Words that rhyme with bourse

  • inconspicuous
    adj 1: not prominent or readily noticeable; "he pushed the string through an inconspicuous hole"; "the invisible man" [syn: inconspicuous, invisible] [ant: conspicuous]
  • ambiguous
    adj 1: open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question" [syn: equivocal, ambiguous] [ant: unambiguous, unequivocal, univocal] 2: having more than one possible meaning; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy" [ant: unambiguous] 3: having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns; "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"; "ambiguous inkblots"
  • anfractuous
    adj 1: full of twists and turns; "anfractuous cliffs"
  • arduous
    adj 1: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome] 2: taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"- F.D.Roosevelt [syn: arduous, straining, strenuous] 3: difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill; "the arduous work of preparing a dictionary"
  • assiduous
    adj 1: marked by care and persistent effort; "her assiduous attempts to learn French"; "assiduous research"; "sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles" [syn: assiduous, sedulous]
  • coarse
    adj 1: of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave" [syn: coarse, harsh] [ant: fine] 2: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar] 3: of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" [syn: coarse, common]
  • congruous
    adj 1: corresponding in character or kind [syn: congruous, congruent] [ant: incongruous] 2: suitable or appropriate together
  • contemptuous
    adj 1: expressing extreme contempt [syn: contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful]
  • contiguous
    adj 1: very close or connected in space or time; "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past" [syn: contiguous, immediate] 2: connecting without a break; within a common boundary; "the 48 conterminous states"; "the contiguous 48 states" [syn: conterminous, contiguous] 3: having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; "Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring cities" [syn: adjacent, conterminous, contiguous, neighboring(a)]
  • continuous
    adj 1: continuing in time or space without interruption; "a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light"- James Jeans; "a continuous bout of illness lasting six months"; "lived in continuous fear"; "a continuous row of warehouses"; "a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it"; "moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks" [syn: continuous, uninterrupted] [ant: discontinuous, noncontinuous] 2: of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity [ant: discontinuous]
  • course
    adv 1: as might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill" [syn: naturally, of course, course] [ant: unnaturally] n 1: education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes" [syn: course, course of study, course of instruction, class] 2: a connected series of events or actions or developments; "the government took a firm course"; "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available" [syn: course, line] 3: general line of orientation; "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast" [syn: course, trend] 4: a mode of action; "if you persist in that course you will surely fail"; "once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place" [syn: course, course of action] 5: a line or route along which something travels or moves; "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river" [syn: path, track, course] 6: a body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy" [syn: class, form, grade, course] 7: part of a meal served at one time; "she prepared a three course meal" 8: (construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks" [syn: course, row] 9: facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport; "the course had only nine holes"; "the course was less than a mile" v 1: move swiftly through or over; "ships coursing the Atlantic" 2: move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: run, flow, feed, course] 3: hunt with hounds; "He often courses hares"
  • deciduous
    adj 1: (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season [ant: evergreen] 2: (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth; "deciduous teeth"
  • discontinuous
    adj 1: of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities [ant: continuous] 2: not continuing without interruption in time or space; "discontinuous applause"; "the landscape was a discontinuous mosaic of fields and forest areas"; "he received a somewhat haphazard and discontinuous schooling" [syn: discontinuous, noncontinuous] [ant: continuous, uninterrupted]
  • disingenuous
    adj 1: not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse" [syn: disingenuous, artful] [ant: artless, ingenuous]
  • divorce
    n 1: the legal dissolution of a marriage [syn: divorce, divorcement] v 1: part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" [syn: disassociate, dissociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint] 2: get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; "The couple divorced after only 6 months" [syn: divorce, split up]
  • endorse
    v 1: be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960" [syn: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support] 2: give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project" [syn: second, back, endorse, indorse] 3: guarantee as meeting a certain standard; "certified grade AAA meat" [syn: certify, endorse, indorse] 4: sign as evidence of legal transfer; "endorse cheques" [syn: endorse, indorse]
