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plumb

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of plumb

1 having no exceptions or restrictions
  • a horror movie that's plumb trash and further evidence of the deterioration of popular culture
Synonyms of plumb

absolute, all-out, arrant, blank, blooming [chiefly British], bodacious [Southern & Midland], categorical (also categoric), clean, complete, consummate, cotton-picking, crashing, damn, damned, dead, deadly, definite, downright, dreadful, fair, flat, flat-out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, profound, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, very
Words Related to plumb

authentic, classic, genuine, real, veritable

constant, endless, eternal, perpetual, undying, unremitting

extreme, unrestricted

confirmed, habitual, hopeless, inveterate

extraordinary, frightful, horrible, huge, main, superlative, supreme, surpassing, terrible, terrific
Near Antonyms of plumb

doubtful, dubious, equivocal, qualified, questionable, restricted, uncertain
2 rising straight up
  • the wall was not plumb, so everything else in the room was out of kilter
Synonyms of plumb

erect, perpendicular, raised, stand-up, standing, upright, upstanding, vertical
Words Related to plumb

elevated, lifted, upended, upraised

semierect

freestanding, stand-alone
Near Antonyms of plumb

prostrate, supine

diagonal, hanging, sagging, slant, slanted, slanting, slanty
Antonyms of plumb

flat, recumbent

Synonym Discussion of plumb

vertical, perpendicular, plumb mean being at right angles to a base line. vertical suggests a line or direction rising straight upward toward a zenith.
    • the side of the cliff is almost vertical
perpendicular may stress the straightness of a line making a right angle with any other line, not necessarily a horizontal one.
    • the parallel bars are perpendicular to the support posts
plumb stresses an exact verticality determined (as with a plumb line) by earth's gravity.
    • make sure that the wall is plumb

plumb

adverb

Synonyms and Antonyms of plumb

1 in a direct line or course
  • I can't believe he walked plumb into the tree, without even seeing it!
Synonyms of plumb

dead, direct, directly, due, plump, right, straight, straightway
Phrases Synonymous with plumb

as the crow flies
Near Antonyms of plumb

circuitously, deviously, veeringly
Antonyms of plumb

indirectly
2 chiefly dialect to a full extent or degree
  • Iʼm plumb tuckered out
Synonyms of plumb

all, all of, all over, altogether, clean, completely, dead, enough, entire, entirely, even, exactly, fast, flat, full, fully, heartily, out, perfectly, quite, soundly, thoroughly, through and through, totally, utterly, well, wholly, wide
Words Related to plumb

absolutely, categorically, cold, downright, hands down, plain, stone, stone-cold, unqualifiedly

basically, by and large, chiefly, generally, largely, mainly, more or less, mostly, overall, predominantly, predominately, primarily, principally, substantially

abundantly, copiously, generously, greatly
Phrases Synonymous with plumb

all the way, at length, down the line, down to the ground, for fair, in whole, to bits, to pieces, to the hilt, to the max
Near Antonyms of plumb

barely, hardly, just, kind of, marginally, minimally, scarcely, slightly, superficially

approximately, roughly, somewhat
Antonyms of plumb

half, halfway, incompletely, part, partially, partly
3 without delay
  • we had no sooner resolved that crisis than we plumb rushed into another one
Synonyms of plumb

bang, directly, forthwith, headlong, immediately, incontinently, instantaneously, instanter, instantly, now, PDQ, presently, promptly, pronto, right, right away, right now, right off, straight off, straightaway, straightway
Words Related to plumb

away, freely

anon, momentarily, shortly, soon

apace, briskly, fast, fleetly, full-tilt, posthaste, quick, quickly, rapidly, readily, snappily, speedily, swift, swiftly

abruptly, presto, suddenly, unexpectedly

hastily, impetuously, impulsively, rashly, recklessly

exactly, opportunely, punctually, seasonably
Phrases Synonymous with plumb

at once, in no time, off the bat, on a dime, on the double, on the spot
Near Antonyms of plumb

slowly

late, tardily

plumb

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of plumb

to measure the depth of (as a body of water) typically with a weighted line
  • plumbed the bay to make sure it was deep enough for the ship
Synonyms of plumb

fathom, sound
Words Related to plumb

gauge (also gage), scale, span

remeasure, replumb

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