Buttress Synonyms and Antonyms

bŭtrĭs
Support, bolster
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. prop-up
  2. bolster
  3. sustain
Antonyms:
  1. let down
  2. weaken
A means or device that keeps something erect, stable, or secure
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. support
  2. brace
  3. crutch
  4. prop
  5. shore
  6. stay
  7. underpinning
A support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. buttressing

Words Related to Buttress

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.

Related:

  1. arete
  2. gable
  3. arch
  4. slab
  5. slabby
  6. ridge
  7. v-groove
  8. string-course
  9. tie beam
  10. arched
  11. spirelet

Buttress Sentence Examples

  • The Kasteel-Berg (Castle Mount), a northern buttress of the mountain, has its own peculiar flora.

  • The history of reformed dogmatics on this subject does not buttress your point unfortunately.

  • We emerge at the foot of a huge rocky buttress to delightful grassy pastures.

  • The next buttress is... Barker's Buttress 95.

  • Set in the eastern buttress of the tower is a huge holy water stoup, quite out of scale with the door.

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