Exact Match:
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- ambages,
- anfractuosity,
- brandish,
- brandishing,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumvolution,
- convolution,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flexuosity,
- flexuousness,
- flourish,
- flourishing,
- intorsion,
- involution,
- meander,
- meandering,
- rivulation,
- shaking,
- sinuation,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- slinkiness,
- snakiness,
- torsion,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- turning,
- twisting,
- undulant,
- undulating,
- undulation,
- undulatory,
- wave,
- wave motion,
- winding
- ambages
collapse - (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action related words >
- anfractuosity,
- bypass,
- circuit,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumvolution,
- convolution,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- detour,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- digression,
- excursion,
- flexuosity,
- flexuousness,
- indirection,
- intorsion,
- involution,
- meander,
- meandering,
- obliqueness,
- periphrase,
- periphrasis,
- rivulation,
- roundabout,
- roundabout way,
- roundaboutness,
- sinuation,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- slinkiness,
- snakiness,
- torsion,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- turning,
- twisting,
- undulation,
- wave,
- waving,
- winding
- torsion
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- a twisting force related words >
- ambages,
- anamorphism,
- anamorphosis,
- anfractuosity,
- asymmetry,
- buckle,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumvolution,
- contortion,
- convolution,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- crookedness,
- deflection,
- deflexure,
- detorsion,
- deviation,
- diffraction,
- diffusion,
- dispersion,
- disproportion,
- distortion,
- flection,
- flexuosity,
- flexuousness,
- flexure,
- gnarl,
- imbalance,
- intorsion,
- involution,
- irregularity,
- knot,
- lopsidedness,
- meander,
- meandering,
- quirk,
- refraction,
- rivulation,
- scatter,
- screw,
- sinuation,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- skewness,
- slinkiness,
- snakiness,
- stress,
- torque,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- twisting,
- undulation,
- unsymmetry,
- warp,
- wave,
- waving,
- winding,
- wrench,
- wrest,
- wring
- circumlocution
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- an indirect way of expressing something
- a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things related words >
- ambages,
- anfractuosity,
- circling,
- circuition,
- circuitousness,
- circuitry,
- circularity,
- circulation,
- circumambages,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumambulation,
- circumbendibus,
- circumflexion,
- circummigration,
- circumnavigation,
- circumvolution,
- convolution,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- digression,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- flexuosity,
- flexuousness,
- gyre,
- gyring,
- indirection,
- intorsion,
- involution,
- meander,
- meandering,
- obliqueness,
- orbit,
- orbiting,
- periphrase,
- periphrasis,
- pleonasm,
- redundancy,
- rivulation,
- roundabout,
- roundaboutness,
- rounding,
- sinuation,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- slinkiness,
- snakiness,
- spiral,
- spiraling,
- tautology,
- torsion,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- turn,
- turning,
- twisting,
- undulation,
- verbality,
- wave,
- waving,
- wheeling,
- winding
- vaulting
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- (architecture) a vaulted structure; "arches and vaulting" related words >
- aduncity,
- apse,
- aquilinity,
- arcade,
- arcature,
- arch,
- arched roof,
- arching,
- archway,
- arcuation,
- aspiring,
- bouncing,
- bounding,
- camber,
- capering,
- ceilinged roof,
- circularity,
- concameration,
- concavity,
- concha,
- convexity,
- convolution,
- cove,
- crookedness,
- cupola,
- curvation,
- curvature,
- curving,
- curvity,
- decurvation,
- decurvature,
- dome,
- emulous,
- enthusiastic,
- excurvation,
- excurvature,
- geodesic dome,
- hookedness,
- hopping,
- hurdle race,
- hurdling,
- igloo,
- incurvation,
- incurvature,
- incurvity,
- jumping,
- keystone,
- leaping,
- ogive,
- pole vaulting,
- prancing,
- recurvation,
- recurvature,
- recurvity,
- rondure,
- rotundity,
- saltation,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- skewback,
- skipping,
- span,
- springing,
- steeplechase,
- the hurdles,
- timber topping,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- vault,
- voussoir
- convexity
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- the property possessed by a convex shape related words >
- aduncity,
- aquilinity,
- arching,
- arcuation,
- belly,
- boss,
- bump,
- circularity,
- colophon,
- concameration,
- concavity,
- convolution,
- crookedness,
- curvation,
- curvature,
- curving,
- curvity,
- cylindricality,
- dactylogram,
- dactylograph,
- decurvation,
- decurvature,
- dent,
- dint,
- embossment,
- excrescence,
