Synonyms of bone

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noun

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
• practise
• 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
• far
• that
• desperately
• seriously
• real
• jolly
• super
• full
• cracking
• good and
• greatly
• heavily
• much
• sore
• most
• especially
• such
• wildly
• intensely
• mighty
• rattling
• extra
• way
• passing
• wicked
• fiercely
• exceeding
• particularly
• roaring
• specially
• whacking
• thumping
• absolutely
• dang
• deadly
• monstrous
• exceptionally
• totally
• corking
• spanking
• awful
• immensely
• mortally
• completely
• exceedingly
• deeply
• vitally
• almighty
• achingly
• uncommonly
• utterly
• fantastically
• frightfully
• right
• a lot
• fabulously
• sorely
• awfully
• thoroughly
• supremely
• hugely
• stinking
• ever
• beastly
• eminently
• entirely
• enormously
• 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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Phrases Containing bone

• bone (up)