A synonym is a word or phrase that means the same or nearly the same as another. Here is a list of synonyms for words beginning with be. Use this list to help build your vocabulary and add variety to your writing.
beach, n. shore, strand, shingle, marge.
beached, a. stranded, aground.
beacon, n. balefire, signal fire; signal, pharos. Associated Word: pharology.
beadle, n. apparitor, summoner, servitor.
beads, n. pl. rosary; passementerie (beaded trimming); chaplet; wampum, suckanhock, peag.
beak, n. bill, nib, neb, mandible; prow, bow, rostrum. Associated word: cere.
beam, n. girder, joist; ray, gleam.
beam, v. gleam, shine, glitter, glisten, scintillate.
beaming, a. radiant, shining.
beanlike, a. fabaceous.
bear, n. Bruin; Ursus; Ephraim; cub, whelp; grumbler, growler, boor; musquaw.
bear, v. endure, tolerate, stand, undergo, brook, submit to, suffer, bear with; harbor, cherish, entertain; support, sustain, uphold; carry, convey, transport, waft; render, produce, yield; bring forth, teem; relate, refer, concern; press, push, oppress.
bearable, a. sufferable, tolerable, endurable. Antonyms: unbearable, intolerable.
beard, n. whiskers; goatee, mustache; awn, arista (beard of grain).
beard, v. defy, encounter, oppose.
bearded, a. whiskered; aristate, awned.
bearing, n. mien, carriage, port, demeanor, air, deportment; endurance, forbearance, long-suffering, toleration, sufferance; relation, connection, dependency; course, aim, direction; bringing forth, yielding.
bearish, a. discourteous, boorish, uncivil, rude; ursine, ursiform.
bear out. sustain, support, corroborate, confirm, uphold.
beast, n. brute; quadruped; monster, brute.
beastly, a. bestial, irrational, brutal; (Colloq.) abominable, disagreeable, nasty.
beat, v. forge, malleate, beetle, weld, hammer; belabor, maul, buffet, smite, flagellate, whack, pelt, strike; See whip; overcome, vanquish, surpass, conquer, eclipse, subdue, checkmate, rout, excel, outdo; cheat, swindle, defraud; throb, pulsate; pulverize, comminute, bruise, bray, triturate; perplex, pose, nonplus.
beat, n. throb, pulsation; round; superior.
beat, a. (Colloq.) exhausted, weary, fatigued, beaten.
beat back. repel, repulse, resist.
beaten, a. conquered, defeated, vanquished.
beating, n. flagellation, drubbing, flogging, fustigation, castigation, thumping, mauling, verberation, pommeling; pulsation, throb, throbbing, saltation; defeat, repulse; malleation, forging, welding.
beating, a. pulsating, throbbing, pulsatile.
beau, n. lover, sweetheart, gallant, swain, flame, cicisbeo, admirer, suitor, inamorato; dandy, popinjay, dude, fop, coxcomb, exquisite, blade.
beautiful, a. fair, lovely, handsome, comely, personable, beauteous, elegant, exquisite. Antonyms: homely, ugly, repulsive, unlovely, hideous, uncomely, inelegant.
beautify, v. embellish, adorn, grace, garnish.
beauty, n. loveliness, fairness, elegance, comeliness, pulchritude, grace, exquisiteness, charm, attraction. Associated Words: aesthetics, aesthetician, aestheticism, aesthete, aesthetic, esthetology, Apollo, Adonis, Venus, Hebe, Hyperion, Houri, Aphrodite.
becloud, v. dim, cloud, obscure, adumbrate, obfuscate.
becoming, a. appropriate, fit, seemly, befitting, comely. Antonyms: See unbecoming.
bed, n. berth, bunk, couch, cot; pallet, paillasse, mattress; cradle, trundle-bed; deposit, seam, vein, stratum. Associated Words: decumbiture, lectual, clinic, clinical, valance, alcove.
bedbug, n. chinch.
