Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept SubjectiveAssessmentAttribute
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- kindness
- a kind act
- deed, feat, effort, exploit
- a notable achievement: "the book was her finest effort"
- masterpiece
- an outstanding achievement
- masterstroke
- an achievement demonstrating great skill or mastery
- credit
- used in the phrase "to your credit" to indicate an achievement deserving praise; "she already had several performances to her credit"
- derring-do
- brave and heroic deeds
- tour de force
- a masterly or brilliant feat
- overachievement
- better than expected performance (better than might have been predicted from intelligence tests)
- underachievement
- poorer than expected performance (poorer than might have been predicted from intelligence tests)
- record
- the sum of recognized accomplishments; "the lawyer has a good record"
- going, sledding
- advancing toward a goal; "persuading him was easy going" or "the proposal faces tough sledding"
- close call, close shave, squeak, squeaker, narrow escape
- something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin
- success
- an attainment that is successful; "his success in the marathon was unexpected"; "his new play was a great success"
- hit, bang, smash, strike
- a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"
- bell ringer, bull's eye, mark
- something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal; "the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer"; "scored a bull's_eye"; "hit the mark"
- conquest
- success in mastering something difficult; "the conquest of space"
- coup
- a brilliant and notable success
- failure
- an act that fails
- naught
- complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"
- frustrating, frustration, thwarting, foiling
- an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
- overturn, upset
- an improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"
- backsliding, lapse, lapsing, recidivism, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting
- a failure to maintain a higher state
- disappointing, disappointment, dashing hopes
- the act of disappointing someone
- copout
- a failure to face some difficulty squarely
- mistake, error, fault
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "the fault was all mine"
- blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"
- backfire, boomerang
- a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
- distortion
- the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
- slip, slipup, miscue
- an inadvertent mistake
- oversight, lapse
- a mistake resulting from inattention
- omission, skip
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- blunder, blooper, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo, misdoing
- an embarrassing mistake
- snafu
- an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: Situation Normal All Fucked Up
- spectacle
- a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase "make a spectacle of" yourself
- ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up
- (British) something badly botched or muddled
- bull
- a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment"
- fluff
- a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
- faux pas, gaffe, solecism, slip, gaucherie
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- clanger
- (British) a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; "he dropped a clanger"
- trip, stumble, misstep
- an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"
- misappropriation
- wrongful borrowing; "his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory"
- best
- the supreme effort one can make: "they did their best"
- worst
- the weakest effort or poorest achievement one is capable of: "it was the worst he had ever done on a test"
- hit
- a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
- leading astray, leading off
- the act of enticing others into sinful ways
- seduction
- enticing someone astray from right behavior
- pis aller, last resort
- French for `worst going'
- desperate measure
- desperate actions taken as a means to an end; "he had to resort to desperate measures"
- open sesame
- any very successful means of achieving a result
- salvation
- a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness; "tourism was their economic salvation"; "they turned to individualism as their salvation"
- tooth
- a means of enforcement; "the treaty had no teeth in it"
- equalization, equilisation, leveling
- the act of making equal or uniform
- stunt
- a difficult or unusual feat; usually done to gain attention
- fossilization
- becoming inflexible or out of date
- disaster
- an act that has disastrous consequences
- improvement
- the act of improving something: "Their improvements increased the value of the property"
- advancement, progress
- gradual improvement or growth or development: "advancement of knowledge"; "great progress in the arts"; "their research and development gave them an advantagte"
- forwarding, furtherance, promotion
- the advancement of some enterprise; "his experience in marketing resulted in the forwarding of his career"
- stride
- significant progress (especially in the phrase "make strides" or "make rapid strides")
- purge, purging, purgation
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
- purification
- the act of purging of sin or guilt; "purification through repentance"
- correction, correcting, rectification
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake
- redress, remedy, remediation
- act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
- salve
- anything that remedies or heals or soothes; "he needed a salve for his conscience"
- retribution
- the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
- perfection
- the act of making something perfect
- reform
- a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses; "justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts"
- amelioration, melioration, betterment
- the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
- self-improvement, self-reformation
- the act of improving yourself
- reform
- self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; "the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"
- beautification
- the act of making something more beautiful
- glamorization
- the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way)
- decoration
- the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive)
- adornment
- the action of decorating yourself with something colorful and interesting
- enrichment
- act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding
- humanization, humanisation
- the act of making more humane
- modernization, modernisation, modernizing
- making modern in appearance of behavior; "the modernizing of Nigeria will be a long process"
- enhancement, sweetening
- an improvement that makes something more agreeable
- upturn
- an upward movement or trend as in business activity
- worsening
- changing something with the result that it becomes worse
- downturn, downswing
- a worsening of business or economic activity; "the market took a downturn"
- downspin
- a swift and dangerous downturn
- reclamation, renewal, revival, rehabilitation
- the conversion of waste land into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation
- degradation, debasement
- changing to a lower state (a less respected state)
- dehumanization, dehumanisation
- the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities; "science has been blamed for the dehumanization of modern life"
- brutalization, brutalisation, animalization, animalisation
- an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities
- barbarization, barbarisation
- an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized
- bastardization, bastardisation
- an act that debases or corrupts
- corruption
- destroying someone's honesty or loyalty or moral integrity: "corruption of a minor"
- demoralization
- destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy
- stultification, impairment, deadening
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
- popularization, popularisation, vulgarization, vulgarisation, coarsening
- the act of making something attractive to the general public
- humiliation, humbling, abasement
- depriving one of self-esteem
- comedown
- decline to a lower status or level
- contamination, pollution
- the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors
- dust contamination
- the act of contaminating with dust particles
- decontamination
- the removal of contaminants
- back door
- a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position); "he got his job through the back door"
- overshoot, wave-off, go-around
- an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt
- march
- a steady advance; "the march of science"; "the march of time"
- plain sailing, clear sailing, easy going
- easy unobstructed progress: "after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing"
- gait
- a person's manner of walking
- twiddle
- a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns
- wave
- a movement like that of an ocean wave; "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves"
- outreach
- the act of reaching out; "the outreach toward truth of the human spirit"
- red herring
- any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue
- extenuation, mitigation, palliation
- to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
- easing, alleviation, relief
- the act of reducing something unpleasant as pain; "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain"
- de-escalation
- a reduction in intensity (of a crisis or a war)
- detente
- the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations)
- palliation
- easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause
- liberalization, liberalisation, relaxation
- the act of making less strict
- minimization, minimisation
- the act of minimizing something
- exhaustion
- the act of exhausting something entirely
- wilt, wilting
- causing to become limp or drooping
- exaggeration
- the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"
- hyperextension
- greater than normal extension
- stretch
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit; "running at full stretch"; "by no stretch of the imagination"; "beyond any stretch of his understanding"
- self-aggrandizement, self-aggrandisement, ego trip
- an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance
- aggravation, exacerbation
- action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse; "the aggravation of her condition resulted from lack of care"
- union, unification, uniting
- making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"
- reunion, reunification
- the act of coming together again
- umbrella
- having the function of uniting a group of similar things; "the Democratic Party is an umbrella for many liberal groups"; "under the umbrella of capitalism"
- transfiguration
- the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify
- transmogrification
- changing into a different form or appearance especially a fantastic or grotesque one: "transmogrification into a porcupine"
- rehabilitation
- the restoration of someone to a useful place in society
- rejuvenation
- the act of restoring to a more youthful condition
- refreshment
- act of refreshing or renewing strength or liveliness
- free-living
- a way of life given to easy indulgence of the appetites
- primrose path
- a life of ease and pleasure
- straight and narrow
- the way of proper and honest behavior; "he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow"
- vanity fair
- a vain and frivolous way of life especially in large cities (after a fair held in the town of Vanity in Pilgrim's Progress)
- line of least resistance, path of least resistance
- the easiest way; "In marrying him she simply took the path of least resistance"
- mistreatment
- the practice of treating (someone or something) badly; "he should be punished for his mistreatment of his mother"
- maltreatment, ill-treatment, ill-usage, abuse
- cruel or inhumane treatment
- persecution
- the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)
- oppression, subjugation
- the act of subjugating by cruelty
- exasperation
- actions that cause great irritation (or even anger)
- witch-hunt
- searching out and harassing dissenters
- McCarthyism
- unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists)
- disregard, neglect
- lack of care and attention
- exploitation, victimization, victimisation, using
- an act that exploits or victimizes someone
- escape, escapism
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "he escaped into romantic novels"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism"
- folly, foolery, tomfoolery, indulgence
- foolish or senseless behavior
- buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, prank
- acting like a clown or buffoon
- liveliness, animation
- general activity and motion
- brouhaha
- a confused disturbance far greater than its cause merits
- circus, carnival
- a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a circus or carnival; "it was so funny it was a circus"; "the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere"
- disruption, perturbation
- the act of causing disorder
- dislocation, breakdown
- the act of disrupting an established order
- furor, furore
- a sudden outburst (as of protest)
- havoc, mayhem
- violent and needless disturbance
- agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo
- disturbance usually in protest
- outburst, tumultuous disturbance
- a sudden violent disturbance
- rampage, violent disorder
- violently angry and destructive behavior
- upset, derangement, overthrow
- the act of disturbing the mind or body; "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living"
- bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir
- a rapid bustling commotion
- burst, fit
- a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason); "a burst of applause"; "a fit of housecleaning"
- obstruction
- getting in someone's way
- cinch, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake
- any activity that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic"
- job
- a damaging piece of work: "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
- busywork, make-work
- active work of little value; "while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork"
- loose end, unfinished business
- work that is left incomplete
- spiritualization, spiritualisation
- the act of making something spiritual; infusing it with spiritual content
- treadmill, salt mine
- a job involving drudgery and confinement
- hackwork
- professional work done according to formula
- haymaking
- taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts
- overwork, overworking
- the act working too much or too long; "he became ill from overwork"
- slavery
- work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
- trouble, difficulty
- an effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty"
- least effort, least resistance
- the least effortful way to do something
- strain, straining, stress
- an intense or violent exertion
- pull
- a sustained effort; "it was a long pull but we made it"
- application, diligence
- a diligent effort; "it is a job requiring serious application"
- overkill
- any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal
- supererogation
- an effort above and beyond the call of duty
- overexertion
- the exertion of so much effort that discomfort or injury results
- second fiddle
- a secondary role or function; "he hated to play second fiddle to anyone"
- disagreeable task
- a chore that causes discomfort
- malversation
- misconduct in public office
- mischief, mischief-making, mischievousness, deviltry, devilry, devilment, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan
- reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
- hell, blaze
- noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes"
- ruffianism
- violent lawless behavior
- familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, liberty
- an act of undue intimacy
- deviation, deviance
- deviate behavior
- indecency, impropriety
- an indecent or improper act
- obscenity
- an obscene act
- indiscretion, peccadillo
- a petty misdeed
- infantilism
- infantile behavior in mature persons
- escape mechanism
- a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities
- malingering, skulking
- evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated
- shirking, slacking, soldiering, goofing off, goldbricking
- the evasion of work or duty
- waste, wastefulness, dissipation
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly: "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipaton of natural resources"
- waste of effort, waste of energy
- a useless effort
- waste of material
- a useless consumption of material
- waste of money
- money spent for inadequate return; "the senator said that the project was a waste of money"
- waste of time
- the devotion of time to a useless activity; "the waste of time could prove fatal"
- extravagance, prodigality, lavishness
- excessive spending
- squandering
- spending money wastefully
- squandermania
- prodigious squandering (usually by a government)
- villainy
- a treacherous or vicious act
- deviltry, devilry
- wicked and cruel behavior
- enormity
- an act of extreme wickedness
- foul play
- unfair or treacherous behavior (especially involving violence)
- irreverence, violation
- a disrespectful act
- profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege
- blasphemous behavior
- depravity, turpitude
- a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice: "the various turpitudes of modern society"
- vice
- a specific form of evildoing; "vice offends the moral standards of the community"
- pornography, porno, porn
- illegal activities designed to stimulate sexual desire
- intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence
- immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites
- profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- dishonesty, knavery
- lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
- treachery, betrayal, treason, perfidy
- an act of deliberate betrayal
- double cross, double-crossing
- an act of betrayal; "he gave us the old double cross"; "I could no longer tolerate his impudent double-crossing"
- sellout
- an act of betrayal
- charlatanism, quackery
- the dishonesty of a charlatan
- trick
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; "that offer was a dirty trick"
- goldbrick
- anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
- jugglery
- artful trickery designed to achieve an end; "the senator's tax program was mere jugglery"
- gerrymander
- an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
- obscurantism
- a deliberate act intended to make something obscure
- fall
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue"
- pride, superbia
- unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- envy, invidia
- spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia
- reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- sloth, laziness, acedia
- apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- wrath, anger, ire, ira
- belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- gluttony, overeating, gula
- eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- lust, luxuria
- self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- crime
- an evil act not necessarily punishable by law; "crimes of the heart"
- disorderly conduct, disorderly behavior, disturbance of the peace, breach of the peace
- any act of molesting or interrupting or hindering or disquieting or agitating or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled
- indecent exposure, public nudity
- vulgar and offensive nakedness in a public place
- victimless crime
- an act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims; "he considers prostitution to be a victimless crime"
- forlorn hope
- a hopeless or desperate enterprise
- braving, confronting, coping with, grappling, tackling
- taking the bull by the horns
- face, facing
- the act of confronting bravely; "he hated facing the facts"; "he excelled in the face of danger"
- adventure, escapade, risky venture, dangerous undertaking
- a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
- baby
- a project of personal concern to someone; "this project is his baby"
- marathon, endurance contest
- any long and arduous undertaking
- no-brainer
- (informal) anything that requires little thought
- tall order, large order
- a formidable task or requirement; "finishing in time was a tall order but we did it"
- sally, sallying forth
- a venture off the beaten path; "a sally into the wide world beyond his home"
- self-help
- the act of helping or improving yourself without relying on anyone else
- risk, peril, danger
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury; "he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime"; "there was a danger he would do the wrong thing"
- chance
- a risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her drive"
- gamble
- a risky act or venture
- long shot
- a venture that involves great risk but promises great rewards
- momism, overprotection, overshielding
- excessive protection
- promiscuity, promiscuousness, sleeping around
- promiscuous sexual relations
- lechery
- unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity
- rebound
- a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration; "he is still on the rebound from his wife's death"
- overreaction
- an excessive reaction
- soul
- the human embodiment of something; "the soul of honor"
- personification, incarnation
- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
- misuse, abuse
- improper or excessive use
- capitalization, capitalisation
- the act of capitalizing on an opportunity
- meat grinder
- any action resulting in injury or destruction; "the meat grinder of politics destroyed his reputation" or "allied forces crumbled before the Wehrmacht meat grinder"
- redundancy
- repetition of an act needlessly
- reduplication
- an act of duplicating
- copying
- an act of copying
- duplication, duplicating
- the act of duplicating something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful"
- reproduction, replication
- the act of reproducing
- perseverance, persistence, perseveration
- the act of persevering
- abidance
- the act of abiding (enduring without yielding)
- pursuance, prosecution
- the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion
- discontinuance, discontinuation
- the act of discontinuing
- indirection
- indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection"
- rigmarole, rigamarole
- a long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time"
- routine, modus operandi
- an unvarying or habitual method of procedure
- rat race
- an exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxation
- rut, groove
- a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut"
- ritualism
- exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship
- love match
- a marriage for love's sake; not an arranged marriage
- consecration
- a solemn dedication to a service or a goal; "his consecration to study"
- idolization, idolisation
- worshiping blindly and to excess
- idolatry, idol worship
- the worship of idols; the worship of images that are not God
- bardolatry
- idolization of William Shakespeare
- idolatry, devotion, veneration
- religious zeal; willingness to serve God
- idiolatry, autolatry, self-worship
- worship of yourself
- verbolatry, grammatolatry, word-worship
- worship of words
- symbolatry, symbololatry, symbol-worship
- worship of symbols
- anthropolatry, worship of man
- worship of human beings
- gyneolatry, gynaeolatry, woman-worship
- worship of women
- lordolatry
- worship of a lord because of his rank or title
- energizing, activating, activation
- the activity of causing to have energy and be active
- repudiation, debunking
- the exposure of falseness or pretensions; "the debunking of religion has been too successful"
- procrastination, cunctation, shillyshally
- the act of procrastinating
- dalliance, dawdling, trifling, wasting time
- the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working
- tarrying, tarriance, lingering
- the act of lingering
- heckling, barracking
- shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree
- abstinence
- act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
- self-denial, self-discipline, self-control
- the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses
- sobriety, temperance
- abstaining from excess
- tolerance
- the act of tolerating something
- lenience, leniency
- lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers
- clemency, mercifulness, mercy
- leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court"
- pleasure
- an activity that affords enjoyment; "he puts duty before pleasure"
- enjoyment, delectation
- act of receiving pleasure from something
- satisfaction, satisfying
- act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite; "the satisfaction of their demand for better services"
- gratification
- the act or an instance of gratifying or satisfying
- self-gratification
- the act of satisfying your own desires and giving yourself pleasure
- indulgence, indulging, pampering, humoring, pleasing
- the act of indulging or gratifying a desire
- overindulgence, excess
- excessive indulgence; "the child was spoiled by overindulgence"
- orgy
- any act of immoderate indulgence
- complication, complicating
- the act or process of complicating
- generosity, unselfishness
- acting generously
- wash
- (informal) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- land-office business
- very large and profitable volume of commercial activity
- domination
- social control by dominating
- mastery, subordination
- the act of mastering or subordinating someone
- monopolization, monopolisation
- domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others
- white man's burden
- the supposed responsibility of the white race to take of their non-white subjects
- obedience, respect
- behavior intended to please your parents; "their children were never very strong on obedience"; "he went to law school out of respect for his father's wishes"
- mismanagement
- management that is careless or inefficient
- short shrift
- brief and unsympathetic treatment
- restraint
- the act of restraining
- collar
- a figurative restraint; "a collar on program trading in the stock market"
- damper
- a depressing restraint; "rain put a damper on our picnic plans"
- bridle, check, curb
- the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess; "his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper"
- swaddling clothes
- restrictions placed on the immature
- appeasement, calming
- the act of appeasing
- pacification, mollification
- the act of pacifying
- placation, conciliation, propitiation
- the act of placating
- obedience
- dutiful or submissive behavior
- truckling
- the act of obeying (especially in a humble manner)
- acquiescence
- submission without protest
- discord, discordance
- a discordant act
- defiance
- a defiant act
- aggro
- (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression; "I skipped it because it was too much aggro"
- selflessness, self-sacrifice
- acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity
- commitment, allegiance, loyalty, dedication
- the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action; "his long commitment to public service"; "they felt no loyalty to a losing team"
- devotion
- commitment to some purpose; "the devotion of his time and wealth to science"
- faith
- loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person; "keep the faith"; "they broke faith with their investors"
- fetish, fetich
- excessive or irrational devotion to some activity; "made a fetish of cleanliness"
- party spirit
- devotion to a political party
- boost, encouragement
- the act of giving hope or support to someone
- morale building, morale booster
- anything that serves to increase morale; "the sight of flowers every morning was my morale builder"
- consolation, comfort, solace
- the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction; "his presence was a consolation to her"
- simplification
- elimination of superfluous details
- oversimplification
- excessive simplification (to the point of misrepresentation)
- reassurance
- the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence
- admiration, appreciation
- a favorable judgment; "a small token in admiration of your works"
- adoration, adulation, idolization, idolisation
- the act of admiring strongly
- glorification
- the act of glorifying (as in worship); "the glorification of God"
- idealization, idealisation, glorification
- a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"
- sentimentalization, sentimentalisation, romanticization, romanticisation
- the act of indulging in sentiment
- disparagement, dispraise
- the act of speaking contemptuously of
- belittling
- the act of belittling
- deprecation, denigration
- the act of depreciating
- aspersion, calumny, slander, defamation
- the act of defaming
- aggravation, irritation, provocation
- unfriendly behavior that aggravates or irritates someone
- exacerbation
- violent and bitter exasperation; "his foolishness was followed by an exacerbation of their quarrel"
- bitchery
- aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman
- twitting, taunt, taunting
- aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing
- raising hell, hell raising
- making trouble just for the fun of it
- discourtesy, offense, offence, offensive activity
- a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others
- indelicacy
- an impolite act or expression
- insolence
- an offensive disrespectful impudent act
- insult, affront
- a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"
- indignity
- an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem
- scandalization, scandalisation, outrage
- the act of scandalizing
- rebuff, slight
- a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
- snub, cut, cold shoulder
- a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional"
- silent treatment
- an aloof refusal to speak to someone you know
- benevolence, benefaction
- an act intending or showing kindness and good will
- cupboard love
- a show of affection motivated by selfishness
- favor, favour
- an act of gracious kindness
- turn, good turn
- a favor for someone; "he did me a good turn"
- mercy
- alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed; "distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy"
- exculpation
- the act of freeing from guilt or blame
- endearment
- the act of showing affection
- politeness, civility
- the act of showing regard for others
- courtesy
- a courteous or respectful or considerate act
- beau geste
- a gracious (but usually meaningless) gesture
- attention
- a courteous act indicating affection; "she tried to win his heart with her many attentions"
- gallantry
- polite attentiveness to women
- consideration, thoughtfulness
- a considerate and thoughtful act
- mobilization, mobilisation, marshaling
- act of assembling or organizing and making ready for use or action: "mobiliation of the country's economic resources"; "marshaling public support"
- economic mobilization, economic mobilisation
- mobilization of the economy
- rallying
- the act of mobilizing for a common purpose; "the bell was a signal for the rallying of the whole neighborhood"
- incurrence
- the act of incurring (making yourself subject to something undesirable)
- vindication, exoneration, whitewash
- the act of vindicating; "subsequent events have proved to be a vindication of his position"
- stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility
- a stupid mistake
- renewal
- the act of renewing
- buzz
- a confusion of activity and gossip; "the buzz of excitement was so great that a formal denial was issued"
- fun
- violent and excited activity; "she asked for money and then the fun began"; (colloquial) "they began to fight like fun"
- sin, hell
- (colloquial) violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin"
- spoil, spoiling, spoilage
- the act of spoiling
- face saver, face saving
- an act that avoids a loss of face (of dignity or prestige)
- emphasizing, accenting
- the act of giving special importance or significance to something
- release, outlet
- activity that releases or expresses creative energy or emotion; "she had no other outlet for her feelings"
- stayer
- a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverence: "the horse that won the race is a good stayer"
- giant
- any creature of exceptional size
- survivor
- an animal that survives in spite of adversity; "only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters"
- adornment
- a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness
- anachronism
- an artifact that belongs to another time
- bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity
- something of little value or significance
- bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket, fallal
- cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing
- beehive
- any workplace where people are very busy
- burthen
- a variant of `burden'
- butt, stub
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- change
- a thing that is different; "he inspected several changes before selecting one"
- charm, good luck charm
- something believed to bring good luck
- classic
- a creation of the highest excellence
- clutter
- many things in a disorderly state
- collector's item, showpiece, piece de resistance
- the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection
- curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity
- something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
- etcetera
- more of the same
- fag end
- the frayed end of a length of cloth or rope
- fake, sham, postiche
- something false; not what it seems to be
- falderal, folderol, frills, gimcrackery, gimcracks, nonsense, trumpery
- ornamental objects of no great value
- fig leaf
- anything intended to conceal something regarded as shameful
- flagship
- the chief one of a related group; "it is their flagship newspaper"
- funk hole
- a place of safe retreat
- gem, treasure
- something highly prized for its beauty or perfection
- golden calf
- (Old Testament) an idol made by Aaron for the Israelites to worship; destroyed by Moses; it is now used to refer to anything worshipped undeservedly
- haven, oasis
- place of safety or sanctuary
- hoodoo
- something believed to bring bad luck
- horror
- something that inspires horror; something horrible; "the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him"
- idol, graven image, god
- a material object that is worshipped as a god; "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"; "money was his god"
- je ne sais quois
- something indescribable
- jimdandy, jimhickey, crackerjack
- something excellent of its kind; "the bike was a jimdandy"
- juju, voodoo, hoodoo, fetish, fetich
- an object superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
- keepsake, souvenir, token, relic
- something of sentimental value
- kitsch
- art in pretentious bad taste
- lash-up, contrivance
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- love-token
- something given as a token of love
- magic bullet
- a drug or therapy or preventive that cures or prevents a disease: "there is no magic bullet against cancer
- magnum opus
- a great work of art or literature
- marker
- some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something; "the buoys were markers for the channel"
- middling
- any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
- millstone
- something difficult to carry
- overload, overburden
- an excessive burden
- proving ground
- a place for testing new equipment or ideas
- refuge, sanctuary, asylum
- a shelter from danger or hardship
- safehold
- a refuge from attack
- schlock, shlock
- (slang) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior
- scum
- a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid
- security blanket
- (informal) anything that a person uses to reduce their anxiety
- slack
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely; "he took of the slack"
- snorter
- something that is extraordinary or remarkable or prominent: "a snorter of a sermon"; "the storm wasn't long but it was a snorter"
- spectacle
- an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale
- standby
- something that can be relied on when needed
- stock-in-trade
- anything constantly used as part of a profession or occupation; "friendliness is the salesman's stock in trade"
- tinsel
- a showy decoration that is basically valueless; "all the tinsel of self-promotion"
- top of the line
- the best (most expensive) in a given line of merchandise
- trivia, triviality, trifle, small beer
- something of small importance
- undercharge
- an insufficient charge
- variation
- something that deviates from a norm or standard
- web, entanglement
- an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
- whacker, whopper
- something especially big or impressive of its kind
- drama
- the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
- affectionateness, fondness, lovingness, warmth
- a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love
- tenderness
- a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling
- uxoriousness
- foolish fondness for or excessive submissiveness to one's wife
- mawkishness, sentimentality
- falsely emotional in a maudlin way
- schmaltz, schmalz, mushiness
- (informal) excessive sentimentality
- heat, warmth, passion
- intense passion or emotion
- uncheerfulness
- not conducive to cheer or good spirits
- gloominess, lugubriousness
- excessive sadness and mournfulness
- animation, spiritedness
- quality of being active or spirited or vigorous
- chirpiness
- cheerful and lively
- liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness
- animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"
- airiness, delicacy
- lightness in movement or manner
- alacrity, briskness
- liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity"
- energy, vigor, vigour, vim
- an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"
- vitality, verve
- an energetic style
- elan
- enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness; "a performance of great elan and sophistication"
- esprit
- liveliness of mind or spirit
- breeziness, jauntiness
- a breezy liveliness; "a delightful breeziness of manner"
- restfulness
- the attribute of being restful; "he longed for the restfulness of home"
- stodginess, stuffiness
- dull and pompous gravity
- companionability, companionableness
- suitability to be a companion
- chumminess, comaraderie, comradeliness, comradery
- the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
- familiarity, intimacy, closeness
- close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"
- camaraderie, good fellowship
- spirit of friendly familiarity and goodwill between comrades
- adaptability
- the ability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances
- flexibility
- the quality of being adaptable or variable; "he enjoyed the flexibility of his working arrangement"
- pliability, pliancy, pliantness
- the quality of being easily adaptable
- unadaptability
- the inability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances
- inflexibility, rigidity
- the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
- ladylikeness
- behavior befitting a lady
- maidenliness
- behavior befitting a young maiden
- passport
- any quality or characteristic that gains a person acceptance or admission; "his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society"
- simulacrum
- an insubstantial or vague semblance
- face value
- the apparent worth as opposed to the real worth
- speck, pinpoint
- a very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"
- beauty
- the qualities that give pleasure to the senses
- raw beauty
- beauty that is stark and powerfully impressive
- glory, resplendence, resplendency
- brilliant radiant beauty; "the glory of the sunrise"
- exquisiteness
- extreme beauty of a delicate sort
- picturesqueness
- visually vivid and pleasing
- pleasingness
- a likeable beauty; "the liveliness and pleasingness of dark eyes"- T.N. Carver
- pulchritude
- physical beauty (especially of a woman)
- glamor, glamour
- alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)
- comeliness, fairness, loveliness, beauteousness
- the quality of being good looking and attractive
- prettiness, cuteness
- the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman)
- handsomeness, good looks
- the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man)
- attractiveness
- a beauty that appeals to the senses
- adorability, adorableness
- extreme attractiveness
- bewitchery, beguilement, animal magnetism
- magnetic personal charm
- charisma, personal appeal, personal magnetism
- a personal attractiveness that enables you to influence others
- sex appeal, desirability, desirableness, oomph
- attractiveness to the opposite sex
- appeal, appealingness, charm
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
- winsomeness
- childlike charm or appeal
- attraction, attractiveness
- the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; "her personality held a strange attraction for him"
- affinity
- a natural attraction or feeling of kinship: "an affinity for politics"; "the mysterious affinity between them"; "James's affinity with Sam"
- allure, allurement, temptingness
- the power to entice or attract through personal charm
- binding
- the capacity to attract and hold something
- drawing power
- the capacity for attracting people (customers or supporters)
- lure, enticement, come-on
- qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
- ugliness
- qualities that do not give pleasure to the senses
- unsightliness
- ugliness that is unpleasant to look at
- grotesqueness, grotesquery, grotesquerie
- ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion
- garishness, gaudiness
- strident color or excessive ornamentation
- unpleasingness
- the quality of being unpleasant
- hideousness
- extreme ugliness
- unattractiveness
- ugliness that is not appealing
- homeliness, plainness
- an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful; "fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness"
- blemish, defect
- a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
- eyesore
- something very ugly and offensive
- plainness
- the appearance of being plain and unpretentious
- chasteness, restraint, simplicity
- lack of ornamentation
- austereness, severeness
- extreme plainness
- bareness, starkness
- an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation
- ornateness, elaborateness
- an ornate appearance; being elaborately decorated
- baroque, baroqueness
- elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
- rococo
- fanciful asymmetric ornamentation
- flamboyance, floridness, showiness
- extravagant elaborateness
- fussiness
- unnecessary elaborateness in details
- decorativeness
- an appearance that serves to decorate and make something more attractive
- obviousness, noticeability, noticeableness
- the property of being easy to see and understand
- blatancy
- the property of being both obvious and offensive; "the blatancy of his attempt to whitewash the crime was unforgivable"
- obtrusiveness
- an unwelcome conspicuousness
- unobtrusiveness
- the quality of not sticking out in an unwelcome way
- ease, easiness, simplicity
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort: "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of transportation"
- effortlessness
- the quality of requiring little effort; "such effortlessness is achieved only after hours of practice"
- facility, readiness
- a natural effortlessness; "a happy readiness of conversation"--Jane Austen
- smoothness
- the quality of being free from errors or interruptions
- difficulty, difficultness
- the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
- effortfulness
- the quality of requiring deliberate effort
- arduousness, strenuousness
- extreme effortfulness
- laboriousness, operoseness, toilsomeness
- the quality of requiring extended effort
- asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, rigorousness
- something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
- hardness
- the quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"
- formidability, toughness
- impressive difficulty
- burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness
- unwelcome burdensome difficulty
- subtlety, niceness
- the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze; "you had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew"
- troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment
- a difficulty that causes anxiety
- awkwardness, cumbersomeness, unwieldiness
- trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape: "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano"
- flea bite
- a very minor inconvenience
- fly in the ointment
- an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something
- compatibility
- capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination
- congenialness, congeniality
- compatibility between persons
- harmony, harmoniousness
- compatibility in opinion and action
- accord, rapport
- sympathetic compatibility
- congruity, congruousness, congruence
- the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
- incompatibility
- the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination
- antagonism
- being an opposing principle or force or factor: "inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism"
- conflict
- an incompatibility of dates or events; "he noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings"
- incongruity, incongruousness
- the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
- irony
- incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
- Socratic irony
- admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning
- suitability, suitableness
- the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose; "an important requirement is suitability for long trips"
- appropriateness
- the quality of being specially suitable
- felicity, felicitousness
- pleasing and appropriate manner or style esp of expression
- aptness, appositeness
- appropriateness; "the phrase had considerable aptness"
- fitness, fittingness
- the condition of being suitable; "they had to prove their fitness for the position"
- convenience
- the quality of being useful and convenient; "they offered the convenience of an installment plan"
- opportuneness, patness, timeliness
- timely convenience
- handiness, accessibility, availability, availableness
- the quality of being at hand when needed
- command
- availability for use; "the materials at the command of the potters grew"
- unsuitability, unsuitableness, ineptness
- the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose
- inaptness, inappositeness
- in appropriateness; "greater inaptness of expression would be hard to imagine"
- inappropriateness
- the quality of not being particularly suitable
- infelicity
- inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style esp of expression
- unfitness
- the condition of not being suitable; "the judges agreed on his unfirness for the appointment"
- inconvenience
- the quality of not being useful or convenient
- inaccessibility, unavailability
- the quality of not being unavailable when needed
- inopportuneness, untimeliness
- the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time
- ethos
- the distinctive spirit of a people or an era; "the Greek ethos"
- air, aura, atmosphere
- a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing: "an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters"; "the place had an aura of romance"
- mystique
- an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing
- note
- a characteristic emotional quality; "it ended on a sour note"; "there was a note of gaiety in her manner"; "he detected a note of sarcasm"
- quality, caliber, calibre
- a degree or grade of excellence or worth: "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber"
- superiority, high quality
- the quality of being superior
- fineness, choiceness
- the quality of being very good indeed; "the inn is distinguished by the fineness of its cuisine"
- excellence
- the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree
- admirability, admirableness, wonderfulness
- admirable excellence
- impressiveness, grandness, magnificence
- splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture"
- expansiveness
- a quality characterized by magnificence of scale; "the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed"
- stateliness, majesty, loftiness
- impressiveness in scale or proportion
- first class
- the highest rank in a classification
- first water
- the highest quality gems
- ingenuity, ingeniousness, cleverness
- the property of being ingenious; "a plot of great ingenuity"; "the cleverness of its design"
- inferiority, low quality
- an inferior quality
- poorness
- the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
- second class
- not the highest rank in a classification
- point, spot
- an outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the high points of the movie"
- hallmark, trademark, earmark, stylemark
- a distinctive characteristic or attribute
- inconstancy, changefulness
- the quality of being changeable and variable
- capriciousness, unpredictability
- the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses
- variability, variableness, variance
- the quality of being subject to variation
- variedness, variational
- characterized by variation
- diversity
- the condition or result of being variable
- progressiveness, progressivity
- advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods
- absoluteness
- the quality of being absolute; "the absoluteness of the Pope's decree could not be challenged"
- constancy, stability
- the quality of being free from change or variation
- unvariedness
- characterized by an absence of variation
- monotony, sameness
- the quality of wearisome constancy and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"
- fixedness, unalterability
- the quality of being fixed and unchangeable; "the fixedness of his gaze upset her"
- vicissitude
- mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
- similarity
- the quality of being similar
- analogy
- similarity in some respect between things that are otherwise dissimilar: "the operation of a computer presents an interesting analogy to the working of the brain"
- approximation
- the quality of of being similar (especially close in value)
- homology
- the quality of being similar or corresponding in position or value or structure or function
- likeness, alikeness, similitude
- similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things: "man created God in his own likeness"
- parallelism, correspondence
- similarity by virtue of correspondence
- uniformity, uniformness
- the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom)
- homogeneity, homogeneousness
- the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature; "there is a remarkable homogeneity between the two companies"
- consistency, consistence
- a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
- approach
- a close approximation; "the nearest approach to genius"
- analogue, analog, parallel
- something having the property of being analogous to something else
- resemblance
- similarity in appearance or external or superficial details
- mutual resemblance
- symmetrical resemblance
- affinity
- inherent resemblance between persons or things
- parity
- functional equality
- evenness
- the quality of being balanced
- discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance
- a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion"
- allowance, leeway, margin, tolerance
- a permissible difference
- dissimilarity, unsimilarity
- the quality of being dissimilar
- disparateness, distinctiveness
- utter dissimilarity
- unlikeness, dissimilitude
- dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness
- nonuniformity
- the quality of being diverse and interesting
- heterogeneity, heterogeneousness
- the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind
- diverseness, diversity, multifariousness, variety
- noticeable heterogeneity; "a diversity of possibilities"; "the range and variety of his work is amazing"
- inconsistency
- the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts
- variety, change
- a difference that is usually pleasant; "he goes to France for variety"; "it is a refreshing change to meet a woman mechanic"
- far cry
- a disappointing disparity; "it was a far cry from what he had expected"
- gap, spread
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures: "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread between lending and borrowing costs"
- gulf
- an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"
- unevenness
- the quality of being unbalanced
- finality, conclusiveness, decisiveness
- the quality of being final or definitely settled: "the finality of death"
- fortuitousness
- the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance
- concreteness
- the quality of being concrete (not abstract)
- literalness
- adhereing to the concrete construal of something
- insubstantiality
- lacking substance or reality
- smoke
- (informal) something with no concrete substance; "his dreams all turned to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors"
- reality
- the quality possessed by something that is real
- unreality
- the quality possessed by something that is unreal
- singularity, uniqueness
- the quality of being one of a kind; "that singularity distinguished him from all his companions"
- peculiarity, specialness, specialty, speciality, distinctiveness
- a distinguishing trait
- generality
- the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability
- solidarity
- a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group
- pervasiveness
- the quality of filling or spreading throughout: "the pervasiveness of the odor of cabbage in tenement hallways"
- prevalence
- the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "the prevalence of dysentery is horrible"
- currency
- general acceptance or use: "the currency of ideas"
- universality, catholicity
- the quality of being universal; existing everywhere
- totality
- the quality of being complete and indiscriminate: "the totality of war and its consequences"; "the all-embracing totality of the state"
- simplicity, simpleness
- the quality of being simple or uncompounded; "the simplicity of a crystal"
- complexity, complexness
- the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers"
- complicatedness, complication, knottiness
- puzzling complexity
- elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy
- marked by elaborately complex detail
- tapestry
- something that is felt to resemble a tapestry in its complexity; "the tapestry of European history"
- regularity
- the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate; "he was famous for the regularity of his habits"
- cyclicity, periodicity
- the quality of recurring at intervals
- rhythm, regular recurrence
- recurring at regular intervals; "the rhythm of the seasons"
- orderliness, methodicalness
- the quality of appreciating method and system
- organization, organisation, system
- an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized; "his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality"; "we can't do it unless we establish some system around here"
- uniformity
- a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying
- homogeneity
- the quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure
- evenness, invariability
- a quality of uniformity and lack of variation
- even spacing
- regularity of spacing
- steadiness
- the quality of being steady--regular and unvarying
- irregularity, unregularity
- not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals
- fitfulness, jerkiness
- the quality of being spasmodic and irregular
- intermittence, intermittency
- the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping
- fluctuation, wavering
- the quality of being unsteady and subject to fluctuations; "he kept a record of price fluctuations"
- randomness, haphazardness
- the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
- spasticity
- the quality of moving or acting in spasms
- unevenness, variability
- a quality of variability and lack of uniformity
- jaggedness
- something irregular like a bump or crack in a smooth surface
- patchiness
- unevenness in quality or performance
- personal equation
- variability attributable to individual differences
- unsteadiness
- the quality of being unsteady--varying and irregular
- looseness, play
- movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel"
- restlessness
- the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active; "the restlessness of the wind"
- wiggliness
- a jerky back and forth kind of mobility; "he walked with the wiggliness of a child on high heels"
- slack, slackness
- the condition of being loose (not taut); "he hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope"
- unsteadiness
- the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place
- instability, unstableness
- the quality or attribute of being unstable
- shakiness, ricketiness
- the quality of being unstable and insecure; "the shakiness of the present regime"
- granite
- something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness); "a man of granite"
- sureness
- the quality of being steady and unfailing; "sureness of hand"
- stability, stableness
- the quality or attribute of being stable
- pleasantness, sweetness
- the quality of giving pleasure; "he was charmed by the sweetness of her manner"; "the pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day"
- agreeableness, amenity
- pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions; "a well trained staff saw to the agreeableness of our accommodations"; "he discovered the amenities of reading at an early age"
- enjoyableness
- pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed; "the enjoyableness of an afternoon at the beach"
- niceness
- the quality of nice
- unpleasantness
- the quality of giving displeasure; "the recent unpleasantness of the weather"
- disagreeableness
- the quality of being disagreeable; and unpleasant
- nastiness
- the quality of being unpleasant; "I flinched at the nastiness of his wound"
- offensiveness, odiousness, distastefulness
- the quality of being offensive
- loathsomeness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness
- the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
- hatefulness, obnoxiousness, objectionableness
- the quality of being hateful
- beastliness
- (British) unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather
- awfulness, dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness
- a quality of extreme unpleasantness
- frightfulness
- the quality of being frightful
- ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness, luridness
- the quality of being ghastly
- naturalness
- the quality of being natural or based on natural principles: "he accepted the naturalness of death"; "the spontaneous naturalness of his manner"
- unaffectedness
- not affected; a personal manner that is not consciously constrained
- simplicity
- absence of affectation or pretense
- sincerity, unassumingness
- a quality of naturalness and simplicity; "the simple sincerity of folk songs"
- spontaneity, spontaneousness
- the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint; "the spontaneity of his laughter"
- ease, informality
- freedom from constraint or embarrassment; "I am never at ease with strangers"
- unpretentiousness
- the quality of being natural and without pretensions
- naturalization
- the quality of being brought into conformity with nature
- unnaturalness
- the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles
- affectedness
- the quality of being false or artificial
- airs, pose
- affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me"
- coyness, demureness
- the affectation of being demure in a provocative way
- preciosity
- the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined
- artificiality
- the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally
- staginess, theatricality
- an artificial and mannered quality
- pretension, pretence, pretense
- a false or unsupportable quality
- pretentiousness, pretension
- the quality of being pretentious (creating a false appearance of great importance or worth)
- ostentation
- pretentious or showy or vulgar display
- supernaturalism, supernaturalness
- the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces
- virtu, vertu
- artistic quality
- wholesomeness
- the quality of being beneficial and generally good for you
- harmfulness, noisomeness, noxiousness
- the quality of being noxious
- perniciousness, toxicity
- grave harmfulness or deadliness
- satisfactoriness
- the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement
- adequacy, adequateness
- the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: "he questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule
- acceptability, acceptableness
- satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards
- admissibility
- acceptability by virtue of being admissible
- permissibility
- admissibility as a consequence of being permitted
