Synonyms of the word scrawl


SCRAWLCACOGRAPHY - HAND - HANDWRITING - SCRATCH - SCRIBBLE - SCRIPT - WRITE

scrawl

  • n. An irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
  • n. A hastily, or carelessly written note etc.
  • v. (transitive) To write something hastily or illegibly.
  • v. (intransitive) To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
  • v. To creep; crawl; (by extension) to swarm with crawling things.

cacography

  • n. Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language…
  • n. Poor or illegible handwriting.

hand

  • n. The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other…
  • n. (heading) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
  • n. (heading) In linear measurement.
  • n. A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
  • n. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
  • n. An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special…
  • n. An instance of helping.
  • n. Handwriting; style of penmanship.
  • n. A person's autograph or signature.
  • n. Personal possession; ownership.
  • n. (usually in the plural, hands) Management, domain, control.
  • n. (heading) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
  • n. Applause.
  • n. (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar,…
  • n. (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
  • n. A whole rhizome of ginger.
  • n. The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of…
  • n. (archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
  • n. (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
  • n. (obsolete) Rate; price.
  • v. (transitive) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
  • v. (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To manage.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
  • v. (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
  • v. (transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.

handwriting

  • n. The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed.
  • n. The characteristic writing of a particular person.
  • n. Text that was written by hand.
  • v. present participle of handwrite.

scratch

  • v. To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws,…
  • v. To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation.
  • v. To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
  • v. To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
  • v. (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating…
  • v. (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
  • v. (billiards, dated, US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
  • v. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
  • v. To dig or excavate with the claws.
  • v. To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to…
  • n. (countable) A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
  • n. An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
  • n. (sports).
  • n. (slang) Money.
  • n. A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
  • n. (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of…
  • n. A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
  • n. (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
  • adj. For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
  • adj. Hastily assembled; put together in a hurry or from disparate elements.
  • adj. (computing, from scratchpad) Relating to a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for…
  • adj. Constructed from whatever materials are to hand.
  • adj. (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the…
  • adj. Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances;…

scribble

  • v. To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.
  • v. To doodle.
  • v. (obsolete) To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.
  • n. Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing.

script

  • n. (countable, obsolete) A writing; a written document.
  • n. Written characters; style of writing.
  • n. (typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.
  • n. (countable, law) An original instrument or document.
  • n. (countable) The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play,…
  • n. (computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in…
  • n. (linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
  • n. An abbreviation for a prescription.
  • v. (transitive) To make or write a script.

write

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
  • v. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To send written information to.
  • v. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
  • v. (intransitive) To be an author.
  • v. (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
  • v. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
  • v. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
  • v. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
  • n. (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

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