in a backwater Synonyms
Here are words similar to in a backwater:
a huis clos,
abandoned,
aberrant,
aberrate,
aberrative,
abjured,
above all that,
abrupt,
abstract,
abstracted,
abstruse,
acquisitive,
adrift,
afoot and lighthearted,
aggravate,
agree to differ,
agree to disagree,
alien,
alienate,
alienated,
all to pieces,
alone,
aloof,
ambagious,
ambitious for self,
analyze,
anatomize,
anchoretical,
ancient,
anomalous,
anonymous,
antipodean,
antiquated,
antique,
apart,
apart from,
apathetic,
arcane,
archaic,
archipelagian,
archipelagic,
aseptic,
aside,
aside from,
assay,
assort,
assorted,
asunder,
at a distance,
at large,
at liberty,
at odds,
at rest,
at variance,
atomize,
autarchic,
autarkic,
authoritarian,
autistic,
autonomous,
away,
away from,
back,
back of beyond,
backhanded,
backward,
bar,
barred,
barricade,
bashful,
be at variance,
be in dissent,
beat,
beclouded,
beg to differ,
behind closed doors,
beleaguered,
benumbed,
beset,
beside the mark,
beside the point,
beside the question,
besides,
besieged,
beyond reach,
beyond the bounds,
bifurcate,
bigot,
bigoted,
bipartite,
blah,
blank,
blase,
blind,
block,
block out,
block up,
blockade,
blockaded,
Bohemian,
bolt,
bored,
borne,
bound,
branch,
break down,
break up,
break with,
breakaway,
broach,
broken,
buried,
by itself,
by two,
cabined,
caged,
calm,
candid,
careerist,
careless,
cast off,
cast out,
casual,
categorize,
change,
chilled,
chilly,
chink,
chock,
choke,
choke off,
chop logic,
circuitous,
circular,
circumscribe,
circumscribed,
clarify,
classify,
clear,
cleave,
cloistered,
close,
close off,
close tight,
close up,
closed,
closed-in,
closet,
clouded,
codify,
cold,
collate,
colorless,
comatose,
comb,
come apart,
come between,
companionless,
compartment,
concealed,
confined,
constrained,
constrict,
constricted,
contradistinguish,
contrary,
contrasted,
contrasting,
cool,
cooped,
cordon,
cordon off,
cordoned,
cordoned off,
corralled,
covered,
covert,
crack,
cramped,
creedbound,
crevasse,
cribbed,
crowd,
cull out,
cut,
cut adrift,
cut off,
cut open,
cut out,
deactivate,
deaf,
deaf to reason,
debar,
debrief,
decrassify,
delete,
demarcate,
demark,
demob,
demobilize,
depart,
departing,
deploy,
depurate,
desensitized,
deserted,
desultory,
desynonymize,
detach,
detached,
deviant,
deviating,
deviative,
deviatory,
devious,
dichotomize,
dichotomous,
differ,
difference,
different,
differentiate,
differentiated,
differing,
digressive,
disaccordant,
disaffect,
disaffected,
disagree,
disagree with,
disagreeing,
disarticulate,
disarticulated,
disassemble,
disband,
discharge,
disconnect,
disconnected,
discontinue,
discontinued,
discontinuous,
discord with,
discordant,
discreet,
discrepant,
discrete,
discriminate,
discriminated,
discursive,
disengage,
disengaged,
disentangle,
disequalize,
disintegrate,
disinterested,
disjoin,
disjoined,
disjoint,
disjointed,
disjunct,
dislocated,
dismiss,
disorganize,
disparate,
dispart,
dispassionate,
dispel,
disperse,
dispersed,
disrelated,
dissect,
dissent,
dissent from,
dissever,
dissimilar,
dissociate,
dissociated,
dissolve,
dissonant,
distal,
distant,
distill,
distinct,
distinctive,
distinctly,
distinguish,
distinguished,
disunify,
disunite,
disunited,
disused,
divaricate,
diverge,
divergent,
diverging,
divers,
diverse,
diversified,
diversify,
divide,
divide on,
divide up,
divided,
divorce,
divorced,
dog,
done with,
draw the line,
drop out,
dull,
dwindling,
early,
easygoing,
ebbing,
eclipsed,
edulcorate,
egotistical,
eject,
elute,
emancipated,
emeritus,
enclose,
enclosed,
enisle,
equitable,
eremitic,
errant,
erratic,
essentialize,
estrange,
estranged,
ethnocentric,
even-tenored,
evenhanded,
except for,
excepting,
exceptional,
excluded,
excluding,
exclusive,
exclusory,
excursive,
exotic,
expel,
expressionless,
extra,
extract,
extraneous,
extraordinary,
extrinsic,
faint,
fair,
fall out,
fan out,
fan the flame,
fanatical,
far,
far off,
far out,
far-flung,
far-off,
faraway,
farfetched,
fat,
fence off,
fenced,
fifty-fifty,
filter,
filtrate,
fissure,
fly open,
foggy,
footloose,
footloose and fancy-free,
forbidding,
forced,
foreign,
fork,
forlorn,
forsaken,
free,
free and easy,
free as air,
freeborn,
freed,
friendless,
