Synonyms for keep
Another word for keep is support, living or bread and butter. Below are 23 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses, with antonyms.
Also searched as: keeps.
1. noun: the financial means whereby one lives
- support synonyms
- living synonyms
- bread and butter
- livelihood synonyms
- sustenance
2. noun: the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- dungeon
- donjon
3. noun: a cell in a jail or prison
- hold synonyms
4. verb: cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- hold synonyms
- maintain synonyms
5. verb: continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- go on synonyms
- go along synonyms
- continue synonyms
- proceed synonyms
- carry on synonyms
- bear on synonyms
- preserve synonyms
- uphold synonyms
6. verb: retain possession of
- hold on synonyms
- keep open
- save synonyms
- hold open
Antonyms
- lose synonyms
7. verb: stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- prevent synonyms
8. verb: conform one's action or practice to
- observe synonyms
Antonyms
- break synonyms
9. verb: stick to correctly or closely
- maintain synonyms
- observe synonyms
10. verb: look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- preserve synonyms
11. verb: maintain by writing regular records
- maintain synonyms
12. verb: supply with room and board
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.
- maintenance synonyms
- resource
- meal ticket
- amenities
- comforts
- creature comforts
- subsistence
- conveniences
- stronghold
- fastness
- cell synonyms
- prison cell
- jail cell
- keep up synonyms
- cause synonyms
- hold in synonyms
- hold over synonyms
- hold back synonyms
- distance synonyms
- stimulate synonyms
- induce synonyms
- conceal synonyms
- conserve synonyms
- last synonyms
- live synonyms
- live on synonyms
- keep going synonyms
- run on synonyms
- move synonyms
- act synonyms
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Questions people ask
What is another word for keep?
You can say support, living, bread and butter, livelihood or sustenance instead of keep. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "the financial means whereby one lives".
What is the opposite of keep?
The opposite of keep is lose or break.
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