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Synonyms for cant
kæntcant
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Wiktionary
cant4
Antonyms:
must, be able to, cancantcontraction
cannot; is unable to; does not have the ability to
I can't quite get it to work.
Antonyms:
can, be able to, mustcantcontraction
To bevel an edge or corner.
You can't enter the hall without a ticket.
Antonyms:
can, be able to, must
English Synonyms and Antonyms
cant
Pretense (Latin prætendo) primarily signifies the holding something forward as having certain rights or claims, whether truly or falsely; in the good sense, it is now rarely used except with a negative; as, there can be no pretense that this is due; a false pretense implies the possibility of a true pretense; but, alone and unlimited, pretense commonly signifies the offering of something for what it is not. Hypocrisy is the false pretense of moral excellence, either as a cover for actual wrong, or for the sake of the credit and advantage attaching to virtue. Cant (Latin cantus, a song), primarily the singsong iteration of the language of any party, school, or sect, denotes the mechanical and pretentious use of religious phraseology, without corresponding feeling or character; sanctimoniousness is the assumption of a saintly manner without a saintly character. As cant is hypocrisy in utterance, so sanctimoniousness is hypocrisy in appearance, as in looks, tones, etc. Pietism, originally a word of good import, is now chiefly used for an unregulated emotionalism; formalism is an exaggerated devotion to forms, rites, and ceremonies, without corresponding earnestness of heart; sham (identical in origin with shame) is a trick or device that puts one to shame, or that shamefully disappoints expectation or falsifies appearance. Affectation is in matters of intellect, taste, etc., much what hypocrisy is in morals and religion; affectation might be termed petty hypocrisy. Compare DECEPTION.
Synonyms:
affectation, dissimulation, formalism, hypocrisy, pharisaism, pietism, pretense, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, shamAntonyms:
candor, frankness, genuineness, honesty, ingenuousness, openness, sincerity, transparency, truth, truthfulness
Princeton's WordNet
buzzword, cantnoun
stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
Synonyms:
slang, camber, chamfer, patois, bevel, vernacular, argot, bank, pious platitude, lingo, buzzword, jargonbank, cant, cambernoun
a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
Synonyms:
argot, pious platitude, banking company, money box, banking concern, slang, chamfer, lingo, bank building, coin bank, patois, savings bank, vernacular, bevel, camber, jargon, bank, buzzword, depository financial institutionslang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacularnoun
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
"they don't speak our lingo"
Synonyms:
slang term, bevel, patois, slang, slang expression, vernacular, argot, pious platitude, lingo, camber, buzzword, jargon, chamfer, bank, jargooncant, pious platitudenoun
insincere talk about religion or morals
Synonyms:
slang, camber, chamfer, patois, bevel, vernacular, argot, bank, pious platitude, lingo, buzzword, jargonbevel, cant, chamferverb
two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
Synonyms:
slang, bevel, camber, chamfer, patois, bevel square, vernacular, argot, bank, pious platitude, lingo, buzzword, jargoncant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitchverb
heel over
"The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"
Synonyms:
set up, pitch, lean, huckster, lurch, wobble, peddle, vend, tip, slope, careen, shift, tilt, hawk, flip, cant over, monger, deliver, incline, weight, angle, sky, toss, slant, gear
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
cantnoun
Synonyms:
whining or affected speechcantnoun
cantnoun
Synonyms:
peculiar form of speech, professional termscantnoun
Synonyms:
slang, barbarous jargon, low language, inelegant expressioncantnoun
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auction, vendue, auction salecantnoun
cantadjective
Synonyms:
hypocritical, insincere, hollow, cantingcantadjective
Synonyms:
vulgar, barbarous, unauthorized, inelegant
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#887 | weight | |
#1842 | gear | |
#2765 | tip | |
#2872 | sky | |
#3338 | deliver | |
#3711 | shift | |
#4157 | angle | |
#6268 | pitch | |
#7071 | cant | |
#7356 | flip | |
#8418 | hawk | |
#8479 | slope | |
#8525 | lean | |
#10154 | tilt | |
#14874 | toss | |
#18580 | slang | |
#18667 | jargon | |
#20014 | sham | |
#21506 | hypocrisy | |
#22421 | slant | |
#25509 | lingo | |
#27916 | incline | |
#31721 | formalism | |
#32788 | vernacular | |
#36510 | bevel | |
#43135 | wobble | |
#47108 | camber | |
#48205 | pretense | |
#49557 | buzzword | |
#66209 | lurch | |
#69485 | vend | |
#70257 | peddle | |
#71860 | monger | |
#87946 | affectation | |
#123195 | chamfer | |
#126869 | patois | |
#146043 | argot | |
#148537 | huckster | |
#175930 | careen | |
#176365 | dissimulation | |
#217810 | pietism | |
#289475 | sanctimony |
How to use cant in a sentence?
Scottsdale City Councilman Guy Phillips:
He didn't deserve what happened to him and I by no means was trying to make light of it by saying I cant breathe in a mask, please accept my sincerest apology and that goes out to anyone who became offended.
Know the room and your role, why you are in the meeting, if it's your manager interrupting, your job is not to try and step in over the manager and regain your voice. You cant publicly challenge the boss in the meeting. That isn't going to work.
We have no reason to apologize for anything, if youre a communist sympathizer, I cant help you. But none of these people (who have complained about the sign) ever contacted me and asked me what I think.
We cant say that the Turkish exercises killed the dolphins, but the fact that we had such an unusual increase in the number washed up dead and what we have seen must be a small percentage of the total because the Aegean has a long coastline coincided with exercises that used more than 100 ships, (The deaths) are very worrying and we cant say that the two events are unrelated.
You cant hurry love. I guess you cant hurry divorce either! Neither should be treated lightly.
Translations for cant
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- лицеме́рие, преобръщане, наклон, жарго́н, окантвам, накланямBulgarian
- argotCatalan, Valencian
- Gaunersprache, Phrasendrescherrei, Redendes Wappen, kanten, abschrägen, Fachsprache, kippen, Jargon, Phrase, RotwelschGerman
- argot, coa, jergaSpanish
- mankuminen, kallistaa, kaltevuus, slangi, hurskastelu, höpöpuhe, jargonFinnish
- armes parlantes, lange de bois, lamentation, langue de bois, argotFrench
- zsargon, tolvajnyelv, képmutatásHungarian
- 傾斜, 斜面, 隠語Japanese
- neigen, boeventaal, huicheltaal, Bargoens, jargon, vaktaal, sprekend wapen, bedelaarsgekerm, hellingDutch
- jargão, códigoPortuguese
- лицеме́рие, фе́ня, [[блатно́й]] [[язы́к]], ха́нжество, кантовать, нытьё, [[та́йный]] [[язы́к]], жарго́н, перевёртываниеRussian
- jargonTurkish
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