BLANKS Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of blank

as in forms

a piece of paper with information written or to be written on it handed him an employment blank to fill out

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as in vacancies

empty space a blank on the form for the patient's insurance policy number

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verb

present tense third-person singular of blank

as in passes over

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Recent Examples of blanks

Noun

Sherman, Maine — Behind the steering wheel of his silver pickup, Scott Bates fills in the blanks with numbers. — Rachel Siegel, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026 The company keeps blanks ready to be printed at a moment’s notice. — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026 With so few ancient samples of dodo DNA surviving—and that which does exist having degraded over the centuries—the analytic and number-crunching power of AI is just what’s needed to fill in the genetic blanks. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Oct. 2026 The shoot involved firing blanks and igniting explosions, theatrics that shocked the film’s residential neighbors and spurred concerns over public safety. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 Today, the German automaker is finally starting to fill in the blanks on the i3. — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 29 Sep. 2026 And by offering so little clarity, his own team has invited the public to fill in the blanks. — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2026 The need for a federal workforce at KSC dwindled, and that’s when state officials started looking to commercial companies to help fill in the blanks. — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026 Kyle Gauvin, the president of the board of Sacred Heart Housing, filled in the blanks. — Katherine Gregg, The Providence Journal, 4 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for blanks

Noun

Their second record is somewhat sleeker—no song surpasses five minutes—but packs considerable emotion into these tighter forms.

— Marissa Lorusso, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026
The report that examined 180,000 programme contributions to UK TV shows compiled via 12,000 diversity forms spotlighted the scale of the improvement required for the industry to reflect the make-up of the UK as a whole.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of forms

Noun

That will leave the council with two Black members out of 15 for the first time since 1963, not counting temporary vacancies, according to archivists in the City Clerk’s office.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
European leaders are expected to work out a package deal to apportion the three vacancies among member countries in a complex round of political bargaining.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of vacancies

Verb

While it isn't yet known exactly where any surviving pieces will land, Sladen noted that Swift's orbit only passes over a band within about 21 degrees of the equator.

— Leonard David, Space.com, 1 Nov. 2026
The spacecraft must launch when the station’s orbital plane passes over the launch site.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of passes over

Noun

Two days later, the custodian provided nine documents and forwarded 11 emails from the city clerk.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
Wallace hid the theft by making false entries in the church’s digital bookkeeping records, the agreement and other court documents said.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of documents

Noun

Scaling up Engineers discovered voids, or air pockets, between layers of carbon fiber that make up the domes’ composite structure.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
The goal was to produce a more uniform film with compact crystal grains and fewer voids and defects.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of voids

Verb

Is Jan Crawford meant to adhere to standards while the editor-in-chief consistently ignores them?

— Daniel Strauss, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2026
In Bethany Joy Lenz’s debut fiction novel, a painter spends her days honoring ordinary women the world overlooked — ones whose deaths were caused or enabled by a system that ignores them.

— Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of ignores

Noun

Inside was a tumble of papers, some moldy, some with partial footprints, leaves and twigs interspersed among the pages.

— Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
And though papers in Washington State such as the Seattle Times have mentioned the protests, nobody in legacy media is criticizing the boy's participation.

— Matt Calkins OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026