Synonyms for Straw
strɔstraw

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1. strawnoun

   plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder

   Synonyms:
   stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat, chaff, pale yellow, drinking straw, husk

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

2. chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubblenoun

   material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

   Synonyms:
   stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat, chaff, angry walk, pale yellow, straw, drinking straw, still hunt, stalking, stem, husk

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

3. pale yellow, straw, wheatnoun

   a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

   Synonyms:
   stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat berry, wheat, chaff, pale yellow, straw, drinking straw, husk

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

4. straw, drinking strawadjective

   a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth

   Synonyms:
   stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat, chaff, pale yellow, straw, drinking straw, husk

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

5. strawverb

   of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

6. strawverb

   cover or provide with or as if with straw

   "cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm"

   Synonyms:
   strew

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

7. strew, strawverb

   spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)

   "strew toys all over the carpet"

   Synonyms:
   straw, strew

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

Matched Categories

1. • Cover
   • Plant Fiber
   • Plant Material
   • Spread

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1. plastic straws

   Submitted by anonymous on December 17, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. strawnoun

   Synonyms:
   stalk (of grain after being thrashed)

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1. strawnoun

   Synonyms:
   stalk, culm, litter, mulch, sennet, platting

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1. List of paraphrases for "straw":

   paille, stro, chaff, husk, mote, drop, hay, bathwater

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1. Maya Cooper:

   We've have the suggestion that people should just have a liquid, they should take a pill to consume all the vitamins and minerals that they need, the issue with that is that there's a psychological experience that comes with eating. And people don't want to take all their meals through a straw, they don't want to swallow a pill for all their nutrition, and the pill wouldn't be as bioavailable as the food itself. So it's necessary, in terms of the human experience, that people eat.

2. Bethany Mandel:

   They see what happened in San Francisco this week and know that the way they have been conducting business is no longer viable, they are grasping at straws, and this is the straw they have decided to grasp. They are painting all opposition as fascist and terrorizing. Americans over the course of the last two years have caught on like never before to this tactic. It is going to backfire in a big way.

3. Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931:

   If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.

4. Carson Block:

   I'm really skeptical of ESG, eSG is the paper straw of investing.

5. Sam Liccardo:

   We know a significant number of crooks and gangs get firearms through straw purchasing, this set of ordinances is really focused on narrowing the flow of guns to those which are clearly legal and, hopefully, doing something to deter the flow of guns that are unlawful to own.