Words that rhyme with consolute

adj 1: perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol" [ant: comparative, relative] 2: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity" [syn: absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)] 3: not limited by law; "an absolute monarch" 4: expressing finality with no implication of possible change; "an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority" 5: not capable of being violated or infringed; "infrangible human rights" [syn: absolute, infrangible, inviolable] n 1: something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative; "no mortal being can influence the absolute"

adj 1: having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course; "acute appendicitis"; "the acute phase of the illness"; "acute patients" [ant: chronic] 2: extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning" [syn: acute, intense] 3: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp] 4: of an angle; less than 90 degrees [ant: obtuse] 5: ending in a sharp point [syn: acuate, acute, sharp, needlelike] 6: of critical importance and consequence; "an acute (or critical) lack of research funds" n 1: a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation [syn: acute accent, acute, ague]

adj 1: marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow" [syn: astute, sharp, shrewd]

n 1: footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg 2: British term for the luggage compartment in a car 3: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick] 4: protective casing for something that resembles a leg 5: an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg [syn: boot, the boot, iron boot, iron heel] 6: a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed 7: the act of delivering a blow with the foot; "he gave the ball a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent" [syn: kick, boot, kicking] v 1: kick; give a boot to 2: cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes; "boot your computer" [syn: boot, reboot, bring up]

adj 1: (of champagne) extremely dry

adj 1: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal] n 1: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat] 2: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna]

n 1: a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides 2: a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper

n 1: rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall [syn: parachute, chute] 2: sloping channel through which things can descend [syn: chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough] v 1: jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute [syn: chute, parachute, jump]

n 1: a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work; "there is standing room only on the high-speed commute" v 1: exchange positions without a change in value; "These operators commute with each other" [syn: commute, transpose] 2: travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home 3: change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word" [syn: permute, commute, transpose] 4: exchange a penalty for a less severe one [syn: commute, convert, exchange] 5: exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares" [syn: change, exchange, commute, convert]

v 1: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure]

adj 1: rolled longitudinally upon itself; "a convolute petal" [syn: convolute, convoluted] v 1: curl, wind, or twist together [syn: convolve, convolute] 2: practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words" [syn: twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate]

n 1: slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks

adj 1: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn: cunning, cute] 2: obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms" [syn: cute, precious]

adj 1: reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic acid" [syn: diluted, dilute] [ant: undiluted] v 1: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" [syn: dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cut] 2: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn: load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase]

adj 1: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast]

v 1: wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography

n 1: a disreputable or clumsy man

v 1: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn: impute, ascribe, assign, attribute] 2: attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source; "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness"

adj 1: uncertain how to act or proceed; "the committee was timid and mediocre and irresolute" [ant: resolute]

n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money] 2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] v 1: take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" [syn: loot, plunder] 2: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]

n 1: a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid [syn: lute, luting] 2: chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear- shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard

v 1: make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" [syn: pollute, foul, contaminate]

v 1: overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments" [syn: refute, rebut] 2: prove to be false or incorrect [syn: refute, rebut, controvert]

n 1: the state of being held in high esteem and honor [syn: repute, reputation] [ant: discredit, disrepute] v 1: look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent" [syn: think of, repute, regard as, look upon, look on, esteem, take to be]

adj 1: firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination; "stood resolute against the enemy"; "faced with a resolute opposition"; "a resolute and unshakeable faith" [ant: irresolute] 2: characterized by quickness and firmness; "his reply was unhesitating" [syn: unhesitating, resolute]

n 1: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground 2: 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] 3: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical] 4: a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number 5: the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation [syn: solution, root] 6: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) [syn: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root] [ant: descendant, descendent] 7: a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes [syn: etymon, root] 8: the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support [syn: root, tooth root] v 1: take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly" 2: come into existence, originate; "The problem roots in her depression" 3: plant by the roots 4: dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn: rout, root, rootle] 5: become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down" [syn: settle, root, take root, steady down, settle down] 6: cause to take roots

n 1: an established line of travel or access [syn: path, route, itinerary] 2: an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation [syn: road, route] v 1: send documents or materials to appropriate destinations 2: send via a specific route 3: divert in a specified direction; "divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders"

n 1: an act of honor or courteous recognition; "a musical salute to the composer on his birthday" [syn: salute, salutation] 2: a formal military gesture of respect [syn: salute, military greeting] 3: an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat v 1: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail] 2: greet in a friendly way; "I meet this men every day on my way to work and he salutes me" 3: express commendation of; "I salute your courage!" 4: become noticeable; "a terrible stench saluted our nostrils" 5: honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers 6: recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position; "When the officers show up, the soldiers have to salute" [syn: salute, present]

v 1: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot]

n 1: a new branch 2: the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer" v 1: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit, pip] 2: kill by firing a missile [syn: shoot, pip] 3: fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" [syn: blast, shoot] 4: make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" [syn: film, shoot, take] 5: send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance" 6: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot] 7: move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck] 8: throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball" 9: record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" [syn: photograph, snap, shoot] 10: emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth" 11: cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg" 12: force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: inject, shoot] 13: variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors; "shoot cloth" 14: throw dice, as in a crap game 15: spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away] 16: score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal" 17: utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer" 18: measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star" 19: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout] 20: give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein" [syn: inject, shoot]

n 1: a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers [syn: sanicle, snakeroot] 2: any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads [syn: blazing star, button snakeroot, gayfeather, gay- feather, snakeroot]

adj 1: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate] n 1: ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center [syn: spiral, volute] 2: a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope" [syn: coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix]

n 1: capital and largest city of Lebanon; located in western Lebanon on the Mediterranean [syn: Bayrut, Beirut, capital of Lebanon]

n 1: collusion; "in cahoots with"

n 1: an outstanding example of its kind; "his roses were beauties"; "when I make a mistake it's a beaut" [syn: beauty, beaut]

n 1: a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska [syn: Aleut, Aleutian] 2: a community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska; "the Aleut and the Eskimo are related culturally and linguistically" 3: the language spoken by the Aleut

adj 1: especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward [syn: involute, rolled] 2: (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured