cackle

The word “cackle” has 2 syllables: cack-le

It's pronounced as /ˈkækəl/


What is synonym and antonym for cackle?

In the thesaurus, “cackle” has 96 synonyms and 26 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for cackle

Antonyms for cackle

  • bawl
  • bleat
  • blubber
  • cry
  • face
  • frown
  • grimace
  • groan
  • howl
  • lour
  • lower
  • moan
  • mouth
  • pout
  • pule
  • scowl
  • sigh
  • sniffle
  • snivel
  • sob
  • squall
  • wail
  • weep
  • whimper
  • whine
  • yowl

Meanings of cackle

  • noun
    1. The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.
    2. A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
    3. Futile or excessively noisy talk.
    4. A group of hyenas.
  • verb
    1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
    2. To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
    3. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

Example Sentences

  • In the eerie silence of the night, a distant cackle echoed through the haunted forest.
  • The mischievous witch let out a wicked cackle as she brewed her magical potion.
  • The mischievous hyenas emitted a chilling cackle in the dark of night.
  • The old radio show featured a distinctive, hearty cackle from the eccentric host.
  • Amid the Halloween festivities, children dressed as witches would often let out a playful cackle as they roamed the streets.

On this page you'll find 122 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to cackle, such as: babble, backchat, bawl, belly laugh, blab, blather, bleat.

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

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laughs

  • R and R
  • absurdity
  • action
  • amusement
  • antics
  • avocation
  • bad-mouths
  • ball
  • banters
  • bash
  • beguilement
  • belittles
  • belly laughs
  • big-time
  • blast
  • blowout
  • boffolas
  • boffos
  • boffs
  • boners
  • brawl
  • breaks up
  • buffooneries
  • buffoonery
  • buoyancy
  • burlesque
  • burlesques
  • cachinnations
  • cackles
  • camp
  • capers
  • caricatures
  • catcalls
  • cautions
  • celebration
  • chaffing
  • cheer
  • cheerfulness
  • chortles
  • chuckles
  • clambake
  • comedies
  • comic drama
  • comicality
  • comicalness
  • conviviality
  • convulsions
  • cracks
  • cracks up
  • crows
  • decries
  • delectation
  • delight
  • derides
  • despises
  • disdains
  • disparages
  • disport
  • dissipation
  • distraction
  • diversion
  • divertissement
  • drolleries
  • drollery
  • drollness
  • ease
  • enjoyment
  • entertainment
  • exercise
  • facetiousness
  • farce
  • feast
  • festivity
  • fickleness
  • field day
  • flightiness
  • flippancy
  • folly
  • foolishness
  • frivolity
  • frolic
  • fun
  • fun and games
  • funnies
  • funniness
  • gag show
  • gags
  • gaiety
  • game
  • gibes
  • giddiness
  • giggles
  • gladdening
  • gladness
  • glee
  • good time
  • gratification
  • grins
  • guffaws
  • happiness
  • heckles
  • hee-haws
  • high camp
  • high spirits
  • high time
  • hilarity
  • hobby
  • holiday
  • hoopla
  • hoots
  • horselaughs
  • howlers
  • humor
  • humorousness
  • humors
  • hysteria
  • hysterics
  • indulgence
  • insults
  • interlude
  • japes
  • jeers
  • jesting
  • jests
  • jibes
  • jives
  • jocularity
  • jocundity
  • jokes
  • joking
  • jollity
  • joshes
  • joviality
  • joy
  • joyousness
  • kicks
  • knee-slappers
  • lampoons
  • laughter
  • laughters
  • leg-pulls
  • leisure activity
  • levity
  • light entertainment
  • lightheartedness
  • liveliness
  • lots of laughs
  • merriment
  • merry-go-round
  • merrymaking
  • mirth
  • mockeries
  • mocks
  • monkeyshines
  • nifties
  • one-liners
  • panics
  • parodies
  • party
  • pastime
  • persiflages
  • picnic
  • play
  • playtime
  • pleasantries
  • pleasantry
  • pleasing
  • pleasure
  • pooh-poohs
  • poohs
  • practical jokes
  • pranks
  • put-ons
  • puts down
  • quips
  • railleries
  • razzes
  • rec
  • recreation
  • refreshment
  • regalement
  • rejoicing
  • relaxation
  • relief
  • relish
  • repartee
  • repartees
  • repose
  • revel
  • revelry
  • ribs
  • rides
  • ridicules
  • riffs
  • riots
  • roars
  • rollick
  • sallies
  • satire
  • satisfaction
  • schtick
  • scorns
  • screams
  • self-indulgence
  • send-up
  • shindig
  • sights
  • simpers
  • sitcom
  • slapstick
  • smiles
  • smirks
  • sneers
  • snickers
  • sniffs
  • sniggers
  • snorts
  • sport
  • spree
  • surprise
  • takeoff
  • taunts
  • teases
  • thigh-slappers
  • titters
  • tomfoolery
  • torments
  • travesty
  • treat
  • tricks
  • trifling
  • triviality
  • twitters
  • vacation
  • vaudeville
  • volatility
  • waggeries
  • whoopee
  • whoops
  • wingding
  • wisecracking
  • wisecracks
  • wit
  • wits
  • witticism
  • witticisms
  • wittiness
  • wordplays
  • yaks
  • yocks
  • yucks
  • yuks

