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Foresight(noun)
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anticipation, canniness, care, carefulness, caution, circumspection, clairvoyance, discernment, discreetness, discretion, economy, far-sightedness, foreknowledge, forethought, insight, long-sightedness, perception, precaution, precognition, preconception, premeditation, premonition, prenotion, prescience, prospect, providence, provision, prudence, sagacity
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nostalgia(noun)
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homesickness, reminiscent
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folly(noun)
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an act of foolishness or a lack of good sense
syn: absurdity, craziness, daftness An example of folly is someone intentionally stabbing their foot with a pitch fork. absurdness, craziness, foolishness, inaneness, madness, senselessness, witlessness; buffoonery |
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despair(verb)
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despond, lose heart
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artistry(noun)
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artistic quality of effect or workmanship
syn: adeptness, adroitness, art, artfulness, artifice, skill, cleverness, craft, cunning, deftness, masterfulness, skillfulness We admired the singer's artistry dexterity, ease, finesse, handiness; experience, expertise, expertness, know-how, proficiency; creativity, ingenuity, inventiveness, knowledge, learning; aptitude, bent, flair, gift, knack, talent |
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intricate(adjective)
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having many complexly interrelating parts or elements
syn: baroque, byzantine, complicate, complicated, convoluted, daedal, elaborate, complex, involute, involved, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, sophisticated, tangled The movie has an intricate plot. overcomplex, overcomplicated; composite, compound, heterogeneous, mixed, multibranched, multifaceted, multifarious, multipart, varied; challenging, difficult, tough; impenetrable, incomprehensible, inexplicable, Kafkaesque, unfathomable, unintelligible |
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candid(adjective)
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white
syn: frank, direct, forthcoming, forthright, foursquare, freehearted, free-spoken, honest, open, openhearted, out-front, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, straight, straightforward, unguarded, unreserved, up-front He was quite candid about his past. artless, earnest, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve), natural, real, sincere, unaffected, undesigning, unpretending, unpretentious; outgoing, uninhibited, unrestrained; vocal, vociferous; abrupt, bluff, blunt, brusque (also brusk), crusty, curt, gruff, sharp; impertinent, impolite, inconsiderate, rude, tactless, thoughtless, uncivil, undiplomatic, ungracious, unmannerly, unsubtle |
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ostentatious(adjective)
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marked by or fond of conspicuous or vainglorious and sometimes pretentious display
flamboyant, flaring, flashy, garish, glitzy, loud, noisy, gaudy, razzle-dazzle, splashy, swank He wears an ostentatious diamond ring on his little finger. excessive, extravagant, fulsome, hammy, overdone, over-the-top, overwrought; pretentious; baroque, bedizened, ornate; fancy, snazzy, zooty; blaring, bright, florid, glaring, glittery, overbright, spectacular; graceless, inelegant, lurid, tacky, tasteless, tawdry, tinselly, vulgar |
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fictional(adjective)
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something invented by the imagination or feigned
fable, fabrication, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, invention She believes the fiction that crime rates are up. anecdote, narrative, novel, story, tale, yarn; fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, untruth, whopper; make-believe |
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convoluted(adjective)
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involved, intricate
baroque, byzantine, complicate, complicated, complex, daedal, elaborate, intricate, involute, involved, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, sophisticated, tangled A convoluted explanation that left the listeners even more confused than they were before |
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capricious(adjective)
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governed or characterized
fickle, changeable, changeful, flickery, fluctuating, fluid, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, skittish, temperamental, uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile The court ruled that the punishment was arbitrary and capricious. aimless, arbitrary, desultory, erratic, haphazard, hit-or-miss, irregular, random, scattered, slapdash, stray; ambivalent, hesitating, shaky, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, vacillating, wavering; dicey, undependable, unreliable, untrustworthy; adaptable, mobile, protean, versatile |
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bombastic(adjective)
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rhetorical, flatulent, fustian, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, oratorical, orotund, windy
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loquacious(adjective)
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full of excessive talk : wordy
