Synonyms for clod
klɒdclod

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1. ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, chunknoun

   a compact mass

   "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"

   Synonyms:
   orb, goon, lubber, testicle, oaf, stumblebum, thump, formal, nut, glob, hunk, chunk, ball, clunk, clustering, musket ball, clump, cluster, testis, bunch, thud, lummox, lout, lump, globe, orchis, thumping, ballock, gawk, bollock, egg, swelling, puffiness

2. lout, clod, stumblebum, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump, gawknoun

   an awkward stupid person

   Synonyms:
   lump, hoodlum, clump, glob, hunk, stumblebum, hood, landsman, palooka, lout, chunk, goon, strong-armer, oaf, ball, landlubber, toughie, lubber, tough, lummox, gawk, puffiness, punk, thug, swelling

Matched Categories

1. • Agglomeration
   • Clumsy Person

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1. clodnoun

   Synonyms:
   lump of earth

2. clodnoun

   Synonyms:
   ground, earth, turf, sod

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1. John Donne:

   No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee.

2. Charles McCabe:

   Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.

3. George Bernard Shaw:

   This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap. Being a force of Nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

4. Anthony Trollope:

   I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

5. Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle:

   Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art.