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 du, dw, dy. Use this list to help build your vocabulary and add variety to your writing.
dubious, a. undetermined, undecided, doubtful; equivocal, questionable, vague.
duck, v. souse, dip, plunge, immerse; dive; dodge, cringe.
duck, n. drake (male); teal; pl. Anatidae, Anseres. Associated words: anatine, anserine, anatiferous, quack.
ducking-stool, n. castigatory, trebucket, cucking-stool, tumbrel.
duct, n. tube, canal, pipe, channel, conduit.
dude, n. dandy, fop, coxcomb, swell, popinjay, exquisite. Antonyms: sloven, guy.
dudgeon, n. resentment, anger, displeasure.
dudish, a. foppish, dandified, coxcombical. Antonyms: slovenly, seedy, unkempt.
duds, n. pl. (Colloq.) frippery (old clothes); clothes, effects, things.
due, a. payable, unpaid; appropriate, becoming, proper; regular, appointed; owing, ascribable.
due, n. debt; duty, right.
duel, n. monomachia, monomachy.
duelist, n. monomachist.
dugout, n. excavation.
dull, a. unintelligent, obtuse, stolid, loggerheaded, inapt, doltish, beetle-headed, blockish, sluggish; apathetic, unfeeling, insensate, callous; blunt, obtuse, dulled, pointless; dim, faint; tedious, uninteresting, prosaic, stupid, wearisome, jejune, depressing; lifeless, torpid, slow, inactive; matte, lusterless, lackluster.
dull, v. blunt, rebate, benumb, obtund, stupefy, deaden, hebetate; sully, tarnish, obscure, dim, bedim; depress, sadden, dishearten; assuage, alleviate, moderate, allay.
dumb, a. mute, speechless; pantomimic.
dumbness, n. muteness, obmutescence, speechlessness.
dumb show. pantomime.
dumfound, v. astound, amaze, astonish, confound.
dumpish, a. dull, moody, moping, dejected, gloomy, despondent.
dumps, n. pl. melancholy, depression, despondency.
dunce, n. dullard, dolt, numskull, witling, blockhead, coot, lackbrain, ninny, oaf, nincompoop, mooncalf, ignoramus, booby, simpleton.
duncical, a. doltish, witless.
dung, n. ordure, excrement, faeces, dejections, lesses, muck; puer, fumet, fiants, treddle, spraints, coprolite (petrified), mute, guano, ornithocopros. Associated Words: coprophagy, coprophagous, Augean, dungmeer, excrementitious, sterconst, sterconcolous, stercoraceous, bubulin.
dupe, n. gull, cully, gudgeon, dotterel, victim.
duplicate, a. double, twofold, duplex.-n. facsimile, counterpart. See copy. Antonyms: original, archetype prototype, model, pattern.
dusk, n. twilight, evening, nightfall.
dust, n. powder; detritus; stive (in flour mills). Associated words: pulverizable, pulverable, pulverulence, pulverize, pulverization.
dust storm. simoon; (in India) shaitan, devil, peesash; dust whirl.
dusty, a. powdery, pulverulent, pulverous, pulverized.
dutiful, a. obedient, duteous, submissive, deferential, docile.
duty, n. responsibility, incumbency, accountability; service, business, work, function, office; tax, impost, toll, excise, custom. Associated Words: ethics, deontology, casuistry, ethology, morals, ethicist, ethically, supererogate, supererogation.
dwarf, n. pygmy, gnome, manikin, dandiprat, Lilliputian, elf, midget, runt, Tom Thumb, pigwidgeon, homunculus, hop-o-my-thumb.
dwarf, v. stunt, atrophy.
dwarfish, a. diminutive, undersized, Lilliputian, pygmy, pygmean, runty, stunted, undeveloped, tiny, atrophied.
dweller, n. denizen, resident, sojourner, inhabitant, habitant.
dwelling, n. residence, domicile, house, abode.
dwindle, v. decrease, diminish, shrink.
dwindling, n. decrease, diminution, shrinkage.
dye, v. color, stain, tinge, imbue.
dying, a. moribund; expiring, last; mortal, perishable.
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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