- unsatisfactoriness
- the quality of being adequate or suitable
- inadequacy, inadequateness
- unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate
- unacceptability, unacceptableness
- unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards
- inadmissibility
- unacceptability as a consequence of not being admissible
- impermissibility
- inadmissibility as a consequence of not being permitted
- ordinariness
- the quality of being ordinary
- averageness, mediocrity
- ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding
- expectedness
- ordinariness as a consequence of being expected and not surprising
- commonness, commonplaceness, everydayness
- ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace
- prosiness, prosaicness
- commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting
- usualness
- commonness by virtue of not being unusual
- familiarity
- usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known
- extraordinariness
- the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered
- unexpectedness, surprisingness
- extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected; "the unexpectedness of the warm welcome"
- uncommonness
- extraordinariness as a consequence of being rare and uncommon
- unusualness
- uncommonness by virtue of being unusual
- unfamiliarity, strangeness
- unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
- oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet
- a strange attitude or habit
- eeriness, ghostliness
- strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear
- abnormality, freakishness
- marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
- singularity
- strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual
- outlandishness, bizarreness, weirdness
- strikingly out of the ordinary
- quaintness
- strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"
- eccentricity
- strange and unconventional behavior
- oddity, oddness
- eccentricity that is not easily explained
- foreignness, strangeness, curiousness
- the quality of being alien or not native: "the strangeness of a foreigner"
- exoticism, exoticness, exotism
- the quality of being exotic; "he loved the exocitism of Egypt"
- alienage, alienism
- the quality of being alien
- nativeness
- the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin
- indigenousness, autochthony, endemism
- nativeness by virtue or originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place)
- originality
- the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else)
- freshness, novelty
- originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel
- unorthodoxy, heterodoxy
- the quality of being unorthodox
- unconventionality
- unorthodoxy by virtue of being unconventional
- nonconformity
- unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values
- unoriginality
- the quality of being unoriginal
- orthodoxy
- the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion)
- conventionality, convention, conventionalism
- orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
- ossification, conformity
- hardened conventionality
- traditionalism, traditionality
- strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings
- scholasticism, academicism, academism
- orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
- exactness, exactitude
- the quality of being exact; "he demanded exactness in all details"; "a man of great exactitude"
- preciseness, precision
- the quality of being precise in amount or performance; "he handled it with the preciseness of an automaton"; "note the meticulous precision of his measurements"
- trueness
- exactness of adjustment; "I marveled at the trueness of his aim"
- fidelity
- accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
- inaccuracy
- the quality of being inaccurate and having errors
- inexactness, inexactitude
- the quality of being inaccurate and having errors
- impreciseness, imprecision
- the quality of lacking precision
- infallibility
- the quality of never making an error
- inerrancy
- (Christianity) exemption from error; "biblical inerrancy"
- errancy
- a tendency to err
- errancy
- (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted doctrine
- instability
- unreliability attributable to being unstable
- fallibility
- the likelihood of making errors
- worthiness
- the quality or state of having merit or value
- deservingness, merit, meritoriousness
- the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance); "there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded"
- praiseworthiness
- the quality of being worthy of praise
- quotability
- the quality of being worthy of being quoted
- unworthiness
- the quality of being bad by virtue of lacking merit or value
- baseness, contemptibility, despicableness, despicability
- unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
- shamefulness, disgracefulness, ignominiousness
- unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor
- scandalousness
- disgracefulness that offends public morality
- popularity
- the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after: "his charm soon won him affection and popularity"; "the universal popularity of American movies"
- hot stuff
- the quality of being popular; "skiing is hot stuff in New Hampshire"
- unpopularity
- the quality of lacking general approval or acceptance
- elegance
- a quality of refined gracefulness and good taste
- dash, elan, flair, panache, style
- distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"
- daintiness, delicacy, fineness
- the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features"
- courtliness
- elegance suggestive of a royal court
- tastefulness
- elegance indicated by good taste
- refinement, breeding, genteelness, gentility
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
- chic, chicness, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank
- elegance by virtue of being fashionable
- jauntiness, nattiness, dapperness, rakishness
- stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance
- magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness
- the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
- eclat
- brilliant or conspicuous success or effect: "the eclat of a great achievement"
- pomp, eclat
- ceremonial elegance and splendor; "entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses"
- class
- (informal) elegance in dress or behavior; "she has a lot of class"
- inelegance
- the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
- awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness
- the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
- rusticity, gaucherie
- the quality of being rustic or gauche
- dowdiness, drabness, homeliness
- lacking stylishness or neatness
- shabbiness, seediness, manginess
- a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
- raggedness
- shabbiness by virtue of being in rags
- coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- crudeness, roughness
- an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her"
- boorishness, uncouthness
- inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor
- ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness
- lack of elegance as a consequence of pomposity
- tastelessness
- inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste
- cheapness, tackiness, tat, sleaze
- tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
- flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, brashness, meretriciousness, tawdriness, glitz
- tasteless showiness
- expressiveness
- the quality of being expressive
- clarity, lucidity, pellucidity, clearness, limpidity
- free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
- focus
- maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea; "the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion"
- coherence, coherency
- logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts
- preciseness, clearcutness
- clarity as a consequence of precision
- perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness
- clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous
- unambiguity, unequivocalness
- clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity
- explicitness
- clarity as a consequence of being explicit
- obscureness, obscurity, abstruseness, reconditeness
- the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
- unintelligibility
- incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible
- unclearness
- incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear
- elusiveness
- the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down: "the author's elusiveness may at times be construed as evasiveness"
- vagueness
- unclearness by virtue of being vague
- haziness
- vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined
- inexplicitness
- unclearness by virtue of not being explici
- implicitness
- inexplicitness as a consequence of being implied or indirect
- equivocation, evasiveness
- deliberate vagueness or ambiguity
- righteousness
- adhering to moral principles
- uprightness, rectitude
- uprightness as a consequence of being honorable and honest
- piety, piousness
- righteousness by virtue of being pious
- devoutness, religiousness
- piety by virtue of being devout
- religiosity, pietism
- exaggerated or affected piety
- dutifulness
- piety by virtue of devotion to duty
- godliness
- piety by virtue of being a godly person
- unrighteousness
- failure to adhere to moral principles
- sin, sinfulness, wickedness
- estrangement from god
- mark of Cain
- the mark that God set upon Cain now refers to a person's sinful nature
- impiety, impiousness
- unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god
- undutifulness
- impiety characterized by lack of devotion to duty
- irreligiousness, irreligion
- the quality of not being devout
- ungodliness, godlessness
- impiety by virtue of not being a godly person
- atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness
- the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
- ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savageness, savagery
- the trait of extreme cruelty
- murderousness, bloodthirstiness
- cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder
- mercilessness, unmercifulness
- inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving
- pitilessness, ruthlessness
- mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity
- relentlessness, inexorability, inexorableness
- mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up; "the relentlessness or their pursuit"
- generosity, generousness
- the trait of being willing to give your money or time
- charitableness
- generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate)
- bounty, bounteousness
- generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely
- bigheartedness
- the quality of being kind and generous
- liberality, liberalness
- the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament
- munificence, largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness
- extremely liberal generosity of spirit
- unselfishness
- the quality of not putting yourself first but being willing to give your time or money or effort etc. for others; "rural people show more devotion and unselfishness than do their urban cousins"
- altruism, selflessness
- the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
- stinginess
- a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money
- meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness
- extreme stinginess
- pettiness
- lack of generosity in trifling matters
- miserliness
- total lack of generosity with money
- presumption, presumptuousness, assumption
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"
- uppityness, uppishness
- assumption of airs beyond one's station
- grace
- free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God: "there but for the grace of God go I"
- delicacy, diplomacy, discreetness, finesse
- subtly skillful handling of a situation
- savoir-faire, address
- social skill
- malevolence, malevolency, malice
- the quality of threatening evil
- cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastiness
- malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
- malignity, malignancy, malignance
- quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
- unhelpfulness
- an inability to be helpful
- bluntness
- the quality of being direct and outspoken; "the bluntness of a Yorkshireman"
- maleficence, mischief, balefulness
- the quality or nature of being harmful or evil
- saintliness
- the quality of resembling a saint
- corruption, degeneracy, depravity
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles: "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity"
- licentiousness, wantonness, sexual immorality
- the quality of being lewd and lascivious
- worst
- the greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable: "the invaders did their worst"; "so pure of heart that his worst is another man's best"
- nefariousness, wickedness, vileness
- the quality of being wicked
- enormity
- the quality of extreme wickedness
- reprehensibility
- being reprehensible; worthy of and deserving reprehension or reproof
- villainy, villainousness
- the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior
- perversity
- deliberately deviating from what is good
- frailty, vice
- moral weakness
- corruptness, corruption
- lack of integrity or honesty; esp susceptibility to bribery; use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- venality
- prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward
- divinity
- the quality of being divine; "ancient Egyptians believed in the divinity of the Pharaohs"
- holiness, sanctity
- the quality of being holy
- sacredness
- the quality of being sacred
- unholiness
- the quality of being unholy
- profaneness, unsanctification
- unholiness by virtue of being profane
- sacrilegiousness
- profaneness by virtue of committing sacrilege
- safeness
- the quality of being safe
- dangerousness
- the quality of not being safe
- precariousness
- extreme dangerousness
- heroism, gallantry, valor, valour, valorousness, valourousness, valiance, valiancy
- the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle); "he showed great heroism in battle"; "he received a medal for valor"
- dauntlessness, intrepidity
- resolute courageousness
- Dutch courage
- courage resulting from intoxication
- daredevilry, daredeviltry
- boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior
- audacity, audaciousness, temerity
- fearless daring
- shamelessness, brazenness
- behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame
- cravenness
- mean-spirited cowardice
- pusillanimity, pusillanimousness
- contemptible fearfulness
- poltroonery
- abject pusillanimity
- dastardliness
- treacherous cowardice
- assiduity, assiduousness, concentration
- great diligence
- sanctimoniousness, sanctimony
- the quality of being hypocritically devout
- fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unctuousness, unction
- smug self-serving earnestness
- honorableness, honourableness
- the quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor
- honor, honour
- the quality of being honorable and having a good name; "a man of honor"
- scrupulousness
- conformity to high standards of ethics or excellence
- incorruptibility
- the incapability of being corrupted
- nobility, magnanimousness, grandeur
- the quality of being exalted in character or ideals or conduct
- high-mindedness, idealism, noble-mindedness
- elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued
- sublimity, the sublime
- nobility in thought or feeling or style
- respectability, reputability
- honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation
- decency
- the quality of being polite and respectable
- good faith, straightness
- having honest intentions; "he acted in good faith"; "doubt was expressed as to the good faith of the immigrants"
- artlessness
- ingenuousness by virtue of being free from artful deceit
- parental quality
- a quality appropriate to a parent
- motherliness, maternal quality
- the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother: "the girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children"
- fatherliness, paternal quality
- the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father: "the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears"
- dishonorableness, dishonourableness
- the quality of not deserving honor or respect
- ignobleness
- the quality of being ignoble
- dishonor, dishonour
- lacking honor or integrity
- unscrupulousness
- the quality of unscrupulous dishonesty
- unrespectability, disreputability, disreputableness
- dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation
- dishonesty
- the quality of being dishonest
- speciousness, meretriciousness
- an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility: "the speciousness of his argument"
- fraudulence, deceit
- the quality of being fraudulent
- jobbery
- corruptness among public officials
- crookedness, deviousness
- the quality of being deceitful and underhanded
- rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness, trickiness
- the quality of being a slippery rascal
- disingenuousness
- the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor
- craftiness, deceitfulness, guile
- the quality of being crafty
- artfulness
- the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage
- cunning
- drafty artfulness (especially in deception)
- insidiousness
- the quality of being designed to entrap
- sophistication, worldliness
- the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- naivete, naivety, naiveness
- lack of sophistication or worldliness
- artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, naturalness
- the quality of innocent naivete
- taboo, tabu
- an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion
- rakishness
- the quality of a rake
- intemperance
- the quality of being intemperate
- dignity, self-respect, self-esteem, self-regard
- the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect: "it was beneath his dignity to cheat"; "showed his true dignity when under pressure"
- boastfulness, vainglory
- outspoken conceit
- egotism, self-importance, swelled head
- an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
- posturing
- adopting a vain conceited posture
- superiority complex
- an exaggerated estimate of your own value and importance
- arrogance, haughtiness, lordliness
- overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
- hubris
- overbearing pride or presumption
- superiority
- displaying a sense of being better than others; "he hated the white man's superiority and condecension"
- absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, silliness
- a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"
- providence
- the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources
- foresight, foresightedness, foresightfulness
- providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
- slatternliness, sluttishness
- in the manner of a slattern
- peasanthood
- an uncleanliness characteristic of peasants
- disarray, disorderliness
- untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance)
- priggishness, primness
- exaggerated and arrogant properness
- seemliness, grace
- a sense of propriety and consideration for others
- becomingness
- the quality of being becoming
- modesty
- freedom from vanity or conceit
- primness, prudishness, prudery, Grundyism
- excessive or affected modesty
- impropriety, improperness
- an improper demeanor
- gaminess, raciness, ribaldry, spiciness
- behavior or language bordering on indelicacy
- unseemliness
- a lack of consideration for others
- unbecomingness
- the quality of being unbecoming
- immodesty
- the trait of being vain and conceited
- outrageousness, enormity
- the quality of being outrageous
- smuttiness, dirtiness
- obscenity in speech or writing
- composure, calm, calmness, equanimity
- steadiness of mind under stress; "he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity"
- wildness
- a state of nature
- cussedness, orneriness
- mean-spirited disagreeable contrariness
- naughtiness, mischievousness, badness
- an attribute of mischievous children
- dignity, lordliness
- formality in bearing and appearance: "he behaved with great dignity"
- formality, formalness
- a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies
- ceremoniousness
- a ceremonial manner
- stateliness
- a elaborate manner of doing something; "she served coffee with great stateliness"
- informality
- a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously
- casualness, familiarity
- a casual manner
- slanginess
- casualness in use of language
- unceremoniousness
- an unceremonial manner
- courtesy, good manners
- a courteous manner
- politeness, niceness
- a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage
- urbanity
- polished courtesy; elegance of manner
- suavity, suaveness, blandness
- smooth and gracious in manner
- graciousness
- excellence of manners or social conduct
- chivalry, gallantry, politesse
- courtesy towards women
- deference, respect, respectfulness
- courteous regard for people's feelings; "in deference to your wishes"; "out of respect for his privacy"
- civility
- formal or perfunctory politeness
- discourtesy, rudeness
- a manner that is rude and insulting
- boorishness
- the manner of a rude or insensitive person
- impoliteness
- a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage
- bad manners, ill-breeding
- impoliteness resulting from ignorance
- ungraciousness
- an offensive lack of good manners
- crudeness, crudity, gaucheness
- an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
- incivility
- deliberate discourtesy
- directness, straightness
- trueness of course toward a goal: "rivaling a hawk in directness of aim"
- downrightness, straightforwardness
- the quality of being direct and straightforward; "what some people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness"
- immediacy, immediateness
- lack of an intervening or mediating agency: "the immediacy of television coverage"
- indirectness
- having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal
- allusiveness
- a quality characterized by indirect reference
- mediacy, mediateness
- the quality of being mediate
- deviousness, obliqueness
- the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly
- discursiveness
- the quality of being discursive
- oldness
- the opposite of newness
- obsolescence, obsoleteness, superannuation
- the property of being out of date and not current
- ancientness, antiquity
- extreme oldness
- old-fashionedness
- the property of being no longer fashionable
- quaintness
- the quality of being quaint and old-fshioned; "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing"
- hoariness
- great age esp gray or white with age
- newness
- the opposite of oldness
- brand-newness
- the property of being very new
- freshness
- the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated; "she loved the freshness of newly baked bread"; "the freshness of the air revived him"
- crispness
- a pleasing firmness and freshness: "crispness of new dollar bills"; "crispness of fresh lettuce"
- recency, recentness
- the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
- oldness
- the opposite of youngness
- staleness
- having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging
- mustiness, moldiness
- the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
- youngness
- the opposite of oldness
- youth, youthfulness, juvenility
- the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
- childishness, puerility
- a property characteristic of a child
- common touch
- the property of appealing to people in general (usually by appearing to have qualities in common with them)
- downiness, featheriness, fluffiness
- a light softness
- flabbiness, limpness, flaccidity
- a flabby softness
- mushiness
- a mushy pulpy softness
- lyricality, lyricism, songfulness
- the property of being suitable for singing
- boisterousness
- the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained
- grace, gracility
- elegance and beauty of movement or expression
- agility, legerity, lightsomeness, nimbleness
- the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble
- lissomeness, litheness, suppleness
- the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple
- awkwardness, clumsiness
- the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
- gracelessness, ungracefulness
- an unpleasant carriage
- gawkiness, ungainliness
- the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant
- strength
- the property of being physically or mentally strong; "fatigue sapped his strength"
- good part
- a place of especial strength
- brawn, muscle, sinew
- muscular strength
- might, mightiness, power
- physical strength
- vigor, vigour
- active strength of body or mind
- robustness, hardiness, lustiness
- the property of strong in constitution
- huskiness, ruggedness, toughness
- the property of being big and strong
- stoutness, stalwartness
- the property of being strong and resolute
- sturdiness
- the property of something that is strongly built
- firmness, soundness
- the firmness and tone of healthy tissue: "his muscle firmness"
- indomitability, invincibility
- the property being difficult or impossible to defeat
- fortitude
- strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
- backbone, grit, guts, sand, gumption
- (informal) fortitude; "he didn't have the guts to try it"
- endurance
- the power to withstand hardship or stress
- sufferance
- patient endurance esp of pain or destress
- stamina, staying power, toughness
- enduring strength and energy
- long-sufferance, long-suffering
- patient endurance of pain or unhappiness
- energy, vigor, vigour
- an exertion of force; "he plays tennis with great energy"
- athleticism, strenuosity
- intense energy; "his music is characterized by a happy athleticism"
- intensity, intensiveness
- high level or degree; the property of being intense
- badness, severity
- used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
- seriousness, distressfulness
- the quality of arousing fear or distress; "he learned the seriousness of his illness"
- vehemence, emphasis
- intensity or forcefulness of expression: "the vehemence of his denial" or "his emphasis on civil rights"
- top
- the greatest possible intensity: "he screamed at the top of his lungs"
- overemphasis
- too much emphasis
- ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
- the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
- weakness
- the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain; "his weakness increased as he became older"; "the weakness of the span was overlooked until it collapsed"
- adynamia
- lack of strength or vigor esp from illness
- feebleness, tenuity
- the quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- flimsiness, shoddiness
- the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction
- fragility, delicacy
- lack of physical strength
- insubstantiality
- lack of solid substance and strength
- enervation
- lack of vitality; "an enervation of mind greater than any fatigue"
- inanition, lassitude, lethargy
- lack of vitality or energy
- Achilles' heel
- a seemingly small but actual mortal weakness
- jugular
- a vital part that is vulnerable to attack; "he always goes for the jugular"
- underbelly
- the quality of being weak or unprotected; "the soft underbelly of the Axis"- Winston Churchill
- defenselessness, defencelessness, unprotectedness
- the property of being helpless in the face of attack
- rain, pelting
- anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults"
- seasonableness, timeliness
- being at the right time
- unseasonableness, untimeliness
- being at an inappropriate time
- presentness, nowness
- the quality of being the present: "a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past"- R.E.Spiller
- currentness, currency, up-to-dateness
- the property of belonging to the present time: "the currency of a slang term"
- modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness
- the quality of being current or of the present: "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"
- fleetness
- rapidity of movement: "fleetness of foot"
- celerity, quickness, rapidity
- a rate that is rapid
- immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy
- the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication"
- dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness
- the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"
- promptness, promptitude
- the characteristic of doing things without delay
- haste, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness
- overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"
- abruptness, precipitateness, precipitance, precipitancy, suddenness
- the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
- pickup, getaway
- the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his car has a lot of pickup"
- precipitation
- an unexpected acceleration or hastening: "he is responsible for the precipitation of his own demise"
- graduality, gradualness
- the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages
- slowness, deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness
- a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
- leisureliness
- slowness by virtue of being leisurely
- dilatoriness, procrastination
- slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it
- abruptness, precipitousness, steepness
- the property possessed by a slope that is very steep
- gradualness, gentleness
- the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual
- composition, composing
- the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole; "harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art"
- proportion, balance
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design): "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin
- alignment
- the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
- true
- the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment: "out of true"
- misalignment
- the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned
- centrality
- the property of being central
- marginality
- the property of being marginal or on the fringes
- outwardness, externality
- the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior: "the outwardness of the world"
- inwardness
- the quality or state of being inward or internal: "the inwardness of the body's organs"
- malposition, misplacement
- faulty position
- openness
- without obstructions to passage or view: "the openness of the prairies"
- remove
- degree of figurative distance or separation: "just one remove from madness" or "it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy"
- degree
- the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
- depth
- degree of psychological or intellectual depth
- profundity, profoundness
- intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc: "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
- superficiality, shallowness
- lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
- glibness, slickness
- a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman"
- high
- a lofty level or position or degree: "summer temperatures reached an all-time high"
- low
- a low level or position or degree: "the stock market fell to a new low"
- extreme
- the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes"
- multiplicity
- the property of being multiple
- bulk, mass, volume
- the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports"
- muchness
- (archaic) greatness of quantity or measure or extent
- thinness, tenuity, slenderness
- relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width: "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope"
- largeness, bigness
- the property of having a relatively great size
- ampleness
- the property of impressive largeness in size; "he admired the ampleness of its proportions"
- bulkiness, massiveness
- an unwieldy largeness
- enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness
- unusual largeness in size or extent
- capaciousness, roominess, spaciousness, commodiousness
- spatial largeness (especially inside a building)
- airiness
- the property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air
- fullness, voluminosity, voluminousness
- greatness of volume
- gigantism, giantism
- excessive largeness of stature
- smallness, littleness
- the property of having a relatively small size
- diminutiveness, minuteness, petiteness, tinyness, weeness
- the property of being very small in size
- delicacy, slightness
- smallness of stature
- puniness, runtiness, stuntedness
- smallness of stature
- dwarfishness
- smallness of stature
- quantity
- an adequate or large amount; "he had a quantity of ammunition"
- complement
- something added to complete or make perfect: "a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"
- sufficiency, adequacy
- a quantity or number sufficient for a purpose
- ampleness
- the property of being more than sufficient; comfortable sufficiency; "the ampleness of her servings more than satisfied his hunger"
- insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
- lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
- meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
- the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
- sparseness, spareness, sparsity
- the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
- abundance, copiousness
- the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance"
- amplitude, bountifulness, bounty
- the property of copious abundance
- plenty, plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude
- a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone"
- profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia
- the property of being extremely abundant
- wealth
- the quality of profuse abundance; "she has a wealth of talent"
- luxuriance, lushness
- the property of being lush and abundant
- overgrowth
- a profusion of growth on or over something else
- scarcity, scarceness
- a small and inadequate amount
- dearth, paucity
- an insufficient quantity or number
- rarity, rareness, infrequency
- noteworthy scarcity
- moderation, moderateness
- quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes
- golden mean
- the middle between extremes
- reasonableness
- moderation in expectations; "without greater reasonableness by both parties we will never settle this matter!"
- immoderation, immoderateness
- the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation
- excess, excessiveness, inordinateness
- immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits
- exorbitance, outrageousness
- excessive excess
- luxury, extravagance
- something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity
- overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance
- a quantity that is more than what is appropriate; "four-year-olds have an overabundance of energy"
- excess, surplus, surplusage
- a quantity much larger than is needed
- bellyful
- an undesirable overabundance: "a bellyful of your complaints"
- nimiety, overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment
- extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches"
- redundancy, redundance
- the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers"
- numerousness, numerosity, multiplicity
- a large number
- multitudinousness
- a very large number (especially of people)
- innumerableness, countlessness
- a number beyond counting
- fewness
- the quality of being small in number
- coverage
- the extent to which something is covered; "the dictionary's coverage of standard English is excellent"
- limit, bounds, boundary
- the greatest possible degree of something: "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"
- utmost, uttermost, maximum, level best
- the greatestest possible degree; "he tried his utmost"
- verge, brink
- the limit beyond which something happens or changes; "on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy"
- scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power"
- confines
- a bounded scope; "he stayed with the confines of the city"
- latitude
- scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction
- horizon, view, purview
- the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge"
- sweep, expanse
- a wide scope; "the sweep of the plains"
- gamut
- a complete extent or range: "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions
- spectrum
- broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities
- arm's length
- a distance sufficient to exclude intimacy
- elongation
- the quality of being elongated
- shortness
- the property of being of short spatial extent
- briefness
- the temporal property of being very short
- deepness, profundity, profoundness
- the quality of being physically deep: "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"
- bottomlessness
- the property of being very deep; without limit
- shallowness
- the quality of lacking physical depth: "take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive"
- superficiality
- shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something: "he ignored the wound because of its superficiality"
- thickness, heaviness
- used of a line or mark
- narrowness
- the property of being narrow
- fineness, thinness
- the property of being very narrow or thin; "he marvelled at the fineness of her hair"
- highness, loftiness
- the condition of being high or lofty
- lowness
- the condition of being low; lacking height
- squatness, stubbiness
- the property of being short and broad
- shortness, truncation
- the property of being truncated or short
- worth
- the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful
- value
- the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable; "the Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world"
- merit, virtue
- any admirable quality or attribute; "work of great merit"
- demerit, fault
- the quality of being faulty or inadequate; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"
- praisworthiness
- the property of deserving praise
- worthwhileness
- value sufficient to repay time or effort spent
- worthlessness
- having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful; "the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness"
- fecklessness
- worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual
- paltriness, sorriness
- worthlessness due to insignificance
- valuelessness
- having none of the properties that endow something with value
- shoddiness, trashiness
- the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better
- damn, darn, hoot, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam
- something of little value; "it is not worth a damn"; "not worth shucks"
- vanity, emptiness
- the quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the vanities of the world"
- invaluableness, preciousness, pricelessness, valuableness
- the positive quality of being precious and beyond value
- price
- the high value or worth of something; "her price is far above rubies"
- desirability, desirableness
- the quality of being worthy of desiring
- undesirability
- the quality possessed by something that should be avoided
- good, goodness
- that which is good or valuable or useful: "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization"
- benefit, welfare
- something that aids or promotes well-being: "for the common good"
- better
- something better: "I expected better of him"
- better
- the superior one of two alternatives: "chose the better of the two"
- optimum
- most favorable condition or greatest degree or amount possible under given circumstances
- better
- one having claim to precedence; a superior: "the common man has been kept in his place by his betters"
- bad, badness
- that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency: "take the bad with the good"
- worse
- something inferior in quality or condition or effect: "for better or for worse"; "accused of cheating and lying and worse"
- evil
- that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune: "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare
- expensiveness
- the quality of being high-priced
- costliness, dearness
- the quality possessed by something with a great price or value
- lavishness, luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness
- the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive
- inexpensiveness
- the quality of being affordable
- reasonableness, moderateness, modestness
- the property of being moderate in price; "the store is famous for the reasonableness of its prices"
- bargain rate, cheapness, cut rate, cut price
- a price below the standard price
- fruitfulness, fecundity
- the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- richness, prolificacy, fertility
- the property of producing abundantly and sustaining growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"
- fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness
- a condition yielding nothing of value
- poorness
- less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
- utility, usefulness
- the quality of being of practical use
- helpfulness
- the property of providing useful assistance
- serviceability, serviceableness, usableness
- the quality of being able to provide good service
- inutility, uselessness, unusefulness
- the quality of having to practical use
- futility
- uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result
- worthlessness
- the quality of being without practical use
- practicality
- concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities
- sensibleness
- the quality of showing good sense or practical judgment
- realism
- the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
- practicability, practicableness
- the quality of being usable
- feasibility, feasibleness
- the quality of being doable
- impracticality
- concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use
- idealism
- impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
- romanticism
- impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
- knight errantry, quixotism
- quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior
- impracticability, impracticableness
- the quality of not being usable
- infeasibility, unfeasibility
- the quality of not being doable
- competence, competency
- the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
- fitness
- the quality of being qualified
- proficiency
- the quality of having great facility and competence
- incompetence, incompetency
- lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications
- asset, plus
- a useful or valuable quality
- resource
- a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed: "the local library is a valuable resource"
- aid, assistance, help
- a resource: "visual aids in teaching"; "economic assistance to depressed areas"
- recourse, refuge, resort
- something or someone turned to for assistance or security: "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying"
- shadow
- refuge from danger or observation; "he felt secure in his father's shadow"
- resourcefulness
- the quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation: "a man of great resourcefulness"
- inner resources
- a resource provided by the mind or one's personal capabilities: "to have resource against loneliness"
- advantage, vantage
- the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "he experience gave him the advantage over me"
- favor, favour
- an advantage to the benefit of someone or something; "the outcome was in his favor"
- leverage
- strategic advantage; power to act effectively: "relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage"
- bargaining chip
- leverage in the form of an inducement or a concession useful in successful negotiations
- handicap
- advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning
- lead
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race: "he took the lead at the last turn"
- pull
- special advantage or influence; "the chairman's nephew has a lot of pull"
- start, head start
- advantage gained by an early start as in a race: "with an hour's start he will be hard to catch"
- profit, gain
- the advantageous quality of being beneficial
- account
- the quality of taking advantage; "she turned her writing skills to good account"
- profitableness, profitability
- the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit
- preference
- grant of favor or advantage to one over another (esp to a country or countries in matters of international trade such as levying duties)
- privilege
- a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
- expedience, expediency
- the quality of being suited to the end in view
- superiority, favorable position
- the quality of being a competitive advantage
- edge
- a slight competitive advantage; "he had an edge on the competition"
- inside track
- a favorable position in a competition; "the boss's son had the inside track for that job"
- upper hand, whip hand
- position of advantage and control
- forte, long suit, metier, specialty, speciality, strong point, strength
- an asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his forte"
- green thumb, green fingers
- a special ability to make plants grow
- weak point
- an attribute that is inadequate or deficient
- good
- benefit; "for your own good"; "what's the good of worrying?"
- common good, commonweal
- the good of a community
- wisdom, wiseness, soundness
- the quality of being prudent and sensible
- advisability
- the quality of being advisable; "they questioned the advisability of our policy"
- reasonableness
- goodness of reason and judgment; "the judiciary is built on the reasonableness of judges"
- favorableness, favourableness, advantageousness
- the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome
- auspiciousness, propitiousness
- the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result
- liability
- the quality of being something that holds you back
- disadvantage
- the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position
- unfavorableness, unfavourableness
- the quality of not being encouraging or indicative of success
- inauspiciousness, unpropitiousness
- the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result
- limitation, restriction
- the quality of being limited or restricted; "it is a good plan but it has serious limitations"
- defect, shortcoming
- a failing or deficiency; "that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information"
- awkwardness, inconvenience, nuisance value
- the quality of an embarrassing situation; "he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal"
- loss, deprivation
- the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation" or "losing him is no great deprivation"
- price, cost, toll
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something: "the cost in human life was enormous"; "the price of success is hard work"; "what price glory?"
- drawback
- the quality of being a hindrance; "he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan"
- catch
- a hidden drawback; "it sounds good but what's the catch?"
- penalty
- the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition: "neglected his health and paid the penalty"
- inadvisability
- the quality of being ill advised
- inferiority, unfavorable position
- the quality of being a competitive disadvantage
- inexpedience, inexpediency
- the quality of being unsuited to the end in view
- unprofitableness, unprofitability
- the quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit
- constructiveness
- the quality of serving to build or improve
- destructiveness
- the quality of causing destruction
- harmfulness, injuriousness
- destructiveness that causes harm or injury
- insidiousness
- subtle and cumulative harmfulness esp of a disease
- poison
- anything that harms or destroys; "the poison of fascism"
- virulence
- extreme harmfulness; "the virulence of the plague"
- importance
- the quality of being important and worthy of note; "the importance of a well-balanced diet"
- face
- status in the eyes of others; "he lost face"
- magnitude
- relative importance: "a problem of the first magnitude"
- account
- importance or value; "a person of considerable account"; "he predicted that although it is of small account now it will rapidly increase in importance"
- matter
- (used with negation) having consequence; "they were friends and it was no matter who won the games"
- momentousness
- utmost importance
- prominence
- relative importance
- greatness
- the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance
- significance
- the quality of being significant; "do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power"
- historicalness
- significance owing to its history
- meaningfulness
- the quality of having great value or significance
- consequence, import, moment
- having important effects or influence; "decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself"; "virtue is of more moment that security"
- hell to pay
- dire consequences; "when the pig ran away there was hell to pay"
- essentiality, essentialness
- basic importance
- indispensability, indispensableness, vitalness
- the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without
- urgency
- pressing importance requiring speedy action: "the urgency of his need"
- edge, sharpness
- the attribute of urgency; "his voice had an edge to it"
- imperativeness, insistence, insistency, instancy
- urgently demanding attention; "the insistence of their hunger"; "he pressed his demand with considerable instancy"
- weight
- the relative importance granted to something; "his opinion carries great weight"
- unimportance
- the quality of not being important or worthy of note
- inessentiality
- not of baic importance
- dispensability, dispensableness
- the quality possessed by something that you can get along without
- pettiness, triviality, slightness
- the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
- insignificance
- the quality of having little or no significance
- meaninglessness
- the quality of having great value or significance; "he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him"
- inanity, senselessness, mindlessness, vacuity, pointlessness
- total lack of meaning or ideas
- inconsequence
- having no important effects or influence
- door
- anything providing a means of access (or escape); "we closed the door to Haitian immigrants"; "education is the door to success"
- open door
- freedom of access; "he maintained an open door for all employees"
- power, powerfulness, potency
- possession of controlling influence; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"
- puissance
- power to influence or coerce; "the puissance of the labor vote"
- alchemy
- a power like that claimed by alchemists: "a mysterious alchemy brought the musician and the music to ultimate fusion"
- persuasiveness, strength
- the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty; "the strength of his argument settled the matter"
- convincingness
- the power of argument or evidence to cause belief
- interest, interestingness
- the power of attracting or holding one's interest (because it is unusual or exciting etc.); "they said nothing of great interest"; "primary colors can add interest to a room"
- newsworthiness, news
- the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins; "the judge conceded the newsworthiness of the trial"; "he is no longer news in the fashion world"
- color, colour, vividness
- interest and variety and intensity: "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"
- stranglehold, throttlehold
- complete power over a person or situation
- sway
- controlling influence
- influence
- a power to affect persons or events esp power based on prestige etc: "used her parents' influence to get the job"
- dead hand, dead hand of the past, mortmain
- the oppressive influence of past events of decisions
- force
- a powerful effect or influence: "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"
- grip, grasp
- a firm controlling influence; "he was in the grip of a powerful emotion" or "a terrible power had her its grasp"
- tentacle
- something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp; "caught in the tentacles of organized crime"
- pressure
- a force that compels; "the public brought pressure to bear on the government"
- duress
- compulsory force or threat; "confessed under duress"
- lifeblood
- an essential or life-giving force; "water is the lifeblood of India"
- wheels
- forces that provide energy and direction; "the wheels of government began to turn"
- control
- power to direct or determine: "under control"
- hold
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated: "he has a hold over them"
- rein
- any means of control; "he took up the reins of government"
- carte blanche
- complete freedom or authority to act
- disposal
- the power to use something or someone: "used all the resources at his disposal"
- reins
- power to control; "the reins of government"
- effectiveness, effectivity, effectualness, effectuality
- the power to be effective
- incisiveness, trenchancy
- keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect
- efficacy, efficaciousness
- capacity or power to produce a desired effect
- form
- an ability to perform well; "he was at the top of his form"; "the team was off form last night"
- powerlessness, impotence, impotency
- the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
- helplessness, weakness, impuissance
- powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; "in spite of their weakness the group remains highly active"
- unpersuasiveness
- inability to persuade
- uninterestingness
- inability to capture or hold one's interest
- dullness, dulness
- the quality of lacking interestingness
- boringness, dreariness
- extreme dullness
- tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness
- dullness owing to length or slowness
- jejunity, jejuneness, tameness, vapidity, vapidness
- the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated
- ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, ineffectuality
- lacking the power to be effective
- inefficacy, inefficaciousness
- a lack of efficacy
- romanticism, romance
- an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
- stardust
- a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality
- analyticity
- the property of being analytic
- selectivity
- the property of being selective
- domesticity
- the quality of being domestic or domesticated: "a royal family living in unpretentious domesticity"
- solubility
- the quality of being soluble
- insolubility
- the quality of being insoluble
- stuff
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
- hot stuff
- (informal) the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting); "he thought she was really hot stuff"
- humor, humour
- the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
- pathos, poignancy
- a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); "the film captured all the pathos of their situation"
- tone
- the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; "the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw"; "from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome"
- astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth
- the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment
- ability to make good judgments
- eye
- good discernment (either with the eyes or as if with the eyes); "she has an eye for fresh talent"; "he has an artist's eye"
- common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit
- sound practical judgment; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"
- logic
- reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic"
- nous
- (British) common sense; "she has great social nous"
- road sense
- good judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road
- judiciousness
- good judgment
- discretion, discreetness, circumspection, prudence
- knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress; "the servants showed great tact and discretion"
- confidentiality
- discretion in keeping secret information
- caution, precaution, care, forethought
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care"
- injudiciousness, indiscreetness
- lacking good judgment
- pyrotechnics
- brilliance of display (as in the performance of music)
- acuteness, acuity, sharpness, keenness
- a quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind"
- steel trap
- an acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well known sharpness of steel traps); "he's as sharp as a steel trap"; "a mind like a steel trap"
- brightness, cleverness, smartness
- intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
- cunning
- shrewdness in deception; "as cunning as a fox"
- shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness
- intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
- insightfulness, acumen
- shrewdness shown by keen insight
- knowingness
- shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge
- craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- perfectibility, perfectability
- the capability of becoming perfect; "he believes in the ultimate perfectability of man"
- raw talent
- powerfully impressive talent
- fecundity, fruitfulness
- the intellectual fruitfulness of a creative imagination
- flight
- passing above and beyond ordinary bounds; "a flight of fancy"; "flights of rhetoric"; "flights of imagination"
- genius, wizardry
- exceptional creative ability
- fancy
- fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination
- pipe dream, dream
- a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"
- fantasy life, phantasy life
- an imaginary life lived in a fantasy world
- fantasy world, phantasy world, fairyland
- a place existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)
- contrivance
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill; "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"
- originality
- the ability to think and act independently
- innovativeness
- originality by virtue of introducing new ideas
- unconventionality
- originality by virtue of being unconventional
- novelty, freshness
- originality by virtue of being new and surprising
- musicianship
- artistry in performing music
- virtuosity
- technical skill or fluency or style exhibited by a virtuoso
- professionalism
- the expertness characteristic of a professional person
- coordination
- the skillful and effective interaction of movements
- incoordination
- a lack of coordination of movements
- versatility
- having a wide variety of skills
- command, control, mastery
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French"
- adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness
- skillful performance without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"
- touch
- deftness in handling matters; "he has a master's touch"
- dexterity, manual dexterity, sleight
- adroitness in using the hands
- fluency
- skillfulness in speaking or writing
- proficiency, facility, technique
- skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity; "practice greatly improves proficiency"
- brushwork
- an artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush
- efficiency
- skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort; "she did the work with great efficiency"
- economy
- the efficient use of resources; "economy of effort"
- stupidity
- a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience
- denseness, dumbness, slow-wittedness
- the quality of being mentally slow and limited
- dullness, dulness, obtuseness
- the quality of being slow to understand
- feeblemindedness
- severe mental deficiency
- moronity, mental deficiency
- mild mental retardation
- idiocy, amentia
- extreme mental retardation
- imbecility
- retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot
- folly, foolishness, craziness
- the quality of being rash and foolish
- talentlessness
- a lack of talent
- unskillfulness
- a lack of cognitive skill
- awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness
- unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
- inefficiency
- unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency
- amateurishness
- something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency
- uncreativeness
- a lack of creativity
- fruitlessness
- a lack of creative imagination
- unoriginality
- uncreativeness due to a lack of originality
- triteness, staleness
- unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed
- camp
- something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; "the livingroom was pure camp"
- conventionality
- unoriginality as a result of being too conventional
- frame of reference
- a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning
- vocabulary
- the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts); "he introduced a wide vocabulary of techniques"
- nosiness, prying, snoopiness
- offensive inquisitiveness
- mystery, enigma, secret, closed book
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"
- complication, tangle, snarl
- something jumbled or confused
- dilemma, quandary
- state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options
- cognitive factor
- something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result
- difficulty
- a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result; "serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent"
- trouble, problem
- a source of difficulty: "one trouble after another delayed the job"; "what's the problem?"
