ACES Synonyms: 258 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of ace

as in experts

a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field took a few lessons with a tennis ace to improve his backhand

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as in splashes

a very small amount not an ace of truth in what she said

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as in inches

a very small distance or degree came within an ace of being chosen for the part

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verb

present tense third-person singular of ace

as in nails

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Recent Examples of aces

Noun

Junior outside hitter Olivia Monteith paced Naperville Central (16-5, 3-3) with 12 kills, senior setter Alexa Novak had 16 assists, 13 service points and two aces, and senior libero Zoey Horn had 15 service points and four aces. — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 And Game 3 will be a matchup of two aces, Chris Sale for the Braves and Yoshinobu Yamamoto for the Dodgers. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026 It could be done by scraping a sliver of paint off the side of the aces and royal cards. — Kit Chellel, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026 This year's French Open winner fired six aces and took five of her seven break point opportunities to overwhelm her Uzbek opponent in just in 68 minutes. — ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026 There’s still plenty to enjoy in West’s plummy and gentlemanly performance; both Miller and West, in fact, are aces at oozing posh resentment, and, to the show’s advantage, they have both been caught in tabloid relationship drama of their own. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026 The other aces on both sides who have been under the glare in these types of Red Sox-Yankees games didn’t have to deal with social media, the creativity of the fans in the ballpark was rough enough. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026 Plant led 18-16 and 20-19 in game two before Orangewood again rallied — including three consecutive aces by senior hitter Isabel Incinelli and a sprawling save by junior Olivia Sosa to keep a key point alive. — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for aces

Noun

Beyond access to esteemed experts, attendees will have the opportunity to meet and chat with so many incredible women.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 8 Oct. 2026
To this point, experts agree that the best commercial product isn’t necessarily the easiest to wear.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026

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Jazz fusion keyboardist George Duke, however, plays wild splashes of melody on an electric piano in the empty spaces between Waits’s lines.

— Al Shipley, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2026
Topping up the battery takes 90 minutes, according to Shift Robotics, and an IP54 rating means the shoes shrug off splashes but would not enjoy a swim.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of splashes

Noun

Rainfall totals of 4 to 8 inches, with isolated maximum amounts of up to 15 inches, are possible across southern Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and the Big Bend region of Florida.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
The hurricane center predicts 4 to 8 inches of rain for the Panhandle, or up to 15 inches in some spots.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of inches

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Anderson’s collaboration with this gifted young man nails the one thing that every great concert movie tries gift to those who could not be there for the original moment.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2026
The film’s most heartbreaking scene sees Davidson’s character singing to his daughter over the phone before a deadly shootout ensues, and the actor nails it.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of nails

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The end of the world has come in many forms for Robert and Michelle King, television’s reigning masters of the feel-good/feel-bad apocalypse.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026
Since mega masters hearings began in May, immigration data researchers found that the number of people ordered deported when not showing up for a hearing has skyrocketed.

— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026