Words that rhyme with patulous

n 1: a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) [syn: accomplice, confederate]

n 1: a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles [syn: altocumulus, altocumulus cloud]

n 1: a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke" [syn: ring, halo, annulus, doughnut, anchor ring] 2: (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar [syn: annulus, skirt]

adj 1: characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility" [syn: ingenuous, artless] [ant: artful, disingenuous] 2: simple and natural; without cunning or deceit; "an artless manner"; "artless elegance" [ant: artful] 3: showing lack of art; "an artless translation" 4: (of persons) lacking art or knowledge [syn: artless, uncultivated, uncultured]

n 1: (Greek mythology) a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders 2: a collection of maps in book form [syn: atlas, book of maps, map collection] 3: the 1st cervical vertebra [syn: atlas, atlas vertebra] 4: a figure of a man used as a supporting column [syn: atlas, telamon]

adj 1: given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken binge"; "two drunken gentlemen holding each other up"; "sottish behavior" [syn: bibulous, boozy, drunken, sottish]

n 1: a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will [syn: resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour] 2: a rough and bitter manner [syn: bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness, thorniness] 3: the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth [syn: bitter, bitterness] 4: the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste [syn: bitterness, bitter]

n 1: a small round soft mass (as of chewed food) 2: a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine

adj 1: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain]

n 1: a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body; "renal calculi can be very painful" [syn: calculus, concretion] 2: an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums [syn: tartar, calculus, tophus] 3: the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions [syn: calculus, infinitesimal calculus]

n 1: a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples [syn: cirrocumulus, cirrocumulus cloud]

adj 1: without a collar

adj 1: lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade" [syn: colorless, colourless] [ant: colorful, colourful] 2: weak in color; not colorful [syn: colorless, colourless] [ant: colorful, colourful]

adj 1: without comfort; "a comfortless room"

adj 1: thrown together in a pile; "a desk heaped with books"; "heaped-up ears of corn"; "ungraded papers piled high"

n 1: a globular cloud [syn: cumulus, cumulus cloud] 2: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus]

n 1: a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors [syn: cutlas, cutlass]

adj 1: having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless"; "sempiternal truth" [syn: dateless, endless, sempiternal] 2: of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; "dateless customs" 3: not bearing a date; "a dateless letter" [syn: dateless, undated] 4: unaffected by time; "few characters are so dateless as Hamlet"; "Helen's timeless beauty" [syn: dateless, timeless]

adv 1: without doubt; certainly; "it's undoubtedly very beautiful" [syn: undoubtedly, doubtless, doubtlessly]

n 1: a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something [syn: eagerness, avidity, avidness, keenness] 2: prompt willingness; "readiness to continue discussions"; "they showed no eagerness to spread the gospel"; "they disliked his zeal in demonstrating his superiority"; "he tried to explain his forwardness in battle" [syn: readiness, eagerness, zeal, forwardness]

adj 1: requiring or apparently requiring no effort; "the swallows glided in an effortless way through the busy air" [ant: effortful] 2: not showing effort or strain; "a difficult feat performed with casual mastery"; "careless grace" [syn: casual, effortless]

adj 1: characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation 2: eager to surpass others [syn: emulous, rivalrous]

adj 1: extremely pleasing; "a fabulous vacation" [syn: fabulous, fab] 2: based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn" [syn: fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological] 3: barely credible; "the fabulous endurance of a marathon runner"

adj 1: incapable of flying

adj 1: having no feet or analogous appendages [ant: footed]

adj 1: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain]

adj 1: thick like gelatin [syn: gelatinous, gelatinlike, jellylike]

n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel- shaped flowers; widely cultivated [syn: gladiolus, gladiola, glad, sword lily] 2: the large central part of the breastbone [syn: gladiolus, corpus sternum]

adj 1: having the sticky properties of an adhesive [syn: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous]

adj 1: given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure" [ant: abstemious]

adj 1: lacking courage or vitality; "he was a yellow gutless worm"; "a spineless craven fellow" [ant: gutsy, plucky] 2: weak in willpower, courage or vitality [syn: namby-pamby, gutless, spineless, wishy-washy]

