Words that rhyme with subdued
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accrued
adj 1: periodically accumulated over time; "accrued interest"; "accrued leave" [syn: accrued, accumulated] -
allude
v 1: make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it" [syn: allude, touch, advert] -
altitude
n 1: elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface; "the altitude gave her a headache" [syn: altitude, height] 2: the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel) 3: angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) [syn: elevation, EL, altitude, ALT] -
amplitude
n 1: (physics) the maximum displacement of a periodic wave 2: the property of copious abundance [syn: amplitude, bountifulness, bounty] 3: greatness of magnitude -
aptitude
n 1: inherent ability [ant: inaptitude] -
attitude
n 1: a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; "he had the attitude that work was fun" [syn: attitude, mental attitude] 2: the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender" [syn: position, posture, attitude] 3: a theatrical pose created for effect; "the actor struck just the right attitude" 4: position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion) -
beatitude
n 1: a state of supreme happiness [syn: blessedness, beatitude, beatification] 2: one of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed); "her favorite Beatitude is `Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth'" -
brood
n 1: the young of an animal cared for at one time v 1: think moodily or anxiously about something [syn: brood, dwell] 2: hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" [syn: brood, hover, loom, bulk large] 3: be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted" [syn: sulk, pout, brood] 4: be in a huff; be silent or sullen [syn: grizzle, brood, stew] 5: sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs" [syn: brood, hatch, cover, incubate] -
certitude
n 1: total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant [syn: certitude, cocksureness, overconfidence] -
collude
v 1: act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose; "The two companies conspired to cause the value of the stock to fall" [syn: conspire, collude] -
conclude
v 1: decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house" [syn: reason, reason out, conclude] 2: bring to a close; "The committee concluded the meeting" 3: reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation [syn: conclude, resolve] 4: come to a close; "The concert closed with a nocturne by Chopin" [syn: conclude, close] 5: reach agreement on; "They concluded an economic agreement"; "We concluded a cease-fire" -
consuetude
n 1: a custom or usage that has acquired the force of law -
correctitude
n 1: correct or appropriate behavior [syn: propriety, properness, correctitude] [ant: improperness, impropriety] -
crude
adj 1: not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry" [syn: crude, rough] 2: conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited" [syn: crude, earthy, gross, vulgar] 3: not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil" [syn: unrefined, unprocessed, crude] [ant: processed, refined] 4: belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains" [syn: crude, primitive, rude] 5: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline" [syn: blunt, crude(a), stark(a)] 6: not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" [syn: crude, raw] n 1: a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [syn: petroleum, crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil, oil] -
decrepitude
n 1: a state of deterioration due to old age or long use [syn: decrepitude, dilapidation] -
delude
v 1: be false to; be dishonest with [syn: deceive, lead on, delude, cozen] -
denude
v 1: lay bare; "denude a forest" [syn: denude, bare, denudate, strip] -
desuetude
n 1: a state of inactivity or disuse -
disquietude
n 1: feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable [syn: edginess, uneasiness, inquietude, disquietude] -
dissimilitude
n 1: dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness [syn: unlikeness, dissimilitude] [ant: alikeness, likeness, similitude] -
dude
n 1: an informal form of address for a man; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?" [syn: fellow, dude, buster] 2: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse] -
elude
v 1: escape, either physically or mentally; "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation" [syn: elude, evade, bilk] 2: be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me" [syn: elude, escape] 3: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" [syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep] -
etude
n 1: a short composition for a solo instrument; intended as an exercise or to demonstrate technical virtuosity -
exactitude
n 1: the quality of being exact; "he demanded exactness in all details"; "a man of great exactitude" [syn: exactness, exactitude] [ant: inexactitude, inexactness] -
exclude
v 1: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" [syn: exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out] [ant: include] 2: prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country" [syn: exclude, keep out, shut out, shut] [ant: admit, include, let in] 3: lack or fail to include; "The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages" [ant: include] 4: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" [syn: bar, debar, exclude] 5: put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was excluded from the game" [syn: eject, chuck out, exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out] -