blabby, chatty, conversational, gabby, garrulous, talkative, motormouthed, mouthy, talky a loquacious and glib politician communicative, expansive; demonstrative, effusive, gushing; free-spoken, outspoken, unreserved, vocal; articulate, fluent, glib, voluble, well-spoken; gossipy, talebearing, tale-telling; long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy; extroverted (also extraverted), gregarious, outgoing, sociable |
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dispassionate(adjective)
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candid, disinterested, fair, equal, equitable, evenhanded, impartial, indifferent, just, nonpartisan, objective, square, unbiased, unprejudiced
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decorous(adjective)
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befitting, correct, decent, proper, de rigueur, genteel, nice, polite, respectable, seemly
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emotional(adjective)
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ardent, blazing, burning, charged, demonstrative, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot-blooded, impassioned, incandescent, intense, passional, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, religious, superheated, torrid, vehement, warm, warm-blooded
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intellectual(adjective)
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blue, cerebral, eggheaded, geeky, highbrow, highbrowed, intellectualist, intellectualistic, long-haired (or longhair), nerdish, nerdy
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chance(noun)
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accident, casualty [archaic], circumstance, hap, hazard, luck
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random(adjective)
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aimless, arbitrary, catch-as-catch-can, desultory, erratic, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss, scattered, slapdash, stray
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intuitive(adjective)
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based on or agreeing with intuition
instinctive, inherent She has an intuitive mind. |
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impulsive(adjective)
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besetting, driven, compulsive, obsessional, obsessive
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deliberate(verb)
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to think about or discuss issues and decisions carefully
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instinctive(adjective)
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of, relating to, or being instinct
automatic, instinctual, involuntary, knee-jerk, mechanic, mechanical, robotic, spontaneous conditioned, natural, Pavlovian, reactive, reflex, simple, subliminal, unconscious, unforced, visceral; blind, inadvertent, unintended, unintentional, unwilling, unwitting; abrupt, quick, ready, sudden; ad-lib, extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, improvised, offhand, offhanded, off-the-cuff, snap, spur-of-the-moment, unconsidffsered, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprompted, unreasoned, unrehearsed, unstudied; casual, chance, chancy, haphazard, hasty, hit-or-miss, impetuous, impulsive, mindless, random, rash |
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intentional(adjective)
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done by intention or design
conscious, deliberate, intended, knowing, purposeful, purposive, set, voluntary, willed, willful (or wilful), witting designed, planned; conscious; advised, calculated, considered, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, weighed; premeditated, premeditative, prepense; discretionary, elective, optional, volunteer |
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logical(adjective)
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analytic (or analytical), coherent, consequent, good, rational, reasonable, sensible, sound, valid, well-founded, well-grounded
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streamlined(adjective)
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contoured to reduce resistance to motion through a fluid
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infighting(noun)
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fighting or boxing at close quarters
conflict, disaccord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissension (also dissention), dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, division, friction, discord, inharmony, schism, strife, variance, war, warfare clash, collision, competition, contention; altercation, argument, bicker, brawl, debate, disagreement, dispute, divide, fissure; falling-out, fight, hassle, jar, miff, mix-up, quarrel, row, run-in, scrap, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle; incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness, inconsistence, inconsistency, inconsonance, inharmoniousness; animosity, antagonism, antipathy, cold war, enmity, hostility, ill will, rancor |
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mitigate(verb)
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to cause to become less harsh or hostile
allay, alleviate, assuage, ease, help, mollify, palliate, relieve, soothe abate, lighten, moderate, soften, temper; cure, heal, remedy; amend, correct, emend, fix, mend, rectify, reform, repair; ameliorate, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfect, refine |
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jingoism(noun)
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extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy
chauvinism, nationalism, superpatriotism loyalty, patriotism; nativism, xenophobia |
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ossified(verb)
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to change into bone
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bureaucratization(noun)
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to make bureaucratic
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cowardice(noun)
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lack of courage or resolution
cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, gutlessness, poltroonery, pusillanimity, spinelessness diffidence, faintheartedness, fearfulness, timidity, timorousness; carefulness, cautiousness, wariness; bashfulness, shyness; feebleness, softness, weakness |
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prudence(noun)
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the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason
alertness, care, carefulness, cautiousness, chariness, circumspection, gingerliness, guardedness, heedfulness, caution, wariness attentiveness, observance, vigilance, watchfulness; foresight, foresightedness, providence; calculation, canniness, deliberateness, deliberation, shrewdness |
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hospitality(noun)
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hospitable treatment, reception, or disposition
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aloofness(noun)
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at a distance
cool, antisocial, asocial, buttoned-up, cold, cold-eyed, detached, distant, dry, frosty, offish, remote, standoff, standoffish, unbending, unclubbable, unsociable They tried to keep aloof from the politics of the day. indrawn, introverted, nongregarious, recessive, reclusive, reserved, unsocial, withdrawn; misanthropic; apathetic, hard, indifferent, unconcerned; clinical, dispassionate, impersonal, professional; disinterested, incurious, uninterested; reticent, silent, taciturn, uncommunicative; diffident, shy, timid; cliquey, cliquish, clubbish |
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loyalty(noun)
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the quality or state or an instance of being loyal
adhesion, allegiance, attachment, commitment, constancy, dedication, devotedness, devotion, faith, faithfulness, fastness, fealty, fidelity, piety, steadfastness, troth affection, fondness; determination, firmness, resolution; dependability, reliability, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness |
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applaud(verb)
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bravo, clap, rise (to); ballyhoo; approve, commend, endorse (also indorse), favor, recommend, root (for), support; celebrate, emblazon, eulogize, extol (also extoll), glorify, magnify, sing; adulate, belaud, flatter, overpraise; deify, idolize
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derailed(verb)
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to cause to run off the rails
agitate, ail, alarm (also alarum), bother, concern, disturb, discomfort, discompose, dismay, disquiet, distemper, distract, distress, exercise, flurry, frazzle, freak (out), fuss, hagride, perturb, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, weird out, worry aggravate, anger, annoy, bug, chafe, chivy (or chivvy), exasperate, fret, gall, get, grate, harass, harry, irk, irritate, nettle, peeve, pester, pique, put off, put out, rile, vex; bedevil, haunt, plague; abash, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, jar, mortify, nonplus, rattle, shake up; daunt, demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, unnerve |
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acknowledge(verb)
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admit, agree, allow, concede, confess, fess (up), grant, own (up to)
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permit(verb)
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green-light, have, allow, suffer
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anticipate(verb)
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expect, await, hope (for), watch (for)
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condition(noun)
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estate, fettle, form, health, keeping, kilter, nick [British], order, repair, shape, trim
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highlight(noun)
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accent, accentuate, feature, foreground, emphasize, illuminate, play up, point (up), press, punctuate, stress
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stimulus(noun)
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boost, encouragement, goad, impetus, incentive, incitation, incitement, instigation, momentum, motivation, provocation, spur, stimulant, impulse, yeast
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dictum(noun)
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a noteworthy statement
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respite(noun)
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a period of temporary delay
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negotiate(verb)
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arrange, bargain, concert, conclude
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concession(noun)
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the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat)
We are waiting for his concession of the election. accommodation, compromise, give-and-take, negotiation haggle, horse trade; accord, arrangement, bargain, concurrence, consensus, deal, understanding; agreement, settlement; mediation, treaty |
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antagonize(verb)
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embitter, empoison, envenom
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negligible(adjective)
