Synonyms for clay
kleɪclay

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1. claynoun

   The material of the human body.

   Antonyms:
   spirit, soul

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1. clay

   Body denotes the entire physical structure, considered as a whole, of man or animal; form looks upon it as a thing of shape and outline, perhaps of beauty; frame regards it as supported by its bony framework; system views it as an assemblage of many related and harmonious organs. Body, form, frame, and system may be either dead or living; clay and dust are sometimes so used in religious or poetic style, tho ordinarily these words are used only of the dead. Corpse and remains are used only of the dead. Corpse is the plain technical word for a dead body still retaining its unity; remains may be used after any lapse of time; the latter is also the more refined and less ghastly term; as, friends are invited to view the remains. Carcass applies only to the body of an animal, or of a human being regarded with contempt and loathing. Compare COMPANY.

   Synonyms:
   ashes, body, carcass, corpse, dust, form, frame, remains, system, trunk

   Antonyms:
   intellect, intelligence, mind, soul, spirit

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1. claynoun

   a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

   Synonyms:
   corpse, the Great Compromiser, remains, mud, stiff, cadaver

2. mud, claynoun

   water soaked soil; soft wet earth

   Synonyms:
   corpse, the Great Compromiser, remains, mud, stiff, cadaver

3. Clay, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Claynoun

   United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978)

   Synonyms:
   corpse, the Great Compromiser, remains, mud, stiff, cadaver

4. Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromisernoun

   United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)

   Synonyms:
   corpse, the Great Compromiser, remains, mud, stiff, cadaver

5. cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remainsnoun

   the dead body of a human being

   "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

   Synonyms:
   the Great Compromiser, remains, corpse, stiff, cadaver, mud

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1. • Dead Body
   • General
   • Politician
   • Soil

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1. claynoun

   Synonyms:
   argillaceous earth (consisting principally of alumina and silica)

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1. claynoun

   Synonyms:
   argillaceous earth, pug, argil, hole, marl, kaolin

   Associated words:
   potter, pottery, figuline, fictile, pug, puddle

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1. List of paraphrases for "clay":

   clayey, earthenware, clays, ceramics, ceramic, terracotta, kley, clay-rich, mud, tao, clayton

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1. Mats Wilander:

   Rafa is a genius on clay, so far ahead tactically, it's like he has a built-in coach in his mind. You can't tell what he's going to do before he does it, but when he does it, it all looks so obvious !

2. Alexis karpouzos:

   Creatures of clay, vain dwellers in the dust, lonely, we roam like the cloud, the wind, the wave, and all we see is a shadow of things unseen, and time that comes to flee Is but the broken echo of a rhyme In heart's great epic of Eternity.

3. Andy Murray:

   To play Rafa in Spain is extremely tough, but this is the reason why we play tennis for these matches, it is one of the toughest things in tennis to try and win against Rafa on clay.

4. Howard Bryant:

   Ken Burns'd been Muhammad Ali for ten years, [ but ] they still called Ken Burns Cassius Clay, they were sending their own political message :' I am refusing to acknowledge you.' And that is a powerful attack in and of itself :' I am not going to acknowledge your own existence.'.

5. Antoine de Rivarol:

   Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.