kicked around

The phrase “kicked around” has 3 syllables: kicked a-round

It's pronounced as /kɪkt əˈraʊnd/


What is synonym and antonym for kicked around?

In the thesaurus, “kicked around” has 132 synonyms and 43 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for kicked around

  • absorbed
  • abused
  • aestivated
  • ambled
  • analyzed
  • assimilated
  • batted
  • believed
  • brutalized
  • bullied
  • bummed
  • burned
  • burnt
  • chewed on
  • chewed over
  • chilled
  • cogitated
  • conceived
  • concluded
  • considered
  • contemplated
  • cruised
  • dallied
  • dawdled
  • debated
  • deliberated
  • digested
  • dillydallied
  • doodled
  • dozed
  • drifted
  • droned
  • entertained
  • estivated
  • explored
  • eyed
  • floated
  • fooled
  • fooled around
  • footled
  • fribbled
  • furloughed
  • galavanted
  • gallivanted
  • goldbricked
  • gypsied
  • harassed
  • harmed
  • hibernated
  • hoboed
  • horsed around
  • hung about
  • hurt
  • idled
  • ill-treated
  • ill-used
  • injured
  • kicked back
  • killed time
  • lagged
  • lazed
  • lazied
  • lingered
  • loafed
  • loitered
  • lolled
  • looked at
  • lounged
  • malingered
  • maltreated
  • manhandled
  • maundered
  • meandered
  • meditated
  • messed
  • messed around
  • messed over
  • mishandled
  • mistreated
  • misused
  • molested
  • monkeyed
  • mooched
  • moped
  • moseyed
  • mucked
  • opined
  • oppressed
  • outraged
  • perpended
  • persecuted
  • piddled
  • played
  • poked
  • pondered
  • questioned
  • rambled
  • ranged
  • reasoned
  • relaxed
  • reminisced
  • rested
  • reviewed
  • revolved
  • roamed
  • roved
  • ruminated
  • sandbagged
  • sauntered
  • second-guessed
  • straggled
  • strayed
  • strolled
  • studied
  • swanned
  • tarried
  • tinkered
  • took apart
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • traipsed
  • tramped
  • trifled
  • truanted
  • turned
  • vagabonded
  • vegged out
  • victimized
  • violated
  • wandered
  • weighed
  • wronged

Antonyms for kicked around

  • applied
  • babied
  • cherished
  • coddled
  • dismissed
  • disregarded
  • drudged
  • exerted
  • favored
  • fostered
  • gratified
  • ground
  • grubbed
  • humored
  • humped
  • hustled
  • ignored
  • indulged
  • knuckled down
  • labored
  • moiled
  • mollycoddled
  • nurtured
  • overlooked
  • pampered
  • pegged
  • plodded
  • plowed
  • plugged
  • pooh-poohed
  • poohed
  • put out
  • rejected
  • slaved
  • slighted
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • sweat
  • sweated
  • toiled
  • travailed
  • worked
  • wrought

Example Sentences

  • The idea has been kicked around for months, but we still haven't made a decision.
  • He felt like he was being kicked around by life, never catching a break.
  • The proposal was kicked around during the meeting, but no consensus was reached.
  • They kicked around the old soccer ball in the park until it was too dark to see.
  • She felt like she was being kicked around at work, always given the least desirable tasks.

On this page you'll find 175 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to kicked around, such as: absorbed, abused, aestivated, ambled, analyzed, applied, assimilated.

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

Related Words

maltreated

  • a slave to
  • abject
  • abused
  • ambushed
  • assailed
  • attacked
  • bashed
  • battered
  • beat
  • browbeaten
  • brutalized
  • buffeted
  • bullied
  • burdened
  • burned
  • burnt
  • clobbered
  • cowed
  • crushed
  • despairing
  • destitute
  • disheartened
  • dispirited
  • distressed
  • downcast
  • downtrodden
  • drubbed
  • enslaved
  • exploited
  • fought
  • harassed
  • harmed
  • have-not
  • hectored
  • helpless
  • hit
  • hopeless
  • hurt
  • ill-treated
  • ill-used
  • injured
  • intimidated
  • jumped
  • kicked around
  • knocked
  • lambasted
  • led by the nose
  • licked
  • manhandled
  • mauled
  • messed over
  • mishandled
  • mistreated
  • misused
  • molested
  • needy
  • oppressed
  • outraged
  • overcome
  • persecuted
  • pommeled
  • pommelled
  • pounded
  • pummeled
  • pummelled
  • roughhoused
  • sandbagged
  • slapped
  • subjugated
  • subservient
  • suppressed
  • thrashed
  • took apart
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • tyrannized
  • underdog
  • underfoot
  • victimized
  • violated
  • wounded
  • wrestled
  • wronged

