Related Words:
- wavy
collapse - of hair in waves; "she had long wavy hair" related words >
- adrift,
- afloat,
- alternating,
- amorphous,
- bent,
- billowing,
- billowy,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- curvaceous,
- curvate,
- curvated,
- curve,
- curved,
- curvesome,
- curviform,
- curvilineal,
- curvilinear,
- curving,
- curvy,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- dizzy,
- eccentric,
- erratic,
- fast and loose,
- fickle,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- freakish,
- geosynclinal,
- giddy,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- incurvate,
- incurvated,
- incurved,
- incurving,
- indecisive,
- infirm,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- labyrinthine,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- mercurial,
- moody,
- rambling,
- recurvate,
- recurvated,
- recurved,
- recurving,
- restless,
- rolling,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- serpentine,
- shapeless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shuffling,
- sinuous,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- surgy,
- tortuous,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- undisciplined,
- undulant,
- undulate,
- undulated,
- undulating,
- undulative,
- undulatory,
- unfixed,
- unpredictable,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsettled,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wishy-washy
- flamboyant
collapse
- richly and brilliantly colorful related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- arabesque,
- baroque,
- bedazzling,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- blinding,
- bright,
- bright and shining,
- brilliant,
- busy,
- chichi,
- convoluted,
- dashing,
- dazzling,
- declamatory,
- decorated,
- effulgent,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- embellished,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- frilly,
- fulgent,
- fulgid,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- glaring,
- glary,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- jaunty,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luscious,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- moresque,
- ornamented,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overlabored,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- rakish,
- refulgent,
- resplendent,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- splendent,
- splendid,
- splendorous,
- stilted,
- swank,
- swashbuckling,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- vivid,
- wide
- flashy
collapse
- (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- ablaze,
- affected,
- aflame,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blazing,
- blinding,
- brave,
- bravura,
- braw,
- brazen,
- burning,
- cheap,
- chichi,
- chintzy,
- convoluted,
- cosmetic,
- crude,
- daring,
- dashing,
- declamatory,
- dressy,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exhibitionistic,
- facile,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flash,
- flashing,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- frilly,
- frothy,
- fulgurant,
- fulgurating,
- fulsome,
- gallant,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gay,
- glaring,
- glib,
- glittering,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- insubstantial,
- jaunty,
- jazzy,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- meteoric,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- rakish,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- screaming,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shallow,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- skin-deep,
- slick,
- snazzy,
- sonorous,
- sparkling,
- splashy,
- splurgy,
- sporty,
- stilted,
- superficial,
- surface,
- tacky,
- tall,
- tasteless,
- tawdry,
- thin,
- tinsel,
- tortuous,
- vulgar
- askew
collapse
- turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"
- turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry" related words >
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- agee,
- agee-jawed,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- anamorphous,
- askance,
- askant,
- askewgee,
- asquint,
- astray,
- asymmetric,
- at fault,
- awry,
- bent,
- beside the mark,
- bowed,
- cam,
- catawampous,
- catawamptious,
- contorted,
- convulsed,
- corrupt,
- crazy,
- crooked,
- crookedly,
- crumpled,
- crunched,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- delusive,
- deranged,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- disarranged,
- discomfited,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dislocated,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- disorganized,
- distorted,
- disturbed,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- false,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- haywire,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- in disorder,
- irregular,
- labyrinthine,
- lopsided,
- misplaced,
- nonsymmetric,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- on the fritz,
- one-sided,
- out,
- out of gear,
- out of joint,
- out of kelter,
- out of kilter,
- out of order,
- out of place,
- out of tune,
- out of whack,
- peccant,
- perturbed,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- roily,
- self-contradictory,
- shuffled,
- skew,
- skew-jawed,
- skewed,
- slaunchways,
- sprung,
- squinting,
- straying,
- tortuous,
- turbid,
- turbulent,
- twisted,
