meaningless | (adjective) having no meaning or direction or purpose | Synonyms: nonmeaningful |
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(adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing |
meaninglessness | (noun) the quality of having no value or significance | - |
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(noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality |
mingle | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: amalgamate, commix, mix, unify |
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(verb) get involved or mixed-up with | - |
(verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: jumble |
neglect | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, negligence, nonperformance |
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(noun) willful lack of care and attention | Synonyms: disregard |
(noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglectfulness, negligence |
(noun) lack of attention and due care | Synonyms: disregard |
(noun) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | Synonyms: disuse |
(verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
(verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, ignore |
(verb) fail to attend to | - |
(verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: fail |
neglected | (adjective) lacking a caretaker | Synonyms: unattended |
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(adjective) disregarded | Synonyms: ignored, unheeded |
neglecter | (noun) a person who is neglectful and gives little attention or respect to people or responsibilities | - |
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neglectful | (adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: delinquent, derelict, remiss |
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(adjective) not showing due care or attention | Synonyms: inattentive |
neglectfully | (adverb) in a neglectful manner | - |
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neglectfulness | (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, negligence |
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newfangled | (adjective) (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new | Synonyms: new-fangled |
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niggle | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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(verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fret, fuss |
niggler | (noun) someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way | Synonyms: carper |
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ogle | (verb) look at with amorous intentions | Synonyms: perv, perve |
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ogler | (noun) a viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person | - |
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paigle | (noun) early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers | Synonyms: cowslip, Primula veris |
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(noun) Eurasian primrose with yellow flowers clustered in a one-sided umbel | Synonyms: oxlip, Primula elatior |
pegleg | (noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: leg, peg, wooden leg |
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pentangle | (noun) a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon | Synonyms: pentacle, pentagram |
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piglet | (noun) a young pig | Synonyms: piggy, shoat, shote |
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porbeagle | (noun) voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Lamna nasus |
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quadrangle | (noun) a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings | Synonyms: quad |
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(noun) a four-sided polygon | Synonyms: quadrilateral, tetragon |
rectangle | (noun) a parallelogram with four right angles | - |
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ringleader | (noun) a person who leads (especially in illicit activities) | - |
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ringlet | (noun) any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae | Synonyms: ringlet butterfly |
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(noun) a little ring | - |
(noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: curl, whorl |
(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, roll, scroll, whorl |
ringleted | (adjective) (of hair) shaped into ringlets | - |
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shingle | (noun) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. | - |
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(noun) building material used as siding or roofing | Synonyms: shake |
(noun) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) | - |
(verb) cover with shingles | - |
shingler | (noun) a worker who shingles roofs | - |
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shingles | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, zoster |
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single | (adjective) being or characteristic of a single thing or person | Synonyms: individual |
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(adjective) not married or related to the unmarried state | Synonyms: unmarried |
(adjective) used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals | - |
(adjective) existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual | - |
(adjective) not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective | Synonyms: exclusive, undivided |
(adjective) having uniform application | - |
(adjective) characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing | Synonyms: individual |
(noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base | Synonyms: bingle |
(noun) the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: 1, ace, I, one, unity |
(verb) hit a single | - |
singleness | (noun) the quality of concentrating on one central objective | - |
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(noun) without hypocrisy | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
singles | (noun) tennis played with one person on each side | - |
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(noun) badminton played with one person on each side | - |
singlestick | (noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: backsword, fencing stick |
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singlet | (noun) a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body | Synonyms: undershirt, vest |
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singleton | (noun) the playing card that is the only card in a suit held in a bridge hand as initially dealt | - |
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(noun) a set containing a single member | - |
(noun) a single object (as distinguished from a pair) | - |
smuggle | (verb) import or export without paying customs duties | - |
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smuggled | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, bootleg, contraband |
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smuggler | (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: contrabandist, moon-curser, moon curser, runner |
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snuggle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: cuddle, nestle |
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(verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle |
(verb) position comfortably | Synonyms: nestle |
snuggled | (adjective) drawn or pressed close to someone or something for or as if for affection or protection | Synonyms: nestled |
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spangle | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: diamante, sequin |
