Synonyms for iron
ˈaɪ ərniron

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1. iron2

   Made of the metal iron.

   Synonyms:
   press

2. iron2

   Strong (as of will), inflexible.

   Synonyms:
   adamant, brassbound, adamantine

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1. iron, Fe, atomic number 26noun

   a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood

   Synonyms:
   branding iron, smoothing iron, atomic number 26

   Antonyms:
   frail

2. ironnoun

   a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head

   Synonyms:
   branding iron, smoothing iron, atomic number 26

   Antonyms:
   frail

3. iron, branding ironnoun

   implement used to brand live stock

   Synonyms:
   branding iron, smoothing iron, atomic number 26

   Antonyms:
   frail

4. iron, smoothing ironadjective

   home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth

   Synonyms:
   branding iron, smoothing iron, atomic number 26

   Antonyms:
   frail

5. cast-iron, ironverb

   extremely robust

   "an iron constitution"

   Synonyms:
   cast-iron

   Antonyms:
   frail

6. iron, iron out, pressverb

   press and smooth with a heated iron

   "press your shirts"; "she stood there ironing"

   Synonyms:
   weigh, fight, beseech, agitate, press out, bid, constrict, crusade, iron out, weight-lift, press, exhort, conjure, weightlift, campaign, put right, urge on, entreat, compact, squeeze, straighten out, compress, contract, adjure, push, urge

   Antonyms:
   frail

Matched Categories

1. • Golf Club
   • Implement
   • Metallic Element

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ironnoun

   Synonyms:
   cast iron, wrought iron, pig iron, spiegel iron

   Associated words:
   ferriferous, ferrous, billet, ore, forge, founder, foundry, ironmaster, ironmonger, ironmongery, ironsmith, ironware, irony, ironbound, pyrites, metallurgy, metallurgist, siderurgy, siderotechny, siderognost, siderurgical, malleable, smelt, smeltery, anneal, siderite, shadrach, larget, manganese, carbon, speiss

2. ironverb

   Synonyms:
   smooth, mangle

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1. List of paraphrases for "iron":

   fer, erf, hadid, al-hadid, hierro, railway, par, ferro, rail, pars, curtain, railways, ferric, kcrc, tomur, steel, ferrous, rebar, al-hadidi, railroad, kcr

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1. iron

   Synonyms:
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1. Dwight D Eisenhower:

   Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. . .  This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

2. South:

   Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

3. Spike Milligan, The Goons:

   For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

4. Omir Bekali:

   They put me in a tiger chair, they hung us up and beat us on the thigh, on the hips with wooden torches, with iron whips.

5. Ed Kamuda:

   Let nature take back what is hers, it’s only a matter of time before it’s a brown stain and a collection of pig iron on the ocean floor.