way

The word “way” has 1 syllable: way

It's pronounced as /ˈweɪ/


What is synonym and antonym for way?

In the thesaurus, “way” has 431 synonyms and 22 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for way

  • Main Street
  • a lot
  • absolutely
  • abundantly
  • access
  • achingly
  • action
  • addiction
  • admission
  • admittance
  • advance
  • affectation
  • affinity
  • airs
  • airway
  • alley
  • alleyway
  • almighty
  • alternative
  • altitude
  • altogether
  • amazingly
  • appreciably
  • approach
  • aptitude
  • aptness
  • arc
  • archly
  • area
  • arterial
  • artery
  • as all get-out
  • ascent
  • aspect
  • astonishingly
  • astronomically
  • attribute
  • autobahn
  • autoroute
  • autostrada
  • avenue
  • awful
  • awfully
  • backstreet
  • badly
  • bag
  • bearing
  • beastly
  • behavior
  • beltway
  • bent
  • berth
  • bikeway
  • blisteringly
  • blueprint
  • bone
  • boulevard
  • branch
  • breadth
  • bypass
  • bypath
  • bystreet
  • byway
  • capacity
  • carriageway
  • cast
  • causeway
  • channel
  • characteristic
  • choice
  • circle
  • circuit
  • circumstance
  • clearance
  • close
  • colossally
  • compass
  • completely
  • condition
  • conduct
  • considerably
  • consuetude
  • contrivance
  • convention
  • corking
  • corniche
  • corridor
  • course
  • course of action
  • cracking
  • crossroad
  • cul-de-sac
  • custom
  • cycleway
  • damn
  • damned
  • dang
  • dead end
  • deadly
  • deeply
  • deportment
  • depth
  • descent
  • design
  • desperately
  • detail
  • determination
  • discernibly
  • discernment
  • discretion
  • disposition
  • distance
  • door
  • doorway
  • downright
  • drag
  • drill
  • drive
  • drop
  • druthers
  • dual carriageway
  • eccentricity
  • elbow room
  • elbowroom
  • election
  • eminently
  • enormously
  • entirely
  • entrance
  • entry
  • especially
  • ever
  • exceeding
  • exceedingly
  • exceptionally
  • excessively
  • expedient
  • expressway
  • extension
  • extensively
  • extent
  • extra
  • extremely
  • fabulously
  • fall
  • fantastically
  • far
  • fashion
  • feature
  • fettle
  • fiercely
  • filthy
  • flat-out
  • flight
  • flight path
  • form
  • forward motion
  • free will
  • freedom
  • freeway
  • frightfully
  • full
  • fully
  • gait
  • game
  • game plan
  • gat
  • gate
  • gateway
  • good and
  • grandly
  • greatly
  • groove
  • ground plan
  • guise
  • habit
  • habitude
  • hatch
  • hatchway
  • haul
  • headway
  • heavily
  • height
  • high road
  • high street
  • highly
  • highway
  • hook
  • how
  • hugely
  • idea
  • idiosyncrasy
  • immensely
  • inclination
  • incredibly
  • ingress
  • instrument
  • intensely
  • interstate
  • intrigue
  • jog trot
  • jolly
  • journey
  • judgement
  • judgment
  • kick
  • kink
  • lane
  • laneway
  • latitude
  • layout
  • lead
  • leaning
  • leeway
  • length
  • liberty
  • liking
  • line
  • loop
  • majorly
  • manner
  • manners
  • march
  • mark
  • markedly
  • means
  • measure
  • method
  • methodology
  • mews
  • mightily
  • mighty
  • mind-set
  • mode
  • model
  • modus
  • modus operandi
  • monstrous
  • monstrously
  • monumentally
  • mores
  • mortally
  • most
  • motorway
  • move
  • movement
  • much
  • nature
  • notably
  • noticeably
  • obscenely
  • obviously
  • oddity
  • opening
  • option
  • orbit
  • outline
  • overmuch
  • palpably
  • parkway
  • partiality
  • particular
  • particularly
  • pass
  • passage
  • passageway
  • passing
  • path
  • pathway
  • pattern
  • peculiarity
  • penchant
  • personality
  • perspicacity
  • pick
  • pike
  • place
  • plainly
  • plan
  • play
  • plentifully
  • plot
  • point
  • policy
  • portal
  • pose
  • positively
  • practice
  • practise
  • praxis
  • predilection
  • predisposition
  • preference
  • procedure
  • process
  • proclivity
  • profoundly
  • program
  • progress
  • progression
  • proneness
  • propensity
  • purely
  • quirk
  • radically
  • range
  • rattling
  • reach
  • real
  • really
  • recipe
  • regime
  • regimen
  • remarkably
  • remove
  • respect
  • ride
  • right
  • ring road
  • rise
  • ritual
  • road
  • roadway
  • roaring
  • roaringly
  • room
  • rote
  • route
  • routeway
  • routine
  • row
  • rut
  • say
  • scheme
  • scope
  • second nature
  • secondary road
  • selection
  • sense
  • seriously
  • set
  • severely
  • shape
  • shift
  • shot
  • shunpike
  • side road
  • side street
  • significantly
  • singularity
  • situation
  • so
  • sore
  • sorely
  • space
  • spacing
  • spanking
  • specially
  • spread
  • staggeringly
  • state
  • status
  • step
  • steps
  • stinking
  • strategy
  • street
  • stretch
  • stroke
  • style
  • substantially
  • such
  • super
  • superhighway
  • supremely
  • surpassingly
  • sweep
  • switchback
  • system
  • tack
  • tactics
  • technique
  • tendency
  • tenor
  • terribly
  • that
  • thataway
  • thing
  • thoroughfare
  • thoroughly
  • through street
  • throw
  • thruway
  • thumping
  • tic
  • tone
  • too
  • totally
  • trace
  • track
  • trail
  • trait
  • trajectory
  • trend
  • trick
  • turn
  • turnpike
  • unco
  • uncommonly
  • usage
  • use
  • utterly
  • vastly
  • very
  • visibly
  • vitally
  • voice
  • volition
  • volume
  • vote
  • walk
  • walkway
  • watercourse
  • waterway
  • whacking
  • wholly
  • wicked
  • width
  • wildly
  • will
  • wont

