raven

The word “raven” has 2 syllables: ra-ven

It's pronounced as /ˈreɪvən/


What is synonym and antonym for raven?

In the thesaurus, “raven” has 154 synonyms and 39 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for raven

  • aim
  • atramentous
  • bituminous
  • black
  • blackish
  • blackmail
  • bleed
  • bolt
  • booty
  • brunet
  • brunette
  • bully
  • burden
  • casualty
  • charcoal
  • chase
  • chased
  • clog
  • clouded
  • cloy
  • coal
  • coal-black
  • congest
  • consume
  • cram
  • dark
  • deluge
  • depredate
  • devour
  • dingy
  • distress
  • dupe
  • dusky
  • dusty
  • eat
  • ebon
  • ebony
  • exploit
  • feast
  • feed on
  • fill
  • fish
  • fleece
  • flood
  • fowl
  • game
  • gloomy
  • glut
  • gobble
  • goods
  • gorge
  • gormandize
  • graft
  • gulp
  • harbinger
  • haunt
  • hog
  • hot goods
  • hunt
  • ingurgitate
  • inhale
  • inklike
  • inky
  • intimidate
  • inundate
  • jade
  • jet
  • jetty
  • kill
  • live off
  • livid
  • load
  • loot
  • make
  • make a pig of
  • mark
  • martyr
  • meat
  • melanoid
  • midnight
  • mug
  • murky
  • objective
  • obsidian
  • omen
  • onyx
  • oppress
  • overeat
  • overfeed
  • overload
  • overstock
  • overwhelm
  • pack
  • pall
  • piceous
  • pickings
  • pig out
  • pillage
  • pitch
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • pitchy
  • plunder
  • plunderage
  • prey
  • prize
  • quarry
  • quest
  • raid
  • rapine
  • ravin
  • rebel
  • red flag
  • sable
  • sate
  • satiate
  • saturate
  • scarf
  • scoff
  • seize
  • shadowy
  • slate
  • sloe
  • slop
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sooty
  • spoil
  • starless
  • storm petrel
  • stuff
  • stygian
  • sufferer
  • sunless
  • surfeit
  • swart
  • swarthy
  • swill
  • take
  • take advantage of
  • tax
  • trappings
  • trouble
  • underdog
  • unlighted
  • unlit
  • victim
  • victimize
  • weigh
  • wild animals
  • winnings
  • wolf
  • wood
  • worry

Antonyms for raven

  • abstain
  • aid
  • animal of prey
  • assist
  • attacker
  • beast of prey
  • bird of prey
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • deplete
  • deprive
  • diet
  • dissatisfy
  • fast
  • gift
  • give
  • good
  • guard
  • happy
  • help
  • hopeful
  • light
  • moderate
  • nibble
  • open
  • pale
  • palish
  • peck
  • pick
  • predator
  • protect
  • reduce
  • relieve
  • repress
  • save
  • sunny
  • suppress
  • underwhelm
  • white

Meanings of raven

  • noun
    1. Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
    2. A jet-black colour.
    3. Rapine; rapacity.
    4. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
  • adjective
    1. Of the color of the raven; jet-black.
  • verb
    1. To obtain or seize by violence.
    2. To devour with great eagerness.
    3. To prey on with rapacity.
    4. To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).

Example Sentences

  • A raven perched on the tree, watching the scene below.
  • The dark raven flew across the sky, silhouetted against the setting sun.
  • In the myth, the raven was a symbol of transformation and mystery.
  • A single raven cawed from the rooftop, its voice echoing through the valley.
  • The old poem spoke of a lonely raven that never left its perch.

On this page you'll find 193 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to raven, such as: abstain, aid, aim, animal of prey, assist, atramentous, attacker.

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Related Words

ebony

  • black
  • blackish
  • brunet
  • brunette
  • dark
  • dusky
  • inky
  • jet
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • pitchy
  • raven
  • sable
  • wood

