Synonyms for carrot
ˈkær ətcar·rot

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1. carrotnoun

   deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant

   Synonyms:
   cultivated carrot

2. carrot, cultivated carrot, Daucus carota sativanoun

   perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions

   Synonyms:
   cultivated carrot

3. carrotnoun

   orange root; important source of carotene

   Synonyms:
   cultivated carrot

4. carrotnoun

   promise of reward as in "carrot and stick"

   "used the carrot of subsidized housing for the workers to get their vote";

   Synonyms:
   cultivated carrot

Matched Categories

1. • Herb
   • Root
   • Root Vegetable

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1. List of paraphrases for "carrot":

   carota, core, sugar, stick

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1. Thomas Boylan:

   You’ve got the tax credits as the carrot.

2. Gunter Kuhnle:

   Replacing a sugary snack with carrot sticks is likely to improve health -- and have a beneficial effect on CVD risk. That wouldn't be the case when replacing a whole-grain snack with carrots.

3. Robinson Jeffers:

   Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.

4. Adam Cathcart:

   It seems to indicate that he's either freestyling, or that his administration thinks that Kim Jong Un would actually be interested in meeting as a kind of carrot for negotiating, but there is an obvious dissonance with [Secretary of State Rex] Tillerson's categorical statements that the US will not 'negotiate its way back to the negotiating table.'.

5. Nevadaand Mike Enzi of Wyoming:

   The IRS continues to confuse the stick with the carrot, rewarding their employees’ bad behavior with favorable outcomes, common sense would suggest that an employee who was fired for misconduct or poor performance shouldn’t be hired back, but the IRS’s outrageous and bewildering behavior continues to defylogic.