- excurvation,
- excurvature,
- fingerprint,
- footmark,
- footprint,
- footstep,
- fossil footprint,
- globosity,
- globularity,
- hookedness,
- ichnite,
- ichnolite,
- impress,
- impression,
- imprint,
- incurvation,
- incurvature,
- incurvity,
- indent,
- indentation,
- indention,
- lump,
- orbicularity,
- pad,
- paw print,
- pawmark,
- pimple,
- print,
- pug,
- pugmark,
- recurvation,
- recurvature,
- recurvity,
- rondure,
- rotundity,
- rotundness,
- roundness,
- seal,
- sigil,
- signet,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- sphericality,
- sphericalness,
- sphericity,
- spheroidicity,
- spheroidity,
- stamp,
- step,
- stud,
- thumbmark,
- thumbprint,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- vaulting,
- vestige
- ambages,
- anfractuosity,
- bristle,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumvolution,
- cocker,
- cockle,
- contort,
- convolution,
- corkscrew,
- corrugate,
- corrugation,
- crankle,
- crease,
- crimp,
- crimple,
- crinkling,
- crumple,
- flexuosity,
- flexuousness,
- fold,
- furrow,
- intorsion,
- intort,
- involution,
- knit,
- knot,
- meander,
- meandering,
- plica,
- pucker,
- purse,
- ridge,
- rimple,
- ripple,
- rivel,
- rivulation,
- ruck,
- ruckle,
- ruffle,
- rumple,
- rustle,
- scallop,
- screw,
- scrunch,
- serpentine,
- set on edge,
- shirr,
- sinuation,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- slink,
- slinkiness,
- snake,
- snakiness,
- swirl,
- swish,
- torsion,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- turn,
- turning,
- twine,
- twirl,
- twist,
- twist and turn,
- twisting,
- undulation,
- wave,
- waving,
- whirl,
- whish,
- whorl,
- wimple,
- wind,
- winding,
- worm,
- wring,
- wrinkle
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- ambages,
- ambagious,
- anfractuosity,
- anfractuous,
- bending,
- circuitous,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumlocutory,
- circumvolution,
- convoluted,
- convolution,
- convolutional,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- crooked,
- curving,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- errant,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- flexuose,
- flexuosity,
- flexuous,
- flexuousness,
- indirect,
- intorsion,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involution,
- involutional,
- labyrinthine,
- mazy,
- meander,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- out-of-the-way,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- rivose,
- rivulation,
- rivulose,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- ruffled,
- serpentine,
- shifting,
- sinuate,
- sinuation,
- sinuose,
- sinuosity,
- sinuous,
- sinuousness,
- slinkiness,
- snakiness,
- snaky,
- stray,
- swerving,
- torsion,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuous,
- tortuousness,
- turning,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- undirected,
- undulation,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- wave,
- waving,
- whorled,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- zigzag
- circularity
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- the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure related words >
- aduncity,
- apparent soundness,
- aquilinity,
- arching,
- arcuation,
- casuistry,
- circling,
- circuition,
- circuitousness,
- circuitry,
- circulation,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumambulation,
- circumflexion,
- circumlocution,
- circummigration,
- circumnavigation,
- concameration,
- concavity,
- convexity,
- convolution,
- crookedness,
- curvation,
- curvature,
- curving,
- curvity,
- decurvation,
- decurvature,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- digression,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- excurvation,
- excurvature,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- gyre,
- gyring,
- hookedness,
- incurvation,
- incurvature,
- incurvity,
- indirection,
- insincerity,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- meandering,
- misapplication,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- orbit,
- orbiting,
- oversubtlety,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- rationalization,
- recurvation,
- recurvature,
- recurvity,
- rondure,
- rotundity,
- roundaboutness,
- rounding,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- spiral,
- spiraling,
- subtlety,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- turn,
- turning,
- vaulting,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- wheeling
- flatulence
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- a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal related words >
- Barnumism,
- aeriness,
- affectation,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- bloat,
- bloatedness,
- bloating,
- blowing up,
- convolution,
- diastole,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- distension,
- dropsy,
- edema,
- ethereality,
- fart,
- flashiness,
- flatulency,
- flatuosity,
- flatus,
- fluidity,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gas,
- gaseity,
- gaseous state,
- gaseousness,
- gassiness,
- gaudiness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- high-flown diction,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- intumescence,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- meteorism,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prose run mad,
- puff,
- puffiness,
- puffing,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- swell,
- swellage,
- swelling,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumefaction,
- tumescence,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- turgidness,
- tympanism,
- tympany,
- vapor pressure,
- vaporiness,
- vaporousness,
- wind,
- windiness
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- bedizenment,
- blowing up,
- bullshit,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- convolution,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extreme,
- fancy talk,
- fine talk,
- fish story,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gas,
- gaudiness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- heightening,
- high-flown diction,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hot air,
- huckstering,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- prose run mad,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall story,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity
- involution
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- the action of enfolding something
- a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
- reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth) related words >
- absorption,
- addition,
- ambages,
- anfractuosity,
- approximation,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumvolution,
- comedown,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- convolution,
- crabbedness,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- declension,
- declination,
- decline,
- deformation,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradation,
- demotion,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depreciation,
- derogation,
- descent,
- deterioration,
- devolution,
- differentiation,
- division,
- downtrend,
- downturn,
- downward mobility,
- downward trend,
- drop,
- dying,
- ebb,
- effeteness,
- embarrassment,
- engagement,
- enmeshment,
- entanglement,
- equation,
- evolution,
- extrapolation,
- fading,
- failing,
- failure,
- failure of nerve,
- fall,
- falling-off,
- flexuosity,
- flexuousness,
- implication,
- inclusion,
- integration,
- interpolation,
- intorsion,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- inversion,
- involvement,
- lapse,
- loss of tone,
- meander,
- meandering,
- multiplication,
- notation,
- perplexity,
- practice,
- proportion,
- ramification,
- reduction,
- regression,
- relation,
- retrocession,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- rivulation,
- sinuation,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- slinkiness,
- slippage,
- slump,
- snakiness,
- subtlety,
- subtraction,
- tanglement,
- technicality,
- torsion,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- transformation,
- turning,
- twisting,
- undulation,
- wane,
- wave,
- waving,
- winding
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- arrogance,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- bedizenment,
- belief,
- big talk,
- buckram,
- ceremonial,
- ceremoniousness,
- ceremony,
- certitude,
- cocksureness,
- confidence,
- confidentness,
- conviction,
- convolution,
- courage,
- dignity,
- extrinsicality,
- faith,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- form,
- formality,
- formalization,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- gravity,
- high-flown diction,
- hubris,
- impersonality,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- poise,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomp,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontificality,
- pontification,
- positiveness,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pride,
- primness,
- prose run mad,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- rigidness,
- ritual,
- rituality,
- security,
- self-assurance,
- self-confidence,
- self-importance,
- self-reliance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- settled belief,
- showiness,
- solemnity,
- starchiness,
- stiffness,
- stiltedness,
- stuffiness,
- stylization,
- subjective certainty,
- sureness,
- surety,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trust,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- weight
- concavity
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- the property possessed by a concave shape related words >
- aduncity,
- alveolation,
- alveolus,
- antrum,
- aquilinity,
- arching,
- arcuation,
- armpit,
- basin,
- boss,
- bowl,
- bump,
- cavity,
- circularity,
- colophon,
- concameration,
- concave,
- convexity,
- convolution,
- crater,
- crookedness,
- crypt,
- cup,
- curvation,
- curvature,
- curving,
- curvity,
- dactylogram,
- dactylograph,
- de-escalation,
- debasement,
- decurvation,
- decurvature,
- degradation,
