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 dr. Use this list to help build your vocabulary and add variety to your writing.
draft, n. drawing, draught; bill of exchange; delineation, sketch, current of air; conscript, conscription. Associated Word: conscript (one drafted).
drag, v. haul, trail, tug, pull; break, harrow.
drag, n. dragging; dragnet; harrow; skid; clog, impediment, obstacle.
drain, n. channel, gutter, trench, ditch, sewer.
drain, v. empty, exhaust, deplete; filter.
draw, v. haul, drag, tug, tow; attract; entice, allure, lure, induce, tempt; extract, educe; unsheathe; deduce, infer, conclude, derive; disembowel, eviscerate; delineate, draught, sketch, depict, trace, limn; influence, win, induce; contract, shrink. Antonyms: repel, repulse, rebuff, reject, alienate.
drawback, n. disadvantage, hindrance, defect, imperfection; rebate, deduction, discount.
draw back. retract; shrink, flinch, recoil, withdraw, wince.
drawer, n. till (money drawer), tiller.
drawing, n. traction, hauling, pulling; graphics, diagraphics, delineation; sketch, draught, diagram, picture, limning, representation.
drawing back. retraction; shrinking, flinching, recoiling, withdrawal, wincing.
drawing off. withdrawal, abstraction.
drawing out. extension, protraction, stretching; eduction, extraction.
draw off. withdraw, abstract.
draw out. stretch, extend, protract; elicit, educe, extract.
draw up. compose, draught, write; array, arrange.
dread, n. apprehension, fear, awe (reverential fear).
dread, v. fear, apprehend.
dreadful, a. fearful, terrible, formidable, awful, dread, dire, direful, frightful.
dream, n. vision; illusion, vagary, wild conceit, revery, fancy, fantasy. Antonyms: fact, actuality, reality, substance, realization. Associated Words: Morpheus, Morphean, oneiroscopy, oneiroscopist, oneirocritic, oneiromancy, oneirology, oneirocriticism, nightmare.
dreamer, n. visionary, enthusiast, castle-builder, John-a-dreams.
dreamy, a. visionary, unreal, illusory. Antonyms: practical, real.
dreary, a. dismal, drear, cheerless, lonesome, wearisome, dull.
dregs, n. pl. refuse, sediment, lees, draff; riffraff.
dress, n. gown, toilette, robe; raiment, clothes, clothing, garments, habiliments, attire, garb, apparel, habit, array, costume, togs, toggery. Antonyms: See undress.
dress, v. clothe, deck, drape, apparel, robe, array, attire; adjust, align; curry, smooth, plane, finish; (Colloq.) castigate, chastise, whip. Antonyms: undress, disrobe, divest, strip, expose.
dress gaudily. bedizen, prank.
dressing, n. forcemeat, stuffing, condiment; (Colloq.) castigation, scolding, whipping, flogging, chastisement.
dressmaker, n. modiste, mantuamaker.
dribble, v. drip, trickle.
dribble, n. (Colloq.) trickling.
drier, n. desiccator, desiccant, desiccative, exsiccant, exsiccator.
drift, n. course, direction, bearing, tendency, aim, intention intent, design, import, meaning; accumulation, heap, bank, pile, diluvium.
drill, v. perforate, pierce, bore; train, discipline, exercise.
drink, v. quaff, sip, sup, imbibe, slake one's thirst; tipple, tope, guzzle, booze, house, be intemperate; absorb.
drink, n. beverage, potation, potable; draught, dram, potation, drench.
drinkable, a. potable, potulent. Antonym: undrinkable
drinking, n. potation; tippling, bibacity, drunkenness, carousal, guzzling, intemperance. Antonyms: temperance nephalism, abstinence, teetotalism. Associated Words: bibacious, bibulous, bibitory, dipsomania, alcoholism thirst, nectar, hobnob, bacchanalian, inebriant, potatory, oenomania, symposium, crapulence, supernaculum convivial, conviviality, tankard, beaker, cup, stein, canteen.
drinking-bout, n. orgies, compotation, bacchanals, carousal revel, revelry, wassail, saturnalia, debauch, spree, excess, carouse, jollification.
drip, v. drop, trickle, dribble.
dripping, n. trickling, dribbling.
dripping from the eaves. stillicide.
drive, v. impel, force, compel, press; propel, send; rush, press; conduct, carry on.
drive at. aim, intend, purpose.
