Synonyms for shot
Another word for shot is iridescent, changeable or chatoyant. Below are 25 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses.
Also searched as: shotes, shots, shotted, shotting.
1. adjective: varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles
- iridescent
- changeable
- chatoyant
- colorful synonyms
- colourful
2. noun: the act of firing a projectile
- shooting
3. noun: a solid missile discharged from a firearm
- pellet
4. noun: (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
- stroke synonyms
5. noun: a chance to do something
- crack synonyms
6. noun: a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)
- shooter synonyms
7. noun: a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
- scene synonyms
8. noun: the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe
- injection
9. noun: a small drink of liquor
- nip synonyms
10. noun: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- dig synonyms
- slam synonyms
- shaft synonyms
- barb synonyms
- jibe
- gibe
11. noun: an estimate based on little or no information
- guess synonyms
- guessing
- dead reckoning
- guesswork
12. noun: an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- snap synonyms
- snapshot
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.
- shoot synonyms
- firing synonyms
- firing off
- discharge synonyms
- gunfire
- gunshot
- propulsion
- headshot
- actuation
- shellfire
- potshot
- countershot
- ball synonyms
- bird shot
- duck shot
- missile
- grape synonyms
- projectile synonyms
- musket ball
- buckshot
- grapeshot
- play synonyms
- cut synonyms
- break synonyms
- golf shot
- swing synonyms
- tennis shot
- baseball swing
- golf stroke
- cannon
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Questions people ask
What is another word for shot?
You can say iridescent, changeable, chatoyant, colorful or colourful instead of shot. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles".
What is the opposite of shot?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for shot; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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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.