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(verb) decorate with spangles | Synonyms: bespangle |
(verb) glitter as if covered with spangles | - |
spangled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangly |
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spreadeagle | (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: rout, spread-eagle |
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springless | (adjective) lacking in elasticity or vitality | - |
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squiggle | (noun) a short twisting line | Synonyms: curlicue |
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(noun) an illegible scrawl | - |
stingless | (adjective) without a sting | - |
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straggle | (noun) a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons) | - |
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(verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, digress, sidetrack |
(verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: sprawl |
straggler | (noun) someone who strays or falls behind | Synonyms: strayer |
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strangle | (verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | Synonyms: choke |
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(verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, gag, suffocate |
(verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, halter, hamper |
(verb) die from strangulation | - |
(verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangulate, throttle |
(verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, smother, stifle |
strangled | (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: smothered, stifled, suppressed |
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stranglehold | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe | - |
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(noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, throttlehold |
strangler | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, throttler |
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(noun) an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree | Synonyms: strangler tree |
strangles | (noun) an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes | Synonyms: equine distemper |
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struggle | (noun) strenuous effort | - |
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(noun) an energetic attempt to achieve something | Synonyms: battle |
(noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: battle, conflict |
(verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, fight |
(verb) to exert strenuous effort against opposition | - |
(verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter |
(verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: fight |
struggler | (noun) a person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort | - |
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swingletree | (noun) a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling | Synonyms: whiffletree, whippletree |
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tangle | (noun) something jumbled or confused | Synonyms: maze, snarl |
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(noun) a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven | - |
(verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: entangle, mat, snarl |
(verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: dishevel, tousle |
(verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: knot, ravel |
(verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up |
tanglebush | (noun) spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits | Synonyms: desert olive, Forestiera neomexicana |
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tangled | (adjective) in a confused mass | - |
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(adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tortuous |
tingle | (noun) a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings | Synonyms: prickling, tingling |
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(noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill |
(verb) cause a stinging or tingling sensation | Synonyms: prickle |
toggle | (noun) a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable) | - |
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(noun) a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions | Synonyms: on-off switch, on/off switch, toggle switch |
(noun) any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time | - |
(verb) fasten with, or as if with, a toggle | - |
(verb) release by a toggle switch | - |
(verb) provide with a toggle or toggles | - |
triangle | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle | - |
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(noun) any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles | - |
(noun) a three-sided polygon | Synonyms: trigon, trilateral |
(noun) something approximating the shape of a triangle | - |
unmingled | (adjective) not mixed with extraneous elements | Synonyms: plain, sheer, unmixed |
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untangle | (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble |
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(verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, disentangle, extricate |
untangled | (adjective) not tangled | - |
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waggle | (noun) causing to move repeatedly from side to side | Synonyms: shake, wag |
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(verb) move from side to side | Synonyms: wag |
(verb) move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion | Synonyms: wamble |
wangle | (noun) an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery | Synonyms: wangling |
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(verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, manage |
(verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent |
wangler | (noun) a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods | Synonyms: finagler |
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wiggle | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: squirm, wriggle |
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(verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: jiggle, joggle |
wiggler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm |
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(noun) larva of a mosquito | Synonyms: wriggler |
(noun) one who can't stay still (especially a child) | Synonyms: squirmer, wriggler |
wigless | (adjective) not wearing a wig | - |
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wingless | (adjective) lacking wings | - |
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wrangle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, haggling, wrangling |
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(noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, words |
(verb) to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively | Synonyms: brawl |
(verb) herd and care for | - |
wrangler | (noun) a cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses | Synonyms: horse wrangler |
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(noun) someone who argues noisily or angrily | - |
wriggle | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: squirm, wiggle |
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(verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wrestle, writhe |
wriggler | (noun) larva of a mosquito | Synonyms: wiggler |
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(noun) one who can't stay still (especially a child) | Synonyms: squirmer, wiggler |