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Synonyms for cross
krɔs, krɒs
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Princeton's WordNet
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, hybridizingAntonyms:
lengthways, lengthwise, good-natured, uncrosscrisscross, cross, mark(noun)
a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
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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 touchAntonyms:
lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrossCross(noun)
a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry
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crossing, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossbreed, crown of thorns, crisscross, hybridization, hybrid, interbreeding, mark, hybridizingAntonyms:
lengthways, good-natured, lengthwise, uncrosscross, 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"
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crossing, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossbreed, crown of thorns, crisscross, hybridization, hybrid, interbreeding, mark, hybridizingAntonyms:
lengthways, lengthwise, good-natured, uncrosshybrid, 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"
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crossing, hybridisation, loanblend, crossbreed, loan-blend, crown of thorns, crisscross, hybridization, hybrid, interbreeding, mark, hybridizing, crossbreedingAntonyms:
lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrosshybridization, 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
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hybridisation, crossing, crossroad, ford, crossbreed, intersection, mark, crisscross, hybrid, carrefour, crossbreeding, hybridization, crossover, crossway, hybridizing, miscegenation, interbreeding, crown of thorns, crosswalkAntonyms:
good-natured, lengthways, lengthwise, uncrosscross(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"
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lengthways, lengthwise, good-natured, uncrosscrabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered(verb)
annoyed and irritable
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transversal, picky, particular, bad-tempered, busy, cross(a), transverse, finicky, grumpy, grouchy, finical, crabby, crabbed, fussy, thwartwise, ill-temperedAntonyms:
good-natured, lengthways, lengthwise, uncrosstraverse, 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"
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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 placeAntonyms:
good-natured, lengthwise, lengthways, uncrossintersect, cross(verb)
meet at a point
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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, traverseAntonyms:
lengthwise, lengthways, good-natured, uncrossthwart, 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"
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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, nonplusAntonyms:
lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrosscross(verb)
fold so as to resemble a cross
"she crossed her legs"
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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, traverseAntonyms:
lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrosscross, 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"
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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, interbreedAntonyms:
lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrosscross(verb)
meet and pass
"the trains crossed"
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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, traverseAntonyms:
lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrosscross(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, traverseAntonyms:
lengthways, good-natured, lengthwise, uncrosscrossbreed, 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"
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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, interbreedAntonyms:
lengthwise, lengthways, good-natured, uncross
Wiktionary
cross(adjective)
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reverse, opposed, contrarily, antipodalcross(noun)
cross(verb)
Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.
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True Crosscross(noun)
to cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.
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crossbreed, cross-fertilizecross(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
cross
Synonyms:
ill-tempered, fretful, illhumored, crusty, peevish, pettish, snarling, snappish, spleeny, splenetic, petulant, fractiousAntonyms:
amiable, good-tempered, goodhumored, blithesome, genial
Dictionary of English Synonymes
cross(n.)
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gibbet (made of pieces of wood placed transversely)cross(n.)
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[With The prefixed.] gospel, christian doctrine, christian religion, divine revelationcross(n.)
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trial, vexation, trouble, affliction, misfortunecross(n.)
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intermixture (of blood in races)cross(a.)
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transverse, lying athwartcross(a.)
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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 tempercross(v. a.)
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put across, put athwartcross(v. a.)
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mark with a line or lines acrosscross(v. a.)
cross(v. a.)
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thwart, hinder, obstruct, interfere with
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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, interchangedcross(n)
Synonyms:
crucifix, rood, gibbet, rebated cross, gammadion, fylfot, saltire, swastika, cross bottonyAssociated words:
crucify, crucifixion, crucifier, cruciform, crucial, cruciate, crucigerous, crucifer, vexillum, crantara, consignationcross(n)
cross(v)
Synonyms:
intersect, traverse, run counter to, thwart, baffle, frustrate, foil, intercross, interbreed, hybridize, cancel
PPDB, the paraphrase database
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
How to use cross in a sentence?
We get in the van and we just race across the airfield. We had to cross over the runway, and we didn't really care, we had heard somebody say that they saw cop lights.
They're making Taiwan far too dependent on the mainland. Their policy-making muscle is far too focused on cross-strait ties and not nearly enough on raising the standard of living of the average Taiwanese person.
With BR-319, we are going to cross this tipping point, this is more than enough, you're opening a totally new frontier across the core of the Amazon forest.
Police Secretary Yvan Assioma:
We don't have a precise idea of the origin of the shots fired, one or more perpetrators were taken down by our colleagues, there was a cross fire.
Actions that cross the line, either by police officers or citizens, can not and will not be tolerated.
