Related Words:
- chancy
collapse - subject to accident or chance or change; "a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition"
- of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker related words >
- accidental,
- adventitious,
- adventurous,
- agnostic,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- ambiguous,
- amorphous,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- broad,
- capricious,
- casual,
- causeless,
- chance,
- changeable,
- chaotic,
- confused,
- contingent,
- destinal,
- dicey,
- disordered,
- doubting,
- equivocal,
- erratic,
- fatal,
- fatidic,
- fickle,
- fluctuant,
- fluky,
- foggy,
- fortuitous,
- full of risk,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- hairy,
- hazardous,
- hazy,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- hit-or-miss,
- iffy,
- ill-defined,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- incalculable,
- inchoate,
- incidental,
- incoherent,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indemonstrable,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- inexact,
- irresolute,
- jeopardous,
- lax,
- loose,
- nonspecific,
- obscure,
- on thin ice,
- orderless,
- perilous,
- polysemous,
- precarious,
- random,
- riskful,
- risky,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shapeless,
- skeptical,
- speculative,
- stochastic,
- sweeping,
- ticklish,
- touch-and-go,
- touchy,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- unaccountable,
- uncaused,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- unconfirmable,
- unconvinced,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- undivinable,
- unexpected,
- unforeseeable,
- unforeseen,
- unhealthy,
- unlooked-for,
- unpersuaded,
- unplain,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unsound,
- unspecified,
- unsure,
- unverifiable,
- vague,
- variable,
- veiled,
- venturesome,
- venturous,
- wavering,
- whimsical,
- wicked,
- wildcat
- imprecise
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- not precise; "imprecise astronomical observations"; "the terms he used were imprecise and emotional" related words >
- adulterated,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- ambiguous,
- amorphous,
- approximate,
- approximative,
- barbarous,
- blemished,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- broad,
- careless,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- cloudy,
- confused,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- disordered,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- erroneous,
- fallible,
- faulty,
- foggy,
- found wanting,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- hazy,
- hit-or-miss,
- ill-defined,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- impotent,
- improper,
- impure,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- incomplete,
- incorrect,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indifferent,
- indistinct,
- inexact,
- inexplicit,
- infelicitous,
- lacking,
- lax,
- lenient,
- loose,
- makeshift,
- mediocre,
- mixed,
- negligent,
- nonspecific,
- not perfect,
- obscure,
- off,
- orderless,
- out of line,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- out of true,
- overindulgent,
- overpermissive,
- partial,
- patchy,
- permissive,
- random,
- relaxed,
- remiss,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shapeless,
- short,
- sketchy,
- slack,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- soft,
- solecistic,
- stochastic,
- sweeping,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- undeveloped,
- uneven,
- unfactual,
- unfinished,
- ungrammatic,
- unperfected,
- unplain,
- unprecise,
- unrestrained,
- unrigorous,
- unsound,
- unspecified,
- unthorough,
- vague,
- veiled,
- wanting,
- weak,
- woolly,
- wrong
- sip
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- a small drink
- drink in sips; "She was sipping her tea" related words >
- beverage,
- bib,
- bite,
- booze,
- bumper,
- cast,
- dash,
- draft,
- drain the cup,
- dram,
- drench,
- drink,
- drink bottoms-up,
- drink deep,
- drink hard,
- drink in,
- drink off,
- drink to,
- drink up,
- drop,
- follow strong drink,
- gargle,
- gleam,
- grog,
- gulp,
- guzzle,
- hint,
- idea,
- imbibe,
- intimation,
- jigger,
- jolt,
- knock back,
- lap,
- lap up,
- libation,
- lick,
- look,
- nip,
- peg,
- pledge,
- portion,
- potation,
- potion,
- pull,
- quaff,
- round,
- round of drinks,
- sample,
- savor,
- scintilla,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shot,
- slurp,
- smack,
- smattering,
- smell,
- snifter,
- snort,
- soak,
- soupcon,
- spark,
- spot,
- sprinkling,
- suck,
- suck in,
- suckle,
- suggestion,
- sup,
- suspicion,
- swallow,
- swig,
- swill,
- taste,
- taste of,
- thought,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tipple,
- toast,
- tope,
- toss,
- toss down,
- toss off,
- tot,
- touch,
- trace,
- wash down,
- wet
- relevance
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- the relation of something to the matter at hand related words >
- account,
- admissibility,
- advantage,
- affective meaning,
- affinity,
- applicability,
- application,
- appositeness,
- appropriateness,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- bearing,
- coloring,
- concern,
- concernment,
- connection,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- denotation,
- drift,
- effect,
- essence,
- extension,
- felicity,
- fitness,
- fittedness,
- force,
- germaneness,
- gist,
- grammatical meaning,
- idea,
- impact,
- implication,
- import,
- intension,
- interest,
- lexical meaning,
- literal meaning,
- materiality,
- meaning,
- overtone,
- pertinence,
- pith,
- point,
- practical consequence,
- propriety,
- purport,
- qualification,
- range of meaning,
- real meaning,
- reference,
- referent,
- regard,
- relatedness,
- relation,
- respect,
- scope,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- sense,
- service,
- serviceability,
- significance,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- span of meaning,
- spirit,
- structural meaning,
- substance,
- suitability,
- suitableness,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- symbolic meaning,
- tenor,
- tie-in,
- totality of associations,
- transferred meaning,
- unadorned meaning,
- undertone,
- use,
- usefulness,
- utility,
- value
- unsystematic
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- lacking systematic arrangement or method or organization; "unsystematic and fragmentary records"; "he works in an unsystematic manner" related words >
- aimless,
- amorphous,
- broken,
- capricious,
- careening,
- casual,
- catchy,
- changeable,
- changing,
- choppy,
- desultory,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- different,
- disarticulated,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- divaricate,
- divergent,
- diversified,
- diversiform,
- eccentric,
- erose,
- erratic,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- fluctuating,
- formless,
- frivolous,
- gratuitous,
- guttering,
- halting,
- haphazard,
- herky-jerky,
- heteroclite,
- hit-or-miss,
- immethodical,
- impulsive,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indiscriminate,
- intermittent,
- intermitting,
- irregular,
- jagged,
- jerky,
- lurching,
- meaningless,
- mercurial,
- misshapen,
- motley,
- mutable,
- nonconformist,
- nonstandard,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- orderless,
- patchy,
- planless,
- pluralistic,
- promiscuous,
- ragged,
- rambling,
- random,
- rough,
- scrappy,
- senseless,
- shapeless,
- snatchy,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- staggering,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- systemless,
- unarranged,
- uncertain,
- unclassified,
- undirected,
- unequable,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- ungraded,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unmetrical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unorthodox,
- unregular,
- unrhythmical,
- unsettled,
- unsorted,
- unstable,
- unsteady,
- unsymmetrical,
- ununiform,
- vague,
- variable,
- variegated,
- variform,
- various,
- varying,
- veering,
- wandering,
- wavering,
- wobbling,
- wobbly
- unorganized
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- not having or belonging to a structured whole; "unorganized territories lack a formal government"
- not affiliated in a trade union; "the workers in the plant were unorganized" related words >
- ad-lib,
- aimless,
- amorphic,
- amorphous,
- anarchic,
- baggy,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- capricious,
- casual,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- chaotic,
- characterless,
- confused,
- desultory,
- disarticulated,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- disjointed,
- disjunct,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- erratic,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporized,
- featureless,
- fitful,
- formless,
- frivolous,
- fuzzy,
- gratuitous,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- hazy,
- hit-or-miss,
- immethodical,
- impromptu,
- improvised,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- indecisive,
- indefinite,
- indeterminate,
- indiscriminate,
- inform,
- inorganic,
- irregular,
- kaleidoscopic,
- lumpen,
- makeshift,
- meaningless,
- mineral,
- misshapen,
- misty,
- muddled,
- nonbiological,
- nondescript,
- nonorganic,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- obscure,
- orderless,
- planless,
- precipitate,
- promiscuous,
- random,
- rough-and-ready,
- senseless,
- shapeless,
- snap,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- surprised,
- systemless,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- tripped up,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unclassified,
- unclear,
- unconcocted,
- unconnected,
- uncontrived,
- undefined,
- undeliberated,
- undevised,
- undirected,
- ungraded,
- unhatched,
- unjoined,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unmethodical,
- unordered,
- unorganic,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unready,
- unsorted,
- unstudied,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- vague,
- wandering
- point of view
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- the spatial property of the position from which something is observed
