Related Words:
- edict
collapse - a formal or authoritative proclamation related words >
- act,
- announcement,
- annunciation,
- appointment,
- bill,
- brevet,
- bull,
- bulletin board,
- bylaw,
- canon,
- circular,
- communique,
- declaration,
- decree,
- decree-law,
- decreement,
- decretal,
- decretum,
- dictate,
- dictation,
- dictum,
- diktat,
- directive,
- edictum,
- enactment,
- encyclical,
- enunciation,
- fiat,
- form,
- formality,
- formula,
- formulary,
- institution,
- instrument,
- ipse dixit,
- jus,
- law,
- legislation,
- lex,
- manifesto,
- measure,
- notice,
- notification,
- order,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- position paper,
- precept,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- proclamation,
- program,
- programma,
- pronouncement,
- pronunciamento,
- public notice,
- regulation,
- report,
- rescript,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- senatus consult,
- senatus consultum,
- standing order,
- statement,
- statute,
- ukase,
- white book,
- white paper
- paramountcy
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- the state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority related words >
- accent,
- acme,
- authority,
- authorization,
- be-all and end-all,
- blue ribbon,
- championship,
- command,
- concern,
- concernment,
- consequence,
- consequentiality,
- consideration,
- control,
- directorship,
- dominion,
- effectiveness,
- emphasis,
- excellence,
- exquisiteness,
- first place,
- first prize,
- headship,
- hegemony,
- height,
- high order,
- high rank,
- highest,
- imperium,
- import,
- importance,
- influence,
- interest,
- jurisdiction,
- kingship,
- leadership,
- lordship,
- magnificence,
- management,
- mark,
- marvelousness,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- matchlessness,
- materiality,
- maximum,
- merit,
- moment,
- most,
- ne plus ultra,
- new high,
- note,
- palms,
- peerlessness,
- power,
- precedence,
- preeminence,
- presidency,
- primacy,
- priority,
- record,
- rule,
- say,
- self-importance,
- significance,
- sovereignty,
- splendidness,
- splendiferousness,
- stress,
- superbness,
- supereminence,
- superexcellence,
- superfineness,
- superiority,
- supremacy,
- sway,
- top spot,
- unsurpassedness,
- value,
- weight,
- worth,
- zenith
- parameter
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- a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves
- a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data
- any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance related words >
- barometer,
- boundaries,
- boundary condition,
- bounds,
- bourns,
- canon,
- catch,
- check,
- circumference,
- circumscription,
- clause,
- compass,
- condition,
- confines,
- coordinates,
- criterion,
- degree,
- donnee,
- edges,
- escalator clause,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- fine print,
- fringes,
- gauge,
- given,
- graduated scale,
- grounds,
- joker,
- kicker,
- limitations,
- limiting condition,
- limits,
- marches,
- measure,
- metes,
- metes and bounds,
- model,
- norm,
- obligation,
- outlines,
- outskirts,
- pale,
- parameters,
- pattern,
- perimeter,
- periphery,
- prerequisite,
- provision,
- provisions,
- proviso,
- quantity,
- reading,
- readout,
- requisite,
- rule,
- saving clause,
- scale,
- sine qua non,
- skirts,
- small print,
- specification,
- standard,
- stipulation,
- string,
- terms,
- test,
- touchstone,
- type,
- ultimatum,
- value,
- verges,
- whereas,
- yardstick
- fend
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- try to manage without help; "The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died" related words >
- anticipate,
- arm,
- armor,
- avert,
- bar,
- beat off,
- bless,
- block,
- bulwark,
- champion,
- check,
- cloak,
- compass about,
- copyright,
- counter,
