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Synonyms for hole
hoʊlhole

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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. holenoun

    an opening into or through something

    Synonyms:
    maw, trap, golf hole, cakehole, jam, muddle, yap, pickle, gob, fix, hollow, kettle of fish, mess

  2. holenoun

    an opening deliberately made in or through something

    Synonyms:
    maw, trap, golf hole, cakehole, jam, muddle, yap, pickle, gob, fix, hollow, kettle of fish, mess

  3. hole, golf holenoun

    one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course

    "he played 18 holes"

    Synonyms:
    maw, trap, golf hole, cakehole, jam, muddle, yap, pickle, gob, fix, hollow, kettle of fish, mess

  4. holenoun

    an unoccupied space

    Synonyms:
    maw, trap, golf hole, cakehole, jam, muddle, yap, pickle, gob, fix, hollow, kettle of fish, mess

  5. hole, hollownoun

    a depression hollowed out of solid matter

    Synonyms:
    maw, trap, golf hole, cakehole, jam, muddle, holler, yap, pickle, gob, fix, hollow, kettle of fish, mess

  6. holenoun

    a fault

    "he shot holes in my argument"

    Synonyms:
    maw, trap, golf hole, cakehole, jam, muddle, yap, pickle, gob, fix, hollow, kettle of fish, mess

  7. fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fishnoun

    informal terms for a difficult situation

    "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

    Synonyms:
    tidy sum, smother, peck, mint, crush, plenty, lot, location, locating, localisation, raft, quite a little, passel, fix, mare's nest, press, jam, pile, muckle, fixture, mend, golf hole, electronic jamming, good deal, maw, fixing, mending, sight, gob, trap, deal, pickle, flock, stack, kettle of fish, fuddle, wad, messiness, hatful, mickle, hollow, heap, great deal, mess, repair, clutter, mess hall, mass, jamming, batch, yap, mountain, welter, spate, mussiness, slew, localization, jumble, cakehole, muss, muddle, reparation, pot

  8. trap, cakehole, hole, maw, yap, gobverb

    informal terms for the mouth

    Synonyms:
    seafarer, trap, kettle of fish, yap, snare, gob, sand trap, hollow, tar, old salt, pickle, sea dog, mariner, lying in wait, mess, fix, seaman, ambush, maw, muddle, golf hole, ambuscade, bunker, jam, cakehole

  9. hole, hole outverb

    hit the ball into the hole

    Synonyms:
    hole out

  10. holeverb

    make holes in

    Synonyms:
    hole out

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  1. spelunking

    Submitted by anonymous on January 24, 2021  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. holenoun

    Synonyms:
    perforation, aperture, opening

  2. holenoun

    Synonyms:
    cavity, cave, cavern, hollow, concavity, excavation

  3. holenoun

    Synonyms:
    hovel, kennel, den, mean habitation

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How to use hole in a sentence?

  1. Lawrence Peter Berra:

    80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.

  2. Josh Morris:

    The goal is to try and find the chimney, drill some bolts, put some ropes in and rappel down into different chimneys to wiggle down into the cave maze to see if we can get to the main passage, the key is finding the right hole. If you find the right hole it may not take very long. It's just whether you can find the right hole because they are all over the hillside.

  3. CaddyShack:

    Carl Spackler IT'S IN THE HOLE.

  4. Bertolt Brecht:

    What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone

  5. Mark Twain:

    His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.


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