ex post facto,
- following,
- for,
- forasmuch as,
- from away back,
- from time immemorial,
- gone by,
- in that,
- in the aftermath,
- in the sequel,
- inasmuch as,
- insofar as,
- insomuch as,
- into the past,
- later,
- long since,
- next,
- parce que,
- reminiscently,
- retroactively,
- retrospectively,
- seeing,
- seeing as how,
- seeing that,
- since long ago,
- since time began,
- subsequent to,
- subsequently,
- then,
- thereafter,
- thereon,
- thereupon,
- therewith,
- until now,
- whereas
- as,
- as far as,
- at which time,
- being,
- cause,
- considering,
- during which time,
- for,
- inasmuch as,
- just so,
- seeing,
- since,
- so,
- so as,
- so long as,
- so that,
- the while,
- when,
- whereas,
- while,
- whilst
- eon
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- (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
- an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons ago"
- the longest division of geological time related words >
- fore
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- near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane; "the captain went fore (or forward) to check the instruments" related words >
- ahead,
- ancient,
- ante,
- antecedent,
- anterior,
- anteriority,
- anticipatory,
- beforehand,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- chief,
- ci-devant,
- display,
- earlier,
- early,
- elder,
- erstwhile,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- first,
- forefront,
- foregoing,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- foremost,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- former,
- forward,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- head,
- heading,
- headmost,
- immemorial,
- in advance,
- lap,
- late,
- leading,
- obverse,
- old,
- olden,
- older,
- once,
- onetime,
- past,
- preceding,
- precurrent,
- preexistent,
- preface,
- prefix,
- prehistoric,
- previous,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- prior,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- quondam,
- recent,
- senior,
- sometime,
- then,
- window dressing
- sign up
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- join a club, an activity, etc. with the intention to join or participate, "Sign up for yoga classes" related words >
- affiliate,
- affiliate with,
- alternate,
- associate,
- bespeak,
- book,
- brief,
- call up,
- combine,
- come into,
- commandeer,
- conscript,
- cover,
- creep in,
- detach,
- detach for service,
- do a hitch,
- do a stint,
- do a tour,
- do time,
- draft,
- employ,
- engage,
- enlist,
- enroll,
- enter,
- fill in for,
- get into,
- go into,
- have a go,
- have tenure,
- hire,
- hold office,
- impress,
- inaugurate,
- induct,
- initiate,
- install,
- instate,
- invest,
- join,
- join up,
- keep a watch,
- league with,
- levy,
- list,
- mobilize,
- muster,
- muster in,
- ordain,
- preengage,
- press,
- raise,
- re-up,
- recruit,
- reenlist,
- relieve,
- reserve,
- retain,
- serve time,
- sign on,
- sign up for,
- sneak in,
- spell,
- spell off,
- summon,
- take into employment,
- take on,
- take out membership,
- take turns,
- take up membership,
- team up with,
- team with,
- time off
- aforetime,
- ahead,
- ahead of time,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- before,
- before now,
- beforehand,
- betimes,
- bright and early,
- earlier,
- early,
- erenow,
- erewhile,
- erst,
- forehand,
- forehanded,
- foresighted,
- foresightedly,
- formerly,
- heretofore,
- historically,
- hitherto,
- in advance,
- in anticipation,
- in good time,
- in the past,
- in times past,
- only yesterday,
- precociously,
- prehistorically,
- prevenient,
- previously,
- priorly,
- recently,
- then,
- whilom,
- yesterday
- simultaneously
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- at the same instant; "they spoke simultaneously" related words >
- all at once,
- all together,
- as one,
- as one man,
- at a blow,
- at a clip,
- at a stroke,
- at once,
- at one blow,
- at one jump,
- at one stroke,
- at one swoop,
- at one time,
- at that time,
- coincidentally,
- coinstantaneously,
- concurrently,
- contemporaneously,
- forthwith,
- in a chorus,
- in a hurry,
- in chorus,
- in concert with,
- in phase,
- in sync,
- in unison,
- isochronously,
