Synonyms of bone

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noun

ˈbōn 

1

as in devices

a habitual attraction to some activity or thing

he hasn't a competitive bone in his body

Synonyms & Similar Words

• devices
• inclination
• tendency
• aptitude
• affinity
• affection
• impulse
• disposition
• bent
• predisposition
• knack
• predilection
• propensity
• talent
• bias
• proclivity
• penchant
• appetite
• addiction
• leaning
• turn
• gift
• genius
• preference
• partiality
• habitude
• flair
• taste
• prejudice
• endowment
• partisanship
• liking
• habit
• faculty
• specialty
• pattern
• like
• speciality
• fondness
• fancy
• practice
• custom
• singularity
• routine
• favor
• forte
• peculiarity
• eccentricity
• way
• one-sidedness
• idiosyncrasy
• convention
• kink
• quirk
• wont
• oddity
• trick

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• allergy
• aversion
• distaste
• dislike
• detachment
• objectivity
• disfavor
• disinclination
• neutrality
• indifference
• impartiality
• disrelish
• disliking
• averseness
• apathy
• nonchalance
• unconcern
• disinterestedness
• insouciance

2

as in die

bones plural a small cube marked on each side with one to six spots and usually played in pairs in various games

the pirates decided their captives' fate with a toss of the bones

Synonyms & Similar Words

• die
• dice

3

as in heart

usually bones plural the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions

I could feel in my bones that I had just met my future wife

Synonyms & Similar Words

• heart
• belly
• gut
• breast
• soul
• blood
• bosom
• core
• inside
• mind
• conscience
• inner space
• heartstrings
• quick

4

as in dollar

slang a U.S. currency bill representing 100 cents

in my college days I hadn't a bone to my name

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dollar
• buck
• one
• clam
• smacker
• greenback
• dead presidents

5

as in corpse

bones plural a dead body

requested that his bones be buried in the country of his birth

Synonyms & Similar Words

• corpse
• relics
• carcass
• remains
• ashes
• cadaver
• corpus
• corse
• stiff
• mummy
• deceased
• carrion
• decedent
• carnage

bone

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adverb

as in damn

to a great degree

grew up in a backwoods area that was bone poor

Synonyms & Similar Words

• damn
• very
• extremely
• damned
• badly
• terribly
• incredibly
• too
• highly
• severely
• so
• really
• desperately
• far
• that
• seriously
• real
• jolly
• super
• full
• cracking
• good and
• heavily
• greatly
• much
• sore
• especially
• most
• such
• intensely
• wildly
• mighty
• rattling
• extra
• way
• passing
• fiercely
• wicked
• particularly
• roaring
• specially
• whacking
• thumping
• absolutely
• dang
• deadly
• monstrous
• exceptionally
• corking
• totally
• spanking
• awful
• immensely
• mortally
• completely
• exceedingly
• vitally
• almighty
• deeply
• achingly
• uncommonly
• fantastically
• utterly
• frightfully
• right
• a lot
• fabulously
• sorely
• awfully
• thoroughly
• supremely
• stinking
• hugely
• beastly
• ever
• eminently
• enormously
• entirely
• filthy
• archly
• surpassingly
• remarkably
• positively
• vastly
• majorly
• significantly
• mightily
• roaringly
• unco
• wholly
• as all get-out
• colossally
• considerably
• visibly
• noticeably
• blisteringly
• fully
• substantially
• purely
• downright
• flat-out
• profoundly
• radically
• obviously
• notably
• extensively
• markedly
• palpably
• appreciably
• altogether
• discernibly
• plentifully
• excessively
• overmuch
• astronomically
• plainly
• abundantly
• obscenely
• monumentally
• astonishingly
• monstrously
• grandly
• amazingly
• staggeringly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• little
• somewhat
• slightly
• nominally
• negligibly
• just
• barely
• scarcely
• hardly
• minimally
• marginally
• scantily
• meagerly

bone

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verb

as in to dress

Related Words

• dress
• clean
• gut
• extract
• disembowel
• eviscerate
• remove
• draw
• excise
• cut
• withdraw
• transplant
• yank

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bone

Noun

One big debate about ribs is whether to remove the thin membrane on the back of the bones, which can have a chewy texture and prevent the sauce from penetrating the meat. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

Raine fortunately landed flush on her buttocks, rather than on bone, and got up, leaving the Saloon without a backwards glance. — Katie Nicholl, Vanity Fair, 22 Sep. 2026

Verb

As to roasting, Don likes to bone out the chicken or spatchcock it by removing the backbone, before seasoning and rubbing with olive oil and roasting in the oven at 300 degrees for up to three hours. — Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Oct. 2021

But for the rest of the carcass, here in Louisiana, people like to bone it out and grind it. — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 18 Sep. 2020

Phrases Containing bone

• bone (up)