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bunch

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of bunch

1 a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially
  • That bunch goes out to lunch together every Friday.
Synonyms of bunch

body, circle, clan, clique, community, coterie, coven, crowd, fold, gang, lot, network, pack, ring, set
Words Related to bunch

charmed circle, elite, in-group

club, college, fellowship, guild (also gild), league, organization, society

camp, faction, sect, side, tribe

mess, squad

brotherhood, fraternity, order, sisterhood, sodality, sorority

commune

alliance, bloc, coalition, confederation, congress, council, federation, union
2 a number of things considered as a unit
  • bought a bunch of grapes
Synonyms of bunch

array, assemblage, band, bank, batch, battery, block, clot, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, constellation, group, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, muster, package, parcel, passel, set, suite
Words Related to bunch

accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, conglomeration

agglomeration, assortment, hodgepodge, jumble, miscellany, mixture, odds and ends, sundries, variety

cycle, run, series, suit
Phrases Synonymous with bunch

the whole kit and caboodle
Near Antonyms of bunch

entity, item, single, unit
3 a usually small number of persons considered as a unit
  • A small bunch of people were sent to clean up the place.
Synonyms of bunch

array, band, batch, battery, body, boodle, cluster, clutch, consort, constellation, crop, group, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, parcel, party, passel
Words Related to bunch

assembly, collective, congregation, gathering, muster, organization

circle, clan, clique, coterie, fellowship, gang, ring, round, set

faction, guild (also gild), order, school, sect

brigade, crew, outfit, phalanx, platoon, posse, task force, team

alliance, bloc, coalition, confederacy, confederation, federation, league, union

battalion, squadron

bevy, brood, covey
Phrases Synonymous with bunch

the whole kit and caboodle
Near Antonyms of bunch

individual, single
4 a part that sticks out from the general mass of something
  • a bunch in the blanket
Synonyms of bunch

bulge, convexity, jut, overhang, projection, protrusion, protuberance, swell
Words Related to bunch

dome

blob, bump, dilatation, hump, knob, knot, knurl, lump, nub, obtrusion, puff, snag, swelling

block, piece, portion, section

enlargement, escalation, expansion, increase

hill, mound
Near Antonyms of bunch

crater, hole, well

basin, bowl, dip, valley

furrow, groove, trench, trough

dimple, gouge, impression, notch, pocket
Antonyms of bunch

cavity, concave, concavity, dent, depression, dint, hollow, indent, indentation, indenture, pit, recess
5 a considerable amount
  • I have a bunch of thoughts on the matter, so grab a notepad.
Synonyms of bunch

abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, volume, wad, wealth, yard
Words Related to bunch

epidemic, plague, rash

bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus

deluge, flood, overflow

army, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, throng
Phrases Synonymous with bunch

all kinds (of), quite a bit
Near Antonyms of bunch

atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit

smatter, smattering
Antonyms of bunch

ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen (also smidgeon), speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, tad, touch, trace

bunch

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of bunch

1 to extend outward beyond a usual point
  • The dress bunches a bit at the waist.
Synonyms of bunch

bag, balloon, beetle, belly, billow, bulge, jut, overhang, poke, pouch, pout, project, protrude, stand out, start, stick out, swell
Words Related to bunch

dome

blow up, inflate

dilate, distend, expand

mushroom, snowball

elongate, extend, lengthen, stretch
Near Antonyms of bunch

compress, condense, constrict, contract, shrink
2 to gather into a closely packed group
  • The slow service caused the customers at the pick-up counter to bunch up.
Synonyms of bunch

cluster, crowd, huddle, pile, press
Words Related to bunch

assemble, collect, concentrate, congregate, convene, converge, flock, forgather (or foregather), herd, swarm, throng

encircle, mob, surround

embrace, hug
Near Antonyms of bunch

break up, disband, disperse, split (up)

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