Synonyms for sheep
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Princeton's WordNet

1. sheepnoun

   woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat

2. sheepnoun

   a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon

3. sheepnoun

   a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision

   "his students followed him like sheep"

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1. • Bovid
   • Follower
   • Simpleton

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1. yunanoun

   yuna the great derives from an old proverb from the yang dynasty about a sheep who is short but still thrives to be better than others, and eventually grows to a tall oak tree in old age.

   let's go yuna together. you are so yuna, yuna is short.

   Submitted by glai8300 on August 30, 2023  

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1. sheepnoun

   Synonyms:
   Ovis, Ovis aries, (male) ram, buck, (female) ewe, (young) lamb, eanling, (castrated ram) wether, (leader of the flock) bellwether, hoggerel, hogget

   Associated words:
   bleat, braxy, gid, mutton, flock, ovine, shepherd, shepherdess, cosset, raddle, yean, ean, lowbell, abigeat, sheepcote, fold

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1. List of paraphrases for "sheep":

   ovine, mouton, mutton, ewes, ewe, sheepmeat, lamb, sheeps, flock, flocks, rams

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1. Hiromitsu Nakauchi:

   The number of human cells grown in the bodies of sheep [was] extremely small, like 1 in thousands or 1 in tens of thousands, at that level, an animal with a human face will never be born.

2. Dayna Dreger:

   If you come here and help us grow our sheep industry, we will give you land, we will give you sheep, and we will make this work. But the caveat is, if you need a dog to do what you need to do, then you have to bring the dog with you.

3. Anonymous:

   It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for hundred years. What's more, it's worst to be a wolf under a lion's clothing even for a minute.

4. Brendan Fraser:

   They're kind of behaving like wolves in sheep's clothing about it, saying, ‘Oh, we want him to heal.’ Well, the first step in that direction would be: What am I healing from? Can I please see this report? What is it? they commissioned an investigation. They received their report. And they're not giving any details about it, and they're not giving up the report itself.

5. Elhamy Ibrahim:

   The media there, they make America seem evil, they destroy the spirit of the younger generation, they make them stuck in religion like a bunch of sheep in a flock.