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Synonyms & Antonyms for spanking
Synonyms: Adjective
- active,
- airy,
- animate,
- animated,
- bouncing,
- brisk,
- energetic,
- frisky,
- gay,
- jaunty,
- jazzy,
- kinetic,
- lively,
- mettlesome,
- peppy,
- perky,
- pert,
- pizzazzy
- (or pizazzy),
- racy,
- snappy,
- sparky,
- spirited,
- sprightly,
- springy,
- vital,
- vivacious,
- zippy
Synonyms: Adverb
- achingly,
- almighty,
- archly,
- awful,
- awfully,
- badly,
- beastly,
- blisteringly,
- bone,
- colossally,
- corking,
- cracking,
- damn,
- damned,
- dang,
- deadly,
- desperately,
- eminently,
- enormously,
- especially,
- ever,
- exceedingly
- (also exceeding),
- extra,
- extremely,
- fabulously,
- fantastically,
- far,
- fiercely,
- filthy,
- frightfully,
- full,
- greatly,
- heavily,
- highly,
- hugely,
- immensely,
- incredibly,
- intensely,
- jolly,
- majorly,
- mightily,
- mighty,
- monstrous
- [chiefly dialect],
- mortally,
- most,
- much,
- particularly,
- passing,
- rattling,
- real,
- really,
- right,
- roaring,
- roaringly,
- seriously,
- severely,
- so,
- sore,
- sorely,
- specially,
- stinking,
- such,
- super,
- supremely,
- surpassingly,
- terribly,
- that,
- thumping,
- too,
- unco,
- uncommonly,
- vastly,
- very,
- vitally,
- way,
- whacking,
- wicked,
- wildly
Antonyms: Adjective
- dead,
- inactive,
- inanimate,
- lackadaisical,
- languid,
- languishing,
- languorous,
- leaden,
- lifeless,
- limp,
- listless,
- spiritless,
- vapid
Antonyms: Adverb
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The first known use of spanking was circa 1666
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