Words that rhyme with gradual

  • agile
    adj 1: moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it" [syn: agile, nimble, quick, spry] 2: mentally quick; "an agile mind"; "nimble wits" [syn: agile, nimble]
  • angel
    n 1: spiritual being attendant upon God 2: person of exceptional holiness [syn: saint, holy man, holy person, angel] 3: invests in a theatrical production [syn: angel, backer] 4: the highest waterfall; has more than one leap; flow varies seasonally [syn: Angel, Angel Falls]
  • archangel
    n 1: an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy 2: a biennial cultivated herb; its stems are candied and eaten and its roots are used medicinally [syn: garden angelica, archangel, Angelica Archangelica]
  • casual
    adj 1: marked by blithe unconcern; "an ability to interest casual students"; "showed a casual disregard for cold weather"; "an utterly insouciant financial policy"; "an elegantly insouciant manner"; "drove his car with nonchalant abandon"; "was polite in a teasing nonchalant manner" [syn: casual, insouciant, nonchalant] 2: without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand; "a casual remark"; "information collected by casual methods and in their spare time" 3: appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes" [syn: casual, everyday, daily] 4: occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence" [syn: casual, chance(a)] 5: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory] 6: occurring from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker" [syn: casual, occasional] 7: characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter" [syn: fooling, casual] 8: natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style" [syn: free- and-easy, casual] 9: not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace" [syn: casual, effortless]
  • cudgel
    n 1: a club that is used as a weapon v 1: strike with a cudgel [syn: cudgel, fustigate]
  • evangel
    n 1: the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings [syn: Gospel, Gospels, evangel]
  • individual
    adj 1: being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways" [syn: individual, single] [ant: common] 2: separate and distinct from others of the same kind; "mark the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis" [syn: individual, case-by-case, item-by-item] 3: characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" [syn: individual, single(a)] 4: concerning one person exclusively; "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath" [syn: individual(a), private] n 1: a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul] 2: a single organism
  • nodule
    n 1: a small node 2: small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant [syn: nodule, tubercle] 3: (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment)
  • residual
    adj 1: relating to or indicating a remainder; "residual quantity" [syn: residual, residuary] n 1: something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance" [syn: remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest] 2: (often plural) a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing; "he could retire on his residuals"
  • schedule
    n 1: a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to [syn: agenda, docket, schedule] 2: an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur v 1: plan for an activity or event; "I've scheduled a concert next week" 2: make a schedule; plan the time and place for events; "I scheduled an exam for this afternoon"
  • vestigial
    adj 1: not fully developed in mature animals; "rudimentary wings" [syn: vestigial, rudimentary]
  • vigil
    n 1: a period of sleeplessness 2: the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) [syn: vigil, watch] 3: a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe [syn: watch, vigil]
  • virgil
    n 1: a Roman poet; author of the epic poem `Aeneid' (70-19 BC) [syn: Virgil, Vergil, Publius Vergilius Maro]
  • rigel
    n 1: the brightest star in Orion [syn: Rigel, Beta Orionis]
  • vergil
    n 1: a Roman poet; author of the epic poem `Aeneid' (70-19 BC) [syn: Virgil, Vergil, Publius Vergilius Maro]
  • gudgel
  • hugill
  • strigil
  • nigel

See also gradual definition and gradual synonyms