barrel

The word “barrel” has 2 syllables: bar-rel

It's pronounced as /ˈbær.əl/


What is synonym and antonym for barrel?

In the thesaurus, “barrel” has 208 synonyms and 102 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for barrel

Antonyms for barrel

  • absence
  • ace
  • amble
  • atom
  • bit
  • crawl
  • creep
  • crumb
  • dab
  • dally
  • dash
  • dawdle
  • dearth
  • decelerate
  • deficiency
  • deficit
  • dillydally
  • dot
  • drag
  • dram
  • driblet
  • drop
  • famine
  • fleck
  • flyspeck
  • fragment
  • glimmer
  • grain
  • granule
  • handful
  • hint
  • inadequacy
  • insufficiency
  • iota
  • jot
  • lack
  • lag
  • lick
  • linger
  • little
  • loiter
  • lumber
  • meagerness
  • mite
  • modicum
  • molecule
  • morsel
  • mote
  • mouthful
  • nip
  • nubbin
  • ounce
  • particle
  • paucity
  • peanuts
  • piece
  • pinch
  • pittance
  • plod
  • poke
  • portion
  • poverty
  • ray
  • saunter
  • scantiness
  • scantness
  • scarceness
  • scarcity
  • scintilla
  • scrap
  • scruple
  • section
  • shade
  • shadow
  • shortage
  • shot
  • shred
  • shuffle
  • skimpiness
  • smatter
  • smattering
  • smidge
  • smidgen
  • smidgeon
  • smidgin
  • speck
  • spot
  • sprinkle
  • sprinkling
  • strain
  • streak
  • stroll
  • suspicion
  • tad
  • tarry
  • taste
  • tittle
  • touch
  • trace
  • undersupply
  • want
  • whit

Meanings of barrel

  • noun
    1. A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
    2. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
    3. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case.
    4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
    5. A tube.
    6. The hollow basal part of a feather.
    7. The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
    8. A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
    9. A waste receptacle.
    10. The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
    11. A jar.
    12. Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
    13. A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
  • verb
    1. To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
    2. To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.

Example Sentences

  • They stored the wine in a wooden barrel to let it age.
  • He rolled the heavy barrel across the floor with great effort.
  • The old pirate movie showed a monkey sitting on a barrel of rum.
  • She painted the rain barrel bright blue to match the garden decor.
  • A crack in the barrel caused the oil to leak slowly onto the ground.

On this page you'll find 310 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to barrel, such as: absence, abundance, accelerate, ace, amble, army, arrow.

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

Related Words

kazillion

  • abundance
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  • barrel
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  • pack
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  • zillion

pack

  • abundance
  • alliance
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  • incestuous
  • inhospitable
  • inseparable
  • insert
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  • jag
  • jam
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  • jillion
  • journey
  • kazillion
  • kit bag
  • klatch
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  • knapsack
  • lade
  • lashings
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  • league
  • legion
  • load
  • loads
  • lot
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  • lump
  • mass
  • mat
  • mess
  • million
  • mob
  • mountain
  • move
  • much
  • multiplicity
  • multitude
  • myriad
  • network
  • number
  • obstruct
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  • oodles
  • order
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  • outfit
  • overabundance
  • overage
  • overcharge
  • overfill
  • overflow
  • overkill
  • overmuch
  • overnight bag
  • overnight case
  • oversupply
  • package
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  • pally
  • palsy
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  • parade
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  • peck
  • penetrate
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  • pile
  • plague
  • plateful
  • plenitude
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  • plenty
  • plethora
  • plug
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  • pot
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  • pouch
  • press
  • profusion
  • push
  • put away
  • put in order
  • quantity
  • quite a bit
  • raft
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  • rash
  • reams
  • redundancy
  • refill
  • refresh
  • reload
  • remove
  • repack
  • replenish
  • restuff
  • ride
  • ring
  • rucksack
  • sack
  • sardine
  • saturate
  • scads
  • school bag
  • score
  • sea
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  • send
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  • sheaf
  • shift
  • ship
  • shipload
  • shlep
  • shoulder
  • shove
  • show
  • show off
  • side
  • sight
  • sisterhood
  • slew
  • snobbish
  • snobby
  • society
  • sodality
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  • spate
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  • squash
  • squeeze
  • stack
  • stop
  • store
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  • stuff
  • suitcase
  • superabundance
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  • surfeit
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  • swamp
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  • take
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  • thick
  • thousands
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  • ton
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  • traveling bag
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  • tribe
  • trillion
  • troop
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  • truss
  • unfriendly
  • union
  • volume
  • wad
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  • wedge
  • weekend bag
  • yard
  • zillion

quantity

  • abundance
  • aggregate
  • allotment
  • amount
  • amplitude
  • army
  • barrel
  • basketful
  • batch
  • bevy
  • boatload
  • body
  • bonanza
  • bucket
  • budget
  • bulk
  • bunch
  • bundle
  • bushel
  • capacity
  • carload
  • chunk
  • coefficient
  • cram
  • crowd
  • crush
  • deal
  • degree
  • deluge
  • dozen
  • drove
  • embarrassment
  • epidemic
  • excess
  • expanse
  • extent
  • figure
  • fistful
  • flock
  • flood
  • gazillion
  • gobs
  • good deal
  • greatness
  • heap
  • herd
  • horde
  • host
  • hundred
  • jillion
  • kazillion
  • lashings
  • lashins
  • legion
  • length
  • load
  • loads
  • lot
  • magnitude
  • many
  • mass
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  • mess
  • million
  • mob
  • mountain
  • much
  • multiplicity
  • multitude
  • myriad
  • number
  • oodles
  • overabundance
  • overage
  • overflow
  • overkill
  • overmuch
  • oversupply
  • pack
  • part
  • passel
  • peck
  • pile
  • plague
  • plateful
  • plenitude
  • plentitude
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  • portion
  • pot
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  • press
  • profusion
  • quantum
  • quite a bit
  • quota
  • raft
  • rash
  • reams
  • redundancy
  • scads
  • score
  • sea
  • sheaf
  • shipload
  • sight
  • size
  • slew
  • spate
  • stack
  • store
  • sum
  • superabundance
  • superfluity
  • surfeit
  • surplus
  • swarm
  • thousands
  • throng
  • ton
  • total
  • trillion
  • truckload
  • variety
  • volume
  • wad
  • wealth
  • yard
  • zillion

