Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept SubjectiveAssessmentAttribute
More specialized WordNet synsets
- deed, feat, effort, exploit
- a notable achievement: "the book was her finest effort"
- kindness
- a kind act
- 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)
- going, sledding
- advancing toward a goal; "persuading him was easy going" or "the proposal faces tough sledding"
- record
- the sum of recognized accomplishments; "the lawyer has a good record"
- 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
- naught
- complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"
- failure
- an act that fails
- overturn, upset
- an improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"
- frustrating, frustration, thwarting, foiling
- an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
- 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
- oversight, lapse
- a mistake resulting from inattention
- slip, slipup, miscue
- an inadvertent mistake
- snafu
- an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: Situation Normal All Fucked Up
- omission, skip
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- blunder, blooper, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo, misdoing
- an embarrassing mistake
- 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"
- clanger
- (British) a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; "he dropped a clanger"
- fluff
- a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
- faux pas, gaffe, solecism, slip, gaucherie
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- 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
- desperate measure
- desperate actions taken as a means to an end; "he had to resort to desperate measures"
- pis aller, last resort
- French for `worst going'
- 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
- retribution
- the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
- 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"
- 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
- reform
- self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; "the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"
- self-improvement, self-reformation
- the act of improving yourself
- beautification
- the act of making something more beautiful
- adornment
- the action of decorating yourself with something colorful and interesting
- 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)
- enrichment
- act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding
- modernization, modernisation, modernizing
- making modern in appearance of behavior; "the modernizing of Nigeria will be a long process"
- humanization, humanisation
- the act of making more humane
- upturn
- an upward movement or trend as in business activity
- enhancement, sweetening
- an improvement that makes something more agreeable
- 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
- brutalization, brutalisation, animalization, animalisation
- an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities
- 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"
- barbarization, barbarisation
- an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized
- corruption
- destroying someone's honesty or loyalty or moral integrity: "corruption of a minor"
- bastardization, bastardisation
- an act that debases or corrupts
- 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
- de-escalation
- a reduction in intensity (of a crisis or a war)
- easing, alleviation, relief
- the act of reducing something unpleasant as pain; "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain"
- palliation
- easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause
- detente
- the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations)
- 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"
- 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"
- reunion, reunification
- the act of coming together again
- 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
- straight and narrow
- the way of proper and honest behavior; "he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow"
- primrose path
- a life of ease and pleasure
- 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
- exploitation, victimization, victimisation, using
- an act that exploits or victimizes someone
- McCarthyism
- unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists)
- disregard, neglect
- lack of care and attention
- 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
- 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"
- liveliness, animation
- general activity and motion
- brouhaha
- a confused disturbance far greater than its cause merits
- dislocation, breakdown
- the act of disrupting an established order
- disruption, perturbation
- the act of causing disorder
- rampage, violent disorder
- violently angry and destructive behavior
- 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
- 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"
- burst, fit
- a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason); "a burst of applause"; "a fit of housecleaning"
- bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir
- a rapid bustling commotion
- 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"
- 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"
- slavery
- work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
- 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
- hell, blaze
- noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes"
- mischief, mischief-making, mischievousness, deviltry, devilry, devilment, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan
- reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
- infantilism
- infantile behavior in mature persons
- 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
- 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 money
- money spent for inadequate return; "the senator said that the project was a waste of money"
- waste of effort, waste of energy
- a useless effort
- waste of material
- a useless consumption of material
- squandermania
- prodigious squandering (usually by a government)
- 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
- foul play
- unfair or treacherous behavior (especially involving violence)
- villainy
- a treacherous or vicious act
- deviltry, devilry
- wicked and cruel behavior
- enormity
- an act of extreme wickedness
- vice
- a specific form of evildoing; "vice offends the moral standards of the community"
- 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"
- 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)
- lust, luxuria
- self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- gluttony, overeating, gula
- eating to excess (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"
- no-brainer
- (informal) anything that requires little thought
- marathon, endurance contest
- any long and arduous undertaking
- 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
- long shot
- a venture that involves great risk but promises great rewards
- 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
- momism, overprotection, overshielding
- excessive protection
- lechery
- unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity
- promiscuity, promiscuousness, sleeping around
- promiscuous sexual relations
- 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"
- duplication, duplicating
- the act of duplicating something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful"
- redundancy
- repetition of an act needlessly
- reduplication
- an act of duplicating
- copying
- an act of copying
- reproduction, replication
- the act of reproducing
- abidance
- the act of abiding (enduring without yielding)
- perseverance, persistence, perseveration
- the act of persevering
- 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"
- rat race
- an exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxation
- routine, modus operandi
- an unvarying or habitual method of procedure
- 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"
- idolatry, devotion, veneration
- religious zeal; willingness to serve God
- 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
- lordolatry
- worship of a lord because of his rank or title
- 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
- 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
- self-denial, self-discipline, self-control
- the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses
- heckling, barracking
- shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree
- abstinence
- act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
- sobriety, temperance
- abstaining from excess
- lenience, leniency
- lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers
- tolerance
- the act of tolerating something
- 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"
- enjoyment, delectation
- act of receiving pleasure from something
- pleasure
- an activity that affords enjoyment; "he puts duty before pleasure"
- 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
- mastery, subordination
- the act of mastering or subordinating someone
- domination
- social control by dominating
- 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
- collar
- a figurative restraint; "a collar on program trading in the stock market"
- restraint
- the act of restraining
- bridle, check, curb
- the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess; "his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper"
- damper
- a depressing restraint; "rain put a damper on our picnic plans"
- 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
- devotion
- commitment to some purpose; "the devotion of his time and wealth to science"
- 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"
- 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"
- oversimplification
- excessive simplification (to the point of misrepresentation)
- consolation, comfort, solace
- the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction; "his presence was a consolation to her"
- simplification
- elimination of superfluous details
- reassurance
- the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence
- admiration, appreciation
- a favorable judgment; "a small token in admiration of your works"
- idealization, idealisation, glorification
- a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"
- adoration, adulation, idolization, idolisation
- the act of admiring strongly
- glorification
- the act of glorifying (as in worship); "the glorification of God"
- 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
- exacerbation
- violent and bitter exasperation; "his foolishness was followed by an exacerbation of their quarrel"
- aggravation, irritation, provocation
- unfriendly behavior that aggravates or irritates someone
- 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
- rebuff, slight
- a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
- scandalization, scandalisation, outrage
- the act of scandalizing
- 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
- turn, good turn
- a favor for someone; "he did me a good turn"
- cupboard love
- a show of affection motivated by selfishness
- favor, favour
- an act of gracious kindness
- 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
- politeness, civility
- the act of showing regard for others
- endearment
- the act of showing affection
- 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
- fun
- violent and excited activity; "she asked for money and then the fun began"; (colloquial) "they began to fight like fun"
- buzz
- a confusion of activity and gossip; "the buzz of excitement was so great that a formal denial was issued"
- sin, hell
- (colloquial) violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin"
- face saver, face saving
- an act that avoids a loss of face (of dignity or prestige)
- spoil, spoiling, spoilage
- the act of spoiling
- 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
- energy, vigor, vigour, vim
- an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"
- 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"
- 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
- chumminess, comaraderie, comradeliness, comradery
- the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
- companionability, companionableness
- suitability to be a companion
- 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
- pliability, pliancy, pliantness
- the quality of being easily adaptable
- 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"
- 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"
- face value
- the apparent worth as opposed to the real worth
- simulacrum
- an insubstantial or vague semblance
- speck, pinpoint
- a very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"
- pleasingness
- a likeable beauty; "the liveliness and pleasingness of dark eyes"- T.N. Carver
- 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
- 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
- handsomeness, good looks
- the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man)
- prettiness, cuteness
- the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman)
- charisma, personal appeal, personal magnetism
- a personal attractiveness that enables you to influence others
- attractiveness
- a beauty that appeals to the senses
- adorability, adorableness
- extreme attractiveness
- bewitchery, beguilement, animal magnetism
- magnetic personal charm
- 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"
- allure, allurement, temptingness
- the power to entice or attract through personal charm
- affinity
- a natural attraction or feeling of kinship: "an affinity for politics"; "the mysterious affinity between them"; "James's affinity with Sam"
- binding
- the capacity to attract and hold something
- lure, enticement, come-on
- qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
- drawing power
- the capacity for attracting people (customers or supporters)
- 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
- homeliness, plainness
- an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful; "fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness"
- unpleasingness
- the quality of being unpleasant
- hideousness
- extreme ugliness
- unattractiveness
- ugliness that is not appealing
- blemish, defect
- a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
- eyesore
- something very ugly and offensive
- ornateness, elaborateness
- an ornate appearance; being elaborately decorated
- 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
- fussiness
- unnecessary elaborateness in details
- baroque, baroqueness
- elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
- rococo
- fanciful asymmetric ornamentation
- flamboyance, floridness, showiness
- extravagant elaborateness
- 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
- effortlessness
- the quality of requiring little effort; "such effortlessness is achieved only after hours of practice"
- 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"
- smoothness
- the quality of being free from errors or interruptions
- facility, readiness
- a natural effortlessness; "a happy readiness of conversation"--Jane Austen
- difficulty, difficultness
- the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
- effortfulness
- the quality of requiring deliberate effort
- laboriousness, operoseness, toilsomeness
- the quality of requiring extended effort
- arduousness, strenuousness
- extreme effortfulness
- 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"
- awkwardness, cumbersomeness, unwieldiness
- trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape: "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano"
- 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
- compatibility
- capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination
- flea bite
- a very minor inconvenience
- fly in the ointment
- an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something
- congenialness, congeniality
- compatibility between persons
- harmony, harmoniousness
- compatibility in opinion and action
- accord, rapport
- sympathetic compatibility
- incompatibility
- the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination
- congruity, congruousness, congruence
- the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
- 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"
- irony
- incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
- incongruity, incongruousness
- the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
- suitability, suitableness
- the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose; "an important requirement is suitability for long trips"
- Socratic irony
- admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning
- appropriateness
- the quality of being specially suitable
- felicity, felicitousness
- pleasing and appropriate manner or style esp of expression
- fitness, fittingness
- the condition of being suitable; "they had to prove their fitness for the position"
- aptness, appositeness
- appropriateness; "the phrase had considerable aptness"
- handiness, accessibility, availability, availableness
- the quality of being at hand when needed
- convenience
- the quality of being useful and convenient; "they offered the convenience of an installment plan"
- opportuneness, patness, timeliness
- timely convenience
- 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
- unfitness
- the condition of not being suitable; "the judges agreed on his unfirness for the appointment"
- infelicity
- inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style esp of expression
- inaccessibility, unavailability
- the quality of not being unavailable when needed
- inconvenience
- the quality of not being useful or convenient
- ethos
- the distinctive spirit of a people or an era; "the Greek ethos"
- inopportuneness, untimeliness
- the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time
- 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
- quality, caliber, calibre
- a degree or grade of excellence or worth: "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber"
- 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"
- excellence
- the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree
- 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"
- expansiveness
- a quality characterized by magnificence of scale; "the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed"
- admirability, admirableness, wonderfulness
- admirable excellence
- impressiveness, grandness, magnificence
- splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture"
- stateliness, majesty, loftiness
- impressiveness in scale or proportion
- first class
- the highest rank in a classification
- ingenuity, ingeniousness, cleverness
- the property of being ingenious; "a plot of great ingenuity"; "the cleverness of its design"
- first water
- the highest quality gems
- second class
- not the highest rank in a classification
- 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"
- hallmark, trademark, earmark, stylemark
- a distinctive characteristic or attribute
- point, spot
- an outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the high points of the movie"
- capriciousness, unpredictability
- the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses
- inconstancy, changefulness
- the quality of being changeable and variable
- variability, variableness, variance
- the quality of being subject to variation
- diversity
- the condition or result of being variable
- variedness, variational
- characterized by variation
- progressiveness, progressivity
- advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods
- constancy, stability
- the quality of being free from change or variation
- absoluteness
- the quality of being absolute; "the absoluteness of the Pope's decree could not be challenged"
- 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)
- 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"
- similarity
- the quality of being similar
- 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
- homogeneity, homogeneousness
- the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature; "there is a remarkable homogeneity between the two companies"
- uniformity, uniformness
- the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom)
- 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
- affinity
- inherent resemblance between persons or things
- mutual resemblance
- symmetrical resemblance
- 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"
- unlikeness, dissimilitude
- dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness
- allowance, leeway, margin, tolerance
- a permissible difference
- dissimilarity, unsimilarity
- the quality of being dissimilar
- disparateness, distinctiveness
- utter dissimilarity
- heterogeneity, heterogeneousness
- the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind
- nonuniformity
- the quality of being diverse and interesting
- 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
- smoke
- (informal) something with no concrete substance; "his dreams all turned to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors"
- insubstantiality
- lacking substance or reality
- reality
- the quality possessed by something that is real
- unreality
- the quality possessed by something that is unreal
- generality
- the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability
- 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
- prevalence
- the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "the prevalence of dysentery is horrible"
- 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"
- universality, catholicity
- the quality of being universal; existing everywhere
- currency
- general acceptance or use: "the currency of ideas"
- elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy
- marked by elaborately complex detail
- 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
- 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
- orderliness, methodicalness
- the quality of appreciating method and system
- rhythm, regular recurrence
- recurring at regular intervals; "the rhythm of the seasons"
- uniformity
- a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying
- 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"
- homogeneity
- the quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure
- steadiness
- the quality of being steady--regular and unvarying
- evenness, invariability
- a quality of uniformity and lack of variation
- even spacing
- regularity of spacing
- irregularity, unregularity
- not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals
- intermittence, intermittency
- the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping
- fitfulness, jerkiness
- the quality of being spasmodic and irregular
- 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
- patchiness
- unevenness in quality or performance
- jaggedness
- something irregular like a bump or crack in a smooth surface
- 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"
- instability, unstableness
- the quality or attribute of being unstable
- unsteadiness
- the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place
- 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
- 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"
- 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"
- enjoyableness
- pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed; "the enjoyableness of an afternoon at the beach"
- unpleasantness
- the quality of giving displeasure; "the recent unpleasantness of the weather"
- niceness
- the quality of nice
- disagreeableness
- the quality of being disagreeable; and unpleasant
- loathsomeness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness
- the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
- nastiness
- the quality of being unpleasant; "I flinched at the nastiness of his wound"
- offensiveness, odiousness, distastefulness
- the quality of being offensive
- beastliness
- (British) unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather
- hatefulness, obnoxiousness, objectionableness
- the quality of being hateful
- 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"
- sincerity, unassumingness
- a quality of naturalness and simplicity; "the simple sincerity of folk songs"
- unaffectedness
- not affected; a personal manner that is not consciously constrained
- simplicity
- absence of affectation or pretense
- ease, informality
- freedom from constraint or embarrassment; "I am never at ease with strangers"
- spontaneity, spontaneousness
- the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint; "the spontaneity of his laughter"
- unpretentiousness
- the quality of being natural and without pretensions
- affectedness
- the quality of being false or artificial
- naturalization
- the quality of being brought into conformity with nature
- unnaturalness
- the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles
- 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
- pretentiousness, pretension
- the quality of being pretentious (creating a false appearance of great importance or worth)
- 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
- 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
- admissibility
- acceptability by virtue of being admissible
- 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
- permissibility
- admissibility as a consequence of being permitted
- unsatisfactoriness
- the quality of being adequate or suitable
- inadequacy, inadequateness
- unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate
- averageness, mediocrity
- ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding
- 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
- expectedness
- ordinariness as a consequence of being expected and not surprising
- commonness, commonplaceness, everydayness
- ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace
- usualness
- commonness by virtue of not being unusual
- prosiness, prosaicness
- commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting
- 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"
- unusualness
- uncommonness by virtue of being unusual
- uncommonness
- extraordinariness as a consequence of being rare and uncommon
- eeriness, ghostliness
- strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear
- unfamiliarity, strangeness
- unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
- oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet
- a strange attitude or habit
- singularity
- strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual
- abnormality, freakishness
- marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
- quaintness
- strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"
- outlandishness, bizarreness, weirdness
- strikingly out of the ordinary
- oddity, oddness
- eccentricity that is not easily explained
- eccentricity
- strange and unconventional behavior
- 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"
- nativeness
- the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin
- alienage, alienism
- the quality of being alien
- originality
- the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else)
- indigenousness, autochthony, endemism
- nativeness by virtue or originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place)
- orthodoxy
- the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion)
- 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
- traditionalism, traditionality
- strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings
- conventionality, convention, conventionalism
- orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
- ossification, conformity
- hardened conventionality
- 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"
- fidelity
- accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
- trueness
- exactness of adjustment; "I marveled at the trueness of his aim"
- infallibility
- the quality of never making an error
- 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
- inerrancy
- (Christianity) exemption from error; "biblical inerrancy"
- errancy
- (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted doctrine
- errancy
- a tendency to err
- 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
- hot stuff
- the quality of being popular; "skiing is hot stuff in New Hampshire"
- 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"
- unpopularity
- the quality of lacking general approval or acceptance
- elegance
- a quality of refined gracefulness and good taste
- courtliness
- elegance suggestive of a royal court
- 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"
- refinement, breeding, genteelness, gentility
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
- tastefulness
- elegance indicated by good taste
- chic, chicness, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank
- elegance by virtue of being fashionable
- eclat
- brilliant or conspicuous success or effect: "the eclat of a great achievement"
- 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
- 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
- rusticity, gaucherie
- the quality of being rustic or gauche
- awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness
- the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
- raggedness
- shabbiness by virtue of being in rags
- dowdiness, drabness, homeliness
- lacking stylishness or neatness
- shabbiness, seediness, manginess
- a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
- 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
- preciseness, clearcutness
- clarity as a consequence of precision
- 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
- unambiguity, unequivocalness
- clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity
- perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness
- clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous
- 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
- uprightness, rectitude
- uprightness as a consequence of being honorable and honest
- equivocation, evasiveness
- deliberate vagueness or ambiguity
- righteousness
- adhering to moral principles
- piety, piousness
- righteousness by virtue of being pious
- godliness
- piety by virtue of being a godly person
- devoutness, religiousness
- piety by virtue of being devout
- religiosity, pietism
- exaggerated or affected piety
- dutifulness
- piety by virtue of devotion to duty
- unrighteousness
- failure to adhere to moral principles
- impiety, impiousness
- unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god
- sin, sinfulness, wickedness
- estrangement from god
- mark of Cain
- the mark that God set upon Cain now refers to a person's sinful nature
- undutifulness
- impiety characterized by lack of devotion to duty
- ungodliness, godlessness
- impiety by virtue of not being a godly person
- irreligiousness, irreligion
- the quality of not being devout
- atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness
- the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
- mercilessness, unmercifulness
- inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving
- ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savageness, savagery
- the trait of extreme cruelty
- murderousness, bloodthirstiness
- cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder
- pitilessness, ruthlessness
- mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity
- generosity, generousness
- the trait of being willing to give your money or time
- relentlessness, inexorability, inexorableness
- mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up; "the relentlessness or their pursuit"
- 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
- munificence, largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness
- extremely liberal generosity of spirit
- liberality, liberalness
- the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament
- altruism, selflessness
- the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
- 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"
- pettiness
- lack of generosity in trifling matters
- stinginess
- a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money
- meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness
- extreme stinginess
- miserliness
- total lack of generosity with money
- uppityness, uppishness
- assumption of airs beyond one's station
- presumption, presumptuousness, assumption
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"
- 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
- malignity, malignancy, malignance
- quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
- 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
- bluntness
- the quality of being direct and outspoken; "the bluntness of a Yorkshireman"
- unhelpfulness
- an inability to be helpful
- 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
- venality
- prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward
- frailty, vice
- moral weakness
- corruptness, corruption
- lack of integrity or honesty; esp susceptibility to bribery; use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- divinity
- the quality of being divine; "ancient Egyptians believed in the divinity of the Pharaohs"
- profaneness, unsanctification
- unholiness by virtue of being profane
- holiness, sanctity
- the quality of being holy
- sacredness
- the quality of being sacred
- unholiness
- the quality of being unholy
- 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
- shamelessness, brazenness
- behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame
- daredevilry, daredeviltry
- boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior
- audacity, audaciousness, temerity
- fearless daring
- 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
- honorableness, honourableness
- the quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor
- fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unctuousness, unction
- smug self-serving earnestness
- scrupulousness
- conformity to high standards of ethics or excellence
- honor, honour
- the quality of being honorable and having a good name; "a man of honor"
- 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
- decency
- the quality of being polite and respectable
- respectability, reputability
- honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation
- 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
- 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"
- parental quality
- a quality appropriate to a parent
- dishonorableness, dishonourableness
- the quality of not deserving honor or respect
- fatherliness, paternal quality
- the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father: "the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears"
- unscrupulousness
- the quality of unscrupulous dishonesty
- ignobleness
- the quality of being ignoble
- dishonor, dishonour
- lacking honor or integrity
- unrespectability, disreputability, disreputableness
- dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation
- speciousness, meretriciousness
- an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility: "the speciousness of his argument"
- dishonesty
- the quality of being dishonest
- rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness, trickiness
- the quality of being a slippery rascal
- fraudulence, deceit
- the quality of being fraudulent
- jobbery
- corruptness among public officials
- crookedness, deviousness
- the quality of being deceitful and underhanded
- disingenuousness
- the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor
- artfulness
- the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage
- craftiness, deceitfulness, guile
- the quality of being crafty
- cunning
- drafty artfulness (especially in deception)
- insidiousness
- the quality of being designed to entrap
- naivete, naivety, naiveness
- lack of sophistication or worldliness
- sophistication, worldliness
- the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- 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"
- arrogance, haughtiness, lordliness
- overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
- 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
- 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
- peasanthood
- an uncleanliness characteristic of peasants
- slatternliness, sluttishness
- in the manner of a slattern
- 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
- immodesty
- the trait of being vain and conceited
- gaminess, raciness, ribaldry, spiciness
- behavior or language bordering on indelicacy
- unseemliness
- a lack of consideration for others
- unbecomingness
- the quality of being unbecoming
- outrageousness, enormity
- the quality of being outrageous
- composure, calm, calmness, equanimity
- steadiness of mind under stress; "he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity"
- smuttiness, dirtiness
- obscenity in speech or writing
- 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"
- informality
- a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously
- 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"
- politeness, niceness
- a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage
- casualness, familiarity
- a casual manner
- slanginess
- casualness in use of language
- unceremoniousness
- an unceremonial manner
- courtesy, good manners
- a courteous manner
- urbanity
- polished courtesy; elegance of manner
- graciousness
- excellence of manners or social conduct
- suavity, suaveness, blandness
- smooth and gracious in manner
- 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
- bad manners, ill-breeding
- impoliteness resulting from ignorance
- impoliteness
- a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage
- crudeness, crudity, gaucheness
- an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
- ungraciousness
- an offensive lack of good manners
- incivility
- deliberate discourtesy
- immediacy, immediateness
- lack of an intervening or mediating agency: "the immediacy of television coverage"
- 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"
- deviousness, obliqueness
- the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly
- 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
- discursiveness
- the quality of being discursive
- obsolescence, obsoleteness, superannuation
- the property of being out of date and not current
- oldness
- the opposite of newness
- old-fashionedness
- the property of being no longer fashionable
- ancientness, antiquity
- extreme oldness
- hoariness
- great age esp gray or white with age
- quaintness
- the quality of being quaint and old-fshioned; "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing"
- 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
- mustiness, moldiness
- the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
- staleness
- having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging
- youth, youthfulness, juvenility
- the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
- youngness
- the opposite of oldness
- 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
- robustness, hardiness, lustiness
- the property of strong in constitution
- brawn, muscle, sinew
- muscular strength
- might, mightiness, power
- physical strength
- vigor, vigour
- active strength of body or mind
- 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
- backbone, grit, guts, sand, gumption
- (informal) fortitude; "he didn't have the guts to try it"
- fortitude
- strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
- endurance
- the power to withstand hardship or stress
- sufferance
- patient endurance esp of pain or destress
- long-sufferance, long-suffering
- patient endurance of pain or unhappiness
- stamina, staying power, toughness
- enduring strength and energy
- seriousness, distressfulness
- the quality of arousing fear or distress; "he learned the seriousness of his illness"
- 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
- 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"
- ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
- the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
- overemphasis
- too much emphasis
- adynamia
- lack of strength or vigor esp from illness
- 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"
- flimsiness, shoddiness
- the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction
- feebleness, tenuity
- the quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- insubstantiality
- lack of solid substance and strength
- fragility, delicacy
- lack of physical strength
- jugular
- a vital part that is vulnerable to attack; "he always goes for the jugular"
- 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
- 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"
- promptness, promptitude
- the characteristic of doing things without delay
- 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"
- abruptness, precipitateness, precipitance, precipitancy, suddenness
- the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
- haste, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness
- overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"
- 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
- leisureliness
- slowness by virtue of being leisurely
- slowness, deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness
- a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
- 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
- alignment
- the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
- 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
- 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
- marginality
- the property of being marginal or on the fringes
- centrality
- the property of being central
- 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"
- depth
- degree of psychological or intellectual depth
- degree
- the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
- 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"
- 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"
- multiplicity
- the property of being multiple
- 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"
- ampleness
- the property of impressive largeness in size; "he admired the ampleness of its proportions"
- largeness, bigness
- the property of having a relatively great size
- capaciousness, roominess, spaciousness, commodiousness
- spatial largeness (especially inside a building)
- bulkiness, massiveness
- an unwieldy largeness
- enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness
- unusual largeness in size or extent
- 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
- quantity
- an adequate or large amount; "he had a quantity of ammunition"
- delicacy, slightness
- smallness of stature
- puniness, runtiness, stuntedness
- smallness of stature
- dwarfishness
- smallness of stature
- complement
- something added to complete or make perfect: "a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"
- insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
- lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
- 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"
- 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"
- profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia
- the property of being extremely abundant
- amplitude, bountifulness, bounty
- the property of copious abundance
- plenty, plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude
- a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone"
- 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
- moderation, moderateness
- quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes
- scarcity, scarceness
- a small and inadequate amount
- dearth, paucity
- an insufficient quantity or number
- rarity, rareness, infrequency
- noteworthy scarcity
- reasonableness
- moderation in expectations; "without greater reasonableness by both parties we will never settle this matter!"
- golden mean
- the middle between extremes
- 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
- overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance
- a quantity that is more than what is appropriate; "four-year-olds have an overabundance of energy"
- exorbitance, outrageousness
- excessive excess
- luxury, extravagance
- something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity
- 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"
- multitudinousness
- a very large number (especially of people)
- numerousness, numerosity, multiplicity
- a large number
- 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"
- confines
- a bounded scope; "he stayed with the confines of the city"
- 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"
- horizon, view, purview
- the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge"
- latitude
- scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction
- sweep, expanse
- a wide scope; "the sweep of the plains"
- spectrum
- broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities
- gamut
- a complete extent or range: "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions
- arm's length
- a distance sufficient to exclude intimacy
- shortness
- the property of being of short spatial extent
- elongation
- the quality of being elongated
- 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"
- fineness, thinness
- the property of being very narrow or thin; "he marvelled at the fineness of her hair"
- thickness, heaviness
- used of a line or mark
- narrowness
- the property of being narrow
- 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
- value
- the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable; "the Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world"
- worth
- the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful
- demerit, fault
- the quality of being faulty or inadequate; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"
- merit, virtue
- any admirable quality or attribute; "work of great merit"
- worthwhileness
- value sufficient to repay time or effort spent
- praisworthiness
- the property of deserving praise
- 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
- valuelessness
- having none of the properties that endow something with value
- paltriness, sorriness
- worthlessness due to insignificance
- shoddiness, trashiness
- the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better
- vanity, emptiness
- the quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the vanities of the world"
- damn, darn, hoot, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam
- something of little value; "it is not worth a damn"; "not worth shucks"
- 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"
- worse
- something inferior in quality or condition or effect: "for better or for worse"; "accused of cheating and lying and worse"
- 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"
- 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
- costliness, dearness
- the quality possessed by something with a great price or value
- expensiveness
- the quality of being high-priced
- lavishness, luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness
- the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive
- reasonableness, moderateness, modestness
- the property of being moderate in price; "the store is famous for the reasonableness of its prices"
- inexpensiveness
- the quality of being affordable
- fruitfulness, fecundity
- the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- bargain rate, cheapness, cut rate, cut price
- a price below the standard price
- 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
- impracticality
- concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use
- practicability, practicableness
- the quality of being usable
- feasibility, feasibleness
- the quality of being doable
- idealism
- impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
- romanticism
- impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
- competence, competency
- the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
- knight errantry, quixotism
- quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior
- impracticability, impracticableness
- the quality of not being usable
- infeasibility, unfeasibility
- the quality of not being doable
- proficiency
- the quality of having great facility and competence
- fitness
- the quality of being qualified
- aid, assistance, help
- a resource: "visual aids in teaching"; "economic assistance to depressed areas"
- 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"
- resourcefulness
- the quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation: "a man of great resourcefulness"
- 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"
- inner resources
- a resource provided by the mind or one's personal capabilities: "to have resource against loneliness"
- favor, favour
- an advantage to the benefit of someone or something; "the outcome was in his favor"
- advantage, vantage
- the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "he experience gave him the advantage over me"
- bargaining chip
- leverage in the form of an inducement or a concession useful in successful negotiations
- leverage
- strategic advantage; power to act effectively: "relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage"
- lead
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race: "he took the lead at the last turn"
- handicap
- advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning
- 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"
- account
- the quality of taking advantage; "she turned her writing skills to good account"
- profit, gain
- the advantageous quality of being beneficial
- 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)
- profitableness, profitability
- the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit
- privilege
- a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
- expedience, expediency
- the quality of being suited to the end in view
- forte, long suit, metier, specialty, speciality, strong point, strength
- an asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his forte"
- 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
- green thumb, green fingers
- a special ability to make plants grow
- good
- benefit; "for your own good"; "what's the good of worrying?"
- weak point
- an attribute that is inadequate or deficient
- wisdom, wiseness, soundness
- the quality of being prudent and sensible
- common good, commonweal
- the good of a community
- 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"
- disadvantage
- the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position
- 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
- unfavorableness, unfavourableness
- the quality of not being encouraging or indicative of success
- inauspiciousness, unpropitiousness
- the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result
- awkwardness, inconvenience, nuisance value
- the quality of an embarrassing situation; "he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal"
- 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"
- 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?"
- constructiveness
- the quality of serving to build or improve
- 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
- 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"
- matter
- (used with negation) having consequence; "they were friends and it was no matter who won the games"
- 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"
- significance
- the quality of being significant; "do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power"
- momentousness
- utmost importance
- prominence
- relative importance
- greatness
- the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance
- meaningfulness
- the quality of having great value or significance
- historicalness
- significance owing to its history
- 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
- urgency
- pressing importance requiring speedy action: "the urgency of his need"
- indispensability, indispensableness, vitalness
- the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without
- unimportance
- the quality of not being important or worthy of note
- 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"
- pettiness, triviality, slightness
- the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
- inessentiality
- not of baic importance
- dispensability, dispensableness
- the quality possessed by something that you can get along without
- meaninglessness
- the quality of having great value or significance; "he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him"
- insignificance
- the quality of having little or no significance
- 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"
- convincingness
- the power of argument or evidence to cause belief
- 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"
- 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"
- stranglehold, throttlehold
- complete power over a person or situation
- 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"
- dead hand, dead hand of the past, mortmain
- the oppressive influence of past events of decisions
- 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"
- 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"
- pressure
- a force that compels; "the public brought pressure to bear on the government"
- tentacle
- something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp; "caught in the tentacles of organized crime"
- 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"
- incisiveness, trenchancy
- keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect
- effectiveness, effectivity, effectualness, effectuality
- the power to be effective
- 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"
- uninterestingness
- inability to capture or hold one's interest
- unpersuasiveness
- inability to persuade
- 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
- stardust
- a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality
- 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)
- 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"
- 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"
- solubility
- the quality of being soluble
- insolubility
- the quality of being insoluble
- hot stuff
- (informal) the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting); "he thought she was really hot stuff"
- 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"
- 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"
- astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth
- the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- 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"
- sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment
- ability to make good judgments
- 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
- discretion, discreetness, circumspection, prudence
- knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress; "the servants showed great tact and discretion"
- judiciousness
- good judgment
- 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"
- cunning
- shrewdness in deception; "as cunning as a fox"
- brightness, cleverness, smartness
- intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
- knowingness
- shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge
- shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness
- intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
- insightfulness, acumen
- shrewdness shown by keen insight
- 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"
- flight
- passing above and beyond ordinary bounds; "a flight of fancy"; "flights of rhetoric"; "flights of imagination"
- raw talent
- powerfully impressive talent
- fecundity, fruitfulness
- the intellectual fruitfulness of a creative imagination
- fancy
- fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination
- genius, wizardry
- exceptional creative ability
- 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)
- originality
- the ability to think and act independently
- contrivance
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill; "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"
- innovativeness
- originality by virtue of introducing new ideas
- novelty, freshness
- originality by virtue of being new and surprising
- unconventionality
- originality by virtue of being unconventional
- musicianship
- artistry in performing music
- virtuosity
- technical skill or fluency or style exhibited by a virtuoso
- coordination
- the skillful and effective interaction of movements
- professionalism
- the expertness characteristic of a professional person
- adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness
- skillful performance without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"
- 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"
- touch
- deftness in handling matters; "he has a master's touch"
- brushwork
- an artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush
- 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"
- 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
- imbecility
- retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot
- feeblemindedness
- severe mental deficiency
- moronity, mental deficiency
- mild mental retardation
- idiocy, amentia
- extreme mental retardation
- folly, foolishness, craziness
- the quality of being rash and foolish
- talentlessness
- a lack of talent
- awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness
- unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
- unskillfulness
- a lack of cognitive skill
- inefficiency
- unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency
- amateurishness
- something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency
- unoriginality
- uncreativeness due to a lack of originality
- uncreativeness
- a lack of creativity
- fruitlessness
- a lack of creative imagination
- camp
- something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; "the livingroom was pure camp"
- triteness, staleness
- unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed
- 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"
- cognitive factor
- something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result
- complication, tangle, snarl
- something jumbled or confused
- dilemma, quandary
- state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options
- 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"
- 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"
- morale builder
- something or someone who influences by building or strengthening morale
- pestilence
- a pernicious evil influence
- 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"
- bait, come-on, hook, lure, sweetener
- anything that serves as an enticement
- 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)
- 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
- penetration, insight
- clear or deep perception of a situation
- discernment, perceptiveness
- perception of that which is obscure
- 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
- hairsplitting, word-splitting
- making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously"
- Rubicon, point of no return
- a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment
- virtu, vertu, connoisseurship
- love of or taste for fine objects of art
- 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"
- fashion
- the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
- 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"
- bandwagon
- a popular trend that attracts growing support; "when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon"
- 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"
- culture
- the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
- delicacy, discretion
- refined taste; tact
- counterculture
- a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture
- letters
- the literary culture; "this book shows American letters at its best"
- 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
- 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"
- favorite, favourite
- something regarded with special favor or liking; "that book is one of my favorites"
- cull, reject
- the person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
- 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
- irritant, thorn
- something that causes irritation and annoyance; "he's a thorn in my flesh"
- 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"
- bugaboo
- a source of concern; "the old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them"
- 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"
- 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"
- imposition
- an uncalled-for burden; "he listened but resented the imposition"
- fardel
- (archaic) a burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle)
- 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"
- stuff
- a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
- hypostasis
- (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
- quintessence
- the purest and most concentrated essence of something
- tenor, strain
- pervading note of an utterance; "I could follow the general tenor of his argument"
- undertone, undercurrent
- subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning
- drift, purport
- general meaning or tenor: "caught the drift of the conversation"
- 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"
- ego ideal
- an ideal of personal excellence toward which a person strives
- beauty, beaut
- an outstanding example of its kind; "his roses were beauties"; "when I make a mistake it's a beaut"
- 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"
- stereotype
- a conventional or formulaic conception or image: "regional stereotypes have been part of America since its founding"
- 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
- 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
- front
- the outward appearance of a person; "he put up a bold front"
- mirage
- something illusory and unattainable
- 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"
- possibility
- a future prospect or potential; "this room has great possibilities"
- foretaste
- an early limited awareness of something yet to occur
- diabolism, demonism, Satanism
- the worship of devils (especially Satan)
- enchantment, bewitchment
- a magical spell
- 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
- profaneness
- an attitude of irreverence or contempt for a divinity
- reverence
- a reverent mental attitude
- irreverence
- an irreverent mental attitude
- 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
- overtone
- (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality; "overtones of despair"
- nuance, nicety, shade, subtlety, refinement
- a subtle difference in meaning
- 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
- buzzword, cant
- stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
- absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness
- a message whose content is at variance with reason
- balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle
- trivial nonsense
- fa la, fal la
- meaningless syllables in the refrain of a part-song
- incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility
- nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
- gibberish, gibber
- unintelligible talking
- palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric
- loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"
- mummery, flummery
- meaningless ceremonies and flattery
- rigmarole, rigamarole
- a set of confused and meaningless statements
- stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock
- senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"
- babble, babbling
- gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby
- abracadabra
- gibberish and nonsense
- double Dutch
- (colloquial British) incomprehensible talk
- blather, blatherskite
- foolish gibberish
- double talk
- deliberately unintelligible gibberish
- baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
- pretentious or silly talk or writing
- jabber, jabbering, gabble
- rapid and indistinct speech
- chickenshit
- a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear
- bullshit, bull, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash, dogshit
- a ludicrously false statement
- 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"
- circumlocution, indirect expression
- an indirect way of expressing something
- evasion, equivocation
- a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
- 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
- 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"
- wisecrack, crack, sally, quip
- witty 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"
- 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
- punch line, laugh line, gag line, tag line
- the point of a joke or humorous story
- 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
- ethnic joke
- a joke at the expense of some ethnic group
- 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
- funny story, good story
- an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line)
- shaggy dog story
- a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness
- one-liner
- a one-line joke
- sight gag, visual joke
- a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie)
- sick joke
- a joke in bad taste
- fun, play, sport
- verbal wit (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"
- drollery, clowning, comedy, funniness
- a comic incident or series of incidents
- jocosity, jocularity
- fun characterized by humor
- waggery, waggishness
- waggish behavior
- 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"
- poser, stumper, toughie
- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
- riddle, conundrum, enigma, brain-teaser
- a difficult 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"
- exhibitionism
- extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself
- ostentation, fanfare
- a showy outward display
- bravado, bluster
- a swaggering show of courage
- 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
- euphuism
- any artificially elegant style of language
- eloquence, fluency
- powerful and effective 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
- prose
- matter_of_fact, commonplace, or dull expression
- pathos
- a style that has the power to evoke feelings
- 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
- terseness
- a neatly short and concise expressive style
- 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
- conciseness, pithiness, succinctness
- terseness achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words
- verboseness, verbosity
- an expressive style that uses excessive 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
- repetitiveness, repetitiousness
- verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions
- 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
- tautology
- useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"
- pleonasm
- using more words than necessary; "a tiny little child"
- bawdry, bawdy
- lewd or obscene talk or writing; " it was smoking-room bawdry" or "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"
- blasphemy
- blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred)
- obscenity, vulgarism
- obscene word or phrase
- curse, curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss
- profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- scatology
- a preoccupation with scatology
- profanity
- vulgar or irreverent speech or action
- detail
- extended treatment of particulars; "the essay contained too much detail"
- imbroglio
- a very embarrassing misunderstanding
- shocker
- a sensational message (in a film or play or novel)
- sensationalism
- subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes
- 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"
- omen, portent, presage, prognostic
- a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"
- war cloud
- an ominous sign that war threatens
- flash, flashing
- a short vivid experience; "a flash of emotion swept over him"; "the flashings of pain were a warning"
- auspice
- a favorable omen
- foreboding
- an unfavorable omen
- death knell
- an omen of death or destruction
- taste
- a brief experience of something; "he got a taste of life on the wild side"; "she enjoyed her brief taste of independence"
- ordeal
- a severe or trying experience
- 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"
- wonder, marvel
- something that causes feelings of wonder; "the wonders of modern science"
- 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
- 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)
- worst
- the least favorable outcome; "the worst that could happen"
- wages, reward, payoff
- a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward"
- bombshell, thunderbolt, thunderclap
- a shocking surprise; "news of the attack came like a bombshell"
- surprise
- a sudden unexpected event
- 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"
- coup de theatre
- a dramatic surprise
- eye opener
- something surprising and revealing
- stunner
- an unexpected and amazing event: "the stunner was what happened on Saturday"
- pity, shame
- an unfortunate development; "it's a pity he couldn't do it"
- misfortune, bad luck
- unnecessary and unforeseen trouble
- 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"
- hell, blaze
- a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes"
- disembarrassment
- something that extricates you from embarrassment
- onslaught
- a sudden and severe onset of trouble
- calvary, martyrdom
- any experience that causes intense suffering
- 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"
- 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"
- mishap, misadventure, mischance
- an instance of misfortune
- 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"
- Godspeed
- a successful journey; "they wished him Godspeed"
- barnburner
- (informal) a impressively successful event; "the rock concert was a real barnburner"
- anticlimax
- a disappointing decline after ad previous rise: "the anticlimax of a brilliant career"
- Word of God
- a manifestation of the mind and will of God
- epiphany
- a divine manifestation
- 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"
- knock
- a bad experience; "the school of hard knocks"
- 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"
- improvement, betterment, advance
- a change for the better; progress in development
- easing, moderation, relief
- a change for the better
- 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"
- 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"
- flop, bust
- a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop"
- 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"
- landmark, turning point
- an event marking a unique or important historical change or one on which important developments depend
- 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"
- 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)
- 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
- 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"
- fire
- a severe trial; "he went through fire and damnation"
- curse, torment
- a severe affliction
- expense
- a detriment or sacrifice; "at the expense of"
- damage, harm, impairment
- the occurrence of a change for the worse
- development
- a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!"
- turn, turn of events, twist
- an unforeseen development; "events suddenly took an awkward turn"
- revolution
- a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving; "the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution"
- phenomenon
- a remarkable development
- complication, ramification
- a development that complicates a situation; "the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications"
- 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"
- boy
- offensive term for Black man; "get out of my way boy"
- colored person, colored
- a US term for Blacks that is now considered offensive
- darky, darkie, darkey
- offensive term for Black people
- 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 woman
- offensive term for an Oriental woman
- yellow man
- offensive term for an Oriental man
- 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
- pommy, pom
- (Australian and New Zealand) a disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand
- limey, John Bull
- a man of English descent
- 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
- bullyboy
- a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction
- bully, tough, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo
- a cruel and brutal fellow
- 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"
- deepening
- a process of becoming deeper and more profound
- 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"
- 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"
- bugger all, fuck all
- (British slang) little or nothing at all; "I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all"
- nihil, nil
- nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ: "nihil habet")
- 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
- few
- an indefinite but relatively small number; "they bought a case of beer and drank a few"
- 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"
- 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"
- little
- a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him"
- step
- a short distance; "it's only a step to the drugstore"
- 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"
- 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"
- couple
- a small indefinite number; "he's coming for a couple of days"
- droplet
- a tiny drop
- dollop
- a small measure (usually of food)
- spark
- a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger; "a spark of interest"; "a spark of decency"
- 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"
- 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)
- myriad
- a large indefinite number; "he faced a myriad of details"
- much
- a great amount or extent; "they did much for humanity"
- reservoir
- a large or extra supply of something: "a reservoir of talent"
- ocean, sea
- anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
- small fortune
- a large sum of money; "he made a small fortune in the commodities market"
- ream
- a large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams"
- breathing room, breathing space
- sufficient room for easy breathing or movement: "moved to the country to find breathing room"
- 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"
- foundation
- the basis on which something is grounded; "there is little foundation for his objections"
- common ground
- a basis agreed to by all parties for reaching a mutual understanding
- footing, basis, ground
- a relation that provides the foundation for something; "they were on a friendly footing" or "he worked on an interim basis"
- 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
- highlight, high spot
- the most interesting or memorable part; "the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican"
- detail, particular, item
- a small part that can be considered separately from the whole; "it was perfect in all details"
- 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"
- symmetry, proportion
- balance among the parts of something
- balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance
- equality of distribution
- 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"
- equilibrium
- a stable situation in which forces cancel one another
- 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"
- hot potato
- a difficult situation; "he dropped the topic like a hot potato"
- 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"
- 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"
- way
- the condition of things generally; "that's the way it is" or "I felt the same way"
- 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"
- 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"
- tinderbox
- a dangerous state of affairs; a situation that is a potential source of violence; "the Balkans are the tinderbox of Europe"
- 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"
- 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"
- quality
- high social status; "a man of quality"
- place
- proper or appropriate position or location; "a woman's place is no longer in the kitchen"
- stardom
- the status of being acknowledged as a star: "stardom meant nothing to her"
- high status
- of superior status
- 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"
- backseat
- a secondary or inferior position or status: "tennis has had to take a backseat while his work is so demanding"
- 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
- 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
- peace
- the state prevailing during the absence of war
- 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
- 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)
- demoralization
- a state of disorder and confusion; "his inconsistency resulted in the demoralization of his staff"
- instability
- an unstable order
- confusion
- disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably; "the army retreated in confusion"
- babel
- a confusion of voices and other sounds
- chaos, pandemonium, bedlam, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness
- a state of extreme confusion and disorder
- bluster
- noisy confusion and turbulence; "he was awakened by the bluster of their preparations"
- tumult, tumultuousness, uproar, garboil
- a state of commotion and loud confused noise
- 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
- 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
- iron cage
- a cage from which there is no escape
- cage
- something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
- dependence, dependance, dependency
- lack of independence or self-sufficiency
- helplessness
- the state of needing help from something
- subordination
- the state of being subordinate to something
- reliance
- the state of relying on 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"
- criticality
- a critical state; especially the point at which a nuclear reaction is self-sustaining
- 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
- 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
- energy, vim, vitality
- a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor"
- wholeness, haleness
- a state of robust good health
- bloom, blush, flush, rosiness
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- radiance
- an attractive combination of good health and happiness; "the radiance of her countenance"
- freshness, glow
- an alert and refreshed state
- 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"
- pinch
- a painful or straitened circumstance: "the pinch of the recession"
- 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
- 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"
- race problem
- a social and political problem caused by conflict between races occupying the same or adjacent regions
- 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"
- 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"
- betterment
- an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility
- improvement
- a condition superior to an earlier condition: "the new school represents a great improvement"
- decline
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition
- 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"
- omission
- something that has been omitted; "she searched the table for omissions"
- neglect, disuse
- the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"
- renovation, restoration
- the state of being restored to its former good condition; "the inn was a renovation of a Colonial house"
- 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"
- 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
- pedestal
- a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority); "they put him on a pedestal"
- dignity
- high office or rank or station: "he respected the dignity of the emissaries"
- prominence
- the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent
- ennoblement
- the state of being noble
- limelight, spotlight, public eye
- a focus of public attention; "he enjoyed being in the limelight"
- stress, focus
- special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"
- 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"
- primacy
- the state of being first in importance
- eminence, distinction, preeminence, note
- high status importance owing to marked superiority; "a scholar of great eminence"
- obscurity
- an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known; "he worked in obscurity for many years"
- prestige, prestigiousness
- a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.; "he wanted to achieve power and prestige"
- humbleness, unimportance, obscureness
- the state of being humble and unimportant
- anonymity, namelessness
- the state of being anonymous
- nowhere
- an insignificant place; "he came out of nowhere"
- oblivion, limbo
- the state of being disregarded or forgotten
- glory, glorification
- a state of high honor; "he valued glory above life itself"
- honor, honour, laurels
- the state of being honored
- fame, celebrity, renown
- the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
- disesteem
- the state in which esteem has been lost
- 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"
- 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
- character
- good repute; "he is a man of character"
- stock
- the reputation and popularity a person has; "his stock was so high he could have been elected mayor"
- name
- a person's reputation; "he wanted to protect his good name"
- dishonor, dishonour
- a state of shame or disgrace; "he was resigned to a life of dishonor"
- 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"
- 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"
- shame, disgrace, ignominy
- a state of dishonor; "one mistake brought shame to all his family"; "suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison"
- corruptness
- the state of being corrupt
- 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"
- reproach
- disgrace or shame; "he brought reproach upon his family"
- obloquy, opprobrium
- the state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
- 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"
- domination, mastery, supremacy
- power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas"
- ascendant, ascendent
- position or state of being dominant or in control: "that idea was in the ascendant"
- 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"
- ill-being
- lack of prosperity or happiness or health
- fool's paradise
- an illusory state of well-being
- 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
- infestation
- the state of being overrun in unpleasantly large numbers (as by parasites)
- surfeit, excess, overabundance
- the state of being more than full
- damnation, eternal damnation
- the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell
- grace, state of grace
- a state of sanctification by God
- 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"
- integrity, unity, wholeness
- an unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality
- intactness
- the state of being unimpaired
- completeness
- the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed
- wholeheartedness
- undivided purpose or will or enthusiasm
- entirety, entireness, totality
- the state of being total: "appalled by the totality of the destruction"
- comprehensiveness, fullness
- completeness over a broad scope
- 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
- imperfection, imperfectness
- the state or an instance of being imperfect
- sketchiness
- incompleteness of details
- insufficiency, inadequacy
- a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents"
- 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
- hole
- a fault; "he shot holes in my argument"
- 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"
- defectiveness, faultiness
- the state of being defective
- bugginess
- the state of having bugs
- crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness
- a natural or unrefined state
- providence
- a manifestation of God's foresightful care for His creatures
- good fortune, good luck
- a auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes
- blessing, boon
- a desirable state; "enjoy the blessings of peace"; "a spanking breeze is a boon to sailors"
- prosperity, successfulness
- the condition of prospering; having good fortune
- mercy
- something for which to be thankful; "it was a mercy we got out alive"
- weakness
- the condition of being financially weak; "the weakness of the dollar against the yen"
- strength
- the condition of financial success; "the strength of the company's stock in recent weeks"
- success
- a state of prosperity or fame; "he is enjoying great success"; "he does not consider wealth synonymous with success"
- adversity, hardship
- a state of misfortune or affliction: "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"
- 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
- 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
- day
- a period of opportunity; "he deserves his day in court"; "every dog has his day"
- opportunity, chance
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance"
- 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"
- nadir, low-water mark
- an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything
- despair, desperation
- a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"
- purity, pureness
- being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material
- plainness
- the state of being unmixed with other material; "the plainess of vanilla ice cream"
- adulteration, debasement
- being mixed with extraneous material
- impurity, impureness
- the condition of being impure
- admixture, alloy
- the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something
- dust contamination
- state of being contaminated with dust
- contamination, taint
- the state of being contaminated
- 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"
- luxury, luxuriousness, opulence, sumptuousness
- wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living
- 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"
- mammon
- wealth regarded as an evil influence
- poverty, poorness, impoverishment
- the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
- silver spoon
- inherited wealth; "he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth"
- indigence, need, penury, pauperism
- a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
- privation, want, deprivation
- a state of extreme poverty
- destitution
- a state without friends or money or prospects
- 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
- tilth
- the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth
- filth, filthiness, foulness, nastiness
- a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
- dunghill
- a foul or degraded condition
- cleanness
- the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities
- cleanliness
- the habit of keeping free of superficial imperfections
- spit and polish
- careful attention to order and appearance (as in the military)
- 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"
- neatness, spruceness
- the state of being neat and smart and trim
- tidiness
- the habit of being tidy
- trim, trimness
- a state of arrangement or appearance: "in good trim"
- dirt, filth, grime, soil, stain, grease
- the state of being covered with unclean things
- shambles
- a condition of great disorder
- dirtiness, uncleanness
- the state of being unsanitary
- mess, messiness, muss, mussiness
- a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
- 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
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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
- mildness, clemency
- good weather with comfortable temperatures
- calmness
- an absence of strong winds or rain
- bad weather, inclemency, inclementness
- weather unsuitable for outdoor activities
- stillness, windlessness
- calmness without winds
- lull, quiet
- a period of calm weather; "there was a lull in the storm"
- storminess
- the state of being stormy; "he dreaded the storminess of the North Atlantic in winter"
- raw weather
- unpleasantly cold and damp weather
- 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
- miasma
- an unwholesome atmosphere; "the novel spun a miasma of death and decay"
- 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
- 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
- risklessness
- safety as a consequence of entailing no risk
- drought
- a temporary shortage of rainfall
- safety
- the state of being safe; "the safety of the children"
- peace, public security
- the general security of public places; "he was arrested for disturbing the peace"
- security
- the state of being free from danger or injury; "we support the armed services in the name of national security"
- 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"
- secureness
- the state of being secure
- insecurity
- the state of being subject to danger or injury
- 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
- hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk
- a source of danger; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard"
- menace, threat
- something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan"
- powder keg
- a potentially explosive state
- 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
- iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark
- absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness"
- blight
- a state or condition being blighted
- malady
- any unwholesome or desperate condition; "what maladies afflict our nation?"
- light, illumination
- a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination; "follow God's light"
- 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"
- month of Sundays
- (informal) a time perceived as long; "I hadn't seen him in a month of Sundays"
- long
- a comparatively long time; "this won't take long"; "they haven't been gone long"
- 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"
- sound
- appear in a certain way; "This sounds interesting"
- 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"
- 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
- cosponsor
- sponsor together with another sponsor
- sponsor
- assume responsibility for or leadership of; "The senator announced that he would sponsor the health care plan"
- 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"
- wanton, wanton away, trifle away
- spend wastefully; "wanton one's money away"
- squander, blow
- spend lavishly or wastefully on; "He blew a lot of money on his new home theater"
- overspend
- spend at a high rate
- 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)
- burn
- spend (significant amounts of money); "He has money to burn"
- waste, blow, squander
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"
- splurge, fling
- indulge oneself; "I splurged on a new TV"
- retrench
- tighten one's belt; use resources carefully
- conserve, husband, economize, economise
- use cautiously and frugally
- freeload
- live off somebody's generosity
- arrogate, ascribe, assign
- make undue claims to having
- line one's pockets
- make a lot of money
- capitalize, take advantage
- draw advantages from; "he is capitalizing on her mistake"; "she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover"
- 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
- 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"
- reciprocate
- act, feel, or give in return; "We always invite the neighbors and they never reciprocate!"
- 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"
- steamroller
- proceed with great force; "The new teacher tends to steamroller"
- come close
- nearly do something; "She came close to quitting her job"
- assert, put forward
- insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized; "Women should assert themselves more!"
- 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"
- flounder
- behave awkwardly; have difficulties; "She is floundering in college"
- fight, struggle
- make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath"
- 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"
- dabble, smatter, play at, dip into, dabble with, dabble at, dabble in
- work with in a non-serious manner; "She dabbles in astronomy"
- plug away, peg away, slog
- work doggedly or persistently; "She keeps plugging away at her dissertation"
- 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
- upstage
- treat snobbishly, put in one's place
- strong-arm
- handle roughly; "He was strong-armed by the policemen"
- ride roughshod, run roughshod
- treat inconsiderately or harshly
- rough-house
- treat in a rough or boisterous manner
- gloss over, skate over, smooth over, slur over, skimp over
- treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly
- brutalize, brutalise
- treat brutally
- do justice, do-well by
- treat or consider adequately or fairly; "To do him justice, he is brilliant"
- skimp, scant
- work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
- kick around
- treat badly; abuse; "They won't have me to kick around any more!"
- mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, ill-treat
- treat badly
- misbehave, misdemean
- behave badly; "The children misbehaved all morning"
- sandbag
- treat harshly or unfairly
- 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
- pose
- behave affectedly in order to impress others
- sauce
- behave saucy or impudently towards
- assert oneself
- put oneself forward in an assertive and insistent manner
- footle
- act foolishly, as by talking nonsense
- attitudinize, attitudinise
- assume certain affected attitudes
- behave, comport
- behave well or properly; "The children must learn to behave"
- expiate, aby, abye, atone
- make amends for; "expiate one's sins"
- over-correct, overcompensate
- make excessive corrections for fear of making an error
- 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
- 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"
- pan out, work out
- be a success
- achieve, accomplish, attain, reach
- to gain with effort: "she achieved her goal despite setbacks."
- wangle, finagle, manage
- achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
- fail, go wrong, miscarry
- be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt tp rescue the hostages failed miserably"
- 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
- 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"
- dare
- to be courageous enough to try or do something: "I don't dare call him", "she dares to dress differently from the others."
- luck it, luck through
- act by relying on one's luck
- 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"
- 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"
- minister
- attend to the wants and needs of others; "I have to minister to my mother all the time"
- mother, fuss, overprotect
- care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband"
- bootstrap
- help oneself, often through improvised means
- reinstate
- restore to the previous state or rank
- restore
- return to its original condition
- help
- contribute to the furtherance of; "This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries"
- promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
- contribute to the progress or growth of; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom"
- carry
- take further or advance; "carry a cause"
- feed
- support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity"
- carry
- compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance; "I resent having to carry her all the time"
- support, back up
- be supportive of; "Will you support me during the meeting?"
- carry
- maintain or support somebody who is weaker or less competent
- 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"
- undergird
- lend moral support to
- 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
- 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"
- cozen
- act with artful deceit
- shill
- act as a shill
- fool, dupe, gull, befool
- make a fool or dupe of
- solemnize
- observe or perform with dignity or gravity
- poison
- spoil as if by poison; "poison someone's mind"; "poison the atmosphere in the office"
- whore
- corrupt by lewd intercourse
- 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
- 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"
- 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."
- 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
- behave in a patronizing and condescending manner
- condescend, deign, descend
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- 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
- 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"
- frivol, trifle
- act frivolously
- humbug
- trick or deceive
- 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"
- vegetate
- lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
- 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
- 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
- compose
- form the substance of; "Greed and ambition composed his personality
- make
- constitute the essence of; "Clothes make the man"
- 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?"
- 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"
- prowl, lurch
- loiter about, with no apparent aim
- 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
- hesitate, waver, swiver
- pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness: "Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures."
- dwell on, linger over
- delay
- boggle
- hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear
- 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"
- weigh, press
- to be oppressive or burdensome; "weigh heavily on the mind", "Something pressed on his mind"
- count, matter, weigh
- have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter much"
- 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
- twin, duplicate, parallel
- duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse"
- parallel
- be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by ours"
- 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
- come in
- come into fashion; become fashionable
- conflict
- be in conflict; "The two proposals conflict!"
- go out
- go out of fashion; become unfashionable
- clash, jar, collide
- be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash"
- behoove, behove
- be appropriate or necessary; "IT behooves us to reflect on this matter"
- meet, fit, conform to
- of a condition or restriction
- 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
- unbalance
- throw out of balance or equilibrium; "The tax relief unbalanced the budget"
- 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
- 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
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- run on, keep going
- continue uninterrupted; "The disease will run on unchecked"
- taper off, peter out, fizzle out, fizzle
- end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending"
- 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"
- rise, lift, rear
- rise up; "The building rose before them"
- shadow, overshadow, dwarf
- cast a shadow
- loom, tower, hulk
- appear very large
- 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"
- harmonize, consort, accord, fit in, agree
- go together; "The colors don't harmonize"
- befit, suit, beseem
- accord or comport with
- 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
- abound
- be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities
- teem, swarm
- be teeming, be abuzz
- 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"
- crawl
- be crawling with; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
- abound in, teem in, pullulate with
- exist in large quantity
- rule
- have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac
- droop, loll
- hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled"
- bag
- hang loosely, like an empty bag
- dangle, swing, drop
- hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling"
- offset, countervail
- compensate for or counterbalance; "offset deposits and withdrawals"
- cancel, offset, set off
- make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength"
- 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"
- go around
- be sufficient; "There's not enough to go around"
- 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?"
- 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"
- have
- be confronted with: "What do we have here?"; "Now we have a fine mess"
- promise
- give grounds for expectations; "The new results were promising"; "The results promised fame and glory"
- 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"
- implicit, unquestioning
- being without doubt or reserve; "implicit trust"
- direct
- exact; "the direct opposite"
- 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"
- relative
- not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger"
- very(a)
- used to give emphasis; "the very essence of artistic expression is invention"- Irving R. Kaufman; "the very back of the room"
- 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
- crapulous
- given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking; "a crapulous old reprobate"
- 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"
- greedy
- wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume; "don't be greedy with the cookies"
- 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"
- 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
- real, tangible
- possible to be treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor"
- 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"
- abundant
- present in great quantity; "an abundant supply of water"
- 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"
- abounding, galore(ip)
- existing in abundance; "abounding confidence"; "whiskey galore"
- bumper
- extraordinarily abundant; "a bumper crop"
- copious, extensive
- large in number or quantity; "she took copious notes"; "extensive press coverage"
- exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous
- produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming"
- easy
- (economics) plentiful and therefore at low interest rates; easy to come by; "easy money"
- thick
- abundantly covered of filled; "the top was thick with dust"
- plentiful
- existing in great number or quantity; "rhinoceroses were once plentiful here"
- long
- having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply"
- overabundant, plethoric, rife
- excessively abundant
- rank
- growing profusely; "rank jungle vegetation"
- teeming, swarming
- abundantly filled with especially living things; "the Third World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard"; "harried by swarming rats"
- superabundant
- most excessively abundant
- torrential
- pouring in abundance; "torrential rains"
- scarce
- deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
- tight
- (economics) affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow; "tight money"; "a tight market"
- rare
- not widely distributed; "rare herbs"; "rare patches of gree in the desert"
- misunderstood
- not given sympathetic understanding; "a sorely misunderstood child"
- abused, ill-treated, maltreated, mistreated
- physically abused; "an abused wife
- 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"
- unacceptable
- not acceptable; not welcome; "a word unacceptable in polite society"; "an unacceptable violation of personal freedom"
- 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"
- intolerable
- completely unacceptable; "this noise is intolerable"
- 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"
- convenient, handy, ready to hand(p)
- easy to reach; "found a handy spot for the can opener"
- inaccessible, unaccessible
- capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all
- in hand(p)
- accessible at the present time; "waited for supper...glasses in hand"
- deserted
- remote from civilization; "the victim was lured to a deserted spot"
- backwoods(a), outback(a), remote
- inaccessible and sparsely populated
- 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
- 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
- close, faithful
- marked by fidelity to an original; "a close translation"; "a faithful copy of the portrait"; "a faithful rendering of the observed facts"
- 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
- 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"
- 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
- sordid
- meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
- rapacious, ravening, voracious
- excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"
- 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"
- competent
- adequate for the purpose; "a competent performance"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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
- handy
- skillful with the hands; "handy with an axe"
- maladroit
- not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit propaganda"
- 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"
- uncoordinated
- not well coordinated; "his movements are clumsy and uncoordinated"
- 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"
- plus, positive
- involving advantage or good; "a plus (or positive) factor"
- 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"
- profitable
- promoting benefit or gain; "a profitable meeting to resolve difficulties"
- minus, negative
- involving disadvantage or harm; "minus (or negative) factors"
- disadvantageous, harmful
- constituting a disadvantage
- 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"
- safe
- of an undertaking
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- ugly
- deficient in beauty; "ugly gray slums"
- 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;
- 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"
- negative
- expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
- concessive, conceding(a)
- making for or being a concession
- favorable, positive
- granting what has been desired or requested; "a favorable reply"; "a positive answer"
- 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"
- ample
- more than enough in size or scope or capacity; "had ample food for the party"; "an ample supply"
- manque, would-be(a)
- unfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition
- overambitious
- excessively ambitious
- generous
- more than adequate; "a generous portion"
- full, good
- having the normally expected amount; "gives full measure"; "gives good measure"; "a good mile from here"
- meager, meagre, meagerly
- deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"
- wide, wide-cut, full
- having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt"
- 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"
- hardscrabble, marginal
- of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"
- hand-to-mouth(a)
- providing only bare essentials; "a hand-to-mouth 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"
- enlivened, spirited
- made lively or spirited; "a meal enlivened by the music"; "a spirited debate"
- animated, alive
- having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news"
- 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"
- wan
- lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile"
- 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"
- perked up
- made or become more cheerful or lively; "his attention made her feel all perked up"
- enlivened
- made sprightly or cheerful
- unenlivened
- not made lively or brightened; "a life unenlivened by romance"
- new, unexampled
- having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity"
- precedented
- having or supported or justified by a precedent
- unprecedented
- having no precedent; novel; "an unprecedented expansion in population and industry"
- approachable
- easy to meet or converse or do business with; "a friendly approachable person"
- unapproachable
- discouraging intimacies; reserved; "an unapproachable executive"
- accessible
- easy to get along with or talk to; friendly; "an accessible and genial man"
- due
- reasonable in the circumstances; "gave my comments due consideration"; "exercising due care"
- 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"
- pat
- exactly suited to the occasion; "a pat reply"
- in order(p), called for
- appropriate or even needed in the circumstances; "a change is in order"
- 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"
- unbefitting
- not befitting; "behavior unbefitting a father"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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
- articulated
- pronounced distinctly and clearly; "her words were well articulated"
- 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"
- 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
- 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"
- forgetful, oblivious
- failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious old age"
- 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"
- dinky
- (British informal) pretty and neat; "what a dinky little hat"
- 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"
- 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"
- prepossessing
- creating a favorable impression; "strong and vigorous and of prepossessing appearance"
- personable
- (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality
- photogenic
- looking attractive in photographs
- 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"
- unattractive
- lacking power to arouse interest; "being unemployed is a most unattractive prospect"
- off-putting
- tending to repel; "The trappings of upper-class life are off-putting and sterile"- Elizabeth Hess
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- easy
- (economics) less in demand and therefore readily obtainable; "commodities are easy this quarter"
- accessible
- easily obtained; "most students now have computers accessible"; "accessible money"
- 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"
- unavailable
- not available or accessible or at hand; "fresh milk was unavailable during the emergency"; "his secretary said he was unavailable for comment"
- ready(a)
- (of especially money) immediately available; "he seems to have ample ready money"; "a ready source of cash"
- 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"
- 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"
- alarming
- causing alarm or fear
- appalling, dismaying
- causing consternation; "appalling conditions"
- chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery
- so scary as to cause chills and shudders; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"
- 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
- creepy
- causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin; "a creepy story"
- 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"
- 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"
- hairy
- hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains"
- stupefying
- shocking with surprise and consternation; "the stupefying impact of the tragedy"
- petrifying
- paralyzing with terror
- terrific, terrifying
- causing extreme terror; "a terrifying wail"
- unalarming
- not alarming; assuaging alarm
- calming, lulling, quietening
- causing to become tranquil
- unreassuring, worrisome
- not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety
- 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
- 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"
- exquisite
- of extreme beauty; "her exquisite face"
- 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"
- glorious, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous
- having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity"
- 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
- lovely
- appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
- gorgeous
- dazzlingly beautiful; "a gorgeous Victorian gown"
- picturesque
- suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture; "a picturesque village"
- pretty-pretty
- ostentatiously or inappropriately pretty
- pretty
- pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"
- ravishing
- stunningly beautiful; "a ravishing blonde"
- pulchritudinous
- used of persons only; having great physical beauty; "pulchritudinous movie stars"
- scenic
- used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery; "scenic drives"
- ugly
- displeasing to the senses and morally revolting; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"; "war is ugly"
- stunning
- strikingly beautiful or attractive; "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"; "stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"
- hideous, repulsive
- so extremely ugly as to be terrifying; "a hideous scar"; "a repulsive mask"
- 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"
- 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"
- baleful, baneful
- deadly or sinister; "the Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look"
- 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
- malefic, malevolent, malign, evil
- having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"
- 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"
- benevolent, good
- having or showing or arising from a desire to promote the welfare or happiness of others; "his benevolent smile"; "a benevolent nature"
- 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"
- bitchy, catty, cattish
- marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark"
- beady-eyed
- having eyes that gleam with malice
- 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
- benign, benignant
- pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence; "a benign smile"; "the benign sky"; "the benign influence of pure air
- vixenish
- shrewish and malicious; "a vixenish old woman"
- unmalicious
- not malicious or spiteful
- genial, kind
- conducive to comfort; beneficial; "the genial sunshine"; "a kind climate"; "hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet"
- 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"
- 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"
- malevolent, malignant
- extremely malevolent or malicious; "the malignant tongues of gossipers"
- evil, harmful, injurious
- tending to cause great harm
- 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"
- good, go-to-meeting(a), Sunday, Sunday-go-to-meeting(a)
- used of clothing; "my good clothes"; "her Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes"
- first, foremost, top(a)
- ranking above all others; "was first in her class"; "the foremost figure among marine artists"; "the top graduate"
- 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"
- unsurpassable
- not to be exceeded; "unsurpassable skill"; "unsurpassable standards of workmanship"
- unexcelled, unexceeded, unsurpassed
- not capable of being improved on
- 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 undesirable, most unpleasant
- superlatively undesirable and unpleasant
- most evil, most wicked
- superlatively evil and wicked
- most unsuitable, most unattractive
- superlatively unsuitable and unattractive
- 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"
- pessimal, pessimum(a)
- of an organism's environment; least favorable for survival
- 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"
- fitter, healthier
- improved in health or physical condition
- better
- (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness; "her health is better now"; "I feel better"
- amendatory
- effecting amendment; "added amendatory phrases to the text"
- 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
- remedial
- tending or intended to rectify or improve; "a remedial reading course"; "remedial education"
- corrective
- tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"
- 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"
- 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"
- brash, daredevil, temerarious
- presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff"
- emboldened
- made bold or courageous
- 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"
- enmeshed, intermeshed
- caught as if in a mesh; "enmeshed in financial difficulties"
- afoul(ip), foul, fouled
- especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor"
- 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"
- gallant
- unflinching in battle or action; "a gallant warrior"; "put up a gallant resistance to the attackers"
- 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"
- stalwart, stouthearted
- used especially of persons; "a stalwart knight"; "a stouthearted fellow who had an active career in the army"
- game, gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky
- willing to face danger
- lionhearted
- extraordinarily courageous
- 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"
- 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
- 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
- faint, fainthearted, timid
- lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady"
- dastard(a), dastardly
- treacherously cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt
- poltroon
- characterized by complete cowardliness
- funky
- in a state of cowardly fright
- pusillanimous, poor-spirited, unmanly
- lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
- plucky
- showing courage in the face of danger; "a plucky lampooner of the administration"
- 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"
- 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"
- free-thinking, latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical
- unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion)
- 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"
- narrow-minded, narrow
- lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions"
- open-minded
- ready to entertain new ideas; "an open-minded curiosity"; "open-minded impartiality"
- illiberal, intolerant
- narrow-minded about cherished opinions
- close-minded, closed-minded
- not ready to receive to new ideas
- dogmatic, dogmatical
- characterized by arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
- 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"
- opinionated, opinionative, self-opinionated
- obstinate in your opinions
- 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"
- 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
- goldbricking(a)
- shirking your assigned duties; "too many goldbricking employees"
- 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"
- minute, narrow
- characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report"
- 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"
- overcareful, too-careful
- excessively or unduly careful
- particular(a)
- providing specific details or circumstances; "a particular description of the room"
- 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"
- 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"
- haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy
- marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
- incautious
- without out proper caution; "an incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs"
- 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"
- 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
- overcautious
- unnecessarily cautious; "sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business"
- guarded, restrained
- prudent; "guarded optimism"
- 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)
- incautious
- lacking in caution; "an incautious remark"; "incautious talk"
- 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"
- distortable
- capable of having the meaning altered or twisted; "our words are distortable things--as in a crooked mirror held up to nature"
- astatic
- not static or stable
- 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"
- confirmed
- of persons; not subject to change; "a confirmed bachelor"; "a confirmed invalid"
- changeless, unalterable
- remaining the same for indefinitely long times
- 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"
- uncharitable
- lacking love and generosity; "all pious words and uncharitable deeds"- Charles Reade
- 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"
- 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"
- fallen
- having lost your chastity; "a fallen woman"
- 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"
- 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"
- many-sided
- full of variety or interest; "a many-sided personality"
- flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained
- richly and brilliantly colorful
- flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty
- (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
- 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"
- advanced
- (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry; "advanced societies"; "an advanced country technologically"
- civilized
- having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"
- 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"
- unsullied
- spotlessly clean and fresh; "the unsullied snow of mountains"; "the unsullied splender of eternal youth"- Oscar Wilde
- unsoiled, unspotted, unstained
- without soil or spot or stain
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- black
- soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
- buggy
- infested with bugs
- 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"
- fecal, feculent
- foul with waste matter
- greasy, oily
- smeared or soiled with grease or oil; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags"
- 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"
- lousy
- infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"
- mucky, muddy
- dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"
- maculate
- spotted or blotched
- 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"
- blasphemous, blue, profane
- characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
- bawdy, off-color, ribald
- humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language"
- filthy, foul, nasty, smutty
- characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"
- dirty-minded
- having lewd thoughts
- foul-mouthed, foul-spoken
- using foul or obscene language; "noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once"
- scatological
- dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions; "scatological literature"
- 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"
- 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"
- unclear
- not clear to the mind; "the law itself was unclear on that point"; "the reason for their actions is unclear to this day"
- unmistakable
- clearly evident to the mind; "his opposition to slavery was unmistakable"
- vivid
- having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a vivid recollection"
- 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
- 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
- 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"
- 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"
- liquid, limpid
- clear and bright; "the liquid air of a spring morning"; "eyes shining with a liquid luster"; "limpid blue eyes"
- hyaline
- resembling glass in transparency or translucency; "the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline"-Sacheverell Sitwell
- 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
- befogged, befuddled
- stupefied by alcoholic drink; "the wino's poor befuddled mind"; "a mind befogged with drink"
- 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"
- clouded
- mentally disordered; "a mind clouded by sorrow"
- clement
- (used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy; "a more clement judge reduced the sentence"
- 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
- 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"
- inclement
- (of weather of climate) physically severe
- balmy, mild
- mild and pleasant; "balmy days and nights"; "the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth"
- 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
- cagey, cagy, canny, clever
- showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- blockheaded, boneheaded, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed
- used informally
- cloddish, doltish
- heavy and dull and stupid
- nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted, witless
- (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
- gaumless, gormless
- British informal
- lumpish, lumpen, unthinking
- mentally sluggish
- 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"
- remote, removed(p)
- far apart in nature; "considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics"
- loosely knit
- having only distant social or legal ties; "a loosely knit group"
- 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
- approximate, near
- very close in resemblance; "sketched in an approximate likeness"; "a near likeness"
- close
- close in relevance or relationship; "a close family"; "we are all...in close sympathy with..."; "close kin"; "a close resemblance"
- 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"
- seamless
- perfectly consistent and coherent; "the novel's seamless plot"
- 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"
- 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"
- roomy, spacious
- (of buildings and rooms) having ample space; "a roomy but sparcely furnished apartment"; "a spacious ballroom"
- commodious, convenient
- large and and roomy; "a commodious harbor"; "a commodious building suitable for conventions"; (`convenient' is archaic in this sense)
- incommodious
- uncomfortably or inconveniently small; "incommodious hotel accommodations"
- cramped
- constricted in size; "cramped quarters"; "trying to bring children up in cramped high-rise apartments"
- soothing
- affording physical relief; "a soothing ointment for her sunburn"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- warm
- uncomfortable because of possible danger or trouble; "made things warm for the bookies"
- comforted
- made comfortable or more comfortable in a time of distress; "the news make her feel comforted"
- at ease(p)
- socially at ease; "was at ease with strangers"
- 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"
- demotic
- of or for the common people; "demotic entertainments"; "demotic speech"; "a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms"
- 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"
- general
- prevailing among and common to the general public; "the general discontent"
- frequent
- frequently encountered; "a frequent (or common) error is using the transitive verb `lay' for the intransitive `lie'";
- 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"
- odd
- not easily explained; "it is odd that his name is never mentioned"
- extraordinary(p)
- (of an official) serving an unusual or special function in addition to those of the regular officials; "an ambassador extraordinary"
- 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"
- individualist, individualistic
- marked by or expressing individuality; "an individualistic way of dressing"
- 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"
- 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"
- chatty, gossipy, newsy
- prone to friendly informal communication
- blabbermouthed, leaky, talebearing(a), tattling(a)
- prone to communicate confidential information
- 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)
- close, closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information; "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it"
- uncommunicative, incommunicative
- not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions
- blank
- void of expression; "a blank stare"
- 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"
- clayey, cloggy, heavy
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"
- compact
- closely and firmly united or packed together; "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers"
- impacted, wedged
- wedged or packed in together; "an impacted tooth"
- close-packed
- packed especially tightly
- consolidated
- forming a solid mass
- packed
- pressed together or compressed; "packed snow"
- loose
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; "loose gravel"
- 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"
- friable, light, sandy
- (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency; "light sandy soil"
- shifting, unfirm
- (of soil) unstable; "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth"
- unconsolidated
- loose and unstratified; "unconsolidated soil"
- silty
- full of silt; "silty soil"
- comparable
- able to be compared or worthy of comparison
- comparable to(p)
- worthy of comparison; as good as; "at that moment nothing in the world seemed comparable to sleep"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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
- compatible
- able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination; "a compatible married couple";"her deeds were compatible with her ideology"
- hardhearted, stonyhearted, unfeeling
- devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch"
- harmonious
- existing together in harmony; "harmonious family relationships"
- congruous
- suitable or appropriate together
- clashing
- sharply and harshly discordant; "clashing interests of loggers and conservationists"; "clashing colors"
- incompatible
- not compatible; "incompatible personalities"; "incompatible colors"
- antagonistic
- incapable of harmonious association
- 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"
- uncomplaining
- not complaining; "uncomplaining courage"
- protesting(a), protestant
- making a protest
- repining
- wishing discontentedly
- 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"
- fancy-free
- having no commitments or responsibilities; carefree; "a fancy-free bachelor"
- bound up, wrapped up
- deeply devoted to; "bound up in her teaching"; "is wrapped up in his family"
- 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
- zealous in devotion or affection; "a devoted husband and father"; "devoted friends"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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-dress
- complete in every respect; "a full-dress debate"; "a full-dress investigation"
- 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"
- 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"
- incomplete, uncomplete
- not complete or total; not completed; "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass"
- sound
- thorough; "a sound thrashing"
- all-around(a), all-round(a), well-rounded
- many-sided; "an all-around athlete"; "a well-rounded curriculum"
- 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"
- 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"
- encyclopedic, encyclopaedic
- broad in scope or content; "encyclopedic knowledge"
- 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"
- large
- having broad power and range and scope; "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"
- extensive, far-reaching, sweeping
- having broad range or effect; "had extensive press coverage"; "far-reaching changes in the social structure"; "sweeping reforms"
- 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
- accessible, approachable
- capable of being read with comprehension; "readily accessible to the nonprofessional reader"; "the tales seem more approachable than his more difficult novels"
- comprehensible, comprehendible
- readily comprehended or understood; "an idea comprehensible to the average mind"
- apprehensible, intelligible, graspable, perceivable, understandable
- capable of being apprehended or understood
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- suffused
- being spread through with or as with color or light or liquid
- straggly
- growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly; "straggly ivy"
- 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"
- cryptic
- having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"
- 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"
- 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
- 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
- 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"
- telegraphic
- having the style of a telegram with many short words left out; "telegraphic economy of words"; "the strange telegraphic speech of some aphasics"
- 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"
- equivocal
- uncertain as a sign or indication; "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"
- inconclusive
- not conclusive; not putting an end to doubt or question; "an inconclusive reply"; "inconclusive evidence"; "the inconclusive committee vote"
- 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"
- 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
- 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"
- compatible, sympathetic
- having similar disposition and tastes; "a compatible married couple"; "with their many similar tastes, he found her a most sympathetic companion"
- uncongenial, incompatible
- not suitable to your tastes or needs; "the uncongenial roommates were always fighting"; "the task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs"
- sociable
- friendly and pleasant; "a sociable gathering"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- profaned, violated
- treated irreverently or sacrilegiously
- deconsecrated
- divested of consecration
- priestly, priestlike
- befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood; "priestly dedication to the people of his parish"
- buttoned-up
- conservative in professional manner; "employers are looking for buttoned-up types"
- unpriestly
- not priestly; unbefitting a priest; "unpriestly behavior"
- conservative
- resistant to change
- blimpish
- pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic
- hidebound, traditionalist
- stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded
- fusty, standpat(a), unprogressive, nonprogressive
- old-fashioned and out of date
- civil-libertarian
- having or showing active concern for protection of civil liberties protected by law
- ultraconservative
- extremely conservative
- liberal
- tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
- 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
- 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"
- 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
- pursuant(p)
- (followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with; "pursuant to our agreement"; "pursuant to the dictates of one's conscience"
- 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
- reconciled
- made compatible or consistent
- unchanging
- conforming to the same principles or course of action over time
- unreconciled
- not made consistent or compatible; "two unreconciled accountings"
- discrepant, incompatible
- not compatible with other facts
- spotty, uneven
- inconsistent in quality
- unconformable
- not correspondent; "a description unconformable to previous accounts"
- 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"
- marked
- singled out for notice or especially for a dire fate; "a marked man"
- 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"
- 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"
- steadfast, staunch, unswerving
- firm and dependable especially in loyalty; "a steadfast ally"; "a staunch defender of free speech"; "unswerving devotion"; "unswerving allegiance"
- 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
- 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
- constructive
- constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development; "constructive criticism"; "a constructive attitude"; "a constructive philosophy"; "constructive permission"
- 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"
- 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"
- insistent, repetitive
- persistently continual; "the bluejay's insistent cry"
- 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"
- perennial, recurrent, repeated
- recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements"
- running(a)
- continually repeated over a period of time; "a running joke among us"
- sporadic
- recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"
- persistent, relentless, unrelenting
- never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums"
- fitful, spasmodic
- occurring in spells and often abruptly; "fitful bursts of energy"; "spasmodic rifle fire"
- isolated, scattered, stray
- not close together in time; "isolated instances of rebellion"; "scattered fire"; "a stray bullet grazed his thigh"
- 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
- dogging, persisting
- relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit; "impossible to escape the dogging fears"
- continual
- `continual' (meaning seemingly uninterrupted) is often used interchangeably with `continuous' (meaning without interruption)
- sustained
- maintained at length without interruption or weakening; "sustained flight"
- ridden(ip)
- (used in combination) dominated or obsessed by; "grief-ridden"; "war-ridden"
- wild
- not subjected to control or restraint; "a piano played with a wild exuberance"- Louis Bromfield
- 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
- deviating widely from an intended course; "a wild bullet"; "a wild pitch"
- contentious
- involving or likely to cause controversy; "a central and contentious element of the book"- Tim W.Ferfuson
- 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
- polemic, polemical
- of or involving dispute or controversy
- disputed, moot
- open to debate
- accepted, undisputed
- generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute; "the accepted interpretation of the poem"; "an accepted theory"
- uncontroversial, noncontroversial
- not likely to arouse controversy
- argumentative
- given to or characterized by argument; "an argumentative discourse"; "argumentative to the point of being cantankerous"; "an intelligent but argumentative child"
- favorable, favourable, opportune
- at a convenient or suitable time; "an opportune time to receive guests"
- convenient
- suited to your comfort or purpose or needs; "a convenient excuse for not going"
- handy
- easy to use; "a handy gadget"
- awkward
- causing inconvenience; "they arrived at an awkward time"
- 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"
- 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
- conventional
- following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
- customary
- in accordance with convention or custom; "sealed the deal with the customary handshake"
- 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"
- formulaic
- characterized by or in accordance with some formula
- 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
- 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"
- button-down, buttoned-down, conservative
- unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek
- 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"
- stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, unimaginative
- lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative"
- square, straight
- (slang) rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
- alternative
- pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style"
- unconventional
- not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles"
- 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
- 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"
- conformist
- marked by conformity or convention; not corresponding to current customs or rules or styles; "underneath the radical image teenagers are surprisingly conformist"
- 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"
- disenchanting, disillusioning
- freeing from illusion or false belief
- 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"
- 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"
- corruptible, bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal
- capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"
- Augean
- extremely dirty and corrupt; "every government ought to attend to cleaning its own Augean stables"
- corrupted, debased, vitiated
- ruined in character or quality
- 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
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- insignificant, trivial
- not large enough to consider or notice
- inconsiderable
- too small or unimportant to merit attention; "passed his life in an inconsiderble village"; "their duties were inconsiderable"; "had no inconsiderable influence"
- 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"
- shadowy, wraithlike
- lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke"
- 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"
- corrected
- having something undesirable neutralized; "with glasses her corrected vision was 20:20"
- unremedied
- not having been put right; "unremedied errors"
- rectified
- having been put right
- uncorrected
- left faulty or wrong; "uncorrected astigmatism"
- 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"
- corn-fed
- strong and healthy but not sophisticated
- bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated
- awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"
- 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"
- kind, thoughtful
- showing consideration and anticipation of needs; "it was thoughtful of you to bring flowers"; "a neighbor showed thoughtful attention"
- considerate
- showing concern for the rights and feelings of others; "friends considerate enough to leave us alone"
- inconsiderate
- lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others; "shockingly inconsiderate behavior"
- discourteous
- showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young"
- 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
- 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"
- abrupt
- surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner; "an abrupt reply"
- unceremonious
- without due formalities; "unceremonious dismissal from office"
- caddish, unchivalrous, ungallant
- offensively discourteous
- polite
- showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.
- courteous, gracious, nice
- exhibiting courtesy and politeness; "a nice gesture"
- mannerly, well-mannered
- socially correct in behavior
- bratty, brattish
- (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly
- impolite
- not polite
- 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
- 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
- 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"
- astounding, dumbfounding, dumfounding
- bewildering or striking dumb with wonder
- incredible, unbelievable
- beyond belief or understanding; "at incredible speed"; "the book's plot is simply incredible"
- improbable, marvelous, marvellous, tall(a)
- too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story"
- fabulous
- barely credible; "the fabulous endurance of a marathon runner"
- undreamed, undreamed of, undreamt, undreamt of, unimagined
- not imagined even in a dream
- overcredulous
- too credulous for your own good
- scathing, vituperative
- marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"
- hypercritical, overcritical
- inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"
- uncritical, noncritical
- marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures; "news sources reflected uncritical estimates of the number of juvenile addicts"
- 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
- 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"
- 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"
- noncritical, noncrucial
- not in a state of crisis or emergency
- 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"
- critical, decisive
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis; "a critical point in the campaign"; "the critical test"
- 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"
- 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"
- topical
- of interest at the present time; "a topical reference"; "a topical and timely study of civil liberty"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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
- damnable, execrable
- deserving a curse; "her damnable pride"
- 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)!"
- 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"
- alternate(a), alternating(a)
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other; "alternating feelings of love and hate"
- cyclic, cyclical
- recurring in cycles
- 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"
- indecent
- offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture"
- decent
- conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana
- 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"
- unhesitating, resolute
- characterized by quickness and firmness; "his reply was unhesitating"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- licked
- (informal) having been got the better of; "I'm pretty beat up but I don't feel licked yet"
- crushed
- humiliated in defeat
- 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"
- lamblike
- like a lamb in meekness and gentleness
- complying, obliging, yielding
- happy to comply
- circumscribed, delimited
- showing or determining a boundary; "it is impossible to specify a clearly circumscribed (or delimited) area for any particular science"
- 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
- 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"
- primary, primitive
- not derived from or reducible to something else; basic; "a primary instinct"; "seeks excellence at its primitive source--nature"- John Dewey
- 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"
- 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"
- nebulous, unfixed
- lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons"; "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be"- Jane Austen
- 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"
- 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"
- knockabout
- suitable for rough use; "a knockabout overcoat"; "a knockabout old car"
- hardy
- able to survive under unfavorable conditions; "strawberries are hardy and easy to grow"; "camels are tough and hardy creatures"
- 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"
- stern, strict, exacting
- severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
- 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"
- 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"
- absolute
- not limited by law; "an absolute monarch"
- 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"
- 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"
- true
- reliable as a basis for action; "a true prophesy"
- 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
- 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"
- enviable
- causing envy; "an enviable position"
- coveted, desired, in demand(p), sought after
- greatly desired
- delectable, sexually attractive
- capable of arousing desire; "the delectable Miss Haynes"
- preferable, preferred
- more desirable than another; "coffee is preferable to tea"; "Danny's preferred name is 'Dan'"
- plummy
- (informal) "a plummy leading role"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- budding
- beginning to develop; "a budding genius"
- undeveloped
- not developed; "courses in interior design were rare and undeveloped"; "undeveloped social awareness"
- 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"
- 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"
- arduous
- difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill; "the arduous work of preparing a dictionary"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- painless
- requiring little hard work or exertion; "a painless solution to the problem"
- 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"
- smooth
- lacking obstructions or difficulties; "the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly"
- simplified
- made easy or uncomplicated
- 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"
- 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"
- courtly, elegant, formal, stately
- refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"
- demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying
- causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
- undignified
- lacking dignity
- infra dig(p)
- beneath your dignity; "considered helping with the dishes to be infra dig"
- 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
- 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
- diplomatic, wise
- able to take a broad view of negotiations between states
- presidential
- befitting a president; "criticized the candidate for not looking presidential"
- unstatesmanlike
- not statesmanlike; "unstatesmanlike procedure"
- 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"
- conciliating, conciliatory, conciliative
- overcoming animosity or hostility; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit"
- undiplomatic
- not skilled in dealing with others
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- man-to-man
- forthright and honest; "had a man-to-man talk about the facts of life"
- flat-footed
- (informal) without reservation; "a flat-footed refusal"
- square(a), straightforward
- without evasion or compromise; "a square contradiction"; "he is not being as straightforward as it appears"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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)
- 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"
- 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"
- immediate
- having no intervening medium; "an immediate influence"
- indirect
- having intervening factors or persons or influences; "reflection from the ceiling provided a soft indirect light"; "indirect evidence"; "an indirect cause"
- 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"
- discerning
- having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader"
- mediated
- acting or brought about through an intervening agency; "the mediated settlement brought satisfaction to both sides"
- prescient
- perceiving the significance of events before they occur; "extroardinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations"-R.H.Rovere
- 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"
- 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
- undiscerning
- lacking discernment
- discreet
- marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint; "his trusted discreet aide"; "a discreet, finely wrought gold necklace
- uncomprehending
- lacking understanding; "tried to explain to her uncomprehending husband"
- 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"
- imprudent
- lacking wise self-restraint; "an imprudent remark"
- bigmouthed, blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative
- unwisely talking too much
- discriminate, discriminating
- marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; "discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people"
- promiscuous
- not selective of a single class or person; "Clinton was criticized for his promiscuous solicitation of campaign money"
- indiscriminate
- not marked by fine distinctions; "indiscriminate reading habits"; "an indiscriminate mixture of colors and styles"
- 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"
- selective
- tending to select; characterized by careful choice; "an exceptionally quick and selective reader"- John Mason Brown
- 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"
- indiscriminate
- failing to make or recognize distinctions
- undiscriminating, indiscriminating
- not discriminating
- unperceptive
- lacking sensitivity, taste, or judgment
- uncritical
- lacking in discrimination; "she was absolutely uncritical, she believed everything"
- 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"
- 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"
- chiseled, well-defined
- having a clean and distinct outline as if precisely cut along the edges; "a finely chiseled nose"; "well-defined features"
- 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"
- 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"
- crystalline
- distinctly or sharply outlined; "crystalline sharpness of outline"- John Buchan
- 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"
- veiled
- muted or unclear; "veiled sounds"; "the image is veiled or foggy"
- 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"
- 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"
- general
- not specialized or limited to one class of things; "general studies"; "general knowledge"
- undiversified, unvaried
- not diversified
- 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
- 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"
- 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
- obsequious
- attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner; "obsequious shop assistants"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- spectacular
- of the nature of spectacle or drama; "spectacular dives from the cliff"
- melodramatic
- having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama; "a melodramatic account of two perilous days at sea"
- unspectacular
- not spectacular; "an unspectacular but necessary task"
- undramatic
- lacking dramatic force and quality; "moved with quiet force and undramatic bearing"
- untheatrical
- not suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater; "a well-written but untheatrical play"; "an untheatrical personality"
- 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"
- potable
- of alcoholic beverages that are suitable for drinking; "it's an impudent young wine but I think you will find it quite potable"
- drinkable
- 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"
- undrinkable
- not fit to drink
- 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"
- salt
- (rare; of speech) painful; bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology"
- fulgurating
- (medicine) sharp and piercing
- 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"
- breezy
- fresh and animated; "her breezy nature"
- 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"
- 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"
- heavy, leaden
- lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation"
- 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"
- lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless
- lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"
- humdrum, monotonous
- tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"
- dynamic, dynamical
- characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality; "a dynamic market"; "a dynamic speaker"; "the dynamic president of the firm"
- can-do
- (slang) "a can-do kind of person"; "the city's indomitable optimism and can-do spirit"
- active
- in a state of habitual or vigorous activity; "an active man is a man of action"
- 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"
- undynamic, adynamic
- characterized by an absence of force or forcefulness
- slashing
- as if striking with slashing blows; "his slashing demon-ridden cadenza"
- 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"
- ineffective, uneffective, ineffectual
- not producing an intended effect; "an ineffective teacher"; "ineffective legislation"
- impressive, telling
- producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture"
- toothless
- lacking necessary force for effectiveness; "a toothless piece of legislation"
- 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"
- unproductive
- not producing desired results; "the talks between labor and management were unproductive"
- ineffectual
- not sufficient to produce a desired result; "an ineffectual effort to block the legislation"
- difficult
- requiring much effort and trouble; "the mountain climb was long, steep, and difficult"
- 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"
- 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"
- leaden, plodding
- (of movement) slow and laborious; "leaden steps"
- heavy, labored, laboured
- requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
- 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
- inefficient
- not producing desired results; wasteful; "an inefficient campaign against drugs"; "outdated and inefficient design and methods"
- streamlined
- made efficient by stripping off nonessentials; "short streamlined meetings"
- underspent
- not spending at the normal rate
- 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"
- firm, strong
- strong and sure; "a firm grasp"; "gave a strong pull on the rope"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- exquisite, recherche
- lavishly elegant and refined
- inelegant
- lacking in refinement or grace or good taste
- 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
- homely
- without artificial refinement or elegance; "plain homely furniture"; "homely manners"
- 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"
- 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)
- lyric, lyrical
- expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance"
- 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"
- 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"
- metaphysical
- highly abstract and over-theoretical; "metaphysical reasoning"
- notional, speculative
- not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge"
- 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"
- encouraging
- giving courage or confidence or hope; "encouraging advances in medical research"
- disillusioned, enlightened
- freed from illusion
- rallying
- rousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort; "a rallying cry"
- exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory
- giving strong encouragement
- heartening, inspiriting
- cheerfully encouraging
- promotive
- tending to further or encourage
- demoralizing, demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting
- destructive of morale and self-reliance
- 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
- 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"
- frustrating
- discouraging by hindering
- unencouraging
- not encouraging
- 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"
- burdonless, unburdened
- not encumbered with a physical burden or load
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- active, physical
- characterized by energetic bodily activity; "tennis is an active sport"; "a very physical dance performance"
- driving
- acting with vigor; "responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive"
- canty
- (British) lively and brisk
- 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"
- listless
- lacking zest or vivacity; "he was listless and bored"
- dreamy, lackadaisical, languid, languorous
- lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"
- 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;
- unenlightened
- not enlightened; ignorant; "the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order"
- edified
- instructed and encouraged in moral, intellectual, and spiritual improvement
- 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"
- harmonious, proportionate, symmetrical
- exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities
- counterbalanced, counterpoised
- brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another
- 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"
- unquestionable
- not open to question; "an unquestionable (or unequivocal) loss of prestige"
- straightforward
- free from ambiguity; "a straightforward set of instructions"
- esoteric
- confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle; "a compilation of esoteric philosophical theories"
- arcane
- requiring secret or mysterious knowledge; "the arcane science of dowsing"
- 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"
- exoteric
- suitable for the general public; "writings of an exoteric nature"
- 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"
- essential
- basic and fundamental; "the essential feature"
- basal, basic, primary
- of primary importance; "basic truths"
- virtual(a)
- being such in essence or effect though not in actual fact; "a virtual dependence on charity"; "a virtual revolution"; "virtual reality"
- 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"
- 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)
- 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"
- 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
- 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
- candid
- starkly realistic; "I have never lacked candid critics in my own ranks"-Clement Atlee
- 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
- 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"
- perfect
- precisely accurate or exact; "perfect timing"
- mathematical
- (mathematics) characterized by the exactness or precision of mathematics; "mathematical precision"
- rigorous, strict
- rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"
- free, loose, liberal
- not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"
- inexact
- not exact
- approximate, approximative, rough
- not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough estimate"
- 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"
- titillating
- pleasantly and superficially exciting
- heady, intoxicating
- extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic
- 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"
- inexpedient
- not suitable or advisable; "an inexpedient tactic"
- 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
- inadvisable
- not advisable; "an unnecessary and inadvisable action"
- facilitated
- freed from difficulty or impediment
- abeyant, inactive, in abeyance(p), suspended
- temporarily inactive
- sacrificeable
- may be deliberately sacrificed to achieve an objective
- expendable
- suitable to be expended
- 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"
- low-cost, low-priced, affordable
- that you have the financial means for; "low-cost housing"
- dirt cheap
- very cheap; "a dirt cheap property"
- 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
- external
- purely outward or superficial; "external composure"; "an external concern for reputation"- A.R.Gurney,Jr.
- outward
- relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind; "a concern with outward beauty rather than with inward reflections"
- inmost, innermost
- being deepest within the self; "one's innermost feelings"
- 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"
- 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
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- raw
- brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal"
- 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"
- true to(p), true
- sexually faithful; "remained true to his wife"
- 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
- 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"
- familiar
- (often followed by `with') well known or easily recognized; "a familiar figure"; "he was familiar with those roads"; "familiar songs"; "familiar guests"
- 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"
- 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"
- exotic
- strikingly strange or unusual; "exotic costumes from the Far East"; "an exotic hair style"
- eerie, eery
- so strange as to inspire a feeling of fear; "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an eerie midnight howl"
- 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"
- everyday
- commonplace and ordinary; "the familiar everyday world"
- common, usual
- commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting"
- dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, smart, snappy, spruce
- marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
- 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
- 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"
- smart
- of or associated with people of fashion; "the smart set"
- mod, modern, up-to-date
- relating to a recently developed fashion or style
- trendy, voguish
- in accord with the latest fad; "trendy ideas"; "trendy clothes"; "voguish terminology"
- swank, swanky
- imposingly fashionable and elegant; "a swank apartment"
- trendsetting
- initiating or popularizing a trend
- 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"
- out
- no longer fashionable; "that style is out these days"
- 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"
- 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"
- prehistoric
- (informal) "my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes"
- chic, smart, voguish
- elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut"
- classy, posh, swish
- (informal) elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop oon the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child
- chichi
- affectedly trendy
- 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"
- 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"
- hot
- capable of quick response and great speed; "a hot sports car"
- 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"
- finical, finicky, fussy, particular
- exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared"
- 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"
- pernickety, persnickety
- characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"
- meticulous
- marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities"
- old-maidish, old-womanish
- primly fastidious
- unfastidious
- not fastidious; not concerned with cleanliness; "unfastidious in her dress"
- untidy
- careless and slovenly
- buxom, chubby, embonpoint, plump, zaftig, zoftig
- euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies"; "pleasingly plump"
- 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"
- corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund
- excessively fat; "a weighty man"
- gross, porcine
- repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man"
- dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby
- short and fat
- fattish
- somewhat fat
- 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"
- reedy, twiggy, twiglike
- resembling a reed or twig in being slender and fragile
- gangling, gangly, lanky
- ungracefully tall and thin
- lank, spindly
- long and lean
- rawboned
- having a lean and bony physique; "a rawboned cow hand"
- scarecrowish
- resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure"
- 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"
- scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy
- having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
- spare, trim
- thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"
- 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
- wisplike, wispy
- thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson
- spindle-legged, spindle-shanked
- having long slender legs
- stringy, wiry
- lean and sinewy
- 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"
- unfavorable, unfavourable
- not encouraging or approving or pleasing; "unfavorable conditions"; "an unfavorable comparison"; "unfavorable comments"
- pleasing
- able to please or win approval
- 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"
- 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"
- conditioned, in condition(p)
- physically fit; "exercised daily to keep herself in condition"
- 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"
- unsuitable
- not meant or adapted for a particular purpose; "a solvent unsuitable for use on wood surfaces"
- unfit
- below the required standards for a purpose; "an unfit parent"; "unfit for human consumption"
- subhuman
- unfit for human beings; "subhuman conditions of life"
- limber, supple
- (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination"
- versatile
- (used of persons) having many skills
- flinty, granitic, unyielding
- having austere inflexibility; "a flinty manner"; "granitic morality"; "his unyielding mouth and glassy eyes"- Marchette Chute
- die-hard(a), rock-ribbed
- tradition-bound and obstinately opinionated; "an inflexible (or die-hard) conservative"; "rock-ribbed republican"
- 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"
- compromising, conciliatory, flexible
- making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet"
- uncompromising, inflexible
- not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty"
- unyielding
- refusing to give way or compromise; "unyielding determination"
- 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
- 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"
- housewifely
- related or suited to a housewife; "housewifely virtues"
- husbandly
- related to or suited to a husband; "assumed husbandly duties like mowing the lawn"
- undomesticated
- unaccustomed to home life; "after years of marriage he remained essentially undomesticated"
- lingering(a)
- continuing for a long time; "a lingering sense of guilt"
- 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
- kind, tolerant
- tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke"
- memorable
- worth remembering
- forgiving
- inclined or able to forgive and show mercy; "a kindly forgiving nature"; "a forgiving embrace to the naughty child"
- unforgiving
- unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy; "a surly unforgiving old woman"
- unvindictive
- not vindictive
- 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
- ceremonious, conventional
- rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"
- ceremonial, solemn
- marked by pomp or ceremony or formality; "a solemn occasion"; "ceremonial garb"
- 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"
- casual, everyday
- suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"
- 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"
- 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"
- derelict
- deserted or abandoned as by an owner; "a derelict ship"
- castaway(a), rejected
- cast off as valueless
- desolate, forlorn, godforsaken, lorn
- pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; "desolate and despairing"; "left forlorn"
- fortunate
- having unexpected good fortune; "other, less fortunate, children died"; "a fortunate choice"
- unforsaken
- not forsaken
- cherished, held dear(p)
- thought of and clung to fondly or reverentially
- felicitous, happy
- marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome"
- 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"
- heaven-sent, providential, miraculous
- peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention; "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"; "a providential recovery"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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
- 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
- prevailing, predominant
- most frequent or common; "prevailing winds"
- frequent
- coming at short intervals or habitually; "a frequent guest"; "frequent complaints"
- regular, steady
- relating to a person who does something regularly; "a regular customer"; "a steady drinker"
- occasional(a)
- occurring from time to time; "took an occasional glass of wine"
- infrequent
- not frequent; not occurring regularly or at short intervals; "infrequent outbursts of temper"
- 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"
- new-made
- newly made; "the aroma of new-made bread"
- hot
- newly made; "a hot scent"
- 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"
- couthie, couthy
- (chiefly Scottish) agreeable and genial
- comradely, hail-fellow, hail-fellow-well-met
- heartily friendly and congenial
- 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"
- hostile
- very unfriendly; "a hostile attitude"
- 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
- uncordial
- lacking warmth or friendliness; "looked uncordial as we approached"
- unneighborly, unneighbourly
- not exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor
- friendly
- (in combination) easy to understand or use; "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a reader-friendly novel"
- unfriendly
- (in combination) not easy to understand or use; "user-unfriendly"
- fruitful
- productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be fruitful and multiply"
- bountiful, plentiful
- producing in abundance; "the bountiful earth"; "a plentiful year"; "fruitful soil"
- fat, fertile, productive, rich
- marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"
- prolific, fertile
- bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree"
- unfruitful
- not fruitful; not conducive to abundant production
- abounding in(p), abounding with(p), rich in(p), rife with(p), thick with(p)
- abundantly filled; "garden abounding with flowers"; "rich in ideas"; "slums rife with crime"; "the air was thick with snow"
- hardscrabble, poor
- yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil"
- full
- containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing"
- brimful, brimful of(p), brimfull, brimfull of(p), brimming
- filled to capacity; "a brimful cup"; "I am brimful of chowder"; "a child brimming over with curiosity"; "eyes brimming with tears"
- alive with(p), crawling with(p), overflowing with(p), overrun with(p), swarming with(p), teeming with(p)
- filled to overflowing with a vast number of moving or especially living things; sometimes used in combination; "ditches alive with frogs"; "a blanket alive with fleas"; "roads crawling with cars"; "a picnic table crawling with ants"; "a house overflowing with guests"; "fields overrun with locusts"; "swarming with insects"; "parade route swarming with spectators"; "a drop of water teeming with microorganisms"
- chockablock(p), chock-full, chockful, choke-full, chuck-full, cram full
- packed full to capacity; "chowder chockablock with pieces of fish"
- congested, engorged
- overfull as with blood
- filled
- (usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with; "theirs was a house filled with laughter"; "a large hall filled with rows of desks"; "fog-filled air"
- glutted, overfull
- exceeding demand; "a glutted market"
- imbued(p), instinct(p)
- (followed by `with') deeply filled or permeated; "imbued with the spirit of the Reformation"; "words instinct with love"
- heavy, weighed down
- full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes"
- laden, loaded, ladened
- filled with a great quantity; "a tray loaded with dishes"; "table laden with food"; "`ladened' is not current usage"
- riddled
- spread throughout; "cities riddled with corruption"
- overladen, overloaded
- loaded past capacity
- stuffed
- filled with something; "a stuffed turkey"
- swarming
- filled by being spread over; sometimes used in combination; "the foe-swarming field"
- well-lined
- full of money; "a well-lined purse"
- lifeless
- destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings; "after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly"
- open
- relatively empty of and unobstructed by fences or hedges or headlands or shoals; "in open country"; "the open countryside"; "open waters"; "on the open seas"
- vacant
- void of thought or knowledge; "a vacant mind"
- ill-equipped
- poorly supplied with physical equipment; "the school was ill-equipped"
- unprepared
- lacking with intellectual equipment; "unprepared to stand on his own feet"
- stocked, stocked with
- furnished with more than enough; "rivers well stocked with fish"; "a well-stocked store"
- well-appointed, well-found
- having a full array of suitable equipment or furnishings; "a well-appointed kitchen"; "a well-appointed apartment"
- unfed
- not given support; "a grudge that remained unfed"
- self-sustained
- needing no outside support
- mere(a)
- being nothing more than specified; "a mere child"
- such(p), such that
- of a degree or quality specified (by the `that' clause); "their anxiety was such that they could not sleep"
- such(a), such as
- of a kind specified or understood; "it's difficult to please such people"; "on such a night as this"; "animals such as lions and tigers"
- at-large(ip)
- representing the whole of a state or body rather than one specific division or part of it; "ambassador-at-large"
- as a whole(ip), at large(ip), in general(ip)
- considered altogether; "the country at large"; "I enjoyed the play as a whole though I thought the acting could have been better"
- broad, unspecific
- not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread"
- generalized
- made general; widely prevalent; "a problem of generalized human needs"; "a state of generalized discontent"
- gross
- of general aspects or broad distinctions; "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"
- generic
- applicable to an entire class or group; "is there a generic Asian mind?"
- miscellaneous
- constituting a grab-bag category; "the usual collection of miscellaneous expenses"
- mass, large-scale
- occurring widely (as to many people); "mass destruction"
- overall
- involving only main features; "the overall pattern of his life"
- pervading, pervasive
- spread throughout; "a pervasive anxiety overshadows the triumphs of individuals"
- pandemic
- existing everywhere; "pandemic fear of nuclear war"
- plain, popular
- comprehensible to the general public; "written for the popular press in plain nontechnical language"
- limited, special
- having a specific function or scope; "a special (or specific) role in the mission"
- widespread
- widely circulated or diffused; "a widespread doctrine"; "widespread fear of nuclear war"
- specific
- (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique; "rules with specific application"; "demands specific to the job"; "a specific and detailed account of the accident"
- ad hoc
- for or concerned with one specific purpose; "a coordinated policy instead of ad hoc decisions"
- circumstantial
- fully detailed and specific about particulars; "a circumstantial report about the debate"
- particular(a), peculiar(a), special(a)
- unique or specific to a person or thing or category; "the particular demands of the job"; "has a paraticular preference for Chinese art"; "a peculiar bond of sympathy between them"; "an expression peculiar to Canadians"; "rights peculiar to the rich"; "the special features of a computer"; "my own special chair"
- particular(a)
- separate and distinct from others of the same group or category; "interested in one particular artist"; "a man who wishes to make a particular woman fall in love with him"
- proper(ip)
- limited to the thing specified; "the city proper"; "his claim is connected with the deed proper"
- particularized, particularised
- directed toward a specific object; "particularized thinking as distinct from stereotyped sloganeering"
- unique(p)
- (followed by `to') applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality; "a species unique to Australia"
- technical
- characterizing or showing skill in or specialized knowledge of applied arts and sciences; "a technical problem"; "highly technical matters hardly suitable for the general public"; "a technical report"; "producing the A-bomb was a challenge to the technical people of this country"; "technical training"; "technical language"
- nontechnical, untechnical
- not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; "nontechnical aspects of the job"; "nontechnical training"; "an untechnical reader"; "in clear effective nontechnical language"
- abstract, theoretical
- based on specialized theory; "a theoretical analysis"
- specialized
- marked by or characteristic of specialization in a mechanical or scientific subject; "his specialized qualifications for the job"; "all kinds of specialized technical books"
- generous
- willing to give and share unstintingly; "a generous donation"
- lavish, munificent, overgenerous, prodigal, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting
- very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain"
- benevolent, freehearted
- generous in providing aid to others
- big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded
- given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"
- stingy, ungenerous
- not generous; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
- unselfish
- not greedy
- beggarly, mean
- used of sums of money; so small in amount as to deserve contempt
- grudging, niggardly, scrimy
- petty in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip"
- cheap, chinchy, chintzy
- embarrassingly stingy
- cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching
- giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man"
- closefisted, hardfisted, tightfisted
- unwilling to part with money
- meager, scrimpy
- barely adequate; "a meager allowance"
- mean, mingy, miserly, little, small, tight
- used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a small miserly man"
- ungrudging
- without envy or reluctance; "ungrudging admiration"
- parsimonious, penurious
- excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
- generous
- not petty in character and mind; "unusually generous in his judgment of people"
- big, large, magnanimous
- generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies"
- kind
- liberal; "kind words of praise"
- uncharitable, unforgiving
- harsh and severe; "I hope I'm not being uncharitable but he really is a bore"; "unjust and uncharitable criticism"
- ungenerous, meanspirited
- lacking in magnanimity; "it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt. Sup.; "a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive"
- grudging
- "grudging in her praise"
- authentic, bona fide, unquestionable, veritable
- not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring"
- genuine
- not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"
- real, true
- not synthetic or spurious; of real or natural origin; "real mink"; "true gold"
- good
- not forged; "a good dollar bill"
- honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, old(a), sure-enough(a)
- used informally especially for emphasis; "a real honest-to-god live cowboy"; "had us a high old time"; "went upriver to look at a sure-enough fish wheel"
- base
- debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"
- bogus, fake, phony, phoney, bastard
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious
- intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art"
- pinchbeck
- serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism"
- mock
- constituting a copy or imitation of something; "boys in mock battle"
- synthetic
- not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will
- pseudo
- (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of; "a pseudo esthete"; "pseudoclassic"
- bright
- splendid; "the bright stars of stage and screen"; "a bright moment in history"; "the bright pageantry of court"
- glorious
- having or deserving or conferring glory; "a long and glorious career"; "our glorious literature"
- divine, elysian, inspired
- of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine inspiration; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"
- celebrated, historied, storied
- having an illustrious past
- empyreal, empyrean, sublime
- inspiring awe; "well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity"- M.S.Dworkin; "empyrean aplomb"- Hamilton Basso; "the sublime beauty of the night"
- lustrous
- brilliant; "set a lustrous example for others to follow"; "lustrous actors of the time"
- illustrious
- having or conferring glory; "an illustrious achievement"
- incandescent
- characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance; "an incandescent performance"
- obscure, unknown, unsung
- not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes of the war"
- inglorious, dishonorable
- not bringing honor and glory; "some mute inglorious Milton here may rest"
- good
- having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office"
- bang-up, bully, cool, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing
- (informal) very good; "a bully pulpit"; "a cool sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
- good enough
- adequately good for the circumstances; "if it's good enough for you it's good enough for me"
- goodish
- moderately good of its kind; "a goodish wine"
- hot
- very good; often used in the negative; "he's hot at math but not so hot at history"
- satisfactory, acceptable
- meeting requirements; "the step makes a satisfactory seat"
- redeeming(a)
- compensating for some fault or defect; "the redeeming feature of the plan is its simplicity"; "his saving grace was his sense of humor"
- suitable
- suitable for the desired purpose; "Is this a suitable dress for the office?"
