Veil Synonyms and Antonyms

vāl
A curtain
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. show
  2. cover
  3. veiling
  4. cloak
  5. color
  6. coloring
  7. screen
  8. disguise
  9. disguisement
  10. façade
  11. face
  12. mantilla
  13. false colors
  14. front
  15. gloss
  16. velum
  17. head-covering
  18. guise
  19. mask
  20. masquerade
  21. pretense
  22. pretext
  23. semblance
  24. shade
  25. veneer
  26. window dressing
  27. put-on
To surround and cover completely so as to obscure
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. cloak
  2. clothe
  3. enfold
  4. enshroud
  5. envelop
  6. enwrap
  7. infold
  8. invest
  9. shroud
  10. wrap
Antonyms:
  1. reveal
  2. unveil
A light mist
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. mist
  2. fog
  3. cloud
  4. rain
  5. haze
  6. dimness
  7. twilight
  8. darkness
  9. blur
  10. obscurity
  11. half-light
A vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. humeral-veil

Words Related to Veil

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.

Veil Sentence Examples

  • The music started as Katie pulled the veil forward.

  • But he let them fall when Hajjaj lifted his veil and began to speak.

  • The oldest Egyptian or Hindoo philosopher raised a corner of the veil from the statue of the divinity; and still the trembling robe remains raised, and I gaze upon as fresh a glory as he did, since it was I in him that was then so bold, and it is he in me that now reviews the vision.

  • And all at once it grew light in his soul and the veil that had till then concealed the unknown was lifted from his spiritual vision.

  • She barely had time to lift the veil before he took possession of her lips as well.

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