Synonyms for Thumb
θʌmthumb

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1. thumbverb

   To touch with the thumb.

   Synonyms:
   thumby, pollex, digit I, first digit

2. thumbverb

   Synonyms:
   page, leaf, peruse, browse

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. thumb, pollexnoun

   the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb

   Synonyms:
   ovolo, thumb, quarter round, pollex

2. thumbnoun

   the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb

   Synonyms:
   ovolo, quarter round, pollex

3. ovolo, thumb, quarter roundverb

   a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse

   Synonyms:
   ovolo, thumb, quarter round, pollex

4. hitchhike, hitch, thumbverb

   travel by getting free rides from motorists

   Synonyms:
   jerk, hitch, hitchhike, leaf, thumb, flip, buck, limp, flick, riff, finger, catch, gimp, riffle, hobble

5. flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riffverb

   look through a book or other written material

   "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"

   Synonyms:
   thumb, pitch, throw, twitch, click, toss, flip over, switch, turn over, flick, riff, leaf, tack, alternate, riffle, flip, ripple, interchange, snap, flip-flop, flip out, flicker, hitch, ruffle, finger, jerk, cockle, sky, hitchhike, undulate

6. finger, thumbverb

   feel or handle with the fingers

   "finger the binding of the book"

   Synonyms:
   hitch, hitchhike, leaf, thumb, flip, flick, feel, riff, finger, riffle

Matched Categories

1. • Covering
   • Peruse
   • Ride
   • Touch

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "thumb":

   inch, pouce

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1. Jo Dyer:

   I'm voting for a climate candidate because the big parties are under the thumb of the fossil fuel companies. There's no sense at all of the urgent need to take action.

2. Joe Borelli:

   This will be something that will be engrained in the memory, it will be a slight thumb in the nose of Kim Jong Un.

3. Jeffrey Guzzetti:

   It will be jarring if other countries don't immediately follow. I'll be disappointed. But I guess I won't be too surprised if other countries thumb their nose at us and don't follow immediately.

4. Russell Foster:

   What it probably will do is increase levels of alertness and therefore delay sleep onset ... it's a good rule of thumb to reduce light exposure.

5. John Ray:

   Literally one of the founders could come into this environment, download half a billion dollars’ worth of wallets onto a thumb drive and walk off with them, and there’d be no accounting for that whatsoever.