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Synonyms for whisker
ˈʰwɪs kər, ˈwɪs-whisker

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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 2 votes

  1. hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, hair, whiskernoun

    a very small distance or space

    "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"

    Synonyms:
    hairsbreadth, hair's-breadth, vibrissa, fuzz, haircloth, sensory hair, hair, tomentum, pilus

  2. whisker, vibrissa, sensory hairverb

    a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat

    Synonyms:
    vibrissa, hairsbreadth, hair's-breadth, hair, sensory hair

  3. bewhisker, whiskerverb

    furnish with whiskers

    "a whiskered jersey"

    Synonyms:
    bewhisker

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  1. List of paraphrases for "whisker":

    mustache, moustache, bamboo

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How to use whisker in a sentence?

  1. Jonathan Miller:

    Rents are within a whisker of the summer high, and it is only January, which is typically a weaker rental time, almost every price indicator is at or near all-time records. It seems to confirm that rents aren’t going to go down.

  2. Siddharth Astir:

    Success is when you have stretched your limits even by a whisker...


Translations for whisker

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  • bigoti, vibrissaCatalan, Valencian
  • fous, vousCzech
  • hårsbredde, knurhårDanish
  • Barthaar, Haaresbreite, Vibrisse, SchnurrhaarGerman
  • bigote, vibrisaSpanish
  • hiuskarva, partakarva, leukaparta, parta, viiksikarvaFinnish
  • poil de barbe, d’un poil, vibrisse, de justesse, favoris, moustacheFrench
  • vibrissa, baffo, fedine, pelo, basettoni, basetta, favoritiItalian
  • 洞毛Japanese
  • vibrissa, saetaLatin
  • kumikumiMāori
  • snor, bakkebaarden, op een haar na, ei zo na, baardhaarDutch
  • wibrysy, wibrysPolish
  • pelo, fio, suíça, bigode, costeletaPortuguese
  • mustață, vibrisă, firRomanian
  • волос, усы, рукой подать, вибрисса, бакенбарды, в двух шагахRussian
  • брк, длакаSerbo-Croatian
  • chlp, o chlp, fúz, bokombradySlovak
  • morrhår, hårsmånSwedish
  • râu riaVietnamese

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