adj 1: deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched]

adj 1: not wearing a hat; "stood hatless in the rain with water dripping down his neck" [ant: hatted]

adj 1: lacking in feeling or pity or warmth [syn: hardhearted, heartless] [ant: soft-boiled, softhearted] 2: devoid of courage or enthusiasm

adj 1: lacking in or deprived of strength or power; "lying ill and helpless"; "helpless with laughter" [syn: helpless, incapacitated] 2: unable to function; without help [syn: helpless, lost] 3: unable to manage independently; "as helpless as a baby"

n 1: a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal [syn: manikin, mannikin, homunculus] 2: a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell

adj 1: without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down" [ant: hopeful] 2: of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics" 3: certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless" 4: (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"

adj 1: not having a job; "idle carpenters"; "jobless transients"; "many people in the area were out of work" [syn: idle, jobless, out of work]

adj 1: driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies" [syn: lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lustful]

adj 1: giving no light; "lightless stars `visible' only to radio antennae" 2: without illumination; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets" [syn: lightless, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit]

adj 1: without limits in extent or size or quantity; "limitless vastness of our solar system" [syn: illimitable, limitless, measureless] 2: having no limits in range or scope; "to start with a theory of unlimited freedom is to end up with unlimited despotism"- Philip Rahv; "the limitless reaches of outer space" [syn: unlimited, limitless] [ant: limited] 3: seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent; "unbounded enthusiasm"; "children with boundless energy"; "a limitless supply of money" [syn: boundless, unbounded, limitless]

n 1: type genus of the family Limulidae [syn: Limulus, genus Limulus]

adj 1: marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette" [syn: meticulous, punctilious] 2: marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities"

adj 1: being or having the character of a miracle [syn: marvelous, marvellous, miraculous] 2: peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention; "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"; "a providential recovery" [syn: heaven-sent, providential, miraculous]

adj 1: tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea" [syn: humdrum, monotonous] 2: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" [syn: flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous]

adj 1: having hills and crags; "hilly terrain" [syn: cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous] 2: like a mountain in size and impressiveness; "mountainous waves"; "a mountainous dark man" 3: containing many mountains

adj 1: too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable]

adj 1: disposed to or in a state of mutiny; "the men became mutinous and insubordinate" 2: consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny; "mutinous acts"; "mutinous thoughts"; "a mutinous speech"

adj 1: lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous distinction between pride and conceit" [syn: cloudy, nebulose, nebulous] 2: of or relating to or resembling a nebula; "the nebular hypothesis of the origin of the solar system" [syn: nebular, nebulous] 3: lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons"; "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be"- Jane Austen [syn: nebulous, unfixed]

adj 1: dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons" [syn: bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous]

adj 1: without profit or reward; "let us have no part in profitless quarrels"- D.D.Eisenhower; "How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world"- Shakespeare

adj 1: used of persons only; having great physical beauty; "pulchritudinous movie stars"

adj 1: inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett [syn: pathetic, ridiculous, silly] 2: incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous] 3: broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair" [syn: farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous]

adj 1: wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer" [syn: rootless, vagabond]

adj 1: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly] 2: destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry; "the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"- Norman Mailer

adj 1: afflicted with scrofula 2: morally contaminated; "denounce the scrofulous wealth of the times"- J.D.Hart 3: having a diseased appearance resembling scrofula; "our canoe...lay with her scrofulous sides on the shore"- Farley Mowat

adj 1: having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled; "less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance" [ant: unscrupulous] 2: characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details" [syn: conscientious, painstaking, scrupulous]

adj 1: having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a shapeless mass of protoplasm" [syn: amorphous, formless, shapeless] 2: lacking symmetry or attractive form; "a shapeless hat on his head"

adj 1: lacking sight; "blind as an eyeless beggar" [syn: eyeless, sightless, unseeing]

adj 1: experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare [syn: insomniac, sleepless, watchful] 2: always watchful; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson [syn: lidless, sleepless]