- a mental position from which things are viewed; "we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians"; "teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events" related words >
- Anschauung,
- angle,
- angle of vision,
- approach,
- assumption,
- attitude,
- basis,
- belief,
- climate of opinion,
- coign of vantage,
- common belief,
- community sentiment,
- conceit,
- concept,
- conception,
- conclusion,
- consensus gentium,
- consideration,
- doctrine,
- estimate,
- estimation,
- ethos,
- eye,
- feeling,
- footing,
- frame of reference,
- framework,
- general belief,
- idea,
- impression,
- judgment,
- light,
- lights,
- mental outlook,
- mind,
- mystique,
- notion,
- observation,
- opinion,
- orientation,
- outlook,
- personal judgment,
- perspective,
- place,
- popular belief,
- position,
- posture,
- presumption,
- prevailing belief,
- principle,
- public belief,
- public opinion,
- reaction,
- reference system,
- regard,
- respect,
- sentiment,
- side,
- sight,
- situation,
- slant,
- stance,
- stand,
- standpoint,
- system,
- theory,
- thinking,
- thought,
- universe,
- vantage,
- vantage point,
- view,
- viewpoint,
- way of thinking
- abated,
- ablated,
- adulterated,
- airy,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- bated,
- belittled,
- boyish,
- consumed,
- contracted,
- curtailed,
- cut,
- dead,
- decreased,
- deflated,
- delicate,
- diaphanous,
- dilute,
- diluted,
- diminished,
- dissipated,
- dropped,
- eroded,
- ethereal,
- fade,
- fallen,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- flat,
- flavorless,
- flimsy,
- frail,
- gaseous,
- gauzy,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gracile,
- gruelly,
- inane,
- indifferent,
- insipid,
- insubstantial,
- jejune,
- lacy,
- less,
- lesser,
- light,
- lower,
- lowered,
- mild,
- milk-and-water,
- miniaturized,
- misty,
- papery,
- pappy,
- pulpy,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- reduced,
- retrenched,
- sapless,
- savorless,
- scaled-down,
- shorn,
- shorter,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- small,
- smaller,
- spiceless,
- stale,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- tasteless,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinned,
- thinned-out,
- thinnish,
- threadlike,
- uncompact,
- uncompressed,
- unflavored,
- unsavory,
- unsubstantial,
- vague,
- vapid,
- vaporous,
- washy,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- waterish,
- watery,
- weak,
- weakened,
- willowy,
- windy,
- wiredrawn,
- wishy-washy,
- wispy,
- worn
- ideation
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- the process of forming and relating ideas related words >
- IQ,
- abstract thought,
- act of thought,
- apprehension,
- brainwork,
- caliber,
- capacity,
- cerebration,
- clairvoyance,
- cogitation,
- command,
- comprehension,
- conceit,
- conception,
- conceptualization,
- creative thought,
- deductive power,
- esemplastic power,
- excogitation,
- foreknowledge,
- grasp,
- grip,
- headwork,
- heavy thinking,
- idea,
- imageless thought,
- integrative power,
- intellect,
- intellection,
- intellectual exercise,
- intellectual grasp,
- intellectual power,
- intellectualism,
- intellectuality,
- intellectualization,
- intelligence,
- intelligence quotient,
- knowledge,
- mastery,
- mental act,
- mental age,
- mental capacity,
- mental grasp,
- mental labor,
- mental process,
- mental ratio,
- mentality,
- mentation,
- mother wit,
- native wit,
- noesis,
- power of mind,
- precognition,
- prehension,
- ratiocination,
- rationality,
- reasoning,
- reasoning power,
- sanity,
- savvy,
- scope of mind,
- sense,
- straight thinking,
- thinking,
- thinking aloud,
- thinking out,
- thinking power,
- thought,
- understanding,
- wisdom,
- wit
- attitude
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- a theatrical pose created for effect; "the actor struck just the right attitude"
- a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; "he had the attitude that work was fun"
- position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion) related words >
- air,
- approach,
- aspect,
- assumption,
- azimuth,
- bearing,
- bearings,
- bent,
- bias,
- carriage,
- celestial navigation,
- climate of opinion,
- color,
- common belief,
- community sentiment,
- conceit,
- concept,
- conception,
- conclusion,
- consensus gentium,
- consideration,
- dead reckoning,
- demeanor,
- disposition,
- estimate,
- estimation,
- ethos,
- exposure,
- eye,
- feeling,
- fix,
- frontage,
- general belief,
- idea,
- impression,
- inclination,
- judgment,
- lay,
- leaning,
- lie,
- lights,
- line of position,
- mind,
- mystique,
- notion,
- observation,
- opinion,
- orientation,
- personal judgment,
- pilotage,
- point of view,
- popular belief,
- port,
- pose,
- position,
- position line,
- posture,
- predilection,
- prejudice,
- prepossession,
- presence,
- presumption,
- prevailing belief,
- public belief,
- public opinion,
- radio bearing,
- reaction,
- sentiment,
- set,
- sight,
- stance,
- stand,
- tendency,
- theory,
- thinking,
- thought,
- view,
- viewpoint,
- way of thinking
- addlebrained,
- addled,
- addleheaded,
- addlepated,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- amorphic,
