IMPRESSIVE PHRASES A able, skilful, thorough, and genuine absolute, complete, unqualified, and final accurate, precise, exact, and truthful active, alert, vigorous, and industrious actual, positive, certain, and genuine adequate, uniform, proportionate, and equitable adventurous, fine, active, and gossipy adverse, antagonistic, unfriendly, and hostile advisable, advantageous, acceptable, and expedient affable, diffident, humble, and mild affectionate, tender, loving, and attached affluent, opulent, abundant, and ample allurements, pits, snares, and torments anger, indignation, resentment, and rage animate, impel, instigate, and embolden animosity, malice, enmity, and hatred annul, frustrate, reverse, and destroy anxiety, caution, watchfulness, and solicitude apparent, ostensible, plausible, and specious appropriate, use, arrogate, and usurp approval, enthusiasm, sympathy, and applause aptitude, capacity, efficiency, and power arbitrary, dictatorial, domineering, and imperious architecture, sculpture, painting, and poetry ardent, impatient, keen, and vehement argue, discuss, dispute, and prove arrangement, place, time, and circumstance art, science, knowledge, and culture artful, wily, insincere, and disingenuous artificial, soulless, hectic, and unreal assemble, amass, accumulate, and acquire assiduity, tenderness, industry, and vigilance assurance, persuasion, fidelity, and loyalty attention, effort, diligence, and assiduity august, magnanimous, important, and distinguished authoritative, independent, arbitrary, and supreme avaricious, grasping, miserly, and parsimonious aversion, dislike, hatred, and repugnance B bad, vicious, unwholesome, and distressing babble, prate, chatter, and prattle barbarous, brutal, inhuman, and cruel base, cowardly, abject, and hideous battle, defeat, frustrate, and ruin bearing, deportment, manner, and behavior beg, entreat, implore, and supplicate beliefs, doctrines, ceremonies, and practices boorish, clownish, rude, and uncultivated boundless, immeasurable, unlimited, and infinite bravery, courage, fearlessness, and confidence breadth, knowledge, vision, and power brilliant, beautiful, elegant, and faithful broaden, enlarge, extend, and augment business, profession, occupation, and vocation C candid, sincere, familiar, and ingenuous captious, petulant, peevish, and splenetic cautious, discreet, considerate, and provident certain, confident, positive, and unquestionable chagrin, vexation, irritation, and mortification character, disposition, temperament, and reputation charm, fascinate, bewitch, and captivate cheap, inexpensive, inferior, and common cheer, animate, vivify, and exhilarate [vivify = bring life to] chiefly, particularly, principally, and especially childhood, youth, manhood, and age circumstance, condition, environment, and surroundings claim, grab, trick, and compel clean, fastidious, frugal, and refined clear, distinct, obvious, and intelligible clumsy, crawling, snobbish, and comfort-loving coarse, gross, offensive, and nauseous coax, flatter, wheedle, and persuade cogitate, contemplate, meditate, and ponder cold, frigid, unfeeling, and stoical commanding, authoritative, imperative, and peremptory [peremptory = ending all debate or action] compassion, goodwill, admiration, and enthusiasm confirm, establish, sustain, and strengthen conform, submit, obey, and satisfy confuse, distort, involve, and misinterpret consistent, congruous, firm, and harmonious cool, collected, calm, and self-possessed copious, commanding, sonorous, and emotional cowardly, timid, shrinking, and timorous crazy, absurd, nonsensical, and preposterous crude, rough, jagged, and pitiless D daring, cordial, discerning, and optimistic darkness, dimness, dulness, and blackness deadly, destructive, fatal, and implacable deceit, delusion, treachery, and sham deep, abstruse, learned, and profound deficient, inadequate, scanty, and incomplete define, explain, determine, and circumscribe degrade, defame, humble, and debase delicacy, daintiness, tact, and refinement delicious, sweet, palatable, and