balls

The word “balls” has 1 syllable: balls

It's pronounced as /bɔlz/


What is synonym and antonym for balls?

In the thesaurus, “balls” has 102 synonyms and 15 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for balls

  • agglomerates
  • ammunitions
  • arrogance
  • audacity
  • backbone
  • ballocks
  • beads
  • blowouts
  • boldness
  • brass
  • brass balls
  • bullets
  • bunches
  • cannonballs
  • caps
  • cartridges
  • celebrations
  • charges
  • chunks
  • chutzpah
  • circles
  • clumps
  • cotillions
  • cotillons
  • courage
  • cullions
  • dances
  • dumdums
  • eggs
  • ellipses
  • endurance
  • energy
  • events
  • family jewels
  • festivals
  • festivities
  • fetes
  • fitness
  • formals
  • fortitude
  • galas
  • gall
  • globes
  • globules
  • gobs
  • gonads
  • gunshots
  • guts
  • gutsiness
  • heart
  • hoedowns
  • hops
  • hunks
  • leads
  • loads
  • loops
  • lumps
  • male genitalia
  • male genitals
  • masks
  • masquerades
  • masques
  • missiles
  • mixers
  • moxie
  • nerve
  • nuggets
  • nuts
  • orbs
  • ovals
  • parties
  • pearls
  • pelletizes
  • pellets
  • pops
  • projectiles
  • proms
  • receptions
  • rings
  • rocks
  • rolls
  • rondures
  • rounds
  • shells
  • shindigs
  • shots
  • slugs
  • soirees
  • spheres
  • spheroids
  • spine
  • spunk
  • square dances
  • stamina
  • staying power
  • stick-to-itiveness
  • strength
  • testicles
  • toughness
  • vigor
  • wads
  • wind

Antonyms for balls

  • blanks
  • blocks
  • cubes
  • flattens
  • humility
  • meekness
  • modesty
  • opens
  • rectangles
  • smoothes
  • smooths
  • spreads
  • squares
  • unfolds
  • unrolls

Meanings of balls

  • noun
    1. A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
    2. A round or ellipsoidal object.
    3. (mildly, usually in the plural) A testicle.
    4. A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
    5. A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
    6. A formal dance.
    7. A very enjoyable time.
  • verb
    1. To form or wind into a ball.
    2. To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
    3. To have sexual intercourse with.
    4. To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
    5. (usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
    6. To play basketball.
    7. To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
    8. Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something).
    9. To engage in sexual intercourse.
  • adverb
    1. Very. Intensifier.

Example Sentences

  • He kicked the soccer balls into the net during practice.
  • She juggled three colorful balls at the circus performance.
  • The golf course was littered with balls after the tournament.
  • The dog eagerly chased after the tennis balls thrown by its owner.
  • He clenched his fists, ready to face whatever life threw at him with both balls.

On this page you'll find 117 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to balls, such as: agglomerates, ammunitions, arrogance, audacity, backbone, ballocks, beads.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

balloons

  • accelerates
  • accumulates
  • appreciates
  • bags
  • beetles
  • bellies
  • billows
  • blows up
  • booms
  • bourgeons
  • builds up
  • bulges
  • bulks
  • bunches
  • burgeons
  • climbs
  • crescendoes
  • crests
  • dilates
  • distends
  • domes
  • elongates
  • enlarges
  • escalates
  • expands
  • extends
  • gains
  • heightens
  • increases
  • inflates
  • intensifies
  • jumps
  • juts
  • lengthens
  • mounts
  • multiplies
  • mushrooms
  • overhangs
  • peaks
  • pokes
  • pooches
  • pouches
  • pouts
  • projects
  • proliferates
  • protrudes
  • redoubles
  • rises
  • rockets
  • rolls up
  • skyrockets
  • snowballs
  • spreads
  • stands out
  • starts
  • sticks out
  • stretches
  • surges
  • swells
  • waxes