- demotion,
- dent,
- depression,
- descent,
- detrusion,
- diminution,
- dint,
- dip,
- ducking,
- embossment,
- excrescence,
- excurvation,
- excurvature,
- fingerprint,
- fold,
- follicle,
- footmark,
- footprint,
- footstep,
- fossil footprint,
- funnel chest,
- hauling down,
- hole,
- hollow,
- hollow shell,
- hollowness,
- hookedness,
- ichnite,
- ichnolite,
- impress,
- impression,
- imprint,
- incurvation,
- incurvature,
- incurvity,
- indent,
- indentation,
- indention,
- lacuna,
- lowering,
- lump,
- pad,
- paw print,
- pawmark,
- pimple,
- pit,
- pocket,
- print,
- pug,
- pugmark,
- punch bowl,
- recurvation,
- recurvature,
- recurvity,
- reduction,
- rondure,
- rotundity,
- sag,
- scoop,
- seal,
- shell,
- sigil,
- signet,
- sink,
- sinkage,
- sinkhole,
- sinking,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- sinus,
- socket,
- stamp,
- step,
- stud,
- submergence,
- thrusting under,
- thumbmark,
- thumbprint,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trough,
- vaulting,
- vestige,
- vug
- meander
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- a bend or curve, as in a stream or river related words >
- Chinese puzzle,
- Gordian knot,
- Rube Goldberg contraption,
- S-curve,
- ambages,
- amble,
- anfractuosity,
- bat around,
- bend,
- bending,
- bends,
- bow,
- bowing,
- bum,
- can of worms,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumvolution,
- coils,
- complex,
- conflexure,
- contort,
- convolution,
- corkscrew,
- count ties,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- curves,
- deflection,
- divagate,
- drift,
- err,
- excurse,
- flection,
- flex,
- flexuosity,
- flexuousness,
- flexure,
- flit,
- gad,
- gad about,
- gallivant,
- geanticline,
- geosyncline,
- go about,
- go adrift,
- go astray,
- go the rounds,
- hairpin turn,
- hit the road,
- hit the trail,
- hobo,
- inflection,
- intorsion,
- intort,
- involution,
- jaunt,
- jungle,
- knock about,
- knock around,
- knot,
- labyrinth,
- loops,
- maze,
- meandering,
- mesh,
- mess,
- mooch,
- mosey,
- nomadize,
- oxbow,
- peregrinate,
- pererrate,
- perplex,
- prowl,
- ramble,
- range,
- ravel,
- reflection,
- rivulation,
- roam,
- rove,
- run about,
- saunter,
- scallop,
- screw,
- serpentine,
- sinuation,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- slink,
- slinkiness,
- snafu,
- snake,
- snake pit,
- snakiness,
- snarl,
- straggle,
- stray,
- stroll,
- sweep,
- swirl,
- tangle,
- tangled skein,
- torsion,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- traipse,
- tramp,
- turn,
- turning,
- twine,
- twirl,
- twist,
- twist and turn,
- twisting,
- undulation,
- vagabond,
- vagabondize,
- walk the tracks,
- wander,
- wave,
- waving,
- wayfare,
- webwork,
- wheels within wheels,
- whirl,
- whorl,
- wilderness,
- wind,
- winding,
- worm,
- wring,
- zigzag
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- apparent character,
- appearances,
- arsenic green,
- bedizenment,
- beggarliness,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- brazenness,
- cheapness,
- clashing colors,
- coarseness,
- color clash,
- colorfulness,
- contemptibleness,
- convolution,
- crassness,
- crudeness,
- crudity,
- crumminess,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- despicableness,
- display,
- earthiness,
- exteriors,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- facade,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- grossness,
- high-flown diction,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- jaundiced yellow,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- lexiphanicism,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- meanness,
- mere externals,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- meritlessness,
- miserableness,
- obscenity,
- obtrusiveness,
- orotundity,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- paltriness,
- panache,
- pitiableness,
- pitifulness,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- poorness,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prose run mad,
- public image,
- rawness,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- ribaldry,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- sadness,
- screaming color,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- shabbiness,
- shamelessness,
- shocking pink,
- shoddiness,
- show,
- showiness,
- sorriness,
- speciousness,
- sportiness,
- stiltedness,
- superficiality,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tawdriness,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unworthiness,
- vain show,
- vileness,
- vulgarness,
- worthlessness,
- wretchedness
- sensationalism
collapse
- the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation"
- subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes related words >
- Barnumism,
- Thespian art,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amateur theatricals,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- blood and thunder,
- blowing up,
- brazenness,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- colorfulness,
- convolution,
