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goldbricked

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Definition of goldbricked word

  • noun goldbricked Simple past tense and past participle of goldbrick. 1

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Parts of speech for Goldbricked

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

goldbricked popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 90% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for goldbricked

verb goldbricked

  • shirked — to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
  • idled — not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
  • bummed — depressed, upset, distressed, annoyed, etc.
  • cheated — to defraud; swindle: He cheated her out of her inheritance.
  • crept — Crept is the past tense and past participle of creep.

Antonyms for goldbricked

verb goldbricked

  • confronted — Simple past tense and past participle of confront.
  • did — Did is the past tense of do1.
  • encountered — Simple past tense and past participle of encounter.
  • faced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
  • met — simple past tense and past participle of meet1 .

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