n 1: the quality of being slight or inadequate; "he knew the slenderness of my wallet"; "the slenderness of the chances that anything would be done"; "the slenderness of the evidence" 2: relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope" [syn: thinness, tenuity, slenderness] [ant: thickness] 3: the property of an attractively thin person [syn: slenderness, slightness, slimness]

adj 1: lacking ardor or vigor or energy; "a spiritless reply to criticism" [ant: spirited] 2: evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of those of others"; "a fine fiery blast against meek conformity"- Orville Prescott; "she looked meek but had the heart of a lion"; "was submissive and subservient" [syn: meek, spiritless]

adj 1: completely neat and clean; "the apartment was immaculate"; "in her immaculate white uniform"; "a spick- and-span kitchen"; "their spic red-visored caps" [syn: immaculate, speckless, spick-and-span, spic-and- span, spic, spick, spotless]

n 1: any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action [syn: stimulation, stimulus, stimulant, input]

adj 1: having no straps; "a strapless evening gown" n 1: a woman's garment that exposes the shoulders and has no shoulder straps

n 1: a loose-fitting white ecclesiastical vestment with wide sleeves

adj 1: more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus] n 1: a quantity much larger than is needed [syn: excess, surplus, surplusage, nimiety]

n 1: a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling 2: a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); "the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on" [syn: tenderness, soreness, rawness] 3: warm compassionate feelings [syn: tenderness, tenderheartedness] 4: a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" [syn: affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia] 5: a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) [syn: softheartedness, tenderness]

n 1: an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages [syn: tetanus, lockjaw] 2: a sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid series of nerve impulses

adj 1: showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering" [ant: thoughtful] 2: without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'" [syn: thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking]

adj 1: lacking a toe or toes; "a toeless shoe" [ant: toed]

adj 1: having no top; "a topless jar" [ant: topped] 2: having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity; "topless waitresses"; "a topless cabaret" [syn: bare- breasted, braless, topless]

adj 1: (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear; "the old lady's quavering voice"; "spoke timidly in a tremulous voice" [syn: quavering, tremulous]

adj 1: of a tire; not needing an inner tube [ant: tubed] n 1: pneumatic tire not needing an inner tube to be airtight [syn: tubeless, tubeless tire]

n 1: (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs [syn: burial mound, grave mound, barrow, tumulus]

adj 1: without scruples or principles; "unscrupulous politicos who would be happy to sell...their country in order to gain power" [ant: scrupulous]

adj 1: having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light; "floating freely in a weightless condition"; "a baby bat...fluffy and weightless as a moth"; "jackets made of a weightless polyester fabric" [ant: weighty]

n 1: (politics) a state of disfavor; "he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness" 2: a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War 3: a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers" [syn: wilderness, wild] 4: a bewildering profusion; "the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups"; "a wilderness of masts in the harbor"

adj 1: (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment [syn: nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted, witless]

adj 1: lacking meat; "meatless days" [ant: meaty]

adj 1: full of trouble; "these are troublous times"

adj 1: not mated sexually 2: of someone who has no marriage partner

n 1: a bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century) [syn: Nicholas, Saint Nicholas, St. Nicholas]

adj 1: of or resembling chitin

n 1: a close attendant (as to a scholar)

adj 1: afflicted with cretinism

n 1: a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) [syn: fiber bundle, fibre bundle, fascicle, fasciculus]

n 1: the stalk of a plant ovule or seed [syn: funicle, funiculus] 2: any of several body structure resembling a cord

n 1: a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Fornax and Cetus

adj 1: lacking a pilot; "a drone is a pilotless aircraft"

n 1: (Roman mythology) founder of Rome; suckled with his twin brother Remus by a wolf after their parents (Mars and Rhea Silvia) abandoned them; Romulus killed Remus in an argument over the building of Rome

adj 1: relating to or caused by or having a calculus or calculi

n 1: a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal [syn: locule, loculus]

adj 1: very good;of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first- class mind" [syn: excellent, first-class, fantabulous, splendid]