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Synonyms for strait
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. straitadjective

    Synonyms:
    close, strict, narrow

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. strait, soundnoun

    a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water

    Synonyms:
    sound, straits, phone, audio, auditory sensation, pass, speech sound

    Antonyms:
    wide, broad

  2. pass, strait, straitsadjective

    a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs

    Synonyms:
    go, passing, notch, liberty chit, fling, walk, passing play, crack, laissez passer, mountain pass, pass, straits, bye, passing game, flip, passport, base on balls, toss, sound, whirl, qualifying, head, offer

    Antonyms:
    wide, broad

  3. straitadjective

    narrow

    "strait is the gate"

    Antonyms:
    broad, wide

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. straitadjective

    Synonyms:
    narrow, close, contracted, constricted, not broad, not wide

  2. straitadjective

    Synonyms:
    strict, rigorous, rigid, severe

  3. strait

    Synonyms:
    n. narrow pass (especially between two seas), gut, narrows

  4. strait

    Synonyms:
    distress, difficulty, perplexity, dilemma, embarrassment, pinch, exigency, emergency, critical situation

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. straitnoun

    Synonyms:
    narrows, channel, dilemma, difficulty, pinch, exigency, restriction

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "strait":

    straits, detroit, hoi, bungo, sea, hai, close, narrow, sound, cross-strait, channel, hae

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How to use strait in a sentence?

  1. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif:

    We believe that Iran will continue to sell its oil, we will continue to find buyers for our oil and we will continue to use the Strait of Hormuz as a safe transit passage for the sale of our oil.

  2. Nigel Scullion:

    I am grateful that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have welcomed me in every corner of this continent that I have visited, and worked with me in providing local and national solutions.

  3. Wang Yi:

    What we care about is, once someone has come into power, how he or she handles the cross-strait relationship, whether he or she will maintain the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, whether he or she will recommit to the political foundation of cross-strait relations, the one China principle.

  4. Tsai Ming-hong:

    There is no reason to think the DPP will completely reject cross-strait agreements.

  5. Zhang Zhijun:

    I sincerely hope relations across the Taiwan Strait continue to maintain their trend of peaceful development and that the results of this won't slip away now they have been achieved.


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