Translations for cross
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- صَليب, صليب, عبر, تعبرArabic
- хъанчAvaric
- xaçAzerbaijani
- суҡыныу, тәреBashkir
- крыжBelarusian
- кръст, кръстоска, центриране, противоположен, напречен, разпя́тие, кръстене, пресичам, противодействам, препятствам, кръстя се, кръстосвамBulgarian
- creuCatalan, Valencian
- kříženec, kříž, přecházet, přejetCzech
- krydsDanish
- Kreuz, Kreuzung, böse, gegenüber, quer, Kreuzzeichen, verärgert, entgegengesetzt, Flanke, hintergehen, bekreuzigen, ankreuzen, kreuzen, konterkarieren, überquerenGerman
- εγκάρσιος, σταυρός, θυμωμένος, υβρίδιο, περνώ απέναντι, σταυροκοπιέμαι, διασταυρώνωGreek
- kruca, kruco, kruci, krucigi, krucmarki, transiriEsperanto
- enfadado, de través, cruz, contrario, atravesado, cruce, aspa, transversal, cruzar, marcar, atravesar, santiguarse, persignarse, pasarSpanish
- ristEstonian
- خاج, صلیب, چلیپا, عرض چیزی را طی کردنPersian
- risti, rasti, ristinpuu, ristinmerkki, vihainen, vastakkainen, risteymä, poikittainen, ärtynyt, käänteinen, poikittaissuuntainen, poikki, sekaantua, tehdä, ylittää, mennä, ristetä, astua tielle, risteyttää, rastittaa, yliFinnish
- krossurFaroese
- contraire, transversal, croix, signe de croix, transversale, fâché, contrarié, traverser, croiser, faire le signe de croix, contrecarrer, déjouerFrench
- cros, crois, téigh trasna, crosáilIrish
- crois, crostaScottish Gaelic
- cruzGalician
- צְלָבHebrew
- नाराज़, सलीबHindi
- kereszt, átmegy, áthalad, keresztet vet, keresztez, átkelHungarian
- խաչ, խաչակնքում, հիբրիդ, խաչափայտArmenian
- krossIcelandic
- croce, incrocio, diagonale, irritato, arrabbiato, ostacolare, attraversare, intralciareItalian
- 十字, 十字架, クロス, ×印を付ける, 渡る, 十字を切るJapanese
- ჯვარიGeorgian
- крестKazakh
- 십자, 십자가, 건너다Korean
- خاچ, xaç, پهڕاندنKurdish
- крестKyrgyz
- crux, transireLatin
- ກາກະບາດLao
- kryžiusLithuanian
- krustsLatvian
- распетие, крстење, крст, пресекува, крсти, преминува, преодува, вкрстува, прекрстуваMacedonian
- കുരിശ്, വിഷമ സ്ഥിതി, കടക്കുകMalayalam
- silang, salibMalay
- လက်ဝါးကပ်တိုင်Burmese
- geërgerde, kruis, geërgerd, tegenwerkende, kruisteken, tegenwerkend, doorkruisen, oversteken, kruisenDutch
- kryss, kors, krysseNorwegian
- ałnáʼázdzohNavajo, Navaho
- дзуарOssetian, Ossetic
- krzyż, znakPolish
- oposto, atravessado, cruz, transversal, cruzado, irritado, cruzamento, sinal da cruz, cruza, persignar-se, atravessar, opor, cruzarPortuguese
- chimpayQuechua
- cruce, închina, cruciRomanian
- крест, кре́стное знаме́ние, по́месь, распя́тие, противоположный, гибри́д, попepeчный, сердитый, пepeкpёcтный, пересекать, пересечь, перейти, креститься, скрестить, переходить, перекреститься, скрещиватьRussian
- križ, krst, криж, крст, znak križaSerbo-Croatian
- krížSlovak
- križ, križanec, prečkati, se prekrižatiSlovene
- kryqAlbanian
- arg, hybrid, mellanting, krossboll, kors, plåga, blandning, ond, korsning, korsningsprodukt, korset, inlägg, kryss, korstecken, lidande, sur, kryssa, gå, vägen, korsa, förhindra, korstecknet, gäcka, göraSwedish
- misalaba, msalaba, ishara ya misalabaSwahili
- கடந்துTamil
- శిలువ, సంకరము, దాటుTelugu
- салибTajik
- กากบาทThai
- haçTurkmen
- çarpı, haç, çarmıh, istavroz, çapraz, karşı, karşısında, geçmekTurkish
- хачTatar
- хрест, розп'яття, хресне знаменняUkrainian
- صلیب, ناراضUrdu
- krestUzbek
- chữ thậpVietnamese
- קרייַזYiddish
- 交叉Chinese
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