Synonyms for thumb
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1. thumbverb

   To touch with the thumb.

   Synonyms:
   thumby, pollex, digit I, first digit

2. thumbverb

   Synonyms:
   page, leaf, peruse, browse

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. thumb, pollexnoun

   the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb

   Synonyms:
   ovolo, quarter round, pollex

2. thumbnoun

   the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb

   Synonyms:
   ovolo, quarter round, pollex

3. ovolo, thumb, quarter roundverb

   a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse

   Synonyms:
   ovolo, quarter round, pollex

4. hitchhike, hitch, thumbverb

   travel by getting free rides from motorists

   Synonyms:
   jerk, hitch, hitchhike, leaf, flip, buck, limp, flick, riff, finger, catch, gimp, riffle, hobble

5. flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riffverb

   look through a book or other written material

   "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"

   Synonyms:
   pitch, throw, twitch, click, toss, flip over, switch, turn over, flick, riff, leaf, tack, alternate, riffle, flip, ripple, interchange, snap, flip-flop, flip out, flicker, hitch, ruffle, finger, jerk, cockle, sky, hitchhike, undulate

6. finger, thumbverb

   feel or handle with the fingers

   "finger the binding of the book"

   Synonyms:
   hitch, hitchhike, leaf, flip, flick, feel, riff, finger, riffle

Matched Categories

1. • Covering
   • Peruse
   • Ride
   • Touch

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "thumb":

   inch, pouce

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1. Jeffrey Vlaming:

   CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience

2. Arthur Conan Doyle:

   I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

3. Ameline Bardo:

   If you were to shake a Neanderthal hand you would notice this difference, there would be confusion over where to place the thumb, and for a thumb fight I think you would win in terms of speed and movement !

4. Tim Kaine:

   I'll tell you what offends me about this. We've already lost American service members lives in this operation and we've done it without Congress being willing to do the job of having a vote. If we're going to ask people to risk their lives, then Congress ought to do our job and put our thumb print on this mission and say, it is in the national interest.

5. Neil Armstrong:

   It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.