Synonyms for reptile
- noun
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Herp — an animal belonging to either the class Reptilia or the class Amphibia
Adjective
1. Despicable — creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs
despicable, reptilious dated, reptitious dated
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
An animal belonging to either the class Reptilia or the class Amphibia.
- n. 2
A (typically scaly and egg-laying) cold-blooded vertebrate tetrapod animal, of the class Reptilia (excluding birds), such as a lizard, turtle, snake, crocodile, alligator, etc.
- adj. 1
Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
Related words
- Word family
- reptiledom reptilehood reptilelike reptilism reptilian reptilianness reptilologist reptilology
- Phrases
- mammal-like reptile
- Is a kind of
- sauropsid vertebrate animal
Forms
- Plural
- reptiles → herps, herptiles, reptilians, lizards…
Example sentences
- lizard How could that fish have a lizard in its stomach?
- reptilian Tom's eyes are strange. I think he might be a reptilian.
By length
- 4 letters
- herp
- 5 letters
- snake1
- 6 letters
- lizard2
- 7 letters
- serpent2
- 8 letters
- herptile
- 9 letters
- reptilian3
- 10 letters
- despicable4, reptilious, reptitious
- 11 letters
- reptilelike
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lizard2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- reptile
- Italiano
- rettile
- Deutsch
- Kriechtier
- Català
- rèptil