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fistful

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Synonyms & Antonyms of fistful

a considerable amount

repairing the roof is going to cost a fistful of money

Synonyms for fistful

abundance,
barrel,
basketful,
boatload,
bucket,
bunch,
bundle,
bushel,
carload,
chunk,
deal,
dozen,
gobs,
good deal,
heap,
hundred,
lashings
(also lashins)
[chiefly British],
loads,
lot,
mass,
mess,
mountain,
much,
multiplicity,
myriad,
oodles,
pack,
passel,
peck,
pile,
plateful,
plenitude,
plentitude,
plenty,
pot,
potful,
profusion,
quantity,
raft,
reams,
scads,
sheaf,
shipload,
sight,
slew,
spate,
stack,
store,
ton,
truckload,
volume,
wad,
wealth,
yard

Words Related to fistful

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

gazillion,
jillion,
kazillion,
million,
thousands,
trillion,
zillion

Phrases Synonymous with fistful

all kinds (of),
quite a bit

Near Antonyms for fistful

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

smatter,
smattering

dash,
drop,
morsel,
shot

piece,
portion,
section

absence,
dearth,
famine,
lack,
paucity,
poverty,
scarceness,
scarcity,
shortage,
undersupply,
want

deficiency,
deficit,
inadequacy,
insufficiency,
meagerness,
scantiness,
scantness,
skimpiness

Antonyms for fistful

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

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