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chicken, de minimis, footling, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, measly, Mickey Mouse, minute, niggling, no-account, nominal, paltry, peanut, petty, picayune, piddling, piddly, piffling, pimping, slight, trifling, trivial
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surrender(verb)
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cede, cough up, deliver, give up, hand over, lay down, relinquish, render, turn in, turn over, yield
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enemy(noun)
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adversary, antagonist, foe, hostile, opponent
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dominate(verb)
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conquer, overpower, pacify, subdue, subject, subjugate, subordinate, vanquish
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inquiry()
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examination into facts or principles
delving, disquisition, examen, examination, exploration, inquest, inquisition, investigation, probation, probe, probing, research, study She refused to answer inquiries from the media about her marriage. quest; audit, check; checkup, diagnosis, inspection; hearing, interrogation, trial; feeler, query, question; poll, questionary, questionnaire, survey; challenge, cross-examination, going-over, grilling, quiz; rehearing, reinvestigation; self-examination, self-exploration, self-questioning, self-reflection, self-scrutiny, soul-searching |
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equivocate(verb)
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fudge, hedge, pussyfoot, tergiversate, waffle, weasel, beat around (or about) the bush, hem and haw, straddle the fence
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denunciation(noun)
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an act of denouncing
commination, condemnation, censure, excoriation, objurgation, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reproof, riot act, stricture The attack drew strong denunciations from leaders around the world. admonishment, admonition, castigation, chastisement, damnation, punishment, remonstrance; business, devil, dressing-down, lash, lecture, lesson, rap, scolding, talking-to, tongue-lashing; belittlement, criticism, deprecation, depreciation, disparagement, pan |
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rousing(adjective)
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breathtaking, charged, electric, electrifying, exhilarating, exhilarative, galvanic, galvanizing, hair-raising, heart-stopping, inspiring, intoxicating, kicky, mind-bending, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, rip-roaring, exciting, stimulating, stirring, thrilling
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memorable(adjective)
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indelible, unforgettable
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pedestrian(adjective)
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arid, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, boring, ponderous, slow, stale, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying
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evolving(adjective)
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elaborate, develop, unfold
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chaotic(adjective)
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chance-medley, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, dishevelment, disorder, disorderedness, disorderliness, disorganization, free-for-all, havoc, heck, hell, jumble, mare's nest, mess, messiness, misorder, muddle, muss, shambles, snake pit, tumble, welter
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unprecedented(adjective)
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fresh, novel, original, strange, unaccustomed, unfamiliar, unheard-of, unknown, new
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derivative(adjective)
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something derived
by-product, derivate, derivation, offshoot, outgrowth, spin-off The word “childish” is a derivative of “child.” descendant (also descendent); aftermath, consequence, corollary, development, fruit, growth, issue, outcome, product, result, sequel, sequence, upshot; denouement (also dénouement), repercussion; aftereffect, side effect (also side reaction); copy, duplicate, facsimile, replica, reproduction |
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inept(adjective)
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inapt, incapable, incompetent, inexpert, unable, unfit, unfitted, unqualified, unskilled, unskillful
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spontaneous(adjective)
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instinctive, instinctual, involuntary, knee-jerk, mechanic, mechanical, robotic, automatic
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graceless(adjective)
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awkward, butterfingered, cack-handed [British], clumsy, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed, maladroit, unhandy
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cheapen(verb)
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attenuate, break, depreciate, depress, devaluate, devalue, downgrade, lower, mark down, reduce, sink, write down, write off
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affordable(adjective)
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go, swing
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transform(verb)
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alchemize, make over, metamorphose, transfigure, convert, transmute, transpose, transubstantiate
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viable(adjective)
