JELLYFISH Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

jellyfish

noun

ˈje-lē-ˌfish

Definition of jellyfish

as in coward

a person without strength of character a jellyfish who was afraid to tell her boss that her latest brainstorm was just plain bad

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Recent Examples of jellyfish France also has shut down six nuclear reactors in recent days because of extreme heat and drought — and because a mass of jellyfish washed up outside one power plant on the English Channel coast, utility company EDF said. — Angela Charlton, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026 The emergency action began on Tuesday when tens of tons of jellyfish swept into the facility’s water intake system. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026 She’s experimented with everything from jellyfish cuts to wavy styles to everything in between. — Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 9 Aug. 2026 Miglietta explained that the jellyfish appears to be dying and sinks to the bottom, then, like a butterfly turning back into a caterpillar, shrinks into a ball. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for jellyfish

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If your team didn’t hand out $700 million IOUs deferred until the next century, your owner was just a cheap coward.

— Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2026
Corey Graves was much more talkative this time around, lambasting Big Cass as a coward while supporting Evans.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of coward

Noun

Baydon's tattoo needle is a spiky thorn of a pomelo tree attached to a thin bamboo reed.

— Marisol Delarosa, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2026
For weeks, migrants in the Spanish territory of Ceuta had gathered on a beach away from the city center, sleeping on cardboard sheets, under reed huts and guarding their few possessions in tattered plastic bags.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of reed

Noun

For 30 minutes, the hunter watched the whitetails play a cat-and-mouse game as the buck tried to stay close to the unromantic does.

— Jeff Murray, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2026
By turning natural language requests into Launcher actions, advanced keyboard and mouse customization becomes easier using the flexibility of the underlying QMK platform.

— Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of mouse

Noun

Since then, more than 40 cases have been confirmed in southern Texas and southeastern New Mexico, with infestations of cattle, sheep, goats and dogs.

— John Hanna, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026
One of the loudest voices in the cattle world agitating against the border reopening is Bill Bullard, the CEO of R-CALF, a national association of independent cattle and sheep farmers.

— Max Saltman, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026

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