Words that rhyme with garrity

n 1: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness] 2: harshness of manner [syn: asperity, sharpness] [ant: bluntness, dullness]

n 1: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) [syn: austerity, asceticism, nonindulgence]

adj 1: (used informally) very small; "a wee tot" [syn: bitty, bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy]

n 1: a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals) 2: a kindly and lenient attitude toward people [syn: charity, brotherly love] 3: an activity or gift that benefits the public at large 4: pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers [syn: Jacob's ladder, Greek valerian, charity, Polemonium caeruleum, Polemonium van-bruntiae, Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae] 5: an institution set up to provide help to the needy

n 1: a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city" [syn: city, metropolis, urban center] 2: an incorporated administrative district established by state charter; "the city raised the tax rate" 3: people living in a large densely populated municipality; "the city voted for Republicans in 1994" [syn: city, metropolis]

n 1: free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression [syn: clarity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, clearness, limpidity] [ant: abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness, unclearness] 2: the quality of clear water; "when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes" [syn: clearness, clarity, uncloudedness] [ant: opacity, opaqueness]

n 1: adroitness in using the hands [syn: dexterity, manual dexterity, sleight]

n 1: a short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung)

adj 1: composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue" [syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy] 2: willing to face danger [syn: game, gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky]

n 1: the state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel" [syn: insulation, insularity, insularism, detachment]

n 1: a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn: commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos] 2: an unfortunate development; "it's a pity he couldn't do it" [syn: pity, shame] 3: the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it [syn: compassion, pity] v 1: share the suffering of [syn: feel for, pity, compassionate, condole with, sympathize with]

adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers" [syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant: immoderately, unreasonably] adj 1: pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room" 2: (used ironically) unexpectedly bad; "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish"

n 1: noteworthy scarcity [syn: rarity, rareness, infrequency] 2: a rarified quality; "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere" [syn: rarity, tenuity, low density] 3: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity]

n 1: used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather [syn: badness, severity, severeness] 2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness] 3: extreme plainness [syn: austereness, severity, severeness] 4: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" [syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness]

n 1: a subset of committee members organized for a specific purpose

n 1: the quality of lacking general approval or acceptance [ant: popularity]

n 1: conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities" [syn: truth, the true, verity, trueness] [ant: falseness, falsity] 2: an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth

n 1: the quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch]

adj 1: combining clever conception and facetious expression; "his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent"

adj 1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn: icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky]

n 1: either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman [syn: breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, titty]

n 1: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty]