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words - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | words |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | dispute |
| Synonyms: | altercation, argument, contention, disagreement, quarrel, wrangle |
| Main Entry: | words |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | conversation |
| Synonyms: | chat, conference, discussion, talk |
| Main Entry: | word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discussion |
| Synonyms: | chat, chitchat*, colloquy, consultation, conversation, discussion, tête-è-tête, talk, confab, confabulation |
| Antonyms: | silence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | statement |
| Synonyms: | account, adage, advice, announcement, bulletin, byword, comment, communication, declaration, directive, discourse, dispatch, expression, gossip, hearsay, information, intelligence, intimation, introduction, message, news, notice, pronouncement, proverb, remark, report, rumble, rumor, saying, scuttlebutt, speech, talk, tidings, utterance, communiqué, saw |
| Main Entry: | word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unit of language |
| Synonyms: | concept, designation, expression, idiom, locution, name, phrase, sound, term, usage, utterance, lexeme, morpheme, vocable |
| Main Entry: | word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | command |
| Synonyms: | behest, bidding, charge, commandment, decree, dictate, edict, go-ahead*, green light*, injunction, mandate, order, signal, will, ukase |
| Antonyms: | question |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | promise |
| Synonyms: | affirmation, assertion, assurance, commitment, declaration, engagement, guarantee, oath, parole, pledge, plight, vow, warrant, word of honor, solemn oath, solemn word |
| Antonyms: | breach, break |
| Main Entry: | word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | password |
| Synonyms: | countersign, slogan, watchword |
| Main Entry: | altercation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fight, often verbal |
| Synonyms: | argument, beef*, blowup*, bone of contention*, brawl*, brush*, combat, contest, controversy, dispute, embroilment, flap*, fracas*, fuss, go*, hassle, quarrel, row, rumble*, run-in*, tiff*, words, wrangle, bickering, set-to*, squabbling |
| Antonyms: | agreement, concord, harmony, peace, union, unity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | controversy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | debate, dispute |
| Synonyms: | altercation, argument, beef*, brush, contention, difference, discussion, disputation, embroilment, falling-out*, flak, fuss, hurrah, miff, quarrel, row, rumpus, scene, scrap, squabble, strife, tiff*, words, wrangle, bickering, dissention, polemic, wrangling |
| Antonyms: | accord, agreement, forbearance, harmony, peace, quiet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | debate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discussion of issues; consideration |
| Synonyms: | agitation, altercation, argument, cogitation, contention, contest, controversy, deliberation, dialectic, disputation, dispute, forensic, hassle, match, meditation, reflection, tiff, words, wrangle, argumentation, blah-blah, controverting, mooting, polemic, rebutting, refuting |
| Antonyms: | agreement |
| Main Entry: | dispute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | argument |
| Synonyms: | altercation, beef*, bone of contention*, brawl, broil, brouhaha, commotion, conflict, contention, controversy, debate, difference of opinion, disagreement, discord, discussion, dissension, disturbance, embroilment, falling-out, feud, fireworks*, flare-up, fracas, friction, fuss, hubbub, miff*, misunderstanding, quarrel, row, rumpus*, squabble, squall, strife, tiff, uproar, variance, words, wrangle, bickering, polemic |
| Antonyms: | agreement |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fighting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | battle, encounter |
| Synonyms: | argument, battle royal*, beef*, bloodshed, blowup, bout, brush, combat, conflict, contention, dispute, donnybrook*, exchange, flap*, fracas, free-for-all*, go, hassle, hostility, joust, match, melee, mix, riot, roughhouse, row, rowdy, rumble, rumpus, run-in*, scramble, scrap*, scrimmage, scuffle, spat, strife, struggle, tiff, war, warfare, words, wrangle, brannigan, brawling, hell broke loose, punch out, set-to* |
| Antonyms: | peace, surrender, ceasefire |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fracas |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disturbance, fight |
| Synonyms: | affray, altercation, battle, battle royal*, brawl, broil*, brouhaha, dispute, donnybrook*, feud, flap*, fray, free-for-all*, hassle, melee, mix up*, quarrel, riot, row, ruffle, rumpus, run-in*, scrimmage, scuffle, squabble, stew*, trouble, tumult, uproar, words, bickering, knock-down-drag-out, ruction, set-to* |
| Antonyms: | calm, harmony, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lyrics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | words of a song |
| Synonyms: | book, text, theme, verse, words, libretto, lines |
| Main Entry: | melee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | battle, fight |
| Synonyms: | affray, battle royal*, brawl, broil, brouhaha*, brush, clash, donnybrook*, fracas, fray, free-for-all*, row, ruckus, rumpus, scrimmage, scuffle, skirmish, to-do*, tussle, words, knock-down-drag-out, ruction, set-to* |
| Antonyms: | agreement, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece |
| Synonyms: | ballad, beat, composition, creation, epic, free verse, lyric, ode, poetry, rhyme, rime, song, verse, words, writing, blank verse, haiku, limerick, lines, poesy, quatrain, rune, sestina, sonnet, villanelle |
| Antonyms: | prose |
| Main Entry: | spat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dispute, quarrel |
| Synonyms: | altercation, argument, beef*, brouhaha, conflict, difference of opinion, disagreement, discord, dissension, embroilment, falling-out, feud, flare-up, fracas, friction, fuss, hubbub, miff*, misunderstanding, row, rumpus*, run-in*, squabble, strife, tiff, words, bickering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | squabble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | argument |
| Synonyms: | altercation, controversy, difference, difference of opinion, disagreement, dispute, feud, fight, flap*, fuss*, hassle, quarrel, row*, scene*, scrap*, spat*, tiff*, words, wrangle, bickering, set-to* |
| Antonyms: | agreement, concurrence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | strife |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | struggle, battle |
| Synonyms: | affray, altercation, animosity, argument, blowup, brawl, clash, combat, competition, conflict, contention, contest, controversy, difference, disagreement, discord, dispute, dissension, dissent, dissidence, faction, fighting, friction, fuss, hassle, quarrel, rivalry, spat, squabble, static, striving, tug of war*, variance, warfare, words, wrangle, bickering, disunity, emulation, factionalism, squabbling, wrangling |
| Antonyms: | success, victory |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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