- cover,
- cushion,
- debar,
- defend,
- deflect,
- deter,
- discourage,
- dishearten,
- divert,
- drive back,
- ensure,
- estop,
- exclude,
- fence,
- fend off,
- forbid,
- foreclose,
- forestall,
- get by,
- guarantee,
- guard,
- harbor,
- haven,
- help,
- hinder,
- hold at bay,
- hold off,
- insure,
- keep,
- keep at bay,
- keep from,
- keep from harm,
- keep off,
- make do,
- make out,
- make safe,
- nestle,
- obstruct,
- obviate,
- parry,
- patent,
- police,
- preclude,
- prevent,
- prohibit,
- protect,
- push back,
- put back,
- rebuff,
- register,
- repel,
- repulse,
- resist,
- ride shotgun for,
- rule out,
- safeguard,
- save,
- screen,
- secure,
- shelter,
- shield,
- shroud,
- stave off,
- stop,
- turn aside,
- underwrite,
- ward off
- abnegation,
- abstinence,
- average,
- balance,
- calm,
- calmness,
- center,
- compromise,
- conservatism,
- constraint,
- continence,
- control,
- cool,
- dispassion,
- evenness,
- fence,
- generality,
- gentleness,
- golden mean,
- half measures,
- half-and-half measures,
- halfway measures,
- impartiality,
- judiciousness,
- juste-milieu,
- lenity,
- mean,
- meden agan,
- median,
- mediocrity,
- medium,
- middle,
- middle course,
- middle ground,
- middle point,
- middle position,
- middle state,
- middle way,
- middle-of-the-road,
- midpoint,
- mildness,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- moderationism,
- neutral ground,
- neutrality,
- nonviolence,
- norm,
- normal,
- nothing in excess,
- pacifism,
- par,
- prudence,
- repose,
- restraint,
- rule,
- run,
- self-abnegation,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-restraint,
- serenity,
- sobriety,
- stability,
- steadiness,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- tranquillity,
- unexcessiveness,
- unextravagance,
- unextremeness,
- via media
- overcome
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- get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness" related words >
- affected,
- all up with,
- beat,
- beaten,
- best,
- bested,
- better,
- blind,
- blind drunk,
- blotto,
- break,
- broken-down,
- brokenhearted,
- cap,
- confounded,
- conquer,
- crush,
- crushed,
- cut up,
- dash,
- dashed,
- deck,
- defeat,
- defeated,
- demoralize,
- demoralized,
- desolated,
- discomfited,
- done for,
- done in,
- down,
- drown,
- drub,
- exceed,
- excel,
- fallen,
- fixed,
- floor,
- floored,
- go one better,
- heart-stricken,
- heart-struck,
- heartbroken,
- helpless,
- hors de combat,
- hurdle,
- improve on,
- influenced,
- inundated,
- knock down,
- knock over,
- lambasted,
- lathered,
- lick,
- licked,
- master,
- moved,
- neurasthenic,
- on the skids,
- out,
- out cold,
- outdone,
- outlive,
- outweigh,
- overbalance,
- overbear,
- overborne,
- overexcited,
- overmaster,
- overmastered,
- overmatch,
- overmatched,
- overpass,
- overpower,
- overpowered,
- overridden,
- overset,
- overthrow,
- overthrown,
- overtop,
- overturn,
- overturned,
- overwhelm,
- overwhelmed,
- overwrought,
- panicked,
- paralyzed,
- passed out,
- perfect,
- predominate,
- preponderate,
- prevail,
- prevail over,
- prostrate,
- prostrated,
- psych out,
- put to rout,
- reduced to jelly,
- rise above,
- rout,
- routed,
- ruined,
- scattered,
- send flying,
- settled,
- shake,
- shaken,
- shot,
- shot to pieces,
- silence,
- silenced,
- skinned,
- skinned alive,
- speechless,
- stampeded,
- stiff,
- stoned,
- stricken,
- subdue,
- subdued,
- subjugate,
- suppress,
- surmount,
- surpass,
- throw,
- top,
- tower above,
- tower over,
- transcend,
- trimmed,
- trip,
- trip up,
- triumph,
- triumph over,
- trounced,
- trump,
- unbrace,
- under the table,
- undo,
- undone,
- unglued,
- unman,
- unmanned,
- unnerve,
- unnerved,
- unstring,
- unstrung,
- upset,
- vanquish,
- whelm,
- whelmed,
- whip,
- whipped,
- win,
- worst,
- worsted
- oppress