kills

  • abbreviates
  • affluents
  • allures
  • annihilates
  • arrests
  • arroyos
  • assassinates
  • bayous
  • beasts
  • beckons
  • becks
  • beguiles
  • bewitches
  • billabongs
  • blackballs
  • blacklists
  • blacks out
  • bleeps
  • blips
  • blots out
  • blue-pencils
  • bournes
  • bourns
  • bowdlerizes
  • brakes
  • branches
  • breaks
  • brooklets
  • brooks
  • brutes
  • bumps off
  • burns
  • burns out
  • busts
  • butchers
  • canals
  • cancels
  • captivates
  • carries off
  • censors
  • channels
  • charms
  • chases
  • chocks
  • claims
  • clips
  • confluents
  • coulees
  • courts
  • creatures
  • creeks
  • critters
  • croaks
  • crops
  • cutoffs
  • cuts
  • cuts down
  • cuts off
  • deactivates
  • debilitates
  • decimates
  • declines
  • deles
  • deletes
  • delights
  • destroys
  • disallows
  • disapproves
  • disarms
  • dismantles
  • dismisses
  • dispatches
  • distributaries
  • does away with
  • does for
  • does in
  • does up
  • downs
  • drains
  • draws
  • draws up
  • effaces
  • elides
  • enchants
  • enervates
  • enfeebles
  • enraptures
  • enthralls
  • enthrals
  • entices
  • entrances
  • eradicates
  • erases
  • euthanatizes
  • euthanizes
  • excises
  • executes
  • exhausts
  • expunges
  • expurgates
  • fags
  • fascinates
  • fatigues
  • fells
  • finishes
  • frazzles
  • freshes
  • freshets
  • games
  • gets
  • gills
  • gratifies
  • guts
  • halts
  • harasses
  • ices
  • influents
  • interests
  • intrigues
  • invites
  • jams
  • kills off
  • knocks off
  • knocks out
  • launders
  • lures
  • magnetizes
  • makes away with
  • martyrs
  • massacres
  • millraces
  • millstreams
  • mothballs
  • mows
  • murders
  • negatives
  • neutralizes
  • nixes
  • obliterates
  • offs
  • outwears
  • phases out
  • pleases
  • prey
  • preys
  • pulls
  • puts away
  • puts down
  • quarries
  • races
  • red-pencils
  • redacts
  • refuses
  • removes
  • represses
  • rills
  • rivulets
  • rubs out
  • runlets
  • runnels
  • runoffs
  • runs
  • saps
  • scrags
  • seduces
  • shoots down
  • shortens
  • shuts off
  • silences
  • slaughters
  • slays
  • slews
  • sloughs
  • slues
  • smites
  • snuffs
  • solicits
  • stalls
  • sticks
  • streamlets
  • streams
  • suicides
  • suppresses
  • takes
  • takes out
  • targets
  • tempts
  • terminates
  • tires
  • tributaries
  • turns off
  • vetoes
  • victims
  • washes
  • washes out
  • wastes
  • watercourses
  • waterways
  • weakens
  • wearies
  • wears
  • wears out
  • wears to a frazzle
  • whacks
  • wiles
  • wipes out
  • witches
  • woos

bans

  • anathemas
  • banishes
  • bars
  • blackballs
  • blacklists
  • blocks
  • bridles
  • caveats
  • ceases
  • censures
  • checks
  • checks off
  • closes out
  • commandments
  • condemnations
  • constraints
  • crushes
  • curbs
  • curses
  • damnations
  • debars
  • decrees
  • denials
  • denunciations
  • deports
  • deprives
  • deterrents
  • deters
  • dictates
  • disallowances
  • disallows
  • discontinues
  • discouragements
  • discourages
  • disregards
  • dissuades
  • edicts
  • eliminates
  • embargoes
  • enjoins
  • excepts
  • excludes
  • excommunicates
  • excommunications
  • execrations
  • exiles
  • expels
  • forbids
  • freezes out
  • halts
  • hexes
  • hinders
  • hoodoos
  • impedes
  • imprecations
  • inhibitions
  • inhibits
  • injunctions
  • interdictions
  • interdicts
  • jinxes
  • limitations
  • maledictions
  • malisons
  • mandates
  • mojos
  • negations
  • no-nos
  • objections
  • obstructs
  • obviates
  • ostracizes
  • ousts
  • outlaws
  • pox
  • poxes
  • precludes
  • preventions
  • prevents
  • prohibitions
  • prohibits
  • proscribes
  • proscriptions
  • protests
  • puts down
  • quashes
  • quells
  • refusals
  • rejections
  • rejects
  • represses
  • repressions
  • repudiates
  • restrains
  • restraints
  • restrictions
  • rules out
  • shuts out
  • silences
  • spells
  • squashes
  • squelches
  • staves off
  • stops
  • subdues
  • suppresses
  • suppressions
  • suspends
  • taboos
  • tabus
  • throws out
  • vetoes
  • voodoos
  • warnings
  • whammies
  • winzes

