What are some opposite words for CROSS?
Antonyms for CROSS
krɔs, krɒscross
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term CROSS.
Wiktionary
crossadjective
Synonyms:
antipodal, contrarily, opposed, reversecrossnoun
crossverb
To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.
Synonyms:
True Crosscrossnoun
to cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.
Synonyms:
cross-fertilize, crossbreedcrossverb
To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
He crossed the ball into the penalty area.
Synonyms:
hybrid
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
cross
Antonyms:
amiable, good-tempered, goodhumored, blithesome, genialSynonyms:
ill-tempered, fretful, illhumored, crusty, peevish, pettish, snarling, snappish, spleeny, splenetic, petulant, fractious
Princeton's WordNet
crossnoun
a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
Antonyms:
lengthways, lengthwise, good-natured, uncrossSynonyms:
crossing, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossbreed, crown of thorns, crisscross, hybridization, hybrid, interbreeding, mark, hybridizingcrisscross, cross, marknoun
a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
Antonyms:
lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrossSynonyms:
hybridisation, marking, interbreeding, mark, sucker, hybridizing, crossbreeding, bell ringer, target, crisscross, print, fall guy, mug, scar, score, sign, brand, grade, chump, stigma, home run, hybridization, scratch, gull, crown of thorns, patsy, fool, marker, scrape, cross, crossing, crossbreed, stain, bull's eye, hybrid, soft touchCrossnoun
a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry
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lengthways, good-natured, lengthwise, uncrossSynonyms:
crossing, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossbreed, crown of thorns, crisscross, hybridization, hybrid, interbreeding, mark, hybridizingcross, crown of thornsnoun
any affliction that causes great suffering
"that is his cross to bear"; "he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns"
Antonyms:
lengthways, lengthwise, good-natured, uncrossSynonyms:
crossing, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossbreed, crown of thorns, crisscross, hybridization, hybrid, interbreeding, mark, cross, hybridizinghybrid, crossbreed, crossnoun
(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species
"a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey"
Antonyms:
lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrossSynonyms:
crossing, hybridisation, loanblend, cross, crossbreed, loan-blend, crown of thorns, crisscross, hybridization, hybrid, interbreeding, mark, hybridizing, crossbreedinghybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizingadjective
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
Antonyms:
good-natured, lengthways, lengthwise, uncrossSynonyms:
hybridisation, crossing, crossroad, ford, crossbreed, intersection, mark, crisscross, hybrid, carrefour, crossbreeding, hybridization, crossover, crossway, hybridizing, cross, miscegenation, interbreeding, crown of thorns, crosswalkcross(a), transverse, transversal, thwartwiseadjective
extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
"cross members should be all steel"; "from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"; "transversal vibrations"; "transverse colon"
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lengthways, lengthwise, good-natured, uncrosscrabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-temperedverb
annoyed and irritable
Antonyms:
good-natured, lengthways, lengthwise, uncrossSynonyms:
transversal, picky, particular, bad-tempered, busy, cross(a), transverse, cross, finicky, grumpy, grouchy, finical, crabby, crabbed, fussy, thwartwise, ill-temperedtraverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut acrossverb
travel across or pass over
"The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
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good-natured, lengthwise, lengthways, uncrossSynonyms:
pass across, sweep, chase after, overcompensate, handle, cut through, deal, shroud, continue, come home, span, comprehend, embrace, hybridize, interbreed, encompass, cut across, address, give chase, get over, spoil, get well, surmount, go after, crosscut, pass through, plow, skip over, intersect, put over, tail, insure, brood, foil, penetrate, tag, master, trail, get through, click, report, transit, wipe, hide, frustrate, sink in, scotch, bounce back, overcome, compensate, cross, breed, traverse, underwrite, chase, move through, subdue, baffle, pass over, spread over, enshroud, jump, overlay, skip, overfly, track, cover, extend, wrap up, cover up, deny, incubate, crossbreed, dawn, thwart, bilk, get across, treat, hybridise, dog, hatch, fall into placeintersect, crossverb
meet at a point
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lengthwise, lengthways, good-natured, uncrossSynonyms:
