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heap

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of heap

1 a considerable amount
  • She always has a heap of good ideas.
  • You're in a heap of trouble for missing curfew!
Synonyms of heap

abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, 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 heap

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 heap

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

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 heap

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
2 a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another
  • Jess found her shoe under a heap of clothes on the floor.
Synonyms of heap

cock, hill, mound, mountain, pile, stack
Words Related to heap

bank, bar, drift, embankment

bed, layer

mow, pyramid, rick

barrow, cairn, pyre

accumulation, aggregate, array, assemblage, collection, conglomeration, gathering, grouping, hoard, huddle, jumble, knot, pileup

heap

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of heap

1 to give readily and in large quantities
  • He was embarrassed by all the praise heaped on him.
Synonyms of heap

lavish, pour, rain, shower
Words Related to heap

gush, stream

flood, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, swamp

bombard, hail
Near Antonyms of heap

hold back, keep, reserve, retain, withhold
2 to lay or throw on top of one another
  • heaped the stones in a corner of the yard
Synonyms of heap

mound, pile, stack
Words Related to heap

bank

layer, pyramid

accumulate, amass, assemble, collect, concentrate, garner, gather, group, mass

bunch, clump, lump
Antonyms of heap

unpile
3 to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained
  • heaped her plate with spaghetti
Synonyms of heap

brim, charge, cram, fill, jam, jam-pack, load, pack, stuff
Words Related to heap

drench, flood, glut, swamp

bloat, bulk

crowd, crush, mat, press, ram, shove, squash, squeeze

refill, refresh, reload, repack, replenish

overcharge, overfill, overflow, saturate

honeycomb, penetrate
Near Antonyms of heap

lighten

deplete, drain, eliminate, exhaust

bleed, draw (off)

clean, flush, purge, scour, sweep
Antonyms of heap

clear, empty, evacuate, vacate, void

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