gathers

  • accretes
  • accrues
  • accumulates
  • affiliates
  • agglutinates
  • allies
  • amasses
  • archives
  • arranges
  • ascertains
  • assembles
  • associates
  • assumes
  • bags
  • balls
  • bands
  • banks
  • batches
  • boosts
  • brigades
  • builds up
  • bunches
  • captures
  • caucuses
  • clams
  • clubs
  • clumps
  • clusters
  • collaborates
  • collates
  • collects
  • combines
  • compiles
  • concenters
  • concentrates
  • concludes
  • confederates
  • conglomerates
  • congregates
  • conjectures
  • conjoins
  • connects
  • consolidates
  • consorts
  • constellates
  • construes
  • contemplates
  • convenes
  • converges
  • cooperates
  • corrals
  • couples
  • crops
  • cuts
  • decides
  • deduces
  • derives
  • draws a conclusion
  • drifts
  • educes
  • elevates
  • elicits
  • enhances
  • enlarges
  • enriches
  • evokes
  • excites
  • expands
  • extends
  • extrapolates
  • federates
  • finds out
  • fishes
  • flocks
  • forages
  • foregathers
  • forgathers
  • gains
  • gangs up
  • garners
  • gets together
  • gets up
  • gleans
  • groups
  • grows
  • guesses
  • harvests
  • hays
  • heaps
  • herds
  • hives
  • huddles
  • hunts
  • infers
  • interprets
  • joins
  • judges
  • links
  • lumps
  • makes out
  • masses
  • maximizes
  • meets
  • merges
  • mounts
  • mows
  • musters
  • nets
  • organizes
  • packs
  • philosophizes
  • picks
  • picks up
  • piles
  • pools
  • presses
  • raises
  • rallies
  • rationalizes
  • re-collects
  • reads
  • reaps
  • reasons
  • reassembles
  • reconvenes
  • regathers
  • regroups
  • remeets
  • rendezvouses
  • ridges
  • rounds up
  • seals
  • shrimps
  • snares
  • speculates
  • stacks
  • steps up
  • stimulates
  • summons
  • supposes
  • surmises
  • swarms
  • systematizes
  • thinks
  • throngs
  • traps
  • understands
  • unites
  • whales

accelerates

  • accumulates
  • advance
  • aggrandizes
  • aids
  • amasses
  • amplifies
  • appreciates
  • augments
  • balloons
  • blows up
  • booms
  • boosts
  • bourgeons
  • builds up
  • bulks
  • bundles
  • burgeons
  • climbs
  • collects
  • complements
  • compounds
  • crescendoes
  • crests
  • develops
  • dilates
  • dispatches
  • distends
  • draws out
  • drive
  • drives
  • dust
  • eases
  • elongates
  • encourages
  • enhances
  • enlarges
  • escalates
  • expands
  • expedite
  • expedites
  • extends
  • facilitates
  • fast-tracks
  • fire up
  • follows up
  • forward
  • further
  • gains
  • goads
  • gun
  • hammer on
  • hasten
  • hastens
  • heightens
  • hurries
  • hurry
  • hypes
  • impel
  • increases
  • inflates
  • intensifies
  • jumps
  • lay a patch
  • lay rubber
  • lengthens
  • magnifies
  • make tracks
  • maximizes
  • mounts
  • multiplies
  • mushrooms
  • nail it
  • open up
  • parlays
  • peaks
  • peel rubber
  • precipitate
  • prods
  • proliferates
  • prolongs
  • propels
  • protracts
  • pumps up
  • pushes
  • put on afterburners
  • put pedal to metal
  • quicken
  • quickens
  • races
  • railroad
  • raises
  • redoubles
  • reenforces
  • reinforces
  • rev
  • rev up
  • rises
  • rockets
  • roll
  • rolls up
  • rushes
  • skyrockets
  • snowballs
  • speed up
  • spikes
  • spreads
  • spur
  • spurs
  • step on gas
  • step up
  • stimulate
  • stirs
  • stokes
  • strengthens
  • stretches
  • supersizes
  • supplements
  • surges
  • swells
  • tool
  • ups
  • urges
  • waxes
  • whisks

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