All worm synonyms
worm
W w noun worm
- larva β Entomology. the immature, wingless, feeding stage of an insect that undergoes complete metamorphosis.
- maggot β a soft-bodied, legless larva of certain flies.
- caterpillar β A caterpillar is a small, worm-like animal that feeds on plants and eventually develops into a butterfly or moth.
- centipede β A centipede is a long, thin creature with a lot of legs.
- entozoon β (obsolete) Any of various microscopic parasitic worms previously classified together under the grouping Entozoa.
- derelict β A place or building that is derelict is empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
- beggar β A beggar is someone who lives by asking people for money or food.
- brute β If you call someone, usually a man, a brute, you mean that they are rough, violent, and insensitive.
- caitiff β a cowardly or base person
- ingrate β an ungrateful person.
- knave β an unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest person.
- liar β MIT Scheme
- libertine β a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, especially a dissolute man; a profligate; rake.
- lowlife β a despicable person, especially a degenerate or immoral person.
- miscreant β depraved, villainous, or base.
- outcast β a falling out; quarrel.
- pariah β an outcast.
- pauper β a person without any means of support, especially a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity.
- poltroon β a wretched coward; craven.
- rapscallion β a rascal; rogue; scamp.
- renegade β a person who deserts a party or cause for another.
- reprobate β a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person: a drunken reprobate.
- rogue β a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
- scalawag β a scamp; rascal.
- scamp β an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- scapegrace β a complete rogue or rascal; a habitually unscrupulous person; scamp.
- scullion β a kitchen servant who does menial work.
- vagabond β wandering from place to place without any settled home; nomadic: a vagabond tribe.
- varlet β a knavish person; rascal.
- bezonian β a knave or rascal
- cullion β a despicable person
- looser β free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- pilgarlic β a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity.
- ronion β a mangy creature.
- insect β any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- grub β the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
- bug β A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
verb worm
- persuade β to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- cajole β If you cajole someone into doing something, you get them to do it after persuading them for some time.
- entice β Attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage.
- induce β to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
- tease β to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- tempt β to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
- wheedle β to endeavor to influence (a person) by smooth, flattering, or beguiling words or acts: We wheedled him incessantly, but he would not consent.
- allure β to entice or tempt (someone) to a person or place or to a course of action; attract
- barter β If you barter goods, you exchange them for other goods, rather than selling them for money.
- beguile β If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
- blandish β to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
- blarney β Blarney is things someone says that are flattering and amusing but probably untrue, and which you think they are only saying in order to please you or to persuade you to do something.
- con β Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.