Words that rhyme with flaherty

n 1: the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe 2: extreme oldness [syn: ancientness, antiquity] 3: an artifact surviving from the past

n 1: the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers" [syn: complexity, complexness] [ant: simpleness, simplicity]

adj 1: having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn: cantankerous, crotchety, ornery]

n 1: the amount per unit size [syn: density, denseness] 2: the spatial property of being crowded together [syn: concentration, density, denseness, tightness, compactness] [ant: dispersion, distribution]

adj 1: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves" [syn: dirty, soiled, unclean] [ant: clean] 2: (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth" [ant: clean, unobjectionable] 3: vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor" [syn: dirty, filthy, lousy] 4: spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout" [syn: dirty, contaminating] [ant: clean, uncontaminating] 5: contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen [syn: dirty, pestiferous] 6: (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy] 7: (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy" [syn: dirty, foul, marked-up] 8: obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill- gotten gains" [syn: dirty, ill-gotten] 9: expressing or revealing hostility or dislike; "dirty looks" 10: violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" [syn: cheating(a), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike] 11: unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" [syn: dirty, sordid] 12: unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing" v 1: make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" [syn: dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire] [ant: clean, make clean]

n 1: the difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it 2: the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation 3: conformity with rules or standards; "the judge recognized the fairness of my claim" [syn: fairness, equity] [ant: inequity, unfairness]

n 1: the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity" [syn: falsity, falseness] [ant: the true, trueness, truth, verity] 2: a false statement [syn: falsehood, falsity, untruth] [ant: true statement, truth]

adj 1: nervous and unable to relax; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "a restless child" [syn: antsy, fidgety, fretful, itchy]

n 1: unusual largeness in size or extent or number [syn: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness]

n 1: injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards [syn: unfairness, inequity] [ant: equity, fairness]

n 1: absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness" [syn: iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark] 2: morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity] 3: an unjust act [syn: injustice, unfairness, iniquity, shabbiness]

n 1: the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation); "he adjusted the intensity of the sound"; "they measured the station's signal strength" [syn: intensity, strength, intensity level] 2: high level or degree; the property of being intense [syn: intensity, intensiveness] 3: the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume" [syn: volume, loudness, intensity] [ant: softness] 4: chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue [syn: saturation, chroma, intensity, vividness]

n 1: the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle [syn: asynclitism, obliquity] 2: the quality of being deceptive [syn: deceptiveness, obliquity]

n 1: trouble or confusion resulting from complexity

n 1: an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity" [syn: leaning, propensity, tendency] 2: a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration" [syn: proclivity, propensity, leaning] 3: a disposition to behave in a certain way; "the aptness of iron to rust"; "the propensity of disease to spread" [syn: aptness, propensity]

n 1: the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) [syn: ubiquity, ubiquitousness, omnipresence]

n 1: Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472) [syn: Alberti, Leon Battista Alberti]

n 1: the physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body" [syn: tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness]