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Synonyms:
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- fretted
collapse - having a pattern of fretwork or latticework
- having frets related words >
- beset,
- braided,
- dogged,
- enlaced,
- entwined,
- handwoven,
- harassed,
- harried,
- haunted,
- hounded,
- interknit,
- interlaced,
- interthreaded,
- intertied,
- intertissued,
- intertwined,
- interwoven,
- knit,
- laced,
- loomed,
- persecuted,
- plagued,
- plaited,
- platted,
- pleached,
- raddled,
- textile,
- tormented,
- twined,
- vexed,
- worried,
- worried sick,
- worried stiff,
- woven,
- wreathed
- haunted
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- having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something; "became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children"; "he was taken up in worry for the old woman"
- inhabited by or as if by apparitions; "a haunted house"
- showing emotional affliction or disquiet; "her expression became progressively more haunted" related words >
- annoyed,
- anxious,
- badgered,
- baited,
- bedeviled,
- beset,
- bothered,
- bugged,
- bullyragged,
- chivied,
- deviled,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- distressed,
- dogged,
- embarrassed,
- fretted,
- harassed,
- harried,
- haunted,
- heckled,
- hectored,
- hounded,
- inconvenienced,
- irked,
- needled,
- nipped at,
- persecuted,
- perturbed,
- pestered,
- picked on,
- plagued,
- put to it,
- puzzled,
- ragged,
- sore beset,
- teased,
- tormented,
- troubled,
- vexed,
- worried sick,
- worried stiff
- annoyed,
- anxious,
- badgered,
- baited,
- bedeviled,
- beset,
- bothered,
- bugged,
- bullyragged,
- chivied,
- deviled,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- distressed,
- dogged,
- embarrassed,
- fretted,
- harried,
- haunted,
- heckled,
- hectored,
- hounded,
- inconvenienced,
- irked,
- needled,
- nipped at,
- persecuted,
- perturbed,
- pestered,
- picked on,
- plagued,
- put to it,
- puzzled,
- ragged,
- sore beset,
- teased,
- tormented,
- troubled,
- vexed,
- worried,
- worried sick,
- worried stiff
- vexed
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- causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed; "the vexed issue of priorities"; "we live in vexed and troubled times" related words >
- aggravated,
- angry,
- annoyed,
- anxious,
- beset,
- bothered,
- browned-off,
- bugged,
- burnt-up,
- chafed,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- dogged,
- embarrassed,
- exasperated,
- fretted,
- galled,
- griped,
- harassed,
- harried,
- haunted,
- hounded,
- huffy,
- inconvenienced,
- irked,
- irritated,
- miffed,
- nettled,
- peeved,
- persecuted,
- perturbed,
- piqued,
- plagued,
- provoked,
- put to it,
- put-out,
- puzzled,
- resentful,
- riled,
- roiled,
- ruffled,
- sore beset,
- tormented,
- troubled,
- worried,
- worried sick,
- worried stiff
- afflicted,
- agonized,
- badgered,
- baited,
- bedeviled,
- beset,
- bugged,
- bullyragged,
- chivied,
- convulsed,
- crucified,
- deviled,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- distressed,
- dogged,
- fretted,
- harassed,
- harried,
- harrowed,
- haunted,
- heckled,
- hectored,
- hounded,
- hurt,
- hurting,
- in distress,
- in pain,
- lacerated,
- martyred,
- martyrized,
- needled,
- nipped at,
- on the rack,
- pained,
- persecuted,
- pestered,
- picked on,
- plagued,
- racked,
- ragged,
- suffering,
- teased,
- tortured,
- troubled,
- twisted,
- under the harrow,
- vexed,
- worried,
- worried sick,
- worried stiff,
- wounded,
- wrung
- annoyed,
- anxious,
- badgered,
- baited,
- bedeviled,
- beset,
- bothered,
- bugged,
- bullyragged,
- chivied,
- deviled,
- distressed,
- dogged,
- embarrassed,
- fretted,
- grubby,
- harassed,
- harried,
- haunted,
- heckled,
- hectored,
- hounded,
- inconvenienced,
- infested,
- irked,
- lousy,
- mindful,
- nagged,
- needled,
- nipped at,
- obsessed,
- pedicular,
- pediculous,
- persecuted,
- perturbed,
- pestered,
- picked on,
- put to it,
- puzzled,
- ragged,
- rankled,
- ratty,
- ravaged,
- remembering,
- sore beset,
- teased,
- teeming,
- tormented,
- troubled,
- unable to forget,
- vexed,
- wormy,
- worried,
- worried sick,
- worried stiff
- dogged
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- stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" related words >
- adamant,
- assiduous,
- badgered,
- baited,
- balking,
- balky,
- bedeviled,
- beset,
- bigoted,
- bugged,
- bulldogged,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- bullyragged,
- case-hardened,
- chivied,
- constant,
- continuing,
- deviled,
- diligent,
- dogmatic,
- enduring,
- faithful,
- fanatic,
- fretted,
- harassed,
- hardheaded,
- harried,
- haunted,
- headstrong,
- heckled,
- hectored,
- hounded,
- immutable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- inexorable,
- insistent,
- intolerant,
- invincible,
- lasting,
- loyal,
- mulish,
- needled,
- never-tiring,
- nipped at,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- overzealous,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- persecuted,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- pestered,
- picked on,
- pigheaded,
- plagued,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- ragged,
- rapt,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- restive,
- rigid,
- sedulous,
- self-willed,
- set,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stiff-necked,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- teased,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- tormented,
- unabating,
- unbending,
- unconquerable,
- uncooperative,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unregenerate,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- vexed,
- weariless,
- willful,
- worried,
- worried sick,
- worried stiff
- unrelaxed
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- nor relaxed; "his life was drawing to a close in baffled zeal and unrelaxed strain"- U.B.Phillips related words >
- needled
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- of trees whose leaves are acerate related words >
- beset
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- assail or attack on all sides: "The zebra was beset by leopards" related words >
- abashed,
- afflict,
- afflicted,
- aggravate,
- agitated,
- ail,
- annoy,
- annoyed,
- anxious,
- apply pressure,
- assail,
- assault,
- attack,
- badger,
- badgered,
- bait,
- baited,
- barred,
- be at,
- be the matter,
- bedevil,
- bedeviled,
- beleaguer,
- beleaguered,
- besiege,
- besieged,
- blandish,
- blockade,
- blockaded,
- bother,
- bothered,
- bound,
- box in,
- bristle,
- brown off,
- bug,
- bugged,
- bullyrag,
- bullyragged,
- burn up,
- buttonhole,
- cabined,
- cage,
- caged,
- cajole,
- cast down,
- chagrined,
- chamber,
- chapfallen,
- chivied,
- chivy,
- circle,
- cloistered,
- close in,
- closed-in,
- coax,
- compass,
- compel,
- complicate matters,
- concern,
- confined,
- confused,
- contain,
- coop,
- coop in,
- coop up,
- cooped,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- cordoned,
- cordoned off,
- corral,
- corralled,
- cramped,
- crawl with,
- creep with,
- cribbed,
- devil,
- deviled,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discommode,
- discompose,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- disquieted,
- distemper,
- distress,
- distressed,
- disturb,
- disturbed,
- dog,
- dogged,
- drive,
- dun,
- embarrassed,
- encircle,
- enclose,
- enclosed,
- encompass,
- enshrine,
- envelop,
- environ,
- exasperate,
- exercise,
- exert pressure,
- fall,
- fash,
- fence in,
- fenced,
- fret,
- fretted,
- gem,
- get,
- gird,
- girdle,
- grip,
- gripe,
- grubby,
- harass,
- harassed,
- harried,
- harry,
- haunt,
- haunted,
- heckle,
- heckled,
- hector,
- hectored,
- hedge in,
- hedged,
- hem,
- hem in,
- hemmed,
- hold,
- hound,
- hounded,
- house in,
- hung up,
- hunt,
- ill at ease,
- immured,
- impel,
- importune,
- impound,
- imprison,
- imprisoned,
- incarcerate,
- incarcerated,
- include,
- inconvenience,
- inconvenienced,
- infatuate,
- infest,
- infested,
- invade,
- invest,
- irk,
- irked,
- jail,
- jailed,
- jewel,
- kennel,
- lay siege to,
- leaguer,
- leaguered,
- lousy,
- mew,
- mew up,
- mewed,
- miff,
- molest,
- mortified,
- nag,
