TOADS Synonyms: 113 Similar and Opposite Words

toads

noun

plural of toad

as in dogs

a person whose behavior is offensive to others that miserable toad is lucky to have even a single friend

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Recent Examples of toads There, students can see animals including snakes, axolotls, tiger salamanders, turtles, toads, frogs, tarantulas, millipedes, bunnies and owls, Wieser said. — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 5 July 2026 The current population is a result of the toads escaping or being released by importers during the 1950s and ‘60s, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. — Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 23 June 2026 In frogs and toads that parent, males take the lead about half the time. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 21 June 2026 Around ponds, frogs and toads will be eaten, and when worms emerge after rainfall, skunks will eagerly feed on those. — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026 Creacy said that the toads’ survival will depend on human assistance. — Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026 Hikers will look for evidence like burrows, nests and tracks of tarantulas, toads, scorpions, glowworms and other nighttime creatures. — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026 Members of Wrenham Toad Patrols shared their frustrations on social media, noting that officials gave no notice of maintenance, which limited their ability to assist the toads. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026 While generations of toads and frogs have traveled to these marshes to mate, a road built in the last decade right across their route made the spring journey much more dangerous. — ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for toads

Noun

The dogs played such a significant role in the King and Camilla’s lives that the latter had a sketch of her dogs embroidered on her coronation dress along with the names of her children and grandchildren.

— Audrey Schmidt, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
Why would a langur stroke a squirrel, or macaques groom stray dogs?

— Cyril Grueter, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of dogs

Noun

One morning during my stay, there were even clowns buzzing about—a thrill to receive a balloon poodle alongside my morning flat white.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026
Perhaps most astonishingly, the movie manages to make creepy clowns — that shopworn trope — genuinely frightening again.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026

Definition of clowns

Noun

That screwed up the works / And not due to his sloppy hiring / Of a crew of incompetent jerks.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
Something from this article might put me on some Ben Shapiro list, where a bunch of jerks literally will just call me ‘f****t’ or worse on my social media.

— William Earl, Variety, 10 June 2026

Definition of jerks

Noun

There’s Tom Crutchfield, who loves women with the ardor of Pepé Le Pew but spends most of his time not in pursuit of the ladies but of exotic snakes, lizards, alligators, turtles and whatnot.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2026
The snakes are also some of the largest in the world, and are often measured at about six to nine feet in length.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of snakes

Noun

And as Mike [Van Nostrand] says, if people were breeding more reptiles that may take pressure off of the poachers.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2026
Other organizations like the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) monitor wild plants and animals, including amphibians and reptiles on a global scale.

— Kalia Richardson, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of reptiles

Noun

Meg Murray's hobby of crafting small rats out of soft material turned into something much bigger - a tiny neighborhood attraction where anyone can stop by and adopt one.

— Crystal McQuay, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
In 1978, a Californian named Robb Moss, then twenty-eight, went on a five-week float trip through the Grand Canyon with a bunch of fellow river rats.

— Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of rats

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