Whirl Synonyms and Antonyms

wûrl, hwûrl
To move or cause to move like a rapid rotary current of liquid
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. eddy
  2. swirl
  3. purl
  4. whirlpool
To have the sensation of turning in circles
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. spin
  2. reel
  3. swirl
  4. twirl
  5. swim
  6. spin around
  7. gyrate
  8. twiddle
Confusion
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bustle
  2. commotion
  3. hurry
  4. flutter
  5. fluster
  6. ferment
  7. agitation
  8. tempest
  9. storm
  10. flurry
  11. rush
  12. tumult
  13. turbulence
  14. stir
  15. hurly-burly
  16. the dizzy rounds
  17. whirlpool
Antonyms:
  1. calm
  2. peace
A trip in a motor vehicle
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. drive
  2. ride
  3. run
  4. spin
A brief trial
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. try
  2. crack
  3. go
  4. fling
  5. stab
  6. shot
  7. whack
  8. pass
  9. offer
To move while rotating or turning about:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. turn
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. revolving
  2. vertiginous

Words Related to Whirl

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.

Whirl Sentence Examples

  • Coleridge was soon in the full whirl of excitement.

  • My head is starting to whirl.

  • A roar in the hallway made him whirl.

  • So a black whirl and torment of rapine, violence and fraud was encircling the Western world, as a life went out which, notwithstanding some eccentricities and some aberrations, had made great tides in human destiny very luminous.

  • My head is sometimes in a whirl.

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