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- come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority; "The government oppresses political activists" related words >
- abuse,
- addict,
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- anguish,
- bear hard upon,
- beat down,
- beset,
- break,
- break down,
- bring to tears,
- browbeat,
- bulldoze,
- bully,
- burden,
- burthen,
- busy,
- cast down,
- castrate,
- charge,
- clamp down on,
- coerce,
- compel,
- conquer,
- cow,
- crush,
- crush one,
- cumber,
- cut up,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dampen the spirits,
- darken,
- dash,
- daunt,
- deject,
- depress,
- desolate,
- despotize,
- discourage,
- dishearten,
- dispirit,
- distress,
- domineer,
- domineer over,
- draw tears,
- drive,
- embitter,
- encumber,
- enslave,
- exhaust,
- fag,
- freight,
- go hard with,
- go ill with,
- grieve,
- grind,
- grind down,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- harass,
- harry,
- haunt,
- haunt the memory,
- henpeck,
- hound,
- hunt,
- intimidate,
- inundate,
- keep busy,
- keep down,
- keep under,
- knock down,
- lade,
- lie on,
- load,
- lord it over,
- lower,
- lower the spirits,
- maltreat,
- molest,
- obsess,
- outrage,
- overawe,
- overbear,
- overburden,
- overcome,
- overdrive,
- overload,
- overmaster,
- overpower,
- override,
- overtask,
- overtax,
- overthrow,
- overweight,
- overwhelm,
- overwork,
- persecute,
- press,
- press down,
- press hard upon,
- press heavy on,
- pressure,
- prey on,
- prostrate,
- pursue,
- put down,
- repress,
- rest hard upon,
- ride over,
- ride roughshod over,
- sadden,
- saddle,
- sink,
- sorrow,
- subdue,
- subjugate,
- suppress,
- sweat,
- task,
- tax,
- terrorize,
- tire,
- torment,
- torture,
- trample down,
- trample underfoot,
- trample upon,
- tread down,
- tread upon,
- trouble,
- try one,
- tyrannize,
- tyrannize over,
- unman,
- victimize,
- walk all over,
- walk over,
- wear down,
- wear out,
- wear upon one,
- weary,
- weigh down,
- weigh heavy on,
- weigh heavy upon,
- weigh on,
- weigh upon,
- weight down,
- work
- acid-ash diet,
- administration,
- allergy diet,
- bland diet,
- calorie chart,
- calorie counter,
- civil government,
- curative measures,
- cure,
- diabetic diet,
- diet,
- diet book,
- dietary,
- dietetics,
- dieting,
- direction,
- discipline,
- dispensation,
- disposition,
- empery,
- empire,
- first aid,
- form of government,
- governance,
- government,
- high-protein diet,
- high-vitamin diet,
- hospitalization,
- leadership,
- low-carbohydrate diet,
- low-salt diet,
- macrobiotic diet,
- management,
- medical treatment,
- medicamentation,
- medication,
- order,
- oversight,
- pap,
- political organization,
- polity,
- regime,
- regimen,
- regnancy,
- regulation,
- reign,
- rule,
- salt-free diet,
- soft diet,
- sovereignty,
- spoon victuals,
- supervision,
- sway,
- system,
- system of government,
- treatment,
- ulcer diet,
- vegetarianism,
- vitamin-deficiency diet
- bulldoze
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- flatten with or as if with a bulldozer related words >
- assault,
- be imminent,
- bear,
- bear upon,
- beat down,
- blackjack,
- blank,
- blow down,
- bludgeon,
- bluster,
- bluster out of,
- boost,
- bounce,
- break,
- break down,
- bring down,
- browbeat,
- buck,
- bull,
- bully,
- bullyrag,
- bump,
- bump against,
- bunt,
- burn down,
- butt,
- butt against,
- cast down,
- castrate,
- chop down,
- clamp down on,
- clobber,
- coerce,
- comminate,
- compel,
- cow,
- cram,
- cream,
- crowd,
- cut down,
- daunt,
- defeat utterly,
- demoralize,
- denounce,
- despotize,
- dig,
- domineer,
- domineer over,
- dragoon,
- drive,
- elbow,
- enslave,
- fell,
- flatten,
- force,
- forebode,
- goad,
- grind,
- grind down,
- harass,
- harry,
- hector,
- henpeck,
- hijack,
