BRACKETS Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

brackets 1 of 2

noun

plural of bracket

as in types

one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic they're in the same income bracket

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brackets

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verb

present tense third-person singular of bracket

as in compares

to describe as similar I wouldn't exactly bracket your paintings with those of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci

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contrasts

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Recent Examples of brackets

Noun

The new, 76-team brackets will jam eight extra games — for a total of 12 involving 24 teams — into the front half of the first week of the men’s and the women’s tournaments. —

Eddie Pells, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026 The new, 76-team brackets will jam eight extra games — for a total of 12 involving 24 teams — into the front half of the first week of each tournament. —

Eddie Pells, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026 In the upcoming season, 18 contestants are divided into three groups of six, who will compete in their own brackets across three episodes. —

Greta Cross, USA Today, 7 May 2026 Annabelle Gordon | Reuters Lower-income consumers are compensating for higher gas prices by buying less while those in higher-income brackets haven't changed their behavior much at all despite soaring costs, according to research released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve of New York. —

Jeff Cox, CNBC, 6 May 2026 The school has been removed from the UIL playoffs, according to UIL class 2A brackets. —

Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 May 2026 But Bessent said people of all ages and income brackets could be better at managing their money. —

Fatima Hussein, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026 The state tourney brackets each have eight teams, along with individual singles and doubles tourneys. —

Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026 The plans show 17 units will be rented to those in extremely low-income brackets, 17 will be rented to people at very low-income levels, and 137 will be rented to others with low incomes. —

George Avalos, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026

Verb

The $300,000 to $400,000 range, which brackets the metro’s median price, tends to be moderately competitive. —

Allison Palmer updated February 23, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for brackets

Noun

These types of vulnerabilities can be exploited through normal user behavior, such as browsing to a web page.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 7 May 2026
Further, the Nixon-era conspirators in real life were tedious corporate types with names like Haldeman and Ehrlichman who Alan Pakula, the director, found impossible to cast.

— Peter Bart, Deadline, 7 May 2026