Synonyms of the word

close

• v. (physical) To remove a gap.
• v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
• v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
• v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
• n. An end or conclusion.
• n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
• n. A grapple in wrestling.
• n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
• n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
• adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
• adj. Narrow; confined.
• adj. At a little distance; near.
• adj. Intimate; well-loved.
• adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
• adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
• adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
• adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
• adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
• adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
• adj. Short.
• adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
• adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
• adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
• adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
• adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
• adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
• adj. Marked, evident.
• n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
• n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
• n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
• n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
• n. A cathedral close.
• n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

accurate

• adj. In exact or careful conformity to truth; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; which gives truthful…
• adj. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
• adj. (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

adjacent

• adj. Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
• adj. Just before, after, or facing.
• n. Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the…
• prep. (US) Next to; adjacent to; beside.

adpressed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of adpress.

airless

• adj. Lacking or being without air.
• adj. Lacking air circulation.
• adj. With air that is stale.
• adj. (medicine) Suffering from asphyxia.
• adj. (figuratively) Stifling; dead; lacking vitality or excitement.

ambient

• adj. Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.
• adj. (music) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.
• adj. Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature.
• adj. (mathematics) Containing objects or describing a setting that one is interested in.
• n. Something that surrounds.
• n. (uncountable, music) A type of modern music which incorporates elements of various musical styles, and…
• n. (astrology) The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air,…

appressed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of appress.
• adj. (biology, mycology) Closely flattened down.

approach

• v. (intransitive) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate.
• v. (transitive) To come near to in place, time, character, or value; to draw nearer to.
• v. To make an attempt at (solving a problem or making a policy).
• v. To speak to, as to make a request or ask a question.
• v. (transitive, military) To take approaches to.
• v. To bring near; to cause to draw near.
• n. The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
• n. An access, or opportunity of drawing near.
• n. (in the plural) Movements to gain favor; advances.
• n. A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.
• n. A manner in which a problem is solved or policy is made.
• n. (used only in the plural, fortification) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers…
• n. (golf, tennis) An approach shot.
• n. The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.
• n. (bowling) The area before the lane, in which a player may stand or run up before bowling the ball.

approximate

• adj. Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
• adj. Nearing correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate.
• v. To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.
• v. To come near to; to approach.
• v. To estimate.

bar

• n. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
• n. (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal…
• n. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
• n. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
• n. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar…
• n. (typography) Various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in…
• n. (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed…
• n. A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves;…
• n. The counter of such a premises.
• n. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
• n. (by extension, In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) A premises or counter serving any type…
• n. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
• n. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
• n. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
• n. (programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity,…
• n. (Britain, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants…
• n. (law, "the Bar", "the bar") The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
• n. (law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically…
• n. (telecommunications) A bar-shaped symbol that denotes levels of reception, or reception itself.
• n. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal…
• n. (music) One of those musical sections.
• n. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault.
• n. (soccer) The crossbar.
• n. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones…
• n. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
• n. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
• n. (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
• n. An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
• n. A city gate, in some British place names.
• n. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
• n. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
• n. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
• n. (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel…
• n. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which…
• v. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To prohibit.
• v. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
• v. to imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
• prep. Except, with the exception of.
• prep. (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
• n. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea…

barricade

• n. A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence.
• n. An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
• n. (figuratively, in the plural) A place of confrontation.
• v. to close or block a road etc., using a barricade.
• v. to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port.

block

• n. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
• n. A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
• n. A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
• n. A residential building consisting of flats.
• n. The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
• n. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
• n. (slang) The human head.
• n. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
• n. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
• n. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
• n. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
• n. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
• n. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
• n. (rigging) A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for…
• n. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present…
• n. Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).
• n. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball,…
• n. (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum…
• n. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s…
• n. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
• n. A section of split logs used as fuel.
• n. (Britain) Solitary confinement.
• n. A cellblock.
• n. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
• n. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
• n. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
• n. A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
• n. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
• n. (cricket) A blockhole.
• n. (cricket) The popping crease.
• n. Misspelling of bloc.
• v. (transitive) To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
• v. (transitive, sports) To impede an opponent.
• v. (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
• v. (transitive) To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To wait.
• v. (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.

blockade

• n. The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic…
• n. By extension, any form of formal isolation of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
• n. (nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
• n. (chess) Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
• v. (transitive) To create a blockade against.

