Synonyms for way
- noun
- adverb
Most common
course approach method manner path second nature preference stepping-stone
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Manner
manner, approach, fashion, course, method, sort, style, practice US, practise UK, use, wise, mean, mode, form, forme US, guise, usage, custom, habit, air, condition, habitude, wont dated
2. Space
4. Path — to do with a place or places. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another
path, street, direction, road, pass, journey, advance, track, route, step, alley, avenue, channel, high road, passage, pathway, access, trail, march, progression, lane, highway
Other
second nature, distance, scheme, plan, device, stepping-stone, tradition, preference, contrivance, web, modus operandi, interval
Adverb
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
To do with a place or places. A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
We lied our way through the debriefing.
- n. 2
To do with a place or places. A means to enter or leave a place.
We got into the cinema through the back way.
- adv. 1
Much, far, by a great degree.
I'm way too tired to do that.
- adv. 2
Very.
String theory is way cool, except for the math.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- ways → manners, approaches, fashions, courses…
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Way, literally the road or path, comes naturally to mean the direction of the road or path; conversationally, way is almost a perfect synonym of direction; as, which way did he go? or, in which direction?
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- course Of course, neither goods nor mailing fee returned.
- approach Approach! The time has come... one of us must die.
- method There must be a defect in the experimental method.
- manner Animals act in a better manner than wicked humans.
- path Why do I not have the courage to find my own path?
By length
- 2 letters
- so1
- 3 letters
- use1, far1, air1, web1
- 4 letters
- much1, very2, mean1, room1, form1, plan1, road1, step1, sort1, pass1, path1, mode1, lane1, wise1
- 5 letters
- means1, march1, space1, style1, track1, route1, trail1, usage2, habit2, loads1, alley2, guise1, forme
- 6 letters
- course1, street1, access2, agency3, method2, device2, scheme1, manner2, custom2, avenue3
- 7 letters
- fashion2, channel2, journey2, advance2, highway2, passage2, pathway2
- 8 letters
- practice2, approach2, distance2, interval3, practise2, habitude
- 9 letters
- condition3, direction3, tradition3
- 10 letters
- preference3
- 11 letters
- progression3, contrivance3
- 13 letters
- significantly5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (very2 = 2 syllables).