Synonyms for limb
lɪmlimb

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. limbnoun

   one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper

   Synonyms:
   arm, tree branch, branch

2. limb, tree branchnoun

   any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree

   Synonyms:
   arm, tree branch, branch

3. limbnoun

   (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet

   Synonyms:
   arm, tree branch, branch

4. limbnoun

   either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip

   "the upper limb of the bow"

   Synonyms:
   arm, tree branch, branch

5. limbnoun

   the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles

   "the limb of the sextant"

   Synonyms:
   arm, tree branch, branch

6. arm, branch, limbnoun

   any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm

   "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer"

   Synonyms:
   branch, offset, weapon, sleeve, tree branch, leg, weapon system, offshoot, ramification, arm, subdivision, outgrowth

Matched Categories

1. • Arc
   • Astronomy
   • Branch
   • Edge
   • Extremity
   • Part
   • Projection

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. limbnoun

   Synonyms:
   member

2. limbnoun

   Synonyms:
   branch, bough

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

1. limbnoun

   Synonyms:
   branch, bough

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "limb":

   lamina, member, limbo, branch, leg

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1. Justin Pfaff:

   As you’re climbing and really putting a lot of pressure on your limbs … you push fluid out of the limb and then the socket is more loose than it was before because the limb has gotten smaller is size.

2. Gian Luca Burci:

   WHO has been a bit behind, being cautious rather than precautionary, at times of panic, of a crisis and so on, maybe being more out on a limb — taking a risk — would have been better.

3. Max Lieblich:

   The thought of giving up blackboards makes me feel very sad inside, I'm not going to lie, it's not like losing a limb, but it would make the texture of life very different.

4. Trump Jr.:

   I don't know. I'm gon na go out on a limb here and say if it was Donald Trump that Russian President Vladimir Putin said that about, it'd be a slightly different response, did you ever think that maybe Vlad is thrilled to be negotiating against a dolt ?

5. Mark Kelly:

   When you look at the ... atmosphere on the limb of the Earth, I wouldn't say it looks unhealthy, but it definitely looks very, very fragile and just kind of like this thin film, so it looks like something that we definitely need to take care of.