- solid
- of good substantial quality; "solid comfort"; "a solid base hit"
- superb
- surpassingly good; "a superb meal"
- bad
- having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"
- atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable
- exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
- fearful, frightful, terrible
- extremely distressing; "fearful slum conditions"; "a frightful mistake"; "suffered terrible thirst"
- deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry
- very bad; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
- fine, pretty
- used ironically; "a fine mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish"
- hard, tough
- unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"
- hopeless
- (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
- horrid
- exceedingly bad; "when she was bad she was horrid"
- icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky
- (informal) very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world"
- ill
- distressing; "ill manners"; "of ill repute"
- negative
- having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant; "ran a negative campaign"; "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life"
- mediocre
- poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"
- poor
- unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"
- severe
- very bad in degree or extent; "a severe worldwide depression"; "the house suffered severe damage"
- unsatisfactory
- not adequate recompense or expiation; "the pay is unsatisfactory and the conditions are unacceptable"
- swingeing
- (British) severe; punishingly bad; "swingeing taxation"; "swingeing damages awarded by the judge"
- unfavorable
- not favorable; "made an unfavorable impression"; "unfavorable reviews"
- unsuitable
- not conducive to good moral development; "the movie is unsuitable for children"
- angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, saintly, sainted
- marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic benificence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother"
- good
- morally admirable
- goody-goody
- affectedly or smugly good or self-righteous
- beneficent, benevolent, gracious
- doing or producing good
- white
- benevolent; without malicious intent; "white magic"; "a white lie"; "that's white of you"
- worthy
- morally admirable; "a worthy citizen"
- evil, wicked
- morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
- bad, immoral
- characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life"
- atrocious, flagitious, grievous, heinous, monstrous
- shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
- black, dark, sinister
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy
- despicable, ugly, vile, unworthy
- morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"
- corruptive, perversive
- tending to corrupt or pervert
- demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy
- extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"
- devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian, mephistophelean
- showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil; "devilish schemes"; "the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen"; "the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye"
- evil-minded
- having evil thoughts or intentions
- atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic, liverish
- irritable as if suffering from indigestion
- ill-natured
- having an irritable and unpleasant disposition; "an ill-natured disagreeable old man"
- bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish
- very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
- cantankerous, crotchety, ornery
- having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers
- churlish
- having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"- Shakespeare
- crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured
- brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"
- crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered
- perversely irritable
- cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy, tetchy, techy
- easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
- dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
- showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
- currish
- resembling a cur; snarling and rude
- feisty, touchy
- irritable and looking for trouble; "too touchy to make judicious decisions"
- shirty, snorty
- (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed
- huffish, sulky
- sullen or moody
- snappish, snappy
- tending to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice"
- shrewish, nagging
- continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents"
- surly, ugly
- inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"
- spoiled, spoilt
- having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child"
- elegant
- of seemingly effortless beauty in form or proportion
- graceful
- characterized by beauty of movement, style, form etc.
- deft
- quick and skillful in movement
- flowing, fluent, fluid, liquid, smooth
- smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"; "liquid prose"
- fluent
- easy and graceful in shape; "a yacht with long, fluent curves"
- gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy
- lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"
- gainly
- graceful and pleasing; "gainly conduct"; "a gainly youth with dark hair and eyes
- gracile, willowy
- slender and graceful
- lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike
- gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease
- awkward
- lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"
- labored, laboured, strained
- lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"
- graceless, ungraceful
- lacking grace; clumsy; "a graceless production of the play"; "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter Scott
- merciful
- used conventionally of royalty and high nobility; "our merciful king"
- wooden
- lacking ease or grace; "the actor's performance was wooden;" "a wooden smile"
- gracious
- characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit; "gracious even to unexpected visitors"; "gracious living"; "he bears insult with gracious good humor"
- elegant, graceful, refined
- suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
- graceless, unpleasing
- lacking graciousness; "a totally graceless hostess"
- urbane
- characterized by tact and propriety
- ungracious
- lacking charm and good taste; "an ungracious industrial city; "this curt summary is not meant to be ungracious"; "ungracious behavior"
- churlish
- rude and boorish
- sudden
- happening without warning or in a short space of time; "a sudden storm"; "a sudden decision"; "a sudden cure"
- explosive
- sudden and loud; "an explosive laugh"
- abrupt
- exceedingly sudden and unexpected; "came to an abrupt stop"; "an abrupt change in the weather"
- sharp
- very sudden and in great amount or degree; "a sharp drop in the stock market"
- unexpected, unforeseen
- happening or coming quickly and without warning; "a sudden unexpected development"
- blessed
- characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time"
- elysian, paradisiacal, paradisiac, paradisaical, paradisaic, paradisal, paradisial
- resembling paradise; causing happiness; "elysian peace"; "a paradisal place without work or struggle"; "paradisial isles"; "an age of paradisiacal happiness"
- golden, halcyon, prosperous
- marked by peace and prosperity; "a golden era"; "the halcyon days of the clipper trade"
- halcyon
- joyful and carefree; "halcyon days of youth"
- hard
- metaphorically hard; "a hard fate"; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"; "a hard climb"
- brutal, cruel, harsh, rigorous, unkind
- (of circumstances; especially weather) causing suffering; "brutal weather"; "northern winters can be cruel"; "a cruel world"; "a harsh climate; "a rigorous climate"; "unkind winters"
- steely
- resembling steel as in hardness; "steely eyes"; "steely nerves like those of a steeplejack"
- stiff, uphill
- hard to overcome or surmount; "a stiff hike"; "a stiff exam"; "an uphill battle against a popular incumbant"
- soft
- metaphorically soft; "my father is a soft touch"; "soft light"; "a soft rain"; "a soft Southern drawl"; "soft brown eyes"; "a soft glance"
- easy
- readily exploited or tricked; "an easy mark"; "an easy victim"
- coddled, pampered, spoiled
- treated with excessive indulgence; "pampered from earliest childhood, he believed the world had been invented for his entertainment"
- compliant
- easily influenced or imposed on
- effeminate, weak
- characterized by excessive softness or self-indulgence; "an effeminate civilization"
- liquid
- yielding; lacking any hint of hardness; "the liquid stillness of the night enveloping him"; "the liquid brown eyes of a spaniel"
- mellow, mellowing
- having or suggesting softness and richness in quality; "a mellow sound"; "the mellow air brought in the feel of imminent autumn"- Thomas Hardy; "a mellowing sun"
- hardhearted, heartless
- lacking in feeling or pity or warmth
- flinty, obdurate, stony
- showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
- cruel, unkind
- lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy
- softhearted, soft-boiled
- easily moved to pity or sorrow; "a softhearted judge"
- hearted
- (used only in combination) having a heart as specified; "gave pleasure to lighter-hearted members of the staff"
- heartless
- marked by lack of heart or feeling; "a heartless tyrant"; "heartless words"
- inoffensive, unoffending
- causing no harm; "an inoffensive animal"
- catastrophic, ruinous
- extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"
- ill
- resulting in suffering or adversity; "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good"
- insidious, pernicious, subtle
- working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "a subtle poison"
- mischievous
- deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods"
- nocent
- having a tendency to cause harm
- pure
- free from discordant qualities
- cathartic, psychotherapeutic
- emotionally purging
- sallow, sickly
- unhealthy looking
- celestial, ethereal, supernal
- of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death"
- heavenly
- of or belonging to heaven or god
- ambrosial, ambrosian
- worthy of the gods
- divine, godly
- emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black1 or white...satanic or godlyt"-Saturday Rev.
- divine, godlike
- being or having the nature of a god; "the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers"-J.G.Frazier; "the divine will"; "the divine capacity for love"; "'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create"-J.G.Saxe
- translunar, translunary, superlunar, superlunary
- unworldly or ethereal; "high translunary dreams"
- paradisiacal, paradisiac, paradisaical, paradisaic, paradisal
- relating to or befitting paradise; "together in that paradisal place"; "paradisiacal innocense"
- providential, divine
- resulting from divine providence; "providential care"
- earthly
- of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven; "earthly beings"; "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"; "earthly love"; "our earthly home"
- earthborn
- connected with earthly life; of earthly origin; "earthborn cares and pleasures"
- earthlike
- resembling or characteristic of earth; "earthlike atmosphere"
- earthbound
- confined to the earth
- sublunar, sublunary, terrestrial
- of this earth; "transcendental motives for sublunary actions"; "fleeting sublunary pleasures"; "the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball"
- mundane, terrene
- belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; "not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind"; "so terrene a being as himself"
- temporal
- of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence"
- heavy
- of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogony furniture"
- dense
- having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead"
- massive
- consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter; "Earth is the most massive of the terrestrial planets"
- hefty
- of considerable weight and size; "a hefty dictionary"
- ponderous
- having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons"
- light
- of comparatively little physical weight or density; "a light load"; "magnesium is a light metal--having a specific gravity of 1.74 at 20 degrees C"
- airy
- having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air; "airy gauze curtains"
- feathery, featherlike
- suggestive of feathers in lightness; "feathery snowflakes"
- lightweight
- having relatively little weight; "lightweight fabrics"
- low-density(p)
- having low relative density or specific gravity
- weighty
- having relatively great weight; heavy; "a weighty load"; "a weighty package"
- weightless
- having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light; "floating freely in a weightless condition"; "a baby bat...fluffy and weightless as a moth"; "jackets made of a weightless polyester fabric"
- heavy
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness; "a heavy heart"; "a heavy schedule"; "heavy news"; "a heavy silence"; "heavy eyelids"
- burdensome, onerous, taxing
- not easily borne; wearing; "the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return"; "my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests"; "a taxing schedule"
- distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying
- causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"
- oppressive
- weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows"
- leaden, weighted
- made heavy or weighted down with weariness; "his leaden arms"; "weighted eyelids"
- weighty
- weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry; "weighty problems"
- heavy
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic"
- light
- psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles; "a light heart"
- fooling, casual
- characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter"
- light
- not great in degree or quantity or number; "a light sentence"; "a light accent"; "casualties were light"; "light snow was falling"; "light misty rain"; "light smoke from the chimney"
- harsh
- severe; "a harsh penalty"
- thick
- abundant; "a thick head of hair"
- easy
- not harsh; causing little distress; "an easy penalty"
- heavy
- of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas"
- big, high
- marked by intense physical force; "a big wind"; "high winds"
- easy, gentle, soft
- having little impact; "an easy pat on the shoulder"; "gentle rain"; "a gentle breeze"; "a soft (or light) tapping at the window"
- light
- of little intensity or power or force; "the light touch of her fingers"; "a light breeze"
- light-footed
- (of movement) having a light and springy step; "a light-footed girl"
- careless(p), thoughtless(p), regardless
- (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration; "careless of the consequences"; "the proverbial grasshopper--thoughtless of tomorrow"; "crushing the blooms with regardless tread"
- heedless, thoughtless, unheeding
- marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"- "Franklin D. Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's crying"
- deaf(p), indifferent(p)
- (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed; "deaf to her warnings"
- heedful, attentive, thoughtful
- taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing"
- helpful
- providing assistance or serving a useful function
- facilitative
- freeing from difficulty or impediment; "facilitative changes in the economic structure"
- assistive
- giving assistance
- face-saving
- maintaining dignity or prestige; "a face-saving compromise"
- kind
- helpful to other people; "helping an old lady with her bundles was his kind deed for the day"
- right-hand
- most helpful and reliable; "my right-hand man"
- reformative, reformatory
- tending to reform; "reformative and rehabilitative agencies"; "reformatory punishment"
- stabilizing
- causing to become stable; "the family is one of the great stabilizing elements in society"
- steadying
- causing to become steady; "had a steadying effect on her nerves"
- useless
- not useful; "a curiously unhelpful and useless manual"
- unhelpful
- providing no assistance
- unconstructive
- not constructive
- assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, sundry(a)
- consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds (even to the point of incongruity); "an arrangement of assorted spring flowers"; "assorted sizes"; "miscellaneous accessories"; "a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music"; "a motley crew"; "sundry sciences commonly known as social"- I.A.Richards
- heterogeneous
- consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature; "the population of the United States is vast and heterogeneous"
- disparate
- including markedly dissimilar elements; "a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers"
- homogeneous
- of the same or similar kind or nature; "a tight-knit homogeneous society"
- inhomogeneous, nonuniform
- not homogeneous
- butch
- pejorative synonym for lesbian
- high
- (literal meanings) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension; "a high mountain"; "high ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high incline"; "a foot high"; sometimes used in combination; "knee-high grass"
- high-level
- occurring at or from a relative high altitude; "high-level bombing"
- altitudinous
- indefinitely high; lofty
- commanding, dominating, overlooking
- used of a height or viewpoint; "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom"
- eminent, lofty, soaring, towering
- of imposing height; especially standing out above others; "an eminent peak"; "lofty mountains"; "the soaring spires of the cathedral"; "towering iceburgs"
- low
- literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension; "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow"
- low-level
- occurring at a relatively low altitude; "a low-level strafing run"
- low-lying
- having a small elevation above the ground or horizon or sea level; "low-lying clouds"
- squat, underslung
- having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground
- high-ceilinged
- having a higher than normal ceiling
- low-ceilinged
- having a lower than normal ceiling
- high
- greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "a high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his career"; "high risks"; "has high hopes"; "high winds"; "the river is high"
- advanced
- at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill; "an advanced degree"; "an advanced text in physics"; "special seminars for small groups of advanced students at the University"
- broad(a), full(a)
- being at a peak or culminating point; "broad day"; "full summer"; "high noon"
- climactic, climactical, peak(a)
- consisting of or causing a climax; "a peak experience"
- exalted
- high or exalted in style or character; "high drama"
- flooding, in flood(p), overflowing, swollen
- overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks"
- great
- more than usual; "great expectations"; "great worry"
- soaring
- ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual; "soaring prices"
- low
- less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoire is low"
- reduced, rock-bottom
- well below normal (especially in price)
- low-level
- not intense; "low-level radiation"
- poor
- low in degree; "expectations were poor"
- honest, honorable
- not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting"; "an honest wage"; "honest weight"
- downright
- characterized by plain blunt honesty; "a downright answer"; "a downright kind of person"
- open
- sincere and free of reserve in expression; "Please be open with me"
- square, straight
- characterized by honesty and fairness; "a square deal"; "wanted to do the square thing"
- dishonest, dishonorable
- deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
- deceptive, misleading
- tending to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"
- beguiling
- misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods; "taken in by beguiling tales of overnight fortunes"
- picaresque
- involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction; "picaresque novels"; "waifs of the picaresque tradition"; "a picaresque hero"
- rascally, roguish, scoundrelly, blackguardly
- lacking principles or scruples; "the rascally rabble"; "the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy"_ W.M. Thackaray; "the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew"
- thieving(a), thievish
- given to thievery
- honorable, honourable
- showing or characterized by honor and integrity; "an honorable man"; "led an honorable life"; "honorable service to his country"
- august, revered, venerable
- profoundly honored; "revered holy men"
- noble, solid, upstanding, worthy
- having high moral qualities; "a noble spirit"; "a solid citizen"; "an upstanding man"; "a worthy successor"
- laureate
- worthy of the greatest honor or distinction; "The nation's pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down his black bag"- James Traub
- time-honored, time-honoured
- honored because of age or long usage; "time-honored institutions"
- dishonorable, dishonourable
- lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed"; "a dishonorable discharge"
- debasing, degrading
- used of conduct; characterized by dishonor
- black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
- shabby
- mean and unworthy and despicable; "shabby treatment"
- abject, resigned, unhopeful
- showing utter resignation or hopelessness; "abject surrender"
- unprincipled
- having little or no integrity
- yellow
- cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight"
- black, bleak, dim
- offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
- despairing, desperate
- arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope; "a despairing view of the world situation"; "the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal"; "a desperate cry for help"; "helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether"; "her desperate screams"
- forlorn
- marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"
- despondent, heartsick
- without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"
- futureless
- having no prospect or hope of a future
- gloomy, grim
- characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"
- uninteresting
- characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food"
- noninstitutional
- not institutional
- bevel, beveled, cant
- having the slant of a bevel; "a bevel edge"; "a cant buttress"
- high-pitched
- set at a sharp or high angle or slant; "a high-pitched roof"
- low-pitched
- set at a low angle or slant; "a low-pitched roof"
- hospitable
- favorable to life and growth; "soil sufficiently hospitable for forest growth"; "a hospitable environment"
- kind
- agreeable; "a dry climate kind to asthmatics"
- inhospitable
- unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable dessert"; "inhospitable mountain areas"
- bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark
- providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
- desert, godforsaken, waste, wild
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places"
- hostile, uncongenial, unfriendly
- very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"
- hospitable
- disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity; "a good-natured and hospitable man"; "a hospitable act"; "hospitable invitations"
- welcoming
- very cordial; "a welcoming smile"
- inhospitable
- not hospitable; "they are extremely inhospitable these days"; "her greeting was cold and inhospitable"
- ill
- indicating hostility or enmity; "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will"
- amicable
- characterized by friendship and good will
- unfriendly, inimical
- not friendly; "an unfriendly act of aggression"; "an inimical critic"
- hot
- used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning; "hot stove"; "hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead"
- well-meaning, unthreatening
- not unfriendly or threatening; "her well-meaning words were received in silence"; "the exasperation of a...well-meaning cow worried by dogs"
- blistering, blistery
- hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters; "blistering sun"
- baking, baking hot
- as hot as if in an oven
- burning(a)
- intensely hot; "a burning fever"; "the burning sand"
- fervent, fervid
- extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances Trollope
- fiery, igneous
- like or suggestive of fire; "the burning sand"; "a fiery desert wind"; "an igneous desert atmosphere"
- sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous
- characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"
- sweltering, sweltry
- excessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness; "a sweltering room"; "sweltering athletes"
- torrid, sultry
- burning hot; extremely and unpleasantly hot; "the torrid noonday sun"; "sultry sands of the dessert"
- tropical, tropic
- of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; "tropical weather"
- cold
- used of physical coldness; having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration; "a cold climate"; "a cold room"; "dinner has gotten cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn up the heat"; "a cold beer"
- arctic, freezing, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar
- extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "let's get inside; I'm freezing"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather"
- bleak, cutting, raw
- unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
- chilled, ice-cold, iced
- made agreeably cold (especially by ice); "a glass of chilled lemonade"; "iced tea"; "an ice-cold coke"
- crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy, parky
- pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term)
- frore
- (archaic) very cold; "whatever the evenings be--frosty and frore or warm and wet"
- stone-cold
- completely cold; "by the time he got back to his coffee it was stone-cold"
- shivery
- cold enough to cause shivers; "felt all shivery"; "shivery weather"
- vernal, springlike
- of or characteristic of or occurring in spring; "the vernal equinox"
- summery
- belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer; "summery weather"; "summery dresses"
- autumnal
- of or characteristic of or occurring in autumn; "the autumnal equinox"; "autumnal fruits"
- wintry, wintery
- characteristic of or occurring in winter; "suffered severe wintry weather"; "brown wintry grasses"
- brumal, hibernal, hiemal
- characteristic of or relating to winter; "bears in brumal sleep"
- fiery, flaming
- very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions"
- hot
- extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm; "a hot temper"; "a hot topic"; "a hot new book"; "a hot love affair"; "a hot argument"
- sensual, sultry
- sexually exciting or gratifying; "sensual excesses"; "a sultry look"; "a sultry dance"
- red-hot, sizzling
- characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement; "a red-hot speech"; "sizzling political issues"
- white-hot
- intensely zealous or fervid; "fierce white-hot loyalty"
- torrid
- emotionally charged and vigorously energetic; "a torrid dance"; "torrid jazz bands"; "hot trumpets and torrid rhythms"
- frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry
- devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile"
- anthropomorphic, anthropomorphous, humanlike
- suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things
- fallible, frail, imperfect, weak
- having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only human"; "frail humanity"
- dehumanized, unhuman
- divested of human qualities or attributes
- inhuman
- belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"
- divine, godlike
- appropriate to or befitting a god; "the divine strength of Achilles"; "a man of godlike sagacity"; "man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers"-R.H.Roveref
- mechanical
- lacking thought or feeling
- superhuman
- above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance; "superhuman beings"; "superhuman strength"; "soldiers driven mad by superhuman misery"
- herculean, powerful
- displaying superhuman strength or power; "herculean exertions"
- subhuman
- less than human or not worthy of a human being; "treated natives as subhuman"; "a subhuman spectacle"; "the subhuman primates"
- kind, merciful
- characterized by mercy, and compassion; "compassionate toward disadvantaged people"; "kind to animals"; "a humane judge"
- humane
- marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering
- compassionate
- showing recognition of unusually distressful circumstances; "compassionate leave"; "considered for a compassionate discharge because of domestic difficulties"
- barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
- (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
- human-centered, humanist, humanistic, humanitarian
- marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare; "a humane physician"; "released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons"; "respect and humanistic regard for all members of our species"
- inhumane
- lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion; "humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world"; "biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used"
- beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish
- resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
- cannibalic
- marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage
- pitiless, unkind
- deficient in humane and kindly feelings
- bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek
- cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice"
- humorous, humourous
- full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein"
- buffoonish, clownish, clowlike, zany
- like a clown; "a buffoonish walk"; "a clownish face"; "a zany sense of humor"
- amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible
- arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics"
- droll
- comical in an odd or whimsical manner; "a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor"
- dry, ironic, ironical, wry
- humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit"
- Gilbertian
- wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas; "a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings"- T.C.Worsley
- farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous
- broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"
- hilarious, screaming(a), uproarious
- marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; "hilarious broad comedy"; "a screaming farce"; "uproarious stories"
- jesting, jocose, jocular, joking
- characterized by jokes and good humor
- killing, sidesplitting
- (informal) very funny; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics"
- seriocomic, seriocomical
- having a mixture of serious with the comic with comic predominating; "a seriocomic novel"
- tragicomic, tragicomical
- having pathetic as well as ludicrous characteristics; "her life...presented itself to me as a tragicomical adventure"- Joseph Conrad"
- witty
- combining clever conception and facetious expression; "his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent"
- waggish
- witty or joking; "Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer"- James Fenimore Cooper
- humorless, unhumorous
- lacking humor; "it was a humorless wink; a wink of warning"- Truman Capote
- unfunny
- not funny; especially failing to achieve the intended humor; "a very unfunny joke"
- sobersided, solemn
- completely lacking in humor or lightness of touch; "choreography that was sobersided and sententious"; "a play with a solemn social message"
- flying, quick, fast
- hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"
- hurried
- moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste; "a hurried trip to the store"; "the hurried life of a city"; "a hurried job"
- hasty, headlong
- excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"
- hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
- unhurried
- relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste; "people strolling about in an unhurried way"; "an unhurried walk"; "spoke in a calm and unhurried voice"
- helter-skelter, pell-mell
- with undue hurry and confusion; "a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause"; "a pell-mell dash for the train"
- rush(a), rushed
- done under pressure; "a rush job"
- careful, deliberate, measured
- with care and dignity; "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed"
- easy, easygoing, leisurely
- not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace"
- elusive
- difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"
- intangible
- hard to pin down or identify; "an intangible feeling of impending disaster"
- impaired
- diminished in strength, quality, or utility; "impaired eyesight"
- dicky, dickey
- (British informal) faulty; "I've got this dicky heart"- John le Carre
- broken
- weakened and infirm; "broken health resulting from alcoholism"
- unimpaired
- not damaged or diminished in any respect; "his speech remained unimpaired"
- intact
- not impaired or diminished in any way; "emerged from the trial with his prestige intact"; "the blast left his hearint intact"
- important, of import
- of great significance or value; "important people"; "the important questions of the day"
- alpha
- first in order of importance; "the alpha male in the group of chimpanzees"; "the alpha star in a constellation is the brightest or main star"
- all-important(a), all important(p), crucial, essential, of the essence(p)
- of the greatest importance; "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence"
- cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal
- serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"
- big
- (informal) "graduation was a big day in his life"
- burning(a)
- of immediate import; "burning issues of the day"
- chief(a), main(a), primary(a), principal(a)
- most important element; "the chief aim of living"; "the main doors were of solid glass"; "the principal rivers of America"; "the principal example"; "policemen were primary targets"
- distinguished, eminent, great
- (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation; "our distinguished professor"; "an eminent scholar"; "a great statesman"
- consequential, eventful
- having important issues or results; "the year's only really consequential legislation"; "an eventful decision"
- Copernican
- of radical or major importance; "a Copernican revolution in modern art"
- grave, grievous, heavy, weighty
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"
- historic
- important in history; "the historic first voyage to outer space"
- measurable
- of distinguished importance; "a measurable figure in literature"
- most-valuable
- (sports) designating the player judged to be the most important to the sport; "the most-valuable player award"
- serious
- of great consequence; "marriage is a serious matter"
- strategic
- highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war; "a strategic chess move"; "strategic withdrawal"; "strategic bombing missions"
- useful, valuable, of value
- of great importance or use or service; "useful information"; "valuable advice"
- unimportant
- not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"
- inconsequent, inconsequential
- lacking worth or importance; "his work seems trivial and inconsequential"; "the quite inconsequent fellow was managed like a puppet"
- immaterial, indifferent
- lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other; often followed by "to"; "whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)"; "what others think is altogether indifferent to him"
- fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
- (informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
- lightweight
- having no importance or influence; "a lightweight intellect"
- nickel-and-dime, small-time
- having no real backing; "a nickel-and-dime operation run out of a single rented room"; "a small-time actor"
- potty
- (British informal) trivial; "potty little details"
- impressive
- making a strong or vivid impression; "an impressive ceremony"
- arresting, sensational, stunning
- commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance"
- amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing
- inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
- astonishing, astounding, staggering, stupefying
- so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm; "such an enormous response was astonishing"; "an astounding achievement"; "the amount of money required was staggering"; "suffered a staggering defeat"; "the figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying"
- baronial, imposing, noble, stately
- impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns"
- dazzling, fulgurant, fulgurous
- dazzling; suggestive of the flashing of lightning; "the skater's dazzling virtuosic leaps"; "these great best canvases still look as astonishing and as invitingly new as they did...when...his fulgurant popularity was in full growth"- Janet Flanner; "adventures related...in a style both vivid and fulgurous"- Idwal Jones
- dramatic, spectacular, striking
- sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect; "a dramatic sunset"; "a dramatic pause"; "a spectacular display of northern lights"; "it was a spectacular play"; "his striking good looks always created a sensation"
- gallant, lofty, majestic, proud
- having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks"
- expansive, grand
- impressive in scale; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand manner"
- formidable
- extremely impressive in strength or excellence; "a formidable opponent"; "the challenge was formidable"; "had a formidable array of compositions to his credit"; "the formidable army of brains at the Prime Minister's disposal"
- heroic, grand
- impressive in size or scope; "heroic undertakings"
- brilliant, glorious, magnificent, splendid
- characterized by or attended with brilliance or grandeur; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony"
- grandiose
- impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval
- palatial
- suitable for or like a palace; "palatial furnishings"; "a palatial yacht"
- important-looking
- impressive in appearance
- mind-boggling
- intellectually or emotionally overwhelming; "a mind-boggling display"; "a mind-boggling puzzle"
- signal
- notably out of the ordinary; "the year saw one signal triumph for the Labour party"
- thundering
- extraordinarily big or impressive; "a thundering success"; "the thundering silence of what was left unsaid"
- unimposing
- lacking in impressiveness; "on the whole the results of this system are unimposing"
- unimpressive
- not capable of impressing
- noticeable
- capable or worthy of drawing attention; "noticeable shadows under her eyes"; "noticeable for its vivid historical background"; "a noticeable lack of friendliness"
- marked, pronounced
- strongly marked; easily noticeable; "walked with a marked limp"; "a pronounced flavor of cinnamon"
- noted
- worthy of notice or attention; "a noted increase in the crime rate"
- unnoticeable
- not noticeable; not drawing attention; "her clothes were simple and unnoticeable"- J.G.Cozzens
- insignificant, undistinguished
- not worthy of notice
- improved
- made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially made ready for use or marketing; "new houses are springing up on an improved tract of land near the river"; "an improved breed"
- unimproved
- not made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially not made ready for use or marketing; "taxes on unimproved land are low"; "unimproved dirt roads"
- accident-prone
- having more than the average number of accidents
- indulgent
- showing or characterized by or given to indulgence; "indulgent grandparents"
- dissipated, betting, card-playing, gambling, sporting
- preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies"
- decadent, effete
- marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"
- gay
- given to social pleasures often including dissipation; "led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies"
- epicurean, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous
- furnishing gratification of the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness"
- hedonic, hedonistic, epicurean
- devoted to pleasure; "a hedonic thrill"; "lives of unending hedonistic delight"; "epicurean pleasures"
- intemperate
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- pampering(a)
- overly indulgent; "pampering parents often have spoilt children"
- austere, stern
- of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
- self-indulgent
- indulgent of your own appetites and desires; "a self-indulgent...way of looking at life"- Havelock Ellis
- nonindulgent
- not indulgent
- blue(a), puritan, puritanic, puritanical
- morally rigorous and strict; "blue laws"; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
- severe, spartan, strict
- unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; "a parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- H.G.Wells; "a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict disciplinarian"; "a Spartan upbringing"
- infectious
- easily spread; "fear is exceedlingly infectious; children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell
- contagious
- easily diffused or spread as from one person to another; "a contagious grin"
- corrupting, contaminating
- that infects or taints
- noninfectious
- not infectious
- Stygian
- hellish; "Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn"- Milton
- infernal
- being of a lower world of the dead; "infernal regions"
- chthonian, chthonic, lower, nether
- of the underworld; "nether regions"
- Hadean, Plutonian, Tartarean
- of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus
- supernal
- being or coming from on high; "interpret the plague as a visitation from heaven, a supernal punishment for the sins of men"
- revealing, telling, telltale(a)
- disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down"
- newsy
- full of news; "a newsy letter"
- illuminating, enlightening
- highly enlightening; making understandable or clarifying; "an illuminating lecture"; "illuminating pieces of information"
- uninformative, uninstructive
- not informative
- newsless
- not providing news or information
- unilluminating, unenlightening
- failing to enlighten or clarify; "an unilluminating report"
- gnostic
- possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things
- noncommital, undogmatic, undogmatical
- characterized by tolerance; "although favoring European unity he was noncommital about the form it should take"
- abreast of(p), au courant, au fait, up on(p)
- being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge; "kept abreast of the latest developments"; "constant revision keeps the book au courant"; "always au fait on the latest events"; "up on the news"
- informed
- having much knowledge or education; "an informed public"; "informed opinion"; "the informed customer"
- conversant(p), familiar(p)
- (usually followed by `with') well informed about; "conversant with business trends"; "familiar with trends in education"
- hep, hip, hip to(p)
- (informal) informed about the latest trends
- educated, enlightened
- having or based on relevant experience; "an educated guess"; "an enlightened electorate"
- ingenuous, artless
- characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"
- candid, open
- openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness; "his candid eyes"; "an open and trusting nature"
- undistorted
- without alteration or misrepresentation; "his judgment was undistorted by emotion"
- disingenuous, artful
- not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"
- distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted
- having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem"
- underpopulated
- having a lower population density than normal or desirable; "the richly endowed but underpopulated Ivory Coast"
- populous, thickly settled
- densely populated
- uninhibited
- not inhibited or restrained; "uninhibited exuberance"
- smothered, stifled, strangled, suppressed
- held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"
- abandoned
- free from constraint; "an abandoned sadness born of grief"- Liam O'Flaherty
- earthy
- hearty and lusty; "an earthy enjoyment of life"
- unrepressed
- not repressed; "unrepressed hostilities"
- unsuppressed
- given vent to; "unsuppressed rage"; "unsuppressed feelings"
- harmed
- having had pain or loss or suffering inflicted
- innocent, guiltless, clean-handed
- free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"
- blameless, inculpable, irreproachable, unimpeachable
- free of guilt; not subject to blame; "has lived a blameless life"; "of irreproachable character"; "an unimpeachable reputation"
- inspiring
- stimulating or exalting to the spirit
- ennobling, exalting
- tending to exalt; "an exalting eulogy"; "ennobling thoughts"
- uninspiring
- depressing to the spirit; "a villa of uninspiring design"
- doctrinaire
- stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability
- enlightening, informative, instructive
- tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action"
- uninstructive, uninformative
- not informative or enlightening
- edifying, enlightening
- enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement; "the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read"
- unedifying, unenlightening
- not edifying
- unenlightening, uninformative, uninstructive
- not tending to inform or clarify; "an unenlightening comment"
- integrated
- formed into a whole or introduced into another entity; "a more closely integrated economic and political system"- Dwight D.Eisenhower; "an integrated Europe"
- coordinated, interconnected, unified
- operating as a unit; "a unified utility system"; "a coordinated program"
- tight-knit, tightly knit
- closely and firmly integrated; "a tight-knit organization"
- plastic
- used of the imagination; "material...transformed by the plastic power of the imagination" (Coleridge)
- intellectual
- appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"
- highbrow, highbrowed
- (informal) highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic"
- reflective
- devoted to matters of the mind; "the reflective type"
- rational
- having its source in or being guided by the intellect (distinguished from experience or emotion); "a rational analysis"
- good, serious
- appealing to the mind; "good music"; "a serious book"
- sophisticated
- intellectually appealing; "a sophisticated drama"
- anti-intellectual, philistine
- smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values
- nonintellectual
- not intellectual
- lowbrow, lowbrowed, uncultivated
- characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes; "lowbrow tastes"
- mindless
- requiring little mental effort; "mindless tasks"
- agile, nimble
- mentally quick; "an agile mind"; "nimble wits"
- intelligent
- having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question"
- alert
- mentally responsive; "an alert mind"
- brainy, brilliant, smart as a whip
- having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence; "some men dislike brainy women"; "a brilliant mind"; "a brilliant solution to the problem"
- apt, clever
- mentally quick and resourceful; "an apt pupil"; "you are a clever man...you reason well and your wit is bold"-Bram Stoker
- incisive, keen, sharp
- very penetrating and clear and sharp in operation; "an incisive mind"; "a keen intelligence"; "of sharp and active intellect"
- bright, smart
- characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average"
- quick, ready
- apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; "a quick mind"; "a ready wit"
- prehensile
- having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
- searching, trenchant
- having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism"
- scintillating
- brilliantly clever; "scintillating wit"; "a play full of scintillating dialogue"
- imbecile, imbecilic
- having a mental age of three to seven years
- unintelligent, stupid
- without much intelligence; "a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers"
- brainless, headless
- not using intelligence
- feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted
- mentally deficient
- moronic
- having a mental age of between eight and twelve years
- unintelligible
- poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise; "unintelligible speech"
- intelligible
- well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly; "intelligible pronunciation"
- slurred, thick
- spoken as if with a thick tongue; "the thick speech of a drunkard"; "his words were slurred"
- well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant
- marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate results; "a well-intentioned but clumsy waiter"; "a well-meaning but tactless fellow"; "the son's well-meaning efforts threw a singular chill upon the father's admirers"- S.W.Maughm; "blunt but well-meant criticism"
- aggravating, exacerbating, exasperating
- making worse
- alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative
- moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
- tempering
- moderating by making more temperate
- weakening
- moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker
- blase, bored
- uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence; "his blase indifference"; "a petulent blase air"; "the bored gaze of the successful film star"
- dismissive
- showing indifference or disregard; "a dismissive shrug"
- dulled, benumbed
- having lost or been caused to lose interest because of overexposure; "the mind of the audience is becoming dulled"; "the benumbed intellectual faculties can no longer respond"
- intriguing
- capable of arousing interest or curiosity; "our team came up with some most intriguing finds"
- interesting
- arousing or holding the attention
- absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, gripping, riveting
- capable of arousing and holding the attention; "a fascinating story"
- newsworthy
- sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper
- uninteresting
- arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip"
- unputdownable
- (of a book etc) so well written and entertaining as to be difficult to put down; "Unless the story is at once as unputdownable to a taxi driver as to a university professor it is not good enough"- Brian Burland
- boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
- insipid, jejune
- lacking interest or significance; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"
- narcotic, soporiferous, soporific
- inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech"
- pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, earthbound
- lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
- ponderous
- labored and dull; "a ponderous speech"
- putdownable
- (of a book) so poorly written and unentertaining as to be easily put down
- intrinsic, intrinsical
- belonging to a thing by its very nature; "form was treated as something intrinsic, as the very essence of the thing"- John Dewey
- built-in, constitutional, inbuilt, inherent, integral
- existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; "the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity"; "a constitutional inability to tell the truth"
- accidental, adventitious
- associated by chance and not an integral part; "poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson; "they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"
- inner, internal, intimate
- innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate structure of matter"
- extrinsic
- not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside; "extrinsic evidence"; "an extrinsic feature of the new building"; "that style is something extrinsic to the subject"; "looking for extrinsic aid"
- adscititious
- added or derived from something outside; not inherent; "an adscititious habit rather than an inherent taste"
- alien, foreign
- not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"
- extraneous
- not essential; "the ballet struck me as extraneous and somewhat out of keeping with the rest of the play"
- encroaching(a), invasive, trespassing(a)
- gradually intrusive without right or permision; "we moved back from the encroaching tide"; "invasive tourists"; "trespassing hunters"
- intrusive
- tending to intrude (especially upon privacy); "she felt her presence there was intrusive"
- interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business"
- unintrusive, not intrusive
- not interfering or meddling
- starting
- (especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear; "with eyes starting from their sockets"
- invigorating
- imparting strength and vitality; "the invigorating mountain air"
- bracing, brisk, energizing, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic
- imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air"
- animating, enlivening
- giving spirit and vivacity
- corroborant
- (used of a medicine; archaic) strengthening
- renewing, restorative, reviving, revitalizing
- tending to impart new life and vigor to; "the renewing warmth of the sunshine"
- exhilarating, stimulating
- making lively and cheerful; "the exhilarating effect of mountain air"
- fortifying, strengthening
- invigorating physically or mentally
- life-giving, vital, vitalizing
- giving or having the power to give life and spirit; "returning the life-giving humus to the land"- Louis Bromfield; "life-giving love and praise"; "the vital rays of the warming sun"
- draining, exhausting, killing
- having a debilitating effect; "a killing job in the hot sun"
- debilitating
- impairing the strength and vitality
- debilitative, enervating, enfeebling, weakening
- causing debilitation
- inviting
- attractive and tempting; "an inviting offer"
- tantalizing, tempting
- very pleasantly inviting; "a tantalizing aroma"; "a tempting repast"
- unattractive, untempting
- not appealing to the senses; "untempting food"
- tantalizing
- arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach; "a tantalizing taste of success"
- uninviting
- neither attractive nor tempting
- bittersweet
- tinged with sadness; "a movie with a bittersweet ending"
- depressing, depressive, gloomy, saddening
- causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
- doleful, mournful
- filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"
- tragic, tragical
- very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident"
- tragicomic, tragicomical
- manifesting both tragic and comic aspects; "the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B.R.Redman
- wistful, yearning
- full of longing or unfulfilled desire; "those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds"
- joyful
- full of or producing joy; "make a joyful noise"; "a joyful occasion"
- beatific
- experiencing or bestowing celestial joy; "beatific peace"
- grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending
- causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
- bitter
- expressive of severe grief or regret; "shed bitter tears"
- lamentable
- an archaic word for mournful; "tell thou the lamentable tale of me, And send the hearers weeping to their beds"- Shakespeare
- lugubrious
- excessively mournful
- gala(a), gay, festal, festive, merry
- offering fun and gaiety; "a gala ball after the inauguration"; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening"
- funereal, sepulchral
- suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"
- lush, succulent
- full of juice; "lush fruits"; "succulent roast beef"; "succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves"
- sappy
- abounding in sap; "sappy maple trees"; "sappy kindling wood"
- conscionable
- acceptable to your conscience
- fitting, meet
- being precisely fitting and right
- retributive, retributory
- given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice"
- merited
- properly earned or deserved; "a merited success"
- condign
- fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment; "condign censure"
- deserved, due
- proper and appropriate; fitting; "richly deserved punishment"; "due esteem"
- earned
- merited through behavior; "a well-earned rest"
- unmerited
- not merited or deserved; "received an unmerited honorary degree"
- gratuitous
- without cause; "a gratuitous insult"
- undeserved, unearned
- not deserved or earned; "has an undeserved reputation as a coward"
- kind
- having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior; "kind to sick patients"; "a kind master"; "kind words showing understanding and sympathy"; "thanked her for her kind letter"
- charitable, kindly, sympathetic
- showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding; "was charitable in his opinions of others"; "kindly criticism"; "a kindly act"; "sympathetic words"
- benignant, gracious
- characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects; "our benignant king"
- benign
- of disposition or manner; "the benign ruler of millions"; "benign intentions"
- gentle
- having or showing a kindly or tender nature; "the gentle touch of her hand"; "her gentle manner was comforting"; "a gentle sensitive nature"; "gentle blue eyes"
- kindhearted
- having or proceeding from an innately kind disposition; "a generous and kindhearted teacher"
- cutting, edged, stinging
- (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"
- unkind
- lacking kindness; "a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all"
- harsh
- extremely unkind or cruel; "had harsh words"; "a harsh and unlovable old tyrant"
- unkindly, unsympathetic
- lacking in sympathy and kindness; "unkindly acts"
- celebrated, famed, far-famed, famous, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned
- widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter"
- legendary
- so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend; "the legendary exploits of the arctic trailblazers"
- proverbial
- widely known and spoken of; "her proverbial lateness"; "the proverbial absentiminded professor"; "your proverbial dizzy blonde"
- misunderstood
- wrongly understood; "a misunderstood criticism"; "a misunderstood question"
- ample, sizable, sizeable
- fairly large; "a sizable fortune"; "an ample waistline"; "of ample proportions"
- large, big
- above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"
- astronomic, astronomical, galactic
- inconceivably large
- biggish, largish
- somewhat large
- broad, spacious, wide
- very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies"
- deep
- large in quantity or size; "deep cuts in the budget"
- bulky
- of large size for its weight
- capacious
- large in capacity; "she carried a capacious bag"
- colossal, prodigious, stupendous
- so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand"
- enormous, tremendous
- extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous face in human experience; that...civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a plane took off with a tremendous noise"
- cosmic
- inconceivably extended in space or time
- elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo
- of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jeg"
- epic, heroic, larger-than-life
- surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale; "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture"
- extensive, extended
- large in extent or range; "an extensive Roman settlement in northwest England"; "extended farm lands"
- gigantic, mammoth
- so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth; "a gigantic redwood"; "gigantic disappointment"; "a mammoth ship"; "a mammoth multinational corporation"
- great
- relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind; "a great juicy steak"; "a great multitude"; "the great auk"; "a great old oak"; "a great ocean liner"; "a great delay"
- hulking, hulky
- of great size and bulk; "a hulking figure of a man"; "three hulking battleships"
- huge, immense, vast
- unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge
- humongous, thumping, whopping, walloping
- (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss"
- large-scale
- unusually large in scope; "a large-scale attack on AIDS is needed"
- large-scale
- constructed or drawn to a big scale; "large-scale maps"
- macro
- (combining form) very large in scale or scope or capability; "`macro' in the word `macroscopic' is a combining form"
- man-sized
- (informal) appropriate to the size of a man; "a man-sized piece of cake"
- massive, monolithic, monumental
- imposing in size or bulk or solidity; "massive oak doors"; "Moore's massive sculptures"; "the monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture"; "a monumental scale"
- massive
- imposing in scale or scope or degree or power; "massive retaliatory power"; "a massive increase in oil prices"; "massive changes"
- monstrous
- abnormally large
- mountainous
- like a mountain in size and impressiveness; "mountainous waves"; "a mountainous dark man"
- outsize, outsized, oversize, oversized
- larger than normal for its kind
- overlarge, too large
- excessively large
- plumping
- very large; of exceptional size for its kind; "won by a plumping majority"
- super
- extremely large; "another super skyscraper"
- rangy
- allowing ample room for ranging
- voluminous
- large in volume or bulk; "a voluminous skirt"
- titanic
- of great force or power
- whacking
- (British informal) enormous; "a whacking phone bill"; "a whacking lie"
- small, little
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a small house"; "read the small print"; "a little (or small) group"
- wide-ranging
- including much; "the pianist's wide-ranging repertoire"
- bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny
- very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"
- bitty, bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy
- used informally; very small; "a wee tot"
- dwarf, dwarfish
- atypically small; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star"
- dinky
- (informal) small and insignificant; "we stayed in a dinky old hotel"
- elfin, elflike
- small and delicate; "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small"
- fine
- very small; "be sure to read the fine print"
- infinitesimal, minute, microscopic
- infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"
- gnomish
- used of small deformed creatures
- half-size
- half the usual or regular size
- micro
- extremely small in scale or scope or capability
- miniature
- being on a very small scale; "a miniature camera"
- minuscule, miniscule
- very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell"
- puny, runty, shrimpy
- (used especially of persons) of inferior size
- slender, slim
- small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus"
- greater
- greater in size or importance or degree; "for the greater good of the community"; "the greater Antilles"
- smallish
- rather small
- small-scale
- created or drawn on a small scale; "small-scale maps"; "a small-scale model"
- undersize, undersized
- smaller than normal for its kind
- lesser
- of less size or importance; "the lesser anteater"; "the lesser of two evils"
- open, wide-open, lawless
- lax in enforcing laws; "an open town"
- snug
- well and tightly constructed; "a snug house"; "a snug little sailboat"
- like, similar
- resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination; "suits of like design"; "a limited circle of like minds"; "members of the cat family have like dispositions"; "as like as two peas in a pod"; "doglike devotion"; "a dreamlike quality"
- ish(ip), ly(ip), y(ip)
- (suffix) resembling or characteristic of something specified; "the `ish' in `boyish enthusiasm' and the `ly' in `housewifely duties' and the `y' in `a long horsy face' are all suffixes with similar semantic import"
- suchlike
- of the same kind; "a locker that usually contained paper, ink, and suchlike equipment"
- like-minded
- of the same turn of mind
- unlike, dissimilar, different
- not like; marked by dissimilarity; "for twins they are very unlike"; "people are profoundly different"
- unalike, dissimilar
- not alike or similar; "as unalike as two people could be"
- alike(p), similar, like
- having the same or similar characteristics; "all politicians are alike"; "they looked utterly alike"; "friends are generaly alike in background and taste"
- promising
- showing possibility of achievement or excellence; "a promising young man"
- limited
- small in range or scope; "limited war"; "a limited success"; "a limited circle of friends"
- constricted
- inhibited; "when modern man feels socially constricted his first impulse is to move"
- bottomless
- having no apparent limits or bounds; "a bottomless supply of money"; "bottomless pockets"
- minor, modest, small, small-scale
- limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"
- narrow
- limited in size or scope; "the narrow sense of a word"
- unlimited, limitless
- having no limits in range or scope; "to start with a theory of unlimited freedom is to end up with unlimited despotism"- Philip Rahv; "the limitless reaches of outer space"
- untrammeled, untrammelled
- not confined or limited; "the gift of a fresh eye and an untrammeled curiosity"- Russell Lord; "the untrammeled rush that the snows had shown in the first spring sun"- Farley Mowat
- oceanic
- resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree; "the oceanic violence of his rage"
- analogical
- expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy; "the analogical use of a metaphor"
- metaphorical, metaphoric
- expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another; "a metaphorical expression"; "metaphoric language"
- poetic
- characterized by romantic imagery; "Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic"
- habitable, inhabitable
- fit for habitation; "the habitable world"
- livable, liveable
- fit or suitable to live in or with; "livable conditions"
- unlivable, unliveable
- unfit or unsuitable to live in or with; "unlivable substandard housing"
- uninhabitable
- not fit for habitation
- absurd, incongruous, unreasonable
- inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
- long
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long"
- far
- being of a considerable distance or length; "a far trek"
- long-distance
- covering long distances; "a long-distance runner"; "long-distance telephone"
- long-range
- suitable for or reaching long distances; "long-range nuclear capability"
- short
- primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"
- short-range
- limited to short distances; "short-range planes"; "a short-range shot"
- shortish
- somewhat short
- stubby
- short and blunt; "stubby fingers"; "a stubby pencil"
- snub
- unusually short; "a snub nose"
- telescoped, shortened
- shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream"
- drawn-out, extended, lengthy, prolonged, protracted
- relatively long in duration; tediously protracted; "a drawn-out argument"; "an extended discussion"; "a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law"; "a prolonged and bitter struggle"; "protracted negotiations"
- long
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; ; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"
- agelong
- lasting through all time; "agelong struggle for freedom"
- durable, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived
- existing for a long time; "hopes for a durable peace"; "a long-lasting friendship"
- endless, eternal, interminable
- tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon"
- lifelong, womb-to-tomb
- continuing through life; "a lifelong friend"; "from lifelong habit"i; "his lifelong study of Greek art"
- longitudinal
- over an extended time; "a longitudinal study of twins"
- long-acting
- active over a long period of time
- longish
- somewhat long
- long-run, long-term, semipermanent
- relating to or extending over a relatively long time; "the long-run significance of the elections"; "the long-term reconstruction of countries damaged by the war"; "a long-term investment"
- long-range
- involving an extended span of time; "long-range goals"
- short
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months"
- longstanding
- having existed for a long time; "a longstanding friendship"; "the longstanding conflict"
- perennial
- lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal; "perennial happiness"
- abbreviated, shortened, truncated
- cut short in duration; "the abbreviated speech"; "a curtailed visit"; "her shortened life was clearly the result of smoking"; "an unsatisfactory truncated conversation"
- brief, little
- of short duration; "a brief stay in the country"; "in a little while"
- fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary
- lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"
- short-run, short-term
- relating to or extending over a limited period; "short-run planning"; "a short-term lease"; "short-term credit"
- short and sweet(p)
- dealt with very quickly; to the point; "the conference was short and sweet"; "make your statement short and sweet"
- short-range
- relating to the near future; "a short-range policy"
- baggy, loose-fitting
- not fitting closely; hanging loosely; "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"
- loose
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "loose clothing"; "the large shoes were very loose"
- flyaway
- (of hair or clothing) worn loose; "her flyaway hair"; "a flyaway coat"
- tight
- closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "tight skirts"; "he hated tight starched collars"; "fingers closed in a tight fist"; "a tight feeling in his chest"
- binding, constricting
- hindering freedom of movement; "tight garments are uncomfortably binding"
- choky
- so tight as to tend to choke; "a choky collar"
- clenched, clinched
- closed or squeezed together tightly; "a clenched fist"; "his clenched (or clinched) teeth"
- tight-fitting, tightly fitting
- fitting snugly; "a tightly-fitting cover"; "tight-fitting clothes"
- close, snug, close-fitting
- fitting closely but comfortably; "a close fit"
- skintight
- so tight as to cling to the skin; "skintight jeans"
- viselike
- clamped as in a vise; "a viselike grip"
- constricted
- drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically; "a constricted blood vessel"; "a constricted view of life"
- unconstricted
- not constricted physically or by extension psychologically; "healthy unconstricted arteries"
- pinched
- as if squeezed uncomfortably tight; "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"
- open
- without undue constriction as from e.g. tenseness or inhibition; "the clarity and resonance of an open tone"; "her natural and open response"
- squandered, wasted
- not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
- lost
- spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon"
- destroyed, ruined
- destroyed physically or morally
- rescued, reclaimed
- delivered from danger
- big
- loud and firm; "a big voice"; "big bold piano sounds"
- loud
- characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity; "a group of loud children"; "loud thunder"; "her voice was too loud"; "loud trombones"
- blaring, blasting
- unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio"
- shattering
- seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering; "shattering rain striking the windowpanes"; "the shattering tones of the enormous carillon"; "the shattering peal of artillery"
- earthshaking
- loud enough to shake the very earth
- loud-mouthed
- given to loud offensive talk
- loud-voiced
- having an unusually loud voice
- gentle
- quiet and soothing; "a gentle voice"; "a gentle nocturne"
- soft
- of sound; relatively low in volume; "soft voices"; "soft music"; "
- dull, muffled, muted, softened
- being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets"
- little, small
- (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
- low, low-toned
- very low in volume; "a low murmur"; "the low-toned murmur of the surf"
- murmurous, rustling, soughing, susurrous
- characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren
- soft-spoken
- having a speaking manner that is not loud or harsh; "she was always soft-spoken"
- soft-footed
- sound of quiet gentle steps
- full
- (of sound) having marked depth and body; "full tones"; "a full voice"
- booming, stentorian
- used of the voice
- plangent
- loud and resounding; "plangent bells"
- heavy, sonorous
- full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
- rich
- pleasantly full and mellow; "a rich tenor voice"
- orotund, rotund, round
- full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"
- thin
- (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry"
- sounding
- having volume or depth; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"- Wordsworth
- pale
- not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song"
- lovable
- having characteristics that attract love or affection; "a mischievous but lovable child"
- adorable, endearing, lovely
- lovable especially in a childlike or naive way
- hateful
- evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly
- angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet
- having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition"
- cuddlesome, cuddly
- inviting cuddling or hugging; "a cuddlesome baby"; "a cuddly teddybear"
- abominable, detestable, execrable, odious
- unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
- unlovable
- incapable of inspiring love or affection; "she was in some mysterious way...unlovable"-Joseph Conrad
- likable, likeable
- easy to like; agreeable; "an attractive and likable young man"
- dislikable
- such as to provoke dislike
- unlikable, unlikeable
- difficult or impossible to like; "a disagreeable and unlikable old woman"
- adored, idolized, worshipped(a)
- regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god); "adored grandchildren"; "an idolized wife"
- blue-eyed(a), fair-haired(a), white-haired(a)
- (informal) favorite; "the fair-haired boy of the literary set"
- beloved, darling, dear
- dearly loved
- bereft, lovelorn, unbeloved
- unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love
- cherished, precious, treasured, wanted
- characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for; "a cherished friend"; "children are precious"; "a treasured heirloom"; "so good to feel wanted"
- favored, favorite(a), favourite(a), pet, preferred
- preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child"
- unloved
- not loved
- alienated, estranged
- caused to be unloved
- jilted, rejected, spurned
- rebuffed (by a lover) without warning; "jilted at the altar"
- despised, detested, hated, scorned
- treated with contempt
- loveless
- receiving no love; "a loveless childhood"
- loving
- feeling or showing love and affection; "loving parents"; "loving glances"
- adoring, doting, fond
- extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother"
- affectionate, caring, fond, lovesome, tender, warm
- having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "caring parents"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace"
- amatory, amorous, romantic
- expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride"
- affectioned
- archaic
- crazy, dotty, gaga, enamored, infatuated, in love, smitten, soft on(p), taken with(p)
- marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "she was crazy about him"; "gaga over the rock group's new album"; "he was infatuated with her"
- caressing, caressive
- showing love; "caressive words"
- idolatrous
- blindly or excessively devoted or adoring
- fatherly
- showing the affection of a father
- uxorious
- foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife
- loverlike, loverly
- like or in the manner of a lover
- overfond
- excessively fond
- tenderhearted
- easily moved to love
- unaffectionate, uncaring
- lacking affection or warm feeling; "an uncaring person"
- loveless
- without love; "a loveless marriage"
- unromantic
- neither expressive of nor exciting sexual love or romance
- lucky
- having or bringing good fortune; "my lucky day"
- hot
- having or bringing unusually good luck; "hot at craps"; "the dice are hot tonight"
- unlucky, luckless
- having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date
- hexed, jinxed
- (usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune
- atomic, atomlike, minute
- immeasurably small
- minor
- inferior in number or size or amount; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor"
- major
- greater in scope or effect; "a major contribution"; "a major improvement"; "a major break with tradition"; "a major misunderstanding"
- minor
- lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"
- great, outstanding
- of major significance or importance; "a great work of art"; "Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th century"
- major
- of greater importance or stature or rank; "a major artist"; "a major role"; "major highways"
- leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)
- indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance"
- major
- of greater seriousness or danger; "a major earthquake"; "a major hurricane"; "a major illness"
- minor
- of lesser importance or stature or rank; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads"
- insignificant, little, peanut, small
- of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "the little man"; "peanut politicians"; "a crowd of small writers had vainly attempted to rival Addison"- Macaulay
- secondary
- not of major importance; "played a secondary role in world events"
- minor
- of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"
- uncheckable
- incapable of being checked or restrained
- unmanageable
- difficult to manage or control
- indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly
- of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"
- manly, manful, manlike
- possessing qualities befitting a man
- man-sized
- calling for manly attributes; "a man-sized job"
- unmanly, unmanful, unmanlike
- not possessing qualities befitting a man
- effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy
- having unsuitable feminine qualities
- womanish
- having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men; "womanish tears"
- timid
- contemptibly timid
- priapic
- overly concerned with masculinity and male sexuality; "priapic episodes"; "priapic victories"
- well-marked
- clearly indicated; "a well-marked route"
- scarred
- deeply affected or marked by mental or physical pain or injury; "Could her scarred mind ever be free of fear?"; "a face scarred by anxiety"; "the fire left her arm badly scarred"
- masculine
- associated with men and not with women
- male, manful, manlike, manly, virile
- characteristic of a man; "a deep male voice"; "manly sports"
- butch, macho
- used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner
- mannish
- characteristic of a man as distinguished from a woman; "true mannish arrogance"
- feminine
- associated with women and not with men; "feminine intuition"
- fair(a)
- attractively feminine (especially in the phrase "the fair sex")
- female, distaff
- characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"
- powder-puff
- used of competitive activities in which only women take part; "powder-puff baseball"; "a powder-puff football game"
- maidenlike, maidenly
- befitting or characteristic of a maiden; "a maidenly blush"
- womanly, feminine
- befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman; "womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion"
- matronly
- befitting or characteristic of a fully mature woman; "her matronly figure"
- unfeminine
- not suitable for a woman; "an unfeminine depth of voice"
- unwomanly
- not womanly; "the logical clearness of her arguments...condemned her as eccentric and unwomanly"
- hoydenish, tomboyish
- used of girls; wild and boisterous
- mannish
- resembling or imitative of or suggestive of a man rather than a woman; "a mannish stride"
- coordinated, matching
- intentionally matched; "curtains and walls were color coordinated"
- matched
- going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities
- compatible, well-matched
- (of a couple) existing together harmoniously
- mismatched
- either not matched or unsuitably matched
- duplicate, matching, twin(a), twinned
- being two identical
- material
- directly relevant to a matter especially a law case; "his support made a material difference"; "evidence material to the issue at hand"; "facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts"; "a material witness"
- ill-sorted, incompatible, mismated, unsuited
- not easy to combine harmoniously
- crucial, relevant
- having crucial relevance; "crucial to the case"; "relevant testimony"
- immaterial
- of no importance or relevance especially to a law case; "an objection that is immaterial after the fact"
- marriageable, nubile
- of girls or women
- prime
- at the best stage; "our manhood's prime vigor"- Robert Browning
- unformed
- not yet fully formed; "unformed still in body and mind"
- mature
- characteristic of maturity; "mature for her age"
- autumnal
- characteristic of late maturity verging on decline; "a serene autumnal mood"
- immature
- characteristic of a lack of maturity; "immature behavior"
- mellow, mellowed
- having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience; "mellow wisdom"; "the peace of mellow age"
- ripe
- at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge; "a ripe mind"
- babyish
- characteristic of a baby; "babyish tears and petulance"
- adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile
- displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
- childish, infantile
- indicating a lack of maturity; "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior"
- callow, inexperienced, naive, unsophisticated
- lacking experience of life; "a callow youth of seventeen"
- overripe
- too ripe
- unaged
- not subjected to an aging process; "vodka is an unaged liquor from Russia"
- seasonable
- in keeping with the season; "a hard but seasonable frost"; "seasonable clothes"
- unseasonable
- not in keeping with (and usually undesirable for) the season; "a sudden unseasonable blizzard"; "unseasonable bright blue weather in November"
- maximal, maximum
- the greatest or most complete or best possible; "maximal expansion"; "maximum pressure"
- greatest, top
- not to be surpassed; "his top effort"
- highest, peak(a)
- approaching or constituting a maximum; "maximal temperature"; "maximum speed"; "working at peak efficiency"
- largest, outside
- maximal in amount; "a maximal amount"; "an outside estimate"
- supreme
- greatest or maximal in degree; extreme; "supreme folly"
- minimal, minimum
- the least possible; "needed to enforce minimal standards"; "her grades were minimal"; "minimum wage"; "a minimal charge for the service"
- borderline, marginal
- of questionable or minimal quality; "borderline grades"; "marginal writing ability"
- nominal, token(a), tokenish
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only; "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; (`tokenish' is informal as in "a tokenish gesture")
- negligible
- so small as to be meaningless; insignificant; "the effect was negligible"
- stripped, stripped-down
- having only essential or minimal features; "a stripped new car"; "a stripped-down budget"
- off-peak
- of a period of less than maximal use or demand or activity; "off-peak telepone rates"; "off-peak fares"
- high
- advanced into the most active period; "went to Europe in high season"
- off-season
- not in the most active period; "off-season hotel rates are lower"
- meaningful
- having a meaning or purpose; "a meaningful explanation"; "a meaningful discussion"; "a meaningful pause"
- meaty, substantive
- having substance and prompting thought; "a meaty discussion"
- indicative, significative, suggestive
- having a covert or special meaning
- meaning(a), pregnant, significant
- rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look"; "pregnant with meaning"
- purposeful
- having meaning through having an aim; "led a happy purposeful life"
- meaningless
- having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but meaningless explanation"
- empty, hollow, vacuous
- devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments"
- nonsense(a), nonsensical
- having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words"
- insignificant, unmeaning
- signifying nothing; "insignificant sounds"; "his response...is picayune and unmeaning"- R.B. Pearsall
- mindless
- lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being; "the shrieking of the mindless wind"
- pointless, purposeless, senseless
- lacking import; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"
- abysmal
- very great; limitless; "abysmal misery"; "abysmal stupidity"
- illimitable, limitless, measureless, unmeasured
- without limits in extent or size or quantity; "immeasurable vastness of our solar system"
- mechanic
- resembling the action of a machine; "from blank to blank a threadless way I pushed mechanic feet"- Emily Dickenson
- ariose, songlike
- having a melody (as distinguished from recitative)
- melodious, melodic, musical
- containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody; "the melodious song of a meadowlark"
- dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet
- pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello"
- canorous, songful
- richly melodious
- cantabile, singing
- (music) smooth and flowing
- lyrical
- suitable for or suggestive of singing
- unmelodious, unmelodic, unmusical
- lacking melody
- tuneful, melodious
- having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune
- tuneless, untuneful, unmelodious
- not having a musical sound or pleasing tune
- well-mined
- well known and commonly used; "Shakespeare exploited many well-mined sources for his plays"
- liquid
- smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness; "the liquid song of a robin"
- musical
- characteristic of or resembling or accompanied by music; "a musical speaking voice"; "a musical comedy"
- singable
- suitable for singing; "singable melody is the essence of music"- Winthrop Sargeant
- unmusical, nonmusical, dissonant
- not musical in nature; "the unmusical cry of the bluejay"
- musical
- talented in or devoted to music; "comes from a very musical family"
- philharmonic
- devoted to or appreciative of music; "the most philharmonic ear is at times deeply affected by a simple air"
- unmusical, nonmusical
- lacking interest in or talent for music; "too unmusical to care for concerts"; "it is unfortunate that her children were all nonmusical"
- merciful
- showing or giving mercy; "sought merciful treatment for the captives"; "a merciful god"
- compassionate
- showing merciful compassion; "sparing the child's mother was a compassionate act"
- merciless, unmerciful
- having or showing no mercy; "the merciless enemy"; "a merciless critic"; "gave him a merciless beating"
- mortal(a)
- unrelenting and deadly; "mortal enemy"
- cutthroat, fierce, bowelless
- ruthless in competition; "cutthroat competition"; "bowelless readiness to take advantage"
- pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, unpitying
- without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty"
- tigerish
- resembling a tiger in fierceness and lack of mercy; "a tigerish fury"
- mild
- moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme; "a mild winter storm"; "a mild fever"; "fortunately the pain was mild"; "a mild rebuke"; "mild criticism"
- gentle
- soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe; "a gentle reprimand"; "a vein of gentle irony"; "poked gentle fun at him"
- mild-mannered
- behaving in or having a mild or gentle manner
- intense
- in an extreme degree; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety,"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense"
- moderate, temperate
- not extreme; "a moderate penalty"; "temperate in his response to criticism"
- aggravated
- made more severe or intense especially in law; "aggravated assault"
- cold
- so intense as to be almost uncontrollable; "cold fury gripped him"
- bad, big
- very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm"
- blood-and-guts
- (informal) "real blood-and-guts self-criticism"
- concentrated
- (intensely focused) "her concentrated passion held them at bay"
- consuming, overwhelming
- very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"
- crash(a)
- highly concentrated or intense; "a crash course"
- exquisite, keen
- intense or sharp; "suffered exquisite pain"; "felt exquisite pleasure"
- deep
- extreme; "in deep trouble"; "deep happiness"
- extreme, utmost(a), uttermost(a)
- of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; "extreme cold"; "extreme caution"; "extreme pleasure"; "utmost contempt"; "to the utmost degree"; "in the uttermost distress"
- fierce, tearing, vehement, violent
- marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions"
- pressure-cooker(a)
- very intense and demanding; stressful; "subjecting children to a pressure-cooker situation in the school"
- intensive
- characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form; "the questioning was intensive"; "intensive care"; "research-intensive"; "a labor-intensive industry"
- main(a)
- of force; of the greatest possible intensity; "by main strength"
- profound
- of the greatest intensity; complete; "a profound silence"; "a state of profound shock"
- raging
- very severe; "a raging thirst"; "a raging toothache"
- screaming(a)
- so extremely intense as to evoke screams; "in screaming agony"; "a screaming rage"
- terrific
- very great or intense; "a terrific noise"; "a terrific thunderstorm storm"; "fought a terrific battle"
- severe, terrible, wicked
- intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality; "severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"; "a terrible cough"; "under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"; "a wicked cough"
- strong
- not faint or feeble; "a strong odor of burning rubber"
- thick, deep
- (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night"
- violent, wild
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud; "a violent clash of colors"; "her dress was a violent red"; "a violent noise"; "wild colors"; "wild shouts"
- soldierly, soldierlike, warriorlike, martial
- (of persons) befitting a warrior; "a military bearing"
- warlike, martial
- suggesting war or military life
- alleviated, eased, relieved
- (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear
- quenched, satisfied, slaked
- allayed; "his thirst quenched he was able to continue"
- arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a)
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"
- bally(a), blinking(a), bloody(a), crashing(a), flaming(a), fucking(a)
- (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"
- bodacious
- (regional informal) incorrigible; "a bodacious gossip"
- moderated, qualified
- having elements or qualities mixed in proper or suitable proportions; especially made less severe; "justice moderated with mercy"
- tempered
- adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element; "criticism tempered with kindly sympathy"
- untempered
- not tempered; "individualism untempered by social responsibilities"
- rangy
- adapted to wandering or roaming
- stiff
- not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge"
- metallike
- resembling metal
- tinny
- thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance; "an unpleasant tinny voice"
- moderate
- being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme; "moderate prices"; "a moderate income"; "a moderate fine"; "moderate demands"; "a moderate estimate"; "a moderate eater"; "moderate success"; "a kitchen of moderate size"; "the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart"
- average, intermediate, medium
- around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers"
- cautious, conservative
- avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"
- fair, fairish, reasonable
- not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices"
- middle-of-the-road
- not extreme, especially in political views
- indifferent
- neither too great nor too little; "a couple of indifferent hills to climb"
- limited
- not excessive
- modest, small
- not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
- immoderate
- not within reasonable limits; "immoderate laughter"; "immoderate spending"
- a bit much(p), de trop, too much(p)
- being excessive or unreasonable; "the clothes she wears are a bit much"; "in retrospect the elaborate preparations seemed de trop"; "this is entirely too much!"
