Synonyms for bounce
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1. bounceverb

   A talent for leaping.

   Them pro-ballers got bounce!

   Synonyms:
   mad ups, ups

2. bouncenoun

   Synonyms:
   bob, bobbing, bouncing

3. bounceverb

   To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.

   The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.

   Synonyms:
   rebound, bounce back

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. bounce, bouncinessnoun

   the quality of a substance that is able to rebound

   Synonyms:
   leaping, saltation, bounciness, spring, bound, bouncing, leap

   Antonyms:
   clear

2. leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bouncenoun

   a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

   Synonyms:
   dancing, bounciness, dance, fountain, bounds, edge, terpsichore, give, bound, springiness, springtime, spring, leap, saltation, natural spring, boundary, leaping, bouncing, outpouring, limit, outflow, jump

   Antonyms:
   clear

3. bounce, bouncingverb

   rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)

   Synonyms:
   leaping, saltation, bounciness, spring, bound, bouncing, leap

   Antonyms:
   clear

4. bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochetverb

   spring back; spring away from an impact

   "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

   Synonyms:
   spring, forswear, rally, throttle, echo, quail, restrict, funk, ring, abjure, trammel, retract, take form, backfire, flinch, form, wince, ricochet, shrink, recoil, border, resound, cringe, rebound, reflect, backlash, confine, leap, restrain, squinch, reverberate, jump, take a hop, kick back, resile, bound, limit, kick, take shape, jounce, recant

   Antonyms:
   clear

5. bounceverb

   hit something so that it bounces

   "bounce a ball"

   Synonyms:
   recoil, bound, resile, take a hop, spring, reverberate, ricochet, rebound, jounce

   Antonyms:
   clear

6. bounce, jounceverb

   move up and down repeatedly

   Synonyms:
   recoil, bound, resile, take a hop, spring, reverberate, ricochet, rebound, jounce

   Antonyms:
   clear

7. bounceverb

   come back after being refused

   "the check bounced"

   Synonyms:
   recoil, bound, resile, take a hop, spring, reverberate, ricochet, rebound, jounce

   Antonyms:
   clear

8. bounceverb

   leap suddenly

   "He bounced to his feet"

   Synonyms:
   recoil, bound, resile, take a hop, spring, reverberate, ricochet, rebound, jounce

   Antonyms:
   clear

9. bounceverb

   refuse to accept and send back

   "bounce a check"

   Synonyms:
   recoil, bound, resile, take a hop, spring, reverberate, ricochet, rebound, jounce

   Antonyms:
   clear

10. bounceverb

    eject from the premises

    "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club"

    Synonyms:
    recoil, bound, resile, take a hop, spring, reverberate, ricochet, rebound, jounce

    Antonyms:
    clear

Matched Categories

1. • Eject
   • Elasticity
   • Hit
   • Jump
   • Refuse
   • Return

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bouncenoun

   Synonyms:
   knock, thump, sudden blow

2. bouncenoun

   Synonyms:
   bound, leap, jump, spring

3. bouncenoun

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] boast, vaunt, brag

4. bouncenoun

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] falsehood, lie, WHOPPER, bouncer

5. bounceverb

   Synonyms:
   bolt, leap or spring suddenly

6. bounceverb

   Synonyms:
   rebound, recoil

7. bounceverb

   Synonyms:
   knock, thump, beat

8. bounceverb

   Synonyms:
   thrust, drive against

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bouncenoun

   Synonyms:
   bound, leap, rebound, spring, discharge, dismissal

2. bounceverb

   Synonyms:
   spring, bound, rebound, recoil, discharge, dismiss

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "bounce":

   rebound, jumpety-jump, jump, pounce

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1. Joseph Sugarman:

   Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

2. Real Live Preacher:

   When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.

3. Walter Zimmermann:

   It may be a dying cat bounce but it has a little too much vim and vigor to be a dead cat bounce.

4. John Manley:

   The market is sniffing out a bottom in the underlying commodity and we are seeing a bounce in energy stocks from having been oversold in the last month or so, it's in no one's interest for oil to go any lower; not in ours, or OPEC's.

5. Sir Winston Churchill:

   If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.