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Synonyms for underground
ˈʌn dərˈgraʊnd; -ˌgraʊndun·der·ground
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Wiktionary
undergroundnoun
Synonyms:
Tubeundergroundnoun
Below the ground.
There is an underground tunnel that takes you across the river.
Synonyms:
metro, Tube, subterranean, ground, below, subway, métroundergroundadjective
A movement or organisation of people who resist political convention.
These criminals operate through an underground network.
Synonyms:
avant-garde, counter-culture, on the quiet, in secret, clandestinely, resistance, hush-hush, secret, clandestine, hiddenundergroundnoun
A movement or organisation of people who resist artistic convention.
Synonyms:
avant-garde, unconventional
Princeton's WordNet
underground, resistancenoun
a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
Synonyms:
resistance, resistivity, immunity, ohmic resistance, subway, impedance, resistor, electrical resistance, metro, opposition, subway system, electric resistance, tubemetro, tube, underground, subway system, subwayadjective
an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)
"in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'"
Synonyms:
resistance, metro, electron tube, subway, thermionic vacuum tube, pipe, tubing, vacuum tube, tube-shaped structure, thermionic valve, underpass, subway system, thermionic tube, tubebelowground, undergroundadjective
under the level of the ground
"belowground storage areas"; "underground caverns"
Synonyms:
hole-and-corner(a), clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, belowground, hush-hush, undercover, surreptitious, hugger-mugger, secretclandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, undergroundadverb
conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
"clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance"
undergroundadverb
in or into hiding or secret operation
"the organization was driven underground"
undergroundadverb
beneath the surface of the earth
"water flowing underground"
Editors Contribution
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
undergroundadjective
Synonyms:
subterranean, subterraneous
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
undergroundadjective
Synonyms:
subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene, subterrestrial
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "underground":
subterranean, subsurface, subway, below-ground, belowground, metro, clandestine, groundwater, ground, basement, illegal, hiding, surreptitious, secret, underpass, sub-surface
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#533 | below | |
#1346 | ground | |
#2600 | secret | |
#2936 | hidden | |
#3556 | illegal | |
#3656 | resistance | |
#3858 | metro | |
#4116 | tube | |
#4221 | underground | |
#4312 | pipe | |
#5349 | opposition | |
#8559 | basement | |
#9969 | groundwater | |
#10681 | hiding | |
#11661 | subway | |
#12321 | immunity | |
#12736 | tubing | |
#15841 | impedance | |
#19424 | undercover | |
#19479 | resistor | |
#25077 | subsurface | |
#27020 | unconventional | |
#33098 | clandestine | |
#35966 | resistivity | |
#37180 | subterranean | |
#74938 | underpass | |
#103646 | surreptitious | |
#131759 | clandestinely | |
#181915 | belowground |
How to use underground in a sentence?
There's never a ribbon cutting ceremony when you fix an underground, dirty water pipe, and that's why we typically invest more in bridges and airports and other things that can be a showcase, but the danger from these pipes is real.
There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
That has created the perfect storm that has allowed virus to get away from us and go on underground.
It was actually quite difficult to find environments that felt like they were underground, that didn't have a lot of doors, that didn't have a lot of windows and a lot of vents and things like that, and this felt like it could be underground with the supports and the vaults and all of that.
Strigamia live underground and have no eyes, so it's not surprising that many of the genes for light receptors are missing, but they behave as if they are hiding from the light. They must have some alternative way of detecting when they are exposed.
Translations for underground
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- subterraniCatalan, Valencian
- podzemníCzech
- Untergrundorganisation, Untergrund, unterirdisch, heimlich, geheimGerman
- λαθραίος, υπόγειος, μυστικός, υπόγειαGreek
- subteraEsperanto
- subterráneo, movimiento clandestino, organización clandestinaSpanish
- underground, maanalainen, vastarintaliikeFinnish
- organisation clandestine, souterrain, résistance, mouvement clandestin, underground, clandestin, mouvement d'avant-gardeFrench
- baixo terraGalician
- भूमिगतHindi
- ընդհատակArmenian
- bawah tanahIndonesian
- neðanjarðarIcelandic
- clandestino, organizzazione clandestina, underground, sottoterra, resistenza, sotterraneo, movimento clandestinoItalian
- 秘密, 地下, アングラ, 不法Japanese
- подземен, андерграунд, потаен, подземјеMacedonian
- ondergrondsDutch
- łeeyiʼNavajo, Navaho
- podziemny, ruch oporu, podziemiePolish
- resistência, subterrâneo, clandestino, submundo, secretoPortuguese
- mișcare clandestină, subteran, organizație clandestinăRomanian
- подполье, андеграунд, андерграунд, подпольный, подземныйRussian
- potajno, podzemno, podzeman, prikrivenoSerbo-Croatian
- underjordiskSwedish
- אונטערגרונטYiddish
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