Thesaurus
Synonyms and Antonyms of shades
- a lovely shade of blue
- just a shade taller than his dance partner
aces, bits, crumbs, dabs, drams, driblets, glimmers, hints, licks, little, mites, nips, ounces, particles, peanuts, rays, scintillae (or scintillas), scruples, shadows, shreds, skoshes, smacks, smells, smidgens (also smidgeons), snaps, soupçons, sparks, spatters, specks, splashes, spots, sprinklings, strains, streaks, suspicions, touches, traces
hoots, iotas, jots, minims, minima (or minimums), modicums, semblances, syllables, tittles, vestiges, whits
atoms, dots, flecks, flyspecks, grains, granules, molecules, morsels, motes, nubbins, patches, scraps
handfuls (also handsful), scatterings, smatters, smatterings
chips, flakes, fragments, shards, shivers, slivers, smithereens, splinters
abundances, barrels, boatloads, buckets, bundles, bushels, deals, fistfuls, gobs, heaps, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lots, masses, messes, mountains, much, oodles, passels, pecks, piles, plenties, potfuls, profusions, quantities, rafts, reams, scads, stacks, wads, wealths
bonanzas, embarrassments, excesses, overabundances, overages, overflows, overkills, overmuch, oversupplies, superabundances, superfluities, surfeits, surpluses
- spirits and shades haunting the night
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