debated

  • absorbed
  • academic
  • academical
  • agitated
  • ambiguous
  • analyzed
  • arguable
  • argued
  • assimilated
  • assumed
  • bandied
  • believed
  • broached
  • canvased
  • canvassed
  • challenged
  • chewed on
  • chewed over
  • cogitated
  • conceived
  • concluded
  • considered
  • contemplated
  • contradictable
  • controversial
  • controvertible
  • debatable
  • deliberated
  • determined
  • digested
  • discussed
  • disputable
  • disputed
  • doubtable
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • entertained
  • equivocal
  • explained
  • explored
  • eyed
  • forged
  • hammered out
  • hypothesized
  • hypothetical
  • iffy
  • impugned
  • inconclusive
  • indecisive
  • introduced
  • issuable
  • kicked around
  • looked at
  • meditated
  • moot
  • mooted
  • negotiable
  • opined
  • perpended
  • pondered
  • posited
  • postulated
  • problematic
  • problematical
  • propounded
  • questionable
  • questioned
  • raised
  • ratiocinated
  • rationalized
  • reasoned
  • refutable
  • reminisced
  • reviewed
  • revolved
  • ruminated
  • second-guessed
  • shaky
  • speculative
  • stirred up
  • studied
  • talked out
  • talked over
  • theoretic
  • theoretical
  • thought
  • turned
  • uncertain
  • weighed

ranged

  • align
  • aligned
  • alined
  • allineate
  • alphabetized
  • alternated
  • ambled
  • arrange
  • arranged
  • array
  • arrayed
  • assort
  • assorted
  • batted
  • bias
  • bracket
  • broke down
  • cataloged
  • catalogue
  • catalogued
  • categorize
  • categorized
  • changed
  • circumambulate
  • class
  • classed
  • classified
  • classify
  • clumped
  • clustered
  • codified
  • colligated
  • compartmentalized
  • compartmented
  • cover
  • cross
  • cruise
  • cruised
  • cued
  • culled
  • dawdled
  • differ
  • digested
  • displayed
  • dispose
  • disposed
  • distinguished
  • distributed
  • diverge from
  • draw up
  • drew up
  • drift
  • drifted
  • emplaced
  • encompass
  • explore
  • extended
  • file
  • filed
  • float
  • floated
  • fluctuate
  • fluctuated
  • galavanted
  • gallivant
  • gallivanted
  • globe-trot
  • go
  • grade
  • graded
  • groomed
  • group
  • grouped
  • gypsied
  • hierarchized
  • hit the road
  • hit the trail
  • hoboed
  • identified
  • incline
  • indexed
  • kicked around
  • laid out
  • line
  • line up
  • lined
  • lined up
  • listed
  • made up
  • make circuit
  • marshaled
  • marshalled
  • maundered
  • meander
  • meandered
  • mooched
  • moped
  • moved
  • mutated
  • ordered
  • organized
  • pass over
  • pegged
  • pigeonhole
  • pigeonholed
  • placed
  • ply
  • predispose
  • prioritized
  • prowl
  • queued
  • ramble
  • rambled
  • ran
  • rank
  • ranked
  • reach
  • reached
  • recategorized
  • reclassified
  • recognized
  • reconnoiter
  • referred
  • regrouped
  • relegated
  • roamed
  • rove
  • roved
  • run
  • sauntered
  • scour
  • screened
  • search
  • separated
  • sequenced
  • set
  • set out
  • shelved
  • shifted
  • sieved
  • sifted
  • sorted
  • spread
  • straggle
  • straggled
  • stray
  • strayed
  • stretch
  • stretched
  • stroll
  • strolled
  • subcategorized
  • sweep
  • swept
  • systematized
  • traipse
  • traipsed
  • tramp
  • tramped
  • travel
  • traverse
  • trek
  • typed
  • unscrambled
  • vagabonded
  • varied
  • vary
  • vary between
  • wandered
  • went
  • winnowed

galavanted

ill-used


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