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fanatical |
biased, bigoted, bugged*, burning*, contumacious, credulous, devoted, dogmatic, domineering, enthusiastic, erratic, extreme, fervent, feverish, fiery, frenzied, headstrong, high on*, immoderate, impassioned, impulsive, incorrigible, infatuated, mad, monomaniacal, narrow-minded, nuts for*, obsessed, obsessive, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, passionate, possessed, prejudiced, rabid, radical, raving, single-minded, stubborn, turned on*, unruly, violent, visionary, wild, willful, zealous |
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fawn |
abase, apple-polish*, be obsequious, be servile, blandish, bow, brownnose*, buddy up*, butter up*, cajole, cater to, cave, cotton*, court, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, curry favor*, debase, defer, flatter, grovel, honey up*, invite, jolly, kneel, kowtow*, lick boots*, massage*, oil*, pander, pay court*, scrape, serve, slaver, snow*, stoop, stroke*, submit, toady*, truckle*, woo*, yield |
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fervid |
animated, ardent, blazing, burning, devout, dying to*, eager, earnest, ecstatic, emotional, enthused, falling all over oneself*, fiery, glowing, go great guns*, heartfelt, hearty, hot*, hot-blooded*, impassioned, intense, passionate, perfervid, pious, religious, responsive, serious, sincere, unfeigned, vehement, warm, warmhearted, wholehearted, zealous |
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florid |
aureate, baroque, busy, decorative, embellished, euphuistic, figurative, flamboyant, flowery, fussy, grandiloquent, high-flown, luscious, magniloquent, ornamental, ornamented, ornate, overblown, overelaborate, pretentious, rhetorical, rich, sonorous |
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foment |
abet, agitate, arouse, brew, cultivate, encourage, excite, foster, goad, incite, instigate, nurse, nurture, promote, quicken, raise, set, set on, spur, start, stimulate, stir up, whip up* |
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frugality |
avarice, avariciousness, carefulness, conservation, economy, forehandedness, good management, husbandry, miserliness, moderation, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penuriousness, providence, prudence, saving, scrimping, stinginess, thrift, thriftiness |
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garrulous |
Chatty Cathy, babbling, blabbermouth*, chattering, chatty, effusive, flap jaw*, gabby, gassy, glib, gossiping, gushing, long-winded*, loose-lipped*, loose-tongued*, loquacious, motormouth*, mouthy, prating, prattling, prolix, prosy, verbose, voluble, windy*, wordy, yaky |
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gregarious |
affable, clubby*, companionable, convivial, cordial, extroverted, fun, outgoing, sociable, social |
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guile |
Judas kiss, artfulness, artifice, chicanery, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, dirty dealing*, dirty pool*, dirty trick*, dirty work*, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-cross*, duplicity, foul play*, gamesmanship, knavery, one-upmanship, run-around*, ruse, sellout*, sharp practice*, treachery, trickery, trickiness, wiliness |
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gullible |
believing, bite, born yesterday, credulous, easy, easy mark*, eat up, fall for, fleeceable, foolish, go for, green*, innocent, kid oneself, lap up, mark*, naive, patsy, silly, simple, sucker, susceptible, swallow, swallow whole, taken in*, trustful, tumble for, unskeptical, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, wide-eyed*, yoyo |
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homogenous |
akin, alike, analogous, cognate, comparable, consistent, homologous, identical, kindred, like, uniform, unvarying |
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iconoclast |
critic, cynic, denouncer, dissenter, dissident, heretic, image-breaker, nonbeliever, non-conformist, questioner, radical, rebel, revolutionist, ruiner, skeptic, unbeliever |
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imperturbable |
assured, cold fish, collected, complacent, composed, cool, disimpassioned, equanimous, immovable, nerveless, nonchalant, sedate, self-possessed, self-satisfied, smug, stoical, thick-skinned, tranquil, unaffected, undisturbed, unexcitable, unflappable, unmoved, unruffled, untouched, with rhinoceros hide |
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impervious |
closed to, hermetic, immune, impassable, impassive, impenetrable, impermeable, imperviable, inaccessible, invulnerable, resistant, sealed, tight, unaffected, unapproachable, unmoved, unpierceable, unreceptive, water-tight |
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impetuous |
abrupt, ardent, creaming to, eager, fervid, fierce, furious, hasty, headlong, hopped up, hurried, impassioned, impulsive, itchy, passionate, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, rash, restive, rushing, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, subitaneous, sudden, swift, unbridled, unexpected, unplanned, unpremeditated, unreflecting, unrestrained, unthinking, vehement, violent |
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implacable |
cruel, grim, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, ironfisted, mortal, pitiless, rancorous, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unappeasable, unbending, uncompromising, unflinching, unforgiving, unrelenting, unyielding, vindictive |
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inchoate |
amorphous, beginning, elementary, embryonic, formless, immature, imperfect, inceptive, incipient, just begun, nascent, preliminary, rudimentary, shapeless, unfinished, unformed, unshaped |
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ingenuous |
artless, candid, childlike, frank, green*, guileless, innocent, mark, naive, natural, open, outspoken, plain, simple, sincere, square, straightforward, talk turkey, trustful, trusting, unaffected, unartful, unartificial, uncool, undisguised, unreserved, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, up front* |
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inimical |
adverse, antipathetic, contrary, destructive, disaffected, harmful, hostile, hurtful, ill, ill-disposed, injurious, noxious, opposed, oppugnant, pernicious, repugnant, unfavorable, unfriendly, unwelcoming |
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innocuous |
banal, bland, flat, inane, innocent, innoxious, inobnoxious, inoffensive, insipid, jejune, kind, milk-and-water, namby-pamby, painless, safe, sapless, unobjectionable, unoffending, weak |
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insipid |
anemic, arid, banal, beige, blah*, bland, characterless, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, driveling, dry, dullsville, feeble, flat, ho hum, inane, innocuous, jejune, lifeless, limp, loser, mild, milk-and-water, mundane, namby-pamby, nebbish, nothing, nowhere, ordinary, plain, pointless, prosaic, prosy, slight, soft*, spiritless, stale, stupid, subdued, tame, tedious, tenuous, thin, tired, trite, unimaginative, vapid, watery, weak, weariful, wearisome, wiped out, wishy-washy*, yawn |
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intransigent |
awkward, bullheaded*, cantankerous, contrary, hang tough*, hard-line*, headstrong, immovable, incompliant, incurable, indocile, indomitable, insoluble, locked in*, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded*, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, self-willed, set in stone, tenacious, tough, tough-nut*, unbending, uncompromising, uncooperative, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unpliable, unruly, unyielding, wayward, wild, willful |
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inundate |
deluge, dunk, engulf, flood, glut, immerse, overflow, overrun, overwhelm, snow*, submerge, swamp, whelm |
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irascible |
angry, bear, bristly, cantankerous, choleric, crabbed, cranky, cross, feisty, fractious, grouchy, hasty, hot-tempered, huffy, ireful, irritable, ogre, passionate, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick-tempered, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, surly, testy, thin-skinned*, touchy, uptight |
