Antonyms for herd
hɜrdherd

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. herd

   Group is the general word for any gathering of a small number of objects, whether of persons, animals, or inanimate things. The individuals in a brood or litter are related to each other; those in the other groups may not be. Brood is used chiefly of fowls and birds, litter of certain quadrupeds which bring forth many young at a birth; we speak of a brood of chickens, a litter of puppies; brood is sometimes applied to a family of young children. Bevy is used of birds, and figuratively of any bright and lively group of women or children, but rarely of men. Flock is applied to birds and to some of the smaller animals; herd is confined to the larger animals; we speak of a bevy of quail, a covey of partridges, a flock of blackbirds, or a flock of sheep, a herd of cattle, horses, buffaloes, or elephants, a pack of wolves, a pack of hounds, a swarm of bees. A collection of animals driven or gathered for driving is called a drove.

   Synonyms:
   bevy, brood, covey, drove, flock, group, hatch, litter, lot, pack, set, swarm

Matched Categories

1. • Animal Group
   • Crowd
   • Keep
   • Move

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. herdnoun

   a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans

   Synonyms:
   ruck

2. herdnoun

   a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra

   Synonyms:
   ruck

3. ruck, herdverb

   a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things

   "his brilliance raised him above the ruck"; "the children resembled a fairy herd"

   Synonyms:
   pucker, ruck

4. herd, crowdverb

   cause to herd, drive, or crowd together

   "We herded the children into a spare classroom"

   Synonyms:
   push, crowd, crowd together

5. herdverb

   move together, like a herd

   Synonyms:
   crowd

6. herdverb

   keep, move, or drive animals

   "Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies?"

   Synonyms:
   crowd

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1. herdnoun

   Synonyms:
   drove, rabble, mob, multitude

   Associated words:
   gregarious, gregal

How to use herd in a sentence?

1. Paul Offit:

   Some people are on cancer chemotherapy. They can't be vaccinated -- they depend on the herd to protect them.

2. Cindy Shogan:

   Exactly when and where they go is impossible to predict. Most herds, however, are drawn to a specific calving area. The 169,000 member Porcupine caribou herd has such a connection with Arctic Refuge.

3. Josh Cline:

   Spend time with them and see them as people. At school, they operate as a herd, and as hard as I try as a teacher, I can't give them all the attention they deserve, at home they should be seen as the unique, individual, interesting and brilliant people they are.

4. Mark Pandori:

   If reinfection is possible on such a short timeline, there may be implications for the efficacy of vaccines developed to fight the disease. It may also have implications for herd immunity, it is important to note that this is a singular finding. It does not provide any information to us with regard to the generalizability of this phenomenon.

5. Paul Bozyk:

   Frankly, we have a lot of folks in the community that are just done with the pandemic, it’s hard to be in social isolation for 13 months. Nobody wants that. That’s not good for the psychological health. But as a medical practitioner treating COVID I wanted to make COVID go away. I would tell everyone to stay home until we get herd immunity.

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