- abnormal
- much greater than the normal; "abnormal profits"; "abnormal ambition"
- any(a)
- (in negative statements) either every little or very great but unspecified; "can't stand any noise"; "could not endure chemotherapy for any length of time"
- all-fired
- (informal) extreme; used as an intensifier; "why is he in such an all-fired hurry?"
- exaggerated, overdone, overstated
- represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an exaggerated opinion of oneself"
- excessive, inordinate, undue, unreasonable
- beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands"
- exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious
- greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usorious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending"
- extraordinary
- far more than usual or expected; "an extraordinary desire for approval"
- extreme
- far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree; "an extreme example"; "extreme temperatures"; "extreme danger"
- extreme
- beyond a norm in views or actions; "an extreme conservative"; "an extreme liberal"; "extreme views on integration"; "extreme opinions"
- extremist, radical, ultra
- (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm; "extremist political views"; "radical opinions on education"; "an ultra conservative"
- far
- beyond a norm in opinion or actions; "the far right"
- stark
- complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
- over
- (prefix) excessive; "over-abusive"; "overabusive"
- latest, last, newest, up-to-date
- in accord with the most modern ideas or styles; "wears only the latest styles"; "the last thing in swimwear"; "always knows the newest dances"; "everything's up-to-date in Kansas City"; "up-to-date technology"
- contemporary
- characteristic of the present; "contemporary (or modern) trends in design"
- modernistic
- noticeably (sometimes outrageously) modern; "shiny tables in modernistic design"
- modernized
- brought up to date; "modernized methods of lumbering"
- neo
- (used as a combining form) recent or new; "`neo' is a combining form in words like `neocolonialism'"
- recent
- near to or not long before the present; "recent times"; "of recent origin"
- ultramodern
- extremely modern; "Dadism and ultramodern art"
- state-of-the-art
- highest level of development at a particular time (especially the present); "state-of-the-art technology"
- fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(a), stodgy
- (used pejoratively) old-fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"
- old-fashioned, outmoded
- belonging to or characteristic of times past; "old-fashioned wire-rimmed glasses"; "outmoded techniques"
- medieval, mediaeval, gothic
- as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating"
- old-world
- characteristic of former times especially in Europe; "an old-world cottage"
- old-time, quaint
- attractively old-fashioned; "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting quaint chimney pots"
- unmodernized
- not brought up to date
- decent
- (informal) decently clothed; "are you decent?"
- modest
- marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself; "a modest apartment"; "too modest to wear his medals"
- important
- having or suggesting a consciousness of high position; "recited the decree with an important air"; "took long important strides in the direction of his office"
- retiring, unassuming
- not arrogant or presuming; "unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work"; "a shy retiring girl"
- immodest
- having or showing an exaggerated opinion of your importance, ability, etc; "brash immodest boasting"
- overweening, uppity
- presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times
- modulated
- changed or adjusted to be suitable
- softened
- toned down
- unmodulated
- not modulated; not toned down; "he lectured in an unmodulated voice edged with hysteria"
- clean, clean-living
- morally pure; "led a clean life"
- moralistic
- narrowly and conventionally moral
- debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
- unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
- disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking
- giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time"
- scrofulous
- morally contaminated; "denounce the scrofulous wealth of the times"- J.D.Hart
- adulterous, extramarital, extracurricular
- characterized by adultery; "an adulterous relationship"; "extramarital affairs"; "the extracurricular activities of a philandering husband"
- high-principled
- having high principles
- many
- (quantifier used with count nouns; often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that') amounting to a large but indefinite number; "many temptations"; "the temptations are many"; "a good many"; "a great many"; "many directions"; "take as many apples as you like"; "too many clouds to see"; "never saw so many people"
- galore(ip)
- in great numbers; "daffodils galore"
- many a(a), many an(a), many another(a)
- each of a large indefinite number; "many a man"; "many another day will come"
- numerous
- amounting to a large indefinite number; "numerous times"; "the family was numerous"
- some(a)
- relatively many but unspecified in number; "they were here for some weeks"; "we did not meet again for some years"
- few
- (quantifier used with count nouns; often preceded by `a') a small number; "a few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in battle"
- umpteen, umteen
- innumerable but many
- a few(a), a couple of(a)
- more than one but indefinitely small in number; "a few roses"; "a couple of roses"
- hardly a(a)
- very few; "hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous date and year"
- much(a)
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent; "not much rain"; "much affection"; "much grain is in storage"
- overmuch
- very great in quantity; overabundant; "showed overmuch affection"
- some(a)
- relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent; "we talked for some time"; "he was still some distance away"
- such(a), so much
- of so extreme a degree or extent; "such weeping"; "so much weeping"; "such a help"; "such grief"; "never dreamed of such beauty"
- little(a)
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with "a) at least some; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little hope remained"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "a little time isleft"
- untold
- of an incalculable amount; "untold suffering"
- slight
- almost no or (with "a) at least some; very little; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"
- small(a)
- (archaic) slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in between"
- slightest
- (usually follows `the') most meager; "didn't have the slightest chance"
- many more(a)
- much greater in number; "there were many more people than chairs"
- deific
- characterized by divine or godlike nature
- moving
- arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion; "she laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter"- N. Hawthorne
- haunting
- having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect; "from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration"-Charles Lee
- affecting, poignant, touching
- arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"
- heartwarming
- causing gladness and pleasure; "Is there a sight more heartwarming than a family reunion?"
- stirring, soul-stirring
- exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions; "a stirring speech"
- unmoving
- not arousing emotions
- unaffecting
- not arousing affect
- worldwide
- spanning or extending throughout the entire world; "worldwide distribution"; "a worldwide epidemic"
- global, planetary, world(a), worldwide
- involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis"; "of worldwide significance"
- born(a), innate(a)
- being so through innate qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent"
- natural
- in accordance with or determined by nature or natural laws; "a natural death"; "natural phenomena"; "a natural gift for sport"
- connatural, inborn, inbred, native
- existing at birth; "man's connatural sense of the good"
- earthy
- not far removed from or suggestive of nature; "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"; "earthy smells of new-mown grass"
- elemental, primitive
- being or resembling a force of nature; "elemental violence"; "primitive passions"
- intuitive, visceral, glandular
- derived from or prompted by a natural tendency; "an intuitive perception"; "visceral revulsion"; "a glandular aversion to materialistic values"
- unnatural
- not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature; "an unnatural death"; "the child's unnatural interest in death"
- uncanny, unco
- beyond what is natural; "his uncanny sense of direction"; (`unco' is chiefly Scottish)
- eerie, eery, spooky
- suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie feeling of deja vu"
- cardboard, unlifelike
- without substance; "cardboard caricatures of historical figures"
- celluloid, synthetic
- artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters"
- conventionalized, stylized, stylised
- using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous; "a stylized mode of theater production"
- ersatz, imitation, substitute(p)
- artificial and inferior; "ersatz coffee"; "coffee substitute"
- dummy
- having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function; "a dummy corporation"
- factitious
- not produced by natural forces; "brokers created a factitious demand for stocks"
- fake, false, faux, imitation, simulated
- not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated aligator hide"
- near
- closely resembling the genuine article; "near beer"; "a dress of near satin"
- painted
- lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting; "in public he wore a painted smile"
- natural
- existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; "natural laws"; "natural phenomena"; "our natural environment"; "natural cliffs"
- supernatural
- not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings"
- apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual
- like or being a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"
- eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly
- suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley
- marvelous, miraculous
- being or having the character of a miracle
- elfin, fey
- suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown
- charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, witching(a), wizard(a), wizardly
- possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; "charming incantations"; "magic signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night"- Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers"
- necromantic
- given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead; "a necromantic sorcerer"; "necromantic delusions"; "necromantic powders and other weird objects"
- metaphysical
- without material form or substance; "metaphysical forces"
- nonnatural, otherworldly, preternatural, transcendental
- existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; "find transcendental motives for sublunary action"-Aldous Huxley
- talismanic
- possessing or believed to possess magic power especially protective power; "a talismanic amulet"
- transmundane
- existing or extending beyond the physical world; "whatever of transmundane...insight...we may carry"- William James
- witchlike
- being or having the character of witchcraft
- ultimate
- furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme; "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "one's ultimate goal in life"
- crowning(a)
- representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment; "the crowning accomplishment of his career"
- eventual(a)
- expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating; "hope of eventual (or ultimate) rescue"; "if this trend continues it is not reasonable to expect the eventual collapse of the stock market"
- final, last, net
- conclusive in a process or progression; "the final answer"; "a last resort"; "the net result"
- highest
- highest and most significant; "his highest achievement"
- supreme
- final or last in your life or progress; "the supreme sacrifice"; "the supreme judgment"
- proximate
- closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects; "news of his proximate arrival"; "interest in proximate rather than ultimate goals"
- immediate
- immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect; "the immediate result"; "the immediate cause of the trouble"
- excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus
- more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"
- together
- (informal) mentally and emotionally stable; "she's really together"
- good
- agreeable or pleasing; "we all had a good time"; "good manners"
- nice
- pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance; "what a nice fellow you are and we all thought you so nasty"- George Meredith; "nice manners"; "a nice dress"; "a nice face"; "a nice day"; "had a nice time at the party"; "the corn and tomatoes are nice today"
- pleasant
- pleasant in manner or behavior; "I didn`t enjoy it and probably wasn't a pleasant person to be around"
- nasty, awful
- offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound
- dirty, filthy, lousy
- vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor"
- noble
- having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character; "a noble spirit"; "noble deeds"
- grotty
- (British slang) very unpleasant or offensive ; "a grotty little play"
- hateful, mean, spiteful
- characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"; "told spiteful stories about the fat lady"
- unpleasant
- very unpleasant or annoying
- dignifying, ennobling
- investing with dignity or honor; "the dignifying effect of his presence"; "the ennobling influence of cultural surroundings"
- exalted, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, rarified, idealistic, noble-minded
- of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"
- base, mean, meanspirited
- having or showing a meanspirited lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
- greathearted, magnanimous
- noble and generous in spirit; "a greathearted general"; "a magnanimous conqueror"
- ignoble
- completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- dishonorable, dishonourable
- morally unacceptable; "the dishonorable conduct of trusted men"
- contemptible, despicable
- worthy only of being despised and rejected; "a contemptible lack of courage"; "A little, wretched, despicable creature, a worm, a mere nothing...that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth"- Jonathan Edwards
- currish
- base and cowardly
- lowborn
- of humble birth or origins; "a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor"
- base, baseborn, humble, lowly
- of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"
- common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed
- of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses"
- normal
- conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events"
- natural
- (biology) functioning or occurring in a natural way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies; "a natural fear of nuclear war"; "natural immunity"; "a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild"
- regular
- not deviating from what is normal; "her regular bedtime"
- typical
- conforming to a type; "the typical (or normal) American"; "typical teenage behavior"
- abnormal
- not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an abnormal interest in food"
- anomalous
- deviating from the general or common order or type; "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"
- aberrant, deviant
- markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrent behavior"; deviant ideas"
- atypical, irregular
- deviating from what is usual or common or to be expected; often somewhat odd or strange; "these days large families are atypical"; "highly irregular behavior"
- freakish
- characteristic of a freak; "a freakish extra toe"
- defective
- markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior; "defective speech"
- kinky, perverted
- (used of sexual behavior) "kinky sex"; "perverted practices"
- rebel
- used by northerners of Confederate soldiers; "the rebel yell"
- corrupting, degrading
- harmful to the mind or morals; "corrupt judges and their corrupting influence"; "the vicious and degrading cult of violence"
- baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent
- exceedingly harmful
- inoffensive, uncontroversial
- not offensive; "an inoffensive level"
- insipid
- lacking significance or impact; "an insipid novel"
- obtrusive, noticeable
- undesirably noticeable; "the obtrusive behavior of a spoiled child"; "equally obtrusive was the graffiti"
- conspicuous
- noticeable in an unpleasant way
- unobtrusive, unnoticeable
- not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable; "a quiet, unobtrusive life of self-denial"
- prejudiced
- emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices
- personal
- particular to a given individual
- obvious
- easily perceived or understood; "obvious errors"
- apparent, evident, manifest, patent, plain
- clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"
- axiomatic, self-evident, taken for granted(p)
- evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident"
- transparent
- easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety); "a transparent explanation"; "a transparent lie"
- frank
- clearly manifest; evident; "frank enjoyment"
- self-explanatory
- needing no explanation
- unobvious
- not immediately apparent; "in mathematical science connections are exhibited which...are extremely unobvious"- A.N.Whitehead
- writ large
- made more obvious or prominent; "the effect of...his irregular life could be seen writ large on his gaunt features"
- unapparent
- not readily apparent; "the answer was at first unapparent"
- choked, clogged
- stopped up; clogged up; "clogged pipes"; "clogged up freeways"; "streets choked with traffic"
- clear, free, open
- affording free passage or view; "a clear view"; "a clear path to victory"; "a free lane"
- filled
- (of time) taken up; "well-filled hours"
- spare, free
- not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands"
- ghoulish, morbid
- suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"
- offensive
- unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"
- abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive
- offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
- charnel, ghastly, sepulchral
- gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
- disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, revolting, wicked, yucky
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
- hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous
- grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"
- objectionable, obnoxious, unpleasant
- causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"
- rank
- very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar"
- scrimy
- dirty and disgusting; "worry about the gossip and secretiveness and other scrimy sides"- Al Hine
- verminous
- of the nature of vermin; very offensive or repulsive
- inoffensive
- giving no offense; "a quiet inoffensive man"; "a refreshing inoffensive stimulant"
- savory, savoury, inoffensive
- morally respectable or inoffensive; "a past that was scarcely savory"
- innocuous, unobjectionable
- not causing disapproval; "it was an innocuous remark"; "confined himself to innocuous generalities"; "unobjectionable behavior"
- offensive
- causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks"
- unsavory, unsavoury, offensive
- morally offensive; "an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal"
- odoriferous
- morally offensive; "odoriferous legislation"
- abusive, insulting, opprobrious, scornful, scurrilous
- expressing offensive reproach
- inoffensive, unoffending
- not causing anger or annoyance; "inoffensive behavior"
- offenseless, offenceless
- incapable of offending or attacking
- formal
- characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal duties"; "an official banquet"
- drumhead, summary
- performed speedily and without formality; "a summary execution"; "summary justice"
- confirmed
- having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation; "confirmed reservations"; "received confirmed reports of casualties"; "a confirmed Catholic"
- unconfirmed
- not finally established or settled; "an unconfirmed letter of credit"; "unconfirmed rumors"
- established
- brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established; "the established social order"; "distrust of established authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church"
- accepted
- widely or permanently accepted; "an accepted precedent"
- deep-rooted, deep-seated, implanted, ingrained, planted
- (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held; "deep-rooted prejudice"; "deep-seated differences of opinion"; "implanted convictions"; "ingrained habits of a lifetime"; "a deeply planted need"
- entrenched
- established firmly and securely; "the entrenched power of the nobility"
- grooved, well-grooved
- established as if settled into a groove or rut
- habitual
- made a norm or custom or habit; "his habitual practice was to eat an early supper"; "her habitual neatness"
- recognized
- provided with a secure reputation; "a recognized authority"
- set up
- well established and ready to function; "things I can do now that I'm set up"
- unestablished
- not established; "a reputation as yet unestablished"
- unrecognized
- not having a secure reputation; "short stories by unrecognized writiers"
- age-old, ancient, antique
- belonging to or lasting from times very long ago; "age-old customs"; "Western civilization is ancient"; "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness"
- old
- of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"
- antediluvian, antiquated, archaic
- so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"
- antique
- made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age; "the an "beautiful antique French furniture"
- auld
- a Scottish word; "auld lang syne"
- cold, stale
- no longer new; uninteresting; "cold (or stale) news"
- immemorial(ip)
- long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history; "time immemorial"
- hoary, rusty
- ancient; "hoary jokes"
- longtime(a)
- of long duration; "a longtime friend"
- long-ago
- belonging to time long gone; "those long-ago dresses that swished along the floor"
- sunset
- of a declining industry or technology; "sunset industries"
- new
- not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World"
- brand-new, bran-new, spic-and-span, spick-and-span
- conspicuously new; "shiny brand-new shoes"; "a spick-and-span novelty"
- hot, red-hot
- newest or most recent; "news hot off the press"; "red-hot information"
- fresh
- (of a cycle) beginning or occurring again; "a fresh start"; "fresh ideas"
- novel, refreshing
- pleasantly novel or different; "common sense of a most refreshing sort"
- newborn, newly arisen, new-sprung(a)
- having just or recently arisen or come into existence; "new nations"; "with newborn fears"
- newfound
- newly discovered; "his newfound aggressiveness"; "Hudson pointed his ship down the coast of the newfound sea"
- recent
- being new in a time not long past; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees"
- parvenu, parvenue
- of or characteristic of a parvenu
- revolutionary, radical
- markedly new or introducing radical change; "a revolutionary discovery"; "radical political views"
- sunrise(a)
- of an industry or technology; new and developing; "high-technology sunrise industries"
- rising
- newly come into prominence; "a rising young politician"
- old
- (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; especially not young; "an old man's eagle mind"- William Butler Yeats; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"; often used as a combining form to indicate an age as specified as in "a week-old infant"
- aged, elderly, older, senior
- advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen"
- ancient
- very old; "an ancient mariner"
- anile
- of or like a feeble old woman
- oldish
- somewhat elderly
- overage, overaged, superannuated
- too old to be useful; "He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders"- Anthony Trollope
- venerable
- impressive by reason of age; "a venerable sage with white hair and beard"
- young, immature
- (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people"
- formative
- susceptible to alteration by development and experience; "formative years"
- early
- very young; "at an early age"
- tender, vulnerable
- susceptible to physical or emotional injury; "at a tender age"
- youthful, vernal
- suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
- youngish
- somewhat young
- open
- affording free passage or access; "open drains"; "the road is open to traffic"; "open ranks"
- engulfed, enveloped, swallowed
- completely enclosed or swallowed up; "a house engulfed in flames"; "the fog-enveloped cliffs"; "a view swallowed by night"
- fogbound
- so enveloped in fog that it is not safe to move about; "a fogbound fleet"; "the fogbound city"
- enwrapped
- enclosed or enveloped in something immaterial; "she sat enwrapped in sullen defiance"; "a sleeping town enwrapped in silence"
- opportune
- suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose; "an opportune place to make camp"; "an opportune arrival"
- good, right, ripe
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose; "a good time to plant tomatoes"; "the right time to act"; "the time is ripe for great sociological changes"
- timely, seasonable, well-timed(a), well timed(p)
- done or happening at the appropriate or proper time; "a timely warning"; "with timely treatment the patient has a good chance of recovery"; "a seasonable time for discussion"; "the book's publication was well timed"
- ill-timed(a), ill timed(p), unseasonable, untimely, wrong
- badly timed; "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke"
- inopportune
- not opportune; "arrived at a most inopportune hour"; "an inopportune visit"
- inconvenient
- not conveniently timed; "an early departure is inconvenient for us"
- optimistic
- expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds; "in an optimistic mood"; "optimistic plans"; "took an optimistic view"
- rose-colored, rosy
- reflecting optimism; "a rosy future"; "looked at the world through rose-colored glasses"
- cheerful, pollyannaish, upbeat
- pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic
- starry-eyed
- unrealistically or naively optimistic; "a starry-eyed reformer"; "starry-eyed idealism"
- pessimistic
- expecting the worst in this worst of all possible worlds
- sanguine
- confidently optimistic and cheerful
- demoralized, discouraged, disheartened
- made less hopeful or enthusiastic; "desperate demoralized people looking for work"; "felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem"; "the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest"
- orderly
- devoid of violence or disruption; "an orderly crowd confronted the president"
- disorderly
- undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct"
- law-abiding, peaceful
- (of groups) not violent or disorderly; "the right of peaceful assembly"
- boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly
- noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class"
- raucous, rowdy
- disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous party"; "rowdy teenagers"
- mob, mobbish, moblike
- characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless; "mob rule"; "fanned mounting tension into mobbish terrorizing"; "moblike mentality"
- rough-and-tumble
- characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules; "a rough-and-tumble fight"; "rough-and-tumble politics"
- consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial, successive
- in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts"
- ordered
- having a systematic arrangement; especially having elements succeeding in order according to rule; "an ordered sequence"
- organized
- methodical and efficient in arrangement or function; "how well organized she is"; "his life was almost too organized"
- disordered, unordered
- not arranged in order
- well-conducted
- characterized by good organization and control; "a well-conducted meeting"
- methodical
- characterized by method and orderliness; "a methodical scholar"
- ordered, orderly, regulated
- marked by system or regularity or discipline; "a quiet ordered house"; "an orderly universe"; "a well regulated life"
- disorganized
- lacking order or methodical arrangement or function; "a disorganized enterprise"; "a thousand pages of muddy and disorganized prose"; "she was too disorganized to be an agreeable roommate"
- chaotic, helter-skelter
- lacking a visible order or organization
- broken, confused, disordered, upset
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset"
- fucked-up, snafu
- snarled or stalled in complete confusion; "situation normal--all fucked-up"
- unmethodical
- not efficient or methodical; "the project failed through unmethodical planning"
- scrambled
- thrown together in a disorderly fashion; "a scrambled plan of action"
- unstuck, undone
- thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence; "price programs became unstuck because little grain was available"
- unorganized
- not having or belonging to a structured whole; "unorganized territories lack a formal government"
- uncoordinated
- lacking proper coordination; "uncoordinated scheduling often resulted in conflicting games"
- unformed
- not formed or organized; "an as yet unformed government"
- structured
- having definite and highly organized structure; "a structured environment"
- unregulated
- without regulation or discipline; "an unregulated environment"
- unstructured
- lacking definite structure or organization; "an unstructured situation with no one in authority"; "a neighborhood gang with a relatively unstructured system"; "children in an unstructured environment often feel insecure"; "unstructured inkblots"
- ambiguous
- (psychology) having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns; "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"; "ambiguous inkblots"
- ordinary
- not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"
- average, fair, mediocre, middling
- of no exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"
- banal, commonplace, trivial
- obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"
- commonplace
- completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"
- characterless, nondescript
- lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting; "women dressed in nondescript clothes"; "a nondescript novel"
- common, simple
- to be expected; standard; "common decency"; "simple courtesy"
- everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday
- found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant
- indifferent, passable, so-so(p), tolerable
- neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French"
- run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine, unexceptional
- not special in any way; "run-of-the-mill boxing"; "your run-of-the-mine college graduate"; "a unexceptional an incident as can be found in a lawyer's career"
- extraordinary
- beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable; "extraordinary authority"; "an extraordinary achievement"; "her extraordinary beauty"; "enjoyed extraordinary popularity"; "an extraordinary capacity for work"; "an extraordinary session of the legislature"
- bonzer
- (Australian) remarkable or wonderful
- exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing
- far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"
- fantastic, howling(a), marvelous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
- extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"
- fantastic, phenomenal
- exceedingly or unbelievably great; "the bomb did fantastic damage"; "Samson is supposed to have had fantastic strength"; "phenomenal feats of memory"
- preternatural
- surpassing the ordinary or normal; "Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel"- George Will
- frightful
- (informal) extreme in degree; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money"
- great
- remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; "a great crisis"; "had a great stake in the outcome"
- one(a)
- used informally as an intensifier; "that is one fine dog"
- pyrotechnic
- suggestive of fireworks; "pyrotechnic keyboard virtuosity"; "a pyrotechnic wit"
- rare, uncommon
- marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind; "what is so rare as a day in June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree"
- remarkable, singular
- unusual or striking; "a remarkable sight"; "such poise is singular in one so young"
- special
- for a special service or occasion; "a special correspondent"; "a special adviser to the committee"; "had to get special permission for the event"
- some
- (informal; slang) remarkable; "that was some party"; "she is some skier"
- wonderworking
- performing or able to perform wonders or miracles
- integrated, structured
- resembling a living organism in organization or development; "society as an integrated whole"
- holistic
- emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole
- disarranged
- having the arrangement disturbed; not in order; "her disarranged hair"
- disarrayed
- in disarray; "disarrayed bedclothes"
- adjusted, familiarized
- having achieved a comfortable relationship with your environment
- out of place(p)
- not in a proper arrangement; "not a hair was out of place"
- familiarizing
- serving to make familiar
- disorienting
- causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings; "making so many turns to the right and then the left was completely disorienting"; "a sharp blow to the head can be disorienting"
- confusing
- causing confusion or disorientation; "a confusing jumble of road signs"; "being hospitalized can be confusing and distressing for a small child"
- estranging
- making one feel out of place or alienated; "the landscape was estranging"
- stunning
- causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility; "laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow"; "a stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke"
- original
- being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind"
- stupefying
- making physically stupid or dull or insensible; "a stupefying blow to the head"; "the stupefying effects of hemp"
- avant-garde, daring
- radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece"
- fresh, new, novel
- of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
- germinal, originative, seminal
- containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another"
- innovative, innovational
- being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before; "stylistically innovative works"; "innovative members of the artistic community"; "a mind so innovational, so original"
- newfangled, new
- of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion
- underivative
- not derivative or imitative; "a natural underivative poet"
- unoriginal
- not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham
- banal, commonplace, hackneyed, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
- bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous
- dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"
- cliched, ready-made
- repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"
- slavish
- blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"
- old, stale, moth-eaten
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"
- iconoclastic
- characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions
- outdoorsy
- characteristic of or suitable to outdoor life; "a rugged outdoorsy life"
- inside
- relating to or being within or near the inner side or limit; "he reached into his inside jacket pocket"; "inside out"; "an inside pitch is between home plate and the batter"
- bristling with(p)
- covered thickly with objects thrusting upward as with bristles; "roofs bristling with antennas"; "housetops bristlng with chimneys"; "a riverbank bristling with factories"
- canopied
- covered with or as with a canopy; "a canopied bed"; "streets canopied by stately trees"
- cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped
- covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks"
- drenched, drenched in
- abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination; "drenched in moonlight"; "moon-drenched meadows"
- dabbled, spattered, splashed, splashy, splattered
- covered patchily; often used in combination; "waves dabbled with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with grease"
- strewn
- (used with `with' or in combination) covered by or as if by something scattered over or on; "the forest floor strewn with boulders"; "the petal-strewn aisle"
- bowery
- like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane"
- overt, open
- open and observable; not secret or hidden; "an overt lie"; "overt hostility"; "overt intelligence gathering"
- bald, barefaced
- with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie"
- undisguised
- plain to see; "undisguised curiosity"
- naked, raw
- devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power"
- obvious, visible
- obvious to the eye; "a visible change of expression"
- covert
- secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert funding for the rebels"
- backstair, backstairs, furtive
- secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior"
- collusive, conniving
- acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end
- sub-rosa, under-the-table
- designed and carried out secretly or confidentially; "a sub-rosa report"; "has their under-the-table backing"
- subterranean, ulterior
- lying beneath what is revealed or avowed, especially being deliberately concealed; "subterranean motives for murder"; "looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"- Bertrand Russell
- biting, bitter
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind"
- racking, wrenching
- causing great physical or mental suffering; "a wrenching pain"
- painless
- not causing physical or psychological pain; "painless dentistry"
- pain-free, unpainful
- not accompanied by pain sensations; "pain-free surgery"
- unpalatable
- not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind; "an unpalatable meal"; "unpalatable truths"; "unpalatable behavior"
- palatable
- acceptable to the taste or mind; "palatable food"; "a palatable solution to the problem"
- obvious, perceptible
- easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind; "a perceptible sense of expectation in the court"; "an obvious (or palpable) lie"
- distasteful, unsavory, unsavoury
- not pleasing in odor or taste
- elusive, subtle
- be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul"
- biased, colored, one-sided, slanted
- favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant"
- partial, unfair
- showing favoritism
- impartial, fair
- showing lack of favoritism; "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge"
- indifferent, unbiased, unbiassed
- characterized by a lack of partiality; "a properly indifferent jury"; "an unbiased account of her family problems"
- fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabid
- marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist"
- demon-ridden
- as if possessed by demons
- unimpassioned
- free from emotional appeal; marked by reasonableness; "answered with an unimpassioned defense"; "the unimpassioned intellect"
- emerging, rising
- coming to maturity; "the rising generation"
- in store(p)
- in readiness; awaiting; "gave us a hint of the excitement that was in store for us"
- prospective(a)
- anticipated for the near future; "the prospective students"; "his prospective bride"
- fostered
- provided with parental care and nurture especially by a surrogate or surrogates
- fatherly, fatherlike
- like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective
- paternal
- characteristic of a father
- maternal
- characteristic of a mother; "warm maternal affection for her guest"- Dorothy Sayers
- paternalistic
- benevolent but sometimes intrusive
- motherlike
- suggestive of or acting like a mother
- maternalistic
- showing maternal instincts
- motherly
- befitting a mother; warm and nurturing
- wifely, wifelike, uxorial
- of or befitting or characteristic of a wife
- husbandly
- of or befitting or characteristic of a husband
- patient
- enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance; "a patient smile"; "was patient with the children"; "an exact and patient scientist"; "please be patient"
- forbearing, longanimous
- showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment; "seemly and forbearing...yet strong enough to resist aggression"; "was longanimous in the face of suffering"
- diligent, persevering
- quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness; "a diligent (or patient) worker"; "with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business"
- enduring, long-suffering
- patiently enduring continual wrongs or trouble; "an enduring disposition"; "a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife"
- impatient
- restless or short of temper under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism"
- tolerant, patient of
- showing the capacity for endurance; "injustice can make us tolerant and forgiving"; "a man patient of distractions"
- unhurried
- capable of accepting delay with equanimity; "was unhurried with the small children"
- restive
- impatient especially under restriction or delay; "the government has done nothing to ease restrictions and manufacturers are growing restive"
- intolerant of(p), impatient of(p)
- unable to bear irritation
- short, unforbearing
- unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower students"
- loose
- not carefully arranged in a package; "a box of loose nails"
- unpatriotic, disloyal
- showing lack of love for your country
- patriotic, loyal
- inspired by love for your country
- chauvinistic, flag-waving(a), jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic
- fanatically patriotic
- un-American
- considered contrary to the best interests of the United States
- peaceful
- not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war; "a peaceful nation"; "peaceful times"; "a far from peaceful Christmas"; "peaceful sleep"
- at peace(p)
- free from strife; "a world at peace"
- halcyon
- idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquillity; "a halcyon atmosphere"
- pacific
- promoting peace; "the result of this pacific policy was that no troops were called up"
- irenic
- conducive to peace; "irenic without being namby-pamby"; "an irenic attitude toward former antagonists"
- pacific, peaceable
- disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature; "the pacific temper seeks to settle disputes on grounds of justice rather than by force"; "a quiet and peaceable person"; "in a peaceable and orderly manner"
- unpeaceful
- not peaceful; "unpeaceful times"; "an unpeaceful marriage"
- peaceable, peace-loving
- inclined or disposed to peace; "they met in a peaceable spirit"; "peace-loving citizens"
- stormy
- characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy argument"; "a stormy marriage"
- unpacific, warlike
- inclined to make war
- unpeaceable
- not disposed to peace
- insightful
- exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception; "an insightful parent"; "the chapter is insightful and suggestive of new perspectives"-R.C.Angell
- perceptive
- having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment; "a perceptive eye"; "a perceptive observation"
- acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"
- apprehensive, discerning
- quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- apperceptive
- able to relate new percepts to past experience
- observant, observing
- quick to notice; showing quick and keen perception
- quick-sighted, sharp-sighted, sharp-eyed
- keenly perceptive or alert; "quick-sighted into the faults of the time"- Leonard Bacon
- subtle
- able to make fine distinctions; "a subtle mind"
- understanding
- characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy; "an understanding friend"
- subliminal
- below the threshold of conscious perception
- perfect
- being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day"
- clean
- without difficulties or problems; "a clean test flight"
- clear
- free from flaw or blemish or impurity; "a clear perfect diamond"
- cold
- marked by errorless familiarity; "had her lines cold before rehearsals started"
- complete, consummate
- perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities; "a complete gentleman"; "consummate happiness"; "a consummate performance"
- down, down pat(p), mastered
- understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down"
- errorless
- free from error; "an errorless baseball game"
- faultless, immaculate, impeccable
- without fault or error; "faultless logic"; "speaks impeccable French"; "timing and technique were immaculate"; "an immaculate record"
- flawless, unflawed
- without a flaw; "a flawless gemstone"
- ideal
- conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal
- idyllic
- excellent and delightful in all respects; "an idyllic spot for a picnic"
- idealized
- exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence
- perfectible
- capable of becoming or being made perfect
- mint(a)
- as if new; "in mint condition"
- imperfect
- not perfect; defective or inadequate; "had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities"; "imperfect mortals"; "drainage here is imperfect"
- pluperfect
- more than perfect; "he spoke with pluperfect precision"
- uncorrupted, undefiled
- (of language) not having its purity or excellence debased; "uncorrupted English"; "learn to speak pure English undefiled"- Van Wyck Brooks
- broken
- imperfectly spoken or written; "broken English"
- blemished, flawed
- having a blemish or flaw; "a flawed diamond"
- corrupt, corrupted
- containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"
- defective, faulty
- having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
- permanent, lasting
- continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place; "permanent secretary to the president"; "permanent address"; "literature of permanent value"
- durable, indestructible, perdurable, undistroyable
- very long lasting; "less durable rocks were gradually worn away to form valleys"; "the perdurable granite of the ancient Appalachian spine of the continent"
- ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious
- enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"
- impermanent, temporary
- not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing"
- episodic
- limited in duration to a single episode; "an account concerned primarily with episodic events such as the succession of rulers"
- evanescent
- tending to vanish like vapor; "evanescent beauty"
- fly-by-night
- of an impermanent nature; "the symphony is no fly-by-night venture"
- improvised, jury-rigged, makeshift
- done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer"
- interim
- serving during an intermediate interval of time; "an interim agreement"
- temporal
- not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt
- sufferable, tolerable
- capable of being tolerated; "sufferable difficulties"
- unmentionable
- unsuitable or forbidden as a topic of conversation; "unmentionable words"
- permissive
- granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline; "direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive"; "permissive parents"
- indulgent, lax, lenient, soft
- tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is weak"; "too soft on the children"
- unpermissive
- not inclined to grant permission; severe in discipline
- authoritarian, dictatorial
- likened to a dictator in severity
- nonindulgent, strict
- not indulgent; "strict parents"
- permissive
- not preventive
- admitting of(p), allowing of(p), permitting of(p)
- leaving room for
- prohibitive, prohibitory
- tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive"
- at a loss(p), nonplused, nonplussed, puzzled
- filled with bewilderment; "at a loss to understand those remarks"; "puzzled that she left without saying goodbye"
- perplexed
- full or difficulty or confusion or bewilderment; "perplexed language"; "perplexed state of the world"
- metagrobolized, metagrabolized, mystified
- totally perplexed and mixed up; "all this duncical nonsense has my brains metagrobolized"- Wall Street Journal
- baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea
- perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"
- questioning, quizzical
- perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know); "he had a quizzical expression"
- stuck
- (informal) baffled; "this problem has me completely stuck"
- unperplexed
- experiencing no difficulty or confusion or bewilderment
- unbaffled, unconfused
- not perplexed by conflicting situations or statements
- personal
- concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality; "a personal favor"; "for your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his personal bank account and she has hers"
- individualized, personalized
- made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual; "personalized luggage"; "personalized advice"
- intimate
- indicating knowledge of personal details that only a close confidant could have; "an intimate biography"; "intimate details of their relationship"
- personalized
- pointedly referring to or concerning a person's individual personality or intimate affairs especially offensively; "unnecessarily personalized remarks"
- private
- concerning things deeply private and personal; "private correspondence"; "private family matters"
- nonpersonal
- lacking personality; "nonpersonal forces"
- impersonal
- not relating to or responsive to individual persons; "an impersonal corporation"; "an impersonal remark"
- persuasive
- tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief; "persuasive eloquence"; "a most persuasive speaker"
- coaxing, ingratiatory
- pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade; "a coaxing and obsequious voice"; "her manner is quiet and ingratiatory and a little too agreeable"
- glib, glib-tongued, smooth-tongued
- artfully persuasive in speech; "a glib tongue"; "a smooth-tongued hypocrite"
- compelling
- tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument; "new and compelling evidence"
- dense, thick
- hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"
- leaky
- permitting liquids to penetrate; "a tarpaulin too leaky to be of much use"
- receptive
- open to arguments, ideas, or change; "receptive to reason and the logic of facts"
- animal(a), carnal, fleshly, sensual
- of the appetites and passions of the body; "animal instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual pleasure without vice"
- personal
- intimately concerning a person's body or physical being; "personal hygiene"
- moral
- psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect; "a moral victory"; "moral support"
- pious
- having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity; "pious readings"
- holier-than-thou, pietistic, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious, self-righteous
- excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile"
- godly, reverent, worshipful
- showing great reverence for god; "a godly man"; "leading a godly life"
- impious
- lacking piety or reverence for a god
- godless, irreverent
- not revering god
- churchlike, churchly
- resembling or suggesting or appropriate to a church; "churchlike silence"; "the pure fragrance of churchly incense"
- devout, god-fearing, pious
- devoutly religious; "a god-fearing and law-abiding people" H.L.Mencken
- heathen, heathenish, pagan
- not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam
- irreligious
- hostile or indifferent to religion
- impious, ungodly
- lacking piety and reverence for a god
- implacable
- impossible to placate; "an implacable enemy"
- placable
- easily calmed or pacified
- appeasable, conciliable
- can be pacified or satisfied
- mitigable
- can be alleviated
- grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
- not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;"grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood
- unmitigable
- incapable of being mitigated; "stern and unmitigable accusations"
- figured
- of e.g. fabric design; "my dress is richly figured"- Amy Lowell
- patched, spotted
- having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture); "a field patched with ice and snow"; "a black-and-white spotted cow"
- dry
- having no adornment or coloration; "dry facts"; "rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner"
- plain
- not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"
- austere, severe, stark
- severely simple; "a stark interior"
- bare(a), mere(a), simple(a)
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth"
- chaste
- pure and simple in design or style; "a chaste border of conventionalized flowers"
- featureless
- lacking distinguishing characteristics or features; "the featureless landscape of the steppe"
- inelaborate, unelaborate
- not elaborate; lacking rich or complex detail
- homely, simple
- unpretentious; "homely truths"; "letters to his son full of homely advice"; "simple (or homely) fare"
- literal, pure and simple
- of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis; "it's the literal truth"; "a matter of investment, pure and simple"
- simple
- not elaborate in style; unornamented; "her black dress--simple to austerity"
- tailored, trim
- severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains"
- aureate, florid, flamboyant, showy
- elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"
- fancy
- not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
- busy, fussy
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"
- dressy
- (informal) in fancy clothing
- elaborate, intricate, luxuriant
- marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"; "intricate needlework"
- fanciful
- having a curiously intricate quality; "a fanciful pattern with intertwined vines and flowers"
- deep-laid
- secretly and carefully planned; "deep-laid plans"
- contrived
- showing effects of planning or manipulation; "a novel with a contrived ending"
- candid
- informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared; "a candid photograph"; "a candid interview"
- arguable
- capable of being supported by argument
- plausible
- apparently reasonable and valid
- implausible
- having a quality that provokes disbelief; "gave the teacher an implausible excuse"
- glib, pat, slick
- having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial"
- pleasant
- affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings; "a pleasant person to be around"; "we had a pleasant evening together"; "a pleasant scene"; "pleasant sensations"
- idyllic, pastoral
- suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene; "his idyllic life in Tahiti"; "the pastoral legends of America's Golden Age"
- beautiful, fine
- (of weather) highly enjoyable; very pleasant; "a beautiful evening"
- dulcet
- extremely pleasant in a gentle way; "the most dulcet swimming on the most beautiful and remote beaches"
- enjoyable, gratifying, pleasurable
- affording satisfaction or pleasure; "the company was enjoyable"; "found her praise gratifying"; "full of happiness and pleasurable excitement"; "good printing makes a book more pleasurable to read"
- grateful
- affording comfort or pleasure; "the grateful warmth of the fire"
- unpleasant
- not pleasant; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors"
- acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, venomous, virulent, vitriolic
- harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"
- beastly, hellish
- very unpleasant; "hellish (or beastly) weather"
- harsh, rough
- unpleasantly stern; "wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus"; "the nomad life is rough and hazardous"
- dour, forbidding, grim
- harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie
- dreadful
- very unpleasant
- embarrassing, mortifying
- causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"
- harsh
- disagreeable to the senses; "the harsh cry of a blue jay"; "harsh cognac"; "the harsh white light makes you screw up your eyes"; "harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway"
- afflictive, painful, sore
- causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"
- hot
- very unpleasant or even dangerous; "make it hot for him"; "in the hot seat"; "in hot water"
- rebarbative, repellent, repellant
- serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"
- sharp, sharp-worded, tart
- harsh; "sharp criticism"; "a sharp-worded exchange"; "a tart remark"
- ungrateful
- disagreeable; "I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure"- Abraham Lincoln
- unhappy
- causing discomfort; "the unhappy truth"
- unlovely
- used of circumstances; "an unlovely ride to work on a crowded train"
- pleasing
- giving pleasure and satisfaction; "a pleasing piece of news"; "pleasing in manner and appearance"
- admirable
- inspiring admiration or approval; "among her many admirable qualities are generosity and graciousness"
- agreeable, pleasureful
- highly pleasing; "pleasureful relaxation"; "an agreeable prospect"
- charming
- pleasing or delighting; "endowed with charming manners"; "a charming little cottage"; "a charming personality"
- delightful, delicious
- greatly pleasing or entertaining; "a delightful surprise"; "the comedy was delightful"; "a delicious joke"
- disarming
- capable of allaying suspicion or hostility and inspiring confidence; "a disarming smile"
- easy
- affording pleasure; "easy good looks"
- fabulous, fab
- extremely pleasing; "a fabulous vacation"
- gratifying, sweet
- pleasing to the mind or feeling; "sweet revenge"
- good
- capable of pleasing; "good looks"
- ingratiating
- capable of winning favor; "with open arms and an ingratiating smile"
- sweet
- pleasing to the senses; "the sweet song of the lark"; "the sweet face of a child"
- displeasing
- causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities
- disconcerting, upsetting
- causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience"
- exasperating, infuriating, maddening, vexing
- extremely annoying or displeasing; "his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating"; "I've had an exasperating day"; "her infuriating indifference"; "the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening"
- off-putting
- causing annoyance or repugnance; "an off-putting remark"
- unentertaining
- not entertaining; "a quite unentertaining letter"
- entertaining
- agreeably diverting or amusing; "an entertaining puppet show"; "films should be entertaining"
- amusing, amusive, diverting, fun(a)
- providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining; "an amusing speaker"; "a diverting story"; "a fun thing to do"
- unamusing
- not amusing; "his jokes were labored and unamusing"
- finished
- (of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected; "a dazzling and finished piece of writing"; "a finished violinist"
- raw
- untempered and unrefined; "raw talent"; "raw beauty"
- rough
- not perfected; "a rough draft"; "a few rough sketches"
- politic
- marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and politic reply"
- expedient
- appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"
- sagacious
- skillful in statecraft or management; "an astute and sagacious statesman"
- impolitic
- not politic; "an impolitic approach to a sensitive issue"
- tactless, undiplomatic
- showing skill in handling difficult situations
- inexpedient, unwise
- not appropriate to the purpose
- ponderable
- capable of being weighed or considered; "something ponderable from the outer world--something of which we can say that its weight is so and so"- James Jeans
- popular
- regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public; "a popular tourist attraction"; "a popular girl"; "cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular"
- assessable
- capable of being considered carefully; "the assessable qualities of art"
- imponderable
- difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision; "such imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility"
- best-selling(p)
- selling in great numbers; "a best-selling novel"
- unpopular
- regarded with disfavor or lacking general approval; "unpopular ideas"; "an unpopular war"
- fashionable, popular with(p)
- patronized by
- favorite, favourite
- appealing to the general public; "a favorite tourist attraction"
- hot
- (informal) very popular or successful; "one of the hot young talents"; "cabbage patch dolls were hot last season"
- touristed, touristy
- visited by throngs of tourists; "of the three American Virgin islands St. Thomas is the most touristed"; "tourists descend in busloads...so the whole place is rather touristy"
- less-traveled
- not visited by many travelers; "the tourist's desire to visit less-traveled countries"
- positive
- characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.; "a positive attitude"; "the reviews were all positive"; "a positive benefit"; "a positive demand"
- constructive
- emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good; "constructive criticism"
- affirmative, optimistic
- expecting the best; "an affirmative outlook"
- enthusiastic
- very positive; "an enthusiastic response"
- negative
- characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features; "a negative outlook on life"; "a colorless negative personality"; "a negative evaluation"; "a negative reaction to an advertising campaign"
- perverse
- marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict; "took perverse satisfaction in foiling her plans"
- antagonistic, counter
- indicating opposition or resistance
- neutral
- of no distinctive quality or characteristics or type
- out(p)
- not worth considering as a possibility; "a picnic is out because of the weather"
- hopeless
- certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"
- impracticable, infeasible, unfeasible, unworkable
- not capable of being carried out or put into practice; "refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility"; "a suggested reform that was unfeasible in the prevailing circumstances"
- potent, strong
- having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea"
- impotent
- lacking power or ability; "Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent"- Freeman J.Dyson; "felt impotent rage"
- ineffective, ineffectual, unable
- lacking in power or forcefulness; "an ineffectual ruler"; "like an unable phoenix in hot ashes"
- powerful
- having great power or force or potency or effect; "the most powerful government in western Europe"; "his powerful arms"; "a powerful bomb"; "the horse's powerful kick"; "powerful drugs"; "a powerful argument"
- weak
- lacking physical strength or vigor
- almighty, all-powerful, omnipotent
- having unlimited power
- potent, strong
- having or wielding force or authority; "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"
- mighty
- having or showing great strength or force or intensity; "struck a mighty blow"; "the mighty logger Paul Bunyan"; "the pen is mightier than the sword"- Bulwer-Lytton
- muscular
- having or suggesting great physical power or force; "the muscular and passionate Fifth Symphony"
- feeble, nerveless
- lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- puissant
- (archaic) powerful
- powerless, weak
- lacking power
- helpless, incapacitated
- lacking in or deprived of strength or power; "lying ill and helpless"; "helpless with laughter"
- influential
- having or exercising influence or power; "an influential newspaper"; "influential leadership for peace"
- cogent, potent, powerful
- having the power to influence or convince; "a cogent analysis of the problem"; "potent arguments"
- authoritative, important
- having authority or ascendancy or influence; "an important official"; "the captain's authoritative manner"
- prestigious
- exerting influence by reason of high status or prestige; "a prestigious professor at a prestigious university"
- uninfluential
- not influential
- practical
- concerned with actual use or practice; "he is a very practical person"; "the idea had no practical application"; "a practical knowledge of Japanese"; "woodworking is a practical art"
- applied
- put into practice or put to use; "applied physics"
- applicable, applicative, applicatory
- readily applicable or practical
- matter-of-fact, pragmatic, pragmatical
- concerned with practical matters; "a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact account of the trip"
- useful
- capable of being turned to use or account; "useful applications of calculus"
- unimaginative
- dealing only with concrete facts
- working
- adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something; "the party has a working majority in the House"; "a working knowledge of Spanish"
- armchair(a)
- remote from actual involvement; "armchair warriors in the Pentagon"; "an armchair anthropologist"
- impractical
- not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"
- crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded
- (informal) foolish; totally unsound; "an impractical solution"; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working"
- quixotic, romantic, wild-eyed
- not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state"
- precise
- sharply exact or accurate or delimited; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment"
- unfunctional
- not related to or fitted for everyday needs or activities
- fine
- minutely precise especially in differences in meaning; "a fine distinction"
- dead
- unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
- finespun, hairsplitting
- developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"
- meticulous, punctilious
- marked by precise accordance with details; "was worryingly meticulous about trivial details"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"
- microscopic
- extremely precise with great attention to details; "examined it with microscopic care"
- nice, skillful
- done with delicacy and skill; "a nice bit of craft"; "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot"
- pinpoint(a)
- meticulously precise; "pinpoint accuracy"
- on the nose, on the button
- being precisely to a prescribed or specified criterion; "his guess was on the nose"; "the prediction for snow was right on the button"
- very(a)
- precisely as stated; "the very center of town"
- imprecise
- not precise; "imprecise astronomical observations"; "the terms he used were imprecise and emotional"
- general
- somewhat indefinite; "bearing a general resemblance to the original"; "a general description of the merchandise"
- precocious
- characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude); "a precocious child"; "a precocious achievement"
- inaccurate, inexact
- not precisely accurate; "an inexact quotation"
- gifted, talented
- showing a natural aptitude for something
- advanced
- farther along in physical or mental development; "the child's skeletal age was classified as `advanced'"; "children in the advanced classes in elementary school read far above grade average"
- backward, feebleminded
- retarded in intellectual development
- delayed
- not as far along as normal in development
- dim-witted, half-witted, simple, simple-minded
- lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety
- inevitable
- invariably occurring or appearing; "the inevitable changes of the seasons"
- foreseeable
- being such as may reasonable be anticipated; "foreseeable costs were well within the budget"
- capricious, freakish
- changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"
- episodic, occasional
- occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals; "episodic in his affections"; "occasional headaches"
- prepared
- made ready or fit or suitable beforehand; "a prepared statement"; "be prepared for emergencies"
- embattled
- prepared for battle; "an embattled city"
- braced
- positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger; "he stood to attention with his shoulders braced"
- equipped, fitted out(p)
- prepared with proper equipment; "equipped for service in the Arctic"
- preconditioned
- having already been put into a suitable condition; "a surface preconditioned to receive paint"; "customers preconditioned to buy a product"
- ready
- brought into readiness; "dinner is ready"
- unprepared
- without preparation; not prepared for; "unprepared remarks"; "the shock was unprepared"; "our treaty makers approached their immensely difficult problems unprepared"- R.E.Danielson
- up(p)
- (usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness; "he was up on his homework"; "had to be up for the game"
- ostentatious, pretentious
- intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
- showy, splashy
- marked by conspicuous display; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad"
- conspicuous, flaunty
- inclined to flaunt; "conspicuous consumption"
- unostentatious, unpretentious
- not ostentatious; "his unostentatious office"; "unostentatious elegance"
- pretentious
- making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
- quiet, restrained
- not showy or obtrusive; "clothes in quiet good taste"
- artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty
- pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming
- arty
- showily imitative of art or artists
- high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, inflated
- (informal) pretentious; "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-flying dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"
- grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous
- puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
- grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da
- affectedly genteel
- nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue, upstart(a)
- characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position
- jumped-up
- (British informal) upstart
- unpretentious
- lacking pretension or affectation; "an unpretentious country church"; "her quiet unpretentious demeanor"
- sententious
- abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes
- sesquipedalian
- given to the overuse of long words; "sesquipecalian orators"; "this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money"
- honest
- without pretensions; "worked at an honest trade"; "good honest food"
- modest, plain, simple
- free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a plain blue suit"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"
- unpompous
- not pompous
- primary
- of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand; "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest"
- particular, special
- first and most important; "his special interest is music"; "she gets special (or particular) satisfaction from her volunteer work"
- secondary
- of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams"
- auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary
- functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches"
- collateral
- accompaniment to something else; "collateral target damage from a bombing run"
- standby
- ready for emergency use; "a standby generator"; "a standby crew"
- vicarious
- experienced at secondhand; "read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement"
- basic
- pertaining to or constituting a base or basis; "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"
- basal, base
- serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"
- elementary, primary
- of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing"
- radical, root
- arising from or going to the root; "a radical flaw in the plan"
- fundamental, rudimentary, underlying
- being or involving basic facts or principles; "the fundamental laws of the universe"; "a fundamental incompatibility between them"; "these rudimentary truths"; "underlying principles"
- grassroots
- fundamental; "the grassroots factor in making the decision"
- incidental, incident
- (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence; "incidental expenses"; "the road will bring other incidental advantages"; "extra duties incidental to the job"; "labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion"; "confusion incident to a quick change"
- peripheral
- not of central importance; "energy is far from a peripheral issue in the economy"
- parenthetic, parenthetical
- qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses; "parenthetical remarks"
- secondary
- depending on or incidental to what is original or primary; "a secondary infection"
- side(a), by(a), bye(a)
- minor or subordinate; `by' is often used in combination; "a side interest"; "a by (or bye) effect"; "only a by comment"; "by-election"; "bye-election"; "a by-product"; "by-play"
- clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby
- befitting or characteristic of those who inclined to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
- private
- confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy; "a private place"; "private discussions"; "private lessons"; "a private club"; "a private secretary"; "private property"; "the former President is now a private citizen"; "public figures struggle to maintain a private life"
- backstage
- concealed from the public
- cloistered, reclusive, secluded, sequestered
- providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; 'a secluded romantic spot"
- close
- confined to specific persons; "a close secret"
- confidential
- entrusted with private information and the confidence of another; "a confidential secretary"
- insular
- suggestive of the isolated life of an island; "an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels
- nonpublic
- not invested with or related to prominent position or status etc.
- offstage
- withheld from public view or attention; "offstage political meetings"
- privy, secluded, secret
- hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden"
- public
- not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole; "the public good"; "public libraries"; "public funds"; "public parks"; "a public scandal"; "public gardens"; "performers and members of royal families are public figures"
- in the public eye(p)
- of great interest to the public; "a person in the public eye"
- open
- open to or in view of all; "an open protest"; "an open letter to the editor"
- exclusive
- excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority; "exclusive clubs"; "an exclusive restaurants and shops"
- inside, inner, privileged
- confined to an exclusive or group; "privy to inner knowledge"; "inside information"; privileged information"
- inner
- exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence; "inner regions of the organization"; "inner circles of government"
- comprehensive
- broad in scope; "a comprehensive survey of world affairs"
- selective
- characterized by very careful or fastidious selection; "the school was very selective in its admissions"
- inclusive
- including much or everything; and especially including stated limits; "an inclusive art form"; "an inclusive fee"; "his concept of history is modern and inclusive"; "from Monday to Friday inclusive"
- privileged
- blessed with privileges; "the privileged few"
- advantaged, favored
- blessed with advantages; "she is more advantaged than her cousin"; "born into the favored classes"
- underprivileged
- lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society
- deprived, disadvantaged
- marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences; "a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity"; "boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law"
- underclass(a)
- belonging to the lowest and least privileged social stratum; "underclass mothers and children"
- productive
- producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly); "productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a productive collaboration"
- fecund, fertile, prolific
- intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"
- fruitful, profitable
- productive of profit; "a profitable enterprise"; "a fruitful meeting"
- rich
- very productive; "rich seams of coal"
- unproductive
- not producing or capable of producing; "elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries"
- bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain
- unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"
- dry
- unproductive especially of the expected results; "a dry run"; "a mind dry of new ideas"
- nonproductive
- not directly productive; "nonproductive labor"
- consumptive
- tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires"
- exploitative, exploitatory, exploitive
- tending to exploit or make use of
- expert
- having or showing great skill or knowledge or special training as expected of a professional; "an expert opinion"
- professional
- characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession; "professional conduct"; "professional ethics"; "a thoroughly professional performance"
- unprofessional
- not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession; "described in unprofessional language so that high school students could understand it"; "was censured for unprofessional conduct"; "unprofessional repairs"
- bankable
- guaranteed to bring a profit; "without bankable stars the film script aroused no interest"
- amateurish, amateur, inexpert, unskilled
- lacking professional skill or expertise; "a very amateurish job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled painting"
- fat, juicy
- (informal) lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job"
- lucrative, moneymaking, remunerative
- producing a good profit; "a remunerative business"
- lean
- not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year"
- marginal
- producing at a rate that barely covers production costs; "marginal industries"; "marginal land"
- thoughtful
- having intellectual depth; "a deeply thoughtful essay"
- profound
- showing intellectual penetration or emotional depths; from the depths of your being; "the differences are profound"; "a profound insight"; "a profound book"; "a profound mind"; "profound contempt"; "profound regret"
- deep
- marked by depth of thinking; "deep thoughts"; "a deep allegory"
- intimate
- showing profound and detailed knowledge and understanding as from long study; "an intimate knowledge of criminal law"
- superficial
- being or affecting or concerned with a surface; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually; "superficial similarities"; "a superficial mind"; "his thinking was superficial and fuzzy"; "superficial knowledge"; "the superficial report didn't give the true picture"; "only superficial differences"
- apparent(a), ostensible, seeming(a)
- appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"
- dilettante, dilettantish, dilettanteish
- showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting"
- facile
- arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"
- looking, sounding
- appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-sounding talk"
- glib
- marked by lack of intellectual depth; "glib generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex question"
- shallow
- lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"
- advanced, forward-looking, innovative, modern
- ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?"
- progressive
- favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools"
- returning, reverting
- tending to return to an earlier state
- regressive
- opposing progress
- atavistic, throwback(a)
- characteristic of an atavist
- declining, deteriorating, failing, regressing, retrograde, retrogressive
- going from better to worse
- proper
- marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners"
- becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly
- according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme_il_faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"
- fitting
- in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion; "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field...It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this"
- priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, straightlaced, tight-laced, victorian
- exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
- improper
- not suitable or right or appropriate; "slightly improper to dine alone with a married man"; "improper medication"
- wrong
- not in accord with established usage or procedure; "the wrong medicine"; "the wrong way to shuck clams"
- out-of-the-way
- improper or even offensive; "out-of-the-way remarks"; "did you notice anything out-of-the-way?"
- divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical
- resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
- fateful, foreboding(a), portentous
- of ominous significance
- precursory, premonitory
- warning of future misfortune
- sheltered
- protected from danger or bad weather; "a sheltered harbor"
- snug
- offering safety; well protected or concealed; "a snug harbor"; "a snug hideout"
- unprotected
- lacking protection or defense
- covering, shielding
- actively protective; "provided covering fire for the platoon that was moving up"
- cautionary, preventive, prophylactic
- tending to ward off; "the swastika...a very ancient prophylactic symbol occurring among all peoples"- Victor Schultze
- overprotective
- overly protective; "overprotective parents"
- protecting(a)
- shielding (or designed to shield) against harm or discomfort; "the protecting blanket of snow"; "a protecting alibi"
- neglectful, neglectful of(p)
- leaving vulnerable; "neglectful of her own financial security"
- safety-related
- providing or ensuring safety
- arrogant, chesty, self-important
- having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"
- big, swelled, vainglorious
- feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
- bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish
- used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
- boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing
- exhibiting self-importance; "big talk"
- disdainful, haughty, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
- having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
- dignified, self-respecting, self-respectful
- having or showing self-esteem
- conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain
- characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"
- glorious, illustrious, redoubtable, respected
- having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family"
- gratifying
- occasioning pride; "a gratifying (or proud) achievement"
- overproud
- excessively proud
- shabby-genteel
- trying to maintain dignity and self respect despite shabbiness
- meek, mild, modest
- humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness; "meek and self-effacing"
- humble
- marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski
- broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low
- subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"
- careful, thrifty
- mindful of the future in spending money; "careful with money"
- provident
- providing carefully for the future; "wild squirrels are provident"; "a provident father plans for his children's education"
- farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted
- planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
- improvident
- not provident; not providing for the future
- forehanded
- having provided for the future
- forethoughtful
- thoughtful of the future; "careful forethoughtful planning"
- short, shortsighted, unforesightful
- lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"
- prodigal
- marked by rash extravagance; "led a prodigal life"
- provocative
- serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; "a provocative remark"; "a provocative smile"; "provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"- Anthony Trollope
- thriftless
- careless of the future
- unforethoughtful
- lacking forethought
- agitative, agitating, provoking
- causing or tending to cause anger or resentment; "a provoking delay at the airport"
- charged
- capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy; "the highly charged issue of abortion"
- challenging, intriguing
- disturbingly provocative; "an intriguing smile"
- prudent
- careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment; "a prudent manager"; "prudent rulers"; "prudent hesitation"; "more prudent to hide than to fight"
- incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious
- arousing to action or rebellion
- rousing
- rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading; "tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation"
- unprovocative, unprovoking
- not provocative
- disarming
- capable of allaying hostility
- noninflammatory
- not inflammatory
- judicious, sensible, wise
- marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; "judicious use of one's money"; "a sensible manager"; "a wise decision"
- circumspect, discreet
- heedful of potential consequences; "circumspect actions"; "physicians are now more circumspect about recommending its use"; "a discreet investor"
- provident
- careful in regard to your own interests; "the prudent use and development of resources"; "wild squirrels are provident"
- prudential
- arising from or characterized by prudence especially in business matters; "he abstained partly for prudential reasons"
- blind
- without preparation or forethought or knowledge; "a blind attempt"; "a blind purchase"
- imprudent
- not prudent or wise; "very imprudent of her mother to encourage her in such silly romantic ideas"; "would be imprudent for a noneconomist to talk about the details of economic policy"- A.M.Schlesinger
- ill-advised
- lacking or showing a lack of careful deliberation; unwise; "ill-advised efforts"; "ill-advised laws"
- rash
- imprudently incurring risk; "do something rash that he will forever repent"- George Meredith
- ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident, shortsighted
- not given careful consideration; "ill-considered actions often result in disaster"; "an ill-judged attempt"
- injudicious
- lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise; "an injudicious measure"; "the result of an injudicious decision"
- benighted, nighted
- overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home"
- dilatory, laggard
- inclined to waste time and lag behind
- last-minute
- just before a deadline; at the last minute; "last-minute arrangements"
- cur(a), mixed, mongrel(a), scrub(a), underbred
- of inferior or mixed breed; "a cur dog"; "an underbred dog"
- pure
- used of persons or behaviors; having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow"
- white
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor"
- immaculate, undefiled
- free from stain or blemish
- impure
- used of persons or behaviors; not morally pure; "impure thoughts"
- defiled, maculate
- morally blemished; stained or impure
- pure
- free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"
- clean, fresh
- free from impurities; "clean water"; "fresh air"
- clean, clear, light, unclouded
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims; "efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings"; "clear laughter like a waterfall"; "clear reds and blues"; "a light lilting voice like a silver bell"
- plain, sheer, unmingled, unmixed
- not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"
- pristine
- completely free from dirt or contamination; "pristine mountain snow"
- purified, refined, sublimate
- made pure
- unadulterated
- not mixed with impurities; "unadulterated maple syrup"; "the unadulterated truth"; "here is genius unadulterated"- Amy Loveman
- uncontaminated, unpolluted
- free from admixture with noxious elements; clean; "unpolluted streams"; "a contaminated lake"
- virginal
- untouched or undefiled; "nor is there anything more virginal than the shimmer of young foliage"- L.P.Smith
- impure
- combined with extraneous elements
- adulterate, adulterated, debased
- mixed with impurities
- contaminated, polluted
- rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams"
- dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"
- contaminated
- corrupted by contact or association; "contaminated evidence"
- unpurified
- not made pure
- uncontaminated
- not corrupted by contact or association; "there is no culture uncontaminated by contact with the outside world"
- businesslike, earnest
- not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal
- desultory
- marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another; "desultory thoughts"; "the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties"
- quack(a)
- medically unqualified; "a quack doctor"
- fine
- trained to the highest degree of physical excellence; "a fine racehorse"
- qualified
- limited or restricted; not absolute; "gave only qualified approval"
- undisciplined
- not subjected to discipline; "undisciplined talent"
- hedged, weasel-worded
- evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement
- conditional
- qualified by reservations
- unqualified
- not limited or restricted; "an unqualified denial"
- limited, modified
- mediocre
- clean, clear
- free of restrictions or qualifications; "a clean bill of health"; "a clear winner"
- categoric, categorical, flat, unconditional
- not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"
- cool, unqualiied
- (informal; of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification; "a cool million bucks"
- outright, straight-out, unlimited
- without reservation or exception
- alleged(a), so-called, supposed
- doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help"
- questionable
- subject to question; "questionable motives"; "a questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin"
- debatable, problematic, problematical
- open to doubt or debate; "If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic"
- apocryphal
- of questionable authenticity
- equivocal
- open to question; "aliens of equivocal loyalty"; "his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son"-Anna Jameson
- doubtful, dubious, dubitable, in question(p)
- open to doubt or suspicion; "the candidate's doubtful past"; "he has a dubious record indeed"; "what one found uncertain the other found dubious or downright false"; "it was more than dubitable whether the friend was as influential as she thought"- Karen Horney
- fishy, funny, queer, shady, suspect, suspicious
- (informal) not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior"
- impugnable
- subject to being discredited
- unquestionable
- impossible to question; "unquestionable authority"
- for sure
- not open to doubt; "she wanted to go; that was for sure"
- acknowledged
- generally accepted
- beyond doubt(p), indubitable
- too obvious to be doubted
- mathematical
- beyond question; "a mathematical certainty"
- unchallengeable
- not open to challenge; "unchallengeable facts"; "a position of unchallengeable supremacy"
- unchallenged, undisputed, undoubted, unquestioned
- accepted without question; "undoubted evidence"
- unimpeachable
- beyond doubt or reproach; "an unimpeachable source"
- quiet
- free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound; "a quiet audience at the concert"; "the room was dark and quiet"
- catlike
- quiet and stealthy
- dreamy
- quiet and relaxing; "dreamy music"
- stilly
- (poetic) still or calm; "in the stilly night"
- noisy
- full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds; "a noisy cafeteria"; "a small noisy dog"
- blatant, clamant, clamorous, clamourous, strident, vociferous
- conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob"
- rackety, rip-roaring, uproarious
- uncontrollably noisy
- quiet
- characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity; "a quiet life"; "a quiet throng of onlookers"; "quiet peace-loving people"; "the factions remained quiet for almost 10 years"
- quiescent
- marked by a state of tranquil repose; "the quiescent melancholy of the town"
- slumberous, slumbrous
- quiet and tranquil; "a slumberous June morning"
- relaxing, restful, reposeful
- affording or marked by rest or repose; "the time spent was pleasant and relaxing"; "a restful night"; "a cool and reposeful glen"
- untroubled
- free from turmoil or worries; "untroubled times"
- unquiet
- characterized by unrest or disorder; "unquiet days of riots"; "following the assassination of Martin Luter King ours was an unquiet nation"; "spent an unquiet night tossing and turning"
- fidgety, fretful, itchy, restless
- unable to relax or be still; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "itchy for excitement"; "a restless child"
- disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent
- characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood"
- squally, squalling
- characterized by short periods of noisy commotion; "a home life that has been extraordinarily squally"
- random
- lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance; "a random choice"; "bombs fell at random"; "random movements"
- uneasy, restless
- marked by a lack of quiet; not conducive to rest; "spent a restless night"; "fell into an uneasy sleep"
- haphazard, hit-or-miss
- dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"
- orderly, systematic
- not haphazard; "a series of orderly actions at regular hours"
- nonrandom
- not random
- reasonable, sane
- marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy"
- coherent, logical, lucid
- capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident"
- incoherent
- unable to think or express your thoughts in a clear or orderly manner; "incoherent with grief"
- jaundiced, yellow
- (archaic) showing or experiencing a state of disordered feeling or distorted judgment as through bitterness or melancholy; "all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye"-Alexander Pope
- at the ready(p)
- ready for immediate use; "soldiers with guns at the ready"; "students with pens and notebooks at the ready"
- ready
- completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress; "get ready"; "she is ready to resign"; "the bridge is ready to collapse"; "I am ready to work"; "ready for action"; "ready for use"; "the soup will be ready in a minute"; "ready to learn to read"
- prompt
- quick in apprehending or reacting; "a prompt (or ready) response"; "a ready smile"
- fit(p), primed(p), set(p)
- (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed; "she was fit to scream"; "primed for a fight"; "we are set to go at any time"
- in order
- in a state of proper readiness or preparation or arrangement; "everything is in order for their arrival"
- ripe(p)
- fully prepared or eager; "the colonists were ripe for revolution"
- unready
- not prepared or in a state of readiness; slow to understand or respond; "she cursed her unready tongue"
- waiting, ready and waiting(p)
- being and remaining ready and available for use; "waiting cars and limousines lined the curb"; "found her mother waiting for them"; "an impressive array of food ready and waiting for the guests"; "military forces ready and waiting"
- flat-footed
- unprepared and unable to react quickly; "the new product caught their competitors flat-footed"
- napping, off-guard(a), off guard(p), off one's guard(p), off his guard, off her guard, off your guard
- not prepared or vigilant; "the blow caught him napping"; "caught in an off-guard moment"; "found him off his guard"
- unprepared
- not put in a state of preparedness; "the machinery was unprepared for the extra load"
- unripe
- not fully prepared
- eye-deceiving, trompe-l'oeil(a)
- creating the illusion of seeing reality; "the visual deception of trompe-l'oeil art"
- fabled, legendary
- celebrated in fable or legend; "the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox"; "legendary exploits of Jesse James"
- true(a)
- rightly so called; "true courage"; "a spirit which true men have always admired"; "a true friend"
- real(a)
- no less than what is stated; worthy of the name; "the real reason"; "real war"; "a real friend"; "a real woman"; "meat and potatoes--I call that a real meal"; "it's time he had a real job"; "it's no penny-ante job--he's making real money"
- proper(a)
- having all the qualities typical of the thing specified; "wanted a proper dinner; not just a snack"; "he finally has a proper job"
- dreamlike, surreal
- resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream"
- realistic
- aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are; "a realistic description"; "a realistic view of the possibilities"; "a realistic appraisal of our chances"; "the actors tried to create a realistic portrayal of the Africans"
- graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid
- evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description"
- down-to-earth, earthy
- sensible and practical; "has a straightforward down-to-earth approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense"
- hardheaded, hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic
- guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"
- real
- founded on practical matters; "a recent graduate experiencing the real world for the first time"
- living
- true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"
- unrealistic
- not realistic; "unrealistic expectations"; "prices at unrealistic high levels"
- chimerical
- produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush
- phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic
- characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"- J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"
- kafkaesque
- characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger; "the kafkaesque terror of the endless interrogations"
- reasonable, sensible
- showing reason or sound judgment; "a sensible choice"; "a sensible person"
- unreasonable
- absurd and inappropriate; "the unreasonable nimbus of romance with which she had encircled that man"- Thomas Hardy
- commonsense, commonsensible, commonsensical
- exhibiting native good judgment; "arrive home at a reasonable hour"; "commonsense scholarship on the foibles of a genius"; "unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated"
- healthy, intelligent, levelheaded, sound
- exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem";"sound advice"; "no reasonable explanation for his decision"
- unreasonable
- not reasonable; not showing good judgment
- mindless, reasonless, senseless
- not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act"
- avenging, retributive, retributory, vindicatory
- of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye"
- retaliative, retaliatory
- of or relating to retaliation; "a retaliatory attack"
- civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite
- marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
- refined
- used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
- debonair, debonaire, debonnaire, suave
- having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"
- couth
- used facetiously
- dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee
- affectedly dainty or refined
- agrestic
- (of behavior) rustic and uncouth; "the agrestic behavior of a country boy"
- finespun, delicate
- developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense"
- gentlemanlike, gentlemanly
- befitting a man of good breeding; "gentlemanly behavior"
- ladylike
- befitting a woman of good breeding; "ladylike manners"
- overrefined, superfine
- excessively delicate or refined
- well-bred, well-mannered
- of good upbringing
- unrefined
- used of persons and their behavior; not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
- artless, uncultivated, uncultured
- (of persons) lacking art or knowledge
- crass
- (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
- boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish, swinish
- ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
- coarse, common, uncouth, vulgar
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
- ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish
- (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
- low
- unrefined in character; "low comedy"
- unladylike
- lacking the behavior or manner or style considered proper for a lady
- robust
- rough and crude; "a robust tale"
- rough
- (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
- rough-spoken
- rude or uncouth in speech
- ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike
- not befitting a gentleman
- unoiled
- in need of oil treatment; "dusty unoiled roads"; "a dull unoiled table"
- unregenerate, unregenerated
- not regenerate or reformed; "unregenerate human nature"; "unregenerate conservatism"
- regenerate
- reformed spiritually or morally; "a regenerate sinner"; "regenerate by redemption from error or decay"
- born-again, converted, reborn
- spiritually reborn or converted; "a born-again Christian"; "a converted sinner"
- reformed
- caused to abandon an evil manner of living and follow a good one; "a reformed drunkard"
- cussed, obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant
- stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
- impenitent
- impervious to moral persuasion
- unconverted, unpersuaded
- not converted
- regular
- in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle; "his regular calls on his customers"; "regular meals"; "regular duties"
- routine
- occurring at fixed times or predictable intervals; "made her routine trip to the store"
- regularized
- made regular
- standard, stock
- regularly and widely used or sold; "a standard size"; "a stock item"
- timed
- regularly spaced in time; "closely timed intervals"
- uniform
- evenly spaced; "at regular (or uniform) intervals"
- well-ordered
- ordered well; "well-ordered work habits"
- irregular
- contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice; "irregular hiring practices"
- casual, occasional
- employed in a specified capacity from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker"
- grab(a)
- taken or to be taken at random; "grab samples"
- randomized
- set up or distributed in a deliberately random way
- substandard
- used of merchandise
- unrepeatable, unquotable
- not able or fit to be repeated or quoted; "what he said was funny but unquotable"
- repeatable, quotable
- able or fit to be repeated or quoted; "what he said was not repeatable in polite company"; "he comes up with so many quotable phrases"
- unprintable
- unfit for print because morally or legally objectionable or offensive to good taste; "an unprintable epithet"; "unprintable pictures"
- printable
- fit for publication because free of material that is morally or legally objectionable; "printable language"
- bound up
- closely or inseparably connected or associated with; "his career is bound up with the fortunes of the enterprise"
- connate, cognate
- related in nature; "connate qualities"
- relevant
- having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue; "the scientist corresponds with colleagues in order to learn about matters relevant to her own research"
- misrelated
- mistakenly related
- at issue(a), in dispute(p), in hand(p), in question(p), under consideration(p)
- now in consideration or under discussion; "regarding the matter in hand"
- applicable
- capable of being applied; having relevance; "gave applicable examples to support her argument
- germane(p), related
- having close kinship and appropriateness; "he asks questions that are germane and central to the issue"
- inapplicable, unsuitable
- not capable of being applied; "rules inapplicable to day students"
- pertinent, to the point(p)
- having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand; "a list of articles pertinent to the duscussion"; "remarks that were to the point"
- irrelevant
- having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue; "an irrelevant comment"; "irrelevant allegations"
- digressive, tangential
- of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark
- extraneous, immaterial, impertinent
- not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point"
- mindful, aware
- bearing in mind; attentive to; "ever mindful of her health"; "mindful of his responsibilities"; "mindful of these criticisms, I shall attempt to justify my action"
- careful, heedful
- cautiously attentive; "careful of her feelings"; "heedful of his father's advice"
- evocative, redolent, redolent of(p), remindful, reminiscent, reminiscent of(p)
- serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics"
- unmindful, forgetful, mindless
- not mindful or attentive; "while thus unmindful of his steps he stumbled"- G.B.Shaw
- naturalistic, realistic
- representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers"
- objective
- emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation; "objective art"
- reputable
- having a good reputation; "a reputable business"; "a reputable scientist"; "a reputable wine"
- estimable, good, honorable, respectable
- deserving of esteem and respect; "all respectable companies give guarantees"; "ruined the family's good name"
- esteemed, honored, prestigious
- having an illustrious reputation; respected; "our esteemed leader"; "a prestigious author"
- respected, well-thought-of
- receiving deferential regard; "a respected family"
- discreditable
- tending to bring discredit or disrepute; blameworthy; "his marks were not at all discreditable"
- disreputable
- lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance
- discredited, damaged
- being unjustly brought into disrepute; "a discredited politician"; "her damaged reputation"
- ill-famed, infamous, notorious
- having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"
- louche, shady
- of questionable taste or morality; "a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting"
- seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid
- morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
- receptive
- ready or willing to receive favorably; "receptive to the proposals"
- unrespectable
- not worthy of respect
- unrespected
- accorded no respect
- acceptive, acceptant
- accepting willingly; "acceptive of every new idea"; "an acceptant type of mind"
- hospitable, open to(p)
- (`hospitable' is usually followed by `to') having an open mind; "hospitable to new ideas"; "open to suggestions"
- admissive
- characterized by or allowing admission; "an Elizabethan tragedy admissive of comic scenes"
- closed, unsympathetic
- not having an open mind; "a closed mind unreceptive to new ideas"
- unreceptive
- not receptive
- reconcilable
- capable of being reconciled; "her way of thinking is reconcilable with mine"
- resolvable
- capable of being settled or resolved; "all disputed points are potentially resolvable"; "a resolvable quarrel"
- harmonizable
- capable of being made harmonious or consistent
- irreconcilable, unreconcilable
- impossible to reconcile; "irreconcilable differences"
- hostile
- impossible to bring into friendly accord; "hostile factions"
- inconsistent
- not capable of being made consistent or harmonious; "inconsistent accounts"
- rarefied, rarified
- reserved for an eleite group
- overpowering, overwhelming
- so strong as to be irresistible; "an overpowering need for solitude"; "the temptation to despair may become overwhelming"; "an overwhelming majority"
- bent, bent on(p), dead set(p), intent on(p), out to(p)
- fixed in your purpose; "bent on going to the theater"; "dead set against intervening"; "out_to win every event"
- resolute
- firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination; "stood resolute against the enemy"; "faced with a resolute opposition"; "a resolute and unshakeable faith"
- determined
- characterized by great determination; "a struggle against a determined enemy"
- foursquare
- characterized by firm and unwavering conviction; "a foursquare refusal to yield"
- desperate, do-or-die(a)
- desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict"
- firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty"
- hell-bent
- recklessly determined; "hell-bent on winning"
- resolved, single-minded
- determined; "she was firmly resolved to be a doctor"; "single-minded in his determination to stop smoking"
- spartan
- resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; "spartan courage"
- stalwart, stout
- dependable; "the stalwart citizens at Lexington"; "a stalwart supporter of the UN"; "stout hearts"
- undaunted, undismayed, unshaken
- unshaken in purpose; "wholly undismayed by the commercial failure of the three movies he had made"
- irresolute
- uncertain how to act or proceed; "the committee was timid and mediocre and irresolute"
- undeterred, undiscouraged
- not deterred; "pursued his own path...undeterred by lack of popular appreciation and understanding"- Osbert Sitwell
- discouraged
- lacking in resolution; "the accident left others discouraged about going there"
- infirm
- lacking firmness of will or character or purpose; "infirm of purpose; give me the daggers" - Shakespeare
- respectable
- worthy of respect; "a respectable woman"
- unstable
- disposed to psychological variability; "his rather unstable religious convictions"
- vacillant, vacillating, wavering
- uncertain in purpose or action
- weak-kneed
- lacking will power or resolution; "the role of the dissenter is not for the weak-kneed"
- decent, nice
- socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"
- fair
- more than adequate in quality; "fair work"
- presentable
- fit to be seen; "presentable clothes"
- worthy
- meriting respect or esteem; "the worthy gentleman"
- respectful
- full of or exhibiting respect; "respectful behavior"; "a respectful glance"
- unrespectable
- unworthy of respect
- honorific
- conferring or showing honor or respect; "honorific social status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized profession"
- deferent, deferential, regardful
- showing deference
- disrespectful
- exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous; "remarks disrespectful of the law"; "disrespectful in the presence of his parents"; "disrespectful toward his teacher"
- annihilating, devastating, withering
- making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert
- derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting
- abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"
- contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful
- expressing extreme contempt
- contumelious
- arrogantly insolent
- impious, undutiful
- lacking due respect or dutifulness; "impious toward one's parents"; "an undutiful son"
- impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed, flip
- marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
- undeferential
- not showing courteous respect
- judicious
- characterized by good judgment or sound thinking; "judicious journalism"
- irresponsible
- showing lack of care for consequences; "behaved like an irresponsible idiot"; "hasty and irresponsible action"
- trustworthy
- taking responsibility for one`s conduct and obligations; "trustworthy public servants"
- flighty, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained
- absent-mindedly irresponsible; "he said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor"
- carefree, devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy
- cheerfully irresponsible; "carefree with his money"; "freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth"
- do-nothing(a)
- characterized by inability or unwillingness to work toward a goal or assume responsibility; "a do-nothing government"
- feckless
- not fit to assume responsibility
- trigger-happy
- irresponsible in the use of firearms
- idle, loose
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; "idle talk"; "a loose tongue"
- unaccountable
- free from control or responsibility
- unreliable
- lacking a sense of responsibility
- restored
- brought back to original condition; "a restored painting"; "felt a restored faith in human beings"
- contained
- controlled; "striking with contained ferocity at my head"- R.L.Stevenson
- low-key, low-keyed, subdued
- restrained in style or quality; "a little masterpiece of low-keyed eloquence"
- unexpansive
- not given to high spirits or effusiveness; "an unexpansive man"
- unrestrained
- not subject to restraint; "unrestrained laughter"
- excessive, extravagant, exuberant, overweening
- unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"
- freewheeling
- free of restraints or rules; "freewheeling foolishness"; "the versatility of his poetic freewheeling style"
- unbridled, unchecked, uncurbed, ungoverned
- not restrained or controlled; "unbridled rage"; "an unchecked temper"; "ungoverned rage"
- circumscribed, limited
- subject to limits or subjected to limits
- unbuttoned, unlaced
- not under constraint in action or expression; "this unbuttoned and disrespectful age"- Curtis Bok; "unlaced behavior in the neighborhood pub"
- restricted
- subject to restriction or subjected to restriction; "of restricted importance"
- open-ended
- without fixed limits or restrictions; "an open-ended discussion"
- restrictive
- serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments"
- confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting
- restricting the scope or freedom of action
- inhibiting, inhibitory, repressive, repressing
- restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline"
- suppressive
- tending to suppress; "the government used suppressive measures to control the protest"
- unrestrictive
- not tending to restrict
- emancipating, emancipative, freeing, liberating
- tending to set free
- bulk(a)
- large in quantity or volume; "a bulk buy"; "bulk mailing"
- retentive
- tending to retain; "a retentive memory"; "soils retentive of moisture"
- long, tenacious
- (of memory) having greater than average range; "a long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory"
- acquisitive, recollective
- tending to acquire and retain ideas or information; "an acquisitive mind"
- short
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"
- unretentive, forgetful
- not retentive
- mirrored
- like or characteristic of a mirrored image
- echoic, echolike
- like or characteristic of an echo
- irreverent
- showing lack of due respect or veneration; "irreverent scholars mocking sacred things"; "noisy irreverent tourists"
- blasphemous, profane, sacrilegious
- grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"
- redux(ip)
- brought back; "the Victorian era redux"; "`Rabbit Redux' by John Updike"
- revived
- restored to consciousness or life or vigor; "felt revived hope"
- renewed
- restored to a new condition; "felt renewed strength"
- resurgent
- rising again as to new life and vigor; "resurgent nationalism"
- aroused
- aroused to action; "the aroused opposition"
- revitalized
- restored to new life and vigor; "a revitalized economy"; "a revitalized inner-city neighborhood"
- unrevived, unrenewed
- not revived
- awakened
- aroused or activated; "an awakened interest in ballet"
- unawakened
- not aroused or activated; "unawakened emotions"
- overawed
- overcome by a feeling of awe
- unrewarding
- not rewarding; not providing personal satisfaction
- rewarding
- providing personal satisfaction; "a rewarding career as a paramedic"
- appreciated, gratifying, pleasing, satisfying
- giving pleasure or satisfaction
- rewardable
- appropriate for receiving a reward
- rewardful
- offering or productive of reward; "rewardful pursuits"
- profitless, unprofitable
- without profit or reward; "let us have no part in profitless quarrels"- D.D.Eisenhower; "How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world"- Shakespeare
- thankless, unappreciated, ungratifying
- not likely to be rewarded; "grading papers is a thankless task"
- rhetorical
- concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"
- oratorical
- characteristic of an orator or oratory; "oratorical prose"; "harangued his men in an oratorical way"- Robert Graves
- bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
- ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
- flowery, ornate
- marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton
- embellished, empurpled, over-embellished, purple
- excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
- grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall
- lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"
- poetic, poetical
- characteristic of or befitting poetry; "poetic diction"
- literal, plain, unembellished
- lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description"; "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style"
- stylistic
- of or relating to style (especially in the use of language); "stylistic devices"
- unrhetorical
- not rhetorical
- plainspoken
- using simple and direct language; "a plainspoken country doctor"
- matter-of-fact, prosaic
- not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"
- beating, pulsating, pulsing
- expanding and contracting rhythmically as to the beating of the heart; "felt the pulsating artery"; "oh my beating heart"
- danceable
- suitable for dancing
- measured, metrical, metric
- (prosody) the rhythmic arrangement of syllables
- lilting, swinging, swingy, tripping
- characterized by a buoyant rhythm; "an easy lilting stride"; "the flute broke into a light lilting air"; "a swinging pace"; "a graceful swingy walk"; "a tripping singing measure"
- periodic
- recurring at regular intervals
- throbbing
- pounding or beating strongly or violently; "a throbbing pain"; "the throbbing engine of the boat"
- unrhythmical, unrhythmic
- not rhythmic; irregular in beat or accent
- rich
- possessing material wealth; "her father is extremely rich"; "many fond hopes are pinned on rich uncles"
- arrhythmic, arrhythmical
- without regard for rhythm
- nonrhythmic
- deliberately not rhythmic
- affluent, flush, loaded, moneyed, wealthy
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations"
- comfortable, easy, prosperous, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do
- in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich; "they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards"; "easy living"; "a prosperous family"; "his family is well-situated financially"; "well-to-do members of the community"
- poor
- having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret"
- broke, bust, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke
- lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term"
- destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken
- poor enough to need help from others
- unprovided for(p)
- without income or means; "left his family unprovided for"
- hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious, pinched
- not having enough money to pay for necessities
- moneyless
- having no money; "virtually moneyless rural regions"
- rich
- having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources); "blessed with a land rich in minerals"; "rich in ideas"; "rich with cultural interest"
- poor
- badly supplied with desirable qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value"
- resourceless
- lacking or deficient in natural resources
- rich
- suggestive of or characterized by great expense; "a rich display"
- deluxe, gilded, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous
- rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"
- beggarly, mean
- marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut"
- lavish, lucullan, lush, plush, plushy
- characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast"
- poor
- characterized by or indicating lack of money; "the country had a poor economy"
- moneyed, monied
- based on or arising from the possession of money or wealth; "moneyed interests"
- slummy, slum(a)
- (of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty; "a slummy part of town"; "slum conditions"
- moneyless
- not based on the possession of money; "a moneyless economy"
- rich
- (metallurgy; chemistry) high in mineral content; "a rich vein of copper"
- lean
- lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel"
- mis
- (prefix) bad or erroneous or lack of; "the prefix `mis' means bad in `misdeeds', erroneous in `misunderstand', and lacking in `mistrust'"
- misguided, mistaken
- wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken identity"
- beefy, burly, husky, strapping, buirdly
- muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; (`buirdly' is a Scottish term; "a buirdly lad of twelve")
- robust
- physically strong
- big-boned
- having a bone structure that is massive in contrast with the surrounding flesh
- cast-iron, iron
- extremely robust; "an iron constitution"
- big-chested, chesty
- marked by a large or well-developed chest; "he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed"
- big-shouldered, broad-shouldered, square-shouldered
- having broad shoulders; "big-shouldered and heavy-armed"
- hardy, stalwart, stout, sturdy
- having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes"
- heavy-armed
- having massive arms; "he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed"
- vigorous
- strong and active physically or mentally; "a vigorous old man who spent half of his day on horseback"- W.H.Hudson
- square-built
- broad and solidly built
- frail
- physically weak; "an invalid's frail body"
- decrepit, feeble, infirm, sapless, weak, weakly
- lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"
- agrestic, rustic
- characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls"
- arcadian, bucolic, pastoral, rustic
- used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"
- countrified, countryfied, rustic
- characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness"
- country-style, country(a)
- typical of the country; "country-style sausage"; "country music"
- country(a), country-bred
- rough and uncouth; "a country boy"
- cracker-barrel, folksy, homespun
- characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy"; "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys"
- hick
- (informal) rural and uncouth; "hick ideas"
- citified, cityfied, city-bred, city-born
- being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person
- inspirational
- imparting a divine influence on the mind and soul
- revered, reverenced, reverend, sublime, venerated
- worthy of adoration or reverence
- profanatory
- profaning or tending to desecrate
- safe
- free from risk or danger; "a safe trip"; "you will be safe here"; "a safe place"; "a safe bet"
- off the hook(p)
- freed from danger or blame or obligation; "I let him off the hook with a mild reprimand"
- fail-safe
- eliminating danger by compensating automatically for a failure or malfunction; "a fail-safe device in a nuclear weapon to deactivate it automatically in the event of accident"
- harmless, innocuous
- unlikely to harm or disturb anyone; "harmless old man"
- out of danger(p), secure
- remote from any source of danger; "the children are out of danger here"
- risk-free, riskless, unhazardous
- thought to be devoid of risk
- chancy, chanceful, dicey, dodgy
- of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker
- dangerous, unsafe
- involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm; "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions"
- breakneck
- used of speed; "a breakneck pace"
- desperate
- (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair; "a desperate criminal"; "taken hostage of desperate men"
- hazardous, risky, venturesome, venturous
- involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a venturesome journey in wintertime"; "a venturous enterprise"
- harmful
- able or likely to do harm
- self-destructive, suicidal
- dangerous to yourself or your interests; "suicidal impulses"; "a suicidal corporate takeover strategy"
- insidious
- intended to entrap
- on the hook(p)
- caught in a difficult or dangerous situation; "there I was back on the hook"
- parlous, perilous, precarious, touch-and-go
- fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"
- treacherous, unreliable
- dangerously unstable and unpredictable; "treacherous winding roads"; "an unreliable trestle"
- in demand(p), marketable
- in demand by especially employers; "marketable skills"
- assorted, various
- of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity; "assorted sizes"; "his disguises are many and various"; "various experiments have failed to disprove the theory"; "cited various reasons for his behavior"
- antithetic, antithetical
- sharply contrasted in character or purpose; "practices entirely antithetical to her professed beliefs"; "hope is antithetic to despair"
- contrasting, contrastive
- strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
- diametric, diametrical, opposite, polar
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed; "in diametric contradiction to his claims"; "diametrical (or opposite) points of view"; "opposite meanings"; "extreme and indefensible polar positions"
- disparate
- fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind; "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing"; "disparate ideas"
- diverse, various
- distinctly dissimilar or unlike; "diverse parts of the country"; "celebrities as diverse as Bob Hope and Bob Dylan"; "animals as various as the jaguar and the cavy and the sloth"
- divers(a), diverse
- many and different; "tourist offices of divers nationalities"; "a person of diverse talents"
- opposite
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance; "the medicine's effect was opposite to that intended"; "it is said that opposite characters make a union happiest"- Charles Reade
- several(p)
- distinct and individual; "three several times"
- opposite
- the other one of a complementary pair; "the opposite sex"; "the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors"
- similar
- marked by correspondence or resemblance; "similar food at similar prices"; "problems similar to mine"; "they wore similar coats"
- analogous, correspondent
- similar or correspondent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered analogous; "surimi is marketed as analogous to crabmeat"
- akin(p), kindred, related
- similar or related in quality or character; "a feeling akin to terror"; "kindred souls"; "the amateur is closely related to the collector"
- confusable
- so similar as to be easily confused; "potentially confusable senses of words"
- connatural
- similar in nature; "and mix with our connatural dust"- John Milton
- corresponding
- similar especially in position or purpose; "a number of corresponding diagonal points"
- dissimilar
- not similar; "a group of very dissimilar people"; "a pump not dissimilar to those once found on every farm"; "their understanding of the world is not so dissimilar from our own"; "took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem"
- quasi(a)
- having some resemblance; "a quasi success"; "a quasi contract"
- semi
- (prefix) having some of the characteristics of; "`semi' is a prefix meaning similar in the word `semiofficial'"
- amuck, amok, berserk, demoniac, demoniacal, possessed(p)
- in a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a demon; "the soldier was completely amuck"; "berserk with grief"; "a berserk worker smashing windows"
- in his right mind(p), in her right mind(p), in their right minds(p)
- behaving responsibly
- lucid
- having a clear mind; "a lucid moment in his madness"
- balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, wacky
- informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged
- affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
- crackbrained, idiotic
- insanely irresponsible; "an idiotic idea"
- crazed, deranged, half-crazed
- driven insane
- fey, touched(p)
- slightly insane
- maniacal, maniac(p)
- wildly disordered; "a maniacal frenzy"
- lunatic, moonstruck
- (informal) some insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon
- raving, raving mad, wild
- talking or behaving irrationally; "a raving lunatic"
- screw-loose, screwy
- (informal) not behaving normally
- jaded
- dulled by surfeit; "the amoral, jaded, bored upper classes"
- gorged, sated, surfeited
- fed beyond capacity or desire
- sarcastic
- expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
- black, grim, mordant
- harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
- barbed, biting, nipping, pungent
- capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
- sardonic, wry
- disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking; "his rebellion is the bitter, sardonic laughter of all great satirists"- Frank Schoenberner; "a wry pleasure to be...reminded of all that one is missing"- Irwin Edman
- satirical, satiric
- exposing human folly to ridicule; "a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine"
- satisfactory
- giving satisfaction; "satisfactory living conditions"; "his grades were satisfactory"
- saturnine
- bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde
- unsarcastic
- not sarcastic
- adequate, passable, fair to middling
- about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"
- all right(p), all-right(a), fine, ok, o.k., okay
- (informal) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "nother minute I'd have been fine"
- alright
- nonstandard usage
- comforting, cheering, satisfying
- providing freedom from worry
- copacetic, copasetic, copesetic, copesettic
- completely satisfactory; "his smile said that everything was copacetic"; "You had to be a good judge of what a man was like, and the English was copacetic"- John O'Hara
- right
- in or into a satisfactory condition; "things are right again now"; "put things right"
- disappointing, dissatisfactory, unsatisfying
- not up to expectations; "a disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising"
- unsatisfactory
- not giving satisfaction; "shops should take back unsatisfactory goods"; "her performance proved to be unsatisfactory"; "life is becoming increasingly unsatifactory"; "our discussion was very unsatisfactory"
- unacceptable
- not adequate to give satisfaction: "the coach told his players that defeat was unacceptable"
- off
- below a satisfactory level; "an off year for tennis"; "his performance was off"
- academic, donnish, pedantic
- marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
- erudite, learned
- having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor"
- unlearned
- not well learned
- pseudoscientific
- based on theories and methods erroneously regarded as scientific
- scrupulous
- having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled; "less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance"
- religious
- extremely scrupulous and conscientious; "religious in observing the rules of health"
- conscientious
- guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice"
- unscrupulous
- without scruples or principles; "unscrupulous politicos who would be happy to sell...their country in order to gain power"
- conscienceless, unconscionable
- lacking a conscience; "a conscienceless villain"; "brash, unprincipled, and conscienceless"; "an unconscionable liar"
- unconscientious
- not conscientious; not guided by a sense of right and wrong
- sealed, certain
- established irrevocably; "his fate is sealed"
- unsealed, uncertain
- not established or confirmed; "his doom is as yet unsealed"
- dark
- secret; "keep it dark"; "the dark mysteries of Africa and the fabled wonders of the East"
- hidden, obscure
- difficult to find; "hidden valleys"; "a hidden cave"; "an obscure retreat"
- in full view
- easily visible; "she turned her back on her rival in full view of everyone"
- masking
- hiding from view; "speeding down the other lane beyond the masking truck"- T.H.White"; "a masking piece is a flat or curtain that hides part of the stage from the audience"
- enveloping(a), shrouding(a)
- concealing by enclosing or wrapping as if in something that is not solid; "the enveloping darkness"; "hills concealed by shrouding mists"
- revealing
- showing or making known; "her dress was scanty and revealing"
- disclosing
- allowing to be seen; making visible; "the screen fell with a disclosing crash"
- denominational, partisan
- adhering or confined to a particular sect or denomination or party; "denominational prejudice"
- sectarian
- belonging to or characteristic of a sect; "a sectarian mind"; "the negations of sectarian ideology"- Sidney Hook; "sectarian squabbles in psychology"
- narrow-minded
- rigidly adhering to a particular sect or its doctrines
- nonsectarian, unsectarian
- not restricted to one sect or school or party; "religious training in a nonsectarian atmosphere"; "nonsectarian colleges"; "a wide and unsectarian interest in religion"- Bertrand Russell
- overanxious
- anxious or nervous to an excessive degree
- secure
- free from danger or risk; "secure from harm"; "his fortune was secure"; "made a secure place for himself in his field"
- assured
- characterized by certainty or security; "a tiny but assured income"; "we can never have completely assured lives"
- established, firm
- securely established; "an established reputation"; "holds a firm position as the country's leading poet"
- safe
- in safekeeping; "your secret is safe with me"
- fail-safe
- guaranteed not to fail; "a fail-safe recipe for cheese souffle"
- in safe custody(p)
- secure in formally authorized hands
- safe-deposit, safety-deposit
- safe for the storage of valuables; "kept the deed in his safe-deposit box at the bank"
- insecure, unsafe
- lacking in security or safety; "his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future"
- sure
- physically secure or dependable; "a sure footing"; "was on sure ground"
- precarious, shaky
- not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage"
- embattled
- beset with attackers or controversy or conflict; "embattled troops"; "an embattled governor"
- uncertain, unsure
- not safe from danger or mishap; "faced an uncertain future"; "an unsure existence"
- secure
- not likely to fail or give way; "the lock was secure"; "a secure foundation"; "a secure hold on her wrist"
- steady
- securely in position; not shaky; "held the ladder steady"
- tight
- securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid; "the bolts are tight"
- insecure
- not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way; "the hinge is insecure"
- loose
- not fixed firmly or tightly; "the bolts became loose over time"; "a loose chair leg"; "loose bricks"
- precarious
- dangerously insecure; "a precarious footing on the ladder"
- uncertain
- not firm or secure; "balancing three boxes in an uncertain pile"
- seductive
- tending to entice into a desired action or state
- alluring, beguiling, enticing, tempting
- highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; "an alluring prospect"; "her alluring smile"; "the voice was low and beguiling"; "difficult to say no to an enticing advertisement"; "a tempting invitation"
- selfish
- concerned chiefly or only with yourself; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman
- corrupting
- seducing into corrupt practices
- insidious
- beguiling but harmful; "insidious pleasures"
- teasing
- arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it; "her lazy teasing smile"
- unseductive
- not seductive
- uninviting, untempting
- not tempting
- egotistic, egotistical, narcissistic, self-loving
- characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance
- stingy, ungenerous
- selfishly unwilling to share with others
- self-serving, self-seeking
- interested only in yourself
- public-spirited
- showing unselfish interest in the public welfare; "a public-spirited citizen"
- unselfish
- not selfish
- sharing
- unselfishly willing to share with others; "a warm and sharing friend"
- self-denying, self-giving, self-sacrificing
- willing to deprive yourself
- self-forgetful
- showing lack of self-interest
- precedential
- having precedence (especially because of longer service); "precedential treatment for senior members of the firm"
- sensational
- causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion
- screaming(a)
- resembling a scream in effect; "screaming headlines"; "screaming colors and designs"
- lurid, shocking
- glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident"
- scandalmongering, sensationalistic, yellow(a)
- typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow journalism"
- unsensational
- not of such character as to arouse intense interest, curiosity, or emotional reaction
- sensitive
- responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"
- delicate
- of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely; "almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments"
- erogenous
- sensitive to sexual stimulation
- highly sensitive
- readily affected by various agents; "a highly sensitive explosive is easily exploded by a shock"; "a sensitive colloid is readily coagulated"
- alive(p)
- (followed by `to' or `of') aware of; "is alive to the moods of others"
- sensitive
- having acute mental or emotional sensibility; "sensitive to the local community and its needs"
- dead(p), numb(p)
- (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"
- huffy, thin-skinned, touchy
- quick to take offense
- oversensitive
- unduly sensitive or thin-skinned
- responsive
- susceptible to the feelings or attitudes of others; "keeping government in America responsive to the will of the people"
- insensitive
- deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive; "insensitive to the needs of the patients"
- callous, thick-skinned, indurate
- emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
- dull
- blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather
- insensible(p), unaffected(p)
- (followed by `to' or `by') unaware of or indifferent to; "insensible to the suffering around him"
- unresponsive
- not responsive; "a government unresponsive to their demands"
- soulless
- lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling
- sanitary, healthful
- free from filth and pathogens; "sanitary conditions for preparing food"; "a sanitary washroom"
- hygienic, hygienical
- tending to promote or preserve health; "hygienic habits like using disposable tissues"; "hygienic surroundings with plenty of fresh air"
- unhygienic
- so unclean as to be a likely cause of disease; "pathetic dogs kept in small unhygienic cages"
- unsanitary, insanitary, unhealthful
- not sanitary or healthful; "unsanitary open sewers"; "grim and unsanitary conditions"
- contaminated, dirty, infected
- contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
- septic
- containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms; "a septic sore throat"; "a septic environment"; "septic sewage"
- extraneous, foreign
- not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk"
- germy
- full of germs or pathological microorganisms; "the water in New York harbor is oily and dirty and germy"
- adulterating, adulterant
- making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials; "the adulterating effect of extraneous materials"
- antiseptic
- freeing from error or corruption; "the antiseptic effect of sturdy criticism
- serious
- concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities; "a serious student of history"; "a serious attempt to learn to ski"; "gave me a serious look"; "a serious young man"; "are you serious or joking?"; "Don't be so serious!"
- real
- not to be taken lightly; "statistics demonstrate that poverty and unemployment are very real problems"; "to the man sleeping regularly in doorways homelessness is real"
- grave, sedate, sober, solemn
- dignified and somber in manner or character; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "sober as a judge"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"
- overserious
- excessively serious
- sensible, thoughtful
- acting with or showing thought and good sense; "a sensible young man"
- frivolous
- not serious in content or attitude or behavior; "a frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman"
- sobering
- tending to make sober or more serious; "the news had a sobering effect"
- flighty, flyaway
- irresponsibly frivolous; "flighty young girls"
- airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, silly
- lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles"
- idle, light
- silly or trivial; "idle pleasure"; "light banter"; "light idle chatter"
- flippant, light-minded
- showing inappropriate levity
- light
- intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound; "light verse"; "a light comedy"
- trivial
- concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"
- playful
- full of fun and high spirits; "playful children just let loose from school"
- coltish, frolicsome, frolicky, rollicking, sportive
- given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes"
- impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish
- naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"
- devilish, rascally, roguish
- playful in an appealingly bold way; "a roguish grin"
- elfin, elfish, elvish
- usually goodnaturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks"
- mocking, teasing, quizzical
- playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence Durrell
- kittenish, frisky
- playful like a lively kitten
- unplayful, serious, sober
- completely lacking in playfulness
- elect, elite
- selected as the best; "an elect circle of artists"; "elite colleges"
- hand-picked
- carefully selected; "a hand-picked jury"
- random
- taken haphazardly; "a random choice"
- durable, long-wearing
- serviceable for a long time; "durable denim jeans"
- in condition
- in good or usable condition; "put the old car back in condition"
- out of condition
- not in good condition
- unsettled
- not settled or established; "an unsettled lifestyle"
- erratic, planetary, wandering
- having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"
- aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant
- continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
- rootless, vagabond
- wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer"
- settled
- established or decided beyond dispute or doubt; "with details of the wedding settled she could now sleep at night"
- firm
- not subject to revision or change; "a firm contract"; "a firm offer"
- accomplished, effected, established
- settled securely and unconditionally; "that smoking causes health problems is an accomplished fact"
- unsettled
- still in doubt; "an unsettled issue"; "an unsettled state of mind"
- open, undecided, undetermined, unresolved
- not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought; "an open question"; "our position on this bill is still undecided"; "our lawsuit is still undetermined"
- doubtful, tentative
- unsettled in mind or opinion; "drew a few tentative conclusions"
- sexy
- marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes"
- autoerotic
- sexually self-satisfying as by masturbation
- erotic, titillating
- giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing
- coquettish, flirtatious
- like a coquette
- blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy
- suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"
- hot
- sexually excited or exciting; "was hot for her"; "hot pants"
- lecherous
- given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity; "a lecherous gleam in his eye"; "a lecherous good-for-nothing"
- juicy, luscious, red-hot, voluptuous
- having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman"
- lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lustful
- driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies"
- oversexed, highly-sexed
- having excessive sexual desire or appeal
- leering
- (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious; "leering drugstore cowboys"
- lubricious, lustful, prurient, salacious
- characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man"
- orgiastic
- used of frenzied sexual activity
- provocative
- exciting sexual desire; "her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative"
- sexed
- characterized by sexuality; "highly sexed"
- unsexy
- not sexually aroused or arousing
- sexless
- sexually unattractive
- aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, sexy
- exciting sexual desire
- anaphrodisiac
- tending to diminish sexual desire
- shapely
- having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape; "a slim waist and shapely legs"
- bosomy, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous
- (of a woman's body) having pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress"
- built(p), stacked(p), well-stacked
- (slang) well or attractively formed with respect to physique
- clean-limbed
- having well-proportioned limbs
- modeled, sculptural, sculptured, sculpturesque
- resembling sculpture; "her finely modeled features"; "rendered with...vivid sculptural effect"; "the sculpturesque beauty of the athletes' bodies"
- Junoesque, statuesque
- suggestive of a statue
- well-proportioned
- of pleasing proportions
- well-turned
- of a pleasing shape; "a well-turned ankle"
- unshapely
- not shapely; not well-proportioned and pleasing in shape; "a stout unshapely woman"
- chunky, lumpy
- like or containing small stick lumps; "the dumplings were chunky pieces of uncooked dough"
- deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen
- so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot"; "misshapen old fingers"
- ill-proportioned
- lacking pleasing proportions
- shapeless
- lacking symmetry or attractive form; "a shapeless hat on his head"
- perfected
- (of plans, ideas, etc.) perfectly formed; "a graceful but not yet fully perfected literary style"
- unformed
- not having form or shape; "unformed clay"
- amorphous, formless, shapeless
- having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a shapeless mass of protoplasm"
- unshaped, unshapen
- incompletely or imperfectly shaped; "unshaped dough"; "unshaped timbers"
- argus-eyed, hawk-eyed, keen-sighted, lynx-eyed, quick-sighted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted
- having very keen vision; "quick-sighted as a cat"
- clear-sighted
- having sharp clear vision
- dazzled
- having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light; "she shut her dazzled eyes against the sun's brilliance"
- big, momentous
- of very great significance "deciding to drop the atom bomb was a very big decision"; "a momentous event"
- significant, important
- important in effect or meaning; "a significant change in tax laws"; "a significant change in the Constitution"; "a significant contribution"; "significant details"; "statistically significant"
- epochal, epoch-making
- highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era; "epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill"; "an epoch-making discovery"
- earthshaking, world-shaking, world-shattering
- sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; "earthshaking proposals"; "the contest was no world-shaking affair"; "the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering"
- fundamental, profound
- far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something; "the fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred"; "the book underwent fundamental changes"; "committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravagance"; "profound social changes"
- large
- fairly large or important in effect; influential; "played a large role in the negotiations"
- monumental
- of outstanding significance; "Einstein's monumental contributions to physics"
- noteworthy, remarkable
- worthy of notice; "a noteworthy fact is that her students rarely complain"; "a remarkable achievement"
- colorless, hole-and-corner, hole-in-corner
- relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life; "a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community"- H.G.Wells
- operative, key
- effective; producing a desired effect; "the operative word"
- portentous, prodigious
- of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
- insignificant, unimportant
- not important or noteworthy
- light
- having little importance; "losing his job was no light matter"
- inappreciable
- too small to make a significant difference; "inappreciable fluctuations in temperature"
- superficial, trivial
- of little substance or significance; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"
- significant
- (statistics) too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation; "the interaction effect is significant at the .01 level"; "no significant difference was found"
- simple
- not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"
- elemental, ultimate
- being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything; "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate ingredients of matter"
- oversimplified, simplistic
- unrealistically simple
- simplified
- reduced in complexity; "a useful if somewhat simplified classification system"
- complex
- complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"
- uncomplicated, unsophisticated
- lacking complexity; "small and uncomplicated cars for those really interested in motoring"; "an unsophisticated machine"
- Byzantine, convoluted, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous
- highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
- complicated
- difficult to analyze or understand; "a complicated problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"
- gordian
- extremely intricate; usually in phrase "gordian knot"
- interlacing, interlinking, interlocking, interwoven
- linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing
- labyrinthine, labyrinthian, mazy
- resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity; "a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths"
- multiplex
- having many parts or aspects; "the multiplex problem of drug abuse"
- thickening
- becoming more intricate or complex; "a thickening plot"
- bona fide
- undertaken in good faith; "a bona fide offer"
- cordial, fervent
- sincerely or intensely felt; "a cordial regard for his visitor's comfort"; "a cordial abhorrence of waste"; "a fervent hope"
- dear, devout, earnest, heartfelt
- earnest; "one's dearest wish"; "devout wishes for their success"; "heartfelt condolences"
- bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish
- attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
- heart-whole, wholehearted, whole-souled
- with unconditional and enthusiastic devotion; "heart-whole friendship"; "gave wholehearted support to her candidacy"; "wholehearted commitment"; "demonstrated his whole-souled allegiance"
- insincere
- lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"
- buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, unctuous
- unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"
- gilded, meretricious, specious
- based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
- zillion, a zillion
- very large indeterminate number; "a zillion people were there"
- umpteenth, umteenth, umptieth
- (informal) last in an indefinitely numerous series
- single(a)
- existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual; "upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness"
- lone(a), lonesome(a), only(a), sole(a), solitary(a)
- being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky"
- one(a)
- being the single appropriate individual of a kind; only; "the one horse that could win this race"; "the one person I could marry"
- sui generis
- constituting a class of its own; unique; "a history book sui generis"; "sui generis works like Mary Chestnut's Civil War diary"
- manifold, multiplex
- many and varied; having many features or forms; "manifold reasons"; "our manifold failings"; "manifold intelligence"; "the multiplex opportunities in high technology"
- multi
- (prefix) consisting of more than one; "`multi' is a prefix in words like `multimillionaire' and `multistory house'"
- triune
- being three in one; used especially of the Christian Trinity; "a triune God"
- skilled
- having or showing or requiring special skill; "only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team"; "a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience"; "a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow"; "a skilled trade"
- accomplished, complete
- highly skilled; "an accomplished pianist"; "a complete musician"
- adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful
- having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching"
- arch(a)
- expert in skulduggery; "an arch criminal"
- ball-hawking
- (baseball or basketball or football) used of a player skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit; "a ball-hawking center fielder"
- hot
- (informal) performed or performing with unusually great skill and daring and energy; "a hot drummer"; "he's hot tonight"
- consummate, masterful, masterly, virtuoso(a)
- having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance"
- cool
- (informal) marked by great skill or facility; "cool maneuvers on the parallel bars"
- delicate
- marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique; "a surgeon's delicate touch"
- fine
- superior in skill or ability or accomplishment; "a fine violinist"; "a fine athlete"; "a fine mind"; "the scupture showed the fine hand of a master"; "a fine performance"
- master(a)
- highly skilled or proficient" "a master plumber"; "a master thief"
- mean
- (slang) excellent; "famous for a mean backhand"
- sure-handed
- proficient and confident in performance; "promising playwrights...sure-handed enough to turn out top-drawer scripts"
- unskilled
- not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship"
- versatile
- competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another; "a versatile writer"
- botchy, butcherly, unskillful
- poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt"
- artless
- showing lack of art; "an artless translation"
- bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent
- showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
- bungled, botched
- spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled job"
- crude, rough
- not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"
- hopeless
- of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics"
- humble, menial, lowly
- used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
- lubberly
- clumsy and unskilled; "a big stupid lubberly fellow"
- out of practice(p), rusty
- impaired in skill by neglect
- verbal
- relating to or having facility in the use of words; "a good poet is a verbal artist"; "a merely verbal writer who sacrifices content to sound"; "verbal aptitude"
- fast
- (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds; "a fast road"; "grass courts are faster than clay"
- velvet, velvety
- smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste
- bumpy, jarring, jolting, jolty
- characterized by rough motion; "a bumpy ride"
- alone(p)
- isolated from others; "could be alone in a crowded room"; "was alone with her thoughts"; "I want to be alone"
- isolated, marooned, stranded
- cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
- sociable
- inclined to or conducive to companionship with others; "a sociable occasion"; "enjoyed a sociable chat"; "a sociable conversation"; "Americans are sociable and gregarious"
- clubbable, clubable
- (informal) inclined to club together; "a clubbable man"
- clubbish, clubby
- effusively sociable; "a clubbish set"; "we got rather clubby"
- convivial, good-time
- occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company; "a convivial atmosphere at the reunion"; "a woman of convivial nature"; "he was a real good-time Charlie"
- companionable
- suggestive of companionship; "a companionable pet"
- insolvable, unsoluble, unsolvable, unresolvable
- not easily solved; "an apparantly insolvable problem"; "public finance...had long presented problems unsolvable or at least unsolved"- C.L.Jones
- sophisticated
- having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir faire; "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"; "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book"
- blase, worldly
- very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom"
- intelligent, well-informed
- possessing sound knowledge; "well-informed readers"
- polished, refined, svelte, urbane
- showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
- naive, naif
- marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances"
- worldly-wise
- experienced in and wise to the ways of the world
- credulous
- showing a lack of judgment or experience; "so credulous he believes everything he reads"
- childlike, dewey-eyed, simple
- exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"
- fleeceable, green, gullible
- easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"
- ignorant, inexperienced
- lacking basic knowledge; "how can someone that age be so ignorant?"; "inexperienced and new to the real world"
- innocent, ingenuous
- lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"
- unsophisticated, unworldly
- not wise in the ways of the world; "either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman"- Kate O'Brien
- simple-minded
- lacking subtlety and insight; "a simple-minded argument"
- dependable, good, safe, secure
- financially sound; "a good investment"; "a secure investment"
- sound
- financially secure and safe; "sound investments"; "a sound economy"
- stable
- firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation; "the economy is stable"
- healthy
- financially secure and functioning well; "a healthy economy"
- unsound
- not sound financially; "unsound banking practices"
- bad, insecure, risky, high-risk, speculative
- not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"
- long
- involving substantial risk; "long odds"
- wildcat
- outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices; "wildcat currency issued by irresponsible banks"; "wildcat stock speculation"; "a wildcat airline"; "wildcat life insurance schemes"
- solid, strong, substantial
- of good quality and condition; solidly built; "a solid foundation"; "several substantial timber buildings"
- sound
- in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay; "a sound timber"; "the wall is sound"; "a sound foundation"
- unsound
- not in good condition; damaged or decayed; "an unsound foundation"
- spirited
- displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness
- dashing, gallant
- lively and spirited; "a dashing hero"
- boisterous, knockabout
- full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy"
- feisty, plucky, spunky
- showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty challenger"
- ebullient, exuberant, high-spirited
- joyously unrestrained
- lively, racy
- full of zest or vigor; "a racy literary style"
- hoyden(a), hoydenish, tomboyish
- used of boisterous girls
- impertinent, irreverent, pert, saucy
- characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality; "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner"
- sprightly
- full of spirit and vitality; "a sprightly young girl"; "a sprightly dance"
- mettlesome
- having a proud and unbroken spirit
- resilient
- recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like
- snappy, whipping
- smart and fashionable; "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines"
- vibrant, vivacious
- vigorous and active; "a vibrant group that challenged the system"; "a charming and vivacious hostess"; "a vivacious folk dance"
- spiritless
- lacking ardor or vigor or energy; "a spiritless reply to criticism"
- zestful, yeasty, zesty
- marked by spirited enjoyment
- bloodless
- without vigor or zest or energy; "an insipit and bloodless young man"
- heartless
- (archaic) devoid of courage or enthusiasm
- thin
- lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile"
- spontaneous, self-generated
- happening or arising without apparent external cause; "spontaneous laughter"; "spontaneous combustion"; "a spontaneous abortion"
- impulsive, unprompted
- proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus; "an impulsive gesture of affection"
- instinctive
- unthinking; as if prompted by instinct; "an instinctive mistrust of bureaucrats"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing"
- unbeatable
- hard to defeat; "an unbeatable ball team"
- firm, steady, unfluctuating
- not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall; "stocks are still firm"
- stable
- resistant to change of position or condition; "a stable ladder"; "a stable peace"; "a stable relationship"; "stable prices"
- lasting
- lasting a long time without change; "a lasting relationship"
- unstable
- lacking stability or fixity or firmness; "unstable political conditions"; "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"; "an unstable world economy"
- disturbed, unsettled
- lacking order or stability; "these unsettled times"
- explosive, volatile
- liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation"
- rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"
- rocky
- liable to rock; "on high rocky heels"
- top-heavy
- unstable by being overloaded at the top
- tottering
- (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse; "a tottering empire"
- abrupt, disconnected
- marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions; "abrupt prose"
- standard
- established or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence; "a standard reference work"
- accepted
- generally accepted or used; "accepted methods of harmony and melody"; "three accepted types of pump"
- classic
- adhering to established standards and principles; "a classic proof"
- authoritative, classical, definitive
- of recognized authority or excellence; "the definitive work on Greece"; "classical methods of navigation"
- basic, canonic, canonical
- reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"
- casebook, textbook
- according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook example"
- nonstandard
- not standard; not accepted as a model of excellence; "a nonstandard text"
- deficient, inferior, substandard
- falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"
- stock
- routine; "a stock answer"
- full, replete(p)
- (informal) having consumed enough food or drink; "a full stomach"
- well-fed, well-nourished
- properly nourished
- overfed
- too well nourished
- dependable, rock-steady, steady-going
- consistent in performance or behavior; "dependable in one's habits"; "a steady-going family man"
- steady
- not subject to change or variation especially in behavior; "a steady beat"; "a steady job"; "a steady breeze"; "a steady increase"; "a good steady ballplayer"
- even, regular
- occurring at fixed intervals; "a regular beat"; "the even rhythm of his breathing"
- level, unwavering
- not showing abrupt variations; "spoke in a level voice"; "she gave him a level look"- Louis Auchincloss
- firm
- (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling; "his voice was firm and confident"; "a firm step"
- fastened, fixed
- intent and directed steadily; "had her gaze fastened on the stranger"; "a fixed expresson"
- sure
- certain not to fail; "a sure hand on the throttle"
- steadied
- made steady or constant; "the noise became a steadied roaring"
- unsteady
- subject to change or variation especially in behavior; "her unsteady walk"; "his hand was unsteady as he poured the wine"; "an unsteady voice"
- surefooted, footsure
- not liable to stumble or fall; "on surefooted donkeys"
- faltering
- unsteady in speech or action
- fluctuating
- having unpredictable ups and downs; "fluctuating prices"
- tottering, tottery
- unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man"
- stimulating
- rousing or quickening activity or the senses; "a stimulating discussion"
- piquant, salty
- engagingly stimulating or provocative; "a piquant wit"; "salty language"
- challenging, thought-provoking
- stimulating interest or thought; "a challenging hypothesis"; "a thought-provoking book"
- exciting, provocative
- stimulating discussion or exciting controversy; "a provocative novel"
- thrilling
- causing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock; "a thrilling wind blew off the frozen lake"
- rousing, stirring
- capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; "a rousing sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues"
- bland, flat
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke"
- unstimulating, unexciting
- not stimulating
- dry, juiceless
- lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless; "a dry book"; "a dry lecture filled with trivial details"; "dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to...life"- John Mason Brown
- vapid
- lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"
- excitant, excitative, excitatory
- (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate
- irritating, irritative
- (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite; "an irritative agent"
- stimulant, stimulating
- that stimulates; "stimulant phenomena"
- contorted, writhed, writhen
- twisted (especially as in pain or struggle); "his mad contorted smile"; "writhed lips"; "my writhen features"- Walter scott
- malposed
- characterized by malposition; "crooked malposed teeth"
- aboveboard, straightforward
- without concealment or deception; honest; "their business was open and aboveboard"; "straightforward in all his business affairs"
- straight
- honest and morally upright; "I just want a straight answer to the question"; "straight dealing"
- crooked, corrupt
- not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
- guileless, transparent
- free of deceit
- straightarrow(a)
- conventionally moral and upright
- dishonest, unscrupulous
- lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable
- sneaky, underhand, underhanded
- marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods"
- strong
- having strength or power greater than average or expected; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man"
- beefed-up
- made greater or stronger; "beefed-up sales efforts"
- beardown(a)
- with full strength; "his beardown performance in the exhibition game"
- brawny, hefty, muscular, powerful
- possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms"
- bullnecked
- having a thick short powerful neck
- bullocky
- resembling a bullock in strength and power; "thick bullocky shoulders"
- hard, knockout, severe
- very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"
- ironlike
- exhibiting strength or hardness like that of iron; "ironlike determination"; "ironlike nerves"; "ironlike discipline of the Marines"
- knock-down(a), powerful
- strong enough to knock down or overwhelm; "a knock-down blow"
- noticeable
- readily noticed; "a noticeable resemblance"
- robust
- strong enough to withstand intellectual challenge; "the experiment yielded robust results"; "a robust faith"
- stiff
- powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"; "a stiff drink"
- vehement
- characterized by great force or energy; "vehement deluges of rain"; "vehement clapping"; "a vehement defense"
- virile
- characterized by energy and vigor; "a virile and ever stronger free society"; "a new and virile leadership"
- anemic, anaemic
- lacking vigor or energy; "an anemic attempt to hit the baseball"
- well-knit, well-set
- strongly and firmly constructed; "a well-knit argument"; "a well-knit theatrical production"; "well-knit athletes"; "a sailor short but well-set"- Alexander Hamilton
- weak
- having little physical or spiritual strength; "a weak radio signal"; "a weak link"
- adynamic, asthenic, debilitated, enervated
- lacking strength or vigor
- flimsy, fragile
- lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past"
- faint, feeble
- lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"
- feeble, lame
- pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble excuse"; "a lame argument"
- flaccid, lax, limp, slack
- lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip"
- flimsy, slight, tenuous, thin
- having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
- jerry-built, shoddy
- of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"
- puny
- inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses"
- namby-pamby, spineless, wishy-washy
- weak in willpower
- bloody-minded, cantankerous
- (British) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator
- washy
- lacking strength or vigor; "a washy handshake"; "washy prose"
- stubborn
- tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
- determined
- devoting full strength and concentrated attention to; "made continued and determined efforts to find and destroy enemy headquarters"
- bolshy, stroppy
- (British slang) obstreperous
- bullheaded, bullet-headed, pigheaded
- obstinate and stupid
- bulldog, dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding
- stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
- contrarious, cross-grained
- difficult to deal with
- hardheaded, mulish
- unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack
- docile
- willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation"
- stiff-necked
- haughtily stubborn; "a stiff-necked old Boston Brahmin"
- strong-minded, strong-willed
- having a determined will
- meek, tame
- very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes
- sheeplike, sheepish
- like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity
- yielding
- inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person"
- subservient
- compliant and obedient to authority; "editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw
- submissive
- willing to submit without resistance to authority; deferent
- insubordinate
- not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate behavior"; "insubordinate boys"
- disobedient, unruly
- unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers"
- contumacious
- wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient; "a contumaceous witness is subject to punishment"
- mutinous
- disposed to or in a state of mutiny; "the men became mutinous and insubordinate"
- booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving
- very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids"
- rebellious
- resisting control or authority; "temperamentally rebellious"; "a rebellious crew"
- successful
- having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome; "a successful architect"; "a successful business venture"
- eminent
- having achieved eminence; "an eminent physician"
- made
- successful or assured of success; "now I am a made man forever"- Christopher Marlowe
- self-made
- having achieved success or recognition by your own efforts; "a self-made millionaire"
- productive
- yielding positive results
- unsuccessful
- not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome
- winning
- bringing success; "the winning run"
- attempted
- tried unsuccessfully; "attempted murder"
- down-and-out
- lacking resources (or any prospect of resources)
- defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted
- disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted"
- done for(p), ruined, sunk, undone, washed-up
- doomed to extinction
- self-defeating
- acting to defeat its own purpose; "it is self-defeating...to ignore the progress of events"
- unfulfilled, unrealized
- of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities; "unfulfilled and uneasy men"; "unrealized dreams and ambitions"
- sufficient
- of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant; "sufficient food"
- adequate, decent, enough
- enough to meet a purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough"
- insufficient, deficient
- of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds"
- spare
- just sufficient; "the library had a spare but efficient look"
- comfortable
- sufficient to provide comfort; "a comfortable salary"
- depleted, low
- no longer sufficient; "supplies are low"; "our funds are depleted"
- inadequate, poor, short
- not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
- lean, skimpy
- containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"
- light, scant(p), short
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"
- scarce
- not enough; hard to find; "meat was scarce during the war"
- too little
- not enough
- superior
- of or characteristic of high rank or importance; "a superior officer"
- arch, condescending, patronizing, patronising
- (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
- majestic, olympian
- majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters; "his majestic presence"; "olympian detachment"; "olympian beauty and serene composure"
- eminent, high
- standing above others in quality or position; "people in high places"; "the high priest"; "eminent members of the community"
- greatest, leading(a), preeminent
- greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement; "our greatest statesmen"; "the country's leading poet"; "a preeminent archeologist"
- high-level, high-ranking, upper-level
- at an elevated level in rank or importance; "a high-level official"; "a high-level corporate briefing"; "upper-level management"
- master(a)
- controlling; "master race"; "master plan"
- humble, low, lowly, modest, small
- low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
- superordinate
- of higher rank or status or value
- upper
- superior in rank or accomplishment; "the upper half of the class"
- inferior
- of or characteristic of low rank or importance
- indifferent
- fairly poor to not very good; "has an indifferent singing voice"; "has indifferent qualifications for the job"
- less, lower
- (usually preceded by `no)' lower in esteem; "no less a person than the king himself"
- low-level
- at a low level in rank or importance; "a low-level job"; "low-level discussions"
- outclassed
- decisively surpassed by something else so as to appear to be of a lower class
- ace, A-one, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, topnotch, tops(p)
- (informal) of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops"
- superior
- of high or superior quality or performance; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students"
- brilliant, superb
- of surpassing excellence; "a brilliant performance"; "a superb actor"
- banner
- unusually good; outstanding; "a banner year for the company"
- blue-ribbon(a), select
- selected or chosen for special qualifications; "the blue-ribbon event of the season"
- boss, brag
- (informal) exceptionally good; "a boss hand at carpentry"; "his brag cornfield"
- champion
- clearly superior or having the attributes of a winner; "a champion at teaching"
- choice, fine, prime(a), prize, quality, select
- of superior grade; "choice wines"; "fine wines" "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches"
- excellent, first-class
- of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind"
- outstanding
- distinguished from others in excellence; "did outstanding work in human relations"; "an outstanding war record"
- fine, good
- superior to the average; "in fine spirits"; "a fine student"; "a fine summer day"; "made good grades"; "morale was good"; "had good weather for the parade"
- gilt-edged
- of the highest quality or value; "gilt-edged securities"; "gilt-edged credentials"
- greatest, sterling(a), superlative
- highest in quality
- premium
- having or reflecting superior quality or value; "premium gasoline at a premium price"
- shining
- marked by exceptional merit; "had shining virtues and few faults"; "a shining example"
- pukka, pucka
- (India) absolutely first class and genuine; "pukka sahib"; "pukka quarters with a swarm of servants"
- supreme
- highest in excellence or achievement; "supreme among musicians"; "a supreme endeavor"; "supreme courage"
- transcendent, surpassing
- exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence
- top-flight, top-hole, topping
- (British) excellent; best possible
- well-made
- skillfully constructed
- inferior
- of low or inferior quality
- bad
- below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"
- coarse, common
- of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
- bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny
- (informal) of very poor quality
- cardboard, flimsy
- resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"
- cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry
- cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
- coarsened
- made coarse or crude by lack of skill
- commercial
- of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"
- mediocre, poor, second-rate
- moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"; "he would make a poor spy"
- deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched
- of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
- less
- (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"
- low-grade
- of inferior quality
- ropey, ropy
- (British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"
- scrawny, scrubby, stunted
- inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"
- second-class
- of inferior status or quality; "a second-class citizen"; "second-class accommodations"
- third-rate
- of lesser quality than second-rate
- fostered, nourished
- encouraged or promoted in growth or development; "dreams of liberty nourished by the blood of patriots cannot easily be given up"
- assisted, aided
- having help; often used as a combining form
- unnourished
- not promoted for fostered
- unaided
- being without physical aid; "he could not rise unaided from a sitting position"
- unassisted
- lacking help
- supportive
- furnishing support or assistance; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer"
- accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary, subsidiary
- relating to something that is added but is not essential; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other"
- encouraging, supporting
- furnishing support and encouragement; "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher"
- unsupportive
- not furnishing support or assistance
- confounding, contradictory
- that confounds or contradicts or confuses
- surprising
- causing surprise or wonder or amazement; "the report shows a surprising lack of hard factual data"; "leaped up with surprising agility"; "she earned a surprising amount of money"
- amazing, astonishing
- surprising greatly; "she does an amazine amount of work"; "the dog was capable of astonishing tricks"
- startling
- so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm; "Sydney's startling new Opera House"; "startling news"; "startling earthquake shocks"
- unexpected
- causing surprise or amazement by not being expected; "the curtains opened to reveal a completely unexpected scene"
- stunning
- causing great astonishment and consternation; "the strike came as a stunning protest against management"; "a stunning defeat"
- susceptible
- (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof"
- unsurprising
- not causing surprise
- expected
- looked forward to as probable
- unstartling
- not startling
- capable, open to(p), subject to(p)
- (`capable' is usually followed by `of' or `to') possibly accepting or permitting; "a passage capable of misinterpretation"; "open to interpretation"; "an issue open to question"; "the time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation"
- fictile, pliable
- susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda"
- convincible, persuadable, persuasible, suasible
- being susceptible to persuasion
- liable(p), nonimmune, nonresistant, unresistant
- (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with; "liable to diabetes"
- suggestible
- susceptible or responsive to suggestion; "suggestible young minds"
- predisposed
- made susceptible; "because of conditions in the mine, miners are predisposed to lung disease"
- responsive
- readily reacting to suggestions and influences; "a responsive student"
- vulnerable
- susceptible to criticism or persuasion or temptation; "vulnerable to bribery"; "an argument vulnerable to refutation"
- temptable
- susceptible to temptation
- unsusceptible, insusceptible
- not susceptible to
- unpersuadable, unsuasible
- not susceptible to persuasion
- impressionable
- easily impressed or influenced; "an impressionable youngster"; "an impressionable age"
- plastic, pliant
- capable of being influenced or formed; "the plastic minds of children"; "a pliant nature"
- susceptible
- easily impressed emotionally
- unimpressionable
- not sensitive or susceptible to impression; "an unimpressionable mind"
- amenable
- responsible to a higher authority; "amenable to a small-scale form of enquiry"; "amenable data"; "is it to be contended that the heads of departments are not amenable to the laws?"- John Marshall
- responsive, tractable
- susceptible to suggestion; "a personality responsive to your desires"
- subject to(p), testable
- capable of being or liable to be subjected to judgment or test; "elasticity of fluids is not subject to simple measurement at present"
- unamenable
- not amenable; "unamenable to persuasion"
- unresponsive
- not susceptible to suggestion
- immune
- secure against; "immune from taxation as long as he resided in Bermuda"; "immune from criminal prosecution"
- privileged
- not subject to usual rules or penalties; "a privileged statement"
- emergency
- made necessary by sudden occurrence demanding immediate remedy; "the plane made an emergency landing"; "an emergency session to consider aid for the earthquake victims"
- forced, unexpected
- made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"
- ill-proportioned, lopsided, one-sided
- out of proportion in shape
- sympathetic
- expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward; "sympathetic to the students' cause"; "a sympathetic observer"; "a sympathetic gesture"
- commiserative
- feeling or expressing sympathy; "made commiserative clicking sounds with his tongue"- Kenneth Roberts
- empathic, empathetic
- showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states; "a sensitive and empathetic school counselor"
- sympathetic, appealing, likeable, likable
- (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; "the sympathetic characters in the play"
- kind
- expressing sympathy
- unsympathetic
- not sympathetic or disposed toward; "unsympathetic officialdom"; "people unsympathetic to the revolution"; "his dignity made him seem aloof and unsympathetic"
- unsympathizing
- not showing or expressing sympathy; "an uncharitable and unsympathizing attitude"
- unsympathetic, unappealing, unlikeable, unlikable
- (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings; "all the characters were peculiarly unsympathetic"
- anachronic, anachronous, anachronistic
- chronologically misplaced; "English public schools are anachronistic"
- systematic
- characterized by order and planning; "the investigation was very systematic"; "a systematic administrator"
- in order(p), so(p)
- marked by system; in good order; "everything is in order"; "his books are always just so"; "things must be exactly so"
- systematized
- reduced to a system; "systematized knowledge"
- unsystematized
- not done according to a system; "works in an unsystematized manner"; "unsystematized and fragmentary records"
- unsystematic
- lacking systematic arrangement or method or organization; "unsystematic and fragmentary records"; "he works in an unsystematic manner"
- blathering, blithering, jabbering, gabbling, babbling
- talking idly or incoherently; "blithering (or blathering) idiot"; "jabbering children"; "gabbling housewives"; "a babbling hospital inmate"
- prattling
- talking foolishly; "prattling children"
- chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky
- full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors"
- tactful
- having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others; "she was tactful enough not to shatter his illusion"; "a tactful remark eased her embarrassment"
- discerning, discreet
- unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence"
- tactless, untactful
- lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others; "in the circumstances it was tactless to ask her age"
- tall
- great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships"
- gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy
- tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man"
- leggy, tall-growing
- (of plants) having tall spindly stems
- leggy, long-legged, long-shanked
- having long legs
- long
- of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"
- stately, statuesque
- of size and dignity suggestive of a statue
- short
- low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"
- tallish
- somewhat tall
- chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy
- short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"
- half-length
- representing only the upper half of the body; "a half-length portrait"
- pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawed-off
- slang; well below average height
- squab, squabby
- short and fat
- docile, gentle
- easily handled or managed; "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient"
- feral, savage
- wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog"
- chaotic, disorderly
- completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing
- tame
- very restrained or quiet; "a tame Christmas party"; "she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed"
- subdued
- quieted and brought under control; "children were subdued and silent"
- wild
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control; "wild ideas"; "wild talk"; "wild originality"; "wild parties"
- delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained
- marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"
- frenzied, manic
- affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason; "a frenzied attack"; "a frenzied mob"; "the prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused"- H.W.Carter; "outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity"
- tasteful, in good taste(p)
- having or showing or conforming to good taste
- barbaric
- unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament"
- aesthetic, esthetic, artistic, pleasing
- aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement"
- understated, unostentatious, unpretentious
- exhibiting restrained good taste; "the room is pleasant and understated"
- tasteless, in poor taste(p)
- lacking aesthetic or social taste
- indelicate
- in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"
- brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
- tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
- camp, campy
- providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
- ostentatious, pretentious, kitsch
- of a display that is tawdry or vulgar
- choice
- appealing to refined taste; "choice wine"
- delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy
- extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
- dainty, tasty
- especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"; "a tasty morsel"
- full-bodied, rich, robust
- marked by richness and fullness of flavor; "a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee"
- piquant, savory, savoury, spicy, zesty
- having an agreeably pungent taste
- bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, vapid
- lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea"
- temperate
- not extreme in behavior; "temperate in his habits"; "a temperate response to an insult"; "temperate in his eating and drinking"
- abstemious, light(a)
- marked by temperance in indulgence; "abstemious meals"; "a light eater"; "a light smoker"; "ate a light supper"
- moderate, restrained
- marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes; "moderate in his demands"; "restrained in his response"
- intemperate
- excessive in behavior; "intemperate rage"
- big(a), heavy(a)
- prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor"
- uncontrolled, unrestrained, untempered
- extravagant or extreme; "the inhumanity of his untempered principles"- M.S.Dworkin
- hard(a), heavy
- of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker"
- intemperate
- (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes; "an intemperate climate"; "intemperate zones"
- temperate
- (of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate; "a temperate region"; "the temperate zones"; "temperate plants"
- equable
- not varying; "an equable climate"
- overstrung
- too tightly strung; "an overstrung archery bow"
- loose-jointed
- loosely articulated or constructed; "a loose-jointed paragraph"
- cliff-hanging, suspenseful, suspensive
- of a situation; characterized by or causing suspense
- electric
- (of a situation) exceptionally tense; "an atmosphere electric with suspicion"
- degage
- free and relaxed in manner; "rather degage after the nervousness he had shown at dinner"- Edmund Wilson
- easygoing, laid-back, mellow
- unhurried and relaxed; "an easygoing pace"; "a mellow conversation"
- unstrained
- not placed under psychological stress; "the campaign would not leave party loyalties unstrained"
- thick
- not thin; of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust"; "thick warm blankets"; or of a specific thickness; "an inch thick"
- deep
- relatively thick from top to bottom; "deep carpets"; "deep snow"
- four-ply
- having a thickness made up of four layers or strands; "four-ply yarns"
- fat
- having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope"
- heavy
- made of fabric having considerable thickness; "a heavy coat"
- thin
- of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"
- flimsy, light
- very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"
- hyperfine
- (physics) extremely fine or thin, as in a spectral line split into two or more components; "hyperfine structure"
- slender
- having little width in proportion to the length or height; "a slender pole"
- thick
- relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog"
- dense, heavy, impenetrable
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"
- creamy, cream(a), soupy
- thick like cream
- gelatinous, gelatinlike, jellylike
- thick like gelatin
- heavy
- having or suggesting a viscous consistency; "heavy cream"
- thin
- relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous; "air is thin at high altitudes"; "a thin soup"; "skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"; "thin oil"
- tenuous
- having thin consistency; "a tenuous fluid"
- rare, rarefied, rarified
- having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"
- thoughtful
- exhibiting or characterized by careful thought; "a thoughtful paper"
- considered, reasoned, well thought out(p)
- resulting from careful thought; "the paper was well thought out"
- thoughtless
- showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering"
- deliberate
- marked by careful consideration or reflection; "a deliberate decision"
- unreflective, unthinking, unthoughtful
- not exhibiting or characterized by careful thought
- inconsiderate, unconsidered
- without proper consideration or reflection; "slovenly inconsiderate reasoning"; "unconsidered words"; "prejudice is the holding of unconsidered opinions"
- economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting
- avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; (`scotch' is used only informally)
- thrifty
- careful and diligent in the use of resources
- saving
- characterized by thriftiness; "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow
- penny-wise
- thrifty in small matters only
- extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift
- recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
- wasteful
- tending to squander and waste
- tidy
- marked by good order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind"
- pound-foolish
- unwise in dealing with large sums
- uneconomical, uneconomic
- wasteful of resources
- clean-cut, trig, trim
- (of persons) neat and smart in appearance; "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap"
- neat
- clean or orderly; "her neat dress"; "a neat room"
- orderly
- marked by or adhering to method or system; "a clean orderly man"; "an orderly mind"; "an orderly desk"
- neat
- showing care in execution; "neat homework"; "neat handwriting"
- shipshape, trim, well-kept
- of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat"
- ruly
- neat and tidy; "a small ruly beard"
- slicked up
- having been made especially tidy; "slicked up for visitors"
- straight
- neatly arranged; not disorderly; "the room is straight now"
- uncluttered, unlittered
- having nothing extraneous; "an uncluttered room"; "the unlittered shoulders of the road"
- untidy
- not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money"
- cluttered, littered
- filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish; "the storm left the driveway littered with sticks and debris"; "his library was a cluttered room with piles of books on every chair"
- blowsy, blowzy, slatternly, sluttish
- used especially of women
- disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled
- in disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers
- disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy
- in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes"
- messy, mussy
- dirty and disorderly; "a mussy fussy bedroom"; "a child's messy eating habits"
- frowsy, frowzy, slovenly
- negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"
- slouchy
- lacking stiffness in form or posture; "a slouchy sweater"
- scraggly
- lacking neatness or order; "the old man's scraggly beard"; "a scraggly little path to the door"
- sloppy
- lacking neatness or order; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
- sprawling, straggling, straggly
- spreading out carelessly (as if wandering) in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"
- unkempt
- not properly maintained; "an unkempt garden"; "native vistas and unkempt rambling paths"
- groomed
- neat and smart in appearance; well cared for; "the manager was a beautifully groomed young man"; "his horse was always groomed"
- kempt, tidy, trim
- (used of hair) neat and tidy; "a nicely kempt beard"
- brushed
- (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush; "with shining hair neatly brushed"; "the freshly brushed clothes hung in the closet"
- ungroomed
- not neat and smart in appearance; "he was wrinkled and ungroomed, with a two-day beard"; "ungroomed hair"
- sleek
- well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed; "sleek figures in expensive clothes"
- bushy, shaggy
- used of hair; thick and poorly groomed; "bushy locks"; "a shaggy beard"
- unkempt
- not neat or cared for; slovenly; "his unkempt appearance"
- unkempt
- not neatly combed; wild unkempt hair"
- tolerable
- able to be tolerated or endured; "the climate is at least tolerable"
- bearable, endurable, sufferable, supportable
- capable of being borne though unpleasant; "sufferable punishment"
- intolerable
- impossible to tolerate or endure; "an intolerable degree of sentimentality"
- bitter
- very difficult to accept or bear; "the bitter truth"; "a bitter sorrow"
- unbearable, unendurable
- impossible to bear; "unbearable pain"; "unendurable agony"
- impossible, insufferable, unacceptable, unsufferable
- used of persons or their behavior; "impossible behavior"; "insufferable insolence"
- unsupportable
- not able to be supported or defended
- tolerant
- showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others
- easygoing
- inclined to be excessively tolerant
- unbigoted
- not opinionated
- intolerant
- unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion
- rigid, strict
- incapable of compromise or flexibility
- bigoted
- blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others; "a bigoted person"; "an outrageously bigoted point of view"
- coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike, leathery
- resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable
- tough
- tough to cut or chew
- cartilaginous, gristly, rubbery
- difficult to chew
- chewy
- requiring much chewing
- fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable
- full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
- hempen, fibrous
- having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute
- crisp, crispy
- tender and brittle; "crisp potato chips"
- tender
- easy to cut or chew; "tender beef"
- chewable, cuttable
- easy to cut or chew
- flaky, flakey
- made of or easily forming flakes
- enured, inured, hardened
- made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett
- weather-beaten
- tanned and coarsened from being outdoors; "a weather-beaten face"
- delicate, soft
- easily hurt; "soft hands"; "a baby's delicate skin"
- tough
- not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough character"
- hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious
- tough and callous by virtue of experience
- tough-minded, unsentimental
- facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination
- tender
- given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality; "a tender heart"; "a tender smile"; "tender loving care"; "tender memories"; "a tender mother"
- caring, protective
- showing a care; "a caring mother"
- sentimental
- given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
- tractable
- easily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "gold is tractable"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler
- docile, teachable
- ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters"
- manageable
- easily dealt with; "manageable problems"
- ductile, malleable
- easily influenced
- balking, balky
- stopping short and refusing to go on; "a balking "; "a balky mule"; "a balky customer"
- intractable
- not tractable; difficult to manage or mold; "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal"
- recalcitrant, refractory
- marked by stubborn resistance to and defiant of authority or guidance; "a recalcitrant teenager"; "everything revolves around a refractory individual genius"
- uncontrollable, unmanageable
- difficult to solve or alleviate; "uncontrollable pain"
- unmalleable
- difficult or impossible to shape or work
- heavily traveled
- subject to much traffic or travel; "the region's most heavily traveled highways"
- troubled
- characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need; "troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"; "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers"
- annoyed, harassed, harried, pestered, vexed
- troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager"
- buffeted, storm-tossed, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost, tempest-swept
- pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities
- clouded
- made troubled or apprehensive or distressed in appearance; "his face was clouded with unhappiness"
- distressed, hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad way(p), in trouble(p)
- facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "the troubled car industry"; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found themselves in a bad way financially"
- fraught
- marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter relationship"
- hag-ridden, hagridden, tormented
- tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears; "hagridden...by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth"- C.S.Lewis
- infested, overrun, plagued
- (often followed by `with' or used in combination) troubled by or encroached upon in large numbers; "waters infested with sharks"; "shark-infested waters"; "the locust-overrun countryside"; "drug-plagued streets"
- in trouble(p)
- having a serious nonfinancial problem; "in trouble with the police"
- suffering
- troubled by pain or loss; "suffering refugees"
- struggling
- engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity; "a financially struggling theater"; "struggling artists"
- troublous
- full of trouble; "these are troublous times"
- untroubled
- not beset by troubles or disturbance or distress; "seemed untroubled by doubts of any kind"; "untroubled sleep"; "a kind untroubled face"
- carefree, unworried
- free of trouble and worry and care; "the carefree joys of childhood"; "carefree millionaires, untroubled financially"
- trouble-free
- without problems or difficulties; "NASA reported a trouble-free launch"
- undisturbed, unmolested
- not interfered with or disturbed; "food supplies were allowed through unmolested"; "he could pursue his studies undisturbed"
- cynical, misanthropic, misanthropical
- believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
- misogynic
- (used of men) having deep-seated distrust of women
- trustworthy, trusty
- worthy of trust or belief; "a trustworthy report"; "an experienced and trustworthy traveling companion"
- oversuspicious
- unduly suspicious
- dependable, honest, reliable, true(p)
- worthy of being depended on; "a dependable worker"; "an honest working stiff"; "a reliable source of information"; "he was true to his word"; "I would be true for there are those who trust me"
- sure, trusted
- (of persons) worthy of trust or confidence; "a sure (or trusted) friend"
- untrustworthy, untrusty
- not worthy of trust or belief; "an untrustworthy person"
- slippery, tricky
- not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee
- fly-by-night, shady
- of businesses and businessmen; "a fly-by-night operation"
- undependable, unreliable
- not to be trusted
- regular(a), veritable(a)
- often used as intensifiers; "a regular morass of details"; "a regular nincompoop"; "he's a veritable swine"
- typical
- exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category; "a typical American girl"; "a typical suburban community"; "the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year"; "a painting typical of the Impressionist school"; "a typical romantic poem"; "a typical case of arteritis"
- emblematic, exemplary, typic
- being or serving as an illustration of a type; "the free discussion that is emblematic of democracy"; "an action exemplary of his conduct";
- representative
- serving to represent or typify; "representative moviegoers"; "a representative modern play"
- unrepresentative
- not exemplifying a class; "I soon tumbled to the fact that my weekends were atypical"; "behavior quite unrepresentative (or atypical) of the profession"
- atypical, untypical
- deviating from or not conforming to type; "atypical behavior..not the accepted type of response that we expect from children"- G.E.Gardner
- Janus-faced
- having or concerned with polarities or contrasts; "a Janus-faced view of history"; "a Janus-faced policy"
- cohesive
- cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated; "a cohesive organization"
- conjunct
- bound in close association; "conjunct influences"; "conjunct ideas"
- one(a), unitary
- having the indivisible character of a unit; "a unitary action"; "spoke with one voice"
- torn
- disrupted by the pull of contrary forces; "torn between love and hate"; "torn by conflicting loyalties"; "torn by religious dissensions"
- rising
- preceding the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot; "the rising action"
- falling
- coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot; "the falling action"
- building(a), heightening(a)
- rising progressively; "the building suspense"; "the heightening drama"
- anticlimactic
- manifesting or attended by a disappointing or ineffective conclusion; "everything after the discovery of the murderer was anticlimactic"
- upscale
- relating to people with good incomes; "an upscale neighborhood"
- upmarket
- designed for high-income consumers; "he turned up in well-cut clothes...and upmarket felt hats"- New Yorker
- downscale
- intended for people with low incomes; "mass-produced downscale versions of high-priced fashions"
- downmarket
- designed for low-income consumers
- misused
- used incorrectly or carelessly or for an improper purpose; "misused words are often laughable but one weeps for misused talents"
- abused
- used improperly or excessively especially drugs; "an abused substance"
- exploited, ill-used, put-upon, used, victimized
- of persons; taken advantage of; "after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used"
- useful, utile
- being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"
- helpful
- of service or assistance; "a child who is helpful around the house can save the mother many steps"
- serviceable
- having a beneficial use; "a serviceable kitchen gadget"
- utilitarian
- having utility often to the exclusion of values; "plain utilitarian kitchenware"
- useless
- having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency"
- futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing
- producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt"
- utopian
- being the best possible; characterized by ideal perfection; "the dim utopian future"; "utopian idealists"; "recognized the utopian nature of his hopes"
- inutile, unprofitable
- not worth using
- airy, impractical, visionary
- not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"
- ideal, idealistic
- represented in the abstract rather than as they really are
- dystopian
- as bad as can be; characterized by human misery; "AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages"- Susan Sontag
- false
- erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm"
- specious, spurious
- plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
- sophistic, sophistical
- plausible but misleading
- valuable
- having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange; "another human being equally valuable in the sight of God"; "a valuable diamond"
- invaluable, priceless
- having incalculable monetary worth
- precious
- of high worth or cost; "diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and emeralds are precious stones"
- rich
- of great worth or quality; "a rich collection of antiques"
- valued
- held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature; "a valued friend"
- chaffy
- of no value; "an empty chaffy book by a foolish chaffy fellow"
- worthless
- lacking in excellence or value; "a worthless idler"
- good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry
- without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk"
- negligible, paltry, trifling
- not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"
- rubbishy, trashy
- cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise"
- nugatory
- of no real value
- otiose, pointless, superfluous, wasted
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"
- tinsel, trumpery
- gaudy and showy but valueless; "trumpery ornaments"
- variable
- liable to or capable of change; "rainfall in the tropics is notoriously variable"; "variable winds"; "variable expenses"
- valueless
- of no value
- changeable, uncertain, unsettled
- subject to change; "a changeable climate"; "the weather is uncertain"; "unsettled weather with rain and hail and sunshine coming one right after the other"
- protean
- taking on different forms; "eyes...of that baffling protean gray which is never twice the same"
- versatile
- changeable or inconstant; "versatile moods"
- shifting
- continuously varying; "taffeta with shifting colors"
- varied
- characterized by variety; "immigrants' varied ethnic and religious traditions"; "his work is interesting and varied"
- varying, variable
- marked by diversity or difference; "the varying angles of roof slope"; "nature is infinitely variable"
- many-sided, multifaceted, multifarious
- having many aspects; "a many-sided subject"; "a multifaceted undertaking"; "multifarious interests"; "the multifarious noise of a great city"
- variform
- varying in form or shape
