Words that rhyme with importune

• attune 0
  v 1: adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with
• autoimmune 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the immune response of the body against substance normally present in the body
• cartoon 0
  n 1: a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine [syn: cartoon, sketch] 2: a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence [syn: cartoon, animated cartoon, toon] v 1: draw cartoons of
• cocoon 0
  n 1: silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs v 1: retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment; "Families cocoon around the T.V. set most evenings"; "She loves to stay at home and cocoon" 2: wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection
• commune 0
  n 1: the smallest administrative district of several European countries 2: a body of people or families living together and sharing everything v 1: communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity; "He seemed to commune with nature" 2: receive Communion, in the Catholic church [syn: commune, communicate]
• festoon 0
  n 1: a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves 2: an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work 3: flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration [syn: festoon, festoonery] v 1: decorate with strings of flowers; "The public buildings were festooned for the holiday"
• fortune 0
  n 1: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance" [syn: luck, fortune, chance, hazard] 2: a large amount of wealth or prosperity 3: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand" [syn: luck, fortune] 4: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion]
• immune 0
  adj 1: relating to the condition of immunity; "the immune system" 2: secure against; "immune from taxation as long as he resided in Bermuda"; "immune from criminal prosecution" 3: relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) [syn: immune, resistant] 4: (usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influence; "immune to persuasion" n 1: a person who is immune to a particular infection
• impugn 0
  v 1: attack as false or wrong
• inopportune 0
  adj 1: not opportune; "arrived at a most inopportune hour"; "an inopportune visit" [ant: opportune]
• lagoon 0
  n 1: a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral [syn: lagoon, laguna, lagune]
• lampoon 0
  n 1: a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way [syn: parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on] v 1: ridicule with satire; "The writer satirized the politician's proposal" [syn: satirize, satirise, lampoon]
• loon 0
  n 1: a worthless lazy fellow 2: large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes [syn: loon, diver] 3: a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought [syn: addle-head, addlehead, loon, birdbrain]
• maroon 0
  adj 1: of dark brownish to purplish red [syn: maroon, brownish-red] n 1: a person who is stranded (as on an island); "when the tide came in I was a maroon out there" 2: a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color 3: an exploding firework used as a warning signal v 1: leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the travellers were marooned" [syn: maroon, strand] 2: leave stranded on a desert island without resources; "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"
• misfortune 0
  n 1: unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event [syn: misfortune, bad luck] 2: an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes [syn: misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill luck] [ant: good fortune, good luck, luckiness]
• monsoon 0
  n 1: a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter 2: rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains 3: any wind that changes direction with the seasons
• moon 0
  n 1: the natural satellite of the Earth; "the average distance to the Moon is 384,400 kilometers"; "men first stepped on the moon in 1969" [syn: Moon, moon] 2: any object resembling a moon; "he made a moon lamp that he used as a night light"; "the clock had a moon that showed various phases" 3: the period between successive new moons (29.531 days) [syn: lunar month, moon, lunation, synodic month] 4: the light of the Moon; "moonlight is the smuggler's enemy"; "the Moon was bright enough to read by" [syn: moonlight, moonshine, Moon] 5: United States religious leader (born in Korea) who founded the Unification Church in 1954; was found guilty of conspiracy to evade taxes (born in 1920) [syn: Moon, Sun Myung Moon] 6: any natural satellite of a planet; "Jupiter has sixteen moons" v 1: have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming" [syn: daydream, moon] 2: be idle in a listless or dreamy way [syn: moon, moon around, moon on] 3: expose one's buttocks to; "moon the audience"
• noon 0
  n 1: the middle of the day [syn: noon, twelve noon, high noon, midday, noonday, noontide]
• opportune 0
  adj 1: suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose; "an opportune place to make camp"; "an opportune arrival" [ant: inopportune]
• oppugn 0
  v 1: challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of; "We must question your judgment in this matter" [syn: question, oppugn, call into question]
• picayune 0
  adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
• platoon 0
  n 1: a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually commanded by a lieutenant 2: a team of policemen working under the military platoon system 3: a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity; "platoons of tourists poured out of the busses"; "the defensive platoon of the football team"
• pontoon 0
  n 1: (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge 2: a float supporting a seaplane
• prune 0
  n 1: dried plum v 1: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back] 2: weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet" [syn: cut, prune, rationalize, rationalise]
• raccoon 0
  n 1: the fur of the North American racoon 2: an omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and Central America [syn: raccoon, racoon]
• saloon 0
  n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom] 2: tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals [syn: public house, pub, saloon, pothouse, gin mill, taphouse] 3: a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors [syn: sedan, saloon]
• soon 0
  adv 1: in the near future; "the doctor will soon be here"; "the book will appear shortly"; "she will arrive presently"; "we should have news before long" [syn: soon, shortly, presently, before long]
• spoon 0
  n 1: a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food 2: as much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar" [syn: spoon, spoonful] 3: formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face v 1: scoop up or take up with a spoon; "spoon the sauce over the roast" 2: snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others [syn: smooch, spoon]
• swoon 0
  n 1: a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain [syn: faint, swoon, syncope, deliquium] v 1: pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain [syn: faint, conk, swoon, pass out]
• tribune 0
  n 1: (ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests 2: the apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne
• triune 0
  adj 1: being three in one; used especially of the Christian Trinity; "a triune God"
• tycoon 0
  n 1: a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron" [syn: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon]
• typhoon 0
  n 1: a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans
• june 0
  n 1: the month following May and preceding July
• bethune 0
  n 1: United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955) [syn: Bethune, Mary McLeod Bethune]
• rangoon 0
  n 1: the capital and largest city of Myanmar; located in the south near the Irrawaddy river delta [syn: Yangon, Rangoon]
• perilune 0
  n 1: periapsis in orbit around the moon [syn: periselene, perilune] [ant: apolune, aposelene]
• neptune 0
  n 1: (Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon 2: a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants; "the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846"
• detune 0
• strewn 0
• retune 0
• changchun 0

See also importune definition and importune synonyms