frigid,
fringy,
frontier,
frosty,
gapped,
geographically limited,
ghettoize,
gin,
go away,
go off,
go separate ways,
go-as-you-please,
godforsaken,
gradate,
grade,
grant a divorce,
grant an annulment,
grasping,
greedy,
group,
guarded,
halcyon,
half-and-half,
halve,
have a falling-out,
heartless,
hebetudinous,
hedged,
heedless,
helical,
hemmed,
heretical,
hermetic,
hermitical,
heterodox,
heterogeneous,
hid,
hidden,
hidebound,
hippie,
homeless,
hopeless,
hushed,
hyperborean,
icy,
idle,
illiberal,
immaterial,
immured,
impartial,
impassive,
impersonal,
impertinent,
implausible,
imprisoned,
improbable,
in a backwater,
in a cloud,
in a fog,
in a stupor,
in camera,
in chambers,
in disagreement,
in eclipse,
in executive session,
in half,
in halves,
in privacy,
in private,
in private conference,
in privy,
in purdah,
in retirement,
in the abstract,
in the clear,
in the singular,
in the wings,
in twain,
in two,
inaccessible,
inaccordant,
inadmissible,
inapplicable,
inapposite,
inappropriate,
incarcerated,
incidental,
incise,
incognito,
incoherent,
incommensurable,
incommunicado,
incomparable,
incompatible,
incongruous,
inconsequent,
inconsiderable,
inconsistent,
inconsonant,
incurious,
independent,
independently,
indifferent,
indirect,
individual,
individualistic,
individualize,
individually,
individuate,
informal,
inharmonious,
inmost,
innermost,
insignificant,
insociable,
insouciant,
insular,
insulate,
insulated,
interior,
interspace,
interspaced,
interval,
intervaled,
intimate,
introverted,
inward,
irreconcilable,
irrelative,
irrelevant,
irritate,
island,
island-dotted,
island-dweller,
islanded,
islander,
islandish,
islandlike,
islandman,
islandologist,
islandy,
islesman,
isleted,
isolate,
isolated,
jailed,
jam,
januis clausis,
just,
keep apart,
keep aside,
kill,
kinky,
kithless,
labyrinthine,
languid,
Laodicean,
latent,
lay aside,
lay open,
leach,
leaguered,
leave,
legally separated,
leisure,
leisured,
let go,
lethargic,
liberated,
light the fuse,
limit,
limited,
listless,
little,
little-minded,
lixiviate,
local,
localized,
lock,
lofty,
lone,
lonely,
lonesome,
long-distance,
long-range,
loose,
make a distinction,
make a space,
make trouble,
many,
mark,
mark off,
mark out,
mark the interface,
maverick,
mazy,
mean,
mean-minded,
mean-spirited,
meandering,
mewed,
mindless,
modest,
modify,
moldering,
monastic,
more than expected,
motley,
multifarious,
muster out,
mysterious,
narcissistic,
narrow,
narrow-hearted,
narrow-minded,
narrow-souled,
narrow-spirited,
nearsighted,
negligible,
neutral,
nihil ad rem,
nonadherent,
nonadhesive,
nonchalant,
noncoherent,
noncohesive,
nonessential,
not agree,
not at issue,
not counting,
not cricket,
not done,
not kosher,
not worth saving,
numb,
numbed,
O-shaped,
obfuscated,
objective,
oblique,
obscure,
obscured,
obsolescent,
obsolete,
obstruct,
obtain a divorce,
occasional,
occlude,
occult,
odd,
of a place,
off,
off the subject,
offbeat,
offish,
old,
old-fashioned,
Olympian,
on pension,
on the loose,
on the shelf,
once,
one,
one by one,
only,
ope,
open,
open up,
oppose,
orbital,
organize,
original,
other,
out,
out of earshot,
out of hearing,
out of range,
out of reach,
out of sight,
out of use,
out-of-date,
out-of-the-way,
out-of-the-world,
outdated,
outlandish,
outlying,
outmoded,
outside,
outspread,
outworn,
pacific,
pack,
paled,
panel,
parenthetical,
parochial,
part,
part company,
part-time,
parted,
particular,
particularize,
particularly,
partition,
partitioned,
passive,
past expectation,
past use,
peaceable,
peaceful,
peculiar,
penned,
pensioned,
pensioned off,
pent-up,
per se,
percolate,
personal,
personalistic,
personalize,
petty,
phlegmatic,
pick out,
piecemeal,
pit against,
placid,
planetary,
pluckless,
poker-faced,
poles apart,
poles asunder,
poor,
possessive,
preclusive,
prescriptive,
preventive,
private,
privately,
privatistic,
privily,
privy,
prohibitive,
provincial,
provoke,
pull away,
pull back,
pull out,
purblind,
purify,
put aside,
put asunder,
put away,
quarantine,
quarantined,
quarter,
quiescent,
quiet,
quite another thing,
railed,
rambling,
rank,
rare,
recherche,
recluse,
recondite,
rectify,
reduce,
reduce to elements,
refine,
