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1
a considerable amount
- a starlet who usually gets a big wad of publicity for her nonstop antics
Synonyms for wad
- abundance,
- barrel,
- basketful,
- boatload,
- bucket,
- bunch,
- bundle,
- bushel,
- carload,
- chunk,
- deal,
- dozen,
- fistful,
- gobs,
- good deal,
- heap,
- hundred,
- lashings
- (also lashins)
- [chiefly British],
- loads,
- lot,
- mass,
- mess,
- mountain,
- much,
- multiplicity,
- myriad,
- oodles,
- pack,
- passel,
- peck,
- pile,
- plateful,
- plenitude,
- plentitude,
- plenty,
- pot,
- potful,
- profusion,
- quantity,
- raft,
- reams,
- scads,
- sheaf,
- shipload,
- sight,
- slew,
- spate,
- stack,
- store,
- ton,
- truckload,
- volume,
- wealth,
- yard
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2
a small uneven mass
- a wad of gum stuck to the desk
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3
a very large amount of money
- amassed—and lost—a wad playing the stock market
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of wad (Entry 2 of 2)
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 for wad
- agglomerate,
- ball,
- roll,
- round
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“Wad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wad. Accessed 17 Jan. 2022.
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