Antonyms for way

  • averseness
  • barely
  • coercion
  • disinclination
  • dislike
  • duress
  • duty
  • force
  • hardly
  • indisposition
  • just
  • little
  • marginally
  • meagerly
  • minimally
  • negligibly
  • nominally
  • obligation
  • scantily
  • scarcely
  • slightly
  • somewhat

Meanings of way

  • noun
    1. (heading) To do with a place or places.
    2. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
    3. A state or condition.
    4. (heading) Personal interaction.
    5. A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
    6. Speed, progress, momentum.
    7. A degree, an amount, a sense.
    8. (As the head of an interjectory clause, followed by an infinitive starting with “to”) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
    9. The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
    10. The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.
    11. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.
  • verb
    1. To travel.
  • interjection
    1. (only in reply to no way) yes; it is true; it is possible.
  • adverb
    1. (with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
    2. (with positive adjective) Very.
    3. Far.

Example Sentences

  • She always finds a way to solve her problems.
  • This is the best way to learn a new language.
  • The river carved its way through the mountains.
  • He moved out of the way to let the car pass.
  • We are on our way to the beach this weekend.

On this page you'll find 453 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to way, such as: Main Street, a lot, absolutely, abundantly, access, achingly, action.

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

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ranking

  • A number one
  • advanced
  • advantage
  • alphabetizing
  • antiquity
  • arch
  • archetypal
  • arrangement
  • array
  • arraying
  • assorting
  • being
  • breaking down
  • calibration
  • capacity
  • capital
  • cataloging
  • cataloguing
  • categorizing
  • chain of command
  • champion
  • chief
  • class structure
  • classifying
  • classing
  • clumping
  • clustering
  • codifying
  • colligating
  • compartmentalizing
  • compartmenting
  • computation
  • condition
  • consummate
  • corporate ladder
  • counting
  • culling
  • definitive
  • degree
  • degrees
  • digesting
  • disposal
  • disposing
  • disposition
  • distinguished
  • distinguishing
  • distributing
  • distribution
  • dominance
  • dominant
  • drawing up
  • due order
  • echelon
  • echelons
  • eldership
  • eminent
  • estate
  • esthetic
  • excellent
  • exemplary
  • extent
  • famous
  • filing
  • fine
  • finest
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • first-string
  • flawless
  • food chain
  • footing
  • foremost
  • function
  • gamut
  • gradation
  • grading
  • graduation
  • greatest
  • grouping
  • head
  • head of the line
  • hierarchy
  • ideal
  • identifying
  • indexing
  • installing
  • instating
  • ladder
  • leading
  • level
  • line of dominance
  • listing
  • main
  • marshaling
  • marshalling
  • master
  • masterly
  • number one
  • order
  • ordering
  • organizing
  • outstanding
  • paradigmatic
  • paramount
  • peck order
  • pecking order
  • pegging
  • perfect
  • pigeonholing
  • place
  • placing
  • position
  • power structure
  • precedence
  • predominant
  • preeminent
  • preference
  • premier
  • primary
  • prime
  • primo
  • principal
  • priority
  • progression
  • proportion
  • pyramid
  • quintessential
  • range
  • ranging
  • rank
  • rate
  • rating
  • ratio
  • reach
  • reaches
  • recategorizing
  • reclassifying
  • recognizing
  • referring
  • register
  • regrouping
  • relegating
  • rule
  • ruling
  • rung
  • scale
  • scope
  • screening
  • seeding
  • separating
  • sequence
  • series
  • setting
  • setup
  • shelving
  • sieving
  • sifting
  • situation
  • social hierarchy
  • social ladder
  • social pyramid
  • social stratification
  • social structure
  • sorting
  • sovereign
  • spectrum
  • spot
  • spread
  • standard
  • standing
  • station
  • status
  • steps
  • stratum
  • subcategorizing
  • superior
  • superiority
  • supreme
  • system
  • systematizing
  • top
  • top of the list
  • top-flight
  • top-notch
  • typing
  • vintage
  • walk
  • way
  • well-known
  • winnowing

kidnapped

  • abducted
  • apprehended
  • arrested
  • bound
  • captive
  • captured
  • caught
  • confined
  • copped
  • crimped
  • enslaved
  • ensnared
  • held for ransom
  • highjacked
  • hijacked
  • impressed
  • imprisoned
  • incarcerated
  • indentured
  • interned
  • jailed
  • made away with
  • made off with
  • occupied
  • ran off with
  • seized
  • shanghaied
  • snatched
  • spirited
  • stole
  • subdued
  • subjugated
  • taken hostage
  • took
  • trapped
  • waylaid

ulster

  • anorak
  • cape
  • capote
  • chesterfield
  • cloak
  • cutaway
  • duffle coat
  • flogger
  • frock
  • frock coat
  • great coat
  • greatcoat
  • inverness
  • jacket
  • mackinaw
  • mink
  • oilskin
  • overcoat
  • paletot
  • parka
  • pea
  • raglan
  • raincoat
  • slicker
  • suit
  • surcoat
  • surtout
  • tails
  • threads
  • topcoat
  • trench
  • tux
  • tuxedo
  • windbreaker
  • wrap

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