sable

  • Persian lamb
  • alligator
  • badger
  • bearskin
  • beaver
  • black
  • blackish
  • brunet
  • brunette
  • buckskin
  • calfskin
  • chamois
  • chinchilla
  • coonskin
  • cordovan
  • cowhide
  • crocodile
  • dark
  • deerskin
  • doeskin
  • dusky
  • dusty
  • ebon
  • ebony
  • ermine
  • fisher
  • fleece
  • fox
  • fur
  • gloomy
  • goatskin
  • hide
  • horsehide
  • inky
  • jet
  • jetty
  • karakul
  • kidskin
  • kolinsky
  • lambskin
  • leather
  • marten
  • mink
  • morocco
  • mouton
  • murky
  • muskrat
  • otter
  • patent leather
  • pelt
  • pigskin
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • pitchy
  • rabbit
  • raccoon
  • racoon
  • raven
  • rawhide
  • seal
  • sealskin
  • sharkskin
  • sheep
  • sheepskin
  • skin
  • snakeskin
  • somber
  • suede

sabotage

  • annihilate
  • arrest
  • attack
  • baffle
  • bang up
  • block
  • bollix
  • bottleneck
  • brake
  • break
  • break up
  • check
  • constrain
  • cripple
  • curb
  • damage
  • decelerate
  • deep-six
  • deface
  • defacement
  • defacing
  • demolish
  • demolishing
  • demolishment
  • demolition
  • depredate
  • depredation
  • desecrate
  • desecrating
  • desecration
  • despoil
  • despoiling
  • despoilment
  • destroy
  • destruction
  • devastate
  • disable
  • disrupt
  • disruption
  • do
  • do in
  • encumber
  • foil
  • foul up
  • frustrate
  • graffiti
  • halt
  • hamper
  • handicap
  • harm
  • hinder
  • hobble
  • hold back
  • hold up
  • hurt
  • impair
  • impairment
  • impede
  • inhibit
  • injury
  • loot
  • looting
  • louse up
  • mar
  • maraud
  • marauding
  • mess up
  • mischief
  • obstruct
  • overthrow
  • pillage
  • pillaging
  • plunder
  • plundering
  • predation
  • put out of action
  • put out of commission
  • ransack
  • ransacking
  • ravage
  • ravaging
  • raven
  • raze
  • rein
  • restrain
  • retard
  • ruin
  • ruination
  • sack
  • sacking
  • scourge
  • screw up
  • set back
  • shatter
  • slacken
  • slow
  • smash
  • spoil
  • spoliate
  • spoliation
  • stop
  • subversion
  • subversiveness
  • subvert
  • tag
  • take out
  • tear down
  • throw a monkey wrench into
  • thwart
  • tie up
  • torpedo
  • total
  • trash
  • trashing
  • treachery
  • treason
  • undermine
  • undermining
  • vandalism
  • vandalization
  • vandalize
  • violate
  • waste
  • wipe out
  • wrack
  • wreck
  • wreckage
  • wrecking