- nag at,
- needle,
- needled,
- nettle,
- nipped at,
- not let go,
- nudzh,
- obsess,
- oppress,
- out of countenance,
- overrun,
- overspread,
- overswarm,
- paled,
- pedicular,
- pediculous,
- peeve,
- pen,
- pen in,
- penned,
- pent-up,
- perplex,
- persecute,
- persecuted,
- perturb,
- perturbed,
- pester,
- pestered,
- pick on,
- picked on,
- pique,
- plague,
- plagued,
- pluck the beard,
- ply,
- pocket,
- possess,
- pother,
- preoccupy,
- press,
- pressure,
- provoke,
- pursue,
- push,
- put out,
- put to it,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- puzzle,
- puzzled,
- quarantine,
- quarantined,
- ragged,
- rail in,
- railed,
- ratty,
- ravage,
- ravaged,
- restrained,
- ride,
- rile,
- ring,
- roil,
- ruffle,
- shrine,
- shut in,
- shut up,
- shut-in,
- soften up,
- sore beset,
- stable,
- storm,
- strike,
- surround,
- swarm,
- swarm with,
- tease,
- teased,
- teeming,
- torment,
- tormented,
- trouble,
- troubled,
- try the patience,
- tweak the nose,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- upset,
- urge,
- vex,
- vexed,
- victimize,
- wall in,
- walled,
- walled-in,
- wheedle,
- work on,
- wormy,
- worried,
- worried sick,
- worried stiff,
- worry,
- wrap,
- yard,
- yard up
- intolerance
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- impatience with annoyances; "his intolerance of interruptions"
- unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs related words >
- ageism,
- balkiness,
- bias,
- bigotry,
- bullheadedness,
- classism,
- determination,
- discrimination,
- doggedness,
- dogmatism,
- fanaticism,
- fixed mind,
- hardheadedness,
- headstrongness,
- illiberality,
- inflexible will,
- intoleration,
- mulishness,
- narrow-mindedness,
- nonendurance,
- obduracy,
- obstinacy,
- obstinateness,
- opinionatedness,
- overzealousness,
- partiality,
- perseverance,
- pertinacity,
- pigheadedness,
- prejudice,
- racialism,
- racism,
- restiveness,
- self-will,
- sexism,
- stiff neck,
- stiff-neckedness,
- strongheadness,
- stubbornness,
- sulkiness,
- sullenness,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- uncharitableness,
- uncooperativeness,
- unforbearance,
- ungenerousness,
- unregenerateness,
- willfulness,
- xenophobia
- smitten
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- (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming; "conscience-smitten"; "awe-struck" related words >
- affected,
- afflicted,
- attached to,
- becharmed,
- beguiled,
- beset,
- bewitched,
- bothered,
- burdened,
- captivated,
- charmed,
- crazy about,
- crushed,
- devoted to,
- distressed,
- enamored,
- enamored of,
- enchanted,
- enraptured,
- enthralled,
- far gone on,
- fascinated,
- fond of,
- gaga,
- gone on,
- haunted,
- heartsmitten,
- hipped on,
- in love with,
- infatuate,
- infatuated,
- mad about,
- nuts about,
- partial to,
- plagued,
- smitten with,
- stricken,
- struck,
- struck with,
- stuck on,
- sweet on,
- taken with,
- troubled,
- vexed,
- wedded to,
- wild about,
- worried,
- wrapped up in
- airsick,
- apprehensive,
- barfy,
- bilious,
- carsick,
- difficult,
- discomfited,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- finikin,
- fishy,
- fuss-budgety,
- fussy,
- groggy,
- hard to please,
- hesitant,
- ill,
- ill at ease,
- indecisive,
- nauseated,
- nauseous,
- nervous,
- open,
- pawky,
- pernickety,
- persnickety,
- precarious,
- pukish,
- puky,
- qualmish,
- qualmy,
- queer,
- seasick,
- shady,
- sick,
- squeamish,
- troubled,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- unsettled,
- woozy,
- worried
- prim
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- dress primly
- contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"
- assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim" related words >
- Quakerish,
- Victorian,
- bluenosed,
- buckram,
- censorious,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- chipper,
- conventional,
- correct,
- decorous,
- demure,
- formal,
- genteel,
- hidebound,
- in buckram,
- mid-Victorian,
- narrow,
- neat,
- nice,
- old-maidish,
- orderly,
- overmodest,
- precise,
- prig,
- priggish,
- prissy,
- proper,
- prudish,
