Synonyms of pits

pits 1 of 2

noun

plural of pit

as in holes

a sunken area forming a separate space

removal of the tree stump left a gaping pit in the yard

Synonyms & Similar Words

• holes
• dents
• cavities
• furrows
• ditches
• hollows
• depressions
• trenches
• recesses
• indentations
• caverns
• caves
• valleys
• concavities
• bowls
• excavations
• grooves
• burrows
• pockets
• basins
• dints
• indentures
• alcoves
• craters
• troughs
• impressions
• gutters
• openings
• gouges
• wells
• clefts
• nooks
• dimples
• sockets
• potholes
• niches
• voids
• sinkholes
• chasms
• boreholes
• abysses
• water holes
• imprints
• vacuums
• notches
• alveoli
• postholes
• wallows
• chuckholes
• vacuities
• gulfs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• projections
• bulges
• protrusions
• hills
• protuberances
• mounds
• tumors
• rises
• convexities
• cambers
• juts
• lumps
• bumps
• swells
• humps
• pimples
• swellings
• bunches

pits

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of pit

as in dents

Related Words

• dents
• coarsens
• bends
• wrinkles
• kinks
• roughens
• roughs
• rumples

Dissimilar Words

• levels
• planes
• crops
• flattens
• smooths
• prunes
• evens
• clips
• shaves
• trims
• spreads
• presses
• lays
• smoothens
• pares

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pits

Noun

In a historic first, two olive ridley sea turtles crawled out of the sea within the second week of September and laid their eggs in pits of sand in Seal Beach and Huntington Beach. — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

The adult female lays its eggs beneath the skin of apples, leaving pits and dimples on the fruit. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026

On the last nights of the occupation, troops burned more than 400 tons of waste in open air burn pits, ostensibly for security reasons. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

My picks include generous dining sets, picks for smaller porches, and even guest-ready seating clusters complete with fire pits to extend the outdoor hosting season even more. — Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2026

This is just one of many parts of the course that were absolutely torn up, including an area just off the 1st green where a couple of thousand runners turned areas into mud pits. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026

Commanders directed operations and communicated with higher command, drivers negotiated bridges, water pits, and craters, and gunners identified targets considered the greatest threat. — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026

The four modern luxury treehouse-style cabins feature multi-level decks, full kitchens, onsite kayak rentals, wi-fi, and private fire pits. — Taryn Shorr-McKee, Midwest Living, 20 Sep. 2026

These mysterious features are a bunch of broad, shallow pits scattered across the Martian bedrock. — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2026