nibble

The word “nibble” has 2 syllables: nib-ble

It's pronounced as /ˈnɪb.l̩/


What is synonym and antonym for nibble?

In the thesaurus, “nibble” has 86 synonyms and 19 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for nibble

  • appetizer
  • bit
  • bite
  • bolt
  • break down
  • break up
  • champ
  • chaw
  • chew
  • collop
  • consume
  • corrode
  • crop
  • crumb
  • dab
  • dash
  • decimate
  • decompose
  • destroy
  • devastate
  • devour
  • disintegrate
  • dissolve
  • dribble
  • driblet
  • drop
  • eat
  • eat like a bird
  • erode
  • fleck
  • fret
  • gnaw
  • gorge
  • graze
  • gulp
  • gum
  • hint
  • ingest
  • lap
  • lick
  • masticate
  • medallion
  • morsel
  • mote
  • mouthful
  • mumble
  • munch
  • nip
  • noisette
  • nosh
  • nosh on
  • nubbin
  • nugget
  • particle
  • peck
  • pick
  • pinch
  • ruin
  • ruminate
  • scarf
  • scoff
  • scrap
  • scruple
  • shred
  • smidge
  • smidgen
  • smidgeon
  • smidgin
  • snack
  • snip
  • snippet
  • speck
  • spot
  • sprinkling
  • suspicion
  • swallow
  • swig
  • taste
  • tidbit
  • titbit
  • tittle
  • touch
  • trace
  • waste
  • wolf
  • wreck

Antonyms for nibble

  • devour
  • freshen
  • gorge
  • gormandize
  • gulp
  • lot
  • mouthful
  • overeat
  • pig out
  • recreate
  • refresh
  • refreshen
  • regenerate
  • rejuvenate
  • renew
  • restore
  • revitalize
  • revive
  • swill

Meanings of nibble

  • noun
    1. A small, quick bite taken with the front teeth.
    2. (in the plural, nibbles) Small snacks such as crisps/potato chips or nuts, often eaten to accompany drinks.
    3. A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or four bits.
  • verb
    1. To eat with small, quick bites.
    2. To bite lightly.
    3. To consume gradually.
    4. To find fault; to cavil.

Example Sentences

  • She offered me a nibble of her chocolate bar.
  • The puppy gave a gentle nibble on my finger.
  • He couldn’t resist a nibble before dinner.
  • The fish gave a nibble, but didn’t take the bait.
  • We enjoyed a light nibble during the meeting break.

On this page you'll find 105 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to nibble, such as: appetizer, bit, bite, bolt, break down, break up, champ.

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  • enthusiast
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  • nibble
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  • nudge
  • one-two
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  • peanuts
  • peck
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  • pro
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  • pummelling
  • punch
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  • roundhouse
  • scattering
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  • scrap
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  • sheet
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  • skim
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  • smidgen
  • smidgeon
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  • spank
  • spark
  • spatter
  • specialist
  • speck
  • splash
  • splinter
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  • spread
  • sprinkling
  • stab
  • stick
  • stinger
  • stipple
  • strain
  • streak
  • stripe
  • stroke
  • sucker punch
  • surface
  • suspicion
  • swab
  • swat
  • swing
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  • switch
  • syllable
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  • tap
  • taste
  • tatter
  • thrashing
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  • thump
  • thwack
  • tip
  • tittle
  • touch
  • trace
  • uppercut
  • vestige
  • virtuoso
  • wallop
  • walloping
  • welt
  • whack
  • wham
  • whap
  • whip
  • whipping
  • whit
  • whiz
  • whop
  • wipe
  • wizard

