ways

The word “ways” has 1 syllable: ways

It's pronounced as /weɪz/


What is synonym and antonym for ways?

In the thesaurus, “ways” has 350 synonyms and 36 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for ways

  • a piece
  • abroad
  • abstracted
  • act
  • action
  • addictions
  • address
  • afar
  • affectations
  • affinities
  • air
  • airs
  • airways
  • alleys
  • alleyways
  • alternatives
  • altitudes
  • apart
  • approaches
  • aptitudes
  • arcs
  • areas
  • arterials
  • arteries
  • ascents
  • asunder
  • attitude
  • attributes
  • autobahns
  • autoroutes
  • autostradas
  • autostrade
  • avenues
  • away
  • backstreets
  • backwoods
  • bag
  • bags
  • bearing
  • beltways
  • bents
  • berths
  • beyond range
  • bikeways
  • bit
  • blueprints
  • boulevards
  • branches
  • breadths
  • bypasses
  • bypaths
  • bystreets
  • byways
  • carriage
  • carriageways
  • casts
  • causeways
  • channels
  • characteristics
  • choices
  • circles
  • circuits
  • clearances
  • closes
  • code
  • comportment
  • conduct
  • convention
  • conventions
  • corniches
  • corridors
  • course
  • courses
  • crossroads
  • cul-de-sacs
  • culs-de-sac
  • customs
  • cycleways
  • dead ends
  • dealings
  • decency
  • decorum
  • deed
  • deep
  • delivery
  • demeanor
  • deportment
  • deportments
  • depths
  • descents
  • designs
  • determinations
  • discernments
  • discretions
  • dispositions
  • distances
  • distant
  • doors
  • doorways
  • drags
  • drills
  • drives
  • drops
  • druthers
  • dual carriageways
  • eccentricities
  • elections
  • end of rainbow
  • entrances
  • ethics
  • etiquette
  • expedients
  • expression
  • expressways
  • extensions
  • extents
  • falls
  • far
  • far back
  • far piece
  • far-flung
  • far-off
  • far-removed
  • faraway
  • farther
  • fashions
  • flight paths
  • flights
  • form
  • forms
  • free wills
  • freeways
  • front
  • further
  • game plans
  • games
  • gates
  • gateways
  • gats
  • good ways
  • grooves
  • ground plans
  • guise
  • habits
  • habitudes
  • hatches
  • hatchways
  • hauls
  • heights
  • high roads
  • high streets
  • highways
  • hows
  • idiosyncrasies
  • in the background
  • in the boonies
  • in the distance
  • in the sticks
  • inaccessible
  • inclinations
  • indirect
  • interstates
  • intrigues
  • isolated
  • jog trots
  • judgements
  • judgments
  • kinks
  • lanes
  • laneways
  • layouts
  • leads
  • leanings
  • lengths
  • liberties
  • likings
  • lines
  • long
  • loops
  • main streets
  • management
  • manner
  • manners
  • marks
  • means
  • methodologies
  • methods
  • methods and means
  • methods and resources
  • mews
  • middle of nowhere
  • mien
  • miles
  • mind-sets
  • mode
  • models
  • modes
  • modi operandi
  • morals
  • mores
  • motorways
  • moves
  • nature
  • not home
  • obscure
  • observance
  • oddities
  • options
  • orbits
  • out of earshot
  • out of range
  • out of reach
  • out-of-the-way
  • outlying
  • parkways
  • partialities
  • passages
  • passageways
  • passes
  • paths
  • pathways
  • patterns
  • peculiarities
  • penchants
  • performance
  • perspicacities
  • picks
  • piece
  • pike
  • pikes
  • places
  • plans
  • plots
  • policies
  • portals
  • poses
  • posture
  • practice
  • practices
  • practises
  • predilections
  • predispositions
  • preferences
  • presence
  • processes
  • proclivities
  • programs
  • propensities
  • propriety
  • quirks
  • ranges
  • reaches
  • recipes
  • regimens
  • regimes
  • remote
  • removed
  • removes
  • retired
  • ring roads
  • rises
  • ritual
  • rituals
  • roads
  • roadways
  • role
  • rotes
  • routes
  • routeways
  • routine
  • routines
  • rows
  • ruts
  • savoir-faire
  • says
  • schemes
  • scopes
  • secluded
  • secondary roads
  • secret
  • seemliness
  • selections
  • separate
  • sequestered
  • sets
  • shifts
  • shots
  • shunpikes
  • side roads
  • side streets
  • singularities
  • social graces
  • spaces
  • spacings
  • speech
  • spreads
  • stance
  • steps
  • strategies
  • streets
  • stretches
  • style
  • styles
  • superhighways
  • sweeps
  • switchbacks
  • systems
  • tacks
  • tact
  • tactics
  • talk
  • taste
  • techniques
  • telescopic
  • tendencies
  • tenors
  • tenue
  • thoroughfares
  • through streets
  • throws
  • thruways
  • tics
  • tone
  • traces
  • tracks
  • trails
  • traits
  • trajectories
  • tricks
  • turnpikes
  • turns
  • unapproachable
  • usages
  • uses
  • voices
  • volitions
  • volumes
  • votes
  • walks
  • walkways
  • watercourses
  • waterways
  • way
  • way of life
  • wherewithal
  • wide of
  • widths
  • wills
  • wonts
  • yonder

Antonyms for ways

Meanings of ways

  • noun
    1. (heading) To do with a place or places.
    2. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
    3. A state or condition.
    4. (heading) Personal interaction.
    5. A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
    6. Speed, progress, momentum.
    7. A degree, an amount, a sense.
    8. (As the head of an interjectory clause, followed by an infinitive starting with “to”) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
    9. The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
    10. The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.
    11. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.
    12. (usually preceded by a) A distance.

