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Synonyms for cross
krɔs, krɒscross
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Wiktionary
crossadjective
Synonyms:
antipodal, contrarily, opposed, reversecrossnoun
crossverb
To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.
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True Crosscrossnoun
to cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.
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cross-fertilize, crossbreedcrossverb
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
Princeton's WordNet
crossnoun
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, marknoun
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 touchAntonyms:
lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrossCrossnoun
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 thornsnoun
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, hybridizingAntonyms:
lengthways, lengthwise, good-natured, uncrosshybrid, crossbreed, crossnoun
(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, hybridizingadjective
(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, crosswalkAntonyms:
good-natured, lengthways, lengthwise, uncrosscross(a), transverse, transversal, thwartwiseadjective
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-temperedverb
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 acrossverb
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, crossverb
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, bilkverb
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, uncrosscrossverb
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, traverseAntonyms:
lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrosscross, traverse, span, sweepverb
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, uncrosscrossverb
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, traverseAntonyms:
lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrosscrossverb
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, interbreedverb
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, interbreedAntonyms:
lengthwise, lengthways, good-natured, uncross
Dictionary of English Synonymes
crossnoun
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gibbet (made of pieces of wood placed transversely)crossnoun
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[With The prefixed.] gospel, christian doctrine, christian religion, divine revelationcrossnoun
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trial, vexation, trouble, affliction, misfortunecrossnoun
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intermixture (of blood in races)crossadjective
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transverse, lying athwartcrossadjective
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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 tempercrossverb
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put across, put athwartcrossverb
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mark with a line or lines acrosscrossverb
crossverb
Synonyms:
thwart, hinder, obstruct, interfere with
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
crossadjective
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, interchangedcrossnoun
Synonyms:
crucifix, rood, gibbet, rebated cross, gammadion, fylfot, saltire, swastika, cross bottonyAssociated words:
crucify, crucifixion, crucifier, cruciform, crucial, cruciate, crucigerous, crucifer, vexillum, crantara, consignationcrossnoun
crossverb
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
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How to use cross in a sentence?
The degree of cross-protection from Delta and Omicron is not very well-known yet, it's a complicated answer generally, but for a simplistic one, the answer is, having natural infection provides some immunity and probably provides some cross-immunity, but the magnitude of the cross-immunity is not known.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.
Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before.
Everywhere Red Cross disaster teams look, homes, roads and infrastructure have been submerged, red Cross disaster teams're doing Red Cross disaster teams best to get immediate relief to people by boat, by air and on land, including food, safe water, tarpaulins and other essentials.
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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