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morsel

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of morsel

1 a small piece or quantity of food

  • the chef's cuisine is so good that diners will want to savor every morsel
Synonyms of morsel

bite, mouthful, nibble, nugget, taste, tidbit (also titbit)
Words Related to morsel

collop, medallion, noisette

nosh, snack

appetizer, canapé, hors d'oeuvre

bit, chew, crumb, dab, dribble, driblet, fleck, hint, mote, nubbin, particle, pinch, scrap, scruple, shred, smidgen (also smidgeon), snip, snippet, speck, spot, sprinkling, suspicion, tittle, touch, trace

dash, drop

lap, lick

gulp, swallow, swig

2 a very small piece

  • searching for any morsel of useful information
Synonyms of morsel

atom, bit, crumb, dribble, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, mote, nubbin, nugget, particle, patch, scrap, scruple, snip, snippet, speck, tittle
Words Related to morsel

ace, dab, dash, driblet, drop, fraction, haet [chiefly Scottish], halfpenny, ha'penny, iota, jot, kenning [chiefly Scottish], lick, minim, mite, modicum, nutshell, ounce, pinch, shred, smatter, smidgen (also smidgeon), spot, strain, streak, suspicion, taste, touch, trace, whisper, whit

bite, mouthful, nibble, tidbit (also titbit)

fragment, part, portion, section

chip, flake, shard, shiver, sliver, splinter

clipping, paring, shaving

smithereens
Near Antonyms of morsel

chunk, gob, hunk, lump, slab

abundance, barrel, bucket, bushel, deal, heaps, loads, mass, mountain, peck, pile, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, scads, stack, volume, wad, wealth

3 a person of no importance or influence

  • a morsel like her wouldn't last a week in the rough-and-tumble world of Wall Street
Synonyms of morsel

cipher, dwarf, half-pint, insect, insignificancy, lightweight, nobody, nonentity, nothing, nullity, number, pip-squeak, pygmy (also pigmy), shrimp, snippersnapper, twerp, whippersnapper, zero, zilch
Words Related to morsel

no-name, noncelebrity

least

inferior, mediocrity, obscurity

figurehead, puppet

nonperson
Near Antonyms of morsel

chief, head, lead, leader

celebrity, luminary, notable, personality, planet, star, superstar

authority, superior

great power, party, power
Antonyms of morsel

big shot, big wheel, bigwig, eminence, figure, kahuna, kingpin, magnate, nabob, personage, somebody, VIP

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