abrupt
aggressive, arduous, bearish, beastly, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, blunted, bold, brash, breakneck, breathless, brief,
paid vacation - furlough, holiday, leave, leave of absence, liberty, sabbatical, time off, vacation, weekend
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granitic - adamant, bony, cement, concrete, dense, flinty, hard, horny, marble, obdurate, petrified, resistant, rock, rocky, solid,
lame - abortive, awkward, bad, bootless, bugger, burden, castrate, castrated, clumsy, cramp, cripple, crippled, cumber, de-energize, debilitate,
firmament - air, azure, blue sky, canopy, canopy of heaven, cerulean, cope, empyrean, ether, heaven, heavens, lift, lifts, sky, starry heaven,
zoologist - anatomist, animal physiologist, anthropologist, bacteriologist, biochemist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist, cytologist, ecologist, entomologist, ethologist, geneticist, herpetologist, ichthyologist,
in a trance - absent-minded, captivated, charmed, daze, dreaming, dreamy, enchanted, entranced, fascinated, groggy, hypnotized, mesmerized, pensive, spellbound ,
nonentity - Middle America, Milquetoast, a nobody, a nothing, absence, baby, big baby, bourgeoisie, chicken, cipher, common man, crybaby, deprivation, doormat, dud,
nastily - abruptly, atrociously, awfully, curtly, dreadfully, flagrantly, grossly, harmfully, harshly, horribly, horridly, infamously, malevolently, maliciously, malignantly,
lotus-eating - abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, dormancy, entropy, indifference, indolence, inertia, languor, latency, laziness, passivity, shiftlessness, sloth, slowness,
smart set - aristocracy, beautiful people, best people, carriage trade, cream of society, drawing room, elite, fashionable society, good society, high life, high society, in-crowd, jet set, people of fashion, polite society,
granitic - adamant, bony, cement, concrete, dense, flinty, hard, horny, marble, obdurate, petrified, resistant, rock, rocky, solid,
lame - abortive, awkward, bad, bootless, bugger, burden, castrate, castrated, clumsy, cramp, cripple, crippled, cumber, de-energize, debilitate,
firmament - air, azure, blue sky, canopy, canopy of heaven, cerulean, cope, empyrean, ether, heaven, heavens, lift, lifts, sky, starry heaven,
zoologist - anatomist, animal physiologist, anthropologist, bacteriologist, biochemist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist, cytologist, ecologist, entomologist, ethologist, geneticist, herpetologist, ichthyologist,
in a trance - absent-minded, captivated, charmed, daze, dreaming, dreamy, enchanted, entranced, fascinated, groggy, hypnotized, mesmerized, pensive, spellbound ,
nonentity - Middle America, Milquetoast, a nobody, a nothing, absence, baby, big baby, bourgeoisie, chicken, cipher, common man, crybaby, deprivation, doormat, dud,
nastily - abruptly, atrociously, awfully, curtly, dreadfully, flagrantly, grossly, harmfully, harshly, horribly, horridly, infamously, malevolently, maliciously, malignantly,
lotus-eating - abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, dormancy, entropy, indifference, indolence, inertia, languor, latency, laziness, passivity, shiftlessness, sloth, slowness,
smart set - aristocracy, beautiful people, best people, carriage trade, cream of society, drawing room, elite, fashionable society, good society, high life, high society, in-crowd, jet set, people of fashion, polite society,