Synonyms for cross
krɔs, krɒs

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1. cross(noun)

   a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece

   Synonyms:
   crossing, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossbreed, crown of thorns, crisscross, hybridization, hybrid, interbreeding, mark, hybridizing

   Antonyms:
   lengthways, lengthwise, good-natured, uncross

2. crisscross, cross, mark(noun)

   a marking that consists of lines that cross each other

   Synonyms:
   hybridisation, marking, interbreeding, mark, sucker, hybridizing, crossbreeding, bell ringer, target, crisscross, print, fall guy, mug, scar, score, sign, brand, grade, chump, stigma, home run, hybridization, scratch, gull, crown of thorns, patsy, fool, marker, scrape, crossing, crossbreed, stain, bull's eye, hybrid, soft touch

   Antonyms:
   lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncross

3. Cross(noun)

   a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry

   Synonyms:
   crossing, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossbreed, crown of thorns, crisscross, hybridization, hybrid, interbreeding, mark, hybridizing

   Antonyms:
   lengthways, good-natured, lengthwise, uncross

4. cross, crown of thorns(noun)

   any affliction that causes great suffering

   "that is his cross to bear"; "he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns"

   Synonyms:
   crossing, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossbreed, crown of thorns, crisscross, hybridization, hybrid, interbreeding, mark, hybridizing

   Antonyms:
   lengthways, lengthwise, good-natured, uncross

5. hybrid, crossbreed, cross(noun)

   (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species

   "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey"

   Synonyms:
   crossing, hybridisation, loanblend, crossbreed, loan-blend, crown of thorns, crisscross, hybridization, hybrid, interbreeding, mark, hybridizing, crossbreeding

   Antonyms:
   lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncross

6. hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing(adj)

   (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

   Synonyms:
   hybridisation, crossing, crossroad, ford, crossbreed, intersection, mark, crisscross, hybrid, carrefour, crossbreeding, hybridization, crossover, crossway, hybridizing, miscegenation, interbreeding, crown of thorns, crosswalk

   Antonyms:
   good-natured, lengthways, lengthwise, uncross

7. cross(a), transverse, transversal, thwartwise(adj)

   extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis

   "cross members should be all steel"; "from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"; "transversal vibrations"; "transverse colon"

   Antonyms:
   lengthways, lengthwise, good-natured, uncross

8. crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered(verb)

   annoyed and irritable

   Synonyms:
   transversal, picky, particular, bad-tempered, busy, cross(a), transverse, finicky, grumpy, grouchy, finical, crabby, crabbed, fussy, thwartwise, ill-tempered

   Antonyms:
   good-natured, lengthways, lengthwise, uncross

9. traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across(verb)

   travel across or pass over

   "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"

   Synonyms:
   pass across, sweep, chase after, overcompensate, handle, cut through, deal, shroud, continue, come home, span, comprehend, embrace, hybridize, interbreed, encompass, cut across, address, give chase, get over, spoil, get well, surmount, go after, crosscut, pass through, plow, skip over, intersect, put over, tail, insure, brood, foil, penetrate, tag, master, trail, get through, click, report, transit, wipe, hide, frustrate, sink in, scotch, bounce back, overcome, compensate, breed, traverse, underwrite, chase, move through, subdue, baffle, pass over, spread over, enshroud, jump, overlay, skip, overfly, track, cover, extend, wrap up, cover up, deny, incubate, crossbreed, dawn, thwart, bilk, get across, treat, hybridise, dog, hatch, fall into place

   Antonyms:
   good-natured, lengthwise, lengthways, uncross

10. intersect, cross(verb)

    meet at a point

    Synonyms:
    frustrate, foil, spoil, cut through, crossbreed, cover, cut across, bilk, hybridize, intersect, hybridise, pass over, baffle, sweep, scotch, track, interbreed, thwart, span, get across, get over, traverse

    Antonyms:
    lengthwise, lengthways, good-natured, uncross

11. thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk(verb)

    hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

    "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"

    Synonyms:
    vitiate, mar, sweep, dumbfound, plunder, foil, scupper, mystify, cut through, pamper, flub, span, dun, rape, crucify, baby, regulate, bedevil, itch, screw up, ball up, indulge, interbreed, stick, cut across, corrupt, elude, get over, deflower, spoil, puzzle, gravel, violate, beat, mollycoddle, bungle, intersect, bollocks up, fumble, evade, rag, blow, bollix, torment, amaze, bewilder, coddle, cosset, frustrate, peril, scotch, featherbed, crossbreed, get, louse up, perplex, botch up, bodge, traverse, bobble, baffle, muff, bollocks, pass over, pose, fluff, vex, mishandle, endanger, foul up, stupefy, flummox, track, hybridize, cover, despoil, muck up, bumble, mess up, impair, bollix up, botch, thwart, bilk, get across, expose, go bad, hybridise, cocker, nonplus

    Antonyms:
    lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncross

12. cross(verb)

    fold so as to resemble a cross

    "she crossed her legs"

    Synonyms:
    frustrate, foil, spoil, cut through, crossbreed, cover, cut across, bilk, hybridize, hybridise, pass over, intersect, baffle, sweep, scotch, track, interbreed, thwart, span, get across, get over, traverse

    Antonyms:
    lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncross

13. cross, traverse, span, sweep(verb)

    to cover or extend over an area or time period

    "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"

    Synonyms:
    sail, cut through, get over, scotch, swing out, frustrate, spoil, cut across, foil, drag, sweep up, span, hybridize, brush, thwart, tangle, crossbreed, baffle, sweep, intersect, traverse, broom, pass over, swing, drag in, cover, hybridise, get across, deny, embroil, bilk, track, interbreed

    Antonyms:
    lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncross

14. cross(verb)

    meet and pass

    "the trains crossed"

    Synonyms:
    frustrate, foil, spoil, cut through, crossbreed, cover, cut across, bilk, hybridize, hybridise, pass over, intersect, baffle, sweep, scotch, track, interbreed, thwart, span, get across, get over, traverse

    Antonyms:
    lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncross

15. cross(verb)

    trace a line through or across

    "cross your `t'"

    Synonyms:
    frustrate, foil, spoil, cut through, crossbreed, cover, cut across, bilk, hybridize, hybridise, pass over, intersect, baffle, sweep, scotch, track, interbreed, thwart, span, get across, get over, traverse

    Antonyms:
    lengthways, good-natured, lengthwise, uncross

16. crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed(verb)

    breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

    "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"

    Synonyms:
    traverse, frustrate, hybridise, spoil, cut through, sweep, cover, cut across, bilk, hybridize, pass over, intersect, baffle, foil, scotch, track, crossbreed, thwart, span, get across, get over, interbreed

    Antonyms:
    lengthwise, lengthways, good-natured, uncross

Wiktionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. cross(adjective)

   Synonyms:
   reverse, opposed, contrarily, antipodal

2. cross(noun)

   Synonyms:
   irritated, annoyed, angry

3. cross(verb)

   Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.

   She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.

   Synonyms:
   True Cross

4. cross(noun)

   to cross-fertilize or crossbreed.

   They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.

   Synonyms:
   crossbreed, cross-fertilize

5. cross(verb)

   To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.

   He crossed the ball into the penalty area.

   Synonyms:
   hybrid

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. cross

   Synonyms:
   ill-tempered, fretful, illhumored, crusty, peevish, pettish, snarling, snappish, spleeny, splenetic, petulant, fractious

   Antonyms:
   amiable, good-tempered, goodhumored, blithesome, genial

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. cross(n.)

   Synonyms:
   gibbet (made of pieces of wood placed transversely)

2. cross(n.)

   Synonyms:
   [With The prefixed.] gospel, christian doctrine, christian religion, divine revelation

3. cross(n.)

   Synonyms:
   trial, vexation, trouble, affliction, misfortune

4. cross(n.)

   Synonyms:
   intermixture (of blood in races)

5. cross(a.)

   Synonyms:
   transverse, lying athwart

6. cross(a.)

   Synonyms:
   fretful, peevish, petulant, pettish, snappish, waspish, touchy, testy, crusty, churlish, crabbed, captious, ill-natured, froward, morose, sulky, sullen, spleeny, surly, cynical, snarling, sour, GROUTY, ill-tempered, out of humor, out of temper

7. cross(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   put across, put athwart

8. cross(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   mark with a line or lines across

9. cross(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   traverse, pass over, go over

10. cross(v. a.)

    Synonyms:
    thwart, hinder, obstruct, interfere with

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. cross(a)

   Synonyms:
   athwart, transverse, intersecting, adverse, baffling, contrary, perverse, petulant, peevish, cynical, surly, unamiable, inaffable, crabbed, crusty, captious, fractious, churlish, vixenish, querulous, fretful, choleric, touchy, waspish, morose, sullen, ill-natured, irascible acrimonious, irritable, inverse, interchanged

2. cross(n)

   Synonyms:
   crucifix, rood, gibbet, rebated cross, gammadion, fylfot, saltire, swastika, cross bottony

   Associated words:
   crucify, crucifixion, crucifier, cruciform, crucial, cruciate, crucigerous, crucifer, vexillum, crantara, consignation

3. cross(n)

   Synonyms:
   hybrid, mongrel, limmer

4. cross(v)

   Synonyms:
   intersect, traverse, run counter to, thwart, baffle, frustrate, foil, intercross, interbreed, hybridize, cancel

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "cross":

   cruz, croix, crosses, croce, red, crusade, crossing, cross-, transverse, crisscross, bilateral, crucifix, cross-cutting, cross-sectional, roja, crossover, transversal, straddling, traverse, inist, rist, crossed

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1. Joseph Wu:

   I along with our country's people feel sad, angry and regretful, i need to emphasize here that China grabbing our allies and giving us pressure in the diplomatic space will not shrink the distance across the (Taiwan) strait and will not let cross-strait relations walk on a peaceful, friendly path.

2. Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi:

   We have obtained information that they were indeed trying to cross into Syria.

3. Attorney Kim Watterson:

   There is more than a substantial record that this judge acted as prosecutor, advocate, cross-examined witnesses, and made herself a fact witness.

4. Kenenisa Bekele:

   I'm looking forward to racing Eliud Kipchoge again, we have had many great battles over the years on the track, roads and cross-country.

5. Brian Su:

   The burden of maintaining peace and stability should not be placed solely on Taiwan, while ignoring the fact that Beijing also has the responsibility, president Tsai has been cautious in dealing with cross-strait relations and has been calling for cross-strait dialogue since she took office. Still, Beijing refuses to resume talks with Taiwan, and continues threatening Taiwan by flying warplanes close to Taiwan's airspace, among other provocations.

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