- matter
- a problem; "is anything the matter?"
- facer
- (a dated Briticism) a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced
- pitfall
- an unforeseen or unexpected difficulty
- snorter
- (British) something outstandingly difficult; "the problem was a real snorter"
- stymie
- a thwarting and distressing situation
- clincher, decisive factor
- a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively
- imponderable
- a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed: "human behavior depends on many imponderables"
- morale builder
- something or someone who influences by building or strengthening morale
- pestilence
- a pernicious evil influence
- support
- something providing immaterial support or assistance to a person or cause or interest; "the policy found little public support"; "his faith was all the support he needed"; "the team enjoyed the support of their fans"
- anchor, mainstay, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin
- a central cohesive source of support and stability: "faith is his anchor"; "he is the linchpin of this firm"
- lifeline
- support that enables people to survive or to continue doing something (often by providing an essential connection); "the airlift provided a lifeline for Berlin"; "she offered me a lifeline in my time of grief"
- temptation, enticement
- something tempting or enticing
- forbidden fruit
- the original forbidden fruit was an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality)
- bait, come-on, hook, lure, sweetener
- anything that serves as an enticement
- allurement
- attractiveness; "its allure was its remoteness"
- match
- something that resembles or harmonizes with; "that tie makes a good match with your jacket"
- complement
- either of two parts that mutually complete each other
- substitute, replacement
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- advertence, advertency
- the process of being heedful
- hang-up
- (informal) an emotional preoccupation
- hobbyhorse
- a topic to which on constantly reverts: "don't get him started on his hobbyhorse"
- jealousy
- zealous vigilance: "cherish their official political freedom with fierce jealousy"-Paul Blanshard
- disregard, neglect
- lack of attention and due care
- discernment, perceptiveness
- perception of that which is obscure
- penetration, insight
- clear or deep perception of a situation
- overvaluation
- too high a value or price assigned to something
- undervaluation
- too low a value or price assigned to something
- underevaluation
- an appraisal that underestimates the value of something
- Rubicon, point of no return
- a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment
- hairsplitting, word-splitting
- making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously"
- taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness
- delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste"
- virtu, vertu, connoisseurship
- love of or taste for fine objects of art
- vogue, trend, style
- the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own"
- fashion
- the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
- haute couture, high fashion
- trend-setting fashions
- fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, rage
- an interest followed with exaggerated zeal: "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season"
- bandwagon
- a popular trend that attracts growing support; "when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon"
- delicacy, discretion
- refined taste; tact
- culture
- the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
- counterculture
- a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture
- mass culture
- the culture that is widely disseminated via the mass media
- flower power
- a counterculture of young people in the US during the 1960s and 70s
- letters
- the literary culture; "this book shows American letters at its best"
- crossroads
- a point where a choice must be made; "Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology"
- pseudoscience
- an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions
- pleasure
- a formal expression; "he serves at the pleasure of the President"
- cull, reject
- the person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
- favorite, favourite
- something regarded with special favor or liking; "that book is one of my favorites"
- option, alternative, choice
- an alternative action; "what option did I have?" or "there no other alternative" or "my only choice is to refuse"
- obverse
- the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides: "the obverse of this issue"
- key
- something crucial for explaining; "the key to development is economic integration"
- smattering
- a slight or superficial understanding of a subject
- appreciation, grasp, hold
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something; "he has a good grasp of accounting practices"
- grasping
- understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"
- sense
- a natural appreciation; "a keen musical sense"; "a good sense of timing"
- hindsight
- understanding the nature of an event after it has happened; "hindisght is always better than foresight"
- insight, brainstorm, brainwave
- the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation
- light
- mental understanding as an enlightening experience; "he finally saw the light"; "can you shed light on this problem?"
- revelation
- an enlightening or astonishing disclosure
- discovery, breakthrough, find
- a productive insight
- flash
- a sudden brilliant understanding; "he had a flash of intuition"
- tradition
- an inherited pattern of thought or action
- world, reality
- all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you; "his world was shattered"; "we live in different worlds"; "for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were"
- real world, real life
- the practical world as opposed to the academic world; "a good consultant must have a lot of experience in the real world"
- food for thought, pabulum, intellectual nourishment
- intellectual sustenance
- cynosure
- something that strongly attracts attention (as the north star attracts mariners); "let faith be your cynosure to walk by"
- infatuation
- an object of extravagant short-lived passion
- love, passion
- any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love" or "he has a passion for cock fighting"
- minutia
- a small or minor detail; "he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code"
- nook and cranny, nooks and crannies
- something remote; "he explored every nook and cranny of science"
- technicality, trifle, triviality
- a detail that is considered insignificant
- turn-on
- (informal) something causing excitement or stimulating interest
- turnoff, negative stimulation
- (informal) something causing antagonism or loss of interest
- bonus, fillip
- anything that tends to arouse; "his approval was an added fillip"
- joy, delight, pleasure
- something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness; "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight"
- annoyance, nuisance, bother, botheration, pain, pain in the neck, pain in the ass
- something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "a bit of a bother"
- irritant, thorn
- something that causes irritation and annoyance; "he's a thorn in my flesh"
- concern, worry, headache, vexation
- something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's a major worry"
- bugaboo
- a source of concern; "the old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them"
- burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus
- an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind"
- business
- a rightful concern or responsibility; used in such phrases as "it's none of your business" or "mind your own business"
- fardel
- (archaic) a burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle)
- imposition
- an uncalled-for burden; "he listened but resented the imposition"
- inspiration
- arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
- source, seed, germ
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- muse
- the source of an artist's inspiration; "Euterpe was his muse"
- mother
- a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation; "necessity is the mother of invention"
- afflatus
- a strong creative impulse; divine inspiration
- self-absorption
- preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else
- trap, snare
- something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares; "the exam was full of trap questions"; "it was all a snare and delusion"
- iron trap
- a trap from which there is no escape
- excellence
- something in which something or some one excels: "the use of herbs is one of the excellences of French cuisine"
- peculiarity, distinctive feature
- an odd or unusual characteristic
- leaven, leavening
- an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"
- fundamentals, basics, fundamental principle, basic principle, bedrock
- principles from which other truths can be derived; "first you must learn the fundamentals"; "let's get down to basics"
- priestcraft
- a derogatory reference to priests who use their influence to control secular or political affairs
- figment
- a contrived or fantastic idea; "a figment of the imagination"
- pillar
- a fundamental principle or practice; "science eroded the pillars of superstition"
- heart, bosom
- the locus of feelings and intuitions; "in your heart you know it is true"; "her story would melt your bosom"
- notion, whim, whimsy, whimsey
- a whimsical idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"
- meaning, sense, substance
- the idea that is intended; "What is the sense of this proverb?"
- significance, import, implication
- a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred; "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
- kernel, substance, core, center, essence, gist, heart, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience: "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the nub of the story"
- hypostasis
- (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
- quintessence
- the purest and most concentrated essence of something
- stuff
- a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
- tenor, strain
- pervading note of an utterance; "I could follow the general tenor of his argument"
- drift, purport
- general meaning or tenor: "caught the drift of the conversation"
- undertone, undercurrent
- subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning
- connotation
- an idea that is implied or suggested
- ideal
- the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain
- value
- an ideal accepted by some individual or group; "he has old-fashioned values"
- criterion, standard
- the ideal in terms of which something can be judged; "they live by the standards of their community"
- exemplar, example, model, good example
- something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general"
- beauty, beaut
- an outstanding example of its kind; "his roses were beauties"; "when I make a mistake it's a beaut"
- ego ideal
- an ideal of personal excellence toward which a person strives
- keynote
- a fundamental or central idea
- reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity
- wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
- antitype
- a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by a type or symbol; especially a figure in the Old Testament having a counterpart in the New Testament
- stereotype
- a conventional or formulaic conception or image: "regional stereotypes have been part of America since its founding"
- phantasmagoria
- a constantly changing medley or real or imagined images (as in a dream)
- lodestar, loadstar
- something that serves as a model or guide
- prototype, paradigm, epitome, image
- a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
- imago
- (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood
- mirage
- something illusory and unattainable
- front
- the outward appearance of a person; "he put up a bold front"
- blur, fuzz
- a hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz"
- foretaste
- an early limited awareness of something yet to occur
- possibility
- a future prospect or potential; "this room has great possibilities"
- enchantment, bewitchment
- a magical spell
- diabolism, demonism, Satanism
- the worship of devils (especially Satan)
- edification, sophistication
- uplifting enlightenment
- outlier
- an extreme deviation from the mean
- direction
- a general course along which something has a tendency to develop; "I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts"; "his ideals determined the direction of his career"; "they proposed a new direction for the firm"
- drift, trend
- a general tendency as of opinion: "not openly liberal but that is the tendency of the book"
- Call
- a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course; "he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call"
- liberality, liberalness
- an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom
- parochialism
- a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish
- pettiness
- narrowness of mind or ideas or views
- provincialism
- a lack of sophistication
- bigotry, dogmatism
- the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot
- fanaticism, zealotry
- excessive intolerance of opposing views
- reverence
- a reverent mental attitude
- irreverence
- an irreverent mental attitude
- profaneness
- an attitude of irreverence or contempt for a divinity
- wavelength
- a shared orientation leading to mutual understanding; "they are on the same wavelength"
- vanguard, forefront, cutting edge
- the position of greatest advancement; the leading position in any movement or field
- reception
- quality or fidelity of a received broadcast
- overestimate, overestimation, overvaluation, overappraisal
- an appraisal that is too high
- nuance, nicety, shade, subtlety, refinement
- a subtle difference in meaning
- overtone
- (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality; "overtones of despair"
- bottom line
- the decisive point
- crux, crux of the matter
- the most important point
- nonsense, nonsensicality, meaninglessness
- a message that seems to convey no meaning
- absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness
- a message whose content is at variance with reason
- balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle
- trivial nonsense
- buzzword, cant
- stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
- fa la, fal la
- meaningless syllables in the refrain of a part-song
- gibberish, gibber
- unintelligible talking
- incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility
- nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
- mummery, flummery
- meaningless ceremonies and flattery
- palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric
- loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"
- rigmarole, rigamarole
- a set of confused and meaningless statements
- stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock
- senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"
- abracadabra
- gibberish and nonsense
- babble, babbling
- gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby
- blather, blatherskite
- foolish gibberish
- double Dutch
- (colloquial British) incomprehensible talk
- double talk
- deliberately unintelligible gibberish
- jabber, jabbering, gabble
- rapid and indistinct speech
- baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
- pretentious or silly talk or writing
- bullshit, bull, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash, dogshit
- a ludicrously false statement
- chickenshit
- a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear
- folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce
- nonsensical talk or writing
- pap, pablum
- worthless or oversimplified ideas
- drivel
- a worthless message
- mumbo jumbo
- language that is unnecessarily difficult to understand
- trace, vestige, shadow
- a clue that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"
- dodge, dodging, scheme
- a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
- fairytale, fairy story, cock-and-bull story, song and dance
- an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse
- understatement
- a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
- litote
- an understatement that expresses an affirmative thought negatively; "printing wasn't a bad idea"
- evasion, equivocation
- a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
- circumlocution, indirect expression
- an indirect way of expressing something
- doublespeak
- any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not
- hedge, hedging
- an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement
- quibble
- an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
- weasel word
- an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion
- wisecrack, crack, sally, quip
- witty remark
- shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"
- wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- jeu d'esprit
- a witty comment or writing
- bon mot
- a clever remark
- sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark
- witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"
- repartee
- adroitness and cleverness in reply
- banter, raillery, give-and-take, backchat
- light teasing repartee
- badinage
- frivolous banter
- persiflage
- light teasing
- joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape, yak, wheeze
- a humorous anecdote or remark
- punch line, laugh line, gag line, tag line
- the point of a joke or humorous story
- belly laugh, sidesplitter, howler, thigh-slapper, scream, wow, riot
- a joke that seems extremely funny
- dirty joke, dirty story, blue joke, blue story
- an indelicate joke
- ethnic joke
- a joke at the expense of some ethnic group
- funny story, good story
- an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line)
- one-liner
- a one-line joke
- shaggy dog story
- a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness
- sick joke
- a joke in bad taste
- sight gag, visual joke
- a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie)
- fun, play, sport
- verbal wit (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"
- jocosity, jocularity
- fun characterized by humor
- waggery, waggishness
- waggish behavior
- drollery, clowning, comedy, funniness
- a comic incident or series of incidents
- pun, punning, wordplay
- a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"
- ribaldry
- ribald humor
- approximation
- an imprecise or incomplete account; "newspapers gave only an approximation of the actual events"
- puzzle, puzzler
- a particularly baffling problem; "That's a real puzzler"
- riddle, conundrum, enigma, brain-teaser
- a difficult problem
- poser, stumper, toughie
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- Gordian knot
- any very difficult problem; insoluble in its own terms
- pons asinorum
- a problem that severely tests the ability of an inexperienced person
- array
- an impressive display; "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
- spectacle
- something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight); "the tragic spectacle of cripples trying to escape"
- ostentation, fanfare
- a showy outward display
- bravado, bluster
- a swaggering show of courage
- exhibitionism
- extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself
- splurge
- an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.)
- pedantry
- a ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning
- coup de theatre
- a highly successful theatrical production
- coup de theatre
- a sensational bit of stagecraft
- bathos
- triteness or triviality of style
- ecobabble
- using the technical language of ecology to make the user seem ecologically aware
- eloquence, fluency
- powerful and effective language
- euphuism
- any artificially elegant style of language
- Eurobabble
- the jargon of European community documents and regulations
- gobbledygook
- incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists
- grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric
- high_flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
- pathos
- a style that has the power to evoke feelings
- prose
- matter_of_fact, commonplace, or dull expression
- psychobabble
- using language loaded with psychological terminology
- rhetoric
- using language effectively to please or persuade
- archaism, archaicism
- the use of an archaic expression
- mot juste
- the appropriate word or expression
- sharp tongue
- a bitter or critical manner of speaking
- shibboleth
- a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people
- elocution
- an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture
- barrage, outpouring, onslaught
- the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)
- bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah
- pompous or pretentious talk or writing
- sesquipedality
- using long words
- sensationalism, luridness
- the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation"
- technobabble
- technical jargon from computing and other high-tech subjects
- terseness
- a neatly short and concise expressive style
- conciseness, pithiness, succinctness
- terseness achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words
- crispness
- a style of expression that is direct and to the point; "the crispness of his reply"
- brevity
- the use of brief expressions
- laconism, laconicism
- terseness of expression
- verboseness, verbosity
- an expressive style that uses excessive words
- verbiage
- overabundance of words
- prolixity, prolixness, long-windedness, wordiness
- boring verboseness
- circumlocution, periphrasis
- a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
- turgidity, turgidness, flatulence
- pompously embellished language
- repetitiveness, repetitiousness
- verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions
- pleonasm
- using more words than necessary; "a tiny little child"
- tautology
- useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"
- blasphemy
- blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred)
- obscenity, vulgarism
- obscene word or phrase
- bawdry, bawdy
- lewd or obscene talk or writing; " it was smoking-room bawdry" or "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
- scatology
- a preoccupation with scatology
- curse, curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- profanity
- vulgar or irreverent speech or action
- detail
- extended treatment of particulars; "the essay contained too much detail"
- imbroglio
- a very embarrassing misunderstanding
- sensationalism
- subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes
- shocker
- a sensational message (in a film or play or novel)
- reference point, point of reference, reference
- an indicator that orients you generally; "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved"
- voice
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression; "the wee small voice of conscience"; "the voice of experience"; "he said his voices told him to do it"
- avalanche
- a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things; "the program brought an avalanche of mail"
- background
- relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation: "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"
- appalling
- an experience that appalls; "is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?"
- augury, sign
- an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God"
- war cloud
- an ominous sign that war threatens
- omen, portent, presage, prognostic
- a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"
- auspice
- a favorable omen
- foreboding
- an unfavorable omen
- death knell
- an omen of death or destruction
- flash, flashing
- a short vivid experience; "a flash of emotion swept over him"; "the flashings of pain were a warning"
- ordeal
- a severe or trying experience
- taste
- a brief experience of something; "he got a taste of life on the wild side"; "she enjoyed her brief taste of independence"
- time
- a person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears" or "they had a good time together"
- vision
- a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary"
- miracle
- a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of God
- trouble
- an event causing distress or pain; "what is the trouble?"; "heart trouble"
- miracle
- any amazing or wonderful occurrence
- wonder, marvel
- something that causes feelings of wonder; "the wonders of modern science"
- feast
- something experienced with great delight; "a feast for the eyes"
- drama, dramatic event
- an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional
- fair deal, square deal
- fair treatment
- raw deal
- unfair treatment
- poetic justice, just deserts
- an outcome in which virtue triumphs over vice (often ironically)
- wages, reward, payoff
- a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward"
- worst
- the least favorable outcome; "the worst that could happen"
- surprise
- a sudden unexpected event
- bombshell, thunderbolt, thunderclap
- a shocking surprise; "news of the attack came like a bombshell"
- coup de theatre
- a dramatic surprise
- eye opener
- something surprising and revealing
- shock, blow
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise; "it came as a shock to learn that he was injured"; "it was blow to their hopes of reconciliation"
- stunner
- an unexpected and amazing event: "the stunner was what happened on Saturday"
- misfortune, bad luck
- unnecessary and unforeseen trouble
- pity, shame
- an unfortunate development; "it's a pity he couldn't do it"
- affliction
- a cause of great suffering and distress
- embarrassment
- some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals"
- disembarrassment
- something that extricates you from embarrassment
- hell, blaze
- a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes"
- calvary, martyrdom
- any experience that causes intense suffering
- onslaught
- a sudden and severe onset of trouble
- scandal, outrage
- a disgraceful event
- idyll
- an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll
- rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
- mishap, misadventure, mischance
- an instance of misfortune
- calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"
- apocalypse
- a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil
- break, good luck, happy chance
- an unexpected piece of good luck; "he finally got his big break"
- barnburner
- (informal) a impressively successful event; "the rock concert was a real barnburner"
- Godspeed
- a successful journey; "they wished him Godspeed"
- anticlimax
- a disappointing decline after ad previous rise: "the anticlimax of a brilliant career"
- epiphany
- a divine manifestation
- Word of God
- a manifestation of the mind and will of God
- doom, doomsday, day of reckoning
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"
- adversity
- a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event: "a period marked by adversities"
- hardship
- something that causes or entails suffering: "I cannot thinking it a hardship that more more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life"
- knock
- a bad experience; "the school of hard knocks"
- easing, moderation, relief
- a change for the better
- improvement, betterment, advance
- a change for the better; progress in development
- refinement, elaboration
- the result of improving something; "he described a refinement of this technique"
- sideshow
- a subordinate incident of little importance relative to the main event; "instruction is not an educational sideshow"
- flop, bust
- a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop"
- turkey, bomb, dud
- an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"
- debacle, fiasco
- a sudden and violent collapse
- monstrosity
- something hideous or frightful; "they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity"
- adjustment, accommodation, fitting
- making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
- fuss, trouble, bother, hassle
- an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother"
- trial, tribulation, visitation
- an annoying or frustrating event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague"
- news event
- a newsworthy event
- juncture, occasion
- an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions"
- pass, head, straits
- a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"
- climax, flood tide
- the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding: "the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success"
- conjuncture
- a critical combination of events or circumstances
- emergency, exigency, pinch
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an emergency"
- crisis
- a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better"
- landmark, turning point
- an event marking a unique or important historical change or one on which important developments depend
- Fall of Man
- (Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology--when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden God punished them by driving them out of the Garden and into the world where they would be subject to sickness and pain and eventual death
- road to Damascus
- a sudden turning point in a person's life (similar to the sudden conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus of arrest Christians)
- milestone
- a significant event in your life (or in a project)
- conservation, preservation
- an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
- recovery
- return to an original state; "the recovery of the forest after the fire was surprisingly rapid"
- curse, torment
- a severe affliction
- fire
- a severe trial; "he went through fire and damnation"
- expense
- a detriment or sacrifice; "at the expense of"
- damage, harm, impairment
- the occurrence of a change for the worse
- turn, turn of events, twist
- an unforeseen development; "events suddenly took an awkward turn"
- development
- a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!"
- phenomenon
- a remarkable development
- complication, ramification
- a development that complicates a situation; "the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications"
- revolution
- a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving; "the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution"
- distortion, deformation
- a change for the worse
- warp, warping
- a moral or mental distortion
- rush
- a sudden burst of activity; "come back after the rush"; "he joined the gold rush"
- springtide
- a swelling rush of anything; "he rose on the springtide of prosperity"
- whirl, commotion
- confused movement; "he was caught up in a whirl of work"; "a commotion of people fought for the exits"
- reverse, reversal, setback, blow
- an unfortunate happening that hinders of impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- boom, bonanza, goldmine, manna from heaven
- a sudden happening that brings very good fortune
- Fall
- the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall"
- shipwreck
- an irretrievable loss; "that was the shipwreck of their romance"
- silver lining, bright side
- a consoling aspect of a difficult situation; "every cloud has a silver lining" or "look on the bright side of it"
- maleficence
- doing or causing evil
- ensemble, tout ensemble
- an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole
- amalgam
- a combination or blend of diverse things; "his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas"
- overpopulation, overspill
- too much population
- lunatic fringe
- a political unit with extreme and fanatical views
- rabble, riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail
- disparaging terms for the common people
- smart money
- people who are highly experienced or who have inside information; "the smart money said Truman would lose the election"
- trash, scum
- worthless people
- stream, flow, current
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas: "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"
- ambiance, ambience
- the atmosphere of an environment
- depth
- (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; "from the depths of darkest Africa"; "signals received from the depths of space"
- cloud-cuckoo-land
- a place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality
- eden, paradise, nirvana, heaven, promised land, Shangri-la
- any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
- stage
- any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; "All the world's a stage"--Shakespeare; "it set the stage for peaceful negotiations"
- pool, puddle
- something resembling a pool of liquid; "he stood in a pool of light"; "his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines"
- vagabond
- anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place; "pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea"
- wall
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or effect; "a wall of water"; "a wall of smoke"; "a wall of prejudice"
- anticipation
- some early entity whose type or style anticipates a later one; "there were many anticipations of Darwinian theory"; "the hour glass was an anticipation of the clock"
- web
- an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving; "the trees cast a delicate web of shadows over the lawn"
- colored person, colored
- a US term for Blacks that is now considered offensive
- darky, darkie, darkey
- offensive term for Black people
- boy
- offensive term for Black man; "get out of my way boy"
- nigger, spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra
- ethnic slur; offensive name for Black person
- Tom, Uncle Tom
- contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
- white trash, poor white trash, poor white
- an offensive term for White people who are impoverished
- whitey, honky
- offensive name for White person
- coolie, cooly
- an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer
- yellow man
- offensive term for an Oriental man
- yellow woman
- offensive term for an Oriental woman
- gook, slant-eye
- a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War)
- Redskin, Injun, red man
- offensive terms for Native Americans
- kike
- ethnic slur; offensive term for a Jew
- chink, Chinaman
- offensive terms for a person of Chinese descent
- limey, John Bull
- a man of English descent
- pommy, pom
- (Australian and New Zealand) a disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand
- frog, Gaul
- a person of French descent
- Paddy, Mick, Mickey
- ethnic slur; a person of Irish descent
- wop, dago, Guinea, greaseball
- ethnic slur; offensive terms for a person of Italian descent
- Jap, Nip
- a person of Japanese descent
- spic, spik, spick
- ethnic slur; offensive terms for persons of Latin American descent
- greaser, wetback, taco
- ethnic slur; offensive terms for a person of Mexican descent
- Kraut, Krauthead, Boche, Jerry, Hun
- offensive terms for a person of German descent
- asshole, bastard, cocksucker, shit, mother fucker, motherfucker, mother, prick, son of a bitch, SOB
- (obscene) insulting terms of address
- bag, old bag
- an ugly or ill-tempered woman; "he was romancing the old bag for her money"
- baggage
- a worthless or immoral woman
- battle-ax, battle-axe
- a sharp-tongued domineering wife
- Bolshevik, Marxist, pinko, red
- emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals
- bore, dullard
- a person who evokes boredom
- broad
- slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"
- bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig
- (informal) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
- bully, tough, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo
- a cruel and brutal fellow
- bullyboy
- a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction
- bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher, fuckup
- someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
- butch, dyke
- a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- butcher
- a brutal indiscriminate murderer
- cunt, bitch
- a woman who is thoroughly disliked; "she said her son thought Hilary was a bitch"
- fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, pansy, queer, poof, poove, pouf
- a disparaging term for an openly homosexual man
- freak, monster, monstrosity, lusus naturae
- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
- frump, dog
- a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman; "she got a reputation as a frump"; "she's a real dog"
- fucker
- a stupid despised man
- gringo
- a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen)
- hag, beldam, beldame, witch, crone
- an ugly evil-looking old woman
- paynim
- a heathen (especially a Muslim)
- hillbilly, bushwhacker
- a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person
- jezebel
- a shameless impudent scheming woman
- kaffir, kafir, caffer, caffre
- (South Africa) an offensive term for any Black African
- mammy
- an offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S.
- ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuch
- model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
- pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny
- (offensive) a Black child
- runt, shrimp, peewee, half-pint
- disparaging terms for small people
- shegetz
- an offensive term for non-Jewish young man; "why does she like all those shkotzim?"
- shiksa, shikse
- a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women
- silly
- a word used for misbehaving children; "don't be a silly"
- sissy, pantywaist, pansy, milksop, Milquetoast
- a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
- slattern, slut, slovenly woman
- a dirty untidy woman
- wanton
- lewd or lascivious woman
- worm, louse, insect, dirt ball
- has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- worthy
- word is often used humorously
- bad luck, mischance, mishap
- an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate; "if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all"
- good luck, fluke, good fortune
- a stroke of luck
- hot weather, heat wave, hot spell
- a period of unusually hot weather
- scorcher
- an extremely hot day
- sultriness
- oppressively hot and humid weather
- leverage, purchase
- the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
- rejuvenation, greening
- the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored; "the annual rejuvenation of the landscape"
- overstrain
- too much strain
- toss-up, even chance
- an unpredictable phenomenon; "it's a toss-up whether he will win or lose"
- own right
- by title vested in oneself or by virtue of qualifications one has achieved; "a peer of the realm in his own right"; "a leading sports figure in his own right"; "a fine opera in its own right"
- pile
- informal: a large sum of money
- song
- a very small sum; "he bought it for a song"
- travel bargain
- a bargain rate for travellers on commercial routes (usually air routes)
- easy money, gravy train
- income obtained with a minimum of effort
- easy money
- the economic condition in which credit is easy to secure
- tight money
- the economic condition in which credit is difficult to secure
- windfall profit
- profit that occurs unexpectedly as a consequence of some event not controlled by those who profit from it
- killing, cleanup
- (informal) a very large profit
- windfall, gravy, bunce, godsend
- a sudden unexpected piece of good fortune
- overcompensation
- excessive compensation
- meed
- (archaic) a fitting reward
- rack rent
- an extortionate rent
- fringe benefit, perquisite, perk
- an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right); "a limousine is one of the fringe benefits of the job"
- appanage, apanage
- any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life
- pittance
- an inadequate payment; "they work all day for a mere pittance"
- retribution, requittal
- a justly deserved penalty
- undercharge
- a price that is too low
- overcharge
- a price that is too high
- extortion
- an exorbitant charge
- usury
- an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest
- loss
- something that is lost; "the car was a total loss"; "loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt"
- wastage
- anything lost by wear or waste
- hot stock, hot issue
- newly issued stock that is in great public demand
- smart money
- money bet or invested by experienced gamblers or investors (especially if they have inside information)
- gamble
- money that is risked for possible monetary gain
- stake, stakes, bet, wager
- the money risked on a gamble
- wealth, riches
- an abundance of material possessions and resources
- gold
- great wealth; "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold"--Ben Jonson
- means, substance
- considerable capital (wealth or income); "he is a man of means"
- pork barrel, pork
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
- comforts, creature comforts, amenities, conveniences
- things that make you comfortable and at ease; "all the comforts of home"
- fortune
- a large amount of wealth or prosperity
- valuable
- something of value; "all our valuables were stolen"
- swag
- (informal) valuable goods
- king's ransom
- a very large treasure
- cheap money
- credit available at low rates of interest
- shiplaster
- paper money of little value issued on insufficient security
- small change, chickenfeed
- a trifling sum of money
- bad debt
- a debt that is unlikely to be repaid
- malabsorption
- abnormal absorption of nutrients from the digestive tract
- overactivity
- excessive activity; "overactivity of the sebaceous glands causes the skin to become oily"
- development, evolution
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a more advanced or mature stage; "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer"
- deepening
- a process of becoming deeper and more profound
- unfolding, flowering
- a developmental process; "the flowering of ante-bellum culture"
- growth
- a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture"
- conspicuous consumption
- buying expensive services and products in order to flaunt your wealth
- wastage
- the process of wasting
- deterioration, decline in quality, worsening
- process of changing to an inferior state
- decay
- the process of gradually becoming inferior
- dilapidation, ruin
- the process of becoming dilapidated
- vicious circle, vicious cycle
- one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first
- degeneration
- the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
- enough, sufficiency
- a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose or satisfy a desire; "enough is as good as a feast"; "there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country"
- fill
- a quantity sufficient to satisfy; "he ate his fill of potatoes"; " she had heard her fill of gossip"
- complement
- a complete number or quantity: "a full complement"
- bad block
- a block (usually one sector) that cannot reliably hold data
- overexposure
- exposure to too much light or for too long a time
- underexposure
- exposure to too little light or for too short a time
- extremum, peak
- the most extreme possible amount or value; "voltage peak"
- nothing, nil, nix, nada, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip
- a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"
- nihil, nil
- nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ: "nihil habet")
- bugger all, fuck all
- (British slang) little or nothing at all; "I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all"
- large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
- an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude
- region, neighborhood
- the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of'); "it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100"
- small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
- an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
- dab, splash, splatter
- a small quantity of something moist or soft; "a dab of paint"; "a splatter of mud"
- spot, bit
- (British) a small quantity; "a spot of tea"; "a bit of paper"
- few
- an indefinite but relatively small number; "they bought a case of beer and drank a few"
- hair's-breadth, hairbreadth, hair
- a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost by a hair"
- modicum
- a small or moderate or token amount: "England still expects a modicum of eccentricity in its artists"- Ian Jack
- scattering, sprinkling
- a small number dispersed haphazardly: "the first scatterings of green"
- shoestring, shoe string
- a small amount of money; "he managed it on a shoestring"
- nose
- a small distance; "my horse lost the race by a nose"
- step
- a short distance; "it's only a step to the drugstore"
- little
- a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him"
- minimum, lower limit
- the smallest possible quantity
- morsel
- a small quantity of anything; "a morsel of paper was all he needed"
- handful, smattering
- a small number or amount; "only a handful of responses were received"
- couple
- a small indefinite number; "he's coming for a couple of days"
- drop, driblet
- a small quantity of liquid; "one drop of each sample was analyzed"; "any child with a drop of negro blood was legally a negro"
- droplet
- a tiny drop
- dollop
- a small measure (usually of food)
- dreg
- a small amount of residue
- nip, shot
- a small drink of liquor; "he poured a shot of whiskey"
- trace, hint, suggestion
- a just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent"
- spark
- a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger; "a spark of interest"; "a spark of decency"
- shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge
- a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
- touch, hint, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon
- a small but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"
- barrels
- the amount that many barrels might hold
- batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "it must have cost plenty"
- battalion, large number, multitude, pack
- a large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"
- billyo, billyoh, billy-ho, all get out
- an unimaginably large amount; British say "it rained like billyo" where Americans say "it rained like all get out"
- flood, deluge, torrent
- an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
- mile
- a large distance; "he missed by a mile"
- millions, billions, trillions, zillions, jillions
- a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)
- much
- a great amount or extent; "they did much for humanity"
- myriad
- a large indefinite number; "he faced a myriad of details"
- reservoir
- a large or extra supply of something: "a reservoir of talent"
- ocean, sea
- anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
- ream
- a large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams"
- small fortune
- a large sum of money; "he made a small fortune in the commodities market"
- tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings
- a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"
- room, way, elbow room
- space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for": "hardly enough elbow room to turn around"
- breathing room, breathing space
- sufficient room for easy breathing or movement: "moved to the country to find breathing room"
- foundation
- the basis on which something is grounded; "there is little foundation for his objections"
- footing, basis, ground
- a relation that provides the foundation for something; "they were on a friendly footing" or "he worked on an interim basis"
- common ground
- a basis agreed to by all parties for reaching a mutual understanding
- grass roots
- the essential foundation or source; "the problem was attacked at the grass roots"
- bridge
- something resembling a bridge in form or function: "his letters provided a bridge across the centuries"
- point
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- detail, particular, item
- a small part that can be considered separately from the whole; "it was perfect in all details"
- highlight, high spot
- the most interesting or memorable part; "the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican"
- scale
- relative magnitude; "they entertained on a grand scale"
- commensurateness, correspondence, proportionateness
- the relation of correspondence in degree or size or amount
- reverse, contrary, opposite
- a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true"
- inverse, opposite
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect; "when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse"
- balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance
- equality of distribution
- symmetry, proportion
- balance among the parts of something
- disproportion
- lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something
- medium
- a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position; "a happy medium"
- niche
- a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it; "he found his niche in the academic world"
- soup
- (informal) an unfortunate situation; "we're in the soup now"
- utopia
- ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects
- dystopia
- state in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror
- acceptance
- the state of being acceptable and accepted; "torn jeans received no acceptance at the country club"
- challenge
- a demanding or stimulating situation; "they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power"
- complication
- a situation or condition that is complex or confused: "her coming was a serious complication"
- crisis
- an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis"
- disequilibrium
- an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others
- element
- the situation in which you are happiest and most effective; "in your element"
- environment
- the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his livingroom"
- equilibrium
- a stable situation in which forces cancel one another
- exclusion
- the state of being excluded
- hotbed
- a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad); "it was a hotbed of vice"
- hot potato
- a difficult situation; "he dropped the topic like a hot potato"
- how-do-you-do, how-d'ye-do
- an awkward situation; "that's a fine how-d'ye-do"
- imbroglio, embroilment
- an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation
- inclusion
- the state of being included
- nightmare, incubus
- a situation resembling a terrifying dream
- pass, strait, straits
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- prison, prison house
- a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
- purgatory
- a temporary condition of torment or suffering: "a purgatory of drug abuse"
- rejection
- the state of being rejected
- swamp
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp"
- nature, wild, natural state, state of nature
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived in the wild"; "they tried to preserve nature as they found it"
- way
- the condition of things generally; "that's the way it is" or "I felt the same way"
- acme, height, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, top
- the highest level or degree attainable: "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession"
- plane
- a level of existence or development; "he lived on a worldly plane"
- ordinary
- the expected or commonplace condition or situation: "not out of the ordinary"
- event, case
- a special set of circumstances; "in that event, the first possibility is excluded"; "it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled"
- hinge
- a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend; "his absence is the hinge of our plan"
- thing
- a special situation; "this thing has got to end"; "it is a remarkable thing"
- tinderbox
- a dangerous state of affairs; a situation that is a potential source of violence; "the Balkans are the tinderbox of Europe"
- crowding
- a situation in which people or things are crowded together; "he didn't like the crowding on the beach"
- congestion, over-crowding
- excessive crowding; "traffic congestion"
- place, station
- proper or designated social situation: "he overstepped his place"; "the responsibilities of a man in his station"; "married above her station"
- place
- proper or appropriate position or location; "a woman's place is no longer in the kitchen"
- quality
- high social status; "a man of quality"
- high status
- of superior status
- stardom
- the status of being acknowledged as a star: "stardom meant nothing to her"
- championship, title
- the status of being a champion; "he held the title for two years"
- precedence, precedency, priority
- status established in order of importance or urgency: "...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle"
- transcendence, transcendency, superiority
- the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits
- low status
- of inferior status
- inferiority, lower status, lower rank
- the state of being inferior
- subordinateness, subsidiarity
- secondary importance
- backseat
- a secondary or inferior position or status: "tennis has had to take a backseat while his work is so demanding"
- handmaid, handmaiden, servant
- in a subordinate position; "theology should be the handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of the church"
- junior status
- in a junior position
- second fiddle
- in a secondary position
- subservience, subservientness
- in a subservient state
- cloud
- out of touch with reality; "his head was in the clouds"
- life
- a characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life"
- transcendence, transcendency
- a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience
- misalliance
- an unsuitable marriage
- mesalliance
- a marriage with a person of inferior social status
- tranquillity, quiet
- an untroubled state; free from disturbances
- harmony, concord, concordance
- a harmonious state; congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
- peace
- harmonious relations; freedom from disputes; "the roommates lived in peace together"
- comity
- a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect
- comity of nations
- courteous respect by one nation for the laws and institutions of another
- stability
- a stable order
- peace
- the state prevailing during the absence of war
- amity
- a state of friendship and cordiality
- peaceableness, peacefulness
- a state that is calm and tranquil
- disorder
- a disturbance of the peace or of public order
- anarchy, lawlessness
- a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)
- instability
- an unstable order
- confusion
- disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably; "the army retreated in confusion"
- demoralization
- a state of disorder and confusion; "his inconsistency resulted in the demoralization of his staff"
- babel
- a confusion of voices and other sounds
- bluster
- noisy confusion and turbulence; "he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations"
- chaos, pandemonium, bedlam, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness
- a state of extreme confusion and disorder
- balagan
- a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian); "it was utter and complete balagan!"