  • enforce
    v 1: ensure observance of laws and rules; "Apply the rules to everyone"; [syn: enforce, implement, apply] [ant: exempt, free, relieve] 2: compel to behave in a certain way; "Social relations impose courtesy" [syn: enforce, impose]
  • exiguous
    adj 1: extremely scanty; "an exiguous budget"
  • fatuous
    adj 1: devoid of intelligence [syn: asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuous]
  • flexuous
    adj 1: having turns or windings; "the flexuous bed of the stream"
  • force
    n 1: a powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them" 2: (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration" 3: physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man" [syn: force, forcefulness, strength] 4: group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens" [syn: force, personnel] 5: a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men" [syn: military unit, military force, military group, force] 6: an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one" [syn: violence, force] 7: one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil" [syn: power, force] 8: a group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined forces with a band of adventurers" 9: (of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect" [syn: effect, force] 10: a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base; "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force" [syn: force out, force-out, force play, force] v 1: to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information" [syn: coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force] 2: urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate [syn: impel, force] 3: move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner" [syn: push, force] [ant: draw, force, pull] 4: impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him" [syn: force, thrust] 5: squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner" [syn: wedge, squeeze, force] 6: force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad" [syn: force, drive, ram] 7: cause to move by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled" [syn: pull, draw, force] [ant: force, push] 8: do forcibly; exert force; "Don't force it!" 9: take by force; "Storm the fort" [syn: storm, force]
  • gorse
    n 1: very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden- yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe [syn: gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus]
  • hoarse
    adj 1: deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson [syn: gruff, hoarse, husky]
  • horse
    n 1: solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times [syn: horse, Equus caballus] 2: a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs [syn: horse, gymnastic horse] 3: troops trained to fight on horseback; "500 horse led the attack" [syn: cavalry, horse cavalry, horse] 4: a framework for holding wood that is being sawed [syn: sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck] 5: a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) [syn: knight, horse] v 1: provide with a horse or horses
  • impetuous
    adj 1: characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic) [syn: hotheaded, impulsive, impetuous, madcap, tearaway(a), brainish] 2: marked by violent force; "impetuous heaving waves"
  • incestuous
    adj 1: resembling incest as by excessive intimacy 2: relating to or involving incest
  • incongruous
    adj 1: lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness; "a plan incongruous with reason"; "incongruous behavior"; "a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation" [ant: congruent, congruous]
  • ingenuous
    adj 1: characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility" [syn: ingenuous, artless] [ant: artful, disingenuous] 2: lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it" [syn: innocent, ingenuous]
  • innocuous
    adj 1: not injurious to physical or mental health [ant: noxious] 2: not causing disapproval; "it was an innocuous remark"; "confined himself to innocuous generalities"; "unobjectionable behavior" [syn: innocuous, unobjectionable] 3: lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank" [syn: innocent, innocuous]
  • mellifluous
    adj 1: pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet]
  • perforce
    adv 1: by necessity; by force of circumstance
  • perspicuous
    adj 1: (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn: limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear, perspicuous]
  • presumptuous
    adj 1: excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants" [syn: assumptive, assuming, presumptuous]
  • promiscuous
    adj 1: not selective of a single class or person; "Clinton was criticized for his promiscuous solicitation of campaign money" 2: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior" [syn: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton]
  • reinforce
    v 1: make stronger; "he reinforced the concrete" [syn: reinforce, reenforce] 2: strengthen and support with rewards; "Let's reinforce good behavior" [syn: reinforce, reward]
  • remorse
    n 1: a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) [syn: compunction, remorse, self-reproach]
  • sauce
    n 1: flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food v 1: behave saucily or impudently towards 2: dress (food) with a relish 3: add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the roast"
  • sensuous
    adj 1: taking delight in beauty; "the sensuous joy from all things fair"
  • sensuously
    adv 1: with aesthetic gratification or delight; "sensuously delighting in the wine and food"
