Synonyms of wad

wad 1 of 2

noun

ˈwäd 

1

as in loads

a considerable amount

a starlet who usually gets a big wad of publicity for her nonstop antics

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

2

as in chunk

a small uneven mass

a wad of gum stuck to the desk

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chunk
• hunk
• clump
• glob
• lump
• gob
• piece
• knob
• blob
• dollop
• nub
• gobbet
• nugget
• bead
• clot
• clod
• drop
• nubble
• bit
• patch
• globule
• particle
• portion
• bulk
• chip
• scrap
• block
• granule
• body
• crumb
• morsel
• nubbin

3

as in bundle

a very large amount of money

amassed—and lost—a wad playing the stock market

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bundle
• fortune
• pile
• mint
• bomb
• packet
• big bucks
• megabucks
• cash
• boodle
• earth
• heap
• king's ransom
• pot
• chips
• mine
• assets
• gold
• currency
• dough
• property
• wealth
• treasure trove
• riches
• capital
• bonanza
• means
• wampum
• tender
• legal tender
• bread
• wherewithal
• lucre
• pelf
• jack

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• peanuts
• song
• mite
• pittance
• pocket money
• spending money
• petty cash
• pin money

wad

2 of 2

verb

as in to round

to form into a round compact mass

she wadded up the paper and threw it in the wastebasket

took the paper off the straw and wadded it up

Synonyms & Similar Words

• round
• roll
• ball
• bunch
• lump
• agglomerate
• clump
• pearl
• bead
• sphere
• pellet
• pelletize

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• open
• spread
• unroll
• flatten
• smooth
• unfold

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wad

Noun

Think of pulling on a wad of gum in your mouth – that thin strand is like the fiber, except scientists slowly lower the big preform into the furnace and pull out the small fiber quickly. —John Ballato, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026

Last year’s best actor, Adrien Brody, made amends for flinging chewing gum at his wife by swallowing a fresh wad of it (and his pride). —Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026

Verb

Simply tear off a sheet of heavy-duty foil, wad it up to form a homemade scouring pad, and get to scrubbing. —Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2026

The Socks Are Inside Other Clothes Did the sock actually enter another space-time continuum—or did it get wadded up in someone's pant leg? —Katie Cloyd, Martha Stewart, 5 Jan. 2026