delightful democracy, equality, justice, and freedom deny, dismiss, exclude, and repudiate deprive, dispossess, divest, and despoil describe, delineate, depict, and characterize designed, contrived, planned, and executed desperate, extreme, wreckless, and irremediable despicable, abject, servile, and worthless destructive, detrimental, deleterious, and subversive desultory, discursive, loose, and unmethodical detestable, abominable, horrible, and hideous developed, revealed, measured, and tested difference, disagreement, discord, and estrangement difficult, arduous, intricate, and perplexing diffuse, discursive, rambling, and wordy diligence, attention, industry, and assiduity disagreement, discrepancy, difference, and divergence disconsolate, desolate, pessimistic, and impossible discrimination, acuteness, insight, and judgment disgust, distaste, loathing, and abhorrence dissatisfied, rebellious, unsettled, and satirical distinct, definite, clear, and obvious distinguished, glorious, illustrious, and eminent disturbed, shaken, distressed, and bewildered docile, tractable, compliant, and teachable dogmatic, bigoted, libelous, and unsympathizing doubt, indecision, suspense, and perplexity dread, disgust, repugnance, and dreariness dreary, dispirited, unhappy, and peevish dry, lifeless, tiresome, and uninteresting dubious, equivocal, fluctuating, and uncertain dull, heavy, painstaking, and conscientious E earth, air, stars, and sea efficient, forcible, adequate, and potent emaciated, scraggy, meager, and attenuated endless, ceaseless, immutable, and imperishable energy, eagerness, earnestness, and enthusiasm enhance, exalt, elevate, and intensify enormous, base, prodigious, and colossal enrage, incense, infuriate, and exasperate enthusiasm, devotion, intensity, and zeal envy, discontent, deception, and ignorance equitable, reasonable, just, and honest equivocal, uncertain, cloudy, and ambiguous eradicate, extirpate, exterminate, and annihilate erroneous, faulty, inaccurate, and inexact eternal, unchangeable, unerring, and intelligent evil, misfortune, corruption, and disaster exacting, suspicious, irritable, and wayward exalt, dignify, elevate, and extol examination, inquiry, scrutiny, and research exceed, outdo, surpass, and transcend exceptional, uncommon, abnormal, and extraordinary excitement, distraction, diversion, and stimulation exhaustive, thorough, radical, and complete expend, dissipate, waste, and squander F facile, showy, cheap, and superficial faithful, truthful, loyal, and trustworthy fame, distinction, dignity, and honor fanatic, enthusiast, visionary, and zealot fanciful, unreal, fantastic, and grotesque fancy, humor, vagary, and caprice fashion, practise, habit, and usage fastidious, proud, gracious, and poised fate, fortune, contingency, and opportunity fatuous, dreamy, moony, and impracticable fear, timidity, cowardice, and pusillanimity feeble, languid, timid, and irresolute ferocious, restive, savage, and uncultivated fervent, enthusiastic, anxious, and zealous fiction, fancy, falsehood, and fabrication fine, fragile, delicate, and dainty firmness, steadfastness, stability, and tenacity flash, flame, flare, and glare flat, insipid, tame, and monotonous fluctuating, hesitating, vacillating, and oscillating folly, foolishness, imbecility, and fatuity foolhardy, hasty, adventurous, and reckless fop, coxcomb, puppy, and jackanapes [jackanapes = conceited person] force, vigor, power, and energy formal, precise, stiff, and methodical fortunate, happy, prosperous, and successful fragile, frail, brittle, and delicate freedom, familiarity, liberty, and independence frightful, fearful, direful, and dreadful frivolous, trifling, petty, and childish fruitful, fertile, prolific, and productive fruitless, vain, trivial, and foolish frustrate, defeat, disappoint, and thwart fully, completely, abundantly, and perfectly furious, impetuous, boisterous, and vehement G gaiety, merriment, joy, and hilarity gallant, ardent, fearless, and self-sacrificing garnish, embellish, beautify, and decorate generous, candid, easy, and