- unfactual,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unsettled,
- unsymmetric,
- untrue,
- upset,
- wamper-jawed,
- warped,
- wide,
- wrong,
- wry,
- yaw-ways
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Latinate,
- affected,
- artificial,
- aureate,
- awkward,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bloated,
- bombastic,
- buckram,
- cardboard,
- clumsy,
- conventional,
- convoluted,
- cramped,
- cumbrous,
- declamatory,
- decorous,
- elephantine,
- elevated,
- erect,
- euphuistic,
- exalted,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flatulent,
- flaunting,
- flowery,
- forced,
- formal,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- graceless,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- guinde,
- halting,
- heavy,
- high,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- in buckram,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- la-di-da,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- leaden,
- lexiphanic,
- lifted,
- lofty,
- lumbering,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mannered,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- muscle-bound,
- on stilts,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- pontifical,
- pretentious,
- prim,
- raised,
- rampant,
- rhetorical,
- rigid,
- self-important,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- solemn,
- sonorous,
- starch,
- starched,
- stiff,
- stuffy,
- sublime,
- swollen,
- tall,
- too-too,
- tortuous,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- ungraceful,
- unnatural,
- unwieldy,
- upcast,
- upflung,
- uplifted,
- upraised,
- upreared,
- upright,
- upthrown,
- wooden
- pretentious
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- making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Johnsonian,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- arrogant,
- artificial,
- arty,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- chichi,
- classy,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- feigned,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- haughty,
- high and mighty,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-hat,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- histrionic,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperelegant,
- imposing,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- la-di-da,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- put-on,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- snobbish,
- snotty,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- stagy,
- stilted,
- studied,
- superficial,
- swank,
- swollen,
- tall,
- theatrical,
- tony,
- too-too,
- tortuous,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unnatural,
- utopian,
- vainglorious,
- vaunting,
- visionary,
- windy
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- amplified,
- arabesque,
- ballyhooed,
- baroque,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- busy,
- chichi,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- distracted,
- edgy,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fancy,
- fidgety,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flowery,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frilly,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- hyperbolic,
- in a dither,
- in a tizzy,
- in a twitter,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- jittery,
- jumpy,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- moresque,
- nervous,
- on edge,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overcome,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overexcited,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlabored,
- overlarge,
- overmastered,
- overpowered,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstrained,
- overstressed,
- overwhelmed,
- overworked,
- pedantic,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- puffed,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- strung out,
- superlative,
- tall,
- tense,
- tortuous,
- touchy,
- touted,
- upset,
- uptight,
- wound up
- gaudy
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- a celebratory feast held annually at one of the colleges in a British university related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- bedizened,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blinding,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- brummagem,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- coarse,
- colorful,
- common,
- contemptible,
- convoluted,
- crass,
- crude,
- crummy,
- declamatory,
- despicable,
- earthy,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fake,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gross,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- honky-tonk,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mean,
- meretricious,
- miserable,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pedantic,
- phony,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- pompous,
- poor,
- pretentious,
- raffish,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- ribald,
- rough,
- rubbishy,
- rude,
- sad,
- screaming,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shabby,
- sham,
- shameless,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- sonorous,
- sorry,
- spectacular,
- stilted,
- tacky,
- tall,
- tasteless,
- tatty,
- tawdry,
- tinsel,
- tinselly,
- tortuous,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- valueless,
- vile,
- vulgar,
- worthless,
- wretched