boon

• n. (obsolete) A prayer; petition.
• n. (archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
• n. A good; a blessing or benefit; a great privilege; a thing to be thankful for.
• n. (Britain dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
• adj. (obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage".
• adj. kind; bountiful; benign.
• adj. (Fossil word used only in idiom pairing it with subsequent "companion") gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
• n. The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

careful

• adj. (obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
• adj. (obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
• adj. Having care (for); attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
• adj. Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.

cease

• v. (formal, intransitive) To stop.
• v. (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.

cheeseparing

• v. present participle of cheesepare.
• adj. Niggardly, stingy.
• n. A small fragment or sliver.

chummy

• adj. friendly; on, or trying to be on, intimate terms.
• n. chum; mate.

close-fitting

• adj. (of clothing) Snug, tight, form-fitting.

close-hauled

• adj. (nautical) with the sails trimmed as close to the wind as possible with all sails full and not shivering.
• adv. with the sails close-hauled.

close-knit

• adj. (of a group) Closely linked or connected, as by a common identity, culture, or bond.

close-set

• adj. set close together.

closely

• adv. In a close manner.
• adv. (obsolete) secretly; privately.

closemouthed

• adj. reticent, secretive or uncommunicative.

closing

• n. The act by which something is closed.
• n. The end or conclusion of something.
• n. The final procedure in a house sale when documents are signed and recorded.
• adj. Coming after all others.
• v. present participle of close.

complete

• v. (transitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
• v. (transitive) To make whole or entire.
• adj. With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
• adj. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
• adj. Generic intensifier.
• adj. (analysis, Of a metric space) in which every Cauchy sequence converges.
• adj. (algebra, Of a lattice) in which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
• adj. (mathematics, Of a category) in which all small limits exist.
• adj. (logic, of a proof system of a formal system) With respect to a given semantics, that any well-formed…
• adj. (computing theory) With respect to a complexity class, used of a problem that is in that class and such…

conclude

• v. (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
• v. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
• v. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
• v. (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
• v. To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.
• v. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
• v. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
• v. (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation).

conclusion

• n. The end, finish, close or last part of something.
• n. The outcome or result of a process or act.
• n. A decision reached after careful thought.
• n. (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
• n. (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
• n. (law) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
• n. (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

confidential

• adj. Kept, or meant to be kept, secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly.
• adj. (dated) Inclined to share confidences.

confined

• v. simple past tense and past participle of confine.
• adj. Not free to move.

confining

• v. present participle of confine.

contiguous

• adj. Connected; touching; abutting.
• adj. Adjacent; neighboring.
• adj. Connecting without a break.

cozy

• adj. Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social.
• n. A padded or knit covering to keep an item warm, especially a teapot or egg.
• n. A padded or knit covering for any item (often an electronic device such as a laptop computer).
• n. A work of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime…
• v. To become snug and comfortable.
• v. To become friendly with.

dear

• adj. Loved; lovable.
• adj. Loving, affectionate, heartfelt.
• adj. Precious to or greatly valued by someone.
• adj. High in price; expensive.
• adj. A formal way to start (possibly after my) addressing somebody at the beginning of a letter, memo etc.
• adj. A formal way to start (often after my) addressing somebody one likes or regards kindly.
• adj. An ironic way to start (often after my) addressing an inferior.
• adj. (obsolete) Noble.
• n. A very kind, loving person.
• n. A beloved person.
• v. (obsolete) To endear.
• adv. dearly; at a high price.
• adj. Severe(ly affected), sore.
• adj. (obsolete) Fierce.

encompassing

• v. present participle of encompass.

end

• n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
• n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
• n. Death, especially miserable.
• n. Result.
• n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
• n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
• n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
• n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
• n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
• n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
• n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
• v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

ending

• v. present participle of end.
• n. A termination or conclusion.
• n. The last part of something.
• n. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").

engage

• v. (heading, transitive) To interact socially.
• v. (heading) To interact antagonistically.
• v. (heading) To interact contractually.
• v. (heading) To interact mechanically.
• v. (intransitive) To enter into (an activity), to participate (construed with in).

enveloping

• v. present participle of envelop.

equal

• adj. (not comparable) The same in all respects.
• adj. (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
• adj. (obsolete) Fair, impartial.
• adj. (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
• adj. (obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
• adj. (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
• v. (mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
• v. To be equivalent to; to match.
• v. (informal) To have as its consequence.
• n. A person or thing of equal status to others.
• n. (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.

faithful

• adj. Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
• adj. Having faith.
• adj. Reliable; worthy of trust.
• adj. Consistent with reality.
• adj. Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
• n. (in the plural) The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
• n. Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.