frustrate, foil, spoil, cut through, crossbreed, cover, cut across, bilk, hybridize, intersect, hybridise, pass over, cross, baffle, sweep, scotch, track, interbreed, thwart, span, get across, get over, traversethwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilkverb
hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
"What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
Antonyms:
lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrossSynonyms:
vitiate, mar, sweep, dumbfound, plunder, foil, scupper, mystify, cut through, pamper, flub, span, dun, rape, crucify, baby, regulate, bedevil, itch, screw up, ball up, indulge, interbreed, stick, cut across, corrupt, elude, get over, deflower, spoil, puzzle, gravel, violate, beat, mollycoddle, bungle, intersect, bollocks up, fumble, evade, rag, blow, bollix, torment, amaze, bewilder, coddle, cosset, frustrate, peril, scotch, featherbed, crossbreed, cross, get, louse up, perplex, botch up, bodge, traverse, bobble, baffle, muff, bollocks, pass over, pose, fluff, vex, mishandle, endanger, foul up, stupefy, flummox, track, hybridize, cover, despoil, muck up, bumble, mess up, impair, bollix up, botch, thwart, bilk, get across, expose, go bad, hybridise, cocker, nonpluscrossverb
fold so as to resemble a cross
"she crossed her legs"
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lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrossSynonyms:
frustrate, foil, spoil, cut through, crossbreed, cover, cut across, bilk, hybridize, hybridise, pass over, intersect, baffle, sweep, scotch, track, interbreed, thwart, span, get across, get over, traversecross, traverse, span, sweepverb
to cover or extend over an area or time period
"Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"
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lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrossSynonyms:
sail, cut through, get over, scotch, swing out, frustrate, spoil, cut across, foil, drag, sweep up, span, hybridize, brush, thwart, tangle, crossbreed, baffle, sweep, intersect, traverse, broom, pass over, swing, drag in, cover, cross, hybridise, get across, deny, embroil, bilk, track, interbreedcrossverb
meet and pass
"the trains crossed"
Antonyms:
lengthwise, good-natured, lengthways, uncrossSynonyms:
frustrate, foil, spoil, cut through, crossbreed, cover, cut across, bilk, hybridize, hybridise, pass over, intersect, baffle, sweep, scotch, track, interbreed, thwart, span, get across, get over, traversecrossverb
trace a line through or across
"cross your `t'"
Antonyms:
lengthways, good-natured, lengthwise, uncrossSynonyms:
frustrate, foil, spoil, cut through, crossbreed, cover, cut across, bilk, hybridize, hybridise, pass over, intersect, baffle, sweep, scotch, track, interbreed, thwart, span, get across, get over, traversecrossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreedverb
breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
"cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"
Antonyms:
lengthwise, lengthways, good-natured, uncrossSynonyms:
traverse, frustrate, hybridise, spoil, cut through, sweep, cover, cut across, bilk, hybridize, pass over, intersect, baffle, foil, cross, scotch, track, crossbreed, thwart, span, get across, get over, interbreed
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
crossadjective
Synonyms:
athwart, transverse, intersecting, adverse, baffling, contrary, perverse, petulant, peevish, cynical, surly, unamiable, inaffable, crabbed, crusty, captious, fractious, churlish, vixenish, querulous, fretful, choleric, touchy, waspish, morose, sullen, ill-natured, irascible acrimonious, irritable, inverse, interchangedcrossnoun
Synonyms:
crucifix, rood, gibbet, rebated cross, gammadion, fylfot, saltire, swastika, cross bottonyAssociated words:
crucify, crucifixion, crucifier, cruciform, crucial, cruciate, crucigerous, crucifer, vexillum, crantara, consignationcrossnoun
crossverb
Synonyms:
intersect, traverse, run counter to, thwart, baffle, frustrate, foil, intercross, interbreed, hybridize, cancel
How to use CROSS in a sentence?
As a kid you run around so fast, the world around you seems to stand still. A summer vacation can stretch on for an eternity. With each birthday we circle back and cross the same point around the sun. We wish each other 'many happy returns.' But soon you feel the circle begin to tighten, and you realize it’s a spiral, and you’re already halfway through...
At first, you know we didn’t like it. But then we got used to it because we could see that most people wouldn’t cross as easily as they used to. Or we didn’t see any bundles, to us, right now, the fence is something secure for us.
It’s really hard to cross-examine tweets.
We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.
When you have these major banks reporting, you really get a very good cross profile of what's going on with the economy in the United States.
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