Synonyms of sliver

sliver 1 of 2

noun

ˈsli-vər 

as in chip

a small flat piece separated from a whole

I got a sliver of wood stuck in my finger

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chip
• fragment
• shard
• splinter
• flake
• bit
• shred
• sheet
• scrap
• splint
• portion
• part
• particle
• section
• spall
• disk
• slice
• leaf
• clipping
• shiver
• shave
• snippet
• shaving
• paring
• flinders
• tatter
• smithereens

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slab
• lump
• chunk
• hunk

sliver

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verb

ˈsli-vər 

as in to slice

to cut into long slender pieces

carefully slivered the rattan stems into strips for basketry

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slice
• chop
• split
• splinter
• chip
• dice
• mince
• scissor
• hash
• slit
• cleave
• rip
• slash
• julienne
• rive
• saw
• gash
• incise

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sliver

Noun

There, guards forced her and the other Azov women onto the ground and told them to crawl across the concrete floor and into their cell, a basement smaller than a studio apartment, with a sliver of window just above ground level. — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Park’s team then worked through the 450 years of mud bracketing that sliver, layer by layer, combining microscope images with chemical scans, isotope readings, and diatom counts every two to three years. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 9 Aug. 2026

Verb

The dish was popularized in the western Oklahoma City suburb of El Reno, where Ross Davis first piled slivered onions onto thin beef patties at his Hamburger Inn. — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2026