- crudeness,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- demonstrativeness,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramaturgy,
- emotional appeal,
- emotionalism,
- emotionality,
- emotionalization,
- emotionalizing,
- emotiveness,
- emotivity,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- extreme,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- fulsomeness,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- heightening,
- high-flown diction,
- histrionics,
- histrionism,
- huckstering,
- human interest,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- loudness,
- love interest,
- luridness,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- making scenes,
- melodrama,
- melodramatics,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- nonrationalness,
- obtrusiveness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- panache,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- play construction,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- prose run mad,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sententiousness,
- shamelessness,
- showiness,
- sportiness,
- staginess,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tawdriness,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- theatrics,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unreasoningness,
- visceralness,
- vulgarness,
- yellow journalism
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- abstractionism,
- abuse of terms,
- ambages,
- ambagious,
- anfractuosity,
- anfractuous,
- bending,
- braiding,
- catachresis,
- circuitous,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumlocutory,
- circumvolution,
- coloring,
- contorting,
- convolution,
- convolutional,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- curving,
- deformation,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- distortion,
- eisegesis,
- enlacement,
- entwinement,
- entwining,
- errant,
- erratic,
- error,
- exaggeration,
- excursive,
- expressionism,
- fabric,
- false coloring,
- falsification,
- flexuose,
- flexuosity,
- flexuous,
- flexuousness,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- hyperbole,
- inaccuracy,
- indirect,
- injustice,
- interknitting,
- interlacement,
- interlacery,
- interlacing,
- intertexture,
- interthreading,
- intertieing,
- intertwinement,
- intertwining,
- intertwisting,
- interweavement,
- interweaving,
- intorsion,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involution,
- involutional,
- knitting,
- labyrinthine,
- lacing,
- litotes,
- malentendu,
- malobservation,
- mazy,
- meander,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- misapplication,
- misapprehension,
- miscitation,
- miscoloring,
- misconception,
- misconstruction,
- misdrawing,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mispainting,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misrendering,
- misreport,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- misteaching,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misuse of words,
- nonrealism,
- out-of-the-way,
- overdrawing,
- overstatement,
- perversion,
- plaiting,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- rivose,
- rivulation,
- rivulose,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- ruffled,
- serpentine,
- shifting,
- sinuate,
- sinuation,
- sinuose,
- sinuosity,
- sinuous,
- sinuousness,
- slanting,
- slinkiness,
- snakiness,
- snaky,
- squeezing,
- stray,
- swerving,
- texture,
- tissue,
- torsion,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuous,
- tortuousness,
- torturing,
- turning,
- twining,
- twisty,
- understatement,
- undirected,
- undulation,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- warp and woof,
- warpage,
- wave,
- waving,
- weave,
- weaving,
- web,
- weftage,
- whorled,
- winding,
- wreathing,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- wrenching,
- zigzag
- ostentation
collapse
- pretentious or showy or vulgar display
- lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- a gaudy outward display related words >
- Barnumism,
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- arabesque,
- arrantness,
- attitudinizing,
- baroque,
- baroqueness,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- boldness,
- cheating,
- chinoiserie,
- color,
- coloring,
- conspicuousness,
- convolution,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- elaborateness,
- elegance,
- enactment,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- exposition,
- exposure,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fanciness,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fineness,
- flagrance,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- flaunting,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- floweriness,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- high relief,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- luxuriance,
- luxuriousness,
- magniloquence,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- moresque,
- noticeability,
- notoriety,
- notoriousness,
- obtrusiveness,