eat

  • absorb
  • affront
  • aggravate
  • agitate
  • anger
  • annoy
  • antagonize
  • attack
  • badger
  • bait
  • ballyrag
  • banquet
  • bite
  • board
  • bolt
  • bother
  • break bread
  • break down
  • break up
  • breakfast
  • bug
  • bullyrag
  • chafe
  • chew
  • chow down
  • condense
  • consume
  • corrode
  • cram
  • crumble
  • decay
  • decimate
  • decompose
  • destroy
  • devastate
  • devil
  • devour
  • dig in
  • digest
  • dine
  • dine out
  • disappear
  • discomfort
  • discompose
  • disintegrate
  • dispatch
  • dispose of
  • disquiet
  • dissipate
  • dissolve
  • distress
  • down
  • drain
  • enflame
  • enrage
  • erode
  • exasperate
  • exercise
  • exhaust
  • fall to
  • fare
  • feast
  • feast upon
  • feed
  • fret
  • frost
  • gall
  • get
  • get to
  • glut
  • gnaw
  • gobble up
  • gorge
  • gormandize
  • grate
  • graze
  • gripe
  • gulp
  • gum
  • hagride
  • harass
  • harry
  • hassle
  • have a bite
  • have a meal
  • have for
  • heckle
  • incense
  • inflame
  • infuriate
  • ingest
  • inhale
  • insult
  • irk
  • irritate
  • itch
  • lap
  • lick
  • liquefy
  • lunch
  • madden
  • make pig of oneself
  • masticate
  • melt
  • mess
  • miff
  • munch
  • nag
  • nark
  • nettle
  • nibble
  • nosh
  • nurse
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  • overeat
  • overfeed
  • partake
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  • peck at
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  • persecute
  • perturb
  • pester
  • pick
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  • polish off
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  • provoke
  • put away
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  • rot
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  • rub the wrong way
  • ruffle
  • ruin
  • ruminate
  • run through
  • rust
  • savor
  • savour
  • scarf
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  • snack
  • spill
  • spite
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  • sup
  • swallow
  • swill
  • take food
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  • take nourishment
  • taste
  • tease
  • undo
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  • unsettle
  • upset
  • vanish
  • vex
  • victual
  • waste
  • waste away
  • wear on
  • wolf
  • worry
  • wreck

gall

  • abrade
  • acrimony
  • affront
  • aggravate
  • agitate
  • alienation
  • anger
  • animosity
  • animus
  • annoy
  • antagonism
  • antagonize
  • antipathy
  • arrogance
  • assurance
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • back talk
  • bad blood
  • badger
  • bait
  • ballyrag
  • bark
  • bedevil
  • bite
  • bitterness
  • blood feud
  • bother
  • brashness
  • brass
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  • brazenness
  • break down
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  • bug
  • bullyrag
  • burn
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  • cheek
  • cheekiness
  • chew
  • chide
  • chutzpa
  • chutzpah
  • cockiness
  • conceit
  • confidence
  • conflict
  • coolness
  • corrade
  • corrode
  • crust
  • crust cynicism
  • decompose
  • devil
  • disaffection
  • discomfort
  • discompose
  • discord
  • discourteousness
  • disintegrate
  • disquiet
  • disrespect
  • dissolve
  • distress
  • disturb
  • eat
  • effrontery
  • enflame
  • enmity
  • enrage
  • erase
  • erode
  • estrangement
  • exasperate
  • excoriate
  • exercise
  • face
  • feud
  • file
  • flay
  • fray
  • frazzle
  • fret
  • friction
  • frost
  • get
  • get to
  • gnaw
  • grate
  • graze
  • grind
  • gripe
  • grudge
  • guts
  • hagride
  • harass
  • hardihood
  • harry
  • hassle
  • hate
  • hatred
  • haughtiness
  • heckle
  • hone
  • hostility
  • hutzpa
  • hutzpah
  • impertinence
  • impoliteness
  • impudence
  • incense
  • incivility
  • inconsiderateness
  • inconsideration
  • inflame
  • infuriate
  • inhospitableness
  • insolence
  • insult
  • irk
  • irritate
  • itch
  • jaundice
  • loathing
  • madden
  • malevolence
  • malice
  • malignancy
  • malignity
  • miff
  • nag
  • nark
  • nerve
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  • nettle
  • nibble
  • offend
  • outrage
  • overbearance
  • overconfidence
  • peel
  • peeve
  • persecute
  • pertness
  • perturb
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  • pique
  • plague
  • pomposity
  • presumption
  • presumptuousness
  • provoke
  • put out
  • rancor
  • rankle
  • rasp
  • reduce
  • rile
  • roil
  • rouse
  • rub
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  • rub the wrong way
  • rudeness
  • ruffle
  • sandblast
  • sandpaper
  • sanguinity
  • sass
  • sauce
  • sauciness
  • score
  • scour
  • scrape
  • scratch
  • scuff
  • self-assurance
  • self-confidence
  • self-importance
  • sharpen
  • shave
  • skin
  • spite
  • spitefulness
  • strain
  • swagger
  • swash
  • tease
  • temerity
  • tension
  • torment
  • trouble
  • undo
  • unfriendliness
  • ungraciousness
  • unhinge
  • unsettle
  • upset
  • vendetta
  • venom
  • vex
  • vindictiveness
  • virulence
  • vitriol
  • wear
  • wear on
  • wear out
  • whet
  • worry