- puritanical,
- rigid,
- sanctimonious,
- shipshape,
- smug,
- snug,
- spick-and-span,
- starch,
- starched,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- stilted,
- straight,
- straitlaced,
- stuffy,
- tidy,
- trim,
- uncluttered,
- well-groomed,
- wooden
- Quakerish,
- Victorian,
- austere,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- conscientious,
- critical,
- decorous,
- demure,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- formal,
- fussy,
- genteel,
- hidebound,
- meticulous,
- mid-Victorian,
- narrow,
- old-maidish,
- overmodest,
- particular,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- priggish,
- prim,
- prissy,
- proper,
- punctilious,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- rigid,
- sanctimonious,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- smug,
- squeamish,
- stern,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- strait-laced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stuffy
- concerned
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- feeling or showing worry or solicitude; "concerned parents of youthful offenders"; "was concerned about the future"; "we feel concerned about accomplishing the task at hand"; "greatly concerned not to disappoint a small child"
- involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in; "a memorandum to those concerned"; "an enterprise in which three men are concerned"; "factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics"; "the interested parties met to discuss the business"
- in relation (or in regard) to; especially as in the phrases; "as far as x is concerned"; "where x is concerned" related words >
- a party to,
- active,
- affected,
- agitated,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- attracted,
- bothered,
- caring,
- cathectic,
- curious,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- enthusiastic,
- excited,
- fascinated,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- implicated,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- included,
- interested,
- involved,
- keen on,
- misgiving,
- nervous,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- passionate,
- perturbed,
- piqued,
- responsible,
- solicitous,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tantalized,
- tense,
- tickled,
- titillated,
- troubled,
- turned-on,
- uneasy,
- upset,
- vexed,
- worried,
- zealous
- Sabbatarianism,
- balkiness,
- bibliolatry,
- bigotry,
- blindness,
- bullheadedness,
- deafness,
- determination,
- doggedness,
- dogmaticalness,
- evangelicalism,
- fanaticism,
- fixed mind,
- fundamentalism,
- hardheadedness,
- headstrongness,
- hideboundness,
- hyperorthodoxy,
- infallibilism,
- inflexible will,
- intolerance,
- literalism,
- mulishness,
- obduracy,
- obstinacy,
- obstinateness,
- opinionatedness,
- overzealousness,
- peremptoriness,
- perseverance,
- pertinacity,
- pigheadedness,
- positiveness,
- positivism,
- precisianism,
- purism,
- puritanicalness,
- puritanism,
- restiveness,
- sabbatism,
- scripturalism,
- self-opinionatedness,
- self-will,
- staunchness,
- stiff neck,
- stiff-neckedness,
- straitlacedness,
- strict interpretation,
- strictness,
- strongheadness,
- stubbornness,
- sulkiness,
- sullenness,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- uncooperativeness,
- unpersuadableness,
- unregenerateness,
- willfulness
- amour propre,
- amour-propre,
- arrogance,
- autoeroticism,
- boastfulness,
- complacency,
- conceit,
- consequentiality,
- dignity,
- ego trip,
- face,
- haughtiness,
- honor,
- independence,
- integrity,
- morale,
- narcism,
- narcissism,
- overproudness,
- overweening pride,
- pardonable pride,
- pride,
- pridefulness,
- proudness,
- purse-pride,
- self-admiration,
- self-approbation,
- self-complacency,
- self-confidence,
- self-congratulation,
- self-consequence,
- self-content,
- self-delight,
- self-endearment,
- self-esteem,
- self-gratulation,
- self-importance,
- self-infatuation,
- self-love,
- self-regard,
- self-reliance,
- self-satisfaction,
- self-sufficiency,
- self-worship,
- smugness,
- stiff-necked pride,
- stiff-neckedness,
- vaingloriousness,
