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This tag is for questions seeking a single word that fits a meaning. To ensure that your question is not closed as off-topic, please be specific about the intended use of the word. INCLUDE A SAMPLE SENTENCE demonstrating how the word would be used. Click on "Info", or "View Tag" and "Learn more..." for more information. Please use the [phrase-requests] tag if you seek a phrase and the [terminology] tag if you seek a term in a specialized subject also.
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What's a word that can be used when something, such as a document, is purposely bland?
I've also heard the word 'blasé' used to describe an object that was bland or boring and without any exciting or pleasurable qualities.
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To make something opaque = opaquen?
It depends on what you are making opaque.
Some words that can be used include: obfuscate, solidify, cloud, darken, muddle, and confuse.
Antonyms include: evanesce, clarify, purify, and lighten.
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What would a cult member call a non-believer?
Heathens
Unbelievers
Those who choose to live in the dark
The unwashed
The blind
Worshipers of Mammon
The unchosen
The prodigals
Strangers
Outsiders
The apostates
The unworthy
Servants of Baal
God's …
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What is the word for dating documents by the mistakes in them?
There are at least three terms that cover this:
Textual Criticism
Stemmatics
Cladistics
I don't think any of these terms are used specifically to mean 'dating documents by the mistakes [found] in …
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How to express "to look at more or all sides" and "consider more or all views" for a thing?
Former American Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, once said:
As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know.
We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we …
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A word for a statement that sounds true because it sounds good
Are you thinking of 'rhetoric', or perhaps, 'sophism' or 'sophistry'?
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Is there a name for the genre that "movies of the future" fall into?
The term 'Future Noir' is used to describe movies like 'Blade Runner' and 'Twelve Monkeys'. A subset of these films, like 'Terminator', get an additional classification of 'Techno-Noir'. These all t …
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Single word for "village of dreams"?
How about 'Dreamsville'? Henry Mancini wrote a song about that place.
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Is there a word for someone who is a lover of the incidental or coincidence?
Depending on which dictionary you use, 'Dilettante' might fit the bill. Merriam-Webster says:
1: an admirer or lover of the arts
2: a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch …
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What would you call someone who makes no lasting impression?
A person who is easily overlooked is often called a "wallflower", although that term has other connotations as well.
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"Leaving a field intact for a season"
My farming in-laws, in the American mid-west, use the term "set aside ground" to refer to fields that are not planted, or planted with a nutrient restoring crop that is not harvested for profit.
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Is there a word for the act of dimming an oil lamp?
Trim
Here's the ngram graph for "trim your lamps," "trim the lamps," "trim your lamp," and "trim the lamp."
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Word to describe an object in continuous cycle that is eventually ejected when it matures
Some possibilities: Project, work-in-progress, undertaking, labor, endeavor, venture.
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Word for a person with a negative attitude
There are a lot of colloquialisms and other terms that mean the same thing:
"Mr. X is a ..."
Negative Nancy
Downer
Drag
Debbie Downer
Naysayer
Prophet of doom
Doomsayer
Futilitarian
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What single word describes the ability to think analytically?
Some offerings:
Cogitation
Analysis
Ratiocination
Brainwork
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