independent genius, intellect, aptitude, and capacity genteel, refined, polished, and well-bred gentle, persuasive, affective, and simple genuine, true, unaffected, and sincere ghastly, grim, shocking, and hideous gibe, mock, taunt, and jeer giddy, fickle, flighty, and thoughtless gleam, glimmer, glance, and glitter gloomy, dismal, dark, and dejected glorious, noble, exalted, and resplendent glut, gorge, cloy, and satiate [cloy = too filling, rich, or sweet] good, safe, venerable, and solid government, law, order, and organization grand, stately, dignified, and pompous grave, contemplative, reserved, and profound great, joyous, strong, and triumphant greed, avarice, covetousness, and cupidity gross, academic, vulgar, and indiscriminate H habit, custom, method, and fashion handsome, exquisite, brilliant, and accomplished harmless, innocent, innocuous, and inoffensive harmony, order, sublimity, and beauty harsh, discordant, disagreeable, and ungracious hasty, superficial, impatient, and desultory healed, soothed, consoled, and assuaged healthy, hale, sound, and wholesome heavy, sluggish, dejected, and crushing high-minded, truthful, honest, and courageous holy, hallowed, sacred, and consecrated homely, hideous, horrid, and unsightly honor, obedience, virtue, and loyalty hopefulness, peace, sweetness, and strength hopes, dreams, programs, and ideals hospitable, generous, tolerant, and kindly hot, hasty, fervent, and fiery humane, gentle, kind, and generous humble, simple, submissive, and unostentatious I idea, imagination, conception, and ideal idleness, recreation, repose, and rest ignominious, infamous, despicable, and contemptible illumine, instruct, enlighten, and inform imaginative, sensitive, nervous, and highly-strung impatience, indolence, wastefulness, and inconclusiveness impel, stimulate, animate, and inspirit imperious, wayward, empirical, and impatient improvident, incautious, prodigal, and thriftless impudent, insolent, irrelevant, and officious inadvertency, carelessness, negligence, and oversight indecision, doubt, fear, and lassitude indifference, caution, coldness, and weariness indolent, passive, sluggish, and slothful ineffectual, powerless, useless, and unavailing infamy, shame, dishonor, and disgrace infantile, childish, boyish, and dutiful informal, natural, unconventional, and careless insolent, impudent, impertinent, and flippant integrity, frankness, sincerity, and truthfulness intellectual, moral, emotional, and esthetic intense, earnest, violent, and extreme invent, discover, design, and contrive inveterate, confirmed, chronic, and obstinate invidious, envious, odious, and offensive invincible, unconquerable, insurmountable, and insuperable irksome, tiresome, tedious, and annoying irregular, uncertain, devious, and unsystematic irritable, choleric, petulant, and susceptible J jangle, wrangle, squabble, and quarrel jealousy, suspicion, envy, and watchfulness joyful, lively, happy, and hilarious judgment, discrimination, penetration, and sagacity [sagacity = farsighted; wise] just, impartial, equitable, and unbiased juvenile, childish, trifling, and puerile [puerile = immature; childish] K keen, intelligent, penetrating, and severe keep, protect, support, and sustain kind, sympathetic, ready, and appreciative kingly, noble, imperial, and august knowledge, learning, enlightenment, and understanding L lapses, makeshifts, delays, and irregularities lawful, legitimate, allowable, and just lazy, listless, drowsy, and indifferent lightly, freely, unscrupulously, and irresponsibly lively, vivacious, vigorous, and forcible loss, deprivation, forfeiture, and waste loud, noisy, showy, and clamorous loutish, prankish, selfish, and cunning love, depth, loyalty, and faithfulness lucidity, impressiveness, incisiveness, and pungency [pungency = to the point] M malice, anger, uncharitableness, and indignation malignity, brutality, malevolence, and inhumanity manners, morals, habits, and behavior marvelous, wonderful, extraordinary, and incredible massive, ponderous, solid, and substantial