Example Sentences

  • There are many ways to solve this problem.
  • He tried several different ways to improve his skills.
  • The ways of the ancient civilization are still a mystery.
  • They found new ways to make the process more efficient.
  • In many ways, the new system is better than the old one.

On this page you'll find 386 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to ways, such as: a piece, abroad, abstracted, act, action, addictions, address.

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

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galaxies

  • country miles
  • infinities
  • light-years
  • long hauls
  • ways
  • worlds

habits

  • accouters
  • accoutres
  • act
  • action
  • addictions
  • address
  • affectations
  • air
  • airs
  • alcoholisms
  • anatomies
  • apparels
  • arrays
  • attires
  • attitude
  • attributes
  • bag
  • bags
  • bearing
  • bedecks
  • bedights
  • behavior
  • beliefs
  • bents
  • breeding
  • builds
  • caparisons
  • carriage
  • characteristics
  • civility
  • cloaks
  • clothes
  • code
  • comportment
  • conduct
  • constitutions
  • convenance
  • convention
  • conventions
  • correctitude
  • correctness
  • costumes
  • course
  • courtliness
  • culture
  • customs
  • dealings
  • decency
  • decorum
  • deed
  • delivery
  • demeanor
  • dependances
  • dependences
  • deportment
  • deportments
  • dignity
  • dispositions
  • does up
  • dogmas
  • drapes
  • dresses
  • dresses down
  • dresses up
  • drills
  • eccentricities
  • enrobes
  • enswathes
  • equips
  • ethic
  • ethics
  • etiquette
  • expression
  • fashions
  • figures
  • form
  • formality
  • forms
  • frames
  • frocks
  • front
  • furnishes
  • garbs
  • garments
  • gentility
  • gets up
  • good grace
  • gowns
  • gravity
  • grooves
  • guise
  • habilitates
  • habituations
  • habitudes
  • haps
  • heroinisms
  • huddles
  • ideals
  • ideology
  • inclinations
  • integrity
  • invests
  • jackets
  • jog trots
  • joneses
  • kinks
  • management
  • manners
  • mantles
  • marks
  • mentality
  • mien
  • mind
  • mindset
  • mode
  • modes
  • monkeys
  • morality
  • morals
  • mores
  • morphinisms
  • nature
  • observance
  • oddities
  • order
  • orderliness
  • outfits
  • patterns
  • peculiarities
  • performance
  • physiques
  • policies
  • politeness
  • politesse
  • poses
  • practice
  • practices
  • practises
  • presence
  • principles
  • proclivities
  • properness
  • propriety
  • protocol
  • psyche
  • psychology
  • punctilio
  • quirks
  • regimens
  • regimes
  • respectability
  • ritual
  • rituals
  • robes
  • role
  • rotes
  • routine
  • routines
  • ruts
  • savoir-faire
  • scruples
  • seemliness
  • sets
  • shapes
  • singularities
  • social graces
  • speech
  • spirit
  • structures
  • style
  • style of living
  • styles
  • suits
  • swaddles
  • swathes
  • tact
  • tailors
  • talk
  • taste
  • tendencies
  • tenors
  • tenue
  • tics
  • toilets
  • tolerances
  • tone
  • traits
  • tricks
  • turns
  • underdresses
  • uniforms
  • usage
  • usages
  • uses
  • values
  • vests
  • vestures
  • way
  • way of acting
  • way of life
  • ways
  • wonts
  • wraps

habitudes

  • addictions
  • affectations
  • affections
  • affinities
  • airs
  • appetites
  • aptitudes
  • attributes
  • bags
  • bents
  • biases
  • bones
  • characteristics
  • conventions
  • customs
  • deportments
  • devices
  • dispositions
  • drills
  • eccentricities
  • endowments
  • faculties
  • fancies
  • fashions
  • favors
  • flairs
  • forms
  • fortes
  • genii
  • geniuses
  • gifts
  • grooves
  • habits
  • idiosyncrasies
  • impulses
  • inclinations
  • jog trots
  • kinks
  • knacks
  • leanings
  • likes
  • likings
  • manners
  • marks
  • modes
  • mores
  • oddities
  • partialities
  • partisanships
  • patterns
  • peculiarities
  • penchants
  • poses
  • practices
  • practises
  • predilections
  • predispositions
  • preferences
  • prejudices
  • proclivities
  • propensities
  • quirks
  • regimens
  • regimes
  • rituals
  • rotes
  • routines
  • ruts
  • sets
  • singularities
  • specialities
  • specialties
  • styles
  • talents
  • tastes
  • tendencies
  • tenors
  • tics
  • traits
  • tricks
  • turns
  • usages
  • uses
  • ways
  • wonts

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