- opening,
- orotundity,
- ostentatious complexity,
- outstandingness,
- outward show,
- overelaborateness,
- overelegance,
- overornamentation,
- parade,
- performance,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- production,
- projection,
- prominence,
- pronouncedness,
- prose run mad,
- representation,
- retrospective,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- richness,
- rococo,
- salience,
- saliency,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- showing,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- stiltedness,
- strikingness,
- strong relief,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- unveiling,
- varnish,
- varnishing day,
- vernissage,
- window dressing
- convolution
collapse
- the action of coiling or twisting or winding together related words >
- Barnumism,
- aduncity,
- affectation,
- aquilinity,
- arachnoid,
- arbor vitae,
- arching,
- archipallium,
- arcuation,
- bedizenment,
- between brain,
- big talk,
- brain stem,
- cerebellar hemispheres,
- cerebellum,
- cerebral cortex,
- cerebrospinal fluid,
- cerebrum,
- circularity,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- concameration,
- concavity,
- convexity,
- corpus callosum,
- corpus striatum,
- crabbedness,
- crookedness,
- curvation,
- curvature,
- curving,
- curvity,
- decurvation,
- decurvature,
- diencephalon,
- dura mater,
- endbrain,
- entanglement,
- excurvation,
- excurvature,
- fissure,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- folia,
- forebrain,
- fornix,
- frontal lobe,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- glial cells,
- globus pallidus,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- gray matter,
- gyrus,
- high-flown diction,
- hindbrain,
- hippocampus,
- hookedness,
- hypothalamus,
- incurvation,
- incurvature,
- incurvity,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- involution,
- involvement,
- lenticular nucleus,
- lexiphanicism,
- limbic lobe,
- little brain,
- lobe,
- loftiness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- mantle,
- medulla oblongata,
- meninges,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- mesencephalon,
- metencephalon,
- midbrain,
- myelencephalon,
- neopallium,
- occipital lobe,
- optic chiasm,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- pallium,
- parietal lobe,
- perplexity,
- pia mater,
- pineal body,
- pituitary body,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pons,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prose run mad,
- ramification,
- recurvation,
- recurvature,
- recurvity,
- reticular system,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- rhombencephalon,
- rondure,
- rotundity,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- showiness,
- sinuosity,
- sinuousness,
- stiltedness,
- subthalamus,
- subtlety,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tanglement,
- technicality,
- telencephalon,
- temporal lobe,
- thalamus,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- vaulting,
- ventricle,
- vermis,
- white matter
- rhetoric
collapse
- study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
- using language effectively to please or persuade related words >
- Barnumism,
- affectation,
- articulateness,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- bluster,
- bombast,
- choice of words,
- command of language,
- command of words,
- composition,
- convolution,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- dialect,
- diction,
- effective style,
- elocution,
- eloquence,
- eloquent tongue,
- exaggeration,
- expression,
- expression of ideas,
- expressiveness,
- facundity,
- fashion,
- feeling for words,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- forensics,
- form of speech,
- formulation,
- fulsomeness,
- fustian,
- garishness,
- gasconade,
- gaudiness,
- gift of expression,
- gift of gab,
- glibness,
- grace of expression,
- grammar,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- graphicness,
- high-flown diction,
- highfalutin,
- homiletics,
- hot air,
- idiom,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- language,
- lecturing,
- lexiphanicism,
- literary style,
- locution,
- loftiness,
- long-windedness,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- mannerism,
- meaningfulness,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- oratory,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- parlance,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- platform oratory,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prolixity,
- prose run mad,
- public speaking,
- puffery,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rant,
- rhapsody,
- rhetoricalness,
- rodomontade,
- sensationalism,
- sense of language,
- sententiousness,
- sesquipedality,
- showiness,
- silver tongue,
- slickness,
- smoothness,
- speaking,
- speech,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- stiltedness,
- strain,
- stump speaking,
- style,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- talk,
- tall talk,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- vein,
