vet

The word “vet” has 1 syllable: vet

It's pronounced as /vɛt/


What is synonym and antonym for vet?

In the thesaurus, “vet” has 202 synonyms and 74 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for vet

  • a hand at
  • accomplished
  • accustomed
  • adept
  • adequate
  • adroit
  • all around
  • appraise
  • apt
  • assay
  • au fait
  • audit
  • battle-scarred
  • been around
  • been there
  • brainy
  • broken in
  • canvass
  • capable
  • case
  • catechize
  • catechized
  • certified
  • check
  • check out
  • chew over
  • clever
  • clock
  • competent
  • consider
  • cosmopolitan
  • crack
  • crackerjack
  • criticize
  • cultivated
  • dab hand
  • delve into
  • dexterous
  • dig into
  • disciplined
  • doyen
  • doyenne
  • dynamite
  • eagle-eye
  • effective
  • efficient
  • equipped
  • examined
  • exercised
  • experienced
  • expert
  • explore
  • eye
  • familiar
  • finger
  • fit
  • fitted
  • frisk
  • from way back
  • gi
  • give the eagle eye
  • give the once-over
  • go into
  • go over
  • go through
  • good
  • gun
  • guru
  • hand
  • handy
  • hardened
  • having something on the ball
  • hotdog
  • in the know
  • inquire
  • inspect
  • instructed
  • interrogate
  • inured
  • investigate
  • kick the tires
  • knowing the score
  • knowledgeable
  • learned
  • licensed
  • long-serving
  • long-time
  • longtimer
  • look over
  • master
  • mature
  • matured
  • maven
  • mavin
  • not born yesterday
  • notice
  • observe
  • of the old school
  • old
  • old guard
  • old hand
  • old pro
  • old salt
  • old soldier
  • old stager
  • old-time
  • old-timer
  • on the ball
  • oversee
  • parse
  • past master
  • pat down
  • person experienced in something
  • peruse
  • pick at
  • ponder
  • pore over
  • practical
  • practiced
  • prepared
  • primed
  • pro
  • probe
  • professional
  • proficient
  • proper
  • prospect
  • prove
  • proved
  • qualified
  • question
  • quick
  • quizzed
  • read
  • ready
  • really into
  • reconnoiter
  • research
  • review
  • rounded
  • savvy
  • scan
  • scope
  • scout
  • screen
  • scrutinate
  • scrutinize
  • search
  • search into
  • seasoned
  • sharp
  • shellback
  • sift
  • size up
  • skilled
  • skillful
  • smart
  • smooth
  • sophisticated
  • sourdough
  • sport
  • stager
  • steady
  • study
  • superintend
  • supervise
  • survey
  • sweep
  • take stock of
  • talented
  • tested
  • the right stuff
  • there
  • toughened
  • trained
  • tried
  • trouper
  • try
  • tuned-in
  • turn over
  • up to snuff
  • up to speed
  • versant
  • versed
  • veteran
  • view
  • war-horse
  • warhorse
  • watch
  • weathered
  • weigh
  • well-versed
  • whiz
  • wicked
  • winnow
  • wise
  • wise to ways
  • wised up
  • working
  • worldly
  • worldly wise
  • worldly-wise

Antonyms for vet

  • amateur
  • answer
  • apprentice
  • approve
  • awkward
  • beginner
  • boot
  • candidate
  • clumsy
  • colt
  • cub
  • dilettante
  • entrant
  • fledgling
  • forget
  • freshman
  • green
  • greenhorn
  • ignorant
  • ignore
  • immature
  • impossible
  • impotent
  • impractical
  • inadequate
  • inappropriate
  • incapable
  • incapacitated
  • incompetent
  • incorrect
  • ineffective
  • inefficient
  • inept
  • inexperienced
  • learner
  • neglect
  • neophyte
  • newbie
  • newcomer
  • novice
  • novitiate
  • open
  • overlook
  • praise
  • probationer
  • recruit
  • reply
  • rookie
  • student
  • stupid
  • tenderfoot
  • trainee
  • tyro
  • unable
  • unfamiliar
  • unfeasible
  • unfit
  • unknowledgeable
  • unlimited
  • unproficient
  • unqualified
  • unrealistic
  • unrestricted
  • unseasoned
  • unserviceable
  • unskilled
  • unskillful
  • unsophisticated
  • untalented
  • untrained
  • unworkable
  • useless
  • weak
  • worthless

Meanings of vet

  • noun
    1. A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon.
    2. A veteran (a former soldier or other member of an armed forces).
  • verb
    1. To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval.

