Synonyms for breeze

Most common

snap · stroll · cinch · doddle · wind · zephyr

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Antonyms

test, scrape

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Definitions

1. n. 1

   A light, gentle wind.

   The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.

2. n. 2

   Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.

   After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.

Related words

Word family

breeze-block breezefly breezeless breezy

Phrases

shoot the breeze breeze through bat the breeze land breeze

Forms

Plural

breezes → cinches, walk-overs, snaps, doddles…

Example sentences

• snap Snap out of it! You haven't done a thing all week.
• stroll Friend, how about we stroll through the Chinatown?
• cinch Can you cinch the belt a little tighter?
• doddle Finding something is a doddle when you know where it is.
• wind Don't be so greedy or you'll wind up with nothing.
• zephyr A summer zephyr gently stirred the girl's hair as she spoke.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

air¹

4 letters

wind¹, snap¹, gale¹, gust¹

5 letters

draft¹, cinch¹

6 letters

picnic², stroll¹, zephyr², doddle

7 letters

draught¹

8 letters

pushover³, cakewalk

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (picnic² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

brise

Italiano

brezza

Español

brisa

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