Antonyms for
snake
Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
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No Antonyms Found for Snake

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All Definitions for Snake

Below are all the dictionary definitions of snake:

1Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
2A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain
3A treacherous person.
4A tool for unclogging plumbing.
5To clean using a plumbing snake.
6To follow or move in a winding route.
7To steal slyly.
8Trouser snake
9The penis.
10A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
11An informer
12A rat.
13To inform
14To rat
15Often with out.
16A tool to aid cable pulling.
17A series of Bézier curves.
18The seventh Lenormand card.
19To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one
20To worm.
21To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole
22Often with out.
23A surname.
24The sixth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
25An early computer game, later popular on mobile phones, in which the player attempts to manoeuvre a perpetually growing snake so as to collect food items and avoid colliding with walls or the snake's tail.
26A placename:
27A river in the northwestern United States, tributary to the Columbia.
28Ellipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”). [Any of certain snakes that are black in colour:]
29Ellipsis of snake in the tunnel. [(finance, historical) The first (1970s) attempt at European monetary cooperation, essentially pegging all of the EEC currencies to one another.]
30Ellipsis of Snake Island. [Any of several islands with the name.]

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About antonyms for snake

Finding the right antonym for snake helps writers create contrast, clarify meaning, and add depth to their work. Defined as "Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.", snake has 0 opposite words that can be used to express contrasting ideas.

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