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- blazon,
- blinding,
- brandish,
- brandishing,
- brave,
- bravura,
- braw,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- brilliancy,
- chichi,
- colorful,
- convoluted,
- crude,
- daring,
- dash,
- dashing,
- declamatory,
- demonstration,
- display,
- dramatics,
- dressy,
- eclat,
- elevated,
- etalage,
- euphuistic,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- exhibitionistic,
- extravagant,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- figure,
- flagrant,
- flair,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashing,
- flashy,
- flaunt,
- flourish,
- flourishing,
- frilly,
- frothy,
- fulsome,
- gallant,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gay,
- glaring,
- glittering,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- histrionics,
- inkhorn,
- jaunty,
- jazzy,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- manifestation,
- meretricious,
- obtrusive,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbright,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- rakish,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- screaming,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shaking,
- sham,
- shameless,
- show,
- showing-off,
- showy,
- shrieking,
- snazzy,
- sonorous,
- spectacle,
- spectacular,
- splash,
- splashy,
- splurge,
- splurgy,
- sporty,
- staginess,
- stilted,
- tall,
- tawdry,
- theatrics,
- tortuous,
- undulation,
- vaunt,
- vulgar,
- wave,
- wave motion,
- waving
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- absurd,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- ambitious,
- amplified,
- arrogant,
- ballyhooed,
- bedizened,
- beyond belief,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bizarre,
- bombastic,
- classy,
- cockamamie,
- condescending,
- convoluted,
- crazy,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- domineering,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fancy,
- fantastic,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- foolish,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- grotesque,
- haughty,
- high,
- high-faluting,
- high-flowing,
- high-flying,
- high-headed,
- high-minded,
- high-nosed,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperbolic,
- incredible,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- labyrinthine,
- laughable,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- ludicrous,
- lurid,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- monstrous,
- nonsensical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overbearing,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlarge,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstressed,
- overwrought,
- patronizing,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- poppycockish,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- proud,
- puffed,
- purse-proud,
- rhetorical,
- ridiculous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- stuck-up,
- superior,
- superlative,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tony,
- toplofty,
- tortuous,
- touted,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- upstage,
- vaunting,
- weird,
- wild,
- windy
- meretricious
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- like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- apparent,
- bedizened,
- beggarly,
- beneath contempt,
- big-sounding,
- blatant,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- cheap,
- cheesy,
- chintzy,
- coarse,
- colorable,
- colored,
- colorful,
- common,
- contemptible,
- convoluted,
- crass,
- crude,
- crummy,
- deceptive,
- declamatory,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- despicable,
- earthy,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fallen,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gilded,
- gimcracky,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gross,
- harlot,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hustling,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- mean,
- miserable,
- misleading,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- on the,
- on the town,
- orotund,
- ostensible,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- paltry,
- pathetic,
- pave,
- pedantic,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plausible,
- pompous,
- poor,
- pretentious,
- prostitute,
- prostituted,
- raw,
- rhetorical,
- ribald,
- rough,
- rubbishy,
- rude,
- sad,
- scarlet,
- screaming,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- scuzzy,
- seeming,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- shabby,
- shameless,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- sorry,
- specious,
- spectacular,
- spurious,
- stilted,
- streetwalking,
- tall,
- tawdry,
- tinsel,
- tortuous,
- trashy,
- trumpery,
- two-for-a-cent,
- two-for-a-penny,
- twopenny,
- twopenny-halfpenny,
- valueless,
- vile,
- vulgar,
- whorish,
- worthless,
- wretched
- indirect
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- not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination; "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "you must take an indirect course in sailing"
- extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action; "making indirect but legitimate inquiries"; "an indirect insult"; "doubtless they had some indirect purpose in mind"; "though his methods are indirect they are not dishonest"; "known as a shady indirect fellow"
