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Synonyms for jazz

Most common

bed sleep with sleep together bang cook sell one's body bug jam

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

Noun

1. Jive — nonsense

jive, malarkey informal UK US IE, hokum, bull, moon-shine, baloney US AU, non-sense, bunk, guff, blather, rubbish UK, poppycock informal, wass, stuff dated, crap vulgar

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To destroy; to ruin.

    You’ve gone and jazzed it now!

  2. n. 1

    Nonsense.

  3. n. 2

    A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.

Forms

Plural
jazzes → jives, malarkeys, hokums, bulls…
Past participle
jazzed
e.g. jazzed → loved, known, banged, bedded…

Example sentences

  • bed There's nothing to do, so I may as well go to bed.
  • bang The castle is slap bang in the centre of the city.
  • cook Tom bought some expensive meat to cook for dinner.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
jazzrising
bedrising
bangrising
cookrising

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

By length

3 letters
bed1, jam1, bug1, eff
4 letters
know1, love1, fuck1, wind1, cook1, crap1, bang1, bull1, bunk1, hump1, jive1, wass1, bonk1, guff1
5 letters
stuff1, screw1, hokum2
6 letters
bother2, ravage2
7 letters
rubbish2, baloney3, blather2
8 letters
malarkey3, vitalize, vitalise
9 letters
poppycock3
10 letters
annihilate4, invigorate4, confuscate, complexify
11 letters
nothingness3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hokum2 = 2 syllables).