Scale Synonyms and Antonyms

skāl
A series for measurement
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rule
  2. computation
  3. system
  4. extensively
  5. grandly
  6. expansively
  7. economically
  8. in a small limited way
  9. with restrictions
A flake or film
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. flake
  2. incrustation
  3. exfoliation
  4. thin coating
  5. desquamation
  6. diapason
  7. covering
  8. scurf
  9. plate
  10. furfuration
  11. gamut
  12. lamella
  13. lamina
  14. leprosity
  15. proportion
  16. stepladder
  17. encrustation
  18. ramentum
  19. scaliness
  20. squama
  21. shell
A device for weighing; often plural
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. steelyard
  2. stilliard
  3. balance
  4. scale-beam
  5. spring scale
  6. trebuchet
  7. Roman balance
  8. stapel scale
  9. Danish balance
To climb
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ascend
  2. climb
  3. surmount
  4. mount
  5. go up
Antonyms:
  1. descend
To peel
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. peel
  2. skin
  3. exfoliate
  4. decorticate
  5. pare
  6. strip-off
  7. descale
  8. flake
  9. strip
Musical tones
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. range
  2. diatonic-scale
  3. chromatic-scale
  4. major-scale
  5. minor-scale
  6. whole-tone-scale
  7. harmonic scale
  8. melodic scale
An ordered reference standard
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. scale of measurement
  2. graduated table
  3. ordered series
A specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. scale leaf
(music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. musical-scale
A measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. weighing-machine
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. mailed
  2. scabrous
  3. scaly
  4. scutate
  5. scutellate
  6. squamous

Words Related to Scale

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.

Scale Sentence Examples

  • Life existed at a scale smaller than the eye could see.

  • By such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last.

  • Besides, the bathroom scale had reported a two-pound drop that morning.

  • In this way the scale can be viewed by a microscope of much higher magnifying power than can be employed for the photographed spectrum.

  • The teeth enable the climber to scale a vertical wall by holding to the ice while pulling yourself upward.

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