- versatile, various
- having great diversity or variety; "his various achievements are impressive"; "his vast and versatile erudition"
- unvaried, unvarying
- lacking variety
- iterative, reiterative, repetitious, repetitive
- marked by tedious repetition
- veiled
- having or as if having a veil or concealing cover; "a veiled dancer"; "a veiled hat"; "veiled threats"; "veiled insults" ; "the night-veiled landscape"
- disguised
- deliberately concealed as if with a veil; "disguised threats"
- aired, airy
- open to or abounding in fresh air; "airy rooms"
- airless, close, stuffy, unaired
- lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke"
- fuggy
- (British informal) poorly ventilated
- violent
- acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity; "a violent attack"; "a violent person"; "violent feelings"; "a violent rage"; "felt a violent dislike"
- ferocious, fierce, furious, savage
- marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
- convulsive
- resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent; "a convulsive rage"; "convulsive laughter"
- hot, raging
- characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense; "the fighting became hot and heavy"; "a hot engagement"; "a raging battle"; "the river became a raging torrent"
- ruffianly, tough
- violent and lawless; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs"
- knockdown-dragout, knock-down-and-drag-out
- (informal) extremely violent; "a knock-down-and-drag-out fight"
- lurid
- horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life"
- rampageous
- displaying raging violence; often destructive; "the hot rampageous horses of my will"- W.H.Auden
- wicked
- morally bad in principle or practice
- passive, peaceful
- peacefully resistant in response to injustice; "passive resistance"
- virtuous
- morally excellent
- depraved, evil, vicious
- having the nature of vice
- iniquitous, sinful, ungodly
- characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts"
- nefarious, villainous
- extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"
- irreclaimable, irredeemable, unredeemable, unreformable
- insusceptible of reform; "vicious irreclaimable boys"; "irredeemable sinners"
- apparent
- readily apparent to the eye; "angry for no apparent reason"; "had no visible means of support"
- in sight, in view
- at or within a reasonable distance for seeing; "not a policeman in sight"; "kept the monkey in view"
- blind, undetectable
- not easily seen or noticed; "blind stitching"
- vulnerable
- susceptible to attack; "a vulnerable bridge"
- compromising
- vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion; "she found herself in a compromising situation"
- defenseless, defenceless
- lacking protection or support; "a defenseless child"
- insecure, unsafe
- not safe from attack
- unguarded, unprotected
- lacking protection or a guard; "an unguarded gate"; "his unguarded queen was open to attack"
- airtight
- having no weak points; "an airtight defense"; "an airtight argument"
- entrenched
- dug in
- tight
- set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration; "in tight formation"; "a tight blockade"
- warm
- having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat; "a warm body"; "a warm room"; "a warm climate"; "a warm coat"
- lukewarm, tepid
- moderately warm; "he hates lukewarm coffee"; "tepid bath water"
- cool
- neither warm or very cold; giving relief from heat; "a cool autumn day"; "a cool room"; "cool summer dresses"; "cool drinks"; "a cool breeze"
- chill, chilly
- uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather"
- cordial, hearty
- showing warm and heartfelt friendliness; "gave us a cordial reception"; "a hearty welcome"
- warm
- psychologically warm; friendly and responsive; "a warm greeting"; "a warm personality"; "warm support"
- chilly, unfriendly
- lacking warmth of feeling; "a chilly greeting"; "an unfriendly manner"
- cool
- psychologically cool; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike; "relations were cool and polite"; "a cool reception"; "cool to the idea of higher taxes"
- unresponsive
- aloof or indifferent; "was unresponsive to her passionate advances"
- warmhearted
- marked by warmth of feeling like kindness and sympathy and generosity; "gave a warmhearted welcome to the stranger"
- coldhearted
- lacking in sympathy or feeling
- brittle
- lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and calculating woman"
- maximizing
- making as great as possible
- profit-maximizing
- making the profit as great as possible; "the profit-maximizing price
- unbecoming
- considered inappropriate for or unattractive on a particular person; "an unbecoming style"
- weedy
- abounding with or resembling weeds; "a weedy path"; "weedy plants that take over a garden"
- welcome
- giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted; "a welcome relief"; "a welcome guest"; "made the children feel welcome"; "you are welcome to join us"
- funny
- experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest"
- clammy, dank
- unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests"
- wholesome
- conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food"
- healthy, salubrious, good for you(p)
- promoting health; healthful; "a healthy diet"; "clean healthy air"; "plenty of healthy sleep"; "healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy"; "the salubrious mountain air and water"- C.B.Davis; "carrots are good for you"
- hearty, satisfying, solid, substantial
- providing abundant nourishment; "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"
- salubrious
- favorable to health of mind or body; "not the most salubrious campsite"; "one of the less salubrious suburbs"
- unwholesome
- detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
- insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthy
- detrimental to health
- morbid
- suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"
- beamy
- broad in the beam; "a beamy cargo ship"
- nauseating, nauseous, noisome, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile
- causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
- wide, broad
- having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river"
- bird's-eye, panoramic
- as from an altitude or distance; "a bird's-eye survey"; "a panoramic view"
- heavy, thick
- wide from side to side; "a heavy black mark"
- covering, overhanging, overspreading
- above or covering a wide area; "the covering darkness"; "shadow of the overhanging crag"; "the dark overspreading clouds"
- deep
- extending relatively far inward; "a deep border"
- spreading, wide-spreading
- spreading over a wide area; "under the spreading chestnut tree"; "the spreading circle of lamplight"; "wide-spreading branches"
- stretching(a), wide-spreading
- extending far; "beyond the misty gray of the rain he saw the stretching hutment"; "wide-spreading plains"
- sweeping
- taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination; "a sweeping glance"; "a wide-sweeping view of the river"
- constricting, constrictive, narrowing
- (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom
- narrow
- not wide; "a narrow bridge"; "a narrow line across the page"
- slender, thin
- very narrow; "a thin line across the page"
- wide
- great in degree; "won by a wide margin"
- strait
- (archaic) strict and severe; "strait is the gate"
- comfortable
- more than adequate; "the home team had a comfortable lead"
- narrow
- very limited in degree; "won by a narrow margin"; "a narrow escape"
- bare(a), marginal
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"
- unwieldy, unmanageable
- difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape; "we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter"; "almost dropped the unwieldy parcel"
- wieldy, manageable
- easy to handle or use or manage; "a large but wieldy book"
- awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly
- difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl"
- cumbersome, cumbrous
- difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight; "a cumbersome piece of machinery"; "cumbrous protective clothing"
- disposed(p), fain, inclined(p), prepared
- having made preparations; "prepared to take risks"
- perspicacious, sagacious, sapient
- acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators"
- wise
- having or prompted by wisdom or discernment; "a wise leader"; "a wise and perceptive comment"
- all-knowing, omniscient
- infinitely wise
- owlish
- resembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance
- sage
- having wisdom that comes with age and experience
- foolish
- devoid of good sense or judgment; "foolish remarks"; "a foolish decision"
- absurd, derisory, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous
- so devoid of wisdom or good sense as to be laughable; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be derisory"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"
- cockamamie, cockamamy, fool(a), goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, zany, unreasonable
- (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books"
- asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuous
- complacently or inanely foolish
- fond
- absurd or silly because unlikely; "fond hopes of becoming President"; "fond fancies"
- harebrained, insane, mad
- very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"
- ill-conceived, misguided
- poorly conceived or thought out; "an ill-conceived plan to take over the company"
- unwise
- showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom; "an unwise investor is soon impoverished"
- rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty
- lacking sense or discretion; "his rattlebrained crackpot ideas"; "how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for"- Glenway Westcott
- woodsy
- characteristic or suggestive of woods; "a fresh woodsy fragrance"
- woody
- made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants"; "perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste"
- economic
- concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money); "he wrote the book primarily for economic reasons"; "gave up the large house for economic reasons"; "in economic terms they are very privileged"
- worldly
- characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world; "worldly goods and advancement"
- unworldly
- not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations; "was unworldly and did not greatly miss worldly rewards"- Sheldon Cheney
- material
- concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests; "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts"
- materialistic, mercenary, worldly-minded
- marked by materialism
- mundane, terrestrial
- concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"
- temporal
- of the material world; "temporal possessions of the church"
- anchoritic, eremitic, hermitic
- characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence"
- spiritual, unearthly
- concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love"
- unmercenary
- not mercenary; not influenced by financial gains
- philosophical, philosophic
- characteristic of or imbued with the attitude of a philosopher or based on philosophy; "that breadth of outlook that distinguishes the philosophic mind"; "their differences were philosophical"
- ideological, ideologic
- concerned with or suggestive of ideas; "an ideological argument"; "ideological application of a theory"; "the drama's symbolism was very ideological"
- worn
- affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket"
- nonphilosophical, nonphilosophic
- not philosophical
- scruffy, seedy
- shabby and untidy; "a surge of ragged scruffy children"; "he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"- Mark Twain
- worthy
- having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable; "a worthy fellow"; "no student deemed worthy, and chosen for admission, would be kept out for lack of funds"- Nathan Pusey; "worthy of acclaim"; "orthy of consideration"; "a worthy cause"
- applaudable, commendable, laudable, praiseworthy
- worthy of high praise; "applaudable efforts to save the environment"; "a commendable sense of purpose"; "laudable motives of improving housing conditions"; "a significant and praiseworthy increase in computer intelligence"
- creditable
- worthy of often limited commendation; "the student's effort on the essay--though not outstanding--was creditable"
- deserving(p), meriting(p), worth(p)
- having sufficient worth; "an idea worth considering"; "a cause deserving or meriting support"; "the deserving poor" (often used ironically)
- exemplary, model(a)
- worthy of imitation; "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens"
- honorable, honourable
- used as a title of respect; "my honorable colleague"; "our worthy commanding officer"
- meritorious, meritable
- deserving reward or praise; "a lifetime of meritorious service"; "meritorious conduct"
- honored, honoured
- worthy of honor; "an honored name"; "our honored dead"
- noteworthy, notable
- worthy of notice; "a noteworthy advance in cancer research"
- quotable
- suitable for or worthy of quotation; "a quotable slogan"; "his remarks are not quotable in mixed company"
- sacred
- worthy of respect or dedication; "saw motherhood as woman's sacred calling"
- worthwhile
- sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest; "a worthwhile book"
- valuable, worthful
- having worth or merit or value; "a valuable friend"; "a good and worthful man"
- unworthy
- lacking in value or merit; "dispel a student whose conduct is deemed unworthy"; "unworthy of forgiveness"
- undeserving, undeserving of(p), unworthy of(p)
- not deserving; "the undeserving poor"
- unmerited
- not merited; "unmerited treatment of a potentially fine subject"
- unmeritorious
- without merit; "protect...from unmeritorious criticism"
- seduced, violated
- treated dishonorably
- adventuristic
- of or pertaining to adventurism
- anticlimactic, anticlimactical
- of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style
- antitypic, antitypical
- of or relating to an antitype
- apocalyptic
- of or relating to an apocalypse
- archaistic
- imitative of an archaic style or manner; "archaistic writing"
- asynergic
- of or relating to the state of asynergy; lacking synergy
- autotomic
- of or relating to autotomy
- baboonish
- resembling a baboon
- bacchantic
- of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler
- beneficiary
- having or arising from a benefice; "a beneficiary baron"
- benevolent
- intending or showing kindness; "a benevolent society"
- bromidic
- given to uttering bromides
- cacodemonic, cacodaemonic
- of or relating to evil spirits
- callithumpian
- of or relating to a callithump
- carpetbag
- following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers; "carpetbag adventurers"; "a carpetbag government"
- catapultic, catapultian
- of or like a catapult; "a catapultic kind of action"
- celestial, heavenly
- relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven; "celestial beings"; "heavenly hosts"
- chaffy, chafflike
- abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff
- chimeric, chimerical, chimeral
- being or relating to or like a chimera; "his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Doublas Bush
- childbearing
- relating to or suitable for childbirth; "of childbearing age"
- collegial
- characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues; "collegial harmony"; "a tendency to turn from collegial to one-man management"- Merle Fainsod
- concretistic
- of or relating to concrete representations of abstractions; "a concretistic-seeming statement"
- cosmic
- of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe; "cosmic laws"; "cosmic catastrophe"; "cosmic rays"
- cryogenic
- of or relating to very low temperatures
- ergotropic
- of or relating to ergotropism
- granuliferous
- producing or full of granules
- heroic
- relating to or characteristic of heroes of antiquity; "heroic legends"; "the heroic age"
- local
- of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality; "local customs"; "local slang"; "the local citizens"; "a local point of view"; "local outbreaks of flu"
- local
- having a definite spatial form and location; "a local heaven and hell"; "give to airy nothings a local habitation and a name"- Shakespeare
- social
- relating to or belonging to or characteristic of high society; "made fun of her being so social and high-toned"; "a social gossip colum"; "the society page"
- symbolic
- using symbolism; "symbolic art"
- technical
- of or relating to technique; "technical innovation in recent novels"; "technical details"
- technical
- of or relating to proficiency in a practical skill; "no amount of technical skill and craftsmanship can take the place of vital interest"- John Dewey
- unitary
- relating to or characterized by or aiming toward unity; "the unitary principles of nationalism"; "a unitary movement in politics"
- vegetative, vegetive
- of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous; "a dull vegetative lifestyle"
- vulpine, vulpecular
- resembling or characteristic of a fox; "vulpine cunning"
- wolflike, wolfish
- resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf; "ran in wolflike packs"; "wolfish rapacity"
- iconic
- relating to or having the characteristics on an icon
- biblical
- in keeping with the nature of the Bible or its times or people; "biblical styles in writing"; "a beard of biblical proportions"; "biblical costumes"
- infernal
- characteristic of or resembling hell; "infernal heat and noise"
- eudemonic, eudaemonic
- producing happiness and well-being
- particularistic
- relating to particularism (exclusive interest in one group or class or sect etc.); "a particularistic-seeming statement"
- mystic, mystical
- relating to or resembling mysticism; "mystical intuition"; "mystical theories about the securities market"
- mystic, mystical
- relating to or characteristic of mysticism; "mystical religion"
- millenarian, chiliastic
- relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness
- Mercurial
- relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury; "more than Mercurial thievishness"
- messianic
- of or relating to a messiah promising deliverance; "messianic cult"
- structural
- relating to or having or characterized by structure; "structural engineer"; "structural errors"; "structural simplicity"
- cultural
- of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors; "cultural events"; "a person of broad cultural interests"
- macrocosmic
- relating to or constituting a macrocosm
- microcosmic
- relating to or characteristic of a microcosm; "the microcosmic world of business"
- sacramental
- of or relating to or involving a sacrament
- idolatrous
- relating to or practicing idolatry; "idolatrous worship"
- expiatory, expiative, propitiatory
- having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation; "expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice"
- transitional
- of or relating to or characterized by transition; "adolescence is a transitional stage between childhood and adulthood"
- historic, historical
- of what is important or famous in the past; "historic victories"
- euphonic, euphonical
- of or relating to or characterized by euphony
- totemic
- relating to totemism; "totemic object"
- paradigmatic
- of or relating to a typical example; "paradigmatic learning"
- infernal
- relating to or inhabiting hell; "his infernal majesty"; "infernal fires"; "infernal punishments"
- functional
- relating to or based on function especially as opposed to structure; "the problem now is not a constitutional one; it is a functional one"; "delegates elected on a functional rather than a geographical basis"
- natural
- relating to or concerning nature; "natural science"; "our natural environment"
- humanitarian
- of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism; "humanitarian aid"
- contextual
- relating to or determined by or in context; "contextual information"
- dogmatic
- relating to or involving dogma; "dogmatic writings"
- philanthropic
- of or relating to or characterized by philanthropy; "a philanthropic society"
- providential
- relating to or characteristic of providence; "assumption that nature operates only according to a providential plan"- M.R.Cohen
- triumphal
- relating to or celebrating a triumph; "a triumphal procession"; "a triumphal arch"
- psychic, psychical
- pertaining to forces or mental processes outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws; "psychic reader"; "psychical research"
- Utopian
- pertaining to or resembling Utopia; "a Utopian novel"
- propagandist, propagandistic
- of or relating to or characterized by propaganda
- saponaceous, soapy
- having the qualities of soap (and liable to slip away)
- Draconian
- of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws; "Draconian measures"
- antiquarian
- of or relating to antiques or antiquities
- anecdotal
- having the character of an anecdote; "anecdotal evidence"
- bardic
- being a bard or relating to a bard's poetry; "bardic poetry"
- casuistic, casuistical
- of or relating to or practicing casuistry; "overly subtle casuistic reasoning"
- demagogic, demagogical
- characteristic of or resembling a demagogue; "demagogic speeches"
- elocutionary
- of or relating to elocution; "elocutionary recitals"
- empiric
- (archaic) relying on medical quackery; "empiric treatment"
- fatalist, fatalistic
- believing in or inclined to fatalism; "a fatalist person"
- fatalist, fatalistic
- relating to or implying fatalism; "fatalistic thinking"
- imperialistic, imperialist
- of or relating to imperialism; "imperialistic wars"
- piratical
- characteristic of pirates; "piratical attackers"
- porcine
- relating to or suggesting swine; "comparison between human and porcine pleasures"
- purgatorial
- of or resembling purgatory; "purgatorial fires"
- purgatorial, purging, purifying
- serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites"
- redemptive, redemptional, redepmtory
- of or relating to or resulting in redemption; "a redemptive theory about life"- E.K.Brown
- satyric, satyrical
- of or relating to or having the characteristics of a satyr; "this satyric old man pursues young girls"
- vital
- relating to the chief data about lives; "vital records"; "vital statistics"
- voyeuristic, voyeuristical
- of or relating to voyeurs or voyeurism; "his voyeuristic pleasures"
- anthropocentric
- human-centered; "our anthropocentric view of the world"
- ethnocentric
- centered on a specific ethnic group, usually one's own
- universalistic
- of or relating to the whole
- streaming
- exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts: "his streaming face"; "her streaming eyes"
- punishing
- resulting in punishment; "the king imposed a punishing tax"
- ranging
- wandering freely: "at night in bed...his slowly ranging thoughts...encountered her"
- permeated
- occurring throughout; "her poems are permeated with sorrow"
- barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce
- by a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
- hardly, scarcely
- almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"
- annoyingly
- in an annoying manner or to an annoying degree
- basically, fundamentally, essentially, in essence, au fond
- at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature; "He is basically dishonest"; "the argument was essentially a technical one"; "for all his bluster he is in essence a shy person"
- enviably
- in an enviable manner; "she was enviably fluent in French"
- blessedly
- in a blessed manner
- boiling
- (informal) extremely; "boiling mad"
- pointedly
- in such a manner as to make something clearly evident; "he pointedly ignored the question"
- kindly
- in a kind manner or out of kindness; "He spoke kindly to the boy"; "she kindly overlooked the mistake"
- unkindly
- in an unkind manner or with unkindness; "The teacher treats the children unkindly"
- merely, simply, just, only, but
- and nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a child"; "hopes that last but a moment"
- simply
- absolutely; altogether; really; "we are simply broke"
- plainly, simply
- in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment; "she was dressed plainly"; "they lived very simply"
- anciently
- in ancient times; long ago; "a concern with what may have happened anciently"
- unabashedly
- in an unabashed manner; "unabashedly, he asked for more"
- alarmingly
- in an alarming manner; "It grew alarmingly fast"
- automatically
- in a reflex manner; "he answered automatically"
- vastly, immensely
- to an exceedingly great extent or degree; "He had vastly overestimated his resources"; "was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator"
- largely, mostly, for the most part
- in large part; mainly or chiefly; "These accounts are largely inactive"
- grossly
- in a gross manner
- significantly
- in a significant manner; "our budget will be significantly affected by these new cuts"
- appreciably
- to a noticeable degree; "they weather was appreciably colder"
- insignificantly
- not to a significant degree or amount; "Our budget will only be insignificantly affected by these new cuts"
- smartly, modishly, sprucely
- in a stylish manner; "He was smartly dressed"
- approximately, about, close to, just about, some, roughly, more or less, around, or so
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party"
- absolutely
- totally and definitely; without question; "we are absolutely opposed to the idea"; "he forced himself to lie absolutely still"; "iron is absolutely necessary"
- absolutely, perfectly, utterly, dead
- completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"
- clean, plumb, plum
- (slang) completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"
- plumb, plum
- (informal) exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"
- amiss
- in an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner; "if you think him guilty you judge amiss"; "he spoke amiss"; "no one took it amiss when she spoke frankly"
- perfectly
- in a perfect or faultless way; "She performed perfectly on the balance beam"; "spoke English perfectly"; "solved the problem perfectly"
- pat
- completely or perfectly; "he has the lesson pat"; "had the system down pat"
- imperfectly, amiss
- in an imperfect or faulty way; "The lobe was imperfectly developed"; "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"- Jane Austen
- flat
- wholly or completely; "He is flat broke"
- fully, to the full, full
- to the the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; "fully grown"; "he didn't fully understand"; "knew full well"; (`full' is used as a combining form as in `full-grown' or `full-fledged')
- only
- as recently as; "I spoke to him only an hour ago"
- only
- with nevertheless the final result; "He arrived only to find his wife dead"; "We won only to lose again in the next round"
- only
- in the final outcome; "These news will only make you more upset"
- ill
- with difficulty or inconvenience; scarcely or hardly; "we can ill afford to buy a new car just now"
- well, good
- (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard; "the children behaved well"; "a task well done"; "the party went well"; "he slept well"; "a well-argued thesis"; "a well-planned party"; (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well' as in "the baby can walk pretty good")
- ill, badly, poorly
- (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived plan"
- well
- without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor; "took the joke well"; "took the tragic news well"
- well
- favorably; with approval; "their neighbors spoke well of them"; "he thought well of the book"
- badly
- with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display; "they took their defeat badly"; "took her father's death badly"; "conducted himself very badly at the time of the earthquake"
- well, easily
- indicating high probability; in all likelihood; "I might well do it"; "a mistake that could easily have ended in disaster"; "you may well need your umbrella"; "he could equally well be trying to deceive us"
- well
- thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form; "The problem is well understood"; "she was well informed"; "shake well before using"; "in order to avoid food poisoning be sure the meat is well cooked"; "well-done beef", "well-satisfied customers"; "well-educated"
- well, comfortably
- in financial comfort; "They live well"; "she has been able to live comfortably since her husband died"
- ill, badly
- unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
- well
- to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree; "the project was well underway"; "the fetus has well developed organs"; "his father was well pleased with his grades"
- badly, disadvantageously
- in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage; "the venture turned out badly for the investors"; "angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them"
- well, advantageously
- in a manner affording benefit or advantage; "she married well"; "The children were settled advantageously in Seattle"
- well, considerably, substantially
- to a great extent or degree; "I'm afraid the film was well over budget"; "painting the room white made it seem considerably (or substantially) larger"; "the house has fallen considerably in value"; "the price went up substantially"
- badly
- without skill or in a displeasing manner; "she writes badly"; "I think he paints very badly"
- well
- with skill or in a pleasing manner; "she dances well"; "he writes well"
- well
- with prudence or propriety; "You would do well to say nothing more"; "could not well refuse"
- okay, O.K., all right, alright
- (informal) in a satisfactory or adequate manner; "she'll do okay on her own"; "held up all right under pressure"; (`alright' is a nonstandard variant of `all right')
- well, intimately
- with great or especially intimate knowledge; "we knew them well
- well
- (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) "a book well worth reading"; "was well aware of the difficulties ahead"; "suspected only too well what might be going on"
- satisfactorily
- in a satisfactory manner
- unsatisfactorily
- in an unsatisfactory manner; "He performed unsatisfactorily as a manager"
- badly, severely, gravely, seriously
- to a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill"
- prosperously
- in the manner of prosperous people
- badly, bad
- very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it"
- badly, bad
- with great intensity; "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly' as in "it hurts bad" or "we need water bad")
- worse
- (comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner; "he did worse on the second exam"
- worst
- to the highest degree of inferiority or badness; "She suffered worst of all"; "schools were the worst hit by government spending cuts"; "the worst dressed person present"
- even
- used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected; "even an idiot knows that"; "declined even to consider the idea"; "I don't have even a dollar!"
- even, yet, still
- to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons; "looked sick and felt even worse"; "an even (or still) more interesting problem"; "still another problem must be solved"; "a yet sadder tale"
- even
- in spite of; notwithstanding; "even when he is sick, he works"; "even with his head start she caught up with him"
- even
- to the full extent; "loyal even unto death"
- rather, kind of, kinda, sort of
- to some (great or small) extent; "it was rather cold"; "the party was rather nice"; "the knife is rather dull"; "I rather regret that I cannot attend"; "He's rather good at playing the cello"; "he is kind of shy"
- e'en
- even
- pretty, jolly
- intensifier, as in "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; (`jolly' is used informally in Britain as in "jolly decent of him")
- quite
- to the greatest extent; completely; "you're quite right"; "she was quite alone"; "was quite mistaken"; "quite the opposite"; "not quite finished"; "did not quite make it"
- quite, rather
- to a degree (not used with a negative); "quite tasty"; "quite soon"; "quite ill"; "quite rich"
- quite, quite a, quite an
- of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative); "her victory was quite something"; "she's quite a girl"; "quite a film"; "quite a walk"; "we've had quite an afternoon"
- quite
- actually or truly or to an extreme; "was quite a sudden change"; "it's quite the thing to do"; "quite the rage"; "Quite so!"
- constantly
- without variation or change; "constantly kind and gracious"
- occasionally, on occasion, once in a while, now and then, now and again, at times, from time to time
- now and then or here and there; "he was arrogant and occasionally callous"; "open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of trees"; "they visit New York on occasion"; "now and again she would take her favorite book from the shelf and read to us"; "as we drove along, the beautiful scenery now and then attracted his attention"
- pretty much
- to some degree; "we were pretty much lost when we met the forest ranger"
- much, practically
- (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely; "much the same thing happened every time"
- that much
- to a certain degree; "we will be that much ahead of them"
- paradoxically
- in a paradoxical manner; "paradoxically, ice ages seem to occur when the sun gets hotter"
- conventionally
- in a conventional manner; "he usually behaves rather conventionally"
- unconventionally
- in an unconventional manner; "she always behaves rather unconventionally"
- either
- after a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also'; "he isn't stupid, but he isn't exactly a genius either"; "I don't know either"; "if you don't order dessert I won't either"
- bloody, damn, all-fired
- (intensifier) "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all-fired aggressive?"
- anyhow, anyway, in any case, at any rate, in any event
- used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement; "Anyhow, he is dead now"; "I think they're asleep; anyhow, they're quiet"; "I don't know what happened to it; anyway, it's gone"; "anyway, there is another factor to consider"; "I don't know how it started; in any case, there was a brief scuffle"; "in any event, the government faced a serious protest"; "but at any rate he got a knighthood for it"
- only
- except that; "It was the same story; only this time she came out better"
- so far, yet
- used after a superlative; "this is the best so far"; "the largest drug bust yet"
- however
- by contrast; on the other hand; "the first part was easy; the second, however, took hours"
- still
- with reference to action or condition; without change, interruption, or cessation; "it's still warm outside"; "will you still love me when we're old and grey?"
- futilely
- in a futile and unproductive manner
- very, really, real, rattling
- intensifiers; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; (`real' is sometimes used informally for `really' as in "I'm real sorry about it"; `rattling' is informal as in "a rattling good yarn")
- good and
- (informal) completely or thoroughly; "when I'm good and ready"
- mighty, powerful, right
- (Southern regional intensive) very; "the baby is mighty cute"; "he's mighty tired"; "it is powerful humid"; "that boy is powerful big now"; "they have a right nice place"
- fucking
- intensifier, very colloquial; "what took you so fucking long?"
- much
- very; "he was much annoyed"
- hereafter
- in a future life or state; "hope to win salvation hereafter"
- instantaneously, outright, instantly, in a flash
- without any delay; "he was killed outright"
- mightily
- to a great degree; "rejoiced mightily at the news"
- mildly
- to a moderate degree; "he was mildly interested"
- a bit, a little, a trifle
- to a small degree; somewhat; "it's a bit warm"; "felt a little better"; "a trifle smaller"
- shortly, not long
- for a short time; "he was at the airport shortly before she was expected to arrive"
- shortly, not far
- at a short distance; "the hem fell shortly below her knees"
- soonest, earliest
- with the least delay; "the soonest I can arrive is 3 P.M."
- frequently, often, oftentimes, oft, ofttimes
- many times at short intervals; "we often met over a cup of coffee"
- sportively
- in a merry sportive manner
- stormily, turbulently, passionately
- in a stormy or violent manner
- curiously, oddly, peculiarly
- in a manner differing from the usual or expected; "had a curiously husky voice"; "he's behaving rather peculiarly"
- anon
- at another time; "ever and anon"
- rarely, seldom
- not often; "we rarely met"
- curiously enough, funnily enough, interestingly enough, oddly enough, strangely enough
- curious (or funny or interesting or odd or strange) though it may seem; "curiously enough, he didn't recognize his old friend"; "interestingly enough, America is now dependent on Africa for a large part of its oil"; "funnily enough, the ones I thought so ugly were the ones that sold out first"; "oddly enough, he hasn't mentioned it"
- strangely
- in a strange way; "he was strangely silent"
- reasonably, moderately, within reason, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably
- to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason"
- movingly
- in a moving manner; "she sang movingly"
- unreasonably, immoderately
- to a degree that exceeds the bounds or reason or moderation; "his prices are unreasonably high"
- slightly, somewhat
- to a small degree or extent; "his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory"; "the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other"
- extensively
- in a widespread way; "oxidation ponds are extensively used for sewage treatment in the Midwest"
- extensively
- to a great extent
- intrinsically, per se, as such, in and of itself
- with respect to its inherent nature; "this statement is interesting per se"
- decidedly, unquestionably, emphatically, definitely, by all odds
- without question and beyond doubt; "it was decidedly too expensive"; "by all odds they should win"
- indeed
- (used as an interjection to express surprise or skepticism or irony etc.) "Wants to marry the butler? Indeed!"
- naturally, of course, course
- as might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill"
- clearly
- without doubt or question; "they were clearly lost"; "history has clearly shown the folly of that policy"
- unnaturally
- not as might be expected; "The early Church not unnaturally adopted the position that failure to see the messianic character of his work was really caused by the people's own blindness"
- obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain
- unmistakably; "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly' as in "he is plain stubborn")
- apparently, seemingly, ostensibly, on the face of it
- from appearances alone; "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"; "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the problem seems minor"
- unexpectedly, out of the blue
- in a way that was not expected; "her brother showed up at the wedding out of the blue"
- specifically
- in distinction from others; "a program specifically for teenagers"; "he is interested specifically in poisonous snakes"
- nonspecifically
- without specificity; "nonspecifically staining substances"
- generally, in general, in the main
- without distinction of one from others; "he is interested in snakes in general"
- fortunately, fortuitously, luckily, as luck would have it
- by good fortune; "fortunately the weather was good"
- happily
- in an unexpectedly lucky way; "happily he was not injured"
- sadly, unhappily
- in an unfortunate way; "sadly he died before he could see his grandchild"
- unfortunately, unluckily, regrettably, alas
- by bad luck; "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay"
- lest
- that (after verbs explicitly expressing fear etc.); "he worried lest he should be late"
- lest
- for fear that; "she tiptoed lest her mother should hear her"
- extremely
- to an extreme degree; "extremely cold"; "extremely unpleasant"
- madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly
- (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous"
- beyond measure
- in excess or without limit; "amazed beyond measure"
- inordinately, extraordinarily
- extremely; "she was inordinately smart"; "it will be an extraordinarily painful step to negotiate"
- by far, far and away
- by a considerable margin; "she was by far the smartest student"; "it was far and away the best meal he had ever eaten"
- head and shoulders above
- outstandingly superior to; "in intelligence he was head and shoulders above the others in his class"
- excessively, overly, too
- to an excessive degree; "too big"
- finally, eventually, at length
- after a long period of time or an especially long delay; "at length they arrived"
- now
- used to preface a command or reproof or request; "now hear this!"; "now pay attention"
- now
- (prefatory or transitional) "Now the next problem is..."
- aggressively, sharply
- in an aggressive manner; "she was being sharply questioned"
- now now
- interjection of rebuke
- steadily
- at a steady rate or pace; "his interest eroded steadily"
- firm, firmly, steadfastly, unwaveringly
- with resolute determination; "we firmly believed it"; "you must stand firm"
- squarely, foursquare, straightforwardly
- with firmness and conviction; without compromise; "he stood foursquare for religious liberty and toleration"- C.G.Bowers; "dealt straightforwardly with all issues"
- squarely, square
- with honesty and fairness; "dealt squarely with his customers"; "always treated me square"
- squarely, square
- firmly and solidly; "hit the ball squarely"; "the bat met the ball squarely"; "planted his great bulk square before his enemy"
- squarely, forthrightly, forthright
- directly and without evasion; not roundabout; "to face a problem squarely"; "the responsibility lies squarely with them"; "spoke forthright (or forthrightly) and to the point"
- squarely, square
- in a straight direct way; "looked him squarely in the eye"; "ran square into me"
- bitterly, with bitterness
- in a resentful manner; "she complained bitterly"
- variously, diversely, multifariously
- in diverse ways; "the alternatives that are variously represented by the participants"; "the speakers treated the subject most diversely"
- indefatigably, tirelessly, inexhaustibly
- with indefatigable energy; "she watched the show indefatigably"
- bitterly
- indicating something hard to accept; "he was bitterly disappointed"
- very well, fine, alright, all right, OK
- sentence-initial expression of agreement
- all right, alright, without doubt
- reinforces an assertion, as in "It's expensive all right"
- swiftly, fleetly
- in a swift manner; "she moved swiftly"
- practically
- almost; "he was practically the only guest at the party"
- openly
- in an open way; "he openly flaunted his affection for his sister"
- presumably, presumptively
- by reasonable assumption; "presumably, he missed the train"
- for the moment, for the time being
- temporarily; "we'll stop for the time being"
- easily
- without question; "easily the best book she's written"
- hand to mouth
- with barely enough money for immediate needs; "they lived form hand to mouth"
- terribly, atrociously, awfully, abominably, abysmally, rottenly
- in a terrible manner; "she sings terribly"
- terribly, awfully, awful, frightfully
- (informal) used as intensifiers, as in "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry"
- acceptably, tolerably, so-so
- in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner; "she plays tennis tolerably"
- unacceptably, intolerably
- to an unacceptable degree; "The percentage of lead in our drinking water is unacceptably high"
- admiringly
- with admiration; "he looked at his wife admiringly"
- abusively
- in an abusive manner; "he behaved abusively toward his children"
- adoringly
- with adoration; "he looked at his wife adoringly"
- adroitly, with adroitness
- in an adroit manner; "he handled the situation adroitly"
- maladroitly
- in a maladroit manner; "he dealt with the situation maladroitly"
- greatly
- to a great extent or degree; "he improved greatly"; "greatly reduced"
- dreadfully, awfully, horribly
- of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning"
- at all, in the least, the least bit
- in the slightest degree or in any respect; "Are you at all interested? No, not at all"; "was not in the least unfriendly"
- drastically
- in a drastic manner
- thoroughly, exhaustively
- in an exhaustive manner; "we searched the files thoroughly"
- by all means
- (informal) definitely or certainly; "Visit us by all means"
- by no means, not by a long sight, not by a blame sight
- (informal) definitely not; "the prize is by no means certain"; "and that isn't all, not by a long sight"
- thoroughly, soundly, good
- in a complete and thorough manner; "he was soundly defeated"; (`good' is used informally for `thoroughly' as in "we beat him good")
- through, through and through
- throughout the entire extent; "got soaked through in the rain"; "I'm frozen through"; "a letter shot through with the writer's personality"; "knew him through and through"; "boards rotten through and through"
- soundly, sound
- deeply or completely; "slept soundly through the storm"; "is sound asleep"
- right, flop
- (informal) exactly; "he fell flop on his face"
- indirectly
- not in a forthright manner; "he answered very indirectly"
- directly, flat, straight
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay"
- secondhand
- by indirect means; "I heard about it only secondhand or thirdhand--maybe even fourthhand"
- individualistically
- in an individualistic manner
- at ease, at rest
- in a relaxed position, of soldiers; "the soldiers were standing at ease"
- a lot, a good deal, a great deal, much, very much
- to a very great degree or extent; "we enjoyed ourselves very much"; "she was very much interested"; "this would help a great deal"
- much
- to a great degree or extent; "she's much better now"
- better
- comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.; "She had never sung better"; "a deed better left undone"; "better suited to the job"
- much, a great deal, often
- frequently or in great quantities; "I don't drink much"; "I don't travel much"
- effectively, in effect
- in actuality or reality or fact; "she is effectively his wife"; "in effect, they had no choice"
- for all practical purposes, to all intents and purposes, for all intents and purposes
- in every practical sense; "to all intents and purposes the case is closed"; "the rest are for all practical purposes useless"
- abruptly, suddenly, short, dead
- quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"
- suddenly, all of a sudden, of a sudden
- happening unexpectedly; "suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side"
- presto
- suddenly; "Presto! begone! 'tis here again"- Swift
- accordingly
- in accordance with; "she acted accordingly"
- alternatively, as an alternative, instead, or else
- in place of, or as an alternative to; "Felix became a herpetologist instead"; "alternatively we could buy a used car"
- lengthily, at length
- in a lengthy or prolix manner; "the argument went on lengthily"; "she talked at length about the problem"
- last but not least, last not least
- in addition to all the foregoing; "last not least he plays the saxophone"
- lastingly
- in an enduring or permanent manner
- accusingly
- in an accusing manner; "he looked at her accusingly"
- affectingly, poignantly, touchingly
- in a poignant or touching manner; "she spoke poignantly"
- along
- to a more advanced state; "the work is moving along"; "well along in their research"; "hurrying their education along"; "getting along in years"
- on
- in a state required for something to function or be effective; "turn the lights on"; "get a load on" is slang for "drink enough to become intoxicated"
- on
- indicates continuity or persistence or concentration; "his spirit lives on"; "shall I read on?"
- loudly, loud, aloud
- with relatively high volume; "the band played loudly"; "she spoke loudly and angrily"; "he spoke loud enough for those at the back of the room to hear him"; "cried aloud for help"
- softly, quietly
- with low volume; "speak softly but carry a big stick"; "she spoke quietly to the child"; "the radio was playing softly"
- faintly
- to a faint degree or weakly perceived; "between him and the dim light a form was outlined faintly"; "stars shining faintly through the overcast"; "could hear his distant shouts only faintly"; "the rumors weren't even faintly true"
- randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, willy-nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which way
- in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random"
- round, around
- from beginning to end; throughout; "It rains all year round on Skye"; "frigid weather the year around"
- about, around
- all around or on all sides; "dirty clothes lying around (or about)"; "let's look about for help"; "There were trees growing all around"; "she looked around her"
- around
- by a circular or circuitous route; "He came all the way around the base"; "the road goes around the pond"
- about, around
- to or among many different places or in no particular direction; "wandering about with no place to go"; "people were rushing about"; "news gets around (or about)"; "traveled around in Asia"; "he needs advice from someone who's been around"; "she sleeps around"
- urgently, desperately
- with great urgency; "health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash"
- here and there
- in or to various places; first this place and then that; "he worked here and there but never for long in one town"; "we drove here and there in the darkness"
- scantily, barely
- in a sparse or scanty way; "a barely furnished room"
- about, just about, almost, most, all but, nearly, near, nigh, virtually, well-nigh
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; (`near' is used informally for `nearly' as in "I was near exhausted by the run"; `most' is used informally for `almost' as in "most everybody agrees")
- chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in the main
- for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies"
- back
- in repayment or retaliation; "we paid back everything we had borrowed"; "he hit me and I hit him back"; "I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher"
- backward, backwards
- in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal; "it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'"; "the child put her jersey on backward"
- brazenly
- in a brazen manner; "he spoke brazenly"
- brilliantly
- in an extremely intelligent way; "he solved the problem brilliantly"
- dearly, dear
- at a great cost; "he paid dearly for the food"; "this cost him dear"
- dearly, affectionately, dear
- with affection; "she loved him dearly"; "he treats her affectionately"
- dearly, in a heartfelt way
- in a sincere and heartfelt manner; "I would dearly love to know"
- covertly
- in a covert manner; "he did it covertly"
- decorative
- in a decorative manner
- overtly
- in an overt manner; "he did it overtly"
- microscopically
- in a microscopic manner; with extreme precision and attention to detail; "every manuscript was edited microscopically"
- undoubtedly, doubtless, beyond question, without doubt, beyond any doubt
- with certainty; "it's undoubtedly very beautiful"
- actively
- in an active manner; "he participated actively in the war"
- contemptuously, disdainfully, scornfully, contumeliously, showing contempt
- without respect; in a disdainful manner; "she spoke of him contemptuously"
- passively
- in a passive manner; "he listened passively"
- contemptibly
- in a contemptible manner
- comically, funny
- in a comical manner; "she acted comically"
- deceptively, deceivingly, misleadingly
- in a misleading way; "the exam looked deceptively easy"
- dazzlingly
- in a manner or to a degree that dazzles the beholder
- depressingly
- in a depressing manner or to a depressing degree
- disruptively
- in a disruptive manner
- tolerably, well enough, to a tolerable degree, to an adequate degree
- in a tolerable manner; "she did it well enough"
- particularly, peculiarly, especially, specially
- to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common; "he was particularly fussy about spelling"; "a particularly gruesome attack"; "under peculiarly tragic circumstances"; "an especially (or specially) cautious approach to the danger"
- extra
- unusually or exceptionally; "an extra fast car"
- elaborately, intricately, in an elaborate way
- with elaboration; "it was elaborately spelled out"
- exasperatingly
- in an exasperating manner
- quickly, rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apace
- with rapid movements; "he works quickly"
- flat out
- at top speed; "ran flat out to catch the bus"
- fast
- quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form); "how fast can he get here?"; "ran as fast as he could"; "needs medical help fast"; "fast-running rivers"; "fast-breaking news"; "fast-opening (or fast-closing) shutters"
- fast, tight
- firmly or tightly; "held fast to the rope"; "her foot was stuck fast"; "held tight"
- permissively
- in a permissive manner
- flatly, categorically, unconditionally
- in an unqualified manner; "he flatly denied the charges"
- flush
- squarely or solidly; "hit him flush in the face"
- permanently, for good
- for a long time without essential change; "he is permanently disabled"
- in perpetuity
- for an indefinitely long time; "bequeathed to the nation in perpetuity"
- temporarily
- for a limited time only; not permanently; "he will work here temporarily"; "he was brought out of retirement temporarily"; "a power failure temporarily darkened the town"
- ad interim
- for an intervening time; temporarily; "elected to serve ad interim"
- ad lib, ad libitum, spontaneously, impromptu
- without advance preparation; "he spoke ad lib"
- provisionally
- temporarily and conditionally; "they have agreed provisionally"; "was appointed provisionally"
- forever, forever and a day
- (informal) for a very long or seemingly endless time; "she took forever to write the paper"; "we had to wait forever and a day"
- continually
- seemingly without interruption; "complained continually that there wasn't enough money"
- highly
- in a high position or level or rank; "details known by only a few highly placed persons"
- highly
- at a high rate or wage; "highly paid workers"
- highly
- favorably or with much respect; "He spoke highly of her"; "does not think highly of his writing"
- highly, extremely
- to a high degree or extent; "highly successful play"; "highly informative"; "a highly educated woman"; "an extremely interesting book"
- magnetically
- as if by magnetism; "he was magnetically attracted to her"
- linearly
- in a linear fashion; "it grew linearly"
- marginally
- in a marginal manner; "marginally interesting"
- geometrically
- in a geometric fashion; "it grew geometrically"
- perilously, hazardously, dangerously
- in a dangerous manner; "he came dangerously close to falling off the ledge"
- dingdong
- (informal) heartily or earnestly; "They fell to work dingdong"
- vitally
- to a vital degree; "this is vitally important
- energetically
- in an energetic manner
- strenuously
- in a strenuous manner; strongly or vigorously; "he objected strenuously to the stand his party was taking"
- intently
- with strained or eager attention; "listened intently"; "stood watching intently"
- mightily
- powerfully or vigorously; "he strove mightily to achieve a better position in life"
- hard
- to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"
- hard
- with effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard"
- hard, firmly
- with firmness; "held hard to the railing"
- hard
- slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"
- hard, severely
- causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"
- hard
- earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"
- hard
- with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard"
- momentarily, momently
- for an instant or moment; "we paused momentarily before proceeding"; "a cardinal perched momently on the dogwood branch"
- tightly
- securely fixed or fastened; "the window was tightly sealed"
- briefly
- for a short time; "she visited him briefly"; "was briefly associated with IBM"
- conclusively, once and for all
- in a conclusive way; "we settled the problem conclusively"
- inconclusively
- not conclusively; "the meeting ended inconclusively"
- deplorably, lamentably, sadly, woefully
- in an unfortunate or deplorable manner; "he was sadly neglected"; "it was woefully inadequate"
- focally
- in a focal manner; "the submucosa was focally infiltrated"
- amusingly, divertingly
- in an entertaining and amusing manner; "Hollywood has grown too sophisticated to turn out anything really amusingly bad these days"
- downright
- (intensifier) thoroughgoing; "he is outright dishonest"
- outright
- without reservation or concealment; "she asked him outright for a divorce"
- home
- at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home"
- home
- to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home"
- little
- not much; "he talked little about his family"
- early, betimes
- in good time; "he awoke betimes that morning"
- for that matter
- as far as that is concerned; "for that matter I don't care either"
- early on, early
- during an early stage; "early on in her career"
- afar
- (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far; "we traveled afar"; "we could see the ship afar off"; "the Magi came from afar"
- far
- remote in time; "if we could see far into the future"; "all that happened far in the past"
- far
- at or to or from a great distance in space; "he traveled far"; "strayed far from home"; "sat far away from each other"
- way, right smart
- (informal) to a great degree or by a great distance; very much; "way over budget"; "way off base"; "right smart" is regional (US S and Midland) as in "the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on"
- far
- to a considerable degree; very much; "a far far better thing that I do"; "felt far worse than yesterday"; "eyes far too close together"
- far
- at or to a certain point or degree; "I can only go so far before I have to give up"; "how far can we get with this kind of argument?"
- far
- to an advanced stage or point; "a young man who will go very far"
- far and wide, far and near
- over great areas or distances; everywhere; "he traveled far and wide"; "the news spread far and wide"; "people came from far and near"; "searched for the child far and near"
- finely, fine, delicately, exquisitely
- in a delicate manner; "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body"
- finely
- in an elegant manner; "finely costumed actors"
- throughout
- from first to last
- at first sight, at first glance
- immediately; "it was love at first sight"
- at first blush, when first seen
- as a first impression; "at first blush the offer seemed attractive"
- forth
- out into view; "came forth from the crowd"; "put my ideas forth"
- and so forth, and so on, etcetera, etc.
- continuing in the same way
- at heart, at bottom, deep down, inside, in spite of appearance
- in reality; "she is very kind at heart"
- at large, in a broad way
- in a general fashion; "he talked at large about his plans"
- at least, leastways, leastwise, at any rate
- if nothing else; "at least he survived"; "they felt--at any rate Jim felt--relieved though still wary"; "the influence of economists--or at any rate of economics--is far-reaching"; (`leastwise' is informal; `leastways' is colloquial)
- right
- immediately; "she called right after dinner"
- at leisure, leisurely
- in an unhurried way or at one's convenience; "read the manual at your leisure"; "he traveled leisurely"
- promptly, pronto, without delay
- in a punctual manner; "he did his homework promptly"
- promptly, right away
- at once (usually modifies an undesirable occurrence); "he promptly forgot the address"
- promptly, quickly, quick
- with little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!"
- at best, at the best
- under the best of conditions; "at best we'll lose only the money"
- at worst, at the worst
- under the worst of conditions; "at worst we'll go to jail"
- frantically
- in an uncontrolled manner; "they searched frantically for their child"
- demoniacally, frenetically
- in a very agitated manner; as if possessed by an evil spirit
- furtively, on the sly
- in a furtive manner; "the soldiers were furtively crawling through the night"
- recently, late, lately, of late, latterly
- in the recent past; "he was in Paris recently"; "lately the rules have been enforced"; "as late as yesterday she was fine"; "feeling better of late"; "the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also"
- dominantly
- in a dominant fashion; "religion functions dominantly in many societies"
- erratically, unpredictably
- in an erratic unpredictable manner; "economic changes are proceeding erratically"
- girlishly
- like a girl; "she was girlishly shy"
- gradually, bit by bit, step by step
- in a gradual manner; "the snake moved gradually toward its victim"
- grimly
- in a grim implacable manner; "he was grimly satisfied"
- peacefully
- in a peaceful manner; "the hen settled herself on the nest most peacefully"
- humbly, meekly
- in a humble manner; "he humbly lowered his head"
- meekly
- in a submissive or spiritless manner; "meekly bowed to his wishes"
- virtually
- in essence or effect but not in fact; "the strike virtually paralyzed the city"; "I'm virtually broke"
- literally, virtually
- (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf war"
- least of all
- especially not; "nobody, least of all Joe, agreed with me"
- most
- (intensifier) very; "a most welcome relief"
- recently, newly, freshly, fresh, new
- very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh out of tomatoes"
- internationally
- throughout the world; "She is internationally known"
- afresh, anew
- again but in a new or different way; "start afresh"; "wanted to write the story anew"; "starting life anew in a fresh place"
- organically
- as an important constituent; "the drapery served organically to cover the Madonna"
- invariably
- in an invariable manner; "invariably, he would forget his keys"
- organically
- in an organic manner; "this food is grown organically"
- mechanically
- in a machine-like manner; without feeling; "he smiled mechanically"
- unfailingly
- without fail
- painfully, distressingly
- unpleasantly; "his ignorance was painfully obvious"
- preferably, sooner, rather
- more readily or willingly; "clean it well, preferably with warm water"; "I'd rather be in Philadelphia"; "I'd sooner die than give up"
- self-consciously
- in a self-conscious manner; "he asked self-consciously"
- symbolically
- in a symbolic manner; "symbolically accepted goals"
- outrageously, atrociously
- to an extravagant or immoderate degree; "atrociously expensive"
- outrageously
- in a very offensive manner; "he behaved outrageously"
- regardless, irrespective, disregardless, irregardless, no matter, disregarding
- in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks; "he carried on regardless of the difficulties"
- though
- (postpositive) however; "it might be unpleasant, though"
- although, though, tho'
- despite the fact that; "even though she knew the answer, she did not respond"
- as far as possible, as much as possible
- to a feasible extent; "she helped him as much as possible"
- successfully, with success
- in a successful manner; "she performed the surgery successfully"
- on the other hand, then again, but then
- (contrastive) from another point of view; "on the other hand, she is too ambitious for her own good"; "then again, she might not go"
- on the one hand, on one hand
- from one point of view; "on the one hand, she is a gifted chemist"
- unsystematically
- in an unsystematic manner; "his books were lined up unsystematically on the shelf"
- systematically, consistently
- in a systematic or consistent manner; "they systematically excluded women"
- astronomically
- enormously; "the bill was astronomically high"
- aloof
- in an aloof manner; "the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough"
- idyllically
- in an idyllic manner
- nominally
- in name only; "nominally he is the boss"
- professorially
- in a professorial manner; "she behaved very professorially"
- realistically
- in a realistic manner; "the figure was realistically painted"
- royally, like kings, like royalty
- in a royal manner; "they were royally treated"
- scenically
- with respect to stage scenery; "scenically stunning"
- sacrilegiously
- in a sacrilegious manner
- typically
- in a typical manner; "Tom was typically hostile"
- atypically, untypically
- in a manner that is not typical; "she was atypically quiet"
- vocally
- in a vocal manner; "she defended herself vocally"
- globally
- throughout the world; "this is globally significant"
- magically, as if by magic
- in a magical manner; "it disappeared magically"
- infernally, hellishly
- (intensive) extremely; "infernally clever"; "hellishly dangerous"
- catastrophically
- with unfortunate consequences; "catastrophically complex"
- cerebrally
- in an intellectual manner; "cerebrally active"
- mystically
- in a mystical manner; "chant mystically"
- materially
- to a significant degree; "it aided him materially in winning the argument"
- materially
- with respect to material aspects; "psychologically similar but materially different"
- secondarily
- of secondary import; "secondarily affected"
- similarly, likewise
- in like or similar manner; "He was similarly affected"; "some people have littlepower to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil"- Samuel Johnson
- primarily, in the first place
- of primary import; "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter"
- dramatically
- in a dramatic manner; "he confessed dramatically"
- undramatically
- in an undramatic manner
- notably
- to a notable extent; "notably in the social sciences, the professors teach too much"
- intensively
- in an intensive manner; "he studied the snake intensively"
- appropriately, suitably, fittingly, befittingly, fitly
- in an appropriate manner; "he was appropriately dressed"
- inappropriately, unsuitably, not suitably
- in an inappropriate manner; "he was inappropriately dressed"
- chronically, inveterately
- in a habitual and long-standing manner; "smoking chronically"
- episodically
- in an episodic manner
- fabulously, fantastically
- in a fabulous manner; "she was a fabulously gifted player"
- feverishly
- in a feverish manner; "she worked feverishly"
- glaringly
- in a glaring manner; "it was glaringly obvious"
- inconceivably
- to an inconceivable degree; "inconceivably small"
- insistently
- in an insistent manner
- tangentially
- in passing; "touched on it tangentially"
- superficially
- in a superficial manner; "he was supercifically interested"
- awhile, for a while
- for a short time; "sit down and stay awhile"; "they settled awhile in Virginia before moving West"; "the baby was quiet for a while"
- wickedly, evilly
- in a wicked evil manner; "act wickedly"; "grin evilly"
- surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting
- definitely or positively; "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; (`sure' is used informally for `surely' as in "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come")
- surprisingly
- in a surprising manner; "he was surprisingly friendly"
- hesitantly, hesitatingly
- with hesitation; in a hesitant manner; "he finally accepted hesitantly"
- sufficiently
- to a sufficient degree; "she was sufficiently fluent in Mandarin"
- adequately
- in an adequate manner
- enough, plenty
- as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks"
- insufficiently
- to an insufficient degree; "he was insufficiently prepared"
- unhesitatingly
- without hesitation; "she said yes unhesitatingly"
- so
- (intensifier) to a very great extent or degree; "the idea is so obvious"; "never been so happy"; "I love you so"; "my head aches so!"