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achievable, attainable, doable, feasible, practicable, realizable, possible, workable
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revolutionize(verb)
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prohibitive(adjective)
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provoke(verb)
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arouse, encourage, excite, fire (up), impassion, incite, instigate, move, pique, rev (up), spark, stimulate, stir, build a fire under
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improbable(adjective)
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doubtful, dubious, far-fetched, flimsy, questionable, unapt, unlikely
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stimulate(verb)
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amp (up), brace, energize, enliven, fillip, fire, ginger (up), invigorate, jazz (up), juice up, jump-start, liven (up), pep (up), quicken, spike, animate, vitalize, vivify, zip (up)
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inaccessible(adjective)
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inapproachable, inconvenient, unapproachable, unattainable, unavailable, unobtainable, unreachable, untouchable
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cryptic(adjective)
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secret, occult
His instructions were cryptic. He said only to wait until we felt certain the answer was clear. arcane, mysterious, deep, enigmatic (also enigmatical), impenetrable, inscrutable, mystic, occult, uncanny dark, darkling, fuzzy, murky, obscure, shadowy, vague; ambiguous, equivocal; imponderable, incomprehensible, unfathomable, unintelligible, unsearchable; inexplicable, unaccountable, unexplainable; unanswerable, unknowable; metaphysical, mystical, numinous, supernatural; abstruse, esoteric, recondite; baffling, befuddling, bewildering, confounding, confusing, disorienting, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling |
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judicious(adjective)
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having, exercising, or characterized by sound judgment
intelligent, judgmatic (or judgmatical), discreet, prudent judicious use of our resources cautious, chary, circumspect, cozy; forehanded, foresighted, foresightful, forethoughtful; discerning, discriminating, sage, sane, sapient, senseful, sensible, wise; canny, provident; astute, perspicacious, sagacious, shrewd |
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jubilant(adjective)
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exultant
cock-a-hoop, crank [chiefly dialect], crowing, exulting, glorying, exultant, prideful, proud, rejoicing, triumphant ecstatic, elated, euphoric; arrogant, boastful, cocky; conquering, victorious, winning |
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supercilious(adjective)
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coolly and patronizingly haughty
assumptive, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, haughty, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, huffish, huffy, imperious, important, lofty, lordly, masterful, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, sniffy, stiff-necked, arrogant, superior, toplofty (also toploftical), uppish, uppity authoritarian, bossy, dominant, dominating, domineering, magisterial, pontifical, pontificating; condescending, disdainful, patronizing; impertinent, impudent, saucy; snobbish, snobby, snooty; blusterous, blustery, boastful, bombastic, braggart, bragging, braggy, cocky, swaggering, vain, vainglorious; complacent, conceited, egocentric, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), hubristic, narcissistic, orgulous, prideful, proud, self-affected, self-applauding, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up; self-flattering, self-loving, self-promoting; brash, forward, uninhibited, unreserved; extroverted (also extraverted) |
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pugnacious(adjective)
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having a quarrelsome or combative nature
There's one pugnacious member on the committee who won't agree to anything. aggressive, agonistic, argumentative, assaultive, bellicose, brawly, chippy, combative, confrontational, contentious, discordant, disputatious, feisty, gladiatorial, militant, belligerent, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike antagonistic, fierce, hostile, hot-tempered; acidic, bearish, bilious, bristly, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, disagreeable, dyspeptic, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, rude, snappish, snappy, stroppy [British], surly, testy, touchy, ugly, waspish; savage, vicious; battling, fighting, warring |
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belligerence(noun)
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aggression, aggressiveness, assaultiveness, bellicosity, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, defiance, disputatiousness, feistiness, fight, militance, militancy, militantness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, scrappiness, truculence, chip on one's shoulder
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indigence(noun)
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a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking
beggary, destituteness, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, poverty, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, penuriousness, penury, poorness, want gutter, misery, woe, wretchedness; exigency; emergency, rainy day; austerity, deprivation, privation; bankruptcy, insolvency; belt-tightening, pinching, straitening |
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perfidy(noun)
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They are guilty of perfidy.
