particle

The word “particle” has 3 syllables: par-ti-cle

It's pronounced as /ˈpɑːtɪkəl/


What is synonym and antonym for particle?

In the thesaurus, “particle” has 107 synonyms and 52 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for particle

  • ace
  • atom
  • bit
  • bite
  • chip
  • clipping
  • crumb
  • dab
  • dash
  • dose
  • dot
  • dram
  • dribble
  • driblet
  • drop
  • drop in the bucket
  • flake
  • fleck
  • flyspeck
  • fraction
  • fragment
  • glimmer
  • grain
  • granule
  • haet
  • halfpenny
  • handful
  • hint
  • hoot
  • iota
  • jot
  • kenning
  • lick
  • little
  • minim
  • minimum
  • mite
  • modicum
  • molecule
  • morsel
  • mote
  • mouthful
  • nibble
  • nip
  • nubbin
  • nugget
  • nutshell
  • ounce
  • paring
  • part
  • patch
  • peanuts
  • pinch
  • portion
  • ray
  • scattering
  • scintilla
  • scrap
  • scruple
  • section
  • seed
  • semblance
  • shade
  • shadow
  • shard
  • shaving
  • shiver
  • shot
  • shred
  • skosh
  • sliver
  • smack
  • smatter
  • smattering
  • smell
  • smidge
  • smidgen
  • smidgeon
  • smidgin
  • smithereen
  • smithereens
  • snap
  • snip
  • snippet
  • spark
  • spatter
  • speck
  • splash
  • splinter
  • spot
  • sprinkling
  • stitch
  • strain
  • streak
  • suspicion
  • syllable
  • tad
  • taste
  • tatter
  • tidbit
  • titbit
  • tittle
  • touch
  • trace
  • vestige
  • whisper
  • whit

Antonyms for particle

Meanings of particle

  • noun
    1. A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
    2. Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
    3. A word that has a particular grammatical function but does not obviously belong to any particular part of speech, such as the word to in English infinitives or O as a vocative particle.
    4. A part of speech which cannot be inflected: an adverb, preposition, conjunction or interjection.
    5. In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.

Example Sentences

  • A single particle of dust can cause problems in sensitive equipment.
  • The scientist observed how each particle interacted with the others under the microscope.
  • The air was so thick that you could see every particle floating around.
  • The artist used a small particle of color to highlight the detail in the painting.
  • Even the smallest particle has an important role in the universe's functioning.

On this page you'll find 159 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to particle, such as: abundance, ace, atom, barrel, bit, bite, boatload.