- hugger-mugger, mumbo jumbo
- a state of confusion; ritual accompanied by complicated and purposeless activity that obscures and confuses; "he engaged in the hugger-mugger of international finance"
- rioting, riot
- a state of disorder involving group violence
- rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness, disorderliness
- rowdy behavior
- disturbance, disruption, commotion, turmoil, stir, hurly burly, to-do
- a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
- incident
- a public disturbance: "the police investigated an incident at the bus station"
- storm, tempest
- a violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot"
- storm center, storm centre
- a center of trouble or disturbance
- tumult, tumultuousness, uproar, garboil
- a state of commotion and loud confused noise
- discord, strife
- lack of agreement or harmony
- turbulence, upheaval, Sturm und Drang
- a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"
- agitation, ferment, fermentation, unrest
- a state of agitation or turbulent change or development: "the political ferment produced a new leadership"; "social unrest"
- violence
- a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
- rage
- violent state of the elements: "the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks"
- hostility, enmity, antagonism
- a state of deep-seated ill-will
- latent hostility, tension
- feelings of hostility that are not manifest; "he could sense her latent hostility to him"; "the diplomats' first concern was to reduce international tensions"
- disagreement, dissension
- a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
- disunity
- lack of unity (usually resulting from dissension)
- suspicion
- the state of being suspected; "he tried to shield me from suspicion"
- cloud
- suspicion affecting your reputation; "after that mistake he was under a cloud"
- clear
- the state of being free of suspicion: "investigation showed that he was in the clear"
- poetic license
- license used by a writer or artist to heighten the effect of their work
- license
- excessive freedom; lack of due restraint: "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke
- cage
- something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
- iron cage
- a cage from which there is no escape
- dependence, dependance, dependency
- lack of independence or self-sufficiency
- helplessness
- the state of needing help from something
- reliance
- the state of relying on something
- subordination
- the state of being subordinate to something
- contingency
- the state of being contingent on something
- polarization
- the condition of having or giving polarity
- tension
- a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature); "there is a tension created between narrative time and movie time"; "there is a tension between these approaches to understanding history"
- dead letter, non-issue
- the state of something that has outlived its relevance
- play
- a state in which action is feasible; "the ball was still in play"; "insiders said the company's stock was in play"
- busyness
- the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity: "they manifested all the busyness of a pack of beavers"
- swing
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity; "the party went with a swing"; "it took time to get into the swing of things"
- stagnation, stagnancy, doldrums
- a state of inactivity (in business or art etc); "economic growth of less than 1% per year is considered to be economic stagnation"
- deadlock, impasse, stalemate, standstill
- a situation in which no progress can be made: "reached an impasse on the negotiations"
- logjam
- any stoppage attributable to unusual activity; "the legislation ran into a logjam"
- frazzle
- (informal) a state of extreme exhaustion; "he was worn to a frazzle"
- emergency
- a state in which martial law applies; "the governor declared a state of emergency"
- clutch
- a tense critical situation; "he is a good man in the clutch"
- exigency
- a pressing or urgent situation: "the health-care exigency"
- juncture, critical point, crossroads
- a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made; "at that juncture he had no idea what to do"; "he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point"
- desperate straits, dire straits
- a state of extreme distress
- criticality
- a critical state; especially the point at which a nuclear reaction is self-sustaining
- flash point
- point at which something is ready to blow up
- trouble
- an unwanted pregnancy; "he got several girls in trouble"
- good health, healthiness
- the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease
- wholeness, haleness
- a state of robust good health
- energy, vim, vitality
- a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor"
- bloom, blush, flush, rosiness
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- freshness, glow
- an alert and refreshed state
- radiance
- an attractive combination of good health and happiness; "the radiance of her countenance"
- craziness, daftness, flakiness
- informal terms for insanity
- difficulty
- a situation or condition almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome: "grappling with financial difficulties"
- bitch
- (slang) an unpleasant difficulty; "this problem is a real bitch"
- predicament, quandary, plight
- a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one: "finds himself in a most awkward predicament"; "the woeful plight of homeless people"
- corner, box
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible; "his lying got him into a tight corner"
- rattrap
- a difficult entangling situation
- pinch
- a painful or straitened circumstance: "the pinch of the recession"
- fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish
- informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
- hard time
- a difficulty that can be overcome with effort; "we had a hard time getting here"
- stress, strain
- a state of extreme difficulty: "he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"- R.J.Samuelson
- problem, job
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved; "she and her husband are having problems"; "it is always a job to contact him"; "urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog"
- race problem
- a social and political problem caused by conflict between races occupying the same or adjacent regions
- balance-of-payments problem
- an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports
- currency, vogue
- a current state of general acceptance and use
- recognition, acknowledgment, acknowledgement
- the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged
- incoherence, incoherency
- lack of cohesion or clarity or organization
- disjointedness
- lacking order or coherence
- marriage
- a close and intimate union; "the marriage of music and dance"; "a marriage of ideas"
- improvement
- a condition superior to an earlier condition: "the new school represents a great improvement"
- decline
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition
- betterment
- an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility
- development
- a state in which things are improving; the result of developing; "after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter"; "in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen"
- underdevelopment
- state of inadequate development: "much poverty can be traced to the underdevelopment of industry"
- neglect, disuse
- the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"
- omission
- something that has been omitted; "she searched the table for omissions"
- twilight
- a condition of decline following successes; "in the twilight of the empire"
- wreck
- something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation; "the house was a wreck when they bought it"; "thanks to that quack I am a human wreck"
- renovation, restoration
- the state of being restored to its former good condition; "the inn was a renovation of a Colonial house"
- callowness, jejuneness, juvenility
- lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life
- embrace
- the state of taking in or encircling; "an island in the embrace of the sea"
- encompassment
- including entirely
- dignity
- high office or rank or station: "he respected the dignity of the emissaries"
- pedestal
- a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority); "they put him on a pedestal"
- ennoblement
- the state of being noble
- prominence
- the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent
- limelight, spotlight, public eye
- a focus of public attention; "he enjoyed being in the limelight"
- salience, saliency, strikingness
- the state of being salient
- conspicuousness, visibility
- the state of being conspicuous
- importance, grandness
- a prominent status; "a person of importance"
- emphasis, accent
- special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of gray with distinctive red accents"
- stress, focus
- special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"
- primacy
- the state of being first in importance
- eminence, distinction, preeminence, note
- high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence"
- prestige, prestigiousness
- a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.; "he wanted to achieve power and prestige"
- obscurity
- an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known; "he worked in obscurity for many years"
- anonymity, namelessness
- the state of being anonymous
- humbleness, unimportance, obscureness
- the state of being humble and unimportant
- nowhere
- an insignificant place; "he came out of nowhere"
- oblivion, limbo
- the state of being disregarded or forgotten
- honor, honour, laurels
- the state of being honored
- glory, glorification
- a state of high honor; "he valued glory above life itself"
- fame, celebrity, renown
- the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
- esteem, regard, respect
- the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded); "it is held in esteem"; "a man who has earned high regard"
- disesteem
- the state in which esteem has been lost
- stature
- high level of respect gained by impressive development or achievement: "a man of great stature"
- repute, reputation
- the state of being held in high esteem and honor
- stock
- the reputation and popularity a person has; "his stock was so high he could have been elected mayor"
- character
- good repute; "he is a man of character"
- name
- a person's reputation; "he wanted to protect his good name"
- fame
- favorable public reputation
- infamy
- evil fame or public reputation
- notoriety, ill fame
- the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality
- reputation
- notoriety for some particular characteristic; "his reputation for promiscuity"
- dishonor, dishonour
- a state of shame or disgrace; "he was resigned to a life of dishonor"
- disrepute, discredit
- the state of being held in low esteem; "your actions will bring discredit to your name"; "because of the scandal the school has fallen into disrepute"
- corruptness
- the state of being corrupt
- shame, disgrace, ignominy
- a state of dishonor; "one mistake brought shame to all his family"; "suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison"
- humiliation
- state of disgrace or loss of self-respect
- abasement, degradation, abjection
- a low or downcast state: "each confesson brought her into an attitude of abasement"- H.L.Menchken
- degeneracy, degeneration
- the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
- depth
- (usually plural) a low moral state; "he had sunk to the depths of addiction"
- infamy, opprobrium
- a state of extreme dishonor: "a date which will live in infamy"- F.D.Roosevelt; "the name was a by-word of scorn and approbrium throughout the city"
- obloquy, opprobrium
- the state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
- reproach
- disgrace or shame; "he brought reproach upon his family"
- dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"
- ascendant, ascendent
- position or state of being dominant or in control: "that idea was in the ascendant"
- domination, mastery, supremacy
- power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas"
- predominance, predomination
- the state of being predominant over others
- paramountcy
- the state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority
- absolutism, tyranny, despotism
- dominance through threat of punishment and violence
- monopoly
- exclusive control or possession of something; "They have no monopoly on intelligence"
- bane, curse, scourge, nemesis
- something causes misery or death; "the bane of my life"
- convenience
- the state of being suitable or opportune; "chairs arranged for his own convenience"
- fool's paradise
- an illusory state of well-being
- ill-being
- lack of prosperity or happiness or health
- misery, wretchedness
- a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
- living death
- a state of constant misery
- suffering, woe
- misery resulting from affliction
- anguish
- extreme distress of body or mind
- dearth, famine, shortage
- a severe shortage (especially a shortage of food)
- stringency, tightness
- a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
- urgency
- the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity
- hurry, haste
- a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; "in a hurry to lock the door"
- imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press, pressure
- the state of urgently demanding notice or attention; "the press of business matters"
- criticality, criticalness, cruciality
- a state of critical urgency
- repletion, satiety, satiation
- the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
- surfeit, excess, overabundance
- the state of being more than full
- infestation
- the state of being overrun in unpleasantly large numbers (as by parasites)
- grace, state of grace
- a state of sanctification by God
- damnation, eternal damnation
- the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell
- fire and brimstone
- (Old Testament) God's means of destroying sinners; "his sermons were full of fire and brimstone"
- perfection, flawlessness, ne plus ultra
- the state of being without a flaw or defect
- dream
- someone of something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream"
- polish, refinement
- a highly developed state; "they performed with great polish"
- fare-thee-well
- state of perfection; the utmost degree; "they polished the furniture to a fare-thee-well"
- intactness
- the state of being unimpaired
- integrity, unity, wholeness
- an unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality
- completeness
- the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed
- entirety, entireness, totality
- the state of being total: "appalled by the totality of the destruction"
- comprehensiveness, fullness
- completeness over a broad scope
- wholeheartedness
- undivided purpose or will or enthusiasm
- whole shebang, whole kit and caboodle, kit and caboodle, whole kit and boodle, kit and boodle, whole kit, whole caboodle, whole works, works, full treatment
- everything available; usually preceded by `the'; "we saw the whole shebang"; "a hotdog with the works"; "we took on the whole caboodle"; "for $10 you get the full treatment"
- incompleteness
- the state of being incomplete and imperfect
- sketchiness
- incompleteness of details
- imperfection, imperfectness
- the state or an instance of being imperfect
- failing, weakness
- a flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wife's failings"
- tragic flaw
- a failing in the character of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall
- insufficiency, inadequacy
- a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents"
- hole
- a fault; "he shot holes in my argument"
- defectiveness, faultiness
- the state of being defective
- bugginess
- the state of having bugs
- crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness
- a natural or unrefined state
- fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you): "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
- good fortune, good luck
- a auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes
- providence
- a manifestation of God's foresightful care for His creatures
- prosperity, successfulness
- the condition of prospering; having good fortune
- blessing, boon
- a desirable state; "enjoy the blessings of peace"; "a spanking breeze is a boon to sailors"
- mercy
- something for which to be thankful; "it was a mercy we got out alive"
- strength
- the condition of financial success; "the strength of the company's stock in recent weeks"
- weakness
- the condition of being financially weak; "the weakness of the dollar against the yen"
- success
- a state of prosperity or fame; "he is enjoying great success"; "he does not consider wealth synonymous with success"
- big time
- the highest level of an occupation (especially in entertainment)
- pay dirt
- a profitable success; "the inventor worked for years before hitting pay dirt"
- misfortune, bad luck, ill luck
- an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes
- adversity, hardship
- a state of misfortune or affliction: "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"
- catastrophe, disaster
- a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster"
- extremity
- an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease)
- bitter end
- the final extremity (however unpleasant it may be); "he was determined to fight to the bitter end"
- trouble, ill, distress
- a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need); "in trouble with the police"; "he wanted to cure the ills of all mankind"; "she was the classic maiden in distress"
- throe
- hard or painful trouble or struggle: "a country in the throes of economic collapse"
- affliction
- a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity
- cross, crown of thorns
- any affliction that causes great suffering; "that is his cross to bear"; "he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns"
- failure
- lack of success
- bankruptcy
- a state of complete lack of some abstract property; "spiritual bankruptcy"; "moral bankruptcy"; "intellectual bankruptcy"
- conceivableness, conceivability
- the state of being conceivable
- achievability, attainability, attainableness
- the state of being achievable
- inconceivability, inconceivableness
- the state of being impossible to conceive
- unattainableness
- the state of being unattainable
- opportunity, chance
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance"
- day
- a period of opportunity; "he deserves his day in court"; "every dog has his day"
- fresh start, clean slate, tabula rasa
- an opportunity to start over without prejudice
- hunting ground
- a place where opportunities abound
- room
- opportunity for; "room for improvement"
- say
- the chance to speak; "let him have his say"
- shot, crack
- (informal) a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion"
- street
- (informal) a situation offering opportunities; "he worked both sides of the street"; "cooperation is a two-way street"
- throw
- (informal) a single chance or instance; "he couldn't afford $50 a throw"
- despair, desperation
- a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"
- nadir, low-water mark
- an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything
- purity, pureness
- being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material
- plainness
- the state of being unmixed with other material; "the plainess of vanilla ice cream"
- impurity, impureness
- the condition of being impure
- adulteration, debasement
- being mixed with extraneous material
- admixture, alloy
- the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something
- contamination, taint
- the state of being contaminated
- dust contamination
- state of being contaminated with dust
- dirtiness
- the state of containing dirty impurities
- putridity
- the state of being putrid
- credit crunch, liquidity crisis
- a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers
- depression, slump, economic crisis
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- full employment
- the economic condition when everyone who wishes to work at the going wage-rate for their type of labor is employed
- prosperity
- an economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment
- boom
- a state of economic prosperity
- wealth, wealthiness
- the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money: "great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence"
- affluence, richness
- abundant wealth
- ease, comfort
- a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state: "a life of luxury and ease"; "he had all the material comforts of this world"
- luxury, luxuriousness, opulence, sumptuousness
- wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living
- mammon
- wealth regarded as an evil influence
- silver spoon
- inherited wealth; "he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth"
- poverty, poorness, impoverishment
- the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
- privation, want, deprivation
- a state of extreme poverty
- destitution
- a state without friends or money or prospects
- indigence, need, penury, pauperism
- a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
- sanitariness
- the state of being conducive to health
- hygiene
- a condition promoting sanitary practices; "personal hygiene"
- sanitation
- the state of being clean and conducive to health
- unsanitariness
- a state that is not conducive to health
- filth, filthiness, foulness, nastiness
- a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
- dunghill
- a foul or degraded condition
- tilth
- the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth
- cleanness
- the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities
- cleanliness
- the habit of keeping free of superficial imperfections
- spotlessness, immaculateness
- the state of being spotlessly clean
- orderliness, order
- a condition of regular or proper arrangement: "he put his desk in order"; "put the chessmen in order"
- spit and polish
- careful attention to order and appearance (as in the military)
- tidiness
- the habit of being tidy
- neatness, spruceness
- the state of being neat and smart and trim
- trim, trimness
- a state of arrangement or appearance: "in good trim"
- shambles
- a condition of great disorder
- dirtiness, uncleanness
- the state of being unsanitary
- dirt, filth, grime, soil, stain, grease
- the state of being covered with unclean things
- befoulment, defilement, pollution
- the state of being polluted
- griminess, grubbiness
- the state of being grimy
- sordidness, squalor, squalidness
- sordid dirtiness
- dinginess
- discoloration due to dirtiness
- smuttiness, sootiness
- the state of being dirty with soot
- uncleanliness
- the habit of neglecting cleanliness
- disorderliness, disorder
- a condition in which things are not in their expected places: "the files are in complete disorder"
- untidiness
- the condition of being untidy
- sloppiness, slovenliness, unkemptness
- untidiness in personal appearance
- shagginess
- unkemptness of hair
- mess, messiness, muss, mussiness
- a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
- disorganization, disarrangement
- a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted
- clutter, jumble, muddle, mare's nest, welter, smother
- a confused multitude of things
- rummage
- a jumble of things to be given away
- commonness, expectedness
- the state of being commonly observed
- typicality
- the state of being that is typical
- deflection, warp
- a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
- home
- an environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home"
- sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena
- a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"
- distaff
- the sphere of work by women
- front
- a sphere of activity involving effort; "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts"
- kingdom, land, realm
- a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south"
- lap
- an area of control or responsibility; "the job fell right in my lap"
- political arena, political sphere
- a sphere of intense political activity
- preserve
- a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone; "medicine is no longer a male preserve"
- province, responsibility
- the proper sphere or extent of your activities; "it was his province to take care of himself"
- showcase, show window
- a setting in which something can be displayed to best effect; "it was a showcase for democracy in Africa"
- street
- the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction; "she tried to keep her children off the street"
- good weather
- weather suitable for outdoor activities
- calmness
- an absence of strong winds or rain
- mildness, clemency
- good weather with comfortable temperatures
- stillness, windlessness
- calmness without winds
- lull, quiet
- a period of calm weather; "there was a lull in the storm"
- bad weather, inclemency, inclementness
- weather unsuitable for outdoor activities
- raw weather
- unpleasantly cold and damp weather
- storminess
- the state of being stormy; "he dreaded the storminess of the North Atlantic in winter"
- boisterousness
- a turbulent and stormy state of the sea
- breeziness, windiness
- a mildly windy state of the air
- tempestuousness
- a state of wild storminess
- choppiness, roughness, rough water
- used of the sea
- genius loci
- the special atmosphere of a place
- gloom, gloominess, glumness
- an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office"
- bleakness, desolation
- a bleak and desolate atmosphere
- miasma
- an unwholesome atmosphere; "the novel spun a miasma of death and decay"
- spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, look, smell
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"
- vibes, vibrations
- a distinctive emotional atmosphere; sensed intuitively; "the place gives me bad vibes"
- suggestibility
- susceptibility or responsiveness to suggestion
- drought
- a temporary shortage of rainfall
- safety
- the state of being safe; "the safety of the children"
- risklessness
- safety as a consequence of entailing no risk
- security
- the state of being free from danger or injury; "we support the armed services in the name of national security"
- peace, public security
- the general security of public places; "he was arrested for disturbing the peace"
- secureness
- the state of being secure
- protection, shelter
- the condition of being protected; "they were huddled together for protection"; "he enjoyed a sense of peace and protection in his new home"
- clear and present danger
- a standard for judging when freedom of speech can be abridged; "no one has a right to shout `fire' in a crowded theather when there is no fire because such an action would pose a clear and present danger to public safety"
- hazardousness, perilousness
- the state of being dangerous
- insecurity
- the state of being subject to danger or injury
- hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk
- a source of danger; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard"
- powder keg
- a potentially explosive state
- menace, threat
- something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan"
- yellow peril
- the threat to Western civilization said to arise from the power of Asiatic peoples
- riskiness, peril
- a state of danger involving risk
- speculativeness
- financial risk
- insecureness
- the state of being insecure
- fitness, physical fitness, good shape, good condition
- good physical condition; being in shape or in condition
- fettle
- a state of fitness and good health; "in fine fettle"
- soundness
- a state or condition free from damage or decay
- seaworthiness, fitness
- fitness to traverse the seas
- airworthiness
- fitness to fly: "the plane received a certificate of airworthiness"
- unfitness, poor shape, bad condition
- poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition
- blight
- a state or condition being blighted
- iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark
- absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness"
- light, illumination
- a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination; "follow God's light"
- malady
- any unwholesome or desperate condition; "what maladies afflict our nation?"
- wall
- a difficult or awkward situation; "his back was to the wall"; "competition was pushing them to the wall"
- philosopher's stone
- a hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing other metals into gold
- impurity, dross
- worthless material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water"
- atom, molecule, particle, mote, speck
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product
- any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"
- rubbish, trash
- worthless material that is discarded
- snake oil
- any of various liquids sold as medicine (as by a travelling medicine show) but medically worthless
- soup
- (informal) any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup
- bygone
- past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones"
- dead
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
- hard times
- a time of difficulty
- longueur
- a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art)
- field day
- a time of unusual pleasure and success
- bloom, bloom of youth
- the best time of youth
- prime, prime of life
- the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest
- night
- a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
- small hours
- the hours just after midnight
- day of reckoning
- day when the consequences of misdeeds are felt
- off-day
- a day when things go poorly; "I guess this is one of my off-days"
- hour
- a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour"
- silly season
- a time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news
- long time, age, years
- a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"
- long
- a comparatively long time; "this won't take long"; "they haven't been gone long"
- month of Sundays
- (informal) a time perceived as long; "I hadn't seen him in a month of Sundays"
- long run, long haul
- a period of time sufficient for factors to work themselves out; "in the long run we will win" or "he performed well over the long haul"
- eon, aeon
- an immeasurably long period of time
- blue moon
- (informal) a long time; "something that happens once in blue moon almost never happens"
- drought
- a prolonged shortage
- time
- a suitable moment; "it is time to go"
- high time
- the latest possible moment; "it is high time you went to work"
- psychological moment
- the most appropriate time for achieving a desired effect
- blink of an eye, flash, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute
- a very short time; "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
- ephemera
- something transitory; lasting a day
- auld langsyne, langsyne, old times, the good old days
- past times remembered with nostalgia
- reign
- a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful; "he was helpless under the reign of his egotism"
- hypervelocity
- excessive velocity; "the meteorites struck the earth with hypervelocity impacts"
- honeymoon
- the early usually calm and harmonious period of a relationship; business or political
- rainy day
- a (future) time of financial need; "I am saving for a rainy day"
- flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- swelter
- be uncomfortably hot
- sit tight
- maintain the same position; wait it out; "Let's not make a decision--let's sit tight"
- beautify, embellish, prettify
- make more beautiful
- sparkle
- be lively: "The music sparkled"
- prim
- assume a prim appearance: "They mince and prim"
- shame
- surpass or beat by a wide margin
- cry
- demand immediate action; "This situation is crying for attention"
- bedizen
- decorate tastelessly
- crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse
- fall apart; also used metaphorically: "Negociations broke down"
- push, crowd
- approach a certain age or speed: "She is pushing fifty"
- leave behind
- to depart and forget, or neglect to bring or take along: She wept thinking she'd been left behind.
- bestir, rouse
- become active: "He finally bestirred himself"
- come to the fore, step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore, come out
- make oneself visible; take action; "Young people should step to the fore and help their peers"
- stoop, descend
- to sink in status or dignity, or worsen in condition
- bed hop
- sleep around; "His wife bed hops"
- throw
- to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly; "Jane threw dinner together", throw the car into reverse"
- enjoy
- have for one's benefit; "The industry enjoyed a boom"
- overexpose
- expose excessively: "As a child, I was overexposed to French movies"
- underexpose
- expose insufficiently; "The child was underexposed to language"
- act up, play up
- make itself felt; as of recurring pains
- look, appear, seem
- give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time"
- cut
- give the appearance or impression of; "cut a nice figure"
- feel
- produce a certain impression; "It feels nice to be home again"
- appear, seem
- seem to be true, probable, or apparent; "It seems that he is very gifted"; "It appears that the weather in California is very bad"
- sound
- appear in a certain way; "This sounds interesting"
- show
- make visible or noticeable: "She showed her talent for cooking"
- do justice
- bring out fully or to advantage; "This photograph does not do her justice"
- register
- show in one's face; "Her surprise did not register"
- expose, exhibit, display
- to show, make visible or apparent: "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?" "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship.."
- hold up
- hold up something as an example; hold up one's achievements for admiration
- flaunt, flash, show off, swank
- display proudly
- brandish
- exhibit aggressively
- trot out
- bring out and show for inspection and admiration; "His novel trots out a rich heiress"; "always able to trot out some new excuse"
- whitewash, gloss over, sleek over, hush up
- cover up a misdemeanor; "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stallin"
- spring
- produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang a new haircut on his wife"
- crop up, pop up
- appear suddenly or unexpectedly
- overshadow
- cast a shadow upon; "The tall tree overshadowed the house"; "The tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness"
- smack, reek
- have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"
- disgust, turn off, revolt, repel
- fill with distaste
- sponsor
- assume responsibility for or leadership of; "The senator announced that he would sponsor the health care plan"
- cosponsor
- sponsor together with another sponsor
- eke out, squeeze out
- make by laborious and precarious means; "He eked out a living as a painter"
- recover, recoup
- make up for or make good
- lavish, shower
- expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns: "He was showered with praise"
- squander, blow
- spend lavishly or wastefully on; "He blew a lot of money on his new home theater"
- overspend
- spend at a high rate
- wanton, wanton away, trifle away
- spend wastefully; "wanton one's money away"
- underspend
- spend at less than the normal rate
- misspend
- spend unwisely, as of money
- penny-pinch
- spend money frugally
- overspend
- spend more than available of (a budget, for example)
- underspend
- spend less than the whole of (a budget, for example)
- waste, blow, squander
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"
- burn
- spend (significant amounts of money); "He has money to burn"
- splurge, fling
- indulge oneself; "I splurged on a new TV"
- conserve, husband, economize, economise
- use cautiously and frugally
- retrench
- tighten one's belt; use resources carefully
- freeload
- live off somebody's generosity
- arrogate, ascribe, assign
- make undue claims to having
- line one's pockets
- make a lot of money
- clean up
- make a big profit; often in a short period of time; "The investor really cleaned up when the stock market went up"
- cash in on
- take advantage of or capitalize on
- profiteer
- make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods
- capitalize, take advantage
- draw advantages from; "he is capitalizing on her mistake"; "she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover"
- lose
- fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"
- rake in, shovel in
- earn large sums of money
- benefit, do good
- be beneficial for; "This will do you good"
- agree
- be agreeable or suitable; "White wine doesn't agree with me"
- overbid
- bid more than the object is worth, as during an auction
- underbid
- bid too low
- overtax
- tax excessively; "Don't overtax my constitutents!"
- relieve, deliver
- free from a burden, evil, or distress
- smooth, smooth out
- free from obstructions; "smooth the way towards peace negociations"
- overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- undercharge
- charge (someone) too little money
- overstock
- stock excessively
- understock
- stock with less than the usual or desirable number or quantity
- tinsel
- impart a cheap brightness to; "his tinseled image of Hollywood"
- scrimp, stint, skimp
- scratch and scrimp
- overprice
- price excessively high
- undersell, undercut
- sell cheaper than one's competition
- pour
- supply in large amounts or quantities: "We poured money into the education of our children"
- pump
- supply in great quantities; "Pump money into a project"
- flood, oversupply
- supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"
- exert
- make a great effort at a mental or physical task; "exert oneself"
- overexert
- exert (oneself) excessively; "don't overexert yourself when exercising!"
- egotrip
- act in a way that attracts attention; "This teacher always egotrips and the students don't like him"
- reciprocate
- act, feel, or give in return; "We always invite the neighbors and they never reciprocate!"
- steamroller
- proceed with great force; "The new teacher tends to steamroller"
- assert, put forward
- insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized; "Women should assert themselves more!"
- come close
- nearly do something; "She came close to quitting her job"
- sit by, sit back
- be inactive or indifferent while something is happening; "Don't just sit by while your rights are violated!"
- whip through
- go through very fast; "We whipped through the last papers that we had to read before the weekend"
- bull, bull through
- push or force; "He bulled through his demands"
- play out
- perform to the end; "We've got to play this out"
- make bold, dare, presume to
- take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission; "How dare you call my lawyer?"
- lie dormant
- be inactive, as if asleep; "His work lay dormant for many years"
- sophisticate
- make less natural or innocent
- connect
- establish a rapport or relationship; "The President of this university really connects with the faculty"
- lionize, celebrate
- assign great social importance to; "The film director war celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in Vienna"
- demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"
- reduce
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition; "He reduced the population to slavery"
- take time by the forelock
- act quickly and decisively; not let slip an opportunity
- tug, labor, labour, push, drive
- exert oneself; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"
- fight, struggle
- make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath"
- flounder
- behave awkwardly; have difficulties; "She is floundering in college"
- overdrive
- drive or work too hard; "The teacher is overworking his students"
- misapply
- apply incorrectly or badly
- overwork, exploit
- work excessively hard
- beaver, beaver away
- work hard on something
- belabor, belabour
- to work at or to absurd length: "belabor the obvious"
- potter, putter
- work lightly; "The old lady is pottering around in the garden"
- plug away, peg away, slog
- work doggedly or persistently; "She keeps plugging away at her dissertation"
- dabble, smatter, play at, dip into, dabble with, dabble at, dabble in
- work with in a non-serious manner; "She dabbles in astronomy"
- idle, laze, stagnate
- spent time in idleness
- moon, moon around, moon on
- be idle in a listless or dreamy way
- labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
- work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"
- slave, break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down
- work very hard, like a slave
- restrain, keep, keep back, hold back
- keep under control
- misally
- make a bad alliance; ally inappropriately; "The two countries are misallied"
- hold one's own
- maintain one's position and be in control of a situation
- disorganize
- remove the organization from
- come to grips, get to grips
- deal with (a problem or a subject); "I still have not come to grips with the death of my parents"
- dally, toy, play, flirt
- behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection"
- coordinate
- be co-ordinated; "These activities co-ordinate well"
- mismanage, mishandle, misconduct
- manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged"
- monopolize
- control fully and exclusively; "He monopolizes the laser printer"
- corner
- gain control over; "corner the gold market"
- boondoggle
- do useless, wasteful, or trivial work
- favor
- treat gently or carefully
- liberalize
- make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules
- trust
- allow without fear
- mismarry
- marry an unsuitable partner
- victimize
- punish unjustly
- scourge
- punish severely
- trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to: "Sorry to trouble you, but..."
- control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake" "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger"
- indulge
- give free rein to; "The write indulged in metaphorical language"
- wrong
- treat unjustly; do wrong to
- strong-arm
- handle roughly; "He was strong-armed by the policemen"
- ride roughshod, run roughshod
- treat inconsiderately or harshly
- upstage
- treat snobbishly, put in one's place
- rough-house
- treat in a rough or boisterous manner
- brutalize, brutalise
- treat brutally
- do justice, do-well by
- treat or consider adequately or fairly; "To do him justice, he is brilliant"
- gloss over, skate over, smooth over, slur over, skimp over
- treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly
- skimp, scant
- work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
- mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, ill-treat
- treat badly
- kick around
- treat badly; abuse; "They won't have me to kick around any more!"
- sandbag
- treat harshly or unfairly
- misbehave, misdemean
- behave badly; "The children misbehaved all morning"
- act up
- misbehave badly; "The children acted up when they were not bored"
- condescend, stoop, lower oneself
- act in an undignified or dishonorable way; "I won't stoop to this"
- hugger mugger
- act stealthily
- sauce
- behave saucy or impudently towards
- assert oneself
- put oneself forward in an assertive and insistent manner
- pose
- behave affectedly in order to impress others
- attitudinize, attitudinise
- assume certain affected attitudes
- behave, comport
- behave well or properly; "The children must learn to behave"
- footle
- act foolishly, as by talking nonsense
- over-correct, overcompensate
- make excessive corrections for fear of making an error
- expiate, aby, abye, atone
- make amends for; "expiate one's sins"
- breeze through, ace, pass with flying colors, sweep through, sail through, pass easily
- pass easily and do very well; "She sailed through her exams"; "You will pass with flying colors"
- do, manage
- carry on or manage; "We could do with a little more help around here"
- luck out
- succeed by sheer luck
- work, act
- have a desired effect; do the trick; "This method doesn't work"; "The breaks of my new car act quickly"
- overreach
- fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
- pan out, work out
- be a success
- achieve, accomplish, attain, reach
- to gain with effort: "she achieved her goal despite setbacks."
- begin
- achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative: "This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation"
- wangle, finagle, manage
- achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
- botch, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, blunder, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- fail, go wrong, miscarry
- be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt tp rescue the hostages failed miserably"
- fall
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand or fall"
- shipwreck
- suffer failure, as in some enterprise
- fall through, fall flat, founder, flop
- fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered"
- dominate, master
- have dominance over
- counteract, countervail, neutralize, counterbalance
- oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions; "This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues"
- luck it, luck through
- act by relying on one's luck
- dare
- to be courageous enough to try or do something: "I don't dare call him", "she dares to dress differently from the others."
- risk, put on the line, lay on the line
- expose to a chance of loss or damage; "We risked losing a lot of money in this venture"; "Why risk your life?"
- bell the cat
- take a risk; perform a daring act; "Who is going to bell the cat?"
- honor, honour, reward
- bestow honor upon; "Today we honor our soldiers"
- recognize
- show approval or appreciation of; "My work is not recognized by anybody!"
- ennoble, dignify
- lend dignity or honor to
- dishonor, disgrace, dishonour, attaint, shame
- bring dishonor upon
- help, assist, aid
- give help or assistance; be of service; "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?" "She never helps around the house"
- help out
- be of help, as in a particular situation of need; "Can you help out tonight?"
- subserve
- be helpful or useful
- succor, succour
- help in a difficult situation
- expedite, hasten
- speed up the progress of; facilitate; "This should expedite the process"
- minister
- attend to the wants and needs of others; "I have to minister to my mother all the time"
- attend, take care, look, see
- take charge of; "Could you see about lunch?"; "I must attend to this matter"; "She took care of this business"
- mother, fuss, overprotect
- care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband"
- bootstrap
- help oneself, often through improvised means
- restore
- return to its original condition
- reinstate
- restore to the previous state or rank
- promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
- contribute to the progress or growth of; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom"
- help
- contribute to the furtherance of; "This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries"
- carry
- take further or advance; "carry a cause"
- feed
- support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity"
- support, back up
- be supportive of; "Will you support me during the meeting?"
- carry
- maintain or support somebody who is weaker or less competent
- carry
- compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance; "I resent having to carry her all the time"
- undergird
- lend moral support to
- second, back, endorse, indorse
- give support or one's blessing to; "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project"
- carry, execute
- extend beyond reasonable limits; "carry too far"
- misdo
- do wrongly or improperly; "misdo one's job"
- go all out, give one's best, do one's best
- perform as well as possible
- anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter
- act in advance of; deal with ahead of time
- desecrate, profane, outrage, violate
- violate the sacred character of a place, such as a graveyard
- overdo, exaggerate
- do something to an excessive degree: "He overdid it last night when he did 100 push-ups"
- overleap
- defeat (oneself) by going too far
- trespass, take advantage
- make excessive use of; "You are taking advantage of my good will!"; "She is trespassing upon my privacy"
- swindle, rook, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, mulct, gyp, con
- deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"
- short-change, short
- cheat someone by not returning him enough money
- bilk
- cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
- whipsaw
- victimize, esp. in gambling or negotiations
- victimize, victimise
- make a victim of; "I was victimized by this con-man"
- cheat
- engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
- cozen
- act with artful deceit
- shill
- act as a shill
- trick, fob, fox
- pull a fast one, play a trick on somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week"
- fool, dupe, gull, befool
- make a fool or dupe of
- solemnize
- observe or perform with dignity or gravity
- whore
- corrupt by lewd intercourse
- poison
- spoil as if by poison; "poison someone's mind"; "poison the atmosphere in the office"
- bastardize, bastardise
- change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms
- rat
- desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
- rumpus
- cause a disturbance
- persecute, oppress, harass
- cause to suffer; "Jews were persecuted in the former Soviet Union"
- arrive, make it, get in, go far
- succeed in a big way; get to the top; "After he published his book, he had arrived"; "I don't know whether I can make it in science!"; "You will go far, my boy!"
- carry, persuade, sway
- win approval or support for; "Carry all before one"
- misgovern
- govern badly
- cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage
- come to terms or deal successfully with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas."
- hack, cut
- informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office"
- scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by, rub along
- manage one's existence barely; "I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary"
- condescend, deign, descend
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- condescend
- behave in a patronizing and condescending manner
- take care
- be careful, prudent, or watchful; "Take care when you cross the street!"
- follow through, go through
- to conclude or bring to a conclusion with some effort; "John worked hard to make that deal go through."
- fag
- act as a fag for older boys, in British public schools
- frivol, trifle
- act frivolously
- humbug
- trick or deceive
- serve
- be in the service of, be a servant of, as of people, institutions, or ideas: "She served the art of music"; "He served the church"; "Marie served her mistress faithfully until her death"
- lord it over, queen it over, put on airs, act superior
- act like the master of; "He is lording it over the students"
- stampede
- act, usually en masse, hurriedly or on an impulse: "Companies will now stampede to release their latest software"
- meet, match, cope with
- satisfy or fulfill; "meet a need"
- come near
- almost do or experience something; "She came near to screaming with fear"
- sneak
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner: "sneak a look"; "sneak a cigarette"
- remember oneself
- recover one's good manners after a lapse or stop behaving badly; "Please remember yourself, Charles!"
- guard
- take precautions in order to avoid some unwanted consequence; "guard against becoming too friendly with the staff"; "guard against infection"
- cut across
- be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations; "Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines"
- work out
- turn out well; "Everything worked out in the end"
- swing
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style; "The Woodstock generation attempted to swing freely"
- unlive, live down
- live so as to annul some previous behavior; "You can never live this down!"
- wanton
- indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
- vegetate
- lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
- pig, pig it
- live like a pig, in squalor
- eke out
- live from day to day, as with some hardship: "He eked out his years in great poverty"
- freewheel, drift
- live irresponsibly or freely
- stand up, hold up
- resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.; "Her shoes won't hold up"; This theory won't hold up"
- make sense, add up
- be reasonable or logical or comprehensible
- make
- constitute the essence of; "Clothes make the man"
- compose
- form the substance of; "Greed and ambition composed his personality
- tide over, bridge over, keep going
- suffice for a period between two points
- sport, feature, boast
- wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat"
- miss
- be absent; "The child had been missing for a week"
- overstay, outstay
- stay too long; "overstay or outstay one's welcome"
- kick one's heels
- wait or pass the time aimlessly or futilely; be kept waiting; "She kicked her heels for hours at the gate of the Embassy"
- loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
- be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
- prowl, lurch
- loiter about, with no apparent aim
- bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about
- be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
- lie about, lie around
- hang around idly; "She did all the work while he lay around"
- lurk, skulk
- lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
- dwell on, linger over
- delay
- boggle
- hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear
- hesitate, waver, swiver
- pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness: "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures."
- hover, linger
- move to and fro; "The shy student lingered in the corner"
- redound
- be excessive in quantity
- overarch
- be central or dominant: "This scene overarches the entire first act"
- count, matter, weigh
- have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter much"
- weigh, press
- to be oppressive or burdensome; "weigh heavily on the mind", "Something pressed on his mind"
- overbear
- overcome; "overbear criticism, protest, or arguments"
- shine
- be clear and obvious; "A shining example"
- match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"
- check, check out
- be verified or confirmed; pass inspection; "These stories don't check!"