bedclothes, n. pl. Associated Words: floccillation, carphology, tilmus.
bedim, v. obscure, becloud, adumbrate, overcast.
bedlam, n. madhouse, insane asylum; babel, pandemonium.
bedroom, n. chamber.
bedsore, n. decubitus.
bedspread, n. counterpane, coverlet.
bed-wetting, n. enuresis.
beehive, n. beehouse, apiary, alveary.
bees, n. pl. Associated Words: apiology, apiculture, apiologist, apian, apiarian, apiarist, apivorous, hive, swarm, cerago, beebread.
beetle, n. mallet (heavy); scarabee, clock, coleopter, scarab. Associated Words:: coleopterist, coleopteral.
beetle, v. overhang, jut out, protrude, project.
befall, v. happen, supervene, betide, bechance.
befitting, a. suitable, proper, becoming, appropriate, seemly, meet, applicable, congruous.
before, prep. preceding, ahead of, anterior to, previously to, prior.
before death. ante-mortem.
before the flood. antediluvian, antediluvial.
before the war. antebellum.
befuddle, v. confuse, mystify, bewilder.
beg, v. beseech, supplicate, implore; ask alms.
beget, v. procreate, engender, generate, get.
begetter, n. procreator, generator, father.
beggar, n. mendicant, starveling, fakir, vagrant, eleemosynary, prog, tramp, bezonian, mumper, schnorrer (Jewish).
beggar, v. impoverish, ruin; exhaust, surpass, go beyond.
beggarly, a. indigent, destitute; despicable, pitiable, paltry.
beggary, n. mendicancy, indigence, penury, want, pauperism.
begging letter or drawing. screeve.
begin, v. commence; arise, spring, originate.
begin again. resume, recommence.
beginner, n. tyro, novice, neophyte, learner, apprentice, understudy, novitiate, probationer, catechumen, recruit.
beginning, n. commencement, inception, opening, outset, initiation, indication, incipience, nascency, incipiency, threshold, tyronism, novitiate; origin, source.
beginning again. resumption, recommencement.
begone, interj. avaunt.
beguile, v. insnare, mislead, lure, deceive, cheat; while away.
beguilement, n. imposition, deception.
behave, v. deport one's self, act, bear.
behavior, n. conduct, deportment, actions, demeanor.
behead v. decapitate, decollate, execute.
beheading, n. decapitation, decollation, execution.
behindhand, a. and adv. in arrears; dilatory, late, tardy, unpunctual.
beholden, a. obliged, indebted, bound.
beholder, n. spectator, witness, onlooker, eye-witness.
being, n. existence, entity. Antonyms: nonexistence, nonentity. Associated Words: ontology, metaphysics, ontological, ontologist.
belch, v. eruct, expel, throw up; eructate.
belching, n. eructation.
belfry, n. bell-tower, campanile. Associated Words: louver boarding.
belief, n. credence; persuasion, faith; conviction, assurance, confidence; tenet, dogma, creed, opinion, doctrine, cult, view, principle; intuition; superstition, fanaticism. Antonyms: doubt, disbelief, skepticism, misgiving, incredulity. Associated Words: credulous, incredulous, credulity, credibility, incredibility, gull, gullible, gullibility.
believable, a. credible.
belittle, v. decry, disparage, underrate, depreciate.
bell, n. campana, carillon, curfew, tocsin, gong. Associated Words: campanology, campanologist, peal, ring, knell, toll, chime.
bellicose, a. pugnacious, belligerent.
belligerent, a. at war, warring, militant; bellicose, pugnacious.
bell-ringer, n. sexton, campanologist.
bell-shaped, a. campaniform, campanulate, campaniliform.
bell-tower, n. belfry, campanile.
belly, n. abdomen, paunch; recesses, _penetralia_, depths.
belly-ache, n. colic, gripes, tormina, enteralgia.
belly-band, n. girth, surcingle.
