Hook Synonyms and Antonyms

ho͝ok
An implement for snagging
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. catch
  2. clasp
  3. fastener
  4. lock
  5. aduncity
  6. agraffe
  7. bill-hook
  8. cant-hook
  9. cleek
  10. claw
  11. bait
  12. clives
  13. cottrel
  14. crochet
  15. crook
  16. decoy
  17. fluke
  18. gaff
  19. grapnel
  20. latch
  21. come on
  22. grappling-iron
  23. hasp
  24. peavey
  25. pot-hook
  26. sickle
  27. snare
  28. tenaculum
  29. tenterhook
  30. lure
  31. trammel
  32. trap
  33. sweetener
A curved implement for cutting
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sickle
  2. bill
  3. billhook
  4. machete
  5. adze
  6. scythe
To curve in the shape of a hook
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. angle
  2. crook
  3. snitch
  4. snare
  5. thieve
  6. curve
  7. cop
  8. knock off
  9. glom
Rip off; ask an unreasonable price
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. overcharge
  2. soak
  3. surcharge
  4. gazump
  5. fleece
  6. plume
  7. pluck
  8. rob
*To attain one's end by trickery
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. cheat
  2. defraud
  3. dupe
A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. draw
  2. hooking
Make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. crochet
A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. crotchet
Approach with an offer of sexual favors
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. solicit
  2. accost
To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. addict
A basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. hook-shot
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. aduncous
  2. aquiline
  3. falciform
  4. unciform

Words Related to Hook

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Hook Sentence Examples

  • I caught fish with hook and line and pole.

  • After dinner you can hook me up.

  • The fishery is also carried on along the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk, where great quantities of the fish are caught with hook and line, and conveyed to market alive in "well-boats" specially built for this traffic. Such boats have been in use since the beginning of the '8th century.

  • The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

  • This hook swings on the pivot B, and has an arm which extends backwards, practically at right angles with the working face of the hook, FIG.

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