- vainglory,
- vainness,
- vanity
- starchy
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- rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"
- consisting of or containing starch; "starchy foods" related words >
- adhesive,
- amylaceous,
- clabbered,
- clammy,
- clotted,
- coagulated,
- curdled,
- doughy,
- firm,
- gaumy,
- gelatinous,
- glairy,
- gluelike,
- gluey,
- glutenous,
- glutinose,
- glutinous,
- gooey,
- grumous,
- gumbo,
- gumbolike,
- gumlike,
- gummous,
- gummy,
- heavy,
- inspissated,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- jellylike,
- mucilaginous,
- pasty,
- pokerlike,
- ramrodlike,
- renitent,
- rigid,
- rodlike,
- ropy,
- slabby,
- slimy,
- slithery,
- starched,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stiff as buckram,
- stodgy,
- stringy,
- syrupy,
- tacky,
- taut,
- tenacious,
- tense,
- thick,
- thickened,
- tight,
- tough,
- tremelloid,
- tremellose,
- unrelaxed,
- virgate,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous
- annoyed
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- aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay"
- troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager" related words >
- aggravated,
- amplified,
- angry,
- anxious,
- augmented,
- beset,
- bothered,
- browned-off,
- bugged,
- burnt-up,
- chafed,
- deliberately provoked,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- embittered,
- enhanced,
- enlarged,
- exacerbated,
- exasperated,
- galled,
- griped,
- harassed,
- heated up,
- heightened,
- hotted up,
- huffy,
- inconvenienced,
- increased,
- intensified,
- irked,
- irritated,
- magnified,
- miffed,
- nettled,
- peeved,
- perturbed,
- piqued,
- plagued,
- provoked,
- put to it,
- put-out,
- puzzled,
- resentful,
- riled,
- roiled,
- ruffled,
- sore beset,
- soured,
- troubled,
- vexed,
- worried,
- worse,
- worsened
- taut
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- pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope"
- subjected to great tension; stretched tight; "the skin of his face looked drawn and tight"; "her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow" related words >
- all ataunto,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- ataunt,
- bungup and bilge-free,
- close,
- dragged out,
- drawn,
- drawn out,
- elongated,
- extended,
- firm,
- in suspense,
- in trim,
- keyed-up,
- lengthened,
- neat,
- on edge,
- on tenterhooks,
- on tiptoe,
- orderly,
- pokerlike,
- prolongated,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- pulled,
- quivering,
- ramrodlike,
- renitent,
- rigid,
- rodlike,
- shipshape,
- smart,
- spruce,
- spun out,
- starched,
- starchy,
- stiff,
- stiff as buckram,
- straggling,
- strained,
- stretched,
- stretched out,
- stretched tight,
- strung out,
- tense,
- tidy,
- tight,
- trig,
- trim,
- under a strain,
- unrelaxed,
- uptight,
- virgate,
- with bated breath,
- with muscles tense
- Declaration of Independence,
- arrogance,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- autarchy,
- autarky,
- autonomy,
- belief,
- boastfulness,
- certitude,
- cocksureness,
- conceit,
- confidence,
- confidentness,
- conviction,
- courage,
- face,
- faith,
- haughtiness,
- home rule,
- hubris,
- independence,
- individualism,
- inner-direction,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- pardonable pride,
- poise,
- pomposity,
- positiveness,
- pride,
- pridefulness,
- proudness,
- purse-pride,
- rugged individualism,
- security,
- self-assurance,
- self-confidence,
- self-consequence,
- self-containment,
- self-determination,
- self-direction,
- self-esteem,
- self-government,
- self-importance,
- self-respect,
- self-sufficiency,
- settled belief,
- stiff-necked pride,
- stiff-neckedness,
- subjective certainty,
- sureness,
- surety,
- trust,
- vanity
- aggravated,
- angry,
- annoyed,
- anxious,
- beset,
- blase,
- bothered,
- browned-off,
- bugged,
- burnt-up,
- chafed,
- dispirited,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- exasperated,
- fed-up,
- galled,
- good and tired,
- griped,
- harassed,
- inconvenienced,
- irritated,
- jaded,