belly-god, n. glutton, epicure, gourmand, sybarite, voluptuary.
belonging, n. appendage, appurtenance, adjunct concomitant, accessary, attribute.
below, adv. under, beneath, underneath.
below, prep. under, beneath, underneath; inferior to; unworthy of, unbefitting.
belt, n. girdle; girth, surcingle, cincture, cestus; zone; bandolier.
belt, v. encircle, begird, encompass, surround.
bemoan, v. lament, bewail, deplore.
bench, n. form; workbench.
bend, v. curve, flex, deflect, crook; direct, turn, apply; stoop, incline; yield, condescend.
bend, n. curve, deflection, crook, curvature, bight, coil, flexure, incurvation.
bendable, a. flexible, supple, lithe, pliable, pliant. Antonyms: See inflexible.
benefice, n. living (Eccl.); sinecure. Associated Words: advowson, simony, donative.
beneficent, a. benevolent, charitable, philanthropic, magnanimous, benignant.
beneficial, a. advantageous, salutary, profitable, useful, wholesome.
benefit, n. avail, profit, behalf, advantage, service.
benefit, v. help, conduce, avail, advantage, be useful to, do good to.
benevolence, n. beneficence, bounty, benignity, charity.
benevolent, a. benign, beneficent, bountiful, charitable, philanthropic.
benighted, a. unenlightened; belated.
bent, a. crooked, flexed, hooked; determined.
bent, n. leaning, bias, proclivity, tendency, predilection, predisposition.
benumb, v. stupefy, blunt, hebetate.
benumbed, a. torpid, unfeeling, stupefied.
bequeath, v. devise, will.
bequest, n. legacy.
berate, v. upbraid, rate, reprimand, censure.
berry, n. Associated Words: baccate, baccated, baccivorous, bacciferous, cocciferous, bacciform.
beseech, v. entreat, implore, adjure, supplicate.
beset, v. besiege, obsess, beleaguer, environ, encompass; perplex, harass.
besides, adv. moreover, furthermore, further, too.
besiege, v. obsess, environ, beset, beleaguer, encompass.
besieging, n. obsession.
best, a. supreme, consummate, superlative, crowning, incomparable, utmost.
bet, v. wager, stake.-n. wager.
betoken, v. foreshadow, portend, presage, foreshow, indicate, augur.
betray, v. seduce, mislead, delude, beguile, inveigle; reveal, disclose; give up treacherously, give over to the enemy, act the traitor, be false to.
betrayal, n. treason, treachery, perfidy; revelation, exposure; seduction.
betrayer, n. traitor, seducer; Judas.
betroth, v. affiance.
betrothal, n. affiance, betrothment.
better, n. upper hand, domination, advantage, control, superiority; improvement.
better, v. ameliorate, improve, emend, promote, reform, meliorate, amend.
betterment, n. amelioration, improvement, promotion, amendment, reformation.
between, prep. betwixt (Obsolescent).-a. interjacent, intervening.
betwixt and between. (Colloq.) so-so, mediocre, average, ordinary, indifferent.
bevy, n. (of birds) flock, covey; (of deer) herd; (of girls) group.
bewail, v. deplore, lament, bemoan, wail over.
bewilder, v. confuse, perplex, nonplus, obfuscate, confound, mystify, embarrass.
bewildered, a. perplexed, confused, mystified, nonplused, obfuscated.
bewildering, a. perplexing, confusing, puzzling, mystifying.
bewilderment, n. perplexity, confusion, mystification, obfuscation.
bewitch, v. charm, fascinate, captivate, enamor. Antonyms: disillusionize, repel, disabuse.
bewitchery, n. bewitchment, charm, fascination, witchery.
bewitching, a. enchanting, captivating, charming, irresistible.
Questions about abbreviations used here? You'll find designations for the part of speech for each word; for more information, see abbreviations. Some words also give designations for their geographical/ethnic origin and/or the discipline in which they are used.
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