What are some opposite words for bum?

Antonyms for bum
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  1. rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, gitnoun

    a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

    "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'"

    Antonyms:
    superior

    Synonyms:
    vomit, lemon, keister, pot, wood pussy, seat, behind, crumb, butt, nates, hobo, skunk, rear end, blackleg, scum bag, locoweed, sens, barf, layabout, bottom, can, stern, git, informer, fundament, stinker, weed, posterior, buttocks, do-nothing, puke, polecat, stinkpot, backside, grass, green goddess, betrayer, musk turtle, tail, idler, buns, arse, hindquarters, tail end, tush, sess, derriere, so-and-so, vomitus, hind end, rotter, dirty dog, ass, lowlife, tramp, rump, prat, strikebreaker, squealer, fanny, rear, dope, gage, shutout, smoke, loafer, scab, rat, blabber, tooshie

  2. tramp, hobo, bumnoun

    a disreputable vagrant

    "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"

    Antonyms:
    superior

    Synonyms:
    keister, hiker, tail, seat, crumb, butt, hobo, skunk, rear end, scum bag, can, nates, bottom, git, layabout, fundament, stinker, posterior, buttocks, tramp steamer, do-nothing, puke, stern, hike, stinkpot, backside, dirty dog, idler, buns, hindquarters, tail end, derriere, tooshie, swinger, so-and-so, hind end, rotter, rump, lowlife, tramp, ass, prat, arse, fanny, rear, tramper, tush, hiking, loafer, rat, behind

  3. idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bumnoun

    person who does no work

    "a lazy bum"

    Antonyms:
    superior

    Synonyms:
    fanny, tail, seat, crumb, butt, hobo, skunk, rear end, scum bag, can, nates, bottom, git, layabout, fundament, stinker, posterior, buttocks, do-nothing, puke, stern, stinkpot, backside, dirty dog, idler, buns, hindquarters, tail end, derriere, tooshie, so-and-so, hind end, rotter, rump, lowlife, keister, tramp, ass, prat, arse, rear, tush, loafer, rat, behind

  4. buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, assadjective

    the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

    "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

    Antonyms:
    superior

    Synonyms:
    screw, arse, keister, female genital organ, substructure, stinkpot, goat, cornerstone, stern, lavatory, git, croup, arsehole, butt, shadower, crapper, commode, throne, skunk, base, tooshie, foundation, butt end, lav, derriere, can buoy, shag, place, seat, prat, bottomland, hind end, behind, tin can, scum bag, asshole, freighter, understructure, ass, stub, backside, after part, female genitals, tramp, female genitalia, idler, nookie, toilet, piece of tail, laughingstock, shtup, poop, foot, screwing, posterior, potty, bathroom, quarter, do-nothing, back end, dirty dog, tush, tail, merchantman, canful, can, croupe, butt joint, john, back tooth, bunghole, nates, rat, rump, nooky, pot, back, privy, underside, piece of ass, rear end, rear, layabout, bottom, buns, merchant ship, undersurface, tail assembly, hobo, loafer, fundament, stool, roll in the hay, empennage, rotter, so-and-so, stooge, target, stinker, buttocks, bottom of the inning, hindquarters, cigaret, coffin nail, tin, crumb, groundwork, shadow, fag end, cigarette, bed, basis, tail end, fanny, lowlife, puke

  5. bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinnyverb

    of very poor quality; flimsy

    Antonyms:
    superior

    Synonyms:
    seamy, flashy, chintzy, garish, inexpensive, trashy, chinchy, meretricious, tacky, gimcrack, squalid, loud, seedy, flash, brassy, cheap, crummy, sleazy, cheesy, gaudy, tawdry, tinny, tatty, sordid, punk

  6. mooch, bum, cadge, grub, spongeverb

    ask for and get free; be a parasite

    Antonyms:
    superior

    Synonyms:
    loaf, shnorr, arse around, cadge, frig around, schnorr, lounge around, arse about, waste one's time, loll around, bum around, scrounge, lounge about, sponge, grub, loll, mooch, bum about

  7. bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge aboutverb

    be lazy or idle

    "Her son is just bumming around all day"

    Antonyms:
    superior

    Synonyms:
    loll around, bum about, get, arse about, wank, lounge around, mill around, frig around, droop, lounge about, footle, lurk, bum around, lounge, grub, loiter, fool around, loll, horse around, mill about, bugger off, loaf, lollygag, buzz off, lallygag, arse around, jerk off, tarry, linger, mooch, cadge, hang around, jack off, fool, masturbate, mess about, scram, she-bop, waste one's time, sponge

How to use bum in a sentence?

  1. Kim Jou-yeon:

    The recovered voice sounds very much alike Kim Bum-soo in 2002, as if Kim Jou-yeon recorded it alive.

  2. Hourari Benkada:

    And all you see( is) smoke – black smoke … going off, and then people bum-rushing to the back, this pregnant woman was in front of me. I was trying to help her. I did n’t know there were shots at first. I just thought it was a black smoke bomb.

  3. Jeff Chanton:

    Why is the governor giving the people of Florida such a bum steer? does it have something to do with corporate influence.

  4. Lopez Obrador:

    Anaya is a little bum demagogue.

  5. Lily Allen:

    The next thing I knew I woke up and he was in my bed, naked, slapping my bum and trying to insert his penis into my private parts, i recoiled and I got up out of the bed and I screamed.

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