race

  • accelerate
  • arrow
  • barrel
  • battle
  • beat it
  • beeline
  • beetle
  • belt
  • blast
  • blaze
  • blended family
  • blood
  • blow
  • boil
  • bolt
  • bomb
  • bowl
  • branch
  • breeze
  • brood
  • brook
  • bundle
  • bustle
  • buzz
  • cannonball
  • careen
  • career
  • catch up
  • challenge
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  • clan
  • clansman
  • clash
  • clip
  • compete
  • competition
  • contend
  • contention
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  • course
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  • dart
  • dash
  • descendant
  • descendent
  • drive
  • duct
  • dynasty
  • engage
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  • ethnicity
  • event
  • extended family
  • face off
  • family
  • fast-forward
  • fight
  • fling
  • flit
  • fly
  • folk
  • folks
  • gallop
  • get a move on
  • gill
  • go
  • go out
  • hare
  • haste
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  • house
  • household
  • hump
  • hurl
  • hurry
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  • hustle
  • issue
  • jet
  • jockey
  • jog
  • jostle
  • jump
  • kin
  • kindred
  • kinfolk
  • kinfolks
  • kinsfolk
  • kinsman
  • kinswoman
  • kith
  • lash
  • line
  • lineage
  • make tracks
  • maneuver
  • marathon
  • match
  • meet
  • minority
  • motor
  • nation
  • nationality
  • nip
  • nuclear family
  • offspring
  • outpace
  • outrun
  • outstrip
  • overtake
  • pelt
  • people
  • play
  • plunge ahead
  • post
  • progeny
  • pursue
  • quicken
  • raceway
  • ram
  • relative
  • relay
  • rill
  • rindle
  • rip
  • rival
  • rivalry
  • rivulet
  • rocket
  • run
  • runnel
  • rush
  • rustle
  • scamper
  • scion
  • scoot
  • scramble
  • scud
  • scuffle
  • scurry
  • scuttle
  • seed
  • shake a leg
  • shoot
  • skim
  • sluice
  • speed
  • sprint
  • spurt
  • stampede
  • step
  • step on it
  • step out
  • stock
  • streak
  • swoop
  • tear
  • tide
  • train
  • travel
  • tribe
  • trot
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  • vie
  • whirl
  • whisk
  • whiz
  • whizz
  • wing
  • work
  • zip
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wad

  • abundance
  • agglomerate
  • army
  • assets
  • back
  • ball
  • barrel
  • basketful
  • bead
  • bevy
  • big bucks
  • bit
  • blob
  • block
  • boatload
  • body
  • bomb
  • bonanza
  • boodle
  • bread
  • bucket
  • bulk
  • bunch
  • bundle
  • bushel
  • capital
  • carload
  • cash
  • chip
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  • clod
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  • clump
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  • crush
  • currency
  • cushion
  • deal
  • deluge
  • dollop
  • dough
  • dozen
  • drop
  • drove
  • earth
  • embarrassment
  • epidemic
  • excess
  • fistful
  • flock
  • flood
  • fortune
  • gathering
  • gazillion
  • glob
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  • gob
  • gobbet
  • gobs
  • gold
  • good deal
  • granule
  • heap
  • herd
  • horde
  • host
  • hundred
  • hunk
  • jack
  • jillion
  • kazillion
  • knob
  • lashings
  • lashins
  • legal tender
  • legion
  • lining
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  • lot
  • lucre
  • lump
  • mass
  • means
  • megabucks
  • mess
  • million
  • mine
  • mint
  • mob
  • morsel
  • mountain
  • much
  • multiplicity
  • multitude
  • myriad
  • nub
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  • nugget
  • oodles
  • overabundance
  • overage
  • overflow
  • overkill
  • overmuch
  • oversupply
  • pack
  • packet
  • pad
  • particle
  • passel
  • patch
  • pearl
  • peck
  • pelf
  • pellet
  • pelletize
  • piece
  • pile
  • plague
  • plateful
  • plenitude
  • plentitude
  • plenty
  • plethora
  • plug
  • portion
  • pot
  • potful
  • press
  • profusion
  • property
  • quantity
  • quite a bit
  • raft
  • rash
  • ream
  • reams
  • redundancy
  • riches
  • roll
  • round
  • scads
  • score
  • scrap
  • sea
  • sheaf
  • shipload
  • sight
  • slew
  • spate
  • sphere
  • stack
  • store
  • stuff
  • superabundance
  • superfluity
  • surfeit
  • surplus
  • swarm
  • tender
  • thousands
  • throng
  • ton
  • treasure trove
  • trillion
  • truckload
  • tuft
  • volume
  • wadding
  • wampum
  • wealth
  • wherewithal
  • yard
  • zillion

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