drive away. dispel, disperse, scatter, dissipate.
drive back. repulse, repel, rebuff.
drivel, n. driveling; nonsense, twaddle.
drivel, v. drool.
driveler, n. drooler; imbecile, fool, idiot.
driver, n. coachman, jehu, charioteer, whip.
driving, a. violent, forcible; impelling, impellent, propulsive, impulsive.
driving, n. guiding by reins; impulsion, propulsion, compulsion, forcing.
driving back. repulse, rebuff, repulsion, repercussion, repellence, recussion.
driving out. expulsion.-a. expulsive.
drizzle, n. mizzle, misle, mist.-v. mizzle, misle.
droll, n. jester, buffoon, merry-andrew, zany, harlequin; comedy, farce, burlesque.
droll, a. ludicrous, laughable, comical, facetious, funny.
drollery, n. waggery, buffoonery, pleasantry, facetiousness.
drone, n. sluggard, idler, lounger.
drool, v. drivel, slaver, slabber.
drooler, n. driveler, slaverer, slabberer.
droop, v. languish, faint, grow faint, sink; bend, drop, hang; slouch; fade, wilt, wither.
drop, n. globule, minim, blob; pendant; descent, fall.
drop, v. distill, dribble, trickle, drip; fall; let fall, release, banish, dismiss, discontinue, discard, intermit, remit, relinquish; lower, sink, depress; variegate, bedrop, speckle, fleck.
drop by drop. _guttatim_, _guttat_, stillatitious.
droplight, n. pendant.
dropping, n. distillation, trickling, dribbling, falling; stillicide.
droppings, n. pl. excrement, dung.
drop serene. amaurosis, _gutta serena_.
drop-shaped, a. globular, guttiform, stilliform.
dross, n. refuse, scum, recrement, draff, dregs, scobs, waste, sinter.
drought, n. aridity, dryness; scarcity, dearth.
drought plant. xerophyte. Associated Words: xerophilous, xerophytic.
drove, n. herd, flock; crowd, company.
drown, v. overwhelm, submerge, flood, inundate, deluge.
drowning, n. demersion, submersion, inundation; noyade.
drowsiness, n. sleepiness, oscitancy.
drowsy, a. sleepy, dozy, oscitant.
drudge, n. menial, hack, slave, scullion, fag.
drug, v. deaden, dull, stupefy; surfeit; hocus.
drug, n. Associated Words: pharmacology, pharmacologist, pharmacy, pharmacognosis, pharmaceutics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacopoeoea, pharmacography, spatula, mortar, pestle, cribration, pharmacopolist, pharmaceutical.
druggist, n. pharmacist, apothecary, pharmaceutist.
drum, n. snare-drum; base-drum; kettle-drum; tabor, taborine. Associated Words: reveille, rappel, chamade, ruff, tattoo, ruffle, roll, rataplan, drummer, drumhead, drumstick.
drum, v. thrum, strum.
drumstick, n. tibiotarsus.
drunk, a. intoxicated, drunken, inebriated, tipsy, boozy, besotted. Antonyms: sober, unintoxicated.
drunk, n. (Slang) spree, drunkenness.
drunkard, n. inebriate, toper, sot, tippler, carouser, dipsomaniac, wine-bibber, bacchanal, bacchanalian, debauchee. Antonyms: abstainer, ascetic, nephalist, teetotaler.
drunken, a. intoxicated, drunk; sottish, maudlin, fuddled, mellow, groggy, disguised.
drunkenness, n. intoxication, inebriety, inebriation, ebriety, ebriosity, debauch; excitement, frenzy, inflammation. Antonyms: sobriety, temperance, abstinence.
dry, a. desiccated, exsiccated, dried, evaporated; arid, parched; anhydrous; droughty; barren, uninteresting, jejune, vapid, tedious, prosaic, tame; sharp, keen, quaint, shrewd, droll.
dry, v. evaporate, desiccate, exsiccate, arefy, insolate (dry in the sun), torrefy; infumate (dry in smoke).
dry goods. textile fabrics. Associated Word: mercer.
drying, n. desiccation, exsiccation, evaporation, torrefaction, arefaction. Associated Words: desiccator, exsiccator, desiccative, evaporator, kiln.
drying, a. desiccative, exsiccative, desiccatory, desiccant, exsiccant, evaporative.
dryness, n. aridity, drought, desiccation, exsiccation.
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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