- look
- accord in appearance with; "You don't look your age!"
- answer
- match or correspond; "The drawing of the suspect answers to the description the victim gave"
- coincide
- be the same; "our views on this matter coincided"
- align
- align with; be or come into adjustment
- correlate, corelate
- to establish or bear reciprocal or mutual relations
- parallel
- be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by ours"
- twin, duplicate, parallel
- duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse"
- square
- be compatible with; "one idea squares with another"
- fit, go
- be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired; "This skirt won't go around your waist"
- deviate, vary, diverge, depart
- be at variance with; be out of line with
- conform
- be similar, be in line with
- depend
- Elliptical use of "depend on": "That depends"
- resemble
- appear like; be similar to "She resembles her mother very much"; "This paper resembles my own work"
- look like
- bear a physical resemblance to; "She looks like her mother"
- come to life
- be lifelike; as of paintings: "If you look at it long enough, this portrait comes to life!"
- take after
- be similar to a relative; "She takes after her father!"
- approximate, come close
- be close or similar; "Her results approximate my own"
- oppose, counterbalance
- place in opposition: can also be used in an abstract sense; "Oppose thy steadfast gazing eyes to mine"- Shakespeare
- conflict
- be in conflict; "The two proposals conflict!"
- come in
- come into fashion; become fashionable
- go out
- go out of fashion; become unfashionable
- clash, jar, collide
- be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash"
- meet, fit, conform to
- of a condition or restriction
- behoove, behove
- be appropriate or necessary; "IT behooves us to reflect on this matter"
- exceed, transcend, overstep, pass, go past, top
- go beyond; "She exceeded out expectations"
- exceed, transcend, surpass
- go beyond; "Their loyalty exceeds their national bonds"
- suffice, do, answer
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity; "A few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well"; "Will $100 do?"; "A "B" grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"
- go a long way
- suffice or be adequate for a while or to a certain extent
- serve
- promote; "Art serves commerce"; "Their interests are served"; "The lake serves recreation"
- fall short of
- fail to satisfy, as of expectations, for example
- satisfy, fulfill, fulfil, live up to
- fulfil the requirements or expectations of
- compensate, counterbalance, even out, even off, even up
- make up for, make good
- cover
- compensate or make up for
- balance, equilibrate, equilibrize
- bring into balance or equilibrium
- unbalance
- throw out of balance or equilibrium; "The tax relief unbalanced the budget"
- excel, stand out, surpass
- distinguish oneself; "She excelled in math"
- stink
- be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance; "This term paper stinks!"
- shine at, excel at
- be good at; "She shines at math"
- leap out, jump out, jump, stand out
- be highly noticeable
- focus on, center on, revolve around, revolve about, concentrate on, center
- center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work"
- apply, hold, go for
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable; "The same laws apply to you!" "This theory holds for all irrational numbers"; "The same rules go for everyone"
- involve, affect, regard
- connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"
- involve
- engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"
- entangle, mire
- entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past"
- matter to, interest
- be of importance or consequence; "This matters to me!"
- intrigue, fascinate
- cause to be interested or curious
- cheese
- used in the imperative: "Cheese it!"
- hold
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition; "The weather held"; "They held on the road and kept marching"
- taper off, peter out, fizzle out, fizzle
- end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending"
- run on, keep going
- continue uninterrupted; "The disease will run on unchecked"
- ramble on, ramble, jog
- continue talking or writing in a desultory manner: "This novel rambles on and jogs"
- ride
- continue undisturbed and without interference; "Let it ride"
- cross, traverse, span, sweep
- to cover a wide area; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"
- run, go, pass, lead, extend
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"
- shadow, overshadow, dwarf
- cast a shadow
- loom, tower, hulk
- appear very large
- rise, lift, rear
- rise up; "The building rose before them"
- loom
- come into view indistinctly, often threateningly; "Another air plane loomed into the sky"
- endanger, jeopardize, menace, threaten, imperil, peril
- pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops"
- dote
- be foolish or senile due to old age
- characterize
- be characteristic of; "What characterizes a Venetian painting?"
- individuate
- give individual character to
- homologize
- be homologous; "A person's arms homologize with a quadruped's forelimbs"
- befit, suit, beseem
- accord or comport with
- harmonize, consort, accord, fit in, agree
- go together; "The colors don't harmonize"
- blend, go, blend in
- blend or harmonize; "This flavor will blend with those in your dish"; "This sofa won't go with the chairs"
- stand, remain firm
- hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright
- suit, accommodate, fit
- be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs"
- truckle
- yield to out of weakness
- drag on, drag out
- last unnecessarily long
- overshadow, eclipse
- exceed in importance; outweigh; "This prblem overshadows our lives right now"
- shillyshally
- be uncertain and vague
- weather, endure, brave, brave out
- face or endure with courage; "She braved the elements"
- brave, venture
- brave the dangers of; "brave the natural elements"
- lend oneself, apply
- be applicable to; as to an analysis; "This theory lends itself well to our new data"
- beggar
- be beyond the resources of; "This beggars description!"
- defy, resist, refuse
- elude, esp. in a baffling way; "This behavior defies explanation"
- piddle, wanton, wanton away, piddle away, trifle
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- misspend
- spend time badly or unwisely: "He misspent his youth"
- while away, get through
- spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time
- teem, swarm
- be teeming, be abuzz
- abound
- be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities
- abound, burst, bristle
- be in a state of movement or action; "The room abounded with screaming children"; "The garden bristled with toddlers"
- brim
- be completely full; "His eyes brimmed with tears"
- abound in, teem in, pullulate with
- exist in large quantity
- crawl
- be crawling with; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
- rule
- have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac
- bag
- hang loosely, like an empty bag
- dangle, swing, drop
- hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling"
- droop, loll
- hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled"
- cancel, offset, set off
- make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength"
- offset, countervail
- compensate for or counterbalance; "offset deposits and withdrawals"
- overlap
- have something in common
- share
- share in common; "Our children share a love of music"
- run
- be affected by; be subjected to; as in "run a temperature," "run a risk"
- play
- be received or accepted; "This speech didn't play well with the American public"
- press
- be urgent; "This is a pressing problem"
- rage
- be violent; as of fires and storms
- elude, escape
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
- do well, had best
- act in one's own or everybody's best interest; "You will do well to arrive on time tomorrow!"
- become, suit
- enhance the appearance of: "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!"
- come in handy
- be useful for a certain purpose
- hoodoo
- bring back luck; be a source of misfortune
- compare
- be comparable; "This car does not compare with our line of Mercedes"
- go
- be ranked or compare; "This violinist is as good as Juilliard-trained violinists go"
- run into, encounter
- be beset by; "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties"
- owe
- be indebted to, in an abstract or intellectual sense; "This new theory owes much to Einstein's Relativity Theory"
- keep, preserve
- maintain in safety form injury, harm, or danger; "May God keep you"
- shine
- be distinguished or eminent; "His talent shines"
- go far, go deep
- extend in importance or range; "His accomplishments go far"
- hang
- be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive; "This worry hangs on my mind"; "The cloud of suspicion hangs over her"
- litter
- strew; "Cigar butts littered the ground"
- suit
- be agreeable or acceptable; "This time suits me"
- help, facilitate
- be of use; "This will help to prevent accidents"
- tie in
- be in connection with something relevant; "This ties in closely with his earlier remarks"
- belong
- be suitable or acceptable; "This student somehow doesn't belong"
- belong, go
- be in the right place or situation; "Where do these books belong?" "Let's put health care where it belongs--under the control of the government"; "Where do these books go?"
- go around
- be sufficient; "There's not enough to go around"
- fry
- be excessively hot; "If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried"
- contrast
- put in contrast
- jumble, mingle
- be all mixed up or jumbled together; "His words jumbled"
- falter, waver
- be unsure or weak; "Their enthusiasm is faltering"
- promise
- give grounds for expectations; "The new results were promising"; "The results promised fame and glory"
- have
- be confronted with: "What do we have here?"; "Now we have a fine mess"
- hold one's own
- be sufficiently competent in a certain situation: "He can hold his own in graduate school"
- mean
- have a specified degree of importance; "My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything"
- balance
- be in equilibrium; "He was balancing on one foot"
- flow
- be abundantly present; "The champagne flowed at the wedding"
- brood, hover, loom, bulk large
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long"
- act
- be suitable for theatrical performance: "This scene acts well"
- add
- constitute an addition; "This paper will add to her reputation"
- seem
- appear to exist; "There seems no reason to go ahead with the project now"
- beat
- be superior: "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!"
- hold
- have as a major characteristic; "The novel holds many surprises"; "The book holds in store much valuable advise"
- sell
- be responsible for the sale of; "All her publicity sold the products"
- sell
- be approved of or gain acceptance; "The new idea sold well in certain circles"
- make
- be suitable for; "Wood makes good furniture"
- blight, plague
- cause to suffer a blight
- absolute
- perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol"
- dead(a), utter(a)
- total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness"
- direct
- exact; "the direct opposite"
- implicit, unquestioning
- being without doubt or reserve; "implicit trust"
- independent
- not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
- infinite
- total and all-embracing; "God's infinite wisdom"
- living
- (intensifier) "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"
- pure, unmixed, undiluted
- not mixed; "pure oxygen"
- very(a)
- used to give emphasis; "the very essence of artistic expression is invention"- Irving R. Kaufman; "the very back of the room"
- relative
- not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger"
- comparative
- having significance only in relation to something else; "a comparative newcomer"
- abstemious
- sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; "the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"- John Galsworthy
- abstinent, abstentious
- self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink; "not totally abstinent but abstemious"
- ascetic, ascetical, austere, spartan
- practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
- gluttonous
- given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure"
- crapulous
- given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking; "a crapulous old reprobate"
- crapulent, crapulous
- suffering from excessive eating or drinking; "crapulent sleep"; "a crapulous stomach"
- edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
- devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
- greedy
- wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume; "don't be greedy with the cookies"
- hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish
- resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food"
- overgreedy, too-greedy
- excessively gluttonous
- objective
- belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events; "concrete benefits"; "a concrete example"; "there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"
- real, tangible
- possible to be treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor"
- abundant
- present in great quantity; "an abundant supply of water"
- abounding, galore(ip)
- existing in abundance; "abounding confidence"; "whiskey galore"
- ample, copious, plenteous, plentiful, rich
- affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply"
- bumper
- extraordinarily abundant; "a bumper crop"
- copious, extensive
- large in number or quantity; "she took copious notes"; "extensive press coverage"
- easy
- (economics) plentiful and therefore at low interest rates; easy to come by; "easy money"
- exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous
- produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming"
- thick
- abundantly covered of filled; "the top was thick with dust"
- long
- having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply"
- overabundant, plethoric, rife
- excessively abundant
- plentiful
- existing in great number or quantity; "rhinoceroses were once plentiful here"
- rank
- growing profusely; "rank jungle vegetation"
- superabundant
- most excessively abundant
- teeming, swarming
- abundantly filled with especially living things; "the Third World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard"; "harried by swarming rats"
- torrential
- pouring in abundance; "torrential rains"
- scarce
- deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
- rare
- not widely distributed; "rare herbs"; "rare patches of gree in the desert"
- tight
- (economics) affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow; "tight money"; "a tight market"
- abused, ill-treated, maltreated, mistreated
- physically abused; "an abused wife
- misunderstood
- not given sympathetic understanding; "a sorely misunderstood child"
- unabused
- not physically abused; treated properly
- acceptable
- worthy of acceptance or satisfactory; "acceptable levels of radiation"; "performances varied from acceptable to excellent"
- tolerable
- capable of being borne; "tolerable noise levels"
- unexceptionable, unimpeachable
- completely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach; "two unexceptionable witnesses"; "a judge's ethics should be unexceptionable"
- unobjectionable
- not objectionable; "the ends are unobjectionable; it's the means that one can't accept"
- unacceptable
- not acceptable; not welcome; "a word unacceptable in polite society"; "an unacceptable violation of personal freedom"
- exceptionable, objectionable
- liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to; "a thoroughly unpleasant highly exceptionable piece of writing"; "found the politician's views objectionable"
- intolerable
- completely unacceptable; "this noise is intolerable"
- convenient, handy, ready to hand(p)
- easy to reach; "found a handy spot for the can opener"
- in hand(p)
- accessible at the present time; "waited for supper...glasses in hand"
- inaccessible, unaccessible
- capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all
- backwoods(a), outback(a), remote
- inaccessible and sparsely populated
- deserted
- remote from civilization; "the victim was lured to a deserted spot"
- lonely(a), solitary, unfrequented
- separated from or unfrequented by others; remote or secluded; "a lonely crossroads"; "a solitary retreat"; "a trail leading to an unfrequented lake"
- unapproachable, unreachable, unreached, out of reach(p)
- inaccessibly located or situated; "an unapproachable chalet high in the mountains"; "an unreachable canyon"; "the unreachable stars"
- un-come-at-able, ungetatable
- (informal) difficult to reach or attain
- close, faithful
- marked by fidelity to an original; "a close translation"; "a faithful copy of the portrait"; "a faithful rendering of the observed facts"
- dead-on(a)
- (informal) accurate and to the point; "a dead-on feel for characterization"; "She avoids big scenes...preferring to rely on small gestures and dead-on dialogue"- Peter S.Prescott
- accustomed
- (often followed by `to') in the habit of or adapted to; "accustomed to doing her own work"; "I've grown accustomed to her face"
- used to(p), wont to(p)
- in the habit; "I am used to hitchhiking"; "you'll get used to the idea"; "...was wont to complain that this is a cold world"- Henry David Thoreau
- unaccustomed
- not habituated to; unfamiliar with; "unaccustomed to wearing suits"
- unused to(p)
- (usually followed by `to') infrequently exposed to; "feet unused to shoes"
- accepted, recognized
- generally approved or compelling recognition; "several accepted techniques for treating the condition"; "his recognized superiority in this kind of work"
- unappreciated, unsung, unvalued
- having value that is not acknowledged
- rapacious, ravening, voracious
- excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"
- sordid
- meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
- about(p), astir(p)
- on the move; "up and about"; "the whole town was astir over the incident"
- acrobatic, athletic, gymnastic
- vigorously active; "an acrobatic dance"; "an athletic child"; "athletic playing"; "gymnastic exercises"
- agile, nimble, quick, spry
- moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it"
- dancing
- moving quickly and excitedly; "on dancing feet"
- hot
- (informal) marked by excited activity; "a hot week on the stock market"
- lively
- characterized by energetic activity; "a lively baby"
- on the go(p)
- (of a person) very busy and active; "is always on the go"
- active
- full of activity or engaged in continuous activity; "an active seaport"; "an active bond market"; "an active account"
- brisk
- very active; "doing a brisk business"
- bustling
- full of energetic and noisy activity; "a bustling city"
- busy
- crowded with or characterized by much activity; "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"
- going(a)
- in full operation; "a going concern"
- in full swing(p)
- at the highest level of activity; "for the first time in years the factory was in full swing"
- dead
- devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"
- dull, slow, sluggish
- (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
- passive, inactive
- lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith
- countervailing, offsetting, compensatory, compensative
- compensating for
- very(a)
- used to give emphasis to the relevance of the thing modified; "his very name struck terror"; "caught in the very act"
- accommodative, reconciling
- tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony
- adequate
- (sometimes followed by `to') meeting the requirements especially of a task; "she had adequate training"; "her training was adequate"; "she was adequate to the job"
- adequate to(p), capable, equal to(p), up to(p)
- having the requisite qualities for; "equal to the task"; "the work isn't up to the standard I require"
- competent
- adequate for the purpose; "a competent performance"
- inadequate
- (sometimes followed by `to') not meeting the requirements especially of a task; "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was inadequate to the job"
- deficient, lacking(p), wanting(p)
- inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"
- short-handed, short-staffed, undermanned, understaffed
- inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.; "they're rather short-handed at the moment"; "overcrowded and understaffed hospitals"
- unadoptable
- difficult to place in an adoptive home
- embellished, ornamented, ornate
- rich in decorative detail
- tricked-out
- decorated in a particular way; "tricked-out cupboards looking like Georgian cabinets"
- plain, unembellished, unornamented
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
- adroit
- quick or skillful or adept in action or thought; "an exceptionally adroit pianist"; "an adroit technician"; "his adroit replies to hecklers won him many followers"; "an adroit negotiator"
- clean, neat
- free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed; "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean throw"; "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife"
- clever, cunning, ingenious
- showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success""; "an ingenious solution to the problem"
- coordinated
- being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements; "she was usually good with her hands and well coordinated"- Mary McCarthy
- deft, dexterous, dextrous
- skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind"
- handy
- skillful with the hands; "handy with an axe"
- light-fingered, nimble-fingered
- having nimble fingers literally or figuratively; especially for stealing or picking pockets; "a light-fingered burglar who can crack the combination of a bank vault"- Harry Hansen; "the light-fingered thoughtfulness...of the most civilized playwright of the era"- Time
- quick-witted
- mentally nimble and resourceful; "quick-witted debater"; "saved an embarrassing situation with quick-witted tact"
- maladroit
- not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit propaganda"
- bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed
- not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
- inept, tactless
- revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable"
- uncoordinated
- not well coordinated; "his movements are clumsy and uncoordinated"
- advantageous
- giving an advantage; "a contract advantageous to our country"; "socially advantageous to entertain often"
- beneficial, good
- promoting or enhancing well-being; "an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries"; "the beneficial effects of a temperate climate"; "the experience was good for her"
- plus, positive
- involving advantage or good; "a plus (or positive) factor"
- profitable
- promoting benefit or gain; "a profitable meeting to resolve difficulties"
- disadvantageous, harmful
- constituting a disadvantage
- minus, negative
- involving disadvantage or harm; "minus (or negative) factors"
- safe
- of an undertaking
- advisable
- worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise; "such action is neither necessary nor advisable"; "extreme caution is advisable"; "it is advisable to telephone first"
- better(p), best(p)
- (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable; "it would be better to speak to him"; "the White House thought it best not to respond"
- judicious, sensible
- proceeding from good sense or judgment; "a sensible choice"
- recommended, suggested
- mentioned as worthy of acceptance; "the recommended medicine"; "the suggested course of study"
- well(p)
- wise or advantageous and hence advisable; "it would be well to start early"
- inadvisable, unadvisable
- not prudent or wise; not recommended; "running on the ice is inadvisable"
- well-advised, advised
- having the benefit of careful prior consideration or counsel; "a well-advised delay in carrying out the plan"
- considered, wise
- carefully considered; "a considered opinion"
- ill-advised, unadvised
- without careful prior deliberation or counsel; "ill-advised efforts"; it would be ill-advised to accept the offer"; "took the unadvised measure of going public with the accusations"
- aesthetic, esthetic, aesthetical, esthetical
- concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste; "the aesthetic faculties"; "an aesthetic person"; "aesthetic feeling"; "the illustrations made the book an aesthetic success"
- artistic
- satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities; "artistic workmanship"
- beautiful
- aesthetically pleasing
- cosmetic, enhancive
- serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body; "cosmetic surgery"; "enhansive makeup"
- sensuous
- taking delight in beauty; "the sensuous joy from all things fair"
- inaesthetic, unaesthetic
- violating aesthetic canons or requirements; deficient in tastefulness or beauty; "inaesthetic and quite unintellectual"; "peered through those inaesthetic spectacles"
- inartistic, unartistic
- lacking aesthetic sensibility;
- ugly
- deficient in beauty; "ugly gray slums"
- tasteless
- deficient in tastefulness; "coarse and tasteless luxury"
- superior(p)
- (often followed by `to') above being affected or influenced by; "he is superior to fear"; "an ignited firework proceeds superior to circumstances until its blazing vitality fades"
- lifelike, natural
- natural looking; "a natural pose"
- concessive, conceding(a)
- making for or being a concession
- favorable, positive
- granting what has been desired or requested; "a favorable reply"; "a positive answer"
- negative
- expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
- dismissive
- tending to dismiss or reject; "a dismissive gesture"
- agreeable
- to your own liking or feelings or nature; "Is the plan agreeable to you?"; "he's an agreeable fellow"; "My idea of an agreeable person...is a person who agrees with me"- Disraeli; "an agreeable manner"
- disagreeable
- not to your liking; "a most disagreeable journey"; "a disagreeable old man"; "in a disagreeable mood"
- annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing
- causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"
- harsh, abrasive
- sharply disagreeable; rigorous; "the harsh facts of court delays"; "an abrasive character"
- unsweet
- distasteful; "he found life unsweet"
- doomed
- marked for certain death; "the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed"
- live
- showing characteristics of life; exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossd a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play"
- living(a)
- full of life and interest; "made history a living subject"
- dead
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"
- enigmatic, oracular
- resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular sayings of Victorian poets"; "so obscure that priests might have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile"
- left-handed
- ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment"
- multivalent, multi-valued
- having many values, meanings, or appeals; "subtle, multivalent allegory"
- uncertain
- especially in the negative "no uncertain," as in "spoke in no uncertain terms"
- manque, would-be(a)
- unfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition
- overambitious
- excessively ambitious
- ample
- more than enough in size or scope or capacity; "had ample food for the party"; "an ample supply"
- full, good
- having the normally expected amount; "gives full measure"; "gives good measure"; "a good mile from here"
- generous
- more than adequate; "a generous portion"
- wide, wide-cut, full
- having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt"
- meager, meagre, meagerly
- deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"
- bare(a), scanty, spare
- lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
- exiguous
- extremely scanty; "a meager income"; "an exiguous budget"
- hand-to-mouth(a)
- providing only bare essentials; "a hand-to-mouth existence"
- hardscrabble, marginal
- of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"
- measly, miserable, paltry
- contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"
- vital
- having or characterized by life; "a vital being"; "the population of the vital teeming slums"
- animated, alive
- having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news"
- enlivened, spirited
- made lively or spirited; "a meal enlivened by the music"; "a spirited debate"
- full of life, lively, vital
- full of spirit; "a vital and charismatic leader"; "this whole vital world"
- reanimated, revived
- given fresh life or vigor or spirit; "stirred by revived hopes"
- unanimated
- not animated or enlivened; dull
- dead, lifeless
- lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
- wan
- lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile"
- enlivened
- made sprightly or cheerful
- perked up
- made or become more cheerful or lively; "his attention made her feel all perked up"
- unenlivened
- not made lively or brightened; "a life unenlivened by romance"
- precedented
- having or supported or justified by a precedent
- unprecedented
- having no precedent; novel; "an unprecedented expansion in population and industry"
- new, unexampled
- having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity"
- approachable
- easy to meet or converse or do business with; "a friendly approachable person"
- accessible
- easy to get along with or talk to; friendly; "an accessible and genial man"
- unapproachable
- discouraging intimacies; reserved; "an unapproachable executive"
- offish, standoffish
- lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner"
- appropriate
- suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc; "a book not appropriate for children"; "a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity"; "it seems that an apology is appropriate"
- befitting
- appropriate to; "behavior befitting a father"
- due
- reasonable in the circumstances; "gave my comments due consideration"; "exercising due care"
- in order(p), called for
- appropriate or even needed in the circumstances; "a change is in order"
- pat
- exactly suited to the occasion; "a pat reply"
- proper, right, suitable
- appropriate for a condition or occasion; "everything in its proper place"; "the right man for the job"; "she is not suitable for the position"
- inappropriate
- not suitable for a particular occasion etc; "noise seems inappropriate at a time of sadness"; "inappropriate shoes for a walk on the beach"; "put inappropriate pressure on them"
- unbefitting
- not befitting; "behavior unbefitting a father"
- unsuitable, improper, wrong
- not appropriate for a purpose or occasion; "unsuitable attire for the office"; "said all the wrong things"
- anticipated, looked-for(a)
- rightfully expected; "his looked-for advancement";
- undue
- not appropriate or proper (or even legal) in the circumstances; "undue influence"; "I didn't want to show undue excitement"; "accused of using undue force"
- apropos
- of an appropriate or pertinent nature
- apposite, appropriate, apt, pertinent
- being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply"
- malapropos
- of an inappropriate or incorrectly applied nature
- inapposite, out of place
- of an inappropriate or misapplied nature
- artful
- marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"
- adroit, clever, ingenious
- skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends; "cool prudence and sensitive selfishness along with quick perception of what is possible--these distinguish an adroit politician"; "came up with a clever story"; "an ingenious press agent"; "an ingenious scheme"
- Byzantine
- characterized by elaborate scheming and intrigue; devious; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "a fine hand for Byzantine deals and cozy arrangements"
- crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
- marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
- cute, precious
- obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms"
- deep
- exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy; "deep political machinations"; "a deep plot"
- elusive, evasive
- skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
- manipulative
- skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage; "the early manipulative techniques of a three-year-old"
- pawky
- (British) cunning and sly; "the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants"- Punch
- artless
- simple and natural; without cunning or deceit; "an artless manner"; "artless elegance"
- careless
- effortless and unstudied; "an impression of careless elegance"; "danced with careless grace"
- guileless, honest
- free from guile; "his answer was simple and honest"
- naive, unsophisticated
- lacking sophistication
- articulate
- expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate orator"; "articulate beings"
- articulated
- pronounced distinctly and clearly; "her words were well articulated"
- eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken
- expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech"
- well-spoken
- speaking or spoken fittingly or pleasingly; "a well-spoken gentleman"; "a few well-spoken words on civic pride"
- tongued
- having a manner of speaking as specified; often used in combination; "golden-tongued"; "sharp-tongued"
- audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bold-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
- unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
- emphatic, forceful
- forceful and definite in expression or action; "the document contained a particularly emphatic guarantee of religious liberty"
- gullible
- easily tricked because of being too trusting; "gullible tourists taken in by the shell game"
- oversolicitous
- excessively solicitous
- forgetful, oblivious
- failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious old age"
- attractive
- pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm; "a remarkably attractive young man"; "an attractive personality"; "attractive clothes"; "a book with attractive illustrations"
- bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating
- capturing interest as if by a spell; "bewitching smile"; "Roosevelt was a captivating speaker"; "enchanting music"; "an enthralling book"; "antique papers of entrancing design"; "a fascinating woman"
- charismatic, magnetic
- possessing an extraordinary ability to attract; "a charismatic leader"; "a magnetic personality"
- cunning, cute
- attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby"
- dinky
- (British informal) pretty and neat; "what a dinky little hat"
- engaging, piquant
- attracting or delighting; "an engaging frankness"; "a piquant face with large appealing eyes"
- fetching, taking, winning
- very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his manner"; "a winning personality"
- hypnotic, mesmeric, mesmerizing, spellbinding
- attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; "read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice"; "she had a warm mesmeric charm"; "the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing"; "a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome"
- irresistible
- overpoweringly attractive; "irresistible beauty"
- personable
- (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality
- photogenic
- looking attractive in photographs
- prepossessing
- creating a favorable impression; "strong and vigorous and of prepossessing appearance"
- winsome
- charming in a childlike or naive way
- unattractive
- lacking beauty or charm; "as unattractive as most mining regions"
- homely, plain
- lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face"
- subfusc
- devoid of brightness or appeal; "a subfusc mining town"; "dark subfusc clothing"
- unprepossessing, unpresentable
- creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression
- appealing
- able to attract interest or draw favorable attention; "He added an appealing and memorable figure to popular American mythology"- Vincent Starrett; "an appealing sense of humor"; "the idea of having enough money to retire at fifty is very appealing"
- attention-getting, catchy
- likely to attract attention; "a catchy title for a movie"
- attractive
- having power to arouse interest; "an attractive opportunity"; "the job is attractive because of the pay"
- unappealing
- not able to attract favorable attention; "they have made the place as unappealing as possible"; "was forced to talk to his singularly unappealing hostess"
- off-putting
- tending to repel; "The trappings of upper-class life are off-putting and sterile"- Elizabeth Hess
- unattractive
- lacking power to arouse interest; "being unemployed is a most unattractive prospect"
- auspicious
- attended by favorable circumstances; "an auspicious beginning for the campaign"
- advantageous, favorable, golden
- very favorable or advantageous; "a golden opportunity"
- bright, promising
- full or promise; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career"
- fortunate, hopeful, rosy
- presaging good fortune; "she made a fortunate decision to go to medical school"; "rosy predictions"
- inauspicious, unfortunate
- not auspicious; boding ill
- unpromising
- appearing to be unlikely to result favorably or be enjoyable; "faced an unpromising task"; "music for unpromising combinations of instruments"
- propitious
- presenting favorable circumstances; "propitious omens"
- auspicious, encouraging, favorable, favourable, lucky, prosperous
- tending to favor or bring good luck; "miracles are auspicious accidents"; "encouraging omens"; "a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision"
- gracious
- disposed to bestow favors; "thanks to the gracious gods"
- unpropitious
- not propitious
- ill, inauspicious, ominous
- presaging ill-fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley;"a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
- thunderous
- extremely ominous; "world events of thunderous import"
- available
- obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service; "kept a fire extinguisher available"; "much information is available through computers"; "available in many colors"; "the list of available candidates is unusually long"
- accessible
- easily obtained; "most students now have computers accessible"; "accessible money"
- easy
- (economics) less in demand and therefore readily obtainable; "commodities are easy this quarter"
- forthcoming
- available when required or as promised; "federal funds were not forthcoming"
- on hand(p), visible(a)
- present and easily available; "the cash on hand is adequate for current needs"; "emergency police were on hand in case of trouble"; "a visible supply"; "visible resources"
- on tap(p)
- available for immediate use; "extra personnel on tap"; "other sports and entertainment facilities are on tap"; "there are numerous projects on tap"
- ready(a)
- (of especially money) immediately available; "he seems to have ample ready money"; "a ready source of cash"
- unavailable
- not available or accessible or at hand; "fresh milk was unavailable during the emergency"; "his secretary said he was unavailable for comment"
- inaccessible, unobtainable, unprocurable, untouchable
- not capable of being obtained; "a rare work, today almost inaccessible"; "timber is virtually unobtainable in the islands"; "untouchable resources buried deep within the earth"
- alarming
- causing alarm or fear
- appalling, dismaying
- causing consternation; "appalling conditions"
- atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly
- provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
- awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
- causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
- baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening, ugly
- threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"
- bloodcurdling, hair-raising, nightmarish
- extremely alarming
- chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery
- so scary as to cause chills and shudders; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"
- creepy
- causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin; "a creepy story"
- formidable, redoubtable, unnerving
- inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall"
- ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
- hairy
- hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains"
- petrifying
- paralyzing with terror
- stupefying
- shocking with surprise and consternation; "the stupefying impact of the tragedy"
- terrific, terrifying
- causing extreme terror; "a terrifying wail"
- unalarming
- not alarming; assuaging alarm
- calming, lulling, quietening
- causing to become tranquil
- reassuring
- restoring confidence and relieving anxiety; "a very reassuring remark"
- assuasive, calming, pacifying, soothing
- freeing from fear and anxiety
- assuring
- giving confidence
- comforting, consolatory, consoling
- affording comfort or solace
- unreassuring, worrisome
- not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety
- familiar, overfamiliar
- taking undue liberties; "young women disliked the familiar tone he took with them"; "instructors should not be familir in their behavior toward students of the opposite sex"
- fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, smart, saucy
- improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"
- assumptive, assuming, presumptuous
- excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"
- beautiful
- delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration; "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party"
- beauteous
- poetic
- bonny, bonnie, comely, fair
- very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
- dishy
- (informal British) good-looking; "a dishy blonde"
- exquisite
- of extreme beauty; "her exquisite face"
- fair, sightly
- visually appealing; "our fair city"
- fine-looking, good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured
- pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman
- glorious, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous
- having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity"
- gorgeous
- dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown"
- lovely
- appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
- picturesque
- suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture; "a picturesque village"
- pretty
- pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"
- pretty-pretty
- ostentatiously or inappropriately pretty
- pulchritudinous
- used of persons only; having great physical beauty; "pulchritudinous movie stars"
- ravishing
- stunningly beautiful; "a ravishing blonde"
- scenic
- used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery; "scenic drives"
- stunning
- strikingly beautiful or attractive; "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"; "stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"
- ugly
- displeasing to the senses and morally revolting; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"; "war is ugly"
- disfigured
- having the appearance spoiled; "a disfigured face"; "strip mining left a disfigured landscape"
- grotesque, monstrous, unnatural
- distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes"
- hideous, repulsive
- so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"
- ill-favored, ill-favoured
- usually used of a face; "an ill-favored countenance"
- scrofulous
- having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula; "our canoe...lay with her scrofulous sides on the shore"- Farley Mowat
- unlovely, unpicturesque
- without beauty or charm
- unsightly
- unpleasant to look at; "unsightly billboards"
- beneficent
- doing or producing good; "the most beneficent regime in history"
- benefic
- exerting a favorable or beneficent influence; "a benefic star"; "a benefic force"
- maleficent
- harmful or evil in intent or effect
- baleful, baneful
- deadly or sinister; "the Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look"
- malefic, malevolent, malign, evil
- having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"
- benevolent, good
- having or showing or arising from a desire to promote the welfare or happiness of others; "his benevolent smile"; "a benevolent nature"
- good-hearted, kind, kindly, openhearted
- generously responsive; "good-hearted but inept efforts to help"; "take a kindly interest"; "a kindly gentleman"; "an openhearted gift to charity"
- malevolent, malicious
- wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; "a gossipy malevolent old woman"; "failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful"
- beady-eyed
- having eyes that gleam with malice
- bitchy, catty, cattish
- marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark"
- poisonous, venomous, vicious
- marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "a malevolent lie"; "poisonous hate...in his eyes"- Ernest Hemingway; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip"
- venomed
- full of malice or hate; "venomed remarks"
- malicious
- having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling
- despiteful, spiteful, vindictive
- showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; "a despiteful fiend"; "a truly spiteful child"; "a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment"
- leering
- showing sly or knowing malice in a glance; "she had run in fear of...his evil leering eye"- Amy Lowell
- vixenish
- shrewish and malicious; "a vixenish old woman"
- unmalicious
- not malicious or spiteful
- benign, benignant
- pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence; "a benign smile"; "the benign sky"; "the benign influence of pure air
- genial, kind
- conducive to comfort; beneficial; "the genial sunshine"; "a kind climate"; "hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet"
- harmless, nonmalignant
- (pathology) not threatening to life or health; not malignant; "a benign tumor is usually harmless"
- kindly
- pleasant and agreeable; "a kindly climate"; "kindly breeze"
- malign
- evil or harmful in nature or influence; "prompted by malign motives"; "believed in witches and malign spirits"; "gave him a malign look"; "a malign lesion"
- evil, harmful, injurious
- tending to cause great harm
- malevolent, malignant
- extremely malevolent or malicious; "the malignant tongues of gossipers"
- best
- (superlative of `good') having the most positive qualities; "the best film of the year"; "the best solution"; "the best time for planting"; "wore his best suit"
- finest, high-grade, top-quality, top-grade
- surpassing in quality; "top-grade ore"
- first, foremost, top(a)
- ranking above all others; "was first in her class"; "the foremost figure among marine artists"; "the top graduate"
- good, go-to-meeting(a), Sunday, Sunday-go-to-meeting(a)
- used of clothing; "my good clothes"; "her Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes"
- most advantageous, most desirable
- of greatest advantage or suitability
- optimum, optimal
- most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied; "an optimum return on capital"; "optimal concentration of a drug"
- superfine
- (used especially of merchandise) very fine in quality; "made of superfine Flemish cloth"
- unexcelled, unexceeded, unsurpassed
- not capable of being improved on
- unsurpassable
- not to be exceeded; "unsurpassable skill"; "unsurpassable standards of workmanship"
- worst
- (superlative of `bad') most wanting in quality or value or condition; "the worst player on the team"; "the worst weather of the year"
- most evil, most wicked
- superlatively evil and wicked
- most undesirable, most unpleasant
- superlatively undesirable and unpleasant
- most unsuitable, most unattractive
- superlatively unsuitable and unattractive
- pessimal, pessimum(a)
- of an organism's environment; least favorable for survival
- better
- (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another; "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din"; "a better coat"; "a better type of car"; "a suit with a better fit"; "a better chance of success"; "produced a better mousetrap"; "she's better in math than in history"
- amended
- modified for the better; "his amended ways"
- finer
- (comparative of `fine') greater in quality or excellence; "a finer wine"; "a finer musician"
- improved
- become or made better in quality; "was proud of his improved grades"; "an improved viewfinder"
- worse
- (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability; "this road is worse than the first one we took"; "the road is in worse shape than it was"; "she was accused of worse things than cheating and lying"
- worsened
- made or become worse; impaired; "troubled by the worsened economic conditions"; "the worsened diplomatic relations"
- better
- (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness; "her health is better now"; "I feel better"
- fitter, healthier
- improved in health or physical condition
- worse, worsened
- changed for the worse in health or fitness; "I feel worse today"; "her cold is worse"
- bettering
- changing for the better
- ameliorating(a), ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative
- tending to ameliorate
- amendatory
- effecting amendment; "added amendatory phrases to the text"
- corrective
- tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"
- remedial
- tending or intended to rectify or improve; "a remedial reading course"; "remedial education"
- worsening
- changing for the worse; "worried by the worsening storm"
- sweet-faced
- having a pleasing face or one showing a sweet disposition; "a sweet-faced child"
- blemished
- marred by imperfections
- blebbed, blebby
- (of glass or quartzite) marred by small bubbles or small particles of foreign material
- blotchy
- marred by discolored spots or blotches; "blotchy skin"
- besmirched, damaged, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished
- especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished reputation"; "inherited a spotted name"
- unblemished
- free from physical or moral spots or stains; "an unblemished record"; "an unblemished complexion"
- stainless, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished
- of reputation; "his unsullied name"; "an untarnished reputation"
- bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, sanguinary
- marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson
- crimson, red, violent
- characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode
- cutthroat, homicidal, murderous
- capable of or conducive to bloodshed; "a cutthroat rogue"; "a homicidal rage"; "murderous thugs"
- gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly
- accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
- internecine, mutually ruinous
- characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides; "internecine war"
- bold
- fearless and daring; "bold settlers on some foreign shore"; "a bold speech"; "a bold adventure"
- audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid, unfearing
- invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"
- brash, daredevil, temerarious
- presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff"
- emboldened
- made bold or courageous
- foolhardy, rash, reckless
- marked by unthinking boldness; with defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb the World Trade Center"
- heroic, heroical
- having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes; "the heroic attack on the beaches of Normandy"; "heroic explorers"
- nervy
- showing or requiring courage and contempt of danger; "the nervy feats of mountaineers"
- overreaching, vaulting
- revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights; "vaulting ambition"
- overvaliant
- having or showing undue valor or boldness; "a foolish overvaliant act"
- tangled
- in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes"
- afoul(ip), foul, fouled
- especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor"
- enmeshed, intermeshed
- caught as if in a mesh; "enmeshed in financial difficulties"
- quality
- of high social status; "people of quality"; "a quality family"
- brave, courageous, fearless
- possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching; "Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver but less daring"- Herman Melville; "a frank courageous heart...triumphed over pain"- William Wordsworth"; "set a courageous example by leading them safely into and out of enemy-held territory"
- desperate, heroic
- showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war"- G.C.Marshall; "they took heroic measures to save his life"
- gallant
- unflinching in battle or action; "a gallant warrior"; "put up a gallant resistance to the attackers"
- game, gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky
- willing to face danger
- lionhearted
- extraordinarily courageous
- stalwart, stouthearted
- used especially of persons; "a stalwart knight"; "a stouthearted fellow who had an active career in the army"
- undaunted
- resolutely courageous; "undaunted in the face of death"
- valiant, valorous
- having or showing valor; "a valiant attempt to prevent the hijack"; "a valiant soldier"
- cowardly, coward(a), fearful
- lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
- caitiff
- despicably mean and cowardly
- chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied
- (informal) easily frightened
- cowering(a), cringing(a)
- shrinking or flinching in fear
- craven, recreant
- lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful; "the craven fellow turned and ran"; "a craven proposal to raise the white flag"; "this recreant knight"- Spenser
- dastard(a), dastardly
- treacherously cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt
- faint, fainthearted, timid
- lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady"
- funky
- in a state of cowardly fright
- poltroon
- characterized by complete cowardliness
- pusillanimous, poor-spirited, unmanly
- lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
- gutsy
- marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; "you have to admire her; it was a gutsy thing to do"; "the gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith Crist; "a gutsy red wine"
- plucky
- showing courage in the face of danger; "a plucky lampooner of the administration"
- gutless, spineless
- lacking courage or vitality; "he was a yellow gutless worm"; "a spineless craven fellow"
- Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian
- dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades; "in the depths of an Acheronian forest"; "upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"-Wordsworth
- caliginous
- dark and misty and gloomy
- Cimmerian
- intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness; "the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt"-Norman Douglas
- darkling
- uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure; "a darkling glance"; "secret operatives and darkling conspiracies"-Archibald MacLeish
- glooming, gloomy, gloomful
- depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"
- tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious
- dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave"
- murky, mirky
- so shaded as to be dark or gloomy; "a murky dungeon"; "murky rooms lit by smoke-blackened lamps"
- shining
- reflecting an inner radiance; "with shining eyes"
- jaundiced
- showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste; "looked with a jaundiced eye on the growth of regimentation"; "takes a jaundiced view of societies and clubs"
- loaded
- (of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence; "a loaded question"
- open
- receptive to new ideas; "an open mind"; "open to new ideas"
- broad-minded
- inclined to respect views and beliefs that differ from your own; "a judge who is broad-minded but even-handed"
- broad, liberal, tolerant
- showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions"
- catholic
- free from provincial prejudices or attachments; "catholic in one's tastes"
- free-thinking, latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical
- unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion)
- open-minded
- ready to entertain new ideas; "an open-minded curiosity"; "open-minded impartiality"
- narrow-minded, narrow
- lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions"
- close-minded, closed-minded
- not ready to receive to new ideas
- dogmatic, dogmatical
- characterized by arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
- illiberal, intolerant
- narrow-minded about cherished opinions
- opinionated, opinionative, self-opinionated
- obstinate in your opinions
- little, petty, small, small-minded
- contemptibly narrow in outlook; "a little mind consumed with trivia"; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with the pettiness of small minds"
- reconstructed
- adapted to social or economic change; "a reconstructed feminist"
- unreconstructed
- adhering to an attitude or position widely held to be outmoded; "peasants are still unreconstructed small capitalists at heart"; "there are probably more unreconstructed Southerners than one would like to admit"
- obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate
- persisting in a reactionary stand
- fitful, interrupted, off-and-on(a)
- intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static"
- halting
- fragmentary or halting from emotional strain; "uttered a few broken words of sorrow"
- brotherly, brotherlike, fraternal
- like or characteristic of or befitting a brother; "brotherly feelings"; "close fraternal ties"
- sisterly, sisterlike, sororal
- like or characteristic of or befitting a sister; "sisterly kindness"; "sororal concern
- busy
- actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"; "the line is busy"
- drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling
- doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"
- overbusy
- too busy
- tied up(p)
- kept occupied or engaged; "she's tied up at the moment and can't see you"; "the phone was tied up for almost an hour"
- idle
- not in action or at work; "an idle laborer"; "idle drifters"; "the idle rich"; "an idle mind"
- bone-idle, bone-lazy
- (informal) constitutionally lazy or idle
- faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy
- disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
- goldbricking(a)
- shirking your assigned duties; "too many goldbricking employees"
- lackadaisical
- idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; "she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical"; "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"- P.G.Wodehouse
- countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, myriad(a), multitudinous, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable
- too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands"
- incomputable, inestimable, immeasurable
- beyond calculation or measure; "of incalculable value"; "an incomputable amount"; "jewels of inestimable value"; "immeasurable wealth"
- confident, surefooted
- not liable to error in judgment or action; "most surefooted of the statesmen who dealt with the depression"- Walter Lippman; "demonstrates a surefooted storytelling talent"- Michiko Kakutani
- resourceful
- having inner resources; adroit or imaginative; "someone who is resourceful is capable of dealing with difficult situations"; "an able and resourceful politician"; "the most resourceful cook in town"
- conscientious, painstaking, scrupulous
- characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"
- detailed, elaborate, elaborated
- developed or executed with care and in minute detail; "a detailed plan"; "the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion"- John Buchan; "the carefully elaborated theme"
- minute, narrow
- characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report"
- overcareful, too-careful
- excessively or unduly careful
- particular(a)
- providing specific details or circumstances; "a particular description of the room"
- studious
- marked by care and effort; "made a studious attempt to fix the television set"
- thorough
- painstakingly careful and accurate; "our accountant is thorough"; "thorough research"
- careless
- marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful; "careless about her clothes"; "forgotten by some careless person"; "a careless housekeeper"; "careless proofreading"; "it was a careless mistake"; "hurt by a careless remark"
- casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory
- hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"
- haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy
- marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
- heedless, reckless
- characterized by careless unconcerned; "the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes"- Edith Wharton; "reckless squandering of public funds"
- incautious
- without out proper caution; "an incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs"
- negligent
- marked by insufficient care or attention; "a negligent housekeeper"; "negligent about personal cleanliness"
- offhand, offhanded
- casually thoughtless or inconsiderate; "an offhand manner"; "she treated most men with offhand contempt"
- fabian, dilatory
- using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation; "a fabian policy"
- gingerly
- with extreme care or delicacy; "they proceeded with gingerly footwork over the jagged stones"; "the issue was handled only in a gingerly way"- W.S.White
- guarded, restrained
- prudent; "guarded optimism"
- overcautious
- unnecessarily cautious; "sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business"
- incautious
- lacking in caution; "an incautious remark"; "incautious talk"
- hotheaded, impulsive, impetuous, madcap, tearaway(a), brainish
- characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic)
- bold, cocksure, overconfident, positive
- marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure materialist"; "so bold and impudent as to speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more positive he gets"
- doomed, fated
- (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate; "doomed to unhappiness"; "fated to be the scene of Kennedy's assassination"
- astatic
- not static or stable
- distortable
- capable of having the meaning altered or twisted; "our words are distortable things--as in a crooked mirror held up to nature"
- erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)
- liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next"
- fluid, unstable
- subject to change; variable; "a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following the coup
- fluid, mobile
- affording change (especially in social status); "Britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile"
- kaleidoscopic, kaleidoscopical
- continually shifting or rapidly changing
- open-ended
- allowing for future changes or revisions; "open-ended agreements"
- volatile
- tending to vary often or widely; "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions"
- changeless, unalterable
- remaining the same for indefinitely long times
- confirmed
- of persons; not subject to change; "a confirmed bachelor"; "a confirmed invalid"
- static, stable, unchanging
- showing little if any change; "a static population"
- maladjusted
- not well adjusted; "a maladjusted carburetor"
- characteristic
- typical or distinctive; "heard my friend's characteristic laugh"; "red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn"; "stripes characteristic of the zebra"
- distinctive, typical
- of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; "Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor"- Curtis Wilkie; "that is typical of you!"