mastery, proficiency, dexterity, and superiority matchless, unrivaled, inimitable, and incomparable maxim, proverb, truism, and apothegm medley, mixture, jumble, and hodge-podge meekness, inwardness, patience, and self-denial merciless, remorseless, relentless, and ruthless mild, gentle, humble, and submissive mismanagement, indecision, obstinacy, and hardihood mixture, medley, variety, and diversification modesty, fineness, sensitiveness, and fastidiousness money, position, power, and consequence mood, temper, humor, and caprice motive, impulse, incentive, and intimation mysterious, dark, secret, and enigmatical N narrow, limited, selfish, and bigoted necessary, expedient, indispensable, and unavoidable necessity, emergency, exigency, and crisis [exigency = urgent situation] neglect, overlook, disregard, and contemn [contemn = despise] nice, finical, effeminate, and silly [finical = Finicky] niggardly, close, miserly, and parsimonious noble, pure, exalted, and worthy nonsense, trash, twaddle, and rubbish novel, recent, rare, and unusual noxious, unwholesome, mischievous, and destructive O obdurate, unfeeling, callous, and obstinate obedient, respectful, dutiful, and submissive object, propose, protest, and decline obliging, kind, helpful, and courteous obscure, shadowy, intricate, and mysterious obsequious, cringing, fawning, and servile [obsequious = fawning.] observations, sentiments, ideas, and theories obstinacy, pertinacity, stubbornness, and inflexibility [pertinacity = persistent] offensive, disagreeable, distasteful, and obnoxious officious, impertinent, insolent, and meddlesome P particular, precise, formal, and punctilious [punctilious = scrupulous] passions, weaknesses, uglinesses, and deformities patient, loyal, hard-working, and true peace, quiet, tranquillity, and harmony peculiar, individual, specific, and appropriate perplex, embarrass, confuse, and mystify phrases, figures, metaphors, and quotations piteous, woebegone, dismal, and dolorous placid, meek, gentle, and moderate plain, transparent, simple, and obvious play, diversion, pastime, and amusement pleasant, jocular, witty, and facetious pliable, ductile, supple, and yielding poetry, sentiment, morality, and religion polished, deft, superficial, and conventional polite, polished, cultured, and refined positive, direct, explicit, and dogmatic powerful, efficient, vivid, and forcible precise, delicate, discriminating, and fastidious prejudicial, injurious, noxious, and pernicious preposterous, irrational, unreasonable, and nonsensical pretense, subterfuge, simulation, and disguise prevent, restrain, dissuade, and dishearten primary, foremost, leading, and principal probity, directness, simplicity, and sincerity [probity = integrity] profession, business, trade, and vocation profit, advantage, benefit, and emolument [emolument = compensation] profuse, excessive, copious, and extravagant progress, prosperity, peace, and happiness prolix, prosaic, prolonged, and wordy [prolix = excessive length] property, comforts, habits, and conveniences prudence, judgment, wisdom, and discretion pulsing, coursing, throbbing, and beating pure, kind, sweet-tempered, and unselfish purified, exalted, fortified, and illumined purpose, meaning, scope, and tendency Q quack, imposture, charlatan, and mountebank qualified, powerful, vigorous, and effective quality, property, attribute, and character quarrels, misunderstandings, enmities, and disapprovals queries, echoes, reactions, and after-thoughts quick, impetuous, sweeping, and expeditious quiet, peaceful, sane, and normal R racy, smart, spicy, and pungent rational, sane, sound, and sensible ravenous, greedy, voracious, and grasping recreation, sport, pastime, and amusement relation, work, duty, and pleasure reliable, accurate, truthful, and duty-loving reports, stories, rumors, and suspicions reproach, dishonor, disgrace, and ignominy restrained, calm, quiet, and placid reverential, disciplined, self-controlling, and devoted rigid, inelastic, stiff, and unbending rough, rude, gruff, and surly rude, curt, insolent, and