Words that rhyme with deterrent

• aberrant 0
  adj 1: markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas" [syn: aberrant, deviant, deviate] n 1: one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group
• abhorrent 0
  adj 1: offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels" [syn: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive]
• apparent 0
  adj 1: clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view" [syn: apparent, evident, manifest, patent, plain, unmistakable] 2: appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty" [syn: apparent(a), ostensible, seeming(a)]
• arrant 0
  adj 1: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated]
• aspirant 0
  adj 1: desiring or striving for recognition or advancement [syn: aspirant, aspiring(a), wishful] n 1: an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes" [syn: aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee]
• concurrent 0
  adj 1: occurring or operating at the same time; "a series of coincident events" [syn: coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, co-occurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous]
• crosscurrent 0
  n 1: a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current [syn: rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent] 2: actions counter to the main group activity; "political crosscurrents disrupted the conference" [syn: countercurrent, crosscurrent]
• currant 0
  n 1: any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams 2: any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants [syn: currant, currant bush] 3: small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking
• current 0
  adj 1: occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position" [ant: noncurrent] n 1: a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes" [syn: current, electric current] 2: a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water" [syn: current, stream] 3: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history" [syn: stream, flow, current]
• errant 0
  adj 1: straying from the right course or from accepted standards; "errant youngsters" 2: uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable; "an errant breeze"
• godparent 0
  n 1: a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism
• incoherent 0
  adj 1: without logical or meaningful connection; "a turgid incoherent presentation" [ant: coherent, consistent, logical, ordered] 2: (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation [ant: coherent] 3: unable to express yourself clearly or fluently; "felt tongue- tied with embarrassment"; "incoherent with grief" [syn: incoherent, tongue-tied]
• inerrant 0
  adj 1: not liable to error; "the Church was...theoretically inerrant and omnicompetent"-G.G.Coulton; "lack an inerrant literary sense"; "an unerring marksman" [syn: inerrable, inerrant, unerring]
• parent 0
  n 1: a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian [ant: child, kid] 2: an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained v 1: bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children" [syn: rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent]
• recurrent 0
  adj 1: recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements" [syn: perennial, recurrent, repeated]
• spirant 0
  adj 1: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') [syn: fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident] n 1: a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract [syn: fricative consonant, fricative, spirant]
• transparent 0
  adj 1: transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent crystal" [syn: crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent] 2: so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" [syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby] 3: free of deceit [syn: guileless, transparent] 4: easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety); "a transparent explanation"; "a transparent lie"
• tyrant 0
  n 1: a cruel and oppressive dictator [syn: tyrant, autocrat, despot] 2: in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it 3: any person who exercises power in a cruel way; "his father was a tyrant"
• undercurrent 0
  n 1: a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning [syn: undertone, undercurrent] 2: a current below the surface of a fluid [syn: undertide, undercurrent]
• warrant 0
  n 1: a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts 2: a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price; "as a sweetener they offered warrants along with the fixed-income securities" [syn: warrant, stock warrant, stock-purchase warrant] 3: formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement" [syn: sanction, countenance, endorsement, indorsement, warrant, imprimatur] 4: a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications [syn: guarantee, warrant, warrantee, warranty] v 1: show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end justifies the means" [syn: justify, warrant] 2: stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of; "The dealer warrants all the cars he sells"; "I warrant this information" [syn: guarantee, warrant]
• aren't 0
• blackcurrant 0
• incurrent 0
• learnt 0
• photocurrent 0
• redcurrant 0
• declarant 0
• arant 0
• arent 0
• farrant 0
• garant 0
• parrent 0
• tarrant 0
• intercurrent 0
• decurrent 0
• excurrent 0
• percurrent 0
• subcurrent 0
• transcurrent 0

See also deterrent definition and deterrent synonyms