- distinguishing, distinctive, identifying(a)
- serving to distinguish or identify a species or group; "the distinguishing mark of the species is its plumage"; "distinctive tribal tattoos"; "we were asked to describe any identifying marks or distinguishing features"
- peculiar(a)
- characteristic of one only; distinctive or special; "the peculiar character of the Government of the U.S."- R.B.Taney
- uncharacteristic, uncharacteristic of
- distinctive and not typical; "a book uncharacteristic of its author
- atypical
- not conforming to type; "showed atypical agility"
- charitable
- full of love and generosity; "charitable to the poor"; "a charitable trust"
- beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic
- generous in assistance to the poor; "a benevolent contributor"; "eleemosynary relief"; "philanthropic contributions"
- uncharitable
- lacking love and generosity; "all pious words and uncharitable deeds"- Charles Reade
- ungenerous
- lacking in largess; "an ungenerous response to an appeal for funds"
- chaste
- morally pure especially not having experienced sexual intercourse; "a holy woman innocent and chaste"
- easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"
- fallen
- having lost your chastity; "a fallen woman"
- licentious
- lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained; "coarse and licentious men"
- cheering
- bringing cheer or gladness; "cheering news"
- cheerless, uncheerful
- lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"
- blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim
- causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
- dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry
- depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
- somber, sombre
- grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
- colorful
- striking in variety and interest; "a colorful period of history"; "a colorful character"; "colorful language"
- brave, braw, gay
- brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave new dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a Scottish word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with gay plumage"
- flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained
- richly and brilliantly colorful
- flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty
- (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
- many-sided
- full of variety or interest; "a many-sided personality"
- picturesque
- strikingly expressive; "a picturesque description of the rainforest"
- colorless
- lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade"
- neutral
- lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics; "a neutral personality that made no impression whatever"
- pale, pallid
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"
- christianly
- becoming to or like a Christian; "gentle christianly behavior"
- christlike, christly
- resembling or showing the spirit of Christ
- unchristianly, unchristlike
- not becoming to or like a Christian; "ashamed to have to recognize how unchristianly his assumptions and motives are"
- civilized
- having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"
- advanced
- (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry; "advanced societies"; "an advanced country technologically"
- civil
- of or in a condition of social order; "civil peoples"
- humane
- showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement
- noncivilized
- not having a high state of culture and social development
- barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, wild
- without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
- barbarous
- primitive in customs and culture
- immaculate, speckless, spick-and-span, spic-and-span, spic, spick, spotless
- completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick-and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps"
- pristine
- immaculately clean and unused; "handed her his pristine white handkerchief"
- unsoiled, unspotted, unstained
- without soil or spot or stain
- unsullied
- spotlessly clean and fresh; "the unsullied snow of mountains"; "the unsullied splender of eternal youth"- Oscar Wilde
- dirty, soiled, unclean
- soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
- bedraggled, draggled
- limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
- befouled, fouled
- made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"
- begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy
- thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
- bespattered, spattered, besplashed, splashed
- spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs"
- black
- soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
- buggy
- infested with bugs
- fecal, feculent
- foul with waste matter
- filthy, foul, nasty
- disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"
- flyblown, squalid, sordid
- foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"
- greasy, oily
- smeared or soiled with grease or oil; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags"
- lousy
- infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"
- maculate
- spotted or blotched
- mucky, muddy
- dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"
- scummy
- covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond"
- smeared, smirched, smudged, smudgy
- smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"
- snotty, snot-nosed
- dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids"
- travel-soiled, travel-stained
- soiled from travel; "travel-soiled clothes"
- clean, unobjectionable
- (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke"
- antiseptic
- (extended sense) of exceptionally clean language; "lyrics as antiseptic as Sunday School"
- dirty
- (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth"
- bawdy, off-color, ribald
- humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language"
- blasphemous, blue, profane
- characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
- dirty-minded
- having lewd thoughts
- filthy, foul, nasty, smutty
- characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"
- foul-mouthed, foul-spoken
- using foul or obscene language; "noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once"
- lewd, obscene, salacious
- suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"
- scabrous
- dealing with salacious or indecent material; "a scabrous novel"
- scatological
- dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions; "scatological literature"
- clean, uncontaminating
- not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean"
- dirty, contaminating
- spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout"
- clear
- clear to the mind; "a clear and present danger"; "a clear explanation"; "a clear case of murder"; "a clear indication that she was angry"; "gave us a clear idea of human nature
- broad, unsubtle
- lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave"
- clear-cut, distinct, trenchant
- clearly or sharply defined to the mind; "clear-cut evidence of tampering"; "Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest"; "trenchant distinctions between right and wrong"
- limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear, perspicuous
- (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument"
- prima facie
- as it seems at first sight; "a prima facie case of murder"
- unmistakable
- clearly evident to the mind; "his opposition to slavery was unmistakable"
- vivid
- having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a vivid recollection"
- unclear
- not clear to the mind; "the law itself was unclear on that point"; "the reason for their actions is unclear to this day"
- bewildering
- causing bafflement; "the play was at the same time a bewildering and an exciting experience"
- blurred, clouded
- unclear in form or expression; "the blurred aims of the group"; "sometimes one understood clearly and sometimes the meaning was clouded"- H.G.Wells
- confusing, perplexing, puzzling
- lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity; "sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement"
- indeterminate, obscure, vague
- not clearly understood or expressed; "an indeterminate turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard; "their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"- P.A.Sorokin; "vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"- John Locke
- clear
- free from cloudiness; allowing light to pass through; "clear water"; "clear plastic bags"; "clear glass"; "the air is clear and clean"
- crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent
- transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent cristal"
- hyaline
- resembling glass in transparency or translucency; "the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline"-Sacheverell Sitwell
- liquid, limpid
- clear and bright; "the liquid air of a spring morning"; "eyes shining with a liquid luster"; "limpid blue eyes"
- translucent, semitransparent
- almost transparent; allowing light to pass through diffusely; "translucent amber"
- unclouded
- not made opaque or cloudy by sediment; "the wine was unclouded"
- opaque
- not clear; not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays"
- cloudy, muddy, mirky, murky, turbid
- (of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"
- fogged, foggy
- obscured by fog; "he could barely see through the fogged window"
- milk(a), milky, milklike, whitish
- resembling milk in color or cloudiness; not clear; "milk glass"
- clearheaded, clear-thinking
- not mentally confused; able to think clearly and act intelligently
- clear
- free from confusion or doubt; "a complex problem requiring a clear head"; "not clear about what is expected of us"
- unclouded
- not mentally disordered; "an unclouded mind"
- confused
- mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently; "the flood of questions left her bewildered and confused"
- addlebrained, addlepated, potty, puddingheaded, muddleheaded
- stupid and confused; used especially of persons; "blathering like the addlepated nincompoop that you are"; "a confused puddingheaded, muddleheaded fellow"- Isaac Sterne
- addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded
- confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas"
- befogged, befuddled
- stupefied by alcoholic drink; "the wino's poor befuddled mind"; "a mind befogged with drink"
- clouded
- mentally disordered; "a mind clouded by sorrow"
- dazzled
- stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering; "I fall back dazzled at beholding myself all rosy red, / At having, I myself, caused the sun to rise."- `Chanticler' by Rostand
- clement
- (used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy; "a more clement judge reduced the sentence"
- lenient
- characterized by tolerance and mercy
- inclement
- used of persons or behavior; showing no clemency or mercy; "the harse sentence of an inclement judge"
- unsparing
- not forbearing; ruthless; "an unsparing critic"
- clement
- (of weather or climate) physically mild; "clement weather"
- balmy, mild
- mild and pleasant; "balmy days and nights"; "the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth"
- inclement
- (of weather of climate) physically severe
- filthy, foul, nasty, vile
- (informal) thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we're having"
- smart
- showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
- astute, sharp, shrewd
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"
- cagey, cagy, canny, clever
- showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"
- stupid
- lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
- anserine, dopy, dopey, fool(a), foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike
- (informal) having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"
- blockheaded, boneheaded, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed
- used informally
- cloddish, doltish
- heavy and dull and stupid
- dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
- gaumless, gormless
- British informal
- lumpish, lumpen, unthinking
- mentally sluggish
- nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted, witless
- (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
- yokel-like
- stupid and ignorant like proverbial rural inhabitants; 'the boy's empty yokel-like expression"
- cold
- of a seeker; far from the object sought
- off the beaten track(p), out-of-the-way(a)
- remote from populous or much-traveled regions; "found a quiet out-of-the-way resort"
- outlying(a)
- relatively far from a center or middle; "outlying settlements"
- moral(a)
- based on strong likelihood or firm conviction rather than actual evidence; "a moral certainty"
- extreme
- most distant in any direction; "the extreme edge of town"
- far-flung
- remote; "far-flung corners of the Empire"
- distant
- far apart in relevance or relationship; "a distant cousin"; "a distant likeness"
- faraway
- far removed mentally; "a faraway (or distant) look in her eyes"
- loosely knit
- having only distant social or legal ties; "a loosely knit group"
- remote, removed(p)
- far apart in nature; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics"
- ulterior
- beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote; "a suggestion ulterior to the present discussion"; "without...any purpose, immediate or ulterior"- G.B.Shaw
- close
- close in relevance or relationship; "a close family"; "we are all...in close sympathy with..."; "close kin"; "a close resemblance"
- approximate, near
- very close in resemblance; "sketched in an approximate likeness"; "a near likeness"
- cousinly
- like or befitting a cousin; "a cousinly kiss"
- avuncular
- like an uncle in kindness or indulgence; "showed avuncular concern"
- uncousinly
- not befitting a cousin
- clothed, clad
- wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination; "clothed and in his right mind"- Bible; "proud of her well-clothed family"; "nurses clad in white"; "white-clad nurses"
- coherent
- marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts; "a coherent argument"
- consistent, logical, ordered, orderly
- marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts; "a logical argument"; "the orderly presentation"
- seamless
- perfectly consistent and coherent; "the novel's seamless plot"
- incoherent
- without logical or meaningful connection; "a turgid incoherent presentation"
- confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected
- lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"
- publishable
- suitable for publication
- unpublishable
- not suitable for publication
- reportable
- meriting report; "years of research produced no reportable results"
- commodious, convenient
- large and and roomy; "a commodious harbor"; "a commodious building suitable for conventions"; (`convenient' is archaic in this sense)
- roomy, spacious
- (of buildings and rooms) having ample space; "a roomy but sparcely furnished apartment"; "a spacious ballroom"
- incommodious
- uncomfortably or inconveniently small; "incommodious hotel accommodations"
- cramped
- constricted in size; "cramped quarters"; "trying to bring children up in cramped high-rise apartments"
- comfortable, comfy
- providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief; "comfortable clothes"; "comfortable suburban houses"; "made himself comfortable in an armchair"; "the antihistamine made her feel more comfortable"; "are you comfortable?"; (`comfy' is informal as in "feeling comfy now?")
- cozy, cosy, snug
- enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space; "a cozy nook near the fire"; "snug in bed"; "a snug little apartment"
- easy
- affording comfort; "soft light that was easy on the eyes"
- homelike, homely, homey, homy
- having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn"
- soothing
- affording physical relief; "a soothing ointment for her sunburn"
- uncomfortable
- providing or experiencing physical discomfort; "an uncomfortable chair"; "an uncomfortable day in the hot sun"
- comfortless
- without comfort; "a comfortless room"
- miserable, wretched
- characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"
- warm
- uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble; "made things warm for the bookies"
- comfortable
- free from stress or conducive to mental ease; having or affording peace of mind; "was settled in a comfortable job, one for which he was well prepared"; "the comfortable thought that nothing could go wrong"; "was comfortable in his religious beliefs"; "she's a comfortable person to be with"; "she felt comfortable with her fiance's parents"
- at ease(p)
- socially at ease; "was at ease with strangers"
- comforted
- made comfortable or more comfortable in a time of distress; "the news make her feel comforted"
- uncomfortable
- conducive to or feeling mental discomfort; "this kind of life can prove disruptive and uncomfortable"; "the uncomfortable truth"; "grew uncomfortable beneath his appraising eye"; "an uncomfortable way of surprising me just when I felt surest"; "the teacher's presence at the conference made the child very uncomfortable"
- awkward, ill at ease(p), uneasy
- not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner; "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn't know"; "was always uneasy with strangers"
- discomfited, embarrassed
- caused to feel self-conscious and uncomfortable; "was discomfited by the personal questions"; "the child felt embarrassed by the attention of the adults"
- disquieting
- causing mental discomfort; "the disquieting sounds of nearby gunfire"
- proportionate
- being in due proportion
- proportionable
- (archaic) proportionate
- proportional, relative
- properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'; "punishment oughtt to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings relative to production"
- disproportionate, disproportional
- out of proportion
- uncommercial
- not conducive to commercial success; "might prove arty and hence uncommercial"- H.E.Clurman
- common
- of no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap"
- average, ordinary
- lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"
- democratic, popular
- representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large; "democratic art forms"; "a democratic or popular movement"; "popular thought"; "popular science"; "popular fiction"
- demotic
- of or for the common people; "demotic entertainments"; "demotic speech"; "a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms"
- frequent
- frequently encountered; "a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb `lay' for the intransitive `lie'";
- general
- prevailing among and common to the general public; "the general discontent"
- grassroots
- of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental politico-economic group; "a grassroots movement for nuclear disarmament"
- standard
- commonly used or supplied; "standard procedure"; "standard car equipment"
- uncommon
- not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind; "uncommon birds"; "frost and floods are uncommon during these months"; "doing an uncommon amount of business"; "an uncommon liking for money"; "he owed his greatest debt to his mother's uncommon character and ability"
- especial(a), exceptional, particular(a), special
- surpassing what is common or usual or expected; "he paid especial attention to her"; "exceptional kindness"; "a matter of particular and unusual importance"; "a special occasion"; "a special reason to confide in her"; "what's so special about the year 2000?"
- rare
- not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness; "a rare word"; "rare books"
- unusual
- not commonly encountered; "two-career families are no longer unusual"
- unwonted
- out of the ordinary; "an unwonted softness in her face"
- usual
- occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime"
- accustomed, customary, habitual, wonted(a)
- commonly used or practiced; usual; "his accustomed thoroughness"; "took his customary morning walk"; "his habitual comment"; "with her wonted candor"
- regular
- in accord with regular practice or procedure; "took his regular morning walk"; "her regular bedtime"
- unusual
- not usual or common or ordinary; "a scene of unusual beauty"; "a man of unusual ability"; "cruel and unusual punishment"; "an unusual meteorite"
- extraordinary(p)
- (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials; "an ambassador extraordinary"
- odd
- not easily explained; "it is odd that his name is never mentioned"
- out-of-the-way
- out of the ordinary; "out-of-the-way information"
- peculiar
- markedly different from the usual; "a peculiar hobby of stuffing and mounting bats"; "a man...feels it a peculiar insult to be taunted with cowardice by a woman"-Virginia Woolf
- unaccustomed
- not customary or usual; "an unaccustomed pleasure"; "many varieties of unaccustomed foods"; "a new budget of unaccustomed austerity"
- unique
- highly unusual or rare but not the single instance; "spoke with a unique accent"; "had unique ability in raising funds"; "a frankness unique in literature"; "a unique dining experience"
- community(a), public
- affecting the people or community as a whole; "community leaders"; "community interests"; "the public welfare"
- individual
- being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways"
- idiosyncratic
- peculiar to the individual; "we all have our own idiosyncratic gestures"; "Michelangelo's highly idiosyncratic style of painting"
- individualist, individualistic
- marked by or expressing individuality; "an individualistic way of dressing"
- particular(a)
- separate and distinct from others; "an exception in this particular case"
- respective(a), several(a), various(a)
- considered individually; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed"
- separate, single(a)
- individual and distinct; "pegged down each separate branch to the earth"; "a gift for every single child"
- single(a)
- involved two individuals; "single combat"
- singular
- being a single and separate person or thing; "can the singular person be understood apart from his culture?"; "every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind"-William James
- anecdotic, anecdotal, anecdotical
- characterized by or given to telling anecdotes; "anecdotal conversation"; "an anectodal history of jazz"; "he was at his anecdotic best"
- blabbermouthed, leaky, talebearing(a), tattling(a)
- prone to communicate confidential information
- chatty, gossipy, newsy
- prone to friendly informal communication
- expansive, talkative
- friendly and open and willing to talk; "wine made the guest expansive"
- expressive
- characterized by expression; "an expressive glance"; "a very expressive face"
- expressive(p), indicative of(p), revelatory
- (usually followed by `of') giving expression to; "actons indicative of fear"
- heraldic
- indicative of or announcing something to come; "the Beetles were heraldic of a new style of music"
- openhearted
- freely communicative; candidly straightforward; "openhearted advice"
- outspoken, vocal
- given to expressing yourself freely or insistently; "outspoken in their opposition to segregation"; "a vocal assembly"
- yarn-spinning
- inclined to tell long and involved stories (often of incredible happenings)
- uncommunicative, incommunicative
- not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions
- blank
- void of expression; "a blank stare"
- close, closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information; "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it"
- deadpan, expressionless, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive
- deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read"
- guarded, noncommittal, unrevealing
- very reluctant to give out information
- inexpressive
- not expressive; "an inexpressive face"
- unpronounceable, unutterable
- very difficult to pronounce correctly; "an unpronounceable foreign word"; "unutterable consonant clusters"
- compact
- closely and firmly united or packed together; "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers"
- clayey, cloggy, heavy
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
- close-packed
- packed especially tightly
- consolidated
- forming a solid mass
- impacted, wedged
- wedged or packed in together; "an impacted tooth"
- packed
- pressed together or compressed; "packed snow"
- serried
- (especially of rows as of troops or mountains) pressed together; "in serried ranks"
- tight
- packed closely together; "the stood in a tight little group"; "hair in tight curls"; "the pub was packed tight"
- loose
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel"
- friable, light, sandy
- (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency; "light sandy soil"
- shifting, unfirm
- (of soil) unstable; "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth"
- silty
- full of silt; "silty soil"
- unconsolidated
- loose and unstratified; "unconsolidated soil"
- comparable
- able to be compared or worthy of comparison
- comparable with(p)
- similar in some respect and so able to be compared in order to show differences and similarities; "pianists of comparable ability"; "cars comparable with each other in terms of fuel consumption"
- comparable to(p)
- worthy of comparison; as good as; "at that moment nothing in the world seemed comparable to sleep"
- incomparable, uncomparable
- such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared; "an incomparable week of rest and pleasure"; "the computer proceeds with its incomparable logic and efficiency"; "this report is incomparable with the earlier ones because of different breakdowns of the data"
- matchless, nonpareil, one(a), one and only(a), peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled
- eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art"
- alone(p), unique, unequaled, unequalled, unparalleled
- radically distinctive and without equal; "he is alone in the field of microbiology"; "this theory is altogether alone in its penetration of the problem"; "Bach was unique in his handling of counterpoint"; "craftsmen whose skill is unequaled"; "unparalleled athletic ability"; "a breakdown of law unparalleled in our history"
- compassionate
- showing or having compassion; "heard the soft and compassionate voices of women"
- uncompassionate
- lacking compassion or feeling for others; "nor silver-shedding tears could penetrate her uncompassionate sire"- Shakespeare
- hardhearted, stonyhearted, unfeeling
- devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch"
- compatible
- able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination; "a compatible married couple";"her deeds were compatible with her ideology"
- congruous
- suitable or appropriate together
- harmonious
- existing together in harmony; "harmonious family relationships"
- incompatible
- not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"
- antagonistic
- incapable of harmonious association
- clashing
- sharply and harshly discordant; "clashing interests of loggers and conservationists"; "clashing colors"
- competent
- properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient; "a competent typist"
- able, capable
- have the skills and qualifications to do things well; "able teachers"; "a capable administrator"; "children as young as 14 can be extremely capable and dependable"
- effective, efficient
- able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively; "people who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons..."-G.B.Shaw; "effective personnel"; "an efficient secretary"; "the efficient cause of the revolution"
- workmanlike
- worthy of a good workman; "a competent job"; "the book is a workmanlike job with chronology and bibliography and index"
- incompetent
- not qualified or suited for a purpose; "an incompetent secret service"; "the filming was hopeless incompetent"
- feckless, inept
- generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account"
- incapable, unqualified
- lacking the necessary skill or knowledge etc.; "an incapable helper"
- ineffective, inefficient
- lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate; "an ineffective administration"; "inefficient workers"
- unworkmanlike
- not characteristic of or suitable for a good workman; "an unworkmanlike result"; "an unworkmanlike tool"
- accommodative, cooperative
- willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement
- complaining(a), complaintive
- expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment; "a complaining wife"
- fretful, querulous, whiney, whining(a), whiny
- habitually complaining; "a whining child"
- grumbling
- muttering discontentedly; "the grumbling boarders requested a meeting with the cook"
- protesting(a), protestant
- making a protest
- repining
- wishing discontentedly
- uncomplaining
- not complaining; "uncomplaining courage"
- patient
- enduring without protest or complaint
- unmurmuring, unprotesting
- without any murmur of discontent or protest
- integral, entire, intact
- constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged; "a local motion keepeth bodies integral"- Bacon; "was able to keep the collection entire during his lifetime"; "fought to keep the union intact"
- bound up, wrapped up
- deeply devoted to; "bound up in her teaching"; "is wrapped up in his family"
- fancy-free
- having no commitments or responsibilities; carefree; "a fancy-free bachelor"
- dedicated
- devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose; "a dedicated dancer"; "dedicated teachers"; "dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal"- A.Lincoln
- devoted(p)
- (followed by `to') dedicated exclusively to a purpose or use; "large sums devoted to the care of the poor"; "a life devoted to poetry"
- devoted
- zealous in devotion or affection; "a devoted husband and father"; "devoted friends"
- sacred
- (often followed by `to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person; "a fund sacred to charity"; "a morning hour sacred to study"; "a private office sacred to the President"
- complete
- having every necessary or normal part or component or step; "a complete meal"; "a complete wardrobe"; "a complete set pf the Britannica"; "a complete set of china"; "a complete defeat"; "a complete accounting"
- absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"
- accomplished, completed, realized
- successfully completed or brought to an end; "his mission accomplished he took a vacation"; "the completed project"; "the joy of a realized ambition overcame him"
- clean
- thorough and without qualification; "a clean getaway"; "a clean sweep"; "a clean break"
- dead(a)
- sudden and complete; "came to a dead stop"
- exhaustive, thorough, thoroughgoing
- very thorough; exhaustively complete; "an exhaustive study"; "made a thorough search"; "thoroughgoing research"
- fleshed out, full-clad
- given substance or detail; completed; "did not spring full-clad from his imagination"; "a plan fleshed out with statistics and details"
- full, total
- complete in extent or degree and in every particular; "a full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster"
- full-blown
- having or displaying all the characteristics necessary for completeness; "a full-blown financial crisis"
- full-dress
- complete in every respect; "a full-dress debate"; "a full-dress investigation"
- good
- thorough; "had a good workout"; "gave the house a good cleaning"
- hearty
- without reservation; "hearty support"
- self-contained
- constituting a complete and independent unit in and of itself; "the university is like a self-contained city with shops and all amenities"
- sound
- thorough; "a sound thrashing"
- incomplete, uncomplete
- not complete or total; not completed; "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass"
- rudimentary
- being in the earliest stages of development; "rudimentary plans"
- sketchy, unelaborated
- giving only major points; lacking completeness; "a sketchy account"; "details of the plan remain sketchy"
- comprehensive
- including all or everything; "comprehensive coverage"; "a comprehensive history of the revolution"; "a comprehensive survey"; "a comprehensive education"
- across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide
- broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"
- all-around(a), all-round(a), well-rounded
- many-sided; "an all-around athlete"; "a well-rounded curriculum"
- cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide
- of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"
- door-to-door, house-to-house
- omitting no one; from the door of one house to that of the next; "a door-to-door campaign"; "house-to-house coverage"
- encyclopedic, encyclopaedic
- broad in scope or content; "encyclopedic knowledge"
- extensive, far-reaching, sweeping
- having broad range or effect; "had extensive press coverage"; "far-reaching changes in the social structure"; "sweeping reforms"
- large
- having broad power and range and scope; "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"
- omnibus(a)
- providing for many things at once; "an omnibus law"
- plenary
- full in all respects; "a plenary session of the legislature"; "a diplomat with plenary powers"
- super
- including more than a specified category; "a super experiment"
- umbrella
- covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups; "an umbrella organization"; "umbrella insurance coverage"
- noncomprehensive, incomprehensive
- not comprehensive
- limited
- including only a part
- comprehensible, comprehendible
- readily comprehended or understood; "an idea comprehensible to the average mind"
- accessible, approachable
- capable of being read with comprehension; "readily accessible to the nonprofessional reader"; "the tales seem more approachable than his more difficult novels"
- apprehensible, intelligible, graspable, perceivable, understandable
- capable of being apprehended or understood
- cognizable, cognisable, knowable
- capable of being known
- incomprehensible, uncomprehensible
- difficult to understand; "the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible"- A. Einstein
- dark, obscure
- marked by difficulty of style or expression; "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure"
- enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling
- not clear to the understanding; "I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later"; "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries"
- impenetrable
- impossible to understand; "impenetrable jargon"
- indecipherable
- impossible to determine the meaning of; "an indecipherable message"
- lost, missed
- not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the din"
- opaque, unintelligible
- not clearly understood or expressed
- single(a), undivided, exclusive
- not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective; "judging a contest with a single eye"; "a single devotion to duty"; "undivided affection"; "gained their exclusive attention"
- far-flung, widespread
- distributed over a considerable extent; "far-flung trading operations"; "the West's far-flung mountain ranges"; "widespread nuclear fallout"
- scattered, strewn
- being distributed here and there without order; "scattered leaves littered the sidewalk"; "don't forget to pick up the clothes lying strewn all over the floor"
- straggly
- growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly; "straggly ivy"
- suffused
- being spread through with or as with color or light or liquid
- unfocused, unfocussed
- not concentrated at one point or upon one objective; "diversity...in our huge unfocused country"- Owen Wister
- concise
- expressing much in few words; "a concise explanation"
- aphoristic, apothegmatic, epigrammatic
- terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction"
- brief
- concise and succinct; "covered the matter in a brief statement"
- compendious, compact, succinct, summary
- briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"
- crisp, curt, laconic, terse
- brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"
- cryptic
- having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"
- elliptic, elliptical
- characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements; "the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints"; "the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity"- H.O.Taylor
- pithy, sententious
- concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
- telegraphic
- having the style of a telegram with many short words left out; "telegraphic economy of words"; "the strange telegraphic speech of some aphasics"
- prolix
- tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length; "editing a prolix manuscript"; "a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know"
- diffuse
- lacking conciseness; "a diffuse historical novel"
- long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordy
- using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"
- conclusive
- forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question; "conclusive proof"; "the evidence is conclusive"
- convincing
- capable of convincing or persuading; "a convincing argument"
- definitive, determinate
- supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement; "a definitive verdict"; "a determinate answer to the problem"
- inconclusive
- not conclusive; not putting an end to doubt or question; "an inconclusive reply"; "inconclusive evidence"; "the inconclusive committee vote"
- equivocal
- uncertain as a sign or indication; "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"
- indeterminate
- not leading to a definite ending or result; "an indeterminate campaign"
- nisi
- not final or absolute; "the decree is nisi and not absolute"
- consummated
- brought to completion; "a consummated transaction"
- fulfilled
- completed to perfection
- accordant
- being in agreement or harmony; often followed by `with'; "a place perfectly accordant with man's nature"-Thomas Hardy
- discordant
- not in agreement or harmony; "views discordant with present-day ideas"
- at variance(p), discrepant
- not in accord; "desires at variance with his duty"; "widely discrepant statements"
- boiled-down
- expressing the essence of; "the final boiled-down crux of the matter"
- conditional
- imposing or depending on or containing a condition; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid"
- unconditional
- not conditional; "unconditional surrender"
- absolute, total, unconditioned
- without conditions or limitations; "a total ban"
- blunt, crude(a), stark(a)
- devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
- independent
- not contingent
- claustrophobic
- uncomfortably closed or hemmed in; "a claustrophobic little room"
- close, confining
- crowded; "close quarters"
- crowded
- overfilled or compacted or concentrated; "a crowded theater"; "a crowded program"; "crowded trains"; "a young mother's crowded days"
- huddled
- crowded or massed together; "give me...your huddled masses"; "the huddled sheep turned their backs against the wind"
- jammed, jam-packed, packed
- filled to capacity; "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes"; "stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theater"
- thronged
- filled with great numbers crowded together; "I try to avoid the thronged streets and stores just before Christmas"
- uncrowded
- having or allowing sufficient room; "an uncrowded train"; "an uncrowded view"
- congenial, agreeable
- suitable to your needs or similar to your nature"; "a congenial atmosphere to work in"; "two congenial spirits united...by mutual confidence and reciprocal virtues"- T.L.Peacock
- compatible, sympathetic
- having similar disposition and tastes; "a compatible married couple"; "with their many similar tastes, he found her a most sympathetic companion"
- sociable
- friendly and pleasant; "a sociable gathering"
- uncongenial, incompatible
- not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs"
- disagreeable, unsympathetic
- not agreeing with your tastes or expectations; "found the task disagreeable and decided to abandon it"; "a job temperamentally unsympathetic to him"
- appropriate, harmonious
- suitable and fitting; "the tailored clothes were harmonious with her military bearing"
- incongruous
- lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness; "a plan incongruous with reason"; "incongruous behavior"; "a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation"
- discrepant, inconsistent
- not in agreement
- inharmonious
- lacking in harmony of parts; "an inharmonious (or incongruous) mixture of architectural styles"
- ironic, ironical
- characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"
- adversative, oppositive
- expressing antithesis or opposition; "the adversative conjunction `but' in `poor but happy'"
- affined
- closely related; "syllable to blessed syllable affined"- Wallace Stevens
- intimate
- closely interconnected or interrelated; "the intimate relations...beween economics, politics, and legal principles"- V.L.Parrington
- socially connected, well-connected
- connected by blood or close acquaintance with people of wealth or social position; "a well-connected Edinburgh family"
- consecrated, consecrate, dedicated
- solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose; "a life consecrated to science"; "the consecrated chapel"; "a chapel dedicated to the dead of World War II"
- desecrated
- treated with contempt; "many desecrated shrines and cemeteries"
- deconsecrated
- divested of consecration
- profaned, violated
- treated irreverently or sacrilegiously
- priestly, priestlike
- befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood; "priestly dedication to the people of his parish"
- unpriestly
- not priestly; unbefitting a priest; "unpriestly behavior"
- conservative
- resistant to change
- blimpish
- pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic
- buttoned-up
- conservative in professional manner; "employers are looking for buttoned-up types"
- fusty, standpat(a), unprogressive, nonprogressive
- old-fashioned and out of date
- hidebound, traditionalist
- stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded
- ultraconservative
- extremely conservative
- liberal
- tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
- civil-libertarian
- having or showing active concern for protection of civil liberties protected by law
- liberalistic
- having or demonstrating belief in the essential goodness of man and the autonomy of the individual; favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority
- neoliberal
- having or showing belief in the need for economic growth in addition to traditional liberalistic values
- progressive, reformist
- favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
- consistent
- (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable; "testimony consistent with the known facts"; "I have decided that the course of conduct which I am following is consistent with my sense of responsibility as president in time of war"- FDR
- accordant, agreeable, conformable, consonant, in accord(p), in agreement(p), concordant
- in keeping; "salaries agreeable with current trends"; "plans conformable with your wishes"; "expressed views concordant with his background"
- pursuant(p)
- (followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with; "pursuant to our agreement"; "pursuant to the dictates of one's conscience"
- reconciled
- made compatible or consistent
- unchanging
- conforming to the same principles or course of action over time
- at odds(p), conflicting, contradictory, self-contradictory
- in disagreement; "the figures are at odds with our findings"; "contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"- John Morley
- discrepant, incompatible
- not compatible with other facts
- spotty, uneven
- inconsistent in quality
- unconformable
- not correspondent; "a description unconformable to previous accounts"
- unreconciled
- not made consistent or compatible; "two unreconciled accountings"
- conspicuous, obvious
- obvious to the eye or mind; "a tower conspicuous at a great distance"; "wore conspicuous neckties"; "made herself conspicuous by her exhibitionistic preening"
- attention-getting, eye-catching
- seizing the attention; "eye-catching posters"
- big, large, prominent
- conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen"
- bold
- clear and distinct; "bold handwriting"; "a figure carved in bold relief"
- crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
- featured
- made a feature or highlight; given prominence; "a featured actor"; "a featured item at the sale"
- in evidence
- clearly to be seen; "they were much in evidence during the fighting"; "she made certain that her engagement ring was in evidence"
- marked
- singled out for notice or especially for a dire fate; "a marked man"
- outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular, striking
- having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti_semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance between parent and child"
- visible
- being often in the public eye; "a visible public figure"
- inconspicuous, invisible
- not prominent or readily noticeable; "he pushed the string through an inconspicuous hole"; "the invisible man"
- constant
- steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection; "a man constant in adherence to his ideals"; "a constant lover"; "constant as the northern star"
- faithful, fast(a), loyal, true
- (used of persons) dependable in devotion or allegiance or affection; "a faithful old dog"; "a faithful friend"; "fast friends"; "a loyal companion"; "she proved a true friend"; "a lover absolutely true in act and word and thought"- H.O.Taylor
- steadfast, staunch, unswerving
- firm and dependable especially in loyalty; "a steadfast ally"; "a staunch defender of free speech"; "unswerving devotion"; "unswerving allegiance"
- unfailing, unflagging
- unceasing; "unfailing loyalty"; "unfailing good spirits"; "unflagging courtesy"
- inconstant
- likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable; "inconstant affections"; "an inconstant lover"; "swear not by...the inconstant moon"- Shakespeare
- false, untrue
- (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend; "when lovers prove untrue"
- fickle, volatile
- marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"
- constructive
- constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development; "constructive criticism"; "a constructive attitude"; "a constructive philosophy"; "constructive permission"
- structural
- concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
- crushing, devastating
- physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing"
- damaging, negative
- designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism"
- soul-destroying
- destructive to the spirit or soul; "soul-destroying labor"
- ironclad, unassailable, unshakable, watertight
- without flaws or loopholes; "an ironclad contract"; "a watertight alibi"
- unanswerable
- impossible to answer; "an unanswerable argument"
- continual
- seemingly without interruption; chiefly restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series; "the continual banging of the shutters"
- constant
- continually recurring or continuing without interruption; "constant repetition of the exercise"; "constant chatter of monkeys"
- everlasting
- (informal) continuing too long; "everlasting complaints"
- incessant, perpetual, endless
- occurring so frequently as to seem ceaseless or uninterrupted; "a child's incessant questions"; "your perpetual (or continual) complaints"
- insistent, repetitive
- persistently continual; "the bluejay's insistent cry"
- running(a)
- continually repeated over a period of time; "a running joke among us"
- perennial, recurrent, repeated
- recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements"
- persistent, relentless, unrelenting
- never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums"
- sporadic
- recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"
- fitful, spasmodic
- occurring in spells and often abruptly; "fitful bursts of energy"; "spasmodic rifle fire"
- intermittent
- stopping and starting at irregular intervals; "intermittent rain showers"
- periodic
- recurring or reappearing from time to time; "periodic feelings of anxiety"
- irregular, unpredictable
- not occurring at expected times
- isolated, scattered, stray
- not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh"
- continual
- `continual' (meaning seemingly uninterrupted) is often used interchangeably with `continuous' (meaning without interruption)
- dogging, persisting
- relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit; "impossible to escape the dogging fears"
- sustained
- maintained at length without interruption or weakening; "sustained flight"
- ridden(ip)
- (used in combination) dominated or obsessed by; "grief-ridden"; "war-ridden"
- lordless, masterless
- having no lord or master; "harsh punishments for sturdy vagabonds and masterless men"
- rampant
- unrestrained and violent; "rampant aggression"
- runaway
- completely out of control; "runaway inflation"
- torrential
- resembling a torrent in force and abundance; "torrential applause"; "torrential abuse"; "the torrential facility and fecundity characteristic of his style"- Winthrop Sargeant
- undisciplined, ungoverned
- lacking in discipline or control; "undisciplined behavior"; "ungoverned youth"
- wild
- not subjected to control or restraint; "a piano played with a wild exuberance"- Louis Bromfield
- wild
- deviating widely from an intended course; "a wild bullet"; "a wild pitch"
- controversial
- marked by or capable of arousing controversy; "the issue of the death penalty is highly controversial"; "Rushdie's controversial book"; "a controversial decision on affirmative action"
- arguable, debatable, disputable
- open to argument or debate
- contentious
- involving or likely to cause controversy; "a central and contentious element of the book"- Tim W.Ferfuson
- disputed, moot
- open to debate
- polemic, polemical
- of or involving dispute or controversy
- uncontroversial, noncontroversial
- not likely to arouse controversy
- accepted, undisputed
- generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute; "the accepted interpretation of the poem"; "an accepted theory"
- argumentative
- given to or characterized by argument; "an argumentative discourse"; "argumentative to the point of being cantankerous"; "an intelligent but argumentative child"
- convenient
- suited to your comfort or purpose or needs; "a convenient excuse for not going"
- handy
- easy to use; "a handy gadget"
- favorable, favourable, opportune
- at a convenient or suitable time; "an opportune time to receive guests"
- inconvenient
- not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs; "it is inconvenient not to have a telephone in the kitchen"; "the back hall is an inconvenient place for the telephone"
- awkward
- causing inconvenience; "they arrived at an awkward time"
- conventional
- following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
- accepted, received
- widely accepted as true or worthy; "the accepted wisdom about old age"; "a received moral idea"; "Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise"- Economist
- customary
- in accordance with convention or custom; "sealed the deal with the customary handshake"
- formulaic
- characterized by or in accordance with some formula
- stodgy, stuffy
- excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"
- unconventional
- not conforming to accepted rules or standards; "her unconventional dress and hair style"
- bohemian
- unconventional in especially appearance and behavior; "a bohemian life style"
- go-as-you-please
- not bound by rule or law or convention; "bewildered by the old go-as-you-please liberty of alliterative rhythm"- George Saintsbury
- irregular, maverick, unorthodox
- independent in behavior or thought; "she led a somewhat irregular private life"; "maverick politicians"
- conventional
- unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"
- button-down, buttoned-down, conservative
- unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek
- square, straight
- (slang) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
- stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, unimaginative
- lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative"
- unconventional
- not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles"
- alternative
- pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style"
- bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, outlandish, outre
- conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"
- devil-may-care, raffish, rakish
- marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore
- far-out, kinky, offbeat, quirky, way-out
- informal terms; strikingly unconventional
- conformist
- marked by conformity or convention; not corresponding to current customs or rules or styles; "underneath the radical image teenagers are surprisingly conformist"
- nonconformist, unconformist
- not conforming to some norm or socially approved pattern of behavior or thought; "their rabidly nonformist deportment has made them legendary"; "the old stubborn nonconformist spirit of the early settlers"
- traditional
- consisting of or derived from tradition; "traditional history"; "traditional morality"
- conventional
- in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake"
- handed-down, tralatitious
- having been passed along from generation to generation; "among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor"
- time-honored, time-honoured
- of long standing and acceptance; "time-honored customs"
- traditionalistic
- adhering to tradition especially in cultural or religious practices
- nontraditional, untraditional
- not conforming to or in accord with tradition; "nontraditional designs"; "nontraditional practices"
- convincing
- causing one to believe the truth of something; "a convincing story"; "a convincing manner"
- credible, plausible
- appearing to merit belief or acceptance; "a credible witness"; "a plausible story"
- disenchanting, disillusioning
- freeing from illusion or false belief
- persuasive
- capable of convincing; "a persuasive argument"
- unconvincing
- not convincing; "unconvincing excuses"; "as unconvincing as a forced smile"
- unpersuasive
- not capable of persuading
- corrupt
- lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government"
- Augean
- extremely dirty and corrupt; "every government ought to attend to cleaning its own Augean stables"
- corrupted, debased, vitiated
- ruined in character or quality
- corruptible, bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal
- capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"
- depraved, immoral, perverse, perverted, reprobate
- marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"
- dirty, sordid
- unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"
- praetorian, pretorian
- characteristic of Praetorian soldiers in respect to corruption or political venality; "a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble"- Arthur M.Schlesinger Jr.