extrude
v 1: form or shape by forcing through an opening; "extrude steel" [syn: extrude, squeeze out] -
exude
v 1: release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude sweat through the pores" [syn: exude, exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze] 2: make apparent by one's mood or behavior; "She exudes great confidence" -
feud
n 1: a bitter quarrel between two parties v 1: carry out a feud; "The two professors have been feuding for years" -
finitude
n 1: the quality of being finite [syn: finiteness, finitude, boundedness] [ant: boundlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness] -
food
n 1: any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue [syn: food, nutrient] 2: any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment; "food and drink" [syn: food, solid food] 3: anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking [syn: food, food for thought, intellectual nourishment] -
fortitude
n 1: strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage -
glued
adj 1: affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste; "he stayed glued to one spot"; "pieces of pasted paper" [syn: glued, pasted] -
gratitude
n 1: a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation; "he was overwhelmed with gratitude for their help" [ant: ingratitude, ungratefulness] -
habitude
n 1: habitual mode of behavior -
inaptitude
n 1: a lack of aptitude [ant: aptitude] -
incertitude
n 1: the state of being unsure of something [syn: doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness] [ant: certainty] -
include
v 1: have as a part, be made up out of; "The list includes the names of many famous writers" [ant: exclude] 2: consider as part of something; "I include you in the list of culprits" [ant: except, exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out] 3: add as part of something else; put in as part of a set, group, or category; "We must include this chemical element in the group" 4: allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar" [syn: admit, let in, include] [ant: exclude, keep out, shut, shut out] -
ineptitude
n 1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness] 2: having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful; "the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness" [syn: worthlessness, ineptitude] [ant: worth] -
inexactitude
n 1: the quality of being inaccurate and having errors [syn: inexactness, inexactitude] [ant: exactitude, exactness] -
infinitude
n 1: an infinite quantity 2: the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit [syn: infiniteness, infinitude, unboundedness, boundlessness, limitlessness] [ant: boundedness, finiteness, finitude] -
ingratitude
n 1: a lack of gratitude [syn: ingratitude, ungratefulness] [ant: gratitude] -
intrude
v 1: enter uninvited; "They intruded on our dinner party"; "She irrupted into our sitting room" [syn: intrude, irrupt] 2: enter unlawfully on someone's property; "Don't trespass on my land!" [syn: trespass, intrude] 3: search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office" [syn: intrude, horn in, pry, nose, poke] 4: thrust oneself in as if by force; "The colors don't intrude on the viewer" [syn: intrude, obtrude] -
lassitude
n 1: a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) [syn: lethargy, lassitude, sluggishness] 2: a feeling of lack of interest or energy [syn: languor, lassitude, listlessness] 3: weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy [syn: inanition, lassitude, lethargy, slackness] -
latitude
n 1: the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself 2: freedom from normal restraints in conduct; "the new freedom in movies and novels"; "allowed his children considerable latitude in how they spent their money" 3: an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator [syn: latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude, parallel] 4: scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction -
lewd
adj 1: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn: lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious] 2: driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies" [syn: lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lustful] -
longitude
n 1: the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich -
magnitude
n 1: the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small); "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea" 2: a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10 [syn: order of magnitude, magnitude] 3: relative importance; "a problem of the first magnitude" -
mood
n 1: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn: temper, mood, humor, humour] 2: the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election" [syn: climate, mood] 3: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker [syn: mood, mode, modality] -
multitude
n 1: a large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions" [syn: battalion, large number, multitude, plurality, pack] 2: a large gathering of people [syn: multitude, throng, concourse] 3: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" [syn: multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed] -
negritude
n 1: an ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms; an affirmation of the African cultural heritage -
nude
