bags

The word “bags” has 1 syllable: bags

It's pronounced as /bæɡz/


What is synonym and antonym for bags?

In the thesaurus, “bags” has 231 synonyms and 25 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for bags along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for bags

Antonyms for bags

  • accords
  • compresses
  • condenses
  • constricts
  • contracts
  • discharges
  • drops
  • forfeits
  • frees
  • gives
  • gives up
  • grants
  • hands over
  • liberates
  • little
  • loosens
  • loses
  • misses
  • pays
  • releases
  • relinquishes
  • shrinks
  • surrenders
  • unhands
  • yields

Meanings of bags

  • noun
    1. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
    2. A handbag.
    3. A suitcase.
    4. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
    5. One’s preference.
    6. An ugly woman.
    7. The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
    8. First, second, or third base.
    9. (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
    10. A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
    11. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
    12. A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
    13. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
    14. A scrotum.
    15. A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
    16. (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
    17. A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
    18. £1000, a grand.
    19. A large number or amount.
  • verb
    1. To put into a bag.
    2. To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
    3. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
    4. To furnish or load with a bag.
    5. (African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
    6. (African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
    7. To criticise sarcastically.
    8. To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
    9. To fit with a bag to collect urine.
    10. To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
    11. To hang like an empty bag.
    12. To drop away from the correct course.
    13. To swell with arrogance.
    14. To become pregnant.
    15. To reserve for oneself.
  • interjection
    1. Used to claim something for oneself, especially in the combination 'Bags I'.

Example Sentences

  • Bags of groceries sat on the kitchen counter, waiting to be unpacked.
  • She hurriedly grabbed her bags and rushed out the door to catch the bus.
  • His eyes widened in surprise as he beheld the bags of gold coins on the table.
  • We need to find a solution for the growing bags of trash accumulating in the alley.
  • Despite the weight of her bags, she managed to climb the stairs to her apartment.

On this page you'll find 256 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to bags, such as: abandons, abducts, accomplishes, accords, accoutrements, accumulates, achieves.

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Related Words

earns

gains

  • accelerates
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  • assets
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  • bankroll
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  • racks up
  • rallies
  • reacquires
  • realizes
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  • receipts
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  • recruits
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  • redoubles
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  • resources
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  • revives
  • rings up
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  • rivals
  • rockets
  • rolls up
  • royalty
  • salary
  • satisfies
  • scores
  • secures
  • seduces
  • sells
  • skyrockets
  • snaps back
  • snowballs
  • snows
  • spreads
  • steps up
  • stimulates
  • surges
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  • survives
  • sways
  • swells
  • take-home
  • take-home pay
  • takes over
  • tempts
  • ties
  • tips
  • tops
  • touches
  • urges
  • wage
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  • waxes
  • wheedles
  • wherewithal
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  • wins
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habits

  • accouters
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  • act
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  • addictions
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  • air
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  • alcoholisms
  • anatomies
  • apparels
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  • bag
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  • bearing
  • bedecks
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  • caparisons
  • carriage
  • characteristics
  • civility
  • cloaks
  • clothes
  • code
  • comportment
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  • correctitude
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  • costumes
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  • dealings
  • decency
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  • deed
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  • dependances
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  • deportment
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  • dignity
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  • does up
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  • drapes
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  • dresses down
  • dresses up
  • drills
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  • enrobes
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  • ethic
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  • etiquette
  • expression
  • fashions
  • figures
  • form
  • formality
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  • frames
  • frocks
  • front
  • furnishes
  • garbs
  • garments
  • gentility
  • gets up
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  • gowns
  • gravity
  • grooves
  • guise
  • habilitates
  • habituations
  • habitudes
  • haps
  • heroinisms
  • huddles
  • ideals
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  • inclinations
  • integrity
  • invests
  • jackets
  • jog trots
  • joneses
  • kinks
  • management
  • manners
  • mantles
  • marks
  • mentality
  • mien
  • mind
  • mindset
  • mode
  • modes
  • monkeys
  • morality
  • morals
  • mores
  • morphinisms
  • nature
  • observance
  • oddities
  • order
  • orderliness
  • outfits
  • patterns
  • peculiarities
  • performance
  • physiques
  • policies
  • politeness
  • politesse
  • poses
  • practice
  • practices
  • practises
  • presence
  • principles
  • proclivities
  • properness
  • propriety
  • protocol
  • psyche
  • psychology
  • punctilio
  • quirks
  • regimens
  • regimes
  • respectability
  • ritual
  • rituals
  • robes
  • role
  • rotes
  • routine
  • routines
  • ruts
  • savoir-faire
  • scruples
  • seemliness
  • sets
  • shapes
  • singularities
  • social graces
  • speech
  • spirit
  • structures
  • style
  • style of living
  • styles
  • suits
  • swaddles
  • swathes
  • tact
  • tailors
  • talk
  • taste
  • tendencies
  • tenors
  • tenue
  • tics
  • toilets
  • tolerances
  • tone
  • traits
  • tricks
  • turns
  • underdresses
  • uniforms
  • usage
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  • uses
  • values
  • vests
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  • way
  • way of acting
  • way of life
  • ways
  • wonts
  • wraps

habitudes

  • addictions
  • affectations
  • affections
  • affinities
  • airs
  • appetites
  • aptitudes
  • attributes
  • bags
  • bents
  • biases
  • bones
  • characteristics
  • conventions
  • customs
  • deportments
  • devices
  • dispositions
  • drills
  • eccentricities
  • endowments
  • faculties
  • fancies
  • fashions
  • favors
  • flairs
  • forms
  • fortes
  • genii
  • geniuses
  • gifts
  • grooves
  • habits
  • idiosyncrasies
  • impulses
  • inclinations
  • jog trots
  • kinks
  • knacks
  • leanings
  • likes
  • likings
  • manners
  • marks
  • modes
  • mores
  • oddities
  • partialities
  • partisanships
  • patterns
  • peculiarities
  • penchants
  • poses
  • practices
  • practises
  • predilections
  • predispositions
  • preferences
  • prejudices
  • proclivities
  • propensities
  • quirks
  • regimens
  • regimes
  • rituals
  • rotes
  • routines
  • ruts
  • sets
  • singularities
  • specialities
  • specialties
  • styles
  • talents
  • tastes
  • tendencies
  • tenors
  • tics
  • traits
  • tricks
  • turns
  • usages
  • uses
  • ways
  • wonts

nabs

  • abducts
  • apprehends
  • arrests
  • bags
  • bays
  • binds
  • busts
  • captures
  • catches
  • clasps
  • clutches
  • collars
  • commits
  • confines
  • cops
  • corners
  • corrals
  • detains
  • enchains
  • enmeshes
  • ensnares
  • entangles
  • entraps
  • fetters
  • fists
  • gets
  • gloms
  • gloves
  • grabs
  • grapples
  • grasps
  • grips
  • halters
  • handcuffs
  • holds
  • hooks
  • immeshes
  • immures
  • imprisons
  • incarcerates
  • interns
  • jails
  • jugs
  • kidnaps
  • lands
  • lassos
  • manacles
  • meshes
  • nails
  • nets
  • nicks
  • nobbles
  • picks up
  • pinches
  • pulls in
  • raps
  • rearrests
  • remands
  • rends
  • restrains
  • ropes
  • runs in
  • secures
  • seizes
  • shackles
  • snags
  • snares
  • snatches
  • trammels
  • traps
  • wrests

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