Related Searches
on Ask.com
nap - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | nap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take a short, light sleep |
| Synonyms: | catch forty winks, catnap, doze, drop off*, drowse, get some shut-eye, grab some z's, nod, nod off, rack*, relax, rest, sleep, snooze, take a siesta, take a snooze |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | short, light sleep |
| Synonyms: | break, catnap, doze, few z's, forty winks*, interlude, intermission, microsleep, nod, pause, respite, rest, shuteye, siesta, snooze*, spot |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grain of material |
| Synonyms: | down, feel, fiber, grit, outside, pile, roughness, smoothness, surface, tooth, wale, warp, weave, shag, weft, woof |
| Main Entry: | doze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | light sleep |
| Synonyms: | catnap, forty winks*, nap, slumber, snooze*, drowse, shut-eye, siesta |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fuzz |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fluff |
| Synonyms: | down, fiber, fur, hair, nap, pile, dust ball, dust bunnies, floss, lanugo, lint |
| Antonyms: | smoothness |
| Main Entry: | sleep |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suspension of consciousness |
| Synonyms: | bedtime, catnap, coma, dormancy, doze, dream, dullness, few z's, forty winks*, hibernation, lethargy, nap, nod, repose, rest, sack time, sandman, shuteye, siesta, slumber, slumberland, snooze, torpidity, torpor, trance |
| Antonyms: | awakening, consciousness, wakefulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sleep |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suspend consciousness |
| Synonyms: | bed down, bunk*, catch a wink, catch forty winks, catnap, conk out*, cop some z's, crash*, doze, dream, drop off*, drowse, fall asleep, fall out*, flop*, hibernate, hit the hay*, hit the sack, languish, nap, nod, nod off, oversleep, relax, repose, rest, retire, sack out, saw wood, slumber, snooze, snore, take a nap, turn in*, yawn, zonk out, zzz |
| Antonyms: | wake, waken |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | slumber |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sleep |
| Synonyms: | coma, doze, forty winks*, languor, lethargy, nap, repose, rest, snooze, stupor, torpor, dormancy, drowse, inactivity, sack time, shut-eye |
| Notes: | to sloom is to sleep heavily and soundly; to slumber is to sleep lightly |
| Antonyms: | awakening, consciousness, wakefulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | snooze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | light sleep |
| Synonyms: | catnap, doze, forty winks*, nap, slumber, siesta |
| Antonyms: | awakening, consciousness, wakefulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | snooze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sleep lightly |
| Synonyms: | catnap, doze, drop off, nap, slumber, drowse, nod off, siesta, take forty winks |
| Antonyms: | awaken, wake up |
| Main Entry: | texture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charactertistics of a surface |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, balance, being, character, coarseness, composition, consistency, constitution, disposition, essence, fabric, feel, feeling, fiber, flexibility, form, framework, grain, make, makeup, nap, nature, organization, pattern, quality, roughness, scheme, sense, smoothness, stiffness, strategy, structure, surface, taste, touch, warp, weave, web, essentiality, fineness, intermixture, tissue, woof |
| Main Entry: | turn in |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go to bed |
| Synonyms: | bed, catch some z's, flop*, go to sleep, hit the hay*, hit the sack, lie down, nap, pile in, rest, retire, roll in |
| Antonyms: | awaken, get up, wake |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | yawn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | open mouth wide, usually sign of |
| Synonyms: | divide, doze, expand, gap, gape, give, nap, part, sleep, snooze, spread, yaw, yawp*, drowse, fatigue catch flies |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | beauty sleep |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep restful sleep |
| Synonyms: | extra sleep, forty winks, full night's sleep, nap, rest, siesta, sleep before midnight, snooze |
| Main Entry: | forty winks |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | short sleep |
| Synonyms: | catnap, crash, nap, snooze, wink, blanket drill, power nap, rack time, sack time, siesta, some Zs, spot of sleep, wink of sleep, zizz |
| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inactivity |
| Synonyms: | break, breather*, breathing space*, calm, calmness, cessation, coffee break, comfort, composure, downtime*, doze, ease, forty winks*, halt, holiday, hush, idleness, interlude, intermission, interval, leisure, letup*, lull, nap, pause, peace, quiescence, quiet, recess, recreation, refreshment, relaxation, relief, repose, respite, silence, sleep, slumber, standstill, stay, stillness, stop, time off, vacation, cutoff, dreaminess, motionlessness, quietude, siesta, somnolence, tranquillity |
| Antonyms: | action, activity, energy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be calm; sleep |
| Synonyms: | breathe, doze, dream, idle, lean, let down, let up, loaf, loll, lounge, nap, nod, recline, relax, repose, slack, slacken, slumber, snooze, spell, unwind, be at ease, be comfortable, compose oneself, drowse, ease off, ease up, laze, lie by, lie down, lie still, put feet up, refresh oneself, sit down, slack off, stretch out, take a break, take a nap, take five, take it easy, take life easy, take ten, take time out, unbend, unlax, wind down |
| Antonyms: | activate, carry out, do, energize, be active |
| Main Entry: | fiber |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | texture |
| Synonyms: | essence, fabric, feel, hand, nap, nature, pile, spirit, substance |
| Main Entry: | grain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | texture of fabric |
| Synonyms: | character, current, direction, fiber, nap, pattern, staple, surface, tendency, tooth, weave, make-up, striation, tissue, warp and woof, weft |
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be prostrate, flat |
| Synonyms: | couch, loll, lounge, nap, recline, repose, rest, retire, sleep, sprawl, turn in, be prone, be recumbent, be supine, go to bed, laze, lie down, siesta, stretch out |
| Antonyms: | stand, straighten, be upright |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