- putrid
- morally corrupt or evil; "the putrid atmosphere of the court"
- incorrupt
- free of corruption or immorality; "a policeman who was incorrupt and incorruptible"
- antiseptic
- clean and honest; "antiseptic financial practices"
- incorruptible
- incapable of being morally corrupted; "incorruptible judges are the backbone of the society"
- uncorrupted
- not debased; "though his associates were dishonest, he remained uncorrupted"; "uncorrupted values"
- uncorrupted, unspoiled
- not decayed or decomposed
- considerable
- large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree; "a considerable quantity"; "the economy was a considerable issue in the campaign"; "went to considerable trouble for us"; "spent a considerable amount of time on the problem"
- appreciable
- enough to be estimated or measured; "appreciable amounts of noxious wastes are dumped into the harbor"
- extended, extensive, wide
- great in range or scope; "an extended vocabulary"; "surgeons with extended experience"; "extensive examples of picture writing"; "suffered extensive damage"; "a wide selection"
- goodly, goodish, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy
- large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune"
- right smart
- (regional; S and Midland) "it's a right smart distance"
- significant, substantial
- fairly large; "won by a substantial margin"
- inconsiderable
- too small or unimportant to merit attention; "passed his life in an inconsiderble village"; "their duties were inconsiderable"; "had no inconsiderable influence"
- insignificant, trivial
- not large enough to consider or notice
- substantial, real, material
- having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare
- insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal
- lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"
- aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal
- characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms"
- shadowy, wraithlike
- lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke"
- corrected
- having something undesirable neutralized; "with glasses her corrected vision was 20:20"
- rectified
- having been put right
- uncorrected
- left faulty or wrong; "uncorrected astigmatism"
- unremedied
- not having been put right; "unremedied errors"
- delinquent
- persistently bad; "school for delinquent boys"
- depraved, unreformable, unregenerate
- hopelessly bad; "an unregenerate criminal"
- cosmopolitan
- composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world ; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks"
- sophisticated, urbane
- marked by wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel; "the sophisticated manners of a true cosmopolite"; "urbane and pliant...he was at ease even in the drawing rooms of Paris"
- traveled, travelled
- familiar with many parts of the world; "a traveled, educated man"; "well-traveled people"
- provincial
- characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
- bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated
- awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"
- corn-fed
- strong and healthy but not sophisticated
- insular, parochial
- narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parocial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners"
- jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, poky
- small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
- considerate
- showing concern for the rights and feelings of others; "friends considerate enough to leave us alone"
- kind, thoughtful
- showing consideration and anticipation of needs; "it was thoughtful of you to bring flowers"; "a neighbor showed thoughtful attention"
- inconsiderate
- lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others; "shockingly inconsiderate behavior"
- careless
- showing an unthinking lack of consideration; "a careless remark"
- thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking
- without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'"
- courteous
- characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners; "if a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world"-Francis Bacon
- chivalrous, gallant, knightly
- having the qualities of gallantry attributed to an ideal knight
- discourteous
- showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young"
- abrupt
- surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner; "an abrupt reply"
- brusque, brusk, curt, short(p)
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"
- caddish, unchivalrous, ungallant
- offensively discourteous
- unceremonious
- without due formalities; "unceremonious dismissal from office"
- polite
- showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.
- mannerly, well-mannered
- socially correct in behavior
- courteous, gracious, nice
- exhibiting courtesy and politeness; "a nice gesture"
- impolite
- not polite
- bratty, brattish
- (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly
- ill-mannered, rude, unmannered, unmannerly
- socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"
- discourteous, ungracious
- lacking social graces
- unparliamentary
- so rude and abusive as to be unsuitable for Parliament
- civil, polite
- not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others; "even if he didn't like them he should have been civil"- W.S. Maugham
- uncivil, rude
- lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather
- fanciful, notional
- indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood"
- imaginative, ingenious, inventive
- (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics"
- yeasty
- exuberantly creative
- sterile, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive
- deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention:i "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"
- credible, believable
- capable of being believed; "completely credible testimony"; "credible information"
- likely, plausible
- within the realm of credibility; "not a very likely excuse"; "a plausible story"
- presumptive
- affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance; "presumptive evidence"; "a strong presumptive case is made out"
- incredible, unbelievable
- beyond belief or understanding; "at incredible speed"; "the book's plot is simply incredible"
- astounding, dumbfounding, dumfounding
- bewildering or striking dumb with wonder
- fabulous
- barely credible; "the fabulous endurance of a marathon runner"
- improbable, marvelous, marvellous, tall(a)
- too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story"
- undreamed, undreamed of, undreamt, undreamt of, unimagined
- not imagined even in a dream
- overcredulous
- too credulous for your own good
- hypercritical, overcritical
- inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"
- scathing, vituperative
- marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"
- critical
- characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; "a critical reading"; "a critical dissertation"; "a critical analysis of Melville's writings
- appraising(a), evaluative
- exercising or involving careful evaluations; "looked him over with an appraising eye"; "the literary judge uses many evaluative terms"
- discriminative, judicial
- expressing careful judgment; "discriminative censure"; "a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose"-Tyler Dennett
- uncritical, noncritical
- marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures; "news sources reflected uncritical estimates of the number of juvenile addicts"
- critical
- being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency; "a critical shortage of food"; "a critical illness"; "an illness at the critical stage"
- acute
- of critical importance and consequence; "an acute (or critical) lack of research funds"
- dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"
- desperate, dire
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency"
- noncritical, noncrucial
- not in a state of crisis or emergency
- crucial, important
- of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis; "a crucial moment in his career"; "a crucial election"; "a crucial issue for women"
- critical, decisive
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis; "a critical point in the campaign"; "the critical test"
- pivotal, polar
- being of crucial importance; "a pivotal event"; "Its pivotal location has also exposed it to periodic invasions"- Henry Kissinger; "the polar events of this study"; "a polar principal"
- noncrucial
- of little importance; not decisive
- crystallized
- having become fixed and definite in form; "distinguish between crystallized and uncrystallized opinion"- Psychological Abstracts
- uncrystallized
- not finally or definitely formed; "uncrystallized ideas"
- unidimensional, one-dimensional
- relating to a single dimension or aspect; having no depth or scope; "a prose statement of fact is unidimensional, its value being measured wholly in terms of its truth"- Mary Sheehan; "a novel with one-dimensional characters"
- multidimensional
- having or involving or marked by several dimensions or aspects; "multidimensional problems"; "a multidimensional proposition"; "a multidimensional personality"
- dimensional
- having dimension--the quality or character or stature proper to a person; "never matures as a dimensional character; he is pasty, bland, faceless"- Norman Cousins
- two-dimensional, flat
- lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth; "a film with two-dimensional characters"; "a flat two-dimensional painting"
- nosy, nosey, prying, snoopy
- offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day"
- overcurious
- showing excessive curiosity
- live
- of current relevance; "a live issue"; "still a live option"
- prevailing, prevalent, rife
- encountered generally especially at the present time; "the prevailing opinion was that a trade war could be averted"; "the most prevalent religion in our area"; "speculation concerning the books author was rife"
- topical
- of interest at the present time; "a topical reference"; "a topical and timely study of civil liberty"
- up-to-date
- reflecting the latest information or changes; "an up-to-date issue of the magazine"
- up-to-the-minute, latest
- up to the immediate present; most recent or most up-to-date; "the news is up-to-the-minute"; "the very latest scientific discoveries"
- dead
- no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
- disused, obsolete
- no longer in use; "obsolete words"
- obsolete, outdated, out-of-date, superannuated
- old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable; "obsolete words"; "an obsolete locomotive"; "outdated equipment"; "superannuated laws"; "out-of-date ideas"
- obsolescent
- becoming obsolete
- cursed, curst
- deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier; "villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"; "cursed with four daughter"; "not a cursed drop"; "his cursed stupidity"; "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning"
- accursed, accurst, maledict
- under a curse
- blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal
- expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance"
- cursed with(p), stuck with(p)
- burdened with; "stuck with the tab"
- damn, goddamn
- used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!"
- damnable, execrable
- deserving a curse; "her damnable pride"
- blessed, blest
- highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income"
- favored, fortunate, golden
- supremely favored or fortunate; "golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust"
- glorious
- bringing great happiness and thankfulness; "glorious freedom"; "glorious times"
- blessed, blessed with(p), endued with(p)
- having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon; sometimes used as in combination; "blessed with a strong healthy body"; "a nation blessed with peace"; "a peace-blessed era"
- unblessed
- not provided with something desirable; "a hovel unblessed with electricity or running water"
- cyclic, cyclical
- recurring in cycles
- alternate(a), alternating(a)
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other; "alternating feelings of love and hate"
- bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound
- in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
- riddled
- (often followed by `with') damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes; "a sweater riddled with moth holes"; "cliffs riddled with caves"; "the bullet-riddled target"
- dateless
- of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; "dateless customs"
- decent
- conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana
- indecent
- offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture"
- coarse, crude, earthy, gross, vulgar
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
- indelicate
- verging on the indecent; "an indelicate proposition"
- obscene
- designed to incite to indecency or lust; "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"- Margaret Mead
- decisive
- determining or having the power to determine an outcome; "cast the decisive vote"; "two factors had a decisive influence"
- conclusive
- final and deciding; "the conclusive reason"
- crucial, deciding(a), determinant, determinative, determining(a)
- having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle"
- fateful, fatal
- having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
- peremptory
- putting an end to all debate or action; "a peremptory decree"
- indecisive
- not definitely settling something; "a long and indecisive war"
- inconclusive
- leading to no final results or outcome; "an inconclusive experiment"
- decisive
- characterized by decision and firmness; "an able an decisive young woman"; "we needed decisive leadership"; "she gave him a decisive answer"
- unhesitating, resolute
- characterized by quickness and firmness; "his reply was unhesitating"
- indecisive
- characterized by lack of decision and firmness; "an indecisive manager brought the enterprise to a standstill"
- on the fence(p), undecided
- characterized by indecision; "some who had been on the fence came out in favor of the plan"; "too many voters still declare they are undecided"
- decorous
- characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme"
- in good taste(p)
- satisfying generally accepted social or esthetic standards
- sedate, staid
- characterized by dignity and propriety
- indecorous, indelicate
- lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct; "indecorous behavior"
- deep
- having great spatial extension or penetration; downward ("a deep well"; "a deep dive"; "deep water"; "a deep casserole"); or inward from an outer surface ("a deep gash"; "deep massage"; "deep pressure receptors in muscles"); or backward ("deep shelves"; "a deep closet"); or laterally ("surrounded by a deep yard"); or outward from a center ((sports) "hit the ball to deep center field"); sometimes used in combination; "waist-deep"
- abysmal, abyssal
- so deep as to be unmeasurable; unfathomable; "the abyssal depths of the ocean"
- bottomless
- extremely deep; "a bottomless pit"; "a bottomless lake"
- profound, unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded
- situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed; "the profound depths of the sea"; "the dark unfathomed caves of ocean"-Thomas Gray; "unplumbed depths of the sea"; "remote and unsounded caverns"
- shallow
- lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension; downward ("shallow water"; "a shallow dish"); or inward from an outer surface ("a shallow cut"); or backward ("a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"); or outward from a center ((sports) "hit the ball to shallow left field")
- ankle-deep, knee-deep
- coming only to the ankle or knee
- deep
- relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply; "a deep breath"; "a deep sigh"; "deep concentration"; "deep emotion"; "a deep trance"; "in a deep sleep"
- profound
- coming from deep within one; "a profound sigh"
- shallow
- not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance"
- crushed
- humiliated in defeat
- licked
- (informal) having been got the better of; "I'm pretty beat up but I don't feel licked yet"
- subjugated
- reduced to submission; "subjugated peoples"
- unbowed
- not forced to bow down to a conqueror
- defiant
- boldly resisting authority or an opposing force; "brought up to be aggressive and defiant"; "a defiant attitude"
- insubordinate, resistant, resistive
- disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority
- obstreperous
- noisily and stubbornly defiant; "obstreperous boys"
- recalcitrant
- marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstraters"
- complying, obliging, yielding
- happy to comply
- lamblike
- like a lamb in meekness and gentleness
- nonresistant
- offering no resistance
- defined
- clearly characterized or delimited; "lost in a maze of words both defined and undefined"; "each child has clearly defined duties"
- characterized
- of the meaning of words or concepts; stated precisely
- circumscribed, delimited
- showing or determining a boundary; "it is impossible to specify a clearly circumscribed (or delimited) area for any particular science"
- undefined, vague
- not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished; "an undefined term"; "undefined authority"; "some undefined sense of excitement"; "vague feelings of sadness"; "a vague uneasiness"
- well-defined, clear
- accurately stated or described; "a set of well-defined values"
- ill-defined, unclear
- poorly stated or described; "he confuses the reader with ill-defined terms and concepts"
- derived
- formed or developed from something else; not original; "the belief that classes and organizations are secondary and derived"- John Dewey
- derivative
- resulting from or employing derivation; "a derivative process"; "a highly derivative prose style"
- underived, simple
- not derived; primary or simple
- original
- not derived or copied or translated from something else; "the play is original; not an adaptation"; "he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox"; "the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French"
- primary, primitive
- not derived from or reducible to something else; basic; "a primary instinct"; "seeks excellence at its primitive source--nature"- John Dewey
- definite
- precise; explicit and clearly defined; "I want a definite answer"; "a definite statement of the terms of the will"; "a definite amount"; "definite restrictions on the sale of alcohol"; "the wedding date is now definite"; "a definite drop in attendance"
- certain(a)
- definite but not specified or identified; "set aside a certain sum each week"; "to a certain degree"; "certain breeds do not make good pets"; "certain members have not paid their dues"; "a certain popular teacher"; "a certain Mrs. Jones"
- decisive
- unmistakable; "had a decisive lead in the polls"
- defined, formed, settled
- clearly defined; "I have no formed opinion about the chances of success"
- distinct, decided
- recognizable; marked; "noticed a distinct improvement"; "at a distinct (or decided) disadvantage"
- indefinite
- vague or not clearly defined or stated; "must you be so indefinite?"; "amorphous blots of color having vague and indefinite edges"; "he would not answer so indefinite a proposal"
- coy
- showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement; "a politician coy about his intentions"
- indecisive
- not clearly defined; "indecisive boundaries running through mountains"
- nebulous, unfixed
- lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons"; "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be"- Jane Austen
- one(a)
- indefinite in time or position; "he will come one day"; "one place or another"
- delicate
- exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"
- dainty, exquisite, fine
- of delicate composition and artistry; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"; "fine china and crystal"
- ethereal, gossamer
- characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing"
- fragile
- vulnerably delicate; "she has the fragile beauty of youth"
- light-handed
- having a metaphorically delicate touch; "the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive"- New Yorker
- overdelicate
- extremely delicate; "an overdelicate digestive system"
- pastel
- lacking in body or vigor; "faded pastel charms of the naive music"
- subtle
- faint and difficult to analyze; "subtle aromas"
- rugged
- sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "a rugged trapper who spent months in the winderness"; "those that survive are stalwart rugged men"; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"
- hardy
- able to survive under unfavorable conditions; "strawberries are hardy and easy to grow"; "camels are tough and hardy creatures"
- knockabout
- suitable for rough use; "a knockabout overcoat"; "a knockabout old car"
- sturdy, tough
- substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal"
- demanding
- requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding"
- exigent, exacting
- requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation"
- hard-to-please(a), hard to please(p)
- of persons; "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster"; "was very hard to please"
- rigorous, stringent, tight
- demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; "rigorous discipline"; "tight security"; "stringent safety measures"
- stern, strict, exacting
- severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
- tightened
- made tighter or more stringent; "endured tightened economic controls"
- undemanding
- not demanding; requiring little if any patience or effort or skill; "the pay was adequate and the job undemanding"; "simple undemanding affection"; "an undemanding boss"
- easy, lenient
- not strict; "an easy teacher"; "easy standards"; "lenient rules"
- easygoing
- not stressful; "an easygoing life as a parttime consultant"
- light
- demanding little effort; not burdensome; "light housework"; "light exercise"
- unexacting
- not rigorous; "relaxed and unexacting standards"
- imperative
- requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative"
- adjuratory
- containing a solemn charge or command
- clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant
- demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"
- commanding, peremptory
- not allowing contradiction or refusal; "spoke in commanding (or peremptory) tones"; "peremptory commands"
- desperate
- showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire; "felt a desperate urge to confess"; "a desperate need for recognition"
- pressing, urgent
- compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair"
- arbitrary
- based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice; "an arbitrary decision"; "the arbitrary rule of a dictator";"an arbitrary penalty"; "of arbitrary size and shape"; "an arbitrary choice"; "arbitrary division of the group into halves"
- absolute
- not limited by law; "an absolute monarch"
- capricious, impulsive, whimsical
- determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"
- nonarbitrary, unarbitrary
- not subject to individual determination
- implicational, implicative, suggestive, suggestive of(p)
- tending to suggest or imply; "artifacts suggestive of an ancient society"; "an implicative statement"
- reliable, dependable
- worthy of reliance or trust; "a reliable source of information"; "a dependable worker"
- certain, sure
- capable of being depended on; "a quick and certain remedy"; "a sure way to distinguish the two"; "wood dust is a sure sign of termites"
- faithful
- consistently reliable or dependable; "a faithful old car that always gets us home"
- straight
- reliable in matters of fact; "he was always straight with me"
- tested, time-tested, tried, tried and true
- tested and proved to be reliable
- true
- reliable as a basis for action; "a true prophesy"
- undeviating
- used of values and principles; not subject to change; steady; "undeviating loyalty"
- unreliable, undependable
- not worthy of reliance or trust; "in the early 1950s computers were large and expensive and unreliable"; "an undependable assistant"
- erratic, temperamental
- likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster
- uncertain
- not consistent or dependable; "an uncertain recollection of events"; "a gun with a rather uncertain trigger"
- unsound
- of e.g. advice
- babelike
- like a baby especially in dependence; "babelike innocence and dependence"
- reliant, reliant on(p), dependent on(p)
- relying on another for support; "dependent on Middle Eastern oil"
- independent
- free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"; "an independent republic"
- individual, case-by-case, item-by-item
- separate and distinct from others of the same kind; "mark the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis"
- on one's own(p), on his own(p), on her own(p), on your own(p), on their own(p)
- responsible for yourself; "now out of college and on their own"
- strong-minded
- marked by vigorous independence of thought and judgment
- unconditional
- not contingent; not determined or influenced by someone or something else
- one-sided, biased
- excessively devoted to one faction
- tendentious, tendencious
- having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one; "a tendentious account of recent elections"; "distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion"
- independent
- not controlled by a party or interest group
- unbiased, unbiassed
- without bias
- desirable
- worth having or seeking or achieving; "a desirable job"; "computer with many desirable features"; "a desirable outcome"
- advantageous
- likely to be of benefit or advantage; "in an advantageous position"
- coveted, desired, in demand(p), sought after
- greatly desired
- delectable, sexually attractive
- capable of arousing desire; "the delectable Miss Haynes"
- enviable
- causing envy; "an enviable position"
- plummy
- (informal) "a plummy leading role"
- preferable, preferred
- more desirable than another; "coffee is preferable to tea"; "Danny's preferred name is 'Dan'"
- undesirable
- not desirable; "undesirable impurities in steel"; "legislation excluding undesirable aliens"
- unenviable
- so undesirable as to be incapable of arousing envy; "unenviable notoriety"
- unwanted
- interfering; "unwanted shadows distort the picture"; "removed the unwanted vegetation"
- blighted, spoilt
- affected by blight--anything that mars or events growth or prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urtan districts"
- broken, wiped out(p), impoverished
- destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"
- despoiled, pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked
- having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"
- determinate
- precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause; "a determinate distance"; "a determinate number"; "determinate variations in animals"
- indeterminate, undetermined
- not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance; "of indeterminate age"; "a zillion is a large indeterminate number"; "an indeterminate point of law"; "the influence of environment is indeterminate"; "an indeterminate future"
- open-ended
- allowing for a spontaneous response; "an open-ended question"
- developed
- being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful; "the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook"; "they have very small limbs with only two fully developed toes on each"
- formed
- fully developed as by discipline or training"a fully formed literary style"
- mature, matured
- fully considered and perfected; "mature plans"
- undeveloped
- not developed; "courses in interior design were rare and undeveloped"; "undeveloped social awareness"
- budding
- beginning to develop; "a budding genius"
- immature, unformed
- lacking in development; "immature plans"; "an unformed character"
- difficult, hard
- not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
- ambitious, challenging
- requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake"
- arduous
- difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill; "the arduous work of preparing a dictionary"
- awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"
- baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
- catchy, tricky
- having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"
- delicate, ticklish
- difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers"; "hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"
- fractious
- unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thigkly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"
- hard-fought
- requiring great effort; "a hard-fought primary"
- herculean, Herculean
- of extreme difficulty; requiring the strength of a Hercules; "a herculean task"
- nasty, tight
- exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation"
- rocky, rough
- full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"
- rugged, tough
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job"
- serious
- requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve; "raised serious objections to the proposal"; "the plan has a serious flaw"
- stubborn
- difficult to treat or deal with; "stubborn rust stains"; "a stubborn case of acne"
- tall(a)
- (informal) impressively difficult; "a tall order"
- thorny
- bristling with perplexities; "the thorny question of states' rights"
- troublesome
- difficult to deal with; "a troublesome infection"; "a troublesome situation"
- trying
- hard to endure; "fell upon trying times"
- vexed
- causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed; "the vexed issue of priorities"; "we live in vexed and troubled times"
- easy
- posing no difficulty; requiring little effort; "an easy job"; "an easy problem"; "an easy victory"; "the house is easy to heat"; "satisfied with easy answers"; "took the easy way out of his dilemma"
- casual, effortless
- not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace"
- cushy, soft
- (informal) not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship; "what a cushy job!"; "a soft job"
- elementary, simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic
- not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"
- hands-down
- achieved without great effort; "a hands-down victory"
- painless
- requiring little hard work or exertion; "a painless solution to the problem"
- simplified
- made easy or uncomplicated
- smooth
- lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly"
- dignified
- having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance; "her dignified demeanor"; "the director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman"
- courtly, elegant, formal, stately
- refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"
- distinguished, imposing, magisterial
- used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"
- undignified
- lacking dignity
- demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying
- causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
- infra dig(p)
- beneath your dignity; "considered helping with the dishes to be infra dig"
- pathetic, ridiculous, silly
- inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett
- statesmanlike, statesmanly
- marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman; "a man of statesmanlike judgment"; "a statesmanlike solution of the present perplexities"-V.L.Parrington
- diplomatic, wise
- able to take a broad view of negotiations between states
- unstatesmanlike
- not statesmanlike; "unstatesmanlike procedure"
- presidential
- befitting a president; "criticized the candidate for not looking presidential"
- unpresidential
- not presidential; "very unpresidential behavior"
- diligent
- characterized by care and perseverence in carrying out tasks; "a diligent detective investigates all clues"; "a diligent search of the files"
- assiduous, sedulous
- marked by care and persistent effort; "her assiduous attempts to learn French"; "assiduous research"; "sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles"
- hardworking, industrious, tireless, untiring
- characterized by hard work and perseverance
- negligent
- characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern; "negligent parents"; "negligent of detail"; "negligent in his correspondence"
- derelict, delinquent, neglectful, remiss
- failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills"
- lax, slack
- lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline"
- inattentive, neglectful
- not showing due care or attention; "inattentive students"; "an inattentive babysitter"; "neglectful parents"
- diplomatic, diplomatical
- skilled in dealing with sensitive matters or people
- politic, smooth, suave
- smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"; "affable, suave, moderate men...smugly convinced of their respectability"_ Ezra Pound
- tactful
- showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people; "by diplomatic conduct he avoided antagonizing anyone"; "a tactful way of correcting someone"
- undiplomatic
- not skilled in dealing with others
- conciliating, conciliatory, conciliative
- overcoming animosity or hostility; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit"
- appeasing(a), placating, placative, placatory
- tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions; "the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich"; "placating (or placative) gestures"; "an astonishingly placatory speech"
- propitiative, propitiatory
- intended to reconcile or appease; "sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture"
- antagonizing, antagonistic
- arousing animosity or hostility; "his antagonizing brusqueness"; "a speech that was antagonizing to many voters"
- alienating
- causing hostility or loss of friendliness; "her sudden alienating aloofness"
- direct
- extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action; "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"
- bluff
- bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured; "a bluff but pleasant manner"; "a bluff and rugged natural leader"
- blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank
- characterized by disconcerting directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation"
- flat-footed
- (informal) without reservation; "a flat-footed refusal"
- man-to-man
- forthright and honest; "had a man-to-man talk about the facts of life"
- no-nonsense
- not tolerating irrelevancies; "the no-nonsense tones of a stern parent"
- plain, unvarnished
- free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children"
- pointed
- direct and obvious in meaning or reference; often unpleasant; "a pointed critique"; "a pointed allusion to what was going on"; "another pointed look in their direction"
- square(a), straightforward
- without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears"
- indirect
- extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action; "making indirect but legitimate inquiries"; "an indirect insult"; "doubtless they had some indirect purpose in mind"; "though his methods are indirect they are not dishonest"; "known as a shady indirect fellow"
- backhanded
- roundabout or ambiguous; "attacks from tht source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity"; "a backhanded and dishonest way of reaching his goal"
- circuitous, roundabout
- marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend"
- circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious
- roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)
- devious, oblique
- departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading; "used devious means to achieve success"; "gave oblique answers to direct questions"; "oblique political maneuvers"
- digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling
- (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that"
- mealymouthed
- hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed politician"
- tortuous
- not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"
- immediate
- having no intervening medium; "an immediate influence"
- direct
- immediate or direct in bearing or force; having nothing intervening; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"
- unmediated
- without the interposition of other agencies or conditions; "unmediated relations between God and man"
- mediate
- acting through or dependent on an intervening agency; "the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"
- indirect
- having intervening factors or persons or influences; "reflection from the ceiling provided a soft indirect light"; "indirect evidence"; "an indirect cause"
- mediated
- acting or brought about through an intervening agency; "the mediated settlement brought satisfaction to both sides"
- discerning
- having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader"
- clear, percipient
- characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving; "clear mind"; "a percipient author"
- clear-eyed, clear-sighted, perspicacious
- mentally acute or penetratingly discerning; "too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow"; "chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership"; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument"
- prescient
- perceiving the significance of events before they occur; "extroardinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations"-R.H.Rovere
- undiscerning
- lacking discernment
- obtuse, purblind
- lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin
- uncomprehending
- lacking understanding; "tried to explain to her uncomprehending husband"
- discreet
- marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint; "his trusted discreet aide"; "a discreet, finely wrought gold necklace
- modest, restrained, unostentatious
- free from ostentation or pretension; "the restrained elegance of the room"
- prudent
- showing wise self-restraint in speech and behavior especially in preserving prudent silence; "maintained a prudent silence"
- indiscreet
- lacking discretion; injudicious; "her behavor was indiscreet at the very best"
- bigmouthed, blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative
- unwisely talking too much
- imprudent
- lacking wise self-restraint; "an imprudent remark"
- discriminate, discriminating
- marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; "discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people"
- indiscriminate
- not marked by fine distinctions; "indiscriminate reading habits"; "an indiscriminate mixture of colors and styles"
- promiscuous
- not selective of a single class or person; "Clinton was criticized for his promiscuous solicitation of campaign money"
- sweeping, wholesale
- ignoring distinctions; "indiscriminate slaughter of a population"; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction"
- discriminating
- showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur"
- discerning, fine
- able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a fine eye for color"
- discriminate, nice
- noting distinctions with nicety; "a discriminating interior designer"; "a nice sense of color"; "a nice point in the argument"
- discriminative, discriminatory
- capable of making fine distinctions
- eclectic
- selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
- good
- generally admired; "good taste"
- selective
- tending to select; characterized by careful choice; "an exceptionally quick and selective reader"- John Mason Brown
- undiscriminating, indiscriminating
- not discriminating
- indiscriminate
- failing to make or recognize distinctions
- uncritical
- lacking in discrimination; "she was absolutely uncritical, she believed everything"
- unperceptive
- lacking sensitivity, taste, or judgment
- unselective
- not selective or discriminating; "unselective in her reading habits; her choices seemed completely random"
- available, usable, useable
- convenient for use or disposal; "the house is available after July 1"; "2000 square feet of usable office space"
- distinct
- easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined; "a distinct flavor"; "a distinct odor of turpentine"; "a distinct outline"; "the ship appeared as a distinct silhouette"; "distinct fingerprints"
- chiseled, well-defined
- having a clean and distinct outline as if precisely cut along the edges; "a finely chiseled nose"; "well-defined features"
- clear, clean-cut, clear-cut
- clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible; "as clear as a whistle"; "clear footprints in the snow"; "the letter brought back a clear image of his grandfather"; "a spire clean-cut against the sky"; "a clear-cut pattern"
- crisp, sharp
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined; "a sharp photographic image"; "the sharp crack of a twig"; "the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot"
- crystalline
- distinctly or sharply outlined; "crystalline sharpness of outline"- John Buchan
- defined, outlined
- showing clearly the outline or profile or boundary; "hills defined against the evening sky"; "the setting sun showed the outlined figure of a man standing on the hill"
- razor-sharp
- very clearly delineated; "razor-sharp definition"
- indistinct
- not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do"
- cloudy, nebulose, nebulous
- lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous distinction between pride and conceit"
- dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy
- lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood"
- faint
- indistinctly understood or felt or perceived; "a faint clue to the origin of the mystery"; "haven't the faintest idea"
- veiled
- muted or unclear; "veiled sounds"; "the image is veiled or foggy"
- diversified
- having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety; "a diversified musical program ranging from classical to modern"; "diversified farming"; "diversified manufacturing"; "diversified scenery"; "diversified investments"
- varied, wide-ranging
- widely different; "varied motives prompt people to join a political party"; "varied ethnic traditions of the immigrants"
- undiversified, unvaried
- not diversified
- general
- not specialized or limited to one class of things; "general studies"; "general knowledge"
- monolithic
- characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity; "a monolithic society"; "a monolithic worldwide movement"
- solid, unanimous
- acting together as a single undiversified whole; "a solid voting bloc"
- unsupported
- not supported by written evidence; "unsupported accusations"
- heavy-handed, roughshod
- unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"
- imperious, masterful
- able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand"
- oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous
- marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"
- abject
- showing humiliation or submissiveness; "an abject apology"
- bowed, bowing
- showing an excessively deferential manner
- compliant, meek, spiritless
- evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of those of others"; "a fine fiery blast against meek conformity"- Orville Prescott; "she looked meek but had the heart of a lion"; "was submissive and subservient"
- cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy
- totally submissive
- dominated, henpecked
- harassed by persistent nagging
- servile
- submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; "spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work"
- obsequious
- attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; "obsequious shop assistants"
- slavish, subservient, submissive
- abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient"
- slavelike
- suitable for a slave or servant
- unservile, unsubmissive
- not servile or submissive
- dominant
- exercising influence or control; "television plays a dominant role in molding public opinion"; "the dominant partner in the marriage"
- ascendant, ascendent, dominating
- most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe"
- sovereign, supreme
- greatest in status or authority or power; "a supreme tribunal"
- superior
- (sometimes followed by `to') not subject to or influenced by; "overcome by a superior opponent"; "trust magnates who felt themselves superior to law"
- subordinate, low-level
- lower in rank or importance
- dramatic
- suitable to or characteristic of drama; "a dramatic entrance in a swirling cape"; "a dramatic rescue at sea"
- melodramatic
- having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama; "a melodramatic account of two perilous days at sea"
- spectacular
- of the nature of spectacle or drama; "spectacular dives from the cliff"
- undramatic
- lacking dramatic force and quality; "moved with quiet force and undramatic bearing"
- unspectacular
- not spectacular; "an unspectacular but necessary task"
- theatrical
- suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater; "a theatrical pose"; "one of the most theatrical figures in public life"
- showy
- marked by extravagant display
- stagy
- having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality; "stagy heroics"
- untheatrical
- not suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater; "a well-written but untheatrical play"; "an untheatrical personality"
- drinkable
- fit to drink
- potable
- of alcoholic beverages that are suitable for drinking; "it's an impudent young wine but I think you will find it quite potable"
- undrinkable
- not fit to drink
- bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic
- used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"
- sharp
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point; "a sharp pain"; "sharp winds"
- acute, intense
- extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning"
- cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, stabbing
- as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "a gray world with ice and toothed winds"
- fulgurating
- (medicine) sharp and piercing
- salt
- (rare; of speech) painful; bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"
- scratching
- (of a pain) as if caused by scraping with nails or claws
- dull
- not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain"
- eventful
- full of events or incidents; "the most exhausting and eventful day of my life"
- lively
- filled with events or activity; "a lively period in history"
- uneventful
- marked by no noteworthy or significant events; "an uneventful life"; "the voyage was pleasant and uneventful"; "recovery was uneventful"
- placid, quiet
- without untoward incident or disruption; "a placid existence"; "quiet times"
- lively
- full of life and energy; "a lively discussion"; "lively and attractive parents"; "a lively party"
- alive(p)
- (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit; "she was wonderfully alive for her age"; "a face alive with mischief"
- bouncing, bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy
- marked by lively action; "a bouncing gait"; "bouncy tunes"; "the peppy and interesting talk"; "a spirited dance"
- breezy
- fresh and animated; "her breezy nature"
- bubbly
- full of or showing high spirits; "bright bubbly children"; "a bubbly personality"
- bubbling, effervescent, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly
- marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "sparkling conversation"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"
- burbling, burbly, effusive, gushing
- uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in burbly panting tones"
- live
- (informal) abounding with life and energy; "the club members are a really live bunch"
- warm
- characterized by liveliness or excitement or disagreement; "a warm debate"
- dull
- lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods"
- arid, desiccate, desiccated
- lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata";l "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
- bovine
- dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox; "showed a bovine apathy"
- drab, dreary
- lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties"
- heavy, leaden
- lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation"
- humdrum, monotonous
- tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"
- lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless
- lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"
- dynamic, dynamical
- characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality; "a dynamic market"; "a dynamic speaker"; "the dynamic president of the firm"
- active
- in a state of habitual or vigorous activity; "an active man is a man of action"
- can-do
- (slang) "a can-do kind of person"; "the city's indomitable optimism and can-do spirit"
- changing, ever-changing
- marked by continuous change or effective action
- driving, impulsive
- having the power of driving or impelling; "a driving personal ambition"; "the driving force was his innate enthusiasm"; "an impulsive force"
- energizing, energising, kinetic
- supplying motive force; "the complex civilization of which Rome was the kinetic center"- H.O.Taylor
- high-octane, high-powered, high-power, high-voltage
- vigorously energetic or forceful; "a high-octane sales manager"; "a high-octane marketing plan"; "high-powered executives"; "a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur"
- slashing
- as if striking with slashing blows; "his slashing demon-ridden cadenza"
- undynamic, adynamic
- characterized by an absence of force or forcefulness
- stagnant, moribund
- not growing or changing; without force or vitality
- static, unchanging
- not active or moving; "a static village community and a completely undynamic type of agriculture"; "static feudal societies"
- overeager
- excessively eager; "overeager in his pursuit of the girl"
- uneager
- lacking interest or spirit or animation; "decrepit, colorless uneager things"
- earlyish
- being somewhat early; "at an earlyish hour"
- premature, untimely
- uncommonly early or before the expected time; "illness led to his premature death"; "alcohol brought him to an untimely end"
- previous(p), premature
- too soon or too hasty; "our condemnation of him was a bit previous"; "a premature judgment"
- wee
- very early; "the wee hours of the morning"
- advanced, ripe
- far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90"
- latish
- somewhat late
- archaic, primitive
- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
- beginning(a), novice(a)
- at a first stage of development; just becoming familiar with the rudiments or skills or routines; "a beginning bodybuilder"; "a beginning reader"; "a novice cook"
- crude, primitive, rude
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
- embryo(a), embryonic, embryotic, in embryo
- in an early stage of development; "the embryo government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"; "an idea in embryo"
- incipient, inchoate
- only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"
- advanced(a)
- comparatively late in a course of development; "the illness had reached an advanced stage"; "an advanced state of exhaustion"
- precarious, unstable
- affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce"
- fat, rounded
- a chubby body; "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks"
- undereducated
- poorly or insufficiently educated
- working
- serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity; "discussed the working draft of a peace treaty"; "they need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects"
- effective, effectual, efficacious
- producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law"
- hard-hitting, trenchant
- characterized by or full of force and vigor; "a hard-hitting expose"; "a trenchant argument"
- impelling
- markedly effective as if by emotional pressure; "impelling skill as a teller of tales"; "an impelling personality"
- impressive, telling
- producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture"
- ineffective, uneffective, ineffectual
- not producing an intended effect; "an ineffective teacher"; "ineffective legislation"
- toothless
- lacking necessary force for effectiveness; "a toothless piece of legislation"
- unproductive
- not producing desired results; "the talks between labor and management were unproductive"
- effectual
- sufficient to produce a result; "a man to whom painting was but another and less effectual way of writing dramas or novels or history"
- ineffectual
- not sufficient to produce a desired result; "an ineffectual effort to block the legislation"
- effortful
- requiring great physical effort
- arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious, punishing, toilsome
- characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
- difficult
- requiring much effort and trouble; "the mountain climb was long, steep, and difficult"
- dragging
- marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner; "it was a strange dragging approach"; "years of dragging war"
- exhausting, tiring, wearing, wearying
- producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing"
- heavy, labored, laboured
- requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
- leaden, plodding
- (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps"
- arduous, straining, strenuous
- taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"- F.D.Roosevelt
- effortless
- requiring or apparently requiring no effort; "the swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air"
- easy, facile
- performing adroitly and without effort; "her easy grace"; "a facile hand"
- unforced, unstrained
- not resulting from undue effort; not forced; "a voice with a pleasingly unforced quality"; "his playing is facile and unstrained"
- efficacious
- marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; "written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough"
- effective
- works well as a means or remedy; "an effective reprimand"; "a lotion that is effective in cases of prickly heat"
- inefficacious
- lacking the power to produce a desired effect; "laws that are inefficacious in stopping crime"
- efficient
- being effective without wasting time or effort or expense; "an efficient production manager"; "efficient engines save gas"
- businesslike
- exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business
- economic, economical
- using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness; "an economic use of home heating oil"; "a modern economical heating system"; "an economical use of her time"
- expeditious, prompt, timesaving
- characterized by speed and efficiency
- streamlined
- made efficient by stripping off nonessentials; "short streamlined meetings"
- underspent
- not spending at the normal rate
- inefficient
- not producing desired results; wasteful; "an inefficient campaign against drugs"; "outdated and inefficient design and methods"
- uneconomical, wasteful
- inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power"
- forceful
- characterized by or full of force or strength (often but not necessarily physical); "a forceful speaker"; "a forceful personality"; "forceful measures"; "a forceful plan for peace"
- bruising
- brutally forceful and compelling; "protected from the bruising facts of battle"
- cogent, telling, weighty
- powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument"
- drastic
- forceful and extreme and rigorous; "drastic measures"
- emphatic, exclamatory
- sudden and strong; "an emphatic no"
- firm, strong
- strong and sure; "a firm grasp"; "gave a strong pull on the rope"
- forcible, physical, strong-arm
- impelled by physical force especially against resistance; "forcible entry"; "a real cop would get physical"; "strong-arm tactics"
- impellent
- forcing forward or onward; impelling; "an impellent power"; "an impellent cause"
- impetuous
- marked by violent force; "impetuous heving waves"
- sharp
- quick and forceful; "a sharp blow"
- forceless, unforceful, weak
- lacking force; feeble; "a forceless argument"
- wimpish, wimpy
- weak and ineffectual
- springless
- lacking in elasticity or vitality; "went off with springless steps"
- elegant
- refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"
- bijou
- small and elegant; "bijou villas"; "can Americans be persuaded to pay out dollars for bijou cars?"