- having intervening factors or persons or influences; "reflection from the ceiling provided a soft indirect light"; "indirect evidence"; "an indirect cause"
- not as a direct effect or consequence; "indirect benefits"; "an indirect advantage" related words >
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- accessory,
- accidental,
- additional,
- adscititious,
- adventitious,
- ambagious,
- amoral,
- ancillary,
- artful,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- circumambient,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- collateral,
- collusive,
- coming,
- conscienceless,
- contingent,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- errant,
- erratic,
- evasive,
- eventual,
- excursive,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- final,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- helical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- incidental,
- insidious,
- labyrinthine,
- last,
- left-handed,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- periphrastic,
- planetary,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- rotary,
- rotten,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- scheming,
- secondary,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinuous,
- slippery,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- subordinate,
- subsidiary,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- swerving,
- tortuous,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- two-faced,
- ultimate,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undirected,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- wily,
- winding,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- zigzag
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- acute,
- ambagious,
- amphibian,
- anfractuous,
- anguiform,
- anguine,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- batrachian,
- cagey,
- canny,
- circuitous,
- circumlocutory,
- clever,
- colubriform,
- convolutional,
- crafty,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- crocodilian,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- departing,
- designing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- diplomatic,
- discursive,
- eellike,
- errant,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- feline,
- flexuose,
- flexuous,
- foxy,
- froggy,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involutional,
- knowing,
- labyrinthine,
- lizardlike,
- lumbriciform,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- ophidian,
- out-of-the-way,
- pawky,
- planetary,
- politic,
- rambling,
- ready,
- repent,
- reptant,
- reptile,
- reptilelike,
- reptilian,
- reptiliform,
- reptiloid,
- resourceful,
- rivose,
- rivulose,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- ruffled,
- saurian,
- scheming,
- serpentiform,
- serpentile,
- serpentine,
- serpentlike,
- serpentoid,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- sinuate,
- sinuose,
- sinuous,
- slick,
- slippery,
- slithering,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snake-shaped,
- snakelike,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stray,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- swerving,
- tactical,
- toadish,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortuous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- undirected,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- vermiform,
- viperiform,
- viperish,
- viperlike,
- viperoid,
- viperous,
- vipery,
- vulpine,
- wandering,
- wary,
- whorled,
- wily,
- winding,
- wormlike,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- zigzag
- warped
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- used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture; "the floors were warped and cracked" related words >
- abandoned,
- affected,
- anamorphous,
- antiblack,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- askew,
- assumed,
- asymmetric,
- bastard,
- bent,
- biased,
- blemished,
- bogus,
- bowed,
- brummagem,
- chauvinistic,
- checked,
- cicatrized,
- cockeyed,
- colorable,
- colored,
- contaminated,
- contorted,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- crooked,
- crumpled,
- crunched,
- debased,
- debauched,
- decadent,
- defaced,
- defective,
- deformed,
- degenerate,
- degraded,
- depraved,
- deviative,
- disfigured,
- dissolute,
- distorted,
- doctrinaire,
- dogmatic,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- faulty,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- flawed,
- garbled,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- influenced,
- interested,
- involved,
- irregular,
- jaundiced,
- junky,
- keloidal,
- kinked,
- know-nothing,
- labyrinthine,
- lopsided,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- marred,
- mock,
- morally polluted,
- nonobjective,
- nonsymmetric,
- one-sided,
- opinionated,
- partial,
- partisan,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pimpled,
- pimply,
- pinchbeck,
- polluted,
- prejudiced,
- prepossessed,
- pretended,
- profligate,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- racist,
- reprobate,
- rotten,
- scabbed,
- scabby,
- scarified,
- scarred,
- self-styled,
- sexist,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- split,
- sprung,
- spurious,
- steeped in iniquity,
- superpatriotic,
- supposititious,
- swayed,
- synthetic,
- tainted,
- tendentious,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- tortuous,
- twisted,
- ultranationalist,
- unauthentic,
- undetached,