familiar

• adj. Known to one.
• adj. Acquainted.
• adj. Intimate or friendly.
• adj. Inappropriately intimate or friendly.
• adj. Of or pertaining to a family; familial.
• n. (obsolete) A member of one's family or household.
• n. (obsolete) A close friend.
• n. An attendant spirit, often in animal form.

fill

• v. (transitive) To occupy fully, to take up all of.
• v. (transitive) To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
• v. To enter (something), making it full.
• v. (intransitive) To become full.
• v. (intransitive) To become pervaded with something.
• v. (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
• v. (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
• v. (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
• n. (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
• n. An amount that fills a container.
• n. The filling of a container or area.
• n. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
• n. (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill…
• n. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be…
• n. (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a…
• n. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

finale

• n. The grand end of something, especially a show or piece of music.
• n. (narratology) The chronological conclusion of a series of narrative works.

fine

• adj. (heading) Of subjective quality.
• adj. (heading) Of objective quality.
• adj. (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
• adj. (obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous.
• adv. Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.
• adv. Well, nicely, in a positive way.
• adv. (dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately.
• adv. (pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to…
• n. Fine champagne; French brandy.
• n. (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
• v. (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
• v. (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
• v. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
• v. To change by fine gradations.
• v. (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
• n. A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
• v. (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To pay a fine.
• n. (music) The end of a musical composition.
• n. (music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To finish; to cease.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to cease; to stop.
• n. (obsolete) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
• n. A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
• n. (Britain, law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission…

finis

• n. An end (of a book etc.).

finish

• n. An end; the end of anything.
• n. A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
• n. The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
• n. (sports) A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
• v. (transitive) To complete (something).
• v. (transitive) To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
• v. (transitive) To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the…
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end.

finishing

• v. present participle of finish.
• n. The act of completing something.
• n. (soccer) Shooting ability.
• n. The final work upon or ornamentation of a thing; finish.

fold

• v. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
• v. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
• v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
• v. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
• v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
• v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
• v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
• v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
• v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
• v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
• n. An act of folding.
• n. A bend or crease.
• n. Any correct move in origami.
• n. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold…
• n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window…
• n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
• n. A group of sheep or goats.
• n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
• n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
• n. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary…
• n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process…
• n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
• n. (figuratively) Home, family.
• n. (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
• n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
• v. To confine sheep in a fold.
• n. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.

good

• adj. (of people).
• adj. (of capabilities).
• adj. (of properties and qualities).
• adj. (colloquial) With "and", extremely.
• adj. Holy (especially when capitalized).
• adj. (of quantities).
• interj. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
• adv. (nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
• n. (uncountable) The forces or behaviors that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and…
• n. (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
• n. (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes…
• n. (countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make good; turn to good; improve.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make improvements or repairs.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To benefit; gain.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
• v. (reflexive, now chiefly dialectal) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

hand-to-hand

• adj. Close together, within arm's reach.
• adj. Especially, fighting done within reach rather than at range. May or may not indicate unarmed combat.

hot

• adj. (of an object) Having a high temperature.
• adj. (of the weather) Causing the air to be hot.
• adj. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
• adj. (of a temper) Easily provoked to anger.
• adj. Feverish.
• adj. (of food) Spicy.
• adj. (informal) Very good, remarkable, exciting.
• adj. Stolen.
• adj. (incomparable) Electrically charged.
• adj. (informal) Radioactive.
• adj. (slang, of a person) Very physically and/or sexually attractive.
• adj. (slang) Sexual; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
• adj. (slang) Sexually aroused; horny.
• adj. Popular; in demand.
• adj. Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
• adj. Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
• adj. Fresh; just released.
• adj. Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
• adj. (slang) Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something.
• v. (with up) To heat; to make or become hot.
• v. (with up) To become lively or exciting.

immediate

• adj. Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
• adj. Very close; direct or adjacent.
• adj. Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
• adj. (computer science, of an instruction operand) embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than…
• adj. (procedure word, military) To denote that a transmission is urgent.
• adj. (procedure word, military) An artillery fire mission modifier for to types of fire mission to denote an…

imminent

• adj. about to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.

impendent

• adj. impending; threatening.

impending

• adj. Approaching; drawing near; about to happen or expected to happen.
• v. present participle of impend.

incommunicative

• adj. Uncommunicative.

intimate

• adj. Closely acquainted; familiar.
• adj. Of or involved in a sexual relationship.
• adj. Personal; private.
• n. A very close friend.
• n. (in plural intimates) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.
• v. (transitive) To suggest or disclose discreetly.

join

• v. (transitive) To combine more than one item into one; to put together.
• v. (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
• v. (transitive) To come into the company of.
• v. (transitive) To become a member of.
• v. (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
• v. To unite in marriage.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To enjoin upon; to command.
• v. To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
• n. An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
• n. (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
• n. (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…

juxtaposed

• adj. Placed side by side often for comparison or contrast.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of juxtapose.