- verbiage,
- verbosity,
- vividness,
- way,
- windiness,
- wordage,
- wordcraft,
- wordiness,
- wording
- pretension
collapse
- a false or unsupportable quality
- the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort" related words >
- Barnumism,
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- ambitions,
- ambitiousness,
- apology,
- appearance,
- appurtenance,
- artificiality,
- aspiration,
- attitudinizing,
- authority,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- birthright,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- charade,
- cheating,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- conjugal right,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demand,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- excuse,
- facade,
- face,
- faculty,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- guise,
- handle,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- inalienable right,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- lame excuse,
- lexiphanicism,
- locus standi,
- loftiness,
- lofty affectations,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- make-believe,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- natural right,
- orotundity,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- ostentatiousness,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretending,
- pretense,
- pretensions,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- prose run mad,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- refuge,
- representation,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- right,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stiltedness,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- title,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
- turning
collapse
- act of changing in practice or custom; "the law took many turnings over the years"
- the activity of shaping something on a lathe
- the end-product created by shaping something on a lathe
- a movement in a new direction; "the turning of the wind"
- a shaving created when something is produced by turning it on a lathe related words >
- S-curve,
- aberrancy,
- aberrant,
- aberration,
- aberrative,
- about-face,
- ambages,
- ambagious,
- anfractuosity,
- anfractuous,
- angle,
- angular momentum,
- angular motion,
- angular velocity,
- axial motion,
- bend,
- bending,
- bias,
- bow,
- bowing,
- bowling,
- branching off,
- centrifugation,
- circling,
- circuition,
- circuitous,
- circuitousness,
- circuitry,
- circularity,
- circulation,
- circumambages,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumambulation,
- circumbendibus,
- circumflexion,
- circumgyration,
- circumlocution,
- circumlocutory,
- circummigration,
- circumnavigation,
- circumrotation,
- circumvolution,
- conflexure,
- convolution,
- convolutional,
- corner,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- crook,
- curve,
- declination,
- deflection,
- departing,
- departure,
- desultory,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviation,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- deviousness,
- digression,
- digressive,
- discursion,
- discursive,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- errant,
- errantry,
- erratic,
- excursion,
- excursive,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- flection,
- flex,
- flexuose,
- flexuosity,
- flexuous,
- flexuousness,
- flexure,
- full circle,
- geanticline,
- geosyncline,
- gyrating,
- gyration,
- gyre,
- gyring,
- hairpin,
- hairpin turn,
- indirect,
- indirection,
- inflection,
- intorsion,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involution,
- involutional,
- labyrinthine,
- mazy,
- meander,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- obliquity,
- orbit,
- orbiting,
- out-of-the-way,
- oxbow,
- pererration,
- pivoting,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- reeling,
- reflection,
- reverse,
- reversion,
- revolution,
- revolving,
- right-about,
- rivose,
- rivulation,
- rivulose,
- roll,
- rolling,
- rotating,
- rotation,
- rotational motion,
- roundabout,
- roundaboutness,
- rounding,
- roving,
- ruffled,
- serpentine,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- sinuate,
- sinuation,
- sinuose,
- sinuosity,
- sinuous,
- sinuousness,
- skew,
- slant,
- slinkiness,
- snakiness,
- snaky,
- spin,
- spinning,
- spiral,
- spiraling,
- stray,
- straying,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- swirling,
- swiveling,
- tack,
- torsion,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuous,
- tortuousness,
- trolling,
- trundling,
- turbination,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- twirling,
- twist,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- undirected,
- undulation,
- vagrant,
- variation,
- veer,
- veering,
- volte-face,
- volutation,
- volution,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wave,
- waving,
- wheeling,
- whir,
- whirling,
- whorled,
- winding,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- yaw,
- zigzag
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