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stick out

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of stick out

1 to extend outward beyond a usual point
  • No feet sticking out in the aisles, please!
Synonyms of stick out

bag, balloon, beetle, belly, billow, bulge, bunch, jut, overhang, poke, pouch, pout, project, protrude, stand out, start, swell
Words Related to stick out

dome

blow up, inflate

dilate, distend, expand

mushroom, snowball

elongate, extend, lengthen, stretch
Near Antonyms of stick out

compress, condense, constrict, contract, shrink
2 to put up with (something painful or difficult)
  • managed to stick out the whole race despite her bad knee
Synonyms of stick out

abide, absorb, accept, bear, brook, countenance, endure, go, hack, handle, meet, pocket, stand, stomach, support, sustain, sweat out, take, tolerate
Words Related to stick out

allow, permit, suffer, swallow

reconcile (to)

acquiesce, agree (with or to), assent (to), capitulate, consent (to), respect, submit (to), yield (to)
Phrases Synonymous with stick out

live with, lump (it), stand for, tough out (it)
Near Antonyms of stick out

decline, dismiss, refuse, reject, repudiate, spurn, turn down

combat, contest, fight, oppose, resist

avoid, bypass, circumvent, dodge, elude, escape, evade, miss

abstain (from), forbear, refrain (from)

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