- now,
- on that occasion,
- on the beat,
- per saltum,
- pronto,
- right away,
- right now,
- right off,
- straightaway,
- straightway,
- subito,
- synchronously,
- then,
- then and there,
- this minute,
- this very minute,
- together,
- uno saltu,
- with one voice,
- without delay
- bum,
- clock watcher,
- dallier,
- dawdle,
- dawdler,
- diddler,
- dillydallier,
- do-nothing,
- doodler,
- faineant,
- gentleman of leisure,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- goof-off,
- idler,
- laggard,
- lazybones,
- lingerer,
- loafer,
- loiterer,
- loller,
- lotus-eater,
- lounger,
- lubber,
- mope,
- moper,
- potterer,
- putterer,
- slouch,
- sloucher,
- slug,
- slugabed,
- sluggard,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- time killer,
- time waster,
- trifler,
- waiter on Providence
- acceleration,
- airing,
- amble,
- constitutional,
- double time,
- double-quick,
- double-quick time,
- festination,
- forwarding,
- hastening,
- hike,
- hurrying,
- jaunt,
- march,
- mush,
- parade,
- peripatetic journey,
- peripateticism,
- promenade,
- quickening,
- ramble,
- saunter,
- schlep,
- speeding,
- stretch,
- stroll,
- traipse,
- tramp,
- trudge,
- turn,
- walk,
- walking tour
- intermission
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- the act of suspending activity temporarily related words >
- abeyance,
- act,
- afterpiece,
- bit,
- breach,
- break,
- breath,
- breather,
- breathing place,
- breathing space,
- breathing spell,
- breathing time,
- caesura,
- catharsis,
- cease-fire,
- cessation,
- chaser,
- cigarette break,
- cleansing,
- cocktail hour,
- coffee break,
- cold storage,
- curtain,
- curtain call,
- curtain raiser,
- day off,
- deliverance,
- discharge,
- divertimento,
- divertissement,
- doldrums,
- dormancy,
- downtime,
- drop,
- emotional release,
- enforced respite,
- epilogue,
- exode,
- exodus,
- expository scene,
- finale,
- fissure,
- freeing,
- gap,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- halt,
- happy hour,
- hesitation,
- hiatus,
- hoke act,
- holiday,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermittence,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- introduction,
- lacuna,
- lapse,
- latency,
- layoff,
- letup,
- lull,
- number,
- off-time,
- parenthesis,
- pause,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- prologue,
- purgation,
- purge,
- purging,
- quiescence,
- quiescency,
- quiet spell,
- recess,
- release,
- relief,
- remission,
- removal,
- reprieve,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting point,
- routine,
- scene,
- shtick,
- sketch,
- skit,
- song and dance,
- spell,
- stand-down,
- stand-up comedy act,
- stay,
- striptease,
- surcease,
- suspension,
- tea break,
- time off,
- time out,
- truce,
- turn,
- vacation
- amuse,
- beguile,
- beguile the time,
- convulse,
- delight,
- divert,
- drown care,
- ease off,
- enliven,
- entertain,
- exhilarate,
- fracture one,
- have a ball,
- have fun,
- kill,
- kill time,
- knock dead,
- laugh it up,
- live it up,
- raise a laugh,
- raise a smile,
- recreate,
- refresh,
- regale,
- relax,
- slay,
- solace,
- tickle,
- titillate,
- unbend,
- unlax,
- unwind,
- wow
- evermore
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- at any future time; in the future; "lead a blameless life evermore" related words >
- aptitude,
- bare possibility,
- best bet,
- chance,
- conceivability,
- conceivableness,
- contingency,
- due season,
- equivalent odds,
- even break,
- even chance,
- eventuality,
- expectation,
- fair expectation,
- favorable opportunity,
- favorable prospect,
- golden opportunity,
- good opportunity,
- good possibility,
- good time,
- high time,
- hope,
- hundred-to-one shot,
- liability,
- likelihood,
- likeliness,
- long odds,
- long shot,
- main chance,
- no chance,
- odds,
- odds-on,
- odds-on chance,
- off chance,
- outlook,
- outside chance,
- outside hope,
- possibility,
- possibleness,
- potential,
- potentiality,
- presumption,
- presumptive evidence,
- price,
- probabilism,
- probability,
- proper time,
- prospect,
- reasonable ground,
- reasonable hope,
- remote possibility,
- short odds,
- small chance,
- small hope,
- sporting chance,
- square odds,
- suitable time,
- sure bet,
- sure thing,