gabbles

rattled

  • abashed
  • active
  • addled
  • agape
  • aggravated
  • aghast
  • agitated
  • agog
  • alarmed
  • all torn up
  • amazed
  • annoyed
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • appalled
  • apprehensive
  • aroused
  • ashamed
  • astonished
  • astounded
  • at a loss
  • at sea
  • awe-struck
  • awed
  • awkward
  • babbled
  • baffled
  • balled up
  • befuddled
  • berserk
  • beside oneself
  • bewildered
  • blabbed
  • blabbered
  • blanched
  • blew smoke
  • blithered
  • blue
  • bollixed
  • bothered
  • bowled over
  • broken up
  • bugged
  • bumbled
  • bummed out
  • burbled
  • busy
  • cackled
  • capsized
  • carried away
  • caught off balance
  • chaffered
  • chagrined
  • changeable
  • changeful
  • changing
  • chaotic
  • chatted
  • chattered
  • chewed the fat
  • chewed the rag
  • chinked
  • chinned
  • chirped
  • clacked
  • clanged
  • clanked
  • clashed
  • clattered
  • clicked
  • clinked
  • clip-cloped
  • clop-clopped
  • clopped
  • clueless
  • clumsy
  • come apart
  • come unzipped
  • complex
  • complicated
  • concerned
  • confounded
  • confused
  • conversed
  • cowardly
  • cowed
  • crashed
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • crushed
  • daunted
  • dazed
  • dazzled
  • debased
  • degraded
  • delirious
  • demeaned
  • demented
  • descanted
  • deviated
  • digressed
  • discombobulated
  • discomfited
  • discomforted
  • discomposed
  • disconcerted
  • discountenanced
  • discouraged
  • discussed
  • disheartened
  • dismayed
  • disordered
  • disorderly
  • disquieted
  • distracted
  • distrait
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dizzy
  • dopey
  • doubtful
  • dragged
  • driveled
  • drivelled
  • drooled
  • dumbfounded
  • dumbstruck
  • embarrassed
  • expatiated
  • explosive
  • faint-hearted
  • fazed
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • fidgety
  • flabbergasted
  • flipped-out
  • floored
  • fluid
  • flustered
  • foggy
  • fouled-up
  • frantic
  • frenetic
  • frightened
  • frozen
  • fuddled
  • funky
  • gabbed
  • gabbled
  • gassed
  • gauche
  • gibbered
  • giddy
  • gone
  • gossiped
  • graceless
  • grieved
  • harassed
  • have cold feet
  • horrified
  • humbled
  • humiliated
  • hung up
  • hurt
  • hysterical
  • ill
  • in a dither
  • in a fog
  • in a panic
  • in a tizzy
  • in awe
  • in botheration
  • in disarray
  • inconstant
  • inelegant
  • insane
  • insecure
  • intimidated
  • irritated
  • jabbered
  • jawed
  • jittery
  • jolted
  • jumpy
  • kibbitzed
  • kibitzed
  • kinetic
  • like a chicken with its head cut off
  • lost
  • loused up
  • low
  • mad
  • maundered
  • messed-up
  • mind-blown
  • misled
  • mixed up
  • mixed-up
  • mobile
  • mortified
  • mucked up
  • muddled
  • mutable
  • mystified
  • nattered
  • nervous
  • nonplused
  • nonplussed
  • nuts
  • on edge
  • out of countenance
  • out of it
  • overcome
  • overturned
  • overwrought
  • palavered
  • panic-stricken
  • pattered
  • perilous
  • perplexed
  • perturbed
  • petrified
  • prated
  • prattled
  • precarious
  • psyched-out
  • punchy
  • put off
  • put out
  • puzzled
  • queered
  • racketed
  • rambled
  • ran on
  • rapped
  • raving
  • reeling
  • restive
  • restless
  • rough-hewn
  • ruffled
  • run scared
  • rustic
  • rustical
  • scared
  • scared stiff
  • scared to death
  • schmoozed
  • screwed-up
  • self-conscious
  • shaken
  • shaky
  • shamed
  • shifting
  • shmoozed
  • shocked
  • shook
  • shook-up
  • shot the breeze
  • sick
  • sidetracked
  • slap-happy
  • spaced out
  • spaced-out
  • spattered
  • speechless
  • spilled
  • spooked
  • sputtered
  • staggered
  • startled
  • stiff
  • stilted
  • strayed
  • stuck
  • stumped
  • stunned
  • stupefied
  • surprised
  • suspicious
  • taken aback
  • talked
  • talked a blue streak
  • tattled
  • tense
  • terrified
  • terror-stricken
  • thrown
  • thunderstruck
  • ticklish
  • timid
  • timorous
  • tipped over
  • toppled
  • tormented
  • trembling
  • troubled
  • tumbled
  • twittered
  • unbalanced
  • uncertain
  • uncomfortable
  • uneasy
  • unglued
  • ungraceful
  • unhinged
  • unnerved
  • unpeaceful
  • unpredictable
  • unquiet
  • unrestful
  • unscrewed
  • unsettled
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • unzipped
  • upset
  • upside-down
  • variable
  • very upset
  • visited
  • waffled
  • wandered
  • wavering
  • went on
  • wild
  • without a clue
  • wobbling
  • wooden
  • woolly
  • woozy
  • worked-up
  • worried
  • yacked
  • yakked
  • yammered
  • yapped

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