Synonyms for Underground
ˈʌn dərˈgraʊnd; -ˌgraʊndun·der·ground

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1. undergroundnoun

   Synonyms:
   Tube

2. undergroundnoun

   Below the ground.

   There is an underground tunnel that takes you across the river.

   Synonyms:
   metro, Tube, subterranean, ground, below, subway, métro

3. undergroundadjective

   A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.

   These criminals operate through an underground network.

   Synonyms:
   avant-garde, counter-culture, on the quiet, in secret, clandestinely, resistance, hush-hush, secret, clandestine, hidden

4. undergroundnoun

   A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.

   Synonyms:
   avant-garde, unconventional

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1. underground, resistancenoun

   a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

   Synonyms:
   resistance, resistivity, immunity, ohmic resistance, underground, subway, impedance, resistor, electrical resistance, metro, opposition, subway system, electric resistance, tube

   Antonyms:
   surface, open, overhead, overt

2. metro, tube, underground, subway system, subwayadjective

   an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)

   "in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'"

   Synonyms:
   resistance, metro, electron tube, underground, subway, thermionic vacuum tube, pipe, tubing, vacuum tube, tube-shaped structure, thermionic valve, underpass, subway system, thermionic tube, tube

   Antonyms:
   overhead, open, overt, surface

3. belowground, undergroundadjective

   under the level of the ground

   "belowground storage areas"; "underground caverns"

   Synonyms:
   hole-and-corner(a), clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, underground, belowground, hush-hush, undercover, surreptitious, hugger-mugger, secret

   Antonyms:
   overt, surface, open, overhead

4. clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, undergroundadverb

   conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods

   "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance"

   Antonyms:
   overt, surface, open, overhead

5. undergroundadverb

   in or into hiding or secret operation

   "the organization was driven underground"

   Antonyms:
   overhead, surface, overt, open

6. undergroundadverb

   beneath the surface of the earth

   "water flowing underground"

   Antonyms:
   overt, open, overhead, surface

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1. catacombs

   Submitted by anonymous on April 2, 2020  

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1. undergroundadjective

   Synonyms:
   subterranean, subterraneous

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1. undergroundadjective

   Synonyms:
   subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene, subterrestrial

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1. List of paraphrases for "underground":

   subterranean, subsurface, subway, below-ground, belowground, metro, clandestine, groundwater, ground, basement, illegal, hiding, surreptitious, secret, underpass, sub-surface

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1. Francis Lawrence:

   It was actually quite difficult to find environments that felt like they were underground, that didn't have a lot of doors, that didn't have a lot of windows and a lot of vents and things like that, and this felt like it could be underground with the supports and the vaults and all of that.

2. Michael Raupp:

   You’ve got a creature that spends 17 years in a COVID-like existence, isolated underground sucking on plant sap, right ? In the 17th year these teenagers are going to come out of the earth by the billions if not trillions. They’re going to try to best everything on the planet that wants to eat them during this critical period of the nighttime when they’re just trying to grow up, they’re just trying to be adults, shed that skin, get their wings, go up into the treetops, escape their predators.

3. Ajit Chambers:

   You can operate 24 hours a day underground, workers could come and go at any time without worrying about the noise.

4. Alex Holden:

   This information is potent. It is floating around in the underground and this person has shown he's willing to give the data away to people who are nice to him.

5. Roya Boroumand:

   If you are discreet about your music, the Revolutionary Guard may leave you alone. They say, ‘ Do your thing underground. Do n’t make a lot of noise and we wo n’t come after you, but if a group of musicians start publicly promoting their music, the Guard sees it as leading the youth to not be in control, and then they want to teach a lesson and set an example.