Synonyms for clay
Definitions
- n. 1
A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
- n. 2
An earth material with ductile qualities.
Related words
- Word family
- claybank clayey clayish claylike clayware
- Phrases
- china clay paper clay boulder clay clay feet feet of clay fiber clay yard of clay
- Other spellings
- cley
Forms
- Plural
- clays → corpses, bodies, stiffs, cadavers…
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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.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- earth The space shuttle informs us about the earth, too.
- soil Fertile soil is indispensable for a good harvest.
- mud Vladimir was shoveling the mud into a wheelbarrow.
By length
- 3 letters
- mud1
- 4 letters
- body2, soil1, marl
- 5 letters
- earth1, stiff1, argil
- 6 letters
- ground1, corpse1, kaolin2
- 7 letters
- remains2, cadaver3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (body2 = 2 syllables).