Synonyms of the word

bully

• n. A person who is cruel to others, especially those who are weaker or have less power.
• n. A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an…
• n. A hired thug.
• n. A prostitute’s minder; a pimp.
• n. (uncountable) Bully beef.
• n. (obsolete) A brisk, dashing fellow.
• n. The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
• n. A small freshwater fish.
• n. (obsolete or dialectal, Ireland and Northern England) An (eldest) brother; a fellow workman; comrade.
• n. (dialectal) A companion; mate. (male or female).
• n. (obsolete) darling, sweetheart. (male or female).
• v. (transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
• v. (transitive) To act aggressively towards.
• adj. (US, slang) Very good; excellent.
• adj. (slang) Jovial and blustering; dashing.
• interj. (often followed by for) Well done!

aggressor

• n. The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an…

assailant

• n. Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally; an attacker.
• n. (figuratively, by extension) A hostile critic or opponent.
• adj. Assailing; attacking.

assaulter

• n. One who commits assault.

attacker

• n. Someone who attacks.
• n. (soccer) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal,…

ballyrag

• v. (transitive) To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally.

bang-up

• adj. Especially good; wonderful; superb.

blarney

• n. Mindless chatter.
• n. Ability to talk constantly.
• n. Persuasive flattery or kind speech; smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.
• v. To beguile with flattery.

browbeat

• v. (transitive) To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way.

bullyrag

• v. (transitive) To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally.

cajole

• v. (transitive and intransitive) To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially…

coax

• v. (obsolete) To fondle, kid, pet, tease.
• v. To wheedle, persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.
• v. To carefully manipulate into a particular desired state, situation or position.
• n. (obsolete) A simpleton; a dupe.
• n. Shortened form of coaxial cable.

corking

• v. present participle of cork.
• adj. (informal) splendid, enjoyable, bang-up.
• n. The formation of white, cork-like striations on a jalapeño pepper.

cracking

• n. (chemistry) The thermal decomposition of a substance, especially that of crude petroleum in order to produce…
• n. The formation of cracks on a surface.
• n. The production of a crack sound.
• adj. (colloquial) Great.
• adj. (colloquial) Enjoyable.
• adv. (Britain) Very, usually associated with praise.
• v. present participle of crack.

dandy

• adj. Like a dandy, foppish.
• adj. Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.
• adj. Excellent; first-rate.
• n. A man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.
• n. (Britain, nautical) A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
• n. A dandy roller.

good

• adj. (of people).
• adj. (of capabilities).
• adj. (of properties and qualities).
• adj. (colloquial) With "and", extremely.
• adj. Holy (especially when capitalized).
• adj. (of quantities).
• interj. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
• adv. (nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
• n. (uncountable) The forces or behaviors that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and…
• n. (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
• n. (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes…
• n. (countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make good; turn to good; improve.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make improvements or repairs.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To benefit; gain.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
• v. (reflexive, now chiefly dialectal) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

great

• adj. Very big, large scale.
• adj. Very good.
• adj. Important.
• adj. Title referring to an important leader.
• adj. Superior; admirable; commanding; applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
• adj. Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful;…
• adj. (obsolete) Pregnant; large with young.
• adj. More than ordinary in degree; very considerable.
• adj. [qualifying nouns of family relationship] Involving more generations than the word qualified implies.…
• adj. (obsolete, except with 'friend' and similar words such as 'mate','buddy') Intimate; familiar.
• interj. Expression of gladness and content about something.
• interj. sarcastic inversion thereof.
• n. A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
• n. (music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
• adv. very well (in a very satisfactory manner).

groovy

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.
• adj. (dated) Set in one's ways.
• adj. (dated, slang) Cool, neat, interesting, fashionable.
• n. (dated, slang) A trendy and fashionable person.

hector

• n. A bully; a blustering, turbulent, noisy fellow.
• v. (transitive) To intimidate or dominate in a blustering way.
• v. (intransitive) To behave like a bully; swagger.

