Synonyms of cues

cues 1 of 3

noun (1)

plural of cue

as in clues

a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation)

taking a cue from nature, scientists are developing safe and effective insecticides using insect hormones

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clues
• indications
• hints
• suggestions
• ideas
• signs
• intimations
• inklings
• leads
• signals
• suspicions
• glimpses
• implications
• scents
• tips
• inferences
• breaths
• notions
• allusions
• feelings
• evidences
• inspirations
• keys
• mentions
• winds
• whiffs
• symptoms
• intuitions
• pointers
• tokens
• prompts
• guideposts
• insinuations
• hunches
• innuendos
• glimmers
• flickers
• telltales
• overtones
• winks
• nods
• denotations
• premonitions
• assistances
• presentiments
• harbingers
• omens
• portents
• tip-offs
• forebodings
• marks
• auguries
• prefigurements
• presages
• foretastes
• foreshadowers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• solutions
• answers

cues

2 of 3

noun (2)

plural of cue

as in lines

a series of persons or things arranged one behind another

the cue to get tickets to the concert moved with agonizing slowness

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lines
• queues
• columns
• strings
• trains
• files
• rows
• ranges
• ranks
• sequences
• chains
• tiers
• progressions
• arrays
• successions
• echelons

cues

3 of 3

verb

present tense third-person singular of cue

as in queues

Related Words

• lines
• queues
• aligns
• sequences
• lines up
• places
• files
• sets
• displays
• emplaces
• maps (out)
• sets out
• prioritizes
• proportions
• orders
• unscrambles
• ranges
• alphabetizes
• marshals
• balances
• systematizes
• hierarchizes
• classifies
• organizes
• arrays
• standardizes
• arranges
• lays out
• equalizes
• disposes
• grooms
• codifies
• evens
• regularizes
• straightens (up)
• draws up
• makes up
• tidies (up)
• spruces (up)

Dissimilar Words

• disorders
• disarranges
• deranges
• rumples
• messes (up)
• musses (up)
• disarrays
• misaligns

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of cues

Noun

Eating according to internal cues is one part of intuitive eating, which aims to increase a person’s trust in their own body to signal when to start eating and when to stop. — Bryn Beeder, The Conversation, 1 Nov. 2026

Your liver, pancreas and immune cells all run on their own daily schedules, taking their cues from that cluster of cells in the hypothalamus linked to the sun. — Randy J. Nelson, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026

How many of us now take our cues from what is pushed into our faces and talk about what others talk about? — Colin Fleming, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026

Kemetale This boutique operator, which launched in 2022 with the Kemet Dahabeya, has small-scale ships that take their cues from the traditional dahabeah, a kind of sailing barge. — Susan B. Barnes, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2026

Brian Anderson, a professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University, says our brains can learn to attach new, gentler feelings to the same seasonal cues, and that starts with giving yourself room to breathe. — Ashley Lynch, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026

Lexi Minetree is taking some beauty cues from her character Elle Woods. — Arushi Jacob, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026

Meriwether encouraged Marx to remember Catherine’s full humanity when scoring behavior that might otherwise invite familiar serial-killer cues. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2026

For people who expect visible enthusiasm, quick verbal responses, eye contact or other signs of engagement, the absence of those cues might lead them to suspect something is wrong — but that’s not always the case. — CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026