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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.

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