gets

The word “gets” has 1 syllable: gets

It's pronounced as /ɡɛts/


What is synonym and antonym for gets?

In the thesaurus, “gets” has 528 synonyms and 109 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for gets

Antonyms for gets

  • abides
  • accords
  • animates
  • appeases
  • approaches
  • arrives
  • assures
  • cheers
  • closes
  • collapses
  • comes
  • comes back
  • comforts
  • conciliates
  • consoles
  • contents
  • continues
  • delights
  • deters
  • discharges
  • discourages
  • disregards
  • dissuades
  • drops
  • dwells
  • enlightens
  • fails
  • falls
  • flops
  • flunks
  • folds
  • forfeits
  • forgets
  • frees
  • gains
  • gives
  • gives up
  • gladdens
  • goes down
  • goes under
  • grants
  • gratifies
  • hands over
  • heals
  • hits
  • ignores
  • informs
  • is
  • lands
  • liberates
  • lingers
  • lodges
  • loosens
  • loses
  • mends
  • misapprehends
  • misconceives
  • misconstrues
  • misinterprets
  • mislays
  • misperceives
  • misplaces
  • misreads
  • misses
  • missets
  • mistakes
  • misunderstands
  • mollifies
  • nears
  • neglects
  • obliges
  • overlooks
  • pacifies
  • passes over
  • pays
  • placates
  • pleases
  • propitiates
  • quiets
  • raises
  • rallies
  • reaches
  • reassures
  • rebounds
  • recoups
  • recovers
  • recuperates
  • releases
  • relinquishes
  • remains
  • restores
  • resurrects
  • resuscitates
  • revives
  • satisfies
  • settles
  • shows up
  • snaps back
  • solaces
  • soothes
  • stays
  • surrenders
  • tarries
  • turns up
  • unhands
  • unlearns
  • unsells
  • washes out
  • yields

Meanings of gets

  • noun
    1. Offspring.
    2. Lineage.
    3. A difficult return or block of a shot.
    4. Something gained; an acquisition.
    5. A git.
  • verb
    1. (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
    2. To receive.
    3. (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
    4. To fetch, bring, take.
    5. To become, or cause oneself to become.
    6. To cause to become; to bring about.
    7. To cause to do.
    8. To cause to come or go or move.
    9. To cause to be in a certain status or position.
    10. (with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
    11. To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
    12. To begin (doing something or to do something).
    13. To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
    14. To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
    15. (followed by infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
    16. To understand. (compare get it).
    17. To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
    18. To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
    19. To become ill with or catch (a disease).
    20. To catch out, trick successfully.
    21. To perplex, stump.
    22. To find as an answer.
    23. To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
    24. To hear completely; catch.
    25. To getter.
    26. To beget (of a father).
    27. To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
    28. Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
    29. To go, to leave; to scram.
    30. To kill.
    31. To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
    32. To measure.

Example Sentences

  • She always gets nervous before giving a presentation.
  • The mail usually gets delivered around noon.
  • He gets excited whenever he talks about his travels.
  • If it gets too cold, we’ll head back inside.
  • Everyone gets a chance to share their opinion in the meeting.

On this page you'll find 637 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to gets, such as: abandons, abashes, abducts, abides, absconds, absorbs, accomplishes.

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eats

  • affronts
  • aggravates
  • agitates
  • aliment
  • angers
  • annoys
  • antagonizes
  • badgers
  • baits
  • ballyrags
  • banquets
  • board
  • boards
  • bolts
  • bothers
  • bread
  • breakfasts
  • breaks bread
  • breaks down
  • breaks up
  • bugs
  • bullyrags
  • chafes
  • chews
  • chow
  • chuck
  • comestibles
  • commissary
  • consumes
  • corrodes
  • decimates
  • decomposes
  • destroys
  • devastates
  • devils
  • devours
  • diet
  • digests
  • digs in
  • dines
  • dines out
  • discomforts
  • discomposes
  • dish
  • disintegrates
  • dispatches
  • disquiets
  • dissolves
  • distresses
  • downs
  • eatables
  • edibles
  • enflames
  • enrages
  • ensilage
  • erodes
  • exasperates
  • exercises
  • fare
  • fares
  • feast
  • feasts
  • feed
  • feeds
  • finger food
  • fodder
  • food
  • foodstuffs
  • forage
  • frets
  • frosts
  • galls
  • gets
  • gets to
  • gluts
  • gnaws
  • gorges
  • gormandizes
  • grates
  • grazes
  • gripes
  • grub
  • gulps
  • gums
  • hagrides
  • harasses
  • harries
  • hassles
  • heckles
  • incenses
  • inflames
  • infuriates
  • ingests
  • insults
  • irks
  • irritates
  • itches
  • laps
  • licks
  • lunches
  • maddens
  • meal
  • meals
  • meat
  • mess
  • messes
  • miffs
  • munches
  • nags
  • narks
  • natural food
  • nettles
  • nibbles
  • nosh
  • noshes
  • nourishment
  • nurses
  • nurture
  • nutriment
  • offends
  • outrages
  • overeats
  • overfeeds
  • pap
  • partakes
  • peeves
  • persecutes
  • perturbs
  • pesters
  • picks
  • picnics
  • pigs out
  • piques
  • plagues
  • plate
  • platter
  • polishes off
  • provender
  • provisions
  • provokes
  • puts away
  • puts down
  • puts out
  • rankles
  • rasps
  • rations
  • refreshes
  • refreshments
  • regale
  • regales
  • relishes
  • repast
  • repasts
  • riles
  • roils
  • rouses
  • rubs the wrong way
  • ruffles
  • ruins
  • savors
  • savours
  • scoffs
  • serving
  • silage
  • slop
  • slops
  • snacks
  • spites
  • spread
  • supplies
  • sups
  • sustenance
  • swallows
  • swill
  • swills
  • table
  • tastes
  • teases
  • tidbits
  • tucker
  • undoes
  • unhinges
  • unsettles
  • upsets
  • vexes
  • viands
  • victuals
  • vittles
  • wastes
  • wears on
  • wolfs
  • worries
  • wrecks

