paper

The word “paper” has 2 syllables: pa-per

It's pronounced as /ˈpeɪ.pɚ/

What is synonym and antonym for paper?

In the thesaurus, “paper” has 113 synonyms and 7 antonyms.

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

Synonyms for paper

analysis
annual
apparent
article
assignment
assumed
bimonthly
biweekly
blank
book
broadside
bulletin
card
cardboard
causerie
column
commentary
composition
cover
critique
daily
digest
discourse
discussion
disposable
dissertation
diurnal
document
edition
editorial
essay
evident
examination
exposition
extra
fanzine
feature
filing
filing card
form
formal
gazette
hang
instrument
insubstantial
journal
letterhead
little magazine
mag
magazine
monograph
monthly
news
newsletter
newsmagazine
newspaper
newsprint
newsweekly
nominal
note
note card
note pad
onion skin
organ
ostensible
pad
paper-thin
papery
papyrus
parchment
paste up
periodical
phantom
pictorial
plaster
poster
presumed
prolegomenon
quarterly
rag
report
review
script
seeming
semimonthly
semiweekly
serial
sheet
slick
so-called
stationery
story
study
supplement
supposed
tab
tabloid
theme
thesis
tissue
titular
tract
treatise
triweekly
vellum
virtual
wafer-thin
wallpaper
weekly
writ
write-up
yearbook
zine

Antonyms for paper

actual
peel
real
strip
thick
true
unline

Meanings of paper

noun
1. A sheet material used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
2. A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
3. Wallpaper.
4. Wrapping paper.
5. (rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
6. A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
7. A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).
8. A scholastic essay.
9. A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
10. Money.
11. A university course.
12. A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
13. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
14. A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
15. Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
16. (by extension) The people admitted by free passes.
verb
1. To apply paper to.
2. To document; to memorialize.
3. To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
4. To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
5. To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
6. To sandpaper.
7. To enfold in paper.
8. To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
adjective
1. Made of paper.
2. Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper).
3. Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper).
4. Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.

Example Sentences

She folded the paper into a beautiful origami crane.
The teacher asked the students to submit their paper by Friday.
He ran out of paper while printing his report.
She used colorful paper to wrap the birthday gift.
They read the morning paper over breakfast every day.

On this page you'll find 120 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to paper, such as: actual, analysis, annual, apparent, article, assignment, assumed.

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