Example Sentences

  • The injured dog was taken to the vet for treatment.
  • She wants to become a vet and help animals in need.
  • The company will vet all candidates before the final interview.
  • He took his cat to the vet for a routine check-up.
  • The government needs to vet the new policy before implementation.

On this page you'll find 276 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to vet, such as: a hand at, accomplished, accustomed, adept, adequate, adroit, all around.

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

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unconventionality

  • aberration
  • abnormality
  • anomaly
  • apostasy
  • bizarreness
  • bohemianism
  • boldness
  • breach
  • brilliance
  • caprice
  • capriciousness
  • characteristic
  • cleverness
  • contumaciousness
  • conversation piece
  • creative spirit
  • creativity
  • curiosity
  • daring
  • defection
  • denial
  • deviance
  • deviation
  • disaffection
  • disagreement
  • disapprobation
  • disapproval
  • discord
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  • disobedience
  • dissension
  • dissent
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  • eccentricity
  • error
  • esotericism
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  • exception
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  • fallacy
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  • fantasticality
  • foible
  • foreignness
  • freak
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  • freshness
  • heresy
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  • heterodoxy
  • iconoclasm
  • idiocrasy
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  • imagination
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  • individuality
  • infidelity
  • ingeniousness
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  • innovation
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  • insubordination
  • invention
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  • irregularity
  • kink
  • lawlessness
  • misbelief
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  • modernity
  • mutinousness
  • myth
  • negation
  • new idea
  • newness
  • nonacceptance
  • nonagreement
  • noncompliance
  • nonconformity
  • nonconsent
  • novelty
  • objection
  • oddity
  • oddness
  • opposition
  • originality
  • outlandishness
  • peculiarity
  • phenomenon
  • queerness
  • quirk
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  • rarity
  • recalcitrance
  • recusance
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  • rejection
  • resourcefulness
  • schism
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  • sectarianism
  • separatism
  • singularity
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  • strangeness
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  • unruliness
  • veto
  • violation
  • waywardness
  • weirdness
  • whimsicality
  • whimsicalness

verboten

savory

  • absorbing
  • acute
  • affable
  • agreeable
  • alluring
  • ambrosial
  • amiable
  • amusing
  • animating
  • aperitive
  • appetizing
  • aromatic
  • arresting
  • attractive
  • biting
  • bitter
  • blessed
  • blest
  • blissful
  • calming
  • charming
  • cheerful
  • cheery
  • choice
  • clean
  • comfortable
  • comforting
  • condiment
  • congenial
  • cutting
  • dainty
  • darling
  • decent
  • delectable
  • delicate
  • delicious
  • delightful
  • delightsome
  • delish
  • desirable
  • digestible
  • diverting
  • dreamy
  • dulcet
  • eatable
  • ecstatic
  • edible
  • elating
  • enchanting
  • energizing
  • engaging
  • engrossing
  • enjoyable
  • enlightening
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • enviable
  • euphoric
  • exciting
  • exhilarating
  • exquisite
  • fascinating
  • felicific
  • felicitous
  • fiery
  • flavorful
  • flavoring
  • flavorsome
  • flowery
  • fragrant
  • fresh
  • fruity
  • full-flavored
  • galvanizing
  • genial
  • gingery
  • glad
  • good
  • good-natured
  • goodly
  • gracious
  • grateful
  • gratifying
  • gripping
  • happy
  • heavenly
  • herb
  • hospitable
  • hot
  • interesting
  • intoxicating
  • intriguing
  • invigorating
  • inviting
  • jolly
  • joyous
  • keen
  • kindly
  • luscious
  • lush
  • mellow
  • mordant
  • mouthwatering
  • nice
  • nirvanic
  • odiferous
  • odored
  • odoriferous
  • odorous
  • palatable
  • peppery
  • perfumed
  • personable
  • pert
  • piquant
  • piquing
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • poignant
  • pretty
  • provocative
  • provoking
  • pungent
  • pure
  • racy
  • rapturous
  • rare
  • recreative
  • redolent
  • relish
  • relishable
  • relishing
  • respectable
  • rich
  • riveting
  • salty
  • sapid
  • satisfying
  • sauce
  • savorous
  • scented
  • scrumptious
  • seasoning
  • soothing
  • spice
  • spicy
  • succulent
  • sweet
  • tangy
  • tasteful
  • tasty
  • tempting
  • toothsome
  • toothy
  • trenchant
  • vinegary
  • welcome
  • wholesome
  • yummy
  • zesty
  • zingy

