Words Like ROOT

We have put together a list of words that are similar to ROOT.

77 Alternative Words Similar to root

1 Beginning Noun      Synonym Words Like Beginning
2 Origin Noun      Synonym Words Like Origin
3 Rootage Noun      Synonym Words Like Rootage
4 Source Noun      Synonym Words Like Source
5 Base Noun      Synonym Words Like Base
6 Stem Noun      Synonym Words Like Stem
7 Theme Noun      Synonym Words Like Theme
8 Radical Noun      Synonym Words Like Radical
9 Solution Noun      Synonym Words Like Solution
10 Ancestor Noun      Synonym Words Like Ancestor
11 Ascendant Noun      Synonym Words Like Ascendant
12 Ascendent Noun      Synonym Words Like Ascendent
13 Antecedent Noun      Synonym Words Like Antecedent
14 Etymon Noun      Synonym Words Like Etymon
15 Descriptor Noun      Synonym Words Like Descriptor
16 Form Noun      Synonym Words Like Form
17 Number Noun      Synonym Words Like Number
18 Point Noun      Synonym Words Like Point
19 Relation Noun      Synonym Words Like Relation
20 Relative Noun      Synonym Words Like Relative
21 Set Noun      Synonym Words Like Set
22 Signifier Noun      Synonym Words Like Signifier
23 Structure Noun      Synonym Words Like Structure
24 Descendant Noun      Antonym Words Like Descendant
25 Rout Verb      Synonym Words Like Rout
26 Rootle Verb      Synonym Words Like Rootle
27 Settle Verb      Synonym Words Like Settle
28 Back Verb      Synonym Words Like Back
29 Become Verb      Synonym Words Like Become
30 Delve Verb      Synonym Words Like Delve
31 Dig Verb      Synonym Words Like Dig
32 Endorse Verb      Synonym Words Like Endorse
33 Grow Verb      Synonym Words Like Grow
34 Indorse Verb      Synonym Words Like Indorse
35 Plant Verb      Synonym Words Like Plant
36 Pull Verb      Synonym Words Like Pull
37 Side Verb      Synonym Words Like Side
38 Stabilise Verb      Synonym Words Like Stabilise
39 Stabilize Verb      Synonym Words Like Stabilize
40 Support Verb      Synonym Words Like Support
41 Rooting Verb-intransitive      Form Words Like Rooting
42 Establish Verb-transitive      Synonym Words Like Establish
43 Carrot Noun      Hyponym Words Like Carrot
44 Rootlet Noun      Hyponym Words Like Rootlet
45 Taro Noun      Hyponym Words Like Taro
46 Orris Noun      Hyponym Words Like Orris
47 Briarroot Noun      Hyponym Words Like Briarroot
48 Senega Noun      Hyponym Words Like Senega
49 Parsnip Noun      Hyponym Words Like Parsnip
50 Dasheen Noun      Hyponym Words Like Dasheen
51 Salsify Noun      Hyponym Words Like Salsify
52 Taproot Noun      Hyponym Words Like Taproot
53 Manioc Noun      Hyponym Words Like Manioc
54 Cassava Noun      Hyponym Words Like Cassava
55 Chicory Noun      Hyponym Words Like Chicory
56 Ginseng Noun      Hyponym Words Like Ginseng
57 Pneumatophore Noun      Hyponym Words Like Pneumatophore
58 Radish Noun      Hyponym Words Like Radish
59 Orrisroot Noun      Hyponym Words Like Orrisroot
60 Eddo Noun      Hyponym Words Like Eddo
61 Cocoyam Noun      Hyponym Words Like Cocoyam
62 Mandrake Noun      Hyponym Words Like Mandrake
63 Ancestress Noun      Hyponym Words Like Ancestress
64 Forbear Noun      Hyponym Words Like Forbear
65 Foremother Noun      Hyponym Words Like Foremother
66 Roost Verb      Hyponym Words Like Roost
67 Headspring Noun      Hyponym Words Like Headspring
68 Fountainhead Noun      Hyponym Words Like Fountainhead
69 Spring Noun      Hyponym Words Like Spring
70 Provenance Noun      Hyponym Words Like Provenance
71 Derivation Noun      Hyponym Words Like Derivation
72 Trailhead Noun      Hyponym Words Like Trailhead
73 Birthplace Noun      Hyponym Words Like Birthplace
74 Provenience Noun      Hyponym Words Like Provenience
75 Cradle Noun      Hyponym Words Like Cradle
76 Head Noun      Hyponym Words Like Head
77 Wellspring Noun      Hyponym Words Like Wellspring

9 examples of root

1 the swine roots the earth
2 the root crop
3 the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like
4 thus, 3 is a root of 9, because 3 multiplied into itself produces 9; 3 is the cube root of 27
5 the crowd rooted for the home team
6 rooted trees or forests; rooted dislike.
7 Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
8 communism's Russian root
9 Jupiter was the origin of the radiation

10 definitions of root

1 To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
2 Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely.
3 To turn up or to dig out with the snout.
4 The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.
5 An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc..
6 That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development.
7 An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem.
8 A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.
9 The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about; the source.
10 That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity.
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