card

The word “card” has 1 syllable: card

It's pronounced as /kɑrd/


What is synonym and antonym for card?

In the thesaurus, “card” has 83 synonyms and 10 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for card

Antonyms for card

  • bend
  • coarsen
  • delete
  • dent
  • kink
  • pit
  • rough
  • roughen
  • rumple
  • wrinkle

Meanings of card

  • noun
    1. A playing card.
    2. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
    3. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
    4. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
    5. A map or chart.
    6. An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
    7. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
    8. A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
    9. A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
    10. A greeting card.
    11. A business card.
    12. Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
    13. A test card.
    14. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
    15. A printed programme.
    16. (by extension) An attraction or inducement.
    17. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
    18. A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
    19. An indicator card.
    20. Material with embedded short wire bristles.
    21. A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
    22. A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
    23. A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
    24. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
    25. One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.).
    26. Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.
    27. Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.
    28. (color) A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red).
    29. Short for cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., zero, one, two, three). (See Wikipedia article on Cardinal number.).
    30. (grammar) Short for cardinal numeral, a word used to represent a cardinal number.
    31. Short for cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.
    32. Short for cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.
    33. (bow) A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.
    34. Mulled red wine.
  • verb
    1. To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
    2. To play cards.
    3. To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
    4. To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
    5. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
    6. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
    7. To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
    8. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

Example Sentences

  • She handed him a birthday card with a handwritten note inside.
  • Don’t forget to bring your ID card to the event.
  • He kept a business card from every client he met.
  • The restaurant gave us a loyalty card for discounts.
  • She slipped a small card into the gift box before wrapping it.

On this page you'll find 93 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to card, such as: banterer, bend, bill of fare, book, buffoon, caricaturist, catalog.

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

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  • sequence
  • setup
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identifies

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