joining

  • abutment
  • abutting
  • accumulating
  • accumulation
  • adjacent
  • adjoining
  • adjustment
  • admixture
  • affiliating
  • affiliation
  • aggregating
  • agreeing
  • agreement
  • alliance
  • allying
  • amalgam
  • amalgamation
  • ambient
  • annexation
  • anthology
  • apposition
  • approximal
  • approximate
  • articulating
  • articulation
  • assemblage
  • assembling
  • assembly
  • assistance
  • associating
  • association
  • assortment
  • attached
  • attachment
  • band
  • banding together
  • blend
  • body
  • bond
  • bordering
  • bordering on
  • bounding
  • brotherhood
  • building
  • bunch
  • business
  • cahoots
  • cartel
  • catenating
  • cementing
  • chaining
  • channel
  • chumminess
  • circumjacent
  • clan
  • clique
  • close
  • closest
  • club
  • clustering
  • coacting
  • coactive
  • coadjuvant
  • coalescent
  • coalescing
  • coalition
  • coefficient
  • coherence
  • collaborating
  • collaborative
  • collecting
  • collection
  • collective
  • collegial
  • collocating
  • collocation
  • collusive
  • combination
  • combine
  • combined
  • combining
  • coming together
  • commixture
  • common
  • communicating
  • community
  • companionship
  • company
  • compiling
  • compounding
  • concatenating
  • concatenation
  • concerted
  • concerting
  • concomitance
  • concordance
  • concourse
  • concurrent
  • concurring
  • concursion
  • confederating
  • confederation
  • confluence
  • conglomerate
  • congregating
  • conjoining
  • conjointment
  • conjugating
  • conjugation
  • conjunction
  • connected
  • connecting
  • connection
  • connective
  • conniving
  • connotation
  • consociation
  • consolidating
  • consolidation
  • conspiring
  • constellating
  • constituent
  • construction
  • contact
  • contacting
  • conterminous
  • contiguous
  • convening
  • convergence
  • convergent
  • converging
  • cooperating
  • cooperation
  • cooperative
  • coordinated
  • copula
  • cording
  • corporation
  • correlation
  • coterie
  • coterminous
  • coupler
  • coupling
  • crew
  • crossing
  • crossroads
  • crowd
  • crush
  • division
  • dovetail
  • dovetailing
  • elbow
  • element
  • embracing
  • encircling
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • ending at
  • entering
  • erection
  • fabrication
  • faction
  • fastening
  • fencing
  • firm
  • fitting together
  • flanking
  • flowing
  • flush
  • fraternity
  • friendship
  • fringing
  • fusing
  • fusion
  • gang
  • garner
  • garnering
  • gathering
  • getting in
  • going up to
  • gore
  • hand in glove
  • hanging together
  • harmonious
  • help
  • hinge
  • hitch
  • hitching
  • hooking
  • hookup
  • house
  • identification
  • immediate
  • impinging
  • impression
  • in
  • in league
  • inclosing
  • incorporating
  • incorporation
  • integrating
  • interconnecting
  • interconnection
  • interdependent
  • interest
  • interface
  • interfacing
  • interfusing
  • interlinking
  • interlocking
  • intermeshing
  • intermixture
  • intersection
  • join
  • joined
  • joint
  • jointure
  • junction
  • juncture
  • juxtaposed
  • juxtaposition
  • knee
  • knot
  • league
  • leaguing
  • ligament
  • ligation
  • ligature
  • lining
  • link
  • linkage
  • linked
  • linking
  • lodge
  • loop
  • lumping together
  • making common cause
  • manufacture
  • manufacturing
  • marginal
  • margining
  • marrying
  • mating
  • meeting
  • member
  • merger
  • merging
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  • miter
  • mix
  • mixing
  • mixture
  • mob
  • modeling
  • molding
  • mortise
  • multitude
  • near
  • nearby
  • nearest
  • neighboring
  • network
  • next door
  • next-door
  • nexus
  • nigh
  • node
  • organization
  • outfit
  • ownership
  • pairing
  • part
  • participating
  • partnership
  • party
  • peripheral
  • piece
  • piecing together
  • pivot
  • playing ball
  • plug-in
  • pulling together
  • re-enlisting
  • re-enrolling
  • re-upping
  • reciprocal
  • recollection
  • recombining
  • reconnecting
  • reenlisting
  • reenrolling
  • reentering
  • rejoining
  • relation
  • relationship
  • remembrance
  • reunifying
  • reunion
  • reuniting
  • rimming
  • ring
  • rout
  • seam
  • section
  • setting up
  • shaping
  • shared
  • sharing
  • sisterhood
  • skirting
  • society
  • sorority
  • spanning
  • splice
  • splicing
  • spreading to
  • stretching
  • stringing
  • surrounding
  • suture
  • symbiotic
  • syndicate
  • synergetic
  • synergic
  • synergistic
  • tangency
  • tangent
  • tangential
  • team
  • terminal
  • throng
  • tie
  • tie up
  • tie-in
  • togetherness
  • touch
  • touching
  • train of thought
  • treasury
  • unification
  • unifying
  • union
  • united
  • uniting
  • verging
  • vinculum
  • weld
  • welding
  • wiring
  • yoke
  • yoking