haet

  • ace
  • atom
  • bit
  • bite
  • chip
  • clipping
  • crumb
  • dab
  • dash
  • dribble
  • driblet
  • drop
  • flake
  • fleck
  • flyspeck
  • fraction
  • fragment
  • grain
  • granule
  • halfpenny
  • iota
  • jot
  • kenning
  • lick
  • minim
  • mite
  • modicum
  • molecule
  • morsel
  • mote
  • mouthful
  • nibble
  • nubbin
  • nugget
  • nutshell
  • ounce
  • paring
  • part
  • particle
  • patch
  • pinch
  • portion
  • scrap
  • scruple
  • section
  • shard
  • shaving
  • shiver
  • shred
  • sliver
  • smatter
  • smidge
  • smidgen
  • smidgeon
  • smidgin
  • smithereens
  • snip
  • snippet
  • speck
  • splinter
  • spot
  • strain
  • streak
  • suspicion
  • taste
  • tidbit
  • titbit
  • tittle
  • touch
  • trace
  • whisper
  • whit

tad

  • ace
  • adolescent
  • angelface
  • atom
  • babe
  • bairn
  • bambino
  • basics
  • bit
  • bite
  • boy
  • boychick
  • boychik
  • boyo
  • bundle
  • bundle of joy
  • buttercup
  • button
  • callant
  • cherub
  • chick
  • chicken feed
  • child
  • chip
  • clipping
  • crawler
  • crumb
  • dab
  • dash
  • deduction
  • dividend
  • dose
  • dot
  • dram
  • driblet
  • drop
  • drop in the bucket
  • dumpling
  • elements
  • flake
  • fleck
  • flyspeck
  • fraction
  • fragment
  • gamin
  • glimmer
  • grain
  • granule
  • guttersnipe
  • handful
  • hint
  • hobbledehoy
  • hoot
  • imp
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  • iota
  • jot
  • juvenile
  • kid
  • kiddie
  • kiddo
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  • lad
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  • lick
  • little
  • little angel
  • little bit
  • little child
  • little darling
  • little doll
  • little one
  • milksop
  • minim
  • minimum
  • minor
  • mite
  • modicum
  • molecule
  • mollycoddle
  • moppet
  • morsel
  • mote
  • neonate
  • newborn
  • nibble
  • nip
  • nipper
  • nubbin
  • nursling
  • ounce
  • papoose
  • paring
  • part
  • particle
  • patch
  • peanuts
  • pinch
  • portion
  • preemie
  • pushover
  • ray
  • rudiments
  • scattering
  • schoolboy
  • scintilla
  • scrap
  • scruple
  • section
  • semblance
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  • shard
  • shaveling
  • shaver
  • shaving
  • shiver
  • shot
  • shred
  • skosh
  • sliver
  • smack
  • small amount
  • small bit
  • small quantity
  • smatter
  • smattering
  • smell
  • smidge
  • smidgen
  • smidgeon
  • smidgin
  • smithereens
  • snap
  • sonny
  • spark
  • spatter
  • speck
  • splash
  • splinter
  • spot
  • sprinkling
  • squirt
  • strain
  • streak
  • stripling
  • suckling
  • suspicion
  • syllable
  • taste
  • tatter
  • teenager
  • tike
  • tittle
  • toddler
  • tot
  • touch
  • trace
  • tween
  • tyke
  • urchin
  • vestige
  • wee bit
  • whiff
  • whippersnapper
  • whisper
  • whit
  • young child
  • youngling
  • youngster
  • youth

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