refine a distinction,
regardless,
regional,
release,
released,
relinquished,
remote,
remove,
removed,
renounced,
rent,
reposeful,
reposing,
repressed,
reserved,
resigned,
resolve,
restful,
resting,
restrained,
restricted,
restrictive,
reticent,
retired,
retiring,
riddle,
rift,
rip,
rive,
rootless,
rope off,
roped off,
rotary,
round,
roundabout,
roving,
rupture,
scatter,
scattered,
scot-free,
screen,
screen out,
screened,
seagirt,
seal off,
sealed off,
secede,
seclude,
secluded,
secluse,
seclusive,
secret,
sectarian,
sectional,
segment,
segregate,
segregated,
segregative,
select,
selective,
self-absorbed,
self-admiring,
self-advancing,
self-besot,
self-centered,
self-considerative,
self-contained,
self-devoted,
self-esteeming,
self-indulgent,
self-interested,
self-jealous,
self-occupied,
self-pleasing,
self-seeking,
self-serving,
self-sufficient,
selfish,
selfless,
semiretired,
separate,
separated,
separately,
separative,
sequester,
sequestered,
sequestrated,
serpentine,
set a limit,
set against,
set apart,
set aside,
set at intervals,
set at odds,
set at variance,
set off,
set on,
sever,
several,
severalize,
severally,
sheltered,
shifting,
shortsighted,
shrinking,
shroud,
shut,
shut down,
shut off,
shut out,
shut tight,
shut-in,
shy,
sic on,
side,
sieve,
sieve out,
sift,
sift out,
single,
single out,
single-handed,
single-handedly,
singly,
singular,
singularly,
size,
sky-high,
slack,
slender,
slight,
slim,
slit,
sluggish,
small,
small-minded,
small-town,
smooth,
snaky,
snobbish,
sole,
solitary,
solo,
something else again,
soporific,
sort,
sort out,
sovereign,
sow dissension,
space,
space out,
spaced,
spaced out,
spare,
special,
specialize,
spiral,
spiritless,
spiritualize,
splay,
split,
split hairs,
split up,
spread,
spread out,
spring open,
spunkless,
squeeze,
squeeze shut,
stand aloof,
stand apart,
stand aside,
standoff,
standoffish,
step aside,
stifle,
still,
still as death,
stillish,
stilly,
stir up trouble,
stoic,
stolid,
stop up,
strain,
strained,
straitlaced,
stranded,
strange,
strangle,
strangulate,
stray,
stuffy,
stupefied,
subdivide,
subdued,
sublimate,
sublime,
subordinate,
subsiding,
subtilize,
subtle,
subtract,
sudden,
sue for divorce,
suffocate,
sui generis,
sunder,
superannuate,
superannuated,
superseded,
supine,
suppressed,
surround,
swerving,
swing open,
switch off,
take exception,
take issue,
tap,
tear,
tear open,
tenuous,
thrash,
thresh,
throw off,
throw open,
throw out,
to one side,
topical,
torn,
torpid,
tramontane,
tranquil,
try,
turn off,
turning,
twisting,
type,
ultramontane,
unabetted,
unaccompanied,
unadhesive,
unaffable,
unaffiliated,
unagitated,
unaided,
unallied,
unannounced,
unanticipated,
unapproachable,
unassisted,
unassociated,
unattached,
unattended,
unbiased,
uncaring,
uncatholic,
uncharitable,
uncoherent,
uncohesive,
uncommitted,
uncommon,
uncompanionable,
unconcerned,
unconformable,
uncongenial,
unconnected,
unconventional,
uncouple,
uncustomary,
undazzled,
undemonstrative,
under an eclipse,
under cover,
under house arrest,
under wraps,
underground,
undirected,
undisturbed,
undivined,
undreamed-of,
unemotional,
unengaged,
unequal,
unescorted,
unessential,
unexpansive,
unexpected,
unfamiliar,
unfashionable,
unfastened,
unforeseeable,
unforeseen,
unfrequented,
ungenerous,
ungenial,
ungetatable,
unguessed,
unheard-of,
unheralded,
unhook,
unhoped for,
uninfluenced,
uninquiring,
uninterested,
uninvolved,
unique,
unjaundiced,
unjoined,
unknown,
unliberal,
unlike,
unlikely,
unmarry,
unmindful,
unmoved,
unoccupied,
unordinary,
unorthodox,
unperturbed,
unpredictable,
unpredicted,
unprejudiced,
unprepared for,
unprepossessed,
unravel,
unrelatable,
unrelated,
unruffled,
unseconded,
unselfish,
unsettled,
unstirring,
unsupported,
unswayed,
untenacious,
unthought-of,
untie the knot,
untouchable,
untroubled,
unusual,
unvisited,
unwonted,
unyoke,
vagrant,
variant,
varied,
variegated,
various,
vary,
varying,
veering,
vernacular,
wall off,
walled,
walled-in,
wandering,
waning,
way out,
wide apart,
wide away,
widely apart,
widowed,
widowered,
widowish,
widowlike,
widowly,
winding,
winnow,
with an interval,
with intervals,
withdraw,
withdrawn,
withhold assent,
without warning,