abstaining

  • abnegating
  • abnegation
  • abstemious
  • abstemiousness
  • abstinence
  • abstinent
  • adjuration
  • ascetic
  • asceticism
  • austere
  • avoidance
  • brush-off
  • calm
  • chastity
  • cherry
  • clear-headed
  • cold
  • cold shoulder
  • cold sober
  • collected
  • composed
  • constrained
  • continence
  • continent
  • contradiction
  • controlled
  • controversion
  • cool
  • dark
  • declination
  • declining
  • delaying
  • disaffirmance
  • disaffirmation
  • disallowance
  • disapproval
  • disavowal
  • disciplined
  • disclaimer
  • dismissing
  • dispassionate
  • disproof
  • dissent
  • down-to-earth
  • drab
  • dry
  • drying out
  • earnest
  • eschewing
  • fasting
  • forbearance
  • forgoing
  • forswearing
  • free of alcohol
  • frugality
  • gainsaying
  • grave
  • halting
  • hard-boiled
  • hesitating
  • imperturbable
  • inhibited
  • levelheaded
  • low-key
  • lucid
  • moderate
  • moderation
  • nay
  • negation
  • negative
  • nix
  • no-nonsense
  • non-indulgence
  • nonacceptance
  • noncommittal
  • nonindulgent
  • not drinking
  • not drunk
  • not partaking of alcohol
  • on the wagon
  • pacific
  • period of abstinence
  • plain
  • practical
  • prohibition
  • protestation
  • puritanical
  • quiet
  • rational
  • realistic
  • reasonable
  • rebuff
  • rebuttal
  • refraining
  • refusing
  • refutal
  • refutation
  • rejecting
  • rejection
  • renegement
  • renouncement
  • renunciation
  • repudiating
  • repudiation
  • repulse
  • reserved
  • restrained
  • retraction
  • sedate
  • self-control
  • self-denial
  • self-possessed
  • self-restraint
  • serene
  • serious
  • severe
  • shilly-shallying
  • sober
  • soberness
  • sobriety
  • soft
  • solemn
  • somber
  • sound
  • spartan
  • staid
  • stalling
  • statement
  • statement abnegation
  • steady
  • stone cold sober
  • strict
  • subdued
  • sworn off
  • teetotalism
  • temperance
  • temperate
  • temporizing
  • toned-down
  • took the pledge
  • turndown
  • turning down
  • unexcited
  • unimpassioned
  • unintoxicated
  • unruffled
  • vacillating
  • veto
  • waffling
  • wavering

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