layers

The word “layers” has 2 syllables: lay-ers

It's pronounced as /ˈleɪ.ɚz/


What is synonym and antonym for layers?

In the thesaurus, “layers” has 94 synonyms and 1 antonym.

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


Synonyms for layers

  • accumulates
  • amasses
  • assembles
  • band
  • banks
  • bed
  • blanket
  • brackets
  • bunches
  • castes
  • clans
  • classes
  • clumps
  • coat
  • collects
  • concentrates
  • coping
  • corrugations
  • couch
  • course
  • cover
  • covering
  • creases
  • crimps
  • crinkles
  • echelons
  • estates
  • families
  • film
  • flag
  • flap
  • floor
  • fold
  • folk
  • folks
  • food chains
  • fraternities
  • furrows
  • garners
  • gathers
  • gentries
  • girdle
  • grades
  • groupings
  • groups
  • heaps
  • hierarchies
  • lamina
  • lamination
  • lap
  • levels
  • loops
  • lumps
  • mantle
  • masses
  • mounds
  • orders
  • overlap
  • overlay
  • panel
  • people
  • piles
  • places
  • plaits
  • pleats
  • plies
  • ply
  • positions
  • puckers
  • pyramids
  • races
  • ranks
  • row
  • seam
  • seams
  • sheet
  • slab
  • stacks
  • standings
  • statuses
  • story
  • strata
  • stratifications
  • stratum
  • stripe
  • sub-castes
  • subcastes
  • substratum
  • thickness
  • tiers
  • tribes
  • tucks
  • wrinkles
  • zone

Antonyms for layers

  • unpiles

Meanings of layers

  • noun
    1. A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
    2. A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
    3. One of the items in a hierarchy.
    4. (by analogy to a stack of transparencies) one in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
    5. A person who lays things, such as tiles.
    6. A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
    7. A hen kept to lay eggs.
    8. A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
  • verb
    1. To cut or divide (something) into layers.
    2. To arrange (something) in layers.

Example Sentences

  • She wore multiple layers to protect herself from the cold.
  • The cake had three delicious layers of frosting and sponge.
  • Scientists studied the rock layers to understand Earth's history.
  • The painting revealed hidden layers of meaning.
  • Fog settled in thick layers over the valley.

On this page you'll find 95 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to layers, such as: accumulates, amasses, assembles, band, banks, bed, blanket.

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

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lays

  • accredits
  • adventures
  • affixes
  • airs
  • anchors
  • anoints
  • anthems
  • applies
  • appointments
  • arias
  • arie
  • arms
  • arranges
  • arrays
  • art songs
  • arts
  • ascribes
  • assembles
  • assesses
  • assignments
  • assigns
  • associates
  • attaches
  • attributes
  • ballads
  • barcaroles
  • barcarolles
  • battens
  • bedaubs
  • berths
  • besmears
  • bets
  • bids
  • billets
  • blames
  • blankets
  • bleeds
  • blues
  • braces
  • buries
  • businesses
  • cadences
  • callings
  • calls
  • cantatas
  • canticles
  • carols
  • carpets
  • carries
  • chalks up
  • chances
  • chansons
  • chanteys
  • chanties
  • chants
  • charges
  • chorales
  • choruses
  • claps
  • clarifies
  • clears
  • cloaks
  • coats
  • coerces
  • coffins
  • collects
  • compels
  • conceals
  • connects
  • covers
  • crafts
  • credits
  • croons
  • curtains
  • dabs
  • daubs
  • deposes
  • deposits
  • descants
  • dirges
  • discants
  • disposes
  • ditties
  • docks
  • drafts
  • draws up
  • drinking songs
  • duties
  • educates
  • emplaces
  • employments
  • endangers
  • engagements
  • ensconces
  • enshrines
  • enshrouds
  • enterprises
  • entombs
  • equips
  • establishes
  • exacts
  • excises
  • extorts
  • fields
  • fight songs
  • filters
  • fines
  • fits
  • fixes
  • fleeces
  • flops
  • folk songs
  • forces
  • forearms
  • fortifies
  • frames
  • functions
  • furnishes
  • gambles
  • games
  • gathers
  • gears up
  • gigs
  • girds
  • glees
  • goes
  • gouges
  • grooms
  • hallelujahs
  • handcrafts
  • handicrafts
  • hazards
  • hearses
  • hides
  • hymns
  • immures
  • imperils
  • imposes
  • imputes
  • inclines
  • indoctrinates
  • inflicts
  • inhumes
  • instructs
  • inters
  • inurns
  • jeopardizes
  • jingles
  • jobs
  • laments
  • layers
  • lays on
  • lays out
  • levies
  • lifeworks
  • lines
  • lines up
  • links
  • livelihoods
  • livings
  • loads
  • locates
  • locks
  • lodges
  • lullabies
  • lyrics
  • madrigals
  • mantles
  • measures
  • medleys
  • melodies
  • meters
  • metiers
  • milks
  • missions
  • motets
  • mounts
  • moves
  • mulcts
  • niches
  • noels
  • obscures
  • occupations
  • offers
  • offices
  • orients
  • outfits
  • overlays
  • overlies
  • overspreads
  • paeans
  • parks
  • part-songs
  • penalizes
  • places
  • planks
  • plants
  • plasters
  • plays
  • plonks
  • plops
  • plumps
  • plunks
  • plunks down
  • pops
  • positions
  • posts
  • predisposes
  • prepares
  • preps
  • primes
  • professions
  • provides
  • psalms
  • puts
  • puts away
  • puts down
  • queues
  • rackets
  • ranks
  • readies
  • reapplies
  • rearranges
  • reburies
  • refers
  • reimposes
  • reinters
  • relays
  • remixes
  • reorders
  • requiems
  • resettles
  • rhythms
  • rockers
  • roundelays
  • rounds
  • schools
  • screens
  • sediments
  • serenades
  • sets
  • sets down
  • sets up
  • settles
  • shades
  • shakes down
  • shanties
  • sheets
  • shields
  • shifts
  • shrouds
  • sieves
  • sifts
  • situates
  • situations
  • skins
  • slaps
  • slathers
  • smears
  • songs
  • speculates
  • spirituals
  • spreads
  • squeezes
  • stakes
  • standards
  • steels
  • sticks
  • strains
  • supplies
  • surfaces
  • tasks
  • taxes
  • threnodies
  • tombs
  • torch songs
  • trades
  • trains
  • tunes
  • tutors
  • ventures
  • vocals
  • vocations
  • wagers
  • warbles
  • wedges
  • workloads
  • works
  • wreaks
  • wrests
  • wrings

lays on

  • advances
  • anoints
  • applies
  • apprentices
  • assumes
  • bedaubs
  • besmears
  • blankets
  • carpets
  • coats
  • contracts
  • covers
  • dabs
  • daubs
  • employs
  • engages
  • enlists
  • fees
  • headhunts
  • hires
  • jobs
  • layers
  • lays
  • mantles
  • overlays
  • overlies
  • overspreads
  • partners
  • pays
  • places
  • plasters
  • promotes
  • recruits
  • reemploys
  • reengages
  • rehires
  • retains
  • scouts
  • sheets
  • slathers
  • smears
  • spreads
  • subcontracts
  • surfaces
  • takes on
  • upgrades

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