Synonyms of barrels

barrels 1 of 2

noun

plural of barrel

1

as in loads

a considerable amount

a visit to an amusement park should be a barrel of laughs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• loads
• tons
• piles
• chunks
• quantities
• rafts
• bunches
• hundreds
• deals
• stacks
• dozen
• bundles
• lots
• bushels
• dozens
• buckets
• slews
• wealths
• masses
• plenties
• yards
• truckloads
• abundances
• shiploads
• carloads
• volumes
• wads
• pots
• sheaves
• mountains
• hundred
• reams
• gobs
• myriads
• fistfuls
• pecks
• heaps
• all kinds (of)
• boatloads
• packs
• stores
• sights
• scads
• quite a bit
• oodles
• basketfuls
• lashings
• potfuls
• multiplicities
• platefuls
• basketsful
• good deals
• messes
• profusions
• lashins
• much
• floods
• spates
• thousands
• plenitudes
• surpluses
• millions
• passels
• seas
• million
• plentitudes
• plagues
• scores
• epidemics
• rashes
• multitudes
• hordes
• swarms
• excesses
• trillions
• bonanzas
• overflows
• armies
• oversupplies
• flocks
• overages
• throngs
• superfluities
• hosts
• embarrassments
• crowds
• redundancies
• herds
• deluges
• zillions
• presses
• crushes
• legions
• mobs
• overkills
• droves
• surfeits
• overmuch
• overabundances
• plethoras
• superabundances
• bevies
• gazillions
• jillions
• kazillions
• crams

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ounces
• grains
• shadows
• shades
• molecules
• fragments
• spots
• drams
• particles
• strains
• bits
• peanuts
• atoms
• handfuls
• tastes
• granules
• specks
• rays
• mouthfuls
• dots
• streaks
• touches
• driblets
• mites
• hints
• scraps
• nips
• dabs
• licks
• aces
• flecks
• traces
• suspicions
• pinches
• sprinkles
• scruples
• nubbins
• shreds
• motes
• sprinklings
• crumbs
• glimmers
• little
• pieces
• sections
• dashes
• pittances
• shots
• handsful
• drops
• portions
• smidgeons
• smidges
• smidgens
• flyspecks
• whits
• morsels
• shortages
• scintillas
• smidgins
• iotas
• tittles
• jots
• modicums
• lacks
• smatterings
• deficits
• deficiencies
• smatters
• wants
• scarcities
• absences
• famines
• inadequacies
• insufficiencies
• dearths
• undersupplies
• poverties
• paucities

2

as in drums

a metal container in the shape of a cylinder

a trash barrel

Synonyms & Similar Words

• drums
• cans
• buckets
• tins
• canisters
• cannisters
• pails
• tin cans
• cannikins

3

as in pipes

an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages

barrels of fine wine aging in the winery's cellar

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pipes
• casks
• kegs
• hogsheads
• drums
• tubs
• puncheons
• tuns
• firkins
• butts
• cans
• vats
• kilderkins
• runlets
• rundlets
• cisterns
• scuttlebutt

barrels

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of barrel

as in races

to proceed or move quickly

faced with a firm deadline, we barreled through the project at a furious pace

Synonyms & Similar Words

• races
• speeds
• zips
• rushes
• flies
• drives
• travels
• hurries
• scurries
• trots
• jumps
• chases
• scoots
• bowls
• darts
• runs
• bolts
• buzzes
• blows
• dashes
• rams
• tears
• motors
• shoots
• steps
• blasts
• rockets
• belts
• scuttles
• jets
• pelts
• zooms
• bombs
• bundles
• rips
• courses
• blazes
• cannonballs
• hares
• whirls
• jogs
• cracks (on)
• hies
• humps
• careers
• hurls
• breezes
• highballs
• whisks
• nips
• hurtles
• rustles
• hustles
• bustles
• beats it
• careens
• hastens
• makes tracks
• gallops
• steps on it
• hotfoots (it)
• beetles
• sprints
• shakes a leg
• scuds
• gets a move on
• streaks
• stampedes
• flits
• scampers
• arrows
• whizzes
• accelerates
• steps out
• scuffles
• outruns
• overtakes
• outstrips
• outpaces
• quickens
• catches up
• beelines
• fast-forwards

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• crawls
• pokes
• creeps
• lags
• drags
• lingers
• hangs (around or out)
• pokes
• loiters
• tarries
• strolls
• dallies
• saunters
• dawdles
• shuffles
• lumbers
• ambles
• plods
• dillydallies
• slows (down or up)
• decelerates