Dear and Wise

Dear

Dear adjective - Commanding a large price.

Wise and dear are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wise" instead an adjective "Dear".

Nearby Words: dearly, deary, dearie

Wise

Wise adjective - Having or showing deep understanding and intelligent application of knowledge.

Dear and wise are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dear" instead an adjective "Wise".

Nearby Words: wisely, wised

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Studio-wise, there's "Slipping Husband" where the line "Dear, we better get a drink in you before you start to bore us" is repeated as a whisper then explodes into a cathartic scream.
  • Purple Prose I was gone a long way from my house, walking lonely-wise, and stopping often that I view the piling upward of the Battlements of Evening, and to feel the dear and strange gathering of the Dusk come over all the world about me.
    Source: Purple Prose
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