Synonyms for hit
Another word for hit is hitting, striking or strike. Below are 15 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses, with antonyms.
Also searched as: hits.
1. noun: (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
2. noun: the act of contacting one thing with another
- hitting
- striking synonyms
3. noun: a conspicuous success
- strike synonyms
- bang synonyms
- smash synonyms
- smasher
4. noun: (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- collision
5. noun: a dose of a narcotic drug
6. noun: a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
7. noun: a connection made via the internet to another website
8. verb: cause to move by striking
9. verb: hit against; come into sudden contact with
- run into synonyms
- strike synonyms
- collide with
- impinge on
Antonyms
10. verb: deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
11. verb: reach a destination, either real or abstract
- make synonyms
- reach synonyms
- gain synonyms
- arrive at
- attain synonyms
12. verb: affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- strike synonyms
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- safety synonyms
- effort synonyms
- base hit
- feat
- exploit synonyms
- touch synonyms
- ground ball
- fly synonyms
- fly ball
- crash synonyms
- touching synonyms
- header synonyms
- hopper synonyms
- bunt
- screamer
- contusion
- grounder
- scorcher
- plunk
- success synonyms
- smash hit
- blockbuster
- sleeper synonyms
- megahit
- contact synonyms
- impinging
- dose synonyms
- dosage
- murder synonyms
- execution synonyms
Hit in word games
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Questions people ask
What is another word for hit?
You can say hitting, striking, strike, bang or smash instead of hit. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "(baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)".
What is the opposite of hit?
The opposite of hit is miss.
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Senses and synonyms from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0); the most common words come first. Browse more on the synonyms and antonyms hub.