- tendency,
- the attainable,
- the feasible,
- the possible,
- thinkability,
- thinkableness,
- verisimilitude,
- virtuality,
- well-chosen moment,
- well-grounded hope,
- well-timed opportunity,
- what is possible,
- what may be,
- what might be
- antiquity
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- an artifact surviving from the past
- the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe related words >
- abidingness,
- aboriginality,
- age,
- ancien regime,
- ancient history,
- ancient manuscript,
- ancient times,
- ancientness,
- antique,
- archaism,
- artifact,
- atavism,
- cave painting,
- cobwebs of antiquity,
- constancy,
- continuance,
- defeat of time,
- defiance of time,
- distance of time,
- distant past,
- diuturnity,
- durability,
- durableness,
- duration,
- dust of ages,
- eld,
- elderliness,
- eldership,
- endurance,
- eolith,
- fossil,
- great age,
- hoary age,
- hoary eld,
- inveteracy,
- lastingness,
- long standing,
- long-lastingness,
- long-livedness,
- longevity,
- maintenance,
- mezzolith,
- microlith,
- neolith,
- old age,
- old order,
- old style,
- oldness,
- paleolith,
- perdurability,
- perennation,
- permanence,
- perpetuity,
- persistence,
- petrification,
- petrified forest,
- petrified wood,
- petroglyph,
- plateaulith,
- primitiveness,
- primogeniture,
- primordialism,
- primordiality,
- relic,
- reliquiae,
- remains,
- remote age,
- ruin,
- ruins,
- senility,
- seniority,
- stability,
- standing,
- steadfastness,
- survival,
- survivance,
- time immemorial,
- venerableness,
- vestige
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- ancestral,
- ancient,
- antenatal,
- antepatriarchal,
- atavistic,
- autochthonous,
- basal,
- basic,
- beginning,
- budding,
- central,
- creative,
- crucial,
- early,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- erstwhile,
- fetal,
- fore,
- formative,
- former,
- foundational,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- genetic,
- germinal,
- gestatory,
- humanoid,
- immemorial,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in ovo,
- in the bud,
- inaugural,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- infant,
- infantile,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- introductory,
- inventive,
- late,
- nascent,
- natal,
- old,
- olden,
- once,
- onetime,
- original,
- parturient,
- past,
- patriarchal,
- postnatal,
- preadamite,
- preglacial,
- pregnant,
- prehistoric,
- prehuman,
- prenatal,
- previous,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- primoprimitive,
- primordial,
- prior,
- pristine,
- procreative,
- protogenic,
- protohistoric,
- protohuman,
- quondam,
- radical,
- recent,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- seminal,
- sometime,
- then,
- ur
- PDQ,
- all at once,
- all together,
- apace,
- at a blow,
- at a stroke,
- at once,
- at one blow,
- at one jump,
- at one stroke,
- at one swoop,
- at one time,
- decisively,
- directly,
- expeditiously,
- forthwith,
- immediately,
- in a hurry,
- in no time,
- instanter,
- instantly,
- now,
- on the instant,
- on the spot,
- per saltum,
- pretty damned quick,
- promptly,
- pronto,
- quickly,
- right away,
- right now,
- right off,
- simultaneously,
- smartly,
- speedily,
- straightaway,
- straightway,
- subito,
- summarily,
- swiftly,
- then and there,
- this minute,
- this very minute,
- uno saltu,
- with all speed,
- without further delay
- PDQ,
- all at once,
- all together,
- apace,
- at a blow,
- at a stroke,
- at once,
- at one blow,
- at one jump,
- at one stroke,
- at one swoop,
- at one time,
- decisively,
- directly,
- expeditiously,
- forthwith,
- immediately,
- in a hurry,
- in no time,
- instanter,
- instantly,
- now,
- on the instant,
- on the spot,
- per saltum,
- pretty damned quick,
- promptly,
- pronto,
- quickly,
- right now,
- right off,
- simultaneously,
- smartly,
- speedily,
- straightaway,
- straightway,
- subito,
- summarily,
- swiftly,
- then and there,
- this minute,
- this very minute,
- uno saltu,
- with all speed,
- without delay,
- without further delay
- intermittence
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- the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping related words >
- abeyance,
- alternation,
- arrhythmia,