- amorphous,
- anarchic,
- baggy,
- beclouded,
- befuddled,
- bemused,
- blear,
- bleared,
- bleary,
- blind,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- broad,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- characterless,
- clear as mud,
- clouded,
- cloudy,
- confused,
- dark,
- dazed,
- dim,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- dreamy,
- dull,
- faint,
- featureless,
- feeble,
- filmy,
- fogged,
- foggy,
- formless,
- fuddlebrained,
- fuddled,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- half-seen,
- half-visible,
- hit-or-miss,
- ill-defined,
- imprecise,
- in a fog,
- in a muddle,
- inaccurate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- inconspicuous,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- indistinguishable,
- inexact,
- inform,
- kaleidoscopic,
- lax,
- loose,
- low-profile,
- lumpen,
- mazed,
- merely glimpsed,
- misted,
- misty,
- muddled,
- muddleheaded,
- muddy,
- murky,
- mushy,
- muzzy,
- nebulous,
- nondescript,
- nonspecific,
- obscure,
- opaque,
- orderless,
- out of focus,
- overcast,
- pale,
- pea-soupy,
- puzzleheaded,
- random,
- semivisible,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shapeless,
- smoggy,
- soupy,
- stochastic,
- stuporous,
- sweeping,
- tranced,
- transcendent,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unplain,
- unrecognizable,
- unspecified,
- vague,
- vaporous,
- vapory,
- veiled,
- weak
- ambiguous
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- having more than one possible meaning; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"
- having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns; "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"; "ambiguous inkblots" related words >
- Greek to one,
- agnostic,
- amalgamated,
- ambivalent,
- amphibious,
- amphibolic,
- amphibological,
- amphibolous,
- antinomic,
- beyond understanding,
- blended,
- capricious,
- chancy,
- changeable,
- combined,
- complex,
- composite,
- compound,
- compounded,
- confusable,
- conglomerate,
- cryptic,
- dappled,
- dicey,
- double-faced,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- eclectic,
- enigmatic,
- enigmatical,
- equivocal,
- equivocatory,
- erratic,
- fickle,
- fifty-fifty,
- fishy,
- foggy,
- half-and-half,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- heterogeneous,
- impenetrable,
- inarticulate,
- incalculable,
- incognizable,
- incoherent,
- incomprehensible,
- inconclusive,
- indecisive,
- indefinite,
- indemonstrable,
- indeterminate,
- indiscriminate,
- indistinct,
- inscrutable,
- intricate,
- ironic,
- irresolute,
- jumbled,
- many-sided,
- medley,
- mingled,
- miscellaneous,
- misleading,
- misty,
- mixed,
- motley,
- multifaceted,
- multinational,
- multiracial,
- multivocal,
- mysterious,
- numinous,
- obscure,
- opaque,
- oracular,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- past comprehension,
- patchy,
- pluralistic,
- polysemantic,
- polysemous,
- problematic,
- promiscuous,
- puzzling,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- scrambled,
- self-contradictory,
- skeptical,
- suspect,
- syncretic,
- tenebrous,
- thrown together,
- touch-and-go,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- unclear,
- unconfirmable,
- unconnected,
- unconvinced,
- undefined,
- undependable,
- undivinable,
- unfathomable,
- unforeseeable,
- unintelligible,
- unknowable,
- unpersuaded,
- unpredictable,
- unprovable,
- unreliable,
- unsearchable,
- unsettled,
- unsure,
- unverifiable,
- vague,
- variable,
- varied,
- wavering,
- whimsical
- dabble
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- dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
- work with in an amateurish manner; "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never makes any money"
- play in or as if in water, as of small children related words >
- asperge,
- be innocent of,
- bedabble,
- bedew,
- beguile the time,
- bespatter,
- besprinkle,
- burn daylight,
- consume time,
- coquet,
- coquet with,
- dally,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dash,
- dew,
- diddle,
- dip,
- doodle,
- douche,
- fiddle,
- fiddle with,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fidget with,
- finger with,
- flirt,
- fool,
- fool around,
- fool with,
- footle,
- fribble,
- fritter away time,
- frivol,
- give up,
- have no idea,
- horse around,
- hose,
- hose down,
- humect,
- humectate,
- humidify,
- idle,
- irrigate,
- jerk off,
- kid around,
- kill time,
- know a little,
- know not,
- know not what,
- know nothing of,
- loiter,
- lose time,
- mess around,
- moisten,
- monkey,
- monkey around,
- not know,
- not rightly know,
- paddle,
- pass,
- pass the time,
- piddle,
- play,
- play around,
- play with,
- potter,
- putter,
- scratch the surface,
- slobber,
- slop,
- slosh,
- smatter,
- sparge,
- spatter,
- splash,
- splatter,
- splotch,
- sponge,
- spot,
- spray,
- sprinkle,
- swash,
- syringe,
- tinker,
- toy,
- toy with,
- trifle,
- trifle with,
- twiddle,
- waste time,
- water,
- wet,
- wet down,
- wonder,
- wonder whether,
- wot not of
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