hammer

The word “hammer” has 2 syllables: ham-mer

It's pronounced as /ˈhæmər/


What is synonym and antonym for hammer?

In the thesaurus, “hammer” has 47 synonyms and 4 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for hammer

  • assault
  • attack
  • bang
  • bat
  • baton
  • batter
  • beat
  • beetle
  • blame
  • bludgeon
  • cane
  • clap
  • clip
  • crack
  • create
  • criticize
  • cudgel
  • do
  • draw
  • forge
  • gavel
  • hide
  • hit
  • jaw
  • knock
  • lash
  • lecture
  • lick
  • mallet
  • maul
  • nail
  • pelt
  • pound
  • punch
  • reprimand
  • scold
  • slam
  • slap
  • sledgehammer
  • smack
  • smash
  • spank
  • strike
  • swipe
  • thump
  • whack
  • whip

Antonyms for hammer

Meanings of hammer

  • noun
    1. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
    2. The act of using a hammer to hit something}}.
    3. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
    4. The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
    5. In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
    6. A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
    7. The last stone in an end.
    8. (frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
    9. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
    10. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
  • verb
    1. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
    2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
    3. To emphasize a point repeatedly.
    4. To hit particularly hard.
    5. To ride very fast.
    6. To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
    7. To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.
    8. To make high demands on (a system or service).
    9. To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
    10. To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
    11. To have hard sex with.

Example Sentences

  • He wielded the hammer with precision, driving the nails deep into the wood.
  • The blacksmith's strong arms swung the hammer rhythmically, shaping the hot metal on the anvil.
  • Despite the rain, the construction workers continued to hammer away, determined to finish the project on time.
  • The judge's gavel came down with a resounding hammer, signaling the end of the trial.
  • She used the hammer to break open the stubborn nut, finally revealing the delicious kernel inside.

On this page you'll find 51 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to hammer, such as: approve, assault, attack, bang, bat, baton, batter.

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

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  • hand
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  • left
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  • little
  • lunge
  • maestro
  • mantle
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  • maven
  • mavin
  • meister
  • minim
  • minimum
  • mistress
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  • molecule
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  • mote
  • nibble
  • nip
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  • nudge
  • one-two
  • ounce
  • overlay
  • overlie
  • overspread
  • palm
  • palp
  • palpate
  • paring
  • part
  • particle
  • past master
  • pasting
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  • patch
  • peanuts
  • peck
  • pelt
  • pick
  • pinch
  • plaster
  • plump
  • poke
  • portion
  • pound
  • pounding
  • pro
  • professional
  • proficient
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punch
  • push
  • rabbit punch
  • rap
  • ray
  • right
  • right-hander
  • roundhouse
  • scattering
  • scholar
  • scintilla
  • scrap
  • scruple
  • section
  • semblance
  • shade
  • shadow
  • shard
  • shark
  • sharp
  • shave
  • shaving
  • sheet
  • shiver
  • shot
  • shove
  • shred
  • sidewinder
  • skim
  • skosh
  • slam
  • slap
  • slather
  • sliver
  • slug
  • smack
  • smash
  • smatter
  • smattering
  • smear
  • smell
  • smidge
  • smidgen
  • smidgeon
  • smidgin
  • smithereens
  • smudge
  • snap
  • sock
  • spank
  • spark
  • spatter
  • specialist
  • speck
  • splash
  • splinter
  • spot
  • spread
  • sprinkling
  • stab
  • stick
  • stinger
  • stipple
  • strain
  • streak
  • stripe
  • stroke
  • sucker punch
  • surface
  • suspicion
  • swab
  • swat
  • swing
  • swipe
  • switch
  • syllable
  • tad
  • tag
  • tap
  • taste
  • tatter
  • thrashing
  • thud
  • thump
  • thwack
  • tip
  • tittle
  • touch
  • trace
  • uppercut
  • vestige
  • virtuoso
  • wallop
  • walloping
  • welt
  • whack
  • wham
  • whap
  • whip
  • whipping
  • whit
  • whiz
  • whop
  • wipe
  • wizard

