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stomach

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of stomach

to put up with (something painful or difficult)
  • I could no longer stomach working for such a petty tyrant.
Synonyms of stomach

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

allow, permit, suffer, swallow

reconcile (to)

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

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

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)

stomach

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of stomach

1 the part of the body between the chest and the pelvis
  • Please don't lean on my stomach—I just had a big meal!
Synonyms of stomach

abdomen, belly, breadbasket [slang], gut, solar plexus, tummy
Words Related to stomach

middle, midriff, waist

paunch, potbelly

thorax
2 a need or desire for food
  • The cake looks delicious, but I'm afraid that I have no stomach for sweets right now.
Synonyms of stomach

appetite, belly, emptiness, famishment, hunger, munchies
Words Related to stomach

rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity

malnutrition, starvation, undernourishment

craving, sweet tooth

famine, fast, hunger strike

gluttony, gourmandism, greed, hoggishness
Near Antonyms of stomach

fill, fullness, glut, repleteness, repletion, satiation, satiety, satisfaction, surfeit
Antonyms of stomach

inappetence

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