game

  • accommodating
  • adventure
  • agreeable
  • aim
  • ambit
  • amenable
  • amplitude
  • amusement
  • appointment
  • area
  • arena
  • arrangement
  • art
  • assignment
  • athletics
  • bad
  • bailiwick
  • barony
  • battle
  • berth
  • biathlon
  • billet
  • blueprint
  • bold
  • bout
  • breadth
  • business
  • butt
  • call
  • calling
  • championship
  • chase
  • circle
  • classic
  • collusion
  • compass
  • competition
  • compliant
  • conception
  • confine
  • conflict
  • conspiracy
  • contest
  • contrivance
  • cooperative
  • counterplan
  • counterstrategy
  • courageous
  • craft
  • dauntless
  • dead heat
  • decathlon
  • deformed
  • demesne
  • department
  • derby
  • derision
  • design
  • desirous
  • device
  • diagram
  • disabled
  • discipline
  • disposed
  • distraction
  • diversion
  • dogged
  • domain
  • duty
  • eager
  • element
  • employment
  • engagement
  • enterprise
  • enthused
  • enthusiastic
  • event
  • excited
  • extent
  • facetiousness
  • fain
  • favorable
  • fearless
  • festivity
  • fief
  • fiefdom
  • field
  • field day
  • final
  • firmament
  • fish
  • flightiness
  • flippancy
  • formula
  • fowl
  • frivolity
  • frivolousness
  • frolic
  • front
  • frontier
  • frothiness
  • fun
  • function
  • gallant
  • gambit
  • game plan
  • gig
  • glad
  • ground plan
  • gymkhana
  • handcraft
  • handicraft
  • hardy
  • heat
  • heptathlon
  • heroic
  • hoax
  • idea
  • incapacitated
  • inclined
  • injured
  • intent
  • intention
  • interested
  • intrepid
  • jest
  • job
  • joke
  • ken
  • kill
  • kingdom
  • lame
  • lark
  • lay
  • layout
  • levity
  • lifework
  • light-mindedness
  • line
  • livelihood
  • living
  • load
  • maimed
  • maneuver
  • map
  • marathon
  • master plan
  • match
  • matchup
  • means
  • meat
  • meet
  • merriment
  • merrymaking
  • metier
  • minded
  • mission
  • nervy
  • nightcap
  • obedient
  • object of ridicule
  • obliging
  • occupation
  • office
  • open
  • outing
  • pastime
  • pattern
  • pentathlon
  • persevering
  • persistent
  • photo finish
  • place
  • plan
  • platform
  • play
  • play-off
  • plot
  • ploy
  • plucky
  • policy
  • position
  • post
  • practical joke
  • prank
  • precinct
  • predisposed
  • prepared
  • prey
  • procedure
  • proceeding
  • profession
  • program
  • project
  • projet
  • prompt
  • prone
  • proposal
  • protocol
  • province
  • purpose
  • pursuit
  • quarry
  • quick
  • race
  • racket
  • rally
  • raven
  • ravin
  • reach
  • ready
  • realm
  • receptive
  • recipe
  • recreation
  • resolute
  • responsive
  • road map
  • romp
  • round
  • round-robin
  • rubber
  • run
  • runoff
  • ruse
  • scheme
  • scope
  • scrimmage
  • seesaw
  • semifinal
  • set
  • setup
  • silliness
  • situation
  • skirmish
  • specialty
  • sphere
  • spirited
  • sport
  • sports
  • spunky
  • stratagem
  • strategy
  • struggle
  • study
  • subfield
  • subject
  • submissive
  • subspecialty
  • subterfuge
  • sudden death
  • sweep
  • sweep-stake
  • sweepstakes
  • swift
  • system
  • tactic
  • task
  • technique
  • terrain
  • territory
  • tournament
  • tourney
  • trade
  • triathlon
  • trick
  • tug-of-war
  • turf
  • tussle
  • ultramarathon
  • unafraid
  • undertaking
  • unflinching
  • up for
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • vocation
  • volley
  • walk
  • way
  • weak
  • weakened
  • width
  • wild animals
  • willing
  • work
  • workload

jet

  • accelerate
  • airbus
  • airplane
  • arrow
  • atramentous
  • barrel
  • beat it
  • beeline
  • beetle
  • belch
  • belt
  • bituminous
  • blast
  • blaze
  • blow
  • bolt
  • bomb
  • bowl
  • breeze
  • bundle
  • burst
  • bustle
  • buzz
  • cannonball
  • careen
  • career
  • cascade
  • cast
  • catch up
  • chase
  • coal-black
  • course
  • dark
  • dart
  • dash
  • deluge
  • discharge
  • disgorge
  • drive
  • drown
  • ebon
  • ebony
  • eject
  • emanate
  • emit
  • engulf
  • eruct
  • erupt
  • exhale
  • expel
  • fast-forward
  • fire
  • fling
  • flit
  • flood
  • flow
  • flush
  • fly
  • fountain
  • gallop
  • get a move on
  • geyser
  • gush
  • hare
  • hasten
  • heave
  • hie
  • highball
  • hump
  • hurl
  • hurry
  • hurtle
  • hustle
  • inky
  • inundate
  • issue
  • jog
  • jump
  • launch
  • make tracks
  • midnight
  • motor
  • nip
  • obsidian
  • outpace
  • outrun
  • outstrip
  • overflow
  • overtake
  • overwhelm
  • pelt
  • pitch
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • plane
  • plash
  • pour
  • quicken
  • race
  • ram
  • raven
  • release
  • rip
  • rocket
  • roll
  • run
  • rush
  • rustle
  • sable
  • scamper
  • scoot
  • scud
  • scuffle
  • scurry
  • scuttle
  • shake a leg
  • shoot
  • slosh
  • sluice
  • soar
  • speed
  • spew
  • spit
  • splash
  • spout
  • spouter
  • spray
  • spring
  • sprint
  • spritz
  • spurt
  • squirt
  • stampede
  • step
  • step on it
  • step out
  • streak
  • stream
  • submerge
  • submerse
  • supersonic
  • supersonic transport
  • surge
  • swamp
  • swell
  • swoosh
  • tear
  • toss
  • travel
  • trot
  • turbo
  • vent
  • wash
  • whirl
  • whisk
  • whiz
  • whizz
  • zip
  • zoom

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