Synonyms for body
Definitions
- n. 1
Physical frame. The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
- n. 2
Physical frame. The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- bodies → substances, persons, creatures, things…
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Body, form, frame, and system may be either dead or living; clay and dust are sometimes so used in religious or poetic style, tho ordinarily these words are used only of the dead. Carcass applies only to the body of an animal, or of a human being regarded with contempt and loathing.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- man There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt.
- person When can one say that a person has alcohol issues?
- substance The result of the experiment was a blue substance.
- creature I respect the praying mantis as a living creature!
- flesh He is a man of flesh and blood with all his flaws.
- corpse It's better to divide the corpse into five pieces.
By length
- 3 letters
- man1
- 4 letters
- form1
- 5 letters
- being2, thing1, whole1, stuff1, frame1, bones1, flesh1, trunk1, torso2, forme
- 6 letters
- person2, matter2, mortal2, corpse1, staple2
- 7 letters
- society4, remains2, carcass2, cadaver3
- 8 letters
- creature2, physique2
- 9 letters
- substance2, thickness2
- 11 letters
- consistency4, consistence3
- 14 letters
- substantiality
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (being2 = 2 syllables).