adj 1: completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model" [syn: bare, au naturel(p), naked, nude] n 1: a painting of a naked human figure [syn: nude, nude painting] 2: without clothing (especially in the phrase `in the nude'); "they swam in the nude" 3: a naked person [syn: nude, nude person] 4: a statue of a naked human figure [syn: nude, nude sculpture, nude statue] -
obtrude
v 1: push to thrust outward [syn: push out, obtrude, thrust out] 2: thrust oneself in as if by force; "The colors don't intrude on the viewer" [syn: intrude, obtrude] -
platitude
n 1: a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide] -
plenitude
n 1: a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone" [syn: plenty, plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude] -
preclude
v 1: keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" [syn: prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid] 2: make impossible, especially beforehand [syn: preclude, rule out, close out] -
prelude
n 1: something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner" [syn: preliminary, overture, prelude] 2: music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera v 1: serve as a prelude or opening to 2: play as a prelude -
promptitude
n 1: the characteristic of doing things without delay [syn: promptness, promptitude] -
protrude
v 1: extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff" [syn: stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project] 2: bulge outward; "His eyes popped" [syn: start, protrude, pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out, come out] 3: swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the huge meal" [syn: bulge, pouch, protrude] -
prude
n 1: a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum [syn: prude, puritan] -
pseud
n 1: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player] -
pulchritude
n 1: physical beauty (especially of a woman) -
pursued
adj 1: followed with enmity as if to harm; "running and leaping like a herd of pursued antelopes" n 1: a person who is being chased; "the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued" [syn: pursued, chased] -
quietude
n 1: a state of peace and quiet [syn: tranquillity, tranquility, quietness, quietude] -
rectitude
n 1: righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest [syn: uprightness, rectitude] -
renewed
adj 1: restored to a new condition; "felt renewed strength" -
rood
n 1: representation of the cross on which Jesus died [syn: crucifix, rood, rood-tree] -
rude
adj 1: socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion" [syn: ill-mannered, bad- mannered, rude, unmannered, unmannerly] 2: (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace [syn: ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish] 3: lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather [syn: uncivil, rude] [ant: civil, polite] 4: (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" [syn: natural, raw(a), rude(a)] 5: belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains" [syn: crude, primitive, rude] -
seclude
v 1: keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book" [syn: seclude, sequester, sequestrate, withdraw] -
servitude
n 1: state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment; "penal servitude" -
shrewd
adj 1: marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow" [syn: astute, sharp, shrewd] 2: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd] -
similitude
n 1: similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things; "man created God in his own likeness" [syn: likeness, alikeness, similitude] [ant: dissimilitude, unlikeness] 2: a duplicate copy [syn: counterpart, similitude, twin] -
skewed
adj 1: having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew" [syn: skew, skewed] -
snood
n 1: an ornamental net in the shape of a bag that confines a woman's hair; pins or ties at the back of the head -
solicitude
n 1: a feeling of excessive concern [syn: solicitude, solicitousness] -
solitude
n 1: a state of social isolation [syn: solitude, purdah] 2: the state or situation of being alone 3: a solitary place -
stewed
adj 1: cooked in hot water [syn: boiled, poached, stewed] -
transude
v 1: release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities; "exude sweat through the pores" [syn: exude, exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze] -
turpitude
n 1: a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice; "the various turpitudes of modern society" [syn: depravity, turpitude] -
verisimilitude
n 1: the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true -
vicissitude
n 1: a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; "the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research" 2: mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another) -
jude
n 1: (New Testament) supposed brother of St. James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless [syn: Jude, Saint Jude, St. Jude, Judas, Thaddaeus] 2: a New Testament book attributed to Saint Jude [syn: Epistle of Jude, Jude] -
masoud
n 1: Afghan leader of forces opposed to the Taliban; won fame by successfully resisting the Soviets in the 1980s; was assassinated by men posing as journalists (1953-2001) [syn: Masoud, Ahmad Shah Masoud] -
crassitude
n 1: the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement [syn: crassness, crassitude] -
hebetude
n 1: mental lethargy or dullness -
sanctitude
n 1: the quality of being holy [syn: holiness, sanctity, sanctitude] [ant: unholiness] -
inquietude
n 1: feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable [syn: edginess, uneasiness, inquietude, disquietude] -
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