Synonyms for mob
mɒbmob

English Synonyms and Antonyms(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. mob

   The populace are poor and ignorant, but may be law-abiding; a mob is disorderly and lawless, but may be rich and influential. The rabble is despicable, worthless, purposeless; a mob may have effective desperate purpose. A crowd may be drawn by mere curiosity; some strong, pervading excitement is needed to make it a mob. Compare PEOPLE.

   Synonyms:
   canaille, crowd, dregs of the people, lower classes, masses, populace, rabble, the vulgar

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. mob

   Synonyms:
   disorderly crowd, tumultuous rabble, rude multitude

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. mob, rabble, routnoun

   a disorderly crowd of people

   Synonyms:
   rabble, ragtag and bobtail, syndicate, pack, crime syndicate, ragtag, rout, gang, riffraff, family, ring

2. syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, familynoun

   a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities

   Synonyms:
   kinsfolk, crime syndicate, kinfolk, folk, family line, pack, gang, pool, family unit, kinsperson, class, home, category, rabble, family, rout, house, consortium, ring, household, fellowship, sept, kin, phratry, menage, syndicate

3. gang, pack, ring, mobverb

   an association of criminals

   "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"

   Synonyms:
   bunch, ringing, annulus, hoop, coterie, battalion, pack, gang, plurality, work party, ingroup, large number, anchor ring, crowd, rabble, halo, multitude, rout, family, clique, inner circle, crime syndicate, closed chain, camp, ring, doughnut, crew, tintinnabulation, band, face pack, syndicate

4. throng, mob, pack, pile, jamverb

   press tightly together or cram

   "The crowd packed the auditorium"

   Synonyms:
   wad, pile, ram, backpack, jampack, pack, obstruct, take, heap, crush, tamp, block, occlude, load down, impede, tamp down, bundle, chock up, throng, stack, carry, obturate, cram, jam, close up, compact

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. mobnoun

   Synonyms:
   tumultuous rabble, rude multitude, lawless crowd

2. mobnoun

   Synonyms:
   populace, CANAILLE, riff-raff, lower orders, vulgar herd, scum of society, dregs of the people, rag-tag-and-bob-tail

3. mobnoun

   Synonyms:
   mob-cap

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. mobnoun

   Synonyms:
   rabble, rabblerout, populace, canaille, riffraff

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "mob":

   mafia, crowd, slc, mobs, underworld, eip, fmt, wfc, moped, ppc, cfp, peat, gang, bom, rabble

How to pronounce mob?

How to say mob in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use mob in a sentence?

1. Tom Cotton:

   That has to be a standard that we apply no matter what slogan a mob is chanting.

2. Percy Bysshe Shelley:

   Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

3. Paul Smith:

   All of a sudden, one particular flight got canceled, and a mob ensued up here at the front counter, in front of everyone else who had been waiting in line.

4. Anurag Kumar:

   The incident is shocking, the Hindu mob felt they had a license to kill.

5. Brandon Bell/Getty Images:

   The mob in the media — they don't want you to see this story.