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

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dab

  • KO
  • Renaissance man
  • ace
  • addict
  • adept
  • afficionado
  • aficionado
  • all-rounder
  • anoint
  • apply
  • artist
  • atom
  • authority
  • bang
  • bash
  • bastinade
  • bastinado
  • bat
  • battering
  • beat
  • beating
  • bedaub
  • belt
  • besmear
  • biff
  • bit
  • bite
  • blanket
  • blob
  • blow
  • bludgeoning
  • body blow
  • bop
  • box
  • brush
  • buff
  • buffet
  • bust
  • carpet
  • chip
  • chop
  • chuck
  • clap
  • clasp
  • clench
  • clip
  • clipping
  • clobbering
  • clout
  • clutch
  • coat
  • cognoscente
  • connoisseur
  • consultant
  • counter
  • counterblow
  • counterpunch
  • counterstroke
  • cover
  • crack
  • crackajack
  • crackerjack
  • craftsman
  • crumb
  • cruncher
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuff
  • dab hand
  • dash
  • daub
  • devotee
  • dig
  • dollop
  • dose
  • dot
  • douse
  • dram
  • driblet
  • drop
  • drop in the bucket
  • drubbing
  • enthusiast
  • expert
  • fan
  • feel
  • fiend
  • fillip
  • flake
  • fleck
  • flick
  • flogging
  • flyspeck
  • fragment
  • geek
  • glimmer
  • grain
  • granule
  • grasp
  • graze
  • grip
  • guru
  • hack
  • hammering
  • hand
  • handful
  • handle
  • haymaker
  • hint
  • hired gun
  • hit
  • hold
  • hook
  • hoot
  • hotshot
  • iota
  • jab
  • jack-of-all-trades
  • jam
  • jerk
  • jog
  • jot
  • journeyman
  • kayo
  • kick
  • knee
  • knock
  • knockdown
  • knockout
  • lambasting
  • larrup
  • lash
  • lay
  • lay on
  • layer
  • left
  • lick
  • licking
  • little
  • lunge
  • maestro
  • mantle
  • master
  • maven
  • mavin
  • meister
  • minim
  • minimum
  • mistress
  • mite
  • modicum
  • molecule
  • morsel
  • mote
  • nibble
  • nip
  • nubbin
  • nudge
  • one-two
  • ounce
  • overlay
  • overlie
  • overspread
  • palm
  • palp
  • palpate
  • paring
  • part
  • particle
  • past master
  • pasting
  • pat
  • patch
  • peanuts
  • peck
  • pelt
  • pick
  • pinch
  • plaster
  • plump
  • poke
  • portion
  • pound
  • pounding
  • pro
  • professional
  • proficient
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punch
  • push
  • rabbit punch
  • rap
  • ray
  • right
  • right-hander
  • roundhouse
  • scattering
  • scholar
  • scintilla
  • scrap
  • scruple
  • section
  • semblance
  • shade
  • shadow
  • shard
  • shark
  • sharp
  • shave
  • shaving
  • sheet
  • shiver
  • shot
  • shove
  • shred
  • sidewinder
  • skim
  • skosh
  • slam
  • slap
  • slather
  • sliver
  • slug
  • smack
  • smash
  • smatter
  • smattering
  • smear
  • smell
  • smidge
  • smidgen
  • smidgeon
  • smidgin
  • smithereens
  • smudge
  • snap
  • sock
  • spank
  • spark
  • spatter
  • specialist
  • speck
  • splash
  • splinter
  • spot
  • spread
  • sprinkling
  • stab
  • stick
  • stinger
  • stipple
  • strain
  • streak
  • stripe
  • stroke
  • sucker punch
  • surface
  • suspicion
  • swab
  • swat
  • swing
  • swipe
  • switch
  • syllable
  • tad
  • tag
  • tap
  • taste
  • tatter
  • thrashing
  • thud
  • thump
  • thwack
  • tip
  • tittle
  • touch
  • trace
  • uppercut
  • vestige
  • virtuoso
  • wallop
  • walloping
  • welt
  • whack
  • wham
  • whap
  • whip
  • whipping
  • whit
  • whiz
  • whop
  • wipe
  • wizard

