🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Progress"
50 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "progress" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| nonetheless | 3 | (conjunctive) Nevertheless. | |
| nevertheless | 4 | (conjunctive) In spite of what preceded; yet. | |
| coalesce | 3 | verb | (of separate elements) To join into a single mass or whole. |
| distress | 2 | noun | Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. |
| acquiesce | 3 | verb | (intransitive, with in or to (or sometimes with)) To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object. |
| address | 2 | noun | Direction. |
| caress | 2 | noun | (transitive) To touch or kiss lovingly; to fondle. |
| assess | 2 | verb | (transitive) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate; to estimate. |
| process | 2 | noun | A series of events leading to a result or product. |
| egress | 2 | noun | An exit or way out. |
| express | 2 | verb | (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops. |
| finesse | 2 | noun | (uncountable) Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation. |
| possess | 2 | verb | (transitive) To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own. |
| suppress | 2 | verb | To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue. |
| excess | 2 | noun | The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper. |
| regress | 2 | noun | (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve. |
| impress | 2 | verb | (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably. |
| transgress | 2 | verb | (transitive) To act in violation of some law. |
| stress | 1 | noun | (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal. |
| press | 1 | noun | An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing. |
| profess | 2 | verb | (ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm. |
| access | 2 | noun | (uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility. |
| mess | 1 | noun | a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation |
| obsess | 2 | verb | (transitive) To dominate the thoughts of someone. |
| redress | 2 | noun | To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from. |
| digress | 2 | verb | (intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. |
| confess | 2 | verb | (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed. |
| largesse | 2 | noun | (uncountable) The trait of being willing to donate money, resources, or time; generosity, liberality. |
| dress | 1 | noun | (transitive) (also reflexive and figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe. |
| compress | 2 | verb | (transitive) To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume. |
| aggress | 2 | verb | (intransitive, construed with on) To commit the first act of hostility or offense against; to begin a quarrel or controversy with someone; to make an attack against someone. |
| yes | 1 | noun | An affirmative expression; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance. |
| oppress | 2 | verb | (transitive) To keep down by unjust force. |
| repress | 2 | verb | (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back. |
| abscess | 2 | noun | (pathology) A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflamed tissue. |
| attests | 2 | verb | (transitive) To affirm to be correct, true, or genuine. |
| depress | 2 | verb | To make depressed, sad or bored. |
| noblesse | 2 | noun | The nobility; peerage. |
| bless | 1 | verb | To invoke divine favor upon. |
| convalesce | 3 | verb | To recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness. |
| headdress | 2 | noun | A decorative covering or ornament worn on the head. |
| fluoresce | 2 | verb | (intransitive, physics) To emit electromagnetic radiation, especially visible light, when absorbing radiation of some other wavelength. |
| full dress | 2 | noun | Clothing worn on formal occasions. |
| contests | 2 | noun | (countable) A competition. |
| ness | 1 | noun | A placename: |
| repossess | 3 | verb | (law, finance) To reclaim ownership of property for which payment remains due. |
| fess | 1 | noun | To confess; to admit. |
| esse | 1 | noun | Essence, essential nature. |
| cognitive process | 5 | noun | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents |
| guess | 1 | verb | To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate. |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Progress"
50 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| manifest | 3 | verb | Evident to the senses, especially to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived. |
| grotesque | 2 | noun | Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal, especially in a hideous way. |
| compel | 2 | verb | (transitive) To force, constrain, or coerce. |
| propel | 2 | verb | (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or physical action; to cause to move in a certain direction; to drive or push forward. |
| offset | 2 | verb | Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent. |
| welfare | 2 | noun | (uncountable) Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect. |
| impressed | 2 | strongly affected, especially favourably | |
| onset | 2 | noun | (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent. |
| regret | 2 | noun | To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead. |
| upset | 2 | verb | (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy |
| request | 2 | noun | (transitive or with a subjunctive clause) To ask for (something). |
| protest | 2 | noun | (intransitive) To make a strong objection. |
| prepare | 2 | verb | (transitive) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble or equip; to forearm. |
| suggest | 2 | verb | (transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it. |
| repair | 2 | noun | To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy. |
| molest | 2 | verb | To sexually assault or sexually harass. |
| mindset | 2 | noun | A way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one. |
| digest | 2 | noun | (transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme. |
| repressed | 2 | verb | Subjected to repression. |
| invest | 2 | verb | To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in. |
| ahead | 2 | At or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving. | |
| carousel | 3 | noun | A pleasure ride, typically found at amusement parks and fairs and accompanied by music, consisting of a slowly revolving circular platform on which are fixed various seats, frequently shaped like horses or other animals, cars, etc., which may also move up and down; a merry-go-round. |
| again | 2 | Another time: indicating a repeat of an action. | |
| offense | 2 | noun | The act of offending. |
| depressed | 2 | Unhappy; despondent. | |
| software | 2 | noun | (computing) Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM). |
| incest | 2 | noun | Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo. |
| refresh | 2 | verb | (computing, ambitransitive) To reload (a document, especially a webpage) and show any new changes. |
| sunset | 2 | noun | The moment each evening when the sun disappears below the western horizon. |
| defense | 2 | noun | The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury. |
| compare | 2 | verb | (transitive) To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things ["to compare X with Y"]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it similar to Y or different from Y. |
| obsessed | 2 | Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession. | |
| progressed | 2 | verb | (intransitive) To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance. |
| footstep | 2 | noun | The mark or impression left by a foot; a track. |
| oppressed | 2 | Subject to oppression. | |
| nowhere | 2 | noun | In no place. |
| sweats | 1 | noun | (informal) Any illness causing copious perspiration. |
| sets | 1 | noun | (informal) Set theory. |
| spider web | 3 | noun | Alternative spelling of spiderweb. [The net-like construct of a spider containing sticky strands to catch prey.] |
| somewhere | 2 | noun | In an uncertain or unspecified location. |
| anywhere | 3 | noun | In or at any location. |
| soft sell | 2 | noun | A sales technique which is quietly persuasive and subtle, seeking to convince the buyer without being forceful. |
| gets | 1 | verb | (transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. |
| nets | 1 | noun | (cricket) A training session before playing a cricket match for both bowlers and batsmen or even backups. |
| knows best | 2 | — | |
| no sex | 2 | — | |
| asset | 2 | noun | A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows. |
| bets | 1 | noun | A diminutive of Elizabeth. |
| excel | 2 | noun | (intransitive) To be much better than others. |
| forget | 2 | verb | (transitive) To lose remembrance of. |
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