Synonyms of shipload

shipload

noun

ˈship-ˈlōd 

as in ton

a considerable amount

it must have taken a shipload of money to build that mansion

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ton
• loads
• dozen
• plenty
• slew
• bunch
• deal
• quantity
• pile
• wealth
• chunk
• lot
• raft
• hundred
• carload
• abundance
• bundle
• truckload
• boatload
• stack
• bushel
• fistful
• volume
• heap
• pack
• myriad
• reams
• basketful
• bucket
• all kinds (of)
• gobs
• yard
• profusion
• sheaf
• mass
• thousands
• good deal
• quite a bit
• mountain
• barrel
• scads
• pot
• lashings
• spate
• plateful
• store
• wad
• peck
• oodles
• potful
• mess
• multiplicity
• plenitude
• much
• sight
• passel
• surplus
• flood
• plentitude
• plague
• score
• sea
• excess
• surfeit
• multitude
• overabundance
• rash
• epidemic
• superabundance
• million
• plethora
• swarm
• oversupply
• horde
• throng
• deluge
• bonanza
• flock
• embarrassment
• superfluity
• bevy
• host
• crowd
• overage
• army
• overflow
• redundancy
• overkill
• drove
• herd
• legion
• mob
• zillion
• crush
• overmuch
• press
• cram
• gazillion
• jillion
• trillion
• kazillion

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• handful
• ounce
• grain
• taste
• pittance
• peanuts
• strain
• suspicion
• sprinkling
• ray
• bit
• speck
• mouthful
• hint
• dram
• molecule
• touch
• spot
• atom
• pinch
• scrap
• glimmer
• particle
• scruple
• mite
• sprinkle
• fragment
• ace
• modicum
• trace
• smattering
• whit
• streak
• shade
• tad
• nip
• mote
• iota
• granule
• dab
• shadow
• shred
• lick
• scintilla
• jot
• dot
• little
• smidgen
• tittle
• drop
• crumb
• shortage
• dash
• driblet
• section
• piece
• fleck
• portion
• morsel
• shot
• scarcity
• flyspeck
• lack
• famine
• absence
• smatter
• paucity
• dearth
• poverty
• deficiency
• deficit
• nubbin
• want
• insufficiency
• inadequacy
• scarceness
• undersupply
• scantiness
• meagerness
• skimpiness
• scantness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of shipload

But shiploads of Chinese passengers continued to journey across the ocean, finding ways around the law. — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025

Giuliani said the fabric was initially used by sailors to cover shiploads, produce sails and eventually worn as workwear. — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 14 Jan. 2025

On April 29 1856, a shipload of camels arrived at the Texas port of Indianola. — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 29 Apr. 2024

Moving the entirety of Ukraine’s food exports—estimated at 30 million tons of grain—would require 100 shiploads, compared with a whopping 300,000 rail carloads. — Mark Cancian, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2022