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Synonyms for cloth

Most common

fabric textile drapery weft

All synonyms

Noun

1. Fabric — A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing…

fabric, textile, material, stuff, tissue, texture

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically.

    Near-synonyms: (not always differentiated) fabric, material (fabric sense), textile; see also Thesaurus:fabric

Forms

Plural
cloths → fabrics, textiles, materials, stuffs…

Example sentences

  • fabric The black fabric had faded to a deep purple color.
  • textile Valentina's mother worked in a textile plant.
  • drapery The white drapery does not blend with the black wall.
  • weft The shopkeeper couldn't tell warp from weft.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
clothsteady
fabricrising
textilefalling
draperyfalling
weftfalling

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

By length

4 letters
woof1, weft
5 letters
stuff1
6 letters
tissue2, fabric2
7 letters
texture2, textile2, drapery3
8 letters
material4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tissue2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
tissu
Italiano
tessuto
Español
tejido
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Gewebe
Català
teixit