- life-weary,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- miffed,
- nettled,
- peeved,
- perturbed,
- piqued,
- plagued,
- provoked,
- put to it,
- puzzled,
- resentful,
- riled,
- roiled,
- ruffled,
- satiated,
- sick,
- sick of,
- sore beset,
- splenetic,
- tired,
- tired of,
- tired of living,
- tired to death,
- troubled,
- vexed,
- wearied,
- weariful,
- weary,
- weary unto death,
- world-weary,
- worried
- KO,
- addle,
- amaze,
- anesthetize,
- appall,
- astonish,
- astound,
- awe,
- awestrike,
- bedaze,
- bedazzle,
- bemuse,
- benumb,
- besot,
- bewilder,
- blunt,
- boggle,
- bowl down,
- bowl over,
- chloroform,
- coldcock,
- confound,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- deaden,
- desensitize,
- dope,
- drug,
- dull,
- dumbfound,
- dumbfounder,
- etherize,
- faze,
- flabbergast,
- freeze,
- hebetate,
- horrify,
- kayo,
- knock out,
- knock senseless,
- knock stiff,
- knock unconscious,
- lay out,
- narcotize,
- nonplus,
- numb,
- obtund,
- overwhelm,
- palsy,
- paralyze,
- perplex,
- petrify,
- put to sleep,
- rattle,
- scare stiff,
- scare to death,
- shock,
- stagger,
- startle,
- strike dead,
- strike dumb,
- strike terror into,
- strike with wonder,
- stun,
- surprise,
- terrify
- insecure
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- lacking self-confidence or assurance; "an insecure person lacking mental stability"
- lacking in security or safety; "his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future"
- not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way; "the hinge is insecure"
- not safe from attack related words >
- afraid,
- anxious,
- apprehensive,
- dangerous,
- desultory,
- dickey,
- disconcerted,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- exposed,
- fearful,
- flimsy,
- fluctuant,
- frail,
- hazardous,
- hesitant,
- in suspense,
- infirm,
- insubstantial,
- jumpy,
- nervous,
- open,
- perilous,
- precarious,
- provisional,
- questioning,
- rickety,
- risky,
- rocky,
- rootless,
- shaky,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- tottery,
- treacherous,
- unassured,
- uncertain,
- uncomfortable,
- unconfident,
- undefended,
- undependable,
- unfaithworthy,
- unguarded,
- unhealthy,
- unnerved,
- unpredictable,
- unprotected,
- unreliable,
- unsafe,
- unselfassured,
- unselfconfident,
- unselfreliant,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- vacillating,
- vulnerable,
- wavering,
- weak,
- wobbly,
- worried
- aplomb,
- arrogance,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- balance,
- belief,
- boastfulness,
- certitude,
- cockiness,
- cocksureness,
- conceit,
- confidence,
- confidentness,
- conviction,
- courage,
- equability,
- equanimity,
- equilibrium,
- face,
- faith,
- haughtiness,
- hubris,
- independence,
- level head,
- levelheadedness,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- pardonable pride,
- poise,
- pomposity,
- positiveness,
- possession,
- presence of mind,
- pride,
- pridefulness,
- proudness,
- purse-pride,
- restraint,
- sanguineness,
- security,
- self-assurance,
- self-command,
- self-consequence,
- self-control,
- self-esteem,
- self-importance,
- self-possession,
- self-reliance,
- self-respect,
- self-restraint,
- self-sufficiency,
- settled belief,
- stiff-necked pride,
- stiff-neckedness,
- subjective certainty,
- sureness,
- surety,
- trust,
- vanity,
- well-regulated mind
- solicitous
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- showing hovering attentiveness; "solicitous about her health"; "made solicitous inquiries about our family"
- full of anxiety and concern; "solicitous parents"; "solicitous about the future" related words >
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- affable,
- agitated,
- agreeable,
- all-overish,
- anxious,
- anxioused up,
- apprehensive,
- ardent,
- athirst,
- attentive,
- avid,
- bothered,
- careful,
- caring,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- civil,
- complaisant,
- concerned,
- considerate,
- courteous,
- curious,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- desirous,
- disquieted,
- disturbed,
- eager,
- earnest,
- fair,
- fearful,
- foreboding,
- graceful,