  • sinuous
    adj 1: curved or curving in and out; "wiggly lines" [syn: sinuate, sinuous, wiggly]
  • source
    n 1: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source] 2: a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story" 3: anything that provides inspiration for later work [syn: source, seed, germ] 4: a facility where something is available 5: a person who supplies information [syn: informant, source] 6: someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints" [syn: generator, source, author] 7: (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide" [ant: sink] 8: anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies; "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival" [syn: reservoir, source] 9: a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation" [syn: reference, source] v 1: get (a product) from another country or business; "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies" 2: specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her report"
  • spirituous
    adj 1: containing or of the nature of alcohol; "spiritous beverages"; "spirituous liquors" [syn: spirituous, spiritous]
  • strenuous
    adj 1: characterized by or performed with much energy or force; "strenuous exercise" 2: taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"- F.D.Roosevelt [syn: arduous, straining, strenuous]
  • sumptuous
    adj 1: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms" [syn: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous]
  • superfluous
    adj 1: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted] 2: more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus]
  • tempestuous
    adj 1: characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy argument"; "a stormy marriage" [syn: stormy, tempestuous] 2: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous, wild]
  • tenuous
    adj 1: having thin consistency; "a tenuous fluid" 2: very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread" 3: lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame" [syn: flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin]
  • tortuous
    adj 1: highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous] 2: marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track" [syn: tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding, voluminous] 3: not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"
  • tumultuous
    adj 1: characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood" [syn: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent]
  • unambiguous
    adj 1: having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; "As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous"- Mario Vargas Llosa [ant: ambiguous] 2: admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion; "unequivocal evidence"; "took an unequivocal position"; "an unequivocal success"; "an unequivocal promise"; "an unequivocal (or univocal) statement" [syn: unequivocal, univocal, unambiguous] [ant: ambiguous, equivocal]
  • unctuous
    adj 1: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments" [syn: buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous]
  • vacuous
    adj 1: devoid of intelligence [syn: asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuous] 2: devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments" [syn: empty, hollow, vacuous] 3: devoid of matter; "a vacuous space" 4: void of expression; "a blank stare" [syn: blank, vacuous]
  • virtuous
    adj 1: morally excellent [ant: wicked] 2: in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal" [syn: pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous]
  • voluptuous
    adj 1: having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman"; "a toothsome blonde in a tight dress" [syn: juicy, luscious, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous] 2: (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress" [syn: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed] 3: displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness" [syn: epicurean, luxurious, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous]
  • workforce
    n 1: the force of workers available [syn: work force, workforce, manpower, hands, men]
  • corse
    n 1: an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France [syn: Corse, Corsica] 2: a region of France on the island of Corsica; birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte [syn: Corse, Corsica]
  • morse
    n 1: a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals) [syn: Morse, Morse code, international Morse code] 2: United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872) [syn: Morse, Samuel Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel Finley Breese Morse]
  • norse
    adj 1: of or relating to Scandinavia or its peoples or cultures; "Norse sagas"; "Norse nomads" [syn: Scandinavian, Norse] 2: of or relating to Norway or its people or culture or language; "Norwegian herring" [syn: Norwegian, Norse] n 1: an inhabitant of Scandinavia [syn: Scandinavian, Norse, Northman] 2: a native or inhabitant of Norway [syn: Norwegian, Norseman, Norse] 3: the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland [syn: Scandinavian, Scandinavian language, Nordic, Norse, North Germanic, North Germanic language]
  • outsource
    v 1: obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out; "Many companies outsource and hire consultants in order to maintain a flexible workforce"
  • fourths
  • fructuous
  • midcourse
  • nocuous
  • bors
  • borse
  • forse
  • morss
  • nourse
  • sorce
  • torse
  • vorce
  • ensource
  • laforce
  • wilberforce

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