last

• adj. Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
• adj. Most recent, latest, last so far.
• adj. Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
• adj. Being the only one remaining of its class.
• adj. Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
• adj. Lowest in rank or degree.
• adv. Most recently.
• adv. (sequence) after everything else; finally.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To perform, carry out.
• v. (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
• v. (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
• n. A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.
• v. To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.
• n. (obsolete) A burden; load; a cargo; freight.
• n. (obsolete) A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.
• n. (obsolete) An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.
• n. A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

near

• adj. Physically close.
• adj. Closely connected or related.
• adj. Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear.
• adj. Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling.
• adj. So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow.
• adj. (of an event) Approaching.
• adj. Approximate, almost.
• adj. (dated) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team.
• adj. (obsolete) Immediate; direct; close; short.
• adj. (obsolete, slang) Stingy; parsimonious.
• adv. Having a small intervening distance with regard to something.
• adv. (colloquial) nearly.
• prep. Close to, in close proximity to.
• prep. Close to in time.
• v. To come closer to; to approach.
• n. The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc.

nearby

• adj. adjacent, near, very close.
• adv. next to, close to.

neighboring

• adj. (US) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
• adj. Alternative spelling of neighbouring.
• v. (US) present participle of neighbor.
• v. Alternative spelling of neighbouring.

neighbouring

• adj. (British spelling, Canadian) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
• adj. Alternative spelling of neighboring.
• v. (British spelling, Canadian) present participle of neighbour.
• v. Alternative spelling of neighboring.

nestled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of nestle.

next

• adj. Following in a sequence.
• adj. Being closer to the present location than all other items.
• adj. Nearest following (of date, time, space or order).
• adj. (figuratively) Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind.
• adv. In a time, place or sequence closest or following.
• adv. On the first subsequent occasion.
• prep. On the side of; next to.
• n. The one that follows after this one.

nigh

• adj. (archaic, poetic) near, close by.
• adj. Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.
• v. To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near.
• adv. Almost, nearly.
• prep. near; close to.

penny-pinching

• adj. reluctant to spend money; close-fisted.
• n. reluctance to spend money; thrift or parsimony.
• n. Instance of extreme economy.

private

• adj. Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
• adj. Not accessible by the public.
• adj. Not in governmental office or employment.
• adj. Not publicly known; not open; secret.
• adj. Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.
• adj. Not traded by the public.
• adj. Secretive; reserved.
• adj. (US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.
• n. The lowest rank of the army.
• n. A soldier of the rank of private.
• n. (in plural privates) A euphemistic term for the genitals.
• n. (obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
• n. (obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.
• n. (obsolete) Privacy; retirement.
• n. (obsolete) One not invested with a public office.
• n. (usually in the plural) A private lesson.

prosecute

• v. (transitive, law) To start criminal proceedings against.
• v. (transitive, law) To charge, try.
• v. To seek to obtain by legal process.
• v. (transitive) To pursue something to the end.

proximate

• adj. Close or closest; adjacent.
• adj. (law) Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
• adj. About to take place; impending.
• n. (linguistics) A grammatical marker in the Algonquian (and some other) languages for a principal third…

pursue

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment.
• v. (transitive) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
• v. (transitive) To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).
• v. (transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
• v. (transitive) To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession).

restrained

• adj. Held back, limited, kept in check or under control.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of restrain.

scalelike

• adj. Resembling scales in shape or form.

secretive

• adj. Having an inclination to secrecy.

section

• n. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
• n. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
• n. A part of a document.
• n. An act or instance of cutting.
• n. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
• n. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
• n. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
• n. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
• n. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
• n. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
• n. (category theory) A right inverse.
• n. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
• n. (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
• n. (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
• v. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
• v. (Britain) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons…
• v. To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

short

• adj. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
• adj. (of a person) Of comparatively little height.
• adj. Having little duration; opposite of long.
• adj. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of…
• adj. (cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
• adj. (cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
• adj. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
• adj. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread,…
• adj. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
• adj. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
• adj. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
• adj. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
• adj. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
• adj. In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying…
• adv. Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
• adv. Unawares.
• adv. Without achieving a goal or requirement.
• adv. (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing…
• adv. (finance) With a negative ownership position.
• n. A short circuit.
• n. A short film.
• n. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size.
• n. (baseball) A shortstop.
• n. (finance) A short seller.
• n. (finance) A short sale.
• n. A summary account.
• n. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
• n. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
• v. (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
• v. (intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
• v. (transitive) To shortchange.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
• v. (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for…
• v. (obsolete) To shorten.
• prep. Deficient in.
• prep. (finance) Having a negative position in.

