gel

The word “gel” has 1 syllable: gel

It's pronounced as /dʒɛl/


What is synonym and antonym for gel?

In the thesaurus, “gel” has 104 synonyms and 48 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for gel

  • action
  • add
  • anneal
  • arise
  • bechance
  • become firm
  • befall
  • benumb
  • betide
  • brace
  • break
  • buttress
  • cake
  • candy
  • cement
  • chance
  • chill
  • clabber
  • clot
  • clump
  • coagulate
  • coalesce
  • cohere
  • come about
  • come down
  • come off
  • come to pass
  • come together
  • compact
  • concentrate
  • concrete
  • condense
  • congeal
  • consolidate
  • cook
  • cook up a storm
  • cook with gas
  • crystallize
  • curd
  • curdle
  • deepen
  • develop
  • dry
  • enlarge
  • ensue
  • eventuate
  • expand
  • fall
  • fall out
  • finalize
  • firm
  • fix
  • follow
  • form
  • freeze
  • gelate
  • gelatinate
  • gelatinize
  • glob up
  • glop up
  • go
  • go down
  • grow thick
  • gum
  • hap
  • happen
  • harden
  • indurate
  • inflate
  • inspissate
  • jell
  • jellify
  • jelly
  • lopper
  • lump
  • materialize
  • occur
  • ossify
  • petrify
  • precipitate
  • prop
  • refrigerate
  • reinforce
  • result
  • set
  • shake
  • smoke
  • solidify
  • stabilize
  • starch
  • steady
  • stick
  • stiffen
  • strengthen
  • supervene
  • swell
  • take place
  • take shape
  • tauten
  • tense
  • thicken
  • transpire
  • turn up
  • widen

Antonyms for gel

  • abridge
  • ascend
  • cause
  • compress
  • contract
  • decrease
  • deliquesce
  • dilute
  • diminish
  • discourage
  • disperse
  • displace
  • dissolve
  • dissuade
  • divide
  • end
  • enlarge
  • finish
  • flux
  • fuse
  • go up
  • halt
  • heat
  • hinder
  • lessen
  • liquefy
  • liquidate
  • liquify
  • loose
  • loosen
  • lower
  • melt
  • open
  • reduce
  • remove
  • rise
  • separate
  • shrink
  • soften
  • stay
  • stop
  • subtract
  • thaw
  • thin
  • unclot
  • unfix
  • water down
  • weaken

Meanings of gel

  • noun
    1. A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
    2. Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.
    3. A girl.
  • verb
    1. To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
    2. To become a gel.
    3. To develop a rapport.

Example Sentences

  • She applied a thick layer of gel to her hair for the perfect style.
  • The scientist mixed the chemicals until they formed a solid gel.
  • The gel used in the experiment helped stabilize the solution.
  • I prefer to use a moisturizing gel in the summer instead of cream.
  • The artist created a textured effect on the canvas using a gel medium.

On this page you'll find 152 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to gel, such as: abridge, action, add, anneal, arise, ascend, bechance.

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

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backup

  • accompaniment
  • acting
  • ad interim
  • affirm
  • agent
  • alternate
  • alternative
  • apology
  • argue
  • assert
  • assignee
  • assistant
  • attest
  • attorney
  • authenticate
  • auxiliary
  • aver
  • avouch
  • avow
  • bear out
  • bottleneck
  • certify
  • clot
  • coagulate
  • commissary
  • confirm
  • congeal
  • congestion
  • corroborate
  • cover
  • crawl
  • declare
  • delay
  • delegate
  • demonstrate
  • deputy
  • designated hitter
  • document
  • envoy
  • establish
  • extra
  • factor
  • fill-in
  • gel
  • gridlock
  • guarantee
  • harden
  • interim
  • jackleg
  • jam
  • jam-up
  • lock
  • locum tenens
  • logjam
  • make-do
  • makeshift
  • pinch hitter
  • procurator
  • profess
  • prove
  • provisional
  • provisionary
  • provisory
  • proxy
  • reenforce
  • reinforce
  • reinforcement
  • relief
  • reliever
  • rep
  • replacement
  • representative
  • reserve
  • second
  • set
  • slowdown
  • snarl
  • stand-in
  • stopgap
  • stoppage
  • sub
  • substantiate
  • substitute
  • successor
  • superseder
  • support
  • supporter
  • surrogate
  • tailback
  • tangle
  • temporary
  • tie-up
  • traffic
  • understudy
  • validate
  • verify
  • vindicate
  • warrant
  • witness

calcify

  • acclimate
  • acclimatize
  • amalgamate
  • anneal
  • bake
  • brace
  • buttress
  • cake
  • callous
  • callus
  • case-harden
  • caseharden
  • cement
  • clarify
  • close
  • clot
  • coagulate
  • compact
  • concrete
  • congeal
  • consolidate
  • contract
  • crystalize
  • crystallize
  • curdle
  • densify
  • dry
  • encrust
  • firm
  • fix
  • fortify
  • fossilize
  • freeze
  • gel
  • gelate
  • gelatinize
  • gird
  • harden
  • incrust
  • indurate
  • jell
  • jelly
  • lapidify
  • mineralize
  • nerve
  • ossify
  • petrify
  • precipitate
  • press
  • reinforce
  • rigidify
  • season
  • set
  • settle
  • solidify
  • starch
  • steel
  • stiffen
  • strengthen
  • temper
  • thicken
  • toughen
  • turn to stone
  • vitrify

jell

  • associate
  • cake
  • clot
  • clump
  • coagulate
  • coalesce
  • cohere
  • combine
  • come together
  • concrete
  • condense
  • congeal
  • conjoin
  • conjugate
  • connect
  • couple
  • crystalize
  • crystallize
  • curd
  • curdle
  • finalize
  • fix
  • form
  • freeze
  • fuse
  • gel
  • gelate
  • gelatinize
  • gum
  • harden
  • indurate
  • jellify
  • jelly
  • join
  • materialize
  • set
  • solidify
  • stick
  • stiffen
  • take shape
  • thicken
  • unify
  • unite

jelly

  • balm
  • cake
  • clot
  • clump
  • coagulate
  • concrete
  • condense
  • congeal
  • curd
  • curdle
  • extract
  • fix
  • freeze
  • gel
  • gelate
  • gelatin
  • gelatinize
  • gum
  • harden
  • indurate
  • jell
  • marmalade
  • ointment
  • pectin
  • preserves
  • pulp
  • salve
  • set
  • solidify
  • stiffen
  • sweet condiment
  • thicken
  • unction

callus

  • acclimate
  • acclimatize
  • adapt
  • adjust
  • anneal
  • blunt
  • brutalize
  • cake
  • calcify
  • callous
  • case-harden
  • climatize
  • clot
  • coagulate
  • coarsen
  • concrete
  • conform
  • congeal
  • crystalize
  • crystallize
  • deaden
  • develop
  • discipline
  • dull
  • embitter
  • encrust
  • freeze
  • gel
  • gelate
  • gelatinize
  • habituate
  • harden
  • incrust
  • indurate
  • inure
  • jell
  • jelly
  • make callous
  • numb
  • ossify
  • paralyze
  • petrify
  • render insensitive
  • rigidify
  • roughen
  • season
  • set
  • solidify
  • steel
  • stiffen
  • strengthen
  • stun
  • stupefy
  • teach
  • temper
  • thicken
  • train

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