- deluxe, de luxe, luxe, luxury(a)
- elegant and sumptuous; "a deluxe car"; "luxe accommodations"; "a luxury condominium"
- fine
- characterized by elegance or refinement; "looking fine in her Easter suit"; "a fine gentleman"
- high-class, high-toned
- pretentiously elegant; "a high-toned restaurant"
- exquisite, recherche
- lavishly elegant and refined
- neat, refined, tasteful
- free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
- ritzy
- (informal) luxuriously elegant
- simple
- cleverly simple; used of e.g. a solution to a problem; "his proposal is elegantly simple"
- soigne, soignee
- polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance
- inelegant
- lacking in refinement or grace or good taste
- gauche, graceless, unpolished
- lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always may be feel gauche"
- homely
- without artificial refinement or elegance; "plain homely furniture"; "homely manners"
- desirable, suitable, worthy
- worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse; "the parents found the girl suitable for their son"
- in line
- awaiting something; especially something due; "people were in line at the checkout counter"; "she was in line for promotion"
- undesirable, unsuitable
- not worthy of being chosen (especially as a spouse)
- hot-blooded
- prone to emotion; "hot-blooded Latin-Americans"
- Latin
- having or resembling the psychology or temper characteristic of people of Latin America; "very Latin in temperament"; "a Latin disdain"; "his hot Latin blood"
- lyric, lyrical
- expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance"
- overemotional
- excessively or abnormally emotional
- soulful
- full of or expressing deep emotion; "soulful eyes"; "soulful music"
- philosophical, philosophic
- characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment; "philosophical resignation"; "a philosophic attitude toward life"
- unblinking
- showing no visible emotion; "stood unblinking and accepted a sentence of a year"
- abstractive
- of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting; "abstractive analysis"
- conjectural, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious
- based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "supposititious hypotheses"
- notional, speculative
- not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge"
- metaphysical
- highly abstract and over-theoretical; "metaphysical reasoning"
- abstract
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention; "abstract reasoning"; "abstract science"
- academic
- hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; "an academic discussion"; "an academic question"
- practical
- having or put to a practical purpose or use; "practical mathematics"; "practical applications of calculus"
- disabused(p), undeceived
- freed of a mistaken or misguided notion; "some people are still not disabused of the old idea that the universe revolves around the Earth"
- disillusioned, enlightened
- freed from illusion
- encouraging
- giving courage or confidence or hope; "encouraging advances in medical research"
- exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory
- giving strong encouragement
- heartening, inspiriting
- cheerfully encouraging
- promotive
- tending to further or encourage
- rallying
- rousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort; "a rallying cry"
- discouraging
- depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action; "where never is heard a discouraging word"
- daunting, intimidating
- discouraging through fear
- demoralizing, demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting
- destructive of morale and self-reliance
- frustrating
- discouraging by hindering
- unencouraging
- not encouraging
- encumbered
- loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load; "a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels"- A.J.Liebling; "a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack"; "an encumbered estate"
- burdened, heavy-laden, loaded down
- bearing a physically heavy weight or load; "tree limbs burdened with ice"; "a heavy-laden cart"; "loaded down with packages"
- involved, mired
- entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"
- unencumbered
- free of encumbrance; "inherited an unencumbered estate"
- burdonless, unburdened
- not encumbered with a physical burden or load
- saddled
- subject to an imposed burden; "left me saddled with the bill"; "found himself saddled with more responsibility than power"
- energetic
- possessing or exerting or displaying energy; "an energetic fund raiser for the college"; "an energetic group of hikers"
- active, physical
- characterized by energetic bodily activity; "tennis is an active sport"; "a very physical dance performance"
- brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy
- quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze"
- canty
- (British) lively and brisk
- driving
- acting with vigor; "responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive"
- indefatigable, tireless, unflagging, unwearying
- showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality; "an indefatigable advocate of equal rights"; "a tireless worker"; "unflagging pursuit of excellence"
- strenuous
- characterized by or performed with much energy or force; "strenuous exercise"
- vigorous
- characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity; "a vigorous hiker"; "gave her skirt a vigorous shake"; "a vigorous campaign"; "a vigorous foreign policy"; "vigorous opposition to the war"
- dreamy, lackadaisical, languid, languorous
- lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"
- listless
- lacking zest or vivacity; "he was listless and bored"
- exportable
- suitable for export; "exportable cultural schievements"
- marketable
- capable of being marketed; "the marketable surplus"
- unexportable
- not suitable for export
- preliminary
- designed to orient or acquaint with the a situation before proceeding; "a preliminary investigation"
- exaggerated, hyperbolic, inflated
- enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "had an exaggerated (or inflated) opinion of himself"; "a hyperbolic style"
- exaggerated, magnified, enlarged
- enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes"
- belittled, diminished, small
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small"
- enlightened
- having knowledge and spiritual insight;
- edified
- instructed and encouraged in moral, intellectual, and spiritual improvement
- unenlightened
- not enlightened; ignorant; "the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order"
- benighted, dark
- lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education"
- enterprising
- marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects; "an enterprising foreign policy"; "an enterprising young man likely to go far"
- bold, venturesome
- willing to take risks and try new things; "a new venturesome spirit among today's young people"
- energetic, gumptious, industrious, up-and-coming
- working hard to promote an enterprise
- entrepreneurial
- willing to take risks in order to make a profit
- unenterprising, nonenterprising
- lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome
- slowgoing, unenergetic
- not inclined to be enterprising
- avid, great, eager, zealous
- marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports fan"; "a great walker"; "an eager beaver"
- crazy
- (informal) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; "crazy about cars and racing"
- evangelical, evangelistic
- marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause
- overenthusiastic
- unduly enthusiastic
- spiritless
- lacking spirit; "it was a spiritless attempt"
- equivalent
- essentially equal; "women are paid less than men doing equivalent work"
- even, fifty-fifty
- equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced; "even amounts of butter and sugar"; "on even terms"; "it was a fifty-fifty (or even) split"; "had a fifty-fifty (or even) chance"; "an even fight"
- balanced
- being in a state of proper balance or equilibrium; "the carefully balanced seesaw"; "a properly balanced symphony orchestra"; "a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history"; "a balanced blend of whiskeys"; "the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers"
- counterbalanced, counterpoised
- brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another
- harmonious, proportionate, symmetrical
- exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities
- poised
- marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action; "a gull in poised flight"; "George's poised hammer"
- stable
- maintaining equilibrium
- well-balanced
- in an optimal state of balance or equilibrium; "a well-balanced wheel"
- unbalanced, imbalanced
- being or thrown out of equilibrium
- equivocal, ambiguous
- open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"
- evasive
- deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
- indeterminate
- of uncertain or ambiguous nature; "the equivocal (or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists"
- unequivocal, univocal, unambiguous
- admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion; "unequivocal evidence"; "took an unequivocal position"; "an unequivocal success"; "an unequivocal promise"; "an unequivocal (or univocal) statement"
- absolute, conclusive
- expressing finality with no implication of possible change; "an absolute (or unequivocal) quarantee to respect the nation's authority"; "inability to make a conclusive (or unequivocal) refusal"
- straightforward
- free from ambiguity; "a straightforward set of instructions"
- unquestionable
- not open to question; "an unquestionable (or unequivocal) loss of prestige"
- esoteric
- confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle; "a compilation of esoteric philosophical theories"
- abstruse, deep, recondite
- difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
- arcane
- requiring secret or mysterious knowledge; "the arcane science of dowsing"
- cabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, sibylline
- having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther
- mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, secret
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients"
- exoteric
- suitable for the general public; "writings of an exoteric nature"
- essential
- basic and fundamental; "the essential feature"
- basal, basic, primary
- of primary importance; "basic truths"
- must(a)
- highly recommended; "a book that is must reading"
- staple
- necessary foods or commodities; "wheat is a staple crop"
- substantial, substantive, in essence
- being the essence or essential element of a thing; "substantial equivalents"; "substantive information"
- virtual(a)
- being such in essence or effect though not in actual fact; "a virtual dependence on charity"; "a virtual revolution"; "virtual reality"
- inessential, unessential
- not basic or fundamental
- incidental, nonessential
- not of prime or central importance; "nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry"- Pubs.MLA
- complemental, complementary, completing
- acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
- estimable
- deserving of respect or high regard
- admirable
- deserving of the highest esteem or admiration; "an estimable young professor"; "trains ran with admirable precision"; "his taste was impeccable, his health admirable"
- contemptible
- deserving of contempt or scorn
- abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy
- of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"
- pathetic, pitiable, pitiful
- inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"
- flattering
- tending to reveal or represent favorably
- becoming
- displaying or setting off to best advantage; "a becoming new shade of rose"; "a becoming portrait"
- ingratiating, ingratiatory
- calculated to please or gain favor; "a smooth ingratiating manner"
- unflattering
- tending to reveal or represent unfavorably; "an unflattering portrait"; "the full unflattering light of morning"- Walter de la Mare
- candid
- starkly realistic; "I have never lacked candid critics in my own ranks"-Clement Atlee
- euphemistic, inoffensive
- of an inoffensive substitute for offensive terminology; "`peepee' is a common euphemistic term"
- dysphemistic, offensive
- of an offensive substitute for inoffensive terminology; "`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'"
- patchy
- irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc.; "a patchy essay"; "patchy fog"
- exact
- marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact; "an exact mind"; "an exact copy"; "hit the exact center of the target"
- literal
- without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal translation of the scene before him"
- mathematical
- (mathematics) characterized by the exactness or precision of mathematics; "mathematical precision"
- perfect
- precisely accurate or exact; "perfect timing"
- rigorous, strict
- rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"
- inexact
- not exact
- approximate, approximative, rough
- not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough estimate"
- free, loose, liberal
- not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"
- odd
- (in combination) an indefinite quantity more than that specified; "invited 30-odd guests"
- overexcited
- unduly excited
- exciting
- creating or arousing excitement; "an exciting account of her trip"
- breathless, breathtaking
- tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure"
- elating, exhilarating
- making lively and joyful
- electrifying, thrilling
- causing a surge of emotion or excitement; "she gave a electrifying performance"; "a thrilling performer to watch"
- glamorous, glamourous
- having an air of allure, romance and excitement; "glamorous movie stars"
- heady, intoxicating
- extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic
- titillating
- pleasantly and superficially exciting
- unexciting
- not exciting; "an unexciting novel"; "lived an unexciting life"
- commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"
- uninspired
- having no intellectual or emotional or spiritual excitement; "the production was professional but uninspired"
- tame
- flat and uninspiring
- active, alive(p)
- in operation; "keep hope alive"; "the tradition was still alive"; "an active tradition"
- unprovided for(p)
- not prepared or ready for
- expedient
- serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
- advantageous, appropriate
- appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness
- opportunist, opportunistic, timeserving
- taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit
- inexpedient
- not suitable or advisable; "an inexpedient tactic"
- inadvisable
- not advisable; "an unnecessary and inadvisable action"
- facilitated
- freed from difficulty or impediment
- abeyant, inactive, in abeyance(p), suspended
- temporarily inactive
- expendable
- suitable to be expended
- sacrificeable
- may be deliberately sacrificed to achieve an objective
- unexpendable
- not suitable to be expended
- expensive
- high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"
- big-ticket(a)
- (informal) very expensive; "big-ticket items like cars and furs"; "a big-ticket government program"
- costly, dear(p), high-priced, pricey, pricy
- having a high price; "costly jewelry"; "high-priced merchandise"; "much too dear for my pocketbook"; "a pricey restaurant"
- dearly-won, costly
- entailing great loss or sacrifice; "a dearly-won victory"
- overpriced
- too costly for the value; "overpriced items at resort shops"
- cheap, inexpensive
- relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"
- catchpenny(a)
- designed to sell quickly without concern for quality; "catchpenny ornaments"
- dirt cheap
- very cheap; "a dirt cheap property"
- low-cost, low-priced, affordable
- that you have the financial means for; "low-cost housing"
- nickel-and-dime(a)
- low-paying; "a nickel-and-dime job"
- sixpenny, threepenny, twopenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny
- of trifling worth
- full-fledged, fully fledged
- (of persons e.g.) having gained full status; "a full-fledged lawyer"; "by the age of seventeen I was a full-fledged atheist"; "sees itself as a fully fledged rival party"
- practiced, practised
- skillful after much practice
- fledgling, unfledged
- young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer"
- raw, green, new, wet behind the ears(p)
- lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits"; "he shipped as a green hand on a vessel"
- uninitiate, uninitiated
- not initiated; deficient in relevant experience; "it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes"
- unpracticed, unpractised
- not having had extensive practice
- unseasoned, untested, untried
- not tried or tested by experience; "unseasoned artillery volunteers"; "still untested in battle"; "an illustrator untried in mural painting"
- cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying
- of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutible workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
- paradoxical, self-contradictory
- seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true; "it is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking"
- definitive, unequivocal
- clearly defined or formulated; "the plain and unequivocal language of the laws"- R.B.Taney
- graphic
- describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail; "graphic sexual scenes"
- implicit in(p), inherent, underlying
- in the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning"
- exploited
- developed or used to greatest advantage
- outward
- relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind; "a concern with outward beauty rather than with inward reflections"
- external
- purely outward or superficial; "external composure"; "an external concern for reputation"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.
- inward
- relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts; "a concern with inward reflections"
- indwelling
- existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or force or principle; "an indwelling divinity"; "an indwelling goodness"
- inmost, innermost
- being deepest within the self; "one's innermost feelings"
- inner, interior, internal
- located inward; "Beethoven's manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle"- Leonard Bernstein; "she thinks she has no soul, no interior life, but the truth is that she has no access to it"- David Denby; "an internal sense of rightousness"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.
- fair, just
- free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"
- clean, sporting, sportsmanlike
- marked by or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct"
- fair-minded
- of a person; just and impartial; not prejudiced
- fair-and-square
- just and honest
- unfair, unjust
- not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage"
- cheating(a), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike
- violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"
- raw
- brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal"
- equitable, just
- implying justice dictated by reason, conscience, and a natural sense of what is fair to all; "equitable treatment of all citizens"; "an equitable distribution of gifts among the children"
- evenhanded
- without partiality; "evenhanded justice"
- inequitable, unjust
- not equitable or fair; "the inequitable division of wealth"; "inequitable taxation"
- faithful
- steadfast in affection or allegiance; "years of faithful service"; "faithful employees"; "we do not doubt that England has a faithful patriot in the Lord Chancellor"
- firm, loyal, truehearted
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause; "a firm ally"; "loyal supporters"; "a loyal friend"; "the true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe"- Campaign song for William Henry Harrison
- true to(p), true
- sexually faithful; "remained true to his wife"
- true
- devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept of truth; "true believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them"
- punic, perfidious, treacherous
- tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"
- loyal
- steadfast in allegiance or duty; "loyal subjects"; "loyal friends stood by him"
- allegiant
- steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government); "it is impossible to be allegiant to two opposing forces"
- doglike
- resembling a dog; especially in devotion; "a doglike affection"
- leal
- (archaic or Scottish) faithful and true; "leal to the core of her intrepid Scottish heart"- Harry Lauder
- true-blue
- marked by unswerving loyalty; "a true-blue American"; "a reliable true-blue country club conservative"
- disloyal
- deserting your allegiance or duty to leader or cause or principle; "disloyal aides revealed his indiscretions to the papers"
- faithless, traitorous, unfaithful
- deliberately and abominably disloyal or likely to betray trust or confidence; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist"
- fallible
- likely to fail or be inaccurate; "everyone is fallible to some degree"
- errant, erring, error-prone
- capable of making an error; "all men are error-prone"
- undependable, unreliable
- liable to be erroneous or misleading; "an undependable generalization"
- infallible
- incapable of failure or error; "an infallible antidote"; "an infallible memmory"; "the Catholic Church considers the Pope infallible"; "no doctor is infallible"
- foolproof, unfailing
- not liable to failure; "a foolproof identification system"; "the unfailing sign of an amateur"; "an unfailing test"
- inerrable, inerrant, unerring
- not liable to error; "the Church was...theoretically inerrant and omnicompetent"-G.G.Coulton; "lack an inerrant literary sense"; "an unerring marksman"
- familiar
- (often followed by `with') well known or easily recognized; "a familiar figure"; "he was familiar with those roads"; "familiar songs"; "familiar guests"
- long-familiar, well-known(a), well known(p)
- frequently experienced; known closely or intimately; "a long-familiar face"; "a well-known voice reached her ears"
- old(a)
- (used for emphasis) very familiar; "good old boy"; "same old story"
- unfamiliar
- not known or well known; "a name unfamiliar to most"; "be alert at night especially in unfamiliar surroundings"
- strange, unusual
- being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has"
- antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque
- ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror"
- crazy
- bizarre or fantastic; "had a crazy dream"; "wore a crazy hat"
- curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"
- eerie, eery
- so strange as to inspire a feeling of fear; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl"
- exotic
- strikingly strange or unusual; "exotic costumes from the Far East"; "an exotic hair style"
- freaky
- (slang) strange and somewhat frightening; "the whole experience was really freaky"
- other
- very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected; "a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail"- Lance Morrow
- quaint
- strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
- quaint
- very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor"
- weird
- strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker
- familiar
- within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; "familiar ordinary objects found in every home"; "a familiar everyday scene"; "a familiar excuse"; "a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences"
- common, usual
- commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting"
- everyday
- commonplace and ordinary; "the familiar everyday world"
- fashionable, stylish
- being or in accordance with current fashion; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe"
- a la mode(p), in style(p), in vogue(p), modish
- in the current fashion or style
- dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, smart, snappy, spruce
- marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
- faddish, faddy
- intensely fashionable for a short time
- groovy, swagger
- (British informal) very chic; "groovy clothes"
- in
- (informal) "the in thing to do"; "large shoulder pads are in"
- mod, modern, up-to-date
- relating to a recently developed fashion or style
- smart
- of or associated with people of fashion; "the smart set"
- swank, swanky
- imposingly fashionable and elegant; "a swank apartment"
- trendsetting
- initiating or popularizing a trend
- trendy, voguish
- in accord with the latest fad; "trendy ideas"; "trendy clothes"; "voguish terminology"
- unfashionable, unstylish, out of fashion
- not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind"
- antique, demode, old-fashioned, old-hat(p), outmoded, passe, passee
- out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"
- dated
- marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past
- dowdy, frumpy, frumpish
- primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"
- out
- no longer fashionable; "that style is out these days"
- prehistoric
- (informal) "my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes"
- stylish, fashionable
- having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress; "a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey"; "the stylish resort of Gstadd"
- chic, smart, voguish
- elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut"
- chichi
- affectedly trendy
- classy, posh, swish
- (informal) elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop oon the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child
- snazzy
- (informal) flashily stylish; "a snazzy outfit"
- styleless, unstylish
- lacking in style or elegance; "a styleless way of dressing"; "expensive but styleless country tweeds"; "wearing unstylish clothes"
- dowdy
- lacking in smartness or taste; "a dowdy gray outfit"; "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"
- fast
- acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car"
- alacritous
- quick and eager; "an alacritous response to the invitation"
- blistering, hot, red-hot
- very fast; "a blistering pace"; "got off to a hot start"; "in hot pursuit"; "a red-hot line drive"
- hot
- capable of quick response and great speed; "a hot sports car"
- immediate, prompt, quick, straightaway
- performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "prompt obedience"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial"
- instantaneous, instant(a)
- occurring with no delay; "relief was instantaneous"; "instant gratification"
- meteoric
- like a meteor in speed or brilliance or transience; "a meteoric rise to fame"
- quick, speedy
- accomplished rapidly and without delay; "was quick to make friends"; "his quick reaction prevented an accident"; "hoped for a speedy resolution of the problem"; "a speedy recovery"; "he has a right to a speedy trial"
- rapid
- done or occurring in a brief period of time; "a rapid rise through the ranks"
- winged
- very fast; as if with wings; "on winged feet"
- slow
- not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; "a slow walker"; "the slow lane of traffic"; "her steps were slow"; "he was slow in reacting to the news"; "slow but steady growth"
- bumper-to-bumper, crawling
- used of traffic; "bumper-to-bumper traffic"
- dawdling, dilatory, laggard, poky, pokey
- wasting time
- dragging
- passing painfully or tediously slowly; "the dragging minutes"
- lazy
- moving slowly and gently; "up a lazy river"; "lazy white clouds"; "at a lazy pace"
- fastidious
- giving and careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
- choosy, choosey
- difficult to please
- dainty, nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish
- excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
- finical, finicky, fussy, particular
- exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"
- meticulous
- marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities"
- pernickety, persnickety
- characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"
- old-maidish, old-womanish
- primly fastidious
- unfastidious
- not fastidious; not concerned with cleanliness; "unfastidious in her dress"
- untidy
- careless and slovenly
- fat
- having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
- abdominous, paunchy, potbellied
- having a large belly
- blubber, blubbery
- swollen with fat; "blubber cheeks"; "blubber lips"; "a coarse blubbery individual"
- buxom, chubby, embonpoint, plump, zaftig, zoftig
- euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies"; "pleasingly plump"
- corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund
- excessively fat; "a weighty man"
- dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby
- short and fat
- fattish
- somewhat fat
- gross, porcine
- repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man"
- portly, stout
- euphemisms for `fat'; "men are portly and women are stout"
- thin, lean
- lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
- bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
- very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
- gangling, gangly, lanky
- ungracefully tall and thin
- lank, spindly
- long and lean
- rawboned
- having a lean and bony physique; "a rawboned cow hand"
- reedy, twiggy, twiglike
- resembling a reed or twig in being slender and fragile
- scarecrowish
- resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure"
- scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy
- having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
- shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened
- lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair"
- slender, slight, slim
- being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"
- slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted
- having a small waist
- spare, trim
- thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"
- spindle-legged, spindle-shanked
- having long slender legs
- stringy, wiry
- lean and sinewy
- wisplike, wispy
- thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson
- buttery
- resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake"
- fathomable, comprehensible
- (of meaning) capable of being penetrated or comprehended
- unfathomable, fathomless
- of meaning; not capable of being penetrated; "a philosophy complex and, to the ordinary thinker, quite fathomless"; "unfathomable theories"
- bottomless
- too deep for understanding; "one of the bottomless mysteries of life"
- favorable, favourable
- encouraging or approving or pleasing; "a favorable reply"; "he received a favorable rating"; "listened with a favorable ear"; "made a favorable impression"
- high
- very favorable; "he has a high opinion of himself"
- pleasing
- able to please or win approval
- unfavorable, unfavourable
- not encouraging or approving or pleasing; "unfavorable conditions"; "an unfavorable comparison"; "unfavorable comments"
- adverse, harmful, inauspicious, untoward
- contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
- hostile
- marked by features that oppose constructive treatment or development; "not able to accomplish much in such a hostile environment"
- discriminatory, invidious
- containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice; "discriminatory attitudes and practices"; "invidious comparisons"
- felicitous
- exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style; "a felicitous speaker"
- cool
- (informal) socially adept; "it's not cool to arrive at a party too early"
- happy, well-chosen
- well expressed and to the point; "a happy turn of phrase"; "a few well-chosen words"; "a felicitous comment"
- well-turned
- (of language) aptly and pleasingly expressed; "a well-turned phrase"
- infelicitous
- not appropriate in application; defective; "an infelicitous remark"; "infelicitous phrasing"; "the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy"
- awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen
- not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"
- unfortunate
- unsuitable or regrettable; "an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech"
- done with(p), through with(p)
- having no further concern with; "he was through with school and he was through with family"- John Dos Passos; "done with gambling"; "done with drinking"
- impermanent
- existing or enduring for a limited time only
- introductory
- serving to open or begin; "began the slide show with some introductory remarks"
- starting
- appropriate to the beginning or start of an event; "the starting point"; "hands in the starting position"
- archetypal, archetypical, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical
- representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned; "archetypal patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist"
- basic, introductory
- serving as a base or starting point; "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"
- gray, grey
- intermediate in character or position; "a gray area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
- fit, healthy
- physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise"
- able, able-bodied
- having a strong healthy body; "an able seaman"; "every able-bodied young man served in the army"
- conditioned, in condition(p)
- physically fit; "exercised daily to keep herself in condition"
- unfit
- not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service"
- afflicted, impaired
- mentally or physically unfit
- fit
- meeting adequate standards for a purpose; "water fit to drink"; "fit for duty"; "do as you think fit"
- acceptable
- adequate for the purpose; "the water was acceptable for drinking"
- appropriate, suitable, suited
- meant or adapted for an occasion or use; "a tractor suitable (or fit) for heavy duty"; "not an appropriate (or fit) time for flippancy"
- unfit
- below the required standards for a purpose; "an unfit parent"; "unfit for human consumption"
- subhuman
- unfit for human beings; "subhuman conditions of life"
- unsuitable
- not meant or adapted for a particular purpose; "a solvent unsuitable for use on wood surfaces"
- limber, supple
- (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination"
- versatile
- (used of persons) having many skills
- die-hard(a), rock-ribbed
- tradition-bound and obstinately opinionated; "an inflexible (or die-hard) conservative"; "rock-ribbed republican"
- flinty, granitic, unyielding
- having austere inflexibility; "a flinty manner"; "granitic morality"; "his unyielding mouth and glassy eyes"- Marchette Chute
- fossilized, ossified
- set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs; "obsolete fossilized ways"; "an ossified bureaucratic system"
- ironclad, brassbound
- inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable; "brassbound traditions"; "brassbound party loyalists"; "an ironclad rule"
- uncompromising, inflexible
- not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty"
- unyielding
- refusing to give way or compromise; "unyielding determination"
- compromising, conciliatory, flexible
- making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet"
- yielding
- tending to give in or surrender or agree; "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments"- V.I.Parrington"
- elastic, flexible, pliable, pliant
- able to adjust readily to different conditions; "an adaptable person"; "a flexible personality"; "an elastic clause in a contract"
- labile
- open to change; liable to change; "an emotionally labile person"
- splay
- turned outward in an ungainly manner; "splay knees"
- foreign
- relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city"
- alien, exotic, strange
- being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "moved to a strange country"
- native
- being such by origin; "the native North American sugar maple"; "many native artists studied abroad"
- native, aboriginal
- being or composed of people inhabiting a region from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia"
- nonnative
- not being or composed of aborigines; "the nonnative population of South Africa"
- domestic
- of or involving the home or family; "domestic worries"; "domestic happiness"; "they share the domestic chores"; "everything sounded very peaceful and domestic"; "an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste"
- domesticated
- accustomed to home life; "some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it"
- home-loving
- devoted to home duties and pleasures
- housewifely
- related or suited to a housewife; "housewifely virtues"
- husbandly
- related to or suited to a husband; "assumed husbandly duties like mowing the lawn"
- undomestic
- not domestic or related to home; "had established herself in her career at the price of being so undomestic she didn't even know how to light the oven"
- undomesticated
- unaccustomed to home life; "after years of marriage he remained essentially undomesticated"
- forgettable
- easily forgotten
- unmemorable
- not worth remembering
- unforgettable
- impossible to forget
- haunting, persistent
- continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy
- lingering(a)
- continuing for a long time; "a lingering sense of guilt"
- memorable
- worth remembering
- forgiving
- inclined or able to forgive and show mercy; "a kindly forgiving nature"; "a forgiving embrace to the naughty child"
- kind, tolerant
- tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke"
- unvindictive
- not vindictive
- unforgiving
- unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy; "a surly unforgiving old woman"
- revengeful, vindictive, vengeful
- disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge; "more vindictive than jealous love"- Shakespeare; "punishments...essentially vindictive in their nature"- M.R.Cohen
- ceremonial, solemn
- marked by pomp or ceremony or formality; "a solemn occasion"; "ceremonial garb"
- ceremonious, conventional
- rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"
- form-only(a)
- being a matter of form only; lacking substance; "a form-only requirement that is usually ignored"
- nominal, titular
- being such in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party"
- pro forma, perfunctory
- as a formality only; "a one-candidate pro forma election"
- starchy, stiff, buckram
- rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"
- informal
- not formal; "conservative people unaccustomed to informal dress"; "an informal free-and-easy manner"; "an informal gathering of friends"
- casual, everyday
- suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"
- familiar, free-and-easy, casual
- natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a familiar style"
- folksy
- very informal and familiar; "a folksy radio commentator"; "a folksy style"
- unceremonious, unceremonial
- without ceremony or formality; "an unceremonious speech"
- literary
- appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing; "when trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style"
- forsaken
- left entirely; "forsaken slopes where children once played"
- abandoned, deserted
- left desolate or empty; "an abandoned child"; "their deserted wives and children"; "an abandoned shack"; "deserted villages"
- castaway(a), rejected
- cast off as valueless
- derelict
- deserted or abandoned as by an owner; "a derelict ship"
- desolate, forlorn, godforsaken, lorn
- pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn"
- unforsaken
- not forsaken
- cherished, held dear(p)
- thought of and clung to fondly or reverentially
- fortunate
- having unexpected good fortune; "other, less fortunate, children died"; "a fortunate choice"
- better off(p)
- in a more fortunate or prosperous condition; "she would have been better off if she had stuck with teaching"; "is better off than his classmate"
- felicitous, happy
- marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome"
- fortuitous
- occurring by happy chance; "profits were enhanced by a fortuitous drop in the cost of raw materials"
- good, well(p)
- resulting favorably; "its a good thing that I wasn't there"; "it is good that you stayed"; "it is well that no one saw you"; "all's well that ends well"
- heaven-sent, providential, miraculous
- peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention; "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"; "a providential recovery"
- lucky
- blessed with good fortune; "considered himself lucky that the tornado missed his house"; "a lucky guess"
- well-off
- fortunately situated; "doesn't know when he's well-off"
- unfortunate
- not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned"
- abject
- most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"
- black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"
- dispossessed, homeless, roofless
- physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern
- hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
- deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
- doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky
- marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott
- infelicitous, unhappy
- marked by or producing unhappiness; "infelicitous circumstances"; "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"- American Guide Series
- regrettable, too bad
- deserving regret; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church"
- available, uncommitted
- not busy; not otherwise committed; "he was not available for comment"; "he was available and willing to accompany her"
- emancipated, liberated
- free from traditional social restraints; "an emancipated young woman pursuing her career"; "a liberated lifestyle"
- footloose
- free to go or do as one pleases; "Americans have always been a footloose people always moving on"; "a footloose young man eager to see the big city"
- quit(p), rid(p)
- (usually followed by `of') released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty); "quit of all further responsibility for their safety"; "well rid of him"
- entangled
- involved in difficulties
- prisonlike
- resembling a prison
- serflike
- like someone in servitude
- frequent
- coming at short intervals or habitually; "a frequent guest"; "frequent complaints"
- prevailing, predominant
- most frequent or common; "prevailing winds"
- regular, steady
- relating to a person who does something regularly; "a regular customer"; "a steady drinker"
- infrequent
- not frequent; not occurring regularly or at short intervals; "infrequent outbursts of temper"
- occasional(a)
- occurring from time to time; "took an occasional glass of wine"
- rare
- recurring only at long intervals; "a rare appearance"; "total eclipses are rare events"
- fresh
- not stale or old; "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent"
- caller
- (Scottish) "caller fish"
- hot
- newly made; "a hot scent"
- new-made
- newly made; "the aroma of new-made bread"
- strong, warm
- freshly made or left; "a warm trail"; "the scent is warm"
- cold
- having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"
- unprocessed
- not treated or prepared by a special process
- friendly
- characteristic or or befitting a friend; "friendly advice"; "a friendly neighborhood"; "the only friendly person here"; "a friendly host and hostess"
- affable, amiable, cordial, genial
- diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host"
- comradely, hail-fellow, hail-fellow-well-met
- heartily friendly and congenial
- couthie, couthy
- (chiefly Scottish) agreeable and genial
- cozy, intimate, informal
- having or fostering a warm or friendly atmosphere; especially through smallness and informality; "had a cozy chat"; "a relaxed informal manner"; "an intimate cocktail lounge"; "the small room was cozy and intimate"
- favorable, well-disposed
- favorably disposed; not antagonistic; "a government favorable to our interests"
- neighborly, neighbourly
- exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor
- social
- marked by friendly companionship with others; "a social cup of coffee"
- unfriendly
- not disposed to friendship or friendliness; "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take"
- beetle-browed, scowling
- sullen or unfriendly in appearance
- hostile
- very unfriendly; "a hostile attitude"
- uncordial
- lacki