- undispassionate,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unneutral,
- unreal,
- unsymmetric,
- vice-corrupted,
- vitiated,
- xenophobic
- intricate
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- having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate; "intricate lacework" related words >
- Byzantine,
- Daedalian,
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- amalgamated,
- ambiguous,
- ambivalent,
- amphibious,
- anfractuous,
- arduous,
- baffling,
- balled up,
- bewildering,
- beyond one,
- blended,
- bothering,
- brutal,
- combined,
- complex,
- complicated,
- composite,
- compound,
- compounded,
- confounded,
- confounding,
- confused,
- confusing,
- conglomerate,
- convoluted,
- crabbed,
- cramp,
- critical,
- daedal,
- dappled,
- dedal,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- devious,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- discomposing,
- disconcerting,
- dismaying,
- distracting,
- disturbing,
- eclectic,
- elaborate,
- embarrassing,
- embrangled,
- enigmatic,
- entangled,
- equivocal,
- exacting,
- fancy,
- fifty-fifty,
- formidable,
- fouled up,
- garbled,
- gordian,
- hairy,
- half-and-half,
- hard,
- hard to understand,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heterogeneous,
- implicated,
- indiscriminate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- ironic,
- jawbreaking,
- jumbled,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- laborious,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- many-sided,
- matted,
- mazy,
- mean,
- meandering,
- medley,
- messed up,
- mingled,
- miscellaneous,
- mixed,
- mixed up,
- motley,
- mucked up,
- multifaceted,
- multifarious,
- multinational,
- multiracial,
- mysterious,
- mystifying,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- operose,
- ornate,
- overtechnical,
- patchy,
- perplexed,
- perplexing,
- perturbing,
- pluralistic,
- problematic,
- promiscuous,
- puzzling,
- ramified,
- rigorous,
- rococo,
- rough,
- roundabout,
- rugged,
- scrambled,
- screwed up,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- sinuous,
- snarled,
- sophisticated,
- spiny,
- steep,
- strenuous,
- subtle,
- syncretic,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- thorny,
- thrown together,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- tortuous,
- tough,
- tricky,
- twisted,
- uphill,
- upsetting,
- varied,
- wicked,
- winding
- pompous
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- characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Latinate,
- affected,
- arrogant,
- assured,
- aureate,
- awkward,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bloated,
- boastful,
- bombastic,
- braggart,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- cocksure,
- conceited,
- confident,
- conventional,
- convinced,
- convoluted,
- cramped,
- cumbrous,
- decided,
- declamatory,
- decorous,
- determined,
- egotistical,
- elephantine,
- elevated,
- embroidered,
- euphuistic,
- exhibitionist,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flatulent,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- forced,
- formal,
- fulsome,
- fustian,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- guinde,
- halting,
- haughty,
- heavy,
- hieratic,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-hat,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hoity-toity,
- hubristic,
- imperious,
- important,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- leaden,
- lexiphanic,
- liturgic,
- lofty,
- lumbering,
- lurid,
- magisterial,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- narcissistic,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbearing,
- overblown,
- overconfident,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- oversure,
- overweening,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- persuaded,
- poised,
- ponderous,
- pontifical,
- positive,
- presumptuous,
- pretentious,
- proud,
- puffy,
- reassured,
- rhetorical,
- ritual,
- ritualistic,
- sacerdotal,
- secure,
- self-assured,
- self-centered,
- self-conceited,
- self-confident,
- self-important,
- self-reliant,
- selfish,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- snobbish,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- solemn,
- sonorous,
- stately,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stuck-up,
- stuffy,
- sure,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tortuous,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unafraid,
- undoubting,
- unfaltering,
- unhesitating,
- unwavering,
- unwieldy,
- uppity,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- well-mannered,
- windy
- sententious
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- abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- Spartan,
- abbreviated,
- abridged,
- admonitory,
- advisory,
- affected,
- allegorical,
- aphoristic,
- aposiopestic,
- associational,
- axiomatic,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- brief,
- brusque,
- cautionary,
- clipped,
- close,
- compact,
- compendious,
- compressed,
- concise,
- condensed,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- consultative,
- consultatory,
- contracted,
- convoluted,
- crisp,
- curt,
- cut,
- declamatory,
- definable,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- didactic,
- directive,
- docked,
- elevated,
- elliptic,
- eloquent,
- epigrammatic,
- euphuistic,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- expostulative,