eagerly

  • actively
  • aggressively
  • animatedly
  • anticipatorily
  • ardently
  • assertively
  • avidly
  • breathlessly
  • briskly
  • cordially
  • cravingly
  • crisply
  • decidedly
  • determinedly
  • directly
  • dynamically
  • earnestly
  • emphatically
  • energetically
  • enthusiastically
  • excitedly
  • expectantly
  • explosively
  • exuberantly
  • fanatically
  • fast
  • fervently
  • fiercely
  • firmly
  • fixedly
  • forcefully
  • forcibly
  • full tilt
  • gamely
  • gladly
  • hammer and tongs
  • hard
  • heartily
  • hungrily
  • impatiently
  • intensively
  • intently
  • keenly
  • longingly
  • lustily
  • madly
  • manfully
  • mightily
  • muscularly
  • potently
  • powerfully
  • promptly
  • purposefully
  • rabidly
  • rapidly
  • readily
  • resolutely
  • rhapsodically
  • rigidly
  • robustly
  • roughshod
  • roundly
  • sharply
  • sincerely
  • sky-high
  • smartly
  • snappily
  • solidly
  • soundly
  • speedily
  • spiritedly
  • spunkily
  • squarely
  • steadfastly
  • steadily
  • stiffly
  • stoutly
  • strenuously
  • strongly
  • sturdily
  • surely
  • thirstily
  • vehemently
  • vigorously
  • violently
  • vivaciously
  • warmly
  • willingly
  • with enthusiasm
  • with gusto
  • zealously
  • zestfully

fabricate

  • ad-lib
  • assemble
  • begin
  • beguile
  • brainstorm
  • build
  • carpenter
  • cobble up
  • coin
  • combine
  • come up with
  • compose
  • conceive
  • concoct
  • confect
  • constitute
  • construct
  • contrive
  • cook up
  • counterfeit
  • cozen
  • craft
  • create
  • daydream
  • deceive
  • defame
  • delude
  • design
  • devise
  • dissemble
  • dissimulate
  • distort
  • dream
  • dream up
  • drum up
  • dupe
  • envisage
  • envision
  • equivocate
  • erect
  • establish
  • excogitate
  • extemporize
  • fake
  • falsify
  • fantasize
  • fashion
  • father
  • feign
  • fib
  • fit together
  • fool
  • foreswear
  • forge
  • form
  • formulate
  • forswear
  • found
  • frame
  • fudge
  • garble
  • generate
  • gull
  • hammer
  • handcraft
  • hatch
  • head trip
  • hew
  • hoax
  • hoodwink
  • imagine
  • improvise
  • inaugurate
  • initiate
  • innovate
  • institute
  • invent
  • jerry-build
  • jive
  • join
  • kid
  • knock out
  • knock together
  • libel
  • lie
  • make
  • make like
  • make up
  • manufacture
  • mint
  • misguide
  • misinform
  • mislead
  • misreport
  • misrepresent
  • misstate
  • mix
  • mold
  • organize
  • originate
  • palter
  • perjure
  • picture
  • piece
  • piece together
  • prefab
  • prefabricate
  • pretend
  • prevaricate
  • produce
  • put together
  • put up
  • raise
  • rear
  • reassemble
  • rebuild
  • reconstruct
  • redevelop
  • reedify
  • refashion
  • remake
  • remanufacture
  • retrofit
  • set up
  • shape
  • slander
  • snow
  • structure
  • take in
  • think up
  • throw together
  • throw up
  • traduce
  • trick
  • trump up
  • turn out
  • unite
  • vision
  • visualize
  • whip up
  • whomp up