disloyalty, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, inconstancy, perfidiousness, infidelity, unfaithfulness adultery; betrayal, double-cross, double-dealing, duplicity, sellout, treachery, treason; deceit, deception, lying |
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aspersion(noun)
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a sprinkling with water especially in religious ceremonies
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tenacity(noun)
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the quality or state of being tenacious
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imprecise(adjective)
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not precise
approximate, approximative, ballpark, inexact, inaccurate, loose, squishy It's an imprecise translation of the original sentence. erroneous, false, incorrect, off, wrong; general, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, mushy, undefined, undetermined, unsettled, vague; faulty, flawed, mistaken; specious; distorted, fallacious, misleading; doubtful, dubious, questionable, uncertain; inconclusive, indecisive; debatable, disputable; invalidated, unconfirmed, unsubstantiated, unsupported |
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straightforward(adjective)
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direct, forthright, foursquare, plain, straight
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deficient(adjective)
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incomplete, fragmental, fragmentary, half, halfway, partial
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obtrusive(adjective)
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forward in manner or conduct
The waiter was attentive without being obtrusive. busy, interfering, intruding, meddlesome, meddling, nosy (or nosey), intrusive, officious, presuming, presumptuous, protrusive, prying, pushing, pushy, snoopy bold, brazen, bumptious, impertinent, impudent, insolent, rude; invading, trespassing; curious, inquisitive; annoying, harassing, pestiferous; overbearing, superserviceable |
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elliptical(adjective
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of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse
ambiguous, arcane, cryptic, dark, deep, Delphic, double-edged, obscure (or elliptic), enigmatic (also enigmatical), equivocal, fuliginous, inscrutable, murky, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, occult, opaque abstruse, esoteric, recondite; cloaked, concealed, disguised, masked, shrouded; beclouded, bedimmed, befogged, clouded, cloudy, dim, faint, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, indistinguishable, misty, muddy, obfuscatory, obnubilated, obscurant (or obscurantic), shaded, shadowlike, shadowy, sphinxlike; indefinite, inexact, inexplicit, noncommittal, questionable, unclear, uncertain, undefined, undetermined, vague; impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecipherable, inexplicable; eerie (also eery), uncanny, weird; impalpable, inappreciable, intangible, invisible; unanswerable, unknowable; baffling, bewildering, confounding, confusing, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling, unfathomable; circuitous, indirect, roundabout; complex, complicated, difficult, obtuse |
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vast(adjective)
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astronomical (also astronomic), Brobdingnagian, bumper, colossal, cosmic (also cosmical), cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, galactic, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, grand, herculean, heroic (also heroical), Himalayan, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), leviathan, mammoth, massive, mega, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, pharaonic, planetary, prodigious, super, super-duper, supersize, supersized, titanic, tremendous, huge, vasty, walloping, whacking, whopping
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hollow(noun)
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cavity, concavity, dent, depression, dint, hole, indentation, indenture, pit, recess
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sparse(adjective)
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of few and scattered elements; especially : not thickly grown or settled
exiguous, hand-to-mouth, light, niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, sparing, meager, stingy deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, short, wanting; bare, bare-bones; least, littlest, lowest, mere, minimal, slightest; slight, small, thin; barren, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive |
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thunderous(adjective)
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blaring, blasting, booming, clamorous, clangorous, deafening, earsplitting, piercing, plangent, resounding, ringing, roaring, slam-bang, sonorous, stentorian, thundering, loud
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enormous(adjective)
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archaic
They live in an enormous house. astronomical (also astronomic), Brobdingnagian, bumper, colossal, cosmic (also cosmical), cyclopean, elephantine, huge, galactic, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, grand, herculean, heroic (also heroical), Himalayan, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), leviathan, mammoth, massive, mega, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, pharaonic, planetary, prodigious, super, super-duper, supersize, supersized, titanic, tremendous, vast, vasty, walloping, whacking, whopping |
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deafening(adjective)
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blaring, blasting, booming, clamorous, clangorous, loud, earsplitting, piercing, plangent, resounding, ringing, roaring, slam-bang, sonorous, stentorian, thundering, thunderous
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unimpressive(adjective)
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unaffecting, unemotional
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muted(adjective)
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hushed, silent, noiseless, quiet, quieted, soundless, still, stilly
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