Antonyms for bosom
ˈbʊz əm, ˈbu zəmbo·som

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1. bosomnoun

   the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept

   "his bosom was bursting with the secret"

   Synonyms:
   boob, heart, tit, titty, knocker, breast, embrace

2. bosomnoun

   a person's breast or chest

   Synonyms:
   boob, heart, tit, titty, knocker, breast, embrace

3. bosomnoun

   cloth that covers the chest or breasts

   Synonyms:
   boob, heart, tit, titty, knocker, breast, embrace

4. embrace, bosomnoun

   a close affectionate and protective acceptance

   "his willing embrace of new ideas"; "in the bosom of the family"

   Synonyms:
   heart, embrace, boob, knocker, embracement, tit, embracing, titty, breast

5. heart, bosomnoun

   the locus of feelings and intuitions

   "in your heart you know it is true"; "her story would melt your bosom"

   Synonyms:
   affection, embrace, affectionateness, substance, tit, philia, meat, centre, center, tenderness, core, titty, marrow, sum, nerve, ticker, nub, kernel, nitty-gritty, boob, spirit, gist, warmness, inwardness, pith, heart, pump, essence, mettle, warmheartedness, knocker, heart and soul, fondness, breast, spunk, eye, middle

6. breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, tittyverb

   either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

   Synonyms:
   titmouse, embrace, chest, disparager, boob, dummy, mammilla, nipple, pap, breast, white meat, booby, knocker, pinhead, doorknocker, dumbbell, mamilla, tit, heart, titty, detractor, dope, depreciator, teat, rapper

7. bosomverb

   hide in one's bosom

   "She bosomed his letters"

   Synonyms:
   squeeze, hug, embrace

8. embrace, hug, bosom, squeezeverb

   squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness

   "Hug me, please"; "They embraced"; "He hugged her close to him"

   Synonyms:
   hug, twitch, espouse, rack, pressure, encompass, thrust, press, gouge, sweep up, embrace, adopt, force, shove, twinge, compress, tweet, contract, compact, extort, stuff, squeeze, squash, pinch, wring, hale, mash, coerce, comprehend, cover, wedge, squelch, constrict, crush

How to use bosom in a sentence?

1. Akhenaton:

   As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

2. David Thomas:

   The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.

3. David Thomas:

   The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.

4. Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi":

   Melpomene was a substantial girl, thick of bosom, ankle, and forearm, rosy of cheek, and clear of eye. She seemed somehow incomplete without her hockey stick.

5. Lao Tzu:

   The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

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