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barrel

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of barrel

1 a considerable amount
  • A visit to an amusement park should be a barrel of laughs.
Synonyms of barrel

abundance, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, volume, wad, wealth, yard
Words Related to barrel

epidemic, plague, rash

bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus

deluge, flood, overflow

army, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, throng
Phrases Synonymous with barrel

all kinds (of), quite a bit
Near Antonyms of barrel

atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit

smatter, smattering
Antonyms of barrel

ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen (also smidgeon), speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, tad, touch, trace
2 a metal container in the shape of a cylinder
  • a trash barrel
Synonyms of barrel

can, canister (also cannister), drum, tin
Words Related to barrel

bucket, pail

tin can
3 an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages
  • barrels of fine wine aging in the winery's cellar
Synonyms of barrel

butt, cask, hogshead, keg, pipe, puncheon, tun
Words Related to barrel

scuttlebutt

cistern, tub, vat

can, drum

barrel

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of barrel

to proceed or move quickly
  • Faced with a firm deadline, we barreled through the project at a furious pace.
Synonyms of barrel

belt, blast, blaze, blow, bolt, bowl, breeze, bundle, bustle, buzz, cannonball, careen, career, chase, course, dash, drive, fly, hare, hasten, hie, highball, hotfoot (it), hump, hurl, hurry, hurtle, hustle, jet, jump, motor, nip, pelt, race, ram, rip, rocket, run, rush, rustle, scoot, scurry, scuttle, shoot, speed, step, tear, travel, trot, whirl, whisk, zip, zoom
Words Related to barrel

dart, flit, scamper, scud, scuffle

stampede, streak, whiz (or whizz)

gallop, jog, sprint

accelerate, quicken, step out

catch up, fast-forward, outpace, outrun, outstrip, overtake
Phrases Synonymous with barrel

beat it, get a move on, make tracks, shake a leg, step on it
Near Antonyms of barrel

dally, dawdle, dillydally, drag, hang (around or out), lag, linger, loiter, poke, tarry

amble, lumber, plod, saunter, shuffle, stroll

decelerate, slow (down or up)
Antonyms of barrel

crawl, creep, poke

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