- huff,
- hurtle,
- hustle,
- intimidate,
- jab,
- jam,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jolt,
- jostle,
- keep down,
- keep under,
- knock down,
- knock over,
- level,
- look threatening,
- lord it over,
- lower,
- menace,
- mow down,
- nudge,
- oppress,
- overawe,
- overbear,
- overmaster,
- override,
- overwhelm,
- paste,
- pile drive,
- poke,
- press,
- press heavy on,
- prod,
- prostrate,
- pull down,
- punch,
- push,
- ram,
- ram down,
- rase,
- rattle,
- raze,
- repress,
- ride over,
- ride roughshod over,
- run,
- run against,
- schmear,
- shake,
- shanghai,
- shellac,
- shoulder,
- shove,
- shut out,
- skunk,
- smash,
- smear,
- snow under,
- steamroller,
- stress,
- strong-arm,
- subjugate,
- suppress,
- systematically terrorize,
- take down,
- tamp,
- tear down,
- terrorize,
- threaten,
- throw down,
- thrust,
- trample down,
- trample upon,
- tread down,
- tread upon,
- tyrannize,
- tyrannize over,
- unman,
- use violence,
- utter threats against,
- walk all over,
- walk over,
- warn,
- weigh heavy on,
- whelm,
- whitewash,
- whomp,
- whop
- amperage,
- armipotence,
- authority,
- beef,
- big battalions,
- black power,
- charge,
- charisma,
- clout,
- cogence,
- cogency,
- compulsion,
- dint,
- drive,
- duress,
- effect,
- effectiveness,
- effectuality,
- energy,
- flower power,
- force,
- force majeure,
- forcefulness,
- full blast,
- full force,
- influence,
- main force,
- main strength,
- mana,
- might,
- might and main,
- mightiness,
- moxie,
- muscle power,
- naked force,
- physical force,
- pizzazz,
- poop,
- potence,
- potency,
- potentiality,
- power,
- power pack,
- power structure,
- power struggle,
- powerfulness,
- prepotency,
- productiveness,
- productivity,
- puissance,
- pull,
- punch,
- push,
- rule of might,
- sinew,
- steam,
- steamroller,
- strength,
- strong arm,
- superiority,
- superpower,
- tyranny,
- ultima ratio,
- validity,
- vehemence,
- vigor,
- vim,
- virility,
- virtue,
- virulence,
- vitality,
- wattage,
- weight
- act,
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- axiom,
- bill,
- bylaw,
- byword,
- canon,
- catchword,
- charge,
- collected sayings,
- command,
- commission,
- current saying,
- decree,
- decretum,
- dictate,
- dictation,
- dictum,
- direction,
- directive,
- distich,
- edict,
- enactment,
- epigram,
- expression,
- form,
- formality,
- formula,
- formulary,
- general orders,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- injunction,
- institute,
- institution,
- instruction,
- jus,
- law,
- legislation,
- lex,
- maxim,
- measure,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- oracle,
- order,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- precept,
- prescription,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- regulation,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- saw,
- saying,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sloka,
- standing order,
- statute,
- stock saying,
- sutra,
- teaching,
- text,
- verse,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- genotype
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- the particular alleles at specified loci present in an organism
- a group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution related words >
- DNA,
- DNA double helix,
- RNA,
- allele,
- antetype,
- anticodon,
- antitype,
- archetype,
- biotype,
- branch,
- class,
- classic example,
- codon,
- criterion,
- deoxyribonucleic acid,
- epitome,
- family,
- fugleman,
- fugler,
- gene,
- gene complex,
- gene flow,
- gene pool,
- genetic drift,
- genus,
- hereditary character,
- heredity,
- imitatee,
- kingdom,
- lead,
- mRNA,
- messenger RNA,
- mirror,
- model,
- nucleotide,
- operator gene,
- operon,
- order,
- original,
- paradigm,
- pattern,
- phylum,
- precedent,
- prototype,
- regulator gene,
- representative,