hooligan

• n. (informal, pejorative) A person that causes trouble or violence.

intimidate

• v. (transitive) To make timid or fearful; to inspire or affect with fear; to deter, especially by threats…

inveigle

• v. (transitive) To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.
• v. (transitive) To obtain through guile or cunning.

keen

• adj. Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness…
• adj. Fierce, intense, vehement.
• adj. Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
• adj. Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
• adj. Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
• adj. Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
• adj. (Britain) Extremely low as to be competitive.
• adj. (US, informal, dated) Marvelous.
• adj. (obsolete) Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.
• v. (transitive, rare) To make cold, to sharpen.
• n. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
• v. (intransitive) To utter a keen.
• v. (transitive) To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
• v. (transitive) To mourn.

neat

• n. (archaic) A bull or cow.
• n. (archaic) Cattle collectively.
• adj. Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
• adj. Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
• adj. (chemistry) Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
• adj. (archaic) With all deductions or allowances made; net.
• adj. Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
• adj. Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
• adj. (colloquial) Good, excellent, desirable.
• n. (informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear…

nifty

• adj. (colloquial) Good, smart; a general term for anything that is good, useful or beneficial.

palaver

• n. (Africa) A village council meeting, a folkmoot.
• n. Talk, especially unnecessary talk, fuss.
• n. A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate, a moot.
• n. (informal) Disagreement.
• v. To discuss with much talk.

peachy

• adj. Resembling a peach, peach-like.
• adj. (slang) Very good, excellent.

roughneck

• n. (colloquial, chiefly US) Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person.
• n. (colloquial, chiefly US) An ironworker; a dirty or low-paid worker, a labourer.
• n. (colloquial, chiefly US) A labourer on an oil rig.
• v. To work as a laborer on an oil rig.

rowdy

• adj. loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.
• n. A boisterous person; a brawler.

ruffian

• n. A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person.
• n. (obsolete) A pimp; a pander.
• n. (obsolete) A lover; a paramour.
• v. To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
• adj. Brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous.

slap-up

• adj. (informal) Excellent, first-class.

smashing

• adj. Serving to smash (something).
• adj. (originally US, now Britain) Wonderful, very good or impressive.
• n. Gerund: The action of the verb to smash.
• v. present participle of smash.

strong-arm

• adj. Bullying; extortionate.
• adj. (usually figuratively) Coercive, employing force.
• v. To bully; to intimidate.
• v. (often figuratively) To coerce, to muscle.

swagger

• v. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
• v. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
• n. Confidence, pride.
• n. A bold or arrogant strut.
• n. A prideful boasting or bragging.
• n. (Australia, historical) Synonym of swagman.

sweet-talk

• v. To flatter.
• v. To persuade using flattery.

swell

• v. (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
• v. (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
• v. (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
• v. (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
• v. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
• v. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
• v. To protuberate; to bulge out.
• n. The act of swelling.
• n. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
• n. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
• n. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
• n. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
• n. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
• n. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
• n. (informal, dated) A person who is dressed in a fancy or elegant manner.
• n. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
• adj. (Canada, US, informal, slang) Excellent.

tough

• adj. Strong and resilient; sturdy.
• adj. (of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
• adj. Rugged or physically hardy.
• adj. Stubborn.
• adj. (of weather etc) Harsh or severe.
• adj. Rowdy or rough.
• adj. (of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.
• adj. (material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
• interj. (slang) Used to indicate lack of sympathy.
• n. A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
• v. To endure.
• v. To toughen.

wheedle

• v. To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
• v. To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.

yob

• n. (obsolete, back slang) A boy.
• n. (pejorative, chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A person who engages in antisocial behaviour…

yobbo

• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, pejorative, slang) A yob.

yobo

• n. (slang, Australia) Someone, usually a male, who is uncouth, badly behaved and obnoxious. Loud and drunk…
• n. (slang, Britain) A cruel and brutal fellow.