![]() ![]() “After an already wildly successful day, the coup de grâce came when she won best all-around athlete.” cri de coeur (kree' de kur') : heartfelt appeal. “His end was truly comme il faut.” coup de grâce (koo de grahss') : finishing blow. “The plans for the party strike me as comme ci comme ça.” comme il faut (kom eel foe') : as it should be fitting. “Before you leap at that real estate deal, caveat emptor!” comme ci comme ça (kom see' kom sah') : so-so. “The Sacco and Vanzetti trial became an international cause célèbre during the 1920s.” caveat emptor (kav'ee-ot emp'tor) : let the buyer beware. “The general felt that the banana republic's insolent remarks about our national honor were enough of a casus belli to launch an attack.” cause célèbre (koz suh-leb'ruh) : a widely known controversial case or issue. “I may have carte blanche around the office, but at home I'm a slave to my family's demands.” casus belli (kay'sus bel'eye) : an act justifying war. meeting tomorrow and various appointments? Carpe diem!” carte blanche (kart blonsh') : unrestricted power to act on one's own. “It's true he's quite the bon vivant, but when he gets down to business he conducts himself like a Spartan.” carpe diem (kar'pay dee'um) : seize the day. “One bon mot after another flew out of his mouth, charming the audience.” bon vivant (bon vee-vahnt') : a person who lives luxuriously and enjoys good food and drink. ![]() “For all her reticence and modesty, it was clear that she was a bona fide expert in her field.” bon mot (bon moe') : a witty remark or comment. ![]() “Talk of the good old college days way back when had become his bête noire, and he began to avoid his school friends.” bona fide (boh'na fide) : in good faith genuine. “Such elegant decor would impress even the beau monde.” bête noire (bet nwahr') : something or someone particularly disliked. “My fellow writers supported me by writing letters of protest to the publisher, but their beau geste could not prevent the inevitable.” beau monde (boh' mond') : high society. “The shoes, the hair, the clothes-every last detail of her dress, in fact-was utterly au courant.” beau geste (boh zhest') : a fine or noble gesture, often futile. “The fact that their house is in such disrepair suggests a priori that they are having financial difficulties.” au courant (oh' koo-rahn') : up-to-date. “Last year was the annus mirabilis for my company.” a priori (ah pree-or'ee) : based on theory rather than observation. “Sylvia's teenage angst was nothing compared to the parental angst experienced by the two individuals whose duty it was to raise her.” annus mirabilis (an'us muh-ra'buh-lis) : wonderful year. “I was surprised at what a baseball aficionado she had become.” angst (angkst) : dread and anxiety. “The politician uttered one platitude after another ad nauseam.” aficionado (uh-fish'ya-nah'doh) : an ardent devotee. “The lecture seemed to drone on ad infinitum.” ad nauseam (ad noz'ee-um) : to a sickening degree. “He tediously repeated his argument ad absurdum.” ad infinitum (ad in-fun-eye'tum) : to infinity. ad absurdum (ad ab-sir'dum) : to the point of absurdity. To learn more, see the privacy policy.The English meanings given below are not necessarily literal translations. Please note that Related Words uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used to bring you this list of term themed words: Concept Net, WordNet, and is still lots of work to be done to get this to give consistently good results, but I think it's at the stage where it could be useful to people, which is why I released it. You will probably get some weird results every now and then - that's just the nature of the engine in its current state. related words - rather than just direct synonyms.Īs well as finding words related to other words, you can enter phrases and it should give you related words and phrases, so long as the phrase/sentence you entered isn't too long. These algorithms, and several more, are what allows Related Words to give you. Another algorithm crawls through Concept Net to find words which have some meaningful relationship with your query. The vectors of the words in your query are compared to a huge database of of pre-computed vectors to find similar words. One such algorithm uses word embedding to convert words into many dimensional vectors which represent their meanings. ![]() Related Words runs on several different algorithms which compete to get their results higher in the list. ![]()
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