- expostulatory,
- expressive,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facund,
- figurative,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- formulaic,
- formulistic,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- gnomic,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- indicative,
- inkhorn,
- instructive,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- labyrinthine,
- laconic,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- meretricious,
- metaphorical,
- monitorial,
- monitory,
- moralistic,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- piquant,
- pithy,
- platitudinous,
- pointed,
- pompous,
- preachy,
- pregnant,
- pretentious,
- proverbial,
- pruned,
- pungent,
- readable,
- recommendatory,
- referential,
- remonstrant,
- remonstrative,
- remonstratory,
- reserved,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- short,
- short and sweet,
- shortened,
- showy,
- significant,
- significative,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- substantial,
- succinct,
- suggestive,
- summary,
- symbolic,
- synopsized,
- taciturn,
- tall,
- terse,
- tight,
- to the point,
- tortuous,
- transferred,
- truncated,
- warning
- tall
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- a garment size for a tall person
- great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- a mile long,
- absurd,
- affected,
- altitudinous,
- bedizened,
- beyond belief,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- bumper,
- colossal,
- considerable,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- extensive,
- extravagant,
- far-flung,
- far-reaching,
- fargoing,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- giant,
- gigantic,
- goodly,
- grand,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- great,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- healthy,
- high,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-reaching,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- huge,
- implausible,
- improbable,
- inconceivable,
- incredible,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- interminable,
- labyrinthine,
- lank,
- lanky,
- large,
- large-scale,
- leggy,
- lengthy,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- long,
- long-legged,
- longish,
- longsome,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- man-sized,
- meretricious,
- no end of,
- not deserving belief,
- numerous,
- open to doubt,
- open to suspicion,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- outrageous,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- passing belief,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- problematic,
- questionable,
- rangy,
- rhetorical,
- ridiculous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sesquipedal,
- sesquipedalian,
- showy,
- sizable,
- sky-high,
- skyscraping,
- soaring,
- sonorous,
- staggering belief,
- statuesque,
- steep,
- stilted,
- substantial,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- swollen,
- thick,
- thin,
- tidy,
- tortuous,
- towering,
- unbelievable,
- unconvincing,
- unearthly,
- ungodly,
- unimaginable,
- unthinkable,
- unworthy of belief,
- windy,
- without end
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- achingly sweet,
- affected,
- agreeable,
- agreeable-sounding,
- appealing,
- ariose,
- arioso,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- booming,
- canorous,
- cantabile,
- catchy,
- clangorous,
- clattery,
- consonant,
- convoluted,
- deafening,
- declamatory,
- droning,
- dulcet,
- ear-piercing,
- ear-rending,
- ear-splitting,
- earthshaking,
- elevated,
- euphonic,
- euphonious,
- euphonous,
- euphuistic,
- fine-toned,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flowery,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- full,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- golden,
- golden-tongued,
- golden-voiced,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- honeyed,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- loud,
- loud-sounding,
- loudish,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- melic,
- mellifluent,
- mellifluous,
- mellisonant,
- mellow,
- melodic,
- melodious,
- meretricious,
- monotone,
- monotonic,
- music-flowing,
- music-like,
- musical,
- noiseful,
- oratorical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pealing,
- pedantic,
- piercing,
- plangent,
- pleasant,
- pleasant-sounding,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pulsing,
- rackety,
- resonant,
- resonating,
- resounding,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- ringing,
- rolling,
- rotund,
- round,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- silver-toned,
- silver-tongued,
- silver-voiced,
- silvery,
- singable,
- songful,
- songlike,
- soniferous,
- sounded,
- sounding,
- stentoraphonic,
- stentorian,
- stentorious,
- stilted,
- sweet,
- sweet-flowing,
- sweet-sounding,
- tall,
- throbbing,
- thunderous,
- tonal,
- toneless,
- tonitruant,
- tonitruous,
- tortuous,
- tunable,
- tuneful,
- uproarious,
- vibrant,
- vibrating,
- window-rattling
- distorted
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- having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem" related words >
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- affected,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- anamorphous,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- askew,
- assumed,
- astray,
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