NIFTY Synonyms

• showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others

• mentally quick and resourceful

• showing inventiveness and skill

• United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958)

• easy to reach

• useful and convenient

• skillful with the hands

• moving quickly and lightly

• mentally quick

• any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

• with little or no delay

• accomplished rapidly and without delay

• hurried and brief

• moving quickly and lightly

• apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity

• performed with little or no delay

• easily aroused or excited

• keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point

• having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing

• (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone

• a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named

• a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point

• changing suddenly in direction and degree

• (of something seen or heard) clearly defined

• ending in a sharp point

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• harsh

• having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones

• dangerously steep

• very sudden and in great amount or degree

• quick and forceful

• having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

• done with delicacy and skill

• showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness

• a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore

• elegant and stylish

• characterized by quickness and ease in learning

• improperly forward or bold

• painfully severe

• quick and brisk

• capable of independent and apparently intelligent action

• be the source of pain

• flashily stylish

• moving quickly and lightly

• having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress

• being or in accordance with current social fashions

• excellent

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• a hired thug

• excellent

• be bossy towards

• discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate

• excellent

• a sudden sharp noise

• the act of cracking something

• the process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process)

• excellent

• a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance

• a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost

• excellent

• a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field

• relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind

• of major significance or importance

• remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect

• excellent

• uppercase

• in an advanced stage of pregnancy

• excellent

• (British informal) very chic

• a funeral lament sung with loud wailing

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• intense or sharp

• excellent

• painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

• having a sharp cutting edge or point

• express grief verbally

• (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

• of long duration; not new

• past times

• of a very early stage in development

• (used for emphasis) very familiar

• skilled through long experience

• belonging to some prior time

• excellent

• just preceding something else in time or order