Synonyms for sheep
ʃipsheep

Princeton's WordNet

1. sheepnoun

   woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat

2. sheepnoun

   a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon

3. sheepnoun

   a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision

   "his students followed him like sheep"

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1. • Bovid
   • Follower
   • Simpleton

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1. yunanoun

   yuna the great derives from an old proverb from the yang dynasty about a sheep who is short but still thrives to be better than others, and eventually grows to a tall oak tree in old age.

   let's go yuna together. you are so yuna, yuna is short.

   Submitted by glai8300 on August 30, 2023  

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1. sheepnoun

   Synonyms:
   Ovis, Ovis aries, (male) ram, buck, (female) ewe, (young) lamb, eanling, (castrated ram) wether, (leader of the flock) bellwether, hoggerel, hogget

   Associated words:
   bleat, braxy, gid, mutton, flock, ovine, shepherd, shepherdess, cosset, raddle, yean, ean, lowbell, abigeat, sheepcote, fold

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1. List of paraphrases for "sheep":

   ovine, mouton, mutton, ewes, ewe, sheepmeat, lamb, sheeps, flock, flocks, rams

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1. Virgil:

   It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

2. Benji Backer:

   He started to say that climate change is real, which is a huge difference from where he's been before, people on both sides say I'm a wolf in sheep's clothing. But if he changed his tune and said tomorrow,' I want a big climate change policy,' I will work with anybody, whether Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or President Trump's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Donald Trump.

3. Ernst Wolvetang:

   From a genomic point of view, it’s only one gene amongst all the other sheep genes that is mammoth, it’s one gene out of 25,000.

4. Eric MacLeish:

   There's no explanation, quite frankly, for an environment like St. George's School, which allowed these predators dressed up like sheep to prey like wolves on children at the school.

5. Rob Pengson:

   In the past, Asian fusion in Asia was generally weak, scattered by half-hearted attempts at innovation, now, I see more chefs pushing the envelope -- at restaurants including Ho Lee Fook in Hong Kong, Narisawa in Japan, Gaggan in Thailand, Black Sheep in Manila and so many more.