damn

  • a lot
  • abhor
  • abominate
  • absolute
  • absolutely
  • abundantly
  • abuse
  • ace
  • achingly
  • adjudge
  • admonish
  • all-out
  • almighty
  • altogether
  • amazingly
  • anathematize
  • appreciably
  • archly
  • arrant
  • as all get-out
  • astonishingly
  • astronomically
  • attack
  • authentic
  • awful
  • awfully
  • badly
  • ban
  • banish
  • beans
  • beastly
  • belittle
  • berate
  • bit
  • blacklist
  • blame
  • blank
  • blaspheme
  • blast
  • blisteringly
  • blooming
  • bodacious
  • bone
  • bubkes
  • bupkes
  • bupkus
  • cast out
  • castigate
  • categoric
  • categorical
  • censure
  • chasten
  • chastise
  • chide
  • classic
  • clean
  • colossally
  • complain of
  • complete
  • completely
  • conclude
  • condemn
  • confirmed
  • confound
  • considerably
  • constant
  • consummate
  • continental
  • convict
  • corking
  • correct
  • cracking
  • crashing
  • criticize
  • crumb
  • cry down
  • curse
  • cuss
  • dab
  • damned
  • dang
  • darn
  • dead
  • deadly
  • decide
  • decree
  • decry
  • deeply
  • definite
  • denounce
  • denunciate
  • deprecate
  • desperately
  • determine
  • detest
  • diddly
  • diddly-squat
  • dis
  • discernibly
  • discipline
  • disparage
  • dispraise
  • diss
  • doodley-squat
  • doodly-squat
  • doom
  • downright
  • drat
  • dreadful
  • driblet
  • durn
  • eminently
  • endless
  • enormously
  • entirely
  • especially
  • eternal
  • ever
  • exceeding
  • exceedingly
  • exceptionally
  • excessively
  • excommunicate
  • excoriate
  • execrate
  • expel
  • extensively
  • extra
  • extraordinary
  • extreme
  • extremely
  • fabulously
  • fair
  • fantastically
  • far
  • fault
  • fiercely
  • fig
  • filthy
  • find
  • flame
  • flat
  • flat-out
  • frightful
  • frightfully
  • full
  • fully
  • fulminate against
  • genuine
  • ghost
  • glimmer
  • good and
  • grandly
  • greatly
  • habitual
  • hate
  • heavily
  • highly
  • hint
  • hoot
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • huge
  • hugely
  • immensely
  • imprecate
  • incredibly
  • intensely
  • inveigle against
  • inveterate
  • iota
  • jinx
  • jolly
  • jot
  • judge
  • knock
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • lick
  • little
  • loathe
  • main
  • majorly
  • maledict
  • markedly
  • mightily
  • mighty
  • mite
  • modicum
  • monstrous
  • monstrously
  • monumentally
  • mortally
  • most
  • much
  • nip
  • notably
  • noticeably
  • object to
  • objurgate
  • obscenely
  • obviously
  • opine
  • ostracize
  • ounce
  • out-and-out
  • outright
  • overmuch
  • palpably
  • pan
  • particle
  • particularly
  • passing
  • peanuts
  • penalize
  • perfect
  • perpetual
  • pin
  • plainly
  • plentifully
  • plumb
  • positively
  • profound
  • profoundly
  • proscribe
  • punish
  • pure
  • purely
  • radically
  • rake
  • rank
  • rap
  • rattling
  • ray
  • real
  • really
  • rebuke
  • regular
  • remarkably
  • reprehend
  • reprimand
  • reproach
  • reprobate
  • reprove
  • resolve
  • revile
  • right
  • roaring
  • roaringly
  • rule
  • scold
  • scrap
  • scruple
  • semblance
  • sentence
  • seriously
  • severely
  • shade
  • shadow
  • sheer
  • shred
  • significantly
  • simple
  • skosh
  • slam
  • smidge
  • smidgen
  • smidgeon
  • smidgin
  • snap
  • so
  • sore
  • sorely
  • spanking
  • specially
  • speck
  • spot
  • sprinkling
  • squat
  • staggeringly
  • stark
  • stinking
  • stone
  • straight-out
  • strain
  • streak
  • substantially
  • such
  • super
  • superlative
  • supreme
  • supremely
  • surpassing
  • surpassingly
  • suspicion
  • swear
  • syllable
  • terrible
  • terribly
  • terrific
  • that
  • thorough
  • thoroughgoing
  • thoroughly
  • thumping
  • thunder against
  • tittle
  • too
  • total
  • totally
  • touch
  • trace
  • unadulterated
  • unalloyed
  • unco
  • uncommonly
  • unconditional
  • undying
  • unmitigated
  • unqualified
  • unremitting
  • unrestricted
  • upbraid
  • utter
  • utterly
  • vastly
  • veritable
  • very
  • visibly
  • vitally
  • vituperate
  • way
  • whacking
  • whit
  • wholly
  • whoop
  • wicked
  • wildly

factor

  • agency
  • agent
  • aid
  • alternate
  • ambassador
  • antecedent
  • arbiter
  • arbitrator
  • aspect
  • assignee
  • attorney
  • backup
  • basis
  • board
  • broker
  • building block
  • cause
  • characteristic
  • circumstance
  • commissary
  • component
  • comprador
  • compradore
  • conciliator
  • consideration
  • constituent
  • delegate
  • deputy
  • detail
  • diplomat
  • diplomatist
  • distributor
  • division
  • element
  • emissary
  • envoy
  • facet
  • feature
  • foreign minister
  • fragment
  • go-between
  • influence
  • informer
  • ingredient
  • instrument
  • instrumentality
  • intercessor
  • intermediary
  • interposer
  • item
  • legate
  • liaison
  • manager
  • means
  • mediator
  • member
  • middleman
  • minister
  • mouthpiece
  • operative
  • part
  • part and parcel
  • particle
  • particular
  • partition
  • peacemaker
  • piece
  • pinch hitter
  • plenipotentiary
  • point
  • point man
  • point person
  • portion
  • procurator
  • prophet
  • proxy
  • relief
  • rep
  • replacement
  • representative
  • section
  • sector
  • segment
  • speaker
  • spokesman
  • spokesperson
  • spy
  • stand-in
  • sub
  • subcomponent
  • substitute
  • surrogate
  • thing
  • trait
  • understudy

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
  • infant
  • iota
  • jot
  • juvenile
  • kid
  • kiddie
  • kiddo
  • kiddy
  • lad
  • laddie
  • 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
  • shade
  • shadow
  • 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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