shut

• v. (transitive) To close, to stop from being open.
• v. (intransitive) To close, to stop being open.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, chiefly Britain) To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be…
• v. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
• adj. closed.
• n. The act or time of shutting; close.
• n. A door or cover; a shutter.
• n. The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
• n. (Britain, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between…

skinny

• adj. (informal) Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.
• adj. (informal, of food or beverages) Low-fat.
• adj. Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
• n. (colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
• n. A state of nakedness; nudity.
• n. (informal) A low-fat serving of coffee.
• n. A skinny being.

snug

• n. (Britain) A small, comfortable back room in a pub.
• n. (engineering) A lug.
• adj. Comfortable; cosy (cozy); satisfactory.
• adj. Close-fitting.
• adj. Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
• v. To make secure or snug.
• v. To snuggle or nestle.

snuggled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of snuggle.

stingy

• adj. Stinging; able to sting.
• adj. Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
• adj. Small, scant, meager, insufficient.

stop

• v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
• v. (intransitive) To not continue.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
• v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
• v. (intransitive) To tarry.
• v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
• v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
• v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
• n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
• n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
• n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
• n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
• n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
• n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
• n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
• n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
• n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
• n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
• n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
• n. (photography) An f-stop.
• n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
• n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
• n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
• adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
• interj. halt! stop!
• punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
• adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

stuffy

• adj. Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
• adj. Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
• adj. (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
• adj. Boring, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
• n. (US, Canada, colloquial, often childish) A stuffed animal or other plush toy.

subdivision

• n. (countable, uncountable) a division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
• n. (countable) such a piece that has been divided.
• n. (countable) a parcel of land that has been divided into lots.
• n. (countable) a group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area.
• v. to separate something into smaller pieces.

surrounding

• v. present participle of surround.
• n. An outlaying area; area in proximity to something.
• n. An environment.
• adj. which surrounds something.

terminate

• v. (transitive or intransitive, formal) To end, especially in an incomplete state.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
• adj. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
• adj. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
• adj. (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

thick

• adj. Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
• adj. Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
• adj. Heavy in build; thickset.
• adj. Densely crowded or packed.
• adj. Having a viscous consistency.
• adj. Abounding in number.
• adj. Impenetrable to sight.
• adj. Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
• adj. (informal) Stupid.
• adj. (informal) Friendly or intimate.
• adj. Deep, intense, or profound.
• adj. (Britain, dated) troublesome; unreasonable.
• adj. (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
• adv. In a thick manner.
• adv. Thickly.
• adv. Frequently; in great numbers.
• n. The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
• n. A thicket.
• n. (slang) A stupid person; a fool.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To thicken.

tight

• adj. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
• adj. (of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass…
• adj. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
• adj. (slang) Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
• adj. (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
• adj. (slang, British (regional)) Mean; unfair; unkind.
• adj. (obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
• adj. (obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.
• adj. (poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.
• adj. (poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
• adv. Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
• adv. Soundly.
• v. (obsolete) To tighten.

tightlipped

• adj. Alternative spelling of tight-lipped.

trade

• n. (uncountable) Buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
• n. (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.
• n. (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
• n. (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
• n. (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
• n. (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
• n. (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector; as opposed to an agricultural, professional…
• n. (uncountable, Britain) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
• n. (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
• n. (uncountable, LGBT, slang) A brief sexual encounter.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Instruments of any occupation.
• n. (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
• n. (obsolete) A track or trail; a way; a path; passage.
• n. (obsolete) Course; custom; practice; occupation.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in trade.
• v. (intransitive) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
• v. (transitive) To give (something) in exchange for.
• v. (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
• v. (intransitive or transitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

unaired

• adj. Not aired.

uncommunicative

• adj. Tending not to communicate; not communicating.

ungenerous

• adj. Not generous; stingy.

unventilated

• adj. Not ventilated, lacking ventilation.

walking

• v. present participle of walk.
• n. gerund of walk.
• adj. Incarnate as a human; living.
• adj. Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
• adj. Characterized by or suitable for walking.

warm

• adj. Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
• adj. Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
• adj. Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
• adj. Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to…
• adj. (figuratively) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.
• adj. (archaic) Ardent, zealous.
• adj. (archaic) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; rich.
• adj. (archaic) Requiring arduous effort.
• v. (transitive) To make or keep warm.
• v. (intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.
• v. (intransitive) To favour increasingly.
• v. To become ardent or animated.
• v. To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
• n. (colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.