What are some alternative words for barb?
Synonyms for barb
bɑrb
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Princeton's WordNet
shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe(noun)
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
"his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"
Synonyms:
calamus, beam, shaft, archeological site, stab, peter, shaft of light, diaphysis, guessing, excavation, ray of light, pecker, digging, snap, jab, guesswork, cock, rotating shaft, blastoff, stroke, ray, prick, shooter, scape, slam, scene, spear, dick, dig, crack, tool, lance, snapshot, shooting, light beam, quill, gibe, guess, beam of light, sweep, putz, jibe, irradiation, injection, pellet, dead reckoning, shotbarb(noun)
the pointed part of barbed wire
barb(noun)
a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove
barb(verb)
one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather
barb(verb)
provide with barbs
"barbed wire"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1247 | tool | |
#1370 | peter | |
#1967 | shot | |
#2152 | cock | |
#2480 | ray | |
#2712 | scene | |
#2773 | guess | |
#3045 | dick | |
#3791 | barbara | |
#4224 | crack | |
#4589 | shooting | |
#5471 | beam | |
#5586 | stroke | |
#5791 | injection | |
#5946 | ranch | |
#7321 | snap | |
#7788 | dig | |
#7824 | snapshot | |
#8524 | shaft | |
#9414 | tooth | |
#9459 | lance | |
#11841 | slam | |
#12312 | sweep | |
#12329 | shooter | |
#13974 | spear | |
#14969 | digging | |
#16286 | barb | |
#16902 | guessing | |
#17366 | excavation | |
#19711 | stab | |
#21292 | irradiation | |
#26967 | pellet | |
#28087 | prick | |
#30133 | quill | |
#31630 | jab | |
#44692 | guesswork | |
#47916 | scape | |
#52871 | pecker | |
#85364 | jibe | |
#91044 | putz | |
#93581 | calamus | |
#213898 | gibe | |
#265303 | blastoff | |
#322761 | diaphysis |
How to use barb in a sentence?
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
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