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6. clever, ingenious, resourceful, daedal; deft, adept, adroit, apt, dexterous, handy, skillful.
7. (all of liquor) straight, straight-up, unmixed, undiluted, unwatered, unblended, uncut, unadulterated, pure. -adv. 8. smartly, sprucely, nattily, trimly, sleekly, neatly, Inf. slickly.
9. skillfully, expertly, adroitly, adeptly, dexterously, deftly, handily, aptly; cleverly, ingeniously, resourcefully.
neaten, v. tidy, tidy up, straighten up or out, pick up, clean, clean up, Inf. fix up, Inf. police; spruce up, groom, trim, put in trim, Brit. Dial, trig up or out; arrange, order, put in order. nebulous adj. 1. obscure, indistinct, indeterminate, hazy, fuzzy, shapeless, amorphous; faint, pale, dim; murky, opaque; muddled, confused, muddy, Inf. clear as mud; vague, abstract, general, generalized, nonspecific, unspecific, undifferentiated.
2. cloudy, clouded, overclouded, overcast; foggy, hazy, misty; cloudlike, nebulose, nubilous.
3. celestial, heavenly, empyrean; astral, starry, stellar, sphery, nebular. necessarily, adv. 1. of necessity, perforce, by force of circumstance, needfully, needs must, without choice; willy-nilly, willing or unwilling, whether willing or not, whether or no, like it or not; Fr. bon gre, mal gre; Latin, nolens volens.
2. as a result, consequently, as a consequence, in consequence; naturally, of course, as a matter of course, and so, it follows that; inevitably, unavoidably, inescapably, ineluctably; certainly, surely, without doubt. necessary, adj. 1. needed, needful, called-for, occasioned, in demand, requisite, required; indispensable, vital, essential, of the essence, important, of the utmost importance; fundamental, elementary, rudimentary, basic, bedrock, material, substantive, Inf. square-one; imperative, urgent, exigent, instant, pressing, compelling, high-priority, high-pressure, life-and-death or life-or-death.
2. compulsive, involuntary, coercive, choiceless, forced; compulsory, obligatory, binding, mandatory, prescriptive; inescapable, unavoidable, ineludible, ineluctable, inevasible, irresistible; certain, for certain, sure, for sure, sure as death, sure as death and taxes, inevitable, necessitous.
-n. 3. necessity, requisite, requirement. See necessity (def. 1).
4. Chiefly New England, privy, outhouse, backhouse, stool, closet, cloaca, Brit. SI.
bog. necessitate, v. oblige, require, demand, exact, call for, dictate, insist upon; compel, impel, force, make, cause, cause to, have; constrain, bind, tie [s.o.'sj hands, leave no option or choice; drive, railroad, ramrod; bring to bear upon, bear down upon, put the pressure on, press, apply pressure, Inf. pressure or high-pressure, Inf. lean on, Inf squeeze, Inf. put the screws on or to, Inf twist [s.o.'s] arm; coerce, dragoon, bully, intimidate, Inf. steamroller, Inf. bulldoze, SI. strong-arm. necessitous, adj. 1. needy, indigent, impoverished, impecunious, penurious, distressed, in reduced circumstances, reduced, straitened, in straitened circumstances, in narrow straits, in dire straits; poor, badly off, Inf. hard up, unable to make ends meet, unable to keep the wolf from the door; disadvantaged, underprivileged, in want, in need, mendicant, beggared, beggarly, pauperized; destitute, poverty-stricken, penniless, without a penny, without a sou, down-and-out; All SI.
broke, flat broke, stone broke, stony, busted,
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