ball - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a pitch that is not in the strike zone

Synonyms

• ball

More generic

• delivery
• pitch

Noun

a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs

Synonyms

• ball
• baseball
• baseball game

More generic

• ball game
• ballgame

More specific

• 1-hitter
• 2-hitter
• 3-hitter
• 4-hitter
• 5-hitter
• daisy cutter
• five-hitter
• four-hitter
• hardball
• no-hit game
• no-hitter
• one-hitter
• perfect game
• professional baseball
• rounders
• softball
• softball game
• steal
• stickball
• stickball game
• three-hitter
• two-hitter

Noun

round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games

Synonyms

• ball

More generic

• game equipment

More specific

• Wiffle
• Wiffle Ball
• baseball
• basketball
• billiard ball
• bocce ball
• bocci ball
• boccie ball
• bowl
• bowling ball
• cricket ball
• croquet ball
• field hockey ball
• football
• golf ball
• handball
• jack
• lacrosse ball
• marble
• medicine ball
• ninepin ball
• ping-pong ball
• playground ball
• polo ball
• pool ball
• punch bag
• punchball
• punching bag
• punching ball
• racquetball
• roulette ball
• rugby ball
• skittle ball
• soccer ball
• softball
• squash ball
• tennis ball
• volleyball

Noun

a spherical object used as a plaything

Synonyms

• ball

More generic

• plaything
• toy

More specific

• beach ball
• beachball
• snowball

Noun

a solid projectile that is shot by a musket

Synonyms

• ball
• musket ball

More generic

• pellet
• shot

Noun

one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

Synonyms

• ball
• ballock
• bollock
• egg
• nut
• orchis
• testicle
• testis

More generic

• gonad
• male reproductive gland
• sex gland

More specific

• cobblers
• undescended testicle
• undescended testis

Related

• arteria testicularis
• ductus deferens
• epididymis
• internal spermatic artery
• rete testis
• seminiferous tubule
• spermatic cord
• testicular artery
• testicular vein
• vas deferens
• vena testicularis

Related

• family jewels
• male genital organ
• male genitalia
• male genitals
• male reproductive system

Noun

a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass

Synonyms

• ball

More generic

• anatomical structure
• bodily structure
• body structure
• complex body part
• structure

Related

• hand
• manus
• mitt
• paw
• sole

Noun

a lavish dance requiring formal attire

Synonyms

• ball
• formal

More generic

• dance

More specific

• cotilion
• cotillion
• fancy-dress ball
• masked ball
• masquerade ball
• prom
• promenade

Noun

a compact mass

Synonyms

• ball
• chunk
• clod
• clump
• glob
• lump

More generic

• agglomeration

More specific

• clew
• clot
• coagulum
• gob

Noun

the people assembled at a lavish formal dance

Synonyms

• ball

More generic

• dance

Related

• promenade

Noun

United States comedienne best known as the star of a popular television program (1911-1989)

Synonyms

• Ball
• Lucille Ball

Noun

an object with a spherical shape

Synonyms

• ball
• globe
• orb

More generic

• sphere

More specific

• bolus
• camphor ball
• crystal ball
• fireball
• globule
• mothball
• pellet
• spherule
• time-ball

Verb

form into a ball by winding or rolling

Synonyms

• ball

More generic

• roll
• twine
• wind
• wrap

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