- ribosomal RNA,
- rule,
- section,
- series,
- species,
- standard,
- structural gene,
- subclass,
- subfamily,
- subgenus,
- subkingdom,
- suborder,
- subspecies,
- subtribe,
- superclass,
- superfamily,
- superorder,
- superspecies,
- tRNA,
- transfer RNA,
- tribe,
- type,
- type species,
- type specimen,
- urtext,
- variety
- Stoicism
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- an indifference to pleasure or pain
- (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno related words >
- Aristotelian philosophy,
- Aristotelianism,
- Christian ethics,
- Encratism,
- Epicureanism,
- Friday,
- Lenten fare,
- Peripatetic school,
- Peripateticism,
- Platonic philosophy,
- Platonism,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- Shakerism,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoic philosophy,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- altruistic ethics,
- aretaics,
- asceticism,
- avoidance,
- banyan day,
- casuistry,
- categorical imperative,
- celibacy,
- chastity,
- comparative ethics,
- continence,
- deontology,
- egoistic ethics,
- empiricism,
- eschewal,
- ethical formalism,
- ethical philosophy,
- ethology,
- ethonomics,
- eudaemonics,
- evolutionism,
- fast,
- fish day,
- fruitarianism,
- golden rule,
- gymnosophy,
- hedonism,
- intuitionism,
- moral philosophy,
- nephalism,
- perfectionism,
- plain living,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- sexual abstinence,
- simple diet,
- situation ethics,
- spare diet,
- teetotalism,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- utilitarianism,
- vegetarianism
- broadly
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- without regard to specific details or exceptions; "he interprets the law broadly"
- in a wide fashion; "he smiled broadly" related words >
- abroad,
- absurdly,
- all in all,
- all joking aside,
- all things considered,
- altogether,
- amusingly,
- as a rule,
- as a whole,
- as an approximation,
- at large,
- bizarrely,
- bluffly,
- bluntly,
- broadly speaking,
- brusquely,
- by and large,
- candidly,
- chiefly,
- comically,
- commonly,
- directly,
- distantly and broadly,
- drolly,
- eccentrically,
- extensively,
- far and near,
- far and wide,
- farcically,
- frankly,
- funnily,
- generally,
- generally speaking,
- genuinely,
- humorously,
- in all conscience,
- in all seriousness,
- in general,
- in plain English,
- in plain words,
- incongruously,
- indecisively,
- indefinably,
- indefinitely,
- indeterminably,
- indistinctly,
- infinitely,
- laughably,
- mainly,
- mostly,
- normally,
- obscurely,
- on all sides,
- on balance,
- on every side,
- on the whole,
- openheartedly,
- openly,
- ordinarily,
- outspokenly,
- overall,
- plain-spokenly,
- plainly,
- predominantly,
- prevailingly,
- quaintly,
- ridiculously,
- right and left,
- roughly,
- roughly speaking,
- roundly,
- routinely,
- sincerely,
- speaking generally,
- straightforwardly,
- unconstrainedly,
- unreservedly,
- unrestrainedly,
- usually,
- vaguely,
- vastly,
- whimsically,
- wide,
- widely,
- with no nonsense,
- wittily
- ruler
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- a person who rules or commands; "swayer of the universe" related words >
- A per se,
- T square,
- ace,
- anointed king,
- birch,
- boss,
- cane,
- captain,
- castellan,
- champion,
- chatelain,
- chatelaine,
- chief,
- chieftain,
- club,
- commandant,
- commander,
- crowned head,
- dean,
- director,
- dynast,
- emperor,
- executive,
- ferule,
- fugleman,
- genius,
- governor,
- grand duke,
- head,
- high chief,
- higher-up,
- imperator,
- intendant,
- king,
- king-emperor,
- kinglet,
- laureate,
- leader,
- lord paramount,
- majesty,
- manager,
- master,
- monarch,
- nonpareil,
- overlord,
- paddle,
- pandybat,
- paragon,
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