fabricated

  • a bit thick
  • abstract
  • ad-libbed
  • affected
  • allegorical
  • amplified
  • artificial
  • assembled
  • assumed
  • baseless
  • began
  • beguiled
  • bogus
  • bouncing
  • built
  • bum
  • came up with
  • caricatural
  • carpentered
  • chimeric
  • chimerical
  • coined
  • combined
  • complete
  • completed
  • conceived
  • concocted
  • confected
  • constituted
  • constructed
  • contrived
  • counterfeit
  • cozened
  • crafted
  • created
  • cultivated
  • daydreamed
  • deceived
  • deceptive
  • defamed
  • deluded
  • designed
  • devised
  • dissembled
  • dissimulated
  • distorted
  • done
  • dreamed
  • dreamt
  • drummed up
  • duped
  • embroidered
  • envisaged
  • envisioned
  • equivocated
  • erected
  • ersatz
  • established
  • exalted
  • excessive
  • excogitated
  • extemporized
  • extravagant
  • fabled
  • fabulous
  • factitious
  • faked
  • fallacious
  • false
  • falsified
  • famed
  • fanciful
  • fantasized
  • fantastic
  • fantastical
  • farfetched
  • fashioned
  • fathered
  • faux
  • fibbed
  • fictional
  • fictitious
  • fooled
  • foreswore
  • forged
  • formed
  • forswore
  • foundationless
  • founded
  • framed
  • fraudulent
  • fudged
  • garbled
  • generated
  • gratuitous
  • groundless
  • gulled
  • hammered
  • hammy
  • handcrafted
  • hatched
  • hewed
  • highly colored
  • histrionic
  • histrionical
  • hoaxed
  • hoodwinked
  • hyperbolic
  • idle
  • illogical
  • imaginary
  • imagined
  • imitation
  • impossible
  • improvised
  • inaugurated
  • industrial
  • inflated
  • initiated
  • innovated
  • instituted
  • invented
  • jerry-built
  • kidded
  • knocked out
  • legendary
  • libeled
  • libelled
  • lied
  • machined
  • made
  • made up
  • made-up
  • magnified
  • make believe
  • make-believe
  • man-made
  • manufactured
  • mass-produced
  • mechanical
  • melodramatic
  • mendacious
  • minted
  • misguided
  • misinformed
  • misleading
  • misled
  • misreported
  • misrepresented
  • misstated
  • mock
  • molded
  • mythic
  • mythical
  • mythologic
  • mythological
  • nonnatural
  • not genuine
  • off-base
  • organized
  • originated
  • out of proportion
  • overblown
  • overdone
  • overestimated
  • overkill
  • overwrought
  • paltered
  • perjured
  • phony
  • pictured
  • pieced
  • plastic
  • prefabricated
  • prepared
  • preposterous
  • pretend
  • pretended
  • pretentious
  • prevaricated
  • processed
  • produced
  • pseudo
  • put together
  • put up
  • raised
  • reared
  • reassembled
  • rebuilt
  • reconstructed
  • redeveloped
  • reedified
  • refashioned
  • refined
  • remade
  • remanufactured
  • reproduction
  • retrofit
  • retrofitted
  • romanticized
  • schmaltzy
  • semilegendary
  • sensational
  • set up
  • sham
  • shaped
  • simulated
  • slandered
  • snowed
  • specious
  • spectacular
  • spurious
  • steep
  • storied
  • strained
  • structured
  • stylized
  • substitute
  • synthetic
  • tall
  • threw up
  • too much
  • too-too
  • took in
  • tooled
  • traduced
  • tricked
  • trumped up
  • trumped-up
  • uncalled-for
  • united
  • unjustified
  • unnatural
  • unproven
  • unreal
  • unrealistic
  • unsubstantiated
  • untrue
  • untruthful
  • unwarranted
  • vain
  • visioned
  • visualized
  • without basis
  • without foundation

fabricates

  • ad-libs
  • assembles
  • begins
  • beguiles
  • builds
  • carpenters
  • coins
  • combines
  • comes up with
  • conceives
  • concocts
  • confects
  • constitutes
  • constructs
  • contrives
  • cozens
  • crafts
  • creates
  • daydreams
  • deceives
  • defames
  • deludes
  • designs
  • devises
  • dissembles
  • dissimulates
  • distorts
  • dreams
  • drums up
  • dupes
  • envisages
  • envisions
  • equivocates
  • erects
  • establishes
  • excogitates
  • extemporizes
  • falsifies
  • fantasizes
  • fashions
  • fathers
  • fibs
  • fools
  • foreswears
  • forges
  • forms
  • forswears
  • founds
  • frames
  • fudges
  • garbles
  • generates
  • gulls
  • hammers
  • handcrafts
  • hatches
  • hews
  • hoaxes
  • hoodwinks
  • imagines
  • improvises
  • inaugurates
  • initiates
  • innovates
  • institutes
  • invents
  • jerry-builds
  • kids
  • knocks out
  • libels
  • lies
  • makes
  • makes up
  • manufactures
  • mints
  • misguides
  • misinforms
  • misleads
  • misreports
  • misrepresents
  • misstates
  • molds
  • organizes
  • originates
  • palters
  • perjures
  • pictures
  • pieces
  • prefabricates
  • prevaricates
  • produces
  • puts together
  • puts up
  • raises
  • rears
  • reassembles
  • rebuilds
  • reconstructs
  • redevelops
  • reedifies
  • refashions
  • remakes
  • remanufactures
  • retrofits
  • sets up
  • shapes
  • slanders
  • snows
  • structures
  • takes in
  • throws up
  • traduces
  • tricks
  • trumps up
  • unites
  • visions
  • visualizes

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