Synonyms for whirl
- verb
- noun
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Spin — to rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly
spin, turn round, gyrate, turn, roll, wheel, rotate, gyre formal, revolve, birl
Other
Noun
2. Vortex
4. Rotation
Other
try, pirouette, commotion, dust devil, sand-spout, turn-around
Definitions
- v. 1
To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.
- v. 2
To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
My head is whirling after all that drink.
- n. 1
An act of whirling.
She gave the top a whirl and it spun across the floor.
- n. 2
Something that whirls, such as a whirlwind.
Related words
- Word family
- whirligig whirlpool
- Phrases
- fire whirl
Choose the right word
To carol is to sing joyously, and to warble (kindred with whirl) is to sing with trills or quavers, usually also with the idea of joy.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- spin After dinner, we took a spin around town in my car.
- gyrate Let your hips gyrate to the music.
- tumble Tom is taking the washing out of the tumble dryer.
By length
- 2 letters
- go1
- 3 letters
- try1
- 4 letters
- turn1, pass1, roll1, spin1, swim1, reel1, eddy2, gyre, purl, birl
- 5 letters
- offer2, wheel1, crack1, twist1, fling1, swirl1, twirl1
- 6 letters
- rotate2, vortex2, tumble2, gyrate2
- 7 letters
- revolve2, twiddle2
- 8 letters
- rotation3, twisting2, gyration3
- 9 letters
- commotion3, whirlpool2, pirouette3
- 11 letters
- convolution4
- 14 letters
- circumvolution
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (eddy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- tourbillonner