gains

  • accelerates
  • accomplishes
  • accrues
  • accumulates
  • achieves
  • acquires
  • allures
  • amasses
  • annexes
  • appreciates
  • approaches
  • argues
  • assets
  • attains
  • attracts
  • avails
  • bags
  • balloons
  • bankroll
  • beats
  • beguiles
  • benefits
  • blandishes
  • blarneys
  • blows up
  • booms
  • boosts
  • bottom line
  • bourgeons
  • brainwashes
  • brings
  • brings around
  • brings in
  • builds up
  • bulks
  • burgeons
  • cajoles
  • capital
  • captures
  • carries
  • cash
  • cash flow
  • catches
  • chalks up
  • chews over
  • clears
  • climbs
  • coaxes
  • coffers
  • comes around
  • comes back
  • comes by
  • comes round
  • comes to
  • commission
  • compensation
  • convalesces
  • converses
  • converts
  • convinces
  • crescendoes
  • crests
  • debates
  • discusses
  • disputes
  • distends
  • dividends
  • drawings
  • draws
  • earnings
  • earns
  • elevates
  • enhances
  • enlarges
  • enriches
  • entices
  • entreats
  • equals
  • escalates
  • excels
  • exchequer
  • excites
  • exhorts
  • expands
  • extends
  • fast-talks
  • finances
  • funds
  • garners
  • gathers
  • gets
  • gravy
  • gross
  • grosses
  • harvest
  • heals
  • heightens
  • hits
  • honorarium
  • improves
  • in the black
  • inclines
  • income
  • increases
  • induces
  • inflates
  • influences
  • intensifies
  • interest
  • interests
  • jumps
  • killing
  • knocks down
  • lands
  • leads on
  • livelihood
  • logs
  • lures
  • makes
  • matches
  • maximizes
  • means
  • meets
  • mends
  • money
  • moots
  • mounts
  • moves
  • multiplies
  • mushrooms
  • net
  • nets
  • obtains
  • occupies
  • outdoes
  • overpersuades
  • pay
  • payoff
  • peaks
  • persuades
  • picks up
  • pocket
  • pocketbook
  • proceeds
  • procures
  • profit
  • proliferates
  • prompts
  • pulls down
  • pulls round
  • pulls through
  • racks up
  • rallies
  • reacquires
  • realizes
  • reaps
  • reattains
  • recaptures
  • receipts
  • recoups
  • recovers
  • recruits
  • recuperates
  • redoubles
  • regains
  • remakes
  • resources
  • return
  • returns
  • revenue
  • revives
  • rings up
  • rises
  • rivals
  • rockets
  • rolls up
  • royalty
  • salary
  • satisfies
  • scores
  • secures
  • seduces
  • sells
  • skyrockets
  • snaps back
  • snowballs
  • snows
  • spreads
  • steps up
  • stimulates
  • surges
  • surpasses
  • survives
  • sways
  • swells
  • take-home
  • take-home pay
  • takes over
  • tempts
  • ties
  • tips
  • tops
  • touches
  • urges
  • wage
  • wages
  • waxes
  • wheedles
  • wherewithal
  • windfall
  • wins
  • yield

ices

  • annihilates
  • assassinates
  • assures
  • attests
  • blots out
  • blows away
  • bumps off
  • butchers
  • carries off
  • certifies
  • cinches
  • claims
  • croaks
  • cuts down
  • destroys
  • dispatches
  • does away with
  • does in
  • eliminates
  • ensures
  • eradicates
  • executes
  • exterminates
  • fells
  • gets
  • guarantees
  • guaranties
  • insures
  • kills
  • knocks off
  • liquidates
  • massacres
  • murders
  • neutralizes
  • offs
  • pledges
  • promises
  • puts away
  • rubs out
  • secures
  • shoots
  • shoots down
  • slaughters
  • slays
  • smites
  • snuffs
  • swears
  • takes out
  • terminates
  • vouches
  • warrants
  • whacks
  • wipes out
  • witnesses
  • zaps

maddens

  • affronts
  • aggravates
  • agitates
  • angers
  • annoys
  • antagonizes
  • bothers
  • confuses
  • cracks
  • crazes
  • crosses
  • deranges
  • discomposes
  • disquiets
  • distracts
  • disturbs
  • embitters
  • enflames
  • enrages
  • envenoms
  • exasperates
  • frenzies
  • gets
  • huffs
  • incenses
  • inflames
  • infuriates
  • ires
  • irritates
  • locos
  • mads
  • miffs
  • nettles
  • offends
  • outrages
  • peeves
  • perturbs
  • piques
  • provokes
  • puts out
  • rankles
  • riles
  • roils
  • rubs the wrong way
  • ruffles
  • steams up
  • ticks off
  • unbalances
  • unhinges
  • unsettles
  • unstrings
  • upsets
  • vexes

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