unpleasant S sad, despondent, melancholy, and depressed sane, sober, sound, and rational scandalize, vilify, traduce, and offend scanty, pinched, slender, and insufficient science, art, religion, and philosophy scope, design, purpose, and judgment sensual, cruel, selfish, and unscrupulous sentence, judgment, verdict, and doom serene, composed, conservative, and orderly several, sundry, many, and various severe, stern, stiff, and stringent shameless, corrupt, depraved, and vicious shock, surprise, terror, and forlornness simple, hearty, joyous, and affectionate sin, injustice, grievance, and crime skill, courage, prowess, and attractiveness sleepy, soporific, sluggish, and dull [soporific = induces sleep] slim, slender, slight, and scraggy slow, dilatory, slack, and procrastinating [dilatory = postpone] solemn, profound, serious, and difficult solicit, urge, implore, and importune [importune = insistent requests] sorrow, disaster, unhappiness, and bereavement spontaneity, freedom, ease, and adequacy stately, stern, august, and implacable steady, reliable, dependable, and well-balanced stern, severe, abrupt, and unreasonable stories, pictures, shows and representations strength, agility, violence, and activity strong, inventive, daring, and resourceful sublime, consoling, inspiring, and beautiful substantial, solid, strong, and durable suffering, regret, bitterness, and fatigue superficial, shallow, flimsy, and untrustworthy superfluous, excessive, unnecessary, and redundant suspicious, cynical, crafty, and timid symmetry, proportion, harmony, and regularity T tact, courtesy, adroitness, and skill talents, opportunities, influence, and power talkative, selfish, superstitious, and inquisitive tastes, appetites, passions, and desires tease, tantalize, worry, and provoke tenacious, stubborn, pertinacious, and obstinate tendency, drift, scope, and disposition tests, trials, temptations, and toils theatrical, ceremonious, meretricious, and ostentatious [meretricious = plausible but insincere] theory, assumption, speculation, and conjecture think, reflect, weigh, and ponder tortuous, twisted, sinuous, and circuitous tractable, gentle, pliant, and submissive traditional, uncertain, legendary, and unverified traffic, trade, commerce, and intercourse tricky, insincere, wily, and shifty trite, ordinary, commonplace, and hackneyed trivial, petty, frivolous, and insignificant true, upright, real, and authentic tumultuous, riotous, disorderly, and turbulent U ugly, evil, hateful, and base uncertain, questionable, erroneous, and mistaken unctuous, shrill, brisk, and demonstrative unhappy, unfortunate, distressed, and disastrous uninteresting, lifeless, obscure, and commonplace unity, aggressiveness, efficiency, and force unkind, severe, oppressive, and callous unpractical, childish, slipshod, and silly unreasonable, foolish, excessive, and absurd unrivaled, unequaled, incomparable, and matchless upright, high-minded, brave, and liberal urgent, important, immediate, and imperative usage, custom, habit, and practise V vain, useless, unproductive, and unavailing vanities, envies, devices, and jealousies vast, scattered, various, and incalculable versatile, eloquent, sagacious, and talented [sagacious = wise] vigorous, upright, dignified, and imperative vile, mean, debased, and sordid violent, impetuous, intense, and ungovernable virtuous, upright, honest, and moral visionary, dreamy, pensive, and sensitive vulgar, heavy, narrow, and obtuse W want, lack, poverty, and paucity warm, soft, clear, and serene waste, devastate, pillage, and destroy watched, tendered, fostered, and pruned weak, inefficient, stupid, and futile wealth, position, influence, and reputation well-being, happiness, prosperity, and distress wild, restless, aimless, and erring wisdom, judgment, understanding, and far-sightedness wit, purity, energy, and simplicity wonderful, interesting, active, and delightful works, sorrows, visions, and experiences worry, annoyance, awkwardness, and difficulty |
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