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Fish

/fɪʃ/

A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

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📖 Definitions of "Fish"

noun

1
A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
"Salmon is a fish."
2
Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
3
The flesh of the fish used as food.
"The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta."
4
A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.

🔄 Synonyms of "Fish"

13 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
marknoun	(heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
foolnoun	(derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
suckernoun	A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
chumpnoun	(colloquial, derogatory) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
patsynoun	A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
anglenoun	(geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
gullnoun	A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
soft touchnoun	(idiomatic) A person or group that is sympathetic, accommodating, easily overcome, or easily persuaded, especially one that loans or readily gives money to another.
shlemielnoun	Alternative form of schlemiel. [A loser or a fool.]
mugnoun	A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
fall guynoun	(informal, sometimes derogatory) A scapegoat.
schlemielnoun	A loser or a fool.
go fishnoun	(card games) A children's card game in which players ask each other for cards of a particular rank, requiring them to "fish" in a pool of additional cards if they do not have the requested card.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Fish"

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Word	Definition
gullnoun	A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
suckernoun	A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
shlemielnoun	Alternative form of schlemiel. [A loser or a fool.]
marknoun	(heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
chumpnoun	(colloquial, derogatory) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
schlemielnoun	A loser or a fool.
foolnoun	(derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
anglenoun	(geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
soft touchnoun	(idiomatic) A person or group that is sympathetic, accommodating, easily overcome, or easily persuaded, especially one that loans or readily gives money to another.
fall guynoun	(informal, sometimes derogatory) A scapegoat.
mugnoun	A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
go fishnoun	(card games) A children's card game in which players ask each other for cards of a particular rank, requiring them to "fish" in a pool of additional cards if they do not have the requested card.
patsynoun	A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
finfishnoun	(informal) Clipped compound of finned fish, as in e.g. ray-finned fish; used to distinguish them from shellfish, cartilaginous fish and other similar aquatic creatures customarily used as food.
codfishnoun	(uncountable) The flesh of the cod as food.
dogfishnoun	Any of various small sharks
halibutnoun	A large flatfish of the genus Hippoglossus, which sometimes leaves the ocean floor and swims vertically.
sharknoun	(ichthyology, countable) Any predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
torpedonoun	(military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
seafoodnoun	Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.