- hand and foot
- in all ways possible; "they served him hand and foot"
- handily, hands down
- with no difficulty; "she beat him handily"
- hand over fist
- at a tremendous rate; "made money hand over fist"
- easily, easy
- with ease; "she was easily excited"; "was easily confused"; "he won easily"; "this china breaks very easily"; (`easy' is used informally for `easily' as in "success came too easy")
- easy, soft
- (informal) in a relaxed manner; or without hardship; "just wanted to take it easy" (`soft' is nonstandard)
- in hand
- under control; "the riots were in hand"
- out of hand, beyond control
- out of control; "the riots got out of hand"
- in a way, in some respects
- from some points of view; "she was right in a way"
- actually, in reality
- used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly; "you may actually be doing the right thing by walking out"; "she actually spoke Latin"; "they thought they made the rules but in reality they were only puppets"; "people who seem stand-offish are in reality often simply nervous"
- actually
- as a sentence modifier to add slight emphasis; "actually, we all help clear up after a meal"; "actually, I haven't seen the film"; "I'm not all that surprised actually"; "she hasn't proved to be too satisfactory, actually"
- above all, most importantly, most especially
- above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent"
- after a fashion
- to some extent; not very well; "he speaks French after a fashion"
- after all
- emphasizes something to be considered; "after all, she is your boss, so invite her"; "he is, after all, our president"
- after all
- in spite of expectations; "came to the party after all"; "it didn't rain after all"
- all in all, on the whole, altogether, tout ensemble
- with everything considered (and neglecting details); "altogether, I'm sorry it happened"; "all in all, it's not so bad"
- against the clock, against time
- as fast as possible; before a deadline; "it was a race against the clock"
- ahead of the game
- in an advantageous position; "she's ahead of the game"
- all of a sudden, all at once
- without warning; "all at once, he started shouting"
- all the way, the whole way
- to the goal; "she climbed the mountain all the way"
- and then some
- and considerably more in addition; "it cost me a week's salary and then some"
- as we say, so to speak
- in a manner of speaking; "the feeling is, as we say, quite dead"
- as it were, so to speak
- as if it were really so; "she lives here, as it were"
- carefully
- taking care or paying attention; "they watched carefully"
- unmindfully
- in a careless and thoughtless manner
- mindfully, heedfully, advertently
- in a careful deliberate manner
- excitedly, with excitement
- in an excited manner; "she shook his hand excitedly"
- vociferously
- in a vociferous manner; "he complained vociferously"
- safely
- with safety; in a safe manner; "we are safely out of there"
- originally
- in an original manner
- by a long shot
- by a great deal; "he is the best by a long shot"; "his labors haven't ended there--not by a long shot"
- by and large, generally, more often than not, mostly
- usually; as a rule; "by and large it doesn't rain much here"
- by fits and starts, with many interruptions
- intermittently; "he worked on his book by fits and starts"
- by inches, little by little, by small degrees
- by a short distance; "they moved it by inches"
- by the way, by the bye, incidentally
- introducing a different topic; "by the way, I won't go to the party"
- come hell or high water, no matter what happens, whatever may come
- in spite of all obstacles; "we'll go to Tibet come hell or high water"
- day in and day out, all the time
- without respite; "he plays chess day in and day out"
- en masse, en bloc, as a group
- all together; "the students turned out en masse"
- deadpan
- without betraying any feeling; "she told the joke deadpan"
- every so often, every now and then
- occasionally; "every so often she visits her father"
- completely
- so as to be complete; with everything necessary; "he had filled out the form completely"; "the apartment was completely furnished"
- incompletely
- not to a full degree or extent; "words incompletely understood"; "a form filled out incompletely"
- first and last, above all
- taking everything together; "she was first and last a scientist"
- first and foremost, most importantly
- of greatest importance; "first and foremost, we must feed the refugees"
- precisely, exactly, just
- indicating exactness or preciseness; "he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do"; "it was just as he said--the jewel was gone"; "it has just enough salt"
- for dear life
- as though your life was at stake; "he was running for dear life"
- for a song, for a bargain price, at a low price
- for a relatively small amount of money; "we bought the house for a song"
- for keeps
- for the winner to keep all; "they played for keeps"
- for love or money, for anything, for any price, for all the world
- under any circumstances; "she wouldn't give up her pets for love or money"
- for one
- as a particular one of several possibilities; "I for one feel very grateful"; "her mother for one was worried"
- from scratch
- from the beginning; "he baked the torte from scratch"
- from way back, since a long time ago
- since long ago; "she knows him from way back"
- closely, intimately, nearly
- in a close manner; "the two phenomena are intimately connected"; "the person most nearly concerned"
- relatively, comparatively
- in a relative manner; by comparison to something else; "the situation is relatively calm now"
- readily
- without much difficulty; "these snakes can be identified readily"
- markedly
- in a clearly noticeable manner; "sales of luxury cars dropped markedly"
- palpably
- so as to be palpable; "she was palpably nervous"
- slowly, slow, easy, tardily
- without speed; "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly' as in "please go slow; I want to see the sights")
- crudely
- in a crude or unrefined manner; "he was crudely bold"
- publicly, publically, in public
- in a manner accessible to or observable by the public; openly; "she admitted publicly to being a communist"
- secretly
- not openly; inwardly; "they were secretly delighted at his embarrassment"; "hoped secretly she would change her mind"
- privately, in private
- kept private or confined to those intimately concerned; "it was discussed privately between the two men"; "privately, she thought differently"; "some member of his own party hoped privately for his defeat"; "he was questioned in private"
- publicly
- by the public or the people generally; "publicly provided medical care"; "publicly financed schools"
- helter-skelter, every wich way
- haphazardly; "the books were piled up helter-skelter"
- head over heels, heels over head, topsy-turvy, topsy-turvily, in great confusion
- in disorderly haste; "we ran head over heels toward the shelter"
- harum-scarum, pell-mell
- in a wild or reckless manner; "dashing harum-scarum all over the place"; "running pell-mell up the stairs"
- fecklessly
- in a feckless manner; irresponsibly and incompetently
- heart and soul, body and soul
- with complete faith; "she was with him heart and soul"
- carelessly, heedlessly
- without care or concern; "carelessly raised the children's hopes without thinking of their possible disappointment"
- hook line and sinker, without questioning
- in every detail; "he believed her story hook, line, and sinker"
- in a big way, with much to-do
- with much ceremony; "they celebrated her birthday in a big way"
- in circles, in a circle
- without making progress; "the candidates talked in circles"
- in a sense, in a way
- in some respects; "in a sense, language is like math"
- in a pig's eye, not very likely
- (colloquial) very unlikely
- seriously, earnestly, in earnest
- in a serious manner; "talking earnestly with his son"; "she started studying snakes in earnest"; "a play dealing seriously with the question of divorce"
- in due course, in due season, in good time, in due time, when the time comes
- at the appropriate time; "we'll get to this question in due course"
- in full swing, in full action
- proceeding with full vigor; "the party was in full swing"
- in kind, in a similar way
- with something of the same kind; "she pays him back in kind"
- in name, in name only
- by title or repute though not in fact; "he's a doctor in name only"
- in no time, very fast
- in a relatively short time; "she finished the assignment in no time"
- long
- for an extended time or at a distant time; "a promotion long overdue"; "something long hoped for"; "his name has long been forgotten"; "talked all night long"; "how long will you be gone?"; "arrived long before he was expected"; "it is long after your bedtime"
- in passing, en passant
- incidentally; in the course of doing something else; "he made this remark in passing"
- long
- for an extended distance
- in practice
- in practical applications; "will this work in practice?"
- in short order
- without delay; "John got ready in short order"
- in the long run, in the end
- after a very lengthy period of time; "she will succeed in the long run"
- inside out
- thoroughly; from every perspective; "she knows this town inside out"
- in the air, in everyone's thoughts
- on everybody's mind; "Christmas was in the air"
- in the nick of time, just in time
- at the last possible moment; "she was saved in the nick of time"
- in time, soon enough
- without being tardy; "we made it to the party in time"
- unsuccessfully
- without success; "she tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to buy a new car"
- just so, with great care
- in a careful manner; "you must treat this plant just so"
- like hell, like mad, like crazy, like sin, like thunder, like the devil
- (informal) with great speed or effort or intensity; "drove like crazy"; "worked like hell to get the job done"; "ran like sin for the storm cellar"; "work like thunder"; "fought like the devil"
- lickety split, lickety cut, at full speed, with a rush
- without delay; "she tackled the job lickety-split"
- off and on, on and off
- not regularly; "they phone each other off and on"
- like hell
- used ironically to indicate the opposite of what is stated; "says he'll help me? Like hell he will!"
- no end, without stopping
- on and on for a long time; "the child cried no end"
- off the cuff
- without preparation; "the presidential candidate made a remark off the cuff"
- contrarily, to the contrary, contrariwise, on the contrary
- contrary to expectations; "he didn't stay home; on the contrary, he went out with his friends"
- on the fly
- on the run or in a hurry; "she wrote those letters on the fly"
- on the spot
- in a difficult situation; "that question really put him on the spot"
- out of thin air, out of nothing, from nowhere
- without warning; "your cousin arrived out of thin air"
- excessively, to a fault, too much
- to an excessive degree; "John is neat to a fault"
- to advantage
- in a flattering way; "the dress brought out her figure to advantage"
- to a T, to the letter, just right, to perfection
- in every detail; "the new house suited them to a T"
- tooth and nail
- with force and ferocity; "she fought tooth and nail"
- to that effect
- with that general meaning; "she said something to that effect"
- to the hilt, to the limit
- in full; "you are in this to the hilt"
- bravely, courageously
- in a courageous manner; "bravely he went into the burning house"
- profoundly, deeply
- to a great depth psychologically; "They felt the loss deeply"
- impatiently, with impatience
- in an impatient manner; "he answered her impatiently"
- patiently, with patience
- in a patient manner; "he patiently played with the child"
- haughtily
- in a haughty manner; "he peered haughtily down his nose"
- methodically
- in a methodical manner; "she worked methodically"
- unsteadily, falteringly, uncertainly
- in an unsteady manner; "he walked unsteadily toward the exit"; "The wounded soldier was swinging unsteadily on his legs"
- steadily, steady
- in a steady manner; "he could still walk steadily"
- wildly
- to an extreme or greatly exaggerated degree; "the storyline is wildly unrealistic"
- wildly
- with violent and uncontrollable passion; "attacked wildly, slashing and stabbing over and over"
- wild
- in a wild or undomesticated manner; "growing wild"; "roaming wild"
- wildly
- in an uncontrolled or unrestrained manner; "He gesticulated wildly"
- uniquely, unambiguously
- so as to be unique; "he could determine uniquely the properties of the compound"
- bleakly
- without hope; "he wondered bleakly"
- stupidly, without thinking
- in a stupid manner; "he had stupidly bought a one way ticket"
- creatively
- in a creative manner; "she solved the problem creatively"
- heavily, to a great extent
- to a considerable degree; "he relied heavily on others' data"
- heavily, intemperately, hard
- indulging excessively; "he drank heavily"
- lightly
- indulging with temperance; "we eat lightly in the morning"
- over and over, again and again, over and over again, time and again, time and time again
- repeatedly; "the unknown word turned up over and over again in the text"
- repeatedly
- several time; "it must be washed repeatedly"
- adamantly
- inflexibly; unshakably; "adamantly opposed to the marriage"
- strongly
- with strength or in a strong manner; "argues very strongly for his proposal"; "he was strongly opposed to the government"
- weakly
- in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree; "weakly agreed to a compromise"; "wheezed weakly"; "he was weakly attracted to her"
- day by day, daily
- gradually and progressively; "his health weakened day by day"
- day in day out, day after day
- for an indefinite number of successive days
- week after week
- for an indefinite number of successive weeks
- radically
- in a radical manner; "she took a radically different approach"
- exceptionally
- to an exceptional degree; "it worked exceptionally well"
- scrupulously, conscientiously, religiously
- with extreme conscientiousness; "he came religiously every morning at 8 o'clock"
- amply, fully
- sufficiently; more than adequately; "the evidence amply (or fully) confirms our suspicions"; "they were fully (or amply) fed"
- strictly, purely
- restricted to something; "we talked strictly business"
- tentatively
- in a tentative manner; "we agreed tentatively on a dinner date"
- loosely, slackly
- in a relaxed manner; not rigid; "his hands lay loosely"
- gracelessly
- in a graceless manner; "she moves rather gracelessly"
- fussily
- in a fussy manner; "he spoke to her fussily"
- gracefully
- in a graceful manner; "she swooped gracefully"
- neatly, showing neatness
- with neatness; "she put the slippers under the bed neatly"
- lightly
- to a slight degree; "her speech is only lightly accented"
- lightly, softly, gently
- with little weight or force; "she kissed him lightly on the forehead"
- independently
- on your own; without outside help; "the children worked on the project independently"
- apart, aside
- not taken into account or excluded from consideration; "these problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all joking aside, I think you're crazy"
- gently
- in a gradual manner; "a gently sloping terrain"
- vigorously, smartly
- with vigor; in a vigorous manner; "he defended his ideas vigorously"
- distinctly, clearly
- clear to the mind; with distinct mental discernment; "it's distinctly possible"; "I could clearly see myself in his situation"
- excellently
- in an excellent manner; "the job had been done excellently"
- positively
- (intensifier) extremely; "it was positively monumental"
- magnificently, splendidly
- in a splendid manner; "he did splendidly in the exam"
- healthily
- in a levelheaded manner; "the answers were healthily individual"
- hilariously, uproariously
- in a hilarious manner; "hilariously funny"
- wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously, superbly, toppingly, marvellously, terrifically, marvelously
- (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously slowly"
- considerately, with consideration
- in a considerate manner; "they considerately withdrew"
- inconsiderately, without consideration
- in an inconsiderate manner; "inconsiderately, he asked to be invited for dinner"
- gratifyingly, satisfyingly
- in a gratifying manner; "the performance was at a gratifyingly high level"
- impeccably
- flawlessly; "the film was impeccably authentic"
- gravely, soberly, staidly
- in a grave and sober manner; "he walked soberly toward the altar"
- blandly
- in a bland manner; "his blandly incompetent attempts"
- unhelpfully
- in an unhelpful manner; "he stood by unhelpfully while the house burned down"
- helpfully
- in a helpful manner; "the subtitles are helpfully conveyed"
- preferentially
- in a preferential manner; "he was treated preferentially"
- uncritically
- in an uncritical manner; "he accepted her decisions uncritically"
- critically
- in a critical manner; "this must be examined critically"
- boldly, with boldness
- in a bold manner; "we must tackle these tasks boldly"
- emotionally, showing emotion
- in an emotional manner; "at the funeral he spoke emotionally"
- unemotionally, without emotion
- in an unemotional manner; "the defendant stared unemotionally at the victim's family"
- stiffly, stiff
- in a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly"
- irritably
- in an irritable manner; "she had become irritably exact"
- informally, without formality
- without formality; "he visited us informally"
- formally, with formality
- in a formal manner; "he was dressed rather formally"
- nicely
- in a nice way; "a nicely painted house"
- cozily, cosily
- in a cozy manner; "nestled cozily by the fire"
- cleverly, smartly
- in a clever manner; "they were cleverly arranged"; "a smartly managed business"
- correspondingly
- in a corresponding manner; "the temperature decreases correspondingly"
- studiously
- in a studious manner; "she examined the data studiously"
- lavishly, richly, extravagantly
- in a rich and lavish manner; "lavishly decorated"
- best
- it would be sensible; "you'd best stay at home"
- best of all
- especially fortunate; "best of all, we don't have any homework!"
- best
- in a most excellent way or manner; "he played best after a couple of martinis"
- theatrically
- in a theatrical manner; "theatrically dressed"
- dramatically
- with respect to dramatic value; "the play was dramatically interesting, but the direction was bad"
- enthusiastically
- with enthusiasm; in an enthusiastic manner; "they discussed the question enthusiastically"
- much as, very much like
- in a similar way
- popularly
- among the people; "this topic was popularly discussed"
- unenthusiastically
- without enthusiasm; showing no enthusiasm; "the children opened the presents unenthusiastically"
- intellectually
- in an intellectual manner; "intellectually gifted children"; "intellectually influenced"
- proudly, with pride
- in a proud manner; "he walked proudly into town"
- hyperbolically, exaggeratedly
- in an exaggerated manner
- agilely, nimbly
- in a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease; "nimbly scaling an iron gate"- Charles Dickens; "leaped agilely from roof to roof"
- solemnly
- in a grave and sedate manner; "the judge sat there solemnly"
- divinely
- by divine means; "the divinely appointed means of rescue from temporal existence"
- clumsily
- in a clumsy manner; "he snatched the bills clumsily"
- diffusely
- in a diffuse manner; "the arteries were diffusely narrowed"
- coarsely
- in coarse pieces; "the surfaces were coarsely granular"
- irregularly
- in an irregular manner; "the stomach mucosa was irregularly blackened"
- finely
- in tiny pieces; "the surfaces were finely granular"
- intensely
- in an intense manner; "he worked intensely"
- reflexly
- in a reflex manner; "such effects can be induced reflexly"
- spontaneously
- in a spontaneous manner; "this shift occurs spontaneously"
- sympathetically, empathetically, with sympathy, with empathy
- in a sympathetic manner; "she listened to him sympathetically"
- unsympathetically, without sympathy
- in an unsympathetic manner; "the judge listened to the accused unsympathetically"
- unconvincingly
- in an unconvincing manner; "he argued unconvincingly"
- convincingly
- in a convincing manner; "he argued convincingly"
- mercifully
- in a manner that may be cruel but avoids suffering; "we more mercifully had our bouncing betties go off at the head"
- weirdly
- in a weird manner; "she was dressed weirdly"
- mercifully, with mercy, showing mercy
- in a compassionate manner; "he dealt with the thief mercifully"
- stealthily
- in a stealthy manner; "stealthily they advanced upstream"
- snugly
- fitting closely; "the vest fit snugly"
- snugly
- warmly and comfortably sheltered; "sittly snugly by the fireside while the storm raged"
- snugly
- safely protected; "concealed snugly in his hideout"
- strikingly
- in a striking manner; "this was strikingly demonstrated"; "the evidence was strikingly absent"
- meticulously
- in a meticulous manner; "the set was meticulously authentic"
- graciously, gracefully
- in a gracious or graceful manner; "he did not have a chance to grow up graciously"
- rigidly, stiffly, bolt
- in a rigid manner; "the body was rigidly erect"; "ge sat bolt upright"
- ungraciously, ungracefully, gracelessly, woodenly, without graciousness
- without grace; rigidly; "they moved woodenly"
- awkwardly
- in an awkward manner; "he bent awkwardly"
- triumphantly
- in a triumphant manner; "she shouted triumphantly"
- regularly, on a regular basis
- in a regular manner; "letters arrived regularly from his children"
- irregularly, on an irregular basis
- in an irregular manner; "her letters arrived irregularly"
- ideally
- in an ideal manner; "ideally, this will remove all problems"
- childishly
- in a child-like manner; "he acted very childishly"
- tantalizingly, invitingly
- in a tantalizing manner; "she smiled at him tantalizingly"
- improperly
- in an improper way; "he checked whether the wound had healed improperly"
- attentively, with attention, paying attention
- in an attentive manner; "he listened attentively"
- enormously, tremendously, hugely, staggeringly
- extremely; "he was enormously popular"
- effortlessly
- without effort or apparent effort; "she danced gracefully and effortlessly"; "swallows gliding effortlessly through the air"
- liberally, munificently, generously
- in a generous manner; "he gave liberally to several charities"
- liberally
- freely in a nonliteral manner; "he embellished his stories liberally"
- inconveniently
- in an inconvenient manner; "he arrived at an inconveniently late hour"
- in detail
- thoroughly (including all important particulars); "he studied the snake in detail"
- handily, conveniently
- in a convenient manner; "the switch was conveniently located"
- exceedingly, passing, extremely
- to an extreme degree or extent; "his eyesight was exceedingly defective"
- concretely
- in concrete terms; "concretely, this meant that he was broke"
- abstractly
- in abstract terms
- rebelliously, contumaciously, defiantly
- in a rebellious manner; "he rejected her words rebelliously"
- stubbornly, pig-headedly, obdurately, mulishly, obstinately, cussedly
- in a stubborn unregenerate manner; "she remained stubbornly in the same position"
- raucously
- with a raucous sound; "his voice rang raucously"
- victoriously
- in a victorious manner; "Virginia had defended her land victoriously"
- hopelessly
- (informal) in a hopeless manner; "the papers were hopelessly jumbled"; "he is hopelessly romantic"
- viciously, brutally, savagely
- in a vicious manner; "he was viciously attacked"
- maliciously
- with malice; in a malicious manner; "she answered maliciously"
- spitefully, with spite
- in a spiteful manner; "he answered his accusers spitefully"
- savagely
- wildly; like an animal; "she cried out savagely"
- intelligently, showing intelligence
- in an intelligent manner; "she acted intelligently in this difficult situation"
- wisely, sagely, with wisdom, showing wisdom
- in a wise manner; "she acted wisely when she invited her parents"
- foolishly, unwisely
- without good sense or judgment; "He acted foolishly when he agreed to come"
- fatuously, inanely
- vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish
- unintelligently, showing lack of intelligence
- in an unintelligent manner; "he acted rather unintelligently in this crisis"
- aristocratically
- in an aristocratic manner; "they behaved aristocratically"
- diplomatically, with diplomacy
- in a diplomatic manner; "he answered very diplomatically"
- undiplomatically, without diplomacy
- in an undiplomatic manner; "she declined the invitation undiplomatically"
- stoutly
- in a resolute manner; "he was stoutly replying to his critics"
- indefinitely
- to an indefinite extent; for an indefinite time; "this could go on indefinitely"
- right
- precisely, exactly; "stand right here!"
- right
- completely; "she felt right at home"; "he fell right into the trap"
- charitably
- in a charitable manner; "she treated him charitably"
- sluggishly
- in a sluggish manner; "the smoke rose sluggishly"
- astray
- away from the right path or direction; "he was led astray"
- unhurriedly
- without haste; "she proceeded unhurriedly"
- hurriedly, hastily, in haste
- in a hurried or hasty manner; "the way they buried him so hurriedly was disgraceful"; "hastily, he scanned the headlines"; "sold in haste and at a sacrifice"
- hotfoot
- without delay; speedily; "sent ambassadors hotfoot to the Turks"- Francis Hackett; "drove hotfoot for Boston"
- restlessly
- in a restless manner; "he cracked his knuckles restlessly"
- ornately
- in an ornate manner; "the cradle was ornately carved"
- busily
- in a busy manner; "they were busily engaged in buying souvenirs"
- prominently, conspicuously
- in a prominent way; "the new car was prominently displayed in the driveway"
- helplessly, impotently, unable to help
- in a helpless manner; "the crowd watched him helplessly"
- imaginatively
- with imagination; "the room was decorated very imaginatively"
- unimaginatively
- without imagination; "the stage sets were designed rather unimaginatively"
- bewilderingly, confusingly
- in a bewildering and confusing manner; "her situation was bewilderingly unclear"
- heartily
- with gusto and without reservation; "the boy threw himself heartily into his work"
- passionately
- with passion; "she kissed him passionately"
- spectacularly, stunningly
- in a spectacular manner; "the area was spectacularly scenic"
- soulfully
- in a soulful manner; "he looked at her soulfully"
- smoothly
- with no problems or difficulties; "put the plans into effect quickly and smoothly"
- satirically
- in a satirical manner; "she spoke satirically"
- freely
- in a free manner; "the painting featured freely brushed strokes"
- humiliatingly, demeaningly
- in a humiliating manner; "the painting was reproduced humiliatingly small"
- protectively, giving protection, offering protection
- in a protective manner; "he bent protectively over the woman"
- dimly, indistinctly
- in a dim indistinct manner; "we perceived the change only dimly"
- sharply, crisply
- in a well delineated manner; "the new style of Minoan pottery was sharply defined"
- determinedly, unfalteringly, unshakably, with determination
- in a determined manner; "he clung to the past determinedly"
- incidentally, accidentally, by chance
- in an incidental manner; "these magnificent achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models"
- ever, ever so
- (intensifier for adjectives) very; "she was ever so friendly"
- sporadically, periodically
- in a sporadic manner; "he only works sporadically"
- haltingly, not fluently
- in a halting manner; "he spoke haltingly"
- impressively, imposingly
- in an impressive manner; "the students progressed impressively fast"
- amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly
- in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise; "amazingly, he finished medical school in three years"
- unimpressively
- in an unimpressive manner; "she scored unimpressively low in the first round of the competition"
- productively, fruitfully, profitably
- in a productive way; "they worked together productively for two years"
- expertly, like an expert, with expertise
- in an expert manner; "he repaired the TV set expertly"
- unproductively, fruitlessly, unprofitably
- in an unproductive manner
- amateurishly, like an amateur
- in an amateurish manner; "he performed the piece amateurishly"
- interestingly
- in an interesting manner; "when he ceases to be just interestingly neurotic and...gets locked up"- Time
- abundantly, copiously, profusely, extravagantly
- in an abundant manner; "they were abundantly supplied with food"; "he thanked her profusely"
- realistically
- in a realistic manner; "let's look at the situation realistically"
- uninterestingly
- in an uninteresting manner
- boringly, tediously, tiresomely
- in a tedious manner; "boringly slow work"; "he plodded tediously forward"
- moderately, with moderation
- in a moderate manner; "he drinks moderately"
- immoderately, without moderation
- in an immoderate manner; "he eats immoderately"
- unrealistically
- in an unrealistic manner; "his expectaions were unrealistically high"
- stepwise, step by step
- proceeding in steps; "the voltage was increased stepwise"
- stolidly
- in a stolid manner; "he said `no' stolidly"
- supremely
- to the maximum degree; "he was supremely confident"
- thoughtlessly
- showing thoughtlessness; "he treated his parents thoughtlessly"
- testily, irritably, petulantly, pettishly
- in a petulant manner; "he said testily; `Go away!'"
- thoughtfully
- showing thoughtfulness; "he had thoughtfully brought with him some food"
- auspiciously, propitiously
- in an auspicious manner; "he started his new job auspiciously on his birthday"
- thoughtfully
- in a thoughtful manner; "he stared thoughtfully out the window"
- thoughtlessly, unthinkingly, unthinking
- in a thoughtless manner; "he stared thoughtlessly at the picture"
- inauspiciously, unpropitiously
- in an inauspicious manner; "he started his new job inauspiciously on Friday the 13th"
- relentlessly, unrelentingly
- in a relentless manner; "he worked relentlessly"
- head-on
- in direct opposition; directly; "we must meet the problem head-on"
- impolitely, discourteously, rudely, showing bad manners
- in an impolite manner; "he treated her impolitely"
- politely, courteously, with courtesy, in a well mannered way, with politeness
- in a polite manner; "the policeman answered politely, `Now look here, lady...'"
- admirably, laudably, praiseworthily, commendable
- in an admirable manner; "the children's responses were admirably normal"
- unpleasantly
- in an unpleasant manner; "he had been unpleasantly surprised"
- pleasantly, agreeably, enjoyably
- in an enjoyable manner; "we spent a pleasantly lazy afternoon"
- pleasantly, cheerily, sunnily
- in a cheerful manner; "`I'll do the dishes,' he said pleasantly"
- heartily, cordially, warmly
- in a hearty manner; "`Yes,' the children chorused heartily"; "We welcomed her warmly"
- ambiguously, equivocally
- in an ambiguous manner; "this letter is worded ambiguously"
- affably, amiably, genially
- in an affable manner; "`Come and visit me,' he said amiably"
- unambiguously, unequivocally, without ambiguity
- in an unambiguous manner; "she stated her intentions unequivocally,"
- ceremoniously, ceremonially
- in a ceremonious manner; "my mother advised her children ceremoniouslly"
- rakishly, raffishly, carelessly
- in a rakish manner; "she wore her hat rakishly at an angle"
- narrowly
- in a narrow manner; not allowing for exceptions; "he interprets the law narrowly"
- rollickingly, boisterously
- in a carefree manner; "she was rollickingly happy"
- broadly, loosely, broadly speaking, generally
- without regard to specific details or exceptions; "he interprets the law broadly"
- broadly
- in a wide fashion; "he smiled broadly"
- behind
- in or into an inferior position; "fell behind in his studies"; "their business was lagging behind in the competition for customers"
- faithfully, dependably, reliably
- in a faithful manner; "it always came on, faithfully, like the radio"
- unfaithfully, undependably, unreliably
- in an unfaithful undependable unreliable manner
- furiously
- (of the elements) in a wild and stormy manner; "winds were blowing furiously"
- securely, firmly
- in a secure manner; in a manner free from danger; "she held the child securely"
- wryly
- in a wry manner; "`I see,' he commented wryly"
- rigorously, strictly
- in a rigorous manner; "he had been trained rigorously by the monks"
- boastfully, vauntingly, big, large
- in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening"
- big
- extremely well; "his performance went over big"
- big
- in a major way; "the play failed big at the box office"
- big
- on a grand scale; "think big"
- small
- on a small scale; "think small"
- abnormally
- in an abnormal manner; "they were behaving abnormally"; "his blood pressure was abnormally low"
- sedulously
- in a sedulous manner; "this illusion has been sedulously fostered"
- tenuously
- in a tenuous manner; "his works tenuously survive in the minds of a few scholars"
- anachronistically
- in an anachronistic manner; "let's look at this phenomenon anachronistically"
- perennially
- in a perennial manner; repeatedly; "We want to know what is perennually new about the world"
- ineptly, fecklessly
- with ineptitude; in an incompetent manner; "he performed his functions ineptly"
- ineptly
- in an infelicitous manner; "this function is ineptly left to a small voice"
- deliciously, pleasurably
- in a very pleasurable manner; "they were walking along the beach slowly and deliciously"
- noisily
- with much noise or loud and unpleasant sound; "he blew his nose noisily"
- fondly, lovingly
- with fondness; with love; "she spoke to her children fondly"
- quietly
- with little or no sound; "the class was listening quietly and intently"; "she was crying quietly"
- quietly, quiet
- with little or no activity or especially agitation; "her hands rested quietly in her lap"; "the rock star was quietly led out the back door"; (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly' as in "sit here as quiet as you can")
- outwardly
- in outward appearance; "outwardly, she appeared composed"
- unquietly
- with agitation or turbulence
- unqualifiedly
- without qualification or limitation
- outwardly, externally
- with respect to the outside; "outwardly, the figure is smooth"
- inwardly, inside
- with respect to private feelings; "inwardly, she was raging"
- favorably, favourably
- showing approval; "he reviewed the play favorably"
- unfavorably, unfavourably
- showing disapproval; in a disparaging way; "he reviewed the play unfavorably"
- flawlessly, cleanly
- in an adroit manner; "he bounced it cleanly off the wall"
- solidly
- with strength and soundness; "a solidly built house"
- foursquare
- in a square position; "the building stood foursquare"
- laconically, dryly
- in a dry laconic manner; "I know that," he said dryly
- obligingly, accommodatingly
- in accommodation; "obligingly, he lowered his voice"
- gloomily
- with gloom; "such a change is gloomily foreseen by many"
- cruelly
- under cruel circumstances; "a cruelly bitter winter"
- cruelly
- in a cruel manner; "he treated his students cruelly"
- vaguely, mistily
- in a vague way; "he looked vaguely familiar"; "he explained it somewhat mistily"
- pompously
- in a pompous manner; "he pompously described his achievements"
- doggedly, tenaciously
- with obstinate determination; "he pursued her doggedly"
- efficiently, expeditiously, with efficiency
- in an efficient manner; "he functions efficiently"
- inefficiently
- in an inefficient manner; "he dealt inefficiently with the crisis"
- in stride, without becoming upset, in good spirits
- without losing equilibrium; "she took all his criticism in stride"
- dully
- without liveliness; "she nodded her head dully"
- fascinatingly
- in a fascinating manner; "her face became fascinatingly distorted"
- charmingly
- in a charming manner
- winsomely, engagingly
- in an engaging manner; "she played the role engagingly"
- tragically
- in a tragic manner; with tragic consequences; "the adventure ended tragically"; "tragically, she contracted AIDS"
- ominously
- in an ominous manner; "the sun darkened ominously"
- restively
- in a restive manner; "he sat down again, restively"
- pityingly, compassionately, with compassion, with pity
- in a compassionate manner; "the nurse looked at him pityingly"
- glibly, slickly
- with superficial plausibility; "he talked glibly"
- callously, unfeelingly
- in a callous way; "he callously exploited their feelings"
- justifiably, with reason
- with good reason; "he is justifiably bitter"
- unjustifiably, inexcusably
- without any excuse; "he is unjustifiably harsh on her"
- modestly, with modesty
- in a modest manner; "the dissertation was entitled, modestly, `Remarks about a play by Shakespeare'"
- immodestly, without modesty
- in an immodest manner; "the book was entitled, immodestly, `All about Wisdom'"
- overwhelmingly, overpoweringly, irresistibly
- incapable of being resisted; "the candy looked overwhelmingly desirable to the dieting man"
- in the last analysis, in the final analysis, ultimately
- after everything has been considered; "in the final analysis, we are quite well off"
- anarchically
- in a lawless rebellious manner
- suspiciously
- with suspicion; "she regarded the food suspiciously"
- sternly, severely
- with sternness; in a severe manner; "`No,' she said sternly"; "peered severely over her glasses"
- authoritatively, with authority, magisterially
- in an authoritative manner; "she spoke authoritatively"
- irresolutely
- lacking determination or decisiveness
- resolutely
- showing firm determination or purpose; "she resolutely refused to look at him or speak to him"; "he entered the building resolutely"
- beautifully, attractively
- in a beautiful manner; "her face was beautifully made up"
- speculatively, with speculation
- in a speculative manner; "he looked at her speculatively"
- dourly, sullenly, glumly
- in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly"
- unattractively
- in an unattractive manner; "she was unattractively dressed last night"
- belligerently, hostilely, with hostility
- in a belligerent hostile manner; "he pushed her against the wall belligerently"
- casually, nonchalantly
- in an unconcerned manner; "glanced casually at the headlines"
- overnight
- happening in a short time or with great speed; "these solutions cannot be found overnight!"
- willy-nilly
- without having a choice
- believably
- in a believable manner; "he acted believably sincere"
- unbelievably
- in an unbelievable manner; "he was unbelievably angry"
- underfoot
- in the way and hindering progress; "a house with children and pets and toys always underfoot"
- ferociously, fiercely
- in a physically fierce manner; "silence broken by dogs barking ferociously"; "they fought fiercely"
- vividly
- in a vivid manner; "he described his adventures vividly"
- artfully
- in an artful manner; "her foot pointed artfully toward tapering toes"
- just, simply
- (intensifier) absolutely; "I just can't take it anymore"; "he was just grand as Romeo"; "it's simply beautiful!"
- lustily
- in a healthy manner; "the young plants grew lustily"
- on paper, in theory
- as described in contrast to as practiced; "on paper, this looks like a good idea"
- classically
- n the manner of Greek and Roman culture; "this exercise develops a classically shaped body"
- dramatically, spectactularly
- in an very impressive manner; "your performance will improve dramatically"
- indecently
- in an indecent manner; "she was rather indecently dressed"
- obscurely
- in an obscure manner; "this work is obscurely written"
- decently
- in a decent manner; "they don't know how to dress decently"
- characteristically
- in characteristic manner; "he arrived characteristically late"
- horrifyingly
- in a horrifying manner; "he laughed horrifyingly"
- perversely
- deliberately deviant; "his perversely erotic notions"
- uncharacteristically
- in uncharacteristic manner; "he was uncharacteristically cool"
- dialectically
- in a dialectic manner; "his religiousness is dialectically related to his sinfulness"
- perversely, contrarily, contrariwise
- in a contrary disobedient manner
- peculiarly, particularly
- uniquely or characteristically; "these peculiarly cinematic elements"; "a peculiarly French phenomenon"; "everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him"- John Knowles
- artistically
- in an artistic manner; "it was artistically decorated"
- particularly, in particular
- specifically or especially distinguished from others; "loves Bach, particularly his partitas"; "recommended one book in particular"; "trace major population movements for the Pueblo groups in particular"
- at arm's length
- at some distance; "keep someone at arm's length"
- uniformly
- in a uniform manner; "a uniformly bright surface"
- all too, only too
- to a high degree; "she is all too ready to accept the job"
- enduringly
- in an enduring manner; "Roman culture was enduringly fertilized"
- ad nauseam
- to a sickening extent; "he played the song ad nauseam"
- ad hoc
- for one specific case; "they were appointed ad hoc"
- en famille, informally
- in a causal way; at home; "we'll have dinner en famille"
- blatantly
- in a blatant manner; "they blatantly violated the laws"
- chock, chock-a-block
- as completely as possible; "it was chock-a-block full"
- cloyingly
- in an overly sweet manner
- higgledy-piggledy, topsy-turvy
- in a disordered manner; "they were piled up higgledy-piggledy"
- mutatis mutandis
- with the necessary changes having been carried out
- give or take
- plus or minus a small amount; "it is a mile away, give or take a few hundred yards"
- par excellence
- to a degree of excellence; "he is the honest politician par excellence"
- pro tem, pro tempore
- for the time being; temporarily; "accepting pro tem that hypothesis consistent with the facts"- J.W.Krutch
- off-hand, ex tempore
- without preparation; "I don't know the figures off-hand"
- post-haste
- as fast as possible; with all possible haste; "send it to me post-haste"
- perfunctorily, as a formality, pro forma
- in a set manner without serious attention; "they answered my letter pro forma"; "he kissed her cheek perfunctorily"
- prima facie
- at first sight
- proportionately, pro rata
- in proportion
- adversely
- in an adverse manner; "she was adversely affected by the new regulations"
- wholesale, in large quantities
- on a large scale without careful discrimination; "I buy food wholesale"
- aesthetically, esthetically
- in a tasteful way; "this building is aesthetically very pleasing"
- appealingly
- in an appealing manner; "the table was set appealingly"
- agonizingly, excruciatingly, torturously
- in a very painful manner; "the progress was agonizingly slow"
- appallingly
- to an appalling extent; "the prisoners were appallingly thin"
- unappealingly
- in an unappealing manner; "the kitchen was unappealingly dirty"
- ambitiously, determinedly, with ambition
- in an ambitious and energetic manner; "she pursued her goals ambitiously"
- amicably
- in an amicable manner; "they separated amicably"
- unambitiously
- in an unambitious manner; "he does his job, but he works unambitiously"
- afield
- off the subject; beyond the point at issue; "such digressions can lead us too far afield"
- offhand, offhanded, offhandedly
- without previous thought or preparation; "couldn't give the figures offhand"; "we decided offhand to go to Canada"; "she had made these remarks offhandedly"
- animatedly
- in an animated manner; "they talked animatedly"
- offhand, offhanded, offhandedly
- in a casually inconsiderate manner; "replied offhand, his mind a million miles away"; "she threw him over offhandedly without even a Dear-John letter"
- abstrusely
- in a manner difficult to understand; "the professor's abstrusely reasoned theories were wasted on his students"
- abjectly, resignedly
- in a hopeless resigned manner; "she shrugged her shoulders abjectly"
- abortively
- in an unfruitful manner
- abstemiously, temperately
- in a sparing manner; without overindulgence; "he ate and drank abstemiously"; "indulged temperately in cocktails"
- adorably, endearingly
- in an adorable manner; "the toddler behaved adorably"
- antagonistically
- in an antagonistic manner; "he behaves antagonistically toward his colleagues"
- apathetically
- in an apathetic manner; "she behaves apathetically these days"
- assertively
- in an assertive manner; "`I will take care of my own life,' she said assertively"
- ardently
- in an ardent manner; "the spirit of God knew very well that there was a deeper question to be settled before there could be the intervention in power that was so ardently desired"
- arrogantly
- in an arrogant manner; "in the old days she had been harsh and stiff ; afraid of her husband and yet arrogantly proud that she had a husband strong and fierce enough to make her afraid"
- ascetically
- in an ascetic manner; "she lived ascetically in a small house all by herself"
- unassertively
- in an unassertive manner; "unassertively, she always follows her husband's suggestions"
- avidly
- in an avid manner; "whatever the flavor or color of your local paper, do remember that these are read avidly for local information"
- audaciously
- in an audacious manner; "an idea so daring and yet so audaciously tempting that a shiver of excitement quivered through him"
- adrift
- off course; "there was a search for beauty that had somehow gone adrift"
- angelically
- like an angel; "the child was sleeping angelically"
- amorously, with love
- in an amorous manner; "he looked at her amorously"
- inarticulately
- in an inarticulate manner; "he talked inarticulately about the accident that had just taken his wife's life"
- articulately, eloquently
- in an articulate manner; "he argued articulately for his plan"
- beastly
- in a beastly manner; "she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law"
- authentically, genuinely
- genuinely; with authority; "it is authentically British"
- bombastically, grandiosely
- in a grandiose manner; "the building was bombastically spacious"
- boyishly, boylike
- like a boy; "he smiled boyishly at his fiancee"
- turgidly, bombastically
- in a turgid manner; "he lectured bombastically about his theories"
- anomalously
- in an anomalous manner; "this man behaves anomalously"
- altruistically, selflessly
- in an altruistic manner; "he acted selflessly when he helped the old lady in distress"
- awry, amiss
- away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations"
- assiduously
- with care and persistence; "she worked assiduously on the senior thesis"
- astutely, shrewdly, sagaciously, sapiently
- in a shrewd manner; "he invested his fortune astutely"
- perseveringly
- with perseverance
- persistently
- with persistence
- across, over
- in such a manner as to be understood and accepted; "she cannot get her ideas across"
- amain, with full force
- with all your strength; "he pulled the ropes amain"
- amain
- at full speed; with great haste; "the children ran down the hill amain"
- amok, amuck, murderously
- in a murderous frenzy; "rioters running amuck and throwing sticks and bottles and stones"
- amok, amuck
- wildly; without self-control; "when the restaurant caught fire the patrons ran amuck blocking the exit
- antithetically
- with antithesis; in an antithetical manner
- seasonably, timely, well-timed, apropos
- at an opportune time; "your letter arrived apropos"
- seasonably
- in accordance with the season; "it was seasonably cold"
- unseasonably
- not in accordance with the season; "it was unseasonably cold"
- apropos, incidentally
- by the way; "apropos, can you lend me some money for the weekend?"
- artlessly, ingenuously
- in an ingenuous manner; "she answered the judge's questions artlessly"
- archly, in an arch manner
- with playful slyness or roguishness
- arduously
- in an arduous manner; "they worked arduously"
- artlessly, crudely, inexpertly
- in a crude and unskilled manner; "an inexpertly constructed lean-to"
- austerely
- in an austere fashion; "the church was austerely simple"
- avariciously, covetously, greedily
- in a greedy manner
- bang, slap, slapdash, smack, bolt
- (informal) directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her"
- baldly
- in a bald manner; "this book is, to put it baldly, an uneven work."
- balefully
- in a baleful manner; "she looked at him balefully"
- banefully, perniciously
- in a noxiously baneful way; "this banefully poisoned climate"
- banteringly, tongue-in-cheek
- in a bantering fashion; "he spoke to her banteringly"
- barbarously
- in a barbarous manner; "they were barbarously murdered"
- becomingly
- in a becoming manner; "she was becomingly dressed"
- bawdily
- in a bawdy manner
- benignly, benignantly
- in a benign manner; "this drug is benignly soporific"
- beneficially
- in a beneficial manner; "this medicine will act beneficially on you"
- bewitchingly, captivatingly, enchantingly, enthrallingly
- in a bewitching manner; "she was bewitchingly beautiful"
- blankly, without expression
- in a blank manner; "she stared at him blankly"
- blasphemously
- in a blasphemous manner; "the sailors were cursing blasphemously"
- boorishly
- like a boor, "he behaved boorishly at the party"
- bluffly, bluntly, brusquely, flat out, roundly
- in a blunt direct manner; "he spoke bluntly"; "he stated his opinion flat-out"; "he was criticized roundly"
- bountifully, bounteously, plentifully, plenteously
- in a bountiful manner
- briskly
- in a brisk manner; "she walked briskly in the cold air"; "`after lunch,' she said briskly"
- breezily
- in a breezy manner; "he swings beezily into the title song"
- bumptiously
- in a bumptious manner; "he behaved rather bumptiously and offended the hostess"
- bestially, brutishly, in a beastly manner
- in an inhumane manner; "she treated her husband bestially"
- cagily, cageyly, circumspectly
- in a cagey manner; "`I don't know yet,' he answered cagily"
- capriciously, freakishly
- unpredictably; "the weather has been freakishly varible"
- cantankerously
- in a bad mood; "he answered her cantankerously"
- capriciously
- in a capricious manner; "there were Turk's head lilies and patches of iris , islands of brilliant blue set capriciously in the green sea"
- captiously
- in a captious, carping manner; "he was captiously pedantic"
- caressingly
- in a gentle or caressing manner; "His voice was caressingly sweet"
- cautiously, carefully
- with caution or prudence; "she ventured cautiously downstairs"
- caustically, vitriolically
- in a caustic vitriolic manner; "he addressed her caustically"
- disdainfully, cavalierly
- in a proud and domineering manner; "he treated his staff cavalierly"
- charily
- with great caution; warily
- incautiously, carelessly
- without caution or prudence; "one unfortunately sees historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands"
- endlessly, ceaselessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly, continuously
- with unflagging resolve; "dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste"
- chaotically
- in a manner suggestive of chaos; "the room was chaotically disorganized"
- chaotically
- in a wild and confused manner; "the drugged man was talking chaotically"
- gallantly, chivalrously
- in a gallant manner; "he gallantly offered to take her home"
- cheaply, inexpensively
- with little expenditure of money; "I bought this car very cheaply"
- cheekily, nervily, brashly
- in a brash cheeky manner; "brashly, she asked for a rebate"
- churlishly, surlily
- in a churlish manner; "the store owner treated his customers churlishly"
- cleanly
- without distortion; "she played the piano accompaniment cleanly"
- coherently
- in a coherent manner; "she could not talk coherently after the accident"
- coaxingly, cajolingly
- in a cajoling manner; "`Come here,' she said coaxingly"
- incoherently
- in an incoherent manner; "he talked incoherently when he drank too much"
- collectedly, composed.y
- in a self-collected or self-possessed manner; "he announced the death of his father collectedly"
- combatively, scrappily
- in a bellicose contentious manner; "`Don't trespass onto my property,' the neighbor shouted combatively"
- comfortingly, consolingly
- in a comforting or consoling manner; "one part of a strange world should be given a comfortingly familiar form"
- compactly
- taking up no more space than necessary; "liquid food compactly stored in a pressurized tank"
- compatibly
- with compatibility
- incompatibly
- without compatibility
- complacently
- in a self-satisfied manner; "he complacently lived out his life as a village school teacher"
- comprehensively
- in an all-inclusive manner
- noncomprehensively
- in a limited way
- brotherly
- (archaic as adverb) in a brotherly manner
- conceitedly, self-conceitedly, with conceit
- in a conceited manner; "he always acts so conceitedly!"
- concernedly, with concern
- in a manner showing concern; "`Are you all right,' he asked concernedly"
- concisely, briefly, shortly, in brief, in short
- in a concise manner; in a few words; "the history is summed up concisely in this book"; "she replied briefly"; "briefly, we have a problem"; "to put it shortly"
- in a nutshell
- summed up briefly; "gave the facts in a nutshell"; "just tell me the story in a nutshell"; "explained the situation in a nutshell"
- succinctly, compactly
- with concise and precise brevity; to the point; "Please state your case as succinctly as possible"; "he wrote compactly but clearly"
- cursorily, quickly
- without taking pains; "he looked cursorily through the magazine"
- cynically, with cynicism
- in a cynical manner; "Larsen's frost-blackened lips curved cynically"
- criminally, reprehensively
- in a shameful manner; "the garden was criminally neglected"
- coyly
- in a coy manner; "she pouted and looked at him coyly"
- condescendingly, patronizingly
- with condescension; "he treats his secretary condescendingly"
- conditionally, not absolutely
- subject to a condition; "he accepted the offer conditionally"
- conservatively, cautiously, guardedly
- in a conservative manner; "we estimated the number of demonstrators conservatively at 200,000."
- unconditionally
- not subject to a condition; "he accepted the offer unconditionally"
- crucially
- to a crucial degree; "crucially important"; "crucially, he must meet us at the airport"
- crossly, grouchily, grumpily
- in an ill-natured manner; "she looked at her husband crossly"
- craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily, artfully
- in an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?"
- confusedly
- in a confused manner; "Queen Augusta wrote him an hysterical letter in which she confusedly sympathised with him"
- constructively
- in a constructive manner; "it is my task to look critically and constructively at the flaws and the failures"
- consequentially
- having consequence
- inconsequentially, inconsequently
- lacking consequence; "`You're so beautifully dressed,' she said and added quite inconsequentially, `Can you stay the night?'"
- contrastingly
- in a contrasting manner; "contrastingly, both the rooms leading off it gave an immediate impression of being disgraced"
- coolly, nervelessly, nonchalantly
- in a composed and unconcerned manner; "without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher"
- incredibly, improbably, implausibly, unbelievably
- not easy to believe; "behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains"
- credibly, believably, plausibly, probably
- easy to believe on the basis of available evidence; "he talked plausibly before the committee"; "he will probably win the election"
- cryptically, enigmatically, mysteriously
- in a cryptic manner; "we will meet again," he said cryptically
- curtly, short, shortly
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it"
- cunningly, cutely
- in an attractive manner; "how cunningly the olive-green dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her perfect figure"
- damned, damnably, cursedly
- in a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably , politely , endlessly persistent!"
- dauntingly
- to a degree or in a manner that daunts; "dauntingly difficult"
- decisively
- in an indisputable degree; "the Fisher act of 1918 decisively raised their status and pay"
- decisively
- with finality; conclusively; "the voted settled the argument decisively"
- indecisively
- without finality; inconclusively; "the battle ended indecisively; neither side had clearly won but neither side admitted defeat"
- decisively, resolutely
- with firmness; "`I will come along,' she said decisively"
- deftly
- in a deft manner; "Lois deftly removed her scarf"
- indecisively
- lacking firmness or resoluteness; "`I don't know,' he said indecisively"
- delightfully
- in a delightful manner; "the farm house, though in itself a small one, is delightfully situated"
- densely, thickly
- in a concentrated manner; "old houses are often so densely packed that perhaps three or four have to be demolished for every new one built"; "a thickly populated area"
- demurely
- in a demure manner; "the army girl, tall and demurely pretty, threw a quick side-glance at her"
- tightly
- in a tight or constricted manner" "a tightly packed pub"
- compactly
- in a compact manner or state; "The children were packed compactly into the car"
- possibly, perchance, perhaps, maybe, peradventure
- by chance; "perhaps she will call tomorrow"; "we may possibly run into them at the concert"; "it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"
- absurdly
- in an absurd manner or to an absurd degree; "an absurdly rich young woman"
- derisively, scoffingly, derisorily, mockingly
- in a disrespectful and mocking manner; "`Sorry,' she repeated derisively"
- undeservedly
- in an unmerited manner; "the team chalked up another victory, the last one quite undeservedly, in my opinion"
- deservedly
- as deserved; "he chalked up two goals which deservedly gave Bolton their second victory of the season"
- devilishly, devilish
- in a playfully devilish manner; "the socialists are further handicapped if they believe that capitalists are not only wicked but also devilishly clever"
- congenially
- in a congenial manner; "`Let's all have a drink together,' he said congenially"
- controversially, polemically
- involving controversy; "criticism too polemically stated"
- contagiously, infectiously
- in a contagious manner; "she was contagiously bubbly"
- convivially
- in a convivial manner; "`Let's go and have a drink,' she said convivially"
- uncontroversially
- not involving any controversy
- coquettishly, flirtatiously
- in a flirtatious manner; "she smiled coquettishly"
- crushingly
- in a crushing manner; "the team was crushingly defeated"
- currishly, ignobly
- mean-spiritedly; "he behaved ignobly"
- daintily
- in a refined manner; "she nibbled daintily at her cake"
- daintily
- in a delicate manner; "the invitation cards were written up daintily in white and gold"
- daringly
- in an adventurous manner; "daringly, he set out on a camping trip in East Africa"
- daringly
- in an original manner; "daringly he took the first step"
- dashingly
- in a highly fashionable manner; "he was dashingly handsome"
- decorously
- in a proper and decorous manner; "he pretended to be pleased and applauded decorously"
- indecorously, unbecomingly
- without decorousness
- deeply, deep
- to a great depth; "dived deeply"; "dug deep"
- deep, late
- to an advanced time; "deep into the night"; "talked late into the evening"
- deep
- to far into space; "penetrated deep into enemy territory"; "went deep into the woods";
- late
- at an advanced age or stage; "she married late"; "undertook the project late in her career"
- defensively
- in an apologetic and self-defensive manner; "`I felt it better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively"
- defenseless, defencelessly
- without defense; "the child was standing in the middle of the crossfire, defenselessly"
- defensively
- in a defensive manner; "the general conviction that our side is in the right and acting defensively over what Russians call the German question and Americans the Berlin crisis"
- offensively
- in an aggressive manner; "`In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said"; "the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean"
- inoffensively
- in a not unpleasantly offensive manner; "that wretched beast, the elephant, breathing inoffensively not a pace behind me"
- offensively, objectionably, obnoxiously
- in an obnoxious manner; "he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences"
- offensively
- in an unpleasantly offensive manner; "he smelled offensively unwashed"
- distinctly
- in a distinct and distinguishable manner; "the subtleties of this distinctly British occasion"
- distinctly
- to a distinct degree; "urbanization in Spain is distinctly correlated with a fall in reproductive rate"
- distractedly
- in a distracted manner; "`Come in,' he said distractedly"
- deferentially
- in a respectfully deferential manner; "he listened deferentially"
- deferentially, submissively
- in a servile manner; "he always acts so deferentially around his superviser"
- delusively
- in a deceptive and unrealistic manner; "the village looked delusively near"
- diabolically, devilishly, fiendishly
- as a devil; in an evil manner; "his writing could be diabolically satiric"
- deviously
- in a devious manner; "he got the promotion by behaving deviously"
- diffidently
- in a diffident manner; "`Oh, well,' he shrugged diffidently, `I like the work.'"
- despicably
- in a despicable manner; "he acted despicably"
- despitefully, spitefully
- in a maliciously spiteful manner; "pray for them that despitefully use us"
- detestably, repulsively, abominably, odiously
- in an offensive and hateful manner; "I don't know anyone who could have behaved so abominably"
- devotedly
- with devotion; "He served his master devotedly"
- devoutly, piously
- in a devout and pious manner; "she was devoutly Catholic"
- dexterously, dextrously, deftly
- with dexterity; in a dexterous manner; "dextrously he untied the knots"
- diametrically
- as from opposite ends of a diameter; "when two honest witnesses give accounts of the same event that differ diametrically, how can anyone prove that the evidence you gave was deliberately false?"; "three of these brushes were approximately 120 feet apart and the fourth diametrically opposite to one of the three"
- dictatorially, autocratically, magisterially
- in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator; "this manager acts dictatorially toward his colleagues"
- diligently
- with diligence; in a diligent manner; "we may diligently observe the Lord's supper on the first day of the week, diligently preach the gospel, or minister to the saint"
- direfully
- in a direful manner; "seeing himself trapped, he cried out direfully"
- dirtily, filthily
- in a filthy unclean manner; "a dirtily dressed camel driver"
- dirtily
- in a sordid manner; "as dirtily drunk as usual"
- disagreeably
- in a disagreeable manner; "`I took no harm from the journey, thank you,' she said disagreeably"
- disappointingly
- in a disappointing manner; "the discoverer of argon, Sir William Ramsay, looked disappointingly ordinary"
- disastrously
- in a disastrous manner; "the real value of the trust capita