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Synonyms & Antonyms of heap
(Entry 1 of 2)
1
a considerable amount
- she always has a heap of good ideas
- you're in a heap of trouble for missing curfew!
Synonyms for heap
- abundance,
- barrel,
- basketful,
- boatload,
- bucket,
- bunch,
- bundle,
- bushel,
- carload,
- chunk,
- deal,
- dozen,
- fistful,
- gobs,
- good deal,
- 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
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2
a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another
- found her shoe under a heap of clothes on the floor
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- bank,
- bar,
- drift,
- embankment
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of heap (Entry 2 of 2)
1
to give readily and in large quantities
- the critics heaped scorn on the wannabe blockbuster and its implausible plot
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3
to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained
- heaped her plate with spaghetti
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