- beat,
- break,
- broken thread,
- brokenness,
- caesura,
- capriciousness,
- cease-fire,
- choppiness,
- coffee break,
- cyclicalness,
- day off,
- desultoriness,
- disconnectedness,
- disconnection,
- discontinuance,
- discontinuation,
- discontinuity,
- discontinuousness,
- discreteness,
- disjunction,
- downtime,
- drop,
- eccentricity,
- episode,
- erraticness,
- fibrillation,
- fitfulness,
- fits and starts,
- fluctuation,
- half time,
- half-time intermission,
- hesitation,
- holiday,
- incoherence,
- incompleteness,
- inconstancy,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittency,
- interregnum,
- interruption,
- interval,
- irregularity,
- jerkiness,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- letup,
- lull,
- meter,
- non sequitur,
- noncontinuance,
- nonlinearity,
- nonseriality,
- nonuniformity,
- off-time,
- oscillation,
- parenthesis,
- patchiness,
- pause,
- pendulum motion,
- periodicalness,
- periodicity,
- piston motion,
- plateau,
- point of repose,
- pulsation,
- quiet spell,
- reappearance,
- recess,
- recurrence,
- regular wave motion,
- relief,
- remission,
- reoccurrence,
- respite,
- rest,
- resting point,
- return,
- rhythm,
- roughness,
- seasonality,
- spasticity,
- sporadicity,
- sporadicness,
- spottiness,
- stagger,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- suspension,
- time off,
- time out,
- truce,
- uncertainty,
- undulation,
- unevenness,
- unmethodicalness,
- unpredictability,
- unsteadiness,
- unsystematicness,
- vacation,
- variability,
- whimsicality,
- wobble
- for keeps
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- for the winner to keep all; "they played for keeps" related words >
- prediction
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- the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
- a statement made about the future related words >
- aftertime,
- afteryears,
- anticipation,
- augury,
- by-and-by,
- cast,
- conjecture,
- contemplation,
- course ahead,
- crystal ball,
- determinism,
- discretion,
- distant future,
- envisagement,
- envisionment,
- eventuality,
- expectation,
- farseeingness,
- farsightedness,
- forecast,
- forefeeling,
- foreglance,
- foregleam,
- foreglimpse,
- forehandedness,
- foreseeing,
- foresight,
- foresightedness,
- foretelling,
- forward look,
- future,
- future tense,
- futurism,
- futurity,
- guess,
- hereafter,
- hint,
- hunch,
- immediate future,
- immediate prospect,
- imminence,
- intimation,
- longsightedness,
- looking ahead,
- near future,
- offing,
- outlook,
- posteriority,
- preapprehension,
- premonition,
- preparation,
- prepublication,
- presage,
- presagement,
- presentiment,
- preview,
- prevision,
- probability,
- prognosis,
- prognostication,
- project,
- prophecy,
- prospect,
- prospection,
- providence,
- provision,
- prudence,
- readiness,
- sagacity,
- suggestion,
- the future,
- the morrow,
- the sweet by-and-by,
- time ahead,
- time just ahead,
- time to come,
- tomorrow,
- weird
- Cronus,
- Kronos,
- Methuselah,
- Nestor,
- Old Paar,
- Time,
- centenarian,
- dotard,
- elder,
- gaffer,
- geezer,
- golden-ager,
- gramps,
- grandfather,
- grandsire,
- graybeard,
- nonagenarian,
- octogenarian,
- old chap,
- old codger,
- old dog,
- old duffer,
- old geezer,
- old gent,
- old gentleman,
- old man,
- old party,
- old-timer,
- older,
- oldster,
- pantaloon,
- patriarch,
- presbyter,
- senior citizen,
- septuagenarian,
- sexagenarian,
- the greatest innovator,
- the quiet-voiced elders,
- venerable sir,
- veteran
- stay up
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- not go to bed; "Don't stay up so late--you have to go to work tomorrow"; "We sat up all night to watch the election" related words >
- contemporaneity,
- contemporaneousness,
- historical present,
- modernity,
- newness,
- now,
- nowadays,
- nowness,
- our times,
- present,
- present tense,
- presentness,
- the Now Generation,
- the nonce,
- the now,
- the present,
- the present age,
- the present day,
- the present hour,
- the present juncture,
- the present time,
- the time being,
- the times,
- these days,
- this day,
- this hour,
- this instant,
- this moment,
- this point,
- this stage,
- today
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