- gracious,
- heedful,
- helpful,
- impatient,
- in a pucker,
- in a stew,
- indulgent,
- keen,
- lenient,
- loving,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- misgiving,
- nervous,
- obliging,
- on tenterhooks,
- overanxious,
- overapprehensive,
- perturbed,
- polite,
- raring,
- regardful,
- respectful,
- strained,
- suspenseful,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tense,
- thirsty,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- troubled,
- uneasy,
- urbane,
- worried,
- zealous
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- apathetic,
- backward,
- balking,
- balky,
- breakaway,
- clashing,
- complaining,
- conflicting,
- contradicting,
- contradictory,
- counteractant,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- countervailing,
- counterworking,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- dilatory,
- disputatious,
- disputing,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- dissident,
- firm,
- fractious,
- grudging,
- hostile,
- indifferent,
- inimical,
- laggard,
- loath,
- nonconformist,
- noncooperative,
- objecting,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- opposing,
- oppositional,
- oppugnant,
- perfunctory,
- perverse,
- pokerlike,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- ramrodlike,
- reactionary,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- reluctant,
- repellent,
- repugnant,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- restive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- revolutionary,
- rigid,
- rodlike,
- slow,
- slow to,
- starched,
- starchy,
- stiff,
- stiff as buckram,
- taut,
- tense,
- tight,
- uncooperative,
- unenthusiastic,
- unrelaxed,
- unsubmissive,
- unyielding,
- unzealous,
- up in arms,
- virgate,
- withstanding
- abashed,
- afflicted,
- agitated,
- annoyed,
- ascetic,
- ashamed,
- astringent,
- austere,
- bad,
- beset,
- blushing,
- bothered,
- cankered,
- carious,
- cast down,
- chagrined,
- chapfallen,
- confused,
- contaminated,
- corrupt,
- crestfallen,
- crushed,
- decayed,
- decomposed,
- discomfited,
- discomforted,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- diseased,
- disquieted,
- distressed,
- disturbed,
- embarrassed,
- festering,
- foul,
- gangrened,
- gangrenous,
- gone bad,
- hangdog,
- harassed,
- humbled,
- humiliated,
- hung up,
- ill at ease,
- infected,
- morbid,
- necrosed,
- necrotic,
- out of countenance,
- pathological,
- peccant,
- perturbed,
- poisoned,
- put-out,
- put-upon,
- putrefied,
- putrescent,
- putrid,
- red-faced,
- rotten,
- rotting,
- septic,
- shamed,
- shamefaced,
- shamefast,
- sphacelated,
- spoiled,
- stern,
- suppurating,
- suppurative,
- tainted,
- troubled,
- ulcerated,
- ulcerous,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- upset,
- worried
- puritan
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- someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures
- a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Grundy,
- Sabbatarian,
- Trappist,
- Victorian,
- Waldensian,
- abstainer,
- anchorite,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bhikshu,
- bigoted,
- bluenose,
- dervish,
- disapproving,
- dour,
- fakir,
- fanatic,
- firm,
- flagellant,
- fundamentalist,
- goody-goody,
- hard,
- hard-line,
- hard-nosed,
- hermit,
- hidebound,
- impliable,
- inexorable,
- inflexible,
- intolerant,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- mendicant,
- mid-Victorian,
- moralistic,
- muscle-bound,
- narrow-minded,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- old maid,
- orthodox,
- pietist,
- pietistic,
- prig,
- prim,
- procrustean,
- proper,
- prude,
- prudish,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- relentless,
- religionist,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- sannyasi,
- severe,
- stern,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- straightlaced,
- strait-laced,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- stubborn,
- stuffy,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- uptight,
- yogi,
- yogin,
- zealot
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