Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rabble |
| Synonyms: | commonality, commoners, dregs of society, gang, gathering, hoi polloi, lower class, mob, one-percenters, outcast, rank and file, ring, scum, trash, undesirables, vermin |
| Main Entry: | cur |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rotten, lowly animate being |
| Synonyms: | black sheep, blackguard, bum, cad, coward, dog*, good-for-nothing, heel, hound, ne'er-do-well, rat, riffraff, scoundrel, scum*, skunk, snake*, stinker, toad, villain, worm, wretch, yellow dog |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | debris |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | litter, waste |
| Synonyms: | bits, crap, detritus, dregs, dross, fragments, garbage, junk, offal, pieces, refuse, remains, riffraff, rubbish, rubble, ruins, trash, wreck, wreckage |
| Notes: | debris is the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up; garbage is food that is discarded or useless rubbish or a receptacle where rubbish is discarded; trash is worthless material that is to be disposed or a worthless or contemptible person |
| Antonyms: | cleanliness, neatness, purity |
| Main Entry: | dregs |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad person |
| Synonyms: | loser, outcast, rabble, riffraff, scum, trash |
| Main Entry: | hoi polloi |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common people |
| Synonyms: | Middle America, common people, commonality, commoners, great unwashed, huddled masses, infrastructure, masses, multitude, plebians, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, riffraff, the common people, the herd, the many, the masses, the multitude, the proletariat, the working class, vulgus |
| Main Entry: | masses |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public, crowd |
| Synonyms: | common people, commonalty, great unwashed, hoi polloi, lower class, mob, multitude, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, riffraff |
| Main Entry: | mob |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group of people |
| Synonyms: | assemblage, body, cabal, camp, canaille, cattle, circle, clan, class, clique, collection, commonality, company, coterie, crew, crowd, crush, drove, flock, gang, gathering, herd, horde, host, jam, lot, mass, masses, multitude, pack, populace, posse, press, proletariat, rabble, riffraff, ring, riot, scum, set, swarm, throng, troop |
| Main Entry: | people |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human beings |
| Synonyms: | John/Jane Q. Public, bodies, body politic, bourgeois, cats, citizens, clan, common people, commonality, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, general public, heads, herd, hoi polloi, horde, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, inhabitants, kin, masses, mob, mortals, multitude, nation, nationality, person in the street, persons, plebeians, populace, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, rank and file, riffraff, society, tribe |
| Notes: | people is a term equivalent to cows and horses - like a herd of humans; persons is used in regard to our external aspects and refers to a number of individuals |
| Antonyms: | animals, plants |
| Main Entry: | rabble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mob |
| Synonyms: | commonality, commoners, crowd, drove, flock, gang, gathering, herd, hoi polloi, horde, lower class, mass, masses, multitude, pack, proletariat, rank and file, riffraff, ring, riot, scum, throng |
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